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CONTENTS. 



Belknap, Henry Wyckoff. The Burnap-Burnett Genealogy. 

(Illustrated.) 225, 265 

Beverly in 1700. By Sidney Perley. (Illustrated.) . 33,98,209 
Bolton, Theodore. John Hazlitt, Portrait Painter, . .' 293 
Boston and Maine Railroad, History of. By Francis B. C. 

Bradley. (Illustrated.) ....... 241 

Boxford, First Known Tax Rate of. Communicated by 

Sidney Perley. .'..., % ... 297 
Bradlee, Francis B. C. History of the Boston and Maine 

Railroad. (Illustrated.) ....... 241 

Bradlee, Francis B. C. Some Account of Steam Navigation 

in New England. (Illustrated.) 113, 177 

Bradlee, Francis B. C. The Dreadnought of Newburyport. 

(Illustrated.) 1 

Burbank-Pickering Memorandum Book, Copy of the . 281 
Burnap-Burnett Genealogy, The. By Henry Wyckoff Belk- 
nap. (Illustrated.) 225, 265 

Dreadnought, The, of Newburyport. Some account of the 

old Transatlantic Packet Ships. By Francis B. C. 

Bradlee. (Illustrated.) 1 

Edmunds, John H. Documents Relating to Marblehead, 

Mass. (Continued.) 70, 156, 202 

Felch-Feltch Pedigree, A. By Frank Hervey Pettingell. . 148 
Gray, Edward. The William Grays in Salem in 1797. . 145 
Hazlitt, John, Portrait Painter. By Theodore Bolton. . 293 
Holten, Samuel, M. D., Journal of, while in the Continental 

Congress, 1778-1780. 24, 88 

Howe, Abraham, and Some of His Descendants. By M. V. 

B. Perley 50 

Marblehead, Mass., Documents Relating to. Copied by 

John H. Edmunds. (Continued.) . . . .70, 156, 202 
Marblehead Harbor, Petition for Protection of, in 1727. . 309 
Newbury Church Records. Dismissions and Admissions. 222 

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IV CONTENTS. 

Norfork County Records, Old. (Continued.) . . . 298 
Perley, M. V. B. Abraham Howe and Some of His De- 
scendants. . . , . ,-.... . . . . 50 

Perley, Sidney. Beverly in 1700. (Illustrated.) . . S3, 98, 209 
Perley, Sidney. First Known Tax Rate of Boxford. . . 297 
Pettingell, Frank Hervey. A Felch-Feltch Pedigree. . . 148 
Rantoul, Robert S. A Memoir of William Phineas Upham. 

(Illustrated.) 161 

Stacey, Captain Richard, of Marblehead. By Harriet Sil- 
vester Tapley. (Illustrated.) 81 

Steam Navigation in New England, Some Account of. By 

Francis B. C. Bradlee. (Illustrated.) .... 113, 177 
Tapley, Harriet Silvester. Captain Richard Stacey of Mar- 
blehead. (Illustrated.) .' 81 

Upham, William Phineas, A Memoir. By Robert S. Rantoul. 

(Illustrated.) 161 



HISTOEICAL COLLECTIONS 

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VOL. LVI JANUARY, 1920 No. 1 

T^E DREADNOUGHT OF NEWBURYPORT 

AND SOME ACCOUNT OP THE OLD TRANSATLANTIC 
PACKET SHIPS. 



BY FRANCIS B. C. BRADLEE. 



The maritime history of Newburyport, Massachusetts, 
has never yet been adequately written. Many famous 
vessels were owned and sailed from this old Essex County 
city, but not a few ships were also built in Newburyport 
for Boston and New York merchants, and among the 
best known of these was the " Dreadnought," built by 
Currier and Townsend in 1853, and afterwards celebrated 
for making the shortest passage across the Atlantic ever 
accomplished by a sailing vessel, nine days and seventeen 
hours, from Sandy Hook to the pilot-boat off Queenstown, 
Ireland. At this period the transatlantic carrying trade, 
both passenger and freight, was, and had been for many 
years, controlled by American packet-ships, as the regu- 
lar sailing liners were called, and three out of the five 
lines of steamers then existing were also under the Amer- 
ican flag. 

The " Dreadnought " was built for the Red Cross line 
of New York and Liverpool packets owned by Governor 
E. D. Morgan, Francis B. Cutting, David Ogden and 
others of New York ; she measured 1400 tons register, 
200 feet long, 39 feet beam, and 26 feet depth of hold, 
and was commanded by Capt. Samuel Samuels, who be- 

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2 THE DREADNOUGHT OP NEWBUBYPORT 

came quite as famous as his ship. She was launched in 
the presence of a large concourse of people October 6, 
1853, from the yard at the foot of Ashland street, and 
on the third day of November following left for New 
York in tow of the steam-tug " Leviathan." 

By the sailors the " Dreadnought " was named " the 
Wild Boat of the Atlantic " ; she was what might be 
termed a semi-clipper, and possessed the merit of being 
able to bear driving as long as her sails and spars would 
stand. It is understood that her builders also designed 
her, and so deserved the greatest credit, as well for her 
model and fine lines as for the strength and solidity of 
her hull, which was constructed principally of white oak 
and yellow pine. Twice the " Dreadnought " carried 
the latest news to Europe, slipping in between the steam- 
ers ; she was naturally a favorite among the traveling 
public, and her cabin accommodations were usually en- 
gaged a season in advance. On her westward voyages 
she carried large numbers of emigrants. At one time 
goods shipped by the " Dreadnought " were guaranteed 
delivery within a certain time, or freight charges would 
be forfeited. 

In February, 1854, her first voyage westward she 
crossed the bar in the river Mersey the day after the 
Cunard steamer " Canada " sailed for Boston, and when 
the news of her arrival reached New York the " Dread- 
nought " was reported off the Highlands of New Jersey. 
Her best passages were' as follows : 

New York to Liverpool, December, 1853, 24 days. 

Liverpool to New York, February, 1854, 19 days. 

New York to Liverpool, April, 1854, 18 days. 

Liverpool to New York, June, 1854, 26 days. 

New York to Liverpool, August, 1854, 80 days. 

Liverpool to New York, October, 1854, 29 days. 

New York to Liverpool, December, 1854, 13 days, 11 hours. 

New York to Liverpool, February, 1856, 15 days. 

New York to Liverpool, May, 1856, 16 days. 

Liverpool to New York, February, 1857, 21 days. 

(land to land, 15 days). 

New York to Liverpool, March, 1859, 13 days, 9 hours. 
(Sandy Hook to Queenstown, 9 days, 17 hours). 



BY FRANCIS B. C. BBADLEK 3 

When one takes into consideration the fickleness of the 
elements and the prevalence of westerly gales in the 
north Atlantic ocean, the rapidity and especially the reg- 
ularity of the " Dreadnought's " trips are wonderful. 
Capt. Samuels, in his interesting autobiography, " From 
the Forecastle to the Cabin," attributed his success to 
good discipline and to forcing the ship at night as well as 
during the day. " Night," he says, " is the best time to 
try the nerve and make quick passages. The best ship- 
masters that I had sailed with were those who were most 
on deck after flark, and relied upon nobody but them- 
selves to carry canvas. The expert sailor knows exactly 
how long his sails and spars will stand the strain, the 
lubber does not, and therefore is apt to lose both." It 
may be noted in passing that the " Dreadnought " car- 
ried the old-fashioned single topsails that in themselves 
" held a whole gale of wind," requiring to reef each one 
a whole watch, as a division of the crew is called. 

Until after the death of Captain Samuels in 1908, no 
doubt had ever been expressed as to the rapidity of the 
" Dreadnought's " record trip of nine days and seventeen 
hours from land to land. Unfortunately in the last few 
years a small coterie in New York, jealous of Captain 
Samuels' success, have endeavored, with no real founda- 
tion of fact, to deny that the fast passage of 1859 ever 
took place. The author has investigated the case with 
the greatest care, and the result as here stated speaks for 
itself and proves, beyond a reasonable doubt, that the 
fastest voyage across the Atlantic ocean ever made by a 
sailing ship was by the " Dreadnought," in nine days and 
seventeen hours, from Sandy Hook to the pilot-boat off 
Queenstown harbor, in March, 1859. Some excuse is due 
the reader for the minuteness and repetition with which 
the case is stated, but those on the other side have worked 
with such energy to prove the record a myth, that the 
author thinks it is due the memory of Captain Samuels 
and the American merchant marine generally to clear up 
beyond doubt the facts of the " Dreadnought's " most 
celebrated voyage. 

In his "History of the New York Ship Yards," page 
141, John H. Morrison says : 



4 THE DREADNOUGHT OF NEWBURYPOBT 

The log book of the " Dreadnought " containing the record of 
this famous voyage of March, 1859, is not in existence, so far as 
known to the descendants of David Ogden (the agent of the Red 
Cross line). Captain Samuels informed the writer that on this 
voyage he ran the vessel to Daunt's Eock, communicated with the 
pilot-boat on the station at the mouth of Cork harbor (Queens- 
town), and proceeded on his way to Liverpool after a very short 
stop. The vessel left New York harbor with a high northeast wind, 
but about twelve hours later this was succeeded by a high north- 
westerly wind on the North Atlantic coast. An examination of the 
reports of vessels arriving at New York from Great Britain after 
the " Dreadnought " sailed from New York on February 27, 1859, 
till the day of her call off Cork harbor, show us that there was a 
succession of heavy westerly gales during the whole period . . . 
this favorable condition for a fast eastern passage continued to the 
time of the stop off Queenstown, but leaving there the " Dread- 
nought" encountered light head winds, and arrived at Liverpool on 
March 13, according to the London Times. 

In response to an inquiry by Mr. Morrison while he 
was compiling his above mentioned book, Capt. Samuels 
dictated to his daughter the following letters : J 

194 Clinton street (Brooklyn), April 2, 1908. 

Dear Mr. Morrison: You ask me for the record voyage of the 
"Dreadnought." We discharged the pilot at 3 P. M., Feb. 27, 1859, 
off Sandy Hook. We were off Queenstown at the end of nine days, 
seventeen hours, when we sent our mails ashore by a Cork pilot- 
boat. 1 The wind then became variable and died down. In thirteen 
days, eight hours, we were abreast the Northwest Lightship at Liv- 
erpool, and one hour later anchored in the Mersey, March 12, noon. 
The following will give an idea of the character of the ship and 
the time she made, including the above. In 1854 she made the same 
passage in thirteen days, eleven hours, and six times in succession 
under sixteen days, including one run of fourteen days and one of 
fifteen days. 

Yours, S. S. 



'The author owns a negative of the first one, the original of which 
is in Miss Samuel's handwriting. 

a Although in 1859 the mails were carried by steamer, the "Dread- 
nought 11 was so well known as a fast ship that she doubtless carried 
letters directed to be sent by her. 



BY FKANCIS B. C. BRADLEE 5 

194 Clinton Street, April 6, 1908. 

Dear Sir: I regret I cannot give you any further information in 
reference to the "Dreadnought" in regard to dates. When my leg 
was broken in 1862, the cabin was flooded in that gale, and nearly 
all my papers were destroyed. What I have' given you is what I 
have gathered from some notes that I had and some newspaper clip- 
pings. I will be pleased to see you at any time this week, when 
you may see what I have in regard to her passages. 
Very truly yours, 

S. SAMUELS, E. M. S. 

In a letter to Mr. Morrison 1 , dated June 16, 1908, Mr. 
C. F. Ogden, whose father was the New York agent of 
the " Dreadnought," says : 

In reply to your letter I would beg to say that I have no idea 
where the log book of the " Dreadnought " could be found. It is 
certainly true that the voyage was made in that time, as I well re- 
member. 

Very truly, 

C. F. O&DBN. 

The New York Herald of April 1, 1905, and the New 
York World of June 5, 1905, contain personal interviews 
with the late Capt. Samuels in which he distinctly claims 
the nine day and seventeen hours record. Finally, for 
many years previous to his death, Capt. Samuels was 
president of the New York Marine Journal and Miss 
Schanze at first stenographer, and now assistant editor of 
that paper, affirms that Capt. Samuels not only often 
spoke to her of the record passage, but even dictated 
notes in regard to it. (See Marine Journal, June 30, 
1917.) This is confirmed, also, in letters to the author 
by Capt. George L. Norton, the present editor of the 
Marine Journal, and by Miss Edith Samuels herself. It 
is unfortunate that Capt. Samuels in his book makes no 
mention of the nine day and seventeen hours transatlantic 
passage, although he devotes quite a little space to the 
" Dreadnought," alluding to two or three of her fast runs, 
but the exact dates are not always given. 

The famous mutiny on board the " Dreadnought " 
(August, 1859), in which only the iron will and bravery 

Printed in the New York Sun, May 21, 1917. 



6 THE DREADNOUGHT OP NEWBURYPORT 

of the captain saved the lives of the officers and passen- 
gers, as well as the ship, furnishes one of the most ex- 
citing episodes in the history of the old transatlantic 
packet-ships. It happened that the entire crew had been 
shipped in Liverpool from a class of the most lawless and 
bloodthirsty rascals that ever made a port notorious. 
They were a fraternity of criminals, whose name was a 
terror to shipmasters, and two or three of whom would 
disorganize any well-meaning crew. They had a particu- 
lar grudge against Samuels, and had been for some time 
waiting an opportunity to vent it, and, when he coolly 
accepted, contrary to advice, an entire crew of their num- 
ber, they imagined that the opportunity had come. 

As the " Dreadnought " lay in the Mersey before sail- 
ing, the captain quietly informed them that he knew their 
designs, and began operations by sending every man to 
the carpenter to have the point of his knife broken. The 
next morning at sea the sluggishness and sullenness of the 
men indicated the brewing trouble. The man at the 
wheel, when reprimanded, tried to draw his knife, but 
Samuels knocked him down. He was put in irons, and 
the crew came aft, refusing to go to work until he was 
released. Capt. Samuels ordered them to their places ; 
they refused, and the promised mutiny was a fact. While 
the crew rushed forward, the captain went down to his 
cabin and armed himself. He had only one officer (the 
third), Whitehorn, to help him in the emergency, the 
chief officer being an old man and the second a coward. 

Capt. Samuels then went forward, leaving Whitehorn 
at the wheel, and at the end of the deckhouse the crew 
rushed at him with their newly pointed knives. Backing 
away from them with revolvers loaded, the captain went 
aft, and tried starvation to bring them to reason. The 
crew set a watch to prevent the forecastle hatch from 
being battened down, and the night passed away. The 
royals were furled at 3.30 in the morning by the officers 
and boys, the men refusing, and in the forenoon the cap- 
tain helped the third officer to work tacks and sheets when 
they tacked ship. Fifty-six hours thus passed without 
any sleep aft or food forward. The mutiny was fast 



BY FRANCIS B. 0. BBADLBE 7 

coming to a head and bloodshed was imminent. The cap- 
tain got seventeen Germans from among the emigrants to 
stand by him and armed them with iron bars. Hatches 
were fastened down and the deck barricaded to prevent 
some of the steerage passengers, who had also given 
trouble, from joining forces with the crew. 

At three o'clock in the morning the captain, backed by 
Whitehorn and his dog, went forward prepared for the 
encounter. Capt. Samuels tells the story as follows : 

When the dog reached the corner of the house a deep growl 
indicated that someone was hidden forward of it. Having learned 
that Casey and Sweeney were the ones to make the attack, I pro- 
ceeded cautiously, with revolver in hand, to the edge of the house, 
when they both jumped from behind it toward me, with arms up- 
lifted and knives in hand ready to strike. In an instant I levelled 
my pistol at Casey, while the dog jumped at Sweeney's throat. 
Casey, seeing his danger, backed to the forecastle scuttle, while the 
other two men yelled down the forecastle: "Jump up, boys! We've 
got him! Let's murder him now!" With shouts and oaths they 
rushed on deck, determined to finish their work. They had planned 
during the night that some were to go around, while others were to 
clamber over the house and make an attack on flank and rear. In 
this movement, however, they were checked by the Germans, who 
arose from behind their barricade and felled the ringleaders with 
their iron bars. Seeing themselves defeated and me re-enforced, 
they retreated to the starboard side forward, where I held them at 
bay with revolver levelled and hammer raised. 

After a short and decisive parley, the men gave in, and 
" one knife after another went spinning overboard to lee- 
ward just as the sun was rising, and a more gratifying 
sight I never saw than those gleaming blades dropping 
into the ocean." 

So celebrated did the " Dreadnought " become that the 
western ocean sailors composed the following song, or 
" chantey," about her, which used to be sung, with many 
variations, dependent somewhat on the singer, on Eng- 
lish speaking ships, some forty years ago : 



I THE DREADNOUGHT OF NEWBURYPORT 

THE "DREADNOUGHT." 

There's a sauey wild packet, a packet of fame, 
She belongs to New York, and the Dreadnought's her name, 
She is bound to the westward, where the strong winds do blow, 
Bound away in the Dreadnought to the westward we'll go. 

The time of her sailing is now drawing nigh, 

Farewell, pretty maids, I must wish you good-by. 

Farewell to old England and all we hold dear; 

Bound away in the Dreadnought to the westward we'll steer. 

Oh, the Dreadnought is hauling out of Waterloo dock, 
Where the boys and girls on the pier-head do flock. 
They will give us three cheers, while the tears freely flow, 
Saying, " God bless the Dreadnought where'er she may go." 

Oh, the Dreadnought is waiting in the Mersey so free, 
For the Independence to tow her to sea, 
For to round that Rock Light where the Mersey does flow, 
Bound away in the Dreadnought to the westward we'll go. 

Now the Dreadnought's a-bowling down the wild Irish Sea, 
Her passengers merry with hearts full of glee. 
Her sailors like lions walk the decks to and fro, 
She's the Liverpool packet O, Lord, let her go! 

Now the Dreadnought's a-sailing the Atlantic so wide, 
Where the high rolling seas roll along her black side, 
With her sails tautly set for the red cross to show, 
She's the Liverpool packet O, Lord, let her go! 

Now the Dreadnought's becalmed on the Banks of Newfoundland, 
Where the water's so green and the bottom's all sand, 
Where those fish of the ocean do swim to and fro, 
Bound away in the Dreadnought to the westward we'll go. 

Now the Dreadnought's arrived in New York once more, 
So go ashore, shipmates, to the land we adore ; 
With wives and with sweethearts so merry we'll be, 
And drink to the Dreadnought wherever we be. 

Then a health to the Dreadnought and to her brave crew, 
To bold Captain Samuels and his officers too; 
Talk about your flash packets, Swallow Tail and Black Ball, 
The Dreadnought's the flier that can lick them all. 



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THE AMERICAN SHIP DOVER. 
IRA BURSLEV, CoMXtXDEl, 

ONE OF THE LINE OF LIVERPOOL AND BOSTON PACKET SHIPS 

Thar Shipt Irart Liverpool on Ike 20M, and Boston OK tit lit of mrj Momtk. 




BY FRANCIS B. C. BRADLEE 9 

Another exciting episode in the "Dreadnought's" career 
occurred in February, 1862, when she was bound to the 
westward and had reached that part of the Atlantic 
known as the " tempestuous forties " or the " Devil's 
blow-hole." In the midst of a furious gale the ship was 
struck by a heavy sea, which broke Capt. Samuel's right 
leg and would have carried him overboard but for his 

O 

timely seizure by two sailors. As he lay in the cabin, 
prevented from amputating his broken limb only by those 
around him (the " Dreadnought " did not carry a doctor 
on that trip), the news came down that the rudder had 
been carried away. 

The ship lay for three days in the trough of the sea, 
while the crew, under the disabled commander's orders, 
were constructing a new rudder. This was lost in setting 
it, and then, all efforts to turn the ship's head southward 
by means of drags having been found useless, the captain 
had furled all the head sails and all the canvas on the 
foremast, set all the square sails on the mizzen-mast, the 
whole of the maintopsail and the starboard clew of the 
mainsail, and threw sharp back every sail that was set. 
By keeping the sails trimmed flat back, the ship was 
sailed backward for 280 miles towards the nearest harbor, 
Fayal. By the time the port was reached the second rud- 
der was shipped, and they anchored safely. It took 
fifty-one days to repair the ship, and, when she was ready, 
the captain, who had been hoisted over the side on a 
mattress, went aboard with his leg in splints, having re- 
fused to leave Fayal without her, notwithstanding the 
poor surgical treatment the Azores Islands afforded. 

Before the advent of the "Dreadnought" in 1853, the 
Red Cross line of New York and Liverpool packets had 
consisted of six other first class ships, the "St. George," 
"St. Patrick," "Highflyer," "Andrew Forster," "Driver," 
and "Racer." Strange to say, every one of these vessels 
but one was lost before the "Dreadnought" was completed, 
and that one very soon after, leaving her in solitary state 
on the line. The "St. George" was burned in the Chops 
of the British Channel, and the "St. Patrick" was 
wrecked on the New Jersey coast, but with no loss of life. 



10 THE DREADNOUGBT OF NBWBUBYPOBT 

Not so fortunate was the "Highflyer ;" after making 
several very fast transatlantic trips, including one of 21 
days, Liverpool to New York, in February, 1855, she was 
chartered for a voyage from New York to San Francisco 
and Hong Kong, and was never heard from after leaving 
San Francisco in October, 1856. It was supposed that 
she had been destroyed by Chinese pirates and that they 
had murdered the crew. The " Driver," bound to New 
York from Liverpool, was "missing," with over 600 souls 
on board, emigrants and crew. The "Racer" was lost on 
Blackwater Bank, in the Irish Channel, but no lives lost ; 
and the "Andrew Forster" was run into, also in the Irish 
Channel, and two lives were lost. The "Racer," of 1669 
tons, completed in 1851, and the "Highflyer" of 1195 
tons, completed in 1853, and built at Newburyport by 
Currier and Townsend, were among the last vessels con- 
structed by them before they went out of business in 
1856. Towards the end of the 1860's the iron screw-pro- 
pelled steamers had driven off many of the transatlantic 
packet-ships, and among these was the "Dreadnought." 

In 1869, while she was bound from Liverpool to San 
Francisco, in charge of Capt. Mayhew, when off Cape 
Horn, a calm prevailed, and it was finally noticed that 
the current of the ocean was forcing the ship towards the 
land. Every effort was made, with all hands in the boats 
trying to keep her off until a breeze prevailed, but it was 
of no use, and the "Dreadnought" finally went ashore 
and became a total loss. For three weeks before relief 
came the crew suffered terribly from exposure and want. 
All hands had to keep in the open boats out at sea at 
night, and land in the daytime to watch, sleep and eat, 
until finally they were taken off by a passing ship. 

A short account of the old transatlantic packet service 
in general may not be out of place here. As far back as 
1756 the British government had begun a packet and mail 
service between Falmouth, England and New York, with 
monthly departures. This service worked well up to 
and during, the Revolution and for many years after, ex- 
cept that when the United States became independent, 
Halifax was made the American terminus instead of New 



BY FRANCIS B. C. BRADLEB 11 

York. The British mail-packets were, generally, brigs of 
not over 200 tons each, known as "coffin brigs," as so 
many of them had succumbed beneath the wintry waves 
of the North Atlantic. 

In the years just preceding the Kevolution there were 
also, several regular traders, owned in Boston, plying 
between Boston and London ; the best known of these 
were the "Boston Packet" (owned by John Hancock), 
Capt. John Marshall, and the "London Packet," Capt. 
Robert Calef. Neither of these vessels was over 300 
tons. Late in the eighteenth century, Liverpool began 
to be substituted for London as the English port, the 
coarser and bulkier cargoes coming from Liverpool, and 
the finer goods being shipped from London. For some 
time after the close of the Revolution everything was in 
such a disorganized condition that while there were plenty 
of transient ships,few regular packets plied on the Atlantic. 

Before the Revolution Americans had imported the 
larger part of their manufactured articles from Great 
Britain. Beginning in 1783, St. Jean de Crevecoeur, the 
newly appointed French consul general to the United 
States, attempted to change the course of trade and made 
plans whereby France might supply our demand for 
European goods. To bring the two countries closer to- 
gether he founded the Gallo- American Society, which had 
but a short career, and also induced the French govern- 
ment to start a packet service between Lorient and New 
York. The French line was .subsidized by the govern- 
ment, the ships formed part of the French navy and were 
commanded by naval officers, but, strange to say, the en- 
tire service was managed, or rather mis-managed, by a 
private banking house in Paris. 

Unlike the majority of ships at that time, these packets 
were copper-bottomed. They carried only the mail, a 
few passengers, and a small amount of light and valu- 
able freight. Each vessel measured about 300 tons, the 
size of a small modern three-masted schooner. The 
names of some of the best known were the " Courrier 
de 1'Europe," " Courrier de 1' Amerique," " Marechal de 
Castries," etc. The last named ship, through the repre- 



12 THE DREADNOUGHT OF NEWBURYPORT 

sentations of de Crevecoeur, was built in Boston by John 
Peck, a well known shipbuilder of his day. This was 
done in order to show off the superior merits, in de 
Crevecoeur's opinion, of American-built ships. It is in- 
teresting to note that at this time, 1784-92, the rate of 
postage for a single letter under half an ounce from New 
York to Lorient was 20 cents. Strange as it may seem, 
this was actually less than was paid for single letters to 
France as late as the 1860's. 

Early in 1805 the Boston Importing Co. was formed, 
to operate vessels, and also import and export goods be- 
tween Boston, Liverpool and London. J. W. Storrow 
was the treasurer of this concern, and Ammidon and 
Boyle were the agents. In May, 1805, they advertised 
the ship " Sally," Capt. Seth Webber, " intended for a 
regular ship between this port and Liverpool, 323 tons, 
coppered to the bends, and having elegant accommoda- 
tions for passengers." This vessel and others named the 
" Packet " and the " Romeo " were run between Boston 
and Liverpool in 1806 by the Boston Importing Co. 

In addition to the ordinary dangers of the seas, Ameri- 
can commerce at this time was subjected to great annoy- 
ance, disaster and loss, in connection with the tremendous 
struggle then in progress between Great Britain and 
France. What with the British Orders in Council on the 
one hand and French Decrees on the other, it is marvel- 
lous that the New England merchants were able to main- 
tain their position on the ocean at all. The Boston Im- 
porting Company's ship " Sally " was " sequestered " at 
San Sebastian in 1810, but finally was released in order 
to bring home the American minister to France, General 
Armstrong. Owing to this and the fact that another of 
their ships, the " Packet", had been seized for sometime 
at Hamburg, the Boston Importing Company became in- 
volved in financial troubles and its affairs were settled. 

In 1816 the ship " Palladium," of 341 tons, was built 
at Salem, under the superintendence of Capt. John White, 
and was considered then the best constructed vessel ever 
produced in that city. She was intended to be a regular 

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packet between Salem and Liverpool, and nearly every 



BY FRANCIS B. C. BRADLEE 13 

business or professional man in Salem and many in Dan- 
vers owned shares in her. The enterprise originated with 
the traders on Essex street, the dealers in dry goods and 
hardware, and could they have kept it in their own hands, 
the project might have been successful, but they called in 
the assistance of other parties, who changed the whole 
programme, and the " Palladium " was sent to Calcutta 
instead of Liverpool, and finally sold to Boston owners 
in December, 1817. 

The Boston and Liverpool Packet Company was or- 
ganized in 1821. They tried to get a charter from the 
Massachusetts Legislature and failed, but nevertheless ran 
several ships, the "Amethyst," "Topaz," "Sapphire," 
and "Emerald," between Boston and Liverpool, but the 
enterprise soon failed. Very little can be learned about 
it, except that it appears to have been the first company 
to name its ships on a definite plan. The history of the 
" Topaz " was a tragical one. On her way from Calcutta 
to Boston, in 1829 or 1830, in charge of Capt. Brewster, 
she was destroyed by pirates in the vicinity of St. Helena, 
and every one on board murdered. 

A third Liverpool packet line was organized in Boston 
in 1827 by Henry Hall, Joshua Blake, David Henshaw 
and others. They also tried to get a charter from the 
Legislature, but failed. Notwithstanding they had built 
for them at Medford, by Thatcher Magoun, several ships 
of the highest class, especially designed for passenger ves- 
sels : the New England," "Lowell," "Trenton," "Plym- 
outh," " Dover," " Boston," and " Liverpool," all alike, 
and measuring between 400 and 500 tons each. 

A plan of the "Dover," owned by the author, reveals 
the fact that she was exceedingly well fitted up for trav- 
ellers, having comfortable staterooms, library, bath room, 
etc., which are only supposed to be adjuncts of the mod- 
ern steam liner. Jabez Howes and Ira Bursley were the 
best known captains of the line ; George G. Jones was 
the Boston agent, and, according to the advertisement, 
" mattresses, bedding, wines and all other stores were to 
be furnished to passengers in the cabin, and for them the 
fare to Liverpool was to be $140." The " Boston " was 



14 THE DREADNOUGHT OF NEWBURYPORT 

struck by lightning and burnt May 26, 1830, a few days 
out from Charleston, S. C., on her way to Liverpool. This 
packet line ceased operations,probably owing to hard times, 
about 1833, as no trace of it can be found after that. 

By far the best known line of Boston and Liverpool 
packet-ships was the one started in 1844 by Enoch Train 
of Boston and known as the " White Diamond line." 
The first ships advertised were the " Dorchester," 500 
tons ; " Cairo," 600 tons ; " Governor Davis," 800 tons, 
and the " St. Petersburg," 800 tons ; " all first class Med- 
ford-built,copper-fastened, coppered and fast-sailing ships." 
Mr. Train afterwards added to his fleet the following ves- 
sels ; "Joshua Bates," " Anglo-Saxon," " Anglo-Ameri- 
can," " Washington Irving," " Ocean Monarch," "Par- 
liament," " Daniel Webster," " Star of Empire," "Chariot 
of Fame," "Staffordshire," "Bostonian," and "John 
Eliot Thayer." Most of the latter ships were built by the 
celebrated Donald McKay at East Boston, and were large 
for their day, ranging from 1000 to 1500 tons each. They 
were especially designed for the emigrant trade and car- 
ried large numbers of steerage passengers. 

Contrary to general belief, the packet-ships belonging 
to the various lines were not of the clipper type, with 
the exception of the " Dreadnought," " Racer," " Staf- 
fordshire," and a few others. The packets were built 
with more or less full lines, poops extending nearly to the 
mainmast, and great breadth of beam, thus insuring large 
carrying capacity combined with strength of hull. They 
were not intended for extreme speed, and when they did 
make rapid passages it was entirely owing to the good 
seamanship of the commanders in carrying a heavy press 
of canvas. Nevertheless the " Ocean Monarch ", which 
sailed from Boston in March, 1848, four hours after the 
Cunard steamer " Brittania," arrived in the Mersey on 
the same day, both making the passage in 15 days. 

Several of the Train ships came to grief : the " Ocean 
Monarch" was burnt just outside Liverpool, Aug. 24, 
1848; the "Staffordshire" was wrecked on the Nova 
Scotia coast, Dec. 30, 1853, and the " Cathedral " thrown 



BY FRANCIS B. C. BRADLEE 15 

on her beam ends and wrecked off Cape Horn (on a char- 
tered voyage), in 1857 ; all with the loss of many lives- 
Caldwell, Murdock, Thayer, Richardson, etc., were among 
the best known captains in the White Diamond line. Mr. 
Train failed during the panic of 1857 ; his successors, 
Thayer and Warren, afterwards Warren and Company, 
gradually substituted chartered British steamers for sail- 
ing vessels in the Boston and Liverpool trade. Later 
they owned many fine steamers under the British flag, 
known as the Warren line, which lasted until 1913. 

The last packet-ship in the North Atlantic was the well 
known barque " Sarah," owned by E. A. Adams and Co. 
of Boston and operated by them between the latter port 
and the Azores until 1895. This was before there was 
any regular steam communication between those islands 
and the United States, and the " Sarah " was always well 
patronized, carrying ten or twenty passengers in the cabin 
and several hundreds in the steerage. She was built at 
Stockton, Maine, in 1871, measured 530 tons, 135 feet 
long, 31 feet beam, and her commander while in the 
Azores trade was Capt. Lewis R. Hale. 

The era of packet-ships was brought into existence by 
the demands of the increasing trade between the United 
States and Europe at the close of the war of 1812. A 
pioneer line from New York was the famous Black Ball 
line (so called because its ships had a large black ball 
painted on their foretopsails as a distinguishing mark at 
sea ; the Red Cross line carried a red cross in the same 
manner, Enoch Train's vessels a black T, and so on), 
founded in 1816, with the " New York," "Canada," "Pa- 
cific," " James Munroe," etc., each about 400 tons, con- 
sidered large in those days, and full ship-rigged. Their 
passenger accommodations were very fine and a great 
advance over anything then existing. One or another of 
these packets sailed from New York regularly on the first 
day of the month, and during the first nine years their 
average time for sailing to Liverpool was 23 days, 
and for returning home 40 days, but the " Canada " once 
made the outward trip in 15 days 18 hours. 

From 1836, when Charles H. Marshall and Co. became 
the principal owners of the Black Ball line, the number 



16 THE DREADNOUGHT OP NEWBURYPORT 

of its vessels was increased by the accession of the "Ox- 
ford," " Cambridge," " Montezuma," " Yorkshire," " De- 
vonshire," "Fidelia," "Columbia," "Isaac Webb," "Alex- 
ander Marshall," and many others. The "Isaac Webb" 
was perhaps one of the best known of their vessels ; she 
was built by Wm. H. Webb at New York in 1850, of 
live oak, locust and cedar, 188 feet long, 40 feet beam, 
with three full decks, and a registered tonnage of 1300. 
She often made the voyage to Liverpool in 16 or 17 days, 
but finally foundered in mid-Atlantic in the autumn of 
1881, owing to the shifting of her cargo of railroad iron 
while bound from Antwerp to New York, in charge of 
Capt. W. W. Urquhart. Her loss was practically the end 
of the old Black Ball line. 

In 1821 Byrnes, Grimble and Co. started another New 
York and Liverpool line called the Red Star, with the 
" Panther," *' Hercules," etc., which sailed on the twenty - 
fourth of each month. Then followed the Swallow Tail 
line, with the " George Washington," " Pennsylvania," 
etc., and in 1836 Mr. E. K. Collins founded what was 
known as the Dramatic line, the ships of this line being 
named after celebrated actors, such as " Roscius," ' Sid- 
dons," " Garrick," and " Shakespeare." These packets 
were large for their day, measuring 1000 tons or more 
each. A noted departure, also, in them, besides their 
superior interior fittings, was the total abandonment of 
the fine lined vessel having a sharp rise of floor, and the 
substitution for it, against the opinion of the most noted 
New York shipbuilders, of the flat floored form of hull. 

Mr. Collins afterwards founded the famous Collins line 
of steamers between New York and Liverpool in 1850, 
but it was unsuccessful. 

Other well known packet lines were Grinnell and Min- 
turn's Black X line to London and Liverpool, owning the 
" Patrick Henry," " Henry Clay " (a fine three-decked 
vessel of 1250 tons), " Constitution," etc.; Morgan's line 
to London, with the "Palestine," "Southampton," etc.; 
Spofford and Tileston's Patriotic line to Liverpool, started 
in 1852, with the ' Orient " and " Webster," built at 
Portsmouth, N. H., by George Raynes, and Williams and 




PACKET-SHIP " LIVERPOOL", 1828 
A Sister Ship of the " Dover", see plan 







PACKET-SHIP "CHARLEMAGNE" BUILT IN 1828 



BY FRANCIS B. C. BBADLEB 17 

Guion's Black Star line, also to Liverpool. The last 
named organization, although running under the Ameri- 
can flag, was chiefly owned by British capital and after- 
wards became the Guion line of steamers. 

According to a popular yarn, one of Guion's sailing 
packets, the " Adelaide," is supposed to have beaten the 
Cunard steamer '* Sidon " on a transatlantic passage in 
1864. The author has carefully looked up this matter in 
the files of the New York daily papers, and the facts are 
as follows : On June 9, 1864, the " Adelaide " and the 
In in an line steamer ' Kangaroo " both left New York for 
Liverpool ; the " Kangaroo " put back next day for 
repairs to her engine, sailed again in a day or two, and 
arrived in Liverpool on the same day as the "Adelaide", 
June 27. The Cunard steamer "Sidon" did not sail from 
New York between April 26 and July 6, 1864. 

Three to four weeks was considered a very fair average 
passage to the westward by the best packet ships, as may 
be seen by the following analysis of trips made by vari- 
ous vessels in 1845-46. The " Yorkshire " left Liver- 
pool on March 4, 1845, and arrived at New York on the 
25th of the same month. Later in the year she left Liv- 
erpool on July 2, and arrived on July 30, and still later, 
on November 2, she left Liverpool and anchored in New 
York lower bay on December 1, three fairly uniform pas- 
sages of 21, 28, and 29 days. In the same year the 
" Queen of the West " made a 25 day passage across the 
North Atlantic in March, while her next trip, begun in 
July, occupied 38 days, but in November she crossed in 
28 days. Some of , the other crack ships of the period 
were the "Empire," 29 days ; "Oxford," 29 days ; "Mon- 
tezuma," 28 days; "Rochester," 27 days; "Garrick," 26 
days; and " Ashburton," 24 days. 

These passages were made under favorable conditions. 
But when the weather was heavy and the winds unfavor- 
able, five and six weeks and sometimes nearly two months 
were consumed in making the crossing. The longest pas- 
sage on record was said to be that of the " Switzerland " 
of the Grinuell line, that was once 110 days in returning 
to New York from Liverpool. Another instance was the 



18 THE DREADNOUGHT OF NEWBURYPORT 

packet " Virginian," which left Liverpool on December 
6, 1845, and did not arrive until 53 days later, and the 
" Hottinguer " (a crack ship, named for a well known 
Paris banker), which left Liverpool on January 7, 1846, 
and arrived here on March 6. 

It took a man every inch a seaman to reach an Ameri- 
can port from Europe with spars and sails intact, and keep 
his ship off the Long Island and New Jersey coasts in 
midwinter gales, of thick snow and sleet. Steam power 
has now reduced the responsibility and danger to a mini- 
mum. Owing to the prevalence of westerly winds, the 
passage to the eastward was generally made in the quick- 
est time ; quite often in sixteen or seventeen days, and 
more rarely in fourteen. The " Palestine," of 1800 tons, 
of the Morgan line, once landed her passengers at Ports- 
mouth (England), on the fourteenth day out, and the 
" Independence," of the Swallow Tail line, 734 tons, al- 
though built as far back as 1834, accomplished this feat 
several times. 

The agents, builders and captains of the packet-ships 
speedily became rich, for all were owners, the agent 
owning, say, an eighth of a vessel, and the builder another 
eighth, in order that he might secure the job of repairing 
her, which would average at least $500 a round trip. 
Most of the Liverpool packets were built by Stephen 
Smith, Isaac Webb, and Brown and Bell, and those run- 
ning to Havre and some of the London liners by Chris- 
tian Bergh, Jacob A. Westervelt, and William H. Webb, 
all old-time New York builders. The packet captains 
generally owned another eighth of the ships they com- 
manded, in order that they might have the strongest of 
all motives for vigilance ; the block-makers and sail- 
makers were also part owners ; and others the remainder, 
a packet of 1000 tons being worth about $80,000. 

During the Irish famine in 1847-48 the freight on 
a barrel of flour from New York to Liverpool rose to five 
shillings ($1.25) a barrel, and packets were added to the 
various lines as fast as they could be built. The boom in 
freights lasted until the close of the Crimean war, when 
a great slump took place, partly owing to the panic of 



BY FRANCIS B. C. BRADLEE 19 

1857, and owners were then glad to get a shilling (25 
cents) a barrel for the carriage of flour. 

Each packet ship could accommodate from 500 to 1000 
emigrants on the westward voyages, and men, women, 
and children, dirty and ignorant, were crowded into the 
between-decks together. Conditions below decks may be 
better imagined than described, for in gales of wind and 
bad weather, which were frequent, hatches had to be 
battened down, and men, women and children screamed 
all nignt in terror. It was not compulsory for emigrant 
ships to carry a doctor, although sometimes a physisian 
was given a free passage in return for looking after the 
health of those on board ; ship-fever, smallpox, and 
other contagious diseases were common, and it is a won- 
der that many survived the voyage. 

Some idea of the mortality among the steerage passen- 
gers on a transatlantic voyage may be gained from the 
following news item copied from the New York Herald 
of October 26, 1853 : 

Arrived Ships From No. of Deaths 

1853 Passengers 

Sept. 9 "Zurich" Havre 358 2 

11 "Lucy Thompson" Liverpool 800 35 

15 "Niagara" " 249 38 

21 "Charles Sprague" Bremen 280 45 

26 "Oder" Hamburg 237 14 

27 "Winchester" Liverpool 463 79 
29 "Kate Hunter" " 342 1 

29 "Rhine" Havre 566 24 

30 "Talleyrand" Hamburg 210 11 
Oct. 11 "Harvest Queen" Havre 367 5 

14 "Marmion" Liverpool 295 34 

17 "Waterloo" " 294 4 

17 "James Wright" " 430 1 

20 "Sir Robert Peele" London 407 6 

21 "New York" Liverpool 400 16 
21 "Benjamin Adams" " 620 15 

Rations were served out once a week, in accordance 
with the allowance instituted by the British government, 
just enough to keep starvation away. It was estimated 
that it cost twenty cents a day to feed each emigrant, and 



20 THE DREADNOUGHT OF NEWBUBYPOBT 

the steerage passage rates were jG4 ($20), so between, 
passage and freight money the ships generally paid very 
good dividends. 

The cabin passengers, from ten to thirty on each packet, 
with the captain and officers, were lodged under the poop, 
in the saloon, or cuddy as it used to be called, for which 
privilege a fare of about $150 was charged. The follow- 
ing is a specimen saloon" bill of fare : Soup, boiled cod 
with boiled potatoes, roast turkey, mashed turnips, roast 
and boiled potatoes, stewed chicken with macaroni, pie, 
hot rolls, sea pies and pickles, and plum pudding. 

As has been seen, the crews of the old packet-ships 
were not noted for tender qualities. Many of them were 
Liverpool Irishmen, and Capt. Samuels says of them : 
" They were the toughest class of men in all respects, and 
could stand the worst weather, food and usage, and put 
up with less sleep, more rum and harder knocks than any 
other sailors." They would not sail in any other trade, 
and although unexcelled for making, or taking in sail, 
especially in bad weather, they were of little use in re- 
pairing the rigging, or sails, or any of the finer work of 
the sailor's trade, as this kind of thing was always done 
while the packets were in port. 

The position of chief mate of a transatlantic packet- 
ship was not one for a weak or easy-going man. Courage 
and endurance were the important factors; to face the 
elements and contend with the crews required nerves of 
steel, and it used to be said " that no one was wanted as 
an officer of a packet who could not lick his weight in 
wild-cats." The cruelty practiced on some of those ships 
was simply outrageous ; the worst ones were known as 
" wild packets." Like their crews, most of the captains 
and officers in the transatlantic trade confined themselves 
to it and seldom sailed elsewhere. 

The first line of New York and Havre packets was 
founded in 1822 by Francis Depau, with the ships " Ste- 
phania," "Henry IV," " Helen Mar," etc. Other early 
Havre packets were the "Edward Quesnel," "Bayard," 
" Queen Mab," and " Charlemagne." The last named 
ship, built in 1828, was commanded by Capt. Addison 



fit 

10 - 




BY FRANCIS B. C. BRADLBE 21 

Richardson, born in Salem in 1804, the son of Capt. Wil- 
liam R. Richardson (born in Salem in 1769, died there in 
1811), who was a charter member of the Salem East 
India Marine Society, Oct., 1799, and later was a con- 
tributor to the collections of the museum of that Society. 

An engraving of the " Charlemagne," reproduced 
here, is from one of three oil paintings of that vessel by 
Frederic Roux, a noted marine painter of Havre, and 
given' the Peabody Museum of Salem by Mrs. Kate S. 
Richardson of New York City in memory of her hus- 
band, Edward Richardson, son of Capt. Addison Richard- 
son. Mrs. Richardson's valuable gift also included, 
among other things, a silver pitcher given Capt. Richard- 
son by the cabin passengers of the ship " Charlemagne," 
Oct., 1835 ; a speaking trumpet, a silver plate, also pre- 
sentations ; a sextant and a spyglass presented Capt. 
Richardson by the cabin passengers of the ship " Duch- 
esse d' Orleans " (a well known Havre packet) on her 
first trip from New York to Havre, in September, 1838. 
It was quite a common thing in those days for the cabin 
passengers to make such gifts to the captains of the ships 
they travelled on, and it was thought it would be inter- 
esting to group these articles together and reproduce 
them here. 

The business of Francis Depau was continued by his 
sons-in-law, Fox and Livingston, who added to the old 
line the " Sylvie de Grasse," " Louis Philippe," and other 
ships. They later became the agents and principal pro- 
prietors of the New York and Havre Steam Navigation 
Co., running the U. S. Mail side- wheel steamers " Hum- 
boldt," "Franklin/' "Arago," and "Fulton/' A second 
Havre line was started in 1825 by Boyd and Hincken, 
with the packets ' Charles Carroll," *' Erie," " France," 
" Utica," " Oneida," "William Tell," "Baltimore," "Mer- 
cury," and "Rhone." This line was advertised in a Havre 
paper as follows : " Our ships are fast sailing, copper 
bottomed, copper fastened, and offer intending passengers 
all sorts of advantages, which include staterooms having 
locks and keys, a captain who speaks French, and French 
cooking." 

Still another line of Havre packets was founded in 1832 



22 THE DBBADNOUGHT OP NEWBUBYPOBT 

by William Whitlock, Jr., with the ships " Albany," 
" Duchesse d' Orleans," " Gallia," ' Carolus Magnus," 
etc. Although the French are not an emigrating race, 
the various lines of Havre packets carried large numbers 
of emigrants from Switzerland and the Rhenish prov- 
inces. One of the best known of the later Havre packets 
was the ship " Jacob Bell," of 1400 tons, 200 feet long, 
belonging to Fox and Livingston ; she made three pas- 
sages from Havre to New York in 18 days. 

The " Ocean Monarch," built at New York in 1856 
(not to be confounded with another " Ocean Monarch " 
burnt outside Liverpool in 1848), was, as far as can be 
traced, the largest packet-ship. She measured 2145 tons 
and was 240 feet long. 

Another large ship designed for the transatlantic trade 
was the " City of Mobile," built at Greenpoint, L. L, in 
1854, by Perrine and Stack. She was owned by Harbeck 
and Co. of New York, measured 1750 tons, 215 feet long, 
had three full decks, and was one of the first vessels 
equipped with double topsails, instead of the old-fashioned 
enormous single topsails that were so hard to handle. On 
her first voyage to England the " City of Mobile " car- 
ried 9000 quarters of wheat, besides a large amount of 
flour in barrels. 

One of the best known packet-ship commanders was 
Capt. Edward Abeel. Capt. Abeel, who was a nephew of 
Charles H. Marshall, one of the owners of the Black Ball 
line, first went to sea in 1845 in the " Montezuma "; his 
first command was the packet-ship " New York," and he 
afterwards was in charge of the " Isaac Wright," " New 
World," and "James Foster, Jr.," until he retired in 
1881, and during all this time never met with a serious 
accident, which speaks volumes for his skill, judgment 
and ability. Capt. Abeel died in Brooklyn, Aug. 24, 1918, 
at the advanced age of ninety-four. 

One of the last surviving captains is W. W. Urquhart, 
also of Brooklyn ; he went to sea in 1854, obtained his 
first command in 1861, and retired in 1882, having spent 
the whole period in the transatlantic trade. While in 
charge of the " Trimountain," in 1873, Capt. Urquhart 
became well known by reason of his rescuing in mid- 




PACKET-SHIP "BOSTONIAN" BUILT IN 1854 




PACKET-SHIP "CITY OF MOBILE" BUILT IN 1854 



BY FRANCIS B. C. BBADLEE 23 

ocean the surviving passengers and crew of the French 
mail steamer " Ville-du-Havre," which had been run into 
by the sailing ship ' Loch Earn " and went down in a 
few minutes. 

The Civil War and the gradual increase of iron screw- 
propelled steamers, under the British and German flags, 
dealt the American packet lines a mortal blow, and by 
1870 few of them were left. Besides the lines already 
mentioned, there existed the " Regular Line " to Ant- 
werp from New York, running the ships " David Hoad- 
ley," "F. B. Cutting," etc., owned by Post, Smith & Co. 
of New York. Thomas P. Cope of Philadelphia started 
a line of packets between that port and Liverpool as early 
as 1807, and it continued in business for over half a 
century. Some of the best known of the Cope ships were: 



' Lancaster," 


290 tons, 


built in 1807. 


' Tuscarora," 


349 tons, 


built in 1810. 


1 Saranac," 


854 tons, 


built in 1844. 


4 Wyoming," 


912 tons, 


built in 1845. 


4 Tonawanda," 


1503 tons, 


built in 1845. 


' Tiisoarnra " TT. 


1449 inns 


hnilt in 1R48. 



Most, if not all, these vessels were constructed by John 
Lynn and his descendants, well known Philadelphia ship- 
builders. There were also regular lines of packets plying 
between Baltimore and Charleston to Liverpool. All 
were under the American flag, and, as far as can be traced, 
the only packet line under a foreign flag was the Ham- 
burg-American (afterwards the well known Hamburg- 
American S. S. Co.), started in 1847, with the ships 
" Deutschland," " Nordamerica," etc.' 

The last packet-ship actually designed for that service 
was the " Charles H. Marshall," of 1600 tons, built by 
William H. Webb at New York, in 1869, for the Black 
Ball line, and the last packet in actual service is thought 
to have been the " Ne Plus Ultra," 1300 tons, Capt. Bor- 
den, of Grinnell and Minturn's London line, in 1883, but 
they had given up carrying passengers ten years before. 



JOURNAL OF SAMUEL HOLTEN, M. D. 

MMMMOPMMMMI 

WHILE IN THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS, MAY, 1778, 
TO AUGUST, 1780. 



( Continued from Vol. L V, page 256.} 

10. I dined with D r Shippen and spent the evening 
with Gen 1 Whipple, D r Scudder, M r Ellery & M r Adams. 

11. I bought a shay of Mich 1 Laner & paid him 460 
Mass a currency. N. B. The shay is purchased on my 
own account & not charged to the state. 

12. I dined with y e President. I went & took a view 
of the lite horse on y e common. 

13. Colo. Palfry & Capt. Martin dined with us. 

14. I wrote to M rs Holten by the hon. M r Adams. 

15. I ride out with M r Adams & took leave of him 
& he proceeded to Boston. I wrote to Colo. Hutchinson. 

17. I walked out with M r Gerry & Gen 1 Rabadeau. 

18. I have received information that Gen 1 Ward 1 is 
elected a Delegate for Mass a Bay in y e room of M r Ed- 
wards. 

19. I dined with M r Smith & M r Fleming, 2 of the 
Delegates of the state of Virginia. 

21. Colo. Peabody, 2 a delegate from New Hampshire, 
arrived. 

22. Wrote to Samuel Freeman, Esq r . 

26. Gen. Mifflin called to see me this morning. 

30. The President of Congress is indisposed & has 
not attended Congress this two days. 

July 2. The vice President of this state, Doct r Sheil 
from Ireland & M r Hopkinson dined with us. 

'Artemas Ward (1748-1800), General of the army at the siege of 
Boston, a delegate from Massachusetts. 
2 Nathaniel Peabody. 

(24) 



JOURNAL OF SAMUEL HOLTEN, M. D. 25 

3. I walked out with M r Gerry. 

4. Sabbath day. The anniversary of the independence 
of America. I attended public worship at Christ Church. 
M r White preached from Romans, " Let every soul be 
subject unto the higher powers." At 12 o'Clock, attended 
at the Roman Cath church, by invitation from ye minis- 
ter to sing Te Deum on ye occasion. In the afternoon I 
attended meeting at Doct r Duffield's. 

5. Congress adjourned at 12 o'clock & attended an 
oration, and at 4 o'clock dined at the city tavern with a 
number of other Gentlemen of the first character. 

6. M r * Clark & M rs Dolley & all her boarders moved 
from 2d street in to Front street to Gen. Mifflin's house. 
I wrote to the Hon. M r Gill. 

7. Maj. Rice, aide-de-camp to Gen. Lincoln, arrived 
with dispatches from y e Gen 1 , but brought no new material. 

9. Walked out with Colo. Peabody. I wrote to the 
Hon. Gen. Ward. 

10. Congress ordered the money to be forwarded to 
Mass. Bay to exchange the emissions that are out of cir- 
culation. 

12. The post brought me only one newspaper from 
Boston. 

14. It is said the enemy have burnt Fairfield in Con- 
necticut. 

15. I attended the funeral of the Hon. Geo. Ross, Esq r , 
at 9 o'Clock A. M. I rec'd by M r Millet a letter from 
Colo. Hutchinson & M rs Holten. 

16. Congress sit late reading letters from y c Hon. A. 
Lee, Esq r . M r Sargent, late from South Carolina, in- 
forms us of a battle between Gen. Lincoln & Gen. Provo 
which terminated in our favor. 

17. We have another account from S. C. of a battle & 
terminating in our favor. 

19. Congress received y e account of Gen. Wayne's 
taking Stony Point. 

21. Congress spent part of this day respecting a Por- 
tugal vessel taken by orders from Carter Broxten and 
have ordered prosecution against him. 

22. There has been a private fast this day at y e pres- 
byterian churches in this city & at some others. 



26 JOURNAL OF SAMUEL HOLTEN, M. D. 

23. I dined with y e President. 

24. I took a walk with Colo Peabody. 

26. Congress received a particular account of the tak- 
ing of y e fort at Stony Point. 

27. Wrote to Hon. M r Frost & Colo Hutchinson. 

28. We have a report that the enemy have left South 
Carolina. 

29. I took a walk with M r Gerry & M r Peabody. 

81. M r Duane, M r Morris, M r Randelf, 1 Gen. Mifflin 
& another Gentleman dined with us. 

Aug. 2. M r Hopkins of Boston & M r Benj a Putnam 
of Medford drank tea with us. 

3. I wrote to the Assessors of Danvers. M r Uric, 
one of the council of this state, visited me. 

4. By a vessel from Martinico we have an account of 
the Count d'Estang taking the Granadis & geting the 
better of Adm r Byron, but it wants confirmation. 

5. We have confirmation of yesterday's news. Great 
news if true. 

6. Congress dismissed the Hon. M r Deane from at- 
tending any further on Congress. 

7. Congress received a letter from Gen. Washington 
informing of the enemies moving down the North River. 

9. I received a letter from the Hon. M r Cashing, M r 
Gray, M r Dole & M r Kittell. 

12. M r Laurens, M r Scudder & M r Houston 2 dined 
with us. 

14. I dined with M r Laurens. 

16. Rec'd a letter from M r Gushing, M r Avery & M r 
Epes of Danvers. 

17. I wrote to the Hon. M r CusLing, Ellis Gray, Esq. 
& M r Avery. I had a tooth drawn this day by M r Phil- 
lips. 

18. The Hon. M r Root dined with us. Sir James 
Jay 3 paid us a visit. 

'Edmund Randolph, delegate from Virginia, and later Governor 
of his State. 

*William C. Houston, delegate from New Jersey, professor at 
Princeton College, 

a Sir James Jay (1732-1815), brother of John Jay, studied medi- 
cine, and while soliciting funds for American colleges in England 
in 1772, was knighted by George III. 



JOURNAL OF SAMUEL HOLTEN, M. D. 27 

19. Colo. Partridge arrived here from Mass" 8 , a dele- 
gate. This day I took my seat at the marine com*, Con- 
gress having appointed me thereto. 

20. The Hon. M r Gerard drank tea with us. 

21. Congress recommended an imbargo to the several 
states, to be continued to the 1 st day of Jan y next. 

23. His most Christian Majesty's birthday. We have 
accounts that Maj Lee has surprised a fort of y e enemy 
and taken 160 prisoners. I rec d a letter from M r Gill, 
M r Palmer & the Rev. M r Wadsworth p r Post. 

24. I wrote to the hon. council of Mass a Bay, to M r 
Dale, Major Epes and M rB Holten. 

25. The Hon. M r Uric visited me in my chamber. 

28. I dined with M r Smith. This day the prisoners 
taken at Paules Hook, said to be 158, arrived here & are 
lodged in y e city goal. 

29. Sabbath day. I attended public worship at D r 
Duffield's. He preached from Matthew, " And cast ye 
the unprofitable servant into outer darkness, there shall 
be weeping and gnashing of teeth," and his discourse 
was very agreeable. 

30. The accounts this day by y e Post are that our 
fleet at Penobscot are all cut off by the enemy. 

31. I wrote to Doct r Foster. 1 

Sept. 1. Congress resolved that no more than 
200,000,000 dollars should be emitted. 

2. The following gentlemen dined with us, viz., The 
president of Congress, The minister of France, The pres- 
ident of the state, M r Laurens, M r McKean, M r Paca, 
M r Matthews, Don Juan, Colo. Leviston, M r Holker, secy 
to the min r & Sir James Jay. 

3. M r Langdon, a delegate from New Hampshire, ar- 
rived here. 

4. This morning about 1 o'Clock departed this life the 
Hon. "W. H. Drayton, Esq r , a member of Congress from 
S. Carolina, and his remains was intered this evening & 
Congress followed as morners with crape round their 
arms. 

7. I wrote to J. Avery, Esq r , M r Kittell & Moses 

^r. Isaac Foster (1740-1781) of Charlestown, Mass., who was 
surgeon in the army and had charge of hospital work. 



28 JOURNAL OP SAMUEL HOLTBN, M. D. 

Preston. By some intelligence from the minis', I sap- 
pose we may expect two more commissioners from Great 
Britain. 

8. I crossed the Delaware over to the Jersey shore. 
The land appeared to be flat and low. Several members 
of Congress went with me. 

9. At evening I attended the marine com*. 

10. I spent part of the day upon the affairs of Ver- 
mont. 

11. I dined with M r Laurens & y e Minisf & several 
other Gentlemen of y e first character. 

14. I wrote to the Hon. Benj a Greenleaf, Esq r , Hon. 
Mich. Farley, Esq. 

15. I met the medical committee at evening. 

16. M r Gerard came to take leave of us, but we were 
all from home. 

17. M r Gerard took formal leave of Congress. It is 
said d'Estang is off y e coast. 

21. The Chevalier de la Luzerne, Minister Plen ft from 
y e Court of France arrived here from Boston. 

22. I made a short visit to the new minister & wel- 
comed him here. I dined with the President of Con- 
gress. 

23. Congress spent part of the day upon the affairs 
of Vermont. 

25. An express arrived here with the account that 
the Count Estaign arrived off Georgia the 5 th instant. I 
wrote to M r8 Holten by Gen 1 Whipple. 

27. Congress appointed The Hon ble J. Adams, Esq r , 
to negotiate a Peace & the hon. M r Jay, Minister Pleni- 
potentiary to the Court of Spain. 

28. I wrote to J Cooper. M r Huntington 1 chosen 
President of Congress. 

29. Congress made choice of the Hon. M r Dana sec'y 
to the Hon. M r Adams and the Hon. M r Carmichael sec'y 
to M r Jay & Colo. Laurens sec'y to D r Franklin. 2 

30. It is said the enemy are about embarking a large 
number of their troops from New York. 

Samuel Huntington (1732-1796) of Connecticut, a "Signer," and 
later Governor of the State. 
"Benjamin Franklin. 



JOURNAL OF SAMUEL HOLTBN, M. D. 29 

Oct. 1. We have accounts this evening that Capt. 
Tayler has taken another load of Hessians. 

2. I dined with the Hon. M r Root & drank tea with 
the sec'y. 

3. Sabbath day. I attend public worship at M r Sprout's 
meeting and dined with him. 

4. There has been a mob in this City today & I am 
informed that several are killed & a number wounded, & 
I fear it will not stop here. 

6. Gfen. Arnold applied to Congress for a guard & 
Congress informed him that his application should have 
been to the executive of the State. 

7. A court of inquiry met here this day, respecting 
the persons killed a few days ago. 

8. John Lowell, Esq r , of Boston & M r Cleavland of 
Salem arrived here. 

9. I dined with M r Laurens and about 12 more mem- 
bers of Congress. M r Lowell & M r Cleaveland came to 
board with us. 

11. I rec'd a letter from Josiah Batchelder, Jr., Esq r , 
& one from the Hon. D. Hopkins, Esq r . 

12. I wrote to General Count Pulaski. 

13. I met a Committee this evening on Gen. Arnold's 
accounts. 

14. Congress agreed to recommend to the states the 
2 d Thursday of Dec r next for a day of Thanksgiving. 

15. I wrote to y e Council of Mass* Bay. I attended 
the tryal of the Spanish vessels. 

16. We have a report that the enemy in Georgia are 
all made prisoners. 

17. Sabbath day. M r Guild preached in the forenoon 
& M r Curklin in the afternoon. 

18. I received a letter from M r Kittell of Danvers, by 
the Post. 

20. I met the Committee & we prepared a Proclama- 
tion for a day of General Thanksgiving. 

21. I attended the committee on General Arnold's 
affairs. 

22. I met the committee on the Post-office & y e com* 
of 12 & the com* on Gen. Arnold's accounts. 



30 JOURNAL OF SAMUEL HOLTEN, M. D. 

23. Congress settled y e Salarys of the new board of 
Treasury. I attended the com* on the Post-office. 

24. Sabbath day. I drank tea with the Governor of 
this state. 

25. I rec'd a letter from Rev. M r Wadsworth, The 
Hon. M r Palmer, Colo. Hutchinson & M r Stephen Need- 
ham. 

26. I attended the marine Committee. 

27. I received a letter from the hon. Sam 1 Adams, 
Esq r , by the hand of Doct r Foster. 

28. It is said the enemy have done much damage in 
the Jerseys. 

29. Congress spent part of the day considering the 
Indian affairs. 

30. I rode out with Mr. Peabody after sunset about 
two miles. 

31. Sabbath day. D r Hewing & M r Sprout preached. 
Nov. 1. Received a letter from M r Avery, M rs Holten 

& my daughter Sally. 

2. I wrote to y e Inhabitants of Danvers, to M r Need- 
ham, M r Warner, Colo. Hutchinson, M r Avery, M rs Hol- 
ten & my daughter Sally. 

3. Congress have done no business these two days 
past on account of the state of Connecticut not being 
represented, the Pres* being from that state. I dined 
with the Hon. M r Griffin. 1 

4. We had the intelligence of the enemies leaving R. 
Island. 

5. I attended the medical committee & the marine 
board. 

6. The medical committee met in my chamber. M r 
Lowell paid me a visit this evening. 

8. I received a letter from the Hon ble M r Palmer. I 
wrote to the Hon. S. Adams & to Capt. Gardner of Salem 
by M r Lowell & M r Cleaveland. 

10. We had the disagreeable news from Gen. Lincoln 
that our army have not succeeded against Savannah. The 
Hon. M r Hughes, 2 one of the delegates from N. Carolina, 
deceased this morning. 

'Cyrus Griffin (1749-1810), delegate from Virginia, and later Pres- 
ident of Congress and Judge of the United States District Court 
'Joseph Hewes (1730-1779), a "Signer." 



JOURNAL OF SAMUEL HOLTEN, M. D. 31 

11. I attended the Funeral of M r Hughes. 

12. M r Wilson, formerly of Danvers, visited me. 

13. The Hon. M r Sharpe dined with us. 

14. Sabbath day. Heard M r Sprout in the forenoon, 
& in the afternoon at M r White's, the Episcopal Church. 

15. I dined with D r Potts 1 & Bond with 2 of my Col- 
leagues & the Gentlemen from New Hampshire. 

16. I wrote to M Holten, M r Kittell & my daughter 
Polly. , 

17. Chevalier de la Luzern was admitted to a public 
audience with Congress & dined with Congress. 

18. The Chevalier paid us a visit by leaving a card. 

19. We had 7 Gent, dined with us. Congress passed 
several resolutions for regulating prices. 

20. I dined with M r Smith, my Colleagues, the Gen- 
tlemen from New Hampshire & Pres* Heed dined with 
us. 

21. I rec'd a letter from Joseph Hall, jun r and M 
Holten (No. 18) p. post. I wrote to M r Lowell. 

23. 1 wrote to M re Holten (No. 85). 

24. I dined with D r Shall. 

25. I dined with the President. 

30. I wrote to y e hon. B. Greenleaf, Esq r , J. Web- 
ster, Esq r , M r Half & M r Wiat. 

Dec. 1. Congress dined with the Minister of France. 
The dinner was grand & elegant. 

3. The President of Congress drank tea with us. 

4. Congress spent part of the day considering the 
commissary & Quartermasters departments. 

6. Being ill, I have not been out today. 

7. I wrote to the Rev. D r Gordon. Being ill, I have 
not been out this day. 

8. The Minister of France & about 10 other Gentle- 
men of the. first character dined with us. 

9. Thanksgiving. Attended at D r Duffield's and D r 
Ewing's. 

10. I spent part of this day with the com t on Gen. 
Arnold's accounts. 

11. My health is much better. 

'Richard Potts, afterwards Governor of Maryland. 



82 JOURNAL OF SAMUEL HOLTEN, M. D. 

12. Sabbath day. Being summoned to attend Con- 
gress & the weather being wet prevented my attending 
public worship. I wrote to M rs Holten by M r Millet, 
who is going to Salem. 

13. The Post from the eastward is not come in. 

14. The post came in & brought me a certificate of 
my being appointed to represent the state for the year 
1780. I wrote to Joseph Hall, Jun r . 

16. A year ago this day since I was taken sick. 

17. The Hon. M r Burke 1 & Jones 2 visited us in the 
evening. Colo. Laurens drank tea with us. 

18. The Hon. M r Floyd 3 and M r Hommedeau 4 supped 
with us. 

20. Gen. Washington informed Congress that the 
army is in great want of supplies. 

21. I dined with the minister of France. 

22. I wrote to the hon. M r Hancock, by the post. I 
dined with the President of the State. 

23. I met the medical com*. Congress met early in 
the day. 

24. Congress adjourned till Monday next, being 
Christmas tomorrow. 

25. Christmas day. I attended meeting at the Roman 
Catholic Chh. in the forenoon & at the Episcopal church 
in the afternoon. I heard a good sermon in the after- 
noon. But 1 do not know what 1 heard in the forenoon. 

27. I received a letter from y e Hon. M r Palmer & M r 
Warner. 

28. I wrote to Amos Putnam, Esq. & M r Warner. 

29. I dined with y e President. 

30. Gen. Folsom 6 arrived here, a delegate from y e 
state of N. Hampshire. 

(To be continued?) 

J Thomas Burke (1747-1783), physician, native of Ireland, delegate 
from North Carolina, and later Governor of his State. 
2 Gen. Allen Jones of Halifax, North Carolina. 
8 William Floyd (1734-1821), delegate from New York. 
4 Ezra L' Hommedieu of New York. 
5 Nathaniel Folsom (1726-1790) of Exeter. 



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BEVERLY IN 1700 - No. 4 



BEVERLY IN 1700. NO. 4. 



BY SIDNEY PERLEY. 



THIST article concerns that portion of Beverly lying be- 
tween the ocean and a point northeasterly of Montserrat 
railroad station on the northerly side of Essex street, a 
distance of nearly two miles, and from the corner of Hale 
and Lothrop streets to Brackenbury lane and Boyle street, 
a distance of about a mile and a quarter. 

The only elevations within this territory having names 
are Snake hill, which was so called as early as 1671, and 
Turtle hill. 

Sawyer's plain was so called as early as 1682. This is 
where, in the first settlement of the Montserrat region, 
timber was sawn into lumber by hand. 

Turtle pond was so called as early as 1673. 

Sallows brook was called Cedar Stand brook in 1708, 
and it runs into Cedar Stand cove, which was so called 
as early as 1698. The bridge over this brook at the high- 
way was called the new bridge in 1681 ; " the grate bridg 
nere seder stan " in 1682 ; and Sallows bridge in 1730. 
This neighborhood was called " Cedar stand " or "Sedar 
stand " as early as 1636. 

Burgess' point was so called in 1884. 

Hospital point was called Paul Thorndike's point in 
1708, and Paul's point in 1797. 

The ocean was called the sea in 1659 ; in river in 1671 ; 
ye sea or salt water in 1720 ; and the salt sea in 1760. 

Ober's cove was called the salt water cove in 1745, and 
Ober's cove in 1758. 

Mackerel cove was so called in 1671. 

The oldest road in this region was what is now known 
as Hale street, which was the original highway from Salem 
to Cape Ann, having been formally laid out in 1646. It 
was called the country road in 1682 ; ye town highway 

(33) 



34 BEVERLY IN 1700. NO. 4 

in 1690 ; ye highway which leadeth to Grace Woodbury, 
sr., his house in 1696 ; the country road that goes toward 
Manchester in 1708 ; Manchester road in 1729; the road 
to Manchester in 1750 ; the highway leading to Manches- 
ter in 1771 ; the road leading to Cape Ann in 1783 ; the 
road that leads from Essex bridge to Cape Ann in 1793 ; 
the highway leading from Beverly to Gloucester in 1795 ; 
and was named Hale street in 1838. 

Ober street was a way from about 1645, but in course 
of time had become obstructed because of the uncertain- 
ty of its existence and location. Early in December, 
1733, John Ober and others living on it petitioned the 
selectmen to lay it out as a town way " to accommodate 
them in going to meeting, &c." ; but the request was re- 
fused, the selectmen stating to the county court, Dec. 20, 
1733, their reasons for the refusal. Dec. 24, 1733, a 
large number of the people of Beverly petitioned the 
court, stating 

That the Progenitors of some of ye Petitioners were near 90 years 
agoe Original Proprietors of the Ten Acres Lots in the place now 
caled Beverley & did by Comon Agreement & according to the usage 
of those times Allow & Maintain a Way as a free Town Highway 
from the place Where John Ober now dwelleth to the Gate since 
call'd Bakers Gate they being Owners of the soil which Way then 
and till Late was Us'd as a Town Way But thro the Unexactness 
& carelessness of those ancient times it was not recorded as such & 
the property of part of the adjacent soil being since alter'd some 
of the present proprietors wrongly supposing the property of the 
sd way chang'd likewise Presume to Stop it up, to the Unspeakable 
Damage & Loss of ye Petitioners, who together w th their wives 
Children & Families Can neither Stir from Home when att Home 
nor return thither again when abroad Even on their most Lawful 
Occasions without incurring the pains & sore penalties provided by 
Law for Trespassers whereby their affairs must soon come to Utter 
Ruin, Nay, When they are passing to the place of Putlick Worship 
in the most orderly Manner and w th never such pious Intentuons 
Your Petitioners are liable to be treated as Evil Doers. Notwith- 
standing w ch provoking Grievances willing to proceed in a fair & 
Regular Manner Your Petitioners have applied to the Select Men of 
sd Town who utterly refuse them redress Relying therefore on yr 
Honre Justice & Compassion they hereby make known the sad state 
of their cases to you Humbly Imploring that by your favour their 
ancient & undoubted rights may be restored their free Passage to & 
from their Houses & Possessions secured & the sd Way made a 
Town Highway & y r Petitioners shall ever Pray &c. 

The committee to whom the matter was referred re- 
ported as follows : 



BY SIDNEY PERLBY 35 

We the subscribers being appointed a Comitte for to Lay out a 
privet way in Beverly have proceeded as followeth beginning at 
Backers Gate neer Sallows Bridge and Laid out said way through 
the wide Saray Bacers Land thirteen Rod and one half a rod and 
throug Giden Bacers Land seventen Rod and seven foot and through 
John Obers Land six Rod and six foot and through Joseph Mor- 
gans Land four Rod and six foot and through Joshua Biksef 
Land four Rod and eight feet and through Xathanel Black's Land 
ighten Rods the holl Breadth twenty four feet wide from ye sd 
Gate to the midle of the way Latley allowed by the Town of Bev- 
erly being in the holl Length Sixty four Rods and twelve feet 
Bounded betwen every parcel of Land in ye Line betwen said Lands 
by stackes set in the Ground each side of said way twenty four feet 
distant from the other being the breadth of said way and have laid 
the'said way out as the path now goes witnes our Hands 

SAMUEL KEMBALL 
AABON BENNET 
BENJAMIN ALLIN 
BETEKLY September ye 18th, 1734 

The town objected to laying out this way as a town road 
because it was an ancient highway and was not " of Pub- 
lick advantage (as being a turn again way") leading only 
from Manchester Road to eight houses & back again, & 
serving only the Occasions of such as live in those Houses 
& of those who have Business with them." 

John Lovett, aged sixty-six years, testified that he had 
known this way " above sixty years, for he used to go 
over it to School Daily, when he was about five years old, 
& it was then & has been ever since improved as an 
Highway, till within a few years past when it has been 
somewhat obstructed by the Prop' 8 of the Land adjoyn- 
ing." Sworn to March 15, 1735-6. 

This road was called the road laid out by court in 
1736 ; and the town highway leading to Ober's cove so 
called in 1832. 

Woodbury street was in use quite early, though not 
laid out as a town way until about 1733, being called the 
way "Latley allowed by the Town of Beverly " in 1734. 
It was called ye way between the land of Thomas Wood- 
bury and John Black's land in 1716; the way in 1727; 
the way leading from Manchester road to Woodbury's 
landing place so called in 1729; the highway which leads 
to the salt water at Woodbury's cove in 1761 ; the high- 
way leading to Woodbury's beach in 1774 ; the lane lead- 



86 BEVERLY IN 1700. NO. 4 

ing to Woodbury's point in 1806 ; and it has been called 
Woodbury street since 1793. 

Brackenbury lane was in existence as early as 1682, 
when it was called ye town highway leading to Mackerel 
cove. It was called Patch's lane in 1799 ; the town way 
to Patch's beach so called in 1800 ; and Brackenbury lane 
and Brackenbury street in 1856. 

Cross street was laid out over Isaac Woodbury's land 
in the winter of 1678-9, being recorded as follows : 

A drift highway on the west side of Isaac woodberries barne the 
way being two pole wide and to run along ' r by the said woodberries 
fence and soe unto snake hill and from the south side of snake hill 
unto the brooke that runs from Thomas Patches unto Nicholas 
Woodberries mill. 

X 

It was called ye lane which leadeth to John Pride's house 
in 1696 ; ye way that goes from the country road to 
Snake hill in 1701 ; ye lane that goes from ye country road 
that leads towards Manchester to ye house of widow Jane 
Pride in 1708 ; ye drift way in 1711 ; the town highway 
in 1721 ; Cross lane in 1805 ; and Cross street as early 
as 1871. That part of East Lothrop street which is east- 
erly of Cross street was originally a part of the old Cross 
lane, being called a town way as early as 1688. It was 
called the highway which leads towards the house for- 
merly Mr. William Pride's in 1836. 

Essex street was originally the outlet to the common 
lands at Montserrat. It was called ye outlet way in 
1682 ; ye highway in 1701 ; the highway that goeth from 
the Outlet gate northwards in 1705 ; " the road that 
leads from Effex Bridge thro a place in Beverly called 
Monsieurrat to Wenham in 1805; the road leading from 
Beverly to Essex in 1841; and Essex street as early as 1845. 

Cole street was laid out April 21, 1686, the report of 
the committee which laid it out being as follows : 

wee whofe names are vnder writen haue Laid out a high way that 
is to fay from the Common at the out Lett through fawers plain 
tow pole wide and fo through the land of william Cleans along by 
the northeaft fide of the grauelly Ridg and fo to the highway that 
corns from the fouth weft fide of Ifaac woodberys Orchard the faid 
way beginning at John Williams his corner of land 

fAMUELL CORNING fen* 
JOHN HILL 
JOHN LOUET 
NEHEMIAH GBOUEB 



BY SIDNEY PERLEY 37 

It was called ye highway in 1697 ; an highway running 
from John Williams, sr.'s, dwelling house in 1701 ; the 
highway leading from the house of widow Sarah Morgan 
to ye house of John Williams, sr., in 1702. It has been 
called Cole street for many years. 
k j. Corning street was so called in 1853. 

Lake Shore avenue was called Perkins avenue in 1874. 

Thomas Sallows Lot. This lot was conveyed by Robert 
Pease,to Henry Perey, for five pounds and ten shillings 
Nov. 30, 1652 ; l and Nicholas Bartlett of Salem, seaman, 
for nine pounds and ten shillings, conveyed it to John 
Sollas of Salem, mariner, Sept. 16, 1652. 2 John Sallows 
of Beverly, husbandman, for ten pounds, conveyed it to 
his son Thomas Sallows of Beverly, fisherman, Dec. 10, 
1698. 3 Thomas Sallows owned it in 1700 ; and he may 
have built a house upon it about that date. 

John Hill House. Robert Lemon owned that part of 
this lot of land lying westerly of the dashes in 1655 ; 
and died possessed of it in 1667. The estate passed to 
his son-in-law Samuel Beadle, husband of his daughter 
Hannah ; and Samuel Beadle of Salem, turner, conveyed 
it to John Hill of Beverly, cooper, August 14, 1676.* 
Mr. Hill was born in Bristol county, England. 

That part of the lot lying easterly of the dashes and 
the land adjoining on the easterly side was conveyed by 
Samuel Edson of Salem to William Browne of Salem, 
merchant, with the dwelling house and barn thereon, "on 
Cape Ann Side," Sept. 24, 1655. 6 Mr. Browne con- 
veyed this part of the premises to Zebulon and John Hill, 
brothers, both of Salem, June 30, 1659. 5 Zebulon Hill, 
sr., of Salem, and John Hill, sr., of Beverly, coopers, 
divided the land, no house being mentioned, April 17, 
1685; 6 John Hill being assigned this part of the lot. Dea. 
John Hill was a cooper, and died Feb. 8, 1707-8. In the 
inventory of his estate is mentioned "The ruines of an 
old houfe," valued at thirty shillings. His widow Abigail 

'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 1, leaf 15. 
*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 1, leaf 71. 
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 59, leaf 170. 
4 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 4, leaf 144. 
4 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 2, leaf 70. 
*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 8, leaf 18. 



88 BEVERLY IN 1700. NO. 4 

Hill, as administratrix of his estate, conveyed to her 
cousin Cornelius Baker of Beverly, blacksmith, this lot 
with the right to remove " the old house " and barn 
standing thereon, in which her said husband had lived, 
Jan. 10, 1708-9. 1 The house was removed, probably im- 
mediately. 

Zebulon Hill Lot. Samuel Edson of Salem conveyed 
to William Browne of Salem, merchant, this lot and 
other land adjoining on the westerly side, " on Cape Ana 
Side," Sept. 24, 1655 ; 2 and Mr. Browne conveyed the 
premises to Zebulou and John Hill, brothers, both of 
Salem, June 30, 1659. 2 Zebulon Hill, sr., of Salem, and 
John Hill, sr., of Beverly, coopers, divided the land, no- 
house being mentioned, April 17, 1685 ; 3 this part of the 
lot being assigned to Zebulon Hill. Zebulon Hill owned 
it in 1700. 

John Black Lot. John Black owned this lot of land 
and lived in the house that then stood upon it in 1655. 
John Black, sr., of Beverly, husbandman, conveyed to his- 
son-in-law Isaac Davis two acres at the northerly end of 
the lot in or before 1670 ; and Mr. Black conveyed the 
remainder of the lot to his son John Black of Beverly 
April 20, 16 70. 4 Isaac Davis of Beverly, husbandman, 
for eight pounds, conveyed his two acres to John Black, 
the younger, of Beverly, husbandman, Dec. 6, 1670. 5 - 
Probably the house stood only a few years after 1655. 
John Black, jr., owned the lot in 1700. 

Thomas Woodberry House. That part of this lot of land 
lying westerly of the dashes was the property of Capt. 
Thomas Lathrop of Beverly as early as 1670, when he 
was living in the house which then stood thereon. Cap- 
tain Lathrop was the commander of " The Flower of 
Essex," a military company, and with them was ambushed 
and massacred by the Indians at South Deerfield Sept. 18 r 
1675. He died childless, and his only heir was his sister 
Ellen (Eleanor), wife of Ezekiel Cheever of Boston, the 

J Essex Registry of Deeds, book 28, leaf 44. 
2 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 2, leaf 70. 
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 8, leaf 18. 
*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 3, leaf 140. 
5 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 3, leaf 141. 



BY SIDNEY PBBLEY 39 

famous schoolmaster. By order of the quarterly court at 
Salem this land and house were assigned to Captain Lath- 
rop's widow Bethiah for her life and at her death to the 
town of Beverly, " as," as he once said, " a token of my 
love," for the use of the ministry in Beverly forever, 
June 27, 1676. l This decision was submitted to the 
general court for its approval, and duly approved May 
19, 1680. 2 Mrs. Lathrop married Joseph Grafton of 
Salem, mariner, and lived here. Mr. Cheever appointed 
his son Thomas Cheever of Maiden his attorney to lease 
to Robert Coburne the housing and land, for eight pounds 
per annum, May 2, 1681 ; 3 and, Oct. 28, 1681, Mr. 
Cheever conveyed the house, barn, orchard and land to 
Thomas Woodberry of Beverly, mariner. 4 Mrs. Cheever 
released the housing and land to Mr. Woodberry Dec. 7, 
1686. 6 Mr. Woodberry gave a deed of a part of this lot 
July 19, 1708, in which he states that it is "to take in 
y e ground on which Cap* Lathrops houfe once stood." So 
the house was then gone. 

That part of the lot lying easterly of the dashes be- 
longed to Thomas Woodberry in 1681 and 1700. 

That part of the lot lying northerly of the dashes was 
a part of Captain Lathrop' s plain. 

Peter Wolfe Lot. This lot of land belonged to Peter 
Wolfe in 1667, and he died possessed of it in 1675. He 
was a yeoman. His house and orchard with his eight 
acres of land were then appraised at sixty-eight pounds. 
Peter Wolfe, probably son of Peter Wolfe, is named as 
owning this lot of land in 1700. 

John Ober Souse. Susannah Hollingworth of Salem, 
widow, conveyed this lot of land to Humphrey Woodbury 
of Salem, yeoman, Dec. 2, 1667 ; 6 and he died possessed 
of it in 1686. His son Humphrey Woodbury came into 

'Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, vol- 
ume VI, page 170. 

^Copies of several papers in the settlement of the estate of Cap- 
tain Lathrop, on file in the Massachusetts State Archives at Boston, 
are printed in the Historical Collections of the Essex Institute, vol- 
ume 2, pages 131 and 177, and volume 3, page 65. 

'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 6, leaf 32. 

4 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 6, leaf 34. 

5 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 7, leaf 94. 

6 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 3, leaf 23. 



40 BEVERLY IN 1700. NO. 4 

possession of it ; and built (perhaps bis father had built) 
a house thereon. Humphrey Wood be ry, late of Beverly, 
now of Gloucester, mariner, conveyed to John Ober of 
Beverly, mariner, the dwelling house, barn, orchard and 
eleven acres of land May 5, 1698. 1 Mr. Ober died May 
29, 1744. The house, barn, cooper's shop and land were 
then appraised at one hundred and twenty-four pounds. 
The house faced the south. Apparently the house was 
standing in 1758. 

Estate of Paul Thorndike House. "Mr. Thorndike " 
owned this lot of land in 1667. Capt. Paul Thorndike 
of Beverly, yeoman, owned the house and lot in 1697 ; 
and died possessed of the estate in 1698. The forty 
acres of the homestead land with the buildings thereon 
was appraised at two hundred pounds. The real estate 
was divided Dec. 3, 1701, and his son Paul Thorndike of 
Beverly, husbandman, succeeded Mr. Thorndike in the 
title. Paul Thorndike, jr., died Feb. 14, 1742 ; and the 
real estate was divided in 1743. How much longer the 
house stood is uncertain. 

Dorcas Symmes Lot. Richard Brackenbury of Beverly 
conveyed to his son John Brackenbury of Boston, mari- 
ner, this lot of land Sept. 1, 1682 ; 2 and John Bracken- 
bury of Charlestown, mariner, in consideration of love, 
conveye'd it to his daughter Dorcas Brackenbury March 
24, 1690. 3 Miss Brackenbury married Zachariah Symmes 
of Charlestown, and owned the lot in 1700. 

Isaac Woodbury House. This lot of land was the prop- 
erty of Thomas Lathrop of Beverly as early as 1670. 
He was the commander of "The Flower of Essex," a 
military company, and with them was ambushed and 
massacred by the Indians at South Deerfield Sept. 18, 
1675. He died childless, and his only heir was his sister 
Ellen (Eleanor), wife of Ezekiel Cheever of Boston. 
By order of the quarterly court at Salem this land was 
assigned to Captain Lathrop's widow Bethiah for her life 
and at her death to Mrs. Cheever. Mr. Cheever conveyed 
it to Thomas Woodberry of Beverly, mariner, Oct. 28, 

'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 18, leaf 120. 
2 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 6, leaf 63. 
3 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 12, leaf 117. 



BY SIDNEY PBRLEY 41 

1681. 1 John Black of Beverly, yeoman, owned it June 
22, 1698, when he conveyed it to his daughter-in-law 
Mary Williams, widow of Anthony Williams of Beverly. 2 
She had built a dwelling house upon the lot ; and, for 
fifty-five pounds paid by Maiy Woodbury, wife of Isaac 
Woodbury, sr., of Beverly, mariner, she conveyed the 
house, barn and laud to Mrs. Woodbury's son Isaac 
Woodbury, jr., of Beverly Jan. 24, 1698-9. 3 How long 
the house stood after 1700 is unknown to the writer. 

John Slack Lot. This lot of land was owned by Oapt. 
Thomas Lathrop of Beverly in 1671. He was killed by 
the Indians at South Deerfield Sept. 18, 1675. He died 
childless, and his only heir was his sister Ellen (Eleanor), 
wife of Ezekiel Cheever of Boston. Mr. Cheever con- 
veyed this lot to Thomas Woodberry of Beverly, mar- 
iner, Oct. 28, 1681. 1 This is probably the four acres of 
upland and meadow which John Black of Beverly, yeo- 
man, delivered to his son-in-law Robert Sallows in the 
latter's lifetime, and that John Black conveyed to Robert 
Sallows' own sisters Hannah Groves, Mary Williams and 
Sarah Stevens for a legacy given to said Robert Sallows, 
jr., in the will of his father Robert Sallows, June 22, 
1698> 

John Sollas House. That part of this lot of land lying 
northwesterly of the dashes belonged to John Sollas of 
Salem, seaman, in 1660. 

That part of the lot lying northeasterly of the dashes 
was conveyed by John Pickett of Stratford, Conn., late 
of Salem, husbandman, to John Solas, with the house and 
barn thereon, March 18, 1660-1. 5 

Mr. Sollas became a yeoman, and died possessed of the 
estate March 9, 1707-8, at eighty years of age. The es- 
tate became the property of his grandson Joseph Sallis of 
Methuen, yeoman, who, for one hundred and ten pounds, 
conveyed the dwelling house and land adjoining to Thomas 
Hardee of Beverly, coaster, Feb. 23, 1736-7. 6 Thomas 

'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 6, leaf 34. 
"Essex Registry of Deeds, book 13, leaf 119. 
"Essex Registry of Deeds, book 15, leaf 72. 
*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 15, leaf 93. 
5 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 2, leaf 16. 
6 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 72, leaf 245. 



42 BEVERLY IN 1700. NO. 4 

Harde, jr., of Bradford and wife Mary, for one hundred 
and sixty pounds, conveyed the same estate to Jonathan 
Hart of Beverly, mariner, July 13, 1743 j 1 and Mr. Hart 
became a yeoman. He conveyed the house, barn and 
land, for one hundred pounds, to Ebenezer Peirce of 
Salem, mariner, Oct. 15, 1783. 2 Mr. Pierce died ; and 
his widow Lydia Pierce, as administratrix of his estate, 
for fifty-eight pounds, conveyed the house and land to 
Mrs. Mary Moulton of Beverly Dec. 10, 1787. 3 The 
writer does not know how much longer the house stood. 

William Woodbury Lot. That part of this lot of land 
lying within the dashes at its northerly corner was con- 
veyed to him by the town of Beverly Oct. 23, 1682. 4 

The remainder of the lot belonged to Mr. Woodbury at 
that time. 

He owned the entire estate in 1700. 

Estate of Richard Woodbury Lot. This lot of land be- 
longed to Richard Woodbury in 1692, and it was the 
property of his father Humphrey Woodbury, probably, 
before him. Richard Woodbury died in Boston, on his 
return from service in the Canada Expedition, in 1690. 
In his will, he devised one-half of his estate to his wife 
Sarah Woodbury and the other half to his sons Richard, 
Josiah and David. The widow married, secondly, John 
Poole, and removed to Gloucester. The place belonged 
to the estate in 1700. 

This estate was probably the twenty acres of land, with 
the dwelling house, which was conveyed, for sixteen 
pounds, by Guydo Bayly of Salem, gardener, to Hum- 
phrey Woodbery of Salem, fisherman, Oct. 11, 1652. 6 

John Hill Lot. This tract of land was a part of the lot 
granted by the seven men of Salem to Samuel Edson Aug. 
10,1642; and he conveyed it to William Browne of 
Salem, merchant, Sept. 24, 1655. 6 Mr. Browne conveyed 
it to Zebulon Hill and John Hill, both of Salem, June 30, 
1659. 6 They were coopers; and they divided the lot 

"Essex Registry of Deeds, book 84, leaf 274. 
2 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 142, leaf 310. 
"Essex Registry of Deeds, book 151, leaf 27. 
4 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 7, leaf 5. 
''Essex Registry of Deeds, book 1, leaf 16. 
6 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 2, leaf 70. 



BX SIDNEY PERLBY 43 

April 17, 1685, John having the westerly part and Zebu- 
Ion the easterly. 1 Dea. John Hill owned his part in 1700. 

Zebulon Hill Lot. This tract of land was a part of that 
which was granted by the seven men of Salem to Samuel 
Edson Aug. 20, 1642 ; and he conveyed it to William 
Browne of Salem, merchant, Sept. 24, 1655. 2 Mr. Browne 
conveyed it to Zebulon Hill and John Hill, both of Salem, 
coopers, June 30, 1659. 2 They divided the lot April 17, 
1685, John having the westerly part and Zebulon the 
easterly. 1 For twenty pounds, Zebulon conveyed his 
part of the lot to his son Zebulon Hill of Salem, mariner, 
Sept. 9, 1690. 3 Zebulon Hill, jr., died just before 1700, 
when it belonged to his estate. 

Joshua Bisson Lot. This lot of land was early the 
property of Capt. Thomas Lathrop of Beverly, who was 
killed by the Indians at Deerfield Sept. 18, 1675. He 
died childless, and his only heir was his sister Ellen 
(Eleanor), wife of Ezekiel Cheever of Boston. Mr. 
Cheever conveyed it to Thomas Woodberry of Beverly, 
mariner, Oct. 28, 1681 ;* and Mrs. Cheever released it to 
Mr. Woodberry Dec. 7, 1686. 5 For nineteen pounds, 
Mr. Woodberry conveyed it to Joshua Bisson of Beverly, 
joiner, Nov. 3, 1693 ; 6 and Mr. Bisson owned it in 1700. 

Cornelius Baker Lot. This lot of land was early the 
estate of Capt. Thomas Lathrop of Beverly, who was 
.killed by the Indians at Deerfield Sept. 18, 1675. He 
died childless, his only heir being his sister Ellen (Elea- 
nor), wife of Ezekiel Cheever of Boston. Mr. Cheever 
conveyed it to Thomas Woodberry of Beverly, mariner, 
Oct. 28, 1681 ; 4 and Mrs. Cheever released it to Mr. 
Woodberry Dec. 7, 1686. 6 For twenty-one pounds, Mr. 
Woodberry conveyed it to Cornelius Baker of Beverly, 
blacksmith, April 13,1692;~and Mr. Baker owned itin!700. 

John Higginson Lot. This lot of land was early the 
property of Capt. Thomas Lathrop of Beverly ; and he 

'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 8, leaf 18. 
3 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 2, leaf 70. 
3 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 8, leaf 170. 
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 6, leaf 34. 
5 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 7, leaf 94. 
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 13, leaf 116. 
?Essex Registry of Deeds, book 19, leaf 65. 



44 BEVERLY IN 1700. NO. 4 

was killed by the Indians at Deerfield Sept. 18, 1675. 
He died childless, his only heir being his sister Ellen 
(Eleanor), wife of Ezekiel Cheever of Boston, school- 
master. Mr. Cheever conveyed it to Thomas Woodberry 
of Beverly, mariner, Oct. 28, 1681 ; x and Mrs. Cheever 
released it to him Dec. 7, 1686. 2 Mr. Woodberry con- 
veyed it to John Higginson, jr., of Salem, merchant, Oct. 
27, 1696 ; 3 and Mr. Higginson owned it in 1700. 

John G-iles Lot. This lot of land belonged to Capt. 
Thomas Lathrop of Beverly, who was killed by the Indians 
at Deerfield Sept. 18, 1675. He died childless, his only 
heir being his sister Ellen (Eleanor), wife of Ezekiel 
Cheever of Boston, schoolmaster. Mr. Cheever conveyed 
it to Thomas Woodberry of Beverly, mariner, Oct. 28, 
1681 j 1 and Mrs. Cheever released it to him Dec. 7, 1686 2 . 
Mr. Woodberry probably conveyed it to John Giles in or 
before 1696 ; and it belonged to him in 1700. 

Isaac Woodbury Lot. This lot of land belonged to 
Capt. Thomas Lathrop of Beverl}', who was killed by the 
Indians at Deerfield Sept. 18, 1675. He died childless, 
his only heir being his sister Ellen (Eleanor), wife of 
Ezekiel Cheever of Boston. Mr. Cheever conveyed it to 
Thomas Woodberry of Beverly, mariner, Oct. 28, 1681 j 1 
and Mrs. Cheever released the lot to him Dec. 7, 1686. 2 

That part of the lot lying northerly of the dashes was 
conveyed by Mr. Woodberry to his brother Isaac Wood- 
bury of Beverly, mariner, Oct. 20, 1690. 4 

That part of the lot lying southerly of the dashes was 
conveyed by Thomas Woodberry to John Giles, sr., of 
Beverly, yeoman, before May 6, 1695, when the latter 
conveyed it, for twenty-four pounds in silver, to Isaac 
Woodbury. 5 

Isaac Woodbury owned the entire lot in 1700. 

Joseph Pride Lot. This lot of land belonged to Capt. 
Thomas Lathrop of Beverly, who was killed by the In- 
dians at Deerfield Sept. 18, 1675. He died childless, his 

'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 6, leaf 34. 
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 7, leaf 94. 
a Essex Registry of Deeds, book 11, leaf 198. 
4 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 9, leaf 41. 
5 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 12, leaf 47. 



BY SIDNEY PERLEY 45 

only heir being his sister Ellen (Eleanor), wife of Ezekiel 
Cheever of Boston. Mr. Cheever conveyed it to Thomas 
Wood berry of Beverly, mariner, Oct. 28, 1681 ;* and 
Mrs. Cheever released it to him Dec. 7, 1686. 2 Mr. Wood- 
berry conveyed it, for thirteen pounds, to Joseph Pride 
of Beverly Nov. 6, 1693 ; 3 and Mr. Pride owned it in 
1700. 

John Pride House. The town of Beverly granted this 
half-acre lot of land to John Pride of Beverly, mariner, 
Nov. 5, 1678, and it was laid out Dec. 10, 1689. He 
built upon it a house in which he lived. He died in the 
spring of 1730, intestate. His real estate consisted of 
this lot of land with " some orchard on it," valued at 
fourteen pounds, and " an old house Standing on S d Land 
not Inhabited," valued at one pound and eleven shillings. 
The house was gone soon afterward probably. 

Robert Woodbury House. Isaac Woodbury, sr., of Bev- 
erly, mariner, conveyed this house and land, which was 
his homestead, to his son Robert Woodbury of Beverly, 
mariner, June 3, 1698 ; 4 and the house was apparently 
gone before 1742, when the land was still owned by Cap- 
tain Woodbury. 

John Thorndike House. This lot of land belonged to 
John Thorndike as early as 1668, and he died in the 
autumn of 1670, having in his will devised the land to 
his son Paul Thorndike, who was a yeoman. For seventy 
pounds, Capt. Paul Thorndike conveyed it to William 
Browne of Salem, merchant, Nov. 19, 1690. 6 It became 
the property of Captain Thorndike's son John Thorndike 
of Beverly, husbandman, who probably built the house 
now standing thereon about 1696, when he became of age. 
Capt. John Thorndike died March 13, 1760 ; and his 
heirs released their interest in the estate to his grandson 
Isaac Thorndike and Joseph Rea, who had married a 
granddaughter of the deceased. This part of the home- 
stead became the property of Mr. Rea. He lived here ; 
and, for four hundred pounds, conveyed the house, barn 

'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 6, leaf 34. 
2 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 7, leaf 94. 
8 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 14, leaf 164. 
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 15, leaf 68. 
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 8, leaf 183. 



