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THE ROYAL CANADIAN : -TITUTE

OF THE

ESSEX INSTITUTE.

VOLUME V.

S -L. X, E IMC :

PUBLISHED FOR THE ESSEX INSTITUTE,

By Gr. M. Whipple <fc A.. A.. Smitli.

1863.

613111

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CONTENTS.

Journal of Capt. Samuel Page, in the Campaign
of 1779, with Notes, communicated by S. P.
Fowler. (Continued.)

A Copy of the First Book of Births, of the Town
of Rowley, with Notes, communicated by M.
A. Stickney. (Continued.)

A List of Deaths in Beverly, made by Col. Rob-
ert Hale,

Additional Notice of Benjamin Gerrish, and of
the Old Gerrish House, by Benjamin F. Browne,

ONE.

Notes on American Currency, No. 10, communica-
ted by M. A. Stickney, 30

Materials for a Genealogy of the Higginson Fam-
ily, compiled by Henry Wheatland, ... 33

Abstracts from Wills, Inventories, &c., on file in
the Office of the Clerk of Courts, Salem, Mass.
Copied by Ira J. Patch. (Continued.) . . 42

Boston Numismatic Society, 48

NUMBER TWO.

A Memoir of Gen. John Glover, of Marblehead, by
William P. Upham 49

Who was the First Governor of Massachusetts ? by
Joseph B. Felt. % 73

A Copy of the First Book of Births of the Town of
Rowley, with Notes, by M. A. Stickney. (Contin-
ued.) . 84

Abstracts from Wills, Inventories, &c., on file in the
Office of Clerk of Courts, Salem, Mass. Copied
by Ira J. Patch. (Continued.) . . . .91

A List of Deaths in Beverly, made by Col. Robert
Hale. (Continued.) 94

Corrections 96

NUMBER THREE.

A Memoir of Gen. John Glover, by W. P. Up-
ham. (Continued.) -97

A Copy of the First Book of Births of the Town
of Rowley, with Notes, by M. A. Stickney. (Con-
tinued.) 132

Abstracts from Wills, Inventories, &c., on file in
the Office ot Clerk of Courts, Salem, Mass. Cop-
ied by Ira J. Patch. (Continued.) . . . 140

A List of Deaths in Beverly, made by Col. Robert

Hale. (Continued.) , . 143

Errata [44

NUMBER FOUR.

Rantoul Genealogy, &c. ..... 145

A copy of the First Book of Births, of the Town of

Rowley, with notes. Communicated by M. A.

Stickney. (Continued.) 152

Wreck of the Schooner Nancy, in 1752. . . 157

Topsfield Boundary, in 1691 158

Notes on the Gray Family hi9

Momoir of Gen. John Glover .... 159
A copy of the First Book of Burialls. of the town of

Rowley, with notes. Communicated by M. A.

Stickney 161

Copy from original Book of Grants of Salem. Com-
municated by Perley Derby, with notes by B
F.Browne. (Continued.) .....

Record of Marriages, liirths and Deaths, in the
town of Lynn. Vol. 2d. Communicated by Ira
J. Patch .........

The Fort-Popham Celebration ....

Abstracts from Wills, Inventories, <fcc. Copied by
Ira J. Patch. (Continued) .....

175

193

IV.

Mr. Rantoul's youth and apprenticeship . . 193

Some notes upon Mr. Rantoul's Reminiscences,
by B. F. Browne, ,197

A copy of the First Book of Burialls and deaths
of the Town of Rowley, with notes, communi-
cated by M. A. Stickney, . ' . . . 202

Materials for a Genealogy of the Ward Family
in Salem, or Notices of the Descendants of
Miles Ward, compiled by G. R. Curwen, . 207

Copy from original Book of Grants of Salem,
communicated by Perley Derby, with notes by
B. F. Browne, 219

FIVE.

Church Records of Lynnfield copied by Ebenezer
Parsons, 228

A list of Deaths in Beverly, made by Col Robert

Hale 231

Dartmoor Prisoners, 235

Cheever Family, 236

Record ot Marriages, Births and Deaths in the

town of Lynn, vol. 2, communicated by Ira J.

Patch 237

Gleanings from the Records of the Church at

Ipswich ; Hamlet, 240

Mr. Rantoul's Establishment in Business Intemper-
ance and Pauperism, (continued,) "*. . . 241

Some notes upon Mr. Rantoul's Reminiscences, by
Benj. F. Browne, 247

Historical Sketch of the Forte on Salem Neck, by
Joseph B. Felt, -255

A copy of the First Book of Burialls and Deaths of
the town of Rowley, with notes, communicated
by M. A. Stickuey, (continued,) ... 260

Copy from Original Book of Grants of Salem, com-
municated by Perley Derby, with notes by B. F.

Browne, (continued,) 263

Gleanings Essex Co. Probate Files, ... 274
Hale Memoranda, (continued,) .... 275

Errata, 282

Index of names 283

HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS

OF THE

ESSEX INSTITUTE

Vol. V.

February, 1863.

No. 1.

JOURNAL OP CAPT. SAMUEL PAGE,
IN THE CAMPAIGN OF 1779, WITH
NOTES.

COMMUNICATED BY SAMUEL P. FOWLER.

Continued from vol. iv, page 249.

May, 1776. At 5 o'clock this afternoon,
all the men, who stand in absolute need of
shoes, will be paraded on the grand parade by
Hills to receive them, and the names of the
men will be sent, with a non-commissioned offi-
cer from each company. In the reports of
Mondays and Thursdays, the whole compa-
nies, whether present or absent, will be ac-
counted for, and if the companies are not com-
plete, there will be columns in the returns, for
those missing. The guards, in future, will
parade precisely at 7 o'clock. It is a shame
for the guards to be detained on the parade ;
the utmost precision must be observed in re-
gard to time. The hill on the right of Capt.
Alden's quarters, is appointed for the parade.
Capts. Burnham and Alden will make a re-
turn of the number of flints wanting, to fur-
nish each man with two. If any of the Cap-
tains object to the following arrangement of
the companies, they will send their objections
in writing, to the commanding officer, before

the next orderly day. The rank of the Cap-
tains was made a rule for the arrangement, as
follows : 1st Burnham, 2nd Alden, 3rd Ben-
son, 4th Page, 5th Stetson.

In future, application for the sick of each
company, will be made to Dr. Finley for ex-
amination, and if they are unfit to remain at
their respective quarters, they will be admit-
ted in the hospital, by his certificate only.

May 20, 1799. The field between Young's
and Allar'.- is appointed for the parade of the
guards precisely at 7 o, clock.

In case of an attack in the night, on any of
the pickets or companies on the right, the left
will immediately march with their packs, to the
crotch of the road, between Allar's and
Young's. In like manner if the attack is on
the left, the conpamies on the right will march
to the same place. In case of an alarm or at-
tack by day, all the companies will be parad-
ed on their own alarm posts, with their packs
slung, and wait for orders. The companies
will keep themselves in readiness to move at a
minute's warning. Returns will be made to-
morrow morning at nine o'clock, of the flints
wanting to make two good ones pr. man, and
of cartridges to complete the boxes. All bad

cartridges will be returned to the commanding
officer. The commanding officer repeats his
order, that when a flag of truce comes to eith-
er of the pickets, it Is to be stopped, and the
name, rank and papers, which the officer brings,
are to be sent to the commanding officer, and
the flag to be detained, until he sends orders
for his dismission. Care must be taken, that
the officer holds no conversation with the inhab-
itants. All deserters, with their arms, ac-
coutrements, and clothing, must be sent to the
commanding officer. All newspapers from
New York, which are collected, will also be
sent. When an officer has a warrant for a
team or horse, he will send a corporal, and
give him orders not to abuse or insult the in-
habitants. The companies will parade pre-
cisely at 2 o'clock in the morning, until fur-
ther orders, with packs done up and slung.
N. B. The officers will see that their men go
to rest by dusk.

WEST POINT, May 30, 1799.
All those regiments, who are not furnished
with bayonet belts, are to make a return, and
apply for them without delay. Those of the
Light Infantry, whose pieces are loaded, should
be drawn and cleaned, and those who cannot
draw their charges, will be fired this evening
at retreat, beating in platoons under the direc-
tion of an officer, and afterwards none are to
fire their pieces, on any pretence whatever.
Issuing companies are desired to issue one
quart of peas pr. man, pr. week, until further
orders

HKAD QUARTERS, WEST POINT, )
June 3, 1779. j

Officers of the

day, j
J ' (

Col Jackson.

Adjt. Hasty.
By every movement of the enemy, it appears
evident, that their object is the reduction of this
post, and to effect this, no art, stratagem or

force within their power, will be left unessay-
I ed. The duty therefore, of every officer, calls
j upon theiu to use every possible exertion, to
! complete the works, and place the garrison in
' the most respectable order of defence. The
strictest attention must be paid to the forma-
tion of the troops; their arms, ammunition and
accoutrements must be daily inspected, as the
security of any post, depends upon the alert-
ness of the out guards ; the commanding officer
expects their vigilance and attention will be
an effective guard against the danger of sur-
i prise. The safety of our Country, and the hon-
i or of our arms, demand of us a conduct wor-
thy of the importance of our cause. Freedom,
! life and safety are the objects of our contest,
| and let us discharge our duty like men, and
I we shall receive the gratitude and applause
which ever attend great actions. Lieut. Sto-
ry is to do the duty of Adjutant, and Ensign
Bullard Q. M. to the corps of Infantry, 'till
I further orders, and are to be obeyed as such.
The North Carolina troops, one half of them
properly officered, parade to morrow morning
for fatigue duty, and be relieved by the other
half, at one o'clock, marching at that time in-
to Fort Arnold. The Commandant is much
pleased with the laudable example, the officers
have set in their forwarding the works, by
their own industry, and hopes every one pos-
sessed of that good spirit, will continue so to
do, at least until the works upon the Hill are
completed.

Orders for the Light Infantry : The Light
Infantry, being formed in a separate corps, and
honored with the defence of the outposts, will
consider their reputation as entirely depend-
ing upon their good conduct, and that alone
will determine whether they are worthy of the
honor conferred. As they are free from all
kind of fatigue duty, they will preserve a clean-

ly and soldier like appearance, and their arms
will he always kept bright, and in the most
perfect order. Disobedience of these orders
will be severely punished, as it is a scandal
for a Light Infantry man to appear dirty, and
keep his arms in bad order. The officers and
men for duty, will be brought on the parade,
close shaved, and powdered. Srgt. Foster, of
Capt. Burnham's company, is appointed Sergt.
Major to the Light Infantry, and Sergt. Jones
Q. M. Sergt.

HEAD QUARTERS, 4th June.
Officers for tomorrow, Major Winslow, Adj-
utant Clapp. The General, finding the troops
fatigued, ordered no duty this afternoon, but
directed the men to attend to cleaning them-
selves, their arms&c., and that in future, the
fatigue come on at 6 o'clock in the morning,
and work till ten, ai.d the same numbers from
each Regiment come on at three o'clock P. M.
and work till seven, and each man to have a
gill of rum, till further orders. The Court
Martial, whereof Col. Jackson was President,
is dissolved. The same officers that go on fa-
tigue, will continue till night.

HEAD QUARTERS, 5th of June.
Officers to-morrow, Major Peters, Adjutant
Torrey. Brigade Major Banister is appoint-
ed to do the duty of Adjutant General to this
Post, and Capt. Bailey, Brigade Major to late
Laniard's Brigade, till futher orders, and to
be obeyed as such. The fatigue men, in fu-
ture, will be turned off the parade in files,
and march in that order to their work, as at
present they march in no order whatever, and
the officers will be particular on this account.
Weekly returns will be made out to day. Ma-
jor Hull's orders. A return will be made this
day, of the state of each companie's deficien-
cies of arms, bayonets, flints, amunition and

accoutrements, likewise of the number of shoes
wanted.

HEAD QUARTERS, 7th June '79.

Officers to morrow, Col. Patten, and Adju-
tant 2d. N. Carolina.

The great scarcity of forage necessitates the
General to request the gentlemen who have a
right to keep horses at public expense, to re-
move them from the Point, and none are to be
detained, excepting two for the commanding
officers of Brigades, and Major of Brigades,
two for the Engineers, one for the command-
ing officer of Light Infantry, and the public
horses necessary in the Quarter Master's de-
partment. Provision is made for keeping the
horses sent out, at Mr. Nichol's, near Murder-
er's Creek, The General desires an immedi-
ate compliance of these orders, and in the most
positive terms, eujoins the officers command-
ing at Fort Putnam, to prevent the soldiers
from making fires, or lighting candles or torch-
es in the fort, on any pretence whatever.

HEAD QUARTERS, 8th June, 1779.

Officers to-morrow, Lt. Col. Mellen, Adjt.
Engles.

HEAD QUARTERS, 9th of June, '79.

Officers to morrow, Lt. Col. Davidson, Adjt.
Taylor.

The committee of settling the rank of the
Captains of Light Infantry of Gen. Patterson's
and late Learnard's Brigade, whereof Col.
Jackson was president, report their rank as
follows, viz: 1st Burnham, 2nd Brewer, 3rd
Alden, 4th Soper, 5th Blanchard, 6th Page,
7th Stetson.

Signed. M. JACKSON, Col.

The following notice was posted in our Reg-
iment.

Lost yesterday, reconnoitering with his Ex-
cellency General Washington, a spur with

treble chains on the side, and a single one, un-
der the foot, all silver except the tongue of the
buckle, and the rowell. Whosoever shall, or
has found it and will bring it to Col. Kosaisz-
ko, or at Head Quarters, shall have ten dol-
lars reward.

The General finding the necessity of the
works requires it, therefore orders, that all the
mechanics and other workmen, that were here-
tofore annexed to Capt. C lough, should im-
mediately join him again, till further orders,
also if there are any more masons, they are or-
dered to be attached to that company, for the
present, as the works greatly require it.

BLOCK HOUSK HILL, June 9, 1779,
Major Hull's orders. The Major having
been pleased to appoint Isaac Robertson o
Capt. Alden's company, Drum Major, anr
Lemuel French of Captain Child's company
Fife Major to the Corps of Light Infantry
until further orders, they are to be considered
and obeyed accordingly.

HEAD QUARTERS, June 10, '79.
Officers for to-morrow, Lieut. Col Bassott
and Adjt. Haskell. At a Brigade Court Mar-
tial, whereof Col. Patten was President, was
tried Lieut. Wright of 1st North Carolina
Regiment, accused of drunkeness and disobe-
dience of orders. He was acquitted by the
Court of both charges, and was released from
the arrest. The General can not however o-
mit to express his concern, that an officer, who
regards the welfare of his Country, or his char-
acter, should at any time, especially when a
near approach of the enemy calls for the ut-
most vigilance and attention, so far descend
from the honorable line of conduct, which
ought ever to mark the character of an officer,
as to draw himself into suspicion of the com-
mission of crimes, debasing to human nature,
and which render him unfit to discharge those

duties, on which his own reputation, and the
welfare of our Countrymen are so much con-
cerned. At this time, it becomes highly im-
portant to the safety of this Post, that all per-
sons be prevented from coining or going from
this Garrison, except those, who are known to
be friends to the liberties of this Country, and
have proper permission. All officers are there-
fore called upon to examine every person, found
in, or near this Fort, and confine such as are
found without passes, from the executive au-
thority of this State, or some general officer.
The guards at the Avenues, leading to this
Post, are particularly to observe and regard
these orders.

HEAD QUARTERS, June 11, '79.
Officers to-morrow. Major Winslow, Adjt.
Hastey.

Returns are to be made of the mechanics in
the Light Infantry, that are wanted in the
works, as they must be relieved from their re-
spective Regiments, before they go to work.
Brigadier General Patterson's Brigade will
muster to-morrow morning at 9 o'clock, and
late Larnard's, at 3 o'clock P. M. and parade
accordingly. Gen. Patterson's Brigade will
be exempted from duty in the forenoon, and
the late Larnard's in the afternoon.

June 11. Orders for the Light Infantry.
Officer of the day, to-morrow, Capt. Childs.
Officer of Police, Lieut. Muzzey. Officer for
Guard, Lieut. Buxton.

The business of the officer of the day, will
t>e to see the guard marched from the parade
in good order, and will visit them by day and
night, and give them the necessary instructions
for their duty, and make reports of them to
the commanding officer. The officer of Po-
ice will attend to the internal regulations of
he corps, and will visit all the tents, and see
hat they are kept neat ; likewise that the pa-

rade and encampment are kept clean, and
swept, and that the men cook their provisions
properly. No officer will leave the encamp-
ment without permission from the commanding
officer, and no non-commisioned officer, or sol-
dier will leave the encampment, without a writ-
ten pass of the commanding officer of the com-
pany, to which he belongs, and not more than
three persons, will have passes at the same
time. The Light Infantry will he mustered
to-morrow morning at 9 o'clock, and will not
go on fatigue, either this afternoon or to-mor-
row morning. Those of them, that have not
a clean shirt and stockings, will wash them
this afternoon, and all the companies will ap-
pear on the parade clean dressed, shaved and
powdered. The men must all appear with
their uniforms, and arms cleaned in the best
manner.

Detailed for guard, four Sergeants, four
Corporals, and fifty two Privates.

June 12, 1779. The commanding officer,
with concern has beheld the inattention of the
non-commissioned officers, to the conduct of
the men on the parade, and they may depend
upon it, their conduct will be most closely ex-
amined, and if they have not resolution to do
their duty, they will be reduced to the ranks,
and others appointed in their places; at the
same time, the utmost support and encourage-
ment will be given to those, who do their du-
ty. No non-commisioned officer, or soldier
should ever appear on parade, without some
garment with sleeves, and those having uni-
forms, will wear them on such occasions.

HEAD QUARTERS, June 12, '79.

Officers to-morrow, Col. Jackson, Adjt.
Clapp. A picket will be furnished from the
North Carolina Brigade, to parade at retreat
beating, consisting of four Sergeants, three
Corporals, and forty Privates. No fatigue
to-morrow, and the troops will clean and rest

themselves, until 4 o'clock in the afternoon,
when the whole, not on duty, will attend Di-
vine Service, in the front of Fort Arnold.
One Subaltern, and twenty men, furnished
with three days provisions, will parade on the
Grand Parade to-morrow, at guard mounting.
HEAD QUARTERS, June 13, '79.

Officers to-morrow, Major Peters and Adj't
Torrey.

The Field Officer, Brigade Major, and
Adjutant of the day, are desired to dine at
Head Quarters when they are on duty, with-
out further instructions, instead of the day
they come off duty. Late Larnard'a Brigade
will furnish the picket to-night.

HEAD QUARTERS, June 14, '79.
Officers to-morrow, Major Farnold, Briga-
dier Major Bailey, Adjt. Armstrong. Pick-
et to-night from General Patterson's Brigade.
As there is at present a scarcity of rum, at
this Post, by reason of its not being forward-
ed as is daily expected, the General is under
the disagreeable necessity of ordering, that the
commissary issue but half a gill daily, pr. man
to the troops off duty, and half a gill extra,
to those on fatigue till further orders.

HEAD QUARTERS, June 15, 1799.

Officers to-morrow, Lt. Col. Littlefield,
Brig. Major Francis, Adjt. Evens. The Adj.
utants will bring on to the parade with their
men, details of their respective Regiments,
and deliver them to the Brigade Major of the
day, who will attend the parade, and examine
the guards, and know if they are complete and
equipped, according to former orders.

Infantry orders, June 16 Returns will
be made to-morrow at 9 o'clock, to the Adj-
utant, of the condition of each company, ac-
counting for all absentees ; at the same time re-
turns will be made to the Quarter Master, of
the deficiencies of arms, bayonets, accoutre-

cartridges and flints, likewise of the
number of tents, camp kettles, pails, and ax-
es in each company. One Sergeant, one Cor
poal, and a drum will be ordered continually
to attend the officer of Police.

The officer of Police, when the weather is
fair, will order all the tents struck about noon,
and they will remain struck two hours. The
men will never eat in their tents in fair weath-
er, and when they want water, they will apply
to the officer of Police, and he will order the
drummer of Police, to beat four flams on his
drum, on which signal, all the men who want
water will assemble in the center of the pa-
rade with their pails, and they will be put un-
der the direction of a non-commissioned officer
of Police, who will march thence to the water,
and see that they get that, which is clean and
pure. As wood is very handy to camp, it
may be taken at present without orders. The
Quarter Master will call upon the Adjutant,
for as many men as are necessary to keep the
encampments clean, and the sinks must be cov-
ered every day, and new ones dug once in
four days. The men will do all their cooking
at a place, assigned them by the Quarter Mas-
ter, and the officer of Police will see, that
fires are made no where else. At gun firing in
the morning, all the Troops will turn out, and
remain on the parade until it is light enough
to call the rolls. Immediately after the rolls
are called, each company will be marched un-
der the direction of a commissioned officer, to
the nearest washing place, where all the men
will wash their hands and faces clean. At
troop beating, all the companies will parade,
neatly dressed in their uniforms, with their
arms clean for roll call, after which the guards
will be called out. At retreat beating, the
rolls will be called in the same manner. No
non-commissioned officer or soldier will be ab-

sent from roll call without permission from
the commanding officer of his company. No
officer will be absent, without permission from
the commanding officer of the Corps. Every
day the commanding officer of each company
must examine the men's arms and ammunition
and see that they are clean, and in good order
Every Company must be divided into four
squads, and each part under the direction of
a non-commissioned officer, who is to consider
himself answerable for the dress, appearance
and behavior of the men of his squad. The
Officers will pay the strictest attention to these
orders, and see that they are executed with
the greatest exactness.

HEAD QUARTERS, June 16, 1779.
Officers for to-morrow, Col. Marshfield,
Brigade Major Stade, and Adjutant English.
Pickets from late Larnard's Brigade. The
Pay Master will make up their Abstracts un-
til the 1st of May. The Commanding Offi-
cers of Corps, who want money for recruiting,
will be supplied by applying at Head Quarters.

HEAD QUARTERS, June 17, 1779.
Officers of the day for to-morrow, Col. Pat-
ten, Brigade Major Bailey, Adjutant Taylor.

HEAD QUARTERS, June 18, '79.
Officers to-morrow, Lt. Col. Miller, B. M.
Haskell, Adjt, Haskell. Picket to night,
from the North Carolina Brigade. There
will be two fatigue parties ; each party will
work six hours, three hours in the forenoon,
and three hours in the afternoon The first
party will parade at gun firing, the second at
nine o'clock ; the first party will again parade
at nine o'clock, and the second at five o'clock.
The same officer will attend the parade, and
see that the men are in season, and properly
distributed. All the mechanics will attend
the above working hours. No non-commis-

sioned officer or soldier, will be permitted to
bathe himself in the water, between the hours
of six in the morning, and six in the evening.
All officers will endeavor to prevent a breach
of this order.

Infantry Orders, 18th of June, 1779.

The police of the camp, is not only an order
of his Excellency, Gen. Washington, but of
Congress. And the commanding officer of
this corps, is determined to see it put in exe-
cution at all events, and calls upon the officers
to use their exertions, in causing all orders to
be punctually obeyed, and that they pay the
closest attention to the government of their
companies, as their reputation will stand or fall
in proportion as they perform or neglect their
duty. The Captains are answerable for the
companies, and the commanding officer has no
one to look to but them ; if their subordinate
officers do not perform their duty, the Cap-
tains are clothed with sufficient authority to
call them to an account, and whatever orders
are given, they must be answerable for their
execution, as far as related to their companies.
The tents will immediately be marked with the
Captain's name and numbered.

The squads will be made out, agreeable to
former orders, and the men's names in each
squad, together with the names of the non-
commissioned officers, who have the care of
each squad, will be made out and given to
the Adjutant.

Two Captains, four Subalterns, four Ser-
geants, four Corporals, and one hundred and
ten men, well shod, with bayonets and three
days provisions, will parade to-morrow morn-
ing at 9 o'clock, for three days command.

Orders for the Light Infantry, )
20th June, 1779. j
At a court martial, of which Capt. Alden
was President, Samuel Taylor, a soldier in

Captain Burnham's company, was tried for
sleeping on his post, found guilty, and on ac-
count of his youth, sentenced to receive only
thirty nine lashes. The commanding officer
approved the above sentence, and ordered it
to take place this evening at roll call. At the
same court was tried Aaron Roff of Captain
Page's company, for unsoldierlike behavior in
making a disturbance in said company, and
was found guilty, and sentenced to receive fif-
ty lashes. The commanding officer from a
consideration of the court's recomendation in
his favor, was induced to pardon him, but at
the same time he warns the prisoner, and oth-
ers against such conduct in future, as they
may depend upon it, crimes of this nature will
not in future be pardoned.*

Gen. Wayne's orders for the 1
Light Infantry. j

The troops will march at eleven o'clock,
by the right, making a short halt at the creek
or run, next on this side of Clements. Eve-
ry officer and non-commissioned officer, will
remain with, and be answerable for every
man in their plattoons, and no soldier will be
permitted to quit his ranks on any pretense
whatever, until a general halt is made, and
then to be attended by one of the officers of
the plattoon. When the van of the troops
arrive in the rear of the Hill, Col Febegre
will form his Regiment into a solid column
of half a plattoon in front, as fast as they
come up, Col. Meiggs will form in the rear
of Febeger, and Major Hull in the rear of
Meiggs, which will form the right column,
Col. Butler will form on the left of Febeger,

The remainder of this journal is miss-
ing, but there was found appended to it, in
Capt Page's hand writing, the following or-
der of Gen. Wayne, to be observed upon the
attack of Stony Point.

and Major Murphey in his rear. Every offi-
cer and soldier is then to fix a piece of white
paper, on the most conspicuous part of his
hat, or cap, to distinguish them from the
enemy. At the word march, Col. Febeger
will take command ot one hundred and fifty
determined and picked men, properly officer-
ed with their muskets unloaded, placing
their whole dependence upon their bay-
onets, and will move about twenty paces
in front of the right column by the route No.
1, and enter the sally port 6 and detach an
officer and twenty men, whose business it
will be to secure the sentries, remove the ab-
batis, and other obstructions for the column
to pass through. The column wi.l then fol-
low close in the rear, with shouldered mus-
kets, under Col. Febeger, with Gen Wayne
in person. When the works are forced and
not before, the victorious troops will enter
and give the wateh word ; ' The Forts our
own, " with repeated and loud voices, and
drive the enemy from their works and guns,
which will favour the passage of the whole.
Should the enemy refuse to surrender, or at-
tempt to make their escape by water or oth-
er way, vigorous means must be used to force
them to the former, and prevent their accom-
plishing the latter. Col. butler will move
by the route No. 2, preceded by one hundred
men with unloaded arms, and fixed bayonets
under the command of Major Stewart, who
will observe the distance of twenty yards in
front of [word wanting] which will immedi-
ately follow under the command of Col. But-
ler, with shouldered muskets, and enter the
sally ports C. or D ; the officer commanding
the aforenamed hundred men, will also de-
tach a proper officer and twenty men, a little
in front to remove the obstructions. As soon
as they gain the works, ^ey are also to give

and continue the watch word, which will pre-
vent confusion and mistakes, Major Mur-
phey will follow Col. Butler to the figure 3,
when he will divide a little to the right,
which will be his signal to begin, and to keep
up a perpetual and galling fire and endeavor
to enter l.etween and possess the works A. A.
If any soldier presumes to take his musket
from his shoulder, or al tempts to fire or be-
gin the battle, until commanded by his pro-
per off cer, he will be immediately put t' death
by the officer ueirest to him, for the coward-
ice or mistake of one man, is not to put the
whole into danger or disorder with impuni-
ty. After the troops [several words miss-
ing] advance to the works, the strictest si-
lence must be observed, and the greatest at-
tention be paid to the commands of the officers.
As soon as the lines are carried, the officers
of Artillery, and men under their command,
will take possession of the cannon to the end
that the shipping may be secured, and the
Post or Verplanks Point annoyed as much as
possible, to facilitate the attack on that quar-
ter. The General has the fullest confidence
in the bravery and fortitude of the corps, he
has the happiness to command ; the distin-
guished honors conferred on every officer and
soldier, who has been drafted by his Excel-
lency, Gen. Washington, the credit of , the
States they respectively belong to, and their
own reputation will be such powerful induce-
ments for each man to distinguish himself,
that the General can not have the least doubt
oFa glorious victory.

Dr. Thatcher in his Millitary journal
informs us, that the fortress at Stony Point
was a strongly fortified post, o.i the west
bank of the Hudson, near King's ferry. That
the possession of this post was of vast im-
portance to either army, as it afforded com-
munication between the middle and eastern

states. That the fortress was visited by
Sir Henry Clinton in person, and by his or-
ders strengthened and rendered, as supposed,
entirely defensible. Gen. Washington was
extremely desirous to dislodge the enemy
from this position, and to Gen. Wayne, he
entrusted the hazardous enterprise. At the
head of one thousand two hundred men, he
made the attack OB the evening of July 16th,
about eleven o'clock, having ordered that ev-
ery man should advance with unloaded mus
kets and fixed bayonets. A soldier disobey-
ed this order, and began to load his piece ;
the order was repeated, and he persisted in
his resolution to load, on which an officer in-
stantly run him through his body, with his
sword. The Continentals marched to the as-
salut, in the face of a most tremendous fire
of musketry and grape shot, and succeeded
in gaining the inside of the Fort, when the
watchword was first given. "Th fort is
our own," by Major Posey The British lost
one hundred killed and wounded ; the Conti-
nentals had fifteen killed and eighty throe
wounded. The number of prisioners taken
was five hundred and forty three. Of the
forlorn hope of i wenty men under Lieut.
Gibbon, sent to remove the abbatis, seventeen
were killed or wounded.

A COPY OF THE FIRST BOOK OF
BIRTHS, OF THE TOWN OF ROW-
LEY, WITH NOTES.

COMMUNICATED BY M. A. STICKNEV.

Continued from vol. IV, page 255.

171011.

David Spoford the son of Jonathan Spof-
ord and Jemima borne December the 4 day
1710.

VOL V.

(2)

Elizabeth Northend the daughter of Eze-
kiel and Dorothy borne December the 15
1710.

Sarah Jewet daughter of Nathaniel Jewet
and Mary borne August 17 1710.

Jonathan Johnson the son of Samuel and
Francis Johnson borne March 28 1710.

James Hibberct the son of George and
Sarah borne December 31 1710.

Samuel Dresser son of Samuel Dresser &
Mary born May the 23 1707-

David Dresser the son of Samuel Dresser
& Mary bora February the 12 1709-10.

Stephen Hidden the son of Samuel & Ma-
ry Hidden borne January the 6 day 1710-11.

Mehitabell the daughter of Ephraim Nel-
son and Sarah borne January 13 1710-11.

John Plumer the son of Benjamin & Jane
borne October the 5 1 708.

Jane Plumer the daughter of Benjamin
and Jane borne May the 29 1710.

Joseph Nelson son of Joseph & Hannah
borne March the Lo 1709-10.

Moses Nelson the son of Joseph and Han-
nah borne March the 15 1710-11.

Mary Nelson the daughter of Gershom &
Abygall Nelson born Aprill 6 1711.

Rebeckah Dickinson daughter of George
and Martha his wife borne November the 5
day 1710.

Hannah Lancaster daughter of Samuel and
Hannah borne December 22 1710.

Elizabeth Nelson the daughter of Francis
Nelson and Mercy borne November the firs
day 1710.

Jane Bridges the daughter of John & Hul-
da Bridges borne March the 9 day 1711.

Samuel Adams the son of Isaac Adams and
Hannah borne February the 9 1711.

Jane Prime the daughter of Marle & Jane
borne September the 8 1707.

Thomas Prime the son of Marke & Jane
borne May 16 1710.

Marke Prime the son of Samuel Prime and
Sarah borne July the 30 1710.

Martha Boynton the daughter of Richard
and Sarah borne Aprill the 2 1710.

Sarah Brockelbanke the daughter of Sam-
uel and Sarah borne June 15 1706.

Mary Brockelbauke the daughter of Sam-
uel and Sarah borne April 13 1707.

Martha Brockelbanke the daughter of Sam-
uel and Sarah borne August 5 1708.

Mary Scott the daughter of Joseph & Ma-
ry borne January the 26 1710-11.

Thomas Dresser the son of John & Marger-
it Dresser borne May the 3 1711.

Thomas Lambert the son of Thomas &
Sarah Lambert borne August the 14 1711.

Thomas Gage the son of William Gage &
Mercy borne the 1 1711.

Sarah Dresser the daughter of Jonathan
Dresser and Sarah borne December 2 1700.

Richard Dresser the son of Jonathan &
Sarah Dresser borne December 17 1708.

, Hannah Dresser the daughter of Jonathan
& Sarah borne August 19 1711.

Mary Gage the daughter of Thomas & Ma-
ry borne August the 1, 1711.

Hannah Dresser the daughter of Joseph
& Elizabeth borne September 2 day 1711.

Sarah Pickard the daughter of Jonathan
and Johanna born February 6 day 1710-11.

Mehitabel Tod the daughter of James Tod
& Mary borne August the 3 day 1711.

Sarah Hopkinson the daughter of Micael
& and Sarah borne June the 7 1707.

Moses Smith the son of Benjamin Smith
and Martha borne June 6 day 1711.

Hannah Clarke the daughter of Judah and
Hannah borne September the 9 1708.

Mercy Clarke the daughter of Judah and
Hannah borne November 5 1709.

Judah Clarke the son of Judah & Hannah
borne October n 1711.

Stephen Pe2gre the son of Aron and Eliza-
beth borne January 11 1711-12.

Elizabeth the daughter of Thomas Tenny
and Sarah born Aprill 6 1712.

Moses Wood the son of Ebenezer Wood
and Rachell borne Aprill 3 1712.

Mary Pilsbury the daughter of Amos Pils-
bury and Elizabeth borne 29 day February
1711-12.

Ann Stewart the daughter of Ebenezer
Stewartt and Elizabeth borne March 27 1712.

Bethiah Boynton the daughter of John and
Bethiah borne February 5 1711-12.

Elizabeth Searles the daughter of John &
Elizabeth Searles borne January 23 1711-12.

Josiah Jewet the son of Joseph Jewet and
Mary borne March 22 1712.

Sarah Stewart the daughter of John and
Elizabeth Stewart borne Aprill 25 1712.

Benjamin Wheeler the son of Jonathan
Wheeler and Ann borne 25 of September
1711.

Mary Stickne the daughter of Benjamin &
Mary Stickne borne September 2 1711.

Mehitabel Dresser the daughter of Samuell
Dresser and Mary borne May 14 1712.

John Greenough the son of Robert Green-
ough senior & Mary borne Juue the 16 1712.

Samuel Bradstreett the son of Jornathan &
Sarah borne August the 9 1711.

Nathaniell Boynton the son of Richard
Boynton and Sarah borne August the 18
1712.

Daniel Palmer son of John and Mary Pal-
mer borne July the 31 1712.

Mercy Baley the daughter of Nathaniel Ba-
ley and Sarah borne March 21 1712.

James Barker the son of James and Sarah
borne April 21 1712.

Amos Jewet the son of Daniel Jewett and
Elizabeth borne May the 1 day 1712.

Faith Platts the daughter of Isaac Platts
and Elizabeth borne June 8 1710.

Liphelit Jewett son of Stephen Jewett and
Priscilla borne January 22 1711.

Sarah Platts the daughter of James Plats
and Lidia borne June the 22 1710.

Jane Sawyer the daughter of Ezekiel and
Hannah borne October 16 1712.

Sarah Migbill the daughter of Stephen (and
Nathaniel) Priscilla borne November 16 1712

Susanna the daughter of Mr. Edward Pai-
son and Elizabeth borne November the 17
1712.

Sarah Archer the daughter of Benjamin
and Ann borne December the 3 day 1712.

Nathaniel Spoford the son of Jonathan and
Jemima borne November the 12 1712.

Thomas Wood the son of Thomas Wood
and Sarah borne January the 11 day 1712-13.

Joshua Prime son of Samuel and Sarah
borne September 28 1712.

Samuel Palmer the son of Thomas Palmer
and Sarah borne November the 20 day 1712

Mary Wood the daughter of Thomas Wood
and Abigail borne November 3 day 1712.

Hannah Baley the daughter of Jonathan
Baley & Sarah borne the 30 day of June
1709.

Sarah Baley the daughter of Jonathan Ba-
ley and Sarah borne January the 14 1710-11.

Moses Baley the son of Jonathan Baley &
Sarah borne February the 4 day 1712-13.

Hannah Peirson the daughter of Stephen
and Hannah Pierson borne May 6 day 1712.

Margeritt Boynton the daughter of Jona-
than Boynton &Margeritt borne Aprill 5 1712.

Mehitabel Kilburn the daughter of George

Kilburn and Phebee borne February 6 1712-

13.

Jonathan Nelson the son of Francis Nelson
and Mercy Nelson borne Aprill the 16 1713.

Amos Dresser the son of Joseph Dresser
and Johanah borne May the 9 1713.

Mehitabel Platts the daughter of Moses
Platts and Hannah born November the 11
1712.

Daniel Wycom the son of Daniel and Jane
borne Aprill the 22 day 1712.

Isaac Adams the son of Isaac Adams and
Hannah borne May 25 1713.

Mary Hopkinson the daughter of Jeremiah
& Elizabeth Hopkinson born March 27 1711.

Moses Sawer the son of John Sawer and
Mary born July the 23 1712.

Elizabeth Hobson the daughter of Hum-
phrey & Mehitabel borne March 26 1713.

Ann Jewet the daughter of Abraham Jew-
it and Sarah borne 23 of December 1705.

Marke Prime the son of Marke and Jane
Prime born February 26 1713.

Abraham Jewet the son of Abraham Jewit
& Sarah borne 25 of July 1713.

Jeremiah Hibbert the son of George & Sar-
ah borne Agust the 11 day 1713.

Abygaill Bridges the daughter of John &
Hulda borne Agust the 18 1713.

Rebecca Sawer the daughter of John Saw-
er and Mary borne October the 10 day 1713.

Hannah Nelson the daughter of Gershom
Nelson & Abigail borne October 14 1713.

Eben Hiden the son of Ebenezer & Eliza-
beth born December 16 1710.

Jonathan Hiden son of Ebenezer & Eliza-
beth borne January 19 1712.

Ruth Pickard the daughter of Jonathan
Pickard and Johannah borne November 13
1713.

Jane Lambert the daughter of Thomas &
Sarah borne November the 1 1713.

Moses Foster the son of Ebeuezer Foster
and Mary borne October 5 1713.

Elizabeth Nelson the daughter of Ephraim
Nelson and Sarah borne January 27 1713-14.

Hannah Barker the daughter of Jacob &
Margeritt borne March 28 1710-11.

Jacob Barker the son of Jacob & Margeritt
borne the 1 1712-13. '

Jonathan Peirson the son of Stephen Pier-
son and Hannah borne February 26 1713-14.

Ann Boynton the daughter of Benony
Boynton & Ann borne 21 day of November.

Jeremiah Boynton the son of Ebenezer and
Sarah borne 27 day of December 1711.

Hannah Boynton the daughter of Eben-
ezer Boynton & Sarah borne August 4 day
1713.

Sarah Boynton the daughter of Jonatnan
& Margarett borne Dec. 10 1713.

Jane Scott the daughter of Joseph Scott
& Mary borne September the 4 1712.

Elizabeth Smith the daughter of Benjamin
Smith and Martha borne July 25 1713

Joseph Wood the son of Benjamin & Ele-
nor borne Aprill the 12 1714.

John Pillsbery the son of Arnos Pilsbery
and Elizabeth borne Aprill 13 1714.

Rebecca Pengre the daughter of Aron &
Elizabeth borne Aprill the 22 1714.

Jonathan Brown the son of Ephraim Brown
and Sarah borne Aprill the 28 1713.

John Boynton the son of John Boynton &
Bethiah borne May 26 1714.

David Jewett the son of Stephen Jewett
and Priscilla borne June the 10 1714.

Abigaill Jewett the daughter of Daniell
Jewett and Elizabeth borne May 18 1714.

Sarah Elsworth the daughter of Jeremiah
& Hannah Elsworth borne Aprill 17 1714.

Rebecca Bennett the daughter of William
Bennett & Jemima Borne December 7 1708.

Mary Bennett the daughter of William and
Jemima Bennett borne July 31 1710.

David Bennett the son of William Sennit
& Jemima born March 23 1712.

William Bennet the son of William Ben-
net and Jemima borne February 15 1713-14.

Daniel Heseltine son of John & Abigaill
borne August the 5 1708.

Mehitabel Haseltine daughter of John &
Abigaill borne February 14 1710-11.

Martha Lighten daughter of Richard & Ab-
igaill borna Aprill 4 1714.

Marcy Sawyer the daughter of Ezekiel and
Hannah borne June 7 1714.

Sarah Barker the daughter of James &
Sarah borne September 11 1713.

Jemima Jewitt daughter of Nemiah & Pris-
cilla borne November the 13 1714.

Benjamin Dunell the son of Nathaniel and
Elizabeth borne May 11 1714.

Hannah Tod the daughter of James and
Mary Tod borne May 23 1714.

Benjamin Archer son of Benjamin & Ann
borne January 11 1714 15.

Jane Palmer daughter of John Palmer &
Mary borne December 24 1714.

Sarah Adams daughter of John Adams &
Sarah borne October 11 1714.

David Jewett son of Joseph Jewett & Ma-
ry borne August 11 1714.

Mary Broodstreet daughter of Jonathan
and Sarah borne the 5 day of May 1714.

Joseph Scott the son of Joaeph Scott &
Mary borne the 3 day of June 1714.

Mehitable Plumer the daughter of To-
mas Plumer and Ruth borne January the
11 day 1714-15.

Epsiba Plumer the daughter of Benja-
min Plumer & Jane borne March 6 day
1715.

Thomas Barker the son of Jacob & Mar-
garett borne May 15 1715.

Elizabeth Tenny daughter of Samuel &
Ann borne January 15 1713.

Moses Prime the son of Marke & Jane
Prime borne August 21 1715.

Thomas Johnson the son of Samuel &
Francis his wife borne July eighth day 1713.

Nathaniel Mighill the son of Nathaniel &
Priscilla Mighill his wife borne June 2 1715.

John Bridges the son of John & Hulda
borne June the tenth 1715.

Jerusha Boynton the daughter of Ebenexer
Boynton & Sarah borne July 6 1715.

Mary Sawer daughter of John and Mary
borne July the 9 1715.

Nathan Platts the son of Moses and Han-
uah Platts borne July 23 1715.

Rebecca Hibert the daughter of George and
Sarah borne August the 30 day 1715.

Rachell Witten borne the 18 day of June
1715 daughter of Elias Witting and Rachell
his wife.

Jonathan Witten the son of Elias Witten
and Rachell borne 25 day of January 1713
1714.

Mercy Smith the daughter of Benjamin
Smith and Martha borne February the 7 day
1715-16.

Priscilla Tenny the daughter of Daniel and
Priscilla borne Agust the 1 1714.

Richard Tenny son of Daniel & Priscilla
borne Aprill 24 1716.

Thomas Ellsworth the son of Jeremiah and
Hannah borne March 26 1715-16.

Hannah Scott the daughter of Joseph &
Mary Scott borne 19 of Lebruary 1716.

Nathan Lambert the son of Thomas Lam-
bert and Sarah borne February the 11 1715
1716.

Mary Woodbery the daughter of Samuel
and Hannah borne January the 30 day 1715
1716.

Hannah Boynton the daughter of John and
Bethiah borne February 29 1716 16.

Nathan Dresser the son of Jonathan and
Sarah borne Feb the 23 1715 16.

Joseph Jewett the son of Jonathan Jewett
and Mary borne December 1 1700.

Benjamin Jewitt son of Jonathan Jewett
and Mary borne Aprill the 1 1703.

Jedediah Jewett the son of Jonathan Jew-
ett and Mary borne.

Jacob Jewett the son of Jonathan Jewett
and Mary borne January 28 1708-9.

Mehitable Jewett the daughter of Jonathan
and Mary Jewett borne July the 19 1710.

Marke Jewett the son of Jonathan & Ma-
ry Jewett borne January 15 1712-13.

Moses Jewett son of Jonathan Jewett and
Mary borne November 5 day 1715.

Jonathan Harriman son of Lenard and Mar-
thy his wife borne April 2 day 1715.

Elizabeth Barker the daughter of James &
Sarah borne February the 5 1715 -16.

Affiah Nelson the daughter of Epraim and
Deborah borne Aprill the 13 1716.

Israel Adams the son of Isaac & Hannah
Adams borne April the 25 1716.

Abigail Scott the daughter of Benjamin &
Sarah borue March the 31 1716.

Edward Hiden the son of Ebenezer & Eliz-
abeth borne Aprill 22 1716.

Ruth Jewett the daughter of Joshua Jew-
ett and Mary borne February the 1 1715-16.

Elizabeth Boynton the daughter of Jona-
than and Margritt borne May 21 1715.

Sarah Prime the daughter of Samuel Prime
and Sarah borne February 1715.

Jonathan Lighten son of Richard and Abi-

gal his wife borne October ye ninth day 1715-
16.

Samuel Stickne the son of Samuell Stick-
ne & Susanna borne July 25 1716.

Hannah Kilburn the daughter of George
& Phebe Kilburn borne August the 23 day
1715.

Sarah Gage the daughter of William Gage
and Mercy borne September 9 1713.

William Gage the son of William Gage and
Mercy borne August the 7 1715.

Nehemiah Nelson the son of Gershom and
Abgaill borne October 4 day 1716.

John Bennitt the son of John and Mary
borne September the nine 1716.

Mary Chute the daughter of James Chute
& Mary borne the 8 day of November 1716.

Thomas Thirstan the son of Daniel Thirs-
ten and Lidia borne November the 25 1716.

Sarah Dole the daughter of Richard Dole
& Elizabeth borne September the 29 day
1716.

Jonathan Pickard the son of Jonathan
Pickard and Johanna borne December the 6
1716.

John Sadeler the son of John Sadeler and
Sarah borne August 24 1716.

John Hopkinson the son of John & Mary
borne the 25 of March 1714.

Jonathan Hopkinson the son of John and
Mary borne the 10 day of February 1716-17.

Benjamin Brown the son of John & Aby-
gaill borne September 24 1708.

John Brown the son of Samuel & Elizabeth
borne Aprill the 5 1717.

Stephen Plummer the son of Thomas Plum-
mer and Ruth borne February 20 1716-17.

Nathaniel Spofford the son of Jonathan
Spofford & Jemima borne November 10 1712.

John Spoford the son of Jonathan Spoford
and Jemima borne December 12 1714.

Hannae Spoford the daughter of Jonathan
Spoford & Jemima borne December 22 1716.

Elizabeth Adams the daughter of John Ad-
ams & Sarah borne June the 18 1717.

John Tod the son of John Tod and Ruth
borne February 27 1716-17.

Samuel Bridges the son of John Bridges
and Hulda Bridges borne June 22 1717.

Mary Palmer the daughter of John Palmer
and Mary borne June the 1 1717.

Sarah Pallmer the daughter of Thomas
Pallmer and Sarah borne November 10 1714.

David Palmer the son of Thomas Palmer
and Sarah Palmer borne July 19 1717.

Edward Sanders the son of Edward San-
ders and Flizabeth borne March 13 day 1717.

Mary Pengre the daughter of Aaron Pen-
gre and Elizabeth borne March 19 1717.

John Brocklebanke the son of John & Ruth
borne July the 4 day 1717.

Priscilla Mighill the daughter of Nathanael
and Priscilla borne September 23 day 1717.

Abigail Nelson the daughter of Tnomas
Nelson and Tabitha borne October 24 1717.

Johannah Boynton the daughter of Hillkiah
Boynton and Priscilla borne Agust the 17
1712.

Priscilla Boynton the daughter of Hillkiah
Boynton and Priscilla borne Aprill the 11
1714.

Joseph Boynton the son of Hillkiah Boyn-
ton and Priscilla borne December the 4 1717.

Jonathan Boynton the son of Jonathan &
Margeritt borne March the 16 day 1716-17.

Jeudith Pillsbery daughter of Amos and
Elizabeth borne November the 20 day 1717.

Simon Clarke the son of Richard and Abi-
gail borne November 4 day 1717.

Ebenezer Clarke the son of Richard and
Abigail borne October the 19 day 1717.

Hannah Elsworth the daughter of Jerimiah

1.5

Elsworth and Hannah borne January the 14
day 1717-18.

Sarah Wood the daughter of Thomas Wood
and Sarah borne Agust 22 1717.

Abigal Lighten daughter of Richard and
Abigal his wife borne October the ninth day
1718.

Benjamin Smith the son of Benjamin and
Martha Smith borne March 5 day 1718.

Rachell Jewett the daughter of Aquilla and
Ann Jewett borne the 30 of January 1709-10.

Esera Jewett borne the son of Aquilla and
Ann borne the 14 day of October 1710.

Elizabeth Jewett the daughter of Aquilh
and Ann borne September 10 1712.

Rethiah Jewett the daughter of Aquilla
and Ann July the 11 1715.

Abell Jewett the son of Aquilla and Ann
borne Aprill the 10 1717.

Amos Peirson the son of Stephen Peirson
and Hannah borne March 22 1718.

Thomas Sanders the son of Edward San-
ders and Elizabeth borne March 18 1718.

Mary Witten the daughter of Elias Witten
& Rachel borne 17 day 1717-18.

Ann Palmer the daughter of Francis Pal-
mer & Sarah borne May 28 1718.

Mehitabell and Jane Sawer the daughters
of Ezekiell Sawer and Hannah borne March
the 9 1718.

Jonathan Lambert the son of Thomas Lam-
bert and Sarah borne July 13 1718.

Elizabeth Scott the daughter of Samuel
and Elizabeth borne Aprill the 11 day 1718.

Mary Hiberd the daughter of George Hi-
berd and Sarah borne January the 2 day
1717-18.

Priscilla Jewett the daughter of Nehemiah
Jewett and Priscilla Jewett borne May the
14 1718.

Joseph Sadeler borne August 23 1718 the
son of John Sadeler and Sarah.

James Stickne the son of Andrew Stickne
& Elizabeth borne October the 3 1715.

James Hiden the son of Ebenezer Hiden
and Elizabeth borne June 2 day 1718.

Mary Lull the daughter of Thomas Lull
& Hannah borne September the 11 day 1717-
1718.

John Bennitt the son of John Bennitt and
Mary born September the 14 day 1716.

Humpry Hobson the son of Humphrey and
Mehitabel borne June the 4 1718.

Mary Clarke the daughter of Jonathan
Clarke snd Jane borne November 26 1718.

Jonathan Smith the son of John Smith
and Ann borne October 22 day 1712.

John Smith the son of John Smith & Ann
borne September 12 1711.

NOTE. Samuel and Jonathan Platts, who
might have been brothers, were early settlers
of Rowley. Samuel probably came to Row-
ley with his wife Sarah, and three children,
born before settling there. She died April 10 ,
1681. He married, secondly, Phillipa Felt of
Salem, December 19, 1682. She afterwards
married Thomas Nelson (Town Clerk) April
9, 1690, and died September 29, 1709. His
children were:

Samuel, m Mary Law, April 4, 1678.

Abel, m. Lydia *Balley, May 8, 1672

Elizabeth, m. Sam'l Brocklebank, Nov.
2, 1681.

Sarah, b. 8, 16, 1654, m. Sam'l Prime, Jan.
1, 1673.

James b. 4, 11, 1661, m. Lidia Hale,
Sep. 10, 1691.

Samuel Platts Jr. was Recorder from 1686
to 1690, and afterwards from 1700 to 1719.
He wrote a large round hand, but irregular.

He married April 4, 1678, Mary Law, and
had children,; Bethiah b. March 15, 1689,
m. John Boynton, (a son of Captain Joseph
Boynton, a former Town Clerk,) April 17,
1707 ; Nathan b. June 19, 1698, died July
17, 1698.

He appears to have been a very capable
man, and was a Representative to the General
Court, frequently a Selectman, and on most of
the important committees of the Town. A
stone erected to his memory in the First Par-
ish Burial Ground, bears the following in-
scription ; ' ' Here lies ye body of Samuel
Plats, who died ye March 24, 1726, aged 78
years."

His brother Abel Plats, who married Lydia
Baley, May 8, 1672, and had children, Mo-
ses, Hannah & Samuel, was Ensign of the foot
company of Rowley, July 15, 1689, and was
a Lieut, in the unfortunate expedition to Can-
ada in 1690, commanded by Sir Wm. Phips,
and as appears by the Inventory of his estate,
dated 28. 5. 1691, in the Essex Probate Rec-
ords, "died in ye Canada voyage." His
widow married, secondly, Capt. Daniel Wi-
come, Nov. 11, 1691.

(To be Continued.)

A LIST OF DEATHS IN BEVERLY,
MADE BY COL ROBERT HALE.

The original of this Record, together with
two other papers by the same hand, (to be
hereafter printed in the Ins. Coll.) having
been saved from a heap of papers laid aside
to be destroyed, was given to Mr. Hill, the
Town Clerk of Beverly, who has allowed
them to be copied for publication.

Some of the names, it will be perceived,
are followed by numbers; one set of these
enumerates those who died out of the town ;
the other set, it is believed, enumerates those,

principally children, who died of some epi-
demic, raging at that time.

The manuscript, as will be seen, is some-
what imperfect, the entire first leaf being
gone.

E S. W.

34 George Tuck's Child.

35 John Prince's 2d Child.

36 Nich'o Morgan's " .

37 Zechary Stone Jun'r.

38 Joshua Coming's Wile.

39 Widow of Richard Leach.

40 Nath'l Clark's 2d Wife.

41 W'm Eliot (at Boston.) 4.

42 Aholia Diman's Child.

43 Sam'l Hascoll.

44 a Tinker at Coming's

45 Benj'a Ellinwood.

46 Jn'o* Trevy's Child.

47 Sam'l Stone's Child.

48 Wid. of W'm Eliot Sen.

49 Rich'd Woodberry's Child.

50 Randall Presson's Child.

51 Nich'o Morgan.

52 Joseph Tuck's Child.

53 D'n Clements.

54 W'm Cleaves's Child.

55 Benj'a Lovett's Jun'rs Child.

56 John Patch.

57 Jon'a Conant's daught'r.

58 Eleazer Giles Jun'rs Child.

59 Sam'l Ober's Widow's Son.

60 Wid Burt.

61 Cap Jno' Thorndike's 2d Wife.

62 W'm Cleaves's 2d Child.

63 Rev. Mr. Champney's Wife.

64 Edw'd Butman's Child.

65 Jno. Stephens's Child.

66 Josiah Smith's

67 Geo. Tuck's 2d

Tho.?

68 John Sallowes.

Ober's Child.

Rebecca Hale Apr. 28, 1732.

71 Josh, a Woodberry's Child.

72 Sara'l Harris's 2d Wife.

73 Jno. Leach's Child.

74 Robert Morgan's 2d Wife.

75 Luke Morgan (drowned at Cape
Sable) 5.

76 Nath'l Baker Sep. 30, 1732.

77 Jno. Morgan's Child.

78 Nich'o Morgan's "

79 Jo. Morgan Sen'r.

80 Simeon Arnaudin (drowned at
Exeter) 6.

81 Joseph Lovett.

82 Freeborn Patch.

83 Wid. of Nehemiah Stone.

84 James Taylor 3d his wife

85 I ,.
86} hl

his two children.

87 Wid. ofTho. Whitredge.

88 Rd. Coye's Child.

89 Th'o Woodberrye's Child.

90 Capt. John Thorndike's "

91 Joseph Sallows's " "

92 John Giles's " '

93 George Tuck's 3d "

94 John Eliot's " "

95 Mary Davis.

96 Josiah Smith's 2d child.

97 Wid. of Josiah Haskell.

98 Jno. Cleaves's 3d Wife

99 Zeb. Woodberrye's Wife.

100 James Taylor Sen'r.

101 Livermore Whitredge's Child.
102)

103 j

104 Joseph Morgan's 2d wife.

105 John Corning.

106 Benja. Smith.

VOL. V. 3

120 Benja.

121 Zubulon

John Giles's two children.

Edward Patch Sen'r.

108 Edw'd Bond's 2d Child.

109 John Baker's Child.

110 Josh'a Woodberrye's 2d Child.

111 John Stephens's " "

112 Caleb Clark's Wife.

113 Zechary Stone Sen'r.

114 Robert Baker (drowned at sea) 7.

115 Benja. Cleaves's 3d Child.

116 Jno. Eliot's 2nd Child. July 1734.

117 Zobtolon Woodberrye's Child.

118 David Stone's "
119Dan'l Wallis's 2d

> Morgan, at Conn. 9.

122 Benja. Woodberry ) 10.

123 Zebulon " " Mostatsea.il.

124 Sam'l Ellinwood ) 12.

125 Calub Clark's Child.

126 James Ellinwood.

127 Rachel Slue.

128 Peter Groves Jun'rs Child.

129 John Patch ye 2d.

130 Jona Biles aged 87-1734.

131 Wid. of Robert Leech aged 96.

132 Isaac Woodberry's Child.

133 John Stanley's Wife.

134 William Leech.

135 Joseph Trask's Child.

136 Israel Ober D. 12 1734 (at
Boston) 13.

137 Mr Champney'a Negro W.

138 Jno.* Sallowes Jun'r (at Ja-
maica) 14.

139 Live. Whitredge's 2d Child.

140 David Woodberry.

141 Wid. of Joseph Lovett.

142 Lois Kenny's 2d Negro.

143 Peter Ellen wood.

144 Cornelia May 7 1735.

145 Jno. West's Negro Man.
Tho.~

146 Robert Patch (drowned at St.
Kits) 15.

147 Jno. West ) found'd at sea. 16.

148 Tho. Williams f 17.

149 Haz. Smith Jun. 21 1735.

150 Josh'a Herrick's Child.

151 Deborah Cleaves.

152 Wid. of Joseph Stephens.

153 " of Caleb Wallis.

154 Brackenbury Patche's Child.

155 John Mors's , " "

156 Wid. Hannah Becket's " "

157 Tho. Hardee's

158 John Thorndike Jun'rs " "

159 George Tuck's 4th " '

160 Benja. Patch ye 2nd.

161 Edw'd Trask Jun'rs Child.

162 Benja. Eliot's Negro Child.

163 Joseph Foster Jun'rs Wife.

164 Jona. Phelps's Child.

165 James Taylor's Wife.

166 Andrew Balche's Child. May
161736 1

167 Benja. Woodberrye's Child. .2.

168 Henry Blackfield.s Child 3.

169 Benj'a Eliot's Child.

170 Wid. Bridget Gray.

171 Henry Blackfield's 2nd Child. .4.

172 " " " " 3d " ..5.

173 Zebulon Hill's Child 6.

174 John Stephen's 3d Child.

175 Jona. Smith's Child 7.

176 " " " 8.

177 Hewit Herrick's Son 9,

178)

179J

180 Nehemiah Smith's Child 10 ,

181 John Stone.

. . . Jona. Smith's 3d Child 11.

mes Smith's Child 12.

184 Wid. of Benj. Smith's Child,
Au. 1, 1736 ..13.

William Haskell's twins.

185 Sam'l Trask's Child 14.

186 Mr. Champney's Child.

187 Deac. B. Balche's Son 15.

188 Wid. of Benj. Smith's 2d Child 16.

189 " " " 3d " 17.

190 Sam'l Smith's Child 18.

191 Ebenr Cleaves's "

192 Wid. Mary Smith 19.

193 Cushing Corning 20.

164 Jona. Conants Child 2d

Child 21.

195 Nehem. Smith's 2d Child. . .22.

196 Jona. Thorndike's Child 23.

197 Neh. Smith's 3d " 24.

198 " " 4th " 25.

199 Joshua Herrick's Wife 26.

200 Deborah Trask 27.

201 Mrs. Eliza. Hale Aug 19 1736. 28.

202 Lydia Rutland 29.

203 Israel Clements 30.

204 Joseph Trask's 2d Child 31.

205 Sam'l Smiths 2d " 32.

206 Rebecca Hale ye 2d. Aug. 23d
1736 33.

207 Joseph Trask's 3d Child ... .34.

208 Jona. Conant's 3d Child. . . . 35.

209 Josh'a Herrick's 2d " ... 36.

210 Sam'l Smith's 3d Child 37.

211 Jo Traske's 4th " 38.

212 Bethiah Stanly atDr Balche's. 39.

213 Josh'a Herrick's 3d Child. . . 40.

214 Sam.l Smith's 4th " . ..41.

215 Jona, Conant's 4th " . . .42.

216 " " 5th " ...43.

217 Jno. Raye's Molatto Girl 44.

218 Josh'a Herrick's 4th Child. ..45.

219 Jno. Raye's Child 46.

220 Wm. Trask's " 47.

221 Benja Roundey's " 48.

222 Jno. Baker,s 2d " 49.

223 Josiah Lovett's " 50.

224 Jno. Rea's 2d 51.

It)

225 his wive's Daughter. 52.

226 Benja. Roundey's 2d Child. 53.

227 Josiah Woodberrye 3d his Child 54.

228 Wm. Cox's Child 55.

229 Josiah Woodberry 3d his 2nd
Child 56.

230 Benja. Rutland's " " .7.

231 Isaac Gray's Wife 58.

232 Wm. Cox's 2d Child 59.

233 Randall Preston's Son 60.

234 Wm. Cox's 3d Child 61.

235 Mr. Henry Hale, Sep. 30 1736
(at Exeter.) 18.

236 Wid. of John Patehe's Child. 62

237 Andrew Ellenwood's "

288 Capt. Isa'c Woodberrye's 2d " 63.

239 George Herrick's Child 64.

240 Isaac Gray Juu'rs "

241 Brackenbury Patehe's 2d "

242 Benja. Eoundy's 3d Child 65.

243 Jno. Biles (drowned at ye Vin-
yard) 19.

244 Wid of Jno. Patehe's 2d Child 66.

245 " " " 3d " 67.

246 Zeb Hill's 2d " 68.
247) Wm. Tuck's 2 Children. . . 69.

248] 70.

249 Wid. Bead, wid. of Christopher.
250") Wm. Tuck Jun'rs 2 Child'n 71.

251 j 72.

252 Samuel West 73.

253 Mr. Kimball's Molatto Child. 74.

254 John Stephen's 4th Child 75.

255 " " " 5th " 76.

256 George Tuck's Negro 77.

257 Mary Lynch 78.

258 Samuel Todd 79.

259 Geo. Tuck's 5th Child 80.

260 Andrew Eliot's " 81.

261 George Herrick's 2d Child 82.

262 Nath'l Millet's " " 83.

263
264
265

266
267
268
269

Village.)
270
271
272
273
274
275
276
277
278
279
280

Jno. Giles's 4th Child 84.

Nicho' Woodberrye's " 85.

Rich'd Coye's Wife 86.

) Israel Lovett's 2 Child'n. . 87.

} ' 88.

Capt. Ellis's Negro 89.

Hezek. Hathan's Wife (at S

281

Wid. of Tho. Fox Sen

Zeb. Hill's 3d Child 90.

John Woodberry 3d his wife

Jer. Butrnan's Child 91.

Andr. Eliot's Negro 92.

Isra'l Lovett ) drown'd at sea 20.
Wm. Johnson j Janry 19 1736 21.

Nurse Williams

Daniel Wallis's 3d Child. . . . 93.

Sarah Sallowe's Child

Jona. Stanley's " ,

Joseph West Barbad 20.

Capt Herrick's Widow Jun. 1 1

177

282 Andrew Eliot's Wife 16.

283 Josh'a Clark's Child 94.

284 Josh'a Bisson Jun'rs 2d Child. . .

285 John Ellitrap's Child 95.

286 Caleb Clark's 2d Child 96.

287 Wm. Biles's Child 97.

288 - " " 98.

289 Antho. Wood's Son Aug. 1
177 99.

290 Wm. Ellinwood's Child

291 Wm. Cleaves's 3d " 100.

292 Eben Lovett's Child 101.

293 Sam'l Stone's 2d " 102.

294 " " 3d " 103.

295 Nath'l Millet's 2d " 104.

296 Benja. Cleaves's 4th Child. . 106.

297 Jno Morgan's 2d " 106.

298 Nath'l Baker's Child 107.

299 " " " 108.

300 Wm. Clark's Child 109.

301 Caleb Clark's 3d Child. ... 110.

302 K'd Whitredge's Child 111.

303 Josiah Stone's Child 112.

304 Wid. of Zeb Morgan's Child. 113.

305 Liverm. Whitredge's 3d " 114.

306 Tho. Cox's Child 115.

307 Capt. Isaac Woodberrye's 3d Child.

308 K'd Whitredge's 2d Child. .116.

309 Dan'l Butman's Child 117,

310 John Baker (Davis's Streights) 22,

311 Widow of K'd Thistle

312 Dan'l Batcheld'rs Child 118.

313 Edw'd Butman's 2d " .... 119.

314 Dan'l * 120,

315 Herb't Thorndike's Wife.

316 Dan'l Batcheld'rs 2d Child. . 121.

317 Hugh Woodberrye's Child

318 Mary Smith

319 Herb't Thorndike's Son 122.

320 Hez. Ober Jun'rs Child .... 123.

to December 10 1737.
8 years ^ ->
the first 6 years & 5 montbs. .

165 died 165

& the last year & 7 months. ...,,.. ,155.
40 per annum.

There are in ye account of ye name of

128

Smith

Wood berry

Morgan

Patch

Lovett

Cleaves

Herrick

Stone

Tuck

Ellinwood

Trask

Baker

Clark

22.

18.
14
13.
12.
10.
10.
10.
10.

Eliot
Stephens
Thorndike
Whitredge

7.
6.
6.
6.

326 Robert Haskall Jr.

327 R'd Coye

Corning, Hascoll, Sallowes, But-
man, Conant, Cox, Giles, & Taylor 5 each. 40.
Bile?, Leech, Ober, Wallis, and Hale,

4 each , 20.

30 names. 235.

321 Leonard Slue's Wife

322 Elisha Woodberry's Child. .124.
32.3 Tho. Hardee's Wife 8. 11 1737.

324 Elisha Woodberry's Child,. 125.

325 Benja. Cleaves's Negro Child.

drowned in 23:
> Virginia on
)Feb3173724

328 Nath'l Stone's Wife Mar. 12 1787.

329 Dan'l Clark (dy'd in West
.Indies) : 25.

330 Edw. Trask May 5 1737

831 Josiah Woodberry's Child May 15.

332 John Thornd. Jun'rs son Hale
July 8

333 Paul Thorndike Jun'rs Child 30.

334 Mary Pierce Aug. 2

335 Tho. Tuok's Child, stillborn "

336 Jon. Woodberry's 2d Wife " IE

337 Josh'a Bisson JVs Child " 16

338 Daniel Black " 26 126.

339 Nath'l Black Jr,s Child " 28 127.

340 Nicho. (son of Rob't) Ellhmood
August 28 128

341 Mihel (son of Mihel) Woodberry
29 129.

342 Hannah daught. of Israel Ober
S. 3 130.

343 Joanna (D'r of Jona.) Woodberry
"10 131.

344 Eliza'h Quarles S. 20

345 Jno. Ellitharp's Child " "

346 Wm. Woodbry's " " " 13 2.

347 " 4t " 133,

348 Capt. Herrick's Wife Octo. 30

349 Tho. Cox Nov. 5

350 Timo. Clements, killed with a
cart Nov. 8

351 Lieut Balch Nov. 19

352 Tho. West's Child " 20

353 Wm. Stone drown'd at N Castle 26

354 Paul Thorndike Jr J supposed to 27

355 Hezekiah Ober Jr > be lost in a 28

356 Josiah Foster ) Hurricane, 29
in ye West Indies Aug. 18, 1738.

357 Jno. Rea's Child.

358 Andr. Balche's "

359 Wid Susanna Cole Feb. 10 1738

360 Wid Charity Patch " 20 "

361 Bartho. Brown's Child " 21 "

362 Andr. Corning Cast away at
Salsbr. Mar 7 30

363 Lieut Jialche,s Widow.

364 Randall Preston's Child

365 James Taylors " Ap. 15

1739*

366 Jeffry Thistle's Child June 22

367 John Leech ) Supposed to be lost 31
QAS Tr,c.r>>V. T , , 1 \ coming from the ye 32

db8 Joseph Leach V w In e dieg abont * e88

369 Dav Standley) middle of February.

1738.

370 Jno Bradford's Wife. . .July 15

371 Jno. Grove's Child Sep 22

372 Dea. Jno. Wood's Negr. Child.

373 Dan'l Wallis's Child Nov 6

374 Capt Andr. Woodberry's Negro
Nov 16

375 Tho. West's Child Nov 19

376 Mr. Hez. Ober Nov 26

377 Josh'a Guppy at Rhode Island. 34
to Dec'r 10, 1739

10 yrs. 37 3-10 pr. Annum ,

378 Win son of Capt And Woodberry
(Bay) 35

*this date is at the top of a page iu the Manuscript.
VOL. v. (4)

379 Wm Tuck Jr's Child. Jan 3

380 Wid. of Robert Roundy 83

yrs old Jan 19

381 Samuel Tuck Feb. 7

382 Wid Hann. Wood, aet 82. Feb. 24

383 George Hull's Wife aet 80 Mar 14

384 Peter Groves Jun'rs Child 15

385 James Chapman's Wife 17

386 Benja. Standley's wife April 1

387 Jno. Woodberry (at Methuen..6 36

388 Wid Martha Lynch

389 Nath. Black Jun'rs Wife 10

390 Wid Annn Foster 14

391 Eleazer Giles 24

392 Caleb Clark's Child May 29

393 Nath'l Black Jun. June 5

394 Benja. Lovett

395 Capt Herrick's Negro man.

396 Wid of Tho. Larkura.

397 Zebulon Hill 20

398 Wm. Gages Child

399 Jo. Coming's "

400 Rob. Morgan Jun'rs Child.

1740.

401 Died a Babe of John Rea A'gus. 11

402 Infant of Randal Presson 12

403 Henry Blashfield's Wife Nov 14
to Dec'r 10, 1740.

404 Wid Edw'd Ashby aet 93. Jan 10

405 Abraham Johnson's Child Jan 17

406 Nathaniel Stone near 80 yrs. Feb 23

407 An Infant of Benja. JefFerds

408 Moses Presson lost at sea 37

409 An Infant of Sam'l Smith.

410 " " " Isaac Woodbury.

411 The Wife of Jos. Bisson Jr Jun 7th

412 Joseph Morgan 30

413 Infant of Joshua Thorndike.

414 Bartho. Brown's Mother. .

415 Infant of Wm Gage Sep 21t

416 Child of James Thorndike Nov 24

13th

417 Mr Jo. Tuck died suddenly .28

Dec. 1741

418 Wid Ober net 87 Jan. 29.

419 Mr. Kutland's Wife 31st

420 Mr Paul Thorndike Feb. 14

421 Infant of Mr I Herrick Mch 6.

422 Widow Clerk aet 82 13

423 George Hull aet 92 14

424 Infant of W. Ellin wood May 17

425 " " Jeof. Thistle " 21

426 " " Abig'l Stone's

} Died suddenly at Beaver Pond

427 > Ben, A Negro man-servant of Mr.
) Joshua Herrick, July 10th

428 An Infant of George Tuck's Aug 12

429 " " " Wm Tuck Sep'r 5

430 John Morse's Son John 17th

431 Patience Woodbury. October.

432 William Patch, suddenly Nov 1

D. 1742.

433 Wid. Willard Decem'r 16th

434 Wife of Ezra Chapleman Feb 1

435 Capt. Thomas Ellice Marh. 29th.

436 Infant of Herbert Thorndike May

437 and a Lad Son of Saml. Traske.

438 Brackenbury Patch 15.

439 Child of Will. Standley

440 " " Thomas Patch June

441 " " Joseph Standly " 26.80.

442 Infant of Wm. Ellinwood

443 Child of Thomas Patch July

444 " " Eleazer Giles

445 " " Willi: Butman Sept. 5

446 " " William Haskel Oct.

447 " " Satnl. Ober Oct 16.

448 Deacon Wood died Oct 18th

449 His Wife Nov. 3d

450 Wife of Neh. Presson 18th

451 A Child of David Stone 23d

452 Wid. of John Tuck 25

453 Child of David Stone 27

454 Hezekiah Hathan Dec. 7

455 Saml Stone Jr ) dro d 38

456 Rob. Stone (son of Robt) ) squam 39

457 Rob Stone (son of Zeckh) killd. at
Le Guira March 1742-3 40.

458 Francis Ellis ) supposed to be lost 4i

459 Alexr. Biles ) a bt two years agoe 42

Now abroad for a long while unknown where.
David Harris
Mihel Woodberry
Gideon Woodberry
Mihel Thorndike

460 A Porteguese servt of Saml. . .43.
Stone, drowned with him at Squam.

461 A Child of Wm Pierce.

140 (Dec 7 1743

462 Abner Chapin lost going 44

to Jersey abt 3 years agoe.

463 Ralph Ellinwood Sr died abt. 2 1-2
years ago older yn R. H.

Dec. 10, 1743.

464 Infant of Joseph Corning D. 28

465 Andr. Eliot Junr. Jan 24

466 Simon Lovett Etat 84 Feb 2

467 Tho. Tuck's Child.

468 Ezra Chapman ) died ' ye 45
tff\ AT .1 i -mr-ii- T r Small Pox
4b9 Nathl Williams Jr. } j n Europe 46

470 Dixy Morgan's Child

471 Randal Preston abt 42 Mar. 27

472 Saml Smith abt 52 Apr. 29

473 Infant of Jo Larkum May 18

474 Mr John Ober abt 72 " 29

475 Eb Lovett's daughtr abt 19 yr old

476 Jno Groves i * illed > p a . t 47

) French Privateer.

477 Richard Patche's Wife

478 Edmd. Ashbye's Child

479 Ditto

480 James Patch 2d dyd. in Europe 48

481 Edmd Ashbye " July 9

482 Peter Pride (68) July 16

483 Jno Coye killed at Isle of May 49

484 Eleanr Ashbye.

486 Peter Groves Junr's 2d son

487 Isral Eliot S. 20

488 Wid. of Elias Picket set 93 0. 20

489 Benj Thornd. drownd at Philadel-
phia 50

490 Wid. of Jno Williams abt, 90.

491 Leonard Slue

492 Jno. Rea's Child Nov. 15.

% 493 Negro Child of Capt. Herrick.

494 Negro Child of Capt Hyleger.

495 Infant of Saral Harris Junr

Dec 10, 1744.
1745

496 Child of Wm Ellinwood Janry.

497 " " Joseph Corning Feb 22

498 Wid of Dea. Saml Balch

499 Infant of go Larkurn.

500 Jona Harris Jr (at Cape Breton) 51

501 Child of George Tuck

502 Tho West

503 Saml Stone

504 Wife of Lt Andr. Balch. Sept. 15

505 Child of Ezra Woodberry.

506 Infant of Benj Harvey.

507 Child of Jno Thornd. Jun.

508 Neh. Presson's Daughter.

509 Ruth Trask.

510 Frances Eliot at Lewisburg. . .52

511 Israel Elwell " " " ...53

512 Benj Harvey Dec'r 1745

1746

513 Abigail (dau of Israel) Woodberry

514 Benja. Harvey's Widow.

515 Sam'l Smith's

516 R'd Biles's Wife

517 Josh'a Herrick's negro child

518 Wm. Ober.s child

519 John Preston at Lewisburg 54.

520 Rd. Butman ) West Indies 55.

521 Edw. Thorndike } 56.

522 Joseph Coming's Wife

523 Andr. Taylor at Statia 57.

524 Eleazer Giles at Lewisburg 58.

525 Child of Sam'l Woodberry

526 George Pierce

527 Jno. Groves ) lost bound 59.

528 Dan'l Trask ]" to Virginia 60.

529 Rd. Cox drowned 61.

530 Jona. Biles's Child scal'd to death.

531 Herb Thornd. Jun'r July 10

532 Child of Ens. B Woodberry > 135.

533 another child of dito )

534 Benja. Brown in his passage ) 62.
from Philadelphia Aug 22 ("

535 Elias Picket. Small Pox St 12.

536 Negro Child of Capt Herrick

537 Jacob Gray Small Pox. S. 14.

538 Wm. Wales.

539 Negro Child of Robert Stone

540 Child of Win. Thistle.

541 " " Andr. Stone.

542 Capt Rob't Woodberry Oct 13

543 Joseph Eliot, drowned in Bar-
bad's 0. 31 63.

544 Jack Woodberry Dec 5

545 Ezra Woodberry (at Statia) 64.

Dec. 1746.
1747.

546 Peter Groves's Wife abt. 65

547 Moses Gage's " 77

548 Deacon Wm. Dodge abt 83 Jan 6.

549 Cornelius Larkum abt 94 9.

550 Capt Wm. Hyelger's negro child

551 Neh. Stone. Small Pox abt 55. 18.

552 Vid of Jona. Stone, aet 79

553 Sarah Blashfield abt 60 Feb 14.

554 " Bean's child

555 Sam'l Stone's Widow.

556 Lieut. B. Cleaves negro child

557 Capt Herrick's Wife

558 Girdler's Child

559 Tho Patch A't 82 Mar 16

560 Tho Patch Jun.

561 Tho Sallis abt 80 Mar 28

562 Benja. Roundy's Wife abt 48

563 Ralph Tuck's Child.

564 Andr. Eliot's Wife Ap. 16

565 Sam'l Dennis dy'd suddenly on
ye Beach June 13.

566 Robert Stone Etat 55 Aug. 7

567 Edm'd Giles's Child 17

568 Henry Herrick Sen Aet 77.

569 Henry Trask, drowned at Mr. H'd 65

570 Child of Jno. Bradford Jun.

571 "

572 Wm. Haskell Etat. abt 40

573 Joseph Coming's Child De. 6

Dec. 1747.

574 Capt Herrick's Indian Woman
dy'd abt 2 yr's ago.

1748

575 Jona. McKenny abt 47

576 Jno Martin abt 80

577 Andr. Eliot abt (55

578 Infant of Andr. Thorndike.

579 Joseph Picket Jun'rs Child Feb 1 1-

580 Benj. Cleaves Jun'rs Child

581 Capt Andr. Wood's Negro Child

582 Eliza Read act ar 52.

583 Barnabas Raymond. W. Ind. .66.

584 Sam'l Woodberry's Child

585 Sam'l Harris Jrs. Child

586 Robin Mingo Aet 87

587 Dan'l Batchelder's Molatto Child.

588 Benj. Rutland Apl 15 abt 6 8.

589 Wid. Joanna Woodberry Aet 76.

590 Dan'l Ellenwood (Sm. Pox. Lon-
don 67

591 Jno Morgan Jun'rs Wife.

592 Robert Roundy's Child

593 Wife May 15.

594 Rich'd Hood's Wife 24.

595 Wm. Eliot's Child.

596 Moses Gage June 30 Aet. 80

597 John Blowers.

598 Tho. (son of Joseph) Sallis. Aug 12

599 Jo. Williams's Child 136.

600 ) 2 Infants of Benj. Ober 20 137.

601 } 138.

602 Ditto negro boy Titus 139.

603 A child of Elisha Woodbry

604 David Allen's child 14(1.

605 Nath'l Williams's Dau'r abt
35 141.

606 Jona. Herrick ~) Supposed 68.

607 Sam'l Thorndike [ to be lost 69.

608 Joseph " j Nov'rl74770.

609 Edmund Cleaves ) coming from 71

610 Benja. Clarl; } Newf'dland 72

611 Child of Joseph Giddings 142.

612 Eben'r Williams's Child 143.

613 Another of his chil'rn 144.

6 14 Child of B. Dike 145.

615 " 146.

616 " " " 147.

6 1 7 Eben'r Williaras's Child 1 48.
6 IS Wid Taylor Aet. 81

619 A Child of Wid of Jona.
Harris 149.

620 " " Lieut Sam'l Morgan's 150.

621 " Wid of Wra. Has-
kell D'r 9 151.

622 Jer. Butman Jr. W. Indies 7.).

Dec. 10. 1748
1749

623 A Child of Benja. Clark 152.

624 " " "Jona. Smith 153.

625 tto Cornel Woodberry 154.

626 tto Jeffery Thistle 155.

627 Abigail Klwell Jan 22d.
628. Wid ef Eleazer Giles S'r 25.

629 " Lydia Elwell abt 46

630 Abigail Ross abt 79

631 A Child of Joseph Wood 156.

632 Geo Trow abt 84.

633 Child of Jona. Thorndike

634 Negro Child of Capt Andr.
Woodby 157.

635 " " " " ir>8.

ADDITIONAL NOTICE OF BENJA-
MIN GERRISH, AND OF THE OLD
GERRISH HOUSE.

BY BENJAMIN F. BROWNE.

In the Historical Collections of the Essex
Institute, Vol. 2, Page 213, may be found a
very valuable and interesting notice of the sub-
ject of this article. Having been lately favored
with a perusal of the books and papers, left by
the late Mr. Benj. Browne, who was a great
grandson of Mr. Gerrish, and also by the kind-
ness of Robert Peele, Esq, of a manuscript
genealogy of the family, prepared by the 3d
Benj. G. , a grandson of the 1st, and also some
family papers, I am enabled to prepiru this
additional notice, which may be interesting to
our local antiquaries.

THE OLD GERRISH HOUSE
is a quaint old building of very humble appear-
ance, and a time honored memorial of one, who
was in his day, of great note, credit and honor
in our ancient town. It is situated near the
corner of Essex and Forrester Streets, and is
now numbered 16 on Essex Street. It has
been in possession of Mr. Browne and his wid-
ow, till within a few months, when she having
deceased, it was purchased by Mr. William
H. Nichols.

It was built by Nicholas Bartlett, about
1644, and was sold to Walter Price, whose Ex-
ecutors, John and Elizabeth Price conveyed it
Jan. 19th 1682, to Benj. Gerrish. In the
deed to G., it is described as, "one Dwelling
House wherein Nicholas Bartlett formerly
dwelt, with one quarter of an acre of land un-
der and adjoining, lying and being situated in
the Town of Salem as aforesaid, and having
the now Dwelling House of William Cash on
the East side thereof, and bounded with a Cove
to the North, with the street or highway to the
VOL. v. (5)

South, and with a lane or high way down to the
cove on the West," This is signed by John
and Elizabeth Price, witnessed by Edmund
Batter and John Hathorne, and acknowledged
before Bartholomew Gidney, Justice of the
Peace.

About 1696, he bought of William Cash,
the dwelling house named above with a quar-
ter of an acre of land. He built on the prem-
ises an office, and a number of other buildings,
and a wharf. Here he kept the Custom House
and an English and West India Goods store,
and appears to have conducted his affairs with
great prudence. Some of his old furniture
was purchased by Pickering Dodge Esq. about
20 years since; the rest remained in the house
till the decease of Mrs. Browne.

He bought of John Cromwell, the piece of
land opposite his house, being about an acre
and a quarter, bounded west on the lane now
Becket Street, and running South to the Beck-
et estate ; also a portion of land in Ferry Lane,
now Bridge Street, of Mr. Wallis, being about
4 1-2 acres; likewise a piece of land with a
warehouse thereon at Winter Island, a piece
of land near Castle Hill and four common rights
in the Great Pasture, and he had likewise for
many years, a lease of Prudence Island, in the
State of Rhode Island.

DIVISION OF THE ESTATE.

He died April 24th 1713, and his estate,
according to the inventory, was 1597 4s. and
the expenses of the funeral, were 47. 3s. 5d.
He gave one half of the property to his widow,
and the other half, equally to his six children .
The personal estate was divided in 1714, but
the division of the real estate, was not made
till 1734, when the whole of the dwelling house
and land and all the other buildings thereon,
with two common rights in the great pasture,
were assigned to the widow, as her half of the

real estate. She had the income of all the real
estate to this period.

The land, opposite the dwelling house, was
divided into three lots, and the Easterly part
(No 1) "measuring five poles in front from
the Eastern side, where it bounds on Mascoll
and Tyler, to continue that breadth 14 poles
and 13 feet," fell by lot to his son, John Ger-
rish. John sold this land to Capt. Clifford
Crowninshield, who erected upon it a Ropewalk
and also the Dwelling House fronting the street,
which his grandson of the saino name, owned
and occupied for many years.

Lot No. 2, "bounded in front on the street
4 Poles, westerly on the lane leading to Beck-
ets, where it measures 12 Poles," fell to the
representatives of his daughter Eunice, deceased .
This was afterwards divided into four parts.
One part, now occupied and owned by the
heirs of Theophilus Sanborn deceased, fell to
Mrs. Lydia Browne, and the remainder was
sold to the Rev. Samuel Fiske, and by him to
Capt. Joseph Lambert, who erected the house
fronting on Essex Street, and which was many
years, occupied by his son Joseph, and is well
known as the Lambert Estate.

Lot No. 3, "lying in the rear of the two
first, bounding Easterly on Tyler and Masury's
land nine Poles, Southerly on Mascoll and Beck-
et, 10 Poles and Westerly on Becket's Lane,
nine Poles, fell to his daughter. Elizabeth
Peirce, and by her sold to Rev. Samuel Fiske,
and by him to Capt. Joseph Lambert.

The land on Ferry Lane, was divided into
3 parts, and the Westerly part, or No. 4
'bounded Westerly on Col. Higginson's land,
twenty five Poles. Northerly on Ferry Lane
ten Poles, and Southerly by the water, eleven
Poles, fell to his daughter Lydia, wife of Mr.
John Browne.

No. 5 adjoining "bounded North on Ferry
Lane, eleven Poles, and thirteen feet, and
South by the water, with half of a common
right in the Great Pasture, fell to Benj., the
eldest son of Deacon G. He sold this land to
Richard Derby Esq., who sold it to Capt.
John Osgood, and is the same lot with which
the Osgood Wharf is so closely connected.

No. 6, east of the proceeding lot, " bounded
on Ferry Lane, eight Poles, and running the
same breadth Southerly to the water, and
Easterly on Mr. Carlton's land, and Souther-
ly by the water , and the old Ware house at
Winter Island, and the other half of the com-
mon right, fell by lot to the heirs of Mrs. Han-
nah Higginson, who was a daughter of Deacon
G. The warehouse, Fish Press and appurte-
nances, were sold in 1735, by the other heirs
of Nathaniel H., to John Ward, who married
Mary, daughter of Nathaniel.

The committee who made the division, were
Benj. Lynde Jr., Ichabod Plaisted, James
Lindal and Timothy Pickering.

Madam Gerrish did not long survive the
settlement of the estate, having died Decem-
ber 24th 1734, aged 61. Her funeral expen-
ses amounted to 124. 8s. She left her
estate equally to her two children, John Ger-
rish and Lydia, wife of John Browne. Her
personal estate, according to the inventory,
was 437. 18s., and was divided Jan'y 10th
1735, but the real estate remained undivided
until 1750, Mrs. Lydia Browne having died
in 1744. The Easterly half fell by lot to
John Gerrish, and the Westerly half to the
heirs of Mrs. Lydia Browne. John G. sold
his part to Timothy Wellman, who in 1767
conveyed one half the land to his son Timothy,
who erected the house, long kuown as the
Wellman house. Timothy Wellman, in his
old age, conveyed the house and the other

half of the land, to William Webb, who sold
it 1786, to Miles Ward. Miles sold it to Mo-
ses Thomas, who in 1793, sold it to Christo-
pher White. His son, Christopher, sold it to
David Pingree Esq., who had the old house
demolished, Dec. 22d 1848.

The Westerly House (the old Gerrish
House) was set off to the heirs of Mrs. Lydia
Browne, and was held by her husband, John
Browne, until 1756, at which time his son
Benj. came into possession. John died in
1770, aged 70. Benj., youngest son of
Benj., bought out the other heirs, and lived
there till his decease in I860, Sept. 2, in the
87th year of his age.

Mr. Browne notes the repairs on the old
house from 1708 to 1846 as costing $1447-
83, and says :

" It now hath its second set of chimneys
& fourth set of Clapboards, its second set of
windows & frames, its second set of floors
& third of stairs, third of doors & third coat
of plastering. But man & all his works are
doomed to decay the iron bound frame of
the House and the first boarding where it
has been most exposed to the wet weather,
is on the decline it has lasted forages past
and if no particular accident takes place, may
last for ages to come, so that in some_future
generation its dissolution may be described."

He also records that on the 15th day of
Octojber 1805, the seeds of the large Apple
tree & the Pear tree were planted by him.

MATERIALS FOR A GENEALOGY OF THE GER-
RISH FAMILY.

Wm. Gerrish the first comer to New Eng-
land, was educated as a merchant in Bristol
(England) and settled first at Newbury 1640
& married, 17th April, 1645, Joana, widow
of John Oliver. The children by Joana
were:

John born 12th Feb. or 15th May 1646.

Abigail 10th May 1647.

William 6th June 1648.

Joseph 23d March (H. C. 1669) 1650.

Benjamin 13th January 1652.

Elizabeth 10th Septr (or 20th) 1654.

Moses 9th May 1656.

Mary 1st April (or 9th May 1658.

Anna 12th Oct 1660.

& Judith 10 Sept 1662.

Wife Joana died 14th June 1667, & Wm.
removed to Boston the next year, & married
Widow Ann Manning, & they had a son
Henry

He died at Salem, August 9th 1687, while
on a visit to his relatives, & was buried in
his brother-in-law, Walter Price's tomb. He
was born August 17th 1620.

Some account of the children of Capt. Wil-
liams may be found in Savage's Genealog-
ical Dictionary, Vol 2d, Pages 243-44.
Two of these, Joseph and Benjamin, settled
in Salem and vicinity. Joseph married
Anna, daughter of Major Kichard Waldron;
was settled in the Ministry at Wenham, as
successor to Rev. Antipas Newman in 1673.
He had sons, Joseph born 25th April 1676.
Harvard College 1 700 ; 2 Paul, of whom 1
know nothing ; 3 John, a shipwright, mar-
ried Oct. 22d 1705, Eliza, daughter of Col.
John Higginson. He lived in Salem, near
where the Church of The Immaculate Con-
ception stands. In his Will, made 8th
March, 1731, and proved July 14th, 1732,
he mentions son Joseph, daughters Ann, Sa-
rah and Elizabeth, the residue to his wife.
4 Samuel, who was a Bookseller in Boston,
married a Mrs. Coney, was Register of Deeds
for Suffolk, and Town Clerk of Boston. 5
Daughter Elizabeth born 9th October 1673,
married Rev. Joseph Green of Salem village;

and 6th, Anna, married Rev. Ames Cheever
of Manchester. For Benjamin, see Mr Good-
ell's notice referred to at the beginning of
this article.

DESCENDANTS OF BENJAMIN GERRISH.

1. Benjamin, son of Benjamin and Hannah
(Ruck,) born January 17, 1683, married,
Dec. 25th 1712, Abigail Halloway, whose
maiden name was Flint, and they had but
one Child, Benjamin, born July 7, 1714.
He was a wholesale trader and one of the
Executors of his father's Will; was a Rep-
resentative to Gen'l Court, and made one
(or perhaps more) voyages to Barbadoes
Abigail died Sept. 13th 1750.

2. Hannah, daughter of Benjamin and
Hannah, born January 24, 1678, married
Nathan'l Higginson April 23, 170'J, son of
Col. John H. and grand-son of Rev. John.
Nath'l died in 1720 and she married Ed-
mund Batter, Sept. 25th 1724 Nath,l and
Hannah had two sons and three daughters.
The sons died young. Of the daughters,
Mary, married Nath'l Andrew, Sept. 20th
1729, and she died Oct. 3d 1747. They
had eight children, but only three grew up
viz: Jonathan, mar'ed Mary Gardner, daugh-
ter of Jonathan G. John married Elizabeth,
daughter of Deacon Abraham Watson ; and
Mary married Wm. King. John was the
grand-father of Gov. John A. Andrew.

Hannah Higginson married John Ward, son
of Deacon Miles Ward. They had sons
John married Bethiah Archer; Nathaniel,
who died in 1759; Andrew married Sarah
Henfield ; and daughters Hannah married
Capt. Samuel Webb; and Mary, who died
in e:irly life.

Elizabeth Higginson mar'd. Obadiah Mors,
a Jeweller of Boston. They had a son Na-
thaniel, baptized at 1st Church, Salem, Nov.
8th, 1741, and of them I know no more.

3. Elizabeth, daughter of Benjamin and
Hannah Gerrish, born January 8th, 1681,
married John Pcirce, of Newbury, by whom
she had a son Benjamin and daughter Eliza-
abeth.

The children of Benjamin Gerrish and
Anna Payne, two sons and two daughters,
died in infancy.

CHILDREN OF BENJ. GERRISH AND ELIZA-
BETH (TURNER.)

1. John born June 23 1698, married
Sarah Cutler, Sept. llth 1735. He was a
Schoolmaster in Salem, from 1724 to 1748 at
a salary of 80 pr. annum, and he gave such
satisfaction, that his salary was increased for
several of the last years l 7 10s. There were
then but two schools within the main body of
the town; Mr. Nutting taught the other. Mas-
ter Gerrish was as famous in his day for his
penmanship, as Master Hacker was, half a cen-
tury ago, and I have some specimens of his
writing, which do no discredit to his reputation.
The house in which he resided was in Church
Street, and has been known in our day, as the
Handy House. It has been recently demol-
ished, and the site is covered with the City
Stable, and Steam Fire Engine House. His
children were Mary, born June 19th 1736,
Elizabeth, born December 5, 1737, and John,
April 24th 1744; I know no more of them.

2. Lydia, born June 22nd 1701, and died
in 1744 ; married in 1725, John Browne, son
of Dr. Bartholomew Browne, and great grand-
son of Ruling Elder, John Browne. He was
a merchant, and lived in the house, now stand-
ing on the eastern corner of Essex and Wal-
nut Streets. He died in 1770. Their chil-
dren, were John, who died young; John again,
who was killed in battle, in Canada in 1759;
William died the same year, on board the Frig-
ate, Sterling Castle; Elizabeth, who married

George Newton, an officer in the 43d Regi-
ment of Foot, who were both living in Leeds,
England, in 1783 ; and Benjamin, who was
born April 15, 1733, and died April 24, 1785.
His wife was Hannah Archer, and she survived
him 39 years. He lived in the old Gerrish
House, which he inheiited from his mother.
He had three sons, viz: John, born July 10,
1758, removed to Windham, Me., and mar-
ried Hannah Barker, of that town, Feb. 15,
1786, and died there Nov. 27, 1837-

Wm., born August 26, 1765. Went to sea
and was impressed into the British Navy, was
promoted to a Lieutenancy, and was last heard
from in 1784.

Benjamin, who lived in the old Gerrish
House, died Sept. 22, 1860, aged 86 years,
4 months. Lived a bachelor many years and
married, April 13, 1834, Mary Clark, who
survived him, and at her death, the old house
was sold out of the family . Benj. and Hannah
Browne had likewise daughters. Hannah mar-
ried James Browne; she was born March 22,
1761, and died Nov. 26, 1834. No issue.
Lydia, born July 19, 1763, married John Eus-
tace May 6, 1781. She died June 5, 1830.
They had two daughters, one married Theoph-
ilus Sanborn, the other Richard Davis. Sarah
born March 17, 1768, married Nov. 16, 1788.
Ebenezer Phelps removed from Salem and
lived in several places, finally settled in Indi-
ana, where descendants remain, and one, Dr.
Phelps, is living in our neighboring town of
Middleton. Elizabeth born March 16, 1771.
married, Nov. 3, 1794, John Gray. She
died May 15, 1806, and descendants remain
in Salem. Abigail bora Dec. 4, 1777, mar-
ried, Sept. 24, 1806, Andrew Archer, re-
moved to Fairfield Me., and she died there
May 27, 1845. Descendants remain there.

3. Eunice, daughter of Benjamin and
Elizabeth (Turner) Gerrish, born August 19,
1704, died Nov. 13, 1720, unmarried.

Benjamin Gerrish, son of Benjamin and Ab-
igail Halloway, married Jan. 7, 1736, Mar-
garet Cabot. Mr. Felt says he died in 1752,
without being more definite, and says he was
Governor of Bermuda. He lived in the house
on the North side of Essex Street, which was
known in our day, as the Hathorne House.
It stood in front of the present North Church.
This land composed part of the orchard of
Thomas Maule, who conveyed the orchard
9th of April, 1707, to his son John Maule,
and described it as containing one acre and a
half, bounded Southerly with ye Main Street,
Westerly with Joseph Putnam's land, North-
erly with ye bank of ye North River and
Easterly with ye land of Jonathan Corwin Esq.
March 14, 1712-13, Walter Newbury, Mer-
chant of Boston (of the Society of Friends^)
sold the same land to the 2nd Benj. Gerrish,
father of this Benjamin.

Children of Benjamin and Margarett

Benjamin, born Nov. 21, 1737, died un-
married.

Cabot, born Nov. 21, 1739, was a Ship
Master, probably unmarried.

Abigail, born Jan. 25, 1741.

Abigail, 2d, Jan. 16, 1743; the first Abi-
gail died the day previous.

William, born March 23, 1745.

Margaret and John, Gemini, born April
16, 1748. Margaret married Samuel Mather
of Boston. No issue.

Samuel, born March 16, 1749.

Esther, born Feb. 16. 1751; she married
Benjamin Carpenter Dec. 1, 1774, and he
married 2dly., her sister Abigail, July 26,
1795.

Samuel, son of Benjamin and Margaret,
married, January, 1773, Sarah Williams,
of Marblehead ; most of his long life was
passed in the house on Federal Street, which
stood on part of the land of his father and
grand-father. It was next west of the late
Philip Chase's house, and forms the rear
part of the house in which George H. Chase
has recently lived, No. 85.

Children Samuel, born August 23, 1 773,
married, and died leaving no issue.

Margaret, born Sept. 10, 1775, died Nov.
16th, 1861, unmarried.

Benjamin, born Nov. 20, 1777, died Nov.
16th, IbOl, unmarried.

William, born Jan. 18th, 1780, died Sept.
1853, unmarried.

Sarah, born Oct. 9, 1781, died Oct
25, 1783.

Cabot, born Dec. 10. 1783; married, Jan.
1(1, 1808, Abigail Gwinu of Salem, daugh-
ter of Thaddeus. He died at Pensacola,
Aug. 10th, 1822; no issue.

Sarah, born Nov. 29, 1785, was 2nd wife
of Israel Ward.

Abigail and Catherine, Gemini, born Nov.
30th, 1787; died in infancy.

George, born Dec. 23, 1788; died at sea,
Dec. 26th, 1819; married Elizabeth Fabcns
of Salem.

Francis C. born October 7th, 1791. H.
C. 1812; died April 16, 1819; unmarried.

Sarah, wife of Samuel, died February 3d,
1827, and he married 2nd, Elizabeth Chip-
man. Samuel died Sept. 2nd 184-1, aged
95 1-2 years.

George, sou of Samuel by wife Elizabeth
Fabens, had Elizabeth, born Sept. 3d, 1812,
died April 5th, 1837.

George, born Sept. 4, 1814; died Oct.
31, 1817.

Sally W., born Oct. 13th, 1816.

George Francis, July 14th, 1819; died
at sea, Nov. 3, 1837.

The name of Gcrrish, is now extinct in
Salem.

NOTES ON AMERICAN CURRENCY.
NO. 10.

COMMUNICATED BY M. A. STICKNEY.

Soon after the death of the late Samuel
Gerrish of Salem, which occurred in the year
1844, I was applied to, by one of the family,
to purchase a small collection of coins, which
had been made by different members in for-
mer years. They consisted of early dates,
and were mostly such coins as might have
been obtained from the commercial intercours-
es with Spain, and the West Indies; some
were, however, preserved for their age, or sup-
posed rarity.

One was a curious French coin. Obv.
LVD. XIIII. FR, ET. NAV. REX. 1700,
in Billion. In its field, j crowned, the
usual device of the Louis. Rev. Legend. A.
PIECE. DE. XXX. DENIERS. Across
with fleur-de-lis in its quarters.

There was a very good series of French,
and English, copper coins, in the collection,
and o e not very commonly found, of Charles
II Farthings, in copper ; a pattern piece, and
considered much rarer than those struck in
silver. Obverse CAROLUS. A. CAROLO.
Bust in profile, to the right laureate, under
which is the date 1665. Reverse, QUAT-
UOR. MARIA. VINDICO. exergue, Brit-
tannia. This coin was engraved by Roetier,
and the design of Britannia was suggested by
the figure on the large brass coin, of Hadrian,

and is said by Evelyn, to bear a striking re-
semblance to her Grace, the Duchess of Rich-
mond, a favorite of Charles IT. According
to Walpole, the engraver, who was in love
with her, attempted to give her likeness, in
the representation of Britannia.

The Legend QUATUOR. MARIA. VIN-
DICO, or "The Dominion of the Four
Seas," was soon dropped, to oblige the king
of France.

I was surprised to find several beautiful
and rare Roman coins in the collection, which,
upon inquiring I was informed, that they
were given by Gov. Hutchinson, to his pri-
vate Secretary, Samuel Mather, who married
Margaret Gerrish, and were left with her, or.
his departure for England, with Hutchinson,
at the commencement of the Revolution.

One of the Roman coins, in first brass, and
in fine condition, had on its Obverse, the
Bust of Hadrian regarding the left Legend.
HADRIANUS. AUG(ustus) COS III.
Plater) P(atriao.) (Hadrianus Augustus
Consul III. Father of his Country. ) Reverse
The Emperor standing in the act of address-
ing those military figures before him, the rep-
resentatives of their Legions, and bearing
the Roman Ensigns. Exergue Brittania. S.
C. (Senatus Consultu) by consent of the
Senate. '

The earliest dated modern coin was a Cobb.
dollar, of Charles V. 1554,* of the usual

* The Mines of Potosi had been discovered only
nine years before this coin was struck, and it is da-
ted the year of the marriage of the son of Charles
V. Philip with Mary, Queen of England, and of the
issuing of coins, said to have been coined from the
Bullion which he brought with him from Spain,
and which was coined that year in the Mint of Eng-
land, bearing the heads of each, with the Arms of
England and Spain, quartered together; they were
for a time, the legal currency of our Puritan An-

shapeless and irregular appearance of that
coinage, and, notwithstanding the long period
it has been coined, yet weighing in value
nearly thirteen cents more, than the U. S.
Dollar.* This coin was given by John Cab-
ot, an eminent merchant of Salem, to his
daughter Margaret, when a young girl, and
long previous to her marriage with Benjamin
Gerrish Jr. which took place Jan. 7th, 1736 ;
and was constantly carried in her pocket, till
a short time before her death, when she gave
it to her grand-daughter Margaret Gerrish,
who died at Marblehead, Nov. 16, 1861, at
the advanced age of eighty-seven years, two
months. It is not likely another such instance
can be found in Salem, of a coin remaining
over a hundred and fifty years, in the posses-
sion of only two individuals, and during that
long period, without having circulated.

The great age which several of the family
have attained, has contributed to the preserva-
tion by them, of many relics of the past, one
of which was brought from Bristol England,
by William Gerrish, the Head of the Family,
about 1640. It is a small highly finished
brass pestle and mortar, with the name and
date engraved on the bottom, "Benjamin
Gerrish, 1566, " and is in perfect preserva-
tion, and now in the possession of the family.

In addition to the coins, I also obtained a
painting, which they said was got by Gov.
Hutchinson, and came into their hands,
through the agency of Samuel Mather. It
is two yards in length, and fifteen 4nches in
width, and not being engraved, is, I presume,

cestors, who settled New England, and who accor-
ding to Sir Walter Scott, at that time, from their
abhorrence of Popery, refused to recive them, even
as a gift.

* I have in many instances received essential
assistance in these notes, from Robert Peele, Esq.

a unique copy; the title reads as follows;
" A Perspective View of the Blockad of Bos-
ton Harbour, Islands &c. , men of war and
the landing the 29th, and 14th Regiments on
the first of October, 68, as taken from ye end
of long wharff by :

CHRISTIAN RKMICK.*
The scroll, which contains the title, is orna-
mented by the Flags and Warlike weapons of
different Nations. Over the Painting is a scroll
supported by two cherubs, bearing the inscrip-
tion, " Magna Chartar, " in the centre of which
stands a female, clothed only with a scarf, and
proceeding from her mouth, the word Caritas.
On the left of the Painting, is a curious de-
sign, guarded by two Indians, of the Explana-
tion of the View, which is thus given :

EXPLANATION.
No. 1. Long Wharff. No. 5. Beaver.

" 2. Mermaid. f " 6. Bonetta.

" 3. Romney. " 7. Senegall.

" 4. Launcestan. " 8. Glasgow.

* Query. Who was Christian Remick ? who ex-
ecuted this Painting 1

t The number of guns, which each of these Ships
carried, as follows ; Mermaid 28, Romney 50, Laun-
cestan 40, Beaver 14, Bonetta 10, Senegal 14, Glas-
gow 20, Martin 10, are given in "Edes and Gills
North American Almanack, and Massachusetts Reg-
ister, for the year 1770." This Register also con-
tains an engraving of the Landing of the British
Troops, a view of which, Christian Remick has al-
so painted ; they differ in this respect, that Revere,
in consequence of want of room, gives only that
part of the Harbour, where the Ships and Boats lay
with a view apparently taken from thera,of the City,
and of its five principal Wharfs, which were at that
time, Long Wharf, Hancock's, at the North part of
the Town ; Foster's, Gray's, Tileston's, at the South
end.

In Drake's History of Boston, may be seen this
engraving, which he had copied from an Almanac,
belonging to John F. Eliot Esq., and which is the
only one, to my knowledge, beside that in my pos-

No 16. Long Island.

" 17. Galop's Is-
land.

"18. Nikses Mate.

" 19. Dear Island.

" 20. Sloop Liberty.

"21. Point Sherly.

" 22. Aple Island.

" 23. Nodles Island.

"24. Great Bruster.

No 9. Martin.

" 10. Landing ye
Tropes.

" 11. Tenders.

" 12. Castle Wil-
liam

" 13. Cover's Is-
land.

" 14. Dorcester
Neck.

" 15. Spectricle Is-
land.

On the end of long Wharf, of which but
little is seen, appear several spectators, in the
Costume of that time, cocked-up hats and canes,
who appear waiting the landing of the Troops,
one of the Tenders (all of which are numbered
11,) is at the head of the Wharf, and four
others are seen, with many boats (which are
numbered 10 in the Explanation) transport,
ing the Troops from the Ships in the Harbour,
to the Wharf. The Mermaid and Glasgow
lay between the head of the Wharf, and Gov-
enors Island, and Romney opposite Point Sher-
ly, and Aple Island, on which appears a house,
and on Point Sherly, a large settlement, with
a Church.*

The eight vessels on the view, extend from
Castle Island to Nodles Island.

Castle William, with its fortifications, and
the Flag of England flying over its works, is
seen, as is the case with all the Vessels and
Transports in the Harbour. The works of the
Fort, appear to extend towards Govenors Is-
land to the water, near which is seen No. 20.

* The buildings and Church, on Point Shirley in-
dicates that it was then occupied, as it had been in
farmer years, by a company of Boston gentlemen,
who had purchased lots there, for the residence of
the fishermen in their employ. They erected a num-
ber of houses for their own accomodation, also a
House of Public Worship ; all signs of this settle-
ment, have now entirely disappeared.

John Hancock's Sloop Liberty, in a disman-
tled condition.

She being seized with her Cargo of Wine,
from Madeira, by the Custom House officers,
June 10, on a charge of false entry. The
difficulties which followed in consequence, be-
tween the officers of the Crown, and the Peo-
ple, led Gov. Bernard, to write to Lord Hills-
borough, that without more Naval or Military
Force, the Laws could not be executed, and
in consequence, the 14th and 29th Regiments,
were ordered to Boston, in six Ships of War;
these with those before in the Harbour, amount-
ed to about* fourteen at the time of the disem-
barkation of the Troops, as is described in the
Painting, (Oct. 1,) and were lying with their
broadsides to the Town, with springs on their
cables, and their guns ready for firing, instant-
ly, upon the place, in case of opposition.
The landing of the Troops was effected under
cover of the Ships' cannon, without molestation.

November 3d. Emboldened by the arrival
of Troops at Boston. Hancock was sued for
2000 sterling, by the Admiralty Court.
The Commisioners prosecuting him, as her own-
er, antf all, whom they supposed, were concern-
ed in unloading the wine, for the value of her
cargo, and treble damages. The vessel was
finally restored in 1769, by a declaration of
the King's Advocate, that his Majesty would
prosecute no further.

This seizure , with others of like character
made by the English Government, caused the
merchants, the most influential men in the Col-
onies, to declare their independance, and final-
ly compelled the acknowledgement in 1783.

* See Gordon's History of the American Revolu.
tion, Vol. 1, Page 247, also the Essex Gazette Oct.
4, 1768.

VOL. V.

(6)

MATERIALS FOB A GENEALOGY
OF THE HIGGINSON FAMILY.

COMPILED BY HENRY WHEATLAND.

The following communication contains ma-
terials for a genealogy of the Higginson fam-
ily, or brief notices of some of the descend-
ants of the Rev. Francis Higginson, the first
minister of the First Church in Salem Sev*
eral of the facts, were obtained from an old
family record; others, from the various
church, town, county records &c.

The compiler respectfully requests those
who may have additional information, to com-
municate the same; also the correction of any
errors that may be detected.

REV. FRANCIS HIGGINSON, sometimes writ-
ten in the old MSS. Higgeson, second son of
the Rev. John Higginson, was born in Eng-
land, in 1587, and was educated at Emanuel
College in Cambridge. He was settled in
the ministry at Claybrook in Leicester. For
some years he adhered to the forms and cer-
emonies of the Episcopal church but after
a careful examination of the merits of the con-
troversy, then agitating the community, and
the various arguments addressed on both sides,
he was led to adopt those of the Puritans, as
being most consistent with his religious views
and belief Becoming thereby a non-con-
formist, he was articled against, in the High
Commission Court by the Laudian Faction,
and persecuted, though not prosecuted. His
high reputation as a divine, and as a person
admirably qualified to propagate Christianity
in an infant colony, induced the company of
Massachusetts Bay, to invite him to take pas-
sage to New England. He complied with
their request. At that time the company
were preparing to send out five ships with

planters to the colony, and on board one of
these, the "Talbot," Mr. H. and his family
embarked. He sailed from Gravesend, 25,
April, 1629, and from Yarmouth, Monday,
May 16th, and arrived at Naumkeeke, now
Salem, on Monday, June 29. In August
of that year he gathered a church in Salem,
which church was the first in the colony. He
lived about one year after his arrival and died
August 6, 1630, leaving a widow by whom
he had nine children.

See a Memoir of Rev F. H. by Rev. Jos.
B. Felt, in N. E. Hist. Gen. Reg. vi. 105.

His widow, Mrs. Ann Higginson, resided
in Salem a few years after his death, thence
removed to Charlestown and afterwards to
New Haven, where she died early in the year
1640. Her estate was the first which came
before the_court of magistrates for settlement
after the planting of that colony. The court
was held Feb. 5th, 1640.

A copy j of the record, the orthography not
followed, is printed in Kingsley's ^Historical
Discourse at New Haven, April 25th, 1838,
page 102.

1 1. John, born at Claybrook, Aug. 6,
1661. (2)

2 2 Francis, born 1617; was for a
time schoolmaster at Cambridge; went to
Europe; resided at London for some time and
visited several of the Universities on the con-
tinent for the improvement of his mind ; set-
tled as a minister at Kerby Steven in West-
moreland, England, and there he died about
1670, unmarried, in the fifty-fifth year of his
age.

3 3. Timothy, was a marriner and died
unmarried.

4 4. Theophilus died at the age of 37
leaving one son, Samuel, born at New Haven,
Aug. 26, 1650.

5 5. Samuel, Capt. of a Man-of-war
in Cromwell's time, afterwards Capt. of an
East India-man, died at the age of 44.

6 6. Ann married Thomas Chatfield of
Guilford, New Haven, Easthampton L. I. ;
probably no children.

7 7. Mary died Tuesday, May 19th,
1629, during the passage, aged 4 years.

8 8. Charles, Captain of a ship in the
Jamaica Trade, died at the age of 49.

9 9. Neophytus died at the age of about
20 years.

SECOND GENERATION.
(2) REV. JOHN HIGGINSON, (1 1.)
born at Claybrook, Aug. 6, 1616 ; kept the
Grammar School at Hartford ; afterwards
chaplain of the Fort at Saybrook. In 1641,
went to Guilford and assisted the Rev. Hen-
ry Whitfield in the ministry, whose daughter
Sarah he afterwards married. He was never
ordained at Guilford but remained there in the
discharge of the ministerial duties until 1659,
when he left with the intention of going with
his family to England. The vessel in which
he sailed was obliged to put into Salem Har-
bour on account of the weather ; while there he
was persuaded to settle over the church which
his father had planted about thirty years pre-
vious. He remained and was ordained their
pastor in August, 1660, and continued in this
place the honored and respected minister un-
til his death, which took place Dec. 9, 1708.
His wife, Sarah, died July 8th, 1675; he
married 2dly Mary, daughter of Rev. Adam
Blacknian of Stratford, and widow of Joshua
Atwater, of New Haven and Boston ; she was
born in 1636, and died March 9th. 1708-9
10 1. John, b. at Guilford 1646, (3.)
112 Nathaniel, born at Guilford, Oct.
11, 1652. (4)

. 12 3. Sarah* married Richard Wharton
of Boston, who died in London, about 1690;
had daughters, Sarah, born 7th Aug. 1671 ;
married John Gotta; Bethiah, born 18, Sept.
1672 ; Frances, born 6, Oct. 1673 ; Katha-
rine, born Oct. 1674; two last probably
died young.

13 4. Anna married, Oct. 4th, 1682,
William Dolliverf of Gloucester.

14 5. Thomas, served his time with a
goldsmith in England ; returned to New Eng-
land ; sailed for Arabia, and was lost.

15 6. Francis, born in Salem 9, 4th,
1660 ; went to hia uncle Francis at Kerby-
Steven, who educated him at the University,
and died at London, in 1684.

16 7. Henry, born in Salem, 18, 10,
1661; educated a merchant; went to Barba-
does as factor, and died there in 1685.

THIRD GENERATION.

(3) JOHN HIGGINSON, (10 1) born at
Guilford in 1646 ; educated a merchant, set-
tled in Salem, Lieut. Colonel of the Regi-
ment, a member of the Council, had sustained
the principal offices of the town ; married 9 8,
1672, Sarah, daughter of Thomas and Mary
fSymmes) Savage, of Boston. He died
Mch 23, 1719, act. 73.

17 1. Mary, b. Sept. 27, 1673. (5)
182. John, b. Aug. 20, 1675. (6)
193. Thomas b. Dec. 23, 1677 ; died
Sept. 18, 1678.

204. Nathaniel, b. April 1, 1680.
(7)

21 5. Sarah, b. June 1, 1682; mar-

* See Higginson's Letters in Mass. Hist. Soc'
Coll., 3d Series, Vol. VII, 198-205; also Felt in N.
E. Hist. Gen. Reg. IX 339.

tSee Babson's History of Gloucester page 81.

ried June 22, 1699, Nathaniel Hathorne,
and died August 5, 1699.

22 6. Elizabeth, b. Oct. 13, 1684;
md., Oct. 22d, 1705, John Gerrish, (8.)

23 7. Margaret, b. Nov. 10, 1686;
died June 18, 1688.

(4) NATHANIEL HIGGINSON,* (11 2)
born at Guilford, Oct. 11, 1652 ; graduated
at Harvard in 1670 ; went to England, and
was with Lord Wharton about seven years, a
steward and tutor to his children. In 1681,
was employed in the mint of the tower. In
1683 went in the company's service to Fort
St. George, in the East Indies ; was Secre-
tary and Member of the Council, afterwards
Governor of the Factory at the Fort. In
May, 1692, was married to Elizabeth, daugh-
ter of John Richards, who came out to India
several years previous, to be chief of Balla-
sow Factory in Bengal ; and died on the pas-
sage, leaving a wife and two daughters, the
companions of his voyage. In 1700 he re-
turned to England with his wife and children,
and established himself in mercantile business
at London. He died at a Parish called Pan-
creas, Soper Lane, London, Oct. 31, 1708,
and had the following children :

241. Elizabeth, born Dec. 3, 1693,
died in London, about 1700.

252. Richards, born May 18, 1695.

263. Nathaniel, born May 30, 1696,
died in 1701.

274. Sarah, born Dec. 2, 1697, mar-
ried to Stephen Aynsworth.

28 5. John, born Aug. 23, 1699, died
on his passage to England, in 1700.

29 6. Deborah, born 1700.

30 7. Francis, born 1705, died 1709.

*See N. E. Hist. Gen. Beg., 1, 34.

FOURTH GENERATION.

5. MARY HIGGINSON (17 1) born Sept.
27, 1673; was married 1st April 4, 1695,
to Thomas Gardner Jr., son of Thomas and
Mary (Porter) Gardner (born 25. 8 1671,
died about 1696.) 2dly married Apr. 25,
1699, Edward Weld of Salem, a physician,
son of Daniel and Bethiah (Mitchelson) Weld,
a grandson of Joseph, of Roxbury, who came
to New England, it is supposed, in 1635.
He was born 7th of June, 1666, and died Sept.
1702, and had

301 Daniel, born April 13, 1700, and
died before the father.

3dly, married, May 3, 1708, Deacon James
Lindall of Salem, son of Timothy and Mary
(Veren) Lindall, born Feb. 1, 1675, died
May 10, 1753 (J. L. had previously married
Elizabeth, daughter of Jonathan Corwin Esq.,
Dec 15. 1702 ; she died May 19, having had
Elizabeth, born Sept. 29, 1703, a son born
Jan. 12, and buried Jan 13. 1702, and
Mary, born Dec 14, 1705.)

31 2. James, born May 21, 1710.

32 3. Veren, born May 14, 1711, died
April 29, 1712.

33 4. Sarah, born June 17, 1712.

34 5. Abigail, born June 16, 1713.

35 6. Rachel, born Aug. 9, 1714, died
Sept. 9, 1714.

36 7. Timothy, born April 14, 1716.

(6) JOHN HIGGINSON, (18 2) b. Aug.
20, 1675, educated a merchant; lived at
Salem; died Ap. 26, 1718. Married, Sept.
11, 1695, Hannah, daughter of Samuel
Gardner, Jr., of Salem. She was born Apr.
4, 1676, and died June 20, 1713. He mar-
ried 2dly, Nov. 11, 1714, Margaret, daugh-
ter of Stephen and Margaret (Mitchell)
Sewall. She was born May 7, 1687 ; died

Mch. 1736. A Register of Probate from
June 3, 1698, to Oct. 23, 1702. See Vol.
3, Page 5, of the Collections.

37 1, Elizabeth, b. June 28, 1696,
(9.)

382. John, b. Jan'y 10, 1697-8,
(10.)

393. Samuel, b. Feb. 5, 1699-1700,
died Sept. 23, 1702.

404. Sarah, b. Feb. 13, 1702-3, died
June 14, 1746; married, Dec. 1, 1732, John
Cabot, Jr., son of John and Anna (Orne)
Cabot, b. Oct. 26, 1704, died June 3, 1749.
A Physician in Salem ; graduated at Harv.
Coll. in 1724.

415. Francis, b. Nov. 29, 1705 ; died
Nov. 29; 1705.

426. Henry, b. Sept. 23, 1707, died
Dec. 1, 1708.

43 7. Stephen, b. July 31, 1716, (11)

448. Nathaniel, b. 1718, d. 1719.

(7) NATHANIEL HIGGINSON, (20 4) b.
Apr. 1, 1680, died 1720; married,
Apr. 23, 1702, Hannah, daughter of Benja-
min Gerrish, Collector of the Customs at
Salem, and Hannnh Ruck, born Jan'y 24.
1678; died

45 1. Nathaniel, b. Mch. 30, 1704;
d. Oct. 6, 1706.

46 2. Francis, b. Dec. 22, 1705 ; d.
Aug. 15, 1707-

473. Mary, b. Oct. 14, 1708, (12.)
484. Hannah, b. Nov. 8, 1712, (13.)
495. Elizabeth, b. Sept. 30, 1714;
died ; married, Jan'y 9, 1734,

Obadiah Mors, of Boston, Goldsmith.

(8) ELIZABETH HIGGINSON, (22 6) b.
Oct. 13, 1684, died married John
Gerrish, son of Rev. Joseph Gerrish, of
Wenham.

501. Elizabeth, b. July 17, 1710;
died Aug. 2, 1710.

512. Anna, b. Aug. 13, 1712.

52 3. Sarah, b. Aug. 4, 1714.

534. Elizabeth, b. May 15, 1720.

545. Joseph, b. Aug. 28, 1721.

55 6. Mary, b. Aug. 3, 1723.

FIFTH GENERATION.
(9) ELIZABETH HIGGINSON, (37 1)
born June 28, 1696 ; 'died Mch 20, 1722-3;
married, Oct. 20. 1715, Eev. Benjamin Pres-
cott, the first Minister of the Middle Pre-
cinct in Salem, now South Danvers. He
was son of Jonathan Prescott, of Concord,
and Elizabeth Hoar; was born Sept. 16,
1687, graduated at Harvard in the class of
1709. He married 2dly, July 15, 1732,
Mercy, daughter of Kev. Henry Gibbs, of
Watertown. She died Dec. 18, 1744, leav-
ing one son, Henry. He married, 3dly, Oct.
6, 1748, Mary, sister of the first Sir Wm.
Pepperell, widow 1st of Hon. John Frost, of
Newcastle, and 2dly, of Kev. Benjamin Col-
man, D D., of Boston. She was born Sept.
4, 1686, and died April 18, 1766. Kev. B.
P. died at Danvers May 28, 1777, having
been the minister of this Church from Sept.
23,1713, to Nov. 16, 1756, when here-
signed his charge.

56 1. Benjamin, b. Jan'y 29, 1716-
17 ; graduated at Harvard, 1736. Merchant
at Salem. Died Aug. 18, 1778; married,
Nov. 26, 1741, Rebecca, daughter of James
and Martha (Lane) Minot, of Concord,
Mass. She was born May 15, 1720, and
died Oct. 8, 1761. (See Genealogy of Minot
family, in N. E. Hist. Gen. Keg., Vol. 1,
Pages 176 and 259 )

57 2. John, b. Aug. 2; died Aug. 3,
1718.

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58 3. Hannah, b. Dec. 6, 1719 ; died
about 1775. Married Dec. 29. 1737, Capt.
Daniel Epes, son of Col. Daniel Epes, of Sa-
lem ; had eleven children, viz : Daniel ;
Francis; Elizabeth, wife of Joseph Proctor,
of Gloucester; Hannah, wife of Peter Clarke,
of Lyndeborough, N. H.; Samuel; Benjamin,
Mercy; Mary, wife of Isaac Lewis, of Fran-
cestown, N. H.; Sarah, wife of Israel Put-
nam, of Danvers ; William ; and Joseph.

59 4. Elizabeth, b. Sept. 15, 1721,
d. March, 1755; married William Frost,
son of John and Mary (Pepperell) Frost,
and had five children, born in Newcastle, N.
H. ; Mary, Benjamin, William, son died in
infancy, and John.

60 5. Sarah, born Jan'y 29, 1722-3 ;
died May 12, 1723.

(10) JOHN HIGGINSON, (38-2,) b. Jan'y
10, 1697-8; graduate of Harvard College
in the class of 1717. Married, Dec. 4,
1719, Kuth Boardman; she died June 14,
1727. Married 2dly, April 28, 1732, Es-
ther Cabot, daughter of John and Anna
(Orne) Cabot. He died July 15, 1744,
having sustained chief offices of the Town ;
in 1725 chosen County Register, &c. He
had the following children :

61 1. John, b. Oct. 11, 1720, (14.)

62 2. Elizabeth, b. March 30, 1722,
(15.)

63 3. Ruth, b. Sept. 25, 1723, d. Ju-
ly 29, 1727.

64 4. Andrew, b. June 5, 1727, grad-
uated at Harv. Coll. in 1745, went as a fac-
tor to the West Indies, and was lost on his
homeward passage.

65 5. Francis, b. Feb. 3, 1732-3,
(16.)

66 6. Nathaniel, b. Dec. 13, 1734.
67 7. Susannah, b. May 8, 1 737.

(11) STEPHEN HIGGINSON, (43 7) b.
July 81, 1716, d. Oct. 12, 1761. Married,
Apr. 22, 1743, Elizabeth, dau. of John and
Anna (Orne) Cabot, b. Mch 8, 1710-11, d.

. He held principal offices in the

Town ; a merchant of great repute ; he took
an active part in the establishment of the
Social Library in Salem, in 17(50. which, in
1810, was purchased by the proprietors of
the Salem Athenaeum, and in addition to the
Philosophical Library, formed the nucleus of
that highly valuable collection of books.
Children :

681. Stephen, b. Nov. 28, 1743,
(17.)

692. Sarah, b. Jan'y 14, 1744, (18.)

70 3. John, b. Apr. 30, 1746; died
August, 1750.

71 4. Henry, b. Dec. 14, 1747 ; died
unmarried.

72 5 . Deborah b. July 24, 1750; died
Sept., 1753.

736. Deborah, b. Jan'y 6, 1754,
(19.)

747. Elizabeth, bap. May 2, 1756,
(20.)

(12; MARY HIGGINSON, (473) b.
Oct. 14, 1708; died Oct. 3, 1747. Mar-
ried, Sept 20, 1729, Nathaniel Andrew, of
Salem, mariner and merchant, son of Joseph
and Abigail (Grafton) Andrew, b. Aug. 10,
1705, d. 4 Feb., 1762. Children :

751. Nathaniel, b. June 11, 1731 ;
died Mch 20, 1731-2.

76 2. Mary, b. April 5, 1733; mar-
ried, Apr. 25, 1753, William King, son
of Samuel and Elizabeth King, and had
daughters Mary, wife of Benjamin Webb;
Hannah, wife of Benjamin Hodges; and Eliz-
abeth, wife of Jonathan Mason, all of Salem.

77 3. Joseph, b. Feb. 7, 1734, d. Feb.
24, 1734.

784. Abigail, b. Feb. 7, 1734, d. Feb.
16, 1734.

795. Hannah, b. May 1736, d. Nov.
28, 1736.

80 6. Jonathan, b. Feb. 6, 1737-8, d.
May 16, 1781 ; married Mary, daughter of
Jonathan and Elizabeth Gardner, b. Mch. 30,
1739; d. Jan. 17, 1820.

81 7. John, b. Sept. 27, 1747; mar-
ried Elizabeth, daughter of Abraham and Eliz-
abeth [Pickering] Watson, b. Feb. 11, 1748,
d. 22nd of Feb. 1830. He resided in Salem
as a goldsmith and jeweller, afterwards re-
moved to Wyndbam, Me, where he diod in
1791.

82 8. Nathaniel, b. Nov. 23, 1745, d.
Sept. 12, 1754.

(13) HANNAH HIGGINSON (48 4) b.
Nov. 8, 1712; married, Sept. 17, 1734, John
Ward of Salem, peruke-maker, son of Miles
and Sarah (Massey) Ward, b. July 7, 1707.

83 1. Hannah, b. Dec. 21, 1735, d.
April 4, 1808; married, Nov. 9, 1758, Sam-
uel Webb.

842. Mary, b. Aug. 9, 1737, d. May
27, 1740.

85 3. John, b. Jan. 10, 1738; mar-
ried, June 4, 1761, Betbiah Archer. He
died Dec. 1, 1789.

