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CONTENTS.
Andover, Mass., A Genealogical-Historical Visitation of, in
the year 1863. By Alfred Poore (Continued), . . 75
Beverly in 1700. By Sidney Perley (Illustrated), 81, 209, 27S
Beverly, Three Hundred Years of. By Robert S. Rantoul, 103
Bradlee, Francis B. C. Some Account of Steam Navigation
in New England (Illustrated) 1,113,177,257
Crosby, Alpheus. By Robert S. Rantoul, .... 235
Gushing, Caleb, Will of, Ill
Eliot, Jacob, Refusal of, 304
Genealogical-Historical Visitation of Andover, Mass., in the
year 1863. By Alfred Poore (Continued), ... 75
Genealogical-Historical Visitation of Groveland, Mass., in
the year 1863. By Alfred Poore, 241
Groveland, Mass., A Genealogical-Historical Visitation of, in
the year 1863. By Alfred Poore, 241
Holten, Samuel, Journal of, ...;.. 161, 249
Ipswich Vital Records, 33, 129
Marblehead, Mass., Documents relating to, Copied by John
H. Edmunds (Continued), 78, 229
Perley, Sidney. Beverly in 1700 ( Illustrated), . . 81, 209, 273
Perley, Sidney. Rial Side : Part of Salem in 1700 ( Illustrated), 49
Poore, Alfred. A Genealogical-Historical Visitation of An-
dover, Mass., in the year 1863 (Continued), ... 75
Poore, Alfred. A Genealogical-Historical Visitation of
Groveland, Mass., in the year 1863, ..... 241
Rantoul, Robert S. Alpheus Crosby 235
Rantoul, Robert S. Three hundred years of Beverly, . . 103
Rial Side : Part of Salem in 1700. By Sidney Perley (Illus-
trated), 49
Salem in 1700, Part of: Rial Side. By Sidney Perley (Illus-
trated), .' f 49
Steam Navigation in New England. By Francis B. C. Bradlee,
(Illustrated), 1, 113, 177, 275
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SOME ACCOUNT OF STEAM NAVIGATION IN
NEW ENGLAND.*
BY FRANCIS B. C. BRADLEE.
Exactly ten years after Robert Fulton's initial voyage
on the Hudson River of the world's first successful
steamboat, a company of Salem and Portsmouth, N. H.,
gentlemen had the courage and perseverance (few
people nowadays realize how much of it was necessary to
inaugurate in those days a new steam-driven enterprise)
to build and run a steamboat between Salem and Boston.
This was the " Massachusetts ", the first steamer ever
seen in Boston or vicinity, built in Philadelphia in 1816,
and in many ways, particularly in the machinery, differ-
ing from any steam vessel then existing. Unfortunately
there is no record of this vessel at the Bureau of Navi-
gation in Washington City, or in any of the custom
houses at the ports in which she was built or owned, and
researches in the library of the Pennsylvania Historical
Society have been equally unfruitful. So that, although
we have many general descriptions of her from Dr.
Bentley's Diary and contemporaneous newspapers, and
also very fortunately an engraving on copper owned by
'The author has incorporated in this account portions of his arti-
cle on steam navigation in Boston Bay, printed in the Historical
Collections, v. L, p. 193, on account of additional information
which has come to hand.
(1)
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the Essex Institute, yet the names of the builders and
the dimensions of the hull and engine, together with
detailed descriptions of the same, are almost wholly
lacking. 1 The hull is mentioned as being " about 100
feet long and 120 tons measurement " (gross). The en-
gine 2 appears to have been a crude form of the " walking
beam " type now so common. It was probably one of
the earliest, if not the earliest of this kind of machinery,
and operated a set of paddles that seem to have been
arranged to work like a series of oars and not at all like
the modern revolving paddle-wheels.
Steam was generated in a boiler made of copper, as
were nearly all the early boilers. The " John Hancock,"
built at Norwich, Conn., in 1817, had a wooden boiler,
which exploded on the first trial, injuring several people.
The pressure is not mentioned, but was doubtless very
slight, not over one or two pounds to the square inch. A
most curious smokestack, exactly resembling an ordinary
curved stove pipe, the end fashioned like a devil's head
spouting flames, was another feature of the " Massachu-
setts." The shape and lines of the hull suggest the ordi-
nary sailing vessel of that day, bluff round bows with
a billet head and a square overhanging stern. Auxiliary
power was supplied by one mast and sails, with a sloop
rig.
The names of the hardy projectors and owners of the
"Massachusetts" were as follows : Joseph Andrews, Caleb
Loring, John H. Andrews, William Fettyplace, Hon.
Stephen White and Andrew Watkins of Salem, and An-
drew Bell of Portsmouth, N. H., and others. These gen-
tlemen were incorporated as the "Massachusetts Steam
Navigation Company," by act of the Massachusetts Legis-
lature, passed June 16, 1817 and signed the next day by
'According to manuscript material concerning the Massachusetts
Steam Navigation Co. and the steamboat " Massachusetts," only
very recently discovered at the Essex: Institute, the vessel and her
engine were built by William M. Dodge and Co. of Philadelphia.
Dodge appears to have beea an inventor and engine builder; he
agreed to build the steamer and her machinery for 114,400., but as
she was enlarged while under construction, a new contract was en-
tered into for $5,600, making the total cost $20,000.
* Quoted as of thirty horse-power, which was undoubtedly nomi-
nal, and not indicated or actual horse-power.
BY FRANCIS B. 0. BBADLBB 3
Governor Brooks. According to the rather vague and
loosely drawn up charter, the company was given the
right for thirty years to " build . . . and also navigate
any Steam Boats in any waters where the individual pro-
prietors might lawfully do the same." Its capital was
limited to $330,000 (personal $300,000 and real estate
$30,000), divided into 144 shares. The first local
mention of the new steamboat was by Rev. William
Bentley in his "Diary," which has been published by the
Essex Institute :
" Aug. 20, 1816. We now learn that a Massachusetts
Steamboat Company actually exists. The members are
from all parts of the State. The navigation from Boston
to Portland is provided, and such subordinate coastwise
establishments will be made as experience shall hereafter
determine to be profitable. This will probably urge a
great care to employ the boats to render the plying regu-
lar and more frequent. Already the stage establishments
begin to calculate the effects upon their profits, and shares
in the Salem and Boston stages, so long kept by Manning
& Co., are offered for sale. The effects are from so novel
a cause that they at present are incalculable. "
On April 25, 1817, the " Massachusetts " left Phila-
delphia for her initial trip bound to New York. She was
in charge of Capt. Watkins (whether he was Andrew
Watkins, one of the owners, or another person of the
same name, cannot be ascertained), and Dodge, the builder,
officiated as engineer. Rough weather was encountered. On
May 10th some damage to her machinery put the engine
out of commission, but fortunately two schooners, the
" Washington " and the " Hamilton," came along and
took the " Massachusetts " in tow, as they were bound
for New York. After hours' towing, the hawser parted,
and the schooners left her. There was a stiff southerly
breeze, and this, with the aid of a sail, enabled the craft
to get into New York harbor after a voyage of three
weeks from Philadelphia. Captain Watkins made a
short stay in New York, as he left the repairs, except
such as were absolutely necessary in order to proceed,
until his arrival at Salem. The next stop was at New-
port, R. I., where he anchored off Fort Wolcott. The
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*' Massachusetts " stopped at Newport only two days and
then left for Salem, where she arrived on the evening of
Thursday, June 5th, having anchored in the Roads the
day before. In Salem about three weeks were spent in
repairs, as the boat had been badly battered in the several
gales of wind she had encountered. Her paddle-wheels
had lost some of the floats, and other minor damage had
been sustained.
Dr. Bentley records in his Diary the arrival of the
" Massachusetts " as follows :
" June 5, 181 T. This evening the long expected Steam
Boat arrived. It is said that it had some new construc-
tions which had failed of their effect. It excites great
curiosity, but has less confidence from the repeated dis-
asters which have attended it. Three Companies have
been destroyed already by it. So the best inventions lose
favour by falling into unskillful and adventurous hands."
" June 6, 1817. The Steam Boat at White's wharf
opposite Carlton Street. The end of the Wharf is
fenced so as to prevent the interference of the Crouds
which the novelty collects. The conversation is not so
much of the machinery as of the profit the boat may give
and the months it may be used. The Owners are specu-
lating upon the profits also, as well as their neighbors."
In the "Salem Register" of June 11, 1817, is the
following interesting article, probably written by some
one connected with the " Massachusetts " :
"The steam boat Massachusetts ' which arrived in this
harbour on Thursday evening last, is now undergoing some
necessary repairs, after the completion of which, it is hoped,
she will fully answer the highest expectations of the public.
Some injuries were sustained in a severe gale of wind
experienced on her passage from Philadelphia, which it
was thought inexpedient to repair permanently until her
arrival here.
"Her wheels were likewise considerably injured by
accident ; this, together with adverse winds, has occa-
sioned a long passage, and thus for a time disappointed
the expectations of the public ; but as the repairs are
rapidly progressing, it is presumed that in a few days she
BY FRANCIS B. C. BRADLEE 5
will be in successful ope ration, and in a condition to avail
herself of the patronage of a discerning public.
'* The reputation of this convenient mode of travelling
has been somewhat impaired by errors committed by En-
gineers in constructing their boilers too weak to sustain
the pressure of steam which they ought to be capable of
bearing, and by other deficiencies. A very few accidents
have likewise happened by want of suitable knowledge in
attending them while in operation. The boiler in this
boat has been tried with more than four times the pres-
sure of steam that is required in working the engine.
And to render it still more secure, there are two safety
valves, one of which the Capt. has wholly command of,
the other is entrusted to the person attending the engine.
The boiler is so situate that even if it should burst it
could not injure the passengers in the cabin or deck. By
these improvements it is conceived that every avenue to
danger is effectually guarded.
" In order to render the boat more secure, there is an
apparatus attached to the engine capable of discharging
out of the boat 15 barrels of water per minute, so that if
20 holes of 1 inch diameter each were bored in her bot-
tom, the engine would discharge the water as fast as it
would run in.
" The injury sustained by the wheels, etc., was such as
to reduce the velocity of the boat from 5 to 6 miles per
hour; whereas the power of the machinery is adequate
to propel her with a velocity of from 8 to 10 miles per
hour. The company for whom this vessel was construct-
ed have evinced a spirit of enterprise, and a disposition
to encourage the arts, which does honor to the age ; for
which, together with their liberality, they are requested
to accept the highest consideration of
"THE ENGINEER."
Dr. Bentley again mentions the steamboat in his Diary,
as follows :
" June 12, 1817. Saw the Steam Boat Massachusetts.
She was under repair. It seems the Engineer Watkins
had undertaken many things new, but not with the
greatest success. As the works were apart and he not
present, it was not easy to see the first design and the
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intended changes. The accommodations are much such
as G. C.'s Barge. 1 A saloon with a stern apartment to
open and communicate with the saloon at pleasure. The
wheels are to be of different construction. Speculation
is endless. They speak of the expences as enormous, of
the great expenditure of fuel, of the high wages of the
engineer, so as to render it unquestionable that the pas-
sage of the S. B. from Salem to Boston a few months
can never be a profitable undertaking. The disposition
is however unfavourable from the prejudices which many
occurrences in the management have left."
" June 27, 1817. Was on the Neck to see the experi-
ment of the Steam Boat. She moved with the velocity
which was promised of 8 miles an hour. The public
attention is excited towards this experiment, but at pres-
ent it has but small share of the public confidence, for
any use to which we can apply in this port. The S. B.
went down channel below the Haste and then passed
Eagle Island channel to Marblehead, and then the south-
ern way to Salem. The number of persons to view was
great considering the uncertain notice from some doubts
about the first trials, after several alterations in the
mechanism."
"June 30, 1817. The experiments on the Steam
Boat have not increased the public favour. It is repre-
sented that the Contractor is an ignorant pretender of
this County. That he has failed in all his attempts.
That his invention to avoid the Fulton Patent are pre-
tences ruinous to his employers. It is said that one of
Brown's boats lays useless in the Delaware, that another
is abandoned, and the one at Salem was much injured on
her passage, and has failed in some thing on every at-
tempt It is said in the experiment last made the steam
unsoldered some parts of the works. Indeed some imi-
tation has appeared from the want of public confidence."
There seems to have been a great deal of distrust in
relation to the " Massachusetts," and many who cried
out against her were thought to be influenced by the
stage companies. The Salem Gazette of July 1 and 4
'Referring to George Crowninshield's yacht the " Cleopatra's
Barge."
BY FRANCIS B. C. BRADLEE 7
respectively, announced a business meeting of the Steam-
boat's proprietors and her second trip to Boston :
' STEAM BOAT COMPANY.
" Pursuant to the act of incorporation, the members of
the Massachusetts Steam Navigation Company are hereby
notified that a meeting of said Company will be held on
Saturday, the fifth day of July next, at 10 o'clock A. M.,
at the Essex Coffee House.
"STEPHEN WHITE,
"JOHN H. ANDREWS."
Salem, June 27, 1817.
" The Steam Boat Massachusetts ' will start for Bos-
ton this morning precisely at 7 o'clock from Derby
Wharf.
" Passengers can be accommodated at 1 dollar each.
Tickets to be had on board and at the Essex Coffee House.
Children under 14 years 50 cents."
Dr. Bentley makes other interesting entries in relation
to the steamboat :
"July 3, 1817. The Steamboat returned [from her
first trip to Boston]. Passage 3 hours to Boston ; dis-
tance bet. 20 and 21 miles. Another steam boat has
burst the boiler bet. Newport and New London. 1 It is
said the Fulton boats have not been in juried bat the per-
sons busy to avoid the patent. Ours has been under fre-
quent repairs, but rather less swift in its movements than
was expected. It was said she would not return to Salem
from the strength of prejudice against it. Yet this day
returned and notice has been given of the intended pas-
sage of the next morning by the bell man."
"July 15, 1817. Agreed with A. Dunlop Esqr to go
with him in a chaise and then from Boston to take pas-
sage with him to Hingham in the Steam Boat * Massa-
chusetts.' We reached Boston between 7 and 8 but the
Boat was not ready until 11. We had a pleasant com-
pany and moved from Center Wharf. The motion was
easy and regular throughout the passage. It so happened
'This was the " John Hancock," previously mentioned as having
a wooden boiler.
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that the tide was flood and against us. We passed round
the 74 Independence & was saluted with the music of
the ship lying between the town and Noddle's Island.
We took our course between fort Independence and Dor-
chester point over the flatts at full tide passing between
Thompson and Spectacle Island, then between Moon
Islets and Long Island, and between Hangman's and
Sunk Island and between Nut Island and Puttock's
Island, north of Sheep Island, south of Pumpkin Island,
and near the point of land running west from Hingham
beach on the way to Nantasket, called the World's end,
and into the little bason where are the wharves of Hing-
ham. We went to Revd Mr. Richardson's, where we
were hospitably entertained. After dinner to get our
passage up we passed to Crow point about 4 miles from
our landing in the road and 2 minutes west. We passed
round Otis Hill, and then left on our right or E the
inlet in which lay Ragged and Button and Sara Islets and
after several risings we reached the top of the beautiful
hill near Crow point, from which we had a beautiful view
of the surrounding country and islands and then de-
scended suddenly to the point at which our Boat was
anchored. On our return we passed between Grass and
Sheep Islands and kept our course so as to pass between
Spectacle Island and Cattle Island and up Ship Channel
to the Town. Both passages were performed in two
hours without any particular trial to the force of the
steam engines.
" The direct distance 10 statute miles and about 14 miles
in our course giving us between six and seven miles an
hour without any exertion whatever. The boat an-
swered^every expectation, and when an accommodation is
given for landing at every tide, will mid this cruise a safe
and pleasant one. The first plan of Mr. Brown (what
connection he had with the "Massachusetts" cannot
be ascertained) was the best most certainly to pre-
fer for the form of his pads the oar rather than wheel
and it does honour to his ingenuity. The water
raised on the wheel was a real impediment which the
other was provided to avoid. The motion given by
the discharge of the levers as in our distill houses might
BY FRANCIS B. C. BRADLEE 9
be easily avoided by the manner of receiving them. We
left the wharf in our Chaise and reached Salem by 9
o'clock in the evening of this same day. The Dimen-
sions of the Steam Boat I have not yet seen, but the
engines occupy but a small space and with little incon-
venience."
During July and August, 1817, we read in the Salem
newspapers of the " Massachusetts " making various
excursions to Gloucester, Marblehead and Nahant, but
she seems to have made no regular trips to Boston, as
originally planned. In the latter part of August she ap-
pears to have been sent to Portsmouth, N. H., perhaps,
reading between the lines, with the hope of selling her
there. The " Portsmouth Oracle," in its issue of Aug.
23, 1817, speaks of her as follows :
" The steamboat ' Massachusetts ' will leave Boston
this morning provided a company of seventy-five be ob-
tained, to return in the evening, otherwise she will go to
Salem this afternoon on her way to Portsmouth.
" The steamboat l Massachusetts,' lying at Portsmouth
pier, will continue in this place during the next week,
provided sufficient encouragement is offered. She will
make daily excursions during her stay, either up or down
the river. Tickets, 50 cents, may be had on board the
boat, and persons applying will please to call two hours
before the time appointed for sailing. Select parties will
make one day previous application." Portsmouth Oracle,
Aug. 30.
" The steamboat ' Massachusetts ' will leave Ports-
mouth for Salem. Tickets at $3.00 for passage, with
dinner on board." Portsmouth Oracle, tiept. 6.
It is quite evident that the little craft was a complete
financial loss to her enterprising owners, and probably
this was due to the prejudice of the times, and defects
in the engine.
The next we hear of the " Massachusetts " is an ad-
vertisement in the Salem Register for Sept. 20th of her
sale at auction. She is described as " built at Philadel-
phia in 1816, 120 tons, excellent engine of 30 horse
power, elegant accommodations for passengers. T.
Deland, auctioneer." The same paper for October 4th
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has an article stating that " the Massachusetts ' was sold
on account of the length of the water passage between
Salem and Boston as compared with the turnpike and the
probability of rough weather to be encountered in the
winter." Great regret was expressed, and the failure of
the enterprise was thought to be a distinct loss to Salem.
Then follows on Oct. 25th a notice of a " Meeting of the
shareholders of the Massachusetts Steam Navigation
Co. to be held on Oct. 27. ... Chas. Vanderford,
Clerk." From the manuscript lately come to light and
previously referred to, it is learned that the " Massachu-
setts " was sold to Captain Charles Vanderford for
$5,200, and he ten days later, Nov. 30, 1817, transferred
her for the same sum to Franklin H. Story of Salem,
merchant.
Among the shipping news of the Salem Register for
Dec. 6, 1817, is the following: "Steamboat 'Massachu-
setts,' C. Vanderford, master, sailed from Salem, Dec. 5,
1817, for North Carolina and Mobile, Alabama, spoken
at sea a few days after, off Quick's Hole." The tale is
then taken up by the New York Evening Post of Jan. 8,
1818, in the following short article : " The steamboat
' Massachusetts,' which left Salem, Mass., for Mobile,
during the winter, and which stopped at New York on the
way down, went ashore at Little Egg Harbor, N. J., and
broke up. Her engine and most of her rigging and hull
were saved."" From these and other facts mentioned here-
after it is surmised that the unfortunate little steamer
was not as badly damaged as at first feared, and that
either she was gotten off the beach, brought back to
Boston and repaired, or that portions of her hull, the
engine, etc., were incorporated in a new steamboat " Mas-
sachusetts," which, as will be seen, plied between Salem
and Boston during the summer of 1820.
Be that as it may, the Massachusetts Steam Navigation
Co. had on Nov. 14, 1817, brought suit against William
M. Dodge and Co. for 120,000 damages, the cost of the
" Massachusetts," because, as they alleged : " the said
Dodge has disregarded his said promises and craftily and
subtly deceived the plaintiffs in this, ... he delivered
to them a Steamboat in the river Delaware constructed of
BY FRANCIS B. C. BKADLEE 11
bad materials, and ... in an unworkmanlike manner,
with an engine built of bad materials and unskillfully
constructed . . . which could not propel the said boat
. . . thirteen miles per hour, or above that rate, and not
on an improved plan, contrary to the form and effect of
his said proposals and agreements. And the said Dodge
. . . deceived the Plaintiffs, in this, to wit, that (he) . . .
wholly omitted and neglected to bring forward on the
delivery of the said boat letters patent from the United
States ... he wholly delayed to deliver the said boat
for a great space of time, to wit, for the space of five
months, contrary to his said agreement.
They (the plaintiffs) lost large sums of money by
reason of the loss of public favour and patronage in con-
sequence of the imperfect state of the boat when deliv-
ered."
A rather hazy agreement had apparently been previ-
ously entered into between the Massachusetts Steam Nav-
igation Co. and Dodge by which the latter's steamboats
were to have had the exclusive right of navigating be-
tween Cape Cod and Cape Ann " and as far as the har-
bour and town of Portland inclusive, in the district of
Maine." Whether this agreement could have been en-
forced legally seems very dubious. Dodge was also to
have received seventeen per cent of the profits if the
latter rose above the sum of thirty-five per cent annually. At
the time the action for damages was brought, Dodge had
no estate or property, so the unfortunate man was prompt-
ly placed in jail for debt, according to the usual practice
of those days.
Matters were, however, soon adjusted, for Dodge ap-
pears to have gone into partnership with Joseph W
Revere, Paul Revere, jr., and Thomas S. Eayres, all of
Boston except the latter, and they, on Feb. 5, 1818, set-
tled the suit brought by the Massachusetts Steam Navi-
gation Co., by the payment of " five dollars and other
valuable considerations." On March 3, 1818, the same
partners also acquired the title to the steamboat " Massa-
chusetts " " as she lay . . . stranded on the shore of
New Jersey not far from Little Egg Harbour (and) . . .
all the stores, apparatus and machinery . . . that were
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saved from the wreck of the said Steam Boat . . . and
any steam engines in the possession of said Dodge at his
works at South Boston . . . and any steam engines or
machinery that have been put into the hands or keeping
of Messrs. Baker and Hodges, Merchants of Boston, by
said Vanderford, or by any members of the Massachusetts
Steam Navigation Co."
The next steamboat of which we can find any mention
as running in Boston bay is the " Eagle," a boat even
smaller than the first " Massachusetts," being only 82
tons. She was built by Gilbert Brewster & Co. at Nor-
wich, Conn., was launched April 9, 1817, and was intend-
ed to ply regularly between Norwich and New London,
but left Norwich for Providence, R. I., on May 17, 1817.
From the records of the Bureau of Navigation at Wash-
ington we learn that she was 92 feet long, 17.8 feet beam,
with 6.8 feet depth of hold, and had a figurehead and a
round stern. The Nantasket Beach Steamboat Co. have
in their office a painting of this vessel and consider her
the pioneer boat of their line (although, as will be seen
later, the Salem newspapers for the summer months of
1820 and 1821 advertise her as running regularly between
Salem and Boston, calling at Nahant), and from it
we see that she had a very crude overhead beam en-
gine, and very likely the " beam " was made of wood,
as was the case in many of the early engines of this type.
It is known that she had a copper boiler, and of course
used cord wood as fuel. It is said the *' Eagle " accom-
modated 200 passengers ; if so, they must have been
crowded together like sardines in a box. There probably
was not " life boat capacity for all," in fact, the painting
does not reveal that she carried any small boat. From
May to September, 1818, the " Eagle " plied from New
Bedford to Nantucket, but from lack of patronage she
was sold, brought round to Boston, and Dr. Bentley
records her first trip to Salem as follows :
"Sept, 15, 1818. Another Steam Boat in Salem much
in the form of the former but her machinery more simple.
The Director called in my absence to invite me to take a
sail with him for this has a foremast and admits a sail." 1
'The painting owned by the Nantasket Beach Steamboat Co. does
not show a mast.
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"Sept. 17, 1818. The 'Eagle' Steam Boat that was
with us on Tuesday left our port on the next morning
with only two passengers. The former was so dead a
loss to the adventurers that Salem will, probably, be the
last in such another attempt."
The " Eagle " ran between Boston and Nahant and
Hingham in 1819. On June 21, 1820, the Salem Regis-
ter has the following advertisement :
"The Steam Boat 'Massachusetts,' Capt. John Wood,
having been put in thorough repair, and the excellence of
her engine having been satisfactorily tested, being fitted
with new copper boilers, will run from Boston to Beverly,
touching each way at Nahant, Marblehead and Salem for
passengers and light freight. She will leave Foster's
Wharf in Boston at 8 A. M. and Beverly on her return
at 2 P. M. For further information apply in Salem to
Capt. Nathan Blood, in Marblehead to Capt. Nathan B.
Martin, in Beverly to Mr. Stephen Nourse." This ad-
vertisement, with small variations, continues all through
the summer months of 1820, interspersed with the adver-
tisements of the " Eagle," as follows : " The Steam
Boat 'Eagle' leaves Boston for Nahant and Salem on Sun-
days, Tuesdays and Thursdays, at 8 o'clock A. M. and
leaves Salem at 3 P. M. for Nahant and Boston. Fare
50 cents. Tickets to be had on board the Boat."
Concerning the steamer " Massachusetts " of 1820
absolutely nothing can be learned from the records. From
the similarity of names and the fact that it is known
that when the first " Massachusetts " was wrecked her
engine and part of the hull were saved, it is thought
probable that a new vessel of the same name may have
been built with parts of the old one incorporated in her.
Be that as it may, the " Massachusetts " only came to
Salem during one season.
The Salem Gazette for June 26, 1821, contains the
following announcement of the " Eagle " :
" The steamboat ' Eagle,' Capt. John Wood, will leave
Crowninshield's wharf, Salem, for Boston, every day at
3 p. m., lauding at Marblehead and Nahant. Passage 50
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cts., children 1/2 price. A house for the entertainment of
the steamboat passengers and for the storage of baggage,
etc., is kept at the head of Crowninshield's wharf, where
every attention will be paid. Wm. Austin, Agent."
The " Eagle " continued running during the rest of
the season of 1821, and between Boston and Nahant until
1824, and was then sold and broken up. It was said her
owners received more from the sale of her copper boiler
than the whole steamer and machinery cost when new.
After the "Eagle," several sporadic attempts were made
to establish steamboat service between Salem, Marble-
head, etc., and Boston. The Salem Register of 1834 and
1835 contains advertisements of the steamboats " Con-
necticut," Capt. Porter, and " Sandusky," running be-
tween Salem and Boston, calling at Nahant, but the trips
seem to have been made irregularly and evidently were
not successful. In 1835, too, the steamboat " Fanny,"
Capt. Marsh, was advertised as follows during the sum-
mer in the Salem papers :
"NOTICE.
"The elegant fast running Steam Boat Fanny, Captain
A. Marsh, will run regularly between Salem and Boston,
touching at Marblehead and Nahant, as follows : Leaves
Derby Wharf, Salem, every morning, at 6 o'clock ; leaves
Marblehead every morning at 6 1/2 o'clock ; leaves Na-
hant every morning at 7 1/2 o'clock. Returning, leaves
Fort Hill wharf, Boston, every evening at 6 o'clock
touching at Nahant and Marblehead. Fare, to Boston, 50
cents ; to Nahant, 37 1-2 cents ; to Marblehead, 25 cents.
Light freight taken at packet rates. For more particular
information enquire of J. B. Knight, No. 7 Derby Wharf.
June 5, 1835."
The " Connecticut " at this time was an old boat, hav-
ing been built in 1816, and was the second steamboat to
ply regularly on Long Island Sound. She had one of
Robert Fulton's engines, known as the " saw mill " type ;
it is said that when they were in operation '' the noise
was such that a dead person could be brought to life."
Lowell Island.
On ami :>ti< r FRIDAY, the Kih dny of August, the Steamer
MERRIMACK
l leave Phillips Wharf for Lowell Island at 1[, 9, A.M., 9{, 41, P.M.
Uil! leave Lowell Island for Phillips Wharf at 8, A.M., 1Z, : . T, P.M.
During the intervals between the above-named hours, the
ill make excursion* in the Hay, and to adjoining; ports, n< may be fpccially contracted for.
Passage between Phillips Whaifand Lowell Island, ! each way I IS cent*.
I'ii kci- for sale on board Ilie boat, or to be bought daring the passage.
Heals are furnished at the Island at *5 cents. Sailboats, fishing lines
at n reasonable charge.
angerne may be made for the transportation of Fatties over the several Railroad*, upon
'PIticatiop to
I. D. SIIEPARD.
34 FRONT STREET, SALEM, MASS,
1851.
BY FRANCIS B. C. BEADLEE 15
Capt. Seward Porter, her commander, had charge of the
" Patent," the first steamer to run between Portland,
Maine, and Boston, and so indefatigable was he to estab-
lish steam navigation in New England that he has been
called " the father of New England steamboating."
The " Sandusky " measured 289 tons, was built in
1825, and for years was well known on the Hudson river,
* the Nursery of the Steamboat." The "Fanny" also
had run there and on Long Island Sound, too ; she was
a small boat of 100 tons, 88 feet long, fitted with a
" cross-head," or " square " engine, one of the earliest
types of marine machinery. All these boats were, of
course, side-wheelers, built of wood, and used the same
material for fuel.
After the Eastern Railroad was opened for travel be-
tween Salem and Boston in 1838, a damper was placed
for some years on all further attempts at a steamboat line
to connect the two cities. In December, 1839, however,
the Salem Gazette advertised the steamboat " Bangor "
(of the Boston and Bangor line) for one trip only from
Salem to Providence, R. I., sailing on Dec. 4. The ob-
ject of this voyage cannot now be learned. In July, 1851,
the Salem & Lowell Island Steamboat Co. was incorpo-
rated. The boat ran to and from Phillips' Wharf, Salem,
in connection with the trains of the Salem & Lowell R. R.
Co. As the island was used almost exclusively by
Lowell people as a summer vacation ground, a hotel hav-
ing been built there, it was rechristened in their honor.
J. D. Shepard was the Salem agent of the line, and a
side-wheeler, called the ' Merrimack," was the first
steamer. She originally had run on the Merrimack river
from Newburyport to Haverhill, and was about 150 feet
long. Mr. Thomas Swasey of Marblehead, a member of
the 23rd Massachusetts Infantry, says that during the
Civil War this steamer was used as a transport on the
Southern coast and rivers, and that she drew so little
water " that a heavy dew would float her." When it
was desired to land the troops the " Merrimac's " bow
would be run up on the beach, the men would jump
ashore, and then the steamer would back off.
16 STEAM NAVIGATION IN NEW ENGLAND
After the " Merrimack " came the " C. Durant," a
steamer that ran only a very short time, and in 1853 the
company bought the side-wheel steamboat " Argo," that
was for many years on the line. She was built at Perth
Amboy, N. J., in 1845, 235 tons gross, 125 feet long, 35
feet beam, with 6 1-2 feet depth of hold, and had a
" square " or " cross-head " engine, and was said to have
run the first steamboat excursion ever made from Provi-
dence to Block Island, R. I. Captain William Willey,
who lived at 29 Forrester street, Salem, was for years the
" Argo's " commander, and afterwards was succeeded by
J. B. Bracy. G. S. Pollard was the Salem agent. Besides
running to Lowell Island, the boat made regular landings
at Beverly and Marblehead, and her route was also ex-
tended to Nahant on Sundays. During the Civil War
the " Argo " was sold to the government and became one
of the medical supply boats of the Army of the Potomac.
Afterwards she plied in Penobscot Bay. She was finally
broken up at New York in 1879.
In several books and pamphlets written more or less
lately on steam navigation, it is stated that from 1821 to
1829 no steam vessels ran from Boston, and wonder is
expressed at what became of them. This is easily dis-
proved by advertisements in the Columbian Centinel, of
the " Eagle " running between Boston and Nahant in
1822-23-24, and in the New England Palladium for July
29, 1825 : " Steamboat ' Patent ' between Boston and
Nahant from Tileston's wharf, Boston, once a day each
way. Season tickets, for 1 person, $3 ; for 2 persons, $5 ;
for 3 persons, $6 ; single fare, 50 cents. Seward Porter,
Capt. and agent."
In 1826-30 the steamer " Ousatonic " plied on this
route. Nahant is reached from Boston with less trouble
by water than by land. It is one of the oldest summer
resorts in the country, and so it is easy to see why its
steamboat line is also one of the oldest. Until the
breaking out of the war in 1917, it had been in regu-
lar operation since 1817, with the exception of one year
(1884). A complete list of the boats that have run on
this line is here given :
BY FRANCIS B. C. BRADLEE
17
Tear.
1817,
1818-1824,
1825,
1826-1830,
1831,
1832,
1833-1834,
1835-1836,
1837,
1838,
1839-1840,
1840-1847,
1848,
1849,
1850-1851,
1852,
1853,
1854-1861,
1862,
1863,
1864,
1865,
1866-1876,
1877,
1878-1883,
1884,
1885,
1886-1887,
1888-1889,
1890,
1891-1903,
1904,
1905,
1906,
1907-1910,
1911,
1912,
1913,
Steamer. Captain.
"Massachusetts," Walker.
"Eagle" and "Massachusetts,"
Wood.
"Patent," Seward Porter.
"Ousatonic," Frank Johnson and
Faneuil Silsbee.
"Rush Light," Burnham.
"Fanny," Henery
"Connecticut," Porter.
"Hancock" and "Fanny," Porter and Marsh.
"Mt. Pleasant,"
"John Jay,"
"Thorn,"
Hope" and'"Flushing,"
"Nahanteau,"
"King Philip,"
"Suffolk,"
"Norwalk,"
"Clifton,"
"Nelly Baker,"
" Nequsset,"
"Gen. Berry,"
"Clinton,"
"Orient,"
"Ulysses" and "Meta,"
"Eliza Hancox,"
"E. Hancox," and "Nahant,"
now "Gen. Lincoln," (2d), do.
No boat.
"Gen. BartUtt,"
"Jnlia,"
"Anita,"
"Fred'k de Bary,"
"Fred'k de Bary" and
"City of Jacksonville, 1
J. Gillespie.
Schultz.
W. H. Byram.
Van Pelt.
B. F. Vetts.
do.
do.
do.
Carr.
A. L. Rouell, F. Covell,
and Calden.
T. J. Gerry.
do.
Kilby.
do.
A. W. Calden and
Rouell.
Calden.
J. B. Ingersoll.
Cazet and Lund.
J. B. Ingersoll.
T. W. Lund.
T. W. Lund and one
other.
"Mt. Desert" and "Beebe."
"New Brunswick" and "Favorite."
"Cimbria" and "Pokanet."
"Gen. Lincoln" (2d), and "Gov. Andrew."
"Gen. Lincoln" and "Cape Cod."
"Gen. Lincoln" and "Martha's Vineyard."
"Gen. Lincoln" and "Machigonne."
18 STEAM NAVIGATION IN NEW ENGLAND
1914, "Gen. Lincoln," "Machigonne" and "Nassau."
1915, "Gen. Lincoln" and "Machigonne."
1916, "Machigonne" and "Nassau."
The company sold the " Gen. Lincoln " in 1916 for
service in New York waters, and the Machigonne " was
taken by the Government early in 1917. The " Nassau "
was only a chartered boat. It is doubtful if the line ever
resumes.
So good were the profits on the Nahant route that in
1872 an opposition line developed with the steamers
" Meta," Capt. Rouell, and " Carrie." Fearing and
Renfrew, India wharf, were the Boston agents. The
boats ran through to Lynn and were advertised as the
"cheapest freight line" to that place. A New York
steamer, the " Harlem," plied between Boston and the
Point of Pines (Lynn), in 1882, but the venture was a
total failure. From 1892 to 1899, also, the propeller
" Shoe City " and side-wheeler " Putnam " were run
between Lynn and Boston, principally for freight. The
latter was formerly a U. S. lighthouse tender, hav-
ing an iron hull, built at Wilmington, Del., in 1866,
measuring 316 tons gross, 136 feet long. She was so
slow that one had to fix one's eyes very carefully to see
that she was moving at all.
The " Nelly Baker " was probably the best known of
the early Nahant steamers. She was built expressly for
the Nahant line by Samuel Sneeden (a famous steamboat
builder at Greenpoint, N. Y.), in 1854, and was con-
structed in the most substantial manner of white oak.
Her dimensions were : 303 tons gross, length 153 ft.,
beam 26 ft., depth 8 1-2 ft. She was equipped with a
beam engine, having a 32-in. cylinder, stroke 10
feet. When first built the " Nelly Baker " was consid-
ered the fastest steamboat in Boston harbor. She was
named for the daughter of Mayor Baker of Lynn, who
was president of the Nahant Steamboat Co. During the
Civil War she did good service in Southern waters as a
transport and hospital ship, and the strength of her con-
struction was often tested by being out in severe weather.
After the close of hostilities she was sold in 1866 to
Grey Brothers, and all further trace of her disappears.
BY FRANCIS B. C. BBADLEE 19
During the summer of 1855, the side-wheeler " Law-
rence," 146 feet long, originally built to run on the
Merrimack river between Newburyport and Haverhill,
plied between Salem and Boston, calling both ways at
Marblehead and Nahant. It is thought the Eastern
Railroad had an interest in her. She was advertised as
follows in the Salem Gazette :
" Steamboat ' Lawrence,' fitted with a new boiler, . . .
Capt. J. Flowers, to run between Salem and Boston, call-
ing at Marblehead and Nahant. Leaves Salem at 7 A. M.
and Boston at 4 P. M. Fare 25 cents. Good freight
accommodations. Joel Bowker, Salem, agent."
The " Lawrence " did a good passenger business, as is
evidenced by the fact that the newspapers several times
complained of her overcrowded condition. Nevertheless,
she only ran one season. After the vessels already noted,
a large side-wheel steamar, of 800 tons, the " Escort,"
plied during the seasons of 1869, 1870 and 1871, between
Boston, Lowell Island, Salem and Gloucester. She had
been running until lately on the Hudson river under the
name of " City of Hudson." Following her a propeller,
the " Mischief," ran between Boston, Lowell Island and
Marblehead in 1872, and after that two small propellers,
the " Three Brothers " and the " Fanny," furnished the
means of communication between Salem and Lowell
Island until the hotel was given up.
In 1871 a steam line was organized to run between
Salem and New York. It was thought that by means of
the Salem and Lowell Railroad the boats would do a
large business in bringing cotton to the Lowell mills,
bnt this failed to materialize. The steamers composing
this line were the " William Tibbetts," " Norwich,"
" Alliance " and " Zodiac," all wooden propellers of from
600 to 800 tons each, intended for freight service only.
They were " wall-sided," square-sterned craft, in a very
far degree removed from being nautical beauties. The
service was twice weekly from each end. Murray, Ferris
& Co. owned or managed the steamers in New York and
Richardson and Daland were the Salem agents. July 29,
1871, was the date of the first trip from Salem, and the
last steamer cleared June 14, 1872.
20 STEAM NAVIGATION IN NEW ENGLAND
The " Wm. Tibbetts " was originally built as an oppo-
sition freight boat to the regular Boston and Bangor line.
She measured 135 feet in length, 26 feet beam, had a
double engine," cylinders 20 inches in diameter, 20
inches stroke, aud her freight capacity was said to be 3000
bbls. She was, however, a very slow boat.
After this, except for occasional excursion craft, noth-
ing in the way of Salem steamboat service was under-
taken for a long time, or until a boat called the " Water-
town," owned by J. E. Cassidy of Boston, and built in
Watertown, Mass., in 1889, on a most peculiar and light
draft principle, was placed on the line between Beverly,
Salem Willows, Marblehead and Boston. This craft was
a propeller of about 400 tons, 134 feet long, and was not
renowned for high speed. She plied as above during part
of the season of 1890 and the whole of 1891, with more
or less success. The next year she ran from Boston to
Lynn, and on Sept. 28, 1892, caught fire off Point Shir-
ley, owing to a defective boiler, and became a total loss.
The steward's wife lost her life. In 1892 the Boston &
Portsmouth S. S. Co. placed two small propellers, the
" Philadelphia " and " Baltimore," each of about 150
tons and 100 feet in length, on the run previously filled
by the " Watertown." These steamers met with consid-
erable success, winter and summer, for several years.
The first regular means of communication between the
mainland and the summer colony on Baker's Island was
by means of a small side- wheeler, the Admiral," owned
by James Burke of Boston. She had been formerly
known as the " Augusta," and for many years had run
on the Penobscot River. During the summer of 1888
she plied between Beverly, Salem Willows and Baker's
Island, but in the autumn of that year, while laid up at
Beverly, caught fire and was totally destroyed. After
this a small side-wheeler, the " S. E. Spring," was run
between the Willows and Baker's Island, on which there
was a hotel, the Winneegan. During the summer of
1894 the passenger traffic increased to such an extent
that the company was obliged to charter an extra steamer,
the " City of Portsmouth." Soon after leaving the Wil-
lows on the evening of Aug. 25, 1894, this craft ran on
i-ii
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BY FRANCIS B. C. BBADLEE 21
Aqua Vitae ledge and stuck fast. The passengers were
all safely taken ashore, and preparations were being made
to get the steamer off, when, as the tide was ebbing, she
keeled over, some lights tipped over and set her on fire,
and in a little while she burned to the water's edge.
Owing to this misfortune and to other reasons, the other
steamers stopped running at the end of the season. Since
then the following steamers have run at various times
between Salem Willows and Boston:
Year. Steamers. Owners.
1895, "John Endicott" and "William Storie,"
Morrison Steamboat Co.
1896, "John Endicott," "William Storie," and
"New Brunswick," Morrison Steamboat Co.
1897, "John Endicott;?' 1 "William Storie," and
"New Brunswick," Morrison Steamboat Co.
1898, "O. E. Lewis," William Stopford & Co.
A small propeller, the " Surf City," Capt. Dalby, had
taken the place of the ' S, E. Spring " on the Baker's
Island line. About 6 P. M. on July 4, 1898, having left
the Willows and proceeding towards Beverly, she was
overtaken by a fearful squall, which had been for some
time threatening, and partially capsized. Although there
was less than seven feet of water where the accident hap-
pened, eight women and children lost their lives by being
caught in the cabin and unable to get out. The " Surf
City " was afterwards raised, taken to Boston, and re-
named " Pauline." She is DOW in use in southern
waters.
During the seasons of 1900 and 1901, William Stop-
ford & Co. ran the propeller ** O. E. Lewis " (previously
mentioned) between the Willows and Boston, and in 1902
and 1903, the ^propeller City of Haverhill." She also
called at Gloucester, and was a fine new steamer, built at
East Boston in 1902, of 343 tons, 121 1-2 feet long, and
24 feet beam, and originally was intended to run between
Haverhill, Newburyport and Boston, but after a few trips
it was understood the enterprise was bought off by the
Boston & Maine Railroad. The same might be said of
nearly all our coastwise steam lines unless controlled by
22 STEAM NAVIGATION IN NEW ENGLAND
the railroad companies themselves. The old side-wheeler
*' New-Brunswick," originally on the Boston - St. John
route, was run between Boston and Salem Willows by
the Union Steamboat Co., in 1900 and 1902. A side-
wheeler called the " Monohansett," that had been Gen.
Grant's dispatch boat during the Civil War, was oper-
ated by Stopford & Co. for a short while in 1904, but on
Aug. 3d of that year she ran ashore between Little and
Big Misery Islands during a thick fog and became a total
loss. Since that time no steamboats have run between
Salem or Beverly to Boston, except between January and
March, 1913, when William Stopford & Co. ran a small
propeller, the " May Archer," from Beverly and Central
wharf, Salem.
After the " Surf City '' accident, communication with
Baker's Island was maintained by means of a large power
boat, the " Empress," 56 feet long, built at Essex, Mass., in
1900. She was afterwards converted into a steamboat and
called " Gov. Douglas," and some time afterward sold for
use on the coast of Maine. Her place was taken by
another power boat of about the same size, the " Melba,"
owned by Elmer K. Moulton of Salem, which is still
running.
Soon after the Pennsylvania coal pocket was built, in
1873-74, the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron
Co. began running a line of iron propeller steamers from
Philadelphia to Salem, loaded with coal. They were the
" Williamsport " (which was the first to arrive in Salem,
on March 29, 1875), "Gettysburg," " Pottstown," " Al-
lentown," etc. They were fine vessels, each about 250
feet long, and carried from 1550 to 1650 tons of coal.
The "Allentown" foundered Nov. 25, 1888, during a
gale in Massachusetts bay, with a loss of all hands, 18
men. A dozen or fifteen years ago it was found cheaper
and more convenient to bring the coal from Philadelphia
by means of barges towed by ocean tugboats, so, as fast
as the steamers needed repairs and became out of date,
they were transformed into barges.
Gloucester can boast of being the only city in Essex
County, Mass., which has been able to maintain with suc-
cess a long established steamboat line. Before the Glou-
2!
By FRANCIS B. C. BKADLEE 23
cester Branch railroad was opened in 1847, a small steam-
er, the " Yacht," made irregular trips between Glouces-
ter and Boston ; she was followed in 1849 by the side-
wheeler " Jacob Bell," Capt. H. Cummiskey. No regular
all-the-year-round service was attempted, however, until
1859, when the Boston and Gloucester Steamboat Co.
was incorporated and began operations with the side-
wheeler " Mystic," of about 200 tons, 100 feet long,
built at Mystic, Conn., in 1852. She ran regularly until
taken by the Government for a transport in 1863 and was
lost off the Southern coast in 1865. The company then
built or bought the " Regulator," but she did not run
more than one season and was then sold for use on the
coast of Maine.
After the close of the Civil War many steamers that
had been used as transports were thrown out of employ-
ment and several of them were run on the Gloucester
route. Among these were the ' Chas. Houghton " and
" N. P. Banks," side-wheelers, owned by McKay and
Aldus, the ship-builders at East Boston. Later, from
1870 on, came the " Emeline " (ex " Nantasket " 1st),
the "Escort," Capt. Pierce, the "Stamford," Capt. Da-
vidson, the " W. W. Coit," and the Admiral," Capt.
Gilkie. The latter had been a blockade-runner, and all
these boats were side-wheelers.
The J. W. Todd " was the pioneer boat of the pres-
ent Boston and Gloucester Steamboat Co., in 1875, fol-
lowed by the "Ella Knight," built in Philadelphia in
1863 for the New York and Philadelphia ' outside line ;"
then came the " George A. Chaffee," so long on the route
and known locally as the " bed bug " ; the " City of
Gloucester " in 1884, and the " Cape Ann " in 1895. In
1872 Salem was made a port of call for a short time. All
these boats were propellers, the " City of Gloucester "
measures 561 tons gross, 142 feet long, and is now proba-
bly one of the best known steamboats along this part of
the New England coast. Although plying on what may
be termed an " outside " line over thirty miles long, and
occasionally meeting with very heavy weather, she rarely
misses a trip, winter or summer; she has had several
24 STEAM NAVIGATION IN NEW ENGLAND
narrow escapes through collisions and running ashore,
but seems to bear a charmed life.
The "Cape Ann," the last addition to the line, was a
fine steel propeller built by Neafie and Levy at Philadel-
phia in 1895. She measured 718 tons gross, 171 feet
long, 28 feet beam, and had a two-cylinder compound
engine indicating 1500 horse power ; she was sold to the
French Government in 1916.
The Gloucester line has always confined its activities
principally to the freight business, yet its steamers carry
large numbers of passengers during the summer months,
and are deservedly popular. In August, 1917, Henry M.
Whitney, who had been president of the Boston and
Gloucester Company for forty-eight years, resigned, and
the corporation was reorganized with David W. Simpson
of Boston as president. E. S. Merchant was long the
treasurer and Boston agent of the line, his brother, Edgar
Merchant, was agent in Gloucester, and Nehemiah Proc-
tor, William Godfrey and Osborn P. Linnekin were for
many years the popular captains of the boats.
As early as 1816 a small steamboat was built at Lowell
and used on the Merrimack river during the summer
months, transporting passengers to Andover and other
towns in that vicinity. This steamboat had two wheels
on each side, connected by an iron chain, with wooden
buckets or paddles attached, which passed over one wheel,
near the bow, down into the water, and then up over the
other wheel, near the stern, propelling the boat at the
rate of five or six miles per hour against wind and tide. 1
In 1818, the steamboat " Mobile" was built in Ames-
bury by Thomas Bailey for Capt. Edmund Bartlet and
others of Newburyport. When she was nearly ready to
launch, the editor of the Newburyport Semi-Weekly Her-
ald, commenting on the fact, said, " We believe she is
not excelled by any vessel of her class ever built in the
United States, as to strength, good model, and excellent
workmanship." She was rigged as a three-masted schoon-
er and sailed November 16, 1818, for Boston, where she
'Contributions of Old Residents' Historical Association, Lowell,
Mass., v. 1, pp. 318-336.
BY FRANCIS B. C. BRADLEE 25
was supplied with an engine and boiler, and thence for
Mobile, where she was employed in towing vessels in the
bay and on the Alabama river. 1
The steamer " Merrimack," built in Haverhill, William
Haseltine, master, made her first trip from that town to
Newburyport, Tuesday, April 8, 1828. For several years
she carried passengers and merchandise, during the sum-
mer months, from Haverhill and other towns on the river
to Newburyport. 2
In 1831, the steamboat " Mechanic " made excursions
in the bay and to Haverhill ; 3 and about the same time
the steamboat " Fanny " was advertised to leave New-
buryport for occasional trips to Boar's Head, Isles of
Shoals, Portsmouth and Boston.
In 1833, the side- wheel steamboat "Herald," about nine-
ty feet long on deck and twenty feet wide, was built near
the head of the Middlesex canal, above Pawtucket Falls,
and made her first trip from Lowell to Nashua May 31,
1834. Six years later she was sold, taken down the
river to Newburyport, and thence to New York, where
she was employed transporting passengers to Albany and
other towns on the Hudson river. 4
In 1834, a small, well-built boat, named the " Essex,"
owned by Michael Pearson and George Fitz of Newbury-
port, carried passengers during the summer months to
Plum Island and Haverhill. 6 She was propelled by horse
power, and was in service on the river for several seasons.
In July, 1835, the steamer " Citizen " was advertised to
make excursion trips from Ferry wharf to Portsmouth
and Boston.
The steam-propeller " Decatur," owned by Albert
Wood, John Porter and John Wood, was built by
Stephen Jackman, jr., and made her first trip from New-
buryport to Boston April 21, 1845, Joseph Bartlet, mas-
ter. The side-wheel steamboat " Ohio " was launched
from the yard of Stephen Jackman, jr., April 7, 1846.
'Newburyport Herald, Sept. 29, Nov. 13 and 17, 1818.
'Newburyport Herald. April 11, 1825, and July 28, 1829.
'Newburyport Herald, August 30, and September 6, 1831.
^Contributions of Old Residents' Historical Association, Lowell,
Mass., v. 1, pp. 318-336.
'Newburyport Herald, July 10 and 24, 1834, and Aug. 4, 1835.
26 STEAM NAVIGATION IN NEW ENGLAND
Under the command of Capt. Jeremiah Lunt, she made
two trips weekly from Newburyport to Boston, until May,
1847, when she was sold to run in a line of steam packets
from New Orleans to Galveston.
John Porter, John Wood, Micajah Lunt and their asso-
ciates were incorporated April 9, 1846, by the name of
" The Newburyport, Boston and Haverhill Steam Boat
Company," with power to build and employ one or more
steamboats for the transportation of merchandise and
passengers between Newburyport and Boston and on the
Merrimack river. 1 On the thirtieth of June following,
the side- wheel steamer "Lawrence," just completed, com-
menced her daily trips between Newburyport and Haver-
hill. She left Central wharf at one o'clock P. M. for
Haverhill, returning the next day, leaving Haverhill at
half-past eight o'clock in the morning, and stopping, on
the way up and down, to take passengers at the usual
landing places. 2 She was sold in 1848, and employed in
the transportation of passengers between Norwich and
New London, in Connecticut, and in 1855 ran between
Salem and Boston, as before noted.
John Burrill, John Huse, John N. Wills and their
associates were March 3, 1847, incorporated by the name
of "The Merrimack Steam Navigation Company," and
authorized to build or employ one or more steamboats to
be used in the harbor of Newburyport or on the Merri-
mack river. 8 June 16, 1848, a new steamer, named the
" Lawrence," made her first trip from Newburyport to
Haverhill, and thence to Lawrence. 4 She was a small
boat, drawing only fifteen inches of water, and was em-
ployed on the river for one season only. In 1849, she
was sold to the New Bedford and California Mining Com-
pany, and was afterwards employed on the San Joaquin
river, between San Francisco and Stockton, and on the
Yuba river between Sacramento and Marysville. She
was completely dismantled in the dock at Brown's wharf,
Newburyport, by Charles R. Sargent and Daniel H. Smith.
'Mass. Acts and Resolves, 1846, chapter 204.
*Newburyport Herald, July 17, 1846.
3 Mass. Acts and Resolves, 1847, chapter 38.
4 Newburyport Herald, June 17, 1848.
BY FRANCIS B. C. BRADLEE 27
Her machinery was taken out and shipped to San Fran-
cisco, with all the timber, planks, bolts and other material
used in the construction of her hull. Under the super-
vision of Mr. Smith, she was rebuilt in California, and
was the first steamboat employed to carry passengers and
freight on the Yuba river.
In the summer of 1849, the steamer "California," built
in Waterville, Maine, Eleazer R. Walker and Albert Rus-
sell, owners, and A. Fuller, master, made two trips daily
between Newburyport and Haverhill; and at the same
time the steamer " Sarah," Capt. Isaac Shepard, was ad-
vertised to take merchandise and passengers from New-
buryport to other towns on the river. Both these
steamers were sold in September of that year to be taken
to Boston and thence to San Francisco.
In July, 1850, the Newburyport Daily Herald an-
nounced the arrival of the steamer " Narragansett," John
B. Tuttle, master. She was in active service on the river
for two or three months. On the fourteenth of August,
the steamer " Merrimack," built under the supervision of
David M. Coffin, in the yard owned by John Currier, jr.,
began to make regular trips between Newburyport and
Haverhill, under the command of Capt. William Pritchard.
July 25, 1854, she was advertised for sale by a committee
appointed for that purpose, consisting of Micajah Lunt,
William Graves and Mark Symons. In June, 1855, she
was sent to Boston and sold at auction. She also ran
from Salem to Lowell Island in 1851.
In the meantime, the steamer " C. B. Stevens," built
in Wilmington, Delaware, in 1851, owned by Nicholas
Varina, Samuel Stevens, Thomas Buntin and others of
Newburyport, made her first trip from Newburyport to
Haverhill June 23, 1852, Charles B. Stevens, Captain,
and on July 26, 1853, the Newburyport Herald announced
the sale of this steamer at auction in Boston. The
steamer " Lawrence," a new and commodious boat, much
larger than any before employed on the river, was char-
tered and run, at a pecuniary loss, for several months, for
the purpose of stimulating trade and developing the re-
sources of the Merrimack valley. The steamer ' Silver
Star," Thomas McKinney, master, made excursions to
28 STEAM NAVIGATION IN NEW ENGLAND
Haverhill, Plum Island, and other places of interest on.
the river and in the harbor during the summer of 1855.
Several years later, the "Peerless," under the command
of Captain Joseph M. Coffin, was advertised to take pas-
sengers from Newburyport to Haverhill ; and in 1872 the
steamer " Glide," owned and commanded by Captain
Coffin, was running from the above-named towns to Black
Rocks and Plum Island. In April of that year the steam
propeller "May Queen," built in Philadelphia in 1868,
was purchased by Samuel Poor of Haverhill, and em-
ployed in the transportation of passengers and merchan-
dise for many years.
In 1878, Captain E. E. Stimpson and Christopher C.
Cook of Haverhill purchased the " City of Frederick-
ton," a stern-wheel beat, built in the province of New
Brunswick in 1872. She made her first trip to Haver-
hill June 24, 1878, but having a foreign register, was un-
able to obtain a license to carry freight or passengers. In
April, 1880, she was sold to Hon. Edward P. Shaw,
taken to Black Rocks, and converted into a restaurant.
Her engine and boilers were transferred to the steamer
" City of Haverhill," built in Newburyport by John T.
Fillmore for the Merrimack Valley Steamboat Company,
which was organized in December, 1879. The steamer
City of Haverhill " was launched March 25, 1880. The
last named steamer made her first trip from Haverhill to
Black Rocks June 18, 1880. She was about one hundred
and seventy-five tons measurement, and was propelled by
a stern wheel. In 1895 she was sold, and was lost on her
way to Key West, Florida.
The " Merrimack," a stern-wheeled steamboat, about
two hundred tons register, built in 1892 by Lemuel Mar-
quand, at Ring's Island, Salisbury, for the Merrimack
Valley Steamboat Company, was in active service during
the summer months, making two trips daily from Haver-
hill to Newburyport and Black Rocks, until about 1912.
She was then laid up in Newburyport for a long time, and
finally, in 1915, burned for the old iron, etc., in her hull.
The steam-tug " Thurlow Weed," built in Albany,
N. Y., in 1862, was purchased by Newell Boyd of Ames-
bury, Sargent & Holden of Haverhill, and others. She
BY FRANCIS B. C. BRADLEE 29
arrived in Newburyport June 5, 1864, and for twenty-five
or thirty years was employed in towing vessels in the
harbor and on the river. In 1875, the steam-tug Mat-
tie Sargent," built in Philadelphia in 1871, was pur-
chased by Newell Boyd, Sargent & Holden, John O.
Davis and others. She was commanded by William Rob-
inson for one or two years, and afterwards by Capt. John
O. Davis and Capt. Clemens E. Davis. During the sum-
mer months the barge u Queen of the Merrimack," built
for Newell Boyd and others at Salisbury in 1870, made
frequent excursions from Haverhill and other towns on
the river to Black Rocks, in tow of the steam-tug " Mat-
tie Sargent." Subsequently, the Haverhill Steamboat
Express Company was organized for the purpose of tow-
ing vessels and carrying passengers to and from Haver-
hill and other towns on Merrimack river. The above-
named steam-tugs, with the barge " Queen of the Merri-
mack,'' and steam-propeller " General Bartlett," built in
East Boston, were purchased by the new company and
used in transporting passengers and merchandise for sev-
eral years. The " General Bartlett " arrived in New-
buryport June eighteenth, and made her first trip to
Haverhill June 24, 1879, under the command of Capt.
John O. Davis.
Benjamin F. Butler, John Nesmith, DeWitt C. Far-
rington, their associates and successors, were incorporated
in 1867, by the name of the Pentucket Navigation Com-
pany, for the purpose of improving navigation in the
Merrimack river, and transporting coal and other mer-
chandise from Newburyport to Lowell. 1 It was not, how-
ever, until July, 1876, that the steamer Maud," built in
Haverhill, made her first trip from Newburyport to Law-
rence, under the command of Capt. Henry Vatter, and in
the month of September following was advertised to
make the trip daily. She was sold in 1877, and taken to
Portsmouth, N. H.
The side-wheel steam-tug " Charles L. Mather," built
in Athens, N. Y., was purchased by the Pentucket Navi-
gation Company, and arrived in Newburyport October 1,
1876. Two days later, on her way to Lawrence, she
'Mass. Acts and Resolves, 1867, chapter 115.
30 STEAM NAVIGATION IN NEW ENGLAND
passed through the draw of the Essex-Merriraack and
other bridges on the river with difficulty. After leaving
Haverhill, she struck a rock at the foot of the rapids in
Dutch Gap, and was subsequently beached on Kimball'g
Island for temporary repairs. On the sixteenth of No-
vember following, with a barge load of coal in tow, she
made a successful trip from New bury port to Lawrence.
The next year the steamer " Kitty Boynton," forty-
five tons register, was built by Colby & Lunt, in New-
buryport, to assist in the transportation of coal and other
merchandise through the canal from Lawrence to Low-
ell. 1 The "Startled Fawn," built in Philadelphia in
1875, for the transportation of passengers attending the
Centennial fair in that city, was purchased by the Pen-
tucket Navigation Company, and made her first trip July
15, 1879, from Newburyport to Haverhill. She was
afterward employed in the development of travel and the
transportation of merchandise on the river.
In 1880, the " Orient," a stern-wheeler, built in Port-
land, Maine, was purchased. She arrived in Newbury-
port on the eighteenth of May, but the inspectors at the
custom house found her boilers defective. She was
withdrawn from active service, dismantled, and moored
near the marine railway on Ring's island, in Salisbury,
where she remained until destroyed by fire six or eight
years later. The steam-tug " Wauwinet," purchased in
Boston by Edward P. Shaw, arrived in Newburyport in
tow of steamer "Florence," July 23, 1880. She was
rebuilt by Capt. Joseph M. Coffin, provided with a new
engine and boiler, and sold to the Pentucket Navigation
Company in July, 1881. The next year she made daily
trips from the foot of Canal street, in Lawrence, to
Haverhill, Newburyport, and the sea. The stern-wheeler
" Merrimack," built in Essex, Mass., made her first trip
from Haverhill to Lawrence in November, 1882, under
the command of Captain Haverty. She was withdrawn
from service during the winter months, and early the
following spring was taken to Jacksonville, Florida. All
the property of the Pentucket Navigation Company, not
'The steamer "Kitty Boynton" was advertised for sale in the
Newburyport Herald June 3, 1882.
BY FRANCIS B. C. BRADLEE 31
otherwise disposed of, was sold at auction in the city of
Lawrence, May 25, 1883.
In 1880, Edward P. Shaw and others organized the
People's Line of Steamers, to carry passengers and mer-
chandise between Haverhill, Amesbury and other towns
on the Merrimack river and Newburyport and Boston.
The steam-propeller " May Queen," owned by the Merri-
mack Valley Steamboat Company, was purchased and
used in the passenger service, and the side-wheeler "Flor-
ence," purchased in Rhode Island, made daily trips from
Newburyport to Boston, under the command of Capt.
J. F. Tilton. In September, 1880, the steamer " Flor-
ence " was sold, and the " E. P. Morris " was purchased
to take her place, but the business proving unremunera-
tive, she was withdrawn from active service in October,
1881.
In 1883, the steamer "E.P.Shaw," built at Petty's
Island, New Jersey, was employed in the transporta-
tion of passengers to Black Rocks, during the sum-
mer months; and, in 1889, the "Pauline," built by
Lemuel Marquand at Ring's island, in Salisbury, was en-
gaged in the same service. In 1891, the street railway
from Market square, Newburyport, to Salisbury beach,
was equipped for electric car service, and the People's
Line of steamers discontinued.
In 1873, Henry M. Cross, a wholesale and retail coal
dealer in Newburyport, sold his wharf property to the
Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company, 1 and
was appointed agent of the company for Newburyport
and vicinity, which position he held ten or twelve years.
Adjoining lots of land were purchased, and the erection
of a coal pocket, for storing and distributing coal, begun
in 1874, was completed in 1876. Soon after the last-
named date, the iron colliers, " Leopard," " Panther,"
" Hercules," " Achilles," " Rattlesnake," Centipede "
and others made frequent trips from Philadelphia to
Newburyport with coal. Barges in tow of steamers are
now employed in that service, and larger storage capacity
has been provided by the erection of additional coal
pockets.
'Essex Deeds, book 882, leaves 83 and 254; book 891, leaf 109.
32 STEAM NAVIGATION IN NEW ENGLAND
In 1880, the steam-tug " Luke Hovt," built in Phila-
delphia in 1863, was purchased by William E. McQuillcn
and others, and twelve months later the steam-tug
" Farnsworth," built in New Jersey in 1877, was pur-
chased by Henry M. Cross and others. The owners of
both of these tugs united, in 1882, to form the Merrimack
River Towing Company, Henry M. Cross, president, Wil-
liam E. McQuillen, general manager, and James V. Fel-
ker, secretary and treasurer. Several years later the
company purchased the steam-tug " Thurlow Weed,"
owned by its competitor, the Haverhill Express Com-
pany, and soon obtained complete control of the towing
business on the river and in the harbor. There was an
active demand for these boats, and vessels loaded with
coal, lumber and other merchandise, were frequently
obliged to wait in Newburyport for a favorable opportu-
nity to proceed up the river.
In addition to the above-named tugs, the Merrimack
River Towing Company purchased the "Clara E. Uhler,"
built in Philadelphia in 1881. Subsequently, the company
increased its capital stock, and purchased the " Bronx,"
built in Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1888, the Cygnet," built in
East Boston, Mass., in 1890, the " Powwow," built in
Kennebunkport, Maine, in 1904, and the " Monomack,"
built in East Boston in 1908. The " Luke Hoyt," the
' Farnsworth," the "Thurlow Weed" and the "Clara
E. Uhler " were sold fifteen or twenty years ago. At
the present time the " Bronx," " Hazel Dell," " Cygnet,"
*' Powwow " and ' Monomack " are employed eight
or nine months in the year in towing vessels in and out
of the harbor and transporting coal in barges from
Newburyport to Haverhill and other towns on the river.
(To be continued')
IPSWICH VITAL RECORDS
17491849
The following baptisms, marriages and deaths have been
taken from a book of records of the First Congregational
Church of Ipswich, which has come to hand since 1910, sup-
plemented by Bible records, Church records and gravestone
records, the same not being included in the Ipswich Vital
Records, published in 1910.
ABBREVIATIONS
a. age.
abt. about.
b. born.
c. R. 4. church record, Chebacco Parish Church.
c. R' 5. church record, the Hamlet Parish Church.
ch. child.
chn. children.
d. daughter; died.
Dea deacon.
o. R. 1. gravestone record, Old Burying Hill.
h. husband ; hour.
inf. infant.
int. intention of marriage.
jr. junior.
m. male; married; month.
p. R. 78. Bible record now in possession of Miss Anna W.
Ross.
p. R. 101. Bible record now in possession of Miss Emma
Wait.
p. R. 119. Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Charles
Mills of Rockport.
(33)
34 IPSWICH VITAL RECORDS
p. s. 120. Bible record now in possession of Miss Lena B.
Pool of Lynn.
p. s. 121. Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Henry
Smith of Eockport.
p. R. 122. Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Scott
Stevens of Eockport.
p. n. 123. Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Ada H.
Whitney of Eockport.
rec. recorded.
*. son.
sr. senior.
'T. s. town record.
unm. unmarried.
w. wife.
wid. widow.
widr. widower.
IPSWICH BAPTISMS
ADAMS, Abraham, s. Henry and Sarah, bp. June 3, 1792.
Polly, d. Henry and Sarah, bp. May 24, 1789.
ANDREWS, Sarah, d. David, bp. Mar. 6, 1757.
William Fuller, s. David, bp. Sept. 27, 1761. [bp. Sept. 26
T. B.]
APPLETON, Eliza [beth], d. Francis, bp. Oct. 4, 1767. fbp.
Oct. 11. T. B.]
Eliza[beth], d. William, bp. Aug. 21, 1774.
Hannah, d. Benja[min], bp. Aug. 19, 1770.
John, s. John, bp. Dec. 23, 1750. [bp. Dec. 16. T. B.]
Mary, d. Isaac, bp. July 2, 1749.
Mary, d. Will[ia]m, bp. July 5, 1772.
ASTNESS, Manuel, s. Manuel and Eebecca, bp. Jan. 17, 1773.
AVERILL, Benja[min] [A very. T. B.] s. Benja[min], bp.
Dec. 16, 1770.
Elizabeth, d. twin, Benja[min], bp. Dec. 26, 1773.
Sarah, d. twin, Benja[min], bp. Dec. 26, 1773.
BAKER, Margaret, d. W[illia]m, bp. Sept. 11, 1763. [bp.
Sept. 12. T. B.]
Margarett, d. Will[iam], bp. Sept. 12, 1762.
Mary, d. Sam[ue]l, bp. July 27, 1788.
Samuel, s. Samuel, bp. Oct. 28, 1781.
Sarah, d. Samuel, bp. Jan. 19, 1766.
Stephen, a. Wil[lia]m, bp. Feb. 28, 1773.
BEAL, John, s. Tho[ma]s, bp. June 19, 1763.
William, s. Th o [ma]s, bp. July 30, 1749. [bp. July 16. T. B.]
BLY, Mary, d. William, bp. Oct. 19, 1755. [d. John, bp. Oct.
18. T. B.]
BOARDMAN, Abigail, d. Daniel, bp. Feb. 27, 1791.
Anna, d. Daniel, bp. Nov. 26, 1786.
Daniel, s. Daniel, bp. Dec. 23, 1782.
Francis Hodgkins, s. Daniel, bp. Jan. 9, 1785.
(35)
36 IPSWICH BAPTISMS
BOARDMAN, John, s. Daniel and Mary, bp. July 29, 1781.
Lucy, d. Daniel, bp. May 14, 1797.
Mary, d. Daniel and Mary, bp. Aug. 20, 1780.
Sarah Gidings, d. Daniel, bp. Oct. 18, 1801.
Thomas Caldwell, s. Daniel, bp. July 17, 1803.
BOURROUGHS, Abr[aham], s. Josiah,bp. May 13, 1761. [Wil-
liam, bp. May 12. T. K.]
BRAGG, Mary, d. Timo[thy], jr., bp. July 30, 1749. [bp.
July 16. T. B.]
BROWN, Benja[min], s. Benja[min], 3d [jr. T.R.], bp. Oct. 6,
1766.
David, s. Nathaniel, bp. Mar. 18, 1781.
Jane, d. Samuel, bp. Jan. 1, 1769.
Joshua, s. Nath[anie]l, bp. Oct. 17, 1784.
Martha, d. Benja[min], jr., bp. Jan. 8, 1764.
Nath[anie]l, s. Benja[min], bp. Jan. 22, 1758. [bp. Jan. 23.
T. R.]
Nath[anie]l, s. Nath[anie]l, bp. Nov. 6, 1772.
, Sarah, d. Benja[min], 3d, bp. Apr. 28, 1771.
Tho[ma]s, s. Benja[min], jr. [3d. T. R.], bp. Dec. 25, 1768.
BURGESS, Bartholomew, s. Bartholomew H. and Sarah, bp.
June 8, 1794.
Charles, s. Bartholomew H. and Sarah, bp. June 8, 1794.
Francis, s. Bartholomew H. and Sarah, bp. June 8, 1794.
BURNAM (see also Burnham), James, s. Tho[ma]s, bp.
June 27, 1756. [bp June 20. T. R.]
Josiah, s. Isaac, bp. May 26, 1765.
Sarah, d. Tho[ma]s, jr., bp. Feb. 28, 1768.
BURNHAM (see also Burnam), Ebenezar, s. Tho[ma]s, 2d, bp.
Feb. 2, 1772.
CALDWELL, Aaron, s. twin, Moses, bp. Nov. 14, 1790.
Abraham, s. Abraham and Esther, bp. Deo. 19, 1773.
Benja[min], s. Benjamin, bp. May 8, 1763.
Daniel, s. John, bp. Nov. 19, 1769.
Daniel, s. Thomas, bp. Mar. 2, 1794.
David, s Thomas, bp. Feb. 9, 1783.
Elisabeth, d. Moses and Eliz[abejth, bp. Oct. 1, 1786.
Elisabeth, d. Thomas, bp. Apr. 10, 1803.
Eliza[beth], d. Aaron, bp. Apr. 29, 1751. [bp. Apr. 28. T. R.]
IPSWICH BAPTISMS 37
CALDWELL, Elizabeth, d. Thomas, jr., bp. Dec. 12, 1784.
Francis, s. Thomas, bp. Nov. 16, 1788.
Hannah, d. Benj[ami]n, bp. Mar. 9, 1783.
John, s. Thomas, bp. May 19, 1782.
Josiah, s. Thomas, bp. Aug. 19, 1781.
Lucy, d. Tho[ma]s and Lucy, bp. May 8, 1774.
Lydia, d. Benja[min] > bp. May 3, 1772.
Mary, d. Benjamin, bp. Mar. 18, 1781.
Mary, d. Thomas, jr., bp. Sept. 26, 1790.
Moses, s. Moses and Eliz[abe]th, bp. Jan. 25, 1789.
Nathan, s. Benja[min], bp. Sept. 30, 1765.
Richard Sutton, s. Moses, bp. Mar. 16, 1794.
Samuel, s. twin, Moses, bp. Nov. 14, 1790.
Stephen, s. Moses, bp. July 16, 1797.
Susannah, d. Thomas, jr., bp. June 22, 1788.
Thomas, s. Tho[ma]s and Eliza[be]th, bp. Oct. 17, 1779.
Thomas, s. Thomas, bp. Sept. 17, 1780.
CHAPMAN, Priscilla, d. Nathan, bp. Aug. 26, 1753.
CHIPMAN, Anstice, d. John [Samuel and Anstice. T. B.], bp.
Nov. 17, 1754.
CHOATE, Abigail Patch, d. Stephen and Elizabeth, b. June 26,
1789. P. R. 120. [bp. Oct. 25, 1790. T. K.]
Elizabeth, d. Stephen and Elizabeth, b. Nov. 2, 1773. P. B. 120.
[bp. Nov. 23, 1777. T. R.]
Epeg, s. Stephen and Elizabeth, b. June 5, 1792. p. R. 120.
Francis, s. Abraham, bp. May 20, 1764.
Francis, s. Stephen and Elizabeth, b. Feb. 12, 1794. p. R. 120.
Hervey, s. Stephen and Elizabeth, b. Sept. 2, 1785. p. R. 120.
Joanna, d. Stephen and Elizabeth, b. June 22, 1776. p. R. 120.
John Patch, s. Stephen and Elizabeth, b. Jan. 22, 1781. p. R.
120.
Peggy, d. Stephen and Elizabeth, b. May 12, 1796. P. R. 120.
[May 11. c. R. 4.]
Polly, d. Stephen and Elizabeth, b. Jan. 2, 1779. P. R. 120.
Stephen, s. Stephen and Elizabeth, b. Mar. 20, 1783. P. R. 120.
COGGSWELL (see also Cogswell), Anstis, d. Ebenezer, bp.
Sept. 13, 1795.
Ebenezer, s. Ebenezer, bp. Aug. 23, 1801.
Mary, d. Ebenezer, bp. Mar. 10, 1799.
Oliver, s. Joseph, bp. July 29, 1787.
Sophia, d. Eben[eze]r, bp. Mar. 5, 1797.
38 IPSWICH BAPTISMS
COGSWELL (see also Coggswell), Anna, d. Joseph, bp. Sept.
23, 1781.
Francis, s. Joseph, bp. Sept. 11, 1774.
Francis, s. Ebenezer, bp. Oct. 16, 1803.
Lucy, b. , 1759. P. B. 121.
William, s. Joseph, bp. [June 3], 1764.
COLEMAN, Clarissa, d. W[illia]m and Sarah, bp. Nov. 2, 1788.
Sarah, d. W[illia]m and Sarah, bp. Nov. 2, 1788.
William, s. W[illia]m and Sarah, bp. Nov. 2, 1788.
CROCKER, Eliza[beth], d. John, bp. Nov. 6, 1772.
CROMBIE, see Crumbie.
CROSS, David, s. Benja[min], bp. June 5, 1774.
Dudley, s. Nathaniel, bp. Sept. 17, 1780.
Eliza[beth], d. John, bp. Aug. 7, 1763.
Elizabeth, d. Benj[ami]n, bp. Aug. 24, 1777. [bp. July 27.
T. R.]
Hannah, d. Nath[anie]l, bp. Aug. 29, 1773.
John, s. John, bp. [bet. Feb. 17 and Mar. 17], 1765.
Sarah, d. Benj[ami]n, bp. Oct. 7, 1781.
CRUMBIE, , ch. Aaron, b. Dec. , 1787.
DAY, Aaron, s. Aaron, bp. Oct. 21, 1753. [bp. Oct. 20. T. R.]
Abigail, d. Daniel and Sarah, bp. June 14, 1795.
Anstice, d. Tho[ma]s, bp. Mar. 30, 1767. [bp. Mar. 29. T. R.]
Daniel, s. Daniel, bp. July 15, 1792.
Eliza [beth] [Abigail. T. R.], d. twin, Jer[emy], bp. July 1,
1753.
Eliza[beth], d. Aaron, bp. Aug. 7, 1757.
James, s. twin, Jer[emy], bp. July 1, 1753.
Lucy, d. Aaron, bp. Aug. 12, 1759.
Mary, d. Aaron, bp. Oct. 31, 1773.
Rebecca, d. Tho[ma]s, bp. May 5, 1765.
Sarah, d. Daniel and Sarah, bp. July 11, 1790.
Susannah, d. Aaron, bp. Feb. 12, 1764.
Susannah, d. Aaron, bp. Aug. 9, 1767.
Susannah, d. Daniel and Sarah, bp. July 11, 1790.
Unis, d. Abner, bp. Apr. 21, 1765. [bp. Apr. 20. T. R.]
Unis, d. Tho[ma]s, bp. Dec. 19, 1773.
, ch. Aaron, b. Nov. , 1787.
IPSWICH BAPTISMS 39
DENNIS, Elizabeth, d. Sam[ue]l and Rebekah [Eliza[beth].
T. R.], bp. May 18, 1766.
Elizabeth, d. John, bp. Mar. 6, 1785.
Hannah, d. Capt. Nath[anie]l, bp. Feb. 2, 1794.
John, s. John, bp. June , 1780.
Lydia, d. John, now living at Litchfield, Linc[ol]n Co., bp.
July 12, 1795.
Martha, d. Nath[anie]l, bp. Feb. 27, 1791.
Mary, d. Arthur, bp. Dec. 9, 1769.
Mary, d. Nath[anie]l, bp. June 10, 1781.
Mary, d. Nath[anie]l, bp. Oct. 31, 1784.
Nath[anie]l, s. Nath[anie]l, bp. Dec. 18, 1774.
Sam[ue]l, s. Samuel, bp. Jan. 6, 1771.
Thomas, s. John, bp. Mar. 23, 1788.
Thomas, s. wid. Mary, bp. Dec. 27, 1795.
William, s. W[illia]m, bp. July 3, 1766. [bp. Aug. 4. T. R.]
DODGE, Abigail, d. Abrah[am], bp. June 5, 1763.
Daniel, s. Will[ia]m, jr., bp. Oct. 5, 1760.
Elisabeth, d. Thomas and Elisabeth, bp. Aug. 11, 1799.
Eliza [beth], d. Isaac, bp. Apr. 22, 1761.
Ellen, d. Tho[ma]s and Ruth, bp. June 27, 1778.
Hariot, d. twin, Thomas, bp. Feb. 13, 1803.
Mary, d. Capt. Thomas, bp. Sept. 29, 1782.
Kebeckah, d. Thomas, bp. Dec. 16, 1792.
Sarah, d. Isaac, bp. June 16, 1766.
Sarah, d. Thomas and Elisabeth, bp. Aug. 11, 1799.
Thomas, s. twin, Thomas, bp. Feb. 13, 1803.
William, s. W[illia]m, jr. and Elizabeth, bp. Aug. 20, 1780.
DUTCH, Betsey Simpkins, d. Stephen, bp. May 9, 1784.
Daniel, s. Benja[min], jr., bp. June 22, 1760.
Dolly, d. Capt. John, bp. May 25, 1783.
Eliza[beth], d. Nath[anie]l, bp. Mar. 11, 1759.
Eunice, d. John, bp. Apr. 22, 1781.
Henrietta, d. Stephen, bp. Nov. 26, 1786.
Lucy, d. Stephen, bp. Jan. 6, 1788.
Mary, d. John, bp. Aug. 29, 1773.
Polly, d. Stephen and Mary, bp. Nov. 10, 1782.
Sally, d. Capt. John, bp. May 15, 1785.
Stephen, s. Stephen and Mary, bp. Apr. 29, 1781.
Susanna, d. Benja[min], bp. May 22, 1768. [bp. May 20.
T. R.]
William, s. Stephen, bp. Dec. 11, 1785.
, s. Daniel, b. Sept. , 1787.
40 IPSWICH BAPTISMS
EDWARDS, Hannah, d. Joseph, bp. Oct. 4, 1767. [bp. Oct. 11.
T. R.J
EVELETH (see also Evleth), Elisabeth, d. Samuel and Elisa-
beth, bp. Oct. 12, 1788.
Mary, d. Sam[ue]l, bp. Mar. 16, 1794.
Sam[ue]l, s. Sam[ue]l, bp. Aug. 22, 1790.
Sarah, d. Sam[ue]l, bp. Oct. 14, 1798.
, s. Samuel, b. May , 1786.
EVLETH (see also Eveleth), Susannah, d. Sam[ue]l, bp. Feb.
29, 1796.
FARLEY (see also Farly), Abigail, d. Nath[anie]l, bp. Jan.
31, 1762.
Charles, s. Jonathan, bp. June 26, 1791.
Elisabeth, d. Jonathan and Susannah, bp. Oct. 19, 1788.
Eliza[beth], d. Michael, jr., bp. Jan. 13, 1750-51. [bp. Jan.
14. T. B.]
Eliza[beth], d. Nath[anie]l, bp. June 26, 1757. [bp. June
25. T. K.]
Eunice Wells, d. Jonathan, bp. June 2, 1805.
Hannah, d. Nath[anie]l, bp. May 5, 1771.
Joseph, s. John, bp. July 5, 1772.
Michael, s. Jonathan, bp. May 30, 1802.
Susannah, d. Nath[anie]l, bp. May 28, 1780.
Susannah, d. Jonathan and Susannah, bp. Oct. 19, 1788.
Will[iam], s. Nath[anie]l, bp. Nov. 18, 1759.
, d. Jonathan, b. Apr. , 1786.
FARLY (see also Farley), George William, s. Jonathan and
Susannah, bp. Sept. 6, 1801.
Jonathan Coggswell, s. Jonathan and Susannah, bp. Sept. 6,
1801.
Mary, d. Jonathan and Susannah, bp. Sept. 6, 1801.
FELLOWS, Susannah, d. Joseph, bp. July 2, 1749.
William, s. , bp. Feb. 14, 1780.
FITTS, Abraham, s. Dan[ie]l, bp. Nov. 25, 1753. [bp. Nov.
26. T. K.]
Bethiah, d. Moses, bp. Feb. 14, 1768.
Daniel, s. Daniel, bp. Dec. 1, 1751.
Daniel [Moses. T. K.], s. Daniel, bp. Dec. 28, 1755.
Elisabeth, d. Nath[anie]l, bp. Oct. 5, 1788.
Jeremiah, s. Nath[anie]l, bp. Apr. 23, 1780.
IPSWICH BAPTISMS 41
FITTS, Jeremiah, s. Nath[anie]l, bp. June 16, 1782.
John, s. Aaron, bp. June 29, 1783.
Molly, d. Aaron, bp. Feb. 24, 1782.
Nabby, d. Aaron, bp. Apr. 17, 1774.
Solomon, s. Daniel, bp. Mar. 18, 1764.
FOSTER, Nath[anie]l Clark, s. W[illia]ra, bp. Dec. 5, 1756.
[bp. Nov. 21. T. K.]
Kebecca, d. W[illia]ra, bp. July 1, 1753.
Susannah, d. Jonathan, bp. Oct. 10, 1773.
FOWLER, James, s. Jos[eph], bp. Jan. 10, 1762.
Mary, d. Jos[cph], jr., bp. Sept. 5, 1756.
FREEMAN, John, s. Peter, bp. July 29, 1759.
Lydia, d. Peter, bp. June 29, 1755. [bp. June 28. T. B.]
Peter, s. Peter, bp. Oct. 20, 1751.
Peter, s. Peter, bp. June 26, 1757. [bp. June 25. T. B.]
FULLAR (see also Fuller), Enoch Perkins, s. Nath[anie]l,
bp. May 13, 1804.
FULLER (see also Fullar), Elizabeth, d. Nath[anie]l and
Hannah, bp. Oct. 4, 1789.
Hannah, d. Nath[anie]l and Hannah, bp. Oct. 4, 1789.
John Perkins, s. Nath[anie]l, bp. May 9, 1802.
Mary, d. Nath[anie]l, bp. May 26, 1800.
Rebekah, d. Nath[anie]l, bp. July 1, 1798.
Sarah, d. Nath[anie]l and Hannah, bp. Oct. 4, 1789.
Susannah, d. Nath[anie]l, bp. Mar. 27, 1796.
, d. Nath[anie]l, b. Nov. , 1786.
GALLOWAY, Anna, d. Jonathan], bp. Aug. 21, 1774.
Daniel, s. Jonath[a]n, bp. May 17, 1772.
Lydia, d. W[illa]m, bp. Nov. 6, 1772.
Lydia, d. Jonathan, bp. Oct. 9, 1774.
Samuel, s. Jona[than], bp. Dec. 11, 1768.
William, s. Jonathan] [William. T. B.], bp. Nov. 5, 1758.
William, s. Will[ia]m, bp. Jan. , 1771.
GIDDING (see also Giddings), Joseph, s. Solomon, bp. July
28, 1771.
Joseph, s. Solomon, jr., bp. Aug. 28, 1774.
GIDDINGS (see also Gidding, Giddins), Joseph, s. Solomon,
jr., bp. Aug. 16, 1772.
42 IPSWICH BAPTISMS
GIDDINS (see also Giddings), Anice, d. Solomon, bp. May 9,
1784.
GLASIER (see also Glazier), Edmund Heard, s. twin, Benja-
min, bp. June 6, 1802.
Elisabeth, d. Daniel, bp. July 10, 1796.
Elisabeth Osgood, d. twin, Benjamin, bp. June 6, 1802.
Eliza, d. John, bp. Oct. 16, 1803.
Eliza[beth], d. Benja[min], bp. Nov. 6, 1768.
Hannah, d. John, bp. Dec. 27, 1801.
Lucy, d. Benja[min], bp. Oct. 3, 1773.
Lydia Hovey, d. Benjamin, bp. Aug. 21, 1803.
Polly, d. Daniel, bp. Apr. 12, 1795.
GLAZIER (see also Glasier), Joanna, d. John, bp. June 2 r
1799.
John, s. John, bp. Mar. 30, 1800.
Sally, d. John, bp. June 2, 1799.
William, s. John, bp. May 21, 1774.
GOLD (see also Gould), Tho[ma]s, s. Major, bp. July 18, 1756.
[bp. July 11. T. K.]
GOLDSMITH, Tho[ma]s, s. John, bp. Oct. 25, 1772.
GOODHUE, Aaron, s. Aaron, bp. Apr. 20, 1794.
Abagail, d. Aaron, bp. Apr. 28, 1805.
Abner, s. John, bp. Jan. 31, 1762.
Betsey, d. Ebenezer, bp. Nov. 20, 17 85.
Daniel, s. John, bp. Aug. 28, 1769. [bp. Aug. 27. T. K.]
Daniel, s. Daniel, bp. [bet. Oct. 9 and Nov. 5], 1774.
Elizabeth, d. Eben[eze]r, bp. Apr. 5, 1789.
Ephraim, s. twin, John, jr., bp. Aug. 3, 1783.
Isaac, s. John and Mary, bp. June 10, 1781.
John, s. John, bp. Mar. 13, 1774.
Manasseh, s. twin, John, jr., bp. Aug. 3, 1783.
Martha, d. Nath[anie]l, bp. Feb. 8, 1756.
Moses, s. Aaron, bp. Sept. 16, 1798.
Polly, d. John, jr., bp. June 5, 1785.
Polly, d. Aaron and Mary, bp. May 17, 1789.
Sarah, d. Ebenezer and Sarah, bp. Sept. 8, 1782.
Thomas, s. John, jr., bp. Feb. 14, 1780.
GOULD (see also Gold), Abigail, d. Major, bp. Jan. 3, 1773,
Daniel, s. Thomas and Ruth, bp. Nov. 30, 1800.
IPSWICH BAPTISMS 43
GOULD, Elisabeth, d. Thomas, bp. Apr. 24, 1803.
Elisha, s. Maj [o]r, jr., bp. Feb. 17, 1765. [bp. Feb. 10. T. B.]
Elisha, s. Elisha and Kebeckah, bp. Nov. 7, 1779.
Elizabeth, d. Thomas and Kuth, bp. Nov. 30, 1800.
Sarah, d. Thomas, bp. Nov. 30, 1800.
Thomas, s. Thomas, bp. Nov. 30, 1800.
William, s. Maj[o]r, jr., bp. July 3, 1763.
GRAVES, Moses, s. John, jr., bp. May 14, 1769. [bp. May 7.
T. B.]
Moses, s. wid. Deborah, bp. July 26, 1795.
GREEN, Benjamin, s. Benjamin, bp. Sept. 1, 1805.
Lucy, d. Ben j [ami] n and Lydia, bp. May 12, 1799.
Mary Ann, d. Benjamin, bp. Aug. 21, 1803.
Susannah, d. Ben[jami]n, bp. May 10, 1801.
HALE, Joseph, s. Joseph, bp. Sept. 2, 1804.
HARRIS, Abraham Lord, s. John, 3d, bp. Jan. 11, 1789.
Eliza [beth], d. John, 5th, bp. Jan. 8, 1764.
Elizabeth, d. John, bp. Aug. 24, 1783.
John, s. John, 4th [3d. T. B.], bp. Dec. 8, 1771.
Joseph, s. John, 3d, bp. Dec. 12, 1779.
Joseph, s. Abner and E[li]sabeth, bp. July 18, 1802.
Mary, d. Moses, bp. Apr. 25, 1762.
Mary, d. John, bp. Jan. 29, 1774.
Mary Smith, d. Abner, bp. May 6, 1804.
