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REYNOLDS   HISTORICAL 
GENEALOGY  COLLECTION 


m'iiimiSW.T.y.fyBLIC  LIBRARY 


3  1833  01723  9655 


GENEALOGY 
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NEW -ENGLAND 

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PTOLISHSD  QX:Af.T£i;LT,  U.Sri-T.  TKS  DCKECTIO-V  OJ  TilE 

POIl  THE  YEAR  1S77. 


VOLUME    XXXI 


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B0ST  ON: 
PUBLISHED  AT  THE  SOdETY'S  HOUSE,   18   SOirERSET  STRESr, 

PaisTEi;  EX  Da7D  Ci^-??  d:  Sow. 

187  7. 


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18  7  7.        "     '■' 

JOHN  WARD  DEAN,  JEREMIAH  COLBimN, 

ALBERT  H.  HOYT,  WILLIA>I  B.  TilASK, 

-      ;      ,       HENRY  F.  WATERS. 


EBitar, 
JOHJI  WARD  DE.iN. 


UOM-MITTEE   OX   PUBLICATION. 

JoHX  Wahd  Dean-,  Ji.remiah  C"T,ftruv, 

Albert  H.  Hoyt,  M^illiam  B.  Tuask. 


CONTENTS -JANUARY,  1877. 

%*     IL'iisl.-alions  :  Foitrait  Oi'  Hox.  MILL  ART)  FILLMORK  (to  face  jJ'iQs  ''*)  ;  Autccraph  of  the 
Star  Spanclf.d  Ban.veh,  jiaije  23. 

I.    Sketck  OF  THK  LiFF.  OF  THE  IIox.  MiLT.AKD  FiLi.MOUE.    BvtLclii.v.  Gcnrge 

\V.  h'osmcr,  D.D '     .         .         .         .  9 

II.    Prouai.le  Parentage  of  the  Kev.  Hugh  and  Mlssks.  John  and  ^IATT^T.■^v 

Adams 17 

in.    A  Yankee  pKiVATi:Ei;sM\N  ix  Piasov.  1777-0.  Di.ir}-  of  I'iiiiotbv  Connor.  ( Cor-.- 

tiiiued.)     Com.  hv  Wdiiam  H.CutUr  ........  \'i 

IV.    Notes  ox  Amef.ican  Hi'^toky.    No.  XIIL  T1..,'  Vi.-;,'iii:..  Loltcrx's.    No.  XIV. 

VivJ-iniA  Slavelioldtrs,  Fo'ininry,   ICi'/).     r,y  tiic  il'-v.  Erbcard  D.  AVc'.V,  A.B.   .  21 

V.    Hoi.Lis,  N.  H.,  IN  THE  Va;;  OF  THE  RavoLrriox.  (Couti-nud.)    By  :!hj  lion. 

Samuel  T.  M'orcestcr       , 23 

VI.    The  Star  6iA\DX.r.;)  Bann';)i.     Antopnvi^h  Cop-"o.s,  Additioiuil  Ver.S'.?^  &c.    By 

■  Rear-Adniir.il  George  H'tiry  Pn-h/e,  U..S.N. 20 

TIL    Record  or  the  Boston  Committee  of   Coi!iiE:svoNDr.NCE,   Ix.si'ection  .a.nd 
Safety,  !77r<.    (Co»thi''.ed. )    Fi'inr-tl  bv  pcMiii.-.-rion  ut'  Srrmwi  F.  .''J'-Ckaru, 

City  Cl'.ik  ..."..." 31 

VIII.    Services  oi  Nrv,-  Hamp-;iii'.e  Duuixa.rHE  Hkhoic  .\ge  of  the  Re-'Vblic.  Bv 

£'ias  U'lsket  Derby ".  3i 

rv  .      >rry.->-  ,VM  .      -^n:irr    T'Tr    Prv.     V7\-.'\\'y\.    Co-'-T  ET.'-:    Tvi"RI.EV\fO    Al.M.'NACS, 

172S-0',!.     ((..onciuded.)     Com.  by  Joh/i  L.'rrjnon  Sib/ry,  A.^I .  .        .        .  -l.> 

X.     Seals  FI107'.  TUE  Jeffeie.^  ^[.v.x'- SCRIPTS.     Coin.  i'V  jhc   Cotrnd't':'}  on  IL.-ral'hy  Otl 
XI.    Uoc':?:ext.    fj.om  tub  (-ee.-  ish  2>lANCSCKtPT?.    (Conch'di-d.j    Co:):,  by  Mrs. 

licibdla  Jamts ....."..  67 

XII.     Marriages  IX  PEyR'.'.OKE,  Mvss.,  solemnized  et  the  FlEV.  Tuo?i.af   .^'mith. 

Com.  l.y  ;/.  B.  £d;-^ 6.S 

XIII.  The  St.ave  Trade  IX  MASSACtvsEiTS.     Co:n   hy  r>cd:'rU' ?Ii/Jd.'-        ...  7-3 

XIV.  Records  OF  Ht-ll,  .Mass.    (Contuiued.)    Com, "in-  Willard  S.  A'len  -        .  76 

XV.      KcCOKE-BoOK  OF  TTIE    FlIiST    CHI  Roli    \J    C  II.AR  ET- STOWN,    M.V.SS.      (  C--^ii:i  ili'.ed  ) 

Com.  by  James  F.  llunneicdl .        '.  7S 

XVI.    Thomas  Hale,  the  Gj.ovek.  of  NKAVRrRA',  ^[ass..  !63o  and  ITis  Desce.su  iN  is. 

By  the  Hon.  B.obert  S.  Hnh\  LI;  D SS 

XVII.    Letter  tip  THE  Seckf.^' CoMMfTEE  <iF  Cjnijre.ss  to  Sie^s  Ue.axe  in  Fbai-.'ce, 

1776.    Com.  by  John  S.  H.  Fogj.  M.D 00 

XVIiI.    Pe.-cen^axts  ofJohn  .-Vloee.  of'Bostox.    Com  T'y  Arthm-  .If.  A!-;u>-,  LL.F.     .  U^i 

XIX.      AESCKACTS  OF  THE  tAKLTEST  ^VlI.LS  JN  SUFFOI.K  C'-'UnTV,  MaSS.      Ci-m.  bv    ifi.'- 

Uam  B.  Trask '  .         ,  '.fC 

XX.    Lest  OF  IxNKoLDEES,  &;c.  IN  Boston,  171L    Com. '.  y  J't.-c?.';'"a7!  C-j/id-rH,  A.M.       ,  lOS 

XXr.    N;>rE>  aXj;.  QrrRiES ....     ID-IS 

XXIf.      SoCIETfFS    AXn   THEIR   FroCFEE'INO-^  : 

Nov.-  Fn'j-lAsi'l  Hi-t'irif,  Goripalo^uic:!!  S^.-vieh-,  Ff!>.  2,  Mnr^'h  1,  Apri^  o,  May  3, 
June  7,  Sept.  0.  li>76,  119;  Rho.le  Is.'anl  HiitorU-Al  Sj.tl'iv,  Olt..  3,  Oct. '24, 
Nov.  21,  ISrC,  123 ■     .        .        ,        .      119-23 

XXI'i.      N^THOEOG"*-  OF   T'TE  NfW-FnGLAND  HlSTOMC,  G  EN  K.A  f.OGIC  \E  SOCIETY  : 

Th.;  Ri-v.  Fic<ij-ic  W.  Cii:i;.r;i:u'..  ttiL- Hon.  CbiEli's  "A".  UphuTn,  124;  Joseph 
B.  Va'-n!!.in,  12-3;  tlic  RfV.  Vv'iiliain  B.  Spracuf,  12d;  Ciiarles  Cansubell,  127; 
the  Hon.  Thotras  H.  Wynno,  128  ......'...      124-2S 

XXrV.    Notices  of  F^ecent  FcuLiCATioxs i29 

XXV.    Deaths IcO 


Dosi^uod  to  gather  ';p  imd  p!a>-x-  'ii  a  iicnp.anent  toriii  fho  scatiored  r.n  1  decaying  v-jccrd^  of  the 
doniestu;,  civil,  lit'.ir-H-y,  rtjligious  aud  politicd  Hfo  -.M'  t.he  pc-fp'e  of  tlic  Un'U'.l  Stuts.i,  und  p.ii-fic'i- 
hiily  o.*"  New  England,  is  puiilislied  qitarteriy  by  cbe  Ne-.v  England  Hisf-ric,  Giincalo^ical  Society, 
Boston,  on  the  lirst  day  of  Jaiiuarv,  April,  July  and  October,  at  .$:{  a  year  in  adi-ancc.  AJ  Ircsi 
John  Ward  0e.v:.',  Euitor,  IS  Som^ri-et  Sfreet,  Bo^io'i,  jlnss. 


[lT*  Wanted,    VoL  xvi.  (1802)  of  tiie  XeiC-E^i^'lavd  fJlstcfteal  and  CJeriealcoical  fufjiater.    Ad- 
dress, stating  coudilion  and  price.  Georgs  ^^.  Elliott.,  4b  Central  Street,  Lo'.vcll,  Mass. 


COMMITTEE   ON  PUBLJCATION. 
John  "\rAKD  Dr.w,  Jf.remiak  Culuvkv, 

AlEEM    H,    HoYr,  WlLLI.VM    li.  TllASK, 

HeXRY    F.    W.VTtKS. 


CONTENTS --APRIL,  1877. 

%*     Illustrations:  Portrait  of  ISAAC  CifAPMAN'   BATES  (to fac jiage  U\) ;    L'Jttcr  of 
V.'iLLiAM  IliLTus  ( lo  face paijf:  \bG). 

I.    Memoir  OF  [s-VAC  Chapman- Bati:j.     By  Han' iitun  Aiid'-eics  Hill,  A.yi.        .        .  Itl 

II.    Notes  ox  American-  Histukv.  frt),^^-;'H,.a'.;    By  the  Rev.  EJio.  I).  X^llL  X.li.  147 

III.  Some  Accoint  of  iht.  Liri-  and  Timks  oy  tuk  Rev.  rKT.JK  BrLKrLEv.    Bj 

Anna  Maria  Faij     .............*  \iiZ 

IV.  Lkttkr  of  Mk.s.  Sisvy  I'.v. dixgxon  concernin-g  the  W\rrL  Family.     Coin. 

l)y  D.  P.  Corey,  Y.i^\ IGO 

T.    Nf.w  Hampshire  Manm-scrii'TS.    Com.  by  Jvha  5.  H.  Fcig.  Ml).        .        .        .  l^-l 

YI.    Ancestry  of  the  Hon.  Sm-HEX  A.  Dovglas.     Com.  by  C.  U.J.  Dotojla^.  E.-q.  IGi-J 

VII.    Sir  Chap.i.es  Wacur  ANT)  Cait.  Jc'KX  lii-Li.     Y^j  Osyood  Field,  Y.'-\. 

YIII.    TloLi.i.5,  X.  n,.  IX  Ti'.i:  Wau  or  THE  Kevuliiion.    (Coi-cluied.)    l>\  tie  Hon. 
::-amv.el  T.  ]Vorcist.:r        ....         ........ 


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IX.    AL'.>fiiAcrs  OF  Tun  Kakliest  V.'ili.s  in  ^iitim  k  County,  M.vss.    Com.  iiv  'A';':- 

Ham  B.  Trask,  E-^'i " .        .  \:;j 

S.    Soj:k  ofxu,;  Descen^.-.kis  O;.-  William  Hilton.     By  J.u'ia  T.  H-.is^.un,  .V.Vi.    .  179 

XI.     Churches  IN  Har^v:n TON  .>N J  SocTinNGTOv.  Ct.    By  J.  C  TZ.t'   Es  j.      .        .  I'O 

XII.    Letter  of  Vv'ashington  to  Knox.  17^^.    J'roi-i  a  eo;;v  prist-utHd  Wj  Rear-AJia, 

ilcViry  ^.  r/iti/cAfr,  U.S. !•'.,  to  tne  N.  E.  Hi.-t. '.Jen.  SJciety        .    '     .        .         ,  196 

XIII.  Genealogy  OF  thh  C'.,">sr"  7amilv.    V>y  Gijr.jr  3.  B''jdi!-:tce.  A.'sl.  .        .  197 

XIV.  B.4.KKiSTEi;s  AT  Law  IN  MAiSACHtSEn  ?.     By  A.thur  M.  A'cer,  LL.B.  .        .  2(5 

XV.    Abdkess  of  thf.  Hon.  Makskall  P.  ViLtKr.  ^if'ioro  the  X.  £.  Hl.-'ode,  Geuca- 

loj-'ical  Society,  Jan.  3,  IS  7  209 

XVI.    Birtk>,  Marriages  a-ni:>  Deaths  in  Lyme,  Cr.      Cjoied  i)y  the  i.ite  Rot.  F.  f^. 

Chc^pman,  A.M *     .     ' 211 

XVII.    A  Yan'kli:  PRiYATEER-;>tA>:  :n'  Prison,  :x  Exglj^n:.!,  1777-79.  Du\ry  of  TnL0ti;y 

Conaor.    (Continiie-l.j     Cum.  L-y   lV,"iao,  R.  Ci,:i-:r,  £.-<}.  .   '     .         .        ".  •212 

XVIII.      l-.ECOf^  I-BOOK  OF  THE    Fi^.iT    CHr.RCTC    IN    CrfVRLES  lO^VN,    .M^>S.      (' C.->litirU(6Cf,.  J 

Coi ..  by  James  F.  Hu.KieiV'j'J, 'Eit;^. 214 

XIX.      XOTE-<  AND  QrERIES  ; 

E:igllHh  (..iptive^i  in  C.ira-i.i,  21S;  Woouburv  an;:  EUot,  2^9 ;  A  T:-s;i'!e  VetciiM 

■   ■;■     oat  of  a  Viper;  p;-^a^la^,  C.Mnab.iH  iin:!  Lillibridge;  WiD;   of  V\'il'i;.n' Cutter; 

■w  '      Clear jLiTiil.   ;inci  Pc-.irs^'U.   '^JO;    Bani<e.-.   A;ui.ior.y,  f/urstoii,  Durkee,  He^.ieT  ; 

Amher>st  ^S':i.:^ir;  Fi-k..',  Br-nvn,  Campiiela,  Di.-.icii  ;i;i(i  Hili ;  Ch.in'.pioi},  2-.U  ; 

Cotton  M::ither  -s  Ramo  Dieipiiuie;  Letter  of  DinielCheever,  222  ;  'I'lie  ^svra<>r:ds 

Family;    Rit'dc^,  i;:  Mie?'.  .Ridlons  au-J  Eidlev^;    Daven.poit;  Rov.  Seth  Xo- 

ble,  22;^ ;     Figure  Hi. .-.a  of  the  Con»titutit»u;    Bjotli  and  .Vlniiin^swortl!,  22 i: 

Well5,    Weld;    StLvtn?.  Xoye5,    Ilriev  und   Broei:Iel>jnl-c;    Widtncy;  .M.-iir,e 

...        Faaiiiit*;    ..\inericun>  of  Royai  Do.'^eeiu.  22o:,  Mai-.io  Staie  Ceiebi-ities ;    Th'j 


Seotch-In,-ti ;    The  L'.rjr.iry   World  ;    Virjrini.i    History  ;    PubUeoI;;,  z  query 
abou: ;  0^i  Geor^-rtvv.;:  ;ind  Wo(-.l',vie:i,  Maine :  Ilogcr.i=,  220      .        .        .        . 


21S-2tJ 


XX.      SoCiETIFS    AND    THEIF.    Pur  CEEDINGH  : 

Xe^v  EEirland  ii'-^zvic,  Gcueaiogjea:  So-'c'y.  227;  Rhrde  IsUrid  Historical  So- 
ciety; Xevv  L<,  Vidoa  Cvinry  Ilistovicii  Soeiety,  22S;  Histurieal  Society  of  DeL- 
ware;  Vir^iriiu.  }l!^'.Jr■..•;li  SoLiery,  22;) 227-30 

XXI.    Xi-CHOLOGY  OF  WF  X;%-v-En'Jlan"d  Historic,  0: EN EALOGicAL  S'>ciETT  • 

The  lion.  S;:n;uel  H..->over.  2.JU;   tiie  iion.  A[bcn  Feurinu';  Cliarics  T.  Cle-'e- 

iaiul,  M.D. ;    Joiim;!,  Pre^tcn  Piitr.iinj.  VJso.,  231 ;  .lohn  Weil.-.   Parker.  E<q. ;  .,.-. 

Jajper  H.  York,  >[.D.,  2:  2;  Avidrew  T.  Kail   Esi'. :  the  Hon.  .^cn.'  uni:t  F,?pie- 

roy,  23.'>;  Daniel  F.  Chiio.Ei-q.;  Abel  ball,  M.D.,  23 i;  the  f{i.rt.  j.inie^  Gre:4:o- 

ry;  V,'iUiaia  E.  Docgetr,  Eio.,  23-5;  -Joisbua  P.  Gouverio,  F.-q.,  l^.j*;;    .        ,    "   .    2;)i-:;S 

XXII.      X'OTICES  OF  ri.':CENT    Fl  BiiCA  rXONS  ; 

Colicetioi^s  o.'"  the  Ma5.-.:ichu.-;ett.?  llibtovioal  Soeirty.  vul.s.  2  ai-d  o.  "f 'fth  Ser'e.s :. 
Letters  and  P-.n-nri-.cr.t-?  reiatinrr  to  Sia.veiy,  .:".';  r:d(.-(':  Pe'ai,','r'';- ;  Ccriis.^ 
Fiiciily  ;  AUe.i  Geuealory  ;  Jones  Record,  J.J7  ,  True  Blue-La*... s  of  Uoiir'ecu- 

('C.-ndxdr.d  on  Ikird  jiO'je  jf  ■.•ycr.j 


(CoXTENTS.     From  second  puffe  of  cover.) 

tnt  nnd  Now  Tlavcn,  238;  Romini-^rciiccs  of  ;i  Innjj  Mini^lrv;  Fomiilors  of 
Mar\i;-nd;  Fir-'.  ILi!r(.'er  tury  ol  D.iitnioutli  Ci'llv^ro,  'i.if*;  txfiacr.s  from  rlic 
Diary  of  Chri-iojijicr  Marshall  ;  C('n;.'rfe;uioii;il  uiid  I'roslyyri.'iian  Mitr>try  and 
Chiirchesof  New  H:ir.ipshire  ;  DoddriiUv  on  the  >cttlcnu'nt  aiul  Iiiduui  Wars 
of  Western  Virginia;  ili>torifal  Sketch  of  Snip  Biiildiiin-  on  tiic  Meiriinac 
River,  -Jii';  Potr.  r's  Anierlr.-in  Momlilv ;  Extracts  from  a  Lairja^lilru  Diarv, 
241;  Mann  ii  uf  tlir  Fir--f  Church,  Dnvir,  N.H. ;  Brief  Ili.-tory  oi  ilu'  Fir^^  Chnroh, 
Newton,  ^la^-.;  Sketch,  i^c,  of  Fir«t  Church.  M.irbluhf  ad,  Mass. ;  F-iiilyMnps 
of  Ohio  an<l  the  West;  Pre-Hisinric  Iti'iniiiiis  I'ainid  on  the  site  of  Cincinnati. 
t?42;  Proccedin:;s  of  tlic  Annrican  Anti'inarian  Society;  Foiirtli  Uennion  of 
Society  of  the  Army  of  the  Ciuiiiierland  ;  Pioneer  IIi>t(iry  of  Milwaukee;  New 
Enghmd  .\eailemies ;  Century  ot  Educirinn  in  Providence,  li.  I.,2i:i;  Scnri- 
Centennial  of  Lowell ;  Celebration  at  Kingston,  Mass. ;  Bartol's  Sennnii  on  the  . 
40th  Anniversary  of  his  Scitiernent;  Bi-Ccutcnnial  <  f  the  Burninff  of  McdMchl ; 
Addresses  at  the  Dedication  of  the  Tov.-n  Hal!,  Mcdtield;  Historica!  Discourse 

r-!-'  at   Medwav;    Haywanl's   Ceatennial  Addres.s  at  Gii-nni,  N.  R.  ;    Cetitcnnial 

Discour-e  "at  lAnidonderrv  ;  Twenty-Fifth  Anniversary  of  Prcshy  terii^n  Chnvch, 
Mailison,  24i;  Roger  Willianis's  ".Xnsuer  to  Coddiiigton's  Letter ;  Cont^il.u- 
tions  to  tiie  Historical  Society  of  Montana,  243;  Judge  Warrtn's  History  of  tlic 
Bunker  Hili  Montuuent;  John  Whechvrigbt.  246;  Life  and  Industrial  Labors 
of  William  Wheelwright;    Ar.iorican  Bibliopo!i.st.  247;   Cclclirati  ^n  at  Worccs- 

;  ■  ter  of  the  Centennial  Annivcr-ary  of  tlie  Declaration  of  Independence  ;  Notes, 
Historical  and  CiiP'tiological,  on"  Worcester;  New  York  Genci:Iog:cal  an<l  Bio- 
graphical Kcco'd;  Maine  Genca.logiit  and  BiOL-rnpher  ;  Two  Hund:-eil  ar.d  Fif- 
tittli  Celebration  at  Dovv  r,  N.  H. ;  Dover  Pulpit  during  the  Ke\o!utionury 
War,  2-la  ....  23(3-iO 

XXIII.  De.\tks: 

Ha  ■:•,.:■:!)  S.   Baldwin  ;  Chaile.-Day;   Elien  B.  Foster;  Abigail  G.  Hale  ;   Guy 

C.  Hayiies,  249;  Benjamin  Hobar't;  MehinL'ird;   William  C.  IlciclicI, 'JOO      .     2;!}-.Jo 

XXIV.  Titles  op  Recent  Flblic.\tion's  2;>l-':',5 


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For  1847,  vol.  i.  ;  1S43,  vol.  ii.  ;  1849,  vol.  iii.  :  1850,  vol.  iv.  ;  1S52,  vol.  vi.  ;  1?')6,  vol. 
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1671,  vol.  XXV.  ;   1873,  vol.  xxvii.  ;   lb75,  vol.  xxix. 

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domestic,  civil,  literary,  religious  and  political  life  of  the  people  of  the  United  States,  aud  p.uticu- 
larly  of  New  England,  is  published  quarterly  liy  the  New  England  Historic,  Genealo:rical  Society, 
Boston,  on  the  tirst  f'ay  of  January,  April,  July  and  Ocxober,  at  §3  a  year  in  advance.  Addrcs* 
Jouy  Ward  Di\s.  E'Mtox;  IS  So/ii-erset  Slree(,  Boston,  3Iasi.  -  ■-■  .       .       ..  ■ 


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Ma;3. 


COJ.IMITTEE  ON  PUBLICATION. 

JoHX  Waud  Dean  (Editor),  Jiuiemiah  Coliu  uv, 

Albeht  il.  HoYf,  William  B.  Tuask., 

Henut  F.  Watkus. 


CONTENTS  —  JULY,  1877. 

%*   lUmlratlon:  Portrait  of  ALEXIS  CX'iWEh'L  (to  face  pi^c  2o:i). 

I.    Alkxis  Caswei.l,  D.D.,  LL.D.,  Ex-Prcaidcnt  of  Blown  Univcriity.    By  William 

Gammell,  LL.D ,'        ,        .  2.53 

II.    ArTOEioGR.\pnY  OF  WiLLtAM  IloT'ju.     Com.  Viy  F/'.'(/criirk  C.  Sanf'.rd,  E>q.      .  202 

■  III.     A  Stcdt  of  THi^  V!Rrr.ixiA  CEN.^rs  OF  1624.     (Cnniiiiu.-^d. )     By  the  Ruv.  Edicard 

D.  Xeill ' 2v,-> 

IV.  Thf.  rowjit:K-MiLL  IN  Caxto.v.    By  D.  T.  V.  Himtocn 272 

V.  DocriiuNTs  KF-LATiya    ro  Emigrants  fkom    Ji.u>,ey.     No.   I.     By  H^unj  F. 

n'afers,  A.E "...  277 

VI.  Barnstaple  Famtlt  Nak-s.    By  thcUvv.  G.  T.  Ridloii 279 

VII.    Mahimagss  in  West  Spiiingfield,  Mass.    f  Conti::ut'd.)    Com.  hv  Luman  K. 

Ji:c;(/,AM '..■■.'..  2S1 

VIII.    A    Vanked   Phtvatkfksman  in  Putson,    1777-7f'.    Diaty  of  Tiinoihy  Counor. 

fCo'-tmued.J    Cciu.  by  Williafn  li   Ct-'firt/-,  Esq.  ......  2S4: 

IX;'    Thk  Indian  Attack  ON  Cv.sco  in  1676.    Coxn.hy  John  S.  H.  Foj/;,yx.D.    .        .  283 

X.      ilSCORn    OF    T!iF.    Bo-TON    CoMMITTEK    OF    CoUHtoI'ONDENCE,    I.VS PEC'.iON     AND 

SvFETT.     (Co-.tir-'-cd.'     Priiued  bv  penniasiun  o'i  Samuel  F.  .l/cCwiN-y,  Eiq. 

Ciry  Ckrk 290 

XI,    Thomas  Ne'.vcomb's  A.rcovNT-BooK.    Cora,  by /c'<>t  iJ.  A'eycy/.v';,  Esq.      ..        .  294 

XII.    'i'uE  Gayer  Family.     Com.  by  William  C.  FoUjer,  Esq. 297 

XIII.  To^VN  Hates  OF  >'ewxqn  AND  BiLJ^ERtCA.     QovKi.hy  Waittr  L.  J>'Jf'rics,~£^c\.        .  ;-02 

XIV.  D0Cr>{E.NT5    REtATING   TO    Coi,.   JoKX    Ku JlPHF.EYs's    Fa  KM    AT  L''-NN.      CoTTl.  bj 

nornj  F,  liatcra,  A.B,  ,         .         .        ".  SG7 

XV.     Pas3enger3  Ayi>  YEs?EL.-b  THAT  KAv:^  AKKiiED  IN  Amukica.    ( Coiitip.ued. )    .  ?/:'} 
XVI.    DocuMENrs  Pwr.LAiivr,  TO  Tiii.  Dallibeu  Fa>iij:.v.    Com.  by   Wuiiam  B.  Trask 

aad  Charles  K.  {lood^f/ry,  Esqs.  .         .         .         .       " 312 

XVII.    Baptis'C-j  i>-  Dotei;,  X.  II.,  17r,7-1737,  by  Rev.  Jcreynu  B'ilkitav,  P.D.    Com.  br 

John  R.  Haw,  M.D '.....'.  313 

XVIII.    LoNGMEADo-\v,  >[ass.,  Families.    Com.  hy  inUard  S.  AUtn,'Es(\.        .        .        .  31S 
XD'v..    Abstracts  cF  F-a-rliest  Wills  IN  St'FFOLK  Co i.NTT,  Mass.    Com.  hv   WilUam. 

B.  Trask,  Esq "...  321 

XX.    Will  ei  I  ■.)BErT  FiiT,    CoM-i.tj  Eeiir</ F.  Waters,  K.Vj 322 

XXI.    G-iVEALOG^CAL  Waifs.     C<m\.hj  Col.  Jo^'^ph  L.  *?heHi:r,Y  i^.R/i.       .        ,        .  32? 
XXII.    Kecord-Book  of  the  Fiust  Church  in  Charle.stown,  Mxss.    (Coni'imed.) 

Com.  by  James  F.  Hunneicell,  Esq 325 

XXIII.    Notes  AND  Queries  : 

Wharf,  .317;  The  C;istlo  T.ivern,  .?29;  Hr.npock;  Recocd  of  :Mrs_  Sr.sanr.ah 
Aldcu;  Starr,  330;  Hersh.im;  The  Rev.  Eeiyairiin  .-..l!(>ii's  MS.  duuy :  R.v--- 
monJ,  Tho:ii?.s,  3:jl ;  Aiicieat  'A'reck  ;  the  Kidd  UianioiKl;  Notes  by  H.  F. 
Witters;    Wy;itr,   Long,    S32;   Hilton;  Portraits  ai;d  Relies  of  Gen.  ijncoin  ; 

■  Stone;  Adaras  Pedi:.:ree,  333;  Ilarvaru  College  Triennial ;  CorHss  Famiir  lie-        ■.    . 
cord;  Frr.vard  WhalVy,  the  Regi-'ide;  Stiqdieii.s;  Detroit.  Mieb.,  334;  Fhii.i- 
gatbos;  NesvHisrory  of  the  N'oar,0!iforiu;-r.>  of  Sr.tlbl'v  aud  Norfiuk;  Ide.-tioy, 

but  I  leteiid:  Einigrai  ts  f-T  Ner  Enguiad;  Wei!.?,  33.5;  The  Library  Table; 

Index  to  Periodioal  Literanu-e,  .362  .      ',        .'      .        ,        ,         '3S7;  •32l?-3.5;  362 

XXrV.    SociE'nES  AND  their  Proceedings; 
-  ..  New  Engifttid  Historic,  Geneahvical  Society,  33.'> ;    Maine  Historical  Society, 

^  337;  Rhode   Island  Histonai!  Society,  33S';    New  Jersev  IliatorJeai   Soci-ity, 

333;  Virginia  Hirtcrica!  Society,  339      .        .        .        .      ' 53.5-39 

XXV.  Necrology  of  the  Nev,--England  Historic,  Genealogical  Soci';-.tt  : 

tlear-Adm.  Charles  H.  Davis;  Addison  W.  Champnev.  340;  Hon.  Isaac  Em- 
erv;  Lv-.v:;-,  Riv'.?,  3il:  Hon.  Samuel  H.  F.  Kail;  tlon.  Oliver  Aries.  342; 
Geo-ge  o.  Flii«;  E^aic'i  C.  Roite,  >[.D.,3I3;  Jau.es  B.  Thoruro;!,  344;  iid- 
^>-a.rd  WiggJesn'Ovth,  34.3  . 340-io 

XXVI.  Notices  OF  Recent  PrBLtCATioN.s: 

boott's  Meni.oria!.-  of  rbc  Fimily  of  -Scott,  ."45;  Paige's  History  of  Cani"'^rd;ze; 
First  Report  of  tiie  Bo-.r..)n  K';eonl  Commissio'.un-s.  -347;  Hi.-tory  of  the  U'd 
Cberaws,  34?;  Public  Lil'rat'.es  in  the  United  State;. ,  Mis.<  Sharpt's  .\  Royal 

■  Deseent  and  other  Pedigrees,  3iS;  Magazine  of  Aineriean  K.story  ;  Tlie  Peim- 
f  sy'.vaa'a  M.iga.:;ne,  3.50;    History  of  N'>rth  Mildleboro' Charch;  Beach's  In- 

[  (  Concluded  on  third  page  of  ctjver.) 


(Contents.     From  second  page  of  cover.) 

dian  Miscellany;  IIi::Lrin-on's  Yoiiiii,'  Folks'  History  of  tlic  lJnit'>cl  States; 
Yoiini;  Folks'  Serios — A  Enok  ot' American  Fxi)lor'jrs,' 8.jl ;  Historical  Skcrclies 
of  NorrbpTTi  Xc-n- Yiirk;  T/)fal  Glciinin.irs  of  Liiniashiro  ;in(l  Clic-hirc;  Notes 
on  the  Lite  ot  Dr.  John  Hi.-wytt,  352;  Meinon;il  of  tlii;  Pliilomafiu'an  8oiioT,v; 
Shifter's  Voyages  of  tlie  Nortiu'ien  to  Amcriea,  35:;:  Wheeler's  Peqin-t  In.lians  ; 
Aniory's  Transfer  of  Krin,  .'i.")t:  The  Alarm  of  Apiil  IS.  1775;  Paul  Hevcre's 
Signal;  Greenes  of  Wurwiek,  R.  I.,  3.5-5 ;  Collcetion  ofKans;'.s  State  Hi- torical 
Soeiety;  Crosiiy  Family;  Siiippen  Gencaloiry;  Clark.-oti  and  Boston;  Hall's 
Biography  and  Gem-alogy  ;  Notes,  &c.,  to  Hist.iry  of  Gloucester;  A!><tra't  of 
the  History  of  Hmlson;  Centennial  Celeliration"  at  Barthampton,  3-5(>;  Dei'.i- 
cation  of  Brighton  Braneh  Library;  General  Conference  of  the  Congie.L'ational 
Churches  of  Maine,  ?>-i7 ;  Bigclow's  Tour  to  Ni:;g;ira  Falls;  Procctiing-:  of 
]N[assachn=etrs  Grand  Lodui-;  Narrative  of  Luke  Sweetlan'l,  3.58;  Memorial 
iSermon  on  P^ev.  F.  W.  Chapman;  Sermon  Coirinemoraiivc  of  Pvcar-A<lm. 
Joseph  Smith;  Pre-Historic  Wisconsin,  3-59;  Washingtcn-Crawfnil  T.f'ttcrs; 
Centennial  CeI-jbra:ion  at  Newton ;  Celehration  at  Canton;  History  of  Hunting- 
'  *   ■  ton;  Celebration  at  Bulton;   Prescott  on   the  First  Sa'ute  to  the  Ai'.ievieari 

-  Flag,  360 -  .        ,        .        .    34.5-<:-0 

XXYII.    List  op  Recext  Plbi.igation-s 361 

XXVIIL  De  vnis : 

Da%id  Agry ;  James  Alden ;  Thomas  Balch ;  Priscilln  Goodridge;  John  S.  Hart: 

John  L.  Motley;  Origen  D.  Richardson ;  AnnS.  Upham;  John  Woodbury      1    303-0-4 


price, 

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30.00 

20.00 

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2.2o 

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covers  and  ad\erriseuients  complete.  Price,  $150.  Also  another  complete  .set  bound  in  iiulT 
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ary,  1864,- of  the  New-England  Historical  and  Genealogical  Register.  Address,  statirg  coaiiition 
and  price,  John  Ward  D\i,i,  IS  Somerset  Street,  Boston,  Mas.^. 


Designed  to  gather  up  and  place  in  a  permanent  form  the  scattered  and  decaying  records  of  the 
doraestie,  civil,  literary,  religious  and  poiiric.il  life  of  the  people  of  the  United  Suite?,  and  particu- 
larly of  New  Englarvi,  \5  pur.li.--,Qed  quarterly  by  the  New  Englai-.d  Histuric,  Genealogical  Society, 
Bo-tvm,  on  the  first  day  at  Jp.nnary,  April,  July  and  Oetc.'jer,  at  ?;3  a  yeur  in  advance.  Adiirc-J 
John-  Ward  Dean,  Editor,  IS  Somersei  street,  Boston,  Mas^. 


COMMITTEE   OX   PUBLICATION. 

JoHX  Wauu  Dkan  (Editor),  Jekem  •  >  m  Coliu  kv 

Albeut  H.  HoYr,  Wili.ia.,.  T5.  Tkask, 

Henut  F.  Watiihs. 


CONTENTS-  OCTOBEH,  1877. 

%*   nUistration  :  Portrait  of  JOHN  MKRKILL  BRADBURY  (to  fnce  jiarj^  "ic^o), 

I.    Sketch  ov  the  Life  oi-  Joux  Meiuull  BuAniuKY.     By  John  Ward  Dean     .  36'. 

II.    Papees  in  Case  of  Gut  ts.  King.    Com.  by  R':)v,j  F.  Waters,  Esq.  .        .  37.5 

in.    B.\TTLE  OF  Lexington-.    By  Rev.  A.  B.  Muzzey '  3- t 

IV.    Notes  ox  Amfkicax  History.     A  Stiulv  01  the  Tir^iiiia  Census  of  IG'M     ^Ton- 
tmiccd.)    By  the  Rqv.  Edicard  D.  Xeill  .        .^     .        . 

V.     The  Gates  Fa;<ily.     Com.  by  the  Hon.  Benjamin  A.  G.  Fuller 


393 
401 


403 
413 


42-5 


VL    CouLP  General  Fitxak   cummaxu  at  Binkee   Hill?     Bv  Co).  Francis  J. 
x^arKer       •••....., 
VII.    English  "Wills.    Com.  tiv  Ullliam  S.  Appleion,  Esq. 
VIIL    Notes  on  Mr   Wateus's  Article  helat;xc  to  Immigrants"  from  Jers'  y     Bv 

Lo\.  J.  Bertrand  I'nijan- Pay i-e        •         .         .         .  "411 

rX.    GrvLALoGi  CF  THE  Anth'jnys  of  New  England!    Com.  hv  John  G.  Anthony 

^^^- '  ^j, 

X.    LoxGMEADo\v  Families.    Coid.  bv  in/forrf  S.  ^//t^j,,  Esq  '        *  4-7 

^^'    ^  '^.^''^^  '^'^^^'^^  "^^^  HrsiORY  or  the   Will-ers.     Corn,  by  *the  Rov/jfjsej  a 

.i'^ij 

XII.    The  Waite  Family  OF  Boston.    Com.  by //s^ry  iT.  H'./iVe,  Esq.        .        .  4."^ 

XIII.    Th..  Axgel  Goffe  Again.    Coin,  by  tLe  Hon.  Georae  iikeldon 
XIY.    No lES  AXD  Queries  : 

Browne's  History  of  Coii-rc-ationV.ism  iu  Noifolli  ami  Suffolk;  Temple's 
KKtory  or  Frumn^^r.m  .Ma..>.;  Puiier;  B.-njamiu  Eliot;  Ravmond  4'':' 
Lxped;  ;on  ro  Canada;  Rm-.  and  Horse  Shoes;  Dermison;-  Fiske-  Laii^: 
KieLanison;  Hay,  4-8 ;  Wa^Uci-ii;  HeurvWanl;  Earlv  S-tiier^  of  Harri^c^' 
>.e.;  Stouaatoa;  William  and  Mary  Soathwortli ;  Mo.lit;  Barclav;  The 
Chestersot  Chiciiek'y:  Fame,  429;  Items  from  th.^  New  En-land  ChronicI^- 
*tepben  Pratt  ;Mdlon ;  Proposed  Memorial  iu  Bermuda  to  Gates  and  .Som'^rs- 
Penn;  Hurv-.^rd  Graduates,  4-50;  Rtv.  John  Smith  of  Barnstable  not  Lorn  nt 

••  Bnnspittal,"  437,/oc.^«.re .427-33-43 

.   'XV,    Societies  and  their  Proceedings; 

'^^y'^^^^^'^Y'"^lf:,G^}^(^^o?\i:^l  Society,  433;  Virginia  Hi^toricaJ  Socletr 
4.jo;  Kliode  Island  Historical  Sodety,  43.3     .....  ^'^'•^  > 

XVL    Necrology  of  tkl  Nl-.v-Engl:  nd  HtsroRic,  Geveacogic  vl  Soc.ty  ■ 

ncV.Chaurioev  Coiton,  D.D. ;  Rev.  Joiin  T.  Sargent,  436;  Rear-AJm.  .roseoh 
Stiwh,  L    S.  >..  i  Hon.  Emory  Washburn,  LL.D.,  437 ;   George  L.  B^^^r     43S 
^^li!lam  Appleton,  439 /      ^-"3.  i-.  x>..i!,  -icss, 

XVII.    Novices  or  Recent  Fl-blications: 

Ducnmentai^  Hi-tmy  of  M;,:ae,  vol.  ii.  Haklnvfs  Disconrse  on  We-rern 
1-ianwiv,',  4o'J;  W  miamson  .- ilistorv  of  Bclfa-t,  Me  -^4-'' •  Na^-onV  Fi^tnrv  r,F 
Dun.table  Mass.;  Fox's  Facts  about  Carrol!  C^nt^^  K<J;^n"e  mI^^  ain  ■ 
Report  to  the  Appahchian  Mountain  Cla')  on  tiie  true  nr.mc  of  Nortliern  ^Learl 
snrge.444-.  Mnn.eil  s_  ed,ru-,n  of  Jud-e  Henry's  Account  of  Arnold's  Expedi- 
turn  ;  1  ra.ns:iciions  ot  i!.^  Royal  Hi^tcrieai  Society,  vols,  iv  and  v.  •  Dr  Rtr-crA 
Leaves  from  my  Autobiography ;  Genealouical  "lVIenioir>  of  the- V-.mii-  "• -^ir 
A  alter  scott.  4x!j :  Greene's  ^uort  Hi>tory  of  Rhode  Island,  447 ;  DeLai  v  on 
tnc  Capture  01  M.  unt  Wa.Iu'.gton;  Maine  Genealogist  and  Bio^raphe;-^  The 
London  Genealogist ;  Miscellanea  Genealogiea  et  Heraldica ;  New  York  Gei^ 
logica!  and  b:ogi-aphi.  al  Ree-rd,  448 ;  KlT..^s!.nrys  Hi.torv  of  Putnam  Con'  rl 
gat  ona)     huroh  ;  Henry  Dnt;.ter  and  I-i.  De-endants  ;  Descendants  of  Geo^ 

449;  Lro...>  s  iailu-y  on  lai^.jan   We:il^vurrh  ;    Report  of  the  Vir:-;n>:i  Com 
mitree  nt  the  LUrary  ;  In  Memcriam  Si^re^  Sairte  Claire  ;  DcCosta  In  V™. 
za.io;  Suluier  and  sage    Va-hingtun  and  Franklin;  DeCosta  on  the  Lost  CirV 
Ce^^^^ f  ^1 ".  ' " '-f  ^^••■^"'*'"  H^f  niical  Collections,  vol.  vii. ;  Chamberlain^         ■■ 
CenreuMul  Addr.^— M:-(,nc:   ly-r  Place  in  Histurv,  451;   Bawion's  Ki,^orira) 
Magazn.e.  402;    ^cwirdl.  Cerit.nnial  M- anuria!  of  Lvnt^ ;  THden's  Hi-f.^v  of      ' 
the  Bap;:st  t.i;anh  ni  .do.uield  ;  Pa-re's  History  of  thcBri-hton.  N.  Y.,  Chnnh  • 
Ha%viey;s  IHstorv  ot  the  i-ir-t  Pn->hytenan  Cnurch,  Aub,nn,  N.  Y.  •  Bout  or 'i 
Centenmai  ..i-:eour^_ebeibre  the  Merrimrak  Co.mty  Conference  of  Chnrchts 
4o3,  iJr,  h-...:..n  ^  Winslcw  M^moriai;  Boston  Directory,  bv  S.amp^on.   Dav  n! 
por.  ic  Co.;  ilcMuly  s  Colonial  RLConis  of  Ciuie.  ticut!  vol.  x.,  454;  Mur-eil's 
f^j;;;"^:fe.P'^i'r  T'^  f^^^'^l  ^^^^^-^  ^-'gl^ml  and  Walos-Ow,iers  of 
L,>nd>  -n  l!j,o;  Cu.tes  Ann.iN  01  Sfxt.-u  Mand;  Addresses  btfbre  the  Baanhin 
County  Hi-tuncal  boc.et-,  4c55:  Ameri.^r  Journal  of  Numismatics,  4^0  439-r;6 

X\'III.    List  o?  Recent  PiEL!.CATro\s       ,        .  .-a  -o 

,.  T-^-       T^  •         •     4o6-T.'^ 

XIX.     Df,..tus         . • ^  ^.^ 


433-36 


4SG-39 


iir 


GENERAL   IKDEX. 


[Index  of  Naites  of  Persons  at  the  end  of  the  Volume.} 


Abst'acts  of  the  ear'iest  wi'j2  in  SuffuLli,  102,  1'lt, 
oil  ;  Kjaex  County  Coun,  i'apers,  375  j  Kaatucli- 
et  County,  oOO 

AJa-Dw  ii'-v.  II:. -h.  v--e:taj;j  of,  17 

Ad«m9  [wriU^ree,  luerj,  333 

Aldea,  S^isaanah,  t<icord  of,  3S0 

Alger,  Au'lrcA',  nci;.?,  112 

Alger,  .lohn,  neo-.-aiogy  of,  107 

Allen.  Kev   Bei  j-iiaia,  diary,  note,  331 

America,  p^^sev^frs  anii  vessels  to,  30-> 

Anieri';r.;i  idstory.  No:e3  on,  21,  147,  393 

AiEef.i;arjs  of  r.y  il  dc'?ceat,  note.  2Zo 

Ancient  wrecke.l  vej;*?!s,  note,  332 

Ac^el  Got;>- a^-^ic,  iJi 

Anthony  g-.n','Hii-7>,  ilS 

Anthony,  not»^  i;;,;i 

Autographi.  of  Is.iac  C.  Bates.  1*0  ;  John  M.  Brad- 
bury, 364  ;  Alexis  Ca3weU,  202  ;  William  Giil, 
180  ;  Gamaliel  Waite,  42-t ;  John  Waite,  424  ; 
Betum  VVaite,  423  ;  Kichard  Waite,  421 

Bailey,  note,  115 

Bankes,  Kichard,  note,  221 

Baptisms  and  Deaths,    (see  Records.) 

Barclay,  query,  42 J 

Barnstaijl!*  fj.miiy  names,  2T9  ,;;■ 

Barristers  at  I  iw  in  .Mai^achujetts,  20ti 

Basse,  Nathat.iel,  mts.  CS7  .,,  , 

Bates,  Isaac  C,  n-.caii'irs  of,  141 

Battle  of  Lexington,  paf-er  on,  377 

Bennett,  \Vil,iam  acd  Robert,  note,  398 

Billerica,  Mass.,  town  rates,  302 

Biographical  sketches — 

David  Agry,  363 

James  Ald^^n,  363 

Oliver  Ames,  342 

Alfred  Andrew?,  139 

William  Appleton,  409 

Thomas  balch,  363 

Hannah  S.  BiUdwin,  24,9 

Abel  Ball.  234 

Qeorsre  L.  Barr,  43S 

George  B.  Blake,  343 

AnchJpy  ^'Jr-aii,  266  '    -'■> 

Rev.  iU.  Loilon,  270 

Charles  Campbell,  127 

Theophilns  C.  Cktpp,  458 

Frtdencli  W.  Ch:il.'?,iaa,  124 

Adriii-in  W.  Cham  iney,  340 

Daniel  F.  Child,  234 

Elizabeth  Chipman,  139 

Charles  D.  Cleveland,  231 

Chauocev  Collon,  436 

Joshu  I  B.  Converse,  236 

Charles  H.  Davis,  340 

Elias  K.  Davison,  140 

Charles  Day,  249 

WiUiam  £.  ioggstt,  S35 


BJojraphica!  sketches — 

Isaac  Emery.  341 

"VViiliani  Kpp<,  2ti9 

Atb*;rt  Feai  in?,  231 

i:t>eii  E.  Foster,  -49 

I'riacilla  1-.  Goc^ridge,  o6i 

Dauie!  0 ookin,  2fio 

James  *Jr(;-'0-y,  235 

Abig,iil  G.lla:e,  249 

Andiert'  T.  Ilal',  23-5 

Sin-,ael  11.  V.  Hall,  C42 

John  S.  Hart,  CCS 

Guy  C.  Iiaynes,  249 

P-enj-tmin  Hobart,  2.50 

Thcni:^e  H'/it.  14u  ' 

S.'.mufl  .H;5oper,  230 

John  ITuil,  1  j7 

John  Lay.lou,  235 

WelTiLi  Lord,  250 

John  MUler,  69 

John  L.  .MotUy,  263  ■•    ' 

Geor^'e  Kewce,  240 

John  AY.  Parker,  232 

Benjamin  pnmeroy,  233  ■ 

John  Pott,  268 

Joshua  V.  Preston,  231 

■William  C.  Reichel,  ZiO 

Lewis  Kice,  341 

U'vi  E.chards.  140 

Origeu  D.  Richardson,  364 

Anna  .M.  Richardson,  140 

Enoch  C.  Rulfe,  343  ^ 

Benj  imin  Rush,  463  ''■  <*•  v    . 

Joh  .T.  Sargent,  436  ^    . 

Adoiiiram  Sinalley,  140  '    ■!>■ 

Jose,  h  Smith,  437 

Thom.is  Smith,  69  ■  ,ii'    - 

William  B.  Sprague,  12ft 

James  B.  Thornton,  344 

Ann  3.  Upbam,  364 

Charles  W.  Cpham,  124 

Joseph  B.  Varnum,  125 

Charl-'S  W?t:er,  167  ■•■.-:         _.■.■. 

Ein')ry  WabiLburn.  437 

Israel  W'xshbarn,  140 

Edward  Wi;.'gleswcirth,  34& 

Sadue;  WiUiam?,  4o3 

William  T.  WiUianis.  464 

John  U'oodbury,  364 

Joseph  11.  York,  233  '  '- 

Book  Notices— 

Alberdi'3  Life  of  Wheelwright,  247 

A'U'>ooe's  Dictionary  of  Authors,  123 

Allen  Genealoiiy,  135,  237 

Atjjcrica,  Com'te  de  Pjj-ia'a  History  of  the  Civii 
War,  137 

American  Actiqviariun  Society,  Frocetdiaga  of, 
243 


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IV 


General  Index. 


Eook  Notices — 

Aii^Jri'van  Bibiiopoiist,  247 

Ai-icr.'caii  jiiu,^  .1  "i  Nuiuis.r.atiM,  450 

AroeriCiii  ^^^!  iic  Libraries,  lii-jtory  of,  313 

AEQOr;'B  Tiansrer  uf  Krlu,  3ft4 

Anawir  to  a  l^Kvr  s-.'f.t  fron  Mr.  Coddiogtoc  to 

Qo7.  Lt'VerLt,  'J45 
Babsoii'i  Ncl'S  and  Additions  to  the  Ilisto-y  of 

G'.ouceet'T,  353 
Birtlrtt  Geneat!  gy,  131 
Bartol's  Fo.uelh  A  .oiversary  Sermon,  211 
Beach's  Indian  .Miscellany,  351 
B'-lknap':"  Tour  to  the  ^^  bite  Mountains,  133 
Beli'o  Mouioirof  Joiui  Wheeiwrij-'bt.  246 
Bisfilow'i  Tear  to  Niagara  Falia  ic  ]$05.  353 
Billcr.ca,   JiaiJ.     Nasou's   Centennial  Address, 

133 
Bisboe  Genealofry,  by  Lapham,  131 
Bisbtet's  Ui'tory  of  iluniingdon.  ila?!<.,  SoO 
■•,     Boscawec,  K.  11.    Coffin's  Historical  Address, 
136 
EoFU)n  l>iracterj-.  1877,  454 
BootOQ  Recor,;i.OoiiiuissicDor'sFir«tReport,3-i7 
'.■:     B'Ston,  ^Vi^th^•)p'^^  Oentennia!  Addr-s:^,  13 J 
BtvjMii'i  Seiijl-Cect'jmial  Discourse  hef-re  the 
ilerridacli  Co.,  -N.  il. ,  Conference  of  Churches, 
453 
B/irfl.con  Branch  of  the  Bobtoa  Public  Library, 

deioCu-iou,  5i>7 
Brooks's  SertD'jc  on  Admiral  Snith,  359 
Brooir.e  County,  N.  Y.    Burrs  Ciinlenciai  Ad- 
drc»9,  1^73,  1^0 
.      Buck's  Mil-..-aukee,  243 

Butier'a  Prcliisttrio  Wisconsin,  359 
•■:      CaiitoD,  Mass.,  Cecieanial  Celebration  at,  1S76, 
GGO 
Carrnll,  Charles.  Journal  of  (1776),  133 
Chamberlain's  Maine,  her  place  in  llistocy,  451 
Clui-Kfc's  rri-U;5toric  Kem.iiDS  of  Cinciimaii,  'Zil 
Clarksoa's  Genealogy  and  hi^Lory.  356 
Clute's  Anr.'ais  of  Cwiten  Island,  455 
'.     Corliss  Genealogy.  "23; 

r     Crosbv's  First  Half  Century  of  Dartmouth  Col- 
lege, 239 
Crosby  G'^nealogy,  355 

Crosby's  Eulogy  on  Hon.  Tappan  'Wentworth,450 
Currier's  Ship-BuildiDg  on  the  Merrimic  River, 

239 
Eeane's  Notes  on  Indenture  relating  to  David 

Thomson,  133 
Deane's  editi<  li  of  Eakluyt's  Documentary  His- 
tory 0-  Maine,  vol.  ii.,  iV,3 
Deane'3  pjper  on  Jud??  L'lwell  and  the  Massa- 
chusetts Declaration  of  Rights,  133 
Beane's   Letters    and    Documents  relating    to 

Slavery  in  Massachusetts,  'i36 
Deane's  Remarks  on  Haul  Bevere's  Signal,  355 
Be  Costa's  In  Memoriam,  Sister  Saints  Claire, 

450 
Be  Costa's  Verraziano,  450 
Be  Costa's  &..ldii=r  and  3<ge,  450 
Be  Co.sta's  Lose  City  of  New  Kngland,  450 
Dauphin  Co.  Historical  Socieiy,  Penn.,  4th  of 

July  Address,  455 
Be  Liincy's  Capture  of  .Mt.  Washinp-ton,  448 
Bext-r's  Edward  Whalley  and  ■\Vil.iam  Qoffe, 

132 
Bci  Iridge's  Indian  "Wars,  240 
Dover,   N.  K.    Manual  of  first  Church,  242  ; 
B'stcrical  Discou.'se,  243;  Q'^iat's  CeateoaiaJ 
Address,  133 
DuDster,  Henry,  his  DeKendanta,  449 
Ea'wak'Jt's  Leal  Gleaning  of  Lancashire  and 

Cheshire,  252 
Earwaker's  Life  of  Dr.  John  Hewyt,  352 
Bd-3,    Cectetmial    Address   at  Uolton,   Mass., 

1S78, 380 
England  and  Wales,  Ownci-?  .if  Land,  1875,  456 
Emery's  Huitory  of  North  iliodleboro'  Church, 

351 
Fiiher's  Serrr^on  on  Rev.  7.  W.  Chapman,  359 
Erothingbaci'*  AJarm  on  the  Night  of  April  13, 
1776,  356 


Book  Notices — 

Oenett!(..p'9t.  the,  41S 

ai.suni,  N.  H.,  C-ntennl^l  C<;"ebraiioa  of  Con- 

pr-K«t''^n.-U  Chrrch,  244 
Grand    Lo.lge  of    Massuctmsetis,    PrrjceedlnKS, 

1S77.  3bi 
Grint's  (Mrs.)  Memoirs  of  an  American  Lady, 

new  edition,  136 
Oregc's  H;'J"iry  of  the  Old  Cllcro^r^,  o4S 
Greenes  of  V/arwi:".r.  in  C'-'ln[,i.l  I>':-i,ry,  354 
Greene's  .'lislory  uf  Rtiotie  Island,  417 
Groton,  S'.iss  ,  Cenlenpii"!  Celtbration,  13"i-?,138 
Hall,  Mr.  t  Mrs.  'V^iliiam,  Bi-graihlcal  Uiatory 

of,  35G 
Harrmnnd's  New-England  Academies,  243 
Hnivard   Colleg-5  Itcl'-'J,  Orders  and   dututes. 

133 
Har.eci's  Coriprpcational  and   Presbytiriiii  Min- 
istry of  N'.-w  Hampshire,  2!0 
Hawlcy's   iiistory   of    the    First    Prcibyteriar 

Church  of  Auburn,  N-  Y.,  4-;3 
Jleckcwtldt-r's  History  of  the  Indians  ia  Pecn- 

gjlvani;*,  l:i8 
Hecry'a  account  of  Arnold's  Campaisu,446 
Hifijinson's  iio<jk  of  Am'-'rio^a  Fxplorcrs,  S-H 
};i;r;iin!o:.'5  Hi;fory  ot  the.  U:;itsd  Stales,  351 
Iii;toi-;ca!  .^lagarine,  t)\e,  452 
il.iuley'j  Records,   Colony   of  Conn.,  1751-57, 

.154 
Hoyt's  Notes,  Historical  and  Biographical,  on 

Laws  of  New  llampshife,  137 
Hudson';  History  ot  Hudson,  Mass.,  356 
nu:itiu£d(jn,  N.  V.,  Piatt's  Centennial,  i3Q 
.tones  Records,  237 
Kansas  State  His'-orfcal  Soci-ity,  Colleciioia  and 

Oigani»aions  <  f,  35t3 
Ksarsarge  Mouuuiu,  N.  H.,  ¥os'a  Far^s  ab.>ut, 

344  ;  evidspce  concerning  the  rime  of,  344 
Kf.eac,  N.  H.     ^v'hilc's  Ceut^^uLia!  Address,  130 
Kidder  Family  Records,  131 
Kingsbury's  Address  before   the  Putr.'vai  Pres- 
byterian Cl;urch,  Z^.n.e3V!lie,  0':^•^^  iV) 
Kingston  Celebrarion,  loOta  anniversary  of  iu- 

corporatioii,  244 
Lancashire  Diary.  Extracts  from,  24l 
L^ph;lm  Family  Register,  131 
Little's  Genealogy,  4i9 

Logausport,  Indiana,  Centennial  Ce'sbration.lStS 
Londonderry.  N.  H.,  Centenu'al  IMwjurse,  214 
Lowell,  Stmi-Cei  tennial  Celebration.  214 
Lyman's  Centennial,  Eas'.hviTiJi'.o:^.  K^6 
Madison,  Wis.,  2'vtj  Annireisarj  of  the  Pres- 
byterian Ch'.uxh,  244 
Maine  Genealogist  and  Biographar,  443 
Maine  Conference  of  Congregational  Churches, 

with  Historical  Sketches,  357 
Marblehead,  Mass.,  History  of  the  First  Church, 

242 
Marshall's  Diary,  edited  by  Du.ine,  240 
Maryland,  Early  Religious  Eislory  of,  135 
Massachusetts  Historical  Society's  Proceedings 

(1875-6),  133  i  Collections  of,  236 
Meddeld,    Mass.,    Centennial    History    of  the 
Baptist  Church,  453  ;    Bi. Centennial  of   its 
Burning  by  the  Indians,  244  ;    Dedication  of 
Town  Hall.  244 
Med  way,  162d  Anisiversary  of  the  First  Cbnrtxfa, 

244 
Methuen,  Mass.    Howe'g  Historical  Sketch,  .-.35 
Miscellanea  Genealogica  et  Ilerrildici,  443 
Montaiu*  Hi'torical  ;i<jciecy.  Tran-£j:*!oa3  of,  245 
M  joseli's  Chronology  of  Pape:  and  Pi»?er  Mak- 
ing, 456 
Nascn's  History  of  Dunstable,  Mass.,  444 
Neill's  Founders  of  Maryland,  339 
Newhall's  Centennial  Memorial  of  Lynn,  4-53 
Newport,  R.  I.    Sheffield  Ceatencikl  A.idreas, 

136 
Newion,  Mass.    Hi.'^tory  -of  th?  First  Church, 

242  ;  Centenn:al  CeK'bralion.  350 
New  York  Geneiiitgical  and  isijjjraphicai  Slec- 

ofd,  24^,  448 
Ohio,  Early  Annals  of,  242 


-.    .6  .     -h   -3 


General  Lidex. 


Bsoit  N«iti=(?*— 

r,i„;'i  n,Vc-y  p. •;!;-■  r,nr;htOT'  Church, -153 

Pni'^'b's  History  of  CirabriUgc,  347 

Paiiie's   Hi-t jrioal  and  Chrori^ljgiail  Notes  of 

■Worcester,  24S 
Pennsylviinia  Majaiine  of  History-Bud  Biogra- 
phy, 350 
PennsylTinia,  K-Ie'i  Illastrit-1  Hist'jry  cf.  135 
Pctf?rboruia.;b,  N,  U.,  SmrhV  Ci:-:  >ry  of,  -ic-)- 
PbOomath'Ha  6~-yitty,   Phillips  Aoiuleniy  S-.-pii- 

Ceattnaial,  ■Hi 
Pike's  .loumal,  eiited  by  Rev.  A,  II.  Qaint,  13C 
Porter's  American  Monily,  lOo,  241 
Vt,ee\  Controversy,  the,  137 
Richsrdion  M-rairi  tl,  by  Vinton,  IJl 
Roi;ers'8  Qen.?aic>gic-il  Meaioir  of  Um;  family  of  I 

Sir  Walter  Scjrt,  4.46 
Bo^ers-s  Leaves  from  cay  Autobiojrapliy,  415 
Royal  Historical  Society,  Trausactioas  of,  44*5 
Swtl  Memjria!,  345 

bharpe'i  (Misa)  Royal  Descent,  and  other  Pedi- 
grees, 349 
Sliippen  Genealogy,  by  Ilildeburn,  440 
S'lipp-in  O'QC-ilvi'y.  uy  liu:hiuan,  35d 
Snipman'3  Kt-miuisconcss,  'iJ9 
Society  of  the  Ai  my  of  the  Cumberland,  Tenth 

Rs-unioa,  243 
Si;A'i;h..'s  !->.•■:.■  r^^lpit  daring  the  Rc'Tjlutioci- 

ry  War,  24S 
Sljj.liiiog's   Diicourse,   Anuiversary   Settiemunt. 

of  Dover,  24S 
Stars  and   Sriijies,  wnea  and   by   whom    first 

saluted,  3-30 
St'ivens'.-i  \l:-'r;-izin-?  of  American  H'itory,  330 
SwetUnd's  Captivity  among  the  lu'iar.s,  3oS 
Sylvester's  Hiitorical  Sietch  cf  Norihtra  New 

Yorfe,  352 
Talcott  PedigToe,  237 
TauntoQ,   Mass.     Adams's  Cer.tirnnial  Oration, 

136 
Trumbull's  True  Blue  Laws  of  Connecticut,  233 
Tyngsboro',  Mass.,  Centennial  Record,  135 
Virginia  State   Library,   Report  of  Committee, 

450 
Voyages  of  the  Americaa  Northmen  to  AmericA, 

by  diafler,  353 
Warren's   History   of   Buaker  Hill   Jloaument 

Association,  246 
Washington.    The  Cra'vford  Letteri.  300 
Watson's  True  irtory  ot  the  Si^aal  L.tnt'--rn3  on 

Christ  Church,  355 
Welles  Geneulogy,  131 

W'eston,  ilass.  Fiste's  Centennial  Address,  136 
Wheeler's  Pequot  Indians,  254 
W'hipple  Genealigy,  449 
Whitmore  Traots,  132 
Williamson's  Hi.cory  of  Belfast,  Me.,  442 
Windsor,  Coiia.,  Centennial  Cdebratiou.  136 
Winslow  Memorial,  vol.  i  ,  by  Holtuu,  454 
Wisconsin  Historical  S'X-iety  Collections,  451 
Worcester  Centennial  Celebration,  136 
Booth,  John  and  Ebent^zer,  qu.Ty.  224 
Boston,  arrivals  in,   of  vessels  (1712),   310;  list  of 
iuiiholders   and   retailers   of  Sii-riu   i,17U\10S; 
proposal  of  Negroes  in  (1714).  115;    R^-cord  of, 
Committee  oi    Correspoudeaoe,    inspection    and 
Safety,  31,  290 
Bradb'.uy,  John  M.;  menr.oir  of.  S65 

Brwliltbaai,  query, '225  .,.  .. „ 

Bro^i.  Sa.Tiafi,  qjery,  221 

Buck,  RiccarJ,  Qute,'i4: 

Bul^celey,  Peti.-r,  ac.;ouu;  of  the  life  and  tunes  of,  153 

Bullock,  Th'irn  13,  note,  332 

Bunker  Hill,  Putnam's  command  at,  papsr  on,  403 

Caasbridge,  History  of,  note,  113 
C^mbrid^^e  (Little)  town  rates,  S03 
Campbell,  note,  220 
C.Hmpaeld,  Thomas,  query,  221 
Canada  exp.^ition,  note,  428, 
Cicton,  p-jsi-der-miil  in,  272 
«^*«co,  ile.,  lailijj  atuu;it  ou  (167(1),  2S8 
Caitie  Tav.ra.  nota,  32rf 


Cftswel',  Alexis,  memjir  of,  253 

Ch  Miriion,  qu^ry,  221 

Ch  ^rlestowu,  recjrd  of  first  church,  78,  214,  325 

Clu'^'ver,  Ua'.iicl,  letter  of.  222 

Cliel-ii-a,  old  burial  ground  inscriptions,  117 

Ch-u-:r3  of  Chicl;l-;y,  cote,  4-2'J 

Cluirclics  in  H.irwiuton  and  Southinglon,  Ct.,  lO-'; 

Clnrk,  tienjimiii,  114 

Cl.'veland,  Benj.irain,  note,  220 

Cor,i/regat!onalism  in  NorfoU  and  Suffolk,  history  of, 

427 
Coiisi.il:ution,  fifrure  head  of,  224 
Cook,  Josiah.  note,  110 

Cooper,  Rev.  Wiiliam,  inter'.eaved  alm'-nncs,  49 
Corlisj  fi»mi'iy.  nf  te,  334 
Crossey  genealogy,  197 
Currier,  Samuel,  note,  114 
Cutter,  William,  ncto,  220 

Dalliber  family  documents,  312 

Davct;p-,rt  fatnilv,  note,  223 

Davisoii,  Alice,  151 

Deane,  !^il.ls,  lettt-.r  to,  99 

Deatl.s  (current),  139,  249,  303,  4J3 

P-'nniion,  qceiy,  42$ 

:i)-Hroit,  .Mich.,  note,  334 

l>e  Wolf,  note,  113 

l)i:u-y,  Wi  Uirii  Cooper's,  49 

Dimon,  query.  221 

Do'-uinencs— from  the  Gonish  manuscripts,  6.  ;  re- 
laHng  to  Col.  John  Il'-traphrey's  f.irm  at  Lynn, 
307  i  relating  to  Imm'granta  froci  Jersey,  27  J 

Douglai  geosalos-y.  106 

Douglass,  note,  ItJ,  220  , 

Dover,  N.  U-,  bapiis-UiS  iu,  S13  ;  printing  in,  lly 

Downes,  Richard,  3y6 

Dummer,  note,  2J.3 

Durkee,  J,athaoiei,  note.  221 

Durstoa,  Thomas,  query,  221 

Eliot,  Benjamin,  note,  220,  127 

English  wills,  413  ,         ,., 

Essex  County  Court  papers,  doctimeDts  froM,  diS 

Felt,  note,  114 

Fillmore.  Millr.rd,  historical  sketch  of,  9 

Fiske,  Phine^s,  query,  221,  423 

Folsom,  alias  Smich,  note,  113 

Framlughum,  note,  427 

Fr;t;man,  Constant,  note.  Ill 

Furcess,  note,  110 

Gates  genealogy,  401  ,  ^r 

Gates,  Sir  Thomas,  note,  430 

Gayer  genealogy,  296 

Garrett,  William,  note,  393 

Genealogical  waifs,  323  .      ■ 

Genealo.-ies— 

Alger,  101  Gates,  401 

Anthony,  416  Gayer,  296 

Bates  141  Hale,  83 

Cressey,  197  Hilton,  179 

De  Wolf,  113  Parker,  111 

Douglas,  ItJo  Waite,  421 

I''' It,  114 
G.;orL'-.'tov, n  (old)  and  Woolwich,  note,  22t 
Gcrrisa  ui,\cuscripis,  docunjents  from,  67 
Goffe,  William,  425 

Hale  g'^nsalogy,  83 

Tlaucoct  record,  cote,  3^50 

Harris-^n,  Me.,  early  settlers  of,  note,  4-J 

H  irvard  Ccliege  Triennial,  3:U 

Harvard  graduates,  dates  wanted,  430 

Harwinton,  Ct.,  chuicbes  in,  190 

H'lrwo.xi,  William,  note,  20O  ;i.  -  .,...-.  ,"7  _■ 

Hav,  not-'.  423 

Heaiey,  Willi:-.m.  note,  224 

Hill ,  E'j  p  n  .liet,  query,  221  ;  .•  •  ; 

Hilujfi  gev'.ealf.gy,  179 

Hilton,  WlUiim,  uote,  323 

Historical  articled  in  aewspapers,  IIT 


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General  Index 


Hi?'.orir.-\l  ?iicich'f:'»,  prncoedintrs  of — 

IttlavTure,  22:i ;  Uaine,  o'Si  ;  Ntv.-  EngliinJ  Ilij- 
t'lrio,  OeiieiUou-icil,  119,  2':7,  i!5,  -il'.O ;  N'.w 
J.Tse.v,  3:'^;  >>  w  Loi.tK'n  Coiiniy,  2JS  ;  Kh'Mle 
leUiid,  Vli,  223.  o3S,  -135  ;  Vi,-,';iji.i,  2:;0,  aOi),  400 

Il'jllinj^wiirch,  i'raiik.  <iuery,  2il 

UoUis,  N.  II.,  in  t!ie  V/ar  of"  the  Kevolatioii,  23,  1G9 

Hcir.kiDtua,  Dcte,  115 

Hull  records,  T6 

riull,  Capt.  John,  sketch  of,  167 

Humptxeys  farm  iu  Lynn,  307 

I!3)ey,  note,  112,  225 
Indi-ia  altajk  ou  C  isco  (1(J7C),  2SS 
In5crii)tioi!S,  Chelsea,  note,  117 
International  exhibition,  note,  117 

Jeffries  manuscripts,  sea!?  froiii,  56 

Jenner,  Thoma;,  ship,  o'J9 

Jersey,  d'Scuiiieiio  relating  to  iu.inigrantsi  from,  277  ; 

notes  reliirlij:^  to  article  on  imaiigrauta  £rom,  414 
Jonea.  notn,  111 
Jor'lan,  Sicelye,  IW 

Eidd  diamond?,  332  ,_; 

Kilby,  note,  xl4  - 

LaUi,',  qi'ery,  4-S 

Letter  of  tlie  secret  'sctr'jiittos  of  Cor;gres3  to  Sils.i 

D.  .-vae(lT76).  9'J 
L^Uvrs— 

D  iriel  Cheever  (1774),  C,22 

Thaddeui  Clark,  2S9 

M.  Dic!rers.'«Q  (IS;  :■),  224 

Nathaniel  Fryer  (1014),  163,  165 

"W'iiliam  HsUon  (loo.3),  179,  ISO 

Cotton  Mather  (.172C),  222 

^'iMiam  Hedford  (16'J4),  104 

Susan  RcdiugtoQ  (lb7ti-7).  161 

Jonatliaa  Usher  {,lti6i\  10-3 

George  Washington  (ITa'J),  19G 
Lexington,  battle  of,  paper  on,  377 
Lillibridge,  note,  220 
Lincoln,  General,  relics  of,  333 
List  of  innholders  and  retailers  of  spirits  in  Boston 

(1714),  103 
Literary  World,  the,  note,  226 
Long,  ElizaLeth,  query,  332 
LocgtneaduW;  Mhss  ,  families,  318,  417 
Loverin-,',  Joseph,  aola,  ill 
Lynn  documents  relating  to  the  John  Humf.hr^ys 

farm,  307 
Lyme,  Conn.     Binhs  and  marriages,  211 

Maine  State  Celebrities,  note,  226  ■ 

Massachusetts,  tne  slave  trade  in,  76 

Mather,  Cotton,  note,  222 

Mather,  Kiehard,  note,  117 

Mellon,  query,  430 

Memhcrs  of  the  New  England  Historic,  Genealogical 

Society,  obituaries  of,    (bee  Necrologies.) 
Memoirs — 

Isaac  0.  Bates,  141 

John  M.  Bradbury,  365 

Peter  Balkeley,  163 

Ale.xis  Caswell,  262 

Millard  Fil.more,  9 

Wiliiam  R.Dtch,  202 
Memoranda  from  the  Elev.  Tfillian  Cooper's  inter- 
leaved aiicauacs,  49 
Miller,  J..,hn,  t?9 
Molfat,  ccte,  42J 
Muidey,  Kev.  A.  B.,  paper  by,  377 

Newcomb,  Thomas,  account  book,  294 
Necrologies  of  the  New  Englanl  Jliitorio,  Genea- 
logical Six:iety — 

Oliver  Ame.i,  342 

William  Appleton,  439 

Abel  Ball,  234 

George  L.  Barr,  43S 

George  B.  Biaka,  343 

Chariea  Cjunplteil,  127 


Necroloeiea  cf  the  New  Kngland  liistcric,  Qenealogi- 
cal  ^liciety — 

Addi.s.-n  ^\■   Chai.Tii'  fv,  3.10 

f rc(K-rick  W.  Chipmau,  124 

Daniel  K.  Child, -.34 

Charles  D.  Cleveland.  231 

Chauucey  Coltun,  438 

Joshua  i'.  Converse.  'IT'j 

Charles  U   Davis,  340 

■Wiiliani  E.  Do!,':;uli.  235 

l8a;ic  Kuiery,  341 

Albert  Fearir.g,  231 

James  Origory,  2^:5 

Andrew  T.  Hall,  233 

Samuel  H.  f.  Hall,  342 

Saniuel  Iluoper,  231.' 

Jolm  W.  Parker,  232 

Berijamii  P'  meroy,  233 

Jo9);ua  P    Preston,  231 

Lewis  hire,  341 

l.noch  C.  Rolfe.  343 

Jo?;'ph  Smith,  437 

WilliMm  B.  Sj.ra;'ue,  123 

Joh'i  Turi'er  ;;arge:it,  438 

James  B.  Thomton,  344 

Chines  W.  Uphom.  124 

Joseph  B    VaruuiD,  126 

Imiry  'Wa^hburti,  4-i7 

i-dward  V,-j:{;itsw.rth,345 

Uhimias  11.  '.Vyniie.  I.;? 

Jaspe'  U.  York,  232 
Nev  E.ngiaud,  arrivaib  of  ship."  in  (1630),  300 
Ne'.y  England  Chrouicl-  (1776),  it>  ms  from,  430 
N^T,-  i:n};lauJ  emignuiis  (l.-;22),  .^35 
New  Eiigiaud  Hi^t^.ric.  G:-ni-aiosijaisociety,PTesid-  :;t 
W  lliler's  annual  addrt-ss,  2C9  ;  proc^edicgs  of.  ll-^, 
227-  3;io,  433  ;  necrolo^i'^s  of,  124,  23:),  3ii).  iyc, 
New  Han-.pshire  in  tlK.  UevLlutioii,  34  ;  nrtes  to,  46  ; 
part  :aken  in  crossing  iIik  l>i-la'v.irr,  42  :  in  butii-s 
01  Trenteu  and  PriuCdtjn,  42  ;  battle  cf  Beiicmg- 
ton,  43 
New  Hampshire  Manusciipts,  162 
Newhall,  note,  332 

^ewspapers,  historical  articles  iu,  117 
NevYton,  .Mas?.,  to'Vc  n.tCb  of,  302 
Noble,  !?eth,  query,  223 
Nonconf'irruisis  of   Suffolk   and   Norfolk,    EogiaGd, 

note,  336 
Notes  on  American  History,  21.  147,  393 
Notes  and  Queries,  .  09,  213,  329,  427 
N^yes,  Aloscs,  quer.  ,  225 

Obituary  notices.    (See  Necrologies.) 

Paine,  query,  429 

Papers  in  case  of  Guy  vs  King,  375 

Parentage  of  Hugh,  John  and  .^latttew  Adams,  17 

Park'T,  Franci.s  J.,  paper  by,  403 

Parkei,  J^cob,  note,  111 

Piussengers  and  vessels  to  America,  309 

Pearson,  E^hraim,  note,  220 

Pembroke,  marriages  in  (1755-17S7),  63 

Penn  genealogy,  note,  4.30 

Peirce,  William,  note,  399 

Pbilagathos,  query,  335 

Phillemore,  note,  112 

Phillips,  n</.e,  111 
i   Phillips,  Eleanor,  IJl 
!   Powder  mill  In  Caritoi',  the,  272 
i   Pratt,  Stephen,  note,  j^;^ 
j    Priating  in  Dover,  N.  H.,  note,  115 
I    Prop'-vsal  of  negroes  in  Boston  (17i4),  note,  115 

IPubiioola,  query,  22G 
Puffer,  note,  427 
Purfray,  Thomas,  399 

Pumnm,  General,  could  he  command  at  Bunker  n^H  .' 
paper  on,  403 

Queries.    (See  NoUi  and  Of-eries.) 

Raymond,  query,  427 

Recent  publications,  251,  301,  45'j 


General  Judex. 


vu 


liHptction  and  Safety.  ;!l,  2v<') 

KttC'ras.  B  uuat.ilil.',  Mass.,  fHru;!}'  ti->i:i'  s,  279  -, 
Charlstoivn,  Ir.t  Chnrcti,  73,  eU  325  :  D-.'.-er,  H. 
11..  baptisms,  ;U3  j  K>j-.-.'C  Co.  Convi  iviier.^,  3"5  ; 
Hull,  .Mas:i  ,  Ttj  ;  Lyme,  Cl.,  births,  aiarri  ii,'e3  and 
deartis,  211;  L'.n-me*low  tamil'.ei,  31S,  417; 
IVmuroke  uiarriagcs,  63  ;  West  spriuglitild  mar- 
navies,  -JSl 

Pediugtoc,  Susan,  letter  of,  160 

Bodlon,  note.  Hi,  JJo 

Revere,  fau',  cliuroh  sijnJ^l,  note,  109 

Kichardsop,  fiULiy,  il'i 

lUdriell  g  ■n'--ii!o;^y,  nott,  2"23 

RinfTS  a'ld  hirs^  shies,  qU'.'ry,  423 

Ki-h'.vorth,  -Jote,  21S 

Bogers,  Wdiiaui  am!  Xiniothy,  rote,  2i6 

Koich,  William,  autobiographical  maaioir  of,  262 

Sa£5n,  Jo«hn,  note,  115 

S^ltoustall,  note.  110 

Sands,  David,  note,  152 

Scotch  Irish,  uoU,  2'Ji3 

Sci'tt,  ivlvanu-<.  m.t^,  113 

SohIs  frum  the  Je^Yies  Coi'.ection  of  Manuscripts,  66 

Slave  trade  in  Massachusetts,  75 

,°  -"th,  R  V.  T";  .--  •  -.  n  .ri-iiycs^7..  6?  ;  sketch  of,6>i 

Smith,  Capt.  Juhn,  i;ole.,  114 

S  'aers,  Sir  G  ■c-^'.',  ni-te,  -l^O 

SoulIuii,;;od,  Jantn..  ciiu.vhos  ia,  19,"' 

S-iuttiworth,  qu-ry.  iZO 

SiarSpauulei  Bii:i.i.'r   the,  29  ;  autograph  copy  of, 

2S  ;  additional  verses, -31  ;  note,  11(5 
Starr,  note,  oo'J 
Stenhriis,  TJnah.,  q'lery,  Soi_ 
Stevf  ns,  \S"i!'.i:iaj,  MU-ry,  2ja 
Stockton.  Jo.ias,  15?  * 

Stone,  query,  333 
Stoush'iOa,  qu  rr,  429 

Suffutli  County  Pr  ,bata  hies,  abstracts  of,  102,  175 
euainer,  note,  113 
Swan,  note.  115 
Symonds,  query,  2'23 

Talcutt.  John,  Eravestone,  111 

Tay,  Jeremiah,  note,  332 

Town  Kecords.     (See  Records.) 

Treacle  fetcheil  out  of  a  viptr,  note,  220 

Treat,  n'ite,li3 

Trumbull,  iiotc,  115 

Utie,  John,  note,  399 

Virginia.    Census    (1624),   147,  265,   393  ;  History, 
226  ;  I.atteries,  21 ;  Slaveholders,  22 

Wadleigh,  query,  429 

Wager,  air  Charles,  sketch  of,  167 


'(Va'r.e  genealogy,  421 

Wivite,  Joseph,  Itio 

W-ird,  lieiiiy,  query,  429  l 

W.ishingt.jn,  letter  of,  lyS 

Waters,  Eiward.  uote,  393 

Weld,  Juhii,  <iLitry,  225 

vWl's,  Francis,  query,  3.35 

Wells,  John,  query,  225 

Westtninster  Abbey,  note,  118 

West  Sprinijll  dd  uiarria^-es,  231 

Whalley,  Kdward,  note,  334 

Whitney,  note,  2.'5 

Whoff,  query,  317 

Wilder  taiiiii  j,  paie  from  the  history  of  the,  420 

Wiuter,  Amherst,  <{uery,  e-ii 

Wills,  KofTli^h,  413 

Wills  and  other  Prolate  Pveoords,  abstracts  of— 

John  Avery,  102 

George  Burden,  104 

John  Cog^'an,  IOC 

Thomsts  Cromwell,  175 

Rice  Davis,  luS 

John  Dwi'iht.  l''S 

Abiell  KvertU,  173 

Robert  Fitt,  Z-ii 

Joli.i  Frnncklvn,  107 

AithLT  Gid,  102 

John  Gi.re,  104 

Thoi.i.is  Grirtm,  176 

Rich.iid  H'rdier,  105 

Kiibert  K  aviie,  lu5 

Richard  I,ii.t.'-r,  U8 

John  Luson,  178 

Lewis  .>iartyii,  321 

John  Mh\  nard,  175 

Willi  m  I'adily   ^21 

Andrew  Pitcher,  177 

John  Uojrers,  177 

Robert  --hnrp.  i03 

William  Stevens,  104 

Ann  fcwan.  115 

Thomas  Thori.hill.  173 

KUinor  Truster,  103 

I;abeil  Turner,  17S 

JohiiTui;ker,  178 

R-becca  Webb,  104 

Joseph  Wait-,  160 

Chantv  White.  178 

John  Wiike.  178 

Nathanie!  \\  tUiami    173 
Wootlbury.  note,  220 
Woodw^ird,  Nathaniel,  note,  332 
V.'oolsvxh,  Me-,  note,  226 
Wyatt,  John,  query,  332 

Yankee  privateersman  in  Bngland- (1777-79),    18/ 
2(3,  284 


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SIvIiTCH  OF  THE  LIF]^  OF  TFIE  HON.  MILEAKD 
FILIMOEE, 

THIKTEEXTH  PRESIDENT    OT   TIIE    UNITED    STJkTES. 
By  the  Rev.  GEORcy.  W.  Hosmek,  D.D.,  of  Newton,  Miss. 

/TILLAKD    FILLZsIOEE  came  frora  a  souucl  English  stock. 

-i-  His  graiidtathcr  settled  ia  Benniiigloa,  Vt,,  and  \\as  a  lieu- 
tenant under  Gen.  Stark  in  the  battle  of  Bennington.  His  fi-tlier, 
Nathaniel  Fillmore,  was  born  in  Bennington,  and  Lis  early  years 
were  passed  in  that  outpost  of  New  England  life.  AVhen  of  age, 
about  1795,  he  started  for  what  theii  was  tlie  far  v.est.  He  went 
through  Troy  and  Schenectady,  and  up  the  2vIohawk  valley  to 
Utica,  then  a  village,  through  the  "White's  town  settlement,  and  still 
on  into  the  wilderness  in  central  New  York ;  and  at  a  spot,  now 
called  Summer  Hill  in  Cayuga  county,  he  made  a  stand,  cut  down 
trees,  built  a  log  cabin,  made  a  clearing,  and  gor  one  harvest  per- 
haps ;  and  then  returned  to  Bennington,  told  his  old  neighbors  of 
his  adventures,  married  a  wife,  nnd  came  again  to  his  new  home. 
There  alone  in  the  forest,  three  miles  to  a  neighbor,  and  much  more 
than  that  to  any  hamlet  or  village,  he  began  his  home  life.  It  was 
naked,  rude  and  lonely,  but  he  was  equal  to  his  lot.  He  had  strength, 
a  sharp  mother  wit,  thought  for  causes  and  effects,  and  grew  up  in 
the  wilderness  a  son  of  nature.  Amidst  his  hard  labor  he  found 
time  to  read  every  paper  or  book  he  could  get  hold  of;  then  he  was 
social,  and  as  settlers  came  near  him,  he  loved  to  talk  about  poli- 
tics, religion,  farming  ;  and  so  he  grew  to  be  the  man  of  his  neigh- 
borhood. After  some  twenty-five  years  in  Cayuga  county,  he  re- 
moved his  home  more  than  a  hundred  miles  we:ftward,  to  Aurora 
in  Erie  county ;  and  there  he  cleared  another  farm,  and  there  he 
died,  more  than  eighty  years  old. 

Old  Esquire  Fillmore  was  a  patriarcli  among  the  new  settlers  ; 
a  counseller  and  judge  in  all  th.eir  affairs.  He  was  a  soix  of  back- 
woods Socrates,   atfecting  to  know  very  little,  and   asking  crucial 

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qucjitions  ;  Jiiul  \vlion  ignorant  pretenders  had  pni  forth  their  chdms, 
with  unsparhig  hand  he  would  sweep  them  from  their  feet.  His  firet 
wife,  and  the  mother  of  his  children,  was  described  by  lier  liusband 
as  a  pleasaut-natured  woman,  \v!io  made  tlie  best  of  her  hard  lot, 
living  to  o])en  a  way  for  otliers. 

Of  these  parents  ^liUard  Filhuore  was  the  second  child,  lie  was 
born  in  the  forest-homo  in  Cayuga  county,  Jan.  7,  1800.  It  was 
a  wild  birth-place  ;  but  iiitelHgence  and  afFecUon  were  there  to  shel- 
ter and  nurture  the  children,  who  indeed  were  more  favored  th:'.n 
multitudes,  v/ho  arc  born  to  ])C  pampere-l  in  iu.xnry. 

It  is  only  known  that  jMillard  was  at  home  there  in  the  new  coun- 
try, which  was  being  rapidly  settled,  until  he  was  fourteen  years 
old,  when  he  was  placed  with  a  clotliier  to  learn  to  card  wool  and 
d)e  and  dress  the  cloth  made  in  the  farmers*  houses,  lie  had  such 
schooling  as  there  was.  The  New  England  school-house  has  al- 
w;'y=  gone  along  with  New  England  emigrants,  or  followed  very 
close  after  them  ;  but  the  schools  must  have  been  very  poor, — and 
probably  Ids  father  helped  hira  more  than  the  teachers.  His  was 
nature's  schooling  of  wayside  incidents  and  common  sense,  more 
than  of  books  and  recitations. 

AVhen  about  nineteen  years  old,  his  f^uher  having  removed  io 
Erie  county,  Millard  seems  to  have  taken  his  destinies  into  his  own 
hands  ;  he  determined  to  study  law,  and  bought  his  time,  till  he 
should  be  of  age,  of  the  clothier — for  pay  giving  his  note  leanijig 
on  prospects  ;  and  then  began  to  study  with  a  kind  old  friend  who 
had  a  few  law  books,  teaching  school  a  part  of  the  year  for  support. 
In  these  straits  he  tacked  along,  compelling  the  respect  of  tliose 
about  him  ;  and  before  he  was  twenty-one  he  was  invited  to  give 
an  oration  on  the  fourth  of  July.  The  woodsmen  would  have  had 
it  printed,  but  with  characteristic  caution  and  modesty  he  declined. 
Soon  after  this  he  got  out  of  the  w^oods,  and  went  to  Buffalo,  about 
1820,  where  he  studied  law,  making  his  way  by  assisting  in  the 
post-office,  and  teaching  school  a  part  of  each  year.  Buffalo  had 
been  burned  by  the  British  six  years  before,  but  was  now  rapidly 
rising  to  commercial  importance,  and  was  full  of  quick  life. 

In  1823  !Mr.  Fillmore  was  admitted  as  attorney  at  law,  and  open- 
ed an  office  eighteen  miles  from  Buffalo,  at  Aiu-ora,  where  his  father 
resided.  Here  he  began,  and  by  close  application  to  business  laid 
the  foundations  of  his  professional  eminence.  In  lS2o  he  married 
Mis3  Abigail,  daughter  of  Rev.  Lemuel  Powers,  a  most  judicious 
and  estimable  woman,  with  whom  he  sliared  the  rising  fortunes  of 
a  distinguished  life.  In  1828,  and  for  three  years,  he  was  repre- 
sentative of  Erie  county  in  the  state  legislature,  and  was  especially 
efficient  in  abolishing  imprisonment  for  debt. 

In  1830  he  establlslied  hiuiselt  in  Buffalo.  He  practised  law- 
there  seventeen  years  with  marked  success.  His  firm  was  Fillmoro 
&  Hall ;  and  then  Fillmore,  Hail  oi  Haven — -the  late  Judge  Hall  of 


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tlio  U.  S.  District  Court,  and  V.  M.  General  U.  S.,  -vA  Hon.  S, 
V\.  II:i\\u,  I'cini;  ];i>;  p'lvtneri:.  The  bar  of  BufTalo  at  X.\\h  period  was 
very  abloj  an<l  Lad  :>evoral  In-illiaut  njcn  and  liound  lawyer^?  :  Albeit 
ir.  Tracy,  Henry  K,  Smith,  George  P.  ]5arkf;r,  John  H.  Talcott, 
"WilUaiii  H.  Grceu,  Henry  li.  liogcrs — nifu  to  test  the  metal  of 
opponents. 

It  was  a  bold  enterprise  for  ]Mr.  Fillmore  to  conic  to  UufTa'^. 
vdierc  he  must  stand  with  men,  wlio  had  enjoyed  the  best  opportin;!- 
ties.  But  he  maintained  himself  as  a  lawyer  and  advocate,  and  his 
firm  was  held  in  respect,  among  the  best,  in  western  Xcvv  York. 
By  temperate  living,  Avheu  intemperance  Avas  most  common  and 
was  destroying  many  brilliant  men,  and  by  hard  study  and  the  closest 
application  to  business,  he  won  honorable  eminence.  Others  might 
have  more  genius,  more  eloquence,  but  he  was  sure  to  be  thorciugh- 
ly  informed  in  regard  to  fact  and  law  ;  and  the  logic  of  facts  gave 
him  his  triumphs.  His  firm,  and  he  at  the  head  of  it,  ^vas  gene- 
rally on  one  side  ur  tnc  other  i^v  txiivy  iniportant  case.  He  had  no 
greener  laurels  than  as  a  lawyer  in  Buffalo.  By  integrity,  large 
iiitelligence,  close  study  and  indefatigable  application,  he  earned 
confidence  and  respect. 

In  1832  Mr.  Fillmore  was  cliosen  reprosentacive  to  Congress. 
He  was  now  thirty-three  years  cid,  and  twenty  of  those  years  had 
been  passed  in  the  hard,  rough  school  of  the  forest ;  but  he  had 
made  the  most  of  his  ability  and  opportunity,  and  had  stood  tb.ere 
in  the  sight  of  the  nation  so  respectably,  that  in  1S3C  he  was  pla-jcd 
there  again,  and  remained  a  member  of  the  house  seven  years  ; 
during  all  this  time  having  a  strong  hand  in  his  law  firm  at  Buffalo  ; 
and  the  latter  part  of  the  time,  he  was  chairman  of  the  Commiitee 
of  Ways  and  Means,  and  so,  in  large  sense,  the  leader  of  the 
House.  While  chairman  of  the  Ways  and  Means ,  he  carried 
through  the  House,  against  sharp  opposition,  an  appropriation  of 
$30,000  to  Morse's  telegraph,  which  really  gave  it  to  the  world.  In 
1843  he  was  candidate  for  nomination  as  Vice-President :  in  184-4 
he  was  a  candidate  for  governor  of  Xew  York,  and  in  1847  comp- 
troller of  that  state.  In  1849  he  was  elected  Vice-President;  and 
by  the  death  of  Gen.  Taylor  in  1850,  he  became  President  of  the 
United  States. 

In  this  remarkable  elevation,  and  so  rapid,  for  Mr.  Fillmore  was 
only  fifty-one  years  old  when  he  reached  the  Presidency,  his  bearing 
■VN'as  admirable.  He  was  never  seen  abroad  eagerly  seeking  office  ; 
he  calmly  met  v.-hat  came,  laboriously  faithful  to  the  trusts  com- 
n^itted  to  him.  His  private  business  had  his  tinie  and  attention ; 
no  client  ever  complained  that  his  interests  were  neglected ;  and 
when  the  public  asked  for  his  service,  he  rendered  it  with  equal 
fidelity. 

Old  Esquire  Fillmore  loved  to  say  that  he  had  the  shortest  creed 
in  chriateiidom ;   only  two  short  words — do  right.     The  son  tried  to 


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12  Hon.  Millard  Fillmore.  [Jan. 

do  right.  A  letter  tlmt  he  wrote  to  his  minister,  when  upon  the 
Jeath°  of  Geu.  Taylor  he  Ibimd  hiinsclf  at  the  head  of  the  govcru- 
nient,  and  sucli  respon.-ibility  resting  upon  him,  revealed  the  s^crious 
eavne.^tncss  \\irh  which  he  took  up  hid  great  duty;  in  strong  wonls 
he  suid  huw  deeply  ho  felt  liis  dependence  upon  God,  and  with  all 
Ilia  heart  sought  his  guidance. 

Mr.  Fillmore's  administration  has  not  always  been  treated  fairly  r 
l)ecause  in  some  great  matters  there  was  mistake,  at  a  time  when 
many  good  men  did  not  see  deep  enough,  the  whole  course  of  Ins 
administration  has  often  been  underrated  or  severely  censured ; 
Tanked  with  other  administrations  of  very  far  less  significance  and 
merit. 

In  his  beginning  he  called  around  him  an  able  cabinet,  one  of 
the  ablest  the  country  has  seen;  AVebster,  Corwin,  Crittenden, 
Hall,  Graham,  Kennedy,  and  afterward  Everett — men  Avhose  posi- 
tion in  the  Union,   and  whose  opinions  and  character  show  that  he 

'  meant  to  be  fair,  and  give  to  all  sides  and  interests  due  regard.  Then, 
as  -^ve  look  along  throiigh  those  three  years,  a  time  of  greai  partisan 
strife,  it  is  easy  to  see  how  ear.-iestly  Mr.  Fillmore  tried  to  make  his 
administration  useful  to  the  people  of  the  whole  country,  and  sub- 
serve the  great  purfioses  of  general  welfare  and  ci^'ilixation.  He 
did  all  he  could  for  low  postage — a  greater  blessing  than  we  know 
how  to  estimate.     He  h-d  the  way  in  establishing  the  Agvicuiturui 

'     Bureau  in  the  government,   giving  to  farmers  and  planters  impor- 

'  tant  fociUties  in  knowing  each  others'  methods  and  exchanging 
seeds  and  spreading  important  information.  Very  hirge  discretion 
was  left  with  Mr.  Fillmore  as  president,  in  the  additions  and  nnisli- 
ing  of  the  capitol   at   Washington  ;  and  we  are  greatly  indebted  to 

""  his  n-ood  sense  and  sound  practical  judgment,  that  ^^^e  have  that 
noble  building  which  is  justly  tlie  pride  of  our  country. 

.  Mr.  Fillmore  decisively  checked  intermeddling  with  the  govern- 
ment of  Cuba  ;  and  while   Kossuth  so  touched  our   hearts  by  his 

■  wonderful  eloquence  about  the  sufferings  of  Hungary  at  the  bands 
of  the  House  of  Hapsburg,  ]Mr.  Fillmore  held  us  back  from  use- 
less interference,  though  the  Austrian  minister  M.  HiUsemnn  learn- 
-ed,  from  Daniel  Webster's  famous  letter,  how  the  administration  and 
the  country  regarded  xVustria's  injustice. 

During  Mr.  Fillmore's  administration  several  expeditions  for  dis- 
covery, and  to  promote  international  amity,  were  fitted  out  with 
much  pains  and  expense.  Lieut.  Lynch  was  sent  into  Africa. 
Capt,  Einggold  was  sent  into  the  Chinese  seas,  and  to  touch,  if  pos- 
sible to  a  more  kindly  intercourse,  the  ancient  empire ;  Lieuts. 
Herndon  and  Gibbon  were  sent  more  fully  to  explore  the  regions  of 
the  Amazon,  and  open  trade  with  those  wonderfully  fertile  coimtvies, 
which  are  becoming  more  and  more  important  to  us  and  tlie  world  ; 
and  Com.  Perry  was  sent  to  Japan,  and  a  treaty  was  made  with 
that  interesting  people,   who  ai-e  coming  to  us   with  a  remarkable 


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1877.]  Hon.  Millard  Fillmore.  13 

docility — the  oLI  to  tl:e  uew,  fis  wus  never  before  seen  in  tlie  voiM. 
Our  growing  intcr(:oiu-.'5C  uirli  Jnpan  nia'ccs  one  of  the  znost  iris[)Irini; 
hopcti  of  our  time.  By  good  feJl.Jvv.-hi[)  we  are  rcviNing  that  old 
pioneer  of  the  world'.^^  jrogrcss.  Mr.  Fillmore  was  remarkable  for 
the  attention,  scrutiny,  and  hard  ^\orI^-,  he  gave  to  \\hatever  paL-scd 
through  his  hands.  An  old  Virginia  statesman  said,  thar  no  presi- 
dent had  ever  so  thoroughly  done  his  work,  and  done  it  hiniselt". 

But  the  times  were  sharp  and  full  of  peril.  Ik-fure  (ieii.  Taylor 
died  tlic  south  were  roughly  demanding  of  him,  a  southern  man, 
such  partisan  favor  in  his  administiatiou  as  he,  being  the  president 
of  the  whole  United  States,  could  not  justly,  and  therefore  would 
not,  grant  them.  They  threatened  to  break  up  the  go\ernment, — 
and  he  died. 

It  was  a  terrible  crisis  for  ]Mr.  Fillmore  to  come  to  the  head  of 
the  government  at  that  time.  He  meant  to  be  fliir ;  though  the 
south  was  imperious,  he  -svould  do  them  full  justice  ;  they  should 
have  all  the  coiiStiLution  gave  tlicm.  And  then,  hs  dreaded  war, 
and  especially  war  of  brctlu-en  aiid  ncigiibors  ;  he  slu'ank  from  blood- 
shed ;  he  deprecated  the  vraste,  havoc  and  misery  ;  by  any  and  every 
means  he  wotild  save  his  country  froni  such  calamity  as  war  must 
bring ;  and  when  the  soutli  mode  new  demands  of  the  north,  and 
intensified  their  threats,  and  when  Congress  by  a  large  majority 
passed  the  Fugitive  Slave  Bill,  then  for  the  s-ake  of  peace  he  thougb.c 
it  best  to  sign  it;  and  to  write  letters  to  the  south,  that  the  pov/ers 
of  the  government  should  be  exerted  to  the  utmost  to  lielp  them  re- 
cover their  fugitive  slaves  in  the  north.  In  doing  this  he  verily 
believed  that  he  had  saved  his  country  from  civil  war  ;  but  now  all 
can  see,  and  some  saw  it  then,  it  was  only  postponing  the  horror, 
and  making  it  more  dreadful  ten  years  later.  First  there  must  be 
righteousness,  and  then  peace.  Some  things  ther'  are  worse  than 
Avar.  Slavery  and  its  evils  are  worse ;  and  if  avc  can  be  rid  of 
these,  we  will  bear  patiently  the  bereavements,  sorrows  and  expense 
of  the  war  they  caused. 

It  was  a  great  mistake  to  yield  so  much  to  the  entreaties,  or  to 
the  threats  of  the  south  ;  and  it  has  brought  worse  calamity  upon 
the  south  than  upon  the  north.  But  it  was  a  mistake  into  which 
multitudes,  and  many  great  and  well-meaning  men,  fell  as  well  as 
^Ir.  Fillmore.  It  was  a  fearful  ordeal  through  which  he  had  to 
pass.  He  tried,  hard  as  a  man  ever  did,  to  do  what  he  thougiic  was 
best  under  the  circumstances  ;  had  he  taken  his  father's  short  creed 
in  its  highest  sense,  do  right — do  riglit  though  the  heavens  fall  (but 
they  will  not  fall ) — vvith  that  he  might  have  cut  the  Gordian  knot 
that  bound  him.  Standing,  as  we  must  think,  as  a  lawyer,  rather 
than  as  a  statesman,  upon  a  very  literal  interpretation  of  the  con- 
stitution, he  did  v.-hat  he  thought  must  be  doue  lo  pacity  the  south, 
and  save  us,  and  save  them,  from  the  hoiTors  of  iratricide.  Tiiey 
scui-ned  his  dread  of -war,  laughed  at  his  etforts  to  keep  peace,  joined 
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14  Hon.  Millard  Fillmore.  [Jan. 

the  puity  opposeil  to  liiin,  rnd  clrcted  Fninklin.  l^icrco  to  l.o  las  suc- 
cessor: 'tliey  l.astcnod  iVom  bud  t.;  uoibo,  until  the  terrible  itonn 
broke  upon  tlie  country. 

Yiv.  Fillmore  was  tVKsappointcd.  His  administration  }ind  policty 
had  been  rojecfed  ;  and  when  the  war  came,  which  he  thought  might 
ha\e  been  ])revented,  he  could  not  sec  th.e  light  of  hope,  he  did  not, 
like  Edward  Everett,  adju.t  hiuiseli"  to  the  new  conditions  tmd 
mourned  the  calamity  of  his  country.  r-    i.-      i 

During  Mr.  Fillmore's  administration,  the  writer  of  this  sketch 
had  the  pleasure  of  waiting  upon  two  aged  men  b)  Washington,  the 
Kev.  Dr.  Kendall  of  Plymouth,  Mass.,  and  Esquire  Fillmore,  the 
president's  {\ither.  They  both  were  more  than  eighty  years  old.  ^  It 
was  a  notable  journey;  we  made  easy  stages,  stopping  at  ^ew 
York,  Philadelphia  and  Baltimore.  The  president's  father  wa-:  an 
especial  object  of  interest  along  tlie  way.  His  arrival  at  the  i'otel 
in  Philadelphia  was  noticed  in  the  papers  ;  and  to  draw  guests  it 
was  announced  that  he  would  stay  some  days.  The  next  morning, 
as  we  were  again  on  our  journey,  r„  man  said  to  ^Ir.  Fillmoro,  'The 
president's  hSher  was  at  Jones's  hotel  last  night."  "Was  he?" 
said  the  'Squire."  "Yes,"  said  the  man,  "■  and  he  is  to  remain  tiiere 
some  davs."  "  Indeed,"  said  th-  old  man,  " how  do  you  know  tiuit  ? " 
"I  saw  it  in  the  paper,"  returned  the  man.  "Ah,"  said  ]Sir.  F., 
"vou  must  not  believe  half  that's  in  the  papers." 

"The  two  old  men  were  social.  Dr.  Kendall's  reverent  faith  was 
not  quite  according  to  the  ideas  which  the  vencral)le  pioneer  had 
hewn  out  for  himself;  he  did  not  know  about  some  things,  in  Did 
Testament  and  New  ;  but  they  were  genial,  and  enjoyed  eacli  other. 
;Mr.  Fillmore  told  us  of  his  early  life  in  the  woods  ;^iiii<^  li<^^^^  ^^^^'-^ 
Millard  was  born,  he  went  seven  miles  tlirongh  the  forest  for  a  phy- 
sician, and  when  he  returned  in  iiastc  to  sr.y  that  the  physician 
would  soon  be  there,  he  found  the  baby  boy  rocking  in  a  sap  trough 
for  want  of  a  better  cradle." 

We  reached  Washington,  and  Mr.  F.  stepped  into  the  presidents 
carrian-e,  which  was  waiting  his  arrival ;  and  Dr.  Kendall  and  I 
-wentfoPost-Master-General  Hall's.  Finding  that  the  president's 
'  last  reception  for  the  season  was  to  be  that  evening,  we  hastened  to 
be  there.  As  we  entered  the  reception  room,  we  saw  the  president 
and  his  family  and  cabinet,  and  his  fatlier  at  his  side.  As  soon  as 
we  had  been  very  cordially  received,  Dr.  Kendall  drew  me  aside  and 
whispered,  "  Yf  as  there  ever  since  the  world  began  such  a  contrast 
as  that  group,  and  the  baby  in  the  sap  trough?"  Ir^was  indeed  a 
contrast"  Tiie  president  was  a  handsome  man,  of  fine  bearing,  m 
the  prime  of  life;  and  his  father  was  venerable,  tall,  and  not  much 
bowed  down  by  his  eighty  years  ;  his  full  grey  hair  and  intelligent 
face  at  once  drew  atte^ntion  ;  and  he  stood  there  by  his  sen,  as  no 
other  father  then  liad  done,  as  calm  and  seh-po^ssessed  as  in  his  jus- 
.tice  court  in  some  log  cabin  of  Western  Xew  York. 


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1^77.1  Hon.  Millard  Fillmore.  15 

I  was  to  be  ill  Washinirton  a  few  weeks,  and  Esquire  Fillmore 
was  to  return  home  with  me;  but  one  day  I  met  liim  and  he  said, 
"lain  c'oins;  homo  to-morrow."  I  said,  "  Lut  wliy  not  wait  for 
nic?"  "No,  no,"  said  he,  "I  will  go.  1  do  not  like  it  here  ;  it  i 
isn't  a  good  plaee  to  live  ;  it  isn't  a  good  place  for  ]Millard  ;  I  wish 
he  was  at  home  in  luiftah)," 

j\Ir.  Fillmore  had  scarcely  closed  his  term  of  service,  when  Mra. 
Filhnore.  who  had  long  been  ill,  and  had  hoped  soim  to  rest  in  their 
old  quiet  home,  grew  more  severely  sick,  and  died  at  Washington 
three  weeks  after  the  ch^se  of  her  husband's  administration.  6he 
was  Vt'iso  and  excellent ;  and  in  great  sorrow,  attending  her  remains, 
Mr.  Fillmore  and  his  son  and  daughter  came  home  to  Tjuflhlo. 

They  came  quietly,  with  as  little  disphiy  as  possible,  into  the 
house  that  Mr.  Fillmore  had  lived  in,  since  he  came  to  Buffido 
twenty-three  years  before.  No  goods  of  the  nation  clung  to  him  ; 
his  hands  were  clean.  Integrity  and  economy  had  kept  him  safe, 
liy  his  Lii-gt.-  law  business  for  scveutecn  years,  admirably  conducted, 
lie  had  accumulated  a  moderate  competency,  eiunigh  for  a  family  of 
simple  tastes  and  economical  habits  ;  he  returned  from  Washington 
with  little  if  any  more  estate  than  he  had  when  he  went  there.  lie 
lived  handsomely  in  the  presidential  mansion,  expending  very  nearly 
the  income  of  his  office,  and  when  he  returned  to  iju^alo,  he  left  the 
ceremonial  forms  and  equipage  all  bcliind  him.  He  was  cordially 
received  by  his  old  neighbors  and  fellow  citizens,  and  moved  among 
them  as  unostentatiously  as  if  his  life  had  always  been  confined  to 
the  city  and  county  of  his  adoption. 

In  1855  and  185G  ]Mr.  Fillmore  visited  Europe.  He  was  po- 
litely recognized  in  the  capitals,  and  greatly  enjoyed  seeing  and 
studying  the  manners  and  civilization  of  the  older  world.  He  had 
never  studied  art  nor  classics,  but  he  was  a  keen,  intelligent  observer, 
and  in  his  own  sphere,  which  was  respectable,  he  was  a  dignified 
gentleman.  The  University  of  Oxford  conferred  the  degree  of 
D.C.L.  upon  him,  and  he  modestly  declined  it.  He  had  never 
enjoyed  university  opportunities,  and  was  not  willing  to  accept  uni- 
versity honors,  though  politely  otlered,  when  the  complimeaE  was 
niore  to  the  office  which  he  had  held  than  to  himself.  He  had  just 
a.  little  pride  in  standing  up,  just  what  he  was,  without  ornamental 
pillars  and  buttresses,  which  he  felt,  in  his  case,  would  have  been 
<^i^l>l  complimentary  and  ornamental. 

Havin.-T  returned  from  Euroi^e,  I\Ir.  Fillmore  bought  a  beautiful 
louse,  and  surrounded  himself  with  books,  and  was  a  close  and 
bappy  student  of  history  and  philosophy,  'occasionally  reading  a 
novel,  or  touching  lightly  upon  poetry.  He  used  to  say  how  much 
he  enjoyed  these  Teisure  days  of  study ;  in  his  busy,  crowded  life, 
he  never  before  had  known  such  satisfactions. 

In  1858  Mr.  Fillmore  married  IMrs.  Caroline  ^Mcintosh,  of  Alba- 
ny? N.Y.,   a  lady  of  fortune  and  much  artistic  culture;  and   his 


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fine  house  was  filled  with  pictures  and  things  of  beauty,  and  a  mod- 
est equipage  appeared  ;  and  the  home  of  tlic  ex-pretsidcut  wu.s  in  aiJ 
respccid  fuch  a-?  loyal  repuijlioan  citizens  love  to  iee. 

^Ir.  i'illmere's  doinc>tic  chjinicter  wiis  quite  remarkaole  IIo 
loved  his  home  ;  his  heart  w;is  contented  there  ;  when  away  at  tiie 
state  legislature  in  Albany,  or  in  (Jcjugress,  he  wrote  a  letter  to  lii^ 
wife  every  day.  Once  she  said  she  had  not  received  her  daily  letter, 
for  her  husband,  being  tiien  chairman  of  the  Committee  of  A\'ays 
and  Means,  could  not  find  time,  and  then  only  wrote  to  her  every 
other  day.  A  daily  letler  to  >\'ife  at  home,  heartily  written,  would 
do  soiuethiiig  to  purify  life  at  W^ashington. 

Mr.  Filhuorc  was  useful  in  society  at  Buffalo.  Sometiines  he 
gave  a  lecture.  He  did  much  to  orgauizc  a  historical  society  in 
Buffalo,  and  for  many  years  was  its  president;  and  it  has  become 
a  permanent  and  valuable  institution,  and  a  significant  memorial  of 
its  chief  founder.  He  was  often  honored  by  his  fellow  citizens  with 
appoiatiiierits  to  offices  of  diy,nity.  In  1845  he  was  elected  a  cor- 
responding member  of  the  New-England  Historic,  Genealogical 
Society,  and  in  185-4  an  honorary  member.  He  was  chosen  an 
honorary  vice-president  of  that  society  for  ihe  state  of  Xew  York  in 
1855,  and  was  annually  reelected  till  his  death.' 

AVhen  Abraliam  Lincoln  was  on  his  way  to  Washington  to  be 
inaugurated  as  president,  he  spent  a  Sunday  at  I3utlaio,  and  ^Lr. 
Fillmore  was  chairman  of  the  committee  or  reception.  The  com- 
ing man  was  received  with  distinguished  honor.  Sunday  morning 
with  Mr.  Fillmore  he  attended  the  Unitarian  Church  f  and  in  the 
evening,  when  crowds  were  thronging  his  hotel  in  hopes  to  see  him, 
he  slipped  out  and  went  with  ]\Ir.  h'illmore  to  Father  Beason's 
meeting,  which  the  outside  throng  cai-ed  nothing  about,  to  hear  an 
address  about  the  western  Indians,  and  an  app(  al  that  their  wrongs 
might  be  redressed. 

Mr.  Fillmore  was  often  invited  to  occasions  of  public  interest,  in 
different  parts  of  the  country,  but  generally  declined  ;  he  did  not 
geek  notoriety ;  and  among  his  books  and  friends  he  very  quietly 
spent  his  latter  years.  He  retained  remarkably  his  vigor  and  fine 
bearing.  He  died  in  Buffido,  March  8,  1874,  in  the  75th  year  of 
his  age.  ,-•        .   ,      ,      .,.   ,.    ,,.     .  .,,.    .        '.._.. 

*  This  Societv  passed  appropriate  resolutions  on  his  death  at  its  meeting.  April  3,  1874, 
which  are  printed  \v.  t'lill  in  the  RrcusTEii,  vol.  x>:vui.  3-i-t.  His  uRcostry  will  he  found  in 
Dr.  Woodward's  article  on  the  genealoL,'y  of  cte  FiUmores,  in  vol.  xi.  of  this  w  ork,  pp.  51-6, 
and  i4L-7. —  Ed. 

*  Mr.  Fillmore  ivas  a  member  of  the  TJiiitarian  society  at  Bntiilo,  of  which  the  Rev. 
Dr.  Hcimer,  the  wTiter  of  this  article,  had  been  pastor  since  ISoG. — Eu. 


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THE    miOBABI.E    PARENTAGE   OF  REV.  HUGH  AND 
xMESSRS.  JOHN  AND  MAT'J'UEV/  ADAMS.' 

BY    A    DESCENDANT    OP    MATTHEW    Ar»AMS. 

rpiIE   Rev.  Hugh  Adams  of  Duvliani,  N.  H.,  was  born  ]\Iay  7, 
X    1G7G  ;  gi-adi.!a1;eJ  H.  U.,  ai.  21  years,  1G97  ;  narricd  Susanna 
"\Mril.uru.     His  churcli  records,  now  in  poesession  of  Hun.  Samu>-1 
Chesley  Adams  of  West  Newfield,  Me.,  contain  this  quaint  entry  : 

"April  14,  1723.  On  a  fair  Sunshiny  Lord's  Day,  my  hifant  daughter, 
born  oa  the  fifth  day  of  tlie  week  (Thursday)  the  eleventh  day  of  the  sec- 
oiii'.  month  (April)  about  half  au  hour  past  six  in  the  morning,  was,  after 
the  luime  of  lier  father's  Godly  mother  and  her  own  graudniother,  baptized 
Avis  Adams." 

Also  in  Sibiey'b  Harvard  Graduates,  page  504, 1  £nd  traTiscribed 
from  Sevrail's  diary  a  letter  from  Hugh  Adams,  written  to  his  bro- 
ther John,  siiop-keeper  in  Boston,  dated  Charleston,  S.  C,  Feb. 
2-3,  1G09-1700,  annoiuicing  that  their  "precious  godly  ^Mother 
Avis  Adams  departed  y'  Life  Oct  G'''  last."  She  died  of  the  yellow 
fever. 

In  the  City  Hall  records,  Boston,  I  found  among  births  : 

"Jane,  daughter  of  John  Adams  and  Avis  his  wife,  b.  Dec.  24,  1G36. 
Ann,         ''  "         "  "       "       "       "     b.  Feb.  21,  1C83." 

I  therefore  infer  that  the  three  brothers,  Hugh,  John  and  l:sL\t- 
thew,  may  have  been  children  of  this  same  John  and  Avis — the 
n:inio  of  Avis  being  uncommon  at  that  early  period.  \^  o  know 
that  Hugli  was  born  in  1G7G.  No  record  has  as  ;  et  been  found  oi 
John  excej^t  as  a  "  shop-keeper  in  Boston,"  February,  IGOO.  Mat- 
thew's birth  is  not  found,  but  he  married,  Nov.  17,  1715,  Kathe- 
rine,  daughter  of  Nathaniel  and  Elizabeth  (WhafF)  Brigden,  at 
M  hich  time  his  age  must  have  been  at  least  20  (possibly  24) ,  mak- 
ing his  birth  about  1690,  or  1G94,  probably  after  the  birth  of  the 
sifters  Jane  and  xVnn.     He  died  March  2,  1747-1748. 

In  the  Boston  City  Hall  records  of  marriages  I  also  found : 

"  Anne  Adams  m.  William  Play  by  Samuel  Willard.  Feb.  13,  1706  ;"  also 
**  xVime  Play  m.  Wlliam  lugs  by  Beiijamin  Colmaa,  Sept.  23,  1714." 

Was  not  this  latter  v::dow  of  the  above  William  Play,  conse- 
quently Anne  Adams  by  birth?  For  I  iind  in  Jiridgman's  King's 
Chapel  ^Memorial,  page  217,  that  "  Dr.  Barnabas  Binney  wrs  son 
^'f  Capt.  Barnabas  Binnev  ....  and  wife  Avis,  daughter  of  ^^  ii- 
iiani  Engs,  Bo.- ton,"    probably  named  Avis  for  her  grandmothev 

^/' An  artT'.e  on  tlie   "  DoJconaaiits   of  Matthew   A(lfun«,"  by  the  hte  Eon.  Tinjothy 
.  jrr.ir.  LL.D.,  is  printed  ia  thy  Register,  vol.  x.  p.  69.— Ed. 


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18  A  Ya,n7:ee  Privateersman  in  Prisoyi.  [Jan. 