864. Nathaniel, b. Jan. 29, 1739-40,
died in 1759, unmarried.

87 5. Andrew, b. Oct. 6, 1742, d.
married Sarah, daughter of Edmund and Ly-
dia (Hardy) Henfield, born, May 14, 1759.

SIXTH GENERATION.

(14) JOHN HIGGINSON (59 1) b. Oct.
11, 1720, d. Sept. 23, 1774. He sustained
various town offices, was Register of Deeds

for thirty years, and in 1765, Lieut. Col. of
1st Essex Regiment. He married, Sept 19,
1743, Hannah Marsh of Braintree, who died
Feb. 9, 1747. He married 2dly, Oct. 4,

1747, widow Elizabeth Wolcott, and 3dly Dec.
29, 1755, Mehitable, daughter of Thomas and
Mehitable [Sewall] Robie. She survived him
and died at Salem, Jan. 1818, aged 94, hav-
ing for many years, in connection with her
daughter kept a school of great repute.
They were among the best and most truly re-
fined women of that day in New England.

88 1. Mehitable, b. April 6, 1759, d.
Dec. 15, 1759.

892. John, b. Sept. 1760, d. Dec. 22,
1762.

902. Andrew, b. Aug. 5, 1762, d.
Sept. 9, 1763.

914. Mehitabable, b. Mch. 26, 1764,
d. July 19, 1846, having for many years been
a noted teacher in Salem.*

(15) ELIZABETH HIGGINSON (60 1) b.
Mch. 30, 1722, d. Nov. 1781 ; married Jo-
seph Cabot, son of John and Anna (Orne)
Cabot, (bapt. July 24, 1720, d. Dec. 8,
1767, set. 48.)

921. John, b. 14th Jan., 1744-5, at
Salem, died at Boston, Aug. 28, 1821, Mer-
chant of Beverly, Salem and Boston ; married
Hannah, daughter of George and Lydia (Her-
rick) Dodge. She died Feb. 7, 1830, set
72.|

932. Joseph, b. Jan. 19, 1745-6, d.
Feb. 5,1774; merchant of Salem; married,
Aug. 4. 1768, Rebecca, daughter of Timothy
and Rebecca (TaylorJ Orne, b. July 17,

1748, d. Nov, 17, 1818, having had two chil-
dren, Rebecca and Joseph.

* See obituary notice in Salem Gazette, Tues
July 21, 1846.

t See Hist. Coll. Inst. IV, 275..

943. Elizabeth, b. Jan, 16, 1746-7,
d. Ap. 16, 1747.

954. Elizabeth, b. Feb. 24, 1747-8,
d. June 20, 1786; married Joseph Lee, son
of Thomas and Lois (Orne) Lee of Salem, b.
May 22, 1744, d. 1831. For many

years a merchant and shipmaster of Beverly,
Salem and Boston. Their children were Jo-
seph, Nathaniel C., Elizabeth, George, Amel-
ia, 1st wife of Hon. C. Jackson of Boston,
Charles, Thomas, Nancy, Henry, John, Fran-
cis and Rebecca.

965. Andrew, b. Aug. 2, 1749, d.
Jan'y 11, 1750.

95 6. Andrew, b. Dec. 16, 1750, d.
May 1791 ; resided in Beverly ; engaged with
his brothers in commercial pursuits ; married,
Apr. 25, 1773, Lydia, daughter of George
and Lydia (Herrick) Dodge. Their children
were Sebastian ; Elizabeth, 1st wife of James
Jackson, M. D , of Boston; Nancy; Sally,
2d. wife of James Jackson, M. D., of Bos-
ton; Andrew; Robert; Lydia, wife of P. T.
Jackson, of Boston; Sebastian; Katy, wife
of Charles Foster, of Cambridge and Boston ;
Susan, wife of Jesse P. Richardson of Salem
and Roxbury.*

98 7. George, b. Jan. 16, 1751, d.
April 18, 1823. In early life he resided in
Beverly, engaged in commercial pursuits. In
1793, he removed to Boston. In 1788, he
was an influential member of the State Con-
vention, to act upon the adoption of the Fed-
eral Constitution. Subsequently, he has been
elected to the U. S. Senate. He married
Elizabeth, daughter of Stephen Higginson.

99 8. Nathaniel, b. May 2, 1753, was
lost at sea. Unmaried.

1009. Stephen, b. Nov. 26, 1754; mar-
ried Deborah Higginson.*

* See Hist. Coll. of Inst. Vol. IV. 275.
t See 716.

101 10. Francis, b. June 14, 1757,
d. married Nancy, daughter

of John and Sarah (Pickering) Clarke, of
Salem, who died Sept. 9, 1788, aet. 27, hav-
ing had Francis ; John Higginson ; Mary
Ann, married, 1st, N. C. Lee, and 2dly F.
Blanchard; Frederick; and Eliza.

10211. Samuel, b. Nov. 9, 1759,
d. 1819. Merchant at Boston; mar-

ried Sarah Barrett, and had Sarah; Polly;
Samuel; Mary Clark; Eliza Lee, wife of
Charles Follen, of Cambridge; Stephen; Jo-
seph; Sarah, 1st wife of Rev. Francis Park-
man of Boston; Susan Copley; Richard
Clark ; Edward ; Mary Ann, wife of Freder-
ick Cabot ; and Charles Stanton.

(16) FRANCIS HIGGINSON (63 5) born
Feb. 3, 1732-3 ; resided in Salem ; married,
July 15, 1758, Esther, daughter of Samuel
and Esther (Orne) Gardner of Salem. The
widow married, Oct. 6, 1761, Daniel Mackey
of Salem, and had several children.

(17) STEPHEN HIGGINSON (68 1) born
at Salem, Nov. 28, 1743 ; merchant at Salem
and Boston; died Nov. 22, 1828; married
Susan, daughter of Aaron and Susanna (Por-
ter) Cleveland, b. 1736, d. 1788. Chil-
dren:

103 1. John, born at Salem, Jan. 15,

1765, married, 1796, at Paris, a French la-
dy, and had Jennet, who died young ; Sim-
plice, the wife of the Baron Rouille.

1042. Sarah, b. at Salem, June 11,

1766, -d. in 1805; married Dudley Atkins
Tyng, and had Sarah Winslow, b. 1794, mar-
ried 1st Charles Head, 2dly, Joseph Mar-
quand, of Newburyport; Susan Cleveland,
born 1795, married Hon. E. A. Newton of
Pittsfield Mass; 'Dudley Atkins, M. D. born

1798; Stephen Higginson D. D. of Philadel-
phia b. 1800; Charles, b. 1801; George, b.
1803, d. unmarried in 1823 ; Mary Cabot,
b. 1805, married Hon. Robert Cross, of Ames-
bury, and James Higginson, b. 1807.

105 3. Nathaniel, b. Feb. 12, 1768;
resided in Philadelphia; a lawyer; married
Sarah Rhea, of that city, and died in 1794,
without issue.

106 4. Stephen, b. at Salem Nov. 20,
1770, died at Cambridge, Feb. 20, 1834;
married, Aug. 1794, Martha Salisbury, who
d. Sept. 20, J03; married 2dly, Feb. 14,
1805, Louisa Storrow, daughter of Capt. Tho-
mas Storrow of the British army. He resid-
ed at Cambridge, and was for many years
steward of Harvard College.

Children: Elizabeth Sewall, b. June 3,
1795, d. March 1796; Elizabeth Sewall b.
May 26, 1796, married Rev. Dr. Keith of
Virginia and d. without issue; Susan Cleve-
land, b. March 1800, d. Aug. 1801; Mar-
tha Salisbury, b. June 6, 1801, married Ich-
abod Nichols, D. D., of Portland; Stephen,
b. Aug. 4, 1803, d. June 13, 1804 ; Francis
John, M. D., born May 6, 1806; mar. Susan
Cleveland Channing, resides in Brattleboro,
Vt; Stephen, b. Jan. 4, 1809, married Ag-
nes G. Cochran, and resides in Brookline ;
Anne Storrow, b. Dec. 13, 1809; Edward
Cabot, b. April 21, 1812, d. March 1814;
Waldo, b. May 1, 1814, a civil engineer, for
many years Superintendent of the Boston
and Lowell Railroad ; Susan Louisa, b. Nov.
19, 1816; Samuel Thatcher, b. March 31,
1818; Mary Lee, b. April 1, 1820; Edward
Cabot, b. Dec. 20, 1821, d. 1824; Thomas
Wentworth, b. Dec. 22, 1823, formerly a
minister in Worcester, now Col. 1st South
Carolina Regiment.

107 5. Barbara Cooper, b. at Salem,

Jan. 15, 1774, married Samuel G. Perkins,
of Boston, had Barbara, who married Walter
Channing, M. D., of Boston, and died in
1822; Susan Cleveland, married George
Searle, and died without issue; Elizabeth
Peck ; Nancy Maynard ; Stephen Higginson ;
James Handyside.

108 6. Elizabeth, b. at Salem, Aug.
5, 1776, married Dudley Atkins Tyng (his
second wife;) after his death, she married
James Morss, D. D., of Newburyport, and
died without children.

109 7. George, b. at Boston, July 19,
1779, married, 1800, Martha Babcock, and
d. March 1812, leaving children; Martha
Babcock, married Augustus Aspinwall, and
died in 1833, no issue; Susan Cleveland;
George, who married Mary Cabot Lee, and
resides in Boston; John; James Babcock:
Sarah Rhea.

110 8. Henry, b. at Boston, Feb. 5,
1781, married, 1803, Nancy M. Gushing,
and had children; Henry, died Aug. 1824.
set. 17; Samuel Perkins, married Freelovc
W. Smith, of Iowa; Stephen C; John Gush-
ing; George Maynard.

111 9. Susan Cleveland, b. at Boston,
Ap. 20, 1783, married Francis Dana Chan-
ning, who died Nov. 1812, and had children;
Susan, married F. J. Higginson; Lucy El-
len ; William Henry.

He married 2dly, Miss Perkins of Boston,
she died leaving one son.

112 10. James Perkins, b. at Boston,
July, 1791, married Martha, the widow of
George Higginson, and had children ; Fran-
ces Saltonstall ; Louisa Gore ; Mary Hub-
bard; Sarah Rhea; Charles James; John
Augustus; Henry Frederick.

VOL. v.

He married 3dly, Sarah Perkins of Boston.

(18) SARAH HIGGINSON (67 2) b. Jan.
3, 1745, (o. s.) d. May 5, 1772, married,
Jan. 3, 1767, John Lowell, LL. D., an Amer-
ican Statesman and Jurist, son of Rev. John
and Sarah (Champney) Lowell, b. in New-
bury, June 17, 1743, (o. s.,) graduated at
Harvard in 1760; admitted to the practice
of the Law in 1762; resided in Newbury-
port until 1777, when he removed to Boston.
He took an active part in the organization
of the State and National governments. He
was uppointed by Washington to the bench
of the District Court of Massachusetts. He
died at Roxbury, May 6, 1802. They had
the following children :

113 1. Anna Cabot Lowell, b. March
20, 1768, d Dec. 1811.

114 2. John Lowell, born in Newbury-
port, Oct. 6, 1769, died in Boston, March
10, 1840, a lawyer and political writer of
great repute. Though he always refused to
accept office, few men in his day had so much
influence on Public opinion. He was Presi-
dent of the Massachusetts Agricultural Socie-
ty, and took a deep interest in agricultural
matters.

115 3. Sarah Champney Lowell, born
Jan. 1, 1771, died unmarried.

(19) DEBORAH HIGGINSON, (73 6) b.
Jan. 6, 1754, d. Dec. 14, 1820, married 1st
Stephen Cabot.* He died having one daugh-
ter.

1161. Mary, born Feb. 4, 1778, died
Aug. 2, 1802. Unmarried.
She married 2dly, Joseph Lee.f

*(See 100 9.)
t (See 95 4.)

(20) ELIZABETH HIGQINSON, (74 7)
baptised May 2, 1756, d. July 1826, mar-
ried, Feb. 22, 1774, George Cabot.*

Children :

117 1. George, died unmarried.

118 2. Henry, died young.

119 3. Charles G, graduated at Har-
vard, 1796; d. at Havana, Jan. 1811, set. 34;
merchant of Boston; unmarried.

120 4. Elizabeth, died young.

1215. Elizabeth, b. 1785, d. Aug.
17, 1839, married, Sept. 2, 1827, Rev.
John Thornton Kirkland,f S. T. D., LL. D.,
formerly Pastor of the Church on Church
Green, Boston, and President of Harvard
University from 1810 to 1828 ; son of Rev.
Samuel and Jerusha (Bingham) Kirkland ;
b. at Herkimer, Herkimer Co., N.Y., Aug. 17,
1770, died at Boston April 16, 1840.

122 6. Henry, married Anna S. Blake.
She died in Boston Mch 22, 1845, set. 49.

123 7. Edward, d in Boston, Dec.
17, 1803, set. 20.

ABSTRACTS FROM WILLS, INVEN-
TORIES, &c., ON FILE IN THE
OFFICE OF CLERK OF COURTS,
SALEM, MASS.

COPIED BY IKA J. PATCH.

Continued from Vol. iv, page 283.

John Weed, 4 mo. 1690.
Inventory of the estate of Lieut. John Weed
of Amesbury, taken (by request of his eldest
son, Samuel Weed) March 21, 1688-9, by

* (See 98 7.)

t See Young, A., Discourse on the life and char-
acter, May 3, 1840; also Palfrey, John G., Dis-
course on the life and character, June 5, 1 840.

Samuel Foot, Thomas Sargent and Thomas
Barnard Sr., amounting to 737 15s. 6d.
returned by said Samuel Weed, who by con-
sent of his mother, Deborah Weed, as on file,
his appointed admr. 24th of June, 1792.
John Tawley, 4 mo. 1690.

Inventory of estate of John Tawley, taken
25th of June, 1690, by Robert Kitchen and
Benjamin Marston, amounting to 722 2s. 4d.
returned by Mrs. Elizabeth, relict widow of
the deceased, June 24, 1690.

Abel Huse, 7 mo. 1690.

will of Abel Huse, Sr. of Newbury, dated
7th of March, 1689-90, mentions his wife,
Mary, sons Abel, Thomas, William, John,
daughters, Ruth Browne, Sarah Huse, Eben-
ezer Huse. appoints his wife sole extx. Wit-
nesses, Benaiah Titcomb and H. Shortt. Pro-
bate Sept. 30, 1690. Inventory of estate of
Abel Huse, deceased 29th of March, 1690,
taken 18th of Sept., 1690, by Henry Lunt
and Jacob Toppan, amounting to 416 2s.,
returned by the extx., Sept. 30, 1690.
Moses Bradstreet, 1 mo. 1690.

Will of Moses Bradstreet, dated 16th of
August 1690, mentions his wife's children
by her former husband ; son, John Bradstreet,
to him one half of the farm "yt was my Father
Broadstreets," sons, Humphrey, Nathaniel,
Moses and Jonathan. Daughters, Bridget
and Hannah. Appoints John and Moses exrs.
Witnesses, Edward Pay son, Nicholas Wallis
and Nehemiah Jewett, probate Sept. 30, 1690.
Inventory of above estate, taken 26th of Sept.,
1690, by Samuel Platts and Nehemiah Jew-
ett, amounting to 1257 2s., debts against
the estate, 31 12s. 5d. Returned Sept. 30,
1690.

Benj. Stevens, 7 mo. 1690.

Inventory of estate of Seargent Benj. Ste-
vens, of Salisbury, dec'd March 13, 1689-90,

taken 16th of Sept., 1690, by Jonn Allen
and Jeremy Allen, amounting to 307 10s.,
returned by Hannah, relict widow of the dec'd
who is appointed admx., Sept. 30, 1690.

Benoni Mackerest, 7 mo. 1690.
Inventory of estate of " Benoney mak Rast
of Salisbury," deceased Aug. 7, 1690, taken
Sept. 13, 1690, by Benjamin Eastman and
Philip Browne, amounting to 177 5s., re-
turned by Lydia, relict widow of dec'd, who
is appointed admx.

Henry Dole, 7 mo. 1690.

Inventory of estate of Henry Dole, taken
26th of Sept., 1690, by Samuel Plummer
and Joseph Pike, amounting to 208 9s. 7d.,
returned by Mr. Richard Dole, Sr. and Sarah
Dole, of Newbury, widow of dec'd, who are
appointed exors.

Sand. Parker, 1 mo. 1690.

Inventory of the estate of Samuel Parker,
of Haverhill, taken Sept. 29, 1690, by Wil-
liam Starlin and Christopher Bartlett,
amounting to 128 4s. 6d., returned by
Martha Parker, relict of deceased, who is ap-
pointed admx.

Danl. Bradley, 7 mo. 1690.

Inventory of estate of Daniel Bradley, Sr.,
"slain by the heathen, the 13th of August,
1689," taken Sept. 23, 1689, by Daniel
Ladd, Jr. and Samuel Ayer, amounting to
215 Is. 10d.. List of debts due from the
estate amounting to 39 14s., returned Sept.
30, 1690, by Mary Bradley, relict widow of
deceased admx.

Petition of Daniel Bradley, son of the de-
ceased, that his brother, Joseph Bradley, may
be appointed admx., Sept. 30, 1690.

Wm. Acey, 7 mo. 1690.
Will of Wm. Acey, of Rowley, being very
aged, dated 22d of April, 1689, mentions

grandchild, John Brown of Rowley, Nathan-
iel Brown and Ebenezer Brown; grandchild,
Bethiah Brown's daughter, Sarah Brown ; son
John Acey's three daughters, Elizabeth, Han-
nah and Margaret; appoints his grandson,
John Brown, with whom he is at present, to
be sole exor. ; witnesss, Richard Dumener,
Benjamin Groodridge Sr.; probate Sept. 30,
1690.

Joseph Wilson, 7 mo. 1690.
Inventory of estate ot Joseph Wilson, taken
Sept. 26, 1690, by Shorebome Wilson, a-
mounting to 85 Is. ; list of debts, 40 14s.
lid.; returned by said Shoreborne Wilson,
Sept. 30, 1690.

Nathl Clark, 7 mo. 1690.

Will of Nathaniel Clark, of Newbury, da-
ted 21st of August, 1690, mentions son Na-
thaniel, if he lives, to come home, son Thom-
as, and his wife's father Noyes, sons, Henry,
Daniel and Josiah, his brigandine, and all es-
tate, not already disposed of, to his wife and
son John, whom he appoints exors., to bring up
his four youngest children, and when the chil-
dren are of age, the estate to be divided into
six parts, his wife to have two parts, and his
son John, daughters Sarah, Elizabeth and Ju-
dith to have the other parts equally ; appoints
his father-in-law, Tristam Coffin, and his
friends, Henry Somerby and William Noyes,
overseers; witnesses, William Noyes and Re-
becca Somerby, probate Sept. 30, 1690, and
widow Elizabeth and son, John, exors.

Inventory of above estate, taken Sept. 27,
1690, amounting to 714 9s., returned by
the exors., Sept. 30, 1690.

John Wattis, 9 mo. 1690.
Inventory of estate of John Wallis of
Gloucester, taken 29th of Jan., 1690-91, by
William Elerse, Isaac Elwell and Ezekiel Col-

lins, amounting to 50 13s., returned by Ma-
ry, relict of deceased, who is appointed adiux.
29 1 mo. 1691.

Mark Pitman, 9 mo. 1690.
Inventory of estate of Mark Pitman of Mar-
blehead, taken June 6. 1690, by Nathaniel
Norden and Aichibald Ferguson, amounting
to 75 8s. 9d., returned by Sarah, relict of
the deceased, who is appointed admx. , 25th
9 mo., 1690.

Hugh Jones, 9 mo. 1690.
Inventory of estate of Hugh Jones, taken
by William Trask and Stephen Small, amount-
ing to 83 19s.

George Keysar, 9 mo. 1690.
Will of George Keysar of Salem : being
aged and full of years, dated Feb. 16, 1686-7,
mentions wife, Rebecca Keysar, apprentices,
John Stone and Joseph Russell, eldest son
Eleazer, John, Benjamin, daughter, Hannah
Keysar, she not being able to take care of
herself, her brother to provide for her, son-in-
law Thomas Mould ; and Mary his wife, son
Eleazer's two children, Mary and Sarah, un-
der age, son John's children, John, George,
Timothy and , grandchildren Rob-

ert and Sarah Gilloway, under age, Sarah
Cannon, the wife of Robert Cannon, Edward
and Susanna Martin of Boston, his first wife's
sister's children, his daughter-in-law, Eliza-
beth Aslebey, his wife's daughter; appoints
his sons Eleazer and John exors., witnesses,
John Hathorne, William Hirst, Simon Wil-
lard and Samuel Pickman, probate, Sept. 20,
1690.

RicVd Woodbury, 9 mo. 1690.
Will of Richard Woodbury, being called in
the service, in the expedition against Canada,
dated Aug. 1, 1690, mentions wife Sarah,
sons and daughters; appoints his wife Sarah

and eldest son, Richard his exors., and his
brothers, Thomas, William Woodbury and Ro-
ger Haskell, overseers, witnesses Wm. Wood-
bury and Edward Whittington, probate 25th
of 9 mo., 1690.

Inventory of estate of Richard Woodbury,
"who dyed at his return from ye Late Cani-
die Expedition on the 20th day of this instant
and was buried in Boston," taken 25th of
Nov. 1690, by Andrew Elliott and Daniel
Collins, amounting to 326 13s, 7d., returned
by Sarah, widow, and Rich'd, eldest son of
deceased, exors., 25th of 9 mo., 1690.

John Gove, 9 mo. 1690.

Inventory of estate of John Gove, taken 3d
of February 1690, by Nathaniel Sillsbey and
Samuel Pike, amounting to 19s. due to the
estate, by his wages at the eastward, 16 5s.
7d., returned by Lt. Jeremiah Ncsil, June
30, 1691, who was appointed admr. Jan. 27,
1690.

John Newmash, Jr., 9 mo. 1690.

Inventory of estate of John Ncwmarsh, Jr.
of Ipswich, taken 30th of March, 1691, by
Jacob Foster and John Hanniford, amounting
to 346 3s. 6d., returned by Johanna, his
widow, who is appointed admx., 3d of 9 mo.,
1691.

Moses Maverick, 1 mo. 1690.
Petition, dated April 12, 1691, of Edward
Woodman of Boston, who married Remember,
the daughter of Moses Maverick, late of Mar-
blehead. In behalf of the seven children of
said Remember, his wife showeth : that ad-
ministration of said Maverick estate, was grant-
ed to Eunice, relict widow of the deceased
the 15 of July, 1686, and nothing hath been
done towards the settlement of said estate.
Said Woodman therefore prays that the Court
will order said Eunice to give an account of

her administration, that there may be legal
settlement, and those entitled receive their
just dues.

It is ordered that said Eunice be summoned
to bring in her account at the next County
Court at Salem, on the last Tuesday of June
next. April 22, 1691.

Benj. Affur, 1 mo. 1691.
Will of Benjamin Agur of Salem, ship-
wright, dated 8th of July, 1689, mentions
brother Thomas Augur,late of Salem, deceased,
father Benjamin Augur, late of Salem, de.
ceased, mentions the children of his father-in-
law, David Shipping of Salem, shipwright,
and appoints said Daniel his sole exor., wifc-
nesses, John Coombs, Rebecca Prince and
Eliezer Moody, Sr., probate at Boston, Mar.
2, 1690-1, presented by David Phippen, and
allowed by Sim Broadstreet, and Sam Sewall
and Isa Addington assists.

John Cheney, 2 mo. 1691.
Mary Kilburne and Martha Cheney apptd
admx. of their brother's estate, John Cheney,
who died of small pox in the Canada Expe-
dition, under Capt. Nelson, leaving no broth-
er. April 22, 1691.

Sam*l Smith, 2 mo. 1691.
At Court April 22, 1691. Whereas Sam-
uel Smith of Rowley died in the voyage to
Canada, Mary relict of said Samuel requests
Letter of Administration, which is granted.

Adam Gage, 2 mo. 1691.

To the Court at Tpswich 31 March 1691.

The petition of Thomas Gage showeth that
my brother Adam Grage went out a soldier
for Canada and there was slain in their Majes-
ties service, and hath left a widow and not
any child and neither house land or household
stuff considerable, but hath several debts to
pay, and he is willing to take administration

and do the best he can or if they do not see
cause to appoint him, he wishes to be heard
in behalf of the creditors.

RoVt McLaflin, 4 mo. 1691.
Inventory of estate of Robert Mackclaflin
of Wenham taken Sept. 19, 1690, by Rich-
ard Hutton and John Batchelder senr amount-
ing to 101 9s 6d returned June 30 1691
by Capt. Tho's Fiske of Wenham adm'r.

John Milk, 4 mo. 1691.

Will of John Milk of Salem dated 16
March 1687-8, mentions wife Sarah son John
daughter Mary Milk, appoints wife and son
executors. Witnesses William Dounten, Re-
becca Dounten and William Smith, probate
26 9 mo 1689.

Inventory of above estate taken 1st July
1691, by William Dounten and James Sy-
monds, amounting to 71 2s Id returned by
Sarah Milk one of exors. June 30 1691.

John Harwood, 4 mo. 1691.

Inventory of estate of John Harwood
senr taken 20 9 mo 1690, by Samuel Cutter
sen and Zachariah Marsh senr. amounting to
113 12s, returned by Em Harwood widow
and Jonathan Harwood son of deceased 14
1 mo 1690-1, and administration granted to
them.

agreement dated March 2 1690-1, between
the widow Em Harwood and her children
John Jonathan David and Alice Harwood
that the estate shall remain as it is without
any division during the widow's life.

Philip Prance, 4 mo. 1691.
Inventory of the estate of Philip Prance
of Marblehead dec'd his wife Rachel also de-
ceased taken 19th Mar 1690-1 by Richard
Reith and Nathaniel Norden amounting to
165 Is 7d. at the request of James Smith
cousin german in blood to the deceased.

The deposition of Samuel Cheever of Mar-
blehead aged 51 years, 30 March 1691.
James Collins, 4 mo. 1691.

" An Inventory of the Estate of James
Collins of Salem, who went A voiage to Bar-
bados June ye 18th 1685 And not as yet
Returned nor heard of" taken June 30,
1691 by Samuel Phippen and John Rogers
amounting to 62 13s. returned by his widow
Hannah Collins, who asks for allowance for
educating and bringing up Adoniram y son
of said James by his former wife, from 3
years old until he was 13 years of age, and
James her own son, and is appointed adrnx.
June 30, 1691.

RoVt Bennett, 4 mo. 1691.

Inventory of estate of Robert Bennett of
Marblehead, who died February 6th 1690-1,
taken by William Beale Sr and Robert Bart-
lett sen. amounting to 33 4s 6d returned
June 30 1691 by George Bonfield who is
appointed admr.

The testimony of William Beale aged up-
ward of sixty years William Dagget upward
of 30 years and David Furnace aged upward
of twenty-one years, all of Marblehead.
June 30 1691.

John Pumery, 4 mo. 1691.

Inventory of estate of John Pumary of
Salem taken by Edward Norice and Walter
Palfrey amounting to 147 13s 6d. re-
turned by Mary relict of the dec'd who is
appointed admx.

Mary West, 4 mo. 1691.

Inventory of estate of Mary West, late of
Manchester, widow deceased on the 28th day
of October 1690, taken 20 November 1690
by John Hill Thomas West and Jonn Siblee
amounting to 161 19s 6d. returned by
John Lee who is appointed admr. June 30
1691.

John Northey, 4 mo. 1691.

Will of John Northey sen of Marblehead,
dated 8 September 1688, mentions children
John Northey and Sarah Martin and her
sons John Martin, Peter, Samuel, Robert, and
Thomas ; grandchild John Picket, Dorothy
Picket, appoints his son exor. witnesses
Erasmus James, Nathaniel Norden, and Wil-
liam Waters, probate June 30 1691.
John Neal 4 mo. 1691.

Inventory of estate of John Neal taken
6th April 1791 by Jeremiah Neal and Sam-
uel Pike amounting to 17 18s 4d debts
due to the estate 32 5s 4 l-2d, due from
the estate 2 19s returned by Samuel Neal
admr., 30th June 1691.

Wm. Sibley, 4 mo. 1691.

Will of William Sibley of Salem dated
30 January 1690-1, mentions sons John Sib-
ley Joseph Sibley Nathaniel Sibley under
age, daughters Ruth, Rachell, wife Ruth and
appoints her extx, and his friends Capt.
Jonathan Walcott, John Sibley, Thomas
Haines and Thomas Putnam to be overseers.
Witnesses Thomas Haynes John Putnam Jr.
and Thomas Putnam. Probate June 30
1691.

Address to the Court from Ruth Siblye
widow of said William sheweth, that she
had by will a good farm of 140 acres from
her father William Canterbury, she was
first married to Thomas Small by whom she
had one son and three daughters, her first
husband deceased about 1 5 years since, mar-
ried to William Sibly about 14 years since,
her husband brought little estate with him
and was sickly for several years being thought
to be in a consumption, &c. dated June 30
1691.
George Hopes, Mary Ropes, 4 mo., 1691.

Inventory of the estate of George Ropes

deceased after the death also of his widow
Mary taken 1st July 1691 by Simon Wil-
lard and William Dounton, amounting to
55 8s 6d returned by John Ropes son of
above who is appointed admr June 30 1691.
RoVt Stone, 4 mo. 1691.

Inventory of estate of Robert Stone Junr
and Hannah his wife taken 7th July 1691,
by Jeremiah Neal and John Buttelph, a-
mounting to 87 16s returned by the widow
Sarah Stone, relict of Rob't Stone Sen'r de-
ceased, who is appointed admx. Jnne 30
1691.

George Oakes, 4 mo. 1691.

Inventory of estate of George Oakes of
Lynn deceased the 17th of April 1691 taken
by John Blaney senr and Michael Bowden,
amounting to 59 14s 3d. list of debts due
from the estate amounting to 48 13s 6d.
returned by John Oakes brother of the de-
ceased who is appointed admr with the con-
sent of " Ginnet Oake " mother of the de-
ceased, July 18th 1691.

Zebulon Hill, 4 mo. 1691.

Will of Zebulon Hill Jr of Salem marri-
ner intending a voyage to sea, dated 23d Oc-
tober 1690, mentions his honored father and
mother still surviving. Brother Benjamin
and other brothers and sisters, appoints his
father exor. witnesses Samuel Beadle Thom-
as Beadle and Benjamin Gerrish. probate
June 30, 1691.

John Hill, 4 mo. 1691.

Will of John Hill of Salem Cooper, being
found a voyage to sea, dated 9th October
1690 gives to his wife Priscilla all his es-
tate real and personal, witnesses Retire
Shattuck and Samuel Williams probate June
30, 1691.

Inventory of above estate taken 30 June
1691, by Roger Derby and Richard Prythe-

rek, amounting to 91 7s 6d returned by
Piiscilla Hill, ext'x June 30 1691.

Gabriel Holman, 4 mo. 1691.
Inventory of estate of Gabriel Holman of
Marblehead his wife also being deceased
since taken June 8 1691 by Francis Girdler
and Francis Grant amounting to 4 6s list
of debts due from the estate 4 7s 6d re-
turned by Sam'l Holman the Eldest son left
of the deceased, June 30, 1691.

Alice ElwelL 4 mo. 1691.

Will of Alice Elwell of Gloucester, dated
24 March 1690-1, mentions her late husband
Robert Elwell, five daughters one being Al-
ice Bennett appoints Morris Smith and John
Day exors witnesses James Stevens and
Thomas Millett Sen., probate June 30 1091.
died 10th April 1690-1.

Inventory of above estate taken 9 May
1691, by Thomas Millet Senr, Joseph Allin
and Jonathan Orris, amounting to 49 2s
6d. returned by exor June 30, 1691.

Jona. Gatchells 4 mo 1691.
Inventory of the estate of Jonathan Gatch-
ell of Marblehead taken 11 June 1691 by
Erasmus James and John Nicholson amount-
ing to 811 s 6d returned by Jeremiah
Gatchell brother of deceased June 30 1691.

Thaddeus Redding, 4 mo. 1691.

Inventory of estate of Thaddeus Reading
of Marblehead who died 6 January 1690,
taken 24th June 1691 by William Beale
Senr, Robert Bartlett Senr and Benjamin
James, amounting to 5 1 1 Os 3d. returned
by John Reading admr June 1691.
Patrick Gorsey 4 mo. 1691.

" An a Count of Patrick Corsy Testate a
Depts as it apeareth for searuing thare Mai-
estis and the Country a Gainst the Indiens
vnder the command of Capt. Guniand Wil-

lard from August 28th 90 : to the 16 of
May 91 11 07s OOd. Cr to a Goon at
00 12s Od.

pr mee JNO. CONANTS."

AUen Breed 4 mo. 1691.
Inventory of the estate of Allen Breed
senr who died Mar. 17 1691 taken by Na-
thaniel Ballard and Henry Stacey amounting
to 46 7s, returned June 30 1601 by Allen
Breed senr of Lynn who is appointed admr
and give bond with John Breed and Joseph
Breed as sureties.

Wm. Averitt, 4 mo. 1691.
Will of William Averill of Topsfield,
dated 15 April 1680, mentions wife and
eleven children under age, sons John, Na-
thaniel ; appoints his wife sole extx. wit-
nesses John Wilds and Sarah Wilds, pro-
bate June 30 1691. died 23d April 1691.

Inventory of estate taken by Samuel How-
lett and Daniel Kedington, amounting to
589 4s 3d returned by Hannah widow and
extx of said William June 30, 1691.

Wm. Babb, 4 mo. 1691.
Inventory of estate of William Bab taken
February 2U, 1690, by Nathaniel Felton
and Isaac Cook, amounting to 4 17s re-
turned by Deborah Babb widow of dec'd
who is appointed admx. June 30 1691

Mathew Woodwell 4 mo. 1691.
Will of Mathew Woodwell of Salem, dated
28th of Dec. 1690, mentions wife Mary, sons
Samuel, John, Mathew and Joshua, daugh-
ters Mary, Margaret, Elizabeth and Dorcas
appoints his wife sole extx., and Mr. John
Pickering, senr. and Mr. Manasseh Marston
to be overseers, witnesses, John Marston senr
George Ingersoll Jr. and Robert Nowell, Sr
probate 30th of June, 1691. Inventory o

above estate, taken by William Dounton and
Manasseh Marston, amounting to 180 17s.
6d., returned by the widow and extx., Mary
Woodwell, June 30, 1691.

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Boston, Jan. 8, 1863. The annual meet-
ng was held at the rooms of the Historical
and Genealogical Society, Mr. J. Colburn,
Vice President, in the chair. The following
yentleinen were elected officers for the ensuing
year: President, Wmshw Lewis, M.D. ; Vice
President, Jeremiah Colburn; Treasurer,
Henry Davenport; Secretary, William S. Ap-
pleton. The Cabinet, of the Society, contains
about one thousand coins, most of which are
the American series of Medals and Coins.
There are many fine specimens of foreign coins,
embracing, Greek, Roman, French, Chinese,
Japanese, Siamese, and a very fair collection
of English ; most of the foreign, are donations
from members and gentleman interested in

the study.

The Secretary exhibited several coins of

much interest ; one was a rare pattern for "5
Decimes" of the French Republic of 1793.
It is a large coin of bell-metal, with the in-
scription "Regeneration Francaise," repre-
senting the Goddess of Reason giving nour-
ishment to the French Nation. A medal, al-
so, was shown by the same gentleman, struck
in silver, size 38, by the New England Socie-
ty, for the Promotion of Manufactures and
Mechanical Arts. Obverse; a beautiful head
of Archimedes and the date 1826. Reverse ;
representations of a carding-machine, a steam,
boat and a steam-engine, with the inscription
" Genius, Intelligence and Industry triumph,"
with the names of Archimedes, Galileo, New-
ton, Franklin, Watts and Fulton, surrounded
by rays of glory. The name of the artist C.
Gobrecht, is on each side.

HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS

O F T H E

ESSEX INSTITUTE.

Vol. V.

April, 1863.

No. 2.

A MEMOIR OF

GEN. JOHN GLOVER,

OP MARBLKHEAD.

BY WILLIAM P. UPHAM.

(A Report read at a Meeting of the Essex Institute, March
9th, 1863, upon a donation to the Library of certain
books formerly belonging to Gen 1 1 Glover.)

These books were recently presented to the
Essex Institute by Hon. Robert Hooper* of
Boston, with the exception of one volume, be-
longing however to the same series, presented
by Wm. R. L. Ward, Esq.f of New York.
They form a most valuable donation, consisting
of seven manuscript volumes. One contains
copies of letters written by Gen. Glover
while in the Revolutionary service, herein re-
ferred to as the Letter Book. The other six
are the Orderly Books, kept in the 21st Provin-
cial Regiment, afterwards the 14th Continental
Regiment. This Regiment was commanded by
Col. John Glover from the commencement of
the Revolution until the 21st of February 1777,
when he was made Brigadier General. From

* A grandson of Gen. Glover.
t A great-grandson of Jonathan Glover, who
was a brother of Gen. Glover.

VOL. V. (9)

that time until the close of the war, it constitu-
ted part of Gen. Glover's Brigade.

In the Orderly Books, above mentioned, are
preserved the General Orders issued each day
from Head Quarters at the place where this
Regiment was stationed, during the following
periods of the Revolution :

Volume No. 1, beginning June 29th, 1775,
Head Quarters at Cambridge, and ending Sept.
14th, 1775.

No. 2, beginning Sept. 15th, 1775, and
ending Jan. 5th, 1776.

No. 3, beginning Jan. 6th, 1776, and end-
ing July 26th, 1776, Head Quarters at New
York.

No. 4, beginning Oct. 19th, 1776, Head
Quarters at Mile Square, N. Y., and ending
Oct. 14th, 1778, Head Quarters at Provi-
dence, R. I. A gap occurs in this Number
from Nov. 24th, 1776, Head Quarters at
North Castle, New York, to June 28th, 1778,
Head Quarters at Fort Arnold, N. Y.

No. 5, beginning March 6th, 1779, Head
Quarters at Providence, R. I., and ending
July 28, 1779, Head Quarters at Ridgfield,
Conn.

No. 6, beginning Aug. 3d, 1781, Head
Quarters at Phillipsburg, N. Y., and ending
Nov. 26th, 1781. Head Quarters at the High-
lands, N. Y.

Orderly Books of the Revolution are very
rare, and it is doubtful whether there exists
another series so complete and well preserved
as this. For, though all Aides de Camp
and Majors of Brigades were ordered "to
keep regularly entered in a Book all the Gen-
eral Orders of the Army, as well as those of
the Brigade they belong to,"* still such Books
were considered of no value, except for a tem-
porary purpose, and the constantly shifting
movements of the different portions of the Ar-
my, the frequent and sudden marches, the loss
of baggage, and especially the careless irreg-
ularities of Camp life, caused them to be poor-
ly kept, and soon lost.

For the student of American History, noth-
ing could afford so interesting, and at the
same time so reliable, a source of information ;
and the reader viewing, as if actually present,
the very scenes as they transpired from day
to day in that long and doubtful contest which
finally established our Independence, will gain
a higher appreciation of the wisdom, patience
and benevolence of Washington, and the brav-
ery and fidelity of his officers and of his army.

As no biography has ever been written of
Gen. Glover, to whom these manuscripts be-
longed, and with whose career they are so
intimately connected, the following article may
serve as an accompaniment and illustration of
the books themselves, and at the same time do
some justice to the memory of that distin-
guished patriot, "active, modest and indus-
trious, the friend of Washington, the trustiest
friend of freedom, the hero of Trenton. "f

* See Orderly Book, No. 1, July 20, 1775.
t Address of Geo. B. Loring before the Colum-
bian Society in Marblehead, Jan. 8, 1856. page 5.

General John Glover was born in Salem
Mass., Nov. 5, 1732, and was baptised in the
First Church in Salem, Nov. 26. He died
in Marblehead, Jan. 30, 1797. His father,
Jonathan, Jr., was born in Salem, Dec. 14,
1702, and married Tabitha Bacon of Salem,
Feb. 23, 1727. Jonathan, Sr., father of the
preceding, was born in Salem, April, 1677,
and was the son of John Glover, who was
married in Salem in 1660, probably
the son of Charles Glover, who came from
England to this country in 1630, and joined
the First Church in Salem, as a member in
full communion, June 10, 1640.*

Gen. John Glover and his three broth-
ers, Jonathan, Samuel and Daniel removed
from Salem to Marblehead when young, and
became engaged in various branches of trade :
Jonathan was a hatter, Samuel a goldsmith,
Daniel a blockmaker, and John a shoemaker.
In 1754, Oct. 30, John married Hannah Gale
of Marblehead.

He soon after entered into the fishing busi-
ness, and was prosperously engaged in that
and other mercantile pursuits until the outbreak
of the Revolution. His brother Samuel was
a Captain through the French War, in Joseph
Williams' Regiment, during the year 1757,
and in Jonathan Bagley's Regiment, from
1758 until the end of the War.

John and his brother Jonathan appear by
the Marblehead Records to have held for
many years offices of honor and trust in the
Town Government, and were connected with
many enterprises for the benefit of the inhab-
itants. In 1773, when the prevalence of the
Small Pox excited such apprehension among
the people of this vicinity, they were the prin-
cipal movers in building the Hospital for the
purpose of inoculation on Cat Island, now Low-

* For a Genealogical table of the family, see the
appendix.

ell Island, in Salem Harbor. For this purpose
leave was granted by vote of the town of Sa-
lem, Aug. 16, 1773,* and they, with others,
erected the Hospital, and carried it on at their
own expense for more than a year successful-

y.t

There was a large party, however, who did
not believe in the efficacy of inoculation, and
so fierce was the opposition on the part of
some of the people, that they threatened to
mob the proprietors of the Hospital. But
Jonathan Glover, with an energy appropriate
to the place and the occasion, having station-
ed a loaded cannon in the hall of his house,
opened his doors, and declared his readiness
to receive the rioters. This prompt action
seems to have prevented any actual violence,
but the controversy continued to cause great
excitement in the neighborhood, and only
ended, when, in the spring of 1775, the far
more important question of Liberty engrossed
the attention of all.

Marblehead made early preparations for the
great struggle which her citizens wisely judged
to be inevitable 4

Before the year 1775, a full Militia Eegi-
ment, of a thousand men, had been maintained
by this town, then in point of wealth and im-

* Felt's Annals, 1st Edition, page 484. M'd
Town Records.

tA very interesting account of this Hospital,
and of the " Small Pox War" which it occasioned
in 1774, may be found in the Marblehead Mirror of
March 21st, 1863, written by J. H. Orne, of Mar-
blehead. The proprietors of the Hospital were
Elbridge Gerry, John Glover, Azor Orne and Jon-
athan Glover. For an account of the building of a
similar Hospital, in the southeast part of the great
pastures in Salem, see a Memoir of Dr. Edward
A. Holyoke, Boston, 1829, Appendix I.

t See Gordon's History of American War i, 422.
M. Town Records.

portance, the second in the Colony of Massa-
chusetts.

This Regiment was reorganized, men and
officers being enlisted for the Continental ser-
vice. The ten companies were very soon com-
pleted, and the men, thoroughly equipped and
disiplined, ready to turn out for duty on any
emergency. John Glover was chosen Col-
onel. On the 26th of February, 1775,
when Col. Leslie made his famous descent up-
on the quiet "City of Peace," had he not
prudently avoided a collision in the affair at
North Bridge, the brave men of the Marble-
head Regiment, who had instantly collected
upon the alarm being given, and were all ready
drawn up on the line of his retreat from Sa-
lem, would have given him a similar reception
to that which met Col. Smith and Lord Percy
on the 19th of April, when retreating from
Lexington.*

John Glover had for many years been in
the military service, and had held the follow-
ing commissions, the originals of which are
still in the possession of his descendants, first,
as " Ensign in the third military foot Compa-
ny in the Town of Marblehead, under the
Command of Richard Reed Esq., in the fifth
Regiment of Militia in the County of Essex,
whereof Jacob Fowle Esq. is Colonel," dated
March 12th, 1759, and signed by Thomas
Pownall, Governor, and Andrew Oliver, Sec-
retary ; second, as "Captain Lieut't in the
military Company of Foot in Marblehead,
under the Command of Azor Orne Esq. in
the Regiment of Militia in the County of Es-
sex, whereof Jacob Fowle Esq. is Colonel,"
dated Feb. 12th, 1762, and signed by Fran-
cis Bernard, Governor, and John Cotton,

* See 4th of July Oration at Salem, 1842, C. W.
Upham ; also an account of Leslie's Retreat by C.
M. Endicott.

Dep. Secretary; third, as "Captain of a mili-
tary Company of Foot in the Town of Mar-
blehead, in the Regiment of Militia in the
County of Essex, whereof John Gallison
Esq. is Colonel," dated February 8th, 1773,
and signed by Thomas Hutchinson, Gover-
nor, and John Cotton, Dep. Secretary. -

Col. Glover abandoned his extensive
business, and devoted himself with his
whole energy to the patriot cause. His
money was given to aid the enlistment of
men, and the purchase of supplies for the
Continental army ; and his vessels were
turned into privateers. Associated with him,
were such men as Col. Azor Orne* and El-
bridge Gerry, with whom he was intimately
connected, both in town and state affairs. While
in the army he maintained a constant corres-
pondence with them, as influential members
of the State Government, in regard to the con-
duct of the War, and the fowarding of men
and supplies. f

It is sufficient evidence of the high opinion
which Glover's fellow townsmen had of his a-
bility, that they should at once select him as
the best fitted to command a Regiment com-
posed of nearly all the able-bodied men of the
town; and the sequel justified the selection,
for this Regiment, and the 14th Continental,
which was formed from it, at the new enlist-
ment of Jan. 1, 1776, became under the care-
ful and constant training of Glover, the best
equipped, best disciplined, and most reliable
Corps in the Army.

Frequently called upon in those sudden and
critical emergencies, which put to the severest
test the soldier's courage and endurance, its
brave men elicited the applause and admira-
tion of all, by their unexampled readiness,

* Marblehead Register, April 17,1 839.
t See Letter Book.

skill and intrepidity; engaged in most of the
important battles of the War from its com-
mencement to its close, in many instances as-
signed the post of honor when extraordinary
difficulty or peril surrounded the Army, and
ever prepared and willing for service, either
on the land or on the water, this Regiment
established that world-wide reputation, which
Marblehead has, from that time to the present,
so nobly sustained.

The sacrifices which Marblehead made for
the cause of the Revolution, are shown by the
following facts. In 1772, the tonnage of
Marblehead was upwards of twelve thousand,
and the number of polls twelve hundred
and three; in 1780, the polls were but five
hundred and forty four, and the tonnage at
the peace, was only fifteen hundred and nine;
nearly every able-bodied citizen was abroad
engaged in the public service, either "upon
land or water," and at the close of the contest,
there were within the borders of this single
town, four hundred and forty- eight widows,
and nine hundred and sixty-six fatherless chil-
dren. No other town in the United States of
the same population and property, lost so large
a proportion of both, probably, as Marble-
head.*

The following taken from the Marblehead
Register of April 17, 1830, gives a brief ac-
count of some interesting events in the early
history of the Revolution.

"MARBLEHEAD REMINISCENCES.

1773, Dec. 16th Tea destroyed in Bos-
ton.

1774, March 25th. Boston Port Bill
passed, only Coasters allowed to enter after
being searched at Marblehead and an officer
put on board to proceed to Boston ; many
strangers in town, and great buzz among the
people.

* Report on the American Fisheries, by Loren.
zo Sabine 1853, page 202.

July 5th. Governor Gage in town, and
dines with Mr. Robert Hooper.

Angust 1st. Town sent eleven carts laden
with Jamaica fish and a cask of oil to Boston,
as a present to the inhabitants of that town.

Sept. 30th. The British soldiers stationed
on Marblehead Neck. The soldier, i., who
wounded Capt. Merritt, was there punished;
five hundred lashes. A Town Meeting was
previously held on the subject, which was re-
ferred to the military.

Oct. 6th. Great fire in Salem; our peo-
ple go over with the Union Engine, Edward
Homan, Captain. The town of Salem after-
wards credits the town of Marblehead for
saving their town, or a great part of it.
Thanks were given to Capt. Homan for his
exertions : it is said that boards were held be-
fore his face at the time.

Oct. 8th. Sloop arrived from Boston, so-
liciting further donations.

1775, Feb. 9th. His Majesty's ship Live-
ly, 20 guns, Capt. Bishop, arrived and an-
chored opposite the Fort, Capt. and officers,
few days after, dine on shore.

Feb. 26th. Came into the harbour a trans-
port with 246 troops, which were landed while
the people were gone to meeting in the after-
noon on Homan's Beach, and there loaded
their guns and marched out of town. Some
of the soldiers carried coils of rope. It after-
wards appeared, that when they arrived at the
North Bridge in Salem, the people took up
the bridge to hinder them from going further
that way. A compromise, afterwards took
place, between the commander, and the
people; the bridge was let down and he
was allowed to march yards, which

he did, and so returned to Marblehead after
dark and went on board the Transport again.
As they returned through the town, they
passed the Marblehead Regiment, all hands to
quarters.

March 14th. Capt. Bishop again dined
on shore He is said to be a good kind of
man.

April 19th. British troops march out of
Boston. Paul Revere previously left the town
and spread the news. Battle at Lexington.

April 20th. Capt. Bishop sent a message
on shore : Town Meeting on the subject ; many
people moving out of town.

May 3rd. Brig Nancy sailed for Europe.
" 21st. Mr. Whitwell preached to Ar-
tillery Company at Old Meeting House. Text
Chron. 28, 15.

May 22nd. Drums and fifes go about
town ; fishermen enlisting for Continental Ar-
my.

May 25th. Generals Howe, Burgoyne,
and Clinton arrive at Boston.

May 26th. Lively ordered to Boston.

28th. Preaching at church. Text
Jer. 9, 24.

May 30th. Alarm ; soldiers said to be
landing at the ferry; Glover with the Regi-
ment turn out; himself with a short jacket on;
alarm false.

May 31st. The Lively sailed for Boston ;
the Merlin, Sloop of war takes her place.

June 6th, Arrived a schooner from W.
Indies; Glover's; he went off to meet her;
the Merlin sent his barge, to order her to the
ship, Glover refused, and so run her into Ger-
ry's wharf; much people collected to see the
fray.

June llth. Sailed Schooner Charlotte Ste-
phens W. Indies.

June 15th. Town send a Committee of
three on board the Merlin.

June 17th. Battle of Bunker Hill.

" 2lst. A general muster in town;
orders came for the Regiment to march.

June 22nd. The Regiment march for
Cambridge.

August 1st. The Merlin stops the fishing
boats as they pass.

Angust 24th. Company of Volunteers ar-
rive from Cambridge for privateering. They
are to go on board Col. Glover's schr.

Sept. 11. John Grush in schr., sailed for
W. Indies.

Sept. 21. All hands repairing Fort, Sun-
days not excepted.

Sept. 27. A schooner from New Provi-
dence in ; in the evening they went off and
took her and carried her round to ferry.

1776, Jan. 7. Trees on Cat Island cut
down last night, suppose by the Merlin.

June 1. The representatives from Salem
were not received at the General Court be-
cause they were chosen by kernels of corn
and pease."

It will be seen by the above, that the Mar-
blehead Regiment was transferred from the
Militia to the Provincial or Continental ser-
vice about the 22d of May, 1775. On the
21st of June, they were ordered to march.
On the 22d they marched to Cambridge, and
reported for duty to Gen'l Ward, then in
command of the gathering forces.

The drumsticks which were used to beat
the drum on the day when the Regiment
marched from Marblehead to Cambridge,
have been preserved in Marblehead as an
honored memento of the occasion, and were
lately presented to the Essex Institute.

The following is a list of the officers of
this Regiment :

Colonel, John Glover.

Lieutenant Colonel, John Gerry.

Major, Gabriel Johonnot.

Adjutant, William Gibbs.

Captains, Wm. R. Lee, Wm. Courtis,
Wm. Bacon, Thomas Grant, Joel Smith,
Nicholson Broughton, Wm. Blackler, John
Merritt, John Selman, Francis Symonds.

Lieutenants, John Glover, Robert Har-
ris, Wm. Mills, Wm. Bubier, John Bray,
John Stacey, Nathaniel Clark, Joshua Pren-
tice, Isaac Collyer, Wm. Russell.

Ensigns, Edward Archbold, Thomas
Courtis, Seward Lee, Ebenezer Graves, Joshua
Orne, J. Devereaux, Jr., Nathaniel Pearce,
Robert Nimblett, Edward Holman, George
Ligngrass.

These, except Capt. Wm. R. Lee and
his Lieutenant, John Glover, and Ensign Ed-

ward Archbold, were all commissioned by the
Provincial Congress June 23d, 1775. (See
Am. Arch. 4th Series, Vol. II, 828.)* Lee

* John Glover received also a commission, which
is still in the possession of his descendants, from

soon after became Major, and finally was Col-
onel. He was distinguished throughout the
war for bravery and ability as an officer, and
was honored by Washington with the ap-
pointment to the office of Adjutant General,
but declined it in favor of Col. Pickering.
(Sparks' Writings of Washington, Vol. IV,
372, 433; Vol. V, 158.) Col. Lee was af-
terwards, from 1802 to 1825, Collector at the
Port of Salem.

John Glover was the eldest son of the Col-
onel, and was subsequently a Captain in the
14th Regiment. Archbold also became Ad-
jutant in the same Regiment.

The uniform of the Regiment consisted of
a blue round jacket and trowsers trimmed
with leather buttons. (Lossing Am. Rev.,
Vol. 2nd, 606.) It received the name of
the 21st Regiment, but was afrerwards also
known as the " Marine Regiment." While
at Cambridge it had an important share in that
series of operations which finally resulted in
the evacuation of Boston by the "ministerial
army," and its officers were often honored
with those temporary appointments which in
a new army require so much skill and expe-
rience. (See Ord. Book, No. !.)

On the 4th of Oct., 1775, Col. Glover
with Stephen Moylan, (one of Washington's
Aids and Muster Master General) at the re-
quest of Washington, took charge of the
equipment and manning of the armed vessels
and cruisers which did such invaluable service
in the early part of the war. He and his
Regiment were stationed at Beverly, for this
purpose, from the latter part of the year 1775,
until July 20th, 1776, when they left that
place for New York.

the Continental Congress, dated July 1st, 1775
signed by John Hancock, President, and Charles
Thomson, Secretary.

While at Beverly, two Captains of the
Regiment, John Selman and Nicholas Brough-
ton, (afterwards a son-in-law of Col. Glov-
er,) undertook the first naval expedition of
the Revolution ; Broughton, as Commodore,
commanding the Schooner Lynch, 6 guns, and
Selman the Franklin, 4 guns, (the same after-
wards commanded by Capt. Mugford,) each
taking his company for the crew.

An interesting account of this expedition,
written by Capt. Selman himself, may be
found in the Salem Gazette of July 22nd,
1856. They sailed from Beverly Oct. 21st,
1775, their main object being to intercept
and capture the British transports and ves-
sels. Being detained, however, a long time,
by adverse winds and weather, and hearing
that men were being recruited for the British
army at Quebec, on the Island of St. John's,
(now Prince Edward's Island,) they landed
at that place, and, with their crews, captured
the Fort on the Island, and also took prisoners
and brought off " Gov. Colbeck and Judge
Wright," who, as they were informed, "were
the official persons swearing these men in be-
half of George 3d. for Quebec," the inten-
tion being, ' ' to break up this recruiting busi-
ness," and "do essential service to Mont-
gomery, who was then attacking Quebec."
Having returned to Beverly, with their prison-
ers and other captures, they repaired at once
to Cambridge, to report to Gen. Washington
their success, but were surprised to find him
displeased with the result of the voyage. The
General Orders of Nov. 5, 1775, (Ord. Book
No. 2.,) give an explanation of this cool re-
ception. Washington, at that time, consid-
ered it of the greatest importance to concili-
ate the people of the Northern Provinces ;
and he might well fear, that the vigorous and
somewhat rough manner in which Selman
and Broughton had treated the dignitaries of

St. John's Island, would tend to interrupt the
friendship which then existed between that
people and the Colonies.

It was under the agency of Col. Glover
that Capt. John Manly's vessel was fitted out,
and the crew was obtained from his Regiment.
Manly, who was a native of Marblehead, re-
ceived a naval commission from Washington,
October, 1775. His first command was the
schooner Lee ; he was subsequently in com-
mand of the frigates, Hancock and Hague.
He died in Boston, in 1793, and was buried
with distinction.

Capt. Samuel Tucker, another celebrated
Privateersman of Marblehead, sailed under the
same auspices. He is said to have captured
more British guns and British seamen than
Paul Jones, or any other Captain in the ser-
vice of the thirteen states. Captain Tucker
took John Adams to Europe in 1779. On the
passage, he fell in with an enemy. It was
agreed to fight her, and also that Mr. Adams
should retire below ; but Tucker soon observed
him, with a gun, fighting as a common ma-
rine, and in tones of authority ordered him to
leave the deck; Mr. Adams, however, con-
tinued at his post, when, at last, Tucker seized
him, and forced him away, exclaiming as he
did so, "I am commanded by the Continental
Congress to carry you in safety to Europe,
and I will do it." He removed after the Rev-
olution to Bristol, Maine, where he died in
1803*

The gallant Capt. James Mugford also,
whose capture of the Brig Hope, with her car-
go of fifteen hundred barrels of powder,
besides other munitions of war, in Boston Har-
bor on the 17th of May, 1776, was of such in-
estimable value to the Colonies, had been a

* Report on the American Fisheries, by Loren-
zo Sabine, page 201.

Captain in this Regiment, and his crew of
20 men were volunteers from it at Beverly.
This capture was at the time considered by
Washington as of the greatest importance,
supplying the army as it did with the much
needed article of powder at a time, when the
whole stock on hand did not amount to more
than nine rounds per man, and our lines, if
attacked, could have made no resistance.

Capt. Mugford, with others in Marblehead,
had been, the previous year, impressed into
the British service by a press-gang, which
came ashore from the Frigate Lively, then ly-
ing in Marblehead harbor, opposite "Skin-
ner's Head " on the Neck side. The Frig-
ate had thrown out ballast here, and the place
is still called " the Ballast. " Mugford's wife,
as soon as she heard of the capture of her hus-
band, went on board the frigate, and demand-
ed his release, stating that they had but just
been married, and she depended upon him for
her support. The Captain promised to re-
lease him, and did so.

When taken, Mugford had been sent on
board a sloop of War, which lay off the Har-
bor. While there, he heard the sailors talk-
ing about the "powder ship," which they
were expecting from England. It was this
knowledge, which made him so eager to under-
take his enterprise. He applied for, and ob-
tained from Gen. Ward, then at Philadelphia,
a commission, with power to capture the ex-
pected vessel, and under that commission he
sailed. The haste with which he proceeded
occasioned some irregularities, which perhaps
was the cause why the prize money failed to
be properly and justly paid.

Mugford's naval victory on the 19th of
May, 1776, though fatal to himself, places
him first on the List of Nflval Heroes and
Martyrs of the Revolution. At his funeral,

which was conducted with great ceremony
and distinction, the " Marine Regiment" per-
formed the Military honors.

To show the activity and zeal with which
the privateering business was conducted at
that time, it is stated, that in a single season
there were despatched from Salem and Bev-
erly fifty-two privateers, chiefly owned in Sa-
lem and Beverly, which mounted about seven
hundred and fifty guns, and carried crews of
nearly four thousand men. From May 1776,
to February 1778, the American Privateers,
one hundred and seventy-three in number,
made prize of seven hundred and thirty-three
British vessels, which with their cargoes were
worth more than twenty-five millions of dol-
lars, after deducting the value of the proper-
ty retaken and restored.*

The following documents show the manner
in which Glover was connected with this bus-

INSTRUCTIONS TO COLONEL GLOVER AND
MR. MOYLAN.

CAMP AT CAMBRIDGE, )
Oct. 4, 1775. f

His Excellency, having resolved to equip
two armed vessels, has empowered you to ne-
gotiate this business, in which the following
directions are to be observed :

1st. That the vessels be approved sailers,
and as well found as possible.

2d. That you have an appraisement made
of them, by indifferent people.

3d. That you agree, at as reasonable a
rate as you can, for the hire of the vessels,
and, if possible, procure the cannon and swiv-
els on loan, and if not, purchase them at the
cheapest rate per month.

4th. If you cannot equip them suitably
at Salem or Marblehead, one of you proceed
to Newburyport, where there are several ves-
sels, and sundry cannon provided, suitable
for this purpose.

5th. You are, as soon as possible, to send

* American Fisheries, Sabine 200.

down proper directions for the making of the
cartridges, and providing ammunition, and a
list of what will be wanted.

6th. You are to nominate some suitable
person at Gape Ann, Marblehead, and such
other place, where any prizes may be sent, as
an agent to take care of such prizes, instruct-
ing him to give as early information as possi-
ble of all captures, and the list of cargoes, as
far as he can do it from papers. These per-
sons when nominated by you, to receive in-
structions from Head Quarters. You are also
to settle with them the terms ; and let them be
persons of approved good character, and known
substance. All agreements &c. to be put in
writing.

7th. All contracts entered into by you
jointly, when together, or separately in case
one should go to Newbury, the General will
ratify and confirm.

8th. As soon as either of the vessels is
in such forwardness, as to be ready to sail in
a few days, you are to send notice to Head
Quarters, that the officers and men may march
down.

I am Gentlemen, your obedient servant,
GEORGE WASHINGTON.

COLONEL JOSEPH REED TO THE COMMITTEES
OF SALEM AND GLOUCESTER.

CAMP AT CAMBRIDGE, ")
October 4, 1775. J
Gentlemen:

I am directed by his Excel-
lency General Washington, to inform you,
that he has referred the disposition of the
cargo of the vessel lately taken within your
District, to the General Court of this Colo-
ny, to whom he has also recommended the
brave captors for a suitable compensation.
He now proposes to equip the vessels as
ships of war, and immediately to send them
on a cruise ; or, if these vessels are not fit for
the service, to exchange them for others, for
which purpose he has despatched Colonel
Glover ; and as it will not only be a protec-
tion for the coast, but probably greatly dis-

VOL. V.

(10)

tress the enemy, his Excellency requests
your kind assistance to Colonel Glover in
managing this business.

1 am, by his Excellency's orders,

most respectfully, Gentlemen,
your obedient and humble servant,

J. EKED.

COLONEL JOSEPH REED TO COLONEL JOHN
GLOVER.

HEAD QUARTERS, CAMBRIDGE,
October 4, 1775

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75.}

Sir:

The vote of the General Court is at
length received, but in such terms, and in
such a manner, that his Excellency, the Gen-
eral, does not choose to meddle with either of
the vessels. You will, therefore, on receipt
of this, take two other vessels, the most suit-
able for our purpose, upon the best terms you
can. Let them be prime sailers, put them
into the best order, and lose no time. A
great number of transports are hourly expect-
ed at Boston, from England and elsewhere.
If you cannot equip them with guns suitable
from Salem, by going to Newburyport you
may find not only a suitable vessel, but have
your choice of guns for the purpose, As
you may have more men upon your hands,
than you will be able to manage, Mr. Moy-
lan, the Muster-Master General, is associated
with you in this business; and whatever en-
gagements are entered into by you and Mr.
Moylan, when you may happen to be togeth-
er, or by either, in case one goes to Newbury,
the General will fully ratify and confirm.

I am, Sir,

your most obedient servant,

J. REED.
To Colonel JOHN GLOVER, Marblehead.

8. MOYLAN AND J. GLOVER TO GENERAL
WASHINGTON.

SALEM, Monday, Oct. 9, 177o.
Sir:

We were too sanguine in our expecta-
tions on Saturday, which occasioned Mr. Moy-
lan to tell Mr. Reed, that one of the schoon-

ers would be ready for the sea, on Thursday
next. It is difficult to procure carpenters, to
put them in the necessary order. We there-
fore think it will be Saturday, before the first
will be ready to sail ; on that day, we would
recommend to your Excellency to order the
Captain and his company to set off; on the
Wednesday ensuing, we have no doubt but
that the other vessel will be properly fitted.

Col. Glover has given the strongest proofs
of his good opinion of the schooner, command-
ed by Captain Broughton: he has ventured
his brother and his favorite son on board of
her. However, lest any blame may lie with
him, if any misfortune should happen, (which
God avert,) he will be pleased to have the
Captain and his company removed to a ves-
sel of better fame for sailing.

COL. JOSEPH REED TO CAPT. NICHOLSON
BROUGHTON.

Sir:

HEAD QUARTERS, Oct. 12, 1775.

You are to recruit your present crew
to seventy men, including officers, but not
out of the companies stationed at Marblehead
for the security of the coast, without the con-
sent of the committee. You will have fur-
ther instructions in a few days. In the mean
time you are to follow the orders of your
Colonel.

I am, Sir,

your very humble servant,

J. REED.

(The same to Capt. Selman.)

JOHN GLOVER TO GEN. WASHINGTON.

Sir:

MARBLEIIEAD, Oct. 15, 1775.

This will acquaint you, the two ves-
sels, that the Captains Broughton and Sel-
man are to command, are ready to take the
troops on board. The forms for the cannon
and swivel cartridges I have sent to Col.
Burbank. Would it not be best that every
man be furnished with a spear, or cutlass,
and a pair of pistols, if to be had? Our
guns are very unhandy in boarding. I have

procured provisions for two vessels, saving
four thousand weight of bread, which can-
not be had here, but at the extravagant price
of thirty-two shillings per hundred weight.
Capt. Selman has his complement of men, to
ten, which, with your Excellency's leave, he
will take out of the regiment. Capt. Brought-
on is very unwell, but hope it is nothing
more then a bad cold, which he took at the
time of his running his vessel on shore. He
has not been able to recruit a single man
here ; apprehend he may get his complement
out of the Regiment with your Excellency's
leave. This morning, six o'clock, saw a ship
coming out of Boston ; steered her course di-
rectly for Marblehead, which alarmed the in-
habitants very much. She came almost to
the harbour's mouth, tacked ship, and stood
off where she now is about one or two leagues
distant. I communicated to my son your Ex-
cellency's intention (as handed to me by Col.
Reed) of giving him the command of one of
the vessels, which he seems much pleased
with ; hope his conduct will meet your Ex-
cellency's approbation ; he therefore waits for
directions.

I am your Excellency's

most obedient servant,

JOHN GLOVER.
To his Excellency, GEN. WASHINGTON.

ROBERT H. HARRISON TO WILLIAM PALFREY
AND COL. JOHN GLOVER OF MARBLEHEAD.

CAMBRIDGE, December 4, 1775.
Sir:

I am commanded by his Excellency
to inform you that he received your favours
of the 1st. and 3d. instant, and that your ac-
tivity and conduct merit his approbation.
He is much obliged to the people, who have
afforded their assistance in securing this val-
uable prize, and for the alertness they have
discovered, and zeal for the service of their
country. You will be pleased to spare the
Committee a few of the cannon shot, taking
a receipt for the same, and mentioning the
cost, that they may be repaid when they get
theirs. As to the cannon, his Excellency is

exceedingly sorry that the want of them here
is so great that he cannot spare them, or he
willingly would. His Excellency thinks
that the ship Concord and cargo should be
a prize, as the enemy every day are seizing
our vessels; but, conceiving himself not au-
thorized to judge a vessel coming from Brit-
ain here, with goods for a company or house
in Boston, he thinks it expedient to send to
Congress for their determination, for which
purpose an express will go to-morrow morning
with such letters and papers as may be nec-
essary for them to determine upon.

If this vessel can be run up into some se- 1
cure place, where the enemy cannot get her |
again, the goods may, and should be kept on j
board, under a proper guard, to prevent em-
bezzlement. But if this cannot be done, and
there will be danger of the enemy's recover-
ing the ship and cargo, the goods must be
landed. The bill of lading is sent for that
purpose, which will do as well as the invoice.
There are several small parcels on board, for
which there are no invoices.
I am, &c.,

R. H. HARBISON.

P. S. The Committee may keep the two
four-pounders you spared them till called for.
Take their receipt.

On the 1 st of January , 1776, most of the
men of the 21st or Marine Regiment re-en-
listed for the war and formed the 14th Con-
tinental Regiment, the new arrangement of
the Army taking effect from that date. Col.
Glover was commissioned Colonel of the New
Regiment.

The following list of the Company Officers
of the Hth Regiment, is taken from Glover's
Letter Book.

1st Company. Capt., W'm Courtis Esq.
First Lieut., Edward Archbold Second
Lieut., Thos. Courtis Ensign, James Fos-
ter.

* See American Archives, 4th series, Vols. 3
and 4. Also Lossing, II., 637.

2nd Company. Captain, Thos. Grant Esq.
First Lieut., William Bubier Second Lieut.
Eben'r Graves Ensign, John Allen.

3d Company. Captain, John Glover Esq.
First Lieut., Joshua Orne Second Lieut.,
Marston Watson Ensign, William Hawks.

4th Company. Captain, Nathaniel Bond
Esq. First Lieut., Theophilus Munson
Second Lieut., Seward Lee Ensign, Jere-
miah Reed.

5th Company. Captain, Joseph Swasey
Esq. First Lieut., Robert Williams Sec-
ond Lieut., Thomas Fosdick Ensign, Rob't
Wormsted.

6th Company. Captain, Joseph Lee Esq.
First Lieut., Nath'l Clark Second Lieut.,
Joseph Stacey Ensign, Samuel Gatchel.

7th Company. Captain, Moses Brown
Esq. First Lieut., William Graves Sec-
ond Lieut., John Wallis Ensign, John
Clarke.

8th Company. Captain, Gilbert Warner
Speakman Esq. First Lieut., Robert Nim-
blitt Second Lieut., William Jones En-
sign, John Brown.

On the 20th of July, 1776, Glover marched
with his Regiment from Beverly to New
York. Having arrived there on the 9th of
August, they were ordered to join General
Sullivan's Brigade. (Gen. Orders. Am.
Archives, 5th Series, Vol. 1, 514 & 913.)

On the 16th of August, Capt. Fosdick,
with Capt. Thomas, took command of two
fire ships, and proceeding up the Hudson Riv-
er, attacked and endeavored to set fire to the
Phoenix and Rose, two British Ships of War
that had passed up the river and stationed
themselves at Tarrytown. Fosdick grappled
the Phoenix, but failed to set fire to her ;
they however burned the tender beloning to

the Phoenix, and the British ships soon after
retreated back to the fleet, leaving the river
unmolested. (Gordon, II., 305.)

Capt. Thomas Fosdick had acted as Ad-
jutant of the 21st Regiment, and was
Glover's Brigade Major in 1778. He
appears to have been a particular friend
and was afterwards connected with his
family. He was an excellent penman,
as appears by his name, written on the
first page of No. 4 of the Orderly Books,
which Book was probably kept by him as
Brigade Major.

The 14th Regiment, during the battle of
Long Island, Aug. 27th, was stationed on New
York Island. At five the next morning, it
crossed over to Long Island and took post at
Wallabout Bay on the left of the American
Army. On the 28th, Washington having de-
cided upon the perilous plan of evacuating
Long Island, Colonel Glover with the whole
of his Regiment fit for duty were called upon
to take command of the vessels and flat bot-
tomed boats, which had been brought down
from the North River for the purpose of trans-
porting the army across to the New York
side.

The following account of the manner in
which they performed this important service,
and also of the subsequent evacuation of New
York, is taken substantially from Gordon's
History of the American War. Gordon, who
is now considered one of the best authorities,
derived much information from Glover, both
by personal conversation and correspond-
ence. In this as well as other parts of his
History the phraseology indicates that he
made frequent use of Glover's letters.

* Compare Glover's letter to his mother, Oct. 6,
1776, with Gordon's account of the attack on New
York, Sept. 15, 1776.

On the 28th of August, the boats and ves-
sels, which were to transport the army from
Long Island, having all been collected at
Brooklyn, Col. Glover went over from New
York to superintend the transportation ; at
about seven in the evening, oflicers and men
went to work with a spirit and resolution pe-
culiar to the Marblehead Corps. The oars
were muffled and everything was done with
the greatest possible silence and despatch.
General Washington, heedless of the entrea-
ties of his oflicers, who urged him to pay
more regard to his personal safety, staid on
the Island through the night, encouraging and
directing the men, and only left when the cov-
ering party abandoned the lines at about six
the next morning.

During the first part of the night the tide
was at ebb, and the wind blew strong from
the Northeast, which adding to the rapidity
of the current, rendered it apparently impos-
sible to effect the retreat with the few row-
boats at command, and put it out of the pow-
er of Col. Glover's men to make any use of
the sail boats. General M'Dougal, who had
charge of the embarkation of the troops, sent
Col. Grayson, one of the Commander in Chief's
aids, to report to his excellency their em-
barrassed situation ; and gave it as his opin-
ion that a retreat was impracticable that
night. The Colonel returned soon after, not
being able to find the Commander in Chief,
on which the General went on with the em-
barkation under all these discouragements.
But about eleven, the wind died away and
soon after sprung up at South west, and blew
fresh, which rendered the sail boats of use,
and at the same time made the passage from
the Island to the City, direct, easy and ex-
peditious. Providence further interposed in
favor of the retreating army, by sending a

thick fog about two o'clock in the morning,
which hung over Long Island, while on New
York side it was clear.

The fog and wind continued to favor the
retreat, till the whole army, 9000 in num-
ber, with all the field artillery, such heavy
ordinance as was of most value, ammunition,
provision, cattle, horses, carts &c., were safe
over.

The water was so remarkably smooth as
to admit of the row-boats being loaded to
within a few inches of the gunnel. The en-
emy, unconscious of what was going on, were
so near that they were heard at work with
their pickaxes and shovels. In about half
an hour after the lines were finally abandon-
ed, the fog cleared off" and the British were
seen taking possession of the American works.
Four boats were on the river, three half way
over, full of troops ; the fourth, within reach
of the enemy's fire upon the shore, was com-
pelled to return ; she had only three men in
her who had tarried behind to plunder. The
river is a mile or more across, and yet the
retreat was effected in less than thirteen
hours, a great part of which time it rained
hard.*

This event, one of the most remarkable in
the War, did much towards establishing the
fame of Washington, and confidence in
his ability as a military leader. It would,
however, have been impossible but for the
skill and activity of Glover and his Marble-
head Regiment.

On the 4th of Sept., Glover was placed in
command of General Clinton's Brigade, and on
the 13th and 14th, he with his Brigade su-
perintended the evacuation of New York City.
During the night of the 13th, they removed

* (See Gordon, II, 313.)

safely to the Jersey shore all the sick in and
about the City, amounting to 500.

Having accomplished this, they had
carried their tents and all their baggage to
the river to be transported up in boats, when
an alarm took place, and Glover received or-
ders to march his brigade to Harlem (about
eight miles from New York on New York Is-
land) to join Gen. M'Dougal. They were
thus compelled to leave the baggage of two
regiments behind, which afterwards fell into
the hands of the enemy. The next morning,
Sept. 15, they marched to Kingsbridge (15
miles from New York, at the Northern ex-
tremity of the Island.) They had but just
reached there, and were unslinging their knap-
sacks, when an express arrived with an ac-
count that the enemy were landing; upon
which they marched back without any kind of
refreshment, joined five other brigades, about
7000 men, and formed on Harlem Plains, hav-
ing marched 23 miles, besides the labor of
transporting the sick.

About eleven o'clock, Gen. Howe landed
his troops, under cover of five ships of war,
in two divisions, between Kip's bay and Tut-
tle bay, on the East River half way between
New York and Harlem, the Hessians in one
place and the British in another. As soon as
Gen. Washington heard the firing of the men
of war, he rode with all despatch towards the
lines, but to his great mortification, found the
troops posted there retreating with the ut-
most precipitation. His attempts to stop
them were fruitless, though he drew his
sword, threatened to run them through,
cocked and snapped his pistols. A strong
division of the British army under General
Clinton had previously landed at a place
higher up than where the Americans had ex-
pected them. Three large ships were sta-

tioned in the North Kiver opposite to those
on the East Kiver, and all kept up a con-
stant cannonading with grape shot and lan-
grage quite across the Island. When the
British were completely landed, they marched
on towards the Kingsbridge road.

The Americans that had fled upon the ap-
proach of the enemy, stopped not till they
were met by Col. Glover's and the five other
brigades. The forces being joined, the
whole marched forward and took post on some
heights where they remained. The troops
now wished to be led forward against the
British, but Washington, though at first he
consented, on mature consideration refused,
as he could place no dependence upon the mi-
litia and flying camp, who composed half the
number then present.

Meanwhile the British Generals wasting
their time at the house of Mr. Robert Mur-
ray, a quaker, (where Mrs. Murray, a good
and true friend to the American cause, en-
tertained them civilly with cakes and wine )
and their army being consequently inactive,
gave Gen. Putnam the opportunity to escape
with about 3500 men from New York City
where they had been left when Col. Glover
had been ordered away.

Thus was the evacuation of New York ef-
fected with much more success than could
have been expected considering the superior-
ity of the British force, and the confusion oc-
casioned among the Americans by their un-
expected attack. It is indeed surprising that
the British did not capture the whole Army,
situated as it was on a long and narrow is-
land, with a broad river on each side, up
which the British fleet could have easily
transported forces suflicient to cut off the re-
treating Americans. But here as well as

* See Glover's letter to his mother, Oct. 6th.

at the previous evacuation of Long Island,
and in the wonderful series of retreats which
Washington's Army soon afterwards made
till they reached and recrossed the Deleware,
and achieved the splendid victory at Tren-
ton which gave such new vigor and life to the
sinking cause of Liberty Providence seems
to have taken under its special protection
that army upon which rested the hopes of hu-
manity.

The energy and skill displayed by Glover
at this time in removing the sick from
New York and in saving the public
stores and ammunition, proved him to be an
officer of uncommon ability, and obtained for
him the particular regard and friendship of
Washington. An opportunity soon after-
wards occurred for him and his brigade to
prove that they also possessed courage and
prowess on the field of battle. The Army,
being still encamped on N. Y. Island, were
nearly surrounded by the enemy who made
various attempts to dislodge them, and on
the 18th of October a skirmish took place in
which Glover and his Brigade acted a con-
spicuous part, and behaved with such gal-
lantry and coolness as to receive the special
thanks of both Gen. Lee, who commanded the
Division, and Gen. Washington.

The British Army under Howe amounting
at that time to about 30,000 men, nearly
twice the number of the American Army, on
the 18th of October made their first landing
on the mainland, at Frog's Neck in west Ches-
ter County, a few miles to the east of Kings-
bridge, which was the most important position
in the American lines, being their only means
of passage from the Island. Washington re-
garded with much anxiety this movement of
the enemy. A successful landing at this place
would turn the left of the American Army

and deprive them of their only means of es-
cape ; and it was evident that such a landing
could not long be prevented. It was there-
fore by the urgent advice of Gen. Lee, who
had just arrived from the field of victory at
Charleston, determined to withdraw the army
from the Island. Meanwhile, to delay the
advance of the British, Col. Glover's Brigade
was despatched to West Chester, where they
met them and soon became engaged in con-
flict. Glover succeeded twice in repulsing
the enemy, but finally, finding their force to
be greatly superior in number, by Gen. Lee's
orders he withdrew to a strong position in the
rear.

This skirmish served to check the British
and thus give time for the withdrawal of the
men and army stores from N. Y. Island.
By it Glover had the honor of being the first
to resist the landing of a British Army on the
main land of America. For his services he
was thanked, in General Orders of the 19th,
by Gen. Lee as follows:

MILE SQUARE, Oct. 19, 1776.

Gen. Lee returns his warmest thanks to
Col. Glover and the Brigade under his com-
mand, not only for their gallant behavior yes-
terday, but for their prudent, cool, orderly
and soldierlike conduct in all respects. He
assures these brave men that he shall omit no
opportunity of showing his gratitude. All
the wounded to be immediately carried to Vol-
antine's Hill, at the second Liberty pole,
where surgeons should repair to dress them ;
they are afterwards to be forwarded to Fort
Washington.

The following are the General Orders of
Washington :

HEAD QUARTERS, Oct. 21, 1776.

The hurried situation of the Gen. the two
last days having prevented him from paying
that attention to Col. Glover and the officers

and soldiers who were with him in the skir-
mish on Friday last, that their merit and good
behavior deserved, -he flatters himself that his
thanks though delayed will nevertheless be ac-
ceptable to them, as they are offered with
great sincerity and cordiality ; at the same
time he hopes that every other part of the Ar-
my will do their duty with equal bravery and
zeal whenever called upon, and neither dan-
gers nor difficulties nor hardships will discour-
age soldiers engaged in the cause of Liberty
and while we are contending for all that free-
men hold dear and valuable.

The following letters written by Glover are
of particular interest in connection with this
part of the Campaign. They are taken from
his letter book.

BURDIT'S FERRY, Sept. 16, 1776.

This moment by express from Gen.
Washington I am to inform you, it is ordered
you should send me a particular account of the
situation of the troops under your command,
as from the cannonading this morning he is
anxiously concerned for you.

I am Sir yours &c. ,

JOHN GLOVER,

Commandant Brigade.
To Col. DURKEE.

BURDIT'S FERRY, Sept. 28, 1776.
r:

The express I sent off to Gen. Mer-
cer is this moment returned, being obliged to
go to Amboy to find him ; enclosed is his let-
ter to your Excellency. Col. Baldwin's Reg-
iment is much in want of tents, there being
none to be had here, nor any barns but what
are taken up for the sick. The men by being
so much exposed I fear will be all sick and
very soon unfit for duty. The enemy are
forming an encampment on the edge of North
River about one mile below where the battle

was fought on Monday last. I have moved
the Brigade up the hill about one mile and a
half from the ferry. Col. Bradley's Regi-
ment is posted between my Brigade and Pau-
lus' Hook. The Asia, man of war, passed by
that post at nine o'clock this morning. Col.
Durkee saluted her with 5 shots, 32 pounders,
which was not returned. Col. Durkee expects
to be reinforced with 500 men from Gen.
Mercer, when he hopes to defend the post
should he be attacked.

I am with duty and respect

your Excellency's most obedient
humble servant,

JOHN GLOVER.
To his Excellency Gen. WASHINGTON.

The following is the reply to the above let-
ter, copied from the original :

HEAD QUARTERS, COL. MORISS'S, ")
Sept. 18, 1776. f
Sir:

The inconveniences Col. Baldwin's
regiment must of necessity be exposed to, for
the want of tents, is a circumstance I can on-
ly lament but cannot remedy ; to supply them
from this place is altogether out of my power,
as one half of the brigades here are in the
same situation ; all T can say on the subject is
to recommend to you, the building of huts in
the most convenient manner the nature of the
case will admit of, to answer the present pur-
pose, until proper barracks can be erected ;
where these huts are to be placed, as also the
propriety of continuing your present encamp-
ment so far distant from the ferry as a mile
and a half, will be determined upon the spot
by Gen. Green and yourself; he is gone to
visit your quarters to day.

I am Sir

your humble servant,

G. WASHINGTON.

COL. GLOVER.

ENGLISH NEIGHBORHOOD, NEW JERSEY, >
Oct. 6, 1776. ]"
Rever'd Sir:

I am now to inform you I have
taken the liberty to return your name as
Chaplain to my Regiment during the time it
was in Beverly. For which service I have
drawn 6 per month which is only half pay,
there being only one Chaplain allowed by
Congress for two Regiments. Enclosed is
30, which you will please to accept as a
gratuity for your services above mentioned,
with my best regards to yourself and lady,
and believe me to be respectfully yours &c.,
JOHN GLOVER.

P. S. My best regards to Mr. Agent
Bartlett and Lady.

Per favor of Capt Nicholas Thorndick.*

"FoRT CONSTITUTION, )
Oct. 7, 1776. ;
Dear Mother :

My last was the 23d ult.
by Baker, since which I received yours of the
9th and 15th, in answer thereto. Your let-
ter I gave his Excellency who observed that
the business of the Army in its present con-
fused state was more than he could possibly
attend to, without anything else, but was very
sorry to have any gentleman ill treated or
superseded, who had his appointment from
him and who had conducted to his satisfaction,
but all that he at present could do was to write
to Congress or the Marine Committee ; which he
since told me he did and enclosed your letter,
to which he has not received an answer. The
appointment of persons to appraize the powder
does not lay with the General, but with the
Congress or Marine Committee. Mr. Gerry
has it in his power to do more for you than
any one else. I dare say will upon applica-
tion. The Congress have resolved to raise
88 Battalions for the defence of the Ameri-
can States, of which Massachusetts is to fur-
nish 15. The whole number including com-

* This letter was probably written to Rev. Isaac
Story of Marblehead.

missioned, non-commissioned officers and pri-
vates is 64,064. A Colonel of a Regiment to
have 500 acres of land, Lieut. Col. 450, Ma-
jor 400, Captain 350, subaltern officers 300,
non-commissioned officers and privates 100
each at the end of the war. This to be given
them out of lands in the State from whence
they came. Besides this the soldiers are to
have 20 dollars bounty and a suit of clothes.
Had this been done 12 months ago we
should now have had an army who would
have been a match for the enemy in the open
field ; but at present we dare not meet them
there, our army being composed of flying Camp,
four months Levy men, and one month Militia,
who are always uneasy and cannot go through
the fatigue and hardships, which soldiers are
necessarily called to, like those troops that
have been seasoned to it. We have a few old
Regiments, if detached by themselves, I believe
would do honour to their Country, but we are
obliged to intermix them with the raw troops,
which is by far the greatest part of the army,
consequently confuse the whole. This we saw
verified on the 15th ult., the day we evacu-
ated New York, and happy for us we began
the retreat so timely as we did, otherwise the
whole that were in the City must have been
cut off; for the enemy had landed 18,000
men on that day on the East side about 4
miles from the City, covered by 10 sail of men
of war, and opposite to them on the North
River came up three large ships. The whole
kept up a constant cannonading with grape
shot and langrage quite across the Tsland.
I lost 2 men in the retreat, Wormsted Trefry
of Marblehead and Benjamin Rawden of Lynn.
On the 23d a detachment from several
Corps, commanded by Lieut. Col. Jackson,
consisting of 240 men were sent off to dis-
lodge the enemy from Montressor's Island, for
which purpose six boats were provided to car-
ry 40 men each. Col. Jackson led, Major
Hendly of Charlestown with him. They were
met by the enemy at the water's edge before
they landed, who gave them a heavy fire.
Notwithstanding this the Col. landed with the
party in his boat, gave them battle and com-
pelled them to retreat, called to the other boats
to push and land, but the scoundrels, coward-

VOL. V. (11)

like, retreated back and left him and his party
to fall a sacrifice. The enemy seeing this,
150 of them rushed out of the woods and at-
tacked them again at 30 yards distance.
Jackson with his little party nobly defended
the ground until every man but eight was
killed on the spot, and himself wounded, be-
fore he ordered a retreat. Major Hendly car-
rying off Col. Jackson was shot dead as he
was putting him into the boat, and not a sin-
gle man of the 8 but what was wounded.
One of them died at the oar before they land-
ed on the Main. The officers who command-
ed the other boats are all under arrest and
will be tried for their lives. In short if some
example is not made of such rascally conduct,
there will be no encouragement for men of
spirit to exert themselves. As the case now
is they will always fall a sacrifice, while such
low-lived scoundrels, that have neither Hon-
our nor the Good of their Country at heart,
will skulk behind and get off clear.
Yours &c.,

JOHN GLOVER.

The two following letters are taken from
the American Archives, 5th series, Vol. IE.

EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM COLONEL
GLOVER, DATED

MILE SQUARE, Oct. 22, 1776.
You no doubt heard the enemy landed all
their army on Frog's Point the llth instant,
leaving only twelve hundred men in York,
and there remained until the 18th, which was
Friday. I arose early in the morning and
went on the hill with my glass, and discovered
a number of ships in the Sound under way;
in a short time saw the boats, upwards of two
hundred sail, all manned and formed in four
grand divisions. I immediately sent off Ma-
jor Lee express to Gen. Lee, who was about
three miles distant, and without waiting his
orders, turned out the brigade I have the hon-
our to command, and very luckily for us I did,
as it turned out afterwards, the enemy having
stole a march one and a half miles on us. I
marched down to oppose their landing with
about seven hundred and fifty men, and three

field-pieces, but had not gone more than half
the distance before I met their advanced guard
about thirty men ; upon which I detached a
Captain's guard of forty men to meet them,
while I could dispose of the main body to ad-
vantage. This plan succeeded very well, as
you will hereafter see. The enemy had the
advantage of us, being posted on an eminence
which commanded the ground we had to inarch
over. However, I did the best I could, and
disposed of my little party to the best of my
judgment ; Colonel Seed's on the left of the
road, Colonel Shepherd's in the rear and to
the right of him, Colonel Baldwin's in the
rear and on the right of Shepherd's, my own
regiment commanded by Captain Courtis (Col-
ona\ Johonnot being sick, and Major Zee being
Brigade Major,) bringing up the rear with
the three field-pieces of artillery. Thus dis-
posed of, I rode forward (oh ! the anxiety of
mind I was then in for the fate of the day,
the lives of seven hundred and fifty men im-
mediately at hazard, and under God their pres-
ervation entirely depended on their being well
disposed of; besides this, my country, my hon-
our, my own life, and every thing that was
dear, appeared at that critical moment to be
at stake I would have given a thousand
worlds to have had General Lee, or some oth-
er experienced officer present, to direct, or at
least to approve of what I had done looked
around, but could see none, they all being
three miles from me, and the action came on
so sudden it was out of their power to be with
me,) to the advance guard, and ordered them
to advance, who did, within fifty yards, and
received their fire without the loss of a man ;
we returned it, and fell four of them, and kept
the ground till we exchanged five rounds.
Their body being much larger than mine, and
having two men killed and several wounded,
which weakened my party, the enemy pushing
forward not more than thirty yards distant,
I ordered a retreat, which was masterly well
done by the Captain who commanded the par-
ty. The enemy gave a shout and advanced ;
Colonel Reed's, laying under cover of a stone
wall undiscovered till they came within thirty
yards, then rose up and gave them the whole
charge ; the enemy broke and retreated for

the main body to come up. In this situation
we remained about an hour and a half, when
they appeared about four thousand, with sev-
en pieces of artillery : they now advance, keep-
ing up a constant firing of artillery ; we kept
our post under cover of the stone wall before
mentioned till they came within fifty yards of
us, rose up and gave them the whole charge
of the battalion ; they halted and returned the
fire with showers of musketry and cannon
balls. We exchanged seven rounds at this
post, retreated and formed in the rear of Col.
Shepherd and on his left ; they then shouted
and pushed on till they came on Shepherd,
posted behind a fine double stone wall ; he
rose up and fired by grand divisions, by which
he kept up a constant fire, and maintained his
post till he exchanged seventeen rounds with
them, and caused them to retreat several
times; once in particular so far that a soldier
of Colonel Shepherd's leaped over the wall
and took a hat and canteen off of a Captain
that lay dead on the ground they retreated
from. However, their body being so much
larger than ours, we were for the preservation
of the men forced to retreat, and formed in
the rear of Baldwin's regiment; they then
came up to Baldwin's, but the ground being
much in their favour, and their heavy train
of artillery, we could do but little before we
retreated to the bottom of the hill, and had to
pass through a run of water, (the bridge I had
taken up before,) and then marched up a hill
the opposite side of the creek, where I left my
artillery ; the ground being rough and much
broken I was afraid to risk it over. The en-
emy halted, and played away their artillery at
us, and we at them, tilfnight, without any dam-
age on our side, and but very little on theirs.
At dark we came off. and marched about
three miles, leading to Dobb's Ferry, after
fighting all day without victuals or drink, lay-
ing as a picket all night, the heavens over us
and the earth under us, which was all we had,
having left our baggage at the old encamp-
ment we left in the morning. The next morn-
ing marched over to Mile Square. I had
eight men killed and thirteen wounded, among
which was Colonel Shepherd, a brave officer.
Sunday, General Lee sent for and informed

inc there were two hundred barrels of pork and
flour at East Chester, if the enemy had not
taken it: would be glad I would think of
some way to bring it off. I sent out and
pressed fifteen wagons, and at night turned
out the whole brigade, and went down so nigh
the enemy we heard their musick and talk
very plain, and brought off the whole.

Wednesday, sent out a scouting party, prin-
cipally from my own regiment, who met with
a party of Hessians, and attacked them, kill-
ed twelve and took three prisoners; one of
the slain was an officer of rank, on horseback;
the horse was taken and brought off. We
had one man mortally wounded, of Colonel
Baldwin's regiment.

Sunday, the enemy struck their tents, and
were on a march in two colums, one to the
right, and the other to the left, towards the
North River. General Lee immediately gave
orders for his division, which consisted of eight
thousand men, to march for North-Castle, to
take the ground to the eastward and north of
them, about fourteen miles distance. We had
not marched more than three miles before we
saw the right column advancing in a cross
road to cut us off, not more than three quar-
ters of a mile distance ; this being our situation,
eight thousand men on the road with their bag-
gage, artillery, and on^hundred and fifty wag-
ons, filled the road for four miles. We then
turned off and marched by DobVs Ferry road,
and got into White-Plains about ten o'clock
Monday morning, after being out all night.
We left General M'DougalVs brigade posted
on a height between the enemy and us, to cover
our march. About twelve o'clock they at-
tacked him with a heavy column, supported
with twelve pieces of artillery, who pressed
him so hard he was obliged to retreat, having
twenty men killed and about forty wounded,
and wholly from their artillery.

I am posted on a mountain, commanding
the roads to Albany and New England; the
enemy on one opposite, about one mile dis-
tance. We expect an attack every moment;
I don't care how soon, as I am very certain,
with the blessing of God, we shall give them a
drubbing. Where you will hear from me
next is very uncertain.

EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM FORT LEE,
(LATE FORT CONSTITUTION, BUT NOW ALTER-
ED BY GENERAL ORDERS,) DATED OCTOBER

19, 1776.

" Yesterday's affair was honourable to us.
Three regiments, Glover's, Heed's, and Shep-
herd's, of Massachusetts, under Colonel Glover,
who commanded the brigade, were advanced
under cover to receive the enemy, marching
out towards the country. Colonel Shepherd
was well covered under a wall, and at thirty
or forty yards gave their Grenadiers and In-
fantry an unexpected heavy fire, then a sec-
ond, and third, which broke the enemy so
much that they ran away as fast as they could,
in confusion. They returned with field-pieces
and outflanked our party, which occasioned
our people to retreat to a short distance, where
they rallied well and kept their ground against
their cannonade and numbers. Our men be-
haved with remarkable spirit and coolness,
and I think are in a good way to do great
things. We lost a few, thirty or forty killed
and wounded, Two deserters from the enemy
say they lost one thousand, but really I have
the best opinions to believe they lost one hun-
dred and fifty or upwards, as our men fired
with great coolness at a good distance. They
are trying to surround us. It won't be easy;
and I am mistaken if they don't meet
some severe rubbers."

In a letter, dated North Castle, Nov. 14,
1776, Col. Glover describes the attack of the
British under Gen. Leslie upon the right of
the American army at White Plains on the
28th and 29th of October. Gen. M'Dougal
with about 1600 men was posted on Chatter-
ton's Hill on the west side of the river Bronx.
Gen. Leslie and Col. Kahl were ordered to
dislodge him. Four regiments of militia, upon
the approach of the British cavalry, ran away,
leaving Gen. M'Dougal with only 600 men,
with these he defended the hill for about an
hour, against the whole fire of twelve pieces
of artillery, and of musketry and cavalry,
with the loss of forty-seven men killed and
seventy wounded. On the morning of the

next day, the 29th, the British made an at-
tack upon a hill, where Col. Glover command-
ed. Glover had one brass twenty-four, a six,
and a three pounder, and three iron twelve
pounders. The enemy's line extended as far
as he could see from right to left, appar-
ently about 12,000 men. They approach in
four columns, the cavalry and artillery in front,
till within about three quarters of a mile of
the hill, then file off to the left to take post on
a hill to the right of Grlover, which overlooks
the one he is posted on : he reserves his fire,
until they get into the valley between the two
hills, when he brings his guns to bear upon
them, beginning with the three pounder, and
reserving the brass twenty four pounder till
the last. The British were put into such con-
fusion, they were compelled to retreat. Gen.
Leslie lost in this affair 28 killed and 127
wounded.

After this, Glover's brigade was stationed
at North Castle, under Gen. Lee, until the
last of November, when it was ordered, with
the rest of Lee's division, to join Gen. Wash-
ington. Washington, who was then retreat-
ing across the state of New Jersey, had but
the remnant of an army, and, to use his own
words, nothing but the " infatuation of the en-
emy" prevented even that remnant from be-
ing utterly destroyed.

When Lord Cornwallis reached the Del-
aware, the rear guard of the American army
had just gained the opposite shore, at about
twelve o'clock on the night of the 8th of De-
cember. On the 10th Washington had but
1700 men; but in a few days Lee's division
of more than 3000 men joined him under Gen.
Sullivan (Lee having been captured on the
13th while on the march in New Jersey.)
The Republican cause was now desperate
indeed, but this reinforcement encouraged

Washington to undertake that glorious enter-
prise, the recrossing the Delaware and the at-
tack upon Trenton, which, resulting in such
success, changed, as if by magic, the whole
aspect of affairs.

When this movement was decided upon,
Washington sent to the Camp for volunteers.
Col . Glover had the honor of being the first
to send back the answer "all ready;" and
again his brave and hardy soldiers were se-
lected to perform the most difficult part of
the undertaking,the transportation of the troops
and artillery across the swollen and rapid Del-
aware, filled with broken and floating ice.

The night (Dec. 25th,) was intensely cold
and wintry, and snow and sleet added to the
difficulty of the passage ; two or three soldiers
were frozen to death ; yet the men worked
cheerfully and successfully, animated by the
presence of Washington, who himself shared
all their toils and sufferings. The passage
was effected before daybreak, and by four
o'clock the troops took up their line of march,
Glover's Brigade leading the advance. One
of his Captains, his son' John Glover, discov-
ered that the arms had been rendered unfit
for use by the storm ; this was immediately
reported to Washington. His answer was
" advance and charge."*

At daybreak they reached Trenton, whicli
they immediately attacked in two divisions.
The enemy having lost their artillery by the
surprise, and perceiving that they were sur-
rounded and must be cut to pieces, surrend-
ered. 918 prisoners with all their ammuni-
tion were captured. From this time hope
dawned upon the Americans, while the British
Army was filled with such consternation, that
its Generals found it necessary to abandon

* Wilkinson's Memoirs Vol I, 128.

New Jersey, and retreat to New York; and
the campaign, which hitherto had been so dis-
astrous, ended in victory and honor for the
cause of Freedom.

The following extract from a speech in the
Massachusetts Legislature by Gen. Knox,
who was chief of artillery in the affair at Tren-
ton, is the only instance where justice appears
to have been done to the brave men of Mar-
blehead who rendered such good service on
that memorable night.

Sir: I wish the members of this body knew
the people of Marblehead as well as I do I
could wish that they had stood on the banks
of the Delaware river in 1776 in that bitter
night when the Commander in Chief had
drawn up his little army to cross it, and had
seen the powerful current bearing onward the
floating masses of ice, which threatened de-
struction to whosoever should venture upon
its bosom. I wish that when this occur-
'rence threatened to defeat the enterprise,
they could have heard that distinguished
warrior demand " Who will lead us on? and
seen the men of Marblehead, and Marblehead
alone, stand forward to lead the army along
the perilous path to unfading glories and
honors in the achievements of Trenton.
There, Sir, went the fishermen of Marble-
head, alike at home upon land or water, alike
ardent, patriotic and unflinching, whenever
they unfurled the flag of the country.

Thus for the second time the American
Army owed its preservation to the strong
arms and unflinching courage of Glover and
his Marblehead fishermen. It is said that
the evening before the 25 th Washington
called a council of officers, and laid before
them his plan, stating that the only difficulty
was the apparent impossibility of crossing
the river at that time ; upon which Col. Glov-
er, addressing the Commander in Chief, said:

* Report on the fisheries, Lorenzo Sahine, 202.

" You need not be troubled about that, Gen-
eral, my boys can manage it."

Soon after the battle of Trenton, Glover
returned home to Marblehead for the pur-
pose of attending to his private affairs.

On the 2 1st of February, 1777, he was
appointed by Congress, Brigadier General.
This honor he at first declined, influenced
partly by a modest reluctance to assume
any high position, and partly by an anxious
regard for the welfare of his family. His
property had been so much sacrificed by his
sudden departure, and long absence from
home, that it was with difficulty he could
find means of support for his wife, and eight
children, of whom the eldest was then but
fifteen years. The following letter, written
by Washington, is of itself a monument to
his memory.

" HEADQUARTERS, MOERISTOWN, ")
26 APRIL, 1777. j
Sir:

After the conversations I had
with you before you left the army last win-
ter, I was not a little surprised at the con-
tents of yours of the 1st instant. As I had
not the least doubt but you would accept of
the commission of Brigadier, if conferred
upon you by Congress, I put your name down
in the list of those, whom I thought proper
for the command, and whom I wished to see
preferred. Diffidence in an officer is a good
mark, because he will always endeavour to
bring himself up to what he conceives to be
the full line of his duty ; but I think I may
tell you without flattery, that I know of no
man better qualified than you to con-
duct a Brigade. You have activity and in-
dustry ; and as you very well know the duty
of a colonel, you know how to exact that
duty from others.

I have with great concern observed the al-
most universal listlessness, that prevails
throughout the continent ; and I believe that
nothing has contributed to it more than the

resignation of officers, who stepped early for-
ward and led the people into the great cause,
in which we are too deeply embarked to look
back, or to hope for any other terms than
those we can gain by the sword. Can any
resistance be expected from the people, when
deserted by their leaders? Our enemies
count upon the resignation of every officer of
rank at this time, as a distrust of and deser-
tion from the cause, and rejoice accordingly.
When you consider these matters, I hope you
will think no more of private inconveniences,
but that you will, with all expedition, come
forward and take that command which has
been assigned to you. As I fully depend
upon seeing you, 1 shall not mention any-
thing* that has passed between us upon this
subject to the Congress.

I am Sir,
Your most humble Servant,

GEORGE WASHINGTON.
GENERAL GLOVER. "

Immediately upon the receipt of this let-
ter, Glover, yielding to the request of Wash-
ington, accepted the appointment of Brigadier
and left his home to rejoin the army at Peeks-
kill. He arrived there, June 14, and took
command under Gen. Putnam, who had but
3000 Continental troops, 2000 of which were
crossing the North river to join Gen. Wash-
ington. Gen. Glover at this time did impor-
tant service in resisting the encroachments
of the enemy at New York, and also in urg-
ing the forwarding of men and supplies from
Massachusetts. Besides this he was in con-
stant correspondence with Washington, and
with Schuyler, Heath, Timothy Pickering,
James Warren, and other leading men, part
of which is here given :

PEEKSKILL, 15th June, 1777.
Dear Sir:

This will inform your Excellen-
cy 1 arrived at this place yesterday. Rec'd

(Copied from the original.)

Gen. Putnam's orders to march my Brigade

to Head Quarters. Upon enquiring into the

state of the troops, found them in a most

shocking condition, without coats, breeches,

I stockings or shoes; many of them having

; nothing but a frock and blanket to cover

j their nakedness.

Col. Wigglesworth's and Swift's Regiments
are without tents, nor are there any to be had
here. I have ordered the troops to be ready
to march upon the shortest notice, and had
the men tents to cover them and clothes, I
should cross the North River to-morrow.

I beg leave to recommend to 3 r our Excel-
lency Mr. Fosdick, a young gentleman who
served as adjutant in my Regiment in 1775
and 1776, for a Brigade Major He is a dil-
igent, active young man and a good discipli-
narian, and I flatter myself will do the duty
exceedingly well.

I am with great esteem
your Excell'ys most Obed't hum. Serv't,'
JOHN GLOVB1R.
To his Excellency GEN. WASHINGTON.

HEAD QUARTERS, MIDDLE BROOK,
20th June, 1777.

The enemy decamped the night be-
fore last, and have returned to their former
position from Amboy to Brunswick. This
appears to have been in consequence of a sud-
den resolution, as they had been employed
in raising a chain of redoubts from Somerset
to Brunswick; which they would not have
done, had they at first intended to abandon
their new ground in so short a time. What
may have determined them to change their
plans it is hard to tell. Whether they
might have been alarmed by the animation
among the people, which brought them to-
gether in considerable numbers, and disap-
pointed in the movements they may have ex-
pected to make, thence concluding their de-
sign impracticable; or whether they may
have an operation against some other quar-
ter in view, the event must show. In the

meantime I think it necessary to be upon our
guard against any sudden expedition up the
North river, and therefore desire you will,
if you have advanced any distance from
Peekskill, halt where you are and proceed no
further; if you are near that post return to
it, or if you have not crossed the river you
are of course to continue where you are.
I am Sir

your most Obed't servant,

G. WASHINGTON.
B. GEN. GLOVER.

PEEKSKILL, June 21st, 1777.

Sir : I received your favour of yesterday ;
was preparing to cross the river this morn-
ing, but am now halted, and shall remain at
this post till otherwise ordered.

I am Your Excell'ys most Obed't
humble Serv't

JOHN GLOVEK.
His Excellency GEN. WASHINGTON.

PEEKSKILL, 17th June, 1777.
Dear Sirs:

This will inform you that Howe
with his whole army quitted Brunswick Sat-
urday morning last very early, and was on
full march for the Delaware. He moved by
three columns; one by Cranbury which is
their left ; one by the Post Road with their
baggage, boats and the bridge to throw over
the Eiver; in this column were between 5
and 600 wagons. The right column march-
ed by Millstone, which consisted of their
Light Infantry and Grenadiers (with a pro-
digious train of heavy artillery) supposed to
be about 8000. Gen. Sullivan who was at
Princeton, with about 2000 troops, according
to orders, was retreating and skirmishing on
their right column Saturday afternoon.

Gen. Washington began his order of march
Saturday night, at which time I apprehend

the enemy was near Trenton Ferry. In my
opinion they will effect their crossing the
Delaware However it is not certain they in-
tended to cross there. Should they go high-
er up to Correll's Ferry, which is nine miles
further, it will give Gen. Washington more
time to come up with them; should that be
the case, I doubt whether he will be able to
do much with his little body, which is only
a handful compared to the enemy's whole
Army. He will endeavor to harrass them.
A general battle he will not risk. A defeat
would be fatal to us. Should Howe get to
Philadelphia, which 1 have great reason to
fear he will, (for it's not in our power to pre-
vent him ; nor is it at a time that we have
any reason to expect miracles to be wrought
in our favor,) we have nobody to blame
but ourselves. Had people of interest
and influence attended to the public
interest, we might have had an army now
in the field that would bid defiance to Howe
and his whole force. But Privateering and
Stockjobbing (I am sorry to say it) has been
the sole object of their attention. Js it not
a shame that America, who boasted of her
three millions, should be ravaged and sub-
jugated by 18 or 20,000 poltroons? Rouse,
my fellow Countrymen, from your sleepy
lethargy, and come forth into the field and
assist your brethren, who are jeoparding
their lives for you, your wives and children,
as well as for themselves !

We must and shall all share the same
fate, either freemen or slaves; if there be
any among you who plead inability, that
ought not to be an excuse ; here is a good
school; if there be any that are timid and
dare not come forth, (which I cannot sup-
pose to be the character of any) let them
exert themselves by hiring a good able bod-
ied man, and see him well clothed and
equipped, then hand him over to some offi-
cer in the Continental service. This plan
adopted and strictly adhered to, I am per-
suaded would soon fill the army. How is
it possible for a few recruiting officers to
raise such an army as was ordered by Con-
gress, and which was absolutely necessary
to defend and secure the liberties of Amer-

7-2

ica? Every man who has the good of his
country and posterity at heart ought to put
his shoulders to the burthen, and bear part
of the weight; he that does not ought to be
discarded and not suffered to breathe Amer-
ican air. There's no man, let his abilities
and circumstances be what they will, but
is able to do something (in this day of
difficulty and distress) for the good of his
Country.

I have always been a lover of the civil
Law, and ever wished to see America gov-
erned by it, but I am fully of the opinion
that it would be the salvation of this Coun-
try were Martial Law to take place, at least
for 1 2 months, and Gen. Washington invest-
ed with power to call forth (any or) all the
male inhabitants (if wanted) at 24 hours
notice; then instead of hearing the disagree-
able tidings that our army are fleeing before
the enemy, you would hear that they had
compelled the enemy to quit this land, or
had cut them to pieces

I am with esteem
your assured friend and humble Scv't,

JOHN GLOVER.
Col. JOV'A GLOVER or AZOR ORNK, Esq.

PEEKSKILL, 22nd June, 1777.
Dear Sirs :

The Ship, two tenders and two
row-galleys mentioned in my last, of the 17th
Ins't, have gone back to Spitting Devil Creek.
Howe, after marching out from Brunswick
with an apparent design to cross the Dela-
ware, having boats, bridges and everything
necessary for the purpose, did nothing more
towards it than forming a line from thence to
Somerset Court house, about 9 miles, building
a chain of redoubts on his right to secure him
from an attack ; he remained there 5 days
and then sneaked off by night (and it is well
he did, for had he gone by day, we could
only have looked at him) and returned back
to Brunswick again, as you will see by the
enclosed letter from Gen. Washington to me.

(See Gordon, II. 472.)

which came by Express yesterday, in 6 hours,
notwithstanding it is 70 miles at least.

I am to march with my Brigade for East
Chester with two pieces of artillery, to-mor-
row, and encamp within about three miles
of Fort Independence, an advance post,
at least 30 miles from Peekskill and about
18 from York; don't expect to tarry long
there ; such is the fluctuating situation of
our Army, that we cannot tell this day
where we shall be the next, and this ever will
be the case while the enemy commands the
River, by which they can bring their whole
force to one single point, with great ease,
and in a very little time
Your assured friend

and very humble Servant,

JOHN GLOVER.
Col. JON'A GLOVER or AZOR ORNE, Esq.

PEEKSKILL, 2nd July 1777.
Dear Sir:

The enclosed is a copy of General
Washington's letter to General Putnam, by
which you will see it is his opinion, that Gen-
eral Howe will soon make an attack on this
post. It is therefore of the utmost impor-
tance that the troops of our State come for-
ward immediately. I hope no time will be
lost; much is at stake. We are in no condi-
tion to prevent their penetrating through the
Highlands unless speedily re-enforced.
I am, Dear Sir, yours Respectfully,

JOHN GLOVER, B. Gen.
To the HON'BL MAJOR GEN. HEATH.

P. S. Lest you should not have received
any advice from our Northern army, and be
at a loss to know what his Excellency means
by " Intelligence contained in copies of let-
ters transmitted to him by Gen. Putnam,"
I have enclosed the copies therein referred
to, which with the others be pleased to com-
municate to our Gen'l Court, and excuse my
not writing to them.

I am Dear Sir yours, &c.,

JOHN GLOVER.

WHO WAS THE FIRST GOVERNOR
OF MASSACHUSETTS?

A paper read at a Meeting of the Essex Institute, OH

Monday, April 6, 1863, by
JOSEPH B. FELT.

To differ in opinion, on this or other topics
of enquiry, especially with those noted for
their talents and acquirements, is always at-
tended with unpleasant associations and feel-
ings. Still it is the lot of human imperfection,
and unavoidable in the discussion of senti-
ments and opinions, honestly entertained. The
occasion of the question just submitted, is a
note, published by the Hon. James Savage,
in his second edition of Winthrop's Journal.
This note is printed on pages 200 to 203 in-
clusive, of the second volume. It is also con-
tained in his Genealogical Register, 2V. 122.
It holds an argument against some remarks
in the first volume of the Annals of Salem,
which advocate the position that Endicott pre-
ceded Winthrop as the proper Governor of
this Commonwealth. It advances and de-
bates two prominent ideas, which, as the wri-
ter thinks, call for examination. One is, that
the comparison between the source of Carver's
trust as Chief Magistrate of Plymouth Colo-
ny, and that of Endicott's, is incorrect. An-
other, that because the latter person held of-
fice under those of the Company of Massachu-
setts, who resided in England, he was, there-
fore, no Governor in 1629, in the right accept-
ation of the word. We will endeavor to take
a fair view of these two subjects, in the order
already presented. With regard to the com-
parison, the maker of it intended by it neither
more nor less, than relative authority for offi-
cers designated by the like names. His lan-
guage was, " The rule, which required John

VOL. v. (12)

Carver to be accounted Governor of Plymouth,
gives Mr. Endicott similar precedency to Mr.
Winthrop." That we may perceive more ful-
ly the force of this remark, we will glance at
the newly arrived Pilgrims on the coast, which
they concluded to adopt as their refuge from
the trials of the Old World. They had no
more authority for their plantation govern-
ment, and protection, than the Patent, re-
ceived from the Company of North and South
Virginia, by John Wincob in his own name,
who, to their deep regret, was unable to take
passage with them. The main cause of their
having no better warrant to occupy territory
on our shores, was the opposition of the King
and his prominent supporters to the en-
couragement of dissenters in any part of his
dominions. Such a document was no more
available for their purpose than the subse-
quent one, taken out by John Pierce, and
termed a "Dead Pole," from the Company
of New England, and sold by him at an ex-
orbitant advance, to the adventurers for the
Colony, in 1623, after he had unsuccessfully
striven to hold the settlers here as tenants at
his will. It was of less force and worth than
the Patent, obtained from the same authori-
ties in 1630, which the rulers of Plymouth
Plantation considered, as is plain from their
several earnest petitions to the throne, until
the Usurpation as not near so valuable for se-
curing their privileges as the Charter of our
Commonwealth, under the directions of which
Endicott was elected Governor in 1629. The
intimation, that the contract, signed by Carver
and his associates, was sufficient to endow him
with the full honor and responsibilities of a
Chief Magistrate, while the instrument, which
authorized Endicott to sustain a similar rela-
tion to the people with him, could not place
him upon an equal footing with the former,

may be judged of by the conduct of the Pil-
grims themselves. The anxious and pro-
tracted efforts, which they made before their
embarkation from Leyden, to obtain even
their first Patent, materially defective as it
was, shows how very reluctant they were to
be compelled, when arrived at their new abode
in America, to adopt the last resort of self-
constituded government. It is evident to me,
that they would have much preferred that
Carver should be placed over them by author-
ity of their own Company, like that which
promoted Endicott, than by that, which they
were forced to create, though absolute, un-
sought and unwelcome necessity. Besides,
Carver was no less dependent on the will of
the immigrants, who placed him at the head
of their affairs, than Endicott on that of his
fellow members of the Corporation, who vo-
ted, that the supreme care of their colony
should be committed to him.

In view of these considerations, is there
any inaccuracy in the foregoing quotation?
The meaning of it is plainly, that if Carver's
associates chose him for their head, without
constitutional power from any charter from
the Crown, or without any Patent, in the gen-
eral name of their company, from the Corpor-
ation of North and South Virginia, and he
might, under such circumstances, be rightfully
entitled Governor in advance of Bradford,
there is full as much propriety, to say the
least, that Endicott, chosen by freemen or
members of the Massachusetts Company,
among whom he held a prominent stand, as-
sembled in General Court in London, and un-
der royal sanction, to be their Governor of
this Commonwealth, should be alike enti-
tled precedently to Winthrop. It seems to
me incapable of candid and true contradiction ,
that the comparison was and is pertinent and

correct in its application, and that both cases,
considered as to the sources whence the pow-
er of governing was derived, are the same in
a corporate kind, though diverse in degree,
and that it is much more in favor of Endicott
than of Carver, though I believe that the lat-
ter may justly hold his rank as the first and
chief ruler of the Pilgrims. We will next
consider the position, that because Endicott
was appointed chief magistrate for our Col-
ony by members of the Company, convened
in London 1629, still this constituted him no
Governor in the true acceptation of the term.
For an intelligent settlement of this point,
much depends on the right interpretation of
the word denoting such an officer of state.
A few late writers have had printed in their
works the very expressions of the General
Court in England, which inform us in the
most direct and plainest style, that they elect
ed Endicott as their Colonial Governor ; and
at the same time these authors, while denying
that they fully sustained such a relation, have
utterly omitted to tell their readers what
meaning they attach to their negation. They
cannot justly complain, if those who trace
their course suppose, that the paramount rea-
son why they have gone thus far and then
failed to guide inquirers further, as they were
bound to do, is, that they could not proceed
with satisfaction to themselves, and much less
to those who are convinced that their whole
direction, so far as away from the plain land-
mark, set up by the phraseology of the Court
just refered to, is totally unauthorized The
general drift of their remarks, that Governor,
in reference to Endicott, means something
lower than the standing of such an ofiicer who
is allowed his rank, and there leaving the
mind, which desires to ascertain the propor-
tion and particulars of such deduction in ut-

ter darkness, may lead to bewilder, but is far
from being acceptable to every person who
would know the whole truth. It would af-
ford much pleasure to the writer, could he
perceive that the position of Mr. Savage, un-
der this head, was entirely free from the de-
ficiency just mentioned. After adducing
several passages from the Charter, to show
that Endicott held his trust from the Compa-
ny at home, he quotes as follows, from the
same document: "The authority, office and
power, before given to the former governor,
deputy, etc., in whose stead or place new
shall be chosen, shall, as to him, and them,
and every of them, cease and determine. "
These words, as they evidently appear to me,
have an immediate application to the succes-
sion of the Company's officers in England,
and the consequent surrender of their respec-
tive trusts. I do not understand that they
have any direct bearing upon colonial officers.
Mr Savage places the subsequent phrase, di-
rectly after the close of them, "These last
words settle the business. " If such a settle-
ment mean, which is what I comprehend by
it, that Endicott was governor here in 1629,
by election of the company in London, and
thus subordinate to them, it entirely harmo-
nizes with my own views, and I do not rec-
ollect ever having heard it denied.

It is true of him, and of all regular Gov-
ernors. None of them can or ever could
assert, that they do not or did not possess their
power subordinately, in a greater or less de-
gree, according to its origin. Were it a fact,
that on account of such subordinacy no man,
chosen under it, ever was or ever could be a
proper Governor, the issue of the present in-
stance would be closed ; the matter would be
settled, and to raise any query about it,
would be indeed "an idle question." But

the truth in the premises assumes, to my ap-
prehension, a very different aspect. The sub-
ordinacy under consideration may be corpo-
rate, regal or popular. Of course there is
no need for us to observe, except to meet ob-
jections occasionally thrown, as dust, into our
eyes, so that we may not see our way clearly,
that the term denoting such chief magistrate,
does not signify a tutor, as Locke used it in
his treatise on Education, nor pilot of a ship,
as the Apostle James applied it, nor presi-
dent of a bank, nor superintendent of a hos-
pital, etc., as not unfrequently used in the
parlance of England. The definition of Gov-
ernor, as exemplified and verified in the his-
tory of our country, may be learned from its
several administrations of government. While
different sections of it were owned and con-
trolled by companies in Europe, and after-
wards to some extent in this land, they exer-
cised a corporate power in the choice of their
Governors for their respective colonies. When
these came under provincial rule, the Kings
of England appointed such officers at their
own pleasure.

When they were made independent of the
Crown, the people elected these magistrates.
All these elections were made on principles,
as laid down in patents, charters, and con-
stitutions. Here we have a practical idea of
what Governors have been in different peri-
ods of our country; an explanation which
shows that they were delegated to rule over
their respective States, according to estab-
lished principles, by the companies, sovereigns
and people who appointed them. No well
informed historian undertakes to assert, that
the primitive Governors of New Nether land,
subsequently New York, were not properly
so because they were strictly subordinate to
the States General, and then to the West In-

dia Company in Holland; or that the like
Governors or Presidents of Virginia were not
really and completely such officers, because
they derived their station from the company,
who owned their portion of English America.
We might select no small number of other
parallel instances to confirm our position.
The two, especially cited, are well known,
to the point, and sufficient for our purpose.
But here we ask, is it true that Endicott was
not fully Governor in 1629, because so enti-
tled and empowerd by members 'of the Com-
pany in London? If so, we are reduced to
the necessity of disallowing the representa-
tions of our hitherto credible historians, who
describe the administrations of the Dutch and
Virginia Governors, just referred to, as right-
fully so denominated; we must change our
impressions, and while we speak of them as
Governors, we must entertain a mental reser-
vation which degrades them below the level
indicated by their title, and assign to them
an uncertain grade which no language has
yet to the knowledge of the writer intelligently,
satisfactorily and truly defined. We are, there-
fore, constrained to grant, that the doctrine of
subordinacy, as here set forth, tends to an ab-
surdity ; proves far too much, and consequent-
ly should be rejected as unsound, unsafe, and
introducing confusion into the records of our
History. Of course, a doctrine of sach a cast
and character should never be applied to En-
dicott, and thus strip him of the honor of be-
ing the first Governor of the territory and pop-
ulation of our Commonwealth. There are sev-
eral particulars, which bear on this subject,
and call for our attention at the present

To sink Endicott from the head of the list
of our Chief Magistrates, because of subordi-
nacy, seems to imply that there was some es-

sential difference, with reference to him and
Winthrop, in the mode of their election, and
in the principles of their administration. But
was there in reality? No; Endicott was cho-
sen by freemen of the Company in London.
So was Winthrop ; and after the latter came
hither, he was re-chosen by freemen of tho
same corporation, who dwelt here, and was,
in every respect, as much subordinate to them,
seperately viewed on both sides of the Atlan-
tic, as ever Endicott was.

How was it as to principles of administra-
tion? Endicott, for 1629, had in his hands,
as the basis of his action, the charter, desig-
nated in its words, "Letters patent, or the
duplicate or exemplification thereof," with
the royal seal. It is true, that Mr. Savage
remarks concerning him, on the 30th page of
his late first volume : " He had a commission
from the Company to act as Governor, which
was, of course, superseded by the arrival of
Winthrop with the charter." Some readers
may construe this to intimate, that Endicott
did not have the Charter for his direction.

As A caveat against such a mistake, they
will bear in mind that he did have it, not va-
rying one jot or tittle from the one brought
over by his successor, as to all its requisites
for the colonial legislation, which shows, with-
out any just contradiction, that the principles
of government were the same for both of them.
Hence, as the cause instanced in the outset
of this paragraph, has no foundation, its ef-
fect cannot be equitably allowed. The state-
ment made by Mr. Savage, that he never saw
any sufficient evidence of Endicott's exercis-
ing the duties of Governor in a regular Court
is, as it seems to me, no conclusive argument,
that he did thus come short of his assigned
service. It would indeed have been a phe-
nomenon in political economy, had not vari-

ous cases cotne before him, which in a colony
of three years' continuance, demanded the col-
lective deliberation, decision and execution of
himself and associates in government. The
letters of Cradock to him, show that he had
no lack of such business to perform, and his
well known reputation for promptness, activi-
ty and faithfulness, are a guarantee, that he
did not suffer it to be neglected . The natu-
ral inference which most minds would make
relative to absence of positive proof, if there
were none, that Endicott and his Court did
omit legislation altogether, would be, that the
records of it were lost, as those of Salem, then
the Capital, were for several years, relative to
its primitive, municipal transactions.

That Endicott did hold a General Court
there, is indicated, to my apprehension, by
Morton of Mount Wolloston, who describes in
his New English Cannaan, being present
in such an assembly. The account, which
this narrative gives,, showing how a force was
sent to seize him and his effects, because
he, in the exhibition of his staunch at-
tachment to the national church, refused
obedience to the charter authorities, is
competent evidence, that they were no
drones; that they were vigilant watchmen of
the Common weath, and adopted all needed
measures in their sessions for the regular
management of colonial affairs.

Further, the serious occurrence which in-
volved the banishment of the Brownes, would
naturally summon the majority of the rulers
together, demand and receive their anxious
consideration and final decision. Had they
failed so to do, there is a moral certainty that
the correspondence of London Court, which
ensued, would have charged them with a gross
violation of their important trusts, which it
never did. Here we meet the assertion of

Mr. Savage, previously intimated. It fol-
lows: "Nor is there a scrap of any record
of proceedings ever had under his au-
thority." As a necessary indication that
there was such a record, we have the sub-
sequent information. It is found in the Mas-
sachusetts Historical Society's Collections, 3s.
9v. 257p. It is an extract from a letter of
John Howes, in London, 1633, bearing on
the devices and exertions already commenced
at St. James' for the overthrow of our civil
and religious institutions. It is, that about
twenty-two of Endicott's laws were recently
laid before the Lords. These laws or acts,
as we have reason to conclude, were selected
by foes to our plantation from a code which
contained not a few more applicable to the
wants and relations of the inhabitants, and
not construed as opposed to the laws of the
mother country. They are the strongest
proof that P]ndicott and others, of a regularly
constituted legislature, however small, did
come up to the requisitions for which they
were appointed by the Company in London.
They thus exemplified the power bestowed
upon them expressly by the Charter, " to cor-
rect, punish, govern, and rule all the king's
subjects" within the compass of their juris-
diction. Of course the mistake which repre-
sents them in a very different attitude, so that
they should be looked upon as a body of little
or no consequence, and thus their Govern-
ment degraded like themselves, rests on mere
fiction and not fact. It ought not, and wher-
ever truth is allowed its legitimate sway, will
not press him down from his right position.

Should the administration of Endicott be
disparaged, and consequently his standing,
as its chief magistrate, meet with similar fare,
because the number of his assistants was not
large? To answer this question as it should

be, we must not look at it singly or separate-
ly from all others. It is true that the Browne's
were sent home. But there remained for
Endicott's assistants, Higginson, Skelton,
Bright, Graves, Sharp, and most probably the
three more, whom they were authorized to
choose, if not the two additional ones whom
the old Planters, as Conant and his associates,
were privileged to elect. In such an emer-
gency, it is not at all likely, that men like
the three first, just named, would despond
and neglect to avail themselves of their right
to supply deficient members, strengthen their
hands, and thus support their cause.

From these points we look to Plymouth
Colony. We hear, we perceive not even the
whisper of a suspicion, but that the rule of
Carver was such as to secure his appropriate
rank, though he had no assistant ; but that
Bradford, his immediate successor, was alike
entitled, though he had only one assistant to
1624, and then only five, and was himself an
assistant to Robert Gorges, the Governor
General of New England. From this view,
we turn to Massachusetts. Who doubts that
the administration of Winthrop was sufficient
to afford a similar distinction to him, though
he had only seven assistants besides himself
and deputy, in August, 1630, and in the
same year an order was made, that a major
part of less than nine assistants might hold a
Court and perform its appropriate business?
It must be confessed that then, of neces-
sity, was a day of small things. But the
diminutiveness of the age should not be laid
to the account of one so as to strip him of his
merited honor, while it is not so much as
named of others, to whom, in all equity, it
should be alike applied. Let not prejudice
hold us back from dealing with an even hand.
The proceedings and language of the Gener-

al Court, or Freemen of the Company, con-
vened in London, apply to the question be-
fore us.

In 1629, about February, they provide for
transmitting to Endicott the charter, having the
royal seal, and also their own seal. These he
received in due time, April 30. The Court
vote that the authorities of the Colony shall
be styled the " Governor and Council of Lon-
don's Plantation in the Massachusetts Bay."
They then elect Endicott to be the said Gov-
ernor, and most of the Council, and give in-
struction how the other members of it shall
be chosen here. In defining his powers, they
express themselves as follows, as entered on
their own records : " And the said Governor,
at his discretion, or in his absence the deputy,
is hereby authorized to appoint, as oft as
there shall be occasion, and shall have fu 1 !
power and authority, and is hereby author-
ized from his" Letters Patent, to make, ordain
and establish all manner of wholesome and
reasonable orders, laws, statutes, ordinances
and instructions, not contrary to the laws of
the realm of England, for the present govern-
ment of our Plantation and the inhabitants re-
siding within the limits of this our Plantation."