Nath[anie]l, s. John, 3d, bp. Aug. 3, 1755.
Kichard, s. Will[ia]m, deceased, and Sarah, bp. Apr. 6, 1760.
[bp. Apr. 36. T. B.]
Sarah, d. John, bp. May 5, 1771.
Susannah, d. John, 3d, bp. Dec. 11, 1785.
Will[ia]m, s. John, 3d [William, 3d. T. B.], bp. Sept. 7, 1760.
William, s. John, bp. Nov. 5, 1774.
HASKEL (see also Haskell), Jonathan, s. Mark, bp. July 18,
1784.
Mark, s. Mark, 3d, bp. Apr. 17, 1774.
HASKELL (see also Haskel), Hannah, d. Mark, 3d, bp. Oct.
25, 1772.
HEARD (see also Herd), Daniel, s. Nath[anie]l, jr., bp. May
8, 1791.
Joanna, d. John, jr. and Elizabeth Anna, bp. Aug. 21, 1768.
44 IPSWICH BAPTISMS
HEARD, Joanna, d. Nath[anie]l, jr., bp. May 17, 1795.
John, s. John, jr., bp. Jan. 11, 1784.
John, s. Nathanael, jr. and Susannah, bp. Feb. 6, 1785.
Joseph, s. Samuel, bp. Jan. 9, 1757.
Joseph, s. Daniel, jr., bp. May 23, 1763.
Joseph, s. Nath[anie]l, jr., bp. Oct. 13, 1799.
Lucy, d. John, jr., bp. Sept. 9, 1781.
Martha, d. John, jr. and Martha, bp. Oct. 14, 1770. [bp. Oct.
15. T. K.]
Mary, d. Nath[anie]l, jr., bp. Mar. 17, 1793.
Nathanael, s. Nathanael, jr. and Susannah, bp. Feb. 6, 1785.
Nathanael, s. John, jr., bp. Mar. 5, 1786.
Kobert, s. Nath[anie]l, jr., bp. Feb. 19, 1786.
Susannah, d. Daniel, jr., bp. Mar. 1, 1767.
Susannah, d. Nath[anie]l, jr., bp. June 14, 1789.
Tamasin, d. Nath[anie]l, bp. Aug. 31, 1760. [bp. Aug. 17.
T. B.]
Unice, d. Edmund, bp. Sept. 16, 1759.
William, s. John, jr., bp. Jan. 4, 1789.
William, s. Nath[anie]l, jr., bp. Aug. 23, 1801.
HENDERSON, Abigail, d. Tho[ma]s, bp. Aug. 23, 1767.
Benj[ami]n, s. Thomas, bp. May 21, 1786.
John, s. John, bp. Aug. 21, 1774.
Joseph, s. Thomas, bp. Sept. 23, 1781.
Lucy, d. Tho[ma]s [John, jr. T. B.], bp. Nov. 17, 1765.
Margarett, d. Samuel, bp. Oct. 1, 1769.
Samuel, s. Sam[ue]l, bp. Nov. 6, 1772.
Tho[ma]s, s. Tho[ma]s, bp. Aug. 16, 1772.
William, s. Thomas, bp. Sept. 5, 1790.
HERD (see also Heard), Eliza[beth], d. Sam[ue]l, bp. Dec.
30, 1750. [bp. Dec. 29. T. B.]
Mary, d. Daniel, bp. July 16, 1749. [bp. July 9. T. K.]
HODGEKINS (see also Hodgkins), Will[ia]m, s. John, bp.
Aug. 21, 1762.
HODGKINS (see also Hodgekins), Abigail, d. John, 5th and
Abigail, bp. Aug. 20, 1780.
Abraham, s. John, bp. Apr. 29, 1751. [bp. Apr. 28. T. K.]
Benja[min], s. Joseph, bp. Sept. 7, 1766.
Benjamin, s. John, 4th, bp. Oct. 23, 1785.
Bethiah, d. Tho[ma]s, 3d [4th. T. R.] bp. Dec. 31, 1758.
Clarissa, d. John, 3d, bp. Feb. 2, 1794.
IPSWICH BAPTISMS 45
HODGKINS, Daniel, s. Capt. Tho[ma]s, jr., bp. Nov. 9, 1788.
David, s. David and Mary, bp. July 14, 1799.
Edward, s. John, jr., bp. June 23, 1799.
Eliza [beth], d. Steph[en], bp. Apr. 29, 1751. [bp. Apr. 28.
T. R.]
Eliza[beth], d. John, 4th, bp. Aug. 8, 1773.
Frances, d. Will[ia]m, bp. Aug. 14, 1757.
Joanna, d. Tho[ma]s, bp. Apr. 30, 1786.
John, s. John, 4th, bp. Oct. 3, 1756.
John, s. Tho[ma]s, bp. Jan. 29, 1774.
Joseph, s. John [Joseph. T. R.], bp. Aug. 21, 1768.
Judith, d. Ezek[iel], bp. Feb. 4, 1749 [-50. bp. Feb. 3. T. R.]
Margaret, d. Steph[en], bp. June 29, 1755. [bp. June 28.
T. R.]
Mary, d. John, jr., bp. July 4, 1790.
Mary, d. John, 4th, bp. July 4, 1790.
Moses, s. wid. Eliza[beth], bp. June 8, 1760.
Sally, d. Thomas, bp. July 4, 1784.
Samuel, s. W[illia]m, bp. Aug. 5, 1759.
Stephen, s. Tho[ma]s, jr. [3d. T. R.], bp. Apr. 4, 1762.
Tho[ma]s, s. John, jr. [3d. T. R.], bp. Mar. 5, 1758.
Tho[ma]s, s. John, jr. [4th. T. R.], bp. June 1, 1760.
Unis, d. John, bp. Apr. 30, 1758. [bp. May 7. T. R.]
William, s. Samuel, bp. Dec. 11, 1759.
William, s. Thomas, bp. Feb. 24, 1782.
W[illia]m Harris, s. Steph[en], bp. Aug. 6, 1749. [bp. July
30. T. R.]
HOLLAND, Daniel, s. John, jr., bp. June 13, 1773.
Eliza [beth], d. Jos[eph], bp. June 2, 1771.
John, s. John, jr. and Mary, bp. Dec. 9, 1769.
Lucy, d. John, bp. Nov. 30, 1783.
Samuel, s. John, bp. Sept. 19, 1779.
Sarah, d. John, bp. Nov. 4, 1781.
HOLMES, Sarah, d. John, bp. June 10, 1759.
HOVEY, Eunice, d. Capt. Joseph, bp. Mar. 23, 1788.
George Lewis, s. Francis, bp. Aug. 5, 1804.
Hannah, d. John, deceased, and Eliza [beth], bp. Dec. 5, 1762.
Hannah, d. Francis, bp. Jan. 16, 1774.
John Holmes, s. Joseph, bp. Feb. 27, 1791.
Lydia, d. Joseph, bp. Aug. 28, 1774.
Sally, d. Ebeuezer, bp. Sept. 4, 1785.
Tho[ma]s Lewis, s. Francis [Tho[ma]s. T. R.], bp. Aug. 9,
1772.
46 IPSWICH BAPTISMS
HUSE, Enoch, a. Enoch, bp. Jan. 15, 1761. [bp. Jan. 18. T. B.]
INGERSOL (see also Ingolson), Daniel, s. Jonathan, bp. May
20, 1781.
INGOLSON (see also Ingersol), Jona[than], s. Jona[than], bp.
Dec. 18, 1774.
JEWET (see also Jewett) , Daniel, s. John Coles, bp. Dec. 17,
1780.
JEWETT (see also Jewet), Aaron, s. John Coles, bp. May 20,
1787.
Elizabeth, d. Dummer, bp. Mar. 25, 1764.
Eliza[beth], d. John Coles, bp. July 22, 1770. [bp. July 15.
T. B.]
Mary, d. George, deceased, grandd. \vid. Martha, bp. Aug. 3,
1800.
Samuel, s. John Coles, bp. Oct. 10, 1784.
Sarah, d. John Coles, bp. June 9, 1782.
Stephen, s. John Coles, bp. Mar. 13, 1774.
JONES, Abigail, d. Thomas, bp. Aug. 5, 1792.
Elizabeth, d. Thomas, bp. Mar. 12, 1786.
Eunice, d. Thomas, bp. Sept. 1, 1793.
John, s. Thomas, bp. Jan. 18, 1784.
John Smith, s. Thomas, bp. June 1, 1788.
William, s. Thomas, bp. Oct. 3, 1790.
Wil[lia]m Harris, s. Nath[anie]l, bp. Aug. 9, 1772. [bp.
Aug. 2. T. B.]
William Harris, s. Nath[anie]l, bp. Dec. 26, 1773.
KENDAL (see also Kendall), Elisabeth, d. Capt. Ephraim,
bp. June 10, 1781.
KENDALL (see also Kendal, Kindall), Harriot, d. Ephraim,
bp. July 2, 1786.
Euth, d. Capt. Ephr[ai]m, bp. Jan. 18, 1784.
Samuel, s. Capt. Ephraim, bp. Aug. 4, 1788.
KIMBAL (see also Kimball), Nathaniel, s. Aaron, jr. bp. May
4, 1783.
Sarah, d. Ebenezer, bp. Dec. 8, 1782.
IPSWICH BAPTISMS 47
KIMBALL (see also Kimbal, Kimbill), Aaron, s. Aaron, jr.,
and Hannah, bp. Mar. 25, 1781.
Aron, s. Eichard, bp. July 24, 1774.
Daniel, s. Aaron, bp. Sept. 30, 1759.
Eben[eze]r, s. Tho[ma]s, bp. Aug. 12, 1764.
Ebenezer, s. Eben[eze]r, jr. and Sarah, bp. June 21, 1789.
Eben[eze]r, s. Aaron, bp. Apr. 8, 1792.
Hannah, d. Aaron, jr., bp. June 26, 1785.
Hannah, d. Jacob, bp. June 22, 1794.
Jacob, s. Benja[min], bp. Feb. 22, 1767.
Jacob, s. Jacob, bp. Dec. 24, 1797.
James Staniford, s. Capt. Thomas and Sarah, bp. June 23,
1805.
John, s. Eben[eze]r, jr., bp. Aug. 3, 1800.
John, s. Jacob, bp. Dec. 14, 1800.
Joseph, s. Richard, bp. July 18, 1784.
Joseph, s. Ebenezer and Sarah, bp. June 8, 1794.
Lucy, d. twin, Richard, bp. Sept. 15, 1782.
Lydia, d. Benja[min], bp. Mar. 21, 1762.
Mark, s. Ebenezer, jr., bp. June 10, 1798.
Mary, d. Jacob, bp. Feb. 22, 1795.
Moses, s. Jos[eph], bp. May 24, 1761.
Moses, s. Eben[eze]r, jr. and Sarah, bp. June 21, 1789.
Nathaniel Holland, s. Jacob, bp. June 22, 1794.
Polly, d. twin, Richard, bp. Sept. 15, 1782.
Rebecca, d. Moses, bp. Feb. 19, 1758.
Rebeckah, d. Eben[eze]r, bp. Oct. 10, 3802.
Robert, s. Aaron, bp. Apr. 25, 1790.
Sarah, d. Aaron, jr., bp. May 18, 1788.
Sarah, d. Eben[eze]r and Sarah, bp. Sept. 20, 1789.
Stephen, s. Eben[eze]r, jr., bp. Aug. 28, 1796.
Susannah, d. Eben[eze]r, bp. Nov. 24, 1771.
Thomas, s. Eben[eze]r, jr. and Sarah, bp. June 21, 1789.
William, s. Tho[ma]s, bp. Nov. 21, 1762.
William, s. Eben[ezejr, jr., bp. Apr. 22, 1792.
KIMBILL (see also Kimball), , ch. Thomas, b. Sept. -, 1787.
KINDALL (see also Kendall), Elizabeth, d. twin, Jacob, bp.
Oct. 9, 1804.
Salome, d. twin, Jacob, bp. Oct. 8, 1804.
KINSMAN, Farley, s. Moses and Lucy, b. NOT. 18, 1790. p. n.
121.
Hannah, d. Pelatiah, bp. Aug. 25, 1764.
48 IPSWICH BAPTISMS
KNOLTON (see also Knowlton), Margarett, d. Tho[ma]s, bp.
Oct. 29, 1758.
KNOWLTON (see also Knolton), Asa, s. Nehemiah and Mar-
tha, b. Aug. 5, 1777. P. B. 123.
Benjamin, s. Nehemiah and Martha, b. Sept. 18, 1781. p. B.
123.
Charles, s. Nehemiah and Martha, b. Oct. 4, 1789. p. B. 123.
Elizabeth, d. Tho[ma]s, bp. Sept. 8, 1771.
Jacob, s. Tho[ma]s, bp. Nov. 28, 1762.
Josiah, s. Nehemiah and Martha, b. Aug. 12, 1784. p. B. 123.
Martha, d. Nehemiah and Martha, b. Nov. 9, 1779. p. B. 123.
Nehemiah,s. Nehemiah and Martha, b. Aug. 10, 1775. P.B. 123.
Sarah, d. Abraham, jr., bp. Mar. 17, 1765.
LAKEMAN, Deborah, d. Jonathan], bp. Nov. 19, 1769.
Eliz[abeth], d. John, bp. Aug. 1, 1773.
Hannah, d. Joseph, bp. July 19, 1761.
Hannah, d. Tho[ma]s, bp. Oct. 7, 1764.
Hannah, d. Eben[ezejr, bp. Oct. 21, 1781.
John, s. John, jr., bp. Dec. 27, 1761.
Mary, d. Daniel, bp. July 2, 1749.
Mary, d. John, jr., bp. Sept. 25, 1763.
Sarah, d. Kich[ar]d, jr., bp. Sept. 28, 1760.
Susannah, d. Jos[ephJ, bp. Sept. 30, 1759.
William, s. John, jr., bp. Nov. 23, 1766.
, ch. John, jr., bp. Oct. , 1763.
, ch. Daniel, b. Sept. , 1787.
LANE, Abigail, d. Zebulun, bp. Jan. 1, 1769.
LEATHERLAND, , s. W[illia]m, b. , 1788.
Le FAVER, Joseph, s. Joseph, bp. June 22, 1794.
Nathaniel, s. Joseph, bp. June 22, 1794.
Lydia, d. Joseph, bp. June 22, 1794.
LORD, Aaron Perkins, s. John, jr., bp. Feb. 2, 1795.
Abel, s. Joseph, bp. Aug. 2, 1795.
Abigail, d. John, bp. May 31, 1772.
Abigail, d. Nath[anie]l, 3d, bp. May 8, 1791.
Abigail, d. Moses, jr., bp. Nov. 21, 1802.
Ammi, s. Nath[anie]l, 3d, bp. May 11, 1794.
Andrew, s. Daniel, jr., bp. Feb. 14, 1796.
(To be continued')
RIAL SIDE: PART OF SALEM IN 1700
RIAL SIDE : PART OF SALEM IN 1700
BY SIDNEY PERLEY
THIS portion of original Salem is now about equally
divided between Danvers and Beverly. It extends from
Bass river on the south to the Wenham town line on the
north, a distance of about four miles, and from Porter's
river and Frost Fish brook on the west to the head of
Bass river and Horse bridge on Conant street on the east,
a distance of about two miles, and comprises an area of
about seven square miles.
This section continued a part of Salem until the in-
corporation of Danvers as a district, in 1752, when it
was annexed to Beverly. It continued to be a portion of
Beverly until April 27, 1857, when the western part of
it was annexed to Danvers, the division line being shown
on the plan.
This portion of original Salem, north of Conant street,
was the extreme northeastern portion of the parish of
Salem Village.
This part of Salem was known as Royal Side very
early. It is said to have been granted to William Royal.
The name became corrupted into " Riall Side " as early
as 1638, and it has been so called generally ever since.
The records mention it as " Royal side " as late as 1799.
The southern part was called " RialPs neck " in 1650 ;
Royalls Neck in 1657 ; and Royalls Neck side in 1665.
Bass river has been so called ever since 1635. It was
called " y e river w ch runneth towards y e Mill " in 1693 ;
y e mill river in 1702 ; and the mill pond in 1717.
Porter's river was called Wooliston's (Williston, Wol-
lestone and Woolestone) river as early as 1635 ; and
Frost Fish river in 1657. It was also called Porter's
river, because John Porter owned a great extent of land
on its western side from 1646. The small stream form-
(49)
50 BIAL SIDE: PART OP SALEM IN 1700
ing the source of this river was called Frost Fish brook
as early as 1637.
Barney's cove was so called as early as 1723.
Brackett's cove was so called very early.
Aunt Betty's cove was called pine cove in 1683 ; stoney
cove in 1691 ; and Aunt Betty's cove in recent years.
Muddy cove was so called in 1707.
Felton's cove was so called very early.
Little cove was so called as early as 1734.
Long cove was so called as early as 1739.
Folly hill was called Leach's hill as early as 1673.
William Burnet Browne built upon its summit a mansion
house about 1741. He called the hill Mount Burnet, and
the house " Browne Hall." The latter was so badly
shaken by the earthquake of 1755, that it was removed.
People living in the country below considered the erec-
tion of the house upon such a great elevation a folly, and
when the earthquake came and shook it they were con-
vinced that their judgment was true. From that time it
has been popularly known as Folly hill. It was called
the great hill in 1799.
Cherry hill was known as Long hill in 1650 ; as Al-
ford's hill in 1652 ; and was called Cherry hill as early as
1830.
Birch plain was called Birch or Burchen plain as early
as 1650.
The Leach family burial ground was in existence quite
early. It is mentioned in 1799 ; and the oldest grave-
stone in it is dated 1756.
The ancient highway running from Locust street, in
Danvers, near the Rea-Fowler house eastward, crossing
Burley street, on the northerly side of Cherry hill, to
Trask street, in North Beverly, and thence by Cabot,
Cedar and Cherry streets to Main street, in Wenham, is
supposed to be very old. It can now be traveled most
of its way. July 7, 1659, William Dodge and John
Rayment were chosen by the selectmen of Salem " to
mend the bridge & highway between frost fish Riv r and
Wenham." 1 This old road was called the highway in
'Salem Town Records, volume 1, page 228 (printed).
BY SIDNEY PERLEY 51
1783 ; the proprietors' way that leads to Asa Brown's in
1789 ; the road leading from William Trask's house to
Stephen Felton's house in 1791 ; a private way and also a
privilege way in 1814.
Conant street was there in 1637. It was called ye
country highway in 1656 ; ye common highway or coun-
try road in 1673 ; ye publick road in 1714 ; ye main or
ye country road in 1720 ; ye road leading to Ipswich in
1750 ; the highway leading through Royal side so called
in 1753 ; Ipswich road so called in 1755 ; the road lead-
ing from Newbury to Boston in 1779 ; the road lead-
ing from Danvers to Beverly in 1792 ; the Ipswich road
in 1799 ; the road leading from the North parish in Bev-
erly to Danvers Plains in 1853 ; and Conant street in
1856. Horse bridge over Bass river was so called in
1660 ; and the bridge over Frost Fish brook is mentioned
in 1753.
There was a landing place at the head of Frost Fish
river; on the southerly side of Conant street, in existence
before 1671. It was four rods square. James Kettle
released his interest in it to Capt. John Putnam, sr., and
Jonathan Putnam, husbandmen, both of Salem, April 20,
1688. 1 The road leading down to it was not formally
such until 1671, when it was laid out two rods wide. It
went through the land of Jacob Barney, sr., of whom the
town of Salem bought it, together with his interest in the
landing place. The bounds of the landing place were
established Sept. 4, 1704. 2 In 1700, the road was called
the town highway that goeth toward ye landing place.
It was in use in 1774.
Elliott street is an ancient way. It was called, at Bass
river, the highway in 1714 ; at the Conant street end it
was called the way that leads from Mr. Leach's to a gate
near the country road in 1733 ; a town way in 1740 ; the
road or highway which leads from the corner by Ipswich
road near the house of William Burley through Royal
Side so called to the lower parish in Beverly in 1799 ; the
Rial Side road so called in 1853 ; and Elliott street in
1855.
Essex Regi stry of Deeds, book 19, leaf 119.
2 Beverly Town Records, volume 5, page 405.
52 RIAL SIDE : PART OF SALEM IN 1700
The ancient road from Balch street to Aunt Betty's
cove was called ye highway to stoney brook or cove in
1691 ; and also, in the same year, " y e highway for y e
proprietors of Roy all side to goe to stony Cove."
The ancient road leading from Conant street past the
Trask and Baker houses to Balch street was called a lane
or by-way and a private highway in 1720.
The southern end of Burley street was laid out as a
private way by the town of Beverly, following a very
crooked old path from Archelaus Brown's wheat pen to
the country road (Conant street) March 8, 1766. 1
Liberty street was laid out and the bridge over the
Danvers river constructed in the spring of 1788. There
was great objection made to the building of this bridge,
as it was esteemed to be in opposition to the Essex bridge,
between Beverly and Salem, which was being built at that
time. This bridge was called Spite bridge for many
years. Its location is shown by dotted parallel lines.
Bridge street was laid out and the bridge built over
Bass river, with a draw in it, in 1856. Its course is
shown by dotted parallel lines.
John Cressy House. That portion of this lot of land
lying southwesterly of the dashes was granted by the
selectmen of Salem to Henry Skerry of Salem April 27,
1654 ; 2 and he conveyed it to Abraham Read Oct. 8,
1673. 3 Mr. Read was of Salem, husbandman, and he
built a house upon the northern part of the lot. Mrs.
Newman claimed that this lot belonged to her as a part of
her adjacent lot, and recovered it in or before 1677. She
released it to Mr. Read ; and, for fifteen pounds, he con-
veyed the estate to John Cressy of Salem, tailor, Oct. 22,
1695.*
That part of the lot lying northerly of the dashes was
the property of John Green, sr., of Salem, yeoman, March
7, 1689-90, when, for four pounds and fifteen shillings,
he conveyed it to John Creasey of Salem, tailor. 5
'Beverly Town Records, volume 5, page 341.
2 Salem Town Records, volume 1, page 177 (printed).
"Essex Registry of Deeds, book 4, leaf 149.
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 11, leaf 61.
6 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 10, leaf 31.
BY SIDNEY PERLEY 53
That part of the lot lying southeasterly of the dashes
was the northerly portion of the sixteen acres granted to
John Winthrop by the town of Salem Aug. 19, 1639. 1
Mr. Winthrop gave it to his daughter Elizabeth, afterward
wife of Rev. Antipas Newman of Wenham. Mr. New-
man died Oct. 15, 1672 ; and his wife survived him and
married, secondly, Zeru babel Endecott of Salem. The
lot was sold to John Green of Salem, who had paid for it,
but who died before a deed was delivered, and with her
son John Newman, as administrators of Mr. Newman's
estate, she gave a deed of it to Mr. Green's widow, Mary
Green, July 31, 1691. 2 For twelve pounds, Mrs. Green
conveyed this southeasterly part of the lot to Mr. Creasie
Aug. 1, 1691. 3
The triangular portion was also a part of the estate of
John Green of Salem, yeoman, who, for six pounds and
four shillings in silver, with the consent of his mother
Mary Green of Salem, conveyed it to Mr. Creasie March
11, 1692-3.*
Mr. Creasy died possessed of the estate in 1735, having
devised the house and land to his son Daniel Creasy.
Daniel Creasey was a cordwainer and lived in Andover
March 1, 1737, when he conveyed, for three hundred
pounds, to Joseph Cressey of Beverly, cordwainer, thir-
teen acres of upland and salt marsh and a dwelling house
and barn thereon standing. 6 How long the house stood
is unknown, but it is said to have existed within the
memory of persons now living and owned by a Foster
family.
The strip of marsh between these points of upland be-
longed to Ralph Ellenwood, yeoman, Benjamin Ellen-
wood, mariner, and John Smith, mariner, all of Beverly,
in 1695 and 1700.
Estate of John Grreen Souse. The town of Salem, June
25, 1638, granted to M r John Winthrop Jun. liberty to
set a Salt house vpon Ryalls side w th wood for his occa-
sions about the same house, and Comon for 2 Cows to
'Salem Town Records, volume 1, page 90 (printed).
"Essex Registry of Deeds, book 9, leaf 22.
3 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 10, leaf 31.
4 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 10, leaf 30.
5 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 79, leaf 166.
54
RIAL SIDE: PART OP SALEM IN 1700
pasture in." 1 Nathaniel Pickman built a house for Mr.
Winthrop on the southwestern point of this lot. " Mr.
Winthrop did make improuement of a salt house there
upon s d Land & kept a familie there a Considerable time",
and lived there himself parts of two years at least. Rob-
ert Hebard, then about twenty-three years old, " dwelt
with Mr. John Winthrop at the salthouse upon Royall
SALT HOUSE POINT
side when the lot layers laid out the land." 2 William
Bennet, then about thirty-four years old, testified that
" when John Winthrope, Esq r was at y e Salt house 30
odd years past y* I haueing occasion to worke there upon
Carpintry worke some times for M r Winthrope, . . M r
Winthrope haueing a house and Family there some con-
Town Records, volume 1, page 70 (printed).
'See papers in Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex
County, volume 6, pages 244-248.
BY SIDNEY PERLEY 55
siderable time & carried on y e designs of making salt,"
etc. 1 The house was probably gone before 1670. A plan
of this region, made by Daniel Epps March 28, 1677, and
on file in the office of the clerk of courts at Salem is re-
produced on the opposite page.
At a general town meeting, Aug. 19, 1639, the town
of Salem " Graunted to John Winthrop Esq r Junior a
little neck of land adioyinge to the salt house built by
the said Mr Winthrop containinge about 16 acres or
thereabouts, more or less, lying betweene a coue w ch is on
the north side of his said howse & a little brooke lying to
the west of the said howse." 2
The first grant to Mr. Winthrop and the southerly
portion of the second grant comprise that portion of this
lot lying southwesterly of the dashes.
Mr. Winthrop gave it to his daughter Elizabeth, after-
wards wife of Rev. Antipas Newman of Wenham. Mr.
Newman died Oct. 15, 1672 ; and his wife survived him
and married, secondly, Zerubabel Eudecott of Salem.
With her son John Newman of Boston, as administrators
of Mr. Newman's estate, she mortgaged the lot, for fifty
pounds, to Capt. John Hull of Boston, esquire, May 21,
1681. 3 The lot was sold to John Green of Salem, who
had paid for it, but who died before a deed was delivered,
and Mrs. Endecott and her son John Newman, adminis-
trators of the estate of Mr. Newman, gave a deed of it
to Mr. Green's widow, Mary Green, July 31, 1691. 4
The remainder of this lot belonged to John Green very
early ; and on it he lived.
Under the ledges, on Bass river and in the cove, at the
southerly part of this lot, was a strip of upland and marsh
which belonged to William Dixie very early. This, also,
became a part of the Green estate.
Mr. Green died in 1690. His estate was divided Feb.
28, 1690-1, and ten acres of the salt house point was as
signed to his daughter Elizabeth Green ; and the remain-
der to his son John Green, subject to a life estate of his
'See papers in Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex
County, volume 6, pages 244-248.
2 Salem Town Records, volume 1, page 90 (printed).
8 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 6, leaf 2.
"Essex Registry of Deeds, book 9, leaf 22.
56 RIAL SIDE: PABT OF SALEM IN 1700
mother Mary Green in one end of the house and back
leanto, one end of the barn and one-third of the land,
except two acres in Ryall side " comonly called the Rock-
well." 1 John Green, the son, died in 1697, when the
dwelling house, barn and land were appraised at fifty-five
pounds.
Elizabeth Green married Jacob Reed of Salem, hus-
bandman, and possessed her lot at the salt house point
until 1706.
How long the house of Mr. Green stood after 1700 is
unknown, but the old Green house which stood on the hill
on the ancient way, on the northeasterly side of Bridge
street, and southerly of the site of the original house,
probably succeeded it.
John Dodge House and Grist Mill. The original mill
here was called Mr. Friend's mill in 1653. Samuel Friend
of Manchester sold to Lawrence Leach of Salem the mill
and mill-house ; but no legal conveyance of the title there-
to was made until after Mr. Leach's death, which occurred
in 1662. At the time of the decease of Lawrence Leach,
the mill was appraised at forty pounds, and the house,
orchard and land at thirty pounds. He still owed thirty
pounds on the mill. Apparently, his son John Leach paid
the amount and received a deed of the house, mill and land
from Mr. Friend Sept. 7, 1665. 2 Mr. Leach lived here,
and was the miller. He conveyed the house, mill and land
to John Dodge, jr., of Beverly, husbandman, Sept. 2,
1669. 3 In his will Lawrence Leach had devised his estate
to his wife Elizabeth Leach ; and, for seventeen pounds
and ten shillings, she confirmed the sale of her sou John
Leach to Mr. Dodge of the house, mill and land Nov. 26,
1670. 4 John Dodge, jr., of Beverly, yeoman, conveyed
to his son-in-law Ebenezer Woodberry of Salem, miller,
' the grist mills alias corn mills " and land Oct. 12,
1702. 5 Mr. Woodberry was running the mill in 1708,
and died possessed of it in 1714, intestate. One item in
the inventory of his estate is : " To grift mils and one
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 9, leaf 117.
2 Essez Registry of Deeds, book 5, leaf 110.
3 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 3, leaf 69.
"Essex Registry of Deeds, book 3, leaf 111.
"Essex Registry of Deeds, book 16, leaf 146.
BY SIDNEY PEELEY 57
dwelling hous & barn ftanding in the Townf hip of Salem"
with the land 280. The real estate was divided among
the heirs July 8, 1758; and his eldest son Ebenezer Wood-
berry was assigned "Two old Grist mills situate on Bass
River in Beverly ;" and to his son Nathaniel Woodberry
*' an old dwelling house standing Nigh the Grist mills."
In 1797, the western half of the house belonged to
Israel Woodbury of Beverly, miller, and the eastern half
to William Woodbury of Beverly, yeoman, who conveyed
it to Elisha Woodbury of Beverly, mariner, Sept. 5,
1767. 1 Elisha Woodbury died Feb. 19, 1796. Upon di-
vision of his real estate, Nov. 9, 1798, his half of the
house was assigned to his son Joseph Woodbury. Israel
Woodbury conveyed his half to Thomas Davis, jr., of
Beverly, gentleman, July 17, 1797. 2 How long the old
house stood after 1798 has not been learned.
The two tide mills were owned by Israel Woodberry of
Beverly, miller, who conveyed them, they being called
Woodbury 's mills, with their tackle and furniture, mill
dam, flumes and the mill privilege to Thomas Davis, jr.,
of Beverly, gentleman, July 17, 1797. 2 Mr. Davis
bought the mills at auction, which was advertised in the
jSalem^G-azette, in its issue of May 26, 1797, as follows :
To be Sold at Public Vendue, on Wednefday, the
2\ft day of June next, at 2 o* clock, P. M.
rift Mills, under
one roof, fituated in the upper Parifh in Bev-
erly. ALSO, one half of a Dwelling-Houfe near laid
Mills, and about a Acres of Land.
The Conditions will be made known at the time
and place of fale, which will be at the above Dwell-
ing-Houfe. For particulars, apply to ISRAEL
WOODBERY, on the premifes.
Beverly, May 9, 1 797.
Mr. Davis died July 17, 1840, intestate, and the title
to the mill descended to his children and grandchildren.
Charles Davis, William Davis (by a trustee), Alpheus
Davis, Augustine Lovett and wife Lucy D. Lovett and
Pyam Lovett, jr., and wife Martha M. Lovett, all of Bev-
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 148, leaf 240.
2 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 162, leaf 210.
58 RIAL SIDE: PART OF SALEM IN 1700
erly, Thomas D. Lovett and wife Sarah F. Lovett of
Northfield, and Israel W. Davis and wife Elizabeth Davis
of Wenham conveyed to Aaron Dodge of Beverly, miller,
seventeen-twentieths of the grist mill, with its tackle,
furniture, dam, flumes and the mill privilege April 28,
1848 5 1 and on the same day William Endicott of Bever-
ly, as guardian of John B. Davis, Mary E. Davis and
Lucy H. Davis, children of John Davis of Wenham, gen-
tleman, deceased, intestate, conveyed to Mr. Dodge three-
twentieths of the mill, etc. 2 The mill continued to be
used by Mr. Dodge until his decease, Feb. 3, 1886.
Robert Stone and Estate of William King House. This-
lot of land was granted to William King by the town of
Salem Feb. 4, 1638-9. 3 He built a house upon it, and
lived therein. He died in 1650, and by agreement with
his mother. Dorothy King, his eldest son William King
had the homestead. The latter lived here until after 1662. 4
William King of Salem, cooper, for forty-seven pounds,
conveyed to Robert Stone of Salem, seaman, one-half of
this lot and one-half of the house thereon Dec. 14,
1665. 5 Robert Stone died in 1690; and his one-half
interest in the house and land was appraised at one hun-
dred pounds. The real estate was divided Feb. 6, 1693-4,
and his part of this property was assigned to his eldest
son Samuel Stone.
William King, the son, died possessed of his one-half
of this estate in 1684. This one-half of " a little dwell-
ing house " and the land was then appraised at one hun-
dred pounds. He devised to his wife Katherine for her
life one-half of his real estate, and at her decease this
one-half to whom she might devise it in her will, to her
relatives or others. In her will, proved Jan. 1, 1718, she
gave it to her nephew or cousin Samuel Stone and her
niece Sarah, wife of Jacob Manning of Salem. The other
'Essex Registry of Deeds, look 400, leaf 141.
2 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 400, leaf 142.
8 Salem Town Records, volume 1, page 80 (printed).
Deposition of John Wesson, sr., of Reading, who lived with Wil-
liam King, sr., at this place before 1650. Sworn to Feb. 24, 1699-
1700. Essex Registry of Deeds, book IS, leaf 246. Capt. John Dodge
of Beverly, aged sixty-three, also deposed June 28, 1700. Essex
Registry of Deeds, book IS, leaf 297.
s Essex Registry of Deeds, book 4, leaf 48.
BY SIDNEY PBRLEY 59
one-half of the real estate was devised by William King
to his " brother's sons, either the eldest or the youngest as
that hath most need of it as my brother shall judge meet."
The house was gone before June 18, 1719, when the land
was divided among the Kings and Stones ;* and in a deed
of release from one of the owners, six days later, the mill
pond and river " that runns up before y e houfe that was &
formerly stood on y e Land " is thus described as one of
the boundaries of the land. 2
Estate of John Grreen Lot. This lot of land belonged
to John Green in 1696. He died in 1697 ; and it be-
longed to his estate in 1700.
Joseph Batchelder House. This lot belonged to Joseph
Batchelder in 1678 ; and he died possessed of the same in
1683. The dwelling house, barn and orchard were then
appraised at forty-three pounds and the land at about
sixty-five pounds. The estate descended to his son Joseph
Batchelder, who died in or before 1790. Abigail Knowl-
ton, wife of John Knowlton of Manchester, housewright,
and her husband, as administrators of his estate, for one
hundred and sixty pounds, conveyed to John Creasy of
Salem, tailor, the land, dwelling house and the frame of a
bam thereon Dec. 27, 1709. 3 John Creesy of Salem,
tailor alias husbandman, died in 1735 ; and the estate
probably came into the possession of his son Noah Cree-
sy. How long the house stood is unknown to the writer.
Nathaniel Hayward Lot. George Harvey of Beverly,
John Sargent of Gloucester, carpenter, and Rose Hay-
ward of Cape Ann conveyed to Nathaniel Hayward of
Salem, carpenter, this lot of land April 24, 1683. 4 Mr.
Hayward died possessed of it in 1720.
John Dodge Houte, Saw Mill and Fulling Mill. That
part of this lot lying northerly of the dashes was owned
by Capt. John Dodge of Beverly in 1696.
That part of the lot lying southeasterly of the dashes
belonged to Nehemiah Howard of Salem, who died in
1665, having in his will devised his house and houselot
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 36, leaf 106.
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 35, leaf 209.
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 22, leaf 205.
4 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 11. leaf 190.
60 EIAL SIDE: PART OF SALEM IN 1700
and orchard to his wife Anna for her life and then to his
children. The house and land were then appraised at
eighty pounds. Mrs. Howard married, secondly,
Judkins ; and conveyed to George Harvey of Salem, sea-
man, the land and housing July 6, 1696. 1 For fifty
pounds, Mr. Harvey conveyed to Capt. John Dodge of
Beverly the land with the house and barn thereon Jan. 1,
1696-7. 1 Thus the entire lot became the property of
Captain Dodge.
For love, Captain Dodge conveyed to his son William
Dodge of Beverly, yeoman, the land with the saw mill
and fulling mill thereon, no house being mentioned, Oct.
10, 1702.2 William Dodge died in 1706, intestate. The
inventory of his estate included " an olde faw Mill and
Olde fulling Mill," which were then appraised at thirteen
pounds. The administrators of his estate, Nathaniel
Waldron of Wenham, bricklayer, Ebenezer Woodbury of
Salem, miller, William Dodge, jr., of Beverly, maltster,
and Jonathan Raymond of Beverly, yeoman, leased the
land and mills to Jonathan Dodge of Salem, yeoman, for
seven years from April 1, 1709, for thirty-two pounds,
Dec. 20, 1708. 3 The real estate was divided March 21,
1720-1, when the fulling mill was apparently gone. One-
half of the saw mill was assigned to his son-in-law Samuel
Wood berry, one-fourth to the minor daughter Abigail
Dodge, and one-fourth to his son-in-law Joseph Creasy.
A way (now a part of Balch street), one and one-half
rods wide, was reserved for the use of the heirs, and also
the privilege of raising a head of water for the use of the
saw mill and of flowing the land from October 31 to April
10 " So long as Said mill is Repareable." How much
longer this saw mill existed has not been learned.
Cornelius Baker House. Cornelius Baker, jr., of Salem,
yeoman, owned this lot in 1696. For the support of him-
self and wife, he conveyed to his son Jonathan Baker of
Beverly, weaver, " my home living," dwelling house, two
barns, weaver's shop and land Feb. 1, 1705-6. 4 Jonathan
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 12, leaf 174.
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 16, leaf 123.
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 33, leaf 66.
4 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 19, leaf 107.
BY SIDNEY PERLEY 61
Baker died before Jan. 27, 1706-7, when administration
was granted upon his estate. Seventy acres of upland
and swamp were then appraised at two hundred and eighty
pounds, and " ye dwelling house & 2 small old barns " at
seventy pounds. How much longer the old house stood
has not been learned.
John Batchelder House. This house and lot of land be-
longed to John Batchelder of Salem at the time of his
decease in 1675. In his will he devised the property to
his wife Elizabeth for her life, and then to his son John
Bachelor. The son John Batchelder lived here, and died
in 1684. In the division of his estate the house, barn and
land were assigned to his son John Batchelder. The son
John Batchelder died in the winter of 1748-9, having de-
vised the westerly lower room, bed room and westerly
end of the garret in the dwelling house and the use of
the oven in the easterly end of the house and some of the
land to his wife during her widowhood ; and the home-
stead to his son Joseph Batchelder, subject to the rights
of his mother. The house was then appraised at fifty
pounds, the barn at thirty-five pounds and the shop at
ten pounds. The forty acres of land were appraised at
four hundred and fifty pounds. Mr. Batchelder gave the
shop to his son Joshua if he cared to remove it to his
own land ; if he did not do so it was to belong to Joseph
and remain upon the homestead. Joseph Batchelder re-
moved to Andover about 1767. How much longer the
house existed is not known to the writer.
Jonathan Batchelder Lot. This lot belonged to John
Batchelder, who died in 1684. In the division of his
estate it was assigned to his son Jonathan Batchelder,
who owned it in 1700.
Josiah Batchelder Lot. This lot belonged to John
Batchelder, who died in 1684. In the division of his es-
tate it was assigned to his son Josiah Batchelder, who
owned it in 1700. .
Pasture of the Northfield Men. This tract of common
land was leased for one thousand years to John Green,
John Leach (son of Richard Leach) and John Bachilder,
all of Salem, Feb. 1, 1677. 1 John Tompkins, John
'Salem Town Records, volume II, page 269.
62 RIAL SIDE: PART OF SALEM IN 1700
Waters, sr., John Foster and George Jacobs, all of Salem,
husbandmen, appear to have been the owners in 1677. 1
Though it is probable that some division of this tract of
land was made in fact, a legal partition was not made
until March 2, 1707, when John Leach, Samuel Leach,
John Batchelder, Jonathan Batchelder, Josiah Batchelder,
John Foster, John Waters, Richard Waters, Nathaniel
Tompkins, Joseph Jacobs (in behalf of his father George
Jacobs) and Samuel Foster agreed to divide it. 2 This was
done March 27, 1708. 3
John Leach House. This tract of land was probably
granted to Lawrence Leach, who sold it to his son Capt.
Richard Leach on or before Dec. 14, 1643. 4 Captain
Leach died in 1687, and the farm descended to his son
Serg. John Leach. Sergeant Leach owned it until his
death, which occurred March 5, 1717-8. The title to the
dwelling house, barn and farm then descended to his son
Samuel Leach, who died in the winter of 1731-2. The
house was gone before 1774.
Peter Woodbury Lot. Dea. Peter Woodbury owned
this lot in 1700.
Edward Bishop Lot. This lot was granted at a meeting
of the seven men of Salem to Edward Bishop Dec. 28,
1646 ; and it belonged to his son(?) Edward Bishop, sr.,
of Salem in 1700.
John TrasJc House. This lot of land was conveyed by Jo-
seph Harris of Salem, planter, for three pounds, to Osmond
Trask of Salem Feb. 7, 1652-3. 5 Mr. Trask died in 1676 ;
and the house, barn and forty acres of land were ap-
praised at two hundred and fifty pounds. The estate
was assigned to his son John Trask March 27, 1677.
John Trask died May 13, 1720 ; and the house and land
around it was assigned to his son. The house was stand-
ing in 1728, but probably disappeared soon after.
Nathaniel Hayward Lot. This lot of pasture land be-
longed to Jacob Barney of Salem, yeoman, as early as
1652 ; and, for seventy-six pounds, with his wife Anna,
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 11, leaves 75 and 76.
*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 20, leaf 187.
3 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 20, leaf 186.
<Essex Registry of Deeds, book 1, leaf 37.
5 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 1, leaf 16.
BY SIDNEY PERLEY 63
he conveyed it to Nathaniel Hay ward of Salem, carpenter,
Feb. 16, 1691-2. 1 Mr. Hay ward owned it in 1700.
Jacob Chriggs House. This lot of land early belonged to
Jacob Barney. He conveyed it to Mr. William Griggs,
sr., of Salem, with the buildings thereon, Feb. 16, 1691-
2 ; 2 and Doctor Griggs, for seventy-two pounds, conveyed
the land with the housing to his son Jacob Griggs of Bev-
erly Feb. 10, 1693. 3 Jacob Griggs died in the spring of
1733, intestate. The house, barn and outbuildings were
then appraised at one hundred and eighty-three pounds,
and the nineteen acres of land at three hundred and forty-
two pounds,' five hundred and twenty-five pounds in
all. He left five children : Isaac Griggs of New Haven,
Conn., cooper, the eldest son, Jacob Griggs of Boston,
tailor, Rebecca, wife of Daniel Rea of Salem, Abigail,
wife of John Blowers of Boston, and Eleanor, wife of
Samuel Hilton of Marblehead. The widow of the de-
ceased and the children, for six hundred and fifty pounds,
conveyed the house and land to Jonathan Hay ward of
Salem, potter, July 18, 1733 ;* and Mr. Hayward con-
veyed the land and buildings to William Browne of
Salem, esquire, March 13, 1740. 6 Mr. Browne probably
removed the house soon afterward.
School Lot. This lot of two acres of common land was
the property of Jacob Barney of Salem, yeoman ; and, for
seven pounds, he conveyed it for school purposes to Mr.
Israel Porter, Serg. John Leach, Cornet Nathaniel How-
ard, sr., Corp. Joseph Herrick, sr., Benjamin Porter,
Joshua Ray, sr., Thomas Rayment, sr., Edward Bishop,
2d, John Trask, jr., John Creasey, Joshua Ray, jr., and
Jonn Flint, sr., all of Salem, April 5, 1692. 6 It belonged
to these grantees in 1700.
John Trask Lot. Jacob Barney of Salem, yeoman, owned
this lot as early as 1637 ; and conveyed it, with other land,
to Joseph Herrick, sr., Thomas Rayment, sr., and John
Trask, jr., all of Salem, and Robert Cue of Beverly, yeo-
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 11, leaf 190.
2 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 9, leaf 109.
3 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 10, leaf 43.
4 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 64, leaf 216.
5 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 80, leaf 216.
"Essex Registry of Deeds, book 25, leaf 63.
64 BIAL SIDE : PART OF SALEM IN 1700
man, Feb. 19, 1691-2. 1 These grantees divided the tract,
and this part was released to Mr. Trask Nov. 23, 1692. 2
He owned it in 1700.
Thomas Rayment and Jonathan Rayment Lot. Jacob
Barney of Salem, yeoman, early owned this lot ; and con-
veyed it, with other land, to Joseph Herrick, sr., Thomas
Rayment, sr., and John Trask, jr., all of Salem, and Rob-
ert Cue of Beverly, yeoman, Feb. 19, 1691-2. 1 These
grantees divided the tract, and this part was released to
Mr. Rayment Nov. 23, 1692. 2 Mr. Rayment, of Salem,
yeoman, conveyed to his brother Jonathan Rayment of
Beverly, yeoman, the northern half of the lot March 27,
1696 ; 3 and they owned the lot in 1700.
Estate of Robert Cue Lot. This lot of upland and marsh
belonged to Jacob Barney of Salem, yeoman, early ; and
he conveyed it, with other land, to Joseph Herrick, sr.,
Thomas Rayment, sr., and John Traske, jr., all of Salem,
and Robert Cue of Beverly, yeoman, Feb. 19, 1691-2. 1
The grantees divided the tract, and this part was released
to Mr. Cue Nov. 23, 1692. 2 Mr. Cue removed to Wen-
ham, and died Feb. 20, 1698-9. This lot belonged to his
estate in 1700.
Thomas Rayment and Jonathan Rayment Lot. Jacob
Barney early owned this lot of land ; and conveyed it,
with other land, to Joseph Herrick, sr., Thomas Rayment,
sr., and John Trask, jr., all of Salem, and Robert Cue of
Beverly, Feb. 19, 1691-2. 1 These grantees divided the
land, and this part was released to Mr. Rayment Nov. 23,
1692. 2 Mr. Rayment conveyed to his brother Jonathan
Rayment of Beverly, yeoman, the southern half of the lot
March 27, 1696 ; 3 and they owned the land in common
until after 1700.
John Trask Lot. Jacob Barney owned this lot early ;
and conveyed it, with other land, to Joseph Herrick, sr.,
Thomas Rayment, sr., and John Trask, jr., all of Salem,
and Robert Cue of Beverly, yeoman, Feb. 19, 169 1-2. *
These grantees divided the tract, and this part was re-
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 9, leaf 33.
2 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 9, leaf 114.
3 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 17, leaf 123.
BY SIDNEY PEBLEY 65
leased to Mr. Trask Nov. 23, 1692. 1 Mr. Trask owned
it in 1700.
Estate of Robert Cue Lot. Jacob Barney of Salem,
yeoman, early possessed this lot ; and conveyed it, with
other land, to Joseph Herrick^ sr., Thomas Rayment, sr.,
and John Trask, jr., all of Salem, and Robert Cue of Bev-
erly, yeoman, Feb. 19, 1691-2. 2 These grantees divided
the tract, and this part was released to Mr. Cue Nov. 23,
1692. 1 Mr. Cue removed to Wenham, and died Feb. 20,
1698-9. It belonged to his estate in 1700.
Joseph Herrick Lot. Jacob Barney of Salem, yeoman,
early owned this lot of land; and conveyed it, with other
land, to Joseph Herrick, sr., Thomas Rayment, sr., and
John Trask, jr., all of Salem, and Robert Cue of Beverly,
yeoman, Feb. 19, 1691-2. 2 These grantees divided the
tract, and this part was released to Mr. Herrick Nov. 23,
1692. 1 It belonged to him in 1700.
Daniel Andrew Lot. Jacob Barney of Salem, yeoman,
owned this lot early ; and, for eleven pounds, conveyed it
to Daniel Andrew of Salem, bricklayer, Feb. 13, 1691-2. 3
Mr. Andrew owned it in 1700.
James Nettle House. The lots of John Flint, James
Kettle, Jacob Griggs, John Trask, and parts of the lots
of Thomas Rayment and Jonathan Rayment, Joseph
Herrick and estate of Robert Cue, including the tract of
eighty acres of land granted by the town of Salem to
Richard Ingersoll in 1636, and some additional grants
made the next year. Mr. Ingersoll built a house upon
this land, and lived in it. It was occupied in 1641 or
1642 by Joseph Houlton, a servant of Mr. Ingersoll. Mr.
Ingersoll died in 1644, possessed of the property. William
Paine of Boston, merchant, possessed the land in 1650 ;
and, for eight pounds, sold the land to Jacob Barney of
Salem, but gave him no deed of " ye farm " until July
26, 1657. The ownership by Mr. Barney was disputed
by Ann, wife of John Knight, the widow of Mr. Inger-
soll, to whom the latter had devised in his will the residue
of his estate. Mrs. Knight gave a deed of the land to
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 9, leaf 114.
2 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 9, leaf 33.
8 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 9, leaf 32.
66 BIAL SIDE : PART OP SALEM IN 1700
her sons John Ingerson and Nathaniel Ingerson April 10,
1668, and on the same day authorized her son John Put-
nam or Joseph Holton to obtain possession of the same,
John Ingerson and Nathaniel Ingerson demanded posses-
sion of the premises from Mr. Barney, but he refused,
claiming title in himself under the deed from Mr. Paine.
They brought an action of trespass March 16, 1668-9;
and the court decided in favor of Mr. Barney. 1 Mr. Bar-
ney, for fifteen pounds, received a release from George
Ingersoll and Nathaniel Ingersoll, both of Salem, yeomen,
of their interest in this property Feb. 16, 1691-2. 2 Mr.
Barney, for nineteen pounds, conveyed this lot to James
Kettle of Salem, potter, April 21, 1687 ; 3 and Mr. Kettle
built thereon a house in which he lived. Mr. Kettle re-
moved to Charlestown and died in 1712. One-third of
the house and land was assigned to his widow Elizabeth
and the rest to his eldest son James Kettle and eldest
daughter Elizabeth. The house and land around it were
then valued at one hundred and forty-seven pounds.
James Kettle of Charlestown, leather dresser, and Jona-
than Kettle of Salem, potter, conveyed the house and
land to John Batchelder, sr., and John Batchelder, jr.,
both of Salem, coopers, April 8, 1724 ; 4 and John Batch-
elder, sr., released his interest in the house and land to
John Batchelder, jr., Aug. 10, 1732. 5 John Batchelder,
jr., conveyed the house and land to Benjamin Cressey of
Beverly, house wright, Dec. 25, 1739. 6 Mr. Creesy died
in the autumn of 1783; having devised the buildings and
land under and adjoining the same to his deceased son
Josiah's son Josiah Creesy. That portion of his estate
was then appraised at two hundred and fifty pounds.
Josiah Creesy of Francestown, N. H., tailor, for ninety
pounds, conveyed these buildings and land to Nathaniel
'These original deeds and power of attorney are on file in the office
of the clerk of courts, at Salem, with papers of the court held at
Ipswich, March, 1669. See Records and Files of the Quarterly
Courts of Essex County, volume 4, pages 109-112.
2 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 51, leaf 51.
3 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 19, leaf 38a.
4 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 43, leaf 113.
f Essex Registry of Deeds, book 74, leaf 161.
"Essex Registry of Deeds, book 79, leaf 168.
BY SIDNEY PERLEY 67
Pierce of Danvers, housewright, Feb. 15, 1792. 1 Mr.
Pierce removed to this place, and committed suicide, by
drowning, June 17, 1812. The house and land were then
appraised at eleven hundred dollars. His daughter Nancy
married Edwin Sheldon April 28, 1836, and died in Lynn
April 7, 1847. As guardian of his minor children, Susan
E. Sheldon, Edwin Sheldon, Lucinda Sheldon, Martha
Sheldon and Helen M. Sheldon, Edwin Sheldon of Lynn,
victualer, conveyed one-half of the house and land to
Huldah Peirce of Lynn and Sally E. Sheldon of Beverly,
who were apparently the owners of the other half of the
estate, April 8, 1848. 2 These grantees, for nine hundred
and fifty dollars, conveyed the dwelling house and land to
John Hood of Danvers Oct. 31, 1853. 3 The house and
land around it next belonged to Mr. Hood's son William
H. Hood of Danvers, who conveyed the same to Annis,
wife of John S. Jewett of Danvers, Sept. 12, 1866.* Mrs.
Jewett died, his widow, Oct. 1, 1877, intestate ; and John
W. Jewett of Danvers, administrator of her estate, con-
veyed the property to Webster F. Putnam of Danvers
Oct. 8, 1878. 6 Mr. Putnam conveyed the land and build-
ings to the Danvers Savings Bank two days later. 6 The
house was standing Feb. 5, 1880 ; and was apparently
gone May 11, 1880.
John Flint House. This lot of land belonged to Jacob
Barney of Salem before 1656. He conveyed the part be-
tween the dashes to John Flint, sr., of Salem, carpenter,
March 10, 1678-9. 7 He conveyed to Mr. Flint that por-
tion lying westerly of the westerly dashes July 20, 1687; 8
and that part lying easterly of the easterly dashes, for
thirty-nine pounds, June 10, 1689. 9 Mr. Flint built a
house on the lot, and lived there. For seven hundred
pounds, he conveyed to William Porter of Salem, yeoman,
the lot, with the house and barn, " being the house and.
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 154, leaf 138.
^Essex Registry of Deeds, book 485, leaf 164.
3 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 485, leaf 165.
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 710, leaf 180.
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 1031, leaf 191.
6 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 1031, leaf 192.
7 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 8, leaf 30.
"Essex Registry of Deeds, book 8, leaf 31.
9 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 8, leaf 145.
68 KIAL SIDE: PART OF SALEM IN 1700
land where I the said Flint did formerly live," Feb. 21,
1721-2. 1 The house was gone a few years later probably.
Its location on the lot has not been exactly determined.
Benjamin Porter Lot. This tract of land constituted
the grants made by the town of Salem to Jacob Barney,
jr., thirty acres, to Jeffrey Massy forty acres, to William
Waters forty acres, to John Pickard forty acres, and to
Pasco Foot forty acres. The portion of Jacob Barney
was granted to him April 5, 1652 ; 2 and that of John
Pickard was probably granted Aug. 21, 1648. 3 This lot
granted to John Pickard had been previously granted to
Lieutenant Lathrop, who surrendered it. Pasco Foot
conveyed to John Porter, sr., of Salem, yeoman, his part
of this tract, which was the southern portion, Dec. 18,
1665. 4 The other parties also conveyed their lots to Mr.
Porter. Mr. Porter died Sept. 6, 1676, having devised
the whole of this tract of land to his son Benjamin Por-
ter, who owned it in 1700.
John Rea Lot. This is the western half of the one
hundred and fifty acres of upland, the farm of John
Holgrave, which was granted to him by the town of
Salem Nov. 26, 1638. 5 Mr. Holgrave lived in Salem, and,
for eleven pounds and fifteen shillings, conveyed it to
Jeffry Massy, planter, and Nicholas Woodberry, mariner,
both of Salem, April 14, 1652. 6 Messrs. Massy and
Woodberry conveyed the lot to Joshua Ray Jan. 1, 1656. 7
Mr. Rea, who was then of Salem Village, husbandman,
for love, conveyed this part of the lot to his youngest son
John Rea, " living in Salem Village," Aug. 30, 1693 ; 8
and John Rea owned it in 1700.
Joshua Rea Lot. This lot, with the western part of the
Edward Bishop lot, constituted the eastern half of the
farm of one hundred and fifty acres of upland of John
Holgrave of Salem, which was granted to him by the
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 40, leaf 66.
2 Salem Town Records, volume 1, page 171 (printed).
8 Salem Town Records, volume 1, page 155 (printed).
4 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 2, leaf 110.
"Salem Town Records, volume 1, page 75 (printed).
"Essex Registry of Deeds, book 1, leaf 19.
7 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 3, leaf 67.
8 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 19, leaf 180.
BY SIDNEY PERLEY 69
town of Salem Nov. 26, 1638. 1 For eleven pounds and
fifteen shillings, he conveyed it to Jeffry Massy, planter,
and Nicholas Woodbery, mariner, both of Salem, April
14, 1652. 2 Messrs. Massy and Woodberry conveyed the
farm to Joshua Ray Jan. 1, 1656. 3 Mr. Rea, who was
then of Salem, husbandman, for love, conveyed this east-
ern half of the farm to his second son Joshua Rea of
Salem Village Feb. 5, 1685-6 ; 4 and Joshua Rea owned it
in 1700.
Edward Bishop House. That part of this lot lying
westerly of the dashes was a part of the farm of one hun-
dred and fifty acres granted to John Holgrave of Salem
by the town of Salem Nov. 26, 1638 j 1 and which he con-
veyed to Jeffry Massy, planter, and Nicholas Woodbery,
mariner, both of Salem, April 14, 1652. 2 Messrs. Massy
and Woodberry conveyed the farm to Joshua Ray Jan. 1,
1656. 3 Mr. Rea, who was then of Salem, yeoman, for ten
pounds, conveyed this part of this lot to Jeremiah Watts
of Salem, dish turner, March 18, 1677-8. 5 In this deed
Mr. Rea says that he lately bought a part of this lot of
the town of Salem. Mr. Watts conveyed this part of
the lot to Edward Bishop, sr., of Salem, yeoman, who
owned it in 1700.
That part of the lot lying easterly of the dashes be-
longed to Edward Bishop of Salem, who was at first a
husbandman and subsequently a sawyer, as early as 1652.
In 1674, he lived in a house which stood upon this part
of the lot ; and from here his wife Bridget went to jail
and finally to give up her life for the alleged crime of
witchcraft. Mr. Bishop died before 1715. How much
longer the house stood has not been learned.
John Raymond Lot. John Raymond of Beverly, yeo-
man, owned this lot in 1700 ; and, for love, conveyed to
his son Thomas Rayment of Salem, yeoman, this lot of
land " on which the grantee's house stands " Sept. 5,
1702.6
'Salem Town Records, volume 1, page 75 (printed).
2 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 1, leaf 19.
3 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 3, leaf 67.
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 19, leaf 15.
5 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 5, leaf 111.
6 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 22, leaf 203.
70 RIAL SIDE: PART OF SALEM IN 1700
William Dodge Lot. Capt. William Dodge owned this
lot of land in 1700.
Joseph Herrick House. This tract of two hundred acres
of land was granted to Mr. Alford about 1636 ; and he
conveyed it to Henry Herrick. Mr. Herrick died in the
winter of 1670-1, when this farm was appraised at three
hundred pounds. He devised it in his will to his sons
Ephraim, Joseph and John. It came into the possession
of Joseph Herrick, who lived here and died Feb. 4,
1717-8, having in his will devised all his " home living "
to his son Rufus Herrick of Salem, yeoman. Rufus Her-
rick conveyed to his son Rufus Herrick of Salem, hus-
bandman, the western half of the dwelling house and land
May 22, 1714. 1 Rufus Herrick, the father, died in 1748,
having in his will devised the porch chamber in the house
to his son Rufus Herrick and the western half of the house
and land to his son James Phillips Herrick. The son
Rufus Herrick of Beverly, yeoman, conveyed his part of
the house and land to George Dodge of Salem, mariner,
June 20, 1758 ; 2 and on the same day James Phillips
Herrick of Beverly, yeoman, conveyed his portion of the
house and land to Mr. Dodge. 3 Mr. Dodge removed to
this farm, and lived here until April 11, 1783, when he
conveyed the estate to Jonathan Conant of Beverly, yeo-
man. 4 Mr. Conant conveyed the same to Israel Thorndike
of Beverly, merchant, May 25, 1791 ; 4 and Mr. Thorndike
conveyed it to Barnabas Dodge of Beverly, yeoman, and
John Safford of Hamilton, gentleman, April 5, 1800. 5
Mr. Safford removed to Beverly, and released his interest
in the estate to Mr. Dodge Oct. 4, 1802. 6 Barnabas Dodge
of Beverly, esquire, conveyed it to Henry White of
Beverly, mariner, Oct. 5, 1802. 7 While this farm was
owned by Mr. White, according to the History of Bever-
ly, by Edwin M. Stone, published in 1843, it was occu-
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 87, leaf 42.
"Essex Registry of Deeds, book 105, leaf 119.
8 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 105, leaf 121.
4 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 155, leaf 148.
6 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 165, leaf 240.
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 170, leaf 276.
7 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 170, leaf 277.
BY SIDNEY PERLEY 71
pied by Joseph White of Salem, merchant, to the time of
his murder, in 1830. Mr. Stone wrote :
A prospect, of nearly equal beauty [with Folly hill] is afforded
from Cherry Hill, formerly the estate of the late Joseph White, of
Salem, but now the property of Capt. John Hammond. Its prox-
imity to Wenham Pond, one hundred and seven acres of which lie
within the limits of Beverly, the distant view of the ocean, the va-
rious scenery of the surrounding country, combine, with the salu-
brity of its situation, to render it one of the most desirable resi-
dences in this vicinity. The mansion, as seen through a long ave-
nue of fruit trees, shaded at its upper termination by two finely
branching elms, presents a handsome appearance; and from its top
Capt. White, with the aid of a glass, frequently descried his ves-
sels making the port of Salem before their approach was known in
the city.
Henry White died, and George W. Pratt of Boston,
merchant, and his wife Mary B. Pratt, in her right, con-
veyed her interest in the Cherry Hill farm, formerly of
her grandfather Henry White, deceased, to Stephen White
of Boston, merchant, Feb. 6, 1834 j 1 and Francis White
of Beverly, gentleman, released his interest in the same
to Stephen White April 30, 1834. 2 Stephen White con-
veyed it to Charles MIntier of Boston, broker, May 1,
1834 ; 3 and Mr. M c lntier conveyed it to Amos Shelden of
Beverly, esquire, March 1, 1836. 4 Mr. Shelden mort-
gaged the estate to David Pingree of Salem, merchant,
May 10, 1837 ; 5 and Mr. Pingree foreclosed the mort-
gage, by possession, April 30, 1838. 6 Mr. Pingree con-
veyed the farm to John Hammond of Salem, master-
mariner, March 18, 1840 ; 7 and Captain Hammond con-
veyed it to Thomas Holmes of Salem March 7, 1846. 8
Mr. Holmes was a merchant of Salem, and conveyed the
house, barn and land to Richard P. Waters, Esq., of
Salem, merchant, March 9, 1846. 9 Mr. Waters removed
the old house in the spring of 1851. The following ac-
count of this event appeared in the Beverly Citizen, in its
issue of May 24, 1851 :
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 275, leaf 108.
2 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 275, leaf 246.
8 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 275, leaf 247.
4 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 285, leaf 262.
5 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 300, leaf 183.
"Essex Registry of Deeds, book 306, leaf 21.
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 318, leaf 26.
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 364, leaf 217.
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 364, leaf 218.
72 BIAL SIDE: PART OF SALEM IN 1700
The ancient mansion honse on the Cherry Hill Farm, in North
Beverly, has recently been taken down, and the proprietor of that
choice estate, (Richard P. Waters, Esq.,) is about erecting a neat
and elegant residence in modern style. The original portion of the
old house has been built over 100 years, and has passed through
many changes in the hands of the numerous proprietors who have
since then owned and occupied it. Prior to 1760 it was owned by Ru-
f us, son of Governor Joseph, and grandson of the patriarch, Henry
Herrick. He sold it about that time, and removed to Pomfret, Ct.,
and died at Sheffield, Mass., 1814, aged 93. He married Mary
Conant in 1740, about which time it is supposed that the original
structure above referred to was erected.
Thomas Rayment Lot. Capt. Thomas Rayment owned
this lot of land in 1700. It was probably the lot that
was granted to Jacob Barney by the selectmen of Salem
Dec. 21, 1650. Mr. Barney did not take it, and it was
regranted to John Rayment (Remond) March 2, 1653.
Edward Bishop House. Edward Bishop owned this lot
and house probably until 1697. He removed to Reho-
both, where he subsequently lived. His son Samuel
Bishop occupied the house and land until 1710, when he
removed to Attleborough. The house probably disap-
peared that year.
Henry Brown House. This lot of land was granted by
the town of Salem to Hugh Peter Nov. 12, 1638 j 1 and
Mr. Peter conveyed it to John Winthrop, esquire. Gov-
ernor Winthrop died March 26, 1649, having in his will
devised a part of his estate to Margaret, wife of John
Corwin of Salem, merchant. May 17, 1677, Fitz John
"Winthrop, Wait Winthrop of Hartford, Conn., gentle-
man, Elizabeth Newman, Martha Winthrop and Anne
Winthrop, children and executors of the will of Governor
Winthrop, agreed with and released to Margaret Corwin
this tract of land in satisfaction of her devise in the will. 2
Capt. John Corwin had a farm house upon this land in
1682. 3 Margaret Corwin of Boston, widow, conveyed to
Henry Browne, jr., of Salisbury, yeoman, my farm in
Salem Village, near ye head of Frost fish river, formerly
of Capt. John Corwin, May 22, 1693. 4 Mr. Brown re-
moved to the farm, where he afterwards lived. Daniel
'Salem Town Records, volume 1, page 73 (printed).
Suffolk Registry of Deeds, book 10, page 102.
"Essex Registry of Deeds, book 6, leaf 75.
"Essex Registry of Deeds, book 11, leaf 180.
BY SIDNEY PERLEY 73
Zackary of Boston and Stephen Sewall of Salem, attor-
neys of Elizabeth Barker of Deptford, Kentshire, Eng-
land, daughter and heir of Hugh Peter of Salem, de-
ceased, for fifty pounds, released this land to Mr. Brown
March 22, 1703-4. 1 Mr. Brown died in the spring of
1708. One hundred acres of the land with the buildings
were then appraised at two hundred and eighty pounds.
The real estate was not divided until Dec. 26, 1728, when
the easterly end of the house from the garret to the lower
room, the easterly end of the back leanto, etc., were as-
signed to the widow. The house and barn, subject to the
rights of the widow, were released to the deceased's son
Abraham Brown of Salem, weaver, who lived here. His
brother Joseph Browne of Salem, yeoman, had released
to him his interest in the farm Feb. 19, 1725-6 ; 2 and his
sister Hannah, wife of John Rea, jr., of Salem, yeoman,
released her interest to him on the same day. 3 Abraham
Brown died in the autumn of 1762, having devised in his
will the estate to his son Archelaus Brown. The dwelling
house, barn and about seventy acres of land in the home-
stead were then appraised at five hundred and sixty
pounds. Archelaus Brown died in the winter of 1791-2.
The buildings and sixty acres of land were then appraised
at three hundred pounds. The house probably stood only
a few years after this time.
John Flint Lot. This lot of land was granted by the
town of Salem to John Putnam; and his son John Put-
nam, sr., of Salem, yeoman, released it to his brother
Nathaniel Putnam, sr., of Salem, yeoman, Feb. 19, 1682-
3.* Nathaniel Putnam's daughter Elizabeth, wife of
George Flint, " living in the bounds of Redding," con-
veyed it to John Flint of Salem, husbandman, March 31,
1690. 5 John Flint owned the lot in 1700.
John Herrick Lot. This lot of one hundred acres prob-
ably consisted of the sixty acres granted to Francis Sker-
ry and forty acres to Henry Skerry, by the selectmen of
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 19, leaf 146.
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 48, leaf 193.
"Essex Registry of Deeds, book 48, leaf 194.
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 6, leaf 76.
*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 8, leaf 169.
74 RIAL SIDE: PART OP SALEM IN 1700
Salem Dec. 17, 1649. 1 They conveyed the grants to
Henry Herrick of Salem July 1, 1653. 2 Mr. Herrick
died, possessed of it, in the winter of 1670-1, when the
land was appraised at one hundred and sixty pounds. In
his will, Mr. Herrick devised it to his son Zachariah Her-
rick. Zachariah Herrick died May 3, 1695 (6?), having
devised his real estate to his son Henry Herrick. It be-
longed to John Herrick, sr., in 1700.
Nathaniel Rayment Lot. Zachariah Herrick conveyed
this lot of land to John Rayment, sr., of Beverly, yeo-
man ; and Mr. Rayment conveyed it to his son Nathaniel
Rayment of Beverly, yeoman, Jan. 15, 1696-7. 3 Nathaniel
Rayment owned it in 1700.
'Salem Town Records, volume 1, page 163 (printed).
''Essex Registry of Deeds, book 1, leaf 86.
3 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 12, leaf 32a.
A GENEALOGICAL -HISTORICAL VISITATION
OF ANDOVER, MASS., IN THE YEAR 1863.
BY ALFRED POORE, M. D.
(Continued from Volume LTV, page 250.}
Mr. Holt says his present house was built in 1820,
about twenty rods northwest of the site of the old one.
Deacon Holt owns all the land about half way down on
the northerly side and to the corner on the south side.
James Abbott was born in Wilton and came down to live
with James Holt, who was his uncle or some other rela-
tive, and had all of Mr. Holt's property, the latter having
no children. Hartwell B. Abbott built the house where
he resides before his father died. Deacon Holt's wife is
Phebe, daughter of Benjamin and Rhoda Abbott. Her
mother was daughter of Nathan, Jr., and Phebe (Abbott)
Chandler. Mrs. Holt was born in Andover West Parish
in 1798, where Fred Noyes now resides, and where her
grandfather Jonathan Abbott was born, whose wife was
Mary Chandler. Benjamin and Rhoda Abbott, her
parents, were cousins. Children : Solomon, died young ;
Solomon Augustus, b. 1829, mar. Harriet, daughter of a
Mr. Carpenter from New Hampshire, and resides in
Brooklyn, and have children, William Augustus, b.
Springfield, 1853, and Emma Louisa, b. New York city,
1861 ; Edward F., died young ; Edward Francis, b. 1834,
who has resided at home except when he was away teach-
ing, mar. Parthena Pelham, daughter of George and Fanny
(Hyde) Boutwell, who was born in Andover West Parish
in 1835, and have children, Francis Boutwell, b. April,
1861, Phebe Elizabeth, b. 1835, unmarried, at home, and
Jonathan Abbott, b. 1841, unmarried, in Co. H, 14th
Mass. Regiment. He was killed in battle in 1864. Ed-
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ward Francis wife's sister, Mary King, attends school at
Abbot Academy and boards with them. Moses L. Farn-
ham, son of Ezra F. of Frye Village, was born in 1846
in Acton, Me., and has been working for Deacon Holt
since the spring of 1862. Deacon Jacob Farnham and
Deacon Holt's grandmother were brother and sister. The
present Jacob is grandson of Deacon Jacob.
Nov. 18, 1863, was all day at Eben Lovejoy's exam-
ining the old papers, and in the evening called upon John
Lovejoy and widow Hannah Lovejoy, who says that Col.
Wood lived in the Stevens house. Daniel Stevens'
daughter Sarah married Capt. Pillsbury, Jan., 1848, and
Daniel left the place the following spring. One Phillips,
a lame tinman, lived there at one time, and Amos Gil-
christ occupied it when it was burned in June, 1850.
Moses H., son of widow Boynton, built his house in
Lawrence in 1847. Henry Boynton broke his right leg
and Alanson Flint his arm during the summer of 1847.
Isaac Carruth's house was struck by lightning July 13 T
1860, and John Tuck's the same year in August. Samuel
Beard was a poor man who begged enough to build hi
house west of Knowles', then removed it to Flint's land
toward the Tewksbury almshouse, and in 1853 brought it
to where it now stands.
The first house on the street to the almshouse, now
owned by Jennings, was brought to the spot about 1830
from near Levi Beane, by George Stone, who occupied it
about eight years. James Merrill once resided there, and
also a family named Chase lived there a short time.
The house where Mrs. Nickerson resides was built
about 1820 by John Foster, whose wife died there, she
being a sister to Jedediah Burt. His children took him
"up country" after the death of his wife, the children
being John, William and Mary. Samuel Manning was
there from about 1840 to 1845, with children George,
Mark, John, Mary, Elizabeth, Eri, and several who died
young. Others who have lived there are Jonathan
Knowles, Thomas or Robert Welch, Alfred Holt, wha
now resides in Lawrence, Elnore Dane, who went to
Flint's house, and Warren Mason.
William Griffin came to town from Newburyport about
ANDOVER, MASS., IN THE YEAR 1863 77
the time Thomas Boynton came. His mother was sister
to Mrs. H. Lovejoy 's father. Old Mrs. James Hardy in
Tewksbury and Alfred Hardy, a great-grandson of James,
reside in West Andover. Peter Hardy settled on old
James Hardy's place. The latter had the following chil-
dren : John, who settled near Boutwell ; Benjamin, who
settled in Greenfield ; Simeon and James, who settled in
Lewiston, Me., when first married ; Aaron, who settled
in Hancock ; Micajah and Stephen, who died in West
Andover ; Jemima, who married Jonathan Boutwell, with
grandchildren residing now in West Andover ; Hepzabeth,
b. 1777, went to Hillsboro, N. H., to settle. Old Messrs.
James and Peter Hardy were cousins to Mrs. Lovejoy.
Called upon John Lovejoy, who says the middle story
is occupied as a machine shop. Mr. Southwick, the
draftsman, has his room over the counting room. John
Lovejoy built his house in 1843 on land that his father
owned, the tract containing about eighteen acres. He has
been with the Merrimac Corporation in Lowell since
1841, as overseer in the cardroom. He was born in 1809,
the son of Deacon Eben and Phebe Russell Lovejoy. His
wife is Mary Farnham, daughter of John and Mary
(Carleton) Chickering, who was born in North Andover
in 1813. Children, born in Frye Village: Mary Francis,
died young ; Mary Frances, b. 1840, now teaching school
in Lowell.
Joseph Dane, who lived in the house where Henry
Boynton now resides, married for his second wife the
widow Flint. Her grandchildren, John and Alanson
Flint, reside in Andover, and Joseph Dane lived in Boyn-
ton's house about twenty years.
DOCUMENTS RELATING TO MARBLEHEAD,
MASS.
( Continued from Volume LIV, page 320. ,)
To his Excellencie Sir William Phipps Knightt Gover-
nour etc. To the Honourable Their Majesties Councill,
and House of Representatives, Conveined in Generall
Court.
The Humble Address of Sundrie Inhabitants of The
Towne of Marblehead, in behalf e of Them Selves, and
said Towne.
Most humbly offer
That whereas by the Late Addiiionall Tax, is unduely
Laide on our pore distressed Towne, the Sum me of One
hundred, Eightie, Three, poundes, And Tenn Shillings,
the Extreame Povertie of which and disabilitie to paye
said Summe, is very demonstrable to any that will please
to Consider the Smaleness of the whole Tract of Land,
the great Losses Sustained in fishery this Last Summer,
and the Great Number of Polles Imprest for theire Majes-
ties Service, and otherwise drawne of in Merchant Voy-
ages ; Wee cannot Rationablee bee Judged proportionable
to any of our Neighbours, Esspetially thosse wee derived
from ; Notwithstandeing which great Tax, wee are farther
threatened by the officers of the Impost office, and Re-
quired to paye Six pence per Tunn for all our fisheing
Open Boates, By Vertue of a Late Act, (for Continua-
tion of Impost and Excise) soe offten as they goe to Sea
which is Every day (if the Weather permitt) which
would amount to a Vast Summe, Even to the Utter Dis-
truction of fisheing, which wee humblie Conceive is not
the Least Manifactorie of this province, and is Diametri-
call Contrarie to their Most Gracious Majesties Will and
pleasure, in the Later End of theire Royall Charter, The
said Open Boates are never built by the Tunn, nor can
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DOCUMENTS RELATING TO MARBLEHEAD, MASS. 79
wee finde any Rule to Tunnage Open Boates, which with
us are a Considerable part of our Estates, and that indeed
on which all the Rest depend, as well for a Livelyhood,
as for wherewith to paye Such Taxes as are Laid on Us.
Your Petitioners therefore most humbly praye an
Abatement of the said additionall Tax and Exemption
from the said Unreasonable Tunnage since our Boates are
otherwise Rateable with other Estates And your Peti-
tioners shall as in duty bound etc.
Ambrose Gale Senior John Legg
William Woods Nathaniell Norden
Elias Henley Senior John Browne
Edward Holman Senior John Stasey
Erasmus James John Hooper
Richard Skinner John Merrett
Robert Bartlett Nicholas Anderos
Eleazer Ingolls
[On left margin] In answer to the petition of Sundry
the Inhabitants of Marblehead Voted that the said fishing
boates are in the Law Included and ought to pay as other
Rateable Estate and noe other way
October 25th, 1694. past in the affirmative by the
house of Representatives and sent up to his Excellency
and Council for consent.
Nehemiah Jewet Speaker
Mass. Archives, vol. 113, p. 100.
Feb. 16, 1694 ?
To the Constables of Roxbury Dedham
In his Majestys name you are hereby Required in his
Majesty s name for this your severall precincts to make
dilligent search for one Robert Cox a young man of black
hayre tall long vissaged sad colored ? clothes about 28
years of Age who on the 20th Instant so cruelly beate
one John Roads of Marblehead that since is dead of his
wounds by him made & hath fled for it and in case you
finde in any part of your limits the sayd Cox, to seaze
& securely convey him from Constable to Constable till
he be brought before some Authority in this Jurisdiction
& in Case you Cannot finde him to speed away this war-
80 DOCUMENTS RELATING TO MARBLEHEAD, MASS.
rant to some one of Authority of Road Island who are
desired by this Authority to Exsecute it in there Jurisdic-
tion & to send it forward to our Confederates who are
alike desired Exsecute the same in your Jurisdiction that
if possibly the murderer may be found &sent to be
preceded with according to law.
Mass. Archives, vol. 40, p. 303.
Sir
I received yours of this date whereby I understand
you are still at Marblehead and am surpri/ed at the Ac-
compt you give of the want of 30 men to make up your
Complement. You never mentioned more than 15 unto
me before your going hence, which I expected would be
made good unto you by the Gentlemen concerned in the
Fishery and you say they will provide them. I hoped a
considerable part of that Service would have been per-
formed before this. I am sorry that the Fishery should
not be assisted haveing made provisions for that designe,
but the time is very much past away That I fear the
other service proposed for you (which is of such impor-
tance) will be disappointed in case you should pursve
your order to continue with them till they make their
Fare. But if you think it may be with the safety of his
Majesty's Ship without a further supply of men to con-
voy them to the Fishing Grounds, and so to return back
to this place, I do consent to and order your going so
far with them. Let not the time run out farther, that if
you are not in a capacity for this Service other measures
may be taken, of which give me speedy notice.
Your Loving Friend
William Stoughton
Boston May 4th 1696.
To Captain Wentworth Paxton Commander
of his Majesties Ship the Newport.
Mass. Archives, vol. 62, p. 88.
(To be continued^)
HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
OF THE
; ESSEX INSTITUTE
VOL. LV APRIL, 1919 No. 2
BEVERLY IN 1700. NO. 1.
BY SIDNEY PEELEY.
THIS section of Beverly in 1700 includes a portion of
the town extending from Horse bridge on the west to
Grover street on the east, a distance of about two and a
half miles, and from the Wenham line on the north to
Foster's corner and Beaver pond on the south, a distance
of about one and a quarter miles, and containing an area
of about three square miles. This part of the town was
known in the eighteenth century as the upper parish or
North Beverly.
The highest and principal hill in this section is Brim-
ble hill, which was so called as early as 1673. It was
called Bramble hill in 1685.
There are several ponds, the largest of which is that
part of Wenham lake which lies in Beverly. It was
called Wenham pond as early as 1673 ; great pond in
1697 ; and Wenham lake as early as 1793. The exten-
sive tract of low land adjoining the southern end of the
lake was known as Pond marsh in 1704.
Beaver pond was known by that name as early as 1642.
Thatch pond was so called in 1688.
Round pond was commonly so called as early as 1709.
Alewife brook was so called in 1702. It was called
El wive brook in 1750 ; and Ale wive river or brook in
1761. In 1718, where the brook crosses Dodge street,
was "y c place Called alwife brook."
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82 BEVERLY IN 1700. NO. 1
Longham brook, much of its length being in Wenham,
was so called as early as 1670 ; and in 1902 it appears on
record as Longham or Miles river so called. The section
through which it flows was known as Longham as early
as 1656.
The oldest road in this part of Beverly is Conant
street. It was in existence when the first settlers came
into this neighborhood. It was called " the country high-
waye leading from horse bridge to John Rayment's
Jun'r," in 1683 ; ye country road in 1692 ; the cross way
commonly called the Boston path in 1699 ; " y* Country
road y* goeth to horfe bridge so Called " in 1706 ; Boston
road in 1712 ; ye country road that leadeth from Ipswich
to Boston in 1714 ; " ye Country road comonly known
by y e name of y e Boston Road" in 1715; "y e Country
road that goeth from Ipswich to Boston by y e way of
Horse bridge so called " in 1716 ; " the Country Road
that goeth from the Houfe of Isaac Hulls Late deceafed
to the new meeting House So Called" in 1727 ; Ipswich
road in 1714 ; the road leading from the meeting house
of the Second parish of Beverly to Ipswich in 1801 ; the
country road leading from Beverly to Danvers in 1802 ;
the road leading from Beverly to Danvers Plains in 1823 ;
Money lane in 1834 ; and was named Conant street in
1838.
That part of Dodge street from Conant to Enon streets
is as old as Conant street ; the southwesterly portion of
it to Cabot street probably came into use when the ferry
was established in 1636 ; and the northeasterly part from
Enon street to the Wenham line, which has been known
as Dodge's Row since 1777, was laid out before 1684.
The southwesterly end was called the country highway
that goeth from Beverly to Wenham in 1699 ; the road
leading from Beverly ferry to Ipswich in 1788 ; and the
road leading from the Essex bridge to Ipswich in 1798.
The middle portion was called ye country road going to
Wenham in 1688 ; " y e Country Road that leadeth to
Ipfwich" in 1716; Ipswich road in 1716 ; the great road
in 1784 ; the main road leading from the Essex bridge to
Ipswich in 1801 ; and the main county road in 1859. The
northeasterly section was called Jebacco road in 1684 ;
BY SIDNEY PERLEY 83
the highway in 1691 ; road from Joseph Dodge's house
towards Chebacco in 1708 ; the county road leading from
Beverly to Chebacco through Dodge's Row so called in
1819 ; the road leading from Beverly to Essex in 1819 ;
and the road leading from Wenham toward Beverly
ferry in 1879. It was named Dodge street the whole
length in 1838.
Enon street was a portion of the original highway in
this section, skirting the lake. It was called the highway
or country road in 1673 ; the country road going to Wen-
ham in 1688 ; and Enon street as early as 1882.
Cabot street, running northerly from its junction with
Dodge street, was a highway in 1666 ; and was called
" the towne waye leading from the head of the rayles to
Ephraim Herrick's " in 1683 ; the " way w ch now goeth
from Beverly to Ephraim Herrick's " in 1688 ; ' the
highway that goeth from the head of the Rayles fo called
unto the Crofs way Comonly called Boston path " in
1699 ; ' Cornet Joseph Herrick's highway " in 1701 ; "y e
Country road y* goeth from y* head of y e Railes so Called
towards Wenham " in 1706 ; Beverly town highway in
1714 ; the town road in 1715 ; '* y e Road that runs into
Beverly Town " hi 1717 ; " y e public highway leading to
Wenham " in 1733 ; " y e Road Called Birtch plain Road"
in 1739 ; a lane or highway which leads from Herrick's
house towards the country road in 1741 ; ye town or
country road in 1744 ; the town way which leads from
Beverly to Wenham in 1746 ; the road leading from Mr.
Oliver's meeting house to Beverly ferry in 1788 ; the
road leading from the meeting house of the Second parish
to the Essex bridge in 1798 ; the road leading to Birch
plain so called in 1808 ; the road leading to the west part
of Wenham in 1823 ; the main road or highway in 1834;
the road leading to Topsfield in 1840 ; and was named
Cabot street in 1838. This road has been straightened in
two places, as shown on the map. The northerly one was
done after 1793, and the southerly one just before 1845.
This part of Cabot street was apparently a road before
1666 only as far north as Ephraim Herrick's, and was
extended later to the Wenham town line. At a general
town meeting in Beverly, held March 10, 1684-5, it was
84 BEVERLY IN 1700. NO. 1
voated that theire should Be a Towne High way layed out from
the head of the Rayles and so towards Topsfield so far as the Bouns
of Beverly Doth goe that way upon Condition that wenham men
will also alow and lay out a high way from the place where the
above sd way Doth meet with wenham line and so towards Tops-
field so far as theire Towne goes.
The following return of the laying out of this way^is
recorded in the Beverly town records :
Where as wee vnder neamed were fometime deputed chofen and
appointed as a Committee by the inhabitants of our towne of beuer-
ly as will appeare in Beuerly towne Booke of records to Lay out
and to rectime certaine towne high ways at seuerall places in faid
towne as wee thinke meet ffor cart and drift ways for the benifit
use and be hoofe of our said towne and to make satisfaction vnto
any person or perfons ffrom whome we should take Land ffor said
towne high ways with and out of our towne common Land and
accordingly wee did on the ffourth of June 1688 lay out a way two
pole breadth ffrom the bed of the Raills soe caled by the hows of
Beniamen Balch Jtu up a long as the way now lies to the gate of
Ephrem Herricks behind the hows of Thomas Herricks: and from
thence on a line as the Land will bare it through Epherem Herricks
pastur to his other gate line westerly and ye towne on the Right
hand after wee are through said Herricks weft gate and so along as
trees are marked on the weft fide or end of the now melds of Eph-
ruiu Herricks and Robert Cue and soe along to wenham bridg so
called nere the hows of Ephrem Herricks Juner
SAMUEL CORNING fsr
LET JOHN DODG
LEFTENET ExEROifE COHANT
NRHKMIAH GROITKR
JOHN LOUETT SB*
JOHN HILL
Essex street is an ancient highway, and was named
Essex street in 1838.
Grover street was a highway in 1806 ; and was called
Grover street as early as 1874.
Nathaniel Rayment Lot. Zachariah Herrick conveyed
this lot of land to John Rayment, sr., of Beverly, yeo-
man ; and Mr. Rayment conveyed it to his son Nathaniel
Rayment of Beverly, yeoman, Jan. 15, 1696-7. 1 Nathan-
iel Rayment owned it in 1700.
John Rayment Lot. This lot of land belonged to John
Rayment in 1700.
John Herrick Lot. This was a part of the tract of land
sold by John Alford to Henry Herrick before 1670 ; and
Mr. Herrick died in the winter of 1670-1, having devised
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 12, leaf 32a.
BY SIDNEY PBRLBY 85
it with other land to his sons Ephraim, Joseph and John.
This lot apparently became the property of his son John
Herrick, who owned it in 1700.
Joseph Herrick Lot. This was a part of the lot of land
which was conveyed by John Alford to Henry Herrick
before 1670 ; and Mr. Herrick died possessed of it in the
winter of 1670-1. Upon division of this farm among his
sons Ephraim, Joseph and John, this part apparently be-
came the property of Joseph Herrick, who owned it in
1700.
Stephen Herrick House. This lot was a portion of the
tract of land which was conveyed by John Alford to
Henry Herrick before 1670. Mr. Herrick died in the
winter of 1670-1 ; and upon division of the land among
his sons Ephraim, Joseph and John, this part apparently
became the property of Ephraim Herrick. Ephraim
Herrick's son Stephen Herrick built a house upon it in
or about 1692. Ephraim Herrick died Sept. 18, 1693,
having in his will devised the land to Stephen. The lot
was then valued at seventy pounds. Stephen Herrick,
sr., of Beverly, yeoman, conveyed the dwelling house,
barn, orchard and land to William Trask of Beverly Feb.
1, 1719-20 j 1 and the house was probably removed by Mr.
Trask the next year.
JZstate of Thomas Herrick House. This was a part of
the tract of land conveyed by John Alford to Henry
Herrick before 1670, and Mr. Herrick gave it to his son
Thomas in or before 1670. There was a house upon it in
1670. He died apparently without children. The place
belonged to his estate in 1700. Under the provisions of
his father's will, in the lack of issue the title to the land
went to Thomas' brothers, Ephraim and Joseph, the latter
probably acquiring the whole title to it. This land was
in the possession of Rufus Herrick, son of Joseph Her-
rick, in 1720 ; and the house was apparently gone before
1740.
Peter Woodbury Lot. This lot of land was a part of
the forty-five acres conveyed, for love, by Roger Conant
of Salem, yeoman, to his son Exercise Conant Nov. 20,
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 41, leaf 54.
86 BEVERLY IN 1700. NO. 1
1666. 1 Exercise Conant of Beverly, for thirty-five
pounds, conveyed it to Peter Woodbury of Beverly, yeo-
man, April 1, 1690 ; 2 and Mr Woodbury owned it in
1700.