Avis  Aflams.  Cnpt.  TUnncy  left  tla-cc  cliiklrcn  :  Avl-',  tlio  sccon.l 
■\vilb  oi' Isicliolas  Brown,  of  rrovIdiMice  (see  Jjcokwith'h  Brown  Gcu- 
eaJo.iiy,  pr.ge  6)  ;  Anne  (probably  naixicd  for  her  <;r;indniot!ier 
Anne),  wdio  married  Siunuci  Anthony  of  Providence,  li.  1.  ;  au-l 
Dr.  Ixivnabns,  who  married  ^Maiy,  daugliter  of  Henry  AVuoJrow  of 
New  Jerj?ey. 

In  the  City  Hall  records  of  deaths  I  also  found  : 

"John  Atlams  (Maltster)  died  Nov.  2'^  170-2."' 

?ray  not  this  be  tlie  husband  of  Avis,  who  die<l  iu  Charleston, 
1699,  and  also  the  John,  son  of  Alexander,  mentioned  in  Savage 
(vol.  i.  p.  8),  as  born  Feb.  20,  lG52r  Another  John  Adams,  son 
of  the  first  Henry,  born  near  the  same  time,  namely,  July  14, 
1652  (Savage,  i.  10),  may  have  been  her  husband,  but  this  is  nnt 
60  probable!^  Little  is  known  of  tlie  latter  John  Adams.  He 
is  supposed  to  have  returned  lO  Eng-Iand  ( Th<'y<ir  ^hmoriaU  p.  37 } , 

Alexander  Adams  of  Boston,  a  shipwri;;lit,  Ar.  Co.  1652,  mar- 
ried, it  is  said,  ^^lary  Cofiin,  sister  of  Tristram,  first  of  XauLtickct, 
daughter  of  Peter  Cofiin  of  Boston,  near  Plymouth,  co.  Devon. 
She  came  in  1642  with  her  mother  Joanna  and  ))rother  Tristram  to 
New  England.  Joanna  died  in  1661,  x.  77.  Alexander  died  .Jon. 
15,  1677,  a?.  62.     The  children  of  Alexander  and  Mary  were  : 

Mary,  b.  Jau.  19.  lGi5-6;  Susanua,  b.  May  14.  ]C-!8  ;  John,  b.  Feb.  2'^^, 
1G52  (Boston  City  Hall  records);  Samuel,  b.  May  7,  1G5G;  Susuuriu,  b. 
Feb.  21,  16o8;  Elizabeth,  b.  Oct.  1,  IGGO. 

Cambridge,  Mass.  C.  B.  l^-.. 


A  YANKEE  PRIVATEERSMAN  IN  PRISON  IN  ENGLAND, 

1777-1770. 

Commuaicated  by  William  Richard  CuTTtii,  of  Lexington,  Mass.,  with  Notes. 
'    '•*•  (Continued  from  vol.  XXX.  page  352.) 

[1778,  May.]  Saturday,  IGth.  This  day  INIr.  Duckett  and  Mr.  John 
Temple*  came  here  to  see  us,  and  told  us  he  was  goins:  to  America,  and 
would  deliver  any  letters  we  should  send  by  him.  The  same  day  Mr. 
Lashire^  being  a  little  in  liquor,  struck  the  doctor  and  cook,  and  was  by  the 
Agent's  orders  put  iuto  the  Black  Hole. 

Sunday,  17th.  Rainy  weather.  2dr.  Manning  aud  Leger  remain  in  ths 
Black  Hole  ;  nothing  new  this  day. 

Monday,    18th.     Clear  weather.      There   have    been    various    accouuts 

H 

>  Mr.  John  Temple— perhaps  Sir  John  Temple,  the  well  kno'vn  son  of  Roliert  Temnic, 
E.so.,  of  Ten  Hills.  Mass.,  ei-vith  buroiiLt,  and  also  a  tiaronet  vx'  Nov;,  'iw\].u—V  ide  Whic- 
niore's  Pt-U.jree  of  thj  Tempi-?  Funulj/,  an'e  x.  7o-7;  Blood's  HiU.  Temple,  -V.  P.,  ■•ii\ 

*  "  La>hiie,"  in  ori-inal— Lejor.  tindoiihtediy  is  monit,  Edward  Lei;'--!-,  '.(■•urenunt.  cT-the 
Hornet,  helonirin<^  to  Marvland— see  Roll  and  Li-st  ot"  Otticors  ai-pi-stde  1— cvniniitrL-d  to 
Forton  Prison,  Oct.  1.3,  1777.  For  fnrtiu";-  inonfion  of  his  e'jnrinoni-nt  in  Black  Hole,  see 
entries  ot"  Journal,  for  M:iy  17,  and  June  7,  177S.  Mr.  "  Lagoar"  oiiccted  his  esrar-e  from 
prison,  July  2J,  177S — cutry  in  Joumai,  for  July  21,  1778. 


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nn'Mit  Biii-i^oyne's  army  being  enlisttnl  into  our  service  ;  but  uow  the  Geue- 
'r;>l  iias  come  hiuu-Lh  lie  b.u  contrailictcd  all,  t^;c. 

Tu-silay,  rJih.  This  day  we  had  a  man  die  in  the  hospilu),  about  eight 
o'clook  ill  the  inorninpj.  IMr.  Wreuii  and  INfr.  Duckett  came  and  paid  ii? 
our  money.  ]Mr.  ?.Ianuing  carried  very  bad  into  the  lio>pilal,  out  of  the 
}>l.K-k  Hole. 

Friday,  2id.  There  has  been  uotliing  remarkable  this  some  tin:e  pust. 
'We  are  in  some  hopes  that  some  oi'  us  uill  go  home  when  General  iiur- 
povne  goes  for  America  ;*  but  how  that  will  be,  we  know  not.   Fine  weather. 

May  2od.  We  liave  a  particular  account  of  the  killed  and  wounded,  and 
taken  prisoners,  since  the  v/ar  first  began,  bolongiug  to  the  British  services 
now  under  General  Howe  : 

killed.         voun()i?d.        pri«oneij. 

380-1         1102a         1UU4B  Total,  29— 9G0 

Clear  and  moderate  weather.  Prom  London  Gazetted 

iSnuday,  24th.  Moderate  weaflicr.  This  evening  about  ten  oVlock  tliere 
was  -x  hole  fouud  out  iu  the  ofuccrs'  apartment;  whicli  the  drum  was  ovuer- 
fii  lu  beat  to  arms,  v.beu  all  Portsmouth  a.nd  Gooport  were  in  an  uproar, 
p'ive  pounders  a  pderity  to  be  seen,  exT)  :'ctiiig  us  out. 

^Monday,  25th.     Nothing  remarkable  this  day,  but  weather  very  nee. 

Tuesday,  28th.  ilr.  Tvrenu  and  Mr.  Duckett,  Esq.,  came  and  paid  us 
our  money  ;  uo  news  about  us. 

Wednesday,  27th.  Clear  weather.  Last  night  Jolm  Crow^  niada  his 
escape  throuL';h  the  necessary,  and  got  otl"  clear.  He  v/as  boatswain  of  the 
O'iver  CroQ!\v(,'Ii,  privateer. 

Thursday,  2Sth.  Mr.  Wrecn  came  up  here  and  told  u^  that  the  French 
liad  laid  siege  to  Gibraltar,'*  &c. ;  no  more  at  present. 

Friday,  29th.     Nothing  remarkable  this  day. 

Saturday,  30th.  This  day  all  the  otficers  are  put  upon  half  ailoTrance 
till  they  tell  who  made  the  hole.  Likewise  the  militia  came  to  do  duty 
over  us,  iu  the  room  of  the  old fogiies  [fogies?]* 

Simday,  31st.  This  day  very  tine.  All  the  officer-,  continue  to  be  on 
half  allowance ;  and  now  we  rdl  begin  to  grow  uneasy  oi  our  exchange. 

Monday,  June  1st.  We  have  the  news  of  a  large  fleet  that's  sailed 
from  France  for  America ;  likewise  a  large  fleet  from  Spithead,  to  insult 
ihem  if  they  should  come  across  them.  But  I  am  afraid  they  came  otf  by 
the  lee.* 

Tuesday,  2d.  This  day  Mr.  Wrenn  and  Mr.  Duckett  came  and  paid  ns 
our  money,  and  he  likewise  says  there  is  a  ship  arrived  at  Spithead  from 
America,  which  brings  an  account  of   General  Howe's  troops  laying  their 

'  Conjrrcss  consented  to  Burgoyne's  return  to  England  in  the  sprin.:?  of  1778,  on  conditioa 
tl'at  he  would  return  to  Ameriea,  and  abide  tlic  fate  of  the  rest  of  tii3  armj",  'ihouid  tiieir 
ciiiii.irUntion  continue  to  I'O  prevented. 

'  Tlic:e  fi^'uros  are  transcribed  as  pivcn  in  the  oriijin.d  of  the  Journ.i!.  We  liave  as  ret 
^o^M  uuiibU"^  to  contrast  them  ^vith  tbe  prior  authority. 

''  J<-'hn  Crow,  txjatswain  of  the  Oliver  Croniv.ell,  privateer — name  not  mentioned  in  Roll. 

'  See  rine  to  Journal,  entry  for  Api-il  30,  1778. 

*  l!riti-li  i:;irrisons  were  augmented  by  companies  of  invalids,  in  1777 — "ide  Toxcn  aid 
Cowifnj  Maqazine,  for  that  year,  page  331— and  Forton  Prison  was  guarded  probably  by 
"";!"'  "f  tlu't  character,  as  ever}'-  available  abIe-l>odied  man  was  then  needed  at  the  front. 
f  r  f.r  servile  in  the  navy.  Iu  Fraidclin's  de.-cription  of  Portsinoutl',  Eng.,  in  17"20  he  stat- 
t  '  '-J,"^  ^-''^^rison  to  lie  "ten  thonsnnd  in  war  time  ;"  at  present  "at'out  one  hundred  inv-a- 
'ids"  ,S:c.  Ten  or  twelve  old  invalid  marines,  who  were  unfit  for  active  bcrvice,  formed  a 
j>:irt  of  the  fnurd  of  the  Jersev  prison-^hip,— Foy"?  Adr?H(urcs,  p.  IU. 
..,'  ''"^'  f'sach  111  et  for  America,  w.is  that  of  D'E-taincr.  which  sailed  from  Toulon,  A^^r. 
i^'}rrTUler,uiri's  Mag.  for  1778,  p.  237— aaJ  appeared  olfthe  Delawm-c,  July  5,  1773. 


20  A.  Yanlee  Privateersman  in  Prison.  [Jan. 

nims  ;'  lilvcwiso  an  embargo  is  laiil  on  all  vessels  and  boats  from  and  to  tun 
Lai-lior. 

M  ed:ic:<day,  yd.  "VV^e  cxj>ect  a  nund^er  of  French  prisoners  lieze  eTcry 
day.     Every  building  is  lltting  u[)  for  that  purpose.     Isothing  new. 

Thursday,  4ta.     Clear  wcatlier,  and  out  of  all  Jiopcs  of  going  home. 
Friday,  oth.     This  day  our  clothes  were  mustered   to  see  wliat  we  stood 
in  need  of.     Likewise   we  have  the  news  of  some  of  our  Continental  frig- 
ates being  taken,  and  one  blown  up.* 

Saturday,  Gth.  This  day  Mr.  Manning  came  out  of  the  hospital,  and  is 
released  from  the  Black  IIolc^ 

Sunday,  Vth.  Fine  \veather.  This  day  J.Ir.  Leger  came  out  of  the 
Black  Hole.^*^  The  newspapers  give  us  an  account  of  great  riots  and  mob? 
tkroughont  England.  The  militia  are  laying  down  their  arm<5  in  several 
parts^  here.  Likewise  the  papers  give  us  an  account  of  an  e::ichauge  of 
English  prisoners,  in  France,  for  us  here  in  England,  and  that  the  car-iel 
was  certainly  settled. 

Mondaj',  8th.  It  is  reported  here  that  General  Howe  lias  r.rrived  jjere 
m  Engl.-ind,  nnd  has  brought  some  disagreeable  news  ;  and  that  the  troops 
had  hud  down  their  arms,  on  account  of  the  terms  oii'ered  by  Howe,  was 
not  received.     Out  of  all  hopes. 

Tuesday,  9th.  Mr.  A\'renn  and  Ivlr.  Duckett  came  and  paid  us  oi'.r 
money.  It  is  contradicted  to  day  of  General  Howe's  arriving,  but  is  on 
Ills  passage  for  P^ngland.     Nothing  more  at  present. 

Wednesday,  lOth.  Fine  weather.  There  have  been  a  number  of  pri.von- 
ers  been  expected  here  from  ou  board  the  guard  ship  at  Splthead  ;  but  they 
are  stopped  :  some  say,  till  we  are  gone.    But  when  that  v/ill  be  I  can't  tell. 

Thursday,  11th.     Clear  weather, "but  no  news. 

Friday,  12th.     Fine  weather.     Great  talks  of  our  being  exchanaed. 

Saturday,  13th.  Clear  weather  and  little  news.  Our  cfiicers'sent  out 
to  get  some  beer,  and  after  the  beer  came  the  otticer  of  the  guard  sr^id  it 
should  not  be  sent  in  ;  at  which  Captain  Murphy  sent  him  a  letter,  telling 
him  he  would  be  glad  of  the  money  or  beer  ;  but  on  refusing,  there  was  a 
very  insulting  letter  sent  him,  which  he  made  a  '  audle  of,  and  the  matter 
was  laid  before  the  commanding  officer  of  the  militia,  which  made  great 
disturbance.     No  news  at  present. 

Sunday,  14th.  Being  clear  weather  and  no  news,  but  a  disturbance  aris- 
ing concerning  the  lettt:r  sent  the  otEcer. 

Monday,  15th.  Fine  weather.  Two  of  our  otTicers,  Capt.  Murphy  and 
Capt.  Chew,  were  examined  by  the  Agent  concerning  the  letter,  and 'were 
ordered  to  be  locked  up  at  six' o'clock,  and  ail  the  rest  of  the  oilicers  ;  and 
by  their  making  of  it  known,  we  were  allowed  to  stay  out  the  usual  time. 
In  great  expectation  of  being  released  soon.     No  more  this  day. 

Tuesday,  16th.  This  day  very  line.  Mr.  Wrenn  and  3Ir.  Duckett  came 
to  pay  the  men  their  money,  when  all  of  them  were  ordered  to  bring  their 
coats,  and  those  that  had  coats  received  their  money,  and  those  that  had  cot 
had  none.  Great  cord'usion  concerning  the  letter  to  the  otheer.  Nothing 
new  concerning  us,  &c. 

Wednesday,  17th.  Cloudy  weather.  Nothing  wanting,  but  everything 
but  the  ofhcers  being  locked  up  at  six  o'clock,  and  the  men^out  till  the'  usual 
hours.     No  news  about  us. 

[To  be  continued.]  ... 

^  See  enhy  for  June  8.  follo^vin?,  &o. 
The  Rand'^lph  American  tViirate,  on  a  cruise  from  Charleston,  was  blown  np  rlnrinii  an 
enga?&ment  with  the  Yarmoiith,  6i,  March  7,  \"^.—  VUlc  Registeh,  xxiy.  30 1,  SUo,  n«a. 
•»  See  note  tu  Journal,  entry  for  Mur.  7,  177S. 
*  See  note  to  journal,  entry  tor  M-ij  16,  1778. 


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NOTES  ON  AMERICAN  HISTORY. 

By  the  Rev.  Edward  D.  Neill,  President  of  Macalestcr  Colkgc;,  Minncapr.lis,  Minnesota. 
[Continued  from  vol.  xxx.  page  418] 

No.  XIII. 
Tun  ViKGixiA  Lotteries. 

A  FRIEND  of  Sir  Dudley  Carloton,  on  February  12,  1G12,  wrote, 
"There  is  a  lottery  in  hand  fur  furthering  tlie  \  ir^inia  voy- 
age, and  an  under  company  erecting  for  the  trade  of  the  licrniudas, 
%vluch  have  cliangcd  their  name  twice  within  this  montii,  facing  first 
cln-istened  Yirginiola,  but  now  hitely  resolved  to  be  csdled  the  Sum- 
ner Islands,  as  well  in  respect  of  the  continued  temperate  air,  as  in 
rcmembrauce  of  Sir  George  Summers  thnt  died  tiicre." 

Howes  the  Chnmicler  alludes  to  the  lottery  in  t'iiese  ^\'o^ds : 
"  The  King's  Majesty,  in  special  favour  for  the  present  plantation  of 
English  colonies  iu  Virginia,  granted  a  liberal  lottery  in  which  was 
contained  five  thousand  pound  in  prizes  certain,  besides  rewards  ot" 
casualty,  and  begau  to  bo  drawn  in  a  new  built  house  at  the  \Vest 
End  of  Paul's,  tiie  29th  of  June  1612.  Out  of  which  lottery,  for 
want  of  filling  up  the  number  of  lots,  there  were  then  taken  oat 
and  thrown  away  three  score  thousaud  blanks,  without  abating  any 
one  prize,  and  by  the  20th  of  July  all  was  drawn  and  finished.  Tnii 
lottery  was  so  plainly  carried  and  honestly  performed,  that  it  gave 
full  satisfaction  to  all  persons.  Tliomas  Sharplisse,  a  tailor  of 
London,  had  the  chief  prize,  viz.,  4000  crowns  ii  fair  plate,  which 
was  sent  to  his  house  in  \  ery  stately  manner." 

Herbert  states  that  the  Grocer's  Company  ventured  £62  15s.,  and 
won  a  silver  salt  and  cover  valued  at  £13  10s.  Aubrey  writes  that 
the  father  of  Ogilby,  the  author,  at  this  period  was  in  prison  for 
debt,  and  borrowing  some  money  of  his  son,  purchased  a  ticket 
which  drew  a  prize,  enabling  him  to  extricate  himself  from  his 
debtors. 

Early  in  June,  1616,  Sir  Thomas  Dale  arrived  in  London  with 
Pocahontas,  and  collections  Avere  directed  in  the  dioceses  of  Eng- 
land for  a  churcli  and  college  in  Virginia,  and  a  lottery  was  granted 
for  the  general  benefit  of  the  phintaiion.  The  following,  fn-m  the 
loaders  of  the  Virginia  Company,  is  among  the  records  of  the  city 
of  Salisbury  : 

Whereas  the  Royal,  most  excellent  Majesty,  under  his  great  seal  of  Er^;- 
land,  authorizes  the  Virginia  Company  for  the  settiug  up  of  a  lottery  for 
tiie  benefit  of  that  Plantation. 

^^(•  li\^  virtue  of  said  grant  do  earnestly  pray  and  desire  you  il'  Mayor. 
^A"  iJfcorde:-,  and  the  Aidermen  o£  the  City  your  brelhren  to  be  assistants. 

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to  our  (U»i)i!tios  Giibrii.'I  B;ii'l)ei'  und  TiOtt  Pcort-  buin:^  also  meniber-!  of  our 
C'uini);uiy,  to  wIimiu,  for  tin;  iipprovcd  ti'ial  wliirfi  \vu  Jiuvu  of  tlicir  care  and 
suiliciency,  we  lia\'e  cominitted  the  inaiKigPiiierit  of  a  ruuiiiiig  lottery  to  be 
kept  iu  tjiat,  your  City  of  Salislmry.  rf((uestiiig  so  much  more  earnestly, 
ycair  furtherance  therein,  for  that  it  ii  for  so  good  a  Avurk  as  the  u[)holiiing 
of  that  l'lautati;)ii  whirh  we  have  now  irrcat  lioj)o  and  greater  than  bi-fore, 
shall  stand  and  llouri.-di  to  the  honor  and  benefit  of  t!ie  realm. 

And  although  we  are  well  sati.~liL>d  of  the.se  men's  integrity,  and  lave 
already  given  thera  an  oath  for  their  just  and  truu  dealing  in  this  em^doy- 
■ment,  with  all  men,  yet  to  satisfy  you  and  the  world  in  the  most  exact  uuui- 
ner  that  may,  we  desire  you  to  receive  the  key  here  enclosed,  of  the  prize.s 
and  to  see  tlit-ui  mingling  of  them  with  the  blanks,  and  appoint  one  or  two 
of  your  City,  men  of  care  to  lock  up  and  open  tlie  same  every  morning  and 
evening,  and  permit  a  child  who  shall  be  allowed  for  his  pains,  to  draw  out 
the  lots  for  all  that  adventu'-e,  as  shall  those  we  employ  not  be  su.-jjceted 
o[^  jiopularity  who  shall  only  pay  out  those  prizes  that  shall  be  drawn,  and 
yourselves  bo  encouraged  if  they  shall  so  desire  to  give  theru  your  testi- 
mony of  the  said  proceedings. 

In  so  doing  both  ourselves  shall  Lave  great  cause  to  thank  you.  and  the 
Pliiutafion  to  :ickuowledge  your  los'e  and  kindness  towards  the  same. 

And  so  we  bid  you  very  heavLy  farewell. 

From  Londan,  11)'^  of  December,  IGIG. 


E.  Shf.ffulLD 
Pembroke 

H.  SoUTHAJri'TON 

"Will.  Paget 
Thomas  Cavendish 
Thomas  Smytu 


Jo.  Danvfrs 
Edwin  Sandys 
Dudley  Digges 
John  "WnoxHE 
RiCHAUD  Maictyx 
Jo.  Wolstenuolme 


YiEGES'iA  Slavehcldeks,  Febeuary,  1625. 

Owner.  Place. 

Capt.  W.  Peirce,  Jamestown, 

Sir  George  Yeardley,         " 


Negro. 

f  Angelo,  woman,  inlGlD.  from  ship 
\      "  Treasure." 
Five  men.  ■•■  ■    ■  '  ' 

Three  women. 
"  Edward. 

Four  men. 
Wariscoyak,         Antonio,  arrived  in  "James,"  1G21. 
"  "  "  Mary,  " 

Capt.  Francis  West,    Elizabeth  City,     John  Pedro,  a.  30,  in  '•  Susan,"  1623. 
Capt.  Wm.  Tucker,  "  '•         Antony. 

"         "         "  •'  "        Isabel  his  wife. 

William  their  child,  baptized. 

Total  of  «  Negors,"  20. 


Rich'd  Kings  well, 
Abraham  Piersey, 
Edward  Bennett, 


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1877.]       JloUh,  X.  II.,  in  the  War  of  the  Bevolution.  23 


IIOLLIS,  XEW  IIA^rPSITIRE,  I\  THE  V.'AR  OF  THE 
liEVOLL'TiOX. 

y  By  the  Hon.  Sahukl  T.  AVop.CF.STr;.:,  A.M.,  of  Nashua,  N.  II. 

[Contiuucd  from  vol.  x-i^x.  inij'e  liOS.] 

NU:MRER   of   IIOLLIS    SOLDIERS    THE  SECOND   YEAR   OF   THE    "WAR. 

IX  the  year  1776,  the  ses^t  of  the  war  was  removed  from  the 
vicinity  of  Boston  to  Canada  and  the  state  of  Xevr-York.  lint 
iQw  of  tlie  re£;;iinental  or  conipnny  roils  of  the  trooj^s  furni.-lied  by 
Xew-IIampfchire  the  second  year  of  the  war  are  now  known  to  exi.-t, 
or  if  still  in  existence,  some  of  the  most  interesting  and  important 
of  them,  snp{)Osed  to  be  in  t!ie  office  of  the  Secretary  of  State  at 
Wp.shinjrton,  l)V  the  inhos])itablc  rules  of  th:it  ofiice  are  not  accc.-f^I- 
ble  to  the  liistorical  inquirer.  1  have  consef[uently,  in  these  re- 
searches, iieen  obliged  to  rely  mainly  ut)on  the  tovn  recoids  ar.'] 
documents  for  tlic  names,  number,  terms  of  service  and  Avages  of 
tlie  Hollis  soldiers  in  that  year. 

It  appears  from  these  documents  that  fuur  Hollis  soldiers  enlisted 
iu  the  detachment  of  troops  imder  Gen.  Arnold,  who  Avith  so  mucli 
privation  and  suffering  mn.de  their  way  through  the  forests  tu  (Que- 
bec by  the  way  of  the  Kennebee  Iviver,  in  the  winter  of  1775-G. 
!Minot  Farmer,  one  of  these  Hollis  soldiers,  \\ho  had  been  a  ser- 
geant in  the  Hollis  company  at  Bunker  Hill,  was  taken  prisoner  in 
tlie  assault  on  Quebec,  and  died  in  captivity. 

In  the  year  177G,  and  afterwards,  till  near  the  close  of  the  A\ar, 
Xew  Hampshire  ilirnished  three  battalions  of  regular  troops,  knnivn 
as  the  first,  second  and  third  X.  H.  Continenial  regiments,  com- 
manded severally  by  Colonels  Cilley,  Hale  and  Scammel.  L>r. 
John  Hale,  and  his  son-indaw  Jonathan  Poole,  were  respectively 
surgeon  and  assistant-surgeon,  of  the  first  X.  II.  regiment,  from 
177()  to  1780.  The  private  soldiers  in  these  regiments  were  at  fir^t 
enlisted  for  a  single  year.  Besides  the  surgeon  and  his  assistant, 
Hollis  furnished  to  these  regiments  21  men,  including  officers,  a 
part  of  whom  enlisted  in  the  first  Xew  Hampshire  under  Col.  Cd- 
ley,  the  rest  in  the  third  under  Col.  Scammel.  The  histjry  and 
doings  of  these  regiments,  and  of  their  gallant  colonels,  are  t  to 
lamliiar  to  our  renders  to  need  or  permit  comment  here,  liie 
private  soldiers  from  Hollis  in  these  regimerits  were  paid,  t;y  the 
town,  .£2-l  each  for  the  year's  service,  or  £2  per  month. 

About  the  middle  of  July,  177(5,  a  regiment  of  X.  H.  Vohm- 
teers  was  enlisted  to  reCnfurce  the  army  in  Ciuiada,  and  placed  r.n- 
der  the  command  of  Col.  Joshua  Wingate.  In  tlie  third  eom[);Miy  of 
this  regiment,  of  which  Diinicl  ICmcrson,  Jr.,  of  Hollis  was  captain, 
^'ere  2.j  Hollis  soldiers,  supposed  to  liave  been  in  service  f<>r  six 
months,  and  who  were   paid   by  the  town    £12  eacli,  or  at  the  rate 


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24  JToUis,  iV.  II.,  in  the  ITrt?  of  the  Revolution.        [Jan. 

of  £2  per  month.     Tu  coiiecquenco  of  tlio   successful  retreat  of  the 

coutinoiiUil  troops  from  Cauudii,  tUirf  rcghacat  went  no  farther  north 
tlian  TiconderoiT.'V. 

Afterward-^,  in  tlie  month  of  August  of  this  year,  the  X.  II.  Com- 
mittee of  Safety  ordered  that  a  small  regiment  of  New  Ilainpsliire 
troops,  under  the  command  of  Col.  Pierce  Lon^:^,  then  stationed  at 
Newcastle,  should  be  recruited  and  its  ranks  filled.  Near  the  last 
of  177G  this  reuiment  was  ordered  to  Now  York  to  the  defence  of 
Ticonderoga.  In  its  tldrd  company,  commanded  by  Capt.  Timothy 
Clements,  were  12  lloUis  soldiers,  who  were  paid  by  the  town  £12 
each,  and  supposed  to  have  served  six  months. 

Near  the  last  of  September,  177G,  another  regiment  of  X.  II. 
Volunteers  was  enlisted,  commanded  by  Col.  Xaluim  Baldwin,  to 
recnforce  the  continental  army  then  at  White  Plains.  In  the  sec- 
ond company  of  this  regiment,  under  Cai)t.  ^\  illiam  lieed,  wei'C 
21  Ilollis  soldiers.  They  were  paid  by  the  town  £5  7s.  each.  It 
does  not  appear  how  long  they  were  in  the  service,  but  probably 
some  kss  than  three  months. 

In  December  of  this  year,  another  Xew  Hampshire  regiment  was 
raised  to  reenforce  the  army  in  Xew  York,  commanded  by  Col. 
David  Oilman.  In  the  second  company  of  this  regiment,  com- 
manded by  Capt.  AVilliam  Walker,  were  14  Plollis  soldiers,  sup- 
posed to  have  been  in  the  service  two  months,  and  who  weie  paid 
£4  each  by  the  town. 

In  addition  to  the  foregoing  lists,  it  appears  from  the  report  made 
by  the  selectmen  of  Ilollis  to  the  legislature  after  the  war,  that  4 
other  HoUis  soldiers  served  for  some  months  in  the  garrison  near 
Portsmouth,  and  were  paid  £4  10s.  each. 

It  appears  from  the  foregoing  data,  that  in  1776  Hollis  furnished 
soldiers  for  the  army  as  follows  : 

For  Arnold's  Expedition  to  Canada  ...  4 
In  tlie  1st  and  3d  X.  H.  ContiaeDtul  Regiments  .23 
lu  the  Eegiment  of  Col.  Wiiigate  .         .         .25 

In  Col.  Long's  Regiment        .         .         .         .         .12 

In  Col.  Baldwin's    -  21 

In  Col.  Oilman's     "  .....     14 

Garrisons  at  Portsmouth       .....       4 


Making  in  all  the  secoml  year  of  the  war,  103     or   nearly 

one  iu  twelve  of  the  whole  population  of  the  town. 

f    ',' 

HOLLIS    LN    1777,    THIRD    YEAR    OF    THE    WAR. 

JFrom  the  town  records  : 

"  Annual  Town  Meetintj,  March  3,  1777. 

•"  Votnd  and  chose  for  Committee  of  Safety,  Capt.  Xoali  Worcester,  En- 
sign Stephen  Ames,  Capt.  Daniel  Keudrick,  Oliver  Lawrence  and  Jacob 
Jewett.     Also 

"  Voted,  That  we  will  stand  by  the  Committee  of  Safety  and  defend 
them,  and  do  all  we  can  to  assist  them  iu  the  cause  of  liberty." 


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25 


THE    HOILTS    QUOTA    OF    COXTINKNTAT.    SOLDFERS. 

Cnder  tlie  nets  of  Congress  reorganizinix  the  comincutul  army  for 
1777  and  the  yetirs  following,  Now  Hampshire  was  rcfiuhx-d  to  fur- 
nish three  regiments  of  regular  troops  to  serve  for  three  years  or 
during  the  wTir.  The  uuniber  of  men  to  be  furnished  by  the  several 
town^  in  the  state  was  allotted  to  the  respective  regiments  of  the 
state  militia  in  proportion  to  the  number  of  the  enrolled  mibtia  in 
each  town.  The  number  required  of  eaeh  town  was  called  tJic 
town's  "quota,"  and  it  was  made  the  duty  of  the  town  to  keep  its 
quota  constantly  filled,  in  tiiis  apportionment  the  number  of  conti- 
nental soldiers  set  to  Hollis  was  ihirfy ;  and  this  number  continued 
to  he  the  Hollis  quota  till  near  the  end  of  the  war.  It  i<  shown  by 
the  "  Jvcturn  "  of  Col.  ^.loses  Nichols,  the  commander  of  the  regiment 
of  militia  to  which  Hollis  was  attached,  made  cu'ly  in  1777,  that  rtic 
30  soldiers  allotted  to  Hollis  were  enlisted  in  the  spring  of  that  year, 
•iO  of  whom  enlisted  for  three  years,  and  the  remaining  10  for  eigiit 
months.  'LVeuty  of  them  were  enlisted  in  the  first  N.  H.  regiment, 
under  Col.  Cilley  ;  the  rest,  with  one  exception,  in  that  of  Col. 
iScam.mell. 

From  the  town  records  : 

"  Special  Town  Meeting,  April  2,  1777." 
'•■  ^'  The  Holies  Quota  for  the  Continental  Army." 

"  Voted  To  sive  each  man  that  shall  enli?t  for  three  years  or  duruig  the 
war  to  make  o'ut  our  Quota  of  thirty  men.  £4G,  iuckuUng  the  Continental 
and  states  Bounty." 

"  Voted  To  rai^e  the  money  for  the  soldiers  by  Tax." 
''  Voted  That  the  Selectmen  shall  give   security  to  e  ich  man  that  enlists 
for  the  sum  that  is  to  be  paid  him  liy  the  Town." 

It  appears  from  the  "Great  Return"  before  referred  to,  made 
by  the  selectmen  to  the  legislature  after  the  war,  that  each  of  these 
men  was  paid  £20  by  the  town,  making  in  all  £600. 

t  r. 

PATRIOTIC   PLEDGES    OF    HOLLIS    MINUTE   MEX. 

The  original  paper,  dated  May  I.t,  1777,  of  which  a  copy  is  pre- 
sented belmv,  is  in  the  hand-writing  of  its  first  signer,  Capt.  licubon 
Dow,  of  the  Hollis  company  at  Bunker  Hill.  There  arc  ai)pendcd 
to  it  the  autograph  signatures  of  47  Hollis  "Minute  3len.  '  At 
the  time  it  was  written,  Gen.  Burgoync,  with  his  Hessian,  tory  and 
Indian  allies  was  on  his  march  from  Canada  to  Ticonderoga,  and  a 
formidable  British  fleet  was  menacing  the  coasts  of  ^ew  England. 
The  document  merits  a  place  in  this  narrative  as  ex[»ressive  of  the 
fearful  dangers  to  the  country,  then  imminent,  and  also  as  a  memento 
of  tlie  dauntless  courage  and  patriotic  devotion  of  its  signers. 
VOL.  sxxi.  3* 


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26  iroUis,  ^^.  IT.,  in  the  War  of  the  Revolution.         [J;in. 

"  Holies,  May  15,  1777. 
*•  "\Vlieic:u-.  it  ai'|).j-rs  tlmt  tlio  eiieaiies  of  tlie  United  States  of  America 
are  laying  K^tly  Plan  in  ttieir  Power  to  ruin  and  destroy  us,  and  it  being 
hourly  expected  that  a  tleet  aiid  army  will  arrive  iii  soin'.;  part  of  our  coa.>ts 
in  order  to  pro^-eeute  tlieir  wicked  purposes,  and  we  apprelii-nd  it  to  bo  the 
duty  of  all  the  lahaliitants  of  these  states  to  bo  iu  the  greatest  readiness 
and  preparation  tu  exert  theiuselves  in  the  Defeuce  of  this  Country  in  this 
tinje  of  Danger  ;  AVherefore  we  whose  names  are  hereutito  sulj.scribed  ('.o 
})romise  and  engage  to  equip  ourselves  immediately  with  arms,  ammunition, 
&c.,  and  be  ready  at  a  mimite's  warning  by  inght  or  by  day  to  go  to  and 
assist  our  Brethren  wherever  they  may  be  attacke<l ;  and  upon  an  alarm, 
we  will  immediately  appear  on  the  I'arade  at  the  JMeeting  House  iu 
Holies,  and  be  under  the  command  of  such  officer  or  otlicors  as  we  may 
choose  ourselves,  or  the  major  part  of  us,  and  that  each  of  us  will  be  {iro- 
vi;led  witli  a  good  horse  iu  order  that  we  may  the  sooner  get  to  the  place 
attacked." 

TITE    ALAini    OF    BURGOYNE's    IN'VASIOX. 

^NTear  tlie  last  of  June  of  this  ye;ir,  on  tlie  receipt  of  the  news  of 
the  advance  of  Gca.  Burgoyne  upon  Ticonderoga,  a  company  -was 
enlisted  at  Hollis,  connnanded  by  Capt.  Daniel  Emerson,  to  aid  in 
the  defence  of  that  place,  in  which  tJiere  were  50  Hollis  ''  Minute 
Men."  This  com})any,  after  a  rapid  march  to  Walpoje,  X.  11., 
sixty-five  miles,  upon  tlie  receipt  of  some  false  reports  from  Ticon- 
deroga,  was  ordered  to  return  to  Hollis,  wlicre  it  arrived  on  'he 
4th  of  July.  The  next  day  the  coin[)any  had  orders  to  march  a 
second  time  for  Ticonderoga,  and  having  reached  Cavendish,  ^'t., 
one  hnndred  miles,  upon  licaring  of  the  capture  of  Ticonderoga,  had 
orders  a  second  time  to  return  home,  and  was  disbanded  on  reach- 
ing Hollis.  The  wages  of  these  men,  for  the  time  they  were  ab- 
sent, 'vere  os.  per  day,  and  od.  per  mile  for  travel. 

-  '•    '  ■  HOLLIS    SOLDIERS    AT    THE    BATTLE    OF    BEXNIXGTOX. 

After  tlie  return  home  of  the  Hollis  compam'  under  Capt.  Em- 
erson, a  second  company  was  immediately  organized,  niostlv  of 
Hollis  men,  of  which  John  Goss  was  captain  and  David  "Wallinn-- 
ford  was  lieutenant,  both  of  Hollis.  It  appears  from  the  return  of 
Col.  Nichols,  and  Hollis  revolutionary  documents,  that  inclusive  of 
officers  there  were  39  Hollis  soldiers  in  this  company.  The  reiri- 
ment  to  which  the  company  was  attached  was  commanded  by  Col. 
^Nichols,  and  belonged  to  the  brigade  of  Xew  Hampshire  troops 
under  Gen.  Stark,  raised  by  the  state  to  reenforcc  tlie  nortliern 
army  after  tlic  captr.re  of  Ticonderoga.  The  eonipan\-  marched 
for  its  destination  on  the  20th  of  July,  and  was  discliaiged  on  the 
29tli  of  September,  having  been  in  the  service  two  montlis  and  nine 
<lays.  Thirty-lour  of  tlie  men  were  paid  l)y  the  town  £7  each, 
making  £238.  This  company  was  in  the  battle  of  ]jennin<'-ton," 
fought  Aug.  16,  17  77.  Tv.-o  Hollis  soldiers  also  served  in  the 
garrison  at  Portsmouth  for  a  part  of  this  year. 


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1877.1       IIollls,  K.  II. ^  in  the   \\^ar  of  the  Hevolvtlon.  27 

Nine  of  tl'.e  men  in  C:ii)t.  Emerson's  company  nftcrwnrd.-^  enlisted 
in  that  of  Capt.  Gus^.  Making  the  jtrojier  deduction  of  that  ninn- 
ber,  it  will  a[)|)car  that  Ilnjlis  in  ]  777,  for  a  part  or  tlie  wiioio  of 
that  year,  furnisiied  112diflerent  eoldier.s — a  number  nearly  eijual 
to  one  in  eleven  of  it^  population. 

1778.       RECRUITS    FOR    THE    CONTINENTAL    QUOTA. 

In  Jaiuiary,  1778,  ten  men  were  lacking  to  fill  the  Ifolli:^  conti- 
nental (jnora,  owing  to  the  expiration  of  the  time  of  service  of  tho:<e 
\vho  had  enlit-ted  for  eight  months  the  year  ])rcvIous.  At  a  special 
town  meeting,  held  on  the  19th  of  January  of  thr.t  year,  to  supidy 
this  d(>ficienev,  as  appears  by  the  record  oi'  it,  it  was  "  Voted,  That 
the  Militia  (,)rti('ers.  Selectmen  and  Connnittee  of  Safety  agree  with 
the  ]\Ien  to  suppi}'  the  place  of  our  Eight-Months  ]Men  as  cheap  a3 
thev  can,  and  give  the  security  of  the  town  for  their  service  in  the 
Continental  Army."  One  of  these  recruits  enlisted  in  a  ^latsachu- 
setts  regituenL ;  the  remaining  nine  in  the  fir^t  X.  II.  rcgiinent,  fur 
two  years,  and  each  of  the  nine  was  [laid  by  the  town,  severally, 
from' £42  6s.  8d.  to  £50. 

At  the  annual  meeting  of  the  town  in  ]\Iarch,  of  this  year,  Capt. 
Noah  Worcester  was  again  chosen  chairman  of  trie  Committee  of 
Safety,  and  the  town  ''  Voted ,  That  the  Selectmen  take  care  of  the 
Cozitinenral  Soldiers  families  if  they  stand  in  need." 

At  a  special  town  meeting  on  the  (Jth  of  April,  1778,  "  Voted, 
To  raise  £830  to  be  levied  by  tax  to  pay  the  charges  of  our  ten 
Continental  ]\[en.'' 

In  June  of  this  year  three  ELolIis  soldiers  enlisted  in  Capt.  Eze- 
kiel  ^Vorthen's  company,  in  a  regiment  conunanded  by  Col.  Pea- 
body,  raised  by  the  state  for  the  defence  of  Ehode  Island.  These 
men  vreie  in  the  service  near  sevt-n  months,  and  were  severally  paid 
£t)  by  the  town." 

"  THE    MOLLIS    COMPANY    TO    RHODE    ISLAND    IN    1778. 

About  midsummer  of  this  year  the  state  raised  a  brigade  of  troops 
for  the  defence  of  Rhode  Island,  conunanded  bv  Brig. -Gen.  AVhip- 
ple.  The  first  company  of  the  regiment  of  Col.  Nichols,  belonging 
to  this  brigade,  was  enlisted  in  Ilollis.  As  appears  by  the  returns 
ot  Col.  Nichols,  now  at  Concord,  this  company,  incki?ive  of  offi- 
cers, all  from  Ilollis,  consisted  of  43  men,  and  was  conunanded  by 
Capt.  Daniel  Emerson.  The  men  were  in  the  service,  as  shown  by 
the  returns,  from  the  t)tli  to  the  28th  of  xVugust,  and  42  of  them 
were  paid  by  the  town  £1  3s.  eacli.  It  is  supposed  that  the  men 
or  this  company  were  all  niounted,  as  it  appears  from  Col.  Nichols's 
n-port  that  they  were  allowed  pay  for  the  service  of  43  horses  at 
£10  tor  each  iiorse. 

It  will  appear  frojn  the  forei,^oing  data,  that  including  the  town's 
qijota  of  30  continental  sol, Hers,  Ilollis,  in  1778,  had  7G  men  in 
tiie  service  for  the  whole  or  a  part  of  tl.at  year. 

[To  be  continu-;d.] 


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1S77.]  The  Star- Spangled  Banner.  29 


THE  STAE-SPANGLED  BAXNER. 
Autograph  Copies,  Additioxal  Vkksks,  &c. 

Cominunicatcd.by  Rear-Adniiral  Geo.  Henuv  Prebi.e,  U.S.N. 

X  my  paper  ou  the  St;ir-Si)angled  Banner,  published  in  the  Reg- 
ister for  January,  1874  {ante,  xxxviii.  40),  I  say  a  fac-simiic 
f^r  a  ]MS.  of  the  son^^,  publi.shcd  in  "  Autograph  Leaves  of  our 
Country's  Authors,"  in  1804,  was  from  a  copy  in  the  possession  of 
the  author's  daughter,  Mrs.  Howard,  of  Baltimore.  Subsequently 
to  that  publication,  under  date  of  April  25,  1874,  Mrs.  lioward 
w  rote  me  : 

"  I  do  not  think  I  ever  had  an  autograph  of  the  Siar-Spangled  Danner. 
?-Iy  f;ilIi<_T  gave  his  children,  from  th<;;  time  tliej  could  speak,  the  habit  of 
committing  poetry  to  memory,  and  in  that  way  only  has  the  song  been  pre- 
served to  me.  Except  in  one  or  tv,o  words,  Mr.  Keini's  version,  as  you 
have  it,  is  the  one  I  have  ever  remembered." 

Henry  ]\Iay  Keim,  Esq.,  of  Reading,  Pa.,  after  reading  my  paper, 
nnd?r  date  of  Jan.  8,  1874,  vrrote  me  : 

"  You  say  a  fac-simile  of  Mrs.  Howard's  copy  of  the  Star-Spangled  Ban- 
ner wds  made  for  the  Baltimore  Sanitary  Fair  in  1864.  A  fac-simile  Oiviy 
copy  was  made  for  the  benefit  of  the  same  fair  in  1864,  and  I  was  under 
the  impression  it  was  the  only  one.  I  have  searched  diligently  for  the 
correspondence  I  had  with  my  cousin  Brantz  jNIayer,  who,  with  Mr.  Ken- 
nedy, took  a  great  interest  in  the  fair,  relative  to  the  matter,  but  cannot 
fiud  it."  I  .  ■     ••  ■.     1'  >■■•       ■  -^  •      ■  • 

Thus  we  are  certain  there  are  in  existence  at  least  three  autograph 
Copies  of  the  song,  viz.  :  1st,  the  copy  presented  to  James  Mahar, 
and  dated  June  7,  1842,  printed  in  the  National  Intelligencer  and  in 
my  "History  of  our  Flag;"  2d,  the  copy  presented  and  addressed  to 
Cren.  Geo.  Keim  in  1842,  now  in  the  possession  of  his  son,  and 
which  was  printed  in  the  Register  for  January,  1874;  and  3d, 
the  copy  dated  Oct.  21,  1840,  a  fac-simile  of  which  illustrates 
this  article.  It  was  first  published  in  fac-simile  in  the  American  His- 
torical and  Literary  Curiosities  (plate  Iv.)  by  John  Jay  Smith,  ^yho 
stated  the  original  was  in  the  possession  of  Louis  J.  Cist.  Ihii 
copy  ditfers  from  ]Mr.  Keim's  only  in  the  first  line  of  the  last  stanza, 
\yl;ieh  reads,  ''And  tchere  is  that  host,''  instead  of  "  Where  are 
tne  foes,"  as  in  the  later  autographs. 

^  A  San  Francisco  paper  says  that  the  only  original  likeness  of 
Francis  Sr-utt  Key  is  in  tiie  possession  of  his  sister,  Mrs.  Turner,  a 
r^.-Idont  of  that  city,  and  that  a  lite-sized  bust  has  been  made  from  it 
*«n  pia--tfr,  which  "is  said  to  be  a  very  successful  piece  of  work.  I 
h^ve  a  letter  from   Mrs.   Turner's  daughter,   in   which  she  says   her 


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30  The  Star-Spangled  Bayiner.    •  [Jau. 

mother  believes  her  portrait  to  be  the  onhj  likoncs?  of  her  fatlier 
from  lite  extant.  I  iiave,  however,  seen  a  youtliCul  portrait  of  him 
in  Col.  Jkring's  National  Museum  in  Iridepcndence  Hall,  said  to 
be  an  oHginal. 

I  learn  from  a  recent  ne\vspa[ior  that  Samuel  Sand.^,  the  prihtcr 
boy  who  fir^rt  put  the  6ong  in  type  for  the  columns  of  the  Bakimore 
American,  is  still  living  in  a  green  old  age. 

A  recent  letter  addressed  by  Mrs.  Caroline  Purdy,  of  Baltimore, 
to  ^SIis.  Appleton,  daughter  of  Col.  Armistead,  furnishes  iw  with 
the  names  of  the  makers  of  the  flag  which  inspired  Key**  song.  Mrs. 
Purdy  says  : 

"I  take  tlie  liberty  of  sending  you  a  few  particulars  about  the  Ibii  [Furt 
]\[cTTenry].  It  was  made  by  my  mother,  iMrs.  INIary  rirk-.Tsiriil,  awl  f 
assisted  her.  r.ly  grauihuothur,  Reheccu  Young,  maih;  th(^  first  tlag  of  the 
Revolution  under  Gen.  ^\'ashiugtOIl's  directions,  and  for  this  reason  my  mo- 
ther was  selected  by  Commodore  ijarney  and  General  Strik^-r  (laLully  con- 
nections) to  ruake  this  star-spangled  banner,  which  she  did,  being  an  exceed- 
ingly pnuiotic  wonniu.  T!ie  Hag  being  so  very  large,  my  mother  was  obliij- 
ed  to  obtain  permission  from  the  proprietor  of  '  Chiggett's  IJrewery,'  which 
was  in  our  r.eighborhood,  to  spread  it  out  in  their  malt-house,  and  1  rero.rm- 
ber  seeing  my  mother  down  on  the  floor  placing  the  stais.  Afcer  the  com- 
pletion of  the  flag,  she  superintended  the  topping  [i.  e.  hea<lingj  of  it,  hav- 
ing it  fastened  in  the  most  secure  manner,  to  prevent  its  being  torn  away 
by  bails.  The  wisdom  of  her  precaution  wa-^  shown  during  the  engagement, 
many  shots  piercing  it,  but  it  still  remained  firm  to  the  stafi.  Your  father, 
Col.  Armistead,  declared  that  no  one  but  the  maker  of  the  fl;)::  should  mend 
it,  and  requested  that  the  rents  should  be  bound  around.  The  flag  I  think 
contained  four  hundred  yards  of  bunting,  and  my  mother  worked  many 
nights  until  12  o'clock  to  complete  it  in  a  given  time.  I  would  recall  my- 
self to  your  recollection  as  a  manager  of  the  Agtd  Woman's  Home,  v-dien 
you  were  here.  I  am  widowed  an<l  childless,  an  I  now  find  myself  in  my 
seventy-sixth  year  in  feeble  health." 

The  flag  of  Fort  ]\[cHenry  was  exhibited  at  the  Centennial  Exhi- 
bition in  the  Naval  Department  of  the  U.  S.  Government  Building. 

The  song  having  been  inspired  by  a  special  incident,  is  not  suited 
to  all  times  and  occasi(ms  as  a  national  song  should  be,  and  to  sup- 
ply its  deficiencies  additional  stanzas  have  from  time  to  time  been 
written.  Notably  among  these  is  the  following  stanza  written  by 
Oliver  Wendell  Holmes,  at  the  recpiest  of  a  lady  during  our  civil 
war,  there  being  no  verse  alluding  to  treasonable  attempts  against 
the  flag. 

"  When  our  land  i-  illamiiif-ii  with  liberty's  smile. 
If  a  foe  from  within  strike^  ;i  hli.>w  at  her  i^lur}', 
Down,  down  ^.vith  the  traitor  that  dares  t')  dtiilo 
The  dag  of  iier  tsturs,  and  tlie  jniLje  of  her  stury  !  -.& 

By  tlie  mi'di  lUs  unchalii'd 
Who  our  hirttiri^^'it  huve  ;u'ained, 
We  will  keep  her  hri^dit  hbiX'iti  forever  unstained  ; 
And  the  stiir-spauLdi'd  l);\riher  in  triuni;)'!  shnll  wiu'e 
While  the  land  of  the  iiee  i.s  the  home  utthe  Israve. 


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1877.]        Boston  Committee  of  Correspondence,  d'c.  31 

Eminently  appropriate  to  tlie  present  Centeunial  times  and  the 
spirit  with  \\\\\c\\  Great  Britain  liari  entered  into  them,  are  the  f'ol- 
lowinij:  !<tanza.-<,  written  fifty  yeara  ago,  but  which  are  known  to  lew 
of  the  present  time. 

'•  Bat  husird  he  that  etrnin  !     They  our  Fuc.=  are  no  longer  ; 
ix),  Kritain  tlie  riu;iit  haii.l  of  Fiiendsliip  extendn, 
And  Alljiun's  fair  I'-le  we  heh(;M  with  allei-tiun, 
The  laud  of  our  Fathers — the  land  of  our  Friends  ! 

lyonn;,  long  may  ye  tloiiririh,  Coluiiibia  and  Britain, 
In  amity  titill  may  yunr  cliilJien  he  loiind, 
And  tlie  Star-Spani;kd  lianncr  and  Red  C'roj:s  together 
Wave  free  and  triumphant  the  wide  world  around  !  " 

Benjamin  I\u^h,  Esq.,  for  whom  they  were  written,  and  from 
whom  1  obtained  them,  writes  me  : 

"  The  circumstances  under  which  these  additional  stanzas  to  the  Star- 
Spangled  Bainier  tirst  came  to  my  hand  were  briefly  adverted  to  in  the  Fre- 
faee  to  my  edition  of  my  fathers's  book,  entitled,  '  Recollections  of  the  Eng- 
lish and  »eueh  Courts",'  published  in  London  in  1871,  where  I  then  was. 
Tiie  btaiizas  were  also  puhllshed  ;  but  that  need  not  interfere  in  die  least 
with  your  desire  to  insert  them  iu  the  second  e'bi.ion  of  your  History 
of  the  Flag,  wherein  I  should  say  they  would  approi)riately  come  in. 
The  name  of  the  author  by  whom  they  were  composed,  was  George 
Spowers,  Esq.,  and  this  has  never  been  published.  I  think  it  eminently  due 
to  him  now  that  his  name  should  be  given  to  the  public,  consiilerini^  not 
oidy  the  beauty  but  tlie  admirable  sentiments  of  the  stanzas.  lie  had  seen 
in  my  hands  a'manuscript  copy  of  the  original  song,  and  asked  me  to  lend 
it  to  him,  which  I  did.  A  day  or  two  afterwards  he  returned  it  to  me  v.dth 
these  stanzas.  I  was  quite  a  boy  at  the  time,  at  school  with  my  two  bro- 
thers, at  Hampstead,  near  London,  while  my  father  was  residhi^'  in  London 
as  minister  of  the  United  States.     It  must  have  been  about  the  year  182-4." 


RECORD  OF   THE  BOSTON   COMMITTEE  OF    CORRES- 
PONDENCE, INSPECTION  AND  SAFETY,  r  .■ 
MAY  TO  NOVEMBER,  1776. 

Copied  by  permission  of  Samuel  F.  McCleaky,  Esq.,    City   Clerk,  from   the  orisinal 
record-book  in  the  arcliives  of  the  City  of  Boston,  Mass. 


[ContiHued  from  vol.  XXX.  page  444.] 

1776.  ^  , 

July  21.  [Page  21.]     At  a  Meeting  of  the  Committee  of  Correspond- 

ence, Inspection  &  Safety  at  the  Council  Chamber,  July  "21. 

M'  Wendall  in  the  Chair— 
Number  of      The  Persons  appointed  to  procure  the  Names  of  every  Person 
rL;-sonsin  jn  their  respective  Ward,  made  return  of  their  doings  to  tins  Cum- 
iit  to  Lar   niittee,  whereby  it  appeared  that  there  w-ere  [  ^     ]  Persons 

Arms.         in  the  several  Wards  capable  of  bearing  arms  from  lo  to  05  years 

of  age. 
M.\j'  Bar-        ]Maj'  Barber  &  Cap'  Proctor   appointed   to  order  and  form  the 
^^l^l'*        several   companys  that  may  appear  on  the  Common  tomorro-.v. 
on  y- Com-      Voted,  that  in  case  a  sutiicient  number  of  I>Ien   to  answer  the 
Eioii.  req;iirement  of  the  General  Court,  should  not  voluntarily  inlist  on 


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82  Doston  Committee  of  Corresjjondencc,  &c.  [Jan. 

tV-^o'i  ^^'^  morrow,  the  Coiiiniittce  thon  dniu^lit  from  the  s»;\cial  "Wards 
Votes  :("■<  to ''''^-''  i'«2i"sOiiS  as  lliuy  apprchcud  iiiuoL  ouilublc  to  makeup  such 
draughting  dotlcieucy. 

"^*"-  ^'ot♦:-d,  that  the  Koll  ho  called  over  in  tlie  several  Wards,  which 

shall  appear  in  the  Coiinuon  to  morrow,  at  11  O'clock,  Forenoon. 
\ot(;d,  that  Coll"  Jjarljer  and  Major  Proctor  bo  desired  to  form 
the  Militia  when  mustered,  into  a  hollow  Square,  or  Circle,  a.'i 
they  shall  judge  to  be  most  proper,  and  when  this  is  done  that 
the  Law  for  draughting  a  number  of  men  be  read,  by  M'  Cooper, 
who  must  then  acipiaint  the  several  ^^'ards  of  the  nund)er  of  men 
that  appear,  and  that  every  twenty  fifth  man  of  tliem  is  to  be  \v.- 
listed,  or  in  failure  thereof  jto  be  draughteil  at  the  discretion  of  the 
Committee,  after  which  he  is  to  address  [Page  22]  the  Body,  in 
order  to  encourage  their  turning  out  freely  in  defence  of  the 
Rights  &  Privileges  of  their  country. 
Li5U.fr,)eu  \'uted,  that  ^dajor  lieveirc,  3Iaj^  Barber,  Caj)'  Proctor,  Cap' 
draugh*.  Pulling,  IVP  Hoyer  &  M'  JNIourtou  be  a  Committee  to  prepare  a 
List  of  suitr.ble  Persons  to  be  draughted,  in  case  of  any  failure  iu 
the  I:.listment  of  the  same  to  be  Reported  to  this  Conunittee. 

Voted,   that  this  meeting  be  adjourned  to  to  ^Nlorruw  morning, 
8  o'clock. 
July  22*.         The  List  of  suitable   Persons  to   be  draughted  for  the  Service 
in  case  a  sufficient  number  is  not  enlisted  laid  before  the   Com- 
mittee. 

Adjourned  to  3  o'clock  in  the  afternoon  of  tomorrow. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Committee  of  Correspondence,  Inspection 
&  Safety,  July  22*^,  3  o'clock, 
A  dranght       The  Body  having   agreable  to  their  desire  been  dismissed  from 
be  ruade*^    the  Common,  and    required    to  attend   again  at  this  time — Voted, 
that   the   Committee   wait  till  G.  O'clock  this  Evening,  and  if  the 
number  required,  being  [     ]  effective  men,  should  not  be  enlisud, 
that   the  Committee   immediately   after  adjourn    to   the   Council 
Chamber,  and  then  proceed  to   draught  the  number  wanted  out  of 
/   the  List  reported  by  the  Committee. 

Adjourned  to  tomorrow  moriung  9  o'clock  in  the  Forenoon. 
Jaly  23.  Met  according  to  adjournment,  9   o'clock  A.M.     The  Commit- 

tee having  made  further  enquiry  [Page  23]    with  respect  to  the 
Comm-  to  Scotch  Sea  iNIen,  M''  Gray,  Cap'  Mackay   and   ColP  Barber  were 
Coundl.      appointed  a  Sub   Committee   to  wait   on  M''  Bowdoin,   President 
of  the  Council,  and  to  lay  the  Evidences  of  the  behavior  of  the 
Scotch  Seamen  before  him. 

At  a  meeting  of  the  Committee  of  Correspondence,  Inspection 
&  Safety  at  the  Council  Chamber, 

Cap'  Proctor,  appointed  on  the  Committee  to  wait  on  the  Presi- 
dent of  the  Hon'"'''  Board  relative  to  the  Scotch  Seamen  in  the 
room  of  Cap'  Mackay — 

Adjourned  to  tomorrow  morning,  11  o'clock. 
24.  Wednesday,  Septem' [siV]  24,   11  O'clock,  A.M.     Met  accord- 

ing to  Adjournment. 

Several  Returns  made  of  the  Absentees  on  the  late  Muster  Day 
laid  before  the  Committee. 

3Ir.  Constable  Thomas  directed  to  call  upon  the  gentlemen  who 
headed  the  several  Wardj,  on  the  late  Muster  Day,  and  to  desire 
their  attendance  this  Eveninsr. 


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1877.]         Boston  Contmitfe'?  of  Corresjjondencc,  dsc.  33 


1776.  A«lj<)U!-iit.-(]  to  0  O'clock  tlii.s  Eveciing.  t 

^"'^'  "'■'•       ,)i;lv  24.     0  O'clock,  met  accorfliiii;  to  adjoiirnmpnt.  -^ 

J(iliu  Dette'i,  ;i.i,fret,-al)le  to  lii.s  dosiiv,  was  fiiniished  with  a  Cor-  | 

titicate  siLnicil  by  the  cUainnau  <Sc  clerk  ior  hii  pivsing  from  h»;iK!e  ^ 

to  Pliila(l(.l|)liia.  ^ 

Several  (Toiitl.'inou  wId  iicailt.vl  flui  "Wards  on  tlic  late  Muster  ; 

Day,  attcuded,  and  laid  tho  rttiiiu  of  DeliiKjuents  before  the 
Co:r;uuttee.  '; 

At  a  ;\[cetinrr  of  the  Committee  of  Corrospotideiioe,  lu.spectlon  j 

"■^'       <fc  Safety  at  the  Council  Chamber,  July  IM,  I 

Voted,  that  it  is  the  Opinion  of  this  Committee,  that  Cap'  Mc-  ' 

Daniel,  in  a  Vessel  of  IM'  Connors,  may  be  permitted  to  sail  frooi  < 

hence  without  danc!;er  to  this  or  the  other  Stafes  of  America.  ? 

Adjourned  to  the  afternoon.  | 

[Page  "J4.]     At   a   iMeetinn;  of  the   Committee  of  Correspond-  ; 

cnce,  Inspection  ^S:  Safety  at  the  Council  Cliamtjer,  July  2-3,  1770,  ; 

The  Committee  attencled  to  receive  ihe  Returns  of  the  Absen-  \ 

tees  on  the  late  ^Muster  day,  and  to  exami:)e  the  same. 

Adjourned  to  tomorrow  11  O'clock  in  the  Forenoon.  ; 

At  a.  Meeting  of  the  Committee  of  Correspondexice,  laspectiou 
&  Safety  at  the  Council  Chamber,  July  2'>, 
„  ,.     ,  It  anpearin";  from   one   of  the  returns    that  Joseph  Eustis  &. 

o,i  yf 'mq,.  Samuel   Harris  neglected  appearing  in  tlie  Common  on   the  iate 

•■\-rUiv       muster  of  the  militia  of  this  Tovc^n,  the  followin<j  Order  was  isr-ued, 
N-titied.      yj^. 

To  George  Thomas,  cdc  of  the  Constables  of  the  To-vn  of 
Boston. 

You   are  required   to  Notify  Joseph  Eustis.   ^Moses   Carpenter 
and  Samuel  Harris,  Mastmakers,    that  the  Commir.tee  of  Corres- 
I  pondenee.   Safety  and  Inspection  for  said  Town  will  sit  at  the 

Council  Chamber  this  Evening,  G  0' Clock,  when  said  Persons 
may  have  opportunity  to  shevr  cause,  if  any  hey  have,  why  they 
did  not  attend  the  muster  of  the  Alarm  & 'I  raining  Band  Lists, 
on  ilonday  last,  the  :22^  ins',  agreeable  to  a  Resolve  of  the  Great 
&  General  Court,  and  after  due  warning  given  them  for  that 
purpose.     By  order  of  the  Committee  of  Correspondence,  Sec 

Boston,  July  26,  1770.  Jonx  Browx,  Chairman. 

Adjourned  to  6  O'clock  this  Evening  to  meet  at  the  Council 
Chamber. 

Fryday  Evening,  6  O'Clock,  afternoon.  Met  according  to 
Adjournment. 

M'  Eustis  appeared  &  made  excuse  for  not  [Page  2-5]  attending 
in  the  Common  the  late  Muster  Day — he  was  desired  to  attend 
again  on  Monday  next,  11  O'Clock,  when  the  OHlcers  of  his 
"Ward,  who  complained,  are  to  be  present. 

At  a  fleeting  of  the  Committee  of  Correspondence,  Inspecilcn 
&  Safety,  at  the  Council  Chamber,  July  20,  A.M. 
*sunl^-  The  Committee  beinij  informed  that  M'  "William  Skinner,  ^v■ho 

fitu.ud3.      lately  went  from  this  place  to  Hallifax,  hadreturneU  trom  clience, 
M''  Constable  Thomas  was  sent  to  him  to  require  his  attendance. 

INP  Skinner  attended,  .and  was  examined  as  to  the  manner  of 
his  return,  and  what  had  been  his  coniluct  si'ice  he  had  resided  at 
Ilallifux.  Adjourned  to  4  O'Clock  in  the  Ai'teruoon. 

[To  be  continued. 1 
VOL.  ZXSI.  4 


34  Kew  Ilampshire  in  the  licvolution.  [Jan. 


SERVICES    OF    ^T.W    IIA^IPSIIIRE    DUEvIXG    THE  \ 

HEROIC  AGE  OF  THE  KErUBIJC.  ;' 

A  paper  read  before  the  New-England  ni?toric,  Genealogical  Society,  Dec.  2,  1874, 
by  Elias  Hasket  Derhy,  Ei(\.,  ot  i!o^ton. 

rr^HE  Scotch  vrho  einigruted  from  the  ^ro^•ince  of  Ulster  to  New  j 

X   Hampshire  and  there" planted  the  settlement  of  Xutfield,  ot  wluc.i  ; 

Londonderry  formed  a  part,  carried  with  them  to  America  the  same  j 

intrepidity   which  thev  and  their  ancestors  had  shown   thirtv  years  I 

before   at  tlie  siege  of  Londonderry  and  the  battle   of   the  Boyne.  ; 

Their   colony  prospered.       Theh   queen   bees  were   busy   and   sent  | 

out    new    swarms.       They    jdanted    new    towns    in    western    >sew  j 

Ham])shire,  Iklfast  in  Maine,  Londonderry  in  Nova  Scotia,  Holder-  | 

ness  on  the  upper  waters  of  the  Merrimac,  Peterborough,  Duolm  i 

and    other    towns    on    the    hills    of    Cheshire,    and    Hillsborough.  ] 

Their  sons  were  trained  in  the  forests  and  in  the  long  wars  with 
the  French  and  Indians.  Among  them  was  Rogers,  the  celebratea 
parti/an,  a  man  of  herculean  strength,  who  once  drew  r„  hignway- 
man  fiom  his  horse  on  Hounslow  Heath  through  a  carriage  windo%v, 
and  took  him  prisoner  into  London.  A  brave  man,  but  more  loyai 
to  the  king  he  served  than  to  his  country.  In  the  hrst  tlurd  of  the 
last  centu?y,  and  soon  after  this  colony  was  j)lanted.  John  Stark 
and  George  Reid  were  born  there.  Trained  in  tb.e  French  wars, 
they  were  readv  to  take  a  prominent  part  in  the  Revolution.  ^  Lach 
of  them  oro-anized  a  companv  of  minute  men,  and  many  of  their 
solchers  had  ^Qi^ii  service  on 'the  borders  of  Canada,  and  some  at 
Louisburir.  ^Vhen  the  news  of  the  battle  Hjf  Lexington  reached 
these  hilh,  a  hiroe  bodv  of  men  marched  at  once  to  besiege  Boston. 
Such  was  the  reputation  of  Stark,  that  he  raised  fifteen  companies 
for  the  first  regiment,  chietlv  from  the  towns  within  the  bend  of  the 
Mcn-imac,  between  Litchfield  and  Exeter.  George  Reid  command- 
ed one  of  the  companies,  and  at  a  later  period  became  colonel  of  the 
regiment.  Many  of  the  troops  thus  raised  were  from  the  stock 
which  settled  Xutfield.  A  second  regiment  was  raised  by  Col. 
James  Reed  on  the  hills  of  Cheshire  and  Hdlsborough,  in  part  from 
the  same  stock.  Col.  Poor  raised  a  third  regiment  m  another  por- 
tion of  the  state,  and  Col.  Sargent,  who  had  removed  from  (Glou- 
cester to  the  Granite  State,  raiccd  four  additional  companies.    , 

New  Hampshire  had  then  but  75,000  inhabitants,  and  London-  ^ 
derrv,  with  2,500,  was  the  second  town  in  the  state.  The  troops  | 
froin  New  Ha!n[)shire  took  their  station  near  the  eastern  end  of  the  | 
army  which  wound   its  coiL  around  Boston,  from  Chelsea  tiirougti        | 

Cambvid;j^e  to  Roxbury.  -     -p       t  t"^  I 

Col.  Stark,  with  the  first  regiment,  encamped  at  tiic  Royah  liouse        ^ 

in  Medford,  the  estate  of  a  loyalist  who  had  fled  to  England,  a  large        | 


ffi'     : 


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X  70^035 

1877.1  li'cw  IJampsldre  in  the  lievohition.  35 

brick  mansion  with  fine  n;ardens  around  it,  in  which  I  liavo  often 
played  whon  a  gchool-boy,  and  in  which  the  box  borders  stuod 
ahnost  as  hii:h  as  my  head.  Coi.  James  Jicod,  with  his  regiment, 
was  stationed  near  Charlestowu'Neck,  on  the  borders  of  the  'J'en- 
Ilills  Farm.  Its  owner,  Temple,  had  also  left  for  Enghuid  as  a  loy- 
alist, and  there  he  made  large  claims  for  groves  cut  down  by  lebei 
troops.  Here  too  have  I  played  in  boyhood  on  the  breastwork.^ 
thrown  np  by  our  soldiers. 

On  the  17th  of  June  of  the  memorable  year  1775,  the  re;;i- 
nients  of  Stark  and  Rccd  were  thus  encamped  within  an  hour's 
march  of  the  battle-field  of  Bunker  Hill,  and  both  took  j)art  in  the 
battle.  The  histories  of  Bancroft  and  Frothingharn,  while  they  give 
us  graphic  sketches  of  the  battle  and  some  estimates  of  the  numbers 
engaged  in  it  from  Massachusetts  and  Connecticut,  give  us  no  esti- 
mate of  the  number  from  Xew  Hampshire,  and  we  must  deduce  it 
from  offi'Mr^l  records  and  rc[torts,  and  otlicr  reliable  evidence,  to 
give  her  the  prominence  to  which  she  is  entitled. 

On  the  15th  of  June,  1775,  there  were  ten  companies  in  Iveed't3 
regiment,  and  on  their  rolls  48G  names.  I  can  find  no  record  of 
the  number  at  that  time  in  Stark's  regiment,  but  Gen.  Dearborn 
was  in  the  battle  and  commanded  a  company  in  this  regiment.  He 
wrote  a  brief  sketch  of  the  fight  for  the  Portfolio  in  l>i\l ,  and  tliere- 
in  assures  us  that  it  had  thirteen  companies.  The  companies  hi 
Keed's  regiment  avern2-ed  over  48  men,  and  by  tlieir  average  Stark's 
must  have  contained  630  men. 

On  the  3d  of  July  following,  Stark's,  Eeed's  and  Poor's  regi- 
ments from  New  Hampshire  report  1,5G0  names  on  their  rolls,  and 
1,200  men  as  fir  for  duty.  This  was  after  the  loss  of  93  men  on 
the  sev(  nteenth  by  the  regiments  of  Stark  and  Reed.  From  these 
data  we  may  safely  infer  that  on  the  morning  of  that  day  the  effect- 
ive force  of  Stark  and  Peed  was  at  least  900  men. 

Besides  these  men  who  marched  to  the  battle-field  of  Bunker 
Hill  before  the  fight  began,  New  Hampshire  had  many  sons  in 
the  regiment  of  Col.  Prescott  himself,  who  reached  the  field  and 
toiled  at  the  redoubt  on  the  night  before  the  battle.  This  regiment 
^vas  raised  in  Pepperell,  Groton,  and  other  adjacent  towns  both  ut^ 
Massachusetts  and  New  Hampshire.  AVorccster,  the  historian  of 
Hollis,  informs  us  that  Pepperell  and  Groton,  with  HoHis,  Rindge  and^ 
Merrimac  in  Nev,"  Hampshire,  formed  part  of  the  old  townshi[)  ot 
Dunstable,  which  was  granted  by  Massachusetts,  but  subsequently 
divided  by  the  line  of  S'ew  Plam'pshire  when  that  was  deteruiined. 
'HiPftc  towns  were  settled  by  emigrants  frotn  the  same  dir^trict,  and 
were  inclose  afiBnity.  Hollis  bordered  on  Pepperell.  Col.  Prescott 
married  the  sister  of  Col.  Hale,  of  Hollis.  Capt.  Dow,  who  conmiand- 
t^d  a  com[.any  in  Hollis,  was  a  neighbor  of  Col.  Prescott.  and  the 
records  of  his  company  of  59  men  show  that  he  Joined  Prcr,cott"s 
regiment  and  marched  with  him  to  Bunker  Hill,  where  ho  lost  eight 


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36                        iVety  Hampshire  in  the  Reimlution.                 [Jan.  ' 

j 

meu    killed    and    one    mortally   vrouiided,    out   of  the"  4.2    lost    by  , 

the  %vholo  regiment.     ^A^orcester  also  states  that  ]7  nieii  from  Lon-  i 

dondcvry,    11  from  ^rtrriiiiac,   G  from  Brooklino,    and   at  least   16  { 

from  other  towns  of  Xew  Hampshire  l)esides  IIolUs,  v/crc  in   Pres-  j 

cott's   regiment,  and  lost   two  men  killed  in  the  battle  of  the  ITth  ; 

■of  June.      After   a  close    analysis   of  the  evidence,    we   niay   con-  j 

elude  that  more   than   one  hundred  men  from    the    Granite    State  j 
inarched  Avith  Prescott  to  the  field,  and  if  we  add  them  to  those  who 

inarched  with  Stark  and  Peed,  we  have  a  tliousand  men  from  New  , 

Hampshire  present  v.hen  the  fight  began,  besides  the  four  companies  j 

under   S:n'gent,  v.ho  wci'e  urgent  to  join  their  conxrados  but   were  ! 

held  back  by  Gen.  AVard,  and  did  not  reach  Cliarlestown  Neck  until  | 

the   redoubt  wa^   taken.      I  was   led    at   first  to  supi^ose  that  Xew  ' 

Hampshire  had  not  more  ihan  nine  hundred  in  tlic  iioid,  when  the  | 

British  advanced  to  the  attack,  out  of  fifteen   hundred  then  on  the  | 

:ground :    but  the  evidence  I  have  discovered  and  rnalyzcd  sho^.-s  ! 

that  when  the  British  attacked  there  were  less  th.iu  five  hundred   of  I 

the  original  party  of  Prescott   from  Mtissachvisetts  and  Connecticut,  j 

"with  twice  that  number  from  New  Hampshire,  ready  to  receive  the  | 

foe.     This   evidence  shows,   however,   that   between   four   and  five  | 

hundred  volunteers,  cliiefly  from  Massachusetts,  joined  Prescott  dur-  \ 

,    ing  the  fight,   and   sufficed   to  replace  those  who  fell  during  the  con-  ) 

fiict  or  tlie  retreat.     Let  us  now  fiillow  Col.  Prescott  to  the  field.  | 

I 

THE    BATTLE    OF    BUXKER    HILL.  J 

•         On  the  Ifith  of  June   a  report  reached  the  Counr'il   of  V^ar  at  i 

I    -Cambridge,  that  Gen.    Gage   was  about  to   occupy  the   heights   of  ] 

^     Cha  lestown,  and  the  council  decided  to  anticiiinte  his  movement.  j 

'    Late  in   the  evening  of  that  day.  Gen.  Ward,   the   commander-in- 

^    <;hief,  despatched   Col.   I'rescott,  of  Massachusetts,  with  a  thousi-ind  j 

men  to  occupy  Bunker  Hill.     In  his  detachment  were  included  two  j 

hundred    men    from    Connecticut    and    one    hundred    from    ISew 

'■    Hampshire.     At  a  late  hour  this  corps,  preceded  by  its  officers  with  i 

■*'    dark  lanterns,   and   followed   by  several   wagcms  with  tools  for   in- 

'•    trenching,  very  quietly  crossed  Cliarlestown  Neck.     Tliey  took  with  j 

them  one  day's   rations  and  a  veiw  small  supply  of  bullets  and  pow-  | 

■der.     On  their  way  they  passed  Bunker  Hill,  and  by  some  mistake  ! 

^^    of  their  engineer  were  led  to   Breed's  Hdl,  forty  feet  below  it,  and  I 

iu  close  proximity  to  Boston,     'i'he   engineer  marked  out  a  redoubt  j 

eight  rods  square,  and  a  short  breastwork  leading  from  the  redoubt  ! 

towards   the  Mystic.     Beyond   it  \vas   a    lane  north-cast   from   the  | 

redoubt  and  forty  rods  distant  from  it.     At  the  dawn  of  day  the  re-  • 

-doubt  and  breastwork  were  unfiui>hed,  but  the  troops  had  worked  \ 

assiduously  through   the    night :  the  works  already  furnished  some  \ 

protection,    and  the    men   continued    to    toil    upon    them    although  \ 

assailed  with  shot  and  shell   from  batteries  on  the  opposite  shore  of  j 

Boston,  and  with  missiles  from  cannon  in  shi[.3  of  war  and  lioating  1 

1 
\ 


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1877.]  ^€.10  Ilainjishire  in  the  Uavolullon.  37 

hifterips  in  Charles  River.  Shell  wore  also  thrown  upon  the  sim.- 
niit  of  ]5'uikcr  Jlill  to  prevent  further  intrcnciauents,  and  the  caube- 
v/ay  across  Charlestown  Neck  was  enfiladed  by  cannon  in  fioat- 
in^r  batteries  and  in  the  Lively  sloop  of  war,  to  keep  back  supplies 
and  reinforcetnents. 

As  the  day  advanced  it  became  apparent  that  Gen.  Gage  desiirned 
to  attack  the  new  works.      Eritijii  troops  were  in  rapid   inotiouTand  ' 

before  noon  a  tlotilla  of  boats  and  barges  conveyed  a  large  body  of  ; 

troops  to  Moulton's  Point  in  Charlestown,  where  they  lamled  under 
the  protection  of  several  ships   of  war.      At  tiiis  time  the  troops   of  ; 

Prescott  were   exhausted   by  fatigue   and  hunger ;  thev  had   lul)ored  j 

assiduously  and  been  long  under  hre.      At  the  call  of  Gen.  Putnam  \ 

fur  tools  to  fortify  the  eminence  behind  them,  many  left  with  the  \ 

intrenching  tools.     Col.  Prescott  had>  sent  out  panics  to  protect  his  \ 

right  flank  :   he  had  also  sent  out  a  companv  of  artillery  and  an'.)Ther  \ 

^  of  infpntrv  to  gnnrd  hi-  left  flnnlr,  and  these" had  fallen  back  ;  he  then  | 

despatched  Col,  Knowlton  with  four   lieutenants  and  one  hundred  \ 

ancl  twenty  men  from  Coimecticut,    to  occupy  a  fence  along  rhc  lano  ] 

which  \^({  towards  the  .Mystic,  a  low  wall  surmounted   by  ^vo  rails.  j 

Gathering  the  new-mown  gi-ass  which  lav  in  windrows  before  them.  | 

they  suspended  it  from  the  fence  and  then  carried  the  rails  from  the  I 

opposite  side   of  the  lane  to  the  wall,    and  interwove  the  2rass   be-  \ 

tween  the  two  fences,  thus  rearing  a  frail  barrier  auJiinst  tlie  buliet.s  | 

and  bayonets  of  the  foe.      At  this   time,  savs  Prescott  in  a  letrer  to  \ 

John  Adams,   ''I  had  with  me  but  one  hundred  and  fifty  men  in  the  | 

fort."     But  the   enemy  halted  at  th.e  Point   and  sent  back  for  moro  j 

troops,  thus  losing  the  most  fixvorable  moment  for  the  attack.      Col.  j 

Prescott  also,  vrhen  the  landing  was  accomplished,  sent  :\[aj.  Brooks  1 

to   (Jambridge   for    reinforcements.      Down    to    his    moment    Gen.  \ 

U  ard  had  sent  no  aid  to  Prescott ;  doubtless  lie   had  expected  that  \ 

Oen.  Gage  would  not   attack  his  redoubt,  or  would  land  at  Charles-  j 

town   Neck   and   place   his  forces  between  it  and  the  camp  at  Caui-  | 

Drulge,  and  aim   to   bring  on   a  general  eniragement.     This  he  was  f 

anxious  to  avoid,  as  he  had  but  five  rounds' of  ammunition  per  man  | 

in  his  army.      Gen.  Gage  was  afterwards  severely  censured  in    Eng-  j 

land  and  recalled  for-  not   taking  such  a  step,  and  Gen.  Ward  was  1 

imcertam  what  course  to  take  until  apprised  of  the  landino-  at  Moul-  | 

tl  '\  T^\    ""^^  this  time,"  says   Bancroft  in  his  vivicfsketcli   of  ] 

"e    battle,   "Prescott   had   remaining  with  him  but  seven  to   ei-lit  j 

I'-undred  men,  xvorn  with  toil,  watching  and  hunger;  his  flanks  were 
unprotected,  and  he  saw  no  signs  of  n;inforcements."  ^^'e  mav  in^ 
/-•r  from  Prescott's  letter  < hat  the  historian's  estimate  of  his   forces  I 

18  a  high  one,   and   must  have  included   those   who  had  fallen   buck  \ 

GeiW  '"""'■      ^'^"^^  ^'^^   arrival   of  Maj.  Brooks  at    Cambridge,  1 

ivT^'r  P '''^ ''^  0"ce  ordered    several   regiments  to  march  to  tlie  re- 
^i"-J  ot  1  rescott,  and  among  them  the  regiments  of  Stark  and  Kecii, 
-''^  close   at   hand.      They  were  descitute  of  powder.     Jt  was  too 

^OL.    XXXI.  4* 


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38  JS^evj  Ilamjjshh'c  in  iJie  Jievolution,  [Jan. 

valuable  to  be  trustrd  to  now  IcYies  lu-itil  they  went  into  action. 
Stark's  troops  tnarclicd  at  once  to  tlicir  arsenal,  and  each  man  re- 
ceived a  spare  flint,  fifteen  bullets  and  a  gill  cup  of  powder  for  his 
flask  or  horn.  Their  fowling-pieces  have  few  or  no  btiyouets,  and 
^A'ere  of  different  calibres.  A  little  time  is  lost  in  fitting  or  exchang- 
ing bullets,  or  in  hammering  them  down  to  suit  their  guns.  By 
1,  P.M.,  the  regiment  of  Stark  is  on  its  mareli,  and  is  joined  on  its 
way  by  that  of  lieed,  and  they  bear  to  th.e  weary  men  under  Pres- 
cott  the  important  accession  of  at  least  nine  hundred  hardy  troops 
in  homcsjnm  dresses,  Avithout  a  cartridge  and  with  few  bayonets, 
-  but  with  some  experience  in  war  under  popular  and  veteran  ofiicers, 
and  they  are  fresh  for  the  conflict. 

The  Committee  of  Safety,  AVashington,  and  the  American  histo- 
rian, all  agree  that  the  whole  force  of  the  Americans  engaged  in  the 
battle  did  not  at  any  time  exceed  fifteen  hundred  men.  Bancroft 
mforms  us  "  that  tlie  whole  number  of  Americans  on  the  ground  i 
who  crossed  tiie  causeway  seasonably  to  take  part  in  the  fi<i,ht,  ac- 
cording to  the  most  solemn  assurances  of  the  ofricers  who  were  in 
the  action,  to  the  testimony  of  eye-witnesses  and  cotemporarv  in- 
quiries, and  to^  the  carefully  considered  judgment  of  AVashington, 
did  not  exceed  fifteen  hundred." 

If  they  are  right  in  their  conclusions,  and  if  records  mry  be  trust- 
ed, the  two  regiments  under  Stark  and  Heed,  and  the  New  Hamp- 
shire men  under  Prescott,  whose  strength  we  have  given,  must  have 
formed  two-thirds  of  tlie  force  in  the  conflict,  and  had  tliere  been 
any  deficiency  in  their  numbers,  their  energy,  efiiciency  and  fresii- 
ness  would  have  counterbalanced  it. 

Should  it  be  urged  that  there  were  volunteers  from  Connecticut 
and  Massachusetts!  under  Little,  Clark,  Nixon  and  others,  v/ho 
reached  the  ground  before  the  retreat,  it  may  be  re])lied  that  thev 
did  not  more  than  replace  those  who  fell  in  the  combat.  The  his- 
tories of  the  battle  give  us  estimates  of  the  numbers  from  Massachu- 
setts and  Connecticut  under  Prescott,  and  speak  respectfully  of  the 
provincials,  and  in  some  places  of  the  Xew  Hampshire  forces  at  the 
rail  fence,  but  leave  us  to  inter  their  numbers  from  their  rolls  and 
reports.-  While  I  would  not  detract  from  the  fame  of  Prescott,  or 
those  who  fought  under  him,  or  from  that  of  Putnam,  ^Varren,  Otis, 
Winthrop  and  Pomeroy,  who  volunteered  their  aid,  I  would  brine: 
out  in  bold  relief  the  numbers,  cum-age  and  services  of  the  sons  of 
New  Hampshire,  who  firmed  our  main  strength  in  tliis  battle.  The 
honor  and  the  character  of  such  men  is  dear  to  their  descendants, 
and,  in  the  language  of  Webster,  "  forms  a  part  of  the  regalia  of 
the  republic." 

Before  2,  P.M..  Stark  with  his  regiment  reached  the  narrow  cause- 
way which  crossed  Cliarlestown  Neck,  less  than  a  mile  from  the  re- 
doubt. His  march  and  bearing  on  that  day  arc  thus  described  by 
"Gen.  Dearborn,  one  of  liLs  captains: 


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1^77.]  New  Hampslnre  in  the  Revolution.  39 

"T\nien  we  reached  Clinrlc^town  Xeek  mc  found  two  reginicntd 
h.iltcd  In  coriScquence  of  a  heavy  enfilading;  fire  across  it  of  round, 
l);u'  and  chain  shot  from  the  Lively  frigate,  from  floating  batteries 
anch.orcd  in  Charles  river,  and  a  floating  battery  lying  in  the  river 
Mvtitic.  ^Major  ]\IcCIary  went  forward  and  said  to  the  coniniandcrs 
tiiat  if  they  did  not  intend  to  move  on,  he  wished  them  to  open  and 
let  our  regiment  pass.  This  was  immediately  done.  JNly  company 
being  in  front,  I  marched  by  the  side  of  Col.  Stark,  who  was  mov- 
ing with  a  very  deliberate  pace.  I  suggested  the  propriety  of  quick- 
erdng  the  march  of  the  regiment,  that  it  might  sooner  be  relieved 
from  the  galling  cross-fire  of  the  enemy,  ^^'ith  a  look  peculiar  to 
himself,  he  fixed  his  eyes  upon  me  and  observed,  'Dearborn,  one 
fresh  man  in  action  is  worth  two  fatigued  ones,'  and  continued  to 
advance  in  rhe  same  cool  and  collected  manner." 

"\Mien  Col.  Stark  reached  the  battle-field,  he  observed  the  British 
troops,  now  reinforced,  were  pieparing  to  advance,  and  were  mar- 
Ehalling  a  large  body  of  light  infantry  and  grenadiers  to  turn  the 
left  flank  of  the  Americans.  Col.  Knowiton,  with  four  lieuten- 
ants and  his  hundred  and  twenty  men  from  Connecticut  remaining 
with  him,  was  posted  at  the  south  end  of  the  grass  fence.  \\"\d\ 
his  eagle  eye  Col.  Stark  saw  at  a  glance  the  point  of  danger,  and 
directed  his  men  to  extend  the  grass  fence  to  the  beach  on  the  Tvlvs- 
tic,  and  rear  a  stone  wall  across  the  beach  to  the  water,  taking 
elones  from  the  beach  and  adjacent  fences.  He  then  placed  his  large 
force  in  three  rows  behind  the  fence  and  wall,  directing  the  first  rank 
with  the  best  marksmen  to  fire,  and  the  second  and  rear  ranks  to 
load  rapidly  as  they  knelt  upon  the  ground ;  then  stepping  in  front 
of  his  line  he  planted  a  stake  sixty  yards  in  advance  of  his  fence, 
and  returning  to  his  men  told  them  he  should  shoot  the  first  man 
who  fired  before  the  British  passed  the  stake. 

The  American  troops  were  now  posted  ;  Prescott  in  the  redoubt, 
"^^^th  flanking  parties  on  the  right  and  behind  the  breastwork ; 
Knowiton  at  the  southerly  end  of  the  rail  fence,  with  his  rnen  from 
Connecticut,  with  a  slough  in  the  open  ground  between  him  and  the 
breastwork  ;  and  Stark  with  two  re<dments  extendins:  from  Knowl- 
ton  s  position  to  the  water. 

Putnam,  Pomeroy  and  Warren  now  cheer  on  the  rnen  to  action. 
Prescott  has  tendered  the  conmiand  to  his  senior  officers,  but  they 
prefer  to  serve  as  volunteers.  At  3i,  P.M.,  British  reinforcemciuii 
have  landed,  and  Lord  Howe  has  arrayed  his  men  for  the  attack. 
He  has  placed  on  his  right  ten  cimipanies  of  light  infantry,  and  ten 
of  grenadiers,  the  elite  of  the  British  army,  sustained  by  large  bat- 
talions of  the  51st  and  52d  regiments  to  assail  the  grass  fence 
and  wall  and  attempt  to  turn  the  left  flank  o^  the  Americans. 
On  hi.-i  left  he  has  placed  three  battalions  of  the  o8th,  4;3d  and 
47th  regiments,  with  two  battalions  of  marines.  Between  his 
wingtj  are    two   batteries   of  artillery  to  assail  the  breastwork    and 


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^^  .  -^^ew  ITampshire  in  the  Ilevohition.  [Jan. 

fence   as  lie  advances,   ami  lie  moves  onwarrl  witli  at  least  3,000 
men.       Lord    IIowc,    wvAx    his   brilliant    staff   around   hira,    is    in 
full   uniform,  and  in  v.iiitc-silk   stockings,  as  if  for  a  bull,  enters  on 
the  dance  of  death.      Two  British  maps  of  the   battle-field,    drav.n 
<ittcr  the  fight,  have  been  preserved   and  published.      One   niav  be 
found   in  the   Portfolio  for  1817,  corrected  by  Gen.  Dearborn;"  the 
otlier  appears   in  Frothinghani's  interesting  liistory  of  the  siege   of 
Boston.      One  of  these  indicates  not  only  the  chief  points  and^'lines 
of  defence,    but   also   the   position   and   name  of  each  corps  of  the 
British   troops.     The  British  force  now  moves  on  through   the   tall 
grass,  levelling  or  surmounting  the   fences  as  it  proceeds— the  gren- 
adiers  and   light  infantry   marching  in  single  files  twelve  feet  Spart 
toward  the  fence  and   wall,    the   artillery  advancing  and  thundering 
as  It  advances,  while  five  battalions,  moving  more^lowlv,  approach 
the  fence,  breastwork  and  redoubt,  forming  an  oblirpio  line'.     The  best 
troops  of  England  a^'sail  the  >v'ew  Hampshire  line,  doubtless  exnect- 
mg  those  half-anncd  provincials  in  homespun  clothes  will  fiy  before 
tlie  nodding  plumes  and  burnished  arms  of  the  light  infantry ,"and  be- 
fore the  flashing  bayonets  and  tall  caps  of  the  grenadiers  ;'  but  they 
remain  behind   their  grass  fence  and  wall  as  still  as  death,  while  the 
British  deploy  into  line,  and  in  their  excitement  fire  a  little  over  the 
heads  of  their  foes,  cutting  the  boughs  of  the  apple  trees  behind  them. 
They  pass  the  stake  pLmted  by  Stark,  and  then  comes  a  fire  so  "in- 
tense, 60  continuous,  so  well-directed,  that  officers  and  men  go  down 
before  U,  or  after  a  brief  struggle  recoil,  leaving  half  theirline  be- 
hmd   them.     Again   they  rally,   again  thev  are  met  witli  a  similar 
fire  of  musketry.      Xearly  every  officer  and 'every  aid  of  Gen.  IIo\re 
is  either  killed   or  vrounded.      Most  of  those  brave  grenadiers   and 
liglit  'nfantry  have  fallen  before  the  grass  fence  and  die  stone  wall. 
Stark  and  Keed  liave  lost  but  ninetj'-three  men  ;   but  in  front  of  tiie 
company  fiv.m  Derryfield,   under   Capt.   John   Moore,  at  the  stone 
wall  on  the  beach,  ninety-six  dead  bodies  of  the  foe  are  counted.    la 
the  memoir  of  Stark,    published  recently  in   New  Hampshire  by  his 
grandson,  it  is  stated  that   his  forces  were  assailed   by  the   Vv'^elsh 
Fusileers,   a   crack,  regiment  which  had  foaaht  with   distinction    a<- 
Mmden  ;  that  they  entered  the  field  at  Bunker  Hill  700  ^trono•,  and 
the  next  morn  but  83  answered  to   the  roll-call.      The  W'elsh^Fusi- 
leers  were  the  23d  regiment  of  the  British  line,  the  Prince  of  Wales' 
regiment ;  at  least  two   of  its  companies   wore   present,   and  f  )U"ht 
and   f-ell  in  advance,   as  they   were   veteran   troops,    and   probably 
Stark s  men  saw  their  badges  and  gave  their  name  to  the  attackino- 
force.      Such  was  the  havoc  made  bv  the  marksmen  that  manv  ol" 
the   companies   lost  all  their  men  but  four  or  i:\\Q.      Gen.    Ga-e  is 
supposed  to  have  underrated  his  losses   at  least  a  third,   but  in  h's 
report  of  the  battle  he  sets  the  losses  in  twentv  of  the  flank  compa- 
nies at  four  hundred  and  fifty  men,   and  includes  in  his  list  the  flank 
companies  of  the  Welsh  Fusileers.   AVhilethe  right  flank  of  the  Br^t- 


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1877.1  J^ew  Hampshire  in  the  Revolution.  41 

i-]i  l):is  thus  gone  down  before  tlic  marksmen  of  Xew  ILimpsliire  and 
tlif  sinali  force  from  Connecticut,  the  struggle  has  been  most  inten.se 
upon  the  beach,  and  but  u  few  small  parties  of  the  grenadiers  and 
light  infantry  are  left  to  take  part  in  another  attack.  The  troop'^  on 
the  British  left  have  attacked  tlic  redotil't  and  breastwork  where 
Prcfcott  is  in  command,  and  his  troops  under  cover.  Twice  have 
the  assailants  been  mowed  down  by  the  well-directed  fire  of  his 
troops,  twice  have  they  recoiled  from  the  attack.  Charlcstown  is  iu 
flames;  some  of  the  British  have  been  driven  back  to  their  boats; 
cheers  rise  from  the  American  lines  ;  the  enemy  has  been  rejnil^cd, 
the  day  is  ours.  But  the  provincials  have  no  bayonets,  and  the 
enemy  have  heard  the  cry  from  the  redoubt,  "  Our  ammunition  is, 
giving  out."  The  British  muster  for  a  third  assault.  The  grena- 
diers and  liglii  infantry  have  been  nearly  annihilated.  The  Xe\y 
Hampshire  line  cannot  be  broken.  The  British  battalions  with  tho 
marines  and  artillery,  and  a  few  grenadiers  who  have  come  over  as 
reinforcements,  assail  the  breastwork,  the  redoubt,  and  right  flank 
of  the  Americans.  Few  guns  are  h.eard  on  either  side  ;  the  powder 
has  given  out  iu  the  redoubt.  The  fjritish  rely  on  the  bayonet ;  they 
reach  die  eastern  end  of  the  breastwork.  The  artillery  comes  up  to 
a  point  some  forty  rods  from  the  grass  fence,  and  rakes  the  line  of 
the  breastwork.  They  have  penetrated  at  the  weak  point  of  the 
American  lirie  between  the  slough  and  the  redoubt.  They  drive  in 
the  right  ilank  of  the  Americans  and  nearly  surround  the  fort.  They 
climb  the  parapet,  and  tlie  bayonet  is  met  with  the  sword  of  the 
the  officer  and  the  butt-end  of  the  fowling-piece.  Warren  falls,  and 
Prescott,  after  deeds  of  gallantry,  gives  the  word  to  retreat.  His 
gallant  band,  as  they  rush  through  the  sally-port,  receive  a  murder- 
ous fire  from  the  enemy  who  have  flanked  the  redoubt,  and  more 
fall  in  the  retreat  than  in  the  battle.  As  the  British  enter  the  re- 
doubt, Stark's  men  urge  him  to  assail  their  flank  ;  but  Stark,  with- 
out bayonets  and  with  but  one  or  tv\'o  rounds  of  ammunition,  re- 
presses their  ardor,  and  the  New  Hampshire  men  retire  uncon- 
quered,  over  Bunker  Hill.  There  they  meet  a  large  body  of 
provincials  who  have  taken  no  part  in  the  fight  and  thrown  up  no 
defences,  and  at  the  causeway  encounter  other  regiments  who  ar- 
rive too  late  for  the  battle,  and  among  them  the  four  companies 
from  Xew  Ham[)shire,  under  Col.  Sargent,  who  has  during  the  day 
i>i-nt  their  rerpiests  to  Gen.  ^^^trd  for  leave  to  join  Stark  and  lieed, 
but  receives  his  orders  too  late  for  service.  With  these  men  and  a 
few  rounds  of  amnmuition  a  little  earlier,  Stark  and  Keed  might 
have  turned  tiie  fortunes  of  the  day.  They  bring  off,  however,  their 
forces,  who  have  held  the  foe  at  bay,  who  have  twice  defeated  him 
and  nearly  annihilated  his  best  corps,  in  good  condition.  Their 
t'hicf  loss  is  in  two  -gallant  officers,  jSIajors  Ivloore  and  McCIary, 
.'«'»h  men  of  courage  and  devotion  to  the  country.  The  voice  of 
"  V!'.^'"-^'  has  rung  like  a  clarion  through  tlie  ranks  during  the  day; 
he  tiiiis  by  a  chance  shot  after  the  fiijht'is  over. 


l\     .1 


42  Kew  Hampshire  in  the  Mevolution.  [Jan. 

The  men  from  the  granite  hills  under  the  separate  commands  of 
Stark  :vj.d  Kecd,  return  like  victors  iVoin  the  field.  They  h.ive  held 
their  ground  until  tlie  redoubt  was  taken  and  tlie  men  of  Massachu- 
setts and  Connecticut  arc  retiring.  Tiicy  have  {irovcd  that  the  rc^'u- 
lar  troops  of  England  were  not  invincible.  They  ha\e  taugiit  thciu 
to  respect  the  yeomanry  of  New  England. 

A  British  letter  after  the  battle,  in  commenting  on  the  struggle 
before  the  grass  fence  and  wall,  says  :  "  How  could  we  penetrate? 
Most  of  our  grenadiers  and  light  infantry  the  moment  of  presenting 
themselves  lost  three-fourths  and  many  of  them  nine-tenths  of  their 
men  ;  some  had  only  eight  or  nine  of  a  company  left ;  some  three, 
four  or  five  only."  'Another  letter  says,  "It  was  the  strongest  post 
ever  occupied  by  any  set  of  men."  Bancroft  says,  ''The  lirtle  hand- 
ful of  brave  men  "  (with  Prescott)  ''  would  have  been  effectually 
cut  off  but  for  the  unfaltering  courage  of  the  provincials  at  the  rail 
fence  and  the  bank  of  the  Mystic.  They  had  repulsed  the  enemy 
twice,  and  now  held  them  in  check  until  the  main  body  had  left  the 
hill  •,  not  till  then  did  the  Connecticut  companies  under  Knowlton 
and  the  New  Hampshire  soldiers  under  Stark  quit  the  station  Avhich 
they  had  so  nobly  defended.  The  retreat  was  made  with  more  regu- 
larity than  could  be  expected  from  troops  who  had  been  so  short  a 
time  under  discipline." 

Let  it  never  be  forgotten  that  most  of  the  troops  thus  comm.cnded 
were  from  the  granite  hills  of  New  Hampshire.  Col.  Sargent, 
who  commanded  the  four  companies  tkat  reached  the  causeway 
too  late  for  the  battle,  strongly  endorses  this  commendation,  al- 
though he  may  not  do  full  justice  to  the  men  of  Connecticut,  or 
volunteers  who  came  up  during  the  fight,  when  he  thus  writes  : 
"The^e  two  regiments,  Stark's  and  Keed's, .  did  all  that  was 
done  'hat  day  of  anv  consequence,  although  the  fatigue  party  stood 
their  orround  better  than  could  be  expected  after  a  hard  night's  labor.  ' 
We  must  make  some  allowance  for  his  sympathies  with  the  Aew 
Hampshire  troops,  but  he  appreciated  aright  the  coui-age,  coolness 
and  sagacity  of  the  men  and  their  leaders.  He  was  a  native  of 
Massachusetts. 

THE    PART    TAKEX   BY   NEW   nA:\rPSIIIRE    IX    THE  CROSSING    OF   THE 
DELAWARE    AND    THE    BATTLES    OF    TRENTON    ^VND    PRINCETON. 

Let  me  pass  on  to  other  important  events  of  the  Revolution,  to 
the  additional  troops  sent  by  New  Hampshire  to  the  siege  of 
Boston  when  the  Connecticut  troops  withdrew,  and  let  me  dwell  on 
other  victories  won  in  great  part  by  men  from  the  hill-sides  of 
Rockingham,  Hillsborough  and  Cheshire,  for  which  New  Hamp- 
shire has  not  received  the  honor  to  wdiich  it  is  entitled.  The 
regiments  of  New  HaTupshire  had  followed  Washington  to  the 
South.  The  foe  had  taken  New  York,  had  overrun  ]Scw  Jersey, 
and    was   severing    the    North   from  the    South.      The   provincial 


1  ■.' 


,y    fM       ....T ^?   ■^'" 


1877.]  Neio  IJampsliire  in  the  lievolution.  43 

nrmy  was  exhausted  ;  many  troops  liud  left  for  their  homes.  The 
residue,  hall-ch^d,  lialf-fed,  and  wholly  unpaid,  vere  anxious  to 
reach  their  homes  in  the  north.  The  sons  of  New  llampsliire 
had  dung  to  the  father  of  their  country,  but  their  terms  of  service 
were  expiring'',  and  they  were  ai)out  to  move  homeward,  wlien  Stark 
appealed  to  their  patriotism,  and  they  again  enlisted.  lie  reminded 
them  of  Canada  and  Bunker  Hill,  and  offered  to  guarantee  tlie 
arrears  due  them  for  eerviees,  and  thoy  were  ready  for  one  hght 
more.  It  was  then  that  Washington  planned  his  campaign  agahist 
the  Plessiani!.  Three  expeditions  were  to  cross  the  Delaware.  Two 
were  composed  of  troops  from  New  Jersey  and  Pennsylvania.  It 
was  11  tempestuous  night  of  winter ;  a  freshet  had  broken  u{)  the 
ice  of  the  Delaware  and  im]ieded  the  passage.  The  soutliern  troops 
declined  to  cross,  but  Washington  had  with  him  tlie  Xew  Hampshire 
regiments  under  Sullivan,  and  the  regiment  of  Col.  Glover  from  my 
native  county  of  Essex.  The  men  of  Xew  Hampshire  had  faced  the 
chilling  Uasts  of  the  White  Mountains  ;  they  were  not  appalled  by  ice 
or  suow^.  The  men  of  ]Marblehead  had  fished  on  the  stormy  banks 
of  Newfouridlaud,  the  dangerous  coasts  of  Labrador,  had  followed 
the  seals  over  icc-lields,  and  struck  the  whale  in  the  xirctic  and  Ant- 
arctic seas.  They  would  not  succumb  to  a  southern  storm,  or  to 
the  ice  of  a  southern  river.  Pushing  aside  the  ice-blocks  \\ith  tlieir 
feet,  they  ferried  "Washington  across  tlie  Delaware.  Wlien  they 
marched  for  Trenton  the  men  from  New  Hampshire  were  in  front. 
Stark  led  the  advance  guard  ;  their  path  was  marked  by  stains  from 
bleeding  feet ;  their  powder  was  wet  by  the  storm,  and  bayonets 
Avere  wanting ;  but  they  rushed  upon  tlie  cantonments  of  the  Hes- 
sians, and  took  a  regiment  prisoners.  History  relates  that  a  whole 
company  surrendered  to  seventeen  half-clad  ai  d  bare-footed  men 
under  a  sergeant  from  the  granite  hills,  and  were  deej)ly  chagrined 
wiien  they  looked  upon  their  captors.  With  the  same  troops  "Wash- 
ington by  forced  marches  passed  Coruwallis  with  superior  num- 
bers, captured  another  regiment,  compelled  the  British  to  evacuate 
most  of  Xew  Jersey,  and  revived  the  fainting  spirits  of  the  corntry. 

TPIE    BATTLE    OF   BEXMNGTOX. 

Let  me  allude  to  another  conflict,  most  important  in  its  results,  in 
•which  New  Hampshire  was  the  chief  actor — the  fight  at  Bennington. 

Confess  had  failed  to  recoOTize  the  c:allantrv  of  Stai-k  at  Cliarles- 
town  and  Trenton.  It  had  psissed  him  by  and  appointed  a  junior 
officer  brlii-adier  ijeneral.  Like  most  brave  men  he  was  sensitive  to 
any  slight  or  indignity,  and  at  once  resigned  and  retired  to  his  native 
hills.  But  he  was  appreciated  at  home,  and  when  Burgoyne  came 
up  the  lakes  with  his  Hessians  and  Indian  allies,  and  sent  his 
detachments  across  the  New  Hampshire  Grants  to  sweep  away 
the  horses  and  cattle  on  the  bank  of  the  Connecticut,  when  ''Donald 
came  pranking  up  the  brae  with  twice  five  thousand  men,"  his  Pro- 


»1    :.• 


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44  JSfcw  Hampshire  in  the  Hevolutiov.  [Jan. 

vince  called  upon  Stark  to  repel  invasion,  and  tendered  to  him  an  inde- 
pendent command,  lie  at  once  responded.  His  former  comrades 
who  'Nvcre  not  in  the  army  left  the  harve.st-fleld  and  Hocked  to  his 
gtandaixl.  Langdon,  of  Portsinoulh,  tendered  tlie  means  to  e(julp 
them,  and  in  less  than  a  fortnight  his  troo[)s  had  reached  the  viciiuty 
of  Bennington.  Lieut. -Col.  Gregg,  of  Londonderry,  was  in  the 
advance,  and  reported  a  large  body  of  Indians  and  Hessians  in  rrc)nt. 
Col.  Warner,  "vvho  had  been  del<'ated  by  Fras(;r  and  ]vei(L^el,  came 
in,  and  a  clergyman  from  Massachusetts  with  liis  flock  also  joined 
the  New  Hampshire  militia,  and  was  eager  for  the  battle.  8tavk, 
after  marching  his  troops  several  times  around  a  hill  to  impress  the 
Hessians  with  his  strength,  j)repared  for  aetiuu  as  soon  as  a  storm 
which  had  set  in  was  over.  The  enemy  were  a  large  detachment  of 
regular  troops  well  armed  and  equip[)fd,  nearly  equal  in  number  to 
his  own  men.  They  occupied  intrenchments  defended  by  bayonets 
and  cannon.  Stai-k  relied  on  neither;  he  had  but  one  bullet-mould 
in  his  camp,  and  his  men  were  busy  through  the  night  in  casting 
bullets,  or  him.mering  tliem  out  v/ith  stones  to  fit  the  bores  of  tlieir 
£runs.  At  leniiih  the  sun  shone  out.  Stark  divided  his  little  force 
into  four  parties,  rushed  upon  his  foes  from  four  points  at  once,  and 
killed  or  captured  nearly  their  entire  force.  Within  an  hour  after 
his  victory  he  defeated  anotlier  large  detachment  marching  to  the 
relief  of  those  he  had  captured,  and  took  many  prisoners.  By  tliis 
brilliant  train  of  victories  he  cut  off  many  of  the  best  troops  of  Bar- 
goyne  and  the  supply  of  horses  and  provisions  essential  to  his  suc- 
cess. The  victories  of  Stark  brought  New  England  and  New  York 
to  the  aid  of  Gates  and  Schuyler,  and  Stark  encamping  with  his 
troops  in  the  rear  of  Burgoyne,  cut  off  his  retreat  to  Canada,  and 
thus  paved  the  way  for  his  subsequent  surjender,  in  effecting 
which  the  regiments  from  New  Hampshire  took  Pc  distinguished  part. 
In  the  history  of  America  there  is  no  record  of  any  victory  of  ir- 
regidar  or  half-armed  troops  over  regulars,  disciplined,  and  armed 
and  defended  by  intrenchments,  which  compares  wit.li  this  ex- 
ploit of  Stark  and  his  heroes  from  the  Granite  Hills.  I  have 
pictured  to  you  the  achievements  of  this  State  and  of  these  Hills  in 
which  the  Scotch-Irish  race  was  predominant.  The  battles  I  have 
painted  were  among  the  most  decisive  of  the  war. 

The  first  taught  our  yeomanry  that  they  could  meet  the  disci- 
plined troops  of  England  with  confidence.  The  others  revived  the 
faltering  spirits  of  the  nation.  The  last  insured  the  capture  of  Bur- 
goyne, vvdilch  gave  us  the  French  alliance  and  secured  our  independ- 
ence. Are  these  achieven}ents  of  this  people  duly  appreciated  by 
the  nation  ?  "Where  are  the  monuments  to  Stark  and  Keed  ?  to 
jVlcCIary  and  ]\[oore,  and  other  heroes  who  fought  or  fell  in  the  bat- 
tles I  liave  pictured?  Should  not  a  colunui  rise  to  record  tlieir 
heroic  deeds  and  their  devotion  to  tl.eir  country,  like  that  reared  in 
the  ancient  fortress  on  Loch  Foyne  ?     Were  they  not  the  bulwarks 


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of  civil  if  not  of  religious  liberty  ?  Col.  Stark,  now  recognized  as  a 
"cr.crnl  of  tlic  llevolution,  sleeps  on  the  borders  of  the  ancient  towu 
of  Londonderry.  .,  ,,. 

"BesiJc  his  p.ative  silvery  streaiTi  ■■.  ' 

The  hero's  relicii  dcrp  arc  laid; 
No  more  of  battle  days  liu'U  dream ; 
Fame  claims  no  more;  her  del  it  is  paid. 
Yet  o'er  his  grave  her  laurels  bloom, 
And  crowu  with  brightest  wreaths  his  tomb." 


NOTES  TO  THE  PRECEDING  ADDRESS. 

Note  1. 

Gen.  Gage  in  his  official  report  of  the  battle  of  Bunker  Hill  says  tlio 
light  iufantry  vrere  directed  to  attack  tlie  enemy's  left,  "  to  take  the  rebe] 
line  in  flank,  and  the  grenadiers  to  attack  in  front,  supported  by  the  .5th  arid 
52d  battalions."  These  orders  were  executed  \^'ith  perseverance  und^jr  a 
heavy  fire. 

la  Col.  S'n'ett's  plan  of  the  battle,  the  grenadiers  are  represented  in  front 
of  the  New  Hampshire  troops  on  a  line  about  se\renty  yards  distant  f.vm 
the  grass  fence,  followed  by  the  oth  and  52d  regiments  a  little  east  of  tlic 
slough  between  Prescott's  intrenchments  and  the  fence.  On  the  same  plan 
twelve  companies  of  light  ii;fantry  are  represented  near  the  beach  of  the 
Mystic,  with  the  numbers  of  their  regiments  opposite  to  each.  At  the  head 
of  the  light  iufantry  is  a  company  of  tlie  23d.  It  is  near  the  beach,  and  about 
eighty  yards  distant  from  the  stone  wall  reared  by  Stark's  regiment.  In 
Gage's  report  all  the  British  regiments  are  termed  battalions.  This  term 
may  be  accounted  for  from  the  fact  that  a  company  of  light  infantry  and  a 
company  of  grenadiers  had  been  detached  from  each  regiment  to  serve  on 
the  extreme  right ;  the  eight  companies  left  in  each  regiment  were  conse- 
quently termed  battalions.  The  detached  companies  v/ere  on  the  riglit.  as 
shown  by  the  plan  of  Col.  Swett  and  coutirmed  by  Grage's  reports  of  the 
battle  and  of  the  losses  of  twenty  companies  of  grenadiers  and  ligiit  infantry. 
Beside  these  there  were  sixteen  companies  in  the  5th  and  52d  regiments 
supporting  them,  and  we  may  infer  from  a  variety  of  evidence  that  t!;e 
thirty-eight  companies  comprised  at  least  fifteen  hundred  men.  A  park  of 
six  pieces  of  artillery  appears,  on  the  plan  of  Col.  Swett,  advancing  between 
the  two  flanks  of  the  British  forces  a  little  in  the  rear,  and  nearly  opposite 
the  southerly  end  of  the  grass  fence  where  the  Connecticut  troops  were  posted. 
The  main  attack  of  Lord  Howe  was  upon  the  north  end  of  the  fl-uce  to 
turn  the  flank  of  the  Americans,  and  here  his  chief  loss  was  incurred. 

A  doubt  has  been  raised  as  to  the  presence  of  the  AVehh  Fusileers  in  the 
battle,  because  they  are  not  named  by  that  title  either  in  the  plans  or  otiicja! 
reports.  They  were  known  in  the  olficial  reports  by  the  designation  of  the 
2od  regiment  of  r,he  line,  and  there  is  conclusive  evidence  that  this  regi- 
rci-nt  was  in  Boston,  and  that  a  portion  or  the  whole  of  it  took  a  leading 
part  in  the  battle.  In  the  diary  of  Thomas  Newell,  of  Boston,  kept  during 
the  siege,  and  cited  in  Frothingham's  history,  page  3G4,  it  is  stated  that 
this  regiment,  the  Welsh  Fusileers,  arrived  iaBosto^n  in  xXugust,  1774,  and 
encamped  on  Fort  Hill.  In  Col.  Swett's  plan,  above  referred  to,  the  23.1 
53  marked  at  the  head  of  tlie  line.  At  page  13  of  Col.  Swett's  history,  it  is 
stated  that  three  companies  of  the  "rVelsh  FusUeers  were  in  Boston  before 

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46  JVeto  Hampshire  in  the  Hei'olution.  [Jr,u. 

the  battle,  and  at  pagv3  51  of  his  history  ho  states  that  the  grenadiers  of  this 
reg^iinont  lost  I'll  out  eiijht  mci)  in  the  battle. 

The  2.3il,  or  Welsh  Fa3ileers,  was  the  Prince  of  Wales'  rejjiment;  the 
oth  v/as  Lo'tI  Percv's ;  the  52(1  was  the  Royal  Irish ;  r..ll  the  troops  on  tho 
British  ri:^ht  were  the  elite  of  tlie  British  army.  Like  tho  guards  at  the 
present  day,  it  does  not  appear  tliat  any  flags  were  used  in  this  battle,  and 
it  is  stated  by  Col.  Swett  that  •'  Yankee  Doodle  "  was  played  for  the  lirst 
time  by  the  Americans  on  this  occasion.  . 

Note  2. 

Major  IMcClary  of  Stark's  regiment  was  killed  after  the'  retreat  by  a 
chance  grape-shot.  He  was  one  of  the  bravest  and  handsomest  men  in  the 
army,  of  immense  strength,  six  feet  six  inches  high,  well  proportioned,  and 
with  a  voice  that  rang  through  the  ranks  during  the  l>attle.  Doubtless  this 
voice  and  his  aspect  made  some  impression  on  the  regiments  halting  in  tlie 
causeway,  when  he  called  on  them  to  move  on  or  make  \ray  for  New  Hamp- 
shire. It  has  been  suggested  that  some  of  Stark's  regiment  were  detained 
by  Gen.  Putnam  to  fortify  Bunker's  Hill :  but  it  appears  by  a  deposition 
of  Keuben  Kemp,  who  accompanied  this  regiment,  which  is  cited  by  Col. 
Swett  in  his  history,  that  although  Gen.  Putnam  did  detain  some  of  Stark's 
troops  oa  their  way  to  the  field  to  work  on  his  entrenchments,  in  ten 
or  fifteen  minutes  the  drums  beat  to  arms,  and  they  marched  with  Gen, 
Putnam  to  the  grass  fence,  and  were  present  during  the  battle.  The  histo- 
rian Bancroft  states  that  from  the  arrival  of  the  New  Hampshire  troops 
down  to  the  retreat,  not  more  than  four  hu.ndred  and  fifty  men  reached  the 
battle-field,  and  these  were  men  who  came  up  in  companies,  or  parts  of  com- 
panies, under  Littie,  Nixon,  Brewer,  jNIoore,  Whitcomb  and  others.  This 
was  about  the  number  of  Americans  who  fell  in  the  combat.  Col.  Prescott, 
in  his  letter  addressed  to  John  Adams,  August  25,  1775,  a  few  weeks  after 
the  battle,  states  that  his  force  was  composed  "  of  about  lOOO'meu,  consist- 
ing of  300  of  his  own  regiment.  Col.  Bridge  and  Lieut.  Brickent  Avith  a 
detachment  of  theirs,  and  200  Connecticut  forces  commanded  by  Capt. 
Kuovvlton."  '•  Having  thrown  up  a  small  redoitbt,  found  it  necessary  to 
draw  a  lino  about  20  rods  in  length  from  the  fort  northerly,  under  a  very 
warm  fire  from  the  enemy's  artillery.  About  this  time,  the  above  field 
officers,  being  indisposed,  could  render  me  but  little  service,  and  the  most 
of  the  men  under  their  command  deserted  the  party."  He  then  states 
''  that  after  the  enemy  landed  they  began  to  march  to  the  attack  in  three 
columns,  and  I  commanded  my  Lieut.  Col.  Pobiuson  and  Major  Vroods 
each  with  a  detachment  to  fiank  the  enemy,"  He  adds,  '•  I  was  now  left 
with  perhaps  150  men  in  the  fort." 