They order a transcript of this to be for-
warded to Endicott. On the same day they
empower him and his Council to choose a
Secretary, and "such other subordinate offi-
cers to attend them at their Courts."

May 7. They agree on the forms of oaths
for the Governor, Deputy and Council of the
Colony. That for the first of these officers,
they denominate "the oath of the Governor
in New England." The duties it required
of him, it required of all his successors, as
upon an equal footing in respect to rank.
29. As the head of the General Court in
England, Cradock addresses a letter to him

with the superscription, "Captain Jo: En-
dicott, Esquire, Governor." Their subse'
quent records frequently gave him the last ti-
tle. In a review of all they said and did,
so far as it has come down to us, there is not
a shade of thought or expression, as it seems
to me, which should lead any mind to infer,
but that while they were legislating about
him, appointing, addressing and styling him
Governor, they seriously and sincerely meant
to apply the title to him in the highest colo-
nial and fullest sense. U would be wronging
them as conscientious men, who were ready
to make great sacrifices for the founding of a
religious commonwealth on our soil, to sus-
pect or imply that they purposed to use the
term in a double or vague sense, or in any
form or degree, diverse from its proper signi-
fication.

To avoid any imputation of this kind, we
must allow that the Company, from the spirit
and letter of their Charter, records and cor-
respondence, did purpose to have a legitimate
Governor in the person of Endicott, on the
premises of their Plantation, even while they
exercised authority at home for the regulation
of their trade, and the delegation of suitable
legislative powers to such an officer and his
associates.

What does the succession of Winthrop to
Cradock imply ? To arrive at a true answer
to this question, let us deal with facts. Such
an official investment has all its vital proper-
ties laid down in the Charter, which made the
sphere of its immediate operation within the
jurisdiction of Old England. There it was
allowed to give legal direction to the affairs
of the Company. It was endowed with no
inward or outward quality, whereby it might
leave the place assigned for its exercise, and
take up its abode in another land, and still be

essentially as it had been at its commence-
ment. The Charter made England as requi-
site for the continuance of such investment, as
it did that a competent number of the Com-
pany's officers should reside there while it was
in existence.

This investment had nought to do with
leaving the mother country, crossing the ocean,
landing on our soil, entering the Courts of our
rulers and causing them to cease as though
they had never been. No. In the whole
length and breadth of the Charter, we discov-
er no liberties of this sort. That document
declares the duties of the Company's officers,
who were in England, and also, those of their
officers in America. As to their respective
and special services, it set up a wall of sepa-
ration between them, saying, as it were, to
one class of them, here is your allotment, and
to the other, there is yours. It holds forth
not even the shadow of a license for any of
the former, provided they should, by change
of abode, become legislatively connected with
the latter, to push them aside and assume their
civil distinctions to themselves, simply for
what they had been in a distant quarter of the
world. So it is alike non-committed in the
other direction.

With his authority so bounded, we perceive
nothing in the several communications of Crad-
ock, that he was in the least degree dissatis-
fied, because he was not styled the first Gov-
ernor of the Colony, as well as the first Gov-
ernor of the Company in England.

He evidently should have felt that an at-
tempt to foist on him such a double capacity
was not only unjust to Endicott, but also a
palpable violation of the charter, as well as
contrary to the common usage of Corporations,
like the one he served. Winthrop, no less
susceptible of generous emotions, must have

known that, by a mere succession to Cradock,
he could be endowed with no more honor and
power than so worthy a predecessor realized.
He must have perceived, that when the Ar-
bella spread her sails to the breeze, and bore
him and his friends towards America, that he
had ceased to be the head of the Company in
England, and was to be the only head of such
of them, as should have their domicile in the
Colony, and thus to be no more nor less than
the successor of Endicott, in the full sense of
a bona fide, charter Govenor, without any let
or hindrance of hypercritical distinctions, nev-
er known in their day of peril and toil for the
Commonwealth.

What did the Court in London mean, when
on the 29th of August, 1629, as proposed
for deliberation the preceding month, they
voted, "that the Government and Patent
should be settled in New England," though
not finally decided upon till several weeks
afterwards, because of serious constitutional
objections? By a misconstruction of the
phrase, here quoted, not a few persons, as
it seems to me, have been led to adopt erro-
neous conclusions. They have supposed that
it involved the necessity of making some ex-
traordinary change in the colonial polity, and
of conferring on its administrators here a
correspondent elevation. But their misap-
prehension may be corrected by a candid exam-
ination of the mode in which the movement
was executed. The practical operation of a
theory affords far better instruction as to its
nature, than many speculations about it,
however imaginative and ingenious."

The settling of the government here was
substantially the omission to have its agents
chosen by the members of the Company in
Old England, and the like act performed by
those of the same corporation in New Eng-

land. It secured to Winthrop no greater
power than it had already conferred on Endi-
cott. It raised the former not a single line
higher above the colonists, than it had the
latter. It dealt with both on the same Char-
ter principles and imparted to both equal
rank and honor. Here it may be well to re-
mark, that such an exchange of elective lo-
cations involved the nullification of the gov-
ernment as it existed under Cradock, and as
required to be continued by the Charter.
The following entry on our General Court
records, of Sept. 3, 1634, denotes an excep-
tion: '"It is ordered, that there shall be let-
ters written to these gentlemen, here under
mentioned, and signed by the Court of As-
sistants, viz : Mesa'rs George Harwood, John
Kevell, Thomas Andrews, Kichard Andrews,
Francis Kirby, Francis Webb, George Fox-
croft, and Robert Reave, to entreat them to
make choice of a man amongst themselves to
be Treasurer for a year for this Plantation,
as also to give them power to receive an ac-
count of Mr. Harwood, now Treasurer, as al-
so to give the said Mr. Harwood, a full dis-
charge." Here is indication, that members
of the Massachusetts Company, who resided
in England, were so for a government of
trade, remaining there and connected with
the Colony, as proposed in 1629, as to have
a Treasurer for their funds, who was about
to resign and another to take his place.
How much this may subtract from the amount
of confidence, entertained by some, that the
whole administration as in being under Crad-
ock, was moved over with Winthrop, and
thereby swept away Endicott's govenorship,
though a strange conclusion to my mind,
they can judge for themselves. It may not
be amiss to add here, that if such confidence
were well founded, and on account of being

at the head of the Company in London, any
man should be denominated the first Chief
Magistrate of Massachusetts, that man is
Matthew Cradock, and no other.

At this point the query meets us, what is
signified by settling the patent in New Eng-
land? It is essentially the same as settling
the government here. This was the creature
of that, and derived all its civil and religious
polity from it, and the very body which it
assumed, and the very spirit through which
it existed, moved and acted. The establish-
ment of the government on our shores, nec-
essarily involved the like action with refer-
ence to the Charter. This action implies, of
course, what really occurred in its premises.
One of two transcripts of that document, as
well known, was used for the control of the
Corporation, while they existed in England ;
but it ceased to be needed there, when they
closed their organization, and was brought to
our country. Another transcript of it had, as
before noted, been previously sent to Endicott
as the guarantee for his colonial administra-
tion, and still remains in the place where its
privileges were exercised. When he was
succeeded by Winthrop, only one of these
transcripts was needed, and that has been
long deposited among the State archives. In
such a manner was the Patent or Charter
settled upon our soil, so as to have no fur-
ther legislative connection with its proprie-
tors, who dwelt in England. It is well known
that this transaction, so far as laying aside
the government of the Corporation in that
Kingdom, has been long represented by some
as a fundamental violation of the Charter.
Charles the I. and the Council for New Eng-
land, took this stand. The Royal Council,
under the date of June 19, 1679, write to
the Rulers of Massachusetts : "Since the
VOL. v. (13)

Charter by its frame and constitution was
originally to be executed in this Kingdom,
and not in New England, otherwise than by
deputation (as is accordingly practiced in all
other charters of like nature) 'tis not possi-
ble to establish that perfect settlement, we
so much desire, until these things are better
understood."

Among the civilians, who have main-
tained the same ground, was the late Judge,
Joseph Story. The history of Hutchinson
says: " It is evident from the Charter, that
the original design of it was to constitute a
corporation in England, like to that of the
East India and other great Companies, with
powers to settle plantations within the lim-
its of the territory, under such forms of gov-
ernment and magistracy as should be fit and
necessary." "While such objectors so held
their opinion, they uttered no doubt but that
the Company did elect, in London, in 1629, a
competent and proper Governor for their
Colony, in the person of Endicott."

" We may learn from the foregoing obser-
vations, that the principal addition to the
General Court of the Plantation, by estab-
lishing the government and patent here, was
the choice of its chief magistrate, instead of
having him appointed by similar authority
in England. But location, all other things
being equal, makes no essential difference
in the grade of an officer. Washington
would have been as much President of our
Republic had he been chosen in Boston as
anywhere else, provided the Constitution
allowed the practice. Endicott therefore
should, by no mistaken construction, suffer
loss in his rank, by being elected by mem-
bers of the Company in London instead of
Massachusetts. \Ve feel assured, that Win-
throp saw nothing in the settlement of the

Government and charter on our Soil, which
could justify him in attempting to exclude
Endicott from being his constitutional pre-
decessor in office. No, the enlightened
mind, the truthful conscience, and the noble
heart of Winthrop, would have shrunk from
such a trick of political management."

" How do historians represent the office
of Endicott prior to Winthrop's arrival?
Josselyn, Johnson and Morton speak of the
former, as being governor in 1629, without
the least qualification, as if he were in any
form or degree, of any lower grade than the
latter. Prince, in his New England, i elates
ihe proceedings of the Company in London
in conferring a name upon their Colony. He
then says, that they "elect Mr. Endicott
Governor," and four times in immediate
succession, in the same paragraph, he applies
the like title to him in connection with the
transactions of such a body. Prince, who
was quick to detect small as well as great
errors, and particular to state them, evi-
dently had no misgivings as to the common-
sense meaning of Governor, assigned to En-
dicott; had no doubt but that he might most
accurately and unreservedly apply to him
the title, without being justly charged with
the least particle of misrepresentation."

Hutchinson, while narrating the Compa-
ny's course of business, in the same year,
says: "The names of all the adventurers
and the sums subscribed, were sent over to
Mr. Endicott, who was appointed their Gov-
ernor in the Plantation." A man. like
Hufohinson, would never have made this
statement, had he the least suspicion that
it contained a contradiction; that it could
be. in some anomalous and strange manner,
construed to mean the Governor of a Colony
or a State, and, at the same ins: ant and in

the same relation, mean no such officer, but
an uncertain, undefined something, without
notifying his readers of such a perplexed
and distorted use of the English tongue."
It comes to my recollection, distinctly, that
a highly distinguished literary gentleman,
who had great confidence in Hutchinson's
talents, intelligence and correctness, while
contending that Winthrop was the first Gov-
ernor of our commonwealth, appealed to that
author with evident assurance that he would
support his position, but was greatly disap-
pointed when he saw that his words contra-
dicted his theory. And so I believe will
many a man, who has not already committed
himself in an opposite direction, and who
consults their statements, without any pre-
vious bias, be conscious, that Hutchinson
and Prince meant to be understood, that
they had no doubts but that Endicott was
in 1629, a true constitutional and proper
Governor of Massachusetts, as much as Win-
throp or any of his successors ever were un-
der the colonial charter, and consequently
and righteously accounted the first on the
list of such magistrates in our Common-
wealth."

NOTE.

The foregoing paper, by Rev. Dr. Felt, will be read
by many with great interest, as well from the impor-
tance of the subject discussed as from the high charac-
ter of the writer as a historian. The question, " Who
was the first Governor of the Colony of the Massachu-
setts Bay ?" has been, heretofore, debated chiefly be-
tween Hon. James Savage, who assigns official prece-
dence to Winthrop, and the author of the foregoing pa-
per, who has long maintained that Endicott is entitled,
historically and legally, to the position of first Govern-
or.

The dispute between these learned writers has been
less about the occurrence of events, and their proper se-
quence, in our earliest colonial history, than about the
historical significance of certain facts admitted to be
true on both sides

Lately, the same question was, incidentally, consid-
ered in the Supreme Judicial Court of this common-
wealth, in the case of the Commonwealth v. the City of
Roxbury, argued in Norfolk county, Oct. 1857. and re-
ported in the recently published 9th volume of Gray's
Reports, pp. 451 528. A marginal note to this case,
by Mr. Gray, contains a very complete and satisfactory
review of all known matters of importance bearing up-
on this question, and, as we think, fully sustains the
views entertained by Rev. Dr. Felt.

For the assistance of the reader, who may not have
the necessary books of reference at hand, we here sub-
join a list of events relating to this subject, in the order
and with the date of their occurrence:

1628, Mar. 19. The Council, established at Plymouth,

England, by deed indented, bargained
and sold, to Sir Henry Rosewell and oth-
ers, that part of New England which
" lies between Merrimack and Charles
river, in the bottom of the Massachusetts
Bay."

" June 20. Master John Endicott, having been ap-
pointed "agent" or "governor'' by
the company, sails for New England.

" Sept. 6. Endicott arrives at Naumkeag, (Salem)
and finds there, Conant and his men,
who have been theresome years, trading
and fishing.

1629, Mar. 4. The royal charter, incorporating Sir Hen-

ry Rosewell and his fellows under the
name of " The Governor and Company
of the Mattachnsetts Bay in Newe Eng-
land," passes the seals. In this charter
the king appoints " Mathewe Cradocke to
be the first and present Governor of the
said company ; " and also appoints other
officers. Cradock continued in office till
the election of Winthrop, Oct. 20, 1629,
and during this period the company's
meetings were lieM in London.

" Apr. 17. A letter of general instructions is sent to
Endicott with a " duplicate " charter un-
der the broad seal, and also the silver
seal of the company, authorized by the
charter, which was, ever afterwards, used
as the great seal of the Colony. These
were conveyed, by Mr. Sharpe, in the
ship George Bonaventuie, which set sail
from the Isle of Wight, on the 4th of
May following; a few days in advance of
the other vessels of the same fleet.

' " 30. At a general court held at London, the
Governor and Company, " settle and es-
tablish an absolute government at our
plantation in the said Mattachusetts Bay
in Newe England.'' This government
was to " have the sole managing and or-
dering of the government and our affairs
there; " and was to consist of 13 persons

1629 who should constitute a governor and

council to be styled "The Governor and
Council of London's Plantation in the
Mattachusetts Bay in Newe England."
Capt. John Endicott was chosen by the
company, the (first) " present Governor,"
to hold his office, with the rest, " for the
space of one whole year from and after
the taking the oath, or until such time as
this court shall think fit to make choice
of any others to succeed in the place or
places of them or any of them."

When Endicott took his oath is not
precisely known ; but there can be no
doubt that he was sworn and performed
the duties of his office.

" Oct. 20. John Winthrop is chosen Governor of
the company in England, and John Hum-
fry is chosen Deputy Governor, with a
view to their speedy removal, with "the
patent," to New England; that course
having been decided upon by vote, Aug.
29. preceding. A new Council is also
chosen .

1630, Mar. 29. Winthrop sets sail from Cowes.
" Apr. 8. " " " Isle of Wight.

" June 6. " makes land.

" June 12. " comes to anchor inside of Ba-

ker's Island, Salem. With Winthrop
came 15 ships and 1500 persons.

The foregoing table prepares us to repeat the question
to the reader, " Now, which was the first predecessor of
the present Chief Magistrate of Massachusetts?" CRA-
DOCK, who was the first Governor of the Company, but
who never came to these shores ; ENDICOTT, who was
the first "Governor" of the Colony, but under Cra-
dock, as Governor of the Company; or WINTHROP, who
was neither first Governor of the Company, nor of the
Colony, but WAS the first who held both of those offices
in New England?

We take this opportunity to offer a suggestion which
may help to explain the company's action with respect
to the charter. Great importance was, at that time, at-
tached to the possession of the parchment or paper wri-
ting of any grant or patent; as witness the story of
the Charter Oak, in Connecticut, at a later day, and
also the history of our own colonial charter. So, to
meet the adverse claims of Oldham and others, Endicott
was provided, with all possible dispatch, with a " dupli-
cate" patent. Besides this, the charter itself provided
that on the exhibition of the charter, or of "the dupli-
cate or exemplification of the same, without any other
writ or warrant, " &c., the King, the Treasurer, Chan-
cellor and Barons of the Exchequer, and all collectors
and farmers of customs, should forthwith "make al-
lowance and discharge all customs," &c., to the compa-
ny's agent.

This also accounts for Endicott's causing the charter,
securely packed in a covered case, to be carried before

him " in his progresse to and froe," as we read in Mor-
ton's New English Canaan, where the author indulges
in much merriment over this "impostury" of the
" man of Littleworth," as he styles Endicott, who, by
this means, he says, led some to believe that he ' had
bin a fidler," and still carried some instrument of mu-
sic!

How soon Winthrop after his arrival assumed the
reins of government, does not distinctly appear. It
may have been at once, or it may have been after Endi-
cott's year expired. But this is not a matter materially
affecting the question before us. Neither is the question
of Conant's claims to the gubernatorial office, which
have been ably urged, and, it is believed, are still sup-
ported by Mr. Thornton.

Whether Winthrop's administration superseded, or
meiely succeeded Endicott's, many things go to show
that Endicott's board of government of thirteen, con-
tinued, as a system of government, at Salem, and was
the prototype of the boards of "selectmen," which now
form so important a feature in our town system. So
that there may have been, after Wiuthrop's arrival, two
governments; one at Salem, and the other at Charles-
town or Boston the latter exercising two jurisdictions,
one municipal, in which it was equal to the government
at Salem, and the other corporate, in which it managed
the company's affairs, and was, of course, imperial, as
the "Great and General Court." This, however, is
chiefly conjecture. EDS.

A COPY OF THE FIRST BOOK OF
BIRTHS, OF THE TOWN OF ROW-
LEY, WITH NOTES.

COMMUNICATED BY M. A. STICKNEY.

Continued from vol. 5, page 16.

1718 19.

Rebecca Smith the daughter of John Smith
and Ann borne October the 24 day 1714.

John Wheeler son of Jethro and Hannah
his wife borne September the twelfth day in
ye year 1710.

John Boynton the son of John & Bethiah
borne December 22 day 1718.

Jane Jewett the daughter of Nathanell Jew-
ett and Mary borne the 3 day of Aprill 1713.

Johannah Jewett the daughter of Nathan-
ell Jewett and Mary borne March 7 day 1716.

Mary Jewett the daughter of Nathanell
and Mary Jewett borne the 17 day 1718.

Samuel Pengry the son of Job Pengry
and Elizabeth borne January the 2 day
1718-19.

Stephen Dole the son of Richard Dole and
Elizabeth borne February the 2 day 1718-19.

Moses Pickard the son of Moses and Lid-
ia borne January the 9 day 1718-19.

Sarah Kilburn the daughter of Joseph and
Mary borne July the 23 day 1711.

Elizabeth Kilburn borne November the 5
day 1713

Mary Kilburne borne the 3 of January
1716 the daughter of Joseph and Mary.

Johannah Kilburne the d?vghterof Joseph
and Mary borne the 7 day of December 1717.

Sarah Boynton the daughter of Hilkiah and
Priscilla borne January the first day 1718-19.

Mary Browne the daughter Samuel Browne
& Elizabeth borne May the 15 1718.

David Jewett the son of Stephen Jewett &
Priscilla borne the 10 of June 1714.

Solomon Jewett the son of Stephen Jewett
& Priscilla borne September 2 day 1716.

Rebecca Jewett the daughter of Stephen
Jewett & Priscilla borne February 1 day
1718-19.

Jeddedia Peirson the son of Jededia &
Sarah borne January the 20 day 1717-18.

Elizabeth Gage the daughter of William
Gage and Mercy borne March the 8 day 1718.

Ann Pengre the daughter of Aron Pengre
and Elizabeth borne March the 7 1719.

Sarah Thirstan the daughter of Daniell and
Lidia Thirstan borne May 13 1719.

Abygall Lighton the daughter of Richard
& Abygall borne October 9 day 1718.

Martha Lighton the daughter of Richard &
Abygall borne Aprill 4 day 1714.

Jonathan Lighten the son of Richard and
Abygall borne October 19 1715.

Mehitabell Adams the daughter of John
and Sarah borne June 21, 1719.

Elizabeth Sanders the daughter of Edward
Sanders and Elizabeth borne September 25,
1719.

Sarah Baley the daughter of Nathaniell
Baley and Sarah borne November 18, 1719.

Benjamin Plumer the son of Benjamin
Plumer and Jane borne October 20, 1717.

Lidia Scott the daughter of Benjamin Scott
& Sarah borne December 4, 1719.

Joseph Kilburne the son of Joseph Kil*
burne & Mary borno 2 day of July 1719.

David Palmer the son of Thomas Pallmer
and Sarah borne July 16, 1717.

Mary Pallmer the daughter of Thomas
Palmer and Sarah borne February 15, 1719.

Isaac Kilburne the son of Isaac & Dorcas
borne 15 day of October 1717.

Ruth Scott the dauter of Samuel Scott and
Elizabeth borne 27 of October 1719.

Rebeca Hopkinson the daughter of Jerimi-
ah & Elizabeth borne 26 of January 1713.

Mercy Hopkinson the daughter of Jerimi-
ah Hopkinson and Elizabeth borne 26 of May
1718.

Thomas Lambert Recorder.

Maruh Prime daughter of Mark Prime and
Jane his wife borne August the tenth 1719.

Jonathan Plats son of Moses Platts & Han-
nah his wife borne November the tenth day
1719.

Richard Tenny son of Daniel Tenny and
Piiscillahis wife borne March ye twenty-eight
1716.

Bethiah Tenney daughter of Daniel Ten-
ney and Prissila his wife borne March twen-
ty-second day 1718.

Sarah Termey daughter of Daniel Tenney
and Prissila his wife borne September the
eighteenth day 1720.

Hannah Palmer daughter of John Palmer
and Mary his wife borne December the thir-
tyeth day 1719.

Daniell Person son of Jediah Perrson and
Sarah his wife borne October ye ninth day
1719.

Beniamin Sawyer son of Ezekiel & Han-
nah his wife borne June the twenty-ninth day
1720.

Amos Jewett son of Aqule and Anne his
wife borne July ye twenty-second day 1719.

Mary Perrson daughter of Stephen Perrson
and Hannah his wife borne May ye 3, 1720.

Elizabeth Bennet daughter of John Ben-
nett and Mary his wife borne May ye twenty-
ninth 1720.

Samuel Wood son of Thomas Wood & Sa-
rah his wife borne February ye fifth day 1720.

Huldah Bridges daughter of John Bridges
and Huldah his wife borne July ye sixt day
1720.

Johannah Lull daughter of Beniamin Lull
and Elizabeth his wife borne August ye twen-
ty-sixt day 1720.

Hannah Mighil daughter of Nathanel Mig-
hil and Prisiliah his wife borne January the
third-day 1719-20.

Stephen Palmer son of Francis Palmer and
Sarah his wife borne September the ninth
day 1720.

Moses Pengre son of Job and Elizabeth his
wife borne November the seventh day 1720.

Josiah Brown son of Samuel and Elizabeth
born May ye third 1720.

Abiall Sadler son of John & Sarah his
wife born December ye 20, 1720.

Mary Burpe daughter of Jeremiah and Re-
bekah his wife borne March ye 19, 1716-17.

Joseph Burpe son of Jeremiah and Re-
bekah his wife born July ye 25, 1719.

Nathanael Jewett son of Nathanael & Ma-
ry his wife born December ye 22, 1720.

Johannah Pickard daughter of Jonathan
and Johanah his wife born Jenewary the six-
teenth day 1720-21.

Ebenezer Kilburn son of Joseph and Ma-
ry his wife born Febewary ye llth 1720-21

Abigael Nelson daughter of Gershom and
Abigael born May ye 20th 1720.

Elizabeth Jewett the daughter of Daniel
and Elizabeth his wife born June ye eight-
eenth day 171G.

Mehetahel Jewett the daughter of Daniel
and Elizabeth his wife born July ye .seven-
teenth day 1719.

David Jewett the son of Daniel and Eliza-
beth his wife born October the twentec day
1720.

John Dutey the son of Samuel and Ruth
his wife born November ye seventeenth day
1720.

Ruth Chute daughter of James & Mary
his wife born August ye 27th day 1720.

Jeremiah Elsworth son of Jeremiah and
Hannah his wife born December ye 30 day
1719.

Daniell Barker son of James and Sarah
his wife born May ye fourth day 1718.

Jonathan Barker son of James and Sarah
his wife born May ye sixteenth day 1720.

Abel Spafford son of Jonathan & Jemimah
born November ye fourteenth day 1719.

Joseph Spafford son of Jonathan and Jemi-
mah l>orn July ye thirtyeth day 1720.

Joseph Barker son of Jacob and Margrit
borne April ye eleventh day 1717.

Nathaniel Barker son of Jacob & Margrit
born February ye eight day 1719-20.

Mary Barker daughter of Jacob & Margrit
born Jenewary ye twenty fifth day 1721.

David Adams son of Isaac and Hannah his
wife born June ye fifteenth day of June 1720.

John Adams son of John & Sarah his wife
born April ye twelfth day 1721.

Thomas Plummer son of Thomas & Ruth
his wife born Feberwary the eighteenth day
1719-20.

Sarah Stickney daughter of Samuel and
Susanna his wife born March ye 31st day
1719.

Lydia Stickney daughter of Samuel & Su-
sanna his wife born May the twenty seventh
day 1721.

Samuel Tenne son of Samuel & Sarah his
wife born August the seventeenth day 1719.

Thomas Tenne son of Samuel and Sarah
his wife born July the seventh day 1721.

Thomas Burke son of Thomas & Mary his
wife born November the twenty fifth day 1719.

Stephen Burke son of Thomas & Mary his
wife born August the second day 1721.

Luci Lambert daughter of Thomas and Sar-
ah his wife born September the twenty sixth
day 1721.

David Pickard son of Moses and Lidia his
wife born November ye eleventh day 1721.

Calib Jewett son of Nehemiah and Priscil-
la his wife born November sixteenth day 1721.

Daniel Tenne the son of Daniel and Pris-
cilla his wife born May ye twenty second day
1721.

Nathaniel Burpe the son of Jeremiah and
Rebekah his wife born February the seventh
day 1721-2.

Ruth Plumer the daughter of Thomas &
Ruth his wife born February the fifth 1721-2.

Sarah Northend the daughter of John and
Bethiah his wife born November the twenty
fourth day 1721.

Jane Pifbary daughter of Amos and Elise-
beth his wife born February the seventh day
1721-2.

Ruth Brocklebank daughter of John and
Ruth his wife born March the first day 1721-2.

Mary Boynton daughter of Jonathan and
Margrit his wife born August the twenty first
day 1720.

Daniel Chute son of James and Mary his
wife born May the sixth day 1722.

Sarah Dutey daughter of Samuel & Ruth
his wife born Febewary ye eleventh day 1721-
2.

Jane Pengre daughter of Job and Elisebeth
his wife born October ye fifth 1722.

Hannah Woodbury daughter of Samuel
and Hannah his wife born October the eight-
een day 1722.

Sarah Payson daughter of Mr. Samuel &
Mrs Mary his wife born November the nine-
teenth day 1722.

Abigail Addams the daughter of Isaac
and Hannah bis wife born June the twenty-
eight day 1722.

Francis Nellson son of Samuel & Anne
his wife born September the first day in the
year 1722.

Elizabeth Jewett daughter of Stephen and
Prisiliah his wife born June the seventeenth
day 1721.

Mary Addams daughter of John and Sarah
his Wife born February the eleventh day
1722-3.

Daniel Hale son of Daniel and Judith his
wife born Febury the fifteenth day 1722-3.

Aron Clarke son of Jonathan & Jane his
wife born Febuary the twenty-fifth 1722-3.

Jeremiah Jewett son of Aqurla and Ann
his wife born Febuary ye twenty-eight day
1722-3.

Daniel Stickney son of Amos and Hepzi-

bah his wife born November ye twenty-second
day 1722.

John Plummer son of John and Rebakah
his wife born December ye twenty-fifth day
1723.

Ann Jewett daughter of Daniel and Eliz-
abeth his wife born July the nineteenth day
1723.

John Carpenter son of Edward and Eliz-
abeth his wife born May the nineteenth day
1719.

Hannah Carpenter daughter of Edward
and Elizabeth his wife born May the eigh-
teenth day 1721.

Hepzibah Burpee daughter of Ebenezer
and Meriam his wife born October the third
day 1722.

Elizabeth Pickard daughter of Moses and
Lidia his wife born October ye twenty-fifth
day 1723.

Sarah Pickard daughter of Jonathan and
Johannah his wife born May ye eighteen day
1723.

Mary Jewett daughter of Joseph and Mary
his wife born July ye eleventh day in ye
year 1723.

Thomas Sanders son of Edward and Eliz-
abeth his wife born November ye second day
in year 1721.

Jane Sanders daughter of Edward and
Elizabeth his wife born June the twenty-fourth
day in ye year 1723.

Moses Sticknee son of Samuel and Susanah
his wife born September the eight day in the
year 1723.

John Thistain son of Jonathan and Lidia
his wife born August the ninteenth day in ye
year 1723.

Faith Jewett daughter of Nathanael & Mary
his wife born Apriell the seventeenth day in
ye year 1723.

Jonathan Wood son of Thomas & Sarah
his wife born the fifth day of June in ye year
1723.

Mary Burpe daughter of Thomas & Mary
his wife born October the fourteenth day in
ye year 1723.

Moses Spafford son of Francis and Prissila
hie wife born Febeuary ye ninteenth day in
ye year 1722-3.

Sarah Perrson daughter of Jedediah and
Sarah his wife born Jenewaiy ye twenty-first
day 1721-2.

Stephen Plummer son of Thomas Plummer
and Ruth his wife born May the twenty ninth
day 1724.

Sarah Perrson daughter of Stephen Perr-
son and Hannah his wife born June the seven-
teenth 1724.

David Brockelbank son of John & Ruth
his wife born March the fourth day 1724 .

Luci Hidden ye daughter of Ebenezer and
Elizabeth his wife born Apriel ye first day
1722.

Mehitable Hobson daughter of Humphrey
and Mehitable his wife born Febuary the
twenty-fourth 1721-2.

Thomas Mighill son of Nathanael and Pris-
ill:i his wife born Apriel the second day 1722

Jeremiah Mighill son of Nathanael & Pris-
cilla his wife born June ye eight day!724.

Job Pengre son of Job and Elizabeth his
wife born June ye second day 1724.

Elizabeth Payson daughter of Eliot and
Mary his wife born March ye twenty third day
17234.

Elizabeth Woodbary daughter of Richard
and Elizabeth his wife born December yc 6
day 1721.

Richard Woodbary son of Richard and Eliz-
abeth his wife born August the eleventh day
1724.

Jacob Smith son of Beniamin and Martha
his wife born September ye fifteenth day 1720.

Joseph Smith son of Beniamin and Martha
his wife born October the twenty eight day
1724.

Abigael Hereman daughter of Nathaniel &
Mahetibael his wife born October the eight
day 1721.

Nathanael Hereman son of Nathanael and
Mehitible his wife born March the twenty sec-
ond day 1722-3.

Jane Perrson the daughter of David and
Jane his wife born May the thirtycth day
1724.

Mary Addams the daughter of Isaac and
Hannah his wife born October the twelft day
1724.

Stephen Wheler the son of Jonathan and
Anne his wife born December the twenty
fifth day 1716.

Abner Wheeler the son of Jonathan and
Anne his wife born Jenuary the seventh day
1719.

Jonathan Wheeler son of Jonathan and
Anne his wife born June the eleventh day
1724.

John Russel son of Joseph and Mcbetable
his wife born October ye twenty first day
1724.

Sarah Pengre daughter of Aron and Eliz-
abeth his wife born April ye first day 1724.

Lidia Jewctt daughter of Samuel and
Jemirnah his wife born Febewary the eigh-
teenth 1723-4.

John Pilsbary ye son of Amos and Eliza-
beth his wife born November the seventeenth
1723.

Jeremiah Hopkinson son of Jeremiah and
Elizabeth his wife born August the ninth
day 1722.

Beniamin Addams son of John and Sarah
his wife borne December ye eight day 1724.

Ebinezer Hale son of Daniel and Judith
his wife born March ye second day 1724-5.

Jonathan Elsworth son of Jeremiah and
Hannah his wife born January 13 day 1722.

Nathaniel Ellsworth son of Jeremiah and
Hannah his wife born April ye sixteenth day
1724.

Joseph Brown son of Joseph and Abigael
his wife born May ye twenty seventh day
1724.

George Hibbert son of George and Sarah
his wife born March the twenteth day 1722-
3.

Sarah Plummer daughter of Daniel and
Abigail his wife born Feberary ye fourth day
1724-5.

Stephen Burpee son of Thomas and Mary
his wife born March the seventeenth day
1724-5.

Samuel Brocklebank son of Francis and
Mary his wife born October the ninteenth
day 1724.

Sarah Scott daughter of Beniarain and
Sarah his wife born September ye twenteth
.day 1722.

James Chute son of James and Mary his
wife born May the twelft day 1725.

Thomas Dickinson son of Thomas and Eliz-
abeth his wife, born May ye twenty fifth day
1724.

Hannah Dickinson ye daughter of Thomas
and Elizabeth his wife born September the
eighteenth day 1725.

Jonathan Plummer the son of John and
Rebekah his wife born Apriel the thirteenth
day 1724.

Jane Pickard ye daughter of Jonathan and
Johannah his wife borne Apriel the twenty-
ninth day 1725.

VOL. v. (14)

Amos Dole the son of Richard and Eliza-
beth his wife born July ye twenty-eight day
1725.

Hannah Lull daughter of Thomas and
Hannah his wife born July the twenty -eight
day 1721.

Thomas Lull son of Thomas and Hannah
his wife born May the fifth day 1725.

Ruth Todd ye daughter of John and Ruth
his wife born Febewary the eight day 1720.

Daniel Todd the son of John and Ruth his
wife born Janewary the twelft day 1722.

Mary Todd ye daughter of John and Ruth
his wife born September ye fifth day 1723.

Elizabeth Todd ye daughter of John &
Ruth his wife bom July ye elevanth day
1725.

Jeremiah Burpee son of Ebinezer and Mir-
iam his wife born September the tenth day
1724.

Hannah Tenne the daughter of John and
Sarah his wife born January ye seventh day
1725-6.

Mary Stewart the daughter of Ebenezer and
Elizabeth his wife born October ye twenty
sixth day 1715.

Charles Stewart son of Ebenezer and Eliz-
abeth his wife born May ye thirty-first day
1718.

Jane Stewart ye daughter of Ebenezer &
Elizabeth his wife born August ye seventh
day 1720.

Nathanael Tenne son of Daniel and Eliz-
abeth his wife born January the twenty ninth
day Anno Dom. 1723-4.

Sarah Thirstain daughter of Jonathan and
Lidia his wife born May the twenty-sixth day
1725.

Francis Pickard son of Francis and Ednah
his wife born Febewary ye sixth day 1724-5.

Elizabeth Sawyer daughter of John & Ma-
ry his wife born Janewary eight day 1718.

John Sawyer son of John and Mary his
wife born September ye twenty-eight day
1722.

Elizabeth Palmer daughter of Francis and
Elizabeth his wife born March the thirty-first
day 1726.

John Pengre son of Job & Elizabeth his
wife born Febuary ye twenty-fifth day 1725-0.

Sarah Jewett daughter of Maxemilian &
Sarah his wife born June ye eight day 1707.

Faith Jewett daughter of Maximilian &
Sarah his wife born Aprill ye thirteth day
1710.

Hepzibah Jewett ye daughter of Maxemil-
ian and Sarah his wife born November ye
second day 1712.

Anne Jewett daughter of Maxemilian &
Sarah his wife born July ye seventeenth day
1715

Jeremiah Jewett son of Maxemilian & Sa-
rah his wife born September ye eleventh day
1720.

Assa Spaford son of Francis and Prisiliah
born August the fourth day 1725.

Jonathan Bayley son of John and Elizabeth
his wife born July the twenty-eight day 1724.

Elizabeth Bayley ye daughter of John and
Elizabeth his wife born August the fifteenth
day 1725.

Elizabeth Brocklebank ye daughter of Fran-
cis and Mary his wife born July ye 28th day
172(5.

William Stickney ye son of Samuel and
Susannah his wife born August ye 27th 1726.

Abigail Plummer ye daughter of Daniel
& Abigael his wife born March ye thirty-first
day 1726.

Molle Perrson ye daughter of David and

Jane his wife born July the twenty-sixth day
1726.

Olliver Boynton ye son of David and Love
his wife born August ye sixteenth day 1726.

Elizebeth Mighill daughter of Nathanael
& Prisilla born September 29th 1726.

Hannah Bayley the daughter of John &
Elizabeth his wife born January ye first day
1726-7.

Jane Northend the daughter of John &
Bethiah his wife born Apriel the thirteenth
day 1724.

John Pickard son of Moses and Lydia his
wife born July the eleventh day 1726.

Isaac Burpee son of Jonathan & Hannah
his wife born July the t^pth day Anno Dom-
ini 1715.

Samuel Northend son of John and Bethiah
his wife born March ye eleventh day 1726-7.

Joseph & Benjamin Woodbury sons of
Richard & Elizabeth his wife born June the
twenty-fifth day 1725.

Susanah Hobson daughter of Moses. &
Lidia his wife born January ye sixteenth day
in ye year 1726-7.

Samuel Plummer son of Thomas & Ruth
his wife born June the sixt day in the year
1726.

Elizabeth Dickinson daughter of John &
Susanah his wife born November ye twenty-
sixt day 1723.

Sarah Dickinson daughter of John and
Susanah his wife born May ye thirty-first day
1726.

John Stickney son of John and Annah his
wife born March ye twenty-first day in ye
year 1725-6.

Joseph Briges son of John & Hulday his
wife born Apriel ye eight day in ye year 1726.

Jane Sanders daughter of Edward and

Elizabeth his wife born June ye twenty-second
day 1723.

Joseph Sanders son of Edward and Eliz-
abeth his wife born May the second day 1725.

Mary Sanders daughter of Edward and
Elizabeth his wife born March ye twenteth
day in ye year 1726-7.

Stephen Perrson son of Stephen & Han-
nah his wife born October the twenty-fifth
day in ye year 1726.

Mary Smith daughter of Benjamin & Mar-
tha his wife born March ye thirteenth day
1726-7.

Elizabeth Bayley ye daughter of Joseph
and Sarah his wife born December ye twenty-
seventh 1725.

Nathanael Bayley the son of Joseph &
Sarah his wife born March ye seventeenth
day 1726-7.

Enoch Heriman son of John & Jane his
wife born May the eighteenth day 1727.

Sarah Palmer daughter of John and Mary
his wife born Febereuary ye seventh day 1721-
2.

Sarah Palmer daughter of John and Mary
his wife born Apriel ye seventeenth day 1724.

Mehetable Palmer daughter of and Ma-
ry his wife born March ye eighteenth day
1726-7.

Hannah Addams daughter of John and
Sarah his wife born August ye eleventh day
1727.

Samuel Thirstian son of Jonathan & Lidia
his wife born June ye seventh day 1727.

Ester Burpee daughter of Thomas & Mary
his wife born August the twenty-second day
1726.

Anne Creecy daughter of John and Sarah
his wife born January ye thirteenth day 1726-
7.

Mary Jewett daughter of Benjamin and

Dority his wife born November ye twenty-
fourth day 1726.

Prisila Jewett daughter of Stephen & Ly-
dia his wife born June ye thirtieth day in ye
year 1727.

Ebenezer Rusell son of Joseph and Mehet-
able his wife born January ye third day in
ye year 1727-8.

Sarah Burpee daughter of Ebenezer and
Meriam is wife born July ye tenth day 1726.

Samuel Deute son of Samuel and Ruth
his wife born May ye twentyeth day in ye
year 1726.

Hannah Creecy daughter of Abell and
Hannah his wife born Febeuary ye seven-
teenth day 1727-8.

Bridgit Boynton daughter of Joseph &
Bridgit born January ye twenty-ninth day
1702.

Abiel Boynton son of Joseph & Bridgit
born May the fifteenth day 1705.

Ephraem Boynton son of Joseph and Brid-
git born July the sixteenth day 1707.

Zaccheus Boynton son of Joseph and
Bridgit born Aprill the third day 1710.

Ednah Boynton daughter of Joseph and
Bridgit born September the twenty-sixth day
1712.

(To be Continued.)

ABSTRACTS FROM WILLS, INVEN-
TORIES, &c., ON FILE IN THE
OFFICE OF CLERK OF COURTS,
SALEM, MASS.

COPIED BY IRA J. PATCH.

Continued from Vol. V, Page 108.

Eliz Carr^mo 1691.
Will of Elizabeth Carr of Salisbury dated
18th Mch 1683-4, mentions sons George Carr
and William Carr, daughters Mary Bayley

Sarah Baker and Anna Putnam, grand- -hild
James Woodmansye, sons John Carr, Rich-
ard Carr and James Carr, and appoints son
James Carr ex'or. witnesses William Bus-
well, James Allin and Richard Long, pro-
bate June 30, 1691. died 6th May '01 or
thereabouts. Inventory of above estate
taken June 1691, by Henry hornne Jr and
William Buswell, amounting to 64 3s.
returned by James Carr ex'or, June 30, 1691.

Joseph Elkins. -imo 1691.
Inventory of estate of Joseph Elkius of
Salem, taken by Jeremiah Neal who return-
ed "To the waiges that was due upon the
Expedition to Canady 2 13s lOd ' an ac-
count of charges also for what he had paid
out amounting to 2 5s leaving 8s lOd in
his hand, allowed June 30, 1691.

John Roby 4mo 1691.
Inventory of estate of John lioby of Hav-
erhill " slain by ye hand of ye Enimie June
ye 22" and taken the 23 of June 1691, by
Samuel Mercer and Joseph Kingsbery
amounting to 302 4s. returned by Thom-
as Roby of Hampton, brother of deceased
who is appointed adra'r June 30, 1691.

RicKd ffubbard, Sept. 1691.
This Present Writeing declareth \- Wit-
nesseth, that Whereas Mr Richard Hubbard
Gent, formerly of Ipswich Deceased Intestate,
not Leaving a Will for ye settlement and
disposall of his Estate, amongst his posterity
which he then left, which was a Widow,
with five Small Children ; and ye honored
County Court of Essex at Salem in anno
1684. Took Care for ye Relict, & also ye
Children, in Refferance as to them, consid-
erring their Severall Capacityes, and for
That End appoynted a Comittee to assign to
the Gentlewoman, Such part as was then

thought Sutable for her Dowrye, as also to
Order or make & sett apart such Severall
parts for ye Children as might be an Equall
distribution, Viz ; to ye Gentlewoman, a Ten-
ament Which was part of ye Estate which
is called, Tolborns farme, & also Ten acres
of Land on ye south side of ye brook or riv-
er, which pertained to ye said farme ye
which was accout'ed for her full dower, ye
Eldest Son a double portion of ye remainder,
& ye other children single shares, Equally,
all which Estate to remain in their mothers
hands until they came of age or Capacity to
receive & Improve their parts, Leaving Such
proviso in Case of ye Death of any, yt their
shares should Goe to ye rest as according to
such proportion, and by reason of Severall
diversions or Overtures in ye world, ye Time
was Lapsed, until such time as one was dead,
& one of ye children which is a daughter is
married to Mr John Gotten, which was some
Considerable Time before now, yet no dis-
tribution was made ; Whereupon at ye Court
held at Ipswich april ye 22nd 1691, by ad-
journment, The three Sons, viz; Richard
Nathaniel & John, appeared & Chose their
Severall Guardians, & ye Court approved of
their Choice, viz ; Richard chose his unc'e,
Mr William Hubbard; Nath'l chose Capt
Daniel Epps, & John chose Capt Tho's Wade,
at which time Mr Jno Gotten in ye behalfe
of himselfe & ye rest of ye children, Did
move for a division of ye Estate, ye Court
ordered yt ye Gentlemen formerly appoynted
by ye Court, with those which ye Sons have
chose Guardians, appyont according to ye
true Intent of ye Court in ye matter, as near
& as Justly as they can, In persueance of
which Order ye aforesaid Committee with
ye Guardians & Mr Cotton Convened on
ye 7th of this Instant was upon ye place, &

veiwed ye Lands, buildings, & priveledges
considered, have agreed & as the3 r think it
Just and Equall, have determined & settled
as each ones Fquall share, Viz; To Rich-
ard ye Eldest Son of all ye houseing & Lands
on ye Northerly side ye County rode, to ye
Pond & adjoyning to ye pond pertaining to
ye estate, not disposed before ye Orchard &c.,
& thirtie acres of Land on ye southerly side
of ye Country rode, in ye feild or plaine
next to & adjoyneing to ye Land of Abra-
ham Tillton, as also ye one halfe of ye medow
bordering upon ye brook upon ye skirt of ye
Plains shall be and remaine for ye said Richard,
his heirs & assigns, to be possessed of when
he attaineth to age, according to Law, & is
hereby accounted his full Double portion.

2d. To Mr John Gotten In behalfe of liis
wife for her part or portion, have allotted &
Settled all that remaining part of fifti foure
acres & a quarter, & which is on the South-
erly side of ye brook or river, being upland
& Swampie Land, bordering eastwardly upon
ye TowneComon, and Southwardly partly by
Barnard Thome & partly by Alexsander
Thomson Land, & southwestwardly & west-
wardly & on Land of Nath'l Browne. Bar-
nard Thorne, or ye Ten acres of Land to be
laid out to ye Gentlewoman as her remain-
ing part of Dower So there will remaine &
be for ye said Mr Gotten his heirs & assigns,
by Estimation about forty & four acres & a
quarter & Some Small od measure, which is
& shall be, accounted his full part of ye Es-
tate, & portion of ye Lands Left as a Single
Share, Equall to ye rest, only by agreement
reserveing for those yt dwell on ye rest of ye
farme on ye Northerly side ye brook or river,
free liberty Cross ye one corner of ye said
Land over ye brook & causey to ye comon,
for Wood & Timber, or as ocation shall be

continually from time to time without moles-
tation, which is about eight or ten rods,
, from ye brook to ye Comon, provided They
j which Improve as above said, bear their
1 proportionable part, towards the mentaineing
of a gate or barrs to be kept good, & Sub-
stantial!, from time to time safe for an Out-
lett.

And as for the other two children, Viz,
Nathl. and John for there Each Single Share,
have allotted as Just and Equall, all ye re-
maining part of ye plaine and meadow, on ye
Southerly Side ye Country rode, which will
remaine after ye Said Richard hath had his
meadow and his Thirtie acre Land Seperated
from ye rest. Then that which remaines
both Upland and meadow to be Equally divi-
ded both for Quantity and Quallity, Each
having a part like front upon ye high way,
Shall be and remaine in their mothers hands
till the Children or some of them come of
age, then to be divided & is accounted, Just
& Equall, in confirmation whereof ye parties
concerned, both Comitte & Guardians & oth-
ers concerned have Sett to their hands this
sixteenth day of July 1691, respectively.

We ye Subscribers being William Uubbard as guard-
ye former Comitte appoynt- ian to Richard Eldest Son
ed by ye Court, set to our to ye deceased Mr. Richard
hands, with Consent, to ye'llubbard. Daniel Epps
Guardian unto Nathaniel
Second Son of ye deceased
Mr. Richard Uubbard.
Thomas Wade Guardian un-

above written,

John Ajppleton
Daniel Epps

7m 25, 1691 Simon Stacy

Plymouth, acknowledged
what is Contained in this

half sheet to be his Act and
Deed so far as it concerns
him in sight of Sarah his

wife.

Before us

Sim Bradstreet G ovr

Sam Sewall Assist.

Mr. John Cotton junr. of to John ye youngest son of
ye deceased Mr. Richard
Uubbard, & in his S. Jno.

behalfe. John Cotton Con-
cerned consents to ye above
premises*. As Witness my
hand, John Cotton Jr. of
Plymouth.

Sarah Rowell 4mo 1691.

Petition of Sarah Rowell widow of Phillip

Rowell in reference to the estate of Richard

Currier once of Amesbury and Johannah his

wife, deceased about four years since, who

died in Oct. last ; also widow Hannah foot
only daughter of said Currier dated Ames-
bury 20 4mo 1691.

Nathl. Bradstreet 1 mo 1791.
Inventory of estate of Nathaniel Bradstreet
late of Kowley, who died on the voyage to
Cannada taken 28 Sept. 1691, by Samuel
Platts and James Bagley amounting to 11
4s 3d with a legacy from his father Capt.
Moses Bradstreet 100, returned 9 ber 3
1691 by Priscilla his widow and Moses
Bradstreet his brother, who were appointed
admrs. Apr 21 1691.

John Ayre 1 mo 1691.
Inventory of estate of John Ayres of Ip-
swich cordwinder who died in the Canada
voyage 23 November 1690 taken 6th
October 1691 by Thomas Knowlton Sr.
and John Knowlton Jr. amounting to 23
Os 1 Id debts due from the estate 7 8s 3d;
returned 9 ber 3 1691 by Joseph Ayre broth-
er of deceased who was appointed admr 22
April 1691.

William Bollard 7 mo 1691.

Inventory of Estate of William Ballard of
Andover taken 23 October 1689 by Thomas
Chandler and John Abbott amounting to
206 8s 6d returned September 29 1691 by
Joseph Ballard son of the deceased who is ap-
pointed exor.

Agreement of heirs of William Ballard of
Andover dated 23d of October 1 687. Sworn
to in Court Sept 28 1691, and signed by
William Blunt, Henry Holt, Samuel Butter-
field, Joseph Butterfield, John Spalden, Abe-
gell Ballard, Joseph Ballard, William Bal-
lard, John Ballard, and Grace Ballard the
widow.

(To be Continued.)

A LIST OF DEAHTS IN BEVERLY,
MADE BY COL. ROBERT HALE.

Continued from Vol. 6, Page 24.

636

637
638
639
640
641
642

643
644
645
646
(47
648
649
650
651
652
653
654
655
656
657
658
659
660
661
662

663
664
665
666
667
668
660

1749.

Negro child of Capt. A. Woodby 159
A child of Benjamin Roundy.
" " " Jno, Lovett Jr 160

2d " " " " 161

A " Paul Thorndikes 162
Daul Batcheller's Wife.
Wm Grover's Wife.
Tho. Symonds ) of ye Small 74

Israel Biles j Pox in London. 75
Wid. of John Stone near 80 yrs.
Child of Jeffery Thistle.

" " Mark Mors.
Negro Girl of Mr Ellis.
Child of Wid. of Jer. Butman 1 64

" " Eb Ellenwood.
Mary Bryant.
Jond. Conant abt 55.
Wid. Kenny's Negro Girl.
Capt Herrick's Cesar 76

Child of Wm Ellinwood's.
Wid. of Deacon Allen Sept 25,

" " Israel Eliot Oct 18.
Saml Cole's child Oct 31.
Ambrose Cleaves child 1 65

Wid. of Henry Herrick.
Jno Prime abt 50 Nov 27.
Peter Ober's Child Dec 3.
Deer. 10 1749,

1750.

Robt Roundy's Wife D 22 x

Osman Trask's " " 23.
Infant of Wid. Hanna Clark.
Freeb Patch. x

Deacon Benj. Balch Jan 8. 68.
Jno. Thornd Jr's Wife 18.
David Lark urn's " 18.

670 David William's " ab 70.

671 David Larkum abt 87 F. 15.

672 David Batcheller's Child.

673 Cornel's Woodberry's Wife.

674 Infant of Charles Shettuck.

675 " Negro of Robert, Stone.

676 " ofThoOber.

677 " Jno Hilton.

70 Jno Lovett J3tat 84 April.

679 Inft of Geo. Gallop.

680 Benj. Roundy's Wife.

681 Rob Woodberry May 21.

682 Andr Wood's Child June 5.

683 Joseph Foster abt 64 Jan 28

684 Inft of Tho Davis Aug 3.

685 Eben Cox's wife Sept 11.

686 James Woodberry " 16.

687 Jona Stanley's Child.

688 Josh Bisson S. 28 E 98.

689 Jo Leech Et 12.

690 Jona Thornd at Hallifax S. 28, 77

691 PaulThorndike at Hallifax 0. 12. 78.

692 Mary Mullen Mi 74.

693 Wm Tuck Jr abt 40 yrs old.

694 Wid. of Peter Pride Et about 72.

695 " " Will Haskall " " 64.

Deer. 10 1750.

696 Wid.. of Jona Conant abt 55.

697 Mr Ellis's Negro Mb. 10

698 Deacon Dodge's Widow M 78.

699 Eb Ashbye's wife abt 65.

700 My Negro man Primus Mb. 16 abt 38

701 Mr John Rea Mt abt 48.

702 Samll Trask M 62.

703 Elisha Woodb. set 45 mar. 25.

704 Peter Pride's Son Mt 12 mar. 28.

705 Hannah Woodberry Mt 40 " 29.

706 A Child of Josh Herricks.

707 John Bradford Mt abt 60.

708 Rd. Woodberry Mt 66.

709 Benj. Stanley's wife Mt abt 45 Apr 2.

710 Robt Sallowes's Wife Mt 63 April 3.

711 Peter Prides Wife Mt 45 " 4.

712 Wid. of Edwd Ashbye Mt 41 " 5.

713 Wid. of Dea. Crosby? " 85" 4.

714 Jno. Eliot Mt 58 " 9.

715 Nath Roberts M, 71.

716 Titus Stanley Et 21 Apl. 9.

717 Jona Smith JEk 54 " 11.

718 Sarah Cole "36 " 12.

719 Timo Stanley 's youngest son at Jamai-
ca 79

720 Isaac Woodb. Serv. Boy Apl 16.

721 Jona Harris's Wife 24.

722 Wid. of Harry Smith 30th set 89.

723 Neh 'Smith Mt 52 30th.

724 Tho Woodb. "48.

725 Geo. Tuck's Wife Mt 70-

726 Geo Tuck Aet 74 May 8th.

727 Wid. of Randal Preston.

728 Saml Butman abt 70 17th.

729 Nicho Patch abt 30 18th.

730 Benj. Stanley May 25.

731 Rick Hood in Bristol Sm Pox ) 80

732 Nicho Pierce (going to Spain) f 81

733 An Infant of William Eliot July 3.

734 Eben Ashbye's Gr. Son August 17.

735 Danl Bacheller Aug. 18th.

736 Wid. of Jno Rea Sept 6.

737 " " William Leech Oct 7th.

738 Wm Stanley's eldest son Sin. Pox at
sea 82

739 Nath Ellinwood drowned at sea 83

740 Wid. of Geo Trow ^Eet 84 Nov 1.

741 James Taylor Mt 66 22

Dec 10, 1751.

742 Wm Grover M 67 Dec 17.

743 Wid. of Sam. Butman Jan 3d.

744 James Smith's Boy.

745 David Corning Feb 19

746 Wm Stanley's Wife.

747 Rd. Thistle Mch 17 Mb 67,

748 Mary Picket 27.
741) Edward Trask Ap 8.

750 James Giles's Child 13.

751 Wid. of Win Presson Mt 80 Ap 23.

752 Samll* Trask's Widow May 1.

753 James Patch's Wife 10.

754 Thof Mos's Wife June 2d.

755 Tho Kerry's Wife 4th

756 Wid Bartlet (M. Mors's mother)

757 Wm Tuck's Negro Adam 21st.

758 Benj Woodberry Jr's Wido.

759 Jno Morgan JStat 58 July 18.

760 Joseph Harris 27.

761 Capt Herrick's Negro Scipio 31.

762 Inft of Jo Lovett Au 10.

763 " " Jno Hilton S. 27.

764. Benj. Eliot's Daught. O. 20

765. Wid. of Jno. Baker.

706. Wid. of James Ashbye D. 17. N. S.

Dec. 21, 1752 N. S.

767. Paul Haskel's Child Jan. 20.

768. Benj. Roundy Mar 28.

769. Wm. Thompson's Child Ap 16.

770. A Child of Geo. Gallop Ap 24.

771. Benj. Trask Act 86 May 15.

772. Jo. Woodberry 2d July 2d.

773. Inft 3 1-2 yrs. of Nath. Wood-
berry July 29th.

774. Inft of Wm. Eliot Aug. 12.

775. Lieut. Jno. Cleaves " 13.

776. Inft. of Jo. Foster " 19.

777. ' " Edw. Cox Sept 25.

778. " " Benj. Cleaves Jr. Oct. 9.

779. Benj. Roundy's wife Nov. 21.

780. Wid. Eliz. Corning Aet 76 Dec. 9.

Dec. 21 1753.

781. Wid. Eliz. Sears Ae. 75 Dec. 25.

782. Nath. Dodge's daughter Jan. 12.

783. Jona Harris's daughter Jan. 13.

*Jaines '

t Jno ?

784. Edw'd Woodberry drown'd going
into Virginia. 84

785. James Smith June 12.

786. Obed Woodberry lost at sea 85

787. Jno. Roundy's Negro Girl.

788. Jno. Williams Aet. July 21.

789. Robert Patch dyed in England 86

790. Inft of Retire Trask Aug. 18.

791. Wm. Taylor's Wife Sep. 8

792. Isaac Woodberry 's Wife Oct. 2.

793. Inft of Benj. Jeffrey.

794. Wid. of Capt. Rob. Woodberry
Dec. 5.

795. Israel Thorndike Aet. 30.

(To be Continued.)

CORRECTIONS.

Vol 18, page 190, 1st column, 21st line
from top. "Simon Willard of Salem, mar-
ried 30 April, 1702, Elizabeth, widow of
John Walley, whom he survived. "

This Simon who married Mrs. Walley, was
son of Rev. Samuel Willard, of the Old
South, and President of Harvard College
He graduated at Harvard College, 1695.
He died probably in 1712. He was in trade
in Boston. He was nephew of Deacon Simor,,
of Salem, who married 1st, Martha Jacob,
2dly, Priscilla Buttolph, see Willard Me-
moir, page 368.

Vol. 5, page 10, 2d column, 4th line from
top, for " October n," read "October 2."

Vol 5, page 10, 2d column, 5th line, for
"Pe2gre," read "Pengre."

Vol. 5, page 13, 2d column, 5th line from
top, for "1716-16" read "1715-16."

Vol- 5, page 13, 2d column, 7th line, for
"Feb. 23" read "Feb. 22."

Vol. 5, page 33, 1st column, 17th line
from the bottom, for "2,000" read "9,-
000."

BRIGADIER GENERAL, 1777.
Died Jan 30. ]797, A6e 64,

HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS

O F T H E

ESSEX INSTITUTE

Vol. V.

June, 1863.

No. 3.

A MEMOIR OF

GEN. JOHN GLOVER,

OF MARBLEHEAD.

BY WM. P. UPHAM.

(A Report rf.ad at a Meeting of the Essex Institute, March
9th, 1863, upon a donation to the Library of certain
books formerly belonging to Gen'l Glover.)

Continued from Vol. V., Page 72.

PEEKSKILL, 23d July, 1777.
Dear Sir:

I this day received orders from his
Excellency Gen. Washington, to re-enforce
Gen. Schuyler with my Brigade. You will
therefore please to release the party I sent
you the other day to man the ships, which
consists of 2 Sub'ns, 2 Serg'ts, 2 Corp's and
34 men. Your compliance herewith will
much oblige yours &c.,

JOHN GLOVER, B. Gen.
To GEN. GEO. CLINTON.

PEEKSKILL, 25th July, 1777.
Dear Sir:

This will inform you, the enemy's
Fleet sailed from the Hook the 23d, in conse-
quence of which Gen. Sullivan's and Lord
Stirling's Divisions crossed the North River,
by Gen. Washington's order, for Philadel-
phia this morning, but I must confess I ex-

VOL. v. (15)

pect them back again. The enemy's conduct
I is exceedingly embarrassing to us ; they
have for two weeks past been collecting all
the seamen that have any knowledge of the
Southern coasts ; from this we supposed their
design is in that quarter ; but last evening
we took a Mr. Williams at the White Plains,
from New York, who was sent by Gen. Howe
with a letter to Gcri. Burgoyne at Fort Ed-
ward acknowledging the receipt of his letter
of the 14th of May, and advising he (Howe)
was all ready for sailing, and should make
an attack upon Boston, in which he is to co-op-
erate from the Northward, and flatters him-
self he shall not meet with much difficulty,
as he supposes the Rebel Army was now col-
lected at euch a distance from that place,
that an easy conquest might be made.

The letter referred to was sent off to Gen.
Washington 12 o'clock last night, about 28
miles distance. An express came in from him
this morning 3 o'clock, with orders for the
two Divisions before mentioned to join him ;
this Express met the one sent off with Howe's
letter 10 miles on his way; how far this in-
telligence will operate with Gen. Washington
I am not able to say, but taking all circum-
stances together (which are too many to
enumerate ) all the General Officers on this
side the North River are fully of the opinion,
Boston is their mark. Should Gen. Wash-
I ington favour this opinion he will be on with

his whole army, except my Brigade, which
is now embarked and waiting for a wind for
Albany, and one Brigade which will be left
at this post.

It's one of the first principles in war to de-
ceive. Howe has taken great pains to do
this in many circumstances; his expedition
he keeps as a profound secret, at the same
time offers great encouragement for pilots to
the Southward, gives prisoners an opportu-
nity to escape, with a design that this may
be known to General Washington, then sends
a fleet of Ships, about 30 sail, through the
Sound, and at the same time sends 4 armed
ships and row-galleys up the North River,
as if they design to stop the troops crossing
from the west to the east side of the River;
then lays still 10 days, sends out Williams
with the letter before mentioned, and the
next day sails from the Hook with his whole
fleet consisting of 170 sail. These manoeu-
vres are intended to baffle and deceive us.
I wish the effect may not prove it. If his
object was Philadelphia, would he not have
procured pilots in a more private manner; on
the other hand, if Boston, would he have
sent Mr. Williams, a young gentleman of
York, who is a staunch friend to America,
as appears by his being confined in the Pro-
vost guard (and other favorable circumstan-
ces) tuo weeks before he was engaged on
this errand taken out and the next day
sent off by Major Sheriff, and sent in such a
way and by such a road that he could not
but have fallen into our hands. However,
he, like an honest man, inquired for our
guards and gave himself up. He received
G half Joannes and was recommended to
Gen. Burgoyne for a further reward. From
his coming out in this open way, we suppose
it was designed he should fall into our hands,
and that we should not pay any attention to
it. At the same time we sent off one Taylor
of middling stature, dark complexion, short
brown hair, blue camblet coat, white lappels,
who we expect will get through, as he has
been employed in that way for several months
past with success, having returned from that
Quarter but a day or two before Mr. Wil-
liams left York.

I conceived it my duty to give the earliest
intelligence. The wisdom of the Assembly
will take such measures as to them shall
seem most advisable for the safety of the
State. I would not be understood to dictate,
but, Sir, give me leave to say, I think it
advisable the militia be immediately put on
the most respectable footing, with arms, am-
munition and provision ready to march at a
moment's warning. By all means meet them
if possible at their first landing ; you will
be supported by the Continental Army.

If a general battle comes on, one or the
other must be conquered. If it should be
our unhappy lot, (which God forbid) we
must be slaves, which is worse than death.
We can but die in conquering them, which
will be dying gloriously. This idea properly
held up, I think would stimulate ministers
and people to come forth in defence of their
Country. The man who refuses, be he who
he may, ought to be deemed an enemy to
his Country and dealt with accordingly.

I am, Sir, with Esteem and Respect
yr. most Obed't humble Serv't,

JOHN GLOVER.
Hon'ble JAS. WARREN Esq.

I'BEKSKILL, 28th July, 1777,)
Sunday 5 o'clock. }
Dear Sir :

I wrote you the 25th inst., since
which two Brigades have been ordered from
this Post to join Gen. Washington, who with
his army are on full march for Philadelphia ;
was at Morristown last night. This day
an express from Gen. Silliman of F airfield
in Connecticut, who advises that upwards of
100 Sail of Ships passed by Blue point on
Long Island, on Thursday last, which is 50
miles east of the Hook steering an east
course. If this be true (which I have not
the least doubt of) I imagine they will be
with you, ere this reaches you.

My Brigade sailed for Albany yesterday.
1 set off to join them on the morrow.

I am Dear Sir, respectfully
Yours &c.,

JOHN GLOVER.
Honorable JAS. WARREN Esq.

Dear Sir :

PEESKILL, July 28th, 1777.

* * * I set off for Albany this day,
where I expect to meet my Brigade, which
embarked yesterday. Should the Enemy be
gone to N. England, which from many cir-
cumstances I verily believe they are, I shall
be very unhappy ; beg you would use your
influence to have me recalled, and join that
part of the Army that is to oppose them.

I am, with Esteem, Yours &c.,

JOHN GLOVER.
TIM. PICKERING Esq.
Adjutant General.

STILLWATER, 6th August, 1777,
Dear Sir :

24 miles above Albany.

This will inform you we left Sara-
toga the 3d at night, bringing off all our stores
of every kind, with large droves of cattle,
sheep and hogs.

We arrived here at 3 o'clock in the morn-
ing of the 4th. During the three days at
Saratoga we were constantly (night and day)
in an alarm ; our scouting parties a great part
of the time cut off, killed, scalped and taken
prisoners. The day we left it, our scouts
were all drove in by the Indians, and two
men were brought to my Quarters, one of them
scalped ; it appeared they had not been dead
more than half an hour. I immediately de-
tached 400 meu from my Brigade to scour
the woods, where they remained till 4 o'clock ;
saw nothing of the enemy save three blankets
supposed to be left by them.

We have had 25 or 30 men killed and
scalped and as many more taken prisoners
within 4 days. This strikes a panic on our
men ; which is not to be wondered at, when
we consider the hazard they run, as scouts,
by being fired at from all quarters, (and the
woods so thick they can't see three yards be-
fore them) and then to hear the cursed war
hoop which makes the woods ring for miles.
Our army at this Post is weak and shattered,
much confused, and the numbers by no means

equal to the enemy ; nor is there the least
probability of a re-enforcement ; our artillery,
4 pounders, the enemy's, 6, 12, 18, & 24
pounders. Their flying camp, as they call
it, is now at Fort Edward, 24 miles from
this ; which consists of 3000 British troops,
600 Indians, 1000 Tories, and 200 Cana-
dians, with 8 field-pieces, 4 howitzers, and
200 wagons for their baggage. Their main
body 5000 men are at Fort Ann, 14 miles
from Fort Edward, with their heavy artillery.
This moment brought in by our scouts, two
Tories in the enemy's service ; they left Fort
Edward on Sunday last ; they say some Hes-
sians, with some heavy artillery from Fort
Ann, got in that day ; and that the flying
camp were to begin their march for Saratoga
in three days.

This day Col. Long from New Hampshire
leaves us with his Reg't of 200 men ; their
time being out, nothing will induce them to
stay one day longer. The 10th inst. 500
men go off from Gen. Poor's Brigade, militia
from the County of Hampshire. The 12th,
600 men go off from Gen. Nixon's Brigade,
militia from the County of Berkshire. We
then shall have left 14 Reg'ts from the State
of Massachusetts (Bigelow's not yet in) which
consist of about 150 rank and file fit for duty
each; three Reg'ts from New Hampshire
560 men, and one from New York 150 men.
Thus you see the whole strength of the army
at this post, will be about 3000 men (that
will be on the ground the 12th inst., unless
some re-enforcements come in) to oppose the
enemy, who from the best accounts we can
collect are at least 8000, and every day grow-
ing stronger, by the disaffected inhabitants
joining them, and ours growing weaker. * *
I have endeavored to give you the true state
of our Army at this place. A re-enforcement
lays with you and not with us ; if we fly be-
fore the enemy it will be for want of men ;
you may rely on it, we shall not turn our
backs on equal numbers.

Gen. Schuyler tells me, he has written to
the Assembly of our State repeatedly, but
has not received an answer. We have an ac-
count of Gen. Howe's first Division being
landed at New Castle; if this be true, your

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fears of an attack in your Quarter must sub-
side; that being the case, I hope you will
send on a re-enforcement immediately. Pray
let no time be lost, a day's delay may be fa-
tal to America Let the body be as large as
can possibly be collected, furnished with arms
and accoutrements; there are none to be had
here. Let some vigilant persons come on be-
fore them to provide provisions, wagons &c.
The marching of the troops has been much
retarded for want of such a regulation.
I am Yours &c.,

JOHN GLOVER.
Honorable JAS. WARREN, Esq.

P. S. As I could not tell whether the
House was sitting, (in that case doubting
whether the letter would come to your knowl-
edge) I have sent you the copy, that you
may be acquainted with our situation.

J. G.

Dear Gen'l.

VAN SCHAICK'S ISLAND,
Aug. 22, 1777.

I received your esteemed favour of yesterday
with the wine, pipes, tobacco and butter, all
of which is very acceptable, being quite desti-
tute of those articles. Please to accept my
grateful acknowledgments for them. Gen.
Gates is busy making preparations to advance,
but, I believe, has not the least design to
move until properly re-enforced. Scouting
parties kept out ; some returned last night ; no
account of the enemy's advancing this side
of Saratoga.

Adieu my dear Genl. and believe
me to be with Esteem and Respect

yr. most obed't humble ser't

JOHN GLOVER.
Hon. Major Gen. SCHUYLER, Albany.

VAN SCHAICK'S ISLAND, )

Aug. 27, 1777. j
Dear Gen'l.

Agreeable to your order I sent for Jacob

Van Derwerkin and Sheboleth Bogardus, both
of whom were desirous of speaking with your
honour. I have therefore sent them on under
a sergeant's guard.

I am Respectfully, yr. Honour's
most Obed't. hum. Serv't.

JOHN GLOVER.
Hon'ble Maj. Gen. GATES.

VAN SCHAICK'S ISLAND, >
5th Sept. 1777. f
DEAR SIR :

I wrote you the 31st ult. since
which nothing extraordinary has happened.

Gen. Arnold from the Westward has joined
us, & Col. Morgan ^from the Southward, with
his Regiment of Rifle men. Two hundred
Light Horse from Connecticut, who say the
foot militia are coming on from that State.
I hear the militia are on their way from Mas-
sachusetts not any got in yet. When in
force we shall move on towards the enemy.
I think matters look fair on our side & I have
not the least doubt of beating or compelling
Mr. Burgoyne to return back at least to Ti-
conderoga, if not to Canada. His situation
is dangerous, which he must see & know if he
is not blind, and if he is not strong enough to
move down to fight us, he cannot remain
where he is without giving us a great advan-
tage. We shall move on in three columns.

Gen. Gates commands 'the Center Division
which is composed of Nixon's, (who is sick at
Albany) Glover's and Patterson's Brigades.

Gen. Lincoln the Right, who commands
the militia. He detaches 1000 men under
Gen. Stark, who moves on the East side of
the river, & is to keep his Front parallel with
Center Division (his main body files off to the
Right, and will endeavour to get in the Rear of
the enemy) which marches by the great road
from Albany on the West side.

Gen Arnold, with Gen. Poor's & Larned's
Brigades, Morgan's battn. of Rifle men, Cort-
landt's & Livingston's regts. from the State
of New York, is the Left, who crosses the Mo-
hawk river, and takes his route the North side

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of Saratoga Lake, & will endeavour to form a
junction with Gen. Lincoln, while we attack
in Front

We leave all our baggage behind. Our
first post is Stillwater 11 miles from the ene-
my. We shall make a short stay at that
place & then move on & attack the enemy
God grant us success. We shall be all ready
by the 10th & if the militia gets in, you may
depend on our marching forward that day.
Our troops are healthy & in good spirits, but
poorly shod & clothed, & many without blank-
ets.

The Hon. Brig. Gen. Palmer and Doctor
Taylor are witnesses of this, as they have had
an opportunity of seeing for themselves.

I should have been happy to have seen
more of my friends with them, particularly
Messrs. Glover, Orne and Gerry, who, (if 1
mistake not) gave me some encouragement,
when I left them, but being engaged in the
Public Service has prevented. I have too
much charity to suppose private interest, or
the fear of a little fatigue has kept them back.
When matters look gloomy, it has a fine effect
(it gives a spring, and animates our spirits)
to have our friends to look at, and consult
with ; at the same time they would have an
opportunity of seeing for themselves, as well
as seeing the pleasure we enjoy in a camp life ;
but more of this the next Tuesday night's club,
at a meeting when all the members are
present, a good fire, pipes, tobacco, wine and
good punch that's the place to talk matters
over, not in thn house male of hemp (I have
quitted my log house mentioned in my last,)
the walls and roof of which are so thin they
need no windows, nor do they obstruct the
rays of light, or the rain passing through in
the least.

I acknowledge the receipt of Col. Glover's
letter from Wells, the only one received since I
left Peekskill, notwithstanding a weekly Post
comes from Boston to this place.

The Phaeton therein mentioned, I beg he
would make use of as freely as if it was his
own ; at present don't incline to sell it, but
should he not see me again, my desire is that
he may have it, paying the value to my wife,
for her and the children's support. My com-

pliments to your good ladies and families. My
old friends the Tuesday's club, including
the Rev'd Messrs Whitwell and Story, one of
whom I expected & should have been happy
to have had as a Chaplain to my Brigade, for
want of which must do my own preaching.

They possibly can do more good at home,
I'm sure they will not be so much exposed,
& will live better.

Adieu, my dear sir, & believe me to be
sincerely yr friend & most obed. servt.

JOHN GLOVER.
Messrs JONA. GLOVER & AZOR ORNE Esqrs.

CAMP 3 M. above STILLWATER, )
Sept. 21st, 1777. >
DEAR SIRS :

I have just time to inform you that the
18th inst. we marched out with 8000 men to
attack the enemy, who were encamped on the
Heights about 2 miles from us ; found it not
practicable as they had taken an advantageous
post ; however we drew up in line, in full view
of them, with a design to draw them out. &
there tarried till dark without doing any thing
further. The next day ( the 19th) sent out
large scouting parties, some of which fell in
with those of the enemy. A brisk firing
came on; this happened about 1 o'clock.
Were-enforce-1 till we had about 3000 engaged.
The enemy re-snforced till they brought their
wholo force into action, consisting of 7000,
Gen. Burgoyne at their head, who was wound-
ed through his shoulder.

The battle was very hot till ^ past 2 o'cl'k ;
ceased about half an hour, then renewed the
attack. Both armies seemed determined to
conquer or die. One continual blaze, with-
out any intermission till dark, when by con-
sent of both parties it ceased. During which
time we several times drove them, took the
ground, passing over great numbers of their
dead and wounded. Took one field piece,
but the woods and bush was so thick, & be-
ing close pushed by another party of the ene-
my coming up, was obliged to give up our
prize. The enemy in their turn sometimes
drove us. They were bold, intrepid and

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fought like heroes, and I do assure you Sirs,
our men were equally bold and courageous &
fought like men, fighting for their all. We
have taken about 70 prisoners, among which
are two officers.

By three deserters this moment come in,
we are informed the enemy suffered much, hav-
ing two Regt's almost cut off & that their killed
wounded and missing were 700, among which
were a great proportion of officers.

We have 202 wounded, 101 killed and miss-
ing, among whom is Lt. Cols. Cobwin and
Adams & Lt. Thomas, Capt. Allen & Ensign
Foster killed, Capt. Bell mortally wounded.
A considerable number more were killed,
whose names I have not been able to get. * * *

We are in a very confused situation, which
you must reasonably conceive.
I am Sirs

yr most obed. servt.

JOHN GLOVER.
Messrs J. GLOVER & A. ORNE, Esqrs.

N. B. Sent a copy of the above to Gen.
Heath, and another to Col. Johonnot.

CAMP 3 miles above STILLWATER, )
29th Sept. 1777. ]"
DEAR SIRS :

Since my last letter to you we
have had two flags of truce from the enemy,
by which we have received an account of their
killed and wounded in the battle of the 19th,
746, among which is a great proportion of offi-
cers. But the truth has not come out yet, as
I'm fully persuaded, & it's the opinion of all
the Gen. Officers, that they must have suf-
fered a great many more.

We had 20 taken prisoners, of which seven
were wounded. Gen. Burgoyne sent a re-
turn of their names by the flag, with a very
polite letter to Gen. Gates, who returned as
polite a one, with a list of 70 prisoners. 30
odd of which were wounded. These I think
will ballance the 20.

We had 81 officers and men killed dead on
the spot and 202 wounded, many of which

are since dead, in the whole 303 a very incon-
siderable number, when we consider how hot
the battle was& how long it continued, being
6 hours without any intermission, saving about
half an hour between 2 and 3 o'clock. *

The enemy have remained very quiet ever
since at about one mile distance, not attempt-
ing to advance one step. We are continual-
ly harrassing them by driving their pickets,
bringing off their horses &c.

We have taken 30 prisoners since the but-
tle, and as many more deserted.

Our men are in fine spirits, are very bold
and daring, a proof of which I will give you
in an instance two nights past.

I ordered 100 men from my Brigade to
take off a picket o'x about 60 of the enemy,
who were posted about half a mile from me,
at the same time ordered a covering party of
200 to support them. This being the first en-
terprise of this kind, & as it was proposed by
me, I was very anxious for its success. I
therefore went myself. The night being very
foggy and dark, could not find the enemy till
after day. When I made the proper disposi-
tion for the attack, they went on like so many
tigers, bidding defiance to musket balls and
bayonets. Drove the enemy, killed 3, and
wounded a great number more, took one pris-
oner, 8 Packs, 8 Blankets, 2 guns, 1 sword,
and many other articles of Plunder without
any loss on our side.

Matters can't remain long as they now arc.
Burgoyne has only 20 days provision. He
must give us battle in a day or two, or else re-
tire back.

The latter I think he'll endeavor to do ; in
either case I think, with the blessing of Heav-
en he must be ruined.

We are now between 10 & 11000, strong,
healthy and in fine fighting cue, I am fully
satisfied they will fight hard, when called to
action. God grant that every man may do
his duty, and be crowned with success, which
will put an end to our trouble in this quarter ;
at least this campaign, and I am inclined to
think forever. My compliments to your good

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ladies, families and all friends, and believe me
to be respectfully,

yr friend & most obedt. servt.,

JOHN GLOVER.
COL. JONA. GLOVER & )

AZOR ORNE Esqr. )

N. B. This moment 4 Hessian deserters
came in who say that i the company agreed
to come off with them, at that we may expect
a great many more very soon .

It appears by the above correspondence
that on the 23d of July, Glover was ordered
by Gen. Washington to re-enforce Gen. Schuy-
ler. For this purpose the Brigade sailed
for Albany, July 27th, and on the 1st of
August joined the army at Saratoga, then
retreating before Burgoyne. On the 3d at
night the American forces left Saratoga
taking off all their stores of every kind, and
at 3 o'clock on the morning of the 4th arrived
at Stillwater. From thence they retreated
to Van Schaick's Island, where on the 19th
Gen. Gates arrived and took command. Gen.
Gates by the advice of Kosciuzko, then an
engineer in the service, moved the army up
the river as far as Bemis's Heights, 4 miles
above Stillwater, where they encamped and
prepared to resist the further advance of the
British. In the battles which were fought
here on the 19th of September and 7th of
October Glovtr'a brigade composed part of the
right wing of the army, which was posted on
the hills near the river. In the first battle
this part of the army was under the imme-
diate command of General Gates, and resist-
ed with great bravery and success the at-
tacks of the British, still holding their
ground when night closed the fierce struggle.
In the succeeding battle, October 7th, the
right wing was under the command of Gen.
Lincoln, and was held by him in reserve;
but a part of Glover's brigade was engaged

under Arnold in his furious assault upon
the British camp at the latter part of the
day.

After these disastrous battles Burgoyne
was compelled to retreat towards Fort Ed-
ward. On the 10th of October he was at Sar-
atoga, his army being encamped on the north
side of Fish Creek. Gen. Gates was led by
false reports and rumors, to believe that
most of the British force had retreated to
Fort Edward ; and the next morning he com-
menced an attack upon what he supposed to
be the rear guard of the enemy. Burgoyne
was aware of his mistake and prepared to
profit by it. His whole army was drawn
up in such a manner as to enable it, under
the cover of the woods, to receive Gates's
advance, and cut off that portion which
should first pass the creek. "The movement
began at daybreak. Nixon's brigade had al-
ready crossed the creek, and Gen. Glover
was upon the point of following him, when,
as he entered the water, he saw a British
soldier crossing whom he called and exam-
ined. The soldier claimed to be a deserter.
Glover asked him about Burgoyne's army.
The soldier answered ' It is encamped the
same as days past. ' Glover told him [f
you are found attempting to deceive me, you
shall be hung in half an hour; but if you
speak nothing but the truth you shall be
protected and meet with good usage.' He
then asked him ' Have not numbers been
sent off to Fort Edward?' The deserter re-
plied, ' A small detachment was sent off a
day or two ago, but are returned on finding
the passes occupied by the Americans, and
the whole army is now in camp.' Glover,
though, the junior officer to Nixon, sent off
immediately to him to desist and recross the
creek; and at the same time dispatched his

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aid-de-camp, with the deserter behind him
on horseback to Gates ; who having exam-
ined the soldier, hurried away the aid-de-
camp, adjutant-general and others, to coun-
termand the former orders and prevent the
attack. Glover's message was re-
ceived by Nixon in the critical moment; a
quarter of an hour later would probably
have proved fatal to his whole brigade, and
given a turn to affairs in favor of the royal
army"

This fortunate event saved the army of
Gates, and at the same time destroyed the
last hope of Burgoyne. Soon after this on
the 17th he surrendered with his whole
army. The prisoners, 5,791 in number,
were marched from Saratoga to Cambridge,
and to General Glover was assigned the hon-
or and responsibility of guarding them and
conducting the march. This duty he per-
formed with great kindness and skill. f

ALBANY, 22 Oct., 1777.
Sir:

This will inform your Honour, that
I have sent on one Division of the Prisoners,
consisting of 2,442 British troops, by North -
hampton, the other by the way of Springfield,
consisting of 2,198 foreign troops. 1 shall
come on to-morrow with General Burgoyne,
and expect to be in Worcester in ten days,
where I shall be happy to meet your Honour's
Orders.

I have endeavoured to collect Provisions
to serve them to Worcester ; you will please
to order on some to meet me at that place.

I am with respect,
your Honour's most obed. hum. Ser.,

JOHN GLOVER.

* (An account given by Gen. Glover himself to
Gordon, the historian, at Boston, March 1 8th, 1785.
See Gordon, ii, 568.)

t (Lossing, i, 88.)

P. S. the number of Prisoners, Drivers
of waggons, Bat-horsemen and the Guards,
are at least 6,000. I am put to great diffi-
culty to find provisions for them.

To the Hon'ble JER'H POWELL.

< HEAD QUARTERS VALLEY FORGE, )
8th Jan'y 1778. j
Sir:

As the short time we have to lay in
winter Quarters ought to be spent in train-
ing the men, and endeavouring to bring them
into the Field in a more regular manner than
they have hitherto been, I must desire that
you will join your Brigade as soon as possi-
ble in order to effect this measure.

I have another 'reason, which is, that so
many of the Brigadiers and Colonels Com-
man't who have been long absent from their
families have been under the necessity of go-
ing home to look into their private affairs,
that there are scarce officers sufficient to do
the Camp duties, much less to make a prop-
er arrangement should the enemy come out
against us.

J desire you will bring on all detachments
from your Brigade that may have been elft
at any of the posts which they have been at
during the last Campaign, or that may have
recovered in the Hospitals.
I am sir,

Y'r most obt. Serv't

G. WASHINGTON.

P. S. Send on all Officers whose Fur-
loughs have expired, or who are absent with-
out leave, f

CAMBRIDGE, 24th Jan'y, 1778.
Sir:

I received your Excellency's letter (yes-
terday) of the 8th Inst. desiring me to join
my Brigade as soon as possible. I appre-

* ("Copied from the original on file at the Office
of the Secretary of State.)
t (Copied from the original.)

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bend your Excell'y has not been fully ac-
quainted with the business I was charged with
by Gen. Gates; which has been, and still is,
attended with so many difficulties as will nec-
essarily detain me at this Post till the embark-
ation of Gen. Burgoyne. I was honoured
with the command of conducting him & his
Troops from Saratoga to Cambridge; for the
better supplying of which & the convenience
of the Inhabitants of the country through
which they marched, I divided them into two
Divisions ; The British by Williamstown &
Northampton; the Germans by Kinderhook
& Springfield, with Commiss'ys, Qr. Masters
& Waggon Masters for each, with particular
directions to take Bills for what supplies they
received, and give Orders on me for payment.
This order not being fully attended to, I was
obliged to send Qr. Master Story back to Al-
bany to collect the outstanding accounts.
When that is clone I shall charge Gen. Bur-
goyne with the whole in one general account.
And as many of the charges in my opinion
are unjust & others extravagantly high, large
sums being charged by the Inhabitants for
damages in burning fences, destroying hay,
grain, flax, &c., also for clothing, furniture
&c. , stolen out of their houses, these charges
I know Gen. Burgoyne will object to The
Inhabitants look to me and expect I shall see
them paid. To acquit myself from censure, I'm
determined to lay them before the Gen. Court
and desire that a Committee may be appoint-
ed to examine them & make what deductions
shall appear to them to be just, which I hope
will give satisfaction to both parties. When
this is done I have to present it to him for
payment & then advertise the Inhabitants to
come & receive their money. I shall lose no
time in bringing the whole to a close as soon
as possible.

Thus, Sir, I have given an account of
what I have been doing & still have to do at
this Post, which I hope will meet your Ex-
cellency's approbation. I know of no de-
tachments from my Brigade left at any Post.

I shall advertise & order on all Officers
and Soldiers, who are absent with or with-

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out Furloughs as well as those recovered in
Hospitals.

I am, Sir, with great truth & esteem
yr Excellency's most Obedt. Ser't,

JOHN GLOVER.
To His Excellency )
Gen. WASHINGTON, j

M'head 29 Mar. 1778.
Dear Sir :

Your Excellency's letter, of the
18th of last month, I received this day (can-
not account for its detention) by which I am
happy to find, my conduct in this Depart-
ment hitherto has met your Excellency's ap-
probation ; wish it may be such in future.
[ was with Gen. Burgoyne the week past to
settle his acc'ts. but could not effect it; Con-
gress having Resolved, he shall pay in solid
coin, or in the several species of provisions ;
the former he objects to, unless I will take
dollars at the rate of four for one, and could
he comply with the latter, it would be atten-
ded with great difficulty, as far the greatest
part of his supplies was collected from the
inhabitants of the towns through which his
troops marched ; there being but few public
stores, the route they came. However as he
has the liberty (and is very anxious) to go
to England, 1 am in hopes to settle with him
very soon, (Gen. Heath having determined he
shall not depart till his acc'ts are all adjus-
ted and paid.) I am to see him next week
when I hope to finish the matter.
I am fully persuaded your Excellency has
the good of both officers and soldiers very
near your heart, as well as the common
Cause of our Country; and 1 am satisfied
will do everything in your power, for the
good of the whole. I pray God may pre-
serve you long for the good of your Country
and the joy and satisfaction of your friends ;
among whom I take the liberty to subscribe
myself with great sincerity, Dear Sir,

Your Excellency's most obedient
Humble Servant

JOHN GLOVER.
To His Excellency ")
Gen. WASHINGTON. }

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MARBLEHEAD, 10th April, 1778.
SIR:

Your Excellency's letter of the 18th ult.
I received the 8th instant ; the business I was
charged with is not yet finished, owing to
many circumstances attending the accounts &
the mode of payment resolved by Congress,
which I fully mentioned in my letter of the
29th March. Gen. Burgoyne left Cambridge
for Newport the 5th instant, when he gave me
a bill on his paymaster for the amount of
his account in which he engages to pay in
hard money for the provisions, and in paper
ditto for all the other supplies. The Pay-
master (who went with him) accepted to pay
the bill at his return. At Gen. Burgoyne's
request I have engaged to lay the acc'ts before
the General Court, with his objections to charg-
es for articles stolen & damage done to barns,
grain &c., when he expects large deductions
will be made; if so I am to refund the
amount to Gen. Phillips. The Court having
adjourned for two weeks (on account of the
small pox being in Boston) has prevented my
laying the matter before them. It is to meet
the 14th at Jamaica Plains, when, if my
health permits, I shall wait on them, and hope
to get the matter through in a few days, and
then pay off the acc'ts and so get clear of the
job, which has been a very troublesome one.
In my last I wrote your Excellency of my ill
state of health, which still remains ; the means
I'm now using I hope will help me. I shall
not delay a moment to join the army, as soon
as I find myself able.^.

I am, Sir, with great esteem

your Excellency's most Obed't
Humble Servant,

JOHN GLOVER.
To his Excellency )
Gen. WASHINGTON. )

MARBLEHEAD, 15th May, 1778.
DEAR SIR:

I wrote your Excellency (the 10th
ult.) that I had adjusted my acc't with Gen.
Burgoyne, and that his paymaster had accept-
ed his bill to pay the amount at his return
from Newport, which he has punctually com-

plied with, so far as he was obliged to pay
hard money, to the amount of 9244, 2s,
which I have sent on to the Hon'ble Board of
Treasury at Yorktown. 4098, which he was
to pay in Continental bills, I have not been
able to get till the 10th instant, he having
met with disappointment from persons, whom
Gen. Burgoyne sold bills to before he left
Cambridge. I advertised in the Boston &
Hartford News-papers of the 20th of April,
calling upon all those who had furnished with
supplies for the troops of Convention, to come
and receive their money; but three towns on-
ly out of forty have applied I shall not
wait on them longer than the first of June ; at
which time if I find myself strong enough to
undertake the journey I propose to set off for
Camp ; but, from my present weak and much
debilitated state, an very doubtful whether I
shall be able to endure the fatigues of another
Campaign. When I entered the service in
1775 I had as good a constitution as any man
of my age, but it's now broken and shattered
to pieces. However I shall make the best of
it until I have the pleasure of seeing your Ex-
cellency, when I flatter myself, from your
known generosity and humanity, you will not
hesitate to favour my dismission from the Ar-
my.*

I am, Dear Sir with great esteem,
your Excellency's most Obedient

Humble Servant,

JOHN GLOVER.
To his Excellency
Gen. WASHINGTON.

On the 28th of June Gen. Glover, having
recovered somewhat from the illness referred

*The following extract from Washington's
reply to the above letters, in which Gen. Glover
asked for a dismission from the army on account
of ill health, is from a manuscript belonging to J.
H. Ome of Marblehead :

"Excuse me Sir" said Washington "if I hesi-
tate to give my concurrence to the desire you ex-
press of quitting the army. I have too high an
opinion of your valor as an officer to do anything
which may contribute to your relinquishing that
character. My earnest wish is that you may con-
tinue it."

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to iu the above letters, again joined the
Army and took command at Fort Arnold,
a strong redoubt near West Point on
the Hudson, and, with the aid of Col.
Kosciusko, superintended the completion of
the Forts in that vicinity. On the 23d of
July he was ordered by Washington to join
his Brigade, then, together with Varnum's
Brigade and a part of Col. Jackson's com-
mand, marching under the Marquis de La-
fayette for Providence to join Gen. Sullivan
in his Expedition against the British on
Rhode Island. (Sparks, Vol. 0, p. 8 & 11.)
At the request of Gen. Sullivan, he proceed-
ed on to Boston and engaged the services of
several companies to join in the Expedition.
The " Boston Independent Company" com-
manded by Col. Hichborn, arid a Salem Com-
pany under Capt. Samuel Flagg, besides
many volunteers from Marblehead, placed
themselves under the command of Gen. Glov-
er, and marched at once for Providence,
where they arrived on the 10th of August.
On the 15th the army marched in order of

* The following is copied from an autograph
letter of Gen. Sullivan :

"HEAD QUARTERS August 1st 1778.
Dear Sir,

You will please to proceed to Boston,
Marblehead and such other places as you may
think proper, to engage two or three hundred Sea-
men or other persons well acquainted with Boats,
who are to act as Boatmen in the Expedition
against Rhode Island. Yon will please to use all
possible expedition in forwarding them on. Their
pay shall be three Dollars per day & their expenses
borne upon the Road. Their engagement is to be
for fifteen days, if not sooner discharged ; they will
be allowed three days for coming & three for going
Home. You are to advance each man one week's
pay upon his engaging. Upon this encouragement
I think you will have a sufficient number who will
at this important Crisis, step forth to assist in the
glorious Enterprise on hand & share with their
Brethren the Honor of giving the last Blow to
British Tyranny.

I am, Dear Sir, your most obedient Servant

JOHN SULLIVAN.
Brig'r Gen'l GLOVEE.

battle from Howland's Ferry towards New-
port, Gen. Glover's Brigade being on the left
of the first line, and under the command of
Col. Bigelow. Major Thos. Fosdick, Mr. John
Tracy, Capt. Stephen Sewall and Rufus
King Esq. were appointed Aides de Camp
to Gen. Glover, who was placed temporarily
on the Staff of Gen. Sullivan. The "Boston
Independent Company" and the "Salem
Volunteers ' ' were ordered to cover the left
of the first line. Having reached Newport
the Americans entrenched themselves and
commenced a regular siege of that place, but
the French fleet failing to support them as
they expected, they were compelled to aban-
don the siege, and it was with difficulty that
they escaped from the Island. On the 29th
during the retreat a severe battle took place
in which the British were defeated. The
" Volunteer Companies " were honorably men-
tioned in General Orders. Capt. Samuel
Flagg of the " Salem Volunteers " commanded
the boats at Howland's Ferry, by which the
army crossed safely to the main land.

After this Gen. Glover was placed in com-
mand of the Department of Providence, where
the sick and the wounded had been removed.
His Brigade Orders issued here and else-
where often exhibit his true character, that
of an honest, conscientious and industrious
officer. He was careful that his command
should not only observe the decencies of life
and the duties of soldiers, but avoid those
excesses which so often disgrace the Camp,
and, while he was strict in regard to disci-
pline, neatness of dress and good order, he
was ever anxious that his men should be
provided with every comfort which money
or constant attention could obtain for them.

(See Brigade Orders, July 7th, llth,
Sept, 7th, 12th, 19th, 21st, 26th, 1778;

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Apr. 10th, 1779; Nov. llth, 16th, 1781;
also Gen. Orders, Nov. 17th, 1781.)

PROVIDENCE, 28th Jan'y, 1779.

Urged by a sense of duty and regard
for my much injured country, I entered her
service at the commencement of hostilities,
and have continued to exert my small ability
in her defence to this day, and was fully de-
termined to persevere therein (notwithstand-
ing the great sacrifices 1 have made, and
must consequently continue to make,) so long
as I could be any way serviceable, or my
country wanted me.

But it has been the will of Heaven I
should feel the pang of a separation, and
part with a companion who was most dear to
me, and (in my absence) the only support
and stay of a family of eight small children,
the oldest of whom is seventeen years ; the
care of which now altogether devolves on
me, and calls for my particular attention.

These being my present circumstances,
which are truly distressing, 1 am, from a
sense of paternal duty and regard I owe to
my little flock, compelled, though with great
reluctance and regret, to ask a dismission
from the service. At the same time beg
it may not be conceived as proceeding from
any other motive, and that your Excellency
would be pleased (if inconsistent to grant it
yourself) to forward my request to the
Hon'ble Congress.

I feel myself happy in being one of those
who have stood forth in defence of the liber-
ties of America ; and be assured, sir, that
whenever her Hon'ble Kepresentatives or
your Excellency shall call for my exertions,
1 shall endeavor with cheerfulness to com-
ply therewith.

I hope, sir. I shall always have a grate-
ful sense of the many civilities shown me
by your Excellency ; for which I beg leave
to return my unfeigned thanks.

I have the honor to be

Your Excellency's

most obed't hum. Ser't,

JOHN GLOVER

His Excellency, )
GEN. WASHINGTON. \

Upon receipt of this request, Congress
passed the following Resolve: "Resolved,
that Congre&s, sensible of Brigadier General
Glover's past merits, and in expectation of
his future services, direct the Commander-in-
Chief to indulge him with a furlough for such
time as may be necessary to settle his private
affairs." (See Journals of Congress, Vol.
iii, 214, Feb. 27th, 1779.)

On the 30th of June, and the 7th of July,
1779, Glover was ordered by Gen. Washington
to march his Brigade from Providence for the
main army, and " to take some route not far
from the Sound, so as to co-operate with the
Militia against the depredations of the ene-
my." (Sparks, Vol. vi. 286, 305.)

The following letters show the route by
which the Brigade marched.

(Copy.) NEW LONDON, llth July, 1779, )
10 o'clock, evening, j
Dear General,

The inclosed letter from Gen-
eral Parsons, is this moment received by Ex-
press. I shall march to-morrow morning,
at 2 o'clock, if the weather permits.
I am, Dear General,

with sentiments of Regard
yr. most obed. hum. Servt,

JOHN GLOVER,

B. General.
Major General GATES.

(Copy.) NORWALK, 10th July, 1779.

Sir, I have the orders of his Excellency,
General Washington, to order the Brigade
under your command to such part of this
State as I shall find necessary on the present
emergency. The present movements of the
enemy, render a Force absolutely necessary
in the remaining Towns in the Western part
of the State, to preserve them from destruc-
tion, and oppose the Enemy's further pro-
gress.

You will therefore be pleased to order the
Brigade under your command to march to

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this place with as much expedition as will
consist with the health of the Troops.

The Enemy are advancing into the Coun-
try, and no Troops but the Militia to oppose
them. You will easily perceive the necessi-
ty of moving as fast as you can, to give con-
fidence to the Militia, who in conjunction
with your Troops may give a check to the
further progress of those Incendiaries.
I am, Sir, with Respect,

your Obed. Hum. Serv.,

SAM'L H. PARSONS,

Brig. General.
Br. Gen. GLOVER.*

SIR:

NORWALK, 21 July, 1779.

I was honoured with your Excellency's
letter of the 17th last evening at nine o'clock.
The troops having marched from New Haven
in two days are much fatigued. Shall halt
them at this place to day. I shall march at 2
o'clock to morrow morning for Ridgefield,
where I shall wait your Excellency's orders.

Give me leave to congratulate you, sir, on
the success of the American arms against
Stony Point, and thank your Excellency for
the intelligence, which is the first and only
confirmation I have had of that glorious event,
notwithstanding I have received three letters
from Gen. Heath since it took place, in neither
of which does he say one word about it.

I am Sir your Excellency's

most Obed't Humble Sert.

JOHN GLOVER.
His Excellency Gen. WASHINGTON.

WEST POINT, July the 23, 1779.
DR. SIR:

I have received your favor of yes-
terday and thank you for the intelligence re-
specting the Fleet. Before this reaches you
I expect you will have received directions
from Gen. Heath to halt at Ridgefield till
further orders. I have only to add my request,
that you will use your best endeavors to ob-
tain information of the situation and move-

* (Trom the files at the Secretary of State's
Office.)

ments of the enemy from time to time, and
that you will communicate whatever you may
deem interesting.

I am Dr. Sir with great regard
yr most Obed't Ser't.

G. WASHINGTON.
Gen. GLOVER.*

Gen. Glover remained at Ridgefield, under
Major Gen. Howe, through the following win-
ter. On the 20th of June, 1780, he was or-
dered, by letter from Gen. Washington, to
" repair immediately to Springfield, Mass.,
for the purpose of superintending the business
of receiving and forwarding the drafts from
Massachusetts to West Point." On the 25th
of September he was again with the army at
West Point, commanding his Brigade, as ap-
pears by a letter from there to his brother,
dated Sept. 26th, describing Arnold's "most
infernal plot," the discovery of which he
Ainks " must be imputed to the interposition
of Divine Providence." He was a member
of the Court which tried Major Andre on the
29th of September, and was officer of the day
when Andre was executed.f

(* Copied from the original.)

t The following is from Sargent's life of Andre,
page 431 :

"A Brief Account of the Characters of the Gen-
erals, who tried Major Andre.

Glover born about 1735, was I believe of

a wealthy family of Marblehead. He took an early
share in the contest. Diminutive in person he was
active in habit and a good soldier. t He had prob-
ably been a ship-owner before the war, and the reg-
iment which he raised in 1775 was mainly composed
of seafaring men. It was one of the first filled up
in Massachusetts, and when taken into the Conti-
nental pay still retained its efficiency. There
was an appearance of discipline in this Corps, the
officers seemed to have mixed with the world, and
to understand what belonged to their stations.

Glover's command led the advance in the pas-
sage of the Delaware at Trenton, and its Command-
er was never found amiss.

' These are the lads who might do something '
cried the spectators as, 500 strong, it came along
after the defeat at Long Island."

t The Marquis de Chastellux speaks of General Glover
as " a little man, but active and a good soldier." Trav-
els in America, 1, 130.

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Gen. Glover remained at West Point with
his Brigade till the Summer of 1781. In
August of that year, when the allied armies
crossed the Hudson and marched for Virginia,
Washington left a strong force under Gen.
Heath to protect the Hudson Highlands. Of
this force Glover's Brigade formed a part.
On the 19th of August, when Gen. Heath
assumed command of the Department, the
head-quarters were "near Dobb's Ferry."
On the 20th the army marched to Peekskill,
arriving there on the 23d. The following
was the order of march :

"Major Gen. Lord Sterling will take com-
mand of the right wing of this army, Major
Gen. Howe the command of the left wing,
Brigadier Gen. Glover will take command of
the Division commanded by Major Gen. Lin-
coln ; and Brigadier Gen Patterson the com-
mand of the two Brigades of the second line ;
Capt. Donald's company of Artillery with the
two three-pounders are to be divided to the
two Divisions of the first line."

Oct. 27, Gen's Glover and Huntington were
ordered to "view the present position of the
pickets near the enemy ; if they can be re-
moved to places more comfortable and equal-
ly safe to the army, cause it to be done and re-
port." They reported the same day. On the
12th of Nov. the 1st Massachusetts Brigade
with two pieces of artillery under Capt. Tread-
well marched on a foraging expedition under
the command of Gen. Glover. The route was
from Continental Village by North Castle,
Young's, White Plains, East Chester, Mara-
nack, Wright's Mills, and Crompond, back to
Continental Village. The following is an ex-
tract from the General Orders of the 17th:

"The General thanks Brigadier Gen. Glov-
er for the regularity and good order he pre-
served in the late grand forage on the lines.

The Forage Master will be careful in receiving
and receipting for the forage which has been
collected, and cause equal distribution to be
made, exercising the greatest economy."

Gen. Glover was with the army till the
Spring of 1782, when he was again ordered to
take charge of the mustering and forwarding
recruits from Massachusetts. At this time
his health had become very much impaired by
long exposure and arduous service in the field.
His complaints had been undoubtedly ag-
gravated by continued anxiety and distress of
mind in regard to the condition of his family
and private affairs. His sensibility on this
subject appears in his correspondence, of which
the following is a specimen, from a letter to
Washington, dated West Point, Jan. 28th,
1781:

" Neither business nor amusements of any
kind, however advantageous, pleasing or sat-
isfactory in the enjoyment, would have induced
me to address your Excellency a second time
on the subject ; but duty and affection to my
helpless orphan children (for so I must call
them in my absence) call aloud, and urge the
necessity of my making them a visit before
the campaign opens, or they must unavoidably
suffer, being all very young, and by no means
capable of taking care of themselves, except-
ing a daughter of eighteen, who has the charge
of eight others, a burden much too great for
so young a person ; and what makes it exceed-
ingly more so, they live in a seaport town,
where the necessaries of life are very dear
and hard to be come at, even were they pos-
sessed of the means, which at present (I am
sorry to say) they are not ; nor is it in my
power to furnish them, not having received
any pay for twenty months past. A few days
ago I received a letter from my daughter, the
purport of which must have roused and awak-

Ill

ened the attention of the most unnatural pa-
rent, much more one who is very particularly
attached to his children ; this may be called a
weakness in me ; however it's such a weak-
ness as I at all times take pride in showing."

The following is from a letter to Washing-
ton, dated Marblehead, May 4th, 1782 :

" Instead of growing better as the Spring
comes on, (as was the opinion of my physi-
cian,) I find myself much weaker, my com-
plaints and disorders being of such a com-
plicated nature that they have baffled the
power of medicine as well as the skill of the
most able and approved physicians amongst
us, who now tell me it must be a work of
time to remove them and restore me to any
tolerable health ; my whole frame being so
exceedingly shattered and debilitated, and my
nervous system so much weakened, that,
were I to gain a kingdom, I could not ride a
journey of 20 miles, nor can I ride a single
horse five miles.

Your Excellency will hardly credit it, but
be assured, sir, it is an absolute fact, I have
not slept two hours upon an average in 24
for these four years past, and very often after
severe fatigue I do not sleep a wink for
two or three nights together. These disor-
ders and complaints I contracted at the North-
ward in the Campaign of 1777, and they have
been growing on me ever since."

On the 18th of June he again wrote to
Washington, giving a very particular and mi-
nute account of the character of his disease,
and enclosing a certificate ' ' from two of the
ablest and most approved physicians in the
State."

Sir:

HEAD QUARTERS, NEWBURGII, )
July 10th, 1782. |

I have received your letter of the 18th

June, with the enclosed certificate. Agreea-
bly to your request I have forwarded a copy
of your letter, with corroborating evidence of
the physicians, to the Secretary at War, and
recommended a compliance with your desire.

That you may soon be restored to your for-
mer state of health, is the sincere wish of
Sir, your very humble servant,

G. WASHINGTON.

Brig'r Gen'l GLOVER.*

On the 22nd of July 1782 he was, "on ac-
count of his ill health, placed on the half
pay establishment" by Congress.

Sir,

HEAD QUARTERS, NEWBURQH, ')
July 30th, 1782. j

The enclosed Resolution of Congress
having been transmitted to me, I take this
earliest opportunity to communicate it for
your information.

Sincerely wishing you a restoration of
health, attended with every happiness in your
future walks of life,

I have the honor to be, Sir,
your very humble servant,

G. WASHINGTON.
Brigadier General GLOVER, f

Gen. Glover resided in Marblehead till his
death, Jan. 30th 1797. His mansion is
still standing in Glover Square, near State
Street, and is now the residence of Benjamin
Selman, Esq. He was a member of the
State Convention in 1788, and his vote
is recorded together with those of his col-
leagues Jonathan Glover, Isaac Mansfield, and
Azor Orne, in favor of the Federal Constitu-
tion.

The following obituary notice may be found
in the Salem Gazette, printed January 31st,
1797.

DIED At Marblehead, of an hepatick di-
sease, John Glover Esq. aged 62.$ As a

(* Copied from the original.)
t (Copied from the original.)

t (64)

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military character he stood high on the list of
fame, and acted a very distinguished part in
those judicious plans and arrangements which
led on to the capture of Burgoyne and his
army, and was honoured with the superin-
tendency of them in their march through the
country as the most qualified person. He
was officer of the day when Major Andre
made his exit; which, though the effect of
necessity, deeply affected the General, and
drew tears from every eye. In private life
he was the warm and steady friend, free from
every appearance of guile and dissimulation.
He was the affectionate husband, the kind
brother, and the best of fathers. In civil
capacity he sustained some of the first offices
within the gift of his fellow citizens, and ever
conducted to their approbation. He was
chosen a delegate to the State Convention for
the purpose of assenting to and ratifying the
Federal Constitution, and has ever been one
of its warmest supporters.

MARBLEHEAD, Jan. 30th, 1797.

The following is the inscription on his tomb
in the old burying-ground in Marblehead :

Erected with filial respect

The memory of

The HON. JOHN GLOVER, ESQUIRB,

Brigadier General in the

late Continental Army,

Died

January 30th, 1797,
Aged 64.

APPENDIX.

EXTRACTS FROM THE ORDERLY BOOKS.

The following passages, while they are of
much interest in connection with the subject
of this memoir, also indicate how much light
these Orderly Books throw upon the history
of the Revolution:

HEAD QUARTERS, CAMBRIDGE,
June 29th, 1775.

Parole, Washington. Countersign, Virgin-
ia. Officer of the day to-morrow, Lieut. Col.
Gerry. Officer of the main guard to-mor-
row, Major Brooks. Adjutant for the day
to-morrow, Hardy.

GENERAL ORDERS. That the Regiments
in this Camp parade to-morrow morning pre-
cisely at 5 o'clock on the common, where the
Prisoners will be brought from the main
guard & the sentence of the Gen'l Court
martial will be put in execution against
them. The Officers commanding Corps will
turn out immediately when called upon for
duty. The Adjutants will take care to bring
the men upon the place of parade, for guard or
other duty, precisely at the time prescribed
by the Adjutant General.

HEAD QUARTERS, CAMBRIDGE, )
June 30th, 1775. j

Parole, Pennsylvania. Countersign, James-
town. Officer of the day to-morrow, Col.
Prescott. Officer of the main guard to-mor-
row, Lieut. Col. Roberts. Adjutant for the
day to-morrow, Gibbs.

GENERAL ORDERS. That all profane cur-
sing and swearing, all indecent language
and behaviour will not be tolerated in Camp.
The General expects that all the Officers
from the highest to the lowest Rank will
set a good Example to the Soldiers in this
Respect. That three Subalterns be appoint-
ed daily to visit the Colleges at 9 o'clock
in the morning, and see that they are swept
clean and that the Officers improving Dwell-
ing Houses take care that those Soldiers,
who are quartered in the same, see that they
are daily swept. That the field Officers
commanding at Cambridge, Charlestown &
Medford see that the Adjutants make out a
list of all the Officers and rank and file belong-
ing to their respective Regiments, and make
a Return immediately to the Adjutant Gen-
eral. That all possible care be taken that
no lewd women come into Camp, and all
persons are ordered to give information of
such persons, if any there are that prop-

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er measures be taken to bring them to con-
dign punishment, and rid the Camp of
such a nuisance. That the Rules and Reg-
ulations for the American Army be read at
the head of their respective Companies by
the Captain or such other person as they
shall appoint, once a week till further Or-
ders.

HEAD QUARTERS, CAMBRIDGE, )
July 1st, 1775. j

Parole, Bowdoin. Countersign, Dexter.
Officer of the day to-morrow, Col. Glover.
Officer of the main Guard to-morrow. Major
Johonnot. Adjutant for the day, Fox.

General Orders. That the Adjutants of
the respective Regiments doing duty at Cam-
bridge, Charlestown and Medford, make a
weekly Return to the Adjutant General at
Head Quarters of the number of Officers &
Rank & file fit for duty, number unfit, where
stationed, what number daily on duty, wheth-
er in Camp, out on furlough, or absent with-
out leave. That the Drummers in this en-
campment attend on Mr. John Bassett, Drum
Major, at 7 o'clock to-morrow morning & re-
ceive their orders from him, respecting their
duty.

HEAD QUARTERS, CAMBRIDGE, )
July2d, 1775. j

Parole, Pitt. Countersign, Bradbury.

Officer of the day to-morrow, Col. Brick-
ctt. Officer of the main guard to-morrow,
Major Woods. Adjutant for the day to-mor-
row, Hardy.

General Orders. That some suitable per-
son in each Company and Regiment be direct-
ed to inspect said Company daily ; that upon
finding any complaint of indisposition among
the men, the Surgeon of each Regiment will
examine thereinto, & if there be any symp-
toms of the small pox upon them, that they
immediately be removed. That one Soldier
be taken out of each Company in Putnam's,
Prescott's, Bridge's, Frye's & Glover's Regi-
ments for Camp Colour men, whose daily busi-
ness shall be to sweep and keep clean the
Camp.

VOL. v.

(17)

HEAD QUARTERS, CAMBRIDGE, )
July 3d, 1775. f

Parole, Lookout. Countersign, Sharp.
Officer of the day to-morrow, Col. Prescott.
Officer of the main guard to-morrow, Major
Poor. Adjutant for the day to-morrow, Gibbs.

By his Excellency George Washington, Esq.,
Commander-in-Chief of all the Forces of
the United Colonies of North America.
General Orders. The Colonel or Com-
manding Officer of each Regiment is ordered
forthwith to make two returns of the number
of men in their respective regiments, distin-
guishing those who are sick, wounded, or ab-
sent on furlough, and also the quantity of am-
munition each Regiment now has.

HEAD QUARTERS, CAMBRIDGE, )
July 3d, 1775. }
By his Excellency, Gen. Washington, dated

4 o'clock P. M.

It is ordered that Col. Glover's Regt. be
ready this evening, with all their accoutrements,
to march at a minute's warning to support
Gen. Folsom of the New Hampshire Forces, in
case his lines should be attacked. It is also
ordered that Col. Prescott's Regiment equip
themselves to march this evening & take pos-
session of the woods leading to Lechmere's
Point, and, in case of an attack there, Col.
Glover's Regiment to march immediately to
their support.

HEAD QUARTERS, CAMBRIDGE, )
*19th July, 1775. j
Parole. Derby. Countersign, Marblehead.
Officer of the day to-morrow, Col. Glover.
Officer of the main guard to-morrow morning,
Major Brooks. Adjutant for the day, Hardy.

HEAD QUARTERS, CAMBRIDGE, )
20th July, 1775. J"
Parole, Albany. Countersign, Ticonderoga.
Officer of the day to-morrow, Col. Brickett.
Officer of the main guard to-morrow, Major

* Glover's Regiment being employed on special
service may be the cause of the absence in the Or-
derly Book of General Orders from the 3d to the
19th of July.

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Lee. Adjutant for the day to-morrow, Tyler.

General Orders. Certain drums in and
near Cambridge very improperly beat the Re-
veille this morning before day. Although the
Troops are ordered to be under arms half an
hour before daylight, it does not follow that
the drums are to beat at that time. The
Reveille is to beat when the Sentry can see
clearly one thousand yards around him, and
not before. All Aids de Camp and Majors
of Brigade are to keep regularly entered in a
book all the General Orders of the Army as
well as those of the Brigade they belong to,
as the General in Chief will not for the future
admit as an excuse for the breach of orders
the plea of not knowing them.

Samuel Osgood, Esq., and Joseph Ward,
Esq., being appointed Aidsde Camp to Major
Gen. Ward, they are to be obeyed as such ;
as all orders coming from Aids de Camp are
to be considered as the orders of their respec-
tive Generals, and, whether written or verbal,
to be forthwith obeyed, it may be necessary
once more to repeat to the Army that every
Aid de Camp & Major of Brigade will be
distinguished by a green riband.

Certain Corps having been dilatory in de-
livering last Saturday their weekly returns as
positively directed by former orders, the Gen-
eral is determined for the future not to excuse
any neglect in sending their returns every Sat-
urday to the Adjutant General ; as the Com-
manding officers of Regiments are to be an-
swerable for the due observance of this Order,
it is expected that they are exact in obliging
their respective Adjutants to fulfil their duty.

HEAD QUARTERS, CAMBRIDGE, )
21st July, 1775. }
Parole, Maiden. Countersign, Chelsea.
Officer of the day to-morrow, Col. Johonnot.
Officer of the main guard to-morrow, Major
Woods. Adjutant for the day to-morrow,
Gibbs.

HEAD QUARTERS, CAMBRIDGE, >
22d July, 1775. >

Parole, Nantasket.
sippi.

Officer of the day to-morrow, Col.

Countersign, Missis-
Bridge.

Officer of the main guard to-morrow, Major
Poor. Adjutant for the day to-morrow, Fox.

General Orders. Camp before Boston,
July 22d, 1775.

Capt. Israel Putnam & Lieut Saml. Bebb
being appointed Aids de Camp to Major Gen-
eral Putnam, they are to be obeyed as such.

Regularity & due subordination being so es-
sentially necessary to the good order & gov-
ernment of an army, and as without it the
whole must soon become a scene of disorder
& confusion, the General finds it necessary,
without waiting any longer for dispatches from
the Genl. Continental Congress, immediately
to form the Army into Three Grand Divisions,
and to divide each of those Grand Divisions
into two Brigades. He therefore orders the
following Regiments, viz : Gen. Ward's, Gen.
Thomas's, Col. Feilows', Col. Colton's, Col.
Danielson's, Col. David Brewer's, to compose
one Brigade and be under the command of
Brig. Gen. Thomas. That Gen. Spencer's,
Col. Parsons', Col. Learned's, Col. Walker's,
Col. J. Read's Independents compose anoth-
er Brigade to be commanded by Brig. Gen.
Spencer; that these two Brigades compose the
Right Wing or Division of the Army, and be
under the command of Major Gen. Ward, &
remain at Roxbury and its Southern dependen-
cies.

That Col. Stark's, Col. Poor's, Col. Read's
New Hampshire, Col. Nixon's, Col. Mans-
field's, Col. Doolittle's Massachusetts, be form-
ed into another Brigade under the command of
Brig. Gen. Sullivan, and Posted on Winter
Hill; that Col. Varnum's, Col. Hitchcock's,
Col Church's Rhode Island, Col. Whitcomb's,
Col. Gardner's, Col. Jona. Brewer's Massa-
chusetts, be formed into another Brigade to be
commanded by Brig. Gen. Greene, & posted
upon Prospect Hill ; these two Brigades to
compose the Left Wing or Second Division
of the Army under the Command of Major
Gen. Lincoln.

That Gen. Heath's, Col. Patterson's, Col.
Scamman's, Col. Gerrish's, Col. Phinny's,
Col. Prescott's be formed into another Brig-
ade & commanded by Brig. Gen. Heath.
That Gen. Putnam's, Col. Glover's, Col.
Frye's, Col. Bridge's, 'Col. Woodbridge's,

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Col. Sargent's be formed into another
Brigade under the command of the Senior
Officer therein, and, until the Pleasure of
the Continental Congress be known, these
two Brigades to be under the Command of
Major Gen. Putnam, as also a Corps de re-
serve for the defence of the several Posts
North of Roxbury not already named.

The arrangement now ordered, is to be
made as speedily as possible, and the
Major Generals are to see it done accor-
dingly. Some inconveniencies may arise to
certain individuals by this change, but as
the good of the service requires it to be made,
an alert and ready compliance is expected.
All applications from henceforward by Offi-
cers or Soldiers for leave of absence, are to
be made to the Major General commanding
each Division, who is to judge of the propriety
of the application, and grant furloughs where
he sees cause, without applying to the Com-
mander-in-Chief, provided it be not contrary
to General Orders, Gen. Heath's Regt. is
to take Post at No. 2, in lieu of Gen. Ward's.
Col. Patterson is to remain at No. 3. Col.
Scamman's to occupy No. 1 and the Redoubt
between that and No. 2. Col. Prescott's
Regt. to take Post at the Redoubt upon
Sewall's Point. Col. Gerrish's Regt. to fur-
nish the companies for Chelsea, Maiden &
Medford.

HEAD QUARTERS, CAMBRIDGE, )
23d July, 1775. j

Parole, Brunswick. Countersign, Prince-
ton. Officer of the day to-morrow, Col. Glov-
er. Officer of the main guard to-morrow,
Major Brooks. Adjutant for the day to-
morrow, Hardy.

General Orders. As the Continental
Army have unfortunately no uniforms, &
consequently many inconveniencies must
arise from not being able always to distin-
guish the Commissioned Officers from the
non-Commissioned, and the non-Commission-
ed from the Privates, it is desired that some
badges of distinction may be immediately
provided ; for instance, the Field Officers
may have Red or Pink coloured Cockades
in their hats, the Captains, Yellow or Buff,

and the Subalterns, Green. They are to
furnish themselves accordingly. The Ser-
geants may be distinguished by Epaulette or
stripe of Red cloth sewed upon the right
shoulder. The Corporals by one of Green.

The people employed to make spears are
desired by the General to make four dozen
of them immediately, thirteen feet in length,
and the wood part a good deal more substan-
tial than those already made, particularly
those in the New Hampshire lines (which)
are ridiculously short and slight, and can
answer no sort of purpose ; no more there-
fore are to be made on the same model.

The commanding Officers of the different
works and posts are once more enjoined to
furnish themselves with a sufficient number
of Gabions & Fascines which are to stop up
the entrance of their respective redoubts &
lines, and to repair their works, which may
either be damaged by the weather or the fire
of the enemy. It is observed that several
of the entrances and redoubts are still left
open, without any sort of defence. The Com-
manding Officers of each redoubt are there-
fore ordered to cut a wide deep ditch at the
entrances, and throw a bridge of strong plank
across; this is to be done without delay.

John Davis of Capt. Foster's Company in
Col. Gridley's Regt. of Artillery, tried for
desertion and suspicion of intending to go to
the enemy is acquitted by the General Court
Martial.

Ensign Foster accused by Col. Scamman
of abusive and insulting language to the said
Col. Scamman while under arrest by a Gen-
eral Court Martial of which Col. John Nix-
on was President, the Court were unanimous-
ly of opinion that the prisoner is not guilty
and do therefore acquit him with honor.
Lieut. Trofton to be forthwith released from
his arrest. Michael Beny, Capt. Packer's
Company and Col. Prescott's Regt. tried by
the same General Court Martial for refusing
his duty and enlisting in another Company,
the Court condemn the prisoner and order him
to receive 39 lashes. The General orders
the sentence to be put in execution at the
head of the Regt. the delinquent belongs to.

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Col. Little's Kegt. omitted in yesterday's
orders, is in Gen. Green's Brigade & to be
posted upon Prospect Hill.

HKAD QUARTERS, CAMBRIDGE, )
1st Jan, 1770. j

Parole, The Congress. Countersign, Amer-
ica.

General Orders. This day giving com- 1
mencement to the new army, which in every '
point of view is entirely Continental, the Gen- !
eral flatters himself that a laudable spirit
of emulation will now take place, and per-
vade the whole of it; without such a spirit '
few officers ever arrived to any degree of rep- 1
utation, nor did any army ever become for- i
midable. His Excellency hopes that the im- 1
portance of the great Cause we are engaged ;
in will be deeply impressed upon every man's !
mind, and wishes it to be considered that an '
army without Order, Regularity & Discipline
is no better than a Commissioned Mob. Let
us therefore, when everything dear and val- {
uable to Freemen is at stake, when our un-
natural parent is threatening us with destruc-
tion from every quarter, endeavour by all the
skill & discipline in our power to acquire
that knowledge & conduct which is necessa-
ry in War.

Our men are brave and good men who,
with pleasure it is observed, are addicted to
fewer vices than are commonly found in ar-
mies. But it is subordination and discipline
(the life and soul of an army) which next
under Providence is to make us formidable
to our enemies, honorable in ourselves, and |
respected in the world ; and herein is to be i
shown the goodness of the officers. In vain
is it for a General to issue orders if orders
are not attended to ; equally vain is it for a
few officers to exert themselves if the same
spirit does not animate the whole. It is
therefore expected, that each Brigadier will
be attentive to the discipline of his Brigade,
to the exercise of, and the conduct observed
in it, calling the Colonels and Field Officers
of any Regt. to severe account for neglect or
disobedience of orders. The same attention '
is to be paid by the Field Officers to the re- '

spective Companies of their Regt's, by the
Captains to their subalterns, and so on ; and
that the plea of ignorance, which is no ex-
cuse for the neglect of orders (but rather an
aggravation,) may not be offered, it is order-
ed & directed, that not only every Regiment
but every Company do keep an Orderly Book
to which frequent recourse is to be had, it
being expected that all standing Orders be
rigidly obeyed until altered or countermand-
ed. It is also expected that all orders, which
are necessary to be communicated to the men
be regularly read and carefully explained to
them. As it is the fixed wish of the Gener-
al to have the business of the Army conduc-
ted without punishment, to accomplish this
he assures every officer & soldier that, as far
as it is in his power, he will reward such as
particularly distinguish themselves; at the
same time he declares that he will punish
every kind of neglect or misbehavior in an
exemplary manner. As the great variety of
occurrences & the multiplicity of business
in which the General is necessarily engaged
may withdraw his attention from many objects
and things which might be improved to ad-
vantage, he takes this opportunity of declar-
ing that he will thank any Officer of what-
soever rank for any useful hints or profitable
information ; but to avoid trivial matters, as
his time is very much engrossed, he requires
that it may be introduced through the chan-
nel of a General Officer, who is to weigh the
importance before he communicates it. All
Standing Orders heretofore issued for the
government of the late army, of which every
Regiment has or ought to have copies, are
to be strictly complied with until changed
or countermanded. Every Regiment now
upon the new establishment is to give in,
signed by the Colonel or Commanding Officer,
an exact list of the Commissioned Officers,
in order that they may receive Commissions;
particular care to be taken that no person is
included as an Officer but such as have been
appointed by proper authority ; any attempt
of that kind in the new army will bring se-
vere punishment upon the author. The Gen-
eral will upon any vacancies that may hap-
pen receive recommendations and give them

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proper consideration ; but the Congress alone
are competent to the appointment.

An exact return of the strength of each
Regt. is to be given in as soon as possible,
distinguishing the number of Militia, and
such of the old Regts. as are joined for a
month only, from the established men of the
Regt This being the day of the commence-
ment of the New Establishment the General
pardons all the offences of the Old, and com-
mands all prisoners (except prisoners of war)
to be immediately released.

The following are extracts from General
Glover's Orders while commanding at Fort
Arnold :

FORT ARNOLD, June 28th, 1778.

Parole, Washington. Countersign, Lee.

Gen. Glover acquaints the garrison that it's
of the utmost importance that the works be
finished as soon as possible ; he therefore re-
quests of Officers and Soldiers that they exert
themselves for that purpose. The Fatigue
parties to begin work every morning at 5 o'
clock, leave off at 10, begin again at 3 o'clock
and work till sundown.

The Commanding Officer of Artillery to
make return of the number of men under his
command at this post, of the cannon and size
fit for use & the Forts they are mounted in,
with the quantity of fixed ammunition for each
gun ; also the number of cannon not fit for use,
if any there be. The Commanding Officers
of Regiments are desired to make return of
the number of arms wanting in their respec-
tive Regiments. The Commanding Officer
of the boats will make return of the number
of boats and scows in his care and where they
are, also a return of the number of men under
his command. Detail for Guard to-mor-
row.

S S C P.

Col. Hathorn's 1 3 23

Col. Hopkins' 1 1 2 23

1 2 5 46

FORT ARNOLD, June 29th, 1778.

Parole, Independence. Countersign Lib-
erty.

In future no country people will be permit-
ted to come into the garrison without a recom-
mendation from Governor Clinton, the Com-
mittee, Selectmen, or some Militia Ofiicer of
the town from whence they come. The com-
manding Officers of Guards to pay a particu-
lar attention to this order, which is to be a
standing one until it is revoked. The Gener-
al returns his thanks to Capt. Storm and the
Officers and Soldiers of his Company for their
services, and assures them that they shall be
dismissed immediately upon the Company's
coming into garrison, which is to relieve them
and is expected this day. Capt. Storm will
see the arms, ammunition & all stores belong-
ing to the public returned. The Command-
ing Officers of Corps of Artillery, Infantry,
Artificers, & Boatmen are desired to make
return immediately of the number of men un-
der their several Commands, that the strength
of the garrison may be known, with the num-
ber of arms they have now in possession &
what are still wanting.

Adjutant for the day to-morrow, Hend-
rickson. Details for Guards & Fatigue as
usual.

A number of smiths being wanted for the
public service, any who are in the Levies for
nine months & incline to go into that service
shall receive two shillings York Currency,
ration & 1 Gill of rum per day in addition
to their present pay & ration, by applying to
Capt. Dobbs, at Gen. Glover's Quarters.