46 BEVERLY IN 1700. NO. 4 

and ten acres of land to his son Isaac Rea of Beverly, 
mariner, Aug. 13, 1788. 1 Isaac Rea conveyed the estate, 
for three hundred pounds, to Ebenezer Rea of Beverly, 
mariner, Feb. 21, 1795. 2 Ebenezer Ray lived here, being 
a yeoman. He died Nov. 11, 1843, and his house, barn 
and six acres of land were appraised at nine hundred and 
fifty dollars. His heirs released their interest in one-half 
of the homestead to his daughter widow Hitty Foster of 
Beverly March 20, 1844 ; 3 and on the same day they re- 
leased the other half to his daughter Mary Ray of Bev- 
erly, singlewoman. 4 Mary Ray married Elisha Woodbury 
of Beverly, and, for two hundred and ninety dollars, con- 
veyed to James Allen of Beverly one-half of the home- 
stead April 22, 1872 ; 5 and Mehitable Foster died pos- 
sessed of her half March 23, 1891. Her heirs, James 
Allen, jr., Ezra F. Allen, Augusta Prince and her husband 
Augustus B. Prince, widow Mary Ober, Emma F. Smith, 
Etta Brower, singlewoman, Caroline F. Williams, widow, 
and Philip S. Haskell, guardian of Alice S. Haskell, all 
of Beverly, for four hundred dollars, conveyed her half 
of the estate to James Allen, who owned the other half, 
May 8, 1891. 6 Mr. Allen was a brother-in-law of the 
deceased. He died Feb. 15, 1899 ; and in the inventory 
of his estate " The old Ray dwelling house " and land 
were appraised at one thousand dollars. His heirs, James 
Allen and Ezra F. Allen, Augustus Prince, Mary A. Ober, 
Emma F. Smith and Mary E. Swan, all of Beverly, con- 
veyed the estate to Patrick J. Sullivan of Beverly May 
23, 1901. 7 Mr. Sullivan mortgaged the estate to the 
Beverly Savings Bank ; and the mortgage was foreclosed 
by the bank by sale to Charles F. Lee of Beverly Aug. 
27, 1906. 8 Mr. Lee conveyed the land and buildings to 
Charles H. Tyler of Boston Sept. 5, 1906 ; 9 and Mr. Tyler 
still owns the ancient house. 

'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 147, leaf 266. 
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 163, leaf 136. 
8 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 343, leaf 66. 
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 343, leaf 67. 
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 870, leaf 93. 
"Essex Registry of Deeds, book 1309, page 499. 
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 1641, page 457. 
"Essex Registry of Deeds, book 1838, page 99. 
9 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 1838, page 101. 



BY SIDNEY PERLEY 47 

Dorcas Symmes Lot. Richard Brackenbury of Beverly 
owned this lot of land in 1688 ; and he conveyed it to 
his son John Brackenbury of Boston, mariner, Sept. 1, 
1682. 1 John Brackenbury removed to Charlestown, and, 
for love, conveyed it to his daughter Dorcas Brackenbury 
March 24, 1690. 2 She married Zachariah Symmes o 
Charlestown, and owned the lot in 1700. 

Jonathan Boiles Lot. This lot of land was conveyed by 
Capt. Paul Thorndike of Beverly, for twenty-two pounds, 
to Jonathan Boiles of Beverly, weaver, Dec. 3, 16 88; 3 and 
Mr. Boiles owned it in 1700. 

Thomas Woodberry Lot. This lot of land early belonged 
to Capt. Thomas Lathrop of Beverly, who was killed by 
the Indians at Deerfield Sept. 18, 1675. He died child- 
less, his only heir being his sister Ellen (Eleanor), wife 
of Ezekiel Cheever of Boston, schoolmaster. Mr. Cheever 
conveyed it to Thomas Woodberry of Beverly, mariner, 
Oct. 28, 1681 ; 4 and Mrs. Cheever released it to him Dec. 
7, 1686. 5 Mr. Woodberry owned it in 1700. 

Richard Brackenbury Lot. Richard Brackenbury owned 
this lot in 1679 and 1700. 

George Hull Lot. This lot of land was part of the 
twenty-acre lot of John Patch of Beverly, which was con- 
veyed by him to Samuel Knolton of Ipswich, husband- 
man, July 1, 1671. 6 Mr. Knowlton conveyed it to George 
Hull of Beverly, cooper, Nov. 27, 1679 ; 2 and Mr. Hull 
owned it in 1700. 

William Cleaves Lot. That part of this lot of land 
lying southeasterly of the dashes was part of the twenty- 
acre lot of John Patch of Beverly, which was conveyed 
by him to Samuel Knolton of Ipswich, husbandman, July 
1, 1671. 6 Mr. Knowlton conveyed it to George Hull of 
Beverly, cooper, Nov. 27, 1679 ; 7 and on the next day 
Mr. Hull, for eleven pounds and twelve shillings in sil- 

1 Essex Registry of Deeds, book (5, leaf 63. 
2 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 12, leaf 117. 
3 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 9 leaf 32. 



4 Fssex Registry of Deeds, book 6 
5 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 7 
"Essex Registry of Deeds, book 9 
7 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 7 



leaf 34. 
leaf 94. 
leaf 178. 
leaf 8. 



48 BEVERLY IN 1700. NO. 4 

ver, conveyed this portion of the lot to William Cleaves 
of Beverly, seaman. 

That part of the lot lying northwesterly of the dashes 
was conveyed by Paul Thorndike of Beverly to Robert 
Bradford Feb. 26, 1682 ;i and Mr. Bradford apparently 
conveyed it to Mr. Cleaves. 

Mr. Cleaves owned the entire lot in 1700. 

John Williams House. John Williams of Beverly, fish- 
erman, owned this lot of land in 1675, apparently having 
purchased it of Capt. Paul Thorndike. For seven pounds 
and sixteen shillings, he conveyed it, with a small dwell- 
ing house thereon, to William Hirst of Salem, merchant, 
Aug. 21, 1697. 2 This conveyance was probably a mort- 
gage. The house was standing and belonging to John 
Williams, sr., in 1702. 

John Knight House. Samuel Corning, sr., of Beverly, 
yeoman, owned this lot of land before March 7, 1673-4, 
when he conveyed it to John Knight, jr., of Beverly, car- 
penter. 3 Mr. Knight built a house and barn thereon, and 
lived there. For fifty pounds, paid to him and his father, 
John Knight, he conveyed the estate to Robert Brimsdon 
of Boston, merchant, probably in mortgage, May 8, 1675. 4 
Captain Knight removed to Manchester, and, for sixty- 
three pounds, conveyed the dwelling house and land to 
Sarah Morgan, widow of Samuel Morgan, jr., late of 
Beverly, cooper, April 17, 1701. 5 The house was stand- 
ing and the property of Mrs. Morgan in 1702. 

William Clark House. This lot of land belonged to 
William Clark of Beverly, fisherman, in 1677, and he 
probably built a house thereon soon afterward. He lived 
here until he conveyed the land with the house and barn 
thereon to his son Samuel Clark of Beverly, weaver, and 
his wife Susannah March 21, 1717-8. 6 The house was 
apparently gone before 1729. 

William Cleaves House. That part of this lot lying 
easterly of the dashes was conveyed by Nathaniel Stone 



Registry of Deeds, book 7, leaf 3. 
2 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 12, leaf 100. 
*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 14, leaf 116. 
*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 4, leaf 115. 
b Essex Registry of Deeds, book 14, leaf 157. 
"Essex Registry of Deeds, book 33, leaf 147. 




JOHN THORNDIKE HOUSE 



BY SIDNEY PEELEY 49 

of Beverly, yeoman, to William Cleaves of Beverly, fish- 
erman, Nov. 1, 1677 ;* and Mr. Cleaves built a house 
thereon immediately. 

That part of the lot lying westerly of the dashes was 
granted to Mr. Cleaves by the town of Beverly Nov. 5, 
1678. 

Mr. Cleaves owned the entire estate in 1700. 

John Thorndike Lot. Capt. Paul Thorndike owned this 
lot of land, and died possessed of the same in 1698 ; and 
it belonged to his son John Thorndike in 1700. 

Estate of William Livermore House. This lot of land 
was conveyed by John Raiment, sr., of Beverly, yeoman, 
for twenty-five pounds, to William Livermore of Beverly, 
planter, May 25, 1671. 2 Mr. Livermore lived here until 
his decease about 1691. The estate passed to Thomas 
Whittridge about 1700. 

On the northerly side of this lot was half an acre of 
land, which the town of Beverly granted to Mr. Livermore 
as an addition to his houselot March 28, 1671. 

Andrew Elliott Lot. This lot of land was granted by 
the town of Beverly to Lt. Andrew Elliott Jan. 21, 
1689-90 ; and he owned it in 1700. 

'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 5, leaf 14. 
8 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 4, leaf 56. 



ABRAHAM HOWE AND SOME OF HIS 
DESCENDANTS. 



BY M. V. B. PERLEY. 



ABRAHAM HOWE was born in England, and went to 
Roxbury with his wife about 1636. He located on the 
road to the Neck, his lands adjoining those of his brother 
James, 1 and his house and lot were paled in. 

He was confirmed a member of the church 14. 3m. 
1654 ; was a weaver by trade ; fined ten shillings for har- 
boring a stranger ; was constable ; frequently fence-view- 
er ; on various committees, such as, to collect a penny per 
acre to build more road gates ; on fences including "down 
to the river ;" in 1659 to report the number of acres 
under cultivation ; etc. He owned a swamp on the road 
to the fresh meadows ; 50 acres in the great lots, and in 
1657 was joint owner of a thousand acres in Dedham. 2 

He married " a godly woman," who died the " first 
week" (10), 1645. He married again. His will was 
made 26 May, 1676, and proved 2 Nov., 1676 ; and his 
executors were his son Israel and (perhaps son-in-law) 
Thomas Pearce. His sons Abraham, Isaac and Israel had 
his Dorchester estate. 

Children :- 

2. ABRAHAM, b. ; "the oldest son.') 

3. ELIZABETH, b. ; joined church; m. and had children. 

4. SABAH, b. ; m. and had Joseph, Isaac, Sarah; d. 25 Nov., 

1675. 

5. ISAAC, b. 24 June, 1639, in Roxbury. 

! For an account of James Howe and his descendants see Essex 
Institute Historical Collections, vol. LIV. 

2 Abraham Howe of Roxbury is said to have -been early in Ipswich. 
There is a deed dated London, Eng., June 1, 1655, conveying land at 
the Farms, Ipswich, wherein Abraham Howe is named as one of the 
owners of adjoining land. 

(50) 



ABRAHAM HOWE 51 

6. DEBORAH, b. 2 or 4 Sept., 1641, in Roxbury; m. 25 Feb., 1673, 

Joseph Skilton. 

7. ISBAEI-, b. 7 and bp. 14 July, 1644, in Roxbury. 

8. HESTEB or ESTHEK, b. ; m. first, Hanry Mason; second, 

John Sears. Her will, 1 Woburn, 2 March, 1679-80, calls 
Isaac Howe brother, and speaks of sister Deborah Skelton 
and brother Abraham's son Abraham. One paper calls 
Abraham Howe cousin to Mason, and another says Abraham 
palled Goodman Sears and wife cousins. James Howe, Sr* 
(aged about 80, 1681), called Goodman Sears and wife cous- 
ins. This seems to make brothers of the two men, Abra- 
ham and James, who took the freeman's oath together in 
1637 and lived contiguously. 

2. ABRAHAM HOWE, bom , " the eldest son ;" a 

merchant in Boston, where he died " 20th," and was 
buried in Roxbury 21 (9), 1683. His inventory, 3 Dec., 
1683, was 323, 18*. 9d. 

Children : 

9. ABRAHAM, b. 27 Mar., 1653, in Roxbury. 

10. ISAAC, bp. 30 (1), 1656. 

5. ISAAC HOWE, born in Roxbury, 24 June, 1639 ; 
died in Dorchester 11 or 15 Sept., 1714. He married 

Hannah , who had been a member of the Ipswich 

church and who died iu Dorchester, 20 Dec., 1728. 

Children : 

11. ISAAC, b. 7 July, 1678. 

12. ABRAHAM, b. 7 April, 1680. 

18. SAMUEL, b. 17 June, 1685; d. 4 Dec., 1688-9. 

14. HANNAH, b. 18 Mar., 1688-9. 

7. ISRAEL HOWE, born in Roxbury, 7 July, 1644 
took the freeman's oath 2 Dec,, 1680. He had liberty, 
1676-7, to take a load of "clabords" from the Common 
swamp. In 1680-81 he was tithingman, and was several 
years fence-viewer. One Town rate met with was 4. 10c?. 
He had a wife Tabitha in 1695. His home was in Dor- 
chester. 

Children : 

15. ISBAEL, b. 24 Sept., 1676. 

16. SUSANNAH, b. 11 Nov., 1678. 

Quarterly Court Records, vol. 34, p. 115; vol. 36, pp. 70-72. 



52 ABRAHAM HOWE 

17. JOHN, b. 18 Sept., 1681. 

18. JAMES, b. 14 Nov., 1683. 

19. NATHANIEL, b. 27 Mar., 1686. Had: Joshua, b. Dorchester, to 

Nath. and wife Sarah, 28 Feb., 1720. 

20. JOSEPH, b. 22 , 1688-9. 

21. TIMOTHY, b. 6 July, 1691. 

22. DAVID, b. 19 April, 1695. 

23. ZEBUIAH. 

9. ABRAHAM HOWE, baptized in Roxbury 25 Sept., 

1653 ; died there 15 (7), 1683. He married Sarah r 

who, before 1688, married, second, Samuel Knight. He 
was a farmer and joined the church 24 (1), 1678. 

Children, born in Roxbury : 

24. SABAH, b. 8 Dec., 1676; d. 22 Sept., 1724. 

25. ELIZABETH, b. 23 Nov., 1678. 

26. ABRAHAM, bp. 2 (11), 1680. 

27. ABIGAIL, b. 27 Mar., 1682; d. 12 Jan., 1684. 

10. ISAAC HOWE, baptized in Roxbury 30 March, 
1656 ; had 35 acres in the second range of lots ; joined 
the church 31 Oct., 1686. He married 11 May, 1685, 
Rebecca How, daughter of James, r., of Ipswich. She 
was a widow of Charlestown, 18 May, 1719, when she 
deeded her interest in her grandfather William Jackson's 
estate to David Foster. She was alive in Stoneham, 26 
Feb., 1733-4. His will was drawn 7 July, 1711, and 
" lodged " 22 Feb., 1717. 

Children : 

28. ISAAC, b. "Howe" 31 (8), and bp. "How" 7 (9), 1686, in Rox- 

bury. 

29. ABBAHAM, b. 24 Oct., 1689, in Roxbury; joined the church in 

1718. 

30. ABIGAIL, b. 4 Feb., 1691-2, in Roxbury. 

31. ABIJAH. 

32. JACOB, b. ; int. 20 Jan., 1720-1, Eleanor Sherwin. 

33. JOHN, b. in Charlestown; m. 13 Feb., 1717-18, Sarah;Gould. 

34. NAOMI, b. 22 April, 1701; m. Joseph Holden. 

11. ISAAC' HOWE, of Dedham, born 7 July, 1678; 
died 26 Aug., 1760, in his 83d year. He had 25 acres 
in the second range of lots, and received for a soldier, 
himself or some other, XI. 17*. 9 l-2rf. He married 26 



AND SOME OP HIS DESCENDANTS 53 

Nov., 1702, Submit, daughter of Thomas Bird, born 13 
May, 1678, and died 2 Oct., 1760. 
Children : 

35. THOMAS, b. 23 Sept., 1703. 

86. MABY, b. 29 Nov., 1704. 

57. SUBMIT, b. 10 April, 1707. 

88. THOMAS, b. 12 Oct., 1709. 

89. SAMUEL, b. 27 July, 1711. 

40. ISAAC, b. 16 Jane, 1715. 

41. JOSEPH, b. 27 Mar., 1717; d. 17 Sept., 1793. 

42. JOSHUA, b. 16 Dec., 1718. 

43. SAB AH, b. 18 May, 1722; d. 22 Sept., 1724. 

21. TIMOTHY HOWE, born 7 July, 1691 ; married Dor- 
cas and lived in Dorchester. 

Children : 

44. DORCAS, b. in Dorchester; d. 18 Jan., 1725-6, aged 9 years. 

45. SUSANNAH, b. 2 July, 1719. 

46. DOBOAS, b. 28 Jan., 1726-7; d. 18 Jan., 1729. 

47. DAVID, b. 13 Sept., 1728; d. 15 May, 1729. 

48. ABIGAIL, b. 9 Sept., 1730. 

49. MOSES, b. 30 Nov., 1731. 

50. TABITHA, b. 12 Dec., 1732. 

28. ISAAC HOWE, baptized 31 (8) or 7 (9), 1686. He 
married 26 June, 1712, Lydia Jackson; removed to Fra- 
mingham in 1720 ; married, second, 16 Oct., 1739, Eliza- 
beth, widow of William Edgell; and died 20 Oct., 1770. 

Children : 

51. JEREMIAH, b. 16 May, 1718. 

52. ISAAC, b. 4 Dec., 1719; d. y. 
63. LYDIA, b. 18 Nov., 1721. 

54. ELIZABETH, b. 14 April, 1723 ; blind from 18 years of age; d. a. 

about 90 yrs. 

55. ABIGAIL, b. 28 Jan., 1725; m. 1 Jan., 1746, John Blackman of 

Dorchester. 

56. ISAAC, b. 20 Sept., 1728. 

67. SABAH, b. 28 June, 1730. 

68. MARY. 

69. JOSEPH, b. 3 May, 1747. 
60. ABRAHAM. 

32. JACOB HOWE, married, int. 20 Jan., 1720-1, 
Eleanor Sherwin (born 28 June, 1696 ; died 11 Aug., 



54 ABRAHAM HOWE 

1757). He joined the church in 1716 ; married, second, 
Sarah Holgate, and died in Linebrook Parish (formerly 
" The Farms "), 6 Feb., 1772. He occupied the Sherwin 
homestead, later his son Jacob's, then " the Morgan 
place" and now included in the extensive fields of D. 
Sydney Perley. It was located just across the meadow 
from Mr. Perley 's, a few rods from Potter's Island and 
Winthrop Brook. 
Children : 

61. JACOB, b. 9 Feb., 1723-4, in Charlestown. 

62. ABRAHAM, b. 9 Dec., 1725, in Stoneham; d. 14 Aug., 1808, a 

blind man at the almshouse. 

63. HANNAH, b. 2 June, 1728, in Stoneham. 

64. HANNAH, b. 1 June, 1729, in Stoneham. 

65. PHILEMON, b. 13 Jan., 1730-1, in Stoneham. 

66. JAMES, b. 7 May, 1733, in Stoneham. 

57. ELEANOR, b. 11 Aug., 1736, in Stoneham, 

68. ABU AH. 

69. MARY, d. young. 

70. MARY, m. 16 April, 1771, in Linebrook Parish, Asa Brockle- 

bank (b. Rowley 15 Aug., 1745; d. Rindge, N. H., 12 Dec., 
1826) ; farmer ; had 5 children. 

71. JEMIMA. 

72. ELIZABETH. 

38. THOMAS HOWE of Dorchester, born 12 Oct., 
1709 ; married 22 Nov., 1733, Sarah Searle. 

Children : 

73. THOMAS, b. 24 Aug., 1736. 

74. THANKFUL, b. 1 Aug., 1737; m. in Dedham, 18 June, 1761, 

Thomas Leads, of Dorchester. 

75. SABAH, b. 25 Nov., 1739; m. 27 Mar., 1760, Benjamin Swan, 

both of Dedham. 

76. SUBMIT, b. 15 Dec., 1741; m. 25 Dec., 1760, in Dedham, Na- 

thaniel Wetherbee. 

77. HANNAH, b. 6 July, 1747. 

39. SAMUEL HOWE, b. 22 July, 1711 ; died 16 Sept., 
1780; married 2 Dec., 1736, Elizabeth Clapp, both of 
Dorchester. She died 6 Aug., 1764. 

Children, born in Dorchester : 

78. SAMUEL, b. 15 Jan., 1737. 

79. JOHN, b. 20 June, 1739; d. 12 Sept., 1740. 



AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS 55 

80. JOHN, b. 17 June, 1741. 

81. ELIZABETH, b. 9 June, 1744. 

82. ABRAHAM, b. 21 April, 1746. 

83. HANNAH, b. 1 Oct., 1748; m. 19 Sept., 1771, Moses Vose of 

Milton. 

84. MART, b. 17 Oct., 1750. 

85. 'SARAH, b. 25 July, 1753. 

56. ISAAC HOWE, born 20 Sept., 1728 ; married in 
Framingham, 5 Aug., 1749, Rebecca Edgell, probably 
daughter of his step-mother. 

Children : 

86. ASA, bp. 29 April, 1750. 

87. SIMON, bp. 12 Sept., 1756. 

88. ISAAC, bp. 18 Feb., 1759, of Isaac deed. 

61. JACOB HOWE, born in Charlestown, 9 Feb., 1723- 
4 ; died in Linebrook Parish, Ipswich, 1 Aug., 1806. He 
married 21 Nov., 1751, Lydia Davis (born 19 Oct., 1731 ; 
died 2 Feb., 1808), a neighbor whose home is now marked 
by " the Davis orchard," a part of the arable lands of J. 
Coggin Conant. 

Jacob and Jacob, Jr., were Minutemen in the Revolu- 
tion and served till 1780. The father's residence was 
Ipswich. The boy away from home working, perhaps 
apprenticed, lived in Newbury. 

Children : 

89. HANNAH, b. 1 Feb., 1752; drowned in well 26 June, 1756. 

90. MABY, bp. 28 April, 1754; m. 9 Feb., 1780, John Kilburn, both 

of Rowley. 

91. HANNAH, b. 29 May, 1757; had fits; d. 26 June, 1806. 

92. JACOB, bp. 27 July, 1760. 

93. , b. ; d. 15 July, 1763. 

94. DAVID, bp. 17 June, 1764; of Epsom, N. H., 1804. 

95. LYDIA, bp. 23 Aug., 1767; m. 23 Aug., 1792, Abraham Drake 

of Chichester, N. H. 

96. SALOME, bp. 23 Aug., 1767; m., as Sally, 29 Nov., 1790. 

97. , b. 19 Aug., 1767; d. 19 Aug., 1767, "soon after birth." 

98. RACHEL, bp. 10 June, 1770; m. 19 July, 1796, Stephen Stiles, 

Bridgton, Me. 

99. ABIGAIL, bp. 10 June, 1770; d. 8 July, 1814; m. 1st, Gregory 

Durgin, 2d, Moses Cheney ; 3 children. 

100. ISAAC, bp. 6 June, 1773; int. 12 Jan., 1797, Rachel Morrill of 
Chester, N. H. 



56 ABRAHAM HOWE 

101. DEBORAH, bp. 6 June, 1773; d. 15 July, 1773. 

62. ABRAHAM HOWE, 3d, born Stoneham, 9 Dec., 
1725 ; died a blind man in Ipswich, aged 83 years. He 
was a Minuteman. 1 He married Elizabeth . 

Children : 

102. MOSES, bp. 7 July, 1754; was a Minuteman, and continued in 

the service, 1775-7; m. 19 Feb., 1778, Love Gallop; both 
joined the Linebrook church 25 April, 1779. 

103. , child; d. 15 April, 1757. 

104. JACOB, bp. 16 April, 1758; d. 6 May, 1758. 

105. ELIZABETH, bp. 18 May, 1760; d. 3 June, 1760. 

106. BETTY, bp. 11 Oct., 1761; d. 4 July, 1763. 

107. DANIEL, bp. Ipswich, 17 June, 1764; agreed to serve in the 

Revolution for 3 years, for 350 Spanish milled dollars; for 
or from Ipswich, 29 Mar., 1781; m. Sarah Daniels of Row- 
ley, 8 April, 1784. 

108. SARAH, bp. 24 Jan., 1768. 

109. ABRAHAM, bp. 28 , 1770; d. 4 Sept., 1771. 

110. ABRAHAM, bp. 18 Oct., 1772; d. 9 June, 1774. 

65. PHILEMON HOWE, born 13 Jan., 1730-1, in Stone- 
ham ; died 5 July, 1819. He married 4 July, 1754, Sarah 
Kilburn, who died 22 April, 1809, aged 81. He probably 
lived on Batchelder's Brook, Rowley. 

Children : 

111. REUBEN, b. 9 May, 1755. 

112. SARAH, b. 12 Nov., 1757; m. 22 Aug., 1776, John Daniels, Jr., 

of Rowley. 

113. MARTHA, bp. 20 July, 1760. 

114. GEORGE, b. 25 Nov., 1766. 

73. THOMAS HOWE, JR., born 24 Aug., 1735 ; died 
probably in 1816. He married 23 Mar., 1763, Hannah 
Leeds, born in Dorchester, to Consider and Margaret, 17 
Mar., 1740-1, and died in 1807. 

Children : 

1 The_writer has this letter written by Abraham Howe to his 
cousin "Nathaniel Howe, Linebrook Parish: "Cambridge, June 22, 
1775. Cousin Howe: Sir, I would let you know that I am well and 
I hope to find you so, and I would inform you that I like better than 
I expected but we bad a smart brush with our enemies and they 
got the advantage of us upon Bunker's Hill but we have built a fort 
upon Winter Hill and have got some cannon fixed and we hope to 
get the advantage of them and I desire to be remembered to all my 
friends, and I still remain your friend Abraham Howe Third." 



AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS 57 

115. BKBEOOA, b. 4 Dec., 1763; m. 16 May, 1784, Samuel Thaycr. 

116. THOMAS, b. 7 July, 1765. 

117. JOSEPH, b. 3 April, 1768. 

118. WILLIAM, b. 17 Aug., 1770. 

119. JOSHUA, b. 7 Aug., 1772; m. Dedham, 15 April, 1794, Sally 

Houghton. 

78. SAMUEL HOWE, born 15 Jan., 1737; married 18 
Oct., 1759, Margaret Preston, both of Dorchester, where 
she died 2 May, 1778, of smallpox. 

Children : 

120. SAMUEL, b. 15 Jan., 1761; d. 11 Oct., 1762. 

121. SAMUEL, b. 25 Jan., 1763; d. 4 Feb., 1763. 

122. ELIZABETH, b. Sept., 1764; d. 14 Oct., 1764. 
128. Lois, b. 12 June, 1765; d. 5 Jan., 1777. 

124. MARY, b. 2 Feb., 1766. 

125. SABAH, or SAMUEL, b. 1 May, 1768. 

126. HANNAH, b. 2 Oct., 1769; m. 14 Aug., 1783, Edward Glover, 

Jr., both of Dorchester. 

127. SAMUEL, b. 5 April, 1771; d. 9 April, 1772. 

128. LYDIA, b. 9 Sept., 1773; d. 26 May, 1793. 

80. JOHN HOWE, born 17 June, 1741 ; died 22 , 

1818, aged 77. He married 29 Nov., 1764, Rachel Glover, 
who died 1 June, 1811, aged 55 years. 

Children : 

129. JOHN, b. 4 Sept., 1755; "John, Esq., d. May 20, 1825." 

130. ELIZABETH, b. 20 May, 1767. 
181. GEOBOE, b. 6 July, 1769. 

132. RAOHBL, b. 25 Aug., 1771; d. 30 May, 1773. 

133. RACHEL, b. 19 Aug., 1773; m. Roxbury, 6 Dec., 1798, Edward 

Robinson. 

134. JOSEPH, b. 1 Dec., 1775; d. 23 Sept., 1776. 

135. JOSEPH, b. 1 April, 1778. 

136. JAMES, b. 25 Jan., 1781. 

82. ABRAHAM HOWE, born in Dorchester, 21 April, 
1746; died 24 Mar., 1811, aged 65. He married 30 
Oct., 1769, Patience Blake of Dorchester, who died 24 
Feb., 1810. 

Children : 

137. ABRAHAM, b. 15 Jan., 1771. 

138. JAMES BLAKE, b. 31 Mar., 1773; m. 22 Nov., 1797, Sally Adams 

Budlam, both of Dorchester. 



58 ABRAHAM HOWE 

139. BETSEY, b. 23 Jan., 1775. 

140. PATIENCE, b. 30 Aug., 1777. 

141. POLLY, b. 6 Dec., 1779; m. 17 Dec., 1801, David Baker of Rox- 

bury. 

142. EDWARD, b. 12 July, 1783. 

143. NANCY, b. 9 Aug., 1785; d. 20 Jan., 1787. 

144. NANCY, b. 16 Dec., 1788. 

92. JACOB HOWE, born in Ipswich 19 June, 1760 ; 
died 30 Jan., 1830; buried in Norway, Me. He was a 
Minuteman with his father in the Revolution. He mar- 
ried 17 Dec., 1783, Betsey Foster, born 10 Aug., 1763, 
in Boxford, to Moses and Hannah (Putnam) Foster, grand- 
niece of Gen. Israel Putnam. She died in Paris, Me., 
1853. He was post-rider from 1798 and the first in Ox- 
ford Co., Me. Weekly for four years he served the 
towns of Fryeburg, Bridgton, Waterford, Gorham, et al r 
about Portland. He was a pensioner from 1818. 

Children : 

145. FANNY, b. 4 Aug. or Sept., 1784, in Baldwin, Me.; m. Abner 

Smith, millwright, of Bridgton; 3 children; d. 31 Jan., 1874, 
Dedham, Mass. 

146. JESSE, b. 16 Feb., 1786. 

147. SALOME, b. 5 Dec., 1787; m. (1st w. of) Ebenezer Greenwood; 

6 children. 

148. JACOB, b. 17 Mar., 1790; d. at sea. 

149. BETSEY, b. 1 May, 1792; m. William Swan of Denmark; 9 

children. 

150. JEREMIAH, b. 14 May, 1794. 

151. HULDAH, b. 25 May, 1796; m. 11 May, 1815, Nathaniel Green- 

wood of Farmington, who d. 15 April, 1767. She d. IT 
July, 1892, aged 96 yrs.; 10 children. 

152. LYDIA, b. 28 April, 1798; m. Zibeon Field; d. 9 Nov., 1847. 

153. ROXANNA, b. 30 June, 1800; m. Adams Twitehell of Portland; 

5 children. 

154. POLLY, b. 5 July, 1802; m. Peter Coburn of Lincoln. 

155. MIRANDA, b. 13 May, 1805, in Bridgton; m. Alexander Eames ; 

11 children. 

111. REUBEN HOWE, born 9 May, 1755 ; died 18 
July, 1835, nearly or quite blind. He served in the Rev- 
olution and was a pensioner under the law of 7 June, 
1832. He married 21 Dec., 1780, Lucy Wood, who died 
17 Dec., 1796. He married, second, 7 April, 1797, Judith 



AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS 59 

Tenney, who died 10 Dec., 1809. He was published 6 
Oct., 1810, with Elizabeth, born 11 May, 1769, to John 
Bailey of Manchester, and died 9 July, 1855. 
Children : 

156. , ch., b. ; d. 26 Dec., 1787, a. abt. 7 yrs. 

157. LUCY, b. 27 May, 1786; m. 9 June, 1810, Philemon Daniels of 

Rowley. 

158. THOMAS, b. 7 Oct., 1787. 

159. SUSANNAH, b. 28 April, 1790. 

160. REUBEN, b. 16 Oct., 1792. 

161. MOSES [WOOD], b. 26 Aug., 1795. 

162. JUDITH, b. 21 Jan., 1798; int. 11 May, 1822, Oliver Bailey of 

Rowley. 
168. , a son, b. ; d. 15 June, 1803. 

114. GEORGE HOWE, born Rowley, 25 Nov., 1766 ; d. 
in Rowley, 12 Dec., 1842. He married in Newbury, 9 
June, 1798, Deborah Chapman, who died in Rowley, 18 
Mar., 1861, aged 85 years. His homestead was that lately 
owned by Edward Millett (who built a new house on the 
site of the old one), just east of the turnpike and near 
Batchelder's Brook on the Georgetown-Rowley highway. 

Children : 

164. DEBOBAH, b. 11 Mar., 1799; m. 20 July, 1819, Joshua Millett, 

a neighbor and brother to Edward above. 

165. DOLLY, b. 26 Aug., 1801; int. 19 June, 1830, John N. Pearson 

of Ipswich. 

166. APPHIA PERKINS, b. 25 Mar., 1805; d. 21 June, 1880, in Box- 

ford. 

167. PHEBE KILBUBN, b. 16 Nov., 1807; m. 10 Nov., 1829, Amos 

Jewett of Ipswich, farmer and shoemaker; had Amos Wen- 
dall, b. 21 Sept., 1831; d. 22 July, 1859. 

168. SARAH M., b. 27 Feb., 1810; m. Feb., 1833, Joseph D. Clark. 

169. GEOBQE WASHINGTON, b. 5 July, 1812. 

170. WILLIAM FBEDEBIOK, b. 10 Aug., 1814. 

116. THOMAS HOWE, JR., carpenter, born Dedham, 7 
July, 1765 ; died 22 Dec., 1805. He married 30 Aug., 
1789, Hannah Withington, Dorchester, born 2 June, 1767, 
to Elijah and Mary. 

Child : 

171. ELIJAH, b. Dedham, 21 Oct., 1792. 



60 ABRAHAM HOWE 

118. WILLIAM HOWE, born in Dcdham, 17 Aug., 
1770 ; was a machinist, builder of cotton factories and 
superintendent, at East Dedham and Holmesburg, Pa. 
He married (int. 30 Dec.), 1796, Mary Gould of Dedham. 

Children : 

172. GKORUK, b. Dedham, 6 Nov., 1802. 

173. RACHEL DWIGHT, b. Dedham, 19 Feb., 1806; d. Cornwall, Vt., 

1 Nov., 1866; m. 28 Oct., 1830, Rev. Lyman Matthews, b. 12 
May, 1801, in Middlebury, Vt., and d. Cornwall, 17 Aug., 
1866. 

174. WILLIAM, b. 20 Nov., 1811. 

129. JOHN HOWE, JR., born 4 Sept., 1765 ; died 20 
May, 1825. He married 12 July, 1781, Relief Nash, 
both of Rochester. She died 19 Feb., 1824, aged 61. 

Children : 

175. JOSEPH, b. 25 July, 1782. 

176. SIMON, b. 27 Oct., 1785. 

177. J OH ANN AH, b. 27 Mar., 1790. 

178. TIMOTHY, b. , 1792; d. July, 1795. 

179. ELIZA, b. 27 Aug., 1794. 

146. CAPT. JESSIE HOWE, born 16 Feb., 1786. He 
married, first, 30 Mar., 1809, Lydia, born 16 Aug., 1784, 
to Asa Dunham of Norway, a first settler and Revolu- 
tionary soldier, died 20 Dec., 1841 ; married, second, 1 
Jan., 1843, Betsey Shurtleff ; died 2 Mar., 1870, Paris. 

Children : 

180. HENBY, b. 11 Jan., 1810. 

181. JACOB FOSTER, b. 30 Nov., 1811. 

182. -JEBEMIAH, b. 18 April, 1814. 

183. JESSE, b. 11 April, 1816. 

184. ELI, b. 8 April, 1818, in Sumner, Me.; m. 8: 14: 1856, Mrs. 

Paulina (Baker) Howe of Dedham, b. in Lee to Edward and 
Esther Baker. She d. in Canada, 4 Mar., 1859, aged 35 y. 

185. CYBUS HAMLIN, b. 24 Sept., 1820. 

186. BENJAMIN FBANKLIN, b. 25 Sept., 1822; m. Paulina Baker; d. 

19 June, 1851, in Lincoln. 

187. EDWIN WALLACE, b. 3 Feb., 1825; m., 1st, 23 Mar., 1851, Mary 

Ann Beal of Norway; m., 2d, Abby D. Hill of Wiscasset; d. 
Norway, 10 Feb., 1890. 

188. WILLIAM RUTHVEN, b. 15 April, 1857. 



AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS 61 

150. CAPT. JEREMIAH HOWE, born 14 May, 1794; 
married Sylvia, daughter of Jephtha Benson, and is buried 
in Sumner, Me. He was bound out at 5 years ; at 18 
years he bought his minority of his father and walked to 
New York. He was farmer, trader, auctioneer and 
broker. 

Children : 

189. CHARLES, b. 14 Aug., 1816; m. Clarissa Bent; d. 11 Mar., 1891. 

They had: (1) Charles LeForrest, Col. 9th Me. Reg., medal 
for bravery; m. Anne Martin; d. in Canton, Me., 13 May, 
1891, at the house of his daughter Mrs. Cushman; and (2) 
George E., res. Boston. 

190. POLLY, b. 15 Jan., 1818; m. Jacob F. Howe (181). 

191. ADELINE, b. 10 Jan., 1822; m. 31 Mar., 1851, Abel Stetson, a 

farmer, who d. 29 Oct., 1891; d. 20 Jan., 1905; 3 children. 

192. ANGERONE, b. 10 Dec., 1824; m., 1st, Dr. Charles W. Turner; 

2d, Samuel C. Irish ; 2 children. 

193. HIRAM, b. 9 Oct., 1826; m. Harriet L. Buck; res. Sumner. 

They had : (1) Luther Carmon, b. 12 Feb., 1854; m. Drusilla 
J. Babb; and (2) Lottie A., b. 4 Aug., 1864; m. Lemmie 
Merrill of Rumford Falls. 

158. THOMAS HOWE, born in Rowley, 7 Oct., 1787; 
died 1 Sept., 1845 ; a yeoman. He married 15 Sept.* 
1814, Rebecca Gibson of Deer Isle, Me. 

Children : 

194. SUSAN, b. Rowley, 18 Nov., 1814; m. 3 April, 1834, Daniel J. 

Hale. 

195. LUCY JANE, b. Rowley, 30 May, 1817; m. 8 June, 1843, Wil- 

liam Littlefield of Boston. 

160. REUBEN HOWE, born in Rowley, 16 Oct., 1792 
died 25 Feb., 1853, aged 60 years. He married in Row- 
ley, 18 April, 1815, Elizabeth Dickinson, who died prior 
to his death. 

Children : 

196. ELIZABETH, b. 9 June, 1816; m. 17 Mar., 1838, Daniel Saun- 

ders, Jr.; d. 24 Oct., 1895, aged 79 years. 

197. AMOS WOOD, b. 6 Jan., 1819. 

198. HUMPHREY SAUNDERS, b. 7 May, 1821. 

199. EBEN IRA, b. 21 Aug., 1824; housewright; d. in Lynn, 23 

June, 1851. 

200. DAVID SAUNDERS. 



62 ABRAHAM HOWE 

161. MOSES WOOD HOWE, born 26 Aug., 1795 ; had 
" Wood " added to his name by the Legislature of 1830 ; 
married 29 Dec., 1831, Mary Cheney. 

Children : 

201. CHARLES EDWIN, b. Rowley, 18 Oct., 1832. 

202. LUOY MAY, b. 26 Sept., 1834. 

169. GEORGE WASHINGTON HOWE, born Rowley, 5 
July, 1812 ; died 13 May, 1884. He married in Rowley, 
10 Oct., 1835, Olive Jewett of Ipswich, who died 12 May, 
1892, aged 77 years. 

Children, born in Ipswich : 

203. BENJAMIN JEWETT, b. 6 Feb., 1837; m. 10 or 12 May, 1859, 

Caroline A. Averill, a fine singer, b. 11 Jan., 1841, to Eph- 
raim and Lydia Symonds (Potter) Averill of Ipswich, who 
was a teacher of vocal music, and was widely known for his 
superior bass voice. Mr. Howe was divorced, April, 1866, 
and m. 2d, in Ossining, N. Y., Margaret Cornell. He was a 
travelling salesman, and d. 5 Jan., 1914, without issue. 

204. SABAH MARIA, b. 8 Sept., 1840; m. 29 Aug., 1872, Samuel Au- 

gustus Boynton of Rowley, a grocer. He d. 9 Sept., 1912. 

205. GEORGE AARON, b. 29 Aug., 1843. 

206. AMOS N., b. ; m. in Derry, N.H., 15 Sept., 1874, Josephine 

W. Bradford of Derry. Had Eva May, b. 7 April, 1880. 

207. OLIVE ABBIE, b. 1 Dec., 1851; m. 28 Sept., 1871, Edwin H. 

Adams, b. 1849 in Newbury to Thomas H. and Mary J. 
(Jennings) Adams. He was in the shoe business. She d. 
in Rowley, 7 Aug., 1879. Had Mary Abbie. 

208. VANDAUA, b. 7. Jan., 1853, in Ipswich; m. 17 Sept., 1871, in 

Rowley, Ira Oscar Davis, b. Milton, N. H., 1848. Had Ralph 
Irving, b. 2 July, 1776; d. 15 Oct., 1898. Mrs. Davis was 
divorced 5 Mar., 1884. She m. 31 May, 1887, Edward Dil- 
lon, a heel- worker, b. 19 Feb., 1860, in Worcester, Mass. No 
child. 

170. WILLIAM FREDERICK HOWE, born in Rowley, 
10 Aug., 1814 ; married 30 Nov., 1842, Susan Eliza Pot- 
ter. He made a specialty of market gardening on the 
farm of his ancestors in Rowley, whose buildings and 
their contents were completely burned 20 Oct., 1865. 
These exemplary citizens were devoted to home and the 
church. He died 10 Oct., 1874 ; she 22 Oct., 1905. 

Children : 



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209. RUTH ELIZA, b. Rowley, 17 Aug., 1843; m. 22 July, 1869 

Frank Quinby Bodwell of Rumford, Me. (b. 5 July, 1843; 
d. 4 Jane, 1894), a carpenter, a bugler in a Maine battery 
in the Civil War. She was educated in Rowley schools and 
the Ipswich Female Seminary and taught school. Her only 
child, Fred Potter Bndwell, a printer by trade, several years 
selectman of Avon, Mass., where he, and at present his 
mother, reside. F. P. Bodwell has two sons, Franklin Clyde, 
now in the U. S. Navy, and Erland Hunt Bodwell. 

210. GEOBGK WILLIAM, twin, b. Rowley, 31 Jan., 1845; m. in Row- 

ley, 14 Aug., 1870, Sarah Elizabeth Kelly; graduate Boston 
Dental College, and is in dental practice in Danvers, Mass. 

211. ASA FREDERICK, twin, b. 31 Jan., 1845. 

212. ROGER SHERMAN, b. Rowley, 20 Nov., 1849; d. 21 Feb., 1911; 

m. in Newburyport, Martha Eva Davis of Georgetown, 1 
May, 1873; was a shoe worker; many years selectman and 
overseer of the poor and chairman of the Board, and did 
an extensive insurance business. He represented his dis- 
trict in the General Court, and was many years Deputy 
Sheriff for Essex Co. His wife d. 6 Nov., 1910. 

213. ISAAC HADLEY, b. Rowley, 9 Dec., 1858; d. there 7 Feb., 

1864. 

% 

171. ELIJAH HOWE of Dedham, carpenter, born 21 
Oct., 1792; died 30 Nov., 1880. He married 2 Mar., 
1826, Prudence Clarke, daughter of Jacob and Prudence 
(Stow) Clarke. She died 9 May, 1832. 

Children : 

214. ELIJAH, b. 27 Sept., 1828. 

215. WILLIAM, b. 1 May, 1832. 

172. GEORGE HOWE, born in Dedham, 6 Nov., 1802 ; 
died in Columbia, S. C., 15 April, 1883. He married, 
first, in Cornwall, Vt, 25 Aug., 1831, Mary Bushnell, 
daughter of Rev. Jedediah and Charlotte (Smith) Bush- 
nell, b. 25 June, 1808 ; d. 18 Sept., 1832. He married, 
second, 19 Dec., 1836, Mrs. Sarah Ann (Walthour) Mc- 
Connell, daughter of Andrew and Ann (Hoffmire) Wal- 
thour, b. 5 Oct., 1803 ; d. 14 April, 1885, in Columbia, 
S. C. 

Mr. Howe graduated at Middlebury College, Vt., with 
A.B., 1822 ; at same and Dartmouth College, A.M., 1827 ; 
at Andover Theological Seminary, 1825; ordained 1827 ; 



64 ABRAHAM HOWE 

Phillip's Professor of Theology at Dartmouth College, 
1827-1830 ; D. D., University of N. C., 1833 ; L. L. D., 
Oglethorpe, 1871 ; instructor in Hebrew and Greek in 
Columbia Presbyterian Theological Seminary, 1831, and 
in Biblical Literature till his death. 
Children : 

216. GEOBGE, b. 25 April, 1838; d. 27 Oct., 1841. 

217. WALTHOUR, b. 13 Feb., 1840; d. 11 Nov., 1859. 

218. WILLIAM, b. 13 Jan., 1842 ; d. 2 Feb., 1862. 

219. SABAH EMELIE, b. 30 Dec., 1843; d. 13 Nov., 1890, probably 

at Danville, Ky. She m. 24 June, 1863, Rev. Edwin Melvin 
Green, a Presbyterian clergyman, D. D., b. 10 Sept., 1838, 
to James and Sarah Ann (James) Green. Children: William 
Howe, b. 4 Oct., 1864; Edward Melvin (M. D.), b. 10 June, 
1867; George Howe (D. D. S.), b. 10 June, 1871; Marion 
Palmer, b. 20 May, 1875. 

220. MARIAN LOUISE, b. 3 Feb., 1846; d. 31 Jan., 1853. 

221. GEORGE, b. 29 Jan., 1848. 

174. WILLIAM HOWE, born in Dedham, 20 Nov., 
1811 ; died in Boston, 23 July, 1893. He was a ma- 
chinist. He married 5 Sept., 1841, in South Braintfee, 
Mass., Catherine Willard, b. 26 Jan., 1819, in Keene, 
N. H., to Josiah and Prudence (Morse) Willard, and died 
in Boston 20 Jan., 1886. 

Children : 

222. GEORGE, b. 24 May, 1842; d. 9 Dec., 1881. 

223. EDWAKD WILLARD, b. 27 Aug., 1846, in Braintree, Mass. He 

is a civil engineer retired. He has studied the history of his 
family and has aided materially on these Dr. George Howe 
families. He m. in Boston, 29 April, 1880, Abbie A. New- 
ell, born there 14 June, 1851, to Lucius and Abbie W. (Bur- 
ley) Newell. 

224. MART CATHERINE, b. 2 Jan., 1850; d., unm., 7 April, 1874. 

180. HENRY HOWE, b. 11 Jan., 1810. He married, 
first, Lucinda, daughter of Henry Prentiss, who died 30 
Dec., 1845, aged 34. He married, second, 3 : 1 : 1847, 
Lucy C., daughter of Philip and Catherine Newburt of 
Waterboro. He died 6 April, 1877 ; she, 24 Aug., 1884, 
aged 70 ; residence, Norway. 

Children : 



AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS 65 

225. CLINTON, b. 25 May, 1830; m., 1st, Eliza J. Heald; 2d, Sarah 

Barrows; res. Sumner. Had: (1) Helen J., m. W. W. Mayo 
of Hebron; (2) Henry Prentiss, b. 13 Dec., 1863, res. Water- 
ford; (3) Clinton Carroll, b. 5 April, 1865, res. in Massachu- 
setts; (4) John Prentiss, b. 22 Feb., 1867, m. Lizzie C. Ryer- 
son, res. Norway; (5) Paul Hart, b. 7 Aug., 1870, m. Jennie 
A. Merrill, res. Waterford; (6) Benjamin Franklin, b. and 
lived in Grindstone, Me. 

226. JULIA, b. Paris, 27 July, 1844; m. Amasa Heald. 

227. SAMUEL HENRY, b. 19 Mar., 1849; m. Emily Trefetheren; so- 

journed in the West; d. Portland, Me., 18 Nov., 1904. 

181. JACOB FOSTER HOWE, born 30 Nov., 1811 ; mar- 
ried 6 Mar., 1833, Polly Howe (190) ; was a trader ; died 
in West Sumner, 31 May, 1865. 

Children : 

228. FREEMAN, b. 5 Dec., 1833; insurance broker of Norway; m. 

Mary L. Field. Had: (1) Fannie Robertine, m. 10 Mar., 
1885, Arthur Eben Morrison of South Berwick; (2) George 
Robley, b. 4 Aug., 1860; m. April, 1888, Fannie J. Board- 
man of Hartford, Ct., res. Norway; (3) Freeland, b. 30 May, 
1870, res. Norway. 

229. FRANK W., b. 29 Jan., 1849; shoemaker, Rumford Falls; m. 

Estelle Cole. Had : (1) Harley Hazen, b. 24 Mar., 1871; (2) 
Laura Almira, b. 27 Aug., 1873, d. 1 Dec., 1889; (3) Mary 
Esther, b. 18 Nov., 1876, m. Dr. Joseph Abbott Nile of Rum- 
ford Falls. 

182. JEREMIAH HOWE, born 18 April, 1814 ; married 
Mary, daughter of Benjamin Tucker of Norway. He was 
a trader in Portland, and died 19 Dec., 1894. 

Children : 

230. LYDIA J., b. 13 Dec., 1840; m. Rev. J. C. Snow; 2 children. 

231. EMILY ALTON, b. 17 Aug., 1847. 

183. JESSE HOWE, born 11 April, 1816 ; died 25 Feb., 
1875. He married 14 Oct., 1843, Rebecca, daughter of 
Samuel Gibson of Denmark. He was a physician. 

Children : 

232. ELLEN FRANCES, b. 23 Dec., 1844; d. 11 April, 1852. 

233. IZAH TENNEY, b. 26 Mar., 1848; m. 19 Oct., 1881, John R. San- 

born of Bangor, who d. 1893. 

234. REBECCA GIBSON, b. 13 June, 1850; d. 22 April, 1852. 



66 ABRAHAM HOWE 

185. CYRUS HAMLIN HOWE, born 24 Sept., 1820; 
married 28 Feb., 1843, Amelia P. Coburn ; died 19 Mar., 
1896 ; lived in Paris. She died 21 Mar., 1896. 

Children : 

235. JESSE COBURN, b. 21 Feb., 1845; m. 1st, 27 Jan., 1868, Sarah 

J. Farnum; m. 2d, 19 Jan., 1881, Arthur Noyes of Paris. 
Had: (1) Fred J., b. 19 June, 1869, m. 20 June, 1895, Angle 
B. McLellan; (2) Ethel May, b. 4 May, 1882. 

236. LYDIA, b. 11 Dec., 1848; m. 16 Mar., 1869, George F. Beach. 

188. WILLIAM RUTHVEN HOWE, born 15 April, 1857; 
married Charlotte E. Hall, born 26 June, 1832 ; died 
Paris, 7 July, 1895. 

Children : 

237. CLARA ISABELLE, b. 17 Nov., 1856; m. Minot L. Whittle of 

Paris. 

238. GEORGE MORSE, b. 8 Mar., 1859; d. 12 Oct., 1859. 

239. FRED RUTHVEN, b. 7 Oct., 1862; m. and living in Waltham, 

Mass. 

240. HANIBALL COBURN, b. 21 Nov., 1865; m. Cora Parlin; d. 7 

Dec., 1901. She d. 16 April, 1904; home Paris. 

197. AMOS WOOD HOWE, born in Rowley, 16 Jan., 
1819 ; died 28 Oct., 1894, aged 75 years. He married, 
first, int. 6 Nov., 1842, Sarah K. Daniels, who died 23 or 
-24 Sept., 1853, aged 32 years. He married, second, Lucy 
W. Daniels, a sister to his first wife. She was born in 
Rowley, where she died 23 Sept., 1868. Her will, 22 
Sept., 1868, mentions Eben, George W., Moses E., and 
Martha Daniels, brothers and sister, and children of a de- 
ceased sister, Nath'l L., Lucy A. and Susan D., all of 
Rowley. 

Children : 

241. NATHANIEL LYMAN, b. Rowley, 11 April, 1843. 

242. LUCY A. 

243. SUSAN D. 

198. HUMPHREY SAUNDERS HOWE, born in Rowley, 
7 May, 1821 ; married 2 Oct., 1872, when of George- 
town, Mrs. Lucy A. (Holman) Robinson, widow (38) of 
Newbury. 

Children : 

244. PARKER W., trader, Georgetown; d. 20 Jan., 1877. 



AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS 67 

245. MART E., m. Georgetown, 15 Oct., 1872, Charles N. Nelson 

of West Newbury. 

205. GEORGE AARON HOWE, born in Rowley, 29 
Aug., 1843, died 12 Nov., 18T6. He married 29 Aug., 
1862, Susan Evelyn Todd (18) of Rowley. His home- 
stead, on the turnpike near the Georgetown-Rowley road, 
was valued at $1500. She married, second, (24), 26 July, 
1879, Lewis G. Chadbourne (33). 

Children : 

246. GEORGE ELMEB, b. 17 July, 1863; d. 27 July, 1864. 

247. ELMER EDDIE, b. 19 Jan., 1865. 

248. HENRY WARREN, twin, b. 21 Aug., 1866; d. 19 Sept., 1866. 

249. GEORGE MOULTON, twin, b. 21 Aug., 1866; d. 24 Sept., 1866. 

250. HATTIE EVELYN, b. 30 Sept., 1867. 

251. BENJAMIN DODGE, b. 25 Nov., 1868; d. 20 Aug., 1869. 

252. FREDERICK LEIGH, b. 25 July, 1874. He is a dealer in wines 

and liquors. He m. 24 Sept., 1892, Emma Frances Osborne 
(19) of Newbury, dau. of Thomas and Adeline Louisa 
(Rogers). Had: Hattie Howe, b. 7 and d. 8 Aug., 1893. 

211. ASA FREDERICK HOWE, born in Rowley, 31 
Jan., 1845 ; married 19 Aug., 1876, Emma Mahala Per- 
ley, .born 6 Aug., 1857, in Harrison, Me. For an ex- 
tended account and portraits see " The Perley Family 
History and Genealogy." At his own request he was 
retired, by Governor Guild, in 1907, from State service. 
He has since served on important committees and boards 
of trustees. 

Children : 

253. JOSEPHINE ELDRED, b. 2 Aug., 1879, in Lincoln, Neb., stenog- 

rapher and nurse; m. 20 June, 1906, Leroy H. dough, con- 
tractor and builder of Bradford, Mass. Had : Leroy Her- 
bert, Jr., and Fred Earle. 

254. ALICE MARJORIE, b. 19 Sept., 1887; clerk in bank. 

214. ELIJAH HOWE, born in Dedham, 27 Sept., 1828. 
At Amherst he was A. B. in 1849 and A. M. in 1852. 
He taught High schools in South Hadley, South Wilbra- 
ham, East Douglas. After 1880 he was secretary of the 
Norfolk and Dedham Mutual Fire Insurance Company, 
Dedham. He married 4 Jan., 1857, Julia Ann, daughter 
of Oliver and Persis Gibson (For bush) Hunt. 



68 ABRAHAM HOWE 

Child: 

255. OLIVER HUNT, of Cohasset, b. 29 May, 1860 ; M. D., Harvard, 

1886; was house surgeon and assistant superintendent, hos- 
pital, Boston medical examiner, and member Mass. Medi- 
cal Society; m. 26 Nov., 1889, Martha Dresser Paul, b. Ded- 
ham, 1865, to Ebenezer and Sarah Dresser Paul, a descend- 
ant of Richard Paul who settled in Taunton, 1637. 

221. GEORGE HOWE, born in Columbia, S. C., 29 Jan., 
1848, where he died 20 April, 1895 ; was a practicing 
physician and surgeon. He married 1 Jan., 1874, Annie 
Josephine Wilson, a sister to the President, Woodrow 
Wilson, born in Hampden Sidney, Va., 8 Sept., 1854, to 
Joseph Ruggles, D. D., and Jessie (Woodrow) Wilson. 1 
She died 16 Sept., 1916, in New London, Ct. 

Children : 

256. JOSEPH WILSON, b. 9 Dec., 1874; general freight agent, Rich- 

mond. War called him to Washington as Assistant Com- 
missioner of the Tidewater Coal Exchange. 

257. GEORGE, b. 3 Oct., 1876; Professor of Latin in University of 

North Carolina. He m. 27 Oct., 1902, in Columbia, Marga- 
ret Smyth Flinn, b. 30 Mar., 1878, in Charleston, S. C., to 
John William and Jane Adger (Smyth) Flinn. No children. 

258. JESSIE WOODROW, b. 30 Oct., 1878; d. 30 Jan., 1884. 

259. ANNIE, b. 31 Mar., 1891; m. Frank E. Compton of Glencoe 

111., publisher in Chicago. 

222. GEORGE HOWE, b. 24 May, 1842 ; married 26 
Sept., 1871, in Waterville, Me., Harriet E. Tozier, born 
30 June, 1843, to Bryant and Winnie Ann (Pushaw) 
Tozier, of Waterville, and died in Lexington, Mass., 3 
Feb., 1918 ; served in the U. S. Navy, 1861-1865, and 
died in Somerville, 9 Dec., 1881. 

Children : 

260. GEORGE EDWARD, b. 22 Feb., 1873; m. 18 Dec., 1905, Alinda 

Jennings of Chicago. Their home is Elkhart, Ind. His 
business is milling. No children. 

1 Joseph Ruggles Wilson, D. D., a Presbyterian clergyman, was 
some years Professor in the Presbyterian College, Clarksville, Tenn., 
and Clerk of the General Assembly of the Southern Presbyterian 
Church. Miss Jessie Woodrow was born in Carlisle, Eng. ; her 
father was a Congregational clergyman. The Wilson children 
were : Marion Woodrow (d. before 1916), Annie Josephine (d. 1916), 
Woodrow (the President), and Joseph Ruggles, Jr., an officer in the 
U. S. Bonding and Guaranty Company, Baltimore, Md. 



AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS 69 

261. ABTHUB BRYANT,!), in Waltham, 16 Dec., 1874; an accountant; 
m. in Somerville, 17 Oct., 1900, Maria Louisa Gooding of 
Somerville. Their home till 1908 in Lexington. Had : (1) 
Isabel, b. 4 Aug., 1906; (2) Elizabeth, b. 23 May, 1908. 

262. WILLIAM STOWELL, b. 30 Jan., 1879, in Somerville; m. in Brad- 

ford, 26 June, 1907, Eva Salome Rammer of that place. 
Their three children died in infancy. He is treasurer of a 
manufacturing company in Hinsdale, their home. 

247. ELMER EDDIE HOWE, born 19 Jan., 1865, in 
Rowley ; is a wholesale milk dealer in Ipswich. He mar- 
ried, 16 Oct., 1902, Nellie Elizabeth Wade, born 25 Dec., 
1882, Rockland, Mass., to George Gilman and Rachel 
Agnes Wade. 

Children : 

263. GEORGE ELMER, b. 4 Feb., 1905. 

264. RALPH GILMAN, b. 13 Mar., 1908; d. 13 July, 1910. 

265. MTBON DONALD, b. 18 Dec., 1909. 
286. OLIVE AGNES, b. 9 Oct., 1913. 



DOCUMENTS RELATING TO MARBLEHEAD, 

MASS. 



(Continued from Volume LV, page 234-} 



Province of the Massachusetts Bay 

To His Excellency the Governour, Council, and Repre- 
sentatives convened in Generall Assembly the 15th of 
October, 1702. 

The Humble Petition of the Town of Marblehead. 
Humbly Sheweth 

That Whereas By several Acts of Assembly made in 
this Province their is to be Paid By the Master of Every 
Ship or Other Vessell above twelve Tunns coming into 
Any Port or Ports of this Province to trade or Traffick 
the Major Part of the owners whereof are not Belonging 
to this Province Every such ship or Vessell Doe Pay the 
Summ of 12 penny per Tunn or one pound of Good and 
New Gun powder for every Tunn such shipp or Vessell 
is in Burthen to Be Employed for the Supply of His 
Majesty's Castle and Fort Within this Province . . . and 
Whereas all along till Within this Last Year or there- 
abouts all the Powder Money that was from Time to time 
Collected at Salem and at Marblehead by Virtue of that 
Act Was Remitted to Boston for the supply of her Maj- 
esty's Castle and forts there . . . And Whereas the Town 
of Salem have lately obtained a Grant of all the Powder 
Money that shall arise or Become Due from any Ships or 
Vessels that Come In as well to Marblehead as to Salem, 
and Apply the same wholly and onely to the Use of said 
Towne, . . . And Whereas there is a Fortification at 
Marblehead Very Important to this Province, the neces- 
sary and ordinary Charge whereof is Very Considerable, 
and which also is upon all occasions, obliged to Expend 
their store of Powder and other Ammunition, . . . The 

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DOCUMENTS RELATING TO MARBLEHEAD, MASS. 71 

Town of Marblehead Dos therefore Most Humbly Pray 
the favour of this Great and Generall Assembly, that It 
might be, all the Powder Money that for the future shall 
become Due and be Collected at Marblehead may Be ap- 
plied to the Use of Her Majestie's Fort in said Town 

And Your Petitioners as in Duty Bound 
Shall Ever Pray 

Edward Brattle 
Representative for Marblehead, in the Name of said Town 

21st October, 1702, Read a 1st time in the house of 
Representatives. 

22 Read a 2d time, 29, Read a 3d time. 

Ordered That all the Powdermoney that for the future 
shall become due and be Collected at Marblehead be Ap- 
plyed to the Use of Her Majesty's Fort in the said Town. 

Sent up for Concurrance. 

James Converse Speaker 

In Council November 2d, 1702, Read and concurred 
with And Ordered that the Captaine of the Fort there 
for the time being be the Collector of said duty. 

Isaac Addington Secretary 

[Left margin] Said Amendment Concurred 2 Novem- 
ber 1702. 

Mags. Archives, vol. 70, pp. 581-2. 

Ordered That the Collector of the Impost at Salem be 
required with great exactness to receive the powder Duty 
at Salem and Marblehead & that the Captains of the forts 
to prevent any escape and that the said officer do quar- 
terly give unto the Comissary Generalls office an account 
of the weight that the Governour may ( ) make the 
Necessary supplyes for the forts in both those places 

January 3d 1704 In Council 

Voted Isaac Addington Secretary 

Sent down for Concurrence 

Jan. 4th, 1704 : Concurred James Converse Speaker 
Mass. Archives, vol. 6$, p. 



72 DOCUMENTS KELATING TO MAKBLEHEAD, MASS. 

Copy, by Stephen Sewall, Clerk, of a Writ issued by 
Mm 7 Sept. 1704, to the Sheriff and others of Essex 
against Collonel John Legg, Captain Nathaniel Norden, 
Esquires, Michael Bowden, Samuell Read, James Dennis, 
Joseph Dolliver Senior, Mary Waters widow, William 
Hines, Thomas Pitman, Thomas Dodd Senior, Elias For- 
tune, Nathaniell Walton, Robert Bartlett, John Norman, 
William Woods, John Palmer, Edward Homan Senior, 
Captain John Browne, Sarah Martin widow, Abigail Mer- 
ritt widow, Nicholas Merritt Senior, Mark Hascoll and 
John Codner all of Marblehead and Benjamin Ireson and 
John Riddan both of Lynn and John Homes of Salem, 
. . . the present occupants and tenants in possession of a 
Certaine Farme Knowne by the name of Plaine Farme in 
the Township of Marblehead aforesaid to the value of 
Forty pounds . . . returnable at Common Pleas, New- 
bury, last Tuesday in September to answer Erasmus 
James of Marblehead only son and surviving heir of 
Erasmus James late of Marblehead for trespass etc. of 
five acres or thereabouts of land according to proportion 
right of 30s. purchase in the Plain Farme containing by 
estiniacion about 400 acres in tennure and occupation of 
defendants, 

" Bounded Northerly with the Marsh late of Richard 
Rowland and Thomas Pitman, Northwesterly with the 
Coy Pond and land late of George Darling, Southwesterly 
with the Lands of John Blaney and John Redding, South- 
easterly with the Sea, Northeasterly with Devorixes farme 
and the Ten acre Lots (so called) which said farme or 
Tract of Land was purchased of Captain William Hath- 
orne late of Salem deceased by Severall of the Inhab- 
itants of Marblehead aforesaid who were called the pur- 
chasers of said farme among the number of which said 
Purchasers the said Erasmus James deceased was one who 
purchased to the value of thirty shillings and was accord- 
ingly seized of a proportionable Right and Interest of his 
thirty shillings purchase in said farme which the said 
Erasmus James deceased died seized thereof in fee and 
now the same belongs of Right to the Petitioner . . . yet 
. . . tho thereto often requested the possession of said 
five acres or thereabouts . . . have hitherto refused and 



DOCUMENTS RELATING TO MARBLEHBAD, MASS. 73 

do still refuse to render the same . . . witness Nathaniel 
Saltonstall Esquire at Salem this 7th Day of September 
. . . 1704. 

Stephen Sewall Cleric. 

Attached the land and left a summons with Captain 
John Browne of Marblehead Clark of the within tenants 
in possession etc. 

Marblehead 12 September 1704. 

% William Gedney Sheriffe 

Mass. Archives, vol. 40, pp. 825-6. 

Essex ss At an Inferior Court of Pleas holden at 
Newbury September the 26 1 704 

Erasmus James plaintiff versus Collonel John Legg 
and other Occupants of the Plaine farme in Marblehead. 

There being but Eleven of the Defendants that appeared 
who refusing to respond the action for the fifteen De- 
fendants absent aud being legally called made default. 
The Courts Judgement is that the plaintiff receive five 
acres of land according to writ and costs, bill costs taxt 
is 3-8-6. 

The Eleven Defendants appearing Crave an appeale. 

Execucion granted March 9, 1704. 

Copia Vera Attest Stephen Sewall Cleric. 
Mass. Archives, vol. 40, p* 832. 

Copy of Execution, issued 9 Mar. 1704/5, by Stephen 
Sewall Cleric ; returnable last Tuesday of March, to Na- 
thaniel Saltonstall Esquire at Salem ; Inferior Court, 
Newbury, September last, for recovery of land sued for 
and costs 3-8-6, against Coll. John Legg and others, in 
favor of Erasmus James of Marblehead. 

Return : Extended on 6 acres and 1/4 and 1/16 in 
Marblehead, Plaine farme, bounded 
on the Northwest the highway the old high way 
on the Southwest with William Woods 
on the Southeast with the Sea 
on the Northeast with Robert Bartlett 

and given the same by turffe and twigg 
to Erasmus James in full satisfaction, 15 March, 1704/5. 

William Gedney Sheriffe 
Mass. Archives, vol. 40, pp. 827-830. 



74 DOCUMENTS RELATING TO MARBLEHEAD, MASS. 

Petition to Governour, etc. Joseph Dudley, by Robert 
Bartlett of Marblehead, shoreman, September 4, 1705, as 
to writ of trespass etc. bearing date 7 September, 1704, 
on complaint of Erasmus James of Marblehead against 
Petitioner and 25 other defendants to be heard at Com- 
mon Pleas, Newbury, September last ; Petitioner and rest 
had no legal notice, but with 10 others happened by acci- 
dent to be present when same was called and endeavoured 
to defend themselves but were not allowed so to do, and 
the Court enterred Judgement against us by default for 
land sued for and costs taxt at ,3-8-6, execution was 
granted March 9, 1704 and levied by the Sheriff of Essex 
on land purchased legally and quietly held for more than 
20 years. Craves that his Excellency and Council and 
this Honourable Assembly grant redress. 

In the House of Representatives, Sept. 7, 1705, read. 

October 25, 1705, Read and ordered that a Hearing be 
granted before this Court on Wednesday next and the 
parties concerned notified accordingly. Sent up for Con- 
currance, 

Thomas Oakes, Speaker. 

31 Oct. 1705, In Council, Read and ordered that Eras- 
mus James the adverse party be served with a Copy of 
this Petition and shew cause, if any he have, on Wednes- 
day the Seventh of November next, why the Petitioner 
should not have remedy provided as is prayed. 

Isaac Addington Secretary. 
Mags. Archives, vol. 40, p. 833. 

Copy of above, endorsed, A true Copie of this above- 
said petition and the Councell's order thereon was Deliv- 
ered to Erasmus James this 5th of November 1705, and 
was notified to attend his duty according to order per me 
Samuel Nickleson Constable Marblehead. 
Mats. Archives, vol. $0, p. 822-3. 

9 November, 1705, In Council 

Upon Consideration of the Petitioner of Robert Bart- 
let, And haveing heard both party's, why remedy should 
not be provided for him Resolved 



DOCUMENTS RELATING TO MARBLEHEAD, MASS. 75 

That the persons appearing at Newbury Court to an- 
swer Erasmus James's Action, though a minor part of 
Twenty-six ought to have been received as Defendants 
and accordingly heard. That the persons appearing ought 
upon their challenge of an Appeale to have been admitted 
thereto. That the Judgement given in the case by de- 
fault is vitious and that by an Act of this General As- 
sembly the said Judgement and Execution thereon ought 
to be dissolve. And that Bartlet be restored to his Land, 
and James to his right at law to proceed against any or 
all the persons named in his writt now shewin in Court 

Sent down for concurrance 

Isaac Addington Secretary 
In the House of Representatives 
November 9, 1705 : Read and Concurr'd 

Thomas Oakes Speaker. 

Mass. Archives, vol. 40, p. 819. 

[Nov. 17, 1705.] 

Answer of Erasmus James of Marblehead, ship car- 
penter, to petition of Robert Bartlett, addressed to Joseph 
Dudley, Esquire, Governour etc. 

Whereas Bartlett has petitioned etc. which was acted 
upon by Council, with order of notice etc. which was 
never served untill the 5th of this instant November in 
the evening, your Petitioner being totally ignorant of etc. 
but in obedience thereof he timely appears and prays that 
a days time spent in travel from Marblehead was not suffi- 
cient to prepare his answer, copy records of Town and 
Proprietors Clerks, etc., but in answer to No. 1 due notice 
was served on the Proprietors Clerk, which was lawfull 
etc., trouble was caused by their obstinacy. 

No. 2 Land taken was not from Bartlett's particular 
land but that Common and undivided of the Proprietors. 

Mass. Archives, vol. 40, p. 824- 

Capt. Andrew Belcher honered Sir 

Whereas In August last I had a Small fishing ketch 
called the Dove whereof Nicholas Meriott was mastar 
taken by Capt. Crapo into Port Royall & when Mr. Louis 
Allin was here last winter I agreed with him that if he 



76 DOCUMENTS RELATING TO MARBLEHEAD, MASS. 

could procuer & deliver my said ketch at Port Royall in 
Condition she was in when taken (the fish & sallt then in 
her only excepted) unto the said Nicholas Meriott on my 
behafe & for my use & also that the men belonging to her 
namely Nichols Meriott, Joseph Ashton, Thomas Pouls 
& Henery [?], should be at liberty to come home with 
said ketch together with a safe passeporte from the gov- 
ernor of Port Royall to save & keep harmeless the said 
ketch & men from any hindrance molestation or damage 
from any french or Indians they might met withall in 
their returne to Marblehead & said ketch to Return with 
the Rest of the vessels that was then agreed for with said 
Allen ; then I am to pay him seaventy pounds monys at 
fiveteen peny wait upon the Masters Receipt Returned to 
me ; I then suposing that shee would come home last fall 
but the said Louis Allin haveing not compyed [sic] with 
that Agreement I doe now Request that you please to 
give such order to Capt. Rouse or such other person as 
may be imployed to goo to Port Royall to bring said 
ketch with her appurtenances on as Resonable tarras as 
may be & to procure liberty for the said Master & men 
to come home with said Katch & a passporte from the 
governor as aforesaid provided the whole cost doth not 
amount to more than sixty pond monys at fiveteen peny 
waite & allso if it maybe that the passport continue for 
six months & allso I Desire you will pleas to order a Sup- 
ply of provishons for the men to bring her home all which 
shall be thankfully acknoleged & Repaird againe by me 
who am Sir 

Your humble servant, 

Nathaniell Norden 
Boston April the 10th 1706. 

[Backed] To Capt. Andrew Belcher Esq. 
Merchant In Boston 

Mass. Archives, vol. 63, p. 5. 

Summary. Apr. 26, 1706. 

Joseph Dudley Esq. Captain General . . . Massachu- 
setts Bay and New Hampshire . . . and Vice Admiral of 
the same, on application by Capt. John Turner, licensed 



DOCUMENTS RELATING TO MARBLEHEAD, MASS. 77 

&c Wm. Rouse Commander of Sloop Anne with 6 men 
to sail to Port Royal for redemption of Sloops and men 
&c. Signed and my " Seal at Armes " affixed. 

J. Dudley. 
By his Excellency's Command. 

Isaac Addington Secretary. 
Mass. Archives, vol. 63, p. 4- 

Petition of Erasmus James, Marblehead, shipwright, 
to Joseph Dudley, Esquire, Governour etc., May 29, 1706, 
Whereas on Petition of Robert Bartlet, September 1705, 
on October 31, 1705, by Council a hearing was set for 
November 7, 1705, received by Petitioner one day before, 
was given as reason for his asking more time at hearing 
etc. Board was not pleased to grant same and on No- 
vember 9, in General Assembly a quick Resolve was made 
in favor of Bartlet, desolving the Judgement and Execu- 
tion of tfce Inferior Court by which your Petitioner was 
in possession etc., and Bartlet put in possession without 
a full hearing by the Assembly or a Trial at Common 
Law Courts which were open for the Review of same, 
and such construction has been put on same as to en- 
courage Bartlett (who indeed never had nor shewed any 
right to the said Land) to sew your Petitioner for tres- 
pass of his Servants for carrying away the hay etc. from 
the same while it was actually in his possession, before 
the Judgement had been nullified, Prays the General 
Court's consideration of same, for instructions, as may 
Barr said Bartlet's Litigious Suit now pending in Inferior 
Court and others threatened by him. 

In the House of Representatives, June 7, 1706, Read, 
In answer to the Petition ... to prevent multiplying of 
Lawsuits . . . Ordered Mr. Samuel Balch, Mr. John 
Poole and Capt. William Goodhue be a Committee to 
consider whether Petitioner did Bartlet any damage etc. 
while it was in his possession, if so adjust same, which 
barrs said Bartlett forever, and any suit now pending be- 
fore Justice Hathome is hereby annulled and made void. 
Sent up for Concurrance. 

Thomas Oakes Speaker. 

11 June 1706, In Council. Not agreed with Repre- 
sentatives, Ordered That the Petitioner be in peace, and 



78 DOCUMENTS RELATING TO MARBLEHEAD, MASS. 

not liable to any Action for Trespass alleged to be done 
upon the Land within-mentioned by petitioner before the 
Act passed by this Court for restoring the land to Bart- 
lett, unless it be made to appeare to have been done Ma- 
liciously. 

Isaac Addington Secretary. 
Sent down for concurrance. 

In the House of Representatives June 21, 1706, Read 
and Passed a Concurrence 

Thomas Oakes Speaker. 
Mass. Archives, vol. 40, pp. 834-6. 

The Declaration of John Curtiss Senior of Marblehead. 

Sometime about the Middle of March I was shipped 
By Archibald Ferguson of Marblehead, on board the 
sloop Flying Horse, and therein to go as far as Little 
Canso Harbor There to meet with a Vessell, and then to 
return to Boston The first Place we arrived at after we 
sailed from Boston was Monhegon, the 2d Pugnico, with- 
in the Bay of Funde, where came on Board us severall 
French and Indians to whom we sold sundry Goods per- 
ticularly [ ?] 3dly To the Passage, where we traded 
likewise, 4thly to Lahave where we saw nobody, But a 
smoke after wee were come out, 5 To Margarets Bay, 
where we saw none 6 from thence to white head where, 
we saw nobody, from thence to Little Canso, our Designed 
Port, where soon after we came to Anchor we saw 2 Ca- 
nows of Indians, which soon came on Board us, and By 
one of the Indians, Captain Veach sent a letter to Jedore 
and had an Answer By the same in eleven Days. The 
whole time that we were here was about 20 Days and we 
traded with the aforesaid Indians, From thence we sailed 
through the Gutt of Canso, with the Indians for Pilots, 
Bound for the Island of Madland [Magdalen] to meet 
with the Vessell wee expected. In the Gutt of Canso we 
saw a small French Bark which we thought had been the 
expected Vessell and therefore gave them chase and when 
we came up with them we sent over our two Indians on 
Board with a Letter who answered that they were loaded 
with Coal bound for Placentia, with whom we traded 
nothing only one Gun Captain Veach bought for tobacco, 



DOCUMENTS RELATING TO MARBLEHEAD, MASS. 79 

and so we left then Endeavouring to make the Isle of 
Madland but could not find it, therefore we returned to 
Little Canso where we took in our two Indians again, and 
designed homeward, we put in at Island Harbour where 
severall Indians came on board us, with whom we traded 
with sundry goods. From hence we sailed with one of 
our former Indians and a Sagamore which we took in 
here, the next harbour we put into we saw nobody, But 

the next'being C Harbour we saw sundry Indians 

with whom we traded [?] we left one of our Indians, 
but kept the Sagamore till we ca[me] to Jedore, that be- 
ing the next port where with sundry Goods we traded 
with a French man From hence we sailed to Margarets 
Bay where we saw severall Indians with whom we traded, 
and by whome Captain Veach sent a letter to Malagash 
to meet us at Lehave where we came and tarryed about 
two Glasses seeing nobody, By the Impatience and Insti- 
gation of the Company we came to sail and so came to 
Cape Ann where we put on Board a sloop (the Master 
Isaac Row) the Goods that we traded for some in cask and 
some in [?] Captain Veach, Butterfield and the Boy went 
up in said sloop to Boston. And he farther Declared that 
Captain Veach Desired me to keep all the transa[ct]ions 
of the voige secret, farther saith not. 

John Curtiss his mark 
Marblehead June 14, 1706. 

Essex ss. Marblehead, June 14, 1706. 

The within mentioned John Curtiss appeared before me 
the Subscriber one of her Majesties Justices of the Peace 
for said Countey and attested the within written Declara- 
tion is the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth 

John Legg Justis Pecis 

Curtiss further saith, That they Traded Cloth and Duck 
Shott in most of the Harbours they were at, which was 
delivered by Captain Vetch and Butterfield 
16th August 1706 In General Court 

Jurat Curtiss in Captain Vetch's Tryal 

Attestor Isaac Addington Secretary. 



80 DOCUMENTS RELATING TO MARBLEHEAD, MASS. 

[Backed] 

To Mr. Thomas Oakes 

Speaker of the House of Representatives In 
Boston. 

Mass. Archives, vol. 63, p. 15. 

Note. Bill of Lading, Archibald Ferguson master, who 
with his crew, thought he was bound to Little Canso. 

Mass. Archives, vol. 63, p. 39. 

Witnesses include Nicholas Merrit, Henry Darling, 
John Curtisse, Archibald Ferguson, Mathew Pymar, Wil- 
liam Blackler, Michael Coomes, Mark Hascoll, Joseph 
Maudesly, John Collins, Charles Green, Peter Potto, Abra- 
ham Miller and John Tucker. 

Mass. Archives, vol. 63, p. 65. 
(To be continued) 




CAPTAIN RICHARD STAGEY, 1732- 1792 
From a portrait painted in London in I 775 



HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS 

OF THE 

ESSEX INSTITUTE 



VOL. LVI APKIL, 1920 No. 2 



CAPTAIN RICHARD STAGEY OF MARBLEHEAD. 



MASTER MARINER AND MERCHANT OF THE REVOLUTION. 



BY HARRIET SILVESTER TAPLEY. 



THE complete history of the maritime life of Marble- 
head, with sketches of the men who contributed to its 
greatness, is yet to be written. Of all the old families of 
that town, none has been more closely identified from the 
very beginning of the settlement with the seafaring life 
than the family of Stacey. In the fisheries, in commerce, 
as ship owners, merchants, master mariners, fishermen and 
seamen, in war and in peace, members of this family have 
taken a most active part in the shipping life of the ancient 
sea-coast town. Richard Stacey was one of those who 
figured conspicuously before and during the Revolution- 
ary period. The portrait which accompanies this sketch 
was painted in 1773 by a noted artist in London, and has 
recently come into possession of the writer, it having 
been discovered in a state of extreme dilapidation in a 
western city and restored by Isaac H. Caliga. 

Capt. Richard Stacey was the son of Capt. John and 
Hannah (Skinner) Stacey, and was baptized at the Second 
Congregational Church in Marblehead Feb. 20, 1732. He 
was descended on his father's side from the emigrant John 
Stacey, who was in Marblehead as early as 1639, as well 
as from the Pedricks, Sandins, Woods and Peaches, all 
very early settlers of that town. Captain Stacey com- 

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82 CAPTAIN RICHARD STACBY OF MARBLEHEAD 

menced early to follow the sea, as did the generation be- 
fore him. He was married, July 12, 1759, by the Rev. 
Peter Bours of St. Michael's Church, to Penelope Haz- 
ard, daughter of Deputy Governor George and Sarah 
(Carder) Hazard of Newport, R. I., and granddaughter 
of Governor Benedict Arnold, both distinguished Rhode 
Island families. Penelope Hazard was a sister of Abi- 
gail, wife of Rev. Peter Bours, and she died, April 29, 
1764, at the age of thirty-one years. She was buried in 
Michael's churchyard, where the gravestone may be seen 
today. Nearby is the grave of Rev. Peter Bours, who 
died suddenly, Feb. 24, 1762, and of whose will Captain 
Stacey was a witness three days before. 

Two children were born to Richard and Penelope 
(Hazard) Stacey, both being baptized at St. Michael's 
Church, Hannah, Aug. 17, 1760, and Richard, April 1, 
1764. October 31, 1765, Captain Stacey married, second, 
Rebecca Mullett, daughter of Elias and Rebecca (Pearce) 
Mullett, of French Huguenot descent. She was baptized 
at the Second Congregational Church, August 25, 1745, 
and was descended in the fifth generation from the 
Pearces and Browns who had grants atPemaquid, Maine, 
as early as 1621. By this union there were born : Rich- 
ard, baptized at St. Michael's Jan. 31, 1768; Rebecca, 
baptized at St. Michael's May 6, 1770 ; George, born about 
1774 ; died at Marblehead, July 21, 1806 ; Lucretia 
Bourne, born at Andover Sept. 22, 1778, baptized at St. 
Peter's, Salem, and died at Andover, April 22, 1781, the 
stone still standing in the South Parish cemetery ; Sally, 
born at Andover, May 19,1780, the famous dark day; 
Nathaniel, born at Marblehead, Jan., 1786, and died Aug. 
12, 1808, at the home of his brother-in-law, Joshua Sil- 
vester, in Andover; two children, Nathaniel and John, 
died in infancy. 

May 18, 1767, soon after marriage, he bought the es- 
tate of his wife's grandparents, John and Elizabeth 
Pearce, where he ever afterward made his home. This 
house is still standing on Washington street, opposite 
Pleasant street, and is now owned by heirs of Mrs. Mary 
Silver, the original outlines being lost in the countless 
alterations and improvements of the past century. A few 



CAPTAIN RICHARD STAGEY OP MARBLEHBAD 8& 

months after this purchase, Dec. IT, 1767, he came into 
possession of the estate of his father, Capt. John Stacy, 
on Washington street, which he sold to Joseph Northey 
Oct. 8, 1768. This house became subsequently the birth- 
place of Joseph Story, Associate Justice of the United 
States Supreme Court. 

Capt. Richard Stacey made his first voyage as comman- 
der of a vessel in 1756, when he was the registered cap- 
tain of the schooner " Pembroke," 66 tons, from Marble- 
head to Philadelphia. He was then twenty-four years of 
age, but had seen much service with his father, who in 
the "Neptune" and "Industry," from 1759 to 1761, 
had made frequent voyages to and from Lisbon and Bil- 
boa. From this time he became one of the leading mer- 
chants of Marblehead when that town was second only to 
Boston as a commercial centre. In the same year he also 
made a voyage to Spain and Portugal. In 1757 he was 
in command of the brig "Benjamin," 94 tons, to St. Kitts 
and St. Martin's in the West Indies ; from 1758 to 1760 
he was captain of the Snow " Port Pacquet," 94 tons, on 
several voyages to Lisbon and the West Indies; in 1761,. 
'62 and '63 he made trips to St. Kitt's, St. Martin's and 
Barbadoes, with the brig " Benjamin," returning withr 
cargoes of rum, molasses and salt consigned to Stacey & 
Glover, Jacob Fowle, and others; in 1764 he commanded 
the schooner "Newbury," 60 tons, in voyages to St. Kitts 
and Anguilla ; in 1765 he commanded the schooner 
" Dreadnaught," 80 tons, to St. Christopher, Bilbao and 
Cadiz. 

Captain Stacey unfortunately signed the famous address 
to Governor Hutchinson pledging loyalty to England, and 
then sailed on a long voyage. During his absence the 
liberty party grew in numbers and enthusiasm, and upon 
his return he was asked to state his position, which he 
did in the following letter, which appeared in the Essex 
Grazette : 

The Subscriber having just returned to the Province after a long* 
absence, and finding an Address which he signed to the late Gov- 
ernor Hutchinson has given great Uneasiness to the Public, and 
that the said Mr. Hutchinson is generally viewed as an Enemy to- 



84 CAPTAIN RICHARD STACEY OF MARBLEHEAD 

America, begs Leave to assure the Publick that he had no intention 
of injuring his country, or of offending it by supporting any one 
unfriendly to its cause And he now renounces the Address in 
every Part, and declares his Readiness to assist in defending the 
Rights and Liberties of America, hoping that he shall still continue 
te enjoy the wonted Esteem of his respected Friends and Country- 
men. 

RIOHABD STACEY. 
Marblehead, 20th January, 1774. 

Although early affiliated with St. Michael's Church, 
like many of the most prominent communicants he re- 
mained a staunch patriot during the Revolution and gave 
of his time and money to further the interests of the Col- 
onists. Feb. 19, 1779, he was appointed on a committee 
to " wait on persons in regard to assessments for addi- 
tional bounty for those who enlist." The committee con- 
sisted of Jonathan Glover, Col. Azor Orne, Capt. Joshua 
Orne, Capt. Samuel Pote, Capt. Samuel Hooper, Capt. 
Thomas Peach, Capt. John Selman, John Gerry, 
Thomas Gerry, Esq., Capt. Richard Stacey, Capt. Robert 
Hooper, Capt. John Grush and Deacon William Dolliber. 
On the same date he was also one of a committee of seven 
appointed to see that " the price act be carried into exe- 
cution." March 24, 1777, he was a member of the Com- 
mittee of Inspection and Safety. On the 21st of the fol- 
lowing April he was chairman of a committee appointed 
by the town to provide physicians and medicines to carry 
on the work of inoculation for the small pox, an epidemic 
which greatly added to the hardship of Marblehead fami- 
lies, the other members being Capt. Samuel Hooper, Rob- 
ert Hooper, jr., Capt. John Merritt, Capt. John Russell, 
Capt. John Stevens, Capt. Samuel Gale, Valentine Ted- 
der, and Capt. William Hooper. 

At about this time Captain Stacey purchased a large 
farm in Andover, to which place he removed his family 
as a place of safety during the Revolution, as did several 
other merchants and patriots, notably Jeremiah Lee and 
Samuel Sewall of Marblehead and John Dyson of Bever- 
ly. While attacks by water were daily expected, these 
inland estates served as temporary abiding places. May 



CAPTAIN B1CHAKD STAGEY OF MABBLEHEAD 85 

22, 1777, Capt. Richard Stacey, gentleman, bought of 
Obadiah Foster of Andover a farm of 74 acres on the 
Billerica road near Nehemiah Abbott's tavern. In the 
advertisement of the sale of this farm after the Revolu- 
tion, the Salem Gazette of Jan. 8, 1784, states that it was 
situated "about 1 & 1-2 miles from the Rev. Mr. French's 
meeting house, well wooded and watered and fenced with 
stone wall, has on it two good houses and a large good 
barn arid many other conveniences, with a good garden. 
This farm was formerly Capt. John Foster's, is well situ- 
ated for a tavern or any other trade, and has as good til- 
lage land as any in Andover. The farthest part of said 
farm is not more than one half mile from the dwelling 
house, which makes it very convenient. One may stand 
at the door and see all the business going on in most part 
of the farm." 

May 19, 1777, three days before Captain Stacey pur- 
chased this farm, he was elected one of the Representa- 
tives to the General Court from Marblehead, with Capt. 
Joshua Orne, Col. Jonathan Glover and Col. Azor Orne. 

From 1778 to 1782 he was taxed in the South parish of 
Andover. He returned to Marblehead in 1783, and was 
chosen one of the selectmen, the other members of the 
board being Dea. Samuel Gatchell, Capt. William Hooper, 
Capt. William Blackler, Dea. Stephen Phillips, Capt. N. 
Lindsey, and Samuel Waite. He also served as fire ward 
from 1777 until late in life, the board being composed of 
twelve leading men of the town. A notable town meet- 
ing was held April 24, 1783, with Gen. John Glover as 
moderator, when Captain Stacey was appointed on a com- 
mittee to draw up resolutions to prevent the return of 
the refugees to town, his associates being Hon. Elbridge 
Gerry, later Governor of Massachusetts and Vice Presi- 
dent of the United States, Thomas Gerry, Esq., Hon. 
Joshua Orne, Col. Jonathan Glover, Edward Fettyplace, 
Esq., and Richard Harris. During the Revolution and the 
period which immediately preceded it, Captain. Stacey 
appears from the tax lists to have been most successful as 
a merchant and one of the wealthy men in a town noted 
for its commercial activity. According to the "Conti- 



S6 CAPTAIN RICHARD STAGEY OF MARBLEHEAD 

nental Book of Names" at Abbott Hall, in 1779, Mar- 
blehead had a population of 4,777, with 73 blocks, 422 
'houses, 172 barns, 40 shops and 19 warehouses. Captain 
Stacey had a negro named " Jacob " in his family in 1784. 
:He was the owner of several fishing schooners in 1783 
and 1784. 

Captain Stacey's connection with St. Michael's Church 
was of long duration. In 1784 he was elected a vestry- 
man, and in the following year there were associated with 
him, Woodward Abraham, lay reader, Capt Israel Foster, 
Capt. Samuel Hooper, Samuel Sewall, Esq., Chief Justice 
of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, Capt. William 
Andrews, Capt. Joseph Lee, Capt. Joseph Hinckley, and 
Capt. Thomas Procter. Meetings of the proprietors of 
the church were upon occasion held at Captain Stacey's 
house, which was near. March 31, 1788, a vote of thanks 
was tendered Captains Edward Bowen and Richard Stacey 
for their services as wardens. At this time Capt. John 
Knight, Capt. Joshua Orne, Col. Marston Watson, Thomas 
Lewis and Dr. Luke Drury were associated with him on 
the vestry. He owned the pew numbered 2 in the church. 

To Captain Stacey, as to many others, the period fol- 
lowing the Revolution brought financial distress and his 
property became involved to an alarming degree. The 
merchants of Marblehead sought strenuously to restore 
the prosperity which the town enjoyed before the war by 
fitting out ships for foreign ports, but her greatness as a 
commercial port was gone forever, and the resort to fish- 
eries was the only alternative. Captain Stacey died April 
6, 1792, at the age of sixty years, and was buried in the 
Second Church cemetery, now the Unitarian. He was 
Attended in his last illness by Dr. Elisha Story, the dis- 
tinguished physician and surgeon. Administration was 
granted to his widow, Rebecca, and the inventory which 
,\vas returned by her, Nov. 29, 1794, showed that he was 
possessed of a mahogany desk and bookcase, a maple 
desk and bookcase, six walnut chairs, a tea stand, an old 
.mahogany table, five looking glasses, a mahogany card 
table, a marble slab (which was appraised higher than any 
other item except the desk and the plate), eight Windsor 



CAPTAIN RICHARD STACEY OF MARBLEHBAD 87 

<;hairs, eight pictures, glass, china and plate, shovel and 
tongs, tea tray, delph ware, brass candlesticks, and- 
irons, a large easy chair and a small one, a round chair, 
toilet table, and a pair of walnut case drawers. Of Cap- 
tain Stacey's children, Hannah married Edwin Gardner, 
Rebecca married David Silvester, and Sally married Joshua 
Silvester, both sons of David Silvester, Esq., a prominent 
ship-owner and merchant of Pownalborough, now Wis- 
casset, Maine, who had sent his sons to the Marblehead 
Academy to be educated. The other children died in in- 
fancy or unmarried. There are numerous descendants of 
Oaptain Stacey in all parts of the United States. 



JOURNAL OF DOCTOR SAMUEL HOLTEN 

i ______^_ 

WHILE IN THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS, MAY, 1778, 
TO AUGUST, 1780. 



(Continued from Vol. LVI, Page 32.} 

Jan. 1, 1780. The Hon. M r Forbes 1 supped with us. 

3. Rec'd a letter from y e hon. M r Adams and the hon. 
M r Palmer. 

The Virginia troops marched thro' this city to South 
Carolina. 

5. It is said some of the enemies vessels are ashore in 
the Jerseys. 

6. I wrote to M* Adams. 

8. We have accounts that y e army is in great want of 
provisions. 

10. I dined with the Minister of France, M r President 
Reed & a number of members of Congress dined there. 

12. The enemy is in great want of supplies. 

14. I visited the President's lady, she is sick with the 
small Pox. 

15. Congress agreed upon a number of resolutions 
for establishing a Court of Appeals, of members out of 
Congress. 

18. I dined with the Minister of France. Three 
years this day since the decease of my hon d Father. 

19. Yesterday M r Searle cained the Sec'y of Congress 
& the Sec'y returned the same salute. 

22. Baron Stuben came here to board. M r Wythe, 2 
M r Holman & M r Judges of Appeals. 

Mames Forbes, delegate from Maryland. 

'George Wythe (1728-1806) of Virginia, a "Signer" and wealthy 
slave owner. 

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JOURNAL OF DOCTOR SAMUEL HOLTEN 89 

25. Samuel Osgood, 1 Esq r arrived here from Boston, 
charged with business from the Court. Received a letter 
from Colo. Hutchinson. 

26. Rec'd a letter from Jona th Webster, Esq r . M r 
Osgood dined with us. 

29. I dined with Colo. Pickering. 
Feb. 1. I dined with the President. 
2. D r Brown, the chief Physician & Surgeon of the 
army, Spent y e evening with me. 

4. The medical committee met in my chamber. 

5. M r Livermore 2 arrived here from New Hampshire. 

7. Rec'd a letter from M r Kettell. Congress received 
letters from Gen. Lincoln. 

8. 1 dined with the Minister. Wrote to Colo. Enoch 
Putnam. 

9. Congress agreed to resolutions for filling up the 
army. 

10. I dined with the Honorable R. Morris, Esq r . 

12. Maj. Osgood set out for Boston. I wrote to Colo. 
Hutchinson, M r Freeman, M r Webster. Congress rec'd a 
letter from M r Jay. 

14. I wrote to the President of the Council of Mas- 
sachusetts p r Post & to the Hon. J. Palmer, Esq r by M r 
Cranch. 

16. The Hon. the Medical com* met in my chamber. 

17. Colo. Baldwin 3 of Mass a Bay dined with me. 

18. I wrote to the Reverend M r Smith of Middleton. 

19. We had an account from Gen. Washington re- 
specting some damage done by the enemy at White Plains. 

20. I attended public worship in the afternoon at 
Doct r Ewins. I was invited to the funeral of the Lady 
of Hon. M r Paca, But being indisposed I did not attend. 

21. Doct r Sheal dined with us. 

22. I dined with the minister. I wrote to the hon ble 
Jere Powell, Esq r . 

'Col. Samuel Osgood of Andover, Mass., merchant, officer in the 
army, afterwards United States Postmaster General and Naval 
Officer of the Port of New York. 

2 SamueL Livermore (1732-1803), Judge of the Superior Court of 
New Hampshire, and United States Senator. 

Col. Loammi Baldwin (1745-1807), of Woburn, member of the 
General Court. 



90 JOURNAL OF DOCTOR SAMUEL HOLTEN 

23. The Hon. the medical com* met in my chamber. 

24. Congress sit late upon very important matters. I 
wrote to y e council of Massachusetts. 

25. Congress called upon the States for large sup- 
plies. 

28. I rec'd a letter from the Hon. M r Greenleaf 1 & one 
from y e Hon r M r Hopkins & several papers from Boston. 

29. I wrote to the Hon. M r Derby, 2 M r Sherburne, 8 
M r Story.* 

Mar. 2. I dined with the minister of France. 

3. Congress agreed to recommend to the States to 
set apart the last Wednesday in April next as a day of 
Fasting & prayer. I wrote to y e Hon. Caleb Cushing. 

4. Congress rec'd a packet from France this day by 
the way of Boston. 

6. I wrote to the President of the Council of Mass a 
Bay. We have accounts that y e enemy are arrived in 
Georgia. 

7. I wrote to the Hon. Dan 1 Hopkins, Esq r & dined 
with the President of Congress. 

8. I met the medical committee. Colo. Pickering 
dined with us & Colo. Nicholos. 6 

9. Congress has been in a committee of the whole on 
finance. This evening a woman was taken as a thief in 
this house. 

10. I met the committee on Finance twice this day. 

11. I was with the com* of Finance the chief of the 
day. I dined with y e minister. 

12. I received a letter from Gen. Lincoln. 

15. The Post brought no mail from the eastward of 
Fish-Kill. 

16. Wrote to M r Wiat & M r Kittell. 

17. I dined with the minister. I wrote to M r Hancock 
& M r Adams. 

18. Congress agreed to call in all the paper currency 
by taxes. 

'Benjamin Greenleaf. 

8 Richard Derby of Salem, member of the Massachusetts Council. 
3 John Samuel Sherburne (1757-1830), of Portsmouth, N. H. 
4 William Story of Boston. 

4 Col. George Nicholas of Virginia, a leader in the Constitutional 
Convention and the first Attorney-General of Kentucky. 



JOUBNAL OF DOCTOR SAMUEL HOLTEN 91 

20. Rec d a letter from y e hon. M r Palmer, M r Sullivan 
& M r Avery. 

21. I wrote to the Hon M r Greenleaf. 

23. Congress have adjourned to Saturday, tomorrow- 
is good Friday. 

24. I wrote to the Hon. M r Palmer & the Hon. M r 
Sullivan p r Express. Colo Ward & M r Pierse 1 dined 
with us. 

25. ' The Hon. M r Forbes, a member from the State of 
Maryland, deceased. I dined with the minister of France. 