According  to  Col.  Prescott's  account,  he  had  but  300  men  in  his  own 
regiment,  and  drew  his  flank  guards  from  them  ;  consequently  they  could 
not  have  exceeded  300.  If  to  these  300  we  add  the  150  men  left,  and  the 
120  who  had  marched  out  with  Knowlton  to  the  rail  fence,  and  allow  50 
for  the  artillerists  who  did  not  retreat,  his  whole  force  at  the  time  when 
Stark's  men  arrived  could  net  have  exceeded  GOO  men,  and  of  his  troops  at 
least  100  were  from  New  Hampshire.  If  we  count  in  these  troops  and  all 
those  who  arrived  before  the  fi;uil  retreat,  the  numbers  who  were  engaged  in 
the  battle,  according  to  the  best  evidence  to  which  I  have  access,  were  : — 
From  New  Hampshire,  1,000;  from" Massachusetts,  765;  from  Counecti- 
cut,  220.     Total,  1,985. 

The  average  number  engaged  at  any  one  time  was  doubtless  less  than 


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1877.1  J^ew  Hampshire  in  the  licvolution.  47 

1  500.     The  number  of  British,  including  marines,  who  were  engaged  ia 
V  tiio  brittle,  must  hiivG  cxceoi^oJ  u,000  at  a  low  estim;ite.     Col.  St;ii'k  raised 

*  more  than  half  the  troops  which  were  in  the  service  of  New  Ilan)p.sliirc  at 

*  the  sieije  of  Boston,  and   seems   to   have  had  grounds  for  his  complaints 

!'  whfn  Folsom,  Poor  and  Sullivan   were   promoted   over  him.     They  wero 

doubtless  men  of  more  polish  and  education,  but  of  less  experience  in  war. 
At  the  battle  of  Bennington   the  troops  that  fought  under  Stark   were 
j  militia  or  minute-men   fresh   from  the   harvest  fields  of  New   Ilarapsliire, 

I  assembled   within   a   fortnight  prior  to  the  battle.     At  this  time  the  Pro-- 

.'  viiice  of  New  Hampshire  liad  in  addition  to  these  troops  a  brigade  of  three 

I  rcijinieats  in   the  armj-  under  Gates  and   Schuyler.     Poor  commanded  the 

I  Now  Hampshire  brigade,  and  under  him  were  Cols.  Peed,  Cllley  and  Scam- 

f  mel,  who  were  distinguished  through  the  war.     This  brig^ide  lost  many  men 

and  won  great  renown  in  the  battle  of  the  7th  of  (Jctouer  which  preceded  the 
surrender  of  Burgoyne.  It  repeatedly  charged  the  British  light  infantry 
and  artillery,  and  took  their  cannon  at  least  six  times  during  the  day.  At 
the  battle  of  Bennington,  Stark  had  but  one  piece  of  cannon  with  no  balls. 
He  loaded  it  with  powder  only  as  a  signal  for  the  attack,  and  to  impress 
the  lles.siaus  with  the  idea  that  he  had  artillery.  A  large  portion  of  t.he 
militia  a^^sembled  by  Smrk  were  from  Londonderry  ;  and  young  McGregor 
of  that  town  bore  the  despatches  of  Gen.  Stark  to  Gen.  Gates,  announcing 
his  vict-ory,  and  encountered  serious  dangers  on  the  way. 

Note  3. 

To  ascertain  the  number  of  men  from  New  Hampshire  enrolled  in  Stark's 
regiment  who  fought  at  Bunker  Hill,  various  books  and  pamphlets  weie 
consulted  by  me  "in  the  valuable  libraries  of  the  Boston  Athenaeum,  the 
Massachusetts  Historical  Society,  and  the  New  England  Historic,  Gene- 
alogical Society.  It  appears  by  Kidder's  History  of  the  First  New  Hamp- 
ehire  Regiment,  that  Col.  Stark  received  his  first  commission  from  the 
IMassachusetts  Committee  of  Safety.  Having  raised  eight  hundred  men  at 
the  tap  of  the  drum,  he  organized  them  into  fourteen  companies,  each  hav- 
ing sixty  oflicers  and  men,  on  the  2Gth  of  May,  1775.  A  large  part  of 
these  men  had  followed  him  front  New  Hampshire.  This  history  furtlier 
Btates  that  on  the  30th  of  May  following,  it  was  arranged  at  Exeter,  N.  II., 
that  his  regiment  should  comprise  twelve  companies.  In  the  provincial 
papers  of  New  Hampshire  recently  published,  is  a  letter  from  Col.  Star.:, 
of  May  29th,  1775,  which  states  tltat  he  encloses  a  list  of  troops  enlisted 
for  the  service  of  that  state,  but  this  list  has  disappeared.  In  the  samo 
collection  of  state  papers  is  a  letter  from  Col.  James  Reed,  of  June  loth, 
1775,  in  wliich  he  observes  that  he  had  on  that  day  draWn  from  Stark's  regi- 
ment two  companies  under  Capt.  Thomas  and  Capt.  Whitcomb.  An  otli- 
cial  report  fi-om  Gen.  Folsom  \o  Matthew  Thornton,  the  president  of  the 
New  Hampshire  Congress,  dated  a  week  after  the  batrie,  states  that  Col- 
Surk  then  had  under  his  command  thirteen  companies,  one;  of  which  had 
recently  joined  him.  It  also  appears  by  the  provincial  papers,  tnat  Loi. 
Sturk  had  a  ditficulty  with  a  paymaster  from  New  Hampshire  because  he 
did  not  prov^ide  for  his  extra  companies. 

_  The  evidence  is  conclusive  that  Cob  Stark,  on  the  day  of  the  battle,  had 
clthfT  twelve  or  thirteen  companies  in  his  regiment.  Gen.  Wilkinson,  in 
liis  sketch  of  the  battle  published"  in  1816,  o'oserves  that  he  walked  over 
the  field  the  day  after  Charlestown  was  evacuated ;  he  was  accompanied  by 
Cols.  Stark  and'  Reed  in  his  tour  of  observation,  and  doubtless  gives  their 


48  ITew  Ilamjysli ue  in  the  Bevolution.  [Jan. 

account  of  the  battle.  He  sets  tlie  British  foiTC  enrrtigerl  at  3,000  men  in 
sixty-four  contanies,  ajid  cstiiuates  tiie  yeomanry  of  New  Hamp:?)iire,  Con- 
nceiicut  aiul  Massachusetts  v/Iio  opposed  them,  at  1,500  men.  He  says  tho 
foe  suffered  most  severely  in  front  of  the  stone  fence  and  rail  fence  across 
the  beach  and  on  the  bank  above  it.  lie  states  also  that  in  the  t\^o  first 
attacks  the  T.ritish  line  advanced  obliquely,  inclining  tov/ard  the  fence  and 
wall,  which  were  the  chief  points  of  attack  ;  that  in  the  third  aLt,ack  the  grena- 
diers turned  the  north-east  end  of  the  breast-work  running  nortlierly  fVom 
the  redoubt,  but  were  ol)liged  to  abandon  it  by  the  company  of  Capt.  Dear- 
born stationed  at  the  rail  fence,  who  were  aided  by  the  troo})S  in  the  redoubt; 
that  the  grenadieis  subsequently  entered  the  redoubt  at  the  north-east  cor- 
ner. He  further  states  that  Cob  Stark  charged  his  mea  not  to  fire  till  they 
could  see  tlie  half-gaiters  of  the  British  troops,  nor  until  they  had  passed  a 
certain  mark  he  had  placed  in  front  of  them. 

Gen.  Dearborn  in  his  m.emoir,  pid)lished  about  the  same  time,  states  that 
the  Americans  in  this  battle  had  not  more  than  fifty  bayonets,  and  that  the 
cannon  balls  provided  on  both  sides  were  too  large  for  the  cannon,  and  con- 
firms the  statement  that  the  Welsh  Fusileers  took  part  in  the  battle  and 
lost  heavily. 

The  last  volume  of  the  Provincial  Papers  of  New  Hampshire  coi^taics  a 
statement  that  after  the  !«attle  of  the  17th  of  June,  twenty  companies  of  the 
Kew  Hampshire  troops,  under  Stark  and  Reed,  preferred  claims  for  many 
guns  lost  in  the  fight ;  quite  a  number  of  these  companies  claim  for  one 
or  two  guns  only,  from  which  tl:e  inference  may  be  drawn  that  two  or  three 
companies  may  have  lost  no  guns  in  the  contest.  From  the  various  acconnta 
referred  to,  it  anpenrs  that  many  distinguished  men  on  both  sides  were  jireseut 
during  the  action.  On  the  British  side  were  Gens.  Howe,  Clinton,  Burgoyna 
and  Lord  Rawdon ;  on  the  American  side.  Gens.  Warren,  Putnam,  Grid- 
ley  and  Pomeroy,  Thompson,  afterwards  Count  Rumford,  Govs,  Brooks, 
Eustis  and  Pierce,  with  Judge  Winthrop  of  the  Coiamittee  of  Safety,  who 
claimed  that  he  suggested  the  idea  of  the  grass  fence.  On  the  morning  after 
the  battle  Mr.  John  Winslow,  of  Boston,  counted  ninety-six  dead  bodies 
in  front  of  the  stone  wall  on  the  beach. 

Here  was  stationed  Capt.  John  I^Ioore,  of  Derrj field,  with  troops  raised 
on  the  site  of  the  present  city  of  Manchester  and  its  vicinity,  once  a  part 
of  Londonderry.  On  that  day  Capt.  Moore  was  promoted  to  be  m.ajor,  and 
Lieut.  McLaughlin  to  be  captain  in  Stark's  regiment,  doubtless  for  gallant 
conduct  in  the'field.  It  has  been  intimated  that  the  last  was  an  ancestor  of 
Gov.  Claflin  of  Massachusetts.  Gen.  Heath,  in  his  sketch  of  the  battle, 
Bays  the  fence  was  nobly  defended. 

Note  4. 

The  23d  regiment,  or  Welsh  Fusileers,  was  one  of  the  most  distinguished 

of  the  British  army.     It  was  conspicuous  not  only  at  Minden  and  Bunker 

Hill,  but  also  at  the  battle  of  "Waterloo  and  other  battles,  and  is  described 

in  poetry,  as 

"The  "Wehhinan's  bold  battalion, 
Which  the  sun  of  Alhuera 
Lighted  to  a  field  of  glory — 
Ushted  to  a  field  of  w;u'." 


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1(S77.}        Ilev.   Wr^i.  Cooper  s  Interleaved  Almanacs.  49 


MEMORANDA  FKOM  THP:  REV.  WILLIAM  COOPER'S 
INTERLEAVED  ALMANACS. 

Copied  by  the  lute  ThabL'k;  a  William  Haup.ts,  M.D.,  Librarian  of  Harvard  Uiiiver^ity, 
and  comciunicated  by  his  successor,  John  Lanojjox  Sibley,  A.M., 

of  Caiub>idi<c,  Mr.ss. 

[Continued  from  vol.  ixx.  p.  441.] 

1728 

Feb.  4.         Baptiz'd  John  Tylor. 
"     IL  '•         Jeremiah  Allen. 

"  Violet,  a  negro  woman  of  M'  TV.  Tylor's- 

«     13-         Died  Dr.  Cot.  Mather. 

I  went  to  Cambridge,  to  ]M'  C4reeiiwooQ's  Instulla^ 

Buptiz'd    William  Bart(;li. 

Dr.  Mather  buried.     I  was  oue  of  the  bearers.         , 

At.  the  burial  of  M'  Fyfield's  cliild, 

Baptiz'd  Ann  Cox. 

"  Lijdia  Barnard. 

At  the  funeral  of  the  Rev.  M'  Miles. 
At  the  funeral  of  -Ju"  Campbel,  Esq.,  and  I^P  Lambert,  Cox'3 

nr.other. 
At  tlie  burial  of  a  stranger  inx.  the  widow  Meinzies. 
General  Fast. 
Mr.  Allen's  child  buried. 

A.t  the  burial  of  a  Stranger  on  M'  WendalFs  ace*. 
Mr.  Welsteed  ordained. 
At  the  burial  of  M'  Sam^  Adams. 
Baptiz'd  Mary  Emmons. 
"  Andrew  Sympson. 

«    21..         ,     "  /awes  Moody. 

«  Sarah  Balch.  ;     .    ,, 

«<  Eli::^  Coit. 

■■     ^  «  Eliz^  ^m&l.     ■    -.■:       :^^     '.    j^ 

"  Mary  Brown. 

"    28.  "  Samuel  ]  ..    ..■  -    ,,  ,  ..  -..^   .;.  .•;.   ,.  ,    ,  ■     ... 

«  AUgail  j  '"■'''        '  '■   "  "     '  ''  '"" 

«  Eli:f       J.  Durham. 

-^       :'         «  Mary 

(>cL  "  ^«« 

'^       J         **  Thomas  Dorr. 

"  Jonathan  Crouch. 

May   9.         Ann  Peirce  died. 

"  Mr  Chauricey  Married. 

"     11.         At  the  burial  of  Ann  Peirce  &  M^  Bray's  child. 
'*     12.         Baptiz'd  Samuel  Larmon. 
"     15.         At  the  funeral  of  M'  Parsons. 
"     24.         At  the  burial  of  Master's  child. 
"     27.         At  the  burial  of  Ridoesvav's  child. 
"     28.         At  the  burial  of  iM"  Kneelaud. 
Jane  2.         Baptiz'd  ./^.^/^n-il/Zco  Wendall. 
"  Jonas  Fitch. 

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June  2.         Baptiz'd  ^^«(!/m«o6'^  Doubleday.      •  <)..:;',.. i  i '4/ . 

"       7.         At  the  Inirial  of  IMr  Wain. 

At  the  fuuernl  of  Capt.  Matthias  Bant. 
Baptiz'd  Jxtn/icI  Haley. 

"  Hannah  Cock.  ,  ■  •  , 

Visited  [he  Schools. 
At  the  funeral  of  iSP  Amory.         •        . 
Baptiz'd  FMz^  Ilubbart. 
"  Thomas  Bulfinch. 

"  Zechariah  Ilubbart. 

At  the  funeral  of  M'  Royal's  nephew. 

Poor  INP  Woodbridge  found  this  morning  klll'd  in  the  common. 
Invited  to  his  funeral,  but  did  not  attend. 
At  the  funeral  of  Bf"  Brown. 
At  the  burial  of  M'  Jos.  Allen,  iEtat.  73. 
Gov''  Burnett  bro'  to  town  with  great  pomp. 
At  the  burial  of  i\I"  Baker. 
At  the  funeral  of  r»I"  Leblond. 
Baptiz'd  Mary  Arthur  (adult). 
"  I'riscilla  Sinith. 

"  Adino  Bulfinch. 

^■"«    '      J^^'athaa'-  Bulfinch. 
"  Hannah  Howard. 

7.         At  the  burial  of  Warden's  child. 
11.         Baptiz'd  ior(?  JIarks. 
"  Esther  IMarks. 

"  -Jonathan  Sewall.  ,  ;  ; 

"  Jb/Vn  Nowel.  -    •  , 

"  Hannah  Sprague. 

18.  "  A'a^/i.-nne  Tylor. 

"  Thomas  Gibbens. 

At  the  burial  of  Arthur  Hail. 

At  the  burial  of  Jn°  "Williams,  «&  one  I  oster,  an  sged  woman. 
Baptiz'd  t7b/^«  Draper. 
At  the  burial  of  jM'  Dawson's  child. 
At  the  funeral  of  W  Pim. 

At  the  burials  of  one  Serjeant,  of  Cape-Cod,  &  a  child  of  Pitts's. 
At  the  funeral  of  Judge  Mienzies. 
At  the  burial  of  i\P  Colt's  child. 
Capt.  Crocker's  child  buried. 
At  the  burial  of  Milleken's  child.  .  ■ 

Baptiz'd  ^4/; ?t  Green.  .^.^,  , 

"  ,         Thomas  Tyley.  '  """. 

"  Ahiqai.1  Mo})berly.  ^■.  ,.  .  . 

«  Ahmdl  Wls.wWock.  '•.■■v^'\ 

20.  «  J/ary  Chushing.     [Gushing?] 

"  Samnel  Young. 

27.  "  3Tar>/ 


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«       30.  At  the  funeral  of  M"  ColThvs  child. 

Nov.     2.  At  the  fimeral  of  IM"  Vibert's  daiiter. 

"         7.  General  Thanksgiving. 

"       27.  At  the  burial  of  M^'  Finne. 
"      28.  «  the  widow  Pain. 


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Admissions  to  full  commuuion  since  the  Earthquake,  Oct.  29,  1727. 


Nov'  o. 

Joseph  Edwards 

IMary  Storer 
Dec.  o. 

Mary  Welsh 

Kachel  Thwing 
Jan'  7.  1727-8. 

^Liry  Blair 

John  Pierce 

Susanna  Pierce 

Sam*  Franklin 

John  Perry 

Margaret  Parker 

Rebecca  Hansford 

Charity  Whitehouse 

Samuel  Sprague 

IJicliard  IJilliugs 

"William  Ilasey 

Eben'  Kilby 

Abigail  Erwine 

Susanna  Allin  ,  , 

Hannah  Jackson 

Rebecca  Parker 

"William  Davis  ,       .; 

Hannah  Davis 

John  Reed 

Jane  !Macum 

Mary  Brown 

Rebecca  Peabody  ,     ;  , 

John  "Wass 

Hopestill  Foster 

I^Iary  AYalker 

Dorcas  Snow 
Feb.  4.  .       , 

"William  Blair 

Joseph  Scott 

Judith  Bulfinch 

Mehet.  Scott 

Eliz"  Hall 

Agnis  Addison 

Hannah  Mullins 

Eliz*  Thompson 

Sarah  Uran. 

Jeriish.  Fayrweather 

Thos.  Mulfius,  Jun' 

Deborah  Pain 

John  Jeliries 

Sarah  Stoddard 
1720. 

Jan'  11.       Funeral  of  Deacon  Draper,  who  died  the  8th. 
**      17.       Invited  to  funeral  of  old  Mr  Royal,  and  a  young  Gentleman, 
a  stranarer  fm.  M'  Cushinss. 


Eliz"  Alien 
Sarah  Th'ompson 

March  3. 

Esther  PlaiRted 
Joseph  Davis 
Tim.  Batt 
Sam'  Butler 
Mary  Kiiby 
Mary  Tonipson 
Eliz"*  BlaDcher 
Mary  Hawks 
Ursula  Knap 
Marry  Kenny 
John  Kidi.';away 
Rebec'  R:'<lga\Tav 
Lawrence  JJ)ows 
Sarah  Boucher 
Jane  Young 
Rebec*  Knowlton 
Mary  Ford 

April,  1728. 

Tho.  \Yebber,  Jun^ 
Tho.  Warden,  Jun^ 
Anne  Warden 
Nathan^  Millekeu 
Abigail  IMilleken 
Eiiz*  MiJIekeu 
Sarah  "\7ain 
Eliz'  Hubbart 
James  Addison 
Joseph  Sborbourn 
Mary  jSIjrrice 
Josiah  Torrey 
Eliz"  Pitts 
Mary  Melvil 
Sarah  Pain 

May,  1728. 

Eliz'  Melvil 
Abigail  Durham 

June,  1728. 

Lydia  Sweat 

July,  1728. 

Hannah  Convers 

August,  1728. 

Mary  Moore 

Sept',  1728. 

Eliz*  Adams 


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Jan.   23.       Hannah  born,  ab' 4  in  the  morning. 

*«      29.       Invited  to  the  burial  of  Welsh's   child. 
Feb.    2.       Baptized  6 — Hannah  Cooper. 
Hehecca  Ransford. 
..  Charles  Lenox. 

'  ^  Experience  Willis. 

FAiza  Gibbons. 
Sarah  Ellis. 
«        3.       Invited  to  funeral  of  M'  W.  Tyler's  child. 

"         4.       Church  meeting.    M'  Phillios  chosen  Deacon.    Votes  46.    M' P. 
had  26,  I\J'  Jos.  Fitch  l'9,  M^  Jon.  Clark  1.     This  was  the 
second  time  of  voting. 
«         6.       Invited  to  the  burial  of  Haley's  child. 
«        8.       Baptized  3— P^'ffs  Hall. 
Lucy  Hail. 
Susanna  Brixser. 
"       20.       Mr  Draper's  child  buried. 
"       23.       Baptiz'd  Jemuna  Landen. 

"      '■£,6.       Kept  as  a  fast  by  the  Old  South,  on  ace*  of  taking  down  their 
old  <fc  building  a  new  meeting  house. 
Mar.    3.       Hannah  went  t()  nurse  Pool. 
«      11.       At  the  Burial  of  Ellis's  child. 
"       17.       Mr.  Brown's  child  buried. 
"       31.       Hannah  went  to  nurse  Bartell. 
April   6.       Baptiz'd  1.    Joseph  Rogers. 
<'        9.       At  the  Burial  of  old  M"  Belcher,  widow  to  Capt. 
"      20.       Baptiz'd  2.     EJid'  Wiuslow. 
Susanna  Blake. 
May  10.       At  the  Burial  of  Maycock's  child. 
"      15.       The  Lecture  turned  into  a  Fast  on  ace'  of  tlie  Measles. 
"       22.       At  the  Burial  of  Dr.  Perkins's  son. 
**      26.       At  the  Burial  of  Father  Weyman. 
«       23.       At  the  Burial  of  Giifoens's  child. 
"       81.       At  the  Burial  of  M*"  Harris's  Brother.  ;  ;•' 

June    4.       At  the  Burial  of  M"  Coates. 
"        6.       Little  Hannah's  surprizing  Death,  bro**  me  between  2  &  3  ihia 

morn.  . 

"        7.       Burial. 

"        8.       Baptiz'd  3.     »7oAn  Hubbart. 
"  Mary  May  cock.  od  nii^iii 

Josiah  Maycum  [?]. 
«      20.       At  the  Funeral  of  Capt.  Foster. 

«*      21.      At  the  Burial  of  M''  Bush's  child  of  N.  York,  cut  for  the  stone. 
«      22.       Baptiz'd  2.     Rv.ih  Cunningham. 

Martha  St£ir. 
«      24.       At  the  Burial  of  M''  Kneeland's  child. 
"       26.       At  the  Burial  of  Emmons's  child.  '■      ' 

"       27.       At  the  Burial  of  Cushing's  child. 

«      29.       Baptiz'd  1.     J/^?i  Cobbet.  .  , 

July     1.       At  the  Burials  of  Mr  Snow  &  Simon  Rogers's  child. 
'•         4.       At  the  Burial  of  M"  Lord. 
«        8.       At  the  Burial  of  Cox's  child. 
*•'      10.       At  the  Burial  of  Maycock's  child. 


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July  22.       At  the  Funeral  of  W°  Welsteerl,  Esq. 
"      25.       At  the  Fuueral  of  W  Adino  Bulfiuch's  child. 
"       2G.       At  the  Funeral  of  jNI'  Forelaud. 
"      2S.       At  the  Burial  of  Gibhens's  child. 
"      3i.       At  the  Burial  of  M"  Bruno. 
Aug.    3.       Baptis'd  2.     EUz'  Moor. 

3Iary  Doubleday. 
At  the  Burial  of  M"  Badlej. 
♦'■      10.       Baptiz'd  2.      William  Stoddard. 
Hannah  Greenleaf. 
"      13.       At  the  Burial  of  Clark's  child. 
"      17.       Baptiz'd  1.     Richard  Billings. 
«      20.       At  the  Burial  of  M'  Step.  Willis. 
"      31.       Baptiz'd  2.     Jonathan  Sewall. 
Mary  Torry. 
Sept.    5.       The  Burial  of  Barron's  child. 
'*        7.       This  night  died  Gov'  Burnet,  between  10  &  11. 
"        9.       At  the  Burial  of  Mr.  Lowder's  son. 
"      12.       Gov'^  Burnet  buried. 
"      13.       At  the  burial  of  Novel's  child. 
"      22.       At  the  funeral  of  M'  Cunningham's  child. 
Oct.     5.       Baptiz'd  2.     Ahiah  Davenport. 

Mary  Fuilerton. 
"        8.       At  the  Burial  of  M"  Rebecca  Bridge. 

10.       At  the  Burial  of  the  Rev.  Mr  Harris.  " 

"      14.       At  the  Burial  of  Mrs.  Hasey. 

19.  Baptiz'd  5.      Walter  Favrwe'ather. 

FM:^  Wendal. 
Fdz^  Quincy. 
FM:^  EdTvards. 
Sarah  Tr eleven.  ;    '- 

"      20.       At  the  Funeral  of  M'  Joseph  Fitch.  ■•    "" 

"      o'  •       ^^  ^'^^  Funeral  of  M'  W™  Stoddard's  child. 

31.       Our  Friday  Lecture  turn'd  into  a  Fast  on  ace*  of  Small  Poi. 
Aov.    5.       At  the  Funeral  of  M"  Edwards. 
^        7.       At  the  Burial  of  Father  Pike,  ab'  88. 

20.  At  the  Burial  of  M^  Gee's  child.  vj..,-:;  .•..>. 
"      25.       At  the  Burial  of  M'  Xath^  Cushino-. 

"      II'  ^^  '^'®  ^""^^  of  ^^"  Eglestone's  child. 

-9.  At  the  Burial  of  M^  Galpine,  a  useful  good  man. 

^c.     3.  At  the  Burial  of  Mary  Rix,  jetat,  5o. 

J        7.  Baptiz'd  1.     Mary  Foster. 

^      n.  At  the  Funeral  of  Col.  Payne,  of  Bristol. 

14.  Baptiz'd  2.     Hayinah  Haley. 
^^  John  DuT\xam.  '••r/ s  •;  r..  ,    :>->       \: 

^      16.  At  the  Burial  of  1^1"  Perkins's  child. 

J<.  At  M' Peabody's  ordination. 

u      qp  ^Ir  Buifinch's  child's  funeral. 

-  L  0-  I^aptiz'd  2.     Z^^i/a  Draper. 

„      ^_  ^l^ro/^am  Morine. 

-^-       Capt.  Keeling's  Funeral. 


26.       At  the  Buriaf  of  Salisbury's  child. 
^-3-      Baptiz'd  John  Allen. 


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Died  ray  JIou*'  Father  Scwall. 

Invited  to  the  Burial  of  Sears. 

At  the  Funeral  of  ]\Iad"'  Saltonstall,  /Etat.  C5. 

At  the  Burial  of  IM"  Heath. 

Bapti/'d  1.     Ehenezer  Storer. 

At  the  Funeral  of  ^lad*"  Clark,  iEtat.  78. 

liichardt-oii's  Father  buried. 

At  tho  Burial  of  Teague  [?]. 

Baptiz'd  2.     Benjamin  Cox. 
Sarah  Davis. 

At  the  Burial  of  j^-I'  Mariner's  wife. 

At  the  Funeral  of  IM'  Jackson's  Son. 

At  Mr  Wroes  Burial. 

At  ]\F  Bulfinch's  child's  Funeral. 

At  Master's  child's  Burial. 

At  i\[r.  Morehead's  ordination. 

At  the  Funeral  of  M^  David  Andrews,  at  D'  Bulfinch's. 

At  the  Burial  of  M"^  iJubbart's  young  man,  Sherbourn. 

At  the  Burial  of Odel. 

At  the  Funeral  of  Coll.  Chearnlcy's  child. 

At  the  Burial  of  M'  Scot's-  child. 

At  the  funeral  of  M"  Robert  Lenoir. 

Experience  Weeks  Buried  at  Dorchester. 
"       24.       Preach'd  the  Lecture  at  Newton.    Buried  M""  Eustis,  Mrs.  Ful- 
ler [Fallet,  or  what?] 
"      27.       "Went  to  Cambridge.     Buried  M''  Richardson. 
May    3.       At  the  Burial  of  Hervey's  Dau'ter. 
"         4.       At  the  Burial  of  Trail's  maid. 
"        5.       At  the  Burial  of  Cox's  child. 
"        6.       Invited  to  Burial  cf  Grecjory  Gunsmith. 
«      11.       At  the  Burial  of  W  W.  Tyler's  child,  &  Home's. 
«      12.       At  the  Burial  of  Harvey's  child. 
"      19.       At  the  Burial  of  M^  Mecum's  child. 
"      21.       At  the  Burial  of  M"  Gookin's  Son,  Mi.  18. 
"      23.       The  Funeral  of  IMaycock's  child. 
"      24.       Preach'd  at  Newton.     Baptiz'd  Abigail  Gardiner. 
"      25.       Mr  Tay  buried. 
"      26.       l^Irs  Mary  Morris  buried. 
"      27.       Allen's  child  buried. 

«      28.       Fitche's  child  buried.      ■      -  :  o'  ',>Ak  v^n-    ■  ^' '^^:' 
**      29.       Mr  Gregory  buried. 
«      30.       Haley's  child  buried. 
June    6,       Raud  and  his  child  buried. 
"        9.       !My  wife  deliv'd  of  a  dau'ter,  Judith,  a  few  minutes  before  10 

A.M. 
"      14.      Judith  Baptiz'd  by  i\P  Cotton.     [Newton.] 

Roach's  child  buried.     [Newton  ?j 
"      21.       Baptiz'd  1.     Mary  Fletcher. 
«      23.       At  the  Funeral  of  IM'  Greeuleaf  s  child. 

"      25.       The  Burials  of  M'  Green's  dau'ter,  Deshaun,  &  Potwain's  dau'ter. 
"       28.       Emmons's  child  buried. 
"      30.       At  the  burial  of  Ty ley's  child. 


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Mortimer's  child  buried.  . . 

At  the  Burial  of  Potv,iiie's  child. 

At  the  IJurlal  of  Briyco's  chiKl. 

At  the  Burial  of  Warden's  child.'  .    »  •-■,.■,       -   -• 

At  M"  Gee's  Fuaeral,  a  Bearer.  '  .         '     '       '     '    '• 

At  the  Funeral  of  i\I"  Tay. 

John  Hubbard's  child  buried.  ■ '-  r.      .. , 

Freach  at  I'iev.tou,  and  baptize  John  Clark. 

Baptiz'd  1.     Ehenezer  Hayward. 

Gov'' Belcher  arrives.  '     '     ' 

Baptiz'd  1.     Alngail  Bullfinch. 

Gov' B.  comes  to  Town.  ■. 

At  the  Funeral  of  M"  Ballard.  ■ 

At  the  Burial  of  M"  Williams,  once  Maddis. 

Baptiz'd  2.     Isaac  Bechum. 

.Daniel  Gibb  [?]  ,  . 

At  the  Bui-ial  of  I\I"  White  from  the  Almshouse. 
Baptiz'd  2.     Edward  Davis. 

William  Maycoek. 
Mrs.  Tylor's  Funeral. 

Baptiz'd  3.     John^  Joseph,  Ehtnezer  Brown. 
At  the  Burial  of  Warden's  Son,  ' 

At  the  Burial  of  Warden's  other  child. 
At  the  Burial  of  Michael  Hamilton. 
Mr.  Giles  Buried. 
At  the  Burial  of  old  M^Yarden. 
At  the  Funeral  of  JNIrs.  Baily. 
Baptiz'd  1.     yii/(7ai7  Hempton,  Adidt. 
At  the  Burial  of  Brown's  child. 

Buried  Masters  &  Edwards  tlieir  children  [at  Newton?] 
At  the  Burial  of  Sarah  Wells. 

Died  my  Hon*^  Father  Stoddard,  ab'  8  in  the  morn,  3Ct.  80. 
Baptiz'd  3.      Charks-Hohhij  Hubbart. 

Eenja)>ii /I  Giles. 

J/ar^  Tuckerman.  >    .  . 

At  the  Burial  of  JM"  Vryliug. 

Attended  the  Funeral  of  F.  Stoddard.       '"   f"  ■'••-■   -      ,>,, 
Baptiz'd  3.     Ahiah  Brown  (Adult). 

Edward  Scot.  •,    ■ 

Mary  Young.  ,s 

Mrs.  Colman  died  this  night  ab'  1  o'clock  very  suddenly. 
At  the  Funeral  of  Mrs.  Colman.  ,, 

At  the  Funeral  of  M"  Hubbart,  wife  of  Zeek. 

At  the  iVFT.  Boylston's  Dau'ter.  ,  ':•    ,  , 

Idr.  Charles  Morris. 

Burial  of  Mrs  Sen.  Ransford,  a  pious  blind  woman. 
At  the  Burial  of  our  old  Friend  M"  Phillips,  yEt.  72. 
Baptiz'd  4.     Ann  Wendall. 

I)jdia  Coit. 

John  Waters. 

John  Fullerton. 
Baptiz'd  Ir     James  Young. 


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SEALS   FROM   THE  JEFFRIES    COLLECTION   OF 
MANUSCRIPTS. 

Communicated  by  tlie  Cowmittke  on  1Ikra.ldhy  of  the  Nett-England 
HisTOKic,  Genealogical  Societt. 

ry^HE  annexed  descriptive  list  of  seals  attached  to  the  correspond- 
_bL  ence  and  papers  of  David  Jetlries,  Esq.  {ante,  xxx.  20),  trea- 
surer for  many  years  of  Boston  in  the  last  century,  simply  presents 
to  whomever  may  feel  an  interest  the  fact  that  such  seals  would 
seem  to  have  been  used  as  their  own  by  the  several  persons  vrliose 
signatures  appear  either  as  the  writers  of  the  letters  or  as  exe- 
cuting the  instruments.  The  propriety  of  their  using  them  it  is 
not  of  course  for  us  to  determine ;  but  we  can  see  no  reason  to 
question  their  right.  We  were  deeply  impressed  with  the  value  of 
the  information  tlicir  beinj^  so  used  would  convev  where  anv  doubt 
existed  in  the  minds  of  present  generations  as  to  the  arms  borne  by 
their  progenitors.  The  members  of  the  Heraldic  Committee  devot- 
ed many  hours  to  their  examination  and  preparing  the  list,  and 
studying  out  in  Burke's  General  xVrmoury,  and  by  the  help  of 
other  sources  of  J<;nowledge,  what  they  were,  when  defaced,  and 
to  what  branch  of  the  particular  name  attached  they  belonged. 

More  than  this  would  have  been  quite  apart  from  our  province, 
unless  such  duty  had  been  imposed  upon  us  by  the  Society. 

In  preparing  the  following  descriptions  the  committee  has  been 
greatly  assisted  by  Walter  Lloyd  Jeffries,  a  great-great-grandson  of 
David  Jeffries,  Esq.,  who  inherited  and  preserved  these  manuscripts. 

The  seals  marked  *  have  been  described  in  ihe  Heraldic  Journal. 

^  ]--".  .  Thomas  C.  Amory,   Chairman. 

Knightlet  Alderns.  5th  March,  1674;  letter  to  John  Cooke,  mer- 
chant at  Oporto.     Seal,  an  auchor  between  the  letters  P^  and  L. 

Daniel  Allen,  Physician  of  Boston,  Representative  lCl/3  and  169-i. 
Boston,  Jan.  14,  1C89;  deed  of  a  house  and  land  to  Charles  Lidcet,  P. 
Bowdon  being  a  witness.  Arms,  a  cross  potent,  over  all  a  bend,  in  chief 
sinister  a  bezant.  Crest,  an  Indian  full  length  facing  forward,  in  dexter 
hand  a  bow,  in  sinister  band  an  arrow.     Tinctures  not  indicated. 

P.  Barberie.  New  York,  July  29,  1714  ;  invoice  of  goods  to  Messrs. 
David  JefTfies  &  Co.,  signed  bj'  "  De  Laiicey,  Barberie  &  i\Ioore."  A  note 
on  the  reverse  is  signed  by  P.  Barberie  for  self  and  Stephen  DeLaacev, 
and  by  John  I\Ioore,  Jr.  The  letter  is  written  by  Barberie.  Arms,':i 
chevron  bctv/een  three  griffins'  heads  erased.  Crest,  a  griilin's  head  erased. 
Tinctures  not  indicated. 

These  are  not  the  De  Lancey  arms  as  given  in  the  Heraldic  Journal,  anil 
are  probably  those  of  Barberie  or  possibly  Moore. 

Samuel  Barron.  London,  28  Feb.  17 jJ-;  letter  to  Messrs.  David 
Jeffries  &;   Co.     Arms,    two  swords   in   saltire   between  four   fleurs-de-lis. 


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Barron  of  Wiltshire  bears,  sa.  two  swords  in  saltire  ar.  pomels  and  hilts 
or,  between  four  tieurs-de-lis  or. 

Jonx  Braxi>.     See  Sharpe. 

Captain  Eu-VVARU  Brattle,  son  of  Thomas  Brattle,  one  of  the  foundera 
of  llie  Old  Soutli  Church ;  Representative  1671,  2,  9  ;  Artillery  Co.  1G72. 
Letters  to  David  JetlVies  &;  Co.,  Marblehead,  March  30,  17 lo,  and  'Mr. 
John  JedVies,  Marblehead,  Auij.  19,  1713.  Arms,  Ermine,  three  phttes,  in 
centre  of  sliichl  a  mullet.  The  marks  which  we  call  erm.  may  possibly 
be  intended  for  or,  but  their  shape  is  more  that  of  erm. 

The  Arms  of  his  brother  Thomas,  which  dilfered  from  the  above,  are  de- 
scribed iu  the  Heraldic  Journal. 

Sir  Justus  Bfxk,  Bart.,  created  a  baronet  Nov.  1,  1714,  the  first 
baronetcy  conferred  by  George  I.  The  title  became  extinct  in  1761. 
London,  26  January,  17-ff-:  letter  to  Messrs.  David  Jefiries  &  Co.  Arms, 
quarterly,  1st  a  blackbird,  2d  and  3d  a  mullet,  4th  a  dolphin  embowtd. 
Crest,  within  a  pair  of  wings  a  raven.  Tinctures  not  indicated.  Burke 
gives  the  arms  as  "  Quarterly,  1st  or,  a  blackbird  sa. ;  2d  and  3d  sa.  a  mullet 
or;  4th,  az.  a  dolphin  embowed,  or.  Crest,  within  a  pair  of  wines  or.  a 
raven  ppr." 

Andrew  Belcher,  II.  C.  1722;  son  of  Gov.  Jonathan  Belcher  of 
Massachusetts.  Milton,  Aug.  8,  17G3  ;  letter  to  David  Jeffries,  Esq. 
Round  Seal,  an  antique  female  head. 

*Judge  Jonathan  Belcher,  l;t.  Governor  of  Nova  Scotia;  H.  C.  1728; 
brother  of  Andrew  Belcher.  Two  letters  to  his  nephew  David  JetlVies, 
written  from  Halifax,  and  dated  Dec.  21,  1757,  and  Sept.  22.  17G0.  Arms, 
or,  three  pales  gu.  a  chief  vaire.  Crest,  a  greyhound's  head  erased  erm. 
gorged  with  a  collar  and  ringed.     Jlotto,  Loyal  au  mort. 

These  are  the  arras  of  Belcher,  of  Gilsborough,  co.  Northampton,  Eng- 
land, who  bore  the  collar  on  the  crest  gules,  and  the  rin"-  or. 

John  Brandon.  London,  April  10,  1744;  letter  to  Madam  Noyes- 
Anns  broken  off.  Cf'est,  a  lion's  head  erased  and  crowned.  Tinctures  not 
indicated. 

The  family  of  Brandon,  of  Suffolk,  bears  barr/  of  ten  ar.  and  gu. 
a  lion  rampant  or,  ducally  crowned  per  pale  of  the  first  and  second.  Crest^ 
a  lion's  head  erased,  or,  ducally  crowned  per  fesse  ar.  and  gu. 

*DuxcAX  Campbell,  bookseller,  of  Boston;  came  from  Scotland  IGSS, 
and  got  a  commission  from  England  as  postmaster  of  the  Coiouies.  New- 
"iork,  Sept.  IG,  and  April  14,  1701  ;  letters  to  Major  Benj.  Davis.  Arins,. 
Gyrony  of  eight  or  and  sa.      Crest,  a  boar's  head  couped. 

Tiiese  arms  are  borne  by  many  of  the  name  in  Great  Britain,  among 
them  the  Duke  of  Argyle.  the  Marquis  of  Bredalbane,  &c. 

John  Carkett.  Bytheford,  Aug.  20,  1711;  letter  to  Messrs.  David 
Jefiries  &.  Co.  Arms,  a  chevron  between  three  marclets.  Cresi,  a  inartict. 
Tinctures  not  indicated. 

Cargill  of  Scotland  bears,  gu.  a  chevron  between  three  martlets  or. 

Robert  Carrick.  Newca-^tle,  July  19  and  Sept.  C,  174G;  letters  to 
Duvid  Jcll'ries,  Esq.  Arms,  ar,  a  fesse  dancette  sa.  between  three  liona 
pa.vs-int  two  and  one,  of  the  second.     Crest,  an  escallop. 

Carrick  of  Gloucestershire  bears,  or,  a  fesse  danccttd  between  three 
taliiols  passant  sa. 

John  Cas-wale.     London,  Feb.  13,  1712;  letter  to  "  Mr.  John  Jeffries^ 
nierrhant  iu  Boston."     Arms,  on  a  bend  three  roses.      Cresij  a  bust  facin;^ 
furwurd.     Tinctures  not  indicated. 
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58  ■  Seals  from  the  Jeffries  Manuscripts.  [Jan. 

David  CnABOT.  '  Rotterdam,  2Gth  Oct.  1708;  letter  to  "Mr.  Thomas 
Clarke,  merchant  ia  Boston."  Two  dear  iii->pres.sions.  Seal,  a  monogram 
of  several  letters,  abov3  it  a  coronet,  below  it  a  chabot  ant'ant. 

Arms  of  Chabot,  of  France,  or,  three  chabpts  gu. 

WiLi,iAM  AND  Sheldon  Chambers,  moroiiants  of  London.  Letters  to 
David  Jut^ries  &  Co.,  dated  London,  17  Dec.  and  "2  Nov.  1708.     Arms,  on 

a  field ,  a  chevron,  or,  between  three  trefoils.      Crest,  a  bear  passant 

muzzled. 

Capt.  Jonx  CiTArMAX,  So.  Carolina,  April  3,  1712;  letter  to  IMessrs. 
Jeffries  and  Shepreeve.  Anns,  a  chevron  or,  between  three  caps  of  main- 
tenance jessant-de-lis  ?     Tincture  of  field  not  indicated. 

There  is  some  doubt  about  this  charge,  it  is  a  clear  enough  impression, 
but  such  a  charge  would  be  very  rare. 

Walter  Chapman.  Four  letters  from  Kingston,  Jamaica,  to  Mr.  Thomas 
Clarke:  three  dated  June  19  and  March  2&,  170G  (r.he  date  of  the  third 
being  eaten  off),  are  signed  by  W.  Chapman  and  P.  Miln;  the  fourth  (the 
date  of  which  is  also  gone)  is  signed  by  Walter  Chapman,  and  all  are  writ- 
ten in  Chiipman's  hai'.d writing.  Arms,  quarterly,  1st  and  4th,  a  chevron 
between  three  roses ;  2d  and  od,  paly  of  six.  Crest,  an  Indian  plumed, 
kneelitig  with  e[)ear  in  rest.     Tinctures  not  indicated. 

Walter  Chapman.     See  ^liln. 

Charles  Chauncy  or  John  Taylor.  London,  March  3,  1718  ;  invoice 
of  goods  to  David  Jeffries  &  Co.,  written  by  Chauncy  for  Taylor,  and  in- 
dorsed, ''iNIr.  Taylor's  Invoice."  Arms,  lower  part  of  shield  broken  off — ui/per 
part  shows  a  chief  charged  with  a  lio-i  rampant.  Crest,  out  of  a  ducal 
coronet  a  demi-griflia  rampant  crowned,  with  wing?  extended.  Tinctures 
not  indicated. 

Thomas  Cholvvich.  Rivierra,  22  Jan.  1(579;  letter  to  John  Cooke,  of 
Oporto.     Arms,  three  chevrons,   in   chief  a  label.      Crest,  over  a  pri. ice's 

helmet  a  lion's  jambe  erect  and  erased  supporting  a ?     Tinctures  net 

indicated. 

Cholwich  of  England  bears,  per  pale  sa.  aiid  ar.  three  chevrons  counter- 
cbangi.d.  Crest,  a  lion's  jarnbe  erect  and  erased  sa.  supporting  an  ancient 
carved  seal  per  pale  or  and  arg. 

Benjamin  Clifford.  Danvers,  24  ]March,  1755  ;  letter  to  David  Jeffries, 
Esq.     Hound  seal,  the  figure  of  a  lady  holding  a  flower. 

Samuel  Coggan.  Lisbon,  May  19,  1712;  letter  to  David  Jeffries  & 
Co.     Hound  seal,  a  lion  rampant  renverse. 

Elizabeth  Cooke.  Exon,  29  May,  1G74;  letter  to  her  husband  John 
Cooke,  of  Oporto,  and  also  on  a  scrap  of  paper  torn  from  a  letter.  Arms, 
a  chevron,  in  chief  a  crescent;  impaling,  a  chevron  between  three  piue^ 
apples.     Tinctures  not  indicated. 

John  Cookk.  Lix*,  July,  IG73;  letter  to  Joel  Kingston.  Arms, 
quarterly,  1st  and  4th,  a  lion  rampant ;  2d  and  3d,  plain  field.  Tinctures 
not  indicated. 

John  Cooke.  Eton,  March,  1C75 ;  letter  to  "  Mr,  John  Cooke  &  Com- 
pany, merc'oauts  in  Oporto."  Round  seal,  a  skeleton  holding  in  dexter  hand 
au  arrow,  iu  sinister  hand  an  hour-glass. 

Richard  Ckossman.  5th  March,  1C82;  letter  to  John  U^her,  Esq. 
Arms,  a  cross  fieury.      Crest,  a  bull's  head  erased. 

John  Crowtiier.  London,  G  Aug.  1G77;  letter  to  John  Cooke  of 
Oporto.  Arms,  bottom  of  shield  broken  off — top  shows  two  fawns'  heads 
couped.  Crest,  out  of  a  coronet  a  fawn's  head  couped.  Tinctures  not 
indicated. 


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.Sons  CuowTHER.  London,  Oct.  9,  1G72,  and  Au;^.  14  and  July  2S, 
ir>7l:  1(  Iti^r^  to  Joliii  Cooke  of  O^iorto.  Scal^  a  duuble-head.jd  e;ii,'le 
diiplixyed. 

AuciiiB\LD  CoMMiN'GF.,  Preventive  Olllcer  ;  Port  St.  John's,  Xewfcuinl- 
laud,  8th  M;iy,  1711;  clearance  papers  of  the  Pearl,  gallfy,  eight  guii.s, 
ow:ipd  by  David  Jeffries.  Est].  Anns,  three  garbes.  Tinctures  not  ai- 
dicaled.      Crest,  over  a  helmet  the  letters  A.  G. 

The  families  of  Cummin  of  Alyr,  Cuming  of  Religas,  and  the  anciont 
Cumins  (or  Comyn),  Lords  of  B;idenocli,  liore.  az.  three  garbes  or. 

*S.  Cl'unvkx.  Uromptoii,  Yeoman's  Row,  Jan.  10,  1762;  letter  to  John 
JefTi-ies,  M.D.  Arms,  ar.  fretty  gu.  a  chief,  az.  Crest,  an  unicorn's  lie:id 
erased. 

These  are  the  arras  borne  by  the  Curwens  of  Workinglon,  co.  Cumber- 
land. 

JoRN'  CuSTis.  Accomack,  April  4,  1GS7;  letter  to  John  Usher.  Esq. 
Arms,  a  chevron  between  three  ravens  (?)  (These  birds  resemble  ravens 
but  there  is  some  doubt  as  to  what  they  are  intended  for.)  Tinctures  not 
Indicated. 

ALDINGTON"  Davenport.  H.  C.  ICSO,  Judge  of  the  Supremo  Court. 
Feb.  9,  1724;  letter  to  "the  Hon.  John  Usher,  Eoq.,  Lt.  GJov.  of  New 
Hampshire."  Crest,  a  holy  lamb  trippaiit.  His  arms  are  described  in  the 
Heraldic  .Journal. 

Mrs.  Sarah  Davie.  3d  wife  of  William  Davis,  apothecary,  of  Boston, 
and  stepmother  of  Maj.  Kenj.  Davis.  Her  name  is  written  "Davie."  but 
the  address  is  •'  Davis."  Savage  says  the  names  are  convertible.  Letter  to 
]\Lij.  Benj.  Davis,  of  Boston,  no  date.  Anns,  on  a  fcsse  three  lozenges. 
Tinctures  not  indicated. 

John  Davis.     Fayal,  Jfay  2,  1705  ;  letter  to  "  Mr.  David  Jeffries,  mer- 
chant in  Boston."     Round  seal,  a  crown. 
Stephen  De  Lancev.     See  Bahbeuie. 

Thomas  Dongan,  Governor  of  New- York.  New-Y'ork,  Nov.  19,  1684; 
letter  to  '•  I\[r.  Usher  in  Boston."  Anns,  ar.  a  fesse  or,  between  three  fieurs- 
de-li*.      Crest,  out  of  a  l;ai-an's  coronet  a  demi  lion  rampant. 

*JoSFPH  Dudley.  Governor  of  Massachusetts.  1702-20.  SLay  7.  IG-SH; 
power  of  attorney  from  Joseph  Dudley,  Samuel  Shrimpton  aiid  Richard 
Wharton,  to  Jonathan  Tyng  of  Dunstable,  to  receive  lands  from  WanaJan- 
sett.  Sachem  of  the  Merrimack  Indians.  Arms,  a  lion  rampant  queue 
fourchee.  Crest,  a  ducal  coronet,  above  it  something  illegible.  Tinctures 
not  indicated. 

Dudley  of  F^ngland  bore,  or,  a  lion  rampant  queue  fourclit-e.  vert. 
Ther€  is  also  in  a  bible  formerly  owned  by  Gov.  Joseph  Dudley,  a  coj^y 
of  liis  book  plate,  showing  the  same  arms  as  in  the  seal  above,  and  for  crest 
a  lion's  head  erased.     Motto,  •'  Nee  gladio  nee  arcu  ;"   an(J  btlow  the  arms, 
"  His  Excellency  Joseph  Dudley,  Esq.,  Governor  of  New  England,  1<(»2^ 

Pmesaxt  Eastwick,  of  Poitsmouth.  Portsmouth,  Sopr.  2H.  \i-^i  ; 
letter  to  John  Usher,  Esq.  Arms,  a  chevron  between  three  bucks  stat.mt. 
Tinctures  not  indicated. 

Robert  Elliot,  Councillor  of  N.  H.  1683-6,  92-8  and  169:)-I7i:». 
Newcastle,  Dec.  21,  1714;  letter  to  David  Jeifries,  Esij.  Octaijoiuil  s^al, 
the  letter  *•  N  "  surrounded  bv  an  illegible  motto. 

JoiiN  Eyre,  H.  C.  1718',  son  of  John  Eyre  and  Cath.^rine  Brattle.^ 
Portsmouth,  July  10,  17.j6  ;  letter  to  his  sister  Catherine  >iyes,  wit.' of 
Oliver  Nuyes  and  widow  of  David  Jeffries.     Very  clear  iuipre^biua.     Anns, 


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ar.  a  chcvrou  eruuues  between  three  e&ciillof)^  gu.  Credit,  a  dt'ini-lioa 
rampant. 

These  are  the  arms  of  Eyre  of  SufTolk. 

AViLLiAM  FoxLKi',  merchant.  Hamburg,  22(1  Dec.  1G76  and  28  Jan. 
16|^  ;  letters  to  John  Cooke  of  Oporto.  Arms,  on  a  chevron  three  escal- 
lops.     Crest,  a  man's  bead  couped  at  the  neck.     Tinctures  not  indicated. 

Nathan ii:l  Frvku,  Councillor  of  N.  H.  1681J-G;  County  Treasurer, 
16^8  to'end  of  the  iMass.  government;  Councillor,  1G02-1702;   Ch.  Justice 

of  the  Common  Pleas.  1G92-5.     rortsmouth,  Jan.  11. (year  eaten  olF)  ; 

letter  to  ''the  Hon.  John  Usher,  Plsq.,  Lieutenant  Governor  of  their  .M.ij. 
Province  of  New  Hampshire  ;  Commander  in  Chief  and  Admiral  of  the 
same,  &c.  &c.  &.c."     Bound  seed,  a  very  clearly  cut  aiiti(|ue  head. 

Georg::  Fulford,  merchant  of  London.  London,  22d  Nov.  1071,  and 
23d  Maroh.  1675;  letters  to  John  Cuoke  of  0[iorto.  J^uund  seal,  a  heart 
pierced  by  ihree  arrows,  one  in  pale  and  two  in  sallire. 

George  Fulford,  apparently  same  as  above.  London,  30th  Nov.  1C74  ; 
letter  to  John  Cooke  of  Oporto.     Romid  seal,  a  lion  rauipant. 

George  Folforp,  apparently  same  as  above.  London,  1st  Jan.  1  074  ; 
letter  to  John  Cooke,  &c.  Arms,  two  bars  gemelles  between  three  dexter 
hands  couped  at  the  wrist,  two  in  chief  and  one  hi  base;  a  martlet  in  chief 
for  difference.  Crest,  over  a  gentleman's  helmet  and  wreath,  a  dexter  hand 
•couped  at  the  wrisc.     Tinctures  not  indicated. 

Paul  Gerrisii.  Portsmouth,  1719  ;  letter  to  Mr.  Henry  Sharpe,  paint- 
er in  Boston.  ^1/VH5,  quarterly,  1st  and  4th,  a  lion  rampant ;  2d  and  3d, 
three  plates.     Tinctures  not  indicated. 

This  seal  is  badly  broken,  and  there  is  a  little  doubt  about  the  2d  and 
■3d  quarterings,  but  we  think  this  is  right. 

Robert  Gibbes.  Philadelphia,  Nov.  15,  1709;  letter  to  Mr.  David 
Jeffries.  Hound  seal,  three  arrows  arranged  perpendicularly  :  not  on  a 
shield. 

L.  Greenwood,  or  Geo.  Hulk.  London,  March  15,  1685  ;  bond  of 
David  Jeffries,  Jr.  to  his  cousin  Jonathan  Leigh,  merchant  of  London,  wit- 
nessed by  Greeuwood  and  Hulk,  to  one  of  whom  the  arms  probably  be- 
longed, as  they  are  not  those  of  either  Leigh  or  Jeffries.  Arjns,  three 
•clarions.     Tinctures  not  indicated. 

William  Handley.  Letter  to  Mr.  David  Jeffries.  Savannah,  in  Geor- 
gia, 3d  July,  17G9.  Arms,  a  fesse  between  six  mascles,  thrt-e  and  three. 
Tinctures  not  indicated. 

Jonx  HiNCKS.  Came  over  1G72  ;  member  of  Provincial  Council,  1G83; 
of  Andros's  Council,  1GS7  ;  President  of  the  Council  under  Allen,  1G05; 
suspended  by  L'sher,  1697;  recalled  by  Partridge,  1G98;  turne<l  out  by 
Allen  and  formally  replaced  by  Lonl  Bellmout,  1699;  Chief  Justice  of 
Supreme  Court,  '1699-1707.  Newcastle,  Feb.  26,  1694;  letter  to  '' ]Mr. 
David  Jeffries,  merchant  in  Boston."  Anns,  a  fesse  between  three  roses. 
Crest,  a  bust  facing  forward.     Tinctures  not  indicated. 

Jonx' lloDSDEN.  Charleston,  South  Carolina,  April  27,  1741  ;  letter  to 
Mr.  David  Jeffries,  Jr.    Arms,^  greyhound  statant.    Tinctures  not  indicated. 

Robert  Holden,  of  London,  master  of  the  Grat.ville  frigate.  Boston, 
9th  Dec.  1703;  power  of  attorney  to  Benjamin  Davis,  apothecary.  Crqoks 
Island,  7  April,  1704  ;  letter  to  the  same.  The  tirst  has  a  crest,  an  ante- 
lope's head  erase<l  and  collared  ppr.  The  letter  has  a  shield  too  much 
broken  to  be  read.  surm.ounted  by  the  same  crest. 

The   Etiglisu  family  of  Holden,  of  Crutteuden,  bear  this  crest,  and  for 


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arms,  i-.z.  on  a  clievron   or,  between  three  spur-rowels  ar.  five  gutters  sa., 
ill  cliict  :i  c"t?>oeiit  of  the  third. 

Ann  IlLBBAnn.     See  Kay. 

Nathvxikl  IIuhbard,  Jui]l':«^.  of  Admiralty  and  of  the  Supreme  Court. 
Bristol,  July  4,  and  Dec.  11,  1720;  letters  to  "the  lion.  John  JellVies." 
Seal.-d  heart  between  two  branches  in  saltire,  not  on  a  shield. 

Ci.KMKNT  IIlt.iies.  Portsmouth,  May  IH,  17 10,  ami  April  12,  1717; 
letters  ''  to  ^Ir.  John  Je'lries  of  Boston."  Crest,  a  deuii-lion  ram})aut  and 
laoijued. 

Gkorge  Hulk.     See  Greenwood. 

Edwai;d  11  I'LL,  of  London.  London,  Feb.  9  and  ^lay  28,  IGOo  ;  letters 
to  ''the  worship"''  John  Uslier,  Esq.,  at  his  house  in  IJoston."  Arms,  ar.  a 
chevron  erm.  between  three  lions  (or  talbots  ?)  heads  erased.  Crest,  within 
a  wreath  a  lion  (or  ta'bots)  head  erased. 

Edward  Hull,  same  as  the  above.  Loudon,  20th  Aug.  1C08;  letter  to 
same  address  as  above  ;  remarkably  clear  impression.  Anns,  on  a  chevron, 
between  three  deini-lioas  passant  three  bezants,  on  a  chief  two  piles.  Tii.c- 
tiTos  n')t  indicated. 

Tlie  English  family  of  Hull  of  Surrey,  bear,  ar.  on  a  chevron  az.-  be- 
tween lluee  derai-lious  passant  gu.  us  many  bezants  ;  on  a  chief  sa.  two 
piles  of  tlie  first. 

Geougl  Iuwix.  Boston,  17.39  ;  letter  to  David  Jeffries,  Esq.  Crest,  a 
demi-lion  rampant. 

Gkor«e  Jakirky,  of  Portsmouth,  PL  C.  1702,  Speaker  of  the  New 
Hampshire  house.  Councillor,  &c.  &c.  Portsmouth,  Aug.  4,  17^0  ;  letter  to 
his  brother-in-law.  the  Hon.  John  Jeffries  of  Boston.  Hound  seal,  a  demi- 
lion  rampant,  not  on  a  shield  or  wreath. 

Gkorge  Jaffret,  of  Portsmouth,  son  of  the  above.  Councillor  and 
Judge  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  New  Hampshire ;  treasurer  of  Nevf 
Hampshire,  1770.  Portsmouth,  'May  9  and  17,  Sept.  11  and  Dec.  8, 
1749  ;  letters  to  the  Hon.  John  Jeffries  :  and  Aug.  10,  1749,  July  9,  1758, 
and  Feb.  18,  17G2;"letter.s  to  !iis  brother-in-law,  Davi  1  Jetl'ries,  Esq.  Arms, 
paly  of  six  ar.  and  sa.  o\er  all  a  fes.sc  of  the  first  ctu.rged  with  three  mul- 
lets of  the  second.      Crest,  the  sun  rising  through  a  cloud  ppr. 

These  are  the  arms  borne  by  the  JaftVeys  of  Kings  Wells,  Scotland. 
George   Jaffrey,  the  above.     Portsmouth,  March  13,  1753;  letter  to 
David  Jeffiies,  Esq.,  asking  him   to   have   prepared,  for  the  funeral   of  his 
sister,    Mrs.    Samuel   Solly,  eight  ''  scutcheons,"   to    be  of  the  Solly   and 
Jaffrey  arms  impaled. 

This  seal  is  that  of  Solly.     See  that  name. 

George  .Janvrin.  Portsmouth,  April  25,  1754  ;  letter  to  Mr.  David 
Jeffries.     Round  seal,  a  ship  between  two  ca-stles. 

George  Jarvis.  London,  July  18,  1712  ;  letter  to  Mr.  Henry  Sharpe, 
painter  in  lioston.     Round  poorhj  cut  seal,  a  stag  trippant  renverse. 

^  *  David  Jeffries,  merchant  of  Boston,  son  of  David  Jeffries,  of  Castle 
Ci.^een,  Esq.;  came  to  New  England  1677.  Portsmouth,  Sejit.  10,  1718; 
K-rter  to  Mr.  John  Jeffries  of  Boston  :  Portsmouth.  Aug.  20,  171S  ;  contraci 
with  Elihu  Gunnison  to  build  two  ships  :  and  Boston,  March  14,  1092-3; 
letter  to  Lt.-Gov.  Usher.  Arms,  sa.  a  lion  rampant  or,  between  three 
fccaliiig  ladders  of  the  second.  Crest,  a  casde  or,  the  tv/o  end  towers  domH. 
These  are  the  same  arms  as  those  boinc  by  the  family  of  Jvtiries,  of  Llif- 
ton,  Homccastle,  co.  Wore,  England,  and  have  been  described  in  the  He.'-al- 
dic  Journal  from  silver  of  a  much  older  date. 
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62  Seals  from  the  Jeffries  Manuscripts.  [Jon. 

David  Jkffriks.  sima  as  above.  Several  letters  to  Hon.  John  JefTriep, 
with  a  round  seal  showing  a  bird.     See  also  Gkki:\m"OOD. 

David  Jkffries,  son  of  the  above,  II.  C.  170S.  JJo?ton,  Sept.  3,  1711  ; 
letter  to  his  brother,  Mr.  John  .letfrie--;,  racrchaiit  in  London.  Round  s.-'al, 
not  a  coat  of  arms.  Three  lions  couiant  bef.veen  two  boughs,  surrounded 
by  an  illegible  motto. 

David  Jeffries,  sou  of  the  preceding,  II.  C  17.32,  town  treasurer  of 
Boston.  Letter  to  his  mother,  Portsmouth.  July  17,  17-lU.  Anm,  illegi- 
ble.     Crest,  a  castle,  the  two  end  tov/ei's  domed.     Tinctures  not  indicated. 

William:  jKXXixGa,  merchant  of  Loudon.  London,  18  Doc.  1G7-1 ;  letter 
to  John  Cooke  of  Oporto.  Arms,  three  plummets.  Crest,  a  demi-grilnii 
rampant,  holding  in  his  paw  a  plummet.     Tinctures  not  in<licated. 

Jeuning,  Lord  Mayor  of  London,  1508,  and  of  Yorkshire,  bore  ar.  a 
cheveron  gu.  between  three  plunmiets  sa. 

Nathwifl  IvAY.  Newport,  li.  I.,  Feb.  23,  1727;  letter  to  "the  Hon. 
John  JetiVies."  Anns,  two  bendlets,  impaling  erm.  a  chevron.  Crest,  a 
bird.  Tinctures,  except  of  field  of  2d  coat,  not  indicated.  IMrs.  Kay  speaks 
of  iier  brother-  Natluuiiel  Hubbard  (who  was  an  executor  of  her  will  to- 
gether with  John  Jeffries).  It  seems  likely  that  the  second  coat  is  that  of 
Hubbard. 

Several  families  in  Englaiid  of  the  name  of  Kay  bore  ar.  two  bendlets  sa. 
The  Kays  of  Kditli-Weston,  co.  Rutland,  and  Woodsome,  co.  York,  bore 
these  arrus,  and  for  crest  a  goldfinch  ppr. 

DAvid  Law.  New- York,  Jidy  17,  170-i;  letter  to  Benjamin  Davis  of 
Boston.  Bound  seal,  two  hearts  pierced  by  an  arrow  and  surmounted  by 
a  crown. 

JoxATnAX  Leigh,  merchant  of  London.  London,  23d  January,  1712  ; 
quit-claim  to  his  cousin  Da^  id  Jeffries,  Esq.  Arms,  a  lion  rampant.  Crest, 
ademi-liou  rampant.     Tinctures  not  indicated. 

The  family  of  Leigh,  of  West  Leigh,  in  High  Leigh,  co.  Chester,  bore,  or. 
a  lion  rampant  gu.     Crest,  a  demi-lion  rampant  or  holding  a  pennon. 

Jonathan  Leigh,  same  as  the  above.  London,  March  2,  1717  ;  letter 
.to  John  Jetlries,  Esq.     Ruand  seal,  a  lion  rampant. 

*Col.  Charles  Lidget,  of  Boston,  imprisoned  with  Andros.  iMay  12, 
168G;  power  of  attorney  from  John  Usher,  Charles  Lidget  and  Thaddeus 
Mackarty,  to  Jonathan  Tyng  to  receive  laiuis  from  Robert  Tufton  iMason. 
Arms,  ar.  a  fesse  wavy  or,  between  three  estoiles.  Crest,  a  bust  couped  at 
the  shoulders  facing  forward.     See  also  Usher. 

Samuel  Lillie,  merchant  of  Boston.  Obligation  to  David  Jeffries  and 
Charles  Shepreeve,  Boston,  25  Aug.  1709.  Arms,  or,  a  fesse  cotised,  ia 
chief  three  lilies  (?).      Crest,  a  lily  (?) 

Miss  Felicia  MacDonougit,  daughter  of  Thomas  MacDonough,  Esq., 
the  first  British  Consul  at  Boston.  Hingham,  Dec.  1813;  letter  to  Joha 
JeffrieS;  M.D.     Seal,  a  bust  of  her  father  in  official  uniform. 

Thaddeus  Mackarty,  Artill.  Co.  1G81  ;  tlied  1705.  Power  of  attorney, 
&c.  See  Lidget.  Arms,  ar.  a  buck  trippant.  Crest,  an  arm  erect  o-rasp- 
ing  a  sword  impaling  a  li.^.ard. 

McCarthy,  Earl  of  Clancarty,  bears  ar.  a  buck  trippant  gu.  attired  or. 
Crest,  an  arm  embowed  grasping  a  lizard. 

Capt.  McGill.  At  sta  21st\Ju!y,  1712,  lat.  2G^  30";  letter-  to  Messrs. 
Jeffries  <Sc  Shepreeve.  Seal,  an  Indian  full  hnigth,  in  dexter  baud  a  bow, 
in  sinister  hand  an  arrow.      Very  like  the  Colonial  seal. 

John  McKetchnie.     Bowdoinham,  March  24,  1767;  letter  to   David 


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1877.]  Seals  from  the  Jeffries  Manuscripts.      •.  63 

.l.fTries,  Esq.     Arms,   a  pale  between   two  lions  rampant.     Au"-.  4   1702- 
letter  to  same  address.      Crest,  a  stork  stalant.  °     '         " ' 

I\lARsrON  of  Memmelhem.^ted.  On  an  old  piece  of  paper  a  drawino-  of 
the  arms  and  crest,  and  below  it,  in  the  handwriting,'  of  David  Jeffries,  K.-q., 
•' Marston  of  Ilemmelherasted  in  the  County  oV  Hertford,  A".  iG."J'J." 
Arms,  az.  a  ehevron  eml)attled  or,  between  tliVee  lions'  head's  era^:ed  and 
crowiiod  or.  Crest,  a  lion's  head  erased,  per  chevron  az.  and  or,  crowucd 
and  hmgued  ^u. 

Patuick  Martin,  notary  public.  Charleston,  S.  C.  June  2,  1711;  act 
of  protest.  Arms,  a  chevron  between  two  tleurs-de-lis,  in  chief  a  crescent. 
Cnst,  a  bird  risiii;^  to  fly.     Tinctures  not  imiicated. 

Alkxanukk  Maynaru.  Avierro,  Feb.  10,  1G74  ;  letter  to  John  Cooke 
of  Oj)orto.  jirms,  three  sinister  hands  conped  at  the  wrist,  in  chief  a  cres- 
cent for  difference.  Tinctures  not  indicated.  Maynard  of  Brixden,  co. 
I)t;vou,  bore,  ar.  three  sinister  hands  conped  at  the  wrist  gu. 

George  Mayxard.  Lix%  March  25  and  Nov.  11,  1673,  and  Jan.  10, 
1674;  letters  to  John  Cooke  of  Oporto,  -l/'w^,  a  clievron  between  three 
sniister  hands  conped  at  the  wrist.  Crost,  a  stag  statant.  Tinctures  not 
indicated.  A  letter,  dated  "  Lixbon,  12'^  8ber,  r675,"  has  three  impres- 
sions from  different  seals,  one  of  which  shows  the  chevrons  to  be  or. 
_  Maynard.  Viscount  Maynard  bears,  ar.  a  chevron  az.  between  three 
sinister  hands  couped  at  the  wrist  gu.      Crest,  a  stag  statant  or. 

Maynard.    Exon,  13  June,  1 G78  ;  letter  to  John  Cooke  of  Oporto. 

Ihe  signature  oi  this  letter  is  eaten  off,  but  the  arms, prove  it  to  be  from 
some  member  of  the  Maynard  family.  8ee  above.  Arms,  three  sin^st-r 
hands  couped  at  the  wrist.  Crest,  a  stag  statant.  Tinctures  not  indicated, 
ilaiiilwriting  different  from  either  G.  or  A.  Maynard. 

Walter  Mico.  London,  March  5,  1680;  letter  to  Isaac  Wuldron  of 
hoston.  Arms,  three  Moors'  heads  couped,  sidelaced.  Crest,  an  arm  couped 
holding  a  sword.     Tinctures  not  indicated. 

Mico  of  London,  according  to  liurke,  bore  arms,  or,  three  Moors'  heads 
couppd  sidefaced  sa.  lilleted  round  the  temple  ar.      Cr?s/,  a  hand  issuing  out 
ot_  the  clouds,  holding  a  sword  ppr.  hilt  and  pommel  o- ,  charged  on  the  biade 
with  a  Moor's  head  ppr.  the  j)oint  embrued  of  the  last. 
Patrick  Miln.     8ee  Walter  Chapman. 

Patrick  Miln.  Kingston,  Jamaica,  June  4,  1707,  and  Feb.  3,  1706-7 ; 
Jetters  to  Thomas  Clarke,  merchant  of  Boston ;  signed  by  both  Miln  and 
Chapman.  Arms,  or,  a  cross  molines  between  three  mullets.  Crest,  an 
escallop.     Tinctures  of  charges  not  indicated. 

IMilue  of  Scotland  bears,  or,  a  cross  molines  az.  pierced  of  the  field,  be- 
tween three  mullets  sa. 

John  Moore,  Jr.     See  Barberie.  i  >.:K  . .,  x        , 

7  i"-'^^^"^'  ™^rchaut  at  Lisbon.    July  3,  1708  ;  invoice  of  goods  to  David 
Je.tnes,  Esq.      Crest,  a  bull  passant  guardant. 

Samuel  MuNCKLEY.  Exon,  Oct^^i)  and  Dec.  9,  1711  ;  letter  to  Messrs. 
Xj'aM.i  JetFrie^  and  Charles  Shepreeve.  Merchanfs  mark,  on  a  shitld  au 
t.-n'^aued  tigure  4  with  a  six  pointed  star  at  end  of  cross-bar,  betweea 
tbe_  letters  8  and  M,  in  base  a  fret. 

Thomas  Ni:\vT0N,  Attorney  General  at  the  witchcraft  prosecutions, 
-  u.ge  ot  the  Admiralty,  Secretary  of  N.  Hampshire,  >kc.  Boston,  Jan.  28, 
^  >^J  ;  letter  to  the  Hon.  John  Usher,  Esq. ;  shield   badly   broken.      Crest, 

^\  arm  vambraced  and  embowed,  grasping  a ?   [It  is  hard  to  say  what 

~i.»  was  meant  for ;  perhaps  a  wand,  or  perhaps  a  shin-bone.J 


64:'       ^  Seal f)  from  the  Jeffries  Manui^cripts.  [Jan. 

Kewton,  of  Newcastle-on-lVne,  England,  bears,  two  shin-hones  in  saltire. 
Crest,  \xn  arm  vainhraced  and  etnhowcd,  grusjiing  a  shin-bone. 

Bixcnr.R  ^s'()VKS,  ?on  of  the  lion.  Oliver  Noyes  by  his  1st  wife  Ann 
Belcher-  Chowan,  N.  Carolina,  Feb.  19,  173^.  »9ea/,  very  good  impression 
of  an  antique  male  head. 

Catukkixk  Noyks,  daughter  of  John  Eyre  and  widow  of  David  JcfTrios, 
2Q  wife  of  Oliver  Noyes.  July,  1722;  obligation  in  relation  to  the  AValdrou 
mortgage  to  David  Jeilries.  Round  seal,  Cupid  holding  a  bow  in  his  left 
hand. 

Oliver  Noyks,  son  of  the  above.  Loridon,  March  12,  174G;  letter  to 
Catherine  Noyes.      Crest,  a  holy  lamb  tri[)paiit. 

William  Pi:;xxY,  merchant.  Exon,  JuiiC  G,  1078;  letter  to  John  Cooke 
of  Oporto.     Round  seal,  a  phoenix. 

Kathamkl  Pierce.  Portsmouth,  ISIay  8,  1752,  Sept.  .5, 1751,  and  Feb. 
15,  1750.  Letters  to  bis  brother-in-law,  David  Jeffries,  Esq.  Anns,  an 
eagle  displayed.     Tinctures  not  indicated. 

Major  IciiABOD  Plaisted,  one  of  t!ie  Council  of  Mass.  July  21,  ^710; 
Lin.  Dec.  1712,  and  Sept.  28,  1711 ;  Portsmouch,  Nov.  18,  1708,  and  April, 
1713,  and  Barwick,  Nov.  26,  1713  ;  letters  to  Messrs.  David  Jeffries  &  Co. 
Arms,  a  cro>s  between  four  garbes.     Tinctures  not  indicated. 

IciiABOD  Plaisted,  same  as  al)ove.  Dec.  6,  170G;  letter  to  Messrs. 
David  Jeffries  &  Co.  Seal,  a  bird  statant  renverse.  There  are  several 
letters  with  this  seal. 

ICHABOD  Plaisted,  same  as  above.  Portsmouth,  July  20,  1711  ;  letter 
to  Messrs.  David  Jetiries  and  Charles  Shepreeve.  Seed,  Cupid  standing 
before  an  altar  on  which  three  hearts  are  burning,  in  sinister  hand  a  bow, 
in  dexter  upraised  hand  a  heart  burning;  motto,  "  Un  me  sutit." 

John  Plaisted,  Speaker  of  N.  H.  House,  1G95;  Judge  Supreme 
Court,  1G99;  Chief  Justice,  1716;  Portsmouth,  Sept.  28,  1721,  and  f.ame 
date  1722;  letters  to  Messrs.  John  and  David  .Jeffries.  Arms,  erm.  three 
elephants'  heads  erased,  ar.      Crest,  an  elephant's  head  erased,  ar. 

Mary  Plaisted,  wife  of  the  alcove.  Portsmouti,  Nov.  9,  171G  ;  letter  to 
Messrs.  Jeffries  and  Shepreeve.     S:nl,  a  lion  passai  t  renverse. 

Ca[)t.  John  Polnoe.     Lix*.   12th  3Iay,  1712;  letter  to  Messrs.  David 

Jeffries  &;  Co.     Arms,  a ?  over  all  an  inescutcheon  charged  with  five 

shields  in  cross.  Tinctures  not  indicated.  [The  first  charge  is  composed 
of  four  bars  arranged  in  a  square,  the  ends  overlapping.] 

AVilliam  Redford.  Portsmouth,  Sept.  3  and  Oct.  8.  aud  Newcastle, 
Nov.  19,  1694;  letters  to  Governor  Usher.  Arms,  three  bars  and  a  canton. 
Crest,  out  of  a  coronet  a  lion's  head  erased  and  langued.  Tinctures  not 
indicated. 

Sir  John  Rogers,  Bart.  Plymouth,  Eng.,  Jan.7,  1690  ;  letter  to  David 
Jeffries,  Esq.,  announcing  his  elevation  to  a  baronetcy.  Arms,  a  c'nevroa 
between  three  bucks  couraut.  Crest,  a  buck  courant.  Tinctures  not 
indicated. 

Burke  gives  as  his  arms,  ar.  a  chevron  gu.  between  three  bucks  courant  sa. 
attire<l  and  gorged  with  ducal  coronets  or.     Crest,  a  buck  courant  sa. 

*Gurdon  Saltonstall.  Governor  of  Conn.,  1707-2  1.  New  London, 
June  1  and  7,  1G99,  and  July  13  and  vSept.  1700^  letters  to  BenJ.  Davis. 
Arms,  a  bend  between  two  eagles  di'^played.  Crest,  a  pelican's  head 
Yulniug  its  breast.     Tinctures  not  indicated.  •> 

Burke  gives  as  the  arms:  or,  a  bend  between  two  eagles  displayed  sa. 
Crest,  as  above,  azure. 


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1S77.]  St'ixls  from  the  Jt^ffries  Manuscri'pts.  65 

Thomas  Sandford.     London,  Feb.  14  and  March  5,  172J;  letters  to    '• 
3Ii-.  Tlio:nas  Clarke.     Arms,  per  chevron  :ir.  and  crm.,  in  chief  two  boars' 
he.'ids  coujied.      Crest,  a  boar's  head  coupcd. 

Burke  gives  as  the  arms  of  Sandford:  per  chevron  sa.  and  erm.,  in  cliief 
two  boars'  heads  couped  or.     Crest,  a  boar's  head  couped  or. 

IIicNUY  SiiAUPK,  painter,  of  Boston.  ]7Io  ;  bond  to  Davi.l  JefTVies,  Esq., 
signed  hy  Jobn  Brand  and  Henry  Sharpe.  Two  irupressious  of  a  round 
seal,  an  antique  hehneted  head. 

Col.  Samuf.l  SiiRi^iPTOX,  one  of  tlie  Council  of  Safety,  IGSH  ;  power  of 
attorney  to  Jonathan  Tyng  [see  Dudley].     Seal,  an  antique  male  hiad. 

English  Smith.  Nov.  8,  1G84;  letter  to  Governor  Usher.  Arms, 
quarterly,  1st  and  2d,  a  chevron  between  three  torteaux ;  3d,  an  estoile ; 
4:li.  a  lion  ranqiant.  Crest,  between  the  horns  of  a  crescent,  a  torteaux. 
Tinctures  not  indicated. 

Rev.  Jons  Smith.  New  Yoik.  Feb.  14  and  Aug.  G.  1728 ;  letters  to  jlra. 
Noyes.  Airrns,  ar.  three  cpears  in  pale  (sa.  ?),  a  chief  chequy  ar.  and  (sa.  ?). 
Crest,  a  sea.  lion  passant. 

Richard  Smith,  a  member  of  Andres's  Council.  Rochester,  18th  Feb. 
1C8|;  letter  to  Lt.  Governor  Ifsher.  Arms,  a  chevron  between  three 
leopards'  faces.  Tinctures  liot  indicated  clearly,  but  the  chevron  looks  as 
if  it  might  be  or. 

Samuel  Solly,  Councillor  of  New  Hampshire.  Sandwich,  INlarch  17, 
1752,  and  London,  April  18,  1751  ;  letters  to  David  Jet^ries,  Es([.,  the 
latter  speaking  of  buying  him  a  portrait  of  his  gt.  gr.  father  David  JeftVie.s, 
E>q.,  father  of  David  .JetFries,  whose  seal  we  have  al)ove.  See  also  George 
Jail'rey.  Arms,  vert  a  chevron  or,  between  three  sole  fish  aneant.  of  the 
second.      Crest,  a  sole  fish  aneant. 

Sole  of  Bo1)bing  Place,  co.  Kent,  bore,  ar.  a  chevron  gu.,  between  three 
sole  fish  hauriant,  within  a  bordure  engrailed,  gu. 

_S.  Starkey.     Nov.  15,  1G95,  and  three  letters  in  1696  ;  letters  to  Colonel     - 
Lidget.     Arms,  a  stork  statant.      Crest,  a  stork's  head  erased,  holding  in  the 
beak  a  snake.     Tinctures  not  indicated. 

The  I  iiglish  family  of  the  name  bear,  ar.  a  stork,  sa.  membered  gn. 
Crest,  a  stork's  head  erased,  per  pale  ar.  and  sa.,  holding  in  the  beak  gu.  a 
snake  vert. 

William  Stoxesbuie.  London,  March  9,  1678;  quitclaim  to  Isaac 
'\^  aldron.     Round  seal,  a  lamb  with  a  cross  over  its  shoulder. 

IIiLLARY  STitiXGER',  "  Dep^  Comp""  and  Survev""  of  his  May'^'  Customs  " 
in  Virginia.  March  29,  1G87  ;  letter  to  the  Hon."  John  Usher,  Esq.  Seal, 
a  har[). 

Hillary  Stringer,  same  as  the  above.  April  10,  1676;  letter  to 
■Sir.  John  Usher.     Seal,  a  peculiar  crustacean-like  animal. 

Taylor.     See  Chauncy. 

*  Temple.     Boston,  April  4,  1710;  Clearance  papers  of  the  Brigantine 
rear!,   written  in  Latin;    signed  by    "David   Jeffries,    D.    CollectV    and      ■" 
S'al-jd  with  wjiat  he  calls  his  official  seal ;  but  the  arms  are  really  tho.«e  of 
Aeiiiple.     jirms,  two  bars,  each  charged  with  three  martlets.      Crest,  on  a 
Qiical  coronet  a  martlet.     Tinctures  not  indicated. 

1  h^;  full  blazon  of  the  arm  is  "  ar.  two  bars  sa..  each  charged  with  three 
°''!''i'rV'^  ^'''      ^'f'^sf^  on  a  ducal  coronet  a  martlet  or. 

r.  TiiACHER.  Oporto,  May  13,  1712;  letter  to  Messrs.  David  Jeffriea 
*  <-'o.     Se<d,  a  doublc-he;ided "eagle  displayed. 

A .'.Tiit.n  Thayer.  Dorchester,  Feb.  9,  1791;  letter  to  John  Jeffriea, 
-l.D.     Arnis^  a  chevron  betweeu  three    ravens,  impaling  a  lion  rampant 


III! 


66  Seals  from  the  Jeffries  Manuscripts.  [Jan. 

reuverse.      Crest,  a  martlet  holding  in  its  beak  a  rose.     Tinctures   not  in- 
dicated. 

Charlf.s  TnuBSnAAV.  4th  :May,  K,08 ;  letter  to  "Mr.  David  J'^frorys." 
Arms,  quarterly,  1st  and  4th  three  mullets,  2d  and  3d  plain  field.  Tinctures 
not  indicated. 

Pkudknce  and  RiciiAni)  Turner.  Exon,  Nov.  10,  1711  ;  letter  to 
Messrs.  David  Jetfries  and  Charles  Shepreeve.  Arms,  a  chevron  ermine 
between  three  (?),  on  a  chief  a  lion  passant.  Crest,  a  grillin  passant. 
Tinctures,  except  of  chevron,  not  indicated. 

Jonathan'  Tyng.     See  Wanalansett. 

Unknown.  On  the  covering  of  a  missing  letter,  directed  to  "The  Hon. 
John  JeftYies,  Esq."      Crest,  a  grifliu's  head  erased  and  langued. 

Unknown.  London,  Aug.  6,  16 —  [Signature  and  rest  of  date  eaten 
off]  ;  letter  to  Mr.  John  Usher.  Anns,  too  much  broken  to  be  read.  Crest, 
a.  demi-griffin  rampant. 

Rev.  John  Ushi:r.  Letter  to  John  Jeffries,  Esq.  Bristol,  2  Nov.  1733. 
Seal,  a  crown  over  a  rose  and  thistle. 

*CoI.  John  Usher,  Member  of  Andros  Council ;  Treasurer,  tfcc,  of  N. 
Eng.  IGS6;  Lt.  Governor  of  New  Hampshire,  1G92-7  and  17U4-15;  Artill. 
Co.  1G73;  Representative,  1G72  ;  Col.  of  the  Boston  Regiment,  &:c.  ic. 
April  26,  1723  ;  letter  to  his  son-indaw  David  Jeffries,  Esq.  Anns,  ar. 
three  lions'  jarabes  sa.      Crest,  a  lion's  jambe  sa.  holding  a  wand  ar. 

These  are  the  arms  of  Usher  of  Fetherston,  co.  York. 

Col.  John  Usher,  same  as  the  above.  Power  of  attorney  to  Jonathan 
Tyng  (see  Lidget). 

Here  Col.  Usher  used  the  Lidget  arms,  as  already  described,  but  from  a 
different  seal  from  that  used  by  his  brother-in-law  Col.  Lidget. 

*Margaret  Vassall,  daughter  of  William  Vassall  of  Boston,  E.-q. 
Bristol,  Eng.,  Jan.  23,  1786;  letter  to  John  Jeffries,  M.D.  Arms,  azure, 
in  chief  a  sun,  in  base  a  chalice  or.  Crest,  a  vessel  masted,  rigged  and 
flagged  ppr. 

These  are  the  well  known  arms  of  the  Vassalls  of  New  England,  and 
through  them  of  the  present  family  in  England. 

Richard  Waldron,  Representative  in  Boston,  1691  and  2;  of  the 
Royal  Council  of  N.  PL  16'Jl;  IMilitia  Officer  and  Judge.  Portsmouth, 
16th  May,  1687;  letter  "To  the  Hon.  John  Usher,  Esq."  Arms,  ihiQQ 
bulls'  heads  cabossed.     Tinctures  not  indicated. 

Wanalansett,  "  Sachem  of  the  Merrimack  Indians  ;  son  and  heir  of 
old  Passaconaway,  Chief  Sachem  of  the  Merrimack  Indians,  &c." 

Oct.  10,  1685;  two  deeds  of  land  to  Jonathan  Tyng.  Against  his  marks 
are  seals  showing  a  martlet,  probably  the  Tyng  crest. 

Samuel  Wentworth,  merchant  of  Portsmouth.  Portsmouth,  1757; 
letter  to  his  cousin  David  Jeffries,  Esq.  Arms,  a  chevron  between  three 
leopards'  faces.      Crest,  a  grithn  passant.     Tinctures  not  indicated. 

The  Wentwcrths  of  N.  England,  as  well  as  the  Wentworths  Earls  of 
Strafford,  the  Wentworths  of  Wentworth  Woodhouse,  &c.,  bore  sa.  a  chevron 
between  three  leopards'  faces  or.      Crest,  a  grithn  passant  or. 

R.  West.  London,  Aug.  22,  1694;  letter  to  Col.  Lidget.  Arms,  a 
fesse  dancettee. 

The  Wests.  Earls  De  la  Warr,  bore  ar.  a  fes-^e  il<xncettee  sa. 

Stephen  Wksendonek.  London,  loth  March,  1694;  letter  to  Lt. 
Gov.  Usher.     Seal,  an  antique  male  head. 

Richard  Wharton.  Power  of  attorney,  &c.  [See  Dudley.]  Arms, 
a  mauuch.     Crest,  a  bull's  head  couped.     Tinctures  not  indicated. 


S     -  ■  i^ 


.ii'l' 


1S77.]  Do(n'vicnts  from  the  Gerrish  3Ianuscripts.  67 

Tlio  English  families  of  the  name  bear  the  same  cliarge,  but  vary  the 
linctiires;  tlie  Whtirtous  of  Cumberland  bear  sa.  a  mauuch  sr.  Crest,  a 
b^l!^^<  head  erased  sa,  armed  or. 

]].  ^V'ILL1AMS,  merchant  of  London.  London,  1st  January,  1C89  ;  letter 
to  David  JetlVies,  Esq.  Adjis,  Barry  of  twelve,  on  a  chief  three  lions  ram- 
pant. Tinctures  not  indicated.  Another  letter  without  date  from  the  same 
person  hy  Col.  Lidget  has  for  seal  a  monogram  surrounded  by  a  circular 
wreath  of  flowers. 

Thomas  'Widird  (?)  From  a  fragjment  of  an  acf^ount  of  the  "Pinko 
Mary,  Thos,  "Wibird,  Master,  1707."  Arms,  on  a  field  a  cross  fretty. 
Tinctures  not  indicated. 


DOCUMENTS   FROM  THE  GERRISH  MANUSCRIPTS. 

CorDmnnicated  by  Mrs.  Isabella  Jamks,  of  Cambridge. 
[Contianed  from  vol.  xxx.  page  82.] 

IT. — Pakdox  by  Gov.  Cranfif.ld. 

The  Gerrish  MSS.  contriin  the  original  of  the  following  document,  with 
the  autograph  of  the  notorious  Gov.  Cranfield.  It  is  interesting  as  a  relic 
of  Gove's  insurrection  in  1G83.  See  Belknap's  History  of  New-Hampshire, 
vol.  i.  pp.  157  and  153.  The  name  is  there  printed  Heiy;  iu  the  original  it 
IS  twice  written  Iloly.^ 
New  Hampshire  in  ) 

New  England      j  By  the  Govern' 

Whereas  His  Most  Excel'.  Ma'^  our  Sover°  Lord  Charles  y*  Second 
King  of  EngH  Scott"^  ffrance  &.  Irel^  Defend'  of  y*  ffuith  &c.  Hath  by 
His  Royal  Commission  under  the  Great  Seal  of  P^ngland  bearing  date  y' 
O"-  of  May  in  y'  34"^  yeaj^  of  IlTs  Ma''.  Raign  among 
Edw.  Craufield.  other  things  required  &  cofnanded  me  Edward  Cransfield 
Esq''.  His  Ma"  Lieuten'.  Govern^  and  Cornand',  in 
chief  of  this  Province  to  do  &  execute  all  things  in  due  manner  that  shall 
belong  to  Aiy  Coniand  &  tlie  Trust  by  his  Ma'^.  reposed  in  me  according  to 
such  further  Powers  &  Instructions  as  shall  at  any  time  thereafter  be 
granted  &  appointed  me  under  His  Ma".  Signet  &  Sign  manual  :  And 
wiiereas  by  His  Ma"  Royal  Instructions  signihed  in  His  Ma"  Letter  bear- 
ing (lute  y«  tlburth  day  of  Seteml/  last  I  am  impowered  to  pardon  and  re- 
nut  to  such  persons  as  at  a  Court  held  by  special  Coiniss".  of  Oyer  &  ter- 
niiner  for  the  Trial  of  Edward  Gove  &  them  were  convicted  of  Treason  as 
Conspirators  with  the  sd  Gove  or  so  many  of  them  as  I  shal  see  cause.  All 
the-r  b**  Crimes  &  offences  of  Treason  &  conspiracies  &  all  penalties  &  for- 
leitures  tliereby  incurred  with  such  conditions  &  limitations  or  as  amply  & 
f'-dly  as  to  me  shal  seem  meet.  I  therefore  the  s*^  Edward  Crantiehi  in 
pursuance  of  die  said  Royal  Cofnissiou  &  Instructions,  Do  hereby  pardon 
A:^  remit  to  "William  Holy  of  Hampto.i  in  y^  sd.  Province  Labourer.^Ono 
of  the  porsop.s  convict  of  Treason  at  the  sd. "Court  held  by  special  Co^niss^ 
ot  Oyer  d-  terminer  viz  :  the  tiirst  day  of  ff«br».  last  pas't  in  y*  year  of  y* 
i^ird  lCo2,  All  his  s*^  crimes  &  offences  of  Treason  &  Const)iracy.  &  all 
m.itit:r  of  Trea.sons  &  Conspiracies,  &  all  penalties  &  forfeitures  for  tiic-  same. 
Given  under  my  hand  6c  the  Seal  of  y"  Province  y'  Eighth  day  of  ticbr. 
imX  To  Will  Holy  of 

J    ^  Hampton  Labour. 

B*i^.-  ■'  "'J^-J  '"-!Ve  T13  a  cony  of  this  docu.ment  by  another  correspondent,  who  reads  the 
'«^<-.  m  ixith  mataates,  Heij/.—Ev. 


.,,  .,f.,4.i  >  .  ■iK-I 


GS  Pembroke  Marriages.  [Jan. 


MAimiAGES  SOLE^[NIZED  IN  rE:vrBROKE,  r^IASS., 
iiY  THE  ilEV.  TilOALVS  SMITH,  1755-1767. 

Commuuiciited  by  H.  H.  Eots,  Esq.,  of  Boston,  Ma^s. 

THE  following  list  is  thought  to  contain  a  complete  record  of  nil 
the  marriages  solemnized  by  the  liuv.  Thoma^;  Smitli  during 
Lis  ministry  in  Pembroke.  It  Avas  eo[)ied  by  me  froni  what  ap- 
peared to  have  been  Mr.  Smith's  original  minutes,  ke|)t  in  a  b(jok  of 
accounts,  etiU  in  the  possession  of  his  descendants,  where  I  discov- 
ered them  by  accident  during  a  visit  to  the  present  owner. of  the 
volume.  From  these  minutes  returns  were  made  in  due  form  to  the 
town  clerk,  at  proper  intervals,  as  indicated  in  the  following  pages, 
which  are  as  near  ufac-swiile  of  the  original  record  as  modera  tyj^c 
can  make  them.  Tlie  manuscript  was  in  some  places  ne;irly  illegi- 
ble by  reason  of  the  fading  of  the  ink,  and  of  the  careless  manner 
in  which  these  minutca  were  jotted  down.  Several  entries  about 
which  a  doubt  existed  as  to  my  own  rendering,  were  drawn  off  and 
sent  to  Mr.  George  II.  Ryder,  the  present  town  clerk  of  Pembroke, 
with  a  request  that  he  would  verify  or  correct  my  transcript  by  the 
town  books.  To  this  request  a  most  courteous  reply  was  returned, 
which  enables  me  to  present  in  print  an  accurate  copy  of  the  entire 
manuscript  by  which  the  proof  has  been  corrected. 

The  Pev.  Thomas  Smith,  whom  the  biographical  dictionaries 
dismiss  with  a  few  lines  when  mentionins'-  him  at  all,  was  a  niriu  of 
note  in  his  day  and  generation,  and  sprang  from  an  honored  ances- 
try ;  while  the  family  into  which  ho  liiarried  was  of  even  more  dis- 
tinguished extraction.  His  emigrant  ancesto?  was  the  Pev.  Joiln' 
Smith/  who  was  early  located  in  Barnstable,  where,  in  l'i43  lie 
married  Susannah  Hinckley^  a  sister  of  Gov.  Thomas  Hincklov, 
joined  the  church  Oct.  13,  11)44,  and  still  later  was  settled  over  trie 
parish  as  its  pastor;  but  "being  dl.-liked  "  by  his  gubernatorial  bro- 
ther-in-law,— so  the  record  reads, — he  withdrew  to  Long  Island, 
thence  to  Xew  Jersey,  and  finally  returned  to  the  Old  Colony,  suc- 
ceeding, in  lG5y,  the  Pev.  William  Leverich  in  the  Sandwich  pulpit. 
Plis  ministry  was  harassed  by  dissensions  and  party  strife,  and  he 
laid  down  his  charge  in  lt)8fc',  at  the  age  of  seventy-four,  after  a 
eervice  of  thirty  yearo.* 

'  Br  a  tlepo^it'on  of  i;is.  tuk^n  m  rlip  Pottl?mrrt  of  some  proli.-ite  inattrrs,  qt;otod  in 
Frcciii  i.i'.<  Ilisto'y  of  Ciij:'^  C-jJ  (ii.  8Q),  it  .-in'jr.irs  tli-Lt  he  was  son  of  TI)om;is  .Stcu!;,  of 
Brin?|urt;'.e  (a  pii'.-'rt  I  f.iW  to  Pi-.-atc  npon  any  map  at  ;ny  euuiiiiand),'  suiii  to  be  about  iive 
miles  from  Dorchester,  in  DiHfJCt>inre;  was  now,  "  Eebniarv  H,  IfiU,  in  Barnstaltic  *  *  * 
Oiily  son  and  lifir,  snn|jo>o!li  liw  ajc  about  o7  it  bt;in^  next  M.iy,  '21  vtars  ^Ince  fie  <j:-.ine 
oat  of  Fn.L;!;i!id,"  a.'id  TIki:  ho  h.id  sisters  [-Ij.un;di  ;iri  i  'l'ii!yi<c>r;  th-jTi  liviii-i;  ir,  Eniriand. 
It  would  seem,  therefore,  tJiac  nc  waa  burn  in  or  aboui  loll,  and  came  to  New  En^jl^iiid  iu 
1650. 

*  Viuc  Freeman's  History  of  Cape  Cod,  i.  SO. 

•  Ariiims's  •'  Infier  Viilarij  "  (crl.  hlSO)  gives  Brinspudtl  ir.  Dcpoptsh're.  T  a'.  riO=4'J',  T.ong.  2°  CO' 
W.,  probably  ihe  place  uow  cajied  Bryaufa  riilulCj'a  t>  thing  in  Lii<;  pariaa  of  Alf  riddlt-.— Lu. 


J  (il 


1877.] 


Peinhrolce  Marriages. 


69 


Mr.  SFjith  wr.s  the  fatl.or  of  tliirteeu  children,  the  last  of  \vho:n 
vvari  JosErii  Smith,  vc\w  wd<  born  December  G,  IGGT.  He  lived  at 
Barnfitable,  -.vhcre,  April  29,  Ib'SO,  lie  married  Anna  Fuller,  who 
died  July  2,  1722.  By  her  he  had  fourteen  children' — among  wliorn 
was  Thomas,  the  minister  at  Pembroke — and  died  ]\Iarch  4,'\74b. 

ThcKev.  Thomas  S.mith  was  born  in  Barnstable,  Feb.  6,  170*^-.}), 
and  graduated  at  Ilanard  College  in  1725.  In  1729  he  succeeded 
the  Rev.  Daniel  Greenleaf  as  pastor  of  the  church  in  Yarmouth, 
where  he  labored  for  twenty-five  years.  In  175J-  he  requested  a 
dismission,  "  leaving  for  lack  of  competent  support,"  and  accented 
a  call  to  Pembroke,  where  he  was  installed  ns  the  successor  o/the 
Eev.  Daniel  Lewis,'  Dec.  4,  1754.  His  ministry  continued  thirty- 
four  years,  during  which  time  the  meeting-house  was  enlarired. 
He  preached  until  his  sight  failed,  and  died  July  7,  178S,  in^the 
eighty-third  year  of  his  age.  The  liev.  :\Iorri]l  Allen,  latelv  de- 
ceased, one  of  his  successors  in  the  Pembroke  pulpiu,  speaks  of  him 
as  a  hne  scholar,  and  the  most  distinguished  man  Avho  had  ever  been 
settled  in  the  to\\n. 

Mr.  Smith  was  married  Aug.  28,  1734,   to  Judith  Miller,  v^'ho 
was  born  Aug.  23,  1716.     She  brought  liim  these  twelve  children 
and  died  July  31,  1785. 

i.  Mary, 
ii.  Josiah, 
iii.  Joseph, 
)        iv.  Thomas,' ' 
v.  Joshua, 
vi.  Nathaniel, 
vii.  Judith, 
viii.   Thankful, 
ix    Nathaniel, 
X.  Edward, 
xi.  Catharine, 
xii.  Christopher,  " 

The  Rev.  John  Miller,  who  was  early  of  Roxbury,  and  by  some 
writers  is  thought  to  have  betn  of  Dorchester  likewise,  came  to  ^evr 
Fngland  in  1G34,  bringing  his  wife  Lydia  and  son  John.  He  was 
bred  at  Gonville  and  Caius  College,  Cambridge,  where  he  took  his 
A.B.  in  1627,  and  in  the  Magnalia  is  included  by  ]Mather  in  his 
^/rs;  chassis. "  While  in  Roxbury  he  was  an  elder  of  Eliot's  ch.urch. 
^^rom  1639  to  1641,  he  was  an  "assistant"  to  the  Rev.  Ezekicl 
i^ogers,  at  Rowley,  where  he  also  filled  the  office  of  town  clerk.  In 
tlic  latter  year  he  received  and  declined  a  call  to  the  Woburn  church, 
and  in  1642,  on  account  of  his  health,  declined  a  mission  to  Virginia, 

I  ^J^"  "'»^^.  ^ol.  iii.  27.5. 
ffim!  /  ^'"'f  ^"  present  to  oar  nridarp,  fn  the  April  number,  a  tran?,-rirtof  Mr.  L<'^i='<!  ori- 
«^i  h'/m^     °"  '1'^™'^"'°"'  ^o  itie  Pembroke  church  iVotn  its  foundation  in  17!2,  to  the  c'.o^e 
'"  -"'"'""■y  la  17j3,  together  with  other  interesting  items  reluiins  to  the  church.— Eo. 
fOL.  S.XXI.  7 


bora  May 

18,  1735, 

in  Yartfiouth. 

"     Feb. 

26,  1738, 

(< 

"     Nov. 

22,  1740, 

(( 

"     July 

24,  1742, 

M 

"     July 

27,  1744, 

ii 

"     May 

29,  1746, 

( 

"     Nov. 

4,  1747, 

ii 

'•'     Feb. 

26,  1749, 

ii 

"     Feb. 

16,  17o2, 

« 

"     IVIay 

16,  1754, 

ii 

"     ]March 

21,  1756, 

in  Pembroke. 

,  "     Dec. 

22,  1757, 

" 

d.  Dec.  26,  I74G. 


■M./v 


70  JPembroke  Marriages.  [Jan. 

on  -which  it  was  proposed  to  associate  Avitli  Iiiiu  tlie  Kev.  George 
Phillips,  of"  Watertown,  and  the  Kev.  William  U'hoinpson,  of  Brain- 
tree.  The  same  year  he  was  a  grantee  of  Newbury.  Johnson, 
in  his  Wonder- Working  1^-ovidencc,  says  tiiat  he  remained  in  Row- 
ley till  called  to  Yarmouth,  whither  he  went  about  llMG,  as  the 
successor  of  the  famous  jVIarmaduke  Matthews.  After  the  death 
of  his  wife,  which  occurred  in  Boijton,  Aug.  7,  1C58,'  he  seems 
to  have  preached  "M'here  any  temporary  want  existed,"  nntil  about 
the  time  of  the  settlement  of  Groton,  whither  he  appears  to  have 
gone  with  the  first  settlers  of  the  town,  or  to  have  ftjllov/ed  them 
immediately,  for  a  vote  of  the  inhabitants,  passed  March  18, 
1602-3,  requested  the  Rev.  John  Miller  "to  continue  with  them," 
if  he  was  "moved"  to  do  so;  while  by  another  vote  of  the  same 
date,  lands  were  assigned  to  him.  His  ministry  in  Grotor.  was  short,'^ 
as  he  died  June  12,  1003,  and  was  succeeded  by  the  Rev.  Samuel 
"Willard,  who  was  ordained  July  13,  1064.  He  is  said  to  have  been 
a  man  of  high  literary  attainments. 

Mr.  i\Iillpr  Inid  several  children  born  at  different  places  ;  but  it 
"is  his  eon  Joiix  Milleii,  horn  in  England,  in  ]\Iarch,  1031-2,  in 
whom  v.-e  are  most  interested.  On  the  24th  of  December,  1059, 
he  was  married  to  Margaret  Winslow,  daughter  of  the  first  eTosiali 
Winslow,  and  niece  of  Gov.  Edward  A\'inslow,  v.ho  v/as  born  July 
16,  1640.  He  settled  in  Yarmouth,  where  he  filled  various  ofifices  of 
trust,  and  was  frequently  its  representative  in  the  General  Court. 
He  was  the  father  of  eleven  children,  and  died  in  the  home  of  his 
adoption  in  June,  1711,  at  the  age  of  7 J.). 

JosiAH  Miller,  son  of  John  and  .Margaret  (Winslow)  Miller,  was 
born  in  Yarmouth,  Oct.  27,  1079,  and  was  very  promijient  in  the 
public  afiairs  of  tlic  town.  Aug.  13,  1708  he  married  Mary 
Crosby,  who  M-as  born  April  14,  1078,  and  died  in  Pembroke,  Feb. 
15,  1772,  at  the  advanced  age  of  nearly  94  years.  Her  husband 
had  died  more  than  forty  years  before  in  Yarmouth,  April  15,  1729. 
Judith  ^Miller,  before  mentioned  as  the  wife  of  the  Rev.  Thomas 
Smith,  was  their  daughter, 

MARRIAGES. 

Newel  to  Rebecca  I^I'^P'arlaud Folio 

Dec"'  1700.     J-ur.es  Bonny  to  Keturali  I5i.>liop.  132 

1756.  July  22'^.     iludson  iJisliop  to  Abigail  Stetson, 
John  Ford  J""^  to  ]Mary  iJaker. 

Ebeuezer  Cain  to  Mary  Tulihs,  .. 

1757.  Tuomas  Tyrrel  to  Lucy  Taylor,  Fob.  14.  V'"':.'';:'.  ^"''':.^ 
1757.  Nov*M7'\.Jethro  Hector  to  Sylva  Molutto. 

1757,  Ichabod  Richmond  to  Abigail  Ford, 

1757.  Dec.  29.     Neheiuiah  Raiu.ideri  to  Ueb'.-cca  Chamberlain. 
Packard  to  Ruth  Bonuy, 

>  Lvdi.i,  wife  of  Mr.  Joliri  Milier,  mi;iist<?r  of  Yarmouth,  died    at  tlie  liouse  of  Thomaa 
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1^  1877.]  Pembroke  Marriages. 

I  March  7'\  ITaS.  Prince  Keen  to  Elizabeth  Ford. 

i  July  20.  175S.     Job  Clap  to  Peiielopi^  Ilalch. 

^:  Novembr  G"".         Davkl  Piiilips  to  LvJia  Hatch. 

J.  1750.  Jan.  4'^       Eenj.  S urason  to  Dcljorah  Cushuic'. 

C  '^J.l^'^'J'^^A^'^-    ^^^^^^^  Barker-  to  Betty  Turner.  " 

|.  17.^1).  October  V.  Isaac  Lane  to  Sarah  Hatch. 

i  July  30'\      Edwar.l  Kinf^  to  Alice  Perry. 

%  Nov''^  ]2.      John  ChubbiicU  to  Lydia  Crocker. 
I  Thomas  Church  to  HuKLih  Soul,  Febr.  24,  17C0. 

t  17C0.  June  lo'\  Josiah  .Smith  to  Mary  P.arker. 

I  17  00.  July  10"'.    Cliaries  Josselyn  to  Rebec  Keen,  y^  S'^. 

/  1760.  Sent.  14^\   Ichahod  Bonny  to  Mary  Turner. 

\  17G0.  October  15.  W"-  Hearsev  to  Patience  Bisbe. 

/  1760.  October 27.  Isaack  Little  to  Lydia  ILitch. 

i  1760.     Asa  Bearse  to  Mary  llandafS^  Xov^'^  27. 

176L     Freedom  Chamberlain  to  Deb.  Turner,  Jan.  8'\ 


71 


\  17GL     Ichabod  Thomas  to  Puth  Turner,  .Jan.  22^. 

■  176l._  ]\rathe\7  Stetson  to  Mary  Pandal.  Feb.  b.  ' 


17C1.     Ebenezer  Barker  to  Priscilla  Loring,  April  '2\ 

i7GL     Abisliar  Stetson  to Croolfer,   April  16'^ 

1/61.     Joseph  Taylor  to  Thankfi.il  Clark.  May  'd'^. 
376L     Pool  Spear  to  Christina  Tnrner,  May 'lO'^ 
17G1.     Joshua  Turiier  J^'  to  Betty  Benker,  .June  22^ 
1761.     Thomas  Randal  to  Deboi-ah  Barker  J'^  Sept.  10. 
I«^61.     Natlianiel  Gushing  to  Lucy  Turner,  Sept.  24. 
1761.  I  Isaac  Ford  to  Lucy  Josselyn. 

I  Perez  Sampson  to  Mary  Taylor,  Octbr  1". 

1761.  j  Lemuel  Bonny  to  Lucy  Bomiy. 

1761. 1  Nathaniel  Stetson  to  Sarah  Bishop,  December  3 
1/62,  Jaury  7'\     Joseph  Dwelle  to  Mary  M^croon. 

1762.  Feb.  18.        Asa  Keen  to  Zilpah  Hatch.* 
t'Ji^^L^  ;^"J%ford  jo_  Beuy  Boi!nj%  March  11. 

1762.     Caleb  Hovvland  to  Deb.  (MivA^^]iP^'i'~ 

1762.  Jesse  Lapham  to  Mercy  Randal,  Nov"^  25 

1763.  Feb^  24"^.     Jedediah  D.velle  to  Lydia  Soule. 
1/63.  April  28.     Diman  Perry  to  Nabbe  Cushin^. 

Carried  to  Tonn  Clck 


\^o  i^'l^  ^'\    '^"'  ^^ii^cbelT^lii^PilTRidill^^d^        " 

1/03.  Oct"'  13'^   Robert  M^lathlin  to  Mary  Kepn 

1-^0  S'^'k^^"-  ^'^'^^  Turner  to  Chioe  Bonny. 
1/63.  Nov"^  28'\  Isaac  Hatch  to  Sarah  Cushini. 
i^b4.  tebr  22<».  Jonathan  Turner  to  Hannah  Ford  J- 
J  /  b3.  Decern.  G'-';.  Danil  Tubbs  to  Hannah  White. 
\lp\-  V  ''^  Standiih  to  Abigail  Stetson,  Decemb^  S. 
U*>4.  March  8.         Seth  Fuller  to  Deborah  Ford. 

/^^4JUaTv.^^d_^^y|v^^                                     to  Sarah  Barstow. 
UU\.     Thomas  Curlew  to  Mary  Russel,  July  l^"^ 
Jl  ."?•     ^^'el  Russel  to  Lydia  Garnet.  Mav  7^  1765 
i/  )o.     Abner  Megoon  to  Ruth  Bri<ro>.  (Jct.  14 
['J'-l-     :J;;^-''a  Lawrence  to  Mol  Geolry,  Sept.  26. 
17rr'     ^^t^^  ^^Vinslow-  to  Sarah  Hatch  J",  Nov.  21" FoHo 

't.'>.     -•■'^^' Liiicolu  to  Lydia  Randal,  Febr  13'^  "^ 


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72  JPembroJce  Marnages.  [Jan. 

Jol-.u  Jordan  to  Chloe  Tubbs,  Feb.  23. 
Daniel  Boauy  to  Elizabeth  Ijurtor;,  May  15. 
Robert  Page  to  Susaiicah  IJennet,  May  2G. 
1766.     Elislia  Hatch  to  Lettsy  Howhmd,  August  7"\ "  ■ 


1766.  Nov.  I'd.     Kev*^  Isaiah  Dunster  to  Mary  Sruitli. 
December  8.         Amariah  Goodwin  to  Thankful  Russel. 

1767.  Jan.  8'\      Thomas  Barker  to  Olive  Ford. 
29  Jan.       Ichabod  Bearse  to  Eunice  Witherel. 

7  April.       Stephen  Richardson  to  Mercy  Darling.' 

October  29.  Zelek  Basset  to  Huldah  Garnet. 

Dec.  10.         liemuel  Church  to  Susannah  Baker. 
Sam'l  .Tennincfs  to  Keziah  Bearse.' 
Amos  "Withrel  to  Ruth  Stetson. 

Mrch  1.         Apoilos  Cusiiniau  to  Eleanor  Keen. 

Mrch  10.      Japh^et  C'rooker  to  Lydia  Turner. 

Mrch  18.      Jo5ei)h  Turner  to  Elizabeth  Crooker. 


Dec.  24. 


May.  Vriin'.-or  to 

June  14.       Nathaniel  Turner  to  Sarah  Rogers. 

July  7'\        James  Giover  to  Rachel  Bonny. 

Nov.  24.       Stockbridge  Jossevln  to  Olive  Standish. 

1769.  May  23'^.     Joseph  Peirce  to  Olitf  Fish. 

June  15'^     Daniel  OMhaur>  to  Wirhrdl. 

Nov'"^  IG.      Ebenezer  Beerse  to  Lydia  .Jennings. 

Sept.  28.       Hezekiah  Bryant  to  Debrah  Crooker. 

Dec''':  25.      Joshua  Withrel  to  Marv  Standish. 

1770. 
Jan..  IS.         Simeon  Nash  to  Hulda  Bates. 

{Joseph  Ramsden  to  Elizabeth  Barker. 
and 
Thomas  Crooker  to  Nabby  Randal. 
11.         James  Cox  to  Ruth  M'^g*,>on. 
Mrch  26.      Thomas  Cooke  to  Hannah  Lincoln- 
June  10.      John  Thomas  to  Sarah  Loring. 
Sept.  16.      Zadock  Reed  to  Lucee  Garnet. 
Octo.  22.      Shubael  Butler  to  Hannah  Gamet- 
Nov.  22.     Caleb  Barstow  to  Sylvina  M"^goon. 

1771. 
April  25.     Melzer  Curtis  to  Keziah  I  lull. 
May  30.     Caleb  Tiklen  to  Joanna  Barker. 
Sept.  1"*.     Nath'  Loring  J°'  to  Sarah  Baker  y^  3^.  ' 
Octo.  31.     David  Crooker  J'^'^  to  Ursula  Turner. 
Nov.  20.     Benj.  Barns  to  Luciana  Ramsden. 
Nov.  21.     Isaack  ErevrsLer  to  Leonice  Soul.         ,(^_ 

Philip  Turner  to  Judith  Hatch. 
Dec""  1"*.     Epliraim  Lindsay  to  Ann  Bonnv. 

1772. 
Janry  16"^.  W"  Reading  to  Elizabeth  Bates. 
Mrch  19.     Benj.  Cox  to  Deborah  Russel. 
April  oO.     Isaiah  Cashing  to  Lydia  Fish  J". 

'  This  entry  and  that  following  are  opposite  *•  Dec.  24. 


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Pemhrolce  Marriages. 


73 


May    17. 

Octo.  V\ 

August  0. 
August  19. 
Sept.  5. 
Ditto. 
Octo.  KA 
Decembr  30. 

1774. 

oil  in  ye 
Sack  page 
have  been 
returned 
to  ye  Clerk 


Eben  Crock- 
er to  Cloe 
Gardner, 
Wov.  25,  \Tti- 
omitted  In 
former 
lial- 

23'i  Novmbr. 


Feb.  1^. 
March  14. 

Ditto  2^. 
May  5. 
May  IG. 
Nov.  T\ 

Janrv  13. 
Jau^y  23. 
March  13. 
Sept.  14. 
Kov"^'  20. 
Dec.  2o. 

Mrch  15. 
•lune  25. 
Octo.  V\ 
Decerabr  3"^. 
Decembr  24. 

Jan^  T\ 
Mrch  18. 
May  20. 
June  G. 
July  8. 
July  25. 
August  18. 
Nov.  2. 
Nov.  23. 
Nov'"  25. 
Deo.  8. 
Dtcera.  23. 

VOL.    il 


Moses  House  [of  iMarshfielil]  to  Lydia  Russel. 
KheDCzer  Man  to  uroula  Kaudal  J". 

1773. 
Lemuel  Crocker  to  Rachel  Fo^iter. 
Con-taut  Little  to  Sarah  B:irker  J"". 
Zebiiluu  Buker  to  Debrah  Ivaiulal.  ■    ■ 

[Maurice  Tul.)bs  to  Betty  Kaudal. 
I^aac  Tubbs  to  Planuah  Crooker. 
Diman  Perry  to  Susannah  Ijincoln. 