FORT ARNOLD, 3rd July, 1778.

Parole, Salem. Countersign, Ipswich.

General Glover again requests the Out-
works of the garrison may be finished without
delay, to effect which he desires officers &
men will exert themselves when on Fatigue.

Col. Hopkins will please to superintend the
Fatigue parties, & is to be obeyed according-
ly. He will take his Orders from Col. Kos-
ciuszko.

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Commissary Elderkin will serve but two
days' Provisions at a time, while the hot
weather continues. One day salt (if he has
it) and one day fresh.

Details for Fatigue :

Col. Harthorne,
Col. Hopkins,
Capt. Flowers,
Whipple,
Wheeler,

C. S. S. P.

2 6 12 127

4 5 10 107

2 2 96

1 2 3 85

1 2 109

7 16 29 524

FOIIT ARNOLD, 4th July, 1778.

Parole, America. Countersign, Freedom.

The Colonels or Commanding Officers of
the York Militia, whose times are near out,
are desired to see the arms, ammunition, and
pouches, with the tents, bowls, axes, camp-
kettles, &c., belonging to the public, all re-
turned (before the men leave camp,) when
they will be dismissed with the General's
thanks for their good services.

Selling spirituous liquors, cider, &c., to the
soldiers in this garrison, is strictly forbidden.
The Q'r Master has full power to carry this
order into execution, by taking up all and ev-
ery person, whose liquor will be forfeited and
sold, and the money appropriated for the use
of the sick. The Commanding Officers of
Col. Greaton's, Nixon's and Putnam's
Regiments will make return of what men
they have of the Massachusetts Levies that
have not been mustered, who must go to
Fishkill for that purpose on Monday next.
A Captain and 40 men, properly officered,
who are used to boats, to parade at Head
Quarters to-morrow morning, 5 o'clock, with
2 days provisions. They will take orders
from the Engineer, Col. Kosciuszko.

Details,

Col. Harthorne,
Hopkins,

Wheeler,

C. S. S. P.

1 1 12

1 1 8

1 8

2 12

1 2 4 40

FORT ARNOLD, July llth, 1778.

Parole, Maryland. Countersign, Virginia.

The proceedings of the Court Martial,
whereof Capt. Wheeler is President, having
sentenced several persons to receive corporal
punishment, without any allusion to Section or
Article of War, which is contrary to the es-
tablished rules of Courts Martial ; the Gener-
al, therefore, for the honor of the army of
the United States, as well as for the honor of
the Court, and to do justice to the parties
concerned, orders the aforesaid Court Martial
to sit for the trial of John Tuttle, an Artifi-
cer, Levi Hunt, Jonathan Morgan, and Peter
Lesco, Soldiers in the Continental Army, and
all other persons t)iat may be brought before
them. All evidences and persons concerned
to attend ; the Adjutant of the day to attend
the Court, who will furnish the President
with the rules and regulations of the Army,
in which is the law to try and punish all of-
fenders by full proof of the crime being first
made to the satisfaction of the Court. They
will then proceed to make up judgment and
sentence upon the persons tried, according to
said law and evidence, having reference to the
section and article by which he or they are to
be punished. The Court to sit when the
members now absent return.

FORT ARNOLD, July 20, 1778.

Parole, Hartford. Countersign, Providence.

Guards and Fatigue as usual.

Adjutant of the day to-morrow, .

The Continental troops of Colonel Grea-
ton's Regiment, at Fort Constitution, to join
their Regiment at White Plains immediately.
Mr. Banks will deliver out to the new levies
of Col. Greaton's Reg't 173 guns, to Col.
Nixon's 268, and to Col. Putnam's 77,
and take receipts from the Commanding Offi-
cers for them.

FORT ARNOLD, July 23d, 1778.
Parole, Albany. Countersign, Stillwater.
Col. Patten's Regiment to join Col. Mal-
com's Regiment, and be commanded by

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Lieut. Col. Burr ; they will be called on for
duty to-morrow. The Court Martial of which
Capt. Wheeler was President, is dissolved.
A General Court Martial to sit in the Bar-
racks to-morrow morning at 9 o'clock, for the
trial of all prisoners that may be brought be-
fore them, Lieut. Col. Burr to preside. 3
Capts. and 6 Subs, from Lieut. Col. Burr's
detachment, 1 Sub. from Col. Greaton : s, 1
Sub. from Col. Nixon's, and 1 Sub. from Col.
Putnam's, to attend as members.

Josiah Farrow is appointed to command the
ship carpenters at this post, and is to be
obeyed accordingly. Adjutant from Col.
Malcom's Regiment to attend the Court Mar-
tial.

Details for Fatigue :

C. S. S. C. P.

Lieut. Col. Burr, " 2 "2 1 35

Capt. Wheeler, " 2 75

Capt. Whipple, " 1 2 1 35

3 4 4 145

From Capt. Flowers, at work at Fort Con-
stitution, 1 S., 2 S., 2 C., 145 P.
Guards as usual.

The following are from the General Orders
issued by Gen'l Sullivan on Rhode Island :
HEAD QUARTERS, R. ISLAND, )
Aug. 10th, 1778. j

Parole, Boston. Countersign, Hancock.

The Quartermaster General is directed to
send over all the spare tents and distribute
them among the troops that are destitute of
covering ; also all the canteens.

The Commanding Officers of Regiments
and Companies will see their men's arms put
in the best order for immediate use, and that
they are furnished with cartridges suitable to
their muskets. Those men who cannot be
furnished with tents, are to build huts and
brush houses to screen themselves from the
weather. The Commissary of Military
Stores, Commissaries of Provisions, and Quar-
termaster General, will notify the commanders
of lines, divisions and brigades, where their

stores are, that they may know where to apply
for supplies. The troops to be furnished
with one gill of rum per man each day till
further orders. An Aid-de-Camp from each
Major General, and a Brigade Major from
each Brigadier General, to attend at Head
Quarters daily, at 10 o'clock in the morning
and 6 in the evening, for orders. The Com-
manders of Regiments and Corps, who have
tents on the other side of the river, will im-
mediately send a detachment from their com-
mand to bring them over.

The Commanding Officers of Regiments
and Companies will take some effectual meas-
ure to prevent the men from destroying the
abatis round the several forts and redoubts on
the Island. A party of 200 men, properly offi-
cered, to be immediately detached from the 2d
line and the reserve, and to be paraded in front
of General Lovell's Brigade, Colonel Malma-
dee to take command of said party ; he will
immediately apply to Headquarters for orders.
Stolen, or taken through mistake, yesterday,
from Mr. Thomas Browning's, a Portmanteau,
belonging to Major Jeremiah Hill, Commis-
sary of Prisoners, containing 3 shirts, 3 pr.
stockings, 2 stocks, 2 waistcoats, 1 pr. breech-
es, 1 pr. shoes, 1 pr. silver shoe buckles.
Whoever has got said Portmanteau and cloth-
ing, and will return them to the owner, shall
be generously rewarded, and no questions
asked.

After Orders.* 10th Aug't, 1778.

The officers commanding at the advanced
posts will be very attentive to see that no in-
habitant of Rhode Island comes within the
lines, as the General expects that the enemy
have a number of spies amongst us already.

Major Gen. Hancock is to command the
second line of the army, and Col. Wm. West
the reserve. Col. Dyer's Reg't is to join
Col. Noyes's, and cover the left flank.

Those Brigade Majors and Adjutants who
have neglected to make their returns to Head-
quarters, will hand them in by to-morrow

(* General Orders were issued in the morning ;
those issued later in the day were called After Or-
ders.)

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morning, 8 o'clock, or take the consequence.
Col. Topham's Regiment to discharge their
muskets at lletrcat beating this evening.

The Boston Independent Company, com-
manded by Col. Hichborn, are not to mount
Guard or go on Fatigue till further orders.
Col. Livingston will send them upon such
parties as he shall think proper. The whole
of the Volunteers who are not joined to any
particular Corps, are to parade to-morrow
morning at 8 o'clock, on the Grand Parade,
and wait for orders. The Officers of the Ar-
my are requested to send their Sergeants to
give notice to such of them as they may
have knowledge of. Wm. Bant and Martin
Brimmer, Esq's, are appointed Aids-de-
Camp to Major General Hancock, and Rich-
ard Carey, and Adam Babcock, Esq's, Vol-
unteer Aids. They are to be obeyed and
respected as such.

HEAD QUARTERS, RHODE ISLAND,
llth Aug., 1778.

The whole army to hold themselves in read-
iness to march for Newport to-morrow morn-
ing at G o'clock. One cannon discharged on
the right of the front line will be a signal for
the troops to parade ; two, for them to wheel
by platoons and form the columns ; after
which the discharge of one cannon will be the
signal for the whole to march. The officers
leading the several columns are again request-
ed to preserve the proper distance between
each column, for the purpose of displaying
with regularity. Col. Grain will give direc-
tions respecting moving the Field Artillery.
The tents to ba struck and loaded with the
baggage, and remain on the ground of their
respective encampments until further orders.
The heavy artillery to move on with the Re-
serve Park in the rear. The fascines and
gabions will follow immediately after. The
Quarter Master General to see that the axes
and intrenching tools are forwarded immedi-
ately after the army have marched.

The pioneers to be drafted from each
Brigade to level the fences and walls before
the heads of the polumns. The Quarter
Master General will furnish proper tools for
that purpose. Major Daniel Lyman is to act

as a Volunteer Aid to Gen. Sullivan, and is
to be obeyed and respected accordingly. The
whole army to be under arms at 4 o'clock
this afternoon, weather permitting. Those
corps that have no destination will parade on
the ground they at present occupy. Major
Jacob Morris is to act as a Volunteer Aid to
Major* Gen. Green, and is to be respected ac-
cordingly. The army will immediately fur-
nish themselves with three days provisions, a
third part of which is to be dressed this day.

Major General for the day, Marquis de la
Fayette. Brigadier, Sherburne. Field Offi-
cers, Col. Topham, Lt. Col. S mmt, Major
Bradford. Brigade Major for the day, Handy.

HEAD QCA!ITERS, Aug. 13th, 1778.

Major Gen. for the day to-morrow, Marquis
de la Fayette. Brig'r. for the day Varnum.
Field Officers, Col. Miller, Lt. Col. Haskell,
Major Huntington. Brigade Major for the
day, Holdcn.

Lost yesterday, somewhere between How-
land's Ferry & Col. Craft's Encampment, a
silver watch with a pinchbeck chain; whoever
has found said watch & will return it to Dan-
iel Parks of the Volunteer Company from
Boston, shall be handsomely rewarded.

Col. Noycs to command the flanking divi-
sion on the left, Adjt. Thomas Noyes to act
as Brigade Major to Col. Commt. Noyes; he
is to be obeyed & respected accordingly.

It is with the most sensible pain the Gen-
eral sees the difficulties his brave Officers &
Soldiers are exposed to by the violence of the
storm, & sincerely wishes that anything in his
power could contribute to their relief. He
however flatters himself that they will bear
with a soldierly patience a misfortune which
in War must frequently happen, & hopes that
in a few days they will be well rewarded for
all their toil & hardships.

After a complete conquest over our enemies,
to look back and reflect upon the toil & dan-
ger we surmounted to obtain victory, must af-
ford us the greatest satisfaction & compel the
world to admire the patience & firmness of the
Conquerors, as well as applaud their bravery.
The General entreats the Officers Command-
ing Brigades, Regts. and Companies to do ev-

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erything in their power to make their men as
comfortable as their situation will possibly ad-
mit, and that the security of the arms and
ammunition be particularly attended to. The
Commissary will deliver the troops 1^ gill of
rum per man to-day, and 1 gill per man each
day afterwards, till further orders.

The Quarter Master General is requested
to do everything in his power to procure tents
or other coverings for those troops who have
none.

HEAD QUARTERS, 14th August, 1778.

Major General for the day to-morrow,
Green.

Brigadier for the day, Lovell.

Field Officers, Col. Carey, Lt. Col. Col-
man.

Brigade Major for the day, Niles.

The Commanding Officers of Brigades,
Regiments, Corps and Companies will see
that their men's arms are put in the best or-
der for immediate use. They will also order
their men to discharge such of their pieces as
they shall find necessary some time this after-
noon.

All the troops to be supplied with two days
provisions, and to be in readiness to march
precisely at 6 o'clock to-morrow morning.

The Quarter Master General, Commissary
of Military Stores, and Commissary of Pro-
visions will have everything in their depart-
ment in the most perfect readiness.

The Regimental Surgeons are directed to
make returns every other day of their sick
to the Director- General of the Hospital, spec-
ifying their Regiment, Company and disorder;
also of medicines, lint, bandages, &c. want-
ing, that they may be supplied.

The returns of invalids called for sometime
since, is deficient from several corps.

Col. Sherburne and Col. Long are to act
as Volunteer Aids to Major Gen. Sullivan ;
they are to be obeyed and respected accord-
ingly.

The pickets to parade precisely at 12
o'clock, the array being under orders to
march to-morrow morning at 6 o'clock. The
following order of march is to be observed,
namely :

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The Brigades of the first line to advance
by the centre in columns of two platoons in
front ; Varnum's Brigade to march on the
West Road ; Glover's on the East Road ;
Cornell's and Green's in the centre between
them, taking care to divide the ground be-
tween the roads as nearly as possible. The
two Brigades of the second line to advance
by their centre in columns of two platoons in
front. This line will advance in two columns
only, notwithstanding the plan of the order
of march heretofore given out. The two col-
umns of the second line will preserve the
proper distance between them for displaying.
The two Regiments of Reserve will advance
from the centre of each in like columns, and
preserve the proper distance for displaying.

Col. Crane will arrange the artillery of
the right wing and send it on the West road,
and that of the left on the East road.

General Whipple with the New Hamp-
shire troops will flank the army on the right,
General Tyler with the Connecticut troops
will flank the army on the left. These two
flanking divisions will march by platoons in
the manner represented in the Plan of the
Order of March, at the distance of fifty rods
from the wing of the army when formed,
and preserve that distance. Col. Dyer will
move his regiment to the right and divide
it equally, and with one half cover the right
of the 1st line, and with the other the right
of the 2nd line. Col. Noyes will divide his
regiment in like manner to cover the left of
the first and second Lines.

General Whipple will detach from his com-
mand one hundred men to flank the Reserve
on the right. General Tyler will detach one
hundred men from his command to flank the
Reserve on the left. These parties will each
be commanded by a Field Officer.

The Salem Volunteers will join that part
of Col. Noyes's Regiment which covers the
left of the first line. The signals for parad-
ing, wheeling and marching will be the same
as in the Orders of the 1 1 th inst. All sig-
nals of the drum will be taken from the brig-
ade on the right of the 1st line, and will
pass from it through the whole army. When

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the Troop beats, it will be a signal for the
columns to move up in order to display.
When the drum beats to arms, the lines and
reserve with the covering parties to the 1st
and 2nd lines will display and form in Or-
der of Battle. The flanking division on the
right and left, will halt and wait for orders.
Pioneers to be immediately drafted from each
Corps, who are to be furnished by the Quar-
ter Master with the proper tools for the re-
moving obstructions in the roads and fields
before the columns. The light corps will
move on at least a mile in front of the army.
Col. Crane will order two heavy pieces of
artillery mounted on field carriages to move
on in the east road, and two more in
the west road. The Commanding Offi-
cers of Corps will see that the arrange-
ments are properly fixed to day, that each
one may know his place in the morning.
Col. Langdon, with his Dragoons, and
Col. Slack with his Light Horse, will attend
at Head Quarters in the morning.

HEAD QUARTERS, RHODE ISLAND, )
Aug. I5th, 1778. (

Major General for the day, to-morrow,
Hancock. Brigadier for the day, Titcomb.
Field Officers, Col. Jacobs, Lieut. Col. Woods,
Major Wilson. Brigade Major for the day,
Titcomb.

Col. Bigelow will take command of Gen-
eral Glover's Brigade. Adjutant Larnerd
of Col. Shepard's Eegiment, will do Brigade
Major's duty till further orders.

Major Thomas Fosdick and Mr. John Tra-
cy are appointed Aids-de-Camp to General
Glover; they are to be respected and obeyed
accordingly.

HEAD QUARTERS, RHODE ISLAND, "|
August 16th, 1778. j
o o o The whole of Col. Noyes's Reg-
iment to cover the left of the second line.
The Boston Independent Company to join the
Salem Volunteers, and cover the left of the
front line. General Glover will give direc-
tions where they are to be encamped.

HEAD QUARTERS, RHODE ISLAND, ")
Aug. 17th, 1778. }
After Orders. Major Morton is
appointed Aid-dc-Camp to Major General
Hancock. Capt. Stephen Sewall and Rufus
King Esq'rs, are appointed Aids-de-Camp to
General Glover; they are to be respected
and obeyed accordingly.

HEAD QUARTERS, CAMP BEFORE NEWPORT, )
Aug. 20th, 1778. }

Major General for the day, to-morrow,
Green. Brigadier for the day, Lovell. Field
Officers, Col. Hawes, Lieutenant Col. Pope,
Major Fenno Brigade Major, Niles.

The General positively orders that no
officers commandiiig Fatigue parties, shall
suffer them to come off the Works until they
are regularly relieved, or dismissed by the
Major General of the day. The Court Mar-
tial, whereof Brigadier General Varnum is
President, to sit to-morrow, to try Col. Noy-
es for taking off the Fatigue party without
orders and without having been relieved.

The Quarter Master General to apply to
the Adjutant General for a proper number
of hands to bury the offal of the cattle killed
about camp; also the carcases of dead oxen
and horses about the Island. Col. Evans
will give orders for burying those on the
North part of the Island.

The General entreats his brave officers and
soldiers to use their utmost efforts in carry-
ing on their approaches to the enemy's lines.
Though a noble spirit of patriotism brought
numbers of brave men on the ground whose
particular interest loudly called for their
presence at home, and though the General
is convinced that the public interest will
still prevail over every other consideration,
yet he wishes to do everything in his power
to forward the return of those brave men to
their respective families and business; for
which reason he exhorts every one to use
their best endeavors to make the siege as
short as possible.

While the Commander-in-Chief esteems
it his duty to return his wannest acknowl-
edgments to the truly spirited Citizens of

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Salem, Marblehead &c., who so cheerfully
turned out to take charge of the boats, and
who have hitherto executed their trust to so
universal satisfaction, he cannot help ex-
pressing his concern, that the term of time
they agreed for, is so nearly expired ; it gives
him the most sensible pain to reflect that the
unfavorable weather, the absence of the
French Fleet and some other unforeseen and
unfortunate events, have lengthened out the
operations far beyond his expectations and
lay him under a necessity of calling on those
men [who ought to return home with the
thanks of the army and country in general]
to continue the sacrifice they are making of
their private interest for a few days longer,
to see the business they are so nobly engaged
in completed, and this Island again restored
to the Domination of the United States.

A return of the names of the Field Offi-
cers to be made to Head Quarters at Order-
ly time this evening.

Detail.

Lt. Col. C. S. S. 0. D. P.

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HEAD QUARTERS, Aug. 24th, 1778.

Major General for the day to-morrow,
Marquis de La Fayette. Brigadier, Glover.

o * o The company of Salem Volun-
teers will immediately march to Howland's
Ferry and put themselves under the com-
mand of Col. Lee, to guard the boats, and to
man them when occasion may require. Two
hundred men properly officered and command-
ed by a Lieutenant Colonel to be taken from
Whitney's and Wadsworth's Regiments, and
march this afternoon at 4 o'clock, to Butts'
Hill and put themselves under the command
of Col. Evans to assist the men now on the
ground in constructing the necessary works;
those men should be principally such as are
acquainted with boats, that they may be able
to man them when called upon for that pur-
pose. The Quarter Masters and Commissa-
ries are to remove all their heavy stores not
immediately wanted to the North end of the
Island. All the heavy baggage should be
sent off that the army may not be encum-

bered with it in time of action. The men
from General Titcomb's Brigade which have
joined Col. Lawrence's Corps are immediate-
ly to return to their respective Regiments.

As it gives much trouble to furnish the
Light Horsemen and Dragoons with passes
to cross the Ferry every time they are sent
on business, they are to pass and repass
without written passes. The Picket which
lies in rear of the battery now erecting on
the right, are to move down the road in front
of the battery every evening at dark, and
return again at daybreak.

The General cannot help lamenting the
sudden and unexpected departure of the
French Fleet, as he finds it has a tendency
to discourage some who placed great depend-
ence on the assistance of it. Though he
cannot by any means suppose this army, or
any part of it, the least endangered by this
movement. The enemy now on the Island
are far inferior in number to this army and
are so sensible of their inferiority that noth-
ing can tempt them to an action. This su-
periority we shall maintain so long as the
spirit and ardor of the Americans continue
to be the same as it was at the commence-
ment of the enterprise, unless the enemy
receives a strong re-enforcement This is
the only event which can oblige us to aban-
don any part of the Island we are now pos-
sessed of; and this event cannot take place
in an instant; a considerable time will be
required for a fleet to come into the harbour,
come to anchor and land a body of troops
sufficient to make the number of the enemy
equal to ours.

The General assures his army that he has
taken into consideration every event that can
possibly happen to it, and has guarded in
such a manner, that in case the most disa-
greeable event, viz : that of a retreat should
take place, it could be done with the utmost
safety. He is fully sensible of the value
those brave officers, soldiers and citizens [he
has the honor to command] are to America,
and is determined that no rash steps shall
make a sacrifice of them. At the same time
he wishes them to place the proper confi-
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whose business it is to attend to their safety.
He yet hopes the event will prove America
able to procure with her own arms that which
her allies refused to assist her in obtain-
ing, ooo

HEAD QUARTERS, KHODE ISLAND, ")
Aug. 27th, 1778. j
Captain Flagg, commander of
the Salem Volunteers, with his company arc
to take charge of the boats at Howland' s
Ferry.

HEAD QUARTERS, RHODE ISLAND, )
Aug. 28, 1778. }

x o o o o The Boston Independent
Company, commanded by Col. Hichborn,
having remained on the ground much longer
than was expected they would be under a
necessity of doing, and their private business
demanding their return home, the General
dismisses them with his thanks for their
soldierly conduct and faithful services.

HEAD QUARTERS, RHODE ISLAND,")
Aug. 30, 1778. j

Brigadier, Varnum.

Field Officers, Col. Sherburne, Lt. Col.
Sprout, Major Ward. B. Major, Richmond.

Capt. Garwin Brown, of Col. Jackson's
Regiment, is to act as Brigade Major to Col.
Livingston, Commander of the Light Corps.
A return of the army to be made to-mor-
row, at 6 o'clock in the afternoon.

With inexpressible satisfaction the Coni-
mander-in-Chief views the heroic fortitude
and firmness of his army in the action of
yesterday. He most sincerely thanks Maj.
General Green, the Brigadier Generals and
Commandants of the 1 st Line, with the
brave officers and soldiers under their com-
mand, and Brig. Gen. Lovell, of the 2d
Line, with his brave officers and soldiers, for
their intrepidity, which they showed in re-
peatedly repulsing the enemy, and finally
driving them from the field of action. Col.
H. B. Livingston and Col. Lawrence, with
the officers and soldiers of their respective
corps, are entitled to the General's warmest
thanks. Col. Crane and the officers and men

of the corps of Artillery under his command,
truly merit the applause and thanks of the
General and all the officers of the army, for
the great support afforded to the troops by
the well served and directed fire of the Ar-
tillery. Those who were not concerned in
action, the General has the satisfaction of
saying that their ardour for action seemed to
equal those brave men who attacked, and, in
his opinion, nothing but want of oppor-
tunity prevented their giving the most am-
ple proof of their valour and firmness. The
General congratulates the army upon the
victory obtained, and directs that the brave
officers who nobly fell in action, be interred
with all the honors of war. The Commis-
sary to apply to 7)r. Tillotson for directions
where to send on mutton and other necessa-
ries for the use of the wounded officers and
soldiers. The General expects that those who
have charge of them will not suffer them to
want for any comforts of life which can be
obtained for any price. A party of 100
men from the 1st Line, to collect and bury
the dead men of our army which fell in ac-
tion. A return of the killed, wounded and
missing to be made to Head Quarters.

Gen'l Whipple is to cross the Ferry at
Tiverton, and collect what Continental troops
and militia are there unnecessarily, and return
them immediately to their corps on this
Island. He will likewise regulate the neces-
sary guards on that shore. Col. Thos. Seers,
Major Rogers, and Major Hiller, of Col.
Wadsworth's Regiment, are to repair to
Howland's Ferry, and assist Capt. Flagg in
the department of the boats.

TIVERTON, August 31st, 1778.
General Orders. The General congratu-
lates his army upon their retreat from an
island, and in the face of an enemy, which,
by comparing their numbers with his last
return, were superior to him, and had be-
sides the command of the water. Under
these circumstances, to perform a retreat
with so much regularity, without any confu-
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of stores or lives in the retreat, must reflect
the highest honor on the brave troops he has
the honor to command.

The troops which compose the Light Corps
are to join their respective Regiments imme-
diately. The Light Corps are dissolved.

The General returns his thanks to the of-
ficers and soldiers for their faithful services.
Col. Trumbull, Col. Cary, Col. Sherburne,
Major Russell and Major Sullivan, Volun-
teer Aids to the Commander-in-Chief, are
dismissed with the General's thanks for their
faithful and spirited conduct.

The whole of the Rhode Island Militia,
as well Horse as Foot, are dismissed with
the General's thanks for their services. All
the sick and wounded of the army to be re-
moved to Providence as soon as may be done
without endangering them.

General Cornell's Brigade to be stationed
on Tiverton Shore, Daggett's Regiment to be
stationed, one-half at Slade's Ferry on the
North side of the river, and the other half
in the neighborhood of Fall River. Gen.
Varnum's Brigade to take post at Bristol &
Warren, divided as he shall think best for
the defence of those posts.

Gen. Glover's Brigade and Jackson's Corps
to take post at Providence. Col. Commt.
Green's Brigade to take post in the neighbor-
hood of East Greenwich. Gen. Tyler's at
Warwick, Gen. Lovell's and Titcomb's at
Pawtuxit.

The troops on the Western Shore to be com-
manded by Major Gen. Green, those on the
Eastern Shore by Major Gen. Marquis de La
Fayette, the troops at Providence by B. Gen-
eral Glover.

All the articles taken from the batteries,
forts and posts in this State to be replaced as
soon as possible, and to be furnished with 100
rounds each. Col. Crane will order the field
pieces to be distributed as he shall think pro-
per. The Guard Ships to be furnished with
60 rounds per gun. The boats are to be re-
moved to Dighton and placed under a proper
Guard drawn from Daggett's Regt. Gen.
Cornell will see thisbusiness performed. Capt.
Clark with his men will assist in getting the
boats to the place of destination, and then pro-

ceed on board the Guard Ship. The several
troops will move for the posts assigned them
to-morrow morning. The General cannot in
justice to the merit of Gen. Cornell, Gen.
Whipple, Col. Olney and the other officers,
who directed the embarkation of the troops
last evening, conclude the orders of this day
without returning those gentlemen his most
cordial thanks for the great care and attention
they paid to the embarking the troops and
passing the artillery and baggage from the
island to the main.

All the soldiers who have more than 20
rounds will return them to the Quarter Mas-
ter of their respective Regiments. The can-
non and troops to be taken off Gold Island im-
mediately.

The General returns his thanks to Col.
Crane, Govion and the Corps of Engineers for
their indefatigable industry in erecting the
batteries and carrying on the approach towards
Newport.

PROVIDENCE, 3d Sept., 1778.

Brigade Orders.* The General with con-
cern hears there was great disorder among
the soldiers on the evening of the 2nd inst.
He wishes to know the cause. He is much
surprised that soldiers, who have hitherto
done themselves so much honour by their
brave and soldierlike good conduct, should
mar the whole by their late mutinous beha-
viour. He cannot be brought to believe it
proceeded from a vicious disposition, but from
mistake ; he hopes no disorder of this kind
will ever happen in his Brigade again, as the
offenders would wish to avoid punishment.

Grievances (if any there be) when repre-
sented in a proper manner will always be at-
tended to, and redressed so far as in the pow-
er of the officers ; but mutiny, disobedience
of orders, and every other crime will be pun-
ished agreeably to the nature of the offence.
The Roll to be called twice a day, the absen-
tees to be punished by a Regimental Court
Martial, according to the nature of their of-
fence; the officers will attend. And to pre-

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vent disorders for the future, the General re-
quests that the officers will lay in camp, (as
they must consider themselves answerable for
the conduct of their men,) without which they
cannot pay that attention which is necessary
to good order and discipline. The Brigade is
to be mustered to-morrow.

HEAD QUARTERS, PROVIDENCE, )
Sept. 5th, 1778. j

General Orders. * * * Majors King
and Sewall, having served as Volunteer Aids
to General Glover in the late expedition
against Rhode Island, and having merited
the approbation of General Glover, the Com-
mander-in-Chief dismisses them with his
thanks for their faithful services. The Fa-
tigue party to be continued as usual till fur-
ther orders. The B. Major of the day to fur-
nish the Field Officers of the day, and the
Commanders of Guards with the Parole and
Countersign.

General Glover's Brigade and Col. Jack-
son's Detachment, will move from their pres-
ent encampment to the North end of the
town over the Mill Bridge as soon as possible.
The Quarter Master General, will point out
the ground for their encampment. As it ev-
idently appears that the inhabitants in the
neighborhood of Providence are exacting from
the officers and soldiers the most exorbitant
price for articles of various kinds, the Gener-
al orders that Brigadier General Glover, Col-
onels Shepard and Jackson, and Lieutenant
Colonel Sprout, be a committee to point out
some method for employing persons from the
army to go into the country to purchase arti-
cles at reasonable prices and deal them out to
the officers and soldiers ; also to prevent those
extortioners selling any articles to the army ;
this committee to meet at 4 o'clock this after-
noon and make report as soon as may be.
The articles purchased by the persons appoin-
ted shall be transported to the army at the
public expense. The committee will point
out the most convenient mode for its being
done.

PROVIDENCE, 7th Sept., 1778.

Brigade Orders.* Great complaints hav-
ing been made by the inhabitants that the
fountains of water are much injured by the
soldiers washing their clothes, and the wag-
goners watering their horses at them, for the
future no clothes will be allowed to be wash-
ed in, nor any horses suffered to drink at
said fountains.

It is desired the officers will see this order
strictly attended to and implicitly obeyed ;
further complaints, that the rails and fences
are taken by the soldiers and burnt, by which
the fields of the inhabitants are laid waste and
their property destroyed, which is not only
distressing to individuals, but injurious to the
public. The Qiwter Masters of Regiments
will see the troops properly supplied with
wood, when if any soldier is detected in burn-
ing rails or fences of any kind, he or they
shall be immediately punished without favour
or affection.

PROVIDENCE, Sept. 7th, 1778.
Brigade After Orders. John M'Culler,
James M'Culler, Solomon Stow, of Captain
Barnes' Company, Colonel Bigelow's Regi-
ment, being confined in the Main Guard for
exciting and endeavoring to raise a mutiny
in said regiment, which by the 3d Article of
the '2nd Section of the Articles of War, is
death. Mutiny is a crime of the most dan-
gerous nature and ought to be punished in a
most exemplary manner ; but the General
having received a petition from the offenders,
in which it appears they are fully sensible of
their errors, for which they acknowledge it
would be just to punish them, at the same
time plead the disgrace it would bring on
their families, and promising obedience to or-
ders and that they never will for the future
be guilty of any misdemeanor whatever from
these considerations, and from a wish to avoid
punishing if any other means can be found to
reclaim, as well as from the assurance received
from Captain Barnes that they will not be
guilty of the like conduct again, the Gen-
eral is induced for this once to forgive them,

*(0f General Glover.)

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and directs that they be released from their con-
finement, and that they make an acknowledg-
ment to Captain Ball on the parade to-mor-
row morning at Guard mounting, at which
time the 3d Article, 2nd Section, of the Arti-
cles of War will be read to them.

The Gen. begs leave to return his warmest
thanks to Capt. Ball for his spirited and sol-
dierlike conduct in suppressing the mutiny.

PROVIDENCE, 12th Sept., 1778.

Brigade Orders.

Adjutant of the day to-morrow, Smith.
Orderly Sergeant for Head Quarters from Col.
Wigglesworth.

All the men off duty to parade dressed
clean and neat as possible with their arms in
the best order, to attend public worship to-
morrow. The General expaets the officers
will see this order executed.

PROVIDENCE, Sept. 19th, 1778.
Brigade Orders.

* * The Brigade to be paraded to-mor-
row morning, dressed clean to attend Public
Worship.

The gentlemen who can sing are desired to
take the singers' seat in the gallery.

HKAD QUARTERS, PROVIDENCE, )
Sept. 21st, 1778. j

The following resolutions of Congress were
passed at Philadelphia the 9th inst: "That
the retreat made by Gen. Sullivan with the
troops under his command from Rhode Island
was prudent, timely and well conducted, and
the Congress highly approve of the same.
That the thanks of Congress be given to Ma-
jor General Sullivan and to the Officers and
Troops under his Command, for their fortitude
and bravery displayed in the action of the 29th
Aug. in which they repulsed the British for-
ces and maintained the field. That Congress
have a high sense of the patriotic exertions
made by the four Eastern states on the late

expedition against Rhode Island. That Mr.
President be requested to inform the Marquis
de La Fayette that Congress have a due sense
of the sacrifice he made of his personal feel-
ings, in undertaking a journey to Boston with
a view of promoting the interest of these states
at a time when an occasion was daily expect-
ed of his acquiring glory in the field, and that
his gallantry in going on Rhode Island when
the greatest part of the army had retreated, &
his good conduct in bringing off the pickets
and out sentinels, deserve their particular ap-
probation. That Major Morris, Aid de Camp
to Major Gen. Sullivan, who brought forward
to Congress the accounts of the repulse of the
British forces on Rhode Island on the 29th
Aug., and who in the late expedition, as well as
on several other occasions, behaved with great
spirit and good conduct, is promoted to the
rank of Lieut. Col. by brevet." * * *

PROVIDENCE, 27th Sept., 1778.

Brigade Orders.

Adjutant for the day to-morrow, Nazro.

Capt. Peirce's Company of Artillery an-
nexed to the Brigade being the only troops
from the Southward in this department, and
there being no stores provided by the state to
which he belongs to be had here, Mr. Lyman
will deliver to Capt. Peirce and the Company
under his command stores of every species
agreeably to the orders of the 23d. The
troops will have to-day to clean and spruce
themselves up for the review to-morrow, when
the whole off duty will attend with their arms
and accoutrements in the best order.

PROVIDENCE, 9th Oct., 1778.

Brigade Orders.

Daniel Tift, an inhabitant of this town near
the encampment, complains that his woodland
is much damaged by the Soldiers' felling trees,
particularly those of the chesnut kind, which
can only be for the sake of the nuts. The
Commanding Officers of Regts. are called up-
on to put a stop to such base proceedings, and

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at the same time the Soldiers may rest assured
that if any one is detected in the like offence,
he will be brought to the severest punishment.

PROVIDENCE, l'2th March, 1779.
Brigade Orders. Thomas Fosdick Esq.,
late Brigade Major, having at his own request
obtained an honorable discharge from the
army, the Brigadier takes this opportunity to
return his thanks for his long and faithful

services.

HEAD QUARTERS, 18th March, 1779.

After Orders. Brigadier General Varnum
having this day notified the Comraander-in-
Chief that he has transmitted a final resig-
nation of his Commission to Congress, and
that he is under the disagreeable necessity of
quitting the service of the United States :

The General esteems it his duty to return
his sincere and most cordial thanks to Briga-
dier General Varnum for his brave, spirited
and soldierlike conduct while acting under his
immediate command in this department, and
sincerely laments that an officer, who by his
conduct has merited so much from the public,
should be under the disagreeable necessity of
leaving a service where his exertions as an
officer would have been of essential advantage
had he been able to continue in the army.

HEAD QUARTERS, 28th March, 1779.

Parole, France. Countersign, Spain.
Field Officer to-morrow, Colonel Bigelow.

The General being called from this depart-
ment notifies the army that the military com-
mand will devolve on General Glover, after
this day until the arrival of Major General
Gates.

As he purposes setting out on Monday next,
he cannot, in justice to the troops which he
has had the honor to command, quit the de-
partment without returning his most unfeign-
ed thanks to the officers in every department
and to the soldiers for their spirited conduct

and regular behaviour on all occasions ; though
he deeply regrets the necessity which calls
him from them, he is happy to find he is to
be succeeded by an able and experienced offi-
cer, who cannot fail to pay every attention to
troops whose soldierly exertions must endear
them to every Commander. *

5th April, 1779.

Brigade Orders, The General presents
his compliments to the Commissioned and
Staff" Officers of his Brigade and requests the
favor of their company to dine at Hacker's
Hall to-morrow, with the Honorable Major
General Gates.

Dinner at 2 o'clock.

10th April, 1779.

Brigade Orders. The troops to attend
public worship to-morrow afternoon, drest as
clean and neat as possible.

5th May, 1779.

Brigade Orders. Every officer and soldier
off" duty to attend public worship to-morrow
at the Reverend Mr. Manning's meeting-
house .

April 7th, 1779.

List of the Officers of the late Col. Wig-
glesworth's Regiment, now commanded by
Major Porter :

Colonel, (vacant.)
Lt. Colonel, "
Major, John Porter.

Captains.

1, Noah Allen. 4, John K. Smith.

2, Dan'l Pilsbury. 5, Peter Page.

3, Nich's Blasdel. 6, Ebenezer Smith.
Captain Lieutenant, Chris'r Woodbridge.

Lieutenants.

1, Thos. Smart, Pay- 5, Wm.Wiggles-

master. worth.

2, John Fowle, Ad- 6, Leonard Miller.

jutant. 7, Benjamin Dana.

3, Walter Deane. 8, Wm. Greenlief.

4, John Pbelan.

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Ensigns.

1, Ephraim Emery. 5, Wm. Baker.

2, Joseph Trenton. 6, Josiah Miller.

3, Jacob Brown. 7, Ecl'wd Annable.

4, James Greene, <?V

Master.

Surgeon, Ivory Hovey.
Mate, Silas Holbrook.

April 9th, 1779.

List of Officers of Col. Shepard's Regi-
ment, (3d Mass :)
Colonel, Wm. Shepard.
Lieutenant- Colonel, Eben'r Sprout.
Major, Lcbbeus Ball.

Captains.

1, Moses Knapp. 4, Tho. Fish.

2, Isaac Pope. 5, Simon Larned.*

3, Geo. Webb. 6, John Wright.f
Captain-Lieutenant, Wm. Moore 4

Lieutenants.

1, Eben'r Field. 5, Sam'l Snow.

2, Lebbeus Drew. 6, Sam'l Chapin.

3, Eben Holbrook. 7, Edw'd Walker.

4, John Felt. 8, Simeon Spring.

Ensigns.

1, Eben'r Bemus. 6, Benj'n Ray.

2, Haskell Freeman. 7, Thomas Covell.

3, Jabez Bill. 8, Thomas Cole.

4, John Davis. 9, Levi Bradley.

5, John Yeomans.

Surgeon, Pelatiah Warren.
Mate, Eben'r Makepeace.

List of the Officers of Col. Bigelow's
Regiment :

Captains.

1, Adam Martin. 4, Joshua Brown.

2, Joseph Hodgkins. 5, (vacant.)

3, Silvanus Smith. 6, Phineas Bowman.

(* Appointed March 20, 1778, in lieu of Capt.
Keep, resigned.)

Ct Appointed March 20th, 1779, vice Capt. Slay-
ton, resigned.)

( {Vice Captain-Lieutenant Lyman, who has left
the army as a supernumerary.)

VOL. V.

(19)

Captain-Lieutenant, John Peirce.
Lieutenants.

1, Moses Roberts. 5, Abner Dow.

2, Gabriel Houdin. 6, Joseph Brown.

3, (vacant.) 7, Joel Pratt.

4, Wm. Grossman. 8, (vacant )
Surgeon, Jas. E. Finley.

Ensigns.

1, Josiah Washburn. 5, John Porter.

2, John Kennedy. 6, Joshua Peirce.

3, John Stowers. 7, Wm. Bancroft.

4, Henry Marble. 8, Dan'l Symonds.

List of the Officers of Col. Vose's Reg't :

Colonel, Joseph Vose.
Lieutenant- Colonel, Elijah Vose.
Major, Thomas Cogswell.
Surgeon's Mate, Josiah Fiske.
Captains.

1, Moses Ashley. 5, Abra'm Hunt.

2, Nath'l Cushing. 6, Jeremiah Miller,

3, Orringh Stoddard. Paymaster.

4, George Smith.
Captain-Lieutenant, Archelaus Lewis.

Lieutenants.

1, John Mills. 8, Oliver Hunt.

2, Belcher Hancock. 9, John Grace.

3, Francis Greene, 10, Ralph H. Bowles,

4, Alexander Orr. Adjutant.

5, Jesse Hollister. 11, Nath'l Nason.

6, Eben'r Williams. 12, Nath'l Stone.

7, Thomas Cushing.

Ensigns.

1, Benj'n Wells, 3, James Webb.

2, Azariah Egleston, 4, Elisha Gilbert.

Quartermaster. 5, Jonathan Rawson.

List of the Company of Volunteers from
Salem, commanded by Capt. Samuel Flagg :*

* Copied from an old manuscript in the posses-
sion of James Ropes Esq. of Salem a grandson of
Benj. Ropes the first named on the list. Benjamin
Ropes held a commission as " Second Lieutenant
in a company of Matrosses stationed at Salem,
whereof John Symonds is Captain" signed by the
major part of the Council and dated June 21 st, 1 777.

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1, Bcnj'n Ropes. 40, Jona. Tucker.

FAMILY OF JOHN GLOVER.

2, George Smith. 41, Daniel Cheever.

The following materials were obtained from

3, Caleb Smith. 42, Benj'n Peters.
4, David Boyce. 43, Sam'l Tucker.

the Records of Essex County and of Salem

5, Win. Gerald. 44, Ezekiel Wellman.

and Marblehead :

6, Simon Gardner. 45, Robert Peele.

FIRST GENERATION.

7, John Chamber- 46, Ellis Mansfield.

JOHN Glover married Mary Guppy of

lain. 47, Nathan Peirce.
8, Benj. Hathorne. 48, Aaron Waitt.
9, Win. Lang. 49, Robert Cook.

Salem, Jan. 2nd, 1660, died May 1695.
Will proved May 13th, 1695.

10, Joseph Young. 50, Sam'l Ropes.

SECOND GENERATION.

11, Geo Williams. 51, Win. Osborne.

Children of John and Mary were :

12, Jona. Peele. 52, Asa Peirce.
13, Jona. Gardner. 53, John Barr.

JOHN, born 29th 6 mo. 1661, died Nov.

14, Jacob Ashton. 54, Josiah Austin.

1736.
\

15, Barth'w Putnam. 55, John Page.

WILLIAM, born March 15th, 1663, died

16, Sam'l Ward. 56, Benj'n Cloutman.

Dec. 1700.

17, Geo. Dodge. 57, Jerath'l Peirce.

MARY, born 1st 3 mo. 1666, married Dan-

18, Benj. Goodhue. 58, James Eaton.

19, Francis Cabot, 59, James Bott

iel Grant.

20, Win. Orne. 60, Benj'n Fry.

21, Ed'd Norris. 61, Isaac Needham.

Skinner, died before 1737.

22, Benj'n Daland. 62, Thos. Needham.

HANNAH, born 24th 4 mo., 1670, married

23, Abijah Northey. 63, Zach. Burchmore.
24, Sara'l Grant. ' 64, Sam'l Webb.
25, John Fisk. 65, Eben Peirce.

Peter (?) Henderson, Apr. 2nd, 1687.
BENJAMIN, born 28th Mar. 1674.

26, Simon Forrester. 66, Beuj'n Warren.

JONATHAN,* born April 1677, married Ab-

27, Fran's B. Dennis 67, James Walker.
28, Sam'l Blyth. 68, Jos. Mansfield.
29, Joshua Dodge. 69, Eben. Porter.

* Savage, in his Genealogical Dictionary, says,
" perhaps Jonathan " probably because in Vol. 1st.,

30, Jona. Haraden. 70, Daniel Peirce.

Page 13, Salem Records of Births &c., there is a

31, David Ropes. 71, Henry Higginson.
32, Jos. Chipman. Officers 3

list of the children of John and Mary Glover, in
which Jonathan is not mentioned. Bat by refer-

33, Geo. Abbot. Surgeon

ring to Vol. 20, leaf 132, O. S., Essex Co. Pro-

34, Joshua Ward. Waggoner

bate Records, it will be seen that there can be no

DO
Q\ "Rarn*n TVTr\AQ

doubt on this point. Administration is there gran-

OtJ) JJC1J J 11 -L'-lUicL-o.

36, Josiah Dewing.

ted, Nov. 27th, 1736, upon the estate of John ("the

37, John Andrew. John Felt

first son of John and Mary) to Joseph and David

38 Jas W Gould

Glover (who were children of Jonathan,) and in

'*' ' M tlo. TT VJVJU1U.

39, Sam'l Phippen.

the account returned by them the deceased is des-

Sam'l Flagg, Captain,
Miles Greenwood, 1st Lieutenant.

cribed as their uncle. Besides this there is given,
on the same leaf, dated January 6th, 1736, a list

Robert Foster, 2d "

of the distributees of the estate (brothers and sis-

Jona.' Waldo.

ters of the deceased) as follows :

Nath'l Ropes, Jr.

- *

" The Representatives of Jonathan Glover.
Ebenezer Glover.

Francis Clarke.

Mary Grant.

Jos. Lambert.

Hannah Henderson.

Jona. Mansfield Jr.

The Representatives of Sarah Glover alias Skin-

Joseph Hiller.

ner. "

By this list it appears that John, William and

* See Salem Gazette July 22, 1859.

Benjamin had died leaving no children.

131

igail Henderson (who was born Oct. 1676)
March 31st, 1697, died March 1736.

EBENEZER, born Apr. 13th, 1685, married
Rebecca Sterns, Sept., 1706.

THIRD GENERATION.

Children of Daniel and Mary (Glover)
Grant were:

ROBERT, born Oct. 31st, 1693.

MATTHEW, born May 20th, 1695.

DANIEL, born March 10th, 1696-7.

JAMES, born Feb. 3d, 1698-9.

Children of Peter and Hannah (Glover)
Henderson were :

HANNAH, born Mar. 3d, 1689-90.

MARY, born Apr. 12th, 1692.

PETER, born Feb. 4th, 1693-4.

JOHN, born Nov. 7th, 1695.

SARAH, born Mar. 27th 1698.

DANIEL, born Sept. 24th, 1700.

EUNICE, bom June 5th, 1702.

Lois, born Oct. 22, 17

WILLIAM, born Jan. 18th, 17

Children of Jonathan and Abigail (Hen-
derson) Glover were:

ABIGAIL, born Nov. 23d, 1698, married
Wm. Meservey, March 1st 1722.

MARY, born January 18th, 1701, married
Zack Burchmore April 26th, 1723.

JONATHAN, born December 14th, 1702,
married Tabitha Bacon* of Salem, February
23d, 1726-7, died in August 1737.

BENJAMIN, born September 7th, 1704,
married Susannah Needham, April 6th, 1727,
died in July, 1755.

JOSEPH, born June 27th, 1706, died Dec.
1747.

DAVID, born Jan. 9th, 1708, died 1746
leaving a son, David, who was born in 1734.

* (Tabitha was born in 1709 and died in Mar-
blebead Marcb 7th, 1785. Her 2nd husband was
Thos. Jillings of Newbury.)

Children of Ebenezer and Rebecca (Sterns)
Glover were :

MARGARET, born Dec. 20th, 1707.

HANNAH, born Sept. 25th, 1708.

EBENEZER, born Feb. 5th, 1711-12, died
Aug. 12th, 1712.

JOHN, born Sept, 25th, 1713, died Feb.
21st, 1714-15.

EBENEZER, born April 21st, 1715.

FOURTH GENERATION.

Children of Jonathan and Tabitha (Ba-
con) Glover were :

JONATHAN, born (June 13th,) 1731, mar-
ried Abigail Burnham of Marblehead, Oct.
10th, 1748.

SAMUEL, born (June 13th,) 1731, married
Mary Andrews of Marblehead August 20th,
1751, died in 1762.

JOHN, born Nov. 5th, 1732, married Han-
nah Gale of Marblehead, Oct. 30th, 1754,
died Jan. 30th 1797. Hannah Gale was
born in June 1733, and died Nov. 13th,
1778. John afterwards married Mrs. Fran-
ces Fosdick.

DANIEL, born Jan. 1734, married Hannah
Jillings of Newbury, Dec. 1st, 1757.

Children of Benjamin and Susannah (Need-
ham) Glover were:
John (died in 1758.)
William, Peter,
Jonathan (died in 1788.)
Ichabod, Abigail and Priscilla,

FIFTH GENERATION.

Children of John* and Hannah (Gale)
Glover were :

JOHN, born March 23d, 1756, married
Fanny Lee ; had one child, Fanny.

HANNAH, born May 15th, 1757, died in
infancy.

* ("The subject of this memoir.)

132

DANIEL, born April 8th, 1759, died in in-
fancy.

HANNAH, born April 19th 1761, married
Richard Cowell, had 7 children, Richard,
John, Rebecca, William, Ovid, Hector and
Hannah.

SAMUEL, born Dec. 19th, 1762, married
Martha Boden, and for 2nd wife Betsy Skil-
lings ; had 3 children Jonas, Eliza and Sam-
uel.

JONAS, born April 1st, 1764, married
Sally Peirce, had John, Hannah and Sally.

TABITHA, born Dec. 8th 1765, married
William Brooks of Exeter.

SOSANNAH, born March 28th 1767, mar-
ried Capt. Nicholson Broughton, had Susan,
Nicholson, John, Norman and Glover.

MARY, born Jan. 8th 1769, died April
14th, 1850; married Robert Hooper (who was
born February 3, 1766,) December llth,
1788; had 13 children, Robert born Nov.
16th 1790, John born July 4th 1792, died
Sept. 14th 1793, John born Feb. 4th 1794,
died April 8th 1851, William born Dec. 1st
1795, died March 9th 1828, Mary born June
llth 1797, Nathaniel born Jan. 5th 1799,
died July 3d 1801, Susan born Oct. 19th
1800, Henry born July 3d 1802, Nathaniel
born Aug. 25th 1804, died Nov. 21st 1805,
Nathaniel born Sept. 30th 1806, died Sept.
3d, 1859, Samuel born May 14th 1808,
died Oct. 18th 1843, Hannah born June
26, 1810, Benjamin Franklin born April 6th,
1814, died March 6th 1842.

SARAH, born Feb. 10th 1771, married Sam-
uel Lewis, had one child Elizabeth. Sarah
afterwards married Walter Phillips, of Lynn.

JONATHAN, born May 9th 1773, died un
married.

A COPY OF THE FIRST BOOK OF
BIRTHS, OF THE TOWN OF ROW-
LEY, WITH NOTES.

COMMUNICATED BY M. A. STICKNEY.

Continued from vol. 6, page 16.

1726-7-8.

Elizabeth Boynton daughter of Joseph &
Bridgit born November ye second day 1714.

John Dickinson son of John and Susan-
nah his wife b wn Feberewary ye eleventh
day 1727-8.

Jeremiah Hazen son of John and Sarah his
wife born Feberaway ye twenty ninth day
1716.

Sarah Hazen daughter of John and Sarah
his wife born March ye seventeeth day 1718-
19.

Jane Hazen daughter of John & Sarah his
wife born June ye seventeenth day 1723.

Thomas Nellson son of Samuel & Anne his
wife born Apriel ye ninth day 1727.

Edward Hazen son of Samuel & Sarah his
wife born May ye twenty sixth day 1724.

Samuel Hazen son of Samuel and Sarah
his wife born January the thirty first day
1726-7.

Mary Creecy daughter of Samuel and Ma-
ry his wife born June ye thirtieth day 1727.

Moses Clark son of Jonathan and Jane
his wife born December the second day 1727.

Francis Pengrey son of Job and Elizabeth
his wife born August the sixth day 1728.

Lydia Pickard daughter of Moses & Lyd-
ia his wife born May the twenty second day
1728.

David Hammond son of David & Mary his
wife borne August ye seventeenth day Anno
Dom 1720.

133

Sarah Hammond daughter of David and
Mary his wife born Feberewary ye fifteenth
day Anno 1727-8.

Mary Payson daughter of Mr. Samuel
Payson and Mrs Mary his wife born Febe-
wary the twentyth day 1727-8

William Price son of William and Sarah
his wife born May the thirty first 1728.

Eliphelet Payson son of Eliphelet and Ed-
nah his wife born Apriel ye twenty ninth
day 1728.

John Hobson son of Moses and Lidia his
wife born November ye twenty fiveth day
Anno 1728.

Margret Elsworth daughter of Jeremiah
and Hannah his wife born June ye twelfth
day Anno Dom 1726.

Nathanael Ellsworth son of Jeremiah and
Hannah his wife born Febwary ye eighteenth
day Anno Dom 1728-9.

Ebenezer Stewart son of Richard and Ju-
dah his wife born January ye third day
Anno Dom 1728-9.

Jonathan Bradstreet son of Jonathan and
Sarah his wife born Febr. the eleventh day
Anno Dom 1719-20.

Sarah Bradstreet daugter of Jonathan &
Sarah his wife born January ye eleventh day
Anno Dom 1726-7.

Ednah Pickard daughter of Francis and
Ednah his wife born December ye twenty-
sixth day Anno Dom 1728.

John Pen-son son of John & Ruth his wife
born Apriel ye twenty-second day Anno Dom
1729.

Elizebeth Sticknee daughter of Samuel
and Susanah born March ye twenty-second
day 1729.

William Brown son of Joseph & Abgal
his wife born November ye third day Anno
Dom 1726.

Margret Wood daughter of Thomas & Sa-
rah his wife born July the fiveteen day An-
no Dom 1725.

Gibbins Jewett son of Joseph and Mary
his wife born Apriell the sixth day Anno
Dom 1729.

Ruth Tenne daughter of William and Ab-
igail his wife born July ye twenty-eight day
Anno Dom 1728.

David Brocklebank son of John and Ruth
his wife born March ye fourth day Anno Dom
1723-4.

Sarah Brocklebank daughter of John and
Ruth his wife born March ye twelft day
Anno Dom 1727.

Jane Boynton ye daughter of David and
Love his wife born December ye twentyth
day Anno Dom 1728.

John Chapman son of Edward and Ruth
his wife born January ye second day Anno
Dom 1728-9

John Palmer son of John and Mary his
wife born November ye thirtyth day Anno
Dom 1729.

Prisila Burpee daughter of Ebenezer and
Meriam his wife born Jane wary ye eight-
eenth day 1728-9.

Jane Heriman daughter of John & Jane
his wife born June ye twenty fourth day An-
no Dom 1729.

Jedediah Bayley son of John and Elizabeth
his wife born October the thirty first day
Anno Dom 1729.

Rebecah Plummer daughter of John and
Rebecah his wife born November the fourth
day Anno Dom 1728.

Mark Plummer son of John and Rebekah
his wife born Febreway the twenty fourth
day Anno Dom 1729-30.

Aaron Pengree son of Job and Elizabeth

134

his wife born March ye twenty second day
1729-30.

Sarah Price daughter of William and Sa-
rah his wife born May the twenty th day An-
no Dom 1730.

William Todd son of Daniel and Mary his
wife born December the twelft day Anno
Dom 1729.

Humphrey Sanders son of Edward and
Elizabeth his wife born October the seventh
day Anno Dom 1728.

Sarah Todd the daughter of Jonathan and
Hannah his wife born March ye sixteenth
day Anno Dom 1729-30.

Sarah Chapman daughter of Edward and
Euth his wife born June the twentyth day
Anno Dom 1730.

Lydia Thurstain daughter of Jonathan
and Lydia his wife born Apriell ye first day
1730.

Hannah Russell daughter of Daniell and
Mehitable his wife born June the first day
1730.

Elizabeth Perley daughter of David and
Elizabeth his wife born May the twenty fifth
day 1730.

Stephen Addams son of William and Eliz-
abeth his wife born Febereway the twenty
seventh day 1728-9.

Moses Dickinson son of Thomas & Eliza-
beth his wife born October the eleventh day
1729.

Hannah Cooper daughter of Leonard and
Sarah his wife born Apriell ye seventh day
1730.

Lidia Pickard daughter of Moses & Lidia
his wife born July the eleventh day 1730.

Elizabeth Jewett daughter of John and
Elizabeth his wife born May the third day
Anno Dom 1730.

Moses Cooper son of Moses and Phebe his
wife born August the eighteenth day 1730.

Samuel Hobson son of Humphrey and Me-
hetable his wife born October the twenty
first day 1728.

Daniel Sticknee son of Samuel and Susan-
ah his wife born Apriel the fifth day 1730.

Lucy Pickard daughter of Jonathan & Jo-
hanah his wife born October the second day
1730.

Elizabeth Payson daughter of David and
Elizabeth born Febereway ye second day
1728.

Ednah Jewett daughter of George and
Hannah his wife born July ye thirteenth
day 1730.

Joshua Pickard son of Jonathan and Jo-
hannah his wife born November ye twenty-
seventh day 1730.

Marcy Gage daughter of William & Mar-
cy his wife born Febereway the fourteenth
day 1722-3.

Nathanael Gage son of William & Mary
his wife born May the third day 1726.

David Perrson son of David and Jane his
wife born August the twenty-second day
1728.

Moses Addams son of John and Sarah his
wife born November the seventh day 1730.

Jeminah Jewett daughter of Samuel and
Jeminah his wife born November ye second
day 1730.

Nathan Burpee son of Thomas & Mary
born July ye twenty-third day 1730.

Sarah Jackson daughter of Joshua and
Sarah his wife born March ye thirteenth day
Anno Dom 1728-9.

Marcy Jackson daughter of Joshua and
Sarah his wife born Feberewary the twelft
day Anno 1730-31

Ebenezer Burpee son of Ebenezer and

135

Merriam his wife born January the four-
teenth day Anno Dom 1730-31.

John Johnson son of John and Susanah
his wife born Febrewary ye twenty-third
day Anno Dom 1727-8.

Hanah Johnson daughter of John and Su-
sanah his wife born June ye twenty-ninth
day Anno Dom 1730.

Jeremiah Burpee son of Jonathan and
Hannah his wife born May the twenty-first
day Anno Dom 1726.

David Burpee son of Jonathan and Me-
hetable his wife born March the twenty-
sixth day Anno Dom 1731.

Moses Lull son of Thomas & Hannah his
wife born June the third day Anno Dom
1730.

Sarah Palmer daughter of Francis and
Elizabeth his wife born October ye thirteenth
day 1728.

Patience Palmer daughter of Francis and
Elizabeth his wife born May the eleventh
day 1730.

Elizabeth Plummer daughter of Daniel &
Abigal his wife born May the 18th day 1728.

Daniel Plummer son of Daniel & Abigail
his wife born January ye twenty-second day
1729-30.

Abigail Wheler daughter of John and Ab-
igail his wife born August ye twenty-fourth
day 1731.

Nathan Frazer son of Nathan and Jane
his wife born August the twenty-third day
Anno Dom 1731.

Samuel Emison son of Samuel and Sarah
his wife born Feberewary the twenty-eight
day 1729-30.

lines Tennee daughter of William and
Mehetable his wife born May ye twentyeth
day 1730.

Jeremiah Poor son of Benjamin & Eliza-
beth his wife born June the sixth day 1729.

Abigail Poor daughter of Benjamin and
Elizebeth his wife born June ye sixth day
1721.

Daniel Poor son of Benjamin and Eliz-
ebeth his wife born Juue ye twenty-ninth
day 1723.

Benjamin Poor son of Benjamin & Eliza-
beth his wife born January ye sixth day
1727-8.

Henry Poor son of Benjamin and Elize-
beth his wife born January ye twenty-third
day 1731-2.

Joseph Stell son of Joseph and Sarah his
wife borne November ye twenty-first day
Anno Dom 1731.

John Heirman son of John & Jane his wife
born October the seventeenth day Anno Dom
1731.

Wm Wheeler son of Jonathan & Anne
his wife born August the sixth day Anno
Dom 1731.

John Bounton son of Jonathan and Marg-
ret his wife born May the twenty-second
day Anno Dom 1723.

Anne Boynton daughter of Jonathan &
Margret his wife born October the twenty-
ninth day Anno Dom 1726.

Prissila Todd daughter of Abnar & Ab-
igail his wife born January ye sixteenth
1724-5.

Samuel Hobson son of .Moses & Lydiahis
wife born July the fifth day Anno Dom
1731.

Nathan Hale son of Moses & Elizabeth his
wife born January yo twenty second day 1729-
30.

Moses Hall son of Moses and Elizabeth his
wife born Febrewary 1731-2.

136

Mary Thurstain daughter of Jonathan and
Lydia his wife born Febreway ye twenty sev-
enth day 1731-2.

Asa Pengree son of Job and Elizabeth his
wife born Apriel the sixth day 1732.

Hannah Pickard daughter of Moses and
Lydia his wife born August the fourth day
1732.

Mehitable Heritnon daughter of Nathanael
and Mehitable his wife born March the tenth
day 1727.

Samuel Heriman son of Nathanael & Me-
hitable his wife born May the twenty third
day 1732.

Elizabeth Boynton daughter of Richard &
Jerusha his wife born Apriel the eighteenth
day Anno Dom 1731.

Benjamin Sawyer son of Ezckiel and Me-
hitable his wife born December the twenty
eight day Anno Dom 1731.

Nathan Burpee son of Samuel & Elizabeth
his wife born Apriell the seventeenth day An-
no Dom 1731.

Hannah Burpee daughter of Samnel an^
Elizabeth his wife born July the twenty sev-
enth day Anno Dom 1732.

Benjamin Stewart son of Sollomon & Mar-
tha his wife born January the 26th day An-
no Dom 1727-8.

Solomon Stewart son of Solomon & Martha
his wife born January the fourteenth day An-
no Dom 1729-30.

Phinias Stewart son of Solomon and Mar-
tha his wife born March the twenty seventh
Anno Dom 1732.

Elizabeth Perley daughter of David and
Elizabeth his wife born October the thirteenth
day Anno Dom 1732.

Priscilla Cooper daughter of Moses and
Phebo his wife born June the sixteenth day
1732.

James Tenne son of John & Sarah his wife
born June the eight day Anno Dom 1728.

John Bayley son of John and Elizabeth his
wife born August the eight day Anno Dom
1732.

John Tennee son of John & Sarah his
wife born Feberewary the sixteenth day An-
no Dom 1732-3.

Joseph Spafford son of Jonathan & Jemi-
mah his wife born July ye twenty-ninth day
Anno Dom 1720.

Jacob Spaffcrd son of Jonathan & Jemi-
nah bis wife born August the seventeenth day
Anno Dom 1722.

Dorkins Spofford daughter of Jonathan &
Jcminah his wife born September ye nine-
teenth day 1724.

Job Spafford son of Jonathan & Jeminah
his wife born December ye twenty first day
1726.

Jonah Spafford son of Jonathan & Jemi-
nah his wife born Apriell the nineteenth day
1729.

Moses Spafford son of Jonathan & Jemi-
nah his wife born January ye nineteenth day
1731.

Hannah Northend daughter of Ezekicl &
Elizabeth his wife born July ye twenty ninth
day 1728.

Susannah Pillsbery daughter of Amos &
Elizabeth his wife born December ye fifteenth
day 1729.

Dummer Jewett son of the Reverend Mr.
Jedediah Jewett & Mrs. Elizabeth his wife
born Apriell the twenty fifth day Anno Dom
1732.

John Blasdal son of Abigah and Mary his
wife born September the eight day Anno Dom
1729.

Hannah Blasdal daughter of Abigah and

137

Mary his wife born August the thirteenth day
Anno Dom 1731.

Mehitable Blasdal daughter of Abijah and
Mary his wife born October ye seventeenth
day Anno Dom 1732.

Joseph Stewart son of Richard & Judith
his wife born August the fifth day Anno Dom
1731.

Jacob Perrson son of Jedediah and Sarah
his wife born November ye twentyeth day
1732.

Noys Addams son of John and Jane his
wife born June the twenty-first day 1731.

Elisebeth Poor daughter of Samuel & Elis-
ebeth his wife born August ye fifteenth day
1731.

William Wheler son of Jonathan and Ann
his wife born August the sixt day 1732.

Hannah Tenne daughter of William &
Mehetable his wife born June the fifteenth
day 1732.

Elizebeth Sticknee daughter of Samuel &
Susanah his wife born Apriell ye fourth day
Anno Dom 1733.

Nathan Frazer son of Nathan & Jane his
wife born November the twenty-fourth day
1732.

Jemima Spafford daughter of Jonathan &
Jemimah his wife born May ye thirteth day
Anno Dom 1733.

Hannah Payson daughter of Mr Samuel
Payson and Mary his wife born June the
fourth day 1733.

Jonathan Fowler son of Phillip and Mar-
gret his wife born March the twenty-sixth day
1733.

Mercy Boynton daughter of Ebenzer and
Sarah his wife born June the fifteenth day
1722.

Caleb Boynton son of Ebenezer and Sarah
(20)

his wife born May the eighteenth day 1724.

Mark Plats son of James and Hannah his
wife born December ye eleventh day 1722.

Mercy Plats daughter of James & Mercy
his wife born November the tenth day 1726.

James Plats son of James and Mercy his
wife born Feberey the sixth day 1727-8.

Hannah Plats daughter of James & Mer-
cy his wife born November the eight day
1729.

Judith Plats daughter of James & Mer-
cy his wife born January the eight day
1731-2.

Samuel Hedden son of Eben and Mehet-
able his wife born Apriell the thirteenth day
1733.

Sarah Perrson daughter of John and lluth
his wife born August the twenteth day An-
no Dom 1733.

Daniel Hobson son of Moses and Lydia
his wife born September the second day An-
no Dom 1732.

Dority Pickard daughter of Francis & Ed-
nah his wife born October ye fifth day An-
no Dom 1730.

Mercy Boynton daughter of Ebenezer &
Sarah his wife born June the fifteenth day
1722.

Caleb Boynton son of Ebenezer & Sarah
his wife born May the eighteenth day 1724.

Mark Plats son of James & Hannah his
wife born December ye eleventh day 1722.

Mercy Plats daughter of James & Mercy
his wife born November the tenth day 1726.

James Plats son of James and Mercy his
wife born Febereuary the sixth day 1727-8.

Hannah Plats daughter of James & Mer-
cy his wife born November the eighth day
1729.

Judeth Plats daughter of James & Mercy
his wife born January the eighth day 1732-
3.

138

Joseph Dole son of Enoch & Rachel his
wife born December the eighth day 1732.

Ammos Dole son of Enoch & Eachel his
wife born January ye eleventh day 1733-4.

Richard Boynton son of Richard and Je-
rusha his wife born May the twenty second
day 1733.

Joshua Jackson son of Joshua and Sarah
his wife born June the twentieth day Anno
Dora 1733.

Benjamin Thirston son of Jonathan & Li-
dia his wife born Febr. the third day Anno
Dom 1733 4.

Hepsibah Poor daughter of Samuel and
Elizabeth his wife born July the sixteenth
day Anno Dom 1733.

Hannah Payson daughter of Mr. Samuel
& Mrs. Mary his wife born June the fourth
Anno Dom 1733.

Elizabeth Lambert daughter of Thomas
& Elizabeth his wife born December the
third day Anno Dom 1 732.

Hannah Stickney daughter of Samuel &
Faith his wife born March the twenty-fifth
day Anno Dom 1 734.

Elizabeth Stickney daughter of Benjamin
and Elizabeth his wife born May the twenty-
fifth day Anno Dom 1733.

Hannah Hodgkins daughter of John and
Hannah his wife born September ye twenty-
fifth day Anno Dora 1732.

Hannah Hovey daughter of Samuel and
Mary his wife born Feberewary ye twenty-
seventh day 1733-4.

James Dresser son of John and Hannah
his wife born Febrewary the second day An-
no Dom 1724-5.

Moses Dresser son of John & Hannah his
wife born September the eleventh day 1726.

Hannah Dresser daughter of John and
Hannah his wife born September ye twenty-
sixth day 1728.

Sarah Dresser daughter of John & Han-
nah his wife born Feberewary the fourteenth
day 1730-1.

Elizabeth Dresser daughter of John and
Hannah his wife born July (he twenteth
day Anno Dora 1733.

Moses Northend son of Samuel and Mary
his wife born January the twenty-first day
Anno Dom 1731-2.

John Northend son of Samuel & Mary his
wife born Apriell the thirteenth day Anno
Dom 1734.

Moses Hobson son of Moses & Lydia his
wife borne May the thirteth day Anno Dom
1734.

William Sanders son of Edward & Elize-
beth his wife born October the twenty-first
day Anno Dom 1733.

Margret Hazen daughter of Samuel and
Sarah his wife born January ye twenty-third
day Anno Dom 1729-30.

Sarah Hazen daughter of Samuel and Sa-
rah his wife born Apriell the Ninth day An-
no Domini 1731.

Benjamin Hazen son of Samuel and Sa-
rah his wife born Apriell the twenty-second
day Anno Dom 1734.

Susanah Creecy daughter of Samuel and
Mary his wife born August the fifteenth day
Anno Dora 1733.

Jane Payson daughter of Eliphelet and
Ednah his wife born December the fifteenth
day Anno Dom 1730.

Mark Payson son of Eliphelet and Ednah
his wife born September the twenty-third
day 1733.

Hannah Barrit daughter of Samuel &
Lidia his wife born October the thirteth day
Anno Dom 1734.

Joseph Chapman son of Edward and Sa-
rah his wife born July the tenth day Anno
Domini 1734.

139

Ephraim Hedden son of Eben and Mehet-
able his wife born December the fifteenth
day Anno Dom 1734.

Prisila Downing daughter of Jonathan &
Sarah his wife born December the twenty-
second day 1731.

Jonathan Downing son of Jonathan & Sa-
rah his wife born January the sixth day An-
no Dom 1733-4.

Anne Oreecy daughter of John and Sarah
his wife born January the twenty-fourth day
Anno Dom 1727-8.

Sarah Creecy daughter of John and Sarah
his wife born A! arch the eight day Anno
Dom 1729-30.

John Creccy son of John and Sarah his
wife born Apriel the fourth day Anno Dom
1781.

Mark Creecy son of John & Sarah his wife
born January the eighteenth day 1733-4.

Hannah Jewett daughter of George and
Hannah his wife born May the tenth day
Anno Dom 1732.

Mary Jewett daughter of George and Han-
uah his wife born September the eleventh
day 1734.

John Sawyer son of Rzekiel and Mehita-
ble his wife born March the sixteenth day
Anno Dom 1733-4.

Amos Pickard son of Moses and Lydia his
wife born March the twenty eight day 1735.

Mary Thurstain daughter of Richard and
Mehitable his wife born October ye twenty
sixth day 1 734.

Solomon Frazer son of Nathan and Jane
his wife born Fcbreuary the eighteenth day

1734-5.

Clamons Pengrcy son of Job and Elizebeth
his wife born Apriel ye eighteenth day Anno
Dom 1735.

Jonathan Bayley son of John and Eliza-

(20)

beth his wife born June the first day Anno
Dom 1735.

Sarah Dresser daughter of Samuel & Dor-
othy his wife born July the fourteenth day
Anno Dom 1735.

Mary Hovey daughter of Samuel and Ma-
ry his wife born September the eight day
Anno Dom 1735.

Ednah Plummer daughter of Benjamin
Jane his wife born July the fifteenth day

1723.

David Plummer son of Benjamin & Jane
his wife born November the ninth day 1725.

Anne Plummer daughter of Benjamin and
Jane his wife born May the fifth 1730.

Francis Johnson son of Daniel and Han-
nah his wife born October ye twenty ninth
day 1726.

Judah Johnson son of Daniel and .Hannah
his wife born November ye sixteenth day
1729.

Joram Johnson son of Daniel and Hannah
his wife born October ye seventeenth day
1731.

Obediah Johnson son of Daniel and Han-
nah his wife born October the ninth day
1733.

Isaiah Johnson son of Daniel and Han-
nah his wife born October ye seventeenth
day 1735.

John Lull son of John and Susannah his
wife born November the ninth day 1728.

Lydia Lull daughter o; John and Susan-
nah his wife born December ye twentyth day
1730.

Nuthanael Lull son of John and Susannah
his wife born July the twenty fifth day 1732.

Sarah Lambert daughter of Thomas & Eliz-
abeth his wife born September the twenteth
day 1735.

140

Elizabeth Cooper daughter of Moses and
Phebe his wife born October the 18th 1734.

Hannah Jackson daughter of Joshua and
Hannah his wife born October the twenty-
ninth day 1735.

Samuel Heriman son of Samuel and Jane
his wife born Febreuary the twenty third day
1731-2.

Jane Heriman daughter of Samuel and
Jane his wife born November the tenth day
1733.

Dudley Heriman son of Samuel and Jane
his wife born March the ninth day 1734-5.

Margret Heriman daughter of Nathaniel
& Mehetable his wife born February ye twen-
ty third day 1734-5.

Moses Hobson son of Moses and Lidia his
wife born December the fourteenth day 1735.

Anne Jewett daughter of Aquila and Mar-
tha his wife born October the sixth day 1725.

Stephen Jewett son of Aquila and Martha
his wife born December the twenty eight day
1727.

Rebeckah Jewett daughter of Aquila and
Martha his wife born August the twenty sev-
enth day 1731.

Prissila Jewett daughter af Aquila and
Martha his wife born May the twenty first day
1733.

John Kindrick son of John and Francis
his wife born March the seventh day Anno
Dora 1706.

Lidia Kindrick daughter of John and Fran-
cis his wife born March ye fifth day 1709.

Samuel Kinrick son of John and Francis
his wife born September the third day 1712.

Samuel Creecy son of Samuel and Mary
his wife born January the sixth day Anno
Dom 1735.

Dorithy Jewett daughter of ye Reverend
Mr. Jewett & Elizabeth his wife born May
ye second day 1730.

Jeremiah Nellson son of Jeremiah and Ma-
ry his wife born Febereuary ye fifth day An-
no Dom 1734.

Hannah Nellson daughter of Jeremiah and
Mary his wife born March the sixteenth day
1735.

Joseph Plats son of Abell and Mary his
wife born Feberuary the nineteenth day 1726.

Mary Plats daughter of Abell and Mary
his wife born Feberuary the second day 1728.

Ruth Plats daughter of Abell and Mary
his wife born September ye thirteth day 1729.

Abell Plats son of Abell and Mary his
wife born May the thirty-first day 1735.

Jeremiah Dickinson son of George and Sa-
rah his wife born December the sixteenth
day 1736.

Prisila Jewett daughter of Eliphlet and
Ruth his wife born August the twelfth day
Anno Dom 1736.

Price Hedden son of Eben and Mehetable
his wife born December the thirteenth day
Anno Dom 1736.

Moses Jewett son of Mark and Mary his
wife born January the twenty-ninth day An-
no Dom 1737.

(To be Continued.)

ABSTRACTS FROM WILLS, INVEN-
TORIES, &c., ON FILE IN THE
OFFICE OF CLERK OF COURTS,
SALEM, MASS.

COPIED BY IRA J. PATCH.

Continued from Vol. V, page 94.

Benjamin Chad-well 7 mo 1690.
" I Elizabeth Jewett of Ipswich haveing
lost my elder son Benjamin Chadwcll by name
who went ship carpenter in the brigantinc
called Samuell with Mr. John Robinson of
Boston who went master of said brigantinc.

141

I the abovesaid Elizabeth Jewit being ye said
Benjamin Chadwells own mother desier ye
Court to grant administration unto my hus-
band John Jewitt as witness my hand in the
year 1691 June the thirteth day."

signed Eliz

Jewett her marke at County Court at Ips,
1691 administration granted as above.

James Chute 7 mo 1691.

Inventory of estate of James Chute taken
August 1691 by Jno Haniford and John
Harris Junior, amounting to 70 returned by
James Chute son of deceased Nov 3d 1691,
who is appointed admr.

Josiah Clarke 7 mo 1691.

Inventory of estate of Josiah Clarke of Ip-
swich who died 27 September 1691, taken
3d November 1691 by Samuel Appleton Jr
and John Waite amounting to 98 9s 3d
returned Nov 3 1691 by Joseph Boynton
and Caleb Boynton of Rowley who arc admrs,
and brothers of said Clark's widow.

Thos Hobbs 7 mo 1691.

"The inventory of the goods of Thomas
Hobs latlyc desessed hwo dwelt within ye
Township of \yenham yc 26 of May 1691."
taken by Richard Hutton and John Gilbert
amounting 60 Is 2d returned by Jonathan
Hobs admr Sept 29 1691.

Mark HaskeU 7 mo 1691.

Inventory of estate of Mark Haskcll of
Gloucester who died yc 8 of September 1691,
taken by William Goodhue Junior and Ja-
cob Davis amounting to 200 6d returned by
Elizabeth Haskcll admx, November 3, 1691,

Abel Plats 1 mo 1691.

Inventory of estate of Leit Abell Platts of

Rowley who died in ye Canada voyage taken

28 5mo 1691 by Ezckiel Northend, Samuel

Plats and Nehemiah Jewett amounting to

361 16s 6d returned by Lydia his widow
who is appointed admx, 9 mo 3 1691. The
deposition of Daniel Wicom aged 50 years
and Samuel Plats aged 44 years, 3 9 mo

1691.

Moses Pearce 1 mo 1691.

Inventory of estate of Moses Pearce of Ip-
swich taken 14 April 1691 by Phillip Fow-
ler, Jno Haniford and Nathaniel Knowlton
amounting to 124 12s 5d, returned by Ja-
cob Foster exor 9 mo 3 1691.

William Searl 7 mo 1691.

Inventory of estate of William Searl of
Rowley deceased the 7th 9 mo 1690, taken
2d 9 mo 1691 by John Haniford and John
Caldwell Junr. amounting to 10 5s re-
turned by John Harris admr. 3d 9 mo 1691,
James Smith 7 mo 1691.

Inventory of estate of Lieut James Smith
who deceased November 1, 1690 being cajrt
away on Cape Breton on the Canada expedi-
tion, taken March 23 1690, by Caleb Moody
and Joseph Coker returned Nov 3 1691 by
the widow and son of said deceased who are
admrs.

Samuel Searl 7 mo 169L

Inventory of estate of Samuel Searl of
Rowley deceased April 7th 1691, taken 1691
amounting to 38 13s 9<1, returned by Deb-
orah ye admx also a list of debts due from
the estate 44 5s, 3 9 mo 1691.
John Silver 7 mo 1691.

Inventory of estate of John Silver of Row-
ley taken April 28 1691 by John Wicom and
Benjamin Pearson amounting to 6 9s re-
turned 3d 9 mo 1691, by Thomas and Samu-
el Silver admrs.

Thomas Sumner 7 mo 1691.

Petition of Robert Coates Sr of Lynn and
Jane Coates his wife and daughter of George
Sumner who died by Small Pox some forty

142

years since in Rowley, for administration of
estate of Thomas Sumner her brother who
married and died without issue, his wife is al-
so dead she having married twice, and said
Jane is the only heir living, she being about
ten years old when her father died. To the
Court to be held 1st Tuesday November 1691.

Inventory of above estate amounting to
106 returned by Robert Coates administra-
tor, 3d November, 1691.

The depositions of Richard Haven, sen,
aged 74 years, and Richard Bassett senior,
aged 73 years, dated 25th 9mo 1690.
William Tenney Imo 1691.

Addl inventory of estate of Deacon Wil-
liam Tenney taken 25 Sept. 1691, by Eze-
kiel Northend and Nehemiah Jewett amount-
ing to ,15, returned 29 Sept. 1691 by Kath-
errine Tenny extx.

Susanna Whittridge Imo 1691.

Inventory of the estate Susanna Whitridge
widow who died July 8, 1689 or thereabouts,
taken 28 September 1691, by Isaac Morell
and Thomas Freame, amounting to 141 15s
list of debts due from the estate &81 11s 3d;
returned by Samuel Colby admr 3d Novem-
ber 1691.

Thos. Wass Imo 1691.

Inventory of estate of Mr. Thomas Wass
schoolmaster who deceased August 28 1691,
at the house of John Kent Sn'r Newbury,
taken by Jonathan Emery and Henry Achers;
returned by John Kent Sen'r who is adm'r

Petition of Samuel Rogers of Ipswich 23
9mo 1691 ; if any measure to be taken to-
wards settling the above estate it may be de-
ferred one court that he may show cause to
the contrary, being infirm and incapable of so
far a journey. The testimony of Mary Rog-
ers aged about 19 years, and Margaret Rog-
ers aged about 16 years, children of said Sam-
uel Rogers, 3 9mo 1691.

Benfn Wheeler Imo 1691.

Will of Benjamin Wheeler of Newbury
dated Apr 9 1690, mentions brother Nathan
Wheeler, witnesses Jethro Wheeler Samuel
Wentworth, probate Sepi 29 1691

Inventory of above estate taken 28 Sept.
1691, amounting to 24 8s; debts due from
estate 17 10s, returned by Nathan Whee-
ler admr 29 9mo 1691.

Benjamin Wheeler was son of David Whee-
ler.

Sarah Noyes Imo. 1691.

Will of Sarah Noyes widow being aged da-
ted llth November 1681, mentions sons Jo-
seph, James and Moses; daughter Sarah
Noyes at Boston, the same time wife of her
son John Noyes, and her 3 children Sarah,
John and Oliver; sons William, Thomas;
daughters Rebecca, Sarah, appoints son Thom-
as sole ex'or, witnesses, Moses Gerrish and
James Noyes, probate 29 7mo 1691. de-
ceased, 13 Sept. 1691.

Inventory of above estate taken 21 Sept.
1691, by Nicholas Noyes and Daniel Peirce,
amounted to 1108 returned by cx'or 29
Sept. 1691.

Leonard Harriman 7 mo 1691.
Will of Leonard Harriman of Rowley be-
ing infirmc dated 12d 1691, mentions
son Matthew Harriman and his son Matthew,
son Jonathan, daughters Hannah Boynton,
Mary Harriman, appoints son Jonathan ex'or
and his friend Nehemiah Jewett and Joseph
Jewett to be overseers ; witnesses James
Dickinson and John Hopkinson. probate
29th Sept. 1691.

Inventory of above estate taken 5th June,
1791, by Nathaniel Elithorpe and Nohemiah
Jewett amounting to 172 4s 2d returned
by Jonathan Harriman ex'or. 29 Sept 1691.

143

John Olough 7 mo 1691.

Will of John Clough sen'r, Salisbury da-
ted 3d July, 1691, mentions now wife Mar-
tha, Benone eldest son of his eldest son John
Clough, son Samuel Clough, son-in-law Daniel
Merrill of Newbury, son Thos. Clough; daugh-
ters Elizabeth Home and Sarah Merrill wife
of said Daniel; John, Amos and Elizabeth,
children of his daughter Martha wife to Cor-
nelius Page formerly of Haverhill, now de-
ceased, grand-sons Samuel and Ebenezer,
sons of his son Samuel Clough, appoints his
wife sole ex'trix. witnesses Henry Blyall
Jr., and John Tucker, probate, 3d 9mo
1691. died July 25, 1691. i

Inventory of above estate taken 5 August,
1691, by John Eastman and Samuel Gill,
amounting to 284 8s; returned Nov. 3,
1691, by ex'trx.

Philip Nelson Imo 1691.

Will of Philip Nelson of Rowley, dated
9th April, 1691.

" Know all men by these presents that I
Philip Nelson, of Rowley, in the County of
Essex, in New England, who am goinge out
under the command of Sr. William Phipps
who is goinge against the French at Nova
Scotia." mentions eldest son Philip Nelson,
son John over twenty-one years, mentions
children he had by his last wife, daughter
Mary Haseltine, appoints wife Elizabeth ex'tx,
and his brother Nehemiah Jewett of Ipswich,
witnesses, William Browne, William Searle,
Solomon Wood, John Cheney and John Nel-
son, probate, Sept. 29th, 1691. deceased
20th. 6th 1691.

Inventory of above estate taken Sept. 23,
1691, by Joseph Jewett Jun'r, and Samuel
Platts, amounting to 500, returned Sept.
29, 1691.

Moses Little Imo 1691.
Inventory of estate of Moses Little of New-
bury, deceased 1691, amounting to 1065
7s. returned 3d November 1691, by Lydia,
adm'r of deceased's estate.

(To be Continued.)

A LIST OF DEATHS IN BEVERLY,
MADE BY COL. ROBERT HALE.

Continued from Vol. 5, Page 96.

796.

797.

798.
799.
800.
801.
802.
803.
804.
805.
806.
807.

808.
809.
810.
811.
812.
813.
814.
815.
816.
817.
818.
819.
820.
821.
822.
823.
824.
825.
826.

Ralph Ellinwood Aet. 38 Dec. 21.

Dec. 21, 1754.

Jno. Stone Dec. 27.

Inf t of Abr. Wyat
Ambr. Cleaves Jan. 21. ,

Mr. Kemball's Negro Girl Jan. 31.
Geo. Gallop ) in St. Eustatia ) 87
Jona. Clark f } 88

Son of Capt. Tho. Davis Feb. 22.
Peter Groves Aet. 75 M'eh 14.
Zach. Stone son of Wm.
Inf t of Wm. Taylor.
Wm. son of Wm. Gage on ye

Banks

Joseph Foster )
his son I
Nich. Biles
Benj. Hardy?
Benj. Eliot Jr )
Jona. Bisson j
Cornelius Larkum )
his brother )

Lost in coming
from Virginia
March, 1755.

Jona. Hayward )

Lost in
coming fro
ye W. Indies
March 1755.
101

Nath. Hayward

Tho. Butman >

Wm. Eliot Jr. j

Inft. of B. Cleaves Jr.

Jno. Mullin Aetat 75, May 21.

Inf. Jo. Foster June 20.

Eliz. Cole " 22.

Capt. Hn'y Herrick Aet. 67 Au. 24

Negro Child of Han. Clark Oct. 4.

Jerusha Tarr

144

827. Dan'l Dodge's daughter

828. Inft. of Jno. Thornd. 3d Stillborn.

829. Dan Dodge's Wife Nov. 19.

830 Inft. of Danl. Foster Nov. 30.

831 Danl. Dodge's daughter.

832 Ens. Jesse ? Herrick's negro woman D. !

833 Inft of Jno. Presson.

Dec. 21, 1755.

834 Inft. Benj. Smith Jan. 7.

835 Wm Cleaves At 69 Jan. 20.

836 Wid Abig Patch.

837 Inft Wm Gage Feb. 1.

838 Robt Sallowes act 80.

839 Dr. Jo Dodge act 80.

840 Capt. Timo Stanley (Bilboa) 102

841 Inft of Robt Ober.

842 Mihel Woodberry in England 103

843 Wife of Benjamin Smith Feb. 17.

844 Inft of James Giles.

845 " " Retire Trask Feb. 25.

846 Wm Lovet et 55 " 28.

847 Jane Maxwel.

848 Inft of Wm Haskel Mch 29.

849 Wid. Mercy Trask Apl 27.

850 Inft of John Hilton.

851 Inft of Tho. Kerry May 3d.

852 Matthew French June 12.

853 Mark Mors Jr July 19.

854 Tho. Kerry's son 4.

855 " " another child August 4.

856 Daniel Dodge aetat 45 August 6.

857 Wid. of Dan Larkum et 85.

858 Inft of Nat.* Elwell.

859 " "James Smith.

860 Wife of Josiah Stone.

861 Inft of Tho Cox.

862 Benj. Eliot at Sheepso 104

863 Inft of Jona Biles.

864 Wife of Jo Larkum Oct. 16.

865 Sam Woodberry aet 40 Nov. 3.

*Mat?

866 Inft of Jno Sallowes Nov. 7.

867 Robt Matthews at Albany 105

868 Inft of Andr. Woodberry.

369 Wid of Benj. Trask aet 72 Dec. 10.

870 Wid of Corn's Larkum Dec. 10 aet 85.

Dec. 21, 1756.

871 Wid of Sam Woodberry D 21.

872 daughter of Andrew Woodberry 22.

873 Andrew son of Andrew Woodberry

Jan 22.

874 Andrew Woodberry 29.

875 Sam Foster's wife

876 Capt And Woodberry aet 60 Mar. 7.

877 James Patch aet 80 Ap 1.

878 James Gordon Gibralter 106

879 Negro inft of Wid A Woodbr Jr.

880 Wid of Eb Woodbery aet 87.

881 Inft of Andr. Thornd.

882 Rebecca Patch aet 54.

883 Inft of Jno Biles June 16.

884 Infant negro of Capt Cleaves July 1.

885 Inft of James Smith July 10.

886 Lewan Herrick died on board a

man of war 107

887 Azor Roundy killed near Lake George

1756 108

888 Eliezer Ellinwood Sm. Pox Sept. 1.

889 Wid of Obed Woodb.

(To be Continued.)

ERRATA.

Vol. 5, No. 2, page 52, 2nd line from bot-
tom, for " 1839 ' read " 1830."

Vol. 5, No. 2, page 55, 2d line from top,
for "Nicholas" read "Nicholson."

Vol. 5, No. 2, page 64, 20th line from
top, for "Oct. 7" read "Oct. 6."

Vol. 5, No. 2, page 88, 10th line from the
bottom, 2d column, for "1721" read
"1724."

Vol. 5, No. 2, page 96, 8th line from bot-
tom, 1st column, for "1687 " read " 1689."

Vol. 5, No. 2, page 63, 13th line from
bottom, for "Sept. 28" read "S^pt. 18."

HISTOBICAL COLLECTIONS

OF THE

ESSEX INSTITUTE.

Vol. V.

August, 1863.

No.

RANTOUL GENEALOGY, &c.

In the Register of Marriages, Births and
Baptisms for the Parish of Cleish, County of
Kinross, Fifeshire, in the North of Scotland,
it is recorded that "Robert Rintoul, the
younger, born at Kelty in this Parish, and
Christian Millar of the Parish of Kinglassie,
were married December 24th A. D. 1742."

This Robert Rintoul, described as the youn-
ger, from which we may infer that his father
bore the same name, had a brother, who died
at the Cape of Good Hope on his return from
China, about A D. 1773 ; a brother who
preached at Elgin, North Britain, A. D. 1770-
75; two sisters who resided with the latter at
Elgin; a sister who married in Edinburgh, and
a brother William, married to Ann Brown a-
bout A. D. 1740 at Kelty Bridge End, whose
eleven children are registered in Cleish, and
amongst them Robert, afterwards the Rev.,
who preached in the Parish of Bally Kelly,
County of Londonderry, North of Ireland,
for many years.

Robert Rintoul, the younger, as above, had
(21)

at least seven children. I name them in the
order of their probable seniority. They were
Margaret, Elizabeth, Jeanie, probably bap-
tised and registered in the Parish of Beath
adjoining Cleish, before 1740; Robert, born
January 1753 ; William, born September
1754 ; Helen, born 1756, and David, born
1759.

Of these seven children, either Margaret
or Elizabeth was the mother of a daughter,
who married one Veitch, and these last were
the parents of Miss Mary Veitch lately resi-
dent (A. D. 1856-8,) at Linlithgow, Scot-
land.

Jeanie married Robert Smith of Edinburgh.

Robert emigrated to America in 1769.

William died in London, March 9, 1823.
He was captured in 1776 by an American
Privateer and brought to Newburyport, Mass.
From that place he communicated with his
brother Robert, then living in Salem, and was
permitted to remain in Salem with his broth-
er's family until exchanged, when he re-
turned to England. He left four children,
Robert William, Sarah Sinclair, Mary, and
Christian.

Helen died unmarried, J)ec. 13, 1835.

14G

David was killed in action in a British Ship
of War.

Robert Rintoul, Rentoul or Rantoul, for
he seems to have written his name variously
at different times, was the first and only im-
migrant to this country bearing our name, of
whom we have any knowledge. Leaving to
those learned in the Celtic and Gaelic roots
the discussion of the probable difference in
sound involved in the use of these three vow-
els, it is clear that the transition is an easy
one in writing, from the vowel "i" to the
vowel "e" and from this last to the vowel
"a." I have his signature attached to a let-
ter written during the last year of bin life,
1783, in which the vowel will pass either for
"e" or "a."

Soon after his arrival in America, however,
as it appears from the following, kindly shown
me by Mr. Matthew A. Stickney of Salem, he
used still another vowel.

SALEM, Deer. 27, 1769.
Reed, of Richd. Derby Seven Pounds 1-4
L. M. for a Hd. Molasses sold him, Gagd.
106 Gall.
7 : 1 : 4. ROBERT RINTOUL.

I have authority for saying that his cousin
Robert, who went into Ireland, together with
children of the latter, lately living in the
Parish of Bally Kelly, County of Londonder-
ry, viz:

William, Captain f>2nd Infantry;

James, Lieut. Londonderry Militia;

Solomon, Yeoman ;

all spelled the name Rantoul. On the
other hand I have authority for saying that
there is a little place called Rintoul, in the
Braes of Kinross, where lived, not long ago,
one Robert Rintoul ; and I find in the Living
Age for June, 1858, an article taken from

the London Daily News, noticing the death
of Robert S. Rintoul, born in the North of
Scotland, who removed to London, and estab-
lished there and edited for thirty years the
' ' Spectator " Ne w spaper .

The Rev. William Rintoul, of Montreal,
died Sept 13, 1851, at Trois Pistoles, below
Quebec. He left a son Robert. I learn from
the "Toronto Record," a journal edited by him
for some years, that he studied at the Univer-
sity of Edinburgh and came to Toronto in 1831,
where he remained preaching and filling the
Hebrew Professorship in Knox College, until
called away, shortly before his death, to St.
Gabriel street Church, Montreal. He was a na-
tive of Tulliallan or Kincardine in Clackman-
nanshire, North of Scotland.

The names Robert and William may be so
common in Scotland as to make it unsafe to
infer relationship with these Rintouls from
their bearing them, but the locality of their ori-
gin helps the argument a little. I find in
"Burke's General Armory" no name at all
like mine except that of a Scotch family of
Rintoul. The practice of spelling the name
Rantoul, has been uniform for many years in
this country, and I suppose that the discussion
of authorities or precedents in other countries
must now be considered as rather curious than
useful.

Robert, the first settler in America, born
in Fifeshire, Scotland, Jan. 1753, reached
Boston in 1769, and at once came to Salem,
where he boarded for a time with Jonathan
Archer at the head of Long (now Union)
Wharf. This Mr. Archer taught navigation,
and was known as " long Jonathan," to dis-
tinguish him from others of the name. In
tax bills of 1776 and 1777 he is designated
as "Captain Rintoul." He was master of

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Schooners Caty and Hope, owned by William
Orne, Nathaniel Sparhawk & William Gray ;
also of Brigs Hopewell, Phoenix and Defence,
owned by William Gray, Benj. West, Theo-
dore Lyman and others ; and in 1782 of the
Ship Iris, owned by William Gray. In her
he sailed from Salem, (leaving his family in
the Elkins House on Essex St., recently re-
moved to make way for the New Bentley
School House,) for the York River in Vir-
ginia, and thence, March 4, 1783, for Nantz
in France ; but the Iris never was heard from
after leaving York River. A gale of wind on
our coast was chronicled March 20, 1783.

He had married in Salem, Nov. 3, 1773,
Mary, daughter of Andrew and Mary (Lam-
bert) Preston or Presson, and left three chil-
dren, viz :

Robert, born Nov. 23, 1778, died Oct. 24,
1858.

Samuel, born July 10, 1781, died at Bil-
boa, Spain, April 22, 1802.

Polly, born July 22, 1783, married An-
drew Peabody of Beverly, May, 1808, died
Nov. 15, 1836, leaving two children, Andrew
Preston, Plummer Professor at Cambridge,
and Mary Rantoul, married to John P. Ly-
man of Portsmouth, N. H.

Robert established himself as an apotheca-
ry, in Beverly, June 18, 1796, after an ap-
prenticeship with Drs. Wm. Stearns and Jo-
seph Osgood of Salem. He married, June
4, 1801, Joanna, daughter of John and Eliz-
abeth (Herrick) Lovett, of Beverly.

Their children were Joanna Lovett, born
Jan 13, 1803, married Wm. Endicott, Sept.
26, 1824, died June 26, 1863 at St. Louis,
Mo.

Robert, born August 13, 1805, died at
Washington D. C., August 7, 1852.

Mary Elizabeth, born August 14, 1809,
died August 14, 1821.

Samuel, born March 23, 1813, died Dec.
9, 1831. Class of 1832, Harvard College.

Charlotte, born Jan. 9, 1816, died Dec.
2, 1839.

Elizabeth Augusta Lovett, born April 2,
1819, died May 23, 1837.

Hannah Lovett, born June 17, 1821.

Robert, last named and known as Junior,
was born at Beverly, August 13, 1805, was
graduated at Harvard College in the class of
1826, and married, August 3, 1831, Jane
Elizabeth, daughter of Peter and Deborah
(Gage) Woodbury of Beverly. He died at
Washington, D. C., August 7, 1852.

Their children are :

Robert Samuel, born June 2, 1832.

Charles William, born April 24, 1839.

I comply with the kind invitation of Dr.
Wheatland to print what I know of my ances-
try, bearing the name of Rantoul, as much,
perhaps, in the hope of eliciting new facts as
with the expectation of communicating valu-
able or entertaining information to others.
From the necessary incompleteness of the
statement, covering even the short period
through which my researches have been pur-
sued, I have preferred to give it a narrative
rather than a tabular form. I shall, of course,
be grateful for information from any source,
which shall enable me to make this branch of
my genealogy complete and systematic.

I have also prepared, at the request of Dr.
Wheatland, some extracts from my grand-fath-
er's reminiscences of himself and his times,
written out by him between A. D. 1848 and his
death in 1858, which seemed to me to pos-
sess more or less of general and historic inter-
est.

ROBERT S. RANTOUL.

SALEM, July 10, 1863.

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His CHILDHOOD.

The house in which I was born (Nov. 23d
1778) stood on Essex Street directly oppo-
site the East Meeting House. It belonged
to the Elkins Family: my father occupied
the Eastern half, while the Western part
was occupied by the widow Elkins. Her
son, Henry Elkins, was a Judge of the Court
of Sessions for Essex County and Naval Offi-
cer of the Port of Salem. Among my first
recollections is the kindness of a negro wo-
man, named Ancilla, who lived with Mrs.
Elkins. To this circumstance I attribute
the kindly feeling toward the African race
which I have always entertained.

Rev. James Diman baptised me in the
East Meeting House. He was born Nov.
29th, 1707, and was graduated at Harvard
College in 1730, and settled over the East
Society in May, 1737. William Bentley
was ordained as his colleague, Sept. 24th,
1783. Mr. Bentloy boarded with Mrs. El-
kins, and the council at his ordination were
entertained at her house. 1 remember that
it was thought desirable to have me away
from home on that occasion, and I was sent
down to my great-uncle's, Joseph Lambert's
house at the Eastern corner of Becket and
Essex Streets, where I partook of the liberal
entertainment at that time generally made
on the day of the ordination of a minister.
Wm. Bentley was the first minister in Salem
who publicly discarded the doctrine of the
Trinity.

Lord Cornwallis capitulated on the 1 7th
October, 1781, and his army was surrender-
ed on the 19th. On receipt of the intelli-
gence of this great event of the Revolutiona-
ry War at Salem, there were public demon-
strations of joy, and although I had not then
attained to three years of age, I remember that

a cannon was fired in Pleasant Street near
its entrance into Essex, and that I stood in
a Chair before a chamber window in my
grand-father's house (Andrew Preston's)
facing Pleasant Street, to see it fired. On
the news of a peace being concluded between
Great Britian and the United States in 1783,
I remember that I was standing at the door
of a little shop attached to the Western end
of Mrs. Elkins's house, by the side of my
mother who was trafficking with a country-
man on horse- back for a quarter of meat;
that suddenly many persons came rushing
down the street crying aloud, "Peace!
Peace! ' and that the first of them who
reached the door of the East Meeting House,
directly opposite where I was standing, rush-
ed in and began to ring the bell, while the
others continued the cry of " Peace ! Peace ! "

Poverty and pecuniary distress followed
the war of the Revolution, in the country
generally, and particularly in Salem and oth-
er seaports; Commercial Business revived
about 1788-9, and Salem was visited with
great prosperity from the East India Trade,
soon after that time.

Just before my father sailed on his last
voyage (1782) he made arrangements for
building a dwelling house. The lot of land,
which he bought of John and Martha Brown
of Boston, and Timothy and Eunice Fitch of
Medford, is on the main St., now Essex St.,
and on the Westerly corner of Central St. in
Salem. The deed was acknowledged before
Edmund Quincey, at Boston, Deer. 5, 1782.
The price paid was 850, equal to $2833.
33 for about twenty poles of land, say 50ft.
on Essex St. and 120ft. on Central St.
This price shows a state of prosperity in Sa-

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lem at the very conclusion of the Revolution-
ary War. In a few years afterwards, there
was a great decline, and after the adoption
of the United States Constitution, and the
commencement of the Wars of the French
Revolution, another revival of prosperity.
On the 3d of November 1804, this same
piece of land was sold to William Shepard
Gray and Benj. Herbert Hathorne (Essex
Deeds, Book 175, Leaf 103) for $8500, just
three times the cost of it. Gray and Hath-
orne built a brick block of stores and houses
upon it. My father intended, had he re-
turned from this voyage, to build a dwelling
house on this land, and had contracted, De-
cember 20, 1782, with Eleazer Lindsey for
the rocks for a cellar 40ft. square by 6 l-2ft.
deep, at " 52, one half in advance, and 3.
18s., given in advance for drink."
o c o o
At about four years of age, I was sent to
School to Ma'am Babbidge, (Susannah, great
grandmother of the Rev. Chas. Babbidge, who
was graduated at Harvard College in 1828,
and afterward settled at Pepperell in this
State.) She kept a school for about fifty
years and is said to have picked berries on
Salem Common. This good lady was very
corpulent and well advanced in years when
1 went to her school. She used to sit in an
arm chair in front of her window on the East-
erly side of the house, and near the side of
a great open fire place. The house is now
standing, but so much altered in its extern-
al appearance that the good lady, were she
to come back, probably would not know it.
It is situated on the Northerly side of Essex
St. nearly opposite and a little below the en-
trance to Union St. She was so large that
she could not easily perambulate her school-
room, to apply her correcting hand to the ur-

chins, who were arrayed in seats over the
whole floor. To remedy this, she kept at
her side a cane-pole, of sufficient length to
reach the furthest boy in the room, and when
any one was seen by her indulging in what
was inconsistent with her views of propriety,
he was sure to be reminded of her displeas-
ure by a good rap from the cane-pole. Oth-
er modes of punishment used by her were to
call the delinquent to her side and tie him
to her chair with a piece of yarn, or pin his
clothes to hers. With the use of these means
the school was well governed and I was
taught to read, and instructed in the West-
minster Assembly's Shorter Catechism, which
was contained in the New England Primer.
If I acquired but little book learning at this
dame's school, I was taught obedience and
reverence for age and for rank. A daughter,
Miss Lydia, in another room, kept a higher
school for young Misses only.

In April, 1785, when I was about seven
years of age, I left Ma'am Babbidge's school
and went to Master Watson's school to learn
to write, and to attend to other branches of
study. This school was kept at the wester-
ly corner of Union and Essex Streets, in a
one story wooden building with a very sharp
roof; which building gave place to the brick
block now occupying that spot. Here I be-
came associated with larger boys and began
to partake of the rough and tumble of life.

In the athletic recreations which required
organization and leaders, the Crowninshields
were generally put forward. They were the
representatives of the most distinguished
family in the eastern section of the town,
commonly called " Wapping, " and extend-
ing as far up, and perhaps somewhat furth-
er than the westerly side of the Common or
to S't Peter Street. The next division, and

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that which was esteemed the most aristo-
cratic, was called " St. James's," and above
this was "Knockers' Hole." The Crown-
inshield boys were Benjamin W., afterwards
Secretary of the Navy; Richard, who be-
came a manufacturer; and Edward, who died
young. At one time there were several
pitched battles between the Wapping boys,
in line on the Common, and the Knockers'
Hole boys, in another line, under their re-
spective leaders. These battles were fought
with stones and other missiles, neither par-
ty gaining victory. The St. James's boys
were considered as too effeminate to engage
in such sports.

I went to Master Watson's school until
Nov., 1785: At that time the Town School
in the East School House began, and Mas-
ter Watson was made instructor. This was
the first Public School House in the eastern
section of the town. It stood on the South
Western corner of the Common, and was sub-
sequently removed further east and placed
upon East Street where it stood for many
years, altered and enlarged by the addition
of a porch, in striking contrast with our mod-
ern school structures.

Master Watson kept the town school but
a short time, when he resumed his private
school, and Rev. Wm. Bentley, minister of
the East Society, took temporary charge of
it. I continued at the town school, with a
few short intervals, until 1791, when John
Southwick, who had been an assistant in the
town school under Master Lang, set up a
private school and I was taken from the
town school and sent to his. Reading, Spell-
ing, Writing and Arithmetic were the only
branches attended to at the town school.
During the latter part of my attendance there
so many of the scholars as were desirous

of learning English Grammar, were allowed
to go to the Latin school, then kept at the
bottom of what is now Washington St. on
the margin of the North River, on two or
three half days in each week. I was accord-
ingly furnished with Perry's Dictionary,
containing his Grammar, and sent to the
Latin School. It was taught by Thomas
Bancroft, who was afterwards Clerk of the
Courts for this County, and whose son, Thom-
as P. Bancroft, died in possession of a farm
in Beverly, whi'ch has been in the hands of
John Hale, the first minister of Beverly, and
of his descendants, from the time of his set-
tlement. Thomas P. Bancroft's mother was
a descendant of Rev. John Hale.

When Gen. Washington visited Salem in
1789, the boys of all the town schools (there
was then no provision for the instruction of
girls at the public expense) were paraded on
each side of Essex, above Washington St.,
to do honor to his reception. 1 went with
the Latin School, which was led by John
Pickering, son of Col. Timothy Pickering,
he being the first scholar in the school. I
then saw Gen. Washington and again on the
next day when he left town. William Nor-
they, a Quaker and Chairman of the Select-
men, when the President was presented to
him, without removing his hat, took the
President by the hand and said ; "Friend
Washington, we are glad to see thee, and in
behalf of the inhabitants, bid thee a hearty
welcome to Salem." A little more than 130
years before that time the Quakers were per-
secuted and suffered many cruelties in Sa-
lem on account of their peculiarities. Then
one of their number had the honor of leading
in the reception of the First President of
the United States. I can well remember
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public proceedings of the day. There was a
great degree of enthusiasm pervading all
ages, and classes of people in Salem. It
would be difficult to arouse such an univer-
sal feeling of joy upon any occasion at this
time.

On the next day after his arrival, Wash-
ington rode on horseback down the Main St.
as far as Pleasant St. and there turned to go
to Beverly and see the new Cotton Factory
just put in operation. On his turning the
corner I had a full view of him. 1 was
about eleven years of age.

The Cotton Factory was in upper Beverly
about two miles from Essex Bridge. The
building was of brick. The spinning was
with jennies, which, with a considerable
number of spindles, were moved by hand.
This building was ultimately destroyed by
fire, and the bricks remaining were used in
the construction of the first Meeting House
at Beverly Farms, which has since been re-
placed by a larger and more commodious
wooden structure. This Cotton Factory was
the first incorporated in Massachusetts.

Master Lang, who was a silver-smith by
trade, taught the town school for most of the
time while L attended it, after Mr. Bentley's
term. He had several efficient assistants;
among them Jonathan Snelling, afterward
an instructor in the Boston Public Schools
for many years. \_Note. At the date of his
death, in 1848, .1. S. taught penmanship at
the Boston Latin School. He was then
about eighty years old, discarded steel and
all other pens save those which he made
from the goose quill, and was the last man
I remember, who wore powder. K. S. K.]

At the dedication of the New Brick (Phil-
lips) School-house bounding on the Common
and Essex St., March 1, 1842, Mr. Snell-
ing was present and remembered me as one
of his scholars. We had never met from the
time of his leaving the Salem town school.
He remembered Robert Stone and one or two
others who attended the East School at the
same time with me.

I went to John Southwick's private school
for about one year, and during that period at-
tended to many branches of school learning
with assiduity. Southwick was a Quaker.
He was a very successful teacher for many
years after I left his school, and afterwards
a representative of Salem in the General
Court. At his school I attended to Geome-
try, Trigonometry, Book-keeping, English
Grammar and other usual studies. While
at the Latin School I was exercised some-
what in declamation and was furnished with
the "Art of Speaking," containing extracts
from Shakespeare. Addison, Pope, and other
standard writers, for which I paid one dol-
lar, at the Gazette Printing Office. Part of
this book I committed to memory. It was
a great defect in my education that, at the
East School, my memory was very little cul-
tivated. About the only exercise of memo-
ry there was the committing of rules in arith-
metic. In this branch it was a standing or-
der that no sums could be done, until the
rule for them was learnt, and as I liked to
do the sums, I was willing to learn the rules.
I was furnished with " Dilworth's School-
master's assistant." One day a question in
permutation was published in the Salem Ga-
zette and an answer requested. Mr. South-
wick gave the question to me, and I worked
out the answer without any mistrust of the
use he intended to make of my labor. In

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the next Gazette it was announced that an an-
swer to the arithmetical question had been
received from Master Robert Kantoul, a pu-
pil at Mr. Southwick's school. When the
boys saw this they hooted me to my no small
mortification.

In governing his school he never struck any
belonging to his first and second classes, but
if they were faulty he would, at a leisure mo-
ment during or after school, call the delin-
quent to him, and by kind persuasive words
and fondling, he would invariably soften his
feelings, make him to see his failing, and in-
duce a resolution to amend. Upon the small-
er schoolars he thought that he could not be-
stow the time requisite for this result, and oc-
casionally visited them with the rod. He gov-
erned his school well.

The infliction of corporal punishment in
schools was a matter of daily occurrence, and
upon some occasions it was administered with
a cruel severity which shocked the feelings of
all those accustomed to a mild parental disci-
pline, while it very rarely prevented a recur-
rence of the same or similar offences. Truan-
cy was the crime most severely punished, and
the inefficiency of severity ought to have sug-
gested other means of cure. A whip, common-
ly called a cow-hide, was the usual instrument,
and it was sometimes applied with the full
strength of the master. At that time it was
not an uncommon occurrence for men, and
even for women, to be whipped in Salem, for
stealing and other crimes. The light of the
present had not dawned upon the pedagogues
of that day. The best governed schools and
the best governed families, so far as my ob-
servation has extended, are managed without
blows. Corporal punishments are stricken
from the laws of the State, save in capital

crimes.

(To be Continued.)

A COPY OF THE FIRST BOOK OF
BIRTHS, OF THE TOWN OF ROW-
LEY, WITH NOTES.

COMMUNICATED BY M. A. STICKNKY.

Continued from vol. 6, page 140.

1735_6 7.

Thomas Barker son of Jacob & Mary his
wife born July the twentyeth day Anno Dom
1737.

Martha Thurstain daughter of Jonathan
and Lidia his wife born Apriell the thirtefh
day Anno Dom 1736.

Unice Thurstain the daughter of Richard
and Mehetable his wife born October the
fourth day Anno Dom 1736.

Mark Frazer son of Nathan and Jane his
wife born August the seventh day Anno Dom

1737.

Sarah Hovey daughter of Samuel and Ma-
ry his wife born September ye eight day
1737.

Nathanael Dickinson son of Joseph and
Sarah his wife born May the nineteenth day
Anno Dom 1737.

Olive Prime daughter of Marke and Eliz-
ebeth his wife born Feberuary the twenty sec-
ond day 1736-7.

David Mighill son of Stephen and Eliz-
ebeth his wife born July the eighteenth day
1736.

Mary Stickney daughter of Samuel and
Faith his wife born September the twenty
ninth day 1735.

Elizebeth Stickney daughter of Samuel
and Faith his wife born June the third day
1737.

Elizebeth Pengreey daughter of Job and
Elizabeth his wife born November the eighth
day 1737.

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William Sanders son of Edward and Eliz-
abeth his wife born August the twenteth day
Anno Dom 1733.

Lydia Sanders daughter of Edward and
Elizabeth his wife born December the twelfth
day 1730.

Lydia Sanders daughter of Edward and
Elizabeth his wife born September the twen-
ty fourth day 1734.

John Sanders son of Edward and Eliz-
abeth his wife born September the twenteth
day Anno Dom 1736.

Joseph Dickinson son of Joseph and Sarah
his wife born March the twenty fourth day
1734.

Mark Dickinson son of Joseph and Sarah
his wife born August the thirteenth day 1735.

Jedediah Barker son of James and Eliz-
abeth his wife born Aprill the fourteenth day
1735.

Paul Lanckster son of Thomas and Dor-
ithy his wife born May the twenty second day
1735.

Dorithy Lanckster daughter of Thomas
and Dorithy his wife born November ye first
day 1737.

Joshua Dickinson son of Thomas and Eliz-
abeth his wife born June the twenty first day
1732.

Jane Dickinson daughter of Thomas and
Elizebeth his wife born November the eleventh
day 1735.

Jeremiah Nellson son of Jeremiah and Ma-
ry his wife born Febuary the fifth day 1704-5.

Hannah Nellson daughter of Jeremiah and
Mary his wife born March ye sixteenth day
1736-7.

Joseph Perrson son of John and Ruth his
wife born September the twenty ninth day
1737.

(22)

Moses George sou of John and Sarah his
wife born March the twenteth day 1731.

Elizebeth Bayley daughter of Joseph and
Sarah his wife born December the twenty
ninth day 1725.

Nathanael Bayley son of Joseph and Sa-
rah his wife born March the seventh day
1726.

Daniel Bayley son of Joseph and Sarah
his wife born June the twenty seventh day
1729.

Nehemiah Jewett son of Jeremiah and Ma-
ry his wife born October ye twenty fourth
day 1737.

Luci Jewett daughter of George and Han-
nah his wife born December the eleventh day
1736.

David Stickney & Jonathan Stickney be-
ing tweens sons of Samuel and Susannah his
wife born September the twenty fifth day An-
no Dom 1736.

Sarah Barker daughter of James and Eliz-
ebeth his wife born September ye twenty ninth
day 1737.

Martha Wheler daughter of Jonathan &
Anne his wife born december the twenty third
day 1727.

Anne Wheler daughter of Jonathan and
Anne his wife born September ye twenty
ninth day 1737.

Benjamin Wheler son of Benjamin and
Rebeckah his wife born October ye ninth day
1735.

Becke Wheler daughter of Benjamin and
Rebeckah his wife born June the twenty eight
day 1737.

Mary Pengree daughter of Stephen and
Jane his wife born December the fifteenth
day 1737.

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Mary Jewett daughter of Mark and Mary
his wife born January ye eighteenth day
1737-8.

Hannah Burpee daughter of Jonathan and
Mehetable his wife born Feberuary ye fif-
teenth day 1735-6.

Hepzibah Burpe daughter of Jonathan and
Mehetable his wife born March ye thirty first
day 1738.

Elizebeth Bayley daughter of John and
Elizebeth his wife born June ye fourth day.

Sarah Hazen daughter of Jeremiah and Sa-
rah his wife born July the twenty third day
1738.

Mehetable Dresser daughter of Aaron and
Mehitible his wife born January the fifth day
173

Oliver Dresser son of Aaron and Mehitable
his wife born September the sixteenth day
17

Daniel Scott son of Joseph and Jemimah
his wife born October the tenth day 1737.

Joseph Danferd son of Samuel and Mehet-
able his wife born October the thirty first day
1738.

Elizebeth Brown daughter of Nathanael
and Anne his wife born May the twelfth day
1738.

Luci Chaplin the daughter of David and
Mary his wife born September the second day
1738.

Jeremiah Burpee son of Jonathan and
Hannah his wife born October the nineteenth
day 1723.

Isaac Burpee son of Jonathan and Han-
nah his wife born July the tenth day 1725.

Stephen Palmer son of Timothy and Pa-
sience his wife born January the tenth day
1723-4.

John Palmer son of Timothy and Pasience
his wife born June the first day 1728.

Samuel Palmer son of Timothy and Jane
his wife born August the twenty fourth day
1737.

Susannah Hobson daughter of Moses and
Lidia his wife born September the twenty
sixth day 1737.

David Hobson son of Moses and Lidia his
wife born March the fifth day 1738-9.

Mehetable Holms daughter of Benjamin
and Mary his wife born August ye Nineteenth
day 173

Samuel Holms son of Benjamin and Mary
his wife born March the eighteenth day 1737.

Samuel Hedden son of Eben and Meheta-
ble his wife born January the first day 1738-9.

Benjamin Tenney son of William and Me-
hetable his wife born Apriell the seventeenth
day 1735.

Richard Tenney son of William and Me-
hetable his wife born October the second day
1736.

Moses Kezer son of Moses and Sarah his
wife born Apriell ye twenty second day 1736.

Hannah Cooper daughter of Leonard and
Sarah his wife born Apriell the seventh day
1730.

Peter Cooper son of Leonard and Sarah
his wife born March the third day 1732.

Mary Cooper daughter of Leonard and -Sa-
rah his wife born November the eighteenth
day 1734.

James Cooper son of Leonard and Sarah
his wife born March the fourth day 1737.

Jedediah Cooper son of Leonard and Sa-
rah his wife born July the third day 1739.

Prisila Cooper daughter of Moses and Phe-
be born July the seventh day 173

Samuel Pearson son of John and Ruth his
wife born June the twenty eighth day 1739.

Mark Dresser son of Samuel and Dorothy

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his wife born August the twenty eight day
1739.

Benjamin Dresser son of Samuel and Dor-
othy his wife born August the thirteenth day
1737.

Mehetable Lambert daughter of Thomas
and Elizebeth his wife born December the
tenth 1738.

Jonathan Osborn son of John and Jane
his wife born August the seventh day 1739.

Ezekill Sanders son of Edward and Eliz-
ebeth his wife born November the fifteenth
day 1738.

Unece Boynton daughter of Nathanael and
Mary his wife born March ye sixteenth day
1738-9.

James Boynton son of Nathan and Han-
nah his wife born August the fifth day 1739.

Elizebeth Boynton daughter of Ephraim
and Sarah his wife born August ye twenty
sixth day 1733.

Ephraim Boynton son of Ephraim and Sa-
rah his wife born March the ninth day 1734-5.

John Boynton son of Ephraim and Sarah
his wife bom September the eighth day 1736.

Joseph Boynton son of Ephraim and Sa-
rah his wife born June ye twenty fourth day
1738.

Jonathan Jewett son of Eliphelet and Ruth
his wife born September the twenty third day
1738.

Hannah Thurston daughter of Richard and
Mehetable his wife born May the sixteenth
day 1739.

Mehetable Hovey daughter of Samuel and
Mary his wife born March the thirty first day
1739-40.

Anne Sawyer ye daughter of Ezekiel and
Mehetable his wife born July ye twenty eighth
day 1736.

Jane Sawyer ye daughter of Ezekiell and
Mehetable his wife born July ye twelfth day
1738.

Leonard Lisle Cotton son of Leonard and
Hannah born January the eight day 1725-6.

Eunice Hodgkins daughter of John and
Hannah his wife born June the third day
1738.

Joseph Jewett ye son of George and Han-
nah his wife born May the fourteenth day
1736.

Caleb Jackson son of Joshua and Hannah
his wife born May the twenty fourth day
1738.

Elizebeth Barker daughter of Jacob and
Mary his wife born May the eighteenth day
Anno Dom 1740.

Jacob Hardy son of Andrew and Anne
his wife born December ye fourteenth day
1739.

Nathanael Barker son of James and Eliz-
ebeth his wife born November the seventeenth
day 1739.

Humphrey Pickard son of Moses and Jane
his wife born Febuary the twenty eighth day
1744.

Nehemiah Johnson son of John and Su-
sannah his wife born December the third day
Anno Dom 1732.

Moses Johnson son of John and Susannah
his wife born August the fifth day 1735.

Nehemiah Johnson son of John and Su-
sannah his wife born September the tenth
day 1737.

Pri^ila Johnson daughter of John and Su-
sannah his wife born September the tenth day
1739.

Sarah Brocklebank daughter of Nathan
and Anne his wife born December the twen-
ty third day 1740.

156

Sarah Hedden daughter of Eben and Me-
hetable his wife born March the seventh day
174041

Jane Pickard daughter of Jonathan & Ma-
ry his wife born November ye Nineteenth
day 1740.

Lidia Platts daughter of Nathan and Eliz-
ebeth his wife born December the first day
1740.

Uness Jewett daughter of Jeremiah and
Mary his wife born January ye eleventh day
173940.

Lidia Lancaster daughter of Thomas and
Dorothy his wife born Jane the twenty ninth
day 1740.

Rebeckah Plumer daughter of Daniel and
Abigal his wife born Febuary the twenty sec-
ond day 1739.

David Boynton son of Nathanael and Ma-
ry his wife born Apriell the nineteenth day
1741.

Sarah Boynton daughter of Richard and
Jerusha his wife born August ye tenth day
1739.

Leonard Heriman son of John and Jane
his wife born March the twelfth day 1739.

Jane Heriman daughter of John and Jane
his wife born March ye twenty seventh day
1741.

Jeremiah Heriman son of Jeremiah and
Patianee his wife born July the twenty fifth
day 1740.

John Blasdall son of Eligah and Mary his
wife born September the fourth day 1737.

Hannah Blasdall daughter of Eligah and
Mary his wife born December the twenty first
day 1738.

Moses Frazer son of Nathan and Jane his
wife born March the twenty Ninth day 1741.

Mary Cooper daughter of Samuel and Ma-
ry his wife born December ye twenteth day
1739.

Hannah Dickinson daughter of Thomas
and Elizebeth his wife born October ye twen-
ty second day 1738.

Sarah Boynton daughter of Ephraim and
Sarah his wife born June the sixth day 1740.

John Orsborn son of John and Jane his
wife born the seventeenth day of July 1740.

Mark Creecy son of John and Sarah his
wife born January the seventeenth day
17334.

Lucy Creecy daughter of John and Sarah
his wife born March the fourth day 1735.

Mary and Sarah Creecy daughters of John
& Sarah his wife born August ye thirteth
day 1737.

John Creecy son of John and Sarah his
wife born May the eight day 1741.

Samuel Burpee son of Samuel and Eliz-
ebeth his wife born September ye twenty fifth
day 1734.

Sarah Jewett daughter of George and Han-
nah his wife born Aprill the twenty sixth
day 1741.

Elizebeth Dickinson daughter of Joseph
and Sarah his wife born January the twenty
seventh day 1739.

Mehetable Jackson daughter of Joshua and
Hannah his wife born January the tenth day
1741.

William Dickinson son of Joseph and Sa-
rah his wife born March the twenty first day
1741-2.

Bethiah Dresser daughter of Samuel and
Dorothy his wife born March the Ninthenth
day 1741-2.

William Perkins son of Zacheas and Pris-
la his wife born March ye fourteenth day
1741-2.

Moses Plats son of Nathan and Elizebeth
his wife born March ye thirteth day 1742.

157

Nathan Taylor son of Asa and Hannah feis
wife born Febuary the third day 1737-8.

Luci Taylor daughter of Asa & Hannah
his wife born October the first day 1739.

Hannah Taylor daughter of Asa & Han-
nah his wife born September ye third day
1741.

Sarah Lurue daughter of William and
Magrey his wife bora December the fourteenth
day 1741.

Elizebeth Pearson daughter of John and
Ruth his wife born July the third day 1741.

Joseph Dresser son of David and Mary
his wife born Jeneuary the tenth day 1739-40.

Mary Dresser daughter of David and Ma-
ry his wife born Aprill the tenth day 1742.

Francis Palmer son of Francis and Eliz-
ebeth his wife born January ye sixteenth day
1730-1.

Ruth Palmer daughter of Francis and Eliz-
ebeth his wife born June ye twenty sixt day
1733.

Francis Palmer son of Francis and Eliz-
ebeth his wife born May the first day 1740.

Daniel Kilburn son of Joseph and Sarah
his wife born October ye sixth day 1742.

Sarah Holms daughter of Benjamin and
Mary bis wife born September ye twenty fifth
day 1740.

Mary Lighten daughter of Jonathan and
Mary his wife born October the tenth day
1739.

John Lighten son of Jonathan and Mary
his wife born February ye twenteth day
174041.

Jonathan Lighten son of Jonathan and
Mary his wife born January the eleventh day
1742-3.

Jane Heriman daughter of John and Jane
his wife born March ye 27th day 1741.

Phebe Thurstain daughter of Richard and

Mehetable his wife born December the four-
teenth day 1721, (or it may be 41.)

Thomas Pickard son of Jonathan and Ma-
ry his wife born March the second day 1742-3.

( End of the Record of Births. )

The following papers contain facts not
known to be recorded elsewhere. We pub-
lish them for preservation, presuming that
they are of some historic value and may in-
terest several of our antiquarian friends.
We are indebted to Mr. Jeremiah Colburn,
of Boston, who has communicated them for
this purpose.

WRECK OF THE SCHOONER NANCY,
IN 1752.

ESSEX ss.

AN INQUISITION INDENTED, taken
at Glouster within the s'd County of Essex,
the 10th day of October, 1752, in the Twen-
ty sixth year of the Reign of our Sovereign
Lord George the Second, by the Grace of
God, of England, Scotland, France, & Ire-
land, King, Defender of the Faith &c. Before
me, Epes Sargent Jun'r Gent., one of the
Coroners of our sd Lord the King, within the
County of Essex aforesd, upon the View of
the Bodys of Capt. William Scott of Boston,
Gilmore of Scotland, Mary Rodderford of
Gorges, & Margareta McClenachan of Chel-
sea; then and there being Dead, by the Oaths
of Mess's Edmund Grover, Jabez Baker,
William Tarr, Eben Pool, Tho. Harris Junr,
Thomas Tinson, Thomas Dresser, John Row,
Henry Witham, Nehemiah Grover, Eben
Grover, Nehemiah Grover Junr, Eleazer
Lurvey, John Stanchfield, Samuel Davis,
Samuel Clark, & Francis Pool. Good and
Lawfull Men of Glouster aforesd, within
the County aforesd, who being charged and

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sworn to Inquire for our said Lord the King,
when and by what means and how, the sd
William Scott, and Andrew Gilmore, Mary
Rudderford and Margareta McClenachan,
came by their Deaths; upon their Oaths
they Say, that ye before mentioned William
Scott & Andrew Gilman, was drowned from
ye Wrack of ye Sch. Nancy William, Mackey
Master, on ye 19th Oct'o. a Saturday
night half hour past Eleven ye= Wind blow-
ing very voyallantly Easterly & a very Great
Sea, & the Sea came and washed them over
from ye sd Wrack, & ye sd William Scott
& Gilman, has been in ye Sea ever

Sence untill yesterday they were taken up,
it being ye 9 day of October. & that Like-
wise ye before mentioned Mary Rudderford
& Margareta McClenachan, was drowned
From on board ye Sloop Elizabeth, Moses
Hodgskins Master, which was drove on Shore
by a Voy Storme of Wind yc wind being
about East & by North, about 12 o'clock
Sabbath day night, ye 8 day of October, The
said Mary, after ye vessel struck, went on
ye Deck and was Washed over on board, ye
people that were saved never heai'ing nor
Seaing any when she went over; the other
Margaretta being handed from a man on
Shore to a man that Stood on ye rocks a
shore, there came a Sea and Washed her out
of ye mans hands that was on ye rocks, a-
bout half a hour after, ye Said Sloop Struck
and boath ye Vessels were cast away on the
Back of Cape Ann, about Two miles from
Pigeon Hill.

and so the Jurors aforesaid, say upon
their Oaths that ye aforesaid William Scott,
Gilman, Mary Rudderford, & Mar-
gareta McClenachan, in Manner & form
aforesaid, Came to their Deaths by Misfor-
tune of Drowning. In Witness whereof as

well I the Coroner aforesaid, as ye Jurors
aforesaid to this Inquisition, have Inter-
changeablely put our hands and Seal the day
& year above said.