26. I attended the funeral of M r Forbes. Colo. Hend- 
ley arrived here. 

27. Kec'd a letter from my daughter Sally. Congress 
had letters from M r J. Adams. 

28. Wrote to the Hon. M r Adams, M r Palmer, M r 
Gordon, Colo. Orne, M r Hall & his son & Capt. Williams. 

29. Gen. Portail is ordered to join the southern army. 
Colo. Haziel & M r Law dined with us. 

30. M r Maderson 2 & M r Killosh 8 dined with us. 
Apr. 1. I dined with the President. 

5. Congress approved of Gen. Washington's sending 
Maryland and Delaware troops to S Carolina. 

6. I wrote to Doct r Foster. Took a walk with M r 
Gerry & M r Livermore. 

8. Wrote to the Hon. M r Wood by M r Partridge. M r 
Livermore & his son set out home. 

9. Sabbath day. Heard M r Armstrong preach. The 
Hon. M r Partridge left us. 

10. I dined with the minister. Congress agreed to 
make good to the officers & soldiers their pay on account 
of the depreciation of the money. 

11. Wrote to Doct r Gordon & Hon. M r Partridge. 
.N. B. I enclosed to M" Holten 400 dollars. 

12. D r Eustis* & D r Crage dined with us. 

'Probably William Pierce, Aide-de-Camp to Gen. Green, delegate 
from Georgia. 

2 James Madison (1751-1836), delegate from Virginia, afterward 
President of the United States. 

J Francis Kinloch, delegate from South Carolina. 

4 Dr. William Eustis (1753-1825), of Cambridge, Mass., who was 
serving as a surgeon in the war, with headquarters at West Point, 
afterward Secretary of War and Governor of Massachusetts. 



92 JOURNAL OF DOCTOR SAMUEL HOLTEN 

13. I received a letter from Josiah Batchelder, Esq r 
Congress appointed a com* to repair to headquarters. 

14. Maf don Ponso went into the country. 

15. Baron Steuben set out for headquarters. I rode 
out with him 5 miles. 

17. Wrote to the Hon. Jabez Fisher, Esq r by M r 
Torrey. 

19. It is five years this day since the war commenced. 
I dined with the President of Congress. 

20. D r Sheald dined with us. 

22. I rode out with y e President of Congress, Gen. 
Fulsom & the Sec'y, eleven miles to the sec'y's farm. 

24. Rec'd a letter from the Hon. J. Sullivan Esq r . 

25. I wrote to the Hon. M r White. M r Peabody set 
out for headquarters. I rode out with him 5 miles. 

28. Wrote to M r Sullivan. Rode out with M r Gerry. 

29. I rode out twice. The President of Congress 
drank tea with us. 

30. Rec'd a letter from the Hon. M r Derby. 

May 2. Wrote to the Hon. M r Adams, M r Avery, M r 
Batchelder, & M r Games. 

3. Rec'd a letter from M r Peabody. The medical 
committee met in my chamber. 

5. I rode to Germantown with M r Gates. 

6. I rode out & then dined with the minister. Three 
men were hanged here this day. 

8. I attended at the Roman Catholic church on ac- 
count of the death of Don Juan. 

9. I rode out to Frankford. 

10. I dined with the President. Wrote to M r Derby. 

11. Rec'd a letter from M r Partridge. 

12. I dined with the Minister of France. 

13. I rode out with y e President of Congress, Gen. 
Fulsom & M r Ellery. 

14. Sabbath day. I attended at D r Duffield's & M r 
Marshal's. Governeur Morris had his leg cut off. 

'"Last Sunday morning Governr Morris got into his carriage at 
the city tavern to ride out and his horses took fright and he endeav- 
ouring to get out, shattered one of his legs to pieces so that it was 
immediately taken off." Letter from Dr. Holten to Hon. George 
Partridge. 



JOURNAL OF DOCTOR SAMUEL HOLTEN 93 

15. I received a letter from Doct* Gordon, D r War- 
ren & the Hon. M r Wood. Congress rec'd a packet from 
France by the Marquis de la Fayette. Agreeable intelli- 
gence. 

IT. I met the medical com*. 

18. Congress sit twice this day & till 11 o'Clock at 
night upon important matters. 

20. The Marquis made us a visit. 

23. I wrote two letters to the President of the Coun- 
cil. Tire militia of this city mustered & they made a 
good appearance. 

24. I visited the Hon. M r Mulhenburg with M r Ellery 
& Gen. Fulsom. 

25. It is two years this day since I left home. The 
post brought no letters. 

26. I dined with the Minister of France. 

27. It is said that 3 women have been drowned in y e 
Delaware this day. 

29. Rec'd a letter from Hon M r Adams, M r Gushing, 
& 2 from D r Foster. 

31. Gen 1 Election, Boston. I dinedwith the Minister. 
June 1. Rec'd a letter from D r Brown & M r Avery. 

2. Wrote to Messrs. Greenleaf & Cross. 1 

3. The Hon. M r Gerry set out for Boston & Jere with 
him. I wrote to the Hon. Council. 

5. We have accounts from the southward by which it 
is supposed Charleston is taken. 

6. I wrote to the President of the Council. 

T. I dined with y e Minister. M r Lovell's son arrived 
here. 

8. It is said Charles 11 was taken the 18 th of May. M rs 
Holten informs me M r Nurse 2 died Apl. 7 th . 

10. We have another account that Charleston surren- 
dered the 11 th of May. 

11. It is said 7 French vessels are arrived here. 

12. It is said Charleston is taken by the enemy. 

13. I wrote to the hon. M r Hancock, M r Kettell & 
Jere. Gen. Ward arrived here this morning. 

'Stephen Gross of Newburyport. 

"Francis Nurse of Danvers. 

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94 JOURNAL OF DOCTOR SAMUEL HOLTEN 

14. One of Gen. Lincoln's aids is arrived with the ac- 
counts of the surrender of Charlestown. 

15. I rec'd a letter from M r Avery, informing me of 
my appointment to y e council board. 

17. I rec'd a letter from the Hon M r Peabody by Gen. 
Schuyler. James Lovell sit out for Boston. 

19. Rec'd a letter from D r Brown, Hon. M r Partridge 
& the Hon. M r Adams, by order of y* council, notifying 
me of my appointment to a seat in the Hon. Council. 

21. 1 wrote to the Treasury board. 

22. Gen. Lincoln arrived here. I rec'd a letter from 
D r Gordon & M r Story. 

23. I wrote to the Hon. M r Gerry & dined with the 
President of Congress. 

24. The light horse of this city set out to headquar- 
ters. 

25. Sabbath day. I attend public worship in the fore- 
noon at the Dutch Lutherans. 

28, 1 dined with Colo. Pickering. The Hon. M r 
Adams arrived here from Boston. 

29. Rec'd a letter from Colo. Hutchinson & dined 
with the minister. 

July 1. Gen Lincoln set out for headquarters. 

3. I received a letter from M r Isaac Smith 1 of Boston. 

4. Anniversary of our independence. Congress at- 
tended the public commencement & had a cold collation 
with a number of Gent. I wrote to the town of Danvers 
& to Col. Hutchinson. 

7. Wrote to the hon. M r Bowdoin 2 & Rev. M r Wads- 
worth. 

8. D r Shippen y e Director Gen. of the hospitals paid 
me a visit. I wrote to the hon r M r Dana and Carmi- 
chael. 

11. Wrote to Isaac Smith, Esq r & to M r Kettell. 

15. 1 rec'd a letter from M r Peabody mentioning y e 
arrival of y e F[rench] Fleet at R[hode] I[sland.] 

17. Dined with y e minister. I rec'd a letter from M r 
Story. 

'Isaac Smith, afterward Librarian at Harvard College and precep- 
tor at Dummer Academy. 
3 James Bowdoin. 



JOURNAL OF DOCTOR SAMUEL HOLTEK 95 

19. D r Cockron brought me a letter from M r Peabody. 
I wrote to Gen. Gates. 

24. Rec'd a letter from M r Warren & Jery. 

25. Jery returned & brought me a letter from D. 
Putnam, Rev. M r Smith, Joseph Hall, M rs Holten & my 
daughter Sally. 

26. I began to prepair to return home. 

27. Sir James Jay spent the evening with me, 

28. The president, Justice McKean & D r Sheal paid 
me a visit. 

29. Sir James Jay spent some time with me upon 
state affairs. 

Aug. 2. I set out from Philadelphia to Boston and am 
now at M r Thompkins 17 miles from y e city. This is a 
good inn. 

3. Rode to Howel's Ferrey, 1 7 1-2 miles, dined at M r 
Cowel's, Then crossed y e Delaware, traveled about 15 1-2 
miles to Quakertown. 

4. I traveled to Bethlehem 7 or 8 miles & dined, then 
traveled to Miller's, 12 miles. I overset this day & hurt 
my ankle & the lock of my Box. 

5. I traveled to Hakertown 8 miles & dined at M r 
Dav d James', then traveled to Pettit's 10 miles, where I 
am to lodge this night. The weather is very warm & I 
am not well. 

6. Sabbath day. I traveled to M r Gary's 15 miles & 
dined, then traveled 7 miles to M r Perry's. The roads 
very dry. 

7. Traveled to M r Athol's 10 miles, dined, then trav- 
eled to M r Drake's 10 miles (N. Y. State). This is a 
good Inn. 

8. Rode 13 miles to M r Soring's & dined, then trav- 
eled 5 miles to N. Winsor, crossed the N[orth] R[iver] 
to Fish-Kill 3 miles, then traveled miles to M r Bush's. 
Here I lodge. 

9. Traveled about 3 miles, stopped at a Gent. House 
on account of a shower, then traveled to Colo. Vander- 
bury's 13 m. & dined, then traveled 9 m. to Colo. More- 
house's. 

10. Traveled 13 m. to N. Milford, dined at Colo. Can- 
ford's, then 7 m. toward Woodberry. We have not much 



96 JOURNAL OP DOCTOR SAMUEL HOLTEN 

to eat here. The land is very high & the road very bad. 
N. B. We sit out early. 

11. Traveled 7 miles to Woodbury. Breakfasted at 
M r Gillchrist's. Then traveled 11 miles to Waterbury & 
dined, then 11 miles to Southerton to M r Lewes's. I be- 
lieve it is a good Inn. The roads were very bad, except- 
ing about 5 miles. N. B. Henry overset y e shay. 

12. I have not traveled any this day on account of my 
horses and rain in the forenoon. I am kindly treated 
here & good entertainment. 

13. Sabbath day. I attended public worship in the 
forenoon. M r Roberson preached a good sermon. I am 
still at M r Lewes's. Weather very warm. 

14. Traveled to Hartford 18 m. dined near the State 
house, then 8 m. to M r Ellsworth's. A good Inn. 

15. Traveled to West Springfield 15 m. & dined, then 

5 m. to Springfield, on my way crossed Connecticut River, 
then traveled 10 miles to Wilbraham, where I now am & 
I think it is a good inn. 

16. Traveled 16 miles, dined at M rs Bascom's, then 
traveled late 17 miles to M r Livermore's in Spencer, 
where I'm to lodge. I am much ill. A very hot day. 

17. Traveled through Worcester to Simsbury, 20 
miles, called on Gen. Ward's Lady, but did not see her. 
Dined at M r Ballard's (a good House), then traveled to 
Molbury to M r Savin, where I now am, 8 m. 

18. Traveled to Watertown, 20 m., & dined at the 
House where I dined with M r Hancock when I sit out to 
the southward, then traveled to Charlestown Ferry, 8 m., 

6 arrive at M r Hall's in Boston about 5 o'Clock, where I 
was received with great respect. 

19. I attended at the Hon ble Council, was sworn & 
took my seat. The several members of the Board rec'd 
nie with the kindest respect. I called at D r Lee's lodging 
& left a card. I visited M" Adams & M" Lovell & M r 
Warner, but M r W. was not at home. 

20. Sabbath day. I attended public worship at D r 
Cooper's. M r Eliot preached & y e D r . I dined at M r 
Bowdoin's & drank tea at M r Warner's. 

21. I wrote to the Hon ble M r Lovell. I dined with 
Capt. Bradford. I drank Tea at M r Bowdoin's with the 



JOURNAL OF DOCTOR SAMUEL HOLTBN 97 

Council & D r Lee. I spent part of the evening at Dea n 
Sherbourne's. 

22. I attended at the Council. Had a conference with 
D r Lee. Dined with M r Warner. Drank tea with the 
Hon. M r Gill & took a walk with D r Lee, D r Cooper & a 
number of Gent. & Ladies. D r Lee & D r Cooper spent 
the evening with me. M rs Hall gave us a good supper. 

23. I sit out from Boston & dine at M r Newhall's in 
Lynn, where I was met by a number of Gentlemen from 
Danvers, and they accompanied me home after stopping 
at ye Bell tavern. I am now arrived at my own House 
& have all the satisfaction of being with my own Family. 
I now close this Journal with a sense of divine goodness 
to me & my family in our long separation. 

N. B. The foregoing was a matter of course. I was 
careful not to make any remarks upon the public affairs 
in this diary, for reasons I shall not mention at this time. 



BEVERLY IN 1700. NO. 5. 



BY SIDNEY PBRLBY. 



THE territory of Beverly included in this section was 
taken up by the early settlers very slowly as much of the 
land was rocky and swampy and undesirable for farming 
purposes. The length from the Wenham town line to the 
sea, north and south, is about two and three-fourth miles, 
and its width from Turtle hill to the Wenham line about 
one mile, east and west. 

The designation of Cape Ann Side included this part 
of Beverly as late as 1670. 

The tidal water bounding this section on the south 
has been generally called the sea ; and Mackerel cove has 
been so known since 1636. 

The sandy shore at the foot of Brackenbury lane was 
called Patch's beach as early as 1850. 

Mingo beach was so called as early as 1804. The name 
was occasioned by the residence of Robin Mingo upon 
the headland at its western end, a triangular lot having 
been given him by the town, from 1728 to his death in 
1748, at the age of eighty-seven. He was a colored slave 
of Thomas "Woodbury. He married Deborah Tailer, an 
Indian slave, in 1707. She survived him, and died in 
1759. 

Witch lane, which leads northerly into the woods from 
Hale street, a few rods westerly of Mingo's humble hab- 
itation, has been so designated since 1805 at least. This 
passes on the westerly side of " Flora's swamp," a name 
which was probably derived from some association with 
Flora, one of the negro slaves of that name in this local- 
ity. The swamp was so called as early as 1834. 

The highland next westerly of Mingo's home, between 
Hale street and the shore, was called " The Park " as 
early as 1765, and also Burying Point in 1804. 
(98) 



BY SIDNEY PERLEY 99 

The point of' land at the foot of Prince street was called 
Ober's Point in 1864. 

There are two considerable elevations in this section. 
One of them, Bald hill, was so called as early as 1662 ; 
and the other, Long hill, has been known by that name 
since 1662 at least. 

Sawyer's plain was so called as early as 1669. 

Thissell's brook was called, near Standley street, " y e 
old houses brook" in 1707 ; and below Hale street Mack- 
erel Cove creek in 1648 ; the river in 1764 ; the river 
leading to River Head bridge in 1801 ; and the brook or 
stream known as Thissell's river in 1901. 

Gravelly brook was so called in 1782. 

The oldest highway in this region is, of course, Hale 
street, the original road to Cape Ann. It was there in 
the earliest settlement ; and was called the country road 
in 1683 ; the road that leads to Manchester in 1795 ; and 
was named Hale street in 1838. This road was straight- 
ened, as shown on the map, about 1840. The bridge 
over Thissell's brook, near Chapman's corner, was first 
ordered to be made by Salem as a footbridge in February, 
1645-6, by the Salem Quarterly Court. It had not been 
made three years later, when Gloucester was presented 
for want of a bridge at this brook. One was eventually 
constructed, however. It was called River Head bridge 
in 1801 ; and Thissell's bridge in 1838. 

Brackenbury lane was laid out by the selectmen of 
Beverly March 18, 1678-9, and described in the records as 

a Cart high way from the water side through Goodman Bracken- 
berries farme unto the Drift way 1 afforesaid and from thence to the 
way that runs by the north side of bald hill as the way goes the 
said way to be two pole wide. 

That part of this layout between Hale and East Lothrop 
streets was altered and abandoned in 1682. Brackenbury 
lane was called a town highway in 1707 ; the highway 
which leads to the beach in 1765 ; a town way leading 
down to Patch's beach in 1791 ; Patch's lane in 1801 ; 
and Brackenbury street in 1850. 

1 East Lothrop street. 



100 BEVERLY IN 1700. NO. 5 

Prince street was called Point lane in 1834 ; and has 
been known as Prince street since 1864. 

Boyles street was laid out by a committee of the town 
Nov. 14, 1682, as follows : 

At a meting of the felect men the 21 of Aprell 1686 The Committee 
then made a Return of a town high way that they the faid Commit- 
tee laid out as foloweth: wee who were chofen by the town of bev- 
erly as a Committee to lay out fuch high ways as may be for the 
Conveinancy of the town: haue on the 14th of the 9th mo: 1682 
taken a furvaie of a high way that was formerly laid out through 
good man Braokenberys ffarm wee now fee caufe to alter the way 
and to lay it out in a nother place which is to fay from a drift way 
which Runs from Ifaac woodberys to a brook that Runs to Nicholas 
woodberies mill from that drift way over the hill down to Jonathan 
Boills his houfe as the way is now bounded vnto the water tide by 
Insign patchis houfe which is to fay two pole wide which way is 
giuen by faid Brackenbery for the ufe of the town for ever 
wittness SAMUELL CORNING fEN* 

JOHN DODGE SEN* 
JOHN HILL 

Boyles street was called the town way leading to Mack- 
erel cove in 1682 ; the road leading from Mackerel cove 
to Montserat in 1831 ; the highway leading to Mount 
Serat in 1833 ; and Boyles street since 1850. 

That part of Cole street lying eastward of John Wil- 
liams' house was laid out by a committee of the town 
April 1, 1686, according to the following record: 

wee whofe names are vnder written have on the fd flrft day of 
Aprell 88 Laid out a high way tow pole wide through the land Com- 
monly Known by the name of fawyers plain that is to fay the way 
begins near the fouth weft Corner of John Williams his houfe and 
fo Ruus through the plain betwen the land of Lieuetenont thorn- 
dikes and the land of Georg ftandly and the land of Robert bradford 
vntell it comes to the land of william Cleans vpon the northerly 
fide of Grauillie Rige through faid Cleeus his land and fo to the 
high way near Richard patch his houfe. 

This was called ye highway in 1697 ; and ye town high- 
way in 1707. 

Standley street, from Thomas Patch's house to Bald 
hill, was originated in 1683. It was laid out two rods 
wide. It was called ye town way in 1707 ; the road lead- 
ing from Mackerel cove to Bald hill in 1782 ; the road 
leading from Bald hill over Boyles hill so called in 1793 ; 
the highway that leads from Patch's brook to Taylor's in 



BY SIDNEY PEBLBY 101 

1795 ; the highway near the house of James Patch in 
1801 ; and Standley street in 1845. 

Hull street was so called in 1845. 

Essex street was so called in 1845. 

Grover street was laid out March 18, 1678-9, and de- 
scribed as follows : 

a drift way begininge between lohn Dodges senior and Rice Ed- 
wards through the said dodges pasture and soe Southerly into the 
Common'and soe through the Land of Tho: Baker into the high way 
by bald hill and soe through the Land of Georg Hull into the Com- 
mon which way is to be two pole wide. 

It was called the town highway in 1698 ; ye road y* was 
laid out to Beverly commons, 1740 ; Grover's lane in 
1801 ; the cross road in 1808 ; the highway leading by 
the house formerly William Taylor's in 1840 ; and Grover 
street since 1865. 

Off Grover street to the east there is an old town way 
which was there in 1741 at least. 

Relative to the northern portion of this part of Beverly, 
the following letter, published in the Salem Register, in 
its issue of April 30, 1846, is interesting : 

Messrs. Editors : Nearly a year since, the County Commissioners 
widened and straightened the highway in Wenham and Beverly 
called "Hull street." A portion of the owners of land upon the 
route, being dissatisfied with the damages awarded by the Commis- 
sioners, had Mr. Sheriff Sprague over the ground on Monday, with 
twelve "good men and true," to review that award, who, after 
hearing the petitioners by their counsel, N. J. Lord, Esq., and the 
County by A. Huntington, Esq., gave their verdict. . . . 

There are several localities in this vicinity quite suggestive of 
incident. The venerable name of Hull, from which the street takes 
its title, connected, as it is, not only with the descendants of 
that name, but also with the early family of Lovett and 
with that of the earliest William Raymond, suggests many mat- 
ters of genealogical interest. This part of our ancient town- 
ship is denominated "Mont Serat;" but from what cause it 
derives that title is not certainly known. There is a sort of private 
way leading from this street towards the woods called "Middle- 
town," upon which are now standing the foundations of an ancient 
house and barn, formerly the residence of -'Randall Preston," the 
great grandfather of Hon. Robert Rantoul, senior. The wife of 
Randall Preston was Susanna Stone; and in later years the place 
was inhabited by a family by the name of Stone (probably a connex- 
ion of this Susanna), one of whom, the late Rev. (John?) Stone, was 
a Baptist clergyman in New Boston, N. H., and died there within 
twenty years past, at an advanced age. The old Corning house, 



102 BEVERLY IN 1700. NO. 5 

now the property of Mr. James Dunn, presents quite a venerable 
appearance, with its upper story jutting out over the lower part of 
the house. There are also some curious relics of rude painting and 
carving of the olden time with the house. "Bald Hill" is in this 
immediate vicinity, overlooking a very extensive and beautiful 
prospect. Although much of the land in this part of the town pre- 
sents rather a barren appearance, yet, formerly, this was among our 
richest agricultural territory and now, with the increased facilities 
furnished by better roads, and with the will and energy of her 
young men applied to her improvement, Mont Serat may yet sur- 
prise the most sanguine; for, with such appliances, it cannot be 
otherwise than that territory, containing within itself such rich 
meadows and bogs as here abound, must ultimately be greatly ad- 
vanced. "Grover street," leading from "Hull street" to "Dodge's 
Row," although it now contains but two dwelling houses, formerly 
had several upon its line. Old people will tell you of the "Codie," 
"Larcom," l Cole," and other houses now among the missing. 
The Grover family, from which this street takes its name, were 
among the earliest settlers ; and altho' the name is extinct here, yet 
there are many descendants in other parts of Beverly. Tradition says 
that one of the last of the name, for some deed of darkness he had 
done, was doomed to be haunted by troops of black cats, whom he 
was obliged to exorcise by spending most of his nights in psalm 
singing, which his peculiar style enabled him to employ to such ad- 
vantage as to silence and subdue all the caterwauling of his sable 
tormentors. The last that was seen of these supposed agents of 
the other world was upon the night of his decease, when they com- 
pletely covered his coffin; and upon being disturbed, all made their 
exit up the chimney, bearing, as was supposed, the spirit of their 
victim with them, but leaving his corpse unharmed behind. There 
was also an eccentric genius by the name of Fairfleld, formerly re- 
siding on this street, who believed in all kinds of witchcraft and 
superstition, and practised various arts of that character himself. 
Among other things, he kept by him the hand taken from the corpse 
of a first born male child, in which he contended he could place a 
light of the most brilliant character and carry it anywhere, unper- 
ceived by any one except himself. There were also several Indian 
and part Indian families that formerly lived in this vicinity, of 
whom some marvellous stories are told. 
Beverly, April 28, 1846. 

Benjamin Patch Home. This lot of land was probably 
granted by the town of Salem to Richard Brackenbury, 
who apparently conveyed it to his son-in-law John Patch. 
This was probably the homestead of Mr. Brackenbury. 
Mr. Patch was a husbandman, and lived here. He died 
in 1694 ; and by agreement partition of his real estate 
was made Nov. 11, 1695, the widow Elizabeth Patch be- 
ing assigned the homestead for her life, and then the 
house, barn, orchard and land " on the south side of the 
country road that goeth between Salem Ferry and Man- 
chester called the homestead " was released to his son 



BY SIDNEY PERLEY 103 

Benjamin Patch. John Patch's widow died Jan. 15, 
1715. Benjamin Patch lived here, and was a husband- 
man. He died in June, 1730 ; having in his will devised 
the house, barn and land to his wife Susanna for her life. 
How much longer the house stood is unknown. 

Mary Patch Lot. This lot of land was early the prop- 
erty of John Lovett, sr., of Beverly. He died Nov. 5, 
1686, having in his will devised it to his daughter Mary, 
wife of Thomas Patch of Beverly, yeoman. She owned 
it in 1706. 

Benjamin Patch Lot. This lot of land belonged to 
Benjamin Patch of Beverly, husbandman, in 1700. 

Richard Thissell Lot. This lot of land was granted to 
Jeffrey Massey by the town of Salem in or before 1638 ; 
and Jeffrey Thissell died possessed of it in the spring of 
1676. In his will he devised it to his son Richard This- 
selTs son Jeffrey Thissell, who was then only three years 
of age. The boy apparently died young, and his father 
inherited it from him. Richard Thissell owned it in!700. 

Elizabeth Walker House. This tract of land was proba- 
bly granted to William Woodbery, the elder, of Salem, 
weaver, by the town of Salem Oct. 17, 1638. He built 
a house thereon, and lived there. He had apparently con- 
veyed the eastern part of it to Nicholas Woodbery, sr., 
of Beverly, yeoman, in or before Sept. 23, 1670, when he 
conveyed to the latter "my now dwelling house I now 
live in " and the remainder of the lot. 1 The whole lot 
of land with the house was apparently reconveyed to him 
before his decease. He died Jan. 29, 1676-7, having in 
his will devised the house and land to his wife Elizabeth. 
She married, secondly, John Walker March 12, 1678-9; 
and she died, his widow, in 1718. How long the house 
stood is unknown to the writer. 

Robert Bradford Lot. This lot of land was owned by 
Robert Bradford in 1670 and 1700. 

Elizabeth Walker Lot. This lot of land was conveyed by 
William Woodbery, the elder, of Beverly, weaver, to 
Nicholas Woodbery, sr., of Beverly, yeoman, Sept. 23, 
1670 ; J and was, perhaps, reconveyed to said grantor be- 

'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 3, leaf 110. 



104 BEVERLY IN 1700. NO. 5 

fore the death of the latter, which occurred Jan. 29, 
1676-7. It probably then went to his widow Elizabeth, 
who married, secondly, John Walker in 1678-9, and died 
in 1718. 

John Lovett Lot. This lot of land belonged to John 
Lovett in 1670. He died possessed of it Nov. 5, 1686 ; 
and in his will devised it to his daughter Abigail Kendall. 
She owned it in 1700. 

Jonathan Biles House. This tract of land early belonged 
to John Patch of Beverly, husbandman. 

That part of the lot lying northwesterly of the northern 
dashes was conveyed by Richard Brackenbury of Bever- 
ly, yeoman, to John Patch, sr., of Beverly, yeoman, Sept. 
1, 1682 j 1 and Mr. Patch conveyed it to his son-in-law 
Jonathan Biles of Beverly, carpenter, in or before 1683. 

That part of the lot lying between the dashes was con- 
veyed by Mr. Patch to Mr. Biles, probably in 1674, and 
Mr. Biles built a house thereon, in which he lived. In 
consideration of love, he conveyed his homestead, this 
house, barn and land, to his son Nicholas Biles April 10, 

1719. 2 Nicholas Biles died at Canso June 22, 1725, at 
the age of thirty-one. He left no issue, and his father 
was his heir. Mr. Biles, who was now a yeoman, con- 
veyed the same homestead, house, barn and land, to his 
son Richard Biles of Gloucester, husbandman, Sept. 10, 

1726. 3 Richard Biles came here and lived. For two 
pounds and thirteen shillings, he conveyed to his grandson 
William Clarke of Beverly, mariner, part of the dwelling 
house and land March 13, 1765. 4 

Three acres of that part of this lot lying southeasterly 
of the southern dashes was given by Mr. Patch to his 
daughter Elizabeth, wife of Jonathan Biles, in or before 
1683 ; and, for twenty-six pounds and five shillings, the 
rest of it was conveyed by Mr. Patch to Mr. Biles Nov. 
30, 1683.6 



'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 6, leaf 63. 
* Essex Registry of Deeds, book 35, leaf 160. 
3 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 46, leaf 23. 
"Essex Registry of Deeds, book 121, leaf 239. 
5 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 7, leaf 72. 




BEVERLY IN 1700. No. 5. 



BY SIDNEY PERLEY 105 

The half acre of land where the mill stood originally 
belonged to Mr. Patch ; and he probably conveyed it to 
Nicholas Woodbery of Beverly, who erected thereon a 
corn mill in or before 1673. For forty-five pounds, Mr. 
Woodbury conveyed the mill and land to Jonathan Biles 
April 7, 1683 j 1 and in the same deed conveyed to him a 
way over grantor's land for people to go to the mill. How 
much longer the mill existed is unknown to the writer. 

The house upon this lot probably stood for many years 
afterwards. 

Jonathan Biles Lot. Ens. John Patch of Beverly, 
husbandman, died in 1694, intestate. This lot of land 
" on the hill behind the now dwelling house of Jonathan 
Biles " was a part of his estate. In the division of his 
real estate, Nov. 11, 1695, this lot of rocky land was as- 
signed to his son-in-law Jonathan Biles in right of his 
wife Elizabeth ; and he owned it in 1700. 

Estate of John Patch Lot. This lot of meadow land 
was called " ye old house meadow," and belonged to John 
Patch, sr., in 1683. Ens. John Patch died, possessed of 
it, in 1694 ; and it belonged to his estate in 1700. 

Richard Patch Lot. Richard Bracken bury of Beverly, 
for four pounds, conveyed this lot of land to his grand- 
son Richard Patch of Beverly, yeoman, Feb. 14, 1683. 2 
It was called the property of Richard Patch in 1677, and 
he had probably had possession of it before that date. He 
probably lived upon the lot in 1695 ; and it belonged to 
him in 1700. 

Thomas Woodbury Lot. This lot of land probably be- 
longed to Thomas Woodbury in 1700. 

Estate of Richard Brackeribury Lot. This lot of land 
belonged to the estate of Richard Brackenbury in 1700. 

William Cleaves Lot. John Patch of Beverly conveyed 
this lot of land to Samuel Knowlton of Ipswich, husband- 
man, July 1, 1671; 3 and Mr. Knowlton conveyed it to 
George Hull of Beverly, cooper, Nov. 27, 1679. 4 Mr. 

'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 7, leaf 73. 
8 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 10, leaf 14. 
3 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 9, leaf 178. 
4 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 7, leaf 8. 



106 BEVERLY IN 1700. NO. 5 

Hull conveyed it to William Cleaves of Beverly, seaman, 
the next day : l and Mr. Cleaves probably owned it in 
1700. 

G-eorge Hull Lot. John Patch of Beverly conveyed 
this lot of land to Samuel Knowlton of Ipswich, husband- 
man, July 1, 1671 ; 2 and Mr. Knowlton conveyed it to 
George Hull of Beverly, cooper, Nov. 27, 1679. 1 Mr. Hull 
probably owned it in 1700. 

John Bennett Lot. John Patch of Beverly, yeoman, 
owned this lot of land in 1671 : and, for twenty pounds, 
conveyed it to John Bennett of Beverly, weaver, Dec. 28, 
1677. 3 Mr. Bennett apparently owned it in 1700. 

John Patch Lot. John Patch of Beverly, husbandman, 
owned this lot in 1677. He died in 1694; and it ap- 
parently belonged to his estate in 1700. 

Richard Patch Lot. This lot of land was located at the 
place called " the old houses," and it was probably the 
property of John Patch of Beverly, husbandman, who 
died in 1694. In the division of his estate, Nov. 11, 1695, 
it was assigned to his son Richard Patch of Beverly, hus- 
bandman, who owned it in 1700. 

Thomas Patch House. That part of this tract of land 
lying northerly of the dashes was probably granted 
by the town of Salem, Nov. 18, 1661, as follows : 

Granted to Will Mappor foe much lande as the Inhabitants on 
Cape Ann fide shalbe Willinge to give out of the Comon on the Eaft 
fide of Bafs Riuer. 

William Mapes conveyed it to Daniel Rumball of Salem, 
smith, for the purpose of sale by him, Sept. 20, 1662;* 
and Mr. Rumball conveyed it to Robert Hibbert Nov. 18, 
16 64. 1 Apparently Mr. Hibbert conveyed it to Nicholas 
Patch before 1671. 

That part of the lot lying southwesterly of the dashes 
was granted by the town of Salem to Nicholas Patch July 
25, 1639. 

The whole lot belonged to Mr. Patch at the time of his 
decease, in 1673; and upon the division of his real estate, 

'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 7, leaf 8. 
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 9, leaf 178. 
8 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 5, leaf 72. 
"Essex Registry of Deeds, book 2, leaf 90. 



BY SIDNEY PERLEY 107 

Dec. 8, 1673, between his sons John and Thomas, the 
latter received this lot as his portion. 1 This place was 
then called " the old houses," and Thomas Patch then 
lived here, in a small house. He died Sept. 28, 1711 ; and 
the estate descended to his son William Patch. William 
Patch died, suddenly, Nov. 1, 1742 ; and the premises 
descended to his son William Patch. The son William 
Patch died, of small pox, in November, 1773 (being 
buried 0n the eleventh). The title to the property then 
descended to his son Robert Patch, who died Aug. 3, 1816. 
The small house and land were set out, in the division of 
the estate, to his daughter Molly, wife of Nathaniel Rob- 
erts. How much longer the house stood has not been de- 
termined. 

G-eorge Standley Lot. This was probably the tract of 
land granted to Ens. William Dixie at a meeting of the 
selectmen of Saleni Dec. 17, 1649; which was apparently 
not laid out to him until 1658. William Dicksey of Bev- 
erly, for forty pounds, conveyed it to George Stanly of 
Beverly Jan. 8, 1671; 2 and Mr. Stanly owned it in 1700. 

G-eorge Hull Lot. This lot of land belonged to George 
Hull in 1700. He probably lived here early, and when 
he conveyed an undivided half of the land to his son-in- 
law William Grover of Beverly, yeoman alias cordwainer, 
June 5, 1722, 3 he called it " my homestead or old house- 
lot." Mr. Hull conveyed to Mr. Grover the other half of 
" my old house homestead " Feb. 26, 1728-9. 4 The house 
was apparently gone before 1722. 

Samuel Corning House. Ens. Samuel Corning owned 
this farm in 1678 ; and he conveyed the house and barn 
and twenty-four acres adjoining to his son Daniel Corning 
of Beverly, husbandman alias weaver, Feb. 3, 1709-10. 
How much longer the old house stood is unknown to the 
writer. 

Robert Woodbury Lot. This lot of meadow land be- 
longed to William Dodge, sr., very early, and to Capt. 

'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 4, leaf 48. 
"Essex Registry of Deeds, book 5, leaf 95. 
"Essex Registry of Deeds, book 40, leaf 167. 
*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 54, leaf 40. 
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 23, leaf 233. 



108 BEVERLY IN 1700. NO. 5 

Thomas Lathrop in 1673. Captain Lathrop was slain by 
the Indians at Deerfield Sept. 18, 1675 ; and his only heir 
was his sister Ellen (Eleanor), wife of Ezekiel Cheever, 
schoolmaster, of Boston. Mr. Cheever conveyed the lot 
to Thomas Woodbury of Beverly, mariner, Oct. 28, 1681; 1 
and Mr. Woodbury conveyed it to his brother Isaac Wood- 
bury, sr., of Beverly, mariner. For love, Isaac Woodbury 
conveyed it to his son Robert Woodbury of Beverly, mar- 
iner, June 3, 1698 2 and Robert Woodbury owned it in 
1700. 

Isaac Woodbury and Joshua Woodbury Lot. This lot of 
meadow land was conveyed by John Patch of Beverly, 
husbandman, for eight pounds, to Capt. George Corwin of 
Salem, merchant, May 8, 1675 ; 3 and, for seven pounds 
and ten shillings, Mr. Corwin conveyed it to Isaac Wood- 
bury of Beverly, yeoman, June 7. 1683. 3 Mr. Woodberry, 
for love, conveyed it to his sons Isaac Woodberry and 
Joshua Woodberry, both of Beverly, June 3, 1698 ; 4 and 
they owned it in 1700. 

Nathaniel Stone House. Nathaniel Stone, sr., of Bev- 
erly, yeoman, owned this lot of land in 1675 and 1700. 
He apparently lived here in the western house in 1700. 
For love, he conveyed the house, barn and western portion 
of the land to his son Daniel Stone of Beverty, husband- 
man, April 20, 1708 ; 6 and Daniel Stone died possessed 
of it Jan. 20, 1712-3, at the age of thirty-four. His 
daughter Rebecca, wife of Rev. William Balch of Brad- 
ford, conveyed the messuage to Ebenezer Cleaves of Bev- 
erly, weaver, April 3, 1731. 6 How much longer the bouse 
stood has not been learned. 

Nathaniel Stone's son Nathaniel lived in a house which 
stood on the eastern portion of the lot, probably from 
1690 ; although his father did not convey the land to him 
until April 20, 1708. 7 How much longer the house stood 
is unknown to the writer. 

'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 6, leaf 34. 
2 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 15, leaf 68. 
^Essex Registry of Deeds, book 6, leaf 86. 
4 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 15, leaf 66. 
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 20, leaf 132. 
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 58, leaf 76. 
7 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 26, leaf 22. 



BY SIDNEY PERLEY 109 

John Stone Lot. This lot of land belonged to John 
Stone in 1700.1 

Peter Wooden House This lot of land and the house 
thereon belonged to Peter Wooden in 1686 and 1698 ; 
and to Jonathan Rayment of Beverly, yeoman, in 1705, 
when there were a dwelling house and barn upon it. For 
forty pounds, Mr. Raymond conveyed the house, barn 
and land to Benjamin Dike of Beverly, cooper, Dec. 10, 
1705 ; a and Mr. Dike was killed by the Indians at Cape 
Sable in February, 1723. In the appraisal of his estate 
his homestead, consisting of two acres of land with the 
" old Dwelling house and barn " were valued at forty 
pounds. The house probably disappeared soon afterward. 

Philip Moody House. This lot of land may have be- 
longed to Lt. John Dodge in 1686 ; and with the dwelling 
house thereon it was conveyed, for sixty-four pounds, by 
Thomas Edwards of Ipswich, yeoman, to Philip Moody 
of Beverly Nov. 10, 1698. 3 Mr. Moody lived here. His 
name is also called in the deeds of his time and neigh- 

'There were several lots of land in this neighborhood that were 
early privately owned, but whose exact location has not been de- 
termined. 

The town of Salem, at a meeting of the selectmen, Jan. 27, 1669, 
granted to Thomas Pickton of Salem, husbandman, ten acres of 
land; and two acres of land were added to it by the town of Beverly 
Dec. 18, 1669. For ten pounds, Mr. Pickton of Beverly conveyed it 
to Charles Kimball of Hull March 19, 1674 (Essex Registry of Deeds, 
book 4, leaf 51); and Mr. Kimball owned it in 1679. 

Richard Dodge, sr., of Wenham, yeoman, for twenty-five pounds, 
conveyed ten acres of upland and swamp to Joseph Dodge of Bev- 
erly, yeoman, March 8, 1693-4 (Essex Registry of Deeds, book 10, 
leaf 87). 

Jonathan Biles of Beverly, carpenter, conveyed eight acres of 
land to Richard Ober of Beverly, seaman, March 6, 1678-9; and Mr. 
Ober exchanged it with the town of Beverly Feb. 1, 1687-8 (Essex 
Registry of Deeds, book 5, leaf 53). 

A small lot of land there belonged to John Galley quite early and 
to Joseph Eaton in 1693. 

The town of Beverly granted eight acres of land to John Galley 
May 25, 1672; and he died possessed of it; and his son-in-law William 
Hore, sr., of Beverly, for eighteen pounds, conveyed it to Timothy 
Lindall of Salem, merchant, Sept. 22, 1686 (Essex Registry of Deed, 
book 7, leaf 99). 

A lot of eight acres of land was granted and laid out to Robert 
Morgan by th town of Beverly May 25, 1672. 

'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 33, leaf 245. 

'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 17, leaf 112. 



110 BEVERLY IN 1700. NO. 5 

borhood Gody, Lagody, Codie, Lecodie and Nagode. 
Philip Gody of Beverly, weaver, conveyed the dwelling 
house and land to Daniel Buckman of Wenham, cord- 
wainer, March 15, 1722-3 ; J and the latter removed to 
this house, and lived here. He conveyed the house and 
land to Josiah Woodbury of Beverly, yeoman, Jan. 15, 
1734-5. 2 How much longer the house stood is unknown 
to the writer. 

Thomat Edwards Lot. This tract of land may have 
belonged to Lt. John Dodge in 1686. It was owned by 
Thomas Edwards of Ipswich, yeoman, in 1698 and 1700. 

'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 41, leaf 219. 
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 69, leaf 33. 



THE NATHAN HOVEY INCIDENT. 



I Jeremiah Brown J r of lawful age depose, that I was 
a foremast hand on board the Brig 8 Hannah, commanded 
by Charles -Goodridge of Newburyport in faid county in 
her voyage from faid Newbury port to the West Indies, 
that Nathan Hovey of Beverly in s d county was our mate, 
and that we failed from Newburyport on faid voyage the 
twenty fifth day of November eighteen hundred & one 
that in February eighteen hundred & two when we were 
in Hispauiola at a place called the great salt Plane, I faw 
faid Hovey lend faid Goodridge eighty two dollars, that 
I heard faid Goodridge fay that he fold three barrels of 
bef for faid Hovey at ten dollars p r Barrel, that I heard 
faid Goodridge promise to pay faid Hovey for the fame 
when the faid voyage fhould be ended, & I heard faid 
Hovey confent to wait till then, that I know said Hovey 
had on board faid Brig 6 two bags of cotton & two bags & 
part of a bag of coffee, That the captain fent faid Hovey 
to clear out the vefsel & get a fum of money due the faid 
Goodridge, & we expected he would not be abfent more 
than two days but we never faw or heard of him after- 
wards, and fuppose he was murdered, that I then took 
minutes of the contents of this Deposition in writing 
which I now have by me, That after faid Hovey had pur- 
chased two bags of cotton, faid Goodridge wished to pur- 
chase one of them, and faid Hovey faid he might have 
one if he would pay for it when we got home That the 
night after the mate had left us in the morning, the Brig* 
ftruck a drift while the whole crew were af hore That 
there being great confusion & we, being in great fear, 
went on board under pretence of bringing her in, & then 
made fail & came off, and further I fay not 

JEREMIAH BROWN j r 

Commonwealth of Mafsachufetts Efsex fs January 
21 8t 1804 Perfonally appeared before us the subfcribers 

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112 THE NATHAN HOVEY INCIDENT 

two Justices of the Peace in & for faid county of Efsex, 
quorum unus, the aforesaid Deponant & after being care- 
fully examined & duly cautioned to testify the whole & 
nothing but the truth, made Oath that the foregoing de- 
position by him fubfcribed is true Taken at the request 
of Levi Mills of Newburyport in faid county, goldsmith, 
administrator on the Eftate of Nathan Hovey late of Bev- 
erley in faid County mariner fupposed to be deceased, to 
be preserved in perpetual remembrance of the thing, and 
we duly notified all perfons living within twenty miles of 
this place of Caption we knew to be interested in the 
property to which the s d deposition relates, and Edw. 
Good ridge brother to the faid Charles Goodridge did at- 
tend 

Fees |2. 

Nic s PIKE 
EDWARD LITTLE 1 

'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 178, leaf 173. 







Steamboat " KATAHDIN," built in 1863 




Steamboat "STATE OF MAINE" (first) built in 1848 



SOME ACCOUNT OF STEAM NAVIGATION IN 
NEW ENGLAND. 

BY FRANCIS B. C. BRADLEE. 

/ 

(Continued from Volume LV, page 27%.} 

To meet the rapidly increasing travel to northeastern 
Maine, the Eastern, and Boston and Maine Railroads had 
built by Samuel Sneeden at New York, in 1853, the fine 
new side-wheel steamer " Daniel Webster," of 910 tons, 
240 feet long, 34 feet beam, having a beam engine of 52 
inches, 11 feet stroke. She plied between Portland, 
Penobscot river towns and Bangor, making three trips a 
week ; the steamboat train to connect with her was run 
alternately by the Eastern and Boston and Maine roads. 
Capt. Samuel Blanchard was her commander, and Capts. 
Otis Ingraham and William R. Roix, afterwards well 
known on the Bangor route, were respectively chief mate 
and first pilot. 

Until the advent of the " Katahdin " in 1863, the 
" Daniel Webster " was not exceeded by any steamer in 
Maine waters for strength, speed and passenger accom- 
modations ; she had forty-two staterooms and over 200 
berths. A life-size portrait of Daniel Webster, presented 
by the Boston friends of the statesman, adorned the 
saloon. The " Daniel Webster " was taken by the gov- 
ernment for a hospital ship during the Civil war ; at its 
close she was bought by Spear, Lang and Delano, who 
operated her between the Kenuebec river and Boston, and 
she afterwards was sold for service on the St. Lawrence 
river and named * Saguenay." 

A small side-wheeler of about 400 tons, the " Rock- 
land " (first of the name), built at Hoboken, N. J., in 
1854, connected with the " Webster " at Rockland for 
Machias and intermediate landings. She made her first 

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114 STEAM NAVIGATION IN NEW ENGLAND 

trip on August 21, 1854, commanded by Capt E. S. 
Blaisdell ; Francis Cobb of Rockland and others were the 
owners. During the Civil war the " Rockland," then in 
charge of Capt. Otis Ingraham, had many exciting adven- 
tures as a transport and despatch-boat, and she was finally 
sunk in Charleston harbor. 

In the early fifties two small propellers ran from Bos- 
ton to the Penobscot River for short periods : the " East- 
ern State " in 1852 and the " General Knox " in 1855. 
The former was of wood, strapped with iron ; was built in 
1851, by Birely and Son at Philadelphia; and measured 
420 tons gross and 170 feet long on deck. As her pro- 
peller engine was among the very early ones, a detailed 
description of it may not be uninteresting. It was direct 
acting and not " geared down " to the shaft, as were so 
many of the first screw engines. There were two cylin- 
ders, each 30 inches in diameter, 26 inches stroke ; steam 
was worked at 28 pounds to the square inch, and the 
four-bladed propeller 8 feet 10 inches in diameter, made 
60 revolutions per minute. 

The early screw steamers also depended a great deal on 
their sail power to help the machinery, and the " Eastern 
State " was no exception ; she was rigged as a three- 
masted schooner, carrying four fore-and-aft sails and a 
very large square sail. In later years this steamer was 
on the route from Boston to Nova Scotia ports. 

The " General Knox " was 140 feet long, 24 feet 
beam, with a vertical engine of 34 inches by 36 inches. 
As far as can be traced, she was only in New England 
waters for one year (1855), and it is thought she was 
then sold to French owners for use during the Crimean 
war then raging. A small stern-wheel steamboat, the 
" Phoenix," 82 feet long, plied on the Penobscot river for 
several years, beginning in 1850. 

In 1854 the new steamboat " Menemon Sanford," of 
1000 tons, 237 feet long, was built by John Englis in 
New York for the Sanford line, and after a short service 
between New York and Philadelphia, took her place on 
the Bangor line. The " Boston," her predecessor, had 
been constructed according to old-fashioned ideas as re- 



BY FRANCIS B. C. BRADLEB 115 

gards model, lines, etc., but the "Menemon Sanford" was 
on the other hand considered the extreme of the new 
type. 

A little later this steamer did what very few vessels 
have been able to do and live to tell the tale ; she ran 
ashore on Thatcher's Island, off Cape Ann, early on the 
morning of July 5, 1856, but owing to the summer 
weather then prevailing, it was found possible to get her 
off, but not until some twenty feet of her stem from the 
fore foot aft had been chopped away to release her from 
her dangerous situation. The cause of the accident is 
thought to have been the fact that some of the boat's 
officers had celebrated the Fourth of July " not wisely 
but too well." An interesting account of this mishap is 
reproduced from the Salem Gazette of July 8, 1856. 

" The steamer < Menemon Sanford,' which left Boston, 
12 o'clock, last Friday night, on her regular trip to Ban- 
gor, ran ashore at about half-past two o'clock, on Thatch- 
er's Island, off Cape Ann, and remained there at the last 
accounts, all efforts to get her off having proved unsuc- 
cessful. The disaster is attributed, by passengers with 
whom we have conversed, to criminal misconduct. A 
passenger writes to us, also complaining of the conduct 
of the officers after the accident happened. ' Here we 
were,' he says, ' on the island, in great confusion and 
perplexity. The officers ought to have said, gentlemen, 
we cannot proceed with you pn your journey, but while 
you remain here you shall be welcome to your meals. 
Instead of this, however, we were made to pay for our 
meals. Besides, the clerk refused to restore our passage 
money to us. In happy contrast to such selfishness was 
the conduct of Mr. John Parsons, of Rockport, who 
waited in his sailboat four hours, to render the passengers 
assistance, if they needed it ; and on taking some of us 
back four miles to Rockport, refused to take anything of 
us, saying that he was happy to be able to help men in 
trouble.' " 

" The following card of the passengers has been handed 
to us for publication. The undersigned, passengers on 
board of the Steamer M. Sanford, on the night of July 



116 STEAM NAVIGATION IN NEW ENGLAND 

4th, submit to the public the following statement of facts 
connected with the wreck of that steamer : The boat 
left Boston on the night of July 4th, about 12 o'clock. 
The night was clear, and the sea remarkably smooth. At 
20 minutes past 2 o'clock, the boat struck on Thatcher's 
Island, opposite the 'southern light, and about four rods 
from it, and about one-fourth of a mile south of the 
northern light. The lights were shining brightly, and 
owing to the remarkable clearness of the atmosphere, the 
Island itself could be seen at the distance of three miles. 
The question then comes, what was the cause of this 
disaster ? Why was this boat turned from its course and 
run right in the face of two lights against the very base 
of the rock upon which they are built ? We believe the 
cause to have been the grossest carelessness. It needed 
neither great sagacity nor experience to guide the boat 
safely round Thatcher's Island ; only an open eye and a 
steady hand. Nor do we believe this criminal neglect of 
duty is to be charged upon the helmsman alone, nor upon 
him and the second pilot, but also upon the first pilot, 
who was acting as captain at the time, for trusting the 
boat to the care of such men. Nor can we exculpate 
Capt. Sanford, the owner of the boat, for recklessly ex- 
posing so many lives by putting the boat in the hands of 
such incompetent men. 

We take this opportunity, also, of expressing publicly 
our thanks to Mr. James C. Parsons, light-keeper, and his 
family, for the cheerful kindness and hospitality which 
many of the passengers received at their hands.' ' 

The " Menemon Sanford " seems to have been an un- 
lucky ship, for on July 31, 1862, she again ran ashore in 
a thick fog on the Dry Salvages ledge, near Cape Ann, 
and not far from the scene of her first accident. After a 
good deal of trouble she was got back to her native ele- 
ment, but only for a short while, for on the following No- 
vember she was chartered by the government at $950 per 
day to take troops to New Orleans, and on December 10, 
1862, ran ashore on Carysfort reef, off the Florida capes 
(it was said owing to the treachery of the pilot), in per- 
fectly still, clear weather, and became a total loss. There 
were 800 soldiers on board, but they were all saved. 



BY FRANCIS B. C. BRADLEB 117 

The " Sanford's " vertical beam engine of 50 inches, 
12 feet stroke, was also recovered and subsequently placed 
in the steamer "George Leary" of the Baltimore and 
Norfolk line. 

At the outbreak of the Civil war, in 1861, the man- 
agers of the Sanford line, with their customary liberality, 
offered to convey troops, munitions, and the authorized 
agents of the Government free of charge between Boston 
and Bangor, and in other ways the line contributed to the 
Northern cause. The demands of the Government for all 
kinds of steam vessels had in 1862 drawn away nearly 
every steamboat from the coast of Maine. 

Not until May, 1863, when the new side-wheeler " Ka- 
tahdio " came on the Sanford line was the regularity of 
travel in a measure restored. The " Katahdin " was in 
many respects one of the most remarkable side-wheel 
steamers ever produced in the United States, and her 
fame spread far and wide. She was built by John Englis 
at New York, measured 1234 tons gross, 241 feet long, 
34 feet beam, with a vertical beam engine of 56 inches by 
11 feet stroke ; she was as good a sea-boat as many of 
the screw steamers, and probably contended with more 
ice than any boat not running in Arctic seas. 

Although once, in January, 1886, she had a narrow 
escape from disaster by being caught between Portland 
and Portsmouth in a sudden violent southeast storm, yet 
she never lost a passenger or any freight, and, in short, 
such was her luck that " down East " people, especially 
sailor men, came to regard her as bearing a charmed ex- 
istence. With the exception of the winter of 1864, when 
the " Katahdin " was chartered by the Fall River line, 
she plied continuously to Bangor until broken up for the 
metal in her hull in the summer of 1895. 

Very soon after the close of the Civil war, New Eng- 
land, particularly the northeastern section of it, began to 
figure prominently as the country's vacation ground and 
summer resort. A land boom began at Bar Harbor, cot- 
tages and hotels were erected, and the result was a tre- 
mendous increase in the summer passenger business on 
the various steamboat lines. The " Cambridge " was 



118 STEAM NAVIGATION IN NEW ENGLAND 

added to the Sanford line in 1867 ; she was slightly larger 
than the " Katahdin " and constructed by the same build- 
ers. In some respects this steamer was the best that has 
ever run on a down East route ; she was of better design 
and build, and infinitely superior in furnishings to some 
of the modern boats. 

Unfortunately, however, the " Cambridge " proved to 
be an unlucky ship ; shortly after leaving Rockland, bound 
west, she was caught in the memorable gale of September 
8, 1869. The hurricane (for such it was) burst very 
suddenly, and while laboring in the heavy sea the steam- 
pipe between the boilers and the engine burst, totally 
disabling the machinery. Shortly after this the " rigger 
head " of the rudder became broken and jammed in the 
starboard block, rendering the steering gear useless, and 
the " Cambridgg " became a helpless wreck on a lee shore 
in one of the worst storms in New England history. There 
were 163 passengers and a crew of 83 on board, and it 
was a terrible night for all ; the steamer was in imminent 
danger of going ashore on Pemaquid point, in which case 
nearly every one on board would have been drowned. 

A " sea-anchor," composed of three large hawsers bent 
together, was put out, which kept the "Cambridge" head 
to the sea until both her anchors were let go. Luckily 
they held, and in the morning the purser (Tyler Wasgatt) 
was taken off by a passing fishing smack and went ashore 
to telegraph for assistance. Before this could reach the 
disabled craft, however, the steamer " New England " of 
the International line, bound to St. John, came along, 
took the " Cambridge " in tow, and brought her safely 
to Rockland. It was one of the narrowest escapes from 
disaster in the history of New England steamboating. 
The " Cambridge " had more than her share of bad luck, 
for after running ashore several times, she finally stranded 
owing to a blunder of the pilot, on Old Man ledge, 
George's Island, February 10, 1886, broke in two, and 
became a total loss. 

In 1867, also, the steamboat "City of Richmond " be- 
gan to run on the " inside route " from Portland to Ban- 
gor in connection with the railroad. This steamer was 



BY FRANCIS B. C. BRADLEE 119 

originally built at Athens, N. Y., in 1864, and measured 
940 tons gross, 227 feet long, 30 1-2 feet beam, 10 feet 
depth of hold, and had the usual vertical beam engine ; 
she was commanded by the well known Capt. W. E. Den- 
nison, Captains Roix and Spear were the pilots, and Ed- 
ward Gushing (afterwards manager of the New England 
and Arcadia Steamship Co.) was purser. 

The " City of Richmond " had a long career on the 
Maine coast, plying to Bangor until 1880, when she 
was taken off and ran between Portland (and afterwards 
Rockland), Bar Harbor and Machias, until the Maine 
Central Railroad placed their new steamer "Frank Jones" 
on the route, and the " City of Richmond " was then 
sold for use on the Florida coast, and was there called 
" City of Key West." Eventually she found her way 
back north and became the property of the Joy line, who 
operated her on Long Island Sound. This steamer origi- 
nally had her forward main deck open, but in later days 
it was closed in. She is now in use as a house boat at 
Perth Amboy, New Jersey. 

During the season of 1867 there was an opposition 
boat between Portland and Bangor, the side-wheeler 
'* Milton Martin," whose agents were Ross and Sturdi- 
vant, Portland, but the enterprise lasted but a short time. 
About this time, also, the Portland, Bar Harbor and Ma- 
chias Steamboat Co. was formed, of which Capt. Charles 
Deering was the moving spirit. They bought the "Lew- 
iston" from the Portland Steam Packet Co. and ran her 
as above for many years ; she was the first steamer to 
make regular landings at Bar Harbor, and in fact this 
route was the only way to reach that resort in those days, 
for the Mount Desert branch of the Maine Central Rail- 
road, with steamer connection for the island, was riot 
opened until 1885. There was, too, a short lived opposi- 
tion freight line between Boston and Bangor in the late 
sixties and early seventies ; the Penobscot Valley Steam- 
ship Co. running the small propellers "William Tibbetts" 
(afterwards on the Salem-New York line) and the "Alli- 
ance." 

In the seventies the Sanford family, who owned the 
Sanford Independent Line, became involved in specula- 



120 STEAM NAVIGATION IN NEW ENGLAND 

tions outside the steamboat business, and in 1875 the 
control of the Boston and Bangor line passed from them 
to Richardson, Hill and Co., the Boston bankers. They 
incorporated the property in Massachusetts in 1875, as 
the Sanford Steamship Co. ; besides the "Katahdin" and 
"Cambridge," it included valuable wharf property at the 
several landings on the Penobscot river. In 1882 the 
title of the line was again changed by act of the Massa- 
chusetts Legislature to Boston and Bangor Steamship 
Co., and its officers then were : William H. Hill, Presi- 
dent ; William H. Hill, Jr., Treasurer ; James Littlefield, 
Superintendent ; Calvin Austin, General Freight Agent ; 
James Hathorn, Chief Engineer. 

A branch line from Rockland and intermediate landings 
to Bar Harbor had been established in 1879 by the com- 
pany, with the side-wheeler "Mount Desert," 457 tons, 
162 feet in length, built in the same year at Bath, Me. 
This proved a most successful venture, and in 1883 the 
company had constructed at Boston a small propeller, the 
" Rockland " (second of the name), to run on another 
branch line from Rockland to Blue Hill and in the winter 
to Bar Harbor. 

In 1882 travel on the main line had increased to such 
an extent that to meet it they had the wooden side- 
wheeler " Penobscot " (second of the name) built by 
Smith and Townsend at East Boston, Mass. She was 
1414 tons gross, 255 feet long, 38 feet beam, and had a 
beam engine of 58 inches, 12 feet stroke ; the " Penob- 
scot " was not thought to be a success, and her construc- 
tion illustrated the old adage of " too many cooks spoil 
the broth." 

The high officials of the Boston and Bangor line then 
knew very little about steam vessels practically, and the 
result was the " Penobscot " turned out a slow, clumsy, 
hard-steering craft. She was strongly built, but so wide 
as to weaken her, and later on a hog frame was put in 
below deck ; neither was she considered fit for winter 
work, and it was not until she became the old boat of the 
line that she was so used. With the " Penobscot " and 
the other two boats, the Boston and Bangor Co. were 



|V 




Sttamboat "MENEMON SANFORD," built in 1854 




Steamboat " BANGOR," (second) built in 1844 
The first iron screw propelled vessel in the United States 



BY FRANCIS B. C. BRADLEB 121 

enabled for the first time to run six trips a week in the 
summer. 

After the loss of the " Cambridge " the " Lewiston " 
filled her place on the Bangor line until the " City of 
Bangor " (second of the name) was built in 1894, fol- 
lowed by the " City of Rockland " in 1901. Both these 
steamers are wooden side-wheelers, built by James McKie 
at East Boston, Mass. ; they are practically sister ships, 
1650 tons gross, 277 feet long, with the familiar beam 
engines. In order to enable them to get up the Penob- 
scot river, they are light draft boats and not very heavily 
framed. Both have been in serious accidents, collisions 
and strandings, and have had to be considerably rebuilt 
arid strengthened. The "City of Rockland" especially had 
a very narrow escape from disaster by running on Gang- 
way ledge, near Rockland, in a thick fog in the summer 
of 3904. 

The Boston and Bangor Steamship Co. in 1901 became 
part of the Eastern Steamship Co., composed of a consol- 
idation of all the lines running from Boston east. Its 
inception was due to the efforts of Charles W. Morse. 
When the latter became involved in difficulties, the East- 
ern Steamship Co. was carried on a few years by a board 
of directors, of whom the principal one was Calvin 
Austin. 

In December, 1911, the company was reorganized un- 
der the laws of Maine as the Eastern Steamship Corpo- 
ration, with a capital of 16,150,000. The Eastern Steam- 
ship Corporation was really a continuation of the old 
company and a holding company for the Metropolitan 
Steamship Co. running a line of freight steamers between 
Boston and New York, and the Maine Steamship Co., the 
Portland and New York line. The controlling factor in 
the whole situation, however, was the New York, New 
Haven and Hartford Railroad Co. Calvin Austin, Henry 
R. Mallory, Hon. John F. Hill, Hon. William T. Cobb, 
Charles F. Libbey, William H. Hill, Josiah W. Hayden, 
R. F. Pepper and Galen L. Stone were the directors of 
the new corporation, and they authorized an issue of 
$11,500,000 in first and refunding five per cent, mortgage 
bonds. 



122 STEAM NAVIGATION IN NEW ENGLAND 

Besides the steamers, the property included valuable 
wharves in Boston and Portland. After an unprofitable 
career of several years, the Eastern Steamship Corpora- 
tion was petitioned into bankruptcy on Oct. 30, 1914, and 
the courts appointed Calvin Austin receiver. The reason 
for these later troubles was partly owing to the financial 
crash of the New Haven Railroad and in a measure be- 
cause of the hard times of 1918-14. After several "high 
finance" gyrations, a farcical auction sale of the Eastern 
Steamship Corporation was held at Bangor Me., on Janu- 
ary 3, 1917, and it was bid in for $3,366,000 by one Jere 
A. Downs, representing a committee of bondholders and 
stockholders. 

Another " reorganization " styling itself the Eastern 
Steamship Lines Inc., with Calvin Austin as its president, 
took place in March, 1917. The new corporation was also 
incorporated in Maine with $3,750,000 of preferred stock 
(par value 1100) and $1,687,000 of common stock (par 
value $25) ; there were besides $5,700,000 first consoli- 
dated mortgage income bonds. The Boston and Yar- 
mouth Steamship Co. Ltd. was at this time either owned 
or controlled by the Eastern Steamship Lines. 

Soon after the United States entered the war against 
Germany, in 1917, the company's financial prospects were 
materially improved by the sale of the following steamers 
to the Government: "Massachusetts," Boston and New 
York passenger service, $1,350,000 ; "Bunker Hill," Bos- 
ton and New York passenger service, $1,350,000 ; "Old 
Colony," Portland and New York passenger service, 
$1,150,000; "Boston," Boston and Yarmouth passenger 
service, $110,000 ; " H. M. Whitney," Boston and New 
York freight service, $380,000 ; "James H. Whitney," 
Boston arid New York freight service, $380,000. The 
purchase money received was used to buy and retire some 
of the corporation's bonds. At about the same time that 
the above steamers were sold, the U. S. Shipping Board 
took over as training ships the " Calvin Austin," " Gov. 
Dingley," and " Gov. Cobb," practically crippling the 
service of the Eastern Steamship Lines. 

In the meantime, and before many of these financial 



BY FRANCIS B. C. BRADLEE 123 

troubles had occurred, the old wooden side-wheelers had, 
in June, 1909, been superseded on the Boston-Bangor 
line by the advent of the fine steel, turbine, steamships 
" Camden " and " Belfast," marking another epoch in the 
history of coastwise steam navigation. These new 
steamers were built by the Bath (Maine) Iron Works, the 
Camden" in 1907, and the "Belfast" in 1909. They 
are handsomely fitted and furnished, and very fast, so that 
each ship can make three round trips per week, some- 
thing never before attempted on the Bangor line. They 
are sister boats of 2153 tons gross, 320 feet long, 40 feet 
beam, 16 feet depth of hold ; their high speed turbine 
engines indicate 4000 horse-power and drive triple screws. 

The ' Camden " was on the Bangor route for a few 
months in 1907, but was withdrawn temporarily on ac- 
count of difficulty in handling her at some of the small 
landings, and ran between Boston and St. John in 1908. 
Another new steamer, the wooden side- wheeler " J. T. 
Morse," 199 feet long, had in 1904 replaced the old 
" Mount Desert" on the Rockland and Bar Harbor line. 

A few words concerning those who were in the past 
prominently connected with the Bangor boats may not be 
out of place. Capt. Charles B. Sanford, for many years 
the ruling spirit of the Sanford line, was one of the most 
forceful and picturesque characters of the eastern coast. 
He was born in New Haven, Conn., and had his first ex- 
perience in steamboating on a boat running between that 
port and New York. The business appealed to him nat- 
urally, and he rose rapidly to be master and owner. He 
was absolute master of everything connected with his 
boats, and his word was law on deck or in the office. 
Some of his sayings and doings are remembered to this 
day, although he retired from steamboating in 1875. 

Several brothers Ingraham, Captains Otis, Orris, and 
Mark L., were for a long time pilots and commanders of 
the Bangor boats, a route hazardous in consequence of the 
continuous fogs in summer and snowstorms in winter. 
The Ingrahams in connection with New England steam- 
boat navigation were as well known to the patrons of 
these steamers since the Civil war as the Sanfords, who 
established the line before it. 



124 STEAM NAVIGATION IN NEW ENGLAND 

Several attempts were made, always unsuccessfully, to 
establish a freight line between Bangor and New York. 
The first of these was the propeller " Kanawha," 536 
tons, built at Bath, Maine, in 1881 ; she ran for some 
years until she was sold to go south in 1895, and finally 
lost in 1898. After her came the " Lucy P. Miller " and 
" Tillie," both small propellers, the latter in such poor 
condition that it was a wonder she was allowed to go to 
sea. Both these steamers also made occasional trips to 
Eastport in the interest of the sardine canning factories. 

In 1898 the Manhattan Steamship Co. was organized 
to run between Bangor, Penobscot river towns, Rockland 
and New York. H. 0. Quimby was the Bangor agent 
and N. L. Newcomb the general manager at pier 1, North 
river, New York. They bought the screw steamer "Pen- 
tagoet," of 332 tons, 128 1-2 feet long, built of wood at 
Philadelphia in 1864. She left New York for Bangor on 
Friday, Nov. 25, 1898, commanded by Capt. Orris Ingra- 
ham (twin brother to Capt. Otis Ingraham), with a crew 
composed of 17 persons, but never reached her destina- 
tion. The " Pentagoet " was caught in the same terrific 
storm which caused the loss of the " Portland " ; she was 
reported as having passed Highland light at about 2 P. M. 
on the afternoon of the 26th, a few hours before the storm 
struck, and was never seen again. Her fate will always 
remain one of the mysteries of the deep. 

Originally the " Pentagoet " had been a U. S. gunboat 
during the Civil war and was called the " Moccasin " ; 
about 1866 she was transferred to the revenue cutter ser- 
vice, taken to Lake Ontario and renamed " George M. 
Bibb." She was sold out of the service in 1890 and 
brought back to the Atlantic coast as a merchant steamer. 
Opinions varied as to her condition at the time of her 
loss ; a revenue cutter officer who served on her on the 
Great Lakes was quoted as saying she was old and rotten; 
others maintained she was in excellent shape. 

The well known Barbour line of steamers between 
Bangor and Bar Harbor was founded in 1875 by Capt. 
Samuel Barbour of Brewer, Maine. His first steamer 
was the propeller " Little Buttercup," but slightly larger 



BY FRANCIS B. C. BRADLEE 125 

than a good sized steam launch ; she was followed by the 
" May Field," "Queen City," "City of Bangor" in 
1879 (she was afterwards called " City of Portsmouth," 
and burnt in Salem harbor in 1894), and " Cimbria," all 
propellers," each about 100 feet long. 

In connection with the selection of a name for this last 
steamer, there is an interesting little story. One morn- 
ing, th&year before the craft was built (1882), Capt. 
Burbour left Bar Harbor in the " Queen City," and soon 
after he picked up a large Russian man-of-war that had 
come on the coast in a thick fog and lost its bearings. 
Capt. Barbour gave the Russian the desired information, 
for which he was extremely grateful. The name of the 
Russian vessel was the "Cimbria," and when his new boat 
was constructed Capt. Barbour determined to name her 
for it. 

A side-wheeler of 200 tons, 120 feet long, built in 
1854, the "Henry Morrison," was the last steamer on 
the Bangor- Bar Harbor line, and was a very poor sea 
boat, as the author can testify from personal experience. 
After some years of poor business due to railroad and 
other competition, the Barbour line was finally given up 
in 1906. Other steamers controlled by the Barbours and 
running on various short lines on the Penobscot river 
and bay, were : the " Tremont," " Sedgwick," " Silver 
Star " and " Golden Rod," all small propellers about 100 
feet long. 

Mention must also be made of the fleet of steamers 
owned at one time or another by the Maine Central Rail- 
road Co. Among the first of these were the "Sebenoa," 
built at Bath, Maine, in 1880, and the " Sappho," at the 
same place in 1886. They were small wooden propellers 
and employed as long distance ferry boats between Bar 
Harbor and the terminus of the Mount Desert branch 
railroad at Hancock on the main land. The " Sappho " 
will be especially well remembered by the summer resi- 
dents of Bar Harbor, as she was long in service : she was 
275 tons gross, 149 1-2 feet long, 28 1-2 feet beam, with 
a triple expansion engine (one of the early ones 
built in the United States) indicating 600 horse power. 



126 STEAM NAVIGATION IN NEW ENGLAND 

As traffic gradually increased other steamers were add- 
ed, the " Sieur des Monts " and the "Norumbega" in 
1902, of much the same type as the " Sappho," and the 
route was extended to Seal Harbor and Northeast Harbor 
on Mount Desert island. In 1911 and 1913 the Maine 
Central Railroad added to its fleet two very fine steel 
twin screw propellers to take the place of the older boats. 
They were named the "Moosehead" and "Rangeley," 
were built by the Bath Iron Works at Bath, Maine, and 
are practically sister ships ; each measures 652 tons gross, 
185 feet long, 35 1-2 feet beam, 13 1-2 feet depth of hold, 
the machinery consists of two sets (for each ship) of four 
cylinder triple expansion engines, indicating 1200 horse- 
power and permitting the steamer to keep up a speed of 
19 knots per hour. The dimensions of the cylinders are 
16, 26, and two of 30 inches in diameter, 24 inches stroke. 
These steamers are intended only for passenger traffic and 
light freight, and their accommodations, including dining 
room service, are very fine. 

When the "City of Richmond" became worn out in 
the Rockland-Bar Harbor and Machias service, her place 
was taken by the wooden side-wheeler "Frank Jones," 
also owned by the Maine Central Railroad Co. and built 
expressly for the line by the New England Shipbuilding 
Co. at Bath, Maine. She was 1634 tons gross, 253 feet 
long, 36 feet beam, and being intended for a night route 
was fitted with over 100 state rooms ; instead of the usual 
"walking beam" engine and large vertical paddle wheels, 
the "Frank Jones" was fitted with an inclined compound 
engine which propelled feathering wheels. This steamer 
was thought, however, to be anything but a success, and 
after some years of service was sold for use on the Hud- 
son river, and was still running there up to within a short 
time. Her place was partially filled for some years by 
the steel propeller "Pemaquid," ex "Long Island," built 
at Philadelphia in 1893, 409 tons gross, 132 feet long, 
but the route was changed to a day one from Rockland, 
Bar Harbor and various other Mount Desert island land- 
ings ending at Mount Desert Ferry or Hancock. 

lu 1888 the Plant Railroad and Steamship Co. of Flor- 



BY FRANCIS B. C. BRADLEE 127 

Ida endeavored to find summer work for its fine steel screw 
steamer *' Olivette " (which in the winter plied between 
Port Tampa, Key West, Fla., and Havana) by sending 
her to Boston in June of that year to open a new and 
direct line from that place to Bar Harbor. The "Olivette," 
built by William Cramp and Co. at Philadelphia, was 
launched on Feb. 16, 1887. She was in reality a small 
ocean steamer, and a far better sea boat than anything 
then or since running to the coast of Maine. Richardson 
and Barnard, 20 Atlantic avenue, were the Boston agents, 
and Albert Bee acted in the same capacity in Bar Harbor. 

Her schedule was as follows : From Boston every 
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, at 6 P. M., arriving at 
Bar Harbor the next morning at 7, with the regularity of 
clockwork. Returning, the "Olivette" left Bar Harbor 
on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, at 6 P. M., due in 
Boston at 7 the next morning. To keep up this time- 
table meant a speed of nearly 18 knots an hour, fog or no 
fog, but this she did, and with only one accident, when, 
in 1888, in a fog, she ran into the schooner " Edward H. 
Blake," loaded with ice and lumber, cut her in two and 
sank her, and with not the slightest injury to herself. 
Capt. James McKay (now superintendent of the U. S. 
Transport service at Jacksonville, Fla.), who commanded 
the "Olivette" during all the years she ran to Bar Har- 
bor, considers it one of the most wonderful accidents he 
ever heard of, for at the time of the collision the schooner 
was only 17 days old. 

As the "Olivette" was luxuriously fitted up with every 
modern convenience, she naturally enjoyed the cream of 
the passenger and express traffic ; she remained on the 
line up to 1891 inclusive, and was fought off by the per- 
sistent hostility of the Maine Central Railroad. In 1892 
she was placed by her owners on the Boston-Halifax, 
N. S., route, running (in the summer) for many years in 
connection with other steamers. The "Olivette" was to- 
tally lost on the north coast of Cuba in January, 1918. 

Other lines along the coast of Maine which existed but 
a short time were the Calais Steamship Co., which oper- 
ated the propeller "Norwich" from Boston to Eastport 



128 STEAM NAVIGATION IN NEW ENGLAND 

and Calais in 1872. This steamer had the previous year 
run between Salem and New York. 

In the summer of 1887, also, Capt. Charles Deering 
organized the Boston and Maine Steamship Co. to run 
between Boston, Castine, Bar Harbor, Southwest Harbor 
and Machiasport. The "Forest City" and "John Brooks," 
side-wheelers, formerly on the Boston-Portland service, 
were the steamers employed, but only a few trips were 
made, and the enterprise was totally unsuccessful. 

About 1908 the Maine Coast Steamship Co., a purely 
freight line, was organized as a competitor to the Eastern 
Steamship Co. Its fleet consisted of two small wooden 
propellers formerly in use on the Great Lakes ; the "Mas- 
sasoit," of 364 tons, built in 1891, and the "Mohawk," 
of 535 tons, built in 1890. Their route was, generally, 
from Boston to Machias and Eastport, and after a few 
years of moderate success, both steamers needing repairs, 
were laid up. During the war, however, owing to the 
great demand for ships and the curtailment of the service 
of the Eastern Steamship Co., the ' Massasoit " and the 
" Mohawk " were repaired and again placed in service by 
the Maine Coast Co. in 1918. 

Although many of the early coast of Maine steamers 
previously mentioned may have, and probably did, make 
sporadic trips to St. John, N. B., and ports in southern 
Nova Scotia, the first regular service of which there is 
any knowledge was in 1836, when the wooden side- 
wheeler " Royal Tar " (named for King William IV of 
Great Britain) was built at St. John, N. B., to run regu- 
larly between that place and Portland, Maine, where she 
connected with the Boston steamers. The " Royal Tar " 
was 164 feet long, 24 feet beam, and measured 400 tons ; 
she cost $50,000 to build, and was owned by John Ham- 
mond and D. J. McLaughlin of St. John ; she made her 
first trip to Portland in May, 1836; with over 200 pas- 
sengers. 

A few months later this steamer was lost under such 
tragic but curious circumstances as to render the disaster 
long memorable in the annals of New England steamboat- 
ing. On Friday, Oct. 21, 1836, the " Royal Tar " left 
St. John for Eastport and Portland, having on board a 




Steamer "PENTAGOET" 

Lo*t with all hands in the famout storm of November, I 898 
Formerly the U. S. Revenue Cutter "Bibb," built in 1864 




Burning of the Steamboat " Royal Tar," in October, I 836 



BY FRANCIS B. 0. BRADLEE 129 

crew of 21 persons and 72 passengers. She also carried 
Burgess' collection of serpents and birds, Dexter's loco- 
motive museum and a brass band. Among the animals 
on board were an elephant, six horses, two dromedaries, 
two lionesses, one royal Bengal tiger, one gnu, and a pair 
of pelicans. As a result of a high northwest wind, the 
" Royal Tar " remained at anchor at Eastport until Tues- 
day, the 25th, when at 2 P. M. she got under way and 
resumed'her voyage. She had not much more than got 
outside when the gale increased in violence and she ran in 
for shelter near Fox island. 

The story of her loss was told by Capt. Thomas Reed, 
her commander, in these words : " The steam being 
down after we had been at anchor about half an hour, the 
boat was discovered to be on fire immediately over the 
boiler, under the deck. The cable was slipped instantly 
and the fire engine set to work, but in five minutes the 
men could not stand at the pump, which was below, the 
smoke nearly suffocating them. At this awful juncture 
there was a rush for the boats, there being only two. 
Sixteen of the passengers and crew took the largest boat 
and went away before the wind, which blew so hard they 
were afraid to bring her to. I got possession of the jolly 
boat, with two men, and picked up another man belonging 
to the caravan who had jumped overboard." 

" In about half an hour we saw a schooner coming to 
us, which proved to be the United States revenue cutter 
' Veto,' Capt. Dyer, who rendered us every assistance in 
his power. He ran the cutter close to the burning steam- 
er, then in a sheet of flames, and succeeded in taking out 
forty passengers, who must have perished had not the 
cutter come to our assistance." 

One of the passengers, Hinson Patten by name, gave an 
account of the affair which explains the conduct of Capt. 
Reed in taking the one remaining boat. He says : "Capt. 
Reed took charge of the stern boat, with two men, and 
kept her off the steamboat, which was a very fortunate 
circumstance, as it was the means of saving from forty 
to fifty persons, and to him all credit is due for his delib- 
erate and manly perseverance throughout the whole 
calamity." Another account mentions that the elephant 



130 STEAM NAVIGATION IN NEW ENGLAND 

jumped overboard, crashing down upon a raft that was 
being hurriedly constructed, thus destroying the raft and 
losing the lives of several passengers. The horses also 
leaped overboard, and it was said that the elephant and a 
pony succeeded in swimming ashore. That statement was 
contradicted by an item in a St. John newspaper, which 
stated that every animal belonging to the menagerie was 
doubtless lost. The elephant was seen a few days ago 
floating near Brimstone island. Other accounts state that 
when the horses jumped overboard in their wild panic, 
instead of making for the shore, they swam round and 
round the burning steamboat until they became exhausted 
and were drowned. 

Twenty-nine passengers and eight of the crew of the 
" Royal Tar " perished in this dreadful disaster, and the 
money loss was estimated at not less than $125,000. Capt. 
Reed was presented with a purse of $750 in gold for his 
gallantry in saving so many of his passengers ; at a later 
date he was made harbor master of St. John, a post he 
filled acceptably for many years. 

A steamer named the " Gazelle " took the place of the 
" Royal Tar," and she also was wrecked by running ashore 
near St. John in June, 1838; there was, luckily, no loss 
of life. In 1839 the steamboat " North America," evi- 
dently superior in size and build to the foregoing vessels, 
was built and placed on the line between St. John and 
Boston. She made one trip in the autumn of that year, 
and on March 25, 1840, the Boston Advertiser announced 
her as follows : 

" British steamship 'North America,' between Boston, 
St. John, N. B., via Eastport and to Windsor, N. S., 
where stages run to Halifax in a few hours. This new 
and elegant steamer, with low pressure engines made by 
the first manufacturers in Great Britain, having superior 
accommodations, will commence running between the 
above places in April next, leaving St. John on the 15th 
and Boston on the 18th, on her first trip of the season. . . . 
This boat will be provided with every facility for the 
prevention of fires, with force pumps, suction hose, extra 
boats, etc., and her engines and boilers are so constructed 
as to make it next to impossible to take fire. She will be 



BY FRANCIS B. C. BRADLBE 181 

a most desirable conveyance between the British Prov- 
inces and the United States. Fares: to St. John, $12 and 
found ; to Eastport, $10 and found. Letters at 12 1-2 
cents each. L. Crackbon, agent, 6 T wharf, Boston." 

The same paper for April 18, 1840, has the following 
notice of the arrival of the " North America " on the 
first trip of the season : 

" The British steamer ' North America,' which made 
one trip from St. John, N. B., to this city last autumn, 
arrived here yesterday in 36 hours, bringing 21 passen- 
gers." 

Unfortunately no information can now be found regard- 
ing the dimensions of the " North America," names of 
her builders, etc., but undoubtedly she was a wooden 
paddle-wheel steamer. 

She seems to have met with considerable success, as 
she plied regularly for some years between Boston and 
the British Provinces, during the last part of her career 
to Nova Scotia, as is evidenced by the Boston Advertiser 
of August 28, 1843 : 

" British steamer ' North America,' Chisholm, for Yar- 
mouth, N. S., fare $8 ; Lunenburg, fare $12 ; and to Hal- 
ifax, fare $12 ; meals extra. Charles R. Gibbons, agent, 
75 Long Wharf, Boston." 

The Eastern Railroad soon began to compete for the 
passenger traffic to and from the British Provinces with 
the steamers under their control. The Boston Advertiser 
for September 22, 1842, contains the following advertise- 
ment: 

" People's Line, steamer ' Huntress,' Jewett, from 
Portsmouth, N. H. (then the terminus of the railroad), 
running in connection with the Eastern Railroad, for 
Eastport, fare $6 ; Calais, fare $6.50 ; St. John, fare 
$8.00 ; meals extra. Persons wishing to send for their 
friends in St. John can do so. E. Wright, Jr., agent, 11 
T wharf, Boston." 

In 1847 the Eastport Eastern Steamboat Co. was or- 
ganized with a capital of $100,000 ; J. W. Bass of East- 
port was president and J. P. Wheeler of Boston secretary 
and treasurer. They either had built, or bought, the 
wooden side-wheeler " Admiral "; she was constructed 



132 STEAM NAVIGATION IN NEW ENGLAND 

in 1847 by Lawrence and Son of New York, measured 
650 tons gross, 224 feet long, 28 feet beam, and had a 
vertical beam engine of 48 inches, 11 feet stroke. She 
was a well fitted and successful boat and ran for many 
years, making one round trip weekly between Boston and 
St. John, calling at Eastport both ways. 

Originally the " Admiral" was painted black and had 
but one mast, but after running ashore near Eastport in 
1854, she was practically rebuilt and made her appearance 
painted white and with two masts. The steamers "Com- 
modore " (about the same size as the " Admiral ") and 
later the " Governor " (previously mentioned) plied 
between Portland, Eastport and St. John in connection 
with the Eastern Railroad. 

During the late forties and early fifties two British 
steamers, the "Maid of Erin " and the "Fairy Queen," 
were well known in the eastern trade ; the former between 
St. John and Portland, and the latter operated from East- 
port across the bay of Fundy to Windsor, N. S., and from 
there to Halifax. 

The Calais Steamboat Co. was formed in 1851, and 
placed the steamers "Eastern City" and "Adelaide" on 
the route from Boston to St. John, calling at Portland and 
Eastport. Both steamers were wooden side-wheelers, 
built at New York expressly for the line ; the " Eastern 
City " in 1852 and the " Adelaide " in 1854. The for- 
mer's tonnage was 707, length 226 feet, beam 30 feet, 
depth of hold 10 feet ; the machinery consisted of the 
usual vertical beam engine, having a 44 inch cylinder, 11 
feet stroke ; the latter steamer was slightly larger in size 
of hull and machinery, but neither boat had much power 
considering their exposed route and the heavy weather 
they occasionally encountered. 

During the Civil war the " Eastern City " became a 
government transport and was called the " Cossack ;" 
when peace came she resumed her former name and was 
run for some time between Boston and Bath, Maine, and 
afterwards sold for service on the St. Lawrence river. It 
must be taken into consideration that at this period nearly 
the whole passenger and freight traffic from Boston to the 
British Provinces and northeastern Maine was transported 



BY FRANCIS B. C. BBADLEK 133 

by water, as there were but few railroads beyond Augusta 
or Bath, and direct rail communication between Boston 
and Bangor was not had until 1857. 

In 1860 the International Steamship Co. was incorpo- 
rated in Maine with a range of capital of from one hun- 
dred thousand to one million dollars, and the privilege of 
steam navigation to Europe and any ports in America. 
The special object, however, was to extend the existing 
accommodations of traffic between Boston, Portland, and 
the Provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, which 
had before been opened. This company came under the 
management of some of the principal owners of the Boston 
line, or Portland Steam Packet Co. T. C. Hersey was 
the president, H. J. Libby the treasurer, and Capt. John 
B. Coyle the general agent. S. E. Spring, William Kim- 
ball, Capt. Coyle of Portland, and A. McSeeley of St. 
John were the directors. 

The International line took over from their former 
owners the " Admiral " and the " Eastern City," and 
afterwards had built at New York the "New Brunswick" 
in 1860 and the "New England " in 1861, wooden side- 
wheel steamers of 950 tons each, 240 feet long, and with 
the usual vertical beam machinery ; they had excellent 
accommodations for passengers and freight and fair qual- 
ities of strength and speed. Both these steamboats re- 
mained in service for many years ; the " New England," 
while on her way from St. John to Boston, struck on the 
" Wolves " ledge, near Eastport, in a dense fog, on July 
22, 1872; passengers and freight were safely landed, and 
the steamer herself, which had partly filled, was raised 
and rebuilt as the ' City of Portland." In May, 1884, 
she again ran ashore on " Gangway " ledge, near Rock- 
land, and became a total loss. The " New Brunswick " 
ended her days as an excursion steamer around Boston. 

In 1861 or 62 the steamer "New York " was added to 
the International line ; she had been built at Clayton, on 
Lake Ontario, New York, in 1852, but as the extension 
of railroads rendered her unprofitable on the Great Lakes, 
she was brought to the Atlantic coast by Captain Win- 
chester, who commanded her for several years. The 
* New York " was of about the same size as the other 



134 STEAM NAVIGATION IN NEW ENGLAND 

boats, 1110 tons and 235 feet long, but had far greater 
power, a vertical beam engine of 60 inches, 12 feet 
stroke, which made her one of the fastest " down East " 
boats of her day. During the Civil war she was for sev- 
eral years used by the Government as the flag of truce 
boat, for the exchange of prisoners on the James river. 
She remained in the service of the International line until 
about 1885, then became an excursion steamer, and finally 
burnt at her wharf. 

The same interests that controlled the International 
Steamship Co. started in 1867 a line between Portland, 
Halifax and St. Johns, N. F. For several years the ser- 
vice was kept by two small propellers of about 550 tons 
each, the "Carlotta" and the "Chase"; the former 
was an iron, the latter a wooden vessel. In 1872, how- 
ever, the line was reorganized and incorporated as the 
New England and Nova Scotia Steamship Co., and the 
call at St. Johns given up. They had built at New York 
a large wooden side-wheeler, the " Falmouth," of 1156 
tons, 240 feet long, having a vertical beam engine of 54 
inches, 11 feet stroke. The "Falmouth," especially de- 
signed for open sea service, was very strongly put to- 
gether, with narrow guards, etc. Commanded by Captain 
Colby, she was known several times to have put to sea 
from Halifax when transatlantic liners deemed it prudent 
to remain in port. 

In the early eighties the Halifax service was given up, 
and the "Falmouth" joined the International fleet ; while 
lying at her wharf at Portland undergoing repairs, she 
caught fire and was totally destroyed, April 29, 1884. 
The International line in 1882 brought out the highly 
successful steamer "State of Maine," built by the New 
England Shipbuilding Co. of Bath, Maine ; she was a 
vessel of 1409 tons, 241 feet long, 37 feet beam, with a 
vertical beam engine indicating 1200 horse power. Like 
the "Falmouth," the "State of Maine" was built for 
hard service, and her frames were close together like 
those of a ship. 

Another slightly larger boat, but of the same side- 
wheel type, the "Cumberland," was added to the fleet in 
1885. Both steamers were sold in 1902 to the Joy line 



BY FRANCIS B. C. BRADLEE 135 

for use on Long Island Sound and renamed "Edgemont" 
and "Larchmont" respectively. The latter, on the night 
of Feb. 11, 1907, was run down by a coal-laden schooner 
in Block Island Sound, and of the 177 or more people on 
board only twenty lived to reach the shore, and some of 
these died later from exposure to the awful zero weather. 

Other coastwise lines had, in the early eighties, already 
discarded wooden side-wheel steamers for the more mod- 
ern iron propellers, and in 1895 the International line, a 
little late in the day, followed suit and brought out a 
screw propelled vessel, the "St. Croix," but they still 
clung to the wooden hull built by the New England Ship- 
building Co. of Bath. The "St. Croix" measured 1994 
tons gross, was 240 feet long, 40 feet beam, and had a 
triple expansion engine ; she, however, proved to be any- 
thing but a success, as she turned out a leaky vessel of 
but small carrying capacity, and was afterwards sold for 
use on the Pacific coast. 

In 1901 the International Steamship Co. joined with 
Morse's Eastern Steamship Co.'s consolidation of all the 
lines running east from Boston. Among the old-time 
shipmasters on the International line were Captains Win- 
chester, Thompson, Hall, Colby, Pike, Sr. and Jr. Two 
more screw-propelled steamers, with steel hulls, built by 
the Delaware River Shipbuilding Co. of Chester, Pa., 
were brought out by the new management the " Calvin 
Austin" in 1903 and the "Governor Cobb " in 1907. 
The former is 298 1-2 feet in length, 60 1-2 feet beam, 
17 1-2 feet depth of hold, 3826 tons gross, and is fitted 
with a triple expansion engine indicating 2700 horse- 
power ; the latter is 289 feet long, 54 feet beam, measures 
2522 tons gross, and her motive power consists of three 
Parsons' steam turbines, which develop about 2500 indi- 
cated horse-power. The "Governor Cobb" is considered 
to have been the first seagoing steamer in the United 
States equipped with turbine machinery. Both are fine, 
fast boats, the "Cobb" especially so, and she has been 
chartered every year in the winter months to run between 
Key West and Havana. At the outbreak of the war the 
Government took over the "Governor Cobb," "Governor 



136 STEAM NAVIGATION IN NEW ENGLAND 

Dingley," and "Calvin Austin," to use as training ships 
for the new mercantile marine. 

Though great progress has been made locally in 
marine architecture, too many of our coastwise carriers 
are still steamboats rather than steamships. Steel hulls 
and twin screws of late years have markedly increased 
the strength and seaworthiness of our New England steam 
fleet. And yet some of our local steamers still retain 
too many of the characteristics of the old time side- 
wheelers. Their solid steel sides are not carried up high 
enough above the water; there is still too much of the old 
custom of leaving large openings aft, through which high 
seas can tumble into saloons and staterooms. 

The theory is that if these coastwise craft are built up 
high forward, that is enough to ride head to gale. But 
the theory fails when it is necessary to bring the steamer 
about to scud before it. Such criticisms do not attach to 
the liners plying between Boston and Nova Scotia ports, 
or to those running to points south of New York. They 
are veritable ocean steamships of small or moderate ton- 
nage, but of sturdy model and unquestioned seaworthi- 
ness. Our immediate New England waters, however, are 
among the stormiest in the world, and many of our coast- 
wise steamers are, or rather were, employed in year-round 
service. 

The expedient of twin screws makes possible a sea- 
going model of great handiness and light draft. There 
is no need of the employment of side- wheelers, or top- 
heavy propellers for outside routes to the bays and rivers 
of Maine, and there is every need of strong, rigid, sub- 
divided hulls of up-to-date construction. A long step in 
advance was taken when steel turbine liners were put on 
the eastern routes, but too many of the old steamboat 
traditions still endure. 

During the year 1863 Spear, Lang and Delano of Bos- 
ton, so long identified with the New England coastwise 
steamers, started an opposition line between Boston and 
St. John, N. B., known as the "United States Mail Line." 
The steamer employed was an iron paddle-wheeler, re- 
cently rechristened the " Admiral Du Pont," for under 
the name of "Dawn" she had been captured, a little while 



BY FRANCIS B. C. BRADLEE 137 

before, in an attempt to run the blockade of the southern 
ports. This vessel, built in England in 1847 for the 
English-Irish cross channel trade, measured 705 tons, and 
was equipped with oscillating cylinders, four in number, 
each 48 inches in diameter, four feet stroke, a type of 
machinery at that time much in vogue in England, but 
which somehow never found much favor on this side of 
the water. The " Admiral Du Font's" career was a 
very short one in New England waters, for the enterprise 
was wholly unsuccessful. 

In 1882 the New England and Arcadia Steamship Co. 
was organized to furnish communication between the 
ports of Maine and southern Nova Scotia. The iron side- 
wheel steamer "Frances," 988 tons, 222 feet long, 800 
nominal horse-power, built in Wilmington, Del., in 1865, 
was chartered from David Babcock, president of the 
Stonington and Providence Steamship Co., and operated 
for several years between Bucksport (in the winter 
months) and Digby and Annapolis, N. S., calling each 
way at Machias and Eastport ; Edward Cushing, for many 
years purser on various " down East " steamers, was gen- 
eral manager, and in the summer months the American 
terminus of the line was Bar Harbor. After several fairly 
successful years, the Maine Central R. R. Co. obtained 
control of the enterprise, and its home port was changed 
to Rockland. 

Among the many smaller and unsuccessful attempts, 
some notice must be given to the St. John, N. B., and 
New York line (calling at Eastport and Yarmouth, N. S.), 
or, as it was officially called, the New York Steamship Co. 
It was organized by N. L. Newcomb and others, and in. 
1889-90 they ran at irregular intervals the large wooden 
propeller "City of Columbia." She had formerly be- 
longed to the New York and Charleston (S. C.) Steam- 
ship Co., was built at New York in 1880, and measured 
1878 tons. The earliest steamer to be placed on the route 
between Yarmouth, N. S. and Boston was the wooden 
propeller " Eastern State," previously mentioned. She 
was purchased by the Yarmouth Steam Navigation Co. for 
$24,500, and placed in commission in 1855, in charge of 
Capt. Bowman Corning, and until she was taken in 1861 



138 STEAM NAVIGATION IN NEW ENGLAND 

by the United States Government for a transport, the 
"Eastern State" made weekly trips, which were sometimes 
extended to Halifax. 

The steamships that followed the "Eastern State" in 
this service were the "Relief" in 1862, the "Scotia" in 
1864, and the "Linda" (afterwards renamed the "Domin- 
ion") in 1866 and later, all wooden propellers. E. Frank- 
lin Clements, son of the well known Capt. N. K. Clements 
of Yarmouth, was in charge of the line at this time, and 
it came to be often called the "Clements line." The side- 
wheeler "New Brunswick," chartered from the Interna- 
tional Steamship Co., was on the route in 1882, but up to 
this time there had been few indications of the im- 
portant part Nova Scotia was to play in the great summer 
vacation movement. Indeed "vacations" were then far 
from being the accepted institution that they are to-day. 
The railroads of the province had been gradually awaken- 
ing to the possibilities of summer travel, but it remained 
for Yarmouth's great "captain of industry," Hon. Loran 
E. Baker, to make the first definite move in reaching out 
for a share of the American tourist business. Mr. Baker, 
who was one of the most enterprising and ambitious mer- 
chants ever produced by Nova Scotia, in 1885 bought out 
the Nova Scotia Steamship Co. and its steamer " Domin- 
ion " and organized the Yarmouth Steamship Co., which 
was destined to be the real pioneer in the ocean part of 
the Nova Scotia tourist business. 

With abundant faith in the future, the Yarmouth 
Steamship Co. proceeded to have built on the Clyde a 
new steel steamship, the "Yarmouth," 220 feet long, with 
a speed of 14 knots. She was a fine vessel for that period 
and was placed in commission between Boston and the 
Nova Scotia port for which she was named, in 1887. The 
"Yarmouth" became very popular with the travelling 
public, and the passenger business of the line increased so 
rapidly that it was found necessary to ordei another and 
larger steamship, the "Boston." This vessel was also 
built at Glasgow, and was 1694 tons gross and 245 feet 
long. She was placed on the route in 1890, and inaugu- 
rated a new direct service between Boston and Digby, 
N. S. (now given up), remaining in commission until sold 



BY FRANCIS B. C. BBADLEE 139 

in June, 1917. In the twenty odd years of her service 
she made one of the most remarkable records of any 
American coastwise steamer ; her runs were clocklike in 
their precision, and she missed scarcely a trip, even in the 
stormiest weather. But even the " Boston " by and by 
failed to meet the requirements of the growing traffic, 
and faster and bigger boats succeeded her. 

The Dominion Atlantic Railway Co., a progressive Eng- 
lish corporation, which had come into possession of the 
entire railway system between Halifax and Yarmouth, 
decided to extend its field of operations and absorbed the 
Yarmouth Steamship Co. [t placed on the Boston-Yar- 
mouth route in 1897 the steel twin screw steamship 
* Prince Edward," 1400 tons gross, 268 feet long, built 
by Earle's Shipbuilding Co., Hull, England ; she devel- 
oped a speed of 19 1-2 knots, and was later sold to Ger- 
man owners and said to have been lost in the Baltic Sea. 