John  Ranual  to  Sarali  Eames,  June  0,  1774 FoUo 

Sam'  Rider  to  Pegijy  Keen,  June  19,  1774.  ^^^ 

Sam^  Chandler  to  Rebecca  Darling,  Octo.  27"^,  1774. 
Abel  Nash  to  Susannah  Tracy,  Decern.  15'\ 

1775. 

Jan.  ll'*' Eleventh.  Asher  Keen  to  Desire  "Witherel. 

Feb.  21''.     Ebenezer  Withrel  to  Rebecca  Macfarland. 
Joseph  M'^goon  to  Sarah  M'^goou. 

Andrew  Bradford  to  ]Mary  Turner  3**. 
1776. 

Isaack  M'^goon  to  Lydia  M'^FarJand. 

Isaiah  Stetson  to  Susa  Bouney. 

Nathaniel  Randal  to  Deborah  Stetson  J".- 

Job  Turner  to  Sarah  .James. 

Elii/halet  Bishop  to  Elizabeth  Tubbs. 

James  Sprague  J"''  to  Lydia  Barker. 

1777. 
Elijah  Baker  to  Mary  AVittemore. 
TV'illiara  Cushing  to  Abigail  Turner  J"''^ 
Caleb  Lapham  to  Sarah  Fish. 
Philip  Turner  to  Mercy  Turner. 
Eiisha  Briggs  to  Laureutia  Hall. 
Sam'  Loring  to  Prudence  Chapman. 

1778. 
Nathaniel  Fish  to  Mary  Leavit. 
Abiel  Sherman  to  Lydia  Walker. 
Benjamin  Highland  to  Content  Lincoln. 
Edward  Stevens  J"^  to  Mehetabel  Newberry. 
David  Man  to  Elizabeth  Bates. 

1779. 
Jacob  Tubbs  J'"'  to  Desire  Crooker  J". 
Lemuel  Little  to  JNIary  Lapham. 
Jesse  Torrey  to  Mary  Chamberlain. 
Nathaniel  Bishop  to  Abigail  Bearse  J"". 
Joseph  Byron  to  Alice  Garnet. 
Perry  Harden  to  !Moll-Swan-Keen. 
Daniel  Russel  to  Susanna  iM'^P^'arland. 
PVnenezer  Wiiitraan  3*^  to  Ruth  Delano. 
John  Lowden  to  Hannah  Gould. 
Zacheus  Fish  to  Rachel  Stetson.     ^  -  . 

Ezra  Warren  to  Saba  Tirrel.     »  ''  • 

Alexander  Garnet  to  Ruth  Tubbs.. 
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74  Pembroke  Marriages.  [Jan. 

1780.  ... 

Feb.  2-1.  John  r.rjggs  J-'"^  to  Htmnah  Eearse  J^. 

May  3"^.  Jesse  Turner  to  Balhilicba  Lapliam. 

June  2G.         AS'ait  FonJ  to  Hannah  I.oring. 
July  S''.  Joseph  Henuey  to  kiylvina  iiichards. 

July  6.  vSauv  Peterson  to  Lydia  Cowin. 

July  13.  Joshua  Keen  J"  to  Jjydia  Crocker. 

July  26.  Joseph  Sherman  to  Sylvester  Josselyn. 

Aug'  17.  liaac  Foster  J"  to  Urani^t  Taylor. 

Sept.  3.  Comfort  Bates  J"'  to  ]Sabby  M'goou. 

Goto.  1.  Amos  Hatch  to  Hannah  Piiibp.s 

Nov.  23.         Charles  Ford  to  Polly  Bisbe. 
Nov.  30.         Hadly  Standi&b  to  Nabhy  Garnet. 
Decem.  7'^.    1'horaas  Nash  to  Betty  man. 

All  y'  above  returned  to  the  Town  Cierk. 

1781. 
Sept.  7'\         Bille  Ford  to  Lucene  Ho^yland. 
Oetobr.  7.       Noah  Bonney  to  Nancy  Tory — Octo.  7. 
Oetobr  25,      Joshua  iSPgown  to  Syivina  Stetson. 
Nov.  15.         Gideon  Thomas  "White  to  Sarah  Crocker. 
Nov.  25.         Tilden  Crooker  to  Prisciila  Barker  J". 
Decembr  9*'^.  Isaac  Thomas  to  Cacliariue  Smith. 
Decembr  13.  James  Barstow  to  vSurah  Leavit. 
26.  Elisba  Turner  to  Ssrah  Keen. 

1782 Foh'o 

Janry  1.  .Joseph  Smith  to  P>athsheba  Torrey.  ^b^ 

Janry  6.  P^aniel  Baker  to  Prisciila  Loring  J". 

Janry  31.        Thomas  Fish  to  Ursula  Crooker  J°'. 

July  2*^.  Seth  Perry  to  Haimali  Josselyn  J". 

July  4'^.  Nathan  Stetson  to  Bethia  Crooker. 

August  1**.      Joseph  Bobbins  to  Lucy  Gushing  Both  of  Hanover. 

Sept.  12.         Sam'  Webb  to  Betty  liaker. 

Nov.  !  7.         P.icbard  Vv^ithrel  to  Sally  Pandal. 

Decem  l'^.      Abel  Stetson  to  Sally  Oldham. 

Decem.  12.     James  Brand  to  Hannah  Ned. 

1783.  .'•■'''••     -■"■'-   ■       "     ■ 

Feb^  20.        Tsaack  Tubbs  to  Betty  Tubbs.      ' '"' ' '      '""  ■ '   ' '  ■■■■"■" '  "^ 
Feb'  27.         John  Young  to  Leah  Bonny. 

July  17.         Sam'  Files  to  Lydia  Josselyn.        ■' '  ''."■•  '    >'    ''■  ■■    '■  .  '    ■ 
Sept.  18.        Luther  Samson  to  Abigail  Foord. 

Octobr  2.       Isaac  "Walker  to  Lydia  Dowse.  '    ^       '"  '^"^  ''" 

Decembr  11.  Harris  Hatch  to  Deborah  Chamberlain  J"". 

1784. 
Janry  22^      John  Chubbuck  to  ISLary  Fo'-ster.  •     •     •     '• 

D**  Lemuel  Keen  to  ^lary  Josselyn. 

April  8.  John  Tolman  to  Dorothy  Hull.  v     . 

April  22'".      Arannah  Fullington  to  Lyllis  Stetson. 
May  O"*.         Jesse  Delano  to  Margaret  Leavit. 
July  15.         Christopher  Thomas  to  Fluldah  Dwelle. 
Novmbr  14.  Ichabo<l  Thomas  J''''  to  P(.-)lly  Thomas. 
Novmbr  2o.  John  Josselyn  to  Lucy  Lowden. 
Decembr  16.  Isaiah  Bonny  to  Aphia  Pompele. 


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1877.1  The  Slave  Trade  in  Massachusetts,  75 

Decembr  SO.  Isaack  Fish  to  Deborali  Fish. 

All  y*  above  Rcturued  to  y^  Town  Clerk. 

1785. 
l^Iarch  2'\       Jacob  Petcrsou  to  Betse  Turner  0"°^  ,     ;    , 

March  31''.    Winslow  Turner  to  Molly  Standish. 
April  24.        Christopher  Pierce  to  Lydia  M'^goou. 
June  30.         Fredoni  Chamberlain  J""  to  Prisciiia  Josselyn. 
Novembr  27.  Alansou  Carver  to  Huldali  Barstov7. 

178G. 
Febry  23.       John  Lowden  to  Puth  Josseliu. 
March  y'\      Seth  Sampson  t'>  Apple  Pompelie. 
April  23.        Tho'  M"-Vovvn  to  Pri.seilla  Barker. 

1787. 
March  15.      Lot  Foord  to  Naomi  Lapham. 
July  26.  Benjama.u  Tolman  to  Kebecka  Lincoln. 

178G  December FcUo 

Richard  Hite  to  Suke  Osgood.  "* 

Ausnist.  1787.  Uriah  lues  to  Sarah  Snmson. 

October  2b.  1787.      Jonathan  Bonue^^  to  Peggy  Torrey. 
Novem  29'^  1787.     "Wiliiaoi  Briggs  to  XabbVBriggs. 


THE  SLAVE  TRADE  IX  MASSACHUSETTS. 

Communicated  by  Frederic  Kiddee,  Esq.,  of  Melrose. 

^T^IIE  following  document  is  copietl  from  the  "Jcifries  IVIanu- 
•X  scripts,"  by  permission  of  Mr.  Walter  Lloyd  Jkpfries, 
of  Boston.  It  shows  that  nearly  two  centuries  ago  our  ancient 
town  was  engaged  in  the  importation  of  slaves  from  Africa ;  and 
further,  that  some  of  our  wealthiest  people  were  engaged  in  it.  In 
con^^idcd  \g  this  matter,  it  is  well  to  bear  in  mind  that  this  traffic  was 
well-nigh  universal,  most  of  the  commercial  nations  being  more  or 
less  engaged  in  it.  The  document  also  shows  that  Ehode  Island, 
afterward  so  deeply  involved  in  the  slave  trade,  was  at  that  time 
opposed  to  it. 

Boston  the  12"^  of  June  1681. 
M'  W°>  Welstead, 

"Wee  did  the  last  yeare  send  out  W™  Warren  ]\P  of  the  ship 
Elizabeth  for  Guinea  &  at  his  returne  ordered  him  to  put  in  to  Swansy 
for  intelligence  from  us  how  to  proceed  farmer  and  heareing  that  the  peo- 
ple of  Roade  Island  Vnderstand  thereof  v&.  all  give  out  tliere  intentions  to 
Ceiseher,  do  give  you  this  as  ourordo'  &  request  that  you  take  the  lir^topp- 
tunity  to  proceed  for  sayd.  Island  &  when  you  have  there  diapached  y' 
bui^-iDess  (in  which  be  expeditious)  go  from  thence  &  stand  to  aud  agayne 
at  y''  entrance  of  that  harbour,  keepeing  a  good  looke  out  to  discouer  all  ships 
that  may  be  bound  in  there  d;  if  possible  speake  w'^  them  &  if  it  so  hap- 
p<;n  as  that  you  meett  w"^  say'^  Warren  give  him  the  letter  here  inclosed  <& 
cause  him  to  returne  w**"  you  to  Nantasket  (vvhere,  of  before  you  come  in 
there  take  in  such  negroes  &c.  as  he  hath  of  o''*,  <L-  come  up  in  the  night  w*** 
them.giveing  us  notice  thereof  w'^  what  privacy  yoa  ccai,.and  we  sLail  take 


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76  Becords  of  Hull,  Mass.  [Jan. 

care  for  there  Lnnding,  what  we  have  farther  to  arl  is  to  keepe  jour  mei) 
Jguoraut  of  your  ciesii^ne  &  Improve  your  time  what  you  can  in  fislring  or 
Tv'  elce  may  be  helpfull  to  defray  our  charges,  but  not  prejudicial!  to°our 
mayue  designe  in  meeting  '.v'"  Warren  \s^^  is  the  needfuU  at  present  From 
Yd'  Cordiall  frien[ds]  John  Saffin 

Jn°  UsuERfor  Iiimself 
.    '  &  Edwd.  Shutkn 

I    ,:    : .      .  .  ,  ■  .  ;  .,,-,,.-  •  James  Wktcomb 

■    .  '      •  Ani/  Belcuek. 


^  ,        "  RECORDS  OF  HULL,  MASS. 

Communicated  by  "WiLLARD  S.  Allen,  Esq.,  of  East  Boston,  Mass, 

[Conticued  from  fol.  xxYiii.  page  69.] 

BlUTHS. 

Robert  Vickre  sou  to  Benj.  dec'd  &  Mary  Vickre       born  May  18,  1718 

John  Goold  son  lo  John  t'^  Lidiah  Gookl  "  Feb.  23,  1718 

Mary  Stubs  dr.  to  Rich"'^  &  Jael  Stubs  «  July  3,  1718 

Jane  Loring  dr.  to  Samuel  1  &  Jane  Loring  «  Dec.  18,  1718 

Mary  Bartlet  dr.  to  John  &  P^xperance  Bartlet  "  Oct.  14,  1718 

Hannah  Binney  dr.  to  John  &  Hannah  Binney  "  Oct.  18,  1717 

Margret  Binuey  dr.  to  Thomas  &  Margret  Binney  "  April  12,  17J9 

Elisha  Goold  sou  to  Joseph  &  Mary  Goold  "  Sept.  7,  1719 

Joseph  Melton  son  to  Joseph  &  Bershebe  Melton  "  July  21,  1717 

Joseph  Melton  son  to                       do  «  March  17,  1719 

John  Loring  son  to  John  Sen'r  &  Eliz'^  Loring  "  Feb.  2o,  1719 

Mathew  Loring  son  to  Mathew  &  Lydia  Loring  "  Nov.  22.  1719 

Jonathan  Colyer  son  to  Geisham  &  Eliz""  Colyer  "  May  3.  1719 

Samuel  Jones  son  to  Samuel  &  Susanna  Jones  "  June  9,  1719 

Jacob  Goold  son  to  John  &  Lidiah  Goold  "  Jan'y  10,  1720 
Elizabeth  LobdeLl  dr.  to  Joseph  &  Eliz^**  Lobdell 

[altered  from  Feb.  26,  Hfl]  «  Jan'y  16,  17 j-^- 

Ann  Iladen  dr.  to  John  &  Ann  Haden  "  Feb.  16,  1719 

Elizabeth  Benson  dr.  to  Joseph  &  Rebecca  Benson  "  May  5,  1720 

Caleb  Loring  son  to  Caleb  &  Susanna  Loring  "  Jan'y  21,  174f 

Elizabeth  Smellige  dr.  toZachariah  Oc  Eliz"' Smellege    "  June  8,  1720 

Sarah  Gains  dr.  to  Thomas  &;  Barthsheba  Gains  "  Auo-.  1,  1720 

Experence  Loring  dr.  to  John  &;  p]liz*^  Loring  *'  Aug.  9,  1720 

Samuel  Loring  son  to  Samuel  &  Jane  Loring  "  Feb.  3,  17-2^ 

Mary  Vickre  dr.  to  Thomas  &  Mary  Vickre  «  Feb.  11,  17i^ 

Paul  Benny  son  to  Tliomas  &  Margret  Benny  "  March  2,  1721 

Bridget  Delle  dr.  to  John  ct  Mary  Dele  «  March  2,'  1721 

James  Bartlet  son  to  John  &  Experence  Bartlet  "  Dec'r  7,  1720 

Joseph  Bosworth  son  to  Joseph  &;  Mary  Bosworth  ^  Dec'r  11,  1716 

Ephraim  Bosworth  son  to                   do-  «  Au^.  30   1720 

Robert  Bosworth  son  to                       do  "  Sep.  1.5,  1722 

Lydia  Melton  dr.  to  Joseph  &  Bathsheha  Melton  "  April  8,  1721 

Susanna  Loring  dr.  to  Caleb  &  Susanna  Loring  "  June  5,  1721 

I^tatbew  Danford  son  to  Mathew  &  Eiiz">  Danibrd  "  July  1,  1721 

Dorcas  Benney  dr.  to  John  and  Hannah  Benney  "  June  20^  1721 

Mary  Jones  dr.  tc  Solomon  &;  Mary  Junes  "  Sep.  6,  1721 


• -/. 


1877.] 


liecords  of  Hxll,  Mass. 


77 


Experence  Nichols  dr.  to  Roger  «L  Bethiah  Nichols 

[altered  from  1721]  bora 

Israel  Nichols  son  to  do  " 

ISIiiry  Goold  dr.  to  Joseph  it  Mary  Goold  " 

John  So[)er  sou  to  John  &  Ruth  Soper  " 
Ous.ily  Chamberlin  dr.  to  Joseph  &  Kliz'"  Chamberling  " 

"William  Colyer  son  to  Gershoin  &  Eliz'^  (Colyer)  " 

]\Iary  Webber  dr.  to  Seth  &  Eliz"»  Webber  " 

Zadiariah  Smellidg  son  to  Zac'h  &  Eliz""  Smellige  " 

John  Ijoring  son  to  John  &  Eliz"^  his  wife  *' 

Mary  Dason  dr.  to  Joseph  &  Mary  Dosson  " 

John  Gains  son  to  Thomas  and  Bathsheba  Gains  " 

James  Goold  son  to  John  &  Lydiali  Goold  " 

Isaac  Burtlet  son  to  John  &  Experience  Bartlet  " 

Beniaman  Jones  son  to  Beu°  &  Sarah  Jones  " 

Hannah  Stubs  dr.  to  Richard  &  Joel  Stubs  « 

Beniaman  Meltou  sou  to  John  &  IMary  Melton  " 

Jacob  Jones  son  to  Samuel  &,  Susanna  Jones  " 

Mary  Soper  dr.  to  Beniam"  &  Mary  Soper  " 

Mary  Soper  dr.  to  Beniani"  &  Mary  Soper  " 

Thomas  Viciiere  sou  to  Thomas  &  Mary  Vickre  " 

Joseph  Spere  son  to  Joseph  &  IMary  Spear  " 

Jacob  Jones  son  to  Samuel  &  Susanna  Jones  " 

Cathorn  Sam  dr.  to  James  &  Cathorn  Sam  " 

John  Dele  son  to  John  &  Mary  Dele  " 

Nicholes  Lobdell  son  to  Joseph  &  Eliz'^  Lobdell  *' 

Joan  Goold  dr.  to  Joseph  &  Mary  Goold  " 

Mathew  Lorin^  son  to  Samuel  &  Jene  Lorinsr  " 

Baruabos  Binney  son  to  Johu  &  Hannah  Binney  " 

Gershom  Spere  son  to  Joseph  &,  Mary  Spere  " 

Joseph  Binney  son  to  Thomas  &  Margret  Binney  " 

Jeones  [James  ?J  Soper  son  to  John  &  Ruth  Soper  " 

liachel  Jjns  dr.  to  Solomon  &.  IMary  Jons  " 

Joseph  Tower  son  to  Ambros  &  Mary  Tower  " 

John  Danford  son  to  Mathew  &  Eliz'^  Danford  " 

Mary  Sam  dr.  to  James  &  Cathern  Sam  " 

Sarah  Jons  dr.  to  Beniam"  &  Sarah  Jons  '■  " 

Bc'tty  Webber  dr.  to  Seth  &  Eliz'^  Webber  *' 

John  Benson  son  to  Joseph  &  Rebecker  Benson  " 

Ikniam"  Benson  son  tg  Joseph  &  Rebecker  Benson  " 

Joseph  Dorson  son  to  Joseph  &  Mary  Dorson  " 

Mercer  Bartlet  son  to  John  &  Experience  Bartlet  " 

li-Jchel  Hadeu  dr.  to  John  &  Ann  Haden  " 

'bi^eph  Smiiledges  son  to  Zech"^  &  Eliz'^  Smaledges  " 

^la.-y  Rosworth  dr.  to  Lemuel  &  IMary  Bos  worth  " 

J':irthsht'ba  Gains  dr.  to  Thomas  &  Earthsheba  Gans  " 

J>'-'.ry  Chamberlin  dr.  to  Joseph  &  Eliz""  Chamberlin  " 

Sarah  Jons  dr.  to  Solomon  &  IMary  Jons  " 
Martha  Labden  dr.  to  Joseph  &  Eliz"' 

[altered  from  Nov.  1]     " 

Hannah  Loring  dr.  to  John  &,  Elizabeth  Loring  "■ 

Ca!,:l)  Gold  son  to  Joseph  &  :Marv  Goold  " 

Jati  Stubs  dr.  to  Richard  &  Jael  Stubs  " 

[To  be  continued.] 


April  G, 

Sep.  17, 

May  21, 

Sep. 

Sep.  22 

June  21 

Jan'y  23 

Feb.  4 

June  2G 

Oct.  25 

July  21 

Jan'y  21 

Feb.  3 
Sep.  26 
Oct.  21 
Sep.  18 

Nov.  12 

Nov.  13 

Dec.  23 

April  10 

March  18 

April  18 

Feb.  20 

Feb.  22 

Feb.  20 

IMarch  17 

March  22 

April  7 

April  10 

June  20 

July  1 

Sep.  5 

Sep't  8 

Aug.  28 

Nov.  28 

Jan'y  18 

March  5 

March  5 

Feb.  20 

Dec.  26 

March  15 

April  11: 

May  4 

Sep.  4 

Sep.  4 

Oct.  22 

Oct.  30 

Dec.  5 

Dec.  20 

Dec.  26, 


>     .    I. 


78        Record-Booh  of  the  First  Church  in  Charlestown. 


[Jan. 


1712. 


March 

30 

April 

13 

May 

27 
IS 

June 

25 

1 
8 

15 
22 

29 

July 

e 

13 

20 

27 

1712 
M. 

Ausft 


.■\  c.  -:. 


Sept: 
Octob' 

Nov^ 


Decern'' 


10 


24 

31 

7 

21 

12 

19 
2 

16 
23 


14 


28 


(Continued  from  vol.  xxx.  page  1S3.) 

Baptized        — Page  31 2 —  '  • 

Sufannah  I),  of  M'  Calvin,  &  m"  Katharine  Gilpin  Galpin 

Mercy  of  V/illiani  &  I^.Iarcy  Kogers  —     —  lioj^erd 

Abigail  D.  of  Stephen  &  Ford         —     —  Ford. 

David  S.  of  iiv.  John  &  Sarah  Ednuinds  —     —  Edmunds 
Chriftoplier  S  of  in"  Chriftopher  &  Mary  Goodwin  Goodwin 

John  S.  of  M'.  John  k  ^Iav.jarit  Daramon       —  Dainon 

Mary  D.  of  M'  Eleazer  &  Sufannah  Johnfon  —  Johnfon. 

Jonath.Tn  S.  of  m'.  Jonathan  &  Katharine  Kettle  Kettle. 

Mary  D.  of  m'  Ricliard  lic  Elizabi.-th  James     —  Jame^. 

Kebecca  D.  of  m'.  Daniel  &  in"  Rebecca  ilulsel  Rufsel. 

John  S.  of  m'  Janes  &  Miller         —    —  Miller. 

Nathaniel.  S.  of  m'  Samuel  &  Sarah  Kuehifoa  HuehifoQ 

Johannah  D.  of  m'  Etnj.  &  Lucy  Phillips        —  Phillips 

John  S.  of  m'  John  &  Eliz  Sprague  —     —  Sprague 

Benjamin  S.  of  M'  Stephen  k  Mercy  Badger  —  Badger 

John  S.  ot  John  Rand  jun'  &  Anne  his  wife.  Ptand. 
Abiel  S  of  Samuel  Wood  (deccaf'd)  (this  vidow[.\yood 

Hanah 

Michael  Bently,  S.  of  John  &  Hann.ah  Morgan  Bently 

Mary  D.  of  m'  William  &  Hannah  Patten        —  Patten. 

John  S.  of  m'.  Samuel  &  Rachel  Knight  —     —  Knight 

John  S.  of  m'  John  &  Sarah  Piney  —     —  Pinn^^y 

Jofeph  S.  of  ni'  Jofeph  &  Elizabeth  Philipps   —  Pbllipps, 

Rebekah  D.  of  m'  Francis  &  Mary  Baf^et        —  Baf.>ct. 

Jofeph  S.  of  ;a'  Jofe])h  c<c  Sarali  Froft       —    —  Fro  ft. 

Hannah  D,  of  John  is.  Hannah  Mor^-an    —    —  Mortfaa 


Baptized 


Paze  313  — 


Jonathan  S.  of  m'  Thomas  &  SibyH  Greayes  —      Greaves 
Jofhua,  S.  of  m'  Peletiah  &;  Eliza!  j.th  Whitamore  WhitiTnore 
Sarah  D  of  vx  William  &  Abigail  Kettle  —     Kettle 

Lawrence  S.  of  ni'  Jonathan  fie  m"  Katharine  Dows  Dows 
Thomas.  S.  of  m'  William  &  Abigail  Smith     —      Smith. 
iJohn  S.  of  m'  Samuel  &  Frothingham.  —     Frothin 

Ruth  D.  of  m'  Xathaniel  &  Hannah  Frothingham. 
Sufannah  D.  of  m'.  John  fie  Sufannah  Tucker  — 
Annah  D.  of  m'.  Timpthy  &  Goodwin  — 

Samuel  S.  of  m'.  Samuel  fie  Hannah  Counts    — 


ham. 
Frothin^tiaEi. 
Tucker 
Goodwin. 
Counts. 


Peachy.  S.  of  m'  William  Rowse  (fie  -Vfary  his  wife)  Rowse. 

Aquila.  S.  of  Aquila  fie  Sarah  Paul  —  —      ~     " 

James  s.  of  James  fie  Hannah  Lowden      —  — 

Abigail  D.  of  JBeni :  fie  Plurd  —  — 

Samuel  S.  ot  in',  Maximilian  fie  Sarah  Dows  — 

Bethiah  v/.  of  m'  John  Taylor  jun''  —  — 

Jofeph  S.  of  Oliver  fie  Anna  Atwood         —  — 

Jofcjih  S.  of  m'  Caleb  k  Abigail  Crcfsewei  — 

Sarah  D.  of  m'  Jacob  fie  Eliz.  Hurd  —  — 

Mildred  D  of  m'.  Zechariah  fie  Mildred  Davis  — 

'John  S.  of  m',  John  fie  Berhiah  Tjyior     —  — 

iThomas  S.  of  m'  John  fie  Betluah  Taylor  —  — 

Abigail  D.  of  m'.  Jofeph  fie  Sarah  Rand.  —  — 

Im'  John  Lev.ds  [an  Adult  perfon]  —  — 


Paul. 

Lowden. 

Hard. 

Dows 

Taylor 

Atwood 

Crofewel 

Hurd 

Davis 

Taylor. 

Tavlor. 

Rand. 

Lewis. 


I 

'I ' 


1-V  I 

I 

IK  I 


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1712   1.3 

Mo 
January 


Feb.  1. 


March 


1713 
April 


ilaj  2-i 


Jimp 


1713 


1)   ! 


Baptized 


Pa^c  314 


1 

S 

15 

122 

8 

15 

29 


12 

19 


31 

7. 
14 


D 


Sept. 
Octob 


Novem'^ 


1713 


>rehitabol  D.  of  m'  Caleb  &  Anna  Call  —  — 
.Jufiris  S  of  ni'  James  &  —     — 

William  S  of  ni'  Elias  &  Aljij^ail  Stone  —  — 
Mary  1).  of  m'  8nmui.-l  &  Mary  Whitehead  — 
Mary  W.  of  m'.  James  Kettle  —     — 

IKbenezer  S.  of  m'  Ebenezer  &  Tilary  llartthorn 
Hannah  J),  of  John  &  Lo^ia  —     — 

Marv  I)  of  ni'  Janus  &  I\Inry  Kfttel  —     — 

Sufa'nna  D  of  m'  John  &  Suianna  Froth  in  ijham 
Hannah  1)  of  ni"'  Bcnj.  &  Hannah  Andrews     — 
Thomas  S  of  m'  Thomas  is:  ]Mary  Harris   —     — 
Rebecca  Mafion  (Adult  perfon)  —     — 

Anne.  D  of  Henry  .^  Hannah  Bodc:e  —  — 
Deborah  D.  of  m'  Samuel  &  Deborah  Nurfe  — 
Sufannah  D.  of  m'.  Philip  &  Deborah  Coteler  — 
Mary  D.  of  William  &  Hannah  Teal  —  — 
Katharine  D  of  M'.  P.ichard  &  Parnel  Foster  — 
Thomas  S.  of  ni'.  Tho:  &:  Mary  Frothingham  — 
Anue  D.  of  m'.  Joleyih  &  Anne  Newel  —  — 
Lydia  D.  of  m'  Ilichard  &  Mary  Boili'tone  — 
Lvdia  D.  of  ra' Joieph  &  Marv  "Wood  —  — 
LM'ary  D.  of  m'.  Michael  &  Relief  Gill  — .  — 
James  S.  of  m'.  Samuel  &  Trumble.        — 

Abiel  D.  of  m',  Nathaniel  &  Howard      — 


June  !   21 

28 

July       5 
5 

19 

26 

Aujnift 


Call. 
AVeljber 
Stone. 
Whitehead 
Kettle 
Hartshorn 
Lo;^dn 
Kettel. 
Frolhin;;;hanj. 
Andrews 
Harris. 
.Alafton. 
Lodge. 
Nurfe. 
Coteler 
Teal 
Fofter. 
Frothingham 
Newell. 
Poylftone 
Wood. 
Gill. 

Trumble 
Howard 


Baptized 


Pase  315  — 


Margarit  D.  of  m'  Edward  &  Mary  Sheaf  — 
Elizabeth  D  of  m'  Jofeph  &  Eliz.  Philipps  — 
Hannah  D  of  Edward  &  Hafiah  Sowerbutts.  — 
Chambers  S.  of  m''  Daniel  &  m^.  Rebecca  Rufsel 
Richard  ) 

&       ^  Twins  of  Charles  &  Eliz  Hunewel  — 
jVIary    ) 
IVr.  William  Pinion  —    — 

Rali)h  S.  of  m'  Ralph  l\Ioufal  jua%  &  Mary  his  wife 
Samuel  S.  of  Jofeph  Froft     — 

Timothy  S.  of  m'  Rol>€rt  &  Cutler  — 

Rebecca  D.  of  m'  -Jeremiah  &  Marparit  Storer 
jRichard  S.  of  n\'  Richard  &  Mary  Aliilei-         — 
iMargarit  S.  of  m'  .John  &  Marp:arit  Damon     — 
'Jonathan  S.  of  m='  John  &  Grace  Eads     —    — 
Edward  S.  of  m>-  Miller  &  Froft      —     — 

Sarah  D  of  nv  William  &  Sarah  Pinion  —  — 
iMary  D.  of  Jofeph  &  Sarah  Mirick  —    — 

'jofiah  S.  of  nir  Charles  &  Burrou2:h  —     — 

'Jofhua  S.  of  m''  William  &  Perl'is  Rand  —     — 
iThomas  S  of  m'.  Thomas  &  Dorcas  Chitty    — 
jJohn  S.  of  ni'  Francis  &  Mary  Baiset       —     — 
IJofeph  S  of  m'  .Joseph  ^Vhitrimorc  jun''  & 
i.Jane  D.  of  m''  .John  &  Katharine  Blaney  —     — • 
Mary  D  of  John  &  Sarah  Carter  —    — 

—  Page  316  — 
Thomas  S.  of  m'  James  &  Marsrarit  Sherman 


Sheaff 
Philipps 

Sowerbutts 
Rufsel 

Hunnewel. 

Pin f on 

Moulal. 

Froft, 

Cutler 

Storer 

:\ril]er 

Damon 

Eads     ' 

Froft. 

Pin f on 

Mirick 

Burrough 

Rand 

Chitiy 

Bafse't 

Wiiitamorc 

Blaney 

Carter 


D 

6  iWilliam  S  of  m'  Johu  & 


Juhniou 


Slurman 
Juhnion 


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80        Rccord-Boolc  of  the  First  Church  in  Charlestown.       [Jan. 


[Nov] 


Decern''     2  7 
171o 14 


Jan 
Jan. 


Febr. 
March 


1714 

April 


1714 

M 

April 

May 

June 


luly 

AuguTt 
'*•      Sept 


1714 
M 
Sept 

Octo. 


4 
11 


11 
18 
25 


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lAbi'j-pil  D  of  m''  Stejihon  &  Ford     —  —  Ford 

Sauuel  S.  of  ni''  Samuel  »&  m"  iMary  Cary  —  Gary. 

ISarali  D.  of  m^  William  &  Hannah  Patten  —  Patten 

iJIilJred  D.  of  m'"  Zeehariali  &^IiliJiud  Davis  —  Davis 

iBcnjamin  S.  of  Jonathan  &  Fol'dick  —  Foidiok 

lilannah  D.  of  m'  Thomas  &  Lord  —  Lord 

'james  S.  of  William  &  Mary  Sheaf  —  Sheaf 

jThomas  S.  of  m'  Ebenezer  &,  Prudence  Swan  Swan 
Joanna.    A  Neoro  woman. 

Efther  D.  of  m'  Gcorire  &  Efther  Minors  —  Minors. 

Elifha.  S  of  m""  Elii'ha  &  Doubleday  —  Doubiuday 

llohn  S.  of  Simon  Sc  Mary  Bradftreet        —  —  Bradl'treet 

Mary  D.  of  M^  \Villiam  &  Rand  —  —  Hand 

j  Sarah  D.  of  ^P.  Benj  &  Pierce       —  —  Pierce 

I  Sarah  D.  of  M/  Henry  &  Sarah  Davis      —  —  Davis 

Johannah  D.  of  m''  John  &  Johannah  Call  —  Call 

JHephzibah  D.  of  m^  Samuel  &  —  —  Frothingham 

John  S.  of  m""  John  &  Hannah  Fulker      —  —  Fulker. 

John  S  of  Benjamin  &  Mary  Ivt-ttlo  —  —  Kettle 

Sarah  D.  of  m''  Ephraim  J<c  Martha  Breed  —  Breed 

lEbenezer  S.  of  m^.  Ebeue>.er  &  Sarah  Fowl  —  Fowl 

Ann  D.  of  mr.  Thomas  &  Anne  Fofdick  —  Fofdick 

Sarah  D  of  m''  John  &  Sarah  Penny  —  —  Penny 


Baptized        — Page  317  — 

Abigail  D.  of  m'.  James  &  Miller    — 

Sarah  Dan<:hter  of  m"  Mary  Tuck  — 

Elizabeth  Wire  &  her  Sifter  Sufannah  "Wire 
Tohn  S.  of  Mark  &  Elizabeth  White         — 
Randol  Davis,  an  adult  prfon  — 

Mercy  D  of  M"'  John  &  Eliz  Pierce  — 

Sufannah  D.  of  M/  James  &  Sarah  Fowl  — 
Tonathan  Crowch  jun'^  — 

Tohn  S.  of  m'  John  &  Abigail  Rayner      — 
Mary  D.  of  mr  Jonathan  &  Katharine  Kettle 
Abiirail  D  of  m"  James  Capen  — 

Mehitabel  D  of  m''  Randol  Davis  — 

Samuel  S.  of  M''  Benj.  &  Mercv  Frothingha 
Ellener  D.  of  iP.  Will  &  Ellener  Wyer  — 
Thomas  S.  of  Thomas  &  Brazier  — 


John  S.  of  m'  John  & 


Fowl. 


Thankfull  D  of  m""  John  Sprague 
Rebecca  D  of  m'  James  &  ^Lary  Auftin 
Marv  D.  o?  m'  Joseph  &  Lewis 

Saradi  D  of  M'  William  k  SaraJi  Pinion 

Baptized        —  Page  318  — 


—  Miller 

—  Wire 

—  White 

—  Davis. 

—  Pierce 

—  Fowl 

—  Crowch 

—  Rayner 

—  Kettle 

—  Capen 

—  Davis 

—  Frothi  , 

—  Wyer 

—  Brazier 

—  Fowl. 

—  Sprage 

—  Auftin. 

—  Lewis 

—  Pinion 


sham 


David  S.  ofm"- Elkanah  &         &         Of  burn  —  Oiburn 

William  S.  of  William  &  Hannah  Teal     —    —  Teal. 

[Daniel  S.  of  m''  Stephen  &  Badger  —    —  Badger. 

10  jTimothy  of  M' Eleaz'' &  Lydia  Phillipps  —  Philipps. 


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Novemr 
PeceiTir 

mi 

Jan. 


17 


21 
ID 


1714 

M 
Febr 


Aprl 


15 


Ma^ 


1715 


M 


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Ina>; 


23 
30 


15 

J) 

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20 


27 


13 


10 


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24 

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TiDiothy  S.  of  m''  Tiniotliy  8c  Goodivin  — 

Iienj.  S.  of  in"' Julin  &  Sarah  F07  —  — 

Eiener  D.  of  ni''  C'lirirt()])ln?r  —  — 

Hanah  D.  of  m'  Kirltard  Mill-r  — 

IMchar.l  S.  of  m'' Jolin  i?c  Itand     —  — 

Elias  S.  of  in'  Elias  Stone  jiin''  —  — 

Sufanuah  1)  of  Charles  &  Sufannah  AVhite  — 

Thomas  S  of  m''  Ebencz'  &  Mary  IlartfcLorn  — 

John  S.  of  m''  Bcnj  &  Abi'^ail  Piunker      —  — 

Benjamin  S.  of  m'  Richard  &  Eliz.  .lames  — 

Calol).  S.  of  m'  Caleb  &  Anne  CaU  —  — 

Jofeph  S.  of  Jofeph  &,  Rebecca  Cafwell   —  — 

Thomas  S.  of  Jofeph  &  "Whitamore  — 

Elizabeth  D.  of  m^  Joseph  &  Eliz.  Pliibpps  — 


Baptized        —  Page  319  — 

Samuel  Addams  (juveais  [?])  —  — 

Xathaniel  8.  of  m'  Jonathan  &  m  Katharine  — 

Anderfijn.  S  of  m''  Jolm  &  Anna  Phillips  —  — 

Katharine  D.  of  nnr.  John  &  Bethiah  Taylor  — 

Sarcih  D  of  ra"  Jofeph  &  Sarah  Graunt     —  — 

Anne  D.  of  John  &  Anne  Ptand  —  — 

Thomas,  |  William,  ]  Anne,     >- 

Child'  of  Thomas  &  Anne  Chapman         — 
Jofeph  S.  of  m'  Thomas  &  Frotliintrliam 

Hannah  D.  of  m""  Theophilus  &  Katharine  Jvorv 
Mercy  D.  of  m'  Jacob  &  Eliz.  IPard  —     — 

Mary  Xevers  an  Adult  perfon  —    — 

Zaohpjias  S.  of  m'.  Jofeph  &  Sarah  Rand  — 
Timothy  S.  of  m'.  James  &  Hannah  Lowden  — 
Beuj.  S.  of  m""  Benj.  &  Hannah  Andrews  —  — 
Mary  W.  of  m'  John  &  Mary  Griffen  —  — 
Elizabeth  D.  of  m'  Benj.  &  Kurd    —    — 

Parnel  Ford,  an  Adult  Perfon  —     — 

William  S.  of  m'  ^Villiam  c^  Kettle         — 

Ebenezer  S.  of  m'  Ebenez'  &  Hannah  Breed  — 
John  S  of  Henry  &  Hannah  Bodge  —    — 

John  S  of  m'  Thomas  &  Annah  Chapman  — 
Sarah  D,  of  the  Rev^^.  M"".  Jofeph  &  m"  Sarah 

Stevens 


Baptized 


Pasre  320 


12 


19 


lull 


Philipp  S.  of  Oliver  &  Annah  Atwood     —    — 
Jonathan  S.  of  Jofeph  &  Wood       —     — 

Dorothy  D  of  m'  Jofeph  &  Dorothy  Kidder     — 
Hannah  D  of  m'  Ste{>hen  &  Kidder,       — 

Pe'.itiidi  S.  of  m'  Pclctiah  &  Whitamore 


Benjamin  S  of  m'  Benjamin  &  Pierce  — 

Thoma?.  S  of  m'  John  ^  Johnfon  — 

Sar.J-i  D  of  Jonathan  Sc  Sarali  Kendall  — 

^_j Elizabeth  D.  of  m'  James  &  Mary  Kettei  — 

VOL.  iiir.  8 


Goodwin 

I'oy. 

Gooduin 

IMiller 

Rand 

Stone 

White 

Harts 

Bunker 

lames 

Call 

Cafwcil 

Whitamore 

Pkilipps. 


Addam.<? 
Iiows 

Pliillips 
Taylor 

Graunt 
Rand 


Chapman. 

Frotbjjjgham 

Jvurv 

Hurd 

^Severs 

Ptand 

Lovfden. 

Andrews 

Griffen. 

Hurd 

Ford 

Kettei.     ,-. 

Breed 

Boilge. 

Chapman 

Stcven."k 


Atwood 

Wood 

Kidder 

Ki.ider 

^^'h;tamore 

Pie  no 

JolinfoQ 

Kt-ndali. 

Kttlel 


M' 


1  . 1 '. : 


I 


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I  Cl'l 


82 


llecofd-Bool-  of  the  Firi<t  Chv.rch  in  Charlestowri.       [Jan. 


AuaufL 


10 


10 

IT 


1715 
M 

Sept 


Ootob'" 


Xov^ 


—  rag(i  320  (Conc!>Ml,"l).  — 

[Dudley  S.  of  m--  \)m\\oy  Si  Y.-.a-y  Wade  — 

jThomas  S.  ol"  m'  .lanu's  .Sc  E!iz'Caj*(jn  — 

;-Marc;arir.  I)  of  ni--  Tlioiuas  ik  ir."  Sibvll  Groavoi 
Sulannah  D  of  Joiuph  is:  KutL  Jloi/ki'ns  — 

AlM^rai!  I),  of  m-.  Natlr.uiifl  i;  Elizabeth   rioward 

24  lAbi^iiil  D.  of  m'".  Auuie-.v  &  Abigail  Xewcl    — 

S^  l-John  S.  of  nl^  Samuel  &  Trumble  

ITj James.  S.  of  M^'Danier^STm^^Rebeivrri^Ifu;! ■::::^ 

Ilebeka  D.  of  m-  Edwai'd  &  l^.Iary  Sheaf  

Anue  D.  of  in"',  Maximiliaa  &  Sarah  Dows 
WiiUaui  S.  of  m--  Ebonezer  ^'  IVudfricc  S^van 
Rebecca  D.  of  ni''  Ebenezor  &  Keheeca  Aaftin 

iS^irahJL).  of  m"'  Thomas  &  Sarah  Jaekfon         — 

23  I  Jorkrtri).  of  m^  ^Vliohael  &  m\  llelief  Gill         — 


^Vadc 

Capen 

Greaves. 

liopkius. 

Howard 

XcM'el 

Trumble 

KuffoP 

Sheaff. 

J^ows 

Swan. 

Auftiu. 

Jaekfon. 

GiU. 


Baptized        —  Page  321  — 

Samuel  S,  of  ni''  GeorL'O  t^  Abigail  DarKn.i;      — 
18  j'Zech:irh,h  S.  of  m''  Zechariah  e<:  Mildred  Davis 

[rlannah  I),  of  W  Abraliam  &  Martha  Hill 

•25  lilarv  1).  of  Adam  c^  Jlaehel  Watei's  —     — 


13 


1  ecc~ 


January 
1715116 


9  plary  1).  ot\Benja.m.  ^^  Lucy  PhiiTips        —     — 

16    Daniel  S.  of  m'  John  i^  Fo^l  

23  p.Iary  Green,  peu'c  I.aplu?  confefsionem 

'lames,  S.  of  snid  ^laty  Green,  (i 

Mary  D.  oi  John  &  Hannah  Morgan  Il"~m~ 

Francis  D.  of  m^  Francis  OlaryBafi^f —    ZT" 

.Toha  S.  of  m"'  John  ^  II  Loi^in        

Xathani el  S.  of  m'  Vi ncent  &  ni^f  H ann ah" C art er 
Mary  D  of  mr.  Richard  ii:  ^lary  MUIer     ~     ZT" 
Hannah  iTTrf^Til^imT^lJimnairBotVell  —     _ 
Abigail  D.  of  m'-.  Flja//  ,Sc  SiiiaiuTahJohnfon  — 
Elizabeth  D.  of  m''  John  &  Mary  Gary      

Ford 


Darling- 

Da\  is. 

Hill. 

^Y 

I'h 

Fowl 

Green 


tW3 

J  inllips 


20 


4 

IT 


1 


lonathan-IIammon  S.  of  Ste{)hen  & 
lofeph  S.  of  mr  Jofeph  &  Mary  Ballard 


8  jMary  D.  of  uV  John  &  Grace  Xewel         — 

90'  JoiTn'Srof^IoiurvS' Fai tirSaltei^  

r<ebecca  D.  of  m''  Clu.rles  ic  Burrou"-hs 

Margaritt  D.  of  n-/  Henry  ic  Sarah  Davis ° 
Anna  D.  of  m''  Thomas  ,!x  Harris    — 


A  D  '1715 
M.    i  D 


Baptized 


Pa2;o  322  — 


Feb.  j     5  iJofeph.  S.  of  3.1^  Jofeph  &  Eiiz  Lemon    —  — 

j         jllenry  S,  of  Iieury  >.^  Sarah  Pownel  —  

TTI'^'J^i'^  'S-  *^^  ^^  John  &  Joafia  Call  

I  A_nne  D.j^f  ni^  William  &  Mary  Sheaf.    —  

March   "TF^'-'^'J^'-pli  S.  uf  lu'  laehar  I  ^3  Mary  Whittamo-e 

j-Jary  D  of  m"^  Ephraim  &  ra'  Martha  Ih-e-ed  

13  I '^ "-' nathan  S ._o fj ! r_ B^.m ij_t^ V iTJJmnT i m  ker  ZT 

25"jTIiomas.  S.  of  m''  Thomas  &  Dorcas  Cliitty  

[To  be  couciaucd.] 


Morgan 
Baffet 
Login 
Carter 
'  Miller 
BotreU 
Jnhnfon 
Gary. 
Ford 

Ballard 

Newel 

Salter 

Burroughs 

Davis 

Harris 


Lemon 
Pownel 
Call. 
Sheaf. 

Whittamore 
Breed 

Bunker 

Chitiy 


la/. 


1S77.]  T>'tomr'.sJIaIeofX^:icbunj.  .  83 


TIIOilAS  HALE,  THE  GLOVER.  OF  NEW  BURY.  MASS..  1G3,% 
AND  HIS  DESCENDANTS. 

By  the  Hon.  PvOBEUt  S.  Hale,  LL.D.,  of  Elizabeth  town,  N.  Y. 

1.  Thom-A  s'  Ha.le  and  his  wife  Tliomasin?.  or  Tamosin,  and  pon 
Thomas,  came  to  Newbury  in  I  Goo,  accordinoj  to  both  Savage  and  Coflhi. 
They  were  probably  of  tb.e  party  wlio  first  settled  in  that  town  in  that  year, 
on  tiie  banks  of  the  '•  Ouascaounqueu,"  or  Parker  River,  thouwji  his  namo 
is  not  iiichuu'id  among  those  mentioned  by  Colfm  us  forming  the  lirst  colony, 
"  with  a  (ev7  others  whose  names  are  not  known  with  certainty." 

Colhu  supposes  liim  to  have  been  the  son  of  William  Flale,  Esq.,  of  Ki.n_''s 
Walden,  Herts,  England,  born  at  tiiat  place,  May  15,  ICOG.  The  birth  and 
baotism  of  this  Thomas  appear  on  the  family  records  at  King's  Walden, 
but  no  further  entry  is  found  there  tonehins:  his  life  or  death.  No  snlhcieut 
proof  is  found  to  establish  conch.i-ively  the  identity  of  Thomas  of  Now- 
bury  with  this  Thomas  of  King's  Yv'alden,  thoug'u  flicts  are  known  to  lauka 
suci  identity  probable.  The  question  is  still  under  investigation,  ai.d  the 
English  origin  of  Thomas  of  Newbury  may  become  the  sa'oject  of  a  future 
paper. 

The  date  of  his  arrival  in  America,  the  name  of  the  vessel  in  wliieh  !;e 
came,  and  the  maiden  surname  of  his  wife,  are  all  unkncv,'n.  Cnvrni.  in  Idi 
•'  Ilistory  of  Newbury "  (page  304),  describes  him  as  '•  a?.  7^; ''  at  his 
death  in  i  GS'2 ;  while  the  entries  in  the  same  auth.or's  '•  Early  Settlers  of 
Essex  and  Old  Norfolk"  (Keg.,  vol.  vi.  p.  o41),  make  him  "  x.  67''  in 
1077,  and  '■' m.  50"  in  IGGO.  Savage  says  he  was  '*  freeman  7  Sept.  iGilS" 
(and  see  Reg.  vol.  iii.  p.  9G).  But  a  Thomas  Hale  was  also  admittcl  free- 
man May  14,  1634  [id.  p.  92),  the  same  day  on  which  Robert  Hale  of 
Charlestown  was  admitted,  and  the  authority  on  which  Savage  makes  the 
la-st  named  Thomas  to  refer  to  Tliomas  of  Roxbury,  the  brother  of  Samu^jl 
of  Glasteubury,  does  not  appear. 

Tradition  in  the  two  families  makes  Thomas  of  Newbury  and  Deacon 
Robert  of  Charlestown  brothers.  If  so,  Thomas  of  Newburv  was  not  the 
son  of  William  of  King's  Walden,  for  the  latter  had  no  son  Robert.  It  is 
probable  that  Robert  and  Thomas  were  related  ;  and  it  is  a  noteworthy  cir- 
cumstance .that  John^  the  son  of  Robert  of  Charlestown,  and  John"  the  sOn 
of  Thomas  of  Newbury,  married  sisters,  daughters  of  Henry  Somerby  of 
Newbury. 

His  name  first  appears  in  Cofiin,  under  date  of  August  10,  1038.  "  Tho- 
nia,s  Hale  and  John  Baker  are  appointed  haywards  till  the  tov/u  shall 
appoint  new."  (p.  28.)  "  February  23d  (1G42)  a  geuerall  towne  meeni  .' 
("C  Newbury).  By  the  generall  consent  of  all  the  freemfn  the  st;r,ii;ig  ■■•'>■ 
'.he  commons  was  referred  lo  Henry  Short,  IMr.  (Edward)  Vv'oodmar',  r-  1- 
ward  Rawson,  Thomas  Hale,  and  3Ir.  (John)  Woodbridge,  accoriii.g  u,- 
their  b«r>t  judgments  and  discretions."     (Cothn,  pp.  35,  3G.) 

He  remove<l  to  Haverhill,  probably  in  1645.  In  that  year  he  is  nanj.-i 
n-^  a  "landholder"  in  Haverhill,  and  <•  from  Newbury."  His  naiiM.  L^nd ; 
thy  li.-,t  of  the  first  board  of  selectmen  oho-en  in  Haverhill  in  l'"JG.  in 
that  y<?ar  his  name  first  appears  on  the  record  of  assessmen*s  :p.  "di-it  i.jV.M. 
In  1*,17  he  was  chosen  bv  the  town  and  approved  by  the  G-nend  C^urr. 
uiiL  Henry  Paliuer  and  Thomas  Davis,  "  to  try  small  cause::."     The  .bai-ue 


':  >a 


,  .:    »J' 


S4  Thomas  Ilah  of  yewbary.  l.'^^^- 

year  lie  was  appointed  by  tbe  General  Court  a  commissioner  to  lay  out  a 
TvnC:.  fro;n  Amiover  to  TLiverblil.  In  IG48  bo  was  appointeu  by  th^  ton-j; 
*•' to  keep  a  ferry."  lu  1649  ho  was  elected  constable,  tlio  lirst  cbosna  in 
Haverhill.  In  1650  he  was  appointed  by  the  town  "to  meet  meo.  from 
Salisbury  to  lay  out  bounds  between  that  town  and  Haverhill."  lu  1051 
"  Little.  Hiver  "  in  ?Iavoi'hill  was  named  as  "Thomas  Hale's  River."  (See 
Mirick's  Haverhill,  and  Chase's  Haverhill.) 

In  or  about  the  year  1652  he  returned  to  Newbury,  a'jd  continued  to 
reside  there  till  1657,  when  he  removed  to  Salem.  1'hcre  ho  remained  till 
about  the  year  1661,  when  he  again  returned  to  Newbury,  where  he  con- 
tinned  to  reside  till  his  death. 

His  name  appears  in  the  list  of  proprietors  of  Nev»bury,  declared  by  the 
ordinance  of  Dec.  7,  1612,  as  tlie  only  p>ersons  "  acknowlcd;.';ed  to  be  free- 
holders by  the  town  and  to  have  proportio.nablo  right  in  all  waste  latids, 
commons  and  rivers  undisposed,"  «S:c.  &c. 

In  Felt's  "  Annals  of  Salcra,"  his  name  appears  in  the  list  of  "glovers" 
in  1659.  It  also  appears  in  the  town  records  of  Salem  in  1  657  as  "  Sarjent 
Thomas  Hale,"  and  he  is  several  times  referred  to  in  those  records  as 
■"  clerk  of  ihe  market." 

After  his  final  return  to  Newbury,  he  is  found  among  the  active  support- 
ers of  the  Rev.  Mr.  Parker  in  his  controversies  with  a  portion  of  his 
c3-i.urch,  while  the  name  of  his  son  Thomas"  oppears  uniformly  among  the 
antagonists  of  Mr.  Parker,  known  as  ''Mr.  Woodman's  party." 

Conveyances  of  real  estate  to  and  from  him  appear  in  the  Essex  records 
in  1610,  1652,  1655,  1G56,  1666,  and  1660,  in  which  he  is  described  as 
*' of  Newbury."  In  conveyances  appearing  in  1647  and  1618,  he  is  de- 
scribed as  "of  Haverhill";  in  one  of  Jan.  15,  1652-3,  as  "of  Newbnry, 
late  of  Haverhill";  and  in  sundry  of  165S,  1659,  1660  and  1661,  as  "of 
Salem."  In  these  conveyances  he  is  usually  described  as  "giover,"  some- 
times as  '"  yeoman,"  and  once  as  "  leather-dresser." 

He  seems  to  have  been  an  active  and  public-spirited  citizen,  held  in  re- 
spect by  his  fellow  citizens  ia  the  several  towns  in  which  he  lived,  and  his 
long  life  v/as  evidently  one  of  active  uscfalness.  Bj  trade  a  glover,  he  unit- 
ed with  that  employment  some  practice  as  a  surveyor,  and  his  various  pub- 
lic employments  show  him  to  have  been  a  man  of  fair  education  and  btisi- 
ness  qualifications. 

He  died  in  Newbury,  Dec.  21,  1682.  His  widow  Thoraasine  survived 
him  just  forty  days  (a  "widow's  quarantine"),  and  died  in  Newbury,  Jan. 
•30,  1 682-3.    No  will  appears  of  record,  nor  any  administration  of  his  estate. 

Their  children,  the  eldest  said  to  have  been  born  in  England,  the  others 
.all  in  Newbury,  w^ere  as  follows : 

2.  i.      Thoius,*  b.  1633  ;  m.  Manr  Ilntchinson. 

3.  ii.     John,*  m.  first,  Rebecca  Lc'Well;  second,  Sarah  Somerby ;  third,  Sa- 

rah (Syinonds)  Cottle. 

4.  iii.    Samuel,^  b.  Feb.  2,  1630-10  ;  m.  Sarah  Ilsley. 

5.  iv,    Apphla,"^  b.  lG-1-2;  m.  Eenjarain  Kolfe. 

2.  Thomas*  Hale  (T/mmas^).  born  probably  in  Endand  in  1633. 
Came  with  his  parents  to  Newbury  in  1635.  Married,  iNiay  26,  1657,  at 
Salem,  ^lary,  daughter  of  Richard  and  Alice  (Boswortb)  Hutchinson,  who 
•was  baptized  at  North  Muskham,  co.  Notts,  England,  Dec.  28,  1630.  (For 
Hutchinson  pedigree,  see  Reg.,  vol.  xxii.  pp.  236  to  254.  Also  Essex  Inst. 
Hist.  Coll.,  vol.  X.  pp.  1  to  107.^ 


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>i    X 


1877.]  TJionut!:  Hale  of  jSFeichury.  85 

His  adult,  life  seems  to  have  bftMi  spent  in  Newbury.  In  1  6G0  he  received 
iVom  his  iaLlit-r  h  Ciin\eyant;e  of  \\\a  laiK.b  on  Newbury  Neck,  ji  vulual)lu 
propeity,  and  wuieh  remained  in  the  laniily  for  several  generations.  Tliis 
r)ro[i<:-rt,y  he  conveyed  to  his  son  Thomas'  in  1682,  the  deed  providing  tor 
sundry  payments  by  the  gruntee  to  his  brothers  and  sisters. 

In  the  co(itr«jversies  in  the  Newljury  church,  he  adhered  to  the  anti- 
Farker  or  Woodman  party,  and  with  the  otiier  adherents  of  that  paity, 
6onie  forty  in  number,  was  adjudged  by  the  General  Court,  in  1G71,  to  have 
been  guilty  of  scandalous  conduct.  Fines  ireru  imposed  by  the  neueral 
Com-t  on  all  the  party  except  two,  Mr.  Hale's  fine  being  "one  noble"  (oix. 
ehibings  and  eiglit  pence). 

He  does  not  appear  to  have  ever  been  in  public  lif;3,and  this  fact,  coupled 
with  his  handsome  estate,  his  early  conveyance  of  his  homestead  to  his  son. 
and  his  comparatively  early  death,  would  seem  to  denote  him  not  a  man  of 
robust  constitution. 

He  died  in  Newbury,  Oct.  22,  IGSS.  His  widow  removed  to  Lo.xtord 
with  her  son  Joseph'  about  1G92,  and  there  married,  Feb.  o,  IGOl— 5,  "Wil- 
liam Watson  of  lioxford,  the  father  of  her  son  .Joseph's  wife.  Mr.  '^Xx'.- 
6on  died  at  }>oxford,  June  27,  1710.  She  survived  Iiim  and  died  at  t!io 
same  place.  Dec.  8,  1715. 

Thomas*  Haio  left  a  will  dated  IMarch  20,  1G8G-7,  witnessed  by  KicliL-.rd 
Dole,  Sen.,  and  Henry  Short,  and  a  codicil  dated  Feb.  20, 1687-8,  witue.-^std 
by  Daniel  Thurston,  Sen.,  and  John  ELoor.  which  were  proven  *•  at  an  Infe- 
rior Court  of  Pleas  holdeu  at  S;dem,  12  Dec.  1G88."  The  will  recites  tiie 
conveyance  of  land  in  Newbury  to  son  Thomas,  and  gives  him  one  shillitig 
in  full  of  his  share;  gives  to  son  Joseph  lands  in  "  Almsbury,"  and  halt 
testator's  lands  in  Salem  Village,  £100  in  money,  "the  fowling  piece  with. 
all  that  belongs  to  her,  and  half  the  bullets  in  the  house,"  &c.  &c.  It  re- 
quires the  executrix  to  put  Joseph  "  out  to  some  good  trade  at  the  age  of 
18  or  19  years  at  flirthest."  It  gives  to  son  Samuel  lands  in  Haverhill, 
half  the  land  in  Salem  Village,  £100  in  money,  "the  musket  with  all  tliat 
belongs  to  it  and  hnlf  y*  bullets  that  shall  be  left  in  he  house,  and  the  cu^ 
iash  and  belt,"  &c.  &c.  It  gives  to  each  of  the  dtaghters  £70,  including 
what  they  had  already  received.  It  appoints  his  v.ifc  executrix,  an<l  leaves 
the  residuary  estate  to  her.  "Also  I  leave  into  her  hands  and  to  be  at  her 
dispose  my  Indian  servant  Wott."  It  appoints  '•'  Benjamin  Koif,  John  Foer 
and  Joseph  Isleley  overseers."  In  the  inventory  filed  by  the  executrix  i.-> 
named  "an  Indian  servant,"  valued  at  £20. 

His  children,  all  born  in  Newbury,  all,  ex  'he  eldest,  living  at  date  of 
the  will,  were : 

A  son,'  unnamed,  b.  Feb.  17,  16,57-8  ;  d.     .b.  2'2,  1657-8. 
Thomas,'  b.  Feb.  11,  165S-9;  m.  Sarah  Northend. 

Mary,^  b.  July  15,  1660;  m. Jewett. 

Abigail,'  b.  April  8,  lGt>3  ;  m.  Henry  Poor. 

Hannah,'  b.  Nov.  29,  1603  ;  m.  William  Peabody. 

Lyl-ia,'  b.  April  17,  1666  ;  m.  Jame^s  Plaits.  -  "  •  "-" 

10.  vii.   Elizabeth,''  b.  Oct    16.1668;  m.  Samuel  Pickard. 

11.  viii.  JosEi'n,!'  b.  Fob.  20,  1670-1  ;  m.  first,  Maiy  Watson  ;  eecon-l,  wiuow  ■ 
Joanna  Dodge.  ,    ,,      , 

12.  hi.    Samijei-.^  b.  June  6,  167-1 ;  m.  first,  Martha  Palmer :  eccona,  .'^ritjti 
■   (Perlev)  Uazen. 

3.     John'  Hale  {TJiomas'),  born  in  Newbury;  resided  in  Newbury; 
'  housewfighc "    or    carpenter    by   occtipat-'oa,  'and   kuov.'u    m    "  S^.r- 
VOL.  ^xsx.  S* 


6. 

ii. 

iii. 

7. 

iv. 

8. 

V. 

9. 

vi. 

;. .,[,;.    ./ 


86  Thomas  Hale  of  Nerchurij.  [Jan. 

geant  "  Hale-  JMarried,  first,  Dec.  5,  IGCO,  Rebecca,  daa.  of  Richard 
Lowell  of  Ncwbury.  She  wp.s  born  in  Newbury,  Jan.  27,  lGi2,  and  died 
there  June  1,  1 GG2.  He  married,  second,  Dec.  8,  1GG3,  Sarah,  dau,  of 
Henry  and  Judith  (Gret'nleaf)  Soraerby  of  Newbury,  who  was  born  in 
Newbury,    Feb.  10,    IGl.o-G,  and  died  there  June  TJ,   1G72.     lie   married, 

third,  proboJ)ly  in   1673,   Sarah  (Synionds)  widow  of  Cotllo,*   born 

about  1617  and  died  Jan.  19,  1 699-1 7U0. 

He  seeru<;  to  have  been  a  man  of  moderate  estate.  The  probate  records 
show  no  will  or  letters  of  administration. 

His  third  wife  must  have  been  the  "  Sarah  Hale,  aj^ed  33,"  who  testified 
against  Caleb  Powell  at  the  March  term  of  the  Ipswich  Court  in  1680,  co 
the  eSect  that  Joseph  Moores  had  often  said  in  her  hearing,  "  that  if  there 
■were  any  wizards  he  was  sure  Caleb  Powell  was  one  !  "  (CofSu,  p.  125.) 
He  died  in  Newbury,  June  2,  1707.     Children  : 

By  first  wife. 
13.  i.      JoiLV,^  b.  Sept.  2,  1681 ;  ni.  Sarah  Jaques 

By  second  wife. 

ii.  SiMCEL.^  b.  Oct.  15,  IC6-1;  d.  May  15,  1672. 

1-i.  iii,  Henr-,^  b.  Oct.  20,  16G6  ;  m.  Sarah  Kelly. 

iv.  TnoiiAS,' b.  Nov.  4,  i6G3  ;   died  5.  jo.  bifJre  1710. 

15.  V.  JcDiTH,'  b.  July  5,  1670  ;  nj.  Thomas  Woody. 

By  third  wife. 

16.  vi.     Joseph,*  b.  Nov.  24,  1074  ;  m.  Mary  Moodv. 
vii.   Benjamin,' b.  Aug.  11,  1676;  d.  Aui::.  31,-1677. 

17.  viii.  Moses,'  b.  July  10,  1078 ;  m.  first,  Elizabeth  Dummer  ;  second,  Mary 

Moody. 

4.  Samuel' Hale  {^Thoma^\  bom  in  Newbury,  Feb.  2,  16S9-40. 
A  manuscript  of  the  late  Joshua  CotRn  says  he  married,  first,  March  19, 
1669,  Lydia  Musgrave.  I  find  no  other  trace  of  her.  He  married,  second  (?), 
July  21,  1673,  Sarah,  dau.  of  William  and  Barbara  Ilsley  of  Newbury. 
She  was  born  in  Newbury,  Aug.  S,  1655,  and  diec  in  "Woodbridge,  N.  J., 
Jan.  16,  1630-81. 

There  was  a  Samuel  Hale  borne  on  the  tax  lists  of  Dover,  N.  H.,  in 
1665  and  1666,  who  may  have  been  this  Samuel.  About  1665  to  1670.  he 
emigrated  with,  or  following  a  considerable  colony  from  llewbury  and  vici- 
nity, to  New  Jersey,  where  they  founded  a  town  to  which  they  gave  the 
name  of  Woodbridge,  in  honor  of  Rev.  John  Woodbridge  of  Newbury.  la 
this  colony  Mr.  Hale  was  a  leading  member.  He  was  elected  marshal  of 
the  township  court  in  January,  1670-71;  was  constable  in  1680 ;.  an 
associate  justice  of  the  same  court  1683  to  1692,  and  then  and  thencefor- 
ward known  as  "Judge  Hale  ;"  was  leader  of  a  "  squad"  in  erecting  for- 
tifications in  1675;  member  of  various  town  committees  1682  to  1697; 
lieutenant  in  the  military  company,  1682-1697  ;  "  rate  gatherer"  in  IGS-i; 
was  on  committee  to  obcain  consent  of  Rev.  Mr.  Shepard  to  ordination  ia 

*  Her  maiden  name  was  Symonds  ;  and  it  has  been  asserted  that  she  wa!?  a  daughter  of 
the  Depaty  Governor  Samuel  Symonds  of  Ipswich;  but  I  .am  informed  by  \ViI!;am  S.  Ap- 
pleton,  Esq.,  who  has  published  in  his  work  entitled  "  Ancestry  of  Prisciila  Baker,"  p.  6t- 
102,  an  account  of  the  Symonds  family  of  IpsTicb,  that  this  is  not  true.  The  will  of 
Dep.  Gov.  Symonds,  which  Mr.  Appicton  prints,  makes  a  hoqueit  to  his  *'  da:i;:hter 
Hale,"  and  names  his  "  ^onne  John  Hide."  as  aa  overseer.  But  Mr.  Applcton  is  convinced 
that  these  persons  arc  Mrs.  Rebecca  (Bvlev)  Hale  (stop-dan.  of  Dep.  Gov.  Symonds)  and 
ter  husband,  the  Rev.  John*  Hale  of  Beverly,  sea  of  Robert'  Hale  of  Chai'iestowa,— k.  s.  fl. 


;  'i 


i;     <A 


(    ;»r 


1877.]  Thomas  Bile  of  JSfewhury.  87 

1701,  and  to  repair  the  meetinf^-house  in  1703  ;  on  the  organization  of  tiie 
church  (Congregational)  in  January,  1708-9,  ho  h'iads  tlie  list  of  meuibcrB 
as  one  of  Iho,  three  who  had  been  communicants  eloewhcre,  and  has  the 
title  of  "assistant;  "  wa?  justice  of  the  peace  ia  1700. 

The  to^vn  record  of  "V\  oodbridge  contains  the  entry,  "Samuel  Hale,  Esq. 
departed  this  life  November  y^  5''"^  170'j,  Behig  sixty  nine  years  nine  months 
and  three  days  old.     He  died  of  the  Sm.all  Pox." 

Lands  were  laid  off  to  him  by  the  proprietors  of  Woodbrid^c,  207  acres 
in  1G69,  12  acres  in  1688.  3  acres  in  IG'JG,  22  acres  in  1708,  and  GO  acres 
in  1709.  In  1712  Moses  Kolph  was  "  accepted  as  a  freeholder  in  Wood- 
bridge,  in  right  of  his  father-in-law,  Samuel  Hale,"  by  vote  of  town  meet- 
ing of  freeholilers  and  inhabitants,  and  further  lands  were  sot  oil  to  him  in 
that  right  in  1715  and  1717.     Children  : 

i.  Sarah,'  b.  in  Woodbridge,  Oct.  25,  1675,  and  baptized  in  Newbury, 
Aug.  12,  1677.     Probably  died  younr^. 

18.  ii.     Warv,'  b.  in  "Woodbriuge,  Nov.  28,    1678 ;  m.  firtt,  Iliggins ; 

6econd,  Moses  Rolph. 

k).  ApiUiA"  Hale  (Thomas)}  bora  in  ISewbury,  1642;  married  in 
Kewbnry,  Nov.  3,  lG.'/9,  Benjamin  Kolfe  of  Newbury,  a  weaver.  They 
lived  in  Newbury,  where  their  children  were  all  born,  and  where  he  died 
August,  1710,  and  she  died  Dec.  24,  1708.     Children  : 

i.  JoHN^  EoLFE.  b.  Oot.  12,  1660  ;  removed  to  Woodbridi^e,  N.  J.,  after 
April  27,  1685,  and  there  married  Sarah  Moores,  July  18,  1C8S.  ifc 
is  probable  t'^at  by  a  former  .ojarriai^e  he  was  the  father  ol  "  Moses 
Rolph"  (No.  18). 

ii.  Benjamin'  Kolfe,  b.  Sept.  13,  1863  ;  grad.  Han'.  Coll.  1G81;  ordained 
minister  at  Haverhill.  Jan.  1694  ;  chaplain  to  the  colonial  troops  at 
Falmouth,  _16Si};  m.  Mehitable  Atwater,  March  12,  160'J-4.  Killed 
with  his  wife  and  two  children  by  the  I'adians  at  Havcrhiil,  Au;?. 
29,1708.  From  his  daughter  Elizabeth,*  saved  from  death  at  :ho 
hands  of  the  savages  by  the  faithfulness  and  heroism  of  tlie  "  sla^e 
Hagar,"  and  subsequently  the  wife  of  Rev.  Samuel  Checkley  (Harv. 
1715).  were  descended  Rev.  Samuel* 'Jhcckley  (Ilarv.  1743),  Exizn- 
beth,*  v.ife  of  Gov.  Samuel  Adams  (Bar  .  1740),  the  wife*  of  Rev. 
Dr.  John  Lathrop  (N.  J.  Coll.  1763),  John^  Lathrop  (Harv.  1789), 
John  Lothrop*  Motley  (Harv.  1831),  the  historian,  and  Prof.  Th'.s.« 
Motley,  of  Harvard  University,  and  Samuel*  Adams  (Harv.  1770). 
Mary,*  saved  with  her  sister  Elizabeth,  married  Col.  Estes  Hatch,  of 
Dorchester. 

Hi.    Apphia'  Rolfe,  b.  March  8,  1667 ;  m.  John  Jepson.  ^,  f.... 

iv.    Mary=»  Rolfe,  b.  Sept.  16,  1669;  d.  young.  '  ^i'->'' -  '  *7". 

V.     Samtel^  Rolfe,  b.  Jan.  14,  1672-3;  m.  Sarah  Jepson. 

vi.    Mart'  Rolfe,  b.  Nov.  11,  1674  ;  d.  young.  Y  i^.       . 

vii.  Henrt'  Rolfe,  b.  Oct.  12,  1677. 

viii.  Elizabeth'  Rolfe,  b.  Dec.  15,  1679.  ,,,.  , 

ix.    Nathaniel' Rolfe,  b.  Nov.  12,  1681. 

X.     Abigail'  Rolfe,  b.  May  5,  1684, 

6.  Thoiias^  Hale  (T7iOmas,^  Thomas^),  bom  in  Newbury,  Feb.  11, 
1G:>S-0;  married.  May  16,  1682,  Sarah,  dan.  of  Ezekiel  and  Edna 
(Halsted)  Northcnd  of  Rowley.  She  was  born  in  Rowley.  Dec.  3,  iGGl, 
and  died  there  April  26,  1732.  He  spent  most  of  his  liic  in  Newbury, 
on  the  farm  on  the  "Neck,"  conveyed  to  him  by  his  father,  but  iu  17-"J 
b<ju;r;it  a  Binall  piece  of  land  in  Rowley,  built  a  house  on  it  and  removed 
thithor.  «8o  as  to  be  near  the  meeting-house,"  and  died  there,  April  12, 
1730.  »  ' 


'Jt'.p' 


88  Thonias  Hale  of  Jfewbtiry.  [Jaa. 

He  was  a  prominent  nntj  highly-esteemed  citizen,  held  commissions  la 
Nev.'bury  as  ju.-^tiee  of  tlie  peace  and  cantHin  in  the  militia,  was  a  repre- 
sentative ill  the  General  Conrt,  1713-14;  and  ■vsas  locally  known  as  •'Jus- 
tice Hale."  He  was  a  man  of  immense  size  and  strength,  weighing,  ac- 
cording to  tradition,  over  live  hundred  pounds,  and  had  a  voice  of  propor- 
tionate power,  lie  received  a  handsome  estate  from  his  father,  and  traas- 
mitted  a  much  larger  one  to  his  children. 

By  his  will,  dated  April  6,  1730,  and  proved  before  Hon.  John  Appleton, 
Judge  of  Probate,  IMay  4,  1730,  after  providing  for  his  family  and  making 
his  "•  dear  and  loving  wife  vSarah  whole  and  sole  executrix,"  he  provides, 
"I  Sv:e  cause  to  leave  fifty  pounds  in  the  hands  of  the  church  of  Christ  here 
iu  Ivowley,  which  they  shall  have  after  my  wife's  decease  to  let  out,  and 
my  will  is  that  y°  principall  should  always  remain  good  and  that  the  inter- 
est should  be  disposed  of  by  them  for  the  releaf  of  the  poore  bretheren  of 
the  church."  He  had  previously  given  to  the  church  in  his  life-time  a  sil- 
ver comnviinion  service. 

Among  the  provisions  of  the  will  is  one  requiring  two  of  the  sons  to  fur- 
nish their  mo<^her  each  year  certain  quantities  of  wheat,  rye,  corn,  barley 
malt,  pork,  beef,  "  ten  pounds  of  sheep's  wool  and  ten  pounds  of  llax  and 
two  pounds  of  cotton  wool."  All  the  other  articles  they  were  required  to 
furnish  were  evidently  intended  to  be  such  as  they  produced  on  their  owu 
farms.  Is  it  possible  that  "  cotton  wool  "  came  under  the  same  category, 
and  that  cotton  was  then  raised  in  small  quantities  on  the  lands  of  Essex  ? 

It  may  be  noted,  too,  as  somevv-hat  remarkable  for  that  day  and  for  such 
an  estate,  that  the  will  makes  no  mention  of  any  "  servants."  His  sou 
Ezekiel's  will,  six  years  later,  bequeaths  "  my  negro  roan  Ca;-sar,"  and  in 
1743  the  Kev.  Moses  Hale  of  Bytield  {'post '^o.  11)  disposes  of  "two 
Negroes,"     Children,  all  born  in  Newbury : 

i.  Thomas,*  b.  March  9,  16S3  ;  m.  Anna  Short ;  d.  Jan.  6,  1746-7. 

ii.  Edna,*  b.  Nov.  21,  1684  ;  m.  George  Little. 

iii.  Mart,*  b.  April  i^S,  1GS7  ;  m.  Moses  Little. 

iv.  EzEKiEL,*  b.  May  13,  IGSH ;  m.   first,   Kuth   Emery^   eecond,  Sarah 
■■■  (Poor)  Spaff^rd  ;  d.  April  L5,  1740. 

f.  Nathan,*  h.  June  '2,  IfiOi  ;  m.  Elizabeth  Kent;  d.  1TG7. 

vi.  Sarah,*  b.  March  9,  lf^G3  ;  ra.  Joseph  Pearson. 

vii.  Ebenezer,*  b.  April  21,  1G95 ;  drowned  May  25,  1715.  unmarried. 

viii.  Daniel,*  b.  Feb.  2-,   1696-7;  m.  Judith  Emery;  killed  in  siege  of 

Louisburg,  May  21,  1745. 

ix.  Hannah,*  b.  June  7,  1699;  m.  Thomas  Wicom. 

X.  Josuta,*  b.  17  March,  1701  ;  m.  Hannah  Woodman  ;  d.  April  20, 1742. 

xi.  Moses,*  b.  1703;  m.  Elizabeth  Wheeler;  d.  June  19,  1762. 

Ten  of  these  eleven  children  left  families,  and  the  descendants  of  all,  or 
nearly  all,  of  these  tea  are  traced  to  the  present  time. 

The  eldest  son  of  Thomas^  was  Thomas,*  whose  eldest  son  was  Thomas,* 
and  his  only  son  was  Tiiomas,^  in  whom  terminated  an  inibrokcn  line  of 
seven  Thomiis  Hales,  eldest  sons  in  succession,  from.  Thomas*  of  Newbury. 
Thora-'is^  enlisted  in  April.  1777,  in  Capt.- Benjamin  Stone's  company  of  the 
3d  Nev/  Hampshire  Battalion  of  continentL3l  troops,  and  was  killed  in  bat- 
tle at  Hu'ibard.ton,  Vt.,  July  7.  1777,  at  the  age  of  20,  and  unmarried. 

From  Thomas*  also  descended  Rev.  Dr.  Benjamin*  Hale  (Bowdoin  Coll. 
1818)  (Thomas,''  Benjamin,''  Thomas,*  TLomas*),  and  his  brothers  Moses 
Little,*  Thomas,^  Josiah  Little,^  Edward,^  Ebenezer''  (3I.D.  Dart..  Coll. 
1821) ),  and  Joshua,*  and  his  sister  Alic3  Little,*  wife  of  Ivov.  John  Charles 
Jlarch  (Yale.,  iS25).     The  childxen  of  Benjamin^  were  Beujamia'-  (Hobart 


:i.  1< 


Coll.,  N.  Y,,  1848),  the  present  lineal  representative  of  Thomas,*  T'lomis*     j 
(same,  I8"n5),  Cyrus  King'  (same,  18'>8),  Josiali  Little'  (same,  18G0),  and     j 


1877.]  Thomas  Ilale  of  Newbury,  89 

Coll., 

(•^       .  .      . 

Sarah  lOli/nheth,*  wife   of  Ilev.  Dr.  JMalcolm   Doii^jiass,  late  President  of 

iSorwieh   University,  A''t.,  now  of  Andover,  Mass.     J'^ben   Thomas"  Hale 

(Yale,  1862)   also  descended  from  Thomas,*  through  Thomas,*  iJeujamin,* 

Ebeuezer.^ 

From  Tliomas,*  through  his  son  Oliver,*  came  Dr.  William*  Hale,  who 
settled  in  Virginia,  married  Miss  Sarah  Qaarlcs,  and  became  the  ancestor 
of  a  numerous  posterity  now  scattered  through  Virginia,  South  Carolina, 
Alabama  and  Florida,  among  "svhom  may  be  noted  Samuel  Quarlci"  Hale 
of  Alabama,  and  his  sons  Joseph  White*'  Hale  of  Montgomery,  Ala.,  aiid 
Anthony  White^  Hale  (Oglethorpe  Coll.,  Georgia,  18G1),  who  was  killed 
in  the  confederate  service  at  Chancellorsville,  in  jMay,  18C3;  Dr.  .lames 
Overton'  H:ile  of  Florida  ;  and  Elvira,^  wife  of  Kev.  Robert  Hodges,  a 
graduate  of  South  Carolina  College.  Also,  in  female  lines,  Anthony*  White 
(Davidson  Coll,  N.  C,  18-17)  of  Sumter,  S.  C,  and  AYilliam*  White  (same, 
1857),  who  was  in  the  confederate  service  during  the  rebellion,  and  killed 
in  battle  befoTo  Richraond,  June  30,  18C2. 

From  Ezekiel'*  Hale  descended  Kev.  Christopher  Sargent''  Hale  (Brown 
Univ.  1820),  and  Hon.  P:zekiel  J.  M.**  Hale  (Dart.  1835)  of  Haverhill, 
Mass. 

From  Dr.  Nathan*  Hale,  a  highly  respected  citizen  of  Newburyport, 
came  Nathan*  (Harv.  1739),  Dr.  Eliphalet^  of  Eseter,  N.  H.,  and  his  son 
Dr.  Eliphalet";  and  in  female  lines,  Hon.  Nicholas'  Emery  (Dart.  17D.')), 
Charles  Emerv^  Soule  (iJowd.  184:2),  Nicholas  Emery^  Soule  (Harv.  1815), 
Augustus  Lord"  Soule  (Harv.  1846)',  Charles  Emery^  Stevens  (Dart.  1835), 
and'lvan^  Stevens  (Dart.  1842),  Elizabeth'  Emery,  wife  of  Gideon  Lano 
Soule  (Bowd.  1818)  of  Exeter,  N.  H.,  Catherine*  Emery,  wife  of  xjos-v^ell 
Stevens  (Dart.  1804),  and  Elizabeth  Emery  Hurd'  Stevens,  wife  of  Ilev. 
Seth  Warriuer  Bannister  (Amherst,  1835). 

Daniel*  commanded  a  company  in  Col.  Samuel  Waldo's  Mass.  regiment 
in  the  expedition  against  Louisburg  in  1745,  and  •  7as  killed  at  the  head  of 
his  company  in  the  trenches  before  that  fortification.  May  21,  1745.  His 
descendants  are  numerous  in  Essex  county,  Mass.,  and  elsewhere.  Among 
them  are  the  late  Francis  Pickard^  Hale  (Bowd.  1845)  of  Charlestowu, 
Mass.,  and  Daniel  Harris*  Hale,  Esq.,  of  Rowley,  president  of  the  Rowley 
Historical  Society. 

The  descendants  of  Joshua*  are  also  found  largely  in  Essex  county  and 
in  Boston.     Among  them  are  Pemberton'  Hale  of  Salem,  and  Thomas 
Hale,  and  his  son  Thomas  Pemberton*  Hale,  both  of  Rowley. 

Closes*  Hale  settled  in  Rindge,  N.  H.,  and  died  there.     His  daughters 
Elizabeth^  married  Jacob    Gould.   Eunice*   married  James  Philbrick,  and 
Lucy*  m.arried  Henry  Coifeen.    All  have  lefc  descendants.     His  son  Mosea 
spent  his  life  and  died  la  Rindgo,  where  his  descendants  are  still  numerous. 

CVjI.  Enoch*  Ho.le  (son  of  Moses*)  was  one  of  the  most  promlneat  -sup- 
P<3rter3  of  tha  Revolutionary  cause  iu  New  Hampshire,  and  distini,'uir-lu.-a 
^wth  in  military  and  civil  li/e  ;  was  a  member  of  the  New  Hampshire  Pro- 
vincial Congress,  Senate  and  Council.  He  served  in  the  old  r  rencli  war, 
and  was  \\-ith  Col.  Monroe  at.  the  capture  of  Fort  William  Henry  and  slU>- 
'H.'<iuent  massacre  there.  In  the  Revolutionary  War  was  colonel  ot  a  "^  G«^i> 
p-aphical  Regiment,"  and  was  repeatedly  in' active  service,  and  acted  al.io 
•1-i  quartermaster  general  of  the  state.  From  him  desceiaic-d  Jo.shua-  Ila.c, 
t^i-,  of  Newbury,  Vt.,  who  rivalled  his  greac-grandfather  Thom:is  lu  pliy- 


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90  l^komas  Iln.lc  of  Ncwoiiry.  [Jan. 

sica!  sizo  ;  Chnrloi"  ITal.;,  Es(|..  of  Newbury.  Vt..  Oscar  Cutler'  ILile,  Eso., 
of  Keokuk,  Iowa.  ^^"illi;Uli■'  Ilnlu,  Esq.,  civil  eiiginecr.  of  Essex  J'lnction, 
Vt.,  and  HoiifY  Clay^  ILvle,  Esq.,  civil  env^inecr,  of  Wasliingfuu  Tevritury. 

Col.  Nathan*  Hale,  yonngest  son  of  JMoses,*  horn  in  IIam[)s.t(?a(l,  N.  II., 
Sept.  2.J,  1743,  reuio^ed  with  his  fither  to  Rimls^e  about  17G0,  married, 
Jau.  28,  ITCT),  Abigail,  daughter  of  Col.  John  and  Joanna  (Boyuton)  Grout 
of  Lunenburg,  Mass..  was  the  first  constable  of  Ilindge  at  its  organization 
in  1708;  raoderafor  at  the  annual  town  meetings  in  1773,  1774  and  177.'> ; 
captain  of  a  company  of  minute-men  in  1774;  marched  his  company  to 
Cambridge  on  the  alarm  of  the  battle  of  Lexington  in  Ajiril,  177.0;  was 
coaimissioned  niisjor  in  the  3d  New  Hampshire  regiment,  June  2,  1775; 
Lt.-Colontl  in  the  2d  IJattalion,  N.  H.  line,  Nov.  8,  1776,  and  Colonel  of 
the  same  April  2,  1777.  He  served  at  Bunker  Hill,  in  New  York  under 
TV'ashiagton  in  1776,  at  Ticonderoga  under  vSt.  Clair  in  1777  until  its  evac- 
uation, was  taken  prisoner  at  Hubbardton  July  7,  1777,  was  diboharged  on 
a  limited  parol,  not  to  serve  again  till  exchanged,  and  to  return  within  the 
enemy's  lines  within  two  years  if  not  sooner  exchanged,  and  left"  Ticonde- 
roga for  his  home  m  Kludge,  July  20,  1777.  He  remai.ied  at  Rindge  till 
Jauu  Li,  1770,  when,  not  having  been  exclianged,  he  returned  within  the 
enemy's  line-,  pursuant  to  bis  parol,  and  remained  a  prisoner  till  his  death 
in  New  Utrecht,  L.  I.,  Sept.  23,  1780.  Of  his  children,  Charlotte*  married 
Dr.  Abraham  Lowe  of  Ashburnham,  and  was  the  mother  of  Dr.  Abraham 
T.'  Lowe  (3I.D.  Dart.  181 G),  and  from  her  are  also  descended  William  J.' 
Cutler  and  A!)raham  L.^'  Cutler  of  Boston,  Lewis  G.^  Lowe  (M.D.  I");irt. 
1864),  Lewis  Lowe'"  Abbott  (Yale,  18GG)  and  Joseph  Vvhitin^  Abbott  (Yale 
1868). 

Nathan*  Hole  of  Windsor,  Vt.,  and  afterwards  of  Chelsea.  Vt..  wliere 
he  died,  had  childt-en  :  John  Tyler''  Hale,  formerly  of  Boston,  died  at 
Washmgton,  Iowa ;  Raymond^  Plale,  whose  son  Col.  Oscar  Adrian'^  Hale 
(Dart.  1860)  was  a  gallant  ofhcer  in  the  Union  army  in  the  war  of  the 
rebellion,  and  died  in  So'ith  America  in  1867  ;  Dr.  Nathan  Grout^  Hale 
of  Windsor,  Vt. ;  Mary,''  wife  of  Col.  Ralph  Hosford  of  Thetford,  Vt.,  and 
at\er«  ards  of  John  White  of  Woodstock,  Vt. ;  and  Stella  Jane,^  wife  of 
Chauucey  Smith,  Esq.,  of  Washington,  D.  C,  whose  son  Capt.  Nathan  A. 
C*  Smith  served  m  the  Union  array  daring  the  war  of  the  rebcdlion.  E!i- 
phalet*  Hale,  an  honored  clti/en  of  Boston,  who  died  at  Keene,  N.  H., 
had  children :  Mary  WhitwelF  Hale,  for  many  years  a  teacher  in  Taunton, 
Mass.,  a  well-known  writer  of  prose  and  verse,  and  who  died  a,t  Keene, 
N.  H.,  and  George  Hale,  Esq.  now  of  Boston. 

Hojry*  Hale,  youngest  son  of  Col.  Nathan,*  settled  first  at  Windsor,  Vt., 
and  afterwards,  in  1807^  at  Chelsea,  Vt.,  where  he  died  June  2,  1861,  at 
the  age  of  81,  after  an  honored  and  useful  life,  both  in  public  and  private 
stations.  By  his  first  wife  Phebe,  daughter  of  David  a'nd  Fhebe  (Spott'ord) 
Adams  of  Rindge,  N.  IL,  he  had  children  :  Folly,''  who  married  Dr.  Hiram 
Bliss  (]M.D.  Dart.  182.';),  and  whose  sons  are  Henry  Hale'  Bliss  of  New 
York  city,  Charles  Edv.-ard^  Bliss  of  Bangor,  INEe.,  Hiram^  Bliss,  Es([., 
of  Washington,  Me.,  and  George*  Bliss  of  Waldoboro',  Sle.  ;  Mark^ 
Hale,  midshipman  in  the  United  States  Navy ;  Louisa,^  who  married 
Rev.  Eiihu  Scott,  now  of  Hampton,  N.  H..  whose  surviving  children 
are  Professor  .Joseph  Gould*  Scott  of  the  State  Normal  Scliooi  at  West- 
field,  Mass.,  Harry  Hale^  Scott  (Dart.  1871),  and  Julia,^  wife  of  Fru'.eis 
Asbury  Smith  (WesL  Univ.  185'J)  of  Elizabetlitown,  N.  Y^ ;  Phebe  Ad- 
ams' Hale,  wife  of  Stephen  Vincent,  Esq.,  of  Chelsea,  Vt.,  among  whose 


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chilJren  are  Dr.  Walter  Scott'  Vincent  (M.D.  Univ.  Vt.  1801)  of  Burlin;^- 
luii,  Vt.,  ri  siirgooii  iu  tbc  Vt.  Volunteers,  and  Ann  Eli/,;i,  wife  of  Dr.  Story 
Norman  Gos;  (]M.D.  l>art.  1857)  of  Chelsea,  Vt.,  who  was  also  a  surgeon 
of  Vt.  A'olnnreer.-; ;  Thomas'  Hale,  Esq.  (A.3[.  at  Univ.  Vt.  1852)  of  Jvceno, 
N.  II.;  and  Henry"  Hale,  Esq.  (Univ.  Vt.  1810),  of  St.  Paul,  iVliiiii.  Dy 
his  second  wife  Luciuda,  daughter  of  C'apt.  Eiihraim  and  Mary  (Sall'ord) 
Eddy  of  Woodstock,  Vt..  and  who  was  a  lineal  descendant  of  3Iilos  Staii'i- 
ish  and  John  Alden  of  PIvmouth,  1G"20,  his  children  were:  Abiirail  (tpou'/ 
Hale  of  Chelsea,  Vt. ;  Dr.'Satrord  Ed<ly'  Hah;  (31.D.  Dart.  1841)  of  Elizo- 
hethtown,  N.  Y.,  whose  son  Frederick  Churchill"  Ilale  is  a  lawyer  at  Chica- 
go;  Laura  Charlotte^  wife  of  Kev.  William  Tyler  Herrick  (I'niv.  A't.  18.''1'), 
and  whose  son  William  Hale^  Herrick  (Williams  Coil.  1871)  is  professor 
in  Grinneli  College.  Iowa;  Robert  Sailbrd"  Hale  (Univ.  Vt.  18-12),  late 
M.C.  from  New  York,  and  whose  son  Harry^  Hale  is  a  lawyer,  both  r^'sid- 
iiig  at  Elizabethtown,  N.  Y. ;  Rev.  John  Gardner"  Hale  (T'niv.  Vt.  1815) 
of  Chester,  Vt. ;  William  Bainbridge^  Hale.  Esq.,  of  2\orthampton,  INIass., 
whose  sons  are  Philip^  (Yale,  187G)  ami  Edward**  now  a  member  of  the 
class  of  1879  in  Harvard  College;  and  Hon.  Matthew' Hale  (Univ.  Vt. 
1851)  of  Albany,  N.  Y. 

7.  Abigail' Hale  [TJcomas,^  Thomas^),  born  in  Newdmry,  April  S. 
1GG2;  married  at  same  place,  Sept.  2,  lG7y,  Henry,  son  of  John  Poor  of 
Newbury,  born  there  Dec.  13,  1G50.  They  resided  in  Newbury  till  about 
1695,  seven  of  their  children  having  been  born  there,  and  then  removed  to 
the  north  part  of  Rowley,  about  that  time  knowu  as  Rowlbury,  and  after- 
wards as  l^ytield  Parish,  where  the  three  youngest  cliiidren  were  born. 
Children :  i     •.    .  ,.     ... 

i.      Abigail^  Poor,  b.  Sept.  9,  16S0. 
ii.     He.nrv'  Poor,  b.  Jan.  31,  ieSl-2  ;  m.  Mary  Holmes. 
iii.    Jeremiau*  Poor,  b.  Jan.  10,  1663-4. 
iv.    MAR-i-^  Poor,  b.  AprH- 10,'1656  ;  d.  young.  ' 

v.     Marv*  Poor.  b.  8ept.  20.  16i:<T. 
vi.     IlA.N-yAH-*  Poor,  b.  Juiv  19.  1690. 
T  i.   Sarah-*  Poor,  b.  Jan.  18.  1693-1. 
.     viii.  Benjamin'  Poor,  b.  March  23,  1695-6  ;  m.  Elizabeth  Felt. 
ix.    Elizabeth-*  Poor,  b.  April  9,  1693. 
X.     Daniel*  Poor,  b.  Oct.  15,  1700. 

From  some  of  these  children  a  numerous  posterity  exists.  .    '' 

8.  Hann-ah'  Hale  [Thomas^  Thomas^),  born  in  Newbury,  Nov.  29, 
IGG.'J  ;  married  Aug.  14,  1634  (as  his  secoiid  wife)  William,  son  of  Francis 
and  ]\Iary  (Foster)  Peabody  of  Boxford.     They  resided  in  Boxford,  where  - 
he  died  iu  March,  1609,  and  she  died  Feb.  23,  1733.     Children  ; 

i.  Stephen*  Peaeody,  b.  Aug.  5,  16S5  ;  m.  riannah  Swao. 

ii.  Mart*  Peafjody,  b.  April  11,  16S7  ;  m.  Joseph  Symond?. 

iii.  Efhp.aim*  PEAbODY,  b.  April  23,  16S9  ;  m.  Hannah  Redington. 

iv.  Ricuard' Peabody,  b.  Feb.  7,  1691  ;  m.  Kiith  Kiml-ali. 

V;  Hannah-*  Feabody,  b.  Aug.  1693  ;  m.  Jonotiian  Foster.         '.:: 

vi.  John*  Pe^body,  b.  Au^.  1,  1G95  ;  m.  Sarah . 

vii.  Aeiel^  Peabody,  b.  1607. 

viii.  Oliver*  Pkabody,  b.  May  7,  1698  ;   m.  Hannah  Ba.^ter. 

Of  these  children,  Oliver''  (Harv.  1721)  was  the  honored  pastor  of  ("u^ 
rhnrcli  in  Natick,  where  he  died,  Feb.  2,  1752.  Of  hi^  children.  (Jl.-v-r* 
(Hrirv.  1715)  '.v.:u-  nnstor  of  the  iirst  church  in  Roxbury  from  I7.i0  t,.  h:i 
•^-^th.  May  TJ,  \lo2,  at  the  age  of  2ti,  Hannah'  was  the  uiJc  ot  Rv;/. 
Eliiur  Holyoke  <;Harv.  1750). 


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From  Stephen*  descended  Hannah'  Peabody,  wife  of  Rev.  Ilumplirey 
Moor  (Ilarv.  17 'J  9). 

From  Kpliraim*  descended  Rev.  Ephraim'  Pea))odv  of  Boston  (Boivd. 
1827)  and  his  children,  the  wife  of  President  Charles  William  Eliot  of 
Harvard  University  (Harv.  1853),  the  wife  of  Rev.  Dr.  Henry  AV.  Bel- 
lows of  New  York  (Harv.  1832),  Robert  Swain'  Peabody  (Harv.  ]8GG), 
and  Rev.  Francis  Greenwood'  Peabody  (Harv.  18C0);  also  Hon.  Jolm* 
Appleton  of  Bangor,  Me.  (Bowd.  1822). 

From  Richard*  descended  Samuel^  Peabody  (Dart.  1803)  and  his  son 
Hot>.  Charles  Augustus''  Peabody  of  New  York,  and  his  sons  Duaue 
Livingstoir  Peabody  (Colum.  Coll.  1868),  Charles  Augustus"  Peabody 
(same,  18G9),  and  George  Livingston^  Peabody  (sam.j.  1870).  Also  Adriel* 
Peabody.  formerly  a  lawyer  at  Plattsburgh,  2s.  Y,,  and  bis  son  Oliver  Da- 
vidson'' Peabody,  Esq.,  of  Keeseville,  N.  Y. 

From  .John'*  descended  Rev.  Stephen*  Peabody  (Harv.  17G9),  Hon.  Oli- 
ver'' Peabody  (Harv.  1773),  Stephen^  Peobody  (Harv.  1794),  Rev.  Oliver 
William  Bourne^  Peabody,  and  Rev.  William  Bourne  Oliver''  Peabody 
(both  of  fln.rv.  1816).  his  sons,  Col,  Everett'  Peabody  (Harv.  1849),  who 
fell  nobly  at  Shiloh  in  April  18C2,  and  Francis  H."  Peabody,  Oliver  W.^ 
Peabody  and  ^7illiam  B.  0.^  Peabody,  of  Boston,  also  Lucretia  Orne'  Pea. 
body,  wife  of  ETon.  Alexander  Hill  Everett  (Harv.  1806),  Augustus'  Pea- 
body (Dart.  1803),  and  his  sons  Augustus  Goddard'  Peabody  (Harv.  1837), 
Owen  Glendour^' Peabody  (Dart.  1842)  and  Edward  Thatcher^  Peabody, 
professor  in  Lagrange  College,  Ky. 

9.  Ltdia'  Hale  {'Thomas,'  Thomas^),  b.  in  Newbury,  April  17, 
166G;  married,  Sept.  10,  1G91,  James  son  of  Samuel  and  Sarah  Piatts  of 
Rowley.  He  was  born  in  Rowley,  June  11,  IGSl.  Lived  in  Rowley. 
Children  : 

i.  Samttel*  Platts,  b.  Jan.  30,  1693-4  ;  m.  first,  Sarah  Varnum  ;  second, 

Mary  Bennett. 

ii.  MAP.r*  Platts,  b.  June  19,  1698  ;  d.  young. 

iii.  ^Iakv*  Platts,  b.  Sept.  5,  1700  ;  m.  lienry  Abbott. 

•■  iv.  James*  Platts,  d.  Aug.  18,  1703. 

V.  James*  Platts,  d.  Peb.  14,  17:2C-3. 

vi.  Sarah*  Platts,  b.  June  22,  1710  ;  m.  Leonard  Cooper. 

10.  Elizabeth'  Hale  (  Thomas,'  Thomas^),  born  in  Newbury,  Oct.  16, 
1668  ;  m.  May  31,  1687  (as  his  second  wife)  Samuel,  son  of  John  and  Jane 
(Crosby)  Pickard  of  Rowley.  Lived  in  Rowley,  where  he  was  a  leading 
citizen,  and  was  representative  in  the  General  Court  in  1723  and  1724.  He 
was  born  in  Rowley  in  May,  1663.  She  died  June  29,  1730.  Savage  says 
their  '•  descendants  in  Rowley  have  been  numerous  and  respectable." 
Children : 

i.  Sahx^l*  PiCKARD,  b.  Mnrch  9,  16S7-8  ;  d.  June  9,  1689.  '  ' 

ii.  S.iiitrfiL*  Pickard,  b.  Dec.  4,  1089. 

iii.  Thomas*  Pjckard,  b.  Feb.  6.  1090-1 ;  m.  Mehitable  Dresser. 

iv.  WosEs"  Pickard,  b.  Dec.  4,  IG'Jl ;  ni.  I.ydia  Plats. 

V.  Elizabetu*  Pickard,  b.  March  -2,  1G9G-7  ;  m.  Thomas  Dickinson. 

vi.  Mart*  Pickard,  b.  Aug.  20,  1698. 

vii.  JnsEi'H*  Pk.-kard,  b.  .March  17,  1700-1  ;  m,  Sarah  Jewett. 

viii.  J.^sE*  Pickard,  b.  May  5,  1704  ;  m.  Joseph  Stickney. 

11.  JosErn' Hale  {Thoynas,^  ITiomas^),  bom  in  Newbury,  Feb.  S'"*, 
1670-1.     Settled  in  Boxlbrd  as  early  as  1G02.     Married  Nov.  15,  1693, 


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Mary.  Jauo^hter  of  William  and  Sarah  (Perley)  Watson  of  Boxfonl.  Sho 
died*  in  ]jo.\ford,  Feb.  1,  l7U7-8,  and  he  married  second  {••  pul.li.-hi-d  " 
Sej)*™  10,  1703)  "widow  Joanna  Dod^e  of  I|)S\vich."  lie  died  at  I'x.ixfuni. 
Feb.  13,  17G1,  at  tlie  age  of  90.  He  was  a  man  of  handsome  estate,  mid  of 
\\\'j}\  standing;  and  lanje  intlueuce  in  his  town  ;  was  successively  ensign,  lieu- 
tenant atul  captain  in  the  militia  ;  was  for  many  years  seleolnian,  an<i  repre- 
sented Boxford  in  the  Genei'al  Court  for  sixteen  years,  between  171-1  and 
1735.  In  the  numerous  conveyances  of  real  estate  given  and  received  by 
him,  he  is  described  as  '-husbandman,"  '•yeoman,"  "  house-carpentfr,"  and 
in  the  later  years  of  his  life,  "  gentleman."     His  children  were  as  follows  : 

Yjy  first  wife : 

i.      JosEi'H,'*  b.  Aug.  23,  1091;  ni.  lJr*t,  Mary  Hovcy  ;  second,  widow  S-i- 

rah  llovey;  third,  widow   Lydij,  Liowa  ;  IbuiLli,  widow  Susannah 

Fellows.     Died  Oct.  5,  1773. 
ii.     J.\coB,''  h.  1*396;  ni.  first,  Ilaunali  Goodhue  :  Peoond,  Mary  narriman. 

Died  April  17,  1731. 
iii.    Makv,-»  b.  Oct.  1,  1GU7  ;  d.  Aug.  29,  1702. 
iv.     AuBF.osE,*  b.  Feb.  iO,  109S-y  ;  m.  first,  Joanna  Dodge  ;  second,  ILm- 

r.ah  ;^y^aJUus.     Died  Aj)ril  13,  1767. 
T.      Aenkr,"*  b    Aug.  2.   1700;   ru.   tiist,  Ruth  Perkins;  second,  Kcziah 

(bmith)  IJaker;  third,  Eunice  Kimball.     Di(.^d  Feh.  13,  1701. 
vi.     I*IoSES,*   b.   Dec.  2.5,  1701  ;   grad.  at   Harv.  On!.    1722  ;   minisrer  at 

Chester,  iN.  H.,  1730-1731;  ni.  Abigail  W'aiiiwright;   d.   1700. 
Tii.   Saeah,*  b.  April  6,  1701  ;  lu.  JaC'^b  Kiaibud ;  d.  Jan.  11,  1723-4. 

By  second  wife : 

viii.  llEPzmAH,*  b.  Sept.  21,  1700  ;  m.  John  Curtis. 

ix.     Lydia,*  b.  March  23,  17ir(-ll  ;  ui.  Natlian  Perley. 

X.      Margaret,-*  b.  Feb.  23,  1712-13  ;  in.  Amos  Kimball. 

xi.     TuoiiAS,'*  b.  Jan.  8,  1711-15  ;  m.  Mary  Kimbdl  ;  d.  Sept.  18,  1791. 

xii.   Jerry,*  b.  July  12,  1717  ;   ni.  Priseili;i.  Peab.Kiy  (a  gr.-dau.  GfliaGualv 

(Hale)  Peabody,  No.  8  svpra)  ;  d.  1771. 
xiii.  Hannah,*  b.  Aprd  27,  1719  ;  m.  Eenjamin  Batchelder. 
siv.  Benjamin,*  b.  xMarch  2,  1720-1  ;  d.  1723. 

The  posterity  of  Joseph,"  generally  designated  as  th'  "  Boxford  branch" 
of  the  family,  is  numerous.  The  descendants  of  Joseph,^  who  lived  and 
died  in  Boxford,  still  reside  to  a  large  extent  iu  that  town.  Others  are 
found  in  Vermont,  and  Dr.  Joseph^  Hale  (from  Joseph*  through  Joseph,* 
Joseph^'  and  Joseph'^)  resides  at  IMiller's  Corners,  Ontario  county,  N.  Y., 
having  an  infant  sou  Joseph.' 
•  Ambrose*  settled  in  Harvard,  Mass.,  and  died  there.  His  descendants 
are  mostly  to  be  found  in  Maine.  Among  them  are  Hon.  Eii^rene^  Hale 
(A.M.  at'Bowd.  1869),  3I.C.  from  Maine.  Frederick^  Hale  (^Waterville 
Coll.  1SG2)  and  Clarence"  Hale  (Bowd.  ltiC9). 

Abner*  lived  and  died  in  Boxford.  Several  of  his  children  wore  among 
the  early  settlers  of  Winchendon,  jNlass.,  where  many  descendants  are  siwi 
f  jund,  among  whom,  is  Oren  Sylvester^  Hale.  Others  are  found  in  Maine. 
^<"W  Hampshirp,  Vermont,  New  York,  Illinois  and  Califoi'uia-  His  d.iULdi- 
t-J-  Juddtl,,i  born  Oct.  14,  1747,  married,  April  12,  17'o8,  Ab-^^alom  Towne, 
a'ld  settled  first  iu  Winchendon,  but  afterwards  removed  to  Paris,  Out-ida 
County,  N.  Y.,  where  she  died  March  16,  18.54,  at  the  sge  of  106  yt-.trs 
a^>d  five  months  I  Ivloocs,*  son  of  Abner,'*  a  leading  citizen  of  Wincl-endon, 
•'•••<1  iu  that  town  in  1828  at  the  age  of  86  ;  and  othis  children,  Hon.  Artr- 
'^•>-^*  H:de,  of  Bridgewater,  formerly  M.C  from  Mas.aebnsetts,  :-iill  j,ur- 
'i--e.s  in  a  vi-orous  old  a^e  at  93 ;  Achsa,'  wife  of  Joseph  Coolioge,  still 
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lives  at  95,  while  Lucy"  dlod  unmarried  in  Bridge  water,  Feb.  5,  187G,  at 
tilt;  aga  uf  93  yr;-ii.s  and  live  inonth.s.  Among  Uie  otlicr  desccnd.'ints  of 
Abnf  i"*  may  be  named  CJiarles  George  Clintou'  Ihde  (H:irv.  18^1).  l^avid' 
Hale  (Bowd.  18()0),  Suamer  llalc,  uiercliant  of  Cliicago,  111.,  "William' 
Hale,  formerly  of  Oetrolt.  an<l  afterwards  a  leading  lawyer  of  Sau  Francisco, 
Cul.,  where  he  died  a  few  years  since,  Albert  Cable"  Ilale  (lioche.^ter  Univ. 
ISG'J),  Oorgo  David^  ilale  (IJocliester  Univ.  IbTO),  Laura,«  wife  of  Ivcv. 
James  Kij-ley  Wheelock  (Dart.  18U7),  and  Kev.  John'  Keyes  (Dart.  1S03). 

From  iMargaret,*  who  married  Amos  Kimbal!  of  Jioxford,  is  desceiided 
Dr.  Walter  Ilenry^  Kimball  of  Andover  (Dart.  1811). 

Thomas'*  was  one  of  the  ii''st  settlers  of  iS'orth  lirookfkid,  Mass.,  and 
had  thirteen  children,  all  of  whom  save  one  lived  to  be  married.  Of  them, 
William^  was  a  physician  in  Doxford,  among  whoso  descendants  is  William 
Augustus^  Herrick,  Esq.  (Dart.  1854).  Thomas*  was  for  many  years  a 
state  senator  from  AVorcester  county,  a  magistrate,  and  a  mau  high  in  influ- 
ence and  authority  in  his  town  and  county ;  JMordecai*  was  a  surgeou  in 
the  Revolutionary  array,  settled  in  Westchester  county,  N.  Y.,  married 
Catherine,  (huu'hter  of  Gen.  William  Paulding  and  sister  of  James  K. 
Paukhng,  and  his  daughter  Maria*'  became  the  wife  of  Lems  G.  Irving.  Esq., 
of  Peek;!: ill,  sou  of  William  and  nephew  of  Washington  Irving.  Among 
the  other  <iesceudants  of  Thomas"'  were  William  Ilale'^  Maynard  C^Villiams 
1810),  a  distinguished  lawyer  of  Utica,  N.  Y.,  and  member  of  the  state  sen- 
ate of  New  York,  who  died  of  cholera  in  1832  ;  Rev.  Dr.  Montgomerv  S.' 
Goodale  (Amherst  1834),  Rev.  Thomas"  Adams  (Dart.  1814),  :Martha 
Maria,^  wife  of  Rev.  Myron  vS.  Dudley  (Williams  18G3),  Mordecai"  Hale, 
Esq.,  of  Ilardwick,  Vt.,  and  Capt.  Owon^  Ilale  of  the  7th  Cavalry,  U.S.A. 

The  descendants  of  John"*  are  in  large  part  in  New  Brunswick  and  Nova 
Scotia ;  among  them  the  late  James*  Hale,  Esq.,  of  St.  John,  N.  B.,  and 
his  sons  Henry,"  James  Frederick"  and  John  Strong." 

12.  Samuel' Hale  [Thomas,^  T?iO/nas^),  horn  in  Newbury,  June  6, 
1674.  Settled  about  1699  in  Bradford  (the  part  now  Groveland),  at  a  place 
still  known  as  "  Hale's  Corners."  He  married,  firs  ,  in  Rowley,  Nov.  3, 
1698,  Martha,  the  dau.  of  Samuel  and  ]Mary  (Pearson)  Palmer  of  Rowley, 
where  she  was  born,  April  24,  1677.  She  was  the  mother  of  all  his  child- 
ren, and  died  in  Bradford,  June  14,  1723.  He  married,  second,  Dec.  30, 
1723,  Sarah,  widow  of  Edward  Hazen,  and  daughter  of  John  Perley,  who 
survived  him  and  died  between  Nov.  30,  175S.  and  July  18.  17.39.  He  died 
Dec.  13,  1745.  He  was  a  man  of  handsome  estate,  a  leading  man  in  his 
town,  and  a  farmer  of  a  superior  order,  especially  distinguished  as  a  fruit- 
grower.    Children : 

i.  Samuel,*  h.  Oct.  23,  1699  ;    m.  first,  Hannah  Hovey  ;  second,  Sarah 

naseltine.     Died  May -^4,  1770. 

ii.  JoNATiiAv,*  b.  Jan.  y,  1701-2  ;  m.  Susannah Tuttle.  ^  ■>;  ■     -f  •; : 

iii.  Mart,*  b.  May  27,  17u.")  ;  m.  Ueor<^e  Carleton. 

iv.  Maktha,'*  b.  June  1"',  1709;  m.  Mo^e.s  Jewett.  , 

V.  Jane,*  b.  Aiiir.  1,  1711  ;  ni.  Philip  Tennoy. 

vi.  David,*  b.  bept.  oO,  1711  ;  m.  iiarah  Uond  ;  d.  1776. 

His  descendants,  known  as  the  "  Bradford  branch."  are  less  numerous 
than  those  of  either  Ids  brother  Thom.as^  or  Joseph,'^  though  many  in  both 
male  and  female  lines  are  to  be  found  in  Massachusetts,  New  Hampshire, 
!Maine,  Utah  and  el-=e'vhere.  From  his  son  Samuel''  descended  Jon;'.than 
Harrimaa"  Hale,  a  bishop  of  the  IMormon  church,  who  died  in  lov.'a,  and  whose 


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dcsceudants  reside  in  Utah  and  Idaho,  and  are  leading  racmbors  of  tho 
Ijloroaon  church;  ah-io  IIou.  Moses''  Hale  of  liochester,  N.  II.,  fornv.!rlv  a 
luoinber  of  tlie  state  senuce  of  New  Ifampshirc,  and  his  chiiilron,  Calvin'' 
Ilale,  Esq.,  of  Dover,  N.  H,,'  and  Caroline,"  wife  of  liev.  Louis  TuriM.T 
(liowd.  1831).  Jonathan*  was  the  father  of  Dr.  John*"  Hale  of  Mollis,  M. !{.. 
distiu^nl.shfd  by  his  jxitriotic  services  in  the  Revolutionary  war,  alsfj  of 
Ahii,'ail,*  the  wife  of  Col.  AVilliatn  Prescott  of  glorious  memnrv  at  r>u:d;er 
Hilt,  and  of  Martha,^  wife  of  Rev.  Peter  Powers  (Ilarv.  17.>i).  'I'ln-o.i.^li 
Mrs.  Prescott.  Samuel'  was  the  ancestor  of  Judge  \ViUiain''  I'rescott  (Ilaiv. 
178;J),  of  William  Hickling'  Prescntt,  the  historian  (Harv.  1S14).  K.lw  ud 
Goldsborougy  Pre=;cott  (Harv.  1325),  William  Gardner^  Prescott  {(larv. 
1844),  Catherine  Elizabeth,'^  wife  of  Franklin  Dexter  (Ilarv.  1812),  and 
Elizabeth,*  wife  of  James  Lawrence  (ITarv.  1840).  Amor.g  his  other  de- 
scendants may  be  named  SamueP  Hale  (Dart.  1706),  John  Cudmiau^  Halo 
(Dart.  1857),  Edwin  Blai^JelP  Hale  (Dan.  ISGo),  Geonie  Weeks^  Halo 
(Bowd.  18G9),  Horace  Morrison^  Hale  (Union  Colh  IBoG),  Sarah,'  wif.i  of 
Rev.  Stedman  Wright  Hanks  ('Amherst,  1837).  Samuel  B'.-oAvn^  Hale,  ivsij., 
of  Buenos  Ayres,  8.  A,,  Elizabeth,^  wife  oi  William  Reol  Lejee,  Esr}.,  of 
Philadel!)hia,*  Luke^  Hale,  Esq.,  of  HoUis,  N.  XL,  and  'j'beodore  P.'  H^le, 
Esq.,  of  Boston. 

13.  John'  \Ixlv.  {John^  77iomns^),  horn  in  Newbury,  Sept.  2,  iCCI  ; 
married  in  Newbury,  Oct.  16,  1G83,  Sarah,  daughter  of  Henry  and  Anr.a 
(Knight)  Jaques  of  Newbury,  v.'ho  was  born  in  Nevrbury,  ^larch  20.  ]  G''"4. 
He  was  a  carpenter,  spent  his  life  in  Newbury,  and  died  there,  ]Mar(:]i  i, 
1725-6  ;  was  in  moderate  circumstances,  and  always  highly  respected.  His 
wife  survived  him.     Children  : 

i.      REnECCA,"*  b.  Feb.  18,  1684-5  ;  m.  Jonathan  Poor. 

•      ii.     John,*  b.  June  24,  1G86  ;  m.  first,  Patience  Dole  ;  second,  Mary . 

Died  about  1770. 
iii.    Richard,*  b.  Sept.  21,  1638  ;  d.  Sept.  1688. 
iv.    Henrv,*  b.  Aug.  2S,  16S9  ;  d.  Feb.  2,  1689-90. 
V.      Richard,*  b.  Nov,  9,  1690  ;  in.  Mary  Silver  ;    1.  1771. 
\i.    Stephen,*  b.  April  12,  1693  ;  m.  vSai'ah  Swett;  d.  about  1744.      - 
vii.   Sarah,'*  b.  Feb.  3,  1691-5  :  m.  John  Weed. 
viii.  Samuel,*  b.  March  21,  1697  :  d.  1722,  unmarried. 
ix.    Benjamin,*  b.  March  24,  1699  ;  m.  Judith  Swett ;  d.  ahout  1770. 
X.  &  xi.  Anne*  and  Mart,*  b.  Jan.  3,  1700-1  ;  d.  Jan.  G,  170O-1. 
xii.  Margaret,*  b.  Jan.  8,  1701-2. 

xiii.  Anne,*  b.  Oct.  24,  1703  ;  d.  yoan<;.  •'    >  •/    "'•  ■  ^T.- 

xiv.  JIarv,*  b.  Dec.  28,  1701 ;  m.  Hthry  Dole. 
XV.    Ruth,*  b.  Nov.  17,  1700;  m.  John'Pearson. 
xvi.  Anne,*  b.  Jau.  18,  1709-10  ;  hi.  Daniel  Knight. 

From  this  large  family  numerous  descendants  have  sprung. 