Henry Witham. Epes Sargent Jun.

Nehemiah Grover. Coro.

Ebenezer Grover. Edmund Grover.

Nehemiah Grover Jabez Baker,
juner. Will Tarr.

Eleazer Luquy. Ebenezer Pool.

John Stenchfield. Thomas Harrissjunr.

Samuel Dav'e. Thomas Finson.

Samuel Clark. Thomas Dresser.

Francis Pool. John Row.

TOPSFIELD BOUNDARY IN 1691.
March 30th, Anno 1691.

We whose names are under written being
Chosen & Impowered by ye Inhabitants of
Salem & Topsfield, to goe in Perambulation
On ye Divisionall line between ye Said
Towns, in Pcrsuance of Said order run ye said
line begining att a white Oake Tree with a
heap of Stones neere Wenham Causeway, &
Soo toward ye West South West to two
black Oake Trees with a heape of Stones
between them marked S-|-T; and Soo on ye
Same Course or neer it to a red Oake Tree
marked with Stones at ye roote neere Smith's
Hill, and so on ye Same Course to a large
heap of Stones neer Nicholls his Brooke, &
So on ye same Course to three white Oakes
marked with a heap of Stones in ye Center
of ye said Trees, neer ye Edge of an Ash
Swampe belonging to Capt. John Putnam &
Son; on ye Said Course as neere as wee can
Judge, to West South West unto ye River
commonly caled Ipswich River, to three
Oake Trees (marked) with Stones at ye
Roote of One of them ; a great Rock being

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on ye East Side of them, & ye neck of land

commonly Called Cromwells Neck, on ye
West of sd Trees.

Eobt. Kitchen. John How.

Benja. Marston. Ja Towne.

Daniel Rea. Phillip Knight.

Joseph Putnam. William Towne.

NOTES ON THE GRAY FAMILY.

Robert Gray & Hana Holt were m. 8 Mar.
1778. Their dau.

Katherine, b. 15 July, 1670.

Henry, b. 17 January, 1671.

Jemima, b. 10 mo. '73, & d. 7 mo. next
[year.]

Hana, b. 30 llth mo., '74.

Records of Salem.

Robert Gray, of Salem, dies ye 23d 11 mo,
1662. His wife Elizabeth afterwards mar-
ried Capt. Nicholas Manning.

The children of Robert Gray, are as fol-
lows.

Eliza, bapt. in the 1st Church 9th Imo 1651.

Joseph " " " 931653

Bethia " " " 1141654.

Thomas 113 1656.

He was born, as appears by the Salem Re-
cord, 12 3mo 1656.

Edward born & died May 1657.

Robert bapt. in 1st Church 23 3dmo 1658.

Hannah " " " 26 4th " 1659.

Mary born 3d 2mo 1661.

Record of Gray Families in possession of
Benj. A. Gray.

Robert, s. of Robert Gray, born 10th 3mo
1659. Salem Records.

Will of Robert Gray of Salem, dated llth
mo 1661, daughter Elizabeth Gray, sons
Joseph, Robert, daughters Bethiah, Hannah,

& Mary: .servant Elizabeth Wicks,
wife Elizabeth Gray, whom he appts ex'tx.
Essex Inst. Collections, /, 188.

A comparison of the account of Robert
Gray first, with the account of Robert Gray
second, mentioned above, will show that the
latter was not fined for attending a Quaker
meeting unless he did so seven years after
his death ; and that the former neither had
the children attributed to him by a writer in
the Essex Tnst. Collections, nor made his will
in 1662 with such specifications as are given
by said writer unless he did so before such
specifications were possible.

The comparison above suggested clears up
the obscurities about Robert Gray, in Felt's
account and in Savage's account respecting
him (them.)

A correction of the errors made, if one
should seasonably be given in the Institute's
Historical Collections, might save future ex-
plorers trouble.

R. MANNING CHIPMAN.

MEMOIR OF GEN. JOHN GLOVER.

Since the publication of the last number of the
Historical Collections, containing the closing por-
tion of Mr. Upham's memoir of Gen. Glover, the
writer has received from Mr. Josiah Crocker, of Sa-
lem, an original letter from General Glover to John
Hancock. Its valuable and interesting contents
render it very important to the completeness of the
memoir, and it is therefore appended.

CAMP PEEKS KILL, 25th Nov., 1779.

Sir : Doubtless ere this reaches you, your Honor
has rec'd the disagreeable intelligence of the defeat
of the Southern Expedition : I shall therefore omit
giving a detail thereof, & shall only observe, that
the fate of war is now and ever has been very un-
certain; & that misfortunes, however oppressive,
should not affect a people determined to be free,
so as to make them in the least relax in their mea-

160

sures ; but on the contrary, it ought to make them
redouble their exertions, & depend on the blessing
of Providence, for the wished for success.

I think it my duty to inform your Honor, that
by recent accounts rec'd from New York, we learn
that 28000 tons of shipping is taken up by Govern-
ment, and that a very large embarkation was soon
to take place ; and that common fame says a ne-
gotiation was on foot, and that an accommodation
may be soon expected. Whether this is given out
by the mercenary tools of Britain, or by the disap-
pointed miscreants cooped up in New York, or
both together, (to lull us asleep,) is a question, a
little time will discover. Be that as it may, be
assured, sir, it has not that effect on the army ;
things go on here with as much vigor as ever.
The spirit of re-enlisting prevails much. It's my
opinion, had I money to pay the bounty as resolved
by Court, I could retain the greater part of the 9
months men, as well as those that were engaged
for 3 years, " to serve during the war." About 70
have already re-enlisted in my Brigade; my money
is all exhausted; I can do no more. It's idle to
suppose men who, as they say, have been so often
neglected, will engage, upon resolves of Court.
We may as soon expect lines to be stormed & forts
taken by plans of attack drawn upon paper, with-
out men, arms or ammunition sufficient to execute
those plans, as old soldiers to re-enlist without
money. It's the sinews of war.

The whole of the army has gone into winter
cantonments excepting Gen. Nixon's * my Brig-
ades, who are now in the field (800 of my men
without shoe or stocking) enjoying the sweets of a
winter campaign, while the worthy & virtuous cit-
izens of America are enduring the hardships,
toils & fatigues incident to parlours, with good
fires, * sleeping on beds of down. Who, that
loves his ease, and wishes to enjoy a good consti-
tution, & at the same time make his fortune, would
not be a soldier !

Gen. Washington's Head Quarters are at Mid-
dlebrook. Gen. Heath has the fever and ague ; his
state of health is such as I fear will oblige him to
leave camp in a few days. The 4 Massachusetts
Brigades are left to guard the Highlands ; Patter-
son's, & late Laraed's, at West Point ; Gen. Nix-
on's (who is gone home unwell) & Glover's Brig-
ades in the gorge of the mountains on the east side

of the river, and Verplank's Point. Gen. Poor's
Brigade at Danbury ; the rest of the army all gone
into the Jersies. Suffer me now Sir, to lay before
the Honorable Assembly, the wretched situation
of the General Officers of the American army, &
in particular those of them belonging to the Mas-
sachusetts. Other States have done something
for theirs. Congress has lately given to Colonels
of Regiments 500 dollars per month (not too muchj
for subsistance money, <fc to all other officers in pro-
portion ; to General Officers nothing ; besides this
their pay has been raised 50 per ct. & some 200,
while General Officers remain as in 1775.

Such distinct.bn and neglect is very discourag-
ing, and I fear will be injurious to the service. It
has given great disgust to all the General Officers,
His Excellency excepted, who is not personally
affected by it, tho' at the same time, I have no
doubt feels for others that are, and wishes that jus-
tice may be done them. His influence over the
army is great ; the General Officers are much at-
tached to his person, as well as happy under his
command. That, with a desire of giving the fin-
ishing blow to the glorious work they have begun,
are the only prevailing motives that can possibly
induce them to continue in the service of a country
which has not paid them for services already done,
and does not hold out any emoluments or rewards
for the future.

I wish my fortune would enable me to serve my
country without pay, I would readily and cheerfully
do it ; it is well known it will not, yet I continue,
tho' it's at the expense of my little fortune, earned by
industry and hard labor in my youth ; and what is
still worse, to the certain ruin of my young family.

I am, Sir, respectfully,
your Honor's most obed't hum. Ser't,

JOHN GLOVER.
Hon. JNO. HANCOCK, Esq.

It will be seen by the above letter, that Gen.
Glover was not at Ridgefield through the whole
winter of 1779, (see page 109,) but was part of the
time in active service at the Highlands, N.Y. Mr.
Uriel Crocker of Boston has a fusee, taken by Gen.
Glover from an English officer at the battle of Sar-
atoga, and a sword worn by him when he was
Lieutenant of a company in Marblehead. (See
page 51.) These were given to Mr. Crocker's fa-
ther, Uriel Crocker of Marblehead, by the General.

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A COPY OF THE FIRST BOOK OF
BURIALLS, OF THE TOWN OF
ROWLEY, WITH NOTES.

COMMUNICATED BY M. A. STICKNEY.

Anno 1639. Deathes none.

Anno 1640.

Ellin Mighill wife of Thomas buryed the
fift moneth the twelfth day.

Anno 1641.

Jonathan Hopkinson son of Michell and
Anne buryed the eleventh moneth the twen-
tyeth day.

Anno 1642. Dethes none.

Anno 1643.

Sarah Smith daughter of Hugh and Mary
buryed the eleventh moneth the fift day.

Anno 1644.

Thomas Lambert sonn of Francis and Jane
buryed the second moneth the eighteenth day.

Anno 1645.

Unice Barker daughter of James and Grace
buryed the third moneth.

Sarah Sawer daughter of Edward and Ma-
ry buryed the twelfth moneth the twelfth day.
Elisebeth Remington daughter of John and
Elisebeth buryed the sixt moneth.

Anno 1646.

Margaret Stanton buryed the second mon-
eth the fifteenth day.

Anno 1647.

Robert Hunter buryed the sixt moneth the
fift day.

Francis Lambert beryed the seaventh mon-
eth the twenty therd day.

John Jarrat buryed the twelft moneth the
eleventh day.

Richard Baley buryed the twelfth moneth
the sixteenth day.

(23)

Anno 1648.

Michell Hopkinson buryed Febuary the
twenty eight.

Anno 1649.

Elisabeth Hassen wife of Edward buryed
September 18.

Mrs.* Rogers wife of Mr Ezekiel

buryed May the 8.

Anno 1650.

Ruth Palmer wife of John buryed October
the thirteenth.

Thomas Barker burried the 30 day of No-
vember.

Anno 1651. Deaths none.

Anno 1652.

Rebecke Law daughter of William and Ma-
ry buryed the seventh moneth and ninth day.

Tamar Barker daughter of James and Grace
buryed the tenth moneth the thirteenth day.

John Law son of William and Mary buried
the 7 mon ye 9th day.

Mary Jewet wife to Joseph Jewet buried
the second moneth the twelfth day.

Anno 1653.

Mary Prime daughter of Mark and Ann
buryed the eleventh moneth the sixt day.

Henry Barker son of James and Grace
buryed the tenth moneth.

Hugh Chaplin buried the first moneth the
twenty second day.

Mary Remington daughter of John and
Elisebeth buryed the fifth month.

Thomas Longhorne son of Richard and Ma-
ry buryed the twelfth moneth the eight day.

Mary Law daughter of William and Mary
buried the 11 mon ye 29 day.

Sarah Teny buried the tenth of Aprill.

* The recorder gives her Christian name, but it
is now too indistinct to give it with certainty, but
it has the appearance of Jane or Joan.

162

Anno 1654.

Sarah Boynton buried the 6 month the
twentie eight day.

Thomas Mighill buryed the fifth moneth
the fourteenth day.

Mary Hunter wife of Robert Hunter buried
the seventh moneth.

Timothy Mighill son of Thomas and Ann
buryed the

Deliverance Haseltine daughter of Robert
and Ann buryed the fifth moneth the four-
teenth day.

Elizebeth Haseltine daughter of Robert and
Ann buryed the fifth moneth the eighteenth
day.

Anna Mighill daughter of Thomas and Ann
buryed October the twenty eighth.

Anno 1655.

Sarah Jackson wife of Nicholas buryed Aug-
ust the twelfth.

Samuell Scot sonn of Beniamin and Mar-
gret buryed the tenth of March.

*son of Andrew and
buried the eleventh moneth.
Sarah Pearson daughter of John and Dor-
cas buried the eighth moneth and tenth day.

John Tod son of John and Susanna buryed
the twelft moneth.

Anno 1656.
Henry Sewell buryed the first moneth.

Anno 1657.

John Burkbee son of Thomas and Martha
burned the fifth moneth and fifteenth day.

John Trumble burried the fifth moneth the
eighteenth day.

Ann Teney wife of Thomas Teney burried
the seventh moneth the twenty sixt day.

Samuell Balie the son of James and Lidia
burried the ninth moneth the twenty eight day.

* Left a blank on the Record.

Elizebeth Remington the wife of Lefte.
John Remington burried the twenty fourth of
tenth moneth.

Anno 1658.

Ann Swan the wife of Richard Swan bur-
ried the fourth of Apperill or the second mo-
neth.

Martha Burkbee the wife of Thomas Burk-
bee burried the twentie fourth of June.

Anno 1659.

Jonathan Smith the sonne of John and Faith
burried the third day of the first moneth.

John Smith the sonne of John and Faith
burried the eleventh day of the first moneth.

Thomas Dickinson the sonne of Thomas
and Jeritt burried the thirteth of March.

Jane Lambert widow was burried June
the seventh.

Will Hobson was burried July the seven-
teenth day.

Thomas Abott buryed September the sev-
enth day

Elizebeth Holmes burried the twenty eight
of Jully.

Mary Plats the daughter of Jonathan and
Elizabeth burried the eleventh day of Novem-
ber or ninth month.

Jonathan Chaplin burried November the
twenty fourth day.

Mary Dresser the daughter of John Dress-
er burried November the twenty seventh day.

Jonathan Dresser the sonne of John Dress-
er burried the tenth of December or tenth
moneth.

Elizabeth Stickney burried the fourth of
December.

Anno 1660.

Sarah Holmes burried Maie the tenth day.

Japhet Holmes burried Maie the twentie
day.

Mary Clarke buried June the fourteen day.

163

Martha Clarke buried June the sixteenth
day. ,

Thomas Chaplin buried June the twenty
one day.

Thomas Wicome burned Jully the sixt day.

John the son of Samuel Brocklbank buried
July the fourth day,

Samuel Longhorne buried July the sixth
day.

Mary the daughter of John Burbanke bur-
ied July the twelft day.

Elizebeth Jarrat the daughter of John Jar-
rat buried July the thirteenth day.

Timiothy Burbanke the son of John Bur-
banke burned July the fourteen day.

Sarah Jewit the daughter of Maximilion
Jewit burried June the nineteenth day.

Francis Brocklbank the son of Samuel
Brocklebanke burried Jully the twenty second.

Judah Clark the son of Richard Clark bur-
ried Jully the twenty eight day.

Zachriah Boynton the son of William Boyn-
ton burned August the fourth day.

Samuel Teney the son of William Teney
burried August the fifth day.

John the son of John Brocklbanke burried
August the seventh day.

Jonathan Leaver the sonne of Thomas Leav-
er burried August the eight day.

Sarah Scot the daughter of Benjamin Scot
burried August the twenty one day.

Thomas Longhorne the son of Richard Long-
horne burried August the twenty sixt.

John Chapline the sonn of Hugh Chapline
burried September the fifth day.

Mr. Humfred Rainer the Ruling Elder bur-
ried September the fourteenth day.

Adding the daughter of William Stickney
burried September the seventeenth day.

Mr. Ezekil Rogers burried Jeneuary the
twenty sixt.

Mary Wicome the daughter of Daniel Wi-
come burried Febuary the first day.

Sarah Burkbee the daughter of Thomas
Burkbee burried Febuary the second day.

Debrah Ailing the daughter of Mrs. Ann
Jewit burried Febuary the fifth day.

Mrst. Ann Jewit the wife of Mr. Joseph
Jewit burried Febuary the eight day.

Sarah Spofford daughter of John Spofford
burried Febuary the fifteen.

Mr. Joseph Jewit buried Febuary the twen-
ty sixt day.

Anno 1661.

Thomas Crosbee buried the 6 day of May.

John Smith buried the fifth moneth the
nineteenth day.

John Law the son of William buried the
fifth moneth the twenteth third day.

Ann Lurne buried the nineteenth of March.

Anno 1662.

Thomas Dickinson buried the first moneth
the twentie ninth day.

Jaine Crosbee the wife of Thomas Crosbee
late of Rowley buried the second day of Maie.

Elizabeth Phillips buried June the tenth
day.

George Phillips buried June ye eighteenth
day.

Ezekiell Phillips burried the first moneth
the first day.

Anno 1663.

Sarah Parrat buried the ninth day of Octo-
ber.

Dammars Horrok burried the twentie sec-
ond of the twelfth moneth.

Mercy Kimbel daughter of Beniam Kim-
bel buried Febuary fifth.

Richard Wicome burried January ye twen-
ty seventh day.

Gershom Lambert burried the first moneth
seventeenth.

164

Anno 1664.

Jonathan Crosbe burned Maie ye twenty
seven.

Pricila Jewit daughter Maximillian Jewit
buried ye fifth of September,

Susanah Todd daughter of John Todd bur-
ied ye fifteenth of November.

Joseph Scote burned ye therd of Decem-
ber.

William Stickney burried the twentie fifth
of January.

Anno 1665.

March ye 26 John Boynton the son of
William Boynton was burried ye same day.

Jonathan Bally the sonn of James Bally
buried March ye 27 day.

Sarah the wife of Phillip Nellson burried
ye twelfth moneth ye seventeenth day.

Jerimiah Hopkinson burried the twelfth
moneth ye twentie second day.

Grace Barker the wife of James Barker
burried ye twelfth moneth ye twentie seventh
day.

For the year 1666.

Ensign John Brocklbank burried Aperill
the fifth day.

John the son of John Johnson burried
Aperil ye twelfth day.

Sarah the wife of Abel Langley burried
May ye sixteen.

Sarah Pearson ye daughter of John Pear-
son burried the eleventh moneth the sixteenth
day.

Sarah ye daughter of Samuel Brocklbank
burried the first day of the first moneth.

Anno 1667.

John ye son of John Trumble burried Jul-
ly ye 26.

John Lambert burried November ye sixt
day.

Ann the wife of Maxemilian Jewit buried
November ye ninth day.

Mercy the wife of John Teny buried No-
vember the twenty seventh day.

Mary the wife of Richard Longhorne bur-
ied November ye twenty ninth day.

Petter Cooper buried January the fifteenth
day.

Dorothy the wife of Mr. Samuel Shepard
buried the twelfth moneth the twelfth day.
' Anno 1668.

William Law buried March ye 30 thirty
day.

The grehous pasture Mr. Samuel Shepard
buried ye 2d moneth the ninth day.

Richard the son of Richard Longhorne bur-
ried June the second day.

Richard the son of Richard Lighten bur-
ied June the fifth day.

Thomas the son of Richard Longhorne bur-
ried Jully the eleventh day.

Jaine Brockelbank widow burried Decem-
ber the twentie sixt.

Richard Longhorne burried Febuary the
thirteen day.

Anno 1669.

Isack Aline burried Aprill the tenth day.

Aquila Law the son of Will. Law buried
Aprill the fifteenth.

Anno 1670.

Mr. Samuel Applton burried June the .

John the son of John Johnson burried Oc-
tober the seventh day.

Hannah ye daughter of John Palmer bur-
ied October the twenty fifth day.

John the son of Mr. Samuel Philips bur-
ried November the twentie third day.

Jeremyah the son of Mr. Phillip Nellson
burried January the eighteenth day.

John Boynton burried Febuary ye eight-
eenth day.

165

Anno 1671.

Andrew the sonne of Andrew Hidden bur-
ned October the eighteenth day.
Anno 1672.

John Dresser Senr. burried April ye nine-
teenth day.

Mistris Rainer burried Male the seventh
day.

Bridgit ye wife of John Harris buried Au-
gust the fourth day.

An ye wife of Mark Pryme buried Septem-
ber the sixt day.

Mr. Anthony Crosbee buried January the
sixteenth day.

Anno 1673.

Mary the wife of Abel Langley buried
Aperill the twenty second day.

Bosun the son of Abraham Jewit buried
September ye thirteenth day.

Edward Sawer burried March ye ninth day.
Anno 1674.

Simon ye son of Simon Chapman buried ye
second day of July.

Ann Wicome ye widow of Richard Wy-
come burried August the twenty fifth.

John the son of John Hopkinson buried
November the twenty third day.

Margrit ye wife of William Acce burried
Febuary the twelfth day.

Anno 1675.

Edward Sawier the son of John and Mary
buried June the twentie seventh day.

Lidia the daughter of Barzilla Barker bur-
ied December the eleventh day.
Anno 1676.

Margrit the wife of Leonard Haryman bur-
ied October the twenty second.

Mercie the daughter of William Stickney
buried January the fourteenth day.
Anno 1677.

James Bailie burried August the tenth.

Samuel the son of Samuel Spoford buried
September the twenty third.

Nathanel Mighill burried October the four-
teenth day.

Rebeckah Lambert daughter of Thomas
burried March the twelfth day.

Anno 1678.

Richard Swan burried Maie the fourteenth
day.

James Barker burried September the sev-
enth day.

Joseph Kilburn son of Joseph and Mary
burried January the eleventh day.

Mrs. Mary Rogers burried Febuary the
twelfth day.

An the wife of Thomas Nelson burried Jan-
uary the seventh day.

Anno 1679.

David the son of David Benit burried May
the fifth day.

John Scot son of Beniamin Scot burried
May ye twenty second.

John Wycom son of John and Abigail bur-
ried June ye twelfth.

Elizabeth the wife of John Harris burried
December the 29th day.

Anno 1680.

Jonathan Plats buried July the eighteen
day.

Nathan Lambert son of Thomas and Edney
buried November ye 7th.

Joane the wife of William Jackson buried
November 20th

Anno 1681.

Sarah the wife of Samuel Plats buried
Aperil 10th.

James ye son of James Bally buried Au-
gust ye 3d.

Sarah ye daughter of John Pickard bur-
ied October ye fourth.

166

Anno 1682.

Jachin son of Jachin Reyner buried Aper-
il ye 4th.

Richard Lighten burried June the second
day.

William Scails burried Jully ye tenth day.

Thomas Dresser son of Samuell and Mary
burried August the eighteenth.

Elizabeth Balee daughter of James and
Elizabeth burried December the 6 day.

John Pickard son of John and Mary bur-
ried January the twentie seventh day.
Anno 1683.

Susanna the wife of John Scales burried
June thirteen.

Sarah Langley wife of Abel buried June
ye twenty.

Edward Hazen buryed July the 22.

John Palmer son of John Palmer buryed
August the sixt day.

COPY FROM ORIGINAL BOOK OF
GRANTS OF SALEM.

COMMUNICATED BY PKRLKY DERBY, WITH NOTK8 BT
B. F. BROWNE.

Continued from vol. ir, page 184.

The ITth of the 2d moneth, 1639.

Granted to Lawrence Southwick half an
acre adioining his other half acre.

Granted to Obadiah Holme a spott of
ground to build on.

The 15th day of the 3d moneth 1639.
Mr. Conant John Balch

John woodbery Jeffry Massy
Lawrence Leech Willm hathorne
Granted to Thomas Smyth 80 acres.
Granted Lawrence Leech his 2 sonns 70
acres, whereof 7 acres of meadow, they both
relinquishing theire former grants of 20 and
30 acres.

Granted to Thomas Gardiner* a bank of up-
land nere the strong water brook to his Marshe
paying 5s p acre as goodman Lord hath it.

Granted to willm hathorne a pcell of Rocky
ground, about 3 acres lying by his Marshe
formerly granted upon condition that Thomas
Gardner hath yt wch is pd.

Granted to Joseph Kitcherill half an acre
at winter harbor if he Imploy yt in ffishing.

The Sth of the 6th moneth 1639.
Its ordered at a publique meeting That if
the towne be lawfullie warned and the spetiall
occasions manefested togeather with the warn-
ing, a day before the meeting that yt shall be
in the power of such as meet, being above the
number of six psons, to transact all such oc-
casions and make such orders therein as they
shall Judge meet, & the said orders & deter-
minations to be as authenticall as if the wholl
towne mett, pvided that the said psons have
been togeather or have stayd an howre after
the time first appoynted.

Sth of the Qth moneth 1639.
At a private towne meeting,

John Endicott John woodbery
Willm hathorne Lawrence Leech
Granted to John Pickering 50 acres of
Land beyond the west pond lying next to
lyn bounds.

Granted to william ffiske one hundreth acres
upland & tenne acres of meadow .

* Some of this land granted Thomas Gardner re-
mained in possession of one of his descendants till
1839. Part of it was used as a burying ground,
and the road from So. Danvers to Harmony Grove
passes over it. The grave stones of Seeth Grafton,
daughter of Thomas and of his grandson Abel
Gardner, were removed with the remains found
there, and are enclosed in a lot near the South
West corner of the grove.

167

The day of the moneth 1639.
John Endicott Lawrence Leech
willm hathorne mr Conant
John woodbery John Patch

Granted to Thomas Pickton a tenne acre
lott & an house lott of half an acre upon the
neck near Catt Cove.*

Granted Benjamyn Parminter an acre vpon
the north side of the neck next to henery
Bayly.

Granted to Nathaniell Pitman a pportion
of Land nere about 20 acres lying next unto
widow dikes Land on the South side the ffor-
est river.

George dill is received an Inhabitant &
there is given him half an acre for howse lott.

Samwell Elson is interteyned to be an in-
habitant and half an acre is granted him nere
Catt Cove and 5 acres more for planting
ground.

Thomas davenishe is received an Inhabitant
and tenne acres planting ground granted him.

henery Sillsby mr Sharps man is received
an Inhabitant and there is granted him half
an acre nere Catt cove for an howse plott.

Philemon dickerson hath granted him 4
poles of Land nere Richard hutchinsons howse;
the land is granted him to make tan pitts and
to dresse goats skyns and hides, such trade if
he follows not and use that place to that pur-
pose, the towne is to have yt returned again
to theire use.

Nicholas Patch is received to be an Inhab-
itant within the towne & there is granted 40
acres of Land to him nere macrell cove.

John White received an Inhabitant and
there is granted him 60 acres nere mr Smyths
farme.

John Lovett is received an inhabitant and

has granted to him 10 acres nere Mackrell
cove.

Edmond Patch is received an Inhabitant &
there is granted him 10 acres nere mackrell

cove.

Granted to mr hathorne 50 acres of plowed
land nere or adioyning to his farme.
The 19th day of the 6th moneth 1639.

At a genall towne meeting
Granted to John winthrop esqr Junr a lit-
tle neck of Land adioyning to the Salt house*
built by the said mr winthrop, conteyning
about 16 acres lying betwene a cove wch is
on the north side of his said house & a little
brook lying to the west of the said house.

Granted to Ananias concklyn one acre nere
unto his dwelling house.

Granted to Edmond Giles 8 pole of ground
Lying in the common over against his tenne
acre Lott ; it is to build him a house there.

Granted to mr Peters the marshe lying
over against his new dwelling conteyning
about an acker & halfe on the other side of
the water.

The 16th of the 1th moneth 1639.
John Endicott John woodbery
willm hathorne Lawrence Leech
Roger Conant

Granted to Mathew Nixon an house lott at
catt cove and a plott for a garden of about a
quarter of an acre.

The ISth of the Qth moneth 1639.
Mr. Endicott, John Woodbery,
Mr. Hathorne, Lawrence Leech,
Mr. Conant,

Granted to mr Ruck one acre in Catt cove.
Granted to Edmond Tompson halfe an acre
at winter harbor for a fishing lott.

Granted to henery heyward an half acre
for a fishing lot about winter harbor.

* John Winthrop's Salt Works were at Ryal
* Cat cove is between the neck & Winter Island. I Side. See Felt's Annals, P. 114.

168

Granted to willm Moore an half acre of
Land for a fishing lott in or about winter har-
bor.

Granted to Mathew Nicks fisherman 5 acres
by the hogstyes in the fforest next Ezekiell
knights ten acre lott.

The 20 of the 9 moneth 1639.
mr Endicott Lawrence Leech

mr Conant Jeffry massy

John woodbery willm hathorne

Granted to Richard Bishop about an acre
& an halfe by his other 5 acres abutting on
austin kittoms Lott.

Granted James Standish 40 acres neer
Jeffryes Creeke.

Granted to John Pickworth 3 or 4 acres
of the meadow to the Land formerly granted
to him.

Granted Charles Glover half an acre for
howse lott nere mr Rucks, pvided the wayes
be left broad, & also pvided he resigne to the
towne the howse lott formerly granted him.

Granted to John Batcheller 20 acres of
Land nere unto that wch was formerly laid
out to mr Bishop.

Granted to Joshua Holgrave 50 acres

The 9th of the IQth moneth 1639.

Granted to henery Bartholomew 100 acres
of wch ten acres shall be meadow.

Granted to James Moulton 80 acres where-
of 8 acres to be meadow.

A genall towne meeting the Tilth day of
the 10 moneth 1639.

There was a voluntarie contribution of the
towne towards the mayntenance of the minis-
tery quarterly to be payd the note thereof re-
maynetb with the deacons.

Granted one acre more to Ananias conclyn
& 2 acres a peice to the other tooe viz Law-
rence Sowthwick & Obadiah Holmes each of

them 2 acres to be added to theire former
lotts.

Granted 4 acres to John mowser nere the
old cow howses by the head of South River.

The ferry at the North poynt wch former-
ly was John Stones is now granted to willm
dixye for three yeares & he is to keepe an
horse boate.

he is to have for a strangers passage 2d a
peice, for townsmen or towne dwellers one
peny a peice^ for moores, horses, & other
great beasts 6d a peice, for Goats, calves &
swyne 2d a peice.

The 23d of the Wth moneth 1639.
John Endicott John Woodbery
Mr Hathorne Lawrence Leech
Mr Conant

Granted to Richard Ingersoll 20 acres of
medow in the great medow.

Granted to John ffairfield 80 acres of
Land for a farme 10 acres to be medow.

Granted Richard Prince 30 acres 4 of
them to be medow.

Granted Richard Leech 4 acres lying next
to John Leech his ten acre lott.

Granted Robt Adams 3 acres & quarter
nere unto John Cooke.

Granted to John Shipley 4 acres nere his
20 acres in exchange for 4 acres of the 20
acres whereby he may with more ease plant
his come.

Granted to John ffiske to be added to his
former land 30 acres whereof 4 acres to be
medow.

Granted to Joseph Bachellor and Thomas
Browning 20 acres, nere adjoyning to the
former grant & 2 acres a peice of medow to
be Laid out by the towne.

Granted to mr John Endicott all that
swamp that runneth in the lyne of his farme
next to goodman chickeryngs, & of the other

side to the Land that is Layd out in small
lotts somtymes mr Batters.

Granted to willm Geere 20 acres of Land.

Granted to Allen Convers 40 acres and 4
acres of medow.

Granted Lawrence Leech 15 acres more of
medow.

Granted to John woodbery John Balch &
mr connaught 5 acres of medow a peice in
some convenient place.

A genaU towne meeting the lltk moneth

1639.

yong mr Norris chose by this Assembly to
teach School.

The 21st of the llth moneth 1639.
John woodbery willm hathorne
Jeffry massy mr Conant
Granted to mr Norris 100 acres for a farme
and sixtene acres of medow.

Granted to Jacob Barney willm dodge
Richard Brackenbury 5 acres of medow a
peece.

Granted John Browne & Edmond Tomp-
son 30 acres of Land a peice.

Granted willm woodbury 10 acres of up-
land & 5 acres of medow.

Granted to Joshua verrin 40 acres.

Granted widow Bryan 2 acres medow.

Granted Jeffry massy 20 acres upland &
5 of medow.

Granted to hugh Stacy John Thurston
Thomas west & widow Payne 20 acres a
peece.

Granted to Austin Killam Nicholus Pacy
Philemon dicconson & Joseph yong 30 acres
a peece.

Granted to henery chickering & John yong
50 acres a peece.

Granted to Mris ames 40 acres.

(24)

Granted to willm Browne shop keep 80
acres.

Granted to mr Phillips to be an Inhabi-
tant and to have 80 acres; pvided that these
6 last grants from this mke is wth condition
that they continew in the plantation to use
the same.

Granted to the widow ffelton 30 acres.

Granted to widow Skarlett 20 acres.

Granted to Benjamyn Parmynster 10 acres
at Jeffryes Creek, when the former grants are
made good.

Grynted to Esdras Read 10 acres more to
his former 10 acres.

Granted Richayd Lambert 20 acres be-
twene Jeffry Esty & henery Swan.

Granted to Roger conant the sonne of Rog-
er conant being the first borne childe in Sa-
lem 20 acres of Land.

Granted to Joseph Daliber 20 acres.
. 30th of the first moneth 1640.
Mr. Endicott, John Woodbury,
Mr. Conant, Lawrence Leech,
Jeffry Mas.sy.

Captane Traske hath leave to sett up a*
tyde myll upon the North River pvided he
make passadge for a shalloppe from halfe
flood to full sea.

Granted to John Beaumont 5 acres of
planting ground.

Granted to John Lovett 5 acres wch was
pte of the land exchanged by Jeffry massy &
Richard Brackenbury nere mackrell cove.

The 15th day of the bth moneth 1640.
Mr. Endicott, John Woodbury,
Mr. Hathorne, Jeffry Massy.

Granted to miles ward 3 or 3 acres at stage
poynt.

* Wm. Tra*k in 1636 set up a Water Mill on
the North River above the present Frye's Mills.
(Felt's Annals of Salem, 2d Ed. Vol. 2, p. 165.)

170

The Hth of the 1th moneth 1640.

Granted John conclyne 5 acres nere the
glass bowse.

Granted half an acre for said John conclyn
near the glass bowse.

The llth of the Sth moneth 1640.

Granted to captaine Traske half an acre to
be Joyned to the new mill.

Granted to willm towne a little neck of
Land right over against his howse on the oth-
er side of the river.

Ordered that mr Stileman shall have the
quarter of an acre of Marshe wch mr Emery
should have had and 3 quarters more lying
in the fflaggin marshe at the upper end.

Granted to John Sanders and Raph ffoss

L OO

each a quarter of an acre over against there
lotts as you goe to the old mill.

Ordered that none of the Land within the
cattle range shall be granted hence forward
to any man for any particular use, And the
range of the cattle at the fforest river head
where the freshe water falls in & where the
Salt water floweth at high water marke shall
be a lyne Sowthward up to mr humphryes
farme and from thence to the pond and soe
about to Brooksbye.

The 20th of the llth moneth 1640.
mr Endicott John Woodbury,
mr hathome Jeffry Massy.

Granted to Allin convers 20 acre of plant-
ing ground next to mr Endicotts foarme lying
by that lott wch was Richard Normans nere
the head of the river & it is in exchange of
20 acres wch was formerly granted unto him.

Granted to John Putnam 100 acres at the
head of mr Skeltons farmc betwcn.it and
Elias Stileman the elder his farmc if there be
100 acres of it, And it is in exchange of 100
acres formerly granted him, and if yt fall out
that there be not soe much, then to be made

up nere to Leift daunports hill, and 10 acres
of medow in the Pyne medow, if it be not
granted formly to others.

Granted 50 acres unto Thomas Putnan &
5 acres of medow.

The 25<A day of the first month 1641.
John Woodbury, Jeffry Massy,
Lawrence Leech, willm Hathorne.

Granted to Thomas Buxton a prcell of
ground lying ^ the Rayles on the inside at
the end of the 10 acre lotts in the North side
being about 3 acres.

Granted to Ananias conclyn a yard con-
teyning 20 pole.

Granted to Marblehead Inhabitants all
such Lands nere adjoyning to them as have
not been formly granted to other men And
the said Lands thus granted to Marblehead
men are to be disposed of by themselves
pvided it be done with the consent of our
seaven men appoynted for the afayres of our
towne who shall be helpfull & ready to Joyne
wth them in the disposing of it, & therefore
the towne hath chosen Jeffry Massy to be
Joyned unto them for the psent.

At a genrall towne meeting the Last day of
the 1th moneth 1641.

Granted to Samuell Cornhill an acre of
Land for the sewing of heiupe.

At a meeting the 3rf day of the 10 .tnoneth
1641.

John Endicott Roger Cnnnnt

John woodbury John Balch

Granted to John ward 20 acres of Land.
Granted to Phyneas ffiske 20 acres more
at the villadge nere the pond.

Granted to Richard dodge 40 acres more
to his former 40 acres.

Granted to heliard verin 40 acres.

171

At a genrall towne meeting the 2d day of
the 3<f moneth 1642.

Ordered that there shall noe more trees
be felled by any man within the lymits of
Salem unless it be in mens pprietyes uppon
the payne or penalty of 20s for everie such
tree felled by any man whither Inhabitants
or strangers and that this order be psently
published & notice given to such as sett
them on worke, pvided that this order extend
not to any that shall fell any timber for his
own building or fencing or building of shops
here within the lymitts of our towne wthout
spetiall lycence from a magistrate.

henery Reynolds is to have a 10 acre lott
next to wellm King.

Granted to Obadiah Holmes a quarter of
an acre nere to his garden.

At a genrall towne meeting held the Wth of
the 6th moneth 1642.

Granted to goodman devenishe an Inhabi-
tant to be sett out to his Land nere the
Mill by Captaine Traske & Jeffry Massy.

It is ordered that Jeffry Massy & Peter
Palfrey shall right the '1 five acre lotts wch
are on Darbyes fort side & that they have
power to measure out the lotts nere adjoyn-
ing, whereby the 5 acre lotts may be found
according to the townes grant.

At a particular meeting of the 7 men.
mr Endicott Jeffry Massy

mr Gardiner Lawrence Leech

willm Lord Peter Palfrey

Granted to henery Bartholmew 100 acres
of upland & ten acres of medow to be laid
out a little beyond mr Bishops Land.

Granted to Samucll Kdson 25 acres of
Land Joyning to humphrey woodburys farme
in Mackrell cove & 2 acres of medow where
he can fynd yt there about.

Granted to John Scudder a peice of ground

conteyning half an acre to build an howse &
for other uses nere to his 10 acre lott in
kings cove.

At a genrall towne meeting held the 29<A
of the Qth moneth 1642.

Granted to John Pickering 4 pole of
ground nere to his house.

Its ordered that the highway by the
bridge shall be Laid out through the lotts
of goodman Moulton & not round about.

At a pticular towne meeting the %Qth of the

9th moneth 1642.
Mr Endicott Lawrence Leech
mr hathorne mr. Gardiner
Jeffry Massy willm Lord
Peter Palfry

Its ordered that an highway be laid out
by the towne through daniell Ray his lott &
he to have the old way laid out before, over
in the 10 acre lotts on the North feild.

Sold to henery Skerry an acre of Land
that was Nicholas drapers for 12s.

Granted to Goodman Lanes about 1 6 poles
of Marshe ground by the water next to his
tenne acre lott.

Granted to Leiftennt davenport & Thomas
Lathrop 80 acres of land wch was given for-
mly to Richard Waterman & he deserted it
to be equallie divided betwene them both in
regard of quantity & quality.

Granted to Alexander ffeild 2f> acres wch
was granted to Thomas Lathrop resigned to
the said Alexander ffeild in Leiw of the for-
mer grant of 40 acres.

Granted to Richard Pettingall 10 acres
for a Lott at Enon.

(i ranted henery haggett the cow keep at
Enon a 10 acre lott there.

Granted to George Ingersoll 20 acres as
nere his other Land at Enon as it may.

* Enon now YVcnham.

172

At a pticular towne meeting 23rf of the \\th

moneth 1642.

John Endicott willm Lord

Thomas Gardner Jcffry Massey
Peter Palfrey

Granted to willm Sawyer 20 acres at E-
non & 2 acres of medow if it may be had
there.

Granted to Esdras Bead 1 acres ^ all
" to brother Bulfinch 1 acres those
" to old goodman Scudder " 10 acre
" to Ralph Tompkins 10 acres lotts
" to John kitchtn 10 acres are to

" to Theophilus downing ye \ be laid

fisherman 10 acres out

" to Nicholas heyward a fish- nere to
erman 1 acres brother

" to willm Bowdiske 10 acres kings
" to John Abby 10 acres J lott.
" to henery Bullock 30 acres
" to Richard Gardiner & John Gardner
each a 10 acre lott nere mackrell cove next
to mr Thorndikes playne.

Granted to mr Emery 4 or 5 acres of med-
ow if there be soe manie lying there nere to
the Leiftenant daunports farme.
At a pticular towne meeting the 25<A of the

llth moneth 1642.
willm hathorne willm Lord
Thomas Gardner Jeffry Massey.
Peter Palfrey.

Granted to goodmau weekes 10 acres to
lye with the last 10 acres mentioned.

Granted to Edward Beuchamp 10 acres at
Bass River.

Granted to John Small 10 acres at Enon
on the west side of the great pond.

Granted to Robt Tucke 5 acres at the
great pond.

Its ordered that mr Gott shall have his
medow with the first in the great medow.

Granted to John Collins 10 acres in the
great pond.

It is ordered that all those that have
land granted at the great pond shall fence
wth the rest or els leave theire Lands, And
all that have lotts at Bass river are bound to
the like conditions.

Granted to henery Reynolds 5 acres at
the great pond.

Granted to John Boorne 5 acres at great
pond.

It is ordered that Jeffry Massy shall have
his 20 acres frrmly granted at great pond.

Granted to willm Allin & Robt Allin 10
acres a peice at the great pond.

Granted to Thomas Pattin 15 acres where
the layers out can fynd it.

Granted to Thomas west 10 acres at
great pond.

Granted to Michaell Sallowes 10 acres at
great pond if yt be there when the rest are
laid out.

Granted to John Hathorne 50 acres of land
toward the great river.

(To be Continued.)

RECORD OF MARRIAGES, BIRTHS
AND DEATHS, IN THE TOWN OF
LYNN. Vol. II*

COMMUNICATED by IRA J. PATCH.

Jann the wiflfe of Joseph Armitage Dyed
the 3 of March 1676-77.

John the Sonn of John Ally was borne in
January 1675.

Hanah the Daughter of John Ally was
borne the 22 of January 1679.

Joseph Armitage Died the 27 of June
1680.

Hugh Ally and Rebecka Hood was Maried
the 9th of December 1681.

* " The first volume is lost. In 1820 I found
this volume in ruins, bound it and furnished it with
an index. Preserve it carefully."

ALONZO LEWIS."
[Copied from the title page.]

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Sollomon ther Sonne was borne the llth
day of Octtober 1682.

Jacob ther Sonn was born the 28 of Jan-
uary 16834.

Eliazer their Sonn was Borne the first of
November 1685.

Hannah their Daughter was Borne the 16th
of August 1689.

Richard ther Son was bora the last day of
July 1691.

Joseph ther Sonn was bom the 22 day of
June 1693.

Rebeckae the Daughter of John Ally was
born the 28 of May 1683.

Hugh, the Sonn of John Ally, was born the
15 of ffewbruary 1685.

william, the son of John Alley, was born the
14th of July 1683.

The Genogley of Benjamin Alley and Eliz-
abeth his wife, Jacob, their son, Was Born
September.

Benjamin, the Sonn of Hugh Alley and of
Rebeckah his wife was born ye 24th of febru-
ary 1694-5.

Mst Samuell Apleton Junior and Mst Eliz-
abeth Whittingham was Married the 19th of
June 1682, the daughter of Mst William
Whittingham, Marchant in Boston.

Mary, the daughter of Mr. Samuell Apel-
ton and of Elizabeth his wiffe, was Born in to
this world the 30 of March 1683.

Hannah, ther Daughter, Was bora the first
of November 1684.

Elizabeth, ther Daughter, was Bom the 10
of July 1687.

Thomas Baker and Mary Lewis Was mar-
ried the 10th of Jully 1689.

Thomas ther Sonne was bora the 11 of Au-
gust 1692, and Died the 2 of September
1692.

Hannah ther Daughter Was bora the 17th
day of August 1693.

Mary their Daughter was bom the 15 of
July 1695 & dyed the 11 of August 1695.

Abigail their daughter Was bom ye 25th
of July 1696 & dyed ye 8 of August 1696.

the genealloge of Thomas Berry & Eliz-
abeth, his Wife.

thomas, there Sonn, Was bora the 14th of
Martch, 1694-5.

thomas there Sonn Departed this Life the
4th of Aprill 1695.

Samuell their Son was born the 25th of
June 1697.

* [William Lewis, (and Amy his wife.)

John, his son, born 1 November, 1635.

Christopher, bom 1636.

LyoUa, his daughter, b. Dec. 25, 1639.

Josiah, his Son, bom July 28, 1641.

Isaac, his son, born April 15, 1644.

Isaac Lewis & his wife Mary (Davis.)

Mary, their daughter, b. 1 March, 1680.

Isaac, their Son, born 31 August, 1683.

Joseph, their son, born 16 Novem. 1685.

John, their son, born 25 Feb., 1687.

Abraham, their son, b. 9 June, 1691.]

John Blano and Elizabeth Purchis, was
Maried in November, 1678.

William Beale and Mary Hartt, Widow,
was Maried the 5 of March, 1684.

Samuell Bly and Lois luery, was Maried
the 19 Day of December, 1678.

Theophilus, the Sonn of Samuell Bly, De-
parted this Life the 12 of June, 1681.

Samuell, ther Sonn, was Born the 6 of
June, 1686.

Samuell Bligh, Sen., Departed this Life,
the Last Day of December, 1693.

Ruth, the Wife of Theophilus Baylly, Died
the of November, In the year 1692.

Theophilus Baylly, Departed this Life the
14th day of ffebruary, 16934.

the genealloge of Ezekiel Rogers, & of
Lowes his Wife.

Nathanell, their Son was born the 18th of
July, 1695.

Lois, their Daughter, was Born June ye
15th, 1702.

Timothy Bread and Sarah Newhall, was
Married the 3 of March, 1679-80.

Joseph, ther Sonne, was born into this
World, the 18 of October, 1681.

Timmothy, ther Sonne, was born the 31 of
March, 1683.

Samuell, ther Sonne, was bora the first of
Jully, 1686.

* The following, which is included within brack-
ets, is in the hand writing of Alonzo Lewis, the
Historian of Lynn.

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Sarah Bread, wife to Timothy Bread, was
Buryed the 27th of November, 1688.

Allin Bread Senior, Departed this Liff, the
17 of March, 1690-91.

the genealogy of Timothy Bread, & Sarah,
his Second wife.

Thomas, their Sonn, was born ye 14 of
January, 1694-95.

Mary, their Daughter, was born the 14 of
August, 1696. shee dyed the 28th of Au-
gust, 1696.

Sarah, their Daughter, was born the 14th
of August, 1696.

Thomas, ther Sonn, was born the 21 of
September, 1698.

Jonathan, their Sonn, was born the 29 of
January, 1699-700.

the genealloge of Abraham Burrill, & Sa-
rah his Wife.

Sarah, ther Daughter, was born the 24th
of June, 1695.

Annee, their Daughter, was born the 2 of
March, 1697.

Ensigne Joseph Breed, Departed this Life,
Novem'r 25, 1713.

Sarah Breed, widow to the above named
Joseph Breed, daparted this Life Aprill 2d,
1752, aged 88 years and ten months and 17
days.

Joseph Bread and Sarah fFarrington, was
married the 27 of September, 1683.

Mary, ther Daughter, was born the 4 of
Jully, 1684.

Jane, their Daughter, was borne the 19th
of October, 1686.

Sarah, their Daughter, was Borne the 16th
of July, 1689.

Joseph, ther Sonn, was Born the last of
June, 1691.

Ruth, ther Daughter, was born 13th of
September, 1693.

Elizabeth, ther Daughter, was born the 6th
of October, 1695.

Mathew, their Sonn, was born the 22 day
of November, 1697.

Mathew, their Sonn departed this Life, ye
25 of January, 1697-8.

Mathew, their Sonn, was born the 31 day
of January, 1698-9.

Marce, their Daughter, was born the 20th
of July, 1701.

Mehitabell, their Daughter, was born ye

25 of Desember, 1704.

Allin, their Son, was born the 16 day of
March, 1706-7.

Allin Bread, Tertius, and Elizabeth Bal-
lard, was Married The 22 of May, 1684.

Nathanell, ther Sonn, was born the 24 of
August, 1685.

Elizabeth, their daughter, was Borne the
24th of January, 1687-88.

John, their Sonn, was Borne the 10th of
October, 1689. '

Mary, ther Daughter, was Born the 21 of
March, 1691-92.

Rebeckah, ther Daughter, was born the

26 day of January, 1694-5.

Hebzeba, their daughter, was born the 19th
day of June, 1697.

Josiah, their son, was born the 2 day of
January, 1700-701.

The Genealoge of John Bread, and Sarah,
his wiff.

John, ther Sonn, was born the 7 of June,
1664.

Ebinezur, ther Sonn, was born the 15 of
Aprill, 1676.

Sarah, the wiff of John Bread, died About
the 22 of November, 1676.

John Bread, and Sarah Hart, was Maried
the 4 of March, 1677-78.

John Bread, died the 28 of June, 1678.

Susan Grunnill, John Breed's Sarvant,
died about the latter End of Jully, 1678.

John Bread, Jun., and Mary Kertland, was
Maried the 28 of Aprill, 1686.

Sarah Bread, their daughter, was Borne
the 15th of July, 1687.

Sarah, their daughter, dyed the 28th of
January, 1687-88.

Samuell Bread and Anna Hood, was Mar-
ied the 5th of ffebruary, 1691-92.

Samuell, ther Sonne, Was borne the 11 of
November, 1692.

Amose, ther Sonn, Was Borne ye 20th of
July, 1694.

Jabez, their Sonn, Was borne the 26 of
January, 1695-6.

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Abigaile, their Daughter, was born the 7th
of Septemr, 1698.

Nathen, their Sonn, was bora the 3 of Jan-
uary, 1702-3.

Keziah, their Daughter, was Bora the 16th
of October, 1704.

Anna, their Daughter was born the 28th
of July, 1706.

Ebenezer, their Son, was bora the 1 day of
May, 1710.

Kuth, their Daughter, was bora the 10 of
March, 1711-12.

Benjamin, their Son, was bora July 4th,
1715.

(To be continued.)

THE FORT-POPHAM CELEBRATION.

I. Speech of John Wingate Thornton,
Esq., at the Fort-Popham Celebration, Au-
gust 29, 1862, under the auspices of the
Maine Historical Society. Boston : Printed
by Edward L. Balch, 34 School Street.
1863. pp. 20.

II. The Connection of the Church of
England with Early American Discovery
and Colonization. By the Rev. William
Stevens Perry, M. A. Portland, Maine.

1863. pp. 7.

These brief pamphlets are some of the re-
sults of the discussion which the "Fort-
Popham Celebration" of last year excited.
That celebration was, in part, an attempt to
connect with the earliest settlement of New
England the introduction of Episcopacy, and
to show that "members and ministers of
the English Church were in advance of"
the colonists of Plymouth and Massachu-
setts, "both in the patient endurance of the
hardships of colonization and in the noble
work of Christianizing the Aborigines."

This purpose, according to the interpreta-
tion given by the celebrators to one of the
memorial inscriptions erected by them, was
unmistakably announced, and received the
sanction of the Maine Historical Society.
The following is the inscription to which we
refer:

"In MEMORY OF

GEORGE POPHAM,

WHO FIRST FROM THE SHORES OF ENGLAND

FOUNDED A COLONY IN NEW ENGLAND,

AUGDST, 1607.

HE BROUGHT INTO THESE WILDS

ENGLISH LAWS AND LEARNING, AND THE

FAITH AND THE CHURCH OF CHRIST.

HE ONLY, OF THE COLONISTS,

AND IN HIS OLD AGE, DIED

ON THE FIFTH OF THE FOLLOWING FEBRUARY,
AND WAS BURIED NEAR THIS SPOT."

Mr. Thornton, who had been invited to
take part in the celebration, was called upon
to respond to a sentiment proposed by the
Chairman; and he did so, in a speech of
which the pamphlet first above-named, is a
reprint. In this speech he has argued, as
we think, successfully, that Popham's Colo-
ny, of 1607, was neither the foundation of a
state nor the first attempt to colonize New
England.

The first serious effort, by Englishmen, to
permamently inhabit these shores, was, un-
doubtedly, that of Bartholomew Gosnold, in
1 602, who, with thirty-two companions, built
a fort and "a large house" on what is now
known as Cuttyhunk, the westernmost of the
Elizabeth Islands, belonging to this Com-
monwealth. Several years ago the late Dr.
Belknap made a journey thither, and discov-
ered some evident traces of the precise loca-
tion of the fort and buildings, and to this
day, the pond east of the light-house at Cut-
tyhunk bears the name of Gosnold's Pond.
This settlement was, not long afterwards,

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abandoned; and the second attempt to colo-
nize New England was the enterprise set on
foot by the notorious Sir John Pophain, in
1607, near the mouth of the Sagadahoe or
Kennebeck, in the state of Maine.

After alluding to Gosnold's earlier settle-
ment, Mr. Thornton proceeds, supported by
an ample array of authorities, to show that
Popham's settlement was started with the
mistaken expectation of reaping great profits
from the mineral products of the country;
that deported criminals constituted, as in
Virginia, the body of the colonists; that the
settlement was finally discontinued in about
one year from its commencement ; that its
failure was a hindrance to the general cause
of immigration, because it damped the ardor
of other adventurers ; and that it was other-
wise disastrous, inasmuch as it involved the
English in difficulties with the French, who,
after this failure, were more readily induced
to occupy the territory which these English
colonists so incontinently abandoned. In
conclusion he draws a striking contrast be-
tween the short- lived settlement at Sagadahoe,
and the great results achieved by the pious
founders of Plymouth and Massachusetts.

Had Mr. Thornton proceeded no further
than to exhibit the foregoing facts, there
could have been no controversy with his ar-
gument, because no intelligent person who
had, at all, examined the history of the
eastern settlements as given in the records,
and in the pages of all writers upon the sub-
ject, nearly or quite contemporaneous with
the events, could have had the hardihood to
dispute either of his propositions ; and what-
ever may be thought, as a matter of eti-
quette, of the propriety of his course in
speaking so much at variance from the gen-
eral tenor of the remarks made at the cele-

bration, it seems to us that he was not only
justified in critically examining the history
of the Popham settlement on that occasion,
but that he would have been recreant to du-
ty, as a professed student of New England's
history, if he had, out of mere complaisance,
silently noted the insidious progress of
what, if an error, might prove, in the end, a
very important one, and one fruitful of con-
tentions.

But, as we Vtave already stated, the memo-
rial inscription which we have quoted, obvi-
ously claims for George Pophara, a brother
of Sir John, and the leader of the colonists,
not only precedence in the founding of a col-
ony, but also in the establishment of a church
in New England, and this church, according
to the views of those most prominently en-
gaged in the celebration, was Episcopal in
its character, regular, by the English
standard, in the form of its services, and
officiated over by one who was not a Puritan.

Waiving the question of how a mere at-
tempt at colonization, abandoned after one
year's trial, can, properly, be regarded as an
epoch from which descendants of later colo-
nists should date the introduction of their
church system, Mr. Thornton, in one of his
notes, expresses a doubt as to whether the E-
piscopal forms and ceremonies were regular-
ly introduced at Sagadahoe. in 1607, by
an Episcopally ordained "Presbyter of the
Church of England." This doubt is based
upon the allusion of the historian, Strachey,
to Richard Seymour, who was the chap-
lain of the colonists, as their "preacher,"
and to the "sermon" delivered by him on
the first Sunday of their landing, words,
according to Mr. Thornton, which, "certain-
ly have a tinge of Puritanism."

This brings us to a consideration of Mr.

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Perry's pamphlet, in which, towards the end,
the writer cites authorities to show that
the words "preacher," and "sermon," "will
be found to have another history and to
have been any thing but detested" quoting
a word used by Mr. Thornton in his history
of Ancient Pemaquid "by the Eng-
lish Church, if her recorded formularies and
documents are to be believed."

Mr. Perry is a clergyman of the Ameri-
can Episcopal Church, and is zealous to
show, not only that Popham's colony was
" the first real occupation and settlement of
New England, from which the title of Eng-
land to a most important share of the North-
ern coast of America dates," but that Rich-
ard Seymour was a clergyman of the English
Church, "deriving his authority for his sa-
cred office from ordination by the hands of a
Bishop of the same church ;" that Epis-
copacy was, by him, regularly established in
the colony, and that, "after years of efforts
and small returns it was reserved for the ty-
rannous hand of Massachusetts to crush out
the independence and existence of the Epis-
copal Province of Maine."

With regard to the form of Mr. Seymour's
ordination, and the regularity of his practic-
es, and his opinions in matters of church
discipline, it would be impossible to arrive
at any satisfactory conclusion from the lim-
ited data we have presented to us. He may
have been a rigid conformist or High-Church
presbyter of the English Church or he may
have been a Puritan: that is, either a reluc-
tant conformist, or a non-conformist in some
particulars. No one, we believe, claims
that he was a Separatist, or Brownist; and
such a claim would not only be unsupported
by any facts known to us, but would, of it-
self, be highly improbable. That he was a
(25)

Puritan is quite possible; but whether he
was so or not is to be determined only by
sufficient evidence. Perhaps in the litera-
ture of that period, in some biographical
book or manuscript, something may yet be
found to solve all doubt upon the subject,
which is, after all, a matter of no considera-
ble importance.

We think, however, that Mr. Thornton is
right in saying that the words "preacher"
and "sermon," as applied to him, "have a
tinge of Puritanism," notwithstanding Mr.
Perry's very positive and rather indignant
objection thereto. We have some definite
evidence to corroborate Mr. Thornton's sus-
picion. Every Puritan parson was a preach-
er, but not so every priest in the English
Church ; and one of the chief and most ear-
nestly-pressed demands of the Puritans was
for more preaching. Only twenty years be-
fore Seymour sailed for New England,
(1586) a careful survey of nine of the
principal counties of England, including
also the city and environs of London,
disclosed the disgraceful fact, that in more
than two thousand churches and livings
there were only four hundred and twen-
ty-six preachers. The number of mere
readers, in the same territory, was one
thousand three hundred and seventy three;
while, in all of these, the non-residents and
double-bcneficcd numbered five hundred and
sixty-five. It was the estimate of contem-
porary writers and men of good judgment,
that "after twenty eight years' establish-
ment of the Church of England, there were
only two thousand preachers to serve near
ten thousand parish churches." From many
of these livings which were without preach-
ers, Puritan divines, educated at Oxford and
Cambridge, had been suspended or ejected>

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not for "impiety immorality, want of
learning or diligence in the ministerial work,
but for not being satisfied in the use of cer-
tain ceremonies," *oeo "and for not be-
ing able to declare that every thing in the
Common-Prayer Book is agreeable to the Word
of God:" and in their places, if filled at
all, the bishops had in many instances sup-
plied their flocks with clerical shoe-makers,
barbers, tailors, water-bearers, shepherds
and horse-keepers ; many of whom were pot-
companions, simpletons, covetou?, licentious,
profane, and even convicted of felonies for
which they had been punished, with benefit
of clergy. How could such vagabonds be
expected to preach, much more edify by their
sermons ? Yet these all received Episcopal
ordination at the hands of such bishops as
Alley and Bradbridge.

As further evidence to the same point,
we adduce the fact that preaching was of-
ten restricted, and sometimes entirely sus-
pended, for a season, at least, Ly the high-
est authorities of the Church. And that the
condition of the Church had not essentially
improved since the year 1586, is evident
from the fact that only four years before the
settlement at Sagadahoc, when Dr. Reynolds,
at the Hampton Conference before King
James, in behalf of the Puritan clergy, com-
plained of pluralities in the Church, and
prayed that all parishes might be furnished
with preaching ministers, Bancroft immedi-
ately "fell upon his knees and petitioned
His Majesty that all parishes might have
a praying ministry ; ' for preaching has grown
so much in fashion ' says he, ' that the ser-
vice of the Church is neglected. Beside pul-
pit harangues are very dangerous'; he there-
fore humbry moved that the number of homi-
lies might be increased, and that the clergy

might be obliged to read them, instead of ser-
mons in which many vented their spleen
against their superiors." Bancroft's petition
was granted.

From the foregoing items, alone, it would
appear that all that Mr. Thornton suggested
had ample foundation in the facts of history,
and that if Seymour was not a Puritan,
Strachey's account fully warrants the belief of
his having been even a non-conformist. What-
ever he was as a Churchman, let us hope
that he was a sincere Christian, more intent
on saving souls than on preserving traditions
and performing ceremonies ; and that the
poor criminals under his spiritual care were
benefitted by his ministrations; criminals
who must have been exceedingly depraved
or exceedingly unfortunate to have stood
convicted of crimes against persons and prop-
erty in an age which held such offences venial
as compared with ecclesiastical and politi-
cal irregularities ; and in a country which
could boast that the head of its Church and
the Chief Justice of its highest bench had,
between them, scrupled not to perpetrate
almost every offence known to criminal law,
from the highway robberies of Popham to the
foul orgies of James, his blasphemous inso-
lence at the Hampton-court Conference, and
his connivance at the murder of Overbury.

We have said that Seymour's views and
practices in .regard to disciplinary matters,
are things of no great importance. We do
not mean by this that these subjects should
not be investigated, and, if possible, fully
settled; but we mean that, whichever way
they may be decided, the result cannot affect
the principal fact sought to be established,
by Mr. Perry, that "the Faith and the
Church of Christ" were brought to these
wilds by no other clergymen than regularly

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ordained priests of the English Church.
This fact is secure enough even if, to prove
it, Mr. Perry should be obliged to come to
Plymouth or Massachusetts for his evidence;
for who, but members of the Church of
England, founded these colonies ? and what
were their pastors, if not priests of that
Church ?

It is true that some of these clergymen,
nay, most of them, had been deprived of
their benefices, but these ecclesiastical cen-
sures did not, necessarily, include degrada-
tion from the priestly office ; and the offend-
ers certainly were not excommunicated.
On the contrary almost all of them protest-
ed against even being called " Separatists ;"
they talked and wrote fondly of the Church
of England as "our dear Mother," and
openly participated in her sacraments, in
full and unchallenged communion, whenever
they returned to England on matters of
business and the like. Two notable excep-
tions to this rule, however, ought not to be
forgotten ; and these were Kalph Smith, the
first minister at Plymouth, and Roger Wil-
liams of Salem, both of whom were coldly
treated, and even persecuted, by their fellow
Puritans for their advocacy of Separation,
though it does not appear, we believe, that
either of them was ever degraded or excom-
municated in England for this or any other
offence. To this point we shall refer again.

Mr. Perry's solicitude to relieve Popham's
colonists from "a charge of Puritanism"
springs, we fear, from his erroneous views
respecting the character of these dreaded
Puritans. It is a vulgar prejudice, from
which all respectable modern historians have
succeeded in liberating themselves, in a great
measure, that leads some, otherwise careful,
thinkers to flippantly discuss the " Puritans "

as if it were a settled point in history that
these maligned "sectaries" were guilty of
plebeian extraction, of gross superstition, hy-
pocrisy, ignorance and misanthropy; and,
above all, to treat of them as if they consti-
tuted a party outside of, and pitted against
the Church, and persistently bent upon her
destruction,

Now it would, oftentimes, startle these
anti-Puritans, we imagine, to boldly meet
them, not only with a denial of all these as-
persions, but with the further declaration
that, in respect to all the characteristics above
named, the Puritans, as a class, were de-
cidedly superior to their High-Church breth-
ren. Yet this statement is true; and, if in-
stead of consulting the story of Hudibras,
and later lucubrations starting from that
source, the student will take the pains to
wade and even wallow a little through the
pages of contemporaneous history in the
study of this subject, he will soon be con-
vinced that a large proportion of the old
English aristocracy including many, of
what Mr. Perry calls "England's highest
noblemen " was Puritan ; that superstition
hovered around the masses and mummeries
of High-Church prelates, and could not brook
the severely plain ceremonies of the reform-
ers; that hypocrisy battened in a multitude
of stalls and benefices, unworthily held, and
shared not the chaste companionship of
priests deprived and in exile, for conscience'
sake ; that ignorance was to be found among
those clergymen who, because they could not
write their own, were taxed at four purchased
sermons a year as appears in the visita-
lions of the Bishop of London, where these
illiterate priests were enjoined to have a li-
brary of two books (a Bible, in Latin and
English, and Bullinger's Decads,) and not

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among the Puritan divines ; scarcely one of
whom, but had distinguished himself, at one
of the Universities, as tutor or scholar, and
many of whom are still remembered for their
vast and profound learning.

Of intolerance, the Puritans, at least those
of New England, had their full share. But
herein, it must be remembered, they were
not hypocritical or inconsistent, for they nev-
er professed a willingness to tolerate, or to
have others tolerate, error of any kind. It
is a mistaken pretension of modern times
which Mrs. Hemans has so beautifully ech-
oed:

"They left unstained what here they found :
Freedom to worship God."

No matter what New England now is, New
England under Puritan rule was intolerant
just in proportion to the strength and sinceri-
ty of her faith. Witness the fate of the Sep-
aratists, Antinomians, Baptists, Quakers, mi-
nor heretics, and lastly, and most gently han-
dled, of the High-Churchmen of Massachu-
setts. This is a fact which we should have
the courage and honesty not to conceal or de-
ny. But what of this fact ? Does it lift any
blame from the shoulders of the High-Church
party, in respect to their intolerance ? Were
any of the schismatics above-named, at any
given period, freer from persecution in Old
England, than in New England? Never, ex-
cept during the comparatively short rule of
Cromwell and the Independents. The truth
is that the age had not learned the important
lesson of the necessity and the policy of toler-
ation; and the Puritans of New England,
with a few striking exceptions, acted precise-
ly as their brethren of the Church of England
did at home, with this difference, and it is
an important one, and favorable to the Puri-
tans, that while the offences punished in
England were, generally, irregularities of dis-

cipline, the offences punished in New Eng-
land were, almost always, heresies, or delin-
quences in doctrinal matters. It is true a re-
spectable, intelligent and commanding body
growing out of the Puritan ranks, the Eng-
lish Independents, strove, long and earnestly,
for universal toleration, and, for a while, suc-
ceeded in giving the harassed people a com-
fortable share of this blessing. But in this
and many other things those great men were
far, very far in advance of the age ; and af-
ter the downfa! 1 , of the Commonwealth, the
government, in new hands, relapsed into the
old slough of intolerance, just as, under the
same imbecile and tyrannous management, its
political and martial glories faded and were
forgotten.

We judge that Mr. Perry holds erroneous
views respecting the history and ecclesiastical
standing of the Puritans, not only from his
evident desire to clear the colonists at Saga-
dahoc from all suspicion of Puritanism, but
also from the importance which he attaches
to the testimony of Neal respecting the date
or the rise of the Independents in England
a circumstance which Mr. Perry erroneously
assumes to be historically identical with the
beginning of Separation and also from the
strange argument which he holds to show that
" Popham's brother, and Raleigh's nephew
and Gilbert's son," were not Puritans, be-
cause they could not have been Separatists
a non-sequitur, which betrays, we submit,
great unmindfulness, on his part, of some very
important facts in the history of the reforms
and changes in the English Church.

No Separation before 1616 ! How can Mr.
Perry have forgotten the London Separatists
of 1567, the Brownists, and the martyrdom
of Barrowe, Greenwood and Penry? And
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always Separatists? Has he forgotten the ul-
tra-Puritan Bishop Hooper? and how, on the
archiepiscopal throne of Canterbury, sat the re-
nowned Puritans, Giindal and Abbot?

Of course we shall not here undertake to
enlarge upon the history of the Puritans ; and
we should hesitate to quote from the pages of
Neal or Hopkins, when those ample histories
are so easy of access to all; but, as it will
greatly aid us in expressing our views as to
what constituted Puritanism, let us briefly ex-
amine the points which, on divers memorable
occasions, the Puritan clergy indicated as the
only essential matters of difference between
them and those of their brethren who stood
up in defence of every tradition and every
prelatical innovation of the Church.

In the great contest of Knox versus Cox,
which broke out at Frankfort among the ex-
iled Englishmen of Queen Mary's day, and
which marks the beginning of Puritanism, the
dispute commenced in an attempted alteration
of the Liturgy as it had been established un-
der King Ed ward. The "Church" had gone
abroad ; the Queen being a Romanist, its tem-
poral headship was in abeyance ; and, with few
exceptions, all those who, upon the accession
of Elizabeth, were first to become conspicu-
ous as its ministers and prelates, were living
in obscurity or in exile. The exiles, there-
fore, rightfully claimed full power, next un-
der God, to regulate ecclesiastical affairs in
such manner as seemed to them to be best for
the interests of religion, and an attempt to sim-
plify the Liturgy, by casting aside the lita-
ny and the surplice, altering the confession,
substituting for the hymns, between the chap-
ters and the creed, a version of the psalms, by
Sternhold and Hopkins, and making some ad-
ditional, trifling variations from the old ser-
vice, was the result. These things done,

and the tenderest and most ultra-Protestant
conscience was satisfied. In 1556, simply
these constituted the whole of Puritanism.
The Presbyterians went further and denied the
precedence of the Bishops as a clerical order;
but not so the Puritans, who were content
with the Episcopacy as that system was then
understood and managed by Protestants.

Let us now consider their complaints and
demands at a later date. The time we will
select shall be soon after the Church was re-
established under Elizabeth, when new meas-
ures began to be used to promote uniformity
the English Reformers, contrary to the gener-
al spirit of the Reformation, having strange-
ly resolved to maintain, throughout the realm,
the greatest regularity in forms, ceremonies
and habits, notwithstanding the fact that Rome
itself had not yet adopted a uniform missal,
but had permitted a diversity of liturgies,
even in England, as the Use of Salisbury, (a-
dopted by Wycliffe in his New Testament)
the Use of Bangor, of York, of Hereford, etc.
attest, and notwithstanding that the highest
English prelates had, on the most solemn oc-
casions, intentionally appeared in garments
differing not much from the common habili-
ments of a priest or scholar.

In the year 1561, when Archbishop Par-
ker undertook to suppress Puritanism at Ox-
ford, Rev. Thomas Sampson, Dean of Christ
Church, and Dr. Lawrence Humphrey, legius
professor of Divinity and President of Mag-
dalen College, being cited, with others, to
Lambeth, were peremptorily ordered to con-
form to the habits, that is, "to wear the
square cap, and no hats, in their long gowns;
to wear the surplice with non-regents hoods
in the choirs, according to ancient custom,
and to communicate kneeling, in wafer bread,
or else they should part with their prefer-

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ments." These grave, learned and manly
Protestant divines, replied that "they could
not conscientiously comply with these injunc-
tions, be the event what it might." And
they were punished accordingly. This was
the whole of their obnoxious "Puritanism."
At the same time the London Puritan min-
isters were treated in the same manner for a
similar offence, and for nothing else. So that
thirty-seven clergymen of the city, including,
as the Archbishop himself acknowledged,
"some of the best," were silenced for reject-
ing what the Church, at a later date, reject-
ed and still rejects, the use of the idola-
trous trappings of Rome.

Let us, next, come down to the year 1584,
after Whitgift had been translated to the See
of Canterbury. This zealous High-Church-
man immediately set about correcting the ir-
regularities which had been permitted and
encouraged by his Puritan predecessor. To
this end he promulgated, by his sole authori-
ty, certain articles intended to check these
irregularities, and to bring about an enforced
uniformity in the ceremonies of the Church.
Alarmed at this new assertion of authority by
the Primate, and reluctant to surrender the
liberty of conscience of which they had deemed
themselves secure, the Puritan clergy and no-
bility, aided by some civilians of the courts,
united in divers remonstrances, usually of
an argumentative character, quite earnestly,
though respectfully and temperately expressed.
So much opposition was shown against the new
measures, that after suspending two hundred
and thirty-three non-subscribing clergymen,
the Archbishop, who was not so far es-
tranged from Papacy as to have found it diffi-
cult to hold his place in the University during
the whole of "Bloody" Mary's reign, while
his more scrupulous brethren were in exile,

conceived the expedient of borrowing from
"Mother-Church" one of her most power-
ful engines of oppression, namely, the Inqui-
sition, in order to prosecute his "reforms"
with greater speed and certainty.

This piece of ecclesiastical machinery was
brought in under the old name of the " Court
of High Commission," it being the sixth es-
tablishment of that court, each new organiza-
tion having brought to it greater powers and
a wider jurisdiction. An oath, ex officio,
was to be tendered, in this court, to any cler-
gyman, who was not to refuse the same under
penalty of unlimited fines or imprisonments :
contrary to the rule of the Common Law, con-
fessions were to be extorted, and that, too,
"by all means and ways that " the Commis-
sioners "could devise," including, of course,
the rack and torture.

Twenty-four articles of inquisition were pre-
pared by the Archbishop, which were to be
tendered to the Puritan prisoners immediate-
ly upon their being brought into court by the
pursuivants. Now, every one of these twen-
ty-four articles was contrived to aid in ascer-
taining the prisoner's opinion of the legality
and authority of the ceremonies and sacra-
ments, as regulated by law, and his past con-
duct respecting their due observance.

Against this enormous tyranny even the
conservative nobility were obliged to protest.
First Cecil (Lord Treasurer Burleigh) vig-
orously and pointedly declared his objections,
in a letter to the Primate; then followed the
Lords of the Council, jointly, Burleigh,
the Earls of Warwick, Shrewsbury and Lei-
cester, Lord Charles Howard, Sir James
Crofts, Sir Christopher Hatton, and Sir
Francis Walsingham, Secretary of State.
Moved by these demonstrations, the Arch-
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to a conference at Lambeth, where the Pur-
itan clergy appeared, and discussed " things
needful to be reformed in the Book of Com-
mon Prayer." By the record of this discus-
sion it appears that their only objections were
to the treating the Apocrypha as of equal sanc-
tity with the Canonical Scriptures ; to bap-
tism by laymen and women, and interroga-
tories in the name of the child, and the use
of the sign of the cross therein ; to private
communion ; to the apparel ; and, finally, to
the insufficient ministry, non-residence and
pluralities of the clergy. The conference
ended in the disappointment of the Puritan
clergy, and of all who shared their opinions,
including most of those of the laity who were
distinguished for piety, intelligence and good
repute. Lady Ann Bacon, mother of the im-
moital Sir Francis, and a true Puritan, wrote,
under date of February 26th, 1585, to her
kinsman, Burleigh, a letter in the nature of
an appeal from this result of the conference,
asking for a re-hearing before the Queen or
the Council, in which she declares, " / con-
fess, as one that hath found mercy, that I
have profited more in the inward -feeling
knowledge of God's holy will (though but in
a small measure) by such sincere and sound
opening of the Scriptures by an ordinary
preaching within these seven or eight years
[during Grindal's Puritan administration] than
I did by hearing odd sermons at Paul's well-
nigh twenty years together."

Thus stood Puritanism in 1585. The de-
feated Puritan preachers were, generally, sup-
planted by mere readers, or their benefices
were left void, or, what is worse, since it
barred all hope of stated preaching, were held
as pluralities. Meantime the soul-hungry peo-
ple were left to repine, and wonder that so
many excellent men, whose eloquence and zeal,

in the days of Archbishop Grindal's authori-
ty, had sweetly comforted them with whole-
some instructions and warmed them with high
and holy emotions, should be deprived or si-
lenced, when the need of their ministrations
was more keenly felt than ever before, in the
appetite which such spiritual nourishment,
publicly and innocently offered, had created
or greatly increased.

Now, if we come down twenty years later
still, to the famous or rather infamous recep-
tion of the Puritans by King James, at the
three days' conference at Hampton Court, in
1603, we shall find them uttering the same
complaints and asking for the same long-de-
sired changes ; adding, however, a request that
they might be allowed the "liberty of prophe-
sying," in the rural deaneries, as in Arch-
bishop Grindal's time, (that is, the liberty to
hold occasional informal meetings among them-
selves for the prayerful reading and discussion
of Scripture,) and, also, protesting against
the growing power of the Bishops, who, since
Bancroft's great sermon at Paul's Cross, Jan.
12, 1588, preached by him as chaplain to
the Archbishop, had, generally, fallen in
with the doctrine, then and there first author-
itatively broached in the Reformed Church, of
the divine right of the Bishops to rank as
a distinct or third order of the clergy. This
protest, it is true, was not so distinctly made
by the Puritans as it would have been, had
not the King's violent interruptions of the
speakers prevented; for, during a period of
nearly forty years, the growing authority of
the Bishops had been watched by them with
alarm, and, for nearly half that time, the doc-
trine of " divine right " had almost entirely
superseded that fundamental doctrine of the
Reformation, of the equality of presbyters and
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in the reformed churches of the Continent and
in Scotland, which had been expressly and
solemnly sanctioned by Henry the Eighth, in
the "King's Book," in 1543, and which
even the Council of Trent had hesitated to
oppugn.

Thus we see that the Puritans were not on-
ly true Churchmen, but that the reforms they
sought and which brought them into conflicts
with the hierarchy, were so entirely reasona-
ble and necessary that most of them have
been, practically, approved of by the Church
in later times.

The fathers of the New-England churches,
then, were none the less Churchmen because
they were Puritans; nor because, in discipli-
nary matters, they diverged from the English
practices more widely than did any of their
brethren in England; for, notwithstanding
their irregular practices, they were priests of
the English Establishment, duly ordained,
and, as such, had full power to ordain dea-
cons and presbyters, in other words, to con-
tinue the "apostolical succession,' 1 without
the aid of a bishop : such was the doctrine of
the Church in their day, as it had been ex-
pounded by Cranmer, Pilkington, Jewel,
Grindal, Whitgift, Usher, and even by Ban-
croft himself. No unworthiness by reason of
their non-conformity or otherwise, could inval-
idate the effect of their administration of the
most sacred rites. This is settled by the twen-
ty-seventh of the forty-two Articles of Relig-
ion agreed upon under King Edward, in 1552 ;
which is now the twenty-sixth of the thirty-
nine Articles of 1562, and which was adopted
by the American Episcopal Church in 1801.
Moreover the thirty-fourth article declares,
"It is not necessary that traditions and cere-
monies be in all places one and utterly like;

for at all times they have been divers, and
may be changed according to the diversities
of countries, times and men's manners, so
that nothing be ordained against God's Word."
Nothing, therefore, can be argued against the
legitimacy of the American churches from the
simplicity of their rites. It is true that, by
the Canons of 1603, the assertion, inculca-
tion or practice of anything inconsistent with
complete conformity subjected the offender to
excommunication, ipso facto. But these can-
ons were not regularly authorized and have
been rejected by the British Courts as not
binding on the laity. [Middleton v. Croft, in
1737, is the leading case.] As for the cler-
gy, although excommunication, under these
canons, might have followed ipso facto, a
declaratory sentence of guilt ; yet such a sen-
tence, founded upon a proper charge, after
due citation and hearing, was a necessary pre-
requisite, as all civilians agree; and no such
action was ever attempted, or at least carried
out, against the New-England preachers. On
a full consideration, therefore, of all the cir-
cumstances of their condition, a candid mind
will find little cause of surprise at their claim,
which has been alluded to before in this ar-
ticle, to all the rights and privileges of
members of the English Church.

The Puritans came hither, we repeat, not
as Separatists, for only a few had the incli-
nation, and none had the power to separate
without the Church's consent. Will it be
asked, Why, then, did they come? Their
answer must be ours: that they might con-
tinue the work of reformation, and enjoy
their reforms unmolested; that they might
avoid all danger of relapsing into Romanism ;
and, above all, that they might in this wil-
derness, as in duty bound, promulgate and
enforce the practice and knowledge of Chris-

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tian truths as they understood them, and so
found a Christian Commonwealth, which they
firmly believed and predicted would spring
from the germs of their planting. Deprived
of the benefices which had fed their hungry
children and their dependent poor, for no oth-
er fault than a conscientious refusal to wear
a square cap, or make the sign of the cross
in baptism, and obliged, like their brethren
fifty years before, to surrender the care of
their tender spiritual flocks to "persons," in
the authoritative language of the Lords of
the Council, " notoriously unfit ; most for
lack of learning ; many chargeable with great
and enormous faults, as drunkeness, filthi-
ness of life, gaming at cards, haunting of ale-
houses, etc.," against whom there were no
proceedings because they strictly conformed
to the ritual, these poor and pious preach-
ers were obliged to emigrate or starve; for
by the inexorable canons of their church,
the same code which, to day, obliges the Bish-
op of Rochester to reprove his subordinate,
the Rev. Mr. Davies, for " associating with
farmers," they were forbidden to relinquish
their high calling, or to use themselves in
the avocations of laymen, under the penalty
of excommunication; which to them meant
the being cut off from God, His Church, and
all hope of grace.

Let not Mr. Perry be ashamed, then, if,
to establish his point, that to priests of the
Church of England we are indebted for the
introduction of " English laws and learning,
and the Faith and the Church of Christ," he
should be obliged to admit that those priests
were Puritans, a name which, in itself,
means nothing disgraceful, and which, so
far from being a badge of separation, will, we
are convinced, some day in the future, prove
(26)

the surest bond of a more hearty union be-
tween the New-England churches and their
Mother Church, that bulwark of Protes-
tant faith, dear to New-England hearts not
only from intimate common traditions, but
because, with all the crimes and errors of her
prelacy, she, nevertheless, stayed the prog-
ress of an ecclesiastical tyranny more debas-
ing and blighting in its influence on the peo-
ple than all the other despotisms of Chris-
tendom.

What Mr. Perry means by the crushing
out " of the independence and existence of
the Episcopal Province of Maine" by "the
tyrannous hand of Massachusetts," we can-
not explain without impeaching his candor
or discrediting the sources of his informa-
tion. Massachusetts, it is true, took good
care of the scattered colonists of Maine,
when they were unable to protect themselves
or even to control their internal affairs; but
it is not true, in any sense, that she imposed
upon them a government which they did not
want and, even, ask for. Nor is there any
sufficient reason to suppose that there was a
continuous colony of Episcopalians at Saga-
dahoc, or elsewhere in the Province of Maine,
from the time of Popham's settlement. In
proof of these, our assertions, let us glance
at the condition of the eastern settlements
during the Colonial period.

The territory east of the Kennebeck was
not only not included within the ancient Pro-
vince of Maine, but was the scene of so
many rival settlements, revolutions and mil-
itary conflicts, that it can hardly be consid-
ered a settled country till after the decision of
the Congress of Utrecht in 1713. The east-
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The accession of James was the signal for all
sorts of depredations, by the Continental na-
tions, on the territories of England acquired
by the great navigators and adventurers of
Elizabeth's reign. France, represented by
the Sieur De Monts, immediately laid claim
to Northern Virginia as far west as Saco, and
thence eastward, to the St. Lawrence. Pop-
ham's colony, as we have seen, did not secure
a permament foothold ; but a few years later,
Sir Samuel Argal, with a fleet from Virgin-
ia, displaced the French settlers from a por-
tion of this territory, only, however, that it
might be re-surrendered to the French by
King Charles, in 1635, after it had, in the
meantime, been conveyed to several of his
subjects by different grants. Before this last
date the New-Plymouth colonists had settle-
ments upon the Kennebeck and the Penob-
scot. The latter, Charles's weak policy o-
bliged them to abandon to the French; but
not the former, which were not embraced in
the French claim as it was then allowed.
Previous to these New-Plymouth settlements
there were, no doubt, a few settlers near the
Piscataqua, which was discovered by Smith
as early as 1614; but a good authority, the
Abbe* Kaynal, estimates the whole popula-
tion of both Virginias, at that period, at a-
bout four hundred, which would allow, for
New England, only a mere handful : perhaps
a few dozens, altogether. During Charles's
reign the quarrels, led by D'Aulnay and De
La Tour, between the French claimants, re-
specting the government and proprietorship
of the eastern territory, were a serious annoy-
ance to the Massachusetts and Plymouth
men, who, though often sufferers by reason of
these difficulties, into which they were, at
times, unavoidably drawn, prudently tried

to preserve, at least, the appearance of neutral-
ity. But, in 1654, the successes of Crom-
well, having more than restored to the gov-
ernment of England the glories it boasted
under Elizabeth, encouraged the United Col-
onies to assert by the sword the ancient ti-
tle of England to the eastern country. Ac-
cordingly in that year, General Sedgwick re-
took Acadia or Nova Scotia, in the name of
the Lord Protector. This feat New England
would have accomplished in 1635, could she
have trusted the perfidious monarch then on
the throne of England ; but her proposals,
made, at that time, through Edward Wins-
low, instead of being gladly accepted by
Charles, only resulted in the imprisonment
of her agent, by the direction of Archbishop
Laud, who had ascertained that he was a
Puritan. Upon the restoration of the Stu-
arts, England again lost this territory ; but,
after the accession of William and Mary, it
was regained, in 1690, by the prowess of
New-England arms, and was finally confirmed
as English property in 1713, though dis-
turbed by many difficulties, particularly by
troubles with the French Neutrals, till the
latter were driven into exile to make way for
the disbanded troops, which England sent o-
ver, as settlers, during ten or twelve years
after 1748.

These, or similar violent distractions
would have extended to the more western
settlements of Maine and New Hampshire,
to their utter ruin, but for one thing, and
that was, the protecting care of Massachu-
setts. This powerful neighboring colony,
powerful only because of the enterprise, in-
telligence and courage of its people, by a
doubtful, though not unfounded interpreta-
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changed its northern boundary so that this
line should coincide with the results of per-
ambulations and actual surveys, made by its
authority, until the line, extended, took in,
at its eastern limit on the main land, "a
part of Pemaquid and most of St. George's
Island." This was the boundary as estab-
lished by George Munjoy, in 1672. Mean-
while, all the settlers north of the Merrimac
had, from time to time, petitioned, by dis-
tricts, to be received into the jurisdiction of
Massachusetts. These petitions which, it is
worthy of notice, were always pressed most
strenuously after each new survey, were al-
ways attentively considered and, with due
caution, approved of by the General Court;
and commissioners were thereupon, sent into
the petitioning settlements to establish a lo-
cal government, the officers of which were,
invariably, selected from the lists of actual
settlers; common-law courts were estab-
lished; the right of representation secured,
and the number of representatives fixed ; and
all the inhabitants were offered the entire
privileges of freemen, an offer which was
seldom or never rejected, even by those who,
for any reason, had not joined in petitioning
the Legislature.

In this manner the inhabitants of Piscata-
qua, who petitioned as early as 1639, were
admitted in 1641, Massachusetts, gener-
ously, purchasing the patents of Portsmouth
and Dover to facilitate the union ; and,
the next year all freemen of these river set-
tlements were, with great liberality, declared
freemen of the Colony, although they were
not all church-members: as freemen they
were empowered to manage their own town
affairs, and allowed representation in the Gen-
eral Court. Two years later, these towns,

including Exeter, which had petitioned in
the meantime, were incorporated as the coun-
ty of Norfolk, with a court and other provis-
ions for the special convenience of the inhab-
itants.

The same difficulties which had driven the
people living south and west of the Piscata-
qua to ask for admission to Massachusetts,
perplexed the inhabitants of the more easter-
ly settlements in a still greater degree.
Their chief trouble was the want of an es-
tablished government. Piscataqua having
been granted to Mason and Gorges, in 1622,
as a part of the province of Laconia, and fall-
ing to the former by subsequent division,
was governed, or rather superintended for a
few years after 1630, by Walter Neale, the
agent of both patentees. He soon returned to
England, leaving the people to govern them-
selves by a voluntary "combination." On
the west of the Saco, as early as 1630, Vines
and Oldham had obtained, from the Plymouth
Company, a grant of territory four miles
wide and extending eight miles into the
country ; and, at the same time, on the east
of that river, Lewis and Bonighton had se-
cured a grant of equal extent. Neither of
these grants expressly conferred the right of
government. Later, it seems, John Dye and
others, received from the same source, a
grant of land extending from Cape Porpoise
to Casco Bay, including, of course, the two
previous grants on the Saco; and, to these
patentees, full powers of government were
delegated, to be exercised throughout their
territory, which was known as "Lygonia"
or the "Plough Patent"

All these patentees, or their representatives
soon began to claim jurisdiction over all per-
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daries, and so were brought into conflicts
which could never be reconciled by appealing
to their unintelligible or inconsistent grants
and charters.

This was the state of political affairs at the
eastward, when, in 1639, Gorges procured of
King Charles the extraordinary charter of the
"Province of Maine," which did not pass
the seals till after a revocation of all previous
charters, and was intended to act as a quietus
on all conflicting claims. But it had no such
effect, for, Alexander Rigby, a Puritan gen-
tleman, and a member of that famous High
Court of Justice which condemned King
Charles to the block, purchased the charter
and province of Lygonia, and revived or es-
tablished the government there, directly clash-
ing with the jurisdiction which Gorges now
claimed under his new and explicit charter.
Rigby appointed George Cleeves, of Spur-
wink, governor of Lygonia; and sundry con-
veyances were made to settlers in the territory,
among whom was Robert Trelawney, who,
after his decease, was succeeded by his agent
and administrator John Winter, whose daugh-
ter became the wife of Rev. Robert Jordan
of Spurwink, and, surviving her father,
brought her husband into the possession and
management of Trelawney's large estate. The
right of independent jurisdiction appears to
have been claimed by Trelawney's representa-
tives.

Thus the government continued in utter
confusion save where the people, by "combin-
ing," made weak attempts to exercise domin-
ion, till on the 4th of July, 1653, the inhab-
itants of Kittery, York and Wells, upon their
persistent application, were admitted to the
jurisdiction of the Bay-Colony, by commission-
era sent to Wells for that purpose. The peo-

ple, and with them their governor, Godfrey,
voluntarily signed articles of submission, un-
der which they were guarantied equal munici-
pal privileges with the people of Massachu-
setts, the enjoyment of all acquired individual
rights and possessions, the freedom of the Col-
ony, the full elective franchise, and, finally,
entire exemption from the general Colonial
rates and charges.

The next day Saco and Cape Porpoise
were admitted on the same terms.

Still further to the eastward the people had
long been desirous of coming under Massa-
chusetts' rule, but Cleeves, the acting gover-
nor, who was a Puritan, and, therefore, one
whom Massachusetts was loth to displease,
endeavored to maintain the independence of
his province, and so earnestly remonstrated
against the exercise of dominion by the Colo-
nial authorities, that, as late as 1657, they
resolved, without renouncing their legal claims,
to " surcease any further prosecution " there-
of, at the same time protesting their innocence
if any mischief or inconvenience should arise
there by reason of internal difficulties and for
want of a settled government. But Cleeves
soon yeilded, and the next year, upon the
earnest petition of the inhabitants, the Mas-
sachusetts Commissioners, at the house of
Rev. Robert Jordan, formally received Fal-
mouth and Scarborough, and their included
settlements, into the Colonial jurisdiction.
Cleeves, Jordan, Jocelyn, Bonighton, Edg-
comb and others, to the number of twenty-
eight, voluntarily subscribed the articles of
submission, which were the same as those
signed by their neighbors, with the exception
of a superfluous assurance that, "the civ-
il privileges now granted them we do not
intend shall be forfeited upon differences

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in matters of religion." This was the most
unequivocal guaranty of toleration on the
part of the Colonial government.

Finally, in 1674, similar proceedings were
had with the people settled about the Kenne-
beck, in answer to their petitions of two years
before, and the county of Devon was erected,
in the manner minutely described by the his-
torian of "Ancient Pemaquid."

Wherein, we now ask, does this record ex-
hibit any "tyrannous" conduct on the part of
Massachusetts towards the "Episcopal Prov-
ince of Maine?"

But was Maine an Episcopal province?
We are aware that the affirmative of this ques-
tion has been generally maintained ; but this
opinion appears to us to have sprung from a
consideration of the political and ecclesiasti-
cal views of the leading adventurers, rather
than from any undeniable evidence respecting
the religious notions entertained by most of
the actual settlers; and, as the constant ten-
dency of opinions once established is to grow
stubborn and fantastical, through blind repe-
tition, this conclusion, at first properly drawn,
is now with great positiveness and in various
ways improperly predicated of people to whom
it did not apply. By a similar error, the set-
tlers of Virginia are commonly regarded as a
colony of church-loving Cavaliers, chiefly be-
cause a Mandeville, a Paget, a Delaware, or
a Berkeley, and some inferior gentry, owned
shares in the company or were sent across the
Atlantic to see that the atheistic cut-throats
and thieves who stocked that colony, were
whipped into such a degree of subjection as
was necessary to save them from the fatal ef-
fects of their native indolence and ferocity.

If Episcopacy had any considerable foot-
hold in Maine, and if the "crushing-out" by

Massachusetts began with her assumption of
jurisdiction, we ought to discover some evi-
dence of these facts in the reports of the Com-
missioners. Now, what testimony do those
reports give upon this subject? Let us see.

When the Commissioners assembled at
Wells, they found three persons, who pro-
fessed to bear an obnoxious "church rela-
tion." Two of these were dismissed at their
own request. What this church was, is not
precisely known, but as William Wardell and
Mr. Permott or Portmont are mentioned as
members, and as both of them had been mem-
bers of the Boston Church and had followed
the fortunes of Wheelwright for a time,
Wardell being among those Antinomians who
were ordered to be disarmed, it is quite prob-
able that they were Wheelwright's immediate
disciples. Mr. Wardell was arrested for con-
tempt of court, but, showing penitence, he was
released, and allowed the privilege of subscrib-
ing the articles of submission. John Baker,
also, who, it appears, was guilty of disturb-
ing the regular worship by publicly "prophe-
sying," voluntarily agreed to desist therefrom,
and was bound over to keep the peace. He,
perhaps, was the third party to the "church
relation."

This was all that was done at Wells con-
cerning ecclesiastical affairs, and exhibits no
evidence of crushing out Episcopacy.

At Saco, the Commisioners allowed Kobert
Booth to exercise his gifts as a preacher, and
silenced George Barlow. Barlow was a Pur-
itan, who afterwards removed to Plymouth,
abandoned the ministry, and became, it is
said, a lawyer, and then a marshal or sheriff,
at Sandwich : in this last capacity, his memo-
ry is execrated by the Quakers, as the pages
of Bishope and Besse bear witness.

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This completes the record of the action of
the Massachusetts Commissioners in matters
ecclesiastical. If anything, therefore, was
done in Maine against Episcopacy, it must
have been done by the inhabitants themselves
in their local courts. But we see no necessi-
ty of supposing that any such persecution
took place. It is quite probable that all the
eastern preachers were Puritans of more or
less radical views. Next to Gibson, if not
before him, Jordan was most nearly a High-
Churchman; but the only ecclesiastical of-
fence for which he incurred censure from
Massachusetts, the baptism of the three
Wallis children at a private house on the
Lord's day, was an offence, both against
Puritan practices and the Liturgy; it being
in positive disregard of the rubric concerning
baptism. So far from being persecuted, Jor-
dan was honored with the office of a ma^is-

trate, with power to perform all the functions
of that office, including the solemnization of
marriage as a civil contract, and other prac-
tices equally irregular ; and he accepted the
trust and acted therein without a hint of ob-
jection. We take this opportunity to suggest,
notwithstanding Mr. Thornton's kind allusion
to him, that Jordan's character is not entirely
clear from a suspicion of avarice, litigiousness
and worldliness.

Richard Gibson of Richmond's Isle, the
scholar, was, we believe, a Puritan, although
he was charged with being "wholly addicted
to the hierarchy of England." He was a
moderate or conservative Puritan, not enough
"addicted " to Episcopal forms to prevent his
being ejected, we believe, from the parsonage
of Cherry-Orton, near Peterborough, in Hun-
tingdonshire, under the Act of Uniformity
in 1662, as a non-conformist.

So, also, with Thomas Larkham of Dover,
his friend and correspondent, who "intro-
duced the Episcopal service at funerals," who
was so free in the administration of baptism,
and whose rencontre with his more radical
brother, Hanserd Knollys, is one of the most
graphically preserved incidents in our earliest
history. Larkham was not a High-Church-
man, but a Puritan refugee, who had been
hunted and harried /through the Star-Cham-
ber, High-Commission, the Consistory of Ex-
on and, as Calamy says, " almost all the courts
of England." Though thus a staunch Puri-
tan and confessor, he did not follow the ex-
tremes pursued by Knollys and Wheelwright ;
and when the Massachusetts clergy were called
upon to advise in the settlement of the Dover
quarrel, instead of opposing, they actually in-
terceded for him. Larkham returned to Eng-
land and was presented by the Earl of Bed-
ford, to the vicarage of Tavistock in Devon-
shire, whence, in 1662, he was ejected for
non-conformity.

Such, also, was the case with others of the
eastern preachers, who incurred opposition or
censure from Massachusetts.

George Burdett, of Dover, who correspond-
ed with the Archbishops, and acted as their
spy, was, professedly, a Puritan, and former-
ly of Salem, Mass., where, for a time, he en-
joyed great distinction as a radical preacher;
but his radicalism, or something worse, obliged
him to leave for the eastward : there he was
afterwards convicted, in court, before Gorges
himself, of several adulteries and misdemean-
ors.

We think it is evident that the patentees
were more desirous of getting actual settlers
upon their territory, than in supporting any
sect, church, or form of worship. Thomas

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Gorges, we know, often acted upon the advice
of Massachusetts, which he repeatedly solici-
ted; and Vines gladly listened to the non-
conforming preachers of Massachusetts, and
repeated their sermons to his children. So
exempt from ecclesiastical tyranny was the
whole eastern country, that it became a sanc-
tuary for Anabaptists, Antinomians, Quakers
and all the other restless sectaries and reform-
ers of New England. Thither Samuel Gor-
ton found his way to liberty, after being fined
and imprisoned in Massachusetts, and whipped
out of Plymouth, Rhode Island and Provi-
dence Plantations; and when, in 1665, a-
gainst the popular wish, efforts were made to
weaken the eastern settlers' allegiance to
Massachusetts, this busy zealot stands fore-
most in representing to England the tyranny
of the Colonial government, in prejudicing
the people against it, and in warning them of
the danger of risking their land-titles on its
assurances; yet Gorton, who has much to say
about the Church, and the religion which he
had "learned in the public assemblies of our
own native country " was no more a Church-
men than was Fox, Muggleton or Mother Ann
Lee.

We presume it to be an indisputable fact
that the settled clergy of Maine, of all shades of
opinions, during the Colonial period were very
few, and were rarely men of high character;
and we hold it to be equally clear that the de-
sire for preachers more like those of Massa-
chusetts, was felt and expressed by her best
people and, if not by all the adventurers at
home, at least by those of them whose inter-
est in her welfare was most plainly and dura-
bly shown, whatever may have been the wish
and purpose of an unscrupulous prince and
his agents. This want, Massachusetts plain-
ly saw, and would willingly have supplied;

and when, as late as 1670, Falmouth asked
advice as to the best method of increasing the
number of her freemen, Massachusetts recom-
mended her to secure the services of "an able,
pious and orthodox minister;" but as they
had granted to Maine the amplest self-govern-
ment, the Colonial authorities would not so
far violate this pledge as to force upon her
measures, which, though beneficial in the end,
would increase the burden of taxation, even
though they might be certain that without
their legislative action she would continue her
injurious neglect.

If it is charged that Massachusetts influenced
public opinion in Maine against the claims of
the Duke of York, or even against the Hier-
archy and High-Church practices, we shall
not join issue with the accuser, provided he
admits that this was done by persuasion and
the force of example, and not by coercion;
for, whether such influence was exercised or
not, we hold these means to be legitimate.
Massachusetts has done much, and, thank
God ! is yet doing more by these peaceable
and potent agencies to show to our country-
men and the world, the means of escape from
the thraldom of superstition and tyranny.

When, in 1671, Josselyn, writing of the
people of the Duke's province who, to his cha-
grin, had petitioned " Massachusetts to take
them into their government," sneeringly ex-
claimed, "birds of a feather will rally to-
gether," his disgust had been excited not by
any coercive measures on the part of Massachu-
setts, nor, as he would have us believe, by a
view of the congenial depravity of the new
friends, but by the perverse predilection of
the Duke's subjects, a fact which he could
not but perceive but was too craven in his loy-
alty to appreciate or, at least, to publicly ap-

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prove. Let us pray that in these days of
Catholicism and of superior wisdom there be
no good patriots who, looking back to that
early time, shall so far forget the story of our
country's progress up to her present fruition
of liberty and tolerance, as to regret the union
of Maine and Massachusetts and to join in the
sneers, censures or lamentations of such
quaint, narrow and simple souls as the author
of the "Voyages" and the "Rarities"

We have dovoted thus much space to a
review of these pamphlets and to a discussion
of the topics to which they relate because the
authors of these papers, from the study they
have made and the prominent part they have
respectively taken in this movement, may be
considered the champions of opposing par-
ties on the question of the historical signifi-
cance of Popham's attempt at colonization.
Though standing on the spot where the Puri-
tans of Massachusetts-Bay first organized the
government of this Commonwealth, and bound
to defend their memory from imputations
which we know to be unjust, we sincerely
profess, in closing, that in all the objections
we have started, and in all we have written,
our object has been not to offer one word in
disparagement of any attempt to rescue from
oblivion and to celebrate the humblest event
in our sacred annals, but rather to warn those
of our friends who appear to rejoice in the
belief that Plymouth and Massachusetts were
anticipated at Sagadahoc, and that the Puri-
tan was behind the High-Churchman in the
founding of this New England, not to attach
undue importance to the events they celebrate ;
and not to be deterred from discarding any
erroneous opinions they may hold, by adher-
ing to traditionary prejudices equally inju-
rious and unfounded. [A. c. a.]

ABSTRACTS FROM WILLS, INVEN-
TORIES, &c., ON FILE IN THE
OFFICE OF CLERK OF COURTS,
SALEM, MASS.

COPIED BY IRA. J. PATCH.

Continued from Vol. V, page 143.

Wm. Traske 9 mo 1691.

Will of William 'Traske of Salem, dated
5th September 1690. mentions five daugh-
ters Hannah Brooks, Sarah, Susanna, Eliz-
abeth and Mary Traske. his sons William
and John Traske under age; appoints his wife
and son William to be ex'ors. (An increase
to the family expected for which he provides.)
appoints brother John Traske, bro. Thomas
Putnam, and Edward Flint to be overseers,
witnesses Bartho. Gedney, S. Rondel 3d and
Samuel Gaskil. probate June 30, 1691.

Inventory of above estate taken 26th
Marcli, 1691, by Manaseth Marston and Ed-
ward Flint, amounting to 413 2s; returned
by Hannah the relict and ex'tx, 30th June,
1691.

Chas. Bedford 9 mo 1691.

Will of Charles Redford of Salem dated

April 1691, mentions the five children of
John Turner his son-in-law, 4-5 of all his
property; brother William Redford ; sisters
Mary and Sarah Redford ; appoints his friend
Samuel Gardner and John Turner ex'ors,
and his friends Colo. Bartholomew and John
Hathorne Esq. overseers, witnesses John
Price, Wm. Hint, Thos. Gardner, Philip
English and Benj. Gerrish. probate, Oct.
20th 1691.

John Searl, 9 mo 1691.

Inventory of estate of John Searl of Salem,
taken by Christopher Babbage and Jeremiah
Neal, amounting to 83 15s, returned by
Mary, the widow, relict of deceased .
(To be continued.)

HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS

OF THE

Vol. V.

October, 1863.

No. 5.

MR. RANTOUL'S YOUTH AND
APPRENTICESHIP.

(Continued from the August number.)

When I had entered upon the fourteenth
year of my age, I began to think that it was
time for me to look about for some employ-
ment. I became uneasy at school, and at
the beginning of the summer of 1792, I
left, and went to school no more, excepting
for a few weeks, in an interval between my
other engagements, to study navigation. In
the spring of 1792, William Silsbee, who
lived at one time in the house next above my
mother's, and who was my playmate and
schoolmate, being a few weeks younger than
myself, procured a place as an apprentice
with William Stearns, an apothecary. Learn-
ing that Dr. Stearns wanted another boy, I
applied, and was received about the first of
June, 1792. We boarded in the Doctor's
family, on the corner of Beckford and Es-
sex Streets.

o o o o o o

My first lessons in business, under Dr.
Stearns, were favorable to the development
(27)

of industry, punctuality, order and persever-
ance. Dr. Stearns was remarkable for his
strict economy. He was very particular in
instructing his apprentices not to waste any-
thing. He never allowed wrapping-paper to
be torn, a practice which is common in
most shops, but required that every sheet
should be cut into halves, quarters or other
fractional parts, so that none should be ren-
dered useless. For flaxseed, shot, and such
round substances as could not be wrapped up
without an undue expenditure of paper, small
bags were made from time to time with flour
paste, being cut with all the precision de-
scribed above. This systematic regard for
economy and order was carried into every
part of the business of the shop,
o o o o o

While I was with Dr. Stearns, there was
a pj ? lie dinner given in the Hall over his
sto'., which was called Washington Hall, in
commemoration of the French Revolution.
This was before information had reached Sa-
lem of the beheading of Louis XVI, and of
the enormities immediately preceding and
following that event in France. The King
was beheaded, January 21, 1793. The en-

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tertainment, of which I speak, was about that
time, and was in coincidence with the gener-
al opinion in Salem. The store on the cor-
ner of Washington and Essex streets was
built in 1792, and Dr. Steam sremoved into
it in October of that year. The Hall was
finished after that time, and probably this
dinner was the first use made of it.
* o o o o

In 1791, Elias Haskett Derby, who was
then the principal merchant and the most
wealthy inhabitant of Salem, undertook to
build a large ship, to be called the GRAND
TURK, of about 500 tons burthen, and larger
than had been before built in Salem. As
builders, two brothers Briggs were procured
from the South Shore, who afterwards re-
moved their families to Salem, and contin-
ued the business of ship-building for some
years. [The ship ASTREA was built by Mr.
Derby, at the South Shore, in 1782. Enos
Briggs, the elder of the brothers, was the
builder. The ASTREA arrived at Salem
from Canton, in June, 1790, commanded by
James Magee, and paid $27,000 in duties
to the Government. The Briggs brothers
subsequently established themselves as ship
builders at South Salem, then called Stage
Point, and enjoyed a high reputation in their
calling.]

The GRAND TURK was built at the head
of Derby Wharf, but a little distance from
the southerly terminus of my mother's gar-
den. The circumstance of the building of
the largest ship, and at a place which had
not before been used for ship-building, at-
tracted the attention of many, and particu-
larly of the boys in the neighborhood. I
visited the spot daily, and often many times
daily, during the whole process of her build-
ing, so that there was hardly a timber of any

considerable size, which I did not see, either
in its preparation, or in its place in the body
of the ship. So strong was my curiosity that
I generally went to the ship-yard before I
went to school in the morning, again when
the forenoon session was ended, and after
school in the afternoon. She measured 564
tons, was 124 fcst long and had 32 feet
breadth of beam. When the time for launch-
ing arrived, May 18th, 1791, there was a
great gathering to witness it. She started
on her ways, but soon stopped, and could not
be moved again by all the force that could
be brought to bear at that time, so that she
remained on the ways until, new arrange-
ments being made, she was safely transferred
on a subsequent day to her proper element.
While the GRAND TURK was building, a
smaller ship, mostly of pine, was built fur-
ther down the Derby Wharf, and launched
sideways into the water, before the GRAND
TURK was ready for launching. She was of
190 tons burthen, and named the HENRY.
When vessels are launched in the usual man-
ner, a considerable number of persons are
taken on board ; but in the case of this pine
ship, the HENRY, but a single person was
permitted to be launched in her, lest she
should tip over before she was in the water.
I saw her launched ; she went into the water
beautifully and without the least accident.
This was the only vessel which I ever saw
launched sideways. I witnessed the launch-
ing of the ESSEX Frigate.

The knowledge of ship-building thus ac-
quired in boyhood came back to me in after
life, and stood me in good stead when 1 was
for several years, [1817-29] President of
the Beverly Marine Insurance Company,
o & o o o

In October, 1792, the small pox prevail-

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ing to a great extent in Boston and other
places near Salein, the town authorized the
establishment of hospitals for innoculation
with that disease in the environs of the
place. They were located in the Great Pas-
ture and on the Neck. I went to the hos-
pital in the Great Pasture, with the first
class which was admitted, numbering be-
tween two and three hundred persons. These
were crammed into buildings which would
have afforded decent room for only one third,
or at most one half, of the number. [ went
into a room about 1 8 feet square, where, in-
cluding a nurse, there were 1 8 persons. At
night, when the sacks of straw for lodging
were spread out, they covered the floor of
the room; in the daytime, they were piled
up at the side of the room. I was innoc-
ulated by Dr. Joseph Osgood of Salein, and
went through the disease in rather a mild
form, though it was estimated that. I might
have had one thousand pustules. One young
man died in the room where I was, and two
others died out of the whole class. Some
others had the disease with great violence,
and barely escaped with their lives. In the
room where I was, Joseph Gardner, a well
known baker in Salem, who also supplied
the Beverly market in a great measure, had
the disease so badly that he was entirely
blind for some days. There was a smaller
hospital at Castle Hill, in the great Pasture,
and one or more on the Neck. Some of my
relatives were on the Neck. After I got
well, I visited them, and on one occasion,
when about returning, I was put into the
smoke house, with the Rev. Mr. Beutley, and
he advised me to squat down near the fire,
to avoid most of the smoke, while he stood
up straight and received it freely. The med-
ical treatment in the hospital was uniform,

in preparation for the disease. On the first
night, an emetic was administered to the
whole class. And the next day a cathartic
of Glauber's Salts or Pill-Oochiae ; the third
day another, and the fifth day another cathar-
tic. When the symptoms of the disease be-
gan, if there was much fever, nitre was taken.
On the days when the cathartics were taken,
the diet consisted of porridge made of Indian
meal, boiled in water, and sweetened with
molasses. At other times we had bread,
puddings and other vegetable food, but no
animal food of any kind was allowed. After
the symptoms appeared, the medical treat-
ment was discriminating, according to the
circumstances of each case. The system of
generalization was not confined to the med-
ical treatment, but extended to exercise,
which was required to be taken in the open
air, and consisted of marching about, with
or without the drum, a certain number of
times, morning and evening, on a platform
laid around the sides of a parallelogram in
front of the principal building. When the
febrile symptoms were considerable, it was
the practice to get out of a warm bed, and go
from a warm room into the cold air, with
but very little clothing, and this was done
with good effect. Those only who remember
the times of the small-pox hospitals, can real-
ize the vast amount of suffering, trouble and
expense which has been saved by the intro-
duction of vaccination.

o * o o a

I remained with Doctor Stearns only about
one year, and Silsbee not much longer. Sam-
uel G. Mackey, who had served his time
with Doctor Stearns, and had set up a small
shop in Beverly, next above where Bell's
Building now stands, the shop itself having
since been removed to Ryal Side, was in

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want of a boy, and after enquiry of Doct'r
Stearns, engaged me. [When my father,
then about sixteen years of age, came to Sa-
lem, (1769) he found employment as a sea-
man, at Beverly, in a vessel commanded by
Josiah Batchelder, afterward surveyor of the
Port.] 1 went to this place some time in 1793,
and remained about a year, when Mr. Mackey
left Beverly for Hanover, New Hampshire,
and my mother was unwilling that I should
accompany him. While with him, I was
attacked with an inflammatory fever, went
home to Salem, and was attended for several
weeks by Doctor Edward Augustus Holyoke.
On recovering I lost my hair, which was of
a brownish color, and from that time my hair
gradually became white, so that it was en-
tirely white at an early age.

After leaving Mr. Mackey, I remained at
home with my mother for some weeks, went
to Mr. Southwick's school, and studied nav-
igation, entertaining some thoughts of going
to sea if I did not soon obtain other employ-
ment. About that time Joseph Osgood Jr.,
son of Doctor Joseph Osgood, who had been
keeping an apothecary's shop in Salem for
some time, concluded to leave it and go to
sea, and his father had agreed to continue
the business in his absence, and to permit
him to resume it on his return. Doctor
Joseph Osgood, being engaged in the prac-
tice of physic, could not devote much of his
time to his son's business, and he applied to
me, since I had some knowledge of medicine,
to attend the shop under his supervision,
and I undertook it. I was alone in the care
of the business, much of the time. I resided
in the Doctor's family and there found rare
satisfaction and enjoyment. His wife, [Lu-
cretia, sister of Joshua Ward] was a woman

of superior mind. There were several chil-
dren in the family, some of them of about
my age. The children were well nurtured
and I was treated, apparently, with the same
kindness and attention as if I had been one
of them. I owe much to this family and
shall always feel grateful for the providen-
tial circumstances which brought me into it
as a member. The time which I spent there
had much influence in forming my character.
It was the first family, within my knowl-
edge, where attention was paid to family
worship. Keligion was not merely a pro-
fession, but seemed to be an actuating prin-
ciple, guiding their daily lives.

The happiness I here enjoyed was not per-
mitted to be of long continuance. In the
Spring of 1796, Joseph Osgood Jr., gave up
going to sea, resumed the apothecary's shop
and took in a younger brother. About the
time of my leaving Doctor Osgood, Elisha
Whitney, son of Doctor Elisha Whitney,
gave up keeping an apothecary's shop in
Beverly, and went to sea, afterwards becom-
ing master of a vessel. Doctor Osgood and
other friends advised me to avail myself of
this opening and set up in business on my
own account, although I was then but about
seventeen and a half years old. I was noth-
ing loth to make the trial, notwithstanding
my youth and inexperience. On the 18th
June; 1796, I opened my shop in Beverly
and went to board with the widow, Martha
Burke, daughter of Col. Larkin Thorndike,
who lived just behind the First Parish Meet-
ing House. The house belonged to Col.
Thorndike and was formerly a tavern, kept
by his father, John, known as Landlord
Thorndike.

(To be Continued.)

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SOME NOTES UPON MR. RANTOUL'S
REMINISCENCES,

Printed in the August No. of the Historical Col-
lections of the Essex Institute.

BY BENJ. F. BROWNE.

Jonathan Archer was a counterpart of Ca-
leb Quotem, "painter, glazier, auctioneer,
&c." He was a barber, tanner, 17 years an
assessor, Sergeant of the Militia, Steward of
Essex Lodge of Freemasons, keeper of a tav-
ern, boarding house and shipping office, and
teacher of Navigation and other branches of
Mathematics. He had a sign on his house
in Derby Street with this inscription: "Jon-
athan Archer, Jr., Philo. Math."

The Elkins house was an ancient house and
had undergone several changes before its re-
cent removal. Mrs. Mary Elkins, widow of
Capt. Henry, was daughter of Capt. John,
and grand-daughter of Dr. Crowninshield,
who was an emigrant from Leipsic in Ger-
many, and who, tradition says, left there in
consequence of having fought a duel. Be-
sides Henry, she had a son Thomas, who was
drowned on his homeward passage from Ma-
deira in 1 787, aged 1 7. Her son Henry was
the only one saved from the wreck, of the
Brig Harriett, which he commanded, and
which was wrecked off the Texel, March 2 1 ,
179 1. She had a daughter Mary, who mar-
ried (1st) Capt. Andrew Sleuman, who died
in Guadaloupe, January, 1802. The issue
of this marriage was son Andrew, who was
my schoolmate, a bright and intelligent boy,
but who, in consequence of epileptic fits,
sunk into mental and physical imbecility,
and died in early manhood ; and a daughter,
Mary, who married Edwin Jocelyn. Mrs.

*Seo Essex Institute "Collections, "vol. 3, page
127.

S. kept a millinery establishment, in my boy-
hood, in the little shop alluded to. She mar-
ried (2d) Capt. Joseph Winn. Capt. Hen-
ry Elkins, 2d, or Judge Elkins, had an only
child, Harriett, who married Col. Enos Cutler
of the U. S. Army. Mrs. Elkins died, May
18, 1819, aged 79.

My recollection of Dr. Bentley extends to
1800, and from that time till his death. I
knew him as a boarder with Mrs. Hannah
Crowninshield. [See Institute Collections,
vol. 4, pages 264 and 265.] He was a man
of many eccentricities, but of rare benevolence
and multifarious learning. It was said that
when a document was once received at the
State department, written in Arabic, it was
sent to him for translation, he being the on-
ly one in the U. States, who was known to
be capable of it.

Eev. James Diman was born on Long Is-
land, and died at Salem, Oct. 8, 1788, aged
8 1 . His wife was Mary, a daughter of Tim-
othy and Lois (Pickering) Orne. She died
Nov. 14, 1787, aged 65. Mr. Diman and
Mr. Bentley did not accord in their theolog-
ical opinions, and the family of Mr. D. would
not hear the latter preach. They left two sons
and three daughters, and lived in the house,
now standing on the west side of Hardy
Street, and known as the Diman House. It
is very much to be regretted that Mr. Di-
man's record of deaths, births, and baptisms
is lost.

For some notice of the Lambert House,
see Essex Institute "Collections," vol. 5,
page 26.

John Browne and Eunice Fitch, were chil-
dren of Benjn. Browne, who died at Salem,
February 3, 1750. His wife was Eunice,
daughter of Col. John Turner. Eunice, the
grantor, married Timothy Fitch ; their daugh-

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ter, Hannah Browne, was the late Mrs. E.
Hersey Derby. Previous to the erection of
the Central Building in 1805, there were sev- j
eral old wooden buildings on this lot of land.
Samuel Kantoul, brother of Robert, had an
apothecary's shop on the eastern corner of
Essex and Central Streets, and the Post Of-
fice was at one time kept there, in connexion
with John Dabney's Book Store and circula-
ting library. Zadock Pomeroy had a feath-
er store there. He was not a native of Sa-
lem, but died here after a short residence, and
his body was among the first buried in the
Howard Street burying ground. The west-
ern shop 1 principally remember, as being
kept by a Mrs. Baldwin. Nathaniel Wes-
ton had a shoemaker's shop in one of them.
It was much resorted to by the boys of that
time for the purchase of marbles and other
knickknacks. The old lady came to an un-
timely end (March, 1808) from eating bread,
in the meal of which, some arsenic had been
mingled, to destroy rats, and which had been
incautiously used in the bread. Joseph
Young had a hatters's shop and dwelling
house on Central Street. It was moved to
Andrew Street, and now forms part of house
numbered 30 on that street. Young was
the organist at St. Peter's. There was but
one other church organ in Salem at that time,
that at the first Church.

I travelled over the same track with Mr.
Kantoul, and commenced my school life with
Ma'am Babbidge in 1797, and my recollec-
tion perfectly agrees with his. I was the
youngest and smallest scholar in the school,
and from that or some other cause, was a fa-
vorite with the good old lady. I had a seat
at her side and she treated me with much
kindness, and told me old world stories of
the common, the neck, the East Meeting

House, and of the old families. It was from
these stories, that I imbibed much of that
love of the ancient history of Salem that has
interested me in my old age. She had dis-
carded the Westminster Catechism, and a-
dopted the shorter and more liberal one of
Dr. Bentley. We had, among the scholars,
a blind young man named Lemme Perkins.
He had the musical faculty in great perfec-
tion, and his whistling was the admiration
of all the down town boys, and men too.
Lemme brought Mrs. B. a long stick made
from a rose-bush and gave it to her, to be
used instead of her cane-pole. Poor Lemme
somehow misbehaved himself, and got the
first taste of the quality of his rod, much to
the amusement and gratification of the rest
of us. He was taught to commit to memo-
ry, parts of the Catechism and some Hymns.
Mrs. B. had an assisstant, Elizabeth Adams,
familiarly called by us Betty Adams. She
was a sister of Deacon John Adams and was
living at Hamilton about 20 years ago, but
I think she is now dead. On her devolved
most of the instruction and discipline of the
school, and she performed it much to the sat-
isfaction of us younkers, as she was very
kind and conciliatory. The house in which
Mrs. B. kept and taught, is now numbered
106 on Essex Street, and till within about
two years, it has been occupied by the Bab-
bidge family, her grandson, John, having
died there, March 26, 1861, aged 93 3-4
years.. Mrs. B. had 4 sons and 3 daughters,
and survived them all, and died, June 3,
1 804, aged 90. She was a Beckett, and her
grandson, John, married a Beckett. Eliza-
beth, her daughter, married Capt. Benjn.
Ward, and died, October 17, 1797, aged 60.
Susannah, married Capt. Jonathan Mason,
who died Nov. 10, 1799; she died, June 4,

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1800, aged 66. Lydia, a maiden daughter,
who taught the girls in her mother's school,
died July 9, 1800, aged 67.

Master John Watson had the reputation
of a good instructor. He had taught a pri-
vate school, to which he returned, after teach-
ing the first town school for a short time
after its commencement in 1785. He had
many scholars, and was a highly respectable
and useful man in society. The Union build-
ding, erected in 1809, now stands on the site,
part of which his' school house occupied. Af-
ter Master Watson left the school, it was
continued, but not successfully, by a Mr.
Fennel, who was not a native of Salem.
His wife was a sister of Dr. Bedford Web-
ster of Boston. For notice of Master Wat-
son, see Essex Institute "Collections," vol.
4, pages 83 and 84.

There were likewise, John, Jacob and
George Crowninshield. (See Institute "Col-
lections," vol. 3, pages 162 and 163; also
vol. 4, pages 87 and 135.)

I went to the Grammar School, when it was
kept by Mr. Daniel Parker in the place indi-
cated by Mr. Rantoul. The scholars were
not numerous, and only a few were instructed
iu Latin and Greek. Of these, I remember
Robert Crowell, afterwards minister at Essex,
B. Lynde Oliver, once a lawyer in Salem and
Boston, J. Willard Gibbs, a professor at Yale
College, his brother Henry and Andrew Dun-
lap, who died U. S. District Attorney. I ac-
quired a little smattering of Latin and Greek
myself. The latter has entirely faded from
my memory; of the former, only enough re-
mains to guide me among the gallipots and
bottles, with which I have, most of my life,
been surrounded. The school house stood on
a bank called Guppy's bank. Beneath it on
the Margin of the shore, was a row of one

story houses tenanted by Negroes. One old
African Negress, named Dinah, was a great
favorite of the boys, who almost daily carried
her small presents. Her house was always
clean and her floor nicely sanded. She was
generally spinning, twirling in a plate, a pota-
to on a stick. I suppose this was the African
fashion, but I do not recollect enough of the
modus operandi, to adequately describe it,
Dinah was very religious and kept twirling
away, in the meanwhile telling us stories of
old Salem people, particularly of the family
of a Dr. Paine, to whom she had been a slave.
An old Negro, named Cato, did not fare so
well. He was morose and churlish, and the
boys took delight in annoying him. His hut
stood near the edge of the bank, the chimney
about on a level with the bluff. Old New-
bury, hostler for Gilbert Newhall, an expert
horseman, lived here, distinguished for his fat
pig and cross wife, and Sampson Augustus,
who painted for P. & A. Chase, and whose
house, being painted white, had quite an aris-
tocratic look. But I must not forget Caesar,
poor old blind Caesar, not one lock of whose
wool would any boy hurt. Genial Caesar!
as full of fun as any boy of us, maugre his
loss of sight. Industrious Caesar ! who would
find his way about town, with his wood horse
on his back, and saw on his arm, seeking a job,
asking no alms, but accepting with thanks
the coppers so liberally showered upon him
by young and old. Calculating Caesar! who
would, in an instant, make computations
which ordinarily require the aid of many fig-
ures, would remind all the boys of their age,
when their birth days came round, would
recall any event he had ever a knowledge of,
and fix the time correctly. Happy Caesar 1
who had the felicity of hearing an eulogistic
notice of himself, with a report of his death

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read to him from the Salem Gazette, a year
before he died. He left this world for a high-
er, where there is no distinction of color, and
where the poor are welcome, and was buried
from the Alms House, Jan'y, 1805. Fare-
well Caesar! thou man of infinite hilarity
and kindness !

The Philosophical Library, which is now
incorporated with the Salem Atheneum, was
kept in an anteroom adjoining our schoolroom,
and Master Parker was the Librarian. He
had been an officer in the Army of the Revo-
lution, and I think from Haverhill, and
brought some of his army notions and habits
into the schoolroom; but, on the whole, I
think he was a good instructor, and although
rather servere in his discipline, a good boy
had no reason to fear him. He was, for
many years, Clerk of St. Peter's Church, and
led in the responses, and was, I think, the
last one, who occupied the prominence of the
Clerk's desk. He had four sons, one of whom,
Charles, was an eminent engraver in Phila-
delphia. I believe they are now all dead.
For notice of Master Bancroft, see Instiute
"Collections," vol. 4, page 11.

Wapping Lane was Daniels Street, but
the whole district on the South side of Es-
sex Street, extending from Daniels Street to
the neck gate, was familiarly called Wapping.
These Wapping boys were generally sons of
persons, who were someway connected with
the shipping, either as officers, mariners, me-
chanics or long shore men employed about the
wharves. They were generally rather rough
boys, but of good stamina, who took to the
water as naturally as young ducks, and from
them, grew up many of our best merchants,
and officers of vessels. St. Peter Street was
called Prison Lane, and its environs Button
Hole. Mill Street and the region around it

was Knockers' Hole. From these localities,
came other rough boys, who made the com-
mon their battle ground. Then there were
feuds between Lang's and Southwick's schol-
ars, and battles were frequent between them.
Some times the " down-towners " east of
Washington Street and the "up-towners"
west of that street, would have battles not
confined to the common, but carried, on in the
public streets. Bruised pates and bloody
noses were the concomitants of these battles,
for neither party were delicate in the choice
of weapons or missiles. Prisoners were ta-
ken on both sides, and instead of the oath of
allegiance being administered, their faces
were well washed with snow, ice or frozen
snow balls, sometimes very cruelly applied.
We had no police officers then to interfere. A
few superannuated constables there were,
whose principal employment was to drag off
some drunken vagrant to the Poor House, and to
serve small civil processes. Our elders, who
had probably gone through the same training
in their boyish days, seemed to enjoy the fun
as much as we did. It was considered fair
sport, which every one should be willing to
take as well as give. I remember one very
successful piece of strategy, before I knew
the meaning of the term. Some twenty of
the best fighting "down-towners" hired a
large, double covered sleigh with a driver, and
laid in a good stock of ammunition, viz : clubs,
frozen snow balls and pieces of ice, and pro-
ceeded from Winter street through Browne
and Church streets to Court (now Washing-
ton) street, thence down Essex Street to the
rear of the " up-towners," who were slowly
driving the "down-towners," in the neigh-
borhood of Liberty Street. Here, emerging
from the sleigh with shouts and yells, they at-
tacked the "up-towners" in the rear, who,

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being taken by surprise, fled in all directions,
through yards and over fences, leaving many,
who were captured, and trophies of the victo-
ry.