In 1899 the " Prince George " and * Prince Arthur," 
sister ships, were added to the line ; they were also con- 
structed by the Earle Co. at large expense, and were 
equipped and engined like small ocean liners. Each 
steamer measures 2040 tons gross, 290 feet in length, 38 
feet beam, and has two triple expansion engines of 718 
nominal horse-power driving twin screws, the speed being 
about 20 knots. They have the proportions of the trans- 
atlantic liner, without its unwieldiness ; properly handled 
they can stand almost any weather as they have had 
abundant opportunity to prove in Massachusetts Bay 
and in their neat aspect, fleet lines and excellent design, 
black hull, white upperworks and crimson funnels, they 
are an ornament to any harbor. In the old days it not 
infrequently took a couple of days, or more, to reach 
Boston from Yarmouth, or vice versa; the two "Princes," 
however, easily make the run in 17 hours, and with the 
utmost regularity. 

Early in 1912 the marine division of the Dominion 
Atlantic Railway Co. fell under the control of the all- 
absorbing Eastern Steamship Corporation, who reorganized 
it as the Boston and Yarmouth Steamship Co. Ltd. The 
service was, however, continued as before under the Brit- 
ish flag, until interrupted by the European war. The 



140 STEAM NAVIGATION IN NEW ENGLAND 

" Prince George " and " Prince Arthur " were requisi- 
tioned as hospital transports early in 1917 by the British 
government. 

For a few months the Yarmouth line was carried on 
with such ships as the Eastern Steamship Lines could 
spare, but late in 1917 it was suspended altogether. How- 
ever, a great outcry was made by the Nova Scotia mer- 
chants and shippers, and in April, 1918, a freight service 
was begun and irregularly maintained by the Canadian 
government steamer "Aranmore," a propeller of some 500 
tons. Soon after the close of hostilities the Eastern 
Steamship Lines again began the regular service on March 
5, 1919, with their steamer ' North Land " of the New 
York and Portland line. It is hoped that the" Princes " 
will soon be released so as to be on the line in the sum- 
mer of 1920. 

For many years there had been regular packets between 
Boston and Halifax, N. S., mostly brigs and schooners of 
from 100 to 200 tons each, but the first communication 
by steam was when the Cunard line or, as it was then 
officially called, British and North American Royal Mail 
Steam Packet Co. was established in 1840. Their ships 
called at Halifax on their way to and from Boston month- 
ly in the winter, every two weeks in the summer, until 
1848, when the service was doubled, but every other ves- 
sel then proceeded to New York. After a short time, 
however, the New York steamers gave up calling at Hal- 
ifax, owing to the many delays incident thereto, but the 
Boston ships continued stopping there until 1868. 

Contrary to the general belief, the " Unicorn" and not 
the " Britannia " was the first Cunard steamer to cross 
the Atlantic and arrive in Boston. The original contract 
of the Cunard Co. with the British government obliged 
them to have their steamers at Halifax met by another 
which was to carry the mail to Pictou, N. S., and Quebec. 
Accordingly the "Unicorn" was sent over in advance of 
the regular boats, and having landed her passengers at 
Boston, June 2, 1840, returned to Halifax to meet the 
outward steamer from England ; she carried on the Hali- 
fax-Pictoti-Quebec service until it was given up in 1846. 
The "Unicorn" was a small boat of 649 tons, 570 indi- 



BY FRANCIS B. C. BKADLEE 141 

cated horse-power, built in 1835 for the Glasgow and 
Liverpool service ; the first four regular steamers of the 
Cunard line, the "Britannia," "Acadia," "Caledonia" and- 
"Columbia," were nearly double her size, 1200 tons each. 

Another very early local steamer under the British 
flag and plying between Boston and the British Provinces 
was the "North America." Like many other early steam 
vessels, very little can be learned about her, and in spite 
of diligent searches all that can be found concerning this 
craft is in the advertisements of her in the contempora- 
neous newspapers. The Boston Advertiser for March 25, 
1840, has the following notice of her : 

" British steamship 'North America,' between Boston, 
St. John, N. B., and to Windsor, N. S. (via Eastport), 
where stages run to Halifax in a few hours. This new 
and elegant steamer, with low pressure engines made by 
the first manufacturers in Great Britain, having superior 
accommodations for passengers, will commence running 
in April next, leaving St. John on the 15th and Boston 
on the 18th, on her first trip of the season, touching at 
Eastport to and from. . . . This boat will be provided 
with every facility for the prevention of fires, with force 
pumps, suction hose, extra boats, etc., and her engines and 
boilers are so constructed as to make it next to impossible 
to take fire. She will be a most desirable conveyance be- 
tween the British Provinces and the U. States. Fares to 
St. John, $12 and found ; to Eastport, $10 ; letters 12 1-2 
cents each. 

L. Crackbon, Agent, 6 T wharf." 

On April 18, 1840, the same paper notes: "The Brit- 
ish steamer North America,' which made one trip from 
St. John, N. B., to this city last autumn (1839), arrived 
here yesterday, in 36 hours, bringing 21 passengers. She 
lies at Lewis Wharf." Not long after this date the "North 
America" made Halifax her eastern terminus, to which 
port she plied regularly, and it would seem with some 
success. One of her last advertisements was in the Bos- 
ton Advertiser for Aug. 28, 1843, as follows : 

" British steamship ' North America,' Chisholm, for 
Yarmouth, fare $8, Lunenburg 12, Halifax $12, meals 
extra. Charles R. Gibbons, Agent, 

75 Long Wharf." 



142 STEAM NAVIGATION IN NEW ENGLAND 

It would have been interesting to have reproduced a 
picture of this old steamer, but as previously stated, all 
researches have been in vain, and we can only conjecture 
as to what became of her. 

In July, 1848, the Boston Transcript advertised the 
American steamer "Buena Vista" as "running regularly" 
between that port and Halifax, N. S. The records of the 
New York Custom House reveal the fact that this craft 
was formerly called the "General Jackson," and that she 
was a small boat built at New York in 1828-29 by Smith 
and Dimon for Peter Simmons, also of New York ; and 
that later she belonged to Cornelius ("Commodore") Van- 
derbilt. Her tonnage was only 174, length 114 feet, 
beam 22 feet. A more unsuitable steamer for open sea 
navigation can scarcely be imagined, for she was designed 
to navigate the waters of the Hudson river, or Long Island 
Sound, and did so for many years. The "General Jack- 
son" had come from New York with a bad reputation, for 
on June 8, 1831, while in the Hudson river, her boiler 
exploded, killing six and injuring between twenty and 
thirty persons. Hence the probable reason for her change 
of name later on, and as far as can be learned her career 
on the coast of New England was limited to one season. 

The next attempt at steam navigation between Boston 
and the capital of Nova Scotia was in 1852, when the 
wooden propeller "Sir John Harvey" (named for a 
former lieutenant-governor of Nova Scotia) was placed 
on the route by Messrs. Clark, Jones and Co. of Boston. 
Her advent was announced by the Boston Advertiser in 
April, 1852, as follows : 

*' ' Sir John Harvey ' : this propeller of about 700 tons 
was launched at Medford (Mass.) yesterday by J. O. 
Curtis. When her machinery is fitted, she is to ply be- 
tween this city and Halifax, and is expected to leave each 
place once a week. She will begin her trips early in 
June. Her agents in this city are Clark, Jones and Co., 
who have for some years past successfully managed a line 
of fast sailing brigs, the 'Boston,' 'Belle,' 'Halifax,' etc., 
which have kept up a very regular communication with 
the British Provinces." 

The picture of the " Sir John Harvey," reproduced 
from an old lithograph owned by the author, shows her 



BY FRANCIS B. C. BRADLEE 143 

to have been a curious old craft, not a nautical beauty, 
but undoubtedly seaworthy. Her exact dimensions, taken 
from the records of the Boston Custom House, were : 
tonnage 620, length 170 feet, beam 27 1-2 feet, depth of 
hold 18 1-2 feet; she was "sold foreign " in 1854, prob- 
ably to British owners, as there was then a great demand 
for steam transports to take the British and French troops 
to the Crimean war. 

After this date, except for the means afforded by the 
Cunard line and the irregular trips of the "Eastern 
State" (previously mentioned), there was no direct steam 
communication between Boston and Halifax until 1868, 
when F. W. Nickerson and Co. of Boston started their 
line, which was also extended to Charlottetown, P. E. L, 
and under various managements, was destined to last for 
many years. Their first steamers were the "Oriental," 
an iron screw of 740 tons, a former southern blockade 
runner, built in England in 1858, and the "Commerce," 
335 tons, and "Alhambra," 764 tons, also propellers but 
constructed of wood, the latter at New York in 1864. 
As business increased larger ships were added to the line. 
These were the "Carroll" and "Worcester," wooden 
screw steamers, built at New York in 1862 for the gov- 
ernment service during the Civil war. They were pecu- 
liar looking craft, with their pilot houses very far for- 
ward ; the "Worcester" measured 1500 tons gross, 218 
feet long, 35 feet beam; she had two vertical direct act- 
ing engines, cylinders 44 inches by 48 inches stroke ; the 
"Carroll" was of slightly smaller dimensions. 

At the close of the Civil war they and another sister 
ship, the "Somerset," had been bought by the Baltimore 
and Ohio R. R. Co., who with them inaugurated, in 1865, 
a transatlantic line between Baltimore and Liverpool. But 
the ships were unsuited to the trade ; they were too small 
and slow, and in 1868 the experiment was given up. The 
"Worcester" and "Carroll" were better fitted to a com- 
paratively short route, like that between Boston-Halifax 
and Charlottetown, and they literally wore themselves out 
in that service ; they were condemned and broken up at 
Boston in the summer of 1894. 

Another historic steamer ran on this line for a short 
time in the late eighties. This was the "Merrimack," a 



14-1 STEAM NAVIGATION IN NEW ENGLAND 

propeller, and one of the first iron vessels ever built in 
Boston (by Harrison Loring in 1861). She and a sister 
ship, the "Mississippi," had been intended to form a reg- 
ular line between Boston and New Orleans, under the 
auspices of the Union Steamship Co. of Boston, but the 
breaking out of the Civil war put an end to the project. 
Both steamers were in use as transports during the war, 
and afterwards were in the transatlantic service between 
New York and Havre. Later on they were acquired by 
the United States and Brazil Mail S. S. Co., and for many 
years plied between New York and Rio de Janeiro; the 
"Mississippi" was lost in that service in 1869. 

In the eighties the "Merrimack" came back to her 
original port, was refitted with a triple expansion engine, 
and plied between Boston and Halifax until she was lost 
by running ashore on Little Hope Island, N. S., in a thick 
fog, July 10, 1887. The passengers and crew had a nar- 
row escape and barely got off with their lives. The 
"Merrimack" was a very handsome ship, with fine lines ; 
originally she had been barque-rigged, with very lofty 
masts and spars, but in her later days the mainmast and 
square yards were removed, leaving her schooner-rigged. 
She measured 2031 tons gross, 260 feet long, 39 leet 
beam, 19 feet depth of hold, 4 water-tight bulkheads ; 
she was at first fitted with two inverted direct acting en- 
gines,. having 62-inch cylinders, 4 feet stroke. 

Daring the season of 1891 the British steamship 
"State of Indiana," 2584 tons, 400 nominal horse-power, 
was chartered by the owners of the "Carroll" and "Wor- 
cester;" she had previously run on the "State" line be- 
tween New York and Glasgow. 

About 1880 the firm of Small and Hatheway of St. 
John, N. B. started an opposition steamer line between 
Boston and Nova Scotia ports; Digby, Annapolis, Wind- 
sor, and sometimes Halifax, to which place the fare was 
" $7 and found." They had various small steamers ; the 
propellers "Scout," a former blockade runner, and "Hunt- 
er," and the side-wheeler "City Point," the latter a small 
New York harbor boat that only made a few trips ; she 
hugged the coast as much as possible, and finally ended 
her career by running ashore near Hampton, N. H. After 
a few years, Small and Hatheway sold out to the Interna- 
tional line. 

(2V be continued) 



THE WILLIAM GRAYS IN SALEM IN 179T. 



BY EDWARD GRAY. 



WILLIAM GRAY (Benjamin,Benjamin, Joseph, Robert of 
Salem), was the son of Benjamin 1 and Sarah (Cash); he 
born at Salem, Oct. 26, 1727, and was a painter. His 
marriage intention is recorded at Salem, Nov. 18, 1749, 
to Sarah Mattoon of Newmarket, N. H. He lived in 
Ward 2 in 1797 ; and died at Salem, Dec. 24, 1805, aged 
seventy-eight years. 2 In his will, dated May 8, 1801, and 
proved Jan. 14, 1806, he mentions his two sons William 
Gray and John Gray, and three grandchildren, the chil- 
dren of his son Richard Mattoon Gray, deceased ; sons 
William and John, executors, who call themselves Wil- 
liam Gray, jr., gentleman, and John Gray, schoolmaster, 
on their bond. 

WILLIAM GRAY, JR. (Abraham, William of Lynn), was 
son of Abraham and Lydia (Galley) ; he was born at Lynn, 
June 27, 1750, and moved to Salem, with his parents, in 
1761. He was the Salem merchant familiarly known as 
*' Billy " Gray, and was known as William Gray, tertius, 
until 17 86, 3 when he became William Gray, jr. ;* after 

'Essex Institute Historical Collections, IV: 263; Essex County 
Deeds, 115: 188. 

sSalem Gazette, Dec. 27, 1805. 

8 Essex County Deeds, 145 : 219. 

4 William Gray, jr. and Margaret Cook, both of Salem, were mar- 
ried March 16, 1760. (Rev. Dudley Leavitfs marriages in Vital 
Records manuscripts, Essex Institute.) He may have been the son of 
Robert, jr. and Ruth, baptized at Salem, Oct. 16, 1737, and probably 
died in 1786 (cf. William Gray, jr. in the text), until which time he 
was probably William Gray, jr. William Gray of Middleton, yeo- 
man, who married Sarah Smith of Salem, and Samuel Gray, jr. of 
Salem, cordwainer (1765-1850), who married Ruth Ropes, were 
brothers (Wheatland papers, Essex Institute), and were probably 
his sons, as the latter had a daughter named Margaret Cook Gray. 
Samuel's son, Samuel, was killed by lightning, July 5, 1804, while 
fishing in Salem bay. (Samuel Gray [sr.] of Salem, merchant (1760- 
1816), was the son of Abraham and Lydia (Galley), and brother of 
William Gray, jr., in the text. He married, first, Anna Orne, and 
second, Mary Brooks.) 

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146 THE WILLIAM GRAYS IN SALEM IN 1797 

the death of the above William Gray, in 1805, he be- 
came William Gray. He married at Salem, March 28 
or 29, 1782, Elizabeth Chiprnan, and lived in Ward 2 in 
1797. He moved to Boston in 1809 ; was Lieutenant- 
Governor of Massachusetts in 1810 and 1811 ; and died 
at Boston, Nov. 3, 1825. After examining the Essex 
County wills and deeds, the writer feels sure that thi 
Lynn Gray family was not connected with the Salem Gray 
family. 

WILLIAM GRAY 3RD (William, Benjamin, Benjamin, 
Joseph, Robert of Salem), was the son of William and 
Sarah (Mattoon); he was born at Salem, July 5, 1750, and 
was a painter. 1 He was known as William Gray, 4th, until 
1786 (<?/. the record of his first marriage ; also William 
Gray, jr., above named), when he became William Gray,. 
3rd. After the death of his father, William Gray, in 
1805, he became William Gray, jr. He was of Ports- 
mouth, N. H., in 1800, 2 and of Salem again in 1807. 3 He 
married first, at Salem, Nov. 5, 1772, Susannah Shepard, 
who died April 25, 1796 ; and second, at Salem, Oct. 2, 
1796, widow Hannah (Ashby) Young, and lived in Ward 
1 in 1797. He died at Salem Nov. 16, 1819, aged sixty- 
nine years. 

WILLIAM GRAY, 4TH, married at Salem, Oct. 17, 1790, 
Hannah Bushnell, and lived in Ward 2 in 1797. The 
writer cannot find anything in the Essex County wills or 
deeds which shows the identity of this William Gray. 

WILLIAM GRAY, 5TH(William, William, Benjamin, Ben- 
jamin, Joseph, Robert of Salem), was the son of William, 
3rd, and Susannah (Shepard); he was born at Salem, July 
30, 1773, and changed his name by an act of Legislature, 

William Gray (Jeremiah, William of Lynn), was the son of Jere- 
miah and Theodate (Hood); he was born about 1745, and died in 
1781. He married at Lynn, Jan. 23, 1771, Alice Breed; was a cord- 
wainer, and lived in Boston and Salem. On April 10, 1781, William 
Gray of Salem, cordwainer, sells to brother, Winthrop Gray of Bos- 
ton, innholder, land bequeathed by father, Jeremiah Gray of Lynn. 
Essex County Deeas, 138: 198.) 

'Essex County Deeds, 148: 226. 
*Essex County Deeds, 167: 81. 
8 Essex County Deeds, 181: 15. 



THE WILLIAM GRAYS IN SALEM IN 1797 147 

in 1798, to William Shepard Gray. 1 He lived in Ward 2, 
Salem, in 1797, and married at Newburyport, Nov. 8, 
1798, Ann Knight Morland. Later in life he was cashier 
of the Essex Bank, Salem, and died at Cambridge, May 
27, 1824. 2 

! Laws and Resolves of Massachusetts, Feb. 5, 1796, chap. 37. 
"William G - ay, the fifth, of Salem, in the county of Essex, son of 
William Gray, the third, of said Salem, be empowered to take tho 
name of /William Shepard Gray." 

2 Captain William Gray, of Salem, died Nov. 18, 1785, aged forty- 
one years. (Salem Gazette, Nov. , 1785.) 

Lydia Gray, widow of Captain William Gray, died^Sept. , 1795. 
(Wheatland papers, Essex Institute.) 

William Gray married at Salem, June 19, 177.1, Lydia Croel. 

Robert Gray and Benjamin Gray, both of Salem, mariners, chil- 
dren of William Gray, late of Salem, mariner, sell land and dwell- 
ing house of said William Gray, our late father, &c., to Caleb Cook 
for $283.33, on April 19, 1805. This lot was on St. Peter St. (Essex 
County Deeds, 175: 250.) 

Captain William Gray, jr. of Salem, mariner, died intestate, and 
John Watson was appointed administrator of his estate on Jan. 15, 
1805. His mansion house and land on St. Peter St. were sold at 
public auction for $1,700. 



A FELCH-FELTCH PEDIGREE. 



BY FKANK HERVEY PBTTINGELL. 



1. HENRY FELCH, first of the name in this country, 
was born about 1590. He is supposed to have come from 
Wales with the party of the Rev. Richard Blynman, in 
1640, which landed first at Plymouth, where Mr. Blynman 
is mentioned in the records March 2, 1641 ; next at 
Marshfield (incorporated March 1, 1642), then called 
Green's Harbor. In less than a year the party removed 
to Gloucester, where, in 1642, Henry Felch was the 
owner of " six acres of hoed ground," of which there is 
no grant in the records, st> it may be inferred he was 
there before the incorporation of the town of Gloucester, 
which was settled between October, 1641, when the 
bounds of the town were approved by the General Court, 
and May, 1642, when it was established or incorporated 
as a plantation called Gloucester. The first marriage on 

the Gloucester records is that of ' a daughter of 

Henry Felch to Samuel Haieward, March 2, 1641" (N.S.). 
Savage indicates that her name was Isabel, but there are 
several reasons why this is not likely. 

Henry Felch was proprietor at Watertown in 1642 and 
perhaps of Reading in 1644. He resided during his later 
years at Boston, where he died in August, 1670 ; will 
dated July 4 and proved Sept. 27, 1670. Presumably 
before coming to America he married, first, Margaret, 
whose parentage is not yet determined. She died in Bos- 
ton, 23 : 4th mo., 1655, and he married, second, Eliza- 
beth, widow of Thomas Wiborne, who came in the ship 
' Castle " in 1638 from Tenterden, County Kent, Eng- 
land, and died in Boston, 2 : 7th mo., 1656 ; will probated 
28 Oct., 1656. Elizabeth Wiborne-Felch died at Boston, 
12 May, 1682. 

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BY FRANK. HERVEY PETTINGELL 149 

Children, by wife Margaret : 

2. HENBY, b. about 1610. 

3. (perhaps Isabel), m. 2 Mar., 1641, at Gloucester, Samuel 

Haieward. 

4. ANNA (or HANNAH), m. Samuel Dunton of Beading, who d. 

before or about 1695. She d. 11 July, 1689. 

5. MABY, m. John Wiburn (or Wiborne), son of Thomas and 

Elizabeth Wiborne. 1 

2. HENRY FELCH was born about 1610, in Pembroke- 
shire, Wales, England, and came to America accompanied 
by his parents. He was a proprietor at Gloucester, set- 
tled for a time in Watertown, then removed to Reading 
in 1647, where he immediately became a prominent citi- 
zen, being a selectman in 1647, 1648, 1651, and 1681 ; 
surveyor of highways, 1648. He probably resided for a 
time in Boston, where several of his children were born 
and died. He died in Reading, 11 Nov., 1699 ; estate 
inventoried 13 Dec., 1699, son John administrator. In 
the town records of Reading he is frequently designated 
as " Sergt. Henry Felch," indicating that he must have 
been a member of " the first military corps of Reading," 
formed probably at the time of the incorporation of the 
town in 1644, called " Reading Infantry Company." Its 
first captain was Richard Walker. 

Henry married, about 1648, Hannah Sargent, who was 
baptized 13 July, 1629, in Northampton, England, and 
died in Reading, 15 Dec., 1717. She was the daughter 
of Rev. William Sargent and his first wife Hannah. 

Children : 

6. HANNAH, b. 26 Feb., 1649; d. 23 Apr., 1668, at Reading. 

7. MABY, b. 31 July, 1653, at Reading; m. William Green of Wo- 

burn. 2 

8. ELIZABETH, b. 15 July, 1655; d. 8 Oct., 1657, 3 aged 2 yrs. 

9. SAMUEL, b. 3 June, 1657, at Boston; d. 22 Oct., 1661, aged 4 yrs. 

'Children of Thomas Wiborne by wife Elizabeth who married 
Henry Felch as her second husband : John, m. Mary Felch; Jona- 
than, d. 10 (10) 1653; Nathaniel, b. Mar. 12, 1655; Elizabeth, m. 3 
<2), 1655, John Merrick; James, d. Mar. 7, 1658. 

'Published Vital Records of Woburn gives a Mary, wife of Win. 
Green, d. 3 June, 1676. 

3 Boston Records give date of death 18: 8th mo., 1657. 



150 A FELCH-FELTCH PEDIGREE 

10. JOHN, b. 26 Feb., 1659, at Reading; d. at Boston, 9 Apr., 1746, 

aged 89 yrs. He m. 25 May, 1685-6, Elizabeth, dau. of Rob- 
ert and Elizabeth (Brock) Gowing, who d. at Weston, 10 
Apr., 1746, aged 86 yrs. They had 9 children. 

11. SAMUEL, b. 12 July, 1662; d. Reading, 14 Jan., 1683, aged 21 yrs. 

12. JOSEPH, d. 31 May, 1727; m. Mary , who d. 1729. 

13. ELIZABETH, b. 9 Mar., 1666, at Reading; m. at Reading, 30 

Dec., 1686, Thomas Cutler. 

14. DANIEL, b. 5 Jan., 1668. 

15. HANNAH, b. 18 Sept., 1672; m. at Reading, 16 Apr., 1700, Sam- 

uel Parker. 

16. RUTH, b. 1 June, 1675. 

14. DANIEL FELCH, born at Reading, 5 Jan., 1668 ; 
d. 5 Oct., 1752, in that part of Hampton Falls, N. H., 
which is now Seabrook, aged 84 years. His sons Joseph 
and Daniel, jr., were appointed to administrate his estate 
March 28, 1758. He perhaps resided for a time in the 
vicinity of Salem Village (now Danvers), as four of his 
children were baptized there between 1718 and 1728. 
Shortly prior to 1730 he settled in that part of Seabrook 
then included within the jurisdiction of Hampton Falls. 
His name appears among the taxpayers there in 1747, 
1748, 1749, and 1750. He was a practicing physician for 
many years in the vicinity of Hampton Falls and Sea- 
brook, N. H. 

He married, first, in Reading, 6 May, 1702, Deborah 
Dean (or Dane) of Charlestown, perhaps the daughter of 
Joseph and Elizabeth (Fuller) Dean. This Deborah 
Dean was born 29 Sept., 1678, and died 7 Jan., 1715. He 
married, second, Sarah Fuller, 1 daughter of Benjamin 
(Lieut. Thomas) Fuller and his wife Sarah Bacon. 

Dr. Daniel Felch married, third, at Salem, 12 Jan., 
1725, Hepsibah Curtis, daughter of Corp. John (Zaccheus) 
Curtis and his wife Mary Look. Mary Look was the 
daughter of Thomas and Sarah Look of Lynn. Hepsibah 
Curtis was born at Topsfield, 28 Nov., 1694 ; baptized at 
Boxford, 6 Jan. 1694-5, and died at the "old Felch home- 
stead, where her son Samuel resided." 

'The Genealogy of the Fuller Family in the New England Histori- 
cal and Genealogical Register, Vol. xiii, p. 360, states that Sarah 
Fuller married, first, Mr. Felch and had two children, Deborah and 
Daniel. 



BY FBANK HERVEY PETTINGELL 151 

Children by wife Deborah : 

17. DANIEL, b. 8 Mar., 1703; d. 13 Sept., 1713, at Beading. 

18. DKBOBAH? (If so, she mnst have died young, as he had 

another daughter Deborah, b. 18 Jan. , 1720. See below. 

Children by wife Sarah : 

19. DANIEL, of Hampton, N. H., b. 5 Apr., 1718; bapt. at Salem 

yillage 20 Apr., 1718. He was a soldier at the capture ot 
Louisburg, June 17, 1745, in Capt. Edward Williams' com- 
pany, and was one of Captain Moulton's scouts July 30 to 
Aug. 26, 1745; serviees ordered paid for in the House of 
Representatives, Oct. 2, 1745. He m. Jane Paige of Salis- 
bury, 14 Feb., 1749, at Hampton Falls, N. H., who d. 20 
June, 1787. 

20. DEBORAH, b. 13 Jan., 1720; bapt. at Salem Village, 24 Apr., 

1720; marriage intentions published May, 1744, to Abner 
Harris. Had : Abner, bapt. 24 Mar., 1744-5 ; Deborah, bapt. 
22 Feb., 1746; John, bapt. 22 Jan., 1748; all baptized in 
Ipswich. They removed to Ipswich, where she d. 22 June, 
1750. Intentions of marriage of Abner Harris to Mrs. Mary 
Sawyer were published at Ipswich, 20 Apr., 1751. He d. 
there 31 Jan., 1777. 

21. SABAH, bapt. at Salem Village, 21 Apr., 1728; d., unm., 13 

Jan., 1811, at the old homestead, aged 81 yrs. (It is not 
yet determined which wife was the mother of this child, nor 
the date of her birth.) 

Children, by wife Hepsibah : 

22. CUBTIS, b. about 1726; removed to Fitzwilliam, N. H. 

23. SAMUEL, b. perhaps at Hampton Falls, N. H. ; bapt. 23 Apr., 

1727, at Salem Village. 

24. JOSEPH, bapt. at Danvers, 24 Apr., 1728. There was a Joseph 

Felch bapt. and owned the covenant Dec. 13, 1747, Second 
(West or Rocky Hill) Church, Salisbury, evidently an adult. 1 
Joseph Felch m. about 1756, Mary (Benjamin, Benjamin, 
Thomas, John) Hoyt, who was born 6 Jan., 1738-9; bapt. 28 
Oct., 1750, at the First (East) Church, Salisbury, and d. 4 
Apr., 1804. Mary (Hoyt) Felch was admitted to full com- 
munion Jan. 4, 1756, in the First Church of Salisbury. 
Joseph and wife Mary renewed the covenant Oct. 9, 1758, 
at the First Church, Salisbury, and they had two children 

'Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, by D. W. Hoyt, p. 441. 



152 A FELCH-FELTCH PEDIGREE 

baptized in this church. Joseph Falch was parish collector 
of Hampton Falls, N. H., 1776; signed the Associatton Test 
as of Seabrook, N. H., with his brother Samuel and others, 
Apr. 12, 1776. He settled in Weare, N. H., in 1779, pur- 
chasing the Stephen Kowell farm, which has since remained 
in the family, 1 now owned and occupied by one of his great- 
grandsons, and d. 5 Feb., 1803, in Weare, N. H. 

25. HANNAH, b. 24 Oct., 1731. The published Salisbury Vital 

Records, page 463, gives intentions of marriage of Paul 
Pressey and Hannah Feltch of South Hampton, published 
30 Nov., 1750, at Salisbury. They were married at Kings- 
ton, N. H., Jan. 1, 1751. She d. 10 Aug., 1757, at Kingston, 
and he m. there, 26 Mar., 1758, Mary Hubbard. 

26. HENRY, b. 21 July, 1735, at Hampton Falls, N. H. ; d. 27 June, 

1807. Samuel Smith was appointed his guardian 28 Mar., 
1753. Henry Felch was a Quaker; was a soldier in the Rev- 
olutionary War, being drafted Sept. 20, 1776, and served in 
the State of New York. Had second wife, Deborah Palmer, 
whom he m. at Kensington, N. H., 19 Nov., 1795; she d. 2* 
Nov., 1814. 

23. SAMUEL FALCH (or FELCH), born perhaps at 
Hampton Falls, N. H., bapt. 23 Apr., 1727, at Salem 
Village (now Danvers) ; died in that part of Salisbury 
now Seabrook, N. H., 3 June, 1811. He lived in the 
south end of Seabrook, N. H., about one-half mile from 
the present Salisbury line (the southern part of Seabrook, 
N. H., was originally a part of Salisbury, Mass.), and 
died at the old Felch homestead, " which he divided into 
five equal parts and conveyed in severalty to his five sons 
by deeds dated 29 Nov., 1808." He was a fisherman and 
farmer. He signed the Association Test as a resident of 
Seabrook, N. H., with his brother Joseph and others, 
Apr. 12, 1776. He married at Seabrook, N. H., 1 Jan., 
1755, Jemina Selley (later spelled Cilley), who was born 
Apr. 5, 1737, at Salisbury, and died there 5 June, 1817. 
She was the daughter of Thomas (Benoni) Selley by his 
second wife Lydia (Edward, jr., John, Edward) French. 

Children : 

27. NICHOLAS, b. 12 June, 1755, at Hampton Falls, N. H.; bapt. 21 

Dec., 1755, at Salisbury; d. 13 Apr., 1841, aged 85 yrs. H 
m. about 1779, Sarah Gove, who d. 20 Oct., 1849. He waa 

'History of Hancock, N. H., by William W. Hay ward, p. 570. 



BY FRANK HERVEY PETTINGELL 153 

a Revolutionary soldier in the N. H. Continental line ; name 
appears on the N. H. pension rolls, 1840; res. at Seabrook. 

28. JENNE, b. at Hampton Falls, N. H., 23 June, bapt. at Salisbury 

3 July, 1757; d. 11 Mar., 1836, aged 78 yrs.; m. Jeremiah 
Brown, who d. 16 Feb., 1846. 

29. SAMUEL, b. at Seabrook, N. H., 18 Nov., bapt. at Salisbury, 

Mass., 25 Nov., 1759; 1 killed at Salisbury, by a cart passing 
over his body, 17 July, 1818, aged 59 yrs.; m. Sarah (Joseph, 
Joseph, Hugh, George, Hugh) March, Mar. 21, orDec.1,1788, 
at Salisbury, the widow of Nathaniel Harris. 

30. JAMINA, b. at Seabrook, N. H., 16 Apr., bapt. at Salisbury, 

Mass., 25 Apr., 1762 ; l d. 15 Nov., 1816, aged 54 yrs.; m. 
Belcher Dole, 23 June, 1791, at Salisbury. 8 

81. HEPSIBAH, b. 15 Oct., 1765; d. 10 Nov., 1840; int. of marriage 

published at Salisbury, 2 Feb., 1791, to Benjamin Joy, jr., 
who d. 81 Mar., 1830. 

82. PHINAS, b. 7 Mar., 1768; settled in Kensington, N. H., and d. 

at Danville, N. H., Apr., 1840, aged 88 yrs.; m. at Hampton 
Falls, N. H., 19 Mar., 1795, Sarah Ward, a descendant of 
Thomas Ward. She d. 1864. 

33. DANIEL, b. 13 Oct., 1771, at Seabrook, N. H.; d. 30 June, 1839, 
aged 67 yrs.; m. 18 Mar., 1793, Jenny Eaton, who d. 6 June, 
1840. 

84. JACOB, b. 3 Feb., 1777, at Seabrook, N. H. 

36. BETTY, b. 3 Dec., 1781, at Seabrook, N. H. She lived in Sea- 
brook, N. H., and d. there 13 Nov., 1856, aged 74 yrs.; m. in 
1800 Thomas Chase, who d. 8 Aug., 1883. 

34. JACOB FALCH was born at Seabrook, N. H., 3 
Feb., 1777 ; died in Newburyport, 28 Jan., 1856, aged 78 
years ; married at Salisbury, 5 Aug., 1802, Hannah Wharf 
Harris, who was born at Salisbury, 2 Feb., 1783 : died at 
Newburyport, 30 Jan., 1880, and was the daughter of 
Nathaniel (Giles, John, John, Thomas, Thomas) Harris 
and his wife Sarah (Joseph, jr., Joseph, Sergt. Hugh, Cor- 
net George, Hugh) March. Sarah (March) Harris mar- 
ried, second, Samuel Falch, jr., 21 Dec., 1788 (brother of 
Jacob), thereby becoming a sister-in-law to her own 
daughter. Jacob Falch settled early at Kensington, 
N. H., where he was a resident taxpayer 1808-1819. A 
family tradition persists that he was an officer of militia 

Salisbury Records. 

2 Hoyt's Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury. 



154 A FELCH-FELTCH PEDIGREE 

during the War of 1812, stationed at Portsmouth, N. H., 
but this has never been proved. 

Children, by his wife Hannah : 

36. SARAH (called Sally), b. about 1803, probably at Hampton 

Falls, N. H.; d. 17 Nov., 1892, at Newburyport, aged 89yrs.; 
m. at Ipswich, 27 Oct., 1822, Moses Floyd. Had: Caroline 
b. Newbnry, 16 Apr., 1827; m. Thomas Lambert Nelson, 
brother of John B. Nelson mentioned below. 

37. JACOB, b. at Seabrook, N. H. 

88. JOSEPH HARRIS, b. 25 Apr., 1804, perhaps Kensington, N. H. 

39. CHARLOTTE, b. 1807, probably at Newburyport; d. num., 17 

Oct., 1892, at Newburyport, aged 85 yrs. 

40. GORHAM, b. 1809, at Kensington, N. H. ; d. unm. at Newbury- 

port, 17 Apr., 1881, aged 72 yrs. 

41. MARY M., d. 29 Aug., 1887; int. at Newbury, 18 Apr., 1840, to 

William L. Shuff. Had: Ellen Augusta, b. at Newbury, 6 
Oct., 1840; m. George Dallas Janvrin, son of Capt. George 
Janvrin. She d. 16 May, 1869. 

42. CLARA M. (called Clarissa), b. at Kensington, N. H., about 

1818; d. 14 Mar., 1901, aged 82 yrs.; m. at Newbury, 18 July, 
1849 (int. Newburyport, 12 May, 1849), John B. Nelson, 
aged 30 yrs., son of Samuel and Sarah Nelson of Newbury- 
port. Had: William T. Nelson, now dead. 

43. WILLIAM ALFONZO, b. at Kensington, N. H., 1819; d. 8 Mar., 

1880, at Newburyport, aged 61 yrs.; m. at Newbury, 19 
Dec., 1844 (int. 30 Nov., 1844, at Newburyport), Lucy M. 
Page of Newburyport. He m., second, Abby Goodwin, and 
had : Bernice. 

44. EMELINE MOHRILL, b. at Kensington, N. H., 24 Dec., 1819 (ac- 

cording to her own statement); d. 30 Nov., 1909, in Lexing- 
ton, at the home of her son. She m. at Newbury, 10 Dec., 
1843, Hiram Janvrin, who was b. 16 July, 1820, at Newbury, 
and d. 12 Jan., 1892, at Newburyport. Had: Hiram Gilmore, 
b. 5 June, 1845, at Newburyport. 

45. LUCY GOFF, b. Nov., 1823 (city clerk of Boston gives Ipswich 

as place of her birth) i d. 23 Oct., 1883, at Charlestown, 
aged 60 yrs., lacking one month. She m. Benjamin W. 
Coffin, who d. at Charlestown, 9 Mar., 1886, aged 62 yrs. 

38. JOSEPH HARRIS FELCH (or Feltch), born proba- 
bly in Kensington, N. H., 25 Apr., 1804 ; died at New- 
buryport, 25 Sept., 1882 (buried in Oldtown graveyard, 
Newbury) ; married, first, 16 Apr., 1834, Mary Haskell, 



BY FRANK HERVEY PETTINGELL 155 

daughter of John (Caleb, Daniel, Joseph, William) Has- 
kell and his wife Margaret (Thomas) Clouston of New- 
buryport. Mary Haskell was born 5 July, 1804, at New- 
buryport, and died there 9 Apr., 1861. He married, sec- 
ond, at Charlestown, 30 Jan., 1866, Leah (Osgood) Fol- 
som, widow and second wife of Levi G. Folsom and 
daughter of Capt. John S. (Samuel, Reuben, Joseph, 
William, John, William) Osgood and his wife Leah Pres- 
cott of Oilman ton, N. H. She was born 23 Sept., 1816, 
at Gilford, N. H., and died at Charlestown, Mass., 29 
Aug., 1887, aged 70 years. He was a farmer of Newbury 
and Newburyport. 
Children : 

46. JOSEPH HASKELL, b. at Newbury, 20 May, 1837; d. 19 Jan., 

1870, in Cummington, aged 32 yrs.; buried in Oldtown 
graveyard, Newbury, beside his parents. He graduated 
from Williams College, class of 1863; graduated Union 
Theological Seminary, New York City, 1866; also gradu- 
ated from Princeton in 1866; ordained (Congregationalist) 
June 29, 1867; pastor of the Village Congregational Church, 
Cummington, Mass., 1867 until his death in 1870. 

47. MABY ANNA, b. 10 Sept., 1843, at Newbury. 

47. MARY ANNA FELTCH, born at Newbury, 10 Sept., 
1843 ; died at Newburyport, 6 Aug., 1894 ; married at 
Newburyport, 6 Sept., 1863, Nathaniel Henry Pettingell, 
who was born in Newbur}', 11 Sept., 1835, and died in 
South Newmarket, N. H., 12 Nov., 1874. He was the son 
of Cutting (Josiah, Cutting, Nathaniel, Matthew, Rich- 
ard) Pettingell and his wife Olive (John) Smith of New- 
buryport. Both are buried in Oak Hill Cemetery, New- 
buryport. 

Children, born in Newburyport: 

48. AGNES LEAH, 1>. 17 May, 1866; d. at Newburyport, 27 July, 1880. 

49. FRANK HEKVEY, b. 2 Jan., 1868. 

50. WALTER FELTCH, b. and d. 10 Mar., 1869, at Newburyport. 

51. WILLIE FELTCH, b. and d. 25 Sept., 1869, at Newburyport. 

52. WALTER JOSEPH, b. 2 Jan., 1871; d. 29 Sept., 1911, at New- 

buryport. 

53. CUTTING, b. 24 Dec., 1872. 



The compiler, Frank Hervey Pettingell, of Los Angeles, 
Cal., is indebted to W. Ferrand Felch, Columbus, Ohio 
the original genealogist of the Felch family for much 
information contained in this article, especially relating to 
the first and second generations. 



DOCUMENTS RELATING TO MARBLEHEAD, 
MASS. 



( Continued from Volume L VI, page 0. 



In the House of Representatives, November 12,1706. 

Whereas, July the 13th, 1706, this House upon the 
Examination of the Province Treasurers Accompts, found 
severall sums of money drawn out of the Treasury, which 
were not allowed by this House, and therefore grievous 
to them thereupon manifested their Desire, that no more 
of the like nature, should be drawn by the order of his 
Excellency & Council, without the Consent of said House, 
amongst which grievances was the maintaining ten men at 
Salem Fort which this House thought proper for said 
Town to support, if they Judged it needfull, and others 
at Marblehead. 

This House having now made Inquiry of the Treasurer 
of what may be our charge, that is needfull, to Print, & 
emit Bills for Payment of, the charge of those two places 
are Inserted, which this House have not yet allowed. 

Resolved That said sums Demanded for the support of 
souldiers, Posted at Salem & Marblehead, untill this 
House have had the charge thereof laid before them, & 
have Consented unto the Muster Rolls, that may be 
Brought in, be not allowed by His Excellency and Coun- 
cill at Province Charge. 

Thomas Oakes Speaker 

Nov. 12, 1706. Brought in and Read in Council 

Mass. Archives, vol. 71, p. 71. 

To his Excellency Joseph ^Dudley Esq. Captain Gener- 
all & Governor in Chief in and over her Majesties Prov- 
ince of the Massachusetts Bay in New England, in Coun- 
cill and to the Honorable ho us of Representatives in 
General Court Conveined. 

(156) 



DOCUMENTS BELATING TO MABBLEBEAD, MASS. 157 

The Petition of Capt. John Galley of Marblehead, At- 
torney to Nicholas Andrews. 

Humbly sheweth 

That whereas Nicholas Andrews of Marblehead com- 
menced an action of trespas upon the case against Phillip 
English at Ipswich in the County of Essex the first Tues- 
day of March last for divers goods and merchandizes and 
recovered judgment for said merchandizes &c. as per the 
Judgement appears. That the said Phillip English ap- 
pealed from the Inferior Courts Judgment to the Superior 
Court of Judicature to be holden at Ipswich aforesaid the 
2d Tuesday in May and pending the appeale the partyes 
submitted the Controversy to the Arbitrament & award 
of Capt. Andrew Belcher Esq. & Mr. Samuell Lillie, & 
gave them time til the tenth of last June to make and 
deliver the same. 

That the partyes concerned mett the Arbitrators in or- 
der to determine the difference about the 9th of last June 
when the partyes were heard & the Arbitrators desireing 
further time til the last of June the partyes by Consent 
enlarged the time in their Bonds of Arbitration but thro 
the defect or designe of the said Phillip English who never 
afterwards would meet, or his Arbitrator Mr. Lillie for 
him, the whole matter dropt to the ground, and the said 
Phillip English knowing the superior Court to be over 
& that the said Nicholas Andrews could not have the 
benefitt of the Infer iour Courts Judgment nor any Com- 
plaint to assume the Judgment in the Superiour Court for 
want of the Appellants prosecuting the said Appeal, takes 
advantage thereof utterly refuseing to satisfy the said 
Judgment supposing the said Andrews to be now without 
remedy Your Petitioner as Attorney & in behalfe of the 
said Andrews prays that he may have the benefitt of the 
said Judgement that Execucon may be forthwith awarded 
thereon, or that your Petitioner may be otherwise releived 
in the premisses as to this Honorable Court shall seem 
meet & just. 

And your Petitioner 
John Galley aturney to Nickolos Andrews 

In the House of Representatives 
Aug. 14, 1706. Read & Committed 



158 DOCUMENTS RELATING TO MAKBLEHEAD, MASS. 

15 Aug. Read & In answer to the within Petition 
Ordered that Mr. Philip English be notified with a copy 
of the same to give reason if any he have before this 
Court, next Saturday the 17th instant why said Cawley 
shall not have the benefit of the Judgement of Court 
Granted against him the said English at Ipswich the 26th 
March 1706 by Taking out Execution thereon to the Sat- 
isfaction thereof, said English not having prosecuted his 
Appeal from said Judgement of said Court to the Supe- 
rior Court, in the month of May last which he appealed 
unto. 

Sent up for Concurrence 

Thomas Oakes Speaker. 

20 August In Council Read and disagreed and Or- 
dered That the Petitioner be Enabled to Enter his Com- 
plaint in the next Superior Court of Judicature to be 
holden within the County of Essex for affirming the 
Judgment of the Inferior Court as the Law directs, And 
the Justices of the Superior Court are Impowered to re- 
ceive the same and to do therein what to Justice apper- 
taines ; notwithstanding the Court appealed to be past. 
And that the adverse party be served with a Copy of this 
Order fourteen days before the sitting of the said Supe- 
riour Court. 

Sent down for concurrance. 

Isaac Addington Secretary. 

20 August 1706. Read 1st & 2d time, & passed. 

In the house of Representatives Passed Concurrance. 

Thomas Oakes Speaker. 
Mass. Archives, vol. $0, p. 869. 

To his Excellency Joseph Dudley Esquire Captain gen- 
eral, Governour in chief e in and over her Majesties Prov- 
ince of the Massachusetts Bay the honoble the Councill 
and Representatives in generall Court assembled. 

The humble Peticon of Phillip English of Salem in 
the County of Essex Merchant Sheweth 

That one Nicholas Andrews of Marblehead Marriner at 
an Inferiour Court of Comon pleas held at Ipswich for 
the County of Essex in the Month of March 1706 recov- 



DOCUMENTS RELATING TO MABBLKHBAD, MASS. 159 

ered Judgement in an Accon of Trover against your Pe- 
titioner for sundry goods money and Merchandize sued for 
from which Judgment your Peticoner appealed and En- 
tred into recognizants to prosecute his Appeal with effect 
and pursuant thereto filed his reasons of Appeal in due 
time the Court appealed to as by the papers annexed will 
appeare. 

That before the sitting of the superiour Court appealed 
to Captain Cawley Attorney to said Andrews agreed to 
submitt the matters in difference to the Arbitracon of 
Messiers Belcher and Lillie and persuant thereto said 
Cawley and your Petitioner entered into an Agreement 
under their hands and filed the same with the Clerke of 
the said Inferiour Court signifieing thereby that they had 
agreed to ref err said Cause to Arbitracon and that noe 
advantage should be taken by the Judgement or the 
recognizance for the Appeal as aforesaid, as by a true 
coppy hereto annexed of the said agreement may alsoe 
appeare. 

That pending the Arbitracon the Superior Court ap- 
pealed to elapsed, after which noe Award being made the 
said Captain Cawley as Attorney to said Andrews pre- 
ferred a Peticon to this honoble Court suggesting [that ?] 
as if your Peticoner thro designe had purposely been the 
occasion there was noe Award made and therefore prayed 
to have the benefitt of said Judgement and Execucon 
forthwith thereupon or to be otherwise releived etc. And 
thereupon obtained an Order in August 1706 to Enable 
him to enter his Complaint in the next Superiour Court 
to be held for the County of Essex (without any notice 
to your Peticoner to defend himself) and persuant there- 
to at the next superiour Court held at Salem in November 
last filed his Complaint which Court continued the same 
upon advisement untill May last when Judgement was 
entered up against your Peticoner thereupon, without any 
further Tryall. 

Now forasmuch may it please your Excellency and 
Honours that by 1 such Judgement your Peticoner is utter- 
ly defeated of the benefitt of his said Appeal and thereby 



160 DOCUMENTS RELATING TO MARBLEHEAD, MASS. 

extremely wronged contrary to the intent of the Law 
haveing performed everything to be by him performed 
and your petitioner is no wise to Fault or Blame that there 
was no award made or that the matter did not proceed to 
Tryall at the Superiour Court on the appeal B[#?] the 
said Captain Galley in Truth the occasion if not the Con- 
triver of it as the arbitrators in part Certify and shall 
otherwise be more fully proved by your petitioner 

Wherefore your Petitioner most humbly Supplicates 
this Great and Genera II Assembly to give him some Releif 
in the premises And that ... At the least your wronged 
Petitioner may be Enabled at the Next Superiour Court 
of Judicature Holden in the County of Essex to have his 
original Appeal Brought forward and the Cause as to the 
meritts Tryed again By the Court and Jury and that In 
the Mean time Execution may be stayed on the Judge- 
ment which the said Andrews^has so wrongfully obtained 
against your Petitioner. 

And Your Petitioner as in Duty Bound 
Shall Ever pray 

Philip English 

In Council 5 June 1707. 

Read and Ordered That the Petitioner cause the Ad- 
verse party to be served with a Copy of this Peticon and 
that he have Liberty to be heard at the next Session of 
this Court ; And that Execution be stayd in the mean 
time. 

Isaac Addington Secretary. 

Sent down for concurrance. 

In the House of Representatives 

June 6, 1707. Read and Passed a Concurrence the day 
of the hearing to be the first friday 

John Burrill Speaker. 

Mass. Archives, vol. 40, pp. 893-4- 
(To be continued') 




UPHAM AMONG HIS BOOKS 



HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS 

OF THE 

ESSEX INSTITUTE 

VOL. LVI JULY, 1920 No. 3 

WILLIAM PHINEAS UPHAM. 



A MEMOIR BY ROBERT S. RANTOUL. 



AMONGST the little group of worthies to whose efforts, 
in the main, the Essex Institute owes its present standing, 
the name of William Phineas Upham holds a foremost 
place. He will be remembered as a conspicuous servant, 
as well, both of the County and of the State, and it is fit 
that our Historical Collections should record his interest- 
ing career. 1 

Mr. Upham took his degree at Cambridge in the summer 
of 1856, and came to reside at Salem, where he had been 
born, January 19, 1836. The year 1856 marked an epoch 
in the life of the Institute. Founded eight years before, 
it had struggled on, sustained mainly by the enthusiasm 
and diligence of Doctor Wheatland and the contributions 
of a few of his well-to-do friends, until the Plummer 
bequest came to hand and at last provided permanent 
quarters in the new Athenaeum Building. The writer 
recalls the urgency which Upham, who was already en- 
listed, employed in efforts to secure his help. The Asiatic 
Block was just finished, and David Roberts, afterwards 
Mayor, had an office on its third floor, where Upham, in 
1856, began the study of the law. Messrs. Phillips and 

'The Massachusetts Historical Society printed, in January, 1910, a 
memoir of him which preserves most of the needful data for such 
a record, and this material that Society has courteously placed at 
our service. 

(161) 



162 WILLIAM PHINEAS UPHAM 

Gillis occupied another office on that floor, in which the 
writer, on his admission to the bar in 1856, enjoyed the 
privilege of a desk. 

A turn for antiquarian research was in the blood. His 
father, Charles Wentworth Upham, a Harvard graduate 
of 1821, was for twenty years pastor of the historic First 
Church of Salem. Among many civic honors which he 
enjoyed were a seat in the Massachusetts Constitutional 
Convention of 1853, the presidency of our State Senate, 
and a seat in Congress. He had been mayor of Salem. 
But his bent was for literature and study. He had been 
the president of Harvard Chapter Alpha of the Phi Beta 
Kappa Society, and of the older organization, the Insti- 
tute of 1770, and later a copious contributor to various 
literary and historical publications. He was a lecturer 
before the Lowell Institute, and also in behalf of the 
Board of Education in an effort to commend to public 
favor the Common-School System. He became an early, 
constant, and valued promoter of the work of the Essex 
Institute when that body in its formative years craved 
every one's support. He was allied, as his middle name 
suggests, with the distinguished family of Wentworth, 
and was born at St. John, New Brunswick, of a stock 
since colonial times identified with Massachusetts. His 
father, Joshua Upham, a native of Brookfield, was a Har- 
vard graduate of 1763, an attorney-at-law in Boston and 
New York, and later a Justice of the Supreme Court of 
New Brunswick, from the organization of that Province. 
Six generations of New England deacons and Indian- 
fighters ranged themselves behind him. His chief works 
were his account, in two volumes, of the witchcraft delu- 
sion at Salem, and the three concluding volumes with 
which he supplemented Octavius Pickering's opening 
chapters of the life of Timothy Pickering. 

The mother of the subject of this memoir was a daugh- 
ter of Doctor Abiel Holmes, for forty years the vener- 
ated pastor of the First Church at Cambridge, a pioneer 
in American historical writing. He was a graduate of 
Yale and an honorary Artium Magister and overseer of 
Harvard. His father had been a provincial captain in 
the French and Indian War. John Holmes, the great- 



A MEMOIR BY ROBERT S. RANTOTTL 163 

grandfather of Doctor Abiel Holmes, had removed from 
Roxbury to become one of the earliest settlers of Wood- 
stock, in Connecticut, and there Doctor Abiel Holmes, 
the annalist, was born. He had married, first, a daughter 
of Ezra Stiles, an earlier and no less distinguished New- 
England chronicler, diarist, historian, and scholar, " ac- 
counted, both at home and abroad, as the most learned 
and accomplished divine of the day in this country," and 
the long-time president of Yale. The second wife of 
Doctor Abiel Holmes was Sarah, a daughter of Judge 
Oliver Wendell, a pre-revolutionary Boston merchant, 
colonel, executive councillor, and judge of probate, and 
she was the mother of his children. Anne Bradstreet, 
called in Mather's Magnalia "The Tenth Muse," the 
daughter of one colonial governor and the wife of 
another, was counted among the ancestry of Doctor 
Abiel Holmes, as well as of Judge Oliver Wendell, con- 
tributing of her gifts and graces to the common stock. 
Her descendant, Mrs. Upham, was no stranger to the 
graces of the pen. In 1861 she dedicated to the Salem 
Drill Club, in which one of her sons was leaving home 
for the front, a spirited ode, written to "Scots wha hae 
wi' Wallace bled !" the refrain of which was "Forward ! 
Every Man !" 

So that young Upham came, on either side, of the best 
New England blood. His middle name, Phineas, which 
means "first-born," Mr. Upham derived from a Lieutenant 
Phineas Upham, the first Upham born in New England, 
who perished in 1675, in the Swamp Fight with the Nar- 
ragansetts. The name recurs through all the generations. 

When Mr. Upham was growing up, the family were 
living on the site of the home from which, in 1692, Brid- 
get Bishop had been dragged forth to suffer death by 
process of law for her alleged complicity with the powers 
of evil. Just across the way was the site of the residence 
of that pastor of the First Church who had denounced 
and excommunicated the accused, and opened with prayer 
the witchcraft trials. Mr. Upham's father, then in the 
same pulpit, was deeply immersed in examining the oc- 
cult phenomena of witchcraft, and had already delivered, 
before the Salem Lyceum, a course of lectures on the 



164 WILLIAM PHINEAS UPHAM 

engaging theme, afterwards developed, through two edi- 
tions, into his standard historical treatment of the terrible 
delusion. The young son's active fancy was not slow to 
enlist him in the local researches incident to his father's 
work. Probably no other scholar ever made' himself so 
thoroughly familiar with the situs of the witchcraft frenzy, 
and the documents relating to it. When the final edition 
of 1867 reached the press, the critical examination of 
court records and of real estate titles contributed by the 
son, and represented throughout the book by plans and 
maps and topographical statements, had become so salient 
a feature of the work as to make it felt by his friends 
that, but for the ties of blood, the generous acknowledg- 
ment by the author would have been still more emphatic. 
An amusing incident, perhaps not wholly out of place 
even in a paper of this nature, shows the extent to which 
young Upham had, early in life, become imbued with the 
atmosphere of the paternal roof. I was sitting by the 
mother, at a Salem Infantry dance in Hamilton Hall, dur- 
ing my law-school days, and I called her attention to the 
evident enjoyment which her son was deriving from the 
scene. "My dear sir," Mrs. Upham replied, "no one can 
imagine the relief I feel to see William show any interest 
in a woman who has been born since 1640 !" Mr. John 
Noble confirms this view, in writing of Mr. Upham just 
after his death. "I knew little," he says, "of his personal 
life. He never spoke of it, and though we were together 
all those twenty years, it was only his work on the 
Records that we talked about, the doings of two centu- 
ries ago." 

With such antecedents and with such hereditary lean- 
ings, young Upham was fitted for Cambridge in the ex- 
cellent Salem schools of his day, passed through Har- 
vard with credit, and took his bachelor's degree, in due 
course, in 1856, with a class which counted in its mem- 
bership such conspicuous citizens as Charles Francis 
Adams, Stephen Salisbury, George Dexter Robinson, and 
Jeremiah Smith. While in college Mr. Upham had taught 
a district school a common practice of the time in 
Canton for a winter or two. He read law in the Salem 
offices of David Roberts, a writer on admiralty law, after- 



A MEMOIR BY ROBERT S. RANTOUL 165 

wards mayor of Salem, and of William Gardner Choate, 
later a judge of the Federal District Court in New York 
City. Mr. Uphara was admitted to the Bar in 1859, and 
opened offices successively in Danvers and in Salem, de- 
voting himself mainly to practice in the Probate Court. 
From this time on he was gaining a minute acquaintance 
with the ancient probate records of Essex County, thus 
unwittingly fitting himself, before undertaking his labors 
in the service of the Commonwealth, for the stupendous 
task of classifying and indexing the vast and ever-growing 
accumulations which congest our files. 

If Mr. Upham was at all times without a stock of re- 
served strength upon which to draw, he made up for the 
lack of it by his nervous energy, his cheerful temper and 
his high spirits. I had an interview with his distin- 
guished uncle, not long before his death. Doctor Holmes 
told me that he had but recently tested the nephew's 
physical condition that it was hopeless, and that he could 
not give him six months to live. But the nephew was 
found in his place with the group that gathered at the 
uncle's grave and outlived him by a dozen years. Says 
Mr. Noble, who watched with a discerning eye Mr. Up- 
ham's waning strength, "Nothing but his inflexible deter- 
mination and his indomitable courage carried him through, 
sustained by the unremitting devotion of his wife. . . . 
Courage and pluck were marked characteristics from boy- 
hood. His companions, from the early days, recall him as 
a leader and champion among them. His slight frame 
never excluded him from the ranks of the foremost." 

The extinguishment of fires was not, before the Civil 
War, the purely mechanical process it has now become, 
but rather partook of the nature of a neighborly, social 
function, as had been still more the case in the century 
before 1750, when the whole town, women and all, took 
a hand at a fire. Afterwards select fire clubs knitted to- 
gether the best citizenship of the place, and pledged the 
best efforts of every club-man in behalf of his threatened 
neighbor. Fire clubs originated with Franklin in Phila- 
delphia in 1737. The Essex Institute has printed a mon- 
ograph 1 on the early Fire Clubs of Salem, sixteen of 

a Hist. Coll. Essex Institute, xxxix, 22, 23. 



166 WILLIAM PHINBAS TJPHAM 

them between 1783 and 1832. In it occurs this signifi- 
cant reference to Mr. Upham. In the disastrous Frank- 
lin Building fire of October 21, 1860, the property of Mr. 
James Emerton, a member of the Naumkeag Fire Club, 
"was greatly imperilled . . . Mr. Emerton's store was 
occupied by some of the members of the club until the 
fire was under control." The secretary of the club (in 
his official record) remarks : "Extraordinary efforts in 
the duties belonging to the practiced fireman were made 
by some of our members. On this occasion the efforts 
were well timed, judicious and effective. One instance of 
the cool bravery and energy of a young member, one who 
finds his Alma Mater in Old Harvard, may be particular- 
ized. He was on the roof . . . spreading sails and throw- 
ing buckets of water on them, and performing this duty 
with the same composure with which one would water a 
flower-garden." This young member was William P. 
Upham. The secretary, in another allusion to the inci- 
dent, says, Mr. Upham and I "held the sails down on the 
roof for hours. It was plain that he was a much bolder 
fireman than I. It was a cold, drizzling rain storm at the 
time." This incident in the life of a young man, in the 
frailest health, a stranger to rough work, is certainly 
noteworthy, and chimes in well with the grit he showed 
in later life when he would come toiling up my office stairs 
and meet my greeting with, "Don't you think I am doing 
pretty well to keep myself above ground all these years ?" 
Being advised that practical farming held out some 
hopes for the invigoration of his health, he secured a 
modest acreage in West Peabody, where he could live 
within easy reach of the Registry of Deeds and the Pro- 
bate Offices at Salem, and at the same time might, Antaeus- 
like, keep in touch with Mother Earth, might watch his 
growing crops and scent the new-mown hay, the breath 
of kine, and the odors of the fresh-turned sod. Later it 
was felt that a drier, inland air might be more helpful 
still. It was then that he removed his residence to New- 
tonville, forming new business relations under Mr. John 
Noble, the Clerk of the Courts, a scholar of life-long 
antiquarian tastes, and of approved judgment in histori- 
cal research, at that time much engaged, under the 



A MEMOIR BY EGBERT 8. RANTOUL 167 

inspiring auspices of the late Chief Justice Gray, himself 
an antiquary of no mean pretensions (as witness the 
learned note appended to volume ix. of Gray's Supreme 
Court Reports), in bringing to light and properly arrang- 
ing, transcribing, mounting and indexing the hidden 
treasures of the court-house vaults. 

Mr. Upham's contributions to the volumes of the Essex 
Institute, dating from 1863, speak for themselves. A 
mere catalogue of them is all that space will warrant, but 
the student of our local antiquities .will ask no more. 
Besides these printed contributions, he devoted all his 
leisure to an endless variety of official work. It was said 
of his uncle, Doctor Holmes, that through most of his life 
he followed four laborious professions, either of which 
would have been burden enough for the common man. 
He was at once a voluminous writer, a ubiquitous lyceum 
lecturer, a busy family physician, and a working professor 
at the Medical School. Upham was doing, outside of his 
profession, during the first half of his mature years, an 
amount of exacting work which showed once more, if the 
demonstration were needed after Carlyle and Whittier, 
what a heavy load a feeble man can bear. It seemed that 
whatever no one else was at hand to do,fell to him. Dur- 
ing most of these early years the Institute was living 
from hand to mouth, wholly without funds, and resorting 
to personal solicitation to meet specific and imperative 
demands. In May, 1863, Mr. Upham became a member 
of the publication committee and also the curator of man- 
uscripts, holding the latter position until his death ; and 
for nineteen years he served as librarian. 

Mr. Upham's first printed contribution was a memoir of 
General John Glover of Marblehead, prompted by the 
interest which his descendant, Benjamin Tyler Reed, a 
classmate of the elder Upham, felt in his distinguished 
ancestor, and this interest led to the erection of the statue 
of Glover which stands near the entrance of Common- 
wealth Avenue, in Boston. He early enlisted in the en 
terprise of publishing, in the Institute Bulletin, a critical 
account of the first houses built in Salem, a series of 
four most valuable papers, widely quoted and later repro- 
duced. When Mr. Upham completed his transcription of 



168 WILLIAM PHINEA8 TJPHAM 

the Town Records of Salem, covering the years from 1634 
to 1659, the first ever attempted, it was at once put in 
print, as a part of volume ix. of the Institute's Historical 
Collections, and has been ever since in such demand that 
the book may generally be recognized on the shelf 
from its being either newly bound or without whole 
covers. His numerous communications indicate the trend 
of his thought and show what an indefatigable worker he 
was. Among them may be mentioned an account of the 
dedication of the Rebecca Nourse Monument, the erection 
of which was due to him j 1 the Beverly First Church 
Records, carefully copied by him, which appeared in six 
successive volumes of the Institute Collections ; Craft's 
Journal of the Siege of Louisburg, with notes ; Deposi- 
tions relating to Philip English and the Witchcraft Delu- 
sion ; a History of Stenography ; an Account of the 
Dwelling Houses of Francis Higginson, Samuel Skelton, 
Roger Williams, and Hugh Peter ; a Letter of Samuel 
Sewall, with a biographical sketch ; Extracts from Letters 2 
written at the time of the occupation of Boston by the 
British ; Papers relating to the Reverend Samuel Skel- 
ton ; Papers relating to a. Suit, in 1664, between John 
Pickering and the owners of the "New Mill," now the 
"City Mills," in Salem ; the Pedigree of the "Browne 
Family" ; Records of the First Church at Salisbury, 1687- 
1805 ; Notes on the Report as to the authenticity of the 
First Meeting House in Salem. 

The estimate in which Mr. Upham was held by the 
Essex Institute is attested by the Memorial of its Board 
of Directors, recording "their appreciation of that de- 
voted interest which he constantly displayed toward the 
Institute," and referring to his long and valuable aid 
freely given as Librarian to "Doctor Wheatland, in fos- 
tering the growth of a collection which has now become 
one of the largest and most important in the country," 
and to "his frequent contributions to the Historical Col- 

^e had married, December 1, 1880, Cynthia Bailey Nourse, a 
lineal descendant of Rebecca Noursej the witchcraft victim com- 
memorated by Whittier. 

The monument stands on the Nourse homestead estate in Dan - 
vers. 

2 Largely Wendell family letters. 



A MEMOIK BY EGBERT S. BANTOTJL 169 

lections of the Institute," which "aided materially in 
placing them among the more important publications of 
the Learned Societies of the United States," and to "his 
punctilious exactness, his courtesy, and his cheerful 
readiness to be of service at all times to the Society and 
to his associates." A report of his doings as Curator of 
Manuscripts for forty-one years, which proved to be his 
last report, is printed in the proceedings of the Annual 
Meeting of the Institute in May, 1905. 

Mr. Upham was a member of the Massachusetts His- 
torical Society, of the Essex Institute, and of the Ameri- 
can Library Association, a corresponding member of the 
Rhode Island Historical Society, and a life member of 
the American Historical Association. He never cared to 
extend his membership to other societies, though invited, 
saying that he could not attend to more. He was an 
honorary member of the Phi Beta Kappa, Chapter Alpha, 
of Harvard University. 

He was elected a Resident Member of the Massachu- 
setts Historical Society, November 11, 1875, and was a 
most interested and valued member to the end of his 
life. His contributions were numerous and important, 
sometimes of manuscripts and documents, sometimes of 
brief notes and references, sometimes of elaborate and 
exhaustive papers. To recount some of the titles will 
show their extent and variety ; among them were helio- 
type copies of papers relating to Major Robert Pike ; 
Winthrop's chart of 1630, and his map of eastern Massa- 
chusetts ; shorthand in Lawrence Hammond's Journal ; 
Governor Leverett's instructions to Captain Daniel Hench- 
man ; shorthand in one of Jonathan Danforth's plans ; 
the Suffolk Court Files ; manuscripts in custody of the 
Boston Athenaeum ; the Canada expedition of 1747 ; book 
of copies of Edward Taylor; shorthand of Jonathan 
Edwards ; works in the Library on shorthand ; Memoir 
of John Glen King, and Memoir of Henry Wheatland. 

Before approaching what may well be accounted as Mr. 
Upham's life-work, and which fortunately Mr. Noble, be- 
fore his illness, was able for the most part to describe in 
words so well chosen that it only remains for me to make 
them mine, let me dwell in some detail on Mr. Upham's 



170 WILLIAM PHINEAS UPHAM 

labors in the records of Essex County, and on his life- 
long and very deep interest in the study and practice of 
shorthand writing. Mr. Upham's interest in stenography 
and its cognate branches was hereditary. He printed his 
first paper on the subject in the Essex Institute Histori- 
cal Collections for 1877, dealing briefly with the history 
of the art, and outlining a new method of phonetic short- 
hand devised by himself. Another paper followed in the 
Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society for 
1892, on shorthand in Hammond's Journal ; a third, in 
1894, on the shorthand of Jonathan Edwards. The series 
closed with the last communication he laid before that 
Society, in which, in November, 1902, he reviewed all the 
works on the subject to be found on its shelves. 

It appears that his great-grandmother Holmes used 
some system of shorthand, that she sat under the preach- 
ing of Doctor D wight, and that she reported his sermons, 
the first woman-stenographer on record in New England. 
It appears that Governor Endecott used a shorthand 
method of his own in his court records, and elsewhere, 
and that Governor Bradstreet reported the witchcraft 
trials in shorthand. The Salem town clerk, Ralph Fogg, 
and the parson of Salem Village, the Reverend Samuel 
Parris, both used shorthand. It was a rather common 
accomplishment with people of quality in those days, but 
each writer seems to have indulged himself in a system of 
his own. 

The Boston Organ of Stenography spoke thus of Up- 
ham's work in its sketch of him : "In his death the 
shorthand profession, and particularly those who are in- 
terested in the history and literature of shorthand, have 
suffered an irreparable loss." And the Federal Bureau 
of Education, in its report of 1884, names, in its catalogue 
of recognized systems of shorthand, the work of Upham. 
Of course all this life-long study of the theory and prac- 
tice of phonetics, the fruit of which must for the most 
part perish with him, stood him in good stead when the 
time came for him to decipher manuscripts of the colo- 
nial period which had before his day defied interpretation. 
When Worthington C. Ford,in 1902, found himself unable 
to interpret the Cotton manuscript, he turned in his need, 



A MEMOIR BY ROBERT S. RANTOUL 171 

he says, "to Mr. Upham, to the one man who is so en- 
tirely able as to leave no doubt of the correctness of his 
reading." 

Essex is the maritime county of Massachusetts. One 
hundred miles of the county's outline about two-thirds 
of the entire boundary are washed by tide-water. It 
has five good harbors, and a score of off-shore islands held 
by every sort of title. Moreover, the lordly Merrimac 
skirts its northern frontier for thirty miles, with the inci- 
dents of town-landings and rights of ferryage, and ancient 
mill-rights attaching to it and to its tributary streams. 
The county, too, has its fair share of the "Great Ponds" 
of the Commonwealth, with all their closely guarded 
rights of fishing, ice-cutting, boating, and bathing. In 
tracing these intricate riparian and littoral rights, many 
of them relating back to the earliest grants, rights to 
clam-fisheries and fresh- water fisheries and tide-mill 
privileges, and ship-building privileges, with beach-rights 
to the gathering of kelp and eelgrass, and to the husband- 
ing of the soil of mussel-beds and clam-flats, and rights 
of water supply, these last vital to the dozen cities and 
large towns of the county, all often drawn into litigation, 
no county affords a more constant field for the antiquary 
who is also a lawyer. In this field the average practitioner 
is none too well equipped. And here town and county 
officers, and, at last, the Commonwealth, found them- 
selves inclined to turn to Mr. Upham. 

Mr. Upham's specific services to the county of Essex 
were threefold. Between 1859 and 1884 he revised the 
Probate indexes for the two centuries embraced between 
the years 1638 and 1840, grouping surnames alphabeti- 
cally in consecutive volumes covering convenient periods 
of years, the given names under each surname being 
arranged alphabetically also, and introducing a system 
which took root and has survived. During these twenty- 
five years he made the first revised index of grantors and 
grantees in the Essex Registry of Deeds, covering the 
years from 1820 to 1855. Before this, deeds were indexed 
in the order in which they were received for record. His 
system was adopted and ultimately extended through the 



172 WILLIAM PHINEAS UPHAM 

earlier and the later years. And before 1869 he com- 
pleted, for the County Commissioners of Essex, the 
mounting of sixteen folio volumes of the early Court Files 
of the county. The extent to which all succeeding prac- 
titioners at the bar are laid under obligations by this rare 
demonstration of patience, energy and skill, is best appre- 
ciated by those conveyancers who had occasion to look up 
Essex County land titles and probate records before 1860. 

For the last twenty years of his life Mr. Upham was 
engaged in the office of the clerk of the Supreme Judicial 
Court for Suffolk County, in work upon what have been 
designated as the "Early Court Files," a term covering 
a vast agglomeration of papers which embrace not only 
the files of the highest courts of the Colony, the Prov- 
ince, and the Commonwealth before 1800, but also papers 
relating to other courts of the Colony and of the Prov- 
ince, as well as both originals and certified copies of 
records, documents, and matter of various sorts which had 
been' used in, or come into the possession and custody of, 
the Court of Assistants and the Superior Court of Judi- 
cature. An exhaustive description of them, from the pen 
of Mr. Noble, with some account of the history of this 
unique mass, may be found in the publications of the 
Colonial Society of Massachusetts (in. 317). The man- 
uscripts were in bad condition, scattered about in many 
places, exposed to depredations of all kinds, and to ulti- 
mate loss. Some of them were in almost the last stages 
of decay. Chief Justice Gray had long been specially 
interested in them, and anxious that measures should be 
taken for their rescue and arrangement for convenient 
reference and use. 

Between 1875 and 1880 efforts were made, by the Chief 
Justice and the State in conjunction, to carry out this 
purpose, but delays of various kinds occurred, and it was 
only after Judge Gray was on the bench of the Supreme 
Court of the United States that the object was attained. 
October, 1883, an order passed by the board of aldermen 
of Boston, acting as county commissioners, and approved 
by the mayor, provided "that the clerk of the Supreme 
Judicial Court of Suffolk be authorized to arrange con- 



A MEMOIR BY BOBEKT S. RANTOUL 173 

veniently for examination and reference the early files in 
Suffolk County." An appropriation was made, and the 
clerk was further authorized to "employ such assistance 
as will be required." An order of the Supreme Judicial 
Court, through its then Chief Justice Morton, was made, 
providing that its clerk, "in pursuance and furtherance 
of the order of the board of aldermen ... be directed 
to remove all the court files and papers wheresoever the 
same may be ... to such room in the court house as he 
may be authorized to take for the purpose of carrying 
out and executing said order ; and to take all necessary 
and appropriate measures therefor." A room in the court 
house was secured, and the papers brought together from 
their various places of deposit. Their volume could only 
be estimated roughly in terms of cubic bulk. A general 
plan of operations was agreed upon, and a fit person was 
to be found to take charge of the immediate details of 
repairing, reducing to order and mounting this heteroge- 
neous mass. Mr. Upham, from his success in dealing 
with the sixteen volumes of Essex court manuscripts, 
seemed to be marked out for this work, and his services 
were secured. In December, 1883, he approached the 
task with a single expert assistant. His force was grad- 
ually increased until it numbered twelve. The papers 
were first arranged by centuries, then by decades, and 
finally by their exact dates. Then papers belonging to 
the same case, or relating to the same subject matter, 
which had been scattered in many groups, were brought 
into their normal relation. Many papers were badly muti- 
lated, and the missing fragments, as far as possible, had 
to be found and put in place. Often they were crumbling 
to pieces and so frail that the utmost dexterity and deli- 
cacy of handling were called for. Some were caked into 
solid paper bricks, to be separated only by the use of 
solvents and by patient manipulation. Extreme care and 
skill were everywhere demanded. 

It is a matter of deep regret, Mr. Noble feelingly re- 
marks, that Mr. Upham could not have lived to see the 
consummation of an undertaking that was, in its way, 
stupendous. For the service demanded of him qualifica- 



174 WILLIAM PHINEAS UPHAM 

tions which are very exceptional, a patience that never 
failed, an industry that never flagged, systematic methods 
and habits never intermitted, high standards of execution, 
broad and exact knowledge of colonial and provincial 
history, and a ready familiarity with all that had been 
written concerning it. His fitness had been recognized 
by his classmate, Governor Robinson, in naming him on a 
commission to systematize the State Archives. He entered 
upon the service with an enthusiasm that would have sus- 
tained him to the end had not the time come when shat- 
tered health compelled him to pause and finally to stop. 

The work upon the collection of "Early Court Files," 
so called, had gone on without interruption for more than 
twenty-three years. When finished, the collection will 
contain this is Mr. Noble's estimate over one hundred 
and twenty-five thousand, possibly two hundred thousand, 
separate cases or matters, some including but a single pa- 
per, some fifty and upward, and a few from one hundred 
to one hundred and fifty. The whole number of individ- 
ual papers will exceed a million. When Mr. Noble died, 
some twelve hundred and fifty large folio volumes were 
already on the shelves, and probably there will be, in the 
end, nearly or quite fifteen hundred. 

Other work of a like nature was going on during these 
years in the clerk's ofiice. It was proposed to transcribe, 
print and distribute the records of the courts held between 
1630 and 1692 by the Governor and Assistants, this being 
the highest judicial tribunal sitting in the colony from the 
time of the settlement to the date of the provincial char- 
ter. Of these records there is extant a single complete 
volume, bound in vellum, mostly in Rawson's hand- 
writing, and well preserved, which covers the dates be- 
tween 1673 and 1692. This completes the line of records 
of the highest court from 1673, through the Colony, the 
Province, and the Commonwealth, to the present day. 
Scattered records are found in the State Archives and 
elsewhere, but they are incomplete, and when they have 
been reprinted they have been unsatisfactorily transcribed. 
The object was to produce a consecutive, reliable account 
of the doings of our highest court from the beginning. 



A MEMOIR BY ROBERT S. RANTOUL 175 

In pursuance of this design, the files not only of Suffolk 
but of Essex and Middlesex as well, and, in fact, of the 
record offices of the Commonwealth and of the older 
States of the Union, were ransacked, that nothing might 
escape notice which could contribute to so rare a consum- 
mation. It was found advisable to begin the publication 
with the volume in the clerk's office covering the period 
between 1673 and 1692, though this was the latest and 
not the Earliest period to be covered by the research. 

This had been a long desired object. The volume was 
too valuable and too frail to be subjected to ordinary 
handling, and was in fact a sealed book to all not versed 
in archaic penmanship. A copy accordingly had been 
made by an expert some years before. This was placed 
in the hands of the printer, and at this stage of the work 
the services of Mr. Upham were secured, to read the proof 
and to assist in other ways. Much new type was required 
for special characters, and here Mr. Upham's experience 
and taste were in requisition. While the printing was 
going on, material for filling the gaps was collecting. 
Everything outside Massachusetts in record offices and 
elsewhere had already been secured. The second volume, 
to cover the years from 1630 to 1643-44, was begun. Mr. 
Upham verified the copy by the manuscripts in the State 
Archives and by the Barlow copy, and it was made an 
exact reproduction so far as manuscript may be repro- 
duced in print. This had been the aim throughout. Many 
liberties had been taken in making the reprint in the 
Massachusetts Colony Records. Every faulty reading 
and error was now corrected, and absolute accuracy in 
every point is believed to have been secured in these 
Records of the Court of Assistants. 

Two volumes have been issued, I. in 1901 and II. in 
1904. At the time of Mr. Upham's death nearly a fourth 
of volume III. was in plate and some further pages were 
in proof. 

It was in his work on these volumes that Mr. Upham 
took especial pride, as it gave full play to his rare qualifi- 
cations. His knowledge of early colonial history, his an- 
tiquarian tastes,, and his untiring research were of a unique 



176 WILLIAM PHINEAS UPHAM 

value. The merest fragment of a record was suggestive, 
and there was at once a recognition of what it represeii- 
ed or bore upon, and where something might be found to 
explain and illustrate it. 

"But for his faithful and invaluable services throughout 
the more than twenty years we worked together," says 
Mr. Noble in closing, "the perfection of accomplishment 
which he aimed at, in the details of all this work, would 
have been impossible. Here was the almost entire occu- 
pation of these years of his life, and he regarded the re- 
sult as his best monument of labor and achievement. For 
that reason so much space has been given to an account 
of it, and for the further reason that nothing illustrates 
better his habits of mind, his methods of work, his skill 
and knowledge in his chosen field, and in so many ways 
the leading characteristics of the man." 




STEAMER "CARROLL" built in 1862 




STEAMER "MERRIMACK" built in 1861 



SOME ACCOUNT OF STEAM NAVIGATION IN 
NEW ENGLAND. 



BY FRANCIS B. C. BRADLEE. 



' {Continued from Volume LVI, page 

During 1882 the Boston papers advertised the screw 
steamer " Scud " as " running regularly between Boston 
and Halifax, fare $7, Heath and Grier agents, 50 Long 
Wharf." 

In 1888 the Canada Atlantic S. S. Co. Ltd. was formed 
and had the well known steel steamer " Halifax," built 
by the London and Glasgow Shipbuilding Co. Ltd., of 
Glasgow, Scotland. She was 1738 tons gross, 250 feet in 
length, 31 feet beam, and was fitted with a modern triple 
expansion engine of 390 nominal horse-power. Soon 
after the advent of the " Halifax," all the steamers ply- 
ing between Boston and Halifax were " pooled," that is, 
run under practically the same management to avoid the 
losses due to needless competition. 

The steamship "Olivette," previously mentioned, was, in 
1892, transferred from her summer Boston and Bar Har- 
bor route to the Boston and Halifax line. She measured 
1611 tons gross, 280 feet long, 35 feet beam, with a triple 
expansion engine indicating 2500 horse-power. Her owner 
the late Henry Bradley Plant, who also controlled the 
railroads in Florida bearing his name, became interested 
in the Canada Atlantic S. S. Co., and its name was changed 
to the Canada Atlantic and Plant S. S. Co., although it 
was commonly called, for short, the Plant line. Mr. Plant 
also placed his steamer "Florida," an English built screw 
boat of 1786 tons, on the Halifax and Charlottetown line, 
running in the summer with the "Olivette," so that dur- 
ing the early nineties the British Provinces were for the 
first time provided with a really high class service from 
Boston. At the outbreak of the Spanish-American war, 

(177) 



178 STEAM NAVIGATION IN NEW ENGLAND 

in 1898, the "Olivette" was chartered by the United 
States government, and, it is believed, never again re- 
turned to Boston. 

In 1896 Mr. Plant had a magnificent steel twin screw 
steamer, "La Grande Duchesse," built by the Newport 
News Shipbuilding Co. ; she measured ' 5018 tons gross, 
380 feet in length, 47 feet beam, 28 feet depth of hold, 
and had two quadruple expansion engines indicating to- 
gether 6300 horse-power, which were expected to drive 
the ship at 20 knots an hour. "La Grande Duchesse" 
was luxuriously fitted for the accommodation of 700 pas- 
sengers, and she is believed to have been one of the first 
liners ever fitted with a complete telephone system con- 
necting every stateroom. It was intended to run her in 
the winter months between New York and Charleston, 
S. C., where connections were made with the Plant Rail- 
way System, and in the summer she plied from Boston to 
Halifax and Charlottetown, but her first trip on that route 
was not made until June, 1899. 

Unfortunately this fine steamer was not at first a suc- 
cess from the point of view of speed, due, it is thought, 
to the abnormal bossing out about her stern in the origi- 
nal construction of the twin screw arrangement. Soon 
after the death of Mr. Plant, in 1899, " La Grande 
Duchesse" was sold to the Savannah line and renamed 
"City of Savannah" II. After several years of service 
she again changed hands and became the property of the 
New York and Porto Rico S. S. Co., who called her 
"Carolina," and in 1914 practically rebuilt the ship at 
great cost and changed her from a twin to a single screw. 
She was sunk by a German submarine on June 2, 1918, 
with the loss of several lives. After the death of Mr. 
Plant, the control of the Plant line fell into the hands of 
Mr. A. W. Perry and other Boston investors, who con- 
tinued the service with the "Halifax" and the " A. W. 
Perry," a former fruit steamer and a very inferior boat. 

To meet the constantly increasing travel the company 
had built in 1912, by the London and Glasgow Shipbuild- 
ing Co. of Glasgow, Scotland, the fine steel twin screw 
steamer "Evangeline," of 4600 tons gross, 365 feet long, 
46 feet beam; the machinery consisting of two four- 



Blf FRANCIS B. C. BRADLEB 179 

cylinder triple expansion engines, indicating 5000 horse- 
power. The "Evangeline" was by far the finest and 
fastest craft that had run to the British Provinces since 
the days of the "Olivette" and "Grand Duchesse" ; she 
had 260 staterooms and accommodated 580 passengers, 
besides a crew of 95 persons and 1500 tons of freight. 

Afte,r one successful season came the European war, 
which demoralized shipping conditions all over the world ; 
the "Evangeline" was placed under the American flag in 
1914 and made one trip to Manchester, Eng., for freight 
purposes ; in 1916 she was chartered for one season to 
carry on a service between New York and Bermuda. She 
was then laid up at Boston for a long time, and was final- 
ly sold to foreign owners in 1917 for more than $500,000. 
It is said she is now running between Marseilles and 
Algiers, with her passenger accommodations completely 
removed. The "A. W. Perry" was totally wrecked on 
Sambro Head, at the entrance of Halifax harbor, on June 
10, 1915, which left the "Halifax" alone on the line. 
The service was carried on by her until early in 1917, 
when she was sold for war purposes and was never heard 
of after leaving New York for an English port early in 1918. 

With the sale of the "Halifax" the Plant line went out 
of existence, leaving Boston for some time without any 
direct service to Halifax. Late in 1918, however, the 
Nova Scotia Steamships Ltd. (controlled by the Federal 
Line of New York) started a freight line to Halifax, 
N. S., and St. Johns, N. F., with F. H. Chipman as the 
Boston manager. The steamers employed were the pro- 
pellers "Cascapedia," of 500 tons, and "Our Lady of 
Gaspe"," of 1240 tons, 230 feet long ; the former found- 
ered at sea in a hurricane in November, 1918. The "Sag- 
amore," a small steamer of only 325 tons; a former yacht, 
was chartered to take her place. It is expected that a 
passenger boat will be placed on the line during the sum- 
mer of 1921, but nothing definite is yet known. 

Eighty or more years ago there were regular packet 
schooners and brigs plying between Boston and St. Johns, 
Newfoundland, but the first attempt at regular steam 
communication was in '1858, when a line was projected 
by Mr. John Orrell Lever, of Manchester, Eng., and 



180 STEAM NAVIGATION IN NEW ENGLAND 

others, to connect the port of Galway with New York and 
Boston by way of St. Johns, Newfoundland. There being 
no transatlantic cable then working, the attraction offered 
by the new company, which called itself the Atlantic 
Royal Mail Steam Navigation Co., was an undertaking "to 
carry telegraph messages from the United Kingdom to 
British North America and the United States in six days 
via Galway and St. Johns." 

Certain influences having been brought to bear on the 
British government, a contract at the rate of 75,000 
per annum was entered into on April 21, 1859, based on 
this proposal. Already in September, 1858, the steamer 
"Propeller" had arrived in Boston, on what may be 
termed a voyage of announcement for the line. The 
first vessel built by the company, the "Connaught," a 
large iron paddle wheel steamer of 2800 'tons, 360 feet 
long, did not make her appearance in Boston until August, 
1860, but was 22 1-2 hours over the contract time in ar- 
riving. Two months later, on her second voyage to Boston 
the "Connaught" sprang a bad leak on Oct. 7, one hun- 
dred and fifty miles from Cape Cod, and was soon in a 
sinking condition ; in addition, a fire broke out on board, 
and the steamer was presently in the curious predicament 
of foundering on one hand and burning up on the other. 
She had over five hundred passengers on board, mostly 
Irish emigrants, and they were rescued with great diffi- 
culty and gallantry by Capt. John Wilson in the New 
York brigantine "Minna Schiffer." 

The Atlantic Royal Mail Co., or Galway line as it was 
commonly called, built three other steamers similar to 
the "Connaught" ; the " Hibernia," "Columbia," and 
"Anglia," but only one, the "Columbia," made one trip 
to Boston in the spring of 1861. The construction of 
the other two ships was severely criticised by the gov- 
ernment inspectors, and they never entered the service at 
all. Soon after, the enterprise collapsed altogether, and 
is remembered as one of the most conspicuous failures 
known in the history of trade. It hurt the purse and 
reputation of every one connected with it and helped 
ruin Overend, Gurney & Co., London bankers, to whom 
the ships were mortgaged. 



BY FRANCIS B. C. BRADLEE 181 

In November, 1914, the steel screw steamer "Sable 
Island," of 700 tons, owned by Farquhar and Co. of 
Halifax, N. S., made one round trip between St. Johns, 
N. F., and Boston, carrying ten passengers. It had been 
the intention of her owners to establish a regular service 
between the two ports, but the results obtained were so 
disappointing the enterprise was given up. The Boston- 
Newfoundland Shipping Co. was organized in 1917 by 
David W. Simpson and other Boston business men. They 
bought the large new auxiliary three-masted schooner 
"Aviator," built at Essex, Mass., and she left Boston 
Jan. 30, 1919, on her first trip, carrying a large cargo, 
but never reached St. Johns, for she ran ashore at Law- 
rence on the dangerous Newfoundland coast and became 
a total wreck. Luckily there was no loss of life. 

Except for the traffic in the harbor and to the coast of 
Maine, Boston merchants were slow to adopt steam ves- 
sels, for there were many old established sailing packet 
lines (barques, brigs and schooners) plying regularly to 
New York, Albany, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, 
and ports further south. The packets centered at Mer- 
cantile wharf and vicinity ; Wednesdays and Saturdays 
were the usual sailing days, and then Commercial street 
became almost impassable. 

The Boston Advertiser for Jan. 1, 1852, mentions the 
"steam-propeller 'Ontario' as running regularly between 
Boston and New York direct, Sprague, Soule and Co., 
agents." A sister ship, the "Benjamin Franklin," was at 
the same time plying between Boston and Philadelphia. 
This is the first mention that can be found of a steam line 
to either New York or Philadelphia from Boston; the 
former service did not last long, but the latter line gradu- 
ally materialized into the well known Boston and Phila- 
delphia S. S. Co. 

At the close of the Civil war, in 1865, a few Boston 
capitalists, James S. Whitney, H. M. Whitney, Peter 
Butler, James Taft and others, conceived the idea of 
starting a direct freight line between their city and New 
York. 1 They were all more or less interested in other 

'The following account of the Metropolitan line is partly from a 
manuscript History of the Metropolitan S. S. Co., by E. M. Eldredge. 



182 STEAM NAVIGATION IN NEW ENGLAND 

steamship lines, and having at this time several ships that 
were idle, they used them on the new line. They were 
the "Ashland," "City of Bath," "Salvor," "Relief," "Jer- 
sey Blue," "Miami," "Mary Sanford," "Monticello," and 
"Fairbanks." 

All were propellers except the "Miami," which had 
been one of the double end side- wheel gunboats used by 
the government for light draft service on the southern 
coast during the Civil war. One writer speaks of her 
saying, "I never could tell whether she was coming or 
going" ; the "Miami" also had very little power in pro- 
portion to the size of her hull. Once she was caught in 
mid-winter in a northerly gale that struck her as she 
rounded Cape Cod. Every drop of spray froze as it 
landed on some part of the ship, and as she got further 
along she began to get logy, thereby reducing her speed, 
which caused the captain to head for the Plymouth shore 
to make a lee, and if it had been necessary to proceed 
much further for an anchorage, the engine would have 
stopped of its own accord, as the ice that had formed in 
the paddle boxes had slowed her down to less than half 
speed. 

The "Jersey Blue," one of the very early propellers, 
built at Newark, N. J., in 1850, measured 368 tons, 133 
feet long, and during her service as a transport in the 
Civil war had nearly foundered at sea in Dec., 1862, 
while carrying the Salem Light Infantry company to Ship 
Island, in the gulf of Mexico. The "Ashland," of 843 
tons, built at Philadelphia in 1863, was owned by the late 
Thomas Clyde, who was also interested in the Metropoli- 
tan line ; the "Mary Sanford" had been used by the 
Adams Express Co. during the war, and so the whole list 
might be gone through. Captain George L. Norton, the 
present editor of the New York Marine Journal, was the 
pioneer skipper of the line and made the first trip in the 
"Ashland" ; other early commanders were Captains Baker, 
afterwards on the "Nepture," and Bearse, afterwards on 
the "Nereus." The New York headquarters of the line 
were at first at the foot of Catherine street, East Eiver, 
but were moved shortly afterwards to pier 10, North 
River, where they remained for nearly fifty years. 



BY FRANCIS B. C. BRADLEE 183 

At this time there was operating on Long Island Sound 
a line known as the Neptune S. S. Co., and they had built 
for them three new wooden propellers, the "Neptune," 
"Nereus," and "Glaucus." These steamers, together with 
the "Metis," "Thetis," and "Doris," were run by the 
Neptune line on the "outside" route between New York 
and Boston from August, 1865, to December, 1866, when 
their owners became involved in financial difficulties, with 
the result that the Metropolitan S. S. Co. purchased the 
"Neptune," "Nereus" and "Glaucus" for $300,000. It 
was found that they had to be considerably strengthened, 
as originally they had been built for purely "Sound" ser- 
vice. The "Neptune," "Nereus" and "G-laucus" were 
each 1800 tons gross, 228 feet long, 40 feet beam, having 
high powered (simple) propeller engines, and could steam 
at least 13 knots an hour. In addition to extra beam, 
broad guards were extended over the hull, supported by 
sponsons, calculated for big cargo space between decks, 
and unless absolutely necessary no cargo was carried in 
the hold. In fact, their 'tween decks had the space of a 
large ground floor warehouse. After the advent of these 
new steamers, the older ships having outlived their use- 
fulness, soon disappeared. 

For a short time, in 1867, an opposition service, called 
the "Merchants' line," developed between Boston and 
New York, running the propellers "Equator," Captain 
Jackson, and "Key West," from Long wharf, Boston, and 
pier 3, North River, New York. Benner, Brown and 
Pinckney were the agents at that end of the route, and 
W. H. Kinsman and Co. in Boston. The Metropolitan 
line proved so successful that in 1872 they had built by 
John Roach, at Wilmington, Del., an iron steamer, the 
well known "General Whitney," of 1848 tons gross, 227 
feet long, 40 feet beam, and fitted with a two-cylinder 
compound engine. She was of greater carrying capacity 
than the other ships, and was equipped with cotton cribs 
on the main deck. These prevented the cotton from 
shifting, or causing fire by the friction of the iron bands. 

After many years of successful service, the Morgan 
line chartered the "General Whitney" during the Spanish- 
American war to run on their New Orleans line. She 



184 STEAM NAVIGATION IN NEW ENGLAND 

made but a few trips, for while bound north heavily laden 
with "pig" copper and barrel molasses, she sprang aleak, 
and soon after foundered off the Florida coast. The 
crew took to the boats and landed near St. Augustine on 
April 23, 1899. Unfortunately, while approaching the 
shore, one of the boats capsized, drowning Capt. Haw- 
thorne and sixteen men. 

In the meantime the "H. F. Dimock," in 1884, the 
"Herman Winter" in 1887, and the "H. M. Whitney" in 
1890, had been added to the line ; they were modern 
freighters, built of iron and steel by the Cramp Co. of 
Philadelphia, and very much alike, each ship measuring 
about 2600 tons gross, 275 feet long, and 40 feet beam. 
The "Dimock" and the "Winter" had two cylinder com- 
pound engines, but the later boats were fitted with triple 
expansion machinery. The last addition to the Metro- 
politan S. S. Co., while under the control of the Whitney 
family, was the "James S. Whitney," built in 1900 by 
the Cramp Shipbuilding Co. to replace the "General 
Whitney" ; she is practically a sister ship to the steamers 
previously mentioned, except that she has tapering steel 
masts supplanting the heavy wooden ones. July, 1906, 
saw the passing away of the old wooden boats "Neptune" 
and "Glaucus" ; they had been laid up at Brooklyn for 
years, and, of course, neglected, so that it was necessary 
to patch them up before they were towed to Boston on 
their last voyage. 

In 1900 the Joy line, which had previously confined 
itself to running steamers between various ports on Long 
Island Sound and New York, started a competing line 
between that place and Boston via the "outside" route, 
twice weekly from each end, and carrying passengers at 
$3.00 each. The steamer principally employed in the 
short time the enterprise lasted was the "Old Dominion," 
an iron side-wheeler of 2000 tons that had run for many 
years previously on the Old Dominion line between New 
York and Richmond, Va. Henry M. Whitney and others 
controlling the Metropolitan S. S. Co. sold out their in- 
terests in 1906 for about $3,000,000 to Charles W. Morse, 
and it is said that in later years Mr. Whitney remarked 




STEAMERS "GENERAL WHITNEY" built m 1873, and " NEPTUNE" built in 1864 
From a painting owned by E. M. Eldredge 




STEAMBOAT "CHOCORUA," Lake Winnepesaukee, built in 1852 
and originally called the " Dover " 



BY FRANCIS B. C. BRADLEE 185 

that "this had been the greatest mistake he had ever 
made in his life." 

Owing to this change of ownership, the Metropolitan 
line was joined to the other Morse companies known as 
the "Consolidated Steamship Lines," which lasted until 
about 1909, when, owing to financial troubles, the con- 
trol of the Metropolitan passed to other hands, and finally 
rested in the New York, New Haven and Hartford R. R. 
Co. Before this was accomplished, however, and while 
the Metropolitan line was still in the hands of the Morse 
interests, the New York and New Haven R. R. competed 
with it, by putting on, for freight purposes only,three large 
steel twin screw, turbine steamers, each of 4000 tons and 
375 feet long, the "Massachusetts," "Bunker Hill," and 
"Old Colony," running as the "Merchants Line," begin- 
ning in September, 1908. These three ships were built 
by the Cramp Co. of Philadelphia, who afterwards re- 
built them for the passenger service ; as freighters they 
carried immense cargoes, but were costly boats to run, as 
they were very fast and so hard on fuel. 

While the Metropolitan S. S. Co. was under the Morse 
rule, an offshoot known as the Metropolitan S. S. Co. of 
New Jersey was formed, and they had built, in 1906, by 
the W. and A. Fletcher Co. of New York, the well known 
steel, twin screw, turbine, oil-burning steamships "Yale" 
and "Harvard," for passenger service on the New York 
and Boston "outside" line. Each steamer measured 3700 
tons gross, 376 feet long, 61 feet beam, the engines indi- 
cating about 10,000 horse-power ; they were extremely 
fast, making 23 knots when pushed. Leaving either end 
of the line at 5 P. M., they arrived at their destination at 
8 the following morning, distance about 330 miles. At 
this time the Cape Cod canal had not been finished, and 
the "Harvard" and "Yale's" course lay around the 
"Cape" and over the dangerous, narrow and intricate 
Nantucket shoals and Vineyard Sound ; they also usually 
went around the east end of Long Island when the tide 
was against them in Long Island Sound. In the autumn 
of 1910 the "Harvard" and "Yale" were chartered, for 
),000 a year, to the Pacific Alaska Navigation Co., 



1 86 STEAM NAVIGATION IN NEW ENGLAND 

who took them to the Pacific coast and operated them be- 
tween San Francisco and San Diego. 