From  Rebecca*  is  descended  Alfred  Poor,  the  well-known  gencalogi-t  of 
S.ahni, 

_  Patience,*  the  d.-^/aghter  of  John*  by  his  first  wife  Patience  Dole,  rn.ir- 
ried  the  "distinguished  physician,"  Dr.  Nathaniel  Co.din  of  l*o'-_tIa':d.  Me., 
and  became  the  mother  of  •'  another  still  more  distinguisheil  of  tlie  .-auKi 
name  and  place,  from  whom  no  descendants  of  the  name  of  Cuilin  a.-e  liviu::. 
but  many  of  other  names,''  Amonn  her  descendants  art.- r.-'kniicd  l-v.-.c 
Foster'  Coffin  (Bovyd.  1806),  Eleanor^  Cotlin,  wife  of  John  Derby  ( H.trv. 
1".SG),  andher  chOdren  Nathaniel  Foster'^  Derbv  (liarv.  1S2:»),  George* 
I-*<  »-l>y    (Harv.  1838),    Mary   Jane^   Derby,    wife  of  Rev.  Ephraim  I'ea- 


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96  Thomas  Uale  of  N'eirhurij.  [Jau. 

body  (Bowd.  1S27),  and  her  childrc-u  nnmed  under  No.  8  supra,  Laura' 
IX'rl.y,  wife  first  of  Ai'iiold  Fia!r.-I>  "W^'dics  (Ilarv.  1S27),  and  .second  of 
Hon.  Robert  Charles  "Winthrop  (Ilarv.  1828),  and  her  son  George  Derby* 
"NVelles  (Ilarv.  ]8G(J),  Siuah  YA\en^  Derby,  wife  of  John  Koirers  (Harv. 
182(">),  and  her  son  John  U:»ijers  the  .scal|>tor,  Harriet  Coirin''  Sumner,  wife 
of  Hon.  Nathan  A[)pletou  (A.:^.I.  Harv.  1841,  LL.D.  Harv.  18f..')).  and  her 
children  "WiUiani  Sumner'  Appleton  (Harv,  13G0)  and  Nathan'  Appleton 
(Harv.  jSGo),  Susan*  Codnian,  wife  of  Benjaoiin  V/ello3  (Harv.  1800), 
and  Job.n^  Codman  (Bowd.  1827). 

From  Richard,*  who  settled  on  the  ]\Ierriaiac  River  at  •' Joppa,"  now 
part  of  Nev>-buryport,  descended  a  long  line  of  {LsheriDen,  shipmasters  and 
merchants,  v.'ho  have  for  generations  maiataiued  an  ho'.?ored  name  at  New- 
biiryporf,  and  have  scattered  thence  to  the  ends  of  the  earth.  Among 
tlien  are  the  late  Samuel*  Hale,  Enocli""'  Hale,  P^noch''  Hale,  and  Benjamin 
WoodwelF  Hale,  all  of  Newburyport  ;  also  Charles  William*  Hale,  Isaac' 
Hale  arrl  Richard  lar.it^  H;ile,  E.-qs..  of  the  same  pl-ice,  aiid  Enoch^  Hale, 
editor  at  Newburyport,  New  York  City  and  Rontloat,  N.  Y.^  who  die.l  at 
the  last-named  place,  Aug.  10,  1856. 

From  Richard''  are  also  descended  James  Webster"  Hale  of  New  York, 
the  fomider  of  the  express  business  in  the  United  States,  and  to  wLoni  more 
than  any  other  man  the  people  of  the  United  States  are  indebted  fo"  '*  cheap 
Dostage  ;  "  Benjamin  Ei!er^^  Hale  of  Brooklyn.  N.  Y". ;  William  Gowea' 
ilale  of  Saigon,  Cochin  Chi'na ;  Al'eort'  Hale  ("liarv.  1861),  Charles  Good- 
win' Hale  (Dart.  1868),  the  late  Stephen*  Hale  of  Reading,  Mass.,  and 
his  son  Thomas''  Hale  of  Rockport,  Mass. 

Many  brauehes  of  this  family  remain  untraced. 

14.  Hexrt'  Hai-E  (John,'  Thomas'^),  born  in  Newbury.  Oct.  20.  1667; 
married  there  Sept.  11,  1605,  Sarah,  daughter  of  John  and  Sarah  (Knight) 
Kelly.  She  was  born  in  Newbury.  Sept.  1,  1670,  survived  her  husband 
and  died  there,  Oct.  21,  1741.  He  spent  his  life  in  Newbury  as  a  carpen- 
ter, and  died  there  about  Nov.  1724.     Children : 

;  i.      Thomas,''  b.  No?.  15.  l'^>'.'€^ ,  m.  Abigail  Pillsbury  ;  d.  about  1765. 

^"'  .         ii.     Sarah,^  b.  Oct.  20,  F'fH;  a.  Stephen  Cha?e  ;  d.  Dec.  26,  1755, 
iii.    Thom.vsine,*  b.  Sepc.  10,  1700  ;   m.  Peter  Morse. 
iv.    Enoch,''  b.  Oct.  U,  ITyi  ;  d.  Dec.  1702. 

V.   (  Enoch,*    b.  Oct.  7,  1703  ;   m.  widow  Mary  Ililla  ;  d.  May  30.  1755. 
vi.  (  Edmund,  b.  Oct.  7,  1703  ;   m.  Martha  Sawyer  ;  d.  May  29,  1738. 
vii.   Rebecca,*  b.  Oct.  4,  1705  ;  d.  May  11,  1706. 
viii.  Henry,*  b.  Au^',  21.  1707  ;  m.  Mary  Bnrtlett ;  d.  May  21,  1792. 
ix.     flAyxAH,*  b.  May  8,  1709;  m.  Ezra  PilL'hury. 
X.      JuDiTU,*  b.  May  28,  1711  ;  m.  William  Morse. 

Throuofh  his  son  Edmund.*  Henrv^  was  the  ancestor  of  Hon.  Salma' 
Hale  (A'.'M.at  Univ.  Vt.  1824.  and  at  Dan.  1849),M.  C  from  New  Hamp- 
•shire  1817  to  1819,  and  well  known  as  a  scholar  and  author,  and  of  his 
children  George  Silsbee'  Hale  (Harv.  1841)  of  Boston,  and  Sarah  King' 
Hale,  wife  of  the  late  Hon.  Harry  Hibbard  (Dart.  1835),  formerly  M.  C. 
from  New  Karupshire  ;  of  Davlcr  Hale,  Esq.,  late  of  Newport,  N.  H., 
whose  widow  IVIrs.  Sarah  Josepha  Hale,  nee  Buel,  still  living  in  Philadelphia, 
devotes  a  beautiful  and  serene  old  age  to  active  labors  for  her  sex  and  for 
humanity,  and  of  their  chiidron,  th^-  late  Lieut.  David  Eraersou*  Hale  (U.  S. 
Mil.  Acad.  1833),  Horatio^  Hale.  Esq.  (Harv.  1837)  of  Clinton,  Ontario, 
Canada,  Frances  Ann'  Hale,  wife  of  Dr.  Lewis  Eoadinot  Hunter  (N.  J. 
Coll.  1824,  M.D.  Univ.  Pena.  1828),  surgeon  in  the   U.  S.  Navy,   whose 


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1877.]  Thomas  Hale  of  I^ewhury.  97 

son  is  Richard  Stockton'  Hunter  (N.  J.  Coll.  18G1),  and  the  late  William 
George*' I lalc.  Esq.  (Ilarv.  lSi2)  of  New  Orleans ;  of  Rev.  Enoch'  IJul.j 
(Univ.  Vt.  lS:>Gj,  of  Dr.  Syene'  Hale  (M.D.  Dart.  18:33),  and  of  his  sons 
Drs.  Kdvin  I^Joses'  Hale 'and  Halbert  Parker^  Hale,  of  C!iica<ro  :  of  Dr. 
Moses'  Hale  (M.D.  IMidd.  18:?2),  a  disringuisliod  physiciau  of  Troy,  N.  Y., 
and  of  his  children  INIary^  wife  of  Abraham  Knickerba:ker,  E.>([..  uf  ^^ca'di- 
ticoke,  N.  Y.,  and  Dr.  Richard  Henry^  Hale  (Union  Coll.  1827),  aialliia 
grandchildren  John  Hale^  Knickerbackcr  (Union  Cull.  1847)  and  Henry' 
Knickerbackor,  Esq.,  of  New  York  city. 

Henry,''  sou  of  Henry,^  was  one  ot"  the  pioneers  of  NottinL,diana  Vv'est 
(now  Hudson),  N.  H.  He  was  a  tarmer  on  a  large  scale,  a  deacon  in  the 
church,  and  a  leading  man  in  the  community  where  he  lived.  His  posterity 
is  numerous  in  New  Hampshire  and  Yerraout,  and  in  Franklin  and  St. 
Lawrence  counties  in  New  Y'^ork.  The  descendant?  of  Sarah''  Chase,  of 
Thomasine*  Morss  and  Judith''  Morse,  are  also  numerous  and  rospectal)le. 

15.  Judith'  Hale  {John,'  Tltomar),  born  in  Nev^bury,  July  5,  1G70; 
married  there,  Nov.  24-.  1G92,  Thomas,  son  of  Caleb  and  Judith  (Bradbury) 
Moody,  of  Newbury,  brother  of  Mary,  wife  of  her  brother  Joseph,  and 
cousin  of  Mary,  wife  of  her  brother  Moses.  They  lived  iii  Newbury. 
Childi-en : 

i,  EzR-V*  Moody,  b.  April  11,  1693. 

ii.  Sarah"*  JMooDY.  b.  Feb.  II.  1695. 

iii.  Caleb*  Moodv,'  b.  March  10,  1697. 

iv.  JcDiTH*  Moody,  b.  Aug.  6,  1699. 

V.  Oliver*  Moody,  b.  Oct.  7,  1701. 

vi.  TaoiiAs*  Moody,  b.  Jan.  11,  1704. 

16.  Joseph' Hale  [John,*  Thomas^),  b.  in  Nevrbury,  Nov.  24,  1C74; 
married,  Dec.  25,  1699,  Mary,  daughter  of  Caleb  and  .Judith  (Bradbury) 
Moody,  born  in  Newbury,  Oct.  2o,  1678,  and  died  there,  April  IG,  1753. 
He  lived  in  Bylield  parish,  Newbury,  and  died  there  Jan.  24,  1755.  He 
was  a  shoemaker  by  trade,  a  captain  in  the  militia,  kept  a  tavern  in  Bylleid, 
and  he  and  his  wife  were  both  members  of  the  church  at  Bylield,  of  which 
his  brother  Moses^  (No.  17  infra)  was  pastor.  He  was  a  man  of  haud- 
eome  estate  and  much  respected.     Children : 

i.      Judith,"'  b.  Sept.  22,  1700  ;  m. Moody. 

ii.     Mary,*  b,  Nov.  26,  1703  ;  m.  Edmund  Greenleaf. 

iii.    Elizabeth,*  b.  April  9,  1705  :  m  George  Thurlow. 

iv.     Sarah,*  b.  Oct.  1707  ;  m   Jc^hua  Noyes. 

V.     Abigail,*  b.  March  5,  1709-10  ;  m.  Richard  CofEn. 

vi.    Joseph,*  b.  Sept.  3,  1712  ;  m.  Hilary  Noyes  ;  d.  March  9,  1776. 

vii.   Moses,*  b.  Jan.  18,  1714-15;  m.  Mehi table  Sumner;  d.  Jan.  18,  1779. 

viii.  Anne,*  b.  Aug.  4,  1717  ;  ru.  Richard  Kent. 

Joseph*  is  the  ancestor,  through  Joseph,^  Joseph®  and  Joseph,^  of  C.'.[  - 
Joseph*  Hale  of  the  3d  Inf.  U.  S^  A.  Marv,«  wife  of  Rev.  Dr.  Elijali  i':ir- 
ii>h  (Dart.  1785),  and  her  son  Moses  Parsons^  Parish  (Bowd.  1822;,  wi-re 
also  his  descendants. 

Moses*  graduated  at  Harvard,  1734,  and  was  minister  of  the  church  a: 
West  Newbury,  1752  to  1779.  His  son  Moses^  (Harv.  1771).  iKiug  tn.^ 
fourth  Rfv.  Z^io.es  Hale  of  the  dosceudants  of  Thomas'  who  -rrHiuaioi  nt 
Harvard,  was  the  minister  of  Boxford,  1774  to  1789.  Araon-  tiie  .(•-cvrjd-. 
ants  of  Moses*  were  also  Stephen®  Hale  (Harv.  1802),  Jo..epb*'  li-i^^-  ( li.vr^- 
1^1.^5),  Joseph  Augustine'  Hole   (Harv.~1857),  Sarah*  Hule,  wiio  ci  i^.-y. 

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98  Thomas  Hale  of  Newbury .  [Jan, 

Nathaniel  Noyes  (Ilarv.  1703),  IMohitable*  Hale,  wife  of  Rev.  Levi   Frib- 
ble (Dart.  r77i),  aud  her  son  Frof.  Levi  Frisbie  of  Harvard  (Harv.  1802). 

17.  MosF.s'  Hale  {John-  Thomas^),  born  in  Ncwbnry,  July  10,  167S  ; 
grad.  at  Harvard  1099  ;  began  his  labors  as  minister  of  Lyfleid,  then  called 
"  Rowlbury  "  (from  the  towns  of  Rowley  and  Newbury,  of  which  the  par- 
ish was  composed*),  in  1702  ;  was  ordained  there  as  pastor,  Nov.  17,  170G, 
and  remained  in  that  office  till  his  death,  Jan.  IG,  17-1.3-4.  Ho  married, 
first,  Elizabeth,  dangliter  of  Richard  and  P".lizabcia  (AppletOE)  Dummer 
of  Newbury.  She  was  born  in  Newbury,  July  "J.^,  lG82,and  died  iu  By- 
field  Parish  (sine  prole),  Jan.  10,  1703-4.  He  married,  second,  llary, 
daughter  of  Dea.  William  and  .Mthitable  (Scwall)  Moody,  who  was  born 
in  Newbury,  ]\Iay  30,  168,3,  and  die-J  in  Bytitld,  July  17,  1757. 

Prince  says  of  him,  that  during  the  forty-one  years  he  "  labored  in  word 
and  doctrine  "  with  the  people  of  his  charge,  "  he  was  an  oritiodox  and 
lively  preacher  of  the  great  trutiis  of  religion  and  a  soldier  of  Jesus  Christ.'' 
Children,  all  by  second  wife : 

i.       Jo"Ft"T,*  probably  rl.  yo'inc^. 

ii.     MEiitTAELE,'  prubaJily  d.  \i>i:Tig. 

iii.    DoKoTHY,*  n.  Most.'S  Woodman. 

iv.     Mary,*  b.  1711  ;  in.  lliw.  James  Chnndler. 

V.      IslARTn.x,*  m.  Benjamin  Faivficld  of  W'cnham. 

vi.     JbiSfs,*  ni.  first,  Abi^^juil  Sluso  ;  second,  Sarah  Jowett.     Died  1775. 

vii.   Elizabeth,'*  m. Aver. 

viii.  Sarah,*  probably  d.  young. 
is.     Jaxe,''  prohably  d.  young. 

s.     ^VTLLIA.M,*  b.  about  17-Jri  ;  m.  first,  ]»Iartha  .Johnson  ;  second,  Jane 
Jcwett.     Died  about  1784. 

The  records  of  this  family  are  lamentably  deficient.  Rev.  James  Chand- 
ler (Harv.  1728),  the  husband  of  Mary,*  was  the  minister  of  Rowley,  1732 
to  1789.     They  had  no  children. 

Among  the  descendants  of  Hoses'*  were  Capt.  .J< dm*  Hale  of  Ilopkinton, 
N.  IL,  a  gallant  soldier  of  the  Revolution,  and  an  honorable  and  respected 
citizen,  and  his  son  J.acob''  of  Ripley,  Me.,  a  memiter  of  the  convention 
which  framed  tlie  constitution  of  r^lalne,  Rev.  John''  Hale  of  Sutton.  N.  H., 
Robert  QJ  Hale,  Esq.,  of  Henniker,  N.  H.,  John  Hale^  Fowler,  Esrj.,  of 
Newark,  Kendall  county,  ill.,  and  Hon.  Samuel  W.''  Hale,  of  Keene,  N.  IL 

In  the  will  of  Rev.  Closes,'  dated  Nov.  22,  17-13,  and  proved  Jan.  30, 
1743-4,  he  gives  to  his  son  Closes,*  with  other  property  real  and  personal, 
"  two  negros,  Hannibal  aud  Jane,"  and  to  his  sou  AV'illiam*  laud  in  Row- 
ley, "also  my  silver  tobacco  box  and  Mr.  Burket's  exposition  on  the  nev/ 
testament,  and  Dr.  IManton's  volume  upon  y®  Eleventh  Chapter  of  the 
Hebrews." 

"William'*  was  for  many  years  a  practising  physician  in  Rowley,  and  was 
succeeded  in  his  practice  there  by  his  son  ^V'illiam,*  who  afterv/ards  remov- 
ed to  Virginia  and  died  there. 

18.  Mart'  Hale  (Samuel'^  Thomas^),  born  iu  "VToodbridge,  N.  J-, 
Nov.  28,  1678.  She  seems  to  have  first  married  a  Higgins,  but  nothing  is 
known  of  him  except  that  she  bore  the  name  of  Higgins  when  she  married 


D3 


*  This  is  the  earliest  instance  of  Uiis  manner  of  fonnin.!^  the  names  of  places  which  we 
have  met;  wifh,  ;;n(l  the  on!v  one  we  have  found  in  .Nla=.-irha>ett3,  thoa,2-ii  there  may  bo 
othei's.  Such  nninos  are  common  in  Connecticut,  .15  thf  Rev,  John  A.  Vinton  has  shown 
in  the  REOidTKH  ior  Juiy,  lo'JO  [ante  xiv.  270).  Hc'.thcn  supposed  the  p-actice  to  be  pecu- 
liar to  Connecticut ;  hut  this  proves  rot  to  be  the  >:jisc. — Ed. 


.1  u 


'Ml.       ... 


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1,    ..T  •••'■V 


1877.]  Secret  CommiUee  to  Silas  Deane.  99 

Mosos  I'olph  at  Woodbridgc,  Jnne  4,  1702.  She  and  her  husband  becarno 
iueiuL)ei>>  ol'  lUu  church  at  Wooubriiige  soon  after  its  foundation,  fie  was 
ft  prumiiiect  and  active  citizen,  was  town  clerk  and  "  Fri.'eholdei''s  clerk" 
from  1712  to  l7ol.  ',vas  commissioned  "one  of  Ilcr  Majesty's  Justices  of 
the  Peace  "  in  1714,  and  was  assessor  iu  17 IS.  The  records  of  Wood- 
bridge  fail  to  show  tlie  deaili  of  himself  or  his  wife,  and  nothing  is  foiuid  of 
the  family  on  the  records  of  tlie  town  after  (731.  In  the  accomstB  for 
building  the  meeting-house  iu  1711,  he  was  allowed  "  5' for  two  days  work 
of  his  negro  tending  y^  mason,  and  0"^  for  watching  y'^  kiln,  and  \'o^  for  a 
bottle  of  rum,  &  2^  for  his  horse  &  boy  to  draw  water  for  y*^  brickloyers."  ^ 
It  is  probalile  that  ho  was  son  of  John  lloU'e,  who  was  sou  of  JUujjamin 
and  Apphia'  (Ilalej  Rolfe  (No.  5  svpra).  The  name  was  generally  spell- 
ed liolte  in  ^Nlassachusetts,  and  Ilolph  iu  Neu'  Jersey  and  on  Long  Island, 
to  which  last  loaility  it  Ls  probable  that  Moses  Kolph  aud  his  descendants 
removed.     Children : 

i.  Samt-tl-*  EoLpn,  b.  Feb.  13,  1703-1. 

ii.  Elizaretu**  Kolph,  b.  Aur.^  f,  17C5. 

iii.  Esther*  Rolph,  b.  April  12,  1707. 

iv.  ArtHU*  Kolph,  b.  Jan.  0.  170n-9. 

V.  Richard-*  Ror.rn,  b.  May  12.  1710  ;  d.  Sept.  7,  1711. 

Vi.  ii'ATHAMEL'*  KOLPU,  b.  ijept.  15,  1712. 

vii.  Jonathan*  Kolph,  b.  Aug.  30,  17M. 

viii.  Richard*  Rolph,  b.  Aug.  I,  1717  ;  d.  Oct.  13,  1719. 

ix.  Robert*  RoLPH,  b.  May  18,  1719. 

X.  Sarah*  Rolph,  b.  April  4,  1721. 

si.  HfiNRr*  RoLPH,  b.  June  20,  1723.        ..-         ' 


Note. — This  paper  is  prepared  not  as  a  complete  statement  even  of  the 
first  three  generations  from  the  immigrant  ancestor,  but  in  the  hope  through 
its  means  of  contributing  towards  a  full  and  complete  genealogy  of  the 
family.  The  writer,  who  has  large  accumulations  of  material  for  a  full 
history  of  many  branches  of  the  family,  will  be  glad  to  receive  any  aud 
all  corrections  and  aildition-".,  aud  iuformation  of  every  character  touching 
the  descendants  of  Thomas  the  glover  of  Newbury,  or  touching  any  oi  the 
name  in  England  or  America.  . ,       , 


LETTER  OF  THE  SECRET  CO:\i:\IITTEE  OF  CONGRESS 
TO  SILAS  DEANE  IN  FRANCE,  AUGUST  7,  177G. 

CominuTiicated  by  John  S.  H.  Fogg,  M.D.,  of  South  Boston. 

IN  the  "  Centenary  Number  "  of  the  Register,  among  other  letters 
furnished  by  me  was  one  from  Silas  Deane  to  Count  Do  Vcrgor.- 
KC8,  alluding  to  a  letter  of  the  7th  of  August  preceding,  that  he  had 
received  from  Congress.  In  his  letter  to  the  French  statesm.nn.  lie 
quotes  from  this  letter  he  had  received  from  Congress,  a  pui-agraidi 
rel.ative  to  Independence,  and  to  the  number  of  men  the  C()!<;nic3 
then  htid  in  the  field.  Sir.ce  the  publication  of  the  letter  of  Sil^iS 
peane,  that  of  the  Secret  Committee  of  Congress  to  him  has  com:c 
into  my  hands.  Hud  I  received  it  in  season  it" would  have  been  ia- 
U-rpsting  to  have  had  them  iu  eequence  in  the  July  number.  I  srcnd 
it  now  fur  publication. 


■1*  '.Ml 


100  Secret  Committee  to  Silas  Deane.  [Jan. 

Philadelphia  August  7"^,  177G. 
Dear  Sir 

The  Ahove  is  a  Copy  of  our  last,  which  went  by  the  Dispatch 
Cajttain  Parker. 

The  Congress  have  since  taken  into  consideration  the  hrads  of  a  Treaty 
to  be  proposed  to  France,  but  as  they  are  not  yet  concluded  ujion,  we  can- 
not say  more  of  them  j^er  this  conveyance. 

You  will  see  by  the  Newspapers  which  Accompany  this,  that  the  expedi- 
tion against  South  Carolina  is  foiled  by  the  gallant  resistajice  made  there. 
The  Enemy,  much  diminished  by  Sickness,  it  is  thouglit  will  attempt  nothing 
farther  in  those  parts.  The  people  of  North  Carolina,  "Who  at  first  had 
taken  up  their  iJridges,  and  broken  the  Roads,  to  prevent  the  Enemy's 
penetrating  their  Country :  have  since,  being  ready  to  receive  him,  repaii'ed 
the  Poads  and  Bridges,  and  Wish  him  to  Attempt  making  use  of  them. 

Gen:  Howe  is  posted  now  on  Staten  Island  near  New  York,  with  the 
Troops  he  Carried  to  Halifax  when  he  was  driven  out  of  Boston.  Lord 
Howe  is  also  arrived  there  with  some  reinforcements,  and  more  are  ex- 
pected, as  the  great  push  seems  intended  to  be  Made  in  that  Pronnce. 
Gen.  Washington's  Army  is  in  possession  of  the  Town,  about  which  -Many 
entrenchments  are  thrown  up,  so  as  to  give  an  opportunity  of  disputing  the 
possession  with  G:  Howe,  if  he  should  attempt  it,  and  of  making  it  cost 
him  something  :  but  it  is  not  so  regularly  fortiflt^d  as  to  Stand  a  Siege.  We 
have  also  a  flyir.g  Camp  in  the  Jerseys,  to  harass  the  Enemy  if  he  should 
attempt  to  penetrate  thro'  that  Province  to  Philad''. 

In  the  ditierent  Colonies  we  have  now  near  80.000  Men  in  the  pay  of 
the  Congress.  The  Declaration  of  Independence  Meets  with  universal  ap- 
probation, and  the  people  everywhere  Seem  more  animated  by  it  in  defence 
of  their  Coimtry.  Most  of  our  Frigates  are  Launched  in  the  ditierent 
Provinces,  and  are  fitting  for  Sea  with  all  the  expedition  in  our  power. 
They  are  fine  Ships,  and  will  be  capable  of  good  service.  Our  small  Pri- 
vateers and  Continental  arm'd  Vessels  have  Already  had  great  success  as 
the  papers  vrill  shew  you:  and  by  abstaining  from  Trade  ourselves  while 
we  distress  that  of  our  enemy's,  we  expect  to  Make  their  Men  of  war  weary 
of  their  unprofitable  and  hopeless  Cruises,  and  their  Merchants  Sick  of  a 
Contest  in  which  so  much  is  Risk'd  and  Nothing  gained.  The  forming  a 
Navy  is  a  very  capital  object  with  us,  And  the  Marine  Committee  is  ordered 
to  bring  in  a  Plan  for  increasing  it  very  considerably.  The  Armed  Boats 
for  the  defence  of  our  Rivers  and  Bays  grow  IMore  and  More  in  repute. 
They  Venture  to  attack  large  Men  of  War,  and  are  very  troublesome  to 
them.     The  papers  will  give  you  Several  instances  of  their  success. 

We  hope  that  by  this  time  you  are  at  Paris,  and  that  Mr  Morris  has 
joined  you,  whom  we  recommend  to  you  Warmly,  and  desire  you  May 
Mutually  co-operate  in  the  Public  Service. 

With  great  esteem  We  are 
Dear  Sir 
i'-i  Your  Very  hble.  Servants. 

B.  FRAXKLI>r 

Benj  Harrison 
Rob'.  Morris. 

[Endorsed,  in  handwriting  of  Silas  Deane,  "Letter  from  Secret  Com- 
mittee |  August  7 ''^  1776."] 


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1877.]         Descendants  of  John  Alger  of  Boston.  101 


DESCENDANTS  OF  JOHN  ALGER  OF  BOSTON. 

By  Akthlt.  M.  Ai.oeu,  Esq.,  of  Taunton,  Mass. 

Joiin'  Algf.r,  a  blacksmith,  was  livin^f  in  Boston  at  lea'^t  as  early  aa 
1G79.  He  rvas  twice  married.  His  fir^t  wife  was  Hamiali,  daui^'hter  of 
Alexander  Baker;  his  second,  Sarah,  dauc:hter  of  Humiihrey  ^Ivlam.  In 
1698,  he  sold  his  estate  in  Boston  for  £220,  and  removed  to  Bristol.  By 
his  first  wife  he  had  cue  child,  viz. : — 

2.  i.      John,  b.  Aug."  13,  1679  ;  m.  Joanna  King. 
Children  by  second  wife : — 

ii_.     Sauuel,  b.  April  8,  16S2  ;  d.  young. 

iii.    Sahl'll,  b.  Sept.  23,  I6S1  ;  d.  young.  ■ 

.    iv.    H.vNNAK,  b.  July  4,  1685  ;  d.  young.     '  • 

,,    V.      Mary,  b.  April  19,  16S8.  ,     . 

■ti.     JIan-n-.m:,  b.  "O'.-f.  10,  1690. 

vii.  .Elizabeth,  b.  Feb.  4,  1691. 

2.  JonN=  Ar.GER  (John'),  a  blacksmith,  m.  at  Taunton,  April  9,  1702, 
Joanna,  daughter  of  Thomas  King,  of  Dighton.  In  1720,  he  sold  his  estate 
in  Dighton  to  Nathaniel  Fisher  for  £210,  and  removed  to  Swausey,  where 
he  d.  hi  1750.     Children: — 

i.      JojnuA,  a  blacksmith. 

3.  ii.     Preserved;  m.  Martha  Pafeny.  .      • 

4.  iii.    John-  ;  in.  1st,  Martha ;  2d,  Abigail  Henderson. 

iv.    Mary;  m.  Annariah  Gifibrd. 

V.      Joaxxa;  m.  John  Eray ley. 

vi.    Amity;  m.  Abel  Sebe.  •,       <.    '  ;  :     ._ 

vii_.  Mallison  ;  m.  Benjamin  Buttcrwortb. 

viii.  Hannah.  ' 

3.  Pi  ESERVKD=  Ar.GKR  (.Mn,"  John'),  a  shipwright,  m.  lilartha  Pafcny, 
of  Swansey.  In  1742.  he  purchased  an  estate  in  Eehoboth  for  £550,  and 
removed  thither  from  Swansey.     Children : — 

i.  JosiAH,  b.  April  13,  1731.  The  name  of  one  Josiah  Al:rer  appears  on 
the  roll  of  a  company,  composed  of  the  alarm  lists  of  New  Provi- 
dence, Laiiesboro',  East  Hoosac  and  Gageboro',  commanded  by  Col. 
Staflljrd,  which  marched  to  and  fought  in  the  battle  of  Benninf'tun. 

u.  Jonathan,  b.  June  19,  1733.  Probably  the  father  of  Jonathan  ""Alger 
who  was  b.  at  Providence,  R.  I.,  Sept.  21,  1755,  and  was  living  in 
Piehoboth  at  the  time  of  the  revolutionary  war,  in  which  he  served 
as  a  private  and  as  a  sergeant.  He  m.  Doily  Carpenter,  of  Rehoboth, 
and  went  to  Warren,  where  he  d.  March  5,  18.37.  He  had  :  Henrietta, 
living  unmarried.  1874  ;  a  daugnter,  m.  a  Martin,  of  Bi^rrin-tun  ;  a 
da^ughter,  m.  a  Bowen,  of  Hartford  ;  a  daughter,  m.  an  Allen,  uf 
Wan-en;  a  daughter,  m.  a  Hale,  of  Warren;  a  »>n  loHt  at  s.-a ; 
Jonathan,  b.  June  I,  17y4,  m.  Martha  Lindsey,  and  lived  ac  Biu-t/ji, 
where  he  d.  Feb.  24.  1670. 

iii.  Preserved,  b.  April  25,  1735.  A  Preserved  Alger  lived  at  Warren  f -r 
many  years.  He  had,  in^er  altos,  a  daughter  who  ai.  a  ,M;ixv,  ell; 
one  who  m.  a  Boynton  ;  and  one  who  m".  a  Walker.  A  I'n-'^ervel 
Alger  served  as  a  orivate  and  sergeant  in  the  revolutionary  war. 

IV.  Martha,  b.  i!darch  20,  1737. 

V.  Benjamin,  b.  July  1.  1739.     A  Benjamin  Alger  was  captain  of  the 

sloop  Hope,  bound  for  Grenada,  which  was  taken  on  the  voyage,  tr.d 
earned  into  Antigua,  I7dO. 


102  Abstracts  of  the  Earliest  Wills  in  Snffolh.  [Jan. 

vi.     CiiLOE,  b.  Feb.  9,  17 1 1-2. 
Tii.   Benajah,  b.  Aiiv.  5,  1711. 
viii.  Jo.snuA,  b.  Jan.  ;U,  1717-8. 

4.  Jonx^' Alger  {John,*  John''),  a  blacksmith,  living  in  tliat  part  of 

Kehoboth  known  as  Se-^uuhunk  Cove;  m.  1st,  IMartha ;  2cl,  Abin^aU 

Henderson,  Feb.  8,  17o9.     He  was  in  the  Frcudi  and  Indian  war  1755. 
He  d.  July  7,  1755,  his  wife  surviving  him.     Children  : —  , 

i.      Betuana,  b.  May  2,  1742. 
5.  ii.     JAjtfKS,  b.  May  2t>,  1715  ;  m.  Mary  Parker. 
iii.    FRE?:LoyE,  b.  April  24,  1718. 

iv.    John  ;  m.  Elizabeih,  daughter  of  Samuel  Humes,  of  Douu;las,  and  re- 
moved to  Oxford,  where  he  was  living  iu  1779.    lie  was  a  black- 
smith. 
V.     Abigail  ;  la.  Nathan  Daggett. 

5.  Jamf.3*  Alger  (/o//7^,='  Jolui,'  John^),  of  Rehoboth,  a_  blacksmith, 
m.  Mary  Parker,  June  5,  17G5.  He  was  a  private  in  Capt.  Bishop's  com- 
pany which  marched  from  Rehoboth  to  Lexington  on  the  19th  of  April, 
1775,  and  was  iu  service  a  number  of  times  during  the  war.  He  was  living 
at  Wrontham  ncai-  tho  dose  of  the  war.  From  there  ho  went,  perhaps,  to 
Khode  Island.     Children  :— 

i.  James,  b.  Jan.  17,  1769.  He  was  the  father  of  James  Al^er,  "rho  was 
bom  at  Gloucester,  R.  I.,  and  settled  in  Oxford,  Mass.,  where  he  d, 
before  18.32,  leavini;  widow  Surah,  and  the  foUowir.r:  cliildien : 
Prt-serrcrf,  of  Cranston,  R.  I.  ;  Smith;  Lemuel;  M^ma.i;  S'rphen, 
all  of  Millbury;  Sibil;  Dorcas,  m.  Steyihen  Tourtellot,  of  \v  ard ; 
Fredocc,  m.  Olney  E.^ten,  of  Webster;  Sarah,  m.  :\Ierritt  Uolorook, 
ofWindham,  Conn.  ;  Hanmh,  m. Tainter,  of  Millbury. 

ii.     John,  b.  March  13,  1771. 

iii.    Richard,  b.  April  17,  1773.        ,   -,'     ;    .       '- 

iv.    Joshua,  b.  July  5,  1775. 

On  the  Swansey  records  is  this  entry  :  "  Joseph  Alger  and  Hannah  Pool, 
both  of  Swansey,  were  married  September  the  17th,  1753  by  rae  Russell 
Mason,  Elder  of  a  Church  of  Christ  in  Swansey."  It  is  possible  that  Joseph 
is  a  clerical  error  for  Josiah  (son  of  Preserved  [3]). 

In  the  revolutionnry  war  rolls  at  tlie  State  House  is  this  item :  **  Nicholas 
Alger,  of  Rehoboth,  private  in  the  1st  Company,  1st  Regiment;  age  2o; 
height  5 ;  9  ;  complection  light ;  eyes  dark ;  hair  brown." 


ABSTRACTS   OF   THE   EARLIEST  WILLS   ON  RECORD,  OR 

ON  THE  FILES  IN  THE  COUNTY  OF  SUFFOLK, 

MASSACHUSETTS. 

Prepared  hj  William  B.  Teask,  Esq.,  of  Boston. 

[Coatinued  from  vol.  xxx.  p.  43-4.1 

Jonx  Avery. — Bond  of  William  Follett  of  Oyster  River  on  Pi[scattoway] 
to  Edward  Rawsnn,  19  Sept.  1051,  to  Administer  on  the  estate  of  John 
Avery,  deceased,  in  behalf e  of  Laur[euce  Avery,  his  brother]  ;  witnessed  by 
Rachel  Awbrey,  margaret  Rawson.  See  Administration,  Register,  viii. 
854.  '  (File, -No.  151.) 

Arthuk  Gill. — I,  John  Sweete,  of  Boston,  acknowledge  myself  Indebted 
to  Edward  Rawson  Recorder  for  the  County  of  Suliolke  in  New  England, 
some,  180^'".     Jan.  IG,  1654. 


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1877.]        Abstracts  of  the  Earliest  Wills  in  Suffolh.  103 

Tlie  above  boundon  John  Sweote  sli:ill  Administer  to  the  estate  of  Arthur 
Gill,  in  I'ohnlfe  of  y'  childrcu  of  y"  snid  Arthur  &  paymont  of  his  Just 
debts,  a:id  from  tin^c  to  tinie  shall  give  a,  Just  aud  true  Accompt  thereof  to 
the  Coiuity  Court  of  Ijoston,  etc. 

Teste.  John  Gill  Jn°  -p  oU'eete 

William  Awbrey 
y=  bond  was  Cancelled  by  order  of  Court,  March  28,  1G5G.     E.  R.  R. 
(See  abstract  of  the  inventory,  Rkgistkk,  viii.  3.jG.)        (File,  No.  152.) 

Robert  Sharp. — I,  John  Sharp,  soune  of  the  late  Robert  Sharp,  of 
muddy  Riuer,  in  the  p''ecints  of  Bostou,  bound  to  Edward  Kawson,  some  5G 
pounds;  for  the  payment  whereof  I  bind  myself,  w'''  my  now  dwelling  house 
&  land  formerly  y*^  dwelling  house  &  laud  of  my  late  fiither,  in  the  some  of 
one  hundred  and  twenty  pounds.     Aprill  25,  1CG5. 

11  the  above  John  Sharp  })ay  vnto  Abi;:!;ai]e  &  Idary  Sharpe,  Ids  two  sisters, 
the  same  of  23  pounds  apeece,  as  they  shall  attaine  their  seuerall  ages  as 
the  Law  prescribes,  &  also  pay  &c  sattisfy  unto  them  or  their  guardians 
yearely  duringe  their  minority  the  some  of  50  shillings  a  peece.  then  this 
obligation  to  be  voyd,  etc.  John  Sharp. 

In  p''c-ence  of  vs  See  inventoiy  of  the  estate  of  Robert  Sharp; 

Richard  Peacocke  petition  of  his  relict  and  administratrix,  Abigail 

Paul  Batt  Clapp,  who  subsequently  became  the  second 

wife  of  Nicholas  Clapp,  of  Dorchester,  etc. 
See  Register,  viii.  270;  x.  84.     (File,  No.  153.) 

Ellixor  Truslfr.' — Salem  dated  Ib^"^  february  1G5-1.  1,  Ellinor  Trus- 
ler,  being  vnpou  my  sick  bed,  but  of  perfect  memory,  appoint  my  sonns 
Henry  &  Nicholas  Joynt  Executo''s  of  this  my  last  will  &  testament.  I 
bequeath  my  Farme  to  my  sonns  Henry  &  Nicholas,  with  the  houseiug;  my 
tenn  acre  Lett  in  the  North  feild  to  llenry.  IMy  house  &  ground  at  the 
towne  to  my  son  Edward.  My  househould  goods  I  bequeath  in  this^manner: 
One  bead  to  Henry,  and  the  other  to  Nicholas,  the  sad  Collored  cloake  to 
Edward  &,  the  other  Cloake  to  Henry,  the  old  brass  pott,  the  least  of  the 
brass  pans,  two  deep  pewter  platters,  one  broad  one,  a  Cou.rled,  a  blanket, 
with  one  p''  of  sheetes  to  my  son  Edward ;  my  "Wascote,  Safegai'd  &  Goune 
to  goe  together,  my  best  pettecoate,  with  the  rest  of  my  wearing  Cioathes 
to  goe  together,  Sc  my  daughters  to  have  them ;  the  rest  of  my  wearing  linen 
to  my  two  daughters,  v.'^c  the  other  linnen  to  the  executo".  To  John  Phelps, 
my  Grand  Child,  two  oxen  &,  cheyne,  wdth  one  ewe.  To  my  Grand  daugh- 
ter, Elizabeth,  one  ewe.  The  other  two  ewes  to  Nicholas  his  two  children. 
To  my  Grand  children  Samuell  &.  Edward,  I  giue  either  of  them  a  yearling 
Calfe.  The  rest  of  my  goods  &  cattell  to  be  left  with  my  execute"  to  pay 
my  debts,  &  the  legacy  bequeathed  by  my  late  husband  to  bis  daughter  ia 
England,  to  witt  the  summe  of  ten  pounds. 

The  markp  of 

Robert  Moulton'  Seny''  Ellin'Or  -f-  Tkcsler 

George  Gardner' 

*  Xliomas  Tresler  or  Trnsler,  Salem,  was  admitted  to  the  church  Dec.  15,  1639,  freeman 
Dec.  "27,  1G42,  d.  March  5,  16-51.  His  wife  was  Elinor,  and  he  had  a  daughter  who  married 
Henry  Pliclps.     He  was  clerk  in  looO  of  the  niario-t. — See  Saraqe's  Dictionary, 

^  lioliert  .iloulron  came  to  t>aiem  witli  Hi-:t,'in-;on ;  was  oie  of  the  fir.-t  selectmen  in 
Ch.irie^town  whiciier  he  reniijvcd;  ■v\a.s  al.-o  a  rerire.-ientativc  tn^in  C.  to  the  first  court  in 
1634,  and  for  Salem,  to  which  place  he  had  removed  in  16o7.  In  the  latter  year  his  name 
is  focnd  amcni,'  those  who  were  disarmed  as  adherents  au>!  friends  of  John  Wnetlwright. 
He  left  a  .son  Robert  who  v.^as  a  witness  --vich  lii3  fitlier  r,o  the  above  will  of  Mrs.  Trusler. 

^  In  l'j-58,  Eiizubtim,  the  wife  of  Gecrge  Gardner  of  Salem,  was  indicted  for  favorinjj  the 
quakers. 


104  Ahslracls  of  the  Earliest  Wills  in  Suffolk.  [Jan. 

Itol)i;rt  Moultoa  Juuy'  test. 

Tlii-J  ia  :i  (.rue  copy  cuiuparcd  wiih  its  orighiall,  taken  out  of  the  Recoriis 
of  Salem  Court,  p' mo,  IIilliaiu)  Vkukn   Cleric. 

(File,  No.  154.) 

I 

RynFCC.v  TTf.dr. — Peter  Oliuer,  Thomas  Luttolph  and  Godfrj  Armitaj^o, 
of  Uoitou,  bound  in  the  noww.  of  ISO  pounds  to  giue  a  true  Accompt  of  the 
estate  of  Kelieckha  Webb  deceased,  by  hir  late  will  and  Approbation  of  the 
County  Court  of  Ijoston  comitted  to  theire  hands,  as  in  tlie  Inventory  given 
Into  llie  s"^  County  Court  Appeares.  Signed  I'eter  Olliuer,  Thomas  LJut- 
tolph,  Godfrey  "'^•^'^  Armitage.  In  p''senco  of  John  King.^ley,  AVilliam 
Awbrey.  (File,  Ko.  Lj-j.) 

See  "Will  and  Inventory  of  llebecca  Webb,  Register,  v.  Su.J;  viii.  So^- 

Georgk  Bcrpen'.' — [Memorandum  on  the  back  of  the  original  vnll.] 
Bought  of  ^NP  Foster  a  chist  of  Seuger  containeing 

6  hundereth  19.10 

Boui.dit  of  William  of  the  Wist  Einges  one  hogiied 

contaneing  oOO  15.00 

l-.ou2ht  of  ^A'illiara  a  small  nashe  of  sueger  4.17 

bought  of  M^  Hahones  2  hoghedes  25.17 

bought  of  AVilliam  Stranges*  5  hoghedes  of  Tobaccoe 
Bought  of  George  ilaning  fore  hoghedes 

of  suger  and  a  berell  giner  Go. 06  0 

(File,  No.  157.) 

Wii.lia:m  Stetexs.^ — Bond  of  Thomas  Bligh,*  of  Boston,  to  Edward 
Rawson ;  sum  twelve  pounds,  to  administer  on  the  estate  of  Wm.  Stevens. 
July  24,  1G57. 
In  the  presence  of  Thomas  Blioh. 

Moses  Noyes,*  Margarett  Eawson.  (File,  No.  150.) 

See  Register,  ix.  229. 

JoHX  Gore,  of  Koxbury. — Bond  of  John  Gore,  Samuel  Scarborough, 
and  Richard  Hall,"  all  of  Roxbury  unto  William  Stougliton  Esq.  sum  Two 
hundred  &  Fifty  pounds,  Oct.  2G,  1693,  to  Administer  on  the  goods  dec.  of 
John  Gore  Gent,  left  unadmiuistered  by  Rhoda  his  Relict  and  sole  Execu- 
trix, and  make  a  true  inventory,  on  or  before  Oct.  26,  1694.  John  Gore. 
Samuell  Scarbrough,  Richard  Hall.  In  presence  of  Is"  Addington,  Reg', 
Edward  Turfrey.  (File,  No.  162.) 

Abstract  of  Will  of  John  Gore,  Register,  viii.  '2'd'2. 

»  George  Burden  '"itme  in  the  Abigail,  in  1635,  a:ied  20  years,  adrairtod  tc  the  church  in 
1637,  niaile  froeman  in  May;  \va.s  di-.innud  in  Noveinhei'.  Tlie  niaidi.n  name  of  Lis  wife 
Ann  m.iy  have  licen  Soufib'j,  or  Silsiiee,  as  he  mentiijns  •'  my  fatlicr  Houhby  "  in  his  will. 
There  i>  an  inrlniation  tliat  lie  was  aljoiit  to  vi.^it  England,  when  his  >vii!  wa^  Signed  in 
OL'tolifcr,  16  :i2,  as  he  says — '•  if  uiy  wife  &  children  Stay  in  England,  luu  'f  wye  lletiime  lo 
New  England,"  \c.  This  document  was  proved  in  boston  le-s  than  Mve  years  at"terwara£, 
namely,  in  Ajiri!,  1Cj7.    Set-  abstract  of  it,  KEra^Tr.u,  viii.  277. 

*  Not  nsentioned  hy  Savage,  uult-iss  William  Strunguage  or  SCrangeways  of  Boston,  1651, 
a  mariner,  be  the  man. 

3  Who  w:u-  this  William  Stevens  ? 

*  Was  this  the  Thomas  l;ligh,  of  Boston,  meiuioned  by  Ilntchinson,  and  Haz;ird,  w^ho 
served  in  the  expedition  under  Willard  in  Irioi,  for  bringing  Ninicrait  to  sabmissiou  ? 

*  Moses  Noyes,  who  was  he  ? 

«  Probably  son  of  Richard,  of  Dorchester. 


n  v^^    ** 


1877.]       Abstracts  of  tie  Earliest  Wills  in  Suffolk.  105 

Ror.ERT  Kf.ayni:.^— Jan.  20,  1C83-4.  retitiou  of  Cap'.  Nicholas  Paigo 
of  IJd'^toD  &  Anna  liis  \\\it\  GraiKlnar^litor  &  sole  heir  viito  Cap'.  Robert 
Kea3'tio,  soinc  tiiues  of  lloston,  Decease<l.  Hiunl)ly  shcweth,  Tliat  ^Vlle^ag 
tlie  s"  Cap'  Keayiie  by  his  Last  Will  &  Testament,  in  writing,  oiduined  bis 
only  son,  IMaj'  l^cnj.  Keaync  his  sole  Executor  of  his  s^*  "Will,  who  deceased 
})ff()re  the  s*^  Testator,  A:  farther  the  s''  Ca[)'  Keayiie  prouidud  by  his  s'-^ 
Will,  in  such  Case,  that  his  Relict  should  be  Executrix  only  dureing  her 
Widdowhod,  who  is  also  some  times  since  deceased,  soe  that  there  is  Noe 
other  })'son3  now  Liueing  that  of  Right  ought  to  udminester  vpou  the  Estate 
&  fultill  the  will  of  the  s"*  Testator  more  then  your  Pettioners.  Humbly  pray 
that  Administration  may  be  granted  to  y'  Petitioners  to  Administer  ou  the 
Estate  of  the  s'^  Cap'  Robert  Keayne,  &c.    Nicao  :  Paigc,  Anna  Paigk. 

Administration  granted.  Is'  Aduington'  CI'*. 

Bond  of  Nicholas  Paige,  of  Boston,  and  Anna  his  wife,  unto  3P  John 
Hubbard  of  Boston,  Treasurer,  in  the  sume  of  one  thousand  pounds. 
Feb.  9,  1683.  Nicho:  Paige,  Anna  Paige.  In  the  presence  of  John 
Joylifte,  Joiiali  Torrey,  Is^  Addington  Clre.  (File,  IS'o.  171.) 

Rice  Davts. — Leainard  Wheatleigh*  m[aister  ]  therein  and  wlie.a 

Rico  DaufS  L'ied  atlurmi.th,  that  the  sayd  Rice  ou  his  death  bfjd,  gaue  him 
the  clotheo  he  had  with  him,  and  all  estate  besides  (^he  being  buried  decently), 
he  gaue  to  ]NP  Euan  Thomas  and  William  Tilly,  ioyntly,  he  also  athrmeth, 
that  Rice  being  at  the  same  time  demaunded  of  him  what  he  did  owe  to  any, 
Rice  affirnicd  that  he  owed  nothing  to  any  man,  except  a  small  matter,  to 
the  aforesoyd  ]\P  Thomas.  Farther  he  atih-mech,  that  he  found  his  estate  as 
is  specified  and  not  more  to  his  remembrance. 

Item,  1  barrell  of  tobacco  and  a  littell  p'cell  of  leafe. 
"      in  wages  du  to  him.     £10.  lOsh. 

Farther  he  afilrmeth,  that  he  hath  disbursed  in  goods  to  him  and  on  his 
burial  fine  pound  ten  and  8s. 

There  is  more,  an  old  chest,  two  small  pap'  bookes,  a  broken  Jacob  stalle, 
and  a  sc  le.  There  was  moreouer  a  remainder  of  a  debt  due  to  Rice  from 
sergeant  Daniel,  w"*^  was  also  expended  vppon  his  buriall,  besides  the 
£5.  10s.  8d. 

Taken  vpon  oath  3.  2.  IGoS.  before  me, 
Ri.  Bellingha:m  Dep'  Gov'. 

Power  of  administration  granted  to  Evan  Thomas  and  William  Tilly, 
Ap'  l^',  1G58.  The  conditions  attending  ihe  administration  of  the  estate  of 
Rice  Davis,  was  signed  by  Evan  Thomas  and  William  Tilly  of  Boston, 
April  13,  1658,  in  presence  of  Beniamen  Brisco,  Elkanah  Cooke,  Evan 
Thomas  &  William  TQly  depo^-ed  before  Ri.  Bellingham  Dep'  Gov^  22  of 
Aprill  1658.  (File,  No.  181.) 

Richard  Hardikr. — Bond  of  Elizabeth  Hardier,  of  Braintry,  v,-iddow, 
&  Martin  Saunder's,  of  Brainfy,  yeoman,  bound  in  the  sum  of  cO  pounds 

'  A  brief  abstract  of  the  lerirthv  "Will   of  Capt.    Robert  Keavne  mar  be  found   in 

jlKGiHTEK,  vi.  89, 1.52.    This  will.Vrltten  with  his  own  hand,  begun  hy  him  AuglI^t  the 

'■"^  I'^o'.l,  \v.%5  finished,  us  he  ^^.^-^,  Nov.  loth,  with  an  adJ^tiun,   Dec.   1-5,   iro.3.     It  was 

{"■"''■'■•J  ^^'v   2,  1636.    Th.-  Oii-ia.il  will,  wliich  occui^ics  1<36  pa-cs  luUo,  vul.  i.  Suffjlk 

j'*7.    '  '''  ^^"5  most  cniioas  document  we  ever  saw. 

Neiilirj  Davis  nor  Wheatleish  mentioned  by  Savage.    See  abstract  of  tho  "Will  of 
•••'^"*  Mcare,  REG'.iiTEP.,  viii.  3o3,  and  inveatoiy  of  llice  Davis,  ix.  G44. 
VOL.  ixxi.  10 


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106  Abstracts  of  the  Earliest  Wills  ia  Suffolk.  [Jan. 

to  Ed'.vard  llawson.  Kec-.rder  to  tl.e  County  of  Sunolkf,  to  performe  the 
will  of  l.ii-  hi\'i  huobuiul,  Kk'.li;ira  ILirdicr,  :i'-corcliiig  to  huvc. 

Elizab.tr-f'lianlitT,  Martin  San.l>;r?.     In  presence  of  Richard  Peacocke, 
Caleb  Peacocke,  September  21,  KjGS. 

The  names  of  KichavJ  Ikackett  &  William  Allis  (which ^ do  not  appear 
on  the  record)  are  signed  to  the  inventory,  dated  i'j.  2.  lGo7.  [See 
abstract  of  the  will  of  Richard  Ilar.li-r.  Ri-oistkr,  yni.  oo2.  J^Iartia 
Saunders,  above,  married  bis  daughter,  Lydia,  April  1,  IGol.] 

(File,  No.  183.) 

John  Qor.r.xs? — "Whereas  there  appears  sundry  difficulties  in  reference 
to  y-^-  Execuccou  of  the  last  Will  and  Testara'  of  ^P  John  Cog^jau, 
deceased,  and  two  of  t'=  Executors  therein  nominated  disclaiineing  the  prov- 
ing thereof,  so  y'  it  now  resteth  wholly  vpon  M"  Coggan  hi-,  lelict  w'idow  & 
Exccutrii  to  viidertake  a  buissines  of  so  troid)lesonie  a  nature  as  y*  Execaccon 
thereof  is  likely  to  prove,  or  otherwise  the  will  of  tiie  deceased  must  be 
wholly  frustrate;  for  the  p^-eution  whereof,  the  Overseers  of  the  said  >yill 
takeing  the  matter  iu  to 'their  Serious  Cousideraccou,  together  with  seu'all 
Queries  propounded  bv  tlie  widow  &  her  freinds  to  be  resolved  before  sheo 
proceed  to  prove  the"Will  as  V  In  case  y'  her  sonne  Caleb  should  dep't 
this  life  before  he  attaineth  vnto  the  age  of  21  years.  Whether  shee,  as 
Executrix  to  her  Husbands  Will,  or  otb.erwise,  shalbe  liable  to  give  any 
ace"  of  the  p'flts  &  revcnews  of  the  porccon  &  estate  bequeadied  \-nto  the 
said  Caleb  by  the  said  Will,  sh^.e  haveing  liad  his  sole  Educaccon  &  dearly 
discharged  the  same. 

The  overseers  do  Judge  meet,  as  their  llriall  conclusion  thereof,  to  resold o 
this  question  on  the  Negative. 

Also,  whereas  vpon  p'^seut  veiw  of  the  estate,  compared  w'-^  knowne  debts 
&  legacies  to  be  sattisfied  acccording  to  the  mind  of  the  deceased,  there  doth 
not  appear  where  there  wilbe  anything  left  for  the  discharge  of  the  said 
Caleb's  Educaecion  for  four  or  five  of  the  tirst  years  at  least,  and  if  more 
debts  should  happen  to  ajjpeare,  then  for  a  longer  time. 

The  2^  Quest!  is.  in  what  T/ay  the  Executrix  shalbe  satti:.^Pied  for  the 
charge  of  her  sons  Educaccon. 

The  overseers  haveing  considered  the  weight  &  difficulty  of  this  question 
do  Judge  meet  to  resolve,  that  AVhether  the"  said  Caleb  Coggan  shall^  live 
or  dv,  m  case  that  the  revenews  of  his  estate  do  not  fully  discharge  all  his 
expences,  that  then  y*^  Executrix  shalbe  repayd  for  all  her  paynes,  care  fc 
disbursem''  for  his  Educaccon,  by  sale  of  any  of  the  houses  to  him  the  said 

I  Jolin  Coeirnn  was  first  of  Dorchester,  1632,  freeman  1633.  The  next  j^ummer,  July, 
1634,  his  v,-ite'"Ann  joined  tlie  churrh  at  Boston.  "Another  wite,  Mary,  _  5ay3_  Savage, 
"died  Jan.  It.  l<;-32,  i>ut  he  soon  found  ccjnsola'ion  in  marrying  10  March  t.Uowmc,  nun 
Martha,  widow  of  Gov.  Winthrup,  xvLo  !>eiore  had  l-ccn  widow  ot  Ihoinas  Coytenvn-e. 
He  d:cd  iu  15"iS.  '-Of  his  widow,  a  letter  of  Rev.  John  Davenport,  printed  in  3  Muss. 
Iliat.  Coll.,  y..  4.7,  contains  a  .-torv  of  unn^nal  interest."  „     ,  .  ,  , 

John  Co--an  opened  the  Crsr  shop  for  inerchandi<c  in  Boston,  of  whicci  ^e  liave  any 
account,  in"le.3t,  aid  Sanju^l  Cole  the  lint  tavcni.  John  Cap-.n.  ot  Dorchester,  .Tnly  1, 
1617,— wriiin-  to  ins  '•  f-weete-l-.art."  Mr.rv  Ba^s,  of  Bndntrec,  whom  lie  at terwarus  mar- 
ried, and  from  whi.m  all  of  the  name  of  Capen,  in  this  count.y.  probably  descended,— 
mention>th;'.t  "  wii'ii  I  w.is  wth  you  at  Brantrev  Sister  Switt  tcing  at  Boston  wtn  Mstor 
Vu.ali  they  hoadi  ixir.L'  :ir  ye  hatters  shco  .id  thirdxC  vpnon  you  lor  :i  hat  smd  Chose  out 
ve  comIvc,t  ra<hon  IrMt  vi  tiicv  could  imd  :  (;ivo\din,Lr  fa;i:..stick  lashons)  i:  causea  ye 
man  to  "set  it  bv  vntdl  this  fir^t  day  thinkini:  we  si-.oiihl  speak  w'h  some  ot  yoirtius  oay; 
Ye  hat  was  a  demeca-ter.  thu  pri/.  was  24s  v*  shop 'vas  y  cor:;<r  shoo  oyer  agauist  M_ 
Cosgiass  on  ye  .-i-bt  hand  as  on  ^'oe  -an  to  31-  Cotton?  house."    See  Ilat.  Dorcnestei;  page  4o. 


1877.]        Abstracts  of  the  EarlirM  Wills  in  Saffolh.  107 

Caleb  Coircan  given  &  bequeathed  by  bis  father  be forcnamod,  in  c-ise  y' 
other  aLjrcein'  be  not  made  with  y""  executrix  by  y*  said  Caleb,  when  ho 
shiill  come  of  ago  to  receive  his  estate  into  his  owne  hands,  or  any  oth^sr  his 
successo's,  by  virtue  of  the  said  will  in  case  of  his  decease,  before  ho  arivc 
to  y"  age  of  21  years. 

Also  for  p' venting  of  future  diftereuces.  the  overseers  do  Judge  meet  to 
declare,  that  twenty  pounds  p'  Annu.  durcing  the  time  that  the  said  Caleb 
Coggan  shalbe  hroiight  vp  at  Eiigli'^h  or  Gram'  pchooles,  and  thirty  pounds 
p'  Annu.  durcing  the  time  tliat  he  shalbe  at  ihe  Colledge,  in  such  payments 
as  is  made  by  tlui  farm  or  of  the  Houses  *.^-  lands,  shalbe  accounted  a  meet 
rocorapcnco  to  tlio  Executrix,  with  allowance  for  w'  sliee  shall  lay  out  for 
his  bookes,  &  Extreonluary  Expences  for  phisicke  etc.  «Jc  allowance  for 
forbearance  of  her  e.ftate. 

provi<led  alwayes  in  case  of  his  decease  before  he  come  of  age.  the  said 
Executrix  shall  not  be  accountable  for  any  of  tiie  revencws  of  his  e.-tate 
except  in  case  of  Ik.t  owne  demands  for  nou  sati>.faccon  of  her  exper.ces  for 
y*^  said  Caleb  Coggan.  JOHX  Nouton. 

Thomas  D.vNiOraii. 

]\P  Thomas  Danforth  Appeared  in  the  County  Court.  3'^  August  1(.''8,  ^ 
declared  this  paper  to  be  the  declaration  of  3r  Xortoa  &  himself  m  Refer- 
ence to  the  Tnterp'tacou  of  so  much  of  M'  Cogans  will  as  it  refers  unto,  & 
y*  he  signed  y*  same.  Edw.  Kawsox  Kecorder. 

Att  a  meeting  of  the  magists.  24'^  of  October  IfiGO,  present  dep'  Gov' 
maje' Athei'ton  &  Recorder.  The  magists.  having  binn  Informed  of  I'll" 
Coggau,  y*  Relict  of  y""  late  IsV  John  Coggan,  sudaine  death,  y'  not  w'^out 
snspition  of  poison.  Ordered  y'  y'  Recorde"  Issue  out  warrant  to  y*"  Cur.sta- 
bles  of  Boston,  to  suraon  &  Impanell  a  Jury  of  Inquest  for  the  Inquiry  how 
shee  Came  to  hir  end.  And  also  Judged  it  meete  for  y*  preservation  of  y* 
estate  left  by  hir  behind  hir  y'  it  may  not  be  Imbezled  but  preserved),  to 
Appoint  Ek?  James  Penne  &  Deacon  Richard  Truesdall,  Adminisirato's  to 
the  estate  of  y"  late  M"  jMartha  Coggan,  Impow  ring  them  forthwith  to  take 
into  theire  Cuttody  the  keyes  plate,  &c.  of  y*  s'^  M  '  Coggan  &  secure  y' 
same,  taking  a  true  luveniory  of  that  estate,  &.  bringing  it  into  y''  next 
County  Court,  &  Providing  for  hir  decent  Interment.  e.  R.  k. 

Joseph  Rocke,*  of  Boston,  bound  in  the  some  of  400  pounds  to  Edward 
Rav/son  Recorder,  Feb.  24,  1GG2,  to  administer  on  the  estate  of  the  late 
John  Coggan  «&  Martha  his  wife.     Signed,  Joseph  Rock,  in  the  presence  of 


his  marke 


Samuel   S   Sendall,  John  Ferniside.  1  (File,  No.  185.) 

Abstract  of  the  Will  of  John  Cogan  or  Coggan,  inventory,  settlement  of 
his  estate  &  that  of  his  widow  Martha,  Register,  ix.  33;  x.  175. 

JoHX    Franckltn. —  Jonathan    Negus,"   of   Boston,    bound,    Aug.    ~0, 
l'''5S,  to  Administer  on  tiie  estate  of  Jn"   Francklyn,  deceased.  ^Signed. 
Jonathan  Negus.     Witnessed  by  Heury  "VV'ebb  cb  Ed.  Hutchins-jn  J^"-  _ '^'-''^  . 
his  inventory^  Register,  ix.  344.  (File,  Nu.  IrtT.j 

'  Jo.-jf>ph  Rook  married  Elizabeth.  Jaiiirh'-er  of  John  Co:.-'r.in.  .. 

Jor.ithan  Negus  was  a  fairlifiil  ck'rk.  of  the  writs  in  ISo-ton.  1-351,  &  anor;  liau   wi.e 
^4nc,    His  sistjr,  Grace,  married  Barnabas  Fawer,  of  Dureiiesccr. 


A 


108     Boston  Innholders  and  lietailers  of  Spirits — 1714.     [Jan. 


LIST  OF  DsXnOLDEKS  AXD  RETAILERS   OF   SPIPJTS 
IN  liOSTOX,  1714. 

Communicated  by  Jkuemiah  Colbl'uv,  A.M.,  of  Boitoa. 

THE  following  document,  which  is  printed  from  the  original  in  my 
possession,  gives  un  idea  of  the  extent  of  liquor  scaling  in  lj(jston 
at  the  beginning  of  the  hist  century.  At  the  date  of  tliis  document, 
the  population  of  Boston  was  not  far  from  ten  thousand. 

Anno  1714. 

The  Names  of  the  Inbolders  or  Taverners  and  of  the   Retailers  without 

Doors  in  Boston  viz'. 


Inholders. 

Danlf-l  Allen 
Sarah  Battersby 
]\rar;,  BiiU 
Kicholas  Cock 
David  Copp 
Jeremiah  Gushing 
Mildred  Dorrell 
Thomas  Gilbert 
Francis  Holmes 
Sarah  Hunt 
Margaret  Johnson 
Hannah  Kent 
John  Laagdon 
Mary  Mausfeild 
Samuel  Meares 
Acne  Moor 
Stephen  Xorth 
Thomas  Phdlips 
Thomas  Powell 
Richard  Pullen 
John  Rowlestone 
Thomas  Selby 
William  Skinner 
Mary  Smith 
Wdliam  Sutton 
Mary  Thwing 
Savah  Turell 
Samuel  Tyley 
John  Vial 
Jonathan  Wardwel 
Rebecca  Watts 
Thomas  Webber 

Comoii  Tlctualers. 
Thomas  Lloyd 


James  Smith 
Hannah  Wade 
Benj^  Johns 

lietailers. 

Nathaniel  Balstone 
Phillip  Bongarden 
Aime  Breck 
John  Buchannan 
Mary  Chandler 
Ezekiel  Cravath 
Sarah  Cross 
Mary  Dafforne 
Benjamin  Dyer 
William  Everton 
Mary  ffl.'  at 
Rebecca  ftowle 
Martha  Gwinn 
Samuel  Haugh 
Dorothy  Hawkins 
Henry  Hill 
Joseph  Hiller 
Anne  Leblond 
Deborah  Man 
Elizabeth  Meares 
Alexander  MUler 
Mary  IMould 
John  Nichols 
Edward  Oakes 
Thomas  Peirson 
James  Peirson 
Thomas  Phillips 
John  Royner 
Fortune  Rdlduck 
Margrett  Richardson 
Thomas  Savase 


1877.] 


2Totes  and  Queries. 


101 


Joanna  Stone 

Gregory  Sugar 
Miucy  Tuy 
Zechaiiah  Tliayer 
Saniuel  Turrill 
Faitli  Waldo 
John  Wass 
Sussaniia  ^\  ilkias 


.Afary  Wilhu-a 
JuDat.baQ  Williams 

Coffee  liouscheiphrs. 

Robert  Guttridge 
Daniel  Stevens 

James  I'itson  lietnilur  of  Cijde.r. 
Exam''.      41'  John  Ballanti-vc  Cler. 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 

Who  SIGV4LI.ED  Paul  Revere?  {ante  xxx.  4r)8).— In  the  last  numher  of  the 
Register -vve  reterreJ  to  an  article  in  the  Bosto^i  D>nhj  AnctrUsur  on  this  su  :).;0t. 
We  now  i^ive  an  abstract  ^i  it.     In  this  article  the  Rev.  -Jolin  Lee  U  atson    D.iJ., 

p-'lae.-^  c--i;lc;i-e  to  sll0^v  invx  Ciipt.  John  Pullinii;,  a  vestrynian  ot  Chribt  Lhuici, 
and  not  Rob.rt  Newman,  ttie  sextan,  hung  out  the  t<igual  lights  for  Paul  Revere  oti 

the  evening  of  .April  18,  1775.  ^ ,    .      ^„        ,       .      -i   ,o     .a--    t' 

At  the  c^nUeniiial  celebration  of  thi^  event  in  Christ  Church,  Aonl  H,  Ib/D.  tn-j 
rector  of  that  church,  the  Rev.  Henry  Burruu-iis.  D.l).,  stated  m  Ins  (iHcour.^e^rhat 
Mr.  Newman  hun-  out  thuse  lights  and  S.uiiuel  IL  Newman,  a  Sonol  RoKrt  -New- 
man, as  a  part  of  the  celebiutiou  hung  out  siuidar  lii,dits  that  evening,  ihe  W:^ . 
Dr.  Burrou'dis,  in  replv  to  a  letter  fro-a  his  friend  the  Rev.  Dr.  ^\ats<)n.  asking  tor 
the  authorit'\- for  his  statement,  wrute  that  he  liad  '^received  his  infu-mation  iroai 
iMr.  S.  il.  Newman  SDiiuf  the  sexton,"  whose  story  wns  supported  hy  the  reiiief_L- 
bninces  of:  1st,  an  eMerlv  woman,  "  Mrs.  Sally  Chittenden,  now  90  years^  of  ;'g.--, 
who  is  the  irranddauirhter  of  John  Newman,  brother  of  Robert;  "  2d,  "  ot  -j.^^hua 
B.  Fowle,  livin"- at  LexiuiTton.  who  knew  Paul  Revere,  who  often  came  with  ttie 
other  patriots  o1  hh^  time  to  his  father's  house.  It  was  the  common  tals_  an-.nng 
them  tliat  R.obert  Newman  put  up  the  lanterns  ;  "  3d.  "  >\  lUiam  Green,  wno  liv.j.s 
at  the  North  End,  is  the  o;raudson  of  Capt.  Thomas  Barnard.  His  sister  84  years 
old  remembers  Robert  Newman."  "  All  these  say  that  it  was  tlie  universj-hy  re- 
c>-ived  opinion  tiiat  Robert  Newman  displayed  the  signal  1  ghts."  Dr.  burrou-MS 
a  Inj  write--:  that  "the  sexton  vras  arrested,  but  nothing;  i.as  proved  against  Inm. 
Alter  civing  tise  signal,  he  made  his  way  out  of  the  back-window  ot  the  churcti  anu 
was  found  in  bed."  <(  «rk 

We  have  space  to  give  but  a  small  portion  of  Dr.  Watson's  argument.  >>  ncn 
it  was  discovered,"  says  he,  "  bv  the  British  authorities  that  the  si-nals  had  been 
made  from  Christ  Church,  "  a  search  was  immediately  set  on  foot  tjr  the  re!)el  wimj 
made  them.'  The  sexton  of  the  church  was  suspected  and.  arrested.  He  protested 
"ld=  innocence  :  and,  when  questioned,  declared  that  '  the  keys  of  the  church  were 
deraandtii  uf  him.  at  a  late  hour  v)f  the  ni2;ht,  by  Mr.  Pulling,  who.  hein^r  a  vt-trj- 
uian,  he  thourrht  had  a  right  to  them  ;  and  after  he  had  given  them  up  he  hai.  -  "« 
to  bed  a-Min,  and  that  was  all  he  knew  about  it.'  This  was  sufficient  to  procure  ins 
rel.'ase,'!ipd  turn  the  search  towards  .Mr.  Pullin-."  The  latter  escaped  ni  di.gui-c 
t'.Nantasket,  where  he  resided  till  the  evacuation.  On  his  return  to  B.jst.-n  wu 
found  his  dwellinL'--liouse  and  stores  so  injured  tliat  at  the  end  of  the  w:i_r  bis  jtm;'-'''/ 
was  a'l  (n,ne.  H^'died  soon  after.  Dr.  Watson  obtained  the  facts,  rei:ued  f,  una, 
I'.'-incipaUy  from  the  Utters  of  a  granddau'ihter  of  Capt.  Pulling.  He  adds  iii>  o|* ii 
t--siiiu.jny  to  this.  "  I  distinctlv  remember,"  he  says.  "  hearing  my  mot.iei  ..U'i  -ay 
autit— buth  of  them  sifters  of  Mrs.  Annis  Palling— relating  the  story  in  our  '•»";."-•. 
tt.id  saylnu'  they  considered  '  his  showing  the  signals  on  that  night  at  '•h'M'*;':""*  •'• 
life,  as  one  of  the  mo-t  darinir  deeds  of  the  Revolution.'  "  That  Jolin  1  uiii.v_  \.-is 
"  I'atri.-t  is  abundantly  pvoved.     He  is  mentioned   in   contemporary   reco.*.-.  I'l/./e 

re- 

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110  N'otes  and  Queries.  [Jan* 

hung  the  lignt,?  in  the  stcepio  of  the  Old  North  Church  to  give  the  alara  to  the 
country  people." 

Paul  Kovere  in  his  narrative  states  that  he  desired  "  a  friond  "  to  niaiie  the  sig- 
nals, r.nd  t'lat  they  were  to  he  displayed  from  the  "  north  church  ptc-eplc."  From 
the  fact  that  tlie  Sicord  Church  hi  H^ it-ton  was  unually  termed  the  "  North  Church," 
and  its  ediilco  was  known  as  the  "  Old  North,"  wdicreas  '*  Christ  Church  "  wa^ 
known  by  its  proper  appellation,  many  pernons  Iiavc  contended,  that  it  was  from 
the  belfry  of  the  Second  Church  and  not  from  the  i^tet'iile  of  Christ  Church  that  the 
lanterns  were  hung.  We  have  received  a  letter  from  Dr.  Watson  in  v.'hich  he  gives 
strong  reasons  in  fa\or  of  the  latter  .steeple.  Its  po.sitiou  was  such  that  a  li^dit  th-^re 
could  be  more  plainly  seen  from  Cliarle>town,  and  would  be  le.s.^  likely  to  be  detected 
by  the  liritish.  Dr.  ^Vat.son  contends  that  the  term  "  church,"  nieaning  an  edilice 
for  pul.'lic  worship,  was  only  applied  to  buildings  used  l)y  the  episcopalians,  the 
cor.gi'cgationalist.-i  calling  their  CiUHces  "  nieetinL;;-h(nises,"  ihoagh  they  called  tlicir 
corporations  "churches."  He  fortilles  his  position  with  numerous  instances  where 
these  terms  were  thus  applied. 

Since  the  above  was  written,  George  Mountfort,  Etjq.,  a  native  of  the  north  end  of 
Boston,  ad  were  also  his  parents,  informs  us  that,  in  his  youth,  he  frequently  conver.-cd 
with  aged  people  who  were  familiar  with  the  Hubjt-et;  and  without  an  exception 
they  told  him  t!i,^t  the  lights  were  displayed  from  the  spire  of  Christ  Church  in 
iSalem  ."rftrert,  often  called  the  north  churcii.  iie  considers  it  prepi:-sterou6  t-)  sup- 
pose that  they  vrere  hung  frum  the  low  beii'ry  of  the  Old  North  Meeting  House.  He 
Laa  always  heard  tliat  the  lanterns  were  hung  out  by  Robert  Newman  ;  in  laot,  he 
never  heaal  Cupt.  Pulling's  name  mentioned  in  connection  with  this  affair  tdi  cerevid 
I)r.  \Vat.S'n's  article  in  the  Adccrliser.  We  undei-stand  that  a  competent  jArson  i.s 
investigating  tliid  affair,  and  when  the  result  i.s  published  we  may  recur  to  the  cub- 
ject. — to. 

Saltonstall. — I  would  like  to  point  out  an  omission  in  Phippen's  Saltonstall 
Pedigree,  which  I  have  never  seen  noticed,  namely,  the  absence  of  the  name  ot 
Martha,  tister  of  Sir  Richard  Saltonstall,  the  Patentee.  She  married  Dr.  John 
Clarke,  of  Newbury,  as  is  stated  in  Savage.  v(il.  i.  p.  39.5.  In  Bond's  "Wotartown, 
under  the  article  Saltonstall,  it  is  statedlhat  this  Martha  was  probably  sister  of  one 
■of  Sir  Richard's  wives,  but  that  she  was  his  own  sister  seems  to  be  proved  by  rbe 
following.  My  family  are  in  possession  of  two  panels  which  came  from  the  Clnrkc 
house  at  the  north  end  which  is  mentioned  in  Nason's  "  Boston  in  Colonial 
Times,"  page  73.  William  Clarke,  the  builder  and  owner  of  the  house,  was  the 
grandson  of^Dr.  John  Clarke.  On  one  of  the  panels  i.s  painted  the  coat-of-arms  of 
Clarke,  oa  the  other  that  of  the  Saltonstalls.  This  seems  to  show  that  the  families 
were  related.  Frederick  L.  Gat. 

Boston,  Mass. 

[William  Clarke,  of  Boston,  in  a  letter  written  in  1731,  an  extract  from  which  is 
printed  in  Felt's  History  of  Ipswich,  p.  311,  writes:  "My  grandmother  Clarke, 
whose  maiden  name  v,-as  Martha  Saltonstall,  was  the  only  sister  of  Sir  Richard 
Saltonstall.  and  was  the  first  English  virgin  that  landed  on  "the  spot  called  Boston, 
with  her  brother,  Richard,  she  being  about  twelve  years  of  age." 

On  submitting  these  facts  to  George  I).  Phippen,  Esq.,  of  Salem,  the  compiler  of 
the  Saltonstall  Pedigree,  he  writes  me  under  date  of  Oct.  26,  18TH,  that  he  thinks 
the  evidence  is  "  quite  conclusive  that  Martha  was  the  sister  of  Sir  Richard." — En  j 


FcRsxss  (ante  xxx.  p.  63). — In  the  January  number  of  the  Register  I  notice  Mrs. 
Dall's  contributi'jH  to  the  history  of  the  Furness  family.  1  have  a  pedigree  of  the 
Clark  fnmily  of  Salem,  ancestors  of  several  noted  families  in  3"our  neighborhood,  in 
which  Mr.  John  Clark  marries  Anne  Furness.  Said  Clark's  daughter  married 
William  Fairfax,  of  Virginia,  then  (1728-33)  collector  of  Salem,  and  atlerwiird- 
patron  of  George  Wa.ihiuiton,  whose  nephews  married  two  of  the  daughters  o! 
Fairfax.  My  Clark  pedigree,  like  that  of  the  Furness  family  w'lich  you  print,  !rf 
defective  in  d'ates,  and  I  cannot  fx  certainly  the  date  of  Clark's  marriage,  norascertaiu 
whether  the  family  was '■.Mi-mMioraneous  with  yr>ur  Furnessos. 

It  is  perhaps  hopeless  to  try  and  trace  the  conn.jction,  if  any,  but  if  anv  present 
member  or  descendant  should  communicate  with  you  on  the  subject,  this  fact  may 
be  of  use,  and  I  should  'oe  gh.:!  of  further  int'ormation  should  any  correspondent  ot 
your  magazine  be  able  to  furnish  it.  C-hakles  H.  Poole. 

Washinijion,  D.  C. 


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1377.1  Notes  and  Queries.  Ill 

J\coi}  Parker,  of  CheliosforJ,  died  in  or  before  1069,  as  bin  widow  presented  an 
inventory  of  hi.s  fstiiti-,  April  (>,  IG'iU.  lit-  left  widow  Sarali,  who  m.  as  hLs  secund 
wittf,  Capt.  John  Wayte,  of  Muldcu,  Aug.  1,  ir.75,  and  died  Jim.  13,  1707-8,  aged 
81.     Iliti  childivn  were  : 

i.  Jacob,  b.  about  1G:>2  ;  d.  in  Maiden,  Oct.  31,  lO'Jl,  aged  42. 
ii.  Sarah,  b.  Jan.  11,  or  Apnl  11.  IG.'>1 ;  :n.  as  his  second  wife,  Nathaniel  Ilaward, 

of  Charlestown  and  CheluiBlurd,  .July  1,  lG7ri. 
iii.  TuoMAS,  b.  March  2?,  IduG  ;  was  of  Maiden,  1713. 
iv    TAbiTiiA,  b.  Feb.  2S,  l6'j'?-iJ ;  ni.  Scphcn  Ficree,  of  Chelmsford. 
v'.  Kei;ecca',  b.  May  2'J,  IGGl  ;  in.  J<;natlian  Danforth,  of  Dilleriea,  June  27,  1683. 
vi".  Benjamin,  b.  Aug.  d,  16g:{-,  m.  Jan.  11,  lGUi)-l,  Sarali  Ilaward,  of  Cbelinsfurd  ; 

was  ot  Cheliuf^ford,  1713. 
vii.  Racuel,  b.  ^larch  9,  ltiGl-5;  m.  John  Floyd,  of  JIalden,  son  of  Capt.  John 

Fiojd,  of  Faimney  Mai-sh. 
viii.  Mary,  b.  Sept.  S,  1GG7 ;  m.  Thomas  Wayte,  sou  of  Capt.  John  Wayte,  of 
Maiden  ;  siid  d.  Jan.  6,  1763. 
ix.  EiiKNEZER,  wasof  CheliDsford,  1713.  D.  P.  Cokev. 


CoLO>T,T.  Constant  Frf.eman.— In  number  three  of  Rev.  Frederick  Freeman's 
"Memoranda  ia  aid  of  a  aenealogy,"  pnge  -lOi,  occurs  some  inforinatiun  re.-pectirs 
Col.  Cou-tatit  Freeman,  in  which  "the  writer  distrusts  the  report  that  "  he  was  an 
oR'i.''f.r  0^* the  arm-v  durino;  the  whole  of  the  revolutionary  w.-.r."^  Mr.  Freeman  stems 
to  have  entirely  il^nored,  save  in  a  foot-note  reference,  Drake's  "  Mouioriai  of  clie 
Society  of  the  Citi'cinnati,""  where  the  whole  military  career  of  Col-  Constant  Free- 
man is  explicitly  set  forth  from  the  time  he  joined  x\rnolJ  btf..re  Quebec  in  1775  to 
the  date  of  his  death  in  lb-21  ;  an;!,  in  consequence  of  w.'iich  membership,  his 
'nephew,  Rear- Admiral  Charles  Henry  Davis,  United  States  Nav;/,  is  ac  present  a 

ruember  of  the  order.  .  i    ,        ,-.         /-, 

On  paf;-e  408  of  Mr.  Freeman's  work  as  noted,  it  is  stated  that  Capt.  Constant 
Freeman'^s  (father  ot  Col.  Constant  Freeman  above)  brother  Xeheifiiah  was  in  com- 
mand of  Fort  Independence,  Boston  Harbor,  iu  18 12.  Was  ii  not  his  son  N(  hemiah, 
brother  of  Col.  Corstant?  ^Ir.  Freeman  would  make  him  GO  years  of  age  at  the 
time  of  holding  thi*  po^t.  r  n  i     r^  in 

Capt.  Constant  Freeman's  second  wife  was  the  widow  of  Col._  Palfrey  as  stated, 
page  369;  but  her  daughter  Susan  married  in  1794,  and  not  1741.  She  was  bor.i 
1767.  William  Lf.£, 

Washington,  D.  C.  

Phillips  and  Lovering.— Can  the  reader?  of  the  Register  inform  ire — 

1.  'Wlio  were  the  ancestors  of  Nathaniel  Phillips,  who  niarried  Nancy  Maverick, 
and  kept  un  apothecary  shop  on  the  corner  of  Orange  and  >fnnet  Streets  in  the  cicy 
of  Boston  in  the  latter  part  of  the  last  century?  (Sumner's  Hist,  of  E.  Boston, 
page  169.) 

2.  Who  were  the  ancestors  of  Joseph  Lovering,  who  married  Nancy,  daughter  of 
the  above  named  Nathaniel  Phillips?  Was  this  Joseph  Lovering  descended  Irum 
either  of  the  Loverings  mentioned  in  the  Register,  vol.  vi.  page  178  .' 

Boston.  Frederick  L.  Gat. 

Capt.  John  Talcott's  Gravestone.— The  following  inscription  was  copied  by  me, 
Sept.  12,  1876,  from  a  gravestone  in  the  "  old  burial  ground,"  Provincetown,  Mass.  : 

Here  lies  Interr'd  the  !  Remains  of  Capt  John  |  Taleott  of  Glausenhury  ]  in  Con- 
necticut, (Son  to  i  Deac'n  Benjamin  Taloott)  1  who  Died  here  in  his  |  Return  after 
the  Victory  |  obtained  at  Cape  [  ]  u  |  Breton,  A.D.  1745,  |  in  the  41^'  year  of  his 
Age. 

At  the  place  indicated  'oy  brackets  there  is  a  square  depression  in  the  stone  ab<3ut 
two  inches  square  and  half  an  inch  deep.  ThomaS  Si:yth. 

Buston,  Mass. 

Jones  {ante  xsix.  316). — It  will  be  seen  by  the  following  extract  from  the  Jones 
family  record  that  Natlianiel  Jones  of  Ipswich  was  the  father  of  Dr.  Benjamin  Jonea 
v.ho  111.  Sarah  Etidicutt : 

"  Benjamin  Jones  son  of  Nath^  Jones  of  Ipswich  was  bom  December  4,  JTl6.  & 
my  De.n.r  -wife  Sarah  Daughter  ot  Capt.  Samuel  Endicott  of  Danvers  was  born 
•Janu!U7  KM-.h  ar.no  1720  ol4  style."  N.  J.  RiSRtcs. 

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112  Notes  ayid  Queries,  [Jan. 

PniLUMORE.  FiNNEMORE,  Ftxmore,  PiLMOiiE  {ante  v.jI.xxx.  p.  467).— Your  cor- 
respondent dues  not  seon  to  know  of  tlic  feni.ixn-es  oi  2>ew  Jersey.  Jamee  toDi- 
S.^re  Uuuner,  uv,  its  he  )s  mure  -eneniUy  ailKO,  Feiuniore  Cooper  s  mother  ^vtms  o. 
tins  mini.',  ot  whom  Applcton's  Amerinui  ( •yclop;.cdui,  _  1st  edition,  pays  :  x\lrs. 
Cooper  hirt  mother,  whom  in  per^o.iul  aspect,  as  v/cil  as  in  mental  and  moiv.l  traits, 
Mr  Co'.pcr  -reatly  resembled,  waH  the  dungotcr  ol  Kir-hard  ienimoie  ot  >ow 
Jcr'-^ev  a  fa n-Jly  of  Swedish  descent,  and  ar«at  personal  excellenee  and  social  d's- 
tinctioP.  She  too,  like  her  hu.sband.  po8-^c^s,;d  reuiarkahlo  energy  ot  character  aniJ 
a  cultivated  and  curumandinir  inteilert,  and  is  ren.emher'-d  to  have  ht-en  fond  ot 
romance  reading'.  Her  iuima::ulate  liMUsekeepin.-,  peisonal  heiuty ,  and  iam.ly  Con- 
sequence made  her  to  a  m'mjrablo  de-ree  a  chaier  in  the  mflutaec  ot  her  hus^jand, 
both  in  tiio  household  ai,d  in  the  commani;y."'  •   ■     ,  u         „i,..^,= 

or  the  above  statement  tiiat  the  Fenimoirs  wore  of  bwedi^^b  orij^in  1  have  always 
had  a  =tron-  d.mht,  bein-  lainiliar  witii  the  sc-uealuiry  of  many  ot  the  early  settler-' 
of  tlus  noi'diborho.;d.  A  Richard  FeniuK-ie,  p)-ol>ably  the  pro:^enitor  of  tne  lamdv 
in  this  portion  of  New  Jersey,  was  a  signer  of  -  the  Concess!ons_  in  Ib-O.  Ihough 
the  si>niatures  attached  to  this  document  are  under  tiiut  aate  it  is  beheveO,  in  s.^me 
instan'ees  at  least,  that  some  of  them  were  written  by  i;.cttlers  coming  into  tt.e  pro- 

""'^Jli^kiJ-r- JeScvmen  in  the  Revolutionary  War,  Trenton,  1872  "  we  find,  p. 
501,  "Abraham  FenLmore,  Third  Fattaiion,  (Jluucester ; "  also  Ulonel  Sumers 
battalion,  State  Troops,  "Henry  Feuimore." 

"  Jamcs  Fenimuro,  Barlimrton.''  . 

There  was  cdso  a  Thomas  Fennimore.  of  Burlington  county,  5th  September,  \,,-j. 
The  name  is  still  to  bt  fouml  in  New  Jersey. _  . 

Pihnore  may  be  one  of  the  ^ciriations  of  this  name,  as  we  have  Pilbriek  tor  FtiU- 
-brick.  The  F:^v.  Josepli  Pilmore,  D.D.,  who  was  a  Protestant  Lpiseopal  cler-vman 
in  Philadelphia,  reet-r  of  Saint  FuuFs  church,  was  born  in  iadmouth,_  :k  orksnire 
Epoland,  about  1731.  He  died,  July  21,  1825.  See  AUibone  s  /•  Dictionary  of 
Authors"  for  a  farther  account  of  him.  His  Journal  ihero  menf.one.la3  in  the 
possession  of  John  Campbell,  is  now  in  the  collecti^m  of  ferdmand  J.  Dreer  th« 
well-known  autugraoh  collecror  of  Philadelphia.  Dr.  Pilmore  was  a  mcmbor  ot  tne 
St  Geor-f-s  Sociltv;  and  in  their  hall  in  Philadelphia  a  tine  portrait  ol_  him  is  _to_  be 
seen,  taken  in  his  clerical  robes  with  the  black  gown  and  bands.  It  is  a  striking 
pictm-e.  of  a  fine  looking  man,  past  middle  age.  ^\  illiam  John  i  uiis. 

CamdtJi,  i\eto  Jtrsej. 

Andrew  Alger,  of  Cape  Porpoise,  .AIf.— Concerning  this  person  mentioned  in 
the  Register  for  July.  1875,  vol.  xxix.  p.  272,  I  have  found  the  i.>lloV7ing  tacts  :  In 
1674  ho  vas  lined  for  shearing.  At  that  time  he  was  living  at  Cape  x  orpi)iso.  -Mr. 
Bradhuiy  states  that  his  house  stood  near  tfc  '•  cursed  fruit,'  an  appie-tree,  no.  .ar 
from  the  site  of  the  old  meeting-house,  whieu  acquired  that  name  from  the  extreme 
bitterness  of  its  fruit.  In  1690.  on  the  outoreak  of  Indian  hostilities,  he  reiu.jvea  to 
Newbury,  Mass.,  where  in  1692  he  executed  a  conveyance  ot  his  estate  in  Cape 
Porpoise,  which  he  had  acquired  partly  by  purchase  and  partly  t;y  grant,  to  Josepli 
Baylev,  who  s.-ttled  on  it  in  17o0,  and  was  killed  by  the  Inuians  in  1,23  and  papers 
on  tile' in  the  Fssex  Probate  OtBce  set  furth  that  Andrew  Alger  dieU  at  Newbury  m 
Au-rust,  169 1.  In  October  following  the  selectmen  directed  .James  brown  ana  John 
Wol-th  to  take  an  inventory  of  his  estate  and  make  a  return  to  the  Judge  ot  Probate, 
"  ye  widow  being  an  improvident  person  k  likely  to  be  chargable  to  ye  town  or 
country,  for  that^hey  were  driven  from  ye  estate  by  ye  enemies." 
"  Joseph  Bayley  demands  for  Funerall  expenses  as  tolloweth 

tohisColSn on    S5    SS 

to  digging  the  crave 1^2    ^'t    n?^ 

for  drink  at  hitTFunei-all ^^     1-    W 

01     03    CO" 

The  estate,  which  consisted  solely  of  two  or  three  household  articles,  was  inven- 
.toriedat£l.  12s.  A.  M.  Alge.-.. 

Taunton,  Mass.  

Ilsley.— Can  any  of  the  readers  of  the  Register  give  me  the^name  of  Cant.  Isaac 
Ilsley'6  wife,  and  ahso  tell  me  if  there  is  any  irenealocry  of  the  J^lev  lamdy  .  capt. 
Ilsley  was  born  in  Newbury  in  1703,  and  moved  to  Falmouth  m  1^3.?.  M.  V. 

Porllandj  Alaine. 


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1377.1  ITotes  and  Qutries.  113 

De  Wor.F  {ante  xiv.  •ir)5).— Tho  followin?  ilems  in  rc;:ard  to  this  family  aro  found 
in  n>u  (iiriie^;t  1/iiikf'  of  town  rconls  of  Lyme,  Ct. 

'Iho  enrlios^t  l^c  VVoU'r,arn..s  ir..-Mtioneu  are  IVklinj-.nr  Do  W.,  Kwl,  mnl,  uiiuor 
pniiic  (b-te,  iviu-ani.. joined  wicli  the  namos  ot  tlio  tirs^t  tv7o  Mritthcw  (Jriswolds  ;  and 
a  JWiinuiin  is  meai-ioiieu  in  t!ie  rooor'.t-j  as  a  son  ot'  tliip  Klward.  The  i>irt!i-!  .,f 
eovonil  children  of  an  l^dv-xiU,  probaidy  the  s>iia3,  arc  given  as  flJUo■.^s:  b^i::i'>n, 
b.  Nov. '2S.  liwl  ;  Cliarie-.,  b.  .Sept.  17,  IGTIJ ;  l.fniaLiiin,  b.  Dec.  'J,  iO!)j.  Indcr 
dates  of  107;)  and  lfj«l,  oo<;'irs  th(;  came  of  tiimon  De  VV.,  and  a  SJiuon  son  oi'  15id- 
tar/,ar  ('•  li.  De  ^'.  oonicnlcteo  of  the  town  in  1077  ")  is  found  in  a  deed  ''f  lOSl 
from  tho  latter  to  tho  foirri>'r.  Tho  foUowinci;  are  nauicd  as  cli)'dr»n  of  a  Sniivn, 
prohabiv  the  same  one,  by  bib  wife  i'.uah,  nr.mr-ly  :  Sii})on,  b.  N  it.  13,  irs.'i ;  .^'ui-ah, 
b.  Dec.e,  Hi-^.") ;  Jehu.  b.  Aiu'.  It.i;  ;  Josiah.  b.  Nov.  138IJ ;  Phel)e.  b.  Jan.  eo, 
lOni-1.' :  [>an;d.  b.  Dec.  29,  IfM-"^.  Simon  r.'.-  W.,  sen.,  died  .Sept.  5,  1CU3.  Und.r 
dates  of  iri7C>  r.nd  IHST  ocvciii  the  r-cmo  of  Str-phen  De  Vr.,  who  appeirs  to  havo  Jied 
in  17i3  ;  a.id  the  following  sjps  of  this  .St.-.ph-n  are  named:  Lewi.-!,  Deii/iiuiii, 
Ed-vvard  and  Jobiab.  (the  last  b.  17i':^).  The  last  r.rnned  Denjamin  m-y  ha^e  boen 
liie  fatlier  of  Stephen,  s-ir;  of  V-orJ  cUjin,  who  was  baptized  in  17.'n.  (See  Ciinvoh 
record  in  vol.  xv^.  p.  40j  ut  P.vgister.)  In  Oct.  1751,  a  "  Mr.  Danlrl  De  W." 
nuirriod  .Mis^ro.-s  Az-uba  Lee  ;  had  children,  Elias  aiid  Daniel :  r.Dd  died,  th*;  town 
records  sav,  Oct.  10.  17.3-J.  wl)ioh  nijrets  precisely  with  the  epitaph  of  Dauiel  (rol. 
XNX.  t>.  4r.5  of  K£oir,TiR).  shov.ii.Vr  i;.iiu  to  have  been  the  sacic  p;rrion.  lu  the 
"  Hvde  Genealoay,"  p.  117';),  is  r.icoid^d  the  aiarria^e  of  Anne  WaCoriuan  (dau.  ot 
Litut.  Ia.,Uia.s  'vN  .,  one  of  the  original  proprietors  of  ^'orwicb,  by  .Miiiam  Tr". <;..,-  hi.^ 
wife)  to  Josuih  De  W.,  of  Lynie.  Thi.^  Anne  is  undoubtedly  the  Anno  vihj  ot 
J.\-iah  De  W.  wa.u-e  epiinph  wc  have  ylven  ;  perhaps  siie  was  tho  laot'.ev  'of  tho 
Daniel  of  the  other  enitauh  who  lies  buried  at  her  side  (.see  p.  i05  of  vol.  y^t.  cf 
Rlgist£r).  •■      ^  .  -  R.  McC.  ;j. 

,>:  JoshuiTreat,  Fonof  tho  Kev.  Samuel  Treat,  of  Easthani,  was  born  ?klarcb  17, 

|;  lf:!«.     Thachri-^tian  natiiewf  bif;  wife  vriis  Mary.     On  her  graTt-^toiiO.  whior.  is  m 

f  the  cemetivv  in  Bre7.er,  M;:ine,  is  this;  ir..-cripn  m  :    •*  'W'idow  ^Liry  Ireax,  M'jC'icr 

I  of  Major  icobert  Treat  and  Mrs.  Elh:abeth  Holyoke,  died  Aug.  17U7,  aged  0-3. ■^'    ^ 

I  w'ish  to  I  no^Y  her  maiden  name,  and.  wtien  at.d  where  tihe  was  married  to  t^o=;iu:i 

I  Treat.                                                                                         Joseph  W .  PoF.Tis. 

I  Burlington,  Maine. 

f  Scott.— Sylvanus  Scott,  of  Portsmouth,  N.  H.,  married  Oct.  21,   171  i,  Sarah 

I  Moses  of  the  sauie  place  {ami  s.'iiii.  271) .     Thev  had  eight  children,  baptized  at  vhe 

^  Suith  Chu'c'-.  Port-mouth,  vj^:.  :   Sarah,  Acios,  Frances,  Saniuel,  liath,  barah, 

J  Khzabeth  and  F-ances.     Another  .son,  Sylvanii.=:,  though  not  on  tnc  chur^.-h  regi.^^er, 

I  is  found  on  the  family  record.     Of  T.hepc  children  two  sons,  Sylvanu?  and   .>uuu.hl, 

I  and  three  daughccrs,"'£lizabei:h.  France-,  and  PaUli,  removed  to  Scarborough,  Maine, 

i  and  afterward.-:  to  Machias.     Wanted,  the  ancestry  of  Sylvanus,  or  the  name  ot^tho 

I  place  in  Great  Britain  from  which  be  emigrated.                                        E.  Scoir. 

?  New  York  city.                                                                                                     ^. 

I  FoLsoM  1LIA3  SinTH  (ante  sxx.  207).— A?  the  tradition  has  prevailed,  e^tensivclj, 

I  that  the  emigrant,  John  Folsom,  was  John  Smith  in  England,  the  foUowmg  rcconi 

;  from  the  MS.  of  the  late  Hon.  John  Kelley,  of  Exeter,  may  throw  some  light  on  tlie 

"  question :  „    . 

*'_Adam  Folsom,  alias  Smith,  of  Hingham,  England,  made  his  will  in  IC:./,  in 
I  which  he  names  his  sons.  J:-)h:i,  Ada.m  aud  Peter." 

J..!ia  Ivi.s  son  came  to  flinrham,  Ms.,  in  16:^6,  and  in  the  diary  of  Pajsou  ^^•^^'■> 
i  cf  that  loft-n,  it  is  found  tba't  his  children  were  baptized,  &c."  {See  Kej^ley  -  -M">.. 
s-                 iii.  o.  i-13.)  Jacoc  LiiAi'.'«-i>- 

.<  Jungston,  N.  H.  

ScMN-KR.— Wanted,  records  of  the  descendants,  if  any,  of  the  following  Sumners  ; 

t.  .  Siimuel  S.,  b.  Boston,  1739. 

I  Samuel  S.,b.       '■        1742. 

^  Joeeph  S..  b.      "       1761. 

-     „  John  Pool  S.,  b.  ''       107*3.  ,^    c     a     ,-.r-,v.- 

3y  Deacon  St.,  Bo,t,m.  ^-  S-  Applkton'. 


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114  Notes  and  Queries.  [Jan. 

Magws  Redlon'  was  in  Narrac;nnsott  No.  1  (now  Buxton,  Maine)  as  early  as  1713. 
Ifc  -iv;m  ii.MH  in  Sc-(.t!i'.nil  in  l(i01,  nn.l  died  in  Saoo  in  Mil,  ;);Tcd  Ir,.  lie  had  .sijuh 
Daniel,  Matthias,  Ebcne^er,  .Julm,  Ahvaliain,  liobert,  Jtn'einio'u  and  Jacub.  Where 
did.  Mapriius  inaiTV,  and  '.vhOk-e  were  his  ,'^ons  burn?  liid  youn;j».'5t  .-'jn  was  born  in 
1710.  Tn^.'liti'.mspys  he  first  settled  i:i  iaco  ;  that  he  uiarri^ri  u  Townsend  iliere, 
and  that  hi.^  eons  \\\v\-  bovn  tlieve.  I  find  no  daiigliterd.  Who  can  give  iufornnition 
of  thi-^  family?  AVa;-,  !iis  wife  a  dauuditer  or  Hi.>^i-'r  of  the  >\brabani  Townseud  wlio 
once  lived  in  BiddeforJ?  This  family  and  the  Towi:i.seud:i  have  continued  to  inter- 
marry. G.  T.   KiDLON. 

Harrison,  Elaine.  

SA^l^I.L  CrftRiuK  carao  to  Haverhill,  Ma-s.,  prior  to  IfifiB.  and  niarrie'l  Jfary,  dau. 
of'l'hoiiias  Haniy,  of  Ipswicli.  His  ,<:rnvestonc  may  still  be  f:(.en  in  the  old  Pen- 
tucket  Cenu'teiy  in  Haverhill.  It  is  t-uok  partially  into  tlio  ^round  and  leans  to  one 
side,  but  the  inscription  is  easily  deciphered,  and  is  as  f  jlhnvs  : 

Here  lyes  y<^  body  of  |  Samuel  Cuirier  who  ]  died  Marcli  y«  11,  1713  |  aged  77 
years. 

For  tl;ia  departed  soal 

And  :ill  the  rest 
yt  Clnist  h:vi  pui-chisd 

Thay  shiil  be  blest. 

It  is  a  pity  that  this  old  relic  could  nut  ba  set  upon  a  i^ranite  foundation  so  as  to 
be  preserved  for  many  j-ears  longer.     Who  v/ill  assist  in  the  undertaking  ? 
Lowell,  Mass.  Edwin  iM.  Cl'rrier. 

Capt.  John  Smith. — In  1819,  a  reprint  of  Smith's  Trre  Travsl^,  Adver.tvres  and 
Observations,  and  his  General  Historic,  was  issued  in  Ricbruond,  Va.  It  has  been 
frequently  asserted  that  this  edition  was  published  at  the  expense  of  the  celeSrated 
Jolm  Eaiidolph  of  Pcoauoke  ;  but  1  have  been  lately  informed  hy^the  Kt.  Rev.  Tii'-mas 
Atkinson,  D.D.,  LL.U.,  of  \Viimin<jt-on,  Episcopal  bishop  of  North  Carolina,  tliat 
it  was  pubiiMhed  at  rho  expense  of  the  Rev.  John  Holt  Kico,  D.D.,  a  prcsbylerian 
clergyman  then  residing  at  Kiehmond,  and  that  he  made  a  h^n■lvy  l.j.ss  bv  the  publi- 
cation, which  almost  ruined  him.  A.n  account  of  him  will  he  found  in  Drake".? 
"  DietioDavy  of  American  Biograph.y."  Bishop  Atkinson  was  well  acuiainted  with 
the  Rev.  Dr.  Rice,  and  often  conversed  with  him  in  regard  to  tliis  matter. 

In  1787  the  late  Rev.  Dr.  Belknap  advertised  in  a  Boston  paper  for  any  person 
having  a  cofiy  of  Smith's  History  to  inform  him,  as  he  very  much  wanted  to  obtain 
the  loan  of  it.  Frederic  Kidder. 

Melrose,  Mass.  

Cl.vrk  axd  Kilrv. — My  thanks  arc  due  to  Isaac  J.  >  rcenwood,  Esq.,  of  New 
York,  f_)r  information  that  makes  it  clear  that  the  statement  in  my  note,  an(e  xxvi. 
page  437,  that  Benjamin  Clark,  who  marri'^d  Miriam  Kill)y,  was  a  son  of  the  H  )n. 
uiUiam  Clark,  is  not  correct.  The  descendants  of  this  Benjamin  are  correctly 
stated  ;  to  what  family  he  belongs,  I  do  not  know.  I  find  the  Benjamin,  son  of  the 
lion.  William  Clark,  iiviu:;  in  1749,  having  a  wife  whose  name  was -Susanna.  I  know 
nothing  further  of  him.  Mr.  Greenwood  thinks  be  lived  till  the  revolution  and  was 
the  loyalist  of  that  name. 

I  may  add  that  the  Hon.  William  Clark  married  Sarah,  dau.  of  Robert  Bronsdon, 
a  mere  ha  iit  of  Boston.    She  survived  her  husband.  C.  W.  Tuttle. 


Felt. — On  page  63  of  vol.  ix.  of  the  Register,  it  is  stated  that  Lucy,  daughter  of 
Eldad  and  Lucy  (Spaulding)  Spatibrd,  married  Joshua  "  Tell."  and  lived  in  .Maine. 
She  married  Joshua  Felt.  s<jn  of  Peter  and  Lucy  (Andrews)  Felt,  of  Lynn,  Ma.-s., 
afterwards  of  Tc.mple,  N.  H.  Joshua  moved  to  Rumfurd,  !Me.,  previous  to  1800, 
and  to  Ty'oodstock.  Me.,  in  1609.  He  died  in  181-3,  May  1.  His  children  were  :  i- 
Luci/,  h.  yi^xy  11,  1"9,5,  ra.  Jotham  Perhara,  of  Woodstock;  ii.  Jtreminh,  b.  Feb. 
20,  1797,  m.  Eli/a  Perkins;  iii.  Arlemas,  h.  Oct.  15,  iSUO,  m.  Desire  Stephens; 
iv.  Sailij,  b.  Deo.  21,  ISO-J,  m.  Christopher  Bryant,  of  Greenwood  ;  v.  Eiizabclh.  b. 
Dec.  11,  1804,  m.  Jonathan  liillini.'s,  of  Woodstock  ;  vi.  Polly,  b.  March  4,  1807, 
ra.  Amasa  Bryant  and  went  West;  vii.  Jolin  G..  b.  Aug.  2S,  1809,  m.  Ayer 
Lawrence,  of  JailVey,  N.  11  ;    ix.  Punhna,  b.  Aug.  7,  iSll,  m.  Perrin  Dudley. 

After  the  death  of  her  husband,  Mrs.  i'elt  became  the  second  wife  of  Merrill 
Chase,  of  Woodstock,  and  had :  x.  Lucinda.h.  Feb.  9,  1816,  m.  Gil'bs  Besen,  of 
Paris ;  and  xi.  Ald^n,  b.  June  5,  1819,  m.  Lucy  Cole.  W.  B.  LAPn.'.ii. 

Aug-ustn,  Mair.e. 


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1S77.]  Notes  and  Queries.  115 

Pkintino  in  Dover,  New  Haju'o'iire.— I  am  now  rxWa  to  answer,  in  part,  vw: 
inquiry  in  t!ie  Rkgistei£,  aide  vol.  xsx.  p.  4CS.  I  have  just  purvLased  a  duuciecimo 
vuliiiiifuf  ■lp:)i)iiuled  page,,  Lavin-tlii.s  title- pa^e:  .,     -m-,.  i    o      .- 

"  l>urn's  Al.ri'lgcuieuc,  or  the  Ameii.-iin  Justice  ;  containing  tlie  Whole  rruotK'e. 
Autliuritv  aiid-Duiy  ofJuKtioesot'tlic  IVacc;  with  correct  I'Mrias  uf  preccient.;  r.> 
latiii"-  theri:to,  and  ad^iptcd  to  tlie  i.vc?eiit  situation  of  the  United  States."  iJr.vcT 
(A'  w  Il-inipshin)  :  Print  'd  for,  atrl  sold  by  Eliphalct  Ladd,  at  Lis  printing  ollice, 
neia- the  (.V.url-liuUie.     MDCCXCri.  „T,rn, 

is  this  the  frit  buuii  printed  in  Dover?  C.  >\  .  Ivvile. 

JoflN  Saffiv.— The  following  difcumcnt  has  bcon  copied  for  the  KEcisrLi:,  by 
Tlioiuas  P>.  \\'yinan,  Es.^.,  froin  the  court  iiles  of  ^liddledes  county  : 

"  honored  Gentelmen  havini.';c  received  a  few  lines  from  Mr  John  Safiiu  re- 
questing us  to  Ldve  o'  testiatony  of  liim  v.hat  wee  have  obserued  or  knov.'e  eunscrn- 
ing  hiiii''in  poyrit  of  his  conservation  wee  can  do  no  lesse  at  his  request  tlian  to  give 
yourselves  or  any  other  whouie  it  nmy  eonsern«  to  understand  that  wee  liave  icnone 
hiui  ever  since  ho  was  aboute  10  or  ]2  yeare  old  since  which  lime  he  hi'S  iiad  his 
abode  li  continnancs  amon-st  us  (excepting  the  3  or  4  last  yearse)  during  which 
time  his  carrid<rc  wa-S  sobef  &  ciuil  yea  verey  comcndable  ;  i;  wee  do  not  kno  r.eitlier 
ever  hard  of  any  caria^-e  of  his  that  CQuid  be  a  ju.-t  blemishe  unto  hirn  ;  n(;_r  did  w;;e 
ever  p"seive  that  iic  was  at  all  edicted  to  kcepe  com  pony  (according  to  the  comou 
nc<!>nfnt!on)  but  all  wav  rbserved  him  verey  prewdent  in  his  cariage  and  wary 
who'me  ho  ejns(,'rted  witri  all  ;  allwnys.?  coraponio'^e  with  the  beter  sortc  &  evcr?> 
way  dcmeninge  &  carriirge  himsclie  inofeusive  &  as  became  an  honest  man.  Gentel- 
men your  S.-rvantes.  TiMOiur  HAintKf.Y 

Soituate  the  25th  of  lO'ti  1G57.  J^iiES  Cunwohxii.- 

In  a  deposition  dated  Oct.  1.5,  1G81  (Saffolk  Probate  records  vi.  3-56),  Mr.  SaUm 
gives  his  ai-e  as  17.  If  there  be  no  error  in  this,  he  was  born  about  163-i  ;  but  tins 
would  make  him  only  about  19,  in  1653,  when  he  was  a  selectman  of  Scituatc— Ed. 

Proposal  of  Several  Negroes  lv  Bosto:;,  1714.  {Frcm  the  orifjiaal  in  l/r.  poi- 
session  of  Jeremiah  Coiburn,  Esq.) — 

adam  i.;iffin  Negero    1  all  these  are  willinir  to  be  bound  for  mad'"  Leblond— Negcro 
Dick  Ne-ero  I   ^Voman— that  she  shall  be  Noe  ways  Chargeable  to  y^  town 

Ned  huhbard  \  In  Sickness  or  any  disaster 

Roben  Keats  disallowed  by  y«  Sel: men  the  23^1^  of  march  :  1713-14 

Mingo  Walker  J 

Bailey— ITopkixson—Trumecll— Swan.— After  alone,  search  for  the  parentn  re  of 
Ab!g;ul,  the  wife  of  Deacon  Joseph  Ikiley,  of  Bradford,  Mass.,  whose  pust^ruy  J3 
given  ia  my  Rrsearches  of  Merriinack  Valhy,  I  have  concluded  without  douSt  .-he 
was  the  dau-hter  of  John  Trumbull,  of  Rowley,  from  whom,  by  his  former  wile 
Eilen,  descended  the  TrumbuUs  who  have  resided  since  in  Essex  county,  Mas.--.,  anu 
in  Connecticut.  ^ 

Ann,  the  mother  of  Abigail,  was  married  three  times,  which  may  be  learned  .rom 
records;  a  part  of  which  are  the  following  relating  to  her  and  her  surroundings, 
viz.,  in  the  records  of  Boston  First  Church,  that  Michael  Hopkinson  and  Liciiani 
Swiia  with  William  Stickney  and  wife  were  all  admitted  t5.  W'^.  lo:38,  and  dxsmJ^t';'i 
to  fjrm  a  church  in  Rov,lev"'24.  9'"^.  1639.  ^r-\^ 

la  the  hies  of  Esses  county,  is  a  deposition  of  Ann  Swan,  dated  Mar.  30,  l*"^|j 
when  s!ie  called  herself  atred"  60  years.  On  tlie  Rowley  town  records  Michael  an'^ 
Ann  llopkinson  (from  whom  descended  the  families  of  New  England  he;'.rin:i^  tti.ii 
-HiQ.-)  have  recorded  their  children  :  Jonathan,  b.  1:3  11"^  1041,  who  d.  aged  »  -"V  v,' 
Jon:itl;an,  b.  9.  2"^.  1543  ;  Jeremy,  b.  26  l'^^  1645  ;  John,  b.  1.  11""-  ^^'^^'-  '--**^^' 
b.  I'.t  1-J"-.  1R18. 

Michael  llopkinson  buried  Feb.  23,  16 IS;  John  TrumMe  and  Ann  HopKjP^on  Ja. 
J"  nio.  1650 ;  and  they  had  Abigail,  1).  10.  10"'°  1651 ;  Mary,  b.  7.  4'=^.  U->^  ■  ^"--n 
inunlile,  buried  trie  fifth  month  ei::hteenth  day,  1657.  ,      ,      .--^ 

^  I'.i'hnr,]  aw.in  an,l   Ann  'frumble  were  married  the  first  day  of  .^larcti,   1'jo9. 
«'w;-t!ard  Swan  buried  .May  14,  1678.  v  .     u    ■       ^fr.rv 

From  Ks-ex  countv  Probate  we  hnd  that  Ann  Trumble  n-ade  o;ith  h>  t^^e  ;n^'-^t^i7 
ofih..-  r«.tat.-  (,f  Mihill  IJobkinson.  ai^n-aiscd  10-'"  ot  firsi,  lOi"-.  at  curt  i.v-.'i  ;•'  ' '•; 
i'ji.,  and  on  the  same  day  swore  to  inveatory  yf  the  estate  ol  her  vxln  iiiis-auu  jo-ii 


116  Notes  and  Queries.  [Jan. 

Trnmble;  Josepli  Je^Yett  and  Thomas  Dickiiinon  appraisi^rs  of  each  estate.  Riohan] 
Swan  in ulc  liis  will  Aju'.  -25,  1G7S,  wliich  was  proved  i3  of  t!ic  next  May,  giving  to 
hia  wife  Ann  bcsidos  other  leiC'ieics  what  he  contmcted  with  her  to  have  "  upou 
their  agrcfuieni  before  marriage." 

Ann.  relict  of  Kichard  Swan,  made  her  will  which  was  proved  Sept.  21,  1R78.  "  The 
Last  will  lV  Testament  of  Ann  Swan  of  Kowluy  ilelict  of  Richard  Swan  of  R'Aviey 
deofascd  Imp''  I  comitt  my  sonle  Into  tlio  htuuLs  of  Clod  my  maker  In  &  tlirouirh  the 
Lord  Jisus  C'hriKt  &  my  body  to  decent  Buriall  In  hopes  of  lile^.sd  ressurection  :  Arid 
as  for  my  outward  estate  my  will  is  that  it  be  Ginen  ad  f(j!lowf:tli  ic  I  doe  hereby 
Giue  &  bei-iucath  the  same  :  Impr  1  ;jliie  to  my  daughter  Aliigitill  Rally  :  that  Red 
that  was  mine  before  maringe  to  my  husbani  sv/an  :  w"'  the  new  Roister  &  Gray 
Blanket,  &  a  cuuerlet  >)t  luliow  :  &a  plattor  ^.  a  [lalr  uf  sheets  .i  one  pillow  bear  & 
one  eliamber  pott,  &  one  porringer  i  one  Iron  skillet  &  one  peuter  Candlestick,  & 
one  Rcaker  Cup. 

"  1  giue  to  my  daughter  Marj'  Killburne  my  other  Featiicr  Redd  ....  Futher  all 
the  Wooden  ware  &  ves^ells  1  give  betwixt  Abigail  &  Mary  .... 

"  I  giue  my  sou  Caleb  llopkinsou  the  old  ]5ed  in  the  chamber  &  Roister  .... 

"  1  giue  my  son  John  llopkinson  one  Iron  kctlc  A  pair  of  Andirons  &  one  Great 
cheir  !My  v, ill  is  that  my  sons  Jonathan  llopkinsou  &  John  llopkinson  be  executors 
to  this  my  Lasc  will  :  to  whome  when  they  have  paid  n^y  debts  and  funerall  charges 
I  give  all  the  Rest  of  my  estate  :  culy  one  Rook  ot  Mr  Roltons  works  to  my  eon  Joim 
IVumble  &  for  full  Contirmation  of  y''  premises  Sc  every  part  thereof  I  have  eet  in  ms 
hand  k  seal  this  tburth  day  of  July  Anno.  Dom :  one  lliousaiid  six  hundred  & 
Seaucnty  eight  her 

Ann    2    Swan" 

mark 
And  from  Essex  county  deeds  we  find  the  following,  dated  Mar.  21,  1670-1  : 
"  Know  all  men  by  these  presents  that  1  Richard  Swanc  of  tlie  Towne  of  Rowley  in 
the  county  of  Essex  in  New  Eugiand  Massachusetts  for  several  good  causes  movting 
me  thervnto  and  for  an  engagment  mado  vnto  me  for  the  payment  of  the  portions, 
of  Abigaill  and  Mary  Trumbles  portions  by  Jonathan  &  John  liobkinson  when  the 
eayd  portions  come  to  be  due.  Re  it  knowne  that  after  the  decease  of  my  selte,  and 
my  wife  Ann  swan,  Mother  unto  the  s'^  Jonathan  and  John  tlobkinsou  and  Abigaiil 
and  mary  Trumble,  I  doe  give  ....  vnto  the  sayd  Jonathan  and  John  llobkiuson 
certain  p'cells  of  meadi")W  that  I  received  In  part  of  the  Dowry  T  had  with  m>  wife 
Ann  'f  rumble  being  of  the  thirds  of  the  estate  of  John  Trumble  her  former  ilusband 
deceased." 