I occasionally attended Master Lang's school
with some of his scholars on Thursday after-
noons, which was one of Master Southwick's
lecture afternoons. His school was composed
largely of Wapping boys, and the scholars
were numerous and disorderly. Their school-
books were few and old, in some instances,
not more than one to 3 or 4 scholars. Not-
withstanding these disadvantages, many of
his scholars managed to pick up a fair amount
of elementary knowledge, and became good
and useful citizens. I recollect one or two
of our most respectable merchants, and sev-
eral ship masters and officers, who had no oth-
er school education than that obtained here.
Master Lang was a very worthy man and was
much respected by our inhabitants. After
he left the school, he was a clerk in the old
Essex Bank. (For notice of him, see Insti-
tute "Collections," vol. 3, pages 127 and
128, and vol. 4, page 137.)

I attended Master Southwick's school and
can fully endorse all that Mr. Rantoul says of
him. He had about 80 scholars, who were
well managed and well instructed. Some of
them were young seamen whom he taught nav-
igation, and I remember one stammering boy
whom master cured of his stammering, and
also two Quaker boys from Portland, who
boarded in his family, Lauriat, afterwards a
chemist and aeronaut, came there to learn
English, as did some other foreign boys, one
of whom was an East Indian. Master S. was
a kind man and rarely used the cowhide, ex-
cept as a threatened terror to delinquents, but
when he did use it, he did it with no sparing

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hand. He had other and milder modes of
punishment, which were probably quite as ef-
fectual.

The little smattering of French I acquired,
was derived from his instructions. I became
possessed of an old volume of Esop's Fablea
with a glossary, and in my leisure in school,
I essayed to translate some of them on my
slate. Master detected me and seemed pleased
and said if I would remain after school hours,
he would assist me. I was glad of the chance,
and he furnished me with a grammar and dic-
tionary, and with his aid, I went through the
Fables and Telemachus. He was reputed a
good French scholar, and conversed in that
language fluently; he was also a good mathe-
matician. He had a peculiar way of teaching
his boys to spell. He made them pronounce
each syllable distinctly, and then the whole
word, before they commenced spelling it.
Another of his peculiarities was, that one of
his lecture or intermission afternoons was on
Thursday instead of Wednesday, as at the
other schools. This, I suppose, was because
the Quaker meetings were on Thursday.

The only vacations that I remember, were
Thanksgiving, Fast, Fourth of July, one day
each, 3 days in 'Lection week, and about the
same number at one of the Quaker meetings,
which were called "Tugmutton." I ven-
tured to ask Master, what was the meaning of
the term, and he said that during the persecu-
tion of the Quakers, they met privately at the
house of a friend at Throgmorton's cove, near
Forest River Mills, and from thence, by cor-
ruption, came "Tugmutton." Master kept
an evening school for large boys, in the Win-
ter. They were mechanics' apprentices,
clerks and the like. Every thing went on
smoothly enough, till the last evening of the
term, when, according to the custom of the

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times, confusion reigned a perfect saturna-
lia. The next forenoon we had no instruct-
ion, but were busily employed in gathering
up the peas, beans, nuts and other small mis-
siles that were hurled around, the previous
evening, and in cleaning up and putting in
order the school-room. My recollections of
Master S. and his school are very pleasant
ones. (See Institute "Collections," vol.4,
pages 4 and 135. There were at that time,
a few private schools besides Master Watson's
and Parker's, but of no great note, till Mr.
Wm. Bigelow established one over the store
of Michael Webb (now George Nichols) in
Court Street, which was soon removed to
Odell's Hill, near where the 1st Baptist meet-
ing house now is, and became quite a noted
one. Amos Towne had a school about 1802,
nearly opposite the western end of the present
South Building. He was afterwards associa-
ted with Mr. Bigelow in his school. About
a couple of years after, one John H. Read
established a school on Essex a little east of
Sewall Street, but removed to Odell's Hill
and took Bigelow's School rooms and had a
short run of popularity. Beside master Lang's,
there were two town schools. Master John Gray
taught one on the lower floor of the Grammar
school house, and Master Isaac Hacker the
other, on the spot where the present Hacker
school house is. The last was noted for suc-
cessfully teaching writing.

The whipping post, an engine house and
the watch house stood in the rear of the old
Court House, in the centre of Court (now
Washington Street) and about on a line with
the north side of Federal Street. I remem-
ber seeing several persons whipped there, and
among them one female. In 1802, a man
was convicted of breaking into Joseph An-
drews' grocery store, and sentenced to be set

on the gallows one hour, with a rope about
his neck, one end over the gallows, to be se-
verely whipped 15 stripes, to pay treble dama-
ges and the costs of prosecution, and to be
confined to hard labor for 5 years; and at
the same time, a man for stealing leather from
Ichabod Nichols, was sentenced to be whipped
twenty stripes, to ^>ay treble damages, or else
to be disposed of to service 10 months, and
to pay costs of prosecution. In the same
year, Cato Haskell, a negro man, was con-
victed of manslaughter, in killing Charles
Lewis, and was sentenced to imprisonment 12
months, to be branded in his forehead with
the letter M, to be bound for 3 years' good
behaviour after the expiration of his imprison-
ment, to pay costs of prosecution, and to stand
committed till the sentence is complied with.
Cato evaded his severe sentence by breaking
jail and, I believe, was not retaken. He
killed Lewis at Ipswich, with a scythe, in a
quarrel. I remember (I think some years
later) seeing a man in a pillory, in front of
the old Court House, pelted with rotten eggs,
and t do not remember any such brutal exhi-
bitions afterwards.

ERRATA. Mr. Diman died December (instead
of November) 14th 1787.

It was to Mrs. Baldwin's shop where the boys
resorted to buy marbles, &c.

A COPY OF THE FIRST BOOK OF
BURIALLS, AND DEATHS OF THE
TOWN OF ROWLEY, WITH NOTES.

COMMUNICATED BY M. A. STICKNEY.

Continued from vol. v, page 166.

John Hobson buryed August ye twenty
fifth day.

John Pickard senior buryed the 24 of
September.

Gershom Browne son of Charles buryed
December 5th.

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Mary Browne daughter of Charles buryed
December 9th.

Mary Brown wife of Charles buryed De-
cember 12th.

Mark Prime buryed December the twenty
first.

Thomas Leaver buryed December the twen-
ty seventh.

John Scales buryed January the twelfth
day.

Constance Crosbee buryed the twentyfifth
day of January.

Anno 1684.

Samuel Prime dyed March ye eighteenth
day.

Mary Barker dyed Aprill ye twelfth day.

Humphrey Hobson dyed August ye eighth
day. I

Mary Leaver died October ye fourth.

Maximilion Jewit dyed October ye nine-
tenth day.

Elizabeth Pason dyed December ye sixth
day.

Anno 1685.

Leiftenant Thomas Lambert dyed Septem-
ber ye thirteenth day.

Captain John Johnson dyed January the
twenty ninth day.

John Baley the son of James and Eliza-
beth died February thirtenth day.
Anno 1686.

Elizabeth Pickard the wife of Samuell bur-
ied May the twenty eight day.

Ebenezer Swan the son of Richard and
Hannah buried the third day of January.

Mrs. Jennet Whiple buried the first day of
Febuary.

Anne Palmer buried the twenty second of
Febuary.

Also Homes the wife of Richard buried
Febuary the fourteenth day.

Elizabeth Pickard daughter of Samuel
Pickard and Elizabeth buried June the third
day.

Anno 1687.

Jonathan Jacson the son of Jonathan and
Ann ah buried March the ninth day.

John Perle son of John and Elizabeth bur-
ied March the tenth day.

Mr. Steven Mighel dyed Aprill the six-
teenth day.

Mary Lambert daughter of Thomas Lam-
bert and Edna his wife buried Aprill the
nineteenth day.

Thomas Wood buried September the twelfth
day.

John Pallmer son of Francis Palltner and
Elizabeth buried August the tenth day.

Robert Shillito buried August the twenty
first day.
Returned all to Salem Court December 14.

Charles Browne buried December the six-
teenth day.

Mary wife of Jeremiah Elsworth buried
May the twenty fourth day. (This death
may belong to 1788.)

Anno 1688.

Sammuell Bointon son of Sammuell Boin-
ton and Hannah his wife buried March the
eigteth day.

William Jackson buried May the fift day.

Martha Clark daughter of John Clark and
Mary his wife buried the twenty second day
of Aprill.

Sarah Herriman wife of Jonathan Herri-
man died June the thitith day.

Nehemiah Wood son of Thomas Wood and
Mary his wife died August the fourth day.

Mary Nellson wife of Tnomas Nellson sen-
ior died August the twentie eight day.

Bethia Barker daughter of Bars/ilia Bar-
ker and Anna his wife burried September the
IXtcenth day.

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Sarah Paison the daughter of Mr. Edward
Paison and Mrs. Elizabeth his wife died May
the twentie eight day.

All returned to Salem on the 12 day of
December 1688.
Anno 1689.

Sarah Wood the wife of Josiah Wood died
January the ninth day. (o. s. )

Charles Steward died May the eighth day
the son of Duncin Steward, (o. s.)

Sammuell Bointon the son of Sammuell
Bointon and Hannah his wife died May the
fifteenth day. (o. s.)

Jonathan Barker the son of Barzilla Bar-
ker and Anna his wife buried May the twen-
tie ninth day. (o, s.)

Sarah Pickard the wife of John Pickard
died September the twenty eight day.

Elizabeth Pallmer the wife of Francis Pall-
mer died July the ninth day.

Hepsiba Hassen the daughter of Edward
Hazen and Hannah his wife died November
the twentie ninth day.

Thomas Ellithrop died June the eight day.

Rebecca Dickinson the daughter of James
Dickinson and Rebecca his wife died June
the eight day.

Samuell Pickard the son of Samuell Pick-
ard and Elizabeth his wife died June the ninth
day.

Ame Cooper the wife of Peter Cooper bur-
ied Aprill the eighteenth day.

Miriam Pearson daughter of Jeremiah
Pearson and Priscilla his wife burried Decem-
ber the third day.

Lydia Dresser the daughter of John Dress-
er and Martha his wife.

An Jewit the daughter of Deacon Ezekill
Jewit and Faith his wife died September the
eleventh day.

Elizabeth Nellson the daughter of Thomas
Nellson senior died 31 October 1689.

Daniell Bointon son of Joseph Bointon
and Sarah his wife died October the eight
day.

Ellen Warner widdow the wife of Goodman
Warner died August the fift day.

Nathaniell Browne the son of Nathaniell
Browne and Mary his wife.

Ann Jewett daughter of Deacon Ezekiell
Jewett and Faith his wife died September the
eleventh day.

Miriam Pearson the daughter of Jeremiah
Pearson and Priscilla his wife died December
the third day.

John Tod died February the fourteenth day.

Hannah Wicom the daughter of Leaften-
ant Daniell Wicom and Mary his wife died
February the twentie fourth day.
I Samuell Series dyed the seventh of Aprill
1691,

Ebenezer Spoford son of Jno. Spoford
dyed the twenty ninth of June 1690.

Mary the wife of Capt. Daniell Wicom
dyed the twenty ninth of January 1690-91

Ann Bayley daughter of Jno. and Mary
dyed the seventeenth day of December 1690.

Capt. Phillip Nellson dyed the nineteenth
of August 1691.

John Bayley died comeing from Canady
ye nineteenth of November 1690.

Hannah Pearson daughter of Jeramiah
and Priscilla dyed ye eighteenth of July
1690.

Mary Smith dyed the 16 January 1691-2.

March ye 1.9th 1691-2. Then made re-
turn to Gapt. Tho. Wade of Ipswich.

Samuell Wood dyed Comeing from Cana-
dy ye 25 of November 1690.

Leonard Harriman dyed ye 6th of May
1691.

Joseph Scott dyed the 29th day of Octc-
ber 1692.

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Flizebeth Killburn dyed ye 4th of Decem-
ber 1692.

Mary Sawyer died ye 20th February 1692-
3.

Nathan Lambert son of Thomas and Ednah
his wife dyed August 1693.

William Hobson son of William dyed March
ye 22d 1692-3.

Jemima Burbank dyed ye 24th day of
March 1692-3.

Joseph Clark and Benjamin sons of Jno.
and Mary dyed ye 12th of October 1693.

Deacon John Pearson dyed ye 22 of De-
cember 1693.

The Widdow Ann Hobson dyed the twen-
ty second day of Decemher 1693.

Sarah Boynton daughter of Joseph and
Bridgitt dyed ye twenty third of December
1693.

Jonathan Pearson son of Stephen and Ma-
ry dyed ye eleventh of December 1693.

Samuell Browne son of John and Abigail
dyed twenty first of September 1692.

Martha Browne daughter of John Browne
and Abigail died September twenty seventh
1692.

Andrew Stickne son of Andrew Stickne
and Ednah his wife died May the twenty sev-
enth 1694.

Elizabeth Tenne the wife of Daniel Tenne
dyed Aprill the twenty eight 1694.

Elizabeth Jackson the wife of Nicolas Jack-
son dyed twelfth of June 1694.

John Preson the son of Cornet John Pres-
on and Mary dyed October ninetenth 1694.

Ezekill Lighten son of Ezekill and Rebeck-
ah died seventh of Aprill 1694.

Josuah Jewitt son of Captane Joseph Jew-
itt and Ruth dyed October fivetenth 1684.

James Wood son of Thomas and Ann dyed
eightenth of October 1694.

Ezekiell Mighill dyed third July 1694.

Captaine Joseph Jewitt dyed the thirtith
Octobrr 1694.

Elizabeth Harris daughter of Nathaniel and
Elizabeth dyed twenty fiveth October 1694.

Widow Ann Mighill died 17 November
1694.

Barzillah Barker dyed 16 November 1694.

John Decker dyed October twenty eight
1694.

John Spoford dyed Aprill twenty second
1696.

John Pallmer aged died 17 of June 1695.

Mr. Samuell Phillips pastor dyed Aprill 22
1696.

Johannah Pickard the daughter of John
and Johannah dyed fourth of September 1696.

John Harris aged dyed February the five-
teenth in year 1694.

John Pickard died November 1st 1697.

Daniell Lunt son of John and Ruth dyed
November 5th 1697.

Ezra Barker died November 6th 1697.

Briget Boynton daughter of Joseph and
Brigit died November 6th 1697.

Elizabeth Rainer the wife of Ja- )
chin died February 12th 1697-8. [ 1
Nicolas Jackson Dyed February ) buried

13th 161)7-8. ) in one

Flizabeth Kilborne died Februa- >
ry 13th 1697-8. )

Leddea Burbank died March 3d 1697-8.

Simon Pickard the son of John and Johan-
na died July 25 1697.

James Dickinson dyed June 26th 1698.

Mr. Ezekiell Northend died September 7th
1698.

Nathan Plats died 17th July 1698.

John Grant died March 18th 1696-7.

Nathaniell Crosbee dyed the seventh day of

March 1699-1700.

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Capt. Daniell Wicom dyed Aprill 13th
1700.

Martha Dresser the wife of Leut. John
Dresser dyed June 29th 1700.

John Lighten died November the 15th day
1698.

Stephen Paison son of Mr. Edward Paison
died Febuary 8th 1700-1.

Janne Pickard the daughter of John Pick-
ard dyed June 24 1701.

Thomas Burbee died June the 1 1701.

Jonathan Dresser the son of Jonathan and
Sarah Dresser dyed the 17 of July 1701.

Elizabeth Chaplin the wife of Joseph Chap-
lin buried October the 12 day in the year
1702.

Hannah Baley the wife of Jonathan Baley
died the 9 of December 1702.

Thomas Wood buried December the 1 day
1702.

Jonathan Nelson the son of Jerimiah Nel-
son dyed the eleventh day of February 1703-
4.

Sarah Burbey the daughter of Thomas and
Esther dyed the 13 of December in the year
1702.

Corporall Joseph Chaplin dyed Aprill the
17 day 1705.

Mrs. Ednah Northend dyed February the
3 1705-6.

James Dickinson dyed January the 5 1705-
6.

Sarah Wicom the wife of Daniel Wicom
Junior dyed Aprill the 9 1706.

Sarah Lighten dyed December the 8 day
1706.

Jerimiah Nelson dyed July the 3 1706.

John Plummer dyed the 16 day of Aprill
in the year 1706.

Jemimah Foster the daughter of Ebenezer
Foster and Mary died March the 12 1706-7.

Phillips Payson the son of Mr. Edward
Payson died May the 3 1767.

John Pickard dyed Agust the 5 1706.

Sargent Caleb Boynton dyed September 13
1708.

Jerimiah Boynton died June the 1 1709.

Sarah Paison the daughter of Mr. Edward
Paison dyed Aprill the 24 1709.

Nathaniel Elithorp dyed May 10 1709.
. Thomas Burbee dyed the 24 of June 1709.

Phillipa Nelson the wife of Mr. Thomas
Nelson dyed the twenty ninth of September
1709.

Mary Elithorp the widow of Nathanaell Eli-
thorp dyed January the 9 1709-10.

Henery Ryley dyed May the 24 1710.

Mrs. Dorothy Woodman dyed October the
21 1710.

Elizabeth Sawyer the wife of John Sawyer
dyed October the 6 day 1710.

Stephen Peirson dyed January the 5 1705.

Elizebeth Dresser the wife of Joseph Dress-
er dyed September the 18 1711.

Jonathan Heriman dyed November the 20
1711.

Ebenezer Barker dyed Aprill the 10 1711.

Mr. Thomas Nelson dyed Aprill 5 1712.

Isaac Platts dyed March 27 1711.

Mrs. Sarah Hammond dyed the 16 day of
January in the year 1712-13.

Andrew Hiden dyed February 18 1702.

John Boynton the son of John Boynton
and Bethiah dyed 19 of October 1714.

Sarah Wood the wife of Thomas Wood
dyed January the 21 1714-15.

James Baley dyed March 20 1714-15.

Faith Jewitt the wife of Deacon Ezekiell
Jewitt dyed October 15 1715.

Sarah Burbee the widow of Thomas Bur-
bee senior dyed December 25 1713.

Jane Pickard the widow of John Pickard
senior dyed February 22 1715-16.

207

Tamer Creesey the daughter of Micall Cree
sey dyed May 29 1716.

Abggall Nelson daughter of Thomas anc
Hannah Nelson dyed August 26 1716.

Ezekill Lighten dyed August 24 1716.

Mary Foster the wife of Ebenezer Foster
dyed 19 day of June 1716.

Mary Palmer the wife of Deacon Samuel
Palmer dyed 7 day of July in 1716.

MATERIALS FOR A GENEALOGY
OF THE WARD FAMILY IN SA-
LEM OR NOTICES OF THE DE-
SCENDANTS OF MILES WARD.

COMPILED BY GEORGE R. CURWEK.

Henry Ward, Lord of the Manor of Kir-
by Beden, of the advowson and Manors of
Postwick and Great Plumstead and other es-
tates in the adjacent township, as also of the
Manor and Rectory on the site of the Monas-
tery of Flitcham, and of the Manor of Bark-
way Rectory in Hertfordshire, was a mem-
ber of Parliament for Norwich in 1553 and
1562. He married Margaret, daughter of
William Uggs, x of Pokethorp, near Norwich,
and had the following children :

Edward, Henry, Miles, Thomas, Margery,
Alice and Tobias.

Among the early settlers of Salem, we
find mentioned the names of Miles, Margar-
et and Alice, the last two of which, bear a
striking resemblance to Margery and Alice
mentioned above, and Miles being identical
with a son of Henry Warde, Lord of the
Manor of Kirby Beden. Whether there was
any relationship between the two families, is
yet a subject of inquiry.

FIRST GENERATION.

The ancestor of the Ward Family in Sa-
lem was,

1. l Miles, who we find mentioned there
in 1 639. He came from Erith in Kent, a few
miles below London, on the Thames, and on-
ly two miles from Crayford, with his wife
Margaret, and died in Virginia 3d. March,
1650.

SECOND GENERATION.

2. 2 Joshua, son of Miles 1 , born 25th.
April, 1641. Came to America with his
father, married Hannah, daughter of William
Flint 18th. Jan'y, 1669.

3. 2 John, son of Miles 1 , born, Mr. Sav-
age says, 26th. Dec'r, 1641. The year is
probably wrong.

4. 2 Lydia, daughter of Miles \ born 1647.
Married Robert Glanfield 12th. July, 1665.

5. 2 Martha, daughter of Miles 1 , born
llth. March, 1649. Married the 2d Pasca
Foote, 2d. Dec'r, 1668.

THIRD GENERATION.

6. 3 . Joshua, son of Joshua 2 , born 16th.
Jan'y, 1 669. Administration on his estate*
was granted to Hannah Ward, widow, and
mother of said deceased 30th. 9th. mo. 1680.

7. 3 Hannah, daughter of Joshua 2 , mar-
ried Eleazer Moises 24th. June, 1697.

8. 8 Miles, son of Joshua 2 , born llth.
March, 1673-4. Married Sarah, daughter
of John and Sarah (Wells) Massey, 1694.
She was born 25th. July, 1669, died 20th.
Nov'r, 1728. His 2d. wife was Sarah,
daughter of William and Sarah (Ingersoll)
Ropes, who was born 9th. Jan'y, 1683, died
7th Feb'y, 1768. He died 20th. August,
1764.

9. 8 Mary, daughter of Joshua 2 , married
Adoniram Collins 20th. Nov'r, 1701,

10. 8 A daughter, of Joshua 2 , who mar-
ried Pitman.

FOURTH GENERATION.

11. 4 Joshua, son of Miles 8 , born 15th.

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August, 1699; married Sarah, daughter of
Kichard Trevett of Marblehead, 27th. Ap-
ril, 1722. They had issue four sons and
three daughters. She died

. He married for a second wife, wid-
ow Lydia Hawkes, whose maiden name was
Burrill, 2 1st Jan'y, 1744. She died

. His third wife was Ruth
Woodward of Gloucester, who died 5th. June,
1787, AE. 73, leaving no issue. He died
29th. Dec'r, 1779.

12. ''John, son of Miles 8 , born '27th.
Nov'r, 1701, died 4th. Scpt'r, 1703.

13. 4 Miles, son of Miles 8 , bora 18th.
April, 1704; married 1st, Elizabeth, daugh-
ter of John and Elizabeth (Phippen) Webb
born 1709, died 17th April, 1737. He mar-
ried, 2dly, Hannah, widow of Benjamin Hath-
orne, 10th Oct'r, 1737, and died June 1792.

14. 4 John, son of Miles 8 , born 7th. July,
1707, married, first, Hannah, daughter of
Nathaniel and Hannah (Gerrish) Higginson,
17th. Sept'r, 1734. She was born 8th.
Nov'r, 1712; married, 2dly Martha, daugh-
ter of Edmund and Martha (Pickman) Bat-
ter, 14th Sept'r, 1758; bora 2 1st Sept,
1712, died 12th Oct'r, 1787.

15. 4 Ebenezer, son of Miles 8 , born 10th
April. 1710; married Rachel, daughter of
Benjamin and Abigail (Lindall) Pickman,
23d Oct'r, 1735. She was bora 20th July,
1717, died 7th. Jan'y, 1789. He died 3d.
March, 1791.

FIFTH GENERATION.

16. "Joshua, son of Joshua 11 , born 13th.
March, 1723; married Susanna Shores, He
was lost at sea, 1746. His widow married
Capt. Wm. Masury 2d, May, 1750.

17. a Daniel, son of Joshua 11 , bora 25th
October, 1725. Lost at sea 1746.

18. "John, son of Joshua", bora 2;~>th
June, 1729; married Abigail Phippen.

19. 5 Sarah, daughter of Joshua", born
16th August, 1733; died 18th July, 1737.

20. 5 Martha, daughter of Joshua 11 , bora
29th May, 1735; died 27th Nov'r, 1736.

21. 5 Martha, daughter of Joshua ", born
14th June, 1737; married William Webster
Nov. 21, 1754; 'died Sept'r, 1775.

22. 5 Richard, son of Joshua 11 , born 5th
April, 1741; married Mehitable, daughter
of George and Sarah (Pickman) Curwen, 8th
Nov'r, 1764. She died 4th April, 1813.
He died 4th Nov'r, 1824.

23. 3 Burrill, son of Joshua 11 , by his sec-
ond wife Lydia, born 29th Aug't, 1747;
died 28th Feb'y, 1748.

24. 5 Sarah, daughter of Miles 13 , bora
19th Oct'r, 1728; died 10th Aug't, 1729.

25. 5 Elizabeth, daughter of Miles 13 , bora
, 1730; died llth April, 1737.

26. 5 Abigail, daughter of Miles 13 , bora
16th April, 1731 ; died 22d May, 1731.

27. 6 Abigail, daughter of Miles 13 , born
17th March, 1732; married Samuel Griffin
of Portsmouth, N. H., 7th Dec'r, 1752-3;
married 2dly, John Bass.

28. 5 Miles, son of Miles 13 , born 25th
July, 1633, died 10th Aug't, 1796; married
Experience Goodell.

29. s Sarah, daughter of Miles 13 , bom
1st March, 1734; married John Ives, 13th
March, 1754; died, 18th Oct'r, 1801.

30. 5 Anna, daughter of Miles 18 born
20th March, 1735; died 1st May 1737.

31. "Ebenezer, son of Miles 13 , born 12th
April, 1737, died 13th April 1737.

32. s Elizabeth, daughter of Miles 13 , bora
9th July, 1738; married William Pool, of
Danvers, Mass., , 1761; died
June, 1806.

33. "Samuel, son of Miles 13 , bom 30th
April, 1740; married Priscilla, daughter of

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Gamaliel and Priscilla (Webb) Hodges, who
was born 14th Feb'y, 1750. He died 31st
July, 1812. She died 2d June, 1822.

34. r> Mehi table, daughter of Miles 13 ,
born 18th. March, 1742; died 24th Oct'r
1 755.

35. 3 Anne, daughter of Miles 13 , born
llth. May, 1744; married 1st, Jonathan
Mansfield, 27th Oct'r, 1762; he died 1779.
She married 2ndly, Joseph Henfield, Feb.
20,1780; she died 7th. Jan'y, 1832. He
was born Aug. 15, 1743, died 15th March.
1809.

36. * Nathaniel, son of Miles 13 , born 29th
July, 1746; graduated at Harvard College,
1765, died at Cambridge, 13th Oct'r, 1768.

37. Lucre tia, daughter of Miles 13 , born
26th. Aug't, 1748; married Dr. Joseph Os-
good, 14th June, 1770. He died 26th June,
1812.

38. 8 Mary, daughter of Miles 13 , born
30th. Sept'r, 1750; died 30th Sept'r 1755.

39. 5 Joshua, son of Miles 13 , born 25th.
Oct'r, 1752; married 1st, Sarah, daughter
of William and Margaret (Henderson) Lan-
der, born died 2d. April
1809; married, 2ndly, Widow Susan Magee.
He died 14th Sept'r, 1825.

40. 5 Hannah, daughter of John 14 , born
21st Dec'r, 1735; married Samuel Webb,
9th, Nov'r, 1758. She died 4th April, 1808.

41. 5 Mary, daughter of John 14 , born 9th
Aug't, 1737; died 27th May, 1740.

42. 5 John, son of John 14 , born 10th
Jan'y, 1738; married, 1st, Bethiah Archer,

* See Memorials of Nathaniel Ward, compiled
by B. F. Browne. Hist. Coll. Essex Inst. vol. 2,
page 206.

(29)

4th June, 1761; married, 2ndly, Widow
Molly Kmmerton, (whose maiden name was
Lufkin) 24th Oct'r, 1784. He died 1st
Dec'r, 1789.

43. 'Nathaniel, son of John 14 , born 29th
Jan'y, 1739.

44. 5 Andrew, son of John 14 , born 6th.
Oct'r, 1742, married Sarah, daughter of
Edmund Henfield, 21st May, 1773. He
died Jan'y, 1816. She died Doc., 1817,
ait 67.

45. 'William, son of Ebenezer 15 , born
9th August, 1736, died 9th Oct'r 1767;
married Ruth Putnam, 17th May, 1761.

46. 'Ebenezer, son of Ebenezer 15 , born
26th May, 1738; married Mehitable But-
tolph, 10th Aug't, 1758; died 26th Oct'r,
1773.

47. 5 Benjamin, son of Ebenezer 15 , born
18th Sept'r. 0. S. 1739; married 1st, Eliz-
abeth Babbidge, 17th Nov'r, 1770. Married
2dly, Mary Carleton, (whose maiden name
was Farmer) 24th May, 1781, and died
llth June, 1812. His widow died 29th
Dec'r, 1816, ae. 61 years.

48. "Sarah, daughter of Ebenezer w born
19th July, 1741, died 17th Oct'r, 1745.

49. 5 Caleb, son of Ebenezer 15 born 12th
Jan'y, 1743. Lost at sea 3d Jan'y, 1764.

50. 'Miles, son of Ebenezer 1 *, born 12th
July, 1744 ; married Hannah, daughter of
Rev'd John and Rebecca (Hale) Chipman,
28th June, 1772. She was born 20th Dec'r
1742, and died April 22, 1829. He died
23d Oct'r, 1796.

51. 'Rachel, daughter of Ebenezer 15 ,
born 10th Jan'y, 1746 ; married Edward
Lang, 3d. April, 1768, died May 15, 1819.

52. * Abigail, daughter of Ebenezer K ,
born 14th June, 1748 ; married William

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Hathorne. She died Sept. 3, 1818. He
died Dec. 7, 1815, act 72. No issue.

53. "Elizabeth, daughter of Ebenezer K ,
born 13th June, 1754 ; died 1st April, 1774.

54. 5 Sarab, daughter of Ebenezer 15 , born
1755, died in infancy.

SIXTH GENERATION.

55. 'Joshua, son of John w , born about
1750; married Elizabeth Whitworth, 25th
Jan'y, 1780. She died at the residence of
her son, Malthus A. Ward M. D., in Athens,
Ga. 1st Jan'y, 1837.

56. 6 Josiah, son of John 18 .

62. 6 Ricbard, son of Richard 22 , born 31st
Oct'r, 1776; man-led Lydia, daughter of Col.
James Robinson, 14th April, 1805. She
was born in Lynn, 25th Dec'r, 1782. He
died 14th Dec'r 1822.

63. 8 Martha, daughter of Richard 22 , born
21st Jan'y, 17/9; married Charles Adams,
21st May, 1807. He was born 28th Aug't,
1778. She died 21st March, 1829.

64. 6 Daniel, son of Richard* 2 , born 21st
1 March, 1782, died 15th Febr'y, 1813; un-
i married.

57. 6 George Curwen, son of Richard a ,
born 18th August, 1765; married Abigail
Elkins, 1786, died llth March, 1801.

58. "Samuel Curwen, son of Richard ffi ,
born 29th June, 1767; married 1st, Jane,
daughter of Hon. Nathaniel and Priscilla
(Sparhawk) Ropes, 31st Oct'r, 1790. She
was born 22d Jan'y, 1767, died 18th Jan'y,
1803, leaving four sons and one daughter.
He married 2ndly, Malvina Tabitba Glover,
daughter of Benjamin Stacy and Tabitha
Glover, I7tb Dee'r, 1807, (and had issue
two sons and two daughters.) She was born
18th Sept'r, 1784. He died 26th Nov'r,
1816.

59. "Sarah, daughter of Richard 22 , born
1st Aug't, 1769 ; married James Gushing,
1st Dec'r, 1793. He was born 9th March,
1765, died 7th Sept'r 1796. She died at
New Brighton, Statcn Island, New York, 9th
June, 1862.

60. 6 MehitabIe, daughter of Richard 22 ,
born 9th Sept'r, 1771, died 28th March,
1807; unmarried.

61. 6 Elizabetb, daughter of Richard 22 ,
born 3d July, 1774, died 22d Dec'r, 1834 ;
unmarried.

65. "Hannah, daughter of Miles 28 , born
-, married Jonathan Neal, 29th May,

1791, died 26tb Jan'y, 1814.

66. 6 Mary, daughter of Miles 28 , born

, married Henry Osborn, 25th Dec'r,

1796, died June 1835, ae 65.

67. 'Nathan, son of Miles 28 , born

married at Wilmington, N. C. to Jane Walk-
er, and died there Oct., 1790.

68. 6 Nathaniel, son of Miles 28 born 1

died at Wilmington, N. C., 6th August, 1792,
aet. 17.

69. 6 Nathaniel, son of Samuel 33 , born
6tb Oct'r, 1768, married Sally Trask, leaving
descendants.

70. 6 Samuel, son of Samuel 33 , born 15th
July, 1770, died 6th Sept'r, 1770.

71. "Samuel, son of Samuel **, born 1771
died 1773.

72. George, son of Samuel*, born 14th
August, 1773. married Alicia, daughter of

lEzra Burrill, 25th Oct'r, 1797. She died,
' Sept'r, 1825, x 52.

78. "Samuel, son of Samuel 33 , born 10th
Dec'r, 1775, died 14th Nov'r, 1793, unmar-
ried.

74. " Priseilla, daughter of Samuel 38 , born
: 23d Julv, 1777. Married Johnson

211

75. 6 Mary, daughter of Samuel 33 , born
27th Dec'r, 1779, married Joseph R. Chand-
ler, 29th March, 1815.

76. 8 Gamaliel Hodges, son of SamuePj
born 24th Jan'y, 1782, married Priscilla Lam-
bert Townsend, 16th Aug't, 1808. She was
born 1st Nov'r, 1790.

77. 6 Stephen, son of Samuel 33 , born 5th
Dec'r, 1783, married Abigail Foster 8th Jan'y
1807.

78. 6 Jonathan, son of Samuel 33 , born
8th Oct'r, 1785. Married 1st, Ruth Bott,
22d Feb'y. 1811, married 2d, Eliza Camp-
bell Ward, widow of his brother Henry. No
issue.

79. 6 Sophia, daughter of Samuel 33 , born
25th June, 1787, married Benjamin Crombie.

80. 6 John, son of Samuel 33 , born 18th
Sept'r, 1788.

81. 6 Henry, son of Samuel 88 , born 81st

July, 1791, married Eliza Campbell .

He was a Lieut. U. S. N; died at Manches-
ter, July 9, 1825.

82. 6 Harriet, daughter of Samuel 8S , born
25th Feb'y, 1793.

83. 6 Sally, born 5th April, 1795, married
Ira Eaton, 20th April, 1813.

88. 6 Ed ward, born 1782-3, died re 3
months.

84. 6 Sarah, daughter of Joshua 39 , born
1775, died 25th Dec'r, 1796, unmarried.

85. "Joshua, son of Joshua 39 , born llth
May, 1776, married Susanna, daughter of Dr.
Edward A. and Mary (Vial) Holyoke, 7th
Aug't, 1799. He died 8th Sept'r, 1840.
She died 5th Feb'y, 1860.

86. 6 Mehitablc, daughter of Joshua 39 ,
born 1779, died 27th May, 1797.

87. "Elizabeth, daughter of Joshua 39 ,!
born 19th April, 1780, married Nathaniel '
Appleton 24th Sept'r, 1803, died 23d April,
1819. He died 21st Dec'r, 1818.

89. "John, son of John 42 , died in infan-
cy.

90. 6 Jonathan, son of John 42 , died in the
West Indies, 20th Oct'r, 1791, se 21 years.

91. 6 Hannah, daughter of John 42 , died
31st Dec'r, 1795, se 18 years.

92. 6 John, son of John 42 , born Dec.
14, 1766; married Christina Dean, 19th
Feb'y, 1796. He died Dec. 2, 1817. She
died Jan. 11, 1850.

93. 6 Nathaniel, son of John 42 , born 18th
Feb'y, 1768, died 27th May, 1813, married

Lydia Harding . She died 5th June,

1800. He married, 2dly, a Mrs. Crediford.

94. 'Andrew, son of John 42 , born Dec.
29, 1769; married Martha Babbidge, 6th
June, 1798. He died, Dec. 18, 1813.
She died Ap. 16, 1821.

95. "Sarah, daughter of John 42 , born
April 7, 1780; married John Plantin 23d
Sept'r, 1804.

96. 6 Israel, son of John 42 , born April
1, 1776; married, 1st, Mary Murray, 9th
Jan'y, 1803. She died March 26, 1816.
and 2dly, Sally Grerrish, daughter of Samuel.
He died June 4, 1849

97*. 6 Andrew, son of Andrew 44 , born
-, married Betsey Bowman, 18th Nov'r,

1798.

97. "Nathaniel, son of Andrew 4 *, married
Mary Cutler ; kept the light-house at Baker's
Island ; was drowned going to or coming from
the Island, March 31, 1825, aged 49.

98. 6 Jobn, son of Andrew 44 , born

married Lucy How. He died Oct., 1821,
aged 40.

212

99. 6 Samuel, son of Andrew 44 , born
, died , unmarried. He was a

representative in Mass. Legislature.

100. 6 Sarah, daughter of Andrew 44 , born

, married Aaron Tufts 24th Oct'r,

1813.

101. 6 Lydia, daughter of Andrew 44 , born

, married, 1st, Scagel, and

2dly, Moses Smith.

102. 6 William, son of William 46 , born
28th Dec'r, 1761. Married, 1st, Martha
Proctor, 16th Feb'y, 1785 ; she died Jan.,
1788 aet. 25 ; married, 2dly, Nancy Chip-
man . He died, 9th May, 1827, at

Medford.

103. "Ruth, daughter of William 45 ,

, baptized 18th Sept'r, 1763, died

25th May, 1770.

104. 6 Caleb, son of William 45 , born

, baptized 29th Dec'r, 1765, died 28th

May, 1770.

105. 6 Ebenezer Buttolph, son of Ebenez-
er 46 , born 6th May, 1759, married Nabby
Waters, 1st July, 1786. She was born 13th
March 1760. He died 12th July, 1805.
She died 13th Feb'y, 1831, and left descend-
ants.

106. "Mehitable, daughter of Ebenezer 46 ,
born 30th April, 1762, married Henry Car-
wick, 25th March, 1786, died 29th Oct'r,
1848.

107. ft Sarah, daughter of Ebenezer 46 , born
10th Dec'r, 1764, died 23d April, 1846,
married Nathaniel Knight, 26th Oct'r, 1784.
He was born llth May, 1764, died 19th
Feb'y, 1845.

108. "Rachel, daughter of Ebenezer 46 ,

born , married Dan Farrington, 20th

Jan'y, 1791.

109. 6 Mary, daughter of Ebenezer 46 ,
born 17th April, 1 770, married William Far-
rington, 23d June, 1805. He was born 22d
March, 1765, died 31. May, 1831. She died
25th April 1852.

110. 6 Content, daughter of Ebenezer 46 ,
born 2d Sept'r.' 1773, married Samuel Sker-
ry, Jr., 9th Sept'r, 1798, He was born 18th
Jan'y, 1772, died 23d Oct'r, 1808. She
died 6th May, 1854.

111. 6 Joseph Chipman, son of Miles 50 ,

born , died 23d June, 1832; married

Mary Noonan.

112. 6 Betsey, daughter of Miles 50 , born
1775, married Richard Gardner, 29th July,
1797, died 14th April, 1815.

SEVENTH GENERATION.

113. 7 Betsey, daughter of Joshua M , born
, died , 1835, unmarried.

114. 7 Abigail, daughter of Joshua ' v> ,
born , died , 1817, unmarried.

115. 7 Anna, daughter of Joshua 55 , born
, married Johnson.

116. 7 Malthus Augustus, son of Joshua 5 - 5 ,
born in Haverhill, Mass., 1792, married
Eliza, daughter of Benjamin and Mary (Barr)
Cheever, May, 1829. Received the degree
of M. D. from Bowdoin College in 1823.
He was a physician, practised in Salem,
Mass., some years, afterward removed to
Athens, Ga , where he was Professor f
Natural History in the University of Geor-
gia. He died there in June, 1863.

117. 7 Sarah, daughter of Joshua lV> , born
, married Punchard.

7 Mary Ann, daughter of Joshua tV> ,
, died , 1803, se 15 mos.

118.
born

119. 7 George Curwen, son of George Cur-

213

wen 57 , born 18th Dec'r, 1786, married Polly
Gate, 17th June, 1808,

120. 7 Eichard, son of George Curwen 57 ,
born loth Nov'r, 1788, married Lucy Tidd
of Medford, 5th May, 1818. He died 13th
March, 1802, at Roxbury, Mass.

121. 7 Jonathan Elkins, son of George
Curwen 57 , born 7th Dec'r, 1795, married

Cynthia Chandler , 1819. He died

1826.

1 22. 7 Samuel Curwen, son of Samuel
Curwen 58 , born 10th Dec'r, 1791, died 12th
Sept'r, 1795.

123. 7 George Atkinson, son of Samuel
Curwen 58 , born 29th March, 1793, married
his cousin, Mehitable Gushing, daughter of
James and Sarah (Ward) Gushing, 5th
Oct'r, 1816. She was born 28th Feb'y,
1795, died at New Brighton, Staten Island,
N. Y., 4th Oct'r, 1862.

124. 7 Samuel Curwen Ward, son of Sam-
uel Curwen 58 , (was allowed by the Legisla-
ture of Massachusetts, in 1802, to take the
name of Samuel Curwen,) born 26th Nov'r,
1795, died near Bellona Arsenal, Va., 3d
July, 1831, married Priscillla, daughter of
James and Eunice (Carl ton) Barr, 22d
March, 1818. She was born 31st March,
1788.

125. 7 Charles, son of Samuel Curwen 58 ,
born 10th July, 1797.

126. 7 Jane Sparhawk, daughter of Sam-
uel Curwen 58 , born 19th Dec'r, 1802.

127. 7 Eliza Wetmorc, daughter of Sam-
uel Curwen 58 , born 13th Oct'r, 1808.

128. 7 Malvina Glover, daughter of Sam-
uel Curwen' 58 , born 27th Aug't, 1809, died
loth Sept'r, 1809.

129. 7 William Raymond Lee, son of

(29*.)

Samuel Gurwen" 8 , born 6th Aug't, 1811.
married, 1st, Sophia Ann Langdon, daughter
of John and Charlotte (Ladd) Langdon, of
Portsmouth, N. H.. 31st Di-c'r, 1839, at
Buffalo, N. Y. She died in Salem, Mass ,
4th Feb'y, 1855, ge 37 years. He mar-
ried 2dly, Mrs. Eliza Coffin Thome, widow
of John Thornc, and daughter of Andrew
Elliott and Eliza (Barker) Symmes, in New
York, 9th Dec'r, 1856. She was born 12th
Aug't, 1814.

1 30. 7 Henry Orne, son of Samuel Cur-
wen 58 , born 31st Dec'r, 1816, married at
Kendall, Kendall County, Illinois, 3d Nov'r,
1847, to Janet Buchanan, daughter of Wil-
liam and Julia (Davidson) Buchanan. She
was born at Leith Scotland, 4th April, 1825,
and was baptized in North Leith Church, by
Rev. Dr. Ireland. Although her father calls
himself Buchanan, and writes his name in
that way, his true name is Buchan.

131. 7 Lydia Robinson, daughter of Rich-
ard 62 , born 31st Dec'r, 1805.

132. 7 Richard Melville, son of Richard 62 ,
born 8th Sept'r, 1807, died 19th Oct'r, 1835,
unmarried.

133. 7 Sarah Curwen, daughter of Rich-
ard 62 , born 8th June 1811.

134. 7 Ann Elizabeth, daughter of Rich-
ard 62 , born 2d Nov'r, 1814, died 26th Aug't,
1817.

135. 7 James Robinson, son of Richard 68 ,
born 21st Aug't, 1816, died 5th June, 1824.

136. 7 Ann Elizabeth, daughter of Rich-
ard 62 , born 2d Oct'r, 1818, married in Bridg-
port, Ct., to James Jenkins, 2d July, 1815.

137 . 7 Laura Alicia, daughter of George 72 ,
born 26th April, 1798, married William H.
Foster.

214

138. 7 Charles Burrill, son of George",
horn 7th Sept'r, 1800.

139. 7 Amelia Henrietta, daughter of
George 72 , born 2d May, 1803.

140. 7 Samuel Linscy, (laughter of
George 72 , horn 30th March, 1805.

141. 7 George Washington, son of
George 72 , born 13th Aug't, 1807.

142. 7 William Wallace, son of George 72 ,
horn 12th Sept'r, 1809.

143. 7 Mary Ann Bassctt, daughter of
George 72 , born 14th April, 1812.

144. 7 Ellen Sophia, daughter of George 72 ,
born 14th Nov'r, 1814. Married, 1st, Wil-
liam Henry Allen, and 2dly, Gardner Leon-
ard Chandler,

145. 7 Amanda Malvina, daughter of
George 72 , born 9th Nov'r, 1819.

146. 7 Priscilla, daughter of Gamaliel
Hodges 76 , born 1st April, 1809. Married
Joseph Kowell.

147. 7 Frederick Gamaliel, son of Ga-
maliel Hodges 76 , born 23d April. 1811.
Married Elizabeth Colburn Spencer, May,
1831. She was born 22 Feh'y, 1813.

148. 7 Mary Townsend, daughter of Ga-
maliel Hodges 76 , born 17th March, 1813.
Married Stephen Burchmore.

149. 7 Mary Holyoke, daughter of Josh-
ua 88 , born 2d May, 1800. Married Dr.
Andrew Nichols, a physician in Danvers,
son of Andrew and Eunice (Mihols) Nichols
of Danvers. Married, 3d Oct'r, 1833. He
was born 22d Nov'r, 1788, died 30 March,
1853.*

150. 7 Mehitable, daughter of Joshua 85 ,

* See Genealogy of the Nichols Family, in Hist.
Coll. of Essex Inst., vol. 3, page 29; also Pro-
ceedings of Essex Inst. vol. 1, page 49, and vol. 2.
page 26.

born 14th Fcb'y, 1802.

151. 7 Elizabeth Holyoke, (laughter of
Joshua 85 , horn 14th Jan'y, 1804, died loth
Fcb'y, 1851.

152. 7 Joshua, son of Jo.shua 85 , horn 8th
April. 1806, died 2d June, 1808.

153. 7 JoslJua Holyoke, son of Joshua 85 ;
born 8th July, 1808, a graduate of Har-
vard, in the class of 1829; was Judge of
C. C. P. Died 5th June, 1848. Unmar-
ried.

154. 7 Susanna, daughter of Joshua 85 ,
born 19th July, 1813. Married Charles Os-
good, 19th June, 1838, died 24th May 1844.

155. 7 Augusta Holyoke, daughter of
Joshua 88 , born 6th May, 1823, died 25th
Dec'r. 1826.

156. 7 John, son of John 92 , born Jan'y,
7, 1798, baptized 15th Sept'r, 1799. Mar-
ried Mary Cowen, 6th Fcb'y, 1823. No
issue. Died June 20, 1847.

157. 7 Thomas Dean, son of John 92 , born
16th Sept'r, 1800, died abroad, June 4,
1817, fe 17.

158. 7 Mary D., daughter of John 92 , born
June 20, 1806. Married Charles Weston
of Salem.

159. 7

160. 7 Nathaniel, son of Nathaniel 93 , born
13th June, 1789. Married Sarah Miller,
10th Sept'r, 1815.

161 . 7 Ruth, daughter of Nathaniel 93 , horn
19th Sept'r, 1791.

162. 7 Lydia, daughter of Nathaniel 93 ,
born 29th Dec'r, 1793. Married / Sin-
clair 17th Feh'y, 1822.

103. 7 Israel, son of Nathaniel 93 , horn
13th April, 1796. Married Sarah Eaton,
3 1st March, 1822.

215

164. 7 John, son of Nathaniel 93 , born 5th
Jan'y, 1800. Married Harriet Wheelwright,
14th Nov'r, 1824.

165. 7 Daniel, son of Nathaniel 93 , born
married Eliza Shillings, 12th Dec'r,

1839.

166. ' Hannah, daughter of Nathaniel 93

born , married Thomas H. Bell, May,

1825.

167. " Stephen, son of Nathaniel 93 , born

, married Mary Chadbourne, 26th

Nov'r, 1839.

168. 7 Miriam, daughter of Nathaniel 98 ,

born , married Silas Skillings, 25th

Nov'r, 1838.

169. 7 Andrew, son of Andrew 94 , born
29th Oct'r, baptized 3d Nov'r, 1793. Mar-
ried Abigail R. Abbott, 4th July, 1819, died
2d Aug't, 1860.

170. 7 John, son of Andrew 94 , born 27th
Jan'y, 1795, died 1st Jan'y, 1796.

171. 7 John, son of Andrew 94 , born
Dec'r, 29, 1-795. Married Sarah Patterson,
17th Dec'r, 1823. Died 25th Jan'y, 1829.

172. 7 Bethiah, daughter of Andrew 94 ,
born 23d, baptized 28th Aug't, 1796. Mar-
ried Thomas W. Taylor, llth Feb'y, 1823. .

173. v Israel, son of Andrew 94 , born
Jan'y 22d, 1800. Married Hannah Good-
hue, 25th May, 1824. Died March 19,
1854.

174. 7 Hannah, daughter of Andrew 94 ,
born 4th Dec'r, 1801. Married Charles
Hobart, 14th Dec'r, 1823.

175. 7 Adeline, daughter of Andrew 94 ,
born 5th Oct'r, 1803. Married Henjamin
Farless, 24th March, 1828.

177. 7 Peter M., son of Israel 96 , born
15th June, 1805. Died at sea, Aug't, 4,
1824.

178. 7 Jouathan, son of Israel 96 , born
20th June, 1808. Died May 7, 1809.

179. 7 Jonathan, son of Israel 96 , born
2d Jan'y, 1814. Died Oct. 23, 1814.

180. 7 Benjamin, son of Andrew 97 , born
, married Atwell of Lynn .

176. 7 Israel, son of Israel
Oct'r, 1803.

born 3d

181. 7 Elizabeth, daughter of Andrew 97 ,
born . Married, 1st, Bur-

rill, and 2d

Sanborn.

182. 7 Richard, son of Andrew 97 , born
, died , unmarried.

183. 7 Thomas Wren, son of William 102 ,
born 20th Nov'r, 1786. Married Lydia Gray
13th Nov'r, 1810. He died 4th March,
1858.

184. 7 William, son of William 102 .

185. 7 Nancy, daughter of William 102 .

186. 7 Lucy, daughter of William 102 , mar-
ried Charles Lawrence.

187. 7 Miles, son of William 102 , died un-
married.

188. 7 Miles, son of Joseph Chipman m ,
born July 1805. Died 6th Sept'r, 1848.
Unmarried.

189. 7 Joseph Chipman, son of Joseph
Chipman 1U , born 12th Dec'r, 1807. Died
4th Oct'r, 1809.

190. 7 Mary Ann, daughter of Joseph
Chipman 111 , born 12th Dec'r, 1808.

191. 7 Rachel Pickman, daughter of Jo-
seph Chipman 111 , born 1st Oet'r, 1810.
Died loth Sept'r, 1856, unmarried.

192. 7 Chipman, son of Joseph Chip-
man 111 , born 31st Dec'r, 1813, Died 4th
Sept'r, 1861. Married Frances La Vallois,
31st March, 1846.

216

EIGHTH GENERATION.

193. 8 Mary, daughter of Maltlms Au-
gustus 116 , born March 1830.

194. 8 Elizabeth, daughter of Mahhus
Augustus 116 , born May, 1831.

195. 8 Sarah, daughter of Malthus Au-
gustus 116 , born Feb'y, 1834.

196. 8 Abigail Elkins, daughter of George
Curwen 119 , born 1st Dec'r, 1808. Married
William Russell.

197. 8 George Curwen, son of George
Curwen 119 , bom 10th Feb'y. 1810.

198. 8 Arthur Liverrnore, son of George
Curwen 119 , born 21st Sept'r, 1811. Mar-
ried Mary Ann Bod well, 1847.

199. 8 Sarah Elizabeth, daughter of George
Curwen 119 , born 19th Mov'r, 1813. Married
Joseph M. Smith.

200. 8 Ann Greenough, daughter of
George Curwen 119 , born 25th Dec'r, 1816.
Married Robert Hale.

201. 8 Richard, son of George Curwen 119 ,
born 8th May, 1819. Married Mary Ann
Ingalls, llth Sept'r, 1843.

202. 8 Charles William, son of George
Curwen 119 , born 19th Aug't, 1822. Died
18th Aug't, 1826.

203. 8 Mary, daughter of George Cur-
wen 119 , born 19th Sept'r, 1827. Married
Thaddeus P. Atherton.

204. Harriett Tidd, daughter of Rich-
ard 120 , born 16 tli Feb'y, 1819.

205. 8 Sarah Russell, daughter of Rich-
ard 120 , born 21st April, 182:). Married
Henry Ware Robinson, 22d July, 1846.

206. 8 Cynthia, daughter of Jonathan

Elkins 121 , born . Married Jeremy

Titus, 1 6th March, 1843.

207. 8 George Richard, son of George
Atkinson 123 , born Oth July, 1817. Died
12th Feb'y, 1861, Unmarried.

208. 8 Sarah Jane, daughter of George
Atkinson 128 , born 31st July, 1819. Died
19th Aug't, 1849. Unmarried.

209. 8 Jar.-/es Gushing, son of George At-
kinson 1 - 3 , born 27th Aug't, 1821.

210. 8 Frank, son of George Atkinson 1 -'",
born 2d Sept'r, 1824. Married Henrietta
Zimmerman, 4th Oct'r, 1848. She died
23d July, 1849. Without issue.

211. 8 James Parr Curwen, son of Sam-
uel Curwen 124 , born 20 Dec'r, 1818. Mar-
ried Rebecca Hovey Endicott, daughter of
Samuel and Caroline (Collins) Endicott,
3d Feb'y, 1848.

212. 8 Samuel Ropes Curwen, si n of
Samuel Curwen 124 , born 28th Dec'r, 1820.
Married Mary Smith Holnian, daughter of
Jonathan and Betsey (I3arr) Holman.

213. "George Eea Curwen, son of Sam-
uel Curwen 124 , born 4th July, 1823.

214. 8 Malvina Glover, daughter of Wil-
liam Raymond Lee 129 , born 16th Sept'r,
1840. Died 16th Nov'r, 1840.

215. 8 John Langdon, son of William
Raymond Lcc 129 , born 25th Oct'r, 1841

216. 8 Curwen Glover, son of William
Raymond Lee 129 , born 28th Dec'r, 184-4.
Died 1st Nov'r, 1846.

217. 8 Raymond Lcc, son of William
Raymond Lee 129 , born 15th June, 1848.

217^- 8 Sophia Langdon, daughter of Wil-
liam Haymond Lee 129 , born 4th February,
1855.

218. 8 Samuel Glover, son of Henry
Orne lro , born 2d Aug't, 1848.

217

219. 8 Eliza Wetmore, daughter of Hen-
ry Orne 138 , borne 29th June, 1850.

220. 8 Jennie Murray, daughter of Hen-
ry Orne 13 *, born 22d Aug't, 1852.

221. 8 Christina, daughter of Henry
Orne 130 , born 28th Jan'y. 1355.

222. 8 Julia Malvina, daughter of Hen-
vy Orne ia> , born 26th May, 1857. Died
Hth June, 1858.

223. 8 William George Francis Needham
Moore, son of Henry Orne 130 , born 29th
March, 1859.

224. 8 An infant son of Henry Orne 130 ,
born 28th Feb'y, 1861. Died 12th March,
1861.

225. Frederick Townsend, son of Fred-
eric Gamaliel 147 , bora 29th Dec'i, 1831.

He entered the Salem High School with
the class admitted March 3, 1845, and con-
tinued his studies there until April 9th,
1 847. His career has been very adventurous
and romantic. In the Crimean War, he was,
for a time, a Lieutenant in the French Ser-
vice. He afterwards went to China, land-
ed at Shanghai mate of a merchant vessel
about 1859, and had by his capacity and
courage risen to the highest rank in the Chi-
nese Service. While on a reconnoisance at
Tsi-Ki, in the vicininy of Ningpo during the
month of October, 1862, he was shot and
mortally wounded, and died on the next day
at Ningpo. The Chinese Emperor has or-
dered a Memorial Chapel to be erected to
his memory.

226. 8 Henry Gamaliel, son of Frederick
Gamaliel 147 , born 12th Aug't, 1834. Mar-
ried, in New York, to Georgianna M. Bunk-
er, 10th Nov'r, 1862.

227. 8 Elizabeth Colburn, daughter of
Frederick Gamaliel 147 , born 21st April, 1839.

(30)

228. 8 Mary Lonisa, daughter of Freder-
ick Gamaliel 147 , born 2d June, 18-1 1

229. 8 Charles, son of Nathaniel 100 , born
3d Aug't, 1816; married Margaret F. Har-
aden, 2 1st Oct'r, 1852.

230. * Clara, daughter of Nathaniel 1 **,
born 23 June, 1818.

231. "George" H., son of Nathaniel 1 *
born llth Nov'r, 1819. Died July, 1855.

232. 8 Sarah A., daughter of Nathan-
iel 160 , born 20th May, 1821.

233. "Adaline A., daughter of Nathan-
iel 160 , born 20th Aug't, 1823, Died 21st
March, 1848.

234. * Francis N., son of Nathaniel 160 ,
born 26th Sept'r, 1825.

235, "George W., son of Israel 1 * 53 .

236, *0ctavius, son of John 164 .

237. 8 John Franklin, son of John 164 ,
jborn , died Aug't, 1857.

238. 8 Henry, son of Stephen 16 '".

239. 8 Lucy A., daughter of Stephen 1 ' 17 ,

240. 8 Charles K., son of Stephen 1 ' 7 .

24 1 . 8 Abby, daughter of A ndrcw 1|W , mar-
ried George Spcnee.

242. Mary Ann, daughter of .John 17 ',
born Oct'r, 1st, 1824; married March 4th,
.1846, Elliott F. Smith.

24:!. "Sarah Adeline, daughter of John 171
born August, 10th, 182r.

244. "John A., son of Israel 17 *, born
16th Sept, 1828. Died March 13, 1840.

245. 8 William, son of Israel 173 , born
July 6, 1833, died Jan'y 8, 1855.

218

246. 8 Israel, son of Israel 173 , born Ang.
5, 1836, died 5th Dec'r, 1S57.

247. 3 Mary G. r daughter of Israel 173 ,
born June 15, 1830. Married Rev. John
Winn Underbill.

247 . "Martha B., daughter of Israel 173 r
born Oct'r, 21, 1838; died Dcc'r, 24, 1851.

247 b . 8 John A, son of Israel 173 , born
Mry 1, 1840; died June 4, 1844,

248. 8 Lawrci>cc Fierson, son of Israel 173 ,
born 21st Dec'r, 1834. Married Mary
Goodcll, daughter of Abncr C. and Sally
Dodge (Haskell) Goodcll, 15th Nov'r, I860.

249. 8 Martha Ann, daughter of Thomas
Wren 183 , born 1'Jth Aug't, 1811. Died 2d
Nov'r, 1853.

249 a . 8 Mary Gray, daughter of Thomas
Wren 183 , born June 3. 1816. Died Feb'y,
6, 1819.

250. 8 Samuel Gray, son of Thomas
Wren 183 , born 3d Oct'r 1 8 1 7. Married An-
na H. Barker, 3d Oct'r, 1840.

251. 8 William, son of Thomas Wren 183 ,
born 6th Feb'y, 1819. Died June 24, 1830.

252. 8 Mary Gray, daughter of Thomas
Wren 183 , born 29th Sept'r, 1820. Married
Charles H. Dorr, 4th June, 1850.

253. "John Gallison, son of Thomas 183 ,
Wren 183 , born 22d Sept'r, 1822. Diod 15th
Jan'y, 1856.

254. 8 George Cabot, son of Thomas
Wren 183 , born 4th Nov'r, 1824. Married
Mary Ann South wick, Dec'r, 1852.

255. 8 Thomas William, son of Thomas
183 Wrcn, born 3d Sept'r, 1831.

man 192 , born 15th Aug't, 1848.

208. 8 Ellie Frances, daughter of Chip-
man 192 , born 5th Nov'r, 1850.

259. 8 Annie, daughter of Chipman 15 *,
born 13th Nov'r, 1853.

260. 8 Jann, Wallis, daughter of Chip-
man 192 , born 17th Dec'r, 1856. Died 4th
Jan'y, 1858.

NINTH GENERATION.

261. 9 Henry, son of Arthur Liver-
more 198 , born Oct'r, 1849.

262. 9 Charlcs Arthur, son of Arthur
Livermore 198 born Feb'y, 1851.

263. *Geor^e Curwen, son of Arthur
Livermore 198 , born Dcc'r, 1852.

264. 'Mary Hannah, daughter of Rich-
ard 201 , born 2d June, 1844.

265. 6 Abby Quincy, daughter of Rich-
ard 201 , born 22d July, 1848. Died 12th
Feb'y, 1851.

266. 9 Richard, son of Richard 201 , born
10th Jan'y, 1852.

256. 8 Francis 'Chipman, son of Chip-
man 192 , born 18th Aug't, 1816. Died 19th
Sept'r, 1853.

257. 8 Mary Emilinc, daughter of Chip-

267. 9 Samuel Endicott Curwen, son of
James Barr Curwcn 211 , born 8th Nov'r, 1848.
Died 6th July, 1849.

268. ^Caroline End'cott Curwen, daugh-
ter of James Barr Curwen 211 , born 7th Jan'}',
1852.

269. 'James Endicott Curwen, son of
James Barr Curwen 211 , born 14th Jan'y,
1856. Died 19th March, 1857.

270. 9 George Endicott Curwen, son of
James Barr Cur wen 211 , born 8th March, 1861.

271. 9 Henry Curwen, sou of Samuel
Ropes Curwen 212 , born 9th Sept'r, 1847.

272. 9 Samuel Hoi man Curwcn, son of
Samuel Ropes Curwen 212 , born 5th Aug ? t,
1849.

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273. ^Caroline Rca Curwcn, daughter of
Saiauel Ropes Curwcn 212 , b< rn 16th Scpt'r,
1851. Died Gth Jan'y, 1852.

274. 9 Charles Frederick Curweu, son of
Samuel Ropes Curweu 212 , born 18th July,
1853.

275. 'Betsey Holman Curwcn, daughter
of Samuel Ropes Cur wen 212 , born 2d June,
1856.

276. A&nie Goodhue, daughter of Law-
rence Pierson 248 , born 1 3th Aug't, 1861.

277. 9 Anna Barker, daughter of Samu-
el Gray 2 *, born Sept'r, 23, 1841.

278. 9 Lydia, daughter of Samuel Gray- 50
born April, 24. 1843.

COPY FROM ORIGINAL BOOK OF
GRANTS OF SALEM.

COMMUNICATED BY PIi:iLEY DERBY, WITH NOTES BY
B. F. BilJWA'K.

Continued from vol. v, page 172.

The 13 of the 12 moneth 1642.

Granted to Willm Clarke 60 acres of Land
in leiw of that Land wch hath lost by the
laying out of Lyn bounds being wtLin the
lymitts of Lyn though Laid out by Salem.
The sixty acres are to be Laid out by the
towuc of that Land that lyeth South from
rnr downyngs great medow towards mr John-
sons Land.

Granted to John Reeves 10 acres nere to
mr BlaoTtlceob his fcarme.

Granted to Rycd Edwards 10 acres nere
to mr Blacklccch his farme.

It is ordered that the 20 acres of Land
granted to Allyn Convers in exchange of 20
acres granted to him clswhcrc shul be Laid
out by the towne to mr Endicott.

Granted to Edmond G rover 2 litlc peclls
of ficshc mcdow contcyning about an acre
and an halfc ncrc (bcvour) pond by hugh
Laskins mcdow.
At a meeting of the 20 of the 12 moneth 1642.

Granted to Thomas Skelling 15 acres of
Land, at Enon.

Granted to John Cooke a portion of Land
contcyning about 3 quarters of an acre lying
before his dore at his 10 acre lott in the
North field reserving alwaies to the towne 2
pole of Land in breadth through ihe said
Laud, for a cart way to and from the towne
of Salem,

Granted to mr Thomas Gardner and to
Obadiah Holmes a pcell of Land lying wth-
in the Rayles nere the gate that leads to and
from the old mill nere to the lotts of mr
Gardiner & Obadiah holmes, the land is
nere about 3 quarters of an acre wch is to
be devided betwene them equallie.
At a genall towne meeting the %tth of the
12 moneth 1642.

Granted to old George wright a quarter of
an acre nere to Edmond Giles lott upon the
comon.

Granted to mr Batter half an acre for the
streight setting of his fence, paying 5s the
acre to be veivved and Laid out by Obadiah
holmes & willm Osborne.

Its pmised by the towne that the 8 that
hath bcn-n left by the court by the request
of the towne to Ananias Conclyne & other
poore people shalbe repayed the court at the
next Indian corne harvest.

Granted to brother John Gedney that
quarter of an acre formly granted vnto old
George wright & Laid put or bounded if
the said wright be otherwise pvided.
The 15 of the 12 moneth 1642.

Granted to Richard Prince 10 acres to be
Laid out at Enon.

220

Granted to h ugh Stacy a 10 acre lott at
Knon and 10 acres more further of there
vpon the same fearmes that Richard Prince
hath it.

Granted to Christopher yonges a 10 a-
cres lott and ten more further of vpon the
same fearmes the former 2 are granted.

Granted to John white 6 acres of mcdow
at Enon, That medow wch John woodbnry
did appoynt him to mowe, wch he hath
mowed these 2 or 3 yeares Last past.

Granted more to John white 40 acres f
vpland and 4 acres of medow, to be laid out
near the former.

Ordered that John Abby shall have 1 a-
rces at Enon, in exchange of 1 acres bound-
ed out nere Bass river.

The 8th day of the 5th moneth 1 643.

Its ordered that seeing John Stratton is
absent and hath Left noc order for the fenc-
ing of the 1 acre lott in darby fort side,
thst John Moore shall have it for 10 yeares
vpon the same tearmcs that Thomas west
hath his, namely, suffitiently to fence it by
the same lyne.

Granted to Christopher Herson 10 acres
at Enon.

To Richard Moore half an acre Joyncd to
his house as a fisherman.

To Charles Turner a small pcece of ground
over against Tucks for him to sett an house
on.

The lltfi day of the 10 woneth 1043.

The 2 acres of medow formly granted vn-
to Samwell Edson are ordered to be Laid out
in the pyne medow nere to mr Kenastons
farme.

Granted Thomas Moore 5 acres on darby
ffort side.

Its ordered that Samwell Corney shall
have his five acres wch were formly granted

him, on darby fort side.

Granted John Kitchen about an acre nere
to Edward Gaskells 10 acre lott in the great
cove.

Granted to Joseph hardee 10 acres nere
to mr Alfords farnae adjoyning vpon the old
planters farmes. '

Granted to Roger haskall 6 acres of med-
ow in the great medow.
At a meeting of the 7 men on the 8th day
of the llth moneth 1643.

Granted to Thomas Goldsmyth all the
wast land betwene the water side and his 1
acre lott on the North side reserving the
way.

Granted to John Symonds all the wast
land betwene the lotts of hugh Laskin and
Stukely weskett & the water side.

Granted to willm Lord 4 acres of Land
more or less lying nere the Swamp in the
South feild and adjoining to rar ffreinds 3
acres bought of Richard Graves.

Granted to Michaell Sallows a tenne acre
lott in the same place, formerly John Abys.

Granted to mr Thomas Gardiner a pcell of
land to sett an house vppon nere the old mill
on the 10 acre lott side.

Granted mr ffraneis Johnson lo exchange
6 or 7 acres of Land of his farme vpon the
playnes & Captane Traske & Thomas
Gardiner are desired to Lay yt out.

The bth of the 12th moneth 1643.

mr John Endicott Jeffry Massy

Peter Palfrey Willm Lord

Thomas Gardiner henery Bartholmew

Granted to Ralph ff'ogg the swamp next
to willm lords ground excepting that pte of
yt wch is granted to other men.

Granted to mr John Endicott the Land of
the head of the River betwene mr Read &
mr Endicotts farmes excepting the Salt-

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war she granted to mr Readc & being that
land wch was granted to Rchard Norman and
others.

The 4 of the first moneth 1643.

Granted to Michaell Shafflyn 3 or 4 poles
of land before the dore of his dwelling house
towards the swamp.

Granted John Moore about a quarter of
an acre ef marshe nere to daibyes ffort.

Granted to henery harwood at the end of
his 10 acre Lott a little neck of land about
3 quarters of an acre.

Granted to daniell Kimball 80 acres.

Granted to henery Bartholmew betwen 8
or 10 acres, next to Joseph Boys his lott
nerc the Bass river head.

Granted to Richard Gardiner 20 acr a
Jeffryes creeke.

Granted to Rbt ffuller 20 acres at Jeffries
creeke.

The 2oA of the first moneth 1644.

It is ordered that everie Inhabitant in the
towne shall p cure (procure) a ladder for
his house before the 24th day of the 4th
moneth next vpon the payne or penalty of
">s for defect thereof.

The first day of the "2d moneth 1644.
Att a towne meeting of the 7 men.

John Endicott deptie.

mr willm hathornc Peter Palfrey

Thomas Gardiner Willm Lord

Jeffry Massy henery Bartholmew

The mth of the 7th moneth 1644.

It is agreed that Richard Temple henery
harwood the widow moore the midwife &
John Jac'<son shall each of them haue soe
much of the wett marsh or swamp as lyes
before theire grounde according as yt butts
vppon it.

It is agreed that willm Robinson shall
have a litle spot of ground about a quarter
of an acre that lyes before his house wch is
now in building downe to the mill brook, a
litle above the bridge that leadcs to the way
to mr Gardners new building.

Ordered that Thorn Tuck shall make the
Iron worke for the cariadges of the (peccs)
at 3d ob the pound wee fynding Iron and he
is content to receive the like pay as the
wheelwrights have.

The 16 of the 10 moneth 1644.
Granted to Thomas dixie the fferry at dar-
by ffort side.

The 3</ day of the 9th moneth 1645.
Ordered that the ordinance shalbe all
mounted & paid for out of the Last rate.

Granted to John Lovett 2 acres marshe ly-
ing nere the old planters medow nere wen-
ham comon.

At a meeting of the 7 men.
Granted to daniell Baxter a litle pc 11 of
Salt marshe lying at the end of his tenne a-
cre lott in the South fcild.

Granted to Robt Gutch a litle pcell of

Granted to Robt wheaden 20 acres nere the i Salt marshe lying to the end of his tenne a-
Marshe at mr Bishops ffarme to be Laid out ere lott in South feild.
by the towne. Granted to Daniell Baxter a litle Salt marshe

lying before rar Gotts & mr Buttons Land
near the mouth of the fforest river.

Granted to John Robinson about 3 quar-
ters of an acre Salt marshe lying at the
head of the clay brooke.

The 29tf< of the 2d moneth 1644.
Ordered that Guydo Bayly shall have soe
much of the swamp that lyeth along by his
lott over at Cape Ans side as he can ridd
wthin 3 yeares next insewing.

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The Sth da;i of the Id moncth 1646.

Ordered that the way web was forrnly vsed
to be gone tbrough nere the ond of mr
Ucadcs farine, that tbc gate shalbc sett
there & the way runnc as it did before.
The 2CM of the 2d moneth 1646.

Ordered that the litlc stripe of ground
that is bctwene Royall side and the 10 acre
lotts of John Bacheller John Marston &
before the lotts of John Scuddcr where he
dwellcth shalbe given to John Bacheller
John Marston & John Scuddcr 10 be devid-
ed amongst them as they shall agree.

Granted to willm dodge that ground that
lyeth betwene hugh Laskins lott & his be-
ing about an acre.

The "2Qth of the lh moneth 1C'46.

Ordered that there shalbe noe buriall
\\ thin the towne but that there shalbc word
given to the keep of the meeting bowse to
ring the bell whereby notice may be given
to the towne thereof a litlc before the buriall
and the said keep to have three pence for his
paynes.

The 26*/i day of the 8th moncth 1C46.

Ordered that willm woodbury and Eichard
Brackenbury Ensign dixie mr Conant Leift-
ent Lothrop Lawrance & Leech shall forth-
with Lay out a way betwen the ffcrry at Sa-
lem & the head of Jeffryes creeke and that
it be such a way as men may travell on horse
back & drive catle and if such a way not
be found, then to take speedy course to sett
vp a footc bridge at Mackrell Cove.

The "2d day of the 2th moneth 1646.

There is granted to Zacheus Curtis about
an acre of Land nere vnto the house he
bought' of Joshua verrin nere Brooksby.
The 28 of the Wth moneth 1646.

Granted to Edward Bishop 40 acres of
Land lying nere to the farmcs at Basse river

head nere to Nicholas howards lott to be

laid out by such as are appoynted to Lay out
lotts.

Granted to humphrie woodbury half an a-
cre of incdow adjoyning to bis mcdow wch
is granted vnto 1 him already beyond Mack-
rell cove.

The 23 of the V2th moneth 1646.

It is agreed that capt hathornc mr cur-
wyn & willm Lord shall take care for set-
ting vp of the cariadges for the great Gunns
& to speake with ffrancis Perry & Thomas
Tuck about fynishing of them.

It is agreed for the gathering in of the
town -j powder being dispscd in five pticular
rncns hands, That George Porter & John
Hardce shall goe to mr ffogg for half a bar-
rcll of powder, & Sam Archer to goe to mr
Johnson & Eddm Batter to captane- Traske
for a barrcll of powder & captane hathorne
is to pvide a barrcll of powder for Capt Thorn
Ruacle.

The 17 th day of May 1G47.
Cap bathorne George Corwyn
willm Lorde George Porter
John hardyc Sam well Arcbard
Edm Batter willra Clark

Granted vnto Robt Gotta that ptc of Land
and Salt Marshe thatch that lyeth before
his lott that now he hath in possession but
he hath nothing to doc wth that pte of his
lott he hath sold to Jeffry Elsyc nor tbc
Salt water thatch before the same.

The deacons as mr Peters Agents being
demanded an account of such monies as arc
dew to the towne they have given an ac-
knowledgement of eight pounds fiftene shil-
lings due to the towne in theire hands wch
they received of Bobt codman for profit ts of
a ptc of his barke due to the towne.

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The 30tf* day of 7 the moneth 1647.

vppon the request of serieant 1'orter for

pasture for his cattle, wee have granted to

him 200 acres of fee ding grounde Lying

nere vnto the farrac that was mr Bishops.

The 3d day of the \1th moneth 1647.

Its ordered that the 2 eldest children of
llewbcn Gupppie arc to be placed out ac-
cording to order viz. the daughter to John
Porter & the sonne to Hobt Lemon the boy
till the age cf 21 yearcs, the maydc till the
age of 1 8 yearcs.

Its ordered that Edmond Batter shall have
power to gather vp for the townes vse all the
planks and tymber that did belong to the
new bridge & to be sold to him & meas-
ured and prised by Sam Archard.

The 2Sth of the 12th moneth 1647.

At a towne meeting the day and yeare a-
bove written yt was fullic agreed and voted
that henceforward there should be but one
dcputyc chosen for the gcnall court.

Its also ordered that whosoever shalbc
warned to the mending of any bridge or high-
way & make default shall allow the sur-
veyors 3d a day to pcurc an other in his
place & take the 3d by distrcsse.

Its ordered that rar corwyn and Jeffry
Massy shall take the account of the rate
given to build the townc bridge, that the
towne may know what remayncs unspent.

Granted to Thomas wheeler to pcells of
mcdow lying nerc the great hill by mrHura-
phrycs fcarnie the one called noc mans mead-
ow 8 acres pvidcd in be in noe man's ppricty.

Granted John hathorne one pccll of mead-
ow adjoyning to Jacob Barney & one pccll
of meadow adjoyning to mr Bartholomews
& one of cr pcell lying on the great River
all 3 conteyniug about 5 acres.

the 23 of the first moneth 1647.

To the constables of Salem.

By vertue of an order of the gcuall court
made the 9th moneth Last you are required
tJ call ye Inhabitants of yor towne togeather
the sixt moneth next ensuing the date hereof
who are to choose one of yor freemen to
Joync with yor select townsmen, who are to
take a list of yor males above six'eene yeares
old, And likewise the Just valcwation of the
estates of cuie of yor Inhabitants rcall and
psonall, according as is more fullie expressed
in that order &c On each head tooe shillings
six pence, And one pennye on each pounde
estate ratable, The wch some you arc to re-
tvrne vnto the Treasurer then being, that or-
der may thereon yssue forth for paymt, to bo
made the nynth moneth following dated the
23d of the first moneth 1647.

By me Richard Russell Treasurer.

The 2~Lth day of the sixt moneth 1648.

Granted George corwyn a farmc of tooe
hundrcth and fiftye acres wth medow.

Granted John Pigkett a pcell of Land
formly granted Leiftcnant Lathrop, ncre dan-
iell Rayes farme.

Granted ffrancis Perry a small peice of
medow or pond lying nere the great pond tow-
ards lyn vpon the left hand of the pond con-
tcyning on acre or there about.

The 20th of the $th moneth 1648.

whereas the way Laid out betwene goodm.
Ray and goodm. Porter vpon the hill is now
made through goodm. Porters Land; Its or-
dered that goodm Porter shall haue the other
way as his owne Land to inclose and improve
to his best advantadge.

The 29th of the llth moneth 1648.
Captanc hathorne mr Bartholmew
JeffVy Massy Ed : Batter
mr Corwyn.

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Granted to Ralph Tompkins a small peice
of medow lying nerc Maior genall Endicotts
last grant, in a corner by a small, brook e &
a great swampe.

At a genall towne meeting the 11th day of
the first moneth 1648.

Its ordered that Marblehead, with the al-
lowance of the genall court, shalbe a towne,
and the bounds to be the vtmost extent of
that Land wch was mr humphries farme and
sould to Marblehead, and soe all the neck to
the Sea, reserving the disposing of the fferry
and appoynting of the fTerryman to Salem.

Ordered that the highway be brought from
Edmond Grovers through Jonathan Porters
and mr Garfords ground to drapers poynt, if
the genall Court shall consent thereto.

The 13/A of the first moneth 1648.

Granted John hardee libtye to make a
damme to drowne his salt medow at the head
of fforest river in the place where the old
bridge was, for the tearme of 7 yeares, &
at the end of that tearme either to be contin-
ewed or to be lett downe.

At a meeting of the 1 men the 20th day
of the 3d moneth 1649.

Granted vnto goodm. Giggles, Joshua
Grafton goodman Jackson and others (who
had eleaven hundreth acres of upland) fifty
acres of medow to be devided among them,
lying pte betwene goodman Moultons brook
& Ipswich river, and the other pte lying on
the south side of the River betwene mr Nor-
ris and mr corwyns farmes.

Granted vnto goodman Sowthwick fowre a-
cres of medow whereof tooe in recompence of
his medow spoyled in digging turfe for the

new bridge, this medow to be Laid out nere
mr corwyns farme.

Granted to Thomas Gardiner Junr George
Gardiner and billiard verryn 4 acres of med-
ow to each of >them at the 7 mens bounds, if
there be soe much there and to each of the
Gardiners 40 acres a peice of vpland to be
Laid out nere their medow, and 40 acres of
vpland to hiliard verrin in Leiwe of 40 acres
formly granted vnto the said billiard verrin.

Granted more to George Gardiner 4 acres
of medow on the North side of Ipswich Riv-
er, nere above mr corwyns vpland on the
South side and to Thomas Gardiner 2 acres in
the same place & to Samwell & Joseph
Gardiner 4 acres of medow a peice and to
Joseph Pope 4 acres of medow in the same
place.

Granted vnto John Burton Thomas Roots
& Nathaniell ffelton three acie.s of medow
a peice nere mr corwyns medow.

Granted to Thomrs Scudder senr six acres
of medow in the medow aforesaid.

Granted unto mris ffelton & Christopher
waiter fowre acres of medow in the place afore-
said.

Granted vnto John Reeves three acres of
raedow & 20 acres of vpland towards mr
corwyns farme.

Granted vnto John conclyno Ananias con-
clyne and Thomas scudder to each of them 4
acres to be Laid out in the medow aforesaid.

Granted to Philemon dickenson 2 acres of
medow in same place.

Granted to mr Price 10 acres medow &
100 acres vpland to be Laid out nere rnr cor-
wyns farm.

Granted to Sert Porter 10 acres of mead-
ow by the great river,

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At a meeting of the selectmen %\ih of 6th

mo 49.

Psent

mr downing . Capt Hathorne
Jefferie massey John Porter
mr Corwin mr Bartholmew

mr Batter

Granted to mr Gardner a small peece of
medow Contayning about an acre lying vpon
the north syde of his farme adioyning to it.
Powder due the towne remayning in the
hands of the sd psons viz Capt Hathorne for
himselfe i barell for mr Head i barrell mr
Corwin i barell Capt Traske 1 barell mr
Johnson i barell.

Granted to ffrancis Skervie a little spot of
ground betweene the sea and his field wch
was formerlie Goodels.

Granted to John marston twoo little spots
of marsh lying against mr Scrugg by goodie
Kings land

The 13th of the Sth mo 1649.
At a meeting of the selectmen.
Capt Hathorne mr Bartholmew
Jefferie massey mr downing
Graunted to Kichard Stileman the medow
wch mr Verin had the cutting of the grass
pvided if he remoues his dwelling out of the
towne that then the medow shall retorne to
the town, and be disposed of & granted to
some other.

Granted vnto theise o men next vnder-
written and 5 acres of medow to be laid out
after former grants neare goodman moultons
farm.

mr Herbert fiftie Acres
goodman Eobinson fiftie acres
goodman Bvllock 40 acres,
goodman Bvffum fourtie acres
goodman Bond Thirtie acres

(31 a.)

Graunted vnto mrGedney the land and
medow wch was taken from mr Clarkes
ffarme by the men of the towne of Lia

Aeguest 19, 9, 1649.
Jefferie massey mr Corwin

mr Batter mr downing

James Thomas ffor some planting graunted
20 acres.

John Ingersoll for land to plant graunted
40 acres.

John Bridgman for land graunted 30 acres.

Thomas Smith for land and medow graunt-
ed 30 acres.

Elias mason ffor medow and vpland graunt-
ed 40 acres.

John Robinson for vpland and medow
graunted 40 acres.

John Kitchen for vpland and medow grant-
ed 40 acres.

Thomas Watson for medow and vpland
graunted 30 acres.

Thomas Pigden hath graunted him twoe a-
cres of medow neare wenhara to be laid out.

Graunted vnto ffrances Perrie thirtie acres
of vpland wth the thirtie acres formerlie
granted to be laid out in all sixtie neare to
the medowes gran ted vnto mr Gardners sonnes
and alsoe graunted vnto the said ffrances the
ourplus of the 12 acres of the medow graunt-
ed vnto the gardners neare the line of Salem.

26th 9th mo 1649 at a meeting of the se-
lectmen the day and year aboue written Capt
Hathorne Jeffrie massey Sergent Porter mr
Batter mr downing.

Its agreed that the twoe hundred acres of
vpland wch was taken from mr downings
ffarm by the greate medow towards wenham
shalbe graunted againe to him in considera-
tion of his paynes for transcribing the bookes
of the towries records to be kept for poster!-

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tie soe the said farme to be five hundred a-
cres acording to his former graunt.

Graunted vnto Georg Williams a little
spot of ground about a quarter of an acre
more or less lying betweene his medow and
ffrances Skerries land-

Graunted to Nathanael Pvtnam ffiftie acres
of land lying beyond Elias Stilemans ffarme
boundeing vpon mr Thorndicks & soe vpon
Captaine Hathornes ffarrne.

Gyles Corey request for some laud graunt-
ed 20 acres.

Thomas James request for land and med-
ow granted 40 acres.

At a meeting of the selectmen the 3 10 1649

being psent.

Capt Hathorne Jefferie massey
mr Corwin Edward Batter

Henerie Bartholraew

Richard Greaves request for laud Graunt-
ed 30 acres.

more graunted to Richard Greaves 1 acres
to be laid out to the 30.

Graunted to Thomas Antrum 50 acres of
land whereof 20 was before graunted.

Graunted to Zacheus Cvrtes all that med-
ow that lyeth aboue mr Clarkes medowe and
lying on the south of mr Hvmfreyes ffarme
and on the north of mr Clarkes playne that
lyeth next to dog pond if it doe not lie in mr
Humfreyes farme.

Graunted to Peter Palfrey ffyve acres of
medow in wenham medow.

At a meeting of the selectmen the \1th Wth
mo 1649 being psent.

Capt Hathorne Jefferie massey

John Porter HenerieBartholmew

Edward Batter mr Corwin

Henerie Trew doth request for land graunt-
ed 40 ackers of land.

Graunted to mr Bacon pt of that swamp
lying in the north west next adioyning to Ed-
mond Gyles his 10 acre lott on the south
syde and mr Bacons lott wch he purchased
from Captaine Trask not exceding one acre.

Graunted to' Ensigne dixey and to James
standish that highway that lieth on the south
syde of James Standish his lott to be pted
betweene them two.

Graunted to Ensigne dixey in recompence
of his way a little spot of land or Elbow that
lyeth on the north west side of that lott that
was mr Bartholmewes and a small peece of
swamp that lieth from the high way that is
the out lett to Guido Baylies Bound its or-
dered in ye way of exchange of this land in
the form, part of this order that he shall haue
twenty acres of land next vnto nich Patch
barn.

Thomas Cole request for land graunted 40
acres and 4 ackres of medow.

Wheras goodman Pickerin left some pt of
his ffarme by rvniug of lin lyne it is ordered
that the layers out shall lay out soe much as
neare as the can adioyning to the rest of his
land.

Graunted to Phillip Cromwell one hundred
Acres of land and to haue 1 Acres of med-
ow if he can ffind it in or bounds.

Robert Prince his request for land graunt-
ed ffortie acres beyond the Riuer.

Graunted to ffrances Skerie sixtie acres
wth what was ffbrmerlie giuen him.

Graunted to henerie Skerie fortie acres of
land wth what was fformerlie giuen him.
Highway

Ordered that mr Gedney shall take in the
high way adioyning to the ground he bought
of mr Emerie and to leaue a way through
the midst of the next field and a way to
the watring place.

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21th llth mo 1649.

Capt Hathorne Jefferie massey

mr Corwin mr Bartholmew

mr Batter

Graunted to william Bobinson 60 ackres
wch was formcrlie grauntcd and his sonne
20 acres.

Graunted to John Tucker 40 acres of land.

Granted Josha Hoots about 2 acres of land
adioyning to his owne lott at one end and to
Robert niorgans at the other end.

Graunted william Scuder 30 acres by mr
Bartholmew s.

Graunted mr Bacon one hundred acres be-
yond the greate riuer.

Graunted John Lovett 20 acres more in
swamp and vpland.

Graunted James Patch 40 acres.

Granted Edniond Grover 40 acres.

Granted Henerie Cookc 40 acres beyond
the riuer or on this syde by henerie Barthol-
mew not wronging any other grant.

Graunted to John Hill 40 acres.

Graunted to Phillip Verin 40 acres.

At a meeting of the 7 men the %lth \1th mo

1049.

Capt Hathorne mr Corwin
mr Batter mr Bartholmew

Jeffe.ie massey mr downing
Graunted to Robert molton Junr the 30
acres laid out he aleging it was formerlie
graunted vnto him.

Agreed that those wch haue land graunt-
ed to haue it laid out towards the great riu-
er as far as it will hould out and those wch
cannot haue it there to haue it laid out on
Cape An syde.
At a generall meeting the Wth of the jfirst

mo. 1649-50.
Ordered that all the land lying on Cape

An syde from mr Blackleech his ffarme vnto
Richard Dodge his ffarme and all betweene
the ould planters fame and makerill Cove
and soe to the head of the ten acre lots on
Cape an syde that is vndisposed of and lyeth
in Comon shalbe reserued for Comon and
none of it disposed pvided such grants as
haue beene made before this order to partic-
uler psons shall be made good vnto them.

A legall meeting.

Ordered that for all publique meetings
that concerne the towne in generall or the
ffreeraen of the towne warning being giuen
on a lecture day by the Constable of the day
and tyme of meeting shalbe a legall warning.

At a meeting of the 7 men the Wth 5th mo

1650.

Capt Hathorne mr Gardner
mr Conuant Lieut Lathrop

Henerie Bartholmew

Abram warin having fenced in a bout 8
or 10 Acres by estimation of the Towne
Comon wthout leave from the towne and haue-
ing broken vp a pt of it and planted it ffor
wch act of his he is fined 20s and is inioyned
to lay it open to the Comon againe by the
end of the 8th month next.

Graunted vnto Job Swinerton that stripp of
medow sometyme in the hands of mr Phillip
verin and latelie graunted to Richard Stile-
man vntill he should remoue his dweling wch
we Conceaue Richard Stileman hath done
but if he Continue wth vs then he is still to
enjoy it.

William dodg Jacob Barney and Nathan-
ell Pvtnam are apoynted to lay out the hie
way ffrom the ffurther syde of that ffarme
that was mr Bishops now in the hands of
John Porter vnto Crane Riuer.

(To be Continued.)

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CHURCH RECORDS OF LYNNFIELD.

COPIED B\ EBENKZER PARSONS OF LYNNFIELD.

(TITLE PAGE.)

Deacon John Bancroft's gift to ye Church
in Lynn End, Anno Dora. 1732.

The Book of Church Records, Nov. ye 29,
Anno Christi 1732.

(PAGE 1st)

The Rev'd Mr. Nathaniel Sparhawk, was
ordained ye first Pastor over ye second Church
in Lynn, August ye 17th 1720.

Elisabeth Sparhawk, was received into full
communion with ye Church.

Mary Bancroft, taken into ye Church Ap-
ril 1722.

Hannah Gowing, taken into ye Church

June 1723.

Thomas Wellman Martha A born
Ebenezer Person Sarah Hart
Thomas Goold Sarah Latherbce

Moses Aborn Hannah Person

Jeremiah Eaton Ruth Goold

Jonathan Person Elisabeth Aborn
Ezekiel Gowing Mary Bancroft

John Williams Abigail Hodgman
Ebenezer Bancroft Mahitable Osgood

John Wellman Elisabeth Whitford

Hugh Henry Rebecca Williams

Samuel Latherbee Mary Henry

Abigail Gowing Stephen Wellman

Jonathan Wellman Patience Bancroft

Daniel Gowing sn'r Martha Gowing

John Perkins Martha Chambers

Mary Wellman

Mary Boutwell Hepsibah Person

Tabitha Person Lydia Townsend

Margaret Chambers Abigail Aborn

Elisabeth Bancroft Sarah Eaton

Mary Gowing Mary Gloyde

Mahitable Wellman
All these persons above named, were taken

into ye Church.

(PAGE 2d.)

The Record of those Children yt were Bap-
j tized ; and such Persons as owned ye cov-
enant.

Hannah Gowing, Baptized, 1721.

John Bancroft's Daughter Unis, was Bap-
tised 1720.

1722.

John Tarbel's Daughter Mary, was Bap-
tized May 1722.

John Bancroft's Daughter Jane, was Bap-
tised July 1722.

Ebenezer Aborn's son James, was Bap-
tised July 1722.

Ebenezer Persons Daughter Hannah, was
Baptised Sept. 1722.

John Woodbery's son Josiah, was Bap-
tized Sept. 1732.

Samuel Aborn's son John, was Baptised
Sept. 1722.

William Eaton's Daughter Elisabeth, was

Baptised Sept. 1722.

1723.

Jonathan Gowing's son Jonathan, was

Baptised June 1723.

1724.

Hugh Henry's Daughter Mary, was Bap-
tised March ye 8th, 1724.

Ebenezer Aborn's son Ebenezer, was Bap-
tised March ye 22d, 1724.

John Woodbery's son Benjamin, was Bap-
tised May ye 24th 1724.

Samuel Latherby's Daughter Sarah, was
Baptised June ye 24th 1724.

Ebenezer Bancroft's daughter Lowis Bap-
tized July ye 12th 1724.

George Nurss's Daughter Abigail, Bapt.
Sept. ye 13th 1724.

Isaac Aborn's daughter Mary, Bapt. No-
vember ye 1 1724.

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1725.

Ebenezer Person's son Moody, Baptized
March ye 21st 1725.

John William's daughter Susanna, Bapt.
April ye 4th 1725.

Abraham Wellman's two daughters, Ruth
and Marcy, Bapt. Aug. ye 22d 1725.

ye Rev'd Mr. Nathaniel Sparhawk's son
Nathaniel, was bapt. Sept. ye 26th 1725.

Ebenezer Aborn's son Joseph, was bapt.
Sep. ye 26th 1725.

Miriam Hart's daughter Jane, was Bap.
Oct. ye 10th 1725.

John Bancroft's son Nathaniel, was Bap.
Oct. ye 22d 1725.

1726.

Samuell Latherbee's son Benjamin was
Bapt. July ye 10th 1726.

Ebenezer Gowing's son Joseph, was Bapt.
July ye 31st 1726.

Ebenezer Bancroft's daughter Ruth, was
Bapt. Aug. ye 14th 1726.

John Tarbel's two sons, Jonathan and Da-
vid, were Bapt. Sep. ye 25th 1726.
1727.

Hugh Henry's daughter Margarett, was
Bapt. Feb. ye 19th 1727.
(PAGE 3d.)

Ebenezer Person's Daughter Ruth, was
Bapt. March ye 26th 1727.

Ebenezer Aborn's son John, was Bapt.
Apriel ye 9th 1727.

Thomas Hodgman's son Joseph, was Bapt.
June ye 18th 1727.

1728.

James Person's daughter Mary, Bapt. Jan.
ye 21st 1728.

Thomas Gould's three Children were Bap-
tis'd, Thomas, Ruth and Pheba, Jan. 1728.

Jonathan Wellman's Daughter Mehetable,
was Bapt. Jan. 1728.

(31 5.)

March ye 17th 1728, Mary Gloyde owned
ye covenant and was Baptised.

March ye 31st 1728, Abigail Aborn was
Baptis'd.

Lowis Darlin Exhibits Penitence and is
Admitted to own ye covenant the same day.

Mary Mansfield, Susanna Bancroft and
Mary Eaton were all admitted to own ye cov-
enant.

Ebenezer Gowing's Daughter Elizabeth,
was Baptized on ye same day.

April 28th 1728, John Darlin's three Chil-
dren, John, Joseph and Benjamin, were Bap-
tised.

June ye 2d 1728, David Wellman's son
Jacob, was Baptised.

July ye 14th 1728, Nathaniel Sparhawk's
son Edward, was Baptised.

Aug. ye 18th 1728, George Nurse's
Daughter Lydia, was Baptis'd.

Aug. ye 25th 1728, Daniel Townsend's
Daughter Lydia, was Baptized.

Sep. ye 22d 1728, Samuel Potter's Daugh-
ter Mary; was Baptised.

Sep ye 29th 1728, John Bancroft's Daugh-
ter Hannah, was Baptised.

1730.

Samuel Aborn ownd ye covenant and was
Baptised March ye 22d 1730.

Oct. ye 25th 1730, Nath'l Sparhawk's son
John, was Baptis'd.

Feb. ye 14th 1730-31, Thomas Gould's
Daughter Mary was Baptised

1731.

March ye 21st 1731, Jonathan Wellman's
Daughter Mehetable, was Baptis'd and also
John Darlin's son Timothy, was Baptised ye
same day.

April ye 4th 1731, Ebenezer Person's son
Thomas, was Bapt.

230

May 30 1731, Thomas Hodgman's son
Timothy, was Baptised.

June ye 20th 1731, Daniel Townsend's
son John was Baptised.

Hannah Wellman, Baptised

Jedediah Wellman, Baptised.

Elizabeth Sparbawk Baptised.

Martha Gould Baptised.
(PAGE 4th )

Nov. ye 24 1731, Stephen Chase Ordain-
ed to ye Pastoral office, in the second Church
in Lynn.

At a Chh meeting, December ye 24th
1731.

1. Voted yt Deacon Eaton and Deacon
Bancroft, should go to ye Rev ? d Mr. Nath'l
Sparhawk, and Desire him to Send ye Chh
Records to us.

The Return was, Mr. Sparbawk refused to
Deliver up the Chh Records.

2. Voted yt Deacon Eaton, Deacon Ban-
croft and Nathan '1 Gowing, should go and
request the Original of ye Chh Records of ye
Rev'd Mr Sparhawk, and if they could not
obtain that, they must Endeavor to Get a
Copy of him if they Could.

3. Voted that those Persons that Desire
to Joyn in full communion with this Chh.
Should first stand propounded two weeks.

Nov. ye 28th 1731, Benjamin Gowing's

1 son Benjamin, was Baptized.

Feb. ye 13 1731-2, Abigail Nelson was
Baptised at Portsmo' Plains.

2 Feb ye 20 1731-2, Samuel Walton's son

3 David, was Baptised June ye 4 1732.

4 Mehitable Gowing, was Bapt. June ye
4 1732.

Abigail Wellman Owned ye Covenant.
6 July ye 2d 1732, Francis Hntchinson's
Son Thomas and Francis was Baptised Aug.
ye 6 1732.

7 Thomas Newhall's son Asa, was Bapti'sd
Nov ye 26 1732.

8 Timothy Poole's son Timothy was Bap-
tised June ye 28th 1732.

9 James Person was Baptised August ye
20th 1732.

Thomas Gowing's son John Timothy and
Joseph was Baptised and he received into full
communion with ye chh.

March ye 4th 1732-3 Thomas Hodgman's
son John was Baptised May ye 6th 1733.

Benj'm Eaton was Baptised May ye 27th
1733.

(Page 5th)

Job Wellman was Baptised June ye 10
1733.

Francis Hutchinson's Daughter Hannah
was Baptised June ye 24th 1733.

Voted by the Second Chh of Christ in
Lynn that their minister Should reccommend
James Person and bis wife, Jeremiah Eaton
and Hepshibeh Person to ye s Chh of Christ
in Haverhill.

Aug ye 5th 1733 John Darline's son Jo-
seph was Baptised.

Aug ye 26th 1733 Thomas Gould's Daugh-
ter Hannah was Baptised.

Sept ye 23 1733 Samuel Gowing's Daugh-
ter Patience was baptised.

Sept ye 30th 1733 Timothy Poole was re-
ceived into full communion.

Ebenezer Bancroft's Daughter Rebeckah.

Elizabeth Lesslee was Baptised.

Dec ye 20 1733 at a Chh meeting.
1 Whereas Deacon William Eaton and Dea-
con John Bancroft were formerly chosen to
ye office of Deacons by ye second Chh of
Christ in Lynn and ye Record thereof being
lost we now renew our Choice of ym.

voted

2 Voted that we think it proper that those

231

that desire to Joyn in full Communion with
us should make relations and also shall have
a Vote of ye Chh.

3 Voted that every Communicant of this
Chh shall pay three pence every Sacrament
day in Order to make provision for the Lord's
table.

(To be Continued.)

A LIST OF DEATHS IN BEVERLY,
MADE BY COL. ROBEET HALE.

Concluded from vol. v, p. 144.

890 Inft of Josha Ellin wood.

891 Negro Inft of Eb. Ellinwood.

892 Inft Jno. Thorndike 3d

Dec. 21, 1757.

893 Capt Benj. Ives Dec. 26.

894 Negro man of Eb. Ellinwood drownd.

895 Samll Harris Mi 69.

896 Martha Williams Mi 80.

897 Inft of Jacob Woodbery Feb 5.

898 Inft of Wm Morgan.

899 Jno. Stanley Mi 86.

900 Wife of And Boid? Ap. 22.

901 " " Jno. Lovet 2d 30.

902 Danl. Williams ^Etat 86.

903 Hez. Thornd. on board man of war 109

904 Job? Thorndike ditto 110

905 Inft of Jacob Poland Aug 14
903 Henry Blackfield's Son Henry 17.

907 Ab Haskelsetat 11 21.

908 Inft of Sam Giles.

909 Andr. Day at Lewisb'g 1 1.1

9 10 Inft (Still-born) of Job Smith oct 14.

911 Bartho Tayler in ye army 112

912 Inft of Nath Ober.

913 " " Wm Aborn Nov 16.

914 Wife of Steph Proctor Nov 24.

915 Negro Inft of Geo Herrick Dec 1.

* Who md. Elizabeth, Col. Hale's daughter 1 ?

916 Inft of Jno Allen the distempr oth 165.

917 Inft of Andr Stanly.

918 Inft of JoLovett.

919 Wid of Jno Williams et 82.

Dec. 21, 1758.

920 Steph Presson D 23.

921 Inft of Tho Mansfield.

922 " " Josh Ellinwood Jan 10.

923 " " Wm Taylor.

924 " " Stephen Presson deed.

925 Ab. Taylor act 19.

926 Inft of Jona Conant F. 24.

927 Wm Eliot coming fm Lisbon measl 113

928 Richard Patch Et 81 Apr. 2d.

929 Inft of Jno Presson May 9 measl.

930 Inft of Capt Tho Davis of ye measles

Ma 29

931 Inft of Nicho Woodbry of ye measles.

932 Benj. Blackfield Statia 114

933 Wm Bacheller ) lost coming 115

934 Ebenr Woodbery} from Lisbon 116

935 Inft of Jon. Stone Jur. stillborn.

936 Negro Inft of Dl? Larkum.

937 Nathl Ober coming fr Jamaica 117

938 Wife of Jon Stone Jr June 15.

939 Inft of Dd? Montgomery stillborn.

940 " " Peter Pride

941 " " Joseph Picket Jr June 20.

942 Richard (son of Jon) Woodbery deed.

943 a daughter of ditto.

944 Pyam Herrick W Indies 118

945 Inft of Benj. Smith.

946 a boy. of Benj Roundys.

947 Girl of Theoph Hull.

948 a son of Jon Woodb. 2d deed.

949 a child of Ann Stone.

950 " " " Sam Stone.

951 Negro child of Jno Sallis July 20.

952 Wid of Wm Cleaves.

953 Inft of Benj Roundy.

954 Child of Edwd Giles 29 166.

*Edmd?

232

955 Wife of Jona Woodbury.

956 Child of Jo Rea.

957 Wife of Wm Biles Aug 17.

958 John Lovett son of Jno at sea 119

959 Inft of Josiah Morgan.

960 Deborah Mingo.

961 Jon Davison) in ye Expedition 120

962 Tho Cox ) agst Quebec 121

963 Infant (twin) of Jonsi Morgan.

964 " Andr Boin? Oct 2.

965 " Joseph Wood Oct 3d.

966 Peter son of Jno Lovett Martineco 122

967 Zach Morgan (drowned off Woodbery's

Point) Oct 22d 123

968 Inft of Benj Cleeves Jr Oct 26 167.

969 " " Nathl Woodberry.

970 " " B. Balch Lovet.

971 Jno Presson (son of Jno) at Can- ^ 124

ad a

972 Asa Baker Lewisb ) 125

973 Ens. Josha Herricks daught.

974 Negro Inft of Capt Cleaves.

975 Mial Giles at Louisb 126

976 Inft of Jno Baker.

977 Son of Nicho Woodb Etat 15.

Dec. 1759.

978 Ddf Larkum Jr at N York 1 27

979 Infant of Osman Trask stillborn.

980 Inft of Zaoh Gage.

981 Nath Black Etat 84.

982 Inft of Jo Picket Jr F. 18.

983 Peter Groves Jr Guadelope 128

984 Mr Isaac Gray act 75 Mar 23.

985 Capt Jno Thorndike Etat 86 m 24.

986 Francis Woodbery W Ind 1 29

tw * n8 f ^ Picket Apl 1.

988 Tft i

989 John Trask.

990 Deacon Israel Wood ye 2d Ap 27.

991 Stillborn Negro inft of Dd Larkum.

992 Ditto of Cat Cleaves.

993 Inft twin of Benj Ober.

994 Jno Groves "} of ye small pox in ye 130

995 And Ellinwood } W. Indies in March 131

996 Wife of Jo Williams.

997 Inft of

Hovey.

* "In 1 707 Robin Mingo a negro slave the prop-
erty of Thomas Woodberry was md to Deborah
Taylor an Indian woman. From him Mingo's
beach is supposed to have derived its name."

Stone.

tDeb?

998 a child of Tho Mansfield.

999 " " Benj Ober.

1000 Ebenr Cleaves ^Etat 66.

1001 Ebenr Son of Paul) Thorndike com- 182

1002 Danll " " Josi j from Gibraltar. 138

1003 Jona Foster ") com- 184

1004 Wm son of Kich Woodbery I m 186

1005 Sam Mors J- North 136

1006 Andr son of Jo Stanley I Caro- 137

1007 Ben son of Benj Foster J Hna 188

1008 Inft of Wm Haskel Jr Sep 6.

1009 Wife of Eichd Stanley Et r9.

1 1 Cap Wm Bartlett at Quebec 1 3 9

1011 WmAborn ditto 140

1012 Wife of Nath W ? Et 98.

1013 Daugh of Henry Blackfield.

1014 Infant of Abr Wyat.

1015 Inft) m . , , , ,,

1016 I ft I l wms f Joseph Moore Oct 14.

1017 Inft of Kd Cox.

1018 John Brew W Indies 14 1

1019 Jona Harris Et 79 Nov 5

1020 Dea Jo Trask Et 67 17.

1021 Inft of Anne Picket.

1022 Inft negro of Jno Kennedy.

1023 Anna Picket Nov 26.

1024 Eb Lovett jr on board Man War

in London 142

1025 Dn Dodges widow Et 76.

1026 Inft of Ed Rose Dec 13.

Dec 21 1760.

1027 Inft of Dominicus Savel.

233

1028 Jno Lovett W. Indies 143

1029 Child of Kobt AVoodberry.

1030 Wid of Nath. Koberts Jan 30 aet 82.

1031 Bartho Pert drownd W Indies 144

1032 Josiah White Feb. 7.

1033 Jno Malroy W Indies 145

1034 Inft of James Gyles Apr 8.

1035 James HerrieV

1036 Francis a neutral Fr.man A p. 21.

1037 Thomas Mansfield at Martinico? 146

1038 Mary Patch.

1039 Inft of Eb. Ellinwood.

1040 Wife of Josiah Dodge.

1041 Nicho Stanley Martinico 147

1042 Inft Jo. Pitman Sept 4.

1043 Son of John Porter.

10i4 James Hovey W. Indies 148

1045 Anna (dau) of Jon Woodbcrry 2d.

1046 Inft of Osman Trask.

1047 Child of Jno Walker Throat D. 1 67
1018 Son of Nick Woodbury 8 yrs old.

1049 Inft of B. Balch Lovett.

1050 Wife of Ammi Knolton.

1051 Inft of Jno Koundy.

1052 " of Jno. Porter.

1053 Joseph Presson dr. on ye banks. 149

1054 Menass Trask Etat 40 Oct 11.

1055 Nicho Woodberry 0. 26.

1056 Negro Inft of Han Mulcoy.

1057 Mrs Mary Woodberry 's negro man Cuff.

1058 Wife of Jer- Lovett N 0.

1059 Susan Woodberry 26.

1060 Inf of Jo Lovett Dec 8th.

1061 Jno (son of George Tuck) drowned

com. fr. Phil 150

Dec 21 1661.

1062 Wm Cox Etat 60 Dec 23.

1063 Herb Thorndike 78 Jan 6.

*Tho?

(32 a)

1064 -Mad Eliz Gilman Jan 24.

1065 Wido John Morgan.

1066 luft of Sam Wood.

1067 Daughtr of Ralph Tuck.

1068 Inft of James Giles vid 80.

1069 Sarnl Woodberry Et 74.

1070 Jer (son of Ben Lovett) at sea 151

1071 Wife of Dan Wallis.

1072 " " Nathl Wallis Ap 22.

1073 Wid of Sam Martyn Et 80.

1074 W Cox at Cape Sable shore 152

1075 Negro Inft of Mad Woodbcry.

1076 Ditto.

1077 Infant of B Lovett Jr.

1078 Ens Robert Morgan Et 93 Jul 16.

1079 Jacob Poland killed by Benj Elliuw?

Aug 1 6.
10 SO Inft of Jam? Giles.

1081 Inft of Nathan Leech scalded.

1082 Mad Woodberry's Negro David.

1083 Inft of . . . Trofetre?

1084 Son of Wid of Dea Wood.

1085 Inft sou of Ralph Tuck Boston 153

1086 " of Robert Stanley.

1087 Rose (Negro woman of Beu Ober) Oct

30.

1088 another son of wid of Dca Wood Nov 8.

1089 Ebenr Trask Dec 6.

1090 Abig Peirce.

Dec 21 1762.

1091 Peter Groves's Negro Child.

1092 Infant of Jeffery Thissel.

1093 " " JnoLovet 2d F 15.

1094 fBenj Ives Feb 27 Etat 13.

1095 Child of Benj Lovet Jr mar 23

1096 Luke Thorndike Vinyard 154

1097 Inft of Jo Woodberry's Jr.

1098 " " Sam Woodb Sep 4.

1099 " ' Wm Abbot " 21.

1100 " " Wm Bartlett.

*Col. Kale's " honoured mother."
t A grandson of Col. Hale.

1101 Son of Peter Groves Et 16 o. s.

1102 Child of Jno Thompson Et 3.

1103 Jno Kennedy at sea lotibo- 155

1 104 Inft of B. Lovett Jr.

1105 ' " Brown.

1106 " " Ebenr Pierce.

Dec 21 1763.

1107 Negro child of James Smith.

1108 Wid of Wm Eliot senr.

1 109 Wid of Ebenr Kimbal.

1110 Zach Bacheller at ye Vinyard 156

1111 Ens Morgan's Wid Dec 31 vid 1078

act 98.

1112 Jamea Cavenaugh drownd at Bos-

ton 157

1113 Saml Ober . . . Feb 29.

1114 Andr Thorndike^ foundered coming

1115 Saml Wood [ from Philad 1761

1 1 1 6 Andr Boin ) makes 1 60.

1117 Inft of Josi Lovett.

.in / ,8fliajA

1118 James Giles Apr 14.

11 19 Wife of Geo Stanly Apr 29.
1120LucinaMay3aetlO.

1121 Joseph Bouchovare.

1122 Sar? Montgomery Et 18. ^

1123 Inft of Benj Dodge. ^^

1 124 Inft of Geo Stanly. ^

1125 Inft of CaptThoDavi8, 3Bflia g ^

1126 || Jo Lovett Jr. ^ b ^

1127 Wife of Isaac Hull Et *2 auj . Qa

1128 Ditto of Sam Goodrich,^

1129 Inft of ditto.

1130 Wid Peter Grove. ^ <fc

1131 Wm Vannam at sea a ffiW
L32 Joseph Picket.

1133 Inft of Saml Tuck.

1134 child of Jonas Dodge an 8.

1135 Inft negro of Cole.

1136 Wid Rd Thissel Et 85 D 5.

1137 Inft of Sam Woodberry.

1138 Child of Ben Dodge/

1139 Wid of Jno Patch Et 72.

Dec 21 1764.

1140 Wife of Capt Rob Haskell.

1141 Israel Bisson >

in ye

1142 Jno Thorndike jr Foundered

1143 Eben Williams

1144 Stephen Haskell

1145 Jona Bile's son

1146 JefFery Thissel' s son

1147 Wm Ellinwood's son

1148 Nathan Indian

in
1764

XV.

1149 Inft of Robert Bradford.

1150 Jacob Woodberry a^drai/^

1151 child of Josiah Morgan.

1152 " " Malachi Woodberry.

1153 Ebenr Ashbye Et 80,

1154 Wife of Solo Cole.

1155 Inft " " "

1156 Wm son of Benj Lovett Statia 170

1157 Matthew Coye.

1158 Jona Thorndike drowned W In-

dies 171

1159 Reuben (Indian) dy'd coming from W

Indies 172

1160 Abiel Pittman.

1161 Wm Ellinwood.

1162 Wife of Haz Smith July 25.

1163 Inft of B. Woodberry Jr.

1164 Hez Woodberry. / ,^s

1165 Daughtr of Larkin Thornd.

1166 Inft of Benj Woodbery Jr.

1167 Anna (daughtr) of Jno. Lovett.

1168 Sarah Lovett Etat. : i_-

1169 Wife of Jno Lovett.

1170 Nath Bacheller., IK , motel ai

1171 Inft of Nicho Morgan. .

1172 boy of Haz Smith. 1o Bifonom
1163 Child of Benj Smith.

1174 of Malachi Woodbery.

1175 child of Jacob Woodbry.

1176 " " Azariah Norton.

1177 " " Jacob Woodbery.

1178 Grandchild of Josh Ellinwood.

235

1179 A son of Andr Stone.

1180 Wid Jno Ellinwood Etat 98.

1181 Child of Wra Lovett J$ [asial IXX

1182 Inftof David Harris.

1183 " " Win Stanley.

1184 Dan'l Howard.

unr T TT-I 08 e elia snob Gli

1185 Jno Hilton. ., 8 < l98gMT ^1 f)Ml

Here the Record abruptly ends.

The last few entries show unmistakable
evidence of a failing hand ; (for instance be-
tween the numbers 1178 and 1179 occurs the
entry,

Dec. 21, 1765,

but marked in such manner, as to render its
erasure doubtful, and the same is true of somo
illegible letters after the next name :) and
such indeed was the case, for in a few months,
he was seized with a loss of his faculties, and
continued so till his death, which took place
on Friday, March 20, 1767, he being then in
the 65th year of his age, ^ai;) nsuWI 6<?Jf
TI , soibnl

The following notice of his decease is taken
from the Boston News-letter of Thursday, A-
pril 2, 176^ ^i fa'uuQ SB H lo aW

Beverly, Mch. 25, 1767. On Friday last,
died, and this day, was decently interred here,
Robert Hale, Esq., a gentleman, who had
served this Town as our Representative at the
General Court upwards of twenty years. He
went with a regiment against Cape Breton in
that successful campaign in 1745. He was,
soon after his return, appointed sheriff of this
County, in which office he continued till with-
in 12 months of his death, when he was
strangely seized with an almost total loss of
his limbs and reason, in which state he contin-
ued till his death. He was a gentleman of
strong memory and good judgement, well ac-
quainted with the civil affairs of this govern-
ment, and was a leading man in the House

of Representatives for many years. In his
office as a Sheriff, he was just and faithful to
the Creditor, kind and compassionate to the
Debtor.

Some unconnected memoranda scattered
through the manuscript, useful only to the lo-
cal genealogist, are reserved for another num-
ber.

Jao'* " '

DARTMOOR PRISONEKS.

List of persons who were prisoners at
Dartmoor during the war of 1812, belonging
to Salem and vicinity, who were alive at the
close of the year 1853.

COMMUNICATED BY BKNJ. V. BKOWNB.

SALEM.

Ingersoll, Nathaniel. Preston, John.
Atkins, Wm. Hubon, Henry.

Sluman, Thos. Waters, John.

Putnam, Allen. Downing, Charles M.

Davis, Richard. Lawrence, Lewis.

Phippen, Nathaniel.

Thompson, James.

Winn, Joseph R.

Kimball, John,

Bowie, James.

Weston, Nathaniel.

Wheeler, John.

Melcher, John.

Skerry, Francis.

Wilkins, Hezekiah.

Benson, Samuel.

Shepard, Samuel.

Browne, Benjn. F. Grush, John H.

Phillips, George P. XT " ^ - ?1 4

Willis John.

Shepard, Isaac B.

Smith, Wm. B.

Neal, David A.
Perkins, Jonathan W.
Wheeler, Michael S.
Richards, George S.

Strout, Joseph. Gracia, Henry.

Tibbets, Henry. Upton, Henry.

Phippen, Israel. Tucker, Samuel.

! M ^,

SOUTH DANVERS.

Hill, Benjn. D. Hammond, Edward.

Price, John.

236

DANVERPJL'ORT.

Johnson, Henry. { erlJ

BEVERLY.

Brazil, James. Homan, Peter.

Briant, Benjn. Morgan, Henry.

Briant, James. Pickett, Joseph.

Bridges, John. Koberts, Nath'l.

Cross, Stephen. Robertson, Joseph.

Elliot, Benjn. Smith, George, ;inA
Woodbury, Dixcy.

MARBLEIIEAD.

Broughton, Glover. Tindley, Thomas.
Nicholson, James
Grush, Thomas.
Selman, John.

Roundy, Jeremiah.
Roundy, Thomas.
Goss, Joshua.
Gale, Benjn. B.

JUackler, Samuel.

Richardson, Wm. A. Millet, Joseph.

Stacy, Wm.
Pitman, John.
Humphrey, Wm.
Dodd, Samuel.
Green, Joseph W.

Girdler, John.

"nod a
Blair, Benjn.

Jones, Francis.
Caswell, Wm.
Carroll, Samuel.
Broughton, John.
Calley, Thomas.
Standley, Sainl.
Proctor, John.
Pcdrick, Wm.

Hunt, Job.
White, Philip H.
Homan, Nathaniel.
Pritchard, Ezra.
Quiner, Stephen.
Mason, Jonathan B.
Homan, John.
Glover, John N.
Swett, Francis.
Manning, Samuel.
Curtis, Fiancis.
Vicorry, Wm.
Russell, Lewis.
Chinn, Samuel.
Roundy, Stephen C.

CHEEVER FAMILY.

Peter Cheever of Salem, in 1740, bought

of Benjamin Lynde, Esq., a piece of land,
which probably from its boundaries, was the
lot upon the corner of Brown and Winter
Streets, afterwards occupied by his son Sam-
uel, as a tannery.

He had

I. Peter who d. abt 1801, then of Audo-

ver, Yeoman and who md. 1st Margaret Ives,
by whom he had,

1 Anna, md 1st Samuel Cook, and 2dly
William Merriam.

2 Margaret who md John Flint.

And md. 2dly^ Martha Osgood of Audo-
ver, widow, by whom he had

3 Samuel, 4 John, 5 James, 6 Benjamin,
7 Nathaniel.

8 Martha who md Samuel Very of Salem.

9 Abigail, who md James Perkins of the
same place. DAISSAM 10 <

\ >T 3HT HI, I&afti<p: T^
11. Samuel who died Mch 19, 1814. Dr.

Bentley says of him that he was born where
he lived corner of Brown and Winter Sts,
was married at 32 ; was 14 years older than
his wife ; left the sea service 27 years ago, and
died of paralysis aged 76. He md Sally
Ring of Blackpoint (Scarborough) Me., (who
md 2dly Plumrner,) by whom he had

1 Samuel, who md Osborne, and

had a son Samuel who md Osborne ;

2 Sarah, who d. Nov. 21, 1853, aged abt
80 ; she md 1st Jonathan Beckford by whom
she had Sarah who md Moses Stevens, Esq.,
of Andover and afterward of Nashville, Tenn ;

and 2dly Penn Townsend.

3Uw aid ai

III. Daniel who md . . and who

md 2dly, Sarah Hawthorn by whom he had
1 Nathaniel who d. Nov 6, 1813, aged 36.
He md. *Abigail Hutchinson ; he left at his
death 3 sons and a daugh^y Q ^ Q fa

IV. Benjamin md. Mary Card nee Ban*
of Salem ; a daughter of his md. John How-
ard and one died unmd.

The above sketch is far from thorough: it
merely shows the relationship existing between
ertain families of the name, which some of
the notices of the " Common Subscribers"
(in vol. iv of the " Historical Collections,")

237

prove to have been misunderstood. No. 34,
for instance, is essentially altered.

E. S. W.

*ThomasHutchinson who d. Aug. 28 1786,
aged 46, leaving 7 children, md. Mary Trask
of Beverly, who d. Jan. 18, 1819, aged 74.
leaving 3 children, a son, a dau. who md .

Putnam and Abigail who md. Nath (Jheever;
and who had a sister Sarah who md. Geo.
Leech, and a sister who md. Porter.

RECORD OF MARRIAGES, BIRTHS
AND DEATHS, IN THE TOWN OF
LYNN. Vol. II.

uifd 1o %{

COMMUNICATED by IOA. J. PATCH.

Continued from Vol. 6, Page 175.

infirjl ;*<;

^11)38 bit! .vrJ ;J~~

ffrancis their Son was born the 21 day of

August 1701.

Ester their Daughter was born the 21 day
of August 1701. Twins.

The above named Joseph Burrill father to
the aboue children Departed this Life Decem-
ber ye first day 1706.

~~^^

The Genealoge of John Burrill and of Lo-
is his wiff.

John ther Sonn was born the 15 day of
October 1658.

Sarah there Daughter was born the 16th
day of Maye 1661.

thomas there Sonn was born the 7th day of
January 1663. ^eL

Anna there Daughter was born ye 15th of
September 1666.

Theophilus there Sonn was born 15 July

r j

1609.

T , 1 1 T 1 ^

Lois there daughter was Born the 27 of

January 1671.

) !>: (324) >dJ 'k

Mary the Daughter of John Burrill was
borne the 18 of ffebruary 1676.

Ebinezer ther sonn was born the 13 of Jul-
ly 1679.

Ruth ther Daughter was Borne 17 of May
1682.

Samuell there Soun was Born the 20 day
of Aprill 1674.

Anna there Daughter Departed this Life
the 20th day of March 1693-94.

Mary thear Daughter Departed this Life
the 26th day of October 1694.

John Burrill Esq son to John Burrill De-
parted this Life December ye 10th 1721.

John Burrill Junior and Mary Stower was
Maried the 28 of Jully 1680.

Left John Burrill Departed this Life ye
24th of Aprill 1703.

Mrs Lois Buirill widdow Departed this Life
the 5th of Septemr 1720.

The Genealoge of John Ballard and of

Rebecka his wiff.

Jane ther Daughter was born the first of
December 1674.

John ther Sonne was born the 29 of Janu-
ary 1677.

Prescilla ther Daughter was born the 20 of
December 1680.

William ther Sonne was born the 8 of No-
vember 1683.

Dorrity ther Daughter was borne the 30
of January 1684.

the Genealoge of Moses Burrill and Dar-
cos his Wife,

Moses thear Sonn Was Born the 17 day of
Decemr 1693.

Moses thear Sonn Departed this Life ye 2
of January 1693.

Moses their Second Sonn was born ye 20th
day of August 1696.

Michael Joanes & Mary Collins was Mar-
ried March 18 1708-9.
fcooH dffieS ba loiturk Jcteseefl meifliW

The Genealoge of Nathanull Bullard and
Rebecka his wiffe. ,$w ididgr/eb lodi daisS

Elizabeth ther Daughter was born tbe 2 of
November 1675. ndJ mjjillF/

Ester ther Daughter was born the 14 of
flfewbmary 1677. n islrfguaG raifo v^TfiM

Sarah ther Daughter was Born the 13 of
May 1681.

Abigail ther Daughter was born the 20 of
January 1683.

William ther Sonne was Born the 23 of
April 1686.

Nathaniell ther Sonne was Born the 16th
of March 1688-89. liaifo dqasol,

Nathaniell Ballard Departed this life Jan-
uary ye 12 1721-2.

Rebecka ye wife of Nathaniel Ballard De-
parted this life May ye 16 1724.

Nathanll ye son Departed this life October

T UAWTUl.1. v v.".u a -J.

ye 8 1733. ,,-f 8JSW $fc n 8 jd edJisM lo ba

Joshua Lanne Grandchild to Robert Bur-
jis his wiff Died the 29 of ffewbruary 1691-
92. Hii od) irwd a/m laJirgiwsU liadJ UJK>(.
sioifiJ

The Genealoge of Thomas Baker & Mary
his wife as an addition to page ye 2.

thomas ther Sonn was born the 14th of

i + **'
September 1597.

o I Jfciniu A io 8V. 91
thomas their Sonn Departed ye life Octo-

lier 27th 1697.

Thomas their Sonne was born the 26 of
May 1699.

Abigaill their Daughter was born the 19th
day of July 1701.

Mary their Daughter was born the 19th
day of May 1706.

Ruth their Daughter was }>orn the 12 clay

of January 1707-8. urn croB liadJ dqw
John their Son was boni ye 27 of August

9i mod afiw HoS liadJ fledaueM
John their Son Departed this Life the 4 of

March 1710-11. .i^Q i

r '\i~\ adJ aftiJ

Edward Baker and Mary Marshall was Mar-

ied the 7 of Aprill 1685.

Mary their Daughter was born the 24th of
Aprill 1G86.

Edward their Son was borne the 1 9 of Ap-
ril 1688 and was Buryed the 21st of April
iw Tmrnira

1688. t881 19(J .

Sarah their daughter was Born the 18th
of January 1688-89 and departed this life
the 29th of January 1688-89.

Sarah their daughter was borne the 13th
of January 1689-90.

Rebeckah ther Daughter was born the first
of October 1692.

Edward Baker Senior father to the above
sd Edward was Buryed the 17th of March
1687.

Joan Baker wife to the above named Ed-
ward Baker Senr dyed yc 9th Day of Aprill
1693.

The Genealogy of Edward Baker and of
Mary his wife is farther Continued. \foioO

Edward their Second Sonn was born the
4th of January 1694-5 and Departed this
Life ye 26 of January 1694-5.

Edward their third Sonn was born yc 1 6th
of July 1696.

Ruthe their Daughter was born the 15th
of August 1698 and Departed this Life 3
day of September 1698. ,,{ .^

Ruthe their Daughter was born yc 7th of
July 1699.

Elizabeth their Daughter was born the
29th of March 1702.

Ruthe their Daughter Departed this Life
the llth of May 1703.

Joseph their Son was born the 9th of No-
vember 1704.

Marshall their Son was born ye 5th of
March 1 707-8. -ali boJiwjof!

Elizabeth their Daughter Departed this
Life the 7th of May 1709.

\ttif PUW lfi'rf>'4KNlVlJ5l/[ ' lilC 'I95)rCh wWMJJJ

Theophilus the Sonne of Samuel Blye De-

parted this Liff the 15 of June 1681.

')& orfo mod BW -lajri^BQ lien) ^raM

Thomas Bruer and Elizabeth Graves was
Maried the 4th of December 1682.

Mary their Daughter was born the 10 of

November 1684.

sdi irroff 8ftw -latdgifflb iiaiw Axis

The Genealoge of Isaac Lewis and of Han-
nah his wife (Hannah Hallett.)

Isaac their Sonne was born the 1 of July
1707.

John their Sonne was borne the 10 of Jan-
uary 1709.

Hannah ther Daughter was born the 19th
of October 1710.

William ther Sonne was born the 31 of
January 1712-13.

Abijah their Son was born the 9 of Sep-
tember 1717.

Mary ther Daughter was born the 9 of
October 1719.

Nathan ther Sonne was born 6 of Decem-
ber 1721. rfi( ! 9(]

Joseph ther Sonne was born the 1 1 of Jau-

1723 8aw
y _ .8001 ^101 1

Elisha Bassett and his wife Elizabeth they
had a Daughter Borne named Hannah the
15th of December 1689.

Elizabeth the Daughter of Elisha Bassett
was Born the 25 of Aprill 1791.

Elisha ther Sonne was born the 2 1 of Au-
gust 1692.

Danell ther Sonn was born the 20th of
October 1694.

William Bassett Senr Departed this Life
March 31th 1703.

William Bassett Junior and Sarah Hood
was Maried the 25 of October 1675

Sarah ther daughter was born the Sixth of
December 1676.

William ther Sonne was born In Novem-
ber 1678.

Mary ther Daughter was born the 13 of
June 1680.

John ther Sonne was born the 8th Septem-
ber 1682.

Hannah their Daughter was Borne the
second day off feubruary 1685.

Kuth their Daughter was Borne the 16th
of March 1689-90.

Joseph their Sonne was Born the 1 5 of
December 1692-93.

Deliuerance their Daughter was born the
2 of August 1695.