During the war both steamers were commandeered by 
the government and used as transports in the English 
channel service between Southampton and France. It is 
said that the "Yale" made a record in having carried 
140,000 American soldiers without accident or mishap. 

The Maine Steamship Co., a subsidiary line of the 
New York and New Haven R. R., had the former freight- 
ers "Massachusetts," "Bunker Hill" and "Old Colony" 
rebuilt as passenger steamers, and during the season of 
1911 operated them, unfortunately with numerous acci- 
dents, between New York, Boston and Portland. Early 
in 1912, when the Eastern Steamship Corporation (also 
controlled by the New York and New Haven R. R.) was 
organized, these ships were acquired by them and exten- 
sively remodelled by the Cramp Co. at Philadelphia. Some 
seventy staterooms, hurricane deck cafe", and many other 
comforts were added to each ship to meet the demands of 
the growing passenger service. The "Bunker Hill" and 
"Massachusetts" were at this time converted into oil- 
burners, but the "Old Colony," the only triple screw ship, 
remained a coal user. 

After the opening of the Cape Cod canal, these steam- 
ers used it regularly, as it avoided many of the dangers 
attending navigation around Cape Cod, besides reducing 
the distance between Boston and New York to 260 miles. 
Until the war the "Massachusetts" and "Bunker Hill" 
ran regularly each summer on their route, but in Novem- 
ber, 1917, they were bought by the government, rebuilt, 
renamed "Shawinut" and "Aroostook," and used most 
successfully as mine layers. The Boston - New York 
passenger service was in 1918 and is at present carried on 
by the "Belfast," "Camden," and "Northland," of the 
Eastern Steamship Lines Inc. fleet, but its future remains 
in doubt, as it is said the "Shawmut" and "Aroostook" 
will be permanently retained by the Navy. During the 
war the Metropolitan line freighters "James S. Whitney" 
and "H . M. Whitney" were sold to syndicates for a large 
price, said to be $400,000 apiece, to engage in foreign 
trade. The "H. F. Dimock" and the "Herman Winter" 



BY FRANCIS B. C. BRADLEE 187 

were also disposed of and are now successfully engaged 
in the banana trade between Mobile and Bocas del Toro. 

The exact date of the first tovvboat in Boston harbor 
cannot now be surely determined. Nearly all the early 
passenger steamboats were used to tow ships when the 
occasion demanded, as can be seen in the old 'advertise- 
ments.. The Boston Advertiser for September 20, 1843, 
contains the following notice : "Steam Tow Boat 'Relief,' 
Capt. Allen Bangs, Jr., is in complete readiness for tow- 
ing vessels in Boston harbor, etc. Baker, Kelley and Co., 
39 Commercial St." The same paper for June 23, 1846, 
announces for sale the "steamer 'Danin,' built by Samuel 
Hall at East Boston in 1842, 132 tons, used as a tow and 
excursion boat." 

In 1846, Otis Tufts of Boston built for the Boston 
Board of Marine Underwriters the celebrated iron tow- 
boat "R. B. Forbes." She measured 320 tons, and was 
the first iron hull ever built in Boston ; the machinery 
consisted of a pair of condensing engines, each 36 inches 
by 32 inches stroke and driving Ericsson twin screws. 
Undoubtedly the "R. B. Forbes" was one of the first 
ocean-going towboats in the country, for it is known that 
she frequently towed ships from Boston to New York 
and also to eastern ports. Nevertheless she was not a 
financial success, and changed ownership several times 
before she was finally sold to the government during the 
Civil war, and eventually wrecked on the coast of North 
Carolina, Feb. 25, 1862. During the fifties the "Relief," 
"Huron" and "Gilpin" were well known towboats in 
Boston harbor; these steamers averaged 100 tons each. 

The following is a correct list of Boston towboats and 
their owners in 1868, as copied from the Boston Adver- 
tiser: Steamers "Charles Pearson," Relief Steamboat 
Co., Owner; "Fremont," "Wm. Sprague," "Dispatch," 
"Day Spring," "American Eagle," "Clover," Thomas 
Winsor, Owner; "Charles River," H. Davis, Owner; 
"Uncle Sam," "Ida Miller," "Transport," Daniel Baker, 
Owner ; "James Barton," "S. J. Macy," Baker and 
Howes, Owners ; "Ellen," "Joseph Boss," "Ann," "Henry 
Hoover," Davis and Sprague, Owners. 



188 STEAM NAVIGATION IN NEW ENGLAND 

The old Boston Tow Boat Co. was incorporated in 
1872 ; it was purchased by interests controlling the New 
England Fuel and Transportation Co. in the autumn of 
1910. They continued the business under the old name 
until July, 1917, when it was absorbed by the present 
operating company and the name changed as above. 

A bit of history, not generally known, is the fact that 
Lake Champlain was the second body of water in the world 
to be navigated by a vessel propelled by steam. Fulton's 
"Clermont" plied on the Hudson in 1807. In 1808 John 
and James Winans, who had been employed as shipbuild- 
ers on the Hudson,came to Lake Champlain 1 and built the 
steamboat "Vermont" at the foot of King street, Bur- 
lington, Vt., where the Champlain Transportation Com- 
pany's wharf now is. It is said that she was launched 
side wise into the sand, and remained there some time, and 
then, by the use of spirit, both plentiful and ardent, was 
finally transferred to her future element. This steamboat, 
the "Vermont," ran between Whitehall and St. Johns 
until 1815. Her service was so irregular that she only 
made the round trip through the lake about once a week. 
She continued with more or less success, financially, until 
in October, 1815, when the connecting rod of her engine 
became detached from the crank, and before the engineer 
could stop the machinery, it plunged through the bottom 
of the boat. The result was, she sank a wreck in the 
Richelieu river, near Isle au Noix. 

The construction of another steamboat was begun at 
Vergennes, Vt., in 1814, and that boat, which Commodore 
Macdonough, U. S. N., seized, was converted into a sloop, 
and she fought in the battle of Plattsburg as the "Ticon- 
deroga." It was that name which was decided upon for 
the latest passenger steamboat built by the Champlain 
Transportation Company, and from this fact the name 
was selected. In 1815 the "Phoenix" was built at Ver- 
gennes, Vt., by Capt. Jahaziel Sherman, who was the 
great grandfather of the late Vice President of the 
United States, James S. Sherman. He had come to 



particulars of steam navigation on Lake Champlain are 
derived from an address by D. A. Loomis before the Lake Cham- 
plain Association, New York, Dec. 12, 1912. 



BY FRANCIS B. C. BRADLBE 189 

Vergennes for the purpose of apprizing the ship Com- 
modore Macdonough had seized and to see that the 
nearly bankrupt steamboat company received just treat- 
ment. The "Phoenix" received the engine taken from 
the "Perseverance," which was built to compete with the 
boats operated by Fulton and Livingston on the Hudson 
River. Fulton and Livingston had received a charter 
from the State of New York giving them the exclusive 
right to operate their steamboats on all the waters of that 
State. The "Perseverance" was put on in opposition to 
their line, and was enjoined ; her engine, of about 40 
horse-power, was sold and brought to Vergennes and in- 
stalled in the "Phoenix." The speed of the "Phoenix" 
was about six miles an hour, her engine being not quite 
as large .as those in a modern house boat. In September, 
1819, the "Phoenix" was burned near Colchester Point, 
about twelve miles north of Burlington, six lives were 
sacrificed, and the vessel was a total loss. She was com- 
manded by Capt Richard W. Sherman, son of Capt. 
Jahaziel Sherman ; he was the last person to leave his 
ship, and saved his life by floating to shore on a table leaf. 
A third boat was the "Champlain," built at Vergennes, 
Vt., in 1818, by the Shermans, and had the engine that 
was in the first "Vermont." An old advertisement 
which is in the office of the Lake Champlain Steamboat 
Company states that the price of passage through the 
lake will be ten dollars. One dollar was charged for 
every fifteen miles of travel, and as no one could be put 
on shore, or received on board, however short the dis- 
tance, for less than a dollar, a practice prevailed of pay- 
ing to boatmen and innkeepers a shilling for every pas- 
senger that they delivered to the boats. The "Congress" 
was the fourth boat, built at Vergennes, Vt., in 1818, and 
ran for sixteen years and was condemned in 1835. In 
1820 a second "Phoenix" was built at Vergennes, Vt, 
and ran for sixteen years, and was condemned in 1837 ; 
it was in 1820, also, that the shipyards were changed from 
Vergennes to Shelburne Harbor, and the latter place has 
been used as a shipyard for the construction and repair of 
steamboats from that period down to the present time ; 



190 STEAM NAVIGATION IN NEW ENGLAND 

it is believed to be the oldest steamboat shipyard in this 
country, or in the world. 

A sixth steamer on the lake, the "General Greene," 
was built at Shelburne Harbor, Vt., in 1825, and ran 
until 1833, when she was converted into a sloop ; in 1825, 
also, the operations of the Champlain Transportation Com- 
pany began, and there is in the office of the company the 
record of every directors' meeting that has been held 
from then down to the present time. In 1825 Dan Lyon 
was appointed captain of the "General Greene," at the 
munificent salary of twenty-five dollars a month, and by 
vote of the directors he was restricted to a crew of six 
people. The boat was about one hundred and twenty 
feet long. Under present laws the Government would 
prescribe the number of persons sufficient for a boat of 
that size. The "General Greene" ran as a ferry between 
Burlington and Plattsburg, and the company did not find 
it to their advantage to board their crew, so they arranged 
with Capt. Lyon to board the crew for them at one dol- 
lar sixty-seven and one-half cents per week, he finding 
everything. They offered the assignment of barkeeper to 
a certain citizen of Burlington at a salary of ten dollars 
a month. After the first year it was found that the bar 
did not pay, so the company sold the privilege to Capt. 
Dan Lyon for $100 a year, and he conducted the bar after 
that. He had a little monopoly all his own, boarding the 
crew, operating the bar, collecting the fares, and running 
the steamboat. 

The "Franklin" was built at St. Albans Bay, Vt., in 
1627, and condemned in 1838. She was commanded one 
season by Capt. Jahaziel Sherman, who was succeeded by 
his son Richard W. Sherman. An innovation introduced 
on the "Franklin" was an upper deck and a ladies' 
cabin. The "Washington" was built at Essex, N. Y., in 

1827, and continued in service sixteen years. She was 
built for an opposition line, but the company had a way 
in those days of buying up every year or two all their 
competitors, and the result was that for a good many 
years they bought a steamboat nearly every year. In 

1828, the "Macdonough" was built at St. Albans Bay, 
Vt., and operated between St. Albans Bay and Platts- 



BY FRANCIS B. C. BRADLEE 191 

burg. After running for thirteen years, she was wrecked 
in 1841. The "Winooski" was constructed at Burling- 
ton, Vt., in 1832, and remained in active service until she 
was condemned in 1850. 

Captain Jahaziel Sherman had a difference with the 
Board of Directors of the Champlain Transportation 
Company, and had the steamboat "Water Witch" built 
at Fort Cassin, near the mouth of Otter Creek, in 1832, 
and intended to run her in opposition to the regular line, 
but the records of the Lake Champlain Steamboat Com- 
pany show that a year or two afterwards Capt. Sherman 
became a director of the company and that he brought 
the "Water Witch" with him. The "Burlington," the 
twelfth steamboat, was built at Shelburne Harbor in 
1837, and ran on the line until 1854, when she was con- 
demned. A distinguished passenger travelled on her in 
1842, no less a personage than Charles Dickens, the 
famous author, and in his American notes Mr. Dickens 
says : "There is a boat on Lake Champlain which I 
praise most highly, but no higher than she deserves, when 
I say she is superior to any other in the world. He then 
goes on to speak of his trip from St. Johns to Whitehall, 
his stop at Burlington and other points on the lake ; this 
statement can be easily verified and elaborated upon by 
referring to Dickens' American notes. 

In 1838, Peter Comstocks built the steamer "White- 
hall" at Whitehall, N. Y. Mr. Comstocks had created 
opposition every year or two, and the records show that 
he was bought out three times. One of the last efforts 
was when he constructed at Whitehall, N. Y., in 1846, 
the steamboat "Fiancis Saltus." At that time the Lake 
Champlain Company thought they had bought out Mr. 
Comstocks' boats long enough, and they put the "Saranac" 
on to run in opposition to the "Francis Saltus," and the 
fare was reduced between Whitehall and St. Johns to the 
ridiculous price of twenty-five cents. The Champlain 
Transportation Company worsted their competitor be- 
cause they had two other boats, so that when the "Francis 
Saltus" left Whitehall, the "Saranac" took her departure 
also, and when she left St. Johns, the "Saranac" did like- 
wise ; the other two boats were run on the night line, and 



192 STEAM NAVIGATION IN NEW ENGLAND 

they continued to maintain the fare between Whitehall 
and St. Johns at $4.50, and this enabled them to compete 
very successfully with Mr. Comstocks, until they bought 
his boat at a low figure ; and that was the last opposition 
of consequence on Lake Champlain. 

At about this time Richard W. Sherman was captain 
of the "Burlington," and from what can be learned the 
whole Sherman family belonged to the aristocracy of those 
days. While "Dandy Dick," as Captain Sherman was 
called, had a host of friends and acquaintances, he seems 
also to have incurred the enmity of certain persons, judg- 
ing by the following song written about him ; it was set 
to music, and enjoyed quite a local popularity, and is 
worth reproducing : 

" Dick Sherman is so very slick 

The fops all swarm around him thick 
As humbngs 'round a pot of honey, 
So Dick's cologne brings him the money. 
Ha, ha, ha, that's the fun 
For Dandy Dick of the Burlington. 

Oh! Dicky is a gallant lad, 
He makes the ladies very glad, 
He smiles and flirts with a great parade, 
And then makes lore to the cabin maid. 
Ha, ha, ha, that's the fun 
For Dandy Dick of the Burlington. 

His decks are scrubbed with so much care 
That cowhide boots can't come it there. 
If you cannot make your money rattle, 
You must go forward with the cattle. 
Ha, ha, ha, that's the fun 
For Dandy Dick of the Burlington. 

The Saltus and the Montreal 
Will drive him from the lake next fall. 
Ha, ha, ha I that's the fun 
For Dandy Dick of the Burlington." 

(The "Saltus" and the "Montreal" were other steamers on Lake 
Champlain at that time.) 




STEAMBOAT "VERMONT" (second) built in 1871, Lake Champlain 




STEAMBOAT 'FRANCIS SALTUS " built in 1844, Lak Charoplaln 



BY FRANCIS B. C. BRADLEE 193 

The steamboat "Francis Saltus," finished at Whitehall, 
N. Y., in the year 1844, was of the following dimensions: 
185 feet long, 26 feet beam, 8 3-4 feet depth of hold, 473 
tons burthen, cost $50,000, speed 14 1-2 miles per hour, 
engine 160 horse-power. She ran on Lake Champlain 
fifteen years, and was condemned in 1859. From the 
records it appears that the hull of the "Montreal" was 
laid down at Whitehall, N. Y., for Peter Comstocks and 
others in 1845 ; completion was dragged along, and in 
1847 the hull was sold to the Champlain Transportation 
Co. and removed to Shelbnrne Harbor, where it was 
finished and launched in 1855 and named the "Montreal." 
The "Saranac" was placed on the line in 1842, the 
"James R. Hacker" in 1846, as a package freight boat 
and for towing purposes, carrying no passengers ; then 
came the "United States," built at Shelburne Harbor, Vt.', 
in 1847. She was the first steamer fitted with staterooms 
on the upper deck. 

Other vessels were the "Boston," built at Shelburne 
Harbor, Vt, in 1851 ; the "American," built at Whitehall, 
N. Y., in 1851 ; the "Canada," built at Whitehall, N. Y., in 
1853 ; the "Adirondack," built at Shelburne Harbor, Vt., 
in 1867 ; the "Oakes Ames," built at Hark's Bay, near 
Burlington, Vt., in 1868, and the Vermont II in 1871. The 
"Oakes Ames," built by the Rutland & Burlington Rail- 
road, was used as a car ferry between Burlington and 
Plattsburg. She ran for several years with only moderate 
success, was purchased in 1873 by the Champlain Trans- 
portation Company, and converted into a passenger and 
freight steamer, renamed the "Champlain," and operated 
on a through line until 1875, when she was wrecked near 
Westport and was a total loss. The pilot ran her so far 
ashore that the people picked up their luggage and 
stepped off. A curious and pathetic incident oc- 
curred in connection with that wreck. The pilot of the 
vessel was John Eldridge, and after the accident he packed 
his belongings, stepped off on shore, and none of his old 
associates knew what had become of him or ever saw him 
again. Some twenty years after that, about 1895, Capt. 
George Rushlow, then general manager of the company, 
received a letter from him, written at some town in Mich- 



194 STEAM NAVIGATION IN NEW ENGLAND 

igan, stating that he was in reduced circumstances, an in- 
mate of the county house there, and asking him if they 
could send him a little money. The company sent him 
$50 on that occasion. 

At present (1918) the fleet of the Champlain Trans- 
portation Co. consists of the side- wheel steamboats "Ver- 
mont" III (1903), "Ticonderoga" (1906), and "Chateau- 
gay"(1888) ; all have steel hulls with wooden superstruc- 
tures. The first named is the largest; she is 1195 tons 
gross, 251 1-2 feet long,34 1-2 feet beam, 10 1-2 feet depth 
of hold, and has a powerful vertical beam engine. Her cap- 
tain, E. B. Rockwell, is believed to be the oldest steam- 
boat official in active service in the country (1920), for 
he is ninety years old, although to the ordinary person he 
seems like a man in the sixties. 

The first steamboat on Lake George was the "James 
Caldwell." She was built sometime between 1816 and 
1820, the exact date cannot now be determined. A second 
boat was the "Mountaineer," built about 1824 ; then came 
the "William Caldwell" in 1838 ; the "John Jay" in 
1850, and this steamer was burned, with the loss of six 
lives, on July 29, 1856, near Hague. She was replaced 
in 1857 by the well known "Minnehaha." She was very 
successful and had no accidents. In 1877 she was sold 
to the late Cyrus Butler of New York, who converted 
her into a floating summer house in the bay on the north 
side of Black Mountain Point. 

The steamers now running on Lake George are the 
"Horicon," side-wheel, beam engine, hull built in 1911, 
230 feet long, 59 feet beam. 1400 tons gross, passenger 
capacity 1700 persons ; the "Sagamore," side-wheel, 
beam engine, hull built in 1903, 223 feet long, 57 feet 
beam, 1400 tons gross, passenger capacity 1500 persons. 
There is also the "Mohican," a twin screw propeller, built 
in 1908, 115 feet long, 26 1-2 feet beam, 500 tons gross, 
passenger capacity 500 persons. 

Steam navigation on Lake Winnipesaukee 1 began in the 
year 1833, when the steamer "Belknap" was launched 
by Stephen Lyf ord and Ichabod Bartlett of Lake Village. 

J These particulars of steam navigation on Lake Winnipesaukee 
are derived from an unpublished account by Edward Blackstone. 



BY FRANCIS B. C. BRADLEE 195 

She was a rough looking affair, about ninety feet long, 
and rather wider than the average boat of that length. 
She was a side-wheel boat, and the engine was geared to 
the shaft, as were all lake boats of the early type. Many 
obstacles were encountered in getting the boat into the 
lake proper, for the weirs channel of today was then but 
a shallow, violent stream. Hogsheads and barrels were 
used to lighten her draught, and large stones were rolled 
aside in order to pass her through. The first captain of 
the "Bel knap" was James Jewett of Alton Bay, and 
Perkins Drake, for many years stage driver between Cen- 
tre Harbor and Laconia, was the first pilot. For four 
years the "Belknap" was run between Centre Harbor and 
Alton Bay, and was finally wrecked on Steamboat Island, 
from which event the island takes its name. The wreck 
occurred in the early spring, while the boat was engaged 
in towing a raft of logs from Centre Harbor to Alton 
Bay. Through a misunderstanding of the signals by the 
engineer, she was run ashore in the heavy wind and filled 
with water. After several futile attempts to raise her, 
the machinery was removed, and she was left to her fate. 
On a clear day the remains of the frame may still be seen 
on the bar near the island. 

For years after this the horseboat was the only means 
of transportation on the lake. Finally Langdon Thyng, 
an enterprising boatman, conceived the Idea of applying 
steam to one of his horseboats. He obtained the little 
engine, known to the boys as the "Cork Leg" or "Widow 
Dustin," which had been used to haul gravel trains dur- 
ing the construction of the railroad, and placed it in his 
boat. It was a peculiar looking craft, scow-shaped, and 
would run about five miles an hour. It was known as 
the "Jenny Lind," and the "Swedish Nightingale" surely 
had a strange looking namesake in this floating combina- 
tion of locomotive and horseboat. 

In the year 1848 the Winnipcsaukee Steamboat Com- 
pany was formed, which, in the same year, built the 
"Lady of the Lake." She was 135 feet long, 29 feet 
beam, and commanded by Captain William Walker of 
Lake Village, and she plied between the Weirs, Long 
Island and Centre Harbor. Soon after, this steamer fell 



196 STEAM NAVIGATION IN NEW ENGLAND 

into the hands of the Boston, Concord and Montreal Rail- 
road, and in 1882 was taken from the water and under- 
went an entire overhauling. After Captain Walker, she 
was commanded by Eleazer Bickford of Meredith, who 
was succeeded by Win born Sanborn, Stephen Cole, and 
J. S. Wadleigh, respectively, of Laconia. In 1894 she 
was dismantled and sunk in about forty feet of water in 
Glendale cove. After the "Lady of the Lake," the 
"Dover" made its appearance, in 1852. She was run for 
a few years, then the hull was cut open and lengthened 
twenty feet, and renamed the "Chocorua." After these 
alterations she measured 400 tons, 170 feet long, and 32 
feet beam. The "Long Island," owned by Perley R. and 
George K. Brown of Long Island, next made its appear- 
ance. She had a carrying capacity of one hundred passen- 
gers. After fifteen years of service, she was dismantled. 
The following year the "Red Hill" was built by the 
Red Hill Steamboat Company of Lee's Mills, a rough 
looking craft, practically a scow in shape. She was never 
run, for while steaming up for the trial trip the boiler 
exploded ; the machinery was removed and sent to China. 
Next, the "Naugatuck" was built at Lake Village by 
Charles Brown. The same year the "Dollie Dutton" was 
built at Wolfeboro and the "Seneca" at Melvin Village. 
The latter was owned by Uriah Hall, and was later 
wrecked on the "Goose Egg," a dangerous rock on the 
Moultonborough shore, after which event Mr. Hall built 
the "Ossipee." About the same year the "James Bell" 
was built by Wentworth and Swett of Centre Harbor, 
who sold her, some years later, to the Boston, Concord 
and Montreal Railroad. For a long time she was the 
favorite boat for picnic parties and moonlight excursions. 
After many years of service, this steamer was dismantled 
and her deck houses were bought and scattered around the 
country as cheap summer residences. Following the 
"James Bell" came the "Winnipesaukee," built by the 
Lamprey Brothers. She was a flat-bottomed scow, with 
a portable saw-mill engine for power. The engine was 
geared to the shaft and turned side-wheels. A little later 
the "Mayflower," practically a counterpart of the "Win- 
nipesaukee," was built, and soon after came the intro- 



BY FRANCIS B. C. BRADLEE 19T 

duction of small steam yachts, such as the "Pinafore," 
the "Nellie," the "Bristol," etc., the "Nellie" being the 
first screw-propelled boat to be placed on the lake. 

In 1872 the "Mount Washington" was built at Alton 
Bay for the Boston and Maine Railroad, at a cost of 
$75,000. She is one hundred and eighty feet in length 
over all, and has a beam of forty feet. The boiler is 
fifteen feet long, and capable of developing seven hun- 
dred horse-power. The "Mount Washington" has a speed 
of sixteen miles per hour, and is licensed to carry one 
thousand persons. Her first captain was Augustus Wig- 
gin of Wolfboro. He was succeeded in 1896 by Harry 
L. Wentworth, who committed suicide in 1908. Her 
present commander, Captain H. A. Blackstone, then took 
charge. Three years after the appearance of the latter 
steamer, the "Maid of the Isles," a screw-propelled boat, 
with hurricane, promenade and main decks, was built at 
Wolfboro by Dearborn Haley. She was of good model 
and fitted with a one hundred and twenty horse-power 
engine, but she was run only two seasons, and subse- 
quently lay moored in the bay at Wolfeboro, where her 
cable chain wore a hole in her hull below the water line, 
and she sank. In 1888 she was purchased by Herbert A. 
Blackstone, who raised and entirely rebuilt her. A three 
hundred and fifty horse-power engine was installed, and 
she became one of the leading passenger boats on the 
lake. In 1899 the "Maid of the Isles" was sold to Cap- 
tain Hudson of Lakeport, who in turn sold her to the 
Drew Machine Company of Manchester. Through poor 
management she became a wreck and was dismantled. 
The hull was towed to Centre Harbor, where it burned. 

The same year the latter steamer was built, the "Mine- 
ola" was placed on the lake by Messrs. Brown and Robie 
of Lake Village. She was a trim little yacht, built at 
Newburg, N. Y. In 1911 she was condemned and the 
machinery placed in another hull. In 1881 the "Belle of 
the Wave" was built by Herbert A. Blackstone for Arthur 
Lamprey of Long Island. Three years later Mr. Black- 
stone built the "Eagle" at Lakeport for Brown and Went- 
worth. She changed hands several times, and was finally 
sold to Capt. Hudson. In 1902 she burned at the 



198 STEAM NAVIGATION IN NEW ENGLAND 

further side of Long Island. About the same time the 
"Lamprey" and the "Cyclone" were built for Robert and 
Arthur Lamprey, by Captain Blackstone. The "Lamp- 
rey" was run a few years and then burned. The "Cy- 
clone" was finally sold to Capt. Hudson, who in turn 
sold her to Charles Dow of Meredith, in whose posses- 
sion she was when burned in 1905. Following the "Cy- 
clone," the "Carrol" was brought from New York, where 
she had been a canal boat, and was purchased by Dr. J. A. 
Greene. Dr. Greene renamed her the "Roxmont," and 
ran her for several seasons. She was then hauled out of 
the water at the Roxmont Poultry Farm on Moulton- 
borough Neck, where she remained until 1902, when she 
was rebuilt and sold to the Winnipesaukee Lake Trans- 
portation Company. She was renamed "Belle of the 
Isles" and ran until 1917, when she was considered un- 
safe and taken from the water. She is now on the ways 
at Lakeport. 

In 1905 the "Governor Endicott" was built at Lake- 
port by Mr. Cottrell of Laconia. She is owned by the 
Winnipesaukee Lake Transportation Company, and runs 
between Lakeport and Melvin Village. The "Governor" 
is one hundred feet in length, and is at present the second 
largest boat on the lake, the "Mt. Washington" being 
the largest. There are at present many hundreds of 
power-boats on Lake Winnipesaukee, by far the greater 
part of them gasoline launches. The gasoline engine 
has almost superseded the steam engine as a motive 
power, for, although not quite as reliable, it is much more 
convenient. The time is not far distant when the steam- 
boat will be a thing of the past, but like the passing of 
all things good and great, it will be laid away in memory's 
storehouse. 

Four years before any Federal statute was enacted to 
provide for the regulation and government of steam ves- 
sels, the State of Louisiana, in 1834, passed a law for the 
inspection of steamers entering or plying on the waters 
of that commonwealth. The law established the office of 
state engineer, whose duty it was to examine once in 
every three months the strength of the boilers of the 
steamboats within the jurisdiction of the State, and to test 



BY FRANCIS B. C. BBADLKK 199 

them by hydrostatic pressure to three times the pressure 
of steam they were supposed to carry. 

In case of accident, if the steamer did not possess the 
proper certificate, neither captain, owner or agent could 
recover any claim for freight, and the captain was subject 
to a fine of not less than $500 or more than $2000, and to 
imprisonment for not less than three months or more than 
three years. If lives were lost, the captain was to be 
adjudged guilty of manslaughter. The same penalties 
were provided in case of any accident in navigation ; for 
overloading, racing, carrying higher steam than the cer- 
tificate allowed, or any accident that might occur while 
the captain, pilot or engineer was engaged in gambling or 
attending to any game of chance or hazard. 

This purely local enactment was followed by the Act 
of Congress passed July 7, 1838, "to provide for the 
better security of the lives of passengers on board of ves- 
sels propelled in whole, or in part, by steam." The steam- 
boat inspectors were appointed by the district judges of 
the United States courts in the several districts, and were 
paid the sum of five dollars by the owner of the vessel 
for each inspection. Both the state and federal measures 
were passed largely owing to the feeling then aroused by 
the numerous explosions of steamboat boilers, and at- 
tendant disasters therefrom, particularly on the western 
and southern river boats. 

The federal inspection law was carried out with ex- 
treme laxity, the examinations of the vessels being almost 
in the nature of a farce. Some idea of the methods then 
in vogue may be gained by quoting part of the testimony 
of one of the U. S. inspectors before the jury of inquest 
called to determine the cause of the loss of the steamboat 
"Lexington" by fire on the night of Jan. 13, 1840, in 
Long Island Sound, whereby over 140 persons lost their 
lives : 9 

"John Clark called. I live at 83 Essex street, New 
York City. I am a machinist by trade. I am one of 
the U. S. steamboat inspectors. I was acquainted with 
the 'Lexington.' I inspected, with Captain Bunker, the 
'Lexington' on the 1st of October last, 1839. Our prac- 
tice in inspecting a boat is to go on board and look round, 
examine into the age and condition of the boat, etc. Our 



200 STEAM NAVIGATION IN NEW ENGLAND 

certificates relate to the soundness of the boilers, engine 
and hull of the boat. With regard to the steering appa- 
ratus, I don't consider we have anything to do with it. 
. . . We have never condemned a boat or stopped its running. 
We have restricted boats to the use of a certain amount 
of steam. . . After looking around and giving our cer- 
tificate, we receive our fees, on the occasion of in- 
specting a boat." . . . 

"We examined the steamer 'William Young,' and found 
she was not a safe or seaworthy vessel, but we gave a certifi- 
cate that she was a suitable boat to run on the route. The 
steamer 'Providence,' running to Newport, has not been 
inspected during the past year. We have not been called 
on to inspect her. We always wait for the owners to call 
first upon ws." . . . 

"Question by a juror (to Mr. Clark) : When you in- 
spect a boat you look at the wood and do nothing else ? 
Answer : Yes, we take our fees. Question : How do you 
examine the hull of a vessel ? Answer: Why, I examine 
it with my eyes ; I go and inquire the boat's age ; I ex- 
amine the hull and look at the engine. How much do you 
suppose I am to do for five dollarsV 

Part of the opinion and verdict delivered by the jury 
was as follows : 

"It is the opinion of this jury that the present inspec- 
tors of steamboats, either from ignorance or neglect, 
have suffered the steamboat 'Lexington' to navigate the 
Sound at the imminent risk of the lives and property of 
the passengers, giving a certificate stating a full compli- 
ance with the laws of the United States, while in our 
opinion such was not the case." 

In spite of this severe verdict, however, the steamboat 
inspection law continued to be enforced in a very lax 
manner, or, rather, not enforced at all. Races between 
opposing craft were frequent occurrences, and steam was 
carried beyond all reasonable limits in boilers not calcu- 
lated to bear it. The marine fraternity and the travelling 
public had not yet been educated to the higher criticism 
of inspection, and any restriction placed on steamboat 
officers would have been considered an infringement of 
their rights as American citizens. 

Finally, however, disasters occurred so often and with 




STEAMER "SIR JDHN HARVEY" built in 1852 




STEAMBOAT "CITY OF PORTLAND" 
Built in I 860 as the New England. Rebuilt and renamed in I 872. 



BY FRANCIS B. C. BRADLEE 201 



such distressing loss of life that public opinion became thor- 
oughly aroused, which resulted in a practically new steam- 
boat inspection law passed by Congress on August 30, 
1852. The new measure was radically different from the 
old, and, quite naturally, far stricter. For the first time 
it was made compulsory for marine steam boilers to be 
tested by the inspectors ; all captains, pilots and engineers 
of steam vessels were to have government licenses ; the 
use of colored running lights at night (as at present) was 
first instituted, and each passenger steamer was to be 
equipped with a certain number of small boats and life- 
saving apparatus based on the vessel's carrying capacity 
and the waters she navigated. 

As may be imagined, the passage of the new inspection 
law had been bitterly opposed by steam shipping interests, 
particularly in the south and west, but the decreasing 
number of accidents and explosions soon proved its use- 
fulness, especially as the measure was enforced more 
strictly than the old one had been. The New York Illus- 
trated News for January 29, 1853, referring to the then 
new inspection law, said : "The new steamboat law meets 
with but little favor (in the west). Its usefulness and 
practicability is very much doubted ; it is a humbug, a 
bundle of absurdities complicated, contradictory, and 
impracticable. This is the current feeling on the subject. 
No party can be benefitted by the bill but the manufac- 
turers of Francis' life boat." 

In 1857, after the loss of the steamer "Central Amer- 
ica," which foundered in a storm on her way from Havana 
to New York, carrying down 423 persons, there arose 
renewed agitation to compel steamship owners to furnish 
their craft with more small boats. The outcry and talk 
in the press very closely resembled that which followed 
the loss of the "Titanic" in 1912. 

A favorite trick in early days among some shipowners 
was that if their steamer did not have the required num- 
ber of small boats to pass the law, others would be bor- 
rowed for the inspection and returned after the "guests" 
had left the vessel. 

As the years went by, the steamboat inspection laws 
have been amended until the present highly developed 
system has resulted. 



DOCUMENTS RELATING TO MARBLEHEAD, 
MASS. 



{Continued from Vol. LVI, page 160.') 

Copy of Writ, 8 Mar. 1705/6, Andrews vs English, 
trespass, returnable Common Pleas &c., in June 1705, 
Andrews was possessed of goods and money which got 
into English's hands who converted them to his own use 
&c, including 

1 tawse of molasses, 68 gallons 

2 kilderkins of sugar 495 pounds 
1 barrel of rum 45 gallons 

1 kilderkin of lime juice 25 gallons 

1 kilderkin of Angelico water 32 gallons 

sails &c of a 60 tun Sloop 

15 pounds in Barbados money, 17 penny half penny 
weight each peice of Eight, total value .78. Defendant 
pleads not guilty. Served. 

Mass. Archives, vol. 40, pp- 904-5. 

Copy Court Record, Inferior Court, held at Ipswich, 
Mar. 26, 1706, jury returns verdict for Andrews with 
costs. English appeals to next Superior Court. 

Mass. Archives, vol. 40, p. 895. 

Copy, Reasons of Appeal, filed Apr. 29, 1706, by Paul 
Dudley, Attorney for English, general denial, much of 
said goods never received, as by manifest, rest held for 
charges, &c. 

Mass. Archives, vol. 40, pp. 896-7. 

Copy of agreement signed by English and Calley in 
presence of Margaret Sewall J unior, to submit same to 
arbitration. 

Mats. Archives, vol. 40, p. 891. 

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DOCUMENTS .RELATING TO MARBLEHEAD, MASS. 203 

Copy of Complaint Nov. 1706, of Capt. Galley to Su- 
perior Court, asking affirmation of Inferior Court's ver- 
dict, persuant to action of Generall Court. 

Mass. Archives, vol. 40, p. 900. 

Copy of letter, 11 Jan. 1706/7, Andrew Belcher to Mr. 
Andrews, referring to copies made at joint cost and asking 
return- to Mr. English of 3 evidences made at his cost 
and sent Andrews by mistake. 

Mass. Archives, vol. 0, p. 902. 

Copy of Testimony, 10 Feb. 1706/7, of Samuel Lillie, 
arbitrator, as to extension of time on bond, action de- 
ferred till expiration of same on account of Belcher's 
public and private affairs, and Galley's refusal to further 
extend time. 

Mass. Archives, vol. 40, p. 903. 

Copy of testimony of And. Belcher, 21 Feb. 1706/7, 
partially confirming above, and reason of dropping was 
Galley's absence in public service and English being out 
of Town. 

Mass.. Archives, vol. fyO, p. 902. 

Copy of Superior Court Record, May 20, 1707, Ips- 
wich, affirmation of Inferior Court's action, Mar. 26, 1706, 
persuant to petition of Capt. Galley, November last, con- 
tinued to this Session. 

Mass. Archives, vol. 40, p. 906. 

Captain Stuckley 
Sir 

I received his Excellency the Governours orders with 
the Inclosed and was Immediately to send an Express 
with the same, which accordingly comes by the sloop May 
Flower Michael Coombes Pilot and master of said Sloop, 
I Imprest both sloop & men, and they to be discharged 
upon delirery of the Letter directed to your self, they 
are upon a Fishing Voyage and thought it better to send 
them, then a vessell on purpose to Returne, You haveing 



204 DOCUMENTS RELATING TO MARBLEHEAD, MASS. 

many Vessels to send upon occasion. I begg & desire of 
you to discharge the Sloop & men upon delivery of the 
Letter and you will much oblidge 

Your Humble servantt at Comand 

Edward Brattle 
Marblehead, May 27th, 1707. 
[Backed] On Her Majestys Service 

To Captain Charles Stuckley 

Conmnder of Her Majestys Ship 

Deptford. 
At Port Royal or parts Adjacent. 

Mass. Archives, vol. 63, p. 87. 

In the House of Representatives, June 10th, 1707. 

Whereas this House the 12th of November last, Passed 
& sent up the Resolve following vizt. Resolved That the 
sums demanded for the support of souldiers Posted at 
Salem & Marblehead be not allowed by his Excellency 
& Councill, until this House have had the charge thereof 
laid before them, & consented unto the Muster Rols that 
may be brought in. 

Which Consent has not been given, but since that time 
we find in the Treasurer's accompts allowance has been 
made contrary to the said Resolve. 

Ordered That his Excellency and Councill be Prayed 
to Reconsider said Resolve That their acting contrary 
thereunto is a Grievance to this House And that Remedy 
be made by an Addition of the sum of one hundred forty 
one Pounds seven shillings & one peny to the Tax of the 
Town of Salem & of forty six Pounds nine shillings & 
seven pence to the Tax of the Town of Marblehead in the 
Tax to be levyed this session, the said sums having been 
drawn out of the Treasury for their Forts, since the said 
time. And that no such further allowance be made for 
support of said Forts, untill this Gcnerall Assembly have 
Granted the same, In that we conceive such sums Drawn 
out of the Treasury cannot be reckoned among incident 
& contingent Charges. 

John Burrill Speaker. 

In Council 10th June, 1707. Read. 

Mass. Archives, vol. 71, p. 



DOCUMENTS RELATING TO MAKBLEHEAD, MASS. 205 

To his Excellency Joseph Dudley Esquire, Captain 
Generall & Governour in Chief in & over her Majesties 
Province of the Massachusetts Bay & New hampshire in 
New England & the Honourable the Council & Repre- 
sentatives in General Court assembled at Boston. 

The Peticon of William Wood of Marblehead in the 
County of Essex Innholder. 

Humbly Sheweth 

That Whereas Robert Bartlet of Marblehead aforesaid 
shoreman June the 16th 1707 brought an Action or Plea 
of the Case upon an Act of this Province for Settling 
Bounds before a Justice of the Peace For Your Petition- 
ers not perambulating & settling of Bounds with him the 
said Bartlet according to said Bartlet's pretended previ- 
ous notification as in & by the Originall Writ more at 
large is alledged To which your Petitioner among other 
things Pleaded That he had within two years by severall 
months run & settled the Bounds with Mr. Erasmus 
James his then next neighbouring Proprietor of the Land 
on that side which said Bartlet by his said Writs pretends 
to, which the Justice over ruling gave Sentance or Judg- 
ment for Bartlet the then Plaintif from which your Pe- 
titioner Appealed to the next Inferiour Court where your 
Petitioner among other Pleas insisted upon his aforesaid 
Plea of his running & setting Bounds as aforesaid with 
Erasmus James his next neighbouring proprietor & legal 
possessor of the said laud said Bartlet now pretends to as 
aforesaid, & that within two years as aforesaid And then 
& there gave in full Evidences of said Erasmus James's 
being in quiet & legall Actuall possession of the said Land 
next adjoyning to your Petitioner on that side as above 
expressed And produced & put into Court the Act or 
Order of the Generall Court Confirming said Erasmus 
James's said possession (which was by vertue of an Exe- 
cucon) to be good against said Bartlett's Suit & contin- 
ued molestations during the time of said James's posses- 
sion by vertue of his said Execution. 

Yet never the less the Cause being admitted to a Jury 
they brought and persisted in their verdict against your 
Petitioner Whereupon the justices of the said Inferior 
Court who were members of the Honourable Councill & 



206 DOCUMENTS RELATING TO MARBLEHEAD, MASS. 

that Generall Court & being Conscious to their Act or 
Order Confirming said Erasmus James's possession as 
aforesaid during the time of the said Execution declared 
they could not be of Opinion with that Jury and Granted 
your Petitioner's Motion in Stay of Judgement for their 
farther Consideracon & Advisement upon the Premises. 
Wherefore your Petitioner Prayes Your Excellency & 
Honourable Generall Court to take the premises into your 
prudent & just Consideracon & render the said Act or 
Order of the said General Court for confirming said Eras- 
mus James's possession as aforesaid during the validity 
of his said Execution as good & beneficial for your Peti- 
tioner against this Bartletts litigious & vexatious suit And 
also that you would give such explanacon of that Para- 
graph of the Law (for Proprietors Settling bounds in two 
years space), that your Petitioner may be at peace & rest 
& not obliged (as he humbly conceives he is not by that 
Law) to be runing & settling his bounds every month 
and with anybody or in less than 2 years as the said Rob- 
ert Bartlett would have it, & Also that the said Jury's 
Verdict may be Quasht & made null And your Petitioner 
shall ever pray &c. 

William Wood. 

In the House of Representatives Aug. 15, 1707. Read 
& sent up 

In the House of Representatives Nov. 21, 1707. Read 
& sent up. 

[Endorsed] Petition of Wm. Wood. 

Aug. 14, 1707. 10/ received with it. 

Mass. Archives, vol. 113, p. 



Plains Farm Case, summary, rearranged. 
Copy, summons, 16 July 1706, Wm. Woods, inholder, 
Marblehead, vs. Robert Bartlet, same, shoreman, trespass 
on land of Woods abutting on land late in controversy 
between Erasmus James and said Bartlett, in entering, 
mowing &c of English hay, returnable before Stephen 
Sewall J. P. Salem &c. Defendant, General denial, return 
by Obadiah Bredges Constable of Marblehead July 23, 
1706. 

Mass. Archives, vol. $.0, p. 921. 



DOCUMENTS RELATING TO MARBLEHEAD, MASS. 207 

Copy of Court Record, May 16, 1707, before Sewall, 
as above, Bartlett vs Wood, neglect of perambulation as 
by writ June 6, 1707(?), for Bartlet 10s and costs. Wood 
appeals to Inferior, sureties Erasmus James and James 
Dennis. 

Mass. Archives, vol. 0, p. 922. 

Copy, Court Record Inferior Salem June 24, 1707, 
Jury fincj for Bartlet in confirmation with costs. Judge- 
ment stayed until next Court at Newbury. Newbury, 
Sept. 30, 1707, further continued, pending action by 
Generall Court. 

Mass. Archives, vol. 40, p. 923. 

Copy, Court Record, Inferior, Salem, Nov. 25, 1707, 
further continued as above. 

Mass. Archives, vol. 0, p. 925. 

Petition Feb. 26, 1708, Bartlett, as above, since which 
Woods has deceased, no remedy but Generall Court &c. 

Mass. Archives, vol. 40. p. 920. 

Copy, Court Record, Inferior, Ipswich, Mar. 30, 1705, 
Justices not agreeing . . . equally divided ... no 
judgement. 

Mass. Archives, vol. 40, p. 92fy. 

Petition, Oct. 20, 1708, Bartlett to Gov., Council and 
House, in Generall Court, &c. Obtained judgement be- 
fore Mr. Justice Sewall, confirmed at Inferior Court, 24 
June 1707, unable to obtain judgement in six Courts 
since, asks that Judges may be ordered to enter Judge- 
ment. 

Mass. Archives, vol. Jfi, p. 926. 

This may Certify That Thomas Pousland served as 
Gunner of Her Majesties fort at Marblehead by vertue of 
His Excellency the Governour's warrant from the 2d day 
of Aprill 1707 to the 2d day of Aprill 1708 

Edward Brattle Captain 

[Backed] Certificate for Tho. Pousland Gunner at 
Marblehead Fort. 

Mas*. Archives, vol. 71, p. 469. 

Essex ss. To mr. Joshua Orne Constable of Lyn you 
are Required In her Majesties Name to Gard and Con- 



208 DOCUMENTS RELATING TO MARBLEHEAD, MASS. 

duct the French Prisoners that the Lef tenant of the Fal- 
mouth put on shore in Marblehead from Marblehead to 
Winnesiniitt and there deliver them to the Sheriff of 
Suffolk ; provided there be no Cruelty used to said French 
Prisoners and the abovesaid persons by Vertue of his Ex- 
cellencies warrant are Required in her Majesties name to 
Gard & Conduct said Prisoners as Abovesaid Salem 29th 
November 1708 

William Gedney Sheriff 

November 29, 1708. Constable of Lyn with four men 
to assist him in conducting the above prisoners to Boston 
with foive horses to help them along 16 

Expended 0020 

Joseph Jacobs Constable in Lyn. 
Mats. Archive*, vol. 71, p. 47S. 

In the House of Representatives February 9th 1709 
Resolved That the Sum of Thirty shillings be allowed & 
paid out of the Publick Treasury to Joseph Jacobs for 
the Accompt on the other side & that annexed. 
Sent up for Concurrence. 

John Clark Speaker 
February 10th 1709. In Council 

Read and Concurred Isaac Addington Secretary. 

Mats. Archive*, vol. 71, p. ^80. 

Essex ss. To the Constables of Lynn in the County 
of Essex Greeting 

These are in her Majesties Name to require you, or 
some one of you, to receive three french prissoners, and 
forthwith to transmit them to Boston to his Excellency. 
Capt. Cyperan Southwark having sent them to me by his 
Excellency order. Hereof fail not. dated at Marblehead 
the 16th of Aprill 1709 

John Legg Justis pecis 

Aprill 16, 1709 Lyn Constable & one man with him 
& two horses one day to Carry the above prisoners to 
Boston, 08 

Expended on the prisoners & ferridge 4 

Joseph Jacobs Constable in Lyn. 

Ma**. Archive*, vol. 71, p. 
(To be continued) 



i* 



BEVERLY IN 1700. NO. 6. 



BY SIDNEY PEKLEY. 



THIS portion of Beverly is known as Beverly Farms. 
The region covered is three miles in length, southwesterly 
and northeasterly, and one and one-half miles in width, 
northwesterly and southeasterly. 

In the spring of 1717, a slight attempt was made to 
hare this section of Beverly set off to Manchester. At a 
town meeting in Manchester, June 3, 1717, it was "voted 
to chues A man to send to the Jennerel Cort with the 
men of the farm of Capten wests of beverly with A pe- 
tesion in order to get them of from beverly," and "Cap. 
John Knolton is Chosen to go with such Jantel men of 
Capten wests farm as they shall Apint to go to the Jen- 
neral Cort with A petesion for thare geting of from 
beverly to us at Manchester And Allso to Rays our 
formmer petession if he thinks it best." Several at- 
tempts were made a generation ago to have this section 
of Beverly incorporated as a separate town to be known 
as Beverly Farms. 

A part of Manchester is included in this article and 
plan. 

The tidal water off this portion of the shore was called 
the sea very early. 

The beach was called ye Long beach as early as 1684, 
and has been known as West beach ever since that time. 

Plum cove was so called as early as 1673, and the small 
pond near it was known as Plum Cove pond. 

The easterly side of Chubb's creek was called Chubb's 
point in 1699 ; and the creek was called Chubb's creek at 
the same time. The source of its northern branch was 
early called Lily Pond brook. The brook was also called 
Gate brook about 1700, probably because there was a gate 
in the way at the town line. 

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210 BEVERLY IN 1700. NO. 6 

The large pond that once existed in the rear of West 
beach was called Blackleach's pond as early as 1671, and 
Great pond in 1684. It broke into the ocean in 1696, 
and ran aw&y. 

Rattlesnake point was so called as early as 1702. 

Hooppole hill was so called in 1713. 

Round plain was so called in 1723. 

Woods Egypt was known by that name as early as 
1760. 

Raccoon swamp was so called as early as 1779. 

Malt hill was known by that name in 1856. 

In 1700, there was but one highway in this locality in 
general use. It was practically the present Hale street. 
The original road was laid out from Salem to Jeffry's 
Creek (Manchester) in 1646. It followed the seashore 
as nearly as it was physically possible. At the Manches- 
ter town line, it was diverted up the Lily Pond brook, in 
what has lately been called Bow street, but it was straight- 
ened at this place many years ago and located where it now 
runs. At West beach, it ran along the high-water line, 
between the pond and the beach. It ran around Paine's 
or Allen's promontory as best it could, and at Plum cove 
it passed over the brook between the pond and cove. The 
original way was defined by a committee of Beverly and 
Manchester March 10, 1695-6, as follows : 

Whearas complaint hath of late been made especialy by sum of 
ye inhabitants of Manchester yt ye highway or country road within 
y e township of Beverly betwen Manchester & Beverly Meeting 
house hath cow lots lye in sum places stopt & bard to y e prejudice 
of Travelers & y e sd highways in sum parts of it having gon sum 
times in one place & sum times in another & it being unsertain to 
both towns which is right y e sd towns viz: Beverly & Manchester 
have for y e removal of such impediments at present & preventing 
of such incumbrances for y e future Apointed a committee from 
each town to set & apoint wheare sd highway shall goe as they shall 
judge most convenient for both as by their respective records may 
appear beverlys bearing date y e 18 th Sept* 1695 and Manchester y e 
20 th of September 1695. Wee under named being y e Major part of 
y* comitte apointed for sd servise being mett together on y e place 
on y e 23 d of Sept. 1695 have settled as followeth viz. from manohes- 
ter to farmer west his house & by sd house & thence westward to y e 
estward end of y e pond as ye way now goeth & to be in breadth two 
pole & from thence to be 4 pole wide from high watter mark upward 
untill it comes to Benjamin Woodberys upland & from thence 
through sd Woodberyes orchard & through his cornefeild & soe to a 
blaek oack A little to y e westward of sd benjamin woodberyes 



BY SIDNEY PERLEY 211 

Dwelling house & to be 2 pole wide & from thence over y e hill as 
y way now goes & soe along sd way untill it shall come unto A 
marked white pine & soe to A white oak stump marked on 8 sides 
& thence to a small white pine marked on 3 sides & thence to a 
walnut marked on 3 sides & from thence to A black oack marked 
on 3 sides & from thence westward to A Rock & thence to A pichpine 
marked as before & soe over plumb cove pond & thenc to y e point 
of Rocks northeast of Richard Overs pasture next plnmb cove & 
soe into y e road y* now is sd highway to be southerly from all 
y forementioned bounds & to be 2 pole wide & from thence to 
beverly meeting house as y e way now goes & to be 2 pols wide & it 
is Agreed upon by & between y e comittee undernamed & Richard 
thissill in consideration of y e highways going over plumb cove 
pond sd richard thissell is to Alow all y e Land y e sd highway goeth 
over or taketh away of his 
This is a true coppy of y e originall as attest 

by me THOMAS TEWXBERY Clari: 

JOHN DODGE WILL RAYMONT JOHN SIBLEE 

ANDREW ELIOTT PAULE THOBNDIK ROBABT LEACH 

SAMUELL ALLEN SEN' 

The sand bank gave way, probably under pressure of 
the spring freshet, in 1696, and the pond ran into the sea. 

In the succeeding October, the towns held meetings to 
consider as to what should be done about the way. 

At a town meeting leagualy warned and rnett togather in manches- 
ter on the 19 th Day of October 1696 Whearas the country highway 
which was lately Laid out within the presinks of the town of beav- 
erly on the beach namely wests beach being now brocken up by 
reason of the pond breacking into the sea which makes that part of 
the way very hazardable and Dificult for travillers and it being sig- 
nified to us by the sd town of beverly their redines to consider and 
Doe that which may be best and most secure and convenient for 

travillers by renewing or Laying out a way it may be found as 

sich gentelmen of beverly and manchester that are chosen and im- 
powered by each town respectively them or the majer part of them 

Doo Agree and in order we the said town of manchester have at 

this metin chosen and fully Impowered lieft. John Siblee robert 
leech Samuell allin sinor Joseph wodbery John ley Jams pitman 
they or the mager part of them to joyn with sich gentlemen of 
beverly as are alike chosen and Impowered by sd beverly to doo the 
work above sd. 2 

The committees appointed by the towns of Beverly and 
Manchester proceeded to lay out a new highway, and re- 
ported as follows : 

We whose names are underwritten being committies chosen by 
each of our towns viz. beverly & manchester to lay out a contry 
highway in sd town of beverly towards manchester in such a place 
and places whare by reason of a breach or eruption at y e Beach 
between Mr beniamin woodberys & Mr Thomas Wests such a contry 

Manchester Town Records, volume 1, page 65. 
'Manchester Town Records, volume I, page 75. 



212 BEVERLY IN 1700. NO. 6 

road or highway as is needful and wanted we Doe agree & for a final 
Ishewe & conclution about the aforesd matter Doe determine that 
the contry road or highway from Mr. Thomas West aforesd toward 
beverly shall begin at the west end of sd wests cassway whare the 
way was formerly laid ont & so from thence by a 3 raild fence on 
the rigt hand and so neer straight til you com to the next hill in sd 
wests field & from thence betwen sd Wests old field & his middle 
field to a vally leading down to his meddow allmost at the head of 
the pond & over sd meddow to the sd wests Land on the norwest side 
of sd meddow & from thence over the hill on sd wests Land till you 
come to the common on the north of Cornelius larcoms Land & 
from thence over sd common Land southwesterly till you come to 
sd beniamin woodberys most southerly bars that let out into the 
common Land aforesd & from sd bars into & through sd woodberys 
pasture Land southwesterly tell you come to the old highway at a 
white pine tree marked on 2 sides sd pine tree standing on the south 
side of sd way In witness whareof & for the full confirmation of 
all & singular the primises abovsd we the sd committies have heir- 
unto interchangably set our hands this 29 th day of March 1697 

5 ANDREW ELIOTT 
PAUL THOBNDIK 
WILLIAM BAYMOND 
SAMUELL COBNING 

!JOHN SlBLEE 
ROBERT LEACH 
SAMUELL ALLIN senior 
JOHN LEY' 

At a Leagule Towne meeting of the Inhabitants of y e Towne of 
Beuerly on the 29 th day of march 1697 ... it was voated that where 
as by y e breaking out of the pond into the fea at y e long Beach be- 
tween our Towne and manchefter Commonly knowen by the name 
of ffarmer wefts Beach the which ocafions the laying out of a new 
way from plumb Coue to farmer wefts land the which doth Require 
Extraordinery Charge for the making of fd way It is there fore 
voated as aboue sd that the Towne f hall make fd way in Eaquall 
proportion and y e four furveyors are to warne fuch to work for the 
makeing of fd way as belong to their fquadrons in Eaquall propo 
tion according to the number of men in Each part.* 

The present Hale street between Mingo beach and 
Pride's Crossing was laid out by a jury of the Court of 
General Sessions Aug. 29, 1702. 

The eastern end of West street was a causeway three 
hundred and sixty-three feet in length. John West or his 
son Capt. Thomas West had contracted to keep it in re- 
pair ; and, Jan. 21, 1750, Robert Haskell, Benjamin Wood- 
bury, Mary Woodbury, widow of Capt. Robert Woodbury, 
deceased, Mary West alias Martin and Henry Herrick, jr., 
guardian of the heirs of Thomas West, all of Beverly, 

'Manchester Town Records, volume I, page 54. 
2 Town Records of Beverly. 



BY SIDNEY PERLEY 213 

agreed to divide the causeway into seven parts, which 
each respectively was to keep in repair. Robert Haskell 
was assigned five rods of its southwesterly end, "begin- 
ning at ye southernmost large stone of said Gas way ;" 
Benjamin Woodbury the next one and three-fourths rods ; 
Mary Woodbury the next one and three-fourths rods ; 
Mary West alias Martin the next two and one-half rods 
(which extends one-half a rod northerly of ye sluice of 
ye north bridge), being two parts ; and Henry Herrick, 
guardian of the male heirs of Thomas West, deceased, 
two parts, eleven rods of the northerly end of the cause- 
way. 1 

At Plum cove, the original highway was called "the 
ould Country Rhod" in 1716 ; that lane that goes to Ben- 
jamin Smith's dwelling house in 1756 ; and the way to 
Plum cove so called in 1762. The present road was called 
the country highway in 1723 ; the country highway that 
leads to Manchester in 1730 ; the public road that leads 
from Essex bridge to Manchester in 1796 ; the highway 
leading towards Gloucester from the South meeting house 
in Beverly in 1825 ; and Hale street as early as 1840. 

Thistle street was laid out and recorded at the meeting 
of the selectmen of Beverly March 18, 1678-9, it being 
recorded as follows : 

a Cartway begininge at the Gantry Road that comes from man- 
chester and soe northeast through the Land of Capt Dixie and the 
land of Richard Thistle and soe into the Common which way is to 
be two pole wide 

V 

Hale and Hart streets, from the eastern junction of 
Hale and West streets to the Wenham line, was a private 
way of Capt. Thomas West from his landing place (where 
the Corporation bath house is located) to the northern 
portion of his farm. It was petitioned for by inhabitants 
of Ipswich, Manchester and Wenham, "from the Country 
Road or Highway that leads from Beverly to Manchester 
near to Thomas West's Dwelling House to the Highway 
that Wenham hath laid out and well Repaired that leadeth 
towards Manchester over the Easterly part of the town- 
ship of Wenham," as a highway in December, 1734. It 
was called Hart street in 1844. 

'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 97, leaf 169. 



214 BEVERLY IN 1700. NO. 6 

West street was so called in 1845. 

Grove street was so called in 1854; and "Central now 
Grove street" in 1873. 

High street was so called in 1857. 

Beach street was so called in 1864. 

Oak street was so called in 1866. 

Hull's lane was so called in 1869. 

Haskell street was so called in 1871. 

Valley street was so called in 1871. 

Juniper street was so called in 1873. 

Hemlock street was so called in 1877. 

Greenwood avenue was so called in 1884. 

Robert Morgan House. The town of Salem early grant- 
ed to Jeffry Eastie twenty acres of land, and ten acres 
more to be added to it Jan. 21, 1638-9, the whole consti- 
tuting this lot of thirty acres. For thirty shillings, he 
conveyed it to William Dixie Oct. 6, 1651 ;' and William 
Dixey of Beverly conveyed it to Samuel Morgan of Mar- 
blehead June 20, 1681. 2 Sergeant Morgan's son Robert 
Morgan probably built a house upon this lot about 1692, 
and lived in it. Sergeant Morgan died late in 1698, hav- 
ing devised this lot to his son Robert, who already lived 
upon it. The house was standing in 1703; and was 
doubtless occupied by him for many years. He died July 
16, 1762, at the age of ninety-three. 

Richard Ober Lot. This lot of land was granted by 
the town of Salem to Richard Lambert Jan. 21, 1639-40. 
It was later owned by Mr. Thorndike, who sold it to Rice 
Edwards, who resigned it up to the town of Salem. Later, 
Nicholas Woodbery of Beverly, yeoman, became its owner; 
and, for love, conveyed it to his daughter Abigail, wife of 
Richard Ober, Feb. 18, 1676-7. 3 

Richard Thistle of Beverly, mariner, for fifty shillings, 
conveyed to Mr. Ober, then of Beverly, mariner, the 
northwesterly corner of it, containing one hundred rods, 
Sept. 28, 1687> 

Mr. Ober owned the whole lot in 1700. 

'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 1, leaf 11. 
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 8, leaf 137. 
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 19, leaf 147. 
"Essex Registry of Deeds, book 22, leaf 270. 



BY SIDNEY PEBLEY 215 

Riehard Thistle House. This lot of land originally be- 
longed to Jeffry Thistle, who came from Abbotsbury, Dor- 
setshire, England, and died in the spring of 1676. The 
lot belonged to his eldest son Richard Thistle in 1673; 
and there was a house upon it in 1678, which then be- 
longed to Richard Thistle. The house was there in 1703, 

O 

also. Mr. Thistle became a husbandman ; and conveyed 
the house and homestead lands to his son Richard Thistle 
of Beverly, husbandman, Aug. 4, 1707. Mr. Thistle, the 
father, died Oct. 18, 1715 ; and his widow Elizabeth This- 
tle released her interest in the estate, for seventy pounds, 
to her son Richard Thistle Dec. 3, 1715. 1 Peter Pride of 
Beverly, weaver alias fisherman, and wife Hannah con- 
veyed to Ebenezer Thistle of Beverly, weaver alias fisher- 
man, "our interest" in the estate of said Richard Thistle 
and his widow Elizabeth Feb. 8, 1715-6 ; a and on the 
same day Elizabeth Thistle, jr., singlewoman, for five 
pounds, conveyed her interest in the estate to Ebenezer 
Thistle ; 8 Benjamin Cole of Beverly, fisherman, and wife 
Sarah, for five pounds, conveyed their interest in said 
house and land to him ;* and Robert Sallows of Beverly, 
fisherman, for five pounds and ten shillings, conveyed the 
interest of his four daughters by his late wife Mary in 
the estate to him.* Twenty days later, Ebenezer Thistle, 
for five pounds, conveyed to Richard Thistle of Beverly, 
husbandman, his interest in the estate. 6 

Samuel Morgan of Beverly, cooper, for thirty shillings, 
conveyed to Richard Thistle of Beverly, mariner, the 
southern extremity of this lot, containing twenty square 
rods, Sept. 27, 1687 ; 6 and a small piece of land adjoining 
to it was conveyed to Mr. Thistle by Richard Ober of 
Beverly, mariner, the next day. 7 

Richard Thistle died March 17, 1752, having in his will 
devised to his son Jeffry Thistle the dwelling house "I 
now live in" and the barn and land. The dwelling house 

'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 27, leaf 253. 
2 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 27, leaf 235. 
3 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 28, leaf 85. 
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 29, leaf 247. 
5 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 27, leaf 240. 
"Essex Registry of Deeds, book 19, leaf 105. 
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 23, leaf 92. 



216 BEVERLY IN 1700. NO. 6 

and barn were then appraised at thirty-three pounds, six 
shillings and eight pence. Jeffry Thistle died Aug. 29, 
1794. How much longer the old house stood is unknown. 

Richard Thistle and Mary Salloes Lot. The selectmen 
of Salem granted to Robert Lemon this lot of land "to 
be laid oute to him at Cape Ann Side next the sea near 
that which was william Balies Lott" Feb. 8, 1657-8. Mr. 
Lemon died in 1667, having devised the land to his wife 
Mary Lemon. For fifty pounds, Mrs. Lemon conveyed it 
to Jeffry Thistle and Richard Thistle March 7, 1673-4. 1 
Jeffry Thistle died in the spring of 1676, having devised 
his interest in it to his eldest son Richard Thistle and the 
latter's daughter Mary, who married Robert Salloes of 
Beverly in 1697. Mr. Thistle and Mrs. Salloes owned 
the lot in 1700. 

Benjamin Woodbury Souse. That part of this lot lying 
westerly of the dashes was the ten acres granted by the 
town of Salem to Henry Swan Feb. 11, 1638-9 ; and it 
belonged to him in 1640. It belonged to Nicholas Wood- 
bury as early as 1660. 

Four acres of meadow next the pond was granted to 
him by the selectmen of Salem March 13, 1655-6, as fol- 
lows : "Graunted vnto Nich Woodbury foure Acres of 
the meadow at the west end joyning to the Pond neare 
Mr Blackleechs farme." 

The remaining part of this lot lying easterly of the 
dashes belonged to Mr. Woodbury as 'early as 1673, and 
the house was there in 1679. 

Mr. Woodbury lived on this large farm, and died May 
10, 1686, having devised his homestead, which was 
valued at three hundred pounds, to his son Benjamin 
Woodbury. Benjamin Woodbury died in 1698-9 ; and 
the dwelling house, barn and land, which were appraised 
at three hundred pounds, descended to his baby daughter 
Anna. She married Rev. John Barnard of Marblehead 
in 1718 ; and he erected a new house upon the farm, 
probably removing the old house. 

Cornelius Larcom House. This was apparently a part 
of the land which was granted by the town of Salem to 
John Blackleach, sr., of Salem ; and which he conveyed 
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 4, leaf 82. 



BY SIDNEY PEELEY 217 

to John West of Salem, husbandman, Dec. 14, I860. 1 Mr. 
West of Beverly conveyed that part of the lot lying west- 
erly of the dashes to Anthony Bennett of Beverly, carpen- 
ter, Jan. 7, 1671. 2 Mr. Bennett removed to Gloucester 
and conveyed the lot to Cornelius Larcom of "Bass River 
alias Beverly" Nov. 28, 1684. 8 

That part of the lot lying easterly of the dashes was 
conveyed by Thomas West of Beverly, yeoman, for twelve 
pounds and sixteen shillings, to Mr. Larcom, who was 
then of Beverly, yeoman, May 28, 1697. 4 

This was the homestead of Cornelius Larcom in 1719. 

Thomas West House. That portion of this lot of land 
lying northerly of the dashes was granted by the town of 
Salem to Richard Gardner of Salem, mariner, who con- 
veyed it to John West of Salem, farmer, Sept. 13, 1667. 5 

That part of the lot lying between Hale street and the 
ocean and West street and the Manchester line, consisting 
principally of salt marsh and containing about eighty-five 
acres, was early granted by the town of Salem to John 
Home of Salem. Deacon Home, for fifty pounds, con- 
veyed it to William Pitt and Moses Maverick, both of 
Marblehead, April 23, 1653 ; c and it belonged to Thomas 
West in 1700. 

The remainder of the lot was part of the grants of 
three hundred and fifty acres of land made by the town 
of Salem to John Blackleach of Salem in the following 
words : 

The 16th of the 12th moneth 1635 

Granted by the freemen of Salem the day and yeare aboue written 
vnto mr John Blacklech of the same his heires and assignees for 
euer one fearme conteyning three hundreth acres of land scitnate 
lying and being from Salem North East and being at long Marshe 
extending from a marked tree growing and being ner to the East 
of the Marshe along the Sea Side and conteyning halfe the marshe 
thence Westward, and from the West end of the said Marshe con- 
teyneth halfe of the playne ground betwixt that & the freshe pond 
lying nere to the Sea Side in all conteyning as before mentioned, 
the quantitye of three hundreth acres of land, bounded by the said 



'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 2, leaf 39. 
2 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 4, leaf 175. 
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 11, leaf 178. 
*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 13, leaf 8. 
*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 88, leaf 277. 
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 1, leaf 28. 



218 BEVERLY IN 1700. NO. 6 

Inhabitants, pvided always that if the said mr Blackleech shall at 
any tyme make sale of yt, that the towne shall haue the first pfer of 
y* before any other. 

JOHN ENDICOTT W. TBASKE 
PHILLIP VERRIN 
TOWNSHEND BISHOP 
JOHN HOLQRAVE 
EDMOND BATTEB 
THOMAS GARDINER 

At Towne meeting the 14 tb of 6 th month 1637 . . . 
Mr Blakleoh apointed the pece of meadow y* was appointed o r 
broth"- Gott y* lyeth nere to mr blaklechs farme. 

The 21 s * of 11 th moneth 1638 . . . 

Whereas Mr John Blackleech desireth 50 acres of land to be 
graunted him as an addition to his former graunt of 300 acres, 
vppon exchange of 50 acres of his rock ground for it, alleadging, 
that hee hath not sufficient ground to maintayne a plow. The town 
therefore for the furthering of his endeauor in plowing & for his 
incouragemt therein hath freely graunted vnto him w th out exchange 
[fifty acres of ground or thereabouts] such land as was formerly 
graunted to Mr Gott vppon the playne neere adioyning to his said 
farme conditionally that hee will be at the charge of plowing of it 
or the greatest pt of it. 

Mr. Blackleach removed to Boston, where he was a 
merchant. He let the house and barns which then stood 
upon the farm together with the land to Lawrence Leach, 
and subsequently to John West of Salem, husbandman. 
It was in the tenure and occupation of Mr. West Dec. 14, 
1660, when, for three hundred and fifty pounds, Mr. 
Blackleach conveyed the estate to him. 1 John West of 
Beverly, farmer, conveyed to his son Thomas West this 
"my now dwelling house," barn and two-thirds of "my 
farm I now dwell upon" May 25, 1675, Thomas West 
having agreed to build a house for his father upon the 
other third part of the farm as his father shall appoint. 2 
Thomas West subsequently acquired the other third part 
of the farm, and lived here in 1700. 

Thomas West had a landing place at the shore where 
the corporation bath house is now located as early as 1689. 
He also had a sawmill on the brook on the northwesterly 
side of Haskell street as early as 1690. 

Captain West conveyed to his son Thomas West of 
Beverly the east end of "my dwelling house" in which 

Essex Registry of Deeds, book 2, leaf 30. 
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 4, leaf 112. 



BY SIDNEY PBRLEY 219 

the grantee "now dwells" Jan. 1, 170 7. 1 Thomas West, 
jr., died April 3, 1714 ; and his father conveyed to his 
widow, Christian West, "my homestead," dwelling house, 
barn and land, June 22, 1714. 2 Mrs. West apparently 
removed the old house before April 14, 1718, when she 
conveyed to her five children, Thomas, Wilkes, Mary, 
Hannah and Elizabeth, for love, the land and the dwelling 
house and barn thereon that "I have Lately built upon 
the Land of my said Late husband since his decease" 
which are "partly finished." 3 

William Easkell Lot. This lot of land was part of the 
three hundred acres granted by the town of Salem to 
John Blackleach Feb. 16, 1635-6 ; and which he conveyed 
to John West Dec. 14, 1660. 4 Mr. West conveyed it to 
his son Thomas West May 25, 1675 ; 5 and Thomas West 
conveyed to William Hascoll, husband of his daughter 
Kuth, as a part of her dowry, March 1, 1689-90. 6 Mr. 
Haskell owned the lot in 1700. 

IN MANCHESTER. 

Jbteph Woodbury Lot. This lot of land on Chubb's 
point vras conveyed by Capt. Thomas West of Beverly, 
yeoman, to his son-in-law Joseph Woodbury of Manches- 
ter, mariner, May 1, 1699." It belonged to Mr. Woodbury 
in 1700. 

Thomas West Lot. That part of this lot of land lying 
southeasterly of the southeasterly dashes was granted to 
Thomas West before 1700. 

That part of the lot lying within the dashes was laid 
out by the town of Manchester to John Elithorp of Man- 
chester, cooper, in 1685 ; and, for eight pounds, he con- 
veyed it to Thomas West of Beverly, yeoman, Sept. 20, 
1690. 8 

That part of the lot lying northwesterly of the north- 
westerly dashes was three-fourths of the lot of land grant- 



Registry of Deeds, book 20, leaf 155. 
2 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 30, leaf 57. 
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 42, leaf 5. 
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 2, leaf 39. 
5 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 4, leaf 112. 
"Essex Registry of Deeds, book 9, leaf 188. 
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 23, leaf 35. 
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 9, leaf 18. 



220 BEVERLY IN 1700. NO. 6 

ed by the town of Manchester to William Bennett, Rob- 
ert Leach, sr., John Norman, sr., and John Pickforth 
March 10, 1667. John Pickworth died in 1681 ; and his 
brother Joseph Pickforth of Marblehead, fisherman, con- 
veyed his quarter part, for nine pounds, to Mr. West Dec. 
10, 1690. 1 Mr. West had bought Mr. Bennett's share in 
or before 1690; and Mr. Leach's part belonged to his son 
Robert Leach in 1690, and subsequently came into the 
hands of Mr. West. 

John Norman Lot. This was a part of a lot of land 
granted by the town of Manchester to William Bennett, 
Robert Leach, sr., John Norman, sr., and John Pickforth 
March 10, 1667, being John Norman's quarter of said 
grant. Mr. Norman died in 1672, and it descended to his 
son John Norman, who owned-it in 1700. 

John Coy and Thomas Whittredge Lot. This lot of land 
was conveyed by the town of Manchester, for forty pounds, 
to John Coy of Wenham and Thomas Whittredge of 
Beverly, carpenters, July 17. 1699; 2 and these grantees 
owned it in 1700. 

George Norton Lot. This lot of land was laid out by 
the town of Manchester to George Norton Dec. 20, 1699, 
in the lay out of the west division so called. 

Joseph Woodbury Lot. This lot of land was laid out to 
Joseph Woodbury by the town of Manchester Dec. 20, 
1699. 

James Friend Lot. This lot of land was laid out by 
the town of Manchester to James Friend Dec. 20, 1699. 

John Norman Lot. This lot of land was laid out by the 
town of Manchester to John Norman Dec. 20, 1699. 

Samuel Leach Lot. This lot of land was laid out by the 
town of Manchester to Samuel Leach Dec. 20, 1699. 

Robert Leach Lot. This lot of land was laid out by the 
town of Manchester to Ens. Robert Leach Dec. 20, 1699. 

Thomas West Lot. This lot of land was laid out by the 
town of Manchester to Capt. Thomas West Dec. 20, 1699. 

Abram Masters Lot. This lot of land was laid out by the 
town of Manchester to Abram Masters Dec. 20, 1699. 



Registry of Deeds, book 9, leaf 18. 
2 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 19, leaf 107. 



BY SIDNEY PEBLEY 221 

John Bishop Lot. This lot of land was laid out by the 
town of Manchester to John Bishop Dec. 20, 1699. 

John Siblee Lot. This lot of land was laid out to Capt. 
John Siblee by the town of Manchester Dec. 20, 1699. 

John Knowlton and Hannah Leach Lot. This lot of land 
was laid out to John Knowlton and Hannah Leach by the 
town of Manchester Dec. 20, 1699. 

John Goy Lot. This lot of land was laid out by the 
town of Manchester to John Coy Dec. 20, 1699. 

Thomas West Lot. This lot of land was laid out by the 
town of Manchester to Capt. Thomas West Dec. 20, 1699. 

Samuel Polin Lot. This lot of land was laid out by the 
town of Manchester to Samuel Polin Dec. 20, 1699. 

Hannah Leach Lot. This lot of land was laid out by 
the town of Manchester to widow Hannah Leach "and 
Jones or Ezekiel" Dec. 20, 1699. 

Parsonage Lot. This lot of land was laid out as a par- 
sonage lot by the town of Manchester Dec. 20, 1699. 

Abram Masters Lot. This lot of land was laid out by 
the town of Manchester to Abram Masters Dec. 20, 1699. 

Samuel Ley Lot. This lot of land was laid out by the 
town of Manchester to Samuel Ley Dec. 20, 1699. 

Thomas West Lot. This lot of land was laid out by the 
town of Manchester to Capt. Thomas West Dec. 20, 1699. 

Robert Leach Lot. This lot of land was laid out by the 
town of Manchester to Ens. Robert Leach Dec. 20, 1699. 

Samuel Leach Lot. This lot of land was laid out by the 
town of Manchester to Samuel Leach Dec. 20, 1699. 

John Knowlton Lot. This lot of land was laid out by 
the town of Manchester to John Knowlton Dec. 20, 1699. 

Robert Leach Lot. This lot of land was laid out to Ens. 
Robert Leach by the town of Manchester Dec. 20, 1699. 

John Siblee Lot. This lot of land was laid out by the 
town of Manchester to Capt. John Siblee Dec. 20, 1699. 

Hannah Leach Lot. This lot of land was laid out by 
the town of Manchester to widow Hannah Leach Dec. 20. 
1699. 

Onesipherous Allen Lot. This let of land was laid out 
by the town of Manchester to Onesipherous Allen Dec. 
20, 1699. 



222 BEVERLY IN 1700. NO. 6 

Samuel Allen, Lot. This lot of land was laid out to 
Samuel Allen, sr., by the town of Manchester Dec. 20, 
1699. 

John Ley Lot. This lot of land was laid out by the 
town of Manchester to John Ley Dec. 20, 1699. 

Aaron Bennett Lot. This lot of land was laid out by 
the town of Manchester to Aaron Bennett Dec. 20, 1699. 

John Cross Lot. This lot of land was laid out to John 
Cross by the town of Manchester Dec. 20, 1699. 

Isaac Whittier Lot. This lot of land was laid out by 
the town of Manchester to Isaac Whittier Dec. 20, 1699. 

Joseph Woodbury Lot. Thomas West conveyed this lot 
of land to Joseph Woodbury before 1699 ; and the latter 
owned it in 1700. 

Joseph Woodbury Lot. Thomas West of Beverly, yeo- 
man, conveyed this lot of land to his son-in-law Joseph 
Woodbury of Manchester, mariner, May 1, 1699 j 1 and 
the latter owned it in 1700. 

'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 23, leaf 35. 



NEWBURY CHURCH RECORDS. 



DISMISSIONS FEOM THE FIEST CHURCH. 

Josiah Thompson, jSTathaniell Noyes and Henry Knight 
and their wives, with Mr. John Sweat, Feb. 16, 1746, 
to Falmouth. 

Sarah, wife of John Ordway, June 25, 1746, to South 
Hampton. 

Mark Mores and wife, July 27, 1746, to Byfield. 

Mercy, wife of Mr. Thorn, Sept. 21, 1746, to Salisbury. 

James Jackman and wife, July 23, 1749, to Salisbury. 

Ebenezer Tenny and wife, Oct. 8, 1749, to . 

Mrs. Susanna Piper, Nov. 17, 1749, to Concord. 



NEWBUBY CHURCH RECORDS 225 

Mrs. Sarah Marble, formerly French, Sept. 22, 1751, to 

Haverhill. 

Edmund Noyes, Nov. 17, 1751, to Salisbury. 
Mrs. Hannah Beard, May 24, 1752, to Hampstead. 
Joseph Noyes and wife and Benjamin Pettingill and wife, 

May 31, 1756, to Plaistow. 
Mrs. Sarah Emery, Dec. 19, 1756, to Haverhill. 
Rev. Joseph Parsons, Nov. 6, 1757, to Brookfield. 
Timothy Putnam and wife, Nov. 25, 1759, to Tewksbury. 
Joshua Swett and wife, Sept. 21, 1760, to Salisbury. 
Sarah, wife of Deacon John Air, May 20, 1764, to the 

First Church of Haverhill. 

Rev. Amos Moody, Nov. 10, 1765, to Pelham, N. H. 
Mrs. Elizabeth Blunt, formerly March, Nov. 19, 1769, to 

Portsmouth. 

Rev. Silas Moody, Nov. 4, 1769, to Arundel. 
Captain Samuel Pierce, July 21, 1782, to Atkinson. 
Mrs. Muzzey, Sept. 8, 1782, to Boscawen. 
Benjamin Rolfe, Jan. 4, 1795, to any Church of regular 

standing. 

ADMISSIONS TO THE FIRST CHURCH. 

Francis Brown's wife, Apr. 30, 1682, from Portsmouth. 
John Sewall, Oct. 25, 1696, from Boston. 
Edmund March and wife, Dec. 16, 1744, from Amesbury. 
Seabrew, a negro servant, May 21, 1749, from Topsfield. 

DISMISSIONS FROM THE BYFIELD CHURCH. 

Nehemiah Hunt, Sept. 2, 1744, to Sutton. 

Jemima, wife of John Boynton, and Hannah, wife of 
Francis Worcester, Dec. 9, 1744, to Dunstable. 

Sarah Pickard, Nov. 27, 1746, to Rowley. 

Abigail, wife of Moses Boynton, Dec. 28, 1746, to Cov- 
entry. 

Mehitable Hale, Sept. 27, 1747, to the Second Church of 
Rowley. 

Enoch Noyes, Oct. 18, 1747, to Hollis. 

Thomas Tenney, July 3, 1748, to Rowley. 

Jane Jewet, Dec. 3, 1749, to Linebrook. 



224 NEWBURY CHURCH RECORDS 

Moses Hale and wife Elizabeth, Feb. 9, 1752, to Hamp- 

stead. 

John Noyes and wife Abigail, May 17, 1752, to Suncook. 
Benjamin Adams, Oct. 12, 1755, to the Second Church, 

Lynn. 
John Bailey and wife Elizabeth, May 30, 1762, to Lunen- 

burg. 
Jonathan Pearson of Byfield-Rowley, Apr. 15, 1764, to 

Rowley. 

Samuel Hovey, Apr. 22, 1764, to Pepperillborough. 
Margaret Hicks, alias Margaret Burbank, widow of Caleb, 

in 1765, to Sutton. 
Sarah Thurlow, wife of Moses, Feb. 21, 1768, to Fiteh- 

burg. 

Martha Smith, widow, Deborah Duty, widow, Mrs. Doro- 
thy Smith and Jemima Smith, wife of Josiah, in 

1768, to Hopkinton, 1ST. H. 

Timothy Stevens, Jan. 7, 1776, to Hampstead, N". H. 
Eliphalet Tenney, in 1784, to Stow. 
Elizabeth Pearson, wife of Solomon Pearson, Apr. 4, 1784, 

to First Presbyterian Church, Newburyport. 

ADMISSIONS TO THE BYFIELD CHUKCH. 

Hannah Lull, Feb. 9, 1745, from the Second Church, 

Bradford. 
Caleb Burbank, June 22, 1752, from the Second Church, 

Bradford. 
Mary, wife of Daniel Barker, Sept. 8, 1756, from the 

Second Church, Bradford. 
Mary Pilsbury, wife of William Pilsbury, May 11, 1763, 

from the Second Church, Bradford. 
Zerviah, wife of Jeremy Boynton, Mar. 17, 1765, from 

Coventry. 
Susanna, wife of Ebenezer Clark, Feb. 21, 1779, from 

the Second Church, Ipswich. 
David Nelson, Aug. 26, 1781, from the West Church, 

Rowley. 
Abigail Cleaveland, May 24, 1795, from Canterbury. 




ASTON PARISH CHURCH, HERTFORDSHIRE, ENGLAND 




INTERIOR OF THE ASTON CHURCH 



THE BUKN'AP-BUKN'ETT GENEALOGY. 



BY HENRY WYCKOFF BELKNAP. 



Incidentally in searching for records of the Belknap 
family in and about the County of Hertfordshire, England, 
traces of this Burnap name were discovered, and because 
it appeared likely that there might be found a connection 
between the two families, several experienced English 
genealogists being of the opinion that they were one and 
the same, it was decided to collect all references to both 
names. Up to the present time nothing has been found 
to bear out this theory and a further complication has 
developed through the discovery that for some generations 
that branch of the Belknap family which emigrated to 
America had been called Beltoft. 

These variants in family names can seldom be definitely 
accounted for. In some cases they are adopted because 
of some family feud and a desire to distinguish between 
different branches, but for the most part they seem to be 
due to phonetic spelling or the errors of careless writers. 
A notable instance of this has been found in the records 
of the Waterhouse family, in which in one deed the name 
appears in seven different forms and is signed differently 
by the man and his wife. 

In the Burnap family, apart from such slight changes 
as Burnapp, Burnop and Burnepp, there is the more rad- 
ical one of Burnett, which has now been permanently 
adopted by at least one branch of the family, and until 
the writer positively proved to them that they had orig- 
inally been Burnaps they had supposed that they were 
descended from the well known Bishop Burnett of London. 
The first case of this altered spelling appears in the record 
of the baptism of Sarah, the daughter of Thomas Burnap 
of Stanstead Abbots, about 1564 to 1610, in which the 

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226 THE BUBNAP-BUBNETT GENEALOGY 

form used is "Burnatt," which is very probably due to 
a misreading of "Burnapp" by the clerk who made the 
entry in the register. 

Were it not that in several instances the registers of 
parishes adjacent to Stanstead Abbots have been lost or 
destroyed, in part, it would doubtless be possible to fill in 
many missing links in the English records, while in some 
of the most likely registers no mention of the name fyas 
been found. 

As is usually the case, no reply has been received from 
many members of the family in this country, and conse- 
quently the records have had to be entirely omitted or 
given in incomplete form. 



1. THOMAS BURNAP of Stanstead Abbots, Herts., was 
living in 1532-8. Hie wife Johanna Nobbys of the same 
parish died shortly before April, 1532. 

The following, translated from the Latin, is from the 
manor Court Rolls, Public Record Office, London, 23d., 
24th., 25th., 27th., 28th., 30th. Henry VIII, Courts at 
Stanstead, Herts. 

P. R. O., Court Rolls, 178/35, Court held at Stansted 
with a view of Frank Pledge ; 4th. April, 23 Henry VIII. 

Thomas Burnopp one of the Tennants. 

"It is accounted that Johanna Nobbys held by homage 
at the day of her death by Court Roll of the King one acre 
of land in Halfelde and half an acre of land in Nether- 
feld, one garden, one piece of land called Long house, and 
that Johanna Burnopp wife of Thomas Burnopp is eldest 
daughter and heir and of full age, to whom the King 
granted seisin to her and her heirs at the will of the lord 
according to the custom of the manor," etc. (In the mar- 
gin is written against the above entry: "Surrender 
iiij s.") 

"And lastly the jury say that the said Johanna was 
seized in her desmesne as of fee of and in one tenement 
lately belonging to William Sanderson, six acres lying 
next the tenement aforesaid, one croft containing three 
acres lying under Iseney Parke, two acres of land lying 



BY HENBY WYCKOFF BELKNAP 227 

in Baler's Field, and one garden adjoining the same two 
acres, two acres of land lying in Garratt's Field, one piece 
of waste land lying in the King's way, and was so seized 
at her death and that Johanna Burnopp the wife of 
Thomas Burnopp is eldest daughter and heir, and gave 
payment upon admission to the lord and did fealty," etc. 
(In the margin is written against the above entry: 
"xviij s. ij d.") 

"John Fleyming and Agnes his wife acknowledge them- 
selves to hold to the King to deliver by charter two acres 
of meadow to Thomas Burnott yearly ij d." 

Court held at Stansted with view of Frank Pledge on 
Thursday next the Feast of Easter, 24 Henry VIII. 

Thomas Burnopp one of the Tennants. 

Thomas Burnopp homage. (Against the last name is 
written in the margin: "Fine vj d.") 

"The homage presents that William Gylderson without 
the Court surrenders into the hands of the lady by the 
hand of John Swete and Thomas Cheynow tennants of 
the said lady two acres of arable land lying in Hawfield 
at Catt's Hill to the use and behoof of Thomas Burnopp 
senior, his heirs and assigns, which lady by her Steward 
granted seisin thereof by the rod to have and to hold the 
land aforesaid to the said Thomas Burnopp his heirs and 
assigns at the will of the lady according to the custom of 
the manor rendering to the lady therefore yearly ij d. and 
gave the lady for a fine xd. and did fealty and is ad- 
mitted," etc. (Against the above entry is written in the 
margin: "Surrender fine xd. paid") 

"To this Court came Thomas Burnopp and surrendered 
into the hands of the lady one cottage with a garden and 
two acres of land adjoining parcel of the tenement of 
Symchaundler to the use and behoof of John Whitnall 
his heirs and assigns which the lady by her Steward 
granted seisin by the rod to have and to hold the land 
aforesaid of the said Thomas Burnopp his heirs and assigns 
at the will of the lady according to the custom of the manor 
rendering therefore to the lady yearly ij d. and gave the 
lady for a fine x d. and did fealty and is admitted." 



228 THE BURNAP-BURNETT GENEALOGY 

"To this Court came John Rodes and Margaret his wife 
and surrendered into the hands- of the lady one tenement 
with appurtenances called esgores and one garden with 
appurtenances called Brands now adjoining the tenements 
aforesaid not eight acres of land and four acres one rood, 
and half a meadow either more or less in the parish of 
Stansted whereof the said tenement and garden lying next 
the King's way at Stansted until Hunesden and half an 
acre of land likewise lying in Dovehouse field and one acre 
of land in Half Hyde and half an acre of land likewise 
there lying and two acres of land lying in Netherford and 
one holm land with meadow containing one acre lying 
near the tenement aforesaid and three acres of meadow 
lying in Haskholme and one acre and one rood and a half 
there lying abutting upon the Rye diche to the use and 
behoof of Thomas Burnopp senior and Thomas Burnopp 
junior, son of the same Thomas senior, his heirs and 
assigns which the lady by her Steward granted seisin 
thereof by the rod to have and to hold the said tenement 
with garden adjoining and the other premisses with their 
appurtenances to the said Thomas senior and Thomas 
junior, their heirs and assigns at the will of the lady 
according to the custom of the manor aforesaid by rent 
and service therefore due and customary and the said 
Thomas Burnopp senior gave to the lady for a fine and 
did fealty," etc. (Against the above entry is written in 
the margin: "Surrender Fine x d.") 

"Thomas Burnopp acknowledged himself to hold of the 
lord by Court Roll one cottage with a garden two acres 
of land lying in Dovehouse Feld and renders to the Prior 
and Convent of Elsyng Spytell yearly ij d." (The last 
entry should come in the first Court.) 

"Thomas Burnott and John Bennett are elected to the 
office of Constable." 

Court held at Stansted with View of Frank Pledge on 
Thursday in Easter week 25 Henry VIII. 

Thomas Burnap of the Homage. 

"It is accounted by homage that John Wheler without 
the Court surrenders into the hands of the Queen by the 



BY HENRY WYCKOFF BELKNAP 229 

hand of Robert Chapman and John Swete senior tennants 
of the same manor two acres of arable land of which one 
lies in a certain croft called Collier's Croft next Garrard's 
Field and the other acre in Haffeld sometime parcel of 
a tenement Lock's Tenement to the use and behoof of 
Thomas Burnopp which the said Queen by her Steward 
granted seisin thereof by the rod to have to himself and 
his heirs, and assigns at the will of the said Queen accord- 
ing to the custom of the manor and rendering to the same 
tenement of Lock's ij d. yearly and suit at court and gave 
the said Queen for a fine etc, and did fealty and is ad- 
mitted," etc. (In the mJargin is written against the above 
entry: "Fine xx d.") 

"The day was given at the last Court for Thomas Bur- 
nopp senior to proclaim a stray cow which the same Thomas 
then had in his keeping and proclamation was made that 
the same Thomas render for the same to the Queen vj s. 
viij d.'; 

"It is ordered that John Swete and Thomas Burnopp 
clean the ditch between the land of the same John and 
Thomas called Fleme Dyche by the Feast of Pentecost 
etc., penalty ij d." 

Court with View of Frank Pledge held on Thursday in 
Easter week 27 Henry VIII. 

Thomas Burnopp of the Homage. 

"At this Court came Thomas Burnop and surrendered 
into the hands of the Queen one acre of land adjoining 
a certain croft called Collier's Croft, next Garrard's Feld, 
parcel of one tenement called Lock's to the use and behoof 
of John Rodez and Margaret his wife to whom the Queen 
by her steward granted seisin by the rod to hold to the 
same John and Margaret their heirs and assigns at the 
will of the Queen according to the custom of the manor 
and rendering to the same tennant of Lock's j d. yearly 
and suit at Court and gave the Queen for a fine as etc. 
and did fealty and was admitted." (Against the above 
entry is written in the margin: "Fine x d. paid.") 

Court with a View of Frank Pledge held 5th. April 28 
Henry VIII. : j .! 



230 THE BURNAP-BURNETT GENEALOGY 

Thomas Burnop junior of the Homage. 

Court with a view of Frank Pledge held at Stansted on 
Thursday in Easter week, 30 Henry VIII. 

Thomas Burnop junior of the Homage. 

"At this Court it is accounted that Thomas Heth sur- 
rendered into the hands of the King by the hand of Thomas 
Burnopp and Robert Whitnall tennants of said manor one 
tenement with appurtenances called Lock's tenement and 
the parcel of land with pasture adjoining between the land 
formerly belonging to Andrew Huggard, deceased, in the 
parish of St. Margaret in Stansted to the use and behoof 
of John Chatterton to whom the King by the Steward 
granted seisin thereof by the rod to hold to the same John 
Chatterton and his heirs at the will of the King according 
to the custom of the manor by service therefore due and 
of customary right gave the King for a fine iij s. and iiij d. 
and did fealty and is admitted as tennant." (Against the 
above entry is written in the margin: "Fine iij d. paid.") 

Children : 

2. THOMAS. 

3. JOHN. 

2. THOMAS BURNAP of Stanstead Abbotts, Herts, was 
living between 1533 and 1597. He married before 1564, 

Alice Cramphorne, daughter of - Cramphorne of 

Stanstead Abbotts and Alice his wife and probably co- 
heiress of her mother. He is mentioned in 1533, under 
the Court at Stansted, 24 Henry VIII, as Thomas Bur- 
nopp junior, again in 1537 under the Court at Stansted, 
28 Henry VIII, as Thomas Burnop, junior, one of the 
Homage, again in 1539 under the Court at Stansted, 30 
Henry VIII, as Thomas Burnop, junior, one of the Hom- 
age, and in 1545 he paid 12d. subsidy under Stansted 
(P. R. 0. Subsidy 121/171) as is also his brother John. 
In 1545-6 Thomas Burnoppe paid subsidy under Stan- 
sted (P. R. O. Subsidy 121/177). 

He was executor of the will of Alice Cramphorne, sen- 
ior, of Stanstead Abbot, 16 May 1564, "wedowe," probated 
at Ware, 23 October 1564, in which mention is made of 
son Thomas Burnap and daughter Ann Rawlings, execu- 



BY HENRY WYCKOFF BBLKNAP 231 

tors (11 Raymond), and also of John, William, Thomas, 
Alice, Johane and Thomasin Burnap, as well as Andrew 
Keys and wife Alice, John, Robert and William Keys, 
the children of John Keys. 

He witnessed the will of Alice Nobbs, widow, of Stan- 
sted Abbott, 14 May 1566 (81 Raymond). 

Thomas Burnape was present, 13 January 1567, when 
EdwardJBeson of Stansted Abbot made a nuncupative will 
by which he left a legacy to "Isbell servant to Thomas 
Burnape" which was proved in Arch. Mddx. Essex & 
Herts., (92 Raymond) from which it appears that Andrew 
Kees, father of Johane Kees, was the testator's brother- 
in-law. 

Thomas Burnap was a witness to, the will of Roger 
Bayley of Stanstead Abbotts, proved Arch. Mddx. Essex 
& Herts., (222 Raymond) 11 March 1573. 

Tho: Grave & Tho: Burnappe:' Tho: Fuller & John 
Fuller gent. & Margt. his wife Two messuages and lands 
in Broxborne and Hoddesdon, 1585-6, Hilary Term, 28 
Elizabeth, Feet of Fines. 

Thomas Burnappe (junior) paid 5/4 on 40/- and Alic 
Burnappe paid 2/8 on 20/ , both under Stanstead, Sub- 
sidy 121/282, in 1600, 43 Elizabeth; probably the Alice 
Burnap of 1564, now an old widow. She paid just one- 
half of what Thomas Burnap paid which practically proves 
that she was the widowed mother of Thomas, having her 
usual third interest in her deceased husband's property. 

In connection with the will of Edward Beson, note that, 
as Thomas Burnap's mother was Johanna Nobbys, Alice's 
deceased husband may have been his uncle or cousin. 

The will of Thomas Burnap: "In the name of God 
Amen in the yere of oure lord 1593 and the (blank) of 
Januarye I Thomas Burnape of Stansted Abbot in the 
Countye of Hartford yeoman beinge in helth I praise god 
for yt do ordeine and make this my presente testament 
and last will in manner and forme followinge Imprimis 
my solle to Almightie god who hath created me and to 
Jhesus Christ who hath redemed me and to the holie ghost 
who hath santified me and my body to the earth when it 



232 THE BURNAP-BURNETT GENEALOGY 

shall please god to take it oute of this miserable world- 
Item I give to Allice my weife all the howse wth barnes 
stables and all other howses to yt belonginge and one gar- 
nard wth a garden platt Joyninge to yt wth orchyards 
and the menes (?) and backside conteyninge syxe acres 
with all goodes chattells ymplements of howshold nowe at 
thys presente unto the occupation of the tenemente be- 
longinge and- also one tenement wch William Swete now 
dwelleth in wth the backside to yt belonginge and also one 
other tenemente called convrtis garden wth the barne and 
stable and orchyerds to yt belonginge also one crofte 
called the parke-crofte wth a lytle meade joyninge to yt 
with an house there in conteyninge fyve acres- Item in 
the comen feild two acres in garretts feild two acres in 
wallets feild All these parsels beinge freehold my will 
ys she shall holde them for terme of her life the Remainder 
to Thomas Burnapes eldest sonne whose name is Thomas 
Burnape yf he dye then I will John his brother shall 
have it Alwaies provided that Thomas my sonne shall 
have all those houses and lands after the decase of my 
weif to bringe up them and other of his children while 
they come to the age of xxj yeres and she kepe the said 
howses and ditches with sufficiente fensinge and repara- 
cions. (Mem. that this clause of the coppie land surren- 
dered to Thomas Burnape his sonne and yet to be held and 
enjoyed by Allice his weif was revoked by Thomas Bur- 
nape senr. the xxviijth of Febr. 1596 before us Thomas 
Newman.) 