Query,  who  were  the  parents  of  the  above  mentioned  Ann  ?    Any  more  informa- 
tion in  regard  to  her  will  be  thankfully  received  by  Alfred  Poor. 
Salem,  Mass. 

Joel  Munsell,  62  State  Street,  Albany,  N.  Y.,  has  in  press  the  following  work?, 
which  we  recommend  to  our  readers  : 

1.  l^he  Founders  of  Maryland  as  Portrayed  in  Manuscripts,  Provincial  Records 
and  Early  Documents.  Ry  the  RcV.  Edward  D.  Neill,  A.R.  6vo.  200  pages. 
Cloth,  $2. 

The  Rev.  jMr.  Neill  is  the  author  of  the  series  of  articles  now  appearing  in  the 
Register  under  the  title  of  "  Notes  on  American  History,"  and  also  of  several 
volumes  relating  to  American  history,  which  show  great  research,  and  have  won 
high  praise. 

2.  The  Indian  Miscellany;  containing  Papers  on  the  Histo'y,  Antiquities.  Arts, 
Inventions,  Languages,  Religions,  Traditions  and  Superstitions  of  the  Art'Criccn 
Aborigines.     Collected  by  \N .  W.  Reai;h.    450  pages,  price  ^1. 


Cook. — Was  Josias  Cook  who  married  Elizabeth,  widow  of  Stephen  Deane,  in 
1635,  a  son  of  Francis  Cook  v.ho  came  iu  the  Mayiiower  ?         EnwARn  VY.  IIall. 
Colby  University,  Watcrville,  Mc. 


The  Star  Sfaxgled  Ranner. — Since  the  article  on  this  subjeet  in  the  present 
number  of  the  Register  {ante  p.  29)  was  primed,  .^Ir.  Keim,  of  Reading,  Pa.,  has 
written  to  me  that  he  has  presented  his  copy  of  the  above  song  in  the  aatograph  of 
the  author,  F.  S.  Key,  as  well  as  a  copy  of  "  Home,  Swcit  Home,"  in  tiie  auto- 
graph of  its  author,  John  Howard  Payne,  to  the  Historical  Society  of  Pcnnsyivauia. 

Geo.  Henry  PivtuLS. 


J     •••     ts 


1877.]  j^otes  and  Queries.  117 

ITisTOfiiCAT,  AKTtci.ES  IN  Newspapefw^. — Scrics  of  articles  illuistratjng  the  liistnry 
of  tlic  towu  or  Collu^y  in  which  news]japcrs  are  printed  npperir  nowufiJ  tlicu  in  tin  ;r 
columns.  The  publication  of  such  articles  addo  much  to  t!io  interest  of  tlic!-c  p;i|.crrt, 
and  causes  them  to  be  preserved  by  their  subscribers.  The  following  iicwspapi.TH 
contain  such  article?: 

1.  '1  he  Dorcr  Enquirer.  A  series  of  article';,  under  the  title  of  "  Ilistoricul 
^lemoranda,"  illustratini^  the  hi.story  nf  Duver,  N.  JI.,  was  coauucuced  in  Ih.'iit,  ami 
has  been  continued  with  various  inLenui.'-si'jn.s  to  the  ])re.scnt  year,  No.  iJf-s-  luiviu:; 
appeared  .May  11,  IS76.  We  undertcnnd  tlie  publication  of  them  is  to  bi,-  rc-iuimd. 
N^early  all  the  articles  have  been  contributed  by  the  Kev.  Alonzo  H.  Quint.  |).I>., 
nud  C'hnrlcs  W.  Tuttle,  Ksq.,  -who  have  a  more  thorough  aci:|uairitaneo  with  the 
history  iind  antiipiitics  of  l>over  ilian  any  other  persons.  This  is  the  uio.-t  extt;n.-.ivc 
and  vuluaiile  series  of  articles  on  local  history  we  know  of.  The  Enquirer  is  pub- 
ILshed  by  Ijihbey  &  Co.     Price,  $0.50  a  year,  or  !<-2  in  advance. 

2.  The  ViUaiier,  published  at  Amcsbnry  and  Salisbury,  Mass.  A  soriss  of  articUs 
on  the  history  of  tliose  localities  was  commenced  in  this  paper  April  2,  1874,  uii!«t 
tlie  title  of  "  Collectanea,''  and  was  continued  some  time.  Published  by  \V.  II.  J{. 
Currier.     Price,  j<2  a  year,  or  .^l.TS  in  advance. 

3.  The  Daihj  Eceninrj  Standard,  published  at  New  Dodford,  Mass.  Gen.  Kbt/nczer 
W.  Pcirce,  who  has  Jarire  collections  of  materials  concerniui;:  the  civil,  milifry  and 
genealogical  history  uf  Bristol  county,  commenced,  JMarch  14,  ISTG,  publishiu;:  iu 
this  paper,  arti?!"^  <":n  the  hi-t.ay  of  '*  Ti:o  Second  Kci;inieut  of  Uri.-td  County, 
called  the  Dartmouth  Regiment."  This  regiment  was  organized  about  171D.  Tii-:; 
orticles  are  compiled  with  great  care  from  original  ducumonts  and  otiicr  soun-CK,.i;id 
contain  much  biographical  aiid  genealogical  as  well  as  historical  matter.  No.  xx. 
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iNSCRirxioxs  Df  Chelsea  Old  Eiktal-Grolnd.  Not.   19,  1876. — "  Here  Lyeth 
Buried  v^  |  Bodv  of  M''  Dcane  |  Winthrop  of  Pullen  Point  1  aged  61  years  who  | 
Departed  this  Life  j  March  the  IG  |  17ui''' 

"  Here  lies  buried  |  y^  Body  of  |  Cipt.  Jose  AVinthrop  |  aged  36  years  |  G  mo.  11 
d'.  deceased  |  November  y«  !.5.  |  1702." 

*'  Here  lyes  y*^  Body  |  of  Margaret  ye  wife  |  of  Jotham  Grover  |  aged  35  years  j 
deci.  April  y^  6  |  1G95." 

"  Here  lies  buried  |  y^  Body  of  Mrs.  I  Prudence  Grover  |  wife  to  Jlr.  John  j 
Grover,  v.-ho  died  |  July  23'^  1731  in  y^  45--.  j  year  of  his  age." 


"  Here  lyes  Buried  i  v*^  B.>dv  of  |  2\Iarcv  Hangh  |  ve  wife  of  1  Atherton  Haugl 
aged  ab  >ut  29  ye;:r3  |  dec'^  No'vem''  y>^  IG"!  1702/'     '  J.  W .  T 


M 


Work  by  the  Ret.  Richap.d  Mather— Title  AV" anted. — Wanted,  the  title  of 
a  tract  (pp.  viii.  9-29),  the  preface  signed  Incre.ise  Mather,  and  dated  "  Boston, 
Janu.  5lh,  1711.  12."  The  f)Ilovving  is  copied  from  the  preface;  "  .My  Fath.r  ha.s 
Written  a  larger  Answer  to  the  Urst  of  th^.-o  Questions,  [Whether  docs  the  Power 
of  Church  Government  belong  unto  all  the  Pe^jple,  or  to  the  Elders  alone?]  witii  an 
An.swcr  to  objections  made  by  some  Persons  of  Broivnistical  Frinriplcs,  then  bcloti^'- 
ing  to  the  Church  in  X>(;rc/;t\T?'jr,  but  afterwards  of  another  Church.  1  would  have 
Publisiied  that  also,  for  the  illumination  and  confirmation  of  the  Churches  in  :ho 
present  Truth.  But  some  body  several  years  since  borrowed  that  ManuscrijH,  I 
remember  not  who,  but  wish  ii;  might  be  returned  to  me  again.  I  have  no  m  jic  to 
add,  only  to  Attest  that  what  is  Emitted  herewith,  is  a  true  Copy  transcnl-K.-<i  Ir.ai 
my  Fathers  Manuscript  written  with  his  owa  hand,  in  the  year,  1645." 

Boston.  Mass.  J.  A.  Lewis. 


Tue  Lnternaiioxal  Exhibition-  at  Philadelphia  was  closed  with  appropriate  crc- 
Ei  mies,  November  10,  1876,  after  having  been  open  just  sis  montlis.  A  raui  j-itsu 
prevented  the  cerem.onies  from  being  held  iu  the  place  prepared  fjr  the  oi^i.-.;--i  -ii. 
h..k. .1  .  p.  ...         I,    .       '  ,    '  '  in  the  "  Jud^'i-!* 

,-d.     Mi^.-  Ntnilt 


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118  Notes  mid  Queries.  [Jan, 

Wii.T.iAit  Douglass,  M.D. — The  foUov/infj  information  respecting  Dr.  "William 
Do!url;i'-^.  niitlmr  ofrho  "  SuTnrnarv.  ili-torionl  ;ini)  Poiiticiil,  of  tlio  Dritish  Settle- 
iiii'iic.s  ill  .M>,[||  America/'  and  liirf  liiiiuiy,  is  dfrivid  iroiii  oiiicial  rocorcU.  He  dit-d 
"  very  t-uuldi/nly,'"  in  Kjston,  Oct.  L'l,  175-J,  in  liin  own  liouse  in  Green  Draj^on  f^ane, 
iiitestixce.  iJib  property  was  lari^o,  mostly  rnal  estate  in  Bcveral  towns  in  Matsa- 
chn«ett>,  find  was  appraised  a')(»\o  three  thousiuid  jjoiinds. 

ills  father  was  Gcori^e  Douglass,  of  Giilord,  co.  fladdiniiton,  Scotland,  ■where  he 
luid  be'en  a  "  portioner,''  and  a  factor  of  John,  Marquis  of  L'weedda'e.  He  died 
before  his  son  in  Boston,  haviup;  had  issue,  three  sons,  viz.  :  Cornelius,  Dr.  William 
of  Uostoa,  and  Geor^^e,  tmd  one  daughter,  Katliarine,  who  marricil  a  Carr,  and  was 
a  widow  living'  in  Boston  in  Pot.  'J'he  son  Georyc  died  unmarried.  Cornelius, 
the  eldest  son,  was  a.  surireon  in  (iillijrd,  and  had  issue,  a  son  Cornelius,  li7i;i^  in 
£dinhur^.,'h  iu  IToC,  and  dt'scril^ed  as  '"  Wriujht  or  Joiner."  This  Cornelius  was  the 
legal  heir  t>>  his  uncle's  estate  in  Boston,  lie  provided  legal  proof  of  this,  and  came 
to  Buston,  and  was  appointed  administrator  of  the  o^tate,  Aug.  21,  1753.  John 
Erring,  Esq.,  of  Boston,  a  principal  creditor,  had  previously  been  administrator. 

Dr.  Douglass  left  a  natural  son,  born  at  Boston,  July  25.  1745,  who  bore  the 
name  of  'A'illiam  Douglass.  lie  undertook  to  educate  him  according  to  some  pecu- 
liar no'ions  of  his  own  :  and  gives  in  a  note,  on  page  316,  vol.  ii.  of  his  "  Summary," 
an  illustraiion  of  the  lad's  pioliciency.     What  beoame  of  this  William  Douglass'.' 

Boston,  Mass.  C.  W.  Tuttle. 


Notes  ajto  Queries,  t.t  the  K'vv.  G.  T.  Riulon,  or  Harrison,  Me. — 

WiUonrhhii. — Tticre  wa?  a  ^V'ilIou^-hby  Scribner,  who  married  Molly  Peirce,  and 
resided  in  ilairison.  Me.  lie  was  buried  in  said  town.  It  may  be  presumed  that 
his  mother  was  a  Willougbby. 

Cotton. — I  have  the  records  of  the  family  of  John  Cotton  who  settled  in  Gor- 
ham.  Me. 

Huguejiots. — F  have  genealogies  of  several  families  who  .are  said  to  have  been 
Huguenots,  viz.,  "  CasselLs,'^  "  Tabeaux'"  (nowTarbox),  and  "  Chastnlai''  (now 
spelled  Kears/iy  and  Carslej). 

BrcklLbank. — Can  any  one  give  information  of  families  of  this  name?  There  wa.' 
a  family  living  in  Bridgeton,  Mo.,  now  extinct  in  the  male  line.  I  think  the  ear- 
name  is  very  rare. 

Wa':'::ns]iaw. — There  was  a  William  "Walkinshaw,  wlio  purchased  a  shcru  in  a 
"  double  saw  mill"  on  Moderation  Falls  on  Saco  River  iu  the  year  1795.  He  wit- 
nessed a  deed  in  Pepperillboro'  (now  Saco),  May  16,  1786.  Can  any  one  give  infor- 
mation of  families  of  this  name  ?    I  think  the  name  is  rare. 

Sroich- Irish. — Can  ar.y  one  glyj  a  full  list  of  the  Scotch-Irish  families  that  came 
to  New  England  in  1718"? 

Gillpatrkk  or  Killpatriek. — I  hi'vc  been  collecting  records  of  the  descendants  of 
that  Thomas  Killpatrick  that  came  from  Coleraine,  Ireland,  and  settled  in  Wells 
and  Biddeford,  Me.,  and  have  now  a  very  full  history  of  that  descent.  The  de- 
scendants are  very  numerous.  I  intend  to  print  a  sketch  of  the  family  in  a  little 
work  entitled  the  ■■'  Early  Settlers  of  Saco  and  Biddeford"  (Maine),  for  which  1 
have  long  been  collecting  materials.  I  think  Killpatiick  was  a  change  from  Kirh- 
patrick,  a  surname  derived  from  the  local  source,  viz.,  the  church  of  St.  Patrick.  A 
church  is  called  a  Kirk  in  Scotland,  and  here  the  surname  has  long  been  known. 

I  should  like  to  communicate  with  descendants  of  the  early  Saco  and  Biddeford 
families. 


Paige's  History  of  Cajtbridge,  Mass. — The  Rev.  Lucius  R.  Paige,  D.D.,  who, 
for  many  years,  has  been  cnlK^eting  materials  for  a  history  of  Cambridge,  having 
completed  his  book,  it  is  now  in  press  and  will  probably  be  published  in  February 
next.  It  will  contain  a  genealogy  of  the  early  families  of  Cambridge.  It  will  make 
a  volume  of  about  750  paires,  and  the  price  will  be  ^5.  U.  0.  Houghton  &  Co., 
Cambridgej  are  the  publishers. 


CoL.  Cue;t£R*s  R^:gisteks  of  Wf^itmlnster  Acbet  (antexx^.  479). — The  London 
Times  devotes  three  and  a  bulf  columns,  or  more  than  half  a  pa:jo,  to  an  elaborate  re- 
view of  this  book,  and  the  London  Morning  Post  of  Nov.  2,  1676,  also  has  a  long 
notice  of  it.  Both  newspapers,  whose  standard  of  merit  is  known  to  be  high,  w- 
stow  gi'-^t  praioe  on  the  manner  iu  which  Col.  Chester  has  porformed  his  e<iitorial 
kbor. 


1877.]  Societies  and  their  Proceedings.  119 


SOCIETIES  AND  THEIR  PROCEEDINGS. 

New-Exgi.ant)  Histortc,  Cr.NF.ALOGiCAL  Society. 

Boston,  Maxsc.chusctts,  Wednesilmj,  Ftbruarij  2,  1370. — A  .'stated  meotinn;  w>ifl  licid 
nt  3  o'clock,  P.M.,  tit  the  yooicty's  House,  IS  Sumerset  Scrett,  the  {yi-'jL-iJent,  the 
Hon.  Marshall  P.  VV'ilder,  in  the  chair. 

David  G.  Ilaskins,  Jr.,  the  recordinr^  .t;ecretary,  read  a  corntuunication  from  the 
boa'-d  of  directiirs,  t^)  whom  the  matter  ol'sLiit'ibly  recoij;ni/Jni;  the  services  <p|  the 
prP'^ident,  tiie  Hon.  Marsliall  P.  Wilder,  puni'mhirly  in  misiiii;  funds  for  tlie  pnr- 
charc  of  the  Society'e  liou^e,  had  been  referred  by  the  Society,  stating  *hac  the  board 
had  voted  to  request  Mr.  Wilder  to  sit  tor  liis  portrait. 

The  Hon.  John  S.  Sleeper  read  a  paper  on  ''  Piracy  in  t'nc  AVe^t  Indies."  Ho 
treated  of  the  e3.stem  of  piracy  which  ^vas  cirried  on  in  the  West  Indies  for  nine  or 
ten  years  after  the  treaty  of  peace  between  Great  Britain  and  the  Ur.ited  States. 
Tliat  period,  said  Mr.  Sleeper,  has  appropriately  been  .styled  "  The  A£.;o  of  Pir.icy." 

Remarks  by  the  president  and  Rtv.  J)i's.  William  M.  Cori.cll  and  i)oru3  Clarke 
foLlo^ved,  and  the  thanks  of  the-  Society  were  voted  to  iMr.  Sleeper,  and  a  copy  of  his 

The  lion,  (.harles  Cowley  of  Lowell,  in  behalf  of  the  conuuittcc  ot  arran::^ement3, 
invited  th'-  Society  to  attend  the  semi-centenuiul  celebration,  .Mar-'-Ii  I,  of  tue  incor- 
poration of  that  town. 

The  Rev.  Ednmiid  F.  Slafter,  tlie  correspoTiding  secretary,  reported  letters-  accent- 
ing resident  membership  to  which  they  had  been  elected,  fr.nu  Ralph  Haskins.  Oli- 
ver B.  Stebbins  and  Artiiur  G.  Fuller  of  Boston,  and  Clark  Sv.aiijV;  of  East  Brid^;e- 
water.  He  further  re;)orted  correspondence  with  the  Hon.  WiUiam  H.  Potter  \,i 
Mystic  River,  C't.,  chairman  of  a  comnuLtee  of  the  New  London  Coimty  Histf-rieal 
Society,  in  reference  to  a  proposed  monument  on  tlic  site  oi'  the  old  PequH  t'jrt. 
Resolutions  approving  the  erectioo  of  such  a  morument  were  passed,  and  the  Rev. 
Edmund  F.  Slafter,  ^ohn  Wiird  Dtan  and  Frederic  Kidder  v\ere  ch'jsea  a  com- 
mittee to  communicate  and  cooperate  with  the  above  commi  rfee. 

John  Vt'ard  Dean,  the  librarian,  reported  that  17  volumes,  71  pamphlets,  ami  i 
number  of  other  articles  had  been  pr£<;ented  daring  the  mor.th  of  Juni:ary. 

The  Rev.  Samuel  Cutler,  the  historiographer,  read  biographical  sket:.^heH  o.f  the 
following  deceased  members,  nauiely  :  Francis  Dane,  David  Snow,  and  Gen.  J'.-!n 
S.  Tyler,  of  Bo.-;ton,  and  the  Hon.  \V'illiam  Cushinfc  of  Nevrburyport,  rei^ident  me.u- 
l>ers  ;  and  of  Philip  Hei.ry  Stanhope,  D.C.L.,  filth  earl  of  Stanhope,  of  Loiidor-., 
Eng.,  an  honorary  mem))er. 

The  president  read  a  communication  from  the  board  of  directors,  recommending, 
if  a  suitable  place  were  provided  at  the  Centennial  Exhibition  in  Philadelpiiia.  th.ai 
a  complete  set  of  the  Historie-al  and  Genealogical  Register,  and  the  other  pubiie-i- 
tions  of  the  Society,  be  bound  and  exhibited  there.  The  recommendation  w^.s 
adopted. 

_  "NV'illiam  H.  Montague  and  Frederic  Kidder  made  some  remarks  upon  the  celebra- 
tion of  the  centenaries  of  Evacuation  Day  and  the  Sudbury  Fight.  This  matter 
and  the  invitation  of  the  city  of  Lowell  were  referred  to  the  board  of  directors. 

March  1. — A  stated  meeting  was  held  this  afternoon,  the  Rev.  Dorus  Clarke,  DQ., 
in  the  chair. 

The  Rev.  Abijah  P.  Marvin,  D.D.,  of  Lancaster,  Mass.,  read  a  paper  on  trie  In- 
dian Massacre  at  that  place,  Feb.  10.  ir>7o-6,  old  style,  corresponding  to  Feh. -JO. 
tew  style.  Remarks  on  the  subject  followed  from  the  Hon.  G.  Wnshingion  V.  ar- 
ren,  the  Rev.  Dr.  Increase  N.  Tarbox,  the  Rev.  Dr.  Marvin,  and  the  Rev.  Dr.  ^V  il- 
liam  M.  Cornell. 

The  librarian  reported  34  volumes,  67  pamphlet.^,  and  other  articles,  as  djrmrjons 
tluring  the  last  month. 

The  historiocrrapher  read  biographical  sketches  of  the  following 'If  ceased  niera- 
r>crs,  naraely  :  the  Hon.  Beamish  Murdoch,  D.C.L.,  the  Hon.  Wiliiam  B.  Reed, 
and  George  Williams  Pratt. 

The  Rev.  Dr.  Cornell  read  a  chapter  from  his  forthcoming  History  ol  Pennsyl- 
Tania. 

Thuoks  were  voted  to  Rev.  Drs.  Marvin  and  Cornell  for  their  papers. 


120  Societies  and  their'  Proceedings.  [Jan. 

A  communication  from  the  board  of  directors  statod  that  tlic  Hon.  Mari>liall  P. 
Wilder,  tbe  Urn.  Cliarlc'  T,.  Woo'lliury,  CharL-s  ^V .  Tnttle,  the  Hon.  Gustavus  V. 
Fox,  c;it'  iivu.  William  S.  (i;ird;it>r,  tlie  Kev.  Dr.  Durus  rlarkc.  the  lion.  Gcor^q 
CoL-'^woIl  and  Col.  Alhci-t  H.  Hoyt,  Ijad  l.een  oho^.jn  delc<ateri  to  the  Lowell  <_o-mi- 
•<'tutennial  celebration  ;  and  the' lion.  E/ra  Wilkinson,  ^"ainuel  Ji.  Noyes,  I).  T.  V. 
Iluutoon,  tiie  Kev.  i>r.  Ilic-kld  Rut^.-^ell  and  William  u.  Tra^k,  delegates  to  the  Mccl- 
field  bi-eentenuiul  celehracion. 

>lpn7  5.— A  quarterly  meetin,:;  was  held  this  arLcrnooa,  president  AVilder  in  tiie 
•chair. 

The  correspondinf.-  secretary  called  attention  to  the  idi't  of  a  portrait  of  ti:e  presi- 
dent, the  lion.  Marshall  P.  'v\'ildcr.  He  stated  thiit  in  January  last,  the  directors 
in  behalf  of  the  Sooiery  invited  Mr.  Wilder  to  sit  ['■;•:  liis  portrnit  in  t.^ken  rf  i's  ap- 
preciation of  his  services  to  the  Society.  In  the  muan  time,  Edward)).  .Maiduuit, 
a  di.'^tini^i'.isheu  artist  of  Philadelphia,  being  in  JJoston  to  copy  the  fnc  portrait  of 
Bcnjamrn  ^V'e.st  at  the  AthenaHini,  generously  ofll'ved  to  paint  th.o  portrait  aoj  ora- 
seut  it  to  t'je  Societv,  which  offer  was  grattfuily  nccepted.  Yxv  Slafter  nnnounced 
that  the  portrait  had  been  completed,  and  read  a  Utter  from  Mr.  Marc!:ant  present- 
ing it  to  the  S 'Ciccy.  Alter  the  reading  of  the  letter,  a  veil  wa:?  rei  lOved  ir.im  the 
portrait,  which,  unknown  to  the  members  generally,  had  been  su=pcnde'.l  near  ihc 
platform,  and  tl^e  marvellously  fine  liktuess  was  greeted  with  prol^mgcd  applause. 
The  thanks  of  the  Society  were  voted  to  Mr.  Marchant  for  his  generous  and  appro- 
t.rif>t'-  "iff. 

'i  he  president  exhibited  a  section  of  one  of  the  branches  of  the-  Old  Elm  on  Costou 
Common,  blown  do^^'n  in  a  jev'ere  gale  on  Tuesday,  the  1.5th  of  februcry  iust,  pre- 
sentL'd  by  Samuel  C.  Cobb,  mayor,  and  John  T.  Clark,  alderman,  of  Bost'-n. 

Brevet  Maj.-Gen.  Henry  W.  Benham,  U.S.A.,  then  read  a  paper  entitled,  "  A 
Narrative  of  the  J-ayin a;  of  Ponton  Bridges  in  the  Battle  of  Chan-.-eliorsvilie,  Va." 
These  bridicer.  were  laid  under  the  direction  of  Gen.  Benham.  and  his  narrative  wa3 
exceedincrly  interesting.  After  complimentary  reinarks  l-y  Frederic  Kidder,  Judge 
G.  W.  Warren  and  iiev.  Dr.  Dor  us  Clarke,  thanks  for  bis  paper  were  voced  to  Geti. 
Benham. 

The  librarian  reported  as  the  donations  in  March,  -11  volumes,  225  pamphlets,  and 
a  number  of  other  articles. 

The  corresponding  secretary  reported  letters  of  acceptance  from  Angusta.?_  R. 
Bayley,  Candiridy;ep'>rt,  Henry  C.  Thacher,  Yarmouthporc,  Fred,  lebbii-j,  Milfjrd, 
Rev.  Joshua  P.  Bodiish.  Boston,  Reuben  R.  Dodge,  Wilkinsonville,  George  W.  Ham- 
mond, Boston,  C(:arle4  W.  Hubbard.  \Vfston,  George  H.  Allan,  New  York,  George 
T.  Wi-irin,  Hvde  Park,  Samuel  H.  Russell,  Boston,  Jam's  F.  D.  Gr.rfitld.  Firxix- 
burg,  and  Alexander  S.  Port^T.  Button,  as  resident  ;  and  from  Henry  C.  i'ejheli  of 
iMansfie  d  Park,  England,  and  John  S.  Jenness  of  New  York  city,  as  corresponding 
members. 

The  historiographer  read  biographical  sketches  of  two  deceased  members,  namely  : 
-John  M.  Bradbury  of  Ipswich,  and  James  E.  Root  of  Boston. 

May  3. — A  monthly  meeting  was  held  this  afternoon,  president  Wilder  in  the 
chair. 

The  president  announced  that  since  the  last  meeting  two  vice-presidents  of  the 
Society  had  died,  namely:  William  B.  Towne  of  iMilford,  N.  H.,  and  the  Hon. 
Henry  P.  Haven  uf  New  London,  Ct.,  and  appointed  the  following  co.mmittees  to 
prepare  ajjpropriate  resolutions,  namely  :  on  .Mr.  Towne,  the  Hon.  George  C.  Rich- 
■ardson,  Charles  L.  Woodbury  and  Charles  H.  Bell;  on  Mr.  Haven,  the 'Rev.  Drs. 
Dorus  Clarke  and  Increase  N.  Tarh ox  and  the  Hon.  Richard  A.  Wheeler. 

A  letter  was  then  read  from  A.  F.  Bradbury  of  Dextt-r,  Me.,  exec.jtor  of  the  lata 
John  M.  Bradburv  of  [nswich,  communicating  an  extract  from  the  will  of  the  lat- 
ter (which  has  been  printed  in  the  Register,  xkx.  iCO),  by  wjuch  a  ge^eruus  legacy 
•was  left  to  the  S  iciety.  The  president  appointed  Charles  W.  Tuttie,  Col.  Ebt-a  F. 
.Stone  and  John  Ward  Dean  a  commietct;  to  prepare  suiailde  res-diiti  ms. 

Gcorire  W.  Ware,  Jr.,  fuilo\^ed  with  a  paper  entitled,  "  A  Tour  in  Spain,"  de- 
rived from  personal  reminiscences  of  a  visit  to  that  country  a  few  years  ago. 

The  Hon.  Joseph  \V.  Porter  of  Burlington,  Me.,  then  gave  an  account  of  ths 
military  services,  in  the  Fre-ei".  and  Rev  <iuti  in:iry  wars,  or  Co'.  Jor.art.an  EjJdy, 
Tvhose  papers  h.:  had  recently  secured,  and  read  extracts  from  one  of  Eddy's  orJ-:r:y 
books.  Remarks  on  tlie  sul>ject  were  made  by  Frederic  Kidder  and  Georii-c  H.  Allan, 
the  latter  a  arand-'^n  uf  Col.  JLilm  Allan,  the  rival  of  Col.  Eddy,  and  the  former  tho 
.edi*-or  cf  Col.  .\llan"s  letters  and  journals.  (Anie  xsx.  353.)  Both  attested  to  tiie 
■value  of  Coi   Eddy's  papers. 


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J  8  7 7 . "1  Societies  an d  th p.  ir  1  'roceedhnis.  1 2 1 

The  hifitoriu'Taphcr  ro?.il  biographical  sketches  oi' the  foK'nYirc;  deconstfl  uvi\<.\- 
V'-^,  r;'n>olv  :  t'cc  Tt.  Uor.  fl-iu-y  W.  I.ce,  D.D.,  I.L.n.,  hun.jr'ry  vice-p:-c.«i;l«:u 
for  iWa  ;  Nathan  r)l'.rfe.^,  .M.D./John  1'.  Converge,  WilJiiim  E.  Donr-^cti  utid  C'ji. 
Thoin'Tf-  K.  \Vyune. 

The  lihriiruui  •.•fp^ji-t'id  the  LionLhly  donaiions  as  5'i  vohin'.o^?.  155  5)G,U)r;h!ot.'?,  an^l 
hcvcnl  otli'.n-  arti'.'Us. 

'i'hc  onvSiuTvlini:  =e:rct;nry  reporte'l  letters  of  acceptance  from  IL-rbcrt  S.  Car- 
ruth  of  Dorchester rii-  tJ-  F-  Caiia.i.^^e  of  !» )ston.  Christopher  A.  llnck  of  raiiriton, 
diaries  V.  Bimi;:,  M..D.,of  MetUur't,  w.A  Edward  '6.  };eiiiii;ci;  of  Cuneorfl.  as  7i.si- 
dent;  Rev.  CharksT.  C.  Trolawney  of  lia--:!  near  l^lycaouth,  EngLind.  as  c.rros- 
puiidiiu--;  and  Prof.  John  John^toii.LL.D.,  of  MiJdlet  Avn,  as  huiiurary  lucml.ers. 

Tliaiiks  weve  voted  to  Mes.-r?.  AVare  and  Porta-  for  tl-.eir  paperd. 

Junr7.—A  Ptr.ted  rneethi?:^  w&:-  hAi  thi^  afterncun.  The  president,  the  Hon. 
Marshall  P.  Wilder,  being  prevented  f.-om  atceiidioir  by  the  scute  of  hm  health,  ti.e 
Kcv.  DoTU!^  Clarke,  D.D.,  wa3  cuUed  to  the  chair. 

Charles  W.  Tuttie,  chairman  of  tiie  committee  for  preparing  resolutions  ou  tho 
dwthof  Mr.  Bradbury  ot  Ipswich,  reported  the  loUowmg  : 

Rrsoh-rd.  That  hy  tiie  death  of  John  MerriH  Bi-adbury  the  Society  lo.sers  a  yR^,mh';r 
di.-ti;igui.-hed  for  his  aiiti.iiiarian  tasce^:  and  le.'rninL;  and  tor  hi-  accurate  knovvlci'jrj 
of  I'M.al  liistO'-y,  arid  one  well  esteemed  in  all  tiiC  relaliaus  ct  life. 

Resolced,  That  his  te'^ranientarv  he  ;uest  to  this  .Society  entitles  hi-n  t)  a  high 
iilaoc  auiODii;  iu-  bdoelaciois,  and  will  cause  hLs  name  to  be  held  in  grateful  re;i;*::;i- 
orance. 

Jv solved,  Thi:.!  ar:  attested  :opy  of  these  re.^olution.s  oe  tran-initted  to  hi'^  family 
w  ith  the  airsurance  of  the  deepest  syirpatiiy  of  tlxis  Society  in  riieir  bere-ivemenc. 

Mr.  Tattle  said  he  had  already  briefly  espre?Fod  his  views  on  the  life  titi':l  charac- 
trr  of"  the  late  Mr.  Bradbury,  iu  a  biographical  sketch  of  him  vrhich  had  be:?a  read 
before  the  Soc'etv  at  a  foriuer  meeting.  They  bad  been  foruicd  Ivoig  a  perHon.il 
ncip.iaintauce  v,itu  hiiu  extentiing  (  ver  nearly  twenty  years.  He  v.'as  giial  to  litid 
that  they  were  concurred  in  ly  all  v.  ho  had  a  similar  acqu-ilntance  v.'Ltli  hini.  It^ 
only  remained  tor  hi>n  now  to  allude  to  his  very  gcneious  beqae?t  to  the  SoCif^ty.  oi 
which  he  had  no  information  at  the  time  he  prepared  the  sketch.  Mr.  Brodbury'fi 
interest  in  the  Society  and  its  v.ork  were  well  known  to  many  uiemiK-rti.  >>''>  scroii^nr 
proof  of  this  could  be  given  tlian  tlse  testamentary  act  l>y  v.'bich  .<2,rKiO  .lud  oertaiu 
stock  securities  comeimmedia':ely  to  the  use  of  the  S>)ciety,  This  is  the  largest  un- 
conditional bequest  yet  made  to  the  Society  ;  and  it  places  the  name  of  Mr.  iJra<^- 
bury  among  the  worthiest  of  our  benefactor?. 

Tiie  Bev.  Edmund  F.  Slafter  supporred  the  resoltition=!  with  e.n'e  remarks,  lie 
eaid  he  vas  M'eli  acquainted  with  the  rn.evili  of  Mr.  Bradhary  from  p^i-s.>nal  ac- 
quaintance and  otherwise  ;  that  his  nioiie.sty,  his  accuracy  and  his  fcndncivs  iur  anti- 
quarian research  were  prominent  traits  ;  that,  conbidering  he  was  not  reputed  a 
wt-althy  man,  his  donation  to  the  Society  was  a  very  liandsome  one. 
The  resolutions,  on  motion  of  David  M.  Balfour,  were  unanimously  adopted. 
The  Key.  Dorus  Clarke,  D.i)..  chairman  of  the  committee  to  prepare  resolutiona 
oa  the  death  of  Mr.  Haven  of  2Sew  Liuidon,  Conn.,  reported  the  following  : 

Hcsolofd,  That  by  the  death  of  lion.  Hf^nry  P.  Haven,  of  New  Ix^ndon,  Conn.jOnfl 
of  the  Tice-president-s  of  this  Society,  we  have  to  mourn  the  loss  of  one  of  the  most 
valuable  memr>ers  of  this  institution.  He  was  a  native  ot  Norwich,  was  born  in 
humble  circumstances,  and  in  his  youth  he  was  taken  into  the  family  and  int. <  tli<i 
Commercial  hou=e  of  Hon.  Thomas  W.  Williams  of  New  London,  wh*'re  bvdio_-'':.5 
attention  to  hi?  duties  he  early  became  aprrrner,  and  long  girre  the  hendo:  the  hrm. 
I;j  that  connection  he  became  wul/ly  and  uouora'oly  known  in  the  circle-  ul  '--7'- 
r.'-»-.s  a.-?  a  man  of  great  enterprise  and  sterling  integrity.  He  was  rd.s<i  one  oi  tfio 
U^K  citirens  of  the  state  of  Connecticut.  For  many  years  he  wa.^  actively  •jr.^.xi.'rd 
in  [K.TMjnal  labors  for  idie  good  of  his  lellosv  men  ;  and  his  ciiarities,  thro\:_'M  P^^-'-'j 
wid  private  channels,  were  munificent.  His  life  wan  radiant  with  chr:~ti.Mi  lo-j-e  r.i'i 
^^\.  He  was  a  warm  friend  of  all  ^ood  enterprises,  a  wise  ar.d  promin-'nt  uiwn'  r 
of  manv  of  the  honev.jisnt  societies  of  the  day.'  His  dcparf.re  in  li^e  r-u.-v  o!  eu-;^ 
*--^iv..-  lai->.or3  ior  the  gloty  of  Cod  and  the  best  :ncerK.sts  of  i-:s  race,  i>  w.^cj 
t^iiented. 

We  place  on  record  this  sincere  tribute  to  His  memorv,  and  lay  the  gc^rlund  on  ma 
toa-.D, 

70L.  ixxr.  11^ 


122  Societies  and  their  Proceedings.  [Jan. 

Resolved,  TliP.t  ti  copy  of  t'ic?c  resolutions  be  Ftnt  to  the  family  of  Mr.  Haven, 
■\vit!i  the  i'.:siu\\ticc!  oi' our  unfoiiru'd  cundolencc  with  thera  in  their  great  bercaTc- 
ment. 

Dr.  Clarke  made  some  remarks  in  s-.ipport  of  these  re'^olutions,  paying  a  fitting 
tribute  to  tlie  memory  ot  the  dectaseci.  lie  v.-ai  followed  by  Frederie  Kidder,  alter 
which  the  rcM/lutions  were  adopted  unanimously. 

The  lion.  George  C.  Kiclinrdt^on,  ehairiiiaa  of  the  coraraittee  on  ret-olutions  of  re- 
epeet  to  the  memory  of  Mr.  Tuwr.e,  of.Milford,  N.  II.,  ie{)orted  these  resolutLjcs  : 

Resolved,  That  in  the  death  of  Williaui  Blanchard  Towno,  Esq.,  of  Mil  ford,  N.H.. 
vico-pret^idenf  of  rhis  SociL-ty  for  that  state,  we  dt-phre  the  Iosh  of  an  at-'joeiale  whose 
inte!j;rity  and  tidelity  to  every  trust  has  won  lor  him  the  coniidence  of  all  clas-ses  of 
the  eommunity. 

Resolved,  That  tiiis  S  )cicty  is  under  rjreat  oblitration  to  him  for  the  valuable  ser- 
vice he  has  in  many  ways  rendered  ;  particularly  lor  his  t^n  years'  lab.>rH  as  treasu- 
rer ;  for  the  fnicierit  aid  he  t^ave  to  the  president  in  pn-cunnir  donitioiis  for  the 
building';  fund  ai\d  tlie  fund  for  the  support  of  the  librarinn  ;  and  for  his  interest  in 
•the  Xew-Euirland  Ilisioi-ieal  and  rienealuiiical  Rej;ister,  manifested  by  hid  gratui- 
tous serviced  for  many  years  as  its  business  raanaj^cr  ard  as  one  of  its  publishing 
.X)jLiiiiittee 

Resolved,  That  his  donations  to  found  the  Towne  >ienio'-ial  Fund,  fir  the  pubU- 
cation  of  niemjirs  of  dcceasei  menil-ers,  now  amounting  V)  nearly  four  thousand 
djlL-r.-,,  iii.J  W:^  uiimy  uthfj.'  dni.atious,  uitoscing  his  lib-jrality  and  his  wiss  discern- 
luent  of  the  needs  of  the  Society,  deserve  and  will  receive  our  grateful  remembrance. 

Resolved,  That  these  resolutions  be  entertd  upon  the  records,  and  a  copy  signed 
by  the  preei  lent  and  recording  secretary  be  sent  to  the  family. 

Remarks  in  support  of  lhe<e  resolutions  and  exi)rcs?ive  of  the  high  character  of 
Mr.  Ti'wne,  weie  made  by  Rev.  Edmund  F.  Slafter,  Rev.  Dorus  Clarke.  J».D.,  and 
Hon.  George  V.  Richardson,  and  the  resolutions  wyre  unanimously  adopted._^^_    _ 

Henry  Vr'.  Holland,  of  Cambridge,  read  a  paper  entitled,  "  An  Account  of  \rilIia.Ti 
Dawts  and  his  Midnight  Ride  with  Paul  Revere." 

Remarks  on  tlie  subject  of  the  paper  were  made  by  Rev.  Dr.  Clarke  and  Mr.  Kid- 
der, after  which  a  vote  of  tlianks  was  passed. 

The  librarian  reported  as  donations  during  May,  35  volumes,  95  pamphlets,  233 
specimens  of  confederate  money  and  bonds,  besides  otlier  articles. 

The  corresponding  secretary  read  a  letter  inviting  the  Society  to  be  represented 
in  a  convention  of  archaeologists  to  be  held  in  September  at  Philadelphia.  On 
motion  of  the  Hon.  George  C.  Richardson,  the  presiding  officer  was  authorized  to 
appoint  three  delegates  to  this  C(jnvencion. 

prof.  Janus  D.  "Butler,  of  Madison,  Wis.,  a  fcOTresponding  member,  was  then  in- 
troduced, and  addressed  the  S'jciety  concerning  the  archocological  curiosities  at  the 
Centennial  Esposition,  many  of  which  were  contributed  by  the  Historical  Society 
of  Wisconsin.  He  als.)  spoke  of  a  discovery  he  made  some  years  ago  about  the  lo:-3 
of  Gen.  Stark's  horse  at  the  battle  of  TJennington,  which  portion  of  his  remarks  is 
printed  in  the  Rfgister,  vol.  xxs.  p.  Sfifi. 

The  historiographer  read  biographical  sketches  of  the  Hon.  Charles  W.  Upham, 
Winslow  Lewis,  M.D.,  and  Rev.  William  B.  Sprague,  D.D. 

September  6.— The  first  meeting  after  the  summer  rece.ss  was  held  this  afternoon. 
Ill  health  still  preventing  the  president  fi-om  attending,  Rev.  Dr.  Clarke  was  again 
called  to  the  chair. 

The  librarian  reported  as  donations  during  the  months  of  June,  July  and  August, 
66  volumes,  43-2  pamplilets,  and  a  variety  of  other  articles. 

The  recording  secretary,  David  G.  Uaskins.  Jr.,  rjad  a  memoir  by  Joseph  Bal- 
lard, oi  Mis.  iNorton,  who  gave  the  land  to  the  Old  South  Churcdi,  up-'n  which  still 
stands  the  building,  hallovved  by  patriotic  associations,  and  long  used  by  it  as  a 
place  of  worship.  Accompanying  the  memoir  waaa  manuscript  containing  the  result 
of  eihnustive  researches  made  fjr  him  by  Cul.  Joseph  L.  Chester  of  London,  Eng., 
concerning  the  ancestry  and  kindred  of  Mrs.  Norton.  Siie  was  a  daughter  of  Joan 
and  Temperance  (Corbet)  Ferneley  of  West  Creetins:,  Sutfolk,  and  was  born  tiiere, 
Oct.  2,  lOO-J.  She  was  a  cousin  of  the  famous  Miles  Corbet,  one  of  the  judc'ee  who 
■  condemneil  Charles  I.,  and  two  of  her  great  aunts  were  respectively  the  wives  of  Sir 
Thomas  Gre^ham  and  Sir  Nicholas  Bacon. 

The  Rev.  £liii.«  Nnson  read  a  paper  on  The  Law  of  Progress  under  the  Light  ol 
History,  which  was  li-tened  to  wUh  the  deepest  interest.  After  remarks  by  F.e v. 
C.  D.  Bra'ilee  and  Dr.  Vi'iiliam  M.  Cornell,  thanks  were  voted  to  Rev.  Mr.  Nasuu. 


1877.1  Societies  and  their  Proceedings.  123 

In  the  ab':'^n<'«  of  the  historiographer,  his  sketchcp  of  doceased  nicmbern,  namely, 
I>,..^  Siini;o!  If.  Kiddei,  Rev.  Frederick  \V.  Chapman,  Josoijh  11.  Yurk,  M.l).,and 
Tlioiiiay  P^  Gentlee,  were  read  by  the  secretary. 

OctLf>cr2.—\  quarterly  mettin^  was  hcM  this  afternoon,  prcBident  Wilder  in 

*TSt''i'rorIJcnt  appointed  Frederic  Kidder,  William  B.  Trask,  J.  Colhurn,  David 
G.  Haskius,  Jr.,  aud  the  lion.  Jamen  VV.  Austin,  a  couimitcec  to  nominate  oilicera 

for  the  fusuinc;  year.  -v-       t.     i      i  •     xi     t>     -r         t    i 

The  linn  JarufP  W.  Austin  read  a  paper  on  New  England  in  the  Pacific.  Jud-jo 
Au-titi  wlio  n,>idfd  for  about  ^verity  years  in  the  Sandwich  Islands,  sujkc  partieu- 
la'ly  on  thu  inilaence  New  Knirland  had  exerted  on  these  i.-^huuls,  wtiieh  are  last 
npprniiehing  chtlr  centenniarjubilce,  (or  on  the  19lh  ot  January,  1778,  Capt.  Cook 
made  theml-nowa  to  the  civilized  world. 

Tiianks  V,  ere  voted  to  Judi^e  Austin  tor  his  paner. 

The  librarian  reported  ao  donations  in  September,  4G  volumes,  132  pr.raphlcts,  be- 
sides other  articles.  U      L- 

Tiic  corre-^pondin"  secretary  reported  the  acceptance  of  correepondins  membership 
by  Jo<^enh  Andre  drsimir  Cbutc  of  xMarseilles,  France,  and  Divie  IJothune  MeCartee 
of  Tuki)  Ja-an  ;  ai.d  of  resident  membership  by  lion.  Charles  K.  Train  ot  Boiton, 
(Je,)r-e  L.  A':?tin  of  Cambrid-c,  Frederick  Pv.  Noaise  ot  Boston,  tlie  llev.  John 
V.eiss  of  Bo-^ton,  the  liev.  Charles  W.  IJayea  of  Portland,  .Me.,  and  the  Uon,  ^a- 

"'johntvard  Dean,'  Albert  H.  Hoyt,  Jeremiah  Colbarn,  WiUirim  B.  Trask  and 
Charles  W.  luttle,  were  chosen  the  piiblisliinij  coDrmittee  for  13/6-7. 

RnOLiE-ISLAND  rilSTORICAL  SoCIETY. 

Providence,  Tuesday,  Oct.  3,  IS76.— A  quarterly  aieeting  of  this  Society  was  held 
this  evenin'^.  the  Hon.  Z;ic'iariah  Allen.  LL.D.,  in  tlie  ch;nr. 

A  laru'e  number  of  donations  were  announced,  aud  several  resident  aud  corresp  jnd- 
incT  members  were  elected.  . 

A  proposition  for  a  monument  to  Kini;  Philip  was  rcfen-ed  to  a  comimttee  con- 
Fi.«tin-r  of  Rev.  Dr.  Alexis  Caswell,  Dr.  George  L.  Collins  and  Samuel  W  .  Church. 

The' Rev.  Edwin  M.  Stone  read  extracts  Irom  Gen.  Sullivan  s  Bn^-ade  Orderly 
Book  at  Cambrid-c.  :\Iasa.,  in  the  summer  of  1775.  This  brigade  consistea  ot  three 
New  Hampshirel-egiments,  commanded  respecUvely  by  Cols.  John  ^/-ai'K,  BnoCQ 
Pour,  and  James  Keed ;  and  three  I\lassacbasett6  regiments,  commanued  by  Cols. 
Nixon,  Mansfield  and  Dooiittle. 

October  21.— A  special  meeting  was  h-ld  this  evening,  vice-president  Allen  in  the 
chair.     B.  F.  PaboJie  was  chosen  secretary  pro  tern. 

Rev.  Edwin  M.  Stone,  the  cabinet-keeper,  announced  several  donations,  among 
them  a  framed  portrait  of  Joseph  K.  Brown.  , 

AViHiam  A.  Mowry  read  an  interesting  paper  on  the  History  of  the  Cherokee  na- 
tion, dwellini  particularly  up<m  the  evidences  of  great  mental  ability  sometimea 
lound  amonglhe  Indians,  and  the  unchristian  treatment  which  this  tribe  has  receiv- 
ed by  the  whites.  ,-  J    ,, 

Remarks  upon  the  paper  were  made  by  Messrs.  Allen,  Stone,  Mowry  and  otners. 

Nocember  21.— A  meeting  was  held  this  evening,  the  president,  the  Hon.  Samuel 
G.  Arn(j]d,  in  the  chair.  q,,     p 

Prof.  J.  L.  Diman,  D.D.,  of  Brown  University,  read  an  able  paper  on  i-je  i^' 
htionof  the  Uttoman  Empire  to  European  P<.luies,'^  which  was  listened  to  »v'i 
earnest  interest.  ■     •  l     ♦■ 

\' ice-president  Allen  made  a  few  remarks  en  this  paper,  and  related  an  inciie:-i 
■'•'•hich  he  witnessed  in  Turkey,  illustming  a  pleasing  phase  of  Turks.-ti  ehanitjter. 
Red.  on  his  m.jtioa,  seconded  by  Amos  Perry,  the  thanks  of  the  Society  were  v.'ieU 
to  Prof.  DLman. 


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124  2^'ecrology  of  Historic,  Genealogical  Society.         [Jan. 

NECROLOGY  OF  THE  NEW-ENGLAND  HISTORIC 

geneal(;gical  society. 

Prepared  by  the  Rev.  Samukl  Cutlek,  Historiographer  of  the  Society. 

The  Rev.  FRF.nrRicK  \7irxrAii  Chapman,  A.M.,  a  resident  member,  wns  born  in 
Canfield,  Obij,  November  17,  ISOO,  and  died  July  21,  1876,  nt  his  residence  in 
Kocky  Hill,  Ct.  He  was  a  de-cend.inC  in  the  seventh  •renoration  from  Uoh-rt'- 
Chapman  (many  years  town  clerk  of  Saybrook,  Conn.,  inwfiich  C'jvvn  his  iifsrjfndants 
havt      ■   "      '  ■-■,•■  •■        . 


Mr.  Chapmnnwadeft  early  in  lile,  by  the  death  of  his  father,  to  rely  upon  bi.^ 
O'.vu  escitions  to  obtain  a  collegiate  education.     He  was  prej)ared  for  cuile"-e  under 
the  instruction  of  Dea.  Elizur  \Vri-!it  (Y.  C.  1781),  and  in  1S24  entered  Yale  Col- 
lego,  horn  which  he  frraduated  in  13-28.     After  teaching  the  academy  at  Siiaron  one 
\car,  Lc  eiiLcroa  the  I'iviuiiy  cScuuul  of  Yale  College,  wiiere  he  xrraduated  in  1632. 
Ho  was  urdai."^  ;d  pastor  ot  the  Cou_irre2-ational  churcli   in  Stratiord,   Ct..  Sent    5* 
183-'  ;  rfKi.'Mcd  May  lU.  I;-39  ;  and  May  29,  wu.s  iuKalled  at  Deep  River.  Ct.,  where 
he  remamed  till  Oct.  1.  l-^oO.     He  tlicn  removeil  to  S^outb  Glastonbury,  Ct     where 
he  was  pastor  from  Oct.  24,  I;^j(t,  to  Oct.  29,  1851.     In  these  three  places  he  filled 
the  pastoral  office  twenty-rwo  years,  aiding  during  this  time  a  number  of  youn"-  men 
to  fit  for  college,  hearing  them  rtcito  without  ehuvire.     In  these  years  between  five 
and  six  hundred  pupils  shared  his  instrnccions,  o^er  thirty  of  whr^m  enterer]  the 
learned  proft•:^si;.ns.     In  18.54  lie  removed  to  tUinirton,  Ct.,  and  was  principal  c'f  it3 
high  school  tib.  lSo3,  for  tbur  and  a  half  years  (io5lVGl)  of  this  time  t-uppiylngihe 
church  at  A\  e.-t^tallord,  Ct.,  and  subsequently  that  of  JJoiton,  Ct.,  to  which  "to%v-n 
he  removed,  residing  there  till  1664.     From  1^6^  to  1666  he  had  charge  of  the  church 
at  East  Hampton,  Ct.,  and  from  1866  to  1871  that  of  i'ro'^pect,  Ct.,%vh"ich  was  his 
last  ministerial  charge,  he  having  been  actively  enga^-ed  in  the  ministry  for  npaWy 
forty  years.     In  1871  he  remuved  to  Rocky  Hill,  Ct.^  where  he  devoted  himself  to 
genealogical  studies,  for  which  he  always  had  a  great  taste.     He  published  the 
gencaloiiies  of  six  families,  namely:   Chapman  (l:i54),  Pratt  (1>5G4),  Trowbrid^-^ 
(1872),  Buckingham  (lr:2),  C.jit  (1874).  and  Rulkeley  (1S75),  besides  leavin-  !a 
differen,- stages  ut  preparation  the  Gnswold,  Robbins,  Bushneil,  Post  and  Hooker 
genealogies,  also  collections  c.nicei-ning  other  families.     Mr.  Chapman  was  deeid^id 
in  his  convictions,  frank  and  fearless  in  the  expression  of  his  religious  symnathies 
a  faithful  and  successful  pastor  and  teacher,  a  true  friend  and  a  cheerful  and'coii'^'ist- 
ent  Christian.     He  married  May  6,  1833,  Emily  Hill,  daughter  of  Henry  and  Emily 
Bill  of  W'estbrook,  Conn.,  she  being  also  a  descendant,  in  the  direct  line,  of  R'^bert 
Chapman;  she  died  March  30.  1854.     By  her  he  had  three  children  :  l'.  Frfd^rirk 
Willmin,  Jr.,  born  May  21,  1838,  at  Strati.. rd.  Conn.;  married  July  16.  1861,  Sarah 
Cook,  eldest  daugnter  of  Alvin  nnd  Hannah  Spencer  of  Deep  River  ;  he  died  Sept. 
17,  1865,  leaving  one  child,  Euiily  Williams,  born  Feb.  26,  1865.  at  Deep  River     2." 
Mary  Einilij,  born  Aug.  12,  1810.  at  Deep  River;  married  Julv  15,  1^=68,  Isaac  Rob^ 
inson  of  Atlanta,  (ia.  ;  died  Oct.  2,  1868,  at  Atlanta.     3.  Henry  AInsha,  the  ^r^iler 
of  the  sketch  of  v/hich  this  is  an  abstra.et.  born  Sept.  I,  1345,  at  Deep  RiVer,  Conn.; 
married  Nov.  4,   l>567,  Victorine  Annette,  second  daughter  of  Alvin  and  Hannah 
Spencer  of  Deep  River  ;  resides  at  12  Cantoii  Street,  Hartford,  Ct.,  where  be  may 
be  addres.-ed  on  the  subject  of  his  farher's  manusorints. 

Mr.  Chapman  married  secon^ily,  2>'ov.  7,  lh.05,  i'lrs.  Caroline  Crooks,  widow  of 
John  Crooks  ot  East  Longmeadow,  :Mass.,  and  daughter  of  Saniuel  and  Hannah 
Strickland  of  Elhni^ton,  Conn.,  who  survives  him. 

He  became  a  member  of  this  s.jeiety  June  5.  1653,  and  was  vice-president  for  the 
atate  of  Connecticut  Irom  Jan.  1859  to  Jan.  1365. 

.The  Hon,  Ciurlzs  Wentworth  UrmM,  A.M.,  a  corresponding  m^mb'^r  wx" 
born  in  St.  John,  N.  £.,  May  4,  1802  ;  died  in  Salem,  Ma£.<5.,  Juue^'io,  1875, 'aged 


1877.1       JV'ecroIorpj  of  Historic,  Genealogical  Society.  125 

73  years  1  month  U  day-;.  IL;  was-  a  ^/^n  of  the  Hon.  Joshua'  and  M:iry  (Chuiull^r) 
l.'j"!..iia,;uv.i  a  dos^renJiiut  of  ^ci/m'  Uplinm  of  M.iMen  (a  sionealojrv  of  whose  descend- 
Mits  is  printed  in  the  K::uiiTF.i:,  xxiii.  oG-".-^,  130-13)),  throu'^h  yiiivrhns,''-  w.  Iluth 
Wo^A ;  Phimhaa,^  w.  Mnvy  Mellins  ;  Phiarhns,'  w.  'J'aru/cn  llili ;  Jahcz,*-  w. 
Kafhron  ;  and  Josivia}  above,  his  father, 
'ii.c  tarliivt  years  uf  Mr.  Uph;iia  were  papsod  in  the  extreme  outKcttlorncntH  of  the 

troviiioe  of  New  Brunswick.  Ac  about  eiu;ht  years  of  ai;e  be  was  pla-.-ed  in  tho 
;itin  S-hoi;!  at  St.  Juhn.  When  between  ten  and  twelve  yearn  of  a  Lie  bo  went 
into  an  apotlieoaryV  shop,  and  then  on  a  farm  in  N';)Va  Scotia,  in  the  vailey  uf 
Annapoli--.  On  the  I4tli  of  June,  181B,  !to  left  that  country  for  Boston,  where  be 
nrrivcd  on  the  iiTth  of  June.  Under  the  tuitmn  of  Dea.  Samuel  Gieele  he  litted  fu' 
li;irvp.rd  Colieire.  which  be  entered  in  1S17,  taking  bis  first  dei^n-ec  in  IS21.  After 
ypendinp;  Jie  usual  time  in  preparatory  .-tudics  at  the  Ca'abridiroThjoloi^ical  School, 
be  was  ordained  as  c.jlloaLnn;  pastor  tu  the  Kev.  J^iiu  Prince,  U..D.,  over  thu  First 
t  timrii  in  Salem,  Mass.,  Dec.  6,  1804.  Un  tiie  Sth  of  December,  i'!>14.  be  resigned 
the  pastoral  olHce  in  conseipience  of  a  severe  bn.mchial  afleetion.  Mr.  Upham  niar- 
rii\l,  March  21,  ISCO.  Ann  Susan,  daughter  kA  the  Kev.  Abiel  Hulmes,  D.D.,  of 
Cambi-idge,  and  sister  of  O'iver  \Veudell  ibilmej. 

Duiing  the  miaistry  cf  Mr.  Upliaui,  in  Saieui,  he  published  n  variotv  of  discourses 

and  tracts  on  theological  and  historical  subjects,     llis  histuiifal  addresses  at  the 

dt-Jieation  of  a  new  meeting-house  for  the  ""  First  Church  iu  Salem,"  in  IHOfi,  and 

\  «t  t'l"  '"-'nplev;  T.  of  its  ^couu  century  in  i^■2y.  were  the  result  of  much  research. 

f  In  1803  he'published  a  theulogical  wi.rk  entitled  "  Letters  on  the  Logos."'    In  l832. 

a  V  tlunio  entitled  "  Lecture  ;  uu  AVitclicraft  ''  was  published,  which  reached  a  second 

r  edition,  and  in  183:^  a  •"  Life  of  Sir  Henry  Vane.''     Omittin!5  a  recital  of  his  pub- 

[  lished  writings  from  1S35  to  1S67,  and  referring  our  readers  to  the  "  Cyclopaedia  of 

:  American  Literature"  f)r  details  which  our  space  will  not  allow,  we  mention  that 

I  in  18t)7  appeared,  in  two  vuiumts.  "  Sakin  Witchcraft;  with  au  account  cf  Salem 

I  ,■  Villaire,  and  a  History  of  Opinions  on   Witchcraft  and   Kindred  SubjecLs  "   {anie 

xsii.  100).     It  was   followed  by    '"Address  on    the   F:e-D.dicatioD   of  the    First 

Caurch  in  Saiem,  l-^fiS  "  ;    "  Memoir  of  Francis  Peabody,  IStiO  "  ;    '■  Salem  Witcli- 

I  omit  and  Cotton  Mather;  A  Reply,  1870."     In  1873,  be  completed  the  "'Life  of 

Timothy  Pickering,"  begun  by   Octavius   Pickering,  by  the  ii^sue  of  three  addi- 

i;  ti'inal  volumes  (fin/e  xsiii.  48f>  ;  xxviii.  350). 

S  _   In  1850,  Mr.  L'pliam  was  elected  mayor  of  Salem.     During  his  administration  he 

':  intr.xluced  a  more  efficient  system  of  Police.     He  also  secured  the  requisite  appri> 

I  priations  and  arrangements  for  the  establishment  of  a  State  Normal  School  in  riiat 

I  city.     He  was  a  member  of  the  House  of  Representatives  of  Massachusetts  in  1849, 

f  l-'O'Jani  1860,  and  of  the  Senate  in  18j0,  1857  and   1858.     Of  tlie  Secacj  ho  was 

..  wnanim  )usly  chosen  president  the  two  last  named  years.     Hi.s  efforts  in  the  Legisia- 

f  Inre  were  chiefly  directed  to  the  interests  of  education,  and  to  the  improveuicnt  of 

•^  the  statute  law  of  the  Commonwealth.     He  was  a  member  of  the  Massachusetts 

Cunbtitutional  Convention  in  1853. 
I  .In  the  Thirty-third  Congress  of  the  United  States,  Mr.  Upham  represented  the 

I  Sixth  Di^itrictof  Mas^achusetts.  from  1853  to  1855.     As  chairman  of  a  select  com- 

^  tuittce  on  the  Smithsonian  Institution,  he  advocated,  in  an  elaborate  report,  the 

f'-'licy  of  making  it  the  foundati  ,n  of  a  lil^rary,  on  a  scale  to  which  its  means  are 
^  uliy  adequate,  worthy  of  a  nation  already  acknowledged  as  a  first-rate  power  in  the 

l  ^"!"id,  an<l  whose  strennfth  and  glory  are  in  the  diffusion  of  universal  knowledge 

ft.'ivjrg  all  its  people.     Mr.  L'pham'spolitical  life  was  distinguished  liy  the  utmost 
\  '^'blity  to  those  interests  of  his  constituents,  whether  public  or  private,  for  wliicti 

\  fhty  liau  any  claim  on  his  attention.     His  course,  moreover,  was  nrarked  by  sevcni 

i  J-'rii'^.rtant  services  of  a  more  "-eneral  nature,  and  some  of  national  bearing  ana 

I  uulity. 

I  ^^<-'  wa.s  admitted  a  member  of  this  society  Feb.  4,  1847. 


Jn.rpn  BRiDLEi'  VARNcy.  A.M.,  a  corresDondinj  member,  admitted  Feb.  -4, 
I--'-^.  wr-.s  hK)rn  in  Wa^hin^ton.  D.  C,  April  4',  181S,1ind  died  at  Astoria.  L  .n.;  H- 
jn<i.  Itec.  31.  1871.  He  was  a  direct  descendant  of  Samuel  Varnum.  wii..  rime 
'/••^i  Kiu'l;,nd  in  1G50,  and  s(  ttled  in  E~.-ex  County.  Mas^acliu-^etts.  H'-*  KitiK-r. 
»  »:i>.-,.\hieh,ll  Varnum,  was  a  son  of  Lien.  Joseph  Bradley  Varnum,  .;d  w!i;.m  a 
«t'!ehisprmted  in  the  Register,  xxvii.  060.  and  Mhose  ancestry  isgnen  lu  Lpjiiio  s 
i«-rnMirH  of  the  Rhode  Island  Bar,  p.  115,  and  in  tho  RmcisxEa,  v.  "'J-*l-     ,  .   .  . 

«!';  graduated  at  Yale  College  in  1S38,  and  studied  law  in  the  office  ol  Chicl  oua- 


126*  jSfecrology  oj  Historic,  Genealogical  Society.         [Jan. 

tice  Taney,  at  Baltimore,  whoro  lie  vras  admitted  to  tlic  bar  and  practised  for  several 
y^nrs.  fl?  t!ifi)  r-'m  ivcrl  ro  New  York,  v/hcre  he  practised  law  until  lii-i  doatli.  In 
1813,  be  married  S'usan  M.  (.Jraium,  dan.t,'iitor  of  Niitliari  IJ.  (jJrahum.  Ksq.,  of  Now 
Yo;k.  He  soon  became  promincfiC  in  proftf'sional,  pi)'.'i:il  nml  nrtisfic  circles,  and 
also  took  an  active  part  in  p  jiitics.  lie  was  elected  toilie  New  Yurk  r.eL;islattire  in 
1&50,  1631  and  1837,  and  was  a  candidate  fjr  Conirres.s  in  1S5:J  and  1SJ7.  In  1^58  l;o 
was  arpin  n')miiiaied  fi;r  Congress,  hut  for  personal  rea^ona  declined  to  be  a  candi- 
date, althouirh  his  election  would  have  heoii  certain.  From  1857  to  1S71  he  took  hut 
little  active  part  in  politic  s,  althouirh  in  IbRS  he  was  elected  Ald;ruian,  and  fni-  ten 
years  otiiciattd  as  one  of  the  City  Fathers.  In  1871,  hi;  was  piomint-iit  in  the  move- 
ment fur  the  o\erthrow  of  the  Tweed  Kinuj.  wa?  a  Icadini;  mcmhcr  of  the  Coiuinittec 
of  Seventy  and  of  the  Council  of  Political  Reform,  and  devoted  mncli  time  and  labor 
to  secure  the  success  of  the  movement,  lie  was  also  one  of  the  original  members  of 
the  Century  and  Union  Leaijue  Club-;,  and  an  iniluential  member  of  other  literary 
and  scicntiijc  organization-;.  His  IJrot  wife  died  in  IS.'w,  leaving  one  cidll,  and  in 
1803  Mr.  Varnum  married  Helen  M.  Taylor,  daughter  of  Eoberr  L.  Tayjor,  then  a 
merchant  of  New  York  :  she  died  in  1S73,  leavinf;  four  children.  Mr.  V'arnnnx  wan 
a  lari^^e  proi)cri.y  owner  in  W'ashington,  D.  C,  aud  was  always  an  active  and  etlieient 
frieiid  of  tb.e  iJi -trice  of  Colum'.>ia,  and  contributed  lariroly  toward.s  beaatiiyin:;  tiie 
city  byerecciiig  large  and  boai.tifal  buildings  upon  hlshuid.-!  there.  He  was  the  author 
of  two  books  relating  to  Washington,  viz.  :  "  The  Sent  of  Cuvcrmnent  of  the  (>nited 
States  "  and  the  '•  W;i«hiii?ton  Sketch  Book  "  ;  ho  also  was  a  frcijuent  Contributor 
to  the  newtpopers  and  magazines  upon  all  subjects.  He  was  a  ready  and  forcible 
speaker,  not  .«o  much  eloquent  as  aigumeiitative  and  convineiiig. 

Mr.  Varnura  leit  hve  i.  hiidren  surviving  him  : — Jaiacs  M.  (who  furnished  the  sketch 
of  which  this  is  an  abstract),  b.  June  20,  ISIS,  gra.luated  at  Yale  College  lb(3S,aad 
is  now  practising  law  in  New  Y'ork  ;  ^Stixaii  iiraiiam,  b.  Jan.  2fi,  1-Cl;  .Robert 
lykr,  b.  Feb.  lb,  1865  ;  Helen  Louise,  b.  Oct.  1SG6  ;  Arry  Lenox,  b.  1671. 

The  Rev.  TVilu.\m  Btet-l  SrR.\GrE,  D.D.,  of  Albany,  N.  Y.,  a  corresponding 
member,  admitted  Oct.  i5,  1617,  was  the  son  of  Benjamin  and  Sybil  (Buell)  Spragae, 
and  was  born  at  Andover,  Conn.,  Oct.  IG,  1795.  He  died  at  I'lushin.-,  L.  I.,  May  7, 
1876,  aged  80. 

His  grandfather  was  John  Sprague,  who  married  Susannah  Hodges,  of  Taunton, 
and  who  removed  from  Lebanon  to  Andover,  Conn.  The  family  is  descended  froL": 
Francis  Sprague,  an  early  settler  of  Dusbury.  (See  Soule'd  "  Memorial  of  the 
Spragues,"  p.  40,  and  Winsor's  "'  History  of  Huxbury,"  p.  317.)  His  mother  was 
the  diaughter  of  l>ea.  Benjamin  Buell,  of  Andover,  who  was  a  native  of  Kiliing- 
vorth,  born  April  4,  1722.  She  died  May  26,  1S28.  The  father  of  Dr.  Spiugue 
died  Jan.  31,  1837. 

Dr.  Sprague  was  fitted  for  college  at  Colchester  Academy,  by  Dr.  Abiel  Abbot, 
of  Coventry.  He  graduated  at  Yale  College  in  1815,  and  for  nearly  a  year  thereafter 
was  a  private  tutor  in  the  family  of  Major  Lawrence  Lewis,  a  nephew  of  Gen. 
Washington,  who  resided  on  a  part  of  the  original  Blount  Vernon  rdautation.  He 
entered  the  Thec'Iogical  Seminary  at  Princeton  in  the  autumn  of  18  U',  and  remained 
till  the  spring  of  l!5l9.  In  lol'J,  he  removed  to  West  Springfield,  Mass.,  and  Aug. 
25  was  settled  as  colleague  pastor  with  t!ie  Rev.  Joseph  Latbrop,  D.D.,  over  t:;e 
first  Congregational  church,  wdiere  he  remained  ten  year.s. 

Dr.  Sprague  removed  to  Albany,  N.  Y'.,  and  i;u  Aug.  26,  1829,  was  installed  pas- 
tor of  the  second  Presbyterian  church  in  that  city,  from  whence  his  fame  as  a  scholar 
and  popular  writer  has  spread  in  our  own  and  other  lands.  His  long  ILsc  of  writings 
commences  with  an  Installation  sermon  in  1820.  In  1822,  he  published  a  t  durae  "i 
"  Letters  to  a  Dau:.:hter,"  which  being  issued  anonymously,  was  soon  af:er  pu'"^ 
lished  in  Great  Britain,  and  then  re-pablished  in  America  as  an  English  b'j'jk.  I^» 
1828  he  vi-ited  Europe,  and  again  in  1836.  During  his  visit  in  182?>,  his  •'  Lettei-s 
from  Europe  "  were  published.  The  productions  uf  his  pen,  however,  a,reso  numer- 
ous that,  fer  want  of  space,  we  refer  those  intetestcd  to  the  "  Cyclopcedia  of  Ameri- 
can Literature,"  vol.  i.  p.  707,  and  xXUibone's  "  Dictionary  of  Authors,"  vol.  ii.  p- 
2211.  The  fondness  of  Dr.  Sprague  for  biographical  study  is  well  known,  and  is 
illustrated  by  Lis  collection  of  autogra|.ibs,  s-aid.  to  be  one  of  tiie  largest,  if  nof  ttiP 
largest,  in  the  country.  His  "Annals  of  the  American  Pulpit,"  a  collection  ot 
biographies  of  leading  clergymen  of  all  the  principal  denominailcns,  of  whioii  nine* 

*  Vol.  i.  acd  ii.  Con^Trcgation.i'i;  iii.  ami  iv.  P-osbrtcrian ;  v.  Episcopal;  vi.  Baptist;  ^i'- 
Methodist;  viii.  Unitarian;  ijf.  Uaited  Pieibyterica,  L'uthera,u,  and  Dutch  litforineU. 


] 877.1      J^ecrology  of  Ilisioric,  Genealogical  Society.  127 

vi'Iiimis  were  published  between  tlic  years  IBf)?  and  18G9,  in  a  remarkable  and  rnlu- 
:iMi.-  oontrllnitinn  to  Aiiioriran  bioj^raphy.  The  deforce  of  D.D.  was  conferred  upon 
J.Mi'.  by  Cohiinbia  Cullv^'c  in  16"-'b,  nodby  Harvard  CoUt-^^e  in  lb-18  ;  and  that  ot 
!,o.[>.  by  New  Jerecy  in  1869. 

Cn.M'.i.KS  C.iMrBKix,  Esq.,  a  corro»;j)ondiri2:  member,  was  born  in  Petcrbburj;, 
Vir;;i:iia,  May  1,  1807,  and  died  July  11,  WH'i,  aged  GO  years,  lie  waH  tlie  i'>n  of 
Juliu  \Vils«.)n,  and  Mildred  Walker  ("Moove)  Campbell,  lli.s  father,  the  author  of  a 
"  Jli-tory  of  Virginia,"  publisheil  in  181.3,  was  a  native  of  llockbridije  Co.,  Va., 
nnd  wa.s  descended  /rom  the  "  Scoteh-lrirh,"  distingui.shed  in  tiie  '*  Valley  of  Vir- 
piuia  "  for  their  j)atrioti8m  and  sterling;  worth,  liin  mother  was  the  f^randdaiiu'hter 
of  Anne  l-vatherine  (dauj,diter  of  Alexand'.'r  Spotswuod)  and  Jicrnurd  Muore,  of 
Cliel^ca,  King  ^Villiam  Co.,  Va.  Mrs.  Campheli  still  smTives,  at  the  rijic  age 
of  ninety-one  years,  and  resides  witli  her  son,  Alexander  S.,  n.ar  \\'arrenton,  Va. 

The  early  educatinii  of  Mr.  Cam|)bell  was  entrusted  for  about  five  years  to  Peter 
0>)ke,  a  graduate  of  Trinity  College,  Dublin.  At  the  age  of  fixreen  he  eutert;d  the 
S.jplu>more  cln:-s  of  New  Jersey  College,  from  whence  he  graduated  wiiji  the  first 
IiouorB  in  \6-2b.  He  nest  attended  the  law  school  of  Chancellor  Jlenry  St.  George 
Tueka-,  at  Vv  inchester,  ^'a.  ;  was  duly  licensed,  and  entered  upon  the  practice  of 
the  profer-sion  in  his  native  city.  His  legal  career  was  ii)t:;rru(ited  by  tickness  in 
ly2',i-;?0,  and  permanently  abandoned.  His  health  somewhat  improving,  he  v.'as 
f'nnloyed  for  a  tiine  as  an  engineer  upon  the  Petersburg  railroad,  then  being  con- 
pu-ueted. 

Mr.  (,'ampbell  was  twice  married  :  first,  to  Elvira  N.  Callaway,  of  TociUR,  Monroo 
C.-..,  E;ist  Tennessee,  iSepi.  lo,  1S36.  She  died  Aug.  8,  1837,  leaving  one  child, 
Callaway,  born  July,  1837,  now  residing  in  Murray  Co.,  Tenn.,  a  farmer,  and  un- 
married ;  second,  to  Anna  IJurdsall,  of  l^iahway,  N.  J.,  Sept.  4,  1850,  by  whom  ho 
had  four  children  :  three,  Mary,  Nanny  and  Charles,  with  his  widow,  survive  him, 
aud  li\e  in  Fredericksburg,  Va. 

From  1837,  Mr.  CampbeU  was  employed  in  the  office  of  his  father,  who  was  Collector 
of  Ciistuins  in  Fredericksburg.  He  conducted  a  select  classical  school  from  about  the 
year  lS-i-2  to  1855,  when  he  became  the  principal  of  the  Anderson  Seminary,  of 
Petersburg,  which  position  he  held  until  the  inauguration  of  the  present  free-school 
system  of  die  State.  As  an  educator  of  the  young,  Mr.  Campbell  was  in  the  highest 
degree  successful.  Loving  learning  he  was  a  devoted  student.  His  numerous  pupild, 
who  hold  in  grateful  esteem  and  respect  his  exalted  c|ualities  of  heart  and  mind, 
Dubly  vindicate  the  measure  of  his  goodness  and  usefulness. 

But  however  honorable  his  career  as  a  teacher,  iNlr.  CampbeU  is  better  known  and 
appreciated  as  an  author,  and  historian  of  his  native  state.  He  was  an  early  mem- 
ber of  the  old  "  Historical  and  Philosophical  Society  of  Vi?  ginia  ' ' ;  and  its  Kegister 
v.as  enriched  with  cheerful  oiFerings  frum  his  pen.  To  tlie  "  Southern  Literary 
Messenger  "  he  made  contributions  of  antiiiuarian  and  historic  interest  and  value, 
from  its  commencement  in  1831  to  its  termination  in  1864.  ,^         .  >     . 

Uis  works  published  in  book  f^rm,  are  :  ',■•.>.• 

1.  The  Bland  Papers,  Edited,  with  notes  and  an  introduction. 

2.  Introduction  to  the  History  of  the  Colony  and  Ancient  Dominion  of  Virginia. 
8vo.     1847. 

^3.  A  Brief  Introduction  to  a  Reprint  of  Beverley's  History  of  Virginia.  8vo. 
IS55. 

4.  History  of  the  Colony  and  Ancient  Dominion  of  Virginia,  from  its  Firet  Set- 
tlemerit  to  the  Peace  of  1783.     6vo.     1860. 

5.  The  Orderly  Book  of  General  Andrew  Lewis.     1860. 

.6.  Jilaterial  f;:>r  a  Brief  Memoir  of  Juhn  Daly  Burk,  author  of  a  History  of  Vir- 
r-nia.  ^8vo.     18.38. 

7-^    Genealogy  of  the  Spotswood  Family  in  Scotland  and  Virginia.    6vo.     I86S. 

-ir.  Campbell  alsol^ft  in  manuscript  a  fJiary  of  the  late  war;  articles  designed 
I'jr  maga.-^ine  piiblici-tion  ;  and  letters  and  autographs  of  distinguished  men,  who 
^^tV:  ^"^hered  among  his  appreciative  correspondents  and  friends. 

ihough  his  life  had  been  marked  by  evidences  of  Christian  faith,  it  was  not  until 
the  yejir  \Ki\)  that  he  o;i-'aiv  nrofessed  his  crust  in  JesL;s,  as  his  .8aviour,  by  uniting 
*"tii  the  TabWtreet  J^re.-.r.vienan  church  of^  Ids  native  city.  His  remains  wero 
ao|Mx<ife,]  in  x,hc  <Jld  Biaudford  Cemetery,  near  Petersburg.  July  1-J,  1876.  _ 
^  lie  was  admitted  a  member  Oct.  6,  1800.  In  the  Richmcnd  Dtspu'ck  for  Sept.__ 
sand  Potter's  Anierican  Monthly  for  December,  1376,  will  bo  found  memoirs  ot 


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128  ITecrologii  of  11! dor ic,  Genealofjical  Socieij.  [Jan. 

Mr.  Cornpbcll  by  R.  A.  Brook,  of  Riclimond,  Va.,  from  wLich,  and  an  autf)I>i(>- 
f;i-apliical  uianu^'jvipt  in  the  urclii^oH  of  this  ^iocicly,  tlie  pittdL-ut  sketch  Las  been 
prepurcd. 

Prepared  by  Albhui  II.  Hoyt,  A.M.,  of  Eostoa. 

The  Hon.  Thomas  Hicks  Wyxne,  a  cuneHpondiiiL';  miMnlwr,  admitted  Oct.  G,  l^no, 
died  ill  PJchiiioiid,  VirLi;inia,  on  W'ednesiiay,  the  21th  of  l-'ifbriiary,  1875,  in  tho 
fifty-t^ixth  yp:ir  of  liis  a;.^o.  lit;  was  the  sixth  chiM  of  Williatiis'^ii  and  A^nes  Mar- 
garet (iluriiy)  Wynne,  of  riiclmiond.  wheie  he  w.is  burn  on  tlie  '2-2A  ot  Ja;!u:'.rj, 
ISJU.  On  hi.-5  fathers  eidc  he  WHS  (hseendrd  from  an  old  Viruinia  liimdy;  on  tiie 
maternal  side,  from  a  well-known  family,  the  Ii:iAiys,  of  Xortli  Carolina. 

In  1S33,  ■ulion  he  was  in  his  tliirteeuth  j''ar,  his  iattier  died,  h-avirur  hi.--  family  in 
etraitcned  rircimistanccs,  and  uiainJy  dependent 'upon  ihi.s  son  for  their  .srpport. 
At  the  age  of  fourteen  he  waw  apprenticed  to  a  lirm  of  iron-h>unders  and  macldn- 
ists  in  Itichmond,  with  whuia  he  remained  nntil  hertnehed  his  majority. 

During-  tiie.-e  years  of  apprenticeship  and  iiard  t  j:1  he  devoted  much  of  his  leisure 
to  study  and  reading.  It  is  said,  tiiat  nut  iid'requeiitly  he  ate  liis  dinner  %vith  ?.  tM,(,!i 
in  hi;  hand.  By  hi.s  exciaplary  conduct  and  applicatii;n  to  but-iness,  he  acquired  tho 
reputation  of  bein^  a  youni^  man  of  ni'jre  than  ordinary  industry,  hd'.lity  and  ability, 
lie  di.^playtd  such  mechanical  skill,  joined  to  the  qiuilitie^  already  named,  that  he 
was  pelect.^d .  coon  after  he  completed  hi.s  apprentu'e.^hip.  fur  Eunerintendt-nt  of  a 
IcrTC  establishment  in  Richmond  en^^aged  in  manufacturing  maohincry.  iiere  ho 
remained  till  the  j"enr  18.j9. 

Suou  wai' his  manifest  ability  and  practical  caprscity  that  hs  was  soon  called  to 
other  positinns  ol  trust  and  responsihdity.  He  held  the  ofHce  of  superintendent  of 
the  city  g;is-works,  and  then  the  joint  oOices  of  president  and  superintendcni:  of  the 
Richmond  and  Petersburg  Railroad,  for  several  years.  He  was  abo  president  of  the 
Westham  Iron  \\  orks,  treasurer  of  the  Southern  Telegraph  Comj^any,  and  superin- 
tendent of  the  southern  division  of  the  Pullman  Palace  Car  C'lmpany. 

Colonel  V.'ynne  served  repeatedly  as  a  member  of  the  city  Council,  and  was  actively 
interested  in  promoting  useful  local  impruvement.e.  He  wos  never  a  politician,  and 
not  an  otlice-sceker,  but  he  was  frequently  elected  to  the  lower  branch  of  the 
legislature,  between  the  years  ISCI  and  1872.  In  the  latter  year  he  was  chosen  to  a 
seat  in  the  state  senate,  and  held  this  ofEce  at  the  time  of  his  death. 

Amid  all  these  urgent  and  weari.^ome  duties,  he  found  time  to  prosecute  his  favovite 
studies  and  avocations.  He  was  a  frequent  contidbutor  to  the  Southern  Liternry 
Messenger  in  its  most  prosperous  days  ;  an  active  member  of  the  Virginia  Literary 
and  Philosophical  Society,  and  for  some  years  before  his  death  had  been  the  Cor- 
responding Secretary  and  Librarian  of  the  Virginia  Hi:?  :orical  Society. — to  whose 
revival  after  the  war  he  successfully  devoted  much  time,  labor,  and  money.  He 
became  thoroughly  acquainted  Mdrh  the  history  of  his  native  state,  and  of  the 
contiguous  states,  and  of  their  ancient  families.  Upon  the'=;e  subjects  he  has  for 
many  years  past  been  recognized  as  a  high  authority.  Colonel  Wynne  was  a  fre- 
quent contributor  to  the  daily  jiress. 

Among  his  contributions  to  historical  literature  was  his  History  of  Mason  and 
Dixon's  fjinc,  which  appeared  in  1851».  He  also  printed  in  book-ljrm,  at  his  own 
cost,  a  series  of  volumes  known  as  '"  Wynne's  Historical  Documents,  from  the  O'd 
Dominion,"  consisting  of  the  William'^hurg  Orderly  Rook,  the  W'estover  Mnnu- 
ecripts,  a  memorial  of  the  Rolling  Family,  illustrate  l",  and  the  Vestry  Rook  of  Hen- 
rico Parish,  with  an  account  of  St.  Joh.n  Church  (liichmond).  He  contributed  to 
the  literature  of  North  Carolina  '"The  Narrative  of  Colonel  David  Fanning,"  and 
*'  Historical  Documents  relatin;^  to  the  old  Nurt!i  btate." 

He  employed  the  photoiirapiiic  art  to  reproduce  and  preserve  likenesses  of  objecf 
of  historical  or  antiquariau  uiterest,  and  distributed  copies  of  these  pictures  among 
the  public  societi'.s. 

As  chairman  of  t!ie  iilirary  committee  of  the  State  legislature.  Colonel  Wynne 
•\yas  largely  instrumental  m  devising  means  h.,r  enlarging  and  enriching  the  State 
library,  and  for  restoring,  as  far  as  possible,  other  ancient  papers  and  valuable  ducu- 
mentft  which  had  been  carried  away  without  authority,  or  stolen  duricj:  the  war  or 
after  its  close,  He  had  a:.>o  sucojL'itd  in  inducing  tiie  legi^^.uure  to  begin  the  pub- 
lication of  some  ot  the  mosc  important  papers  in  Its  archives. 

In  testimony  of  his  attainments  and  of  his  labors  in  the  Held  of  historical  investi- 
gation, C'l.'Ionel  Wynne  received  an  election  to  nicnihership  in  several  hi;sD;rical, 
antiquarian,  and  numismacicai  socictits  of  the  United  iStates.    To  these  he  coniribu- 


187 v.]  Booh  Xoliccs.  129 

tcJ  generously.  To  tliis  Society  he  made  frequent  and  valuable  donations  of  ho.)k8 
niid  i>:»niri'ilots  ;  nnd  in  liis  rorrt'sj>ijii'.iin(!e  with  eome  of  our  ineiiihcrri  orrcn  ox- 
TirL-sscd  Ins  lively  apprfciation  of  tin-  aiii  and  einvjuraireinciit  be  iiad  rueeivcd  in 
his  efforts  tu  ix-vivo  and  estublisli  the  lliacoricul  Society  of  \'ir^irua,  and  to  pruniolc 
it?  object^. 

In  liis  last  Will,  cxecuttd  but  a  sliort  time  iiefitre  bis  deatli,  b<;  iiianire«trd  !ii'« 
rcL'ard  lor  t!iij,  and  for  the  -Amorifnii  Anriiinarian  .Sjci(;ly,  as  wt-U  an  Ibr  tiiat  of 
Vni^inia,  by  it!sertin;|  a  ])rovisiijn  uutiijri;;iiii;  oao!)  of  tiic  societies  named  to  scleci 
from  his  rich  collection  of  Iiook^j  and  p;Mni)h!et>  such  as  tlioy  tni;rht  desire. 

His  labors  came  to  an  end  while  the  laa.-ti-r-win-kcr  had  his  hand  yet  upon  them. 
IIi<  plans  niuit  be  earned  out  by  others,  if  they  shall  ever  come  to  fruition,  liis 
o.vample,  at  least,  will  abide, — that  of  one  who,  without  the  ndv.inca.Q,':s  obrainaiih" 
hy  weahh  or  fair.ily  inllutncc,  and  with'uit  the  beuciits  of  thoroui^di  mental  trainin;; 
in  early  life,  nevertheless  by  encr^iy,  integrity,- (Jdtdity,  and  felf-culture,  won  his 
way  tc)  the  affectionate  regard  of  all  who  knew  him,  and  to  the  highest  confidence  of 
the  public.     Anliqua  homo  viriute  acfuie. 


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A  Critical  Dictionary  nf  English  Literature,  and  British  and  American  Author^, 
Jjiving  and  Deceased,  from  the  Earliest  Accounts  to  the  Middle  of  the  Nuietrrntii 
Cvniury.  Containing  over  Forty-Hii  Thousand  Articles  {Authors) ,  with  Forti/ 
Indexes  of  Subjeeis.  By  S.  Austin'  Allibone.  [.Nlotto.]  Philadelphia:  J.  li. 
Lippincott  Sc  Co.    1874.     [Three  vols.  Royal  8vo.  pp.  3l-bO.] 

We  trust  it  is  not  too  late  to  notice  thi  great  bibliographical  work  of  Mr.  Alli- 
bone, altliough  it  is  now  five  years  since  the  hist  volume  Tvas  given  to  the  jiubiic, 
tiie  first  one  having  been  published  in  1S53. 

This  DIctiorary  of  FJni^lish  Literature,  as  it  is  very  properly  called,  embracer-* 
more  than  would  ordinarily  be  included  in  a  work  of  its  kind,  and  may  be  said  to 
cover  three  distinct  fields  :  1.  Biographical  sketches  of  Biiti.>h  and  Ameriean  au- 
thors, literary,  scientific,  legal  and  medical.  II.  Bibliography  of  their  works. 
III.  Criticisms.  In  each  of  tliese  departments  the  dictionary  is  m.jre  complete  than 
any  similar  work  in  the  English  languacje.  It  is  true  that  we  have  historic- and 
cyclopedias  uf  English  literature,  but  the<e  have  notices  of  but  a  very  small  propor- 
tion of  a'.ithors,  the  fullest  containing  but  eight  hundred  and  fifty  out  ol  Hiorc  than 
thirty  t  lousand.  The  biographies  ot  lit'Tary  men  are  still  laore  deiicient,  for  if  we 
tiike  our  largest  biographical  dictionaries  we  find  that  only  those  writers  are  noticed 
Vtho  are  well  known,  or  have  made  tlieir  mark  in  the  world.  Mr.  Allibone  noliees 
ill  British  and  American  authors,  devoting  much  space  to  those  holding  rhe  hi::he-t 
rank,  but  less  to  those  not  distinguished.  Hence  of  such  men  as  Hume,  Gibbon, 
Kurke,  Uallam,  Brougham,  Scott,  Macaulay,  Prescott  and  Irving,  we  have  extcmi- 
e^l  critical  essays  on  their  works,  more  elaixjrate,  indeed,  than  are  to  be  found  in 
any  other  books.  Tlie  critical  essays  that  usu'.'lly  accompany  th.e  memoirs  of  lite- 
niry  men  are  but  the  opinions  of  one  writer.  Thus  .Moore  lias  told  us  of  Byron  ; 
frior,  of  Burke  ;  Lockhart,  of  Scott ;  Tieknor,  of  Prescott ;  Foster,  of  Dickens  ;  and 
frevelyan,  of  Macaulay  ;  but  in  these  memoirs  and  criticisms  we  have  but  the  ojjin- 
ioas  oi  their  several  biographers.  Mr.  Allih(jne  gives  us.  in  the  first  place,  a  brief 
biography  of  his  subject  sufficient  to  trace  his  histor\'.  This  is  generally  as  full  a-; 
»s  given  in  hiographicnl  dictionaries.  Then,  in  tlie  criticisms  on^their  writ;n::s.  v/*; 
.have  not  c^nly  the  opinion  of  Mr.  Allibone,  but  opiruons  of  a  Ihtzc  number  of  e.-say- 
'"Ks  and  cvitie.s  well  kc  'wn  iu  the  literary  world  ;  th.e  opinio.qs  of  reviewers,  leeturer?-, 
*^'-  I^?t  us,  for  example,  look  at  the  notice  of  Edmui.d  J-iurke.  Upon  his  wriiini'-. 
^■e  have  the  opinions  of  P^r.  Johnson,  Artliur  Murphv,  Prior,  Lord  Je.'ney,  i'rof. 
^au'ch,  Dupild  Stewart,  Williara  Pitt,  Ciiarles  James  Fox,  Sheridnn,  Grattau'.  Bobert 
"all.  Mackintosh,  Lord  Macaulay,  Lord  Brougham,  &c.  Dr.  .fuhn.son,  a  man  of 
m.,re  varied  learning,  is  handled  in  a  different  manner.  First  he  is  cxaunued  ar-  -'i 
r''t.  s.xond  as  an  e-~ayist,  third  as  a  lexicographer,  fourth  as  a  critic,  fifth  on  hi-i 
^Jy.o  uf  c.jniposition,  sixth  on  his  appearance,  manners  and  conversation,  whih:  in 
"It  seventh  we  have  an  analysis  of  his  moral  and  religious  character.  Uuder  thcr*; 
''<vtr,il  heads  the  great  doctor  is  critically  examined  by  various  writers.  This  in  a 
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loO  Boch  Kctices.  [Jan. 

veiv  rciuliJiIe  arrivlo,  nrul  UlU  eleven  pajres  of  the  dictionary,  equal  t)  forty-four 
()C-i;;\(.i  pOi;' y  like  ijuicnlL's  or  PvcscoU's  iil-cnrioH.  The  nrtiele  on  i":ir  Walter  Scutt 
fiU-^  sixteen  pi:i;es,  and  Inoliidc^  notices  of  hi?  writini^s  hy  Kdw.inl  Kverett, "who  knew 
hi.n  personally:  by  Ljekhart,  Sir  JnmeH  MackintoHh,  Iliizlitt,  William  ilowitt.  Ijudy 
l>te>sini,'Cu!i,  Aliriijii,  h'ir  F.  Pal;:rare,  I/irii  .fohu  Knssell,  Tl.:'.f^k',r.\y,  C;\rlyle  and 
<j>l;'.il.-cone.  The  hi  ii^TP.oliiep.l  sketcii  is  very  full.  This  is  foUuued  by  a  list  of  iSir 
\Valter'.s  pnl.Jications ;  after  \'-'Lii>jh  he  is  er.nniined  as  a  poet,  a  novelist,  [>)T  the 
chaniefer  and  in'Juenee  of  hie  writings,  and  lat^tly  he  is  examined  as  a  man.  S>:> 
eonijilete  an  analysis  of  the  churacier  and  \\ritin^sof  the  great  novelist  has  never 
before  apjieared. 

The  notice  of  John  ^^iIton  an']  his  writing's  is  even  more  full  than  that  of  Scott, 
and  fiil.'.  no  lo?  than  tw.'Uly-ci'/hi  ]>  iijcs.  First,  Me  have  a  list  of  tlie  editi'ins  >A'  his 
^vovk;^  with  notices  ot  his  liioL;vapi;ers  and  Couunentators.  This  is  followed  by  criti- 
cal (.pillions.  T!ien  he  is  cricicixid  as  a  poet,  a  prose  writer  and  a  pi>litician. 
Anion.;  MiltonV  hioc^raphers  and  coiuraentators  we  find  the  names  of  Pi>pe,  John- 
son, Addison,  Pryden,  Cowper,  Soiithey,  Hume,  Seott,  ilnlhiui,  Campbell,  Cole- 
ridge, Robert  Hall,  Krou'Thapj,  Mackintosh,  Landor,  Maeaulay,  Schlegid,  Te;^ncr, 
Racine,  Chateaubriand,  Channing,  Prescott,  Everett,  and  more  than  twenty  othera 
fa;i!0U8  in  litiTiirure.  Surely  fioni  such  an  array  of  critics,  the  opinions  of  whom 
are  civen  at  length,  one  ought  to  get  a  pretty  correct  estimate  of  one  of  Rngland'e 
greatest  writers. 

Of  other  mmi's  di«tingiiished  in  literature,  of  which  there  are  full  notices,  we  find 
those  of  Pope,  Runyan,  Robertson,  Swift,  Toin  Moore;  Isaac  Walton,  of  whose 
An'.;le.*  thircy-ei:;ht  editions  are  mentioned;  Sir  Phili])  Sidney,  Horace  Walpole, 
Charles  .Lamb,  Ryron,  John  Taylor  the  water-poet  and  his  13<i  works  ;  Tennyson, 
Wordsworth,  Theodore  Parker.  Ticknor,  lienry  Wlieaton,  Longfellow,  Lowell, 
Judge  Story,  Moses  Stuan  aad  Charles  Sumner. 

Eiit  full  as  are  tlse  notices  of  Milton,  Scott  and  others,  all  flill  short  of  the  elabo- 
rate notice  of  Shak^peare,  the  longest  and  most  remarkable  in  the  work,  tilliag  no 
less  than  forty-nine  paces,  and  equal  to  two  hundred  pages  of  Prescott  and  Ban- 
croft's histories,  or  of  Ticknor".?  Spanish  Literature. 

Mr.  Allibone,  as  he  had  a  right  to  do,  lins  availed  himself  of  the  labors  of  his  pre- 
dece.<sors,  Lowndes,  Wiison,  llaliiwell  and  Boini,  in  Shakspearian  literature,  to 
which  he  has  made  large  additions,  thereby  making  a  bibliogruphy  which  in  arrange- 
meat  and  tuiness  surpasses  them  all. 

lie  notices — L  Editior.s  of  Shaksneare's  works.  2.  Critical  opinions  crt  Snak- 
speare's  works.  3.  Shaksperlana.  The  editions  of  Sliakspeare's  plays  ai.d  poems,  in 
English,  mentioned,  numf'cr  16G  ;  French  translations,  13;  German  translations,  57 
— o.'ie  of  these,  SciilcgeFs,  having  passed  tnrough  eight  editions.  The  tianslations  in 
Dutch,  L  naiiisii  and  Poitugnesc  are  less  in  number.  Uf  all  these  full  titles  are 
given.  The  criticisms  are  all  from  ennnent  writers,  English  and  foreign.  The 
Shakspcariana  is  a  most  Interesting  department,  presenting  the  titles  of  954  pieces. 
The  article  closes  with  an  index  to  the  editors,  commentators  and  translators  men- 
tioned in  the  article.  This  is  printed  in  four  columns,  and  is  most  useful  for  refer- 
ence. This  alpiiabeiical  index  exhibits  a  brilliant  succession  of  great  names, — the 
men  who  have  distinguished  themselves  in  almost  every  department  of  knowledge, 
and  who,  however  divtrrse  their  pursuits  and  tastes,  unite  in  paying  willing  tribute 
to  the  illustrious  intellect  which  iias  transcended  them  all. 

The  forty  indexes  to  the  dictionary  comprise  a  classitication  of  the  subjects  of  the 
books  noticed  ;  and  tlien.  under  each  subject,  are  the  names  of  authors  who  have 
written  upon  it.  On  looking  over  the.'^e  lists,  we  find  41S9  writers  on  history.  On 
biography  and  correspondence  are  4596  names;  on  divinity.  l-3,8'29;  on  education, 
3119;  poetry,  5;9i;  voyages  and  travels,  33tiO  ;  medicine.  3>^05  ;  fiction,  2-2.57  ;  fine 
art-,  131C.  if  a  student,  tiiereiore,  is  desirous  to  find  the  various  writers  on  botany, 
ireology,  or  an}'  other  subject,  the  index  will  show  him  their  names.  He  has  then 
But  to  turn  to  their  I'arues  in  the  dictionary,  wiiere  he  will  iind  the  title  of  the  books 
.nought  lor.  I>y  the  vecr.pitulation  it  appears  that  the  total  number  of  names  in  the 
indtx  is  75,158.     Of  author^.  4t5,499. 

Wc  have  said  that  Mr.  Aliibone's  dictionary  i.s  the  most  complete  work  of  its  kind 
in  the  Engli.-b  langMi^-;.  \\'e  are  now  prepared  to  go  fartlier,  by  .«aying  that  in  no 
language  is  there  so  couijilcte  a  biLIiograpliical  Work.  A:  the  present  time  the  two 
leacling  bibliographical  works  are  Brunet's  Manuel  du  Lilraire.  5th  edition,  in  six 
royal  octavos,  printed  at  Paris,  l8^0-lSfi5  ;  and  Grassse's  Trtsor  de  Itvres  Bare  et 
precieu.z,  in  eight  quartos.  i'rLsden,  1858,  18 — .  Rut  these  two  works,  excellent; 
and  useful  as  they  are,  embrace  only  the  best  books  in  ail  languages.     They  are  be- 


1877.]  Booh  Notices.  131 

sides  without  biosraphiciil  Bkotchea  or  critical  notices.  The  vrork'^  on  Kn-lish 
hihlioC'ranhy  now  m  )'=t  referred  to  nrc  LowriJes's  Manual,  in  six  diin(l<.'i'iiiio-r«!i'! 
\Vatt"ti  Bibhothtca  lifilrinnica,  in  i'.jur  stout  quartos — a  work  (jf  wimdfrlu!  lai,..r. 
Tlio  latter  \6  the  only  book  which  in  its  scope  can  at  all  cuuipare  with  the  work  of 
Mr.  Allihone,  althoui^h  it  is  in  every  sense  its  iuleriur. 
Comniuniccited  bj  the  lion.  John  R.  Bartktt. 

The.  Richardson  Memoriah  comprising  a  Full  History  and  (jfjifahnjy  of  ihf.  Po'tpiihi 


ViMO.v,  Aulhur  of  tlio  Vinton  Memorial  [ito.  ite.].     Purcland,  Ml-.  :   Ih-int>,-'l 

the  Subscrihors  by  Brown,  Tburston  i  Co.     is'ti.     [8vo.  pp.  xv.-iUll.    Pri..;, 

a  copy  in  clotli,  or  .■<()  in  half  turkey  L'lorocco  binding.] 
GcTir.alogical  and  Biographical   Shtches  of  the    fiartktt    Family   in    England,   and 

Arncricn.     iJy  Levi   Bartlett  of  Warner,  N.   II.     16T5-G.     Lawrtnce  :    Go.j.  ^;. 

Merrill  &,  Crocker,  Printers.     1ST6.     [bvo.  pp.  114.] 
History  of  tJiC   WlUcs  Family  in  England  and  Normandy,  vilh  the  JJ'riration  fn'/n 

their  Progenitors  of  some  of  the  Descendants  in  the  United  Staies.     lllustrn/rd  leui 

steel-plate  Portraits  and  plates  of  Coats-Armorial,  and  seals  of  the  Bishops  ///.v") 

oud  Joctiya  etc  Weiles.     By  Alekrt  ^VELLE3 New  York  :  Albert  Wt.;!.-, 

67  University  Place.     1S76.     [Svo.  pp.  312.] 
The  Laphani  Fainihi  Register,  or  Records  of  So7ne  of  the  Descendants  of  'Iho/na: 

Lapham  of  Scituate.   Mass.  in  1^35.      By  ^V^,LIAM  B.  Lapu.\«,  M.l) 

Augusta:  Sprague,  Owen  &  Nash,  Printers.     Ihi'S.     [Svo.  pp.  3],  with  a  Matik 

"  Family  Kegister  ''  appended.] 
Printed  for  Private  Distribution.     Family  Record.^  of  Some  of  the  Des'-'ndants  of 

Thomas  Beshrdge  (Bisbee)  of  Scituate,  Mass.,  in  I(i3-J.     Compiled  by  \Vir.r.i.>M  B. 

Lapuam,  M.D Augusta,  Me.  :  Press  of  lloman  &  Baduier.     1870.     [-vo. 

pp.  48.] 

History  and  Records  of  the  Kidder  Family,  1876.     Chicago  :   Cuhcr,  Page,  H(>yne  & 
Co.,  Printers.     1876.     [8yo.  pp.  32.] 

The  Rev.  Mr.  Vinton  has  no  superior  as  a  compiler  of  genealogies.  lie  liar  j.-ro- 
duced  many  valuable  books  in  this  line,  but  the  work  before  us,  the  *'  Bicii-irl-on 
Memorial."  surpasses  tliem  all  in  our  opinion.  Ilis  tirst  pui)!ish(.'d  geue-.d.ijv  w.is 
the  ''  Vintoa  Meraorial,"  i&sucd  in  Ib'jS,  which  was  followed  in  1S64  by  the  ""  Cii 


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132  Booh  Notices.  •  [Jau. 

of  I^.ivnley,  Siic'es,  wlio  died  in  1501,  and  li:vl  fmir  sons,  three  of  ^horn.  John, 
Ilichard  and  Thfimas  ffem  to  have  removed  f'r,)iii  Kornltj'.  TiiC  author  thjiiii.s  ihtso 
weio  ii.)!m  aad  KichniJ  ot  Nowljiiry,  and  TliomaH,  an  cnrij  i?ctil<.r  of  NV'aturtown. 
John  of  Envidevt!i.>no-e<i  of  his  property  tliere  ill  1031,  the  year  in  which  Jolm  of 
Xewhury  came" to  N'ew  lOni^dand.  Col.  IJarttelot  thinks  the  fjarnley  brothers  may 
have  eui'iirriUfd  to  America,  [''^tracti  from  the  frorrc;<pandence  of  that  -fntieTLan 
with  the'autitur  ar.j  i,'ivi,-n.  We  hope  that  researches  will  be  continued  till  all 
doubt  on  the  subject  is  rem  -ved.  _ 

Mr.  Welles  the  author  of"  thn  third  book  is  president  of  the  *'  American  Lolle?c 
of  Heraldrv  and  (.;ene;iio;.rieal  Ile,!i;i~try  of  New  York,"  an  institution  which  makes 
a  business  of  investi  jatin/  and  record itiL';  pcdiijree.s  in  tliat  city.  Tiie  book  is  :,'oiten 
up  in  a  very  hanvLs  ime  liianuer,  av.d  is  e'uhelli.ihcd  v.-ith  .stecl-i)ortrait'5  ol  diitm- 
guislied  men  bcarinir  the  name,  beside^  other  ole;rant  illustrations.  It  is  not  Con- 
fined to  any  one  family  cither  in  Entilaud  or  AmcriCii,  but  the  diCarent  families  are 
given  witii  more  or  loss  fulness. 

Dr.  Lp.phun;,  of  Au-Ubta,  Me.,  the  ai-.thor  of  t!ic  two  next  genealogies,  ttie  Lap- 
ham  and  the  iJisbee  (or  I'.csbed'^e)  families,  is  sc^-t'tiiry  of  the  Maine  Gone  iloijical 
and  Biographical  Society,  and  the  editor  of  its  periodical  the  •' Mninc  Gene^)o;rift 
and  l-)io^^^apl•er"  {ante  xxx.  137,  487).  He  is  a  thorou;^di  invcsti^^ut  jr  and  a  cuvctul, 
■coni[)ilr!',  to  which  his  bjcks  bear  witness. 

Thi  Kidder  :;3nealo::v  wns  publisi-ied  last  summer  by  Samuel  T.  Kidder,  thc-i  of 
Beloit,  Wis. .  rrow  of  .\ndovcr.  Mass.  It  is  a  reprint  of  the  i^cnealv -y  of  this  family, 
by  Fi.d  iL  Kild,;r,  pubiisned  ia  1^.:>-J,  in  his  History  of  New  lp>wieb,  N.  H.,  with 
a  continuation  rivin:^  tlic  dcsccndant>  of  Snnme!  and  Sara  (Corbiu)  Kidder,  re.ainly 
in  the  line  of  his  sijn  Nathaniel  of  Wardsboro",  Vt.  ;Materinls  f  n-^  such  a  work 
were  collected  Ijy  the  comijilcr's  father,  the  late  Key.  Corbiu  Kidder,  of  Poplar  Grove, 
111.,  and  his  manuecrints  have  been  used  in  preparing  this  pamphlet. 

J.  W.  Deas. 

Memoron'fn  concerning  Ed icard  Whntley  and  Williani  Goffe.  By  FranslixB.  Def- 
ter. From  the  Papers  uf  the  New  Haven  Colony  Historical  Society,  Vol.  II. 
New  Haven  :  Tattle,  Morehouse  &  Taylor,  Printers.  187G.  [Pa'Jiphlet,  Bvo.  pp. 
3-2.] 

This  pamphlet  gives  a  concise  account  of  the  lives  of  t\^o  of  tho  raost  unfortunate 
■of  the  judge-,  or  commissi. mers,  who  Condemned  Charles  I.  to  death.  It  is  mainly 
occu})ied  with  the  narrative  of  tiieir  romantic  exile  in  America,  in  which  respect  it  is 
the  most  accurate  statement  that  we  have  seen  in  print.  The  author  has  also  bruu2:lit 
forward  several  facts  which  seem  to  have  escaped  the  notice  of  all  who  have  pre- 
viously written  upon  the  subject. 

We  observe  that  t!je  author  iaelines  to  put  faith  in  the  tradition,  now  become  a 
artof  tiie  history  of  ti'C  time  and  place,  as  to  the  mysterious  interp.sitinr,  of  Gofieand 
_iB  equally  mvsterioas  disappearance  on  the  occasion  of  an  alleged  Indian  '•  attack  '" 
on  Hadley,  Sept.  1,  1G75.  liven  if  there  was  an  "attack"'  as  the  TeneraMe  tra- 
dition describes,  it  seems  utterly  incredible  that  in  s-)  small  a  settlement  such  an 
occurrence  could  have  takpo  place  in  broad  daylight  without  the  "  mysterious  stran- 
ger "  being  followed  and  traced  ti  his  hiding-place  by  women  and  children,  or  by 
other  noncombatants.  So  that,  if  we  concede' that  there  was  an  "attack,"  it  df.es 
not  follow  that  we  must  accept  the  mysterimis  '•  disappearance  "  as  veritable  history. 
But  it  should  seem  that  it  has  been  sutticiently  demonstrated  that  there  was  no 
•"  attack  "  on  the  day  named,  as  has  been  alleiced  on  the  strenjrh  of  the  tradition. 
(Register,  ante  xsviii.  370-301.)  Mather  s:iys  there  was  an  '•  alarm  ;"'  and  it  is 
out  of  l\\U  "alarm"  that  the  "'attack"  has  grown  to  its  present  magnificent 
proportions. 

Still,  it  is  to  'r>v:  considered  that  there  is  almost  always  some  basis  of  truth  for  tra- 
ditions'of  this  kind;  and  it  may  yet  turn  out  that  "there  was  an  occasion  about 
■the  time  na.ned  wlien  Goffe  did  thus  imprudently  appear  in  public,  and  pat  him.-;.!' 
■and  his  friends  in  j^v^pardy.  The  whole  hietory  of  Whalley  and  Gotie  in  Aii:erie.-. 
has  net  yet  been  p'ublisiicd.  A.  H.  Hoyt. 

'Whitmore  Tract.t'.  A  Co/hr/inn  of  Essa'js  on  Matters  of  Interest  to  Persons  bearing 
the  Naiix^.  Ev  William  II.  Wiistmurk,  F.R.H.S.  Boston  :  David  Clapp  i  Sou. 
56.4  Washington  Si.     1675.     [Svo.  pp.  l-i-f-4+S-|-47-|-8.] 

This  is  a  collection  of  five  tracts,  four  of  wtdch  are  reprints  of  some  of  Mr.  VVhit- 
more's  contrih'itions  to  periodicals.  Tluee^of  tiieai  are  troro  tiie  H-raid  and  Genen- 
loijist,  viz.:    i,  NVhitmores  of   Whitmore,  co.  StatTjrd,  Thurstanton.  co.  Chester, 


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ISTT.l  Booh  Xotkes.  ]03 

and  Claverley,  oo.  Salop  ;  2,  Wliitmores  ofCannton.  co  Nott«  ;  3,  The  Roos  Fiunily 
I  f  L.r»':t:n.  CO.  Nott?.  The  orher  reprint  is  fruia  the  RtioisTEK,  viz.,  Th.c  Wilcij 
Far^ily  (.<(  GimhriilL'P,  Mi'.js.  It  i<  No.  5  of  the  Tniets.  No.  4  ut'  the  Tracts,  whicii  i., 
new,  1*3  on  the  Wl'.itmorc-?  nfMailek-y,  co.  Statlbnl. 

Mr.  Whirmore's  c.vjneocii.ti  ^vith  the  Reoistkk,  a«  one  of  the  edit'ir>»  fur  tlireo 
vc;»rs.  as  or.e  of  tlie  pulilishiii!i  oonunittoe  fur  ninny  years,  nnrl  as  a  coiitriijiitnr  t.ir 
a  ftill  ».'n_'er  period,  has  inn de  our  rividers  fuiuiliur  with  hira  a«  a  writer,  nri'l  ax 
nu  in'lef-\tiguble  and  suceeHsful  investi:^tor  of  gt-nealoi'v.  In  thc•^:e  trac-trt  l,«'  h:is 
Cxil'eoted  a  mas*  of  valuahle  matter  rtlating  t<j  the  .«(.-veial  fliiuilies  of  Wljitmore  in 
Ln.-Iand  and  their  relatives.  It  -will  be  highly  prized  by  investi^Mtors  in  this 
field. 

The  bo.ik  h:is  a  heliotypc  portrait  of  the  anthor,  vrhich  ori;;inally  appeared  in  \\\-> 
"  Aaieri'.*-an  Geneahiirist."  The  edition  eun.<ist^J  of  f^ny-two  copie^:.  To  t,\veniy-fi\o 
of  them  he  has  appended  a  si.xth  tract,  Ab<tract-5  of  Wills  of  WhiriiuircK  fr.jiu 
Eoirlish  Records ;  and  he  has  als)  added  to  tiiem  bis  Notes  on  the  Manor  and  Taniily 
of  Whitiuore,  a  pamphlet  printed  in  I85*.i.  J.  w.  d. 

Proccidinqs  of  the  Massac hu. 'set Is  Historical  Sod''t'j,  1ST5-6.  Puhlishcd  nt  ihr.  i:hnrji> 
of  the  Pcahod'j  Fund.  [Seal.]  Boston  :  Published  by  the  Suciety.  lb7G.  [tivo. 
pp.  4-29.] 

Notes  on  a  Recently  Discovered  Indrnture  relc.'ing  to  Darid  Thomson  of  Piscata'p/i 
ft'i'f  ^f■7^s■•r.h|<!'\'ts  En  J  in  Xcic  Ii,i<j'arid.  Uy  Charles  Deane.  With  a  Co[tv  "'' 
the  Indenture.     Canibridgt :  Press  of  John  Vrils.in  &  Son.     1876.     [Hvo.  pp.  ::■').] 

Pules.    OrdTS   and   Si''^tutes  of  Hirvard  CoUcf/e,  Instituted  h//  the    Presidtr!  an  I 
Council  of  ]Sew  En^jland,  2'3d  JuLij,  ItJ-^G.     Presented  at  a  Meetinr/  of  the  Mrrss-i- 
dnS'tts  Historical  Societij  in  M,trch,  ISTG  ;  with  Remarks  by  the  iiecrelary.     Caiu- 
bridrje  :  Pres.s  of  John  Wilson  &  Soa.     lo76.     [8vo.  pp.  9.  | 
gi  Journal  of  the  Rev.  John  Pike  of  Dover,  X.  H.     Edited,  with  an  Introduction  ond 

Notes, "by  the  Rev.  A.  H.  Qcint,  D.D.  Reprinted  from  the  Proceedings  of  tlie 
Massachusetts  Historical  Society.  Cambridge  :  Press  of  John  \Vilte(jn  &  Son. 
1676.     [6vo.  pp.  40.] 

Judrje  Lou-ell  and  the  Massachusetts  Declaration  of  Rights,  a  Paper  read  before  the 
Massachusetts  Hisiorzcal  Society.  April  16,  1S74.    By  Cuakles  Deane.    Cambridge  : 
Press  of  John  \Vilson  dc  Son.     1>74.     [Svo.  pp.  9.] 
^  Journal  of  a  Tour  to  the    Wliite  Mountains  in  Ju'y,  1731.     By  Jeroit  Belkvap, 

D.D.  Accompanied  with  a  Map.  Printed  from  the  Original  Manuecript,  wicii  a 
Prefatory  Note  by  the  Editor.     Boston:  Massachusetts  Historical  Society.     !c7G. 

*  [870.  Dp'  21.] 

!  , 

s  _   The  volume  of  the  Proceedings  of  the  ^-.lassachusetts  Historical  Society  whose  title 

I  is  given  af>ove,  compares  favorably  with  previous  issues.     At  least  four  of  its  pn|,'fis 

have  been  reprinted,  namely,  Mr.   Fruthingham"s  contribution  on  the  Lattie-l'ield 
j  of  Bunker-liill,  noticed  in  the  July  Reijister  {ante  sxx.  270)  ;   and  three  of  the 

I  pamphlets  whose  titles  (2d,  3d  and   Ith)  are  copied  above.     The  volume  al?o  con- 

^  tains  valuable  articles  by  Col.  Joseph  L.  Chester  on  the  Family  of  Mojor  Andre  ;  the 

i  Rev.  Dr.  George  E.  Ellis  on  Gen.  Burgoyne  in  Boston  ;  Charles  C.   Smith  on   tl;e 

1  Manufacture  of  Gunpowder  in  America  ;  and  the  Rev.  R.  C.  Waterston  on  The  Old 

Kim  on  B<jscon  Common.     It  contains  a  poem  by  Dr.  0.  W.   Holmes,   '*  Grand- 
i  mother's   Story  of  Bunker-Hill;  '"   several  important  historical  documents,  and  a 

I  number  of  memoirs  of  deceased  members  of  tiie  society. 