<aM e H afdi beiisq

Mary the Daughter of Edward Hawerd
and of Martha his wife was born the 17th
day of february 1694-5.

Ammus their son was born the 16th day
of Aprill 1696.

Joan their Daughter was born the 4th of
March 1698-9.

rown unior
K as SB aiiw am

-rk n ^ c MM
Ihe Geuealoge of Thoma

And of Mary his wiff.

Thomas Brown Senr Departed this Life
the 28 of August 1693.

Ane and Grace the Daughters of Thomas

Brown was born the 4th of January 1674

ri on!
and died the 7th of January 1674.

Daniell ther Sonu was born the 1 of ffewb-
arv 1676 '

Nathan Lewis was born 1721 maried Ma-
ry Newhall daughter of John and Abigail
Ncwhall 1745.

240

Joseph Brown and Sarah Joans was Maried
the 22 of December 1680.

Joseph their Sonne was born the 12th of
April 1682.

John ther Sonne was Borne the 31 of
March 1081.

Mary ther Daughter was Borne the 1 7th
of May 1688.

Mary their Daughter departed this life the
the 7th of July 1688.

Thomas their Sonn was Born the 20th of
December 1685.

John their Sonn was Born the 20th of Oct-
tober 1691 and died the 23 of Octtober 1691.

Thomas Brown Junior and Hannah Collins
was Maried the 8 of January 1677.

Samuel ther Sonne was borne the 8th of
December 1678.

Hanah ther Daughter was borne the 5 of
November 1680.

Mary ther Daughter was borne the 26 of
May 1683.

Sarah ther Daughter was Borne the 8th of
July 1686.

Ebeue/er Baucraft and Abygall Eaton was
Maried ye 19th of May 1692.

Abygall their Daughter was born ye 9th
of November 1696.

Sarah ther Daughter was borne the 5th of
July 1698.

Ebenezer their Soun was born the 5th of
August 1700.

Mehitable their Daughter was born the
21st of August 1703.

James their sonn was born the 18th of
December 1705.

Patience their Daughter was born the 14
of July 1708.

Timothy their Son was borne the Mth of

December 1710.

Lois their Daughter was born the 17th of
June 1713.

James their son departed this Life Decem-
ber ye 4th 1725.

(To be continued.)

GLEANINGS FKOM THE RECORDS OF

THE CHURCH AT IPSWICH

HAMLET.

rec'd to ye communion
from Ireland Mch 1720-1.

William Frizel

& wife

Robert Jamison ^

Anna w. of Nathaniel Dane Mch 25 1722.

John Darby & wife (mentioned) 1725-6.

Andrew Darby Dec 10 1727.

Elizabeth his wife Feb 2 1728-9.

Jona Darby Jun Apl 7 1729.

Ebenezer Darby owned to ye covenant Feb
18 1727-8.

Benjamin, son of John Darby owned to ye
covenant July 14 1728.

Caesar, Joseph Gilbert's servant owned to
ye covenant July 11 1736.

Hannah Ingerson owned to ye covenant
Dec 22 1741.

John Whitredge communicant") Dec 7

Lucy his wife " } 1794.

Owned ye Covenant.

John Whittredge & wife Elizabeth Nov
17, 1771.

John Covering Jr & wife Mary May 24
1772.

John Lovering 3d & wife Hannah Nov 12
1775.

The Widow Abigail Parkmau died Aug
29 1777 act 80.

Joseph Killiam d. Sept 30 177 1 act abt 50.
John Lovering d Dec 8 1793 act 80.
Widow Killim d Nov 14 1822 act 85.

HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS

O F T H E

ESSEX INSTITUTE.

Vol. V.

December, 1863.

No. 6.

MR. BANTOUL'S ESTABLISHMENT IN

BUSINESS INTEMPERANCE AND PAUPERISM.

Continued from October number.

From my earliest childhood, I had been a
constant attendant on Public Worship in the
East Meeting House in Salem, and continued
to attend there after I first removed to Bever-
ly, but finding it to interfere with my business
I had a seat in Mrs. Burke's Pew, and com-
menced attending on the ministry of Joseph
McKean, and have continued to attend with
great constancy in the same house ever since.
I think that a habit of constant attendance on
public worship affords great security toyouthful
virtue. I can truly say that it has been my hab-
it to attend public worship, and I think that I
have derived benefit from it, and I commend
it to the young that they early lay the found-
ation of this habit, and that they never suffer
themselves to be diverted from its claims by
the indulgence of indolence, the allurements
of pleasure, or the calls of business. * *

On the fourth day of June, 1801, 1 having
become somewhat established in business, and
having formed the acquaintance of Joanna,
daughter of John and Elizabeth Lovett, we
were joined in marriage by the Rev. Mr. Me-
(33)

Kean. At that time I was about twenty- two
and a half years old, and she was two years
younger. I never regretted marrying at so
early an age. * * * I hired the wester-
ly part of the dwelling house of Josiah Batch-
elder, on the corner of Front and Davis Sts.,
at $40. per year, and we set up housekeeping.
* * * In May, 1805, we removed into
my own house in Washington Street. There
were then no houses on the North Easterly
bide of the Street below Dr. Howe's brick
house, and on the South Westerly side none
at all. From this circumstance we suffered
inconvenience from snow, being obliged to
make our own paths to the Main (now called
Cabot) Street. Washington Street was laid
out, Jan'y 1st, 1803, by the proprietors of
the lands, and accepted by the town, March
14th, 1803. * * For some fifteen or twen-
ty years, Phyllis Cave was employed to do
the washing of my family. She died Jan'y
20th, 1852, aged about 90 years. She was
of the African race. Her brother, Jupiter
Bunn, lived with my wife's father. She,
when a child, was sold in Salem to a Mr.
Cave of Middleton, who paid for her in iron.
She remembered being carried in the bottom
of his chaise, hidden from view by the boot,

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from Salem to Cave's farm in Middleton,
which is now the property of Judge Cum-
mings. She came to this town about the be-
ginning of the Revolutionary War, and has
ever since maintained herself by her labor.
She never entertained a favorable opinion of
the abolitionists, saying that if the slaves were
freed, they would not know how to live.
[Freedom seems not to have prevented her
discovering " how to live," if her age has
been correctly estimated. She resided upon
that portion of the old Gloucester road, now
traversed by the rail-road, between Pride's
Crossing and West's Beach, and habitually,
within a few years of her death, walked by
star-light from this point to the town, some
four miles distant, whenever she had a day's,
work to perform, that she might be ready to
begin her labors with the sun. See Beverly

Citizen, My 24^, 1852. R. S. R.]

*****

When I began business in 1796, it was a
time of great commercial prosperity in the
United States, occasioned by wars among the
maritime powers of Europe, while our coun-
try remained at peace, and maintained her
neutrality. Beverly partook of this general
prosperity. There were several merchants,
who were engaged in foreign commerce, and
prosecuted the business with enterprise and
success. The cod fishery was carried on with
greater activity and with larger profits than at
any time before. There was an increase of
population and a rise in the value of land.
This state of things continued for about ten
years after I began, and enabled me to prose-
cute my business with success. In 1806,
there was a revulsion, and in December, 1807,
the long embargo commenced, and prostrated
foreign commerce and the fisheries. I think
there never was before, nor since, so favora-
ble an opportunity for ten successive years to

establish a business in Beverly. The embar-
go continued about a year and a quarter, at
the end of which, in 1809, business again re-
vived, and continued good until the com-
mencement of the war with Great Britain in
1812, excepting as it was checked by the re-
moval of Israel Thorndike and other wealthy
persons from this town to Boston.
*****

Soon after I removed into my house, May,
1805, Samuel Smith, who has ever since been
my nighest neighbor, built his house opposite
mine. One of the seamen who was lost with
my father on his last voyage, was Samuel
Smith, the father of my neighbor. [The co-
incidence is a little singular, since Mr. Smith
came from Maine to Beverly and built the
next house erected in the street after my
grandfather's, as well as the nearest. They
were previously unacquainted. R. S. R.]

*****
In the spring of 1804, I was chosen an
overseer of the Poor. This ofiBce had been
exercised by the Selectmen, but a work-house
having been now erected, to which the poor
were removed in April, 1804, it was thought
best to separate these offices, and Thomas Da-
vis, John Dyson, Eleazer Wallis, Joseph Wood
and myself were chosen overseers. I was much
younger than the others, and was appointed
their clerk.

The first Board of Overseers consisted of
four persons, who had no experience whatever
in regard to the management of public pau-
pers, and of one, Mr. Wood, who had long
been one of the Selectmen, and for a consid-
erable portion of the time their Chairman,
and the principal manager of the paupers of
the town. At the meeting of the Overseers
in 1804 to establish rules of diet &c., the
question arose respecting the allowance of

spirituous liquors to the inmates of the Work-
house. Mr. Wood entertained the opinion,
at that time very prevalent, that persons who
labored hard ought to be furnished with spir-
ituous drinks, and he had always acted in con-
formity with this opinion in all his transactions.
He was then about sixty-five years of age, and
had been connected with the public affairs of
the town for about thirty-five years. He spoke
strongly and decidedly in favor of allowing
spirit to those male paupers who labored out
of doors. I entertained a contrary opinion
in regard to the allowance of spirits to pau-
pers. Enough of the Overseers concurred
with me in opinion, and the rule of total ab-
stinence was then established and has always
been maintained, as the rule, until this time.
In 1807, the first Board of Overseers having
withdrawn, I began to act as Chairman, and
with the acquiescence of my associates have
continued to do so. I drafted the reports of
the Overseers to the Town from 1804. In
March, 1854, I declined being a candidate for
re-election. I have thus served for fifty years,
and written fifty Annual Reports. By recur-
rence to the records of the Overseers of the
Poor, it appears that II . llantoul has attended
almost all the monthly meetings during that
period, besides making, in his turn, almost
every weekly visit, and such extra vists, from
time to time, as were necessary.

When I first entered upon the duties of an
Overseer of the Poor, iny mind was very
much engrossed with the subject of public pro-
vision for the poor. I very early adopted cer-
tain principles, and time has only served to
strengthen my conviction of their justness. I
have always been of the opinion, that aid from
the public in relief of the wants of the poor
should be very sparingly administered, inas-
much as it almost invariably diminishes the

self-respect, and impairs the energy, industry
and economy of the recipient. This effect is
not confined to the immediate subjects, but is
often entailed upon their posterity for many
generations. When application is made for
relief by persons of middle age without any
special misfortune, it will most frequently
be found, on examination, that one or more
of the parents or grand-parents of such per-
sons have been chargeable to the town. A
striking case of hereditary pauperism has been
exemplified by a certain family in this town, of
whom I recollect that Joseph Wood said that
one or more of that family had been charge-
able as long as he had had any concern in the
care of the town's poor. He had been a Se-
lectman before 1770. My own observation
coincides with his from 1804 to this time
(1848.) There are now three very aged
persons of that family in the work-house.
There is a town record showing that a mem-
ber of that family was a pauper in 1721.
I am persuaded that relief, injudiciously be-
stowed in one instance, encourages others to
apply for it, who, without this example, would
refrain from seeking aid from the public. I
have found it generally to be the case that
new Overseers have conceived it to be their
duty to seek out persons who seem to stand
in need of relief and encourage them to re-
ceive it from the town. And I have also
found that after a few years experience in the
office they have become convinced of the er-
ror of this course, and have grown cautious.
In the dispensation of private alms, the kind
and well-disposed may, nay, should seek dil-
igently for the needy, who will be comforted
encouraged and strengthened in their moral
principles by the hand of charity. But I
think that it is not the duty of the Overseers
to seek for objects of relief. Pauperism is a

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great evil in society and it may be increased
or diminished in any town by the judicious or
injudicious course pursued by the Overseers
of the Poor.

*****
Upon the subject of intemperance my views
have somewhat changed. I used wine occa-
sionally until in March, 1833, I adopted the
principle of total abstinence from all intoxica.
ting drinks, and to this I have since adhered.
In the management of the poor, I have en-
deavored to carry out my convictions in re-
gard to this subject. Intemperance is the
most fruitful source of pauperism. From
careful examination I have found that one half
of the adult persons who have been inmates
of the work-house since its establishment in
1804, have been such from intemperance di-
rectly, and if to these we add the aged and
infirm, children, and other persons, whom these
adults would have maintained, had they not
been intemperate, we may with safety and con-
fidence say that three quarters of all the in-
mates of the work-house are made such, eith-
er directly or indirectly, by intemperance.
From 1804 to 1821 the Overseers of the Poor,
following a practice which had been established
in Salem for many years before a work-house
was erected, used to commit by an order un-
der the hands of any two or more of them,
and during their pleasure, common drunkards
and other disorderly persons to the work-house,
without trial or examination. About the year
1821, this practice was declared by the Su-
preme Judicial Court, to be in violation of the
Bill of Rights, and since then there have
been no commitments to the work-house for
crime, without trial and conviction before a
Justice of the Peace or some Court. These
trials almost always have been had before me.
My first commission as a Justice of the Peace

was from Governor James Sullivan and was
dated July 2nd 1808. This commission has
been renewed from time to time until this day
(July 1st 1858,) when my duties as a justice
to try criminal cases terminate by law, after a
service of fifty years. I was rcappointed un-
der the new law to try criminal cases, but im.
mediately declined the office. The first entry
on my record is of a case of assault and bat-
tery and is dated Aug. 9th, 1808. June 18th
1850, I was appointed trial Justice, which
confirmed to me exclusively, what I had by
general consent done almost exclusively for
the last thirty five years, in relation to crimi-
nal prosecutions. During these fifty years, I
have attended to 553 cases, and 4t> of these
were for drunkenness, and occurred during the
last thirty five years of my service.

oW* ,9aJ * * * *
Before the formation of the Massachusetts
society for the suppression of intemperance in
1812 or 1813, I was much engaged about
the existing practices and habits which uni-
versally prevailed in regard to the use of dis-
tilled spirits as a beverage. I had never
learned to use them myself and I bad become
strongly impressed with a knowledge of the
existing evil which resulted from their habit-
ual use. The Massachusetts society, although
existing in embryo before, was not fully or-
ganized until February 5th, 1813. I joined
it at the first public meeting, and my mem-
bership has continued to this time. I have,
during the same time, been variously connect-
ed with other associations, having the same
object in view. Beginning with Dr. Benja-
min Rush's pamphlet, in which he proposes
the cure of inebriety when occasioned by
spirituous liquors, by resorting to the use of
fermented liquors, I have distributed in this
town and elsewhere a large number of publi-

245

cations on the subject, including the first pub
lication of the kind by the American Trac
Society, of which I was a life member from
its inception. I corresponded and cooperatec
with our minister, the Rev. Dr. Abbot, wh
very soon after his installation, preached a se-
ries of sermons on this subject. I think they
were delivered in 1803 and 1804. I remem
ber that the grumblers began to say that they
did not want to hear about rum all the time.
I have endeavored in various ways for near-
ly half a century to operate upon the opinions
practices and habits of society, in regard to
the use of intoxicating drinks. I have al-
ways refrained from the use of spirits as a
beverage, from a conviction of their inutility,
and a fear of the lamentable consequences ol
their habitual use. I have so far as was pru-
dent, argued against their use, before any
public action in relation to reform began. My
abstinence from their use was so singular at
the time that it was a subject of remark and
frequently of unpleasant jeering, ridicule and
sarcasm. In 1813, the public movement by
association, began, and I joined in it heartily,
though this public movement was for a time in-
volved in a cloud of odium, and the power of
ridicule was exerted to suppress it. My ex-
ample has been almost but not quite inflexi-
ble for about 70 years in regard to the drink-
ing of spirits, and altogether and entirely in-
flexible in regard to the use of any intoxica-
ting liquors as a beverage since March 1833,
when I last drank some wine at a party given
in Boston by Lieutenant Governor, Samuel F.
Armstrong, the last year that I was a repre-
sentative to the General Court. July 4th,
1833, I attended a public dinner at Glouces-
ter, and began to act in public upon my res-
olution of total abstinence. Rev. , a lec-
turer upon Temperance, sat next me, but be-

fore the toasts began to be drunk, he left the
table, and I alone filled my glass with water.
I did the same thing again July 4th, 1835,
at a public dinner in Beverly, at which I pre-
sided.

[At this celebration, as it appears from
Stone's History of Beverly, p. 102, Edward
Everett delivered an oration on the early life
of Washington, before the French war.
Twelve Revolutionary Veterans were pres-
ent. R. S. R.I

I had also done so at the ordination of
Andrew P. Peabody, at Portsmouth in 1833,
and, in this instance, was supported by the
Rev. John Ball, and by him only.

I was the very first person who declined
supplying spirituous liquors at funerals. This
was in 1816. I was among the first, if not
the very first, who refused to furnish spiritu-
ous liquors to persons who worked for me by
the day. It had been an universal custom in
this town, that when a mechanic or laborer
was hired by the day, he should be supplied
with not less than half a pint of rum daily if
he chose to drink so much. Previously to
their beginning work, I gave them to under-
stand that I should not provide any spirit, so
that they might take the circumstance into
consideration, in fixing a price for their labor.
This course was attended with much unpop-
ularity for some time, but it soon became man-
fest to the more considerate that it was bene-
ficial both to the employer and the employed,
and it has now become the general, or I may
ay the universal custom in this town for the
employed to find his own drink. In the case
of funerals, intoxicating liquors are now al-
most entirely dispensed with. In these two
ases, I claim much for my persevering exam-
>le. In another case I think my absti-
nence from spirituous liquors has proved ex-

246

tensively useful. While I was Commissioner
of Highways, I visited almost every town in
the county under circumstances which brought
out the decanter at almost every resting place,
when wo were viewing routes for roads peti-
tioned for. f sometimes exposed myself to
ridicule, when I refused to drink as others did,
hut I persevered, and now my then singular
practice has become the prevailing custom.
While T derive much satisfaction from reflect-
ing upon the share I have thus contributed
to the promotion of the temperance reform,
yet it is a subject of deep regret that I was
once licensed as a retailer of wines and spir-
its and that, I continued in the business for
several years. I think that I left off selling
spirits in 1813 or 1814, about ten years be-
fore I gave up business.

*****

On the 9th of September, 1813, the day
of the National Fast appointed by the Presi-
dent, on account of the war with Great Brit-
ain, the Rev. Dr. Abiel Abbot, minister of
the first parish in this town, preached a ser-
mon, which is now before me. In it he des-
cribes intemperance as emphatically our na-
tional sin. He has recourse to the statistics,
which about that time were frequently pub-
lished, to show the immense consumption of
ardent spirits in our country, amounting to
33,000,000 of gallons annually and averaging
7 gallons to each individual, excluding slaves
and children. He dwells much upon state
and other associations to check intemperance
and insinuate reform by displacing the dan-
gerous use of spirits by a salutary substitute.
By this substitute were understood to be meant
beer, wine, cider and other fermented liquors.
Total abstinence from their use was little
thought of at that time. Associations had
then just commenced in Massachusetts and

Connecticut for diminishing drunkenness, but
they were relied upon by only a small portion
of the community, and it required an effort
of moral courage thus to encourage them from
the pulpit. Dr. Abbot was among the first
who engaged heartily in this mode of reform.
I have also before me a sermon preached by
him in Haverhill in 1799 and 1801, and re-
peated here in 1804, 1811 and 1821, where-
in he depicts the horrid features of drunken-
ness with his usual plainness and fidelity. But
he points to no particular mode of staying the
evil other than what had been practised by
Christian ministers from the time of the Apos-
tle Paul reasoning before Felix of righteous-
ness, temperance and a judgement to come,
down through eighteen centuries to our own
times.

* *:.';3^5M rfcf%aol *fl.
The first ordination which I attended as a
delegate, where there was no intoxicating liq-
uor offered, was at Lynn, Oct. lltb, 1843,
when John Pierpont, Jr. , was ordained. The
Rev. John Peirce said that he had lately, for
the first time, attended a similar occasion in
Boston, where there was no intoxicating liquor
offered. On Wednesday, September 4th,
1850, I attended Commencement at Bow-
doin College, Maine, and dined with the gov-
ernment. There was no intoxicating liquor
on the table. The commencement dinner at
Harvard College, July 1850, was without in-
toxicating liquors. In May, 1850, at a meet-
ing of the delegates of the medical profession
from all the States of the Union, more than
four hundred were present. Dr. Reuben
Mussey presided at their public dinner and no
intoxicating liquor was admitted. The board
of Examiners of West Point Military Acad-
emy, at their annual visitation in 1849, passed
a resolution that intoxicating liquors be exclu-

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d from their room while in session. The
resolution was introduced by Horace Mann,
and unanimously adoptedia ,^Ji

At the public dinners at Concord, on the
19th of April, 1850, and at Charlestown on
the 17th of June, 1850, this being the 75th
anniversary of the fights at those places, no in-
toxicating liquors were used. Governor Geo.
N. Briggs' example has a controlling influence
at all the public entertainments, where he is
invited and expected to speak.

I copy the following bill to show how great
is the change in the customs of the people.

1785. May llth and 12th. Dr. the
First Parish of Beverly to Larkin Thorn-
dike : a-MunaqrneJ ,?ja

To entertaining the Council and Dele-
gates and other Gentlemen at the ordina-
tion of Mr. Joseph McKean viz :

30 Bowles of Punch before the . s. d.
people went to meeting a 2s" siorlyjB, 0.

80 people Eating in the morn-herafio it
ing a 1-6 6. 0.^

10 bottles of Wine before they

went to meeting a 3s 1.10.0

G bi)mi9Jifi

68 Dinners a 3s 10.4.0

On 2877

44 Bowles of punch while at

dinner and after a 2s 4. 8.

18 bottles of Wine a 3s Le 2. 14.

6 people drank tea a 1-6 0.9.

40 Horses 3. 0.
4 Horses -two days and nights 0.16.0

8 Bowles of Brandy 0.12.0

/-i -D - fi tt i A n

Cherry Rum 1. 0.

3 of the Gentlemen's servants
2 meals each and drink the day 0. 12.0

34.5.0

As it appears by the bill of fare
that Col. Larkin Thorndike is a
loser by the entertainment the
committee agree to allow 2. 0.

36.6.

Of this bill more than one third part was
for strong drink, which, I suppose, was not
an unusual proportion of the expenses on
such occasions. Ordinations were scenes of
conviviality to the people generally, who as-
sembled from all the towns in the neighbor-
hood. Fiddling, dancing and various other
sports were common.

(To be Continued.)

SOME NOTES UPON MR. RANTOUL'S
REMINISCENCES.

Printed in the October number of the His-
torical Collections of the Essex Institute.

BY BENJ. F. BROWNE.

;9E Bo ft. :

Wm. Silsbee was son of Nathaniel and Sa-
rah (Beckett) Silsbee, and brother of the late
Hon. Nath'l Silsbee. His father was a ship-
master, and died June 25th, 1790, on ship
board, while entering the harbor of New York.
After leaving Dr. Stearns, he went to sea and
became a ship-master and subsequently a mer-
chant. He was likewise a brother of the ven-
erable Zachariah Silsbee, now living. His
wife was Mary, daughter of Capt. Benj. and
Hannah (King) Hodges, and his sons, now
living, are Rev. Wm., John Henry and Benj.
Hodges Silsbee. He resided in the house,
now numbered 81, on Essex Street, occupied
by Stephen Webb.

Dr. Wm. Stearns was a native of Cam-
bridge, Mass; graduated at Harvard in 1770 ;
studied medicine with Dr. Joshua Brackett,
of Portsmouth, N. H. Commenced the prac-
tice of medicine in Salem, and after a short,
time removed to Marblehead. He returned
to Salem and commenced the Druggist and
Apothecary business and was very successful
in it. He was an honest, honorable, kind-
hearted and public spirited man. He was

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one of the promoters of the Salem and Bos-
ton turnpike road, and the success of the en-
terprise, (then a very important one,) was due
very much to his energy and perseverance.

The old Stearns house on the corner of Es-
sex and Beckford Streets, (well known to many
of the present generation,) was, for many
years, his residence. It was then an elegant
mansion, and had previously been the habi-
tation of Edward Kitchen, a prominent and
wealthy citizen of Salem, in the colonial times.
Mr. Kitchen died 17th August, 1766, and
the house was then occupied by John Turner

and afterwards by Sargent, before it

came into possession of Dr. Stearns. Mr.
Kitchen's garden, in the rear, was an exten-
sive one, and in this garden, under an apple-
tree, Rev. Dudley Leavitt was ordained in
1745, in consequence of opposition to his
settlement and the denial of the use of the
meeting-house for his ordination.

Dr. Stearns' example of order, punctuality,
diligence and economy was not wasted on
some of his apprentices. Mr. Rantoul was
himself an eminent exemplar of these quali-
ties, and another of his apprentices, the late
Edward S. Lang, was remarkable for them.
It is a noticeable fact, that the business de-
scent of every apothecary now in Salem can
be traced to Dr. Stearns. He married Sa-
rah White, daughter of Major Joseph Sprague,
and after the Major's death, he removed to
the Sprague house, which his son and daugh-
ter now inhabit, 384 Essex Street. The
Stearns house was afterwards occupied as a
tavern by John Grant, John Perly and others,
and subsequently by many families, and after
the Dr's. death, but little attention was paid
to its repairs and it gradually became dilapi-
dated, and was finally demolished a few years
since, and the site remains vacant. Dr. Stearns

died in April, 1819, and his wife June 29th,
1844. He left sons, Joseph, (afterwards
Hon. Joseph E Sprague,) James White, re-
cently deceased, William and Joshua Brack-
ett, now living, and Richard, deceased, and
four daughters. A very full genealogy of
the Stearns family may be found in Bond's
History of Watertown.

The land, on which the Stearns building
stands, was, 100 years ago, the site of a no-
ted tavern, kept by a Mr. Pratt. Mr. Felt
says " the building resembled the Bradstreet
house, a picture of which he gives in the 2nd
edition of his Annals, Vol. 1, page 412.
Ruth Jeffry, widow of James, and who was
daughter of Jonathan Pratt, (born Deer. 25,
1704,) sold the land on the 10th of May,
1792, to Wm. Stearns, Jonathan Waldo, and
Benj. Pickman, in the following proportions,
viz : to Pickman, one half, to Stearns, eleven
thirty sixth parts, and seven thirty sixth parts
to Waldo. The price paid was 780 pounds,
lawful money, and the same year, they erect-
ed the building, which now belongs to the
heirs of Pickman and Stearns. Ruth did not
live to see the new building occupied, having
died in September of that year. Her dwell-
ing house was next east of it, standing end to
Essex Street and projecting about 10 feet
farther into said street, than the building that
now occupies its site ; and when the estate
was sold in 1810, by the administrator of
James Jeffry and his sister Anna, children
of Ruth, it was removed to the head of Rust's
Wharf with its broad side on the (now) Bridge
Street, where it at present stands. Previous
to occupying the new building, Dr. Stearns
kept shop in a wooden building that stood
about where Mrs. Bates' brick building now is
numbered 244 on Essex Street.

The Stearns building was considered an el-

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egant one at the time, and with some repairs
would be a sightly one now. Stearns and
Waldo, at first, used the whole lower story for
the sale of drugs, groceries and varieties, and
subsequently another shop, in the northern
end, was set off and occupied by Michael
Webb, for the sale of groceries, wines and
liquors. It was for many years a leading es-
tablishment. That part of Washington Street
north of Essex Street was then called Court
Street, and the Court house stood in the cen-
tre of it, nearly opposite the front of the
Tabernacle Church. It had previously been
called School Street, from the principal town
School-house, which had stood in its centre
opposite Mr. Robert Brookhouse's dwelling.
JThe Gazette was printed in one of the front
chambers of the new building, as the Regis
ter, Observer, and several defunct papers have
been since. Washington Hall was very gen
erally used for Exhibitions, political caucuses
and public entertainments. There was a din-
ner there commemorating the birth of Wash-
ington, Feb. 22, 1793. Rev. Mr. Bentley
delivered an oration, and toasts were given
complimentary to Lafayette and the French
revolution. This may have been the dinner
alluded to by Mr. Rantoul. The account of
the trial of the King, but not of his condem-
nation and execution, had then been received.
The Hall was used as a Theatre in 1801, by
a company from the Federal Street Theatre
of Boston, under the management of Mr.
Bates. Among the performers were Jones,
Braithwaite, Moore, Dykes, Mrs. Jones, Mrs.
Graupner, Miss Bates, afterwards Mrs.
Barnes, Mrs. Douglass &c. In 1803, the
names of Mr. Wilmot, Mr. Harper, Mr.
Bates, Mr. Darley, Mr. Perkins, Mr. Coles,
Mr. Buckingham, afterwards the well known
(34)

publisher of the Boston Galaxy and Boston
Courier, Mr. Hayman, Mrs. Harper, Mrs.
Darley and Miss Bates appear. Companies
from Boston occasionally visited Salem and
performed in the hall. Twenty years af-
ter this, I remember that Mr. Frederick
Brown, Mr. Williams, Mr. Charnock, Mr.
Bruzer, Mrs. Brown and Mrs. Williams per-
formed there. It is now used as a furniture
wareroom

Major Waldo did not continue his connex-
ion with Dr. Stearns long, but in 1803, had
a commission store in the eastern part of
the Market House, (as the Concert hall build-
ing was then called) and some years after
had an apothecary's shop in old paved Street,
pearly opposite the Lawrence estate, now
Currier and Millets and subsequently in
the shop of the Harraden house, now Timo-
thy O'Connel's. For further notice of Ma-
jor Waldo, see Institute Collections, vol 4,
Page 131, and of Michael Webb, ib. P. 87.

Court and Washington Streets were, then,
the market places of Salem. When the old
Concert Hall building was erected, in mar-
ket, now Central Street, (destroyed by fire in
1844.) it was intended that the lower story
should be used as a market house, and stalls
were erected, and some of them occupied for
a short time, but the experiment was not suc-
cessful, and was soon abandoned, and sever-
al shops were made in the places of the stalls.
The inhabitants had been too long accus-
tomed to their old market places, and the
idea was general, that the market house
would enhance prices and encourage fore-
stalling. The present Market-house was
built in the Autumn and Winter of 1817.
The land was given to the Town on condition
that a building should be erected to be used
always as a Market house. The donors were

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Benjn. Pickman, Jr. and John Derby. One
of the most elegant houses ever built in thie
country, at that time was demolished, erect-
ed by that eminent merchant, E. Hasket
Derby, as it was too valuable an estate for
any of Mr. Derby's descendants to keep as a
residence. It had previously been the site
of a stately residence, belonging to the fam-
ily of the Brownes, who for a long series of
years, were considered the wealthiest people
of the Town. The last possessor of the
name of Browne, was Wm , grandson of Gov-
ernor Burnet; graduate of Harvard, 1755;
Representative to Gen'l Court, 1768; Colon-
el of the Essex Regiment ; Counsellor and
Judge of Supreme Court; a loyalist, and
banished in 1778, and his large estates con-
fiscated. He went to England ; was appoint-
ed Governor of Bermuda; returned to Eng-
land, and died there, February 13, 1802, in
the 65th year of his age.

When the Stearns building was erected,
and till the time of the present Market house,
the country people from a distance of 20 or
30 miles, visited Salem as a market for their
produce. Large quantities were brought in
for sale, and Court and Washington Streets
were the common Market place. In Winter,
when the sleighing was good, people from
New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine, and from
the interior generally, came in, bringing
their produce and wares on sleds. It would
surprise some of the present day, to see what
I have witnessed, the market vehicles ar
ranged on both sides of these streets, and ex-
tending some distance east and west into Es-
sex Street, and yet Salem contained, in 1 800,
only 9457 inhabitants, and the whole Coun-
ty of Essex but 61,196. There were officers
called Clerks of the Market, appointed to
keep order, to assign each team its proper

place and to prevent interference, and they
had sometimes a difficult and thankless duty
to perform.

That portion of Essex Street, from Wash-
ington to Newbuiy Streets, was paved the
same year that the Stearns building was
erected, and the portion from Washington to
North Streets, was for a long time after, and
is sometimes now, designated as "The Old
Paved Street."

Wm. Bigelow, who had his school over
Michael Webb's store, in the Stearns build-
ing, was born at Weston, Mass., Sept. 22d,
1773; graduated at Harvard, 1794, the sec-
ond scholar in his class; studied theology
with Rev. Nathaniel Thayer of Lancaster.
While pursuing his studies, he edited a pa-
per called the "Village Messenger," and
subsequently wrote for the Massachusetts
Magazine, published in Boston. He was fre-
quently called upon to preach in the Church
in Brattle Square, and at one time, previous to
the settlement of Rev. Horace Holley, he
supplied the pulpit in the Hollis Street meet-
ing house, both in Boston. He was a schol-
ar and a ripe and good one. He compiled
several school-books, and his Latin Reader
was adopted by many of the classical schools.
He was a man of great humor, and of a kind
and genial disposition, and was the author of
many humorous poetical effusions, among
which was " The Will of Charles Chatterbox
Esq., being the last words of a worthy and
lamented member of the Laughing Club of
Cambridge, who departed College life, June
24th. 1794." After he left Salem, he had
charge of the Public Latin School in Boston
several years, and the latter part of his life
was spent principally at Cambridge, where
he was employed as a proof reader, at the
University printing office. He died in Bos.

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ton from apoplexy, Jan'y 12th, 1844. Ho
married, in Salem, a daughter of Peter Lan-
der, Esq. His school, in Salem, became so
numerous, that he removed from the Stearns
building, to a building on (Hell's hill, near
the First Baptist Meeting-house, which was
erected by the North Society for a vestry
room. He early introduced military exercis-
es among his male scholars, numbering
about eighty, and formed them into two
companies, one of Infantry and the other of
Artillery. The Infantry Company was com-
manded by Benjamin Binney Osgood, and
the Artillery, by the late David A. Neal,
Esq. They had frequent public parades and
attracted much attention and admiration.
A newspaper account says, 1801, June 25th,
" The Trojan Band paraded in uniform, and
were presented with an elegant standard at
the Court-House, by the young ladies of the
school, with an appropriate address, to which
the Ensign made a suitable reply. The stand-
ard was received by the Trojans with due
honors, after which they performed a varie-
ty of exercises and manoeuvres, with a pro-
priety and exactness, which excited pleasure
and surprise in the spectators."

Ship building, almost from the early set-
tlement of the town, had been a prominent
business in Salem. In my boyhood, James
and Eetire Beckett had ship yards near Phil-
lips (then Crowninshield's) wharf, and many
vessels were built by them. One of these
Beckets (I think Ketire) built the famous
privateer ship, America. She was owned by
the Crowninshields, and her speed was re-
markable, and she was never beaten in speed
by any vessel of that period. The same firm
had, previously, owned a ship, America,
which I think was foreign built. She was
sold to the French, and became the famous

privateer, Blonde, which in 180o, took the
British privateer, Young Nicholas. Some-
what later the brothers Magoun, from Ply-
mouth County, established a ship yard on
the neck, and with Thomas Barker built
many vessels. The yard was between the
gate and Col. Hathorne's farm. Benjn
Hawkes and John Babbidge, who had been
famous boat builders, set up a ship yard
nearly opposite the Custom House, and were
successful builders. Among my earliest
recollections, is the ship yard of Garland and
Briggs (Elijah) near F rye's Mills, and sur-
prising as it may seem now, when the river
there is so shoal and narrow, large vessels
were built there. Knockers Hole, near Mill
Street, is said by tradition to have been a
place for building vessels, and the same tra-
dition says that its name was derived from
the noise made by the workers on the vessels.
Among the earliest ship builders, we find
the names of Hollinsworth, Moulton, Pick-
ering, and later, Gerrish, Bacon, Ashby and
Hardy. Joseph Hardy was a very success-
ful builder about 1700 and onward. He
lived on the west side of Hardy Street, near
the water. The house was demolished in
1825. He left no sons, but had six married
daughters, and his name is perpetuated in
their descendants of the families of Phippen,
Price, Millett, Hopes, Henfield, Towne &c
Enos Briggs, named by Mr. Kantoul, came
from Plymouth County in 1790, and after
building the two vessels, named by Mr. K.,
established a ship yard at Stage Point, South
Salem,- nearly opposite the end of Union
Wharf. He built, in 1799, the Frigate Es-
sex, on Winter Island. She was 850 tons
burthen. She was successfully launched the
30th of September of that year. Being then
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see the launching, and have a very vivid rec-
ollection of it. He was a very successful
builder, and while in Salem, he built (includ-
ing the Essex) fifty one vessels. He died
in 1819, aged 73. His wife was Sarah
Thomas from Plymouth County, who sur-
vived him several years. He left a son,
Samuel who married 1st, Susan Whittemore,
and 2nd, Mary Bowles. Samuel died a few
years since. He left also, daughters. Sally
married 1st, David Smith, 2nd, John llott;
Judith, married George Dean; Mary, mar-
ried Nathan Cook and Rachel, married John
Burley.

I recollect but one hospital in the great
pasture, and it was disused for the small-pox,
before my remembrance, and was closed, but
the beds, bedding and furniture remained in
it. It was on the southern bound of the pas-
ture, near where the Eastern llail-Koad pass-
es. When 1 last visited the spot, many years
ago, the foundation of the house could be
easily traced, but the house was gone and
many of the grave stones remained. October
25th, 1805, the store of Jabez Baldwin of
Salem, was robbed of about $3000 worth of
watches and jewelry. About 4 months af-
terwards, a considerable portion of it was
found, secreted in the garret of this hospital.
In the Spring of 1807, four boys discovered
most of the remainder, secreted in a hollow
tree in North Salem.

The hospital on the neck, alluded by Mr.
R., was called the Pest-house, and stood on
part of the site of the present alms-house.
When I knew it, it was occupied, rent free,
by some poor families, among the most prom-
inent of which, was that of Bundee Septee,
an East Indian, and who was familiarly
called Brandy. Bundee had married a white
woman, and here came up they were not

brought up his milk and molasses colored
progeny. In those days party spirit ran
high, and the papers were not very scrupu-
lous as to what they alleged in disparage-
ment of their opr jnents. A very worthy
man was the Republican surveyor of the
highways, and when a new election was ap-
proaching, the opposition paper gravely as-
serted that the surveyor had used and charged
the town $1 per day for Brandy, when the
charge was really for the day labor of the
poor Hindostanee. One of the rocky promi-
nences, near the road to the farm house on
the neck, was a favorite resort of Mr. Bent-
ley, and was called Bentley's rock. There
was a wooden monument on it, which was
wantonly destroyed in 1814. During the
long embargo, a wag of a boy perpetrated
the following doggrel rhymes on the base of
the monument:

"A pleasant prospect; see surrounding rocks,
Embargo'd vessels rotting in the docks ;
See Salem in a quagmire sunk,
And Brandy reeling to the Pest-House drunk."

The treatment described by Mr. Rantoul,
would I think be considered rather heroic,
but since I began to dispense medicine, the
treatment of all diseases has undergone a
great improvement. There is far less drug-
ging, and more reliance placed on the recup-
erative powers of nature, and on nursing and
regimen. Vaccination was introduced into
Salem in 1 800, and after that, the small pox
hospitals were discontinued. The first vac-
cination was performed by Dr. Thomas Pick-
man, the 5th of October of that year, and
the patient, Garland Chamberlain, a boy of
13 years, passed through the disease with
only a slight headache and a little soreness
of the arm. About that time the present
writer was vaccinated by Dr. E. A. Holyoke.
Some 14 years after, he was much exposed

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to the contagion of small pox. but escaped it,
and has been again successfully vaccinated.
Although Cow Pox has not fully realized the
fond anticipations of Dr. Jenner and his
early followers, it fully merits the encomiums
bestowed on it by Mr. Eantoul. afim

Joseph Gardner was the son of Simon Sta-
cey and Rebecca (Knapp) Gardner, and was
the 5th in descent from Thomas G., who was
an inhabitant of Salem, 1637, and perhaps
earlier. He had a brother Simon, who mar-
ried Mary Collins, and who was the father
of Simon, well known and highly respected
in his day, as the publisher of the Boston
Gazette, and who died in Boston, April lf>,
1824, aged 34. He had also a brother Jon-
athan who married Rachel Brown. Jonathan
was grandfather of Capt. Geo. W. Gardner of
the 24th Regt. of Massachusetts Volunteers.
His widow is still living. There was
another brother, Samuel, who was, in early
life, a mariner, and afterwards a well known
shipping master in Derby Street, who mar-
ried Mary Marsh. My earliest recollection
of Joseph is, that he carried on his business
in a house then recently erected, on the
south side of Bridge street, between the cor-
ners of Winter and Pleasant streets. March
street was soon after opened and he built the
house on that street, which he occupied the
remainder of his life. A Mr. Woodbridge
located a tannery in March street, and built
the brick house on the corner of this and
Bridge streets. Most of the tanneries in Sa-
lem were then in the neighborhood of the Com-
mon. There was one at the foot of Turner st.
and one or two in Boston street, and I re-
member six, near the common. It is doubt-
ful if their whole number of vats equalled
what may be found in one yard at the pres-
ent day. Slaughter hides were the only ones

used, and they were procured from the inte-
rior of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Ver-
mont, and the District of Maine. The time
consumed to make the leather was from 12
to 18 months. In these days of warm liquors
and chemicals, it is turned out much quick-
er, but perhaps the leather has not been im-
proved in quality, since "Auld Thomas Ea-
borne" was presented in 1642 for insufficient
tanning, or since the time of Simon of Joppa,
When Joseph located in March street, which
was named for the owner of the land, Thomas
March Woodbridge, he was one of the pioneer
settlers in that neighborhood. None of the
streets leading from Bridge street to the North
river, or to Collins' Cove, were then opened
through the fields. There was a cartway lead-
ing to the Old Skerry farm house, which is
now widened and called Conant street. There
were a few old houses at each extremity of
Bridge street, which are now demolished.
Three of them were on the south side of the
street near the bridge. The one where the
well remains, was that of John Symonds,
who lived more than 100 years, and at
whose funeral Mr. Bentley was said to have
commenced the prayer thus; Oh God! the
man who with his own hands, felled the
trees, and hewed the timbers and erected
the house in which we are now assembled,
was the ancestor of him, whose remains we
are about to inter; the next one had been the
dwelling of John Massey, the son of the old
planter Jeffery Massey; it then belonged to
the Waters family, and the third belonged to
a family of Smiths. None of the streets
leading from Pleasant street to the Cove,
were then opened, and there was no house in
that street, north of that lately occupied by
Wm. B. Vincent, which was built in 1799.
Andrew street was built in 1802.

Joseph was an active, energetic, and indus-
trious man, of a genial temper, not easily
ruffled, and a great favorite of the boys on
" Lection and Training" days. He dealt in
many commodities beside bread, and opened
his house for public entertainment on all the
holidays.

He was the proprietor of the famous wood-
horses which were the delight and admira-
tion of the boys of my day. They were
about a dozen wooden effigies, saddled and
bridled, each one attached to the outer end
of a shaft, the other end of which, was at-
tached to an upright revolving post, which
was turned either by a horse, or by boys
within the ring. Each rider was furnished
with a pointed rod, with which he endeavor-
ed to gain a ring, which was protruded from
a post in the course. If he gained a suffi-
cient number of rings, the ride was a free
one, if not a few cents were paid for it. Af-
ted being used in this way, for about 30
years, they were sold and one of them served
for many years as a sign for his son Samu-
el's stable. Joseph married Dec. 10th, 1789,
Elizabeth Bell. He had sons, Joseph, John*
and Samuel, who are dead, and Daniel B.
Simon, and Henry, who survive ; also seve-
ral daughters. He died Nov. 10th, 1830,
aged 63.

Samuel G. Mackey was the son of Capt.

T *

Daniel, and Esther (Gardner) Mackey. His
grandfather Samuel Gardner, was a very
wealthy merchant of Salem. Mackey's estate
was administered on in 1805, by his widow
Elizabeth, in which he is described as late of
Beverly, manner, deceased.

Dr. Joseph Osgood, commenced practice in
Danvers, but removed to Salem and lived in
the house now numbered 83 Federal street,

occupied by George Chase. His apothecary's

shop was in a small building near the house;
his wife Lucretia was the youngest daughter
of Miles and Hannah Ward, and sister of
Nath. Ward, Librarian of Harvard College,
of whom a memorial may be found in these
Collections, vol. 2nd, page 206. He died
26th of June 1812. One of his daughters,
Lucy, married Gen'l Samuel G. Derby, and
another, Margarett, Joseph Sprague, Jr.
His son Benjamin Biuney Osgood was a grad-
uate of Harvard College 1806, and died 1818;
he may have been the younger brother allu-
ded to by Mr. Eantoul. Joseph Osgood Jr.
married Mary, daughter of Ebenezer Beck.
ford Esq., and was father of Dr. Joseph Os-
good of South Danvers, of Nath. W. Osgood
of Salem, and of Beckford Osgood, who sev-
eral years ago, removed to one of the West-
ern states. He had an auction room in Sa-
lem in 1804, and I remember him at one
time in the Drug business in the Concert
Hall building, in connexion with Wm. Nor-
wood (afterwards of Exeter N. H.) under
the firm of Osgood & Norwood.

Elisha Whitney learned the Apothecary's
business with Edward S. Lang, in a wooden
building that stood where Henry J. Pratt's
brick building is, on the corner of Essex and
Liberty streets. The present building was
erected in 1803 by Dr. Lang, who occupied
it till his death, 1833.

Where these statements do not come with-
in my own recollections, I have consulted the
newspapers of the day, and Mr. Felt's annals
of Salem; a work which is indispensable to
every student of our local history.

2fK,

HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE FORTS

ON SALEM NECK.

An address delivered before the Essex Institute, Thurs-
day, Aug. 20, 1863.

BY JOSEPH B FELT.

Among the divisions of Salem, the Neck
and Winter island deserve, and call for, va-
rious notices of its History.

The reason why this subject was selected,
was that the place of our meeting was ap-
pointed to be held on part of the premises,
contained in one of the Names mentioned.
We pursue our subject, though the greater
proportion of its facts are far less important
and interesting, than many other matters
appertaining to the City.

1029, July 24, Rev. Francis Higginson
gives an account of five ships, sent by the
Company of New England. Of them was
the Talbot of 300 tons, 19 guns and 30 men.
She brought about "100 planters, 6 goates,
5 great pieces of ordinance, with meale,
oatemeale, pease, and all manner of munition
of provision for the plantation for a twelve
monthe." The cannon, on freight for a fort
here, and to be under the care of Samuel
Sharpe, as engineer, appears to have be-
longed to the Darby Fort, erected this year
on Marblehead side, though long incorrectly
supposed to have been situated on Beverly
Side. Papers of the Lynde Family, mention
a fort as having been in "Arbor Lot," on
or about the premises of the Methodist meet-
ing-house, and built nearly as far back as
1633, and. called the first fort of Salem.
But, from the fact that heavy cannon were
transported hither in 1629, and it had been
the expressed desire of the Company in Eng-
land to have the plantation well defended
against enemies, both inland and foreign,
we have reason to believe that the fort on

Marblehead side had been built. Wood's
New England Prospect seems to have some-
thing to do with the question. He sailed for
England, Aug. 15, 1633. Before this he
wrote for his Book, that the Winter harbor
of Salem "lyeth within Derbies Fort."
Thus he mentioned this place of defence, not
as a thing of the passing year, but well

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known as or longer continuance.

From the cause which the Colonists had
(o fear the Tarren tines, as well as other In-
dians, and from the Lynde Papers, it is to be
rationally supposed, that Mr. Conant and his
followers built an inland fortification on their
first occupation of Naumkeag, and that it
was continued by Mr. Endicott. If so, such
a place of defence may have been, from its
favorable location there, the identical one on
Arbor Lot, and that instead of its erection
being set at 1633, it should have been about

1626.

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While the Commoners and the inhabitants
were carrying on a fearful controversy, as to
the use and bestowment of public lands, the
former of these two bodies, on Nov. 22,
1714, voted, that the town should retain the
Nock for pasturage, and Winter Island for
fishery. These two divisions have undergone
more than usual alteration in the uses to
which they have been applied. The neck was
occupied by some of our earliest Townsmen
at a place, called Water town, on the point of
rocks, and at another, on Abbot's Cove.
Their chief business was to carry on the fish-
ery. Ornamented with a natural growth of
trees, the Neck was employed for grazing.
An ancient record of 1635, says, " Its agreed
that the Towne's neck of land shalbe pre-
served to feed the cattle on the Lorde's dayes
and therefore particular men shall not feed
theire goates at other times there, but bring

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them to tbe (hill) that grass may grow
against the Lorde's dayes." Here lots were
granted to individuals in 1637, for building
and the fishing trade. To prevent the depre-
dation of animals, it was voted, in 1644,
" that the doggs, at Winter Neck, shall be
tyed up in the day tynie, and if any doggs
there spoil the fish, that they shall either be
sent away or killed." 1644, July 7. "It
is agreed that John Barber and Francis Per-
rie shall forthwith make all carriadges for the
great ordnance, and the town is to pay them
some corn in hand, viz : 20 bushels of Indean
And their whole payment to be in corn, one
third part in Indean, and two thirds in Eng-
lish graine, wheate, or rye or barley or pease."
The Neck appears to have had a water course
made through it for expeditious communica-
tion with Winter Island. In 1667, "voated
that the passage, that was cut vppon the neck
to goe over to Winter Island, is to be stopped
and a sufficient way to be made over to the
Island." Before the year last named, Winter
Island had supplied the people with Clay,
when only the hither part of it was ordered to
be such accommodation. A vote passed in
1690, that the lower portion of it, "below
Ram's horn cove, may be planted by some
poor persons." In the same year, the land
formerly belonging to Richard Holingworth
was ordered to be laid out. As he was a no-
ted ship carpenter, it is likely, that he built
and launched vessels from the spot of land,
long in possession of the Hathorne family, but
now owned by Mr. Rowell. It was voted,
1702, "that no sheep shall go or be kept on
ye town's neck of land, beyond or to ye east-
ward of ye block housen, on ye penalty of
6d. per sheep, to him yt takes them up and
impounds them for each time." 1706, a re-
port of Salem says, "We are at considerable

charge for building a line of about 200ft long
and two block houses, in which are several
guns, and we keep a constant watch there ev-
ery night, being more than a mile from the
fort, nigh the end rf the Town. We design
to set up 150 or 200 feet of stockades near
the two block houses."

In 1728, the Neck contained 102 acres, ex-
clusive of Col. John Higginson's pasture of
over 23 acres, besides about 20 acres of oth-
er land. It then allowed 2 1-2 acres for a
cow, and 4 acres for a horse. The former of
these animals was charged 20s. and the lat-
ter, 32s., a season. For that year, 30 cows
and 12 horses were fed there, and in Higgin-
son's, or, as previously called, Abbot's pasture.
Benjamin Ives, having recently bought the
latter property, proposed in 1730, to hire two
acres towards Watch house point. His re-
quest was allowed the next year, to continue
a century. He offered, in 1739, to exchange
Pignal's or Roache's Point for an equivalent
at the Point, before named. The town agreed
to allow him, on such an offer, two acres for
three. On Roache's Point, a Pest House
was ordered, in 1747, to be erected. As to
its martial applications, the Neck, in 1758,
had long been guarded by two block houses
at the gate, and by another at Watch house
Point. Besides these defences, it had a fort
on its heights, called new, to distinguish it
from the old one on Winter Island, and recon-
structed in our last war with England. In
1765, the Town Treasurer was instructed to
let Winter Island and the Neck together, as
they had been, for milch cows at 10-8 each,
but if he had not so many of these applied
for, as he could accommodate, he might admit
riding horses at 21-4 a piece. A lease was
granted, in 1799, for a Rope Walk on the
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of burden, subject to varieties of carriage,
this portion of our public soil was ordered,
in 1805, to have no more bricks made within
its limits. The same year, an ineffectual at-
tempt was made, on the petition of John Baker
and others, to sell a portion of its Western
part for the purpose of erecting houses.
Among its numerous accommodations, it sup-
plied the population with large quantities of
rock for building and so continued till en-
closed for agriculture. In the last contest
with Great Britain, commencing in 1812, a
lot on the hither end was appropriated for an
artillery deposit of the United States and so
long continued. On the premises of the old
Pest house, where lie the pilent remains of
many a respectable tenant, swept away by
contagious disease, an Almshouse was erect-
ed in 1815, and connected with itself the
larger portion of the Neck for agricultural
purposes. The Pest house had been discon-
tinued, except for the residence of indigent
families, and another prepared in 1799, on
the North East Point. A small portion of
the Neck is still employed, in conformity with
its ancient use, for the pasturage of cattle.
Thus we have looked at some details of dona-
tion from the Commoners, which may serve to
aid the mind, as it roves back and compares
the present with the past aspect of our sub-
urbs.

From the Neck, we pass to Winter
Island. The caption of a request, presented
a century and nearly a half since, ran thus.
" Whereas Winter Island hath been improved
for ye making of fish ever since ye first set-
tlement of this towne." This shows us again,
the purpose, as well as the occupancy of the
place. Another use of it, as tradition relates,
was ship building. In 1636, and the succeed-
ing year, lots were granted there for the fish-
(35)

ery. An order passed, 1640, for its enclo-
sure, "vnless such as have goats doe fence in
the flakes." In 1644, Capt. Thomas Bread-
cake was permitted by the General Court, to
take two email guns from " Winter Island by
Salem, " for his cruise against Turkish Pirates.
This barbarous and much feared cause was not
unfrequently a source of trial to our colonists.
In 1645, a way to Winter Island was ordered
to be made. Its income was applied, in 1655,
to support the Fort there. Permission was
given, 1669, to have it secured "from all cat-
tall, except sheep and weanling calfes, which
shall have liberty to go ther at any tyme."
So many were the people here in 1679, that
John Clifford was licensed to keep a victual-
ling house for their convenience. This may
have been the origin of the " Old Blue An-
chor Tavern " famed in traditionary story.
In 1684, several merchants had leave to build
wharves on its flats. The ensuing year, it was
recorded, "The Selectmen to decide any dif-
ference, that may arise between any persons
concerned at Winter Island in pitching of
flackes, setting of presses, houses etc., by
which means they obstruct each other in their
fishing concernsthere." In 1698-9, the Island
had not merely its paths, but even a highway,
as the description of a wharf implied, "adjoin-
ing to ye place known by ye name Fish Street."
The following order was made in 1701, "that
the shoremen shall have liberty to fence in
Winter Island, keeping a sufficient gate for
passing of men and carts and keep out all
creatures yt may damnific ye flackes and fish."
Conditions of its being granted by the Common-
ers, in 1714, were, that each shoreman who be-
longed to the town and did his business here,
should pay 5s. a year for room to accommodate
his vessels and flakes, and every person, not an
inhabitant, similarly employed there, should

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be charged 20s for the same privilege. From
a contract made in 1731, the Island had then
convenient places for forty vessels and their
fares of fish. As the business, previously
transacted there, had been removed, it was
let, 1739, with the Neck, for the pasturage of
horses and cows, the former at 40s. each, and
the latter at 25s. A part of it, called Obear
or Palmer's Head, was leased in 1755, to
Richard Derby for 1000 years, at Is. a year.
One object, as his application for this relates,
was not merely to benefit himself, but also to
improve the Commerce of the town. While
our relations with France were threatened with
a rupture, a vote passed, 1794, that the Se-
lectmen cede to the United States the land
where the Old Fort stood, and as much more
on the Neck and Island as might be needed
for fortifications. In- 1799, the ship Essex of
32 guns, built by order of Congress, was
launched from this place and then first floated
on the element, where she was destined to win
naval renown. The lease to Mr. Derby has
curiously terminated. Where his wharf and
warehouse long stood, there appears an estab-
lishment for the storing of Powder. This
was bought by Mr. Oliver M. Whipple, who
occupied it with the proceeds of the Chelms-
ford Powder Factory. Having purchased of
the Derby family, their right in the premises,
for several hundred dollars a few years before,
he, in 1839, paid Salem $152.83, being an
annual rent of Is for the period remaining
of the 1000 years. With regard to other ap-
plications of Winter Island and the Neck, we
have the subsequent statements. 1643, July
26, Mr. Endicott in a letter to Mr. Winthrop
mentions that work was to be done on "our
fort." This indicates that such a fortification
had been commenced on Winter Island, and
was made to supply the place of Darby Fort,

on Naugus's Head, Marblehead side, built
there in 1629.

1647, Oct. 27. "For ye most easy and
speedy transporting of great artillery, when
and where also, so-ietimes, cattell, carriages,
cannon and field pieces cannot pass, as also
upon some suddain designe to mount for ad-
vantage in an enemies works. This Corte
doth order yt yr be by direction of the Maior
Generall, 3 or 4 leather guns of several sizes
sent for to England, by ye first oportunity
at ye charge of ye country, which, if found
good and profitable, may give light and in-
couragement for ye procuring or making of
more." The same sort of guns were recom-
mended in 1675 for use against Indians, and
a description of them given.

1652. A barrel of powder is allowed by
the Colony to Salem for saluting ships on nec-
essary occasions. 1655, May 17. Winter
Island is appropriated for the use of the fort.
As this was not finished, every man refusing
to work there, was to be fined 3s a day.
1666, a like service is required of males
above 16, each in his turn.

1667, Ordered that the great guns be carried
to the fort with speed. 1673, Aug. 4, Our
Fort is to be refitted, "the great artillery"
prepared and all else be done as " this junc-
ture of time requires." The cause of this
alarm were Dutch hostilities. 1675, James
Powland is appointed gunner. 1689, April 1 1 ,
John Marston petitions President Andros that
he may be paid for making carriages to guns
at Salem and Marblehead. 1690, May 14,
Winter Island Fort was repaired and a breast
work thrown up in another place. This place
was the Heights of the Neck. 1699, Our
Fort was called Fort William in honor of the
King. In 1704, It was called Ann in honor
of the Queen. Thus our Colonists were in

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the habit of naming their forts out of respect
for their reigning Sovereigns. The same year
the Castle, in Boston, took the name of Wil-
liam, which had been given to our Fort.
1706, an occasion of protracted disagreement
between the House and the Governor with his
Council, was payment of men in our fort by
the latter, without the consent of the former.
These claimed the right of partly regulating
the public purse strings. 1710, several can-
non belonging to our Port, are lent to the
crown for an expedition against Port Royal.
In 1714, in a petition about manning their fort
of 20 guns, our people observe, that they have
had "considerable Lott and Scott towards
necessary charges of government many years."
New Fort, 1742, Aug. 16, The Town accept
the grant of the General Court for the erec-
tion of breast works and a platform for 16
guns. These were on the heights of the
Neck, which were the location fortified in
1690. 1751, May 20, John Crowninshield,
being "concerned in the fishery, which is well
known to be a business very beneficial to this
government," petitions the town that the
block house and contiguous land may be
leased to him. 1758, " Old block house "
on the East side of the Neck, East northward-
ly, from these heights. 1775, Jan. 15, Salem
lend three cannon to the Provincial Congress.
A statement of Holmes' annals based on
a report from the Secretary of war, that the
British Colonies of North America possessed
only four cannon at the commencement of the
war for independence, is incorrect. There
were probably hundreds of such ordnance in
the sea-ports of Massachusetts alone. We
have a record of March 3, 1775, appertain-
ing to Salem. "At night, 27 pieces of cannon
were removed out of this town, to be out of
the*rayof robbers." 1 American annals,

Volume 2, page 369. 1775, April
17; at this date, the subsequent extract is
found in the Gentleman's Magazine. " By a
ship just arrived at Bristol from America, it
is reported that the Americans have hoisted
their standard of liberty at Salem." This
must have been done about the middle of
March. The notice seems to indicate that
Salem was the first place of the United States
known in England, to have hoisted the flag of
Independence. Flag of Independence adopt-
ed by Gen'l Court, April 11, 1776. "An
appeal to Heaven, on one side," and on the
other side ' ' Qui transtulit, sustinet. ' ' . The flag
was white with a green pine tree in the mid-
dle. HJ K

1776, April 22, Barracks had been pre-
pared at Juniper Point. 1782, June 6, No-
tice is given, that guards are at the forts ; that
Stephen Webb has the command there, and
that captains of vessels give proper answers
when hailed, if they would not be fired upon.
In 1787, the names of the forts were William,
Lee and Juniper. 1794, Fort William is
ceded to the United States. 1794, May 25,
A report is made by Bechet Rocbefontaine,
a Frenchman, Engineer to superintend the
fortifications of New England. (Salem Reg-
ister, Sept. 3, 1863.) It says that "the gar-
rison of Salem is to be, in time of peace, 23
men. On account of Juniper's battery,
it ought to be in time of war, 60 men. In
case of an attack, the militia will occupy the
above fort, Juniper's Battery, and the old Fort
Lee, securing the passage to the Neck. In
that case, 12 or 15 hundred men may fight
with great certainty of success."

1798, The Forts to be put in a state of der
fence and the one on Winter Island to be
manned. The occasion of this, were various
aggressions on our commerce by the English

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and French. 1799, Oct. 30, Under a dis-
charge of Artillery commanded by Captain
Gould, Proclamation is made by order of
Secretary of War, that Fort William be called
Fort Pickering. This name still continues.
1809, January 6, The U. S. Secretary of
War reports, that the fortifications of Salem
had "been repaired and a new barrack erect-
ed." Fort Pickering thus put in order, was
occupied by a company of U. S. Infantry,
commanded by Captain Stephen Ranney, a
distinguished officer. Our Forts are much
out of order and of course need great repairs.
At first, when the question came up for hav-
ing them put in order, to meet a proper state
of defence for the necessities of our coast,
Fort Juniper was named in common with
Forts Lee and Pickering. But a result of
discussing the question of repairing all three,
was the selection of the last two, here named,
BO that the great stir, now daily manifested in
a suburb of our city, is applied to the Forts,
Lee and Pickering. With regard to the gen-
ius, exhibited in the plan and execution of
these two fortifications, Col. Alexander recent-
ly remarked to some of our city authorities,
that there are none in all our Country, which
exceed those of our forts, Lee and Pickering.
While Pickering particularly commands the
Marblehead side of our harbor, it assists in
the defence of our whole Port, and Lee takes
the lead in affording these assistances and
commands the operations of Pickering and
Juniper. The work to be done, on these two
forts, is principally earth works. They are
expected to be done not before Winter. The
area of the works at Pickering are expected
to be made three times larger than they are at
present. The proportion of works on Lee,
are not expected to be as large, as those intend-
ed for Pickering. The United States gov-

ernment hold themselves responsible for the
expenses of the enterprise. They are willing
to pay $1.25 a day for laborers. As these
could not be obtained short of $1.50, the
Salem government have agreed to pay $5,000
to make up the lacking 25 cents a day, on
condition, that such advance shall be made
up to them from the United States. May
the work progress with all due diligence and
success. May it prove sufficient for all our
necessities of defence and help contribute its
due proportion of security to the best inter-
ests of our beloved Republic.

A COPY OF THE FIRST BOOK OF
BURIALLS, AND DEATHS OF THE
TOWN OF ROWLEY, WITH NOTES.

COMMUNICATED BY M. A. STICKNEY.

Continued from vol. v, page 207.

Mary Luntt the daughter of John Luntt
and Ruth dyed December 17 day 1717.

John Boynton dyed October the eight day
1718.

Docter Daniel Bennitt dyed the 4 day of
February in the year 1718-19.

Susanna Scott the wife of Benjamin Scott
dyed August the 19 1719.

Deacon Samuel Palmer dyed June 21 1719.

John Boynton the son of John and Bethiah
dyed Aprill 18 1719.

Ednah Stickney dyed Febereway 7 1722.

Abraham Jewitt dyed November 2 1722.

Deacen Ezekiel Jewitt dyed September the
2 1723.

Elizebeth Jewitt the wife of John Jewitt
dyed October the seventeenth day 1723.

Aaron Pengry deceesed September the 18
1724 aged 63 years.

Jonathan Lambert dyed January ye 5
1724-5.

Mr. Richard Syles dyed Febuary the 22
day 1721-2.

Mr. Samuel Platts dyed March ye 24 1726.

Jonathan Bayley the son of John and
Elizabeth dyed August the twenty first day
1724.

Elizebeth Bayley the daughter of John and
Elizebeth dyed September the eight day 1725.

Benjamin Scott dyed Feberwary the seventh
day 1724.

Jacob Barker dyed January the twenty
seventh day 1725.

Margret Barker the daughter of Jacob and
Margret his wife dyed January the ninth day
1725.

. Susanah Benet ye wife of John Benet dyed
December ye twenty fifth day 1725.

Mr Samuel Plats deceased March ye twen-
ty fourth day 1725-6.

Mrs Mary Plats widow to the above said
Samuel deceased June the third day 1726.

Mrs Abigail Perley wife of Samuel Perley
dyed January the second day 1725-6.

Nathanael Ellsworth son of Jeremiah and
Hannah his wife died October ye tenth day
Anno Dom 1728.

Margret Elsworth daughter of Jeremiah
and Hannah his wife dyed October the thir-
teth day Anno Dom 1728.

Rebecah Jewett wife of Mr Joseph Jewett
deceased December the twenty sixth day 1729.

Nathan Burpee deceased January the twen-
ty second day Anno Dom 1728-9.

Ednah Lambert daughter of Thomas and
Sarah his wife deceased March the thirteenth
day Anno Dom 1728-9.

Samuel Hobson son of Humphrey and Me-
hitable his wife deceased November the first
day 1728 aged 12 days.

Ensign Andrew Stickney deceased Aprill
the twenty ninth day Anno Dorn 1727.

Gibbian Jewitt son of Joseph and Mary
his wife deceased March the fifth day Anno
Dom 1729-30.

Ruth Chapman the wife of Edward de-
ceesed July the second day Anno Dom 1730.

Sarah Chapman the daughter of Edward
deceesed July the twenty fifth day Anno
1730.

Mrs Elizabeth Pickard wife of Capt. Sam-
uel Pickard deceased June the 29th day An-
no Dom 1730.

John Chapman the son of Edward deceased
October the twenty eighth day Anno Dora
1730.

Elizabeth Jewett the wife of John Jewett
deceased May the eighteenth Anno Dom 1730.

Nathan Frazer son of Nathan and Jane
his wife deceased September the fifth day An-
no Dom 1731.

Elizabeth Perley daughter of David and
Elizabeth his wife deceased January the elev-
enth day Anno Dom 1731-2.

Mrs Mary Jewitt the wife of Mr Joseph
Jewitt Junior deceased June the twenty sixth
day Anno Dom 1732.

The Reverend Mr Edward Payson deceased
August the twenty second day one thousand
seven hundred and thirty two 1732.

Mr Joseph Jewett deceased October the
twenty ninth day Annoque Domini 1729.

Anne Jewitt wife of Aquila Jewett de-
ceased March the sixth day 1723

Rebeckah Jewett daughter of Aquilla and
Martha his wife deceased June the twenty
sixth 1736.

Luci Lambert daughter of Thomas Lam-
bert and Sarah his wife deceased May the
fifth day 1736.

Sarah Wood daughter of Thomas Wood

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and Sarah his wife deceased May the thirteenth
day 1736.

Jeremiah Nellson son of Jeremiah and Ma-
ry his wife deceased November the twenty
second day 1736.

Abraham Jewitt son of Widow Sarah Jew-
itt deceased December the tenth day 1736.

Job Pengry son of Job and Elizabeth his
wife deceased August ye fourteenth day 1736.

Aaron Pengry son of Job and Elizabeth
his wife deceased August the twenty sixth
day 1736.

Jane Pengry daughter of Job and Eliza-
beth his wife deceased September the third
day 1736.

Thomas Sanders son of Edward and Eliza-
beth his wife deceased August the sixteenth
day 1719.

Lidia Sanders daughter of Edward and
Elizabeth his wife deceased Jeneruary the
third day 1731.

Thomas Sanders son of Edward and Eliza-
beth his wife deceased July the third day
1736.

Lidia Sanders daughter of Edward and
Elizabeth his wife deceased July the twenty
third day 1736.

Mehitable Hobson daughter of Humphrey
and Mehitable his wife deceased May ye
thirteenth 1729 aged seven years and about
four months.

Mrs Elizabeth Gage deceased July the
fourteenth day Anno Dora 1737.

Deacon Humphrey Hobson deceased June
ye 23d day 1742.

Moses Dickinson son of Thomas and Elize-
beth his wife deceased December the tenth day
1735.

Hannah Dickinson daughter of Thomas
and Elizabeth his wife deceased December
the twenty first 1735.

Jeremiah Nellson son of Jeremiah and Ma-
ry his wife deceased November the twenty
second day 1736.

Benjamin Tenney son of William and Me-
hitable his wife Deceased October the thir-
teenth day 1736.

Capt. Joseph Boynton deceased December
ye sixteenth day 1730.

Mr Nathaniel Harris deceased Aprill 1732.

Elizebeth Boynton daughter of Deacon Jo-
seph Boynton deceased June the eleventh day
1736.

Joseph Boynton son of Dec. Joseph Boyn-
ton deceased December the twenty fifth day
1738.

Mrs Anne Pengry deceased Febuary the
third day 173940.

Mr Thomas Dickinson deceased September

1 'II 1 i

the eighth day 1 / o7 .

Francis Palmer son of Francis Palmer de-
ceased August the twenty second day 1736.

Sarah and Ruth Palmer daughters of Fran-
cis Palmer both deceased September the third
day 1736.

Pashance Palmer daughter of Francis Pal-
mer deceased August ye sixth day 1739.

Mary Elsworth wife of Jeremiah Elsworth
Junior deceased December ye tenth day 1742.

Hannah Elsworth daughter of Jeremiah
and Hannah his wife deceased December ye
twenty fourth day 1742.

Hannah Thurstian daughter of Richard and
Mehetable his wife deceased November the
ninth day 1739.

Jonathan Thurstian son of Richard and
Mehetable his wife deceased December the
twenty third day 1739.

Elizabeth Pengree daughter of Job and
Elizabeth his wife deceased January the six-
teenth day 1747.

Elizabeth Pengrey wife of Job Pengree de-
ceased February the eleventh day 1747.

263

Ezekiell Merrill son of Thomas and Abi
gaill his wife deceased Aprill the fifteenth day
1748.

Jane Martain daughter of Daniel and Re-
beckah his wife deceased the 26 day 1746.

Widow Johannah Dresser deceased Octo-
ber the fourteenth day 1747.

Doct. Ammos Dresser deceased September
the twenty second day 1741.

Hannah Chaplin daughter of John deceased
October the second day 1749.

Capt. Ezekiell Northend deceased Decem-
ber the twenty third day in the 66 year of his
age 1732.

Elizabeth Jewett wife of Jacob Jewett de-
ceased September ye seventeenth day in the
31 year of her age 1741.

Samuel Northend son of John Northend
deceased June ye fifteenth day in ye 23 year
of his age 1749.

End of the Record of Burials and Deaths.

There appears to have been for some un-
known reason an omission in the Record of
Deaths from 1719 to 1722.

COPY PROM ORIGINAL BOOK OF
GRANTS OF SALEM.

COMMUNICATED BY PBRLEY DERBY, WITH HOTE8 BY
B. 7. BROWNE.

Continued from vol. T, page 227.

At a meeeting of the 7 men the 12<A 6th mo

1650.

Granted to ffrancea Skerrie a litle spott of
ground at the end of his 10 acre lot lying
at the greate Cove betweene hia lott and John
Small his marsh.

At a meeting of the selectmen the %2th Qth mo
1650 : non liquett.

At a meeting of the selectmen the 9th 9th mo
1650.

psent.

Capt Hathorne mr Browne

mr Gardner mr Connant

henerie Bartholmew

vpon request of Robert Hiberd for a parcell
of land at the vper end of william dodg and
Rodger Haskals ground next to the Swamp,
it is ordered that mr Connant and william
dodg doe view the said land and make retorne
to the selectmen at there next meeting.

By information of mr Connant there being
noe exception twentie acres is granted to Rob-
ert Hiberd for Comonage and wood in the
place he requested.

At a gendtt towne meeting the \\th 9th mo

1650.

There was deliued to Richard Greaves and
Zacheus Cortes to each of them a Corslett
of the townes the wch twoo Corslets are de-
liued vnto them in good repayre and they are
for to mentaine them and to retorne them
in like good repaire vnto the town againe vpon
demand.

At a meeting of the selectmen the 12<A 9th

mo 1650 being psent.
Captn hathorne mr Browne

mr Connant mr Gardner

mr Bartholomew John Porter

Graunted to mr william Browne 25 J Acre

of vpland and 25 acres of medow to be laid

out neare Ipswich Riuer in the most Conuen

ient place.

At a meting of the selectmen %\.th IQmo

1650.

Graunted to Lawrance Sothwiok a litle
spott of medow of about a quarter of an acre
Joyning to his 4 acres.

264

At a meeting of the selectmen the 28<A Wth
mo 1650 psent.

Capt hathorne mr Browne

mr Gardiner mr Connant

hen : Bartholmew Sergt Porter

Jacob Barney made request for a pcell of
land at long hill that Joyneth to the flfarme
that was mr Alfords.

Graunted to Jacob Barney 50 acres of land
to be iaid out of that land next adioyning vn-
to that wch was mr Alfords ffarme or in any
other Conuienient place at the discression of
the layers out.

Thomas Robins maketh request for 3 acres
of medow in the greate medow beyond wen-
ham of that medow that was suposed to be
mr Paynes

Graunted to Thomas Robins his request
pvided there be soe much recouered from Ips-
wich of that medow.

Graunted to Job Swinerton 40 Acres of
land neare Richard Hvchisson in liew of 20
acres formerlie graunted to him if it Can be
found there and not piudiciall to any former
grant.
At a meeting of the selectmen the Sth \%th

mo 1650 psent.

mr william Browne mr Gardiner
mr Connant Sergent Porter

Henerie Bartholmew.

John Batcheller making request for liber-
tie to fence in a little neck of land to haue a
pcell of marsh of his on Rialls neck his re-
quest is graunted pvided he leave bars in the
widest of it for any to Cart downe to the wa-
ter and resigne againe the land to the towne
when they shall demand it.
At a generaJl towne meeting the 24<A firsth
mo 1650-51.

Capt Hathorne and JefFerie massey are
apoynted to run the lyne and pfect it betweene
Ipswich and salem and haue libertie to choose

such as the Judgmeet to assist them in it and
the towne to beare the Charge.

At a meeting of the selectmen the 21<A 2rf

mo 1651 psent.

Capt hathorne mr Browne

mr Connant JefFerie massey

mr Price Henerie Bartholmew

Ordered that the 50 and 30 acres of land
shalbe laid out in some conuenient place neare
Bvrchen plaine at the discression of the lay-
ers out or any 'twoo of them and mr Connant
& JefFerie massey are apoynted to lay it out.
Graunted to Thomas Oliver jun. to Cutt
the grass growing on the high way betweene
his fathers lott and the lott of Thomas watson
sometyme the lot of Thomas Gouldsmith.

Graunted to Edmund Grover that spott of
ground on the highway syde lying betweene
his owne ten acre lott he liueth on and hener-
ie herickes lott being about 3-4 of an acre in
recompence of some land taken from him for
highe wayes through his lott.

Ordered that 40 acres of land and 4 acres
of medow forraerlie graunted to Thomas Spoon-
er and nott recorded being long since laid out
to him that the said land is by this record con-
firmed vnto him.

The Bd 3rf mo 1651 psent.
mr downing mr Corwin

rar Price JefFerie massey

henerie Bartholmew

Graunted to nathaneel Pvtnam 5 acres of
medow neare Ipswich Riuer.

Att a general! towne meeting 16th 4th mo

1651.

vpon a petition of nicholas Howard John
Batcheller and others that they might have
libertie of Comon in that land lying neare
there houses and that it might not be impro-
priated to any.

265

It is ordered by the towne that all that land
that lieth wthin Ipswich way from the new
bridg vnto the head of frost fish brooke un-
disposed of shalbe reserued for Comon and
non of it granted in proprietie to any.
At a meeting of the selectmen Wth 4th mo

Granted to

1651.
Richd Edwards

acres

land lying neare adioyning to Richard dodg
his land in consideration of 20 acres of land
he doth resigne to the towne lying below mak-
erill "Cove towards the Cricke that he bought
of mr Thornedick wch was formerlie granted
to Richard Lambert.
Ait a meeting of the selectmen the IQth 9th

mo 1651 psent.

mr downing mr Corwin

Capt hathornc Jefferie massey

Henerie Bartholmew waiter Price
vpon Complaint by Edward wharton of a
strip of ground betweene his house and that
wch was latelie mr kenistons nor in the pos-
session of Sirnon Groce that it was a greate
anoyance to him : the selectmen doe vpon his
request grant the said strip of land vnto Ed-
ward wharton.

william Baylie is graunted to cvtt what
grass he Can find at the greate pound on this
syde mr Blackleech his farme that is not in
any mans proprietie vntill the towne take fur-
ther order.
At a generall towne meeting 15th 9th mo

Beniamin

1651.

ffelton chosen

to take care of

the meeting house in Birchams Roome and to
haue the same wages Bircham had and to gyue

warning of meetings & burials by the bell.
At a meeting of 7 men the 15th 9th mo.

1651 psent.

Capt Hathorne mr Connant

Jeflferie massey mr Price

mr downing
(36)

.^ruB 01 batehq i oaoodo oJ ebiadif arf fetus

Granted vnto JefFerie massey 4 acres of
medow formerlie granted pt to be the pond
beyond the greate riuer the rest to lie by the
riuer syde. It is granted that JefFerie mas'
sey haueing made choyce of this quantitie of

the same this sumer not being able to lay it
out vntill after the hay should be taken of
prouided he exceed not the quantitie nor tak e
any fonnilie granted to other men.

At a meeting of the 7 men the \Qth Wth mo
1651.

Granted to Mr Brett 60 acres of land in
the place he desyreth if it be there and not
piudiciall to former graunts. and if when for-
mer grants be made good there be any land
remayning mr Brett is praised to be fFurther
considered to haue some more added.

At a meeting of the 1 men the 5th 11 th mo
1651 psent.

Capt hathorne mr downing ,

mr Corwin JefFerie massey

mr Connant mr Price

Henerie Bartholmew

The 4 barrells of powder and a halfe bar-
rel of powder wch is mentioned before to be
in the hands of seuall men and is the Coun-
tries store powder Counted to the town is now
in the hands of Captayne Hathorne whoe is to
be acountable for it vpon all demands further
there is 1 barll of powder of the Countrie
store wth wch the towne standeth charged in
the hands of raaior Sedgwicke the wch the
towne neur receiued.

There is deliued to Captaine Hathorne for
the Company as there store of amvinition
acording to lawe 3 barrels of powder 500 of
leade 3 quarters of a hundred of match for
all wch he is to be accountable for vpon all
demands.

266

At a meeting of the 7 men the 1th \\thmo
1651.

Graunted to Osmond Traske in considera-
tion of a hie way layed out Through his ten
acre lott thirtie acres of land to be laid out
neare Richard dodg his ffarme.

Graunted to Nicholas woodberrie 40 acres
of land 20 acres of it to be that wch was late
in the possession of rar Thorndicke and the
other 20 acres to be laid out where it may be
found most Conueinient.
At a meeting of the 7 men the 13th \%th mo

1651.

Capt hathorne mr downing

rar Corwin Jefferie massey

Henerie Bartholmew mr Price
Granted to John Swasey 40 acres of land
to be laid out neare Henerie Bartholmew his
ffarme.

Robert Goodell haueing 40 acres of land
granted long since by the towne and he haue-
ing bought land of Seuall others that had
land granted to them viz Joseph Grafton 30
acres John Sanders 40 acres henerie herick
40 acres william Bovnd 40 ackres Robert
Pease and his brother 30 acres Robert Cotta
30 acres william walcott 30 aeres Edmund
Marshall 20 acres Thomas Antrvm 20 acres
michall Shaflin 20 acres mr venor 40 acres
John Barber thirtie acres Philemon dickenson
20 acres mr Goose 50 acres in the whole 480
it is ordered that the said Robert Goodell shall
enioy the said 480 acres of land being part
of the eleven hundred acres after discharging
the towne of the aboue said grant and he is
allowed to said 480 acres of vpland 24 acres
of medow prouided that the medow laid out
within his vplynd be a pt of it.

The bth 2d mo 1652

psent.

Capt Hathorne John Porter
Jefferie massey henerie Bartholmew

Granted to Jacob Barney Jun. 30 acres of
land to be laid out wth 50 acres formerlie
granted to his father to be laid out at the dis-
cretion of the layers out of land.
At a meeting of the selectmen the first 3c?

mo 1*652 psent.

Capt hathorne mr Connant

Sergeant Porter Jefferie massey

henery Bartholomew

Granted to Samuell Corney that land that
was left for a hie way at the end of his 10 acre
lott next the riuer on Cape An syde wch is
for soe much land as is taken out of his lott by
the Countrie way the wch he doth accept of
for satisfaction for the said hie way.

Granted to James Standish the little sprvce
swamp lying neare his house puided it shalbe
free for any Inhabitant to make use of any
of the wood or trees in it while any doe re-
mayne growing there.

Granted to Joseph Houghton 30 acres of
land to be layd out where it Can be found
most conuenient for him prouided all former
graunts be first made good.
At a meeting of the selectmen the \1th 3d

mo 1652.

Capt hathorne mr Browne

mr Corwin John Porter

Jefferie Massey hene Bartholmew

Graunted to John Rock libertie to inclose
the hie way betweenc mr Emerie & his land
vntill the end of the 7th month pvided he
leaue barrs to be drawne at each end for any
that may haue ocation to make vse of the
way in the mean tyme.

There being formerlie graunted vnto Josha
Rootes a little stripp of land and Contayn-
ing about 2 acres liing next his ten acre lott
on Cape Ane syde on the northeast syde and
it being not found entred in the towne booke
we do by theise psents Confirme the said
grant vnto him.

2G7

There being formerlie graunted vuto John
Pvtnam some 50 acres of land and Complaint
being made that the said land laid out to him
is not soe much it is Ordered that the layers
out of land shall make vp what the said land
shall want of his grant in land lying be-
tweene his sonne Nathanaells land and Rich-
ard Hvchisson.

Ordered that Ensigne dixey shall make a
gate and alsoe barrs to be taken downe as
ocatiou is in the generall fence on Cape An
syde at the further syde of the field on the
way laid out to manchester aud what his
Charg shalbe there by more then is his ppor-
tion to fence shalbe alowed him by the ppri-
etors of that field and he hath 14 dayes
alowed him to do it.

Granted to hugh woodberie marke Lathrop
and Thomas Picton a spott of medoe lying
betweene Beniamin ffellovrs medoe and the
great swamp neare wenham to be diuided
equallie betweene them.
At a generall towne meeting the 21th 9th
mo 1652 Highway.

At the desyre of Ensigne dixey it is or-
dered that the Countrie way shalbe Contin-
ued that goeth by the fferrie to Ipswich be-
fore Ensigne dixey his house pvided he keep
it in sufficient repayre for horses and Carts
the wch he doth promise to doe.
At a meeting of tfie selectmen the 2\thl2th
mo 1652.

Sould vnto Samuell Ebron about 4 acres
of land more or less being all the land be-
longing to the towne that he hath inclosed
wthin his ffence wth his owne land lying to
his owne house ffor wch [land] he is to pay
betweene this and the end of the 7th month
next three pounds for the vse of the [land.]

There being formerlie a grant of 10 acres
of medow to sergeant John Porter there is

now granted vuto him 50 acres of vpland
ground in Hew of the said 10 acres of med-
ow to be laid out at the discression of the
layers out of land and the former graunt to
be voyd.

the 2d first 53.

Granted to the inhabitants on cape an syde
halfe an akre more or less laying on the hill
abutting vpon Kober morgan & Tho Roots
his lot on cape an syde pvided it be nott
granted before to any other.

Graunted vnto John Remont 50 ackres of
land lying next that ffarme that was mr Al-
fords pvided that whereas the said land was
fformerlie granted vnto Jacob Barney if the
said Jacob Barney doe quietlie possess and
enioy that 50 acres laid out to him in Hew of
it otherwise he the said Jacob Barney is to
enioy the aboue said land.
At a generall towne meeting 30th of April
1653.

6th 4 mo 53 ffrances Skerie made request
for the Comon land lying before his 10 acre
lot next Thomas watsons and it is ordered
that if the land be gyuen to it shalbe
giuen to ffrances skerie but at psent the
towne doth reserve it in theire owne hands.

Its ordered that Richard Stackhouse for
the reliefe of his ffamillie shall haue the ben-
ifit of the keeping of the fferrie towards Ips-
wich he pviding a sufficient boate and men
to attend it and to enter on it the last of June.
At a meeting of the 7 men 20th 4th mo
1653.

Jefferie massey Lievtenant Lathrop and
sergeant Porter Chosen to meett wth Ipswich
men for the pfecting of our bounds betweene
them and vs towards topsfield vpon the next
day of the weeke.

Job Swinerton hath granted him ten acres
of land at the east end of his 40 acres for-

268

merlie laid out in liew of his 2 acres wanting
in his 10 acre lott in the north field.
At .g meeting of the toivne the 5th 1th mo
1653.

mo 53 ted to Thomas er liber tie 6 acres
medow in any he can find prouided it come
wthin any former aunt.

Ordered that any pson that shall at any
tyme be imployed to worke for the repayring
of the hie wayes in any pt of the towne
shalbe paid what shall be found due out of
the next towne rate they bringing a note vn-
der the surveyors hand.
At a meeting of the selectmen the 20th 12th

mo 1653 psent.

William H&thorne Roger Connant
John Porter Walter Price

Jacob Barney mr Corwin

Granted to John Pvtman junr 20 or 30
acres of land if it be adioyning to Capt hath-
ornes ffarme in consideracon of 12s due for
bridg worke and in regard he had none for-
merlie granted.

Granted to Humfrey woodberrie a pcell of
swamp lying betweene his owne land on both
sydes not exceeding ten acres and the wood
is reserued to the inhabitants to fell as they
please at all seasons the land on the one syde
was Guido Bayleyes.

Graunted to Henerie Skerrie a litle hill

incompased about by his owne marsh neare

mr ffrends mill if it be not formerlie granted.

At a generall towne meeting the 6th of the

fast mo 1653-54.

Granted to John Browne all that land in-
closed as well mcdow as vpland weh was
latelie in the possession of mr Garford to all
intents and porposses to giue and his heyres
for euer.

Granted to mr Georg Emerie the herlddge
of that pcell of land wch was John wood-

beries in the ould planters marsh and all
rights of Comonage the town might haue
Claymed to giue and his heyres for ever.

Granted to John kitchen soe much land
as will nessessarilie make a seller neare vnto
goodman Truslers ffarrne ouer against the
house of the said John kitchen.

At a meeting of the selectmen the 2lth of

the second mo 1654 being psent.

John Porter Mr. Connant

waiter Price Edmond Batter

wheras the 24th of this Instant mo there

is by apointment some of Ipswich men and

some of Salem men to atend the pfecting of

the lyne betwixt them and vs we desyre that

Lievetenant Lathrop John Porter and Jefferie

massey to meete Ipswich men at the tyme

apoynted & we giue them power to act &

ffinish the worke together with Ipswich men.

At a meeting of the selectmen the 21th 2d

mo 1654 psent.

mr Corwin Capt Hathorue

mr Connant John Porter

Jefferie massey mr Price

Edmond Batter

Mr Gardner request for himselfe and those
that now doe or hereafter shall Hue at those
ten acre lots ends or syde that they may
haue the Comon land granted to them that
lyes at the ffoote of mr Reads hill to lye as
Comon for theire Joynt vse this request is
graunted.

Mr Georg Gardner his grant of vpland.
vpon the request of Sergeant Georg Gard-
ner for a small playne of vpland Contayning
about six acres lying and scituate neare to
Robert moultons Junr his medow & to the
round hill neaae mr Hvmfres ffarme and soe
to that land that is graunted to ffrances Per-
ries Accordinglie it is graunted.

209

Granted to John Symons libertie to ffence
his ground wch was formerlie william Corn-
ins in the towne of salem round home to the
Banke provided that he make twoo sufficient
styles for a foote way through the said ground.

Granted to Kichard Bishop foure acres of
medow ground lying and scituate at the fur-
ther end of salem bounds next to mr Kichard
Salstingtall ffarme puided it lie wthin salem
bounds otherwise the said bishop to loose it
being a fformer grant.

Granted to Henerie Skcrie twoo ackres of
medow ground in the same place vpon the
same Condition of Richard Bishops being a
fformer grant.

Granted to Richard Brakenberie three acres
of medow in the aame place and vpon the
same Condition of Richard Bishops being a
fformer grant.

Granted to Henerie Skerrie all that vpland
lying wthin the fence of John Batchellor that
doth fence in his salt marsh on Ryalls syde
pvided it must lye in Comon when the Cropp
is taken of ffrom it.
At a meeting of tJie selectmen the 8th of 3d

mo 1654.

mr Corwin Sergeant Porter

mr Connant Jefferie massey

mr Price Edmond Batter

Granted to Thomas Picden three acres of
medow ground in the sain place and vpon the
same condicon of the graunt of Richard Bish-
opp wch was a former graunt.

Granted to John Batchellor twoo ackres
of medow land in the same place and vpon
the same terms of the graunt of Richard
Bishop wch was a former graunt.

Whereas there was a spott of medow ly-
ing neare mr downings ffarme on the north-
west an on the west to a farme that was
granted to Phillipp verin at the head of the

Cow house riuer in the year 1648 graunted
to Raphe Tompkins it is now againe Con-
firmed to him puided it was nott wthin any
mans bounds before the said graunt.

Grantee! to John Pickett twoo acres of
medow land in the same place and vpon the
same tearms of the grant of Richard Bishop
wch was a former grant.

vpon s difference arising betweene Hum-
ffrey woodberrie and the inhabitants of Cape
An syde about a swamp latelie graunted to
the said hvmfrey & the said inhabitants as
much of other of his land neare adioyning
there vnto to the full value to be laid out
by foure indifferen' men equallic Chosen viz:
Captaine Hathorne mr Batter Sergeant Por-
er and william dodg.

Granted to Charles Gott three acres of
medow ground in the same place and vpon the
same terraes of the graunt of Richard Bish-
opp.

At a meeting of the selectmen the \5th 3d

mo 1654 psent.

mr Corwin Sergeant Porter

Jefferie massey waiter Price
Edmond Batter.

Granted to Thomas watson three acres of
medow ground in the place of the graunt of
Richard Bishop his medow and vpon the same
tcrmes being an antient graunt.

Graunted to ffranoes Skerrie a small spott
of vpland lying neare to his ten acre lot vp-
pon the north neck by the water syde wch is
free from Georg williams his salt marsh.

Lievtenant Lathrop and sergeant Porter
vpon the 24th day of the 3d mo to pfect the
lyne betweene Ipswich and salem are de-
syred to meete Ipswich men acordinglie the
niett wth them the day aforesaid.

Lievtenant Lathrop his former grant of
eight acres of medow land to be laid out in

270

the same place as the grant of Richard Bish-
op his grant of medow and vpon the same
termes and twoo acres more if it be there to
be had.

At the gemrall towne meting the 21th 3d
mo 1654.

pd by them Georg williams and Benjamin
ffelton bound to pay the (lOOb) out of the
Countrie rate or the remayner towards our
ffortiffacan witness their hands

Georg williams
Beniamin ffelton

Mr Connant Sergeant Porter and Lievten-
nant Lathrop are apoynted to measure out
the medow land that lieth wthin our bounds
next adioyning to mr Saltonshall farme.

Mr Thomas Rvcke [senir] haueing for-
merlie a grant of one huudred acres of vp-
land and we not finding of it entered acord-
ing to the grant doe now enter it that he
hath it granted in the same place that it was
formerlie measured out to him by Captaine
Traske Jefferie massey and Peter Palfrey.

ajinefor not coming to towne meetings.

It is ordered that all those psons that shall
not seasonablie atend towne meetings eather
by there psons or pxeyes for every such of-
fence or delinquencie after due warning ac-
cording to order shall eighteene pence to be
levied by the Constables ffrom tyme to tyme
and they to haue twoo thirds of it for theire
paynes and the other third to the towne of
salem pvided it shall be first demanded and
if any that can or shall ^aake any excuse for
his none attendance he may repayre to the
select men and a*release ffrom the maior pt
of them wthin a weeke after the demand of
those ffines the ptie or pties shall be ffreed
from those flBne or ffines.

At a meeting of the selectmen the 2d of

October 1654 psent.
Capt hathorne Serg. Porter
mr Connant Jefferie Massey

mr Price

Granted to Jonathan Porter in Considera-
con of a hie way 1 acres of vpland on Cape
An syde to be laid out by mr Connant.
Ai a meeting of the selectmen t/ie 2Qth of

the 12th mo 1654-55 psent.
mr Corwin mr Connant

John Porter mr Gedney

Richard Prince Jefferie massey

Granted to John Putnam Jur. 30 acres of
vpland neare adioyning to the ffarme of Cap-
taine hathorne John Rvcke and william nic-
ols, being in exchang of the 30 acres he
should haue had at the end of Captaine hath-
orne his ffarme and further soe doe apoint
that the surplus of the land Contayned wth-
in the aforesaid bounds shall apertaine and
belong to Richard Greaves in Consideration
of 40 acres formerlie granted vnto him the
said Greaves.

Ordered that whereas there is a small por-
tion of rockie land adioyning vnto the ffarme
latelie in the possession of Captaine hathorne
but now possest by John Pvtman senr Rich-
ard huchisson daniell Ray and John hathorne
vpon the request of the said pties the said
Rockie land is graunted vnto them vpon Con-
sideration of the sume of twentie shillings
to be paid to the selectmen for the vse of the
tewne of Salem and to be kept in stock to
answere some man for some small lott for-
merlie granted.

Ordered that for as much as Jefferie mas-
sey hath transcribed the towne booke or soe
much as remayned vnpfected by mr down-
ing that the said Jefferie massey shall haue
ffourtie acres of vpland in some Conuenient
place for his paynes.

271

The 4th llth mo 54:psent.
mr Corwin Jefferie massey

mr Gedney Edmo: Batter

Thomas Rix being indebted to the towne
of salem the sume of seven pounds and foure
shillings for paymt whereof he the said Kix
hath sould his shopp and house neare the
meeting house for a Eleven pounds and the
remainder of the said 7 4s is to be paid
him out of the towne rate wch is 3 1 6s for
wch he hath a bill given him to the Consta-
ble.

Thomas Rix.
Au a meetinge of the Selectmen 8th 12th:

1657.

mr Corwine Serg Jno Porter

mr Price Jeffery Massey

Jacob Barney Rich Prince

Will Browne

The 20 ackres of land formerlie granted
to Rodger haskell together wth 2 acres of
medow adioyning to the great pond neare wen-
ham the record not being found it is hereby
ordered to be confirmd vnto the said Rodger
haskell.

March 25 1659.

Wee whose names are vnder written bee-
ing chosen and Impowred by ye Inhabitants
of Salem and Topsfield to Run the sixe mile
extent and also ye deuisionall line betweene
the two townes haue thus agreed and deter-
mined namly that wee haue Run ye sixe
mile extent vpon the N west and by North
which ends in the edge of a swampe of Jno
Putnams called The great [ashen] swampe
next vnto a Hill Comonly called by the name
of walnut tree hill neervnto Perye Wiggwam
and from thence haue thus farr agreed vpon
the diuissional line which Runs S West
Westerly to the Raid- side Comonly called by
the name of Ipswich Riuer where wee marked

trees by a Rocke towards the East and a
Necke of land Comonly called Crumwells
Necke : Westwardly of the said trees marked
And from thence S West one mile and a
quarter and soe one accordinge to ye Rule
that mr Joseph Gardn [er] Rune the afore
said deuisionall line, and from the sixe mile
extent towards the N East Easterly as it is
bounded and marked one mile and a quarter
endinge at a swampe by a hill Called Smith
Hill and from thence towards the E North
East ending vppon a Hill neare Wenham
Causeway and soe towards the East and by
N one hundred Rods endinge at Wenham
meadow side,

Thomas Putnam Joseph Huchenson
Nath: Putnam Abra Redington

Jno Redington Jno Wilde

Will Evans

Alt a Generall Towne Meeting March 9
1659-60.

Its ordered that Mr Jno Higginson shall
haue alowed him yearly for his maintenance
one hundred and sixty pounds soe longe as
he shall Continue to cary one the whole worke
of the mistry and so longe as the towne shall
be able so to doe-

Rich Rayments farme of 100 Acres.

Graunted vnto Rich Rayment one hundred
Acres of vpland and ten Acres of Meadow
ground which land is layd out in Wenham
bounde buttinge vppon Pleasant pond and
the great swampe and the ten acres of mead-
ow in the great Meadow, this was a former
graunt omited to be entered.

Rich Huchenson graunt of 20 Acres

Richard Huchenson hauinge a graunt of a
pcell of land not formrly entered Scituate
and lyinge betweene Mr Jno- Thorndicke and
Mr Elias Stileman fames, its Confirmed to
him not exceedinge twenty Acres of vpland

'27'2

Rich Prince Georg Norton fy Jno White of

each 4 acres meadow laid out 30th

llmo 1643.

Accordinge to former graunts to Rich-
ard Prince Sarah the now wife of Dan-
iell Rumbull in the Eight of Georg Nor-
ton and John White is layd out twelve
Acres of meadow land in the great Mea-
dow at wenhain to each of them foure
Acres which Meadow then was in the pos-
session of Mr William Payne lyinge between
the vpland and Mr Dudlys meadow being
parted by a Creek from mr Dudlys Meadow.
Gottonett Reads farm bounds setled.

Colonell Thomas Read his farme of three
hundred Acres by a Hill brooke adioyninge
thus bounded by the agrement of the Partys
vndernamed twenty eight of twelve moneth
1661.

1 ffirst a white Oake by the great meadow
side neare the Country high way on the south
and soe vpward the hill vnto another white
Oake in the range of the head line marked
with eight marks which runeth vppon a
streight line by ye hill vnto a stumpe neare
ye brooke and soe to ye brooke, and to take
in all the land to the Bridge togeather with
all the land that lyeth next the farme graunt-
ed to Robert Cole and soe Northward vnto a
great duble white Oake at Northwest Corner
and from thence in the North head line vnto
a greate white Oake neare the Comon high-
way in the North range and from thence to
the salt marsh neare ffrancis Lawes Lott in
Northfield, Togeather with all the meadow
that lyeth from an old headge that now
standeth that crosseth ouer the meadow to a
small black Oake and two Roods further tow-
ards the Northfield fence on the sonth And
from thence Northward vpon a streight line
vnto a great stumpe which is at the west

Corner of Richard Leech his ten Acre Lott
and soe streight as the fence now standeth
vppon the said farme and soe on to firancis
Lawes lott leauinge ther abouts only a lane
of two Rods broad and soe to be a highway
of the same breadth through the farme vn-
till yu come to the Comon at the head of
the Riuer; and ye farme to puide alwayes a
paire of barres or gate for ye adiacent Nei-
bours to vse for Carts or otherwise as they
need to goe & Come and if the owners of the
farme will haue the highway to be fenced
that then the farme to make one halfe and
the neibours the other halfe puided it be layd
out.

2 That the Country highway to be layd
out where it now lyeth or near therabeuts
Contayning fowre Rods in breadth from End
to End

., mi i I-T ill T ii

3 The Hill and brooke adioyning to ' the
said farme the Bounds to begine at the white
Oake in the head line marked with eight
markes on the south range and soe to a lone
Oake and from thence to a stumpe which wee
thinke to be Jno Southwickes Bounds to the
south or elce to a body of a tree neare the
Rocke and soe to take in all the Hill round
togeather with the brooke.

Subscribed by vs Impowred by the towne
of Salem.

William Hauthorne Georg Corwine

Edmond Batter Walter Price

Henry Bartholmew.

Subscribed by vs in behalfe of Colonell
Thomas Read as his agents.

Samuel Symonds Daniell Epps

Mr Jno Higginson House setled on him >

his.
Whereas in the yeare 1659 in ye moneth

of September Mr: Jno Higginson or pastor

was preuailed with by vs to come and stay
ooJbBfiH 83iE G vo fgcoije

i>os

273

with vs for one yeare and afterward that win-
ter ther was a Consultaccon further made
and to encourage him to setle amonge vs in
the work of the ministry there was a vote of
the towne passed for building a house for the
Ministry but Consideringe his present lowe
Condi con and great family it was thought
meet rather to goe by way of voluntary Con-
tribucon for the buildinge of a dwellinge
house for him to be giuen to him and his
for euer.

Mr Walter Price Mr Joseph Grafton Mr
Jno Gardiner did at seuall tymes take Con-
tribucon of those that were free in it and
sett downe from their owne mouths what
they voluntaryly gave for that end. Mr Wil-
liam Browne Mr Greorg Corwine did vnder-
take the busines, and accordingly they did
pcure the house lott lyinge betweene Jno Wil-
liams on the East & Samll Williams land one
the west, soe that we whose names are sub-
scribed doe witness that the dwelling house
wherein Mr Jno Higginson or Pastor now
dwelleth and the land Contayninge about an
Acre belonginge and Apurtenances is his
owne for himselue his wife and children for-
eaver as any other mans house in the towne
is his as witness, this twenty foure day of
first moneth one thousand six hundred sixty
two sixty three.

Witness

William Hathorne Edmond Batter
Gteorge Corwin Walter Price

The 1th of 3 mo: 1667.

Andover Highway,

Wee whose names are vnder written be-
inge Chosen and Impowered to lay out and
setlethe highway betweene Salem and Ando-
ver doe agree as folio weth viz: from the playne
wh was the worshipl Jno Endicott Esqr soe
alonge by James Haddocks land and soe in-
(37)

to the highway that doth Run vp into Na-
thaniell Ingersons land & then the vpland
of Joseph Huchensons and so alonge to the
Riuer or ford known by the Name of Ipswich
Eiuer wer the logges are & soe from the Riu-
er to the head of the spruce swampe in the
vsuall highway that leadeth vp to wills Hill
& so from thence alonge by Marked Trees
till yu come to poute pond meadow & so thro
that Meadow to marked Trees on the other
side till yu come to Beaching Meadow to
Marked Trees ther & from thence to take
the Andover Roade till yu : come to Andover
towne.

Jno Osgood Thomas Chandler

Richard Leech William Flinte

Edmond Batter

Wee whose Names are vnderneath sub-
scribed who were chosen and deputed on pte
by the Towne of salem And th' other pt by
the towne of Lyne To Run the Line and to
setle Bounds betweene ye said Townes be-
tweene ye bounds formly agreed on By both
the said Towns & confirmed by the Genall
( 'ourt haue in psuance therof Mett togeather
on the 29th 2 mo 1669 & did then Run the
Line and haue by mutuall Agreement setled
the bounds soe farr as wee haue gone as ffol-
loweth :

1 Beging at ye Bounde Tree at ye West
end of the great pond soe called Lyinge on
the North side of the Country Roade or high-
way the bound Tree there Agreed on and set-
tled is a Red Oake hauinge a small Tree
growinge out of the Roote of it To ye east-
ward side the said Bound tree beinge Marked
and hauinge a heape of stones aboute the roote
of it.

2 And from the abouesaid Bound Tree The
diuission Line to Run to a Noted springe that
is by the side of and runeth into a great pond

274

called ye springe pond, wh sd springe is an-
other standinge Bound And ye line to run be-
tweene ye sd springe & ye aforsd Red Oake
Tree as there are Trees Marked or stakes sett
with heapes of stones laid about yra beinge in
distance each from other about twenty Rods
soe farr as to the pond.

3 And from ye said springe ye line to Run
as there are trees marked with heapes of stones
about ym : or heapes of stones layd being
about Twenty Rods distant each of them from
the other To a popler Tree marked with the
letter S: on ye in side & ye letter L on the
other side hauinge a heape of stones laide at
the Rootes of itt standinge by a way through
a swampe or bridge called the Chip bridge.

4 And from wh popler Tree the line to Run
as there ar Trees marked, with heapes of Stone
about yra : or heapes of stone laid to ye midst
of a house wherein at present George darlinge
dweleth it being the house of Daniell Kinge
sen of Lyne.

5 ffrom ye midst of wh said house it being
Mutually agreed upon to be ye standinge
bounds ye Line is to Run straight vnto the
bounds by the sea side where is a stake with
a heape of stone about it all which aforesaid
bounds being Mutually agreed vpon and set-
led to be the standinge bounds betweene the
Towns aforesaid by vs who haue hear unto
subscribed.

ffor Salem

Willm Flinte Samuel Gardner
Jno Pickeringe

ffor Line

Allen Bread Andrew Mansfield

Geo ffuller Will Basset

1881669 The highe way laid out at
the heade of Cow-house Riur:
To be Continued.

GLEANINGS ESSEX CO. PROBATE
FILES.

BOSTON )

, Decerabr. 6th 1703. >

MRS. MARY ALLEN

I have desired Mr William
Gedney to receive of you the balance due to
me being 15.. 16.. 4 the which please to pay
him, and take his receit for the same, And as
soon as he sends me the money I will send
you the bills of Lading with my receit on them
In full of all Acco'ts betwixt us. When you
sent me the bill on my father for 14. .16. .2
you said you would have then paid me all,
but desired I would stay 'till a vessel arrived
from oPo : Since That one Skinner has been
arrived from thence Some time, so hope you
have nothing further to say to keep me out of
my money any Longer Indeed Its high time
It were paid, for the 3d year is now coming
on Since I have been out of my money & the
next week I shall be going hence with the
Mast Ships for Engl'd & am desirous to have
this troublesome business issued before I go.
If you have any Service for Engl'd I will
serve you in anything I can. I am with
Tend'r of my best Respects Mad'm

Y'r Very Humble Serv'tt

JONATH'N BELCHER.

On the back of the letter is the following :

Boston 28 May 1705. Then receiv'd of
Mr Wm. Gedney Adm'r to the Estate of
Benj'a Allen Late of Salem deceas'd fifteen
pounds Sixteen shillings 4d being in full of
all demands & acco'tts from the sd Allen's
Estate to Jona Belcher. I say receiv'd as
Attorney to sd Belcher pr. Andr. Belcher.

275

HALE MEMORANDA.

Continued from Vol. 5, page 235.

Over the latter pages of Col. Hale's Rec-
ord are scattered miscellaneous memoranda,
which with few exceptions are useful only in
determining the existence or residence of cer-
tain persons in the town at the dates men-
tioned. Such facts are sometimes of value to
the genealogist or statistician, and for that rea-
son these are here preserved.
Widows of:

Dea. Trask, Eb. Lovett, Jr. Dec. 21, 1760-
98. Tho. Lovett, Barth'o Pert, Josiah White,
Tho. Malcoy.

* Persons now living in the Parish who

have had the Small Pox Feb 19

1752.

1 Biles Elizabeth

2 Bradford Simon moved

3 Butman Math moved

4 Cleaves Lieut Jno's Wife

5 Cole Saml

6 his wife

7 " child

8 Cox Ebenr moved

9 " Edw

10 " Thos

11 Clark Jon a

12 ? Wid Hannah

13 and one

14 }

15 /-her 3 children
16)

18 Davis Capt Tho

19 Dodge Do. Jos

20 Ellinwood Ebenr

21 " Joshua

* Many of these are marked by a line drawn
across them, probably at a later period, to imply
decease or removal.

22 Ellis Wid Sara

23 " Richd

24 Groves's Peter Widow

25 Hale* Mr.

26 Harts Capt Jona

27 Herrick Andr

28 Hull Isaac's wife

29 Kerry Tho

30 Lovett Wm's widow

31 " Grace Ashbye

32 " Israel

33 Martin Wid Mary

34 Ober Wid Anna

35 Picket Anna

36 Patch Wid of Tho

37 her child

38 Roundy Benj Jr

39 Stanley Timo

40 " Bethiah

41 Stephens John

42 Sallowes Robt

43 Trask Benj

44 " Osman

45 " Wid of Edwd

46 " Jane

47 " Preeborn

48 " ? ? Wife

49 " Deacon's Son

50 Tuck Wm's Wife

51 ? Nath's "

52 Williams Dan Jr

53 his son

54 Woodberry Capt Andr

55 Nicholas

56 Jno Kennedy

57 Rose

58 Adam

59 Jupiter

60 Maria

*Mrs?

276

Nath Howard

Eliot

Benj

> West Indies

Wid Herrick

" Andr Ellinwd Jr
Nathan Leech's wife & her sisters
Wm Bartlett
Jno Harman
? Groves

Englishmen remaining 1739 5.

1 Geo Trow

2 John Martin

3 Benj Rutland

4 John Stephens 1745-1

5 Geo Hull

6 Jona Mckenny 1745-65

7 Henry Herring 1743-6

8 Jno Mullen

Men in this Parish older yn H. H.

Aug 1 1739
Ashby Ebenezer
Biles Richard
" William
Bisson Joshua

" Jr
" John
Black Nathl
Blashfield Henry
Bradford John
Balch Deacon Benj
10 Butman Saml
" Jeremy
" Edward moved
Balch Caleb App: ye Par :
Bond Edward moved
James Chapman
Clark Saml moved
" Nath
" Caleb
" Joshua moved
20 Cleaves John
" Willra

Ebenr
' Benjn
Cole Jona

" Joseph ) moved
Connant Jona j retd
Cox Richard
Dodge Willm Deacon

" Joseph
30 " Noah movd
Eliot Andrew

" Jno

Ellinwood Ralph
" David
Ellis Thomas
36 Foster Joseph
Gage Moses
Giles Eleazr
Gray Isaac
40 Grover Wm
Groves Peter
Groves John
Harris Jona
" Saml
Hathan Hezek
Herrick Henry

" Jr
" Joshua
Hewit

50 " George
Hill Zebulon
Hull George

" Isaac
Haskoll Capt.
Kemball Ebenr. movd.
Larkum Cornelius
' ' Daniel
Joseph
David

60 Lovett Simon
" Ebenr.
" John
" Benj

277

" William
" Benj Jr.
Martin John

" Jr

Mckenny Jona
Morgan Robt.
Mullen Jno
Morgan Joseph
70 " John
Ober John
" Hezekiah
" Samuel movd
Pierce George
Picket Jo.
Pitman Abiel movd
retd again
Preston Nehem.
Pride Peter
Prince Jno
80 Preston Randall
Patch William
" Thomas

" James Aug. 1 1739 133
" Richard

Rutland Benjn " 1743 118. 5?
Roundy " " 1745. 102
Sallowes Thos

" Robt " 1740 103
Standly John Feb 27 1746 97
90 " Joseph D. 10 1747 91

" William 1748. 87
Stephens John
Stone Nath come into town
" Josiah Henry Herring
" Saml.
' ' Robert
" Nehem.

Smith Samuel Slue Leonard
100 " Nehem June 7 1750. 78

" Jonathan Feb. 15 1752 69
Thistle Richard July 25 1754. 59

Thorndike Capt John

" Paul Feb 3 1756 51
" Herbert Dec 3 1757 50
" John Jr Apl 20 1760. 40
Taylor James " 15, 1765 34

Tuck John

" William

110" George Geo Jr
Trow Geo. and Wm.
Trask Benjn
" Saml.

" Joseph Deacon
Wood Israel
Wood Anthony
Williams John
Nath

Nath Roberts
Danl.

John Mora
120 " Jona movd

Mingo
Samll 133
Wallis Nath
" Danl
Woodberry Robt Capt

" Jr

" Richard
" William movd
Andrew Capt
Jonathan
130 " Isaac

Widowers fy Widows in ye 1st Parish

of Beverly.
August 1 1734 11
" 1 1735 10
Nov 15 1735 8
Aug 1 1736 10
" " 1737 16

1 Joshua Bisson born Feb 1654

2 Ralph Ellinwood

3 John Lovett

278

4 Simon Lovetfc

5 Thomas Sallowcs Mch 28 1747

6 John Standley Feb 1758

7 James Meecham
8*R, H. Dec. 21, 1737

9 Isaac Gray Apr 13 1738

10 Wm Dodge Jun

11 Hezekiah Hatlian

12 Richard Coye

13 Josiah Woodberry 3d

14 Andrew Eliot

15 Herbert Thorndike

16 Jno Martin

Decembr 10 1737 16

Leonard Slue Aug 1 1738 13

Tho Hardee

Natha Stone May 10 1738 15

Josi Woodberry 3d

Jno Bradford

Capt Herrick

Aug 1 1739 14
Gco Hull

James Chapman marryd
Benj Standley

Nath Blacke Jr Ap 10 1740
Henry Blashfield Nov 14
Josha Bisson Jr
Benj Rutland
Ezra Chapman
Neh Presson
Ens. John Balch Nov 26 1743 16

Dec 10 1743 14
Wm Pert movd

Math Coye ) XT -, n .

Richd Patch j Nov10 ' 1744 12

Lt Andr Balch Nov 4 1745 12
Rd Biles

*Col. Hale md 2dly Elizabeth, dan. of Hon. John
Clarke of Boston, Dec 21, 1737. Memoir of Col.
Hale in Stone's History of Beverly.

Joseph Corning mard n. 1746
10 Dec 10 1746

Peter Grove
Moses Gage
Capt Herrick
Benj Roundey
Andr Eliot

10 D 1747 12

Jno Morgan Jr marryd

Robt Roundy md

Rd Hood

Danl Bacheller md

Wm Grover D 10 1749 10

Robt Roundy marryd

Osman Traske "

Jno Thornd Jr "

David Larkum "

Danl Williams "

Cornels Woodberry marryd

Benj Roundy "

Eben Cox movd

Jno Mullen Dec 10 1750 14

Eb Ashbye mar.
Benj Stanley
Robt Sallowes
Peter Pride mard
Jona Harris

Dec 10, 175110

Wm Stanley M

James Patch Jr

Tho Kerry M

Tho Mors May 25 1753 10 M

Benj Roundy M 10 July 25 1754

Wm Taylor mar

Capt Isaac Woodberry

Danl Dodge M Dec 21 1755 9

Benja Smith mar

Joseph Stone "

279

Jo Larkum

Saml Foster md Dec 4 1757 8

Andr Boin mar

Jno Lovett 2d mar

Andr Lovett mard Dec 21 1758. 6.

Jon Stone (jr?)

Jona Woodberry

Wm Biles

Sam Woodberry (

Ed Stanley

Joseph Williams

Nath

Jonah Dodge

Dan Wallis

Nath '

Sam Goodrich

Isaac Hull

_,,

Bffl > lT. f

>u or a

.ioilitl mi

fx)oll

Widows in Beverly.
Aug 1 1734 50

" " 1735 60
Novl5 " 35
Aug 1 1736 51

" " 1737 51

etnsrHiW

eforr

Widow of

1 Ashbye Edmd

2 " James

3 Balch Deacon

4 Biles John

5 " Nicho

6 Clark Wm

7 Corning John

8 " Samll inovd

9 Dodge Ebenr

10 Dike Benja

11 Ellinwood Benjamin movd

12 " John

13 Ellitharp John mard

14 Elliot Wra.

15 Hale Henry mard

16 Haskoll Wm

17 Larkum Thos

18 Leach Wm

19 Lovett Thomas marryd

20 Lucas Nicho "

21 Lynch Eugene "

22 Morgan Luke " & *

23 " Zebulon "

24 Ober Israel "

25 Richd Senr

26 " Samuel '~ : *.'''

27 Patch Benja

28 " John

29 " Robert

30 Picket Elias

31 Preston Wm

32 Kayment Capt. Wm

33 Eoundey Eobert aet 83

34 Eayment Barnabas mard

35 Sallowes Thos Jr " : /< VJ

36 Smith Hazadiah

37 Stone John

38 " Jonathan

39 Thistle Ebenr mard

40 Trow Eichd '>*"

41 Taylor James Nov 28 1748 .

42 West Capt Thomas

43 " John mard.

44 Willard Jacob

45 Williams John Sen.

46 Woodberry Benja movd

47 " Ebenr

48 " Deacon Peter

49 Pilott Wm

50 " William at yc Stopgate

Decembr 10 1737 50

Widow of
Benj Maxwell
Tho Cole

Bartho Brown's mother
Danl Clark
Bartho Allen of Manchr

280

Edw Trask

May 10 1738 53 Aug 1 1738 52

Tho Cox movd

Lieut Balch

59 Israel Lovett

60 William Stone

61 Paul Thorndike Jr mar

62 Hez Ober Jr

Josiah Foster Ap 15 1740
Jno Leech movd
Jo Leech mard
Dd Standley 57 Aug 1 1739
Hez Ober
Josh a Guppy raovd
Eleazr Giles "Jan 25 1748
Benja Lovett mard
Zeb Hill movd
Moses Presson mard
Jo Morgan mard
Benj? Rutland?
Paul Thorndike
Wm Patch mard
Capt Ellis
77 Brack Patch Nov 26 1743-44

? ? Jr moved

Benja Browns Mother Dec 10 1743

Andr Eliot Jr 47
Randal Preston
Saml Smith
Jno Ober at Methuen
John Groves
John Presson?
Jo Sallowes
Peter Pride
Jno Coye

87 Isa? Eliot Nov 10 1744-50
Ezech Hayward marrd
Deac Raymond
Jno West

Sam Stone 0ct 1 1745
Jona Harris Jr 50
93 GeoGray Oct 4 1748
Benj Harvey
James Patch Jr
Jona El well Dec 10 1745

Wm Trow

Jno Presson

Bd Butman

Eleazr Giles Jr mard

Geo Pierce

Jno. Grover mard

Danl? Trask "

Hezk Thornd Jr mard

Benj Brown

Danll Herrick

Josiah Woodberry

William Wales marryd

Capt .Robert Woodberry

Nath Williams Jr mard

Abner Chapman movd

Abr Johnson

Ezra Woodberry

Rev Mr Blowers

Edwd Ashbye
60 Dec 10 1746

Et88

died at Boston
Jan 10 1758

William Eliot Jr
Sarall Martin

62 Dec 10 1746

m Bonj Haskell

63 Dec 10 1746

Deacon Dodge

Cornelius Larknm

Tho Patch Jr

Robt Stone

Wid Eliza*

Jona McKenny raard

63 D 10 1747

* Sears ? Soams ?

281

Feb 12 1747-8 this day there are 7 wid-
ows to one Widower in this Parish
63 W. 9 Widowers.

Widow of
Mingo

Jer Butman Jr mard
Jona Herrick "
Sam Thorndike "
Benja Clark
Geo Trow
Jona Conant
Jno Prince
Dea Balch
Danl Larkum
Rob Woodberry

Jan 10 1750. 62

}'
i

I
oi>

Jo Foster

Jo Morgan mar

Jona Thorndike mar

Paul

Wm Tuck Jr

Dec 10 1750, 63

J Rea * Sep 6 1751
Samll Trask.
Elisha Woodb.
Jno Bradford
Richd Woodberry
Jno Eliot
Nath Roberts jr
Jona Smith
Neh. "
Danl Bacheller
Tho Woodberry
Sam Butman
Nicho Patch mard
Titus (Stanley)?
James Taylor

Dec 10 1751. 63

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Wid of Timo Patch of Wenham
David Corning
collnel John Gilman
James Trask mard

Feb. 29 1752 66

(38a)

Zeb Allen
Ebenr Kemball

Mch 1 1752 71 Widows & Widowers

Widow of
Wm Haskel
Rd Thistle
Tho Symonds
Edw Trask Jr
Jno Morgan
Benj? Roundey mard
Benj Trask

69. May 27 1753
Josi Woodberry 2d
Lieut Jno Cleaves
Jamee Smith
Obed Woodberry
Jno Williams

Jno. (torn)
Danl Herrick

71 July (torn)
Ralph Ellinwood
Jno Stone mard
Ambr Cleaves
Geo Gallop
Peter Groves
Jo Foster jr
Nicho Biles jr
Benj Harris
Corn Larkum mard
Tho Butman
Wm Eliot jr

Jno's Son ?
Cap Herrick
Wm Cleaves

73 Feb. 9 1756
Joseph Dodge
Michel Woodberry
Wm Lovet
Matthew French mar
Dan Dodge movd
Timo Stanley 81 Aug 7 1756.
Benj Eliot
Saml Woodberry
Rob Matthews
Andr Woodberry 2d
Capt Andr "

James Gordon 77 Dec 1757
Benj Ives movd

282

Sam Harris
Danl Williams

Thorndike Dec 1758. 76

Day?

Eliot 3d movd

Blashfield

Batcheller movd

Woodberry

Josi Davison movd
Tho Cox
Zacha Morgan
Jno Presson

Dec 21 1759 84
Nath Black

Jno Mansfield
Peter Groves Jr

Wm Vannen
Isaac Gray
Capt John Thorndiko

Jno Trask
D Larkum Jr
Dea Jos Wood
capt Wm Bartlett

Andr Ellinw.
Jno Groves
Andr Ellinwood Jr
Eb. Cleaves
Jona Foster
Andr Stanly
Sam Mors

Jo Edwards of wenhain
Wm Aborn?
Jno Bread?
Dea Trask
Eb Lovett
Jno Lovett

Josi? White
Thorn. Malcoy.

The above manuscript has been marked and
re-marked with dates, lines and crosses or stars,
evidently at subsequent periods, to which there
is no known clue. Whether the crosses (of
which a few are inserted above) denoted death,
may be perhaps ascertained by comparison
with the known dates of deaths.

ERRATA.

In the materials for a Genealogy of the Ward Fam-
ily in Salem, published in the last No., in the sixteenth
line, for Alice read Alee. And on page 210, Samuel
Curwen Ward (58) die*j817, not 1816.

And on page 213, Ann Elizabeth Ward ^136) married
1851, not 1815.

Vol. 5. page 203, 1st column, last line but one, Also
should be Also, i. e. Alice.

Vol. 5, page 203, 2d column, line 18 from bottom, for
1788, read 1688.

Vol. 5. page 204, 2nd column, lines 8 to 13, repeated
from preceding column.

Vol. 5, page 206, 2nd column, line 2, for 1767 read
1707.

Vol. 5, page 220, 1st column, line 3, should not fearmes
read tearmes? and at line 26, should not Herson read
ffersou ?

Vol. 5, page 222, 1st column, line 14 from bottom,
" & " should be before Lawrence instead of after.

Vol. 6, page 226, 2nd column, line 20 from bottom,
left should be lost.

Vol. 5, page 227, 1st column, line 9, Jotha should be
Josia.

Vol. 5, page 173, 2nd column, line 10, Mr Lewis fur-
nishes Isaac born 15th April 1644, when the church rec-
ords prove that he was baptized on 14th of that month,
which was Sunday, the proper time.

Vol. 5, page 155, 2d column, llth line from the top
for 1736 read 1739.

Vol. 5, page 156, 2d column, 5th line from the top
for sixth, read twenty sixth.

Vol. 5, page 162, 2d column, 16th line from the top,
for Jeritt, read Jenitt.

Vol. 5, page 163, 2d column, 19th line from the top,
for Lurne read Lume.

Vol. 5, page 165. 2d column, 5th line from the top,

apply Lambert after Thomas.
Vol. 5,

page 203, 1st column, 2d line from bottom,
for Also! read Alse.

Vol. 5, page 205, 1st column, 3d line from bottom,
for 1684, read 1694.

Vol. 5, page 205, 2d column, 12th line from bottom,
for Elizabeth read Elizabeth

Vol. 5, page 205, 1st column, 1st line from top, for
Flizabeth, read Elizabeth.

Vol. 5, page 174, 1st column, line 22, the death of Sar-
ah widow of Joseph Breed, 2nd April, 1752, and age
accouted 88 yrs ten mos. 17 days; but as she was born
15th June, 1664. it should be nine mos., i. e., 15th Mar.
before the death completed the 9 mos., not 10 mos.,
without regard to the change from Old style to New
style, which began in Sept. 1752.

J. S.

Page 209, 2d column, line 23 from top, for 1781 read
1801.

Page 209, 2d column, line 25, from top for 1816 read
1810.*

* " Dec. 29, 1810. died Mary, w. of Capt. Benjamin
Ward of fever, aged 61. Age at marriage 26. In mar-
riage with 1st husband 19 years; with 2nd, 9; no chil-
dren left. Dau. of Paul Farmer, of Boston, Keeper
of the Town Alms house, married Capt. W. Carlton
1776 4- Capt. B. Ward 1801, second wife to both. She
was a worthy woman & most intimate in our family.
Her only brother Thomas in New York. Essex St.
opp. Daniel St." Bentley. E. S. w.

283

INDEX OF 1 DSTAMES.

Abbot, 94, 130, 181, 233, 245, Blaney, 47. Bassett, 4, 113, 142, 239, 274. Blano, 173.

246,255,256. Avcrill, 43. Batchelder, 196, 241. Blasdall, 156.

Abbott, 215. Ayer,43. - Batcheldr, 19, 24, 45. Blasdel, 128, 136.

Abby, 172, 220. Aynesworth, 35. Batcheller, 94, 95, 168, 264, Blashfield, 21, 23, 276, 278.

Aborn, 228, 229, 231, 232. Ayre, 94. 282. Blaskfield, 282.

Abott, 162. Bab, 48. Batchellor, 269. Bligh, 173.

Abys, 220. Babb, 48. Bater, 270. Blowers, 24, 280.

Acce, 165. Babbage, 192. Bates, 248, 249. Blunt, 94.

Acey, 43. Babbldge, 149, 198. 209, 21 1, Batter, 25, 28, 169, 208, 219, Ely, 173.

Achers, 142, 251. 222, 223, 225, 226, 227, 268. Blyall, 143.

Adams, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 55, Babcock, 41, 120. 269, 271, 272, 273. Blye, 239.

85,86,102,168,198,210. Babson, 35. Baxter, 221. Blyth, 130.
Addams, 87, 88, 89, 91, 134, Bacheller, 95, 222, 231, 234, Bayley, 90. 91, 136, 139, 153, Boardman, 37.

137. 278,281. 154,204,261. Boden, 131.

Addington, 45. Bach ellor, 168. Bayleyes, 268. Bodwell, 216,

Agur, 45. Bacon, 50, 54, 131, 183, 226 Baylie, 265. Bogardus, 100.

Alden, 1,3,4.7. 227,251. Baylies, 226. Bold, 231.

Alexander, 260. Bagley, 50, 94. Baylly, 173. Boin, 232, 234, 279,

Alford, 220, 264, 267. Bailey, 3, 5, 6. Bayly, 167, 221. Bointon, 203, 204.

Aline, 164. Baker, 17, 18, 19, 20, 64, 92, Beadle, 47. Bond, 17. 59, 225, 248, 276.

Allar, 1. 96, 129, 157, 173, 189, 232, Beale, 46,47, 173. Bonfield, 46.

Allen, 24, 43, 59, 94, 102, 214, 238,257. Bean, 23. Bonigh ton, 187,188.

231,274,279,281. Balch, 21, 23, 94, 166, 169, Beaumont, 169. Boonne, 172.

Alley, 173, 178. 170, 175, 276, 278, 279, 280, Bebb, 114. Booth, 189.

Allin, 47, 92, 172. 281 . Becket, 18, 26, 198. Bott, 130, 21 1, 252.

Ailing, 163. Balche,18,21. Beckett, 247,251. Bouchovare, 234.

Ally, 172, 173. Baldwin, 63, 64, 66, 67, 198, Beckford, 236, 254. Boutwell, 228.

Ames, 169. 202,252. Belcher, 274. Bornd, 266.

Andr?, 282. Balee, 166. Belknap, 175. Bowden, 47.

Andre, 109, 112. Baley, 10, 11, 16, 85, 133, 161, Bell, 102, 195, 215, 254. Bowdiske, 172.

Andrew, 28, 38, 130. 203,206. Bemus, 129. Bowie, 235.