"And further I charge my sonne Thomas Burnape and 
his children whom I shall leve or surrender my copiehold 
land unto shall quietly suffer Allice my weif to hold for 
terme of her life iij acres in Haffeild at Jeningsstile and 
one acre and an half of meade in the Ryemeade wch ground 
I nowe. hold. (The above is the clause which was can- 
called by the testator on 28th. Feb. 1596-7). Item I 
give to Thomas Burnape my sonne the dwellinge howse 
which nowe he occupieth called Esgores wth all the appur- 
tenances as barnes stables orchyards backsides one acre of 
meddow before the doore two acres in chappell feild two 



BY HENRY WYCKOFP BELKNAP 233 

acres at the gravel pit in Haffeild one acre more nexte 
Mowgates land in Hafeilde- Item I give unto him two 
parcells of coppie lande also lyinge in JSTetherfeild one 
peece of iij rodes the other of 3 rods also lyeinge next the 
higheway- Item my will ys that Thomas may sonne shall 
have an enioy wch is in his tenure and occopacione three 
acres of meddowe lyeinge in Hie meade Item I will and 
bequeath to my daughter Johan wife to Thomas Redding- 
ton of Btunsdon for her use her husband and children wch 
god hath given them the some and gifte of xxx li. to be 
paide of my sonne Thomas or his heires or executors within 
the space of iij yeeres after my wyves decease in consider- 
acion that I give him all my lands and coppies after the 
departure of my weif to enjoy for his use and heires by 
him lawfully begotten. (Mem. That xv li. of the xxx li. 
wch T. Burnape or his heires are to pay to T. Reddington 
after the decease of his mother Alice Burnape weif of 
Th. Burnape so is to be paid oute of the goodes or cattells 
of Allice Burnap and within 3 yeres after his death by 
her heires, administrators or assignes.)" Witnesses: T. 
Newman, Robert Baynes. Arch. Mddx. (E. & H.) Grove 
fol. 47. 

Letter of administration with the above will thereunto 
annexed was granted at Sawbridgeworth to Alice, the 
widow, on 21st. March 1596-7. It is therefore evident 
that Thomas Burnap died in February or March, 1596-7. 

The will of Alice Cramphorne, mother-in-law of Thomas 
Burnap: "In the Name of God Amen the xvj daie of 
Maie in the yere of our lorde god 1564 I Alice Cramp- 
horne wedowe of Stansted abot beyng sicke in my bodie 
but in good & peefect remembrance doe ordeine & make 
this my last will & testament in maner & forme folowinge 
Fyrste I bequeathe my soule to All mightie god my maker 
and redemer & my bodie to be buried in xpian buriall 
Item I give & bequeathe to John Rawlinge a fether bed a 
coverlet a presse a blaneket a boulster a platter a saulser 
a browne cowe & a pannier Item to Agnes Rawlinge one 
cheste a candlesticke & a pewter dysshe Item to Alice 
Rawlinge one Mattris a payer of flexen shetes a diaper 



234 THE BURNAP-BURNETT GENEALOGY 

napkin a pewter dishe a pottinger a candlesticke & a lytle 
boulster Item to Willm. Rawlinge the greatest kettell 
save one & a payer of towene shetes a candlesticke a por- 
ringer & a pewter dysshe Item to John Rawlinge a shete 
a thurden dele (?) potte & a platter a porringer Item to 
Anne Rawlinge my daughter a table clothe a sowe hogge 
fower piggs a branded cowe iij bhs. of wheate Item to 
Alice Burnappe my daughter a diaper towell a mortar 
a square saultr. two hogges Item to John Burnap one 
redde cowe one platter Item to Alice Burnap a cowe a 
great brasse potte a platter a saulser a chest a square table 
a payer of flexen shetes a pillobere & a diaper napkin 
Item to Johane burnap one cupbord in the hall a shepe 
wth her lambe a pewter dyshe & a payer of flexen shetea 
Item to Thomasin burnap a brasse panne a pewter dysshe 
Item to John Grave a payer of towene shetes & a plaine 
towell Item to Andrewe keys wyffe a blacke cowe a bushel 
of wheate a payer of towene shetes a flexen kercher iij 
pygges Item to Elizabeth Grave a blacke cowe a payer 
of towene shetes, a hogge Item to Alice key a f ether bed 
in the lofte as yt standeth a platter Item to John keys 
a brasse potte Item to Robert keys a garled bullocke the 
byggest Item to William keys a garled bullocke & Thomas 
Burnap my sonn to have the keping of the goods of John 
Keys childeren untill they be married or of age to have 
the same Item to John Anger a rede cowe & a cloke 
Item to george Anger a postner of brasse Item to Eliza- 
beth Anger a payer of towene shetes fower yardes of russet 
carson Item to Robert Sympson duo bz. of wheate Item 
to widowe Walter ( ?Walker) duo bx. of wheate Item to 
Agnes Pery duo bz. of wheate Item to Nicies Swete 
duo bz. of wheate Item the rest of my goods unbequeathed 
my debtes payed & my will fullfilled I gyve to Thomas 
burnap & Ann Rawlinges my daughter equallie to be 
devided betweene them whom I mak my trewe and faythe- 
full executors In wytnesse I have made this my marke 
in the presence of these persons William Whytnall, John 
Smyth whome I make myne overseers of thys my will, 
Thomas Walker, Thomas Heywarde, Willm. Passon, 
Roberte Chapman and John Anger." 



BY HENRY WYCKOFF BELKNAP 235 

The above will was proved at Ware, 23 Oct. 1564 
(Arch. Mdclx. Essex & Herts. 11 Raymond). 

In 1600 Alice Burnappe paid subsidy 2/8 on 20/- 
under Stansted (P. R. O. Subsidy 121/302), as stated 
above, but the date of her death does not appear. 

Children : 

4. JOHN, mentioned in the will of his grandmother but not in 

that of his father and who therefore probably died s. p. 
'before 1593-4. 

5. WILLIAM, as last. 

6. THOMAS. 

7. ALICE, as No. 4. 

8. JOHANE. 

9. THOMASIN, as No. 4. 

3. JOHN BUBNAP, mentioned as John Bennett, who 
was elected to the office of Constable at the Manor Court 
held at Stanstead in 24 Henry VIII (1533). He is 
probably the same as the John Burnoppe who paid 5/4 
subsidy at Stansted in the year 1545 (P. R. O., Subsidy 
121/171). 

6. THOMAS BTJENAP whose wife's name has not been 
found, lived at Stansted Abbots and is styled "yeoman." 
He is one of the two children mentioned in his father's 
will in 1593-4 and in a memorandum to that document 
in 1596-7. He paid 5/4 on 40/- subsidy under Stan- 
stead in 1600 (P. R. O., Subsidy 121/282). In 1605 
he also paid a like amount under "Stansfield" an error 
for Stanstead (P. R. O. Subsidy 121/302). 

He was still living in 1607, as his son John was ad- 
mitted to Caius College, Cambridge, as the son of Thomas 
and not as the son of Thomas, deceased. In 1610 his 
daughter Dorothy applied for a license to marry and he 
is again referred to as though his father were living. 

The records for the Archdeaconry of Middlesex, Essex 
& Herts, are missing from 1631-49 and as his will does 
not appear it almost proves that his death took place within 
that period, but in 1627 Thos. Burnap paid subsidy 20/4 
for lands under "Stansie Abbott". 

Children : 

10. DOROTHY, born about 1582, died after 1C48. 



236 THE BURNAP-BUBNETT GENEALOGY 

11. THOMAS, born before 1586, died before April, 1688. 

12. MARY. 

13. JOHN, born between Easter and October, 1590, died about 13 

April, 1653. 

14. ABRAHAM, born about 1594, died before 1649. 

15. SARAH. 

16. EGBERT, born about 1595, died 27 September, 1689, in Read- 

ing, Massachusetts. 

8. JOHANNA BURNAP received a legacy from her grand- 
mother and also 30 in her father's will, who speaks of 
her and her children by Thomas Reddington. She was 
married 16 November, 1578 at Hunsdon, Herts. They 
lived in Hunsdon and references to several who were 
doubtless his relatives are frequent in the records, but the 
names of their children have not been found. 

10. DOROTHY BURNAP, who was born about 1582, 
married by license dated 16 April, 1610, John Morse, 
clerk, A.M., rector of Little Ilford, County Essex, bache- 
lor, she being of Stanstead Abbott, County Herts., spin- 
ster, aged about 28, daughter of Thomas Burnap of the 
same, yeoman, at jStanstead aforesaid, both father and 
daughter being then of Stanstead Abbot. Her will does 
not appear, but as she proved her husband's will in 1648 
she was then alive and living in Romfprd. 

"The last will and testament of me John Morse, minis- 
ter, of Romford, Essex, dated 14 July 1645, 100 to 
Dorothy my youngest daughter- 5 to Elizabeth my elder 
daughter- 30 to my brothers or their children. My wife 
Dorothy to have all my lands and tenements for life and 
she to be sole executrix." Witnesses: Daniel Cramp- 
home, Marie Cramphorne. Proved 25 May, 1648, by 
Dorothy, the widow. (Arch. Essex, 193 Whitehead.) 

Children : MORSE. 

ELIZABETH. 
DOROTHY. 

11. THOMAS BURNAP, who was born before 1586, was 
evidently married by his brother-in-law, Rev. John Morse, 
and the license is dated the same day that his sister Mary 
and Daniel Cramphorne obtained their permit. In 1610 



BT HENBY WYCKOFF BELKNAP 287 

Thomas Barnap of Stansted Abbotts, Herts., husbandman, 
ae. 24, and Mary Elliot of Hunsdon, Herts., spinster, 
ae. 31, had the license of the Bishop of London to marry 
at Little Ilford, Essex. His wife was therefore born 
about 1599 and she died before 1633, as about that year 
he married again, Joan, daughter of Robert Hellam of 
Cosons, parish of Ware, Herts. She died before Thomas 
as she is not mentioned in his will. 

Thomas is mentioned in his paternal grandfather's will 
as "Thomas Burnape's eldest sonne whose name is Thomas 
Burnape" and the will makes it clear that he was then an 
infant. 

The Eev. John Burnap, (No. 13) in his will, 30 Mar. 
1653, refers to "all the children of njy brother Thomas 
Burnapp." 

In 1640, (16 Charles I) Thos. Burnapp paid 16/- 
under Stanstead (P. R. O. Subsidy 121-338). 

"Robert Grave and Thomas Burnappe doe present yt 
Mr. Roffe (formerly sequestered out of Stansteed Vycar- 
idge) now officiates and supplies the Cure (by what Au- 
thoritie wee knowe not) and receyves the small Tythes of 
such as are willinge to pay hym with the profitts of the 
Gleabe, worth about foure and thirtie pounds p Annum. 
Wee have a Chappell in our towne wch (in regard to yt 
our Church stand es neere a myle out of the towne) hath 
been a great benefitte to the Towne formerly when wee 
had a settled Mynister wee had the word and Sacramts 
prached and administered therein on the Sabboth daies 
and all the weeke as a Schoole house for our children. 
This Chappel hath noe maintenance belonging to yt. 

"Robert Grave 
"Surveys of Church Livings, 1657. Thomas Burnapp" 

Robert Hellam, the father of the second wife, died 
about 1652, leaving a will dated 30 August, 1647, at which 
time Joan Hellam was married to Thomas Burnap of 
Stansted, Herts., yeoman, and was the mother of Robert 
Burnap of Stanstead, yeoman, '(who came of age in May 
1655 and was therefore born about May, 1634), of Samuel 
Burnap of Much Haddam, gent., of Joan Burnap, a minor 



238 THE BURNAP- BURNETT GENEALOGY 

in 1657-8 and of Mary Burnap, also a minor at that time, 
when both Joan and Mary .were living at Stanstead. 
(Chancery Proceedings before 1714, Reynardson 21/12.) 

The depositions in connection with the above suit may 
be* found in the Town Depositions for Trinity Term 1658, 
under "Hellam v. Burnap" (Town Deps: Bid. 830). 

It is evident that Joan Hellam was a second wife, as 
in 1667-8 Thomas mentions also four other children in 
his will, including two married daughters, who could not 
have been born, therefore, after this Chancery Suit of 
1657-8. 

The will of Thomas Burnap: "In the Name of God 
Amen. Thomas Burnape senior of Stanstead Abbott in 
the County of Hartford, yeoman, Being sick in body. 
Dated 7 February 1667-8. Unto John Burnape my son 
my beame and scales with the waights therto belonging 
wch are now in his possession. Unto Samuel Burnape of 
Little Lavor, Essex, clarke, 10/-. Unto my daughter 
Judeth wife of Richard Skingle of Sabridgeworth, Herts., 
clarke, 3 and my best carpett wch was her mothers. 
Unto Sarah Bray of Stanstead aforesaid my daughter late 
wif of Richard Bray one feather bede and bolster. Unto 
Joane my daughter my best chest in the chamber over the 
kitchin and all that is in sayd chest. Unto my daughter 
Mary my best chest in the chamber over the hall and all 
that is in sayd chest. To my two said daughters Joane 
and Mary all my household goods and moveables with my 
five cowes and one bullock with my hay and one peece of 
wheat growing in the common feeld neere my house, con- 
teining about one acre. Unto Robert Burnap of Stan- 
stead my son all other my goods corne and chattells what- 
soever and he to be sole executor." Testator makes his 
mark, which is witnessed by Thomas Browne and Josias 
Wood. The above will was proved at Ware on 29 April, 
1668, by Robert Burnap, the son, the executor named in 
it. (Arch. Mddx. Essex & Herts. Filed Will.) 

From an entry in the Probate Act Books of this Court 
under date of 29 April 1668 we gather that Robert 
Burnapp's executorship had been opposed (probably by 



BY HENRY- WYCKOFF BELKNAP 239 

Thomas his half-brother) , but it is confirmed to him by 
decree of the Court, and he swore the goods of the deceased 
at 116:7:0. 

Children by first wife: 

16a. MARIE, baptized 25 August, 1611, at Hunsdon. 

17. THOMAS, died about 1688. 

18. JOHN, died about 1674. 

19. JUDITH, living in 1667-8. 

20. SABAH, died about 1698. 

Children by second wife : 

21. ROBERT, born about 1634. 

22. SAMUEL, living in 1660. 

23. JOAN, a minor in Stanstead in 1657-8. 

24. MABY, a minor in Stanstead in 1657-8. 

12. MAKY BUKSSTAP was married by license, 14 Sep- 
tember, 1610, to Daniel Cramphorne, probably her cousin, 
of Sawbridgeworth, Herts., husbandman, she being of 
Hunsdon, Herts., spinster, at Little Ilford, Essex, by the 
Rev. John Morse, her brother-in-law, five months after he 
obtained his own license. She and her husband were wit- 
nesses to the will of Rev. John Morse in 1645. 

13. JOHN BURNAP, born in 1590 between Easter and 
October, was sixteen years of age at Easter, 1607, and 43 
years old October 1633. The will of his paternal grand- 
father, Thomas Burnap, in 1593-4 leaves him the re- 
mainder of his freehold property, if alive, and stipulates 
that the father of John and his brother Thomas (who is 
given a prior right to the property if alive) shall have the 
houses and lands to bring them up until they reach the 
age of twenty-one. He received his early education from 
Mr. Viall at Royden, Essex, as is shown by the records of 
Caius College, Cambridge, in which he is described as the 
son of Thomas Burnappe of Stanstead, Herts, when, at 
the age of sixteen, he was admitted, Easter 1607, sizar of 

Caius of his surety Kidman, B. A. He obtained his 

degrees of B. A. 1609-10 and M. A. 1613. (Matricula- 
tions of Cambridge.) 

Venn's "Caius" states that he was Curate of Benning- 
ton, Herts., from 1614 to 1629 and 13 January, 1628-9, 
he was instituted to Aston Rectory, Herts., by Bishop Wil- 



240 THE BURNAP-BURNETT GENEALOGY 

liams upon the death of John Gamon, late Hector of that 
parish. The patron was Sir John Boteler, Kt. (Clutter- 
buck's Hertfordshire, vol. ii, p. 249.) 

He married by license, 27 October 1617, at Watton, 
Herts., Ellen, daughter of Thomas Young (Yonge) of Ben- 
nington, Herts., and 20 October, 1630, his father-in-law 
made his will as follows: "In the name of God Amen. 
40/- to the poor of Paul's Walden. 20/- to the poor of 
Bennington; Item I give and bequeath unto my daughter 
Burnap's children five pounds of lawfull money equallie 
to bee divided betweene them within one year after my 
decease. 5 to my son John Young. 20/ to each of 
the children of my daughter Sibble Bigge. 20/- to each 
of the children of my daughter Elizabeth Kent. 40/- 
each to Thomas, John, Nathaniel Young, children of 
my son Thomas Young. 10 to my daughter Joane Miles. 
10/- each to the children of my daughter Alice Miles. 
Residue to my son George Young and he to be sole execu- 
tor." Witnesses: Thomas Bigge, John Bigge. 

The above will was proved by said executor 3 May, 
1631 (P. C. 0. 56 St. John). 

On 4 Oct., 1633 John Burnapp of Aston, clerk, ae. 43, 
was a deponent in Vanlore v. Caesar, a suit about the 
tythes of Bennington, etc. (Chancery Depositions Eliz. 
Chas. I, vol. 3, p. 6.) 

Under date of 8 November, 1633, John Cardye of 
Aston made his will in which appears : "Item I give unto 
John Burnapp Clerke Parson of Aston aforesaid twentie 
shillings to buy him a Kinge" (P. C. C. 79 Seager). 

On 13 April, 1638, Joh'es Burnapp/ Eector, signed a 
Church Terrier for Aston (See Herts. Genealogist, vol. 
iii, p. 70). 

In 1646 he signed the petition of Herts, ministers in 
favor of Presbyterian government (Urwick, p. 460). 

( To be continued ) 



HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS 

OF THE 

ESSEX INSTITUTE ; 

VOL. LVI OCTOBER, 1920 No. 4 

THE BOSTON AND MAINE RAILROAD. 

A HISTORY OF THE MAIN ROAD, WITH ITS TRIBUTARY 

LINES. 



BY FRANCIS B. C. BRADLEE. 



It has been remarked often that the present Boston and 
Maine Railroad system, with its thousands of miles of 
tracks extending through several States, resembles in 
composition a patch-work quilt, as with the exception of 
a very small proportion, the road consists almost entirely 
of a consolidation of small railroads formerly independ- 
ent of the Boston and Maine and of each other. Strange, 
also, as it may seem to the present generation, the Boston 
and Maine in its infancy, eighty-five years ago, derived 
its name and its corporate existence from an amalgama- 
tion of small branch railroads, which amalgamation was 
considered by our forefathers as tremendous an under- 
taking, as the huge consolidations of today, and was 
looked upon with as much suspicion and disfavor. 

In order that an intelligent understanding may be had 
of the company's early history, it will be best to quote 
the following Acts of Legislature incorporating the vari- 
ous small railroads which made up what was known as 
the "old" Boston and Maine road : 

(241) 



242 THE BOSTON AND MAINE RAILROAD 

ACTS OF MASSACHUSETTS. 

An Act, incorporating the Andover and Wilmington Railroad 
Corporation, passed March 15, 1833. 

An Act, authorizing the extension of the above to Haverhill, 
passed April 7, 1835. 

An Act, authorizing a further extension, from Haverhill to the 
State line of New Hampshire, and changing the name to the An- 
dover and Haverhill Railroad Corporation, passed April 7, 18J57. 

An Act, changing the name of the Andover and Haverhill Rail- 
road Corporation to that of the Boston and Portland Railroad Cor- 
poration, passed April 3, 1839. 

An Act, to incorporate the Boston and Maine Extension Railroad 
Corporation, bringing the road directly into Boston to the terminus 
in Haymarket square, passed March 16, 1844. 

ACTS OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. 

An Act to incorporate the Boston and Maine Railroad Corpora- 
tion, from the State line of Massachusetts to the State lisa of 
Maine, passed Jnne 27, 1835. 

An Act, to incorporate the Dover and Winipisiogee Railroad, 
passed July 2, 1839. 

ACTS OF MAINE. 

An Act, incorporating the Maine, New Hampshire and Massachu- 
setts Railroad Corporation, passed March 30, 1836. 

An Act, in addition to the above, passed April 2, 1841, uniting 
the above-named corporation into one company, by the name of the 
Boston and Maine Railroad. 

The people of Andover, in the year 1833, desirous of 
obtaining railroad accommodations for their town and 
vicinity, petitioned the Legislature of Massachusetts for 
authority to locate and construct a railroad beginning near 
the South Parish meeting-house in Andover, and thence 
to the Boston and Lowell Railroad in the town of Wil- 
mington, a distance of less than eight miles. As before 
mentioned, the charter, under the name of the Wilmington 
and Andover Railroad Corporation, was approved March 
15, 1833. The corporation was organized in June, 
1833, and the first report to the stockholders by the 
directors, Hobart Clark, Abraham Marland, Amos Ab- 
bott, John Smith and Merrill Pettengill, was made in a 
quaint, amusing, and now very rare pamphlet, dated Oct. 



BY FRANCIS B. C. BBADLBE 243 

21, 1834. 1 The directors at first had hoped to secure the 
services of Colonel Loammi Baldwin, a distinguished 
civil engineer, to survey the road, but as he was unable 
to undertake the work, Mr. Joshua Barney, also well 
known in his profession, who afterwards conducted the 
surveys for the Nashua and Lowell Railroad, was engaged. 
An exhibit of the probable income of the road was 
made up by showing the number of stage passengers and 
freight that had passed from and through Andover from 
October 1, 1833 to October 1, 1834, as follows : 

"In the Andover stage, exclusive of way passengers, as 

per way bills, 4,158 

"In the Haverhill Company stages during the same 

time, as also appears from their way bills, . . 8,706 

"The Derry stage, which is only one a day, but was 
formerly two, and is to be two again soon, is esti- 
mated at nine per day, making, during the same 
period, the number of 2,817 



"Total number of stage passengers, .... 15,681 

The freight tonnage was obtained in the same way, 
calculating the amount which passed through and from 
Andover to and from Boston, conveyed in baggage 
wagons, and amounted to 5,700 tons. Receipts from the 
above number of passengers and tons of freight per 
annum was estimated at $23,160. Toll to be paid the 
Boston and Lowell Railroad on this amount of business 
was figured at $2,594.34, leaving for earnings on the new 
road $20,566. The capital stock authorized was $100,000, 
a large amount being held by the Andover Academy 
and Theological Seminary ; and the expense of operating 
this road was calculated to be, including six per cent, in- 
terest on capital, salaries, repairs and other contingencies, 
$17,008, which netted, after paying all expenses, the sum 
of $3,556.41. 

It was planned that the road should have a single 
track, with one or more turnouts, laid with iron rails 

'First Report of the Directors of the Andover and Wilmington 
R. R. Andover, 23 pp., 1834. 



244 THE BOSTON AND MAINE RAILROAD 

placed on wooden sleepers, with longitudinal sills, the 
total cost of which was estimated at $77002. Very few, 
if any, iron rails were then rolled in this country, practi- 
cally all having to be imported from England. 

The Andover Branch Railroad was started mainly, if 
not wholly, with a view to local business, and was entire- 
ly dependent on the good will of the Boston and Lowell 
road for its direct connection with Boston and use of the 
latter's terminal station there. Nevertheless, that it was 
considered a formidable undertaking at that time there 
can be no doubt, as nearly three and one-half years were 
consumed in its construction. It was, however, after 
much delay, completed and opened to the public on August 
8, 1836. 

The only newspaper article on the inauguration pf this 
railroad is a meagre and unsatisfactory account which 
appeared in the Salem Gazette, August 2, 1836 : 

"Andover and Boston R. Rd. 

"This road is finished from Wilmington to Andover. 
The cars were to commence running last week. The An- 
dover route is now only between Wilmington and An- 
dover, a distance of but a little over 7 miles. At Wil- 
mington the road intersects the Lowell road. This road 
it is expected will be completed from Andover to Haver- 
hill within a year ; and will probably terminate at the 
latter place, not proceeding further north, as was antici- 
pated a year since." 

The two original locomotives on the road were the 
"Andover" and the "Haverhill," and they are described 
as of "the high pressure type, each of 30 horse power," 
with two driving wheels. Until about 1848 cabs were 
unknown on locomotives in New England, the engineers 
and firemen facing the elements on the open platforms as 
best they could. In 1837 another locomotive, the "Rock- 
ingham," of exactly the same size as the two earlier ones, 
was added to the road. These three engines were built 
by the Locks and Canals Works at Lowell, Mass. 

We have no means of knowing what kind of passenger 
cars were first used on the Boston and Maine, but proba- 
bly they were much like those on the Lowell road, resem- 
bling stage coaches mounted on frames. The wheels were 



BY FRANCIS B. C. BRADLKE 245 

adapted to the rails, and each car was divided into three 
compartments, with doors on the sides and the passengers 
sitting back to back. 

During the construction of the Andover branch, the 
people of Haverhill, moved by a desire to place their own 
town on an equality with Andover, sought and obtained 
authority on April 7, 1835, "to extend the same in an 
easterly direction to the Central Village in Haverhill." 
This extension was opened to Bradford, on the opposite 
shore of the Merrimac river from Haverhill, 17 miles 
from Wilmington, on October 26, 1837. Haverhill, then 
a small village, gave the railroad but a meagre amount of 
business. Even after the road was extended across the 
river to what is now a city of over forty thousand in- 
habitants, one day's entire receipts for tickets amounted 
to a sum less than three dollars. 

About this time the management of the Andover and 
Haverhill road began to consider an extension of its lines, 
and after a series of meetings held at Exeter, Dover, 
N. H., and other places, the project was evolved of ex- 
tending the line to the Maine State boundary, to connect 
there with the Portland, Saco and Portsmouth Railroad, 
then just chartered in the State of Maine. This would 
make a through road to Portland, to be called the "upper 
route," in contradistinction to the "lower route," as the 
Eastern Railroad, then in course of construction, was 
called. On April 5, 1837, further authority was obtained 
to extend from Bradford to the New Hampshire line. 
The latter State had, as far back as June 27, 1835, given 
permission to build the road through its territory. Un- 
fortunately at this time the Andover and Haverhill com- 
pany was in debt, its credit gone, and the directors were 
supplying its immediate wants by their personal security. 

In April, 1838, Thomas West of Haverhill was elected 
a director, and soon after president ; he was a man of 
great energy, foresight and strength of character, and to 
him, more than to anyone else, is due the completion of 
the road soon to be known as the Boston and Maine. To 
retrieve the company and remove its embarrassments, new 
stock was issued and sold to the stockholders and others 
at $60 per share ; this afforded partial relief. New stock 



246 THE BOSTON AND MAINE RAILROAD 

was again issued and sold at auction in Boston at $72 to 
$75 per share. These funds, with a loan of the State 
credit of Massachusetts of $50,000, in addition to the 
$100,000 previously granted, enabled the company to 
build a bridge over the Merrimack river at Haverhill 
and complete the road to South Berwick Junction, Maine, 
where it connected with the Portland, Saco and Ports- 
mouth Railroad. 

It must be remembered that in these early days the 
only way to obtain funds for a railroad corporation was 
by means of new issues of stock, or notes endorsed by 
the directors and principal stockholders. Not until 1854 
did the Massachusetts Legislature pass a law allowing 
railroads to fund their floating debts by means of bond 
issues. The road was opened to East Kingston, N. H., 
January 1, 1840 ; to Exeter, N. H., June 26, 1840 ; to 
Newmarket, N. H., July 28, 1841 ; Dover, to the tempo- 
rary depot in Coffin's Cut, September 24, 1841 ; to the 
permanent depot, July 5, 1842. It finally reached its 
terminus at South Berwick Junction, February 2, 1843. 
At this time the present city of Lawrence barely existed, 
except for two or three houses, and the line of the Boston 
and Maine did not pass within a mile of it ; afterwards 
the location of the road was changed to include Lawrence, 
as will be seen later on. 

The Portland, Saco and Portsmouth company for thirty 
years was controlled partially by the Boston and Maine 
as its connecting link with Portland, so a short account 
of it may well be included here. On March 14, 1837, 
the Legislature of Maine incorporated this company with 
a capital of $1,390,000, in shares of $100 each. By its 
charter the company was to build a railroad beginning at 
Portland and running through the towns of Scarborough, 
Saco, Kennebunk, North and South Berwick (South Ber- 
wick Junction was 34 miles distant from Portland), Eliot 
and Kittery, Maine, to Portsmouth, N. H., 52 miles in 
length, to connect with the Eastern Railroad at the latter 
place. Work was begun in 1841, and the road opened 
between Portland and Saco on February 7, 1842. It was 
entirely completed November 21, 1842, the total cost of 
construction amounting to -11,107,240. 



BY FRANCIS B. C. BRADLEE 247 

On January 27, 1843, the Portland, Saco and Ports- 
mouth Railroad was leased indefinitely to the Eastern and 
Boston and Maine companies at an annual rental of 6 per 
cent, with a penalty of $200,000 on each party for a 
breach of contract. The road, however, was operated 
independently, and had its own locomotives and rolling 
stock, although the latter only amounted to five or six 
passengeiv cars and about fifty freight cars, as the trains 
were almost entirely made up of Eastern and Boston and 
Maine cars which ran through from Boston to Portland. 
The Eastern train would be taken over at Portsmouth, 
and when South Berwick Junction was reached the Bos- 
ton and Maine train was coupled on, and both trains, 
drawn by one locomotive, would proceed to Portland, the 
running time from Boston being five hours and the fare 
$4 on either road. The Portland, Saco and Portsmouth 
locomotives were always very heavy and large to enable 
them to draw both trains. Their pioneers were the "Cas- 
co," "Saco," "York," "Cumberland," "Kennebec" and 
"Penobscot." 

The first station in Portland was of the "dead end" 
variety, and was situated on Commercial street, near the 
steamboat wharves. This location, not far from the water 
front, was of great importance to the railroad in the case 
of through passengers and freight, as for some years after 
1842 there was no connecting railroad in Maine below 
Portland, and most of the passengers going further east 
availed themselves of the water route. 

When the railroad to Portland was first opened the va- 
rious steamboat lines running east from Boston kept up 
a constant and merciless competition, so much so that in 
order to meet it the three railroad companies, besides 
controlling the steamboats "Huntress" and "M. Y. Beach" 
that plied from Portland to Bath and Bangor, were forced 
to occasionally reduce their fare to $1 between Boston 
and Portland. Although the Boston and Maine was joint 
lessor with the Eastern of the Portland, Saco and Ports- 
mouth, the Eastern, however, always seemed to exert the 
most influence. Later on it will be seen that the 
Eastern obtained the sole control of the Portland, 
Saco and Portsmouth, thus forcing the Boston and 



248 THE BOSTON AND MAINE BAILROAD 

Maine to build their extension from South Berwick 
to Portland. In April, 1847, a new agreement was 
made between the Eastern, Boston and Maine, and 
Portland, Saco and Portsmouth roads, by which the profits 
of the latter, if they amounted to more than the rates of 
interest guaranteed, should be divided equally between 
the two former companies. This was most profitable to 
the Boston and Maine, as in later years they netted as 
much as $50,000 in a single year. 

The line of the Boston and Maine to South Berwick 
Junction was constructed under the superintendence of 
James Hayward, a director of the company, an eminent 
civil engineer, whose able associates were John W. Brooks, 
Israel M. Spelman, afterwards the company's president, 
and Edward Appleton. All the contract work was exe- 
cuted by Jonathan Crane and his son Edward, of Haver- 
hill, who together at various times completed the entire 
line. The roadbed of the Boston and Maine was thoroughly 
gravelled and made elastic and for a long time was con- 
sidered one of the best in the country. This fine condi- 
tion of the track and the thorough superintendence it 
enjoyed made it a remarkably exceptional road as to "ac- 
cidents," so called, in contrast to the Eastern Railroad, 
only one severe one having occurred during its entire 
existence. 

From 1839 to 1843 the road was known as the "Boston 
and Portland Railroad," but in the latter year the more 
familiar name of "Boston and Maine" was adopted. The 
original capital of the Boston and Maine consisted of six 
thousand shares of a par value of $100 each. On July 24, 
1843, the road's first branch, from Rollinsford to Great 
Falls, N. H., a distance of three miles, was opened. From a 
time-table dated November 1, 1841, and entitled "Boston 
and Portland Railroad road opened to Dover 48 miles 
from Portland," we learn that trains left Boston "at 7 1-2 
and 11 1-2 A. M., and 5 P. M. for Andover, Haverhill, 
Exeter, New-Market, Durham and Dover" . . . return- 
ing "left Dover for Boston (and by connection for Low- 
ell and Nashua) at 5 1-2 and 9 A. M. and 3 1-2 P. M. 
. . . the depot in Boston is on Lowell street, and passen- 
gers taking the cars of this road are subjected to no de- 




OLD LOWELL STATION IN BOSTON 
Built in I 835 and used by the Boston and Maine until I 845 



Fare $2-: 

COOD far a passage to any Station on the Easterner 
u-Huuluii aiul Mciiiiq Rail Road, in the Morning Train! 



\f 



only. 



TICKET SELLER. 



* f t 

Passengers not altewer! to take, nor wilt these Companies be responsi-' 
|b!e*7or BAGGJHJB if it exceed FIFTY DOLLARS in value, unless Freight OB any- 
; attrition thereto be paid in advance; and this notice forms part of all conlmcts furj 
I tnnrs0ortntiou of passengers and their effects. 

J. RUSSELL, JR., S^. P. S. if P. R. R. 




THE RAILROAD STATION AT PORTLAND 

Built in I 842 for the Portland, Saco and Portsmouth R. R. and used by the Boston and 
Maine R. R. until 1873 



BY FRANCIS B. C. BRADLEE 249 

tention by change of conveyance. Travellers from the 
northern and eastern parts of New Hampshire, or from 
any part of the State of Maine, will find that this route 
has superior advantages in passing to and from the city 
of Boston. Merchandize Trains will leave Boston and 
Dover every morning at 6 o'clock." It is not uninterest- 
ing, also, to note that a little later Niles' express had 
been established on the line of the Boston and Maine and 
advertised itself in the following quaint way : 

NILBS'S EXPRESS TO EXETBR, NEWMARKET, AND DOVER, N. H. 

The subscriber would give notice that be has commenced run- 
sing an Express, in connection with the Boston and Portland Rail- 
road, to Exeter, New-Market and Dover, and solicits a share of the 
public patronage. He has been a driver of the Dover and Boston 
stage for the last twenty years; he flatters himself that he is favor- 
ably known as a faithful carrier and competent to the discharge of 
any business that may be entrusted to his care. He will leave Bos- 
ton for Dover every afternoon, at 5 o'clock, and any packages left 
at No. 11 Elm street by 4 o'clock will meet with attention. All 
packages for Great Falls, South Berwick, Kennebnnk, Saco and 
Portland, as well as for any of the towns in the N. E. part of New 
Hampshire, will be taken as above, and forwarded by the several 
stages which he intersects at Dover. 

DANIEL NILES. 

Boston, Jan. 26, 1842. 

Many if not most of the early railroad conductors in 
New England were former stage drivers. The companies 
themselves were glad to employ them, for they were, as a 
class, responsible men and used to the travelling public 
and its ways. 

Another time-table, dated May 20, 1 844, after the road 
was opened in its entire length, is as follows : 

BOSTON AND MAINE RAILROAD. 

BOSTON TO PORTLAND. 
Summer Arrangement, 1844. 

On and after May 20, 1844, Trains will run daily, Sundays ex- 
cepted, as follows, viz: Leave Boston for Portland at 7 A. M. and 
2$ P. M. Leave Boston for Somersworth (Great Falls), at 7 and 



250 



THE BOSTON AND MAINE RAILROAD 



lOf A. M., 2i and 6 P. M. Leave Portland for Boston, at 6 A. M. 
and 4 P. M. Leave Somersworth (Great Falls), for Boston, at 4f 
and 8 A. M., 3 and 5| P. M. 

The depot in Boston is at the foot of Lowell street. . . . 

Passengers are not allowed to carry Baggage beyond $50 in value, 
unless notice is given, and an extra amount paid, at the rate of the 
price of a ticket for every $500 additional value. 



Jonathan B. Wadleigh, 
Charles E. Dearborn, 
Ansell Tucker, 



Conductors. 

Samuel B. Corliss, 
Daniel V. Hoit, 
Joseph L. Smith. 



TABLE OF DISTANCES OVER THE BOSTON AND MAINE RAILBOAD, 
BOSTON TO PORTLAND. 



Medford, 

South Woburn, 

Woburn, 

Wilmington, 

Ballardvale, 

Andover, 

North Andover, 

Bradford, 

Haverhill, 

Atkinson, 

Plaistow, 

Newtown, 

Kingston, 

East Kingston, 

Exeter, 



Miles 
5 

8 
10 
15 
21 
23 
26 
31 
32 
36 
37 
40 
41 
44 
49 





Miles 


South Newmarket, 


53 


Newmarket, 


56 


Durham, 


61 


Madbury, 


63 


Dover, 


66 


Somersworth, 


69 


Berwick, 


70 


South Berwick, 


74 


P. S, and P. R. 


Rd. 


North Berwick, 


76 


Wells, 


81 


Kennebunk, 


86 


Saco, 


96 


Scarborough, 


104 


Portland, 


109 


CHA'S MINOT, 


Sup't. 



A picture of a train in the original of the time-table 
shows a more modern type of car than at first used, re- 
sembling in a slight degree those of today. These cars 
had flat roofs and eight wheels each. They were equipped 
with platforms and the doors were at the ends ; the seats 
were arranged as at present, each car holding from fifty 
to sixty persons. Among the early locomotive engineers 
on the Boston and Maine were David E. Carey, Samuel 
Veazey, Charles H. Sherman and William D. Hall. 

The Boston and Maine was fortunate in the selection 
of its first superintendent, Charles Minot. Mr. Minot 



BY FRANCIS B. C. BRADLEE 251 

was a native of Haverhill, Massachusetts, his father being 
a judge of the Massachusetts Supreme Court. The son, 
also, was educated for the legal profession, but his mind 
was of a more practical bent, and 'he learned locomotive 
engineering, which led to the office of superintendent 
of the road. He was a man of great executive ability 
and very much determined in all he undertook. It is said 
he was quite democratic with his men, meeting them 
always on an apparent equality. He, however, was high 
tempered and not to be trifled with in business. 

In 1850 he left the Boston and Maine and became su- 
perintendent of the Erie Railroad ; so popular was he 
among the employees that several of the Boston and 
Maine engineers left with him and also joined the Erie. 
On the latter road Mr. Minot inaugurated the system of 
dispatching trains by telegraph. He afterwards was gen- 
eral manager of the Michigan Southern road, but finally 
retired and returned to Haverhill to live, where he died 
in 1866. 

As has been seen, the main line of the Boston and 
Maine in 1844 extended from Wilmington Junction to 
South Berwick Junction, a distance of 58 miles, more 
than double the entire length of the Boston and Lowell 
Railroad, with which it connected at Wilmington, depend- 
ing upon the latter road for the prompt and efficient 
transportation of its passengers and freight to Boston. 
The Boston and Lowell, then in its glory, cared but little 
for the Boston and Maine or its business, and by their 
unwillingness to subject themselves to any inconvenience 
or delay caused great embarrassment and vexation to the 
officials and patrons of the latter company. 

The urgent necessity of securing an independent line 
to Boston was so apparent that a petition was presented 
to the Legislature of Massachusetts asking for authority 
to build what was known as the "Boston and Maine 
Extension" from Wilmington to Boston, a distance of 
fifteen miles. This plan also involved the construction 
of a bridge across the Charles river. Permission was 
granted March 16, 1844, work was immediately begun, 
and the new line opened to a temporary station in Boston, 
corner of Traverse and Canal streets, early in 1845. 





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254 THE BOSTON AND MAINE RAILROAD 

A permanent station, the well-known brick building in 
Haymarket Square, so long in existence, was first used 
on October 20 of the same year. 

The granting of permission by the Legislature to build 
a new railroad leading directly into Boston caused great 
excitement at the State House and the measure was bit- 
terly opposed by the Boston and Lowell Railroad man- 
agement on the ground that the State had promised the 
Lowell company that, for thirty years, no parallel road 
should be constructed within four miles on either side of 
its line. When first built, the Haymarket Square station 
was the largest in Boston and considered one of the finest 
in the country. There were two tracks in the train shed, 
convenient waiting and eating rooms for travellers on the 
lower floor, while the company's offices were located on 
the second floor. The amount of business then transacted 
by the Boston and Maine may be judged by the fact that 
for some years after the station was built part of the up- 
per floor was rented for a carpet shop. 

In 1867 the station, which previous to that time was only 
261 feet long from the Haymarket Square front, was ex- 
tended to Traverse street and a third track built in the 
train shed. When the Boston and Maine first entered 
Boston on its own tracks there was a city ordinance for- 
bidding locomotives to cross Causeway street. Accord- 
ingly for many years the trains were hauled in and out of 
the Haymarket Square station by means of horses, and 
there are men still alive who remember the old passenger 
cars fitted with ringbolts for the hooks of the towlines. 

The following incident, taken from the Salem Gazette 
of September 28, 1855, is well worth reproducing, as it 
illustrates some of the curious accidents that happened 
when railroads were comparatively new : 

SIHGULAB RAILBOAD ACCIDENT. Yesterday forenoon an acci- 
dent of a very singular nature occurred on the Boston and Maine 
Railroad, near the Boston depot. A train was proceeding into Bos- 
ton, when, a sufficient momentum to carry the cars to the point 
where the horse power is applied, having been attained, the en- 
gine was unhitched from the train, and was proceeding forward, 
when the engineer discovered that the switch had not been proper- 
ly changed, and reversed his engine, which met the coming train. 



BY FBANCIS B. C. BBADLEB 255 

When they perceived that a concussion was inevitable, the en- 
gineer and fireman jumped off. When the train struck, the force 
turned the valve so as to again let the steam on, causing the 
locomotive to again start forward "on its own hook," and 
soon to gain a rate, we understand, of forty miles an hour. A 
switchman who perceived the engine dashing forward so rapidly, 
naturally supposed something to be wrong and very prudently dis- 
connected the track by turning the switch, which turned the engine 
off, plunging it into the ground. 

Had the engine proceeded into the depot at its furious rate, the 
damage and perhaps loss of life might have been very great. It 
was certainly an accident of a very singular nature. 

The Haymarket Square station was used until the com- 
pletion of the North Station in 1894 ; it was finally torn 
down in 1897 to make way for the present branch of the 
Boston City Hospital. 

At the time of the extension of the road from Wil- 
mington to Boston, Lawrence had begun to show signs of 
becoming a prosperous manufacturing town ; the Essex 
Company had settled there and commenced an extensive 
outlay of capital. The directors of the Boston and 
Maine, with commendable foresight, realized that Law- 
rence would, in the future, require greater railroad facili- 
ties, and so on March 3, 1846, obtained the approval of 
an act changing the location of the road between Andover 
and North Andover, running down the valley of the 
Shawsheen river to a point near Andover bridge ; thence 
along the south bank of the Merrimack river to the old 
line of the road at North Andover, building a new bridge 
across the Merrimack to deliver passengers in Lawrence 
directly upon its north bank. 

The new line was completed and opened to the public 
on July 3, 1848. It was built with one track only, the 
double track at that time extending only as far as Read- 
ing, twelve miles from Boston. It was furnished with 
60-pound T rails, but the culverts and bridges were con- 
structed for the future reception of a double track. These 
two extensions of the Boston and Maine had meant the 
construction of 26 miles of new road and necessitated 
the removal of the company's repair and car shops from 
Andover to Lawrence. The outlay of capital had been 



256 THE BOSTON AND MAINE BAILROAD 

large and was met by the issue, at par, of 3,410 shares of 
stock. 

Two branch roads were also constructed by the com- 
pany at this time, the Medford branch and the Methuen 
branch. The Medford branch, which extended from Med- 
ford Junction on the main road, now called Wellington, 
three and one-half miles from Boston, to Medford, a dis- 
tance of two miles, was opened March 1, 1847. It proved 
a wise investment, as it resulted in a large suburban busi- 
ness, which, however, has fallen off of late years owing 
to the extension of the trolley cars. The other line, 
known as the Methuen branch, ran from the south bank 
of the Merrimack river at Lawrence to the State line of 
New Hampshire, a distance of two and three-quarters 
miles. This branch formed part of a railroad twenty- 
seven miles in length connecting Lawrence and Manches- 
ter, N. H., but owing to the different State laws, it was 
thought best to divide it into two distinct corporations. 
It was opened on August 27, 1849, but the next year the 
Boston and Maine very foolishly leased their part of the 
road to the Manchester and Lawrence Railroad Company. 
It turned out that the route to Boston was five miles 
shorter via this line than by way of Concord and Lowell, 
and in 1867 the Manchester and Lawrence road was 
leased on a ten per cent, basis to the Boston and Maine's 
then bitter enemy, the Concord Railroad. Eventually, 
however, on June 29, 1895, the Concord Railroad itself 
was leased to the Boston and Maine, and on this occasion 
the Manchester and Lawrence paid a cash dividend of 
fifty per cent. 

The extensions and additions to the road encountered 
much and bitter opposition from minority stockholders, 
who could not foresee the future wants of the company. 
However, the Boston and Maine became a financial suc- 
cess from the time it entered Boston on its own tracks. Its 
stock gradually advanced to twenty-five per cent, above par. 

The break-down of Hudson, the great railroad king in 
London, led to a corresponding panic in railroad securities 
in this country, and the stock of the Boston and Maine 
road fell to 85 or 90. In their alarm the minority stock- 
holders appointed a committee of investigation, a common 



BY FRANCIS B. C. BRADLEE 257 

occurrence in the early days of railroads when the sta- 
bility of the investment was still doubted. Edward Crane 
of Haverhill was appointed chairman, and the committee 
in its report, May, 1849, suggested to the stockholders 
that if they would preserve the value of their property 
they should keep the control of the increase of capital 
stock in their own hands, and never trust it primarily to 
the boajrd of directors. After the adoption of a more 
conservative policy, the affairs of the corporation went 
on prosperously for many years. 

The report of the investigating committee of 1849 also 
reveals many interesting and valuable facts connected 
with early railroading which are well worth mentioning. 
There were then 45,000 shares of stock issued by the Bos- 
ton and Maine and owned by people of the three States 
of Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Maine. The 
books showed an expenditure, from the beginning of the 
road to June 1, 1849, of $843,532.27. Of that amount 
bridges had cost $358,683 ; depots, engine houses, ma- 
chine shops and other buildings, $404,854, and land and 
fencing and rolling stock the balance. At that time the 
road employed 430 persons, and, in view of its develop- 
ment since, the list is interesting. In the superintendent's 
office there was a cashier who was paid $1,000 a year, 
two clerks at $480 each, and an office boy at $180. There 
were nine conductors on passenger trains, five being 
paid $50 a month, one employed at $45 a month, 
two at $41.67, and one at $35 a month. Of the 
four freight conductors one was paid $45 a month 
and three $40. There were twenty-four ticket agents, the 
highest salaried man being the official at Boston at $60 
a month. Those at Lawrence and Great Falls received 
$50 a month, while Andover, North Andover, Exeter, 
Newmarket and Dover paid $40 a month ; Somerville, 
South Reading, Reading, Haverhill and Rochester paid 
$35 a month; Medford, $33.99; Maiden, Ballardvale, 
Durham and Salmon Falls, $30 ; Melrose, Plaistow, East 
Kingston and South Newmarket, $20 ; Bradford, $16 ; 
and Newton, $13. Thirty-seven men were employed at 
the freight house in Boston, and fourteen at freight 
houses elsewhere on the system, laborers receiving no 
more than $1 a day. 



258 THE BOSTON AND MAINE RAILROAD 

There were six train baggage masters at $35 a month , 
five depot baggage masters at $25 to $35 a month ; four 
porters at stations, ranging from $26 to $30 a month ; 
ten watchmen ranging from $26 to $30 a month ; 
thirteen switchmen, ranging from $15 to $33.33 a month, 
the highest paid man being at Boston ; seventeen en- 
gineers, eleven of them at $60 a month, one at $50, one 
at $45, and three at $40 ; fourteen firemen, eleven of 
them at $30 a month and three at $26 ; fourteen brake- 
men, thirteen at $30 a month and one at $26 ; eight gate- 
men, paid from $26 to $30 a month ; thirty-one woodmen, 
receiving from four shillings and six pence to eight shil- 
lings a day (it is curious to note that for several years 
after 1849 the Boston and Maine continued to pay some 
of its minor employes in the old-fashioned New England 
shillings and pence) ; sixty machinists, car repairers and 
blacksmiths at the company's shops in Lawrence were 
paid from 66 cents to $2.20 daily ; two roadmasters re- 
ceived $750 a year each ; one wood agent, who attended 
to the purchase of all the fuel for the locomotives, was 
paid $1,000 a year, and the master of transportation got 
$900 per annum. The superintendent, who practically 
managed the whole road, was paid $2,000 a year ; the 
president, $2,000 ; the treasurer, $1,500. 

In 1849 the Boston and Maine owned thirty-five passen- 
ger cars appraised at $51,265, and sixteen baggage cars 
valued at $9,052. The locomotives consisted of the 
"Andover," "Haverhill," "Rockingham," "Cocheco," 
"Augusta," "Dragon," "Portland," "Reading," "Maiden," 
"Goliah," "Antelope," "Bangor," "Massachusetts," "Nor- 
ris," "Lawrence," "Medford," "New Hampshire," 
"Maine," and Nos. 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, not named, 
which, with their tenders and other appurtenances, 
were valued at $121,050. 

Like many other railroads at this time, the Boston and 
Maine built most of its locomotives and cars in its own 
shops at Lawrence, as the committee of investigation 
found that by so doing a better grade of rolling stock was 
produced and at a cheaper price than it could be obtained 
from the best manufacturers. Another result of the com- 
mittee of investigation was the resignation of Messrs. 



BY FRANCIS B. C. BEADLEE 259 

Thomas West and Charles Minot, the president and su- 
perintendent, and the election of Messrs. John Howe and 
Thomas L. Williams to fill their places. 

In 1848 the Massachusetts Legislature chartered a rail- 
road which was to be built from South Danvers, now 
Peabody, to South Reading, a distance of eight miles, 
there to connect with the Boston and Maine. By using 
the Salem and Lowell Railroad track between Peabody 
and Salem, the new road afforded another means of com- 
munication between Boston and Salem. In fact, the 
South Reading Branch Railroad, as it was called, was 
initiated largely by capitalists of the latter city ; David 
Pingree was its president, and D. N. Pickering, superin- 
tendent. The road was opened to the public August 31, 
1850, using the Salem and Lowell station in Salem. As 
its equipment was of the best and its fares lower than 
the Eastern, it did not take long for the travelling public 
to avail themselves of the new line. Its competition 
proved a terrible "thorn in the side" of the Eastern Rail- 
road, and during 1851 the directors of the latter company 
managed by underhand means and by paying an exorbi- 
tant price, $110 a share, to acquire the controlling inter- 
est in the South Reading road. At its next annual meet- 
ing the independent management was turned out and 
various directors and officials of the Eastern were installed 
in their places. 

Soon after, the time-table was arranged to discourage 
travel to Boston by means of the South Reading road 
and to keep it on the main line of the Eastern. This 
little episode may be said to mark the beginning of nearly 
forty years of bitter warfare between the Boston and 
Maine and Eastern Railroads. The latter corporation 
accused the Boston and Maine management of building or 
fostering branch roads, the sole object of which was to 
tap traffic from their road. Be that as it may, the sui- 
cidal rivalry led to an expenditure by both companies of 
about 16,000,000, without any corresponding benefit to 
the public. In the early 1870's, when the competition 
was at its worst, the Boston and Maine added $6,000,000 
to its debt, while the Eastern increased its obligations to 
nearly $10,000,000. The good condition of the Boston 



260 THE BOSTON AND MAINE RAILROAD 

and Maine and its superior financial management, to 
which may be added its exemption from official dishon- 
esty and corruption which bore down on some other roads, 
enabled it to endure this immense burden without a col- 
lapse, but after all it was a heavy drain and one which 
was felt in later times. 

The Boston and Maine was particularly fortunate in its 
route, running as it did through thrifty places just re- 
mote enough from the coast not to have the competition 
of water freights, which drained somewhat from the prin- 
cipal stations of the Eastern road ; and the development 
of its local business was immense, under generally liberal 
management. 

For some time previous to 1846 the citizens of New- 
buryport had harbored a grievance against the Eastern 
Railroad, and at last a plan was conceived of building a 
railroad that should connect the city with the Boston and 
Maine road at Lawrence, and also develop transportation 
in the interior of Essex County through Georgetown, 
Groveland and Haverhill. The promoters of the new 
road aimed to control the traffic of the Merrimack valley, 
and it was hoped that Newburyport thereby would regain 
in part her earlier importance as a terminal point for 
trade. A steamboat line which had been operated on the 
Merrimack river between Haverhill and Newburyport had 
proved a wise investment, and by means of the proposed 
railroad it was hoped to obtain this traffic, and at the 
same time replace the heavy teaming between Lawrence 
and Newburyport by the improved methods of transporta- 
tion by rail. 

The town of Georgetown, at this time, was interested 
extensively in the manufacture of boots and shoes, and 
as the railroad was to supply a means whereby the raw 
material and the finished product could be quickly trans- 
ported, a large number of prominent citizens were inter- 
ested in the enterprise. It was largely due to subscribers 
in Georgetown that the railroad was finally completed. 
Some of the early meetings, prior to the incorporation of 
the railroad company, were held in Georgetown, and 
afterwards many of the annual meetings also took place 
in Tenney's hall in that town. 



DIVERS 8 GEORGETOWN 



H1W & MIDDLE ROtTE 

Bxi-rt^-mEiN 

BOSTON & NEWBURTPORT 

GEORGETOWN, TOPSFiELD AND DANVERS, 

Connecting at WEST DA> VEHS with Trains to and from SALEM. 

Trains from BRADFORD and GROVEL AND connect with this line 

at GEORGETOWN for BOSTON. 

Depot in Boston, - Boston and Maine Depot Haymarket Square. 

* Bradford, At Haverhill Bridge. 

Newbnryport, .... West of the Tunnel. 

FALL ARRANGEMENT. 

01 in AFTER MOBIIY. OCTOBER 23, 1854. 



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FOB BOSTON. 


FROM' 


BOSTOIT. 




NEWBTTRTPORT, 7.45, 11410 A.M., 1.45, 5.00 P.M. 


BOSTON, - - 8 05 A.M., 12.00 *., 3.00, 5.30 p.x 


BYF1ELD . . . 7.57, 11.12 


1.57, 5.12 


W. DANVERS,. 8.45 


li.3.3 


3.35, 6 08 


HAVER-L BRIDGE, 7.45, 11.00 


1.45,5.00 


N. DANVERS, - 8.54 


12.41 


3.14, 6.18 


GROVELAM), 


7 JO, 11.03 


1 JO, 5.05 


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GEORGETOWN 


8.03, 11.18 


2.03,5.18 


BOXFORD; - . 9ns 


1.08 


4.08, 6,39 


BOXFORD, . 


8.09, 11.25 


4.09, 5.23 


GEORGETOWN. 9.23 


1.13 


4.15, 6.46 


TOPSFIELD, 


aiS, 11.34 


8-U<,534 


GROVELAKD, 9.31 


1.21 


4.21, 6.52 


N. DANVERS, 


8.33, 11 50 


&33.5.50 


BTFIELD, . - 9.32 


1.21 


4.21, 6.52 


W. DANVERS, 


S.42, 11.58 


43. 6.00 


HAV'L BRIDGE, 9.36 


1.26 


4.26, 0.57 


Arrive at BOSTON 


9.19 14.40 


3.23,6.40 Ar. atNEWBPT, 0.43 


1.33 


4.33, 7.04 



NEWBURYPORT AND BRADFORD. 

TRAINS LEAVE NKWBl RYPOKT FOR BRADFORD t 7.4-? nJ 11/10 .A.M., 1.41 mid 5M> P.M. 

" BRADFORD FOR NEUBURYPORT t 8.40 A.M., mid 1.45, 2.55 and 6.20 P.M. 

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

GEORGETOWN AND HAVERHILL BRIDGE. 

TRAINS leave GEORGETOWN for HAVERHILL BRIDGE at 8.05, 9.25, 11.18 A.M. and 1.15, 2.03, 4.15, 

5.18 and 6.46 P.M. 

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

S3- Passengers are not allowed Baggage above $50 in rIne, or 80 Ibs. in weight, without extra charge. fr 
further particulars, see Hallway Guide. 



GEORGETOWN. OCTOBER 18, ISM. 



. 8. TEffNEtf, Sup't. 



BY FRANCIS B. C. BEADLBB 261 

On March 11, 1846, the Massachusetts Legislature 
passed an act establishing the Newburyport Railroad Com- 
pany, the incorporators being Dennis Condry, John Huse, 
Enoch S, Williams, John Wood and Edward S. Moseley. 
They were given the right to construct a railroad "from 
Newburyport to or near Georgetown Corner, . . . be- 
ginning at some convenient point between the Newbury- 
port turnpike and the present Eastern Railroad depot . . . 
thence southeasterly over or near Common Pasture . . . 
to a point near the head of the Downfall Road . . . 
thence continuing southwesterly crossing Parker River 
near Pearson's Mills, in Byfield, thence north of the 
Georgetown road, passing near Dole's Mills in Georgetown 
at or near a point of land of Daniel Pusey, about one- 
fourth of a mile northeast of Savory's Hotel in said 
Georgetown." The capital stock was to be 2,000 shares 
of $100 par value. The organization and location of the 
road was to be effected before September 1, 1847, and 
the construction was to be completed before September 1, 
1849. 

Owing to hard times and the stringency of the money 
market, it was found to be very difficult to raise sufficient 
capital to build the Newburyport road, and in January, 
1850, it was reported that the work on the railroad had 
been "prosecuted during the year as rapidly as the means 
of the company would permit, and at the present time 
the whole section of 8 miles and 179 rods from New- 
buryport to Georgetown is in such a state of forwardness 
that a few weeks of favorable weather will suffice to 
place it in running order." The total expenditures to 
date had been $66,504.66. The rails on this road weighed 
only 50 pounds to the yard, which was even then eight 
or ten pounds lighter than the rails ordinarily used at 
that period. In the Newburyport Herald for May, 1850, 
is found the first notice of train service on the Newbury- 
port Railroad, as follows : 

On and after Thursday, May 23, Passenger and Merchandise 
trains leave Georgetown for Newburyport at 7 A. M., 10A A. M., 
and 4 P. M. Leave Newburyport for Georgetown at 9 A. M., 2J 
P. M., 6^ P. M. All the trains will stop at Pearson's Mills Village. 
On Wednesday, May 22, the stockholders will pass over the road, 



262 THE BOSTON AND MAINE RAILROAD 

and trains for their accommodation will ran as follows : Leave 
Newbnryport for Georgetown, 10 A. M., 1 P. M., 3 P. M. and 5 
P. M. Leave Georgetown for Newbnryport, 12 M., 2 P. M., and 4 
P. M. Stockholders can receive tickets by calling on Thomas 
Davis, at the Railroad office, corner Essex and State Streets. 

For the privilege of using the Eastern Railroad station 
and a small part of their track at Newburyport, the New- 
buryport Company paid $2,350. The first accident on 
the road occurred July 18, 1850, when a train was thrown 
from the track by coming in contact with a cow, and con- 
ductor Benjamin Hilliard, in jumping from the platform 
of the passenger car, was struck by the car and instantly 
killed. As fences along the right of way were not con- 
structed in some cases, the cows in feeding wandered on 
to the tracks, and it was no uncommon thing to strike 
two or three of the animals on the way to Newburyport 
from Georgetown. These were the days of hand-brakes, 
applied by the fireman on the tender and by the brakeman 
on the passenger cars, one short sharp whistle from the 
locomotive being the signal for "brakes," and as these 
never seem to have worked very well, the train collided 
with the cows, even though they were noticed on the 
track some yards ahead. 

It may be said that the Newburyport Railroad was of 
the distinctly "one-horse" variety and a constant source 
of jokes. The slowness of the road was a byword, and 
it is said that on one occasion the train was so late in 
arriving at Byfield that many of the citizens gathered at 
the station to ascertain the cause of its tardiness. Much 
was their surprise when, at last, conductor Nathan Carter 
was seen coming up the track with a halter thrown over 
the smokestack of the engine, leading in the train. The 
finances of the Newburyport Railroad were in such an 
uncertain state that all its locomotives and rolling stock 
were purchased at second hand, having been discarded by 
other roads. Their locomotives consisted of the "Med- 
ford" and "Rockingham," bought from the Boston and 
Maine, the "Cocheco" and the "Bunker Hill"; the latter 
was a ten-ton engine built in 1841, and acquired from the 
Fitchburg road ; it distinguished itself by finally blowing 
up on September 10, 1853, and killing its unfortunate 



BY FRANCIS B. C. BRADLBE 263 

fireman. Before the road from Newburyport to George- 
town had been actually finished, a public meeting was held 
in Bradford, May 22, 1850, "to take measures in aid of 
extending the Newburyport Railroad from Georgetown to 
Bradford." It would seem that the latter corporation, in 
anticipation of this event, already had secured permission 
from the Legislature to unite with the Georgetown Branch 
Railroad, which was to run from Bradford to Georgetown 
Corner, and had been chartered March 11, 1844, but not 
constructed. 

Work was begun on the new extension of the road and 
the construction of it was pushed as fast as the very 
difficult problem of financing could be satisfactorily solved. 
On September 1, 1851, the roadbed "had been completed 
from Georgetown to Haverhill bridge," but was not in 
good running order the entire distance to Bradford. The 
fifteen miles from the Eastern Railroad station in New- 
buryport to the Boston and Maine station at Bradford, 
had cost about $225,000, or "$15,000 a mile with equip- 
ment complete." This was believed to have been lower 
than the cost of any other road in New England. The 
money market had been tight, which forced the directors 
to sacrifice much on the discount on the sale of the com- 
pany's notes, and the land damages, which amounted to 
$25,000, were more than double what had been at first 
anticipated. On September 15, 1851, a train was run 
"from the bridge to Georgetown," to accommodate the 
stockholders who attended the annual meeting, it being 
"the first time the passenger cars have run to Haverhill," 
according to the Newburyport Gazette. 

While the road was opened to Bradford for public 
travel on September 22, 1851, the trains did not run reg- 
ularly until the latter part of October. A portion of the 
roadbed was at sub-grade ; the depot buildings were not 
completed ; and the arrangements which the directors had 
been able to effect with the Boston and Maine and Eastern 
companies at the termini were unsatisfactory and unfavor- 
able. At this time the running expenses of the road, 
including salaries of the superintendent and treasurer, 
fuel, oil, etc., engineers, firemen, conductors, brakemen, 
switchmen, ticket masters, road master and three men, 



204 THE BOSTON AND MAINE RAILROAD 

two repair hands, sawing wood, etc., amounted to $37.59 
a day. 

The total income amounted to $83.05 daily. The equip- 
ment of the Newburyport Railroad consisted of "Three 
Locomotive Engines, Three Passenger cars, One eight 
wheel Baggage Car, one four wheel Baggage Car, four 
eight wheel House freight cars, two four wheel House 
Freight Cars, Four eight wheel Platform Cars, Two four 
wheel Platform Cars, Nine Gravel Cars, Two Hand Cars, 
and One Iron Car." The company's entire capital when 
united with the Georgetown Branch Railroad was $300,000 
but only $131,000 was paid in, while the total cost 
of construction was $255,613. 

It was not long after the road had been completed be- 
fore Haverhill began to complain because all the freight 
for that city had to be teamed across the bridge, for the 
right to extend the road across the Merrimack river into 
Haverhill was not granted till March 16, 1855. Naturally 
the result was a great loss of freight for the railroad. 
Shortly before this more trouble was occasioned the already 
sorely burdened Newburyport Railroad by the refusal of 
the Eastern Railroad to let them share the use of their 
Newburyport station. They accordingly were forced to 
build one of their own, situated near the Mall on High 
street, and only reached by crossing the Eastern Railroad 
tracks. After the consolidation of the Eastern and Bos- 
ton and Maine roads in 1890, this structure was changed 
to a freight house, and is still used as such. 

On May 7, 1851, the Danvers and Georgetown Railroad 
Company was chartered " to construct and maintain a 
railroad, commencing at some convenient point in George- 
town, thence running through Rowley, Ipswich, Boxford, 
Topsfield, Wenham, or any of the said towns, to the 
village of North Danvers, there to enter upon and unite 
with the Essex Railroad at some convenient point." The 
capital stock was to be $130,000. At the annual meeting 
of the Newburyport Railroad, held in September, 1851, 
at Newburyport, the directors "were requested ... to 
petition the next Legislature for authority to unite the 
Newburyport Railroad Company with the Danvers and 
Georgetown, . . . provided the Danvers and Georgetown 
join in such application." 

(To be continued) 



THE BURNAP-BURNETT GENEALOGY. 



BY HENRY WYCKOFF BELKNAP. 



( Continued from Volume L VI, page 

The Commissioners appointed by the Parliament in the 
year 1650 to enquire into the state of ecclesiastical bene- 
fices found that this (Aston) Rectory was a parsonage 
presentative worth 120 a year and that Mr. John Bur- 
napp was the incumbent (M. S. Survey in Lambeth Li- 
brary, quoted in Clutterbuck's Hertfordshire, vol. ii, p. 
248). 

The will of John Burnap : "In the Name of God Amen. 
John Burnapp of Aston, Herts., clerk, infirme and sickly 
in body. To be buried in Aston Chauncell as near unto 
my deceased wife as conveniently may be. 3 to the poor 
of Aston. 250 to my son Thomas to be laid out in mer- 
chantable commodities and wares and so sent into New 
England to my said son at three several times within four 
years. 5 to my old servant Margaret Hunt, and my son 
John to be helpful and kind unto her. 20/- to my ser- 
vant Thomas Thorpe. 10/- to my servant James Hum- 
frey. 10/- to my servant Mary Cann. All the children 
of my brother Thomas Burnapp and of my deceased 
brother Abraham Burnapp and of my sister Perry 20/ 
each. Nathaniel Dodd of Bennington, Herts., clerk, and 
Henry Chauncy of Yardly, Herts., Esquire to be Over- 
seers and 40/- to each of them. My son John to be sole 
executor and to him I leave the residue including my 
lands." Witnesses: Henry Chauncey, John Humber- 
stone, Thomas Thorpe (who made his mark). 

Codicil made at the same time as the will : 50 more 
to my son Thomas, making 300 of which 300 my son 
John has by appointment already laid out 120 on goods 
which are now "ashippinge" to New England. The will 
is sealed with a seal bearing within an octagonal frame 
a bird on her nest feeding her three young. 

On 10 March, 1653-4, the above will was proved at 

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266 THE BtJJKNAP-BUENBTT GENEALOGY 

Westminster by John, the son and executor named. Dur- 
ing the Commonwealth, 1649-60, all wills were proved in 
the Prerogative Court of Canterbury and this will may be 
found registered twice in error, viz., 190 and 193 Alchin. 
There is no monumental inscription in Aston Church 
to the memory of the Rev. John Burnap or to that of his 
wife or either of his two sons, Caesar or John, though 
they were all buried there. John, the father, was buried 
13 April, 1653 and Ellen "ye wife of John Burnapp, 
Rector Ecclesia (sic) was buried ye 8th. Novembr. 1652." 

Children : 

25. JOHN, born after 1617, died in 1674. 

26. CAESAB, named evidently after Sir Charles Caesar, Kt., of 

Bennington, buried 29 September, 1651. 

27. THOMAS, baptized 30 June, 1630, at Aston, died 26 March, 

1691, at Eeading, Massachusetts. 

14. ABRAHAM BURNAP, born about 1594, as is sup- 
posed, because he is not named in the will of his grand- 
father, Thomas Burnap. He lived in Stanstead Abbots 
and he was married by license 26 June, 1621, to Susanna 
Adams of Gilston, Herts., as appears by the parish reg- 
ister there. His brother the Rev. John Burnap refers in 
his will to "all the children of my deceased brother Abra- 
ham Burnapp," in 1653, and from the will of his widow 
it is evident that he left a will himself, but as it is not to 
be found we may presume that he died between 1631 and 
1649, during the period for which the records of Arch. 
Mddx. & Herts, are lost. 

The will of Susan Burnap: "In the Name of God 
Amen. The 5th. day of June 1663. Susan Burnapp of 
Stansted Abbott, Co. Herts., widow. Unto my two sons 
Jacob Burnapp and Joseph Burnapp the messuage or tene- 
ment where I now dwell in Stansted Abbott called Curtice 
garden with two acres of arrable land, being freehold, in 
Wallett's Feild in the said parish, they paying unto my 
daughter Dorothy, the wife of Thomas Hyde, 20 being 
a legacy formerly given by my husband Abraham Burnapp 
deceased, and paying to my two sons Thomas Burnapp and 
Isaack Burnapp 10 each. 



BY HENRY WYCKOFF BELKNAP 267 

"Unto my son Abraham Burnapp a wainscoat settle. 
Unto my son John Burnapp one table and frame and one 
forme as they now stand in the hall where he now liveth. 
Unto my son Daniell Burnapp twelve pence. - Unto my 
grand-child John Hocklie 13:6:8 at 21 years of age. 
Residue to my said sons Jacob and Joseph and they to be 
executors. My sons John and Thomas to be Overseers. 
Testatrix makes her mark. The will is sealed, but the 
impression is now obliterated." Witnesses: John 
Browne, Thomas Kay, John Davis (who makes his mark). 

The above will was proved, 25 June, 1664, by the sons 
Jacob and Joseph (Arch. Mddx. Essex & Herts. Filed 
Will). They swore her goods at 85:4:4. (Probate Act 
Book of said Court 1664, p. 9.) 

Children : 

28. THOMAS. 

29. ABRAHAM. 

30. ISAAC, died Feb., 1705-6. 

31. JACOB, died May, 1685. 

32. JOSEPH. 

33. JOHN, died Sept., 1680. 

34. DANIEL. 

35. DOROTHY. 

36. A daughter who married Hocklie. 

As this branch has not been carried beyond these chil- 
dren and does not concern the American branch, further 
details are omitted here. 

15. SARAH BURNAP married Thomas Perry and her 
children received 20/ each in the will of her brother, the 
Rev. John Burnap, in 1653. 

"In 1621-2 Gilston, Herts. Register, Sara, daughter of 
Mr. Thomas Perry or Proctor of Sabridgeworth, whose 
mother was Sara Burnatt, was baptized 3 Id March." 
(Entry badly written but names thought to be as above.) 

16. ROBERT BURNAP, born about 1595, lived at Hod- 
desden End, Great Amwell parish, next to Stanstead Ab- 
bots, and emigrated to New England in 1638. His bap- 
tism does not appear at Great Amwell nor was he married 
there, but if at Stanstead Abbots then it will not be found 
as the records before 1678 are lost. In 1634, he buys, "one 
messuage one orchard and one garden," etc., in Amwell 



268 THE BUR NAP- BURNETT GENEALOGY 

from John Morley, Martha Morley (wife of John) and 
Thomas Bannister. 

The son John was evidently the last child born in 
England, and in 1638 Robert, senior, decides to try his 
fortune in the New World. Selling to William Allen and 
Joan his wife, the small home which he had bought in 
1634, they and their four surviving children, Robert, ae. 
11, Isaac, ae. 8, Anne, ae. 6 and Edward, ae. 2, leave for 
America. Before going it is possible that he visited his 
brother, the Rev. John Burnap at Aston Rectory, and sug- 
gested that when John's son Thomas, then ae. 8, came of 
age he would try to find an opening for him in New Eng- 
land. As seen by his father's will, Thomas was in New 
England in 1653, then ae. 23. 

Robert had married, about 1625, a wife whose name 
was Ann, but whose surname has not been found and Pope 
in his "Pioneers" says that he had a wife Margaret Davis, 
but there is no other evidence of it. Pope is also author- 
ity for the statement that he settled in Roxbury, which is 
borne out by the records of that town and we know that 
he was in Reading, about 1646-52. He was a proprietor 
in Roxbury in 1640 and he drew ten acres in 1652, as 
appears in the earliest list of the inhabitants now existing. 

In several deeds, partly undated, his name appears, as 
for example in one of Mr. Thomas Dudley, Esq.'s, in which 
part of the land lies between Robert Burnope and William 
Dennison; in one of Abraham How's, land is mentioned 
lying between Samuel Hagborne's heirs and Robert Bur- 
nope or his assigns; and in one of Isaac Johnson's, land 
lying between the highway and Robert Burnop. In one 
of Arthur Gary's, 27 acres bought of Richard Burnopp 
between Abraham How and Mr. Thomas Dudley appear. 
If this refers to the son Richard, it is the only reference 
found. The original book of Roxbury Records was burned 
and in 1652 five men were appointed to "doe there best 
indeuer to set down etch man's land." (Roxbury Land 
Records, pp. 13, 34, 37, 41.) 

In Essex County Deeds, vol. iv, pp. 164-5, is found the 
following: 



BY HENRY WYCKOFF BBLKNAP 269 

Robert Bridges of Linne, for competent consideration, 
to Robert Burnupp of Reading, husbandman, a farme of 
800 acres in Linne and Redding, bounded on north and 
north-west by the Ipswich River;. also 25 acres on each 
side of Beaver Dam in Reddinge (grant of Linne to Rt. 
Hon. Lord Brooke, deceased), 24 February, 1654; acknowl- 
edged, 20 August, 1656. The same land was assigned to 
Captain George Corwin of Salem, merchant, consideration 
200, 24 February, 1662, the 25 acres being reserved by 
Robert Burnup. Witnesses: Edward Norrice, Thomas 
Burnap. Recorded 6 Dec., 1677. This land was deeded 
by Robert Burnap, Sr., of Redding to Corwin, 10 Decem- 
ber, 1677 and acknowledged the same date and in the 
inventory of George Corwin, Captain, 30 January, 1684, 
appears "the farme nere Redding bought of Burnap," a 
grant of 800 acres appraised by Thomas Flint and Joseph 
Pope, 250. (Essex Probate Records, vol. iii, p. 198.) 

Robert Burnap of Redding and Ann my wife, consider- 
ation 30, by William Eaton of same, quit-claim 100 acres 
of upland in Lynn near Wigwam meddow, 18 January, 
1657; acknowledged 13 November 1662. (Essex Deeds, 
vol. ii, p. 68.) 

Robert Burnep, Sr., of Redding, consideration 12, to 
Thomas Clearke, quit-claim on 9 acres of meddow in 
Linne, bounded north, east and west by Major Holioak, 
south by Robert Burnup, sr., 24 August, 1663 ; acknowl- 
edged by Robert and Ann Burnap, 12 Feb., 1679. Essex 
Deeds, vol. v, p. 63.) 

Robert Burnepp of Reading, husbandman, considera- 
tion 115, to Robert Bridges of Linn, gentleman, 800 acres 
in Linn and Reading at Beaver Damme, late in possession 
of Robert Bridges and since sold to Robert Burnepp, 
70 acres in Reading and the house wherein Robert Bur- 
napp now liveth (unless certain payments are made in 
which case this deed is void), 17 Sept., 1655. Witnesses, 
Thomas Marchall, John Cotton; acknowledged, 22 May, 
1656. ( (Mddx. Land Records, vol. 1, p. 145.) 

Samuel Hutchinson of Redding, consideration 12, to 
Robert Barnap, senr., land at east end of my lott, 20 Feb. 



270 THE BURNAP-BURNETT GENEALOGY 

1669-70. Hannah Hutchinson also signs. Witnesses, 
Ralph Dix, William Cowdrey; acknowledged 13 May, 
1670. (Ibid: vol. v., p. 8.) 

In the Massachusetts Archives, vol. 38B, p. 166, is 
found: "The testimony of Robert Burnap, about 58 years, 
saith the outeside of the drie caske .... (one word illeg- 
ible) goodes came in was chakey & one of the panes on it 
was broken and a hoole into it abought a foot longe & the 
goodes that lay on one side of ye caske was rotten quit 
thorowe the Caske as if charke or sum other thing like 
charke had gotten into it which might very well be for the 
Caske was verry bad further this deponent saith that he 

did help unpacke all the goodes. Taken upon oath in 

26th. 8th. mo. 1653." (Depositions from two others, also 
appraisal list impossible to read, but among other articles 
40 yards of cotton. The whole valued at 19 :4:4.) 

In the Massachusetts Bay Records, vol. v. p. 186, we 
find: "9 May 1678. In ans r to the peticon of W m Cou- 
drey, Robert Burnap, Jonothan Poole &c. in behalfe of 
the inhabitants of Redding, the Court judgeth it meet to 
grant the peticioners a hearing of the case mentioned in 
their peticon, at the next sessions of this Court in October 
next, all partjes being seasonably warned to attend their 
concernes & caution being given to the secretary for the 
Courts hearing of the case." 

Ibid : p. 432. In answer to petition of William Haw- 
kins and Hannah his wife "the Court doe appoint the 
14th. of next May for a hearing of the case betwene them 
and Robert Burnap and his son Thomas of Reddinge," 
etc. (Concerning some land in Reading.) 

Ibid: p. 445. In the case betweene W m Hawkins & 
Anna his wife, "complayning ag* Robert Burnet & seueral 
others as in their peticon on file, the Court hauing duely 
considered the case, & euidences, & pleas made by both 
partjes, and finding it very difficult to releive the complay- 
nant, doe judge meet & doe order, that Elisha Hutchin- 
son, Esq., Mr. John Saffyn, & Mr. James Connuers be a 
comittee to repajre to Reading, & survey & measure the 



BY HENRY WYCKOFF BELKNAP 271 

place & the lotts where it is supposed the land sued for 
either is or ought to be lajd out, who are hereby impowred 
to call before them witnesses, & examine them vpon oath 
if they see cause, and to vse their vtmost endeavo r s to find 
out what may tend to releive the complaynants, and make 
returne thereof to the next session of this Court, that so 
a right judgement may be given in the case, provided the 
complaynants be at the charge of the comittee." 

Ibid: 15 Oct. 1684. "Vpon the returne of the com- 
ittee, & surveigh obteyned by petition of W m Hawkins 
and Anna his wife, concerning certeine lands in Reading, 
claymed by the petitioners, this Court hauing had a full 
hearing of the case, the euidences on all sides remayning 
on file in the records of this Court, doth therefore order 
and determine, as a fynal issue of all controuersy in or 
about the premisses that the hundred and twenty one acres 
of land lying betweene the southerly side or bounds of 
the Newhalls lotts and the southerly side or bounds of 
old M r Robert Burnetts alias Burnaps, land, as p the 
plott appears, shall w" all convenient speed, be, by a 
sworne surveyo', divided and lajd out into three aequall 
parts and proportions, according to the originall grants 
of the toune of lynn, as other lotts lye in length from east 
to west, w tb all its appurtenances and that the bigger part 
thereof lying next the land of the said Burnet, Sen r , 
towards the north, is vndoubtedly and shall be accounted 
the land and be in plenary possession of the said Will jam 
Hawkins, in the right of his wife Anna, the daughter & 
heire to Edward Bircham, deceased, and that each party 
shall beare their oane charge and that the marshall gen- 
erall be ordered to put the petitioner into possession of the 
premisses." 

Returning for the moment to England, it will be of 
interest to quote the agreement to sell his home property 
before Robert Burnap set sail for the New World. This 
paper is translated from the Latin in which it appears in 
the records: "This is the final agreement made in the 
Court of our lord the King at Westminster in the octave 
of St. Michael in the ninth year of the reign of Charles 



272 THE BURNAP-BURNKTT GENEALOGY 

by the grace of God King of England Scotland France and 
Ireland Defender of the Faith etc. from the Conquest. 
Before Robert Heath Richard Hutton George Vernon and 
Francis Crawley Justices and other faithful people of the 
lord the King then and there being present BETWEEN 
Robert Burnappe plaintiff and John Morley and Martha 
his wife and Thomas Burnappe deforciants of one mes- 
suage one orchard and one garden with the appurtenances 
in Amwell. Thereupon a plea of covenant was summoned 
between them in the same Court to wit that the aforesaid 
John and Martha and Thomas acknowledged the afore- 
said tenements to be the right of the said Robert as those 
which the said Robert has of the gift of the aforesaid 
John and Martha and Thomas and the same remised and 
quit claimed from the said John, Martha and Thomas and 
their heirs to the aforesaid Robert and his heires for ever 
And further the same John and Martha and Thomas 
granted for them and the heirs of the same Martha that 
they will warrant to the aforesaid Robert and his heirs 
the aforesaid tenements with the appurtenances against 
all men for ever. And by this acknowledgement remise 
quit-claim warrant and agreement the same Robert gave 
the aforesaid John and Martha and Thomas sixty pounds 
sterling. Hertfordshire." (Feet of Fines, 9 Charles I, 
Mich., Herts., Bdl. 429.) 

"This is the final agreement made in the Court of our 
lord the King at Westminster the quinzaine of Easter in 
the fourteenth year of the reign of Charles by the grace 
of God King Defender of the Faith, etc. from the Con- 
quest. Before John Finch, Richard Hutton, George Ver- 
non and Francis Crawley Justices and other faithful 
people of the lord the King then and there being present 
BETWEEN William Allen and Joan his wife plaintiffs 
and Robert Burnapp and Ann his wife deforciants of one 
messuage one garden and one orchard with the appurten- 
ances in Hodsden and Amwell thereupon a plea of cove- 
nant was summoned between them in the same Court to 
wit that the aforesaid Robert and Ann acknowledged the 
aforesaid tenements with the appurtenances to be the 



BY HENRY WYCKOFF BELKNAP 273 

right of the said William as those which the said William 
and Joan had of the gift of the aforesaid Robert and Arm 
and the same remised and quit-claimed from Robert and 
Ann and their heirs to the aforesaid William and Joan 
and the heirs of the same William the aforesaid tenements 
with the appurtenances against all men for ever. And 
lastly the same Robert and Ann grant for him and the 
heirs of the same Ann that they will warrant the afore- 
said William and Joan and the heirs of William the afore- 
said tenements with appurtenances against the aforesaid 
Robert and Ann and the heirs of the same Ann for ever. 
And by this acknowledgement remise quit-claim warrant 
fine and agreement the same William and Joan gave the 
aforesaid Robert and Ann sixty pounds sterling. Hert- 
fordshire." (Feet of Fines, Herts., 14 Chas. I, Easter, 
Bdl. 431.) 

Note: The sixty pounds is nominal only. Feet of 
Fines always give the consideration as 60, 120, 600 
and so on (multiples of 60). The reason is not now 
known, but it is thought that the Court Fees were based 
on this amount. The buyer and seller kept the actual 
purchase price to themselves. (C. A. B.) 

Robert Burnap filled the office of Selectman in Reading 
from 1654-6, 1658-60, 1662-9, 1670-1. He died 27 Sep- 
tember, 1688, a very old man, as will be noted. His will, 
dated 15 November, 1688, was proved 1 October, 1689, 
and provides "to son Thomas homestead and town prive- 
leges with house and land sd. Thomas lives upon, he to 
pay my cousin Thomas Barnap 6 yearly for life, to 
whom also a room in ye chamber and a bed for four years." 
To daughter Ann Jones, 5; to daughter Sarah Brown, 
"ye cupboard in ye parlour"; to son Robert, land that 
his house is on, etc. ; to cousin Thomas Barnap, 40 acres 
of upland, etc. ; to grand-children, Joseph and Thomas 
Barnap ; Sarah Southericke and Isaac Southericke, (South- 
wick) ; sons Thomas and Robert, executors ; overseers, 
Capt. John Brown, Capt. Jeremiah Swain. Witnesses : 
John Brown, Hannah Parker, Benjamin Fitch. 



274 THE BURNAP-BURNETT GENEALOGY 

Inventory, 7 September, 1689, 508:16:0. (Mddx. 
Probate Records, vol. vii, p. 36.) 
Children : 

37. ANNE, "the daughter of Eobert Burnappe of Hodsden end & 

of Anne, bap, 30 Apl. 1626, bur. 20 Mar. 1629-30." 

38. ROBERT, "the sonne of Robert Burnappe of Hodston and of 

Alice (sic) his wife bap. at Hodston Chappell 28 Nov. 
1637," died 18 Oct. 1695. (Reading Vital Records.) 

39. ISAACK, "the sonne of Robert Burnap of Hodston and of 

Annis his wife bap. 20 Mar. 1629-30," died 18 Sept., 1667, 
at Reading. 

40. ANNE, "the daughter of Robert Burnappe of Hodsden and 

of Anne his wife bap. 15 Apl. 1632;" died March, 1695 
(Savage). 

41. A daughter, "a mayden childe of one Robert Burnapps of 

Hodsdon dinje (sic) before baptizme buried 18 Oct. 
1634." 

42. EDWABD, "the sonne of Robert Burnappe of Hodston, chand- 

ler and of Annis his wife bap. at Hodston Chappell 12 
Feb. 1635-6." 

43. THOMAS, died after 1688. 

44. RICHABD, died before 1688. 

45. An infant, buried 18 Nov., 1642, the only record found in 

Roxbury Church Records. 

46. SABAH, born perhaps about 1646, died after 1688. 

Note: the order of these children is somewhat uncertain. 
The son Thomas was probably born in this country, also 
Richard. Pope gives the date of death of the mother Ann as 
27 Apr., 1681, at Reading; it is so given in the Reading Vital 
Records also. 

17. THOMAS BURNAP was living in Stanstead Abbots 
in 1667-8. Though not named in his father's will his 
existence is indicated there because his father is described 
as Thomas Burnap, senior. As he would inherit his 
father's lands it was probably felt that sufficient pro- 
vision had already been made for him; however the fact 
that his half-brother Robert had to have his executorship 
of that will confirmed by decree rather points to Thomas, 
the son, not having been of that opinion. 

In 1673-4, his brother John, in his will dated 3 Feb., 
mentions money owing to him by his brother Thomas. 

Letters of administration of the goods of Thomas Bur- 
napp of Stanstead Abbott, Herts., widower, were granted 
11 April, 1688 to his son Thomas Burnapp in the Pre- 
rogative Court of Canterbury. The grant in this Court 



BY HENRY WYCKOFF BELKNAP 276 

instead of in Middlesex indicates that the deceased had 
''bona notabilia" viz: at the time of his death goods in 
any other diocese besides his goods in the diocese where 
he died, amounting in value to 5 at least. This fact is 
important in further search as it is very likely possible 
that his burial will be found outside his home parish of 
Stanstead Abbots. Nothing has been learned of his mar- 
riage or his wife's, except that he survived her, as appears 
from his being described as "widower" in the above grant 
of letters of administration and of his children we know 
nothing except that he had a son. 

Child: 
47. THOMAS, died about 1724-5. 

18. JOHN BURNAP was living at Stanstead Abbots in 
1667-8 when he is mentioned in his father's will. His 
wife's name was Elizabeth, and she survived his death, 
dying herself in 1694. 

The will of John Burnap. 

The last will of John Burnap of Stansted Abbott, 
Herts., the Elder. Wife to be sole executrix. Dated 3 
February, 1673/4. To my wife all my new buildings in 
the Bauge Yard, viz., the dwelling house with seven shops, 
a great stable, etc. To my son Samuel XI 00 when his 
apprenticeship expires. X60 to my daughter Sarah Bur- 
nap at her marriage or a year after my death. I owe Mr. 
George Denison, Sarah Hawkins, Mr. Holl, citizen and 
barber-surgeon of London, my brother Thomas Burnap, 
Captain Mason, citizen and iron-monger of London. Land 
in Hatfield, adjoining land of Thomas Burnap, to my son 
John Burnap. Land in Dungfield in the occupation of 
Jacob Burnap. My daughter Elizabeth Evans. My 
daughter Judith Hunston. Her son Edward Hunston, 
the Younger, a minor. My daughter Ruth Burnap. My 
two grand-children Mary Hunsdon and Mary Evens at 
seven years of age. 

Witnesses : Robert Furley (mark). 
Stephen Handin (mark). 

Testator confirms his will on 27 May, 1674 ; mentions 



276 THE BUBNAP-BURNETT GENEALOGY 

again his wife, his daughter Ruth Burnap, son Samuel 
and three daughters, Elizabeth, Judith and Sarah. 
Witnesses to this confirmation : 

James North, 
John Fountaine, 
Thomas Roberts. 

On 7 July, 1674, the above will was proved in London 
(P. C. C. 84 Bunce), by the executor and widow Eliza- 
beth Burnap. 

The probate of this will in Canterbury instead of Arch. 
Mddx. Essex & Herts., indicating as it does that the de- 
ceased had "bona notabilia" (see No. 17) in another 
diocese besides those in the diocese wherein he died, 
makes it very tempting to identify the testator with his 
cousin John Burnap of Aston (under jurisdiction of Arch. 
Huntingdon, Hitching portion), where he was buried the 
day before the above will was probated, especially as John 
of Aston probably inherited lands at Stanstead Abbots 
(under jurisdiction of Arch. Mddx., Essex & Herts), 
from his father, the Rev. John Burnap, who was a native 
of Stanstead Abbots. However, a careful examination 
of the evidence will show that he is not identical with 
John of Aston. The testator above has daughters Judith 
and Sarah. John of Stanstead Abbots, we have seen, 
had sisters Judith and Sarah. The testator had other 
children, Samuel and Mary. John of Stanstead Abbots 
had a half-sister Mary and a half-brother Samuel. Further 
and more important, the testator's son John, in his will 
dated 28 June, 1682, refers to his cousin Joseph Bray of 
Stanstead. John of Stanstead Abbots had a sister Mrs. 
Sarah Bray of Stanstead. Add to this the fact that John 
of Aston had a child Elizabeth born at Aston, but no 
other children recorded in the registers there, though the 
testator had six children besides his daughter Elizabeth, 
and it is clear that the testator is certainly not the John 
who was buried at Aston 6 July, 1674. 

The will of Elizabeth Burnap, widow of John Burnap 
of Stanstead Abbots : Elizabeth Burnapp of Stanstead 
Abbotts, Herts., widow, dated 12 April, 1694, proved 15 
June, 1694 (Arch. Mddx., Essex & Herts., 62 Sanney). 
My daughter Evens. My son Evens. Mary Dirking 



BY HENEY WYCKOFF BELKNAP 277 

daughter of my daughter Evens, and John Evens, brother 
of said Mary Dirking. My daughter Hunsdon. Judith 
Hunsdon, daughter of my daughter Hunsdon. Rachel 
Hunsdon. Elizabeth Hunsdon. My grandson Edward 
Hunsdon. Sarah Hunsdon. My cousin Comyns. My 
daughter Mary. My daughter Auger. Her daughters, 
Elizabeth Aunger and Sarah Aundger. Judith Aunger. 
My son-in-law Thomas Aunger to be executor. My daugh- 
ter Judith. My grandson John Burnapp. 

Testatrix makes her mark, which is witnessed by Re- 
becca Hide, Lydia Mott (mark), and Daniel Pringle. 

Children : 

48. JOHN, died before Jnly, 1687. 

49. SAMUEL, not mentioned in mother's will, 1694. 

50. SARAH, she or sister Rath mentioned in mother's will, 1694. 

51. ELIZABETH, mentioned in her mother's will, 1694. 

52. JUDITH, mentioned in mother's will, 1694. 

53. RUTH, unmarried in 1673-4. (See No. 50.) 

54. MART, not mentioned in her father's will, though in that of 

her mother in 1694, and may have been born after his death. 

19. JUDITH BURNAP was living in 1667/8, as she re- 
ceived a legacy in her father's will; and she was at that 
tune married to Richard Skingle, "clerk" or parson of 
Sawbridgeworth. 

20. SARAH BDRNAP was living in Stanstead in 1667/8, 
when she was the widow of Richard Bray, and was evi- 
dently the mother of "my cousin Joseph Bray of Stan- 
stead" mentioned in the will of John Burnapp of Stan- 
stead Abbots, dated 28 June, 1682, the son of her brother 
John. 

In her will, 16 September, 1698, of Stanstead Abbotts 
(Arch. Mddx., Essex & Herts., 206 Sanney), she leaves 
a gold ring to Thomas Burnapp, senior, evidently her 
nephew, son of her brother Thomas, who died in 1688, 
and appoints him her executor. He proved the will 6 
October, 1703. 

Child : BRAY. 
JOSEPH, living, 1682. 



278 THE BURNAP-BURNETT GENEALOGY 

21. ROBERT BURNAP, born about May, 1634, was 
living in Stanstead, a yeoman, in 1657/8, having come of 
age in May, 1655. He proved his father's will, dated 
1667/8, by decree, 29 April, 1668, in which he is de- 
scribed as of Stanstead. 

22. SAMUEL BURNAP of Much Haddam, gentleman, 
in 1657/8, of Little Laver, clerk in 1667/8, was admitted 
sizar at Queen's College, Cambridge, at Easter, 1653, and 
took his decree of B. A. in 1656/7, and M. A., 1660. 

23. MARY BURNAP, who was a minor in 1657/8, was 
named in her father's will in 1667/8 as of Stanstead, and 
may have been the Maria who married, 3 June, 1683, 
Henry Ritts, as appears in the Bennington Parish Reg- 
ister. 

25. JOHN BURNAP of Aston was born after 1617. He 
proved his father's will in the Prerogative Court of Can- 
terbury (the only Court of Probate during the Common- 
wealth), 10 March, 1653/4, and was a witness to the will 
of John Humberstone of Aston 13 August, 22 Charles I. 
John Burnapp, gent., appraised the inventory of goods 
of the above testator 19 August, 1670. (Filed Wills, 
Arch. Huntingdon, Hitchin Registry.) 

He is not to be confused with John of Stanstead Ab- 
bots, his cousin, whose will was proved the day after this 
John was buried. (See No. 18.) 

He married, in Ardeley, Herts., near Aston, 27 March, 
1673, Anne Cater oi Ardeley. So far no further trace 
of him has been found nor any descendants, if he had 
any. Probably his widow sold his property in Aston and 
returned to her home district of Ardeley. 

27. THOMAS BURNAP, who was baptized 30 June, 
1630, at Aston, is mentioned in his father's will as in New 
England in 1653. In 1658 he appointed his well-beloved 
friend Thomas Hale of Salem his attorney on 17 July, 
in an action against Zacheus Goold, who dwelt "neere 
Topsfield," the paper being witnessed by Joshua Tourland 
and Hilliard Veren. It was for a debt of 1 due to 
Burnap. (Ipswich Court Records, vol. n, p. 126.) His 
autograph appears in these records, and the same suit is 
found in Salem Court Records, vol. iv, p. 101.) 

John Pearson, aged about 19 years, and Mary Burnop, 



BY HENRY WYCKOFF BELKNAP 27 9 

aged about 26 years, deposed that "Goodwif Burt Coming 
into the Roome whear Sarah Pearson was asked her how 
shee did shee said the worse for her the said Burt seat 
down and laughed at ye said Sarah shee coming towards 
her said doust thou laugh and knoweth thou heast don 
me a mieschefe. I could find in my heart to baste thy 
sids the said Burt said doe if thou durst and I will pay 
thy side." Also that Sarah "should spake as much 
against her frinds as evre shee did against her." 

Maddelene Pearson, aged about 50 years, deposed that 
she heard Sarah Pearson say when her father had her 
down to Good wife Burt's to be cured of her sore that the 
first night she was there said Burt put her to bed, etc. 
Burt said "Sarah will you smokit and giueing of her the 
pipe she smoket it," and Sarah fell into the fits again and 
said Goodwife Burt brought the devil to her to torment 
her. (Salem Quarterly Court Records, Nov., 1669.) This 
was one of the witchcraft, cases. 

Thomas Burnap was married 3 December, 1663, as 
Thomas Burnitt, according to the Lynn Vital Records 
(Burnap, in Middlesex Records), to Mary Peerson (Pear- 
son), born 20 June, 1643 (Clerk of Courts' Records, Mid- 
dlesex, Mass.), daughter of John and Maudlin (Ballard 
or Bullard) Pearson, senior, of Lynn. In John Pearson's 
will is found : "I giue unto My Daughter Marey Burnap 
and || to || her Cheldren Thirty Ackers of upland Leying 
Betwen the Landes of Jonathan Poole and Robarte Bur- 
nap be it More or Less further More I giue Unto My 
Daughter Marey Burnap A parssell of Land forty Ackers 
orther abouts Leying near to the Land of Maj. John 
Hawks or Adjoyning to it and to her Cheldren further 
More I giue Unto My Daughter Marey Burnap and to her 
Cheldren Tenn Ackers of Meddow tow Ackers of it Ley- 
inge in the wigwam Meddow and eight Ackers leying in 
the great Meddow. My will is that My Daughter Marey 
Burnap that the Lands and Meddow that I haue giuen to 
her and her Cheldren shale bee made up one hundred 
pound." (Essex Probate Records, vol. n, p. 426.) Dated 
19 April, 1679, proved 25 June, 1679. Inventory 14 
May, 1679. 

In the will of Robert Burnap of Reading, Thomas is 



280 THE BURNAP-BTJRNETT GENEALOGY 

mentioned as his "cousin" (i. e. nephew), 15 Nov., 1688. 

Mary, the wife, died 15 Jan., 1690/1, at Reading, and 
Thomas followed her 26 March, 1691. 

The Inventory of Thomas Barnap of Redding, lately 
Deed., aged about 60 years, who died intestate, 27:7:0, 
20 May, 1691, taken by Joseph Barnap, John Pearson. 

Administration to Robert and Thomas Barnap,16 June, 
1691, Charlestown. (Mddx. Probate Records, vol. vn, 
pp. 237/8, 316.) 

Agreement of the children 7 April, 1691. I Thomas 
Barnap, eldest and only surviving son ; my two sisters 
which are of age, namely Mary and Sarah Barnap, my 
three sisters Anna, Bethiah and Hester, our loving ffriends 
to be guardians, Major Jeremiah Sweyne for Hester, and 
John Bacheller for Anna, and our uncle John Pearson for 
Bethia. 