The  tir«t  of  the  above  rejjrints,  now  to  be  noticed,  is  a  recently  discitr.TC'i  Ir- 
I  <ienture  of  David  Thom.son  with  Abraliam  Culmer.  Nicholas  Sherwill  and  Ixi.r.arl 

I  Poaiery  of  Plymouth,  England,  Dec.  14.  1G22.  Avhicl.  Dr.  Deane  has  am:t>t-,;ttd.  and 

{  which  thnnvs  new  light  on  the  early  hi-^tory  of  New  Hampshire.     The  document  n.- 

i  cites  that  Thoms^m  had  obtained,  ti'om  the  Council  for  New  England,  a  i^-nm:  '..'  -x 

i  tii'iiisanJ  acres  of  land  and  one  island  lying  on  tiie  coast  of  New  England,  ar,l    U-- 


•Mareh  21,  1691-2,  Mr.  Sherwit,  a  minister  "then  livinir  near,  told  ,  ■  ,    y. 

^'randlather,  and  our  Mr.  Coleman  and  another,  had  a  Potent  for  th-M  wmfh  .ir 
Ma-un  pretended  unto  at  Piscataqua  "'  {ante  xvi.  3on.     The  e^Titx-r  has  i'<v«,';rtl 
"iuch  labor  on  his  paper,  and  has  carefully  investigated  the  history  of  tiio  tirst -s.-ltlc- 
VOL.  XXXI.  12* 


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134  Booh  Notices.  [Jan. 

ment  in  New  Ilnrapshire.  lie  anivpfi  at  the  cnncliieion  that  the  services  rcnderc;! 
by  C'.ii)t.  Ji.'iir.  Miu-'iin  tunard-;  C'llDriizin^j;  this  country  hiivc  heen  cverestiiiiareii  ;  a 
C(<iicliu-iion,  however,  i:  is  but  fair  to  Kny,'  that  soine  of  our  friends  who  have  inado 
New  Ilamiishire  iiisti^ry  a  specialty  do  "not  admit.  Jiut  while  some  may  not  agre',- 
with  tlie  author  in  all  his  views,  ikj  one  can  hesitate  to  acknowledge  that  the  work 
is  a  v:ilual)lc  co:\trilnition  ti3  our  iiistory. 

The  next  pamplilet  is  al^o  edited  l)y  br.  Deane.  Tt  is  a  copy  of  the  Rules,  &c.  of 
Harvard  College,  adi>i)tcd  while  President  Dudley  administered  the  Colonial  govern- 
ment, and  WU3  never  before  printdl.  Jt  is  from  a  memoranduiu-book  of  Tutor,  after- 
wards President,  Leverett,  and  differs  snuiewhat  from  the  ruh.-s  previously  in  force. 
Other  entries  in  this  bjok,  wiiich  illustrate  college  life  and  disciplicio  in  the -sevea- 
teeiith  century,  are  here  printed. 


foundation. 

The  last  pamplilet,  Dr.  Belknap's  Tour  to  the  White  Mountains,  is  reprinted  from 
the  Belknap  Papers,  a  volume  which  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society  hcs  dow 
in  press.     Ic  is  abiy  edited  by  Dr.  Deane.  J.  w.  d. 

Hi ^tor II  of  the  Town  of  Pet-'^rboroiijh,  HUhhoroiigh.  County,  Nezc  Hampshire;  icifh 
the  Report  of  the  Proceedings  at  the  Centennial  Cdehratiun  in  183;J  ;  an  Append!  t 
conlainimj  the  Reeords  of  the  (Jri<;inal  Proprietors,  and  a  Gcnealopicai  and  His- 
torical Ri/istcr.  By  Albert  Smitii,  M.D.,  LL.D.  "  Memor  estu  majorum." 
Boston  :   Pre<s  of  George  H.  Ellis.     1876.     [8vo.  pp.  360+375.] 

This  volume  may  be  divided  into  tliree  distinct  parts,  namely  :  first,  a  history  of 
the  town  ;  second,  a  report  of  the  centennial  proceedings  in  1839  ;  and  lastly,  a 
genealogical  register.  Only  two  historical  accounts  of  this  town  have,  we  think, 
preceded  the  present  volume.  They  are  a  "  Topograph.ical  and  Historical  Account 
of  Peterborouirh,"  by  the  Rev.  Elijah  Punbar,  published,  in  lS'3-3,  in  Farmer  and 
Moore's  "  Ili-^torical"  Collections  "  (vol.  i.  pp.  l-Ji)-iOj  ;  and  an  address  delivered  at 
the  centennial  celebration,  Oct.  21,  li?3!),  ijy  the  Rev.  John  H.  Morisuu.  D.D.,  which 
address,  with  the  other  proceedings,  was  printed  the  same  year. 

The  history  proper  of  the  town  fills  250  pages  of  the  book.  It  is  divided  into 
chapters  in  which  the  different  subjects  arc  treated  separately.  The  t)wu  was  sur- 
veyed in  1738,  and  a  few  persons  settled  there  soon  after,  probably  the  next  j'car  ; 
but  the  settlers  were  several  times  driven  away  by  the  Indians,  and  no  permanent 
plantation  was  made  till  17l'.i.  The  people  who  settled  there  were  chiedy  Scotcri- 
Irish  presbyterians.  a  hardy  and  industrious  race,  to  whose  virtues  Mr.  Derby  has 
paid  a  just  tribute  in  this  number  of  the  Registek  (ante  p.  34).  Not  the  least  in- 
teresting chapters  in  the  book  are  those  on  "  Home  Life,"  "  llome  Manufactures." 
and  "  Amusements  and  Social  Habits,"  in  which  the  people  of  bygone  days  in  that 
town,  and  their  peculiar  modes  of  life,  are  reproduced.  W'e  think  the  author  w.)uld 
have  done  well  to  have  reprinted  from  tlie  REoisri'n  (vi.  367)  the  petition  of  Tho'mas 
Morrison  and  other  inhabitunts  to  the  Massachusetts  government,  Oct.  4,  1750,  for 
a  block-house  and  otner  means  of  defence,  as  this  document  shows  the  condition  of 
the  town  at  a  very  early  period. 

The  portion  of  the  volume  devoted  to  the  centennial  celebration  is  a  reprint  of  the 
most  important  part  of  the  pamphlet  printed  in  ido'J,  with  the  address  of  the  Rev. 
Dr.  Morison  in  full. 

The  remainder  of  the  volume,  or  30.5  pages,  full  half  the  book,  is  devoted  to  the 
"  Genealogj'  and  History  uf  Peterborough  Famil;e3."  This  is  arranged  on  the  plan 
u.sed  in  Stearns's  "  Hisuiry  of  Rindge  "  (ante  .-^ss.  itU),  and  shows  great  labor  and 
care  in  its  prep-iration.     Few  towns  have  sc)  full  a  genealogical  reccrd  as  rltis. 

Dr.  Smith,  the  author,  who  is  now  in  his  seventy-sixth  year,  has  performed  his 
Tvork  in  a  manner  that  would  do  credit  to  one  in  the  vigor  of  maahoo«i ;  and  his  Look 


1877.]  Booh  JSFoticcs.  135 

dot's  honor  to  the  town  as  well  as  to  himself.  It  is  a  companion  volume  to  the  hid- 
t  ,rv  of  Rir"Ur»-'.  f^otb.  in  ^'n.i  and  ajipor.raiicc  ;  is  emijellislicil  ^Yich  thirty-two  por- 
u•uit^^,  some  of  which  are  sreel-erigravings,  aod  has  a  good  index.  j.  w.  i*. 

j4  Gen fC.!oi/y  of  Samuel  Allen  of  Windsor,  Conn.,  and  some  of  his  Descmdants. 
]',y  \Vi[,L\Ki)  S.  .Allev.  ■•  «  •  Boston:  privately  printed.  IbTf;.  [fSwi.  r,]). 
7G,  rubrietited  title-page.] 

This  elegant  Toluuie,  from  t!ic  prc«8  of  David  Clapp  &  Son,  is  an  enlargement  of 

a  paper  on  the  siime  snhjei't  puljlished  in  the  October  number  of  the  Kegistkr.  Tiio 
work  is  well  done  in  all  re.-[jei'tH  ;  and  is  itself  an  illu-itratioii  of  tlie  greru  inijirovc- 
uient  that  his  been  made  during  the  laet  twenty-live  years  \n  the  standard  of  tliid 
class  of  publication.i,  and  in  tlie  style  of  arraniang  and  classifying  the  facts. 

Tiie  author  does  not  regard  this  as  a  complete  genealogy  of  the  descendants  of 
Sauiuel  .\lieu.  Senior  ;  and  it  is  to  be  hoped  that  he  may  find  encouragcnicnt  at  no 
very  distant  day  to  trace  all  the  lines  as  fully  as  he  has  the  one  to  wliieh  he  himself 
belongs. 

Seventy  copies  of  this  genealogy,  in  paper  covers,  at  ;s2  each,  are  offered  fur  .'^ale. 

A.  ri.  u. 


Early  Religious  History  of  Maryland.     Maryland  not  a   Roman   Catkolk   Colony 


The  ini;)res^ion  that  Maryland  -was  first  settled  by  Roman  Cathulics,  that  a  . 

jorityof  the  colonists  under  Lord  Baltimore's  charter  were  of  that  charch,  and  that 
the  degree  of  religious  liberty  which  prevailed  in  that  colony, — exceptional  for  that 
period  of  time. — was  due  especially  and  primarily  to  Cecilius  Calveri;,  second  Lord 
Baltimore,  and  to  his  brother  Li-onard,  the  first  local  governor,  long  ago  gained  u 
fijotliold  in  the  histories  of  Maryland  and  of  the  United  State«.  The  late  Sebas- 
tian F.  Streeter,  Esq.,  in  his  "  Maryland  Two  Hundred  Years  Ago,'"  was,  we  believe, 
the  first  to  refute  these  hi'^torical  errors.  Within  a  few  years  last  pnst,  the  Rev. 
Edward  D.  Neill  published  a  pamphlet  containing  additional  proofs  in  sujjport  of 
Mr.  Streeter's  position.  The  pamphlet  by  the  Rev.  Mr.  Brown,  nciw  under  no- 
tice, presents  the  whole  subject  in  a  clear,  concise  and  comprehensive  nianner,  and 
it  would  appear  that  he  has  established  all  the  statements  made  in  his  title-page. 


H.  H. 


Bistoriccl  Shttch  of  Mcthucn,  from  its  Settlemrnt  to  the    Year  1S76.     By  Jos.  S. 

Howe.     Methuen,  Mass.  :  E.  L.  Houghton  &  Co.,  Printers.     [Svo.  pp.  IS.] 
Tynqsboro''  Centemiial  Record,  published  hy  the  Young  Peoph.'s  League,  Tyrtgshoro' , 

Mass.,  1876.     ....     Lowell  :    Printed  at  the  Office  of  the    Weekly  Journal. 

1876.     [Svo.  pp.  26.] 

Besides  Fourth  of  July  addresses  upon  the  history  of  the  localities  where  they  arc 
delivered,  the  cententdal  celebration  of  our  independence  has  brought  out  various 
historical  sketches  of  towns  and  counties.  The  two  whose  titles  are  giveo  above 
contain  much  valuable  informatitn  concerning  the  towns  of  Methuen  and  lyngs- 
boro'.  The  latter  is  mainly  devoted  to  genealogy,  containing  accounts  oi'  tlie  fiuuilies 
of  Brinley,  Butterfield,  Parham,  Bancroft,  Swan,  Bennett.  Woodward,  Cuuimiiigs 
and  Danfurtb.  J.  w.  d. 

Potter'' s  American  Monthly  and  Illustrated  Magative  of  History,  Literature,  Seif.T'Ot 
and  Art.  Vols.  VL  and  VIL  1876.  Philadelphia":  Jolm  E.  Potter  i  Company. 
017  San>om  St.     [4to.  pp.  -lS-2-f4S0.] 

This  masrizine  has  now  completed  the  second  year  of  its  i^sue  witii  the  prest-nt 
title  and  editor,  and  the  fifth  year  since  it  v\as  comruenced  as  the  '•  AmtTi'Mii  fhs- 
t<:;rieal  Record  "  under  the  editorship  of  Benson  J.  Lossinic,  LL.D.  The  vciiiiu'.H 
b'-'fjrc  us  maintain  their  character  and  interest.  The  editor.  J.  Harned  .M.:rris. 
K.''l.,  has  shown  tact  and  ability  in  managing;  the  work.  In  order  to  Itring  it  within 
tht;  means  of  a  larger  circle  of  readers,  the  publishers  have  rciiuced  the  .<;u!'serij)ri on 
price  twenty-five  per  cent.,  and  now  furnish  it  at  .-^S  a  year.  A  large  sul)scription 
i»  needed,  at  this  price,  to  remunerivte  them  for  their  outlay.  j.  w.  D. 


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136  Booh  JS^otices.  [Jan. 

Historical  Address  fhUverriJ  in  Kerne,  N.  II.,  on  Juhi  4,  1870,  at  the  liec/ucst  of  the 

Citi;   (jovfrnvient,  liv  W'ilijam  Okvk  Wuitk.     Kecrie  :  Sentinel  Printing  Cuui- 

pLtn>,  iluuk  and  Jo'.)  J'rintors.     Ib7().     [Wvo.  pp.  34. J 
Pmcecdinr/r  of  the  Cent^nnml  Cehlirntion,  at  Rosrawen,  N.  II.,  July  4,  167f!.     [Ora- 
tion by  C  Caklkto.v  Cokfin.]   riylicrvillc,  N.  11.:  Priutud  by  S.  G.  Noye.^.     1^7'). 

[8vo.  pp.  27.] 
One  Iluni'.redth  Anriirentari/  of  the  National  Independence,  July  4,  l&7r> ;  its  CchJi'a- 

tion  I'j  the  City  of  Dover,  N.  II.,  the  Public   Prorredinf/s,  aiid    Oration  by  Ko'. 

Ai.ox/.o  11.  Qi-txr,  D.D.     [City  Seal.]     Dover,  N.  11.  :  Murnintr  St;ir  Steaiu  Job 

Printing  iloiu^c.     1870.     [8vo.  pp.  53.] 
Biilerica.     A  Centennial  Oration,  by  the  Rot.  Elias  Nason,  Jiily  4,  1P76 

Lowell  :  Printed  by  Mardon  and  Kowell.     1876.     [8to.  pp.  25.] 
Procerdinr/s  of  the  Centrjinial  (.'elebralion  at  Groton,  Ma.-^s.,  Ju/'j  4,   1876,  in   Com- 
memoration of  the  Dcstri/ciion  of  the  Town,  March,  1076,  and  ihe  Declaration  of 

Ind'pcndcJice,  July  4,  1870.      With  an  Oration,  by  Samuel  AncoxT  Grlk.v,  M.l>. 

Groton.     iS'iO.     [8vo.  pp.  89.] 
The   Prorress  of  Liberty,  in  an  Hundred    Yearn,   an    Oration  delivered  before   the 

Citizens  nj   Tai/nton,   Jubj   4,    1876.     By  CifARLES   Francts  Auams.     Tsiuntun, 

Mass. :  Printed  at  the  Office  of  C.  A.  Hack  &  Son.     1876.     [8vo.  pp.  24.] 
Orati m   delieered  before  the   Inhahitants  of    Weston,   at   the   Toicn-Hall,  July  4, 

187r.,   by   CffAKTF«  ir.    Fr?KE.    Vrcston  :   Printed  by   Vote  of  tlie  Town- People. 

MDCCCL.XXVI.     [8vo.  pp.  38.] 
Historical  Address,   of  the    City  of  Newport,   delivered  July  4,  1876.      \Yiih  an 

Appendix.     By  William  P.  Sheffield.     Published  by  order  of  the  City  Council. 

Newpi>rt  :  John  P.  Sanburn  it  Co.,  Steam  Job  Printers.     1876.     [8vo.  pp.  C8,  xv.l  ' 
Report  of  the   Centennial    Celebration  of  the  Anniversary  of  ovr  Independence,  at. 

Windsor,  Co^.n.,  July  4.  1870.     By  autlmrity  of  the  (,'umaiittee  of  Arran£;craent.s. 

Hartford:   Press  of  the  Case,  Lockwood  &  Brainard  Co.     1876.     [8vo.  pp.  4y.] 
Old    Times  in   Huntington.     An    Historical   .Address,  by   Hon.    Henry    C.    Piatt, 

delivered  at  the  Ci-- tttennial  Cehbrntion  at  Huntington,  Suffolk  County.  X.  Y.,  on. 

the  ith  day  of  July,  16" G.      With  additional  Notes  and  Faoiily  Sketches 

Huntington:  Long  Island  Print.     Ib76.     [12mo.  pp.  83.] 
Historical  Address  relating  to  the    County  of  Broome  in  the  State  of  New   York. 

Delivered  at   Binghamton,   July  3,   1876,  by   George   Burr,   M.D.      Published 

under  the  direction  of  the  Committee  of  Arrangements,      iiingharaton  :    Carl, 

Stoppard  &  Co.,  Steam  Job  Printers.     1876.     [8vo.  pp.  55.] 
An  A  -'•cunt  nf  the  Celebration  of  the  Centennial  Fourth  oj  J  dy,  at  Logansport .  Ind., 

containing  a  History  of  Cass   County  from  its   Settlement  to  the   Present    Time. 

Logansport,  Indiana  :   1876.     [8vo.  pp.  16.] 

The  chief  feature  of  most  of  the  dipcourses  delivered  on  the  last  Fourth  of  July  is 
the  pvominenco  they  give  to  local  history.  This  fact  imparts  to  them  a  special 
value.  We  regret  that  want  of  8pace  forhidt^  a  particular  mention  of  several  of  these 
orations,  because  they  contain  concise  and  admirably  wtU  c:mif)oseil  histories  of  the 
towns  to  which  they  relate.  Some  of  them  sft  forth  new  historical  and  biographical 
matter  of  importance,  and  have  cost  their  writers  a  grei't  deal  of  critical  and  la- 
borious research.  a.  h.  h. 

An  Illustrated  History  of  the  Commonwealth  of  Pennsylvania,  Civil,  Political  and 
Military,  from  its  F.arUrst  Settlement  to  the  Present  Time,  irirlnding  Historical 
Descriptions  of  Each  County  m  the  Slate,  their  Towns  and  Industrial  P.- sources. 
By  William  H.  Eole,  M.D.,  MeTnber  of  the  Historical  Society  of  Pennsylvania. 
Sold  only  by  Subscription.  Harrisburg  :  De  ^Vitt  C.  Goodrich  &  Co.  1876. 
[Royal  8vo.  pp.  118G.] 

This  valuable  bonk  on  the  history  of  Pennsylvania  is  brought  down  to  the  ycr.r 
when  it  was  published.  The  author  has  been  long  engaged  in  collectinij:  materials 
for  a  history  of  this  state,  and,  as  his  contribution  to  centennial  litercture,  has 
brought  out  the  present  volume.  whi(,-h  does  great  credit  to  him  in  cverj-  respect. 
The  {lublishers  also  have  dune  their  part  well,  the  ilJustrr.tions  being  well  executed, 
and  the  paper,  typography  and  binding  of  a  high  order. 

The  history  of  the  =etclement?  by  the  Dutch,  the  Swede?  and  others  within  the 
bounds  of  the  state,— the  earliest  of  which  were  made  half  a  century  before  the 


-,-••        »       /T- 


1877.] 


Booh  2^oiices.  137 


Kn^lish  grtint  to  VVilliam  Ponn, — is  faifrifully  relnteil  fr.nn  the  best  and  l:itc-t  nu- 
fipiritios  ;  as  is  al<=.)  tliut  of  sii!'.-evn:oiit  evt'tits  wi;i!t;  reniwyhaiiiii  was  under  tin; 
pC'VornrntTit  of  tli-j  IViai  family.  arJ  since  it  ha.-^  I'cen  an  inilcpcndcnt  ^tato.  '!'!,„ 
(^iishelli-^liiiifnis  of  Ihi^  part  . if  t'.e  work  consist  of  views  of  historic.  hLiildiii;:^,  p^,r- 
traitrt  of  guvfrimrs  of  the  stat?  •::'-  \  of  other  eminent  men,  maps,  plans,  &ij.  oi;. 

flesides  this  n;eneral  histviry  ot  Pennsylvania,  whioli  ooeupies  ahout  a  ijuartcr  of 
the  huok,  a  "  thoroiiL^h,  fall  and  complete  eicetch  of  e\tTy  Cuiinty  "  in  the  state,  (jf 
uhich  there  are  sixty-six,  is  civen.  In  the  preparation  of  tiiese  sketches,  l>r.  K'jilc 
hay  availed  liiuiself  of  tiie  assistance  of  nearly  seventy  gentlemen  familiar  with  tlie 
hit^tory  of  their  rtspeetivft  conntic:?,  who  have  either  written  out  sketches,  or  read 
and  revised  tho.-e  prepared  h\  the  author,  or  furnished  materials  of  more  or  lc.s.s 
fiilnc-s.  They  are  profusely  illustrated  by  engravings  of  buildings,  scenery,  ite. 
W'iien  we  state  that  nine  hundred  pages  are  devoted  to  the  bketehes,  some  idi-a  of 
their  fulness  may  be  obtained.  j.  w.  d. 

j\n/(-s.  Historical  and  BihJiographical.  on  the  Ln^cs  of  yew  Hampshire.  By  Ali;kut 
II.  lioYT.  [Motto.]  Woree.-rtT,  Mass. :  Press  of  Charles  Hamilton,  Central  Ex- 
change.    18*6.     [8vo.  pp.  19.] 

This  is  a  reprint,  with  additi.-ins,  t"roai  the  "  Proceedings  of  the  American  Anti- 
quarian Society  "  for  April,  ISTO.  It  is  not  a  mere  bibliographical  list  of  the  various 
editions  of  the  laws  of  jNow  Hampshire,  thouirh  perfect  in  this  respect ;  but  is  al.'JO  a 
.su'.L-Iiict  Idsu'O'  01"  ilio.^c  law.-  from  the  cokmizatii'ii  of  the  state,  enriched  with 
valua])le  observations  npon  them.  In  the  course  of  his  researches  the  author  dis- 
coverei!  the  intt  res:ing  fact  ihat  the  first  code  of  laws  of  the  Province  vras  chie'iiy 
l>orrowcd  from  the  laws  of  Mew  Plymouth  Colony,  and  not  from  those  of  Massachu- 
setts P<ay,  as  has  been  heretofore  stated  by  other  writers.  A  comparison  of  tlie 
early  criminal  laws  of  New  Hampshire  with  those  of  other  coionies  and  the  mother 
country  shows  that  they  do  not  sutler  thereby. 

Much  labor  has  been  bestoweil  upon  this  tract,  both  in  collecting  and  in  verifying 
facts.  It  is  a  much  needed  addition  to  our  legal  literature  :  and  we  hope  that  gentle- 
men of  the  profession  in  oi.her  states  will  do  a  I'ke  <-eiviee  for  their  respectiv'c  com- 
monwealths. J.  W.  I). 

The  Reed  Controversy.  Further  Facts  icith  reference  to  the  Character  of  Joseph 
R'red,  Adjutant  General  on  the  Staff  of  General  Washing/ton.  Printed  for  Private 
Distribution.  Trenton,  N.  J.:  Juhu  L.  Murphv,  State  Gazette  Printing  House. 
1876.     [Royal8vo.pp.il.] 

This  pamphlet  is  a  vindication  of  the  memory  of  Ccd.  Jo5?ph  Reed  from  the  oft 
repeated  eh;irge  tliat  he  took  protection  from  the  enemy  (  uring  the  revolutionary 
war.  It  is  in  the  form  of  two  letters  to  George  H.  Moore,  L,L.Dr,  of  the  New  York 
Historical  Society,  from  Wiiliam  S,  Stryker,  Adjutant  General  of  New  Jen-cy. 
These  letters  show  that  the  otEcer  of  this  name  who  actually  took  such  protection, 
was  Col.  Charles  Read  of  one  of  the  Burlington,  New  Jersey,  battalions.  A  letter  is 
nppended  from  !Mr.  Bancroft,  the  historian,  who  had  madethe  charge  and  who  had 
U-en  [permitted  to  read  the  letters,  withdrawing  the  same,  and  requesting  permissinn 
to  be  the  first  to  announce  Gen.  Srryker's  discovery.  This  he  did  in  the  tiftli  volume 
of  the  centenary  edition  of  his  History  of  the  United  States. 

In  the  preface,  Gen.  Stryker  gives  a  list  of  the  publications  relative  to  the  military 
record  of  Joseph  Reed,  which  was  first  attacked  Sept.  3,  176:2,  in  the  Ind'-pciulent 
Gazetteer.  ■•  "  J.  w.  D. 

History  of  the  Civil  War  in  America.  B'j  the  Comte  de  Paris.  Translated,  vith 
llie  approval  of  the  Author,  bv  Lons  F.  T.vsistko.  Edited  by  IIenkv  CorrtE, 
LL.I).  Volume  II.  Philadelphia  :  Jos.  H.  Coates  &.  Co.  1876.  [Bvo.  pp.  xxvi. 
773.] 

In  a  former  number  of  the  Register  (vol.  xxx.  p.  258)  we  noticed  the  f:r?t 
Volume  of  this  work,  stating  briefly  its  chief  contents  and  characteristics.  A  i-arctul 
perus:il  of  the  second  volume  has  brou'jjht  us  to  the  conclusion  we  then  cs- 
^riv;-;ed,  that  for  fulness,  accuracy  and  precision  of  statement,  for  imparti-dity  and 
«iru!  )r,  and  for  a  broad  and  sagacious  graso  of  the  mixed  questions  of  j)ol!ti;-<  u.p.d 
military  -jtrategy  that  entered  into  the  Civil  War,  this  work  surpit-s&s  all  its 
prfd.K?e<sor8. 

The  mo«t  importaafc  and  the  most  interesting  portion  of  this  volume,  and  that  in 


138  Booh  JSIoiices.  [Jan. 

vrliu?h  the  rvuclior  "hows  Ms  liit^hcct  powers  of  nnalysiH  and  of  gtatemcnt,  is  that  in 
which  he  R-jitej*  the  history  nf  the  luiiitary  wjM.riitiiJiis  and  liuttles  of  loOJ.  Here  the 
ability,  patri.ititsui  aiiJ  ixul  suocet.s  of  Cieneval  McClclian  are  fully  vindicated,  a;i.| 
the  causes  of  hid  iuilnre  to  acr')'!i[)li»h  all  th;U  he  [dannod  are  tiaoed  lu  their  tnur 
source.  Sciireely  less  inteivsting  and  instructive  are  the  chapters  that  deocribe  the 
evcntH  of  the  sntuc  year  iu  the  buutliwest.  Tlie  hi-story  of  the  capture  of  New 
Orleans,  and  of  the  ^uvernaieDt  of  that  city  in  IbGvJ,  is  told,  we  believe,  with  truth 
and  candor.  a.  l.  u. 

Memoirs  of  an  American  Lady:  With  Sketches  of  Manners  and  Scenes  in  Amcrira, 
as  th'-y  existed  preei'nis  tu  the  Rtcuhition.  Iw  Mr.s.  Annk  (jUant,  Author  of  Let- 
ters from  the  Mountains,  &,:.  Witli  a  .Memoir  of  Mrs.  Grant,  by  James  Gra.nt 
Wilson'.     Albany  :  Joel  2\lun.sell.     167G.     [Svo.  pp.  377.] 

The   "  Memoirs  of  an  American  Lady," — in  whicli   Mrs.    Grant  of   Laggan  eo 

Eleasantly  describes  from  her  own  ob.-ervations  while  a  child  under  the  roof  of  Mrs. 
chuyh.v,  the  mannors  and  customs  of  the  Dutch  families  of  Alban}',  jii~t  previoLi.j 
to  the  revolution, — is  acknowled_'-ed  by  Paulding  to  have  been  the  prototype  of  his 
"  Dutchman'y  Fireside."  Thouj^h  triven  to  the  public  nearly  eevt-nty  years  p.l;o,  the 
book  still  enjoys  a  high  reputation  with  those  who  love  t(^  dwell  upon  the  past. 

It  is  well,  in  these  days,  wliile  we  are  revivim^  the  memory  of  revolutionary  tin)fjs 
and  worthies,  that  a  new  edition  of  this  intercf:ting  work  should  be  brought  out. 
The  ediror,  v.-Som  \vo:v.  hv-  initiFiJ  v.e  take  to  bo  Air.  Munsell,  has  oddcXl  nvMv; 
judicious  and  valuable  notes,  and  Col.  Wilson,  who  has  furnished  the  memoir,  gives 
.an  interesting  account  of  the  author.     The  typography  of  the  book  is  excellent. 

J.    W.    D. 

History,  Manners  and  Customs  of  the  Indian  Nations  tcho  once  Inhabited  Pennsyl- 
vania and  the  JS'eiykbouri nj  States.  By  the  Kev.  John  llECKEWi- ldkr,  of  Bethleheia, 
Fa.  New  and  Revised  Ldition.  \\'ich  an  Introduction  and  Notes.  Jiy  the  Rev. 
Wi(j,iAii  C.  Reicuel.  Pliiladelpliia:  Publicuion  Fund  of  the  Uistorieal  Society 
of  Pennsylvania.     No.  820  Spruce  Street.     lS7fi.     [Svo.  pp.  465.] 

This  is  the  ninth  volum.e  of  the  "  Memoirs  of  the  Historical  Society  of  Pennsyl- 
vania." It  is  a  reprint  of  ileckewelder's  "Manners  and  Customs  of  the  Indian 
Nations,"  prepared  for  the  American  Philosophical  Society,  and  first  publishf-d 
among  its  "Transactions"  in  1S19.  The  work  will  always  be  sougiit  for  as  an 
original  authority  upon  Indian  history,  and  the  Historical  Society  of  Pennsylvania 
has  done  a  good  work  in  placing  it  bc'fore  the  public  iu  the  present  form. 

Rev.  Mr.  Reichol,  the  editor,  long  connected  with  the  Moravian  Seminary  at 
Bethiefem,  died  there  on  the  1st  of  November  last,  in  his  fifty-third  year.  He  was 
a  carefi  land_  accurate  hijtorian,  and  h:i.s  annotated  Ileckewelder's  vvork  in  a  judi- 
cious and  satisfactory  manner.  j.  -n-.  d. 

Journal  of  Charles  Carroll  of  CarroUton  durimi  his  Visit  to  Canada  in  1776,  as 
one  of  the  Commissioners  from  Conrjress.  With  a  Memoir  and  Notes.  Cv 
Bkantz  Mai-er.  [Seal.]  Printed  by  John  Murphy,  For  the  Maryland  HLstorical 
Society,  Baltimore,  May,  1S76.     [Svo.  pp.  HO. J 

This  elegant  volume  is  issued  as  a  "  Memorial  Contribution  from  the  Maryland 
Historical  Society  to  the  Centennial  Celebr.uion  of  the  National  Indt'pendence  of  the 
United  States  of  America,  July  4,  1870,"  and  is  unitorm  v,-ith  the  "  Fund-Publica- 
tion "  series  of  that  society.  It  is  a  republication  of  one  of  its  earliest  issues,  the 
work  having  been  first  publishe<i  in  1815,  tfie  year  after  the  incorporation  of  the 
society.  To  the  present  edition  has  been  adik^d  an  aut  jbiographic  sketch  of  the 
author  of  the  journal,  and  a  letter,  June  2,  1776,  from  Kev.  Mr?(attcrwards  Bis.ion) 
Carroll,  who  accompanied  the  Commissioner.-,  to  the  father  of  Charles  Carroll  of 
CarroUton;  also  portraits  of  the  three  eommisc-ioners— Benjamin  Franklin"^  Charles 
Carroll  and  Samuel  Cha-^^—and  ot  Bishop  CarroU.  It  has  otherwise  b.^en  inaproved. 
The  comnuttee,  of  which  Mr.  Mayer,  the  editor,  is  chairman,  stare  that  they  "  "tfer 
thisbook  as  a  patriotic  memorial,  showing  that,  at  the  end  of  one  hundred'years  d 
xsational  life,  Maryiaml  is  loyal  to  t!ie  men  and  memories  of  177(5." 

The  original  mauuscrif.t  of  Carroll's  journal  is  iu  tlie  pot.session  of  the  Mr.rvl.ird 
Historical  Society.  j,  y^'  o. 


.■    n»r> 


1877.] 


Death. 


133 


Ora'ion  delivered  hrfore  the  Citij  Coxinnl  and  the  Citizens  of  Boston,  on  the  Oar, 
Hundredth  Anniversary  of  the  D'clarction  of  Arnerimn  J ndepe rtdtT.ee,  July  J^,, 
lo/tl.  l!>^  lu'ii.  ia;i;K;ir  (.'".  WiNiiir.oi-.  J'.ustou  :  Trinted  by  Ui-dor  of  the  City 
Council.     ISrO.     [S70.  pp.  96.] 

For  over  one  hundred  years  an  orntion  has  anoiially  Ix^en  delivered,  before  the 
aiitlioritics  ot  the  nu'nici[iality  of  lloston,  to  couuiieijioratf  an  e\ei)t  connt'Cted  with^ 
tiip  st'paration  of  tiie  llrirish  Ar.i<  ri<.an  cidonic-  from  the  n^oth.'T  country ;  and  all  of 
these  ovations,  rxivpt  tuo,  have,  w«  tliink,  Ifcvn  lu-int'.d.  Fioui  17T1  to  1783,  the 
»;vont  c onmienioratod  was.  the  B.iston  Massaine,  March  5th.  tiincc  the  latter  date,  it 
lias  been  the  Declaration  of  lni!e]-.endonce,  July  4th.  James  S.  Lorin^s  a.  member  of 
tliifi  society,  in  l8j-3,  made  ilio-y  ovations  the  bubjcot  of  a  thick  octavo  volume  Avliicli 
he  entitled  "  The  lIun,1rod.  Orators  ofJ'.oston  "'  {ante  vi.  i'.t'J).  Tn  this  work  ho  lias 
prcst-wtd  much  valuable  matter  illustrating  the  history  ol  the  city  and  the  bio- 
i,T;iphy  of  its  orators. 

Mr.  Wintiirop's  is  the  ninety-fourth  of  these  orations  which  commemorate  the 
Pt claration  of  Independence  ;  a"nd  it  celebrates  the  one  hundredth  anuivcr-ary  of 
this  event.  No  more  fitting  orator  than  he  for  such  an  occasion  could  be  selected. 
JIc  has  more  than  realized,  by  his  masterly  performance,  the  high  expectations  that 
were  raised.  J-  ^-  i>- 


DEATHS. 


Andrews,  Dea.  Alfred,  in  New  Uritain, 
Ct.,  April  13,  1876,  aged  78.  He  was 
bom  ill  that  town,  Oct.  16,  1797,  and 
passed  his  whole  life  there.  In  early 
life  he  taught  school,  but  afterwards 
carried  on  the  business  cf  cairiaj^e 
maliing  and  subsequently  of  farming. 
He  was  one  of  the  pioneors  in  Sabbath - 
school  work,  and  was  either  teacher  or 
superintendent  of  the  First  Church  Sun- 
day-school from  the  age  of  nineteen  till 
hii  death.  He  held  many  oifices  of 
responsibility  in  the  church  and  in  the 
town,  and  was  always  faithful  to  his 
trust.  D  rring  the  war  he  wa~  one  of 
the  seleet'  leri,  and  did  much  laborious 
work  in  aid  of  the  families  of  the  soldiers 
serving  in  the  army.  He  was  an  early 
worker  and  a  leader  in  the  temperance 
and  anti-slavery  causes.  He  was  the 
author  of  th.e  "  Genealogy  and  Eccle- 
siastical History  of  New  Britain,  Ct.," 
the  "Andrews  Genealosy"  and  the 
*'  Ilart  Genealogy,"  all  of  which  books 
have  been  noticed  in  the  Register  {ante 
x.xiii.  23'J  ;  xxvii.  450;  xxx.  269).  On 
the  publication  of  the  tirst  book,  his 
fellow-citizens  testified  their  appreciation 
of  his  labors  by  presenting  him  with  a 
viiluablo  silver  tea-service.  He  was  a 
pams-taking  aad  accurate  genealogist,  a 
dovoted  christian,  and  an  hone<t  and 
pur-.-iTiir.ded  man.  A  *' Memorial  Tri- 
bute" bv  Elihu  Bunitt  was  printed  in 
1S7G,      ' 

^;n7M.\.N-,  Mrs.  Elizabeth,  it.  Saint  John. 
N.  B.,  July  4,  1876,  in  the  S-tth  ye.ar  of 
her  age,  widow  of  the  bite  H^n.  Ward 
Chipiiun,  formerly  Chief  Justice  of  New 


Brunswick.  lu  IS  17  she  '-.-as  married 
to  her  late  husband,  who  was  the  son  of 
the  Ifon.  Ward  Chiprcan,  Judge  of  the 
Supreme  Court  of  N.  B.,  and  who  was 
likewise  acting  Governor  of  that  Pro- 
vince at  the  time  of  his  death.  The 
mother  of  the  Cliic-f  Ji.i.-lico  was  the 
daughter  of  the  Hon.  Wiliiain  Hazen,  a 
pioneer  settler  of  the  city  of  Sainf  Johp, 
and  at  the  time  of  his  ds.'th  a  member 
of  the  Governor's  Council  of  that  I'ro- 
■vince.  Mr.  Hazen  sailed  for  Saint  John 
with  his  family,  where  lie  had  previously 
made  a  settlement,  on  the  17ih  of  June, 
ll'i'i.  and,  as  h?  left  the  harbor  of  N'cv,-- 
buryport,  he  heard  the  discharge  of 
cannon  at  the  battle  of  Bunker  Hill. 
His  family  has  been  one  of  the  most 
distinguished  iu  New  Brunswick.  0ns 
of  his  daughters  married  the  late  Judge 
Botsford  of  the  Supreme  Court,  and  an- 
other married  Sir  John  Fitz  Gerrald,  the 
only  survivor  in  the  family  of  that  gen- 
eration, now  over  ninety  years  of  age, 
and  the  oldest  General  at  the  present 
time  in  the  English  army.  Two  of  Mr. 
Hazeu's  grandsons,  on  the  establishment 
of  the  Dominion  of  Canada,  were  ap- 
pointed Senators  for  life,  viz. :  the  Hon. 
Robert  L.  Hazen  p.nd  the  Hon.  Amos 
E.  Botsford :  a  brother  of  the  latter  is  a 
Justice  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  New 
Brunswick. 

Mrs.  Chipman  leaves  no  family.  We 
learn  that  the  executor  and  residuary 
legatee  of  the  will  of  the  late  Chief 
Justice,  Mr.  Wiliium  Hazen.  has  present- 
ed the  portraits  of  the  two  Judges  Chip- 
man,  both  painted  by  Stuart,  to  Chief 
Justice  Horace  Gray,  of  Boston,  who  ia 


140 


Deaths. 


[Jan. 


a  f,T;u\d  nerhew  of  tho  elder  Chipman. 
The  ChlpiiKiiii  were  both  educated  iit 
Ilarvanl  Co;!-;qe;  tho  Jua?;e  p-:ulu:U.-d 
ill  1770,  nnd  t'nc  Chut' Ju>tice  in  1805, 

DAVisoN.t'apt.  EliusK.,  in  Boston,  April  9, 
lh76,  fc.  72.  lie  "was  a  native  of  (jlou- 
cestei',  M'Ass.  Tor  some  time  he  com- 
riandcd  a  ship  beloiij;ing  to  Bryant  & 
Sturgi--  in  the  Ea-t  India  trade  ;  but  for 
tlie  last  thirty-lour  years  has  been 
■wharfijigcr  of  'Le-.vi-.  \Vliarf.  He  was 
for  many  years  pilot  conimissioner,  and 
Lad  held  'the  otllec  of  president  of  the 
Boston  Marine  Society,  He  was  en- 
dowed with  btrong  native  force  of  char- 
acter, was  of  a  gcui;il  di-position  f-nd 
was  v>ry  popular  among  liis  associates. 

IIoLT,  Tnoniaa,  in  Medford,  April  13, 1S76, 
a,  72.  For  many  years  he  had  b'jcn 
proof-reader  at  the  Eoston  Stereotype 
Foundry.  Not  a  few  of  the  standard 
v.Oik;  i^sat:d  during  the  last  half  cen- 
tury have  been  read  by  liira,  aiuong 
which  may  bo  mentioned  Leverett's 
Lexicon,  Todd's  Johnson's  Dictionary, 
and  Webster's  aud  Worcester's  un- 
abridged dictionaries.  His  opinions  had 
great  weight  with  authors,  and  many 
were  indebted  to  hiin  for  valuable  sug- 
gestions. 

KifTiARDS,  Dr.  Leyi,  in  Salt  Lake  City, 
Utah,  June  IS,  1S7C>,  aged  77.  He  was 
a  son  of  Joseph  and  llhoda  (Howe) 
Kichards,  and  was  boi"n  at  ilopkinton, 
Mass.,  Apri!  4,  1799,  He  was  brought 
up  a  farmer,  but  having  a  natural  genius 
tor  mechanics, for  tiiteen  or  eighteen  yer.rs 
engrcred  in  mechanical  pursuits,  v.hich 
he  r  iinquished  for  medicine,  becoming 
very  su^.cessfui  as  a  botanical  physician. 
He  was  a  high  priest  and  patriarch  of 
the  Latter  Day  Saints,  and  visited  Eng- 
land in  lS-11  and  again  iii  1817  in  their 
seryice.  He  took  much  intertst  in  hor- 
ticulture and  sanitary  reforms.  A  sketch 
of  his  life  will  be  found  in  Morse's 
Riciiards  Genealogy,  p.  170  i, 

RiCHA-unsov,  Mrs,  Anna  Maria,  wife  of  the 
Hon.  William  A.  Richardson,  LL.D.. 
formerly  United  States  secretary  of  the 
treasury,  died  in  i'aris,  France,  March 
26,  lS7t5,  aged  4S.  She  was  the  daugh- 
ter of  Jonathan  Marston,  and  was  born 
in  M'.u.hias  Fort,  :M:iin9.  Nov.  28,  1827 — 
where  she  was  married  Oct.  29,  1S49. 
She  resided  for  some  yeirs  in  Lowell, 
■where  her  husband  was  then  practising 
law,  and  removed  thence  ti  Cainbridge. 
After  a  short  residence  there,  she  spent 
some  years  abroad,  for  the  purpose  of 
edncatir.g  her  daughter. 

£Rr:.\Tr-.t.— Vol.  TXT.  p.  407. 1.  5  frrm  bottom,  for  a  graaileon  of  Kctert  of  Xewtown,  re-^. 
hi.i  grantl.ion  and  501.  of  Kobert  of  Newtown. 


Returning  to  this  country  she  lived  ■ 
in  "Washington  until  1875,  when  licr 
londncs<  for  travel  induced  her  to  under- 
take with  h'.r  husband  aud  daughttr  tiio 
long  and  still  rather  unusual  journey 
across  the  Continent  to  China,  .Tapaa. 
India  and  Egypt — a  journey  which,  rich 
in  enjoyment  and  instruction,  prove. i 
to  be  her  la-t.  From  Cairo  she  went  to 
I'avis  for  medical  advice,  ard  di'd  i.T 
tliat  city  ten  days  alter  her  arrival,  Mrs. 
Richardson  possessed  many  graces  ot' 
mind  as  well  as  of  pv:rson,  and  her  nu- 
merous friends  will  learn  of  her  sudden 
death  with  much  regret. 

Smauky,  Dr.  Adoniram,  in  Lebanon, 
N.  H.,  May  14,  1870,  as-d  72.  He  was 
born  Sent.  14,  1803,  For  over  43  years 
he  was  a  physician  in  active  practice. 
He  y/a?  an  energetic  man,  and  sldlful  i:i 
his  profession. 

Washburn,  Israel,  in  LivermoTe,  Mc.,  of 
protracted  paralysis.  Sept.  1,  ISI  G,a.  91. 
Hn  was  the  eldest  child  of  Isra.l  and 
Abiah  Washburn,  of  llaynham.  Mass.. 
where  he  was  born,  Nov.  IS,  17Si.  lie 
was  the  7  th  generation  in  descent  from 
John^  Woshburn  (an  early  settler  of  Dux- 
bury,  who  removed  t'nence  to  Bridge- 
water)  through  John,-  ^amutl,''  LinuA,' 
Israel,^  aud  hrad,^  above,  his  fatlier, 
who  was  born  in  Rayuham,  Jan.  30, 
1755, 

He  left  his  native  town  in  ISOO,  and 
taught  school  in  Dresden,  Maine,  for  a 
year  or  more ;  after  which  he  engaged 
in  trade  and  shipbuilding,  with  Barzii- 
lai  Wiiite,  at  White's  Landing,  now 
Richmond,  Me.  In  1809,  he  purchased 
of  Artemas  Leonard  his  fyrm  and  Score 
in  Livermore,  and  carried  on  business 
here  as  a  trader  till  1829.  His  subse- 
quent life  was  passed  on  his  farm  in  th.it 
town.  He  represented  Livermore  in  the 
legislature  of  Massachusetts  in  13  lo. 
1816,  18  IS  and  1819,  and  had  al.«o  held 
the  offices  of  town  clerk  and  selectman 
there.  His  wife,  Mrs.  Martha  (Benja- 
min) Washburn,  to  whom  he  was  mar- 
ried March  3i),  1812,  died  May  6,  18'U, 
They  had  eleven  children,  among  v.-hom 
are  Hon.  Israel  (LL.D.)  of  PoTtland. 
Me.,  formerly  governor  of  that  st..'.te; 
Hon.  Elihu  B.,  now  Unit':d  States  min- 
ister to  France;  and  Maj.  Gen.  Cadwal- 
ladcr  C.  (LL.D.),  formerly  governor  of 
Wisconsin, 

Till  his  death  he  took  a  lively  interest 
in  public  alfairs,  and  was  thorougi'l.^ 
conversant  '.I'ith  the  political  history  ot 
the  nation. 


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ME:\I0IE   of  ISAAC   CTIAr:^IAN   BATES. 

iiy  HA4UL10N  A^-DHE^v=  H ii.L,  M.A.,  or  Boston,  >ra,s3. 

■^^  ^  \C  CHAPMAN  BATES  was  born  in  Xortliamptcn,  ?,Ia5?n- 
^^chusctts,  OH  the  22cl  o-  October.  1^17.  lie  T^•^3  tl.e  .kth  cmld 
and  youngest  son  cf  the  Hon.  Isaac  Chapman  and  Alartha  IIcnsIiaAV 

'Hi^  f^^hcr,  Isaac  Chai-man  Botes,  was  bom  in  Granville,  May-, 
Jan.  23,  1779,  and  died  in  Washington,  D.  C,  .>Iarcn_lG_,  184;^ 
He  was  a  leading  member  of  the  bar,  and  at  the  time  ot_^  hi.  d.:ath 
was  one  of  the  United  States  Senators  for  the  state  or  Massachu- 
setts, the  Hon.  Rufas  Choate  being  his  colleague.  His  wde,  ..xar- 
tha,  daughter  of  the  Hon.  Sanmel  Henshaw  of  ^orthainpton,  wa3 
born  in  Boston.  June  9,  1783,  and  survived  mm!  tlie^Oia  ot  No- 
vember, 1374,  ii^vlng  nearly  coinpleted  the  tirst  half  ot  her  nin.ty- 

second  ye-ir.'  .     -,    ,  ^         ■«      •, 

The  subject  of  the  present  memoir  received  the  usual  acaaemu.. 
trainin-  ot'the  time  at  Hound  Hill  School,  Northampton,  and  at  tne 
a-e  of  Sixteen  came  to  Boston  and  entereJ  die  warehouse  ct  :^iessr8. 
l^chvards  &  Sroddard,  importers  of  silk  goods.  His  abihty  and 
eteady  deportment  so  commended  him  to  the  confidence  and  regard 
of  his  employers  that  he  was  sent  by  them  to  France,  as  their  pur- 
cha^^inT  a-ent,  before  he  had  completed  his  nmeteenth  year,  lie 
remained ^in  Europe  in  this  position  for  sevorul  years,  and,  wiule 
assidr.ous  in  his  attention  to  business,  he  improved  his  oppor.um- 
ties  to  the  utmost  for  becoming  familiar  with  the  French  and  Crer- 
man  lan-.:ao-es  and  advancing  his  general  cuUure.  _  Returning  to 
the  Unired  States,  he  associated  lumself  in  business  in  Boston  wita 
Mr.  K.  A.  Crafts,  formerlv  of  Manchester,  England,^  under  the 
tirm  name  of  R.  A.  Crafts  <fv  Co.     On  the  succession  o.^  ^h.   Fill- 

•  Mr.  Senator  Sates  was  son  cf  Col.  Jacob  "B.-tc?,  who  ^.':''^ ^^^  ^r^^^'^.^^ 
'2,  K-f;,  rcinov-.i  %nai  hib  father  to  Granville,  Mass.,  lu  i.ao,  uicd  Occ.  -,  l>io,  aai  Tsaa 

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142  Memoir  of  Isaac  C/ffpiuan  Bales.  [Apiii, 

more  to  the  pvei^itlciicy  in  lijjO,  ^Ir.  B:ite.s  was  appointof]  Com-ul- 
Gciienil  III  Aix  la  Chanelle,  fur  liiK-iiiih  l^rii^sia  and  ^\'t&tpllaliH. 
His  acquaiutance  witli  coiitineutal  lil'c  and  languages,  lils  urbar.o 
jnaimers,  liis  mcrcaiuile  cxpuricnce,  and  liis  sound  and  liheral  jud;^- 
nu.'iit,  quallHed  him  to  au  e\co[Aic)nal  decree  for  ihU  ofilce.  lie 
was  both  ])oj)uhir  and  (.fHcicnt  as  a  representative  of  his  government, 
and  Mr.  ^^'obstcr,  wiiile  at  the  head  of  tlie  Department  of  JState, 
6})olce  with  special  praise  of  his  consuhir  reports  as  being  earefully  com- 
piled and  full  of  valuafdc  information.  On  a  cliange  of  administra- 
tion in  1<S.j4,  he  was  su[)ersedcd  :  the  |)crson  a^ipointed  to  succeed 
liim,  however,  was  almost  immediately  recalled,  and  Mr.  Bates  was 
asked  to  return  to  the  consulship  ;  but  it  was  too  late,  he  had  con- 
cluded other  arrangements. 

"Whoa  Mr.  Bates  can;c  back  to  Boston  in  ISol,  our  merchants 
were  engaged  in  organizing  the  Board  of  Trade,  ^  and  they  were 
fortunate  in  being  able  at  once  to  secure  his  cooperation  as  its  fiec- 
retary  and  executive  manager.  Under  his  discreet  and  able  admin- 
istration, the  new  in-citution  almost  immediately  took  rank  with  the 
long-established  couuiicreial  bodies  of  New  York,  Philadelphia  and 
Baltimore.  Such  boards  were  then  in  existence  onlv  in  the  three 
cities  named  and  in  New  Orleans,  Savannah,  San  Francisco  and 
Portland,  and  the  only  produce  exchanges  were  those  of  Xew  York, 
Chicago,  Cincinnati,  xMbany,  Oswego,  Builhlo,  and  Cleveland,  iii 
all  fourteen.  !Now,  there  are  five  or  six  times  as  many  commerciid 
organizations  of  various  kinds  in  the  United  States,  and  their  sphere 

bnrieJ  in  Xonhcimpton.  He  married  raitli,  cLinghtcr  of  Phineas  Robinson,  of  Gnmville, 
and  widow  of  I<a.ic  Ch.ipmau,  born  in  Duriiam,  Aug.  10,  \7oo,  died  Oct.  23,  1829,  and 


Son  of  John  E;ire«,  of  Durham,  born  'Miirc'l'  3.  1717,  removed  to  Granville,  1753.  died 
arch  31,  17S2.    He  married  Edith  Ward,  of  Middlctown,  Conn. 

Son  of  James  Bate?,  of  Saybrook  and  Iladdam  Quarter,  Ccnn.,  bom  Dec.  16,  16S3, 
anied  Hmnah,  da'i^iiter  of  Da-vid  Bull. 


buried  in  Nijrthampton 
Jl 

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Son  of  Samuel  Bate,  of  Saybrook,  baptized  in  Dorchester,  June  19.  164S,  die!  D:c.  2S, 
1699,  married  Mary,  dangliter  of  Kol)ert  Cliapman,  of  Saybrook.  born  April  15,  1655. 

Son  of  James  Bate,  of  Saybrook  and  Iladilani,  baptized  in  Lvdd,  Conntv  of  Kent. 
England,  Dec.  14,  1624,  sailed"  for  America  with  his  father  in  the' "  Elizabeth  "  in  15;J6, 
mai-ried  Ann,  daiiL-hter  of  Henry  "Witliinirtun,  of  Durehester. 

Son  of  James  Bate,  of  Lydd,  County  of  Kent,  England. 

For  the  further  genealogy  of  the  Bates  or  Bate  family,  sec  documents  in  process  of 
compilation,  tuft  by  the  late  Isaac  Chapman  Bates,  now  in  the  possession  of  the  New  Eng- 
land Historic,  GenealoiicU  Societj*. 

Mrs.  Martha  Hcnshaw  Bares,  born  in  Boston,  June  9, 1783,  married  Isaac  Chapman  Bates, 
afterwards  United  States  Senator,  Sept.  21,  1807,  died  in  Nurtliampton,  Nov.  9,  1874. 

Daughter  of  the  Hon.  Sauuiol  Heiishaw,  of  Milton,  B-ton  ai;'d  Northamr.ton,  bom  in 
Milton,  Feb.  14,  1741,  died  iu  Xuvtli.'.n:[  ton,  Mareh  U,  icO'.),  manied  Aug.  7,'l782,  M.irtha 
Hunt,  of  Nonh:Jnpti'n,  burn  June  23,  1755,  died  Mav  '^7.  1S42. 

Son  of  Saninei  Henshaw,  bora  in  Milton,  Sept.  21, "1723,  died  Mav  21,  1778,  married  No.'. 
1742,  Subrpit  Woo.hml,  of  Milton,  died  March  U,  1792. 

Son  of  >anviu!  Hensiu.w,  born  in  Dorchester,  Ap'i!  1.  b^S?,  died  Oct.  18,  1761,  maiTied 
Waitstill  ToplirT".  of  Dorchester.  bapti/;ed  Nov.  9,  16^4,  died  Mav  17,  1737. 

Sou  of  Joshua  Henshau-,  of  Lurehe>ter,  born  iu  l.iverpoi.l,  Eiujlanu,  about  1643,  died  in 
1719,  man-ied  in  bj70,  Elizabeth  Sumner,  of  Dorchester,  baptized  June  27, 1752,  died  in  1723, 

For  farther  particrihu's  see  the  Heuihaw  papers,  deposited  by  Mrs.  Isaac  C.  Bates  wiili 
the  above-named  Soeiety. 

>  There  had  previously  been  .1  Chamber  of  Commerce  in  Boston.  It  was  orianized  on 
the  iSth  cf  Jauu;'.ry,  1836,  and  for  some  years  was  a  very  active  ?.nd  useful  bodf.  After  ;♦ 
time,  however.  t!;e  intere.-t  of  its  me.ribcr's  fell  oif,  and  without  ibrmiilly  dioOaaifing,  it  Ueld 
a  mettiug  for  the  ia;t  time  on  the  14tU  of  Mai-ch,  1^3. 


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1877.]  Memoir  of  haac  Chnjyman  Batea.  143 

of  activity  and  opportunities  for  lu'cfulness  are  of  course  more  geiie- 
rally  understood  and  int<,'lliucntly  njiprcciiited  tliau  was  tlio  ciisc 
twenty  yenr.s  ac;o  ;  yet  a  circidar  issued  by  Mr.  Bates  in  January, 
18.^5,  :uldre.-sed  to  the  business  men  of  l>oston,  settincc  fortii  what 
should  or  niijiht  be  aeeoinplished  by  tlie  J5o:u(l  (;f  Trade,  and  show- 
ing why  thoy  sliould  give  it  their  6yui[)athy  and  contrif)ute  to  it 
their  joint  effort,  could  hardly  be  inoie  comprehensive  and  complete 
liad  it  been  penned  to-day,  and  it  presents  to  view  a  higher  ideal 
than  most  of  our  eommerfial  Ijoards  have  yet  iittaine<l  to. 

Mr.  Bate?  publislied  annutd  rej)orts  in  18,'>r),  1850,  and  18 ')7. 
The  last,  a  volume  of  G70  pages,  is  ]n-obal»ly  by  far  the  most  full 
and  elaborate  compilation  ever  issued  by  any  conunercial  board  or 
chaniber  in  this  country.  It  contains  a  large  variety  of  etatistics, 
the  laws  and  rcijalations  governing  the  liarbors  and  pilot  service  of 
the  state,  and  the  laws  o'l  the  United  States  relating  to  luoney, 
weights  nnd  measures,  customs  duties  and  public  warehouses.  It 
was  well  fitted  for  a  place  on  the  bookshelf  of  every  counting-house, 
and  for  constant  reference  by  every  merchant  who  desired  accurate 
and  trustwortliy  information  in  the  intelligent  prosecution  of  his  busi- 
ness. In  these  annual  reports  there  are  ample  discussions  of  many 
questions  of  both  local  and  national  interest,  prominent  among  the 
latter  being  reciprocal  trade  with  Canada,  an  uniform  system  of 
weights  and  measures,  and  the  usuiy  and  bankrupt  laws. 

The  subject,  however,  to  which  jiaramount  importance  is  given 
in  Mr.  Bates's  volumes,  as  in  most  of  the  subsetjuent  reports  of  the 
Boston  Board  of  Trade,  is  the  improvement  of  transportation  facili- 
ties, inland  and  coastwise,  in  the  United  States.  This  was,  perhaps, 
the  leading  object  in  vievv  with  those  who  formed  the  Board,  and  to 
this  its  thought  and  effort  wore  mainly  directed  for  many  years.  At 
tlie  time  of  its  formation  the  American  railway  system  had  hardly 
done  more  than  to  make  a  beginning  in  its  development.  In  1854 
there  were  16,72(>  miles  of  railway  in  operation  in  this  country  ;  in 
1874  there  were  72,623  miles.  xVnd  the  lines  tlien  running  were 
defective  in  many  of  their  arrangements,  and  far  below  the  reasona- 
ble requirements  of  the  public.  To  refer  to  one  route  only,  that 
between  Boston  and  Chicago  by  way  of  Albany  and  Niagara  Falls  : 
there  were  two  corporations  between  Boston  and  Albany,  which 
divided  the  responsibility  between  them,  or  rather,  which  so  ci^n- 
stantly  passed  it  from  one  to  the  other,  that  the  community  couM 
never  tell  where  to  find  it.  There  w^ere  only  53  miles  of  double  tra''k 
between  "Worcester  and  AHiany,  a  distance  of  15G  miles,  and  the 
larger  part  of  this  was  between  Worcester  and  Springfield  ;'  conse- 
quently there  were  slow  trains  and  imperfect  connections  at  and  west 
from  Springfiold,  There  was  no  bridge  aeross  the  II^,d^ou  Kiver 
at  Albany,  and  consequently  there  were  many  dela;>  s  and  infrequent 

*  It  \v;\s  n(.t  nntii  lS^l'^,  that  the  cri^irp  ili<t;ir:ce  betxvccn  Worfostrr  and  AH  any  (excepting 
tlJO  bna^'es  across  :ho  Connecticut  aud  Uudsoa  rivers)  was  covcrJ  by  a  Joubie  track. 


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144  Memoir  of  Isaac  Chcqwi.an  Brdes.  [April, 

connections,  both  tor  passencrc-rs  and  f<»r  ^roodd,  nt  tliat  point.  The 
railway  tiLispcii>iou  bridge  ucros;^  iho  Nia^^ara  Jiivcr  was  n<jt  opened 
for  traffic  until  the  spring  of  185.5;  and  then,  and  for  many  ycara 
later,  tlic  gauixc  of  tlie  Great  Western  Railway  of  Canada  was 
broader  than  that  of  the  lines  connectinc^  with  it,  at  either  its  east- 
ern or  its  we^^tern  tcrn.inus.  It  was  under  these  circumstances,  and 
Avhile  sufferincT  fi-om  these  disadvantages  and  others  which  might  he 
named,  that  the  mercliants  of  Boston," in  order  to  save  the  trade  of 
the  city  with  tlic  ^\'est  and  South-AVest  from  utter  extinction,  unit- 
ed tlieir  inthienee  and  their  endeavors  to  bring  to  pass  a  better  state 
-of  things,  and  the  secretary  of  the  new  Board  of  Trade  was  quick 
to  apprehend  tlic  necessities  of  the  case,  and  energetic  in  measures 
for  meeting  and  overcoming  them.  In  his  first  annual  report,  bear- 
ing date  Jaimaiy  15,  1855,  Xiv.  Bates  says  :  "  What  we  want  and 
aim  to  have  is,  that  the  companies  wliose  roads  run  in  connecting 
lines  shall  come  to  an  understanding  with  each  other,  so  that 
through-freight  trains  may  be  run  at  ditferent  rates  of  speed,  and  at 
prlres  proportioned  to  the  speed,  but  all  of  them  with  the  rapidity 
of  passenger  trains  ;  and  v»e  want  to  know  beforehand  with  certain- 
ty how  nuich  it  will  cost  to  send  our  merchandise  to  any  given  pent, 
and  how  long  it  will  take  to  get  it  there."  This  high  standard  of 
railway  efHciency,  persistently  held  up  by  the  Boston  Board  of  Irade 
for  so  many  years,  has  not  yet  perhaps  been  absolutely  reached, 
but  from  1855  and  onward  steady  progress  has  been  made.  That 
the  membership  was  not  unreasonably  impatient  in  its  hopes  and 
expectations,  may  be  inferred  from  the  circumstance  that  at  the  an- 
nual meeting  in  January,  1856,  ]Mr.  Bates  congratulated  the  Board 
on  the  completion  of  arrangements  by  which  the  time  guaranteed  for 
the  transit  of  goods  from  Boston  to  Chicago  vas  ''  only  sixteen 
days." 

Mr.  Bates  sought  to  make  himself  thoroughly  acquainted  with 
the  details  of  the  transportation  business,  and  he  was  in  constant 
correspondence  and  in  personal  contact  with  all  the  prominent  rail- 
way officials  in  this  part  of  the  country.  He  also  travelled  over  the 
routes  in  which  the  trade  of  Boston  was  particularly  interested.  On 
the  opening  of  the  Niagara  Suspension  Bridge,  in  April,  1855, 
there  was  an  immense  accumulation  of  merchandise  from  both  the 
East  and  the  West,  for  which  the  officials  were  not  prepared,  so 
that  great  confusion  ensued,  involving  serious  delays  and  very  heavy 
losses.  To  quote  from  the  annual  report  for  that  year  :  "  Along  the 
line  of  their  road  [the  New  York  Central]  scattered  over  a  distance 
of  from  ten  to  twenty  miles,  wherever  there  was  room,  might  be 
-seen  cars  waiting  to  be  unloaded.  The  like  was  true  of  the  Great 
Western  Railwav."  As  soon  as  the  news  of  this  confusion  and  de- 
tention reached  Boston,  Mr.  Bates  h;istened  to  Suspension  Bridge 
and  spent  several  weeks  in  its  vicinity,  rendering  valuable  aid  in  the 
process  of  disentan:,'Iement.     A  year  later,  in  the  spring  of  185C,   a 


♦  ,. .  '. 


> 


1877.1  jSlemotr  of  Isaac  CJiiipman  Hates.  145 

hcavv  snow-storm,  in  conjimctlon  with  the  break  in  p:ange,  caused 
:i  i^iniUiirlv  disustiuu-  stu[ii»ai;'e  of  trattic  at  tlio  same  point.  We  are 
told  tliat  "tliree-Hlths  of  all  the  cars  (belonging  tu  the  New  York 
Central)  suited  to  the  business  and  in  condition  to  be  used,  were 
l>loc-ked  up  at  the  Suspension  Bridge,  leaving  only  two-fifths  for  all 
tlie  IkiHalo  and  Lake-Shore  business  and  for  goods  eoniing  East." 
In  another  week,  all  the  cars  belonging  to  the  Central  road  would 
have  been  used  up,  and  it  would  have  been  left  without  any  what- 
ever for  ROW  business.  3Ir.  Bates  kcjit  the  members  of  the  J>(jard 
of  Trade  well  informed  of  everything  tliat  was  taking  place  at  the 
I'ridge  at  this  juntiture,  and  he  lu'lited  to  turn  the  tide  of  trafHc  from 
this  citv  into  other  channels,  until  th.c  pressure  could  be  removed 
and  communication  reopened  by  the  direct  route. 

In  the  course  of  its  endoavoi-s  to  promote  regularity  and  fiicility 
of  transportation,  the  Board  of  Trade  was  led,  in  lb.!>6,  to  establish 
the  liostou  Inland  ^Mutual  Insurance  Company,  arid  ]Mr.  Bates  was 
naturally  Hxed  upon  as  its  president,  lie  therefore  resigned  the 
tecrctarysh'p  of  the  Board  of  Trade,  but  continued  to  be  an  active 
member  of  its  government.  We  doubt  whether,  either  in  tiiis  coun- 
try or  in  Euro^Mj,  a  company  has  ever  been  established  for  altogether 
the  same  oljjects  in  combination.  These  ol)jects  were — to  insure 
property  against  fire  in  Boston  ;  to  insure  merchandise  against  the 
perils  of  the  sea,  when  raiisported  coastwise  from  ports  between. 
Newfoundland  and  California  ;  to  insure  against  the  perils  of  inland 
navigation  and  transportation  over  all  the  main  lines  of  railways, 
lakes,  ri^-ers  and  canals  in  the  country;  and  to  insure  against  delays 
in  the  conveyance  of  merchandise.  This'  last  was  really  the  chief 
purpose  of  the  company, — to  obviate  delay,  and  to  promote  regu- 
larity aid  promptness  in  the  transit  of  goods  ;  and  it  is  a  pity  that 
the  project  coidd  not  have  had  a  longer  and  more  thorough  trial. 
But  at  the  commencement  of  the  civil  war  in  ISlJl,  new  and  untried 
difficulties  arose,  which  seemed  to  complicate,  more  than  ever,  the 
transportation  question,  and  it  was  decided,  contrary  to  Mr.  Bates's 
judgment,  to  wind  up  and  dissolve  the  company.  It  had  been  a 
success,  pecuniarily  and  otherwise,  during  the  few  years  of  its  exist- 
ence, and  it  would  in  all  probability  have  continued  to  be  so. 

Shortly  after,  ^Nlr.  Bates  became  interested  in  a  valuable  patent, 
and  in  the  summer  of  1864  he  went  to  Europe  to  introduce  it  there, 
and  to  represent  the  com.panv  to  which  it  belonged.  He  held  this 
position  two  or  three  years  and  then  relinquished  it,  but  his  residence 
continued  to  be  on  the  other  side  of  the  Atlantic  until  the  time  of 
his  death.  Dtu'ing  tiie  last  seven  or  eight  years  of  his  life  he  en- 
joyed a  period  of  leisure  to  wh  ch  a  protracted  career  of  industry 
fully  entitled  him,  and  for  nvikinrr  a  irood  Tise  of  which  his  culti- 
vated  tastes  abundantly  fitted  him.  He  travelled  extensively  ;  and 
in  his  comfortable  home  in  Paris,  he  renewed  the  study  of  statistical 
and  industrial  questions,  commenced  long  before.     He  became  much 

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146  Memoir  of  Imac  Chapman  Bates.  [April, 

interested,  also,  in  genealogioal  investigations,  and  some  valujiLlc 
results  of  the.'^e  labors  have  come  into  the  possession  of  tliu  Xcw- 
Kngland  Historic,  Grncalouical  Society,  altliough  not  in  tlic  form 
tb'^y  would  have  taken  had  ho  survived  longer. 

Indeed,  wherever  ]Mr.  ]}atc.s  was,  and  however  he  was  situated, 
he  could  not  be  idle.  Ills  mind  was  too  active,  and  his  energies 
were  too  strong  and  healthful  to  remain  ujic'Jiploycd.  And  what- 
ever lie  engaged  in,  or  undertook  to  do,  he  did  tliorougldy  and  well. 
He  brought  not  only  intelligence  and  aptitude,  but  7.oal  also  to  his 
work,  and  a  degree  of  enthusiasm  which  enabled  him  to  overcome 
obstacles.  He  used  to  say  that  it  had  always  seemed  to  be  his  for- 
tune to  labor  in  untried  fields  ;  but  perhaps  the  most  marked  in- 
stances of  his  success  were  those  wliich  he  achieved  without  experi- 
ence on  his  own  part,  or  the  precedents  of  others,  to  assist  him. 
His  industry  was  painstaking  and  indefatigable,  and  he  spared  no 
time  or  effort  to  make  himself  master  of  the  work  befoi'c  him,  or 
to  carry  it  throngh  to  complete  accomplishment.  These  qualities 
■were  especially  ci)ns})icuous  iu  him  wliile  he  was  secretary  of  the 
j^oston  Hoard  of  Trade  and  }»rcsident  of  the  Inland  Insurance  Con)- 
pany  ;  but  they  were  to  be  observed  throughout  his  business  life,  no 
less  when  as  a  youtli  he  was  making  large  purchases  of  goods  in 
a  foreign  country,  than  when,  nearly  thirty  years  later,  he  carried  s. 
new  and  important  invention  to  England  and  tiie  continent.  This 
absolute  fidelity  to  the  business  in  hand  was  a  natural  outgro\vtIi 
of  the  sterling  integrity  of  his  character.  His  ideal  of  personal 
honor  was  high,  and  he  could  not  have  satisfied  himself  with  any 
half-hearted  or  perfunctory  performance  of  duty.  He  set  an  ad- 
vanced standard  of  excellence  before  himself;  he  therefore  found  it 
less  difticult  to  please  others  tlian  himself,  in  what  he  was  ah'lc  to 
accomplish,  ^\'ith  this  strength  of  principle  and  elevation  of  pur- 
pose, he  possessed  also  great  amiability  aiid  generosity  of  heart, 
refined  susceptibilities,  and  quick  and  resjionsive  sympathies,  in  a 
word,  all  the  essentials  to  a  true  nobility  of  nature. 

Of  Mr.  Bates  in  his  private  and  domestic  relations,  it  is  enough 
here  to  say  that  he  was  most  exemplary  in  all  of  them.  He  was 
married  in  Boston,  May  14,  1851,  to  Frances  Sarah  Attwill,  born 
in  Xew  Orleans,  ^lay  15,  1S28,  daughter  of  John  Daggett  Attwill, 
of  Xew  Orleans,  and  Ann  Burroughs,  of  Woodbridge,  County  of 
Suffolk,  England.  His  only  child,  Arthur  Edward  Bates,  was  born 
in  Alx  la  Chapelle,  March  5,  1853,  and  died  iu  Paris,  April  28, 
1873.  The  education  of  this  son  had  been  carried  on  for  several 
years  under  the  zealous  care  and  scholarship  of  Brof.  ^lotzdorf,  of 
Berlin,  and  he  gave  m.uch  promise  of  future  excellence.  He  was 
about  to  return  to  America,  with  his  parents,  to  enter  the  sophomore 
class  in  Harvard  University,  at  the  time  of  his  sudden  death. 

For  more  than  a  year  ^Ir.  Bates  had  been  subject  to  an  infirmity 
•which  caused  some  anxiety  to  himself  and  his  friends,    but  no  ouc 


t1. 


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J377.]  Notes  on  American  Ilistonj.  l-i? 

was  prcpaml  for  Lis  demise  %vl.cn  it  came.  He  was  on  a  vi.^it  to 
the  United  States  for  the  pmpo.^e  of  complctmg  a  famdy  tomb  in 
the  old  cemeteiT  in  Nortluimpton,  and  of  laying  the  remains  ot  hio 
hclovcd  son  to  rest  there.  AViulc  passing  a  few  days  at  Saratoga 
Sprin"-^  he  became  somewhat  wori^c  than  usual,  and  at  nighi,  on 
the  2-rth'  of  September,  1«75,  he  died  with  hardly  a  moment's  wani- 
iua  "God's  fm-er  touched  him,  and  lie  slept."  lather  ana  50u, 
afSj'r  a  separation'brief  but  bitter,  are  now  reunited,  and  itieu-  bodies 
repose  side  by  side,  amid  the  peaceful  shades  where  so  many  ot  their 

kindred  sleep.  .  m       .    i  „^ 

Siicli  men  as  Mr.  Bates  are  too  rare  to  be  given  up  without  deep 
and  genuine  sorrow,  and  especially  are  they  to  be  lamented  when 
they  are  taken  from  earth  in  the  very  prime  ot  life,  and  ui  the  ripe 
maturity  of  their  powers.  It  becomes  us,  however,  now  ami  at  all 
times,  to  acquiesce  in  the  varied  appointments  of  our  Heavenly 
Father  in  Ili<  providential  dealini^s  with  the  children  ot  men  ;  and, 
remembcrin-  that  lie  keeps  the  times  and  seasons  in  His  own  power, 
to  rclv  confidently  upon  the  assurance  of  His  wi.dom  ana  love,  ooili 
when'  He  gives  'and  when  He  recalls  His  gifts,  saying  evermore, 
"He  doeth^all  things  well." 


NOTES  ON  A^SIERICAN  HISTORY. 

By  the  Ecv.  Ed^akd  D.  Neill,  A.B.,  President  of  Macalestcr  College,  Minncr-polis.  Minn. 

[Continued  from  imge  22.] 

'    '■   "  ^"  No.  XV. 

A  Study  of  the  Yir.oiNiA  Census  of  1G24. 
Eev,  Richard  Buck. 
TN  a  volume  of  Colonial  Records  published  by  the  State  of  Yir- 
1  -Inia,  in   1874,  there  is  a  list  of  those  living  in  that  co bny  on 
Feb''  16    16-^3,  or  1624  according  to  the  present  mode  of  reckoning. 
The  columns   of  bare  names  look   stiff  and  prosaic,  yet  the  lives 
of  those  who  bore  them,  if  not  always  "sublime,"  were  full  ot  ro- 
mance and  exciting  incidents.  .         i         r 
In  the  census  of  those  at  James  City  and  the  corporation  thereof, 
appear  Eenamv,(>rcyon,   Peleg   and  Mara  Bueke.     Here,   tor  the 
first  time,  the  historian  obtains  a  glimpse  of  the  famdy  ot   tlie  Rev. 
Richard  Buck,  and  the  name  of  each  child  suggests    an  experience 

of  the  fiither.  .  -,     t    ^      ^^    ^      ~ 

Buck  was  the  chaplain  of  the  fleet  of  nme^vessels  that  sailed  ou. 
of  the  port  of  Rlvmouth  on  the  first  day  of  June,  loO<J,  bound  tor 
Viri,/nua.  With  Gates,  Somers,  and  Captain  ^ewport,  on  toe  Lbta 
of  Julv,   he  was  on  board  the  "Sea  Ycnture"  when  uriven  by   a 


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f'  . 


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148  ^^ote.i  on  American  History.  f  April. 

liurricane  on  tlic  rock.s  of  l^cruiudas.  During  tlic  following  winter, 
^\•lli!o  vo5.-oh  MOiC  Viniiig  constrir.-totl  to  ro^uuic  their  voyage,  liiick, 
who  IkkI  ];ccn  a  student  at  Oxford,  was  fait'.iful  to  his  ordinntiou 
vows.  The  "  Lord'6  Day,"  as  tlic  first  day  of  the  week  was  called, 
was  duly  observed,  and  one  Steplien  Hopkins,  a  J^uritan,  su[jposed 
to  liave  been  afterwards  one  of  the  "  JNlay  Flower"  passenger?, 
acted  as  lay-reader.  Among  the  passengers  was  the  celebrated 
John  ]volfe,  the  earliest  tobacco  pbuiter  in  Virginia,  and  his  wife. 
AVhilc  tarrying  on  the  island,  Mrs.  llolfe  gave  l)irth  to  a  babe,  which, 
in  accordance  witii  the  forms  of  the  Church  of  England,  was  Ijap- 
tized  I>ernuida8.  Nor  was  the  marriage  service  disused.  Thomas 
l*owell,  the  cook  of  Sir  George  Somers,  had  fallen  in  love  witli  one 
Eliz;d.>cth  Persons,  the  servant  of  ^Listress  Ilorton,  and  the  good 
ciiaplain  pronounced  "  that  they  be  man  and  wife  together,  in  the 
name  of  the  Fadicr,  and  of  the  Son,  and  of  the  Holy  Gho:it." 

Toward  the  last  of  ]May,  ]f)10,  the  passengers  arrived  from 
p.eriiiudas  to  find  their  fellow  colonists  at  Jamestown  ou  the  '^'ergc 
of  starvation.  Upon  their  landing,  the  bell  of  the  rude  log-charcli 
was  rung,  aud  tiie  emaciated  and  disheartened  settlers  assembled  an'l 
listened  to  the  "  zealou§  and  sorrowful  prayer"  of  ]Mr.  Buck. 

Two  -sveeks  later,  to  the  joy  of  the  suftering.  Lord  Delaware 
appeared,  in  the  James  Kiver  with  three  ships.  That  nobleman  in 
bis  narrative  writes  :  ''  The  10th  of  June,  being  Sunday,  I  brought 
my  ship,  and  in  the  afternoon  went  ashore,  where,  after  a  sermon 
made  by  Mr.  Buck,  Sir  Thomas  Gates  his  preacher,  I  caused  my 
commission  to  be  read.  *  *  *  There  was  not  above  one  sow, 
that  we  can  hear  of,  left  alive,  not  a  hen  or  chick  in  the  fort,  and 
our  horses  and  mares  they  had  eaten."  Sir  Thomas  Dale,  in  ^lav, 
1611,  brought  some  new  colonists,  profane,  rictous,  and  mutinous, 
and  a  supply  of  provisions  "  as  hogs  refused  to  eat.'' 

In  these  days  of  darkness  the  wife  of  the  chaplain  gave  birth  to 
a  daughter.  As  the  motlier  lay  in  her  Aveakness,  she  could  but  con- 
trast her  condition  with  the  happy  days  of  her  childhood  in  Eng- 
land, and  appreciate  the  feelings  of  the  woman  of  Betlilehem  when 
she  said  to  her  old  friends,  "  Call  me  not  Xaomi,  call  me  Mara,  for 
the  Almighty  hath  dealt  very  bitterly  with  me.  I  went  out  full, 
and  the  Lord  hath  brought  me  home  again  empty." 

When  the  day  came  for  the  baptism  of  the  first  born  of  the  minister 
of  Jamestown  parish,  the  infant,  in  view  of  the  disuearteniu'^  cir- 
cunislanccs  of  its  birth,  was  appropriately  named  ]\Iaru. 

Three  years  elapse,  and  the  good  minister  is  T)rcsented  with  a  son, 
and,  remembering  that  when  Moses  was  in  ^lidian  his  wife  "  bare 
him  a  son  and  he  called  his  name  Gershom,  for  he  said,  I  have  been 
a  stranger  in  a  strange  land,"  in  sympathy  with  the  great  Ilebrev/ 
lawgiver,  he  baptized  the  boy,  born  among  the  forests  of  Vir''inia, 
surrounded  by  Indians,  Gershom. 

In  two  more  vears  the  crv  of  an  infant  is  heard  for  the  third 


1877.]  Notes  on  American  Ilhiory.  149 

time  in  tlio  glcl)e-house  of  Jamei^town.  Like  Raclicl,  tl)e  wifo  "had 
liiircl  labor,"  and  she  called  the  boy  Benoni.  As  lie  bc.c^au  to  toddle, 
there  wa3  no  rolllckhic,'  f'lee,  the  eyes  had  not  the  animation  \\lu(Ii 
the  mother  l>ad  noticed  \n  those  of  Mara  and  Ger.^horn  in  th.'ir  early 
chiklhood;  and  as  he  advanced  in  boyhood  he  could  not  nuriihcr 
twenty,  measure  a  yard  of  cloth,  or  rij^htly  name  the  days  of  the 
week,  liy  his  birth  a  mysterious  Providence  caused  the  i^ood  min- 
ister to  drink  one  more  bitter  cup,  to  have  the  unenviable  distinc- 
tion of  being  the  father  of  the  first  natural  fuol  aniong  the  Ivi-li-h 
speaking  colonists  of  .North  America.  "An  idiot  or  natural  f<.ul," 
says  Bhickstone,  "is  one  that  hath  no  midcrstanding  from  Ins 
nativity." 

John  Rolfe,  in  161G,  describes  Jamestown  as  having  a  population 
of  fifty  men,  "whereof  thirty-one  are  farmers,  all  these  n^aintain 
themselves  with  food  and  raiment.  Mr.  liicliard  Buck  minister 
there,  a  very  good  preacher."  A  year  or  two  after  this  the  old  log 
church  was  so  decayed  that  the  inhabitants  at  their  own  expcose 
built  a  new  house  of  woiship,  of  timber,  twenty  ^Qitt  in  breadth  and 
fifty  feet  in  lenc',-th.'  In  this  builtling  convened,  on  the  30th  of  July, 
1G19,  the  first  legislative  assembly  in  America,  composed  of  two 
burgesses  from  each  plantation,  freely  elected  by  the  inhabitants 
thereof,  with  pov/er  to  make  and  ordain  laws  profitable  for  ihc  Colony. 

The  Journal  of  the  Leglslarure  states:  "The  most  convenient 
place  we  could  find  to  sitt  in  was  the  Quire  of  the  Church,  where 
Su*  George  Yeardley  the  Governor,  being  sett  downe  in  his  accus- 
tomed place,  those  of  the  Counsell  of  Estate  sate  next  him,  on  both 
handes,  excepte  onely  the  Secretary  then  appointed  Speaker,  y^\o 
sate  right  before  him.  *  *  *  But  forasmuche  as  men's  atTiures 
doe  little  prosper  w-here  God's  service  is  negiectel,  all  the  Burgesi-cs 
tooke  their  places  in  the  Quire  till  a  prayer  was  said  by  Mr.  Buckc, 
the  iVIinister,  that  it  would  please  God  to  guide  and  sanctifie  all  our 
proceedings  to  his  owne  glory  and  the  good  of  this  Plantation. 
Prayer  being  ended,  to  the  intentc  that  as  we  had  begim  at  Gou 
Almighty,  so  we  might  proceed  w  awful  and  due  respecte  towards 
the  Lieutenant,  our  most  gratious  and  dread  Soveraigne,  all  the 
Burgesses  were  intreatted  to  retyre  themselves  into  the  body  of  the 
Churche,  w*=^  being  done,  before  they  vvere  fully  admitted,  thev  were 
called  in  order,  and  by  name,  and  so  every  man,  none  staggonng  at 
it,  tooke  the  oathe  of  Supremacy,  and  then  entred  the  Assonildy. 

The  dividing  of  the  colony  into  hundreds  with  the  privdoge  of 
representation  in  the  Assembly,  gave  new  life  to  the  iniiabu-^^t^. 
Not;  long  after  this  legislature  adjourned,  the  good  v.ife  of  Mr.  i.uck 
presented  him  with  another  son.  Kemembering  thut  ^ncr,  no 
Hebrew  patriarch,  called  a  son  "Peleg,  for  in  his  days  was  tl>e  cart.; 

'  The  present  dilapidaterl  cliarch  is  the  fourth  built  at  J-^i^cstovvn.  The  thirl.  ''>iilt  of 
f.rick,  V.-...S  ooTT.intTi.ca  in  1GG9,  ai.:!  in  1G7G  uesrroycJ  by  iiru.  The  cliticc  cow  la  rwu.  was 
coiiir.iouccd  afier  this  period,  on  a  new  founaaiion. 


of 


150  JS^otes  on  American  Ilistory.  [Api'il, 

dividnd"  into  separate  fuinilics,  tlie  chaplain  commemorated  iIk- 
l\Irrj>llnri  or  dividiii:;  of  Mr^iuia  into  .separate  Ie;i:iilativ'e  di.strict.-i, 
by  hai)tiziiig  his  k;t  child  with  the  name  of  Tcleg. 

Four  years  after  the  nieetin;;'  of  this  first  legislature,  hotli  the 
Kcctor  and  his  wife  had  died.  Early  in  the  year  l<i2.5  the  children 
wei-e  lIvinL''  with  some  of  the  parishioners.  Poor  chatterinu:  Beriorii 
and  Teleg  were  cared  fur  by  Peter  J^angmau  and  Mary  his  wife ; 
Mara  lived  with  duhn  and  Bridget  Buirows,  and  Gcrshom  was  at 
the  [)l:uitation  of  one  dohn  Jackson. 

The  last  record  of  the  minister's  family  i,  in  1037,  when  Ambrose 
Harmar  j)otitioncd  the  king  of  KngLind  relative  to  the  care  of 
"Benoni  Buck  an  i<liot,  the  first  in  that  Plantation,  son  of  liichanl 
Buck  the  late  Minister,  together  with  his  poor  estate,  liaving  had 
the  tuitiun  of  him  and  his  brother  for  thirteen  years." 

The    Widow  Jordan. 

Siselye  Jordan  is  the  quaint  name  of  a  yoiuig  widow  v.hoic  first 
husband,  Samut  1  Jordan,  gentleman,  of  ChaiJcs  JJuudred,  had  a 
plantation  at  Jordan's  Journey,  ou  the  south  side  of  the  James 
Riyer,  not  far  from  City  Point.  Cecilia  or  Cicely,  when  a  little 
.  girl,  only  ten  years  of  age,  was  brought,  in  A.D.  IciO,  in  tha  ship 
Swan  to  Virginia,  and  when  about  twenty  years  old  became  the  \vife 
of  Samuel  Jordan,  who  owned  four  hundred  and  flfiv  acres,  and 
in  1  Gl  {)  was  a  member  of  the  first  Virginia  legislature.  Xt  Fieurdieu 
Hundred,  ou  the  same  side  of  the  river  at  a  short  distance  below, 
the  Bey.  Greviile  Pooley  resided,  who  in  1622  came  from  En::land 
in^the  ship  James.  A  few  months  after  he  settled  in  the  "Xcn- 
World  he  was  called  upon  to  visit  his  neighbor  Samuel  Jordan,  who 
was  dying.  Three  or  four  days  after  the  funeral  services,  the  grave 
clergyman  pro[)Osed  to  the  widow  to  take  the  place  of  her  deceased 
husband,  and  thought  his  ofler  was  accepted. 

But  the  adage  that  "  there's  many  a  slip  between  ti.e  cup  and 
the  lip,"  was  yerified  in  his  case.  In  1G18  there  had  arrived  in 
the  ship  Xeptune,  and  settled  near  the  Jordan  plantation,  AVilliam 
Ferrar,  whose  name  is  jierpetuated  by  Ferrar's  Island,  the  neck  of 
land  opposite  Henrico.  At  the  time  Cicely  became  a  Avidow,  he  was 
about  thirty  years  of  age,  and  one  of  the  most  intelliuent  men  in 
the  colonv.  He  was  a  relative,  and  supposed  to  have  been  the  bro- 
ther of  Xicholas  Ferrar,  the  friend  of  the  poet  George  Herbert,  and 
of  John  FeiTar,  the  Deputy  Governor  of  the  Virginia  Companv 
of  London.  It  became  pleasant  for  him  to  walk  over  to  the  widow 
Jordan's  and  notice  the  children,  ]Mary  about  three  years  of  ai:e, 
and  Margaret  an  infant.  In  time,  he  proj^osed  to  marrv  the  mother, 
and  in  the  presence  of  the  Governor  and  Council  of 'Virginia  sh3 
acknowledged  her  engagement  to  him. 

Pooley  the  minister  v.-as  inconsolable.  Xot  disposed  tamely  to 
submit,   he   went   and  told  to  the  authorities  how  lie  had  court-'i 


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Cicelv  iDUDcdiately  after  her  first  husbantl's  funcrjil,  and  decliued 
that  there  was  ii  Ihigniut  breach  of  promise.  Tlie  Council  of  the 
Colony  felt  it  vras  too  knotty  a  questioa  for  them  to  decide,  and 
tlicv  referred  it  to  th.c  liondon  Company. 

On  the  24tii  of  Apiil,  1G21,  there  was  laid  upon  the  table  of 
the  Virginia  Company  the  depositions  *'  touching  t!ic  diflerencc  be- 
tween M'  Tooley  and  M'^*  Jourdan,"  and  they  were  referred  to  I'r. 
Sanmel  Purchas,  the  eminent  divine  and  chronicler,  wiiii  instruc- 
tions "  to  confer  witli  some  civilian;]  and  advise  what  answer  wa.-j 
fit  to  be  returned  in  such  a  case." 

In  January,  1(125,  a  muster  of  the  inhabitants  of  Jordan's  Jour- 
ney was  taken,  and  is  called  the  "Muster  of  IM'  William  Ferrar 
ami  M"  Jordan,''  but  we  have  no  evidence  as  to  the  time  of  the 
murriai^e  ceremony.  Poor  Pooley  was  then  living'  at  Piersey's  Hun- 
dred, with  two  j-oung  indentured  servants,  but  seems  at  length  to 
have  been  married,  and  about  the  year  1G29  to  have  met  with  a  sad 
end. 

A  letter  v/ritten  about  this  time  to  Sir  Martin  Stuterille,  by  Joseph 
]\Iead,  states  that  ''treacherous  savages  assauUud  th.e  house  of  one 
Mr.  Pooley,  a  minister,  and  slew  him  and  his  family." 

Eleanor  PliilUps. 

Eleanor  Pliillips  is  the  name  of  one  of  those  living  at  ^rVest  and 
Shirley  Hundred,  the  region  where  the  Union  army  rested  after 
the  battles  at  Malvern.  \\e  find  just  enough  about  her  to  stimulate 
our  curiosity.  At  a  meeting  of  the  Virginia  Company,  held  in 
London  on  the  5th  of  September,  1G22,  Nicholas  Ferrar,  the  Dep- 
uty Governor,  stated  that  he  had  received  a  warrant  &igT:jed  by 
sundry  Lords  of  his  Majesty's  Privy  Council,  directed  to  the  Com- 
pany, requiring  one  Dan.  Fraucke,  a  reprieved  malefactor,  to  i)e 
sent  to  Virginia,  which  Francke  had  consented  to  ser%-e  there  one 
Kleanor  Phillips,  who  intended  to  go  over  with  him  and  pay  his 
passage,  and  the  Company  ordered  that  he  should  be  placed  on 
board  the  ship  Southam[)ton,  Capt,  Chester,  which  was  about  to 
sail. 

A  few  months  after  he  landed  at  AVestover,  we  discover  that 
Fmncke  died,  but  no  one  knows  why  Eleanor  Phillips  was  so  inter- 
ested in  his  welfare. 

Alice  Davison. 

Glancing  down  the  list,  Ave  find  Alice  Davison,  with  the  Latin 
word  vidua  opposite  her  name.  The  husband  of  this  widow  had 
been  the  Secretary  of  the  Cohjuy,  and  like  George  Sandys  ih.e  Trea- 
forcr,  and  his  colleague,  was  a  poet.  lie  Avas  the  successor  of 
the  brilliant  scholar  and  tip])ler  John  Pory,  Avho  had  not  carried 
himself  Avell  as  a:i  officer.     Lender  the  date  of  the   13th  of  June, 


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1C21,   there   is    the    following    entry   in    the  transactions    of    tho     1 
Virginia  Coiupuny  : 

"  iMT  Deputy  moved  to  know  tlieir  pleasure  whether  they  would 
liaAe  M  ]*orey'.i  ci)iuini^.sion  renewed,  or  the  ])liicf)  to  be  supplied 
by  another.  A\  hereupon  th.c  C'onipni.y  deelarhig  rheir  desire  to  nitiko 
a  change,  there  were  four  gentlemen  jtropo.^ed  for  the  e-aid  place, 
*  *  *  being  all  of  them  reeonnnended,  by  worthy  person:?,  fur 
their  honesty,  sufficiency  and  experience  in  secretary  affairs,  but 
because  no  more  than  three  could  stand  for  the  election,  it  was  put 
to  the  question  whi'-h  tlux-e  they  wouM  have  nominated  for  that  pur- 
pose, whereupon  M'  Smith  was  disnusscd,  and  the  other  three  ap- 
pointed to  stand  for  the  election,  wlio  being  all  three  put  to  tiic 
balloting  box,  choice  ^s'as  made  of  jNP  Davison,  he  having  the  ma- 
jority of  balls,  wh(^  being  called  in  to  take  notice  that  tiie  Secreta- 
ry's j)lace  was  fallen  upon  him,  did  declare  his  thankful  acknow- 
ledgment unto  the  Company,  promising  his  best  to  answer  their 
expectation  of  him." 

Davison  died  soon  after  the  great  Indian  massacre  in  the  spring 
of  16l'2,  and  at  the  time  the  census  vras  taken  Ids  wife  had  been  ;v 
widow  more  than  a  year.  Sir  William  Davison.  Secretary  of  Statu 
under  Queen  Elizabeth,  and  friend  of  AVilliam  Brewster  the  lender 
of  the  exiles  in  the  May  Flower,  had  three  sons,  Francis,  Christo- 
pher and  AValter,  all  of  whom  wrote  verses.  Christop»her  is  the 
author  of  the  following  paraphrase  of  the  15th  Psalm  : 

"  Lord,  in  thy  house,  -who  shall  forever  bide? 
To  -n-hom,  shall  rest  in  eacred  mount  betide  ? 
f  Ev'n  unto  him  that  leads  a  life  unstained, 

Doth  good,  and  Fpeaks  the  truth  from  heart  unfeigned  r 

Who  with  his  ton;:ue,  deceit  hatli  never  used  ; 

Nor  neighbor  hurt,  nor  slandered,  nor  accue'd  ; 

Who,  loving  goijd  men,  is  from  l»ad  estranged  ; 

"Who  keeps  his  word,  though  to  his  loss,  unchanged. 

To  usury  who  hath  no  money  lent. 

Nor  taken  bribes  against  the  innocent. 

AVho  in  this  course  doth  constantly  persevere,. 

In  holy  hill,  unmoved,  shall  dwell  for  ever," 

Rev.  David  Sands ^ 

At  Hog  Island,  just  below  Jamestown,  the  Rev.  David  Sands, 
or  SandLs,  is  marked  in  the  census  as  a  resident.  He  came  to  Vir- 
ginia in  1G20,  and  was  probably  a  relative  of  Sir  Edwin  Sandys, 
the  Governor  of  the  Company,  whose  brother  George  was  the  trea- 
surer of  the  Colony.  In  July,  1G24,  we  find  him  petitioning  for 
relief  from  calunmy  derogatory  to  his  profession. 

liev.  Jonas  Stochton. 

Among  those  enrolled  at  Elizabeth  City  were  .fonas  and  Timothy 
Stockton,  father  and  son.     Both  arrived  early  in  1G21,  in  the  ship 


1S77.]  Life  and  Times  of  Rev.  Peter  Bidhdnj.  1j3 

Bona  Nova.  The  l\cv.  Jonn.s  was  about  tliirty-tbt  years  of  a^'o 
when  he  came  to  Virginia,  and  lii:3  child  Tiniolhy  was  ten  years  old. 
For  a  time  he  supplied  the  [)lace  of  Mr.  AV^ickham  at  Henrico  and 
]>ernuida  Hundred,  l)iic  after  the  massacre  he  appears  lo  have  returned 
to  Klizalictli  City. 

'y\\e.  unreliable  Captain  flohii  Smith,  in  his  General  Hi.-toiy,  |)ro- 
fe.^sedly  quotes  from  a  letter  of  tiic  liev.  Mr.  .Stockiiam,  intended 
for  Stockton,  and  makes  him  utter  sentiments  concerning  the  Indians, 
whicl)  the  divine  lliohard  Ilakluyt  had  printed  twenty  years  bclurc 
Stockton  saw  the  James  Iviver. 

In  the  ])reface  to  a  translati<ju  frum  the  PortUL'^uosc  of  a  v.'ork 
entitled  "Virginia  richly  valued,"  Ilakluyt,  in  IGO'J,  writes  tlicr-c 
words  relative  to  the  treatment  of  the  Indians. 

"To  handle  them  gently,  v/hile  gentle  eourfcs  may  bo  found  to 
serve,  will  be  without  eom[)arison  the  best ;  but  if  gentle  p.»li>iiing 
will  not  serve,  the  one  shall  not  want  hanujierers  and  rough  masor.s 
enow,  i  mean,  our  old  soldiers  trained  up  in  the  Netherlands,  to 
square  and  prepare  them  to  our  preachers'  liands.' 


SO:\IE  ACCOUNT  OF  THE  LIFE  AND  TIMES  OF  THE 
IlEV.  PETEK  BULKELEY- 

By  A-vxA  Mahia  Fat,  of  New  York  City. 

\\7"nEX  the  conforming  Puritans  of  the  Cliurch  of  England 
V  T  attempted  to  found,  in  the  wilderness  of  the  New  '\Yorld.  an 
ideal  government  in  Church  and  State,  one  of  the  most  earne-t  of 
their  number  in  this  high  endeavor,  was  the  subject  of  this  memoir, 
the  founder  and  first  seer  of  Concord.  "He  was,"  says  President 
Stiles,  ''  a  masterly  reasoner  in  theology,  and  equal  to  the  fir.-t 
characters  in  all  Christendom  and  in  all  ages."  A  history  of  his  lite 
may  not  be  uninteresting,  while  it  may  serve  to  revive  the  memory 
of  a  noble  but  forgotten  worthy  of  New  England. 

The  Rev.  Peter  Bulkeley  came  of  an  ancient  lineage  Uinte,  .xxni. 
299] .  He  was  descended  from  Peter,  the  second  son  of  liobert,  Lonl 
of  Bulclogh,  in  the  reign  of  Edward  III.,  and  Nicola  ur  Nicolau?, 
daughter  and  heiress  of  Thomas  Bird,  of  Woore,  Salop.  His  l.iMer, 
the  Key.  Edward  Bulkeley,  D.D.,  was  a  moderate  noncouf<  ruiir-t  .-'nd 
a  learned  Divine.  lie  wrote  the  supplement  to  Fox's  Act-  atul 
^lonuments  of  the  Martyrs,"  and  became  rector  of  AH  Misilft 
Church,  OdeU,  Bedfordshh-e,  in  1558.  Odell,  with  its  bcau;.M;l 
church  and  its  castle  already  in  ruins,  was  situated  in  a  bend  yt  ^•c 
Ouse,  a  river,  so  tortuous  iii  its  course,  that  Fuller  dv.-crif--^^it  •■»•» 
more  meandrous  than  Meander."  The  county  v.-as  rith  and  f.fti.e, 
and  famous  f<jr  its  crops  of  barley.     Here  tJo  were  freslily  di^^iuoii- 

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154  Life  and  Times  of  Rev.  Peter  Bidhdcy.         [April, 

tlctl  monastic  houses,  nii<l  caatlca  sciircely  divested  of  tlic  splendors 
Ox^  a  faJiug  Iciuliliaiii. 

Amid  such  suiTounding,^,  Poter  Ikilkeloy  \v:iri  l>oru  January  31, 
l.')8i*-3.      Nothiuo;  is  knowii  of  his  childhood,  «;xcept  that  ssc  are  told 
by  Mr.  Cotton  ^Lulur  "  that  his  educati(m  was  answerable  unto  his 
origin  all  ;    it  ^Yas  learned,  it  uas  genteel,  and  which  was  the  top  of 
all,  it  was  very  pious."     lie  was  sent  to  St.  John's  College,  Cam- 
bridge, when  about  ItJ   years  old;   and  v.hile  a  juuinr   bachelor  was 
chosen  fellow.    At  this  time  the  University  was  rife  with  the  Calvini.-tic 
teachings  brought  humo  from  Geneva  by  Cartwright,  and  divisiMiis 
in  opinion   and   discrepancies  in  dress  were  everywhere   apparent. 
Mr.   J'ullcelcy   remaiurd   at    the  University   imtil    lOOb,    and  then 
returned   to  Odell,    where   he   succeeded   to   the   possession    of   his 
estates  and  to  the  rectorship  of  the  Parish.     About  the  year  1013, 
he  married  Jane,  daughter  of  Thomas  Alien,   of  Goldington,  and 
became  in  course  of  time  the  father  of  a  truly  j^atriarchal  family. 
Twtnty  years  vrere  passed  by  him  in  the  practice  of  a  mild  noncon- 
formity, protected  by  hi-^  diocesan,  the  famous  "Williams,  bishojj  of 
Lincoln.      But  with  the  gro\ving  impositions  npon  the  Puritans,  lie 
became  ''  a  thundering  preacher  and  made  many  converts  to  the  new- 
doctrines."     In  the  meantime  P>i>hop  AVilliams  had  lost  the  favor  of 
Laud  and  had  been  sent  to  the  Tower,  and  the  fame  of  ]Mr.  Bulkeley's 
preaching  coming  to  tlie  ears  of  the  archbishop,  he  was  silenced  by 
the  vicar  general,  Sir  Xathaniel  Brent.     The  days  of  his  usefulness 
were  henceforth  at  an  end,  unless  he  sought,  in  common  with  many 
of  his  brethren,  a  fresh  field  of  labor  in  the  New  World.     Accord- 
ingly in  IGol,  he  sent  out  his  eldest  sou  Edward  in  advance,  while 
he  himself  prepared  to  follow  with  the  rest  of  liis  family.     His  aa  Ife 
having  died,  he  manied  again  about  this  time,  Grace,  daughter  of 
Sir  Piohard  Chet-.vodc,   and   converting   his   property  into  money, 
embarked  with  three  of  his  sons  in  the  Susan  and  Ellen,  ]May  9,  1(335. 
His  wife  and  a  portion  of  the  family  had  preceded  him  by  otve  day 
in  the  xVnn  and  Elizal^eth.     Thus,  at  the  age  of  fifty,  'Sh.  Bulkeley 
lelt  the  old  home  and  took  up  the  staff  of  the  stranger  and  pilgrim, 
"because,"  says  Mr.  blather,   "of  the  concern  his  renewed  soul  had 
for  the  free  worship  of  the  Lord   Christ,  and   for   the   planting  of 
Evangelical  Clmrches  in  which  to  exercise  that  Avorship." 

Mr.  Bulkeley  and  his  family  probably  reached  Boston  about  the 
first  of  July,  and  proceeded  to  Xev.-town,  or  Cambridge,  where, 
perhaps,  his  son,  already  become  a  freeman  of  the  colony,  may  have 
been  prepared  to  receive  them  into  some  sort  of  temporary  home. 
It  is  higiily  probable  that  Mr.  Bulkeley  liad  come  to  this  country 
with  the  intention  of  beginning  a  new  settlement  at  !Musketaquid. 
There  is  a  Ira<lition  that  tiie  plan  was  formed  in  England,  Inxr  on  so 
large  a  scale,  tiiat  it  necssai-ily  required  the  co-operation  of  persons 
ah-cady  in  the  colony.  Musketaquid,  althougii  "  fur  up  in  tlie  woods," 
when  seen  tlirough  the  illusive  haze  of  descriptions  sent  to  England 


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must  have  appeared  to  ^Ir.  Bulkclcy  emloweJ  with  fill  the  cluirmo 
of  r.  priincvnl  (,>.Uj.  T'lorc  wore  the  same  upland  j)laiii3,  the  eaiue 
cxteusive  mctidov.s,  and  again  a  lovely  valley  and  u  6liiLj:;^i.sh  \vin<lin^ 
river.  I^iit  there  Avas  a  contra.-t  b(;t\veen  the  cnUivated  barley  fields 
of  Ik'df ird^liire,  itd  hi^turle  h<nnf.s  and  tlieir  picttiresqiie  beauty  and 
human  interest:^,  and  the  rude  tillage  of  the  Indians,  their  squalid 
huts  and  savage  habits.  The  grant  to  begin  a  town  at  MusUeta- 
quid,  says  Governor  AVinthro[),  was  made  to  Mr.  IJulkeley  and 
other  families.  Mr.  Bulkeloy  had  brought  v.ith  him  many 
farmers,  pntbably  his  old  tenants,  and  Mr.  flohnson,  in  his 
"A\'onder  ^\'orking  Providence,'"'  gives  a  history  of  the  end  pilgrlm- 
aif-e  of  the  emiurants  to  the  future  Concord.  lie  describes  how  thev 
made  their  way  through  unknown  woods,  through  watery  swamps, 
tbrough  thickets  tluir  hands  must  tear  0[)en  that  tlieir  bodies  may 
pass.  Then  how  they  come  to  scorching  plains  wl-erc  their  feet  and 
legs  are  torn  by  ragged  bushes,  until  the  blo(;d  trickles  down  at  every 
«tep.  Afier  such  toilsome  days,  they  rest  on  the  rocks,  ''when  the 
night  takes  them,"  having  no  repast  but  a  }>ittance  of  bread. 
Finally  they  roach  the  desired  haven,  and  here  they  bun'ow  in  the 
earth  under  the  hillside  and  build  some  sort  of  tem[>orary  shelter  for 
their  wives  and  little  ones.  Such  are  some  of  t!ie  hardships  by 
Mhich  Concord  was  acquired.  The  land  was  purchased  from  the 
Indians  at  the  house  of  Mr.  Bulkeley  in  the  autumn  of  1<>35.  It 
was  a  tract  of  land  sin;  miles  square,  of  which  ]\lr.  Bulkeley 's  h'^u.-e 
was  the  centre,  and  for  which  Captain  Simon  AVillard  and  Mr. 
Spencer  paid  a  parcel  of  wampumpeage,  hatchets,  hoes,  kn!\es, 
cotton-cloth  and  shirts. 

It  was  said  by  Mr.  Stoughton,  that  "God  sifted  a  whole  nation 
that  he  might  send  choice  grain  over  into  thi^  "Wilderness."  If 
this  were  true  of  the  general  wilderness  of  New  England,  ic  was 
especially  true  of  Concord.  Not  only  were  her  founders  men  of 
learning  and  piety,  they  were  also  men  of  energy  and  some  of  them 
men  of  wealth.  Mr.  Bulkeley  brouulit  with  him  £6,000,  and 
Thomas  Flint  £4,000.  "Here,"  says  ^Mr.  Mather,  "he  [^Jr. 
Bulkeley]  buried  a  great  Estate,  while  he  raised  one  for  almost 
every  one  whom  he  employed  in  the  affairs  of  his  Imsbandrv.  He  had 
many  and  godly  servants,  whom  after  they  had  lived  with  him  a  fit 
number  of  years,  he  still  dismissed  with  bestowing  farms,  and  took 
others  to  succeed  them  in  his  service  and  lus  kindness.  Thus  he  cast 
his  bread  upon  the  waters,  not  expecting  the  return  of  this  his  charit}- 
10  a  religious  ])Iantation  until  after  many  days."  But  the  substan- 
tial advantages  which  seemed  to  open  so  briglit  a  future  to  ]Mr. 
Bulkeley  and  his  people,  soon  tlisappcared  before  the  difHcultics  which 
ncset  them.  In  the  poor  wigvram^,  wbi'.-h  they  were  compollcd  to 
inhabit  until  they  could  provide  themselves  more  cumfortable  uwell- 
•iigs,  they  suffered  iucalculalyly  from  the  severities  of  the  clin:ate. 
Hie  land  had  to  be  cleared  for  cuhivatios,  and  when  this  arduous  work 


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156  Life  and  Times  of  llcv.  Peter  Bulhehy.         [A.-ull, 

was  accoiJir.l!.sli.;il,  the  poor  soil  of  tlic  v.plnnds  did  not  reward  their 
toil  ;  the  Hoods  of  the  river  destroy. d  wliiit  cro[)S  the  ineadow^  [>r.,- 
duced,  and  they  wore  forced  "to  ciit  ihrir  bread  very  thin  for  a  luu- 
season."  The  men  of  wealth  fared  no  l)L-tter  than  the  poor,  owin- 
to  their  ni«;re  delicate  nurture.  Sonic  had  put  all  their  money  ini.. 
cattle,  upon  which  the  roudi  foddf-r  tohl  so  di.-^a?trously  thai  at  the 
end  of  a  year  or  two  most  of  tiiem  had  pcrisiied.  Their  bhcep  suilered 
equally,  and  wolves  devoured  their  swine.  Tliey  lost  their  horses,  and 
"many  an  hone.^t  gentleman  had  to  travell  afoot."  pays  the  chronick-, 
"  and  "sonic  even  peri-<lied  witli  extreme  heat  m  theii  travells."  Their 
health  suftered  from  the  want  of  tlie  finer  ominx  of  Enirhuid  ;  their 
only  meat  was  venison  and  raccoon  bought  from  the  Indians,  'liicy 
were  dej»vessed  by  tlic  loneliness  of  the  situation,  as  the  river  afforded 
no  conveyance  to  the  sea,  and  until  roads  could  be  rnnde  they  were 
■obliged  to  travel  the  rougli  Indian  paths  bave-foot  and  bare-legged, 
■while  at  every  turn  the  red  nicm  was  a  haunting  presence.  Never- 
theless they  were  not  without  their  mercies  and  consolations.  If  the 
loaf  was  s'cant,  ''verily  the  edge  of  tlieir  appetite  was  greater  for 
spirituall  duties  at  their' first  coming  in  time  of  \\  ants  than  afterwards." 
If  meat  failed,  was  not  a  great  store  offish  sent  them  in  the  .spring 
time?  And  assuredly  when  the  Lord  created  Indian  corn,  hail  he 
not  "  a  speciall  eve  to  supply  these  his  people's  wants  with  it,  tor 
ordinarily  5  or  6  grains  doth  produce  COO."  In  their  poor  wig\vams 
was  lien'rd  tlie  voice  of  pra}-cr  and  praise  to  God,  and  they  had 
the  saintly  Bulkeley  always  with  them  to  cheer,  to  sustain,  and  to 
guide  them.  Undismayed  by  trials  and  terrors,  undaunted  by  dis- 
appointment and  failure,  the  work  of  organization  went  on,  and  the 
summer  after  Islv.  Bulkeley's  arrival  finds  him  returning  with  Mr. 
Jones  to  Cambridge  to  organize  the  church  at  Concord.  'J  ho  gov- 
ernor, ]Mr.  VaneTand  the  deputy  governor,  Mr.  VV'intlirop,  thougU 
invited,  did  not  attend,  as  tlie  Concord  ministers  had  neglected  to 
•consult  previously  the  colonial  authorities. 

On  the  0th  of  April,  1037,  the  church  kept  a  day  of  humiliation  at 
Cambridge,  preparatory  to  the  ordination  of  Mr.  Bulkcloy  as  teacher, 
and  ^Ir.'jones  as  pastor  of  the  church  at  Concord.  Delegates  came 
from  all  parts  of  the  country  ;  but  owing  to  the  religious  dissen- 
sions which  had  begun  to  distract  the  young  colony,  governor  ^  ane. 
the  Rev.  Messrs.  Cotton  and  Wheelwright,  and  the  ruling  elders  of 
the  Church  in  Boston  absented  themselves.  For  Mr.  Bulkeloy  was 
one  of  the  party  called  Legalists,  who  were  held  to  advocate  a  Cov- 
enant of  Works,  while  their  opponents  were  adherents  of  the  Cov- 
enant of  Grace.  Mr.  Cotton  was  an  old  friend  of  ^Iv.  Bulkeley, 
a  graduate  of  the  same  University,  as  well  as  a  presbyter  of  the  same 
diocess  In  Englnnd.  He  was"  a  leader  of  tl;e  popular  party  m 
Boston,  and  to  some  extent  favored  the  teachings  of  ^Irs.  Annt 
Hutchinson  and  Mr.  AVheelwright.  :Mr.  Bulkeley  was  on  the  other 
hand  unsparing  in  his  condemnation  of  ^.Irs.  Hutchinson,  and  calls 


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1877.]  Liffi  und  Times  of  Plcv.  Peter  Dulhe.hy.  157 

her  "that  Jczabcll  whom  tlic  Dcvill  sent  over  thither  to  poison 
t!if;sc  Aincrlc'iu  C'hiirchcoi  with  her  (K'ltths  of  S;it;in,  which  slie  hntj 
learned  in  the  ijvhools  of  the  Faniilistt-."  ^Nlr.  Jnilkeley  liad  written 
Afr.  Cotton  very  earnestly  on  the  t.ul>ject  of  the  ei;ntrovcrsy,  but 
CoUon,  while  biu^ularly  aitiiablc  and  kind  to  th'jsc  ^vho  diflercd 
froio  liini,  held  very  t^toutly  to  his  own  opinions  and  could  not  be 
persuaded  to  be  present  at  the  ordinalion.  Yet  it  seeui.s  not  to  have 
interfered  with  their  friendship  ;  for  in  this  very  letter,  .Mr.  liulkcdey 
rcsnonds  to  ^Mr.  C'otton's  complaint  of  the  want  of  brotherly  love 
he  had  experienced.  "I  doe  confessed'  says  ]\lr.  liulkeley,  "I  have 
found  as  little  towards  myself  as  ever  I  did  in  any  place  God  brouMit 
me  nnto.  It  is  the  place  I  have  desired  to  show  love  unto  for  His 
sake,  who  has  set  his  name  here,  and  yet  I  have  found  so  max.'y 
stranc^n esses,  alienations,  and  so  much  ncgicjct  from  some  who  would 
formerly  have  visited  me,  yet  will  they  pass  by  niy  dore  as  if  I  were 
a  man  they  had  not  knowne,  that  I  have  sometimes  wondered  what 
the  cause  of  tuL-  clumge  eoidd  be,  whether  in  myself  or  in  them. 
Eemembring  myne  own"  love  and  res}>ei;t  unto  yourself,  I  hartily 
desire  you  to  lay  aside  all  jealousy  concerning  tltc  same,  assuring 
you  before  Ilim,  who  knoweth  our  hearts,  that  my  soule  is  knit 
with  you  as  it  hath  been  (in  some  measure)  ever  since  God  brougk.t 
me  in  acquaintance  with  you,  though  in  gome  things  I  have  dilferenoc 
in  apprehension  and  of  judgment." 

A  great  Ecclesiastical  Council  \vas  called  at  Cambridge,  Aug.  30, 
1G37,  to  deliberate  upon  the  differences  of  opinion  which  had  Avrought 
all  the  tunudt.  Of  this  council,  ]\Ir.  Bulkeley  and  Mr.  Hooker  of 
Hartford  were  chosen  moderators.  ''There  v/ere,"  says  ^Nlr.  ^Mather, 
"five  questions  offered  unto  that  great  man  (]Mr.  Cotton),  unto 
which  questions  he  gave  answers  ;  imto  these  an&wcrs  the  synod  gave 
replies  ;  unto  these  replies  he  gave  returns  ;  nnto  these  returns  the 
sj-nod  gave  rejoinders,  till  their  collisions  fetched  I  know  not  whether 
more  light  or  love  unto  one  another."  Nevertheless  ^Ir.  blather  had 
"a  vehement  suspicion"  that  both  parties  were  really  of  one  mind,  and 
that  all  their  ''  heretications*'"  grew  out  of  the  inability  of  either  party 
to  see  both  sides  of  a  question.  Finally  eighty-two  opinions  were 
declared  heretical,  and  Mr.  Cotton  contented  himself  with  saying  "that 
-  he  disrelished  all  those  opinions  and  expressions  as  being,  some  of 
them  heretical,  some  of  them  blasphemous,  some  of  them  erroneous, 
and  all  of  them  incongruous."  The  covenant  ad'-pted  by  the  church 
of  (Joncord  bears  evident  traces  of  Air.  ljuikck\\s  hand.  It  was 
no  statement  of  doctrine,  but  a  simple  biiuliiig  of  theniselves  to  one 
another  ''to  waike  henceforth  as  becometh  the  people  of  God." 