Samuel Herrick Lot. This lot of land was a part of
the forty-five acres conveyed, for love, by Roger Conant
of Salem, yeoman, to his son Exercise Conant Nov. 20,
1666. 1 Exercise Conant of Beverly, yeoman, for forty-
eight pounds and thirteen shillings, conveyed it to Samuel
Herrick of Beverly, tailor, Dec. 28, 1692.3 Mr. Herrick
owned the lot in 1700.
Cornelius Baker Lot. This lot of land was probably
part of the forty-five acres conveyed by Roger Conant of
Salem, yeoman, to his son Exercise Conant Nov. 20,
1666 j 1 and it belonged to Cornelius Baker in 1690 and
1700.
William Dodge Lot. This lot of land was the property
of William Dodge, jr., in 1666, and of Capt. William
Dodge in 1690 and 1700.
Jonathan Baker House. This lot of land was a part of
the forty-five acres conveyed, for love, by Roger Conant
of Salem, yeoman, to his son Exercise Conant Nov. 20,
1666. 1 Exercise Conant's daughter Abiah married Joshua
Waliis of Beverly, cordwainer, June 1, 1691, and a house
was built upon this lot, in which they lived. Exercise
Conant of Beverly, yeoman, conveyed the land to Mr.
Waliis, for nine pounds, May 23, 1695 ; 4 and, for fifty-
six pounds, Mr. Waliis conveyed the house and land to
Jonathan Baker of Beverly, weaver, March 10, 1695-6. 4
Mr. Baker conveyed the house and land to his father
Cornelius Baker of Salem, yeoman, Feb. 1, 1705-6 ; 5 and
Cornelius Baker, for love, conveyed the same estate to his
son Jabez Baker of Beverly, weaver, April 25, 1706. 6
Jabez Baker conveyed " my dwelling house," barn and
land to Joseph Herrick of Wenham, yeoman, June 11,
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 3, leaf 30.
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 8, leaf 169.
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 13, leaf 204.
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 11, leaf 101.
*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 29, leaf 22.
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 27, leaf 70.
BY SIDNEY PERLEY 87
1716 j 1 and Mr. Herrick removed to the place. He con-
veyed the house, barn and land to William Trow of Bev-
erly, cordwainer, April 1, 1729. 2 Mr. Trow opened a
tavern here, which he conducted as long as he lived. He
died in the spring of 1746. The real estate was divided
April , 1755, the southwest part of the house being
assigned to the widow as a part of her dower, and the
remainder of the house and land around the buildings to
his son George Trow. George Trow of Beverly, inn-
holder, for forty pounds, conveyed his part of the estate
to Benjamin Brown of Beverly, husbandman, Feb. 17,
1756. 8 George Trow then entered the army, and died at
camp near Lake George a few months later. Adminis-
tration was granted upon his estate Dec. 6, 1 756 ; and his
two-thirds of the house and land with the barn and stable
are included in the inventory of his estate. It may have
been to make this transfer to Mr. Brown for some other
purpose than an outright sale, for Mr. Brown died in 1701,
being still a husbandman, and his children, Thomas Towne
of Danvers, cordwainer, and wife Anna, Benjamin Creesy,
jr., of Beverly and wife Mehitable, Benjamin Browne of
Beverly, husbandman, and Mary Browne of Beverly, sin-
glewoman, conveyed to widow Elizabeth Raymond, Anna
Towne, wife of Samuel Towne, and Hannah Trow, sin-
glewoman, all of Beverly, children of the late William
Trow and heirs of their brother George Trow, the same
interest in the estate, Nov. 9, 1764. 4 Elizabeth Raymond
of Beverly, widow, conveyed to Solomon Towne, of Bev-
erly, cordwainer, her interest in the estate Oct. 8, 1765 j 5
and Solomon Town came here and conducted the tavern.
Solomon Town of Beverly, innholder, and his wife Han-
nah conveyed their interests in the house, barn, land, etc.,
to Jonathan Dodge, 2d, yeoman, and Peter Shaw, cord-
wainer, both of Beverly, March 16, 1772 ; 6 and these
grantees conveyed their interest in the estate to John
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 30, leaf 174.
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 122, leaf 223.
3 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 103, leaf 148.
4 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 131, leaf 84.
5 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 124, leaf 11.
"Essex Registry of Deeds, book 129, leaf 240.
88 BEVERLY IN 1700. NO. 1
Knowlton of Newburyport, shipwright, March 17, 1773. 1
Mr. Knowlton and his wife Anna (daughter of the late
William Trow and an heir of her brother George Trow)
conveyed the whole estate to Samuel Endicott of Dan-
vers, innholder, July 24, 1773. 2 Mr. Endicott came here
and while conducting the tavern died Dec. 8, 1773.
Upon the division of his real estate, " The Dwelling
Tavern House in Beverly & Barn with a good Shed for
Horses & about 60 square Poles of Land adjoining
thereto," valued at one hundred and eighty-six pounds,
thirteen shillings and four pence, was assigned to his
daughter Sarah Endicott, who afterwards married Fran-
cis Yates ; and the inn was discontinued. Mr. and Mrs.
Yates, who were then " of a place called N 6 pleasant
river," in Lincoln county, for one hundred and thirty-six
pounds and five shillings, conveyed to Moses Brown and
Israel Thorndike, both of Beverly, merchants, the dwell-
ing house, barn and land Aug. 9, 1787 ; 3 and said
grantees, for fifty-one pounds, conveyed the same build-
ings and land to Joseph Chipman of Beverly, gentleman,
who owned the land around it, April 18, 1793. 4 The
buildings were gone before 1817, while the estate was
owned by Mr. Chipman.
John Conant House. This lot was a part of the forty-
five acres of land conveyed, for love, by Roger Conant of
Salem, yeoman, to his son Exercise Conant Nov. 20,
1666. 6 Exercise Conant built a house upon the lot im-
mediately, and lived here until he conveyed it with the
barn and land to his " cousin " John Conant of Beverly
May 25, 1695. 6 He then removed to Windham, Conn.
John Conant was a yeoman and lived here until he con-
veyed the estate, for one hundred and ninety-seven
pounds, to Rev. John Chipman, the pastor of the new
North Beverly church, for a parsonage, Sept. 6, 1715. 7
Mr. Chipman lived here until his death, March 23, 1775.
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 131, leaf 84.
"Essex Registry of Deeds, book 131, leaf 271.
3 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 147, leaf 206.
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 156, leaf 276.
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 3, leaf 30.
"Essex Registry of Deeds, book 22, leaf 192.
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 30, leaf 3.
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JOHN CONANT HOUSE
From a photograph made about 1878
JOHN RAYMENT HOUSE
BY SIDNEY PERLEY 89
In his will he gave eight-elevenths of his real estate to
his children, Henry, Joseph, Benjamin, Elizabeth, Sarah,
Mary, Hannah and Abigail, one-eleventh to the six chil-
dren of his son John, deceased, one-eleventh to the seven
children of his son Samuel, deceased, and one-eleventh
to the eight children of his daughter Rebecca, deceased.
The lot and buildings were then appraised at two hundred
and thirteen pounds, six shillings and eight pence. Ben-
jamin Chipman, mariner, Timothy Leach, yeoman, and
wife Mary, William Grover, gentleman, and wife Abigail,
all of Beverly, Henry Chipman of Newburyport, gentle-
man, and Miles Ward, 3d, of Salem, glazier, and wife
Hannah, children of Rev. John Chipman, conveyed their
interests in his estate to their brother Joseph Chipman of
Salem, gentleman, May 17, 1777. 1 John Leach of Bev-
erly, Joseph Thorndike of Jeffries, N. H., yeoman, and
wife Sarah, Samuel Moore, jr., of Worcester, yeoman,
and wife Anna, surviving children of Sarah Leach, a
devisee in the will of Rev. John Chipman, conveyed their
interests in said estate to Joseph Chipman May 22,
1777. 1 William Blackley of Beverly, gentleman, and
wife Rebecca, Peter Bubier of Lancaster, gentleman, and
wife Abigail, and Elizabeth Chipman of Salem, single-
woman, grandchildren of said Rev. John Chipman, con-
veyed their interests to Joseph Chipman Oct. 17, 1777 ; 2
and on the same day Anstis Chipman, widow, Anstis Rich-
ardson, widow, Thomas Chipman, mariner, and John
Chipman, cabinet-maker, and wife Hannah, all of Salem,
grandchildren of said Rev. John Chipman, conveyed
their interests to Joseph Chipman. 2 Joseph Swain,
blacksmith, Daniel Swain, hatter, Mary Swain, single-
woman, Hannah Swain, singlewoman, Deborah Leach,
widow, and Rebecca Obear, widow, children of Elizabeth
Swain, deceased, who was a daughter of said Rev. John
Chipman, conveyed their interests to Joseph Chipman
May 22, 1778. 3 Joseph Chipman lived here until he died,
in the spring of 1817, intestate ; and the estate descended
to his two children, John Hale Chipman and Eliza Maria
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 136, leaf 174.
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 136, leaf 173.
3 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 136, leaf 175.
90 BEVERLY IN 1700. NO. 1
Chipman. She released the house and land to her brother
April 21, 1834 j 1 and he conveyed the land and buildings
to Sullivan Brown of Beverly, farmer, May 10, 1845. 2
Mr. Brown conveyed the house and land to John I. Baker
of Beverly April 21, 1853 ; 3 and Mr. Baker conveyed the
estate to Miss Eliza Maria Chipman of Beverly on the
same day. 4 Miss Chipman conveyed to Edward B. Lov-
ett of Beverly the land and house, except the south front
room and the chamber and garret over that room and the
southwest room and back entry in the house, etc., May 3,
1888. 6 Mr. Lovett and James H. Chipman, both of Bev-
erly, conveyed the same to Frank A. Wood bury of Bev-
erly May 5, 1888 ; 6 and Frank E. Chipman of St. Paul,
Minn., released his interest in the house to Mr. Woodbury
May 16, 1888J Miss Chipman died Aug. 6, 1890, and
James E. Chipman, the residuary devisee in her will,
released his interest in the house to Mr. Woodbury June
24, 1891. 8 Mr. Woodbury has owned the estate ever since
that time.
William Dodge Lot. This lot of land belonged to Wil-
liam Dodge, jr., in 1666, and to Capt. William Dodge in
1700.
Peter Woodbury Lot. Dea. Peter Woodbury apparently
owned this lot of land in 1696 and 1700.
Nathaniel Rayment House. The northern part of this
lot was conveyed by John Rayment, sr., of Beverly, yeo-
man, for love, to his son Nathaniel Rayment of Beverly,
yeoman, with my mansion house," barn and land. Jan.
15, 1696-7. 9
The remainder of the lot came into the possession of
Nathaniel Rayment soon afterward, it being owned in
1696 by William Rayment.
Nathaniel Rayment died Jan. 8, 1749. The dwelling
house, barn and other buildings were then valued at one
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 217, leaf 165.
2 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 353. leaf 296.
3 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 476, leaf 68.
4 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 476, leaf 69.
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 1223, page 147.
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 1223, page 148.
7 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 1223, page 149.
"Essex Registry of Deeds, book 1319, page 198.
"Essex Registry of Deeds, book 12, leaf 32a.
BY SIDNEY PERLEY 91
hundred and fifty pounds. In the division of the estate,
April 2, 1752, the barn and land around it were assigned
to his son David Rayruent ; but the house remained un-
divided among the four sons, David, Benjamin, George
and Nathaniel, to whom the real estate was devised in the
will of the deceased. Benjamin Raymond, gentleman,
Nathaniel Raymond, cooper, Ebenezer Trask, gentleman,
and wife Elizabeth, Joseph Corning, cooper, and wife
Hannah, and widow Rebecca Sears, all of Beverly, and
Mary Preston of Chester, N. H., widow, conveyed their
interests in the house and land around it to Joseph Ray-
mond of Beverly, housewright, July 1, 1769. 1 Joseph
Raymond died Aug. 17, 1807, having devised to his
wife Lidy the improvement of all his estate, while she
remained his widow, and then to become the property of
his daughter Molly. The house disappeared soon after-
ward.
Joseph Baleh Lot. This lot of land was the property
of John Balch, who was drowned June 16, 1662. The
court decided, March 31, 1663, that his widow should
enjoy his estate seven years, and then it should become
the property of his brother Benjamin Balch, si'., of Bev-
erly, yeoman. Benjamin Balch conveyed it to his son
Benjamin Balch, jr., of Beverly Feb. 1, 1688-9 ; 2 and the
grantee died possessed of it in 1698. In the division of
his estate, May 6, 1699, this was assigned to his son
Joseph Balch, who owned it in 1700.
Ruth Balch Lot, This lot belonged to John Balch,
who was drowned June 16, 1662. The court ordered,
March 31, 1663, that his widow should enjoy his estate
seven years, and then it should become the property of
his brother Benjamin Balch, sr., of Beverly, yeoman.
Benjamin Balch conveyed it to his son Benjamin Balch,
jr., of Beverly Feb. 1, 1688-9 ; 2 and the grantee died
owning it in 1698. In the division of his estate, May 6,
1699, this lot was assigned to his daughter Ruth Balch,
who owned it in 1700.
William Dodge Lot. This lot of land was a part of a
larger lot which belonged to John Balch, who was
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 151, leaf 128.
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 21, leaf 20.
92 BEVERLY IK 1700. NO. 1
drowned June 16, 1662. The county court decided,
March 81, 1663, that his widow should enjoy his estate
seven years, and then it should become the estate of his
brother Benjamin Balch. Benjamin Balch, sr., of Beverly,
yeoman, conveyed a part of John Balch's land to William
Dodge, 2d, of Beverly, maltster, Jan. 15, 1663, which
lacked the quantity supposed to be sold and conveyed,
and arbitrators were appointed to decide what should be
done to satisfy Mr. Dodge. They reported that this por-
tion of the land of the deceased on this corner should be
conveyed to him ; and this was done April 29, 1683. 1 Mr.
Dodge owned the lot in 1700.
Ebenezer Balch Lot. This lot of land belonged to
John Balch, who was drowned June 16, 1662. The court
ordered, March 31, 1663, that his widow should enjoy his
estate seven years, and then it should become the property
of his brother Benjamin Balch, sr., of Beverly, yeoman.
Benjamin Balch conveyed it to his son Benjamin Balch,
jr., of Beverly Feb. 1, 1688-9 ; 2 and the grantee died
owning it in 1698. In the division of his estate, May 6,
1699, this lot was assigned to his son Ebenezer Balch, who
owned it in 1700.
Henry Herrick Lot. Jonathan Rayment, jr., owned this
land in 1688 ; and Henry Herrick, sr., owned it in 1699
and 1700.
Ebenezer Balch Lot. This lot belonged to John Balch,
who was drowned June 16, 1662. The court ordered,
March 31, 1663, that his widow Mary Balch should enjoy
his estate seven years, and then it should become the
property of his brother Benjamin Balch, sr., of Beverly,
yeoman. Benjamin Balch conveyed it to his son Benjamin
Balch, jr., of Beverly Feb. 1, 1688-9 ; 2 and the grantee
died possessed of it in 1698. In the division of his es-
tate, May 6, 1699, this lot was assigned to his son Eben-
ezer Balch, who owned it in 1700.
Samuel Balch Lot. This lot of land was conveyed by
Benjamin Balch, sr., of Beverly, yeoman, to his son Ben-
jamin Balch Feb. 1, 1688-9 ; 2 and it belonged to Samuel
Balch in 1700.
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 8, leaf 183.
2 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 21, leaf 20.
BY SIDNEY PERLEY 93
John Conant Lot. This lot of land belonged to John
Conant in 1700.
John Rayment House. This was probably a portion of
the two hundred acres granted by the town of Salem to
William Trask Jan. 25, 1635-6. It was relinquished by
him, and then granted to Thomas Scruggs May 2, 1636.
Mr. Scruggs died in the spring of 1654 ; and his widow
Margery Scruggs of Salem conveyed it to her son-in-law
John Rayment June 24, 1654. Mr. Rayment's son John
Rayment, jr., was living in a house upon this lot in 1683 ;
and John Rayment, sr., of Beverly, yeoman, for love,
conveyed to his son John Rayment, jr., of Beverly, yeo-
man, this part of that tract of land Jan. 12, 1696. 1 John
Rayment, jr., sold the house and lotto his brother Thomas
Rayment of Salem Village, yeoman ; and Thomas Ray-
ment conveyed the estate to his brother Jonathan Rayment
of Beverly, yeoman, Dec. 29, 1704. 3 Jonathan Rayment of
Beverly, yeoman, for fifty-five pounds, conveyed to Isaac
Hull of Wenham, cordwainer, this dwelling house and
land Jan. 15, 1705-6. 3 Mr. Hull lived here, and died in
the spring of 1706, having devised in his will the house
and land to his daughter Sarah Hull. The dwelling house,
barn, an old shop, orchard and five acres of land were
then appraised at forty-five pounds. She lived in Salem,
being a spinster, when she agreed to marry Henry Sweet-
ing of Rehoboth, cloth-maker, and, Nov. 4, 1714, made an
ante-nuptial agreement that all her estate shall remain hers
to be disposed of as she may desire. She apparently con-
veyed the land and buildings to her brother Isaac Hull,
sr., of Beverly, cordwainer, before 1717, when he owned
the estate. He died March 22, 1722-3, intestate. His
daughter Mary married Ebenezer Wallis of Beverly,
housewright, and, for two hundred and forty pounds,
they conveyed the house, barn and land to Dr. Benjamin
Jones of Beverly Feb. 24, 1736. 4 Doctor Jones died
June 23, 1794. William Jones of Danvers, tailor,
Joshua Herrick of Beverly, gentleman, and wife Mary,
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 23, leaf 216.
2 Essei Registry of Deeds, book 43, leaf 308.
3 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 39, leaf 175.
"Essex Registry of Deeds, book 94, leaf 120.
94 BEVERLY IN 1700. NO. 1
in her right, and Hannah Jones, spinster, of Beverly,
conveyed the estate of " our grandfather Benjamin
Jones, esquire, and his first wife Mary, both of Beverly,
deceased," to Billy Porter of Beverly, esquire, March 3,
1801, 1 and, for a similar consideration, Mr. Porter con-
veyed twenty-two acres of land with the house and barn,
being the south end of the house the widow Mary Jones
occupies, to Joshua Herrick of Beverly, gentleman, April
4, 1801. 2 Mr. Herrick, for seven hundred dollars, con-
veyed to Ebenezer Shillaber of Salem, merchant, the
house, barn and land on the day of his purchase. 3 Mr.
Shillaber died in the winter of 1807-8, intestate. His
heirs owned the estate in 1813. Ezra Dodge of Wenham
and wife Sophia, in her right, for forty-two hundred and
fifty dollars, conveyed the estate to John I. Baker of
Beverly March 24, 1871 ; 4 and Mr. Baker, for twenty-five
hundred and fifty dollars, conveyed it to Lakeman South-
wick of Beverly April 30, 1872. 6 Mr. Southwick, for
three thousand dollars, conveyed it to Edwin Southwick
of Danvers Dec. 11, 1874 ; 6 and Edwin Southwick, for a
similar consideration, conveyed it to Augusta W. South-
wick of Beverly Dec. 14, 1874. 7 Miss Southwick con-
veyed it to Esther Caldwell of Beverly June 22, 1888 ; 8
and Miss Caldwell conveyed it to Elizabeth Augusta
Lovett of Beverly March 15, 1899. 9 Miss Lovett con-
veyed the estate to Fred H. Wallis and Mabel A. Wall is,
both of Beverly, Oct. 3, 1904 ;> and Mr. and Miss Wal-
lis have since owned the place. The eastern end of the
house is an addition to the original house apparently,
perhaps about 1800.
Peter Woodbury House. This lot of land was probably
a part of the two hundred acres granted by the town of
Salem to William Trask Jan. 25, 1635-6. It was relin-
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 204, leaf 203.
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 169, leaf 113.
8 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 167, leaf 246.
4 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 822, leaf 55.
5 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 851, leaf 282.
"Essex Registry of Deeds, book 918, leaf 248.
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 919, leaf 83.
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 1226, page 226.
"Essex Registry of Deeds, book 1572, page 339.
'"Essex Registry of Deeds, book 1755, page 117.
BV SIDNEY PBKLEY 95
quished by him, and then granted to Thomas Scruggs
May 2, 1636. Mr. Scruggs died in the spring of 1654 ;
and his widow Margery Scruggs of Salem conveyed it to
her son-in-law John Rayment June 24, 1654. John Ray-
ment, sr., of Beverly, yeoman, for love, conveyed this
part of that tract to his son John Rayment, jr., of Bev-
erly, yeoman, Jan. 12, 1696. 1
That part of this lot lying easterly of the dashes was
conveyed by Mr. Rayment to Peter Woodberry, sr., of
Beverly March 4, 1696-7. 2 Mr. Woodberry evidently
had built a dwelling house thereon for his son Peter
Woodberry, who then dwelt therein.
That part of the lot lying westerly of the dashes was
conveyed by Mr. Rayment to Peter Woodberry, jr., May
14, 1697.2
That part of the lot lying northerly of the dashes was
conveyed by Joseph Herrick, sr., of Salem Village, yeo-
man, to Peter Woodberry, jr., April 12, 1697. 3
Dea. Peter Woodberry, sr., died July 5, 1704, having
in his will devised the house his son Peter " now lives
in " and the land around it " I bought of John Rayment"
to his son Peter Woodberry. The son Peter was a yeo-
man, and continued to live here. Deacon Woodberry
died Jan. 8, 1706-7; and the dwelling house and house-
lot were then appraised at one hundred pounds. His
sons Benjamin Woodberry and Peter Woodberry, both of
Beverly, yeomen, made a division of their father's real
estate Feb. 28, 1728-9 ; and the house, barn and land
were released by Benjamin to Peter. 4 Peter Woodberry
was a yeoman, and lived here. He died in the spring of
1775; having devised to his wife Hannah the improve-
ment of the western end of his dwelling house, which
was two-story in height, and the remainder of the house
and homestead to his son John Woodberry. The house
and land around it was then valued at one hundred
pounds. Capt. John Woodberry died Sept. 3, 1813 ; and
in the division of his real estate, May 5, 1815, the house
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 14, leaf 128.
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 12, leaf 134.
3 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 12, leaf 135.
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 56, leaf 132.
96 BEVERLY IN 1700. NO. 1
and land around it was assigned to his son Benjamin
Woodberry. Benjamin Wood berry was succeeded by his
son of the same name, who lived here and was a mariner.
The son Benjamin Woodberry died Jan. 11, 1841, and
the estate was inherited by his son Levi Woodberry. Levi
Woodberry died June 22, 1896 ; and by order of the pro-
bate court the house and lot were assigned to his widow
Mary Ann Woodberry March 27, 1899. She resided
here ; and died Sept. 16, 1902, having devised the house
and land to Joseph F. Andrews of Beverly. Mr. An-
drews conveyed the estate to Susan T. Linnell of Saco,
Me., May 18, 1906 -, 1 and on the same day she conveyed
the same to his wife Lucy S. Andrews. 1 Mrs. Andrews
still owns and with her family occupies the house and
land.
Isaac Hull Lot. William Dodge, John Rayment, Roger
Conant, Benjamin Balch and Peter Woodberry " of Basse
river in Salem " conveyed this lot to .Isaac Hull of Bass
river, cooper, June 7, 1664 ; 2 and Mr. Hull owned it in
1700.
'William Rayment Lot. Capt. William Rayment of
Beverly owned this lot of land in 1700.
Benjamin Balch Lot. This lot of land belonged to
Benjamin Balch in 1673 ; and he apparently owned it in
1700.
John Conant Lot. Roger Conant of Beverly, yeoman,
owned this lot Feb. 4, 1673, when he conveyed that part
of it lying southerly of the dashes to his grandson John
Conant of Beverly, house-carpenter, ' my kinsman." 3
Roger Conant died Nov. 19, 1679 ; having in his will
devised that part of this lot lying northerly of the dashes
to his said grandson John Conant.
Thus John Conant became possessed of the entire lot.
He removed to Marblehead about 1688 ; but this land
belonged to him in 1700.
Lot Conant Lot. This lot of land was conveyed by
Exercise Conant to John Conant, sr., before 1684; and Lot
Conant owned it in 1688 and probably in 1700.
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 1825, page 216.
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 3, leaf 78.
3 ssez Registry of Deeds, book 4, leaf 50.
BY SIDNEY PBBLEY 97
Freeborn Balch Lot. That part of this lot of land lying
northerly of the dashes belonged to Benjamin Balch, sr.,
of Beverly in 1684 ; and, for love, he conveyed it to his
son Freeborn Balch Jan. 18, 1688-9. 1
That portion of the lot lying southerly of the dashes
belonged to Roger Conant of Beverly, who died Nov. 19,
1679, having in his will devised it to his grandson Joshua
Conant of Salem. Joshua Conant, for thirty pounds,
conveyed it to Freeborn Balch of Beverly Dec. 20, 1684. 2
The entire lot belonged to Freeborn Balch in 1700.
Philip White Lot. This lot of land was owned by Peter
Woodberry in 1684 ; and was conveyed by John Dodge,
2d, of Beverly, yeoman, to Philip White of Beverly, car-
penter, before 1687. 8 It belonged to Mr. White in 1700.
John Conant House. This lot of land belonged to "Mr.
Conant " before 1684. In 1691, it was owned by Exer-
cise Conant of Beverly, yeoman, and John Conant of
Beverly, carpenter, then had a house upon it. Exercise
Conant conveyed the estate to John Conant Jan. 27, 1691-
2 ; 4 and John Conant died Sept. 30, 1724, having in his
will devised " the house I now live in " to his son Benja-
min Conant. About four years later, Benjamin Conant
removed to and became one of the first settlers of Dud-
ley and apparently conveyed the house and land to his
brother John Conant. Dea. John Conant died in 1755,
and this house and lot descended to his son, Dea. John
Conant, who died in 1781. The estate then descended to
his daughter Bethiah Conant. She became insane and
died, and John Conant, gentleman, Ezra Conant, yeoman,
Thomas Dodge, mariner, and wife Eunice and Mary Co-
nant, singlewoman, all of Beverly, conveyed the estate to
Sally Conant of Beverly, singlewoman, April 18, 1816.
Sally Conant became insane and died July 20, 1850,
and her heirs, John Conant, yeoman, Emma Dodge,
widow, Mary Foster, widow, Francis R. Edwards, yeo-
man, and wife Martha, Joseph Conant, mechanic, Charles
G. Conant, yeoman, all of Beverly, and Ezra Conant and
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 8, leaf 147.
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 8, leaf 146.
3 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 8, leaf 71.
4 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 21, leaf 230.
5 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 209, leaf 174.
98 BEVERLY IN 1700. NO. 1
Herbert T. Conant, both of Salem, masons, conveyed it
to David Bailey of Beverly, yeoman, March 20, 1851. 1
Mr. Bailey died, and the administrator of his estate con-
veyed it to Sophronia Bailey of Beverly, single woman,
April 17, 1867. 2 Miss Bailey conveyed it to Lambert
Jackson of Salem April 29, 1868 ; 3 and Mr. Jackson con-
veyed it to Thomas B. Russell of Salem July 20, 1872.*
Mr. Russell died April 2, 1881, and the house and land
was assigned to his widow Lydia A. Russell in fee. She
conveyed the estate to Morris M. Younger of Beverly
July 12, 1883. 6 Mr. Younger conveyed it to Charles E.
Riva of Beverly Aug. 26, 1884 ; and Mr. Riva took the
old house down immediately.
Edward Dodge Lot. This tract of land belonged to
Edward Dodge in 1700. The burial ground on this lot
was established not long afterward.
Thomas Edwards Lot. This lot of land belonged to
Paul Thorndike about 1690. He conveyed to Thomas
Edwards of Ipswich that portion of it lying northerly of
the dashes March 2, 1693-4 ; 7 and that part lying south-
erly of the dashes June 2, 1696. 8 Mr. Edwards owned
the entire lot in 1700.
Estate of Paul Thorndike Lot. This tract of land was
owned by John Thorndike of Beverly, who went to Eng-
land, and apparently did not return. He died in 1670.
In his will it was devised to his daughters Alice and
Martha Thorndike, who apparently went to England with
him, and probably never returned. It became the prop-
erty of their brother Capt. Paul Thorndike of Beverly,
yeoman, who died hi 1697, possessed of it. It belonged
to his estate, undivided, in 1700.
John Stone Lot. This lot of land belonged to John
.Stone in 1700. The meadow of the northern portion of
the lot was the property of William Hoar very early.
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 443, leaf 18.
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 772, leaf 272.
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 747, leaf 125.
4 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 860, leaf 80.
*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 1111, leaf 204.
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 1134, leaf 204.
T Essex Registry of Deeds, book 11, leaf 88.
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 11, leaf 121.
BY SIDNEY PEBLEY 99
Jonathan Biles Lot. This lot of lowland belonged to
Serg. Jonathan Biles in 1700.
Estate of Nehemiah Graver Lot. This lot of land was
conveyed by Edmund Grover of Beverly, yeoman, for
love, to his son Nehemiah Grover July 23, 1677 j 1 and
Nehemiah Grover died Feb. 12, 1693-4. The lot be-
longed to his estate in 1700.
Edward Dodge and Joseph Dodge House. This tract of
land belonged to Richard Dodge of Beverly, who died
June 16, 1671, having previously conveyed it to his sons
Edward and Joseph. They made a division of the estate
Feb. 15, 1708-9, Edward releasing to Joseph the house
and land around it. 2 Joseph Dodge died Aug. 10, 1716 ;
and the title to the property descended to his son Dr.
Joseph Dodge of Beverly. The house was burned before
May 29, 1736, when Doctor Dodge and his son Nathan
were about to build a new house upon the old site, the
western half only to cover the old site and the eastern
half to extend beyond it easterly. Doctor Dodge con-
veyed to Nathan, in this deed, the easterly part of the site
of the new house, being " a Part of my Homested Land
I Dwelt upon before my house was Burnt." He described
that part of the new site which was occupied by the eld
house as " The spot of land and cellar where my late
dwelling house stood before it was burnt;" and that " the
chimney that is to be built in y* Dwelling house that I &
my s d Son are now about to build " is midway. " My
part of sd house is to stand on my Old Seller & his Part
of s d house to be the Easterly End adjoyning to mine." 3
John Conant Lot. This lot of land was conveyed by
Exercise Conant of Beverly, yeoman, to John Conant of
Beverly, carpenter, Jan. 27, 1691-2. 4 A barn was then
upon the lot. The lot belonged to John Conant in 1700.
John Woodberry Lot. John Woodberry of Beverly,
husbandman, owned this lot in 1700.
William Dodge Lot. William Dodge, sr., of Beverly
owned this lot in 1700.
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 6, leaf 53. f j
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 21, leaf 80.
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 72, leaf 105.
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 21, leaf 230.
100 BEVERLY IN 1700. NO. 1
William Dodge Lot. William Dodge, sr., of Beverly
conveyed this lot of land to his brother's son William
Dodge for his life and then to his children May 12, 1685. 1
The grantee was son of Michael Dodge of East Coker,
Somerset county, England, and his son was known as
' Coker William Dodge." This grantee is called "Wil-
liam Dodge of Brimble hill" in 1673; and therefore he
must have lived there as early as that date. How long
he lived there has not been learned.
Jonathan Rayment Lot. Jonathan Rayment owned this
lot of land in 1700. It belonged to " ye Rayments " in
1688.
John Balch House. Benjamin Balch of Beverly, yeo-
man, owned this lot of land in 1688 ; and upon it was a
dwelling house in which his son John Balch then lived. In
consideration of love, Benjamin Balch conveyed the lot to
his said son Jan. 18, 1688-9. 2 Lt. John Balch of Beverly,
yeoman and housewright, conveyed the house, barn and
land to his son Caleb Balch of Beverly, husbandman,
March 12, 1733-4. 3 Caleb Balch died in the winter of
1774-5 ; and the estate descended to his only son Caleb
Balch of Beverly, gentleman, who, for three hundred and
ninety-two pounds, three shillings and nine pence, con-
veyed the dwelling house, barn and land to Silas Walden
of Beverly, yeoman, March 12, 1784. 4 Mr. Walden died
Jan. 11, 1819, intestate. In the division of his real estate,
June 5, 1821, the second story of the house was assigned
to his daughter Mary Eliza Walden and the first story to
his daughter Sally Walden, and the land under and ad-
joining the house to both of them. Mary Eliza Walden
died, unmarried, Jan. 8, 1832, and her part of the estate
was sold by the administrator under order of the court.
The purchaser, evidently, was John Peabody of Beverly,
yeoman, who conveyed it to Ephraiin Brown of Marble-
head, merchant, May 16, 1848. 6 On the same day, Sally
Walden, who lived here, unmarried, conveyed her part lo
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 8, leaf 163.
*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 9, leaf 38.
8 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 77, leaf 177.
4 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 155, leaf 123.
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 397, leaf 171.
JOHN CONANT HOUSE
From a photograph made about I 868
JOHN BALCH HOUSE
BY SIDNEY PERLEY 101
Mr. Brown. 1 Mr. Brown, on the same day, conveyed the
buildings and land to John I. Baker of Beverly ; 2 and on
the same day Mr. Baker reconveyed the estate to Mr.
Brown. 3 Mr. Brown conveyed it to Isaac Collyer of
Marblehead May 31, 1851 ; 4 and on the same day Mr.
Collyer, for four hundred dollars, conveyed it to Miss
Walden. 5 In consideration of love, she conveyed the
house, barn and land to Mary Elizabeth Shelden of Salem,
singlewoman, Aug. 4, 1856 ; 6 and Miss Shelden removed
there. For love, she conveyed the estate to her sister
Adeline A. Lufkin of Beverly, wife of George A. Lufkin,
Jan. 1, 1868. 7 She became a widow ; and conveyed the
place to George A. Lufkin of Revere Sept. 6, 1906. 8 Mr.
Lufkin conveyed it to Arvilla M. Rand of Beverly Sept.
11, 1906 ; and Miss Rand, then wife of Horace E. Per-
kins of Beverly, conveyed it to Walter I. Rand of Boston
Nov. 22, 1912. 10 Mr. Rand remodeled and modernized
the house, and reconveyed the estate to Mrs. Perkins Nov.
6, 1914. 11 She still owns and lives upon the place. Mrs
Adeline A. Lufkin continued to live in the house until
she died, July 16, 1917.
Samuel Balch Lot. This lot of land belonged to Ben-
jamin Balch of Beverly, yeoman, in 1688 ; and to his son
Samuel Balch in 1700.
Peter Woodbury Lot. This lot of land belonged to
John Woodbury, sr., in 1670 ; and to Peter Woodbury in
1688 and 1700.
Isaac Hull Lot. Isaac Hull owned this lot in 1683 and
1700. Before March 23, 1670, Rodger Connant, Jno.
Rayment and Benjamin Balch of " Bass River Side or
otherwise Beverly," planter, for nine pounds, conveyed to
Registry of Deeds, book 397, leaf 172.
2 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 397, leaf 213.
8 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 402, leaf 17.
4 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 446, leaf 174.
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 446, leaf 175.
"Essex Registry of Deeds, book 537, leaf 114.
7 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 738, leaf 251.
"Essex Registry of Deeds, book 1839, page 156.
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 1839, page 158.
'"Essex Registry of Deeds, book 2182, page 540.
"Essex Registry of Deeds, book 2278, page 118.
102 BEVERLY IN 1700. NO. 1
Isaac Hull of Beverly, cooper, this lot of swamp and up-
land '* neere his now dwelling house." 1
John Balch Lot. This lot of land belonged to Roger
Conant early. He died Nov. 19, 1679, having devised it
to his son Exercise Conant of Beverly, yeoman. Exer-
cise Conant, for six pounds, released his interest in it to
John Balch of Beverly, carpenter, Feb. 6, 1683-4. 2 Ben-
jamin Balch, father of Lieutenant Balch, also owned an
interest in it, and this also became the property of John
Balch, who owned the lot in 1700.
Jonathan Baker Lot. This lot of land belonged to
John Leach in 1683 ; and to Jonathan Baker in 1700.
William Dodge Lot. Capt. William Dodge owned this
lot in 1700.
Abigail Balch Lot. This lot of land belonged to Benja-
min Balch, jr., of Beverly, who died in the spring of 1698,
intestate. In the division of his estate, May 6, 1699, it
was assigned to his daughter Abigail Balch ; and she
owned it in 1700.
Anna Wallace Lot. This lot of land belonged to Ben-
jamin Balch, jr., who died in the spring of 1698, intes-
tate. In the division of his real estate, May 6, 1699, it
was assigned to his daughter Anna, wife of Nathaniel
Wallace; and she owned it in 1700.
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 3, leaf 78.
"Essex Registry of Deeds, book 28, leaf 90.
THREE HUNDRED YEARS OF BEVERLY
A PAPER READ AT THE BEVERLY PUBLIC LIBRARY
NOVEMBER 4TH, 1918.
BY ROBERT S. RANTOUL.
Mr. Mayor, Gentlemen of the
City Council and Fellow- Citizen* :
Two centuries and a half count a long time in the life
of an American community. Not the longest, for Virginia
can antedate us, and so can Florida, and California, and
Mexico and Peru, as well as other sections of the Tropics.
In the old world, where the traveler may find himself
standing on some ancient worthy's gravestone, inscribed
with a date earlier than the voyages of Columbus, or on
a bridge across the Tiber, in the keystone of which the
street-surveyor of the day cut his name before the birth
of Christ, a century is but a span. When Harvard Col-
lege, in 1886, invited her sister Universities of the world
to celebrate her quarter-millennial, a Professor, a delegate
from Italy, speaking for the University of Padua,
when called upon to respond for his alma mater, said :
"You regard your age as singling you out amongst uni-
versities ! I represent a university which has been con-
ferring degrees for a thousand years !" Traveling on the
east coast of the Adriatic, I once came upon a shaft which,
from its lettering, seemed, at a glance, to be reared in
honor of the Millennium. It seemed strange that the
Millennium should arrive in Austria before reaching other
countries. On examining the legend, it appeared that the
moss-grown stone was placed there to mark the one
thousandth anniversary of some event in the annals of
Austria. But if a quarter-millennial may be counted as
old age in a New World town, it certainly marks, in this
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104 THREE HUNDRED YEARS OF BEVERLY
place of my birth, a green old age, for never was a young
town more vigorous and thrifty than this.
In 1623 and 1624, a little group of adventurers gath-
ered on Cape Ann, where Gloucester now stands, drawn
there by her magnificent bay. They had come from the
south shore of England, from our own Hull and Plym-
outh, and from Virginia, in search of a site on which to
plant a fishing colony. The fishing industry was getting
to be a great factor in colonization. French fishermen,
especially from the Islands of the British Channel, had
adopted the coasts of New England and New France for
their fishing grounds, and are thought to have spread the
smallpox among the native tribes, to such an extent that,
when the English arrived with the purpose of building
up settlements, the Indians, reduced by that vile scourge,
gave them a hearty welcome as prospective allies against
the hostile native tribes which threatened them from the
North. The object in planting an English fishing settlement
here was to furnish a resort for such portion of the fish-
ing crews as was not needed to navigate the home-voyage,
a few men sufficing to navigate to Europe the return fare
of fish. The extra men, when left ashore, cured the fish
and became pioneer settlers and colonists. Soon the
fisheries had grown into a dominant industry. Catholic
countries in the Mediterranean and in the Tropics fur-
nished an exhaustless market for a sort of food which
could be eaten on the numerous fast-days, and which could
be kept good indefinitely. King James said fishing was
" the Apostles' own calling ". It became the basis of the
wealth of New England. But the tempting bay at Cape
Ann had little arable soil about it on which fishermen
could, when ashore, raise crops and build up homes, and
the little colony, after a year or two, scattered for Vir-
ginia, for Plymouth, and some of them for the Mother
Country. A score of them found at Naumkeag, a
promontory a little further up the shore, what they had
sought in vain at Cape Ann, and, sending John Woodbury
home to England for reinforcements and supplies, they
agreed with Roger Conant that they would stay with him,
come what might, and attempt a settlement at Naumkeag
and about Bass River.
BY ROBERT 8. RANTOUL 105
Endecott arrived the next year, and Higginson a year
later. The first houses built at Naumkeag, now Salem,
were, with the meeting-house, near what is now Town
House Square. Naumkeag had two fairly good harbors,
and, beyond these harbors, were outlying tillage-lands,
since known as the North and South Fields. But when
Endecott arrived in 1628, with a definite charter from the
home-adventurers, investing him with wide authority, the
pioneers found themselves uncomfortably placed, and
began to quit their Salem homesteads for farms north of
Bass River. To allay any possible sense of injury, five
of the recognized leaders, Conant, Woodbury, Balch,
Trask and Palfray, were granted two hundred acres each
" nere the Grate Pond Side ", and, with the exception of
Palfray, who sold his claim and settled at Reading, they
became the founders of Beverly, and built up on this spot
a notable farming and fishing settlement. So that, while
Beverly has been an independent municipal corporation
for two and a half centuries, she has been a vigorous and
growing settlement for close upon three hundred years.
Born in 1832, in my grandfather's house by the water-
side, I lived at South Reading and at Gloucester until
1839, and then again in Beverly from 1839 to 1845. The
homestead was then surrounded with fish-flakes. On the
west, Robert Curry's fish-yard extended from what is now
Lovett street to near the harbor; Edward Stone's from
our house to that street, and Thorndike & Endicott im-
proved, with their great yard, all the area towards the
east as far as what is now Abbot street. Tip-carts, stand-
ing axle-deep in the water, at the old Ferry Landing,
received the fish which had been loaded with pitchforks
into dories from the hold of the schooner, and thus the
fares of fish were delivered at the fish-yards. Aside from
farming, the fisheries were the staple industry of the place.
It was no uncommon thing, in my boyhood, for a consid-
erable fraction of the male attendants at church to leave
the service and hasten to the fish-yards, when the fares of
fish, drying on their flakes, were threatened with a shower.
Thorndike & Endicott entertained a large party of towns-
people, of whom I was one, with a sail among the harbor
islands in a brand-new schooner they had built, and James
106 THEEB HUNDRED YEARS OF BEVERLY
Stone took me with him to Essex to see a schooner of his
which was on the stocks. To some extent, in my boyhood ,
the people of Beverly employed themselves, both as offi-
cers and seamen, in the commercial activities of Salem
and Boston, but, beyond this, they were mainly occupied,
outside of farming, in the fisheries and in the subsidiary
occupation of shoemaking, for this industry furnished, in
the little shoe shops dotted along the roadside, a half dozen
benches in each, a resource for the inclement months when
neither farming nor fishing absorbed their attention. The
women, too, found occupation at home in binding shoes,
and large, two-horse vans from Lynn and Haverhill, week
by week, distributed the raw material and took up the
finished product. No one enterprise has done more for
the growth of Beverly than has the United Shoe Ma-
chinery Company, but no such corporation could have
held a place in the Beverly of my day, because no ma-
chinery whatever was used in shoe-production. The lap-
stone, the hammer and the awl were the shoemaking ap-
pliances of that earlier time.
For the average mind, a greater effort is involved in
effacing an impression familiar through life than is required
to^call up a condition of things which has had no existence
but in the imagination. The antiquarian delver does both.
He restores, in fancy, scenes which have long since disap-
peared, but he also re-creates, to the thought, the state of
things which existed before the scenes known to us through
life came into being. Thus we know the two cities of
Beverly and of Salem as twin entities, bound together by
one of the great bridges of New England, the West Bos-
ton bridge being the only one outranking it in date and
length. At the beginning of things this was by no means
the case. Conant, Woodbury and the rest built their houses
near where the Salem First Meeting House stands, we
know just where they built them, and there was nothing
at what is now Bridge street except brick-kilns and thatch-
banks. There could be no Bridge street because there
was no bridge. Transportation was largely by water,
roads being rough and costly to keep, and either leading
along the water-front as a means of reaching the town
landings, most important to a fishing community, or else
BY ROBERT S. BANTOUL 107
winding about from farm to farm, the effort to make them
straight and short dating from the growth of populous
villages, between which speedy communication was a thing
to be desired. Water-horses, so-called, mostly at first
carried loads from point to point, twenty-foot tree-trunks
sharpened at the ends, and hollowed out with the aid of
fire. These were brought together, a given number of
times each year, for official inspection.
The first settlement in Beverly took place near the
Balch House. Conant built just across the way, Wood-
bury further north towards Wenham Pond, and Trask
further west towards Cherry Hill. The landing-place for
travel from Salem was at. Draper's Point or River Head,
near the grist-mill on Bass River, and for years the sec-
tion near where now is the Gloucester Crossing served as
the hay-market and was popularly known as " the City."
Here houses built by Herricks, Lovetts, and other Colo-
nial pioneers, have lately disappeared. The place of
embarkation from Salem was in the rear of the Court
Houses, at the end of Washington street and the tunnel.
Flatboats transported fertilizers and crops and heavy
agricultural freight, and the ferry was the only public
means of getting across Bass River from or to Salem.
After this had been shifted to the present location of the
bridge, plying as it did for a century and a half between
Ferry Lane in Salem and the lower Town Landing in
Beverly, it provided very limited conveniences, its flat-
boats, down to the time of the Revolution, only able to
take six horses at a crossing. Heavy loads naturally
avoided the ferry, and reached Salem and Boston from the
east, by preference, through Ipswich and Danvers. The
ferry had ceased to facilitate transportation and had be-
come a hindrance.
But the three sons of Francis Cabot of Salem, who had
a wharf where the stone station now is, removed their
commerce and domiciles to Beverly, thinking to find a
little better draft of water, with less costly wharfage.
They built a wharf and three fine brick mansions, with a
ropewalk just where the railroad now enters the ledge.
They urged the substitution of a toll-bridge for the long-
overtaxed ferry, and succeeded in carrying their project
108 THREE HUNDRED YEA.R3 OF BEVERLY
through, against a vigorous resistance from large interests
in Salem, which saw that the opening of a bridge would
result in bringing the trade of New Hampshire and north-
ern Essex County, this had been coming to Salem
through Ipswich, Danvers, and North Salem, which was
then an important maritime district, to Beverly and the
northeastern section of Salem. Just that change fol-
lowed. Stimulated by commercial enterprise, both Salem
and Beverly grew towards the bridge apace. Bridge
street at one time seemed likely to become the "Court
End " of Salem. Elm trees lined its sidewalks and brick
dwellings began to appear. And when the Cabots re-
moved their business and residence to Boston, early in the
last century, they left Beverly, and to some extent Salem,
very different places from what they found them.
And now a word as to how Beverly got its name. Roger
Conant wanted it named Budleigh, after the place of his
birth, on the British Channel, which has, as this town
has, a southerly exposure on a water-front, and Conant
urged, with a good deal of reason, that he was entitled to
have the wish granted. None of the settlers came from
Beverle} r , a large town in Yorkshire, and it has been a
little difficult to surmise how the name " Beverly " came
to affix itself to this place. But I think the antiquaries
have explained it. General Robert Sedgwick, when the
settlement was in its plastic period, stopped at the Ferry
Tavern on his way home from Port Royal, when his suc-
cess there had made him quite the central figure of the
colony. The Beverly innkeeper, Dixey, urged him to
name the town. The General was a Yorkshire man,
doubtless having pleasant associations with his Yorkshire
neighbor-town of Beverley ; he had already presented us
with a church bell, which he took from the Friary at Port
Royal ; and the conjecture is as likely as any other to be
true that this city owes its name to General Robert Sedg-
wick. 1
I am not attempting to detail all the interesting features
in the story of Beverly, I wish I had time for more of
them. I need not remind you that the General Court
chose your first pastor, John Hale, for chaplain in the
'Essex Institute Bulletin, v. 20, pp. 6-22.
BY ROBERT 8. RANTOUL 109
Canada Expedition of 1690, and voted his heirs a bonus
of three hundred acres of land for the service ; that, in
1679, he had contributed one-twelfth part of his salary, a
month's pay, to help the fortification fund ; that having
assailed witchcraft from your pulpit as among the machi-
nations of the devil, when his wife was arraigned as a
witch, he renounced the error, and wrote a book in her
defence which book stemmed the tide of that fanaticism ;
that his grandson, Doctor Robert Hale, commanded a
regiment at the capture of Louisburg, in 1745, and again,
ten years later, at the reduction of Crown Point ; that of
the honored dead of Bunker Hill, the man who marched
farthest to get there was Reuben Kennison of Beverly ;
that the first armed schooner commissioned by Washing-
ton was the schooner Hannah of Beverly ; that the camp
on Paul's Head, now Hospital Point, in Beverly, trained
and sent out Glover's Amphibious Regiment in fine fettle
for service either on land or water, at New York and then
at the Delaware.
Beverly has given birth to strong, persistent families,
too many to recall, known all over the country, Wood-
burys, Eliots, Herricks, Lovetts, Thorndikes, Dodges,
and Trasks among them. Beverly has furnished a Presi-
dent for Harvard and another for Bowdoin.
But there is one chapter of the town's history that
must not pass unnoticed. That is the present. We are
making history fast. Beverly has never been behind-
hand. Unexpectedly to most of us, Beverly, conjointly
with the rest of the civilized world, has been summoned
to help repel the unprovoked aggressions of one of the
strongest of the sisterhood of States, a mighty people
which chose to ally itself with the Turk in a new incur-
sion to scourge and ravage Europe and to threaten us.
Defeat is crowding upon her. Autocracy is galloping to
a fall. The expiring struggles will be the worst. Driven
back within her own frontiers, Germany's war-machinery
will be more and more effective and resourceful as her
lines are shorter, and her desperation greater as her pres-
tige, her man-power and her food supply grow less. The
world, embattled, looks towards the end with constancy and
with resolve. Life would not be worth living if the princi-
110 THEEE HUNDRED YEARS OP BEVERLY
pies proclaimed by Germany were to prevail. In all this
Beverly is doing her part. Without agitation and with-
out wavering she confronts the issue. She can do no
otherwise. Her past has dictated her course. With
freedom she is ready, as heretofore, to stand or fall. She
will claim, and she will be awarded, a full share in the
credit of this glorious consummation !
NOTE. This was the fourth quarter-century commemoration of
the founding of Beverly which the speaker attended. He was present
as a lad of eleven, at the dedication of the new Town Hall in 1843,
when his grandfather read a historical paper. He was present and
was called upon to speak at the commemoration of 1868. In 1893
he read the paper printed in Volume XXXIII of the Historical Col-
lections of the Essex Institute, and in 1918 he read the paper
printed here.
WILL OF REV. CALEB GUSHING.
Rev. Caleb Gushing, Pastor of the First Church of
Salisbury for fifty-five years, died Jan. 25, 1752, in his
eightieth year. The following is a copy of his will on
file in the office of the probate court at Salem. It was
proved and allowed Feb. 24, 1752.
The Last will and Teftam* of Caleb Cufhing of Salifbury
Clerk made January 28 th Anno Domini 1748/9 which is
as followeth vid z : Being weak in body but of perfect
mind and memory, ffirst of all I Comend my foul to God
in Christ my blefsed Saviour and my body to y* dust to
be decently Intered In hope of a blefsed Refurrection to
Life Eternal.
And as to my Temporal Eftate. l rt my will is that all
my Just debts be duly paid by my Execut* 2 dl ^ my
will is that my Eldest fon Caleb Cufhing fhall have
and hold to him his heirs and afsigns all that Real
Eftate which I have formerly Given him a deed of
and on which he now Lives in falifbury which deed I do
hereby ratifye and Confirm to him and his heirs and
furthermore I do hereby Give to my s d fon Caleb that
tract of land lying before his Door Comonly Called my
ffrench Lott and Eafman Orchard being ab* ten acres with
y e orchard thereon and appurtinances S 41 * 1 Give to
j|my|| two younger fons James and John the Bradbury
Lot fo called of ab* 7 or 8 acres with the appurtinances
which If they Sell they must Give their Bro r y e ref ufal
of Alfo I Give to my s d fons James and John
all my Library to be Equally divided between them
In y* divifion of which they fhall make allowance
for what Each of them have already had out of it
And I alfo Give to my s d fons James and John all my
Silver plate or vefsells (Except my |Silver|| Tankard
which I Give to my fon Caleb) and all my Gold rings and
alfo all my houfehold ftuff or Goods of all Sorts In y*
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112 WILL OF REV. CALEB GUSHING
divifion of which James Is to have a double fhare. 4 ly
I do hereby Conflitute and appoint my fon Caleb Cufhing
To be Execut r of this my Last will and Teftam* To whom
I farther Give my Lot of land at Goodales fwamp fo
Called of ab* 18 or 20 acres and all my stock of all forts
Cafh debts due to me and moueable Effects whatfoever
not before difpofed of otherwife in this my will he paying
all my Just debts as to my funeral Expences 1 Expect
the Town will according to their vote honorably difcharge
them which they paid on m r Parfons funeral And as to
the differance I make in y e divifion of my houfehold
||stuffe|| or goods between my fons James & John It is
only on ace* of y e different Circumftances of their fami-
lies. In wittnefs whereof and for Confirmation of all
above- written as my last will and Teftam* I have hereunto
fet my hand and Seal the day and year first above men-
tioned Jan ry 28 th 1748/9
CALEB CufniNG (SEAL)
Signed fealed & declared by y e s d Cufhing
to be his last will & Teftam*
In p r fence of us
SAMUEL MOODY
JOSIAH FEENCH
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SOME ACCOUNT OF STEAM NAVIGATION IN
NEW ENGLAND.
BY FRANCIS B. C. BRADLEE.
(Continued from Volume LV, page 32.*)
The steam yacht " Everett," twenty-five tons register,
built in Salisbury in 1874, by Joseph M. Coffin, made
frequent excursions in 1875 from Newburyport to Black
Rocks and other places of interest on the river. June 9,
1877, the steamer "Alice M.," built in Haverhill, made
her first trip to Newburyport under the command of Capt.
Henry Vatter. The next year she was employed during
the summer months in taking passengers from the city of
Lawrence to the sea. In October, 1877, the steam yacht
" Evangeline," forty-two feet long and eight feet beam,
came from Salem to Newburyport, thence to Lawrence,
and through the Essex Company's canal to Lowell. She
made frequent trips between that city and Nashua, and
is said to be the largest boat that has ever come up the
river to Lawrence, and the only one that has passed
through the canal to Lowell.
o
In 1878, the " Three Brothers," under the command
of Capt. Joseph M. Coffin, was advertised to make fre-
quent trips from Newburyport to Plum Island and Salis-
bury beach. In 1879, the steamer " Massasoit," pur-
chased in Boston by John C. Tilton of Haverhill, was
converted into a barge and employed, in connection with
the steam-tug Charles L. Mather, in carrying excursion
parties from Haverhill to the seashore. In 1880, two
small steamers, the " White Fawn " and the " Wander-
er," made trips almost daily from Newburyport to Glou-
cester, Isles of Shoals and Portsmouth. In July, 1881,
Edward P. Shaw purchased the steamer George A.
Chaffee," and employed her, under the name of the
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114 STEAM NAVIGATION IN NEW ENGLAND
" Jetty," in towing barges loaded with stone from the
quarry opposite Carr's island to the jetties at the mouth
of the river.
In 1883, the " Zephyr," a small steam yacht, and the
*' Evangeline," about twenty-three tons . register, built in
Ipswich in 1881, and rebuilt at Danversport in 1882,
were advertised to take passengers from Newburyport to
Salisbury beach and Plum island : and the " Lawrence,"
Captain Haverty, ran from Amesbury to Newburyport,
connecting with the People's Line of Steamers for Black
Rocks. The " Minneola," a twin-screw steamer, built in
Newburyport in 1887, by John T. Fillmore, for Herbert
E. Wales of Haverhill, was for two or three years a
popular excursion boat, making frequent trips from
Haverhill to Boar's Head, Portsmouth, and the Isles of
Shoals. She was sold early in the month of June, 1889,
and taken to Providence, R. I.
The " Josie M.," a small steamer, built and owned by
Charles H. Sargent and Lemuel Marquand, made excur-
sions down the harbor in the summer of 1888, and fre-
quently extended her trips to Ipswich and Cape Ann
when the weather was favorable. She was sold in 1891,
and her name was changed to " Edgewater." The side-
wheel steamer *' Lewiston," built in 1856 and so long on
the coast of Maine routes, and then owned by the Bay
State Steamship Company, made daily trips from New-
buryport to Boston from May 2 to July 7, 1898, under
the command of Capt. George F. Woodman, but she was
found to be hardly seaworthy and the steamboat inspectors
frowned at allowing her to run on such an " outside "
route, and she was afterward broken up.
The steamer " City of Haverhill," built in East Boston
by Robert F. Keough for the Haverhill, Newburyport and
Boston Steamboat Company, 1 was employed in carrying
merchandise and passengers during the summer months
in 1902, from Haverhill to Newburyport, and thence to
Boston. She was commanded by Captain George F.
Woodman, and in October of that year was sold to John
H. McKinnon of Boston, and afterward to James D. Minto
of Providence, R. I.
'Henry B. Little, president; John E. McCnsker, treasurer.
BY FRANCIS B. C. BBADLEB 115
In 1909, various Haverhill and Newburyport business
men had the propeller steamer " J. O. Ellison " built at
Tottenville, N. Y.; she was 555 tons gross, 161 feet long
and 32 feet beam. It was intended to run her as a regu-
lar freighter to New York and have her bring coal to
Haverhill on her return trips. The enterprise only lasted
a short time, however, and was not successful. The chief
peculiarity of the " Ellison " was her uncanny facility
for meeting with all kinds of mishaps. She was aground
a number of times in the Merrimack river and had a
rubbing acquaintance with about all the drawbridges
through which she was ever called on to pass. Finally
she lived up to her reputation by foundering in the Gulf
of Mexico in June, 1914.
Steamboating on the south shore of Massachusetts bay
began in 1818 when the "Eagle" (before noted) made
irregular trips between Boston and Hingham, a distance
of about 12 miles. The Columbian Centinel of August
26th, 1818, contains an advertisement of the " Eagle "
which states that she will go one day to Nahant and on
the next to Hingham ; the same arrangement prevailed
the next summer also. As far as can be ascertained this
is the first mention of her going to Hingham. At thi&
time the " Eagle " seems to have been commanded by
Capt. Lemuel Clark of Plymouth, Mass., and it is said
she made an excursion to that port from Boston during
the summer of 1818, taking eight hours to make the trip
of about forty miles. She remained in Plymouth several
days engaged in pleasure and fishing trips.
After 1819 there is no trace of any communication be-
tween Boston and Hingham, except by sailing packets,
until 1828, when the steamer "Lafayette" was placed
on the line, and she also made trips to Plymouth. There
has been much dispute regarding this vessel whose career
was shrouded in obscurity, but recent researches in the
records of the New York Custom House throw new light
on her history. She was built at New York (not Phila-
delphia as generally supposed) by Noah Brown for Henry
Eckford, and was 82 1-2 feet long, 20 1-2 feet beam, 6
feet depth of hold, 92 tons gross. After running on the
Sound between New York and Bridgeport, she was sold
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on May 24, 1828 to George W. Sumner and Samuel
Jackson of New York. On Sept. 16, 1828, she was
owned at Plymouth, Mass., by James Bartlett, jr., James
Spooner, and Jacob Covington. She plied between Bos-
ton and Plymouth during the seasons of 1828-30, and was
then laid up at Tribble's wharf, Plymouth. Here she was
dismantled, the upper works and machinery removed, and
the hull slowly rotted to pieces. As far as can be learned,
she was never named " Hamilton," as some authors have
stated, but she was sometimes called " Gen. Lafayette."
Like the " Eagle," she plied between New Bedford and
Nantucket before coming to Boston, and while on that
route it was said she could not stem a strong wind or head
tide, so crude and weak was her engine.
In the minds of some steamboat authorities doubt ex-
ists as to the proper illustration of the " Eagle " and
" Lafayette." It has been said that the names appearing
on the respective steamers should be transposed ; that the
boat shown as the " Eagle," a cruder model, must have
been the " Lafayette." From a careful examination of
the painting of the " Eagle " (formerly the sign board
of the Eagle Hotel in Hingham) owned by the Nantasket
Beach Steamboat Co. of Boston, and a contemporaneous
woodcut of her owned by the author and shown as an
advertisement in the Columbian Centinel in 1822, the
author is convinced that the vessels are properly illus-
trated as shown in the pictures of them in the book. The
Columbian Centinel for June 19th, 1830, advertises the
" Lafayette," Capt. Thaxter, for Hingham, and a little
while before that (May 29th) the same paper announced
that the steamboat " Rush Light," Capt. Currie, was
running regularly to Plymouth, fare $1.25.
The present Nantasket Beach Steamboat Co. is the out-
come of the old Boston and Hingham Steamboat Co., or-
ganized in 1831, and that year they had built for them at
Philadelphia the " General Lincoln," first of the name.
This steamer made her first trip on June 16, 1832 ; she
measured 95 feet long, 22 feet beam, and had two work-
ing-beam engines, two boilers carrying twenty-two pounds
of steam, and burnt wood for fuel. Besides running on
her regular route the " General Lincoln " was used as a
BY FRANCIS B. C. BRADLEB 117
towboat around Boston harbor. In 1845 she was sold to
engage entirely in that business, and the next year helped
the towboat " R. B. Forbes " (one of the earliest iron
steamers in Boston) pull the Cunarder " Cambria " off
Truro beach on Cape Cod where she had run ashore.
The " Mayflower," first of the name, built in New
York expressly for the Hingham route, was placed on
the line in July, 1845. This boat was built of cedar, 133
feet long, 24 feet beam, 8 feet depth of hold, 262 tons
gross, wheels 22 feet in diameter, 30 inch cylinder, 30
pounds of steam, and accommodated 800 passengers. In
1856 she was taken by Robert Collier, the famous New
York steamboat builder, as part payment for the new
"Nantasket;" he lengthened her in 1859, and during the
Civil war she was purchased by the U. S. Government for
the Quartermaster's Department. The " Mayflower," and
before her the "General Lincoln," were commanded for
many years by Capt. George H. Beal, who was quite a
character.
Following the " Mayflower " came the " Nantasket,"
first of the name, in 1857 ; she was considered a very
fast boat and often raced in Boston harbor with the Na-
hant boat " Nelly Baker," also renowned for speed. The
" Nantasket " was sold to the government in 1862, and
after the war came back to Boston under the name of
" Emeline " and ran to Strawberry Hill (near Nantasket)
as an opposition boat ; also between Boston and Glouces-
ter. Later on she was again sold, and for many years has
run on the Hudson river between Haverstraw and New-
burg.
During the summer of 1862 two small boats, the "Gil-
pin " and " Halifax " (the latter a stern- wheeler) ran to
Hingham, until the company's new boat, the " Rose
Standish," first of the name, was completed. She was
built at Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1863, and designed especially
for the excursion traffic in Boston harbor, measured 392
tons gross, 154 feet long, 27 feet beam, and could carry
1000 passengers. At about this time Nantasket beach
began to come forward prominently as a summer outing
ground for the crowds from Boston, but not for many
years and until much dredging had been done did any of
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the steamboats run up Weir river as far as they do at
present. The " Rose Standish " was sunk in Boston har-
bor on Aug. 28, 1884, by collision with a tovvboat, but
luckily no one was hurt ; she was sold to the Frontier
Steamboat Co. at Calais, Maine, in 1887, and totally de-
stroyed by fire in 1900.
In 1866 the Boston and Hingham Co. placed on the
route the ' John Ronier," of 409 tons, built at Keyport,
N. J., in 1863, that had run on Long Island Sound for a
few years. She was a fast boat, and was sold south about
1887. Following her came the " Governor Andrew " in
1874, the " Nantasket," second, in 1878, the " Twilight "
(that had run on the Hudson river), and the " Wm. Har-
rison" in 1881, "General Lincoln," second, in 1884
(she was built in 1878 and formerly called the "Nahant"),
"Mayflower," second, in 1891, "Myles Standish" in
1895, "Hingham" in 1896, "Nantasket," third, in
1902, Old Colony " in 1904, ' South Shore," a fine
steel boat built at Quincy, Mass., in 1906, "Betty Alden"
in 1908, " Rose Standish," second, having also a steel
hull, in 1912, and finally the "Mary Chilton " in 1915.
With the exceptions before noted, all the above were
wooden side-wheelers, varying from 400 to 900 tons
gross.
The "Myles Standish" was the first of this fleet
without the familiar working-beam engine ; she had
machinery of the inclined type, as did all the other
steamers that came after her. The " Betty Alden " has
a triple expansion inclined engine working under a pres-
sure of 225 Ibs. to the square inch. When the Mary
Chilton " was built in 1915 (by the McKie Shipbuilding
Co. at East Boston) the Nantasket Beach Co. went back
to the wooden hull and working-beam engine as better
adapted to the excursion traffic. This steamer is sub-
stantially constructed of oak and hard pine ; she meas-
ures 219 feet in length, 32 1-2 feet beam, 12 1-3 feet
depth of hold, 6 1-2 feet draft. Her motive power con-
sists of a 1600 (indicated) horse-power engine built by
the Quintard Iron Works of N. Y., and she is licensed
to carry 2000 passengers. In the same year, 1915, the
South Shore " was thoroughly remodelled for the
BY PEANCI8 B. C. BBADLBB 119
Plymouth line traffic and was equipped with a dining
room and staterooms, which answered a long felt want.
The Boston and Hingham Steamboat Co. was divided
in 1881, and a second company was formed, which called
itself the Hingham, Hull and Downer's Landing Steamboat
Co. The floating property was divided between them,
but in 1890 the old company went out of business and
the new line was reorganized as the Nantasket Beach
Steamboat Company. At present its capital consists of
$1,000,000, divided into shares of $100 each; there is
no bonded indebtedness, and the company has averaged
dividends of ten per cent yearly. Ebed L. Ripley is
president, and Frederic L. Lane, treasurer and general
manager.
The Nantasket Beach Co. own one of the finest, best
managed, cleanest fleets of passenger steamboats in the
country. For some years past its steamers have not
touched directly at Hingham town, owing to lack of
water there and the increased size of the boats, but in
1902, owing to the poor service given by other steamers
to Plymouth, the Nantasket Beach Co. started a line
there from Boston with the " Governor Andrew." It
has kept it up and improved it ever since, and now it is
the only steamer line to that place. After the " Rush
Light " and " Lafayette " stopped running between Bos-
ton and Plymouth in 1830, there was an interval of
several years, and then the " Menemon Sanford line "
was organized by the people who afterwards owned the
Boston and Bangor line.
Their boats were the " Express " and " Yacht," wood-
en side-wheelers, both commanded by Sanfords, with
Captain Samuel H. Doten as pilot ; they made daily runs
in the summer season for some years before the building
of the Old Colony R. R. in 1845 and for sometime after-
wards. The " Express " had a long life, originally built
in 1841 for service on the Hudson river, in 1862 she was
a tender to the fleet of transports lying in Hampton Roads
with Gen. Butler's expedition for Louisiana on board.
She was wrecked in 1863 in a sudden squall on the Poto-
mac river.
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So successful was the Sanford line to Plymouth that
there have been but few seasons in which steamers have
not plied between the two ports. The " Flushing," Capt.
Van Pelt, put in one or two summers ,and after the close
of the Civil war the wooden side-wheeler "Stamford,"
built in 1863 (afterwards called the " John Endicott "),
Captain E. W. Davidson, had many years of success until
lost in 1900 in an attempted short cut between Cohasset
rocks on a return trip from Plymouth. The " John
Brooks" (side-wheeler), "City Point," "Lily," "Shoe
City," and " Putnam " (side- wheeler), ran for a short
time at various intervals until the Nantasket Beach Co.
started their line. Some of these steamers were hardly
what they should have been ; the bar room was counted
on too much to pay expenses, so that respectable people
were driven away.
For several seasons, in 1897, '98 and '99, the Winthrop
Steamboat Co. of Boston ran a fine steel propeller, the
" Plymouth," on the Plymouth line, but she was soon sold
to the government for a lighthouse tender and renamed
' Iris." She was built in Philadelphia in 1897, was 428
tons gross, 142 feet long, 30 feet beam, and the triple
expansion engine indicated 800 horse power. During the
seasons of 1915-16 the small screw steamer "Gurnet," 65
feet long, built at Boothbay, Maine, in 1914, was run
between Scituate and Boston. She was taken by the
government as a tender in 1917.
Mention should also be made of a small side-wheeler
well known to Bostonians of a generation ago ; this was
the " Massasoit," and she plied in Boston harbor, gener-
ally to Quincy and Lovell's Grove, Weymouth. She was
built at Providence, R. L, in 1849, measured about 200
tons gross, and was owned by T. J. Dunbar & Co. of
Boston.
Before the opening of the Cape Cod Branch Railroad
in the 1840's, passenger and freight traffic between the
various Cape towns and Boston was mostly in the hands
of the * packets " (schooner and sloop-rigged vessels of
100 tons or less), for the land route was too long and
roundabout. With favorable winds the packets could
often make as good time as the early steamers, but when
STEAMBOAT "LAFAYETTE 1
Built in 1828
BY FRANCIS B. C. BRADLEE 121
the elements were against them they were delayed, some-
times for days.
The first attempt at steam communication was in 1848,
when the Provincetown Steamboat Co. was organized and
purchased the side-wheeler " Naushon " when she was
sold at auction at New Bedford, Mass., in April, 1848.
This steamboat had originally been built at New York in
1845 by Joseph C. Coffee for a company of Edgartown
persons to run between that place and New Bedford. She
measured 134 feet in length, 22 feet beam, 240 tons
gross, and was furnished with a "square," or "cross-
head " engine having a 34 inch cylinder, 8 feet stroke.
The " Naushon " was considered fast and a good sea
boat for her type of construction. For several years she
ran between Boston and Wellfleet, calling each way at
Provincetown ; fare $1.00 to either place. Her berth in
Boston was the end of T wharf (E. Wright, Jr., agent),
from whence she left Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays,
and the other end of the line on Mondays, Wednesdays
and Fridays. The Boston Advertiser, January 1, 1852,
advertised the " Naushon " for sale by the Provincetown
Steamboat Co., D. Fairbanks, secretary.
She was purchased by a syndicate composed jointly of
the New York Sun, Journal of Commerce, Herald,
Courier, and Express, for the purpose of obtaining news
of a marine nature, and was stationed outside of Sandy
Hook every day to obtain information from incoming
vessels, making a trip back to New York City every
evening, and as much oftener as the delivery of news
required.
The scheme was announced in the New York Sun as
follows : " For the object to be attained, a more suitable
steamer is not to be found, to our knowledge, in the
United States. The ' Naushon ' is nearly new, expen-
sively built, large, exceedingly strong, and has a powerful
engine. She was built expressly for running on the open
ocean, and is particularly adapted to exposure and sea
service. Besides these qualities may be added that indis-
pensable one speed being fully capable of making 20
miles within the hour. The merits spoken of were fully
testified to in the memorable gale in which the Atlantic '
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was lost (1846), when she was exposed in open sea and
afterwards made port i. perfect safety." The " Nau-
shon " was renamed "Newsboy" by her new owners,
and continued in their service for many years.
After the " Naushon," a small yacht-like propeller
steamer, the " Acorn," Capt. R. Stevens, was for many
years, until the Civil War, run between Boston, Prov-
incetown, Truro and Wellfleet. She was advertised as
' running through in 5 1-4 hours, fare $1.25, and con-
nections made with stages for the upper Cape towns."
The " Acorn " made but two round trips weekly, and
was succeeded at the close of the Rebellion by the pro-
peller " George Shattuck," that maintained nearly the
same schedule as above, but with a large increase in
fares, $1.75 to Provincetown and $ 2.25 to Truro.
In 1883 the well known wooden propeller " Longfel-
low," of 418 tons, 146 feet long, 27 feet beam, was built
at Boston expressly for the Provincetown route. She
ran for many years, sometimes all winter, and while an
excellent sea boat, was designed principally for freight
and so was not especially comfortable for passengers.
Both the " Shattuck " and the " Longfellow " some-
times towed vessels, to the discomfort of passengers, as
it added to the length and tedium of the passage. The
" Longfellow " at one time ran between Bucksport, Me.,
and Nova Scotia ports, and the Boston Advertiser of
Dec. 27, 1888, announced that she would run a 60 days'
excursion from Boston to the West India islands. The
excursion was to be limited to 25 persons. This is one
of the earliest advertisements of winter cruises now so
popular.
During the early 80's an opposition line developed for
a short time in the Cape Cod trade, running the small
propellers " Acushnet " and " City of Bangor " three
times weekly from Comey's wharf, Boston (J. M. Seaver,
agent) to Provincetown, and on the other days to Ports-
mouth, N. H. The ' City of Bangor " was a small pro-
peller built for the Barbour line between Bangor and Bar
Harbor. She eventually burnt up in Salem harbor in 1894.
In 1899 the Boston, Plymouth and Provincetown
Steamboat Co. (later called the Cape Cod Steamship Co.)
BY FRANCIS B. C. BRADLEE 123
was organized by L. D. Baker and J. R. Bacon. As far
as known the " Plymouth " line never materialized, and
the company confined its activities to Province town.
They had constructed in 1900, by A. D. Story, at Essex,
Mass., a wooden propeller, the " Cape Cod," of 557 tons,
151 feet long, and equipped with a triple expansion engine
indicating 1000 horse power. Until the completion of
the " Cape Cod " the company chartered the side-wheeler
" Nantucket " from the New Bedford, Martha's Vineyard
and Nantucket Steamboat Co. The " Cape Cod " was
not a success for a variety of reasons, two of the princi-
pal ones being that she was too small and rolled like a
barrel.
So the reorganized Cape Cod Steamship Co. in 1910
bought the iron propeller " Charlotte " from the Chesa-
peake S. S. Co. of Baltimore and renamed her " Dorothy
Bradford." She had formerly run as a night boat be-
tween Baltimore and Richmond, and is by far the most
pretentious craft ever run to Provincetown. She was
built in 1889 by Neafie, Levy & Co. of Philadelphia,
measuring 1746 tons gross, 229 feet long, with a two-
cylinder compound engine, and was at first licensed to
carry 1900 passengers. The " Dorothy Bradford " was
ably managed by F. B. Crocker, jr., and for many seasons
enjoyed a large passenger business and paid large divi-
dends, until taken in 1918 by the Government for a train-
ing ship.
All the later Provincetown steamers have, however,
been greatly hampered by their inability to carry freight
except at the same rates as those charged by the railroad.
This agreement was extorted by the New York,New Haven
and Hartford R. R. Co., who owned the only wharf in
Provincetown at which a large steamer could suitably
dock. The same rule applied until lately to nearly all
our coastwise steam lines unless controlled by the rail-
roads themselves. In 1902 a freight steamer was started
between Haverhill, Newburyport and Boston, but it was
intimated was bought off at a large price by the Boston
and Maine Railroad.
Later on, in 1914, a steamer line was projected between
Boston, Marblehead, Salem and Beverly, where the rail
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freight service was and still is decidedly poor. This scheme
fell through largely because no suitable landing place
could be found in Boston, for the New Haven R. R. in-
terests controlled nearly the entire water front and did
not wish to have the new line established.
The first mention of a steam boat line between Boston
and Portsmouth, N. H., was in the summer of 1835,
when the Boston papers advertised the steamer "Citizen,"
Capt. Clendennin, to leave from T wharf, J. W. Goodrich,
agent, 38 Washington St., Boston. She was built in New
York in 1828, 154 tons, 107 feet long, originally owned
by Cornelius Vanderbilt, who ran her as a Staten Island
ferry. From a Government publication issued in 1838,
owned by the author, and which gives particulars of all
the steamboats and railroad locomotives then in the United
States, it is learned the side-wheeler " Portsmouth " was
then running regularly between Boston and Portsmouth.
It is interesting to know that this vessel was construct-
ed at Salem in 1837, by Barker and Grant, thought to be
the first steamer ever built there. She was 215 tons
gross, 140 feet long, 20 feet beam, 8 feet depth of hold ;
the owners were L. Barnes " and others," and the cap-
tain was S. M. Tripe. Her low pressure, 80 horse power
engine (probably nominal not indicated horse power),
was built by J. Babcock. How long the " Portsmouth "
was on the route cannot be ascertained, but probably not
for long, for the next information that can be found of
steamboats touching at Portsmouth was when the steam-
ers " Huntress " and " M. Y. Beach " were advertised
as running on the " Eastern Railroad line ;" the Eastern
Railroad between Boston and Portsmouth, N. H., having
been completed for travel on Nov. 9, 1840.
It may be stated here that it is impossible to give a
full, correct, and chronological history of steamboating in
northeastern New England. The newspaper files are
almost the only source of information, for, unlike the
railroad companies, there are no annual reports to record
the early history of steam vessels. Many of the " old
timers," as has been seen, ran on routes but a short time,
either for want of capital " to grow up with the coun-
try," or to stand the intense competition then prevailing.
BY FRANCIS B. C. BRADLEB 125
The rapid extension of railroads along the coast caused
much inroad in the business of the steamboats and neces-
sitated many changes of terminus. Besides this, it is
well to remember that the sale of a controlling interest
in a vessel (or line of vessels) often made great changes
in our early coastwise steam lines.
The " Huntress " and " M. Y. Beach " were controlled
by the Eastern R. R. and plied from Portsmouth in con-
nection with the trains ; the former to Bath and Gardiner,
Me., and the latter to Portland, both boats stopped on the
way at the Isles of Shoals and Kennebunk. There was
then severe competition between the railroads and the
" outside " steamboats (those starting from Boston), and
the " Railroad line " was advertised as follows during
the summer of 1841 :
" Through by daylight " (from Boston to Portland)
* Steamer 4 M. Y. Beach,' A. Brown, master, will run
from Portsmouth to Portland in connection with the East-
ern R. Rd., thus avoiding the dangers of Cape Ann."
At the same time the through fare from Boston to
Portland by the " R. R. line " was reduced to $1.00.
The '* Huntress " was considered one of the fastest
side-wheelers then afloat. She was built at New York by
Lawrence and Sneeden, the famous steamboat builders, in
1838, measured 333 tons gross, 172 feet long, 23 1-2 feet
beam, and had a working-beam engine with a 36-inch
cylinder, 12 feet stroke. As soon as the Portland, Saco
and Portsmouth R. R. was opened in November, 1842
the terminus of the railroad boats was removed to Port-
land, from which place they ran to points further east.
When the Civil War broke out in 1861, the " Hun-
tress," although then an old, out-of-date steamer, was
seriously thought worth purchasing by the Confederate
agents, as her great speed would have made her valuable
as a commerce destroyer. Not until the end of the Re-
bellion released many steam vessels from government ser-
vice was another line projected between Boston and Ports-
mouth, N. H.
In May, 1865, the Boston Advertiser announced that
the propeller " Alice Riggs," Capt. Wm. Coleman, would
sail for Portsmouth and Dover, N. H., every Wednesday
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and Saturday from Central wharf (Boston), I. S. Palmer,
agent. Winslow T. Perkins, so long superintendent of
the Eastern Division of the Boston and Maine R. R., and
at that time a resident of Portsmouth, informed the
author that this line was projected by manufacturers and
business men of Portsmouth and Dover as a protest
against the high rates of freight by rail ; it was as usual
unsuccessful and lasted but a short time.
Following this, two small propellers, the " Acushnet "
and " City of Bangor," were run between Boston and
Portsmouth, three times weekly, in 1881-82. Ten years
later, in 1890, the Boston and Portsmouth S. S. Co. was
organized and bought the old side-wheeler " John
Brooks" from the Boston and Portland line. The
' Brooks " had been a good boat in her day, but at this
time was somewhat "aged" and "tender;" she was
nevertheless run for several summers (until 1894) with
considerable success, calling, both going and coming, at
the Isles of Shoals, where she did a large passenger busi-
ness. Few persons of the present generation realize how
old a summer resort is the Isles of Shoals. The Apple-
dore House (burnt in 1914) was constructed in 1848 V
and many prominent persons from all over the country
made a practice of stopping there each summer.
At first communication between Portsmouth and the
islands, distant 10 miles, was only by sail boats, but in
1854 a small side-wheeler, the " Grace Darling," was put
on, followed by the " Silver Star." No regular service
was, however, undertaken until 1864, when the propeller
"Pioneer," Capt. Amazeen, owned by the Concord and
Portsmouth R. R. Co., was run in connection with their
trains. She was followed by the " Appledore," "Major,"
"Oceanic," "Viking," Merryconeag," and "May
Archer," all small propellers about 100 feet long. The
"Appledore" was advertised for sale in April, 1884, by
Laighton Bros, (the proprietors of the Appledore House),,
and she was described as " 100 feet long, 20 feet beam,
speed 12 miles.''
Passenger business to the Isles of Shoals was given a
great boom when the Oceanic House was built on Star
island in the early 1870's. Efforts were made to popu-
BY FEANCIS B. C. BRADLEE 127
larize these islands and turn them, or at least Star island,
into practically "Coney island " resorts, but the distance
was too great (about 50 miles), and the passage too
rough from Boston. In 1884 Huber and Herzberg,
wholesale liquor dealers in New York, offered the owner
of Star island $100,000 in cash to "develop the property"
but the offer was refused. During the period 1875-1902
several large side-wheelers, the " Plymouth Kock," "Em-
pire State," " New Brunswick," etc., ran excursions at
irregular intervals from Boston to Star island. All these
boats had seen better days, the two former as night boats
on Long Island Sound, and the latter on the Boston-St.
John route.
In later years, 1900-03, a propeller named the " Sur-
prise " (formerly the Sound liner " City of Fitchburg ")
was run in the interest of the sardine canners at East-
port, Me., between that place and Boston, as the "Boston
and Maine S. S. Co." She called at the Isles of Shoals
going and coming, but was not well patronized. About
the same time the Portsmouth and Isles of Shoals S. S.
Co. (F. W. Hartford, agent) was organized and until 1915
ran the small propeller " Juliette " to the islands from
Portsmouth. Another small boat of the same type, the
" Sightseer," was on the line in 1916, but the burning of
the Appledore House, and the war, has stopped any fur-
ther activities.
The first steam propelled vessel known to have visited
the coast of Maine was the " Tom Thumb " in 1818.
She was about 25 or 30 feet long, an open side-wheel
boat, with the machinery all in sight ; a Mr. Dodd was
the owner of this strange craft. A sailing packet took
her in tow from Boston as far as the mouth of the Ken-
nebec river, where she cast off and steamed up the stream
against the tide. Great excitement was manifested by the
inhabitants of Bath on the arrival of the *' Tom Thumb,"
as no one there had ever seen a steamboat before. She
afterwards took excursions up and down the river, and
was running between Bath and Augusta as late as 1828. 1
The first advertisement concerning steam navigation in
History of Bath, Maine, by Levi P. Lemont, Bath, 1874.
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the " Pine Tree State " is found in the Portland Argus,
August 13, 1822, as follows:
" Steamboat Kennebec ' will leave Union wharf (Port-
land) at 4 o'clock for North Yarmouth to spend the day.
Will return on Thursday to take passengers to the Island
as usual. If required, will stop at Week's wharf to
receive and land passengers. . . For tickets apply to Mr.
A. W. Tinkham's store."
Lewis Pease, constable, and bank messenger and local
poet, records her advent thus :
" A fig for all your clumsy craft,
Your pleasure boats and packets,
The Steamboat lands you safe and soon
At Mansfield's, Trott's, or Brackett's."
This boat was owned by Capt. Seward Porter, who
had so much to do with establishing steamboat lines be-
tween Boston and Maine ports. She was fitted out at
Gov. King's wharf, Bath, and was really the hull of an
old flat-bottomed scow which Capt. Porter bought for
excursions in shoal water. Her engine was so weak and
imperfect that she had hardly power enough to stem the
current of the Kennebec river.
On May 22, 1824, another of Porter's boats, the
" Maine," Capt. Smith Crane, visited Belfast, announcing
her arrival by the discharge of a small cannon. Another
account says the " Maine " was built in 1825. This
vessel is generally described as consisting of the hulls of
two schooners, with a paddle wheel in the space between
the hulls, and beams laid across both and decked over,
retaining the two keels. In this she resembled the first
steamer of the United States Navy, the " Demologos,"
built by Fulton in 1815.
She was fitted out at Bath, measured 105 tons, and
cost $13,000 ; her route was between Belfast and Bath,
at which latter place connections were made with other
steamers for Portland and Boston. The fare between
Boston and Portland, with meals, was $5 ; to Bath, $6 ;
Augusta, $7 ; Eastport, f 11.
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LOBD, Anise, d. Eben[eze]r, 3d [jr. T. B.] and Mary, bp.
Nov. 1, 1795.
Anise, d. Eben[eze]r, 3d [jr. T. B.], bp. May 10, 1801.
Anne, d. Moses, jr., bp. June 30, 1799.
Asa, s. Sam[ue]l, 4th, bp. [bet. Feb. 17 and Mar. 17], 1765.
Beamsly, s. Jer[emiah], jr., bp. Feb. 17, 1765. [bp. Feb. 10.
T. K.]
Benjamin, s. Benjamin and Susanna, bp. Sept. 30, 1792.
Betsey, d. Capt. Eben[eze]r, bp. Dee. 30, 1787.
Caleb, s. Moses, bp. Apr. 29, 1764.
Caleb, s. Nath[anie]l, jr., bp. May 1, 1803.
Daniel, s. Nath [anie]l, 3d, bp. Mar. 5, 1780.
Ebenezer, s. John, bp. Sept. 29, 1782.
Elisabeth Tread well, d. John, jr. and Lucy, bp. Aug. 25, 1793.
Eliza [beth], d. Aaron, bp. Mar. 8, 1761.
Ephraim, s. James, jr., bp. Aug. 11, 1771.
Hannah, d. John, bp. Oct. 2, 1763.
Hannah, d. Sam[ue]l, 3d, bp. Sept. 26, 1773.
Jacob, s. Moses, bp. June 26, 1774.
James, s. Sain[uel], 4th, bp. May 8, 1763.
Jeremiah, s. Eben[eze~)r, 3d [jr. T. B.], bp. Aug. 19, 1798.
John, s. James, jr., bp! Aug. 8, 1773.
John, s. John, bp. Mar. 13, 1774.
John, s. John, jr. and Lucy, bp. Aug. 25, 1793.
John Berry, s. Moses and Abigail, bp. July 26, 1795.
Joseph, s. twin, Sam[ue]l, 4th, bp. Mar. 16, 1760.
Joseph, s. Nath[anie]l, bp. June 19, 1763.
Joseph, s. James, jr., bp. Apr. 23, 1780.
Joseph, s. James, jr., bp. June 15, 1783.
Joseph Holland, s. Daniel, jr. and Sarah, bp. Feb. 23, 1794.
Josiah, s. Sam[ue]l, bp. May 20, 1764.
Lucy, d. Nath[auie[l, 3d, bp. Oct. 6, 1765.
Lucy, d. Nath[anie]l, 3d, bp. Apr. 7, 1782.
Lucy, d. John, jr., bp. Mar. 26, 1797.
Lucy Mary, d. Moses, jr., bp. Aug. 5, 1804.
Margaret, d. Nath[aniel], jr., bp. Nov. 18, 1804.
Mark, s. Capt. John, bp. Dec. 1, 1799.
Mary, d. Sam[ue]l, bp. June 24, 1750.
Mary, d. Nath[anie]l, 3d, bp. July 6, 1755.
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130 IPSWICH BAPTISMS
LORD, Mary, d. Moses, bp. Oct. 29, 1758.
Mary, d. twin, Sam[ue]l, 4th, bp. Mar. 16, 1760.
Mary, d. Nath[anie]l, 3d, bp. Dec. 7, 1760.
Mary, d. Nath[anie]l, 3d, bp. Jan. 28, 1787.
Mary, d. Ebenezer, 3d [jr. T. B.J, bp. Feb. 27, 1803.
Mary Ann, d. Capt. John, bp. Sept. 29, 1805.
Moses, s. Moses, jr. and Lucy, bp. Sept. 26, 1790.
Nancy, d. Dan[ie]l, jr., bp. Dec. 2, 1804.
Natha[nie]l, s. Nathaniel, 3d, bp. Feb. 8, 1784.
Nathaniel, s. Capt. John, bp. Nov. 7, 1802.
Polly, d. Capt. Ebenezer, bp. Feb. 3, 1782.
Prisce, d. Moses, bp. Mar. 30, 1782.
Richard, s. Benj[ami]n, jr., bp. Feb. 1, 1795.
Eichard Henry, s. Ebenezer, 3d [jr. T. K.], bp. Mar. 17, 1805.
Kob[er]t, s. Tho[ma]s, bp. June 2, 1751. [bp. May 26. T.B.]
Sarah, d. Benj[ami]n, jr., bp. Oct. 4, 1789.
Sarah, d. Nath[anie]l, jr., bp. Aug. 14, 1796.
Sarah, d. Daniel, jr., bp. Apr. 20, 1800.
Sukey, d. Capt. Eben[eze]r, bp. May 25, 1783.
Sukey, d. Benj[ami]n, jr. and Susannah, bp. May 18, 1788.
Tho[ma]s, s. James, jr., bp. Nov. 3, 1765.
Thomas, s. Moses, jr., bp. Apr. 16, 1797.
, ch. Sam[ue]l, 4th, b. Oct. , 1787.
LOW, Eliza[beth], d. John, bp. July 24, 1768.
Jacob, s. Nath[anie]l, bp. Feb. 23, 1752.