Witnesses : John Bacheller, Tho : Barnap, 

John Pearson, Mary (A) Barnap, 

Sarah (d) Barnap. 

Genealogical Bulletin, vol. I, p. 156. 
Children : 

55. THOMAS, born 17 Jan., 1864/5; died 24 Aug., 1726, 62nd year. 

56. EBENEZER, born 5 Sept., 1666 ; died 2 Dec., 1690. 

57. MARY, born 27 Mar., 1667/8 (7 Mar. in Clerk of Courts' Rec- 

ords); died 11 July, 17 . 

58. BETHIAH, born 23 Mar., 1669/70; died 4 Nov., 1673 (Clerk of 

Courts' Records). 

59. SARAH, born 4 April, 1672; died before 1726. 

60. ANNAH, born 29 Aug., 1674 (26 Aug., Clerk of Courts' Records). 

61. BETHIAH, born 9 June, 1677; perhaps she died, Feb., 1784, at 

Natick, Drury Death Book (New England Historical & Gen- 
ealogical Register, vol. LXV, p. 360). 

62. ESTHER, born 7 Feb., 1680/1; died after 1727. 

28. THOMAS BURNAP, mentioned in his mother's will 
in 1663, also in that of Elizabeth, widow of his brother 
John, and in those of his brothers Jacob in 1684 and 
Isaac in 1703. Nothing further has been found about 
him. 

(To be continued) 



BURBANK PICKERING MEMORANDUM BOOK. 

FROM THE ORIGINAL IN THE POSSESSION OP THE 
ESSEX INSTITUTE. 



Timtfthy Burbank or Broadbank was apparently the 
first owner of this memorandum book, which is a small 
leather-bound volume with brass clasps, containing 110 
leaves, with a watermark of fleur-de-lis and crown. He 
used it for notes on sermons and lectures delivered in 
Salem by "Mr. Noyes, Mr. Higginson and Mr. Pason," 
the first sixty-five pages being in Burbank's handwriting. 
The remainder of the book was kept by Captain William 
Pickering of Salem, and later by his daughter Hannah, 
wife of Adoniram Collins, of Marblehead. 

Captain William Pickering, son of Lieutenant John 
and Alice (Flint) Pickering, was bom in Salem, January 
11, 1670-71, in the ancestral home on Broad street. He 
followed the sea for many years, both in a public and 
private capacity, making voyages to foreign and domestic 
ports, and was in many respects the most distinguished 
member of the family in his generation. As commander 
of the Province Galley, he was sent to protect the fishing 
vessels on the eastern coast from attacks by the French 
and Indians. He served as selectman of Salem, 1714-19, 
and was one of the founders of the East Church. He 
married, June 19, 1695, Hannah Brown, daughter of 
James and Hannah (Bartholomew) Brown, born March 
9, 1672, of another prominent Salem family. Her father, 
who was a merchant of note in Salem, was murdered by 
a negro in Maryland, November 12, 1675, and her mother 
married Doctor John Swinerton, by which marriage three 
more children were added to the family of six left by her 
previous marriage. On April 29, 1706, Hannah Swiner- 
ton conveyed her house, which was situated at the 
corner of Essex and Union streets, to her son-in-law 
Captain William Pickering, in consideration of his pro- 

(281) 



282 BURBANK-PICKERING MEMORANDUM BOOK 

viding for her during the remainder of her life. 1 Mrs. 
Pickering was living in 1735. Captain Pickering's house 
was situated on Broad street, and was standing until 
September 16, 1865, when it was destroyed by fire. 2 

About 1720 he engaged in commercial pursuits and 
made many voyages to Canso, Nova Scotia, where he had 
planned to found a settlement in the interest of the fishing 
industry. Three years later he started on a return trip to 
New England and was never heard from, it being the 
common belief that his vessel was attacked by the French 
or Indians and the master killed or taken into captivity. 

Adoniram Collins, who married Hannah, daughter of 
Captain William Pickering, was son of Adoniram and 
Mary (Ward) Collins, and was born in Salem, June 15, 
1706, probably in a house on Hardy street, where his 
father was licensed to keep a public house in 1719. 3 He 
learned the cooper's trade, but later followed the sea. His 
wife inherited half of the James Browne house, which 
they conveyed, September 1, 1742, to Abraham Watson, 
and then probably removed to Marblehead. 



Tim : Broadbank 1691 is A member of y e Church Ex 
dono. 

Timothy Burbank 4 his Book November y e 11 1693 for 
Sermons. 

[Here follow 65 pages of notes of various sermons and 
lectures delivered by Mr. Noyes, Mr. Higginson and Mr. 
Pasou.] 

Charles Pynn 5 is D r May y e 31 th 1709, to y r passage 
from Newlaud 6 to New England, 2 ; June y e 4 th to a 
hatt, 6s.; to a primar, 6d. ; to mending shoes, 3d.; 18, to 



'Essex Antiquarian, vol. X, pp. 162, 166. 

2 See Essex Antiquarian, vol. V, p. 34, for a picture of this house 
from a drawing made by John Robinson. 

3 Essex Antiquarian, vol. X, p. 69. 

4 Perhaps Timothy Burbank, son of John and Susannah (Merrill) 
Burbank, who was born in Haverhill, May 30, 1668. In 1681, ac- 
cording to the will of his grandfather, John Burbank, Timothy was 
living with Captain Saltonstall. This family removed to Suffield, 
Conn. 

5 Probably a school boy brought to New England to be educated. 

"Newland, Virginia. 



BUBBANK-PICKEBING MEMOBANDUM BOOK 283 

a par of shoes, 4s. 6d. ; 19, to tape, 2d. ; July 18, to 
scoling, Is. 6d. ; to tape, 3d.; August 10, to silk, 2d., to 
buckets, Is. ; 19, to shoes, 10s. ; to a hat, 6d. ; 27, to a 
par of shus, 4s. 6d. ; to too pare of stockens, 6s. ; to fris 
silk and butens, Is. 6d. ; March, 1710, to scoling, 6s. 9d. ; 
to silk, 3d. ; to wood, 2s. ; to f reize, 5d. ; Aprel 18, to silk 
and butens, 6d.; Contra, by 21 Jars of oyle at 7s. 5), 7 : 
1 : ; 3y 2 Qtls Refuse fish, 14s; ; by a gun, 11. 8s. 

Reckned with Mr. Gicear 21 Day of June. Credit, 
117-6-6. Rekned with Mr Gicear and there is due to 
me 20-4- 2d. 7 

Staford Webber is D r May 31 th 1709 to passage from 
newland to new-england .2 ; to a primar, 6d. ; 20, to 
butens, 7d. ; July 18, to [sjcoling, Is. 3d. ; August 10, 
to 2 silk neckcloths, 5s. 8d. ; to freise , 9d. ; to saf and 
ointment, 9d. ; to wine, 8d. ; to onyons, Is. ; to gartars; 
3d. ; October 20, to a hatt, 6s. ; to a pare of shus, 4s. 4d., 
November 6, to butens and a lase, 9d. ; to a hatt, 5s. 6d. ; 
too a pare stockens, 6s.; to butens, 7d. ; frise, 5d. ; March, 
1710, to a pare of breeches, 7s. ; to scoling, 6s. 3d. ; to 
wood, 2s.; to freise, 5d. Per Contra, Cred. By a moyder 
gold, 7 * 21i. 

My sister Mercy Swinertons 8 bord with me from Aprel 
1708 to november 1727 at 12 1 ' per year, 258-0-0 ; to six 
months nursing and attendance in her last sickness at 12 
per week, 14 : 8 : ; total, 272 : 8 : 0. 

rum sold 1727 one hogset 85 gallons, one cask 80 gal- 
lons, one hogset a hundred gallons, 4 : 18 : 0. 

Sarah Laska was married the 13, 1760 Day of Octo- 
bar. 9 

Susannah Gooden Came Aprill. Mary Stiles Came 
April 16 Day and went home May the 20 which Is 6 
weeks. 10 Aprill the first Day betty Melcome Came to 
Scoole. 



7 This paragraph is in a different handwriting. 

7a Portuguese coin of the value of about $6.50. 

3 Mercy, daughter of Dr. John and Hannah Swinerton, was born 
Dec. 24, 1631. 

"She was married to George Clarke by the Rector of St. Michael's 
Church. 

10 Hannah Collins probably kept a school in Marblehead, 1759- 
1763, there being recorded here the names of about 130 children 
who attended. 



284 BTJRBANK-PICKERING MEMORANDUM BOOK 

March the 30 Day Hannah Melcome Came, Pen Wills 
and Mary Lee. Aprill the 6 day Mary Stiles Came and 
Nancy Dickey and William Cole Came the 6 Day of 
Aprill 1761. 

Salley Graves and Mary Luess Came May the 11, 1761. 
May the 18 Day Sarah Lansey Came. May the 25, 1761, 
Nancy Mar Came and betty Pennill Came May the 25. 

Marium, Elner and Betty barbar Came Apprill 20. 
Aprill the 6 John and Nathan White and Sarah Martin 
Came. Aprill 13 Day Susanna and Anna Holddar and 
Sarah Jonson and Mary Casell. Molly and Hannah Good- 
win Came Aprill the 13 Day 1761. Sarah Broadden and 
Sarah Woldrig and Uenice Benson, Sarah Martin Came, 
and all in one day Aprill the 27. betty Chitman, Sarah 
Smith, betty and patty proctar and hannah Goodin tomas 
Martins Sally Came Aprill 12 Day. 

Sarah Wickery, nancy Gray and Sarah tukesbary Came 
May the 4. Beniamin Wells Came August 3 day. 

Mary Collins Went to Mr Whitirels 11 to Live Octobar 
23 Day 1762. Came home, went again febuary 10. 

Molly went to Mr. Whitwels September 1767. 

Pickering 12 saild with Captn Green May the 31 1772, 
the Champion, for 12 Dollars per month. 

Pickering shipt on Board the Scoonnar Nancey Capn 
Bacheldar Commandar the 13 Day of May. 

1769. Pickering Shipt with Capt n John Burnam the 
26 Day of August saild the 19 Day of September 

1770. Pickering shipt with Captn Wormstill Aprill. 
Pickering sailed the 22 Day of September. 

Ruth Readden 1 Son, 13 Ruth Collyar 1 Daughter, Chal 
Luis 1 Daughter, Louvis 1 Son, Joseph Sari 1 Daughter, 
torn Mully 1 Son, Sarah Candig 1 Son, Charles flury 1 
Daughter, Grace Meadar 1 Daughter, Sarah bacon 2 
children, Molly Laskin 1 Son, Mary Brokit 1 Daughter, 
fillis Muckford 1 Gairll, frothingham 1 Son, to Cablecy 
hastins 1 child, Wimon 1, Webbar 1, burrell 1, Sarah 
Wils 1 Son, Captn Russels 1 Daughter, Hannah Curtis 1 

"Rev. William Whitwell, pastor of the First Church, Marblehead. 

Pickering Collins. 
"List of 327 children born in Marblehead, 1769-1773. 



BURBANK-P1CKERING MEMORANDUM BOOK 285 

Daughter, Ms Whitwell 1 Daughter, Ms Caswell 1 son. 
hannah Hooppar 1 Son, Sarah Kenell 1 Son, Li we Allen 
1 Son, Sarah Mathes 1 Son, Ms. Glover 1 Son, Mol Luis 
1 Daughter, Louis Pitman 1 Daughter, Dinah hines 1 
Daughter, Marium Davis 1 son, Hannah Crow 1 Son, 
Sarah Henly 1 Son, Susannah Garnar. 1 Son, Elizabeth 
Kwin 1 Son, Phillips 1 Daughter, Sarah Brimbilcom 1 
Son, Joseph Sarll 1 Son. 

Peter Loues one, Woldreg 1 son Janavary 30 th 1769, 
Moll Marton one Daughtar, Dinah 1 Daughtar, Rebeckah 
Roos 1 Daughtar, Mis Umpris 1 Daughter, Ms. Clark 1 
son, Nab Card 1 son Aprill 28, 1769, Ruth Colyar or 
Roundy 1 son July 8, 1769. 

Mary Clone 1 son 1769, Elizabeth Mason 1 son, Mis 
Bowdin 1 Daughter July 4, 1769, Sarah Righthead 
1 Daughter July 1, 1769, Moll Nuill 1 Daughter, 
Ms Pen 1 Daughtar, Ms Meadar 1 Daughtar, Ms Down 
1 Daughtar, Ms flichar 1 son, Grace Wheallar 1 Daugh- 
tar, Ms Dood 1 Daughtar, Ms Bakar 1 son, betty Mary 
1 Daughtar, Ms Gouin 1 Daughtar, Ms Stapels 1 son 
Daughter, Moley Brimbilcum 1, Ms holdrim 1 son, Ms 
Carnaily 1 son, Ms Stasey 1 Daughtar Octobar 14 day, 
Mrs Grow 1 son, Ms Casey 1 Daughtar, Ms Davis 1 son, 
Ms Gusset 1 son, Gillis 1 son, Hannah Peltrow 1 
Daughter. 

Janauary 1770. Joseph Dolliver 1 Son, Ms flory 1 
son, Ms Eatton 1 Daughtar, Ms Perce 1 son, Ruth Lee 1 
Daughter, Ms Maly 1 son, Ms Gooldsmith 1 Daughtar, 
Sarah Crow 1 Daughtar, Ms Ann Brown 1 son May 5 th 
1770, Loois 1 Daughtar, Betty Groves 1 son. 

thorn mas Colyar 1 Daughtar, Steven Chatman 1 son 
June 19, Live Allin twins June 15 sons, Hannah Peltrow 
1 Daughtar, betty Graly 1 Daughtar, Dinah 1 Daughtar, 
Mary Phillips 1 son Octobar 3 Day, Ms Sandy 1 Son, Ms 
Engals 1 Son, Ms Saintbarb 1 son Novembar 1770, Ms 
Goodin 1 Daughtar, Jonson 1 son, Ms Devrix 1 Daugh- 
tar, Ms Hortton 1 Son Novembar, Ms Phillips 1 Daugh- 
tar, Ms Bains 1 Daughtar, Cloe Robe 1 Daughtar, Pegg 
Cook 1 Son March 4, 1770. 

Ms Saris 1 son febuary, Ms Gachell 1 son March 13, 
Ms talar 1 son March, Ms Peddrick 2 Daughtars March 



286 BUJBBANK-PICKEEING MEMORANDUM BOOK 

29, Dinah hinds 1 Daughtar, Ms holddrum 1 son Aprill 
1771, Ms Bowden 1 son June 1771, Ms Whitwells 1 son, 
Ms Righthead 1 son July 4 day, Ms Dood 1 son Septem- 
bar, 1771, Sarah bannistar 1 Daughtar Septembar, Ms 
Downe 1 son Septembar, Octobar Ms Mugford 1 son 3 
day, Octobar 1771 Ms Collyar 1 Daughtar, Ms Allin 1 
Daughtar Septembar, Ms Wolldrig 1 Son, Ms Munggrill 
1 Daughtar. 

Octobar the 4 Day 1771 Ms Elisabeth Stacy 1 son, 
Janawary 12 Day 1772 Ms Meaddar 1 Daughtar, Clowe 
Roby 1 Daughtar, Ms hannah Pery 1 son, Ms. Sarah 
Stacy 1 son, Ms hartshorne 1 son, Huldia Scoot 1 Daugh- 
tar, Hannah Peltrow 1 Daughtar, Ms Wilson 1 Daughtar, 
March 1772 Ms Dollivar 1 Daughtar, Sarah Favour 1 
son, Ms Pedrick 1 Daughtar, Grac Wilson 1 Daughtar, 
Sary Reeves 1 son 1772, Mary Bishop 1 Daughtar, May 
1772 Israeli Eatton 1 son, May the 18 day, 11 Clock 
night, Dinah Hines 1 Daughtar. 

June the 11, 1772, Elisabeth Peltrow 1 Daughtar, June 
Abigill Snellin 1 Daughtar, June Sarah Lisbrill one 
Daughtar, Elisabeth Mason one Son, Liddia Callym 1 
Daughtar, July 1772 Sarah Lecraw 1 Son, Mary Pope 
1 Daughtar July, August 1772 Rebec kah Home 1 Son, 
Sarah Bowden 1 Son, Margret Chatman 1 Son, Sarah 
Pen 1 Son, Elizebeth Goldsmith 1 Daughtar, betty Morse 
1 Son, Elisabeth Owin 1 Daughtar. 

Martha Hichins Septembar 1 Son, Jane Hichins 1 Son, 
Hitty Stapels 1 Son, Sarah Oby 1 son August, Ms Prib- 
ble 1 Daughtar, Mary Cash 1 Daughtar, hannah tishshow 
1 Daughtar, Sam Parsons 1 Son, Octobar Sarah Linch 1 
Son, Mis Wodden 1 Son Octobar, Pacival Salmon 1 
Daughtar, Ms Pribble 1 Daughtar, Jane Seetlan 1 Daugh- 
tar, Ruamah Sarig 1 Son, Charity Brimbelcom 1 Son, 
1772 Octobar Elisabeth Davis 1 Son. 

Margret Jones 1 Daughtar, Sarah Scores 1 Son, Ms 
tomson 1 son, Ms Honnywell 1 Son, Ms Davis 1 Son, Ms 
Wilson 1 Daughtar, Ms tuttle 1 Daughtar, Ms Seegar 1 
Daughtar, Sarah Linch 1 Son, Martha hichins 1 Son, Ms 
Sallmon 1 Son, Martha Bowin 1 Son, Mary Fevre 1 Son, 
Susannah Mellsaw 1 Son, Rebeckah Gillbard 1 Son, Ms 



BURBANK-PICKERING MEMORANDUM BOOK 287 

Brook 1 Son, Ms Sarah treevie 1 Son, Ms Man 1 Son, 
Ms Briggo 1 Son, Sarah Curtis 1 Son. 

1773, Ms Curtis 1 Son, fillis Bachildar 1 Son, Sarah 
Jones 1 Daughter, Lisabeth Silverdore 1 Son, Ms Mary 
Dennis 1 Son, Ms Lovieis 1 Son, Jane wary 27, 1773, Ms 
Bacheldar 1 Son, Ms Phillips 2 Sons, Ms Dixey 1 Son, 
Susanna Melsaw 1 Son, Janawary 31 Day Ms Whitwell 1 
Son on a, Lords Day night and Died that night Week. 
Janavary 1773 Sary Sims 1 Son, febuary Ms Delap 1 
Son, March Ms Martin 1 Son, 2 hundred 90 Children. 

Ms Boodin 1 Daughtar, Ms Hunnywell 1 Daughtar, 
Ms Dayvis 1 Daughtar, Ms Shadok 1 Daughtar, Saray 
Molly 1 Daughtar, Mrs Sandy 1 Son, Ms Dorrill 1 Daugh- 
tar, Ms Smith 1 Daughtar, Ms Boils 1 Daughtar, Ms 
Addams 1 Son, Sam Brimblecom 1 Son, Ms Burk 1 Son. 

1773 Adoniram Collins was Borne June the 18 Day on 
a friday at 2 oClock, Ms Martins Child was Borne 1 Son, 
Ms Chambars 1 Son, Mrs Sears 2 Sons, Ms White 1 Son, 
Ms Bakar 1 Son, 1773 Ms Mary Dood 1 Son on a Sattar- 
day Novembar 27, Sarah Dod 1 Daughtar, Sarah trevie 1 
Daughtar, Ms Susannah Dood 1 Son, Ms betty Dixey 1 
Son, Ms Johns 1 Son, Abigill Cross 1 Son, 1773, Ms 
Martain Showman 1 Son, Ms Nikcols 1 Daughtar, Ms 
Mary Allin 1 Daughtar, Pat Martin 1 Son, Ms Debborah 
Wellch 1 Son, Joseph Sarles 1 Son, Ms Maston 1 Daugh- 
ter, Ms Muckford 1 Son. 

Octobar 1772 Pickering Collins was Married to Char- 
ity Morgain the 13 Day of Octobar on a tuseday. 

Pickering Shipt with Burnam Munday 30 Day of Jan- 
avary. 

May the 29 1770 M r Allwords Came to Board. 

M r James Spence Came to board July the 6 Day. 

My son saild with Captn Green Aprill the 30 Day. 

thommas Boiles was Maried to Mary Babbige July the 
5 Day 1771. 

March the 28 th 1695 Jn Hobs being prestt on Bord 
the teger prise in y e Cape of Virginia from on borde y e 
Exchang W m Pickering Masttor an account of his Close 
being leftt abord to 1 bead & pillow & 1 Rug & 1 Red 
blankett to 2 greatte Coatts to 4 paire of braces & 3 pare 
of Breches & 1 Sash & 1 weascoatt & 1 pare wostted 



288 BTJBBANK-PICKEBING MEMORANDUM BOOK 

sttockens & one Broade Cloth Coatte & 1 streped Sarge 
Jackett & 1 Streaped paire of Breches & 1 holend Shurt 
& 1 flanell one & 1 whitte hancacher & 1 fringed muslin 
neckcloth & 2 greatt ttoutth & 1 Small touth Comb. 

thomas Larcum maruillhead by Robert gooden 00- 
19-4d. 

Mother Swinerton 14 debtor to 2 Quentols of fish 01- 
10M) d 

M r John Gicear D r to hannah Collins for 65 days work. 

Brother Butolph 15 debtor to the Remanndor of wheatt 
01-15 s -0 d 

1695 Brother Ben m Pickering 16 Dr to 6 11 in money 
lentt when you wentt outt in y e Galey with Jno. haris ; 
to my mother for a Cow, 2 U 5 s ; to Seed Corne, 7s 6d. ; 
July 1697 to money Lentt 8 peces of 8, 21i. 8s. ; to 
money Putt on bord, Hi. 4s. ; paid for lime, Is. 3d. ; to 2 
galon & 1 qurtt Rum at M r Willowbys, 10s. 3d. ; paid to 
brother Jn, 31i. 8s. ; 28 Sept r Lentt, Hi. 10s. ; 11 Octo- 
ber to money lentt, 31i.; 18 day to money, Hi. 4s.; to Rent 
due from Britten, Hi. 17s. 6d. ; credit, 31i. 12s. ; Novem- 
ber 1698 to cash lent, 18s. ; to Cash p d for him in 
Plymouth, 21i. ; to Cash, 7s. 6d. ; to 1 q r of mutton, Is. 
9d.; to Cash p d Easten Comp., 4s. 6d. ; 1698 D r from Ed. 
Britten rentt, 3s. 6d. ; to 1 Iron Pott & 1 Cetell, 341i. 
wt. att 3 1-2 p, 9s. lOd. ; to your wifs passage in y e Salem 
galey, 61i. ; 1231i. 8s. 4d. 

Per Con. Or., to money, 12s. ; 1697 by Nem. Rusher, 21i. 
by Tho. Acors, 6s. ; by Jno. Loader, 6s. ; by 4 days work 
on bord y e Adventor Bregentine, 14s.; for y e year 1697 
by Ed Britten Rentt, 31i, 13s. 9d., 4 li. 7s. 9d. 

Memorandum. June 19 th 1695. I W m Pickering was 
married to hannah Brown. 

Our first Child hannah was borne Janeuary 26, 1697, 
& dyed february 7 th following aboutt aleuen of the Clock. 

Second Daftor Hannah borne July 1699 & died in 
aboutt six weeks. 



"Hannah, widow of Dr. John Swinerton. 

13 Lt. John Buttolph (1662-1713), leather dresser, son of John 
Buttolph of Salem and Weathersfield, Conn., married Sarah, sister 
of Capt. William Pickering. 

'"Benjamin Pickering (1665-1718), shipwright and master mariner 
of Salem. 



BURBANK-PICKERING MEMORANDUM BOOK 289 

August y e 3 th 1700 my son W m was borne and dyed 
July 31 th 1706. 

febreuary 24 th 1701-2 my Son James was borne and 
Died March the 26 th 1729. 

Janeuary 23 th 1703-4 my Daftor Sarah was borne & 
dyed May y e 3 rd 1711. 

July y e 8 th 1708 my daftor hannah y e 3 rd was borne. 

June 4 th 1711 my second daftor Sarrah was borne and 
Died Aprill the 10 th 1729 abought 6 of the Clock in the 
Day. 

Janeuary y e 5 th 1712 my daftor Elisebeth was borne 
att haf an ouer past nine oClock in y e day. 

December 18 th 1715 my daftor Mary was borne aboutt 
7 o'clock in y e evening. 

Saturday Janeuary y e 17 th 1712 my sister hannah 
Palmer 17 was brot to bead with a daftor & a son, ye daftor 
alive butt y e son dead & aboutt one hower after she dyed 
& was buried y e 20 th day. 

y e 22 th day of y e same month my sister hannahs Eldest 
daftor by Palmer was scalded by falling into a ketle of 
hott water and y e 23 th day died. 

March y e 5 th following my mother Pickering died & 
buried y e 7 th 

Sabath day y e 7 th day of September 1718 my brother 
Benj a Pickering died alitle before sunsett & was buried 
y e 8 day in y e Evening. 

I micele Lehall do obliege my selfe to Cap* Wm. Pick- 
ering to serve him s d Pickering the summer following 
either at sea or ashore so far as I am Capable att fiuety 
flue shillings or three Pounds ^ month as wittness my 
hand this 2 th day of Aperill 1717 & s d Pickering to finde 
me with Vitels & all Craft & to enter Into pay the 10 th 
day of s d month. 

his 

Micale Le M hall 

mark 

I Joseph Needaham of Salem do binde & oblige my 
selfe to serve W m Pickering the Summer following afish- 
ing &c. Entering in to pay at y e day I do apeare with 



17 Richard Palmer (1675-1745), son of Richard and Mary (Gilbert) 
Palmer, was the third husband of Hannah Pickering. 



290 BURBANK-PICKERING MEMORANDUM BOOK 

him which shall be with in Eight days from the date 
hereof at fiuety fiue shillings ^ month & y e s d Pickering 
to find me with all Craft & Rum & Shuger sutaball afish- 
ing as witness my hand Aperill 2 th 1717. 

Wittnes Jn Collum Joseph Needam X his mark 

James Pickering 

A Memorandum. August the 20 Day In the year of 
our Lord 1731 Addoniram Collins was married to Han- 
nah Pickering, our first Child Hannah was born March 
the 23 Day on a Sattar Day 1734 at 10 o'Clock In the 
Night and Died August 31 In the year 1761 In the 27 
year and 6 mo. 

our Daughter Sarah was born September 27, 1736, on 
a Munday at Nine o Clock in the evening. Sarah died 
Aprill 11, 1772. 

our Son Adoniram was born June the 24 Day 1738 
[1737] at 3 oClock in the morning on a Sattarday and 
Died Auggust the 18, 1757, his age was 19 years and 2 
months. 

Our 4 th Child which was Mary was Born May the 14 th 
Day on a Wenesday at 6 oClock in the morning, 1740. 

Our 5 th child which was Pickering was born May 9 th 
1742 on a Lords day at 6 oClock at night. 

Our third Daughter which was Elisabeth was borne 
June the first Day and died June the 19 th Day at night, 
1747. 

Our third son which was William was borne June the 
22, 1747, on a Lord's Day at noon betwene meettins and 
Died June the 27 following. 

our fourth son which was William was borne August 
the 30 Day 1748 and Died In 3 weeks. 

My Deare husband Adoniram Collins Died September 
the 3 d Day 1758 In the 52 year of his age. 

february the 17 th 1757 William Bacon was maried to 
Sarah Collins and their first Childe Adoniram was Borne 
Aprill the 10 th 1758 on a munday morning at 4 oClock. 

Adoniram Collins sailed with Captn Corwin May the 
26 day, was shipped the 21 day. Paid to Mrs. Wood- 
bridg May the 26, 10H. 6s. lOd. 

Mary Collins Dr. to Mr. John taskco Esq. to 2 Paire of 
Shues, 31i. ; to Camblet 11 yards, 11 li. lls. ; to faceing 



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and silk, Hi. 9s. 6d. ; to a handkerchief, 21i. 15s.; to 
Cash, 15s. 6d.; 201i. Is. Mary went to her sister to Live 
16 Day of Octobar. 

Ms. Skilli ns D r to 2 yards 1-4 of Cotton and Lin., Hi. 
16s. 6d. ; to 1 1-2 yd. Bayse, Hi. 7s. 6d., and a pound of 
Sugar, 5s. 

July the 9 Day Elener Barbar and Bett came to scoole, 
Mariam Lecraw Came the 21 Day of Octobar, John Har- 
ris Came the 21 Day of Octobar, Mary Martin Came the 
22 Day of Decembar. 

Aprill the 9 Day 1759 Anne Dixey Came to Scool to 
me and Anna Fostar and thomas fosdick. 

April the 16 Day Sarah Cockrill and Mary Jacksin and 
Abigaill Jackson Came. 

betty hitear Came Aprill 20 th 

Stephen Stacey Came June the 5 Day, betty hitar came 
againe June the 4 th 

betty Dixcy Came June the 4 Day. 

Abigaill Jackson Came again June the 10. 

Mary Collins went to Mr. taskcoes Septembar 10 Day 
1759. 

hulday Shaddock Came Septembar the 12 day and abiah 
Octobar the first Day, Sarah Wormstead, bob and Parkar 
fsenton Came to scool and Sarah Craw and William Can- 
tabury all in one Day. 

Ruth and James felton came the 8 Day of Octobar. 

Elizabeth Denninsr came Octobar the 29. 

O 

Peter fostor Came the first day of March. 

Grace Tuksbury Came february the 9. 

tabbatha Reed Came March 3 Day 1761. 

Polly Martin Came febuary the first. 

Janavary the 28 Day Sarah Wormstead Robbard and 
Parker Came and Anna Fostar came January the 6 Day 
and tomme fosdick. 

Janevary the 28 Day Abigaile backen and Elisabeth 
Dixcy came. 

March the 31 day hannah felton Came. 

Sarah Craw came 20 day of March. 

Aprill the 6 Day betty Proctor, tabbitha Reed and 
Jereme Reed, Patty Proctor, Aprill the first Peggy Par- 
sons came. 



292 BURBANK-PICKERING MEMORANDUM BOOK 

Ruth Felton, Rebecca Seldon, molly brocket and Nancy 
Dicksy came Aprill 14, James felton came the 15 th and 2 
Gudens June 2 day. 

Sally felton came April 15 and 21 Day of Aprill Sarah 
Jackson Came and Tabitha Reed and Sarah Cokrill. 

Aprill the 28 Day Betty Dixcy and Sarah Roads, the 
Duch child came May 5. 

Rachell Grar came May the 7 Day, Nancy Orne came 
May 19, Charita Prichit Came July the 21. 

June the 3 Day the Lanceyes Came to scool, Sally. 
Graves Came June 2, and 2 Martains June 3, Benjamin 
Wells came. 

May 9 Mary Gale Came to scooll and Benjamin Stasey, 
James Fosdick, Hulda Shaddock and Richard Proctor 
May 2 Day. 

Aprill the 5 th 1762, Sarah Martaine and Ellin or Came, 
Ben Wells, Sarah Lecraw, Rachell Gray and Jane Wil- 
liams, Mary Goodin and Timothy, Sarah Perce. 

3 Goodins came the 12 Day, and Neddy Wells. 

April 19, 1762, Elizabeth Chitman came. 

May the 10 Day John and Ben Marston Came. Doll. 
Skinner came 3 day May. 

Steven Stacy sat up with Sarah Perce the 8 day of 
June, 1772. 

Elias Turner was married June the 21, 1762. 

Aprill 5, 1762, Sarah Roads Came to Scoole, Sarah 
Graves came May 6 Day. 

May the 24 John Buby Came, Hannah Goodin, timothey 
Sttan came May 30 Day. June 14, 1762, James Fosdik 
Came and Mary Casell Came June the 14, 1762. Marium 
Lecraw Came July the 26, 1762. Mary Stably Came 
August the 2 Day. 

thare was in the yeare 1738 a great athcak one sab- 
bady which i was at hum all alone it Deed soprise mee 
very much thought it was the last Day I was about 8 
years old and no house within a half mild i was much 
skerd. 



JOHN HAZLITT PORTRAIT PAINTER. 



BY THEODORE BOLTON OF WASHINGTON, D. C. 



One of the persistent puzzles that beset the present 
writer while on the search for information concerning the 
early American portrait painters was the question of John 
Hazlitt. That he worked in Salem, Hingham and Dor- 
chester ; that his father was a Unitarian minister from 
England ; and that Dr. Bentley misspelled his name and 
spoke of him as "now famous in London," was practi- 
cally all that could be found out about him. The fact 
that he was identical with the John Hazlitt mentioned by 
G. C. Williamson in his "History of Portrait Miniatures" 
added little. This book says that he was born in Wem, 
which turns out to be incorrect, and notes that informa- 
tion is scarce. 

Finally, a catalogue of the "Exhibition of Portrait 
Miniatures" issued by the South Kensington Museum in 
1865, stated that he was the brother of William Hazlitt, 
the essayist, and the information was in his brother's bi- 
ographies all along "where he who runs may read." The 
two from which nearly all the following information is 
taken are, "The Hazlitts," and "Four Generations of a 
Literary Family," both by William Carew Hazlitt. 

John Hazlitt was born in Marshfield and not Wem, in 
1767, and was baptised July 6. In June, 1770, the 
family moved to Maidstone. where Margaret Hazlitt and 
William Hazlitt were born, one in 1770, the other in 
1778. The family moved to Brandon, Ireland, in 1780, 
where the elder Hazlitt preached to a Presbyterian audi- 
ence about three years. 

He sailed with his family from Cork on April 3, 1783, 
for the United States, and landed in New York on May 
26. Two days later they started for Philadelphia, stopping 
at Perth Amboy and Burlington. 

The first information of honest John Hazlitt, other than 

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294 JOHN HAZLITT PORTRAIT PAINTER 

as an infant, dates at this time. He was taken by his 
father to get a sight of George Washington in St. Peter's 
Church, Philadelphia. 

The elder Hazlitt was an itinerant preacher at many 
churches, and he presently accepted the invitation to 
preach in Maryland. At the end of the second week he 
was taken with fever, and John Hazlitt hastened to his 
side. "He went alone on horseback," wrote Margaret 
Hazlitt. "He rode through woods and marshes a hundred 
and fifty miles in fifty-six hours, over an unknown coun- 
try and without a guide." After a short time he took 
his father back to his family in Philadelphia. 

In August, 1784, the family moved to Weymouth, Mas- 
sachusetts, by way of Bath, Bristol, Burlington, Perth 
Amboy, New York, Newport and Providence. From 
Weymouth the elder made frequent trips to Hingham, 
Salem and Boston, and John Hazlitt often accompanied 
his father. About this time he commenced painting por- 
traits. In Joseph Felt's "Annals of Salem," under the 
year 1785 is the following entry : "John Haslett asks 
patronage in miniatures." About the same year or a lit- 
tle earlier he painted the earliest extant likeness of his 
brother. 

The family finally moved nearer to Boston, settling at 
Dorchester in July, 1786. The family were very fond 
of Boston. "Boston is more like an English town," wrote 
Margaret Hazlitt, and John Hazlitt was constantly occu- 
pied. Self-taught and always moving about, it seems 
astonishing that he did such excellent work at the age of 
nineteen. The miniature of his brother was painted 
when he was eighteen or younger. 

At Dorchester the future essayist received his first 
Latin lessons from his brother, who stood, in fact, in loco 
parentis at this time, for the elder Hazlitt had sailed for 
England in October, 1786. Margaret Hazlitt wrote of the 
happy Christmas holidays she spent at one of the homes 
outside Boston, and told how, after two weeks of festivity, 
her brother came to take her home. The family, how- 
ever, longed to return to England, and in August, 1787, 
they sailed on the Nonpareil for Portsmouth. The ship 
in which they had sailed to America was the Henry, the 



BY THEODORE BOLTON 295 

first to bear the news of the peace settlement between the 
United States and Great Britain. 

The family settled at Wem, and William wrote his 
father, quaintly, "I shall never forget that we came to 
America. If we had not came (sio) to America we 
should not have been away from one and other. ... I 
think for my part that it would have been a great deal 
better if the white people had not found it out. . . . 
Mamma, Peggy and Jacky are all very well, and I am, 
too. . . ." 

Little remains to be told of honest John Hazlitt. His 
life must have been full of interest, although he had to 
struggle with poverty. Shortly after he moved to Lon- 
don, and met Sir Joshua Reynolds, who praised him ; in 
1788 he exhibited at the Royal Academy; and in 1793 
he married Miss Mary Pierce. 

He knew the circle that included his brother, Coleridge 
and Charles Lamb. He painted portraits of all three, 
and also Dr. Jenner, besides many others. He started 
painting madonnas from his wife and daughter, and ex- 
hibited at the Academy every year from 1788 to 1819, 
inclusive. Then there is a gap in the man's biography 
at this point that cannot be accounted for, and the next 
that is known of him is that he moved in May, 1832, 
to Stockport, where he died on May 16, 1837. Margaret, 
Harriet and William were the names of his three children. 

This, in brief, is practically all there is to be told con- 
cerning John Hazlitt. He left his impression on the liter- 
ary men he met, and two have preserved two of his say- 
ings, for he was admired as much for his own originality 
as for being the brother of William Hazlitt. That he 
left his impression in America is shown by the item from 
Dr. Bentley's Diary : "My miniature was by Haslitt, 
now famous in London." 



296 JOHN HAZLITT PORTRAIT PAINTER 

LIST OF REFERENCES TO JOHN HAZLITT. 

1845. Joseph B. Felt, "Annals of Salem," Salem. 

1865. South Kensington Museum, "Exhibition of Por- 
trait Miniatures." 1 

1897. "Letters of Charles Lamb," London, vol. 1, p. 225. 

1897. William Carew Hazlitt, "Four Generations of a 
Literary Family," 2 vols., London ; illustrations 
after John Hazlitt's paintings, vol. 1 ; William 
Hazlitt, Margaret Hazlitt, Reverend William Haz- 
litt, Grace Hazlitt; vol. 2, Self -Portrait. 

1904. G. C. Williamson, "History of Portrait Minia- 
tures," 2 vols., London. 

1904. "Collected Works of William Hazlitt," 13 vols., 
London ; illustrations after paintings by John 
Hazlitt; vol.1, William Hazlitt, 1784; "vol. 4, 
William Hazlitt, 1791 ; vol. 5, William Hazlitt, 
1808 ; vol. 6, Charles Lamb, 1805 ; vol. 9, John 
Hazlitt ; vol. 10, Margaret Hazlitt ; vol. 11, Rev- 
erend William Hazlitt ; vol. 12, Grace Hazlitt. 

1905. Algernon Graves, "Royal Academy," London. 
1905. "Diary of William Bentley," Salem. 

1905. E. V. Lucas, "Life of Charles Lamb," 2 vols., 
London ; vol. 1, p. 346, illustration, Charles 
Lamb, by John Hazlitt ; vol. 1, p. 341, reference 
to Mrs. John Hazlitt's small daughter and Lamb. 

1911. William Carew Hazlitt, "The Hazlitts," Edin- 
burgh ; privately printed ; illustrations : William 
Hazlitt, miniature by John Hazlitt, on title page 
"John Hazlitt, Miniaturist," pp. 327-339. 

'Dr. Gr. C. Williamson, in his "Hand List of Miniatures" of the 
Wellesley Collection, Oxford, 1914, describes the Margaret Hazlitt 
miniature mentioned in the South Kensington Museum Catalogue 
of 1865. He also notes a miniature by John Hazlitt of Samuel 
Taylor Coleridge, with the following remarks: "This portrait 
probably dates from about 1784 . . . Hazlitt's brother William, the 
essayist, and Coleridge were very intimate friends." 



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OLD NORFOLK COUNTY RECORDS. 



(Continued from The Essex Antiquarian for July, 



Henry Moulton of Hampton, with consent of wife 
Sobrietie, for 4. 10s., conveyed to Tho : Philbrick, jun., 
of Hampton, 4 acres in ye East field, bounded by ye 
common highway, land of Wm. Moulton, Henry Moulton 
and Jno. Sanborns, 4:7: 1661. Wit : Henry Dow and 
Joseph Dow. Ack. 10 : 8 : 1661, in court at Hampton. 

John Cass [his 3 marke] of Hampton, husbandman, 
conveyed to Tho. Philbrick, jun., of Hampton, for 1 24 
paid to Mr. Anthony Chickley of Boston, merchant, one 
half of ye farme in Hampton which was granted to Mr. 
Steven Batchelder, afterwards in possession of Mr. Jno. 
Wheelwright, since in occupancy of Eliakim Wardell, 
about 200 acres bounded by Salisbury line, farms of Tim- 
othie Dalton, John Brown and Christopher Hussey. 
Whereas Jno. Cass had disposed of 8 or 9 acres of up- 
land to Isaac Perkins and Joseph Dow, which falls within 
the land of Tho. Philbrick, he is to let sd. Philbrick have 
as much land adjoining Tho. Philbrick's, May 20, 1664. 
Wit : Sam 11 Dalton and Hannah Dalton. Ack. by grantor 
May 11, 1674, and by wife Martha May 25, 1674, before 
Sam 11 Dalton, commissioner. 

Rodger Easman [his > mark] of Salisbury, planter, 
for 36 shillings conveyed to John ffrench of Salisbury, 
tailor, all right of commonage in Salisbury which the said 
Rodger Easman bought of Richard Singletary, 16 : 11 : 
1653. Wit: Tho. Bradbury and Edw. ffrench. Ack. 
25 : 11 : 1653, before Sam 11 Winsly and Josiah Cobham, 
commissioners. 

NOTE. In February, 1897, full abstracts of the records of deeds, 
etc., of Norfolk County began to be printed in The Essex Antiqua- 
rian. These abstracts were continued during the thirteen years 
the Antiquarian was published. The publication of these valuable 
records is now to be continued in the Historical Collections of the 
Essex Institute. 

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OLD NORFOLK COUNTY RECORDS 299 

Edward ffrench of Salisbury, for love, conveyed to his 
son Jno. ffrench of Salisbury, tailor, one dwelling house 
with a barn and 4 acres of upland, 8 acres salt marsh, 4 
acres fresh meadow and 1/2 of my lot of sweepage in 
Salisbury, bounded by house lot of Capt. Robert Pike and 
land of Joseph ffrench, of George Goldwyer and street or 
common way leading to great Neck ; the 8 acres salt 
marsh, being 1/2 of lot formerly belonging to Georg 
Carr, bounded by that part of salt marsh which I gave 
to my son Joseph ffrench, and by little River ; said 4 
acres fresh meadow lying between lot of Abraham Mor- 
rill, deceased, formerly of Salisbury, and the meadow lot 
I bought of Mr. Sam 11 Hall, butting upon great Neck and 
little River. Said sweepage at beach being the 57th lot 
containing 6 acres, 132 rods, bounded by Richard North 
and Robert Downers, formerly the lot of W m Partridge, 
June 7, 1664. Wit: Edward Gove and John Clough. 
Ack. by grantor and wife An, 11 : 2 : 1665, before court 
at Salisbury. 

Joseph ffrench of Salisbury, for 12 acres of upland 
made sure to him by Henry Green of Hampton, conveyed 
to Isaac Green, son of sd. Henry, all my lott of upland 
commonly called Hall's farme in Salisbury, containing 
about 7 acres, lying between lots of Mr. Tho. Bradbury, 
now in possession of Jno. Stanian, lot of Jno. Eaton, now 
in possession of Jno. Cram, lot of Steven fflanders, now 
in possession of Isaac Green, and upon meadow bounded 
by Hampton line and by the highway, 10: 10: 1671. 
Wit : John Stanian, William Bradbury. Ack. in court 
at Salisbury, April 8, 1673. 

William Sargent of Amesbury, yeoman, conveyed to 
Isaac Green of Hampton about 2 acres salt marsh on 
east side of country way towards Hampton, commonly 
called Hall's farm, abutting upon the upland, a certain 
creek, a marsh lot of Joseph Moyses now in the hands 
of Henry Green, and a marsh lot of the widow Willixes, 
April 23, 1672. Wit : Hannah Dalton and Mehetabel 
Dalton. Ack. April 23, 1672, before Sam 11 Dalton, com- 
missioner. 

John Ilsly of Salisbury, barber, for 3. 16s., conveyed 
to Isaac Green of Hampton, planter, all his lot of upland 



300 OLD NORFOLK COUNTY RECORDS 

which he bought of Jno. Maxfeild in Salisbury, in a place 
commonly called Hall's farm, containing about 3 acres 
and a half, being lot No. 20, between lots of Joseph Moys 
and Richard Ormsby, June 9, 1673. Wit : John Marston 
and Jacob Green. Ack. July 29, 1673, before Robert 
Pike, commissioner. 

Isaac Pirkins of Hampton, yeoman, conveyed to Isaac 
Green of Salisbury land in Hampton adjoining Salisbury 
line, abutting on the country way, on Isaac Pirkins' land 
and on a piece of land 2 rods in breadth, for a highway 
to said Isaac Green's land, sometime Daniell Pierce's land, 
commonly called Hall's farm, March 9, 1674-5. Wit : 
Nath 11 Weare and Return Johnson. Ack. March 31, 1675, 
before Sam 11 Dalton, commissioner. 

Execution against Wm. Hilton and Charles Hilton to 
satisfy judgment of 401i. and costs granted Georg Pear- 
son, Jan. 16, 1675, at the county court at Boston, dated 
Boston, June 23, 1675, signed by Isa. Adington, clerk, 
and served by Richard Wayte, marshal of Suffolk, who 
appointed Henry Dowe or Nath 11 Boulter, both of Hamp- 
ton, his deputies. Return was made by Nath. Boulter, by 
attachment of 50 acres of upland on Exeter river ten- 
dered by Mr. William Hilton, running from William 
Parkines bounds by the river side up into ye woods, and 
two acres beginning at ye first creek and so upwards to 
Mr. Hilton's marsh, all of which he gave possession by 
turf and twig. 

James Davis, sen. [his ^ mark] and Sisly, his wife 
[her mark] of Haverhill, conveyed to John Haseltine 
of Haverhill, for 2 ox commons, which formerly belonged 
to Jno. Davis, which the said Jno. Haseltine bought of 
Wm. Simons, lying in the first ox common which was 
laid out in Haverhill, and 11 already paid, about 5 acres 
second division of meadow lying in Spicket meadow 
bounded by Joseph Peasly, by meadow formerly of Jno. 
Davis, by a branch of Spickett river and by the upland. 
Wit: Henry Palmer. Ack. March 20, 1662, before 
Simon Bradstreet. 

William Sargent of Amesbury, planter, conveyed to 
Tho. Currier of Amesbury, planter, one-half of a higledee 
pigledee lot of salt marsh in Salisbury, two acres, bound- 



OLD NORFOLK COUNTY RECORDS 301 

ed with the meadow of Georg Goldwyers, joining Wm. 
Bus well's and Jno. Stevens' meadows, January 28, 1662. 
Wit : Sam 11 ffoot and James ffreeses. Ack. by grantor 
and wife Mary, April 3, 1676, before Robert Pike, com- 
missioner. 

Henry Brown of Salisbury, shoemaker, for four pounds 
sterling conveyed to John Bayly of Nuberie, yeoman, my 
right of commonage which I bought of John Bayly in 
Salisbury, also part of one end of my planting lott but- 
ting upon meadow of sd. Bayly, April 4, 1676. Memo- 
randa. If the heirs or assigns of Jno. Bayly shall here- 
after recover the said commonage of Salisbury, the sd. 
Henry Brown shall have the sum of X3, according to sd. 
Brown's first purchase. Wit: Tho. Bradbury and Jno. 
Emerie, jun. Ack. by Henry Brown and the memoranda 
ack. by Jno. Bayly, April 4, 1676, before Robert Pike, 
commissioner. 

Richard Currier of Eamesbury, millwright, for 43 
sterling, conveyed to Capt. Pal White of Nubery, mer- 
chant, one-third part of a sawmill in Amesbury, provided 
the said Richard Currier shall pay <43 in neate fatt cattle 
before November 10 next, to be delivered at the dwelling 
house of Pal White, or merchantable Oake plank, slitt 
worke or pine boards, to be delivered at warehouse of Pal 
White at the waterside in Nubery. Also Richard Cur- 
rier engages to pay forty shillings more for Steven Swett, 
sen., of Newbury, March 22, 1675-76. Wit : John Jones 
and Willm. Chandler. Ack. by grantor. 

Sam 11 Dudley of Exeter, clerk, conveyed to Moses 
Gillman of Exeter his right in Moses Gillman's lower 
pasture which was mortgaged to Richard Smith, sometime 
of Ipswich, yeoman, and by him sold to me, lying be- 
tween Exiter and Mr. Hilton's, reserving about 1/2 acre, 
now in possession of Cornelius Lary, near Robert Smart's 
meadow ; also house lots northerly of Wm. More's lot, on 
the south of Richard Carver, bounded by a common way 
three rods wide, as far as Mountigue's lott; also 40 acres 
of a sawmill grant which Moses bought of Edward Gill- 
man, deceased, west of the town upon little River, to 
Goodnis house, and my part of old sawmill standing 
against house of Mr. Jn Gillman, as I bought it of Mr. 



302 OLD NORFOLK COUNTY RECORDS 

Wm. Payne, April 3, 1675. Wit : Sam 11 Dalton and 
Moses Gillman, jun. Ack. by grantor and Elizabeth, his 
wife, April 3, 1675, before Sam 11 Dalton, commissioner. 

John Gillman of Exiter, yeoman, conveyed to my 
brother Moses Gillman, small lots in Exiter between lot 
formerly belonging to Thomas Jones and Stanians' Creek, 
north from the dwelling house of sd. Moses and from 
Jones' lot where sd. Moses has now built, which I had of 
my mother Gillman, and taken by execution from my 
brother Edward Gillman of Exiter, deceased, April 8, 
1675. Wit: Sam 11 Dudley and John Stanley. Ack. May 
6, 1675, before Sam 11 Dalton, commissioner. 

Ephraim Winsly of Salisbury, cordwinder, for X9, 
conveyed to Ensigne William Buswell of Salisbury, 9 
acres in Salisbury, in what is commonly called Hall's farm 
towards Hampton, formerly granted by ye town of Salis- 
bury to ray father, Mr. Sam 11 Winsly, late of Salisbury, 
deceased, Lot 39, and bounded by Ensigne Buswell, Jno. 
Stevens, Keins Brook and a highway, 8 acres and 13 rods 
as layd out in the 30 acres which were left of the great 
lots, May 15, 1674. Wit: Abraham Knowlton and Moses 
Gill. Ack. by grantor and Mary, his wife [her M mark], 
April 14, 1676, before Sam 11 Dalton, commissioner. 

Richard Dole, of Nuberie, makes over to Jno. Emerie, 
jun., his right in within written mortgage, April 16, 1673. 
Wit : Sam 11 Plumor, Jno. Dole, Richard Dole, jun. Ack. 
in court at Ipswich, April 21, 1675. 

Zakerie Eyer [his z mark] of Haverhill, planter, for 
X250, conveyed to his father, Jno. Eyer, a farm of 250 
acres and dwelling house in Haverhill, which had been 
formerly owned by his father, Jno. Eyer, and conveyed to 
said Zakerie Eyer by deed, land bounded by Leift. Brown, 
Josuah Woodman, and by the Spickett and Merrimac 
Rivers> May 20, 1675. Wit: Isaac Bayly and John 
Emery, jun. Ack. May 19, 1676, before Robert Pike, 
commissioner. 

John Eyers of Haverhill, for 86, conveyed to Jno. 
Emerie of Nubery, 250 acres land in Haverhill, bounded 
by land of Lieft. Brown, the Merrimack River, a highway 
next Spicket River, and land of Josuah Woodman, to be 
paid half in barley and pork before the last of October 



OLD NORFOLK COUNTY RECORDS 303 

in 1677, at the now dwelling house of sd. Emerie in Nu- 
bury, October 11, 1675. Wit : John [his I mark] Bayly 
and Isaac Bayly. Ack. by grantor, May 19, 1676, before 
Robert Pike, commissioner. 

Execution against Edward Colcord, sen., to satisfy 
judgment of 10 s 9 d granted Jno. Stanian and Henry 
Robys, 13 : 2 : 1669, at court at Salisbury, dated Feb. 26, 
1675, signed by Tho. Bradbury, rec. John Stanian's re- 
ceipt to Edw. Colcord, dated April 24, 1676, for a wheel 
at 7s. and to Henry Dowe for the remainder. Execution 
satisfied. 

Jasper Blake [his B mark] of Hampton, seaman, con- 
veyed to Joseph Moulton of Hampton ten acres planting 
land in a field called ye north playne in Hampton, bound- 
ed by land of Morris Hobbs, now in hands of Jno. Hobbs, 
by Robert Marston, now owned by Benjamin Moulton, by 
the common way, according to the records of Hampton, 
said land being my lawful right from Tho. Ward of Hamp- 
ton, first owner, February 28, 1669. Wit : Hannah Dai- 
ton and Sam 11 Dalton, jun. Ack. by grantor and Deborah, 
his wife [her X mark], February 28, 1669, before Sam 11 
Dalton, commissioner. 

Joseph Moulton of Hampton, for X6, conveyed to his 
brother Benjamin Moulton of Hampton, one-half of the 
lot I lately bought of Jasper Blake in the north playne 
in Hampton, Oct. 11, 1671. Wit : Henry Dow and Dan- 
iell Dow. Ack. by grantor, April 25, 1676, before Sam 11 
Dalton, commissioner. 

John Brown, sen. [his I B mark] of Hampton, for ,12, 
part in land and the rest by bill under hand of Joseph 
and Benj. Moulton of Hampton, conveyed to Benjamin 
Moulton two acres land in Hampton neare unto ye 
great Bore's head, bounded by land of Joseph Moulton, 
a pond, highway and creek that issues out of the great 
pond, April 24, 1676. Wit : William ffifeild and Sam 11 
Dalton, jun. Ack. by grantor, April 24, 1676, before 
Sam 11 Dalton, commissioner. 

Indenture, dated February 22, 1675, between William 
Osgood, sen., of Salisbury, millwright, and Thomas 
Mudgett of Salisbury, shipwright. Will : Osgood 
conveyed to Tho. Mudgett all my land which sd. 



304 OLD NORFOLK COUNTY RECORDS 

Mudgett now uses for a tymber yard for building ship- 
ping, with ye launching place, with free egress and 
regress to carry his timber, wood and plank out of 
the woods and from the sawmill through the sd. Osgood's 
land, for fifty shillings for every vessel sd. Mudgett shall 
build of twenty ton or upward at the launching of sd. 
vessel. Wit : Tho. Bradbury, Henry Brown and William 
Buswell. Ack. by William Osgood and Tho: Mudgett, 
March 1, 1675-6, before Tho: Bradbury, associate. 

Mortgage deed, Theoder Atkinson, sen., of Boston, 
merchant and felt maker, for 60 received of Major Rob- 
ert Pike of Salisbury, upon the last day of July last, 
which money belonged to his daughter, Mrs. Sarah Stock- 
man, now wife of Mr. Jno. Stockman, and late widow of 
Mr. Wymond Bradbury, deceased, and her 3 children, 
Wymond, Sarah and Ann, by sd. Bradbury, conveyed to 
Robert Pike, present administrator of the estate of the 
said Wymond Bradbury or ffeoffee in trust for said Sarah 
Stockman and her three children, 40 rods, according to 
the English measure, in Boston, bounded by land now in 

possession of Wright, land of sd. Atkinson, land 

of Beard, and the highway between it and the other land 
of mine ; interest to be paid yearly at now dwelling house 
of sd, Atkinson in Boston, or at the house where Pike 
now dwells at Salisbury, Oct. 29, 1672. Wit: John 
Stockman and Robert Ring. Ack. Oct. 30, 1672, before 
Robert Pike, commissioner. 

Edward Hilton, Sam 11 Hilton and Charles Hilton of 
Exiter, upon the river of Pascataqua, for 80, due to 
Mrs. Katherine Hilton, the mother-in-law, which was in 
satisfaction of a judgment secured by her against us at 
last County court held at Hampton, conveyed to sd. Mrs. 
Katherine Hilton 56 acres of upland and 4 acres of 
meadow, sometime of our dear father's, deceased, the 
meadow lying by the first creek below William Hilton's 
house in Exiter ; the said 56 acres bounded by the plant- 
ing land of William Hilton, Robert Smart's brook, land 
of Andrew Constable, and by a highway down to the 
river between the land of William Hilton and Andrew 
Constable, said land to extend into the woods towards the 
northwest to make up the full sum of 56 acres, January 



OLD NORFOLK COUNTY RECORDS 805 

15, 1674. Wit: Sam 11 Dalton and Mehetabel Dalton. 
Ack. by Edward Hilton, Sam. Hilton and Charles Hilton, 
16 : 11 : 1674, before Sam 11 Dalton, commissioner. Laid 
out June 17, 1675, by Sam 11 Dalton and John Gillman. 

Moses Worcester, of Kitterie, planter, for ,30, con- 
veyed to Abraham Brown of Salisbury, planter, 120 
acres of upland in Salisbury, being in that great division 
of land afoove the mills, ye fifteen lot in number, between 
the lots of Sam 11 ffelloes and Mr. John Hodges, according 
to the original right of my revered father, Mr. William 
Worcester, sometime pastor of the church at Salisbury, 
deceased, butting upon the mill brook and upon a general 
highway, May 19, 1675. Wit : Tho. Bradbury and Ben- 
jamin Allin. Ack. by grantor, May 20, 1675, before 
Robert Pike, commissioner. 

Execution against Mr. Edward Colcord, sen., to satisfy 
judgment of 71i. 9s. 8d. in merchantable good-conditioned 
deale boards, at forty shillings per thousand, to be deliv- 
ered at Henry Green's mill at Hampton ; also costs grant- 
ed to Mr. Tho: Bradbury on May 30, 1676, at County 
court at Hampton, dated June 3, 1676, signed by Tho: 
Bradbury, rec., and served by Henry Dow. Return was 
made by Henry Dow by attachment of an acre and 29 
rods of salt marsh, tendered by Edward Colcord, senior, 
lying in Hampton, in the Spring marshes, so called, 
bounded by marsh of Jno. Redman, Abraham Pirkins, a 
marsh now in hands of Edw. Colcord, and marsh formerly 
of Edward Colcord, but now levied by me for a fine due 
to the county to satisfy execution and fees to Sergt. Tho: 
Philbrick. Execution satisfied, June 10, 1676. Appraised 
by Jno. Sanborn and Tho : Philbrick, June 10, 1676. 

John Bursley [his X mark] of Newechewannick, for 
<25, conveyed to Edward Gillman of Exiter all those 
houses and lands which I either bought or had given me 
in the town of Exiter, viz : a house and two house lots 
sometime of Nath 11 Boulter's, one of the lots sometime of 
Mr. Isaac Grosses, and the house and other lot sometime 
of Mr. Philemon Permots, with ten acres of land adjoin- 
ing and a house lot sometime of Belteshazer Willix, con- 
taining eight acres, a house lot sometime of John Tedd's 
which he bought of Jn Legat, and two house lots which 



806 OLD NORFOLK COUNTY RECORDS 

were Henry Robies, bought by him of good. Littlefield, and 
20 acres of land near Stony brook belonging to these two 
house lots, and one house lot more which was Henry 
Robie's, bought of Griffin Montague, and the lots formerly 
granted by the town unto the aforesaid house lots, con- 
taining in all about eight acres, and three-quarters of an 
acre of meadow which belonged to Mr. Permot's house, 
and three-quarters of an acre of meadow which belonged 
to Jno. Tedd's house lot, and one acre and a half of 
meadow sometime of good. Littlefield's two lots, 9: 7: 1650. 
Wit : Edward Hilton and Jno. Legatt. Ack. by grantor, 
9:7: 1650, before Tho. Wiggin. 

Execution against Charles Gleeden, to satisfy judg- 
ment of fifteen hundred feet of pine board at Lampeele 
River's usual lading place, and costs, granted Philip 
Greele, May 30, 1676, at county court at Hampton, dated 
June 17, 1676, signed by Tho. Bradbury, rec. Return 
was made by Henry Dow, by attachment of 4 3/4 acres 
of land at Lamprele River, where his house stands, ten- 
dered by Charles Gleeden, bounded by a pitch pine, small 
heap of rocks, about 6 rods over a run of water and upon 
a roadway. Execution satisfied, June 26, 1676. 

Abraham Brown of Salisbury, weaver, for fifteen 
pounds, conveyed to Nath 11 Brown of Salisbury, planter, 
one-half part of my upland, which I formerly bought of 
Moses Worcester in Salisbury, above the mill, being lot 
fifteen in number, about one hundred and twenty acres, 
between the lots of Sam 11 ffelloes and Mr. Jno. Hodges, 
according to original right, butting one end upon the mill 
brook and the other upon a general highway, the original 
right of the reverend Mr. Willi : Worcester, sometime 
pastor of the church at Salisbury, now deceased, May 29, 
1676. Wit : Tho. Bradbury and John Bradbury. Ack. 
July 3, 1676, by Abram Brown and Elizabeth, his wife, 
before Sam 11 Dalton, commissioner. 

John Cleford, jun., of Hampton, for a frame and boards 
about it, conveyed to Israeli Cleford of Hampton, my 
dwelling house, standing in the woods, upon part of 50 
acres of land I bought of Mr. Sam 11 Dalton, also one-half 
of that fifty acres of upland in Hampton, between land 
of Nath 11 Batchelder and land commonly called Mr. Ruck's 



OLD NORFOLK COUNTY RECORDS 307 

land; the said fif tie acres to be equally divided, the sd. 
Israeli to have that within fence and broke up and that 
end next Ruck's land, the whole breadth as far as half 
of fifty acres ; land lies above that commonly called Mr. 
Dalton's farm, March 27, 1676. Wit: Henry Dow and 
Henry Moulton. Ack. by Jno. Cleford and Sarah his 
wife, July 13, 1676, before Sam u Dalton, commissioner. 
Richard Scammon, sen., conveyed to William Holdred, 
sen., of same place, thirty -five acres of land where sd. 
Scammon dwells, being the same land on which sd. Hol- 
dredg has built a house and made some improvements, 
formerly bounded by Capt. Jno. Oilman and Lieut. Ralfe 
Hall, both of Exiter, June 5, 1676. Wit : William 
ffifeild and Robt. Wadleigh. Ack. by grantor, June 7, 
1676, before Sam 11 Dalton, commissioner. 

Steven Kent of Haverhill, yeoman, for threescore and 
ten pounds, conveyed to Mr. Edward Woodman, sen., of 
Nubrie, about two hundred and twenty acres of upland 
in Haverhill, laid out first for my third division, butting 
upon the Merimak river, bounded by a cove which run- 
neth between Theophilus Satchwell and said land, by 
John Eyer's land with a marked tree next the river and 
a white oak marked with an S and a great pine marked, 
and fifty acres more of upland adjoining the upper end 
of sd. land, running from the east corner along the head 
of Jno. Eyer's land to Spicket river (excepting a high- 
way) ; also another lot of ten acres bounded by the up- 
land on both sides, running into Mistake meadow, with 
all the timber upon it, November 21, 1662. Wit : An- 
thony Somerby and Abiell Somerby. Ack. by grantor, 
12 : 2: 1664, before court at Salisbury, Tho : Bradbury, 
rec. 

Abraham ffitt of Ipswich, planter, for twenty-five 
pounds, conveyed to John Bayly of Nubery, a two-acre 
meadow lot given to me by my father, Robert ffitt, by 
will, being originally the lot of Anthony Sadler, by a 
grant from town of Salisbury, in a place formerly called 
ye boggie meadow, joining to ffitt's Neck, so called, from 
a rock on the upland at the north to a stone at the head 
of little creek, being a branch running out of the west-, 
emmost creek in the boggie meadow, as creek goes to the 



308 OLD NORFOLK COUNTY RECORDS 

Merrimack River, to ffitt's neck, July , 1675. Wit : 
Robert Lord and Mary Lord. Ack. by grantor and Re- 
becka, his wife, September 26, 1676, at Ipswich court, 
Robert Lord, clerk. 

Edward Colcord, sen : of Hampton, yeoman, conveyed 
unto my oldest son, Edward Colcord, about thirty acres 
upland at north end of Hampton, going to Exiter, also 
one share cow common, one share ox common, together 
with half my marsh at the spring, the whole marsh being 
about seventeen acres, Oct. 14, 1676. Wit: Seaborn 
Cotton and George Pearson. Ack. by grantor, 14 : 8 : 
1676, before Sam 11 Dalton, commissioner. 

Jno. Wheeler of Nubery, for thirty pounds, conveyed 
to Edward Woodman, sen., of Nubery, about four acres 
meadow and six acres upland, both in Salisbury, bounded 
by Merimack River and the land of Mr. Hooke, February 
18, 1666. Wit: Anthony Somerby, Richard Bartlett and 
James [his J O mark] Ordaway. Ack. Nov. 14, 1676 r 
at court at Salisbury, Tho : Bradbury, rec. 

Ephraim Winsly and Mary, his wife [her M mark] of 
Salisbury, for thirty pounds, mortgaged to Jno. Knight of 
Nuberie two parcels of land in Salisbury, a higly pigly 
lot by fox Hand, as it was laid out by order of the town 
for 3 acres, bounded by a creek, Wm. Chandler's lot, 
seven acres more of tide meadow, next the meadow some- 
time of John Rolf towards the flatts. But if the afore- 
said seven acres of meadow fall not into the hands of sd. 
Winsly in four years after this date, then John Knight 
shall use about seven acres of meadow which lies between 
two creeks which butts on the houselott sometime of 
Georg Carr, commonly called the middle pasture, which 
piece of meadow sd. Knight shall enjoy till aforesaid 
seven acres lying by John Rolf's comes into the hands of 
sd. Winsly ; to be paid at his now dwelling house, in neat 
cattle under 8 or 9 years old, bulls excepted, and wheat, 
barley or pork, May 20, 1673. Wit: William Buswell 
and Isaac Buswell. Ack. by grantor and Mary, his wife, 
May 27, 1675, before Robert Pike, commissioner. 

(To be continued) 



PETITION FOR PROTECTION OF MARBLEHEAD 
HARBOR, 1727. 



To the Honourable William Dummer Esquire Lieuten- 
ant Governour of his Majesties Province of the Massa- 
chusetts Bay in New England and to the Honourable the 
Gentlemen' of His Majesties Council, and to the Honour- 
able house of Representatives in General Court Assem- 
bled, The Petition of the Inhabitants of the Towne of 
Marblehead, humbly sheweth 

That whereas there hath a Petition of this Tenour been 
lately presented to this Honourable General Court, signed 
by the Select Men of the said Towne, pursuant to a Vote 
of the Towne impowering them thereunto which said 

Petition has been rejected We think it therefore our 

Duty both to Our Selves and to our Country, once more 
humbly, to offer, That Whereas the Harbour of the said 
Marblehead, which is of so great Importance to the gen- 
erall Trade, and what this Honourable Court justly es- 
teems the true staple of the Country, is in utmost Danger 
of being Ruined, by the seas breaking in upon it at the 
Western End, which will in a few years render it unsafe 
for any Vessells riding in it ; And in as much as the said 
Town of Marblehead is not of Ability to repair and de- 
fend the same from the Encroachments of the Sea We 

therefore humbly renew Our said Petition and in the 
Strongest Terms ; and with the most importunate Address 
would intreat the Fathers of Our Country, again to take 
it into their most serious Consideration and compassion- 
ately to Regard so great and necessary an Interest of this 
Country, and according to your knowne Wisdome and 
Goodness undertake the Security of so valluable a Har 
bour ; That the Present Damages may be repaired, and 
the like be prevented for the Future This Our Petition 
is grounded upon weighty Reasons, being First The 
Exceeding Commodiousness and usefulness of the said 
Harbour as it is A Capacious Harbour ; Has a Fine open 
entrance from the Sea ; Has good Anchorage ; is of bold 

(309) 



310 PETITION FOR PROTECTION 

and Easy access ,Without Tide to disturb a Vessell ; A 
general safety to Embayed Vessells in a Storme ; The 
Special Seat of one of the greatest Branches of Our 
Trade, And is nearly Scituated to the grand Merchandize 
of Boston Upon all which Accounts there is no Harbour 
in the Country that can claim the Preference, and there- 
fore none more worthy of the Care of this great Assem- 
bly. 

Secondly The absolute necessity of something being 
done for the Preservation of the said Harbour. The 
Harbour is made by a Narrow beach of sand and Ballast 
Stones joyning an high Neck of Land, to the Town, at 
the Western End Many now living can remember when 
this Beach has been much covered with Trees, Shrubs, 
and Grass, which are all now worn away Storms of late 
Years especially that in February 24, 1722/3 have made 
a thorrow passage over it, in several places, and of great 
Width The great storme in September last had like to 
have carryed some of Our Vessells over it, and had un- 
doubtedly so had it been a high spring A few Years 
more must needs make the Beach a Constant thoroughfare 
for the sea, For that at the very Time of the Rejection 
of Our said Petition in one Tide the sea Ran over it with 
a Current more than one hundred feet in one place in 
Breadth and generally two feet deep ; giving us the most 
just Fears of the Speedy absolute Destruction of the said 
Harbour, because it cannot be long before the Common 
Tides will go through the said Beach, as well as the 
Springs ; When the said Harbour will become Nothing 
better than an Open Road, And whenever a Storme shall 
happen to put any Vessels from their Anchor they will 
be unavoidably carryed over the Beach from whence nec- 
essarily will follow the Loss of the Vessells and the 
Death of the People There being Nothing to take them 
up but hideous Rocks, and the Wild Nahant Beech By 
which Means all the present Advantages of this Vallu- 
able Harbour for Trade and fishery will be wholly de- 
stroyed ; No Owner will chance that his Vessell shall 
Ride is so insecure a Place. 

Thirdly The Incapacity of the Towne of Marble Head 
to prevent this generall Loss The charge of the Defence 



OF MARBLEHEAD HARBOR 311 

from the sea and the Repairs amounting to Vastly more 
than the Town can possibly sustain And 'tis the well 
known Constant Practice of the English Nation agreeable 
to their Constitution, to look upon all the Valluable 
harbours as the care of the Publick, and by a National 
Act to Repair and defend them. 

And whereas the said Harbour lyes entirely open and 
defenceless, We do further humbly Petition that there 
may be a small fortification erected in some convenient 
place for the security of the general Trade of the Prov- 
ince, and to prevent other inconviency which may arise 
from so open an Harbour. 

The Reasons of which Petition are as followeth being 
First That the Wisdom of this great and General Court 
saw it needfull to erect a small Battery formerly accord- 
ing to the Plan of His Majesties Ingineer Collonel Romer, 
which being made of Wood is long since gone to decay. 

Secondly That no Place in the knowne world of the 
same Importance and Trade is left so wholly unguarded. 

Thirdly While the Harbour is thus open, any small 
Privateer in Time of Warr, or Pyrate in peace may insult 
and destroy the shipping, the Fishery, and the Towne and 
retire undisturbed 

Fourthly No infectious Vessell can at present be 
stoped in her Entrance nor any be prevented from running 
away, or Eloping All which seems to require a suitable 
Guard and defence for a Harbour where there is often 
from Ten to Twenty sail of Ships of Trade, besides more 
than an hundred Sail of Fishing Vessells In considera- 
tion of all which your Petitioners as aforesaid humbly 
pray that this their Petition may be granted and your 
Petitioners as in Duty Bound shall ever pray &c. 

(Signed) John Stacey, Jonathan Procktor, William 
Man, Charles Wheden, David Furnis, Thomas Mane, 
John Aish, John Reed, William Goodwin, Nathaniell 
Bartlett, Jr., Henry Tewkesbury, David Parker, Richard 
Trevett, Benjamin James, Joseph Smith, Thomas Caven- 
dish, John Trevett, Joseph Waldron, Greenfield Hooper, 
Isaac Turner, James Pearson, Erasmus James, John 
Rounday, Joseph Galson, Nathaniell Norden, John Galley, 
Azor Gale, John Homan, William Bartlett, Joseph Mors, 



312 PETITION FOR PROTECTION 

Benjamin Stacey, Stephen Minot, Joseph Sinethurst, John 
Palmer, Joseph Hollet, Abraham Howard, Joseph Carder, 
Eben Taylor, William Peach, John Pousland, Elias Hen- 
ly, Samuel Gale, Richard Reith, John Waldron, Ebenezer 
Stacey, John White, Andrew Tucker, Isaac Mansfield, 

William Bartlett, John Trefry, Daniel Felton, John , 

Giles Ivimy, Samuell Brimblecome, Joseph Andrews, 
Ebenezer Hawkes, Nicholas Andrews, James Galley, 
Thomas Wood, John Baily, Thomas Kemball, Mathieu 

, John Taskir, George Minot, John Banister, David 

Furness, Christopher Twisden, John Gall, Joseph Gale, 
Richard Courtis, Danell Maley, John Croof, Thomas Ro- 
gas, Richard Pedrick, Richerd Rusell, Robert Lenord, 
Georg Oaks, John Chin, John Smith, Joseph White, 
Peter Brings, James Perry man, Samuell Webber, Jona- 
than Rackwood, John Dodd Senior, John Dodd Junior, 
Samuell Stacey, Samuell Stacey Junior, Bartholomew 
Jackson, Samuell , Jonathan Thomson, Francis Bow- 
den, Robert Bull, Benjamin Pix, William Gruff, Thomas 

Furnis, Andrew , William Jones, Jonathan Phillips, 

Joseph Breed, Joseph Stacey, Robert Swan, Michael Bas- 
set, Samuel Bowden, Joseph Blaney, Jacob Fowl, Sam- 
uell Harris, John Crafft, William Crafft. 

In the House of Representatives January 15th 1727 
Read and Ordered that Mr. John Torey Major Turner 
and Collonel Gorham with such as the Honourable Board 
shall Appoint be a Committee at the Charge of the Peti- 
tioners to repair to the Town of Marblehead that they 
Carefully View the Harbour in the several parts thereof 
as well as the Beach and Breaches made or likely to be 
made therein that they report their Opinion as soon as 
may be of what may be proper for this Court to do in 
Answere thereto. 

Sent up for Concurrence William Dudley Speaker. 

In Council January 15, 1727 ; Read and Concurred, 
and Samuell Thaxter Esquire and Spencer Phips Esquire 
are joined in the Affair. 

Josiah Willard Secretary. 
Mass. Archives, vol. 113, p. 742. 



INDEX 



Abbott, Amos, 242. 

Nehemiah, 85. 
Abbott hall, 86. 
Abeel, Edward, 22. 
Abraham, Wood ward, 

86. 

Acors, Thomas, 288. 
Adams, Addams, 24, 
88, 90, 91, 92, 93, 
94, 96, 287. 
Benjamin, 224. 
CbarlesFrancis,164. 
E. A., & Co., 15. 
Edwin H., 62. 
J., 28, 91. 
Mary Abbie, 62. 
Mary J. (Jennings), 

62. 
Olive Abbie(Howe), 

62. 

Samuel, 30. 
Susanna, 266. 
Thomas H., 62. 
Addington, Ading- 
ton, Isaac, 71, 74, 
75, 77, 78, 79, 158, 
160, 208, 300. 
Air,Eyer,Eyers,John, 

223, 302, 307. 
Sarah, 223. 
Zachery, 302. 
Aish, John, 311. 

Allen, Allin, ,210, 

286. 

Benjamin, 35, 305. 
Ezra F., 46. 
James, 46. 
James, jr., 46. 
Joan, 268, 272, 273. 
Live, 285. 
Louis, 75, 76. 
Mary, 287. 
Onesiphorus, 221. 
Samuel, 222. 
Samuel, sr., 211, 

212, 222. 

William, 268, 272, 
273. 



Allwords, , 287. 

American Historical 
Association, 169. 
American Library As- 
sociation, 169. 
Ames, Eaines, Alex- 
ander, 58. 
Daniel, 297. 
Miranda (Howe), 58. 
Robert, 297. 
Amesbury, 299, 300, 
301. 

Ammidon, , 12. 

Amwell,Eng., 267,272. 
Andover, 242,243,244. 
Andover Academy & 
Theological Sem- 
inary, 243. 

Andrews, , 202, 

203. 

John, 297. 
Joseph, 297, 312. 
Nicholas, 157, 158, 

159, 302. 
Thomas, 297. 
William, 86. 
Anger, Elizabeth, 234. 
George, 234. 
John, 234. 

Appleton, Edward, 
248. 

Armstrong, , 91. 

Gen., 12. 
Arnold, Gen., 29, 81. 

Benedict, 82. 
Ash, see Aish. 
Ashby, Hannah, 146. 
Ashton, Joseph, 76. 
Aston, Eng., 239, 240, 
265, 266, 276, 278. 

Athol, , 95. 

Atkinson, Theodore, 

sr., 804. 
Auger, Aundger, Aun- 

ger, , 277. 

Elizabeth, 277. 
Judith, 277. 
Sarah, 277. 



Auger, Thomas, 277. 
Austin, Calvin, 120, 

121, 122. 
Averill, Caroline A., 

62. 

Ephraim, 62. 
Lydia Symonds(Pot- 
ter), 62. 

Avery, , 26, 30, 

91, 92, 93, 94. 
J., 27. 
Ayer, see Air. 

Babb, Brasilia J., 61. 
Babbige, Mary, 287. 
Babcock, David, 137. 
Bacon, Backen, Abi- 
gail, 291. 

Adoniram, 290. 

Sarah, 284. 

Sarah (Collins), 290. 

William, 290. 
Bangs, Allen, jr., 187. 

Bains, Baynes, , 

285. 

Robert, 233. 
Bailey, Balie, Bayley, 
Bayly, Elizabeth, 
59, 224. 

Guydo, 42. 

Isaac, 302, 303. 

John, 59, 224, 301, 
303, 307, 812. 

Judith (Howe), 59. 

Oliver, 59. 

Roger, 231. 

William, 216. 
Baker, Bacer, Backer, 

Bakar, , 35, 

285, 287. 

Capt., 182. 

Cornelius, 38, 43. 

Daniel, 187. 

David, 58. 

Edward, 60. 

Esther, 60. 

Gideon, 35. 

Kelley & Co., 187. 

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314 



INDEX 



Baker, Loran E., 138. 

Paulina, 60. 

Polly (Howe), 58. 

Sarah, 35. 

Thomas, 101. 
Baker & Howes, 187. 
Balch,Rebecca(Stone) 
108. 

Samuel, 77. 
Bald hill, 99-102. 
Baldwin, Loammi,89, 
243. 

Baler, , 227. 

Ballard, , 96. 

Bannister, John, 312. 

Sarah, 286. 

Thomas, 268. 
Barber, Barbour, 
Capt., 125. 

Betty, 284, 291. 

Eliner, 284, 291. 

Marian, 284. 

Samuel, 124. 
Barker, Daniel, 224. 

Mary, 224. 

Barlow, , 175. 

Barnard, Anna, 216. 

John, 216. 

Barnard & Richard- 
son, 127. 

Barney, Joshua, 243. 
Barrow, Sarah, 65. 
Bartholomew, Han- 
nah, 281. 

Bartlett, Bartlet, Ich- 
abod, 194. 

Nathaniel, jr., 311. 

Nicholas, 37. 

Richard, 308. 

Robert, 72, 73, 74, 
75, 77, 78, 205, 
206, 207. 

William, 311, 312. 

Basoom, , 96. 

Bass, J. W., 131. 
Bass river, 217. 
Basset, Michael, 312. 
Batchelder, Bachel- 
der, Bacheller, 

Bachildar, , 

92, 287. 

Capt., 284. 

John, 280. 

Josiah, 92. 

Josiah, jr., 29. 



Batchelder, Nathan- 
iel, 306. 
Phyllis, 287. 
Steven, 298. 
Batchelder's brook, 

59. 

Batter, Edmond, 218. 
Bayley, see Bailey. 
Baynes, see Baines. 
Beach, George F., 66. 
Lydia (Howe), 66. 
Beacham, see Bir- 

cham. 
Beadle,Hannah(Hill), 

37. 

Samuel, 37. 
Beal, Mary Ann, 60. 

Beard, , 304. 

Hannah, 223. 
Bearse, Capt., 182. 
Bee, Albert, 127. 
Belcher, Andrew, 75, 

76, 167, 159, 203. 
Belknap, Henry 
Wyckoff, 225,266. 
Bell & Brown, 18. 
Bell Tavern, 97. 
Benner, Brown & 

Pinckney, 183. 
Bennett, Bennet, Aa- 
ron, 35, 222. 
Anthony, 217. 
John, 106. 
John, see Burnap, 

John. 

William, 220. 
Bennington,Eng. ,239, 
240, 265, 266, 278. 
Benson, Eunice, 284. 
Jeptha, 61. 
Sylvia, 61. 
Bent, Clarissa, 61. 
Bentley, Dr., 293, 295. 

William, 296. 
Bergh, Christian, 18. 
Beson, Edward, 231. 
Beverly, 33, 98, 102- 

111, 209, 222. 
Bickford, Eleazer, 

196. 

Bigge, John, 240. 
Sibble, 240. 
Thomas, 240. 
Biksef, Joshua, 35. 



Biles, Elizabeth, 105. 

Elizabeth (Patch), 
104. . 

Jonathan, 104, 105. 

Nicholas, 104. 

Richard, 104. 
Bircham,Edward,271. 
Bird, Submit, 53. 

Thomas, 53. 
Birely & Son, 114. 
Bishop, Bridget, 163. 

John, 211. 

Mary, 286. 

Townsend, 218. 
Bisson, Joshua, 43. 
Bixby, George, 297. 

Joseph, jr., 297. 

Joseph, sr., 297. 
Black, Daniel, 297. 

John, 35, 38, 41. 

John, jr., 38. 

John, sr., 38. 

Nathaniel, 35. 
Blackleach, Black- 
leech, , 216. 

John, 217-219. 

John, sr., 216. 
Blackleach's pond, 

210. 
Blackler, William, 80, 

85. 

Blackman, Abigail 
(Howe), 53. 

John, 53. 

Blackstone, Capt., 
198. 

Edward, 194. 

H. A., 197. 

Herbert A., 197. 
Blaisdell, E. S., 114. 
Blake, Deborah, 303. 

George, 297. 

Jasper, 303. 

Joshua, 13. 

Patience, 57. 
Blanchard, Samuel, 

113. 
Blaney, John, 72. 

Joseph, 312. 
Blunt, Elizabeth, 223. 
Blynman, Richard, 

148. 

Boardman, Fannie J., 
65. 



INDEX 



315 



Bod well, Erland Hunt, 

63. 

Frank Quinby, 63. 
Franklin Clyde, 63. 
Fred Potter, 63. 
Rnth Eliza (Howe), 

63. 

Bolton,Theodore,293. 
Bond, Dr., 81. 
Borden, Capt., 23. 
Boston, 12, 70, 146, 

148, 243, 304. 
Boteler, John, 240. 
Boulter, Nathaniel, 

800, 305. 

Bonrs, Abigail (Haz- 
ard), 82. 
Peter, 82. 

Bowdoin, Boodin, 
Bowden, Bowdin, 

,96, 285-287. 

Francis, 312. 
James, 94. 
Michael, 72. 
Samuel, 312. 
Sarah, 286. 
Bowen, Bowin, Ed- 
ward, 86. 
Martha, 286. 
Boxford, 297. 
Boyd & Hineken, 21. 
Boyle, Boiles, Boill, 

Boils, , 12, 

287. 

Jonathan, 47, 100. 
Mary (Babbige), 

287. 

Thomas, 287. 
Boyle's hill, 100. 
Boynton, Abigail,223. 
Jemima, 223. 
Jeremy, 224. 
John, 223. 
Moses, 223. 
Samuel Augustus, 

62. 
SarahMaria(Howe), 

62. 

Zerviah, 224. 
Brackenbury, Brack- 

enberrie, , 99, 

100. 

Dorcas, 40, 47. 
John, 40, 47. 
Richard, 40, 47, 102, 
104, 105. 



Bradbury, Ann, 304. 
John, 306. 
Sarah, 304. 
Thomas, 298, 299, 

301, 303-308. 
William, 299. 
Wymond, 304. 
Bradford, Capt., 96. 
Josephine W., 62. 
Robert, 48, 100, 103. 
Bradlee, Francis B. 
C., 1, 113, 177, 
241. 

Bradstreet, Gov., 170. 
Anne, 163. 
Simon, 300. 

Brand, , 228. 

Brandon, Ireland, 293. 
Brattle, Edward, 71, 

204, 207. 
Bray, Joseph, 276, 

277. 

Richard, 238, 277. 
Sarah, 238, 276. 
Sarah(Burnap),277. 
Breed, Alice, 146. 

Joseph, 812. 
Brewster, Capt., 13. 
Bridges, Bredges, 

Obadiah, 206. 
Robert, 269. 

Briggo, , 287. 

Briggs, Peter, 312. 
Brimblecom,Brimbel- 
com.Brimbilcom, 
Brimbilcnm, 
Brimb 1 e c o m e , 
Charity, 286. 
Molly, 285. 
Samuel, 287, 312. 
Sarah, 285. 
Brimsdon, Robert, 48. 

Britten, , 288. 

Ed., 288. 

Broadbank, see Bur- 
bank. 

Broadden, Sarah, 284. 
Brock, Elizabeth, 150. 
Brocket, Broket, 

Mary, 284. 
Molly, 292. 
Brocklebank, Asa, 54. 

Mary (Howe), 54. 
Brooke, Lord, 269. 

Brooks, Brook, , 

287. 



Brooks, John W., 248. 

Mary, 145. 
Brower, Etta, 46. 

Brown, Browne, , 

89, 168. 

Dr., 89, 93, 94. 

Lt., 302. 

Abraham, 305, 306. 

Ann, 285. 

Charles, 196. 

Elizabeth, 306. 

Francis, 223. 

Hannah, 281, 288. 

Hannah (Bartholo- 
mew), 281. 

Henry, 301, 304. 

George K., 196. 

James, 281, 282. 

Jenne (Falch), 153. 

Jeremiah, 153. 

Jeremiah, jr., 111. 

John, 72, 73, 267, 
273, 298. 

John, sr., 303. 

Nathaniel, 297, 306. 

Perley R., 196. 

Sarah, 273. 

Thomas, 238. 

William, 37, 38, 42, 

43, 45. 

Brown & Bell, 18. 
Brown & Robie, 197. 
Brown & Wentworth, 

197. 

Broxbourne,Eng.,231. 
Broxten, Carter, 25. 
Bnby, John, 292. 
Buck, Harriet L., 81. 
Buckman, Daniel, 110. 
Budlam, SallyAdams, 

57. 

Bull, Robert, 312. 
Bunker, Capt., 199. 
Burbank, Broadbank, 
, 281. 

Caleb, 224. 

John, 282. 

Margaret, 224. 

Susannah (Merrill), 
282. 

Timothy, 281, 282. 

Burk, Burke, , 

287. 

Thomas, 32. 
Bnrley, Abbie W.,64. 



816 



INDEX 



Bnrnam, , 287. 

John, 284. 

Burnap, Burnape, 
Burnapp, Bur- 
nappe, Burnatt, 
Hurnepp, Bur- 
nett, Burnitt, 
Burnop.Burnopp, 

Burnott, ,225, 

238. 

Abraham, 236, 265- 
267. 

Ann, 269, 272, 273. 

Anna, 280. 

Anne, 268, 274. 

Anne (Cater), 278. 

Annis, 274. 

Alice, 231-235, 274. 

Alice(Cramphorne), 
230. 

Bethiah, 280. 

Caesar, 266. 

Daniel, 267. 

Dorothy, 235, 267. 

Ebenezer, 280. 

Edward, 268, 274. 

Elizabeth, 275, 276, 
277, 280. 

Ellen, 266. 

Ellen (Young), 240. 

Esther, 280. 

Hester, 280. 

Isaac, 266, 267, 268, 
274, 280. 

Jacob, 266, 267, 276, 
280. 

Joan, 237-239. 

Joan (Hellara), 237. 

Joanna, 227, 231, 
234-236. 

Joanna (Nobbys), 
226, 231. 

Joh'es, 240. 

John, 228, 230-232, 
234-240, 265-268, 
274-278, 280. 

Joseph, 266, 267, 
273, 280. 

Judith, 239, 277. 

Margaret (Davis), 
268. 

Maria, 278. 

Marie, 239. 

Mary, 236, 238, 239, 
278-280. 



Bnrnap, Mary (Elliot), 

237. 

Mary (Peerson),279. 
Richard, 268, 274. 
Robert, 236-239,267- 

274, 278-280. 
Robert, sr., 268,269, 

271. 

Ruth, 275-277. 
Samuel,237-239,275- 

278. 

Sarah, 225, 236, 239, 
267, 274-277, 280. 
Susan, 266. 
Susanna (Adams), 

266. 

Thomas, 225-239, 
265-270, 272-275, 
277-280. 
Thomas, jr., 228, 

230, 231. 

Thomas, sr., 227, 
228, 229, 232, 274, 
277. 
Thomasin, 231, 234, 

235. 

William, 231, 235. 
Burns, see Byrnes. 

Burrill, Burrell, , 

284. 

John, 160, 204. 
Bursley, Ira, 13. 
John, 305. 

Burt, , 279. 

Burying Point, 88. 

Bush, , 95. 

Bnshnell, Charlotte 

(Smith), 63. 
Hannah, 146. 
Jedediah, 63. 
Mary, 63. 
Bnswell, Bussell, Bu- 

zell, Isaac, 308. 
John, 297. 
Samuel, 297. 
William, 301, 302, 

304, 308. 
Butler, Cyrus, 194. 

Peter, 181. 
Butolph, Buttolph, 

John, 288. 
Sarah (Pickering), 

288. 
Butterfield, , 79. 



Byrnes, Grimble & 

Co., 16. 
Byron, Admr., 26. 

Caesar, Sir Charles, 

266. 

Caldwell, Capt., 15. 
Calef, Robert, 11. 
Caliga, Isaac H., 81. 
Galley, , 202. 

Capt., 203. 

James, 312. 

John, 157, 311. 

Lydia, 145. 
Callym, Lydia, 286. 
Cambridge, Eng., 235, 

239, 278. 

Candig, Sarah, 284. 
Canford, Col., 95. 
Cann, Mary, 265. 
Canso, 104. 
Cantabury, William, 

291. 
Canterbury, Eng.,266, 

274. 

Cape Ann Side, 98. 
Cape Sable, 109. 
Card, Nabby, 285. 
Carder, Joseph, 312. 

Sarah, 82. 
Carey, Gary, , 95. 

Arthur, 297. 

David E., 250. 
Cardye, John, 240. 

Carlyle, , 167. 

Carmichael, ,28,94 

Carnaily, , 285. 

Carnes, , 92. 

Carr, George, 299,308. 
Carter, Nathan, 262. 
Carver, Richard, 301. 
Casell, Mary, 284, 292. 

Casey, , 7, 285. 

Cash, Mary, 286. 

Sarah, 145. 
Cass, John, 298. 

Martha, 298. 

Caswell, , 285. 

Cater, Anne, 278. 
Cavendish, Thomas, 

311. 
Cawley, , 158. 

Capt., 159, 160. 
Chadbourne, Lewis 
G., 67. 



INDEX 



317 



Chadbourne, Susan 
Evelyn (Todd) 
Howe, 67. 
Chadwick, John, 297. 

Chambar, , 287. 

Chandler, William, 

301, 308. 
Chapman, Deborah, 

59. 

Robert, 229, 284. 
Charlestown, Mass., 

280. 
Chase, Bette (Falch), 

153. 

Thomas, 153. 
Chatman, Margaret, 

286. 

Stephen, 285. 
Chatterton,John, 230. 
Chauncy, Henry, 265. 

Cheever, , 39, 40. 

Ellen, 38, 40, 41,43, 

44, 45, 47. 
Ellen (Eleanor) 

(Lathrop), 108. 
Ezekiel, 38, 40, 41, 
43,44,45,47,108. 
Thomas, 39. 
Cheney, Abigail 

(Howe) Durgin, 
55. 

Mary, 62. 
Moses, 55. 
Cheynow, Thomas, 

227. 
Chickley, Anthony, 

298. 
Chipman, Elizabeth, 

146. 
F. H., 179. 

Chisholm, , 131, 

140. 
Chitman, Betty, 284. 

Elizabeth, 292. 
Choate, William Gard- 
ner, 165. 

Chubb's creek, 209. 
Chnbb's point, 219. 
Cilley,Lydia(French), 

152. 

Clapp, Elizabeth, 54. 
Clark,Clarke,Clearke, 

, 25, 285. 

Ebenezer, 224. 
George, 288. 
Hobart, 242. 



Clark, Jacob, 63. 
John, 199, 200, 208. 
Joseph D., 59. 
Prudence, 63. 
Prudence (Stow), 

63. 

Samuel, 48. 
Sarah (Laska), 283. 
Sarah M. (Howe), 

59. 

Susanna, 48, 224. 
Thomas, 269. 
William, 48, 104. 
Clark, Jones & Co., 

142. 
Cleaveland, Cleav- 

land, , 29, 30. 

Abigail, 224. 
Cleaves, Cleavs.Eben- 

ezer, 108. 
William, 35, 47, 48, 

49, 100, 105, 106. 
Clements, E. Frank- 
lin, 138. 
N. K., 138. 
Cleford, Israel, 306, 

307. 

John, 307. 
John, jr., 306. 
Sarah, 307. 
Clone, Mary, 285. 
Clough, Fred Earle, 

67. 

John, 299. 
Josephine Eldred 

(Howe), 67. 
Leroy H., 67. 
Leroy Herbert, jr., 

67. 
Clonston, Margaret, 

155. 

Thomas, 155. 
Clyde, Thomas, 182. 
Cobb, Francis, 114. 

William T., 121. 
Cobham, Josiah, 298. 
Coburn, Coburne, 

Amelia P., 66. 
Peter, 58. 
Polly (Howe), 58. 
Robert, 39. 
Cockrill, Cokrill, Sa- 
rah, 291, 292. 
Cockron, Dr., 95. 
Codie, , 102, 110. 



Codner, John, 72. 
Coffin, Benjamin W., 

154. 
Lucy Goff (Falch), 

154. 

Colby, Capt., 134, 135. 
Colcord, Edward, 303, 

305. 

Edward, sr., 303, 
305, 308. 

Cole, , 102. 

Benjamin, 215. 
Estelle, 65. 
Sarah, 215. 
Stephen, 196. 
William, 284. 

Coleridgfl, , 295. 

Samuel Taylor, 296. 
Collier, Collyar, Col- 

yar, , 229,286. 

Ruth, 284, 285. 
Thomas, 285. 
Collins, Adoniram, 
281, 282, 287, 290. 
Charity (Morgain), 

287. 

E. K., 16. 
Elizabeth, 290. 
Hannah, 281, 283, 

288, 290. 

Hannah (Picker- 
ing), 282, 290. 
John, 80. 

Mary, 284, 290, 291. 
Mary (Ward), 282. 
Pickering, 284, 287, 

290. 

Sarah, 290. 
William, 290. 
Collum, John, 290. 
Compton, Annie 

(Howe), 68. 
Frank E., 68. 
Comstock, Peter, 191- 
193. 

Comyns, , 277. 

Conant, J. Coggin,55. 
Condry, Dennis, 261. 
Constable, Andrew, 

304. 
Converse, Convers, 

James, 71, 270. 
Cook, Caleb, 147. 
Margaret, 146, 285. 






818 

Coombes, Coomes 
Michael, 80, 208. 
Cooper, Dr., 96, 97. 

John, 28. 

Cope, Thomas P., 28. 
Corliss, Samuel B., 

250. 

Cornell, Margaret, 62. 
Corning, , 101. 

Bowman, 137. 

Daniel, 107. 

Samuel, 107, 212. 

Samuel, sr., 86, 48, 

100. 
Corwin, Capt., 290. 

George, 108, 269. 
Cotton, John, 269. 

Seaborn, 308. 

Cottrell, , 198. 

Cowdrey, William, 
270. 

Cowel, , 95. 

Coy, John, 220, 221. 
Coy pond, 72. 
Coyle, John B., 183. 
Crackbon, L., 131,141. 

Craft, Crafft, , 

168. 

John, 312. 

William, 312. 
Crage, Dr., 91. 
Cram, John, 299. 
Cramp, William & 

Co., 127. 
Cramphorne, ,280. 

Alice, 230, 233. 

Alice, sr., 230. 

Daniel, 236, 239. 

Marie, 236. 

Mary (Burnap), 236, 
239. 

Craneh, , 89. 

Crane, Edward, 248, 
257. 

Jonathan, 248. 
Crapo, Capt., 75. 
Craw, Sarah, 291. 
Crawley, Francis, 272. 
Crevecoeur, St. Jean 

de, 11, 12. 
Croel, Lydia, 147. 
Cross, Abigail, 287. 

John, 222. 

Stephen, 93. 
Crow, Hannah, 285. 

Sarah, 285. 



INDEX 

Gruff, Croof, John, 
812. 

William, 312. 

Curklin, , 29. 

Currier, Richard, 301. 

Thomas, 300. 
Currier & Townsend, 

1, 10. 

Curtis, Courtis, Cur- 
tiss, Curtisse, 

Curtice, , 266, 

287. 

Ephraim, 297. 

Hannah, 284. 

Hepsibah, 150. 

J. O., 142. 

John, 79, 80, 150. 

John, sr., 78. 

Mary (Look), 150. 

Richard, 312. 

Sarah, 287. 

Zaccheug, 150, 297. 
Gushing, , 93, 126. 

Caleb, 90. 

Edward, 119, 137. 