Andrews, 80, 131. 202. Balie, 162. Benit, 165, 261. Bowles, 129, 252.

Andros, 258. Ball, 127, 129, 245. Bennett, 12, 46, 47, 85. Bowman, 129, 211.

Annable, 129. Ballard. 48, 94, 174, 237, 238. Bennitt, 14, 15, 260. Boyce, 130.

Antrum,226. Bailey, 15. Benson, 1, 235. Boyn ton, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14,

Antrvm, 266. Bailie, 165. Bentley, 148, 150, 151, 195, 16, 84, 87, 90, 91, 132, 133,

Apelton, 173. Bally, 164, 165. 197. 198, 236, 249, 252, 253. 135, 136, 137, 138, 141, 142,

Apleton,l73. Bancraft, 240. Beny. 115. 155,156,162,163,164,205,

Appleton, 93, 141,211. Bancroft, 129, 150, 178, 183,Bukeley, 189. 206, 260, 262.

Applton, 164. 184.200,228,229,230. Bernard, 33, 51. Boys, 221.

Archard, 222, 223. Banister, 3. Beuy, 173. Brackenbury, 169, 222.

Archbold, 54, 59. Banks, 118. Besse, 189. Brackett, 247, 248.

Archer, 11, 12,28, 29,38, 146, Bant, 120. Beuchamp, 172. Bradbridge, 178.

197, 209, 222. Barber, 256, 266. Bigelow. 99, 107, 122, 126, 128, Bradford, 21, 24, 74, 78, 95,

Archimedes, 48. Barker, 11, 12,13,29, 86, 152, 129,202,250. 120,234,275.276,278,281.

Argal, 186. 153, 155, 161, 164, 165, 203, Biles, 17, 19, 20, 22, 23,94, 143, Bradley, 43,64, 129.

Armitage, 172. 204, 205, 206, 213, 218, 251, 144, 232. 234. 275, 276, 278, Bradstreet, 42, 93, 94, 133.

Armstrong, 5, 245. 261. . 279,281. Brapstreett, 10.

Arnaudin, 17. Barlow, 189. Bill, 129. Braithwaite, 249.

Arnold, 100, 103, 109. Barnard, 42. Bingham, 42. Brakenberie, 269.

Ashby, 21, 234. 251, 276. , Barnes, 126, 249. Bircham, 265. Bray, 54.
Ashbye. 22, 23, 95, 96, 278, Barney, 169, 223, 227, 264, Bishop, 53, 168, 171,221,222, Brazil, 236.

279, 280. 266, 267, 268, 271. 223, 227, 269, 270. Bread, 173, 174, 274, 282.

Ashley, 129. Barr, 130, 212, 213, 216, 236. Bishope, 189. Breadcake, 257.

Ashton,130. Barrett, 40. Bisson. 19, 20, 21, 95, 143, 234, Breed, 48, 174.

Aslebey, 44. Barrit, 138. 276. 277, 278. Brett, 265.

Aspinwall,41. Barrowe, 180. Black. 20,21, 232, 276, 282. Brew, 232.

Atherton, 216. Bartholomew, 168, 171, 192, Blackfield, 18, 231, 232. Brewer, 3, 114.

Atkins, 40,235. 220, 221, 223, 225, 226, 227, Blackleech, 219, 227, 265. Briant, 236.

Atkinson, 213. 263.264,265,266,272. Blackler, 54, 236. Brickett, 113.

Atwater, 34. Bartlett, 25, 43,46, 47, 64, Blackman, 34. Bridges, 9, 11, 13, 14, 85,

Atwell, 215. 96, 232, 233, 276, 282. Blair, 236. 113, 114, 236.

Augur, 45. Barton, 224. Blake, 42, 278. Bridgman, 225.

Austin, 130. Base, 208. Blanchard, 3, 40. Bridges, 90.

284

Briggs, 194, 210, 247,251.
ght,

Campbell, 211,

Bright, 78. Cannon, 44,

Brimmer, 120. Canterbury, 46.

Broadstreets, 42, 45 Card, 236.

Brockelbanke, 10. 14, 15, Carey, 120.

87, 88, 164. Carleton, 209.

Brocklbank. 163, 164. Carlton. 26. 213, 282.

Brocklebank, 89, 90, 133, Carpenter, 29, 87.

155. Carr, 91,92.

Broodstreet, 12. Carroll 236.

Brookhouse, %49. Carver, 73, 74, 78.

Brooks, 112, 113, 115, 131, Carwick, 212.

192. Gary, 125.

Broughton, 54, 55, 58, 131, Cash, 25.

236. Caswell, 236.

Brown, 12, 14, 21, 23, 43,59, Cate, 213.

85,89, 124, 129, 133, 145 , Cave, 241, 242.

148, 154, 203, 234, 239, 240, Cavenaugh, 234.

249. 253, 279,280. Cecil, 182.

Browne, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, Chadbourne, 215.

43, 77, 78, 84, 93, 143, 166, Chadwell, 140, 141.

169, 197, 198, 202, 203, 204, Chamberlain, 130, 252.

205, 209, 219, 235, 247, 250, Chambeis, 228.

263, 264, 266, 268, 271, 273. Champney, 16, 17, 18, 41.

119, 168.

Brownin
Bruer, 23i
Bruzer, 249.
Bryan, 169.
Bryant, 94.
Bubier, 54, 59.
Buchan, 213.
Buchanan, 213.
Buckingham, 249.
Bullard, 2.
Bui finch, 172.
Bullinger. 179.
Bullock, 172.
Bundel, 252.
Bunker, 217.
Bunn, 241.

Burba nk. 58, 163,205.
Burbee, 206.
Burbey, 206.

Burehmore, 130, 131,214.
Burdett, 190.

Burgoyne, 53, 97, 98, 100, Childs, 4.
101, 102, 103. 104, 105, 106, Chinn.236.

Chandler, 211, 213, 214, 273.
Channing, 40, 41.
Chapin, 2-3, 129.
Chapleman, 22.
Chaplin, 154, 161, 162, 163.

206, 263.
Chapline, 163.
Chapman, 21, 22, 133. 134,

138, 165, 261, 276, 278, 280.
Charles I (King) 81, 186.

188.

Charles, V. (King) 31.
Charnock, 249.
Chase, 30, 199,230,254.
Chastellux (Marquis) 109.
Chatfield, 34.
Cheever, 28, 46, 130, 212,

236, 237.
Cheney, 45. 143
Chickering, 169.
Chickeryngs, 168.

Colburn.48,157. Cummings, 242.

Colby, 142. Currier, 93, 94, 249.

Cole, 21, 94, 95, 129, 143. 226, Curtis, 222, 236.

234,272,276,276.279. Curwen. 207, 208,210, 212,

Coles, 249. 213, 216.

Collins, 43, 44, 46, 172, 207, Gushing, 41. 129. 210, 213.

216, 238, 240, 263. Cutler, 28, 197, 211.

Collyer, 54. Gutter, 45.

Golman, 37, 121. Cvrtis, 226.

Colton, 114.

Comins, 269. Dabney, 198.

Conant, 16, 18, 20, 48. 78, Daggit. 46, 125.

83, 84, 94, 95, 166, 167, 168, Daland, 130.

169, 170, 222, 227, 231, 255, Daliber, 169.

281. Dana, 128.

Concklyn, 167. Dane, 240.

Gonclyn, 168, 170, 219, 224. Danferd, 154.
Coney, 27. Danielson, 114.

Connant, 263, 264, 265, 266, Darby, 240.

268, 269, 270, 276. Darley, 249.

Connaught, 169. Darlin, 229.

Convers, 169, 170, 219. Darline, 230.

Cook, 48, 130, 236. 252. Darlinge, 274.

Gooke, 168, 219, 227. D'Aulany, 186.

Coombs, 45. Daunport, 170, 172.

Cooper. 40, 134, 136, 140, Davenishe, 167.

154, 156, 164, 204. Davenport, 48, 171.

Corey, 226. Davidson, 3, 213.

Cornell, 121,125. Davies, 185.

Corney, 220. 266. Davis, 17, 20, 29, 95,115, 129,

Cornhill, 170. 141, 143, 157, 158, 173, 231,

Corning, 16, 17, 18. 20. 21, 234, 235, 242, 274.

22, 23, 24, 95, 96, 278, 279, Davison, 282.

281. Day, 47, 231, 282.

Cornwallis, 68, 148, Dean, 211, 214, 252.

Corwin, 29, 36, 222, 225, 226, Deane, 128.

227, 264, 265, 266, 268, 269, Decker, 205.

Chipaan, 30, 130, 159,212,

209.

Church, 114.
Chute, 14, 86, 87, 89, 141.
Clapp, 3, 5.

Ulark, 16, 17, 19, 20, 21. 24,
29, 43, 54, 59, 94, 125, 132,
143, 151, 158, 203, 200. 222,
275, 276,279,281.

Burpee, 90,91, 133, 134, 135, Clarke, 10, 14, 15, 37, 40, 87,
136, 154, 156. 130, 141, 162, 163, 219,225,

Burr. 119. 226,278.

Burrill, 174, 208,210.215, 237. Cleaves, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 23,
Burt, 16. 24, 94.' 96, 143, 144, 231,

Buswell, 92. 275, 276,281,282-

Butler. 7, 8. Cleeves, 138.

Butman, 16, 19,20, 22, 23, Clement, 7, 16, 18, 21.
24, 94, 95, 143, 275, 276, Clerk, 22.

112.126.

Burkbee, 162, 163.
Burke, 86, 146, 196,241.
Burleigh, 182, 183.
Burley, 252.
Burnet, 250.
Burnham, 1,3,7. 131.
Burpe, 85, 86. 87, 88, 89,

154, 261.

270, 271, 273.
Corwine, 271, 272, 273.
Corwyn, 223, 224.
Corsey, 47.
Corsy, 47.
Cortes, 263.
Cose, 282.
Cotta, 35, 222, 266.
Gotten, 92, 93.
Cotton, 51, 52, 93, 155.
Courtis, 64, 59, 66.
Courtlandt, 100.
Covell,129.
CoweH, 132.
Cowen, 214.
Cox, 19, 20, 21, 23, 95,96,

144, 181, 232, 233, 275, 276,

278, 280.

Deland, 235.

De La Tour, 186.

Delaware, 189.

Dennis, 24, 130.

Derby, 26, 47, 166, 194, 198,
219, 250, 254. 258, 263.

Derwerkin, 100.

Deute, 91.

Devenishe, 171.

Devereaux, 54.

Dewing, 130.

Dicconson, 169.

Dickenson, 224, 266.

Dickerson, 167.

Dickinson, 9, 89, 90, 132, 134,
140, 142, 152, 153, 156, 157,
162, 163, 204, 205, 206, 262.

Dike, 24, 167, 279.

Coye, 17, 19, 20, 22, 234, 278, Dill, 167.

280. Dil worth, 151.

Cradock, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 83. Dimon, 16, 148, 197, 202.

280, 281.
Butterfleld, 94.
Buttolph, 47, 96, 209, 212.
Buttons, 221.
Buxton, 4, 170.
Buyis, 238.
Buffuin, 225.
Bullock, 225.

Cleveland, 40, 41.

Clifford, 2.37.

Clinton, 9,53, 61, 97, 117.

Clough. 4, 143.

Cloutman, 130.

Coates, 141, 142.

Cobwin, 102.

Gochran, 40.

Codman, 222.
Cabot, 29, 31, 36, 37, 38, 39, Coffin, 43.

40, 42, 130. Cogswell, 129.

Caldwsll, 141. Goker, 141.

Oalley, 236. Colbeck, 55.

Cradocke, 83

Gratis, 120.

Grain, 120.

Crane, 121, 122, 124, 125.

Cranmer, 184.

Crediford. 211.

Greecy, 91, 132, 138, 139, 140.

Creesey, 207.

Crocker, 159. 160.

Dixey, 226, 267.

Dixie, 221, 222.

Dobbs, 117.

Dodd, 236.

Dodg, 227, "263, 265, 266, 269.

Dodge, 23, 35, 39, 95. 96, 130,
144, 169, 170, 222, 227, 232,
233, 234, 275, 276, 278, 279,
280, 281.

Crofts, 182, 184. Dole, 14, 43, 84, 89, 138.

Croinbie, 211. Dolliver, 35.

Cromwell, 25, 34, 180, 186, Donald. 110.

226.

Crosbe, 164.

Crosbee, 163, 165, 203, 205.
Crosby, 95.
Cross, 40, 236.
Grossman, 129.
Crowell, 199.
Crowninshield, 26, 149, 150, Drake, 32.

197, 199, 251, 259. Draper, 171.

.LSVSliaiU. J.JL.U.

Doolittle, 114.
Dorr, 218.
Douglass, 249.
Dounten,45, 47,48.
Dow, 129.

Downing. 139, 172, 225, 227,
235, 264, 265, 266, 270.

285

Dresser, 9, 10, 11, 13, 138,
139,154, 165,166,157,158,
162,165,166,204,206, 263.

Drew, 129.

Dudlys, 272.

Dunell, 12.

Dunlap, 199.

Durkee, 63, 64.

Durwener, 43.

Dutey, 86, 87.

Dye, 187.

Dyer, 119, 121.

Dykes, 249.

Dyson, 242.

Eaborne, 253.

Eastman, 43, 143,

Eaton, 130, 211, 214, 228, 229,
230, 240.

Ebron, 267.

Edes, 32.

Edgcomb, 188.

Edson, 171, 220.

Ed ward, (King) 181, 184.

Edwards, 219, 265, 282.

Egleston, 129.

Ellenwood, 17, 19, 24, 94.

Blderkin, ,118.

Elerse, 43.

Eliot, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 22,
23, 24, 32, 94, 95, 96, 143,

144.231.234, 278,281.282.
Elithorpe, 142,206.
Elizabeth (Queen,) 181, 186.
Elkins, 92, 148, 197, 210, 213.
Ellice, 22,

Ellinw.. 233, 276. 282.
Ellinwood, 16, 17, 19, 20,22,
23,94,95,143,144,231,232,

233.234.235. 275, 276,277,
279,281,282.

Elliot, 44, 236,276, 279, 280,

281.
Ellis, 19, 22, 94. 95, 275, 276,

280.

Ellitbrap, 20,279.
Ellithrop, 204.
Ellitrap, 19.
Ellsworth, 13, 89, 133, 261,

262.

Elson, 167.
Elsworth, 12, 14, 15, 86, 89,

133,203.261.
Elsye,222.
Elwell, 23, 24, 43, 47, 144,

280.

Emerie, 226, 266, 268.
Emery, 129, 142, 170,172.
Emison. 135.
Emmerton, 209.
Endicott, 51, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77,

78, 79, 80, 81,82, 83, 84, 147,

166, 167, 168, 169, 170, 171,

172,216, 219, 220, 221, 224,

255, 258, 273.
Engles, 3.
English, 6, 192.
Epes, 37.
Epps, 92, 93, 272.
Esty, 169.
Eustace, 29.
Evans, 122,123,271.
Evelyn, 31.
Everett, 245.
Fabens, 30.
Farless, 215.
Farmer, 209.
Farnold, 5.
Farrington, 212.
Farrow, 119.

Febegree, 7, 8.

Fellows, 114.

Felt, 15, 29, 34, 35,' 51, 73,

82, 83, 129. 130, 159. 167,

169, 248, 254, 255.
Felton, 48.
Fenno, 122.
Ferguson, 44.
Ffairfteld, 168.
Ffarrington, 174.
Ffield, 171.
Ffellows, 267.
Ffelton, 169, 224, 265, 270,
Fflske, 166, 168, 170.
Flogg, 170, 220, 2-22.
Ffreinds, 220.
Ffuller, 221, 274.
Field, 129.
Finley, 1, 129.
Finson, 158.
Fish, 129.

Fiske, 26, 45, 129, 130.
Fitch, 148, 197.
Flagg, 107, 124, 129, 130.
Flint, 28, 192, 207,236, 273,

274.

Flowers, 118. 119
Pollen, 40.
Folson, 113.
Foot. 42.
Foote, 207.
Fopester, 130.
Fosdick, 59, 60, 70, 107, 122,

128, 131.
Foster, 3, 11, 18, 21, 32,39,

44, 59, 95, 102, 130, 141,

143, 144,206,207,211,213,

232, 276, 279, 280, 281, 282.
Fowle, 51, 128.
Fowler, 1, 137, 141.
Fox, 19, 113, 114, 191.
Foxcroft, 80.
Francis, 5, 233.
Franklin, 48.
Frazer, 127, 135, 139, 152,

156, 261.
Freame, 142.
Freeman, 129.
French, 4, 144, 281.
Frizel, 240.
Frost, 37.
Fry, 130.

Frye, 113,114, 169,251.
Fulton. 48.
Furnace, 46,
Gage, 10, 14, 21, 23. 24, 45,

53, 84, 134, 143, 144, 147,

232, 262. 276.
Gale, 50, 131,236, 278.
Galileo, 48.
Gallison, 52.
Gallop, 95, 96, 143, 281.
Garford, 224, 268.
Gardiner, 166, 171, 172,220,

221. 224, 264, 273.
Garland, 251.
Gardner, 28, 36, 38, 40, 114,

130, 166. 172, 192, 195. 212,

219, 221, 225, 227. 253, 254,

263,268,271,274.
Gaskells. 220.
Gaskil, 192.
Gatchells. 47, 59.
Gates, 100. 102, 103, 104,

105, 108, 128.
Gedney, 192. 219, 225. 226,

270,271,274.
Geere, 169.

George, 153.

George II. (King) 157.

Gerald, 130.

Gerrish, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29,
30, 31,35,36, 47, 114,115,
142, 192,208, 211,251.

Gerry, 51, 52, 54. 64, 101,
112.

Gibbon, 9.

Gibbs, 37,54, 112, 113 114,
199.

Gibson, 190,

Giddings, 24.

Gidney,25.

Giggles, 224.

Gilbert, 129, 141, 180,240.

Giles, 16, 17, 19, 20, 21, 22,
23, 24, 96, 144, 167, 219,
231,232, 233.234, 276,280.

Gills 32, 143.

Oilman, 158, 233, 281.

Gilmore, 157, 158,

Girdler, 23, 47, 236.

Glanfield, 207.

Glover, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54,
55, 56. 57, 58, 59, 60, 61 , 62,
63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68 69, 70,
71, 72, 97,98, 99,100, 101,
102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107,
108,109, 110, 111, 112.113,
117,123, 125,126, 128, 130,
131, 159, 160, 168,210,236.

Gloyde 228, 229.

Gobrecht, 48.

Goldsmith, 220.

Good ell, 28, 208, 218, 266.

Goodels, 225.

Goodhue, 130, 141, 215.

Goodrich, 234, 279.

Goodridge, 43.

Goold, 228.

Goose, 266.

Gordon, 33, 51, 60, 61, 72,
104, 144, 282.

Gorges, 78, 187, 188, 190, 191.

Gorton, 191.

Gosnold. 175. 176.

Goss, 236.

Gott, 172, 221. 269.

Gould. 130, 229, 230, 260.

Gouldsinith, 264.

Gove, 44.

Govian, 125.

Gowing, 228, 229, 230.

Grace, 129.

Gracia. 235.

Graft on, 38, 166, 224, 266,
273.

Grant, 47, 54, 59, 130, 131,
205, 248.

Graupner, 249.

Graves, 54, 59, 78, 220, 239.

Gray, 18, 19, 23, 29, 32, 83.
147, 149. 159, 202,215, 232,
276, 278, 280, 282.

Gray son. 60.

Greaton, 118, 119.

Greaves, 226, 263, 270.

Green, 27,64, 116,120, 121,
124, 125, 236.

Greene, 114, 129.

Greenlief, 128.

Greenough, 10.

Greenwood. 130, 180.

Gridley, 115.

Griffin, 208.

Grindal, 181, 183, 184
Groce, 265.

Grover, 94. 95, 157, 158, 219,
224,227,264,276, 278,280.

Groves, 17, 21, 22, 23, 143.
232, 233, 234, 275, 276, 278,
280,281,282.

Grunnill, 174.

Grush, 53, 235, 236.

Gupppie. 223.

Guppy, 21, 130, 199,280.

Gutch, 221.

Gwinn, 30.

Gyles, 226, 233.

Hacker, 28, 202.

Hadrian, 30, 31.

Haddock, 273.

Hagget, 171.

Haines, 46.

Hale, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20. 87,
89, 94, 135, 143, 150, 209,
216, 231, 233, 235, 274, 275,
278, 279.

Hall, 135.

Hal let, 239.

Halloway, 28, 29.

Hammond, 132, 133, 206,23.-..

Hancock, 32, 33, 54, 119, 120,
122, 129, 159, 160.

Handy, 120.

Handyside, 41.

Hanilord, 141.

Hanniford, 44.

Haraden, 130, 217.

Hardee, 18, 20, 220. 222, 224,
278.

Harding, 211.

Hardy, 38, 112,113,115,143,
155,251.

flardye, 222.

Harman, 276.

Harper, 249.

Harraden, 249.

Harriinan. 13, 142, 204.

Harrison, 58, 59.

Harris, 17, 22, 23, 24, 54, 95,
96, 141, 157. 165,205, 231,
235, 262, 276, 278, 280, 281,
282.

Harriss. 158.

Hart, 174,228, 229, 275.

Harthorne, 118.

Hartt. 173.

Harvey , 23, 280.

Harwood. 45, 80, 221.

Haryman, 165.

Hascoll. 16, 20.

Haseltine, 162.

Haskall, 20, 95, 202,220.

Haskals, 263.

Haskel, 22, 96, 144. 231, 281 .

Haskell. 4, 6, 17, 18, 24, 44.
120, 141, 218,234,271,280.

Haskoll, 276, 279.

Ilassen, 161,204.

Hastey, 4.

Hasty, 2.

Hathan, 19, 22, 276, 278.

Hathorn, 117.

Hathorne, 25, 35, 44, 130,
149. 166, 167, 168, 169. 170,
171,172,192,208, 209,221,
222.223,225,226,227 251,
256,263, 264, 265, 266, 268,
269, 270. 273.

Hatton, 182.

Hauthorne. 272.

Haven, 142.

Hawerd, 239.
Hawes, 122.

(38i)

280

llawkes, 59, 208, 251.
Hawthorn, 236.
Hay man, 249.
Haynes, 46.
llayward, 143, 280.
Hazen, 132, 138, 154, 166,

204.

Head, 40
Heath, 70, 72, 102, 103, 109,

110,115, 160.
Hedden, 137, 139, 140, 154,

156.

Hemans, 180.
Henderson, 130. 131, 209.
Hendly, 65.
Henfield, 38, 209, 251.
Henry, 228, 229.
Henry, Vlll. (King) 184.
Herbert, 225.
Hereman, 88.
Herick, 266.
Herickes, 264
Heriman, 91, 133, 135, 136,

110, 156,157,203,206.
Herimon, 136.
Herriok, 18, 19, 20. 21, 22,

23, 24, 39, 94, 95, 96, 143,

144, 147, 231, 233, 275, 276,

278. 280, 281.
Herring, 276.
Heseltine, 12, 143.
Hayward, 167, 172.
Hibbertt, 9, 11,89.
Hiberd, 15, 263.
Hibert, 13.

Hichborn, 107, 120, 124.
Hidden, 9, 88, 165.
Hiden, 11, 13,15,206.
Higginson, 2f>, 27, 28, 33, 34,

35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42,

78, 130, 2 J8, 255, 256, 271,

272, 273.
Hill, 1, 16, 18. 19,21,46, 47,

119, 227,235,273,276,280.
Hiller, 124. 130.
Hilton, 95, 96, 144, 235,
Hillsborough, 33.
Hint, 192.
Hirst, 44.
Hitchcock, 114
Hoar, 37.
Hobart,215.
Hobbs, 141.
Hobs, 141.
Hobson, 11, 15, 88, 90, 133,

134, 135, 137, 138, 140, 154

162, 202, 203, 205, 261. 262.
Hodges, 38, 209,211, 214, 247.
Hodgkins, 129, 138, 155, 158.
Hodjsuian, 228, 229, 230.
Holbrook, 129.
Holden, 120.
Holgrave, 168.
Holmgworth, 256.
Holley, 250.
Hollins worth, 251.
Hollister, 129.
Holman, 47, 54,216.
Holme, 166.
Holmes, 162, 168, 171, 219,

259.

Holms, 154, 157.
Holt, 94. 159.
Holyoke, 51, 196, 211, 252.
Homan, 53, 236.
Homes 203,
Hood, 24, 95, 172, 174, 239.

278.

Hooper, 49, 53, 132, 181.
Hopkins, 117,118, 181.
Hopkinson, 10, 11, 14, 85,

88, 142,161, 164,165.
Home, 143.
Hornne, 92.
Horrok, 163.
Hotton, 141.
Hondin, 129.
Hough ton, 266.
Hovey, 129, 138, 139, 155,

232, 233.
How, 159, 211.
Howard, 182, 222, 235, 236,

264. 276.
Howe, 53, 61, 62, 71, 72, 77,

97,99, 109, 110, 241.
Hewlett, 48.
Hubbard, 92.
Hubon, 235.
Huchenson, 271.273.
Hull, 3, 4, 7, 21, 22, 231,

234, 275. 276, 278, ic79.
Huinfry, 83.
Humphrey, 181,236.
Humphryes, 170, 223.
Hunt, 118, 129,236.
Hunter, 161, 162.
Huntington, 110, 120.
Huse, 42.
Huson, 220.
Hutchinson, 31, 62, 81, 82,

167, 230, 236, 237.
Hutton, 45-

Hvchisson, 264, 267,270.
Hvmfres, 268.
Hvmfreyes, 226.
Hyleger, 23,
Ingafls, 216.
Ingersoll, 48, 168, 171, 207,

225, 235.

Ingerson,240, 278.
Inery. 173.

Ives, 208, 231, 233, 236, 282.
Jackson, 2, 3, 5, 39, 65, 107,

124, 125, 126, 134, 138, 140,

155, 156, 162, 165, 203, 205,

221,224.
Jacob, 96, 122.
Jacson, 203,
James, 46, 47, 226.
James, (King) 178, 183, 186.
Jamison, 240.
Jarrat, 161, 163.
Jefferds, 21.
Jeffrey, 96.
Jeffry, 248.
Jenitt. 282.
Jenkins, 213.
Jenner, 258.
Jeritt, 162, 282.
Jewel, 184.
Jewet, 9,10,11, 161.
Jewett, 12, 13, 15, 42, 84,

86, 87, 88, 90, 91, 133. 134,

136, 139, 140, 141, 142i 143,

153, 154, 155, 156, 204, 261,

263.
Jewit, 141, 163, 164, 165,

203, 204.
Jewitt, 141, 205, 206, 260,

261, 262.
Jillings, 131.
Joancs, 238.
Joans, 240.
Jocelyn, 188, 197.
Johnson, 9, 13, 19, 21, 82,

135, 139, 156, 164, 203, 219,

220, 225,236,280.

Johonnot, 64,66,102, 118,

114.

Jones, 3, 44, 55, 59, 236, 249.
Jordan, 188, 190.
Josselyn, 82, 191.
Keep, 129.
Keith, 40.

Kemball, 143, 276, 281.
Kenastons, 220.
Kenistons, 265.
Kennedy, 129, 234, 275.
Kenny, 17, 94.
Kenrick, 140.
Kent, 142.
Kertland, 174.
Kerry, 96, 144, 276, 278.
Keysar, 44.
Kezer, 164.
Kilborne, 205.
Kilburn, 11, 14, 84, 86, 157,

165, 206.

Kilburne, 45, 84, 85.
Killam, 169.
Killiam,240.
K illim. 240.
Kimbal, 233.
Kimball, 19, 221.
Kimbel, 163.
Kindrick, 140.
King, 28, 38. 107, 122, 126,

171, 225, 247.
Kingesen, 274.
Kingsbery, 92.
Kingsley," 34.
Kirkbv, 80.
Kirkla"nd,42.
Kitchen, 42, 159, 220,226,

248, 268.
Kitcherill, 166,
Kitchtn, 172.
Knapp, 129, 253.
Knight, 159, 168, 212.
Knoilys, 190.
Knolton,2S3.
Kuowlton, 94, 141.
Knox, 69, 181.
Konnedy, 232.
Kosaisko, 4.
Kosciuzko, 103, 107, 117,

118.

Ladd, 43, 213.
Lafayette, 107, 120, 123, 125,

127, 249.
Lambert, 10, 11, 13. 15, 26,

85,86, 130, 138, 189,147,

148, 155, 161, 162. 163, 164,

165. 169, 197, 203,205 , 261,

265, 282.
Lambeth, 181.
Lancaster, 9, 156.
Lanckstor, 153.
Lander, 209, 251.
Lane, 37, 171.
Lang, 130, 150, 151, 200.

201, 209, 248, 254.
Langdon, 122, 213.
Langley, 164, 165, 166.
Lanne, 238.
Larkham, 190.
Larkum, 21, 22, 23, 94. 95,

143, 144, 231, 232, 276, 278,

279, 280, 281, 282.
Larnard, 3, 4, 6, 6.
Lamed, 100, 122, 129, 160.
Laskins, 219, 220, 222.
Latherbee, 228, 229.
Lathrop, 171, 223, 227, 267,

268, 269, 270.
Laud, 186.

Lauriat, 201.

La Vallois, 215.

Law, 15, 16, 161, 163, 164.

Lawes, 272.

Lawrence, 128, 124, 215, 222,

235.

Leach, 16, 17, 21.
Learuard, 3.
Learned, 114.
Leaver, 163, 203.
Leavitt, 248.
Lee, 39, 40, 41, 46, 54, 65, 69,

62, 63, 65, 66, 67, 68, 114,

123, 131, 191.
Leech, 17, 20, 21, 96, 166,

167, 168, 169, 170, 171, 222,

233, 237, 272, 273, 276, 279,

280.

Lemon, 223.
Lesco, 118.
Leslie, 61. 67, 68.
Lesslee, 23<\
Lewis, 37, 48, 129, 132, 172,

173, 187,202,239..
Lighten, 12, 18, 15, 84, 85,

157, 164, 166, 205, 206, 207.
Ligngrass, 64.
Lincoln, 100, 101,110,114.
Lindal, 26, 36.
Lindall, 208.
Lindsey, 149.
Little, '116, 148.
Littlefleld, 5.
Livingston, 100, 120, 124.
Locke, 75.
Long, 92, 99, 121.
Longhorne, 161, 163, 164.
Lord, 166, 171, 172, 220, 221,

22*^

Lorde, 222.
Loring, 50.
Lossing, 54, 59, 104.
Lothrop, 222.
Louis, XVI, (King) 193.
Lovell, 119, 121, 122, 124,

125.

Lovering. 240.
Lovet, 144, 233, 281.
Lovett, 16, 17, 19, 20, 21, 22,

94. 95, 96, 147, 167. 169,

221, 227, 231, 233, 234, 235,
241, 275, 276, 277, 278, 279,
280, 282.

Lowell, 41.

Lucas, 279.

Lufkin, 209.

Lull, 15, 85, 89, 135, 139.

Lume, 282.

Lunt, 42, 205.

Luntt, 260.

Luquy, 158.

Lurne, 163, 282.

Lurue, 167.

Lurvey, 157.

Lyman, 120, 127, 129, 147.

Lynch, 19, 21, 279.

Lyude, 26, 236, 255.

Mackclaflin, 45.

Mackerest, 43.

Mackey, 40, 128, 195, 196,

264.

Marble, 12P.
Marquand, 40.
Marsh, 39, 45, 253.
Marshall, 238, 266.
Marshfield, 6.
Marston, 42, 48, 159, 192,

222. 225,258.

287

Martain, 263

Martin, 24,44, -16, 129, 27.',,

276, 277. 278, 280.
Martyn, 233.
Mary, (Queen) 31, 181, 182.

186.

Magee, 104, 207.
Magoun, 251.
Makepeace, 129.
Malcoln, 118, 119.
Malcoy, 275, 282.
Maluiadee, 119.
Malvoy, 233.
Mandeville, 189.
Manlys, 55.
Mann, 247.

Manning. 27, 128, 159, 236.
Mansfield, 111,114, 130,209,

229, 231, 232, 233, 274, 282.
Mascoll, 26.
Mason, 38, 187, 198, 225,

236.
Massey, 38, 172, 207. 225,

226, 227, 253, 264, 265, 266,

267, 268,269,270,271.
Massy. 16tt, 168, 169, 170, 171,

172, 220, 221,223.
Masury, 26, 208.
Mather, 29,31.
Matthews, 144,281.
Maule, 29.
Maverick, 44
Maxwel. 144, 279.
May, 234.
Maynard, 41.
Me Clenachan, 157, 158.
McKean, 241,247.
Me Kenny, 24, 276, 277, 280.
Me Laflin, 45.
M'Culler, 126.
M'Dougal, 60,61, 67.
Meecham, 278.
Meiggs, 7.
Melcher, 235.
Meller, 3.
Mercer, 63, 64, 92.
Merriam, 236.
Merrill, 143.263.
Merritt, 53, 54.
Meservy, 131.
Middleton, 184.
Mighel, 203.
Mighill, 11. 13, 14, 85,88,

90, 152, 161, 162, 165, 205.
Mihols, 214.
Milk, 45.
Millar, 145.

Miller, 6, 120, 128. 129, 214,
Millett, 19, 47, 236, 219, 251.
Mills, 54, 129.
Mingo, 24, 232,277,281.
Minot,37,
Mitchell, 36.
Mitehelson, 36.
Molton, 227.
Montgomery, 231, 234.
Moody, 45, 141.
Moore, 129, 168, 220, 221,

232, 249.
Morell, 142
Morgan, 16, 17, 19. 20, 21,

22, 24, 96, 110, 118, 227,

231, 233, 234, 236, 237, 277,

278, 279, 280, 281, 282.
Morris, 64, 120,127.
Mors, 18, 28, 36, 94, 96, 144,

232,277, 278,282.
Morse, 22, 207.

Morss, 41.

Morten, 82, 84, 122.

Mos, 96.

Moses, 130.

Mould, 44.

Moulton, 168, 171, 224, 225,

251, 268.
Mowser, 168.
Moylan, 54, 56, 57.
Mugford, 55, 56.
Muggleton, 191.
Mulcoy, 233.
Mullen, 95,276, 277,278.
Mullin, 143.
Munjoy, 187.
Muuson, 59.
Murphey, 8.
Murray, 62,211.
Mussey,246.
Muzzey, 4.
Nason, 129.
Nazro, 127.
Neal, 44, 46, 47. 92, 180, 181,

192,210,235,251.

Neale, , 187.

Needham, 130, 131.
Nellson, 87, 132, 140, 153,

164, 203, 204, 262.
Nelson, 9. 11, 12, 13,14, 15.

45, 86, 143, 165, 206, 207.

230.

Newhury, 29.

Newhall, 173, 199, 230, 239.
Newman, 27.
Newmarsh, 44.
Newmash, 44.
Newton. 29, 40, 48.
Nichols, 3, 25, 40, 202, 214.
Nicholls, 158.
Nicholson. 47, 144, 236.
Nicks, 168.
Nieols, 270.
Niles, 121,122.
Niinblitt, 54, 59.
Nixon, 99, 100. 103, 104, 114,

115, 118,160,167.
Noonan, 212.
Norden, 44. 45,46.
Norrice, 46.
Norman, 170, 221.
Norris, 130, 169.
Northend, 9, 86, 90, 136, 138,

141. 142, 205, 206, 263.
Northey, 46, 130, 150.
Norton, 234, 272.
Norwood, 254.
Nowell, 48.
Noyes,43, 119, 120, 121, 122,

142.

Nurse, 229.
Nurss, 228.
Nutting, 28.
Oakes, 47.
Ober, 16, 17, 20,21, 22, 23,

24,94,95, 144,231,232.233,

234, 275, 277, 279, 280, 282
0'Connel,249.
Odell,202, 251.
Oldham, 83, 187.
Oliver, 27, 51,19 ,264.
Olney, 125.
Gsborn, 155, 210, 282.
Osborne. 219, 236.
Osgood,26, 114, 147,195,196,

209, 214, 228, 236, 251, 254.
Orne, 36,37,38,3940,51, 52,

54,59,72, 101, 102, 103, 106,

111,130,147,197,273.

Orr. 129.

Orris, 47.

Orsborn, 156.

Overbury, 178.

Pacy, 169.

Packer, 115.

Page, 1.3, 7, 128, 130, 143.

Paget, 189.

Paine, 199.

Paison, 11,204,206.

Palfrey, 42,46, 58, 171, 172,

220, 221. 226, 270.
I'alliner. 14, 85, 203, 204,205.
Palmer, 10, 11, 12.14, 15 85,
90, 91. 101, 133, 135, 154. 157,
161, 164, 166, 203,207, 260,
262.

Parker, 43, 181, 199,200,202
Parkman, 40, 240.
Parks, 120.
Parmenter 167.
Parmynster, 169.
Parrat, 163.

Parsons, 108, 109, 114, 228.
Pason, 203.
Patch, 16,17, 18, 19,20, 21,

22,23,42,91,'94, 95, 96, 140,

144. 167, 172, 192,227,231,

233, 234, 237, 275, 277. 278,

279.280,281.
Patche, 18, 22.
Patten, 3, 4, 6, 118.
Patterson, 3. 4,5,100, 110,

114.115, 160,215.
Pattin, 172.
Payne, 28, 169,272.
Paynes, 264.
Payson, 42, 87, 88. 133, 134,

137, 1:38,206,261.
Peabody, 147, 245.
Pearce, 54, 141.
Pearson, 141, 154, 157, 162.

164,204,205.
Pease, 266.
Peck, 41.
Pedrick,236.
Peele, 25. 31 , 130.
1'eirce, 20, 22, 23, 26, 28, 73,

95, 127, 129, 130, 132, 142,

233, 234, 246.

Peirson, 11, 12, 15, 84, 206.
Pengre, 10, 12, 14, 84,85, 87,

88, 90, 96, 133.
Pengree, 153, 262.
Pengrey, 132, 139, 152, 262.
Pengry, 84, 260, 262.
Pennel, 199.
Penry, 180.
Pepperell, 37.
Percy, 51
Perkins, 41, 156, 196, 228,

235, 236, 249.
Porle, 203.
Perley, 134, 136, 261.
Perly, 248.
Permott, 189.
Perrie, 225, 256, 268.
Pcrrson, 85,88,90, 91, 133,

134, 137, 153.
Perry, 150, 175, 177, 178, 179,

180, 185,222,223.
Person, 85, 228, 229, 230.
Pert, 233, 275, 278.
Peters, 3, 5, 130, 167, 222.
Pettingall, 171.
Phelan, 128.
Phelps, 18, 29.
Philip, [King,] 31.

Phillips, 106, 132, 163, 164,

169,205,235.
Phinny, 114.
Phippen, 45, 46, 130, 208,

235,251.
Phipps, 143.
Phips, 16.
Picden, 269.
Pickard, 10, 11, 14,;.84, 86,

87 , 90, 132, 133, 134, 136,

13, , 139, 155, 156, 157, 165,

166, 202, 203, 204, 205, 206,

261.

Pickerin, 226.
Pickering, 26, 38J40, 48, 54,

99, 150, 166, 171, 197, 251.
Pickeringe, 274.
Picket, 23,24, 46, 96, 231,

232, 234, 275, 277, 279.
Pickett, 236, 269.
Pickman, 44, 208, 248, 250,

252.

Pickton, 167.
Pickworth, 168.
Picton, 267.
Pierce, 277, 280.
Plerpont. 246.
Pifbary, 87.
Piirden, 225.
Pigkett, 223.
Pike, 43, 44, 46.
Pilkington, 184.
Pillsbery, 12, 14, 136.
Pilsbary,8S.
Pilsbury, 10, 128.
Filigree, 27, 136.
Pitman, 44, 167, 207, 233,

236, 277.
Pittman, 234.
Plaisted, 26.
Plantin, 211.
Plats, 16, 85, 137, 140, 141,

155, 162, 165,205,261.
Platts, 11,13, 15,42,94, 141,

143, 156, 206, 261,
Plunier, 9, 12, 85, 86, 155.
Plummer, 14, 43, 86, 87, 88,

89, 90, 133, 135, 139, 206, 236.
Poland, 231,233.
Poineroy, 198.
Pool, 157, 158, 208.
Poole, 230.
Poor, 99, 100, 113, 114, 135,

137, 138, 160.
Pope, 122, 129, 224.
Popham, 175, 176, 177, 178,

179, 180, 185, 186, 192.
Porter, 36, 40, 128, 129, 130,

222, 223, 224, 225, 226, 227,

233, 237, 263, 264, 266, 267,
268, 269, 270, 271.

Portmont, 189.

Posey, 9.

Powell, 104.

Powland, 258.

Pownall, 51.

Prance, 45.

Pratt. 129,248, 254.

Prentice, 54.

Prescott, 37, 112, 113, 114,

115.

Preson, 205.
Presson, 16, 21, 22,23, 96,

144, 147, 231, 232, 233, 278,
280,282.

Preston, 19, 21, 22, 23, 95,
147, 148, 235, 277, 279, 280.

288

Price, 25, 27, 133, 134, 192,

224, 235, 251, 264, 265, 266,

268, 269, 270, 271,272, 273.
Pride, 22, 95, 231, 277, 278,

28<T.
Prime, 9, 10,11, 13, 15, 85,

94, 152, 161, 203.
Prince, 16. 45, 82, 168, 219,

220, 226, 270, 271, 272, 277,

281.

Pritchard, 236.
Proctor, 37, 212, 231, 236.
Pryme, 165.
Prytherck, 47.
Pumary, 46.
Pumery, 46.
Punchard, 212.
Purchis, 173.
Putnam, 29, 37, 46, 62, 70,

72, 92, 113, 114, 115, 118,

119, 130, 158, 159, 170, 192,

209,235,237,264,270,271.
Pvtnam, 226, 227, 267, 268.
Quarles, 20.
Quincey, 148.
Quiner, 236.
Rahl, 67.

Rainer, 163, 165, 205.
Raleigh, 180
Ranney, 260.
Rantoul, 145, 146, 147, 152,

193,197, 198,199,201,241,

243, 247, 248, 249, 251, 252,

253, 254.
Rawden, 65.
Rawson, 129.
Ray, 129, 171,223,270.
Raye, 18.
Rayes, 223.
Rayment, 271, 279.
Raymond, 24, 280.
Raynal, 186.

Rea, 18,21,23,95,159,232,281.
Read, 19,24, 114,169, 172,

202, 220, 221, 222, 225, 268,

272.

Reading, 47.
Reave, 80.
Redford, 192,
Redington, 48, 271 .
Reed, 51, 57,58, 59, 66, 67.
Reeding, 47.
Reeves, 219, 224.
Reith, 45.
Remick, 32.
Remington, 161, 162.
Remont, 267,
Rentoul, 146.
Revell, 80
Revere, 32, 53.
Reyner, 166.
Reynolds, 171, 172, 178.
Rhea, 40. 41.
Richards, 35, 235.
Richardson, 39, 236.
Richmond, 124.
Rigby, 188.
Ring, 236.
Rintoul, 145, 146
Rix, 271.
Roberts, 93, 112, 129, 233,

236,277, 281.
Robertson, 4, 236.
Robie,39.
Robins, 264.
Robinson, 140, 210, 216, 221,

225,227.
Roby, 92.
Rochefontaine, 259.

Rock, 266.

Rodderford, 157.

Roetier, 30.

Roff, 7.

Rogers, 46. 124, 142, 161, 163,

165, 173.
Rondell, 192.
Rootes, 266.
Roots, 224, 227, 267.
Ropes. 46, 47, 129, 130, 207,

210,251.
Rose, 232.
Rosewell, 83.
Ross, 24.
Rouendy, 18.
Rouille, (Baron,) 40,
Roundy, 19, 21, 24, 94, 95,

96, 144, 231,233, 236,275.

277, 278.

Ronndey, 19, 278, 279, 25 1.
Row, 157, 158.
Rowell, 93, 214, 256.
Ruck, 28, 36, 167, 168.
Rudderford, 158.
Rumbull, 272.
Rusell, 91.
Rush, 244.
Russel, 88.
Russell, 44, 54, 125, 134, 216,

223.

Rust, 248.
Rutland, 18, 19, 22,24, 176,

277, 278, 280.
Rvche, 270.
Ryalls, 269.
Ryley, 206:
Sabine, 52, 55, 56, 69.
Sadeler, 14, 15.
Sadler, 85.
Salisbury, 40.
Sallis,24,231.
Sallowes, 17, 20, 95, 144, 172,

275, 277, 278, 279, 280.
Sallows, 17, 19, 220.
Salstingtall, 269.
Saltonshall, 270.
Sampson, 181.
Sanborn, 26, 29, 215.
Sanders, 14, 15, 85, 87, 90, 91,

134,133, 153,155, 170,262,

266.
Sargent, 42, 109, 115, 157,

158, 248.
Savage, 27, 35, 73, 5, 76, 77,

82, 130, 159, 207.
Savel, 232.

Sawer, 11, 13, 15,161, 165.
Sawier, 165.
Sawyer, 11, 12, 85,90, 136.

139, 155, 172, 205, 206.
Scagel, 212.
Seails, 166.
Scales, 166, 203.
Scamman, 114,115.
Schuyler, 70, 97, 99, 100, 103.
Scot, 162, 163, 165.
Scote, 164.
Scott, 10, 12. 13, 15, 31, 85,

89, 154,157, 158,204, 26),

261.

Scrugg, 225
Scudder, 171, 172, 222, 224,

227.

Searl, 141, 192.
Searle, 10, 41, 143.
Sears, 96, 280.
Sedgwick, 186.
Sedgwicke, 265.
Seers, 124.

Selman, 54, 55, 58, 111, 236.

Series, 204.

Sewall, 36, 39,40,45, 93, 107,
122, 126.

Sewell, 162.

Seymour, 176, 177, 178.

Shafflyn, 221.

Slmllin, 266.

Sharp, 78,83, 167.

Sharpe, 255.

Shattuck, 47.

Sheepso, 144.

Shepard, 122, 129, 164, 235.

Shepherd, 66. 67, 126.

Sherburne. 120, 121, 124, 125.

Sheriff, 98.

Shettuck, 95.

Shores, 208.

Shortt, 42.

Shillito, 203.

Shipley, 168.

Shipping. 45.

Siblee, 46'.

Sibley, 46.

Siblye,46.

Silliman, 93.

Sillsby, 167.

Silsbee, 193, 195, 247.

Silver, 141.

Sinclair, 214.

Skarlett, 169.

Skelling, 219.

Skeiton, 78, 170.

Skerie, 269.

Skerrie, 225, 226, 263,267,
268.

Skerry, 171, 212, 235, 253.

Skillings, 132,215.

Skinner, 130, 274.

Slack, 122.

Slayman, 129.

Sleuman, 197, 235.

Slue. 17, 20, 23, 278.

Small, 44, 46, 172, 263.

Smart, 128.

Smith, 10, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17,
18, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 41, 45,
47, 51, 54, 84, 88, 91, 95, 96,
127, 128, 129, 130, 141, 144,
145,161,162, 163, 170,186,
204,212,216,217,225,231,-
234, 235, 236, 242, 252, 253,
277,278, 279,280, 281.

Smyth, 166, 167.

Snelling, 151.

Snow, 129.

Soams, 280, 282.

Somerby, 43.

Soper, 3.

Sothwick, 263.

Southwick, 150, 151, 152, 166,
196, 200, 201, 218, 224, 272.

Sowthwick, 168.

Spafford, 86, 88, 90, 136, 137.

Spalden, 94.

Sparhawk, 147, 210, 228, 229,
230.

Sparks, 54, 107.

Speakman. 59.

Spence, 217.

Spencer, 114, 214.

Spofford, 14, 136, 163.

Spoford, 9, 11, 14, 165,204,
203.

Spooner, 264.

Sprague, 248,254.

Spring, 129.

Sprout, 120, 124, 126, 129.

Stade, 6.

Stacey, 54, 59, 253.

Stackhouse, 267.

Stacy, 48, 93, 169, 210, 220,

236.

Stanchfield, 157.
Standish, 168,226,266.
Standley, 21, 22, 236, 278,

280.

Standly, 22, 277.
Stanley, 17, 19, 95, 144, 231,

232, 233, 235, 275, 278, 279,

281.

Stanly, 18, 234, 282.
Stan ton, 40, 161.
Stark, 100, 114.
Starlin, 43.
Stearns, 147, 193, 194, 195,

196, 247, 248. 249, 250.
Stell, 135.
Stenchfleld, 158.
Stephens, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20,

275, 276, 277.
Sterling, (Lord,) 110.
Sternhold, 181.
Sterns, 131.
Stetson, 1, 3.
Stevens, 42, 47, 236.
Steward, 204.
Stewart, 8, 10, 89, 133, 136,

137.

SMckne, 10, 14, 15, 205.
Sticknee, 87, 133, 134, 137.
Stickney, 9, 30, 84, 86,87, 90.

132, 138, 146, 152, 153, 161,

162, 163, 164, 165, 202, 260,

261.
Stileman, 170, 225, 226, 227,

271.

Stirling, 97.
Stoddard, 129.
Stone, 16, 17, 19, 20,21, 22,

23, 24, 44, 47, 94, 95, 129,

143, 144, 151, 168, 231, 232,

235, 245, 277, 278, 279, 280,

281.

Storm, 117.
Storrow, 40.
Story, 2, 64, 81, 101, 105.
Stow, 126.
Stowers, 129.
Strachey, 176, 178.
Stratton, 220.
Strout, 235.
Stuarts, 186.
Sullivan, 59, 68, 71, 97, 107,

114,119,120,121,125, 127,

244.

Sumner, 141, 142.
Swan, 162, 165, 169, 203.
Swasey, 59, 266.
Swett, 236.
Swift, 70.

Swinerton, 227, 264, 267.
Syles, 261.
Symmes, 35, 213.
Symonds, 45, 54, 94, 129, 220,

253, 272, 281.
Symons, 269.
Tarbel, 228, 229.
Tarr, 143, 157, 158.
Tawley, 42.
Tayler, 231.
Taylor, 3, 6, 7, 17, 18, 20,21,

23, 24, 39, 95. 96, 98, 101,

143,157,215,231,277,278.

279,281.
Temple, 221.
Teney, 162, 163.

289

Tenne, 86, 89. 133. 136, 137,

205.

Tennee, 135, 136.
Tenney, 85, 142, 154, 262.
Tenny, 10, 13, 85, 142.
Teny, 161, 164.
Thatcher, 8.
Thayer 250.
Thirstan, 14, 84.
Thirston, 138.
Thissel, 233, 234.
Thistain, 87, 89, 91.
Thistle, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 94,

95,277,279, 281.
Thomas, 27,59, 102, 114, 225,

252, 268.

Thompson, 96, 234, 235.
Thomson, 54, 93.
Thornd., 20,23, 94,95, 144,

231,234,278,280.
Thorndick, 64, 226, 271.
Thorndike, 16, 17, 18, 20, 21,

22, 23, 24, 94, 95, 96. 172.

196,231,232,233,234,242.

247, 277, 278, 280, 281, 282.
Thome, 93, 213
Thornedick, 265, 266.
Thornton, 84, 175, 176, 177.

178, 190
Thurstain, 134, 136, 139, 152,

157, 262.

Thurston, 155, 169.
Tibbets, 235.
Tidd, 213.
Tift, 127.
Tileston, 32.
Tillotson, 124.
Tillton,93.
Tindley, 236.
Tinson, 157.

Titcomb, 42, 122, 123, 125.
Titus, 216.

Tod, 10, 12, 14, 162, 204.
Todd, 19, 89, 134, 164.
Tompkins, 172, 224, 269.
Tompson, 167, 169.
Topham, 120.
Toppan, 42.
Torrey, 3, 5.
Towne, 159,170,202,251.
Townsend, 21 1 , 228, 229, 230,

236.

Tracy, 107, 122.
Trask, 17, 18, 20, 22, 23, 24,

44, 94, 95, 96, 144, 210, 226,

232, 233, 237, 27;'., 277, 280,

281, 282.
Traske, 169, 170, 171, 192, 220,

222, 225, 266, 270, 278.
Treadwell, 110.
Trefry, 65.
Trelawney, 188.
Trenton, 129.

Trevett, 208.

Trevy, 16.

Trew, 226.

Trofetre, 233.

Trofton, 115.

Trow, 24, 95, 276, 277, 279,

280,281.

Trumble, 162, 164.
Trumbull, 125.
Truslers, 268.
Tuck,. 16, 17, 18, 19, 20,21,

22, 24, 95, 96, 221, 222, 233,

234, 275, 277, 281.
Tucke, 172, 220.
Tucker, 55, 130, 143, 227,

235.

Tufts, 212.
Turner, 28, 29, 192, 197, 220,

248.

Tuttle, 118.

Tyler, 26, 114, 121, 125.
Tyng, 40. 41.
Uggs, 207.
Underbill, 218.
Upham, 49, 51, 97, 159.
Upton, 235.
Usher, 184.
Vannam, 234.
Vannen, 282.
Varnum, 107, 114, 120, 121,

124, 125, 128.
Veitch, 145.
Venor, 266.
Veren, 36.

Verin, 170, 225, 227, 269.
Verrin, 169, 222, 224.
Verryn,224.
Very, 236.
Vial, 211.
Vicorry, 236,
Vincent, 253.
Vines, 187, 191.
Vose, 129.
Wade, 92. 204.
Wadsworth, 123, 124.
Waite, 141.
Waitt, 130.
Walcott, 46, 266.
Waldo, 130, 248, 249.
Waldron, 27.
Wales, 23, 280.
Walker, 114, 129, 130, 210,

233.

Walley, 96.
Wallis, 17,18,19.20,21,25,

42, 43, 59, 190, 233, 242,

277, 279.
Walpole, 31.
Walsingham, 182.
Walton, 230.
Ward, 26,27,28, 30,38, 49,

54. 56, 114, 115, 124, 130,

169, 170. 196, 198, 207,

209, 210, 211, 213, 254, 282.

Warde, 207.

Wardeil, 189.

Ware, 26.

Warin, 227.

Warner, 204.

Warren, 70, 98, 100, 129,

130.

Washburn, 129.
Washington, 3, 7, 8, 9, 54,

55, 56, 57, 58, 60, 61, 62,

63, 64, 68, 69, 70, 71,72,

81, 97, 98, 103, 104, 105,

106, 107, 108, 109, 111, 113,

150, 151, 160, 249.
Wass, 142.
Waterman, 171.
Waters, 46, 212, 235, 263.
Watson, 28, 38, 69, 149, 150,

199, 202, 226, 264, 267, 269.
Watter, 224.
Watts, 48.
Wayne, 7, 8, 9.
Webb, 27,28, 38, 80, 129,

130, 202, 208, 209, 247, 249,

250, 269.

Webster, 199, 208.
Weed, 42.
Weekes, 172.
Weld, 36.
Wellman, 26, 130, 228, 229,

230.

Wells, 129, 207.
Wentworth, 142.
Weskett, 220.
West, 17, 18, 19, 21, 23, 46,

119, 147, 169, 172, 220, 279,

280.

Weston, 198, 214, 235.
Wharton,35,265.
Wheaden, 221.
Wheatland, 33, 147.
Wheeler, 10, 84, 88, 118. 119,

135, 142. 223, 235.
Wheelwright. 189, 190, 215.
Wheler, 88, 135, 137, 153.
Whiple, 203.
Whipple, 118, 119. 121, 124,

125^ 258.
Whitcomb, 114.
White, 27, 167, 220, 233, 236,

248, 272, 275, 282.
Whitfleld, 34.
Whitford, 228.
Whitgift, 184.
Whitney, 123, 196, 254.
Whitredge, 17, 20, 142, 240,
Whittemore, 252.
Whittingham, 173.
Whittington, 44.
Whitwefl, 63, 101.
Whitworth, 210. '
Wicks, 169.
Wicom, 141, 204, 206.
Wicome, 16, 163, 165.

Wigglesworth, 70, 127, 128.

Wilde, 271.

Wilde, 48.

Wilkins, 235.

Wilkinson, 68.

Willard, 22, 44, 47, 96, 279.

William, (King) 186.

Williams, 18, 19, 22, 23, 24,
27, 30, 47, 59, 95, 96, 97,
98. 129, 130, 179, 226, 228,
229, 231, 232, 234, 249, 269,
270, 273 275, 277, 278, 279,
280, 281, 282.

Willis, 235.

Wilmot, 249.

Wilson, 43, 122.

Wincob, 73.

Winn, 197, 235.

Winslow, 3, 4, 40, 186.

Winter, 188.

Winthrop, 73, 74, 76, 78, 79,
80, 81, $2, 83, 84,167,258.

Witham, 157, 158.

Witten, 13, 15.

Wolcott, 39.

Wood, 10, 11, 12, 15, 19, 21,
22, 24, 85, 88, 95, 113, 114,
122, 133, 143, 203, 204, 205,
206, 232, 233, 234, 242, 243,
255, 261, 277, 282.

Woodb., 95, 231, 233, 281.

Woodbary, 88.

Woodberriee, 268.

Woodberrie, 266, 267, 268,
269,

Woodberry, 1624, 95, 96,
144, 232, 233, 234, 275, 277,
278, 279, 280, 281, 282.

Woodbery, 13, 144, 166, 167,
168, 169, 228, 232, 233, 234.

Woodbr., 144.

Woodbridge, 114, 128, 263.

Woodbry, 20, 24, 231, 234,

Woodbury, 21, 22, 44, 87, 90,
147, 169, 170, 171, 220, 222,
232, 233, 236.

Woodby, 22, 24.

Woodman, 44, 206.

Woodmansye, 92.

Woodward, 208.

Woodwell, 48.

Wormsted, 59.

Wright, 4, 55, 129, 219.

Wyat, 143, 232.

Wyclifie, 181.

Wycom, 11, 165.

Yeomans, 129.

Yong, 169.

Yonges, 220.

Young, 1, 42, 130, 198,

Zimmerman, 216.

OP THE

ESSEX INSTITUTE.

V O DLi TJ 3VE IE

SALEM:
PRINTED FOR THE ESSEX INSTITUTE,

BY CHARLES W. SWASEY.
1864.

CONTENTS.

NUMBER, ONE.

Memoir of Daniel A. White, by G. W. Briggs . 1 Extracts from the Records of two Aqueduct Cor-

Mr. Rantoul's connexion with Military and Leg- porations in Salem and Danvers, communica-

islatiye matters ....... 55 ted by H. Wheatland, .... 43

A Copy of the First Book of Marriages of the Hale Memoranda, copied by E. S. W. . 46

town of Rowley with notes communicated by Gleanings from the Town Records of Wenham, 47

M. A. Stickney ....... 37 Boston Numismatic Society, ..... 48

Account of the formation of the Essex Historical

Society, by G. A. Ward, .... 41

NUMBER TWO.

Memoir of Daniel A. White, by Geo. W. Briggs, President Munroe in Salem, by B F. Browne . 76

(concluded.) ........ 49 Record of Births and Deaths, in the Town of

A copy of the First Book of Marriages of the L y nn > Vo1 ' n > communicated by Ira J. Patch,

Town of Rowley, with notes, communicated by (continued.) ........ 77

M. A. Stickney, (continued.) ... 72 Mr. Rantoul's Reminiscences, (concluded.) . . 79

NUMBER THREE.

Some Account of Houses and other Buildings In Copy of a letter written by Jonathan Archer,

Salem, from a manuscript of the late Col. from Mill Prison, England, Sept. 25, 1778. 113

Benjamin Pickman; communicated by George A Copy of the First Book of Marriages of the

B. Loring, with notes, ..... 93 town of Rowley, with notes communicated by

Hale Memoranda, copied by E. S W. (Continued.) 109 M. A. Stickney, (Continued) . . . . 114

en . . . ., _. Obituary notices R. H. Wheatland, Daniel C.

Gleamngs from the Records of the Church at

John B peabodyj Q G

let ' ...... C. M. Endicott, George Osgood, Thomas Trask 1*2

From the Burying Ground in Hamilton, . . Ill ^^ of Birthg and Deathg in ^ Town of Lym

Ipswich Town Records, ...... 112 vol. 2, communicated by Ira Patch (Continued) 131

Frost Family, ........ 113 Materials for a history of Ship Building in Salem,

No. 1, by William Leavitt, . . . .135

NUMBER FOUR.

Some notes on Wenham Pond, by Rob't S. Rantoul. 141 Hale memoranda copied by E. S. W. . . . 165

A copy of the First Book of Marriages of the Towne Objections to Mr. Champney's Settlement by Col.

of Rowley with notes, communicated by M. A. Robert Hale. ..... 166

Stickney ......... 152 gketch ofthe Rev . Nathaniel Ward of Ipswioh by

Record of Births and Deaths in the Town of Lynn, Stephen H. Phillips. . .... 169

vol II. communicated by Ira J. Patch. . . 155 Materialg for thfl History of ghip Bui]ding in ga .

" Two Old Bibles," with notes by B.F.B. . . 160 lombyWilliamLeavitt.No.il. ... 171

Notice of Rev. Asa Dunbar ...... 162 Copy from the original Book of Grants of Salem.

Notice of Jonathan Gardner ..... 163 communicated by Perley Derby (continued). . 175

IVTJMBER,

Crafts Journal of the Siege of Louisburg. Com- Record of Births and Deaths In the Town of Lynn
municated by W. P. Upham. ... 181 Vol. II. Communicated by Ira J Patch. .215

Copy from original Book of Grants of Salem. Com- ^^I 8 ** ^ "'^ of Q Shi P- Buildin S in Salem
municated by Perly Derby. ... 198 by Wllham Leavitt No " 3 ..... **

Baptisms of the First Church in Salem. Commun-
Memorial of the Washington Rangers. . . 202 icated by H enry Wheatland. ... 227

iNTJMJBER. SIX.

Memoir of Capt. William Nichols of Newburyportf Confession and Declaration of faith of Colonel John

prepared by the Rev. George D. Wildes, . 229 Higgison, communicated by B. F. Browne, 255

Baptisms of the First Church in Salem, communica- Materials for a Genealogy of the Lang Family, com-

ted by Henry Wheatland, . . . .237 municated by David Perkins, ... 257

_ , , Copy of the Will of John Perkins (the elder) commu-

Record of Births and Deaths in the town of Lynn, . . , , ., _ . .

moated by David Perkins, .... 257
Vol. II. communicated by Ira J. Patch, . . 245

Baptisms by Rev. Benj. Prescott of Salem. Middle

Materials for the History of Ship Building in Salem, Precinct now South Danvers, communicated by
by William Leayitt, No. 4, . . . . 252 Henry Wheatland, ...... 258

HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS

OF THE

ESSEX INSTITUTE.

Vol. VI. February, 1864,. No. 1.

MEMOIR OF DANIEL A. WHITE.

BY GEORGE W. BRIGGS.

Read at a Meeting of the Essex Institute, Monday evening, January 4, 1864.

BOYHOOD AND YOUTH.

DANIEL APPLETON WHITE was born in that part of the old town of Methu-
en which is now included in the City of Lawrence, June 7th, 1776. His an-
cestor, William White, came to this country from Haverhill, Norfolk Co., Eng-
land, in 1635, in company with Rev. Mr. Ward, the first minister of Haverhill,
Mass. Mr. White first went to Ipswich, thence to Newbury ; but finally set-
tled at Haverhill. The place on which he built his house is still occupied by
a lineal descendant, who bears the name of White, and has been in the pos-
session of the family since the settlement of the town in 1640. William
White died Sept. 28th, 1690, when about eighty years of age. John White,
his descendant in the fifth generation, the father of the subject of this memoir,
was born Feb. 7th, 1719-20. He removed to Methuen about the year 1772,
and died July llth, 1800. He was twice married; first to Mrs. Miriam Ha-
zen, in 1753, by whom he had six children; and again to Elizabeth Haynes,the
mother of Daniel, Feb. 18th, 1767. She had eleven children, of whom Daniel
was the fifth.f Thirteen of this family of seventeen, had families of their
own.

* The writer desires to refer to the admirable memoir of Judge White, by Rev. Dr. Walker, pub-
lished in the proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, which contains many things of
which he would have been glad to avail himself in this brief sketch, if they had not been already
used by a far more skilful hand.

t The genealogy is as follows : John White, the only son of William and Mary White, married
Hannah French, at Salem, Nov. 25th, 1662, and died Jan. 1st, 1668, at the age of 29 years. His
only son, Capt. John White, was born March 8th, 1663-4. He married Lydia Gilman, of Exeter,
Oct. 24th, 1687, and died Nov. 20th, 1727. He had a large family of fourteen children, one of whom,
Timothy White, graduated at Harvard College in 1720. His fourth child, Deacon William White,
the grandfather of Daniel, was born Jan. 18th, 1693-4, and died Dec. llth, 1737. He was married in
Boston, June 12th, 1716, to Sarah Phillips, sister of Rev. Samuel Phillips, of Andover

Daniel's childhood and youth were passed upon his father's farm until he
went to Atkinson Academy, in June 1792, when he was just sixteen years old.
In a charming autobiographical sketch written for his children, during a long
illness, in the winter of 1836-7, and which he says he "night never have found
"time and opportunity to write in a state of health," he has drawn a delight-
ful picture o his early life. It unveils the beauty of a genuine New England
home. Everything conspired to make his boyhood and youth bright and hap-
py. His father's farm was charmingly situated, stretching from the Spicket
to the Merrimac, when both of those streams flowed on through level mead-
ows, or rushed over falls and rocks, in their native grace and wildness. In
the Salem Gazette of June 17th, 1796, Rev. Dr. Bentley gave a very enthusi-
astic account of a visit which he had then lately made to this part of Methu-
en, and of the beauty of the cascades and falls upon the rivers. The farm it-
self abounded in wood, as well as in finely cultivated fields ; thus presenting
a variety of beautiful scenery, with picturesque and delightful prospects. Birds
flocked among the trees, and berries abounded in the pastures. A combination
of circumstances was presented, so far as external nature was concerned, of
which the subject of our memoir always spoke with delight and gratitude.

Other influences seemed equally propitious. These bright surroundings
were a fit symbol of the home itself. His father's house was filled with young
and loving hearts, and graced by the frequent presence of the most cultivated
people in the neighborhood, of many of whom he gives attractive sketches,
and of relatives from other places, and visitors to the town, who were wel-
comed with an abounding hospitality. It was presided over with a happy
blending of wisdom and affection. He gives a picture of his parents in the
following words :

"My father was a tall, erect and finely formed man; and with his hand-
some suit of snuff-colored cloth, which my mother caused to be annually man-
ufactured for him, and his beaver hat, he always appeared in the character
of a gentleman farmer. Well skilled in overlooking and directing the manage-
ment of his farm, he did little more himself than sow the grain, which he could
do better than any one else, and occasionally to follow the plough, and in Sum-
mer to stir up the hay. I speak of the time when I was a boy at home, and
he was from sixty to seventy years of age. My mother, burdened with the care
of a numerous and increasing family, manifested a devotion to her duties in the
relation of wife and mother, above all praise. Though so much younger than
my father, she seemed to me to be exactly suited to him in all respects, and he
to her. I have no recollection of an unkind look or word that ever passed be-
tween them, though my father was not unfrequently roused to an indignant and
somewhat harsh expression of his feelings in respect to others."

The features of his father's character, and its excellence, are still more dis-
tinctly stated in an Obituary Notice in the Mass. Mercury, in Boston, July 1 8th,
1800. After speaking of his peculiar fondness for rural occupations and do-
mestic life, the writer says :

"Born in affluence, he lived easy. Economy and industry were inherent
virtues; but possessing a generous heart, he added not to his. possessions.
Riches were not his God, and money he esteemed only for its necessary uses.
He possessed a strong mind, and a firm understanding. Cheerfulness was his
constant companion. His heart overflowed at the reception of a friend. The
poor have called him blessed. Courteous in his deportment; resolute in enter-
prise ; just and quick in apprehension, but compassionate in temper ; open and
explicit in all his views, he lived respected and died happy."

With such parents, the spirit of the household must have been one of wis-
dom as well as love. There was a perfect toleration of all innocent youthful
sports. The parents were strictly religious, connected with the Baptist de-
nomination. But they were very careful to make no requisition upon the Sab-
bath, which would give their children gloomy associations with that day. The
family were required to attend meeting, and read some chapters in the Bible.
Still, both before and after Public Worship, they were permitted to walk over
the farm and enjoy the influences of nature, and the loving intercourse of inno-
cent and youthful hearts. The liberty of the household is thus described :
" Our freedom in all respects was greater and more delightful, than that of any
boys I ever knew, situated as we were." But there was a quiet authority, an
omnipresent influence which drew those young hearts towards generous affections
and Christian purposes. It was a power all the more effective, perhaps, be-
cause so seldom exerted in any direct, outward pressure. The theory of ear-
ly education which the son states as his own ideal in later years, grew out of
the life of that Methuen home. It was a theory which recognized the fact, that
"the spontaneous life, in its own time and place, is as sacred as the reflective
and moral life;" a theory that aimed to avoid "the excess of regulation and
discipline, as much as the opposite extreme of indulgence," and which, while it
insisted upon "implicit obedience as the indispensable foundation of character,
endeavoured to allow nature free scope in unfolding and maturing all her gen-
erous feelings and principles." It was the power of character, the beauty of
holiness, rather than direct authority, which moulded the lives in his early home.
These spiritual forces certainly did their work upon himself. In his case, "the
boy was father of the man." The features of his manhood distinctly unfold
themselves in the picture which he draws of his youth ; and we feel that he not
only speaks the simplest truth when he says, "Innocence and simplicity had not

deserted me, certainly, when, at the age of sixteen, I left home for the Academy
and the College," but that these graces became so inwrought into his character
amid the benign influences of his early home that they never deserted him, and
accompanied him as angels on either hand till he passed on to a new and still
higher youth.

Only two troubles clouded his youthful days. The first and greatest of
these came from his questionings upon the subject of religion. Those ques-
tionings began at a very early date. From his childhood he had been accus-
tomed to read the Bible ; and he had read it through before he was eight years
old. Many of its narratives made a deep impression upon his imagination.
He associated the characters in the Bible with persons of the same name whom
he knew. Joseph was the image of his own brother Joseph. "Stephen, the
first martyr, looked like Stephen Sargent, the older son of a neighbor." The
father of the Prodigal Son bore the image of his own father, and the elder
brother that of his brother John. "And so," he says, " they have since appeared."
He gave "a local habitation," also, to the scenes of sacred history, by fixing up-
on some spot upon the farm, which seemed suited to the transaction represent-
ed. Thus both his mind and his imagination were early filled with religious
thoughts and associations. Though eminently social and cheerful in tempera-
ment, both in early and later life, he possessed a thoughtful nature, and had a
peculiar interest in religious exercises, even in his boyhood. The following ex-
tract from his Journal gives a striking proof of this :

"I remember that the day I was eleven years old, June 7, 1787, there was
the raising of a parsonage house, for Mr. Williams, a great occasion for boys,
and the funeral of a Mrs. Frye, three or four miles off, and that while others
went to the raising, I walked to the funeral in preference, and back to the
graveyard, nearly as far."

He mentions also the funeral of a young married friend not long after
wards, a great favorite of his on account of her beauty, and kindness to him,
which affected him deeply. With characteristic candor, he says, " The excite-
ment and sympathy felt on these solemn occasions afforded me, I suppose, some-
thing of the sort of pleasure derived from witnessing the pathetic scenes of a
tragedy ; and this may in part account for my desire to attend them." But he
truly adds, "It was doubtless owing in part to their being in accordance with
my religious feelings."

A nature so predisposed to thoughtfulness, to which the scenes and char-
acters of Sacred History became real by constant reading of the Bible ; a na-
ture unfolded in the atmosphere of a religious home, where he heard the con-

versation of the ministers who were such frequent guests at his father's house,
must have been open to intense religious impressions. But they came in a
form that profoundly tried him. His parents belonged to the "New Lights,"
as they were then termed, and fully sympathized with the doctrines of White-
field : and the idea became impressed upon the boy's mind that the true reli-
gion could only be gained by a miraculous change of heart, without which the
soul must be forever lost. He says :

"Everything conspired to deepen these awful impressions, and to produce
in my mind a full conviction that such, and such only, were the true doctrines
of Christianity. I well remember that it seemed astonishing that we should
be unable to do anything to save our souls from perdition, when we were so
constantly commanded in the Bible to exert ourselves for the purpose ; to strive
to enter in at the strait gate, and were promised a reward for our endeavors.
But these expressions were explained away in a manner which I did not think
of questioning. We could not strive, o*r knock, or even ask aright, without the
suggestions and aid of the Holy Spirit. Hence, at about the age of twelve or
fifteen, I was reduced to a state of most distressing perplexity, almost despair,
as to my future condition."

Many persons trained in these New England homes have known an expe-
rience similar to his. Happily the profound impressions already made upon
his heart became an anchor amid the agitations of his thought, and held him
in true loyalty to religion itself, in the struggles of his youth and early man-
hood, until after a number of years he dared fully to trust the convictions
which had then begun to form themselves in his mind. At one time he says,
that "he does not know what might have been the fate of his Christian faith, if
he had not found some satisfactory substitute for these first convictions. Per.
haps it might have been wholly wrecked." But a mind like his was sure to
find a satisfactory substitute. When the heart is penetrated by a reverence
and awe for religious truth, faith cannot suffer wreck. If Priestly's writings,
which he read with so much interest when an under graduate, or the writings
of other men, had not helped to a solution of his difficulties, the workings of
truth, the teachings of experience, and the leadings of the divine spirit, must
have brought him to a settled faith. In religious things, indeed, as in other
respects, his manhood was the natural development of his early character.
He says, " It is remarkable how little have changed my impressions as then re-
ceived of Jesus, and his disciples, by subsequent reading and reflection. The
divine superiority of Jesus to his disciples, and all other men, was then clear
to me, as it has been ever since." His character and training pre-determined
the faith in which he finally rested ; the faith " which permitted, and taught

him to behold in his Creator a kind and beneficent father ; in his Savior, an in-
fallible guide, teacher and friend ; and in the Holy Spirit a sure and never fail-
ing reward for every sincere endeavor to do the will of God, to improve his
gifts, and fulfil the law of love to his creatures." God graciously led him out
of all his doubts to a religion whose final expression was, " My reliance is up-
on the mercy of God in Jesus Christ, and my own repentance for sin, which I
know I have felt for years ; and therefore I have perfect trust and peace."

The only other trouble of his youthful days grew out of his great desire
to obtain a public education. This seemed very doubtful for a long time. Al-
though his father was in easy circumstances, with his family of seventeen
children, it was difficult to meet the expense of sending one of his sons to the
University. But this difficulty was happily solved. In his earlier school-days
Daniel was behind the other boys ; and he describes the mortification which he
felt upon one occasion, on that account. But he soon outstripped them by dil-
igent application, and therefore became a favorite with his various instructors.
One of them, a somewhat eccentric man, when he had taken the foot of the
spelling-class in consequence of detention at home by sickness, but was so for-
tunate as to regain his usual place at the head on the first evening, ordered a
general clapping of hands of the whole school. It was a compliment which
seems to have been repeatedly awarded him. His first severe illness was occa-
sioned by his devotion to study. After having been hard at work with the men
in the woods in Winter, he came home and got into the bedroom window to
perform sums in Arithmetic, which, as he expresses it, was then his hobby. He
thus became, unconsciously, so thoroughly chilled, that the consequence was a
dangerous fever. But such diligence had its reward, and on the llth of June,
1792, he was sent to Atkinson Academy, then under the charge of Mr. Silas
Dinsmoor, a graduate of the previous year, and an excellent instructor. He
had a permit to enter from Rev. Stephen Peabody, one of the Trustees, whose
eminent character and services were both so gratefully, and so gracefully de-
picted by the late Rev. Dr. Gilman in the Christian Examiner for May, 1847,
and whose constant friendship he always enjoyed. Here, too, he secured the
marked favor of his teachers. His efforts were unwearied, and his progress
very rapid. When he studied fourteen, fifteen, and sometimes sixteen hours a
day, we scarcely wonder that he could recite four hundred lines in the Georgics,
and sometimes seven hundred at a lesson, or, on a review, one thousand to
thirteen hundred in the ^Eneid. By this diligence he read the whole Greek
Testament in five and a half weeks, and prepared for College in seven and a
half months. On account of such conscientious devotion, his teachers allowed

him to study in his own room, and to recite with others, or by himself, as might
be best for his progress.

Such severe application was beyond his strength. But his mind and char-
acter developed rapidly amidst the excitements of the Academy, and the influ-
ences of the society of Atkinson. He was naturally very diffident, and he en-
tirely broke down in his first attempt at declamation. But this failure, of
which he gives an amusing description, roused him to such resolute efforts,
that three or four months later, at the public exhibition, he was able to speak
in a crowded Church, with complete self-possession. That resolute struggle
was a true type of his character. The same diffidence was conquered in so-
ciety, in his intercourse with young ladies, both in and out of the school, with
whom he formed some friendships that ended only with life. When speaking
of this year in Atkinson, forty years afterwards, he says, "Never, I believe,
have I been able to look back upon a year with a more grateful and satisfied
feeling." He left Atkinson with many regrets, taking an affectionate leave of
the many friends from whom he had received such marked and uniform kind-
ness, and entered Cambridge after an honorable examination, with "a heart
full of gratitude to his parents for their efforts and sacrifices " to gratify his
darling wish, and with a determination " to exert every power to prevent any
waste of money upon his education ; and to secure to them an ultimate reward
and satisfaction." His father sent him away with his benediction, and with
his earnest instructions to avoid all bad company; closing his advice with these
words of wisdom, words then and always faithfully heeded, and beautifully
verified : " Keep none but good company, and you will always have good com-
pany to keep."

COLLEGE LIFE.

He entered College in July, 1793. His autobiographical sketch gives a mi-
nute account of his four years at Cambridge, often presenting details of his
daily studies and occupations, together with incidental descriptions of the state
of society, the manners and morals of the time, both in the University and the
community. In some respects life in College was then especially perilous. He
tells us there was literally no society for the students in the town of Cambridge,
and that he has no recollection of having entered a single house as a visitor,
while an under graduate, and but very few when a tutor, excepting those of
the College Officers. Neither the people of the town, nor the instructors, who
had families, encouraged any social intercourse with the students, excepting in
cases of family connection, or particular acquaintance. There was nothing to
refine the tastes and manners, and thus indirectly, yet powerfully, to improve

the moral tone of the students. Meanwhile, positively unfavorable influences
were not wanting. The power of the licentious principles of the period of
the French Revolution was at its height. Those principles had a great and in-
siduous attraction for the minds of ardent young mer.. The custom of using
ardent spirits, also, was fearfully prevalent. The punch bowl was held to be
indispensable in the social circle, especially among young men. Under such
circumstances it was natural that disorderly actions, and disgraceful tumults,
should frequently occur among the students. Neither is it strange, though so
sad, that, as he states in his Journal, nearly one fourth of every class should
have "become sots," "lost to themselves and to the world, in consequence of
indulging in the use of intoxicating drinks early in life, and principally in the
College itself," "a terrible sacrifice," to use his own striking words, "of the
intellect, the genius, the literature, the moral and religious principle and feel-
ing of the country."

In all respects he bore the ordeal nobly. Though his religious opinions
remained for a long time unsettled, his religious convictions seem to have be-
come clear and fixed during his college days. He clung to the Christian faith ;
and already, though perhaps unconsciously, a vow of fidelity and consecration
had been recorded in his heart. His political views, too, became distinct and
settled. He was always loyal to the idea of liberty ; but the tendencies and
character of his mind were such, that he was utterly disgusted by the excesses
and madness of the French people. His whole nature fitted him to be pro-
foundly influenced by the character of Washington ; to appreciate his calm wis-
dom ; to recognize the great qualities that made him the model of public and
private virtue ; and it is scarcely too much to say, that he himself became an
embodiment of the spirit of that great administration of liberty combined
with order, of genuine patriotism and public virtue, amidst all the political
changes which occurred during his long life. His moral integrity was un-
touched. He took no part in the carousals in which the students frequently
indulged. In respect to one in which his class was engaged, he modestly says :

"I recollect feeling glad that I was excusable in the opinion of all for
not joining in the scene,"(on account of the death of a near relative not long
before,) "for otherwise it might have required more of the spirit of indepen-
dence than the occasion would have called forth in me to refuse joining, how-
ever I might have wished to refuse."

That spirit of independence was not wanting when it was demanded. Up-
on one occasion, when the class were inclined to adopt some high handed mea-
sures in respect to an Examination, he sturdily opposed them, although he

incurred hisses and insults for his independence ; and finally succeeded in de-
feating their mad and foolish scheme. He was desirous of the approbation of
those around him ; but if his action involved a principle, his resolution was in-
vincible, and it was impossible to make him consciously untrue.

His whole course in College was highly honorable. He was thoroughly
conscientious in his devotion to study. He seems to have excelled in compo-
sition. We take the following extract from his diary ;

" Carried up new themes, and received corrected those on "Multa petenti-
bus, multa desunt," or Avarice, which brought us sixteen double marks. A
double mark, by the way, was two strokes of the pen, under the name of the
writer of the theme, indicative of excellence. One line was always drawn un-
der the name, and sometimes no one in the class had more than one. It so
happened that whenever there was a double mark on any theme, mine did not
escape it. It was a small affair, but of some interest to me at the time."

It was this persistent fidelity alike in little and greater duties, which gave
him such a distinguished rank in his class. The requisitions of College stud-
ies did not content him. He read extensively in History, and in general Lit-
erature, during the regular terms. Vacations also, although partly devoted to
social visiting, which he greatly enjoyed, gave constant proof of his love of
reading, and his desire for knowledge. We give a memorandum of the gener-
al reading of one term, and a part of one vacation :

" Putnam's Life ; Franklin's Life and Essays ; Haley's Poetical Essay on His-
tory ; Longinus on the Sublime ; Minot's History of the Insurrection ; Philosoph-
ical Survey of the Animal Creation ; Priestley's Lectures on History and Gene-
ral Policy ; several of Lady Montagu's Letters ; Fitz Osborne's Letters ; Mon-
tesquieu's Persian Letters, and Pope's Essay on Man."

Locke, Shakespeare, Robertson's Histories, the Spectator, together with
other books of the highest order, are frequently named in his notes of his va-
cation readings.

The only thing to be regretted in his College Course, was his excessive
application. Both at Atkinson and at Cambridge, he neglected necessary ex-
ercise in the open air, in his devotion to books. This was his besetting sin.
At one time, a classmate, Hon. James Richardson of Dedham, sent him a poet-
ical epistle to dissuade him from such excessive study, a few lines of which
are given in his diary. The vigor of his constitution enabled him to bear this
severe trial of its strength without entirely breaking down ; and he went
through the University with only two or three brief periods of sickness, in
one of which Channing watched with him, and of whom he speaks as showing
all the softness and delicacy of manners that would become a woman in at-

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tending upon the sick. But his health became impaired for years, and was al-
most sacrificed ; and it is very interesting to see how careful he always was in
letters to his son in later years, and in his advice to others, both young and
old, to warn them against a similiar mistake.

But a life so nobly faithful in all other respects, could not fail to be de-
lightful. Passages in his Journal, written at the close of a term, or the be-
ginning of a new College year, give ample proof of his thorough enjoyment of
the University. His relations with his classmates were intimate and cordial.
They repeatedly honored him by selecting him as their Orator on various occa-
sions. He was chosen to give a eulogy on his classmate, Wellington, who was
drowned in Fresh Pond, in the early part of the Senior year. It was given,
he says, "in the College Chapel, early in December, before the government and
students, and with more heart-feeling than any other College exercise I was
ever called to perform." He gave the Valedictory of his class to the Speak-
ing Club an association for mutual improvement, in which he took a great
interest. At the close of his Junior year, he was appointed to give an oration
on the Birth-day of Washington, Feb. 22nd, 1796, at the first celebration of
the Hasty Pudding Club, of which he was one of the founders, but was pre-
vented from giving it, in consequence of his being at Andover at that time,
engaged in teaching school. He was therefore reappointed to give an Anni-
versary oration before the Club, in the following September. He was the first
of his class elected a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. He was also
chosen to prepare an English oration for the Class Day. Previously to that time,
the usual performances had been a Latin Oration and a Poem. He declined
this honor, partly, perhaps, because it was an innovation ; and as the class were
unable to unite upon any one else, that part was omitted. In speaking of his
College life, and his relations with his classmates, he says, " The various associ-
ations formed among ourselves added to the interest of our individual pur-
suits." And again, about the time of the formation of the Hasty Pudding
Club, he says, " The still increasing intimacy with favorite and beloved class-
mates, and the new associations formed with them, afforded me the truest en-
joyment."

He graduated in 1797, with the highest honors of his class. The assign-
ment of the parts for Commencement called forth feelings which were as hon-
orable to him as his fidelity to College duties. The Class had long awarded
the two English Orations to Horace Binney and himself. He believed that
Binney had the highest claims ; and when the first part was assigned to him,

he did not for some time enjoy the honor, because he felt that it belonged to
another. He bears the most generous testimony respecting his rival and
friend.

"Binney," he says, "could not but have thought himself entitled to the
first honors of the Class, yet he conducted with perfect magnanimity on the
occasion, and with great delicacy as respected me, and thereby, in no small
measure, enhanced my esteem and affection for him. If he felt that injustice
had been done to his claims, he di<J not impute the fault in any degree to me ;
for he well knew what my feelings and expectations were, both in respect to
him and myself, before the assignment of the parts."

The same generous feeling pervaded all the correspondence of these dis-
tinguished men in later years. After Judge White's death, Mr. Binney gave
this striking tribute to his beloved classmate. " He never seemed to desire to
excel others, like so many young men in College, but only to keep himself up
to his own high standard. He had no rivalry. He envied no one, for such a
feeling would have marred his victory." Beautiful magnanimity, where each
strives to show the other to be worthier than himself, and both alike uncon-
sciously reveal their own nobility.

Mr. Binney's Oration was upon "Enthusiam," and his own upon "The
Reign of Prejudice." Exhausted in health, he was scarcely equal to the exer-
tions of Commencement Day ; but the excitement of the occasion enabled him
to perform his part with his usual felicity and success.

PROM HIS GRADUATION TO HIS ADMISSION TO

THE BAR.

The decision in respect to his future profession was difficult. Many
things attracted him towards the study of Theology ; the prevailing serious-
ness of his mind, all his tastes, and his deep religious convictions. He seems
to have anxiously weighed the question ; but he was too conscientious to adopt
that profession while his views of religious doctrines remained unsettled.
Then, too, many things repelled him from the study of the Law. The drudg-
ery of that profession was positively revolting to him. The same delicacy of
conscience which made him scrupulous in respect to Theology, on account of
the unsettled state of his opinions, made him fearful lest the duties of the ad-
vocate might be sometimes inconsistent with his ideal of integrity, and the
chicaneries of practice sully his high sense of honor. The question of right
and character held the highest place in all his views of life. But though sev-
eral years passed before he devoted himself to the study of Law, except at in-
tervals, in the midst of other duties, the actual choice seems to have been early
made.

The first two years after leaving College were spent in Medford, where
he took charge of the Grammar School, partly for the purpose of obtaining
means to discharge his obligations for a portion of the expenses of his educa-
tion. Glimpses of his inner life, and the tendencies of his feeling and thought
at this period, are given in letters to his classmates, and in incidental accounts
of his daily occupations. On one occasion, at least, his independence was test-
ed, when he repelled, with the utmost decision, an attempt to interfere with
the management of the school, and with his own efforts to secure obedience.
He declared himself ready to leave at a moment's notice ; but while he remained
the instructor of the school, he claimed the unrestricted right to judge of its dis-
cipline. His Medford life was very happy. His strong love for society was
gratified by constant intercourse with intelligent and appreciating friends.
Here, too, he formed a friendship with Rev. Dr. Osgood, which then, and ever
afterward, gave him great delight ; a friendship which continued with his family,
to the latest hour of his own life. But these were also very busy years. He
was the same faithful scholar at Medford as at Cambridge. His name had al-
ready been entered as a student of Law, and he devoted many hours to direct
preparation for that profession. In a letter to his chum and class-mate, Kim-
ball, he gives a picture of his life. The date is Feb. 12th, 1799.

" At five, this morning, your humble servant rose. After devouring about
thirty pages of Smith's Wealth of Nations, he took breakfast. Then he wait-
ed upon his charming geographical pupil, and also attended to three classes in
English Grammar. Then he betook himself to his despotic drudgery over
fifty or sixty trembling pupils. At noon he travelled over ten or twelve pa-
ges of Tuily, with a future son of Harvard ; half as many in that entertaining
work, the Greek Grammar j and attended to another class in parsing English.
Since the afternoon school, he has passed the evening with a number of ladies,
with the exception of one hour devoted to a French gentleman resident here,
and desirous of my aid hi getting a little hold of our language. From this
one day's history, you may form an idea of his daily work. Seldom does it
now materially differ from this course."

In August, 1799, he returned to Cambridge for the purpose of studying
his profession. But he soon after accepted the office of Latin tutor in the
University, and continued in that position for almost four years. The duties
of this office were most congenial to his tastes. He loved the Classics, espe-
cially the Latin writers. In early and later letters, he often speaks with enthu-
siasm, and critical discrimination, of the peculiar characteristics of different
Latin authors. He says of Livy, that " the more he studied, the more he ad-
mired him." In another place he writes as follows :

"I have sometimes thought Cicero and Virgil superior to all others, in
the grace, the elegance, the beautiful simplicity, as well as grandeur of their
style and language, and also in the variety, dignity, and excellence of their
sentiments. But Horace and Sallust, too, have their peculiar attractions, and
attractions which never cloy."

This acquaintance with, and love for Classical Literature, prompted him,
soon after he left Cambridge, to join with Mr. John Pickering, in preparing a
new edition of Sallust, with notes. The work was performed with the utmost
care, and the highest scholarship, and the book was published by Gushing and
Appleton, of Salem, in 1805. Unfortunately, almost the whole of the first edi-
tion was destroyed by fire, and a second was never published. This love for
Classical Literature continued to the end of Judge White's life, and his li-
brary contained a valuable collection of both Greek and Latin authors.

During his connection with the College, his best powers were constantly
exerted for the reformation of abuses in its general management and instruc-
tion. His high rank as a scholar, the purity and force of his character, his
continuance in office during a longer period than was customary for the tutors
at that time, which enabled him to act more efficiently as a member of the
Government, together with his hearty affection for the University, and his un-
tiring interest in its welfare, all combined to make his influence equally strong
and beneficent.

Indeed, his attachment to the College was so sincere, that he was reluc-
tant to leave Cambridge, and did not resign his tutorship until he had been
strongly solicited to do so on the part of his friends. On the 26th of Aug.,
1803, he met the Freshmen, his own "particular class, for the last time, after
passing a year of uninterrupted harmony and affection with them." On Sept.
13th, he took "a final farewell of Cambridge, and went in the stage to Salem,"
where he immediately entered the Law Office of Samuel Putnam, afterwards
Judge of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts. Mr. Putnam at once opened
his house and his heart to his new pupil. Nothing could exceed the affection-
ate hospitality and the abounding kindness which he always received from the
family of his honored instructor, as well as from himself; and it was his delight
to recall their unwearied attentions in after years. He was a fellow student
with John Pickering. These two young men immediately found themselves con-
genial spirits, not only in their love of study, in scholarly attainments and
tastes, but in their general opinions upon questions out of the realm of lit-
erature. The result was a mutual respect, and an ardent friendship, which
bound them very closely to each other during the remainder of their lives.

His residence in Salem was very agreeable. He was welcomed into the best
society of the town as an additional ornament to circles already so intelli-
gent and attractive. He mentions, in letters to his classmates, the names of
many whom he especially enjoyed, and with whom he formed lasting friendships.
Amidst such pleasant auspices he remained until the completion of his profes-
sional studies, in 1804.

These seven years of preparation since he graduated from College, had
been industrious and happy years. His reading was extensive. His study of
the Law had been thorough. In addition to old College friendships, which he
still kept warm and fresh, he formed many new ones which were valuable and
true. In describing his happiness, he says :

"In the constitution of our minds, our hearts, our bodies, what inlet to
pleasure is denied us ! How pure is the satisfaction which attends the pursuit
of truth, and the acquisition of knowledge and science ! How sweet is the
intercourse with those who have long been dear to us ! How pleasant and
valuable are those large associations in which we feel a common interest, and
by which we are mutually affected, and mutually benefitted !"

Again, in 1 803, when speaking of the pleasant circumstances around him,
he says, "I have always found it easy to obey the Apostolic injunction, and in
whatsoever state I am, to be content, and generally to be satisfied and happy."

We find abundant indications at this period, both of his own high princi-
ples of action, and of the confidence which his character had then inspired.
Nothing can more conclusively show the impression which he made upon those
who knew him, than the unconscious tributes which they paid to his integrity
in the most confidential correspondence. No man suggested an unworthy aim,
or seemed to suppose him capable of being actuated by any other than the
highest motives. One classmate speaks of "the honorable and lofty success,"
which he predicted for him, and which he was sure would alone " satisfy him or
his friends," and says, "You are not materially altered since you left College.
You still do what you do with the zeal of passion, and look as loftily as any
around you. You despise the first fruits of the Law, which are the only fruits
that are within the reach of the grovelling barrister. You are stretching
yourself to gather the fruit that hangs on the topmost bough, and you will
gather it, unless I have mistaken you." This life-long friend did not mistake
him. His cardinal principle was thus expressed by himself, at this very peri-
od. "Better to fail in a good cause, than to succeed in bad one" a princi-
ple which he applied to private and public action, to the affairs of individuals
and nations, with unwavering loyalty ; and which, though it may sometimes lead
to apparent failure, will always secure the grandest success.

FEOM HIS ADMISSION TO THE BAR, TO HIS
APPOINTMENT AS JUDGE.

He was admitted an Attorney of the Court of Common Pleas in Salem,
June 26th, 1804. He only remained in Salem a few days to enjoy the cele-
bration of the 4th of July, at which his friend John Pickering gave an oration,
and to make immediate preparation for his removal to Newburyport. July 16th,
he opened a Law office in that place. On the 5th of August, we find him an
attendant upon Mr. Popkins' preaching at the old church in Newbury, which
he characterizes as excellent, and under whose ministry he continued with
constant satisfaction and delight. He was now twenty eight years old, with
a high reputation as a man of unusual talents and attainments, as well as a
man of established character. His success at the Bar was very decided, and
the receipts of his second year of practice amounted to what would then have
been considered an ample income. On the 24th of May, 1 807, he was married
at Concord, to Mrs. Mary Van Schalkwyck, daughter of Dr. Josiah "Wilder, of
Lancaster, Mass. She was a lady of remarkable attractions and excellence, and
his correspondence at that period gives ample proof of the happiness which
he found in the home which she adorned for a little more than four years.
But her health soon failed; and she died on the 29th of June, 1811, leaving
two daughters to be his care, and his consolation, amid his heavy grief.

Mr. White was not only early successful as a lawyer, but he at once at-
tracted the notice and commanded the confidence of the people of the town
in other respects. The next year after he went to Newburyport, he gave an
address before the Merrimack Humane Society, which was published, and
passed through several editions. Its favorable reception was not strange. It
was an earnest plea for a life of Christian philanthropy, which struck the key
note of his own life, and was written and spoken out of a full heart. He was
engaged in every humane and benevolent enterprise. ' He helped to form the
Merrimack Bible Society. He was a trustee of the Dummer Academy. He
served as a member of the School Committee. Nothing which promised ei-
ther to promote the health, to advance the education, or to improve the morals
of the town, failed to secure his influence and cooperation. He was careful,
meanwhile, not to forego his studious habits. Nov. 1, 1804, we fin4 the follow-
ing entry in his diary: "Entered on a more extended course of study than of
late ; Greek after Breakfast ; Latin after dinner ; some of the Scriptures every
day." In one respect, certainly, it was not an unfitting description of his
course of study in all periods of his life : for however wide its range might be

in the domains of Literature, the Scriptures claimed and received their daily
homage ; and in all his love for Greece or Rome, he turned with deeper rever-
ence to Palestine and the words that consecrated it forever.

In 1810, he was elected to the Senate of the Statr, and continued a mem-
ber till 1815. His earnest and fearless devotion to the principles of the Fed-
eralists, his dignity and ability as a debater, his attainments as a lawyer, and his
high character as a man, made him very prominent in the Senate. He command-
ed the confidence of his own party to such a degree, that he was selected as
their candidate for Congress, at the election in Nov. 1814, and was chosen by
an almost unanimous vote of the people of his District. But before he took
his seat, the office of Judge of Probate for the County of Essex was tendered
to him ; and having finally decided to accept it, he resigned his commission as
Representative in the Spring of 1815.

This was the turning point in his life. It was singular, certainly, that a
man at the age of thirty-nine, who had already attained marked professional
and political distinction, and stood so high in the public favor and confidence,
should retire both from the Bar, and from public life, when so wide a sphere
of service and influence was open to him. He was known beyond the limits
of his own State, and was appointed chairman of a Commission to investigate
the difficulties which had arisen in the administration of the affairs of Dart-
mouth College, by the Legislature of New Hampshire, in June, 1815. The
"fruit upon the topmost bough" seemed within his grasp. Many of his friends,
then, and in later years, greatly regretted the loss of the eminent public ser-
vices which he was so admirably qualified to render, and which would have
brought so much honor to himself, and advantage to the State. His decision
was doubtless a mistake in the opinion of men of the world ; but it was pre-
determined by his character and previous life. He was not a man of the
world. He recognized the duty of laboring for its highest welfare, and cher-
ished an undying- interest in everything which promised to improve or bless it.
But he was singularly free from its self-seeking and ambition. In later life, as
in College, "he never seemed to desire to excel others, but only to be true to
his own high standard." Then, too, the practice of the Law had never been agree-
able to him ; and a political career must have been still more unattractive. All
his tendencies and tastes combined, with his love of literature and of study,
to lead him to choose a more retired life.

Events had occurred during his residence in Newburyport, which must
have had a great, though perhaps unconscious influence upon his decision. The
first was the death of his classmate and chum, Jabez Kimball, in 1805. His

friendships were always true and deep, and his relations with Kimball were
singularly cordial and affectionate. By frequent interchange of letters, they
kept up the same free and unreserved communication of each other's plans,
wishes, hopes, which they had enjoyed when they shared the same room at Col-
lege. They clung to each other in mutual respect, and trust, and love ; and Kim-
ball, who had begun the practice of law in New Hampshire, earlier than Mr.
White, was extremely desirous to have his friend located in his own immediate
neighborhood, that they might be together in the work of life, as they had
been in their preparation for it. Very soon after Mr. White went to New-
buryport, the disease which had long threatened his friend developed itself in
a fatal form, and he returned to Haverhill, his former home, to die among his
friends and kindred. Nothing could exceed Mr. White's devotion to him dur-
ing the last few months of his life. Though it must have been a great detri-
ment to his own prospects so greatly to neglect the office which he had just
opened, he divided his time between Haverhill and Newburyport, and watched
over his friend till the last beat of his pulse, with an affection as tender as the
love of woman. His letters show how deeply he was affected by this parting
scene, and how sincerely he mourned his friend's too early loss. Life assumed
a new seriousness and sacredness to his mind ; and religion not only seemed to
give the solution of its mystery, but to present new claims upon his personal
reverence and love. And the following brief entry in his Journal, under the
date of April 5th, 1807, gains a new and more beautiful significance in this
connection: "Full dedication of myself to God. May He preserve my heart
in his law and love !"

But the event which touched him still more deeply, was the early death
of his wife. If the loss of a classmate so greatly affected him, we can only
imagine, rather than describe, the profound impression made upon him by the
death of a companion whom he seems to have cherished with an equal respect
and love, and the breaking up of that domestic felicity which he was so emi-
nently fitted to heighten and to enjoy. Though he always spoke of her loss
with the truest resignation, he could only name it with the deepest grief. Chast-
ened by such deep experiences, so devoted to the children left to his care, it was
not strange, with such natural tastes as he possessed, that, after a brief service
in public life, he should have turned away from it entirely ; and so far as we
can learn from letters or diaries, he never had a moment of questioning or
regret in respect to his decision.

But if public life had no charm, on the other hand the position which had

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been offered him possessed positive attractions. While it gave him leisure for
literary pursuits, it opened a sphere of practical usefulness whose importance
is very seldom appreciated.

At that time there was a peculiar opportunity fcr a man of eminent abil-
ity, and of ample legal attainments, to render a service which was not only very
valuable, but indispensable in respect to the modes of conducting Probate bus-
iness. Loose methods of procedure had crept into the Probate Courts, first
adopted, doubtless, for the purpose of facilitating business, but open to serious
objections, and liable to great abuse. Judges would sometimes confer with
parties out of Court in respect to matters that were to be brought before
them for decision, or, when it seemed unimportant, fail to order due notice to
persons adversely interested, in respect to the proceedings of the Court. In
pure hands, such irregularities might lead to no actual injustice ; but they were
entirely incompatible with the views of a man like Mr. White, and he accepted
the office of Judge with the positive understanding that he should undertake
their reformation.

PROBATE SERVICES.

The reformation of abuses, even when generally acknowledged, is seldom
effected without discontent and censure. As was to have been expected, the
new proceedings produced a temporary dissatisfaction, which neither his emi-
nent ability as a lawyer, nor his unquestioned character as a man, could imme-
diately silence. They involved occasional expenses and delays, which were
magnified into grave causes of complaint. Fortunately for Judge White him-
self, and for the future character of the Probate Courts of the Commonwealth,
these complaints finaUy took a specific form in a memorial presented to the
Legislature at its Summer Session in 1821, when a special committee was ap-
pointed to institute an inquiry, and present a report.

Judge White bore himself with characteristic dignity during these vexa-
tious proceedings. They were supposed to have been instituted partly on ac-
count of former political enmities ; but they were made doubly aggravating be-
cause they were undertaken immediately after a severe domestic affliction.
But he was perfectly assured of the entire propriety of his course. In a let-
ter to his brother-in-law, Samuel Orne, Esq., of Springfield, dated June 6th,
1824, he says:

"You must have seen in the papers notice of a complaint as to the Pro-
bate affairs of this County. I hope it did not alarm you. Mr. Merrill pro-
cured me a copy of the complaint, of which I had previously no intimation. On

the face of the complaint, there is not a shadow of reason for the solemn pro-
ceedings of the House."

The Committee discharged the duty assigned them, but after examining
only such witnesses as were presented by the complainants themselves, they
reported that all farther .proceedings should be suspended ; and this triumphant
vindication of his course was made complete by the unanimous adoption of
their report by the Legislature. After the close of the proceedings, he writes
to Mr. Orne in the following terms :

" The Committee on my Probate affairs have at length reported ; and con-
sidering that the inquiry was wholly ex parte, and the County ransacked for
those who thought themselves aggrieved to pour out their complaints, the re-
port is as favorable as could be expected. This method of investigating the
official conduct of a man, by examining witnesses not only prejudiced against
him, but incapable of understanding the grounds and motives of his proceed-
ing, and all behind his back, and making up judgment without affording him
opportunity even to explain, is as arbitrary as anything of the old English
Star Chamber proceedings. To subject one to this ordeal without justifiable
cause, and to torture the feelings of his distant friends who cannot have his
consciousness of innocence about them, is unjust and cruel. I was urged to
go to Boston, and see the Committee ; but I could not bring my mind down to
it. I saw no one of the Legislature on the subject, and resolved to leave the
thing to its own course. Now it is over, I do not regret the investigation.
The sanction of the Committee to the utility of the change I adopted in the
mode of doing Probate business, will close the mouths of murmurers."

We have said that the formal complaint was fortunate for the future char-
acter of the Probate Courts, as well as for Judge White himself. He was
never content to leave anything partially accomplished. In another letter to
Mr. Orne, dated July 5th, 1821, he says: "As to my Judgeship, if I had never
meddled with it I might rejoice ; but I feel like seeing it well through now.
When everything becomes as it should be, I shall have no objection to quitting
it." In accordance with this purpose he immediately began a little work en-
titled "A view of the Jurisdiction and Proceedings of the Courts of Probate
in Massachusetts, with Particular Reference to the County of Essex." As he
intended that this book should contain not only a history of former pro-
bate proceedings, with a vindication of the reforms which he had introduced,
but also be an authoritative treatise in respect to Probate Courts, he be-
stowed great care upon its preparation, and consulted with his friend, Hon.
John Pickering, at every step of his progress. It was printed in a pamphlet
of one hundred and forty eight pages, in the early part of the year 1822.
Writing to Mr. Orne at the time of its publication, he speaks of it as a work

which he " thought necessary," and adds, " If any one will read it, and not
acknowledge the course I pursued was a proper one, I shall at least be indiffer-
ent to his opinion upon the subject. Next time I am to be author, I hope to
have a more agreeable theme." The public soon acknowledged the propriety
of his course without a dissenting voice. His book at once took its place as
an authority ; and the reforms introduced into the County of Essex by Judge
White and Mr. Lord, the faithful Register of Probate, were extensively adopt-
ed in other parts of the Commonwealth.

Fortunately also for the Court and County, Judge White did not relin-
quish his office after everything had " become as it should be," but continued to
adorn it until July, 1853, when he resigned, after having held it thirty eight
years. We take the following passage from his diary for April 25, 1853 :

" This afternoon, I sent my letter of resignation of the office of Judge of
Probate, to take effect on the first of July. I sent it sooner than I intended,
because I saw mention made of a movement to get recommendations to the of-
fice, and I wished that those who might feel some delicacy about doing so be-
fore I had actually resigned, might be on an equal footing with others. I be-
lieve that no predecessor has held the office longer than I have. My kinsman,
John Appleton, held it thirty seven years. Many things I might now do bet-
ter, but I have always aimed to do right at the time, without fear, favor, or pri-
vate interest."

His modest claim did no justice to the feeling of the public, and of the
profession. It may be justly said that he not only commanded confidence, but
admiration in the discharge of his official duties. He had an incorruptible in-
tegrity ; and he possessed a sterling good sense, a practical wisdom, an admira-
ble balance of mind, together with a thorough knowledge of his own depart-
ment of Law, so that his decisions seemed to be stamped in the mint of Justice.
In his long term of service, he must have been called to adjudicate upon almost
every estate in the County ; and a great number of orphans and widows felt
"the paternal influence of his judicial course." Equally dignified in the fulfil-
ment of, and his retirement from his official functions, he closed his career as
a Judge with a degree of approbation for his labors, and veneration for his
character, which it is the fortune of only the very few to receive.

REMOVAL TO SALEM. DOMESTIC LIFE.
We resume the order of our narrative. Jan. 3d, 1817, he removed from
Newburyport to Salem, a little less than two years after his appointment as

Judge. Perhaps he was drawn to this place by its social attractions. He
had felt their charms when he was a student at law in the office of Judge Put-
nam, and spoke enthusiastically respecting them in letters to friends and class-
mates. At the time of his removal from Newburyport, and for many years after-
wards, the society of this town comprised a very large number of persons who
were eminent for high culture and accomplishments ; and in his later diaries he
makes allusion to the peculiar richness of Salem in great men, of some of whom,
he says, any country might be proud. Delighting in society, as truly as in his
books, able to make such large contributions himself to the pleasure of social
intercourse, he was welcomed by all persons of genius and learning in the
town.

In 1819, on the first of August, he was married a second time to Mrs.
Eliza Wetmore, only daughter of William Orne, Esq., of Salem, and removed
to the house in Court, now Washington St., formerly occupied by Mr. Orne,
and in which he resided during the remainder of his life. Possessed now of
ample means, blessed with the companionship of a wife whose uncommon in-
telligence and loveliness of character commanded universal respect, with leisure
for the gratification of literary tastes in society and among his books, every-
thing seemed to contribute to enhance his happiness. We have a glimpse of
his home life at that time, in a letter to Mr. Orne, a brother of his wife.

"We three," referring also to an Aunt of Mrs. White, whom he calls
" a great comforter," whose " presence alone gives a deeper consciousness of
a protecting Providence," "we three enjoy much of true domestic comfort, of
genuine fireside enjoyment. The pleasures of reading fill up most of the eve-
ning, the day being generally broken up by calls of one sort or another. In
the way of reading, we have gone back to Goldsmith, and been delighted with
his novels and plays, and are now with the Citizen of the World. We have
also taken up Hall's Loo Choo Islands a late work and very interesting."

It was an intelligent, cultivated, and Christian home, which presented many
such bright pictures of fireside joy ; a home which, though often graced by the
honored guests who were welcomed to it with most generous hospitality, still
derived its peculiar charm from the loving presence which gave it constant
attraction, and filled it with delight.

But Judge White's domestic life was destined to be again quickly shroud-
ed. His wife's health, which had never been strong, soon failed ; and she died
March 27th, 1821, soon after the birth of a son. Her early death, at the age

of thirty six, in the language of one of the notices of her character, " called
forth such general and spontaneous expressions of respect and condolence, as
are rarely produced by the death of any individual in the private walks of
life ;" and the many tributes offered to her memory, gi^e ample proof that she
had indeed endeared herself to many, " as a faithful friend, a judicious adviser,
and affectionate counsellor, retired and unobtrusive, yet unwearied in render-
ing the kindest offices of friendship, and in performing the holiest deeds of
charity." Tims only one year and eight months after his marriage, he was left
a second time, stricken with the deepest grief, with the care of an infant child.
This became his chief solace under his heavy sorrow, and he often speaks in
his letters of the joy of his constant watchfulness over this beloved boy and
his other children, and of witnessing the promise of their health and life.

For nearly three years after his wife's death, a favorite niece presided over
his house, who was afterwards married to Rev. Dr. Peabody of Springfield.
On the 22nd of January, 1824, he was again married to Mrs. Ruth Rogers, a
daughter of Joseph Hurd, Esq., of Charlestown. By this union, which contin-
ued more than thirty seven years, and was only broken by his own death, he
had three sons. Two of them died in infancy ; and one, the eldest, Henry Orne
White, a graduate of Harvard, in the class of 1 843, is now established as a phy-
sician at Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin. In his new domestic relations, so ad-
mirably fitted to secure his happiness, the time which was not absorbed by his
Probate duties was chiefly given to reading and study, and to attempts in
various ways to promote the intelligence and welfare of the community. He
began to accumulate books at a very early period. Two of the classes to
whom he had been tutor in College, gave him very valuable works. Soon
after he went to Newburyport, he mentions repeated purchases which he had
made at book auctions there. He continued to collect not only the old stand-
ard works in every department of Literature, but also new books of merit, as
they came from the Press, until at length, although he had given many
thousands of volumes to individuals and associations, his library became very
large. It was rich in various departments. His fondness for the Clas-
sics led him to collect the best editions of the Greek and Latin authors. Val-
uable works of History, of Poetry, of Theology, found their place upon his
shelves. He was seldom absent from home, except for brief journeys, in one
of which he had the good fortune to pass two or three days with his friend
Rev. Dr. Channing, at Niagara Falls. While there he visited the battle-field

of Lundy's Lane, in company with him and Gen. Scott, and had all the interest-
ing localities pointed out by one who took so distinguished a part in the bril-
liant miKtary operations in that immediate neighborhood. With ample lei-
sure to gratify his literary tastes, he was able to keep himself, in a remarkable
degree, abreast of the world's intellectual life. He had his favorite branches
of study. He was a lover of History. He was especially interested in Eccle-
siastical affairs. Theology had great attractions for him as a Science. He
was not only a faithful reader, but a careful student of the Scriptures. A trans-
lation of the Epistle to the Romans was found among his papers. His jour-
nal, in which he makes constant mention of the books which he was reading
from time to time, and gives brief commendations or criticisms respecting
them, affords abundant proof of the purity of his tastes, and of the wide range
and great fidelity of his studies and inquiries.

Of other aspects of Judge White's domestic life, it is difficult to speak in
fitting terms. No man could have held more sacred the relations to his home
and children, or more faithfully endeavored to fulfil them. Perhaps the fact
that he had been twice left with the care of children in their infancy, and thus
felt himself called by Providence itself to undertake a mother's as well as a
father's office, made him unusually thoughtful and careful respecting their
training and education. Still this was in his nature, and would have manifest-
ed itself under any circumstances. But his theories upon the subject were most
judicious. He believed in obedience ; but though this was indispensable, he
aimed to secure it by gaining the implicit confidence, and the affections of his
children, rather than by positive constraint. He was careful not to interfere
with nature. He desired to be to them as an invigorating atmosphere, or as
the life-giving light, to call fortli every nobler and generous trait of character,
while unworthy traits and feelings were silently, but persistently repressed
and eradicated, rather than to attempt to mould their lives by an excess of
discipline ; so that they might become what God intended to make them, in-
stead of what he might try to make them himself according to his sincere, but
possibly mistaken fancy. Then, too, the deepest thing in his nature was his
affection ; and though none of those who loved him most, knew, or could imag-
ine the depth of his love, still it made itself continually felt in the nearer rela-
tionships of his life, and was refreshing as the dews in his intercourse with
his children.

His letters to his eldest son, Rev. William 0. White, of Keene, beginning
with his first absence from home, and continued to his own latest days, num-

beringmore than six hundred, are most charming specimens of the correspondence
of a father with a child. During his son's College days and preparation for
professional life, they are filled with admirable hints respecting the true meth-
ods of study, and the true aims of life, with out-pcarings of the wealth of
his learning and affection. Occasionally maxims of wisdom drop unconscious-
ly from his loving pen. Once, for example, in a letter that seems to have been
called forth by some pecuniary loss, he says, "If we have competency we
should not only be thankful, but cheerfully enjoy it, and never suffer the loss
of any portion of property to annoy us, and diminish our enjoyment of the
residue. We should never forget that property is good for nothing if not en-
joyed in some way, and worse than nothing, if allowed to annoy us by its flight."
It would be difficult to find a correspondence that is more unaffected and sim-
ple, and yet more truly instructive in its comments upon books and literary
questions, as well as upon public affairs, and more entirely instinct with the
highest principles, and the most profoundly religious spirit. Happy the son
upon whom has been showered such treasures of memory and love.

We forbear to tread farther upon ground so sacred. But Judge White's
love of study, though a life-long passion, and his affectionate fidelity to his chil-
dren, only present particular phases of his character. He had the warmest so-
cial sympathies, and he delighted in the interchange of thought and sentiment
with living minds. It was his fortune to enjoy an extensive acquaintance
with many of the leading men of Massachusetts, and of New England. He
esteemed this as one of the great privileges of his life, and it gave him the
highest pleasure to welcome them under his own roof. Every man distin-
guished in any department of study, who visited the city, was drawn towards
him as by a magnet. His hospitality was entirely unostentatious, but absolutely
generous and free. If his house continually presented fireside pictures of the
family circle, engaged in reading new or standard books, it almost as frequent-
ly witnessed the gathering of intellectual friends, and of strangers whom he
wished to greet and honor, around his cheerful table. Almost every clergy-
man, who transiently supplied the pulpit of the church in which he worshipped,
received his hospitalities. To its stated minister, his house was another home.
No man's hospitality could have been more constant or attractive j and cer-
tainly very few private dwellings, in the same period, welcomed a greater num-
ber of intellectual and professional guests than his, during the last forty years
of his life.

MR. RANTOUL'S CONNEXION WITH

MILITARY AND LEGISLATIVE

MATTERS.

(Continued from the December number.)
My connexion with the Military deserves
some notice, inasmuch as it was so interest-
ing to me for a time, and then lost all my re-
gard and interest. When I first came to Bev-
erly, I trained with the standing militia com-
pany, comprising the inhabitants from the
Meeting-house to Manchester, and including
Montserat. There were then three companies
in the town, and with the one Company of
Manchester, they composed the 3d Regiment
of the 1st Brigade of the 2nd Division. The
Militia then consisted of every free, white,
male citizen between the ages of eighteen and
forty-five, with a few exceptions. After this,
for one year, I was appointed, by the Select-
men of the town, without my request, to be
an engine-man. Although not much gratified
with this appointment, as I loved to train, I
served at the Engine and was therefore ex-
empted, for one year, from military duty.

In the Autumn of 1800, there was a move-
ment amongst the young men, for the formation
of a company of Light Infantry, and I en-
gaged in the movement. The persons who
had previously expressed in writing their de-
sire to join in this undertaking, met at the
Town (now Briscoe) Hall, on the 17th Octo-
ber, 1800. Dr. Josiah Batchelder, afterward
of Falmouth, Maine, was chosen Moderator,
and proceeded to select for officers, Jonathan
H. Lovett, Captain, Robert Rantoul, Lieuten-
ant, Benjamin Winn, Ensign, and William H.
Lovett, Clerk. * * * The legal establishment
of the company could then only be procured
by special act of the General Court. We pe-
titioned for such establishment, at the next
Session of the Legislature, and the matter was
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finally acted upon in the January session of
1801, when an act was passed authorizing
Col. James Burnham to enlist a Volunteer
Light Infantry Company, and he, on the 2nd
of June, 1801, issued an order to me, (J.
H. Lovett being absent at sea : this was fre-
quently the case, and for most of the time,
gave me the command of the company) to
make the enlistment. I accordingly did so,
and procured forty signers. [Here follows a
list of members of the company, eighty four
in all, who had been connected with it before
1809, about which time the company was dis-
banded. I omit the list because it is, no doubt,
matter of record elsewhere. R. S. R.]

May 12tb, 1803, I was appointed a mem-
ber of a Court Martial, to sit in Salem. This
Court consisted of thirteen members. Major
William Prescott, the distinguished lawyer,
who recently died in Boston at an advanced
age, was President of the Court: John Prince,
afterwards Clerk of the Courts (died Sept.
22nd, 1848, aged 66,) was Marshal, and
William Wetmore, a lawyer in Salem, whose
widow married Judge Daniel A. White, was
Judge Advocate. A guard composed of
members of the Salem Cadets, attended at
the door of the Court House, posting their
sentinels according to Military etiquette. The
Court was appointed to sit on Wednesday,
the 1st day of June, 1803, and sat through
that week and one or more days of the next,
and, all this time, parade and expense were in-
curred to ascertain whether a poor, ignorant
militia captain had been guilty of a charge,
which might as well have been tried in a Jus-
tice's Court in half a day. He 'was found
guilty and dismissed from office. * * *

June 10, 1805, Jonathan H. Lovett was
chosen Major of the Regiment, which devolved
the command of the company upon me, and,

on the 27th of August following, I was chos-
en Captain.* * October 8th, 1805, the com-
pany assembled at my house at 4 1-2 o'clock
in the morning, took breakfast there and then
marched to Manchester to attend a Regimen-
tal Muster. * * July 4th, 1806, the company
attended the Celebration of Independence at
Salem, making a part of the escort to the
South Meeting-house, where an address was
delivered by Major Samuel Swett, who after-
wards married a daughter of Wm. Gray, and
lived in Boston. After the address, the com-
pany dined together on Washington Square.
May 21, 1807, I was chosen Major, but de-
clined accepting the office. * * July 4, 1807,
there was a public celebration; a standard was
presented to the Company by Susan Whit-
ney on behalf of the ladies; a sermon was
preached by Rev. Abiel Abbot, and a pub-
lic dinner was had on Watch House Hill. * *
July 28th, 1807, a company was ordered to
be detached from the 3d Regiment, to be held
in readiness for service when called for by the
United States government. I, being the old-
est in commission of the Captains, was ap-
pointed to the command of this company. It
consisted of 1 Captain, 1 Lieutenant, 1 En-
sign, 3 Sergeants, 1 Drummer, 1 Fifer, and
40 Rank and File. August 20th, 1807, I
inspected this detached company in squads on
the parades of the several companies in this
town and Manchester, assisted by Adjutant,
Allen Baker of the 3d Regt.

October 14, 1807, attended with the Li^ht

Infantry, at a Brigade Review at Danvers
Plains. Marched up and home, a hard
day's work.

July 4th, 1808, attended a training and re-
ligious services at Dane St. Meeting House.

Dec. 10th, 1808, Gov. James Sullivan,
aged 65, died, and the officers of the Militia

were requested to wear their uniforms and
side arms for thirty days.

Oct. 24, 1809, the Company attended a
Brigade Review, this was the last time that
I trained with the Beverly Light Infantry. I
resigned my commission soon afterwards, and
received a discharge, Nov. 25, 1809.

On Thursday the 9th of June, 1814, a
barge, from a British Ship of War, pursued a
schooner, belonging to Manchester, towards
this harbor. She, being unable to escape,
was run on shore at Mingoe's Beach, where
the British set fire to her and left her, when
the inhabitants assembled and extinguished
the fire. In consequence of this occurrence,
a town meeting was held on Saturday, June
llth, and measures were taken to procure
from the State field-pieces of cannon, ammu-
nition &c., for the defence of the town. A
number of persons associated themselves to-
gether as artillery men, and on the 17th of
June, at a meeting held for the purpose,
Nicholas Thorndike was chosen Captain, I
was chosen First Lieutenant, and Benjamin
Brown Jr. Second Lieutenant. Frequent
meetings were held to exercise with the two
brass six pounders, which the state had fur-
nished. The number of persons associated
was fifty four. We turned out twice on
alarms that the British were landing, which
proved to be groundless, and met frequently
for practice until February 13, 1815, when
information was received in this town that a
treaty of peace had been signed at Ghent on
the 24th of December, 1814. In the after-
noon of the day of the receipt of this news,
the company assembled, and dragging the can-
non to the Watch House Hill near Hale Street,
fired a salute of 18 guns, under my command,
Captain Thorndike being out of town. This
was the last time I wore a sword. The asso-

elation was soon afterwards dissolved, and the
cannon and apparatus were returned to the
State Arsenal.

October 16, 1855, I attended a celebration
of the 41st anniversary of the present Bever-
ly Light Infantry Company. There are now
living in Beverly, seventeen persons beside
myself, who were members of the company
while, or at some time while I belonged to it.
Notwithstanding the apparent inconsistency
with my present views of military affairs, I tho't
it would be pleasant, and would be attended
with many interesting recollections, to meet
with my old companions in arms once more.
The whole number of members who belonged
to the company, during any part of the period
of my connexion with it, between April 1801
and Nov. 25, 1809, was eighty four. Thir-
teen of my old associates attended this cele-
bration, viz: Samuel Stickney, who was En-
sign for most of the time while I belonged to
the company, now 84 years of age, Edward
Stone, Bartholomew Wallis, Ebenezer Trask,
Thomas Adams, Samuel Morse Thissel, Wil-
liam Lamson, Francis Lamson, Thomas Whit-
tridge, John P. Webber, Seth Dodge, Thom-
as Pickard and Robert Carey. About half

of these are upwards of seventy years of age.

******

In 1809, I was chosen a representative to
the General Court, with Thomas Davis, Ab-
ner Chapman, Thomas Stephens, and Isaac
Rea, the last survivor of whom, Abner Chap-
man, died Oct. 1855, at the age of 85. At
that time the town sent its full representation,
but, as the attendance of the members was
paid for out of the Town Treasury, it was un-
derstood that the members should not attend
constantly, and I, being the youngest of the
delegation, was expected to give place to my
seniors, so that for the first year I attended
only for a portion of each session, lest the

town should be unduly burthened. I was re-
elected from year to year until 1820, when I
was chosen Senator for the County and was
re-elected to that office for the years 1821 and
1822.

In 1828, 1 was a candidate for the Senate,
but the election of Senators going against the
Federal party in this County, I was, in the
same year, chosen Representative and re-elected
to that office until 1827, when I lost my elec-
tion, but not on political grounds. I had
voted, in the preceding session, for a free
bridge from Charlestown to Boston and had,
in my office of Commissioner of Highways,
aided in the laying out of a new piece of road
from Cabot to Water Street in Beverly.
These, with other grounds of opposition not
specifically stated, prevailed for that year, and
in 1828, and for the succeeding five years, I
was chosen again. For the next six years I
was an unsuccessful candidate, and in 1840,
I addressed the following letter to a public
meeting of the Democratic Party held at the
Town Hall :

BEVERLY, September 22, 1840.
CAVT. JOSIAH LOVETT, 2nd.
DEAR SIR:

The recent alteration of the con-
stitution of this State, renders it necessary
to reduce the number of Representatives
from Beverly. This circumstance, in con-
nexion with others, having drawn my atten-
tion to the relation in which I have stood to
the Electors of this town for the space of
thirty one years last past, I beg leave to ad-
dress you, as the chairman of the Town
Democratic Committee, upon the subject of
withdrawing myself from the consideration
of my fellow-citizens, as a candidate for the
State Legislature. I was firsfr elected a
Representative in 1809, a time of great po-
litical excitement. The election occured in
May following the raising of the long em-
bargo, which was removed in March, 1809.
This measure of the National Government

had operated with peculiar severity upon the
business of the town and had produced a
state of irritability unexampled within the
period of my recollection. Partaking strong-
ly of the popular feeling, as most young men
do under similar circumstances, I was elect-
ed as an active partizan in the Federal Party.
To that party I gave a hearty support, con-
sidering their course, in the main, as prefer-
able to that of their opponents, but differing
from the leading Federalists on several im-
portant points, and continued to be elected
from 1809 to 1819 inclusive. In 1820,
1821 and 1822, I was elected, by the sup-
port of the Federal party, a Senator for the
County of Essex, and was held up as a can-
ditate for the same office in 1823, but the
Federal party losing its ascendency, both in
the County and the State, for that year, I
failed of an election. I was however sent by
the town, the same year, to the House of
Eepresentatives, and continued to be returned
asa Representative from that year until 1827.
In 1825, after the decease of Governor Eus-
tis, who died in the first part of that year,
an amalgamation of the two great political
parties, Federal and Democratic, was brought
about through the agency of members of the
Legislature then in session. I co-operated
in the formation of this new party, in which
some of the principles of Federalism were
kept out of sight, and a union formed in sup-
port of the administration of President John
Quincy Adams. At the formation of this
party, I objected publicly to what was false-
ly called the American System, the leading
principles of which I uniformly repudiated.
With the National Republican Party, as the
new organization was called, I felt but little
cordiality. It soon became evident that the
protective system, which promised to be the
foundation of the wealth of some of the
more active partizans and to add greatly to
that of those who had already become rich,
was the principal object of the party. Up-
on the Protective System and the System of
Internal Improvements by the General Gov-
ernment, my earliest opinions have not
changed, but upon another question of great
interest, I am equally free to say that the

views I now entertain are the opposite of
those I held formerly, and that upon the con-
stitutionality and expediency of a National
Bank, I have changed my opinion. I once
believed that a National Bank would afford
great facilities to the government in collect-
ing and disbursing its revenues; that it
would be very beneficial to the trading por-
tion of the community, in equalizing exchang-
es ; that it would be a convenience to almost
the entire community in facilitating remit-
tances to every part of our extended territo-
ry, and that it would restrain and regulate
the action of the State Banks. Constitution-
al objections were obviated by its apparent
utility in the arrangements of the financial
concerns of the government. In most of
these particulars the Bank has failed. But
admitting that all the expected benefits have
been derived from its existence, they certain-
ly have been most dearly purchased. The
dangerous power and influence of the Bank,
in controlling elections, through a corrupt
press, by the use of its funds in loans or in
payment for services rendered; its means of
embarrassing the Government in any and ev-
ery measure not identical with its interests;
its means of influence in Congress through
loans to members, or enormous fees paid os-
tensibly for professional services ; its means
of influence among merchants and traders by
granting or witholding loans of money from
political considerations, all these combine to
satisfy me that such an institution ought not
to be tolerated in this free country. Our free
institutions ought not to be put at hazard for
any p