Nath[anie]l, s. John, bp. July 17, 1774.
LOWATER, Sarah, d. Stephen, bp. Dec. 26, 1773.
LUMAS (see also Lummus), John, s. Dan[ie]l, bp. Mar. 4,
1749[-50].
LUMMAS (see also Lummus), Daniel, s. Daniel, bp. [bet. Oct.
9 and Nov. 5], 1774.
Mary, d. Daniel, bp. Feb. 28, 1773.
LUMMIS (see also Lummus), Abraham, s. William, bp. Aug.
2, 1801.
Elisabeth, d. William, bp. Oct. 14, 1798.
John, s. William, bp. Oct. 18, 1795.
William, s. William and Elisabeth, bp. May 18, 1794.
LUMMUS (see also Lumas, Lummas, Lummis), Joanna, d.
William, bp. May 6, 1804.
Margaret, d. Daniel, bp. Aug. 12, 1781.
IPSWICH BAPTISMS 181
MANNING, Lucretia, d. John, bp. May 26, 1765.
MARCH, Hannah, d. wid. Abigail, bp. Nov. 4, 1764.
Kobert, s. wid. Abigail, bp. Nov. 4, 1764.
MARTIN, Nath[anie]l, s. Nath[anie]l, bp. May 19, 1765.
Simion, s. Nath[anie]l, bp. July 1, 1767. [bp. July 12. T. .]
NEWMAN, Samuel, s. Benja[min], bp. Apr. 13, 1783.
, ch. Daniel, b. Sept. , 1787.
NEWMARCH, Hannah, d. John, bp. Nov. 6, 1785.
John, s. John, 3d, bp. July 5, 1772.
Joseph, s. John, 3d, bp. Sept. 11, 1774.
Lydia, d. John, bp. Nov. 19, 1769.
Sally, d. John, bp. Dec. 8, 1782.
Samuel, s. Tho[ma]s, bp. Nov. 3, 1765.
Tho[ma]s, s. Tho[ma]s, bp. Aug. 30, 1767.
PEABODY, David, s. David.bp. Feb. 16, 1752. [bp.Feb. 10. T.B.]
PEARLEY, Ebenezar, s. Nath[anie]l, bp. July 25, 1773.
Nath[anie]l, s. Nath[anie]l, bp. Feb. 24, 1771.
PEARSON, Mehetabel, d. Enoch and Eunice, b. Mar. 7, 1792.
p. B. 119.
PERKINS, Beamsly, s. Beamsly, bp. Nov. 14, 1762.
Cata, d. Abraham, bp. Oct. 31, 1784.
Daniel, s. Aaron, bp. Apr. 11, 1784.
Elisabeth, d. Abraham, bp. May 27, 1781.
Eliza [beth], d. Nath[anie]l, bp. Aug. 29, 1773.
Jeremiah, s. Aaron, bp. Sept. 11, 1774.
Joanna, d. Aaron, bp. Mar. 18, 1781.
Kata, d. Abraham, bp. Apr. 9, 1786.
Lucy, d. Abraham, bp. Aug. 24, 1794.
Mary, d. Nath[anie]l, 3d, bp. Nov. 25, 1759.
Mary, d. W[illia]m, bp. Feb. 1, 1761.
Mary, d. Abraham, bp. Aug. 29, 1773.
Mary, d. Joseph and Mary, bp. Apr. 8, 1781.
Nathanael, s. Nath[anie]l, jr., bp. Aug. 30, 1795.
Nath[anie]l, s. Wil[lia]m, bp. Jan. 29, 1757. [bp. Jan. 30.
T. B.]
Sarah, d Jeremiah [Jeremy. T. R.], bp. Apr. 29, 1750. [bp,
Apr. 20. T. B.]
132 IPSWICH BAPTISMS
PERKINS, Stephen, s. Nath[anie]l, jr., bp. Mar. 1, 1761.
Susanna, d. Abraham, bp. Apr. 19, 1789.
Susannah, d. Nath[anie]l, bp. Aug. 26, 1753.
Susannah, d. Nath[anie]l, bp. Nov. 7, 1779.
William Baker, s. Joseph, bp. Mar. 6, 1785.
ch. Bemsley, b. Nov. , 1787.
PERLEY, see Pearley.
PETINGAL (see also Pettingal), Ephraim Smith, s. Joseph,
bp. Aug. 17, 1783.
John, s. Joseph, bp. Oct. 17, 1784.
Lucy, d. Joseph, bp. Aug. 6, 1786.
PETTINGAL (see also Petingal), Joseph, s. Joseph, bp. Sept.
22, 1782.
PICKARD, Mary, d. Tho[ma]s, bp. Apr. 17, 1774.
PIERCE, Susannah, d. John, bp. Sept. 30, 1753. [bp. Sept. 20.
T. B.]
PINDAR (see also Pinder), David, s. Moses, bp. Sept. 16,1787.
Deborah, d. Benja[min], bp. July 28, 1771. [bp. July 21. T.C.]
Edmund, s. Ben j [ami] n, bp. Sept. 24, 1780.
John, s. Moses, bp. July 21, 1782.
Joseph, s. Moses, bp. Aug. 29, 1779.
Polly, d. Moses, bp. Oct. 10, 1784.
Salome, d. Benja[min], bp. Aug. 29, 1773.
PINDER (see also Pindar), Joseph, s. John, bp. Aug. 25, 1764
PITMAN, Mary, d. John, bp. July 15, 1764.
POMROY, , d. , b. Feb. , 1786.
POTTER, Alexander, s. John and Martha, bp. July 15, 1804.
Amos, s. Moses, bp. July 17, 1766. [bp. Aug. 17. T. B.]
Anthony, s. Anthony, jr. [3d. T. B.], bp. Feb. 1, 1756.
Eunice, d. Daniel, jr. and Eunice, bp. Jan. 11, 1798.
Israel, s. Sam[ue]l, bp. Dec. 11, 1759.
Jonathan, s. Rich[ar]d, bp. July 17, 1766. [bp. Aug. 17. T. B.]
Martha Fellows, d. twin, Daniel, jr., bp. June 3, 1804.
Mary, d. twin, Daniel, jr., bp. June 3, 1804.
Moses, s. Moses, bp. July 2, 1758.
Sarah, d. Moses, bp. June 22, 1760.
Tho[ma]s, s. Tho[ma]s [Samuel. T. B.], bp. Aug. 11, 1754.
, ch. Sam[ue]l, bp. Feb. 26, 1758.
IPSWICH BAPTISMS 133
PRINCE, Hannah, d. Jonathan], bp. Sept. 23, 1759.
Jona[than], s. Jonathan], jr., bp. Apr. 29, 1750. [bp. Apr.
30. T. B.]
Mehitabel, d. Jona[than], jr., bp. Jan. 31, 1762.
PROCTOR, Lucy, d. Jacob, bp. Sept. 14, 1783.
Thomas, s. Jacob, bp. Sept. 14, 1783.
PULCIPHER (see also Pulsifer), Betsey, d. David and Elisa-
beth, bp. May 15, 1796.
David, s. Bickford, bp. Oct. 3, 1802.
John, s. Benja[min], bp. Sept. 30, 1750.
John Stan wood, s. Bickford and Sarah, bp. Dec. 30, 1798.
Thomas, s. Ebenezar, bp. Dec. 12, 1779.
PULSIFER (see also Pulcipher, Pulsipher), Bickford, s. twin,
David, bp. Aug. 16, 1772.
Ebenezar, s. twin David, bp. Aug. 16, 1772.
Eben[eze]r, s. Eben[eze]r, bp. Dec. 26, 1773.
PULSIPHER (see also Pulsifer), Ann, d. Jos[eph], bp. June
27, ] 756. [bp. June 20. T. B.]
Anna, d. David, bp. May 21, 1774.
Bickford, s. twin, Bickford and Sarah, bp. Dec. 14, 1800.
David, s. David, bp. Jan. 1, 1797.
Ebenezer, s. twin, Bickford and Sarah, bp. Dec. 14, 1800.
Francis, s. Francis, jr. and Lucy, bp. Nov. 11, 1770.
Joseph, s. David, bp. Aug. 19, 1798.
Sarah, d. Francis, deceased, bp. Aug. 8, 1773.
Sarah, d. David, bp. Aug. 17, 1800.
RIGGS, Stephen, s. Tho[ma]s, bp. June 23, 1751.
ROBBINS, James, s. William, bp. Oct. 13, 1782.
Lucy, d. William and Lucy, bp. Nov. 28, 1773.
Lucy, d. William, jr., bp. July 2, 1780.
W[illia]m, s. Wil[liam], bp. Aug. 12, 1750. [bp. Aug. 5. T.B.]
ROGERS, Daniel Augustus, s. Daniel, jr., bp. Feb. 13, 1803.
Elisabeth, d. Daniel, jr. and Elisabeth, bp. Nov. 29, 1801.
Lucretia, d. Capt. Dan[ie]l, bp. Mar. 12, 1786.
Lucy, d. Capt. Daniel, bp. Jan. 20, 1782.
Margaret, d. Capt. Dan[ie]l, bp. Apr. 9, 1780.
Martha, d. Capt. Dan[ie]l, bp. Jan. 25, 1784.
Mary Ann, d. Capt. Daiiiel, bp. July 13, 1788.
Sarah, d. Daniel, grandd. Rev. Nathaniel, bp. May 16, 1773.
134 IPSWICH BAPTISMS
ROSS, Benjamin Davis, s. David and Rebeckah, bp. Aug. 22,
1779.
Jeremiah, s. Jeremiah and Hannah, bp. Nov. 1, 1795.
Joseph Wilcom, s. Jeremiah and Hannah, bp. Nov. 16, 1794,
Moses, s. Jeremiah, bp. Nov. 2, 1800.
RUSSEL (see also Russell), Catharine, d. Henry, bp. July 7,
1799.
Henry, a. Henry, bp. Mar. 18, 1798.
Mary, d. Henry, bp. Mar. 28, 1790.
RUSSELL (see also Russel), Andrew, s. Henry, jr. and Kath-
arine, bp. May 18, 1788.
Elisabeth, d. Henry, bp. Dec. 16, 1792.
Hannah, d. Henry, bp. July 4, 1802.
William, s. Henry, bp. Oct. 18, 1795.
RUST, Hannah Treadwell, d. Francis, grandd. John Tread-
well, bp. Nov. 26, 1780.
SAFFORD, Abigail, d. Daniel, jr., bp. Sept. 30, 1759.
Abigail, d. Stephen and Sally (Jarvis), b. Sept. 30, 1763.
p. B. 122.
Deborah, d. Simeon, bp. June 17, 1770.
Elizabeth, d. Stephen and Sally (Jarvis), b. Mar. 10, 1757.
p. B. 122.
Ephraim, s. Simeon, bp. Apr. 18, 1790.
Joseph, s. Simeon, bp. Feb. 18, 1787.
Lydia, d. Stephen and Sally (Jarvis), b. Oct. 10, 1753.
p. B. 122.
Mary, d. Simion, bp. Feb. 28, 1773.
Nathan, s. Stephen and Sally (Jarvis), b. Apr. 11, 1758.
p. B. 122.
Nathan, s. Stephen and Sally (Jarvis), b. June 6, 1760.
p. B. 122.
Sarah, d. Stephen and Sally (Jarvis), b. Apr. 10, 1748.
p. B. 122.
Stephen, s. Stephen and Sally (Jarvis), b. Nov. 29, 1750.
p. B. 122.
Susannah, d. Simeon, bp. Nov. 21, 1784.
Will[ia]m, s. John, bp. Jan. 5, 1755. [bp. Jan. 12. T. B. ]
SATCHWELL (see also Shatswell), Daniel, s. Ricfharld, bp.
Feb. 19, 1758.
Isaac, s. Jeremiah, bp. Oct. 26, 1760.
Jona[than],s. Jona[than] [Jeremiah. T. B.], bp. Aug. 20, 1758.
William [Richard. T. B.], s. Rich[ard], bp. Mar. 14, 1756.
IPSWICH BAPTISMS 135
SAWARD (see also Soward), Nabby Gould, d. John and Re-
beckah, bp. Oct. 21, 1798.
SAWYER, Elisabeth, d. Joseph and Susannah,bp. June 9, 1793.
SHATSWELL (see also Satchwell, Shattswell), Daniel, s.
Richard, jr., bp. May 27, 1764.
Daniel, s. Richard, bp. Jan. 29, 1774.
Jeremiah, s. Jeremiah, bp. Dec. 2, 1770.
Sarah, d. John, bp. Nov. 27, 1763.
SHATTSWELL (see also Shatswell), , ch. Isaac, b. Nov.
, 1787.
SMITH, Andrew, s. Tho[ma]s, bp. Mar. 13, 1757.
Benja[min], s. John, 3d, bp. Dec. 18, 1774.
Dan[ie]l, s. Tho[ma]s, bp. Jan. 26, 1755.
Eben[eze]r, s. Joseph, bp. Aug. 6, 1767.
Eliza [beth"
Eliza[beth =
Elizafbeth"
, d. Tho[raa]s, bp. Mar. 7, 1762.
, d. Eben[eze]r, bp. Mar. 17, 1765.
, d. John, 3d, bp. Dec. 2, 1769.
Ephraim, s. Joseph, bp. Sept. 24, 1758.
Hannah, d. John, 4th, bp. Oct. 23, 1763.
Hannah, d. John, 3d, bp. Nov. 15, 1767.
Hannah, b. Apr. 16, 1769. p. K. 119.
Hannah, d. Maj. Charles, bp. Aug. 24, 1783.
Harrison, s. Capt. Ammi, bp. Apr. 29, 1804.
Jacob, s. John, 4th, bp. Nov. 3, 1765.
John, s. John, 4th, bp. Sept. 28, 1760.
John, s. Tho[ma]s, jr., bp. July 17, 1766. [bp. Aug. 17. T.B.]
John, s. John, jr., bp. Feb. 3, 1788.
Joseph, s. Simon, bp. Jan. 19, 1783.
Mary, d. John, 4th, bp. Oct. 18, 1767.
Mary, d. Simon, bp. Oct. 25, 1772.
Nath[anie]l, s. Charles, bp. Sept. 11, 1774.
Samuel Rogerg, s. Capt. Ammi, bp. Nov. 29, 1801.
Sarah, d. Capt. Ammi, bp. Apr. 24, 1803.
Susannah, d. John, 3d, bp. Dec. 22, 1771.
Unice, d. Tho[ma]s, bp. Mar. 11, 1759.
Willard, s. Maj. Charles, bp. Nov. 5, 1780.
, d. John, jr. and Lucy, b. Mar. 1, 1786.
, s. James, jr., b. Nov. , 1786.
, d. John, jr., b. Nov. , 1787.
SOWARD (see also Saward), Abigail Holmes, d. John L. and
Margaret, bp. Aug. 17, 1800.
136 IPSWICH BAPTISMS
SOWAKD, Abraham, s. John, bp. Nov. 6, 1772.
Eliza[bethJ, d. John, bp. Nov. 8, 1767.
Hannah, d. John, bp. July 23, 1780.
John, s. John L., bp. Apr. 18, 1802.
John Leatherland, s. John, bp. Nov. 3, 1765.
Margaret, d. John L. and Margaret, bp. Aug. 17, 1800.
Moses, s. John and Rebeckah, bp. Aug. 31, 1794.
Richard, s. John L. and Margaret, bp. Oct. 19, 1800, a. 8 or 10 y .
Sarah, d. John L. and Margaret, bp. Aug. 17, 1800.
Welcome, d. John and Rebeckah, bp. Dec. 9, 1792.
, s. John Leath[erlan]d, b. , 1788.
SPILLER, Abigail, d. Robert, bp. Oct. 6, 1771.
Eliza[beth], d. John, b. Nov. 4, 1764.
Susannah, d. Henry and Mary, bp. June 17, 1792.
STACEY(see also Stacy), Samuel, s. Edward, bp. Nov. 27,
1786.
STACY (see also Stacey), Abigail Knoulton, d. Edward, bp.
Mar. 20, 1791.
Edward, s. Edward, bp. Nov. 3, 1782.
Margaret, d. Edward, bp. Nov. 3, 1782.
Polly, d. Edward, bp. June 22, 1788.
Sarah, d. Jos[eph], bp. Sept. 18, 1757.
Sarah, d. Edward, bp. Nov. 3, 1782.
Susannah, d. Edward, bp. Sept. 21, 1783.
STALKER (see also Stocker), Eunice, d. Robert, jr., bp. Aug.
13, 1797.
Stephen, s. Robert, bp. July 24, 1768.
STANFORD (see also Staniford), , ch. Capt. Aaron, b.
Jan. , 1788.
STANIFORD (see also Stanford), Aaron, s. Aaron and Lucy
bp. June 1, 1788.
Anne, d. Eben[eze]r, bp. Mar. 12, 1797.
Hannah, d. Daniel, bp. Nov. 10, 1751.
Jeremiah, s. Ebenezor, bp. May 10, 1795.
Joseph, s. Eben[eze]r, bp. Aug. 9, 1801.
Judith, d. Ebenezer and Judith, bp. Mar. 2, 1794.
Judith, d. Ebenezer, bp. Nov. 11, 1798.
Lucy, d. Capt. Aaron, bp. May 6, 1790.
Mary, d. Capt. Aaron, bp. Aug. 3, 1794.
IPSWICH BAPTISMS 187
STANWOOD, Stephen, s. John, bp. May 30, 1802.
STOCKER (see also Stalker), John, s. Kobert, bp. June 23, 1799.
STONE, Daniel, a. William, bp. Oct. 7, 1784.
Elisabeth, d. William, bp. Oct. 6, 1793.
Eliza[beth], d. Sam[ue]l, bp. Mar. 3, 1754.
Elizabeth, d. William, bp. Feb. 9, 1783.
Esther, d. Sam[ue]l, bp. May 17, 1772.
Hannah, d. William, bp. June 10, 1781.
Hannah, d. William, bp. Jan. 11, 1789.
John, s. Sam[ue]l, bp. May 21, 1774.
Joseph, s. Samuel, bp. Nov. 11, 1781.
Nathanael, i. William, bp. Oct. 1, 1786.
Patience, d. Sam[ue]l, bp. June 13, 1762.
Sarah, d. William, bp. June 10, 3 781.
Susannah, d. W[illia]m, bp. Jan. 2, 1757. [d. Samuel. T. R.]
SUTTON, Ebenezer, s. William and Elizabeth,bp. July 1, 1804.
William, s. William and Elisabeth, bp. Nov. 29, 1801.
SWEET (see also Swett), Hannah, d. Jabez, bp. Apr. 13, 1783.
Moses, s. Jabez, b. Mar. 26, 1760. [bp. Mar. 30. T. R.]
Moses, s. Jabez, bp. Feb. 11, 1781.
Nathaniel, s. Moses [Jabez. T. R.], bp. May 1, 1757.
Nath[anie]l, s. Jabez, bp. Aug. 29, 1773.
Polly, d. Jabez, bp. Mar. 29, 1789.
, ch. John, b. Nov. , 1787.
SWETT (see also Sweet), Polly, d. Benj[ami]n and Eebeka,
bp. Jan. 11, 1789.
Rebeckah, d. Benj[ami]n, bp. June 17, 1787.
TREADWELL (see also Tredwill), Daniel, s. Moses, bp. Sept.
27, 1789.
Elisabeth, d. Aaron, jr., bp. Nov. 29, 1801.
Elizabeth, d. Jacob, bp. Sept. 30, 1792.
Jacob, s. Jacob, bp. May 1, 1774.
Lucy, d. Aaron, jr., bp. Aug. 7, 1799.
Martha, d. Sam[ue]l and Mary, bp. Jan. 17, 1790.
Mary, d. William and Mary, bp. Dec. 3, 1780.
Mary, d. Sam[uejl and Mary, bp. Aug. 2, 1789.
Micajah, s. Aaron, jr., bp. Nov. 27, 1803.
Sarah, d. Sam[ue]l aud Mary, bp. Aug. 2, 1789.
, s. Capt. Nath[anie]l, b. Mar. , 1786.
, ch. Capt. Nat[hanie]l, b. Dec. , 1787
138 IPSWICH BAPTISMS
TREDWILL (see also Treadwell), Elisha, s. John, bp. Feb. 3,
1754. [Feb. 31. T. B.]
WATT, Elizabeth Perkins, d. Hale and Elizabeth, of Kenne-
bunk, bp. Mar. 24, 1805.
John, s. John and Rebeckah, bp. Nov. 3, 1782.
John, s. John and Rebeckah, bp. Oct. 24, 1784.
Sally, d. Hale and Elisabeth, residing " at present at Kenne-
bunk, a Parish in Wells," bp. Sept. 26, 1802.
WALLACE (see also Wallis), Polly, d. Aaron and Margaret,
bp. June 20, 1790.
WALLIS (see also Wallace), Aaron, s. Aaron,bp. May 24, 1767.
Aaron, s. Aaron, bp. Dec. 4, 1791.
Denison, s. Sam[ue]l [Robert. T. B.], bp. Feb. 16, 1755.
Eunice, d. Aaron, bp. Sept. 16, 1798.
Hannah, d. Aaron, bp. Oct. 18, 1795.
Joseph, s, Aaron, bp. Feb. 27, 1803.
Peggy, d. Aaron, bp. Aug. 4, 1793.
Robert, s. Robert, jr., bp. Aug. 25, 1764.
Sam[ue]l, s. Sam[ue]l, bp. June 22, 1760.
Samuel, s. Aaron, bp. Oct. 26, 1800.
William, s. Robert, bp. July 6, 1766.
WARNER, Asa, s. Asa, bp. Apr. 13, 1777.
Benjamin, s. Benjamin, bp. Dec. 31, 1786.
George Newman, s. twin, Benjamin and Lucy,bp. Apr. 15, 1792.
Hannah, d. Benj[ami]n, bp. July 3, 1785.
John, s. John, bp. Sept. 24, 1749.
Lucy, d. Benjamin and Lucy, bp. June 10, 1781.
Mary, d. Caleb, bp. June 1, 1760.
Nath[anie]l, s. John, bp. Sept. 14, 1766. [bp. Sept. 19. T. B.]
Nath[anie]l, s. Benj[ami]n, bp. Sept. 28, 1783.
Sarah, d. John, bp. May 29, 1763.
Sarah, d. John, bp. Nov. 11, 1764.
Susannah, d. William, 3d [jr. T. B.], bp. Aug. 9, 1789.
Will[ia]m, s. Caleb, bp. June 20, 1756. [bp. June 13. T. B.]
William, s. William, 3d and Susannah, bp. Apr. 28, 1782.
William, a. twin, Benjamin and Lucy, bp. Apr. 15, 1792.
WEBBER, Sarah, d. Francis, bp. Jan. 26, 1755. [bp. Jan. 12.
T. B.]
WELDS (see also Wells), Eliza[beth~|, d. Tho[ma1s, bp. May
29, 1757.
IPSWICH MARRIAGES 139
WELLS (see also Welds), Anthony, s. Philemon, bp. May 21,
1769.
David, s. David, bp. June 4, 1749.
Moses, s. Moses, jr., bp. Oct. 29, 1752.
Moses, s. Joseph, bp. Feb. 17, 1771.
WILCOMB (see also Wilcome), Anna, d. Jos[eph], bp. Sept.
21, 1755.
WILCOME (see also Wilcomb), Anna, d. Jos[eph], bp. Mar.
9, 1760.
WILLIAMS, Kebeckah, d. Joseph, bp. Aug. 24, 1783.
WISE, William, s. Joseph, bp. Oct. 6, 1771.
SURNAME MISSING
, Abigail, d. Eich[ar]d, bp. Jan. 20, 1760.
IPSWICH MARRIAGES
BROWN, Lydia, wid., and James Lord, Jan. 26, 1780.
CHAMBERS, James, a Scotsman and late Prisoner, and Re-
beckah Roberts, Jan. 26, 1780.
CLEAVES, Anna, of Hamilton, and Ezekiel Dodge of Bever-
ly, Oct. 9, 1803.
COGSWELL, Nathaniel Peasly, of Atkinson, and Susannah
Lakeman, Nov. 20, 1777. [May 20. T. B.]
BODGE, Ezekiel, of Beverly, and Anna Cleaves of Hamilton,
Oct. 9, 1803.
DOLE, Moses, jr., of Rowley, and Susannah Heard, Oct. 31,
1793.
ELIOT, Jabez, and Sarah Ireland, May 29, 1778. [May 27. T.R.]
140 IPSWICH MARRIAGES
GOODHUE, Aaron, and Mary Kimball, 6th, May 4, 1788.
Mary, and John Stan wood, Nov. 25, 1790. [Nov. 24. T. R.]
HARRIS, Job, resident in Portsmouth, N.H.,and Mary Heard,
June 5, 1794. [June 6. T. B.]
Thomas, and Hannah Soward, Apr. 4, 1805.
HEARD, Mary, and Job Harris, resident in Portsmouth, N. H.,
June 5, 1794. [June 6. T. R.]
Susannah, and Moses Dole, jr., of Rowley, Oct. 31, 1793.
HUNT, Joseph, and Deborah Lakeman, Apr. 4, 1793. [Apr. 5.
T. R.]
IRELAND, Sarah, and Jabez Eliot, May 29, 1778. [May 27.
T. R."]
JEWETT, Mary, Mrs., and Col. Larkin Thorndike of Beverly,
Jan. 3, 1792.
KIMBALL, Mary, 6th, and Aaron Goodhue, May 4, 1788.
LAKEMAN, Deborah, and Joseph Hunt, Apr. 4, 1793. [Apr.
5. T. R.]
Susannah, and Nathaniel Peasly Cogswell of Atkinson [Ip-
gwich. c. R. 1.], Nov. 20, 1777. [May 20. T. R.]
LORD, James, and wid. Lydia Brown, Jan. 26, 1780.
Lucy, d. Dr. Samuel, deceased, and Richard Sutton of Ports-
mouth, originally of Ipswich, Dec. 13, 1802.
PITMAN, Mary, and William Ross, Dec. 17, 1784. [Dec. 27.
T. R.]
RIPLEY, Campbell, of Salem, and Mrs. Eunice Smith, Apr. 6,
1783. [Nov. 28, 1782. T. R.]
ROBERTS, Rebeckah, and James Chambers, a Scotsman and
late Prisoner, Jan. 26, 1780.
ROSS, William, and Mary Pitman, Dec. 17, 1784. [Dec. 27.
T. R.]
SMITH, Eunice, Mrs., and Campbell Ripley of Salem, Apr. 6,
1783. [Nov. 28, 1782. T. R.]
IPSWICH DEATHS 141
SOWARD, Hannah, and Thomas Harris, Apr. 4, 1805.
STANWOOD, John, and Mary Goodhue, Nov. 25, 1790. [Nov.
24. T. B.]
SUTTON, Richard, of Portsmouth, originally of Ipswich, and
Lucy Lord, d. Dr. Sam[ue]l, deceased, Dec. 13, 1802.
THORNDIKE, Larkin, Col., of Beverly, and Mrs. Mary Jew-
ett, Jan. 3, 1792.
IPSWICH DEATHS
ABBOT, Sarah, cancer, Apr. 13, 1783.
Sarah, d. Philip, consumption, June 25, 1790, a. 7 y.
, d. Philip, canker and fever, Sept. 7, 1796, in her 2d y.
[Sept. 8. T. B.]
ADAMS, Sarah, w. Dr. Samuel, consumption, Sept. 24, 1787,
a. 37 y.
, ch. Henry, Oct. 25, 1788, a. 2 y.
AIRS, , Mrs., old age, Sept. , 1787, a. abt. 80 y.
APPLETON, Aaron, on his passage from Gaudaloupe, yellow-
fever, abt. Sept. 16, 1802.
Elizabeth, d. Sam[ue]l, fits, Jan. 7, 1790, a. 19 y. [a. 21 y. T.B.]
Isaac, fever, Dec. 18, 1794, a. 91 y. [Dec. 19. T. B.]
John, by a fall from the scaffold of his barn, Apr. 12, 1798,
a. 48 y. [a. 47 y. G. B.]
, w. John, atrophy, Feb. 24, 1790, a. 75 y.
AVERIL, , ch. Ben j [ami] n, fits, Sept. 19, 1800, a. 7 d.
AYERS, see Airs.
BACHELDOR, , wid., dropsy, Jan. , 1800, a. 73 y.
142 IPSWICH DEATHS
BAKER, Samuel, s. Samuel, quinsy, Nov. 30, 1790, in his
10th y.
Sarah, wid., Nov. 1, 1801.
Thomas, s. W[illia]m, Aug. , 1784, a. 13 y.
William, jr., s. William, Dec. , 1780, a. abt. 23 y.
William, pleuratic disorder, Apr. 29, 1790, a. 63 y.
, Col. [bef. June 27], 1785.
-, ch. Stephen, cold, Dec. 17, 1800, a. 15 d.
-, d. Stephen, worms, Mar. 17, 1803, a. 4 y.
-, ch. Stephen, Dec. 18, 1803, a. 4 or 5 m.
BALLARD, , ch. Cate, at the poorhouse, Oct. 4, 1802,
a. 16 m.
BEAL, , wid., general weakness, Nov. 2, 1804, a. 86 y.
BENNET, John, general decay, at the poorhouse, Jan. 28,
1805, a. 81 y.
, Mrs., natural decay, at the poorhouse, Mar. 9, 1804,
a. 71 y.
BERRY, , wid., bef. Jan. 5, 1780, a. 94 y.
BETHEL, , w. , consumption, Sept. , 1791, a. 45 y.
BLACKFORD, Lucy, w. John Curtiss, rupture of a vessel,
Sept. 24, 1790, a. 33 y.
BLY, John, consumption, Feb. 27, 1789, a. 73 y.
, w. John, cholera morbus, Feb. 1, 1789, in her 72d y.
BOARDMAN, , w. Daniel, childbed, Mar. 6, 1799, a. 42 y.
BOILES (see also Boyles), , s. Charles, Nov. 14, 1803,
a. 1 h.
BOILS (see also Boyles), , ch. Charles, quinsy [bet. Feb.
23 and Mar. 12], 1800, a. 2 y.
BOYLES (see also Boiles, Boils), , ch. Charles, fits, Mar.
21, 1803, a. 15 w.
, w. Charles, childbed, July 25, 1805, a. 34 y.
BROWN, Dorcas, wid., consumption, Mar. 15, 1788, a. 75 y.
[Mar. 16. T. K.]
John, Dec. 27, 1777.
John, s. Benj[ami]n, Jan , 1779. [Dec. 31, 1778. T. B.]
IPSWICH DEATHS 143
BURNHAM, Samuel, Lt., s. Capt. Thomas, consumption,
brought on by the hardships of the camp, Mar. 14, 1782.
[Mar. 15. G. K.]
Samuel, s. Maj. Thomas, chin cough, Feb. 8, 1787, a. 9 m.
[Feb. 9. T. B.]
Sarah, consumption, Mar. 26, 1790, a. 24 y.
Susannah, w. Col. James, general decay, May , 1805, a.
41 y. [May 18. T. B.]
, s. Maj. Thomas, sore mouth, Oct. 9, 1794, a. 3 m.
CALDWELL, David, s. Tho[ma]s, Jan. 21, 1784, a. abt. 1 y.
John, old age and a broken bone, Dec. 18, 1792, a. 85 y.
Lucy, w. Thomas, puerpural fever, Sept. 18, 1788, a. 35 y.
[a. 36 y. G. B. 1.]
Lydia, wid., bilious fever, Jan. 19, 1787, a. 71 y. [Jan. 20.
T. B.]
Mercy, w. John, sr., Feb. 23, 1783.
, w. Thomas, Apr. 17, 1786, a. 39 y.
, w. Benj[ami]n, fever, May 19, 1796, a. 59 y.
CALEF, John, Capt., oldest s. Dr. John and Dorothy, drowned
on the back of Plumb Island in attempting to go on
shore from a vessel drove upon the beach, in his return
from the West Indies, Feb. 19, 1782, a. abt. 28 y.
CHAMBERS, James, consumption, Sept. 16, 1796, a. 48 y.
[Sept. 15. T. B.]
CHOAT, , Capt. [bef. June 27], 1785.
, wid., cholera morbus, Aug. , 1799, a. 82 y.
CLARK (see also Clerk), Elisabeth (Wainwright), w. Dr.
Parker, jaundice and dropsy, Mar. 1, 1798, a. 73 y. [Mar.
2. T. B.]
CLERK (see also Clark), Parker, Dr., palsy, Sept. 19, 1798,
a. 81 y.
COGGSWELL, Elisabeth, wid., lethargy, Mar. 12, 1800, a. 87 y.
John, from Chebacco, fever, at the poorhouse, Mar. 30, 1804,
a. 50 y.
Joseph, fever, caused by a fall, July 20, 1791, a. 55 y. [July
21, a. 54 y. T. B.]
, d. Eben[eze]r, quinsy [bet. May 9 and July 16], 1800,.
a. 3y.
144 IPSWICH DEATHS
COLEMAN, William, s. W[illia]m and Sarah, worms, Dee. 8,
1789, a. 15 m. [Dec. 9. T. R.]
CROCKER, John, Dea., Apr. , 1806, a. abt. 80 y. [Apr. 21,
in his 83d y. T. R.]
- , w. Dea. John, general decay, Jan. 11, 1803^ a. 72 y.
[Jan. 12. T. R.]
CROSS, Hannah, d. Benj [amin], fever, Sept. 28, 1792, a. 11 y.
- , d. Benj[ami]n, Sept. 6, 1777, a. abt. 20 m.
DAY, Aaron, drowned in a creek, 9 days before, bur. Sept. 2,
1790, in his 64th y. [Aug. 24. T. R.]
Elizabeth, wid., Jan. 7, 1786, a. 96 y. 10 m.
Mary, wid., palsy, Oct. 13, 1802, a. 85 y.
DENNIS, Hannah, consumption, June 3, 1789, a. 18 y. [June
4. T. R.]
Hannah, wid., consumption, Mar. 11, 1794.
Joseph, Capt., fever, at St. Eustacia [bef. Oct. 26], 1786.
Martha, consumption, Jan. 25, 1795, in her 20th y.
Nath[anie]l, Capt., fever, at Martinico, W. I. [bef. Apr. 1],
1795, a. 42 y.
_ , d. Nath[anie]l, May 3, 1782, a. abt. 1 y.
DODGE, Elisabeth, wid. Col., Sept. 22, 1785, a. abt. 56 y.
Tsaac, Col., cholera morbus, June 27, 1785, a. abt. 53 y. [June
29. T. R.]
Rebeckah, wid., dysentery, Oct. 16, 1794, a. 84 y. 1 d. [Oct.
16. T. R.]
DUTCH, Nath[anie]l, consumption, Sept. , 1795, a. 82 y.
Aug. 28, a. 81 y. T. R.]
Sarah, wid., universal decay, Mar. 15, 1799, a. 72 y.
_ , d. Stephen, Sept. 23, 1788, a. 8 m.
- , s. Daniel, chin cough, May 11, 1791, a. 14 m. [May 12.
T. R.]
EATON, - , ch. wid., canker, Aug. 13, 1797, a. 4 m.
EMMONS, - , wid., mother to Richard Lakeman's wife,
Nov. 1, 1780, in her 74th y.
- , s. Daniel, chin cough, May 23, 1802, a. 3 or 4 m.
EVELETH, - , s. Samuel, chin cough and canker, Sept. ,
1787, a. 17 m.
IPSWICH DEATHS 145
FARLEY (see also Farly), Elisabeth, wid., fever, July 3,
1795. [July 6. G. B. 1.]
Lucy, w. Jabez, d. the late Rev. Nath[ani]el Kogers, child-
birth, July 24, 1788, a. 29 y.
Michael, Gen., black jaundice, June 19, 1789, a. 70 y. [June
20. T. B.]
Thomas, s. Jabez, drowned in the tanners water pit, Nov. 5,
1802, a. abt. 3 y.
, d. Jabez, consumption, July , 1787, a. 18 m. [July
12, a. 15 m.]
, inf. s. Robert, sore mouth, Aug. 2, 1796.
, d. Jabez, worms, Mar. 13, 1805, a. 2y. [Mar. 3. dup.
T. B.]
FARLY (see also Farley), , s. Maj. R., teething and con-
vulsion, Dec. 31, 1799, a. 4 m.
FISHER, Hannah, wid., palsy, Dec. 31, 1788, a. 82 y.
FITTS, Abigail, sister-in-law Dea. Lord, Mar. 12, 1796, a. 64 y.
Andrew, Jan. 13, 1788, a. abt. 43 y. [Jan. 12. T. B.]
Hannah, wid., Sept. 21, 1801, a. 70 y.
James, palsy and apoplexy, Apr. 1, 1785, a. 63 y.
Jeremiah, general decay, Feb. 23, 1801, a. 93 y. 1 m.
John, old age, Apr. 19, 1787, in his 83d y.
Mary, wid., fever, Apr. 23, 1802, a. 83 y.
Sam[ue]l, Jan. 2, 1796, a. 62 y.
, Mrs., "old," smallpox, beginning of the summer, 1777.
FOSTER, Abigail, w. John, cancer, Nov. 28, 1786, a. abt. 51 y.
[Nov. 29. T. B.]
Elisabeth, melancholy and fever, July 20, 1789, a. 51 y.
Eunice, wid., consumption, Dec. 2, 1801, a. 63 y.
FOULER (see also Fowler), Joseph, jr., Aug. 4, 1785.
FOWLER (see also Fouler), , wid., fever, Dec. 1, 1797.
a. 76 y.
FRASER, , fever, Dec. 4, 1799.
FRISBffi, Levi, Rev., who took pastoral charge of 1st Ch
Feb. 7, 1776, d. Feb. 26, 1806, a. 58 y. [Feb. 25. T. B.] '
Nath[anie]l, s. Rev. Levi, consumption, June 2, 1786, a. 5 m.
146 IPSWICH DEATHS
FULLER, Sarah, wid., Nov. 19, 1777, a. 84 y.
Sarah, w. James, dysentery, Oct. 20, 1794.
, s. Nath[anie]l, Sept. 8, 1783, a. abt. 17 m.
GAINS, Abigail [bet. July and Sept.], 1778.
Salome, wid., dysentery, Oct. 4, 1793, a. 84 y. [Oct. 5. T. R.]
GALLAWAY (-see also Galloway), Jonathan, of Paris,
" drowned near Newburyport aboard a Privateer Ship
which sunk suddenly off Plumb Island," Aug. , 1777.
GALLOWAY ( see also Gallaway) , Isaac, youngest s. wid.,
drowned in Plum Island Eiver, Sept. 12, 1785, a. abt. 12
or 14 y.
William, dropsy, Oct. 30, 1796. [Oct. 31. T. B.]
GLASIER (see also Glazier), Mary, wid., consumption, July
21, 1794, a. 60 y.
Sarah, wid., consumption, Mar. 12, 1798, a. abt. 60 y.
GLAZIER (see also Glasier), Edmund Heard, s. twin, Ben-
j[ami]n, chin cough, July 25, 1802, a. 3 m.
Elisabeth Osgood, d. twin, Benj[ami]n, chin cough, July 16,
1802, a. 3 m.
, s. John, consumption, Nov. , 1801, a. 20 m.
SOODHUE, Abagail, Miss [bet. Apr. and June], 1806, a 80 y.
Elisabeth, w. Capt. Francis, general weakness, Feb. 1, 1787,
a. abt. 81 y.
Hannah, wid., Feb. 8, 1783, a. 69 y. abt. 10 m.
, w. John, jr., consequence of fall from a tree, Oct. 16,
1777.
, ch. stillborn, John, jr., Dec. 21, 1785.
; , ch. Ebenezer, consumption, Mar. 1, 1789, a. 3 y.
GOULD, Daniel, s. Thomas, scarlet fever, Feb. 9, 1802, a. 5 y.
, w. Thomas, childbed, bur. Feb. 28, 1785, a. abt. 22 y.
, ch. stillborn, Thomas, bur. Feb. 28, 1785.
, d. Thomas, scarlet fever, Feb. 19, 1802, in her 3d y.
GRAVES, Elisabeth, wid., general decay, Apr. 17, 1805, a. 64 y.
John, consumption of the liver, Mar. 7, 1804, a. 61 y.
Moses, fever, in the West Indies, Jan. , 1794.
, wid., infirmities of age, May 12, 1791, a. 84 y.
IPSWICH DEATHS 147
GRAVES, , s. John, jr., worms [bet. June 2 and July
22], 1799, a. 5 y.
, w. John, jr., childbed, Mar. 18, 1800, a. 33 y.
GREELY, Ruth, wid., great cold, Nov. 20, 1800, a. 96 y.
GULLIHAL, Apha, at the poorhouse, asthma, June 24, 1801,
a. 80 odd y.
HALE, Joseph, s. Joseph, fever, Jan. 25, 1805, a. 5 m.
Mehitable, wid. Rev. Moses, ' Pastor of a Chh. at Newbury
Newtown. She had resided with Her Daughter at
Ipswich more than 15 months," peripneumonia, Mar. 10,
1796, a 77 y. [Mar. 11. T. B.]
HARRIDAN, Andrew, dysentery, at sea, beginning of the
summer, 1788.
HARRIS, Abner, Jan. 28, 1777. [Jan. 31. T. B.]
Abner, consumption, Oct. 22, 1784.
Dorothy, dysentery, Oct. , 1804, a. 73 y.
Hannah, w. John H., Jan. 30, 1832. p. B. 119.
John H., Mar. 28, 1830. P. B. 119. [Mar. 23. c. B. 1.]
Mary, wid. Abner, colic, Dec. 8, 1786, in her 70th y.
Moses, Capt., aboard a prison ship at New York [bef. Mar.
1.], 1783.
Ruth, wid., fever, Jan. 5, 1786, a. abt. 81 y.
Sarah, d. John, fever, July 19, 1789, a. 10 y.
Susannah, wid., palsy, May 22, 1797.
, s. Abner, Aug. 29, 1783, a. 3 or 4 m.
, s. James, quinsy, Feb. , 1790, a. 2 1-2 y.
, ch. John, 3d, Nov. 26, 1791, a. 5 w.
, inf.^ch. Moses, Jan. [bet. 9 and 25], 1795.
HART, Diborah, June 19, 1803, a. 70 y. or more.
Mary, dysentery, July 26, 1801, a. 60 y.
HASKELL, , w. Mark, cancer, Sept. 10, 1796.
HEARD (see also Hurd), Abigail, wid., rheumatism, Feb. 9.
1797, a. 79 y.
Daniel, pneumonia, Nov. , 1794, a. 75 or 76 y.
Elisabeth, d. John, consumption, June 20, 1805, a. 22 y. [a.
23 y. T. B.]
Rebeckah, wid., old age and a fall, Sept. , 1788, a. 87 y.
148 IPSWICH DEATHS
HEARD, Sarah, d. John, Esq., consumption, May 22, 1801,
a. 20 y.
, d. John, jr., May 2, 1783, a. nearly 2 y.
, d. Nath[anie]l, jr., worms, Aug. 18, 1795, a. 8 y.
, w. John, consumption, Sept. 10, 1796, a. 45 y. [Sept.
12. T. B.]
, w. Samuel, general decay, Apr. 9, 1804, a. 76 y. [Apr.
10. T. B.]
HENDERSON, Lucy, consumption, June , 1792, a. 25 y.
Susanna, dropsy, Sept. 17, 1799, a. 21 y.
, wid., diarrhoea, Aug. 12, 1797, a. 95 y. wanting 11 d,
HODGEKINS (see also Hodgkins), Eliz[abe]th, wid., apo-
plexy, Dec. 26, 1788, a. 67 y.
, w. John, jr., dropsy, July , 1787, a. from 50 to 55 y.
HODGKINS (see also Hodgekins), Abigail, wid., consump-
tion, May 4, 1790, a. 71 y.
Deborah, wid., apoplectic fit, June 22, 1786, a. 69 y.
Elisabeth, wid., dysentery, Nov. 6, 1797, a. 71 y. [Nov. 7. T.B.]
John, jr., consumption, June 20, 1792, a. 61 y.
John, fever, Jan. 9, 1797, a. 84 y.
Lucy, wid., consumption, July , 1801, a. 71 y.
Nath[anie]l, s. wid., washed overboard and drowned on his
passage from Virginia to West Indies [bef. Apr. 14],1796.
Sarah, wid., consumption, Nov. 13, 1805, a. 70 y.
Thomas, Capt., black jaundice, June 9, 1797, a. 51 y. [June
11, a. 50 y. T. B.]
, inf. ch. Thomas, jr., Feb. 4, 1803.
HOLLAND, Joseph, fever, in the West Indies, Jan. , 1794.
Michael, old age and a violent cold, Jan. 4 1798, a. 86 y
[Dec. 23, 1797. T. B.]
Richard, general decay, Nov. 10, 1803.
, s. wid. Sarah, abt. Nov. 8, 1777, a. 2 y.
, ch. John, Oct. 19, 1788, a. 4 d.
HOLMES, John, consumption, May 3, 1794, a. 59 y. [a. 58 y.
T. B.]
, wid., Aug. , 1779.
HOVEY, Kebekah, wid., Nov. 19, 1785, a. abt. 73 y.
, d. Capt. Eben[eze]r, dysentery, Oct. 5, 1795, a. 8 y.
IPSWICH DEATHS 149
HOWARD, , Mrs., sister to John McLean's wife, Nov. 21,
1777.
, wid., Aug. , 1782, a. 83 y.
HUNT, Elizabeth, wid., Nov. 23, 1789, a. 86 y. [Nov. 22. T. B.]
KURD (see also Heard), Daniel S., general decay, at Canton,
Dec. 13, 1801.
INGERSOL (see also Ingersoll), Daniel, s. Jonathan, scarlet
fever, Oct. 27, 1787, a. 6 y.
INGERSOLL (see also Ingersol), Sarah, d. Capt. Jon[a]th[a]n,
consumption, Feb. 11, 1791, a. 20 y.
JEWET (see also Jewit), Aaron, s. John Coles, June ,
1787, a. 5 w.
Dummer, Esq., fall from a window, Oct. 26, 1788, a. 56 y.
[a. 57 y. P. K. 52.]
, ch. Nath[anie]l, Dec. 17, 1777, a. abt. 3 m.
, s. twin, John Coles, fits, May 14, 1791, a. 2 m.
, w. John C., apoplexy, June 9, 1805, a. 57 y.
JEWIT (see also Jewet), David, consumption, Mar. 23, 1791,
a. 19 y. [Mar. 24. T. B.]
JONES, Abagail, d. Thorn [a]s, chin cough, Sept. , 1792.
Abigail, drowned, "by falling under the Ice, about 7 weeks
before," bur. Apr. 16, 1787, in her 9th y.
Joanna, wid., Aug. 1, 1777.
Mary, of Chebacco, fever, at the poorhouse, Mar. 2, 1796, a.
77 y. [Mar. 3. T. B. ; a. 72 y. c. B. 4.]
, s. Tho[ma]s, Nov. 27, 1787, a. 4 y.
KENDALL. Joseph, yellow fever, at Point Peter, Guadaloupe,
W. I., Sept. 15, 1803, a. abt. 23 y.
KILBURN (see also Killbourn), Moses, washed overboard, lat-
ter end of Aug., 1796.
KILLBOURN (see also Kilburn), Joseph, dysentery, at
Georgetown, Va. [bef. Oct. 24], 1795, a. 26 y.
KIMBAL (see also Kimball), , w. Aaron, Sept. 26, 1778.
, ch. Eben[eze]r, Mar. 30, 1784, a. 14 m.
150 IPSWICH DEATHS
KIMBALL (see also Kimbal), Aaron, consumption, May 4,
1787, a. 70 y. [May 11. T. B.]
Elizabeth, wid., Nov. 22, 1777, a. abt. 74 y.
Moses, a swelling in his throat, May 31, 1801, a. 25 y. [June
1. T. B.]
Susannah, atrophy, June 27, 1790, a. 18 y.
Susannah, w. Ben [j ami] n, jr., childbed, Mar. 19, 1801, a. 44 y.
, w. Capt. Thomas, consumption, Apr. 2, 1798, a. 30 y.
, w. Eben[eze]r, jr., diarrhoea, Aug. 24, 1798, a. 54 y.
, d. Capt. Thomas, Oct. 4, 1803, a. 10 m.
, w. Joseph, asthma, Mar. 15, 1806, a. 73 y. [Mar. 14. T.B.]
LAKEMAN, Jonathan, nervous fever, Mar. 3, 1797, a. 53 y.
Martha, consumption, June 13, 1804, a. 73 y.
, d. Capt. Eben[eze]r, abt. Oct. 30, 1783, a. upwards of 2 y.
, inf. ch. Capt. Eben[eze]r, bur. May 14, 1785.
, w. Eich[ar]d, 3d, consumption, June 25, 1793, a. 28 y.
, s. Sam[ue]l, fever, Aug. 28, 1794, a. 3 y.
, w. Richard, consumption, Sept. 9, 1796. [Sept. 11. T.B.]
, w. Samuel [bet. June 2 and July 22], 1799, a. 75 or 76 y.
, ch. William, jr., scarlet fever, Feb. 6, 1802, a. 11 m.
LANE, Zebulon, colic, Mar. 1, 1788, a. 59 y.
LASKY, , Mrs., general decay, at the poorhouse, Dec. 30,
1796, a. abt. 70 y. [Dec. 8. T. B.]
LEATHERLAND (see also Letherland), Sarah, wid., consump-
tion, Feb. 24, 1787, a. 70 y.
, inf. s. W[illia]m, Jan. 8, 1788.
LEFAVER (see also Le Favour), , ch. Joseph, pulmonic
fever, Dec. , 1793.
, s. twin, Joseph, Oct. 13, 1794, a. 4 w.
LE FAVOUR (see also Lefaver), -, s. twin, Joseph, Sept.
20, 1794, a. a few h.
LETHERLAND (see also Leatherland), Hannah, apoplexy,
Nov. 29, 1799, a. 64 y.
LEWIS, , wid., Mar. 19, 1778, a. 86 y.
LONEY, Anthony [May or June] , 1783.
Mary, wid., general decay, July 21, 1790, a. 84 y.
IPSWICH DEATHS 151
LORD, Abigail, d. Nath[anie]l, 3d, Sept. 13, 1789, a. 8 m.
Anna, d. Moses, malignant sore throat, Feb. 16, 1796, a. 20 y.
Anne, wid., Aug. 1, 1785, a. 89 y. 8 m. [Aug. 2. T. B.]
Caleb, jr., June 20, 1798, a. ,35 y.
Caleb, Dea., fever, May 27, 1804, a. 79 y. [May 29. T. B. ;
May 28, in his 79th y. G. B. 1.]
Ebenezer, s. John, Oct. 14, 1782, a. 3 or 4 w.
Eunice, d. Moses, Sept. 22, 1783, a. abt. 18 y.
Hannah, consumption, July , 1787, a. 45 y.
James, Aug. 14, 1784, a. 78 y.
Joseph, Apr. 20, 1778.
Joseph, s. James, jr., Jan. 8, 1782, a. 20 m.
Josiah, s. Samuel, drowned in Plum Island Kiver, Sept. 12,
1785, a. abt. 22 y.
Lucy, d. Moses, Aug. 21, 1782, a. 21 or 22 y.
Mary, wid., dysentery, Aug. 16, 1793, a. 69 y.
Nath[anie]l, jr., humor in the stomach, Sept. 22, 1794, a. 74 y.
[Sept. 23, a. 73 y. T. B.]
Nath[anie]l, "died in the West Indies at Jamaica some
months ago," smallpox, recorded Apr. , 1802, a. 24 y.
Philip, jr., left a wid. and 9 chn., drowned in Plum Island
Eiver, Sept. 12, 1785, a. abt. 37 or 38 y.
Sam[ue]l, Dr., May 12, 1794, a. 34 y.
Samuel, jr., distinguished by the name of Cape Ann, con-
sumption, July 28, 1803, a. 73 y.
Sarah, d. Sam[ue]l, 2d, apoplexy, Nov. 15, 1793.
Susannah, d. Capt. Eben[eze]r, Feb. 7, 1782, a. abt. 2 y.
Thomas, s. Samuel, drowned in Plum Island Eiver, Sept. 12,
1785, a. abt. 27 y.
, w. Capt. Eben[eze]r, childbed, May 22, 1778.
, w. James, by a fall down cellar, June , 1779.
, d. Moses, Apr. , 1784, a. abt. 2 y.
, d. Capt. Eben[eze]r, Aug. , 1784.
, d. Capt. Eben[eze]r, Apr. 30, 1788, a. 4 m.
, s. Benj [ami]n, consumption, Dec. 3, 1791, a. 9 m.
, w. Moses, jr., pulmonary inflammation, Feb. 25, 1794,
a. 40 y. [Feb. 26, a. 41 y. T. B.]
, w. Daniel, 3d, consumption, Dec. 25, 1794, a. 30 y.
, w. Eben[eze]r, 3d, general decay, July 5, 1796, a. 22 y.
, young d. Capt. Sam[ue~]l, chin cough, Sept. 5, 1796.
[Sept. 3. T. B.]
, only d. Eben[eze]r, 3d, cough and dysentery, Sept. 29,
1796, in her 2d y. [Oct. 1. T. B.]
, s. Daniel, jr., dysentery, Oct. 14, 1797, in his 2d y.
, w. Nath[anie]l," fever, Jan. 18, 1798, a. 84 y.
152 IPSWICH DEATHS
LORD, , inf. ch. Ben j [ami] n, Jan. 16, 1800.
, d. Joseph, hydrocephalus [bet. May 9 and July 16],
1800, a. 7 y.
, ch. Sam[ue]l, 4th, scarlet fever, Feb. 10, 1802, a. 9 m.
, d. Asa, measles, cough, Sept. 14, 1802, in her 3d y.
, ch. Capt. Sam [ue] 1, 4th, fever, Sept. [17 or 27], 1802.
LOW, Joseph, Dea., July 3, 1782, in his 71st y.
Peter, nephritic disorder, Mar. 6, 1794, a. 66 y. [Mar. 7. T.R.]
, wid. Josh[u]a, dropsy, Apr. 2, 1791.
LUMMIS, Daniel, apoplexy, May [bet. 20 and 24], 1805, a.
85 y. [May 16, a. 84 y. T. R.]
Jonathan, consumption, Apr. 30, 1790, a. 71 y.
Margaret, paralytic, Jan. 7, 1795, a. 69 y. [Jan. 9. T. R.]
, Mr. [bef. June 27], 1785.
MACKNEAL (see also McNeal), , d. John, humour, Mar.
16, 1787, a. 10 w.
McNEAL (see also Mack Neal), John, consumption, July 14,
1796, a. 53 y.
, w. John, cancer, Dec. 24, 1785, a. abt. 45 y.
, s. w. of John, Feb. , 1796, a. 13 y.
MANNING, Lydia, w. Eichard, June 17, 1815. P. R. 119.
[Sept. 12, 1809. T. R.]
Sarah, wid., dropsy and scrofula, Sept. 7, 1789, a. 67 y. [a.
64 y. T. R.]
MANSFIELD, Hannah, wid., general decay, Nov. 24, 1803,
a. 77 y.
NASON, Martha, consumption, Nov. , 1794, a. 64 y.
NEWMAN, Benjamin, infirmities of age, Sept. , 1792, a.
90 y. [a. 91 y. T. R.]
George, consumption, Sept. 22, 1791, a. 84 y.
Samuel, s. Benj [ami]n, in the West Indies, Dec. , 1782.
, young d. Beni[ami]n, abt. Oct. , 1777.
, w. George, consumption, Mar. 22, 1790, a. 79 y.
, ch. Eobert, fits, July 20, 1790, a. 3 w.
IPSWICH DEATHS 153
NEWMARCH, John, general decay, Oct. 11, 1793, a. 85 y.
John, nephritis, Oct. 14, 1795, a. 88 y.
, w. John, suddenly, Dec. 14, 1784, in her 75th y.
, wid., drowned, July 8, 1797, a. 60 y.
NOYES (see also Noys), Daniel, jr., consumption, Dec. 9,
1789, a. 27 y.
John, cramp colic, at Boston, Nov. 17, 1803, in his 33d y.
[a. 37 y. T. K.]
NOYS (see also Noyes), , w. Daniel, nervous disorders,
Aug. 20, 1801, a. 63 y.
PEARSON, Enoch, June 30, 1840. P. B. 119. [Dec. 10, 1843.
T. B.]
PARKER, Gideon, Capt., asthma and dropsy, Feb. 10, 1798,
a. 77 y.
PERKINS, Elisabeth, wid., general decay, Feb. 2, 1801, a. 74 y.
Elizabeth, wid. Nath[anie]l, Aug. 21, 1780.
Enoch, at sea, on his voyage home, Dec. 14, 1800.
Jeremiah, Dea., pleuratic disorder, Jan. 13, 1790, a. 88 y.
[Jan. 18. T. B.]
John, s. Nath[anie]l, fever, in the West Indies [bef. May
30], 1791.
Joseph, consumption, May 21, 1786, a. 23 y.
Joseph, fell from the bowsprit of a vessel and was drowned,
Apr.. , 1788, a. 30 y.
Mary, consumption, Dec. 15, 1803, a. 31 y.
Nath[anie]l, jr., supposed to be lost at sea [bef. Apr. 29],
1796.
S., wid., mother Capt. Eobert, sister of wid. Hannah Tread-
well, suddenly, bur. Sept. 5, 1784, in her 92d y.
d. Abraham, Jan. 30, 1778, a. abt. 3 y.
s. Nath[anie]l, Sept. 25, 1778, a. abt. 3 y.
w. Dea. Jeremiah, May 25, 1782, a. 71 y.
young ch. Abraham, abt. Aug. 29, 1783.
inf. ch. Joseph, Aug. , 1783.
d. Abraham, bur. May 18, 1785, a. 8 m.
s. wid. Mary, Aug. 12, 1789, a. 2 y.
d. Aaron, chin cough, May 5, 1802, a. 8 or 9 m.
d. Martha, hydrocephalus, July 4, 1803, a. 2 y.
s. Tho[ma]s, Aug. 12, 1777, a. abt. 18 m.
s. Tho[ma]s, Sept. 25, 1778, a. 3 or 4 m.
154 IPSWICH DEATHS
PINDAR (see also Finder), Catharine, wid. John, Dec. 10,
1785, a. 79 y.
John, jr., consumption, bur. June 4, 1785.
, inf. ch. Benj[ami]n, July , 1778.
, s. Moses, Oct. , 1783, a. abt. 15 m.
, d. Moses, whooping cough, Sept. , 1787, a. 2 y. 11 m.
-, fever, Dec. 19, 1793, a. 83 y.
-, w. Benj[ami]n, general decay, Jan. 8, 1803, a. 64 y.
FINDER (see also Pindar), Benjamin, consumption, July 18,
1804, a. 66 y.
POTTER, Richard, paralysis, Sept. 5, 1789, a. 82 y. [a. 84 y.
T. B.]
Kobert, Feb. 6, 1777, a. abt. 71 y.
Sarah, Miss, general decay, Oct. 17, 1786, a. 78 y.
, w. Daniel, cancer, Nov. 29, 1792, a. 53 y. [a. 52 y. T. B.]
PRINCE, Jonath[ajn, fever, Dec. 1, 1789, a. 72 y.
PULCIFER (see also Pulsifer), David, drowned at the south-
ward [bef. Apr. 2], 1783.
PULCIPHER (see also Pulsifer), Bickford, dropsy, Nov. 10,
1795, a. 73 y. [Pulseper, Benedictus. T. B.]
Priscilla, wid., general decay, July 22, 1799, a. 74 y.
PULSIFER (see also Pulcifer, Pulcipher, Pulsipher), Arche-
lus, consumption, Dec. 23, 1785, a. 26 or 27 y.
Benj[ami]n, May 21, 1782, a. above 70 y.
David, Dec. , 1783, a. upwards of 60 y.
PULSIPHER (see also Pulsifer), Abigail, wid., palsy, Jan. 18,
1787, a. 71 y. [Jan. 20. T. B.]
Sarah, Miss, influenza, Nov. 26, 1 789, a. 87 y.
Susannah, wid., consequence of a fall, Nov. 11, 1804, a. 85 y.
RIPLY, Campbell, fever, abt. Nov. , 1801, a. 22 y.
ROBBINS,Elizabeth,wid., pleurisy,Nov. 13, 1786,in her 75th y.
William, rupture, at the fishing Banks, Oct. , 1795.
, s. William, Aug. , 1783, a. 1 y. abt. 10 m.
, wid., general decay, Jan. 3, 1802, a. 63 y.
ROGERS, Ammi, a number of years distracted, Feb. 26, 1784.
IPSWICH DEATHS 155
ROSS, David, consumption, Aug. 12, 1800, a. 42 y.
Jeremiah, s. Jeremiah, drowned, May 26, 1802, a. 6 y.
Sam[ue]l, dysentery, Nov. 13, 1795, a. 86 y.
, s. Jabez, abt. Dec. 10, 1777, a. 6 m.
, s. Sam[ue]l, Nov. , 1783, a. 8 or 9 m.
, d. David, Dec. 10, 1785, a. abt. 5 or 6 y.
, w. Sam[ue]l, palsy, Nov. 7, 1795, a. 80 y. [Nov. 8. T.B.]
, d. Jer[emia]h, quinsy, June 2, 1799, a. 2 y. 4 m.
, s. Jer[emia]h, quinsy, Nov. 26, 1800, a. 4 m.
, d. Thomas, sore mouth, Sept. 28, 1803, a. 3 w.
RUST, Daniel, scarlet fever, at the poorhouse, May 16, 1802,
a. 71 y.
William, a young man [bef. Mar. 1], 1783.
SAFFORD, Daniel, pain in his breast, May 24, 1796, a. 90 y.
Elizabeth, d. Stephen and Sally (Jarvis), Apr. 3,1757. p.R.122.
Nathan, s. Stephen and Sally (Jarvis), , 1759. p. B. 122.
Sally (Jarvis), Aug. 16, 1766, a. 40 y. 1 m. 16 d. P. B. 122.
Stephen, July 22, 1767, a. 50 y. P. B. 116.
, inf. s. Ebenezer, May 17, 1777.
, d. Simeon, Sept. 19, 1785, a. abt. 10 m.
, wid. Daniel, great cold, Jan. 21, 1798, a. 82 y. [Jan.
20. T. B.]
SAWYER, , wid., [1789], a. 93 or 94 y.
SENTER, Elisabeth, dropsy, May 9, 1786, a. supposed to be
bet. 70 and 80 y.
SHATSWELL, Susanna,, w. Jonathan, Nov. 26, 1842. p. B. 113.
[Nov. 22, 1841. T. B.]
SHATTSWELL, Elisabeth, wid., asthma, Mar. 17, 1790, a. 77 y.
John, inf. s. twin, Moses, humour, Oct. 16, 1799.
Richard, jr., nervous disorder, Dec. 29, 1788, a. 36 y.
Richard, general decay, Nov. 28, 1804, a. 76 y.
, d. twin, Moses, scarlet fever, Feb. 24, 1802, a. 7 m.
SMITH, Abigail, wid., palsy, Nov. 1, 1791, a. 80 y.
Hannah, d. Maj. Charles, Sept. 13, 1782, a. 6 y.
James, consumption, Mar. 9, 1795, a. 63 y.
156 IPSWICH DEATHS
SMITH, John, s. Simon, in the West Indies, fever, " Heard
of the death," Dec. , 1801.
John, cancer, Feb. 21, 1805, a. 73 y.
Lucy, w. John, jr., apoplexy, Nov. 7, 1787, a. 26 y.
Martha, Mar. 22, 1788, a. 18 y. [Mar. 23. T. R.]
Thomas, s. Tho[ma]s, Feb. 13, 1784, a. upwards of 30 y.
Thomas, general decay, Feb. 20, 1791, a. 75 y.
, wid. Kaymond, June 7, 1782, a. 87 y. 8 m.
d. James, 4th, Oct. , 1783, a. abt. 2 y.
d. John, jr., Mar. 4, 1786, a. 4 or 5 d.
w. Thomas, paralytic, Dec. 1, 1789, a. 69 y.
wid., Apr. 22, 1793, a. 80 y. [a. 83 y. T. R. 9.]
ch. Capt. Sam[ue]l, fever, Dec. 26, 1794, a. 5 m. [Dec.
25. T. R.]
, s. Simon, canker rash, May 13, 1795, a. 7 y. [May 15.
[a. 6 y. in pencil.] T. R.]
, s. Capt. Sam[ue]l, sore mouth, Nov. 5, 1797, a. 5 w.
SOWARD, Elizab[et]h, w. John, consumption, Dec. 30, 1788.
Eichard, s. John L., fever, at Guadaloupe [bef . Apr. 17, 1805],
a. 15 y.
, s. John L., rheumatic, Nov. 10, 1793, a. 6 y.
SPILLAR (see also Spiller), , washed overboard, latter
end of Aug., 1796.
SPILLER (see also Spillar), Mary, wid., cancer, Oct. 21,1801,
a. 77 y.
STACY, Edward, Sept. 28, 1797, in his 19th y.
STALKER (see also Stocker), , w. Robert, consumption,
Aug. 6, 1795, a. 60 y.
, d. Robert, chin cough, Nov. 6, 1796, a. 3 m.
, ch. Rob[er]t, jr., sore mouth, May 25, 1801, a. 12 d.
STANFORD (see also Staniford), , d. wid. Lucy, Mar. 13,
1782, a. 20 m.
STANIFORD (see also Stanford), Ebenezer, in the West Indies,
abt. Feb. , 1782.
Judith, d. Ebenezer, dysentery, Oct. 23, 1797, a. 5 y.
, wid., Sept. 11, 1778. [Sept. 18. G. R. 1.]
, s. Ebenezer, sore mouth, July 21, 1804, a. 4 m.
IPSWICH DEATHS 157
STANWOOD, John, s. Isaac, dropsy in head, July 29, 1802, a
7 y. [Aug. 28. T. B.]
Joseph, s. Isaac, fever, Oct. 24, 1802, a. abt. 1 y.
Mary, w. John, pregnancy, Nov. 6, 1791, a. 28 y.
, w. Ebenezer, asthmatic disorder, July , 1787, a. 80 y.
STILL, Rebeckah, d. Abraham Caldwell, deceased, Feb. 7,
1784, a. bet. 20 and 30 y.
STIMPSON, Elisabeth, wid., complicated disorders, Aug. ,
1787, a. 25 y.
STOCKER (see also Stalker), , inf. ch. Robert, jr., Sept.
1, 1793.
STONE, Abigail, consumption, Apr. , 1788, a. 40 y. [Apr.
10. T. B.]
Mary, abt. Feb. 5, 1784, a. abt. 24 or 25 y.
William, " a fit, on the banks where they were fishing," bef.
July 26, 1801.
, d. W[illia]m, Oct. 11, 1783, a. abt. 9 m.
, w. Samuel, childbed, Dec. 14, 1784.
, inf. ch. Samuel, Dec. 14, 1784.
, d. Sam [u] el, jr., quinsy, Dec. 21, 1796, a. 6 w.
, d. William, worms, May 17, 1798, a. 5 y.
STORY, Joanna, d. Dea. W[illiajm, Oct. 8, 1783, a. 2 y.
Joanna, d. Dea. W[illia]m, diarrhoea, Aug. 18, 1786, a. abt.
10 m. [Aug. 19. T. R.]
SWEET (see also Swet), Elizab[e]th, wid., a fall, lethargy,
Aug. 13, 1795, a. 78 y.
Mary, wid., palsy, Feb. 23, 1790, a. 73 y. [Feb. 24. T. B.]
Moses, s. wid., brother Jabez and Jo., Dec. , 1782.
Polly, d. Jabez, chin cough, Aug. , 1787, a. 11 m.
, ch. Benj[ami]n, whooping cough and fever, Sept. 18,
1796, a. 15 m.
, inf. ch. ,Mar. 3, 1798.
, w. John, consumption, Jan. 20, 1802, a. 50 y. or more.
SWET (see also Sweet), , w. Benj[ami]n, [May or June]
, 1783.
, inf. d. Benj[ami]n, Aug. 1, 1783.
158 IPSWICH DEATHS
THORNDIKE, Larkin, Col., h. of the wid. of Dummer Jewet,
Esq., palsy, Dec. 18, 1796, in his 67th y. [Dec. 19. T. B.]
THORNTON, Timothy, atrophy, Sept. , 1787, a. 61 y.
TILTON, Anna, wid., apoplexy, July 5, 1802,a. 73 y. [a. 70 y.
T. B.]
TREADWELL (see also Treadwill), Elisha, fever, Dec. 20,
1792, a. 44 y. [Dec. 19, a. 38 y. T. R. ; a. 39 y. G. B. 1.]
Jabez, Dec. 22, 1780. [1781. G. R. 1.]
Jabez, jaundice, Jan. 12, 1803, a. 67 y. [Jan. 13, a. 63 y. T.B.]
Leveret, s. Jacob, whooping cough, Oct. 21, 1787, a. 6 m.
[Oct. 22. T. B.]
Lucy, wid., pulmonic fever, Sept. 22, 1789, a. 76 y. [a. 74 y.
T. B.]
Lucy, d. Aaron, jr., scarlet fever, Feb. , 1802, a. 4 y. [a.
3 y. T. B.]
Margaret, consumption, Feb. 19, 1786, a. abt. 30 y.
Mary, Miss, bilious, Nov. 20, 1798, a. 74 y.
Mary, d. wid. Lydia, scrofula, June 25, 1804, a. 21 y.
Nath[anie]l, Capt., Jan. 29, 1777. [Jan. 31. T. B.]
Priscilla, wid., niphritic disorder, July 3, 1803, a. 99 y. [a.
80 y. T. B.]
, inf. d. Jacob, May 6, 1783.
, d. Capt. Nath[anie]l, Jan. 22, 1789, a. 13 m.
, ch. Capt. Moses, Nov. 11, 1805, a. 8 d. [Nov. 17. T. B.]
TREADWILL (see also Tread well), Jonathan, s. Moses, Dec.
30, 1794, a. 17 y.
URIN, Ruth, wid., atrophy, May 19, 1789, a. 90 y.
VERNEY, John, universal decay, Oct. , 1803, a. 74 or 75 y.
VESPER, , s. Tho[ma]s, fever, Nov. 10, 1793, a. 17 m.
WAINWRIGHT, Lucy, Sept. 29, 1783.
WATT, Eunice, w. John, consumption, Mar. 24, 1785, in her
37th y. [in her 36th y. G. B. 1.]
Hannah, lingering nervous disorder, Jan. 5, 1786, a. upwards
of 50 y.
John, jr., consumption, Sept. 5, 1785, a. abt. 26 or 27 y.
John, consumption, Aug. 6, 1789, a. 37 y. [Aug. 5. T. B.]
IPSWICH DEATHS 159
WAIT, John, s. Joseph, Feb. 22, 1806, a. 18 m.
Lucy, Miss, revulsion of humors, Sept. 2, 1799, a. 69 y.
Mary, June , 1797, a. 73 y.
Oliver, s. John, nervous fever, Aug. 5, 1789, a. 1 y.
Samuel, jr., supposed to be lost at sea sometime in spring or
summer, 1795.
Sarah, consumption, Oct. 29, 1793, in her 19th y. [Oct. 27.
T. B.]
Susannah, cancer, Mar. 3, 1794, a. 67 y.
, s. John, jr., Aug. , 1784, a. 17 m.
, s. wid. Kebeckah, fever, Feb. 28, 1786, a. abt. 17 m.
, d. wid. Mary, quinsy, Feb. 11, 1796, a. 1 y.
WALDEN, Hannah, putrid fever, Sept. 2, 1793, a. 14 y. [Sept.
4. T. B.]
WALLACE (see also Wallis), Joseph, s. Sam[ue]l, in the West
Indies [bef. Nov.], 1783.
Mary, Aug. , 1784, a. abt. 22 y.
Sam[ue]l, Mar. 21, 1792.
, w. Samuel, Sept. 14, 1784.
WALLIS (see also Wallace), Elisabeth, wid., consumption,
Apr. 29, 1796.
WARNER,William, asthmatic complaints, Sept.8,1802, a. 75 y.
, d. W[illia]m, jr., Apr. , 1779, a. 11 m.
, s. twin, Ben j [ami] n, jr., diarrhoea, Oct. 29, 1793.
WEBBER, , Miss, consumption, May 1, 1800, a. 53 y.
WELLS, Jonathan, cramp colic, Apr. 23, 1793, a. 51 y.
, wid., palsy, Feb. 19, 1801, a. 93 y. 11 m.
WHEELWRIGHT, Martha, wid., complicated disorders, Aug.
, 1787, a, 29 y.
WHIPPLE, Ruth, wid., general decay, Jan. , 1800, a. 83 y.
WILCOMB (see also Wilcome], , d. William, canker rash,
Apr. , 1795.
WILCOME (see also Wilcomb), Joseph, by a fall from the
shrouds, instantly killed, abt. Nov. 17, 1788, a. 20 y.
160 IPSWICH DEATHS
WILLIAMS, Joshua, religious melancholy and nervous disor-
ders, Jan. 7, 1801, a. 66 y. [Jan. 6, a. 65 y. T. R.]
, inf. d. Joseph, Aug. 26, 1783.
WITCHER, , ch. Mr., Oct. , 1803, a. 1 or 2 d.
NEGRO
DINAH, old age, at the poorhouse, July 31, 1804, a. abt. 102 y.
HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
OF THE
ESSEX INSTITUTE
VOL. LV JULY, 1919 No. 3
JOURNAL OF SAMUEL HOLTEN, M. D.
WHILE IN THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS, MAY, 1778,
TO AUGUST, 1780.
Samuel Holten, the only son of Samuel and Hannah
(Gardner) Holten, was born June 9, 1738, in Saleni Vil-
lage, now Danvers, and died there January 2, 1816. He
practiced medicine in Danvers for many years, was a
member of Congress from 1778 to 1783, and 1793 to
1795, and was Judge of Probate of Essex County from
1796 until 1815. The original diary is now in the pos-
session of the Danvers Historical Society.
Minutes. I am desired to attend to the regulations of
the Gen 1 Hospital. It is said the Stuard of the Hospital
had better be accountable for the Fire arms of the Sick
Soldiers than the Captains and that the Surgeons of the
Hospital ought not to make use of so much of the wine
etc. conveyed in to said Hospital for the sick.
I am desired to attend to the Loan office, there being
no allowance made to pay the person that attends said
office for paying the Int r Annually and the Commissions
are said to be small.
July 14, 1778. I let the Hon. Samuel Adams, Esq r
have .4, of which he is to pay unto James Otis (a min r )
being my part of what the Delegates of our State have
agreed to advance to s d min r , and M r Adams is to write
to his friends and procure the money, & ace* with me for
the same.
(161)
lt)2 JOURNAL OF SAMUEL HOLTEN, M. D.
July 27, 1778. The Hon. John Hancock, Esq r D r to
cash paid for two Bottles of Moradant's Anti-Scorbutic
drops, <3, sent forward to Thaddeus Burr, Esq. 1 of Con-
necticut.
Minutes. When I shall arrive at Congress to procure
Blank Commissions for Commanders of Armed Vessels
to be sent to M r Avery, D, See 7 of the State of Massa-
chusetts Bay.
I am desired to attend to M r Otis & Andrews affairs &
to M r Williams' affair, who lost part of his estate on
Noddles Island, by our Troops in the year 1775.
N. B. The following Gentlemen have asked me to Cor-
respond with them from York Town, viz.: The Rev d D r
W m Gordon of Roxbury (7), The Rev d M r Wadsworth,
Danrers (9), Hon. Tho. Gushing, Boston (9), Moses Gill,
Boston (4), Joseph Palmer 2 , Braintree (13), Josiah
Batchelder, Jun r , Esq r , Beverly (11), Col. Israel Hutchin-
son, Danvers (12), Capt. George Williams, Salem, Capt.
W m Shillaber, Danvers (2), Amos Putnam, Esq r , Dan-
vers (2), Joseph Hall of Boston (6), Nath 1 Appleton of
Boston. 3
May 1, 1778. I borrowed of Broth r Elias E. Warner,
a pair of pistols (small) and eleven bullets, Flask &
some gunpowder & mould to run bullets, which 1 am
to return to him when I shall return from York Town or
otherwise make them good to him. Aug. 23 d 1780, I
returned the Pistols.
May 7. I bargained with Jer. Shelden to go with me
to York Town as my waiter, & if I like him I am to pay
him hansornly for his trouble, & if I dont like him I am
at liberty to Discharge him when I please, paying him
well for his Services. N. B. Jan. 1 st 1779, I p d Jere.
Sheldon in full to this day and agreed with him for five
months further at .12 p r month.
May 25. I set out from Danvers for York Town in
'Rev. Thaddeus Burr of Fairfleld, a kinsman of Hancock, at
whose home the latter had married Dorothy Quincy two years be-
fore. He was an uncle of Aaron Burr.
2 Gen. Joseph Palmer, commanding the Massachusetts troops in
the defense of Rhode Island.
8 The figures following each name denote the number of letters
Dr. Holten wrote to the several gentlemen during the two years.
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the State of Pennsylvania to take my seat in Congress. I
was accompanied to the Town of Lynn by about 20 of the
principal Gentlemen of Danvers, where we dined together
& drank 13 toasts, & after receiving great Honor and re-
spect from s d Gentlemen, took my leave of them & got
safe to Boston this evening.
26. M r Hancock not being ready to set out with me, I
attended my duty at the Council Board.
27. Gen. Election, Boston. I was in my place at the
Council Board & dined in public with them.
28. I took formal leave of the Hon. Board in order to
proceed to Congress.
29. I dined at my lodgings & drank Tea at M r War-
ner's.
30. Three Acts of the British Parliament came to
hand from Gov r Trumbel. I wrote a long letter to my
wife this day & sent it by Col. Hutchinson.
June 1. It being rainy prevented my setting out.
Wrote to Capt. Prince of Danvers.
3. I set out from Boston with the Hon. M r Hancock at
1 o'Clock & a large number of Gentlemen with their ser-
vants & Carriages accompanyed us to Watertown, where
an elegant dinner was provided. I rode in M r Hancock's
Carriage with M* Hancock, D r Cooper 1 & Gen 1 Heath. 2
After we had dined, a large number of toasts were drank
& a salute of Cannon and upon our setting out three
cheers were given from a very large number of people
assembled on y e occasion. We proceeded to West Town
where we Lodged.
4. We traveled from Westown to Worcester, very
heavy traveling, rained and uncomfortable.
5. We traveled from Worcester to Brookfield &
lodged at one M r Rice's. The ways very bad.
6. We traveled from Brookfield to Springfield, where
we propose to Lodge & Gen 1 Hancock is much indisposed
'Key. Samnel Cooper (1725-1783), pastor of the Brattle Street
Church, who has been credited with the authorship of Hancock's
political papers.
2 General William Heath (1737-1814), a distinguished officer, mem-
ber of the Provincial Congress, Constitutional Convention, and
State Senator.
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with the Gout. Upon our arrival here there was a dis-
charge of Cannon by order of the commanding officer.
7. Sabbath day. Being somewhat indisposed did not
attend public worship, but read three of D r Elliot's ser-
mons. N. B. M r Brick, the minister of this place, is said
to be a Tory.
8. Traveled from Springfield to Hartford. Roads very
good. Spent some time with Gen 1 Putnam. 1 This Town
is very pleasant. Wrote to my wife by M r Bart.
9. We traveled from Hartford to Lichfield, 30 miles,
the roads very Bad. At Farmington there was the finest
parcel of Cannon I ever saw & the Town very pleasant.
10. Traveled from Lichfield in to the State of New
York & lodged at one Colo. Morehouse's. The road the
worst I ever saw. The People very kind.
11. Traveled to the house of one Griffis, five miles
short of Fish Kills & 9 miles of the North River.
12. Crossed the North River & dined at a good Duch
house, and proceeded 18 miles to the house of one Town-
send and was hansomely entertained without charge.
13. Traveled 9 miles before Breakfast & Breakfasted
at M r Bierds, & to Sussex Court house, there lodged,
but we dine by the way at M r Waller's. Poor accommo-
dations.
14. Sabbath day, traveled to the Block jail Town &
dined and then 16 miles & lodged in an old log House in
the Jersies, but the people are kind. N. B. This day I
traveled with the greatest difficulty as to my health.
15. Crossed the River Delaware, dined at Eastown,
traveled 12 miles to Bethlehem, took a view of the town
& went thro' most of the departments & see the Ladies
at their particular work. 2 The Inn was the best I ever
put up at.
16. To Reading 40 miles. This is one of the Capitol
Towns in this State. The General is in health & high
spirits.
17. To Lancaster 31 miles, very hot. This is the 2d
'Gen. Israel Putnam, a native of Danvers, who had settled in
Brooklyn, Conn.
2 Probably the silk and knitting mills.
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Town in this State & the largest inland Town I have ever
seen, the buildings chiefly Brick & stone.
18. To York Town, 23 miles, besides crossing the
Susquehanna which is about 1 1-2 miles by water. Lodged
at one Wid More's and the woman & her Daughters
were not obliging. I do not intend to tarry at this
House any Longer than I can procure a place that suits
better.
19. Being somewhat indisposed & not having proper
lodgings, I did not take my seat in Congress. We are
informed by Gen. Washington that the Enemy have left
the City of Philadelphia & our people have taken posses-
sion. The people here are not at all obliging. I want to
git from this house.
20. I have not taken my seat in Congress for the rea-
sons mentioned yesterday.
21. Sabbath day, being somewhat indisposed did not
attend public worship.
22. I took my seat in Congress, and it is a very august
assembly.
23. Attended in Congress and the chief of the day
was taken up in Disputing on the Articles of Confedera-
tion.
24. Attended in Congress, dined with the President. 1
25. Attended in Congress. Toward night I walked
out with a number of gentlemen of Congress about a mile
to a farmhouse. The people was kind, we eat Cherries
& drank whiskey.
26. Attended in Congress, and it is the hottest day I
ever knew. Went & drank with y e President & drank
tea with y e Secretary.
27. Congress adjourned to the City of Philadelphia to
meet on Thursday next, lO.o'Clock.
28. Sabbath day. Traveled from York Town, Cros d
the Susquehanna 20 miles lower than where I did before.
Dined at a good Inn but have a small room to lodge in.
N. B. The bugs drove me out.
29. Traveled 12 miles before breakfast, breakfasted on
Whortlelbery Hill out doors, then Trav d 7 miles, dined at
'Hon. Henry Laurens of South Carolina.
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a good Inn, then Trav d 15 miles to Newart in one of the
lower Counties in Delaware State.
30. To Wilmanton 11 miles, had Breakfast & dined,
we passed thro' part of the State of Maryland & Wilman-
ton is a principal Town in the State of Delaware. The
buildings are chiefly Brick & very commodious. We then
Trav d to Chester where we are likely to be well accom-
modated.
July 1. To y e City of Philadelphia, 15 miles, before
breakfast. Dined at a public house, then took Lodging
at the Wid Robbinson's on Chestnut Street.
4. It being the anniversary of the Independence of
America, the Congress dined together at the City Tavern
& a number of y e Council of this State, several Gen.
officers & other Gentlemen of Distinction & while we were
dining there was an Agreeable band of Musick & we had
a very elegant dinner.
5. Sabbath day. Attended Church in the forenoon
with the Congress, and in the afternoon went to a Congre-
gational meeting. The Church minister Preached a po-
litical discourse. The other Gentleman I could not un-
derstand.
6. Attended in Congress.
7. Left letters at the post office to be forwarded to
Boston.
8. Congress received a packet from France giving an
account of a French Fleet coming here. I dined with
General Arnold. 1
9. The Articles of Confederation was signed by all
the States that had received instructions for that purpose,
being 8 States.
10. A man came to this city this day & informs that a
French Fleet is off Maryland.
11. This day was the first time that I took any part
in the debates in Congress. We have certain accounts of
the arrival of a French Fleet off the Delaware, 12 Ships
of the line & 4 Frigots.
12. Sabbath day. Attended at Church.
13. Yesterday Monsieur Gerard, the Ambassador, ar-
^enedict Arnold.
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rived here, and I waited on him this day & welcomed him
to the United States of America.
15. Am some better as to my health. I sent a Packet
of Letters by M r Hancock to M rs Holten. 1
16. I was invited to dine at the city Tavern with
MODS' Gerard, but declined on account of my health.
17. M r Lovell 2 dined with us & M r Hazard 3 drank
Tea.
18. Congress received a letter from y e Com ri of the
King of Great Britain, but it was couched in such terms
no answer is to be given.
19. Sabbath Day. Went to Church in the forenoon &
in the afternoon I went to the meeting house but could
not find any minister.
20. Received an account that y e French Admiral is
sending a number of Prisoners here.
21. Col. Partridge 4 from our Court paid me a visit &
informed me he was charged with several Public matters
from said Court to Congress.
23. I removed from y e Wid Robbinson's to board at
the house of Miss Dolley & Clark in 2 d street. I dined
& drank tea at Doct r Shippin's, 6 director Gen 1 of the con-
tinental Hospital.
24. I dined with the President, & went & viewed the
Hospital, workhouse & City goal, they are very elegant &
great Buildings.
25. Two months this day since I left home. Col. Par-
tridge spent the afternoon with us.
26. Sabbath day. I went to S* Peter's Church in the
forenoon & in the afternoon to y e College 6 where I heard
the more than two years of his absence from home he
wrote 145 letters to his wife, each numbered in order of posting.
"James Lovell, delegate from Massachusetts .
'Probably Ebenezer Hazard of Philadelphia (1745-1817), the last
Postmaster General under the Continental Congress.
4 Col. George Partridge, a former delegate from Massachusetts.
6 Dr. William Shippen was foremost in establishing the Medical
School of Philadelphia. Graduated at Princeton, 1754, and studied
at Edinburgh. He belonged to a wealthy and distinguished Phila-
delphia family. It was his kinswoman, Margaret Shippen, who
married Benedict Arnold.
College of Philadelphia.
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the best sermon since I left Boston. D r Weatherspoon 1 &
Colo. Partridge dined with us.
27. Rec d by the Post a letter from M r Hancock & the
Rev d D r Gordon.
28. Walked out toward evening with M r Gerry. 2
29. Took a walk toward evening with M r Gerry to
Gen. Robado's. 8
30. Capt. Andrew of Salem called me out of Con-
gress. The Baron Steuben and his aids, Capt. White of
Marblehead, M r Williams of Boston and M r Smith, Corn-
mis 1 of Loans, dined with us.
31. Capt. Andrew of Salem dined with me & I walked
out with M r Gerry toward evening.
Aug. 1. Dined at M r Smith's, Commissioner of Lo-
ans.
2. Sabbath day, attended public worship at the Rev d
M r Sprouts & heard 2 good sermons. The Hon. Col. Lee 4
of Virginia spent the evening with us.
3. Rec'd a letter from y e Hon. M r Gill of Boston by
which I have the agreeable news of my Family's being
well the 20 Ultimo.
5. Congress sat from 9 till almost 3 & from 5 till
almost 10 o'Clock. I am much indisposed.
6. Monsieur Gerard, Minister Plenipotentiary from
his most Christian Majesty, had a public audience with
Congress & dined with them ; the proceedings were con-
ducted with great decorum. The entertainment was grand
& elegant, the band of musick was very agreeable.
7. Monsieur Gerard made a visit, in the edge of the
evening (about an hour) to the Delegates of the Mass.
Bay agreeable to the public ceremonies agreed on by Con-
gress for a Minister Plenipotentiary, my Colleagues being
absent upon his first coming in, I had the honor of his
company alone.
'John Witherspoon (1722-1794), a Scotch minister, once president
of Princeton College, and distinguished as an orator. He was a
delegate from New Jersey and a signer of the Declaration.
*Elbridge Gerry of Marblehead.
3 Daniel Eoberdeau, a delegate from Pennsylvania.
'Henry Lee (1756-1818), of Virginia, " Light Horse Harry," as he
was known, served throughout the Revolution with distinction.
He was the father of Gen. Robert E. Lee.
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8. At 5 o'Clock P. M. met a joint Com* of Congress
& y e Executive Council of this State in search after
British property in this City.
9. Sabbath day. Attended public worship. M r Da-
visson delivered a good sermon & M r Sprout in y c
afternoon.
11. Wrote to Miss* Holten and M r Kittell by the Hon.
M r Dana. 1
12. Went & paid a visit to Mons r Gerard but he was
not at home, left my name on a Card.
13. The following Gentlemen dined with the Dele-
gates of Mass* Bay at their invitation, viz* Mons r Gerard,
his Nephew and Secretary, The President of Congress,
Hon. Silas Deane, Esq r , 2 Hon. R. H. Lee, 3 Esq r , Hon.
Gen 1 Read, 4 Gen 1 Putnam, 6 Gen. Arnold, Baron Steuben
& his aid. We dined at 4 o'Clock and had a grand ele-
gant dinner & I think it was conducted with good deco-
rum. We drank coffee before we rose from Table.
14. Congress sit late, we dined at four. I walked out
with M r Gerry & visited the Gentlemen from Connecticut
& the Rev d M r Duffel, our Chaplain.
15. An express arrived in five days from New Port
& informed that our army was on the Island & that 2
sail of vessels was off the harbour & Count d'Estaign's
fleet had sailed in quest of them.