Cushman, , 61. 

Cutler, Elizabeth 
(Felch), 150. 

Thomas, 150. 
Cutting, Francis B.,1. 

Dale, , 27. 

Dalton, , 307. 

Hannah, 298, 299, 
303. 

Mehitable, 299, 305. 

Samuel, 298-300, 
302, 305-308. 

Samuel, jr., 303. 

Timothy, 298. 

Dana, , 28, 94. 

Danforth, Jonathan, 

169. 
Daniels, Eben, 66. 

George W., 66. 

John, jr., 56. 

Lucy (Howe), 69. 

Lucy W., 66. 

Martha, 66. 

Moses E., 66. 

Philemon, 59. 

Sarah, 56. 

Sarah (Howe), 56. 

Sarah K., 66. 
Darling, George, 72. 

Henry, 80. 



Davis, Dayvis, , 

65, 285-287. 
Elizabeth, 286. 
H., 187. 
Ira Oscar, 62. 
James, sr., 300. 
John, 267, 300. 
Lydia, 55. 
Margaret, 268. 
Marian, 285. 
Martha Eva, 63. 
Sisly, 300. 
Thomas, 262. 
Vandalia (Howe), 

62. 
Davis & Sprague, 187. 

Dean, Deane, , 26. 

Deborah, 150. 
Elizabeth (Fuller), 

150. 

Joseph, 150. 
Dearborn, Charles E., 

250. 

Deering, Charles, 119, 
128. 

Delap, , 287. 

Denning, Elizabeth, 

291. 
Dennis, James, 72, 

207. 

Mary, 287. 
Dennison, Denison, 

George, 275. 
W. E., 119. 
William, 268. 
Depau, Francis, 20,21. 

Derby, , 92. 

Richard, 90. 
Dcrry, N. H., 243. 
d'Estang, Count, 26, 
28. 

Devorix, Devrix, , 

72, 285. 

Dickens, Charles, 191. 
Dickinson, Elizabeth, 

61. 

Dike, Benjamin, 109. 
Dillon, Edward, 62. 
Vandalia (Howe), 

62. 

Dimon & Smith, 142. 
Dinah, 285. 
Dirking, Mary, 276, 

277. 
Dix, Ralph, 270. 



INDEX 



319 



Dixey, Dickey, Dick- 
sey, Dicksy, Dix- 

cy, Dixie, , 

287* 

Capt., 213. 

Anne, 291. 

Betty, 287, 291, 292. 

Elizabeth, 291. 

Nancy, 284, 292. 

William, 107, 214. 

Dodd, Dod, Dood, 

, 285, 286. 

John, jr., 312. 

John, sr., 312. 

Mary, 287. 

Nathaniel, 265. 

Sarah, 287. 

Susannah, 287. 

Thomas, sr., 72. 
Dodge, John, 211. 

Lt. John, 109, 110. 

John, sr., 100, 101. 

William, sr., 107. 
Dodge's Row, 102. 
Dole, , 26, 261. 

Belcher, 153. 

Jemima (Falch),153. 

John, 302. 

Richard, 302. 

Richard, jr., 302. 

Dolley, , 25. 

Dolliber, Dollivar, 
Dolliver, ,286. 

Joseph, 285. 

Joseph, sr., 72. 

William, 84. 
Dorchester, Mass., 
294. 

Dorrill, , 287. 

Dover, N. H., 245. 
Dow, Dowe, Charles, 
198. 

Daniel, 803. 

Henry, 298, 300,303, 
305-307. 

Joseph, 298. 
Downers, Robert, 299. 
Downs,Down,Downe, 
, 285, 286. 

Jere A., 122. 
Drake, , 95. 

Abraham, 55. 

Lydia (Howe), 55. 

Perkins, 195. 
Dray ton, W. H., 27. 



Drury, Lake, 86. 
Dry Salvages Ledge, 
116. 

Duane, , ?6. 

Duch, , 292. 

Dudley, Elizabeth, 

302. 
Joseph, 74-77, 156, 

158, 205. 
Paul, 202. 
Samuel, 301, 302. 
Thomas, 268. 
William, 312. 
Duffield, Dr., 25, 27, 

31, 92. 

Dunfield, Eng., 275. 
Dunham, Asa, 60. 

Lydia, 60. 
Dunn, James, 102. 
Dunton, Anna(Felch), 

149. 

Samuel, 149. 
Dargin, Abigail 

(Howe), 55. 
Gregory, 55. 
Dwight, Dr., 170. 
Dutch, ee Duch. 
Duty, Deborah, 224. 
Dnmmer, William, 

809. 

Dyer, Capt., 129. 
Dyson, John, 84. 

Eames, see Ames. 
Earle's Shipbuilding 

Co., 189. 

Easman, Roger, 298. 
East Boston, 14. 
Eastie, Jeffry, 214. 

Eaton, Eatton, , 

285. 

Israel, 286. 

Jenny, 153. 

John, 299. 

William, 269. 
Edgell, Elizabeth, 53. 

Rebecca, 55. 

William, 53. 
Edson, Samuel, 37,38, 

42, 43. 
Edwards, , 24. 

Jonathan, 169, 170. 

Rice, 101, 214. 

Thomas, 109, 110. 



Eldredge, E. M., 181. 

John, 193. 
Elithorp, John, 219. 

Ellery, , 24, 92, 93. 

Elliot, Elliott, Eliot, 

, 96. 

Andrew, 49, 211, 

212. 
Mary, 237. 

Ellsworth, , 96. 

Emery, Emerie, John, 

302, 303. 

John, jr., 301, 302. 
Sarah, 223. 
Emerton, James, 166. 
Endecott, Endicott, 

Gov., 170. 
John, 218. 
England, 50. 

English, Englis, , 

202, 203. 
John, 114, 117. 
Philip, 157, 158,160, 
168. 

Epes, , 26. 

Maj., 27. 

Esgore, , 228, 232. 

Essex Gazette, 83. 
Essex Institute, 168, 

169. 

Esty, see Eastie. 
Enstis, William, 91. 

Evans, Evens, , 

276, 277. 

Elizabeth, 275, 276. 
John, 277. 
Mary, 275. 
Ewing, Ewins, Dr., 

31, 89. 
Exchange (vessel), 

287. 

Exeter, N. H., 245, 
301, 302, 304, 305, 
307. 

Fairfield, , 102. 

Farley, Furley, Mi- 
chael, 28. 
Robert, 275. 
Farnum, Sarah J., 66. 
Farquhar & Co., 181. 
Favour, Fevre, Mary, 

286. 
Sarah, 286. 



320 



INDEX 



Felch, Falch, Feltch, 

Abby (Goodwin), 

154. 

Anna (Hannah), 149. 
Bernice, 154. 
Betty, 153. 
Charlotte, 154. 
Clara M., 154. 
Clarissa, 154. 
Curtis, 151. 
Daniel, 150, 151,153. 
Daniel, jr., 150. 
Deborah, 150, 151. 
Deborah (Dean), 

150, 161. 
Deborah (Palmer), 

152. 

Elizabeth, 149, 150. 
Elizabeth(Gowing), 

150. 
Elizabeth Wiborne, 

148. 
Emeline Morrill, 

154. 

Gorham, 154. 
Hannah, 149, 150, 

152. 
Hannah (Sargent), 

149. 
HannahWharf(Har- 

ris), 153, 154. 
Henry, 148, 149,152. 
Hepsibah, 153. 
Hepsibah (Curtis), 

150, 151. 
Isabel, 148, 149. 
Jacob, 153, 154. 
Jamima, 153. 
Jane (Paige), 151. 
Jemima (Selley), 

152. 

Jenne, 153. 
Jenny (Eaton), 153. 
John, 149, 150. 
Joseph, 150-152. 
Joseph Harris, 154. 
Joseph Haskell,155. 
Leah (Osgood) Fol- 

som, 155. 
LucyGoff, 154. 
Lucy M. (Page), 

154. 

Margaret, 148, 149. 
Mary, 149, 150. 
Mary Anna, 155. 
Mary (Haskell),154. 



Felch, Mary (Hoyt), 

151. 
Mary (Hubbard), 

152. 

Mary M., 154. 
Nicholas, 152. 
Phineas, 153. 
Ruth, 150. 
Samuel, 149, 150- 

153. 

Samuel, jr., 153. 
Sarah, 151, 154. 
Sarah (Fuller), 150, 

151. 

Sarah (Gove), 152. 
Sarah (March) Har- 
ris, 153. 

Sarah (Ward), 153. 
W. Ferrand, 155. 
William Alfonzo, 

154. 
Felloes, Samuel, 305, 

306. 

Felt, Joseph, 294. 
Joseph B., 296. 
Felton, Daniel, 312. 
Hannah, 291. 
James, 291, 292. 
Ruth, 291, 292. 
Sally, 292. 
Ferguson, Archibald, 

78, 80. 
Fettyplace, Edward, 

85. 
Field, Lydia (Howe), 

58. 

Mary L., 65. 
Zibeon, 58. 
Fifield, William, 303, 

307. 

Finch, John, 272. 
Fire clubs, 165. 
First Church, 162. 
Fisher, Jabez, 92. 
Fitch, Benjamin, 273. 

Fitt, , 307, 308. 

Abraham, 307. 
Rebecca, 808. 
Robert, 807. 
Flanders, Steven, 299. 
Fleming, Fleyming, 

,24. 

Agnes, 227. 
John, 227. 

Fletcher, W. & A. Co., 
185. 



Flichar, , 285. 

Flinn, Jane Adger 
(Smyth), 68. 

John William, 68. 

Margaret Smyth,68. 
Flint, Alice, 281. 

Thomas, 269. 
Flora (negro), 98. 
Flower of Essex (mil- 
itary company), 
38, 40. 

Flory, Flury, ,285. 

Floyd, Caroline, 154. 

Charles, 284. 

Moses, 154. 

Sarah (Falch), 154. 

William, 32. 
Fogg, Ralph, 170. 
Folsom, Fulsom, 

Gen., 92, 93. 

Leah (Osgood), 155. 

Levi G., 155. 

Nathaniel, 32. 
Foot, Samuel, 301. 
Forbes, , 91. 

James, 88. 

Forbush, Persis Gib- 
son, 67. 
Ford.Worthington C., 

170. 

Fortune, Elias, 72. 
Fosdick, Fosdik, 

James, 292. 

Thomas, 291. 
Foster, Forster, Fos- 
tar,Dr.,30, 91, 93. 

Anna, 291. 

Betsey, 58. 

David, 52. 

Hannah (Putnam), 
58. 

Isaac, 27. 

Israel, 86. 

John, 85. 

Mehitable, 46. 

Moses, 58. 

Obadiah, 85. 

Peter, 291. 

William, 297. 
Fountaine, John, 276. 
Fowle, Fowl, Jacob, 

83, 312. 
Fox & Livingston, 21, 

22. 
Francis, , 201. 



INDEX 



321 



Franklin, , 165. 

Benjamin, 28. 
Freeses, James, 301. 
Freeman , 89. 

Samuel, 24. 
French, Rev., 85. 

Ann, 299. 

Edward, 152, 298, 
299. 

Edward, jr., 152. 

John, 152, 298, 299. 

Joseph, 299. 

Lydia, 152. 

Sarah, 223. 
Friend, James, 220. 

Frost, , 26. 

Frothingham, , 

284. 
Fsenton, Bob, 291. 

"Parker, 291. 
Fuller, Benjamin,150. 

Elizabeth, 150. 

John, 231. 

Margaret, 231. 

Sarah, 150. 

Sarah (Bacon), 150. 

Thomas, 150, 231. 

Fulton, , 188. 

Fulton & Livingston, 

189. 

Furness, Furnis, Da- 
vid, 311, 312. 

Thomas, 312. 

Gale, Gall. Azor, 311. 

John, 312. 

Joseph, 312. 

Mary, 292. 

Samuel, 84, 312. 
Gallop, Love, 56. 
Galson, Joseph, 311. 
Gangway ledge, 121. 
Gannon, John, 240. 
Gardner, Gardiner, 
Garnar, Capt.,30. 

Edwin, 87. 

Hannah (Stacey), 
87. 

Richard, 217. 

Susannah, 285. 

Thomas, 218. 
Garratt, Garrard,Gar- 

rett, , 227, 

229, 232. 
Gary, Arthur, 26S. 



Gatchell, Gachell, 

, 285. 

Samuel, 85. 

Gates, , 92. 

Gen., 95. 
Gazette, Newbury- 

port, 263. 
Gazette, Salem, 244, 

254. 
Gedney, William, 73, 

208. 

George's Island, 118. 
Georgetown, 260. 

Gerard, , 27, 28. 

Gerry, , 24-26, 91- 

94. 

Elbridge, 85. 
John, 84. 
Thomas, 84, 85. 
Gibbons, Charles R., 

131, 141. 
Gibson, Rebecca, 61, 

65. 
Samuel, 65. 

Gicear, , 288. 

John, 288. 
Gilbert, Gillbard, 

Mary, 289. 
Rebecca, 286. 
Giles, John, gr., 44. 

Gill, , 25, 27, 97. 

Moses, 302. 

Gillchrist, , 96. 

Gillis, , 162, 285. 

Gilman, Gillman, , 

302. 
Edward, 301, 302, 

305. 
John, 301, 302, 305, 

307. 

Moses, 301, 302. 
Moses, jr., 302. 
Gilston, Eng., 266,267. 
Gleeden, Charles, 306. 
Gloucester, 104, 148. 

Glover, , 285. 

Edward, jr., 57. 
Hannah (Howe), 57. 
John, 85, 167. 
Jonathan, 84, 85. 
Rachel, 57. 
Glover & Stacey, 83. 

Gody, , 110. 

Philip, 110. 



Goldsmith, Goold- 
smith, , 285. 

Elizabeth, 286. 
Goldwyer, George. 

299, 301. 
Goodhue, Willlam,77. 

Goodnis, , 301. 

Goodridge, , 111. 

Charles, 111, 112. 

Edw., 112. 

Goodwin, Gooden, 
Goodin, Gooding, 
Gouin, Guden, 
, 285, 292. 

Abby, 154. 

Hannah, 284, 292. 

Maria Louisa, 69. 

Mary, 292. 

Molly, 284. 

Robert, 288. 

Susannah, 283. 

Timothy, 292. 

William, 811. 
Gordon, , 91. 

Dr., 31, 91, 93, 94. 
Gorham, Col., 312. 

Gott, , 218. 

Gould, Goold, Mary, 
60. 

Sarah, 52. 

Zaccheus, 278. 
Gove, Edward, 299. 

Sarah, 152. 
Gowing, Elizabeth, 
150. 

Elizabeth (Brock), 
150. 

Robert, 150. 
Grafton, Bethiah, 39. 

Joseph, 39. 
Graly, Betty, 285. 
Grar, Rachel, 292. 
Gravelly brook, 99. 
Graves, Grave, Alger- 
non, 296. 

Elizabeth, 234. 

John, 234. 

Robert, 237. 

Sally, 284, 292. 

Sarah, 292. 

Thomas, 231. 

Gray, , 26, 167, 

172. 

Abraham, 145. 

Alice (Breed), 146. 



322 



INDEX 



Gray, Ann Knight 

(Morland), 147. 
Anna (Orne), 145. 
Benjamin, 145-147. 
Edward, 145. 
Elizabeth (Chip- 
man), 146. 
Ellis, 26. 
Hannah (Ashby) 

Young, 146. 
Hannah (Bushnell), 

146. 

Jeremiah, 146. 
John, 145. 
Joseph, 145, 146. 
Lydia, 147. 
Lydia (Galley), 145. 
Lydia (Croel), 147. 
Margaret (Cook), 

145. 

Mary (Brooks), 145. 
Nancy, 284. 
Rachel, 292. 
Richard Mattoon, 

145. 

Robert ,145, 146, 147. 
Robert, jr., 145. 
Ruth, 145. 
Ruth (Ropes), 145. 
Sarah (Cash), 145. 
Sarah (Mattoon), 

145, 146. 
Samuel, 145. 
Samuel, jr., 145. 
Samuel, sr., 145. 
Sarah (Smith), 145. 
Susannah (Shep- 

ard), 146. 
Theodate (Hood), 

146. 

William, 145-147. 
William,jr.,145-147. 
William,3d, 145-147. 
William, 4th, 146. 
William, 5th, 146, 

147. 
William Shepard, 

147. 

Winthrop, 146. 
Greele, Philip, 306. 
Green, Greene, Capt., 

284, 287. 
Gen., 91. 
Charles, 80. 
Edward Melvin, 64. 
George Howe, 64. 



Green, Henry, 299, 
305. 

Isaac, 299, 300. 

J. A., 198. 

Jacob, 300. 

James, 64. 

Marion Palmer, 64. 

Mary (Felch), 149. 

Sarah Ann (James), 
64. 

Sarah Emelie 
(Howe), 64. 

William, 149. 

William Howe, 64. 
Green's Harbor, 148. 
Greenleaf, , 93. 

B., 31. 

Benjamin,28, 90, 91. 
Greenwood, Eben- 
ezer, 58. 

Huldah (Howe), 58. 

Nathaniel, 58. 

Salome (Howe), 58. 
Grier & Heath, 177. 
Griffin, Cyrus, 30. 
Grinnell & Minturn, 

16, 23. 

Gross, Isaac, 305. 
Grover, , 102. 

Nehemiah, 36. 

William, 107. 
Groves, Betty, 285. 

Hannah, 41. 

Grow, , 285. 

Grush, John, 84. 
Guild, , 29. 

Gov., 67. 
Guion & Williams, 16, 

17. 

Gurney, Overend & 
Co., 180. 

Gusset, , 285. 

Gylderson, William, 
227. 

Haffield, Eng., 226, 

227, 229, 232, 233. 

Hagborne, Samuel, 

268. 
Hale, Daniel J., 61. 

Elizabeth, 224. 

Lewis R., 15. 

Mehitable, 223. 

Moses, 224. 

Susan (Howe), 61. 

Thomas, 278. 



Haley, Dearborn, 197. 

Hall, Holl, , 31, 

91, 96, 97, 275, 
299, 300, 302. 

Capt., 135. 

Charlotte E., 66. 

Henry, 13. 

Joseph, 95. 

Joseph, jr., 31, 32. 

Ralph, 307. 

Samuel, 187, 299. 

Uriah, 196. 

William D., 250. 
Hammond, , 170. 

John, 128. 

Lawrence, 169. 
Hampton, 298-300, 
303, 306, 308. 

Hancock, , 32, 90,. 

93, 96. 

John, 11. 

Handin, Stephen, 275. 
Harteck & Co., 22. 
Harde, Hardee, Mary, 
42. 

Thomas, 41. 

Thomas, jr., 42. 
Harris, Haris, Abner, 
151. 

Deborah, 151. 

Deborah (Feleh), 
151. 

Giles, 153. 

Hannah Wharf, 153. 

John, 151, 153, 288, 
291. 

Mary, 151. 

Nathaniel, 153. 

Richard, 85. 

Samuel, 312. 

Sarah (March), 153. 

Thomas, 153. 
Hart, Jonathan, 42. 

Hartshorne, , 286. 

Haseltine, John, 800. 

Haskell, Hascoll, 

Alice S., 46. 

Caleb, 155. 

Daniel, 155. 

John, 155. 

Joseph, 165. 

Margaret (Clous- 
ton), 155. 

Mark, 72, 80. 

Mary, 154. 

Philip S., 46. 



INDEX 



323 



Haskell, Robert, 212, 

213 

Ruth'(West), 219. 
William, 155, 219. 
Haskholme.Eng., 228. 
Hastins, Cablecy, 284. 
Hatfield, Eng., 275. 
Hathaway & Small, 

144. 
Hathorne, Hathorn, 

Justice, 77. 
James, 120. 
William, 72. 
Hathorne, see also 

Hawthorne. 
Haverhill, 242-245, 

260, 282, 300. 
Hawkes, Hawks, 

Ebenezer, 312. 
John, 279. 
Hawkins, Anna, 270, 

271. 

Hannah, 270. 
Sarah, 275. 
William, 270, 271. 
Hawthorne, Capt. , 

184. 
Hawthorne, see also 

Hathorne. 
Hayden, Josiah W., 

121. 

Hayward, Haieward, 
Heywarde,Isabel, 
148. 

James, 248. 
Samuel, 148, 149. 
Thomas, 234. 
William W., 152, 
Hazard, Abigail, 82. 
George, 82. 
Penelope, 82. 
Sarah (Carder), 82. 
Hazen, Thomas, 297. 
Haziel, Col., 91. 

Hazlitt, , 293, 294. 

Grace. 296. 
Harriet, 295. 
Jack, 295. 
John, 293-296. 
Margaret, 293-296. 
Peggy, 295. 
William, 293, 295, 

296. 

William Carew, 293, 
296. 



Heald, Amasa, 65. 
Eliza J., 65. 
Julia (Howe), 65. 
Heath, Heth, Robert, 

272. 

Thomas, 230. 
Heath & Grier, 177. 

Hellam, , 238. 

Joan, 237. 
Robert, 237. 
Henchman, Daniel, 

169. 
Hendley, Henly, Col., 

91. 

Elias, 312. 
Sarah, 285. 
Henshaw, David, 18. 
Herald.Newburyport, 

261. 

Herd, Mary, 44. 
Herrick, Henry, jr., 

212, 213. 

Hersey, T. C., 133. 
Hewes, Joseph, 30,31. 
Hewing, Dr., 30. 
Hibbert, Robert, 106. 
Hichins, Jane, 286. 

Martha, 286. 
Hicks, Caleb, 224. 
Margaret (alias 
Burbank), 224. 

Higginson, , 281, 

282. 

Francis, 168. 
John, 43, 44. 
John, jr., 44. 
Hill, Abby D., 60. 
Abigail, 38. 
John, 36-38, 42, 43, 

100. 

John, sr., 37, 38. 
John F., 121. 
William H.,120,121. 
William H., jr. ,120. 
Zebulon, 37, 38, 42, 

43. 

Zebulon, jr., 43. 
Zebulon, sr., 37, 38. 
Hill, Richardson & 

Co., 120. 

Billiard, Benjamin, 
262. 

Hilton, , 300, 301. 

Charles, 300, 304, 
305. 



Hilton, Edward, 304- 

306. 

Katherine, 304. 

Samuel, 304, 305. 

William, 300, 304. 

Hincken & Boyd, 21. 

Hinckley, Joseph, 86. 

Hines, Hinds, Dinah, 

285, 286. 
'William, 72. 
Hirst, William, 48. 
Hispaniola, 111. 
Hitchins, see Hichins. 
Hitear, Betty, 291. 
Hobbs, Hobs, John, 

287, 303. 
Morris, 303. 

Hocklie, , 267. 

John, 267. 
Hoddesdon, Eng., 231, 

267, 272, 274. 
Hodges, John, 305, 

306. 

Hoffmire, Ann, 63. 
Holddar, Anna, 284. 

Susanna, 284. 
Holden, Joseph, 52. 
Naomi (Howe), 52. 
Holdred, William.sr., 

307. 
Holdrim, Holddrum, 

- , 285, 286. 
Holgate, Sarah, 54. 
Holgrave, John, 218. 
Holioak, Maj., 269. 

Holker, , 27. 

Hollet, Joseph, 312. 
Hollingworth, Susan- 
na, 39. 

Holman, , 88. 

Lucy A., 66. 

Holmes, Homes, , 

170. 

Dr., 165, 167. 
Abiel, 162, 163. 
John, 72, 162. 
Sarah (Wendell), 
163. 

Holten, , 24, 25, 

27, 28, 30-32, 91, 
93, 95. 
Dr., 92. 
Polly, 81. 
Sally, 30, 91, 95. 
Samuel, 24, 88. 



324 



INDEX 



Homan, Edward, sr., 
72. 

John, 811. 
Hood, Theodate, 146. 

Hooke, , 308. 

Hooper, Hooppar, 
Greenfield, 311. 

Hannah, 285. 

Robert, 84. 

Robert, jr., 84. 

Samuel, 84, 86. 

William, 84, 85. 
Hopkins, , 26, 90. 

D., 29. 

Daniel, 90. 

Hopkinson, , 24. 

Home, John, 217. 

Rebecca, 286. 
Home, see also Orne. 

Hortton, , 285. 

Houghton, Sally, 57. 
Houston, William C., 

26. 
Hovey, , 111. 

Nathan, 111, 112. 

Samuel, 224. 
Howard, Abraham, 

312. 

Howe, How, Abbie 
A. (Newell), 64. 

Abby D. (Hill), 60. 

Abigail, 52, 53, 55. 

Abijah, 52, 54. 

Abraham ,50-57,268. 

Abraham, 3d, 56. 

Adeline, 61. 

Alice Marjorie, 67. 

Alinda (Jennings), 
68. 

Amelia P.(Coburn), 
66. 

Amos N., 62. 

Amos Wood, 61, 66. 

Angerone, 61. 

Angie B. (McLel- 
lan), 66. 

Anne (Martin), 61. 

Annie, 68. 

Annie Josephine 
(Wilson), 68. 

Apphia Perkins, 59. 

Arthur Bryant, 69. 

Asa, 55. 

Asa Frederick, 63, 
67. 



Howe, Benjamin 

Dodge, 67. 
Benjamin Franklin, 

60, 65. 
Benjamin Jewett, 

62. 

Betsey, 58. 
Betsey (Foster), 58. 
Betsey (Shurtleff), 

60. 

Betty, 56. 

Caroline A. (Aver- 
ill), 62. 
Catherine(Willard), 

64. 

Charles, 61. 
Charles Edwin, 62. 
Charles LeForrest, 

61. 
Charlotte E. (Hall), 

66. 

Clara Isabella, 66. 
Clarissa (Bent), 61. 
Clinton, 65, 
Clinton Carroll, 65. 
Cora (Parlin), 66. 
Cyrus Hamlin, 60, 

66. 

Daniel, 56. 
David, 52, 53, 55. 
David Saunders, 61. 
Deborah, 51, 56, 59. 
Deborah (Chap- 
man), 59. 
Dolly, 59. 
Dorcas, 53. 
Drusilla J. (Babb), 

61. 

Eben Ira, 61. 
Edward, 58. 
Edward Willard,64. 
Edwin Wallace, 60. 
Eleanor, 54. 
Eleanor (Sherwin), 

63. 

Eli, 60, 

Elijah, 59, 63, 67. 
Eliza, 60. 

Eliza J. (Heald), 65. 
Elizabeth, 50, 52, 

54-57, 61, 69. 
Elizabeth (Bailey), 

59. 

Elizabeth (Clapp), 
54. 



Howe, Elizabeth 

(Dickinson), 61. 
Elizabeth Edgell, 

68. 

Ellen Frances, 65. 
Elmer Eddie, 67, 

69. 

Emily Alton, 65. 
Emily(Trefetheren) 

65. 
Emma Frances (Os- 

borne), 67. 
Emma Mahala(Per- 

ley), 67. 

Estelle (Cole), 65. 
Ethel May, 66. 
Eva May, 62. 
Eva Salome (Kam- 

mer), 69. 

Fannie J. (Board- 
man), 65. 
Fannie Robertiue, 

65. 

Fanny, 58. 
Frank W., 65. 
Fred J ., 66. 
Fred Ruthven, 66. 
Frederick Leigh,67. 
Freeland, 65. 
Freeman, 65. 
George, 56, 57, 69, 

60, 63, 64, 68. 
George Aaron, 62, 

67. 

George E., 61. 
George Edward, 68. 
George Elmer, 67, 

69. 

George Morse, 66. 
George Monlton,67. 
George Robley, 65. 
George Washington, 

59, 62. 

George William, 63. 
Hanniball Coburn, 

66. 
Hannah, 51, 54, 55, 

57. 

Hannah (Leeds), 56. 
Hannah (Withing- 

ton), 59. 

Harley Hazen, 65. 
Harriet E. (Tozier), 

68. 



INDEX 



325 



Howe, Harriet L. 

(Buck), 61. 
Hattie, 67. 
Hattie Evelyn, 67. 
Helen J.\ 65. 
Henry, 60, 64. 
Henry Prentiss, 65. 
Heury Warren, 67. 
Hester (Esther), 51. 
Hiram, 61. 
Huldah, 58. 
Humphrey Saun- 

ders, 61, 66. 
Isaac, 50-53, 55. 
Isaac Hadley, 63. 
Isabel, 69. 
Israel, 50, 51. 
Izah Tenney, 65. 
Jacob, 52-56, 58. 
Jacob, jr., 55. 
Jacob F., 61. 
Jacob Foster, 60,65. 
James, 50-52, 54,57. 
James, sr., 51. 
James Blake, 57. 
Jemima, 54. 
Jennie A. (Merrill), 

65. 
Jeremiah, 53, 58,60, 

61, 65. 

Jesse, 58, 60, 65. 
Jesse Coburn, 66. 
Jessie Woodrow,68. 
Johaunah, 60. 
John, 52, 54, 56, 57, 

259. 

John, jr., 60. 
John Prentiss, 65. 
Joseph, 52, 53, 57, 

60. 

Joseph Wilson, 68. 
Josephine Eldred, 

67. 
Josephine W.(Brad- 

ford), 62. 

Joshua, 52, 53, 57. 
Judith, 59. 
Judith (Tenney),58, 

59. 

Julia, 65. 
Julia Ann (Hunt), 

67. 

Laura Almira, 65. 
Lizzie C. (Ryerson), 

65. 



Howe, Lois, 57. 
Lottie A., 61. 
Love (Gallop), 56. 
Lucinda (Prentiss), 

64. 

Lucy, 59. 
Lucy A., 66. 
Lucy A. (Holman) 

Robinson, 66. 
Lucy C. (Newburt), 

64. 

Lucy Jane, 61. 
Lucy May, 62. 
Lucy W. (Daniels), 

66. 

Lucy (Wood), 58. 
Luther Carmon, 61. 
Lydia, 53, 55, 57, 58. 
Lydia (Davis), 65. 
Lydia (Dunham), 

60. 

Lydia J., 65. 
Lydia (Jackson), 53. 
Margaret (Cornell), 

62. 
Margaret (Preston), 

57. 
Margaret Smith 

(Flinn), 68. 
Maria Louisa 

(Gooding), 69. 
Marian Louise, 64. 
Martha, 56. 
Martha Dresser 

(Paul), 68. 
Martha Eva (Davis), 

63. 

Mary, 53-55, 67. 
Mary Ann(Beal),60. 
Mary(Bushnell),63. 
Mary Catherine, 64. 
Mary (Cheney), 62. 
Mary E., 67. 
Mary Esther, 65. 
Mary (Gould), 60. 
Mary L. (Field), 65. 
Mary (Tucker), 65. 
Miranda, 58. 
Moses, 53, 56. 
Moses Wood, 59, 62. 
Myron Donald, 69. 
Nancy, 58. 
Naomi, 52. 
Nathaniel, 52, 56. 
Nathaniel L., 66. 



Howe, Nathaniel Ly- 

man, 66. 
Nellie Elizabeth 

(Wade), 69. 
Olive Abbie, 62. 
Olive Agnes, 69. 
Olive (Jewett), 62. 
Oliver Hunt, 68. 
Parker W., 66. 
Patience, 58. 
Patience(Blake,)57. 
Paul Hart, 65. 
Paulina (Baker), 60. 
Phebe Kilburn, 59. 
Philemon, 54, 56. 
Polly, 58, 61, 65. 
Polly (Howe), 61, 

65. 
Prudence (Clarke), 

63. 

Rachel, 55, 57. 
Rachel D wight, 60. 
Rachel (Glover), 57. 
Rachel (Morrill),55. 
Ralph Gilman, 69. 
Ralph Irving, 62. 
Rebecca (Edgell), 

55. 
Rebecca (Gibson), 

61, 65. 
Rebecca (How), 52, 

57. 

Relief (Nash), 60. 
Reuben, 56, 58, 59, 

61. 

Roger Sherman, 63. 
Roxanna, 58. 
Ruth Eliza, 63. 
Sally Adams (Bud- 
ham), 57. 
Sally (Houghton), 

57. 

Salome, 55, 58. 
Samuel, 51, 53, 54, 

57. 

Samuel Henry, 65. 
Sarah, 50, 52-57. 
Sarah Ann (Wal- 

thour) McCon- 

nell, 63. 

Sarah (Barrows), 65. 
Sarah (Daniels), 56. 
Sarah Elizabeth 

(Kelly), 63. 
Sarah Emelie, 64. 



326 



INDEX 



Howe, Sarah (Gould), 

52. 

Sarah (Holgate),54. 
Sarah J. (Farnum), 

66. 
Sarah K. (Daniels), 

66. 

Sarah (Kilburn), 56. 
Sarah M., 59. 
Sarah Maria, 62. 
Sarah (Searle), 54. 
Simon, 55, 60. 
Submit, 54. 
Submit (Bird), 53. 
Susan, 61. 
Susan D., 66. 
Susan Eliza (Pot- 
ter), 62. 
SusanEvelyn(Todd) 

67. 

Susannah, 51,53,59. 
Sylvia (Benson), 61. 
Tabitha, 51, 53. 
Thankful, 54. 
Thomas, 53, 54, 57, 

59, 61. 

Thomas, jr., 56, 59. 
Timothy, 52, 53, 60. 
Vandalia, 62. 
Walthour, 64. 
William, 57, 60, 63, 

64. 
William Frederick, 

59, 62. 
William Ruthven, 

60, 66. 

William Stowell,69. 
Zeruiah, 52. 

Howes, Jabez, 13. 
Howes & Baker, 187. 
Hoyt, Hoit, , 153. 

Benjamin, 151. 

D. W., 151. 

Daniel V., 250. 

John, 151. 

Mary, 151. 

Thomas, 151. 
Hubbard, Mary, 152. 
Hudson, , 256. 

Capt., 197, 198. 
Huggard, Andrew, 

230. 
Hull, George, 47, 101, 

105-107. 

Humberstone, John, 
265, 278. 



Humfrey, James, 265. 

Hunsdon, Eng., 228, 

233, 236, 237, 239. 

Hunnyyrell, , 286, 

287. 

Hunston, Hunsdon, 
, 277. 

Edward, 275, 277. 

Elizabeth, 277. 

Judith, 275-277. 

Mary, 275. 

Rachel, 277. 

Sarah, 277. 
Hunt, Julia Ann, 67. 

Margaret, 265. 

Nehemiah, 223. 

Oliver, 67. 

Persis Gibson (For- 

bush), 67. 
Huntington, A., 101. 

Samuel, 28. 
Huse, John, 261. 
Hussey, Christopher, 

298. 

Hutchinson, Col., 30, 
89, 94. 

Gov., 83. 

Elisha, 270. 

Hannah, 270. 

Samuel, 269. 
Hutton, Richard, 272. 
Hyde, Hide, Dorothy 
(Burnapp), 266. 

Rebecca, 277. 

Thomas, 266. 

Ilsly, John, 299. 
Ingraham, Mark L., 

123. 

Orris, 123, 124. 
Otis, 113, 114, 123, 

124, 
Ipswich, 105, 106, 109, 

110, 213, 305. 
Ireson, Benjamin, 72. 
Irish, Angerone 

(Howe) Turner, 

61. 

Samuel C., 61. 
Isbell (servant), 231. 
Ivimy, Giles, 312. 

Jackman, James, 222. 
Jaekson, Jacksin, 
Capt., 183. 



Jackson, Abigail, 291. 

Bartholomew, 812. 

Lydia, 53. 

Mary, 291. 

Sarah, 292. 

William, 52. 
Jacob (negro), 86. 
Jacobs, Joseph, 208. 
James, Benjamin,311. 

David, 95. 

Erasmus, 72-75, 77, 
205-207, 311. 

Sarah Ann, 64. 
Janvrin, Ellen Augus- 
ta (Shuff), 154. 

Emeline Morrill 
(Falch), 154. 

George, 154. 

George Dallas, 154. 

Hiram, 154. 

Hiram Gilmore,154. 
Jay, , 28, 89. 

James, 26, 27, 95. 

John, 26. 

Jeifry's creek, 210. 
Jenner, Dr., 295. 
Jennings, Alinda, 68. 

Mary J., 62. 

Jewett, Jewet, , 

131. 

Amos, 59. 

Amos Wendall, 59. 

James, 195. 

Jane, 223. 

Olive, 62. 

Phebe Kilburn 
(Howe), 59. 

Johns, , 287. 

Johnson, Jonson, , 

285. 

Isaac, 268. 

Return, 800. 

Sarah, 284. 
Jones, , 221. 

Allen, 32. 

Ann, 273. 

George G., 13. 

John, 301. 

Margaret, 286. 

Sarah, 287. 

Thomas, 302. 

William, 312. 
Jones, Clark & Co., 

142. 

Joy, Benjamin, jr., 
158. 



INDEX 



327 



Joy, Hepsibah 

(Falch), 153. 
Juan, Don, 27, 92. 

Kamnier,Eva Salome, 

69. 

Kay, Thomas, 267. 
Kelly, Sarah Eliza- 
beth, 63. 
Kelley, Baker & Co., 

187. 

Kenell, Sarah, 285. 
Kent, Elizabeth, 240. 

Steven, 307. 
Kees, Key, Keys, 
Alice, 231, 234. 

Andrew, 231, 234. 

Johane, 231. 

John, 231, 234. 

Robert, 231, 234. 

William, 231, 234. 

Kidman, , 239. 

Kilburn, John, 55. 

Mary (Howe), 55. 

Sarah, 56. 

Kimball, Kemball, 
John, 297. 

Samnel, 35. 

Thomas, 312. 

William, 138. 
King, John Glen, 169. 
Kinloch, Francis, 91. 
Kinsman, W. H. & 
Co., 183. 

Kittell, , 26, 27, 

29, 31, 89, 90, 93, 
94. 

Kittery, 305. 
Knight, Capt., 48. 

Henry, 222. 

John, 48, 86, 308. 

John, jr., 48. 

Samuel, 52. 

Sarah, 52. 

Knowlten, Knolton, 
Abraham, 302. 

John, 209, 221. 

Samuel, 47, 105,106. 
Kwin, Elizabeth, 285. 

LaFayette, Marquis 

de, 93. 

Lagody, , 110. 

Lamb, Charles, 295, 

296. 



Lambert,Richard,214. 
Lamperel river, 306. 
Lamprey, Arthur,197, 
198. 

Robert, 108. 
Lamprey Brothers, 
196. 

Lancey, Lansey, , 

292. 

Sarah, 284. 
Laner, Michael, 24. 

Langdon, , 27. 

Larcom,Larcum, , 

102. 

Cornelius, 212, 216, 
217. 

Thomas, 288. 
Lary, Cornelius, 301. 
Laska, Sarah, 283. 
Laskin, Molly, 284. 
Lathe, Francis, 297. 
Lathrop, Capt., 39,40. 

Bethiah, 39, 40. 

Thomas, 38, 40, 41, 
43, 44, 47, 108. 

Lawrence, ,26-29. 

Lawrens, Col., 28, 32. 

Law, , 91. 

Lawrence, 268. 
Lawrence & Son, 131. 
Leach, Hannah, 221. 

Lawrence, 218. 

Robert, 211, 212, 
220, 221, 

Robert, sr., 220. 

Samuel, 220, 221. 
Leavitt, Dudley, 145. 

Lecodie, , 110. 

Lecraw, Marian, 291, 
292. 

Sarah, 286, 292. 
Lee, Dr., 96, 97. 

Maj., 27. 

A., 25. 

Charles F., 46. 

Jeremiah, 84. 

Joseph, 86. 

Mary, 284. 

Ruth, 285. 
Lee, see also Ley. 
Leeds, Leads, Con- 
sider, 56. 

Hannah, 56. 

Margaret, 56. 



Leeds, Thankful 

(Howe), 44. 
Thomas, 54. 
Legat, John, 305. 
Legg, John, 72, 73, 79, 

208. 

Lehall, Michael, 289. 
Lemon, Mary, 216. 

Robert, 37, 216. 
Lenord, Robert, 312. 
Lever, John Orrell, 

179. 

Leverett, Gov., 169. 
Lewiston, Col., 27. 
Lewis, Lewes, Loois, 

Luess.Luis, , 

96, 285. 
Chal, 284. 
Mary, 284. 
Mol., 285. 
Thomas, 86. 
Ley, John, 211, 212, 

222 

Samuel, 221. 
L'Hommedien, Ezra, 

32. 
Libbey, L i b b y , 

Charles F., 121. 
H. J., 183. 
Lillie, Samuel, 157, 

159, 203. 

Linch, Sarah, 286. 
Lincoln, Gen., 25, 30, 

89, 94. 

Lindsey, N., 85. 
Lisbrill, Sarah, 286. 
Little, Edward, 112. 
Little Ilford, Eng., 

236, 237, 239. 
Little Laver, Eng., 
238, 278. 

Littlefield, , 306. 

James, 120. 

Lucy Jane (Howe), 

61. 
William, 61. 

Livermore, , 91, 

96. 

Samuel, 89. 
William, 49. 
Livingston & Fox, 21, 

22. 
Livingston & Fulton, 

189. 
Loader, John, 288. 



328 



JfTDKX 



Loek, , 229, 230. 

Locomotives: 

Andover, 244, 258. 

Antelope, 258. 

Augusta, 258. 

Bangor, 258. 

Bunker Hill, 262. 

Casco, 247. 

Cocheco, 258, 262. 

Cumberland, 247. 

Dragon, 258. 

Goliah, 258. 

Haverhill, 244, 258. 

Zennebec, 247. 

Lawrence, 258. 

Maine, 258. 

Maiden, 258. 

Massachusetts, 258. 

Medford, 258, 262. 

New Hampshire, 
258. 

Norris, 258. 

Penobscot, 247. 

Portland, 258. 

Reading, 258. 

Rockingham, 244, 
258, 262. 

Saco, 247. 

York, 247. 

London, Eng., 225,295. 
Look, Mary, 150. 

Sarah, 150. 

Thomas, 150. 
Loomis, D. A., 188. 
Lord, Mary, 808. 

N. J., 101. 

Robert, 308. 
Loring, Harrison, 144. 
Lovell, , 93, 96. 

James, 94. 

Loves, Louvis, Lovies, 
, 284, 287. 

Peter, 285. 

Lovett, Lovet, , 

101. 

John, 35, 36, 104. 

John, sr., 103. 

Lowell, , 30, 31, 

96. 

John, 29. 

Lucas, E. V., 296. 
Lull, Hannah, 224. 
Luzerne, Chevalier de 

la, 28, 31. 
Lyford, Stephen, 194. 



Lynch, see Linch. 
Lynn, John, 23. 
Lynn, 146. 
Lyou, Dan, 190. 

McConnell, Sarah Ann 

(Walthour), 63. 
Macdonough, Com- 
modore, 188, 189. 
McKay, Donald, 14. 
James, 127. 

MeKean, , 27, 95. 

McKie, James, 121. 
McLaughlin, D. J., 

128. 
McLellan, Angie B., 

66. 

McSeeley, A., 138. 
Madison, James, 91. 
Magoun, Thatcher, 13. 

Malagash, , 79. 

Maley, Maly, ,285. 

Daniel, 312. 
Mallory, Henry R., 
121. 

Man, , 287. 

William, 311. 
Manchester, 34, 102, 
209, 213, 219, 222. 
Mane, Thomas, 811. 
Mansfield, Isaac, 312. 
Mapes, William, 106. 
Mappor, Will, 106. 
Mar, Naney, 284. 
Marble, Sarah, 223. 
Marblehead, 70, 71,76, 
81, 156, 167, 281, 
282, 284. 

March, Edmund, 228. 
Elizabeth, 223. 
George, 153. 
Hugh, 153. 
Joseph, 153. 
Joseph, jr., 153. 
Sarah, 153. 
Marland, Abraham, 

242. 
Marshall, Marchall, 

Marshal, , 92. 

Charles H., 22. 
John, 11. 
Thomas, 269. 
Marshall, Charles H. 

& Co., 15. 
Marshfield, 148. 



Marshfleld, Eng., 293. 
Marston, , 287. 

Benjamin, 292. 

John, 292, 300. 

Robert, 303. 
Martin, Martaine, 

Marton, , 287, 

292. 

Capt., 24. 

Anne, 61. 

Elinor, 292. 

Mary, 212, 213, 291. 

Moll, 285. 

Pat, 287. 

Polly, 291. 

Sarah, 72, 284, 292. 

Thomas, 284. 
Mary, Betty, 285. 
Mason, Capt., 275. 

Henry, 51. 

Hester (Howe), 51. 
Massachusetts His- 
torical Society, 
169. 

Massey, Jeffrey, 103. 
Masters, Abrani, 220, 
221 

Mather^ , 163. 

Mathes, Sarah, 285. 
Matthews, , 27. 

Lyman, 60. 

Rachel Dwight 

(Howe), 60. 
Mattoon, Sarah, 145. 
Maudesly, Joseph,80. 
Maverick, Moses, 217. 
Mayhew, Capt., 10. 
Mayo, Helen J. 
(Howe), 65. 

W. W., 65. 
Maxfield, John, 300. 
Medford, 13, 14. 
Meadar, Meaddar, 
, 285, 286. 

Grace, 284. 
Melcome, Betty, 288. 

Hannah, 284. 
Melsaw, Mellsaw, Su- 
sanna, 286, 287. 
Merrick, Elizabeth 
(Wiborne), 149. 

John, 149. 
Merrill, Jennie A., 65. 

Lemmie, 61. 



INDEX 



329 



Merrill, Lottie A. 

(Howe), 61. 
Susannah, 282. 
Merritt, Merriott, 
Men-it, Abigail, 
72, 80. 
John, 84. 

Nicholas, 75, 76, 80. 
Nicholas, sr., 72. 
Merrimack river, 302, 

307, 308. 
Mersey river, 2. 
Middleton, 145. 
Mifflin, Gen., 24-26. 
Miles, Alice, 240. 
Joane, 240. 

Miller, , 95, 

Abraham, 80. 

Millett, Millet, , 

25, 32. 
Deborah (Howe), 

59. 

Edward, 59. 
Joshua, 59. 
Mills, Levi, 112. 
Mingo beach, 98, 212. 
Mingo, Robin, 98. 

Minot, , 251. 

Charles, 250, 253, 

259. 

George, 312. 
Stephen, 312. 
Minturn & Grinnell, 

16, 23. 

Molly, Sarah, 287. 
Montague, Mount- 

tigue, , 301. 

Griffin, 306. 
Montserrat, 33,36,102. 
Moody, Amos, 223. 
Philip, 109. 
Silas, 223. 
More, William, 801. 
Morehonse, Col., 95. 
Mores, Mark, 222. 
Morgan, Morgain, 
jg_ 

Charity, 287. 
E. D., 1. 
Joseph, 35. 
Robert, 214. 
Samuel, 214, 215. 
Samuel, jr., 48. 
Sarah, 37, 48. 
Sergeant, 214. 
Morlaiul, Ann Knight, 
147. 



Morley, John, 268,272. 

Martha, 268, 272. 
Morrill,Abraham,299. 

Rachel, 55. 
Morris, , 26, 92. 

R., 89. 

Morrison, Arthur 
Eben, 65. 

Fannie Robertine 
(Howe), 65, 149. 

John H., 3, 4, 5. 
Morse, Mors, Betty, 
286. 

Charles W., 121,184. 

Dorothy, 236. 

Dorothy (Burnap), 
236. 

Elizabeth, 238. 

John, 236, 239. 

Joseph, 311. 

Prudence, 64. 

Morton, , 173. 

Moseley, Edward S., 

261. 

Mott, Lydia, 277. 
Monlton, Capt., 151. 

Benjamin, 303. 

Henry, 298, 307. 

Joseph, 303. 

Mary, 42. 

Sobrietie, 298. 

William, 298. 

Mowgate, , 233. 

Moyse, Moys,Joseph, 

299, 800.. J 
Much HaddSm, Eng., 

237, 278. 
Mudgett, Thomas, 

303, 304. 

Mugford, Muckford, 
, 286, 287. 

Phyllis, 284. 

Mulhenburg, , 93. 

Mullett, Elias, 82. 

Rebecca, 82. 

Rebecca (Pearce), 

82. 
Mully, Tom, 284. 

Munggrill, , 286. 

Murdock, Capt., 15. 
Muzzey, , 223. 

Nagode, , 110. 

Nash, Relief, 60. 
Natick, 280. 
Needham, Needaham, 
Needam, , 30. 



Needham, Joseph, 

289, 290. 
Stephen, 30. 
Nelson, Caroline 

(Floyd), 154. 
Charles N., 67. 
David, 224. 
John B., 154. 
Maria E.(Howe),67. 
Samuel, 154. 
Sarah, 154. 
Thomas Lambert, 

154. 

William T., 154. 
Nethertield, Eng.,226, 

228, 233. 
Newburt, Catherine, 

64. 

Lucy C., 64. 
Philip, 64. 
Newbnry, 222-224,301, 

302, 307, 308. 
Newburyport, 1, 10, 

111, 260. 
Newcomb, N. L., 124, 

137. 
Newell, Nuill, Abbie 

A., 64. 
Abbie W, (Burley), 

64. 

Lucius, 64. 
Moll, 285. 

Newhall, , 97, 271. 

Newman, T., 233. 

Thomas, 232. 
Newmarket, N. H., 

145. 
New York, 16. 

Nichols, Nickols, , 

287. 

Nicholas, George, 90. 
Nickerson, F. W. & 

Co., 143. 

Nickleson, Samuel, 74 
Nile, Daniel, 249. 
Joseph Abbott, 65. 
Mary Esther (Howe) 

65. 

Nobbs, Alice, 231. 
Nobbys, Johanna, 

226 231 

Noble, John, 164-166, 

169, 172-174, 176. 

Norden, Nathaniel, 

72, 76, 311. 

Norman, John, 72, 
220. 



330 



INDEX 



Norman, John, sr., 

220. 

Norrice, Ed ward, 269. 
North, James, 276. 

Richard, 299. 
Northey, Joseph, 88. 
Norton, George, 220. 

George L., 5, 182. 
Noyes, , 281, 282. 

Abigail, 224. 

Edmund, 223. 

Enoch, 223. 

John, 224. 

Joseph, 223. 

Nathaniel, 222. 
Nourse, Nurse, Cyn- 
thia Bailey, 168. 

Francis, 93. 

Rebecca, 168. 

Oakes, George, 312. 

Thomas, 74, 75, 77, 

78, 80, 158. 
Ober, , 35. 

Abigail, 214. 

John, 34, 35, 39, 40. 

Mary, 46. 

Mary A., 46. 

Richard, 214, 215. 
Ober's Point, 99. 
Oby, Sarah, 286. 
Ogden, C. F., 5. 

David, 1, 4. 
Ordway, Ordaway, 
James, 308. 

John, 222. 

Sarah, 222. 
Ormsby, Richard,300. 
Orne, Col., 91, 

Anna, 145. 

Azor, 84, 85. 

Joshua, 84-86, 207. 

Nancy, 292. 
Orne, see also Home. 
Osborne, Adeline Lou- 
isa (Rogers), 67. 

Emma Frances, 67. 

Thomas, 67. 
Osgood, , 89. 

Maj., 89. 

John, 155. 

John S., 155. 

Joseph, 155. 

Leah, 155. 

Leah Prescott, 155. 



Osgood, Reuben, 155. 
Samuel, 89, 155. 
William, 155, 304. 
William, sr., 303, 

304. 

Over, Richard, 211. 
Overend, Gurney & 

Co., 180. 
Owin, Elizabeth, 286. 

Paca, , 27, 89. 

Page, Paige, Jane, 

151. 
Lucy M., 154. 

Paine, Payne, , 

210. 

William, 302. 
Palfry, Col., 24. 

Palmer, , 27, 30, 

32, 88, 91. 
Deborah, 152. 
Hannah, 289. 
Henry, 300. 
J., 89. 

John, 72, 312. 
Mary (Gilbert), 289. 
Richard, 289. 
Parker, David, 311. 
Hannah, 278. 
Hannah (Falch), 

150. 

Samuel, 150. 
Parlin, Cora, 66. 
Parris, Samuel, 170. 

Parsons, , 136. 

James C., 116. 
John, 115. 
Joseph, 223. 
Peggy, 291. 
Samuel, 286. 

Partridge, , 91, 

92, 94. 
Col., 27. 
George, 92. 
William, 299. 

Pason, , 281, 282. 

Passon, William, 234. 

Patch, , 100, 105. 

Benjamin, 102, 103. 
Elizabeth, 102. 
James, 101. 
John, 47, 102-108. 
John, sr., 104, 105. 
Mary, 103. 
Mary (Lovett), 103. 



Patch, Nicholas, 106. 
Richard, 100, 105, 

106. 

Robert, 107. 
Susanna, 103. 
, Thomas, 36, 100, 

103, 106, 107. 
William, 107. 
Patten, Hinson, 129. 
Paul, Ebenezer, 68. 
Martha Dresser, 68. 
Richard, 68. 
Sarah Dresser, 68. 
Peabody, Pebody, 

, 26, 30, 92, 

94, 95. 
John, 297. 
Joseph, 297. 
Nathaniel, 24-26. 
William, 297. 

Peach, , 81. 

Thomas, 84. 
William, 312. 

Pearce, Perce, , 

82, 285. 
Elizabeth, 82. 
John, 82. 
Rebecca, 82. 
Thomas, 50. 
Sarah, 292. 

Pearson, , 261. 

Dolly (Howe), 59. 
Elizabeth, 224. 
George, 300, 308. 
James, 311. 
John, 278-280. 
John, sr., 279. 
John N., 59. 
Jonathan, 224. 
Maddelene, 279. 
Mary, 279. 
Maudlin (Ballard), 

279 

Sarah, 279. 
Solomon, 224. 
Pease, Robert, 37. 
Peasly, Joseph, 300. 
Peck, John, 12. 
Pedrick, Peddrick, 

, 81, 285, 286. 

Richard, 312. 
Peltrow, Elizabeth, 

286. 
Hannah, 285, 286. 



INDEX 



831 



Pen, , 285. 

Sarah, 286. 
Pennill, Betty, 284. 
Pepper, R. F., 121. 
Perkins, Parkines, 
Pirkins, Abra- 
ham, 305. 

Isaac, 298, 300. 

William, 300. 
Perley, Perly, D. Syd- 
ney, 54. 

Emma Mahala, 67. 

John, 297. 

M. V. B., 50. 

Sidney, 33, 98, 209, 
297. 

Thomas, 297. 
Permot, , 306. 

Philemon, 305. 
Perrine & Stack, 22. 

Perry, Pery, , 95, 

265. 

A. W., 178. 

Agnes, 234. 

Hannah, 286. 

Henry, 37. 

Mathew, 297. 

Sarah, 267. 

Sarah (Burnap),267. 

Thomas, 267. 
Ferryman, James,312. 
Peter, Hngh, 168. 
Pettingell, Pettengill, 
Pettingill, Agnes 
Leah, 155. 

Benjamin, 228. 

Gutting, 155. 

Frank Hervey, 148, 
149, 151, 153, 165. 

Josiah, 155. 

Mary Ann (Feltch), 
155. 

Matthew, 155. 

Merrill, 242. 

Nathaniel, 155. 

Nathaniel Henry, 
155. 

Olive (Smith), 155. 

Richard, 155. 

Walter Feltch, 155. 

Walter Joseph, 155. 

Willie Feltch, 155. 

Pettit, , 95. 

Philbrick, Thomas, 
298, 305. 

Thomas, jr., 298. 



Phillips, , 26, 161, 

285, 287. 

Jonathan, 312. 

Mary, 285. 

Stephen, 85. 
Phips, Spencer, 312. 
Pickard, Sarah, 228. 

Pickering, , 281, 

289. 

Capt., 282. 

Col., 89, 90, 94. 

Alice (Flint), 281. 

Benjamin, 288, 289. 

D. N., 259. 

Elizabeth, 289. 

Hannah, 282, 288- 
290. 

Hannah (Brown), 
281, 282, 288. 

James, 289, 290. 

John, 168, 281, 288. 

Mary, 289. 

Octavius, 162. 

Sarah, 288, 289. 

Timothy, 162. 

William, 281, 282, 

287-290. 

Pickett, John, 41. 
Pickforth, John, 220. 
Pierce, Peirce, Dan- 
iel, 300. 

Ebenezer, 42. 

Lydia, 42. 

Mary, 295. 

Samnel, 223. 

William, 91. 
Pike, Capt., jr., 135. 

Capt., sr., 135. 

Nicholas, 12. 

Robert, 169,299-305, 

308. 
Pilsbnry, Mary, 224. 

William, 224. 
Pingree, David, 259. 
Piper, Susanna, 222. 
Pitman, James, 211. 

Louis, 285. 

Thomas, 72. 
Pitt, William, 217. 
Fix, Benjamin, 312. 
Plant, , 178. 

Henry Bradley, 177. 
Plum Cove pond, 209. 
Plummer, Plamor, 
, 161. 

Samuel, 302. 



Polin, Samuel, 221. 
Ponso, Maj. Don, 92. 
Poole, John, 42, 77. 

Jonathan, 270, 279. 

Sarah, 42. 
Pope, , 268, 274. 

Joseph, 269. 

Mary, 286. 
Portail, Gen., 91. 
Portland, Me., 245, 

248. 
Portsmouth, N. H., 

16, 245. 

Post, Smith & Co., 23. 
Pote, Samuel, 84. 
Potter, Lydia Sy- 
monds, 62. 

Susan Eliza, 62. 
Potto, Peter, 80. 
Potts, Richard, 31. 
Potter's Island, 54. 
Pouls, Thomas, 76. 
Pousland, John, 312. 

Thomas, 207. 
Powell, Jere, 89. 
Prentiss, Henry, 64. 

Lucinda, 64. 
Prescott, Leah, 155. 
Pressey, Hannah 
(Felch), 152. 

Paul, 152. 
Preston, Margaret,57. 

Moses, 28. 

Randall, 101. 

Susanna (Stone), 
101. 

Pribble, , 286. 

Prichit, Charity, 292. 
Pride, Hannah, 215. 

Jane, 36. 

John, 36, 45. 

Joseph, 44, 45. 

Peter, 215. 

William, 36. 
Prince, Augusta, 46. 

Augustus B., 46. 
Pringle, Daniel, 277. 
Pritchitt, see Prichit. 
Proctor, Procktor, 
Proctar, Procter, 
Betty, 284, 291. 

Jonathan, 811. 

Patty, 284, 291. 

Richard, 292. 

Thomas, 86. 
Provo, Gen., 25. 



332 



INDEX 



Pulaski, Count, 29. 
Pnsey, Daniel, 261. 
Pushaw, Winnie Ann, 

68. 
Putnam, Amos, 32. 

Benjamin, 26. 

D., 95. 

Enoch, 89. 

Hannah, 58. 

Israel, 58. 

Timothy, 223. 
Pymar, Mathew, 80. 
Pynn, Charles, 282. 

Quimby, H. C., 124. 
Quinn, see Kwin. 

Rabadeau, Gen., 24. 
Hack wood, Jonathan, 

312. 

Railroads. 
Andover & Boston, 

244. 
Andover Branch, 

244. 

Andover & Wil- 
mington, 242, 248. 
Boston & Lowell, 

242-244, 251, 254. 
Boston & Maine, 

241, 248. 
Boston & Portland, 

248, 249. 
Concord, 256. 
Dover & Winnipis- 

eogee, 242. 
Eastern, 245, 247, 

248, 259, 260, 262, 

264. 

Erie, 251. 
GeorgetownBranch, 

263. 
Medford Branch, 

256. 
Methuen Branch, 

256. 
Michigan Southern, 

251. 
Nashua & Lowell, 

243. 
Newburyport, 262- 

264. 
Portland, Saco & 

Portsmouth, 246- 

248. 



Railroads, Salem & 

Lowell, 259. 
South Reading 

Branch, 259. 
Ramsdell, John, 297. 
Randolph, Edmund, 

26. 
Rantoul, Robert, sr., 

101. 

Robert S., 161. 
RawJings, Rawlinge, 
Rawlinges, Ag- 
nes, 233. 
Alice, 233. 
Ann, 230, 234. 
John, 233, 234. 
William, 234. 
Rawson, , 174. 
Ray, Hitty, 46. 
Raymond, Raiment, 
Rayment, Ray- 
mont, John, sr., 
49. 

Jonathan, 109. 
William, 101, 211, 

212. 

Raynes, George, 16. 
Rea, Ray, Ebenezer, 

46. 

Isaac, 46. 
Joseph, 45. 
Mary, 46. 
Redding, Readden, 

John, 72. 
Ruth, 284. 

Reddington, Reding- 
ton.Abraham,297. 
Abraham, jr., 297. 
Abraham, sr., 297. 
Johan, 233. 
Thomas, 233, 286, 

297. 
Redman, John, 805. 

Reed, Read, , 31, 

88. 

Capt., 130. 
BenjaminTyler,167. 
Jeremy, 291. 
John, 811. 
Samuel, 72. 
Tabitha, 291, 292. 
Thomas, 129. 
Reeves, Sarah, 286. 
Reith, Richard, 312. 
Rendall, Abigail, 104. 



Reynolds, Joshua,295. 

Mary (Pierce), 295. 
Rhode Island Histori- 
cal Society, 169. 
Rice, Maj., 25. 
Richardson, Capt., 15. 

Addison, 21. 

Edward, 21. 

KateS., 21. 

William R., 21. 
Richardson & Bar- 
nard, 127. 
Richardson, Hill & 

Co., 120. 

Riddan, John. 72. 
Righthead, , 286. 

Sarah, 285. 
Ring, Robert, 304. 
Ritts, Henry, 278. 

Maria (Burnap),278. 
Roach, John, 183. 
Roads, Sarah, 292. 

Roberson, , 96. 

Roberts, David, 181, 
164. 

Molly (Patch), 107. 

Nathaniel. 107. 

Thomas, 276. 
Robie, Robe, Roby, 
Robys, Chloe,285, 
286. 

Henry, 303, 306. 
Robie & Brown, 197, 
Robinson, Gov., 174. 

Edward, 57. 

George Dexter, 164. 

John, 282. 

Lucy A. (Holman), 
66. 

Rachel (Howe), 57. 
Rockwell, E. B., 194. 
Rodes, Rodez, John, 
228, 229. 

Margaret, 228, 229. 
Rogers, Rogas, Ade- 
line Louisa, 67. 

Thomas, 312. 
Roix, Capt., 119. 

William R., 113. 
Rolfe, Roffe, Rolf, 
, 237. 

Benjamin, 223. 

John, 308. 
Romer, Col., 311. 
Root, , 26, 29. 



INDEX 



333 



Ropes, Ruth, 145. 
Ross, Roos, , 119. 

George, 25. 

Rebecca, 285. 
Ross & Sturdivant, 

119. 

Roundy, Rounday, 
John, 311. 

Ruth, 285. 
Roose, Capt., 76. 

William, 77. 
Roux, Frederic, 21. 
Row, Isaac, 79. 
Rowell, Stephen, 152. 
Rowland, Richard, 72. 
Roxbnry, 50. 
Rumball, Daniel, 106. 
Rusher, Nem, 288. 
Rushlow, George,193. 
"Russell, Russel, Capt., 
284. 

John, 84. 

Richard, 312. 
Ryerson, Lizzie C.,65. 

Saco, Me., 245. 
Sadler, Anthony, 307. 
Saffyn, John, 270. 

Saintbarb, , 285. 

St. John, N. B., 162. 

Salem, 12, 70, 71, 102, 

103, 106-108, 145, 

146, 162, 280-282. 

Salisbury, Stephen, 

164. 
Salisb u rv, 298-303, 305 , 

306, 308. 

Sallows, Sallis, Sal- 
loes,Sollas, John, 
37, 41. 
Joseph, 41. 
Mary, 215, 216. 
Robert, 41, 215, 216. 
Robert, jr., 41. 
Thomas, 37. 

Salmon, Sallmon, , 

286. 

Percival, 286. 
Saltonstall, Capt., 282. 
Nathaniel, 73. 

Samuels, , 4. 

Edith, 5. 

Samuel, 1, 3-9, 20. 
Sanborne, Sanborns, 
Izah T e n n e y 
(Howe), 65. 



Sanborne, John, 298, 
305. 

John R., 65. 

Winborn, 196. 
Sanderson, William, 
226. 

Sanden, , 81. 

Sanford, , 119. 

Capt., 116. 

Charles B., 123. 

Sandy, , 285, 287. 

Sargent, , 25. 

Hannah, 149. 

Mary, 301. 

William, 149, 299, 

300. 

Sarig, Ruamah, 286. 
Satchwell, Theophi- 
lus, 307. 

Savage, , 148, 274. 

Savin, , 96. 

Savory, , 261. 

Sawyer, Sawer, , 

36. 

Mary, 151. 

Scammon, Richard, 
sr., 307. 

Schanze, , 5. 

Schuyler, Gen., 94. 
Scoot, Hnldah, 286. 
Scores, Sarah, 286. 
Scudder, , 26. 

Dr., 24. 

Seabrew (negro), 223. 
Searle, Sari, Sarles, 

Sarll, Saris, , 

88, 285. 

Joseph, 284, 285, 
287. 

Sarah, 54. 
Sears, , 287. 

Hester (Howe) Ma- 
son, 51. 

John, 51. 

Seegar, , 286. 

Seetlan, Jane, 286. 
Seldon, Rebecca, 292. 
Selley, Benoni, 152. 

Jemima, 152. 

Thomas, 152. 
Selman, John, 84. 
Sewall, John, 223. 

Margaret, jr., 202. 

Samuel, 84, 86, 168. 

Stephen, 72, 73, 206, 
207. 



Shaddock, Shadok, 

, 287. 

Abiah, 291. 
Huldah, 291, 292. 

Sharpe, , 31. 

Sheil, Shall, Sheal, 
Sheald, Dr., 24, 
31, 89, 92, 95. 
Shepard, Susannah, 

146. 
Sherburne, Sher- 

bourne, , 97. 

John Samuel, 90. 
Sherman, Capt., 191. 
Charles H., 250. 
Jahaziel, 188, 190, 

191. 

James S., 188. 
Richard W., 189, 
190, 192. 

Sherwin, , 54. 

Eleanor, 52, 53. 
Shippen, Dr., 24, 94. 
Showman, Martin, 

287. 
Shuff, Ellen Augusta, 

154. 
Mary M. (Falch), 

154. 

William L., 154. 
Shumway, Peter, 297. 
Shurtleff, Betsey, 60. 
Siblee, John, 211, 212, 

221. 

Silver, Mary, 82. 
Silverdore, Elizabeth, 

287. 

Silvester, David, 87. 
Joshua, 82, 87. 
Rebecca (Stacey), 

87. 

Sally (Stacey), 87. 
Simmons, Peter, 142. 
Simons, William, 300. 
Simpson, Sympson, 

David W., 181. 
Robert, 234. 
Sims, Sarah, 287. 
Singletary, Richard, 

298. 
Skelton, Skilton,Deb- 

orah (Howe), 51. 
Joseph, 51. 
Samuel, 168. 
Skillins, , 291. 



334 



INDEX 



Skingle, Judith (Bur- 
nap), 238, 277. 
Richard, 238, 277. 
Skinner, Dolly, 292. 

Hannah, 81. 
Small & Hatheway, 

144. 
Smart, Robert, 301, 

304. 

Smethurst, Joseph, 
312. 

Smith, Smyth, , 

24, 27, 81, 89, 95, 
287. 

Abner, 68. 
Benjamin, 213. 
Charlotte, 63. 
Dorothy, 224. 
Emma F., 46. 
Ephraim, 297. 
Fanny (Hovre), 58. 
Isaac, 94. 
Jane Adger, 68. 
Jemima, 224. 
Jeremiah, 164. 
John, 155, 234, 242, 

312. 

Joseph, 311. 
Joseph L., 250. 
Josiah, 224. 
Martha, 224. 
Olive, 155. 
Richard, SOI. 
Rob, 297. 
Samuel, 152. 
Sarah, 145, 284. 
Stephen, 18. 
Smith & Dimon, 142. 
Smith & Townsend, 

120. 

Sneeden, Samuel, 113. 
Snellin, Abigail, 286. 
Snow, J. C., 65. 

Lydia J. (Howe),65. 
Somerby, Abiel, 307. 
Anthony, 307, 808. 

Soring, , 95. 

Soule, Sprague & Co., 

181. 
South Berwick, Me., 

248. 

Southwick, Sonther- 
icke, Southwark, 
Cyprian, 208. 
Isaac, 278. 
Sarah, 273. 



Spear, Capt., 119. 
Spear. Lang & Dela- 
no, 113, 136. 
Spelman, Israel, M. 

248. 

Spence, James, 287. 
Spofford & Tileston, 

16. 

Sprague, Sheriff, 101. 
Sprague & Davis, 187. 
Sprague, Soule & Co., 

181. 
Spring, S. E., 133. 

Sprout, , 29-31. 

Stably, Mary, 292. 
Stacey, Stacy, Stasey, 

, 285. 

Capt., 81, 83, 85-87. 
Benjamin, 292, 312. 
Ebenezer, 312. 
Elizabeth, 286. 
George, 82. 
Hannah, 82. 
Hannah (Skinner), 

81, 87. 

John, 81-83, 311. 
Joseph, 312. 
Lucretia Bourne,82. 
Nathaniel, 82. 
Penelope (Hazard), 

82. 

Rebecca, 82. 
Rebecca (Mullett), 

82, 86, 87. 
Richard, 81-87. 
Sally, 82, 87. 
Samuel, 312. 
Samuel, jr., 312. 
Sarah, 296. 
Stephen, 291, 292. 

Stacey & Glover, 83. 

Stack & Perrine, 22. 

Stanian, , 302. 

John, 299, 303. 

Standley, Stanley, 
Stanly, George, 
100, 107. 
John, 302. 

Stanstead Abbots, 
Eng., 225, 226, 
228; 230, 231, 233, 
235-239, 266, 267, 
274-278. 

Stapels, , 285. 

Hitty, 286. 



Steamboats, etc. 
A. W. Perry, 178, 

179. 

Acadia, 141. 
Adelaide, 132. 
Adelaide (ship), 17. 
Adirondack, 193. 
Admiral, 131-183. 
Admiral Du Pont, 

136, 137. 
Adventure (brigan- 

tine), 288. 
Albany (ship), 22. 
Alexander Marshall 

(ship), 16. 
Alhambra, 143. 
Alliance, 119. 
American, 193. 
American Eagle, 

187. 

Amethyst (ship),13. 
Andrew Foster 

(ship), 9, 10. 
Anglia, 180. 
Anglo- Am e r i c a n 

(ship), 14. 
Anglo-Saxon (ship), 

14. 

Ann, 187. 
Anne (sloop), 77. 
Arago, 21. 
Aranmore, 140. 
Aroostook, 186. 
Ashburton (ship), 

17. 

Ashland, 182. 
Aviator (schooner), 

181. 
Baltimore (packet), 

21. 

Bayard (ship), 20. 
Belfast, 123, 186. 
Belknap, 194, 195. 
Belle (brig), 142. 
Belle of the Isles, 

198. 
Belle of the Wave, 

197. 

Benjamin (brig),83. 
Benjamin Adams 

(ship), 19. 
Benjamin Franklin, 

181. 
Black Ball (packet), 

8. 



INDEX 



835 



Steamboats, etc. 
Boston, 122, 138. 

139, 193. 

Boston (brig), 142. 
Boston (ship), 18. 
Boston Packet 

(ship), 11. 
Bostonian (ship),14. 
Bristol (steam 

yacht), 197. 
Brittania, 14, 140, 

141. 
BnennaTista(steam 

ship), 142. 
Bunker Hill, 122, 

185, 186. 

Burlington, 191,192. 
Cairo (ship), 14. 
Caledonia, 141. 
Cambridge, 117,118, 

120, 121. 
Calvin Austin, 122, 

135, 136. 
Cambridge (ship), 

16. 

Camden, 123, 186. 
Canada, 2, 193. 
Canada (ship), 15. 
Carlotta, 134. 
Carolina, 178. 
Carolus Magnus 

(ship), 22. 
Carroll, 143, 144, 

198. 

Cascapedia, 179. 
Castle (ship), 148. 
Cathedral (ship),14. 
Central America, 

201. 
Champion (vessel), 

284. 

Champlain, 189,193. 
Chariot of Fame 

(ship), 14. 
Charlemagne(ship), 

20, 21. 
Charles Carroll 

(packet), 21. 
Charles H.Marshall 

(ship), 23. 
Charles Pearson, 

187. 

Charles River, 187. 
Charles Sprague 

(ship), 19. 
Chase, 134. 



Steamboats, etc. 
Chateaugay, 194. 
Chocorua, 196. 
Cimbria, 125. 
City of Bangor, 121, 

125. 

City of Bath, 182. 
City of Columbia, 

137. 
City of Key West, 

119. 
City of Mobile 

(ship), 22. 
City of Portland, 

133. 
City of Portsmouth, 

125. 
City of Richmond, 

118, 119, 126. 
City of Rockland, 

121. 
City of Savannah 

II, 178. 

City Point 144. 
Clermont, 188. 
Clover, 187. 
Columbia, 141, 180. 
Columbia (ship), 16. 
Commerce, 143. 
Commodore, 132. 
Congress, 189. 
Connaught, 180. 
Constitution (ship), 

16. 

Cossack, 132. 
Courrier de 1'Eu- 

rope (ship), 11. 
Cumberland, 134. 
Cyclone, 198. 
Daniel Webster,113. 
Daniel Webster 

(ship), 14. 
Danin, 187. 
David Hoadley 

(ship), 23. 
Dawn, 136. 
Day Spring, 187. 
Deptford (ship),204. 
Deutschland (ship), 

23. 
Devonshire (ship), 

16. 

Dispatch, 187. 
Dollie Dutton, 196. 
Dominion, 138. 
Doris, 183. 



Steamboats, etc. 
Dorchester (ship), 

14. 

Dove (ketch), 75,76. 
Dover, 196. 
Dover (ship), 13. 
Dreadnought 

(schooner), 83. 
Dreadnought(ship) , 

1-10, 14. 

Driver (ship), 9, 10. 
Duchesse d'Orleans 

(ship), 21, 22. 
Eagle, 197. 
Eastern City, 132, 

133. 
Eastern State, 114, 

137, 138, 143. 
Edgemont, 135. 
Edward H. Blake 

(schooner), 127. 
Edward Quesnel 

(ship), 20. 
Ellen, 187. 
Emerald (ship), 13. 
Empire (ship), 17. 
Equator, 183. 
Erie (packet), 21. 
Evangeline, 178,179. 
F. B. Cutting(ship), 

23. 

Fairbanks, 182. 
Fairy Queen, 132. 
Falmouth, 134. 
Falmouth (ship), 

208. 

Fidelia (ship), 16. 
Florida, 177. 
Flying Horse(sloop) 

78. 

Forest City, 128. 
France (packet), 21. 
Frances, 137. 
Francis Saltus, 191, 

193. 
Frank Jones, 119, 

126. 

Franklin, 21, 190. 
Fremont, 187. 
Fulton, 21. 
Gallia (ship), 22. 
Garrick(ship), 16,17. 
Gazelle, 130. 
GeneralGreene,190. 
General Jackson, 

142. 



386 



INDEX 



Steamboats, etc. 
General Knox, 114. 
General Whitney, 

188. 

George Leary, 117. 
George M. Bibb, 124. 
George Washington 

(ship), 16. 
Gilpin (towboat), 

187. 

Glaucus, 183. 
Golden Rod, 125. 
Governor, 132. 
Governor Oobb,122, 

135. 
Governor Davis 

(ship), 14. 
Governor Dingley, 

122, 136. 
Governor Endicott, 

198. 
H. F. Dimock, 184, 

186. 
H. M. Whitney,122, 

184, 186. 

Halifax, 177-179. 
Halifax (brig), 142. 
Hannah (brig), 111. 
Harvard, 185. 
Harvest Queen, 

(ship), 19. 
Helen Mar(sbip),20. 
Henry (ship), 294. 
Henry Clay (ship), 

16. 

Henry IV (ship),20. 
Henry Hoover, 187. 
Henry Morrisonl25. 
Hercules (ship), 16. 
Herman Winter, 

184, 186. 
Hibernia, 180. 
Highflyer (ship), 9, 

10. 

Horicon, 194. 
Hottinguer (ship), 

18. 

Humboldt, 21. 
Hunter, 144. 
Huntress, 131, 247. 
Huron (towboat), 

187. 

Ida Miller, 187. 
Independence(ship) 

18. 

Independence (tow- 
boat), 8. 



Steamboats, etc. 
Industry (ship), 83. 
Isaac Webb (ship), 

16. 
Isaac Wright(ship), 

22 

J. T. Morse, 123. 
Jacob Bell (ship), 

22. 

James Barton, 187. 
James Bell, 196. 
JamesCaldwell,194. 
James Foster, Jr. 

(ship), 22. 
James H. Whitney, 

122. 
James Munroe 

(ship), 15. 
James R. Hacker, 

193. 
James S. Whitney, 

184, 186. 
James Wright(ship) 

18. 

Jenny Lind, 195. 
Jersey Blue, 182, 
John Brooks, 128. 
John Eliot Thayer 

(shipl, 14. 
John Jay, 194. 
Joseph Boss, 187. 
Joshua Bates (ship) 

14. 

Kanawha, 124. 
Kangaroo, 17. 
Katabdin, 113, 117, 

118, 120. 
Kate Hunter (ship), 

19. 

Key West, 183. 
Lady of the Lake, 

195. 
La Grande D u c h - 

esse, 178, 179. 
Lamprey, 198. 
Lancaster (ship), 23. 
Larchmont, 135. 
Lewiston, 119, 121. 
Leviathan (steam- 
tug), 2. 

Lexington, 199, 200. 
Linda, 138. 
Little Buttercup, 

124. 

Liverpool (ship), 13. 
Loch Earn (ship), 

23. 



Steamboats, etc. 
London Packet 

(ship), 11. 
Long Island, 126, 

196. 
Louis Philippe 

(ship), 21. 
Lowell (ship), 13. 
Lucy P. Miller, 124. 
Lucy Thompson 

(ship), 19. 
M. Y. Beach, 247. 
Macdonough, 190. 
Maid of Erin, 132. 
Maid of the Isles, 

197. 

Marechal de Cas- 
tries (ship), 11. 
Marmion (ship), 19. 
Mary Sanford, 182. 
Massachusetts, 122, 

185, 186. 
Massasoit, 128. 
May Field, 125. 
May Flower (sloop), 

203. 

Mayflower, 196. 
Menemon Sanford, 

114-117. 
Mercury (packet), 

21. 

Merrimack, 143,144. 
Metis, 183. 
Miami, 182. 
Milton Martin, 119. 
Mineola, 197. 
Minna Schiffer 

(brigantine), 180. 
Minnehaha, 194. 
Mississippi, 144. 
Moccasin, 124. 
Mohawk, 128. 
Mohican, 194. 
Montezuma (ship), 

16, 17, 22. 
Monticello, 182. 
Montreal, 192, 193. 
Moosehead, 126. 
Mount Desert, 120, 

123. 
Mount Washington, 

197, 198. 

Mountaineer, 194. 
Nancey (schooner), 

284. 
Naugatuck, 196. 



INDEX 



337 



Steamboats, etc. 
Nellie (steam yacht) 

197. 
Ne Plus Ultra(ship) 

23 

Neptune, 182, 183. 
Neptune (ship), 83. 
Nereus, 182, 183. 
New Brunswick, 

133, 138. 
New England, 118, 

133. 
New England 

(ship), 13. 
New World (ship), 

22 

New York, 138. 
New York (ship), 

15, 19, 22. 

Newbury (schoon- 
er), 83. 

Niagara (ship), 19. 
Nonpareil (ship), 

291. 
Nordamerica (ship), 

23. 
North America, 130, 

131, 141. 

North Land, 140. 
Northland, 186. 
Norumbega, 126. 
Norwich, 127. 
Oakes Ames, 193. 
Ocean Monarch 

(ship), 14, 22. 
Oder (ship), 19. 
Old Colony, 122, 

185, 186. 

Old Dominion, 184. 
Olivette, 127, 177- 

179. 

Oneida (packet), 21. 
Ontario, 181. 
Orient (ship), 16. 
Oriental, 143. 
Ossipee, 196. 
Our Lady of Gaspe", 

179. 

Oxford (ship),16,17. 
Pacific (ship), 15. 
Packet (ship), 12. 
Palestine (ship), 16, 

18. 
Palladium (ship), 

12, 13. 
Panther (ship), 16. 



Steamboats, etc. 
Parliament (ship), 

14. 
Patrick Henry 

(ship), 16. 
Pemaquid, 126. 
Pembroke (schoon- 
er), 83. 
Pennsylvania(ship ), 

16. 

Penobscot, 120. 
Pentagoet, 124. 
Perseverance, 189. 
Phoenix, 114, 188, 

189. 
Pinafore (steam 

yacht), 197. 
Plymouth (ship),13. 
Portland, 124. 
Port Pacquet(snow) 

83. 
Prince Arthur, 139, 

140. 

Prince Edward,139. 
Prince George, 139, 

140. 

Propeller, 180. 
Providence, 200. 
Province Galley 

(ship), 281. 
Queen City, 125. 
Queen of the West 

(ship), 17. 
Queen Mab (ship), 

20. 
R. B. Forbes (iron 

towboat), 187. 
Racer, (ship) 9, 10, 

14. 

Rangeley, 126. 
Red Hill, 196. 
Relief, 138, 182. 
Relief (steam tow- 
boat), 187. 
Rhine (ship), 19. 
Rhone (packet), 21. 
Rochester (ship),17. 
Rockland, 113, 114, 

120. 

Romeo (ship), 12. 
Roscins (ship), 16. 
Roxmont, 198. 
Royal Tar, 128-130. 
S. J. Mace, 187. 
Sable Island, 181. 
Sagamore, 179, 194. 



Steamboats, etc. 
St. Croix, 135. 
St. George (ship),9. 
St. Patrick (ship), 9. 
St.Petersburg(ship) 

14. 

Saguenay, 113. 
Sally (ship), 12. 
Saltus, 192. 
Salvor, 182. 
Sambro Head, 179. 
Sapphire (ship), 13. 
Sappho, 125, 126. 
Sarah (barque), 15. 
Saranac, 191, 193. 
Saranac (ship), 22. 
Scotia, 138. 
Scout, 144. 
Scud, 177. 
Sebenoa, 125. 
Sedgwick, 125. 
Seneca, 196. 
Shakespeare (ship), 

16. 

Shawmut, 186. 
Siddons (ship), 16. 
Sidon, 17. 
Sieur des Monts, 

126. 

Silver Star, 125. 
Sir John Harvey, 

142. 
Sir Robert Peele 

(ship), 19. 
Somerset, 143. 
Southampton (ship) 

16. 
Staff ordshire(ship) , 

14. 
Star of Empire 

(ship), 14. 
State of Indiana, 

144. 

State of Maine, 134. 
Stephania (ship), 20. 
Swallow Tail (pack- 
et), 8. 

Swedish Nightin- 
gale, 195. 
Switzerland (ship), 

17. 
Sylvie de Grasse 

(ship), 21. 
Talleyrand (ship), 

19. 
Teger (vessel), 287. 



338 



INDEX 



Steamboats, etc. 
Thetis, 183. 
Ticonderoga, 194. 
Ticonderoga (sloop) 

188. 

Tillie, 124. 
Titanic, 201. 
Tonawanda (ship), 

23. 

Topaz (ship), 18. 
Transport, 187. 
Tremont, 125. 
Trenton (ship), 13. 
Trimountain (ship), 

22. 

Tuscarora(ship),23. 
Tuscarora Il(ship), 

23. 

Uncle Sam, 187. 
Unicorn, 140. 
United States, 193. 
Utica (packet), 21. 
Veto (schooner), 

129 

Vermont, 188, 189. 
Vermont III, 194. 
Ville-du-Havre, 23. 
Virginian (packet), 

18. 

Washington, 190. 
Washington Irving 

(ship), 14. 
Waterloo (ship), 19. 
Water Witch, 191. 
Wehster, 113. 
Webster (ship), 16. 
Whitehall, 191. 
William Caldwell, 

194. 

William Tell (pack- 
et), 21. 
William Tibbetts, 

119. 

William Young,200. 
Winchester (ship), 

19. 

Winnipesaukee, 196 
Winooski, 191. 
Wm. Sprague, 187. 
Worcester, 143, 144. 
Wyoming (ship),23. 
Yale, 185, 186. 
Yarmouth, 138. 
Yorkshire (ship), 

16, 17. 
Zurich (ship), 19. 



Stetson, Abel, 61. 

Adeline (Howe), 61. 
Steuben, Stuben, 

Baron, 88, 92. 
Stevens, John, 84, 
301, 302. 

Sarah, 41. 

Timothy, 224. 
Stiles, Ezra, 163. 

John, 297. 

Mary, 283, 284. 

Rachel (Howe), 55. 

Rob, 297. 

Stephen, 55. 
Stockman, John, 304. 

Sarah, 804. 
Stone, Daniel, 108. 

Galen L., 121. 

John, 101, 109. 

Nathaniel, 48. 

Nathaniel, sr., 108. 

Susanna, 101. 
Storrow, J. W., 12. 
Story, , 94. 

Elislia, 86. 

Joseph, 83. 

William, 90. 
Stow, Prudence, 63. 
Sttan, Timothy, 292. 
Suffield, Conn., 282. 
Stuckley, Capt., 203. 

Charles, 204. 

Sturdivant, , 119. 

Sturdivant & Ross, 

119. 
Sullivan, , 91, 92. 

J., 92. 

Patrick J., 46. 
Surriage, see Sarig. 
Swain, Sweyne, Jere- 
miah, 273, 280. 
Swan, Benjamin, 54. 

Betsey (Howe), 58. 

Henry, 216. 

Mary E., 46. 

Robert, 312. 

Sarah (Howe), 54. 

William, 58. 

Sweeney, , 7. 

Sweetland, see Seet- 

lan. 

Swett, Sweat, Swete, 
John, 222, 227, 
229. 

John, sr., 229. 

Joshua, 223. 



Swett, Nicholas, 234. 
Steven, sr., 801. 
William, 232. 
Swett & Wentworth, 

196. 
Swinerton. Hannah, 

281, 283, 288. 
John, 281, 283, 288. 
Mercy, 283. 
Sylvester, see Silves- 
ter. 
Symmes, Dorcas, 40, 

47. 

Dorcas (Bracken- 
bury), 40. 
Zachariah, 40, 47. 
Symonds, Samuel, 297 
Symonds, see also Si- 
mons. 

Taft, James, 181. 
Tant, James, 297. 
Tapley, Harriet Sil- 
vester, 81. 
Taskcoe, Taskco, 

Taskir, , 291. 

John, 290, 312. 
Taylor, Tailer, Talar, 

Tayler, , 100, 

285. 

Capt., 29. 
Deborah, 98. 
Eben, 312. 
Edward, 169. 
William, 101. 
Tedd, John, 305. 
Tedder, Valentine,84. 
Tenney, Tenny.Eben- 

ezer, 222. 
Eliphalet, 224. 
Judith, 58. 
Thomas, 223. 
Tenderden, Eng., 148. 
Tewkesbury, Tukes- 
bary, Tewxbery, 
Tuksbury, Grace, 
291. 

Henry, 811. 
Sarah, 284. 
Thomas, 211. 
Thatcher's Island, 

116, 116. 

Thaxter, Samuel, 312. 
Thayer, Capt., 15. 
Rebecca ( Howe), 67. 
Samuel, 57. 



INDEX 



339 



Thayer & Warren, 15. 
Thistle, Thissell, 

Ebenezer, 215. 
Elizabeth, 215. 
Elizabeth, jr., 215. 
Jeffrey, 103,215,216. 
Mary, 216. 
Richard, 103, 211, 
213-216. 

Thompkins, , 95. 

Thompson, Tomson, 

, 286. 

Capt., 135. 
Jonathan, 312. 
Josiah, 222. 

Thorn, , 222. 

Mercy, 222. 
Thorndike,Thorndik, 

Lt., 100. 
Isaac, 45. 
John, 45, 49. 
Paul, 33, 40, 45, 47- 

49, 211, 212, 214. 
Paul, jr., 40. 
Thorpe, Thomas, 265. 
Thurlow, Moses, 224. 

Sarah, 224. 
Thyng, Langdon, 195. 
Tiles ton & Spofford, 

16. 

Tishhow,Hannah,286. 
Todd, Susan Evelyn, 
67. 

Torrey, Torey, , 

92. 

John, 312. 

Tourland,Joshua,278. 
Townsend & Currier, 

1, 10. 
Townsend & Smith, 

120. 

Tozier, Bryant, 68. 
Harriet E., 68. 
Winnie Ann (Pu- 

shaw), 68. 

Train, Enoch, 14, 15. 
Traske, W., 218. 
Trefetheren, Emily, 

65. 

Trefry, John, 312. 
Trevett, Treevie, Tre- 

vie, John, 311. 
Richard, 311. 
Sarah, 287. 
Tucker, Andrew, 312. 
Ansil, 250. 



Tucker, Benjamin,65. 

John, 80. 

Mary, 65. 
Tufts, Otis, 187. 
Turner, Maj., 312. 

Angerone (Howe), 
61. 

Charles W., 61. 

Elias, 292. 

Isaac, 311. 

John, 76. 

Tuttle, , 286. 

Twisden, Christopher 

312. 
Twitchell, Adams, 58. 

Roxanna(Howe),58. 
Tyler, Charles H., 46. 

Moses, 297. 

Upham, , 163,164, 

167. 
Charles Wentworth, 

162. 
Cynthia Bailey 

(Nourse), 168. 
Joshua, 162. 
Phineas, 163. 
William Phineas, 
161, 163-173, 175. 

Uric, , 26, 27. 

Urquhart, W. W., 16, 
22. 

Vanderbilt,Cornelius, 

142. 
Vanderbury, Col., 95. 

Vanlore, , 240. 

Veach, Vetch, Capt., 

78, 79. 
Veazey, Samuel, 250. 

Venn, , 239. 

Veren, Verrin, Hil- 

liard, 278. 
Philip, 218. 
Vernon, George, 272. 

Viall, , 239. 

Vickary, see Wickery. 
Vose.Hannah(Howe), 

55. 
Moses, 55. 

Wade, George Gil- 
man, 69. 

Nellie Elizabeth,69. 
Rachel Agnes, 69. 



Wadleigh, J. S., 196. 

Jonathan H., 250. 

Robert, 307. 

Wads worth, , 27, 

30, 94. 

Waite, Wayte, Rich- 
ard, 300. 

Samuel, 85. 
Waldron, John, 312. 

Joseph, 311. 
Walker, Elizabeth, 
103, 104. 

John, 103, 104. 

Richard, 149. 

Thomas, 234. 

William, 195, 196. 

Wallet, , 232, 266. 

Walter, (Wal- 
ker?), 234. 
Walthonr, Andrew, 63. 

Ann (Hoffmire), 63. 

Sarah Ann, 63. 
Walton, Nathaniel,72. 
Ward, Col., 91. 

Gen., 93, 96. 

Artemas, 24, 25. 

Mary, 282. 

Sarah, 153. 

Thomas, 153, 303. 
Wardell, Eliakim,298. 
Ware, Eng., 230, 235, 
237, 238. 

Warner, , 80, 32, 

96, 97. 
Warren, , 95. 

Dr., 93. 

Warren & Co., 15. 
Warren & Thayer, 15. 
Wasgatt, Tyler, 118. 
Washington, Gen., 26, 
89, 91. 

George, 294. 

Waterhouse , 225. 

Waters, Mary, 72. 
Watson, Abraham, 
282. 

John, 147. 

Marston, 86. 

William, 297. 
Watton, Eng., 240. 
Wayne, Gen., 25. 
Weare, Nathaniel, 300. 
Webb, Isaac, 18. 

William H., 16, 18, 
23. 



340 



INDEX 



VV cuuer, TT cuuai, , 




TT 11 J.l*-i-iio> V WUU| Oft ) 


284. 


92, 287. 


37, 48. 


Samuel, 312. 


John, 12, 284, 312. 


Mary, 41. 


Seth, 12. 


Joseph, 312. 


Roger, 168. 


Stafford, 283. 


Nathan, 284. 


Thomas L., 259. 


Webster, , 89. 


Paul, 301. 


Williams & Guion, 16, 


Daniel, 113. 


Whitehorn, , 6, 7. 


17. 


J., 31. 


Whitirel, , 284. 


Williamson, G. C., 


Jonathan, 89. 


Whitlock, William, 


293, 296. 


Wellch, Deborah,287. 


jr., 22. 


Willix, , 299. 


Wells, Benjamin, 284, 


Whitnall, Whytnall, 


Belshazzer, 305. 


292. 


John, 227. 


Willnwhv - 98ft 




Neddy, 292. 


Robert, 230. 


Wilmington, 242, 244. 


Wem, Eng., 293, 295. 


William, 234. 


Wills, Wils, Pen, 284. 


Wendell, , 168. 


Whitney, H. M., 181. 


Sarah, 284. 


Oliver, 163. 


Henry M., 184. 


Wilsnn - - 31 98fi 




Sarah, 163. 


James S., 181. 


Annie Josephine, 


Wenham, 213. 


Whittiflr 1fi7 


68. 




Wentworth, , 162. 


168. 


Grace, 286. 


Harry L., 197. 


Isaac, 222. 


Jessie (Woodrow), 


Wentworth & Brown, 


Whittle, Clara Isabel 


68. 


197. 


(Howe), 66. 


John, 180. 


Wentworth & Swett, 


Minot L., 66. 


Joseph Ruggles, 68. 


196. 


Whittredge, Whitt- 


Joseph Ruggles, jr., 


West, , 210, 212. 


tridge, Thomas, 


68. 


Capt., 209, 218. 


49, 220. 


Marion Woodrow, 


Christian, 219. 


Whitwell, , 235- 


68. 


Elizabeth, 219. 


287. 


Woodrow, 68. 


Hannah, 219. 


William, 284. 


TSTim nn 98 J. 




John, 212, 217-219. 


Wythe, George, 88. 


Wimons, James, 188. 


Mary, 219. 


Wiafr - ^1 QO 


John, 188. 




Mary (alias Martin), 


Wiborne, Wilburn, 


Winchester, Capt-, 


212, 213. 


Elizabeth,148,149. 


133, 135. 


Ruth, 219. 


James, 149. 


Winsly, Ephraim,302, 


Thomas, 211-213, 


John, 149. 


308. 


217-222, 245, 259. 


Jonathan, 149. 


Mary, 302, 308. 


Wilkes, 219. 


Mary (Felch), 149. 


Samuel, 298, 302. 


West Indies, 111. 


Nathaniel, 149. 


Winsor, Thomas, 187. 


Westervelt, Jacob A., 


Thomas, 148, 148. 


Winthrop, , 169. 


18. 


Wickery, Sarah, 284. 


Withington,Elijah,59. 


Wetherbee, Nathan- 


Wiggin, Augustus, 


Hannah, 59. 


iel, 54. 


197. 


Mary, 59. 


Submit (Howe), 54. 


Thomas, 306. 


Wodden, Wooden, 


Wheatland, , 145. 


Willard,Catherine,64. 


, 286. 


Dr., 161, 168. 


Josiah, 64, 312. 


Peter, 109. 


Henry, 169. 


Prudence (Morse), 


Woldrig, Woldreg, 


Wheden, Charles.Sll. 


64. 


Wolldrig, ,285, 


Wheeler, Wheallar, 


Williams, , 240. 


286. 


Wheler, Grace, 


Capt., 91. 


Sarah, 284. 


285. 


Anthony, 41. 


Wolfe, Peter, 39. 


J. P., 131. 


Caroline F., 46. 


Wood, Woods, , 


John, 228, 308. 


Edward, 151. 


81, 91, 93. 


Wheelwright, John, 


Enoch S., 261. 


Daniel, 297. 


298. 


Jane, 292. 


John, 261. 


Whipple, Gen., 24, 28. 


John, 36, 48, 100. 


Josias, 238. 



INDEX 



341 



Wood, Lucy, 58. 
Thomas, 312. 
William, 72, 73, 205- 

207 .' 

Woodbridg, , 290. 

Woodbury, Wood- 

bery,Woodberrie, 
Woodberry,Wood- 

bery, , 39,105. 

Capt., 45. 
Abigail, 214. 
Anna, 216. 
Benjamin, 210-213, 

216. 

David, 42. 
Deborah (Tailer), 

98. 

Elisha, 46. 
Elizabeth, 103, 104. 
Grace, 34. 
Humphrey, 39, 40, 

42. 

Isaac, 36, 40, 44,100. 
Isaac, jr., 41. 



Woodbury, Isaac, sr., 

41, 45, 108. 
Joseph, 211, 219, 

220, 222. 
Joshua, 108. 
Josiah, 42, 110. 
Mary, 41, 46, 212, 

213 
Nicholas, 36, 100, 

105, 214, 216. 
Nicholas, sr., 103. 
Richard, 42. 
Robert, 45, 107, 108, 

212. 

Sarah, 42. 
Thomas, 35, 38-41, 

43-45, 47, 98, 105, 

108. 

William, 42, 103. 
Woodman, Edward, 

sr., 807, 308. 
Joshua, 302. 
Woodrow, Jessie, 68. 



Worcester, Francis, 
223. 

Hannah, 223. 

Moses, 305, 306. 

William, 305, 306. 
Wormstead, Sarah, 

291. 

Wormstill, Capt., 284. 
Wright, , 304. 

E., jr., 131. 

Wyman, see Wiman. 

Yardley, Eng., 265, 

278. 
Young, Yonge, Ellen, 

240. 

George, 240. 
Hannah (Ashby), 

146. 

John, 240. 
Nathaniel, 240. 
Thomas, 240. 




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