16. Sabbath day. Attended public worship in the
forenoon at the Rev d M r Duffield's meeting & heard a very
good sermon & in the afternoon attended at the College,
heard D r He wen.
17. I received a letter by the post from Joseph Hall,
'Francis Dana (1743-1811), a former delegate from Massachusetts,
afterward Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Common-
wealth and minister to France.
2 Silas Deane (1737-1789) of Connecticut, Ambassador to France
with Franklin and Lee. Through him the services of Lafayette
were secured.
'Richard Henry Lee (1732-1794), delegate from Virginia, signer of
the Declaration, and later President of Congress.
4 Gen. Joseph Reed (1741-1785), of New Jersey, served with dis-
tinction under Washington, and at this time was President of Penn-
sylvania.
5 Probably General Israel Putnam.
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Jun r of Boston, a minor. Congress sit late, hearing M r
Deane. 1
19. Dined at M r R. Morris's, 2 about 2 1-2 miles out
of the city. I hear there is a Ball at the City Tavern this
evening. I am sorry for it.
20. I walked out with M r Gerry. A number of the
members of Congress spent the evening with us.
21. By a letter from Gen. Sullivan 3 dat d 17 th inst. we
understand that he was almost ready to attack the enemy
at Rhode Island.
22. Colo. Robedo, Colo. Bartlet 4 and Colo. Ross 6
dined with us & Colo. Lee drank Coffee with us.
23. Sabbath day. I attended public worship at the Rev d
Duffield's meeting & heard two good sermons. A Presby-
terian meeting.
24. Congress sit late. Dined at four. A hot evening
& I am much worried with writing.
25. Congress dined with the French Minister at his
invitation & about 40 other Gentlemen. The dinner was
Grand & Elegant & the band of musick was very agree-
able.
26. Very hot. Took a walk with the Hon r M r
Adams. 6
27. The consul of France and 10 other Gentlemen of
distinction dined with us by invitation. We had a grand,
elegant dinner.
28. News from Rhode Island not agreeable. Count
d'Estaign's ships being so damaged by the late storm, he
*Hon. Silas Deane was recalled from France, called before Con-
gress, and an auditor appointed to look over his accounts. He re-
turned to France and lived in the Netherlands, with little money
for support, and died in England. He was a man of eminent ability
and misrepresented.
2 Robert Morris (1735-1806), one of the wealthiest merchants of
Philadelphia, who gave such substantial aid in loans of money dur-
ing the war. His house was called the most sumptuous in the city,
and he entertained lavishly.
3 Gen. John Sullivan of Massachusetts.
4 Josiah Bartlett (1727-1795), delegate from New Hampshire, sign-
er of the Declaration, and afterwards Governor of the State.
5 Probably George Ross (1730-1779), delegate from Delaware, one
of the "Signers," and at this time Judge of the Court of Admiralty
for Pennsylvania.
''Samuel Adams.
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is going to Boston to repair. I expect the expedition will
fail. I wrote to Miss* Holten by M r Jones.
29. M r Marchent 1 drank tea with us.
31. The Rev d M r Dufell, M r Hopkinson 3 & 4 Gentle-
men of Congress dined with us.
Sept. 1. Congress sit late. By invitation the Dele-
gates from Mass* dined with M r Duer, 3 M r Dean & Gen 1
Arnold at their lodgings.
2. By invitation 1 dined at the City Tavern with the
Delegates from South Carolina, Congress and a number
of other Gentlemen dined with us.
2. Congress resolved to meet twice a day for 2
months.
4. Congress received a letter from General Sullivan
informing of a Battle at Rhode Island & our army took
possession of the ground.
5. I rode out on horseback about 6 miles with Messrs.
Adams, Gerry & Lovell. This is the first time I have
rode out to take y e fresh air since I have been in this
City.
7. Congress sit late. We received intelligence from
Gen 1 Sullivan respecting the battle & retreat from Rhode
Island. I think Gen. Sullivan conducted as well as could
be expected.
8. I wrote to Gen. Hancock. M r Vandike* & Maj r
Butler 5 dined with me.
9. Congress sit but half the day. In the evening I
met a Number of Gentlemen of Congress upon Business
at the City Tavern.
10. Gen. Miflin, 6 Colo. Lee, M r Vandike & M r Smith
dined with us.
12. The Delegates from Mass* dined with the minister
'Henry Marehant (1741-1795), delegate from Rhode Island, and later
Judge of the United States District Court.
'Francis Hopkinson (1738-1791). of Philadelphia, famous satirist,
and signer of the Declaration.
8 William Dner (1747-1799), of New York, Secretary of the Treas-
ury Board.
'Nicholas Van Dyke, delegate from Delaware.
5 Maj. Pierce Butler, a native of Ireland, who before the Revolu-
tion was an officer in a British regiment in Boston.
6 Thomas Mifflin (1744-1800), of Philadelphia, onee President of
Congress, and first Governor of the State of Pennsylvania.
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of France & a number of other members of Congress,
the dinner was grand & elegant & in the French taste.
13. Sabbath day. In the afternoon M r Colwell
preached.
14. Congress sit till after 8 in the evening. Colo.
Foster dined with us. He came from Glocester in Mass"
& brought me a letter from Sister Sukey.
15. D r Weatherspoon, Gen. Reed & Colo. Harnett 1
dined with us.
16. I met a number of Gentlemen of Congress at
evening at the City Tavern on business.
17. The auditor Gen 1 & commissioner of Loans dined
with us.
18. General Morris 2 and Colo. Lee supped with us.
19. I met our club society at evening.
20. Sabbath day. M r Dufell delivered a good ser-
mon. M r Colwell preached in the afternoon, but he
spoke so broad I could not understand him. Rec'd a letter
from Miss* Holten, M r Putnam & M r Kittell from Dan-
vers.
21. Congress sit late. I dined at M Stephen Col-
lins's with the Delegates of our State & Gen. Arnold,
Mes" Deane, Marchent & Colo. Bartlett.
23. I walked out with M' Gerry. Met our club at
evening.
25. I dined with the President, Congress Resolved to
send 3,000 troops into the States of South Carolina &
Georgia.
26. I dined with M r Mease y e Clothyer Gen 1 & walked
up to see the aloes tree.
27. Sabbath day. Doc r Weatherspoon & M r Duffel
preached.
28. Rec'd a letter from the Rev d M r Wadsworth and
also a letter from Colo. Hutchinson. Colo. Bartlett & M r
Gardner dined with us.
29. I wrote to M r Franc 8 Nurse 3 . Samuel Cooper, a
prisoner from New York, dined with us. He belongs to
Boston.
'Cornelius Harnett, delegate from North Carolina.
2 Lewis Morris (1726-1798) of New York.
3 Of Danvers.
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20. After I had dined, I walked out with M* Gerry &
drank tea at Doct r Shipin's.
Oct. 1. D r Shippen, Judge Draton, 1 Colo. Harrice &
M r Smith dined with us.
3. Toward night I walked out with M r Adams, M r
Gerry, General Robodeau & M r Brumfield to the aloes
tree.
4. Sabbath day. Heard two good sermons. M r Brum-
field Dined with us. Monsieur Gerard p d us an evening
visit.
5. Congress were informed that y e enemy were en-
deavoring to distroy y e vessels & stores at little egg har-
bour in the State of y e Jerseys.
7. I rode out with M r Adams above 3 miles.
11. Sabbath day. The Rev d M r Sprout preached.
12. I met the Medical Committee. Eastern post not
come in.
13. The city of Philadelphia met this day to choose
their Representatives.
14. M r Lovell is ill.
15. A Manifesto or Proclamation from the Corn 18 of
the British King appeared in the pap r of this day offer-
ing a General Pardon, but I believe there is but few peo-
ple here want their pardon.
16. The articles respecting the surrender of the Island
of Dominic to his most Christian Majesty came to hand
this day.
17. I dined with D r Shippen. Gen 18 Lee & Lincoln 2
dined at the Doctor's. I wrote to M rs Holten by Cap t
Andrew of Salem.
18. Sabbath day. Gen. Lincoln & his aid dined with
us. The French minister & Gen. Lee paid us an evening
visit.
19. Congress received accounts from Lord Sterling
that the enemy were preparing for a grand movement
from New York, but where is uncertain.
20. Gen 1 Lincoln & his aid dined with us.
21. The Marquis Fayette, M r Mathews, 8 D r Wither-
'William Henry Drayton, leading delegate from South Carolina.
2 6eneral Benjamin Lincoln of Massachusetts.
3 John Matthews, delegate from South Carolina, and later Gov-
ernor of that State.
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spoon, D r Browne & one other Gentleman Dined with us.
22. Gen 1 Lincoln dined with us and we rode out with
the General.
23. Gen 1 Lincoln spent the evening & supped with
us.
24. Gen 1 Lincoln sit out from this city to take the
command of the southern army. I met a Com* at 5
o'Clock.
25. Sabbath day. M r Sprout & D r Rogers preached
good sermons.
26. Colo. Lewis, M r Hudson, M r Smith & Mons r
France dined with us. By the Boston papers I perceive
I am again elected to a seat in Congress.
27. I wrote to the Hon. M r Austin & M rs Holten. I
spent part of the evening at M rB Dunkins with M r Gerry.
28. Congress spent some time this day considering the
State of our money & finances, which I find is very diffi-
cult to put upon a Just & respectable footing.
29. Colo. Norton from Martin's Vineyard (Mass* Bay)
dined with us.
30. This day Congress published a manifesto & or-
dered it to be sent to our enemies.
31. Congress received a packet of letters from France.
Nov. 1. Sabbath day. Rev d M r Sprout preached.
2. Received a letter from M rs Holten, one from Dea n
Putnam and one from my daughter Polly.
3. I wrote to M r Hancock. M r Mathews, M r Mer-
chant, M r Peters 1 & Maj r White dined with ns.
4. I dined with M r Peters and my worthy colleagues
& the members of South Carolina.
5. Gen 1 Whipple came to board with us & M r M c -
Kean 2 dined with us.
6. The delegates from the Mass* Bay dined with the
president.
7. I received a number of Resolutions from our Court,
one appointing me a delegate from oar state & some in-
structions.
'Richard Peters (1744-1828) of Philadelphia, member of the War
Board, and a noted wit.
2Col. Thomas McKean (1734-1817), delegate from Pennsylvania,
one of the "Signers." He was the only man who served through
all the sessions of the Continental Congress, and was later Governor
of Pennsylvania.
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8. Sabbath day. D r Duffield preached.
10. I wrote to Dea. Putnam and my daughter Polly.
M r Lee, M r Smith & Judge Drayton dined with us.
11. M r Governur Morris 1 & M r Sherman 2 dined with
us.
12. I dined with D r Potts, M r Gerry, M r Lovell &
Gen 1 Whipple. 8
13. I rode out in the morning with M r Adams and M r
Ellsworth. 4 Met a Com* at 5 o'Clock on a number of
merchants' petitions.
15. Sabbath day. At Doct r Duffield's.
16. Congress Resolved themselves into a Com* of the
whole house to consider the state of our money &
finances.
17. Wrote to my daughter Sally.
21. The Hon. M r Ellsworth dined with us.
22. Sabbath day. D r Duffield preached.
23. Congress sit in the evening untill after 10 o'Clock.
I received a letter from Miss* Holten per y e post.
24. I sent to the Council of Massachusetts the treaty
of alliance with France.
26. M r President & his son, The vice Pres* of this
State, Baron Steuben, Gen 1 Reed, Colo. Frost, 6 Colo. Lee,
D r Scuder, 6 M r Hudson & Colo. Allen dined with us.
28. I wrote a letter to the Council of Mass a Bay sig-
nifying my acceptance to a seat in Congress for the year
1779, in answer to their request.
29. Sabbath day. Heard two good sermons.
Dec. 1. I wrote to M r Wyat & M rs Wyat by the post.
John Temple, Esq., arrived here from Boston.
2. Congress sit in y e evening. M r Temple from Bos-
ton dined with us.
^ouvenour Morris (1752-1816), famous member of the bar, from
New York.
2 Roger Sherman (1721-1793), Judge of the Supreme Court of Con-
necticut, one of the " Signers " and United States Senator.
3 Gen. William Whipple (1730-1785), delegate from New Hamp-
shire.
4 Oliver Ellsworth (1745-1807), delegate from Connecticut, and
afterwards Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
*George Frost (1720-1796), merchant, a nephew of Sir William Pep-
perell, and a delegate from New Hampshire.
"Nathaniel Scudder, delegate from New Jersey.
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3. Congress sit in y e evening & confirmed the sen-
tence of y e Court Martial upon Gen 1 Schuyler 1 and ac-
quitted him of the charges brought against him.
4. Congress sit in y e evening & took into considera-
tion G. Lee's affair. M r Hubbard of Connecticut & Capt.
Brown of Boston dined with us. D r Shippen & his lady,
son & Daugh r supped with us.
5. I received a packet of papers from M r Shrip n
Hutchinson of Boston, respecting the Brigg* Prudence.
Capt. Johnson dined with us.
6. Sabbath day. Rev. M r Sprout preached.
7. Congress sat till 10 in y e evening.
8. Wrote to my daughter Kittell by y e post.
9. The Hon. M r Laurens, the President of Congress,
resigned the chair as president. M r Ellery 2 dined with
us.
10. I dined with my colleagues & Gen 1 Whipple at
M r Hopkinson's. The Hon. M r Jay 3 was chose president
of Congress.
11. M r Ellsworth dined with us.
12. Colo. Hendley dined here.
13. Sabbath day. D r Duffield preached.
14. There was a grand ball at the city Tavern this
evening, given by a number of French Gentlemen of dis-
tinction. I had a card sent me but declined attending.
I think it is not a proper time to attend balls when our
country is in such great distress.
15. The post not come in.
16. I was taken in Congress in the evening very ill &
for about 10 hours was in the utmost distress, my life
much dispaired of.
18. I think I am some better in health than I was yes-
terday, tho' very weak. Gen. Roberdeau has visited me
this evening.
Philip Schuyler (1731-1804), who directed operations against Bur-
goyne, and on account of the evacuation of Ticonderoga, unreason-
ably fell under some suspicion.
2William Ellery (1727-1820), delegate from Rhode Island, a "Sign-
er," afterward Chief Justice of the State.
'John Jay.
(To be continued)
SOME ACCOUNT OF STEAM NAVIGATION IN
NEW ENGLAND.
BY FRANCIS B. C. BRADLEB.
(Continued from Volume LV, page 1%8.~)
A very small steamer, the " Wateryille," also made a
few trips up the Penobscot during the season of 1825;
she had been built at Bath in 1823-24, and was intended
for service on the Kennebec.
The first regular steamboat line connecting Boston with
eastern ports was started in 1823 by the indefatigable
Capt. Seward Porter with the " Patent." On July 8,
1823, the Portland Argus has the following notice of her
arrival :
" The steamboat ' Patent,' Capt. Seward Porter, ar-
rived here yesterday, in four days from New York, having
touched at a number of places to land passengers. Her
engine has been proved, is of superior workmanship, and
propels the boat about 10 miles an hour. From the per-
severance of Captain Porter, we have no doubt but he
will meet with good encouragement and find it profitable.
We wish him success."
In a report made to the stockholders the " Patent " is
described as of 200 tons, 100 feet long, and costing
$20,000 ; she was low and without a hurricane deck ; her
boiler and engine were below, and she had a heavy balance
wheel half above the deck, and an arrangement by which
the paddle wheels could be disconnected.
Her cabins were all below ; the ladies' cabin was at the
stern, but had no skylights on deck ; the entrance to it
was through the gentlemen's cabin. The stern was broad,
like all vessels of that period ; the quarter-deck was clear,
with seats all around.
Daniel Dod of New York, one of the early marine
(177)
178 STEAM NAVIGATION IN NEW ENGLAND
engine builders, constructed and fitted her machinery.
He had built a copper boiler for this vessel, to be worked
under what was then considered high pressure steam, but
on a trial of the machinery on May 9, 1823, owing to the
imperfect design of the boiler, the front head was blown
out, an all too frequent occurrence in the early history
of steam navigation. Five persons were killed and two
injured, and among the former was Mr. Dod himself. It
is interesting to note that a few years before, in 1819, he
had built the boiler for the " Savannah," the first steamer
to cross the Atlantic ocean.
The Boston Courier of August 12, 1823, notices the ar-
rival of the " Patent " on the 8th from Portland in 17 1-2
hours (distance 110 miles) against a head wind and with
seventeen passengers. Like most of the early steam-
boats, the " Patent " did not run continuously on the
Portland route, for the Boston Columbian Centinel in the
summer of 1825 advertises her as plying between Boston
and Nahant, as before noted. One author says the
" Patent " was built at Medford, Mass., in 1821, but this
is undoubtedly a mistake, for there is every reason to be-
lieve she was built in or near New York City in 1823.
In 1823 the Kennebec Steam Navigation Co. was
formed and went actively to work. It bought the
" Patent " and ran her between Boston and Bath; while
the " Maine " ran between the latter place and Eastport,
and sometimes to St. John (although it seems incredible
that such a crudely designed craft could be much good for
" outside " service), touching at the intervening ports of
Boothbay, Owl's Head, Camden (Rockland then formed
part of Thomaston), Belfast, Sedgwick, Cranberry Isles
and Lubec. Thus as early as the spring of 1824 there
was a more or less regular line of steamboats connecting
the principal ports of Maine and New Brunswick with
Boston.
Early in 1826 the Kennebec (or Kennebeck as it used
to be spelled) Steam Navigation Co. sold a considerable
amount of stock to various Boston business men, and
found itself able to purchase the steamboat " Legislator."
According to the New York Custom House records, she
was built of white oak, locust and cedar, by Noah Brown,
BY FRANCIS B. C. BRADLEE 179
at New York, in 1824, schooner rigged, measured 170
tons, 111 feet long, 22 feet beam, 7 feet depth of hold ;
the engine was of the " cross-head " type, and was quoted
as 60 horse power (nominal). The " Legislator " had
been originally intended for the New York and New
Brunswick, N. J., line, but owing to the explosion of her
boiler she achieved a bad reputation, and her former
owners were, no doubt, glad to get rid of her.
She had two cabins for gentlemen and one for ladies,
all " fitted up in elegant style, and finished in mahogany
and cut maple ;" a low hurricane deck extended from the
engine aft, and there was the usual bar for the sale of all
kinds of liquors, which was a great source of profit to
the steamboats of those days.
On the arrival of the " Legislator " at Boston, to enter
upon her route, the city authorities were treated to an
excursion down the harbor in her. At the dinner given
to the guests during the trip, Mr. Owen, President of the
Company, offered the toast, "the 'Legislator,' may she
receive the patronage of the legislators, local, state, and
national ; may they so manage their steam as not to burst
the boiler." The toast of the President received point
when, a few years later, Capt. Porter petitioned the Legis-
lature for a lottery charter in aid of his line, and for the
gift of a section of South Boston flats for a wharf to
accommodate his boats.
In 1828 the Kennebec Steam Navigation Co. went out
of business after an existence of only five years ; its
property was sold at auction in October of that year ; the
" Legislator " was taken to New York, and for many
years plied on the Hudson river to Hudson.
The " Patent " was purchased by Captain Porter and
run by him between Boston and Portland until about
1830. She was afterwards running on the Penobscot as
late as 1835, and it is said ended her days upon the south-
ern coast.
Fares at this time were, from Boston to Portland, with
meals, $5 ; to Bath, $6 ; Augusta, $7 ; Eastport, $11.
The fare between Boston and Portland by stage at the
same date was f 10 ; and as late as 1840 this was the
quickest way to reach either place. A traveller could
180 STEAM NAVIGATION IN NEW ENGLAND
take the mail stage which left Portland at two o'clock in
the morning, and if the roads were in good order, he
would reach Boston by ten o'clock at night, with aching
head and bones. Small wonder that those who were in no
great hurry preferred the water route.
THE steam packet NEW-YORK will leave
Boston every 10th, 20th, and 30th, for
1'ortland, Belfast, and Eastport ; and return-
ing leave Rastpqrt every 5th, 15th, and 25tb.
Q3r PMsetoert c*m always be landed at
any intermediate point on the poast, or river*,
by previous agreement.
(fcr* *'r passage or freight apply to JOHN
BL'.NSON, No. 39, Central Wharf.
May 24. eptf
Early in 1824 a curious little craft called the " steam
brig * New York ' " was running between Boston and
Maine ports. It has been said that she was at first a sail-
ing vessel and that an engine and paddle wheels were
afterwards supplied her, but this is exceedingly doubtful,
for she measured 281 tons, which would have been rather
large for a brig-rigged sailing vessel. At any rate, she
was built at Norfolk, Va., by W. A. Hunter, and launched
May 22, 1822. Her owners were, the builder, Richard
Churchill, captain, George Rowland, Thomas B. Rowland,
and others.
BY FRANCIS B. C. BRADLEE 181
The " New York " was fitted with a " working " beam
engine of 50 horse-power (nominal), built by Daniel
Dod, before mentioned, of Elizabethtown, N. J. ; this was
one of the very early engines of this type, and it is said
the beam itself was made of wood. This curious little
craft had full round lines, flush deck, a long scroll head,
like the packet ships of that day ; her name was painted
on the paddle boxes, with the addition : " New York and
Norfolk Packet," for she plied between those two ports
until sold and brought round to Boston early in 1824.
At this time, or shortly after, the *' New York " was
owned by a Mr. Bartlett of Eastport, Maine, who spent
quite a sum fitting her with new machinery. The files
of the Boston Courier for 1824 (from which the some-
what crude but undoubtedly correct woodcut of the
vessel is taken) advertise her as running between Boston
and various ports in Maine. With the exception of a
short time in 1825, when she returned to New York, the
" New York " continued on '* down East " routes until
her loss by fire at sea August 20, 1826. The causes
thereof afford such a striking commentary on the crude
way in which our early steam vessels were navigated
that an account of the occurrence, written by a passenger
and taken from the files of the Essex Register of Salem
for August 31, 1826, is well worth reproducing :
" Nothing material occurred until she ran on shore
going up the Kennebec. She was got off on the next
tide, and proceeded to Bath. . . . She then sailed for
Belfast ; in the evening, near Owl's Head, she met the
steamer " Patent " from Belfast to Portland ; both ves-
sels came in contact, and the " Patent " receiving injury
was taken in tow by the "New York " and returned to
Belfast. The " New York " then proceeded to Eastport,
having about 32 souls on board. On the same evening,
between nine and ten o'clock, about 8 miles to the east-
ward of Petit Menan Light, a glimmering light was dis-
covered around the funnel. Only two men were on deck ;
one at the helm and one at the bow. No engineer or fire-
man wat at his post, and but one bucket could be found on deck.
Before assistance could be had, the fire had got the
182 STEAM NAVIGATION IN NEW ENGLAND
upper hand, and the engineer could not stop the ma-
chinery. No fire engine, hose, or buckets could be found
to throw a drop of water. The passengers escaped in
the boats, and landed about midnight at the lighthouse,
and from thence to the mainland."
This was long before the first, absurdly crude, steam-
boat inspection law was passed by Congress, July 7,
1838. Many of the engineers on the early steamers
were grossly ignorant and careless men ; some of them
hardly knew more than how to stop and start the ma-
chinery. There were no lynx-eyed inspectors about and
no limit was placed on the amount of steam to be car-
ried, nor were boilers tested, or the hulls of the boats
examined for seaworthiness. The results were the
frequent boiler explosions so often mentioned in the
newspapers of eighty or more years ago ; they happened
less often on " down East " routes simply because there
was less competition and racing than on the Hudson River
or Long Island Sound.
But on the other hand, it is well known that many of
the early steamers brought to northeastern New England
from comparatively placid inland waters were notoriously
wanting in strength and seaworthiness for open sea navi-
gation, and the habit was persisted in until not so very
many years ago. As regards the deck department, too,
on our early steamboats, the only qualifications thought
necessary for captains and pilots were those required by
their " owners ". That there were many able and daring
stearaboatmen in those days there is no doubt, but there
were also some who did not come up to the mark, and the
effects of intemperance on deck and engine officers were
more marked than in our time.
In April, 1829, Captain Seward Porter, together with
his brother Samuel, bought in New York the steamer
'Connecticut" to run between Boston, Portland and
Bath. During a portion of the season of 1834 she ran
from Boston to Bangor, commanded by Capt. Seward
Porter. Again, during portions of 1837 and 1838 she
took the place of the " Bangor ", first of the name, while
that boat underwent repairs.
It has been stated that Capt. Menemon Sanford, a lead-
BY FEANCIS B. C. BBADLEE 183
ing proprietor of Eastern steamboat lines for about forty
years following, was interested in this boat, and that this
was his first venture in steamboats. She was 150 feet
long, 26 feet beam, 351 tons burden, 1 and was built at
New York in 1816 by Noah Brown. She ran between
that city and New Haven, Conn., with the " Fulton," and
they were the first steamers on Long Island Sound. The
hull, painted white with green trimmings, was enormously
strong, but the " Connecticut " had neither upper saloon,
state rooms, or hurricane deck.
Her machinery was of the " square " or " cross-head"
type, of the design adopted by Robert Fulton ; the
wheels were turned through a cog-wheel with teeth five
inches long, they also had couplings by means of which
they could be thrown out of connection with the engine,
but when in motion the noise was terrific. The fuel used
was pine wood burned under a large copper boiler, kept
polished to the last degree of brightness.
To help the machinery, the " Connecticut " was
equipped with two masts, fore-and-aft sails, and a large
square sail bent to a yard ; these were always used when
the wind was favorable, and all the coastwise steamers used
sails until comparatively recent years. When on the
coast of Maine she was commanded by Captain William
Porter, a brother of the owners. Later he was United
States consul to the Barbary States. Such was one of
the earliest sea-going steamers in the United States.
In 1832, Amos H. Cross, of Portland, placed on this
route the " Victory ", which was chartered in New York.
She had more speed than the " Connecticut ", but had
seen her best days, and was therefore worsted in the con-
test Mr. Cross in April, 1833, brought out the "Chan-
cellor Livingston ", the last vessel designed by Robert
Fulton and considered his masterpiece. She was built
in New York in 1816, after Fulton's death, by the cele-
brated ship-builder Henry Eckford, and was 496 tons
gross, 157 feet long, 33 1-2 feet beam, 10 feet depth of
hold, and 7 1-3 feet draft. So much timber was put into
the hull of the vessel that eventually she could not cross
'Records of the N. Y. Cuitom House.
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the bar of the Hudson River below Albany when she was
in the river service from 1817 to 1826.
The ' Chancellor Livingston " was entirely remodelled
in 1827 and re-engined and from then on plied on Long
Island Sound until she was brought to Boston. She then
had her third "cross-head " engine, which had a 56-inch
cylinder, 6 feet stroke. Her speed had originally been
8 1-2 miles an hour, but it was greater after rebuilding.
Three smoke stacks placed " thwartship " (when first
built she only had two), three masts, a bowsprit and jib-
boom, with fore-and-aft sails and a huge square sail on
the foremast made the " Chancellor Livingston " look
like a formidable vessel for the coasting trade.
Her cabins, freight accommodations, etc., were on a
larger scale than on any steamer previously on the coast
of Maine. Capt. Lemuel Weeks, a much respected ship-
master of Portland, was her commander. It was always
supposed that Cornelius Vanderbilt had some ownership
in her, but doubtless the shrewd old " Commodore " soon
turned his share into cash. As for Mr. Cross, he kept the
boat until she ruined him.
She passed in 1834 into the hands of the Porters, who
ran her on the same route with the " Connecticut," which
had begun to extend her trips eastward, having visited
Bangor several times in the previous year. The Porters
the same year (1834) formed the Cumberland Steam
Navigation Co., which in the autumn began to build in
Portland a steamboat that received the name of that city.
Her engine came from the " Chancellor Livingston ",
which was now dismantled and turned into a dwelling
house on shore.
A few words concerning the management and internal
arrangements of our early steam vessels may not be out
of place here. The very earliest steamers had been most-
ly unattractive appearing craft, but by 1830 a great change
had come over steamboating on our coasts, which lent a
new and alluring aspect to navigation. At this time most
of the boats were bright with white and green paint, the
latter of the most vivid hue, decorated with various
stripes of brown, yellow, and sometimes gold. The paddle
it*
THE SECOND ENGINE OF THE STEAMBOAT " CHANCELLOR LIVINGSTON "
Fitted in I 828
BY FBANCIS B. C. BEADLEB 185
wheels were painted red, and at the bow was quite often
a figure head, which sparkled in a variety of colors.
As yet there were no pilot houses, or if there were any-
thing of this character it was merely a skeleton covering
or framework of the lightest possible construction. Gen-
erally the steering wheel was located amidships, behind
the smoke stack, where it must have been nearly impossi-
ble for the helmsman to see what was going on ahead.
The first steamboat to have a pilot house is thought to
have been the " United States " of the New York and
New Haven line, about 1825.
Whistles were unknown, and yet collisions were rare.
Not until many years later (in 1852) were government
regulations made compelling the use of colored lights at
night ; but it must be said that this had been done vol-
untarily for some years previously by a great many
steamers. To Stephen D. Collins, engineer of the "King
Philip " (Capt. Thomas Borden), running between Fall
River and Providence, belongs the credit of introducing
the steam whistle. It was in 1837, and Mr. Collins hav-
ing seen a whistle on a locomotive, ordered one to be made
for the " King Philip." Like all other improvements, it
was not liked at first, but its usefulness as a signal led to
its rapid adoption. As late as 1882, Mr. Collins was still
in active service on Narragansett Bay, as engineer of the
" Canonicus."
Unlike the boats of but a few years' earlier construc-
tion, the new vessels had houses on their main decks, with
an overhead promenade at the stern, and gay awnings
were stretched over this, as well as over the bow. Neat
railings surrounded all decks, and the possibilities of
enjoyment and comfort on the boats of the present day,
in pleasant weather, cannot be said to be greatly advanced
over the comforts possessed by the early steamboats.
Owing to many disasters, there was constant uneasiness
manifested over danger from boiler explosions, a feeling
that we, in late times, do not experience when we travel
on steamboats.
The main cabins were always situated in the hold, and
here also were the berths or " births," as spelled before
186 STEAM NAVIGATION IN NEW ENGLAND
1830 for night passengers. There were always two
cabins, one for ladies and one for gentlemen. The former
was much better, naturally, and occupied the after part of
the boat, while the gentlemen's cabin was in the forward
hold. On the larger steamers long halls on either side of
the machinery space connected the two, but on the smaller
boats, on account of cramped quarters, ingress and egress
was had from the main deck. Often, however, and es-
pecially at about this time, the cabin which was built on
the main deck aft became the ladies' saloon, and that aft
in the hull the men's cabin, while the forward compartment
was used by the second class or immigrant passengers.
A feature of nearly every trip by steamboat in early
days was the setting of tables for meals. It took so long
for the boats to go from point to point that meal hours were
sure to come during the passage. The tables were gener-
ally spread in the after hold, or ladies' cabin, and passen-
gers were supposed to partake of the feast as it was
included in the price of passage. Just about this
time, when competition was keen and the prices of
passage cut to a low figure, the method of charging
for meals was adopted by several lines, and this rapidly
became the almost universal custom on coastwise boats,
and has so remained to the present day except on the
long southern routes. Not much can be said for the
food provided on the early " down East steamers " ; it
consisted generally of fried fish, or ham and eggs.
But what was lost in eating was made up in drinking.
To-day the steamers have bars, but liquor is dispensed
with discretion, and the table is equal to that of the
ordinary hotel.
Just which steamer was first equipped with staterooms
cannot now be exactly ascertained ; probably it was the
side-wheeler "John Marshall," bought by the Portland
Steam Packet Co. in 1847. When their steamer " Forest
City "came out as a new boat in 1854, she was fitted
with 28 staterooms, for the use of which one dollar each
was charged. J. F. Liscomb, for so many years agent
and general manager of the Portland and International
lines, told the writer many years ago that when staterooms
BY FKANCIS B. C. BBADLEE 187
were first introduced it was next to impossible to sell
them, for most people not only considered it the height of
extravagance to hire one, but preferred the free berths as
more " sociable," where friends could be met and gossip
and politics talked over.
To-day each steamer is fitted with 200 or more state-
rooms, and during the summer these have to be engaged
many days ahead. It is doubtful if the old-time steamers
were, as a rule, kept as clean as the modern ones, for a
New York newspaper in 1839 referred to the "Lexing-
ton," the then crack Sound steamer, as commonly called
the " buggy," owing to the legions of bedbugs that in-
fested her.
The freight capacity of the older steamers was also
much reduced by the extreme bulk of the quantities of
cordwood used for fuel. Much of this was piled on the
upper decks, and this shows plainly in many of the old
pictures. Coal (anthracite) as fuel was first tried on
steamers in 1828, and the use of it progressed but slowly,
due to the furnaces and boilers not being fitted to burn
coal, and in many cases owners were unwilling to go to
expense of changing them over. Wood was cheap, and
old-fashioned prejudice also helped to keep back the use
of coal.
The " Portland I," built in 1834, was the first coast of
Maine steamer to burn coal. This was tried with but
indifferent success at first, but worked better after she was
fitted with a fan blower, which obtained its power from a
belt on a drum on the main shaft. Capt. J. B. Coyle, the
veteran steamboat engineer, owner and manager in Port-
land, was for some time the engineer of this steamer, and
it is said first tried the use of coal on her.
The " Portland I " was of 400 tons burden, 163 feet
long, 27 feet beam, and 10 1-2 feet depth of hold, having
at first one mast, afterwards two ; she was a very solid
boat, setting deep in the water, and consequently slow.
Her first trip to Boston was in August, 1835, and for
several years she served as the connecting boat on the
Bangor line, but rarely made trips east of the Kennebec.
In 1842 the "Portland" was sold to James Cunningham
188 STEAM NAVIGATION IN NEW ENGLAND
of New York, who ran her between Boston and Portland
in connection with the " Bangor I", in whose line he had
become a partner ; she was in active service as late as
1850.
All steamboats plying between Boston and eastern
ports were during the season of 1836 run under the name
of the " Eastern Steamship Mail Line." " Commodore "
Vanderbilt appears to have taken an interest in the water
transportation facilities in this section of the country, for
in 1837 he placed the " Augusta " on the Boston and
Portland route ; followed a little while later, to meet the
competition of the regular line, by the " C. Vanderbilt "
(not to be confused with a later steamboat of the same
name, owned by him), his crack boat from New York.
Both these steamers were of course side-wheelers ; the
" Vanderbilt " was 175 feet long, 24 feet wide, with a
beam engine 41 inches by 10 feet stroke. All the steam-
boats along the coast at this date were open on the for-
ward main deck, and the height between the decks was
no greater than was thought absolutely necessary.
The ' Commodore " soon tired of this field of opera-
tions, for his boats ran but a short time and then retired
in favor of those owned by the Sanfords, James Cun-
ningham, etc. An old boat named the " McDonough,"
that had formerly run between New York and Hartford,
was brought to Portland in 1833 and run in opposition
to the " Porter " line, but they soon bought her them-
selves. She was 146 feet long and had a " square " en-
gine. Captain Sidney K. Howard commanded her and J.
B. Coyle was the engineer. For a short time the " Mac-
Donough " ran to the Kennebec, with an occasional trip
to Bangor, but she was soon after sold to go to Cuba, and
wrecked on the way there.
In November, 1842, the Eastern Railroad was opened
to Portland, greatly diminishing the passenger business
of the Portland boats, and as the railroad also controlled
the steamers " Huntress " and *' M. Y. Beach," that ran
from Portland east, a war of rates was soon precipitated.
The steamboat owners formed a consolidation of interests
which resulted in the incorporation, in 1844, of the Port-
BZ FRANCIS B. C. BRADLBE 189
land Steam Packet Co. (capital $100,000), so long and
favorably known to the New England travelling public
and shippers.
They built two small wooden propellers, the first ever
teen in New England, and many people not used to marine
affairs wondered what made them go. The first of these,
the " Commodore Preble," made her initial trip in May,
1844. She measured 286 tons, 150 feet long, 24 feet
deep, and the machinery consisted of what was then called
" a pair of 50 horse power high pressure engines," having
two cylinders each 17 inches in diameter, 24 inches stroke,
driving a two-bladed propeller 7 feet in diameter. Prob-
ably the " high pressure " consisted of about thirty
pounds of steam. Both the " Commodore Preble " and
her slightly larger sister ship, the " General Warren," re-
sembled the modern steam-lighter in appearance ; being
intended primarily for freight, their passenger accommo-
dations were very limited. Each steamer made three
round trips weekly, and they were advertised as the "Pro-
peller Line, passage $1.00." Joseph Brooks was the
Boston agent, and he was succeeded by William Weeks,
who filled the position for a great many years.
At first the company had an uphill time, they had the
opposition of the railroad and of the sailing packets, but
by skillful management and great perseverance, by their
regularity and promptness, and moderate rates of transpor-
tation, they made rapid progress in business and public
favor. This induced them to give increased facilities of
communication by adding side-wheel and larger steamers
to their line. The first of these was the " John Mar-
shall," a former Chesapeake Bay boat, bought in 1847,
and she ran a few years in conjunction with the propel-
lers. Some idea of the amount of business done by the
company may be learned from their annual report for
1848, which stated that in that year they had carried
25,000 passengers and that the freight receipts amounted
to $40,596.
When the great boom and rush to California took place
in 1849, due to the discovery of gold, there arose a large
demand for coastwise steamers on the Pacific coast. Many
190 STEAM NAVIGATION IN NEW ENGLAND
steamers were sent out direct from New York via Cape
Horn. Among them were several from the coast of
Maine ; both the " General Warren " and " Commodore
Preble ", the side-wheeler " W. J. Pease " (from the
Bangor line), *' Senator " (from the St. John service),
and even the stern-wheeler " Governor Dana ", that had
run on the upper Penobscot River to Oldtown. Strange
to say, she reached the other side in safety, as did the
" Senator," the " Preble " and the " Warren " ; the two
latter were about nine months each on the voyage. The
" W. J. Pease " was condemned at Montevideo on the
way, several other lightly built steamers from the Hudson
River and Long Island Sound had the same fate, or
foundered at sea. Luckily there was but small loss of
life, but it is a miracle how any of these vessels, not
constructed for very heavy weather, ever lived to reach
their destination. It is said there was no difficulty in
securing their crews, but this was doubtless owing to the
allurements of the California gold fields.
In 1850 the " St. Lawrence," and, two years later, the
" Atlantic " were built for the Portland Steam Packet
Co. ; they were each 216 feet long, 28 feet beam, 10 feet
depth of hold, with beam engines having 40-inch cylin-
ders and 10 feet stroke ; not large power for vessels of
that size on an outside route. The " Forest City " fol-
lowed in 1854, the " Lewiston " in 1856, and the " Mon-
treal " in 1857; these boats were each about 235 feet long,
with beam engines of 52 inches by 11 feet stroke. Proba-
bly no steamer ever had such long continuous use as the
" Forest City," over forty years, and nearly the whole
of it on the Boston Portland line. She and her cap-
tain, John Liscomb, will always be memorable by the part
they took in the capture of the Confederate naval raiders
in Portland harbor on June 27, 1863.
Amid the many larger and better known engagements
and raids of the Civil war, this one, although daring
enough, has almost passed into the limbo of forgotten
things. On May 6, 1863, during the course of her cruise,
the well known Confederate naval steamer " Florida,"
Capt. John Newland Maffitt, had captured the brig "Clar-
BY FRANCIS B. C. BRADLEE 191
ence." She was converted into a tender, and a small
crew, commanded by Lieutenant Charles W. Read of
Mississippi, was placed on board. Soon after, on June 12,
the barque " Tacony " was taken by the " Clarence,"
and as the former was a much faster, abler vessel, Lieu-
tenant Read retained her and burned the " Clarence." A
raid on the fishing fleet on Georges Bank (June 24) fol-
lowed and caused the destruction of six vessels. One
alone was spared to enable the crews to reach the shore.
Learning that the Federal cruisers were after him, and
fearing recognition, as the " Tacony " had become quite
well known, Lieutenant Read captured the schooner
" Archer " of Southport, Me., transferred everything to
her, and burned the "Tacony." The "Archer" was
then headed for Portland, for the purpose of cutting out
the revenue cutter " Caleb Gushing," then lying there,
and destroying the incompleted United States gunboats
" Pontoone " and "Agawam " moored at Franklin wharf,
and what other shipping might be found in the harbor.
While on the way two fishermen were captured by
Lieutenant Read, whose intention was to use them as
pilots, but they refused to serve and were put in confine-
ment. The "Archer" arrived off Fish Point at about
sunset and remained there until two o'clock in the morn-
ing, when a detachment of her crew approached the
" Caleb Gushing " in a boat with muffled oars, boarded
her, and disarmed and gagged the watch. Lieutenant Dav-
enport, the officer in charge, was seized as soon as he came
on deck, and the crew, about twenty in number, placed in
irons. The cutter was then towed out of the harbor by
an unfrequented channel to avoid the forts. At ten
o'clock on the morning of June 27, Lieutenant Read and
the " Gushing " were about fifteen miles from the city,
when the wind died away and left them becalmed.
As soon as the news of this audacious raid reached
Portland, the whole city was in arms, and energetic
measures were taken by Mayor McClellan and Collector
of Customs Jewett. The steamers " Forest City," Cap-
tain John Liscomb, and "Chesapeake" (of the New
York and Portland line, a little later on to be herself
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captured by the Confederates) were hastily pressed into
service and manned by volunteers and two companies of
troops from Fort Preble. Two brass field pieces, pro-
tected by cotton bales, were placed on the " Forest City."
As there was little or no wind, the two steamers rapidly
overtook the " Gushing." The latter mounted a heavy
pivot gun, and Lieutenant Read intended to defend him-
self, but to his dismay found that there was plenty of
powder but only one shell on board. This was hastily
loaded into the gun, which was fired at the pursuers, the
shot falling just short of the " Forest City." Read at
once gave orders to free the prisoners, set the "Gushing"
on fire, and put off in her boats. The " Forest City "
and " Chesapeake " soon picked up friend and foe alike,
and this ended the bloodless battle. The ' Gushing " blew
up and sank stern first in thirty-three fathoms of water.
The captured Confederates were taken to Fort Warren,
Boston harbor, and exchanged about a year later.
Lieutenant Read's short report to the Confederate sec-
retary of the navy, S. R. Mallory, is well worth repro-
ducing, more especially as it is believed it has never before
been printed, except in the Official Records of the War of
the Rebellion, published by the U. S. War Department.
Report of Lieutenant Read, C. S. Navy, in command
of C. S. tenders " Clarence," " Tacony " and " Archer."
Fort Warren, Boston Harbor, July 30, 1863.
Sir : On the 6th of May last -I was detached from the
C. S. Florida by Commander Maffttt and ordered to take
command of the prize brig Clarence and to proceed on an
expedition. I received from the Florida one howitzer
and twenty men, including one engineer.
On the tenth of June, when off Cape Hatteras, I re-
ceived such information as convinced me that it was im-
possible to carry out the instructions of Commander
Maffitt. On the 12th of June I captured the Yankee bark
Tacony, and as she was a much better vessel than the Clar-
ence, I transferred everything to the former and burned
the latter vessel.
Between the 12th and the 24th of June I burned and
bonded nineteen sail. On the morning of the 25th of
It'
BY FKANCIS B. C. BRADLEE 193
June I burned the Tacony and transferred everything to
the prize schooner Archer.
On the 26th, at sunset, I anchored in the harbor of
Portland, Me., and at 1.30 the following morning boarded
and captured the U. S. revenue cutter Caleb Gushing.
Day dawned before the cutter could be got out of the
range of the forts, and I was in consequence hindered
from firing the shipping in the harbor. At 11 A. M.,
when about 20 miles east of Portland light, we were at-
tacked by two large steamers and three tugs. After ex-
pending all our ammunition, I blew up the cutter and
surrendered in small boats. I will report to you more
fully when I return to the Confederacy.
As all our clothing was distributed as relics to the people
of Portland, I beg that you will, if possible, remit to
Assistant Paymaster Nizson a sufficient sum of money to
purchase my men a change of clothing.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
Chas. W. Read,
2nd Lieut, C. S. Navy.
Hon. S. R. Mallory, Secretary of the Navy, Richmond, Va.
(Endorsement)
(U. S. S.) Hetzel, New Berne, N. C.
Copy of Lieut. Read's report to Mr. Mallory, sent from
Fort Warren to General Foster and by him communicated
to me.
Respectfully submitted for the information of the
Navy Dept.
S. P. Lee,
Acting Rear Admiral
(U. S. Navy).
After this episode and until the war ended the crews
of the coastwise steamers went heavily armed, but it did
not prevent the seizure of the " Chesapeake," as will be
seen later on.
In the annual report of the Portland Steam Packet
Co., dated November, 1863, it was stated that in twenty
years of operation their boats had made 11,200 trips,
carried 1,400,000 passengers and 2,500,000 tons of freight,
and until the loss of the " Portland " in November, 1898,
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it was their proud boast, like that of the Canard Co., that
they had never lost the life of a passenger committed to
their care. Such is the product of skill, care, and faith-
ful and honorable management. It is hardly necessary to
add that this line not only paid regular and large divi-
dends, but more than refunded the capital invested.
About 1865 the Portland Steam Packet Co. bought the
side- wheeler " John Brooks," built in 1859, which had
formerly run from New York to Bridgeport. She was
900 tons gross, 250 feet long, 34 feet beam, 11 feet depth
of hold ; the machinery consisted of a vertical beam
engine having a 56 inch cylinder, 12 feet stroke. Origi-
nally the " Brooks " had had two boilers on the guards,
but when on the Portland line this arrangement had been
changed to one boiler in the hold ; she turned out a very
fast, able boat, and remained in service until sold in 1890.
The " Lewiston " was sold to the Portland, Bar Harbor
and Machias Steamboat Co., and the " Montreal " burnt
at her wharf in Portland on August 9, 1873. They
were replaced by larger steamers, all side-wheelers, the
"Tremont" in 1883, the unfortunate Portland " II in
1890, and the Bay State " in 1895. The " Portland "
was built of wood by the New England Shipbuilding Co.,
at Bath, Maine, measured 2283 tons gross, 1517 tons net,
291 feet long (over all), 42 feet beam, 15 1-2 feet depth of
hold, 10 feet draft, fitted with a beam engine of 62 inches
by 12 feet stroke, constructed by the Portland Engine Co.;
she had a freight capacity of 400 tons and room for about
700 passengers, and was considered roomy and comfortable
and for that type of steamer was a fairly good sea boat ;
the " Bay State," that came out in 1895, was of the
same size and appearance and practically a sister boat.
As the loss of the " Portland," with every soul on
board, in the ever memorable storm of November 26,
1898, was one of the worst maritime disasters that
ever happened along the New England coast, some
account of it will be found interesting. Saturday morn-
ing, November 26, broke " brite and fare," as the fish-
ermen used to enter it in their logs, There was a
light air from the west, but the weather chart, however,
indicated two brewing storms, one over northern Ohio
BY FRANCIS B. C. BRADLEE 195
and one in the Gulf region. The first intimation of the
approach of the hurricane was when the wind came out
northeast and it began to snow in Boston about dark, but
at seven o'clock, the sailing hour of the " Portland " for
her 100 mile run down the coast, the weather was not
exceptionally bad, nor had the weather experts discovered,
as they did a couple of hours later, that the Lake and
Gulf storms had united and begun one of the worst and
most destructive storms in the history of New England.
Capt. Hollis Blanchard, the commander of the " Port-
land," had only held that position a very few days ; the
death of Capt. Charles Deering, for many }^ears on the
Portland line, at his home in East Boston on the
Thursday preceding the disaster, had necessitated several
changes of employees, and among others Captain Blan-
chard had been promoted, he previously having been first
pilot on the steamers.
Some 3'ears ago, former general manager J. F. Liscomb
told the writer that on that fatal Saturday evening, as the
weather looked worse and worse, he telephoned from
Portland to Captain Blanchard to hold the " Portland "
in Boston until he, Liscomb, should arrive there in a few
hours by rail, to which place he was bound to attend Cap-
tain Deering's funeral. Capt. Alexander C. Dennison
(now dead), master of the " Bay State," which was to
leave Portland on the same night, also talked by telephone
in the same sense with Blauchard, and stayed in port with
his steamer.
After some hesitation and the delay of about an hour
(which some people now think spelt destruction to the
" Portland " and death to those on board), Captain Blan-
chard, probably thinking he could run down the coast
ahead of the storm, as had been so often done before,
finally gave orders to cast off the lines shortly after eight
o'clock, and the ill-fated ship steamed down Boston
harbor. Her crew numbered 68 persons and she had a
passenger list of 108. It was then blowing fresh, but not
strong, from the northeast. Rounding Deer Island light,
the " Portland " headed for Cape Ann, some thirty miles
away ; at about ten o'clock she was passed some three
miles this side of Thatcher's Island by the Gloucester
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fishing schooner " Maud S.," inbound, and her skipper,
Capt. William Thomas, says he is the last one who saw her.
In the meantime the storm was making up rapidly, but
moving slowly ; the centre of the disturbance was about
75 miles off Cape Cod, making the wind northeast along
the coasts of Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Maine,
and northwest in New York. As the " Portland " was
making fourteen to fifteen knots, midnight must have seen
her past the Isles of Shoals and well up to Boon Island.
Captain Williams, keeper of the Boon Island light, said
that the gale was heavy at midnight, but did not become
intense until an hour or two later. Surely the " Port-
land " must have passed Boon Island.
How much further she went one can only conjecture,
although the weather records at the city of Portland,
forty miles beyond Boon Island, show that at midnight it
was only blowing twenty miles an hour, twenty-six miles
at two o'clock, and twenty-eight miles at four o'clock, or
at about the hour the " Portland " was due at her dock.
The extreme wind velocity in Portland throughout the
storm was only forty-four miles at seven o'clock on the
morning of the 27th, or a moderate gale. Under these
conditions it will be seen that the " Portland " had a
chance of getting at least within sighting distance of that
glow in the northeast which marks an approach to the
city of Portland.
Somewhere off Kennebunkport, at about two or three
o'clock on the morning of the 27tb, the " Portland "
probably ceased to make headway, although by that time
the snowstorm had shut in so thick that very likely
her own officers did not realize that she was being
dragged to the southward. One can scarcely picture the
next twelve hours on that fated vessel. Probably her
coal supply was exhausted in the forenoon, and the freight
and interior fittings were used to keep the paddle wheels
turning, when the upper works, racked and torn by twelve
hours of hammering, succumbed and went by the board.
We do know that shortly after seven o'clock in the
evening of the 27th, or within a short while of twenty-
four hours after the " Portland " left Boston, surf man
BY FRANCIS B. C. BBADLEE 19T
John J. Johnson of the Race Point station picked up a
lifebelt marked " Portland " on the beach half a mile
east of the station. Twenty minutes later he found a
big creamery can, and from that time until nearly midnight
every breaker carried dumb messages from the steamer
until there were several tons of wreckage piled on the
beach between Race Point and High Head stations.
Several bodies also came ashore Sunday evening at North
Truro.
Charles F. Ward, correspondent of the Boston Herald,
at Chatham, Mass., was told of the circumstances at
North Truro, for the storm had entirely destroyed the
telephone system. The news came to Ward on Monday
afternoon, and he immediately started for Boston, for the
hurricane had demoralized the telegraph wires. Neither
were railroads in much better condition, and after a hard
and adventurous journey, part of it on horseback, Mr.
Ward reached the Herald office early on Tuesday after-
noon, bringing to Boston the first news of the terrible
disaster. Had the wireless telegraph then been in com-
mon use, the loss of the " Portland " would not have
remained a mystery of the deep.
As it is, several theories have been put forward by
competent seamen regarding this memorable disaster.
One is that Captain Blanchard, finding it impossible to
put back into Gloucester harbor, put about to run for the
sheltering lee of Cape Cod's tip, which forms the harbor
of Provincetown. From the fact that all the bodies
recovered came ashore on the Cape Cod sands, and also
because the keeper of the Race Point life-saving station
near Provincetown heard in a lull of the storm, early
Sunday morning, three blasts of a steamer's whistle, as
if calling for aid, the theory that the " Portland " finally
went down on or near Stellwagen bank, roughly half-way
between Cape Ann and the end of Cape Cod, is as good
as any other. Some believe that the steamer collided
with the big coal schooner "King Philip," which was
never heard of after the same storm ; that they ' locked
horns " and went down. As some of the wreckage from
both vessels was found together, this fact lent some
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color to the latter theory, but the generally accepted
explanation of the disaster is that the steamer was simply
overwhelmed by the hurricane.
Who was to blame for the fearful sacrifice of human
life and the large property loss entailed by this dreadful
event? The courts went into every detail of the disaster
in all its phases, for many suits were brought against the
Portland Steam Packet Co. to recover damages for the
loss of relatives. Judicially the question was answered
when the court sustained the defence set up by the de-
fendant company that the loss of the " Portland " was in
consequence of an " act of God." That settled the mat-
ter legally, and all suits were withdrawn.
The sea has kept well the secrets of this dreadful
shipwreck. In a summer house on Cape Cod are the
" Portland's " big double hand steering-wheels, which
came ashore near Provincetown a few days after the
storm had subsided. At other places along the Cape
shore are to be found furnishings from her cabins, etc. ;
and the writer has in his possession a small piece of the
crest (copied from the crest and arms of the City of
Portland) from the top of the steamer's paddle-box. Fish-
ermen on Stellwagen bank have from time to time pulled
up in their trawls such articles as bed-springs, milk cans,
and a steam gauge known to have formed part of the
' Portland's " equipment.
The officers of the steamer at the time of her last ill-
fated trip were: Captain, Hollis H. Blanchard ; First
Pilot, Lewis H. Strout ; Second Pilot, Lewis Nelson ;
Purser, F. A. Ingraham ; Clerk, J. F. Hunt ; First Mate,
Edward Deering ; Second Mate, John McKay ; Watch-
men, R. Blake, T. Sewell, and J. Whitten ; Chief En-
gineer, Thomas Merrill ; Second Engineer, John T. Wal-
ton ; Third Engineer, C. Verrill ; Steward, A. B. Mat-
thews ; Second Steward, Eben Huston.
First Pilot Strout, First Mate Deering and Clerk
J. F. Hunt obtained permission to stay ashore to attend
Captain Deering's funeral, to which fact they owe the
preservation of their lives. Captain Strout has com-
manded steamers of the Eastern Steamship Corporation
BY FRANCIS B. C. BRADLEE 199
for many years, and Mr. Hunt has been for a long time
purser in the same employ.
During the fifteen or twenty hours that the hurricane
raged in which the " Portland " was lost, 141 other ves-
sels were wrecked and 469 persons, including those on the
ill-fated steamer, sacrificed their lives. Another coast of
Maine steamer, the " Pentagoet," a small propeller, Capt.
Mark Ingraham, bound from New York for Rockland
and Bangor, was never heard of after that awful night.
The " Portland " disaster was a terrible blow to the
friends of the paddle-wheel type of steamer for the New
England coastwise traffic, and although they are still to-
day in use to a certain extent, it is mostly in the summer
season, and then the greatest care is exercised as regards
weather conditions. In the run east from Boston to
Portland, Rockland, St. John, N. B., etc., the wooden
side-wheel steamers had to make the trip in the trough
of the heavy seas, which at times pounded up under the
guards in a manner that threatened to lift the deck-house
from the hull. Stories were told by members of the
crews of these steamers at the time of the loss of the
" Portland " to the effect that in rough winter weather,
after leaving Boston, cargo had to be shifted to the lee
side of the vessels to bring the windward side of the
steamer well up in the air to avoid the pounding, and
frequently the trip to the nearest port was made with
only one paddle wheel propelling the vessel.
The Portland Steam Packet Co. replaced the " Port-
land " by the steel hull propeller " Governor Dingley,"
built in 1899 by the Delaware River Iron Shipbuilding
Co., at Chester, Pa. She is 3826 tons gross, 2856 tons
net, 298 feet long, 60 1-2 feet beam, 17 1-2 feet depth of
hold. The machinery consists of a triple expansion en-
gine having cylinders 27 1-2, 44 1-2 and 70 inches in
diameter, 36 inches stroke ; the indicated horse-power is
2500 and speed about 15 knots. Although a fairly
good sea boat, the shape of her hull causes the
" Governor Dingley " to roll badly. Her best time be-
tween Boston and Portland, distance about 110 miles,
is as follows : Feb. 7, 1900, Boston to Portland, 6 hours,
18 minutes; March 22, 1900, Boston to Portland, 6 hours,
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17 minutes ; July 1, 1900, Portland to Boston, 5 hours,
55 minutes. On this last trip she faced a fresh head
wind and used all her four boilers ; average time, using
three boilers, 7 hours and thirty minutes.
As the Portland Steam Packet Co., in November, 1901,
went into the Eastern Steamship Co. consolidation, effect-
ed by Charles W. Morse, the "Governor Dingley" proved
to be the last steamer built by them. Of late years she
has run, during the summer, on the Boston-St. John route
with the propellers "Governor Cobb" and " Calvin Aus-
tin," and soon after the United States entered the war
against Germany, in 1917, all three boats were taken by
the government as training ships for merchant marine
apprentices.
The "Tremont" was sold to the Joy line in 1900, and
in 1910 the Eastern Steamship Co. practically rebuilt the
" Bay State." She was swept clean at the main deck and
everything above that was new. Her beam was widened,
new feathering paddle wheels replaced the old radial
kind, and at the same time the paddle shaft was lowered.
Twenty-eight new staterooms were also added, and after
these alterations the " Bay State," with the side-wheeler
" Ransom B. Fuller" (originally built for the Kennebec
Steamboat Co.), kept up the summer service between Bos-
ton and Portland until the former steamer was wrecked.
While bound east in a dense fog, she grounded off Cape
Elizabeth, Maine, early on the morning of Sept. 23, 1916,
and owing to her exposed position and damaged condi-
tion, it was found impossible to get her off, and she rap-
idly became a total loss. No harm resulted to the 150
passengers, but none of the cargo was saved.
Capt. Levi Foran was blamed by the government steam-
boat inspectors for the accident and his license was sus-
pended for three months. The sentence was thought to
be very unjust by the officials of the Eastern Steamship
Corporation and in marine circles generally. The light-
house officials had removed the Portland lightship from
her station for repairs and had substituted therefor a
combination gas and whistling buoy. Not sufficient no-
tice of the lightship's removal was given, and Captain
STEAMER "COMMODORE PREBLE," built in 1843
The first propeller on the New England coast
STEAMER "PORTLAND," built in 1890, lost in 1898
BY FRANCIS B. C. BRADLEE 201
Forau mistook the whistling gas buoy on Old Anthony's
rock for that on the spot where the Portland lightship is
usually anchored.
The '* Ransom B. Fuller " was taken by the Govern-
ment in the fall of 1917 and used as a naval barracks at
New London, Conn., and the result was that for a time
service on the Boston-Portland line was entirely suspend-
ed. When the " Fuller " was returned to her owners
in the spring, however, the schedule was resumed, with
three trips weekly in each direction, and so continues.
H. B. Cromwell and Co. of New York, who owned a
large fleet of steamers, most of them small propellers,
running from New York to Baltimore, New Orleans, etc.,
started the New York and Portland service in 1856 with
the " Caledonia " and " Totten." They were small pro-
pellers of about 400 tons each, originally built about 1850
to carry coal from Baltimore to New York for the Parker
Vein Coal Co., and consequently they were often referred
to as the " Parker Vein steamers. " Later on, when
Cromwell and Co. bought the whole fleet, fifteen steamers
in all, a limited amount of passenger accommodations was
added, but the boats being primarily intended for freight,
were very slow and depended a good deal on their sails
to help the engine.
In 1860 the Cromwells appear to have formed a distinct
corporation for their Maine line, for that year the New
England Screw Steamship Co. was incorporated in Maine
with a capital ranging from $100,000 to $1,000,000,
and with the privilege of steam navigation to Europe or
any ports in America. Several Maine men were directly
interested in this enterprise, among them Capt. John
B. Coyle, who was president of the company, and Henry
Fox, treasurer. The board of directors consisted of : St.
John Smith, John B. Brown, James O. Brown, Mark P.
Emery, Henry Fox, Henry B. Cromwell, and John Baird.
It was proposed to put a large side-wheeler on the line as
better fitted for passenger service, but as far as can be
learned this was never done.
The Portland business directory for 1861 advertises
" The splendid and fast steamship ' Chesapeake,' Capt.
Sidney Crowell, will until further notice run as follows:
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Leave Brown's Wharf, Portland, every Wednesday,
at 4 o'clock P. M., and leave Pier 9, North River, New
York, every Saturday, at 3 P. M. This vessel is fitted up
with fine accommodations for passengers, making this the
most speedy, safe, and comfortable route for travelers
between New York and Maine. Passage, f 5.00, including
fare and stateroom. Goods forwarded by this line to and
from Montreal, Quebec, Bangor, Bath, Augusta, Eastport,
and St. John. . . . For freight or passage apply to
Emery and Fox, Brown's Wharf, Portland, H. B. Crom-
well & Co., No. 86 West Street, New York."
The " Chesapeake " was a wooden propeller of 460
tons, built in 1849. She is best remembered by the fact
of her seizure off Cape Cod, Dec. 7, 1863, by a party of
Confederate adventurers, under the leadership of one
Braine. Their plan was to obtain coal at a New Bruns-
wick or Nova Scotia port and then attempt to run the
steamer through the blockade into Wilmington, N. C. ;
this bold scheme did not, however, have the sanction of
the Confederate government, and it therefore came under
the head of piracy. A man known as Capt. John Par-
ker although his real name was Locke had been com-
mander of a small Confederate privateer, the schooner
" Retribution." His vessel was condemned as unsea-
worthy in the West Indies, and without occupation he
had drifted to St. John.
The British Provinces harbored many Confederates
during the war, and Parker soon met kindred spirits at
St. John in the persons of John C. Braine and H. A. Parr,
who claimed to have been officers in the Confederate
navy. A plan was soon perfected by the three for seiz-
ing the " Chesapeake," and twelve young men, natives of
Maine and New Brunswick, were enlisted to serve under
Braine, while Parker remained at St. John to secure coal
for the prize. The latter had been a prisoner of war in
Fort Warren, Boston harbor, at the same time that Lieut.
Charles Read, C. S. N., leader of- the raid on Portland
harbor, was there, and from him a knowledge of the char-
acter of the " Chesapeake " was undoubtedly obtained.
Travelling by steamer to New York, the party present-
ed themselves on board the " Chesapeake " just before
BY FRANCIS B. C. BRADLEE 203
she sailed for Portland on the evening of Dec. 4. There
were five other passengers, seafaring men bound for
Maine, and they saw nothing to excite their suspicions in
the party under " Captain " Braine. The adventurers
appeared regularly at meals and had little to say. On
the evening of Dec. 6 they retired to their berths early,
and long before midnight quiet reigned in the ship's sa-
loon. Although the night was dark, the weather was
clear, and after passing Cape Cod, Captain Willett, com-
mander of the " Chesapeake," retired to his room, leav-
ing the ship in charge of Chief Mate Charles Johnson ;
the Second Engineer, Owen Shaffer, was on duty in the
engine room.
About 1.20 A. M. Johnson started from the pilot house
for the pantry to get a lunch, when he saw several figures
running forward. At that moment Shaffer emerged from
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the engine room door, and as he did so several shots were
fired at him and he fell, with a bullet through his head.
While Johnson leaned over the prostrate form of the en-
gineer, he received two shots, one in the arm and one in
the knee. The shooting had aroused Captain Willett,
who came running forward amid a rain of bullets. Not
being hit, he made for the pilot house, but as he reached
the steps he was seized from behind, quickly bound and
borne to his room, where an armed man stood guard over
him. The shooting now ceased, and the other members
of the crew of fifteen surrendered. A piece of iron was
tied to the body of Shaffer and it was thrown into the sea.
Before daylight the vessel's course was changed, and
later in the day Captain Willett saw from his window
that the " Chesapeake " was steaming along the coast of
Maine, east of Portland. December 8 the "Chesapeake "
put in at Seal Cove harbor, Grand Menan Island, and
" Captain " Braine went ashore. Her coal was now nearly
gone. Off Dipper Harbor, about twelve miles below St.
John, the ensign was hoisted union down, to attract the
attention of a pilot boat that was waiting for the steamer.
The boat came alongside, and Captain Parker climbed
on board tbe " Chesapeake," reporting that he had been
unable, for lack of funds, to obtain any coal. It was now
decided by the adventurers to land their prisoners and
204 STEAM NAVIGATION IN NEW ENGLAND
the passengers, and the party was put on board the pilot
boat, with the exception of the steamer's two remaining
engineers and one fireman, who were kept on board to man
the ship's engine room. The pilot boat was towed up the
river to Partridge Island, a few miles below St. John, and
there cast off. On reaching the city, Captain Willett at
once telegraphed an account of the affair to his owners
in New York. In less than ten hours several United
States gunboats were steaming east from Boston and New
York in search of the " Chesapeake."
After crossing the Bay of Fundy, the " Chesapeake "
proceeded to Shelburne, N. S., where she was detained
two days by a gale, and meanwhile the telegraph carried
the news of her presence there to Halifax. One of the
searching men-of-war, the ' Ella and Annie," a former
blockade runner captured off Wilmington arrived at
Halifax December 13, and steamed thence to Shelburne,
only to find that the " Chesapeake " had departed. Re-
turning to Halifax, the steamer's commander learned that
the " Chesapeake " had put in at Sambro. Proceeding
to that point the " Ella and Annie " found the " Chesa-
peake " coaling from a schooner. The prize was boarded,
but only two men were found on board ; the others had
disappeared in the woods, and a third man was found on
the schooner. As the " Ella and Annie " was towing the
"Chesapeake " out of the harbor the U. S. S. " Dakota "
appeared, and her commander being the senior officer
present ordered the steamer taken to Halifax. Here the
vessel and three prisoners were turned over to the au-
thorities. The prisoners were released and immediately
decamped.
The Provincial authorities were much incensed by the
apparent violation of neutrality attending the seizure of
the " Chesapeake " in a British port. A point was made
by the United States naval officers that they were succor-
ing a United States vessel in distress. The affair caused
some friction, but on Feb. 25, 1864, the vessel was ordered
by a Canadian court to be surrendered to her owners.
Meanwhile three of the adventurers were apprehended at
St. John, and the United States demanded them as pirates.
BY FRANCIS B. C. BRADLBE 205
Agents of the Confederacy sent to Richmond to secure
commissions for the leaders, failed to show that they were
officers of the Confederate navy. The Confederate au-
thorities ordered Mr. Holcomb to proceed to St. John and
lay claim to the steamer, which, with her cargo, was worth
nearly 1100,000. Before he could reach Halifax via
Bermuda, the " Chesapeake " had been released, and the
men held at St. John liberated on a writ of habeas corpus.
The " Chesapeake " remained for many years on the
New York and Portland line, and April 27, 1881, she was
finally lost by stranding in the Sound. Other steamers
on this line were the propellers " Potomac " (afterwards
burned at sea), " Dirigo," " Franconia," " Eleonora " and
' Winthrop." They were but slightly larger than the
pioneer boats, and were followed by the "Cleopatra." She
was a wooden screw,built in 1865, and had larger passenger
accommodations than the earlier vessels. About 1880, a
call both ways was made during the summer season at
Cottage City (now Oak Bluffs), on the island of Martha's
Vineyard ; this was done to meet the increasing demand
of tourist travel. H. B. Cromwell and Co. now gave up
their interest in the line, and the company was reorgan-
ized as theMaine Steamship Co., the president and mov-
ing spirit of which was Capt. John B. Coyle.
In 1890-91, they had constructed by the New England
Shipbuilding Co. at Bath, Maine, two much finer and
larger propellers than had ever before been on the line ;
but they still clung to the wooden hull. The "Manhattan"
and " Cottage City " measured each 1892 tons gross,
233 1-2 feet long, 40 1-2 feet beam, and 24 1-2 feet depth
of hold ; their machinery consisted each of a triple ex-
pansion engine having cylinders 22, 34, and 56 inches in
diameter, 36 inches stroke. It was becoming, however,
more and more evident that the days of wooden steamers,
even for coastwise traffic, were numbered. The " Man-
hattan " and " Cottage City " not having proved entirely
satisfactory, the latter was disposed of to the Pacific
Coast Steamship Co., and the former's cotton cargo caught
fire while she was lying at the Portland wharf and the
ship was entirely destroyed.
The "Horatio Hall" and "John Englis," the first
206 STEAM NAVIGATION IN NEW ENGLAND
really modern ships of the Maine Steamship Co. were
built of steel in 1898 by the Delaware River Co. at Ches-
ter, Pa. ; they were each 3168 tons gross, 297 feet long,
46 feet beam, and 17 feet depth of hold. Powerful
triple expansion engines worked at a pressure of 180 Ibs.
of steam gave these steamers a speed of a little over 16
knots, so that in favorable conditions they made the pas-
sage from New York to Portland, 390 miles, in about
twenty-four hours. Their passenger accommodations
were very fine, with dining saloon on the upper deck,
etc., and in the summer they were well patronized, as by
this line tourists from New York could reach the resorts
on the Maine coast without the discomfort of changing
cars and the heat and dust of a journey by rail.
During the Spanish- American war the " John Englis ' r
was bought by the government for a hospital ship and
retained in the service under the name of the "Relief."
The " Horatio Hall " was sunk by collision with the
Metropolitan liner ' H. F. Dimock " on March 10, 1909,.
in a dense fog in Nantucket Sound. This left the "North
Star," built in 1901, and practically a sister ship of the
two former boats, alone on the line until the "North
Land " was built in 1910 by the Harlan and Hollings-
worth Co. at Wilmington, Del., to replace the " Horatio
Hall." She is really an ocean steamer in every sense of
the word, and measures 3282 tons gross, 304 feet long,
47 feet beam ; has seven water tight bulkheads, and the
triple expansion machinery develops 4000 indicated horse-
power.
During the misfortunes and various reorganizations of
the unfortunate Eastern Steamship Co. and Corporation,
the Maine Steamship Co., under its control, went through
various gyrations of interlocking ownership. In this
period the " Old Colony " was transferred to the New
York and Portland line ; she has a steel hull originally
built in 1907 by the Cramp Shipbuilding Co. at Philadel-
phia as a freight ship, for a subsidiary company of the
New York, New Haven and Hartford R. R. Co. After
she was rebuilt in 1911 for passenger service, the " Old
Colony " measured 4779 tons gross, 375 feet long, 52
feet beam, 31 1-2 feet depth of hold; her turbine rna-
BY FRANCIS B. C. BRADLEE 207
chinery, which uses coal for fuel, indicates 5000 horse-
power. The steamer is also a luxurious first-class passen-
ger carrier, accommodating 775 persons. She is fitted
with every modern safety appliance, such as wireless tel-
egraph, submarine signals, and an automatic sprinkling
system in case of fire.
Both the "Old Colony" and "North Land" were
commandeered by the government at the outbreak of the
war in 1917, and the Maine Steamship Co. division of the
Eastern Steamship Lines practically suspended operations.
Capt. Albert Bragg was probably the best known com-
mander on the New York and Portland line. This route
is considered one of the worst, owing to fog in summer
and snowstorms in winter, besides a portion of it is a
menace to steamers that are obliged to make time to keep
up their schedules by reason of innumerable shoals in the
vicinity of Nantucket and large fleets of sailing vessels
that are in their path in thick as well as clear weather.
Therefore it is all the more creditable that Captain Bragg
should have passed through forty-seven years of it, mak-
ing an average of two trips a week, without a serious
accident or the loss of a single life. He retired in 1912,
and died the following year at his home in Portland.
The earliest steamers running regularly to the islands
in Casco bay from Portland were the " Express " and
** Gazelle " owned by the Peak's Island Steamboat Co.
After a time the company became the Forest City Steam-
boat Co. The ' Gazelle " was lengthened and rebuilt
and her name changed to " Forest City." Then the
Union Steamboat Co. was started as an opposition line to
the Forest City Co. Their first boat was the " Emita,"
and their second the " Cadet" Some time later the Union
line changed its name to the Star Line Steamboat Co.
At this time the well known Capt. B. J. Willard of
Portland was general manager of the Forest City Co., and
after two or three years he effected a consolidation of the
two lines under the name of the Casco Bay Steamboat
Co., and Mr. C. W. T. Goding was elected general man-
ager. In July, 1887, the company put on a new steamer,
the propeller " Forest Queen "; she is a large, safe boat,
and run all the year round. Their present steamers are
208 STEAM NAVIGATION IN NEW ENGLAND
the "Forest Queen," "Pilgrim," and "Merryconeag," all
propellers.
The first tugboat owned in Portland was the propeller
"Tiger," built in Philadelphia, and owned by William
Willard of Portland ; she began towing in November,
1851. From the very first this enterprise was entirely
successful, and Captain Willard was often called upon to
tow ships out of the Kennebunk and Saco rivers, and
from places as far east as Yarmouth, Freeport and Bruns-
wick. At this time there were very few propeller tug
boats except in Boston ; side-wheel towboats were em-
ployed entirely at New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore.
Another old Maine towing enterprise, the Saco River
Towboat Co., dissolved in January, 1918, after an exist-
ence of over thirty-five years, during which time one
man, Frank W. Nutter, filled the office of manager and
treasurer.
During part of the year 1847 the "steam schooner De-
catur " was advertised to run between Boston and Ken-
nebunk, Me., and twenty years later (1867) the Boston
papers announced that the propeller " Enterprise," Capt.
F. W. Leavitt, would leave Battery wharf, Boston,
every Thursday, for Saco and Biddeford, Me. Both these
enterprises had but a short existence and probably col-
lapsed for lack of financial support.
A few facts regarding early lighthouses on the coast
of Maine may not be out of place here. The construc-
tion of Portland Head lighthouse was begun in 1788, and
it was first lighted January 10, 1791. This light has been
twice cut down twenty feet (the last time in 1883), and
the power was reduced from second order to a fourth order
lens, so that by 1895 shipmasters and pilots complained
that the light could not be seen far even in clear weather.
After continual protests, Portland Head light was again
raised twenty feet and a second power lens put back.
The building of Half Way Rock lighthouse was begun in
1869, and it was first lighted August 15, 1871. It is a
very valuable beacon to masters and pilots coming into
Portland from the east, and no doubt has saved many
lives and a large amount of property.
(jPo be continued)
BEVERLY IN 1700. NO. 2.
BY SIDNEY PERLEY.
THIS section of Beverly extends from Bass river on the
west to Beaver pond on the east, a distance of about one
and three-fourths miles, and from the northern end of Balch
street to a short distance southerly of Gloucester crossing,
a distance of one and one-third miles.
Bass river was so called as early as 1635 ; the mill pond
in 1699 ; the mill pond and creek which runs into it in
1724 ; and a salt water creek in 1746.
The section of rough woodland lying between Cat
swamp and Beaver pond has been known as Burnt hills
since 1719 at least, and Cat swamp was so called as early
as 1658.
Thatch pond was so called as early as 1688.
Snake hill was so called in 1673.
Draper's point was so called as early as 1648. This
became the terminal of the Salem north ferry about that
time, and the town of Salem, at a town meeting held
March 12, 1648-9,
Ordered that the highway be brought from Edmond Grovers
through Jonathan Porters and mr Garfords ground to Drapers
poynt, if the gen '11 Court shall consent thereto.
In the general court, at its session held May 2, 1649, the
matter came up, and
The petition of Salem for removeall of the high way and landing
place, from the head of the Basse Ryver to Drapers Point, is
granted. 1
This way is practically Beckford street. It was called
" y e road way y* goes to Draper's point " in 1677.
After the grist mill was established on the river, near
the plant of the United Shoe Machinery Company, there
arose a difference between William King and his neigh-
'Records of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, volume 2, page 265.
(209)
210 BEVERLY IN 1700. NO. 2
bors and Roger Haskell about a highway to the mill and
the meeting house, and the selectmen of Salem, Sept. 14,
1657,
ordered that Jacob Barney & Jefferie Massey shall view the said
way and make retorne thereof to the select men at their next
meeting warning the plaintiffe & deffents to meete with the said
Jacob Barney & Jefferie Massey the last day of this instant mouth
at the Mill by niene of the Clock the same day.
Nov. 20, 1657, the selectmen of Salem
ordered that that way from the meeting house on Cape an syde to
Lawrence Leach his mill shall be directlie in the Countrie way to
Edmund grouers and from thence to the way lying betwixt the said
groners land & the land of Osman Traske & Soe forward through
the Land of henerie hericke.
And it was further
ordered that wheras some of the neighbors on Cape an syde doe de-
syre a way from the said meeting house to the mill through the
proprieties of Roger Haskell & others that thayre desyres are
graunted provided that before they shall make any Claym thervnto
there shall be paid vnto the said Rodger Haskells & the rest of the
proprietors full satisfaction as 2 men Chosen by the select men shall
apoint the said way not exceeding 4 [poale]<foote in any pt of it and
to be made and mentayned by those that make vse therof.
This way to the mill led from the way to the ferry on
Draper's point as shown on the plan. It is still in use.
It was called the road way that goes to the mill in 1677 ;
ye highway that leads to ye grist mill in 1721: "the
highway going to the grist mill formerly Capt. John
Dodge's " in 1724 ; and " a Road leading to Woodbery's
mill" in 1729. The present Elliott street which now
leads to the mill site was laid out by the County court
upon the petition of John Dyson in 1808. This is shown
on the map by parallel dotted lines.
Balch street is a way which was occasioned by a mill
farther up the stream. The southerly part of it was " a
lane commonly called Woodbury's lane " in 1687 ; the
way to the grist mill in 1700 ; " a highway to Capt. John
Dodge's house " in 1703 ; " the lane leading to M c Sam-
uel Woodbury's" in 1740 ; "a town way ; Deacon Balch's
lane so called" in 1782; and Balch street as early as
1859. The northerly part of the street was said to be "left
for a way to Capt. John Dodge's house, " in 1703 ; " the
highway that leads to the corn mill that belongs to the
BY SIDNEY PEKLEY 211
heirs of Dr. Israel Woodbury of Beverly, deceased," in
1797 ; and Balch street as early as 1869.
Cabot street was in existence as early as 1636, when
the north ferry was established. It was called ye high-
way or common road in 1668; ye broad way in 1671; the
country road in 1684 ; the country road going towards
Wenhamin 1688; "the main street leading from Essex
bridge to Mr. Oliver's meetinghouse" in 1789; "the
highway leading from the Essex bridge to the Beverly
cotton manufactory" in 1796; and was named Cabot street
in 1836. 1
Herrick street was voted to be laid out by the select-
men of Beverly March 18, 1678-9, it being described as
a drift way beginninge at the bottome of the Lane buttinge uppon
the Cuntry Road and soe between farmer Dodges Land and the
Land of Henry Herrick and soe unto the north East Corner of saide
Dodges field and soe southerly unto the drift way at the afforesaid
Childrens fence which way is to be two pole wide excepting the
lane that now is which Lane is to be its breadth.
It was called the way that goeth between the lands of
William Dodge and Joshua Herrick in 1729; a highway
in 1761 ; "the way leading to Cokers fo called" in 1773;
4t the town way leading to William Herrick's house " in
1788; ye cow lane in 1788; and the town way called
William Herrick's lane in 1790. By the side of the hos-
pital, it was called " an open way sometimes called Her-
rick's lane " in 1854. Northeasterly from the hospital,
it was called " a town way or private way called Her-
rick's lane " in 1830 ; and " an old drift way formerly
belonging to the owners and proprietors of the large pas-
ture " in 1854. It has been known as Herrick street
since 1882 at least.
The latter part of the lay out of the above way, name-
ly, from the northeast corner of Dodge's field "southerly
unto the drift way at the afforesaid Childrens fence which
way is to be two pole wide" is the present Heather street.
It was called a highway in 1709 ; and a town way in
'A change was made in Cabot street between the ends of Balch
street, as in a deed, dated March 24, 1807, a lot of land there con-
veyed by it is bounded on the west by " the highway as lately laid
out that leads from Essex bridge to the upper meeting house in
Beverly." Essex Begistry of Deeds, book 181, leaf 89.
212 BEVERLY IN 1700. NO. 2
1788. It was called Heither street as early as 1882, and
since 1890 has been called Heather street.
Colon street was laid out as a cow lane into the com-
mons. At a meeting of the selectmen of Beverly, March
18, 1678-9, there was recorded
a Cartway beginning at the Cuntry Road nere unto the house of
Anthony Wood and soe between the Land of Edmund Grover and
the Land of the widdow Trask and soe Easterly thro, the land of
Robert Hebbord and the Land of the Children of Roger Hascoll now
Deceased and from thence to the Commons which high way is to be
two pole wide.
At the same meeting this drift way was extended from
said " Hascolls Childrens fence Easterly unto bald hill to
witt through John Grovers Lott and through the land of
Lieut. Thorndike the saide high way to be two pole
wide."
At a meeting of the select men of Beverly on y e 23 of June
at the house of Joane Hebbert Widdow and Relect of Robert Hib-
bert Late of Beverly deceased & then this Agreement made be-
tween sd select men and the abouesd Joane Hibbert with Respect
to a Towne Highway Laid out oner sd Hibberts Land the sd High-
way Goeth from y e Countery highway by Hazadiah Smiths Barne
Eastward to our Townes Common about seventy six poles ouer sd
Joane Hibberts Land and in Breth two poles the which Land
of seventy six poles in length & two poles in Breath the
sd Joane Hibbert with the Consent of her sons viz John
Joseph & Samuell Hibberts doth Aliauate sell set over for
ever Confirme vnto sd select men to bee for a Town way
as aforesd for and in Consideration of three acres and a halfe
of sd Towns Common Land next Adjoyneing to y e sd Hibberts
Land and the abouesd Joane Hibbert doth for herselfe her Heirs
and sugsessors Ingage to make maintaine and keepe vp a sufficiant
fence betwixt the sd Hibberts Land now in her possession and the
abouesd highway seventy six poles in length as is aboue Expresst
and the sd fence to keep vp and mainetayn-e from time to time for
ever and the abousd way to ly and bee an open driftway afther the
last of October next Insueing and tel then only for Carting in wit-
nesse whereof wee haue here vnto set our Hands the day and year
aboue Written
Signed and delivered ye mark of
in y e presents of vs JOANE F HIBBERT
JOHN DOD& the mark L of
BALOH JOHN HIBBERT
the mark of
JOSEPH + HIBBERT
SAMUEL,
Colon street was called ye cow lane in 1671 ; ye town
highway in 1686 ; the country road in 1691 ; " an high-
Beverly Town Records.
BY SIDNEY PERLEY 213
way leading towards y e commons" in 1710 ; and was
named Colon street in 1838.
Brimble avenue is indicated on the map by parallel
lines of dashes.
The lots of William Dodge, Abigail Balch and Anna
Wallace, on the plan numbered one, and the lots of Ben-
jamin Balch and Edward Bishop, on this plan, numbered
two, constituted " the Rail field " as early as 1673 ; and
was known as such for a century. The junction of Cabot
and Dodge streets was known as " at the head of the
Rails " as early as 1663.
Samuel Stone and Robert Briscoe Lot. That part of this
lot lying northerly of the northerly dashes was conveyed
by John Tucker to John Stone, sr., of Beverly before
1685. Mr. Stone died in the winter of 1691-2 ; and his
widow and administratrix Abigail Stone, for twenty
pounds, conveyed it to Samuel Stone, sr., and Robert
Briscoe, both of Beverly, July 6, 1692. 1
That part of the lot lying between the dashes was con-
veyed by Thomas Chubb, sr., of Beverly, carpenter, for
twenty pounds in silver, to Zachariah Herrick of Beverly,
carpenter, July 13, 1685 ; 2 and Mr. Herrick died in the
spring of 1695, having in his will devised his real estate
to his son Henry Herrick. Henry Herrick, jr., of Bever-
ly, yeoman, for forty pounds, conveyed it to his brother
Samuel Stone, sr., and Robert Briscoe, both of Beverly,
mariners, April 8, 1696. 2
That part of the lot lying southerly of the southerly
dashes belonged to John Tucker, who died in 16 ; and
in the division of his estate this was conveyed to Jacob
Manning of Salem, gunsmith, for the portion of the lat-
ter's wife, who was apparently an heir of the deceased.
Mr. Manning, for fifty pounds, conveyed it to said Samuel
Stone and Robert Briscoe April 9, 1696. 3
Thus the entire lot was owned by Samuel Stone and
Robert Briscoe in 1700.
Isaac Woodbury Lot. Isaac Woodbury owned this lot
of land in 1700.
Registry of Deeds, book 11, leaf 110.
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 7, leaf 41.
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 11, leaf 111.
214 BEVERLY IN 1700. NO. 2
Humphrey Horrill House. John Grover, sr., of Bev-
erly, yeoman, for sixteen pounds, conveyed to Humphrey
Horrill of Beverly, seafaring man, this dwelling house,
barn and lot April 11, 1687. 1 Mr. Horrill died Feb. 9,
1710 ; and his daughters Sarah Goodale, wife of Thomas
Goodale of Kent, Conn., weaver, and Bridget Grey,
relict of George Grey, jr., of Beverly, sailor, deceased,
released their interest in the buildings and land to their
mother Elizabeth Horrell, widow of said Humphrey Hor-
rell, Nov. 21, 1710. 2 How much longer the house stood
is not known to the writer.
Joseph Hibbard Lot. David Thomas of Salem, planter,,
conveyed this lot of land to William Hooper of Salem
Feb. 10, 1668 ; 3 and Mr. Hooper, who had removed to
Beverly, fisherman, conveyed it to Edmond Gale of Bev-
erly, seaman, April 23, 1672. 4 Mr. Gale was a fisherman,
and conveyed the lot to Nathaniel Wallis, sr., " late of
Casco Bay, inhabitant, now resident in Beverly," Feb. 10,
1678-9. 4 Mr. Wallis was a fisherman, and conveyed the
lot to Joseph Hibbert of Beverly Nov. 26, 1681. 6 Mr.
Hibbert owned it in 1700.
Samuel Haskell House. David Thomas of Salem,
planter, conveyed this lot of land to William Hooper of
Salem Feb. 10, 1668. 3 Mr. Hooper removed to Beverly,
being a fisherman, and conveyed the lot to Edmond Gale
of Beverly, seaman, April 23, 167 2. 4 Mr. Gale was a
fisherman, and conveyed the lot to Nathaniel Wallis, sr.,
" late of Casco Bay, inhabitant, now resident in Bever-
ly," Feb. 10, 1678-9. 4 Mr. Wallis was a fisherman, and
conveyed the lot to Joseph Hibbert of Beverly Nov. 26,
1681. 5 Mr. Hebberd was a planter, and conveyed the lot
to his son-in-law Daniel Collins May 23, 1691. 6 Mr. Col-
lins built a house thereon, and, when of Salem, mariner,
he conveyed the land with the house thereon to Samuel
Haskell of Beverly, tailor, Oct. 13, 1696. 6 Mr. Haskell
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 35, leaf 201.
2 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 58, leaf 276.
3 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 3, leaf 50.
4 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 5, leaf 21.
5 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 49, leaf 134.
"Essex Registry of Deeds, book 54, leaf 271.
BY SIDNEY PEELEY 215
conveyed the house and land to William Haskell of Bev-
erly, seafaring man, Aug. 25, 1730 j 1 and William Has-
kell conveyed the estate to John Higginson of Salem,
gentleman, March 8, 1730-1. 2 For forty-five pounds, Mr.
Higginson conveyed to William Leech of Beverly, cord-
wainer, the land and dwelling house, "being the late
mansion house of Samuel Haskell, deceased," April 26,
1731. 3 Mr. Leech died in the winter of 1734-5, having
O
in his will devised his real estate to his sons John, Joseph,
William, Elijah and Benjamin. The land, dwelling house
and barn were then appraised at ninety-two pounds, of
which twelve pounds was estimated to be the value of
the barn. How much longer the old house stood is un-
known to the writer.
Estate of Nehemiah drover Lot. Edmond Grover of
Beverly, yeoman, for love, conveyed to his son Nehemiah
Grover this lot of land " upon the rockes " July 23,
1677. 4 Nehemiah Grover died Feb. 12, 1693-4, when
the lot was appraised at sixty pounds. It belonged to
his estate in 1700.
Hazadiah Smith Lot. This lot of land belonged to
Hazadiah Smith in 1700.
Samuel Haskell Lot. This lot of land belonged to
Samuel Haskell in 1700.
Abigail Standley Lot. This lot of land belonged to
Josiah Haskell who died in 1674 ; and to his daughter
Abigail Standley in 1700.
Roger Haskell Lot. This lot of land belonged to Roger
Haskell in 1700.
Hazadiah Smith Lot. This lot of land belonged to Ed-
mund Grover in 1678, and to Hazadiah Smith in 1700.
Estate of Joseph HUbbert Lot. This lot of land belonged
to the estate of Joseph Hibbert, being in the possession
of his widow in 1700.
Hazadiah Smith Lot. That part of this lot of land ly-
ing westerly of the dashes belonged to Edmond Grover
in 1673 ; and John Grover of Beverly, husbandman, for
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 55, leaf 136.
s Essex Registry of Deeds, book 55, leaf 229.
8 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 52, leaf 251.
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 6, leaf 53.
216 BEVERLY IN 1700. NO. 2
love, conveyed it to his daughter Hannah's husband, Haz-
adiah Smith of Beverly, carpenter, Jan. 28, 1684. 1
That part of the lot lying easterly of the dashes was
conveyed by John Grover, sr., of Beverly, husbandman,
for five pounds, to Mr. Smith July 8, 1686. 1
The entire lot belonged to Mr. Smith in 1700.
Anthony Wood Lot. John Grover, sr., of Beverly,
husbandman, for three pounds and ten shillings, conveyed
this lot to Anthony Wood of Beverly, weaver, Sept. 22,
1673. 2 It belonged to him in 1700.
John Conant House. This lot of land belonged to John
Bennett of Beverly in 1673 ; and, for one hundred pounds,
he conveyed it to John Conant of Beverly, carpenter, with
the dwelling house thereon, Sept. 24, 1677. 3 Mr. Conant
owned the estate in 1700.
John Bennett Lot. Edmond Grover owned this lot in
1673 ; and John Grover of Beverly, husbandman, for five
pounds and ten shillings, conveyed it to Anthony Wood
of Beverly, weaver, June 29, 1678.* John Bennett owned
it in 1686, and probably in 1700.
Roger Haskell House. That part of this lot of land
lying within the dashes, on the westerly side of Heather
street, was owned by David Thomas of Salem, planter, in
1661. He conveyed to William Hooper of Salem this
lot with a dwelling house thereon Feb. 10, 1668. 6 Mr.
Hooper had come from Coker, in England, was a fisher-
man, and removed to this house. He died by " suddenly
falling overboard at sea " about Nov. 8, 1679, at the age of
thirty. The house and five acres of land were then ap-
praised at fifty pounds. This part of the lot soon after
came into the possession of Roger Haskell.
The remainder of the lot early belonged to John Hard-
ing and he gave it to Roger Haskell, his daughter's hus-
band, before 1661. Mr. Haskell died about 1690 ; and
the land came into the ownership of his son Roger Has-
kell of Beverly, carpenter, before 1700.
lEssex Registry of Deeds, book 10, leaf 164.
2 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 5, leaf 33.
3 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 5, leaf 20.
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 5, leaf 79.
"Essex Registry of Deeds, book 3, leaf 50.
BY SIDNEY PEELEY 217
The house and the land around it was conveyed by
Roger Hascoll, for one hundred and seventy pounds, to
Samuel Herrick of Beverly, tailor, June 14, 1709. 1 The
house was gone a few years later.
William Dodge House. This tract of land belonged to
Peter Palfrey very early ; and was conveyed by George
Richerson of Wapping, in England, mariner, by his at-
torney George Hawkins of Boston, shipwright, for forty
pounds, to William Dods (Dodge), Sept. 28, 1644. 2
His son Capt. William Dodge of Beverly died March
24, 1719-20, at the age of eighty, possessed of this house
and lot, having in his will devised " my now dwelling
house " and land to his eldest son William Dodge of Bev-
erly, yeoman. For love, William Dodge conveyed the
house and land to his daughter Anna Clemmons, wife of
Dr. Timothy Clemmons of Beverly, part of " my home-
stead land and my now dwelling house, barn and wash
house thereon " May 29, 1729. 3 How much longer the
house stood is unknown to the writer.
Henry Herrick Lot. This lot of land was owned by
Henry Herrick in 1700.
William Rayment Lot. This lot of land belonged to
Capt. William Rayment of Beverly in 1700. The Salem
reservoir is located on this hill.
Isot Conant Houses. This lot of land belonged to Roger
Conant very early, and he lived in the house which stood
upon it. Roger Conant of Salem, yeoman, conveyed to
his son Lot Conant of Salem "my now dwelling house "
and thirty-two acres of land adjoining Nov. 20, 1666 ; 4
and the next day Lot Conant leased to his father and
mother for their lives the house and three acres of the
homestead, for an annual rent of " one Indian corn." 5
The old house stood at the southerly end of the lot
Roger Conant apparently survived his wife, and died Nov.
19, 1679.
Lot Conant built a house upon this homestead, and re-
moved thereto from Marblehead about 1670. He died
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 39, leaf 244.
2 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 1, leaf 2.
3 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 54, leaf 55.
4 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 3, leaf 28.
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 3, leaf 29.
218 BEVERLY IN 1700. NO. 2
Sept. 29, 1674, having devised the house and orchard to
his wife Elizabeth for her life. She married, secondly,
Andrew Mansfield of Lynn Jan. 10, 1681-2. The home-
stead went to his son Lot Conant.
Exercise Conant, aged about seventy-two years, de-
posed March 28, 1710, " that his Father m r Roger Conant
late 'of Beverly dec d about Thirty two years past was
Seized in his own right of fee Dwelt upon and Improued
a certain Farme and Tract of land . . in Beverly . .
part of the Towne of Salem next adjoyning and abutting
on the Farme and lands of Henry Herrick of the same
now alfo Dec d by all time past . . Seized . . in Fee
which ffarme and lands were pofsefed and Enjoyed from
his said Fathers Death by his Eldest Son then liuing
named Lot Conant during his life and is now pofsest by
his Son Lott Conant the Deponant liued many years
with his Said Father upon the Said Farme and the devid-
ing line between m r Conants and m r Herricks Farmes So
alwayes accounted and reputed was a certain brooke Some-
times Denominated the brooke that comes out of the new
Close and the Said Conant and Herrick respectiuely Im-
proved the lands on Either Side of said brooke." 1
In 1717, Lot Conant removed to Ipswich, and died May
14, 1745. In his will he devised his buildings and lands
in Beverly to his son Jonathan Conant, who was a cur-
rier, and lived upon the old homestead in Beverly. He
died June 18, 1749. The next owner and occupant of
the ancient homestead was his son Jonathan Conant, who
lived here until about 1783, when he removed to the
Cherry Hill farm. He conveyed the house, apparently,
to Simon Lovett of Beverly, yeoman, about that date ;
and Mr. Lovett, for two hundred and thirty-six pounds,
conveyed the house and barn with the land adjoining them
to John Trow of Beverly, yeoman, June 24, 1789. 2 Mr.
Trow apparently conveyed the estate to Simeon Brown
soon after, and he took the old house down.
The house which was built upon the homestead by Lot
Conant about 1670 was probably the house which was
conveyed with the barn and land around them to David
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 21, leaf 180.
2 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 150, leaf 275.
BY SIDNEY PBELEY 219
Forniss of Beverly, tailor, April 11, 1783. 1 Mr. Forniss,
for one hundred and ten pounds, conveyed the "land" to
Capt. Simeon Brown of Beverly, gentleman, Oct. 1, 1792; 2
and Mr. Brown conveyed the land and buildings to Dr
Ingalls Kittredge of Townsend April 6, 1803. 3 Doctor
Kittredge removed the house.
Edward Bishop Lot. This lot of land in the Rail field,
so called, was conveyed by^Edward Bishop of Beverly,
husbandman, to his son Edward Bishop of Salem, hus-
bandman, Oct. 8, 1673. 4 The lot belonged to Edward
Bishop in 1700.
Benjamin Balch Lot. Benjamin Balch owned this lot
of land in 1673 and 1700.
Edward Rayment Lot. This lot of land was a part of
the lot which was conveyed by John Leach to Henry Her-
rick, sr., of Salem, yeoman, in or before 1668. Mr. Her-
rick conveyed it to Peter Woodbury and William Raiment
of Salem Oct. 26, 1668. 5 Mr. Woodbury apparently re-
leased this part of the lot to Mr. Rayment. William Ray-
ment, sr., of Beverly, yeoman, in consideration of love,
conveyed it to his son Edward Rayment of Beverly, cord-
wainer, April 4, 1695 ; 6 and Edward Rayment owned it
in 1700.
William Rayment Lot. This lot of land was a part of
the lot which was conveyed by John Leach to Henry Her-
rick, sr., of Salem, yeoman, in or before 1668. Mr. Her-
rick conveyed it to Peter Woodbury and William Raiment
of Salem Oct. 26, 1668. 5 Mr. Woodbury apparently re-
leased this part of the lot to Mr. Raiment, who owned
the lot in 1700.
Peter Woodbury Lot. This lot of land was a part of
the lot conveyed by John Leach to Henry Herrick, sr., of
Salem, yeoman, in or before 1668. Mr. Herrick conveyed
it to Peter Woodbury and William Raiment of Salem
Oct. 26, 1668. 7 Mr. Raiment apparently released his in-
"Essex Registry of Deeds, book 153, leaf 231.
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 155, leaf 214.
3 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 172, leaf 136.
4 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 6, leaf 115.
5 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 3, leaf 134.
"Essex Registry of Deeds, book 22, leaf 262.
7 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 3, leaf 134.
220 BEVERLY IN 1700. NO. 2
terest in this part of the lot to Mr. Woodbury, who owned
it in 1695 and 1700.
John Rayment Lot. This lot of land belonged to John
Rayment in 1700.
John Dodge Lot. Capt. John Dodge of Beverly owned
this lot in 1696 and 1700.
Cornelius Baker Lot. This lot of land was owned by
Cornelius Baker, jr., of Salem, yeoman, in 1696 and
1700.
Benjamin Balch Lot. This lot of land belonged to
Benjamin Balch in 1700.
Philip White House. Nathaniel Conant of Beverly,
cordwainer, owned this lot of land and sold it to Philip
White of Beverly, carpenter, before 1687. In 1687, after
Mr. White purchased the land, there was a house upon
it, but it has not been learned how long it stood. He
apparently owned the house and land in 1700.
Nathaniel Rayment Lot. John Rayment, sr., of Bev-
erly, yeoman, for love, conveyed this lot of land to his
son Nathaniel Rayment of Beverly, yeoman, Jan. 15,
1696-7 j 1 and Nathaniel Rayment owned it in 1700.
Elenezer Woodbury Lot. This lot of land belonged to
Ebenezer Woodbury in 1696 and 1700.
Benjamin Balch House. This tract of land was a por-
tion of the two hundred acres granted by the town of
Salem to John Balch, who was from Bridgewater, Somer-
setshire, England, as one of the Old Planters of original
Salem, Jan. 25, 1635-6 ; and built his house upon this
part of his land. The house is still in existence, being
the northeastern portion of the " old Balch house," and
occupying the same site on which it was erected. It is
the only house of an " Old Planter " in existence, and is
probably the oldest house in New England. Originally,
it was about twenty-three feet long, sixteen feet wide
and about nine feet post. The roof was steep, and
probably thatched. The original frame is of white oak,
and probably intact. In spite of the many changes and
additions that have come to the old house little has been
taken from its timbers. Originally, the chimney was
probably made of stone on the outside of the house and
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 12, leaf 32a.
BY SIDNEY PERLEY
221
at its north end. The house
was originally like this:
About 1645, the first change
- was made in it. The posts
> were lengthened about four
feet, and new rafters were
placed over the original ones. Thus the house became of
two stories. The attic shows these two sets of rafters,
one placed above the other, but in the chamber the lower
ends of the original front intermediate rafters have been
cut away in order to make the chamber clear of them.
An examination showed that this had been done at the
new beam, and a closet was built on the back side of the
chamber, in which the ends of the original rafters are to
be seen. Thus the frame of the old house
after this change appeared as in this diagram :
Sometime about the year 1760, a considerable
addition was made on the southern end, and
about 1800 another. Apparently, one or two
more additions were subsequently made,
eventually causing the northern gable to display various
changes as follows :
under the original
and the underpin-
stones laid in clay,
never been disturbed,
under the other parts
occupied by cellars.
There is no cellar
part of the house,
ning, is of small
It has apparently
Most of the space
of the house is
The house is of
great interest, and an attractive study.
John Balch died in the month of June, 1648.
In his will, he devised to his wife Annis (Agnes) ' the
Roome newly built " and some land, cows, etc., and the
homestead went to his son Benjamin. The dwelling
house and barn were appraised at sixteen pounds, whille
his apparel was valued at fifty-one pounds and ten shi-
lings. Benjamin Balch, sr., of Beverly, yeoman, for
love, etc., conveyed to his grandson Benjamin Balch, jr.,
of Beverly, husbandman, who lived with him, upon his
becoming of age, " my dwelling house," barn, orchard,
etc., Jan. 4, 1703-4. 1 He was a yeoman, and lived in
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 19, leaf 209.
222 BEVERLY IN 1700. NO 2.
Beverly. He died Jan. 8, 1749-50 ; having in his will
devised his dwelling house and land to his wife Mercy for
her life, and then to his daughters Marcy Lovett, Mary
Woodberry, Martha Trask and Deborah Dodge and to his
grandson Benjamin Balch Lovett. In the inventory of
his estate, the house, barn and land were appraised at one
hundred and twenty pounds. This homestead came into
the possession of Deborah, daughter of Benjamin Balch
and wife of Jonathan Dodge of Beverly. Mrs. Dodge
died ; and the title descended to her son Cornelius Dodge
of Beverly, yeoman. Cornelius Dodge died April 27,
1837, at the age of ninety-four. The home field and
the dwelling house and barn thereon were then appraised
at eight hundred dollars. The place descended to his son
Azor Dodge of Beverly, who conveyed to his son Joshua
F. Dodge and his wife Alice a life estate in the premises
Dec. 10, 1869 j 1 and the remainder to Addie Dodge and
Martha Dodge, children of said Joshua F. Dodge, Dec.
13, 1 869. a Addie F. Dodge married Charles H. Herrick.
Martha Dodge died Jan. 14, 1880 ; and her mother, then
Mary Alice Lufkin, inherited her half of the premises.
Mrs. Lufkin released her interest in the house and land
to her daughter Mrs. Addie F. Herrick, who owned the
other half interest, April 30, 1913 ; and thus Mrs. Her-
rick became the sole owner of the estate. In the autumn
of 1915, interest in the preservation of the old house
became aroused upon the discovery that it included the
original dwelling of John Balcb on this site ; and, June
8, 1916, Mrs. Herrick and her husband transferred the
title thereto to Joseph Balch of Westwood, John Balch of
Milton, Franklin G. Balch, Francis N. Balch and William
Sumner Appleton, all of Boston, and Franklin Balch of
Topsfield and their survivors. These men hold the title
jointly to raise money for and cause the reconstruction of
the original dwelling. The war has hindered the consum-
mation of this purpose hitherto, but it is hoped that this
cherished design may be prosecuted soon.
William Dodge Lot. This land was probably a portion
of the tract of land granted by the town of Salem to
Registry of Deeds, book 787, leaf 144.
2 Essei Registry of Deeds, book 787, leaf 145.
BY SIDNEY PERLEY 228
Peter Palfrey Jan. 25, 1635-6, and it belonged to Dea.
William Dodge in 1700.
Henry Herrick Lot. This lot of land belonged to
Henry Herrick, sr., of Salem, yeoman, in 1668, and he
died possessed of it in the winter of 1670-1. In his will,
he devised to his son Benjamin Herrick this " pasture
land, called my english field, w ch joyneth on the east syde
to Andrew Eliott, lyeing between the countrye high way
& the mill River," to " remaine in the hands of my sonn
Henry to improve vntill Beniamyn be 21 years of age and
in case he dye before he be 21 years of age I give the sayd
land to my sonn Henry." Benjamin Herrick died with-
out issue in 1677, probably under age. The inventory of
the estate of Henry Herrick has this item : " the English
pasture w th the marsh & orchard in itt, 80 li." The son
Henry Herrick owned the lot in 1700, when he was of
Beverly, yeoman.
Andrew Elliott House. This lot of land belonged to
Henry Herrick, sr., of Salem, yeoman, May 26, 1668,
when he conveyed that part of the lot lying within the
dashes at the southeastern corner to Andrew Elliott of
Salem, cordwinder, a native of Somersetshire, England. 1
The remainder of the lot subsequently came into his
hands. Upon the southeastern corner he erected a house,
in which he lived. Mr. Elliott died March 1, 1703-4 ;
having devised the homestead with the dwelling house
thereon to his grandson Andrew Elliott, son of the de-
ceased son William Elliott, the latter (William) being
then in possession of the homestead as a tenant. Andrew
Elliott, jr., lived here, and died, possessed of the estate,
Jan. 25, 1743-4, intestate. The real estate was not di-
vided until Sept. 3, 1764, when the easterly part of the
house and homestead was assigned to his eldest son Rob-
ert Elliott and the westerly part to his son Andrew Elli-
ott. Robert Elliott lived here, and was a mariner. He
died in the winter of 1767-8, intestate, possessed of his
part of the house and land. In the inventory of his es-
tate, the " one half Part of an old dwelling House" was
valued at eighteen pounds, and " a fmall Barn " at ten
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 3, leaf 38.
224 BEVERLY IN 1700. NO. 2
pounds. He left two children, Robert and Jane, who
owned this part of the estate in 1788. How much longer
this house stood is unknown to the writer.
John Dodge Lot. This was called Bushnell's lot before
1669 ; and John Leach of Salem, miller, conveyed it to
John Dodge, jr., of Beverly, husbandman, Sept. 2, 1669. 1
Mr. Dodge owned it in 1700. This lot included "a little
hill encompassed by his own marsh near Mr. Friend's
mill" granted by the selectmen of Salem to Henry Skerie
Feb. 20, 1653-4.
Estate of Nehemiah Grover Lot. This lot of land be-
longed to Edmond Grover in 1648. When of Beverly,
yeoman, for love, he conveyed it to his son Nehemiah
Grover July 23, 16 77. 2 Nehemiah Grover died Feb. 12,
1693-4, intestate. In the inventory of his estate, this lot
of five acres was appraised at thirty-five pounds, and the
dwelling house and barn at thirty pounds. The estate
was undivided in 1700.
Mark Haskell Lot. This lot of land was probably
granted to Nicholas Draper ; and it belonged to Jarvis
Garford of Salem, gentleman, in 1648. Mr. Garford had
a house there, and, for eighty pounds, conveyed the house
and land to widow Elizabeth Hardy of Salem Sept. 26,
1653. 3 She gave her "son" Roger Haskell half of the
house and land, as he had paid to Mr. Garford part of the
money for it. When this house disappeared is unknown.
She died in the autumn of 1654, having in her will de-
vised to her daughter Elizabeth, wife of Roger Haskell,
the other half. The will was defective, and on a division
of the real estate this portion of the land was assigned to
Mr. Haskell. Roger Haskell died in June, 1667, having
in his will devised one-half of this land to his wife and
the other half to his sons Roger, Josiah and Samuel.
Josiah Haskell and Samuel Haskell apparently released
their interest in this lot to Roger Haskell, as he owned
it in 1700.
John Gonant Lot. This lot of land was a part of a lot
which belonged to Edmund Grover in 1648. It belonged
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 3, leaf 69.
2 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 6, leaf 53.
3 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 1, leaf 20.
BY SIDNEY PBBLEY 225
to John Grover of Salem, husbandman, Aug. 8, 1677,
when, for sixteen shillings, he conveyed it to John Benet
of Beverly, weaver. 1 Mr. Bennett, for twenty shillings,
conveyed it to John Conant of Beverly, carpenter, Oct. 3,
1677 j 1 and Mr. Conant owned the lot in 1700.
Jonathan Herrick House. This was a part of a lot of
land which belonged to Edmund Grover in 1648. This
lot belonged to John Grover of Salem, husbandman, in
1677. John Grover died in 1695, intestate. In the in-
ventory of his estate, his dwelling house and orchard were
appraised at thirty pounds. His widow Margaret Grover,
as his administratrix, for twenty-nine pounds, conveyed
the land and dwelling house thereon to Jonathan Herrick
of Beverly, blacksmith, Nov. 20, 16 96. 2 Mr. Herrick,
for one hundred and eighteen pounds, conveyed to Haza-
diah Smith, sr., of Beverly, house carpenter, the land
with the dwelling house, barn and a smith's shop thereon
April 28, 1715 ; 3 and Mr. Smith, for love, conveyed to his
son Samuel Smith of Beverly the land with the dwelling
house thereon Jan. 5, 1 724-5 .* How much longer the
house stood is unknown to the writer.
Joseph Trask Lot. This lot of land belonged to Joseph
Trask in 1698 and 1700. 5
Benjamin Trask Lot. Osmond Trask of Beverly died
in the winter of 1676-7, possessed of this lot of land;
and his widow Elizabeth Trask married, secondly, John
Gyles of Beverly. Mr. and Mrs. Gyles conveyed this
lot, as she was the administratrix of the estate, to her son
Samuel Trask Jan. 18, 1688 ; 6 and Samuel Trask appar-
ently conveyed it to his son Benjamin Trask before Oct.
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 5, leaf 20.
"Essex Registry of Deeds, book 20, leaf 14.
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 72, leaf 207.
4 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 57, leaf 7.
'"There may have been a house upon this lot in 1700. Joseph
Trask of Beverly, yeoman, conveyed this land with a dwelling house
upon it to Samuel Trask of Salem Dec. 1, 1713 (Essex Registry of
Deeds, book 36, leaf 44). Samuel Trask of Salem, blacksmith,
conveyed the house and land to his son Samuel Trask of Beverly,
weaver, Dec. 8, 1718 (Essex Registry of Deeds, book 36, leaf 46);
and Samuel Trask of Beverly, weaver, conveyed the same premises
to Samuel Bell of SaJena, mason, March 1, 1736-7 (Essex Registry of
Deeds, book 73, leaf 120).
6 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 36, leaf 45.
226 BEVERLY IN 1700. NO. 2
10, 1680. Benjamin Trask owned it in 1700. There was
a house upon this lot in 1706, but when and by whom it
was built is unknown.
William Elliott Lot. Osmond Trask of Beverly died
in the winter of 1676-7, possessed of this lot of land ;
and his widow and administratrix, who had married John
Gyles of Beverly in 1679, conveyed it to her son Samuel
Trask Jan. 18, 1688. 1 Samuel Trask, " then living in
Salem," blacksmith, for eight pounds in silver, conveyed
it to William Elliott of Beverly, cordwinder, Oct. 10,
1689 ; 2 and Mr. Elliott owned it in 1700.
Isaac Woodberry House. This lot of land was possibly
owned by Osmond Trask of Beverly in 1675. He died
in the winter of 1676-7 ; and perhaps it was subsequently
owned by his son Samuel Trask. Robert Hibbert proba-
bly owned it next.
That part of the lot lying westerly of the dashes was
owned by John Swarton of Beverly, tailor, April 27,
1687, when, for fifty dollars, he conveyed the land, with
the house and barn thereon, to Isaac Woodberry, jr., of
Beverly, mariner. 3
That part of the lot lying easterly of the dashes be-
longed to Robert Hibberd of Beverly as early as 1668.
He died May 7, 1684, having in his will devised it to his
wife Joane for her life and then to his son Samuel Hib-
bard. His wife Joane Hebbard and their son Samuel
Hibbard, for fifteen pounds and four shillings, conveyed
this part of the lot to Mr. Woodberry May 26, 169 1. 4
Mr. Woodberry died possessed of the entire lot and the
buildings thereon at Bristol, England, Aug. 14, 1701, at
the age of twenty-one.
His father, Isaac Woodberry of Beverly, mariner, stated
in his will that his wife Mary bought the house and barn
and land in the name of his said deceased son. The
father died March 11, 1725-6, at the age of eighty-four,
having devised the buildings and land to his son Joshua
Woodberry. How long the house stood is uncertain.
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 86, leaf 45.
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 9, leaf 78.
8 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 12, leaf 96.
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 12, leaf 95.
BY SIDNEY PERLBY 227
Nathaniel Wallis House. This lot of land was owned
by Robert Hibberd, sr., of Beverly, bricklayer, as early as
1668.
The middle portion of the lot was conveyed by Mr.
Hebberd to his daughter Abigail, wife of Thomas Blash-
field of Beverly, fisherman, June 20, 1676 j 1 and Mr.
Blashfield built a house upon the lot that summer. Mr.
Blashfield became a husbandman, and, for sixty-five
pounds, conveyed the house and land to Nathaniel Wallis
of Manchester Aug. 31, 1680. 2 Mr. Wallis removed to
this house. He was born in Cornwall, Great Britain, about
1632.
The northwesterly corner of the lot, being orchard, was
conveyed by Mr. Hiberd, for twenty shillings, to Mr.
Wallis Sept. 30, 1680. 1
The southern portion of this lot was conveyed by
Joseph Hibert of Beverly, husbandman, to Mr. Wallis
Nov. 26, 1661.8
Robert Hibberd died possessed of the northeastern
part of the lot May 7, 1684 ; and his widow Joan Heb-
berd and their son Samuel Hebberd, to whom he had
devised it, for six pounds and fifteen shillings in silver,
conveyed it to Mr. Wallis March 13, 1689-90. 4
Mr. Wallis died possessed of the entire estate Oct. 18,
1709. The house and land were then appraised at ninety-
one pounds. In his will he devised it to his sons Caleb
and Joshua. Joshua Wallis of Wenham, husbandman,
conveyed to his loving brother Caleb Wallis of Beverly,
cordwainer, his half of a mansion house and barn and the
land, being the dwelling house, barn and homestead that
our honored father Nathaniel Wallis, late of Beverly,
yeoman, deceased, died seized of," July 11, 1711. 6 Caleb
Wallis died Nov. 1, 1714, intestate. In the inventory of
his estate this property is described as " six acres of land
with an orchard and the dwelling house and barn thereon
which was formerly the homestead of Nathaniel Wallis,
father of the deceased," and valued at eighty pounds.
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 7, leaf 106.
'Esses Registry of Deeds, book 7, leaf 107.
8 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 7, leaf 95.
4 Essez Registry of Deeds, book 9, leaf 96.
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 26, leaf 88.
228 BEVEELY IN 1700. NO. 2
The real estate was divided Dec. 26, 1722, and this house
and lot was assigned to his son Joshua Wallis. Joshua
Wallis was a tailor and lived in Beverly. For one hun-
dred and forty pounds, he conveyed the lot with the house,
barn and orchard thereon to Peter Groves of Beverly,
joiner, Jan. 7, 1722-3. 1 Mr. Groves died March 14, 1755 ;
having in his will devised the homestead to his wife Mary
and after her decease to his son Freeborn Groves, and if
the latter should die without issue then to the testator's
grandson Peter Groves of Beverly. The dwelling house
was then appraised at twenty pounds ; the barn at five
pounds ; the shop at two pounds ; and the five acres of
land at eighty pounds. Freeborn Groves died, intestate,
in 1783 ; and his homestead of four and a half acres of
land with the dwelling house, etc., was then appraised at
two hundred and twenty-five pounds. How much longer
the house stood has not been learned.
Samuel Hiblerd House. This lot of land was owned by
Robert Hibberd of Beverly, bricklayer, in 1668. He
lived here, and died May 7, 1684. In the inventory of
his estate, the dwelling house, barn and orchard were ap-
praised at sixty pounds, and the thirty-four acres of land
near the house at one hundred and nineteen pounds. In
his will he had devised to his wife Joane his now dwelling
house, barn, tillage and pasture land, being his home-
stead, for her life, and then gave the homestead to his son
Samuel Hibberd, ' if he doth behave himself dutyfully
& obediently to his mother." Samuel duly behaved him-
self, apparently, and possessed the estate after the de-
cease of his mother. He was a husbandman, and lived
here. He died in the spring of 1702, intestate. In his
inventory, the dwelling house was appraised at ten
pounds, and the thirty acres adjoining at thirty pounds.
Deborah Hibberd conveyed her one-sixth interest in the
estate to Peter Groves of Beverly, joiner, Sept. 30, 1709 ; 2
and Mr. Groves conveyed it to Robert Hale, Esq., of
Beverly, physician, Jan. 22, 1710. 3 Samuel Hibberd's
daughter Abigail, wife of Daniel Eaton of Lynn, con-
J Essex Registry of Deeds, book 44, leaf 130.
*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 59, leaf 12.
3 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 30, leaf 70.
BY SIDNEY PERLEY 229
veyed her interest in the estate to Mr. Hale, with ' a
mansion or dwelling house " thereon, May 30, 1710. 1 The
real estate was divided Feb. 5, 1710-1 ; and the house
and land adjoining was assigned to Doctor Hale by virtue
of these deeds. How long the house stood after this date
has not been determined.
The " general fence " which ran through this lot at the
northeastern side of Prospect hill was the fence which
included the common land in 1668. That portion of this
lot lying easterly of this fence was granted by the town
of Beverly to Mr. Hibberd in 1693.
DOCUMENTS RELATING TO MARBLEHEAD,
MASS.
( Continued from Volume L V, page 80S)
[4 May 1696]
Captaine Legg
Upon application made by yonrselfe and other Gentle-
men concerned in the Fishery I was ready to gratify you
with a convoy so far as might be consistant with the
other Service proposed for his Majestys Ships into the
Bay of Fundy which I made express mention of unto
you, and did accordingly order Captaine Paxton to attend
that Service, he then acquainting me only with the want
of fifteen men and I understood you were ready to Supply
them rather than to faile of his assistance, and I expected
it had been done, and that he had been gone to Sea. But
1 have this day received a Letter from Captaine Paxton
at Marblehead in which he advises me of the want of
thirty men or more to compleat his number, and that he
has not yet received any from yourselfe and the others
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 23, leaf 174.
230 DOCUMENTS RELATING TO MARBLEHEAD, MASS.
and therefore expects positive orders from myselfe to
proceed that notwithstanding his falling so short of men,
which is hard to put me upon, lest any misfortune should
happen and he says then to return your men again will
render him uncapable of future service. Besides the time
is so far Spent beyond Expectation, That I fear his pur-
suing his orders already given him will dissapoint the
other Service intended for him to the Bay of Fundy. I
am very sorry it so falls out ; But I can do no other than
to refer it to himselfe to consider what number may be
sufficient to adventure his Majestys Ship abroad with
safety If therefore he thinks he may go forth with the
men he has and convoy the Fishing Vessels to the Fish-
ing Grounds and so to return back to see to make up his
complement for the other designe I have so directed. The
French Privateer Sloop being taken and sent forth again
in search for the Shallop and vessell, I would hope if she
be surprized you will probably be secure to attend their
business. I am sincerely desirous to assist you in this
affair so far as will consit with his Majesties Service,
and am
Your Loving Friend
[Not signed, but in Stoughton's hand.]
Mass. Archives, vol. 62, pp. 89-90.
Unto The Honoured Generall Court now Sitting at
Boston the petision of Nicholas Pickett of Marblehead
townshipp : humbly Sheweth : that he the said Pickett
was pressed out of the said town : and that in the Late
expedition against the french in March Last past in His
Majesties Service and the Coimtrys un- Captain Cauley
he did then and their received a Shott which wounded
him in suchwise that his wound made him uncapable of
Stiring himselfe and by that means he became frozen and
thereby hath Sufered extream Dolourous and exquisite
paine and torment and at last for the preservation of his
life was forced to endure the Cuting of his f oott and Now
Contineth very weake and uterly uncapable of doing any
thing to help himselfe ; or fall into any way to gaine A
livelihood ; and he being A very poor man having neither
housing, Land, or other estate to relieve him and in A
DOCUMENTS .RELATING TO MAEBLEHEAD, MASS. 231
very poor, miserable, and deplorable Condition he doth
humbly suplicate and beseech this Honoured Court out of
their Comiseration and Christian Compassion to consider
his miserable and needy Condition and for the reasons
aforesaid that this Honoured Court will be pleased to
grant him some sutable suply for his future maintenance
(he being a decriped man) in such maner as you shall see
meett and your poor suppliant shall for ever pray for your
prosperity
Nicholas Pickett
September 6th 1697.
September 10th 1697 Read in the House of Representa-
tives
October 26, 1697 Read and voted in the house of Rep-
resentatives that he shall be paid Ten pounds for this
year : and five pounds per Annum afterwards out of the
publick Treasury of this Province until such time as this
Court shall so Cause to order it, otherwise : and that the
charge of his Cure be payd by the province.
Sent up for Concurrence.
Penn Townsend Speaker
26th October 1697, Read and Voted a Concurrance.
Isaac Addington Secretary.
Mass. Archives, vol. 70, p. 356.
The Humble Petition of the inholders, and Retailors
of the County of Essex to the Honorable Lieutenantt
Governour, & Councill, & Representatives Convened,
February 12, 1700/1.
Humbly sheweth that whereas the honerable Generall
Court Convened in May 1700 passed an act to his Majes-
ty for the excise upon all wines, Luicours, & strong
drinck, sould by Retail, thereto obligeing all licensed
persons, to render an account upon oath of what strong
drink they had in their houses, or dependencies thereof
for retaile which act is very severe & hard upon the sub-
ject ; it being impossible for us to sweare sic to what
stong drink we had in our custody for sale on the twen-
ty ninth day of June last, Because we did not take an
exact account of what we had then in our Custody; not
232 DOCUMENTS RELATING TO MARBLEHEAD, MASS.
knowing any such Law was extent, as did oblidge us
thereto The consideration of the impossibility of Render-
ing of such an account upon oaths as also the multiplici-
ties of Oaths, accruing thereby, doth force us to pray
your Honours ; that you would superseede said act, &
grant us liberty to pay what shall become due either as
we paid formerly or else by agreement with the Comis-
sioner of said County Francis Wainwright well respected
of our said County of Essex, chosing to pay rather more
excise, in this way of an agreement than than to be ex-
posed partly to an impossibillity, & also to the multiplica-
tion of oaths. Praying that your Honours will redress
us in this matter & not lelt us be exposed to forfeitt our
Recognicances which otherwise will certainly follow We
humbly pray for your Favour in this & will beg your
belessing on all accounts.
John How Thomas Fiske
Abraham Peirkins Thomas Freann ?
Thomas Perley Nathaniel Ingersoll
Samuell Hasaltine ? Waltere Phillips
Francis Crumpton Joseph Ingalls
Daniell Rindge Robert Brisco
Nathaniel Rust Junior Richard Trevet
Joseph Hartt Will Watrs?
Mary Geffords William Woods
February 20th 1700 Read
Mass. Archives, v. Ill, p. 68.
To The honourable Leutenantt Governour Councill and
Representatives In Generall Courtt etc.
The Petition of Nicholas Pickett a Souldier wounded
in his Majesties service, An Inhabitant of the Towne of
Marblehead
humbly Sheweth
That whereas att a Generall Courtt Upon the 26th
day of May 1697, and Continued by prorogations unto
the 13th day of October Following, Itt was then Votted
that there should bee Allowed outt of the publick Treas-
ury Unto Your poore Petitioner the summe of tenn
poundes for that Yeare, And Five poundes per Annum
Afterwards, till farther order, and alsoe the Charge of
DOCUMENTS RELATING TO MARBLEHEAD, MASS. 233
the Cure to be defrayed by the Publick, as by said Vote
may Appeare, and whereas your poore Petitioner being
now Fifty six Yeares of Age and more and not able to
doe anything to help himselfe towards a Livelyhood, and
findeing that Five poundes a Yeare is not sufficient Main-
tenance, butt must Inevitably suffer, Doth there-for most
humbly Pray Your honours etc. well to Consider my Low
Condition, and Grant mee such farther supply toward my
Maintenance, as may bee in some Measure sufficient for
mee in Aged Estate and Weake Condition as alsoe for
the Cureing the wound which is not yett Perfected.
And Your honours Poore Petitioner shall ever pray as
in duty bound etc.
Marblehead May 20th 1701 N. P.
June 27th Read 1st and 2d time and third time in the
house of Representatives
And Resolved, that hence forward there be paid the
petitioner out of the Publick Treasury a Stipend of Seven
pounds per year annually in Lieu of the five pounds per
annum formerly granted him
Sent up for Concurrence
Nehemiah Jewett Speaker.
In Council June 27th 1701, Read and past a Concur-
rance. Isaac Addington Secretary.
Mass. Archives, vol. 70, p. 524.
The Towne of Marblehead humbly Supplicates The
honourable Leutenantt Governour, Council! and Repre-
sentatives etc. Dewly and Trewly to Consider off, and
seasonably to provide for, the miserable decayed state of
Theire Fortifications, and stores of Warr (Perticular ac-
compt of which hath bin already sent to the Commissary
General) Prayeing well to Consider the scituation and
Accomodation of the Portt for ships and Martt of Fish-
ery (which his Majestic hath alwaise desired to Incour-
idge) And wee Farther pray that noe 111 Representation
may prevent the Fortifieing soe Commodious an In Lett
to the Danger of the province, or to Damnify the Prin-
cipall Manufactory of itt.
And your Poore Petitioners
shall Ever pray etc.
234 DOCUMENTS RELATING TO MARBLEHEAD, MASS.
Att a Towne Meeteing of Marblehead June 23 1701
etc. Itt was ordered that the Select men signe this Petti-
tion on behalfe of said Towne
John Browne
Select men off John Stasey
Benjamin James
Marblehead Richard Trevet
George Jackson
In Council 5th September 1701, Read and sent down.
In the House of Representatives, September 6th 1701
Read, The Question being Put whether any Allowance
be made in Answer to the above Petition ? It Passed in
the Negative.
In the House of Representatives, February 24th 1701,
Read and Resolved, That the Sum of forty Pounds be
Allowed and Paid out of the Publick Treasury to the
Town of Marblehead toward the repair of their fortifi-
cations, and for stores of War, Provided said Town Ad-
vance and Expend the sum of sixty Pounds more for the
service aforesaid so as to make the whole an hundred
Pounds.
Sent up for Concurrance
Nehemiah Jewett Speaker
In Councill February 24th 1701
Read and past a Concurrance and Consented to
Elisha Cooke
John Hathorne
Eliakim Hutchinson Elisha Hutchinson
Penn Townsend Samuel Sewall
John Appleton Peter Sergeant
Nathaniel By field John Foster
Benjamin Browne Jonathan Corwin
John Walley
Nathaniel Thomas
[All autographs] John Higginson
Mass. Archives, v. 70, pp. 530-1.
(To be continued')
ALPHEUS CROSBY.
BY ROBERT S. RANTOUL.
T Professor Alpheus Crosby, the second principal of the
State Normal School at Salem, came of a family by no
means inconspicuous in its origin or its achievements.
The name is supposed to be a form of ' Crossburgh " or
" Crossbury," by which name the Danes designated the
hamlets marked with a Cross, planted by them along the
Eastern Shore of England. Eight such towns are
traced in the North of the Island, at each of which the
Danish settlers are said to have planted a Cross in token
of their occupation. The Crosby family runs back, of
record, to 1204. Savage and other genealogists find the
stock at Cambridge, then Newtowne, in 1635, Simon
being a freeman in 1636, selectman in 1637, 1638, his
estate passing to one Brattle, and since occupied by the
Brattle House. From Cambridge they spread to the
Merrimac Valley, into New Hampshire, and to Maine.
In two centuries, they had sent a dozen graduates through
Harvard and as many through other New England col-
leges. They have borne their share as pioneer farmers
and Indian fighters, besides bearing commissions in the
old French and British wars, but mostly they have been
physicians, surgeons and preachers. The name Alpheus
first appears in 1739. One of the family named Alpheus
witnessed the execution of Andre. They have intermarried
with the Fitches, one of whom was Governor of Connecti-
cut, one the first president of Williams College, and one
applied steam power to navigation. It is not without in-
terest to note here that a Crosby married a Stoddard of
Salem, another a Pierce of Salem, and that the first wife
of Colonel Samuel Cook Oliver was a Crosby.
Professor Alpheus Crosby, the subject of this memoir ,
was a worthy scion of such a stock. He was born, Oc-
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236 ALPHEUS CROSBY
tober 13, 1810, at Sandwich, a hill-town of New Hamp-
shire, where his father had acquired a homestead farm
twenty years before and had built up a wide, general
practice in surgery and physic. There were six brothers
of them, all more or less distinguished. One of them,
Nathan, Police Justice at Lowell for thirty years, was a
valued contributor to our Historical Collections.
Professor Crosby died at Salem, April 17, 1874. He
was twice married. His first wife was Abigail Grant
Cutler, born at Newburyport, where they were married,
in August, 1834, and where she and the Professor lie
buried. She died in 1837, in France, where they were
journeying for her health. He married, later in life,
Martha Kingman, sometime a teacher in the State Normal
School at Bridgewater, of which she had been a graduate,
who before their marriage had become an assistant in the
Salem Normal School, and who survived him more than
forty years. She died at Bridgewater, in her eighty-third
year, in 1915, after a service of twenty-five years on the
local School Board, in which office she acted as the Su-
perintendent of Schools for Bridgewater until the func-
tion was discontinued. When, in 1911, ill-health con-
strained her to retire from the Board, the town recorded
a vote of sympathy and veneration.
Professor Crosby was graduated at Dartmouth at the
age of seventeen, in the class of 1827. He was a tutor
there for three years, and then spent a year or two in the
Andover Theological Seminary. He was licensed to
preach in 1833, but in that year became Professor of
Latin and Greek at Dartmouth. In 1836 and 1837 he
was travelling in Europe. By 1849, heterodox theologi-
cal views had made his position at Dartmouth an uncom-
fortable one, but he retained his home in Hanover until
1854, when he became the Agent of the Massachusetts
Board of Education and State Lecturer in the Teachers'
Institutes, making his home in Boston. In 1857 he took
charge of the Salem Normal School, which had been in
operation but three years. This was its formative period.
Horace Mann had been, at his own expense, in 1843,
scouring Europe in search of hints for the better develop-
ment of the Massachusetts system. The first Normal
BY ROBERT S. EANTOUL 237
School had been opened at Lexington in 1839, and re-
moved to Framingham in 1855. The Salem school was
the fourth in date. Methods were crude. Public confi-
dence in the scheme of state education was yet to ripen.
Strong men were needed to recommend the system, men
experienced in approved methods of teaching, men of
practical, good sense, and unerring judgment in educa-
tional matters, and high ideals. Professor Crosby was
one of these. He had been a successful superintendent
of schools at Newburyport. He had an instinctive intel-
ligence as to what a public school system might fairly be
expected to effect, and what it was bound to discard.
His genius for imparting knowledge was as great as was
his genius for absorbing knowledge. He was that rare
phenomenon of nature a petted infant prodigy grown
to be a well-balanced man.
Professor Crosby was a born educator. He grew up
with broad views of what education means, and his family
history shows that these views were ingrained. He had
a grandfather who commanded a company in the battle of
Bunker Hill, while his father was a New Hampshire
country doctor, with a family practice bounded by a
radius of twenty miles no bad schooling for a healthy
altruism. When the son cast in his lot with us in 1857,
it was felt that the working forces which made for social
betterment in this community had gained a notable acces-
sion. The Commonwealth and every section of it needed
such men to carry forward to its legitimate issue the
costly and momentous experiment then in hand. Essex
County was not without such men. Henry Wheatland
was one of them. Professor Crosby was a welcome ally,
for he was devoted and well equipped. Besides being
eminent in general scholarship, he was so well known
among linguists as to be assigned a place on the Greek
Examining Board at Harvard College, where his services,
according to Wentworth Higginson, another member, who
had also known him in educational matters at Newbury-
port, " were simply invaluable."
He had entered Dartmouth in 1823, not yet thirteen.
He was at the head of his class, in which he was the
youngest of some fifty odd members and without a rival,
238 ALPHBFS CROSBY
accepted from the start as ''facile princeps." Upon
graduation, he taught a preparatory school in Hanover for
a year, and had then been for three years a college tutor.
Two years at the Andover Theological Seminary fol-
lowed, and before he was twenty-three he had returned to
his Alma Mater as Professor of the Classics. His success
as the ideal teacher is attested by a host of scholars whose
marked careers began under his instruction and guidance.
He resigned his professorship in 1849, and devoted some
years at Newburyport to the care of his late wife's inva-
lid mother, now a widow. His Greek grammar, theologi-
cal investigations and the superintendency of schools at
Newburyport occupied his tune until, in 1854, he entered
the service of Massachusetts as agent of the Board of
Education, visiting schools and lecturing on educational
topics. The New England Journal of Education printed
at the time of his death an appreciation of him from the
pen of his successor, Professor Hagar, to which this
memoir is much indebted. When he was nine and one-
half years old he had read the Greek Testament and all
the Latin required for admittance to Dartmouth. He
had mastered all the earlier branches of English, arith-
metic, algebra, geography and grammar. What to do
with such a phenomenon was a puzzle. " He showed
no sign of fatigue," " never had to be told a thing
twice," " loved fun and sports," " his health was per-
fect." His brother took him to Hanover for a room-
mate in his senior term in 1820. Rufus Choate instruct-
ed him in Greek, and James Marsh, later President of
the University of Vermont, in Latin. Professor Adams
tested him in Euclid, and joined with the other two
tutors in their astonishment at his powers. They found
him qualified to enter college, but advised against that
course as not promising the best use of collegiate oppor-
tunities. In 1822 he entered Exeter Academy for a
year. He was recognized abroad later in life, especially
at Edinborough, as one of the few great Greek scholars
the country had produced. He made a tour of Europe
and a tour of our Southern States. His theological study
at Andover carried him so far as to be licensed to preach
BY ROBERT S. BANTOUL 239
by that conservative body. He published a Greek Lexi-
con. At Dartmouth, while a professor, his heterodox
leanings had to some extent impaired his standing with
the faculty. While domiciled in Boston, he was, with
John A. Andrew and Julia Ward Howe, an attendant on
the preaching of James Freeman Clarke. He was then
acting as an agent of the State Board of Education in
recommending to the people at large, through public ad-
dresses and teachers' institutes and serial publications,
the new school system, which had not then quite won its
way to general favor. Charles W. Upham and Nathaniel
P. Banks had preceded him in this function, and I think
he was succeeded by George S. Boutwell. Although he
came to Salem as a stranger, he was soon made superin-
tendent of the First Church Sunday School. While in
Salem he was a trustee of the Lyceum, an active officer
of the Institute, and, for ten of his eighteen years' resi-
dence, the president of the Athenaeum. The interests
of the Normal School he made his own. Fatigue and
rest seemed to have no place in his vocabulary. His
means made him independent of his salary, and if he
discovered a lack of anything at the school, be it books,
school appliances, charity funds, or what not, so far as he
could he supplied it. One might well define " a public-
spirited citizen " by pointing to Professor Crosby. No
passionate devotee of the Greek civilization could well
be other than a public-spirited citizen.
Professor Crosby was in Salem throughout the crucial
four years of the Civil War. No public exigency arose in
which he was not promptly ready to bear his part. He
took an outspoken stand upon all the ugly questions
which were daily cropping up, and what he said weighed,
because we all saw him to be a student of public affairs
and absolutely genuine in his love of country. It was hi
this connection that I saw most of him. To those of us
who were busy trying to have war-problems rightly under-
stood and solved, he was a tower of strength. He stood
like a rock in his silent rebuke of the self-seekers who
do so much to debauch our political life, and who attach
themselves, as though they were the born daughters of
the horse-leech, to every noble cause. When he could
240 ALPHETJS CROSBY
not throw himself with his whole soul into a projected
movement, he held himself entirely aloof. His tongue
knew the shibboleth of no party, cult or sect.
At last the war was over and he had closed his work in
the school. He gave the ten years of life that remained
to the revision of his many textbooks in Greek and Math-
ematics which had been received with favor, to the
preparation of a primer for the use of illiterate freed-
men, and to the conducting of the journal the declared
object of which was, " Reconstruction on Equitable
Principles."
HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
OF THE
ESSEX INSTITUTE
VOL. LV OCTOBER, 1919 No. 4
A GENEALOGICAL -HISTORICAL VISITATION
OF GROVELAND, MASS., IN THE YEAR 1863.
BY ALFRED POORE, M. D.
Went with Amos B[oynton] to Groveland Nov. 27,
1863, and the water was so high that we could not come
across the ferry.
Dec. 4. John Merrill came here and says that William
Duty who resided on our place was a very courageous
man. He was in the Bunker Hill fight and stood close
by Maj. McClary of Chichester when a four pound ball
struck him in the back and killed him. William Duty
had a sister Eunice who could take up a barrel of cider
and drink out of the bung ; also a sister who was the
wife of William Rowell of Salem. Children : Washing-
ton, James, Moses, Duty, Polly, who mar. Alfred Snell ;
Levina, who is widow of Jona. Rowell; and William, who
mar. a Merrill and had children, one of whom mar. John
Deny's daughter. Obadiah Foster, who married a daugh-
ter of William Duty, had a brother John Foster who
lived hi Hudson.
Leonard Merrill's place used to belong to Simon John-
son. Smith sold it to John and his father Joshua, and
they sold it to Leonard Merrill.
NOTE. This is a continuation of the house-to-house journeys
made by the author in various Essex County towns in search of
genealogical information and family lore. The Andover visitation
was published in the Historical Collections, volumes XLVIII-LV.
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242 A GENEALOGICAL-HISTORICAL VISITATION OF
Rev. John Page, grandfather of Mrs. Brickett Bradley,
was born in Salem, N. H., near Temple Roberts', and
died in 1782, aged about 45. He married Molly Stevens,
a half sister to Daniel Huse of Methuen, who was brought
up and adopted by Maj. Wright, who resided near Thomas
Webster's. Joseph Wright, his first son, was named for
Maj. Wright, b. Feb. 2, 1765, and d. Jan. 20, 1845. Mrs.
Bradley's mother died Mar. 30, 1850, aged 78. Mrs.
Bradley has an aunt on her father's side (Peak, who is
widow of Samuel Morse), now alive in Hampstead, and
two uncles on her mother's side (named Little), now liv-
ing, one in Danvers and one in Bangor.
Aaron Copp once lived in a small cottage just between
the Atkinson farm house and Downing's. He was a great
story teller and could repeat all of Aesop's fables. He
died about May, 1810, aged 90, when Capt. Smith and
John J. Merrill were about 12 or 14 years old, and they
watched with him. His wife died some years before him.
Old Mrs. John Head, who came from Connecticut and
lived at one time in the Brickett house, kept his house.
Aaron Copp's only child that we hear of was Joshua,
who married a Jameson from Windham, a sister to old
David Jameson, and lived near Oliver Taylor's mill.
Children : Moses ; Joshua, who now resides in Derry ;
Aaron, who d. unm.; and Melinda, who married some
one after she had had several illegitimate children. Old
Aaron Copp was in the Revolutionary army and had a
pension.
Eben Parker, who came from Boxford or vicinity,
bought John Spofford's place, where David Dustin now
resides, in N. Salem, and had a son Edward whose widow
is in the poor house at Salem.
Jan., 1864. John Spofford above came up from
Georgetown or vicinity, and his wife was a sister to Mr.
J. J. Merrill's mother, and had among their children Bet-
sey, who died unmarried, and Thomas.
David Nevins, grandfather to Mr. Nevins of Methuen,
resided up by Policy Pond, and was a great story teller
to please the young.
Leverett S. Ordway, with fchist! brother boarding with
GROVELAND, MASS., IN THE YEAE 1863 243
him, removed from his mother's house up to the old
Bacon farm that they have purchased April 15, 1863.
Charles Watson Brown came to live with them Monday
before Thanksgiving, 1863, from Mrs. Langley.
Benjamin Pike enlisted in the autumn of 1863. John
Pike left Mrs. Langley's in the spring of 1863 and went
to Danvers, and since that has married Page of
Salem and resides there. Thomas Stickney left Mrs.
Langley's in the spring of 1863, and his wife keeps house
in Newburyport
Joshua Ordway left the Bacon farm when Ordway
came and is in East Haverhill near the ferry.
Ezra Hardy's family same except that Jacob's daugh-
ter (Hannah ?), came home Jan. 7, 1864, with a husband
and three children.
Rufus C. Hardy and three sisters still remain the
same. He did not keep school but a few days in the
spring of 1863-4.
In the house belonging to widow Cook's heirs has re-
sided since May, 1863, Nathaniel H. Downs, from George-
town, whose wife died at P. Jacques' house about Au-
gust, 1862, when he was in the army. He has a house-
keeper Sophia, daughter of Carter, who has two
children by William McCrillis.
Nathaniel Hayes, son of Thomas Jefferson and Abigail
(Hayes) Downs, born in Rochester, N. H., in 1814, mar-
ried Lydia Ann Hull, a sister to Mrs. Jaques, who died
May 26, 1863, aged 47. Children : Warner, b. Jan. 30,
1838, in East Bradford, where Benjamin Jaques now
resides, m. Emma Jane Dobson in Taunton and resides
in Taunton, no children ; Thomas Jefferson, b. in Mary
Parks' house Nov., 1834, unm., probably in Danvers ;
Susan Maria, m. Moses B. and resides in Groveland, b.
E. Bradford, where Nelson resides ; Hannah Leavitt, b.
Danvers, Feb., 1844, unm., at home ; Samuel Hull, b.
Georgetown, Sept., 1847, at home; Fred Plummer, b.
Georgetown, April, 1850, at home ; Charles Edwin, died
young.
Sophia (Carter) McCrillis has had three children :
Hannah Elizabeth, died young ; Woodbury Colby, b. in
Rochester, N. H., August, 1850, and resides in Lebanon,
Me., with his uncle George McCrillis ; Frank Pierce, b.
in Lebanon, Me., Oct., 1852, and resides in Jackson,
N. H. Mr. Downs enlisted in a company of Lancers, but
they could not get it full, and he went into the 14th Mass.
Kegiment, Co. L, Feb. 19, 1862, and was discharged, on
account of having his hip injured, July 16, 1862. Came
from Georgetown Aug. 9, 1863. Mrs. McCrillis was a
daughter of Robert and Lydia (Perkins) Carter, b. in
Jackson, N. H., March 3, 1826, and came to G. July 9,
1863.
Enoch Harriman's family is the same. Widow Sewell
Hardy has Henry, Mansel, Sewell, Caroline, Mary and
Darius Hardy, Nelson's wife and her daughter Lydia
Eliza. Mansel was in the 48th Regiment, in the same
company that Darius was in when he was killed at Port
Hudson. A letter published in the Newburyport Herald
gives an account of him.
John Hardy, son of Sewell, removed his family to South
Groveland when he was in camp. Aaron W. Hardy
moved into his house and has three children now. He
also had a son, Mansel, b. May 5, 1863, and d. about May
27th.
John Cook and his father are the same.
Henderson's family same except Leonard who boarded
at home and his wife in Georgetown. Caroline has
tended store for her uncle Harrison Harris for about two
years.
John Harris' family same, two children unmarried.
Irena (Hardy) Nelson went out to her place July,
1863, from Eben Jewett's, where she had been since the
spring before.
Henry Fegan went to Erastus B. Stickney Feb. 3, 1863,
and now Jewett Hardy after they had buried two children
there.
William Page, m. Mary Ann, daughter of James Fegan,
and resided on the Benjamin Nelson place, and they have
a daughter Imogene, b. Nov. 19, 1863, in Groveland, son
of William Thomas, b. N. H., and Mary Ann, b. George-
town.
GROVELAND, MASS., IN THE YEAR 1863 245
John B. Hardy, w. Mary, and her Mary and George B.
Asa married William Dorkins' daughter Maria about
August, 1862, and she boarded at his father's until Nov.,
1863, and went to West Newbury to reside with Eben
Carleton. He was nine months in the 48th Regt., Co. B.
No children.
Aaron W. Hardy moved out of the house next to his
father Feb., 1863, and David Daniels came from West
Newbury into it in the spring of 1863. Fish dealer and
has children.
Josiah Kicker's family the same. Aaron W. Nelson
the same. Eli Knox same. Ira Hardy same. William
Ricker same, except Sarah, who married Frank Hull, son
of Oilman and Adeline (Rogers) Hull, and came from
Georgetown to Groveland, Nov., 1863. They have a
daughter, b. Georgetown, 1862.
Frank Jaques, wife and three children. Rogers, whose
wife died in 1863, has with him a widow, and they have
each two children.
Mrs. William Fowler, Jr., went to board with E. P.
Jewett in the winter of 1863-4.
Moses Stickney same. Eliezer Savary in Moses' house
same. Mrs. Capt. Stickney, Betsey, and Mrs. Searl. The
teacher boards with Mrs. Stickney.
O. Emeline Hardy kept the summer school. Abel
Stickney the same. Moses Adams, wife and Charles.
Charles came home from Concord, N. H., about Nov.,
1863, where he had been since Sept., 1862, for one
year. George Adams same, except he has enlisted in the
navy, but sick in hospital.
Samuel Harriman, wife and Hiram. Moses was drafted,
but got a substitute, and gone to Bradford and let him-
self to Albert Kimball, April, 1862.
Charles Harriman's son Charles died in Marlboro, Nov.
20, 1863, and they have a daughter Mehitable, b. Oct. 12,
1863. Martha has been gone to Marlboro since Dec.,
1862. Samuel is in Springfield, 111.
Moses Hardy, son D. Sumner, enlisted, and his wife
still resides with Perkins Hardy.
Al. Colby and Henry Woodman removed up to Stick-
I
246 A GENEALOGICAL-HISTORICAL VISITATION OF
ney's from the Quaker Hill house and John Hill came.
Hoyt, Nathaniel, is at home. John has enlisted again.
Sarah, wife of Harrison Elliott, came home and died
Aug. 31, 1863, just ten years after her mother. Her
husband is a machinist. Children : George, b. about
1847, and Lora, a daughter.
Brown's child died 1863.
Enoch S. Noyes has a child, Emma Frances, b. May 24,
1863, mother b. Rowley, Mass.
Saunders same. Joseph Banks a pair of twin daugh-
ters.
Albert Hardy and his mother the same.
Jameson went from John Colby's to Capt. Brown's.
Mosely M. Bailey came to Mr. Colby's and have two
children. Capt. Jenny same.
Sides left the old almshouse. Mary Alfred and Boyn-
ton went to J. S., West Newbury.
John Burbeck, born Groveland, and Ann, born Byfield,
had Edward Griffith, born Nov. 31, 1863, died Apr. 30,
1863.
David Daniels came from West Newbury to the J. B.
Hardy house, May, 1863. He is a son of David Daniels,
born in Madbury, N. H., Apr. 18, 1818, and Abia, daugh-
ter of Jerry Ricker, born in Milton, N. H. He married
Abigail, daughter of Thomas and Abigail (Hardy)
Pierce, born in Boston, Nov. 21, 1822. Her grandfather
was Henry Pierce of Newburyport, where Thomas was
born. Mrs. Daniels' mother was a sister to Benjamin
Hardy near John George's, and she married Henry
Pierce for her first husband. Children : Henry, b. Bev-
erly, married, and resides in Barnstead, N. H., and had
George, Mary, Thomas, died young, and two others ;
Nancy, married John A. Moore of Concord, N. H., a
shoemaker, and had William and Eliza H., and one be-
tween them that died young ; Mary married Samuel Per-
kens and resides in Georgetown, and had Abby, Harrison,
Thomas, married in Ipswich, Ruth, now out West, and
Abigail (my informant), the last. Mr. Perkins, who was
a ropemaker, died in Boston in the summer of 1825.
David Daniels had children : Mary Jane, b. George-
GROVELAND, MASS. IN THE YEAR 1863 247
town, Nov. 21, 1840, unmarried, resides in Saugus ;
Emeline Amanda, b. Groveland, Feb. 7, 1842, married
William Wallace Ingalls of Methuen and resides in
Lynn. They had William, Arthur and Emma. He is a
shoemaker, but he enlisted in November and is now in Camp
Fort Independence ; Charles Henry died young ; Eliza
M. died young ; Sarah Elizabeth, b. Dracut, Mar. 10,
1847, resides in Haverhill, unmarried ; George Henry, b.
Deny, N. H., Aug. 18, 1849 ; Ellen Augusta, b. Chester,
N. H., June 2, 1852 ; John Willis, b. Chester, Nov. 6,
1854 ; Cassa Bell, b. West Newbury, Dec. 30, 1860.
Aaron W. Hardy moved out about three months before
Daniels came in. Gilman Richardson and Deborah
George, both born in Groveland, have a daughter Annie
Louisa, b. Groveland, June 11, 1863. Thomas Sides
went to West Newbury Jan. 4, 1864, from the house
where Richardson resides.
Moody Morse Bailey came from West Newbury to
John Colby's Apr. 1, 1863, when Jameson left. His
father was Joshua Bailey, a brother to Daniel, the black-
smith, and his mother was a Morse, a sister to Edmund
and John Morse of Haverhill. Moody M. was born in
Salisbury about Mar. 23, 1826, and married Nancy Fow-
ler, and they have resided in West Newbury since. Chil-
dren : Lucy Stevens, b. May 10, 1858 ; Edmund Morse,
b. May 6, 1860.
William Fowler, Jr.'s wife has boarded with Eb. P.
Jewett since about Dec. 15, 1863. Lewis Braman Rogers
moved from Byfield about April and went to Groveland
about Oct., 1863. His wife was Emily Colby, and she
died in the Quaker Hale house about July, 1863. E. S.
Noyes' son Edward in the army.
John, son of John and Elizabeth (Knapp) Hill,
moved into the Quaker Hale house Nov. 24 from George-
town. He was born in Byfield, July 9, 1822, and mar-
ried Sarah Ann, daughter of Moses and Nancy (Ayer)
Morse, born in Methuen, where Amos Emerson now re-
sides, June 30, 1826. Children: Sarah Elizabeth, b.
Newburyport, July 25, 1850 ; Everett Eugene, b. Salem,
N. H., Feb. 20, 1853 ; John Kenniston, b. Salem, N. H.,
248 A GENEALOGICAL-HISTORICAL VISITATION
Apr. 13, 1855 ; Jerome K., died young; Clarence LeRoy,
b. Salem, N. H., Dec. 24, 1859.
Alfred Boyden, a brother to John Hill, came to the
Hale house Nov. 28, 1863, from Georgetown. His wife
Margaret Maria, a daughter of Aaron and Phebe Anna
(Pierce) Kneeland, was born in Topsfield, Jan. 26, 1837.
Her father was a son of John and Rebecca Kneeland,
born in Rowley, and her mother a Pierce, born in Rindge,
N. H. Her father, who has married a second wife, now
resides in Topsfield. Children : Sivella Maria, b. George-
town, Oct. 23, 1854 ; Emily Ann, b. Salem, N. H., Aug.
31, 1857 ; Fredda Boyden, b. May 15, 1860, in George-
town.
Joseph Banks has twins, Laura and Flora, born Nov.
10, 1863, in Groveland. Their daughter Lydia Ann
married, first, Daniel Downer ; second, Eben Kimball,
son of Jerry and Abigail (Salisbury) Dauforth, b.
Ipswich, Apr., 1840. He is a shoemaker. She had never
removed, but her husband has been with his mother some
of the time. Anna Maria, their daughter, was born here
at J. Banks', her father's, Apr. 12, 1863. Eben K. Dan-
forth went out about the same time his father went in the
19th Regiment, in the company that went from Newbury-
port, and returned when his father died. Their son
Joseph has been with the 33d Regiment and was in the
battle in Tennessee.
Thomas Wood's daughter Martha Paris has a daughter
Mary Lizzie, b. Oct. 7, 1863, in Groveland. Her hus-
band, Orlando S. Paris, is in the navy. Osgood has a
son, Frank Ray, b. Aug. 1, 1863. Samuel Cummings
was out in the 19th Regiment and discharged. Charles
Wood went from Woburn in the 5th Regiment. Elbridge
F. Richardson is at his father's with his four children
since he was discharged from the Massachusetts Regi-
ment.
Farrington same except that Augustus Noyes and wife
boards with them. Daniel Noyes and two children, Emma
and Frank, at home. Enoch Adams died in the fall of
1863, and his wife went to reside with Robert.
(To be continued)
JOURNAL OF SAMUEL HOLTEN, M. D.
WHILE IN THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS, MAY, 1778,
TO AUGUST, 1780.
( Continued from Vol. L V, page 176. ,)
19. Gen 1 Whipple & M r Ellery have visited me &
spent part of the evening.
20. Sabbath day, being indisposed did not attend pub-
lic worship but walked into y e parlor.
21. This day 1 attended in Congress. My health
much better.
23. Congress sit from 9 till 3 and from 6 till 9.G. W.
arrived here last evening.
24. Gen 1 Washington was admitted into Congress &
informed that Congress sent for him to consult with him
about y e affairs & operations of y e army the coming
year.
25. Christmas day. I dined at the Presidents of this
State. 1 Gen 1 Washington & his lady & suit, the presi-
dent of Congress, 2 Colo. Lawrence, my colleagues, Gen-
eral Whipple & Don Juane dined with us.
27. Sabbath day. D r Dnffield preached.
28. Great free mason day. Congress adjourned in y e
morning. I dined with M r de France & mv colleagues.
29. Gen 1 Washington, The Pres* of Congress, The
minister of France, the pres* of this state, The Rev d M r
White 3 & several other Gentlemen dined with us.
30. Thanksgiving day. I attended public worship &
dined at the city tavern. The Pres. of Congress, The
Gen. Joseph Reed.
3 John Jay.
3 Rev. William White (1748-1836), one of the few clergy of the
Church of England who supported the colonists, and the first
Bishop of Pennsylvania. His sister was the wife of the merchant,
Robert Morris.
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250 JOURNAL OF SAMUEL HOLTEN, M. D.
minister of France, Gen 1 Washington & about 60 other
Gentlemen dined with us. M r de France invited y e Com.
to dine.
31. I dined with M r de Miralles, a Spanish Gentle-
man. M rs Washington & 7 other ladies dined there. G.
W. and about 40 other Gentlemen of the first character
dined with us. The entertainment was grand & elegant
& at M r Gerard's house.
Jan. 1, 1779. I drank tea at M r Dolley's.
2. The Delegates of South Carolina invited y e Con-
gress & Gen 1 Washington to dine with them at y e city
Tavern. Financing Published.
4. The eastern post arrived but brought nothing from
Boston later than y e 10 th Dec r .
5. Gen 1 Washington invited Congress to dine with
him at the city tavern & we dined accordingly.
6. Congress spent part of y e Day considering y e pub-
lication of Com. Sense on M r Deane's affairs.
8. Congress sit till 4 o'Clock & then dined at the city
tavern, where they had invited Gen 1 Washington & a
number of other Gentlemen to dine with them.
10. Gen 1 Green 1 & Doct r Brown dined with us.
12. Congress sit till 6 o'Clock. The Hon. M r Ellery
dined with us.
13. The Hon. Mes" Duane, 2 Searle 3 & Root 4 dined
with us, and the Hon. M r Adams & myself drank tea at
M r Dolley's. I wrote to the Hon. Council of Mass a Bay
& the Hon. M r Austin.
14. I wrote to M r Elias Elwell Warner by the post.
16. I dined with my worthy colleague & Gen 1 Whip-
pie at M r Mease's.
17. Sabbath day. D r Duffield preached. The Hon.
M r J. Adams dined with us.
'Gen. Nathaniel Greene (1742-1786), one of the most distinguished
Generals of the war, who at solicitation of Washington had taken
charge of the quartermaster-general's department.
2 James Duane (1733-1797), a wealthy New York delegate, later
chosen the first mayor of New York and Judge of the United States
District Court.
8 James Searle (1730-1797), a Philadelphia merchant and delegate.
4 Jesse Root (1737-1822), delegate from Connecticut, later Chief
Justice of the State.
JOURNAL OF SAMUEL HOLTEN, M. D. 251
18. Congress adjourned without doing any business,
there being but 8 states present. My Colleagues, Gen 1
Whipple & myself dined with M r Holker, y e Consul of
France. Two years this day since y e decease of my hon-
ored father.
20. I dined with y e Hon. M r Jay, President of Con-
gress. I wrote to the Rev. M r Holt 1 of Danvers.
21. The Hon. M r Briant, vice President of this state,
and the Hon. D r Shippen dined with us.
22. We have account of Savannah being taken by the
enemy.
28. Gen 1 Knoks, 2 Maj r Clark 3 & y e Gen 18 aid dined
with us.
24. Sabbath day. M r Sprout preached. I attended
at the Episcopal church in the afternoon,
28. Hon. M r Paca, 4 M r Carmichael & M r Smith dined
with us.
Feb. 3. I wrote to the Hon. D. Hopkins p r the post
4. M r Bell from Boston dined with us.
5. M r Holker, the consul of France, brought me a
letter from D r Cooper.
6. Being y e anniversary of y e alliance with France,
Congress dined at the city tavern & the minister of France
& several other Gentlemen of distinction dined with us.
7. Sabbath. Heard two good sermons. Rec'd a letter
from y e Hon. M r J. Sullivan & one from Colo. Mason of
Springfield.
8. The President drunk tea with us. N. B. Dunker-
town in this state, they neither marry nor are given in
marriage.
12. 1 dined with the Hon. R. Morris, Esq r & 14
other members of Congress dined there.
14. Sabbath. M r Sprout preached.
15. Congress was resolved into a committee of y e
'Pastor of what is now the South Church, Peabody.
2 Henry Kuox (1750-1806), a distinguished Massachusetts General,
afterward Secretary of War.
'Abraham Clark (1726-1794), delegate from New Jersey, called the
"Poor Man's Counsellor," because of his habit of giving legal ad-
vice gratuitously.
'William Paca (1740-1799), delegate from Maryland, one of the
"Signers," and later Governor of the State.
252 JOURNAL OF SAMUEL HOLTEN, M. D.
whole & the Minister of France was admitted to a private
conference for some time. I wrote to M r Preston of
Danvers.
16. I wrote to the Hon. M r Sullivan. Received a
letter from Capt. Batchelder, Sam 1 Freeman, Esq. 1 , E. E.
Warner & Joseph Hall, Jun r p r the post.
17. I wrote to Doct r Cooper, M r Kittill & M" Hoi-
ten. Gen 1 Lee dined with us.
18. Gen 1 Neilson, 2 a Delegate from Virginia, attended
& took his seat.
19. The Hon. M r Elsworth dined with us. I under-
stand M r Gerard is going to return to France on account
of his health.
20. Colo. R. H. Lee dined with us.
22. Wrote to Sam 1 Freeman, Esq r . Yesterday Capt.
Cunnacome arrived here from France. I took a walk
with Gen. Whipple.
23. Rec'd a letter from Colo. Hutchinson, M r Wiatt
& his wife, M r Kittell & M r8 Holten.
24. M r R. Temple from Mass* Bay arrived here.
25. Congress sit late. M r R. Temple, Governour Mor-
ris, Gen 1 Mifflin & Colo. Webb from Connecticut dined
with us.
27. Doct* Crague arrived here from Boston & brought
a letter from y e Gen. Court to the delegates from Massa-
chusetts Bay.
Mch. 5. M r Trumble visited us.
6. Jon a Trumbell, Esq. 3 & M r Hodgkins of Boston
dined with us. Having sold D r Wild one of my horses,
Jere delivered him this day.
7. Sabbath. Hon. M r Hudson & Maf White dined
with us.
8. Congress adjourned before 3 o'clock. I dined with
the president.
'Samuel Freeman (1748-1881), Representative to Massachusetts
General Court from Portland, and at this time Postmaster ^of that
town.
'Thomas Nelson, Jr. (1738-1789), a "Signer," and later Governor
of Virginia.
"Jonathan Trumbull (1740-1808), of Connecticut, Secretary to
Washington, and later Governor of his State.
JOURNAL OP SAMUEL HOLTEN, M. D. 253
9. Baron Steuben dined with me.
10. I dined with Gen 1 Lee. M r Adams, M r Gerry,
Gen. Whipple & Colo. Lee dined with the General. N. B.
The dinner & the economy of his house was as odd as
the Gen 1 is.
12. Congress received a letter from Maj r Gen 1 Lin-
coln, giving an account of a battle with some part of his
army, which terminated in our favor.
13. I dined with the Hon. M r Paca & about a dozen
members of Congress.
16. Wrote to Maj. Epes 1 & M r8 Holten.
17. I spent the evening in M r Adams' Chamber with
D r Witherspoon & Colo. R. H. Lee.
18. I dined with Colo. Laurens & the Minister of
France.
20. M rs Clark is much indisposed.
22. I dined with M r Gerard. Wrote to the Council
of Mass* Bay & to M r Avery & M r Warner.
24. Maj c Clarkson 2 was reprimanded by the president
of Congress for writing a disrespectful letter to the Coun-
cil of Pennsylvania.
25. M r Vandike dined with us.
26. M r Gorham.s M r Wales 4 & M r Inches a committee
from the General Court of Mass a Bay arrived here.
27. I dined with M r Thomas Smith. 6 Received a
letter from M r Jonathan Kittell.
29. I took a walk with the Hon. M r Gerry.
30. I dined with the president of Congress. Wrote
to M r Hancock.
31. Hon. R. H. Lee & D* Whitherspoon dined with
us.
Apr. 1. The com 3 from Mass* Bay set out home. I
wrote with my colleagues to the court. 1 rode out.
'Daniel Epes of Danvers.
Probably Matthew Clarkson (1758-1825), aide-de-camp to Bene-
dict Arnold.
3 Nathaniel Gotham (1738-1826), of Massachusetts, delegate to the
Provincial and Continental Congress, and at one time president of
the latter.
4 Samuel Wales (1748-1794) of Milford.
*He was a Scotchman, a colonel daring the Revolution, and a del-
egate from Pennsylvania.
254 JOUBNAL OF SAMUEL HOLTEN, M. D.
2. Congress met, but it being what is called good
friday, Congress adjourned without doing business.
3. Congress sit late. I rode out with the Hon. M r
Gerry & M r Whipple.
5. I wrote to y e president of y e Council of Mass* Bay
by M r Brewer.
6. I wrote the Rev d M r Holt & Colo. Hutchinson.
7. No public intelligence. 1 went & gave directions
about a shay.
8. Received a letter from the Hon ble Thomas Gushing,
Esq r of Boston.
9. I wrote to John Avery, Esq r , by M r Allen. I
walked out with M r Gerry.
10. We had a letter from y e Governor of S. Carolina,
inclosing ord r from Gen 1 Lincoln, the news not very
agreeable. I rode out with Mes rs Gerry & Whipple.
12. 1 rec'd a letter from the hon ble M r Hopkins & one
from M r Kittell giving me an ace* that he had a young
son born the 19 th of March last.
13. I wrote to Dea. E[dmund] Putnam.
14. M r Newman dined with us. I went upon the top
of y e state house and took a view of the city.
16. I wrote to M" Holten by the hon e M r Frost. M r
Searl dined with us, a delegate from Pennsyl a .
17. M r Hudson and a Gentleman from y e southward
dined with us.
19. I received a letter from y e Hon. Mr. Palmer &
M r E. E. Warner.
20. I wrote to Capt. Gardner of Salem, M r Nathan
Goodale & M rs Holten.
22. I dined with the Chief Justice of y e State of
Pennsy*. Congress sit late.
23. I dined with the President of Congress.
24. Congress adjourned at 2 o'Clock. I ride out with
y e Hon. M r Gerry.
26. Received a letter from Colo. Hutchinson, M r
Kittell & M" Holten. Gen 1 Green dined with us.
27. Rec'd a letter from Capt. Batchelder and M r
Joseph Hall, J r .
28. I ride out with y e hon r M r Gerry. Doc r Scuder
dined with us.
JOUBNAL OF SAMUEL HOLTEN, M. D. 255
30. Congress spent this day debating a motion for re-
calling Doc r Lee. 1
May 1. I ride out with M r Gerry & M r Whipple.
2. Sabbath day. Heard D r Duffield and M r Sprout.
M r Law 2 spent y e evening with us.
3. Congress sit till five o'Clock. M r Daulten dined
with us. I rec'd a letter from M r Warner dated Ap 1 22.
4. I wrote to the hon r D. Hopkins, M r Warner, M r
Kittell & M rs Holten. Congress rec'd a letter from the
King of France informing of the birth of a Princess.
5. The president of Congress, the minister of France,
the president of this state, M r Laurens, M r Vandike, D r
Witherspoon, Don Juan, M r Daulton & M r Austin dined
with us.
6. Fast day. I attended public worship at Doct r
Duffield's & heard 2 good sermons. I did not dine this
day.
7. I visited M r Langdon. 4 M r Trumbull spent the
evening with me.
8. Congress sit late. I took a walk with M r Adams.
10. I dined with M r Smith. I attended the medical
com* in y e evening.
11. Gen. Howe and a number of other Gentlemen
dined with us.
12. I dined with the Hon. M r Laurens in company
with my colleagues, Gen. Whipple & several other Gen-
tlemen.
14. I walked out with M r Gerry.
15. Colo. Bigelow 6 dined with us & the hon r M r
'Arthur Lee (1740-1792), of Virginia, studied medicine at Edin-
burgh, and at this time was minister to France. He served later as
Secretary of the Treasury.
a Richard Law (1733-1806), son of Jonathan Law, Colonial Gov-
ernor of Connecticut, a delegate to the Continental Congress, and
later United States District Judge.
3 Tristram Dal ton (1743-1817), member of Massachusetts General
Court, later United States Senator, and a wealthy resident of New-
bnryport.
4 John Langdon (1741-1819), of Portsmouth, N. H M continental
agent for New Hampshire for building ships for the navy, and later
delegate to Congress and Governor of his State.
*Col. Timothy Bigelow (1739-1790) of Worcester, who assisted at
the capture of Burgoyne.
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Ellery & Colo. Wigelsworth. 1 I ride out to German-
town.
16. M r Daulton & M r Lowell dined with us.
17. I received the ace* of Doct r Winthrop's death.
18. I write a letter to y e hon r Council of Mass* Bay
& to Sam 1 Freeman, Esq r .
19. It is said 4,000 of the enemy is landed in Ports-
mouth, Virginia.
20. I took a walk with M r Lowell.
21. Congress agreed upon a tax of 45,000,000 dol-
lars to be paid by the 1 st of Janu 7 next.
22. I ride out with M r Lowell. Capt. Hardy dined
with us.
23. I rec'd a letter from y e hon ble M r Frost, Capt.
Batchelder & hon 1 M r Austin.
25. The people met as a body to lower the prices of
the necessaries of life.
26. Gen 1 Election, Boston. Congress rec'd a petition
from President Read & a number of others respecting
financing.
27. Hon. M r Smith, M r Plaiter, 3 M r Morris, M r Car-
michael & M r Fleming 4 dined with us.
28. Congress has spent part of this day on finance.
I walked out with M r Gerry.
31. Received a letter from M r F. Nurse.
June 1. I wrote to the Hon. M r Frost & M r A very.
2. Capt. Hardy & Capt. Tucker dined with us.
3. Doct r Whitherspoon, Hon. M r Duane & M r de
France dined with us.
4. I met the medical committee. Colo. Pickering
spent the evening with us.
5. By accounts from Gen 1 Washington, the enemy is
proceeding up y e North river.
8. Wrote to y e hon. Council of Mass a Bay & to M r
F. Nurse. I dined with the Hon. M r Laurens.
'Col. Edward Wigglesworth (1746-1826) of Newburyport.
ajohn Lowell (1744-1802), native of Newburyport, Mass., a Boston
lawyer, and appointed by Washington, Judge and later Chief Jus-
tice of the First Circuit.
3 George Plater (1736-1792), a delegate from Maryland, and later
Governor of that State.
4 William Flemming, delegate from Virginia.
(To be continued)
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STEAMBOAT "HARVEST MOON," BUILT IN 1863
Blown up by the Confederates in 1865
STEAMBOAT "STAR OF THE EAST," BUILT IN 1866
Rebuilt m 1890 and renamed "Sagadahock"
SOME ACCOUNT OF STEAM NAVIGATION IN
NEW ENGLAND.
BY FRANCIS B. C. BBADLEB.
( Continued from Volume L V, page 808.')
From 1829 to 1833 the Connecticut," *' Chancellor
Livingston " (previously mentioned), and the "Charter
Oak," a steamboat that had seen service on the New York
and Hartford line, made sporadic trips between Boston
and Bath, but no permanent service except by connection
at Portland, was undertaken until 1835, when a company
was formed, the moving spirit of which is thought to
have been Capt. Menemon Sanford. They placed the
steamer " MacDonough " on the line, followed later by
the " New England." She came to the coast of Maine
with a bad name, for on October 9, 1833, before she was a
year old, the " New England," while in the Connecticut
River on her way from New York to Hartford, exploded
both her boilers, killing and scalding several persons. The
accident caused a great stir at the time, and the result
was a prolonged investigation by Professors Silliman,
Olmstead and others into the proper construction of, and
pressure borne by, marine boilers. The "New England "
lived up to her reputation, for on May 31, 1838, while
on her passage to Bath from Boston, she was run into at
1 o'clock in the morning, fifteen miles southeast of Boon
Island, by the schooner " Curlew," from Thomaston to
Boston. When a short distance from the steamer, the
schooner, which had been to leeward, luffed up with the
intention of passing her bow, but before this could be
effected she struck the port bow of the steamer, and after
getting clear, passed on.
Finding that the "New England" was badly injured
and rapidly sinking, the pilot hailed the schooner, which
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258 STEAM NAVIGATION IN NEW ENGLAND
lowered her sails, and the steamer ran alongside. The
passengers, some seventy in number, among them fifteen
ladies, were by this time on deck, and when the boat
reached the " Curlew " a general rush was made to board
her. In their eagerness several jumped too soon and fell
overboard, but they were all picked up unharmed, with
the exception of a Mr. Standish of Providence, who was
crushed to death between the two vessels. His remains
were recovered and brought up in the " Curlew."
The steamer sank as low as the promenade deck, in
which situation she remained, and her boats were launched
with the intention of saving as much of the baggage and
freight as possible, Captain Kimball and several of the
crew remaining in them for this purpose. Two vessels
which came up before the " Curlew " left, stopped at the
request of Captain Kimball to receive what might be
recovered. On board the " New England " there was
between $70,000 and $80,000 in specie and bills, $ 45,000
of which had belonged to the unfortunate Mr. Standish.
The " Huntress," Capt. W. H. Byram, a very fast
side-wheeler, took the place of the " New England "; the
former was 172 feet long, 23 feet beam, equipped with a
beam engine having a 36 inch cylinder, 12 feet stroke
she ran to Boston, and a smaller boat, the "M. Y. Beach,' '
to Portland. Both these boats were soon after controlled
by the Eastern and Portland, Saco and Portsmouth Rail-
roads, and constituted what was known as the " Railroad
Line."
Besides the steamers, the Eastern Railroad owned ex-
tensive wharf property at Hallowell, Me., and in March,
1840, the steamer " John W. Richmond " was bought in
its interest for $52,500, and run between Boston and
the Kennebec river, while the " Huntress " plied to Ban-
gor and sometimes to St. John.
The " Richmond " was built in Providence, R. I., in
1837, and had been the crack boat on the Sound, and at
this time was by far the largest and most able steamboat
on the coast of Maine. Her dimensions were 202 feet
long, 24 feet beam, 10 feet depth of hold, tonnage 500;
the engine was of the " cross-head " type, having a 48-
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inch cylinder, 11 feet stroke. On Sept. 30, 1843, the
" J. W. Richmond " caught fire while lying at her wharf
at Hallqwell and was totally consumed. She was re-
placed by the " Penobscot " I (1844), the Kennebec "
I, and later by the " Admiral," side-wheelers of about the
same size as the " Richmond," but having vertical beam
engines.
All these steamers were controlled by Capt. Mene-
mon Sanford, who by this time had also acquired the
Boston and Bangor line, with the result that the various
vessels were often changed about. Captain Sanford's
brother, T. B. Sanford, and the former's son Edward H.,
were captains, and another of their commanders, Capt.
Nathaniel Kimball, was financially interested in the en-
terprise. Although the water transportation business
from Boston east was at that time in rather an uncertain
state, due to the rapid extension of railroads, it was con-
trolled by men of larger financial means than had for-
merly been the case, and the few opposition lines that
developed had but a short existence.
The Sanfords in 1849 placed a still larger and faster
side-wheeler on the Boston-Bath route, the ' Ocean,"
considered a very fine steamer for her day ; her length
was 220 feet, beam 28 feet, and she had a vertical beam
engine of 48 inches by 11 feet stroke. On Nov. 24, 1854,
while bound east, the " Ocean " was ran into in Broad
Sound, Boston harbor, by the Cunard steamship " Can-
ada," bound in. The shock of the collision upset the
stoves and lights on the " Ocean," and she began to
sink and burn at the same time. Five passengers jumped
overboard and were drowned, and over one hundred
others were picked up by other steamers in the vicinity.
In 1851, the small propeller Eastern State," origi-
nally built for an opposition line to Bangor, ran to the
Kennebec river for a short time. She was owned by
Capt. James Wakefield and others, and commanded by
Capt. S. T. Donnell, and was a most curious looking
craft, rigged as a three-masted schooner, and part of the
engine was exposed on deck. Later on the " Eastern
State " was on the Yarmouth, N. S. route.
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The " splendid and fast sailing " steamboat " Gover-
nor " took the place of the " Ocean " on the Boston and
Bath route until the " Eastern Queen " was built espec-
ially for the line by John Englis at New York in 1857.
She was 700 tons gross, 220 feet long, 29 feet beam, and
had a vertical beam engine with a 48-inch cylinder, 11
feet stroke ; her commander and part owner was Capt.
Jason Collins, so long and favorably known on the Ken-
nebec line.
During 1857-58 great competition prevailed on this
route ; the " Governor " had changed ownership and her
new managers ran her between Boston and Gardiner
against the " Eastern Queen," whose terminus was Bath.
At the outset the opposition management made a substan-
tial cut in fares and rates of freight. The cut was met
by the old line, and then the warfare waxed fast and
furious.
Further cuts were made from time to time until people
began to wonder when and where they would end. At
length the agent of the " Governor " announced : " Fare
to Boston, 25 cents," which was followed by the quota-
tion and sale of round trip tickets on the " Eastern
Queen " for 50 cents. Not an expensive rate for a
voyage of 300 miles, and it is said that during the con-
siderable time it prevailed nearly the entire population of
the Kennebec valley visited the metropolis of NewEngland.
The climax, however, was reached a little later, when
one day the town of Gardiner found itself placarded
with the announcement : " 12 1-2 cents to Boston per
steamer * Governor.' ' : The regular line had no time to
get out a counter announcement, but it met the rate of
its competitor to all who chose to patronize it. This was
the last cut of the season and the lowest rate ever made
for passage from Gardiner to Boston, and soon after the
' Governor " succumbed. Capt. Seward Porter, the
pioneer steamboat owner on the Maine coast, died in
Gardiner in 1858.
In the spring of 1860 the "Eastern Queen" was
badly damaged by fire while undergoing repairs at Bath,
and the " State of Maine " was chartered from the Fall
BY FRANCIS B. C. BRADLEE 261
River line to replace her. During the course of the Civil
war the former steamer was taken over by the government
for a transport, and for some time there was no direct
boat between Boston and Bath.
At this time an exceedingly fast and able steamer, the
" Harvest Moon," Capt. W. R. Roix, owned by Spear,
Lang and Delano of Boston, plied between the Kennebec
river towns and Portland. She was built at Portland in
1863, and measured 541 tons, 193 feet long, 29 feet
beam, 10 feet depth of hold, and had a beam engine of
41 inches by 10 feet. Like the " Eastern Queen," she
was taken by the government and improvised as a naval
steamer, became Rear Admiral Dahlgren's flagship on the
South Atlantic blockading squadron, and was blown up
by a Confederate mine in Winyah bay, near Georgetown,
S. C., on March 1, 1865. Her place was taken on the
coast of Maine by the steamer " Scotia."
At the close of the Civil war the Kennebec Steamboat
Co. was organized in Bath and Gardiner, and had built at
New York, in 1866, by John Englis, the famous steam-
boat builder, the " Star of the East," of 1413 tons gross,
244 feet long, 35 feet beam, and 12 1-2 feet depth of
hold, and equipped with a vertical beam engine nominally
of 700 horse-power. She was commanded by Capt.
Jason Collins, and was so large a boat that she could not
pass through the drawbridge at Gardiner, and so made
that place her terminus, but the " Eastern Queen," which
had found her way back to the line at the same time, ran
through to Hallowell.
In 1867 another opposition steamboat line from Boston
to the Kennebec river developed. Spear, Lang and De-
lano of Boston, well known owners of steam vessels, had
bought from the government at the close of the war the
" Daniel Webster " and " Eastern City " (named " Cos-
sack " while in the government service). The former
had before the war run on the Eastern Railroad line be-
tween Portland and Bangor, and the latter had plied be-
tween Boston and St. John. Their new owners placed
both steamers in opposition to the "Star of the East;"
the usual war of rates resulted, fares were again lowered
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to 25 cents, but the latter boat was newer and faster than
her competitors and had stronger financial backing, and
after two seasons Spear, Lang and Delano retired from
the contest practically bankrupt. Both the " Daniel
Webster " and " Eastern City " were sold for use on the
St. Lawrence river, the former was renamed "Saguenay"
and the latter " St. Lawrence."
After this and for many years the Kennebec Steamboat
Co. had the field all to itself; in 1889 it had a new
wooden steamer, the " Kennebec," built for it by
the New England Shipbuilding Co. of Bath. She was
of the usual side-wheel type, measured 1652 tons gross,
256 feet long, 37 1-2 feet beam ; the machinery consisted
of a vertical beam engine having a 60-inch cylinder, 132
inches stroke. Owing to the influence of Capt. Jason
Collins, who was part owner in the company, the " Ken-
ne bee's " boiler was placed on the main deck instead of
in the hold ; this was afterwards felt to be a great mis-
take, as the steamer was thus rendered somewhat top
heavy and rolled more than was necessary. After the
" Kennebec " came on the route the " Star of the East "
was renovated and renamed " Sagadahoc " and continued
to run for some years.
In 1896 the company thought that it would pay to
run a steamer all winter (previously the Kennebec boats
were laid up each year from about December to March),
and so had had constructed in 1897 by the New England
Shipbuilding Co. the wooden propeller " Lincoln." She
was a twin screw of 997 tons gross, 203 feet long ; the
motive power consisting of two triple expansion engines,
with steam worked at a pressure of 160 pounds.
The " Lincoln," however, was not a success, and only
ran a year or two, when she was sold to the Florida East
Coast Railway, and renamed " Martinique." A few
years later she was owned by the Joy line, which operated
her between Providence and New York, being then
called the " Kentucky." Under that name she was
again sold to go to the Pacific coast, and on the way there,
in the autumn of 1910, foundered at sea off the coast of
South Carolina.
BY FRANCIS B. C. BEADLBE 263
The last steamer ordered by the old Kennebec Steam-
boat Co. was the "Ransom B. Fuller," a wooden side-
wheeler, built in 1902, also by the New England Ship-
building Co. ; she was of 1862 tons gross, 277 feet long,
with a vertical beam engine indicating 1600 horse-power.
Before this steamer was finished, however, the Kennebec
Steamboat Co., like many of the other coastwise lines,
was literally forced into the Eastern Steamship Co.'s
" combine," and the " Ransom B. Fuller " was soon trans-
ferred to other routes, so that she plied but a short
time to Bath. She was lengthened 45 feet in 1910, a
very unusual thing for a wooden side-wheel steamer.
The service was kept up for some time by the " Ken-
nebec," after which the discarded boats from the Bangor
line, the " Penobscot," " City of Bangor," and " City of
Rockland " were thought good enough by the Eastern
Steamship Co. for the Kennebec river service. In the
meantime the " Kennebec " and " Sagadahoc," were sold
and both steamers found their way to the Hudson river,
where they were operated until a short time ago by op-
position lines, the former under the name of ' Iroquois "
and the latter the " Greenport "
The " City of Bangor " caught fire at Foster's wharf,
Boston, July 19, 1913, and was almost totally destroyed ;
she had to be practically rebuilt the next year. Very
soon after this mishap a scathing editorial appeared in the
Boston Transcript concerning fire risks on the wooden
side-wheel steamers. It was headed, " Three Deckers
Afloat," and compared the construction of the " City of
Bangor " to the flimsy wooden tenement houses known
as " three deckers." The conclusions reached in the ed-
itorial were the same as those held for many years by the
" initiated," that had the fire broken out when the " City
of Bangor " was twenty or thirty miles at sea, nothing
could have prevented a dreadful catastrophe with awful
loss of life.
Since the outbreak of the war with Germany in 1917,
no steamers have run between Boston and Kennebec river
towns, for so many of the Eastern Steamship Corpora-
tion's fleet were taken by the government that a much re-
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duced service to Portland and Bangor was kept up with
great difficulty.
In 1833 the Boston and Bangor Steamship Co. was
formed ; about two hundred Boston merchants were
stockholders, but only a few persons in Bangor. The
company had built in 1833, by Brown and Bell of New
York, the side-wheel steamboat " Bangor," of 400 tons
burthen and 160 feet in length. This was the first actu-
ally new boat, as well as the fastest, that had ever come
to the Maine coast. She was rigged with two masts and
fore-and-aft sails, and was provided with two powerful
force pumps with suction hose, a fire engine to be kept
on deck to operate on any part, five large boats, a num-
ber of India rubber and cork mattresses (each capable of
sustaining five persons in the water), and a large quan-
tity of life preservers.
The " Bangor's " machinery was of the " cross-head "
or " square " type, having a 36-inch cylinder, 9 feet
stroke, and she consumed about 25 cords of wood on
each trip between Bangor and Boston. Capt. George
Barker of Bangor superintended her building and com-
manded her for a short time, when he was superseded by
Capt. Samuel H. Howes. It was reported that her aver-
age number of through passengers between Bangor and
Boston during the early part of the season was one hun-
dred and twenty, both going and returning. The fare
each way was $6, which included meals and berth. This
made the snug little sum of $1,440 for passengers alone
on each round trip. The "Bangor" ran on this route
until November, 1841, after which she plied on the route
east of the Penobscot.
In 1842 she was sold to the Turkish " Civil List "
(Government), renamed the " Sudower," and used by
them in carrying passengers between Constantinople and
the Princes' Islands, in the sea of Marmora ; at one time
she also conveyed Mohammedan pilgrims to Alexandria
on their way to Mecca. She left Boston on her trans-
atlantic trip August 16, 1842, calling for coal at Halifax,
N. S., Pictou, N. S., Fayal, Gibraltar, and Malta. On this
voyage her lower cabins were converted into coal bunk-
ers and her upper cabins removed. It is said that when
BY FRANCIS B. C. BRADLEE 265
the " Bangor " first arrived in Turkish waters not a
Mussulman would go on board of her, as she was painted
white, their mourning color, but after she received a coat
of black paint, all their objections disappeared.
During 1835, Capt. Seward Porter ran the "Sandusky"
between Bangor arid Boston. In August the proprietors
of the latter boat also put on the route the steamer "In-
dependence," Thomas Howes, master. The fare to Bos-
ton, which had been fixed at $7, was now reduced to $5.
All the steamboats plying to Maine ports from Boston
during the season of 1836 were run under the name of
" The Eastern Steamship Mail Line." The " Bangor "
continued on her route and the " Independence " was an
opposition boat. The next season the " Bangor " was
the sole boat on the Penobscot river, making three trips
a week to Portland, where she connected with the "Port-
land " for Boston.
Early in 1842 the " Bangor " was taken off the Ban-
gor route and ran for a while from Portland to Calais,
touching at Belfast, but during this season she took her
final leave of the western continent. In November, 1842,
the Eastern Railroad was opened to Portland, greatly
diminishing the business of the Boston boats. The
" Portland," which formerly ran to Boston, succeeded the
" Bangor" on the Penobscot, plying between Bangor and
Portland with the "Huntress," Capt. W. H. Byram,
owned by the Eastern Railroad, as an opposition boat on
the same route. In July, 1842, Capt. Menemon Sanford
brought out the fast steamer "Express," built by himself
the previous year, 172 feet long, 23 feet beam, and oper-
ated her between Portland and Penobscot river towns.
The next year Sanford and James Cunningham of New
York (a marine engine builder), who owned the steamer
" Charter Oak " of 440 tons, brought her to Boston and
placed her on the " outside line " between Boston and
Bangor direct. She had previously run on the Sound
between New York and Hartford, but her owners found
the competition of " Commodore " Vanderbilt a little
too strong. There was great opposition, also, about this
time on the coast of Maine between what were called the
" Railroad boats " and those operated by Sanford. Dur-
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ing the seasons of 1842-43 the fare to Bangor from Bos-
ton, which had previously been as high as $6 or $7, was
reduced to $1 and then to 50 cents from Bangor to Port-
land. The Eastern Railroad retaliated in May, 1843, by
putting on an express train between Portland and Boston,
with fare reduced to $1 as against the regular rate of $4.
We now come to the famous iron screw steamer "Ban-
gor" (second of the name), and as this vessel marks the
beginning of a great epoch in the annals of American
shipbuilding, a detailed description of her may not be
out of place. It was reserved for the firm of Betts,
Harlan & Hollingsworth of Wilmington, Del., to build
the steamer "Bangor," the first iron seagoing propel-
ler steamer constructed in the United States. She was
begun in October, 1843, and launched in May, 1844;
and was completed and delivered to her owners, the
Bangor Steam Navigation Company of Maine, E. C. Hyde,
agent, in 1844, eight months after the keel was laid.
Her hull was formed by bar iron ribs or frames secured
by numerous wrought iron clamps, and her plating was
put on in the lapped or " clinker " style, instead of the
modern " inside and outside " method.
The " Bangor " measured 231 tons burden, and her
general dimensious were as follows : 120 feet length
between perpendiculars ; 23 feet breadth of beam, mould-
ed ; 9 feet depth of hold from base line amidships. On
deck she was about 131 feet in length over all. Her
sheer was an average one, rather fine forward on account
of the bowsprit rig. She had three wooden masts,
schooner-rigged, with bowsprit and jibboom, carrying a
suit of eight sails. The accommodations were as follows:
The crew's quarters were located forward in the hull,
accessible from the deck by a scuttle or booby hatch. The
passengers were carried aft on deck in a commodious
house fitted up in a style of elegance unusual in those
days, and considered particularly handsome by her own-
ers and builders. The interior of this house was a
comfortable saloon, surrounded by sleeping accommoda-
tions intended for night service. There were but two
deck houses upon the vessel at the time she was built,
the third or forward house having been added afterward.
BY FRANCIS B. C. BEADLEE 267
In the midship or boiler house were the galley, pantry
and store, lamp and other rooms, etc., as was customary.
The pilot house was located well aft for seagoing pur-
poses, and had one room abaft for the use of the com-
mander and pilot. The hold, with the exception of the
spaces taken up by the forward quarters described, was
devoted to the carriage of freight, which was lowered
down through the forward hatch. The fuel was also
stowed in bunkers in the hold in the customary manner.
Altogether, her arrangements were not far different from
those in vogue at the present time for vessels of her
class. She carried no ballast. Her machinery consisted
of independent twin screw propeller engines, having
cylinders 22 inches in diameter by 24 inches stroke of
piston. The propeller wheels were of the Loper type
and 8 1-2 feet in diameter. Her boiler was placed in the
hold and was of iron, 20 feet in length, of the type
known as the drop flue boiler.
At the launching of the "Bangor" an accident
occurred, caused by the breaking of the launching timbers
at the moment of her gliding into the water, and owing
to which the vessel fell over on her side upon the soft
bank of the stream, no other injury than a few scratches
and scars to the hull being sustained and no one being
hurt. Fortunately the steamer righted herself as she slid
into deep water, and thus narrowly saved her credit.
The next event of importance in her career was her
trial trip, which took place in the spring of 1844, and
was attended by a numerous and rather notable party,
including many of those pecuniarily interested in her, as
well as several ladies and others who shared the excur-
sion as a holiday pleasure trip. The course was from
Wilmington to Cape May, thence to Philadelphia, and
afterward returning to Wilmington. Between 150 and
160 citizens from Wilmington were invited by the firm,
and they were taken to the Delaware Capes and back,
under conditions of festivity and merrymaking which
were well suited to the season and the event.
An excellent brass band furnished the music on board,
and every provision was made for the comfortable enter-
tainment of the guests, except in the matter of sleeping
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accommodations. The meagre outfit of berths were, of
course, allotted to the ladies of the party, while the gen-
tlemen sought such quarters as could be found about the
boat or hastily improvised from the surroundings. The
trip began at 9 A. M. one morning, and the destination
was reached between 3 and 4 o'clock P. M. of the same
day. That night was spent at anchor in a little sheltered
cove about three miles above Cape May Landing, and
called " Aunt Rhody's." At about 10 o'clock on the
following morning the return run was begun, making the
wharf at Wilmington about 7 P. M. that evening. No
mishaps of any kind marred the perfect pleasure of the
company, and but for the rattling of the engine, which
worked very roughly and noisily all the way, it could be
said with truth that not a jar was felt in any feature of
the trip. Capt. Alexander Kelly was in charge of the
machinery department, though Engineer Harry Dockery
was stationed at the starting bar. The steamer was in
~
command of Capt. Alexander Parker, who subsequently
ran her in her regular service.
Returning to the actual performance of the boat, we
cannot do better than to recall the report printed at the
time by some of the gentlemen on board, and certifying
the exact facts of the trial as follows :
" Trial of speed of the Steamer " Bangor " on the
Delaware, from the Navy Yard, Philadelphia, to Fort
Mifflin, and back to the Navy Yard. During the trial
the tide was against the boat when going from Philadel-
phia to the Fort and in her favor returning.
H. M. Sec. M. Sec.
"Left Navy Yard Shears, 5 27 30
"Arrived at Fort Mifflin, 6 22 15 54 45
"Left Fort Mifflin, 6 28 15
"Arrived at Navy Yard, 7 2 22 34 7
" Distance run, 16 miles per government survey. Aver-
age speed per hour, 10.61 miles. The first five miles run
with low steam, making 44 revolutions. Pressure of
steam was under 46 pounds during the whole trip. Trip
up, the speed per hour was 14.07 miles. Deduct 2 1-2
BY FRANCIS B. C. BRADLEE 269
miles for tide, gives actual speed through the water
11.57 miles per hour."
On her second trip the " Bangor " left Boston August
31, 1845, with thirty-four passengers and freight valued
at $20,000. The next day, when in Penobscot Bay, she
caught fire in the boiler room, and was beached at Isles-
borough, about seven miles from Castine, in order to save
the crew and freight, and here she was burned as she
lay. She was afterward adjudged a wreck, the insurance
settlement was effected, and she was towed to Bath, Maine,
where she was repaired and rebuilt. She afterward con-
tinued to run on the same line until December, 1846,
when she was purchased by the United States Govern-
ment at a cost of $28,975, and renamed the " Scourge,"
at the time of the Mexican War. During her employ as
a war vessel she was equipped with three guns ; and the
whole cost of the change from a merchant to a govern-
ment steamer was $15,885. After two years of war ser-
vice she was, on October 7th, 1848, finally sold by the
government, through their agent, Vespasian Ellis, of the
city of New York,, to one John F. Jeter, of the city of
Lafayette, La., the consideration money named being the
sum of $2,300. From the date of her transfer at New
Orleans, all trace of her has been lost. Thus, after a
career of only four years, this pioneer steamer disappears
from view, having in the brief period of her existence
shared in the pursuits of peace and war, cruised in all
waters from Maine to Texas, serving three sets of owners,
being wrecked, burned, rebuilt, altered throughout, and
finally sold into oblivion a fitting type of the phenome-
nal and meteoric rise, triumph and decline of the Ameri-
can marine.
In 1845 Capt. Sanford transferred the " Penobscot "
(first of the name) from the Kennebec river route to that
between Boston and Bangor, and this line, which was at
once called " Sanford's Independent Line," retained that
name until 1882, when it was incorporated in Massachu-
setts as the Boston and Bangor Steamship Company.
Capt. Thomas G. Jewett was master, and Capt. William
Flowers, pilot of the " Penobscot."
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The first trip of the new line was made on the night
of June 17, 1845, from Boston to Bangor by the " out-
side " route ; that is the course was made from Cape Ann
to Monhegan direct, it never had been attempted before
by a steamboat. Capt. Flowers now ran the " Penob-
scot " altogether by the method of " time and courses,"
and soon it was generally adopted and is now the univer-
sal practice.
A new steamer, the " Governor," was brought out the
next year (1846) to run between Portland and Bangor in
the railroad interest. She was of the usual side-wheel
type, built by Samuel Sneeden of New York, 203 feet in
length, 29 feet beam, having a 48 inch vertical beam en-
gine, 11 feet stroke. Eventually this steamboat plied on
nearly every route on the coast of Maine, and besides
was chartered several times by the Fall River line. While
a government transport carrying troops to the Port Royal
expedition during the Civil war, the " Governor " found-
ered oif the South Carolina coast, November 2, 1861, but
luckily every soul on board was saved by the U. S. frigate
" Sabine."
Another new steamer was built by Capt. Sanford in
1846, to run on a branch line from Belfast (where she
connected with the Boston boat) to Ellsworth, Mount
Desert, etc. This was the side-wheeler " T. F. Secor,"
130 feet long. A fine model of this steamboat owned by
the author shows that she had a very large and curious
safety valve placed near the exhaust pipe on deck. This
may have been done to reassure the passengers, as in those
days many travellers on steamboats were made nervous
by reason of frequent boiler explosions. The " T. F.
Secor " remained on the coast until taken by the govern-
ment for a transport in 1862, and in May of the next
year she was burnt while lying at Hilton Head, S. C.
Nothing further of material interest occurred on the
Bangor line until 1848, when to meet the increasing busi-
ness Sanford had built the new steamer " W. J. Pease "
at New York, and she ran on alternate trips with the
" Penobscot." They found a sharp competitor in the
splendid new steamboat " State of Maine," built at New
BY FRANCIS B. C. BRAD LEE 271
York by Bishop and Simonson in 1848 especially for the
Eastern and Boston and Maine Railroads. She is de-
scribed as being by far the largest (840 tons) and best
fitted boat ever seen up to that time on the coast ; her
length was 248 feet, beam 32 feet ; the vertical beam
engine had a 54 inch cylinder, stroke 11 feet. The
" State of Maine " had two iron return Hue boilers on the
guards, instead of in the hold, a new and novel arrange-
ment in this part of the country.
It is said that when, a few years earlier, the Hudson
river boats began having their boilers placed on the guards
the " runners " on the New York wharves announced as
an inducement to intending passengers, " that there was
no danger from explosions as now the boiler was no
longer in the vessel itself at all!" When the " State of
Maine" was first placed in service, passengers could leave
Bangor by her at 5 A. M., and by taking the railroad at
Portland reach Boston the same evening. After running
a short time, however, she was found to be too large and
expensive a steamer for the business, and was soon dis-
posed of to the Fall River line, in whose service she re-
mained for many years.
On July 4, 1849, the Portland and Kennebec Railroad
was opened to Bath, and the Sanfords feeling that the
water-borne traffic would thereby be greatly reduced,
removed the steamer " Kennebec " from the Bath route
and placed her on the Bangor line, taking the place of
the " Penobscot," with which boat they started a new
service, kept up by them for many years, between New
York, Cape May and Philadelphia. The " Penobscot "
was renamed " City of Norfolk," and she was lost off
the capes of the Delaware in a heavy gale, September 12,
1857. The " Kennebec " eventually joined her on the
Cape May line, and many years later, April 9, 1870, was
burnt while lying at Gloucester Point, Va. It was on
the " Kennebec," in August, 1849, that the Asiatic
cholera first made its appearance in Bangor ; her com-
mander, Capt. A. M. Sanford, being one of its victims, he
was succeeded as master by Capt. Flowers.
For fifteen years preceding the Civil war a rich harvest
prevailed for steamboats on the Penobscot. There was
272 STEAM NAVIGATION IN NEW ENGLAND
no railroad from the western part of the State to Bangor
until 1857, and so the steamers had all the business.
Some famous boats ran between Boston and Bangor in
those days ; the Sanfords brought out in 1850 the " Bos-
ton," said to have been the twenty-second steamer built
for them. She was constructed at New York by William
H. Brown, and was launched fully completed and with
steam up, quite an unusual thing. The " Boston " was
630 tons burthen, 225 feet long, 28 feet beam, 10 1-2 feet
depth of hold ; the machinery consisted of a vertical
beam engine of 40 inches, 11 feet stroke. Her passenger
accommodations were on a much larger scale than on
previous boats ; she had 157 berths in the gentlemen's
cabin, 42 in the ladies' cabin, besides 20 staterooms,
which included two " bridal " rooms.
This steamer had a long career on the Bangor line,
commanded by Capt. T. B. Sanford, but eventually she
was transferred to the Cape May route, and while a
transport during the Civil war was lost, May 25, 1864,
near Hilton Head, S. C. The vessel went aground, and
it being found impossible to get her off, she was set on
fire by the United States troops to prevent her falling
into the hands of the Confederates.
Capt. Menemon Sanford, founder of the lines bearing
his name, died in New York, June 24, 1852, aged sixty-
three years. For thirty years he had been a steamboat
commander and owner, and he was well known as a man
of character, ability and enterprise, and at his death was
one of the most extensive owners of steam vessels in the
country. Besides the Boston and Bangor, and Boston and
Kennebec river lines, Capt. Sanford operated steamers
between New York and Philadelphia, as before noted,
and also from Philadelphia to Norfolk, Va. He is also
believed to have had an interest in the Portland Steam
Packet Co.
After his death the business was continued by his sons
and nephews, and Capt. Charles B. Sanford became the
moving spirit in the eastern lines. At this time and for
many years after, William B. Haseltine, at Foster's
wharf, was the Boston agent of the line.
(To be continued')
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BEVERLY IN I 700 No 3
BEVERLY IN 1700. NO. 3.
BY SIDNEY PERLEY.
THIS section of Beverly comprises the central portion
of the city, containing an area of about one square mile.
It extends as far north as Summer street and northeaster-
ly to Bisson street.
It contains no hill of any considerable size, and the
only one bearing a name is Stephens hill, lying between
Cabot and Rantoul streets, near Broadway. It was so
called hi 1842.
Tuck's point consisted of a *sand bar, and was called
Barr point in 1698 ; and Tuck's point as early as 1788.
Goat hill early belonged to the Ellingwood family, and
was known as Ellingwood point in 1700.
A deep swamp lies northerly of Stone street, between
Bartlett and Lothrop streets, which was called Root's
swamp in 1701 and Bartlett's swamp in 1793. Grove's
hollow, at the foot of Summer street, was so locally
known about two centuries ago ; and Trask's hollow,
which was farther north, where the Gloucester branch of
the Boston & Maine Railroad now runs, just west of
Gloucester crossing, was so called about the same time.
The ocean off this section of Beverly was called ye
river and the sea in 1671 ; at Tuck's point, ye river or
harbor in 1686 ; and ye Ferry river in 1698.
The harbor was called the north harbor in 1681 ; and,
westerly of the Essex bridge, the salt sea in 1733 ; and,
at the bridge, ye salt water of Salem ferry in 1721.
Bass river was so called as early as 1635. It was
called the river that runs between Royal's side and Em-
ery's lot in 1706 ; ye sea in 1711 ; the salt river between
Beverly and Ryal's side in 1725 ; Beverly river in 1747 ;
and Back river in 1798.
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274 BEVERLY IN 1700. NO. 3
Coming's cove was called a creek in 1739 ; Coming's
cove in 1752; and Coming's pond in 1768. There was a
landing place there in 1752.
Roundy's cove was called a creek in 1698 ; and Roundy's
cove in 1783.
The oldest road in this section of the city is Hale street
and that part of Cabot street between Hale and Beckford
streets. Its course was determined probably under the
reservation of a highway along the water front of all
lands granted by the town of Salem. It was in use as
early as 1640, and was undoubtedly an old trail when the
English began to settle that region. It connected the set-
tlement at Salem with that at Jeffries creek (Manchester)
and Cape Ann. Oct. 26, 1646, the town of Salem ap-
pointed a committee to make a way to Manchester.
At a general! towne meetinge held the 26 th day of the 8 th moneth
[1646] . . . Ordered that William Woodburie & Richard Bracken-
burie Enf igne Dixy Mr Conant & Liuetenn Lothrop & Laurance
Leech f hall forth w th lay out a way betweene the ferry at Salem &
the head of Jeffryes Creeke & that it be fuch a way as men may
trauell on horfe back & driue cattle. & if fuch a way may not be
found then to take speedy Courfe to fett vp a foote bridge at Mack-
rell Cone.
This committee's report is on file in the office of the clerk
of courts at Salem. It is as follows :
We whose names are underwritten being imployed by the towne
of Salem to find out a way from the towne towards Manchester doe
testify that we found out a way & made it sufficient
the marke of
WM S DIXY
Hale street was called the highway towards Manchester
in 1646; the country highway in 1671; "y e Roade y*
Leades from Beverly to Manchester " in 1706 ; and Hale
street in 1838.
That part of Cabot street between Hale street and
Essex bridge was laid out to connect the country road
with the ferry when the latter was established where
Essex bridge is now situated. The ferry was removed
hither from Draper's point, and a map 1 of the region made
about 1677 shows the location of the ferry house on the
'Printed in the current volume of the Historical Collections of
the Essex Institute, page 54.
BY SIDNEY PERLEY 275
highland near the ferry. It was called the country road
in 1677; the common road or highway in 1692; the
country road or highway running from the ferry place in
1693; " ye country road that goeth to Salem ferry" in
1709 ; the street in 1752 ; the publick road leading from
the lower meeting house in Beverly to the ferry in 1782 ;
the main street in 1793 ; the country road leading from
Salem to Newbury in 1793 ; the county road leading from
Essex bridge to Ipswich in 1796; the road that leads from
Essex bridge to Wenham in 1797 ; Main street in 1811 ;
and was named Cabot street in 1838.
In 1700, the way to the southern part of Ipswich, from
the meeting house in Beverly, was by way of Briscoe
and Essex streets. It was called ye highway in 1677 ;
ye town highway in 1697 ; and the town or country road
or highway which extends from ye meeting house along
by the house of Nehemiah Stone in 1722. The Briscoe
portion of it was called ye road that goes over ye hill in
1732. A new road was made from the junction of Bris-
coe and Essex streets to the meeting house in or before
1833. This new part was called " the new county high-
way lately located there "in 1833 ; the new road from
Beverly to Essex in 1835 ; and a highway lately located
near the first parish meeting house in 1836. The whole
length of Essex street was called the Essex street in 1832 ;
Briscoe street was called the old county road from Beverly
to Essex in 1835 ; and was named Briscoe street in 1838.
Bartlett street was a way to George Tuck's house, and
subsequently extended to Tuck's point. It was called
" y e Lane that goes from y e Country Roa d to George
Tucks house" in 1708 ; a highway in 1734 '> an highway
lately laid out adjoining to land of Samuel Stone, William
Gage and John Stevens in 1740 ; way leading down to
the new wharf in 1764 ; Bartiett's lane so called in 1785;
the road leading to Tuck's point so called in 1788 ; and
was named Bartlett street in 1838.
The way to Tuck's point, now partly obsolete and part-
ly a portion of Lothrop street, was called "ye way that
leads along by ye water Side " in 1714. Front and Loth-
rop streets were respectively so named in 1838.
276 BEVERLY IN 1700. NO. 3
Water street was laid out along the harbor front from
the ferry landing to the foot of Bartlett's lane. It was
called the road leading to Tuck's point so called in 1788 f
and was named Water street in 1838.
Thorndike street was laid out by the county court in
November, 1741, in connection with the division of the
estate of Benjamin Lovett of Beverly among his chil-
dren. It was named Thorndike street in 1838.
Central street was laid out by the heirs of William
Lovett of Beverly for a private way fifteen and one-half
feet wide in or before 1773. It was called land reserved
for a public way in 1781 ; and was named Central street
in 1838.
Pleasant street was laid out twenty-eight and one-half
feet wide by the heirs of John Tuck of Beverly in or
before 1794 ; and was known as Pleasant street as early
as 1860.
Rantoul street was laid out before 1853, when it was
so called.
Park street was laid out as a way forty feet wide by
the Eastern Railroad Company in agreement with Augus-
tus N. Clark and others in or before 1857 ; and was
called Park street as early as 1865.
Myrtle street was so called in 1871.
Summer street was a private way leading from Cabot
street to Rantoul street in 1869 ; and was called Summer
street the next year.
Elliott street was laid out in 1808 as a section of a
more direct route from Cape Ann to Andover and vicin-
ity ; and was named Elliott street in 1838.
Dane street was called the highway on the north side
of the training field in 1829, and Dane street in 1834.
Federal street was called a street to be laid out and
called Federal street in 1807. It was in use the next
year, and has ever since borne that name.
Chapman street was laid out by Nathan Dane and
Abner Chapman forty feet wide in or before 1807 ; and
was called Essex street from that time. Since 1866 it
has been called Chapman street.
Home and Creek streets have been so called since 1871.
Bow street was so called in 1857.
BY SIDNEY PERLEY 277
Wallis street was so named in 1838.
Milton street was a private way so called in 1859.
Broadway was known as the new town way known as
Broadway in 1873.
Vestry street was a lane in 1831 ; and Elm square was
a private way so called in 1844.
Railroad avenue was so called in 1855. Railroad square
was a public square laid out by the Eastern Railroad Com-
pany in agreement with Augustus N. Clark and others in
or before 1857.
Fayette street was known as Fayette place in 1853 ;
and as Fayette street in 1868.
Edwards street was so called in 1855.
School street was called Schoolhouse lane in 1804 ; a
private way leading to the South District schoolhouse in
1834 ; and was named School street in 1838.
Cox's court was a road twenty-five feet wide lately
staked out in 1801 ; a lane that runs from the county
road near Essex bridge northerly for a privilege way in
1802 ; and was named Cox street in 1838. It was Cox's
court in 1848 ; and a lane or private way court in 1868.
Charity court was the way to the workhouse in its
rear ; and was named Charity street in 1838. It was
called Charity court in 1848.
Lothrop street was a way laid out from Washington
street to Tuck's point in 1832 ; and was so named in
1838.
Lovett street was so named in 1838.
Back street was so called in 1870.
Stone street was an open way known by that name in
1853.
May street was a private way called May street in 1865.
Washington street was laid out by the selectmen of
Beverly in March, 1803, over land of Elisha Whitney
from the main street to the sea ; and has been called
Washington street ever since.
Brown and Abbott streets were so named in 1838.
Butman street was so called in 1871.
Charnock street was a road forty feet wide in 1805 ;
and was named Charnock street in 1838.
John Hale Lot. William Dodge, sr., of Beverly or
278 BEVERLY IN 1700. NO. 3
Bass River, husbandman, conveyed to Mr. John Hale,
pastor of ye church at Beverly, this tract of pasture land
Jan. 28, 1668 j 1 and Mr. Hale died possessed of it in
1700.
This was called the " outlet " as early as 1675.
Samuel Hardy House. This lot of land belonged to
Richard Haynes of Beverly, husbandman, Dec. 29, 1671,
when he conveyed it to John Sampson of Beverly, hus-
bandman. 2 At a town meeting in Beverly Aug. 23, 1675,
Mr. Sampson agreed to release it with other land to the
town for a school house ; and the town gave it to Samuel
Hardie, schoolmaster, in consideration of his continuance
for seven years as a teacher in the town, April 11, 1676.
Mr. Hardie was son of Robert Hardie, " Citizen and
Haberdasher, of London," and he married Mary, daugh-
ter of Samuel Dudley of Exeter, Jan. 24, 1675. Samuel
Hardie taught school here for many years, and about 1698
became a student in physic, although he had a family
consisting of his wife and four children. He died while
he was thus studying in the spring of 1700, possessed of
this house and a small barn and land, all of which was
then appraised at thirty-five pounds. In his will, he de-
vised to his wife the house and land for her life and then
to his children, Robert, Mary, Theophilus and Elizabeth.
The names of this family disappear from the records of
Beverly at this date (1700). How much longer the
house stood has not been learned.
John Lovett Lot. This lot of land belonged to Richard
Haynes of Beverly, husbandman, Dec. 29, 1671, when he
conveyed it to John Sampson of Beverly, husbandman. 2
At a town meeting of Beverly Aug. 23, 1675, Mr. Samp-
son agreed to release it with other land to the town for
a schoolhouse ; and, in 1678, the town let these two acres
of land to John Swarton for seven years. The lot be-
longed to John Lovett, sr., of Beverly, husbandman, in
1693 ; and there was then upon the lot a house which
had been built by his daughter Susanna and her husband
William Sikes and in which they then lived. Mr. Sikes
died, possessed of the house, in or before 1706, when his
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 3, leaf 52.
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 5, leaf 36.
BY SIDNEY PBBLEY 279
widow married Thomas Cole of Marblehead. She was
appointed administratrix of Mr. Sikes' estate May 20,
1717; and the inventory of his estate mentions "a
small house standing on John Lovett's Land." In the
account of her administration is included " an old houfe
{landing on John Lovetts Land," four pounds and
eighteen shillings. Mr. Lovett died Sept. 10, 1727, at
the age of about ninety-one ; having in his will devised
the southern half of the lot, which the dwelling house
then stood on, for her life to his wife, with power of dis-
posal of the same for her support, and if she died pos-
sessed of it it should go at her decease to her son Wil-
liam and her daughter. William Lovett of Beverly died
Feb. 28, 1756, intestate, leaving widow Bethiah. The
inventory of his estate shows the eastern half of the
dwelling house, etc., appraised at forty-five pounds, and
a barn at two pounds. Nothing more is known of the
house.
John Trenance House. That part of this lot of land
lying northerly of the dashes was granted by the town of
Beverly to Tobias Trow Nov. 6, 1682, " upon this Con-
dition viz that he do live in the town and Improve it tenn
years or be taken away by death though before the ten
years be expired having lived in the town while there,
then the said Land to be to him and his heirs forever but
If the said Trow should remove out of the towne before
the ten years be expired then the said Land to returne to
the towne." The lot was laid out by Ensign Corning and
Andrew Elliott, sr., who were then selectmen, March 18,
1683-4. Mr. Trow was a cordwainer, and built upon this
part of the lot, before 1690, a dwelling house, in which
he lived.
That part of the lot lying southerly of the dashes, with
the town pound thereon, was granted to Mr. Trow by the
town of Beverly Feb. 13, 1690-1, provided " him selfe
& his heirs Doth hereby promise & ingage to build vpon
occasion & keep in good & suffitiant repaire sd Town
Pound at his or their own proper Cost & Charges from
henceforth & for Ever for y e vse of y* town."
For fifty pounds, Mr. Trow conveyed the entire lot of
280 BBVEBLY IN 1700. NO. 3
land with the house, barn and shop thereon to John Tre-
nance of Beverly, mariner, Feb. 28, 1693-4. 1 Mr. Tre-
nance died in the spring of 1704, intestate, leaving widow
Martha and children Elizabeth, Rose and Martha. The
house and land were then appraised at forty-five pounds.
The widow died March 5, 1717-8, having in her will
devised her dwelling house, barn, orchard and land to her
" son " in law John Webber. How much longer the
house stood has not been determined.
Hazadiah Smith Lot. Richard Haynes of Beverly,
husbandman, for twenty-five pounds, conveyed this lot of
land to John Bennett of Beverly, weaver, Nov. 18, 1676. 2
Mr. Bennett removed to Middleborough, and, for forty
pounds, conveyed it to Hazadiah Smith of Beverly, car-
penter, June 27, 1694 ; 3 and Mr. Smith owned the lot in
1700.
Thomas Chubb Lot. This lot of land belonged to
Thomas Chubb, sr., in 1676, and to Thomas Chubb of
Beverly, husbandman, in 1689 and 1700.
Emma Woodbury House. This lot of land belonged to
Richard Haynes in 1676. The principal part (nine
acres) of the lot was conveyed by David Perkins of
Bridgewater, blacksmith, with the dwelling house and
barn thereon, for one hundred and two pounds and ten
shillings, to Andrew Elliott of Beverly, cordwainer, June
15, 1689 ; 4 and, for love, Mr. Elliot gave the estate to his
daughter Emma Woodbury, wife of Andrew Woodbury
of Beverly, mariner, in or before 1697, but did not con-
vey it by deed until Aug. 14, 1702, when she was the
wife of Rev. Thomas Blowers of Beverly. 5
That part of the lot lying within the dashes marked
' 1 " at the western corner (one-fourth acre) was con-
veyed by Thomas Chubb of Beverly, husbandman, for
thirty-two shillings, to said Andrew Woodbury March
11, 1690-1. 6 Mr. Woodbury died in the winter of 1694-5,
leaving widow Emma Woodbury.
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 9, leaf 269.
*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 5, leaf 71.
3 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 10, leaf 165.
*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 73, leaf 94.
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 16, leaf 158.
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 16, leaf 157.
BY SIDNEY PERLEY 281
That part of the lot lying within the dashes marked
* 2 " was conveyed by Thomas Chubb to Mrs. Woodbury
May 12, 1694.
That part of the lot lying within the dashes marked
" 3 " was owned by Christopher Read of Beverly, hus-
bandman, in 1689, and he conveyed it, with the dwelling
house thereon, for fourteen pounds and ten shillings, to
Mrs. Woodbury March 7, 1696-7. 1
That part of the lot lying within the dashes marked
" 4 " was conveyed by Thomas Chubb to Mrs. Woodbury
April 21, 1697.
Rev. Mr. Blowers died June 17, 1729; and his widow
Emma Blowers conveyed the house, barn and land to
Joseph Scot of Boston, merchant, Sept. 9, 1755. 2 On
the same day, Mr. Scot conveyed the estate to Mrs.
Blowers' daughter Emma Charnock of Boston, widow of
John Charnock. 8 The house was probably gone a few
years later.
Hazadiah Smith Lot. Jacob Manning of Salem, gun-
smith, and wife Sarah owned this lot in 1694 ; and, for
thirty-two pounds, they conveyed it to Hazadiah Smith
of Beverly April 6, 1697. 4 Mr. Smith owned it in 1700.
Samuel Stone Lot. This lot of land belonged to Sam-
uel Stone, sr., of Beverly, mariner, in 1700.
Robert Roundy House. Mark Haskell owned this lot of
land in 1678; and, for one hundred and eighty pounds,
Mark Haskell of Rochester, carpenter, conveyed the
house, barn and land, " where I formerly lived," to Rob-
ert Roundy of Beverly, yeoman, Oct. 11, 1698. 6 Mr.
Roundy lived here and became a coaster. He died Nov.
16, 1715. His dwelling house, barn and homestead land
were appraised at three hundred and fifty pounds. In
his will, which was made the day before he died, he de-
vised his housings and lands to his minor son Benjamin
Roundy, providing that if Benjamin died before he be-
came of age, leaving no issue, the property should go to
three daughters of the testator, Elizabeth Pickett, Mercy
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 34, leaf 193.
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 102, leaf 221.
3 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 102, leaf 220.
4 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 20, leaf 133.
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 19, leaf 123.
282 BEVERLY IN 1700. NO. 3
Smith and Hester Roundy and his son John Roundy's son
Robert Roundy. Benjamin lived, however, and died
March 7, 1753. How long the house stood is not known
to the writer.
Thomas Chubb Lot. That part of this lot of land lying
southerly of the dashes was conveyed by John Grover of
Beverly, husbandman, to Thomas Chubb, sr., of Beverly,
carpenter, June 29, 1678. 1
That part of the lot lying northerly of the dashes be-
longed to Mr. Chubb in 1678, but no deed conveyed it to
him until William Hascall of Gloucester delivered one to
him June 21, 1682.
The entire lot belonged to Mr. Chubb in 1700.
William Trask Lot. John Trask owned this lot of land
in 1678 and William Trask in 1698. William Trask of
Beverly, tailor, conveyed it with the dwelling house there-
on to William Leach of Salem Aug. 9, 1706. 2 The house
may have been upon the premises in 1700.
Jacob Q-riggs House. That part of this lot of land
which lies southerly of the dashes was conveyed by Os-
mond Traske of Beverly, yeoman, for six pounds and
seven shillings, to William Cleeves of Beverly, fisherman,
March 27, 1675 ; 3 and Mr. Cleeves, for six pounds, con-
veyed it to David Perkins of Beverly, blacksmith, Jan.
10, 16 76. 4 Mr. Perkins erected a dwelling house there-
on ; and, for eighty-five pounds, he conveyed the house
and land to Robert Roundy of Beverly, husbandman, May
5, 1680. 6 Mr. Roundy, for fifty-three pounds, reconveyed
to Mr. Perkins the land with the dwelling house thereon
March 1, 1684-5 ; and, for forty pounds and ten shillings,
Mr. Perkins conveyed the same estate to Jacob Griggs of
Gloucester, cooper, April 27, 1685. 6
That part of the lot lying northerly of the dashes was
owned by Osmond Trask in 1675. John Trask, sr., of
Beverly, seafaring-man, owned it in 1678 ; and, for six
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 6, leaf 125.
2 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 24, leaf 197.
8 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 7, leaf 8.
4 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 4, leaf 171.
"Essex Registry of Deeds, book 5, leaf 80.
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 7, leaf 55.
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 7, leaf 57.
BY SIDNEY PERLEY 283
pounds and fifteen shillings, he conveyed it to Mr. Griggs,
who had removed from Gloucester to Beverly, and was
then living in the house on the other part of this lot,
March 15, 1687-8. 1
Mr. Griggs removed to Salem and conveyed the dwell-
ling house and land to William Leach of Beverly, cord-
wainer, Jan. 26, 1712 ; 2 and Mr. Leech died, possessed
of the estate, in the autumn of 1734. In his will, he
devised to his wife Tryphosa all his estate until her remar-
riage or death ; and then to his five sons, John, Joseph,
William, Elijah and Benjamin, absolutely. In the inven-
tory of his estate, " One old House formerly bought of
William Trask " was appraised at twelve pounds. The
old house probably disappeared soon afterward.
Estate of John Stone Lot. This lot of land belonged to
John Stone as early as 1675 ; and he died possessed of it
in the winter of 1691-2. It belonged to his estate in
1700.
Estate of Roger Haskins Souse. This lot of land be-
longed to Ens. Samuel Corning in 1673, and with the
house thereon to Roger Haskins of Beverly, mariner, at
the time of his death, Jan. 3, 1693-4. The dwelling
house, barn and land were then appraised at seventy-eight
pounds. It remained in the possession of his widow
Ruth Haskins until June 1, 1714, when his children,
Samuel Haskins, ferryman, Ruth Martin, Susannah Hoop-
er, Johannah Haskins and Abigail Belcher and the widow,
Ruth Haskins, all of Beverly, for seventy-three pounds,
conveyed the house and land to John Corning of Beverly,
innholder. 3 Mr. Corning became a turner, and died Feb.
28, 1733-4, intestate. In the inventory of his estate,
" the old House that was Hoskenses " was appraised at
eighteen pounds, and " the House plot of land that was
bought of Hoskinses " was appraised at ninety-two
pounds. In the division of his estate, April 9, 1736,
the house and land adjoining was assigned to his son
Andrew Corning. Andrew Corning was apparently never
married, and was " cast away at Salisbury " March 7,
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 9, leaf 110.
2 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 27, leaf 45.
3 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 28, leaf 26.
284 BEVERLY IN 1700. NO. 3
1738. How much longer the old house stood has not
been determined.
Nathaniel Hayward Lot. This lot of land belonged to
Ens. Samuel. Corning of Beverly very early; and was
conveyed by Nathaniel Stone of Beverly, husbandman, to
Nathaniel Hayward of Beverly, house carpenter, Oct. 29,
1673. 1 With the consent of his wife Elizabeth, daughter
of Ens. Samuel Corning, Mr. Hayward, then of Salem,
joiner, conveyed the lot to his son Samuel Hayward of
Salem, cooper, Aug. 24, 1699 ; 2 and, for forty pounds,
twelve shillings and six pence, Samuel Hayward conveyed
it next day to his brother Nathaniel Hayward of Beverly,
carpenter. 3 Nathaniel Hayward owned it in 1700.
Nathaniel Hayward Lot. This lot of land early be-
longed to Ens. Samuel Corning, sr., of Beverly, yeoman,
who died in the autumn of 1694, intestate. In the di-
vision of his real estate, March 7, 1694-5, this lot was
assigned to Nathaniel Hayward, sr., of Salem, husband
of his daughter Elizabeth; and Mr. Hayward owned the
lot in 1700.
Samuel Corning Home. This lot of land, with the
house thereon, belonged to Ens. Samuel Corning, sr., of
Beverly, yeoman, who died in the autumn of 1694, intes-
tate. His real estate was divided March 7, 1694-5, and
this lot, with the housing thereon, was assigned to his son
Samuel Corning, 2d, of Beverly. Samuel Corning, 2d,
died May 14, 1714, intestate. The estate then passed to
his son John Corning of Beverly, turner, who died Feb.
28, 1733-4, intestate. The house was then standing, but
how much longer it remained the writer does not know.
Nathaniel Stone Lot. This lot of land belonged to Ens.
Samuel Corning, sr., of Beverly, yeoman, in 1681 ; and
he died possessed of it in the autumn of 1694. In the
division of his real estate, March 7, 1694-5, this lot was
assigned to Nathaniel Stone, sr., to whom it belonged in
1700.
William Elliott Lot. Samuel Corning, sr., of Beverly,
husbandman, for ten pounds, conveyed to Capt. John
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 14, leaf 112.
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 16, leaf 98.
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 27, leaf 4.
BY SIDNEY PEBLEY 285
Higginson, jr., of Salem, merchant, this lot of land, it
being a part of his homestead where he now liveth, May
11, 1692 5 1 and, for twelve pounds, Colonel Higginson
conveyed it to William Elliott of Beverly, cordwainer,
Aug. 1, 1699. 2 Mr. Elliott owned it in 1700.
Nathaniel Wallis Lot. This lot of land was a part of
the Josiah Roots lot in 1680. Mr. Roots, then of Beverly,
died in the summer of 1683, having devised his real estate
to his son Jonathan Roots, who was to maintain his
mother Susanna Roots. In 1700, it belonged to Nathan-
iel Wallis, a native of Cornwall county, in Great Britain.
William Elliott Lot. This lot of land was a part of
Emery's lot, and belonged to Robert Hibbert in 1667 ;
and to his son Joseph Hibbert in 1681. Joseph Hibbert
conveyed that part of the lot lying easterly of the dashes
to William Elliott in 1686.
That part of the lot lying westerly of the dashes was
owned by David Perkins of Beverly, blacksmith, in
1686 ; and, for eight pounds in silver, he conveyed it to
Mr. Elliott of Beverly, cordwinder, who owned the other
part, Dec. 10, 1687. 3
Mr. Elliott owned the whole lot in 1700.
Nathaniel Wallis Lot. This was a part of Emery's lot,
so called ; and was owned by Robert Hibberd in 1667.
It was conveyed by his son Joseph Hibbert of Beverly,
husbandman, to Nathaniel Wallis of Beverly Nov. 26,
1681.* Mr. Wallis owned the lot in 1700.
Andrew JSlliott Lot. This lot of land was part of the
ten acres conveyed by Nathaniel Marsters of Salem, tailor,
to John Lambert, sr., of Salem, fisherman, May 8, 1667 ; 6
and the lot belonged to Mr. Lambert in 1670. He died
in November, 1684; but no real estate is mentioned in
either his will or inventory. The lot belonged to Lt.
Andrew Elliott, sr., a native of Somersetshire, England,
from 1686 to 1700.
Caleb Wallis Lot. Nathaniel Stone, sr., of Beverly, yeo-
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 9, leaf 142.
2 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 13, leaf 164.
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 9, leaf 77.
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 7, leaf 94.
s Essex Registry of Deeds, book 3, leaf 18.
286 BEVERLY IN 1700. NO. 3
man, owned this lot of land in 1687 ; and, for sixteen
pounds in silver, conveyed it to Caleb Wallis of Beverly,
cordwainer, June 2, 1691. 1 Mr. Wallis owned it in 1700.
John Lovett Lot. This lot of land belonged to John
Lovett, sr., of Beverly, husbandman, in 1687 and 1700.
Roger Haskins House, That part of this lot of land
lying northerly of the dashes was the western part of the
lot conveyed by Nathaniel Marsters of Salem, tailor, to
John Lambert, sr., of Salem, fisherman, May 8, 1667 j 1
and it belonged to his son John Lambert, jr., in 1682.
That part of the lot lying southerly of the dashes was
owned by William Hoare of Beverly, fisherman, in 1667 ;
and, for ten pounds, he conveyed it to John Lambert, sr.,
of Beverly, fisherman, Aug. 10, 1670. 2 Mr. Lambert, for
love, conveyed it to his grandspn John Lambert, jr., of
Salem, mariner, Nov. 3, 1682. 8
John Lambert conveyed the whole of the westerly part
of this lot to William Swetland of Salem, tailor, May 5,
1686. 4 John Lambert became a pirate on the high seas,
and was executed for piracy in Boston June 30, 1704.
Mr. Swetland, for twenty-eight pounds, conveyed it to
Roger Haskins of Beverly, mariner, Jan. 21, 1687-8. 6
That part of the lot lying easterly of the dashes be-
longed to Josiah Roots in 1667. Mr. Roots died in the
summer of 1683, having devised his real estate to his son
Jonathan Roots. Jonathan Roots of Marblehead, fisher-
man, for four pounds and ten shillings, conveyed it to
Mr. Haskins, who owned the other part of the lot, Jan. 23,
1687-8. 6
That part of the lot lying within the dashes at the
southeasterly corner belonged to Josiah Roots in 1667.
Mr. Roots lived in Beverly, and died in the summer of
1683, having devised his real estate to his son Jonathan
Roots, who was to maintain his mother Susanna Roots.
Jonathan Roots of Marblehead, fisherman, conveyed it to
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 24, leaf 268.
2 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 3, leaf 96.
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 6, leaf 84.
4 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 7, leaf 75.
5 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 8, leaf 36.
"Essex Registry of Deeds, book 8, leaf 35.
BY SIDNEY FBBLEY 287
William Sikes of Beverly, weaver, Jan. 30, 1687-8 j 1 and,
for twenty shillings, Mr. Sikes conveyed it to Samuel
Clements of Salem, mariner, Aug. 20, 1689. 3 For twenty
shillings, Mr. Clements conveyed it to Mr. Haskins, who
owned the rest of this lot, Jan. 20, 1689-90 ; 2 and thus
Mr. Haskins became the owner of the entire lot.
Mr. Haskins built a house upon the lot, and mort-
gaged the whole lot with the housing thereon Oct. 26,
1693. He died possessed of the estate Nov. 21, 1712.
How long the house existed is unknown to the writer.
Andrew Elliott Lot. This lot of land belonged to Rich-
ard Haines in 1670. David Perkins owned it in 1686 ;
and he conveyed it to Andrew Elliot, sr., of Beverly, cord-
wainer, who owned it in 1687. For forty-five pounds in
silver, Mr. Eliot conveyed it, including his interest in a
highway to this lot (lately bought by said Perkins and
others of Jonathan Rootes), to his son Andrew Elliott,
jr., of Beverly May 23, 1688. 3 Andrew Elliot, jr.,
owned it in 1700.
Mary G-ale Lot. This lot of land belonged to Josiah
Roots in 1667 ; and was recovered on execution from him
in 1684(?) by Henry Kenney, sr., of Salem Village. Mr.
Kenney conveyed it to Ambrose Gale of Marblehead, ad-
ministrator of the estate of Thomas Roots, deceased, and
guardian of Mary Roots, his only heir and daughter, June
23, 1697. 4 Mary Roots married Azor Gale in 1697 ; and
it belonged to her in 1700.
William Dixie Lot. Capt. William Dixie owned this
lot of land in 1683 and 1688, and probably in 1700.
Andrew Elliot Lot. This lot of land belonged to Wil-
liam Dixie of Beverly, yeoman, quite early. For six
pounds, he conveyed it to Andrew Elliot, jr., of Beverly,
mariner, Oct. 26, 1683 ; 6 and Mr. Elliot owned it in
1700.
Estate of Roger Haskins House. This lot of land was
called the Ferry Great field in 1695. The town of Salem
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 8, leaf 19.
2 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 8, leaf 148.
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 8, leaf 121.
4 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 13, leaf 1.
5 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 8, leaf 165.
288 BEVERLY IN 1700. NO. 3
had granted this lot of ten acres to Richard Stackhouse
Nov. 28, 1638 ; and appointed him to keep the ferry,
commencing June 30, 1653. Richard Stackhouse of Bev-
erly, yeoman, in consideration of love and grantor's sup-
port, conveyed it with the dwelling house, barn and fruit
trees thereon to his son-in-law Roger Haskins and his wife
Ruth, daughter of the grantor, Feb. 21, 1692-3. 1 Mr.
Hoskins was a mariner and lived in Beverly. He died
Jan. 3, 1693-4, intestate. In the inventory of his estate,
the ten acres of land was appraised at sixty pounds, and
" one Dwelling house & one Barn standing vpon sd Land
which is y e homestead nere y 6 fferry " at fifty pounds.
His son Samuel Haskins died Nov. 11, 1716, at the age
of about twenty -six ; and he had apparently lived in the
house with his father after his marriage with Miriam
Stone March 15, 1715-6. An agreement was made by
Ruth .Hoskins, widow of the deceased Roger Hoskins,
their only surviving daughter, Mrs. Abigail Belcher, and
the son Samuel Hoskins' widow Miriam Hoskins for her-
self and the daughter of her deceased husband and her-
self, July 4, 1717, in which the widow Ruth Hoskins
should have the ' ten-acre homestead lot 4< that was her
father Mr. Richard Stackhouse's near the ferry " and the
house and barn thereon, except that said widow Miriam
Hoskins should have the right to live in the lower room
of the west end of the house, etc., while she improved
the ferry and also the ferry boat. Mrs. Ruth Haskins,
for two hundred pounds in money, conveyed this ten
acres of land with "the appurtenances thereon standing"
to her daughter Abigail Belcher of Beverly April 8,
1720. 2 She was very sick in the spring of 1722, but
rallied and married, for her third husband, Nathaniel
Clark a year later. She died in the winter of 1730-1,
having in her will devised all her housing and lands to
Richard Ellis, son of Thomas Ellis. In her inventory
the dwelling house and barn and the ten acres of land
were valued at three hundred pounds. The premises
were in possession of Thomas Ellis of Beverly Sept. 1,
1738, when Mrs. Miriam Haskins, who had married Jona-
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 9, leaf 101.
a Essex Registry of Deeds, book 38, leaf 107.
BEVERLY MEETING HOUSE, 1700
BY SIDNEY PEELEY 289
than Cole Jan. 1, 1722, conveyed her interest in the estate
to Thomas Ellis. 1 Richard Ellis of Beverly, yeoman,
conveyed the land and buildings, for four hundred pounds,
to Paul Jewett of Rowley, yeoman, April 28, 1769 ; 2 and,
for five shillings, Mr. Jewett reconveyed the estate to
Mr. Ellis Oct. 5, 1769. 3 Mr. Ellis conveyed the property
to Joseph Hodges of Salem, merchant, June 15, 1774. 4
How much longer the house stood is unknown to the
writer.
Ralph Ellenwood Lot. This lot of ten acres of land
early belonged to Robert Moulton. This lot and the
adjoining lots of Benjamin Ellenwood and Mary Smith
became the property of Ralph Ellenwood before 1659.
The town of Salem, in January, 1659-60, agreed with
him to support a certain pauper for two years for ten
pounds and " all the waft lande that is comon from the
eft fide of his lott to the poynt and foe rounde before the
riuer foe farr as his lande goeth withall marf h or Creek
thatch and further he hath libertie to fence on the eaft
fide of his lott Downe to a lowe water marke," and the
selectmen granted the land to him March 6, 1661-2. Mr.
Ellenwood died in the spring of 1674. In his will, he
devised to his son Ralph, when he became of age, " the
ten akres which was formerly old Robert Moltons lot."
The inventory of the estate mentions the following real
estate : " The lot commonly called Molton's lot, with the
building, orcharding," etc., appraised at one hundred
and thirty-five pounds, and " plowabell Land, pasture,
with part of the orchard," at one hundred and thirty
pounds. The real estate was divided among the children
April 17, 1695, and this lot was assigned to Ralph Ellen-
wood according to the terras of the will. 6 Jn this divis-
ion there was " Laid Out for Our owne Conveniency a
high Way athwart all our land . . in breadth Twenty
four foot begining at Ralph Ellinwoods Easterly line to
be Extended Westerly to John Smiths Cove." Ralph
Ellenwood owned the lot in 1700.
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 146, leaf 241.
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 126, leaf 149.
"Essex Registry of Deeds, book 130, leaf 42.
4 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 134, leaf 289.
*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 11, leaf 192.
290 BEVERLY IN 1700. NO. 8
Benjamin Ellenwood House. This lot of land belonged
to Ralph Ellenwood as early as 1659-60. In January,
1659-60, the town of Salem agreed with him to support
a certain pauper for two years for ten pounds and " all
the waft lande that is coinon from the eft fide of his lott
to the poynt and foe rounde before the riuer foe farr as
his lande goeth withall marfh or Creek thatch and fur-
ther he hath libertie to fence on the eaft fide of his lott
Downe to a lowe water marke," and the selectmen of
Salem granted the land to him March 6, 1661-2. Mr.
Ellenwood died in the spring of 1674 ; and his real estate
was divided among his children April 17, 1695. l His son
John Ellenwood of Beverly, husbandman, conveyed his
interest in the estate to his brother Benjamin Ellenwood
of Beverly June 12, 169-1 ; 2 and this lot was assigned to
Benjamin for his and his brother John's shares. Benja-
min Ellenwood subsequently lived upon this lot, and died
March 28, 1731. How long the house stood is uncer-
tain.
Mary Smith House. This lot of land belonged to Ralph
Ellenwood in 1660. In January, 1659-60, the town of
Salem agreed with him to support a certain pauper for
two years for ten pounds and " all the waft lande that is
comon from the eft fide of his lott to the poynt and foe
rounde before the riuer foe farr as his lande goeth withall
marfh or Creek thatch and further he hath libertie to fence
on the eaft fide of his lott Downe to a low water marke,"
and the selectmen granted the land to him March 6,
1661-2. Mr. Ellenwood died in the spring of 1674 ; and
his real estate was divided among his children April 17,
1695. 1 This lot was assigned to his daughter Mary, wife
of John Smith of Beverly, coaster. Mr. Smith built a
house upon the lot, and, for one hundred pounds, con-
veyed to Robert Hale, esquire, of Beverly, physician, "my
house, outhousing & Land Being that whereon I now
Dwell Scituate . . In Beverly . . near y e ferry
place," Nov. 19, 1702. 3 Mr. Smith removed to Middle-
boro. Dr. Hale, for one hundred and ten pounds, con-
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 11, leaf 192.
2 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 10, leaf 3.
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 15, leaf 261.
BY SIDNEY PBRLEY 291
veyed the dwelling house, barn and land to Benjamin
Elhngwood of Beverly, coaster, Jan. 5, 1703. 1 Mr. El-
lingwood died March 28, 1731. How long the house
stood is uncertain.
Samuel Stone Lot. This lot of land early belonged to
Capt. William Dixie of Beverly, yeoman. He died in
the spring of 1690, having in his will devised his real
estate to his five daughters, Mary Wood berry, Anna Jud-
kin, Abigail Stone, Elizabeth Morgan and Sarah Gale.
That portion of thi lot lying southerly of the dashes
became the estate oi this daughter Mary, wife of Hugh
Woodberry of Bristol, Mass., mariner ; and, for love, she
conveyed it to her daughter Ann Woodberry of Bristol
March 11, 1691-2. 2 For twenty-one pounds, Miss Wood-
berry conveyed it to Samuel Stone of Beverly, mariner,
March 13, 1692. 3
That part of this lot lying northerly of the dashes
became the estate of Captain Dixie's daughter Abigail,
widow of John Stone, sr., of Beverly ; and, for twenty-
eight pounds, she conveyed it to her son Samuel Stone of
Beverly, seafaring-man, Jan. 20, 1698-9.*
Mr. Stone owned the entire lot in 1700.
Edmund Q-ale House. This lot of land early belonged
to Capt. William Dixie of Beverly, yeoman ; and he con-
veyed it to his daughter Sarah and her husband Edmond
Gale and such of their children as they might appoint
April 29, 1685. 6 The house of Mr. and Mrs. Gale then
.stood on the lot In his will, subsequently, Captain
Dixie provided that the real estate he devised to his
daughters, with one exception, should be conveyed only
to their children, that is, each to some one of her children.
Edmond Gale of Beverly, fisherman, for five pounds, con-
veyed to Charles Johnson of Beverly, weaver, and his
wife Miriam, daughter of Mr. Gale, " ye Little Dwelling
house thereon Standing now in y* Occupation and Tenure
of Samuel Elliot " and the land adjoining it Feb. 15,
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 21, leaf 96.
"Essex Registry of Deeds, book 11, leaf 129.
"Essex Registry of Deeds, book 11, leaf 130.
4 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 14, leaf 119.
5 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 10, leaf 36.
292 BEVERLY IN 1700. NO. 3
1708-9 j 1 and Mr. Johnson became a clothier. With his
wife Meriam, Mr. Johnson conveyed, for thirty pounds,
to Simon Willard of Boston, merchant, this small dwell-
ing house, shop and land Oct. 8, 1709. 2 How much
longer this house existed is not known.
John Standley House. John Raymond, sr., of Beverly,
yeoman, owned this lot of land in 1681 ; and, for four-
teen pounds in silver, conveyed it to John Richards of
Beverly, weaver, April 26, 1688. 3 Mr. Richards built a
dwelling house and barn thereon, and, for forty-five
pounds, conveyed the house, barn and land to John
Standley of Beverly, mariner, Feb. 1, 1694-5. 4 Mr.
Standley became a weaver, and, for sixty pounds, con-
veyed the dwelling house and land to George Tuck of
Beverly, coaster, April 1, 1707. 5 For one hundred and
fifty-five pounds in money, Mr. Tuck conveyed the house
and land around it to William Tuck of Beverly, coaster,
Jan. 16, 1730-1. 6 The " old house " was standing in
1763.
William Haskell House. This lot of land was granted
by the town of Salem to James Standish of Salem in or
before 1649.
May 1, 1652, the selectmen of Salem
Granted to James Standish the litle spruce swamp lying neare
his house pvided it shalbe free for any Inhabitant to make vse of
any of the wood or trees in it while any doe remayne growing there
For thirty-five pounds, which was paid equally by
William Dixey and his son-in-law Hugh Woodbury,
Mr. Standish conveyed to William Dixie this land and -
swamp thereto adjoining Dec. 22, 1652 ; 7 and Mr.
Woodbury built a house upon this lot and lived in it. Mr.
Dixey, who then lived in Beverly, and Mr. Woodbury
divided the property, Mr. Dixy releasing to Mr. Wood-
bury this lot and half of the swamp July 27, 1681. 8 For
eighty pounds, Hugh Woodbury of Beverly, mariner,
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 38, leaf 135.
2 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 22, leaf 193.
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 10, leaf 150.
4 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 10, leaf 151.
*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 89, leaf 251.
"Essex Registry of Deeds, book 54, leaf 248.
7 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 1, leaf 16.
"Essex Registry of Deeds, book 6, leaf 10.
BY SIDNEY PERLEY 293
conveyed to William Hascoll of Beverly, mariner, this lot
with the dwelling house thereon and his half interest in
the swamp and his interest in the road running by the
house July 29, 1681. * Capt. William Dixie of Beverly,
for forty shillings, conveyed to William Hascoll of Bev-
erly his half of the swamp Oct. 12, 1683. 2 Mr. Hascoll
died in 1695. His will was made at sea Aug. 11, 1694,
and proved Nov. 5, 1695. In it, he devised to his eldest
son William Hascoll (under sixteen years old) his now
dwelling house and tract of land thereto adjoining. The
house, barn and land and swamp were then appraised at
one hundred and thirty pounds. William Haskell died
about 1715, when administration upon his estate was
granted to his brother Robert Haskell of Beverly, mari-
ner. Robert Haskell and his wife Mary conveyed the
estate to Benjamin Ober of Beverly, coaster, May 10,
1721. Mr. Ober died ' att the house of Thomas Blash-
feld, at Barwick in Nechewaneck," Nov. 17, 1723. The
house, barn and land were then appraised at three hun-
dred and fifty pounds. His daughter Ann Hale of Bev-
erly, widow, for three hundred pounds, conveyed to Wil-
liam Bartlett, jr., of Marblehead, mariner, her now
dwelling house and land, in the possession of Daniel
Batchelder, Sept. 8, 1740. 3 William Bartlett, late of
Beverly, " now being and residing in the County of
Westmoreland in the State of Pennsylvania merchant,"
for two hundred and fifty-five pounds, conveyed to Rob-
ert Haskell of Beverly, mariner, the house, barn and land
adjoining Feb. 15, 1793. 4 Mr. Haskell died June 19,
1799 ; having in his will devised his real estate, after the
death of his widow Sarah, to his son Robert Haskell.
The house, barn and land adjoining were then appraised
at fourteen hundred dollars. Robert Haskell lived in
Beverly, being a yeoman, and died Sept. 8, 1842. In the
inventory of his estate, this house and the land adjoining
was appraised at fifteen hundred dollars. In his will he
devised the same to his son Andrew and daughters Sally
Registry of Deeds, book 9, leaf 186.
*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 9, leaf 185.
3 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 79, leaf 187.
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 155, leaf 205.
294 BEVERLY IN 1700. NO. 3
and Mary Ann, and the survivor of them, if any of them
died before himself or his wife. Andrew had died, of con-
sumption, May 8, 1842, and Sally died, of palsy, the day
before her father's death. Mary Ann Haskell thus be-
came the sole owner of the estate under her father's will ;
and she conveyed the dwelling house and land adjoining
to Josiah L. Foster of Beverly, merchant, June 30, 1845. 1
Mr. Foster removed the old house about 1875.
Mary Gale Lot. This lot of land belonged to Josiah
Roots about 1680 ; and was recovered on execution from
him in 1683(?) by Henry Kenney, jr., of Salem Village.
Mr. Kenney conveyed it to Ambrose Gale of Marblehead,
administrator of the estate of Thomas Root, deceased,
and guardian of the latter's daughter Mary Roots, who
was then his only heir, June 23, 1697. 2 Mary Roots
married Azor Gale in 1698, and the lot was owned by her
in 1700.
Joseph Drinker Lot. This lot of land belonged to
Thomas Tuck in 1665, and to Joseph Drinker of Beverly,
shipwright, peihaps as early as 1684 and as late as 1700.
Thomas Cox Nouses. That part of this lot of land
lying westerly of the dashes was early owned by William
Dixsy, who, in or before 1665, conveyed it to John Por-
ter, sr., of Salem Village. Mr. Porter died Sept. 6,
1676. His wife Mary was the executrix of his will, and
she gave this lot by deed to " my nephew " Thomas Gard-
ner, son of Thomas Gardner and "husband of my daugh-
ter Mary," June 28, 1678. 8 For eighteen pounds, Thomas
Gardner of Salem, mariner, conveyed it to Thomas Cock
of Beverly Feb. 13, 1695-6. 4
That part of this lot lying between the dashes, with
the house thereon, was conveyed by William Dodge, jr.,
of Salem, yeoman, for thirty-six pounds, to William
Woodbury of Salem, mariner, April 27, 1665. 6 The next
conveyance of this part of the lot is from John Rayment,
sr., of Beverly, yeoman, for thirty-two pounds, to Thomas
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 361, leaf 126.
2 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 13, leaf 1.
8 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 5, leaf 2.
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 12, leaf 84.
"Essex Registry of Deeds, book 2, leaf 113.
BY SIDNEY PEBLEY 295
Cox of Beverly, mariner, March 18, 1698. 1 A house
upon the premises was conveyed by this deed ; and it dis-
appeared soon afterward.
That part of the lot lying easterly of the dashes was
owned by Christopher Croe as early as 1665 ; and on a
judgment obtained against him by William Browne, sr.,
of Salem, esquire, it was set off on execution about 1678.
It was in the possession of Nathaniel Wall is in 1678.
For fifteen pounds, Mr. Browne conveyed it, with a house
thereon, to Mr. Cox Feb. 2, 1686-7. 2
Thus the entire lot came to be owned by Mr. Cox. He
died in the winter of 1709-10, intestate. His then home-
stead of two and a half acres of land was appraised at
twenty pounds, and the " Old houfe & Barn y r on " at
eleven pounds and ten shillings. The real estate was
divided Jan. 29, 1732-3, and the eastern half of the house
and land was assigned to his widow Hannah Cox as a part
of her dower in his estate, and she then dwelt in this
house. That half of the house was then valued at two
pounds. The remainder of the house and land adjoining
was assigned to his second son Richard Cox. The house
was apparently gone about 1740.
John Tuck House. This lot of land belonged to Thomas
Tuck of Beverly ; and, for thirteen pounds and fifteen
shillings, he conveyed it to his son John Tuck Nov. 21,
1677. 2 John Tuck built a house thereon, in which he
lived, being a husbandman. He died in the spring of
1723, having in his will devised " my now dwelling house
and barn " and land to his son John. The land, compris-
ing about ten acres, was appraised at two hundred and
seventy-eight pounds, five shillings and nine pence ; the
house at forty shillings and the barn at the same amount
John Tuck, the son, lived here, being a coaster ; and for
eighty-one pounds in current money he conveyed the
house and land to his sons Samuel, Ralph and Thomas
Tuck, all of Beverly, mariners, Jan. 29, 1735. 3 Ralph
Tuck of Beverly, fisherman, for twenty -five pounds, re-
leased his interest in the estate to his brothers Samuel
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 13, leaf 244.
*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 6, leaf 39.
3 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 71, leaf 44.
296 BEVERLY IN 1700. NO. 3
and Thomas Tuck, both of Beverly, coasters, March 14,
1737. 1 Samuel Tuck died Feb. 7, 1740 ; and his brother
Thomas Tuck, the owner of the other half of the prem-
ises, became the owner of Samuel's half. This half of
the house was then appraised at thirty-five pounds.
Thomas Tuck died March 18, 1775, being a yeoman. His
estate was not divided until April 7, 1784, when the
northwestern half of the house and land was assigned to
his daughter Anna Masury, and the southeastern half to
his daughter Jane Elliot. The house then included the
west lower room, the east lower room, kitchen, the west
great chamber, the east chamber over the kitchen, garret,
etc. How much longer the house stood has not been de-
termined.
John Lovett Lot. This lot of land belonged to John
Lovett, sr., in 1688 and 1700.
Estate of Roger ffaskins Lot. This lot of land belonged
to Jonathan Roots in 1687 ; and, March 26, 1688, Jona-
than Roots of Beverly, fisherman, for seven pounds, con-
veyed it to Roger Hoskins of Beverly, mariner. 2 Mr.
Haskins died Jan. 3, 1693-4, intestate; and it belonged
to his estate in 1700.
John Lovett Lot. Jonathan Roots of Marblehead, fish-
erman, for four pounds, conveyed this lot of land to John
Lovett, jr., of Beverly, husbandman, Feb. 8, 1687 ; 3 and
it belonged to Mr. Lovett in 1700.
John Lovett Lot. Thomas Whiteridge of Beverly, car-
penter, owned this lot of land in 1687 ; and, for twenty
pounds, conveyed it to John Lovett, sr., of Beverly, hus-
bandman, Jan. 4, 1689. 4 Mr. Lovett owned it in 1700.
John Lovett Lot. John Lovett owned this lot of land
in 1689, and his son Simon lived in the house which stood
thereon. John Lovett died Sept. 10, 1727, having devised
the lot to Simon (who was living there in 1723) for his
life, and then to the latter's sons William and Abraham.
The house was gone in 1756.
John Lovett House. This lot of land belonged to Jo-
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 75, leaf 149.
2 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 8, leaf 35.
"Essex Registry of Deeds, book 8, leaf 26.
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 8, leaf 170.
BY SIDNEY PERLEY 297
seph Roots in 1651 ; and Josiah Roots, sr., of Beverly,
husbandman, for three pounds, conveyed it to his (son-in-
law?) John Lovett, sr., of Beverly, cooper (the grantor
having already conveyed two acres of three described and
conveyed in this deed to his daughter (Bethiah?), March
30, 1677. 1 Mr. Lovett apparently had built a house upon
this lot some years before. Mr. Lovett died Sept. 10,
1727, at the age of about ninety-one. In his will he de-
vised his dwelling house and barn and fourteen acres of
land adjoining, between the country road and the sea,
with the orchard, etc., to his son Benjamin Lovett " who
now liveth with me." The will is dated May 17, 1723.
Benjamin Lovett was a husbandman, and lived here. Mr.
Lovett died June 10, 1740 ; having in his will devised
to his son James his house, barn and shop and land. The
dwelling house and shop or workhouse adjoining to it
was valued at two hundred pounds ; the barn at twenty-
four pounds ; and " ye homestead land, whereon ye said
dwelling house and barn now standeth," being fifteen
acres and eighty rods, at four hundred and thirty-four
pounds. The house was probably standing in 1700.
John Lovett Lot. This lot of land belonged to Nathan-
iel Bishop of Salem Aug. 10, 1651, when, for eight
pounds, he conveyed it, with the house thereon, to Wil-
liam Hore, fisherman. 8 Mr. Hoar lived here, and died in
or before 1696. All that remained of the house at the
time of Mr. Hoar's decease, in 1696, was " a small parcel
of old Timber & a small parcel of old Boards being y e
Remaind 1 " of an old houfe formerly the said Hoar's,"
which were valued at ten shillings. Mrs. Sarah Price of
Salem, widow of Capt. John Price of Salem, administra-
trix of the estate of Mr. Hoar, for twenty-two pounds,
conveyed this land to John Lovett, jr., of Beverly, fish-
erman, June 23, 1696 ; 3 and it belonged to Mr. Lovett in
1700.
John Lovett Lot. This lot of land belonged to Thomas
Roots in 1651 ; and Thomas Roots, sr., and George
Hodges, both of Salem, conveyed it to John Lovett, jr.,
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 4, leaf 188.
2 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 1, leaf 10.
3 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 11, leaf 134.
298 BEVERLY IN 1700. NO. 3
of Beverly Feb. 16, 1678-9. 1 Mr. Lovett owned the lot
in 1700.
Robert Briscoe House. Nathaniel Marsters of Salem,
tailor, conveyed this lot of land to John Lambert, sr., of
Salem, fisherman, with " my dwelling house " and or-
chard " near the meeting house on Bass river side, May 8,
1667 ; 2 and Mr. Lambert, then called of Beverly, for love,
conveyed to his grandson John Lambert, jr., of Salem,
mariner, this " my now dwelling house " and land Nov.
3, 1682. 3 John Lambert, jr., of Salem conveyed the same
house and land to William Swetland of Salem, tailor,
May 5, 1686 ; 4 and Mr. Swetland removed to this house.
For seventy-two pounds and fifteen shillings, Mr. Swet-
land conveyed to Robert Briscoe of Beverly " my home-
stead nigh the meeting house, I bought of John Lambert,"
Feb. 27, 1687-8. 6 Mr. Briscoe apparently owned the
estate in 1713 ; but how long the house stood has not
been learned with certainty.
Burial G-round. The town of Beverly procured of
John Lovett, jr., this acre of land for a burial place May
8, 1672 ; and it has been used for that purposte ever since.
Meeting House. The first meeting house on Cape Ann
Side or Bass River Side was built about 1656. It had a
pulpit and a gallery, but its size is unknown.
A fort was built of stones about the meeting house in
the autumn of 1675, the time of the Indian war.
As the population increased the meeting house became
too small, and in 1682 a new building was erected, fifty
feet in length and forty feet in width. Its cost was three
hundred and fifty pounds in silver. The building com-
mittee were Mr. John Dodge, Sergeant Hill, Corp. Wil-
liam Raiment, Thomas Woodbury and William Dodge,
jr. Its site was " by the old meeting hous between said
old meeting hous & Roger Haskins his hous." The old
meeting house, with the exception of the pulpit, was sold
in 1684, and the stones around it (the remains of the
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 5, leaf 63.
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 3, leaf 13.
8 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 6, leaf 84.
*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 7, leaf 75.
"Essex Registry of Deeds, book 8, leaf 44.
BY SIDNEY PEBLEY 299
fort, probably) were used to make a wall about the burial
ground. The new meeting house was used for public
meetings of the town, and in 1727 a room was built in it
in which to keep the town's supply of ammunition. This
edifice served the parish until June 27, 1770, when it
was taken down to make room for a new and larger one.
That part of this lot of land lying southwesterly of the
dashes belonged to Samuel Corning in 1687, and was
then lying common ; and it remained common as late as
1691.
Joseph Morgan House. This lot of land belonged to
Robert Morgan in 1672. He died in the winter of 1672-3 ;
having devised to his son Samuel Morgan that part of the
lot lying southwesterly of the dashes, and to his son
Joseph Morgan that part lying northeasterly of the
dashes. Samuel built a dwelling house upon his part of
the premises. Joseph Morgan owned his portion of the
estate in 1700 ; and Samuel Morgan, who was a cooper,
died possessed of the house and his part of the land about
the first of December, 1698. In his will he devised the
west end of the house to his wife Mary Morgan for her
life. In the inventory of his estate "one large dwelling
house and barn " are appraised at sixty pounds. The
house and that part of the land became the property of
his brother Joseph Morgan before 1700, when it belonged
to him. How long the house stood is not known to the
writer.
Samuel Lovett House. This lot of land was owned by
Robert Morgan, sr., in 1671. He died in the winter of
1672-3 ; having in his will devised the western part of it,
including the west end of the house, to his son Benjamin,
" as he was at charges to build that part," and the rest
of the house and land to his wife and daughter Bethiah
and the survivor of them. The homestead, with the
buildings thereon, were then appraised at one hundred
and sixty-one pounds. Margaret Morgan, widow of the
deceased, married, secondly, Samuel Fowler, sr., of Salis-
bury, shipwright ; and Mr. and Mrs. Fowler conveyed to
Samuel Weed of Ameslmry, cordwainer, who had mar-
ried the daughter Bethiah Morgan, said widow's interest
300 BEVERLY IN 1700. NO. 3
in the estate of Mr. Morgan May 26, 1690. 1 Samueb
Weed,for fourteen pounds, conveyed to Joseph Morgan
jr., of Beverly, tailor, one-third of this lot " devised to
him " in the will of Robert Morgan and " confirmed to
me by an execution levied thereon " and delivered by the
under sheriff to Joseph Morgan, sr. ; 2 and Joseph Morgan,
jr., conveyed it to Samuel Lovett of Beverly, who then
owned the lot by deed, as below stated, March 12, 1701. 3
For fifty pounds, Joseph Morgan, sr., of Beverly conveyed
it to Samuel Morgan of Beverly Feb. 3, 1698 ; 4 and Sam-
uel Morgan of Beverly, cooper, for one hundred and two
pounds and ten shillings, conveyed it to Samuel Lovett
of Beverly, seafaring-man, Aug. 31, 1699. 6 Mr. Lovett
removed to Norwich, Conn. ; and, for three hundred
pounds, conveyed the house, barn and land to Josiah
Lovit of Beverly, mariner, May 27, 1729. 6 How much
longer the house stood is not known to the writer.
Joseph Butman Lot. Thomas Pickton of "Bass river
in Salem, planter," owned this lot of land in 1667 ; and
it was owned by Joseph Butman of Beverly, cordwainer,
in 1699 and 1700.
Matthew Butman Lot. Thomas Pickton of " Bass river
in Salem, planter," owned this lot in 1667 ; and Matthew
Butman in 1700.
John Hale Lot. Mordecaiah Creford owned this lot of
land in 1652 ; and with his wife Judith and John Pride,
all of Salem, mortgaged it to Thomas Savage, sr., of Bos-
ton, merchant, in or before 1661. 7 Captain Savage ob-
tained judgment for possession of the premises in the
Salem quarterly court June 30, 1663 ; and, for forty-
three pounds, conveyed it to John Hale of Beverly, clerk,
Sept. 21, 1671.8 Mr. Hale owned the lot in 1700.
'Ipswich Registry of Deeds, book 5, page 221; Essex Registry of
Deeds, book 11, leaf 87.
8 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 20, leaf 80. This deed is not
dated, but was acknowledged Jan. 27, 1698.
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 20, leaf 81.
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 15, leaf 203.
* Essex Registry of Deeds, book 13, leaf 195.
8 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 52, leaf 41.
7 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 2, leaf 33. This deed is not dated,
but was acknowledged Dec. 27, 1661.
8 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 8, leaf 126.
BY SIDNEY PERLEY 301
George Standley Lot. This lot of land belonged to
Robert Morgan ; and he died possessed of it in the winter
of 1672-3. In his will he devised it to his widow Mar-
garet and his daughter Bethiah. Mrs. Morgan married,
secondly, Samuel Fowler, sr., of Salisbury, shipwright ;
and she and her husband released their interest in the
premises to the daughter Bethiah's husband, Samuel Weed
of Amesbury, cordwainer, May 26, 1690. 1 For six
pounds, Mr. Weed conveyed the lot to George Standley
of Beverly March 9, 1692-3 ; 2 and it belonged to Mr.
Standley in 1700.
John Hale House. That part of this lot of land lying
within the dashes was conveyed by Thomas Pickton " of
Bass river in Salem, planter," to " the company of Bass
river " for a minister about 1659.
That part of the lot lying within the southeastern
dashes was the property of John Gaily and Henry Bailey
of Bass river, planters, very early ; and they sold it to "the
company of Bass river " for Mr. Hale about 1659. No
deed was given, however, until John Gall} 7 of Beverly,
planter, conveyed it to " the Inhabitants of Bass river
now Beverly "" April 22, 1674. 3
That part of the lot lying northerly of the dashes was
conveyed by John Gaily and Henry Bailey to Rev. John
Hale to give him " an outlet into ye highway by Mr.
Livermore's corner, a pole wide, and thence running
about twenty rods easterly from said outlet bounded by
our land," Feb. 28, 1667. 4
That part of this lot lying southerly of the highway
was owned by Thomas Pickton of " Bass river in Salem,"
planter, very early. He conveyed it to Rev. John Hale
Feb. 28, 1667.*
That part of the lot lying westerly of the western
dashes was conveyed by Thomas Pickton of Beverly,
planter, to Rev. John Hale April 21, 1674. 3
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 11, leaf 87; Ipswich Registry of
Deeds, book 5, page 221.
2 Essei Registry of Deeds, book 11, leaf 88.
J Essex Registry of Deeds, book 4, leaf 58.
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 3, leaf 34.
302 BEVERLY IN 1700. NO. 3
The parsonage was built on this lot ; and the town of
Beverly voted Oct. 10, 1693, that Rev. John Hale, its
minister, " shall haue y e dwelling houfe he now liueth in
with the Two acres of Land house Lot thereunto adjoyn-
ing," in fee. 1 Mr. Hale died May 15, 1700 ; and the
estate descended to his son Robert Hale, Esq., of Beverly,
physician. How long the house remained is unknown to
the writer.
John Q-iles House. John Giles of Beverly, yeoman,
owned this lot of land in 1687. His son Eliezer Giles
of Beverly, carpenter, and son-in-law John Wheeler of
Beverly, cooper, conveyed to Capt. Thomas West, Capt.
Joseph Herrick and Lt. Robert Briscoe, in behalf of the
town of Beverly, who were chosen to receive the title
Feb. 19, 1705 6, the western part of the lot to " Remain
for the Publick ufe of Said Towne Especially for millitary
Exercife for Euer," March 13, 1705-6. 2 Mr. Wheeler's
wife joined in the deed July 6, 1706. 3 Thomas Hardee,
3d, of Bradford, cordwainer, for one hundred and seventy-
one pounds, conveyed the dwelling house and land to
Eleazer Giles, jr., of Beverly, wheelwright, Feb. 14,
1729-30 ; 4 and Mr. Giles, for one hundred and seventy
pounds, conveyed the house, barn and land to Rev.
Joseph Champney of Beverly March 4, 1734-5. 6 Mr.
Champney died Feb. 23, 1773 ; and the estate belonged
to his heirs in 1784. How long the house stood is un-
known to the writer.
John Bond House. This lot of land was probably the
ten-acre lot granted to Henry Bayley by the town of
Salem in 1638. He lived in the house which stood upon
the lot, being a yeoman ; and conveyed "my now dwelling
house," barn and ten acres of land to his son-in-law John
Bond of Beverly, husbandman, for the support of himself
and wife, Nov. 14, 1687.6 Mr. Bailey died May 15, 1678;
and his widow Dorothy was living in 1694. John Bond
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 9, leaf 271.
"Essex Registry of Deeds, book 17, leaf 110.
3 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 19, leaf 66.
*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 52, leaf 146.
5 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 69, leaf 67.
"Essex Registry of Deeds, book 13, leaf 174.
BY SIDNEY PERLEY 303
died in the spring of 1694 ; when the land was appraised
at eighty pounds, and the dwelling house and barn at
sixty pounds. The estate descended to his only son Ed-
ward Bond of Beverly, yeoman ; who, for seven hundred
pounds, conveyed the same to Andrew Woodbury of
Boston, mariner, July 28, 1739. 1 William Bartlett of
Beverly, shoreman, owned the estate in 1774 ; and he
became a merchant. For seven hundred and forty-five
pounds, Mr. Bartlett conveyed the dwelling house and
land to Elias Smith of Beverly, mariner, May 1, 1782. 2
It has not been determined how long the house stood.
Jeremiah Butman House. This lot of land belonged to
Jeremiah Butman in 1667 ; and he died Feb. 6, 1693-4.
Jeremiah Butman was owning it in 1739; and Jeremiah
Butman of Beverly, yeoman, died in the summer of 1768.
His dwelling house was then appraised at fourteen
pounds, his barn at five pounds, and the land at ten
pounds per acre. In his will, he devised the homestead
to his four sons, William, Matthew, Thomas and Jere-
miah. The latter two had died before Sept. 5, 1778,
when the homestead was divided, William Butman being
assigned " the remains or part of the old Dwelling house
on the premises." This was probably the only part of
the old house then standing.
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 78, leaf 118.
a Essex Registry of Deeds, book 139, leaf 103.
THE REFUSAL OF REV. JACOB ELIOT.
To the Church and Town of Topsfield
Honourd and Beloved
After a further and full Consideration of the Call you
have Given me to the Work of the Ministry among you
and all the Circumstances thereof : I Cannot see my
way Clear to accept it ; Since you were so much Divided
in your Choice and Remaining so or more so still : as has
been manifested in Some Votes Referring thereto In
hopes therefore of Greater peace, Love and Union among
your selves, I do by these presents Discharge my self of
the Obligations I have been under to Supply your Pulpit,
& shall not upon y e Present foundation, Continue my
Ministerial Labours among you any Longer So pray-
ing that you may fully Unite in your Affections to one
another and in Such an one to be your Pastor as may
through the Glorious Head of Influences be a happy In-
strument of Promoting Peace and Holiness among you ; I
Remain a fervent Well Wisher of your Temporal and
Eternal Happyness
JACOB ELIOT
Boston May y e 2 d 1728.
NOTE. Rev. Jacob Eliot, son of Joseph and Silence Eliot, was
born in Boston Nov. 14, 1700. He graduated at Harvard College in
1720, and was ordained as the first minister of the third church in
Lebanon, Conn., Nov. 26, 1729. He died in office April 12, 1766.
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INDEX.
Abbott, Abbot, ,
141.
Benjamin, 75.
Hartwell B., 75.
James, 75.
Jonathan, 75.
Philip, 141.
Rhoda, 75.
Sarah, 141.
Adams, , 141, 171,
173, 175, 238, 245,
248, 250, 253, 255.
Abraham, 35.
Charles, 245.
Enoch, 248.
George, 245.
Henry, 35, 41.
J., 250.
Moses, 245.
Polly, 35.
Robert, 248.
Samuel, 141, 161,
170.
Sarah, 35, 141.
Addington, Isaac, 231,
233.
Airs, see Ayers.
Alders, , 23.
Alford, , 70.
John, 84, 85.
Alfred, Mary, 246.
Allen, , 175, 254.
Amazeen, Capt., 126.
Anderos, Nicholas, 79.
Andrews, Andrew,
,162, 168, 173.
Daniel, 65.
David, 35.
John A., 239.
John H., 2, 7.
Joseph, 2.
Joseph F., 96.
Lucy S., 96.
Sarah, 35.
William Fuller, 35.
Appleton, , 141.
Aaron, 141.
Benjamin, 35.
Appleton, Elizabeth,
35, 141.
Francis, 35.
Hannah, 35.
Isaac, 35, 141.
John, 35, 141, 234.
Mary, 35.
Nathaniel, 162.
Samuel, 141.
William, 35.
William Sumner,
222
Arnold, Gen., 169, 171,
172.
Benedict, 166, 167,
253.
Astness, Manuel, 35.
Rebecca, 35.
Austin, , 174, 250,
255, 256.
William, 14.
Averill, Averil, ,
141.
Benjamin, 35, 141.
Elizabeth, 35.
Sarah, 35.
Avery, , 162, 253,
256.
Benjamin, 35.
John, 254.
Ayers, Airs, Ayer,
Eayres, , 141.
Nancy, 247.
Thomas G., 11.
Babcock, J., 124.
Bachelor, Batcheldor,
Bachilder, see
Batchelder.
Bacon, J. R., 123.
Bailey, Bayley, ,
246, 247.
Daniel, 247.
David, 98.
Edmund Morse,247.
Henry, 301, 302.
Joshua, 247.
Lucy Stevens, 247.
Bailey, Moody Morse,
247.
Mosely M., 246.
Nancy, 247.
Sophronia, 98.
Thomas, 24.
Baird, John, 201.
Baker, , 12, 18,
142.
Cornelius, 86, 220.
Cornelius, jr., 60.
Jabez, 86.
John I., 90, 94, 101.
Jonathan, 60, 61, 86,
102.
L. D., 123.
Margaret, 35.
Mary, 35.
Samuel, 35, 142.
Sarah, 36, 142.
Stephen, 35, 142.
Thomas, 142.
William, 35, 142.
William, jr., 142.
Balch, , 105, 210.
Abigail, 102, 213.
Agnes, 221.
Annis, 221.
Benjamin, 84, 96,
100-102, 213, 219-
221.
Benjamin, jr., 91,
102.
Benjamin, sr., 81,
92, 97.
Caleb, 100.
Ebenezer, 92.
Frances N., 222.
Franklin G., 222.
Freeborn, 97.
John, 91, 92, 100,
102, 220-222.
Joseph, 91, 222.
Mary, 92.
Ruth, 91.
Samuel, 92, 101, 212.
Ballard, , 142.
Gate, 142.
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INDEX.
Banks, , 246.
Flora, 248.
Joseph, 246, 248.
Laura, 248.
Lydia Ann, 248.
Nathaniel P., 239.
Barker, Elizabeth, 73.
George, 264.
Barker & Grant, 124.
Barnes, L., 124.
Barney, Anna, 62.
Jacob, 51, 62-68, 72,
210.
Bart, , 164.
Bartlett, Bartlet, ,
172, 181.
Edmund, 24.
James, jr., 116.
Joseph, 25.
Josiah, 170.
Robert, 79.
William, 303.
William, jr., 293.
Batchelder, Bachelor,
Bacheldor, Bach-
ilder, , 141,
242, 254, 256.
Daniel, 293.
Elizabeth, 61.
John, 61, 62.
John, jr., 66.
John, sr., 66.
Jonathan, 61, 62.
Joseph, 59, 61.
Joshua, 61.
Josiah, 61, 62.
Josiah, jr., 162.
Bayley, see Bailey.
Beal, , 142.
George H., 117.
John, 35.
Thomas, 35.
William, 35.
Beane, Levi, 76.
Beard, Samuel, 76.
Belcher, Abigail, 283,
288.
Bell, , 251, 264.
Andrew, 2. ,
Samuel, 225.
Bennett, Benet, Ben-
net, , 142.
John, 142, 216, 225,
280.
William, 54.
Benson, John, 180.
Bentley, William, 1,
3-5, 7, 12.
Berry, , 142.
Bethel, , 142.
Betts, Harlan & Hol-
lingsworth, 266.
Beverly, Mass., 103,
273
Bierds, , 164.
Bigelow, Timothy,
255.
Biles, Jonathan, 99.
Bishop, Bridget, 69.
Edward, 62, 68, 69,
72, 213, 219.
Edward, 2d, 63.
Edward, sr., 69.
Nathaniel, 297.
Bishop & Simonson,
271.
Blackley, Rebecca,89.
William, 89.
Blackford, John Cur-
tiss, 142.
Lucy, 142.
Blake, R., 198.
Blanchard, Hollis,195,
197, 198.
Blashfleld, Abigail,
227
Thomas, 227, 293.
Blood, Nathan, 13.
Blowers, Abigail
(Griggs), 63.
Emma, 280, 281.
John, 63.
Thomas, 280, 281.
Ely, , 142.
John, 35, 142.
Mary, 35.
William, 35.
Boardman, , 142.
Abigail, 35.
Anna, 35.
Daniel, 35, 142.
Francis Hodgkins,
35.
John, 36.
Lucy, 36.
Mary, 36.
Sarah Gidings, 36.
Thomas Caldwell,
36.
Boiles, Boils, see
Boyles.
Bond, Edward, 303.
John, 302.
Borden, Thomas, 185.
Bourroughs, Abra-
ham, 36.
Josiah, 36.
William, 36.
Boutwell, Fanny
(Hyde), 75.
George, 75.
George S., 239.
Jemima, 77.
Jonathan, 77.
Parthena Pelham,
75.
Bowker, Joel, 19.
Boyd, Newell, 28, 29.
Boyles, Boiles, Boils,
, 142.
Charles, 142.
Boynton, , 76, 246.
Amos, 241.
Henry, 76, 77.
Moses H., 76.
Thomas, 77.
Bracey, J. B., 16.
Brackenburie, Rich-
ard, 274.
Brackett, , 128.
Bradlee, Francis B.C.,
1, 113, 177, 257.
Bradley, Mrs. Brick-
ett, 242.
Bragg, Albert, 207.
Mary, 36.
Timothy, 36.
Braine, John C., 202,
203.
Brewer, , 254.
Brewster, Gilbert &
Co., 12.
Briant, , 251.
Brick, , 164.
Briscoe, Brisco, Rob-
ert, 213, 232, 298,
302.
Brooks, , 3.
Joseph, 189.
Brown, Browne, ,
8, 72, 74, 174, 176,
246, 250, 264.
A., 125.
Abraham, 73.
INDEX.
307
Brown, Archelaus, 52, Bnrnham, Isaac, 36.
73.
Asa, 51.
Benjamin, 36, 87,
142, 234.
Benjamin, jr., 36.
Benjamin, 3d, 36.
CharlesWatson,243.
David, 36.
Dorcas, 142.
Ephraim, 100, 101.
Henry, 72.
Henry, jr., 72.
James O., 201.
Jane, 36.
John, 79, 142, 234.
John B., 201.
Joseph, 73.
Joshua, 36.
Lacy, 140, 141.
Lydia, 139, 140.
Martha, 36.
Mary, 87.
Moses, 88.
Nathaniel, 36.
James, 36, 143.
Josiah, 36.
Samuel, 143.
Sarah, 36, 143.
Susannah, 143.
Thomas, 36, 143.
Thomas, jr., 36.
Burr, Aaron, 162.
Thaddeus, 162.
Burrill, John, 26.
Burt, Jedediah, 76.
Butler, Benjamin F.,
29, 119.
Pierce, 171.
Butman, Jeremiah,
303.
Joseph, 300.
Matthew, 300, 363.
Thomas, 303.
William, 303.
Byfield, Nathaniel,
234.
Byram, W. H., 17,
258, 265.
Noah, 115, 178, 183.
Samuel, 36, 140, 141. Cabot, Francis, 107.
Sarah, 36. Calden, Capt., 17.
Simeon, 219.
Sullivan, 90.
Thomas, 36.
William, 63.
William, sr., 295.
William Burnet, 50.
William H., 272.
Brown & Bell, 264.
Brumfield, , 173.
Bryant, see Briant.
Bubier, Abigail, 89.
Peter, 89.
Buntin, Thomas, 27.
Burbeck, Ann, 246.
EdwardGriffitb.,246.
John, 246.
Burgess, Bartholo-
mew H., 36.
Charles, 36.
Francis, 36.
Sarah, 36.
Burgoyne, , 255.
Burke, James, 20.
A. W., 17.
Caldwell, , 143.
Aaron, 36.
Abraham, 36.
Benjamin, 36, 143.
Daniel, 36.
David, 36, 143.
Elisabeth, 36.
Esther, 36, 94.
Francis, 37.
Hannah, 37.
John, 36, 143.
Lucy, 37, 143.
Lydia, 37, 143.
Mary, 37.
Mercy, 143.
Moses, 36.
Nathan, {17.
Richard Sutton, 37
Samuel, 37.
Stephen, 37.
Susannah, 37.
Thomas, 36, 143.
Thomas, jr., 37.
Burley, William, 51.
Burnham, Burnam, Calef, Dorothy, 143.
, 17, 143. John, 143.
Ebenezer, 36. Carleton, Eben, 245.
Carmichael, , 251,
256.
Carpenter, , 75.
Harriet, 75.
Carr, Capt., 17.
Carruth, Isaac, 76.
Carter, , 243.
Lydia (Perkins),244.
Robert, 244.
Sophia, 243, 244.
Cassidy, J. E., 20.
Cazet, Capt., 17.
Chambers, James, 139,
140, 143.
Champney, Joseph,
302.
Chandler, Mary, 75.
Nathan, jr., 75.
Phebe (Abbott), 75.
Chapman, Abner, 276.
Nathan, 37.
Priscilla, 37.
Charnock, Emma, 281.
John, 281.
Chase, , 76.
Chickering, John, 77.
Mary (Carleton), 77.
Mary Farnham, 77.
Chipman, Abigail, 89.
Anstice, 37.
Anstis, 89.
Benjamin, 89.
Eliza Maria, 89, 90.
Elizabeth, 89.
Frank E., 90.
Hannah, 89.
Henry, 89.
James H., 90.
John, 37, 88, 89.
John Hale, 89.
Joseph, 88, 89.
Mary, 89.
Rebecca, 89.
Samuel, 37, 89.
Sarah, 89.
Thomas, 89.
Choate, Choat, ,
143.
Abigail Patch, 37.
Abraham, 37.
Elizabeth, 37.
Epes, 37.
Francis, 37.
Hervey, 37.
Joanna, 37.
808
INDEX.
Choate, John Patch,
37.
Peggy, 37.
Polly, 37.
Rufus, 238.
Stephen, 37.
Chubb, Thomas, 213,
280-282.
Churchill, Richard,
180.
Clark, Clerk, ,
167, 253.
Abraham, 251.
Augustus N., 276,
277.
Elisabeth (Wain-
wright), 143.
Lemuel, 115.
Nathaniel, 288.
Parker, 143.
Ruth, 288.
Clarkson, Matthew,
253.
Cleaves, Cleeves, An-
na, 139.
William, 282.
Clements, Samuel, 287.
Clemmons, Anna, 217.
Timothy, 217.
Clendennin, Captain,
124.
Clerk, see Clark.
Cock, see Cox.
Coffee, Joseph C., 121.
Coffin, David M., 27.
Joseph M., 28, 30,
113.
Cogswell, Coggswell,
, 143.
Anna, 38.
Anstis, 37.
Ebenezer, 37, 143.
Elisabeth, 143.
Francis, 38.
John, 143.
Joseph, 37, 38, 143.
Lucy, 38.
Mary, 37.
Nathaniel Peasly,
139, 140.
Oliver, 37.
Sophia, 37.
Colby, Al., 245.
Emily, 247.
John, 246, 247.
Colby & Lunt, 30.
Cole, Jonathan, 288.
Susanna, 279.
Thomas, 279.
Coleman, Clarissa, 38.
Sarah, 38, 144.
William, 38, 125,
144.
Collier,Collyer, Isaac,
101.
Robert, 117.
Collins, Daniel, 214.
Jason, 260-262.
Stephen, 172.
Stephen D., 184.
Collyer, see Collier.
Colwell, , 172.
Conant, , 105-107,
274.
Benjamin, 97.
Bethiah, 97.
Charles G., 97.
Elizabeth, 218.
Exercise, 84-86, 88,
96, 97, 99, 102.
Ezra, 97.
Herbert T., 98.
John, 88, 93, 96, 97,
99, 216, 224, 225.
John, sr., 96.
Jonathan, 70, 218.
Joseph, 97.
Joshua, 97.
Lot, 96, 217, 218.
Mary, 72, 97.
Nathaniel, 220.
Roger, 85, 86, 88, 96,
97, 101, 102, 108,
217, 218.
Sally, 97.
Cook, Cooke, ,
243.
Christopher C., 28.
Elisha, 234.
John, 244.
Cooper, Dr., 163, 251,
252.
Samuel, 163, 172.
Copp, Aaron, 242.
Joshua, 242.
Melinda, 242.
Moses, 242.
Corning, , 279.
Andrew, 283.
Elizabeth, 882.
Corning, Hannah, 91.
John, 283, 284.
Joseph, 91.
Samuel, 283, 284,
299.
Samuel, 2d, 284.
Samuel, sr., 84, 284.
Corwin, John, 72.
Jonathan, 234.
Margaret, 72.
Covell, F., 17.
Covington, Jacob, 116.
Cox, Cock, Hannah,
295.
Richard, 295.
Robert, 79.
Thomas, 294.
Coyle, J. B., 187, 188.
John B., 201, 205.
Crague, Dr., 252.
Crane, Smith, 128.
Creford, Mordecaiah,
300.
Creesy, Creasey,Crea-
sie, Creasy, Cres-
sey, Cressy, ,
53, 66.
Benjamin, 66.
Benjamin, jr., 87.
John, 52, 59, 63.
Daniel, 53.
Joseph, 53, 60.
Josiah, 66.
Mehitable, 87.
Noah, 59.
Crocker, , 144.
Elizabeth, 38.
F. B., jr., 123.
John, 38, 144.
Croe,Christopher,295.
Crombie.see Crumbie.
Cromwell,H.B. & Co.,
202.
Cromwell, Henry B.,
201.
Crosby, , 236.
Alpheus, 235-240.
Nathan, 236.
Cross, , 144.
Amos H., 183.
Benjamin, 38, 144.
David, 38.
Dudley, 38.
Elizabeth, 38.
Hannah, 38, 144.
INDEX.
309
Cross, Henry M., 31,
32.
John, 38.
Nathaniel, 38.
Sarah, 38.
Crowell, Sidney, 201.
Crowninshield,
George, 6.
Crnmbie, , 38.
Aaron, 38.
Crumpton, Francis,
232.
Cue, Robert, 63-65, 84.
Cummings, Samuel,
248.
Cummiskey, H., 23.
Cunnacome, Capt.,
252.
Cunningham, James,
187, 188, 265.
Carrie, Curry, Capt.,
116.
Robert, 105.
Currier, John, jr., 27.
Curwen, see Corwin.
Cushing, Caleb, 111,
112.
James, 111, 112.
John, 111, 112.
Thomas, 162, 254.
Cutler, Abigail Grant,
236.
Dahlgren, Rear Ad-
miral, 261.
Daland & Richardson,
19.
Dalby, Capt., 21.
Dalton, Daulton, Tris-
tram, 255, 256.
Dana, Francis, 169.
Dane, Elnore, 76.
Joseph, 77.
Nathan, 276.
Danforth, Abigail
(Salisbury), 248.
Anna Maria, 248.
Eben Kimball, 248.
Jerry, 248,
Joseph, 248.
Lydia Ann, 248.
Daniels, , 246.
Abia, 246.
Abigail, 246.
Cassa Bell, 247.
Daniels, Charles
Henry, 247.
David, 245-247.
Eliza M., 247.
Ellen Augusta, 247.
Emeline Amanda,
247.
George, 246.
George Henry, 247.
Henry, 246.
John Willis, 247.
Mary, 246.
Mary Jane, 246.
Nancy, 246.
Sarah Elizabeth,
247.
Thomas, 246.
Davenport, Lieut., 191.
Davidson, Capt., 23.
E. W., 120.
Davis, Alpheus, 57.
Charles, 57.
Clemens E., 29.
Elizabeth, 58.
Israel W., 58.
John B., 58.
John O., 29.
Lucy H., 58.
Mary E., 58.
Thomas, jr., 57.
William, 57.
Davisson, , 169.
Day, , 38.
Aaron, 38, 144.
Abigail, 38.
Abner, 38.
Anstice, 38.
Daniel, 38.
Elizabeth, 38, 144.
James, 38.
Jeremy, 38.
Lucy, 38.
Mary, 38, 144.
Rebecca, 38.
Sarah, 38.
Susannah, 38.
Thomas, 38.
Unis, 38.
Dean, Deane, ,
170-172, 250.
Silas, 169.
Deering, Charles, 195.
Edward, 198.
Deland, T., 9.
Delano, , 261, 262.
Dennis, , 144.
Arthur, 39.
Elizabeth, 39.
Hannah, 39, 144.
John, 39.
Joseph, 144.
Lydia, 39.
Martha, 39, 144.
Mary, 39.
Nathaniel, 39, 144.
Rebekah [Eliza-
beth], 39.
Samuel, 39.
Thomas, 39.
William, 39.
Dennison, Alexander
0., 195.
Deny, John, 241.
D'Estaign, Count,169,
170.
Dixie, Dixey, Dixy,
, 274.
William, 55, 287,
291, 292.
William S., 274.
Dobson, Emma Jane,
243.
Dockery, Harry, 268.
Dodd, Dod, , 127.
Daniel, 177, 178,181.
Dodge, , 10-12,
144.
Aaron, 58.
Abigail, 39, 60.
Abraham, 39.
Addie, 222.
Alice, 222.
Azor, 222.
Barnabas, 70.
Cornelius, 222.
Daniel, 39.
Deborah, 222.
Edward, 98, 99.
Elizabeth, 39, 144.
Ellen, 39.
Emma, 97.
Eunice, 97.
Ezekiel, 139.
Ezra, 94.
George. 70.
Hariot, 39.
Isaac, 39, 144.
John, 56, 59, 60, 84,
97, 210, 212, 220,
224, 298.
310
INDEX.
Dodge, John, jr., 56.
Jonathan, 60, 222.
Jonathan, 2d, 87.
Joseph, 99.
Joshua F., 222.
Martha, 222.
Mary, 39.
Michael, 100.
Nathan, 99.
Rebeckah, 39, 144.
Richard, 99.
Ruth, 39.
Sarah, 39.
Sophia, 94.
Thomas, 39, 97.
William, 39, 50, 60,
70, 86, 90, 91, 96,
102, 211, 213, 217,
222, 223.
William, jr., 39, 60,
90, 92, 294.
William, sr., 99, 100,
277.
William M.,2, 3, 10.
Dole, Moses, jr., 139,
140.
Dolley, , 167, 250.
Donnell, S. T., 259.
Dorkins, Maria, 245.
William, 245.
Boten, Samuel H.,
119.
Downer, Daniel, 248.
Lydia Ann, 248.
Downing, , 242.
Downs, Abigail
(Hayes), 243.
Charles Edwin, 243.
Emma Jane, 243.
Fred Plummer, 243.
HannahLeavitt,243.
Lydia Ann, 243.
Nathaniel Hayes,
243, 244.
Samuel Hull, 243.
Susan Maria, 243.
Thomas Jefferson,
243.
Warner, 243.
Draper, Nicholas, 224.
Drayton, Draton,
Judge, 173, 175.
William Henry, 173.
Drinker, Joseph, 294.
Duane, , 256.
James, 250.
Dudley, Mary, 278.
Samuel, 278.
Duer, William, 171.
Duffield, Dufell, Duf-
fel, , 172.
Dr., 175, 176, 249,
250, 255.
Rev., 169-171.
Dunbar, T. J. & Co.,
120.
Dunkertown, 251.
Dunkins, , 174.
Dunlop, A., 7.
Dustin, David, 242.
Dutch, , 39.
Benjamin, jr., 39.
Betsey Simpkins,
39.
Daniel, 39, 144.
Elizabeth, 39.
Eunice, 39.
Henrietta, 39.
John, 39.
Lucy, 39.
Mary, 39.
Nathaniel, 39, 144.
Polly, 39.
Sally, 39.
Sarah, 144.
Stephen, 39, 144.
Susanna, 39.
William, 39.
Duty, Eunice, 241.
William, 241.
Dyson, John, 210.
Eaton, , 144.
Daniel, 228.
Eayres, see Ayers.
Eckford, Henry, 115,
183.
Edwards, Francis R.,
97.
Hannah, 40.
Joseph, 40.
Martha, 97.
Thomas, 9S.
Eliot, see Elliot.
Ellenwood, see Elling-
wood.
Ellery, , 249, 250,
256.
William, 176.
Ellingwood, Ellen-
wood, , 273.
Ellingwood, Benja-
min, 53, 289,290.
John, 290.
Ralph, 53, 289, 290.
Elliot, Eliot, Elliott,
Dr., 164.
Andrew, 223, 280,
285, 287.
Andrew, jr., 287.
Andrew, sr., 279,
285, 287.
Emma, 280.
George, 246.
Harrison, 246.
Jabez, 139, 140.
Jane, 224, 296.
Lora, 246.
Robert, 223, 224.
Samuel, 291.
Sarah, 246.
William, 223, 226,
284, 285.
Ellis, Richard, 288,
289.
Thomas, 288, 289.
Vespasias, 269.
Ellsworth, Elsworth,
, 176, 252.
Oliver, 175.
Emerson, Amos, 247.
Emery, , 285.
Mark P., 201.
Emery & Fox, 202.
Emmons, , 144.
Daniel, 144.
Endicott, Endecott,
, 55, 105.
Samuel, 88.
Sarah, 88.
William, 58.
Zerubabel, 53, 55.
Endicott & Thorn-
dike, 105.
Englis, John, 260,261.
Epps, Epes, Daniel,
55.
Maj. Daniel, 253.
Eveleth, Evleth, ,
40, 144.
Elisabeth, 40.
Mary, 40.
Samuel, 40, 144.
Sarah, 40.
Susannah, 40.
INDEX.
311
Fairbanks, D., 121.
Farley, Farly, ,
40, 145.
Abigail, 40.
Charles, 40.
Elisabeth, 40, 145.
Eunice Wells, 40.
George William, 40.
Hannah, 40.
Jabez, 145.
John, 40.
Jonathan, 40.
Jonathan Coggs-
well, 40.
Joseph, 40.
Lucy, 145.
Mary, 40.
Michael, 40, 145.
Michael, jr., 40.
Nathaniel, 40.
R., 145.
Robert, 145.
Susannah, 40.
Thomas, 145.
William 40.
Farnham, Ezra F., 76.
Jacob, 76.
Moses L., 76.
Farrington, , 248.
DeWitt C., 29.
Fearing & Renfrew,
18.
Fegan, Henry. 244.
James, 244.
Mary Ann, 244.
Felker, James V., 32.
Fellows, , 40.
Susannah, 40.
Joseph, 40.
William, 40.
Felton, Stephen, 51.
Fettyplace, William, 2.
Fillmore, John T., 28,
114.
Fisher, Hannah, 145.
Fiske, Thomas, 232.
Fitts, Fitz, , 145.
Aaron, 41.
Abigail, 145.
Abraham, 40.
Andrew, 145.
Bethiah, 40.
Daniel, 40, 41.
Elisabeth, 40.
George, 25.
Hannah, 145.
Fitts, James, 145.
Jeremiah, 40, 41,
145.
John, 41, 145.
Mary, 145.
Molly, 41.
Moses, 40.
Nabby, 41.
Nathaniel, 40, 41.
Samuel, 145.
Solomon, 41.
Flemming, Fleming,
William, 256.
Flint, , 76, 77.
Alanson, 76, 77.
Elizabeth, 73.
George, 73.
John, 65, 67, 73, 77.
John, sr., 63, 67, 68.
Flowers, J., 19.
William, 269-271.
Foran, Levi, 200, 201.
Forness, David, 219.
Foot, Pasco, 68.
Foster, , 193, 263.
Abigail, 145.
Elisabeth, 145.
Eunice, 145.
John, 62, 76, 145,
234, 241.
Jonathan, 41.
Josiah L., 294.
Mary, 76, 97.
Nathaniel Clark, 41.
Obadiah, 241.
Rebecca, 41.
Samuel, 62.
Susannah, 41.
William, 41, 76.
Fowler, , 145, 247.
James, 41.
Joseph, 41.
Joseph, jr., 145.
Mary, 41.
Nancy, 247.
Samuel, sr., 299,301.
William, jr., 245,
247.
Fox, Henry, 201.
Fox & Emery, 202.
France, M. de, ,
174, 249, 250, 256.
Fraser, , 145.
Freann, Thomas, 232.
Freeman, John, 41.
Lydia, 41.
Freeman, Peter, 41.
Samuel, 252, 256.
French, Josiah, 112.
Friend, , 56, 224.
Samuel, 56.
Frisbie, Levi, 145.
Nathaniel, 145.
Frost, , 175, 254,
256.
George, 175.
Fuller, Fullar, ,
41, 146.
A., 27.
Elizabeth, 41.
Enoch Perkens, 41.
Hannah, 41.
James, 146.
John Perkins, 41.
Mary, 41.
Nathaniel, 41, 146.
Rebekah, 41.
Sarah, 41, 146.
Susannah, 41.
Fulton, , 128.
Fulton, Robert, 1, 14,
183.
Gage, William, 275.
Gains, Abigail, 146.
Salome, 146.
Gale, Ambrose, 79,
287, 294.
Azor, 287, 294.
Edmund, 219, 291.
Mary, 287, 294.
Sarah, 291.
Galloway, Gallaway,
Anna, 41.
Daniel, 41.
Isaac, 146.
Jonathan, 41, 146.
Lydia, 41.
Samuel, 41.
William, 41, 146.
Gaily, John, 301.
Gardner, , 172,
254.
Thomas, 294.
Garford, , 209.
Jarvis, 224.
George, Deborah, 247.
John, 246.
Gerard, , 173, 250,
252, 253.
Gerry, , 168-175,
253-256.
812
INDEX.
Gerry, Elbridge, 168.
T. J., 17.
Geffords, Mary, 232.
Giddings, Gidding,
Giddins, Anice,
42.
Joseph, 41.
Solomon, 41, 42.
Solomon, jr., 41.
Gilchrist, Amos, 76.
Giles, Gyles, Eleazer,
jr., 302.
Eleizer, 302.
John, 225, 226, 302.
Gilkie, Capt., 23.
Gill, , 168.
Moses, 162.
Gillespie, J., 17.
Glasier, Glazier, ,
146.
Benjamin, 42, 146.
Daniel, 42.
Edmund Heard, 42,
146.
Eliza, 42.
Elizabeth, 42.
Elizabeth Osgood,
42, 146.
Hannah, 42.
Joanna, 42.
John, 42, 146.
Lucy, 42.
Lydia Hovey, 42.
Mary, 146.
Polly, 42.
Sally, 42.
Sarah, 146.
William, 42.
God ing, 0. W. T., 207.
Gold, see Gould.
Goldsmith, John, 42.
Thomas, 42.
Goodale, Nathan, 254.
Sarah, 214.
Thomas, 214.
Goodhue, , 461.
Aaron, 42, 140.
Abagail, 42, 146.
Abner, 42.
Betsey, 42.
Daniel, 42.
Ebenezer, 42, 146.
Elizabeth, 43, 146.
Ephraira, 42.
Francis, 146.
Hannah, 146.
Goodhue, Isaac, 42.
John, 42.
John, jr., 42, 146.
Manuel, 42.
Martha, 42.
Mary, 42, 140, 141.
Moses, 42.
Nathaniel, 42.
Polly, 42.
Sarah, 42.
Thomas, 42.
Goodrich, J. W., 124.
Gordon, Rev. Dr., 168.
William, 162.
Gorham, Nathaniel,
253
Gould, Gold, , 42,
43, 146.
Abigail, 42.
Daniel, 42, 146.
Elisha, 43.
Elizabeth, 43.
Rebeckah, 43.
Ruth, 42, 43.
Sarah, 43.
Thomas, 42, 43.
William, 43.
Grant, Gen., 22.
Grant & Barker, 124.
Graves, , 146, 147.
Deborah, 43.
Elisabeth, 146.
John, 146.
John, jr., 43, 147.
Moses, 43, 146.
William, 27.
Greely, Grele, Ruth,
147.
Samuel, 112.
Green, Greene, Gen.,
254.
Benjamin, 43.
Elizabeth, 55, 56.
John, 52, 53, 55, 56,
59, 61.
Lucy, 43.
Lydia, 43.
Mary, 53, 55, 56.
Mary Ann, 43.
Nathaniel, 250.
Susannah, 43.
Grele, see Greely.
Grey, Bridget, 214.
George, jr., 214.
Grey Brothers, 18.
Griffin, William, 76.
Griffls, , 164.
Griggs, Dr., 63.
Isaac, 63.
Jacob, 63, 65, 282,
283.
William, 63.
Groveland, Mass., 241.
Grover, Abigail, 89.
Edmund, 99, 209,
212, 215, 216, 224,
225.
Hannah, 216.
John, 212, 215, 216,
225, 282.
John, sr., 214.
Margaret, 225.
Nehemiah, 84, 99,
215, 224.
William, 89.
Groves, Freeborn,228.
Peter, 228.
Gullihal, Alpha, 147.
Gyles, see Giles.
Hagar, , 238.
Haines, see Haynes.
Hale, Ann, 293.
John, 108, 277, 278,
300, 301.
Joseph, 43, 147.
Mehitable, 147.
Moses, 147.
Robert, 108, 228,
229, 290.
Hall, Joseph, 162.
Joseph, jr., 252,254.
Hammond, John, 71.
Hancock, , 167,
168, 171, 174, 253.
John, 162, 163.
Harding, John, 216.
Hardy, Hardee, Har-
die, , 245, 246,
256.
Aaron, 77.
Aaron W., 244, 245,
247.
Abigail, 246.
Albert, 246.
Alfred, 77.
Asa, 245.
Benjamin, 77, 246.
Caroline, 244.
D. Sumner, 245.
Darius, 244.
Elizabeth, 224, 278.
INDEX.
313
Hardy, Ezra, 243.
George B., 245.
Hannah, 243.
Henry, 244.
Hepzabeth, 79.
Ira, 245.
Irena, 244.
J. B., 246.
Jacob, 243.
James, 77.
Jemima, 77.
Jewett, 244.
John, 77, 244.
John B., 245.
Mansel, 244.
Maria, 245.
Mary, 244, 245, 278.
Micajah, 77.
Moses, 245.
O. Emeline, 245.
Perkins, 245.
Peter, 77.
Robert, 278.
Kufus C., 243.
Samuel, 278.
Sewell, 244.
Simeon, 77.
Stephen, 77.
Theophilus, 278.
Thomas, 302.
Harlan, , 266.
Harlan & Hollings-
worth Co., 206.
Harnett, Col., 172.
Cornelius, 172.
Harrice, see Harris.
Harriden, Andrew,
147.
Harriman, , 245.
Charles, 245.
Enoch, 244.
Hiram, 245.
Martha, 245.
Mehitable, 245.
Moses, 245.
Samuel, 245.
Harris, Harrice, ,
147, 173.
Abner, 43, 147.
Abraham Lord, 43.
Dorothy, 147.
Elizabeth, 43.
Hannah, 147.
Harrison, 244.
James, 147.
Job, 140.
Harris, John, 43, 244.
John, 3d, 43, 147.
John, 4th, 43.
John, 5th, 43.
John H., 147.
Joseph, 43, 62.
Mary, 43, 147.
Mary Smith, 43.
Moses, 43, 147.
Nathaniel, 43.
Richard, 43.
Ruth, 147.
Sarah, 43, 147.
Susannah, 43, 147.
Thomas, 140, 141.
William, 43.
William, 3d, 43.
Hart, Hartt, Deborah,
147.
Joseph, 232.
Mary, 147.
Hartford, F. W., 127.
Harvey, George, 59,
60.
Haseltine, Hasaltine,
Samuell, 232.
William, 25.
William B., 272.
Haskell.Hascall, Has-
coll, Haskel, ,
147.
Elizabeth, 224.
Jonathan, 43.
Josiah, 215, 224.
Mark, 147, 224, 281.
Mark, 3d, 43.
Mary Ann, 294.
Robert, 293.
Roger, 210, 212, 215-
217, 224.
Samuel, 214, 215,
224.
William, 215, 282,
292, 293.
Haskins, Hoskens,
Hoskins, ,
283, 287.
Abigail, 283, 288.
Johannah, 283.
Miriam, 288.
Roger, 283, 286-288,
296.
Ruth, 283, 288.
Samuel, 288.
Susannah, 283.
Hathorne, John, 234.
Haverty, Capt., 30,
114.
Hawkins,George, 217.
Hayes, Abigail, 243.
Haynes, Richard, 278
280, 287.
Hayward, Elizabeth^
284.
Jonathan, 83.
Nathaniel, 59, 62,
63, 284.
Nathaniel, sr., 284.
Rose, 59.
Samuel, 284.
Hazard, Ebenezer,167.
Head, Mrs. John, 242.
Heard, Herd, ,
148.
Abigail, 147.
Daniel, 43, 44, 147.
Daniel, jr., 44.
Edmund, 44.
Elizabeth, 44, 147.
Elizabeth Anna, 43.
Joanna, 43, 44.
John, 44, 147, 148.
John, jr., 43, 44,
148.
Joseph, 44.
Lucy, 44.
Martha, 44.
Mary, 44, 140.
Nathauael, 44.
Nathaniel, jr., 43,44,
148.
Rebeckah, 147.
Robert, 44.
Samuel, 44, 148.
Sarah, 148.
Susannah, 44.
Susannah, 139, 140.
Tamasin, 44.
Unice, 44.
William, 44.
Heath, William, 163.
Hebard.Heberd, Heb-
berd,Hebbert, see
Hibbert.
Henderson, , 148,
244.
Abigail, 44.
Benjamin, 44.
Caroline, 244.
John, 44.
314
INDEX.
Henderson, John, jr.,
44.
Joseph, 44.
Leonard, 244.
Lncy, 44, 148.
Margarett, 44.
Samuel, 44.
Susanna, 148.
Thomas, 44.
William, 44.
Hendley, Col., 176.
Henery, Ca.pt., 17.
Henley, Elias, 79.
Herrick, , 107.
Addie F., 222.
Benjamin, 223.
Charles H., 222.
Ephraim, 70, 83-85.
Ephraim, jr., 84.
Henry, 70, 72, 74,
84, 85,92, 211, 213,
217-219, 223.
Henry, jr., 213.
James Phillips, 70.
John, 70, 73, 84, 85.
John, sr., 74.
Jonathan, 225.
Joseph, 65, 70, 72,
83, 85, 86, 302.
Joseph, sr., 63-65,
95.
Joshua, 93, 94, 211.
Mary, 93.
Rufus, 70, 72, 85.
Samuel, 86, 217.
Stephen, 85.
Thomas, 85.
William, 211.
Zachariah, 74, 84,
213.
Herzberg & Huber,
127.
Hewen, Dr., 169.
Hibbert, Hebberd,
Hebbert, Heberd,
Hibbard,Hibberd,
Hibbert, Hiberd,
Hibert, , 214,
227, 229.
Abigail, 228.
Deborah, 228.
Joan, 212, 226-228.
John, 212.
Joseph, 212, 214,
227, 285.
Hibbert, Robert, 54,
212, 226-228, 285.
Samuel, 212,226-228.
Higginson, , 105,
285.
John, 215, 234.
John, jr., 284, 285.
Wentworth, 237.
-, 298.
Hill,
Alfred Boyden, 248.
ClarenceLeRoy ,248.
Elizabeth (Knapp),
247.
Emily Ann, 248.
Everett Eugene,247.
Fredda Boyden,248.
Jerome K., 248.
John, 84, 246-248.
J ohnKenniston,247.
Margaret Maria,248.
Sarah Ann, 247.
Sarah Elizabeth,
247.
Sivella Maria, 248.
Hilton, Eleanor
(Griggs), 63.
Samuel, 63.
Hoar, William, 98,
286.
Hodges, , 12.
George, 297.
Joseph, 289.
Hodgkins,Hodgekins,
, 148, 252.
Abigail, 44, 148.
Abraham, 44.
Benjamin, 44.
Bethiah, 44.
Clarissa, 44.
Daniel, 45.
David, 45.
Deborah, 148.
Edward, 45.
Elizabeth, 45, 148.
Ezekiel, 45.
Frances, 45.
Joanna, 45.
John, 44, 45, 148.
John, 3d, 44, 45.
John, 4th, 44, 45.
John, 5th, 44.
John, jr., 45, 148.
Joseph, 44, 45.
Judith, 45.
Lucy, 148.
Hodgkins, Margaret,
45.
Mary, 45.
Moses, 45.
Nathaniel, 148.
Sally, 45.
Samuel, 45.
Sarah, 148.
Stephen, 45.
Thomas, 44, 45, 48.
Thomas, jr., 45.
Unis, 45.
William, 44, 45.
William Harris, 45.
Holcomb, , 205.
Holden & Sargent, 28,
29.
Holgrave, John, 68,69.
Holker, , 251.
Holland, , 148.
Daniel, 45.
Elizabeth, 45.
John, 45, 148.
John, jr., 45.
Joseph, 45, 148.
Lucy, 45.
Mary, 45.
Michael, 148.
Richard, 148.
Samuel, 45.
Sarah, 45, 148.
Hollingsworth, ,
206, 266.
Holman, Edward, 79.
Holmes, , 148.
John, 45, 148.
Sarah, 45.
Thomas, 71.
Holt, , 75, 76.
Rev., 251, 254.
Alfred, 76.
Edward Francis, 75,
76.
Emma Louisa, 75.
Frances Boutwell,
75.
Harriet( Carpenter),
75.
James, 75.
Jonathan Abbott,
75.
Thebe, 75.
Phebe Elizabeth,75.
Solomon, 75.
Solomon Augustus,
75.
INDEX.
315
Holt, William Au-
gustus, 75.
Holten, Houlton, ,
167, 251-255.
Hannah (Gardner),
161.
Joseph, 65, 66.
Kittell, 176.
Polly, 174, 175.
Sally, 175.
Samuel, 161, 169,
171-175, 249.
Hood, John, 67.
William H., 67.
Hooper, John, 79.
Susannah, 283.
William, 214, 216.
Hopkins, , 254.
D., 251, 255.
Hopkinson, , 171,
176.
Francis, 171.
Hore, William, 297.
Horrell, Horrill, Eliz-
abeth, 214.
Humphrey, 214.
Hovey, , 148.
Ebenezer, 45, 148.
Elizabeth, 45.
Eunice, 45.
Francis, 45.
George Lewis, 45.
Hannah, 45.
John, 45.
John Holmes, 45.
Joseph, 45.
Lydia, 45.
Rebekah, 148.
Sally, 45.
Thomas, 45.
Thomas Lewis, 25.
Howe, How, Gen.,
255.
John, 232.
Julia Ward, 239.
Howard, , 149.
Anna, 60.
Nathaniel, sr., 63.
Nehemiah, 59, 60.
Sidney K., 188.
Howes, Samuel H.,
264.
Thomas, 265.
Hoyt, John, 246.
Nathaniel, 246.
Hnbbard, , 176.
Huber & Herzberg,
127.
Hudson, , 174,175,
252, 254.
Hull, Adeline (Rog-
ers), 245.
Frank, 245.
Gilman, 245.
Isaac, 82, 93, 96, 101,
102.
John, 55.
Lydia Ann, 243.
Mary, 93.
Sarah, 93, 245.
Hunt, Elizabeth, 149.
J. F., 198, 199.
Joseph, 140.
Hunter, W. A., 180.
Hurd, Daniel S., 149.
Huse, Daniel, 242.
Enoch, 46.
John, 26.
Huston, Eben, 198.
Hutchinson, Col., 172,
252, 254.
Eliakim, 234.
Elisha, 234.
Israel, 162, 163.
Shripn, 176.
Hyde, E. C., 266.
Inches, , 253.
Ingalls, Ingolls, Ar-
thur, 247.
Eleazer, 79.
Emeline Amanda,
247.
Emma, 247.
Joseph, 232.
William, 247.
William Wallace,
247.
Ingersoll, Ingersol,
Ingerson, Ingol-
son, Daniel, 46.
George, 66.
J. B., 17.
John, 66.
Jonathan, 46, 149.
Nathaniel, 66, 232.
Richard, 65.
Sarah, 149.
Ingraham, F. A., 198.
Mark, 199.
Ireland, Sarah, 139,
140.
Jackman, Stephen,
jr., 25.
Jackson, George, 234.
Lambert, 98.
Samuel, 116.
Jacobs, George, 62.
Joseph, 62.
Jacques, see Jaques.
James, Benjamin, 234.
Erasmus, 79.
Jameson, , 242,
246, 247.
David, 242.
Jaques, , 243, 245.
Benjamin, 243.
Francis, 245.
P., 243.
Jay, John, 176, 249,
251.
Jennings, , 76.
Jenny, Capt., 246.
Jeter, John F., 269.
Jewett, Jewet, Jewit,
, 149.
Aaron, 46, 149.
Annis, 67.
Daniel, 46.
David, 149.
Dummer, 46, 149,
158.
E. P., 245, 247.
Eben, 244.
Elizabeth, 46.
George, 46.
John C., 149.
John Coles, 46, 149.
John S., 67.
John W., 67.
Martha, 46.
Mary, 46, 140, 141.
Nathaniel, 149.
Nehemiah, 79, 233,
234.
Paul, 289.
Samuel, 46.
Sarah, 46.
Stephen, 46.
Thomas G., 269.
Johnson, Capt., 176.
Charles, 203, 291.
Frank, 17.
John J., 197.
S16
INDEX.
Johnson, Miriam, 291.
Jones, , 149, 171.
Abigail, 46, 149.
Benjamin, 93, 94.
Elizabeth, 46.
Eunice, 46.
Hannah, 94.
Joanna, 149.
John, 46.
John Smith, 46.
Mary, 94, 149.
Nathaniel, 46.
Simon, 241.
Thomas, 46, 149.
William, 46, 93.
William Harris, 46.
Juan, Juane, Don,
249, 255.
Judkins, , 60.
Anna, 291.
Anna (Howard), 60.
Kelly, Alexander,268.
Kendall, Kendal, Kin-
dall, Elizabeth,
46, 47.
Ephraim, 46.
Harriot, 46.
Jacob, 47.
Joseph, 149.
Kuth, 46.
Salome, 47.
Samuel, 46.
Kenney, Henry, jr.,
294.
Henry, sr., 287.
Kennison, Reuben,
108.
Keough, Robert F.,
114.
Kettle, Elizabeth, 66.
James, 51, 65, 66.
Jonathan, 66.
Kilby, Capt., 17.
Kilburn, Killbourn,
Joseph, 149.
Moses, 149.
Kimball, Kimbal,
Kimbill, , 47,
149, 150, 258.
Aaron, 47, 149, 150.
Aaron, jr., 46, 47.
Albert, 245.
Benjamin, 47.
Benjamin, jr., 160.
Kimball, Daniel, 47.
Ebenezer, 46, 47,
149.
Ebenezer, jr., 47,
150.
Elizabeth, 150.
Hannah, 47.
Jacob, 47.
James Staniford,47.
John, 47.
Joseph, 47, 150.
Lucy, 47.
Lydia, 47.
Mark, 47.
Mary, 47, 140.
Moses, 47, 150.
Nathaniel, 46, 259.
Nathaniel Holland,
47.
Polly, 47.
Rebekah, 47.
Richard, 47.
Robert, 47.
Sarah, 46, 47.
Stephen, 47.
Susannah, 47, 150.
Thomas, 47, 150.
William, 47.
King, Dorothy, 58.
Mary, 76.
William, 58, 59,209.
Kingman,Martha,236.
Kinsman, Farley, 47.
Hannah, 47.
Lucy, 47.
Moses, 47.
Pelatiah, 47.
Kittell, Kittill, ,
169, 172, 252, 254,
255.
Jonathan, 253.
Kittredge,Ingalls,219.
Knapp,Elizabeth, 247.
Kneeland, , 248.
Aaron, 248.
John, 248.
Margaret Maria, 248.
Phebe'Anna(Pierce)
248.'
Rebecca, 248.
Knight, Knightt,Ann,
65.
J. B., 14.
John, 85.
William Phipps, 78.
Knowles, , 76.
Jonathan, 76.
Knowlton, Knolton,
Abigail, 59.
Abraham, jr., 48.
Anna, 88.
Asa, 48.
Benjamin, 48.
Charles, 48.
Elizabeth, 48.
Jacob, 48.
John, 59, 88.
Josiah, 48.
Margarett, 48.
Martha, 48.
Nehemiah, 48.
Sarah, 48.
Thomas, 48.
Knox, Knoks, Eli,245.
Henry, 251.
Lafayette, M. de, 173.
Laighton Bros., 126.
Lakeman, 48, 150.
Daniel, 48.
Deborah, 48, 140.
Ebenezer, 48, 150.
Elizabeth, 48.
Hannah, 48.
John, 48.
John, jr., 48.
Jonathan, 48, 150.
Joseph, 48.
Martha, 150.
Mary, 48.
Richard, 144, 150.
Richard, jr., 48.
Richard, 3d, 150.
Samuel, 150.
Sarah, 48.
Susannah, 48, 139,
140.
Thomas, 48.
William, 48.
William, jr., 150.
Lambert, John, 286.
John, jr., 286, 298.
John, sr., 285, 286,
298.
Lane, Abigail, 48.
Frederick L., 119.
Zebulon, 48, 150.
Lang, , 261, 262.
Langdon, John, 255.
Langley, , 243.
INDEX.
317
Lasky, Mrs. , 150.
Lathrop, Lieut., 68.
Laurens, , 176,
253, 255, 256.
Henry, 165.
Law, Richard, 255.
Jonathan, 255.
Lawrence, Col., 249.
Lawrence & Sneeden,
125.
Leach, Leech, ,
51.
Benjamin, 215, 283.
Deborah, 89.
Elijah, 215, 283.
John, 56, 61, 62, 63,
89, 102, 215, 219,
224, 283.
Joseph, 215, 283.
Lawrence, 56, 62,
210, 274.
Mary, 89.
Richard, 61, 62.
Samuel, 62.
Sarah, 89.
Timothy, 89.
Tryphose, 283.
William, 215, 282,
283.
Leatherland, Lether-
land, , 48, 150.
Hannah, 150.
Sarah, 150.
William, 48, 150.
Leavitt, F. W., 208.
Lee, , 168, 171,
172, 173, 175, 176,
252, 253.
Arthur, 255.
Henry, 168.
R. H., 252, 253.
Richard Henry, 169.
Robert E., 168.
S. P., 193.
Le Favour, Lefaver,
, 150.
Joseph, 48, 150.
Lydia, 48.
Nathaniel, 48.
Legg, Capt., 229.
John, 79.
Leinont, Levi P., 127.
Levy & Neafie, 24.
Lewis, , 150.
Col., 174.
Lincoln, General, 173,
174, 254.
Maj. Gen., 253.
Benjamin, 173.
Linnekin, Osborn P.,
24.
Linnell, Susan T., 96.
Liscomb, J. F., 186,
195.
John, 190, 191.
Little, , 242.
Henry B., 114.
Locke, John, 202.
Loney, Anthony, 150.
Mary, 150.
Lord, , 130, 145,
151, 152.
Aaron, 129.
Aaron Perkins, 48.
Abel, 48.
Abigail, 48, 129,151.
Animi, 48.
Andrew, 48.
Anise, 129.
Anna, 151.
Anne, 129, 151.
Asa, 129, 152.
Beamsly, 129.
Benjamin, 129, 130,
151, 152.
Betsey, 129.
Caleb, 129, 151.
Caleb, jr., 151.
Daniel, 129.
Daniel, jr., 48, 129,
130, 151.
Daniel, 3d, 151.
Ebenezer, 129, 151.
Ebenezer, jr., 129.
Ebenezer, 3d, 129,
151.
Elisabeth Tread-
well, 129.
Elizabeth, 129.
Ephraim, 129.
Eunice, 151.
Hannah, 129, 151.
Jacob, 129.
James, 129, 139,140,
151.
James, jr., 129, 130,
151.
Jeremiah, 129.
Jeremiah, jr., 129.
Lord, John, 48, 129,
130, 151.
John, jr., 48, 129.
John Berry, 129.
Joseph, 48, 129. 151,
152.
Joseph Holland, 129.
Josiah, 129, 151.
Lucy, 129, 130, 151.
Lucy Mary, 129.
Margaret, 129.
Mark, 129.
Mary, 129, 130, 151.
Mary Ann, 130.
Moses, 129, 130, 151.
Moses, jr., 48, 129.
130, 151.
Nancy, 130.
Nathaniel, 129, 130,
151.
Nathaniel, jr., 129,
151.
Nathaniel, 3d, 48,
129, 151.
Philip, jr., 151.
Polly, 130.
Prisce, 130.
Richard, 130.
Richard Henry, 130.
Robert, 130.
Samuel, 129, 151,
152.
Samuel, jr., 151.
Samuel, 4th, 129.
130.
Sarah, 129, 130, 151.
Sukey, 130.
Susanna, 129, 130,
151.
Thomas, 130, 151.
Loring, Caleb, 2.
Lothrop, Lieut., 274.
Lovejoy, Eben, 76, 77.
H., 77.
Hannah, 76.
John, 76, 77.
Mary Frances, 77.
Phebe Russell, 77.
Lovell, , 171, 173,
175.
James, 167.
Lovett, Lovit, ,
90, 107, 297.
Abraham, 296.
Augustine, 57.
318
INDEX.
Lovett, Benjamin,
276, 297.
BenjaminBalch,222.
Bethiah, 279.
Elizabeth Augusta,
94.
John, 278, 279, 286,
296.
John, jr., 296.
John, sr., 84, 278,
286.
Josiah, 300.
Lucy D., 57.
Martha M., 57.
Mercy, 222.
Pyara, jr., 57.
Samuel, 299, 300.
Sarah F., 58.
Simon, 218, 296.
Susanna, 278.
Thomas D., 58.
William, 276, 279,
296.
Low, , 152.
Elizabeth, 130.
Jacob, 130.
John, 130.
Joseph, 152.
Joshua, 152.
Nathaniel, 130.
Peter, 152.
Lowater, Sarah, 130.
Stephen, 130.
Lowell, , 256.
Lufkin, Adeline A.,
101.
George A., 101.
Mary Alice, 222.
Lummus, Lumas,
Lummas, Lum-
mis, , 152.
Abraham, 130.
Daniel, 130, 152.
Elisabeth, 130.
Joanna, 130.
John, 130.
Jonathan, 152.
Margaret, 130, 152.
Mary, 130.
William, 130.
Lund, Capt., 17.
T. W., 17.
Lunt, Jeremiah, 26.
Micajah, 26, 27.
Lunt & Colby, 30.
McClary, Maj., 241. Marchant, Marchent,
McClellan, , 191. Merchant, ,
McCrillis, Frank 171, 172, 174.
Pierce, 244. E. S., 24.
George, 244. Edgar, 24.
Hannah Elizabeth, Henry, 171.
243. Marquand, Lemuel,
Sophia (Carter),243, 28, 31, 114.
244. Marsh, Capt., 14, 17.
William, 243. A., 14.
Woodbury Colby, James, 238.
243. Marsters, Nathaniel,
McCusker, John E., 131, 285, 286, 298.
114. Martin, Nathan B.,13,
Mclntier, Charles, 71. Ruth > 28 3-
McKay, John, 198. ^ Simi "' J 81 '
v V AM o OQ Mason, Col., 251.
I?5 ay & mt ' ? Wa " en ' .
McKean,Thomas, 174. M Jeff 6g 6g
McKinney, Thomas, 2 10.
27- Masury, Anna, 296.
McKinnon, John H., Matthews, Mathews,
114. , 173, 174.
McLean, John, 149. A. B., 198.
McNeal, , 152. John, 178.
John, 152. Mease, , 172, 250.
McQuillen, William Merchant, see Mar-
E., 32. chant.
Maffitt, John New- Merrett, John, 79.
land, 190, 192. Merrill, , 241.
Mallory, S.R., 192,193. James, 76.
Mann, Horace, 236. John, 241.
Manning, Elizabeth, John J., 242.
76. Leonard, 241.
Eri, 76. Thomas, 198.
George, 76. Mifflin, Miflin, Gen.,
Jacob, 58, 213, 281. m, 2 52.
John, 76. Thomas, 171.
Lucretia, 131.
Lydia, 152.
Mark, 76.
Mary, 76.
Richard, 152.
Samuel, 76.
Sarah, 58, 152, 281.
Manning & Co., 3.
Mansfield, , 128.
Andrew, 218.
Mills, Charles, 33.
Minto, James D., 114.
Miralles, de, , 250.
Moody, Samuel, 112.
Moore , More, ,
165, 246.
Anna, 89.
Eliza H., 246.
John A., 246.
Nancy, 246.
Hannah, 152. Samuel, jr., 89.
Marblehead, Mass., William, 246.
229-234. Morehouse, Col, 164.
March, Abigail, 131. Morgan, Bethiah, 299.
Hannah, 131. Elizabeth, 291.
Robert, 131. Joseph, 299, 300.
INDEX.
819
Morgan, Margaret,
299
Mary, 299.
Robert, 300.
Samuel, 299.
Morris, , 249, 256.
Gen., 172.
Gouvenonr,175, 252.
Lewis, 173.
R., 170.
Robert, 249, 251.
Morse, , 242, 247.
Charles W., 200.
Edmund, 247.
John, 247.
Moses, 247.
Nancy (Ayer), 247.
Samuel, 242.
Sarah Ann, 247.
Moulton, Elmer K.,22.
Robert, 289.
Murray, Ferris & Co.,
19.
Nason, Martha, 152.
Neafie & Levy, 24.
Nelson, Neilson, ,
243, 244.
Aaron W., 245.
Benjamin, 244.
Irena (Hardy), 244.
Lewis, 198.
Lydia Eliza, 244.
Thomas, jr., 252.
Nesmith, John, 29.
Nevins, , 242.
David, 242.
Newman, , 52,
131, 152, 254.
Antipas, 53, 55.
Benjamin, 131, 152.
Daniel, 131.
Elizabeth, 53, 72.
George, 152.
John, 53,55.
Robert, 152.
Samuel, 131, 152.
Newmarch, , 153.
Hannah, 131.
John, 131, 153.
John, 3d, 131.
Joseph, 131.
Lydia, 131.
Sally, 131.
Samuel, 131.
Thomas, 131.
Nickerson, , 76.
Nizson, , 193.
Norden, Nathaniel,79.
Norton, Col., 174.
Nourse, see Nurse.
Noyes, Noys, ,
153, 246, 248.
Augustus, 248.
Daniel, 153, 248.
Daniel, jr., 153.
Edward, 247.
E. S., 247.
Emma, 248.
Emma Frances, 246.
Enoch S., 246.
Frank, 248.
Fred, 75.
John, 153.
Nurse,Nourse, F.,256.
Francis, 172.
Stephen, 13.
Nutter, Frank W.,208.
Ober, Obear, Benja-
min, 293.
Rebecca, 89.
Oliver, , 83, 211.
Samuel Cook, 235.
Olmstead, Silliman,
257.
Ordway, Joshua, 243.
LeverettS., 242,243.
Osgood, , 248.
Frank Ray, 248.
Otis, , 162.
James, 161.
Owen, , 179.
Paca, William, 251,
253.
-, 243.
Page,
Imogene, 244.
John, 242.
Joseph Wright, 242
Mary Ann, 244.
Molly, 242.
William, 244.
William Thomas,
244.
Paine, William, 65,66.
Palfray, , 105.
Peter, 217, 223.
Palmer, , 254.
I. S., 126.
Joseph, 162.
Paris, Martha, 248.
Mary Lizzie, 248.
Orlando S., 248.
Parker, Capt., 203.
Alexander, 268.
Eben, 242.
Edward, 242.
Gideon, 153.
John, 202.
Parks, Mary, 243.
Parr, H. A., 202.
Partridge, George,
167, 168.
Paxton, Capt., 229.
Went worth, 80.
Peabody, David, 131.
John, 100.
Peak, , 242.
Pearson, Enoch, 131,
153.
Eunice, 131.
Mehetabel, 131.
Michael, 25.
Pease, Lewis, 128.
Peirce, see Pierce.
Pepperell, William,
175.
Perkins, Perkens,
, 132, 153, 246.
Aaron, 121, 153.
Abby, 246.
Abigail, 246.
Abraham, 131, 132,
153, 232.
Beamsly, 131, 132.
Cata, 131.
David, 280, 282, 285,
287.
Daniel, 131.
Elizabeth, 131, 153.
Enoch, 153.
Harrison, 246.
Horace E., 101.
Jeremiah, 131, 153.
Jeremy, 131.
Joanna, 131.
John, 153.
Joseph, 131,132,153.
Kata, 131.
Lucy, 131.
Lydia, 244.
Martha, 153.
Mary, 131, 153, 246.
Nathaniel, 131, 153.
Nathaniel, jr., 153.
820
INDEX.
Perkins, Robert, 153.
Ruth, 246.
S., 153.
Samuel, 246.
Sarah, 131.
Stephen, 132.
Susanna, 132.
Thomas, 153, 246.
William, 131.
William Baker, 132.
Winslow T., 126.
Perley, Pearley,Eben-
ezar, 131.
Nathaniel, 131, 132.
Sidney, 49, 81, 209,
273.
Thomas, 232.
Peter, Hugh, 72, 73.
Peters, Richard, 174.
Pettingal, Petingal,
Ephraim Smith,
132.
John, 132.
Joseph, 132.
Lucy, 132.
Phillips, , 76.
Waltere, 232.
Pickard, John, 68.
Mary, 132.
Thomas, 132.
Pickering, Col., 256.
Pickett, Elizabeth,
281.
Nicholas, 230, 231,
232.
Pickman, Nathaniel,
54.
Pickton, Thomas, 300,
301.
Pierce, Peirce, ,
23, 235.
Abigail, 246.
Abigail(Hardy),246.
Henry, 246.
Huldah, 67.
John, 132, 243.
Nathaniel, 67.
Phebe Anna, 248.
Susannah, 132.
Thomas, 246.
Pike, Benjamin, 248.
Pillsbury, Capt., 76.
Sarah, 76.
Pindar, Pinder, ,
154.
Pindar, Benjamin, 132,
154.
Catharine, 154.
David, 132.
Deborah, 132.
Edmund, 132.
John, 132, 154.
John, jr., 154.
Joseph, 132.
Moses, 132, 154.
Polly, 132.
Salome, 132.
Pingree, David, 71.
Pitman, John, 132.
Mary, 132, 140.
Plater, Flatter,
George, 256.
Pollard, G. S., 16.
Pomroy, , 132.
Pool, Lena B., 34.
Poor, Poore, Alfred,
75, 241.
Samuel, 28.
Porter, , 14, 17,
179.
Benjamin, 63, 68.
Billy, 94.
Israel, 63.
John, 25, 26, 49.
John, sr., 68, 294.
Jonathan, 209.
Samuel, 182.
Seward, 15-17, 128,
177, 182, 260, 265.
William, 67, 183.
Potter, , 132, 154.
Alexander, 132.
Amos, 132.
Anthony, 132.
Anthony, jr., 132.
Daniel, 154.
Daniel, jr., 132.
Eunice, 132.
Israel, 132.
John, 132.
Jonathan, 132.
Martha, 132.
Martha Fellows,132.
Mary, 132.
Moses, 132.
Richard, 132, 154.
Robert, 154.
Samuel, 132.
Sarah, 132, 154.
Thomas, 132.
Potts, , 175.
Pratt, George W., 71.
Mary B., 71.
Preston, , 252.
Mary, 91.
Price, Sarah, 297.
Pride, John, 300.
Prince, Capt., 163.
Hannah, 133.
Jonathan, 133, 154.
Jonathan, jr., 133.
Mehitabel, 133.
Pritchard, William,
27.
Proctor, Jacob, 133.
Lucy, 133.
Nehemiah, 24.
Thomas, 133.
Pulsifer, Pulcipher,
Pulseper, Pulsi-
pher, Abigail, 154.
Ann, 133.
Anna, 133.
Archelus, 154.
Benedictus, 154.
Benjamin, 133, 154.
Betsey, 133.
Bickford, 133, 154.
David, 133, 154.
Ebenezer, 133.
Elisabeth, 133.
Francis, 133.
Francis, jr., 133.
John, 133.
John Stanwood,133.
Joseph, 133.
Lucy, 133.
Priscilla, 154.
Sarah, 133, 154.
Susannah, 154.
Thomas, 133.
Putnam, , 169,
172, 174, 175.
Amos, 162.
Edmund, 254.
Israel, 164, 169.
John, 51, 66, 73.
Jonathan, 51.
Nathaniel, sr., 73.
Webster F., 67.
Quincy, Dorothy, 162.
Rand, Arvilla M., 101.
Walter I., 101.
INDEX.
321
Rantoul, Robert S.,
102, 235.
Raymond, Raiment,
Rayment, Benja-
min, 91.
David, 91.
Edward, 219.
Elizabeth, 87.
George, 91.
John, 50, 69, 72, 82,
84, 93, 95, 96, 220.
John, jr., 93, 95.
John, sr., 74, 84, 90,
93, 95, 292, 294.
Jonathan, 60, 64, 65,
100, 101.
Jonathan, jr., 92.
Joseph, 91.
Lidy, 91.
Molly, 91.
Nathaniel, 74, 84,
90, 91, 220.
Thomas, 64, 65, 69,
72, 93.
Thomas, sr., 63, 64,
65.
William, 90, 96, 217,
219, 298.
Rea, Ray, Daniel, 63.
Hannah, 73.
John, 68.
John, jr., 73.
Joshua, 68, 69.
Joshua, jr., 63.
Joshua, sr., 63.
Rebecca (Griggs),
63.
Read, Reed, Gen., 169,
172, 175.
President, 256.
Abraham, 52.
Charles, 202.
Charles W., 191,182,
193.
Christopher, 281.
Jacob, 56.
Joseph, 169, 249.
Remond, John, 72.
Renfrew & Fearing,
18.
Revere, Joseph W.,11.
Paul, jr., 11.
Rice, , 163.
Richards, John, 292.
Richardson, Richer-
son, , 8.
Annie Louisa, 247.
Anstis, 89.
Deborah, 247.
Elbridge F., 248.
George, 217.
Gilman, 247.
Richardson & Daland,
19.
Ricker, Abia, 246.
Jerry, 246.
Josiah, 245.
Sarah, 245.
William, 245.
Riggs, Stephen, 133.
Thomas, 133.
Rindge, Daniell, 232.
Ripley, Campbell,140,
154.
Ebed L., 119.
Riva, Charles E., 98.
Roads, John, 79.
Robedeau,Roberdeau,
Robado, Robo-
deau, Col., 170.
Gen., 168, 173, 176.
Daniel, 168.
Robbins, , 154.
Elizabeth, 154.
James, 133.
Lucy, 133.
William, 133, 154.
William, jr., 133.
Roberts, Rebeckah,
139, 140.
Temple, 242.
Robinson, Robbinson,
, 166, 167.
Rogers, , 174, 245.
Adeline, 245.
Ammi, 154.
Daniel Augustus,
133.
Daniel, jr., 133.
Elisabeth, 133.
Emily, 247.
Lewis Braman, 247.
Luoretia, 133.
Lucy, 133.
Margaret, 133.
Martha, 133.
Mary Ann, 133.
Nathaniel, 133, 145.
Sarah, 133.
Roix, W. R., 261.
Root, Roots, Rootes,
Jesse, 250.
Jonathan, 286-287,
296.
Joseph, 297.
Josiah, 285, 286,294.
Josiab, sr., 297.
Mary, 287, 294.
Susanna, 285, 286.
Thomas, 287, 294,
297.
Thomas, sr., 297.
Ross, , 155.
Anna W., 33.
BenjaminDavis,134.
David, 134, 153.
George, 170.
Hannah, 134.
Jabez, 155.
Jeremiah, 134, 155.
Joseph Wilcom,134.
Moses, 134.
Rebeckah, 134.
Samuel, 155.
Thomas, 155.
William, 140.
Rouell, Capt., 17, 18.
A. L., 17.
Roundy, Benjamin,
281, 282.
Elizabeth, 281.
Hester, 282.
John, 282.
Mercy, 281, 282.
Robert, 281, 282.
Rowell, Duty, 241.
James, 241.
Jonathan, 241.
Levina, 241.
Moses, 241.
Polly, 241.
Washington, 241.
William, 241.
Rowland, George, 180.
Thomas B., 180.
Royal, William, 49.
Russell, Russel, Albert
R., 27.
Andrew, 134.
Catharine, 134.
Elisabeth, 134.
Hannah, 134.
Henry, 134.
Henry, jr., 134.
322
INDEX.
Russell, Lydia A., 98.
Mary, 134.
Thomas B., 98.
William, 134.
Rust, Daniel, 155.
Francis, 134.
Hannah Treadwell,
134.
JohnTreadwell, 134.
Nathaniel, jr., 232.
William, 155.
Safford, , 155.
Abigail, 134.
Daniel, 155.
Daniel, jr., 134.
Deborah, 134.
Ebenezer, 155.
Elizabeth, 134, 155.
Ephraim, 134.
John, 70, 134.
Joseph, 134.
Lydia, 134.
Mary, 134.
Nathan, 134, 155.
Sally (Jarvis), 134,
155.
Sarah, 134.
Simeon, 134, 155.
Stephen, 134, 155.
Susannah, 134.
William, 134.
Salisbury, Abigail,
248.
Sampson, John, 278.
Sanford, , 188,
269-272.
A. N., 271.
Charles B., 272.
Edward H., 259.
Menemon, 182, 257,
259, 265, 272.
T. B., 259, 272.
Sargent, Sergeant,
Charles H., 114.
Charles R., 26.
John, 59.
Peter, 234.
Sargent & Holden, 28,
29.
Satchwell, see Sbats-
well.
Saunders, , 246.
Savary, Eliezer, 245.
Saward, John, 135.
Nabby Gould, 135.
Rebeckah, 135.
Sawyer, , 155.
Elizabeth, 135.
Joseph, 135.
Susannah, 135.
Schultz, Capt., 17.
Schuyler, Philip, 176.
Scot, Joseph, 281.
Scruggs, Margery, 93,
95.
Thomas, 93, 95.
Scudder, Sender, ,
175, 254.
Nathaniel, 175.
Searl, Searle, ,
245, 254.
James, 250.
Sears, Mrs. Rebecca,
91.
Seaver, J. M., 122.
Sedgwick, Robert,108.
Senter, Elizabeth, 155.
Sewall, Sewell, Sam-
uel, 234.
Stephen, 73.
T., 198.
Shaffer, Owen, 203.
Shatswell, Satchwell,
Shattswell, ,
135, 155.
Daniel, 134, 135.
Elisabeth, 155.
Isaac, 184, 135.
Jeremiah, 134, 135.
John, 135, 155.
Jonathan, 134, 155.
Moses, 155.
Richard, 134, 135,
155.
Richard, jr., 135,
.155.
Sarah, 135.
Susanna, 155.
William, 134.
Shaw, Edward P., 28,
30, 31, 118.
Peter, 87.
Sheldon, Shelden,
Amos, 71.
Edwin, 67.
Helen M., 67.
Jeremiah, 162.
Lucinda, 67.
Sheldon, Martha, 67.
Mary Elizabeth, 101.
Nancy, 67.
Sally E., 67.
Susan E., 67.
Shepard, Isaac, 27.
J. D., 15.
Sherman, Roger, 175.
Shillaber, Ebenezer,
94.
William, 162.
Shippen, Shippin,
, 167, 173, 176,
251.
Benedict, 167.
William, 167.
Sides, , 246.
Thomas, 247.
Sikes, Susanna, 278.
William, 278, 287.
Silsbee, Faneuil, 17.
Simonson, , 271.
Simpson, David W.,
24.
Skerry, Skerrie, Fran-
cis, 73.
Henry, 52, 73, 224.
Skinner, Richard, 79.
Smith, , 156, 168,
171, 173-175, 241,
242, 261, 255, 256.
Abigail, 155.
Ammi, 135.
Andrew, 135.
Benjamin, 135.
Charles, 135, 155.
Daniel, 135.
Daniel H., 26, 27.
Ebenezer, 135.
Elias, 303.
Elizabeth, 135.
Ephraim, 135.
Eunice, 140.
Hannah, 135, 155,
216.
Harrison, 135.
Hazadiah, 212, 215,
216, 225, 280, 281.
Henry, 34.
Jacob, 135.
James, 155, 156.
James, jr., 135.
John, 53, 135, 156.
John, jr., 135, 156.
John, 3d, 135.
INDEX.
323
Smith, John, 4th, 135.
Joseph, 135.
Lucy, 135, 156.
Martha, 156.
Mary, 135, 289, 290.
Mercy, 281, 282.
Nathaniel, 135.
Raymond, 156.
St. John, 201.
Samuel, 156, 225.
Samuel Rogers, 135.
Sarah, 135.
Simon, 135, 156.
Susannah, 135.
Thomas, 135, 156,
253.
Thomas, jr., 135.
Unice, 135.
Willard, 135.
Sneeden, Samuel, 18,
270.
Sneeden & Lawrence,
125.
Snell, Alfred, 241.
Polly, 241.
Southwick, , 77.
Augusta "W., 94.
Edwin, 94.
Lakeman, 94.
Soward, , 136,156.
Abigail Holmes, 135.
Abraham, 136.
Elizabeth, 136, 156.
Hannah, 136, 140,
141.
John, 136.
John L., 135, 156.
John Leatherland,
136.
Margaret, 135, 136.
Moses, 136.
Rebeckah, 136.
Richard, 136, 156.
Sarah, 136.
Welcome, 136.
Spear, , 261, 262.
Spear, Lang & Delano,
261, 262.
Spiller, Spillar, ,
156.
Abigail, 136.
Elizabeth, 136.
Henry, 136.
John, 136.
Mary, 136, 156.
Spiller, Robert, 136.
Susannah, 136.
Spofford, Betsey, 242.
John, 242.
Thomas, 242.
Spooner, James, 116.
Sprout, Sprouts, ,
168, 169, 173, 174,
176, 251, 255.
Stacey, Stacy, Stasey,
AbigailKnowlton,
136.
Edward, 136, 156.
John, 79, 234.
Joseph, 136.
Margaret, 136.
Polly, 136.
Samuel, 136.
Sarah, 136.
Susannah, 136.
Stackhouse, Richard,
288.
Ruth, 28S.
Stalker, , 156.
Eunice, 136.
Robert, 136, 156.
Robert, jr., 136, 156.
Stephen, 136.
Standish, , 258.
James, 292.
Standley, Abigail, 215.
George, 301.
John, 292.
Stanniford, Stanford,
Staniford, ,
136, 156.
Aaron, 136.
Anne, 136.
Daniel, 136.
Ebenezer, 136, 137,
156.
Hannah, 136.
Jeremiah, 136.
Joseph, 136.
Judith, 136, 156.
Lucy, 136, 156.
Mary, 136.
Stanwood, , 157.
Ebenezer, 157.
Isaac, 157.
John, 137, 140, 141,
157.
Joseph, 157.
Mary, 157.
Stephen, 137.
Steamboats, etc.
Achilles, 81.
Acorn, 122.
Acushnet, 112, 122.
Admiral, 20, 23, 259.
Agawam, 191.
Alice M., 113.
Alice Riggs, 125.
Allentown, 22.
Alliance, 19.
Anita, 17.
Appledore, 126.
Archer, 191, 192.
Archer (schooner),
193.
Argo, 16.
Atlantic, 121, 190.
Augusta, 20, 188.
Baltimore, 20.
Bangor, 15, 182, 264-
269.
Bangor I, 188.
Bay State, 194, 195,
200.
Beebe, 17.
Betty Alden, 118.
Boston, 272.
Bronx (steam-tug),
32
C. B. Stevens, 27.
C. Durant, 16.
C. Vanderbilt, 188.
Cadet, 207.
Caleb Gushing, 191.
Caleb Gushing (U.
S. Revenue Cut-
ter), 193.
Caledonia, 201.
California, 27.
Calvin Austin, 300.
Cambria, 117.
Canada, 259.
Canonicns, 185.
Cape Ann, 23, 24.
Cape Cod, 17, 123.
Carrie, 18.
Centipede, 31.
Chancellor Living-
ston, 183, 184, 257.
Charles Houghton,
23.
Charles L. Mather
(steam-tug), 29,
113.
Charlotte, 123.
324
INDEX.
Steamboats, etc.
Charter Oak, 257,
265.
Chesapeake,191-193,
201-205.
Clara E. Uhler
(steam-tug), 32.
Clarence, 190-192.
Cleopatra, 205.
Cleopatra's Barge,6.
Clifton, 17.
Clinton, 17.
Cimbria, 17.
Citizen, 25, 124.
City of Bangor, 122,
126, 263.
City of Fitchburg,
127.
City of Frederick-
ton, 28.
City of Gloucester,
23.
City of Haverhill,
21, 28, 114.
City of Hudson, 19.
City of Jackson-
ville, 17.
City of Norfolk,271.
City of Portsmouth,
20.
City of Rockland,
263.
City Point, 120.
Commodore, 184.
Commodore Preble,
189, 190.
Connecticut, 14, 17,
182-184, 257.
Cossack, 261.
Cottage City, 205.
Curlew (schooner),
257, 258.
Cushing, 192.
Cygnet (steam-tug),
82.
Dakota, 204.
Daniel Webster,261,
262.
Decatur, 25, 208.
Demologos, 128.
Dirigo, 205.
Dorothy Bradford,
123.
E. P. Morriss, 31.
E. P. Shaw, 31.
Steamboats, etc.
' Eagle, 12-14, 16, 17,
115, 116.
Eastern City, 261,
262.
Eastern Queen, 260,
261.
Eastern State, 259.
Edgewater, 114.
Eleonora, 205.
Eliza Hancox, 17.
Ella and Annie, 204.
Ella Knight, 23.
Emeline, 23, 117.
Emita, 207.
Empire State, 127.
Empress, 22.
Enterprise, 208.
Escort, 19, 23.
Essex, 25.
Evangeline (steam-
yacht), 113, 114.
Everett (steam-
yacht), 113.
Express, 119, 207,
265.
Fanny, 14, 15, 17,
19, 25.
Farnsworth (steam-
tug), 32.
Favorite, 17.
Florence, 30, 31.
Florida, 190, 192.
Flushing, 17, 120.
Forest City, 186,190-
192, 207.
Forest Queen, 207,
208.
Franconia, 205.
Fred'k de Bary, 17.
Fulton, 183.
Gazelle, 207.
General Bartlett,
17, 29.
General Berry, 17.
General Lincoln, 17,
18, 116-118.
General Lincoln, 2d,
17.
General Warren,
189, 190.
George A. Chaflfee,
28, 113.
George Shattuck,
122.
Steamboats, etc.
Gettysburg, 22.
Gilpin, 117.
Glide, 28.
Governor, 260, 270.
Governor Andrew,
17, 118, 119.
Governor Cobb, 200.
Governor Dana, 190.
Governor Dingley,
199, 200.
Governor Douglas,
22.
Grace Darling, 126.
Greenport, 263.
Gurnet, 120.
H. T. Dimock, 206.
Halifax, 117.
Hamilton (schoon-
er), 3.
Hamilton, 116.
Hancock, 17.
Harlem, 18.
Harvest Moon, 261.
Hazel Dell (steam-
tug), 32.
Herald, 25.
Hercules, 31.
Hetzel, 193.
Hingham, 118.
Hope, 17.
Horatio Hall, 205,
206.
Huntress, 124, 125,
188, 258, 265.
Independence, 265.
Iris, 120.
Iroquois, 263.
J. O. Ellison, 115.
J. W. Todd, 23.
Jacob Bell, 23.
Jetty, 114.
John Brooks, 1?0,
126, 194.
John Endicott, 21,
120.
John Englis, 205,
206.
John Hancock, 2, 7.
John Jay, 17.
John Marshall, 186,
189.
John Homer, 118.
John W. Richmond,
258, 259.
INDEX.
325
Steamboats, etc.
Josie M., 114.
Julia, 17.
Juliette, 127.
Kennebec, 128, 262,
263, 271.
Kennebec I, 259.
Kentucky, 262.
King Philip, 17, 185.
King Philip(schoon-
er), 197.
Kitty Boynton, 30.
Lafayette, 115, 116,
119.
Lawrence, 19, 26,
27, 114.
Legislator, 178, 179.
Leopard, 31.
Lewiston, 114, 190,
194.
Lexington, 187.
Lily, 120.
Lincoln, 262.
Longfellow, 122.
Luke Hoyt (steam-
tug), 32.
M. Y. Beach, 124,
125, 188, 258.
McDonough, 188.
MacDonough, 257.
Machigonne, 17, 18.
Maine, 128, 178.
Major, 126.
Manhattan, 205.
Martha's Vineyard,
17.
Martinique, 262.
Mary Chilton, 118.
Massachusetts, 1-13,
17.
Massasoit,, 113, 120.
Mattie Sargent,
(steam-tug), 29.
Maud, 29.
MaudS. (schooner),
196.
May Archer, 22,126.
Mayflower, 117, 118.
May Queen, 28, 31.
Mechanic, 25.
Melba. 22.
M err i mac, 15.
Merrimack, 15, 16,
25, 27, 28, 30.
Steamboats, etc.
Merriconeag, 126,
208.
Meta, 17, 18.
Minneola, 114.
Mischief, 19.
Mobile, 24.
Monohansett, 22.
Monomack (steam-
tug), 32.
Montreal, 190, 194.
Mt. Desert, 17.
Mt- Pleasant, 17.
Myles Standish,118.
Mystic, 23.
N. P. Banks, 23.
Nahant, 17, 118.
Xahanteau, 17.
Nantasket, 117, 118.
Nantasket 1st, 23.
Nantucket, 123.
Narragansett, 27.
Nassau, 18.
Naushon, 121, 122.
Nelly Baker, 17, 18,
117.
Nequsset, 17.
New Brunswick, 17,
21, 22, 127.
New England, 257,
258.
New York, 180, 181.
Newsboy, 122.
North Land, 206,
207.
North Star, 206.
Norwalk, 17.
Norwich, 19.
O. E. Lewis, 21.
Ocean, 259, 260.
Oceanic, 126.
Ohio, 25.
Old Colony, 118,206,
207.
Orient, 17, 30.
Ousatonic, 16, 17.
Panther, 31.
Patent, 15-17, 177-
179, 181.
Pauline, 21, 81.
Peerless, 28.
Penobscot, 263.
Penobscot I, 259,
269-271.
Pentagoet, 199.
Steamboats, etc.
Philadelphia, 20.
Pilgrim, 208.
Pine Tree State, 128.
Pioneer, 126.
Plymouth, 120.
PlymouthRock,127.
Pokanet, 17.
Pontoone, 191.
Portland, 193-200,
265.
Portland I, 187.
Portland II, 194.
Portsmouth, 124.
Potomac, 205.
Pottstown, 22.
Powwow (steam-
tug), 32.
Putnam, 18, 120.
Queen of the Mer-
rimack(barge),29.
R. B. Forbes (tow-
boat), 116.
Ransom B. Fuller,
200, 201, 263.
Rattlesnake, 31.
Regulator, 23.
Retribution, 202.
Rose Standisb, 117,
118.
Rush Light, 17, 116,
119.
S. E. Spring, 20, 21.
Sabine (U. S. frig-
ate), 270.
Sagadahoc, 262,263.
Saguenay, 262.
St. Lawrence, 190,
262.
Sandusky, 14, 15,
265.
Sarah, 27.
Savannah, 178.
Scotia, 261.
Scourge, 269.
Senator, 190.
Shoe City, 18, 120.
Sightseer, 127.
Silver Star, 27, 126.
South Shore, 118.
Stamford, 23, 120.
Star of the East,261,
262.
Startled Fawn, 30.
326
INDEX.
Steamboats, etc.
State of Maine, 260,
270, 271.
Sudower, 264.
Suffolk, 17.
Surf City, 21.
Surprise, 127.
T. F. Secor, 270.
Tacony, 191-193.
Three Brothers, 19,
113.
Thorn, 17.
Thurlow Weed
(steam-tug),28,32.
Tiger, 208.
Tom Thumb, 127.
Totten, 201.
Tremont, 194, 200.
Twilight, 118.
Ulysses, 17.
United States, 185.
Vanderbilt, 188.
Victory, 183.
Viking, 126.
W. J. Pease, 190,
270.
W. W. Coit, 23.
Wanderer, 113.
Washington(schoon-
er), 3.
Watertown, 20.
Watervillc, 177.
Wauwinet (steam-
tug:), 30.
White Fawn, 113.
William Harrison,
118.
William Storie, 21.
William Tibbetts,
19, 20.
Williamsport, 22.
Winthrop, 205.
Yacht, 23, 119.
Zephyr (steam-
yacht), 114.
Zodiac, 19.
Sterling, Lord, 173.
Steuben, Baron, 168,
169, 175, 253.
Stevens, R., 122.
Charles B., 27.
Daniel, 76.
John, 275.
Molly, 242.
Samuel, 27.
Stevens, Sarah, 76.
Scott, 34.
Stickney, , 245-6.
Abel, 245.
Betsey, 245.
Erastus B., 244.
Moses, 245.
Thomas, 243.
Still, Abraham Cald-
well, 157.
Rebeckah, 167.
Stimpson, E. E., 28.
Elisabeth, 167.
Stocker, , 157.
John, 137.
Robert, 137.
Robert, jr., 157.
Stoddard, , 235.
Stone, , 157.
Abigail, 157, 213,
291.
Daniel, 137.
Edward, 105.
Edwin M., 70.
Elisabeth, 137.
Esther, 137.
George, 76.
Hannah, 137.
James, 106.
John, 98, 137, 283.
John, sr., 213.
Joseph, 137.
Katherine, 58.
Mary, 157.
Miriam, 288.
Nathaniel, 137, 284.
Nathaniel, sr., 284,
285.
Nehemiah, 275.
Patience, 137.
Robert, 58.
Samuel, 58, 137,157,
213, 275, 281, 291.
Samuel, jr., 157.
Samuel, sr., 281.
Sarah, 137.
Susannah, 137.
William, 137, 157.
Stopford, William &
Co., 21.
Story, A. D., 123.
Franklin H., 10.
Joanna, 157.
William, 157.
Stoughton, , 230.
William, 80.
Strout, Lewis H., 198.
Sullivan, Gen., 170,
171.
J., 251, 252.
Sumner, George W.,
116.
Sutton, Ebenezer,137.
Elizabeth, 137.
Richard, 140, 141.
William, 137.
Swain, Daniel, 89.
Elizabeth, 89.
Hannah, 89.
Joseph, 89.
Mary, 89.
Swarton, John, 226,
278.
Swasey, Thomas, 15.
Sweet, , 137, 157.
Benjamin, 157.
Elizabeth, 157.
Hannah, 137.
Jabez, 157.
Jo., 157.
John, 137, 157.
Mary, 157.
Moses, 137, 157.
Nathaniel, 137.
Polly, 137.
Sweeting, Henry, 93.
Swetland, William,
286, 298.
Swett, Swet, ,157.
Benjamin, 137.
Polly, 137.
Rebeckah, 137.
Symons, Mark, 27.
Taylor, Oliver, 242.
Temple, John, 175.
R., 252.
Thaxter, Capt., 116.
Thomas, David, 214,
216.
Nathaniel, 234.
William, 196.
Thorndike, , 212.
Alice, 98.
Israel, 70, 88.
John, 98.
Joseph, 89.
Larkin, 140,141,158.
Martha, 98.
INDEX.
32T
Thorndike, Paul, 98.
Sarah, 89.
Thorndike & Endi-
cott, 105.
Thornton, Timothy,
158.
Tilton, Anna, 158.
J. F., 81.
John C., 113.
Tinkham, A. W., 128.
Tompkins, John, 61.
Nathaniel, 62.
Towne, Town, Anna,
87.
Hannah, 87.
Samuel, 87,
Solomon, 87.
Thomas, 87.
Townsend, Penn, 231,
234.
Trask, Traske, ,
65, 105, 212.
Benjamin, 225, 226.
Ebenezer, 91.
Elizabeth, 91, 225.
John, 62-65, 282.
John, jr., 63-65.
John, sr., 282.
Joseph, 225.
Martha, 222.
Osman, 210.
Osmond, 62, 225,226.
Samuel, 225, 226.
William, 51, 85, 93,
94, 282, 283.
Treadwell, Tredwill,
, 137, 158.
Aaron, jr., 137, 158.
Daniel, 137.
Elisha, 138, 153.
Elizabeth, 137.
Hannah, 153.
Jabez, 158.
Jacob, 137, 158.
John, 138.
Jonathan, 158.
Leveret, 158.
Lucy, 137, 158.
Lydia, 158.
Margaret, 158.
Martha, 137.
Mary, 137, 158.
Micajah, 137.
Moses, 137, 158.
Nathaniel, 137, 158.
Treadwell, Priscilla,
158.
Samuel, 137.
Sarah, 187.
William, 137.
Trenance, Elizabeth,
280.
John, 279, 280.
Martha, 280.
Rose, 280.
Trevet, Richard, 232,
234.
Tripe, S. M., 124.
Trott, , 128.
Trow, George, 87, 88.
Hannah, 87.
John, 218.
Tobias, 279.
William, 87, 88.
Trumbull, Trumble,
Trumbel, Trum-
bell, ,252, 255.
Governor, 163.
Jonathan, 252.
Tuck, George,275,292.
John, 76, 276, 295.
Ralph, 295.
Samuel, 295.
Thomas, 294, 295.
William, 292.
Tucker, Capt., 256.
John, 213.
Tuttle, John B., 27.
Upham, Charles W.,
239
Urin, Ruth, 158.
Vanderbilt, Commo-
dore, 188, 265.
Cornelius, 124, 184.
Vamlerford, Charles,
10, 12.
Vandike, , 171,
253, 255.
Van Dyke, Nicholas,
171.
Van Pelt, Capt., 17,
120.
Varina, Nicholas, 27.
Vatter, Henry, 29,113.
Verney, John, 158.
Verrill, C., 198,
Vesper, , 158.
Thomas, 158.
Vetts, B. F., 17.
Wadsworth, Rev.
, 162, 172.
Wainwright, Francis,
232.
Lucy, 158.
Wait, , 159.
Elizabeth, 138.
Elizabeth Perkins,
138.
Emma, 33.
Eunice, 158.
Hale, 138.
Hannah, 158.
John, 138, 158, 159.
John, jr., 158, 159.
Lucy, 159.
Mary, 159.
Oliver, 159.
Rebeckah, 138, 159.
Sally, 138.
Samuel, jr., 159.
Sarah, 169.
Susannah, 159.
Wakefield, James, 259.
Walden, Hannah, 159.
Mary Eliza, 100.
Sally. 100, 101.
Silas, 100.
Waldron, Nathaniel,
60.
Walker, Capt., 17.
Eleazor R., 27.
Wales, Herbert E.,
114.
Samuel, 253.
Wallis, Wallace, ,
159.
Aaron, 138.
Abiah (Conant), 86.
Anna, 102, 213.
Caleb, 227, 285, 286.
Dennison, 138.
Ebenezer, 93.
Elisabeth, 159.
Eunice, 138.
Fred H., 94.
Hannah, 138.
Joshua, 86, 138,159,
227, 228.
Mabel A., 94.
Margaret, 188.
Mary, 159.
328
INDEX.
Wallis, Nathaniel, 102,
214, 227, 285, 295.
Peggy, 138.
Polly, 138.
Robert, 138.
Robert, jr., 188.
Samuel, 138, 159.
William, 138.
Waller, Mr. , 164.
Walley, John, 234.
Walton, John T., 198.
Ward, Charles F., 197.
Hannah, 89.
Miles, 3d, 89.
Warner, , 159,253,
255.
Asa, 138.
Benjamin, 138.
Benjamin, jr., 159.
Caleb, 138.
Elias E., 162, 163.
Elias Elwell, 250.
E. E., 252, 254.
George Newman,
138.
Hannah, 138.
John, 138.
Lucy, 138.
Mary, 138.
Nathaniel, 138.
Sarah, 138.
Susannah, 138.
William, 159.
William, jr.,138,159.
William, 3d, 138.
Washington, Gen.,
249, 250, 256.
Waters, Watrs, John,
62.
John, sr., 62.
Richard, 62.
Richard P., 71, 72.
William, 68, 232.
Watkins, Capt., 3, 5.
Andrew, 2, 3.
Watts, Jeremiah, 69.
Weatherspoon, Dr.,
168, 172.
Webb, Col., 252.
Webber, , 159.
Francis, 138.
John, 280.
Sarah, 138.
Webster, Thomas,242.
Weed, Samuel, 299,
301.
Weeks, Lemuel, 184.
William, 189.
Welch, Robert, 76.
Thomas, 76.
Welds, Elizabeth, 138.
Thomas, 138.
Wells, , 159.
Anthony, 139.
David, 139.
Jonathan, 159.
Joseph, 139.
Moses, 139.
Moses, jr., 139.
Philemon, 139.
West, Thomas, 302.
Wheatland, Henry,
237.
Wheeler, John, 302.
Wheelwright,Martha.
159.
Whipple, , 254.
Gen., 174-176, 249,
253, 255.
Ruth, 159.
William, 175.
White, , 168, 174,
249, 252.
Francis, 71.
Henry, 70, 71.
Joseph, 71.
Philip, 97, 220.
Stephen, 2, 7, 71.
William, 249.
Whiteridge, Thomas,
296.
Whitney, Ada H., 34.
Elisha, 277.
Henry M., 24.
Whitten, J., 198.
Wiatt, , 252.
Wigglesworth, Wig-
elsworth, Ed ward,
256.
Wilcomb, Wilcome,
, 159.
Anna, 139.
Joseph, 139, 159.
William, 159.
Wild, Dr., 252.
Willard, B. J., 207.
Simon, 292.
William, 208.
Willett, Capt.,203,204.
Willey, William, 16.
Williams, , 160,
162, 168.
Williams, George,
162.
Joseph, 139, 160.
Joshua, 160.
Rebeckah, 139.
Wills, John N., 26.
Winthrop.Winthrope,
Dr., 256.
Anne, 72.
Elizabeth, 55.
Fitz John, 72.
John, 53, 54, 72.
John, jr., 53-55. -
Martha, 72.
Wait, 72.
Wise, Joseph, 139.
William, 139.
Witcher, , 160.
Witherspoon, ,
173, 253, 255, 256.
John, 168.
Wood, Woods, ,
17, 76.
Albert, 25.
Anthony, 212, 216.
Charles, 248.
John, 13, 25, 26.
Martha, 248.
Thomas, 248.
William, 79, 232.
Woodbury,Woodbery,
Woodburie, Wood-
berry , Andre w,280,
303.
Ann, 291, 303.
Benjamin, 95, 96.
Ebenezer, 56, 57, 60,
220.
Emma, 280, 281.
Frank A. , 90.
Hannah, 95.
Hugh, 291, 292.
Isaac, 213, 226.
Isaac, jr., 226.
Israel, 57, 211.
John, 95, 99, 104-
106.
John, sr., 101.
Joseph, 57.
Joshna, 226.
Levi, 96.
Mary Ann, 96.
Mary, 222, 226, 291.
Nathaniel, 57.
Nicholas, 68, 69.
INDEX.
329
Woodbury, Peter, 62, Woodman.Henry, 245. Zackary, Daniel, 73.
85, 86, 90, 94, 96, Wright, Maj., 242.
97, 101, 219, 220. E., jr., 121.
Peter, jr., 95. Wyat, , 175.
Peter, sr., 95.
Samuel, 60, 210.
Yates, Francis, 88.
Thomas, 298.
William, 57,274,294. Younger, Morriss M.,
SUBNAMKS MISSING.
, Abigail, 139.
, Dinah (Negro),
160.
, Richard, 139.
Woodman, George F.,
114.
98.
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