After  this  event  Air.  Bulkeley  appeared  no  more  in  public  life,  but 
confined  himself  to  his  duties  at  Concord.  He  retained,  however,  a 
do'jp  interest  in  the  general  affairs  of  the  country,  and  kept  up  an 
active  correspondence  with  Air.  Cotton  and  tlie  liev.  Air.  >hepard  of 
Cambridge.     He  writes  to  Air.  Cotton,  "  I  loic  mucli  in  this  retired 

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158  Life  and  Times  of  Bev.  PcUr  BiiUcclcy.  April, 

Wiltleriiess  in  which  I  live,  but  the  Lord  <vill  at  la<t  li^difen  my  c:in- 
(llo.  Tn  the  iiioiunvliilc  help  ii.s  with  suiiie  of  tliJit  \vhioh  God  hiilh 
imparted  inito  you."  He  de[il()re.7  in  unothcr  letter  the  evils  of  tiu; 
times,  and  says,  "1  am  pertuaded  that  except  there  be  some  means 

used  to  chau<,'e  the  course  of  things our  churches  will  grow  more 

corrupt  d;iy  by  dav,  and  tumult  will  arise  hardly  to  be  settled."  Jn 
addition  to  the  vexatious  reli^^imis  questions  of  the  day,  women  were 
bef^inninf^  to  claim  tlieir  rights  in  Concord.  lie  asks  of  Mr.  Cotton 
"how  to  act  when  a  sister  takes  otl'ence  against  ;i  I'rother."  A\'iiothcr 
she  has  the  same  liberty  as  a  brother  to  deal  with  the  oilendlng  bro- 
ther. The  good  man  is  per[)loxed  by  the  dangers  of  an  athnnative 
decision  ;  "for  there  being  neither  male  nor  female  in  the  J^ord,"  he 
ears  the  allowing  the  sister  to  call  a  brother  in  question  may  en<l 
ill  giving  the  woman  power  over  the  man. 

In  the  meantime  the  trials  and  discouragements  at  Concord  con- 
tinued to  increase  rather  than  abate.  The  disastrous  floods  of 
the  liver,  and  the  unrewarded  tillage  of  the  land,  drove  many  to 
seek  new  homes,  and  some  even  returned  to  England.  A  difficulty 
occurred  also  between  ^Ir,  Bulkelcy  and  ^Ir.  Jones,  -which  resulted 
in  the  departure  of  the  latter  for  Connecticut,  accompanied  by  many 
members  of  the  little  church.  Amid  the  divisions  and  strifes  which 
shattered  the  fair  ideal  of  tlieocratic  rule,  ?»ir.  IJulkcIey  was  neitla.-r 
embittered  nor  cast  down.  He  was  ^vont  to  give  three  good  reasons 
for  being  consoled  in  such  trials.  He  learned,  first,  "to  know  more 
of  God  ;  second,  to  know  more  of  men  ;  and  third,  to  know  njorc  of 
himself."  Only  tliirty  families  were  left  in  Concord  after  the  depar- 
ture of  ]Mr.  Jones.  ^Ir.  Bulkeley  had  always  taken  a  deep  interest 
in  the  Indians,  and  about  this  time,  by  his  influence  and  exertions, 
they  were  permitted  to  live  within  the  limits  o'"  the  town,  but  under 
%xry  strict  regulations. 

A  chronicler  of  the  time  draws  a  beautiful  and  graphic  picture  of 
the  venerable  exde  of  Odell,  in  the  last  days  of  his  pilgrimage 
through  the  earthly  to  the  heavenly  city.  The  little  town  was 
built  under  the  protection  of  a  sunny  bank,  and  all  the  houses  faced 
on  one  long  straight  street.  Here  with  close  cut  hair  and  clad  with 
scrupulous  care  in  the  strict  habit  of  the  Puritan  divine,  "the  rever- 
end, grave,  and  godly  Mr.  TJulkeley  "  migiit  be  seen  on  the  round  ot 
his  daily  duty,  going  from  house  to  house  to  iustnict  the  young, 
and  watching  with  pastoral  care  over  tlie  elders  of  his  flock.  \\'hen 
through  growing  intirmities  he  could  no  longer  make  visits,  he 
endeavored,  by  "a  winning  but  prudent  familiarity,"  to  draw  his 
people  to  ccnie  and  sit  with  him,  when  with  graceful  ease  he  turned 
every  topic  to  some  profitable  lesson,  so  that  none  ever  lett  his 
presence  that  they  did  not  take  -with  them  "some  holy,  serious, 
divine,  and  useful  thought."  A\'ith  such  reverence  did  his  people 
regard  him,  that  neither  the  occasional  irritabiiiry  produc-.d  by 
gufterin<z  and  the  infirmities  of  acre,  nor  the  severitv  of  Lis  denun- 
i<?iaticns  against  sins  less  venial  in  his  eyes  than  in  those  of  a  yoimge-'" 


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1877.]  Life  and  Times  of  Rev.  Peter  JJulk*ilcy.  159 

nud  loss  ri^id  goncration,  could  diiiurii?li  tlicir  love  and  vencnitloa 
for  lihn.  And  thia  .-entinicnt  wiis  not  peculiar  to  liis  own  poo[)le, 
but  throughout  the  countiy  he  was  equally  respected  and  beloved, 
especially  by  all  the  nunisiers,  who  were  in  the  habit  of"  addressing 
liiin  "as  a  father,  a  prophet,  and  a  councillor."  He  introduced  the  old 
Englij^h  custom  of  catechizing  the  young  pe<)[)le  publicly  in  the 
church -after  the  afternoun  service,  llis  preaching  was  remarkably 
energetic  and  powerful,  and  of  a  most  persuasive  eloquence.  He 
was  in  the  habit  of  preaching  a  series  of  t^ermons  on  a  ])artieular 
text  or  book  ;  and  in  this  way  the  whole  of  his  Treatise  on  "the  Gospel 
Covenant "  was  first  {(reached  to  his  o^vn  ])eo[ilc  soon  at^er  his  arrival 
at  Concord.  So  greatly  was  it  admired,  that  he  repeated  it  at  their 
request.  It  was  among  the  first  books  written  in  New  England  tliat 
wore  printed.  It  went  through  several  editions  in  England.  It  wa3 
not  only  a  very  clear  and  logical  argument  in  the  great  controversy 
of  the  time,  but  it  was  also  a  statement  of  the  Puritans'  grounds  fur 
desiring  to  estaljlish  a  theocracy.  His  knowledge  of  the  scripture, 
both  in  the  origin;d  and  in  the  various  translations,  was  profound. 
He  was  always  ready  to  assist  any  youth  in  obtaining  an  education, 
and  beside  other  donations  gave  a  portion  of  his  library  to  Harvard 
College.  To  the  end  of  his  life  he  enjoyed  the  resources  of  scholar- 
ship, and  continued  to  write  I^atin  verse,  at  which  he  had  a  ''com- 
petently good  stroke."  As  old  age  grew  upon  him,  his  or.lv  fear 
was  of  outliving  his  usefulness,  and  during  an  illness  in  105?  he 
composed  an  epigram  which  we  give  as  a  specimen  of  his  Latinity. 
The  kind  hand  of  a  friend  enables  us  to  subjoin  in  English  its  simple 
and  pious  thought. 

Pigra  senectutis  jam  venit  inutilis  ajtas  ; 

Nil  aliud  nunc  sum  quam  fere  pondus  iners. 
Da  tamon,  Aliiie  Deu-s,  dura  vivani,  vivere  laudi 

j.-t]rernuni  sancti  Nonanis  u<que  Tui. 
,..  ,.     Ne  vlvam  (ruoriar  potius!)  nil  utile  aLrcndo  ; 

'  '  ■    .' '    ■■  Finiat  opto  mapis  mors  propcrata  dies.  -<:'. 

Vel  doceam  in  Sancto  Ciietu  Tua  verba  salutis,  "'     '  '    - 

Ca?lestive  canam  Cantica  sacra  Chnro !  *  ' 

Sou  vivam  moriarve,  Tuns  sim,  Christe,  quod  uni       .-.   : . 

Debita  vita  mea  est,  debita  raorsque  Tibi  ! 

Old  age  ■with  idle  days  hath  come  ;  naught  else 
But  useless  weight  I  seem.     Yet  grant," Great  God, 
TV'hile  I  do  live,  my  life  may  be  a  praise 
Unceasing  and  a  glory  to  thy  liuly  name  ! 
Jlay  J  not  live  and  pay  no  service  meet, 
But  rather  death  soon  end  my  fruitless  years  ! 
Among  thy  saints  on  earth  I  would  declare 
Thy  word?  of  life,  or  sin'_'  thy  prai«e  above. 
•      •  In  life,  in  death  may  I  be  thine,  O  Clirisc  1 

My  life  is  thine  alone  and  thine  my  death. 

Two  years  more  of  usefulness  were  granted  him,  in  which  he 
was  able  to  preach  and  to  attend  to  the  duties  of  his  miaistrv.  He 
died  at  Concord,  :\[arch  9,  l»J58-9,  in  the  77th  year  of  hi^  age,  and 
"was  translated,"  says  ^vlr.  :Mather,  "into  regions  which°  afford 
nothing  but  concord  and  glory." 


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ICO  Letter  of  2Jrs.  Susan  Ucdington.  [Ap;il, 


LETTER  OF  :JK.S.  bUSAX  KEDLVGTOX,  COXCERXIXf; 

TJIE  ESTATE  OF  IlElt  r.I.'OrilER,  JiEV.  JOSEPH 

WAITE,  OF  SPliOUGHTOX,  EXGLAXl). 

ComniunicatL-]  by  Delouvine  P.  Coiikv,  E«(].,  of  MuMcii,  Mass. 

'YTT'E  are  mdcltcd  to  Henry  F.  Waters,  Esq.,  of  Salem,  for  the 
V  V  fullowiag  letter,  fruin  Essex  Co.  Court  I^ipers,  Liber  2V  : 
folio  143.  Its  reciiuent,  Robert  Lord,  of  Ipswich,  was  clerk  of  the 
courts  of  tl:at  county  ;  and  to  that  circumstance  we  doubtless  owe  its 
preservation.  As  it  is  a  private  lerrcr,  and  has  no  apparent  connec- 
tion with  other  pajjers  on  the  fdcs,  it  probably  came  into  its  present 
position  by  accident.  Had  its  owner  found  it,  it  might  ha^e  been 
lost  to  us,  and  tlie  information  it  gives  have  never  reached  us.  Ivobert 
Lord,  according  to  tlic  I,;tc  liev.  ]>.  Felt,  nianied  Marv  Waite,' 
and  died  April  21,  IG80.  Candler's  pedigree  of  Ward  i'nf(n-ras  us 
that  Mary,  eldest  cliild  of  Samuel  and  Mary  (Ward)  ^Vaitc,  of 
Wethersfield,  co.  Essex,  Eng.,  married  Robert  Lord."  Susan 
Redington,  the  writer  of  the  letter,  vras  the  Susan  \Vaite  of  the 
Candler  pedigree.  The  will  referred  to  Avas  tlipt  of  the  Jicv.  Josoh 
AVaite,  rector  of  Sproughtou,  in  Suffolk,  a  brother  of  the  v.-riter, 
who  died  June  29,  IGTO.-'  His  wite  was  ''Margaret,  dauglitcr  of 
Matthew  Lawrence,  Towne  preacher  of  Ipswich,"  and  her  death,  in 
June,  1675, ■*  caused  her  husband's  estate  to  pass  into  tiie  hands  of 
trustees,  as  provided  in  his  will.  Col.  Josepli  L.  Chester,  of  London, 
in  a  letter  to  the  Editor  of  the  Register,  has  kindly  given  the  follow- 
ing ab;  tract  of  the  \\-\\\ : 

The  AVill  of  'Joseph  Waite,  of  Sproui^litoa.  co.  Suffolk,  Clerk.'  dated  7 
June,  16G0,  was  proved  in  the  Prerogative  Court  of  Canterbury,  11  Sept., 
1671,  by  his  relict  Margaret.  His  bequests  were  as  follows:  'to  my  dear 
and  honored  mother,  jfrs.  Judith  Lawrence,  £10 ;  to  my  loved  sister'^Iarv 
Lawrence,  £10.  at  marriage.  All  the  residue  of  my  estate  to  my  witb 
Margaret  for  life,  and  after  her  death  my  house  and  lands  at  Fraraliiifiham, 
CO.  Sutlblk,  to  my  loving  cousin  iMr.  Samuel  Golty,  of  Ipswich,  Clerk,  and 
my  loving  brother  Mr.  Thomas  Whitiug,  of  Hadleigh,  draper,  as  tru.-tees. 
to  be  sold  by  them  (the  same  co-t  me  £5Co.).  aiuf  tlie  proceeds  <Iivi(k"l 
equally  among  'my  naturall  brothers  and  sisters  then  surviveiu^  in  old 
England  or  in  New,  or  to  the  heirs  of  each  of  them.' 

A  few  foot-notes  are  added  to  the  letter. 

*  Hi.-torv  of  Ipswif  li,  p.  f^7. 

*  I)e:m'-"  Mi.-in.  of  Natlianicl  Wan!,  p.  120. 

^  Clark's  Ip.swich,  p.  3)4;  Di-ia's  Ward,  vt  svpra. 

*  Caniiicr;  Dcaii'i  Wiir.J,  ut  suj-'ra. 


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1877.]  Letter  of  Mrs.  Susan  Redington.  161 

To  My  Dcarc  P>rot!ier  Robert  Lor<l  at 

Ipswich  iu  New  England  This 

Dear  Pirother  and  si>tor  kind  our  wills  presented  unto  you  and  your  children 
ami  "rand  (.'liildrcu  ho[)ing  and  v.  ishint;  your  toniporali  and  >[»irituaU  wtUfaro, 
wee^rcceiued  yours  dated  in  July  with  your  leter  of  aturiiy  and  note  for 
your  goods  and  its  no  small  trouble  to  us  that  we  can  now  only  send  you 
words  in  answer  to  it  so  it  is  the  IJeason  we  canot  giue  you,  for  still  there  is 
nothing  don  by  the  trustees,  for  all  our  going  an<l  sending  nothing  but  it 
shall  be  don  very  speedily  I  supi)0se  3r  Paine'  can  giue  you  a  better 
arount  of  things  then  I  he  haueing  I/iu  so  long  at  Ipswich,  we  haue  sent  you 
a  copy  of  the  will  yet  we  heer  cossen  Golty*  hath  sent  one  we  could  never 
get  it  till  now:  I  supose  it  is  somwhat  disputable  wether  Brotli  Sam' 
children  will  haue  a  share  by  Reason  of  y'  word  then  surviuehig  yet  me 
thiidcs  I  should  be  iilad  they  might  though  poor  Joseph  yet  remains  a  pro- 
digal!, yet  we  would  hope  not  all  so  bad  as  formerly,  we  shall  do  v.hat  we 
can  in  it,  though  not  by  m'  paine  yet  by  the  flrs^  opertunity  we  can,  wo 
heard  by  sister  YAW"  from  you  that  the  'lord  hath  taken  our  dear  cossen 
Mary  out  of  this  sinfull  world,  we  long  to  heer  how  it  (is)  with  you  in 
reference  to  your  war,^  and  though  as  yet  the  sword  is  at  (juiet  amongst 
us,  we  are  in  a  xiivy  sad  confussed  condition  and  sin  growes  to  a  desperate 
height  without  coutrowl  our  parliament  is  mett  ouce  againe  what  the  lord 
will  do  for  us  by  them  we  know  not,  we  uiay  well  say  lord  help  us  for 
vaine  is  the  help -of  man  o  y'  we  could  look  to  him  as  we  ought;*  so  far  as 
I  know  our  relations  are  well,  cosson  Hellen  had  2  boys  at  a  birth  about 
decemb  last  but  both  .dead,  Broth  Bill  hath  had  a  thistilo  in  his  face  tis 
we  hope  in  a  way  of  cure,  I  purpose  this  night  to  write  to  cossin  Golty 
once  more  to  hasten  the  bisiness,  to  the  lord  I  comit  you  my  time  to  write 
being  very  short  and  rest  yo'  loueing  sister 

March  2  1C7C-7  Sus-A:^i  Redington 

Pray  present  our  kind  loues  to  broth  Johu^  and  wife  to  whom  I  canot 
now  VfTiiQ  pray  send  me  word  which  of  the  parkers  widows  she  was 

*  Perhaps  of  the  famih-  of  Robert  Paine,  of  Ipsvrich,  X.  E.,  treasurer  of  Essex  Co..  who 
is  supposed  to  have  been  a  native  of  Sutf.jlk  ;  and  who  married  Ann,  dau.  of  John  Whit- 
in^:  of  Hadleigh,  in  that  countv.  {Savage.)  It  may  be  noticed  in  this  connection  that  "  my 
loving  tirother  ^Ir.  Tliomas  Whiting  of  Hadleigh  "  was  one  of  the  trustees.  Hadleigh  is 
aliout  ten  miles  from  Ipswich. 

'  Samuel  Golty,  of  Ipswich,  Eng.,  one  of  the  trustees,  and  prohably  son  of  Rev.  Richard 
Golty,  rector  of  Framlingham,  and  his  wife  Deborah,  dau.  of  the  Rev.  Samuel  Ward,  of 
Ip-wiL-h.     (See  Candler  in  Dean's  Ward,  p.  125.) 

'  Samuel  Waire,  elde-t  son  of  Samuel  and  .Mar%-  AVaite,  of  Wethersfield  [Candler,  vt 
rttpra),  who  maiTied  Helen  Crosse;  and  v.-ho,  it  appears,  was  now  deceased,  leaving  issue, 
of  wiiom  wa-  the  "  prodi:raU"  Joseph.  Perhaps  John  Crosse,  who,  with  wife  Anne,  was  a 
pa>.-;enger  in  the  "Elizabeth  of  Ipswich,"  in  1634,  and  who  is  found  at  Ipswich  in  N.  E., 
the  next  vear,  was  a  relative  of  his  wife. 

■*  Perhaps  Acne,  the  tifth  child  of  Samuel  and  Mary  Waite.  Anne  and  Hann.ili.  it  is  well 
kn.jnn,  Were  intvthangeaMe  naint-s.  Philip  Bill,  pre.-umed  son  of  John  and  Dorothy  Bill, 
iiTi  brother  of  James  and  Thomis  of  Boston,  was  born  about  Vr2Q,  and  was  in  Ipswich. 
^^  E.,  lb6o-G8.  In  Che  latter  vear  he  re;noved  to  Pullin_'  Point,  tiien  in  Eo>ton.  now  in 
Wiiitlirop.  and  suor.  alter  to  New  London,  v  here  he  died.  He  had  wife  Haimah,  who 
aucrwards  married  Samuel  Bucknell,  or  Buckland.    (Bi'!  Gen.,  p.  55,  et  seq.) 

^  Philip's  War,  i\  liich  had  cio^ed  with  the  death  of  Philip  in  the  preceding  August. 

"  Thf  wviror  convevs  in  a  few  words  a  livelv  imprcs>ion  of  the  state  of  popular  feeling 
In  Hiigland  at  that  time.  These  v.er..;  tiic  .lavs  when  the  peuple  were  d:>tractc  i  by  jealousies 
of  ilii;  i.()urt  and  liars  of  the  Ron.i^h  party.  '  Rumors  were  exaggerated,  and  the  wars  on  the 
continent  v.cre,  in  anticipation,  brouirht  to  their  own  dours. 

'  Capt.  John  Waire,  of  Mai  len,  whose  wife  M.irv,  dau.  of  Joseph  Hills,  of  Maldon,  ro. 
E.vse.-c,  Eng.,  aud  Maiden,  ^'.  E.,  died  Nov.  25,  1674;  and  who  had  miuricd,  Aug.  i,  1675, 


i::     i.j  't 


i    L    ..     .-' 

.  ...  ,     ,  .  • 


162  Kew  Hampshire  Manuscripts,  [April, 

Pcare  siste.-  T  thauk  you  for  your  letter  and  as  to  sister  AbigaiP-  her 
soooiifl  iu;irt.'U  slie  liafh  a  \ov\-  \o\\q.\\\'^  oarefull  husband  who  I  hope  minds 
the  best  thiiiirs  thou.uli  we  fchould  1)0  f,dad  lo  so  more  b.oiios  of  tho  iiiaiuc  in 
him;  we  beg  your  prayers  tliat  we  and  ours  may  be  the  lords,  inablcd  to  du 
aud  sutVor  Lis  will 

1  thank  you  fur  my  childreas  tokens  thoii;^h  thoy  yet  haue  tlicm  DOt 


NEW  IU:\irSHIRE  MANUSCRIPTS. 

Communicated  b}-  John  S.  II.  Fogg,  M.D.,  of  South  Bosiun,  Tlnss. 

THE  following  letters  and  documents  cauic  some  years  since  into 
my  possession.  They  relate  to  the  old  dilHculty  of  Lieut. - 
Gov.  Jolin  Usher.'  The  documents  which  follow  the  letter  of 
Nathaniel  Fryer,  are  in  th(!  same  enclosure  with  ^Villiam  Kcclford's 
leUer  which  fuilowo  ihem. 

Boston  3'^  Octob'  1G04. 
Sr: 

I  liorcw'"^  inclose  a  Lett'  directed  to  yo'  selfe  &  Couusill  w'^''  wheu 
perused  Seal,  &  afterwards 'communicate  to  y"^  Couusill. 

upon  receijitt  of  these  lines  be  pleased  to  call  y*^  Counoill  &  when  they  racie 
you  are  to  ord'  y^  Secretary-  to  read  y''  Letf,  when  read  doe  you  ouely  pro- 
pose to  y*^  Couucill  to  know  whatt  may  be  prop"". 

if  they  will  eiigaige  to  comply  as  proposed  well :  if  they  propose  to  call 
an  assembly ;  you  may  wane  concerning  therein  untill  you  know  ray  miude 
butt  w"^all  you  may  acquaintt  j^em  if  itt  be  there  desire  to  haue  an  assem- 
bly, if  they  think  good  to  send  a  Lett''  from  y"  board  to  ray  Selfe  desireing 
an  assembly  to  be  called :  thatt  I  haue  signifyed  to  you  I  shall  be  redy  to 
giue  my  advice,  &  come  to  y"^  province  to  doe  those  things  w'^'^  may  be  proper 
for  the  Coe^  aud  yer^  Majty'  Service :  if  they  decline  sending  to  me,  yon  may 
accjuaint  them  I  ordered  you  nott  to  call  an  assembly  in  my  absence  w'-"outt 
further  orde"  &  directions  from  my  Selfe,  w'^^  I  now  doe.  you  must  be  upon 
yo'  Guard,  &  shall  advise  you  nott  to  run  upon  many  matt"  leastt  y*  Same 
proue  prejudiciall.  I  writt  nott  by  y*^  lastt  poste  to  you  by  reason  I  was 
outt  of  Town  &  fryday  before  I  reed:  yo'  Lett". 

Sarah,  widow  of  Jacob  Parker,  of  Chelmsford.  {Candler,  ut  supra;  R'^rjjster,  xxvi.  82. 
xxxi.  111.  Probably  "the  Parkers"  were  acqu.aintance3  of  the  W'aite  tamily  while  in 
England. 

'  A  younger  sister.  The  Candler  pedicrrce  irives  another,  still  younger,  sister,  Sarah. 
One  of  those  was  prohatily  wife  of  Thomas  Whitinu',  of  Hadleiirh,  the  "  loving  brother" 
of  the  will.  Theie  was  also  a  tirother.  Thumas,  nut  mentioned  in  this  letter.  Thomas  Waite, 
of  Ipsv/ich  in  1G-jS,  if  nor  earlier,  mav  huve  been  this  ^lrother.  I  think  that  he  was  dead, 
or  had  removed  from  Ipswich,  at  tne  date  of  the  letter,  and  tint  Mr.  Savage  has  cout'ouii'led 
him  with  a  younger  man,  when  he  speaks  of  him  as  living  in  1G7S.  Tuo  otiier  Thomas  Waite, 
who  appears  in  Essex  Conrr  Papers,  a^ed  '21  in  ir>7'2,  may  have  l^cen  liis  son.  Can  some  ot 
our  Essex  anti'iuaries  throw  li_'lit  ui)on  the  early  generations  of  the  Waites  of  I:i-wioli  ? 

-  A  genoaloiry  of  the  Usher  Family,  giving  the  ancestry  and  descendants  of  h'eu\-Gov- 
errior  Ushi.r,  i-- printed  in  tlie  ll-;c-i^tLn,  \"I.  xxiii.  np.  -iiO-K.^.  For  an  accoa.it  (<f_h!-i 
administration  of  tiie  New  Ilanipsliire  gDverumcut,  IGOJ-'J""),  see  Cciknap's  Hi^tuiy  of  Nc»v 
Hampshire,  vol.  i.  pp.  ^iS-j")!.  Tiie  Minutes  of  the  Council  of  New  Himpshire  during 
that  penod  arc  printed  in  the  Provinc'al  Piipcrs  of  New  Hampshire,  edited  by  the  R-v. 
Naliiaxiiel  Boulon,  D.l).,  vol.  ii.  pp.  70-202.  Eonoa. 


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1877.]  jS^eic  Uampshire  jSfanuscri'pts.  1G3 

gr  y^rm  p}ijps arriuc:!  butt  noo  greatt  news  iny   Service  to  ail 

(TriiMi(1«:  T  reiunin  S'  yo" 

Jn**  UsuF.n. 

[No  luldi-fss.     Endorsed  -'  Let'  3'  O-jtol/  to  [  Cap''  ffryf r."] 

Newcasll  October  15:  04, 
honrd  S' 

Yours  of  the  5  of  October  I  Rc-eucd  wth  tlio  Inclosed  to  our 
Counsell  And  Accordingly  did  Cull  the  Counsell  Bui;  the  hiuntun  min  did 
not  Cum  lint  1  sent  for  lh<:'m  A^iue  Last  friday :  then  the  X\\  Cam:  ordy 
ni'  AVulldon  was  taken  sick  :  tln-n  we  had  many  words  tocretlier  About  my 
Being  presedent:  t!ie  wicli  you  will  haue  A  larg  Acomj)t  of  it  Bv  m'  Ked- 
ford  Letter  for :  I  did  order  him  to  Gine  you  A  trou  Acompt  of  All 
our  Acting  But  the  next  day  the  ware  more  comphabll  And  As  your 
honre  will  see  By  ui'  Redfurds  Letter  And  As  were  forward  to  huue  An 
uriombly  spedely  to  that  End  the  All  did  de.sier  ^Vnother  metijig  the  next 
tusday  Com  and  so  then  I  told  them  it  might  dew  well  to  send  for  your 
hoimcr  to  IjC  with  n=,  ther  Ausor  was  that  you''  lionner  know  your  one 
Bisnes:  that  is  to  Com  wlien  you  pleas;  S'  I  shall  Be  Glad  to  see  yuu  hear 
And  hop  your  honre  will  Com  :  S''  the  most  of  the  Counsell  Ar  throwlv 
conuinsed  theat  I  was  precedent  And  Comander  In  Chef  In  your  Absence 
As  to  ni'  Cofen  W"a3  the  most  forward  of  Ane  to  own  it  And  tSpak  up  to  it 
more  than  Any  of  the  Rest :  the  Rest  your  honer  shall  haue  At  fouU  when 
your  honor  Comes.  yours  to  serue 

Nath  flryer. 

[Addressed — "  For  th  Ilonour^''^  ]  John  Usher  Esq.  j  their  ^Maj'  Lieat° 
Goueru'  |  of  the  Prouince  X  Ilamps''  |  Present  [  for  their  Maj'  Seruice."] 

Jn°:  Usher  Esq'  L":  Govern':  &  Comand':  in  Cheife  of  their  Majes":  Pro- 
vince New  IIami)sh':  "Whereas  on  the  lO"'  of  August  last  I  layd  before  this 
hoard  that  Cap':  Jn'':  Long  and  Cap*:  Jn°:  ^Yesl  drd  arrive  in  this  his  ^lajes". 
Goverm':  oa  the  8"^  &  9'°  of  August  last,  and  that  they  had  not  made  a 
reporte  or  Entry  of  their  Vessell,  w"^  him  the  sd  L":  Govern'  and  none 
apointed  by  him,  accordiuge  to  Acts  15  Caro :  11  though  required  by  the  s** 
L":  Govern':  of  the  s'-"  Respective  psous  so  to  doe,  &  haveing  gieven  Notice  to 
Phe^ant  Eastwick  &  ordered  him  to  make  seisure  of  s*^  ships,  w"^^  to  this  day 
luve  no  acco":  is  done,  and  being  Informed  the  s"^  Masters  w"^  their  Ships 
are  desirous  to  have  their  dispatcli  from  these  parts :  I  doe  therefore  now 
declare  to  you  Gentlemen  of  the  Councill  iS:  to  the  Judges  of  the  Province, 
that  the  above  s*^  Masters  have  not  Entred  w""  my  self,  nor  none  apointed 
by  me  to  this  day  w*-"^  is  a  breach  of  the  Act  of  15  Caro  :  11  doe  therefore 
'it-maud  of  this  Board  &;  you  Judges  to  doe  that  w'^''  may  be  proper,  that 
their  Majes":  Laws  may  be  Salved  and  preserved  &  the  Hon':  of  the 
Goverm-;  ]Maintaind 

Jn":  Usuer. 

At  a  Councill  at  New  Castle  9.  b':  10  :  04 

Upon  Information  from  the  L'  Govern'  to  this  board  that  the  I^Iasrers 

'I  the  iMast  Ships  have  not  yet  entred  their  ships  according  to  the  Acts  of  15 

V-aru:  H  :  he  demanded  of  them  their  advice  and  Councill  what  was  prop- 

ptr  to  be  don.     Declared  that  it  Concerned  not  the  Councill  bat  the  L* 


'  1       .  II  :  '  :.'\      'UiU 


164  Neio  Hampshire  Mammcripts.  [_A\ 


»n!, 


Govern"' might  Isuc  out  his  Warraiits  for  seisure  of  auy  ship  that  had  bro:ikLu    \ 
the  Acts  of  Trade.  5 

The  J^":  Govern':  Demanded  what  Onicer  (m'  Eastwick  had  Rofus^vli 
should  Execute  tli<'  "Warrant, 

Ausw*^  Any  Ollicer  that  was  propper  for  that  service  of  the  IG:  your 
Hon':  has  : 

at  a  Councill  at  New  Castlu 
Present  Novemi/ 2.3  :  IGUl 

Nath"  Fryar  I'resiil': 
Rob'  Elliott  }  ,,    „  AV'"  Vaughan     )  ,,    „ 

Peter  Cotlin  )'  ^'^'^  "  Itich'^  Waldron  j"       '^  ' 

Whereas  GcO  Long:  Jn":  Lorig  &  .Tn°:  West  have  made  farthi.r 
application  to  this  board,  that  notwinist;Midiiig  the  Councilr.s  answer  to  tlicir 
last  Adress,  the  Ma'^t  ships  Laden  with  tljeir  Majest'  Stores,  are  still  by  tho 
Olticers  Impowred  by  the  L":  Govern":  warrant  continued  under  sei->urir, 
and  wdiereas  signification  has  been  given  to  the  L":  Govern':  that  the  seisuru 
was  made  CoL-trary  to  our  Opinion  gicveu  him  in  Councill :  But  if  he  saw 
Cause  to  prosecute  the  same,  we  left  it  to  hiiri  to  take  such  measures  therei.'i 
as  to  him  should  seem  meet,  but  by  his  Answer  finding  no  order  fqr  pruse- 
cutlng  the  same  seisure,  and  nothing  apearing  to  us,  but  that  the  J^Iasters  of 
the  mast  ships  have  done  their  duty  as  the  Law  requires — 

Ordered  that  the  s*^  Ships:  Viz:  tlte  Suply,  Jn"  Long  m':  &  the  Firr 
Tree  Ju":  "West  ^Nlast':  be  forthwith  freed  from  their  seisure,  and  have  Lib"-rty 
of  proceeding  on  their  A'ioage,  &  All  Oilicers  concerned  therein  are  to  tako 
Notice  thereof  &,  to  Conforme  themselves  thereto  accordingly : 

NovembMS:  1G91. 

Province  of    > 

New  Harap:  )  By  vertue  of  a  warrant  from  und'  the  hand  &  Seal 

of  the  IIou''^''''^:  Jn":  T'sher  Es(|':  L":  Govern'":  of  their  Majest^  Province  Xew 
Uam[)sh'':,  bearing  date  the  lO""  of  this  Ins':  Noveml/:  AV'illing  &c  llequiring 
m''  liich'-'  Jose  Sherife  to  make  seisure  of  the  Sliin  Suply  Jn°  Long  Master, 
w'^  her  tackle  &  furniture  for  Breach  of  Act  of  Parlim':  \o  Caro:  2:  in  not 
entring  w'^  the  Govern':  nor  any  apointed  by  him  according  as  s**-  Act  re- 
quires, I  have  made  seisure  of  s"^  Sliip  according  to  s"^  "Warrant,  A  Cop'O 
whereof  I  delivered  to  Jn°  Long  master  &  being  no  Othervvise  capable  to 
secure  s*^  ship  w*"":  her  Apurtinances :  did  give  acco"  of  my  diligence  &  dis- 
charg  of  the  Trust  R&posed  in  me  unto  Nath'^  Fryar  Esq'  Presid'  of  the 
Councill,  prayeing  him  to  give  Notice  to  the  Officers  of  thtir  Majest^  Cus- 
tomes,  &.  Cap'  of  the  Fourt  at  N  Castle,  &  also  went  my  Self  to  every  one 
of  them  that  so  the  s'^  ship  Suply  should  be  Stopd  :  until  Delivered  by  due 
Course  of  Law:  this  was  done  Novemb'  13  :   IG'JL     By  me 

Rich'*  JoSe  Sherife. 

Portsm°  Decemb':  5'"  1G04 
Hon<^  S' 

By  m'  Mason  I  Rec"^  yours  Dated  Boston  Obr  28"^  Last  Your  letters 
■vv'^  I  sent  back  should  have  been  forwarded,  had  I  heard  any  thing  of  them, 
but  Knew  Nothing  until  I  came  upon  Sab''  night:  am  Sorrie  it  hapued  so: 
I  marvill  myue  w"'  the  minnitts  ^Mascarritd :  what  yo'  Hon'  Rote  for  I  have 


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1877.]  2^ew  Ilariipshire  l\fanu.<icn'p[s.  105 

sent:  Tlie  Geiitknien  here  have  Sett  2  dayes  about  passing  acco"' have  not 
rti)is.iie«i,  adjorud  till  the  Klcveulh  Just:  have  mi>ved  lur  Cumicuiis  lor  Exe- 
ter, hut  not  vet  lie-olvd  thay  linde  it  dillicultt  to  r;ii=;e  Anuuiition  &  Provi- 
sions for  tlieSoultl"  May  ^'augh:m  not  Satislied  w"*  your  Ilun"  CoiTiaiid';  is 
j^trengtliened  by  powers  from  y'"selves  to  Call  the  CUlioers:  to  advise  for 
better  defence  of  the  Provinee  w"^  was  done,  but  yet  not  Kesolved  w'  to  doo 
w'-''  the  rest  of  the  men  : 

To  Ivaise  a  Guanl  when  he  shall  ride  to  Visit  the  P>ontiers  «S:c:  to  be 
payd  out  of  the  Tn^usury  for  K.T[)enses  oute  : 

.i\[;ij^  V:  Sc  I'acker  had  a  great  (juarrell  at  the  meeting  but  P  abated  him 
not  au  ace:  Packer  doth  not  ('V7''"T')  1"  Kefusing  the  C.'omis.-,ion : 

m'  Atkinson  hath  hi-:  Coraission.  I  drew  the  (''l;' v-^T'^  i"  i-uglish  &  signed 
by  your  Order  dating  it  thu  ('"by^vaV')  ^  ^>'- 

There  being  no  Haiauony  between  yo""  Hon'  &  Couneill  Creates  OHicers 
great  many  Troubles  :  here  is  much  Talke  ah'  New  Comissions  to  Packer 
ct  my  Selfe,  w"''  to  Sattistie  their  Curiositie,  I  lead  them  on  In  Ignorance. 

I  wish  w"^  all  my  hart:  A  ComiKsion  w:'.s  taken  by  .some  honest  Gentle- 
■•apn,  to  Curb:  V:  at  tlie  Q'.'arrell  he  told  P.  had  it  not  been  for  Jn"  Usher 
he  should  never  have  had  a  Comission  »fcc :  at  pscnt  I  shall  not  Inlarge  but 
03  things  occur  shall  Send:  if  any  thing  of  Mom^'iit 

Yo'  Ilono'  r^Iost  humble 
Serv*; 

"SV":  Rkdford 

[Addressed :  "  To  |  The  Ilnn'^''"'  John  Usher  [  F.sr^'  \  Th':  :Majeit=:  L": 
Govern"':  &c  [  of  Prov^:  New  Hampsh':  |  Boston."] 

Newcasle  ffobry  lO'^  1G94. 
Most  lion'* 

S'  sence  your  honners  depavter  thear  is  like  to  be  sum  dis?turb- 
ance  becase  of  your  suspending  the  president  m''  Hinks  out  from  the  Coun- 
sell  and  I  fear  tlie  Sore  will  gro  ncry  big  and  the  Couusell  all  Stand  to 
uiiidicate  vdu-!.t  was  don  lu  Counsell  before  your  hou?i<  r  Came  Last  to  Uss: 
honner**  s'  I  shall  be  uery  2;lad  to  Se  you  here  with  ah  speed  So  if  possible 
this  breach  may  be  healled  up  before  itt  groes  two  wide  which  is  all  I  shall 
say  till  you  Cum — not  Else  butt  am  yours 

To  serue 


To  John  Usher  Esq' 

Lef:  Gouener  Command'  ia 

Ch  :  of  y*  Province  of 

New  hampshire 
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166  Ancestry  of  StpjjJicv  Arnold  Douglas.  [Aprii, 

ANCESTRY  OF  STEPHEN  ARNOLD  DOUGLAS. 

Communicnti^il  by  CuiJcrs  l.\.  James  Docglas,  Esq.,  of  Providence,  R.  I. 

WILLFAM'   DOl'GLAS,  b.  ICIO;    m.  Anu,   daughter   of   Thoi.u. 
Mi'ble,*  of  Kin;:;StL';i(l,   Northamptonshire;    lauded  at  Cape  Aim, 
1G3'J— 10;  removed  to  Now  London.  Conn.,  IGGO  ;  d.  July  25,  1CS2  ;  had  : 

i.  A:.v,  b.  ir.37. 

ii.  Ror.r.r.T,  b.  1(130. 

iii.  ELi/\)iFin,  I).  Ang.  20,  1011. 

iv.  y.\R.\ii,  b.  Aprd  H,  10 n. 

2.  V.  Wi/.i.iAjr,  b.  April  I,  101').  • 

2.  AYiLf-iAM-  Douglas  m.  Dec.  18,  lCr,7,  Abiah,  daughter  of  William 
Hough,  of  New  London  ;  d.  3Iarch  9,  1721-5;  had: 

i.  ELiZAr.F.Tii,  b.  Feb.  25,  lGGS-9. 

ii.  Sakaii,  b.  April  2,  107 L. 

3.  iii.  WiLMAM,  b.  Feb.  I'J,  1072-3.  ' 
iv.  Ani.'.K.  b.  Alice.  IS,  lOTj. 

V.      KfHECJA,  b.  June  11,  1078. 
•     Ti.     Avx,  b.  May  21,  IGSO. 
vii.  RiciUKD,  b.  July  19.  1GS3. 
viii.  Samuel,  b.  about  1634. 

3.  "William'  Douglas   m,  about  1G05.  Sarah  Proctor:    roin:/veJ  •.; 
1699  to  Plainfield,  Conn.;  d.  Aug.  10,  1710  ;  had  : 

i.  Hannah,  b.  S.-pt.  7,  1000. 

ii.  WiLL[\M.  b.  Feb.  19,  lOOS. 

iii.  Sajilkl,  b.  x\pril  13,  1000. 

17.  Abiah,  b.  F.'b.  26,  1701-2. 

V.  John,  b.  Jtdy  23,  1703. 

vi.  Sarau,  b.  Dec.  7,  1701. 

vii.  Jeru.^ua,  b.  April  26,  1706. 

viii.  Samuel,  b.  Dec.  3,  1707.  , 

■  i        is.  Benajah,  b  Sept.  17,  1710. 

X.  James,  b.  May  20,  1711. 

xi.  Thomas,  b.  Xuv.  20,  1712. 

4.  xii.  Asa,  b.  Dec.  11,  1715. 

4.  Asa*  Douglas  di.  about  17.j7,  Rebecca  Wheeler;  removed  in  171'.' 
■to  Old  Canaan ;  d.  Nov.  12,  1792  ;  had  : 

i.  Sarau,  b.  Feb.  20,  1733.  '     "^      ,       "'  ,'    '  ' 

ii.  Asa,  b.  Dec.  24,  1739.  ■•       '    '    '      '■^'         "  •■   "  '    " 

iii.  Rebecca,  b.  Jan.  3,  1741-2. 

iv.  William,  b.  Aug.  22,  1743. 

V.  Hannah,  b.  Jan.  17,  1741-5.  _,      .  ., ,    ,  ,.^     ,.  ;    ,;   .,.  .,^_ 

vi.  Lucy,  b.  Jan.  12,  1746-7. 

vii.  Olive,  b.  Sept.  7,  1743. 

viii.  V/heeler,  b.  April  10,  1750. 

ix.  Jonathan,  b.  Feb.  14.  1752. 

X.        .NATHA-NtEL,  b.  Au^T.    H,  1751. 

xi.    John.  b.  Xwr.  2,  1753.  , 

5.  xii.  BiiNAjAU.  b.'Deo.  15.  17G0. 
xiii.  Lucy,  b.  .May  10,  1702. 

5.  Ben-a.tah*  Douglas  m.  about   1780,  Patty,  daughter  of  Stophc-r; 
Arnold  ;  removed  to  Stepuentown,  N.  Y. ;  had  : 

i.  SrEiniEN  Arnold,  vrho  was  the  father  of  Stephen  ArnohF  Dowhis.  t!;o 
.statesman,  of  -whom  a  biographical  sketch  will  bo  fuund  in  t.:C 
Register,  vol.  xv.  p.  2SI. 

■•  Mr.  Savage  give3  the  name  }.fj,t'.le,  but  fjo  recorJs  giro  it  Iftzow  very  castinct!/. 


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1877.]  Wager  and  III' U.  167 


SIR  CIIAriLES   WAGER  AND   CAPT.  JOHN   HULL.' 

By  Osgood  Tuxu,  Ksh.,  of  London,  England. 

A]\IO^X^  tlie  many  tacts  brought  to  light  by  Col.  Chester,  in  that 
marvel  of  goneulogical  research,  "  'Jlic  Westminster  Abbey 
Kci^ister.-*/'  is  the  parentage  of  Admiral  Sir  Charles  A\'ager,  •whose 
monument  in  that  venerable  pile  has  been  seen  by  thousands  of  our 
countrymen  witiiout  a  suspicion  that  his  early  history  \vas  associated 
with  America,  and  that  his  excellent  seamanship  and  uju-ight  char- 
acter" were  partly  due  to  the  training  lie  received  from  a  native  of 
New  England,  who  commanded  a  vessel  trading  between  tliis  colony 
and  the  mother  country. 

I  aui  mainly  indebted  to  family  tradition,  as  told  by  a  gcneratioa 
now  passed  away,  for  the  incider.t  1  am  aljout  to  relate,  which  haa 
been  current  among  the  seafaring  population  of  New  England  for 
many  years,  and  been  woven  in  the  pages  of  romance,^  but  it  has 
either  been  attributed  to  those  who  had  no  part  in  it,  or  the  narra- 
tors of  the  story  have  acknowledged  tluit  they  were  ignorant  of  the 
names  of  the  actors  in  it. 

It  had  been  generally  supposed  that  Chorles  Wager  was  a  poor 
and  friendless  boy,  when  he  was  apprenticed  to  Ca.pt.  John  Hull,* 
whose  ship  traded  between  Newport,  li.  I.,  and  England,  until  Col. 
Chester  showed  in  the  work  referred  to  that  he  belonged  to  a  faniily 
of  good  position,  and  that  his  father'  was  "  a  naval  officer  of  high 
standing,  and  at  his  death  commander  of  one  of  His  ^vlajesty's 
frigates/'  This  event  occurred  Eeb.  4,  IGGo-G  in  all  probability 
shortly  after  the  Admiral  was  born,  for  on  his  nunumcnt  his  age  is 
stated  to  have  been  79  at  the  time  of  his  death.  May  24,  1743. 
His  widowed  mother  married  a  second  husband, — Alexander 
Parker, — a  London  merchant  and  a  member  of  the  Society  of 
Friends,  which  last  flict  throws  some  light  on  the  Admirars  subse- 
quent career. 

>  This  article  wa';  received  bv  us  la-t  autumn,  and  wa'!  intended  fnr  our  Jmuarv  nnra- 
ber;  hut  tlie  press  of  other  m.utcr  prevented  its  appe.irancc  then.  Wiuie  it  wa-  in  type  for 
tliis  niiml;er,  we  reicived  from  Mr.  Field  tlie  tblLmvinu;  note,  which  he  wishes  appended: 

"  Since  writing  this  article,  the  author  h;is  seen  a  pamphlet  conti-ininir  an  address  deliv- 
ered hy  the  Hon.  William  P.  Slictticld,  at  Newport,  K.I,  on  the  F.>iirth  of  July,  18/ 9^ 
wt-.ich  contLuris  a  version  of  the  anecdote  dirt'criui,'  in  sonio  respects  from  this;  hut, 
af:er  pcrusin?  >[r.  Shefiield's  narrative,  the  writm-  sees  nu  occa^iim  to  make  any  alteration. 
in  his  account,  \»hich  he  believes  to  be  substantially  correct." 

Mr.  Shclacld's  pamphlet  is  noticed  in  the  Ri;gisti:ii,  ante,  p.  136.— Ed. 

'  "  Old  Sir  Charles  Wager  is  dead  at  last  and  has  left  the  fairest  character."  (Walpolc,. 
vol.  i.  p:i-e2Sl.) 

'  I  tiiini<  it  was  In  "Miriara  Cottln,"  I  read  the  anecdote  nianv  years  since. 

*  Tlie  Vm>  names  were  again  as.-ociated  in  the  late  Waircr  Hull  oi'  New  \urk, 

»  Doubn.ss  the  same  person  thus  spoken  of  bv  Pcpvs  (vol.  iv.  1GG3).  -There  waa 
never  anv  man  that  behaved  himself  in  the  Straits  (of  Gibraltiir)  like  poor  Charles  Wager^ 
^hoLi  tlie  Very  Moors  do  mentiou  with  tears  someiiines." 


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168  Wofjer  and  IlaU.  [Apri}. 

"We  may  well  suppose  tliat  lie  inherited  from  his  fatlicr  n  lovo  cf 
the  sea  and  :i  fVindnoss  for  adventure,  ■whicli  is  so  often  Crso'.'iat'  d 
■with  ocean  life,  and  that  he  found  the  home  of  his  (Quaker  5tep-fu!ior 
dull  and  monotonous.  ProbaMy  his  parents  oj)posed  his  v/ishos  ai 
first,  but  yielded  when  tlK:y  found  an  opportunity,  not  often  met 
with,  of  apprcntieinp;  him  to  the  sea  with  one  of  their  own  persua- 
eion, — for  Hull  also  belonged  to  the  Soeiety  of  Friends, — and  with 
whom  we  may  presume  they  were  already  acquainted,  considering 
the  smallness  of  this  community  in  London  at  that  time.  Appa- 
rently master  and  apprentice  got  on  well  together,  for  the  anec- 
dote I  am  about  to  relate  must  have  occurred  long  after  they  were 
first  brought  together,  and  in  the  early  part  of  th.e  v/ar  with 
France,  wiiieh  broke  out  in  1G89  and  was  terminated  by  the  Peace 
of  Ryswick. 

Capit.  Jluil  ^\as  sailing  his  ship  up  the  Tji-itish  Channel,  when  a 
French  privateer  hove  in  sight,  and  being  the  better  sailt-r  rapidly 
gained  on  xhc  merchantman.  Jyscape  was  hopeless;  for  even  if 
Hull's  principles  had  allowed  him  to  fight,  resistance  on  his  part 
to  a  vessel  heavily  armed  and  with  a  numerous  crew,  would  have 
been  an  act  of  madness.  Not  wishing  to  see  his  shij)  surrendered, 
he  gave  up  the  command  to  AVager,  who  had  probably  risen  to 
the  position  of  mate,  and  went  below  with  a  heavy  heart.  Hull 
paced  the  cabin  in  a  restless  frame  of  mind,  until,  no  longer  able 
to  remain  there,  he  ascended  tlie  stairs  and  emerged  from  the 
companion-way  just  as  the  Frenchman  was  crossing  their  bows,  her 
decks  crowded  with  men,  and  her  captain  calling  on  ihem  to  haul 
doT\Ti  their  flag  in  token  of  surrender.  Hull  saw  the  opportunity 
at  a  glance,  and  said  to  Wager,  who  was  at  the  tiller,  ''Charles, 
if  thee  puts  the  helm  a  little  more  to  starboard  thee  will  run  that 
ship  down."  Wager  did  so,  and  they  struck  the  privateer  amid- 
ships, cutting  her  down,  so  that  she  sunk  Avith  every  soul  on  board. 
Capt.  Hull  got  his  ship  about  as  soon  as  possible  in  the  endeavor 
to  rescue  some  of  the  unfortunate  crew,  but  there  was  a  stiff  breeze 
blowing  and  a  heavy  sea  on,  and  when  he  got  back  to  the  scene  of 
the  catastrophe  not  a  soul  could  be  found. 

On  his  arrival  in  England  the  news  of  the  destruction  of  the 
privateer  caused  great  rejoicing,  as  she  had  done  very  serious  dam- 
age to  British  shipping.  The  afiair  was  much  noised  of  at  the  time, 
and  became  known  to  the  Admiralty,  who  sent  for  Capt.  Hull,  and 
after  complimenting  bum  on  the  exploit,  offered  him  a  cajitaincy  in 
the  royal  r.avy,  which  he  declined,  saying  that  his  principles  would 
not  allow  him  to  accept  it ;  nor  could  he  take  any  reward  for  an 
action  which  was  not  without  regret,  inasmuch  as  so  many  fellow 
men  had  been  sent  to  another  world  unprepared.  He  added,  that  if 
they  wished  to  reward  some  one,  they  c<^uld  send  for  AVager,  of 
whom  he  spoke  in  high  terms.  The  Admiralty  adopted  the  sug- 
gestion and  gave  Wager  a  midshipman's  berth  in  the  British  navy, 


1;:  ,•;.;:,      .'    -if) 


1877.]       Uollls,  J\^:  //.,  in  t?ic  War  of  the  Eecolution.  169 

from  Aviiich  position  he  rose  rapidly  by  lu3  own  merit  and  became 
Adinirnl,  Fiist  Coinmis^ioncr  of  the  Admiralty  and  Privy  Council- 
lor; and  to  crown  a  well-s[)ent  life,  he  ^va6  interred  at  his  death  in 
the  p;rand  old  abbc} ,  uhcro  repose  many  ot"  the  greatest  and  worthi- 
est of  the  land. 

The  A<lmiral  retained  a  prateful  rt-collection  of  hi.s  old  master, 
and,  from  t!ie  time  he  attained  an  independence,  he  6ent  every  year 
to  Captain  Ilidl  on  his  birtliilay  a  cask  of  wine.  Some  of  Sir 
Charles's  letters  accompanying  the  gift  are  still  preserved  in  the 
family  of  the  receiver.  He  returned  to  Xewj)ort,  as  admiral  in 
command  of  a  Ihiti^h  srpiadron,  many  ye;us  alter  he  left  the  place 
an  obscure  and  unknown  individutil,  and  ^vas  delighted  to  see  his  old 
commander,  now  retired  from  the  sea,  whom  he  presented  to  one  of 
his  olHcors  \i\  these  words, — ''This,  Sir,  is  ]Mr.  Hull,  my  honored 
master." 

As  I  hope  to  contribute  to  this  magazine,  at  some  future  time,  an 
article  on  the  fi^mily  to  whieli  Capt.  Hull  belonged,  I  will  only  say 
here  that  he  was  born  in  1G.j4  and  died  at  Conanicut,  K.  I.,  Dec.  1, 
1732.  lie  was  son  of  Tristram  Hull,  of  Barnstable,  and  grandson 
of  the  TZev.  Joseph  Hull,'  who  sailed  for  New  England  from  Wey- 
mouth, Dorsetshire,  in  1G35.  By  his  -wife  Alice  Tiddeman  he  had, 
with  other  children,  a  son  John,  who  married  Dumaris  Cary  and 
had  by  her  a  daughter  Phoebe,  who  became  the  v.ife  of  "William 
Hazard.  Their  daughter  Lydia  married  John  Field,  the  grand- 
father of  the  writer  of  this  article. 

4  Grosvcnor  Mansions,  S.   W.  London. 


HOLLIS,  NEW  HA:^rPSHH?E,  IN  THE  W^VE  OF  THE 
KEYOLUTIOX. 

Bj  the  Hon.  Samvel  T.  Worcester,  A.M.,  of  Nashaa,  X.  H, 
[Concluded  from  page  27.] 

1779.      EECRUITS   FOPw   THE    TOWX'S   COXTIVENTAL   QUOTA. 

IN  the  month  of  July  of  this  year,  as  shown  by  the  town  records, 
nine  men  were  required  to  make  good  the  Hollis  continental  quota. 
On  the  PJth  of  July,  1779,  at  a  special  town  meeting  summoned 
to  supply  this  deficiency,  the  town  "  Voted  and  chose  Ensign  Jere- 
miah Ames,  Dr.  Jonathan  Fox,  and  Jacob  Jewett,  Jimr. ,  a  com- 
mittee to  hire  for  one  year  our  nine  Continental  ^len."  Also 
Voted,  That  said  Committee  be  empowered  to  give  the  Town's 
Poourity  to  each  of  said  nine  men  for  any  sum  of  money  that  they 
may  agree  with  them  for,   and  said   town  to  be  responsible  to  said 

'  See  the  Registek  for  -Januarv,  1871,  page  13. 
VOL.    iZXI.  15* 


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Uoliis,  2^.  II.  y  in  the  War  of  the  llevolution.      [Aj.nl,  :\ 


Couimittrc  for  s;il<.l  sums  and  for  tho  Coniinittcc's  trouble  in  rnisi-i.; 
said  niLH,  and  that  tlio  Sclof.'tinen  be  authorized  to  a.sso.ss  tho  Puii, 
and  Kitatcs  of  the  Town  fur  tlie  fcuni  of  money  it  shall  coct  to  rai^c 
said  men." 

C)n  thiC  2d  of  August,  about  two  weeks  after,  tliis  commilte( 
made  rej)ort  to  the  town  ol"  tiicir  doings  in  this  matter,  of  ^v]licll  a 
substantial  copy  is  here  presented  as  follows  : 

"SERViCi".  fop:  oxe  year  fou  said  ToAfN. 
"Auj.  2,  1770.      To  cnslt  and  our  securifi/  fjiren  to  Eirihi  Men  as  a  JJ'juit'i; 


frotn  said  Ihiv/i  to  go  into  said  service. 


To  Cnleb  Stile?,  Cash,  £.?00. 

"  Caleb  S:i!>^-!,  Jun.,       "      i300. 
"  Kphraim  I't-arce, 
"  Francis  G.  '-owers, 
"  Jcn\tlimacl  JJuwers, 
"  Jaoub  llobart, 
"  Jo.scpli  Stearns, 
"  iSimeou  i'oster, 


Lawful  Money, 
Holies,  Aug.  3,  1779. 


10  BoshcLH  of  Rye. 

10  Bushels  of  live. 
10  Bushels  of  Kye. 
10  Bushels  of  Kye. 
10  Bushels  of  Bye. 
10  Bu.-hels  of  Kye. 
17  T.ushel-^  of  Rye. 
10  BusLjcls  of  Kye. 


£:^,167.        87  Bashels  of  Kye. 


£300. 
£300. 
£300. 
£300. 
£177. 
£210. 


10  Do.  of  Ind.  Corn. 
10  Do.  of  Ind.  C,rn. 
10  Do.  of  Ini.  Curri. 
10  \Uj.  of  Ind.  ('o:ii. 
10  Do.  of  Ind.  C..r;. 
10  Do.  of  Ind.  Corn. 
10  Dj.  of  Ind.  C.jrn. 
10  Dj.  of  Ind.  Corn. 

60  Buphs.  Ind.  Corn. 
JrREJHAH  -Ames. 

JON'ATii-iN  Fo.x. 
Jacob  Ji;\v£TT.  Jun. 


The  "Return"  of  Col.  Xicliols  for  tlic  regiment  shows  that  tin 
9tli  man  enlisted  for  tiie  town  under  this  call  was  Joseph  M'heat, 
but  it  does  not  appear  -what  bounty  was  paid  him. 

In  the  spring  of  1779,  a  regiment  commanded  by  Col.  Hercules 
IVIooney  Avas  ordered  from  New  Hampshire  to  Rhode  Island.  01 
the  5th  company  of  this  regiment,  Daniel  Emerson  of  Hollis  was 
captain,  and  Dr.  Peter  Emerson,  his  brother,  also  of  Hollis,  was 
regi  nental  surgeon.  In  it  were  four  Hollis  private  soldiers,  who 
■were  in  the  service  near  six  months,  and  were  paid  by  the  town 
severally  a  bounty  of  £9. 

In  view  of  the  alarming  and  rapid  depreciation  of  the  continental 
paper  money  then  in  use,  a  town  meeting  was  called  on  the  21st  of 
October,  of  this  year,  in  the  vain  hope  of  devising  some  method  of 
staying  the  evil.  To  this  end  a  conmiittee  was  appointed,  who  made 
report  to  a  subsequent  meeting  held  on  the  following  21st  of  Novem- 
ber, fixing  and  linnting  prices  at  which  many  of  the  necessaries  of 
life  might  be  sold.  At  this  last  meeting  the  Town  "Voted  to  accept 
the  report  of  this  committee  *  *  *  and  that  each  person  in  town 
govern  himself  accordingly,  under  the  penalty  of  being  treated  a^ 
an  enemy  of  the  country." 


1780.       RECRUITS    FOR   THE   CGNTI^^E^'TAL    AR^IT. 

It  is  shown  by  the  record  of  a  special  town  meeting  held  June 
28th  of  this  year,  that  there  was  then  a  deficiency  of  nine  men  in 


.VV"         ■.«••. 


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"■  Steplieu  Conroy, 

£210  & 

:90 

"  iSurlmnif^l  Patrcn, 

ialO  ct 

79 

"  At^a  Lovcjoy, 

£210. 

90 

"  Abel  Lovejoy, 

£210. 

90 

"  Jt^-;e  Woree-ter, 

£210. 

90 

"  Lemuel  Blood, 

£210. 

90 

"  Paniben  Blood, 

£210. 

90 

"  Isathaniel  Blood, 

£210. 

90 

1877.]       Ilollis,  iY.  i/.,  in  the   ]Vai'  of  the  Revolution.  171 

tlic  IfollLs  continental  quota.  At  tliis  meeting  tlio  Towti  ''Voted 
To  liiio  nine  ubk-budicd  men  to  serve  in  the  continental  army  till 
the  last  day  of  December  next,  and  that  Jonathan  Fox,  Jacob 
Jewctt,  Jun.,  and  Ephraim  Burgo  be  a  conmiittee  to  hire  said  men, 
and  to  five  security  in  behalf  of  the  Town  in  any  way  they  think 
proitcr."  On  the  4th  uf  July,  within  a  vvcek  after  tiiis  meeting,  this 
committee  made  the  following  report  of  it.-;  doing.s. 

"The  Inhabitants  of  the  Town  of  llollis  to  Jonathan  Fox, 
Jacob  Jewett,  Jan.,  and  Ephraim  liurgc  as  a  ccmmittoe 
chosen  bv  said  Town  to  agree  with  and  hire  nine  men  to  go 
into  th.c  Continental  Army  for  six  months  for  said  Town.  Dr. 

Julij  4,  1780.     To  cash  and  our  securlhj  rjlvcn  to  nine  men.      Viz. 

To  Jacob  Danfortl),    Cash,  £210.    90  Bushels  of  Rye,    &  10  Bushels  of  Irid,  Corn. 

'  •'  and  one  Blanket. 

'  "  and  one  Blankt-t. 

'  "  and  one  Blanket. 

'  "  and  one  Pair  of  Shoes. 

'  "  and  one  Pair  of  Shoes. 

'  "  and  one  Pair  of  Shoes. 

Lawful  Money,  £2,190.  799  Bushels  of  Rye,  3  Blankets,  3  Pairs  of  Shoes. 

N.  B.     The  -wages  of  the  nine  six  months  men  belong  to  the  Town." 

It  appears  from  the  above  note  that  the  full  amount  cf  the  wages 
of  these  men  was  paid  in  advance  by  the  Town,  the  men  being 
unwilling,  probably  on  account  of  the  state  of  the  currency,  to  give 
credit  to  tbe  State  or  Congress. 

MILITIA   FOE   WEST   POINT,  ETC. 

Early  in  July  of  this  year  a  further  call  was  made  upon  the  Town 
for  15  men  for  three  months,  to  aid  in  the  defence  of  West  Point,  and 
for  three  others  to  serve  for  six  mouths  on  the  Xorthern  Frontier. 
At  a  town  meeting  on  the  od  of  July  the  same  committee  was 
chosen  to  hire  the  men  last  called  for,  who  in  about  two  weeks 
aftenvards  made  report  that  they  had  procured  the  men  for  West 
Point,  and  two  of  those  for  the  Xorthern  Frontier.  It  appears  from 
this  report  that  the  committee  agreed  to  pay  severally  to  the  men 
engasicd  to  oro  to  West  Point,  as  bounties,  quantities  of  rye  and 
Indian  com,  as  follows  :  To  one  of  them  35  bushels  of  lye ;  to  two 
others  30  bushels  of  corn,  each;  to  another  45  bushels  of  corn;  to 
each  often  others,  50  bushels  of  corn  ;  these  soldiers  to  have  their  gov- 
ernment wao-es.  To  each  of  the  two  men  enlisted  to  go  to  the  frontier, 
the  committee  agreed  to  pay  £210  in  cash,  and  00  bushels  of  rye; 
"the  iL'oges  of  tlieae  two  men  to  belong  to  the  town." 

About  the  last  of  August  of  this  year,  a  requisition  was  made 
upon  the  tov/n  for  1G,000  poimds  of  beef  for  the  araiy,  and  at  a 


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172  Ilollis,  JV.  If.,  in  the  War  of  Ihe  Bevobdion.       [April, 

special  town  nicetlnc:^  hol<l  in  respect  to  it,  August  31,  the  town 
"  \'of'''l  to  rai;0  £L'r),(MH)  to  nii^c-  our  proportion  of  JJeef  with,"  boiug 
at  the  rate  of  £1.  lO:.  iu  currency  ];,or  pound  I'or  army  hcef. 

At  a  special  town  meeting  held  on  the  following  23d  of  Novem- 
ber, '^  Voted,  to  raise  £32,000  to  pay  the  money  borrowed  to  pay 
the  soldiers,  and  tu  pay  fur  the  grain   for  the  o  and  G  monihs  men." 

Ilollis  soldiers  in  the  scr\-ice  iu  IT.'riO,  47. 

1781.       KEDUCTION'    or    TIIK    N.    II.    COXTINGEXT    OF    TIIE 
CONTINENTAL    AEMY. 

By  an  Act  of  the  General  Court  of  this  State,  passed  Jan.  12, 
1781,  the  number  of  troops  to  be  raised  iu  Xew  Hampshire  for  the 
regular  ctjntinental  army  was  fixed  at  1354,  to  be  enlisted  for  three 
years.  The  Ilollis  '"quota"  of  this  force  Avas  reduced  to  20.  At 
the  time  of  the  passage  of  this  act,  as  appears  by  tlie  regimental 
returns,  Ilollis  then  had  nine  men  in  the  service  who  had  been 
cniisied  during  the  v;a!',  but  it  appears  from  the  town  records  that 
on  the  12ih  of  ^larch  of  tliis  year  twelve  men  were  lacking  in  this 
new  quota.  At  a  special  town  meeting  called  on  the  following 
19th  of  March,  "Capt.  Daniel  Emerson,  Dr.  Jonathan  Fox,  and 
Ephraim  Burge,"  were  chosen  a  committee  to  hire  these  twelve 
recruits,  with  fidl  auth.ority  afterwards  given  to  pledge  the  security 
of  the  Town  for  such  wages  or  bounty  as  the  men  engaged  sliould  be 
willing  to  accept.  The  original  report  of  the  committee  is  not  now 
to  be  foimd,  but  it  appears  from  the  "Great  Return"  of  the  select- 
men to  the  General  Court  that  the  twelve  men  called  for  were  enlisted 
for  the  three  years,  and  that  to  each  of  them,  as  a  bounty,  the  town 
paid  £60,  or  :>200.00.  This  bounty  was  paid  in  specie,  or  in  new 
bills  of  credit  supposed  to  be  its  equivalent,  the  old  continental  paper 
currency  having  at  this  time  become  worthless  or  very  nearly  so. 
These  bounties  amounted  to  £720,  or  $2,400.00.  Instead  of  en- 
tailing the  amount  of  them  upon  the  town  to  be  paid  by  posterity, 
as  has  been  too  ol'ten  done  in  like  cases  in  more  recent  times,  a  war 
tax  of  £800  was  assessed  the  same  year  to  meet  it. 

In  the  month  of  June  of  this  year,  at  a  town  meeting,  called  for 
the  purpose,  the  town  was  divided  into  eight  classes,  or  sections,  for 
raising  men  for  the  army.  In  the  month  of  July,  afterwards,  a 
requisition  was  made  by  the  State  upon  the  town  for  twelve  men  to  serve 
in  the  army  for  three  months,  and  at  a  town  meeting  held  on  the 
19th  of  that  month  the  town  "  Voted  that  tlie  classes  be  coupled,  and 
that  each  two  classes  procure  three  good  and  effective  men  for  three 
months."  It  is  shown  by  tlie  ''Great  lieturn"  above  referred  to, 
that  nine  of  these  men  were  procured,  and  enlisted  in  the  company 
of ''Capt.  Mills"  of  the  4th  com[)any  of  a  small  incomplete  regiment 
commanded  by  Col.  Daniel  Ecvnolds  of  Londonderry.  It  is  not 
known  where  this  regiment  was  employed,  or  that  in  face  it  left  the 
State.     The  Avar  v.-as  now  substantially  at  an  end,  and  it  is  pro- 


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1377.]     IIoUls,  X.  11. ,  t'n  the  War  of  the  Revolution.  173 

b:il>lo  tliat  tlic  rei;iincnt  \vris  soon  disLantled,  and  that  for  this  reason 
the  tlirce  oiIilt  lldiis  men  were  not  cnli.stcd.  These  nine  men  were 
paid  hy  the  Town  n  bounty  of  ,£i)  each. 

Includinii-  tliesc  nine  tlu'oe-uionths  men  and  the  twenty  continental 
eoldicrci,  Ilollis  liad  in  the  service  in  all,  this  year,  twenty-nine  men. 

1782.      THE   LAST    SOLDI Ei:    OF   THE    nOLLTS    QUOTA. 

AlthouL^li  prior  to  the  comincncemcnt  of  this  year,  active  hostili- 
ties between  the  contending  armies  had  virtually  ceased,  yet  the 
government  rei^ardcd  it  necessary  that  the  ranks  of  the  regular  ar'ny 
should  be  kept  lllled.  In  the  month  of  Jul\  of  tiiis  year,  one  man 
was  found  to  be  wanting  to  complete  tlie  IloUis  continental  quota  of 
20;  and  at  a  town  meeting  then  held,  the  town  "  Voted  unani- 
mously that  one  man  more  be  raised  by  the  Town  to  serve  in  the 
Continental  Army,  and  that  the  citmmittee  for  that  purpose  procure 
Lini,  at  clicir  discretion.  Immediately.*' 

It  is  shown  by  the  regimental  return  of  Gen.  Nichols,  now  at 
Concord,  that  on  the  15th  of  July,  1782,  Jahez  Youngman  had 
enlisted  for  three  years  as  a  soldier  for  Hollis,  thus  making  the 
quota  of  the  toAvn  complete.  Youngman  was  the  last  soldier  wdio 
enlisted  for  Plollis  in  this  war,  and  the  only  one  the  town  was  called 
upon  to  furnish  in  1782.  As  shown  by  the  return  made  by  the 
selectmen,  the  town  paid  him  a  bounty  of  £60,  or  $200.00.  The 
number  of  Hollis  soldiers  in  the  army,  in  this  the  last  year  of  the 
war,  was  but  20,  a  number  considerably  less  than  that  of  any  pre- 
ceding year.  It  will  appear  from  an  inspection  of  the  various  lists 
still  preserved  of  HolHs  men  in  the  revolutionary  military  service, 
that  most  of  them  enlisted  more  than  once,  many  of  them  on  three 
or  more  different  occasions,  but  as  nearly  as  can  n  jw  be  ascertained 
it  will  be  found  that,  counting  each  name  but  once,  Hollis  furnished 
no  less  than  280  soldiers,  wdio  for  a  longer  or  shorter  time  were  in 
the  service,  a  number  but  little  less  than  one-fourth  of  its  popu- 
lation. 

In  the  fore^'oin"-  narrative  it  has  been  our  aim  to  gather  from 
authentic  sources,  and  to  present  in  as  little  space  as  was  consistent 
■with  perspicuity,  the  annual  doings  of  the  people  of  Hollis  during 
the  seven  years  of  the  war,  and  also  somewhat  of  the  sentiment  and 
spirit  of  the  peo}de  whicii  animated  their  efforts  in  the  struggle  for 
independence.  The  limited  space  allotted  to  this  article  has  con- 
strained us  to  omit  many  matters  of  interest  highly  creditable  to  the 
parties  concerned,  but  we  trust  that  enough  has  been  said  to  evince 
that  on  all  occasions,  from  the  beginning  of  the  war  to  its  end,  the 
people  of  the  town  perform.ed  what  they  believed  to  be  their  duty 
I'lompth-,  intelligently,  patriotically,  and  with  a  hopeful  assurance 
of  final  success.  As  has  been  said  before,  it  has  not  been  our  pur- 
pose to  make  any  invidious   comparison  between  what  was  done  by 


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174  JJollis,  iV.  //.,  in  the  War  of  the  llcuolatioh.       [Aj.ril. 

I 

Ilollis  and  otlicr  towns  in  Xcw  Ilanips^liire  or  other  states  in  tlie 
same  cause.  Ofhor  enuntry  towns,  wiih  no  greater  population  or 
resources,  may  have  done  as  much  or  even  more ;  but  it"  as  much, 
we  taist  that  our  readers  will  nut  di::agrcc  with  u.s  in  the  .sentiment, 
tliat  their  worthy  deeds  and  patriotic  sacrifices  should  not  be  forgot- 
ten in  this  centennial  year. 

THE    Sr.XTI.MF.NTS    OF    THE    THOPLE    OE    IIOLLIS    IN    llESPECT    TO 

THE    TORIES. 

As  stated  in  the  early  part  of  this  narrati\e,  four  of  the  citizens 
of  Hollis  were  known  as  loyalists,  or  torie-,  one  of  whom  for  a 
time  was  imprisoned  for  disloyalty.  The  rLiuaining  three  left  the 
country  early  in  the  war,  and  their  names  were  included  in  the  act 
of  confiscation,  passed  In  1778,  by  the  New  Hampshire  General 
Court,  and  they,  with  many  otlicrs,  were  forbidden  to  return  to  the 
C^UT^try  under  tl^c  penalty  of  death. 

After  the  end  of  the  war,  the  British  Commissioners,  in  their  ne- 
gotiations for  peace,  were  persistent  in  their  elForts  to  provide  for 
the  return  of  the  banished  adherents  of  the  crown,  and  the  restora- 
tion of  their  confiscated  estates  ;  and  this  subject  was  widely  and 
warmly  discussed  by  the  American  press  of  the  time,  and  in  the 
primaiy  assemblies  of  the  people.  A  special  town  meeting  in  Ilol- 
lis Avas  called  to  consider  this  subject  in  the  spring  of  17bo,  "  and 
to  see  if  the  Town  toould  rjivc  their  Hejrrcscntative  any  In^truc- 
iions  in  respect  to  the  jihsenlces  from  this  State  and  their  re- 
turning." As  will  appear  from  the  following  extract,  which  we 
copy  from  the  record  of  that  meeting,  the  sentiments  of  the  people 
of  the  town  upon  this  question  found  expression  in  language  more 
vigorous  and  emphatic  tliaa  forgetful  and  forgiving,  as  follows  : 

"The  minds  of  the  people  being  tried  in  respect  to  the  Iictarning 
of  those  Miserable  Wretches  under  the  name  of  Tories,  Absentees 
or  Conspirators,^^ 

"  Voted  unanimously  that  they  shall  not  be  allowed  to  return  or 
regain  their  forfeited  Possessions." 

"  Voted  that  a  Committee  be  chosen  to  give  the  Eepresentative 
of  this  Town  particular  Instructions  which  may  convey  to  him  the 
unanimous  sentiments  of  the  people  in  respect  to  the  xVbsentces 
above  mentioned." 

"  Voted  that  Col.  John  Hale,  Noah  Worcester,  Esq.,  Master 
Cummings,  Dea.  Boynton,  Captains  Dow,  Goss  and  Keudrick  be  a 
Committee  to  "ive  the  Instructions  above  mentioned." 


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1877.]         Ahslracti  of  llic  Earliest  Wills  in  Suffolh.  175 


ABSTRACT.^   OF   TIIF.   KAiaJlvVr  WILLS   ON  TUXORD,  OR 

ON  THE  FILES  IN  Tin:  r'Of'NTY  OF  SUFFOLK, 

MASSACHUSETTS. 

Prepared  by  W'ili.i.vm  B.  Trask,  Esq.,  of  Boston. 

[Continued  from  p.  107.1 

Joiix  MAYN.\r.D. — All  Iiiuentory  of  wliaL  dfhts  id  owclng  fro  the  Estate 
of  Julm  ^liner  [sic]  tliis  2.;.  9'""  IGo'J. 

Imp'  to  Ilenery  P..-i:^'im,  17.1  J.o;  W  Rocke,  00.00.9  ;  Sam'  Sendal, 
Ol.On.O;  Elisabeth  Eatoii.  04.10.0  ;  M'' V^nlkcr,  Ol.OC.C  ;  William  roluncl, 
OO.OS.O;  f:iia.scr  Eaton,  laid  out,  at  fmirral,  00.00.0;  goodwife  Rouse, 
00.08.0;  Zacre  Piiillip?.  02.00.0;  rroodman  Armitage,  Ol.O-LO  ;  ^oodman 
Peedo,  00.U7.4 ;  m' Atwater,  OO.lO.O;  F.ld.er  renne,  00.0;3.0  ;  John  ]V:gs, 
00.08.0;  decou  Trusdaile,  00.05.0;  Iloorf  Walker,  OO.Ou.4 ;  WiHiaiu 
Ero'.vno,  OO.OO.O;  in'  Nf.-aite,  00.02.7;  William  Corsf-r,  OO.O.'j.O  :  :\hirv 
Jay,  00.01.0;  Sergt.  CVton,  00.0.3.0;  Boni^anin  Tlioiiin^re  [Thwing  ?J, 
OOTo.O;  goodman  Cri.-ldov,  00.02.0;  r.i' .To!m  Eiiered,  Ol.i'b.l  ;  goodmau 
Eobiiiso'.i,'^ 00.04.0;  Leu  Turner,  00.07.0;  tu'  Stare  Sen',  00.11.2;  Tho- 
mas Starre,  OG.'H).0 ;  William  En-lish,  00.10.0  ;  Ed.  Cuwel,  00.07.0;  Ed. 
Hiitchinsoii,  OO.OS.ir^l.     [Total]   4;:.lo.00i. 

Wee  Tvl'ose  names  ar  viidcrwrittcn  haueing  examined  the  debts  due  from 
the  estate  of  John  Maynard  deceased  by  vertue  of  an  order  of  the  County 
Court  doe  tind  the  estate  debtter  forty  hue  pounds  fiftene  shiliings  and  on 
.half  pennie  as  by  the  p'ticulars  al;oue  D_ientioned 

AxTiJOXv  Stod^akd,  Jkr  :  Iloucnix. 
•See  ReCtISTf.Fv  ix,  347.  for  a  prior  inventory  (File,  No.  214.) 

of  the  estate  of  John  3Liynard. 

TiiOfAS  CuOM'.vi:!.!.. — Tnuentory  of  y=  Estate  of  Thomas  Cromwell 
Deceased,  Aprill  1037.  Dueling  liou.-e  &  abuute  Eighteen  poles  £42;  a 
bed  at  Jonathan  Pickrins  (P^steemed  att)  £2.  &c.  &c.  Apprised  as  Money 
p'  Rob'  Kitchen,  Renj*  Marston,  69.08.00.  Ann  Cromwell  Administratrix 
of  the  Estate  of  Thomas  Crumwell  dec'^  appearing  12  3Iay  1687  made 
oath.     Daniel  AUin  Cler.     Rec"^  Gs.  6.  (File,  No.  81.) 

Caft.  Thomas  TnonxniLL. — A  list  of  what  is  due  to  cap'  Thomas 
Thornehill  as  it  was  taken  from  his  mouth,  by  his  desire,  ]March  10' 
1C|^.  Due  from  m"  Gunnison  of  Puscataque  about  nine  pounds  in 
fish  ;  from  m'  Ilenrv  Lampory,  for  vf"^  one  w"'  Roger.s  is  Security,  about 
17'^  Due  from  Je'remy  Belcher  of  Ips-»^ich  on  2  bills,  there  rests  duf; 
about  12'°;  from  Majo'  Shapley  forty  shillings,  «i;  y*  taylor  in  his  house  oO'. 

Whit  is  due  from  tlie  s*^  Thornehill  to  severall  p'sous  as  follows.  ^V 
Thomas  Kellond,  m'  Wosley.  cap'  Johnson,  m'  Rob'  Gibbs,  Theodor  Atkin- 
son, m'  .lollife,  cap'  Clarke,"  m'  Joseph  IMore,  Arthur  3Iason,  the  .-adier, 
Gooflnc.  Rogers ;  m"  S<'arlett  fur  dyett,  lodgeing  <kz.  in  her  house  from  Jan. 
8.  58,  whereof  about  six  pound  paid ;  to  Geo.  Broome  tlie  Taylor  7  or  8', 
^vho  hath  a  cloake  &  suite  v'  mnst  be  caled  for ;  to  Goodm.  Edmunds  sen., 
Hudsun  Leverett,  Johnson  of  Puscatoque :  Anne  Priaco,  the  maid  in 
nioney  20*. 


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17G  Abstracts  of  the  Barliesi  ]VilLi  in  SufoJl.         [Apr;]. 

M' Thomas  Lake,  m'  Thomas  JvcHoiid,  &  John  Richards,  this  is  to  reqiict, 
&  desire  yo"  (in  t-r-e  god  t;d<(;  mc  away  in  this  sickaes)  that  yo"  will  u.-ii 
yo'  ondcavo''  in  procurciru^  the  aboiie  said  soiTiei  due  to  [me]  or  what  elsii 
may  appcaro  by  any  bills  or  writeings  yo"  may  meet  w"'  &  wlion  re<.-f;iv(.;!, 
pray  satisfy  wlijt  yo"  tiude  Justly  due  from  me,  raeutioiied  altoue  or  c!.,.-.' 
The  cliarges  o£  Sicknes  &  huriall  being  tirst  defrayed.  I  should  also  fur- 
ther entreat,  that  yo"  Avould  enfjuire  after  any  kttt^rs  or  goods  comeing  from 
Barbadoes  &c.  &  to  receive  iMiy  consignm"  vnto  mo,  <Sc  m.iko  Sale  then-of. 
returncing  the  produce  to  my  lirother  eoU.  Timothy  Thoruhil],  my  ju.,t  debt.i 
here  hfing  lir^t  paid  as  is  jibouo  desired. 

Boston^March  10'-' lCv9.  Thomas  TiionMiiLr.. 

■Witnosses--IIudson  Lonerett,  Isaack  Addington,  who  deposed  20''' 3Iar'.h 
1659-GO.     Edw.  liawson.  Commission''  power. 

At  A  meeting  of  the  maglst's  20"'  march  l<]oO,  at  y«  Grmr.o"  house 
present  y'  Gou^no'  dep  Gouno'  &,  Rcconler.  I'owor  of  Administration  to 
the  estate  of  y"^  late  Cap'  Thomas  Thornehiil,  late  of  barbadoe',  ac-ordin'^ 
to  his  Ilequest  aboue  mentioned  is  Graunted  to  v\'  Thomas  Lak>^  m'^  Tliomal 
Kellond  i^^  m"^  John  fJichard..,  tbty  bringing  in  an  Ii!VC'nto''y  of  y'  e.-tate  to 
the  next  County  Court,  and.  Giving  security  to  Admini-^tHr  according  to 
]awc  as  farre  as  wliat  of  his  shall  Come  to  theire  liands  will  reacJi  vnto.^ 

Edward  Rawsijn'  Kecorde^ 

Inventory  of  the  estate  of  the  late  Cap'"^  Tho  .  Thornehiil  taken  and 
appraised  by  vs  the  subscribers,  Tho:  Clarke,  Josh:  Scottow,  ChrisnlD 
Hooper.     Am'  2G.02.0o. 

A  horso  ifc  bridle  &  saddle  apprised  at  twclue  pounds  by  vs, 

his  tiiarke 

John  "Win slow,  Ju°  1*  faruum. 

_  Goods  Consigned  to  y^  said  Tho.  Thornhill  on  his  peaper  and  Came  Since 
his  death  to  our  hands,  John  Winslow,  John  Scottow,  Am*  GuA.'j.  Att 
Court.  31  October  IGGO,  Mr  Tho.  Lake,  m'  Jn'^  Richards  &  m^ 'J'ho  Kelond 
deposed.  Good  debts.  Joseph  More,  Ol.Oo.O.  Bad  &  doubtful  debts.  Jere- 
my Bdcher,  0L1.9.  Henry  Lempry.  17.0.0.  (File  No.  235.  RECiiTEK, 
X.  175,  contains  a  list  of  creditors  additional  to  the  above.'* 

Thomas  Griffix. — Administration  granted  July  18.  16G1.      [Private 
Letter  on  fde  relating  to  this  estate  from  Thomas'  Parke  to   his  broiber 
William  Parke.]    To  His  loving  and  mvche  P.espacktad  brother  m'  williame 
Parke  at  his  Hovs  in  Roxberey  this  presant  I  pray. 
Louing  Brother 

after  due  respects  presented  vnto  youre  selfe  and  yours, 
this  are  to  intreat  you  to  doe  me  the  faviour  as  to  prociire  for  me  as  spiedylye 
as  you  can  a  letter  of  admini.-,tratlan  from  the  Courte,  acording  vnto  law, 
wherby  I  may  be  Impoured  to  dispose  of  the  estate  of  Thomas  Grimu 
(who  is  deseased)  for  tiie  sattisfying  of  his  Creaditors  so  Farr  as  the  Ksux^.o 
will  goe,  thar  being  severall  that  Challang  debts,  and  none  that  will  admin- 
ister, nether  can  his  creditors  com  at  the  Estate  for  thar  owne  satisfacktion, 
whearfor  I  am  willing  for  his  sake  who  is  dead,  who  was  sumtime  a  retainer 
vnto  my  howse,  I  say  I  am  willing  to  take  the  paines  as  to  improue  the 
Estate  (which  is  but  small)  so  farr  as  it  will  goe  tor  the  satistacktion  of  his 
creaditors  provided  care  may  be  taken,  that  I  mav  not  suifer  tharljy  in  m? 
owne  estate  and  the  truth  is  such  was  the  Clamers  or  one  of  his  creditors 
■that  to  prevent  further  truble,  I  hauo  pay.]  ^pou  that  acoumbt  betwc-ao 


•    /. 


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1877.]        Abstracts  of  the  Earliest  V.'ills  in  Suffolk.  1T7 

elou.Mi  and  twellae  pnunde,  ConfideiiK,'  in  your  loue  :in(]  Care,  and  the  Couiu 
•,-k11ucs  to  iiu.v.ver  uiy  icijviost  iu  a  Ca.-,<i  so  lluticst :  I  liaue  .-.cut  in  Clofor^ 
an'  inventorv  of  all  rlic  Estate  that  we  can  liude,  and  the  state  of  it,  a^  \uv 
his  Clothes,' hf.  dyeiii^  in  anotlu.T  Jurisdickiiou  we  cannot  reach  them,  sup- 
o5ein<'  alv/that  tlie  Charge  of  his  sicknes  may  amount  ne:ire  vuto  a  ba!- 
l-iuce"' thus  haiie  I  a-nuMuted  you  v.  ith  ray  desires  intivutclng  you  toacktior 
roe  with  the  Courte  who  'oy  re;t.:.on  of  my  lemuatues  cannot  ackt  for  my  self, 
and  thirby  you  shall  further  ingadge  him  who  alln.-:idye  owiies  liiniselfe 
southertuwne  your  oblidg^.d  Brudicr  Thomas   PAniCE. 

July  the  ^'^  lOGl.  (File,  No.  270.  llK-iisxEK,  x.  O-VJ,  gives  an  j.bstracl; 
of  the  inventory,  power  of  administration,  and  a  reference  to  tie  letter.) 

John  Cork.— Inventory  of  that  part  of  the  Estate  of  ^l'  John  Oo.ro, 
bite  of  Roxbury  deceased  which  was  Left  unadm.ini.strcd  at  the  deata  of 
Tvhoda  bib  relict,  widow,  and  sole  Executrix  of  his  last  will  and  Testam'. 
Taken  and  apnrized  bv  us  whose  names  r.re  under  written,  as  it  wus  pre- 
sented to  us  by  John  Gore  Administrator  upon  the  same  and  other  relations 
t^ch  present  \o  iNovcmber  IGCUb  The  dwelling  hcu'O  being  not  wonli 
repairein"-,  £10.  The  Barne  (in  tl'C  same  condirJon)  with  a  sider  mill  iu  it.^ 
^5  Abolit  two  acres  of  land  on  which  the  s>^  housemg  stand  cocsisting  of 
Orcha'-d  yard  and  arable  land,  Jiio  ;  halfe  of  the  wight  Tastare,  being  about 
5i  acres  £16  :  one  acre  salt  marsh  at  Muddy  River,  £10  ;  A  greut  T.iblc 
and  other  Books  in  the  house  &  lent  out,  £1.10  ecc.  etc.     Total  £101..^. 

Henry  Bowex,       IS'atuanael  IIoi-mes. 

By  the  rion^''^  AVilliara  Stoughton  Esef.  John  Gore  a-lm""  presented  thii 
Inventory  and  made  Oath,  etc.  Aprill  -i'*"'  1G04. 

Jurat  Cor.  Wileia>[  Stougutox. 
•       ^     ^   ■         '^  (File,  No.  1G2.) 

(Abstract  of  WiU  in  Register,  viii.  -282.    Bond,  present  volume,  p.  10-1.) 

Rvirn  S^uTH.—Ir-ventory  of  goods  of  Ralph  Smith  taken  by  "Wilb'au: 
Cotton.  ^\  illiam  Inglisb,  April  IG,  IGH.  Amount  07.04.04.  not  ;;77.04.04, 
as  expressed  iu  ihe  Register,  x.  2G'J.  More  found  smce  in  bookes^  to 
value  of  IG'  &  a  watch  clocke  or  alarum  at  m'  Clarks  at  20'  &  3  other 
booke  at  13'  4^  &  a  little  Hammer.  (File,  No.  263.) 

Deacox  Jonx  Rogers,  of  Weymouth.  Inuoice  of  the  Estate,  20: 
12:  16G0  See  Register,  x.  2Go,  for  "Will  and  Inventory,  the  landed 
property  not  ^^iven  there.  One  Dwelling  House  Barne  out  bouse  &  orchard 
GO  00  0  ;  Meadow,  2G.00.0  ;  Broake  land  ten  ackers,  25.00.0  ;  Pasture  Land 
tenac'ke'rs  20.00.0;  Swamp  Laud  3  ackers  01.10.0;  Halfe  one  Great  Lot 
15  ackors,' 05.00.0 :  one  Great  Lot  12  ackors,  0-i.OO.O ;  one  Let  xaore  of  3 
ackors,  04.00.0 ;  one  Lot  of  the  Diuision  of  Comons  56  ackors,  'jS.OO.O. 
Same  Totall  as  formerly  mentioned  £275.  (File,  No.  2G4.) 

AxPRE'V  Pitcher,  of  Dorchester.— 10  :  1 :  If  Inventory  of  real  estate. 
(See  Reg^st-^R.  x.  2GC,  for  Will  and  Inventory.)  A  dwelling  house,  barne 
}:.)u^e  Lot' and  "orchard,  100.00.0;  tl:ree  acios  of  mead-.we  12.(:'0  0:  two 
hundred  acres  of  vpland  &  meadowe  Lyiuge  in  or  neare  vtito  mead  b-ud, 
UO.00.0.  (Fde,  No.l't.j.) 

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178  Ah-tracts  of  the  Earliest  Wills  in  Suffolk.        [April, 

John  Wit.ktk. — 1 1  ■\Iarcl:,  1  OGO-Gl.  Power  of  Administration  o:i  est.uo 
&  iriveiitur_)  ,L;iv..h,  Klgistek,  y.  I'G'.'.  One  iteiu  or  two  of  interest  hot 
tlu're  eniuneiatcd.  5  siluor  spons  w'^^  ni}  hnsbund  guuc  to  ech  of  liis  -J 
cliiiilrc-n  ono  He  y"   lift  to  irie  his  wife,   1.1'J.O;  the  hulfo  howse  »S:  grmiin] 

60.U0.O.  (File,  No. -Ji;:.) 

CiiARirr  Wnn::. — Feb.  1,  lOGO.  Inventory,  power  of  aflminislration, 
etc.     RuGiSTKU,  V.  200.     IIouoC  and  ground  £7.  (File,  No.  250.) 

ISAKF.ix  TruNKU,  widilow,  Dorchester.  Inventory,  17.  10.  1  GGO.  See 
RKGtSTF.R,  X.  2G6.  House,  barne,  orchard  home  lott  in  the  ftild  in  two 
parcells  prized  at  75.00.O;  3  akers  meddow  In  calue.s  pasture,  OG.00.0 ; 
12  akers  In  gr'  lotts  at,  30.00.0;  land  in  the  3  deuir^ions,  05.00.0;  out 
comons  ualle'^ed  at,  05.00.0. 

KiCiiAHi)  Laxoer,  of  Hiniiham.  Inventory  of  the  estate  taken  Fob. 
18,  IGGO.  Abstract  of  "Will  and  Inventory,  1{i;oister,  x.  2G'J.  Four  acres 
of  Limi  ii,Iu^;u  ioi- l',V'j  house  Lott,,  08.U0.U;  A  gicate  lott  of  tenn  acres, 
04.00.0  ;  one  acre  &  halfe  of  meadow  lyeing  at  Cony  hassett,  01. 10.0. 

(File,  No.  25 S.) 

Abikll  Evkrkll. — Inventory,  Register,  x.  2G8.  The  dwelling  hou^c: 
w'**  all  the  priviledires  of  it  that  is  seler  and  back  yard  S3  futt  Long  and  18: 
brode,  80.0U.0.        ^  (File,  No.  2G0.) 

Joux  D WIGHT,  of  Dedham. — See  "Will,  Eeoister,  x.  263,  also,  Inven- 
tory. The  latter,  dated,  8.  12,  IGGO.  The  dwelling  house,  bake  house, 
home  barne  &  his  p't  in  the  vpper  barne  &  all  the  home  Lands  west  of  the 
mille  Creek,  150.00.0;  all  the  Lands  in  lioxbery  plaync  :  broken:  vnbro- 
ken  &.  meadow,  30.0.0  ;  6  Acres  of  vpland  in  the  great  plaync,  OG.00.00  ; 
6  Acres  of  meadowe  called  the  Hand  meadowe,  lo.OO.O  ;  10  acres  at  Fowle 
meadowe,  20.00.0 ;  all  Comou  Towue  KigLts  swamps  wocdelands  i.V; 
p^iueledges,  10.0.0  (FUe,  No.  2G1.) 

JoiTN  LusoN,  of  Dedham. — See  "Will,  Register,  x.  267.  The  Invent- 
ory (2G8)  taken  IS  (3)  IGGl.  Dwelling  house,  Barne,  orchyard  garden  or 
yard  rome,  60.00.0 ;  the  p'cell  enclosed  behind  the  house,  03.00.0  ;  the 
woodey  p't  of  the  lott  &  the  swampe,  there  by  lyeing  vnenclosed,  06.00.0 : 
the  planting  Lott  before  the  house,  27.10.0;  one  Acre  ^  mead,  by  the 
Causey  in  Broad  mead,  05.0U.0 ;  2  p'cells  at  Foule  meadowe,  15.00.0 ;  '-^ 
Acres  of  Ceader  Swampe  neere  South  playne,  04.00.0 ;  one  p'cell  at 
Rocke  meadowe  tlsb  one  smale  p'cell  at  Rose  mary  Meadowe,  01,10.0;  ono 
p'cell  amonge  the  woodland  dcuisious  &  all  other  deuidents,  Coinon  Town 
Rights  and  p'iul.idge=,  15.00.0.  (File,  No.  263.) 

Nathaniel  Williams. — Will,  Register,  x.  270.  Also,  Inventory, 
taken  7.  3.  1661.  The  howse  &  ground,  300.00.0;  the  howse  ifc  land  y'  was 
m' Blackstons,  150.00.00;  a  mare  w'''  frauds  litlefeild  at  weld,  14.00.0. 
Goods  in  the  shop.  (File,  No.  271.) 

John  Tucker,  senior,  of  Hingham, — Will,  Register,  x.  269,  and  In- 
ventory, the  last  dated  Aug,  8,  1661.     Dwelling  house  &  a  home  lott  <i 


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1877.]  Bescendatits  of  William  Hiltoyi.  179 

burne  &  other  housing,  00.00.0  ;  4  arors  of  pastor  lan.l  lyinfj  at  broad  Coave, 
L>.'j.t.'().0  ;  S.ili  lacudou-  Iviii;;  ut  hfuu'l  Coave,  2l.<)<l.<i  ;  .^  acors  of  hinfi  lyi'ig 
In  broad  Cove  f.-'ild.  •24.00.' i;  ;}  ^v>?.-x\.  lotts  lyiii,::^  ni_i;h  vi'co  Wayuiouth  riser 
.imoimtinsj;  to  60  aoor.s  or  there  about.s,  GO.OU.O ;  o  acors  of  land  Iv'm^i  i:i  the 
iiccke  amou;:  the  home  lotty,  Oo.Oo.O ;  two  acres  of  laud  at  .S(|uiirill  hill, 
o:>.(M).0;  '6  plantiuo;  lotts  at  y*  '.worlds  end  containin<r  13  acorh,  22.OU.0 ;  a 
Croat  lott  at  the  great  plaine  coutahung  14  acres,  03.00.0;  a  12  ucor  lott 
lyiri'4  attlie  i?reat  plaine,  02.1 0.O  ;  2  acors  3  quarters  of  fresh  rnoaduw  at 
Couuhavset,  02.UO.O.  (File,  ISu.  272.) 


SO:\IE  OF  THE  DESCENDANTS  OF  'W'ILLIA:^  ITILTOX. 

By  Jonx  T.  Hass.vv.,  A.M.,  of  lV.jrou. 

"TTTILLIAM'  HILTON  cauie  from  London  to  Plyraouth,  in  New 
V\'  Eu.izland,  in  \h^-  "  Fortun*\"  Nov.  11.  1G21.  The  •' Fortune" 
failed  for  England,  on  hor  return,  within  a  moritli  thereafter,  and  the  f-jlluw- 
in^T  letter  wlucli  he  sent  by  her  to  his  cou.'^iu  in  England,  was  li.'-st  priuted 
in  Capt.  John  Smith's  "New  Englands  Trials,"  edition  of  1G22. 

Louing  coimn,  at  our  ari'iall  at  New  I'limmoth  in  New- 
England,  ire  found  all  our  friends  ami phrntcrx  in  fjood  h-nhh, 
ijiovgh  they  icere  left  siche  and  iceahe  vntli  ri-rj/  smo'l  tn^:<ni.^t;. 
the  Indians  round  about  vs  iieaccahle  and  friendhj.the  c>:.„MUy 
very  pleamiit  and  temperate,  yeeldiny  naturally  of  it  self  rjreat 
store  of  f mites,  as  vines  of  diuers  sorts  in  great  abundance  ; 
there  Is  likeicise  tralnuts,  chesnuts,  small  nuts  and  plums,  n-iffi 
much  varietie  of  Jlowers,  rootes,  and  herls,  no  lesse  plpnsaot 
then  trhokome  and  proftahle  :  no  place  hath  more  goose-in-,  ii'i 
and  sfraw-hcrriefi,  nor  better.  Timber  of  cdl  sorts  you  haue  in 
England,  doth  couer  the  Land,  that  afoords-  beasts  of  diuers 
sorts,  and  great  focks  of  Turb'cs,  Qwiiles  Pigeons  and  Pairi 
ges  :  many  great  lakes  abounding  with  fsh,  foicle,  Bevers  and 
Otters.  The  sea  atfoords  vs  as  great  plenty  of  all  excellent  sorts 
of  sea-fish,  as  the'^riuers  and  lies  duth  varietie  of  icilde  faicle 
of  most  vsefull  sorts.  Mines  tee  find  to  our  thinking,  b«.t  neither 
the  goodnesse  nor  quaWie  we  kjiow.  Better  grain  cannot  be  then 
the  Indian  come,  if  we  will  plant  it  vpon  as  good  ground  as  a 
'■     man  need  desire.      We  are  all  free-holders,  the  rent  day  doth  not 

trouble  vs,  and  all  those  good  blessings  tee  haue.  of  which  and  '■'  ' 
tchat  wt  list  in  their  seasons  for  taking.  Our  comvanie  are  for 
most  part  very  religious  honest  people;  the  word  of  God  sincere 
ly  taught  v.<  euery  Sabbath  :  so  that  I  knoio  not  any  thing  a  con 
tented  nvnd  can  hsre  xcnnf.  I  desire  your  friendly  care  to  send 
tuy  irife  and  chiidrca  to  nte.  where  I  wish  all  the  friends  I  haue 
in  England,  and  so  I  rest 

Your  louing  kinsman    William  Hilton. 

His   wife  and  two  children   followed  in  the  "  Anne,"  July   or  Augustj 
l'-'23,  bur  theii'  na-ne.s  ave  not  kco'.vs:.     In  the  aUotinent.'  of  hvA  in  lo23» 


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180  Descendants  of  WiUi'ini  Hilton.  [Apvi!, 

there  was  graDtt;il  to  hini  one  acre  lying  '•'  to  the  ?ea,  eii.?tw;:nl."*  and  ro  iii, 
wU'c  iukI  Uo  chlMiLii  thrci  ucroo  bulling  '■ag;iiu..t  tlio.  sarimpc  ic  r^r,\. 
poiide.''*  He  was  of  Plymouth  in  1024,  for  thrj  friends  of  John  Lyfor.l. 
who  came  over  in  the  loghining  of  that  year,  and  was  driven  fro:n  thr 
•colony  !^oon  after  with  some  of  his  adherents,  aiiirmed  "  that  the  first  uoca- 
sion  of  the  c.uarrcl  with  thoui  was  the  baptizing  of  Mr.  Hilton's  child,  wh,. 
was  not  joined  to  the  church  at  Plvniouth."t  As  his  name  does  not  appear 
amon-^  those  prescr.t  at  the  division  of  cattle  in  KVil.l  be  nuist  have  rr- 
nioved  from  Plymouth  before  that  date,  probably  to  the  .settlements  on  tli- 
Piscatacjua  Piver. 

He  was  one  of  the  witnesses,  July  7.  10:31.  to  the  livery  of  seizm  to  Iim 
■brother  Edward  IIilton§  of  the  lands  em'uaced  in  the  .S(pi:iinscott,  or  Hit- 
ton's  Pateut.ll  which  bears  date  :March  1-2,  102'.)  [i.e.  lC2'.»-;30].  The  fol- 
lowing letter  to  the  \rorshipftd  .Mr.  John  Winthrop,  the  younger,  at  Aga- 
wam,1s  printed  with  t!ie  Winthrop  papers  in  the  Collections  of  the  Mass. 
Hist.  Society.^ 

Pascatque 
ggj.  Aprill  18'-''  IC-OJ 

There  ariued  a  fT.  'ling  shipe  at  Pascataqtie  about  the  15'^  of  this  j.'saut 
moneth  where  in  is  one  Richard  ffoxwell  whoc  hath  tlbrmerly  liued  in  this 
•cuntery  he  brin^eth  nuse  y*  there  were  tov,-  shipes  m-aking  ready  at  I'.arsta- 
ple  whoc  are  touring  passingers  &  catell  tl^jr  to  plant  in  the  bay  he  hath 
leters  f.br  m'  wearora  &  diners  others  at  doreh.ester  wch  hee  intends  to 
"briiif;  in  to  the  bay  so  soone  as  posiblc  ho  can  like  wi<e  he  heard  tiroin 
m"'  Alerton  whoe  v.^as  making  ready  at  Bristole  tfor  to  come  ffor  this  cautery 
other  nuse  he  bringeth  not  that  I  can  lieare  of  onely  m'  P.orowes  ijurpo^cth 
to  come  ffor  this  cuntery  ffrom  loudon  &  soe  desighring  you  to  convey  rlies 
leters  in  to  the  bay  w"^  what  convenieucy  you  can  de.sigliring  the  lord  to 
blesse  you  in  your  la\'i-flull  designes  I  humldy  rest 

Your  wo''  ashured  to  com 

WiLiA-«  Hilton. 

Ser     I  purpose  eare  long  be   if  y*  lord  will  to  see  ^ou.^ 

The  masters  name  of  the  shipe  is  John  Corbin  of  Plimouth. 

To  the  wo'  m'  John  Wiuthrope  the  younger  at  aguawam  give  these. 

June  2,  163.3.  Capt.  Walter  Neale,  as  Governor  of  the  plantation  of 
Sir  Ferdinando  Gorges  and  Capt.  John  iMason,  granted  to  Capt.  Thomas 
•Cammocke  a  parcel  of  land  upon  the  east  side  of  the  Piscataqua  River. 
*<■  where  William  Hilton  lately  planted  corne."**  At  a  court  held  at  Excter. 
4th  10th  mo.  1639,  it  was  ordered  that  '•  Will.  Hilton  and  goodm.  Smart" 
were  to  have  lots  on  tlie  other  side  of  the  rlver-Jt    At  Exeter,  3d  12th  mo. 

•  Plvmonth  Colony  Reronls.  xii.  pp.  5  .nnd  6. 

■t-  Hahbiird'.-.  Hist.  ci'New  EnLTl'.iKl,  cban.  xvi.  . 

"  Plvmonth  Colony  H  corls  xii.  VI.  The  .i>t,  ti'^  it  wa3  first  made  ont,  containou  t.ii. 
mme  of  Rol-ert  niit<in,  uliich  w<is  afterward  stncken  out  and  Bartlet  written  m  its  stead. 

A  Rcu'lncr,  vli.  p.  .50. 
I  Rojri>ter,  xxiv.  p.  2C4.  .        ^    ,      „        -n    k^,-, 

II  3d  Series,  vol.  ix.  p.  2'V2.  The  ori-inal  letter  is  in  the  possession  of  the  lion.  Kojioii 
€.  Winthi-op,  bv- whoso  permis-i'<n  a  heliotype  of  it  has  tiecn  made  f'T  this  ai:iL-lc.  -.I.e 
snperscripcion,  separated  from  the  body  of  the  'error  by  iiorizontal  hnes,  is  on  the  hao::  oi 

the  oriirinal.  ,-,<-,       ,-       t- 

««  Liw.<e  fheet  in  unhoT.r.d  or  stitched  MS.  in  o.Tuo  of  Cleric  •  it  Courts,  lork  Co.,  .Ve.    i- 

is  also  recorded  with  Y-ork  Dcd-^,  Lib  i.  ;id  p  -rt,  i.  2.  aud  on  the  loll j wing  patre  there  !■>  n 

<:onfirm;.tion,  dntcd  Mav  1,  li;."-t.  by  Oori^'cs  and  Mas..a. 
Tt  >'.  H.  Provincial  Papers,  i.  p.  138. 


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1S77.]  DrscenJavU  of  Wlllidhi  Ilutor,.  LSI 

1040,  it  was  agreed  "  that  1>i'  William  Ililteu  is  to  enjoy  tliosi^  iraKshoa  :u 
Oysfo.r  (iivor  vi.i':!!  lOrtMv-iJy  I}-;  l:;iil  ])ii>--,es.-iori  of  an<l  still  :ii>i  in  liis  pos- 
session, and  tilt-  (illicr  niai'>U  •■vhicli  'SV  Gil)')ius  d(.>th  w ton i; fully  detain  iVoiu 
him  with  the  rest  of  ihoso  lUitrshes  which  fornieilv  he  liatl;  nKul<t  r.s*^  of  .-o 
far  as  they  may  Ijc  for  the  piihlic  good  of  tlii^  ])lant;ition  :  A:id  so  u'.ii-.]'.  -A 
the  t\|ihind  adjoituu^  to  thtni  as  shall  he  thought  oonv-juifiit  by  the  iiei-^h- 
borhood  of  Oyster  Kiver,  v,hii:h  are  helongitig  to  this  body."*  lie  w,-; 
made  fieeman,  ^lay  19.  1042,  and  had  a  grant  (>f  twenty  a'nts  of  liind  in 
Dover  in  that  year.f  At  a  General  Court  hel<l  at  liostoii,  Si-p:.  27,  1  •■.!■•.*, 
"It  is  ordered,  that  the  associats  of  Pa^cataqne  shall  have  j)o\.cr  to  ciy  -my 
can>:e  under  "j'j',  though  no  other  bee  sent  to  them.  "Willi:  Hilton,  U'il'i: 
"NVald^ji,  Kdw.i:  Colcotc  have  anthority  U)  end  dilh.'rencos  under  2u  .sh'.  M' 
Francis  "Williams  is  ioyned  an  associate  at  Pascata«|."t  ile  was  d.  ;tu(y 
from  Dover  to  the  Gcwtnal  Court  at  IJoston,  1C14.  He  convtryed  to  Fran- 
cis I\latt!i"us,  of  Oyster  Ivi\er,  88  acres  of  land  in  Oy-tor  Ifiver,  graiit.«'l 
him  1)}  tlie  town  of  I)ovof,  and  two  parcels  of  rnarsh  land  adjoining.^  J;i 
this  <lee.d  he  styles  himself  of  Dover. 

About  this  rime  he  removed  to  Kittery  Point,  as  Frances  ^Vhite.  wife  of 
liiuhcirJ  ">VhiLe,  iu  a  ueposikionij  taken  Feb.  27,  1G87-8,  says  *•  tliat  abi^nt 
forty  sixe  3 ears  past  sliv'^.e  leived  in  a  house  at  Kittery  ixrviit  that  stood  fh  .■■> 
between  the  house  that  v/as  m'':  Morgans  &  the  house  that  M':  GreeP.hnd 
afterward  leived  in-  which  house  above  sayd  the  depo'  husband  AVilliatn. 
Hilton  did  hyer  of  ?>Iaior  Nicholus  shapligh."  She  must  ha's  e  been  a  >■■''- 
ond  wife  of  William  Hilton,  as  she  was  '•  adged  seauenty  years  or  therea- 
bouts" at  the  time  when  this  deposition  was  taken,  and  could  not  theietl-re 
have  been  tiie  wife  who.  with  two  children,  came  in  the  '•  Anne  "  to  Piymo.ith 
in  ll^2.j.  At  a  court  held  at  Gorgcami,  June  27,  1048,  "It  is  o-dered  this 
Court  that  m^  William  Hilton  being  llseiised  for  to  keep  the  ordnnry  at  the 
mouth  of  the  River  of  Pascataqua,  and  that  none  other  sl;a!!  keep  any  pri- 
vate orduary  ther,  nor  to  sell  Wine  beare  nor  Licker  upon  any  p'tence  wh  it 

*  N.  11.  Provincial  Fapers,  ;.  p.  141.  For  \\\<  action  of  trespass  on  :ho  c:-*e  aa.iips;  Ati- 
brn<e  Gilihori>  fur  tlerainiii;^  tliis  marsh,  >ee  RocI:iri;g;'iam  Dfcds,  Li'i.  :.  fol.  7.  /A/'/,  ti'l.  1-, 
is  the  ful'.o'.vin,:^  entry  :  "  Georg  Walton  Simutrs  an  jiccO  >lc!it  at  S",ito  of  W°  IIilroTi  criii..-- 
ed  that  ex  to  be  granted  pst-af  r\>r  3*  daHJa:,'  t'v  i'!'  Co<rs-  Fro'-idid  ihat  if  -M'  'j'onikiiir-  f/t 
horhainriton  have  pd  Iu'  to  in."  Rich:  Hilton  in  Nor.wich  then  the  s-d  M'm  Hiit-in."  A  l.r:-T, 
or  mark  of  contraction,  is  interlined  above  tlie  caret,  bnt  is  obscured  by  the  letrcrs  of  'li»; 
line  abi..ve,  and  cannot  now  be  clearly  made  out.  This  case  is  referred  to  here,  in  the  hrpc 
that  it  may  aiford  a  clue  for  further  investigations.  Ii.s  date  is  either  1642  or  1G13,  the 
entry  being  rather  indefinite. 

In  Mass.  Arciiives,  xxxix.  70-73,  is  the  case  of  Edward  Colcord  vs.  N'atbaniel  Boukcr,  oa 
tiie  following  Agreement : 

•'  I  \athaniell  Boulter  doe  p'mise  to  deliver  unto  m'  'WiUi :  Hilton 
of  Dover  halfe  a  thousand  of  pipC'^tavcs  'Marcheantaljle  in  May 
next  164.5  Nutthanieli  Boulter. 

Wirtness  William  tEfeild;:: 

The-e  p'sents  Vittm  v^cth  that  I  Willi:  Hikon  doe  a«f  igne  over  this 
bill  to  Edward  Colcord  :  by  mee  Will;  Hilton." 

Among  th^  o.iperi  in  this  ca^^o  is  ''The  deposieo  of  AVillm  ffurbur  acnl  aboirr  fT'-Ttv 
Ttares  who  Swiir;ie  Saith  Tluit  .Some  Cevtay;)*-  veaies  Since  '  ciugin  tlic  coiii.cany  c;  f..i\va.-<l 
-Ci-;cf.r':  cc  V\'jr.tn  Iliiton  who  tlicn  lived V.tt  YorK  I  did  I'v.  n  he.''ve  wii-r:  ililr. .11  ■^ay  :inJ 
acknowledge  thai  hee  had  ns.-igned  to  Ed'vard  Colcord  a  Biil  for  pipe  «tavcs  s\h;ch  N.iti.an- 
ii-li  oi'uircr  did  ow  to  ye  sd  willm  Hilton  w.h  was  ai>ouc  five  hiindrtd  aecorduig  (<">  i:;y 
host  remembrance.  Deposed  the  tir^t  of  the  5  ino:  16.5;)." 
t  Dover  Town  Reconls,  Lib.  i. 

1  Keeordsof  Mjss  ,  ii.  t^.31.     .\1-o  recorded  DoTcr  To-svn  Recor(?«,  L>1).  •".  fol.  20. 
^  This  dei'd  w.is  recr-.led  with  K.'ckinichai.i  Deius,  Lib.  i.  i'ol.  ^'o,  •_"):Ii  1  mo.  M-):}.     TtJ 
date  .-.jcms  to  be  7  Jnlv,  ld44.  altered  to  lo4l,  or  ;/ir>t:cd  >o  a«  to  look  bke  ICiil.    The  .^3.1:3 
deed  i-,  al-n  found  in  Dover  Town  Records,  where  i:s  date  is  7  July,  iOl-5. 
il  York  Court  Fiks. 

VOL.  sjxr.         16* 


.182  Desceyidants  of  Willii'.m  Hilton.  [^[tn'!, 

soever  under  li  gallons  l)y  retailo  :""*^  "  It  is  Onlered  this  Court  that  hoe  th.-.t 
koojis  tho  ordriory  is  f.)r  lo  ]<ee[)e  .'i.  ferry  'm\i\  to  have  to  the  great  Jla!i,l[ 
for  oiu-  vi  (1  if  laorc  iiid  a  pcese  to  Strawhury  banck  for  oue  xiid  if  moii" 
viiid  p  Viiari  to  Dover  or  Kitt'irry  xviii  d  for  one  if  moro  xii  d  a  man. '"4-  At 
a  conit  hcM  at  Gorgeana  Oct.  IC,  l(ji'.>,  "  It  is  Ordered  this  court:  'li;:ir. 
ther  shall  he  ahieway  cut  from  the  head  of  Ko^^ias  Cove,  unto  the  licu'l  of 
Bray  bote  harbor  »S:  so  to  tht;  little  i:iar-.h  ner  Unto  Cap'  Cliauipanowut.s 
hoTvse  &  so  to  m'  William  Ililtous  the  In  habitance  of  Gorgeaua  :  to  cut : 
Unto  a  Cove  ricare  l'nt<-)  Jo"  Andrews:  and  th';  Inhabitauce  of  Pascata- 
quacke  to  out  from  Vt''''  Ililtons  to  that  cove,  ])y  so  many  of  each  towno 
as  thoy  shall  tliin-kc  utt ;  and  this  to  be  done  by  the  .'5')"'  Goto'  (■19."§  Joini 
Treworthie  in  'i  depositiouij  taken  Oct.  25,  lOoO,  testifies  "  tliat  the  cellar 
w'^''  is  at  Fascatauay  now  standing  neere  the  house  v,"^^  AV"  Hilton  now 
lives  in.  did  not  any  way  bc-l'Tg  to  tho  land  v;"^^  was  bought  by  me  for  my 
Grandffather  m'  Alexander  S'liafjlei-.'h."  At  a  court  held  at  Gorgeaua.  O.-t. 
15,  lGr)(),  ''tfor  as  much  as  the  house  at  the  Rivers  mouth  wher  lu'  Shap- 
leighs  fVather  first  built  and  wJ  William  Hilton  now  dwelletb :  In  reganl  it 
was  first  house  thar  uylt.  and  m''  Shapleigh  lutcnleth  to  build  and  Inlanjo 
it:  and  for  furder  considerations,  it  is  thought  fit  it  should  from  time  lo 
time,  be  for  a  hot-.s*:  of  Entertayment  or  (.>rdnary  ■«"'  this  p'viso  that  tlic 
Tenant  bee  such  a  out;  as  tht;  Inhabitants  shall  approve  of.''^  June  7,  IG-'^l, 
]Mr.  isicholas  Shapleigh,  of  Kittcry.  leased  to  Mr.  Hugh  Gunison.  for  the 
term  ol  twenty-one  }ears  from  thr.t  date,  •'  All  his  Edifices  Land  &  accc»- 
modations  arid  I'riveleilges :  Att  tlie  poynt  wher  m'  William  Hilton  \\<)\y 
Dwflh'th.  cjntayning  llr.e  Hiindred  ackers."*"^ 

He  thereupon  reuioved  to  York,  and  when  the  IMassachusetts  Corn'.ni-- 
•'^ionors  arrived  there  to  receive  the  submission  of  the  inliabitants.  >iov.  I'J., 
I€a2,  he  was  one  of  the  fifty  persons  who  acknowledged  themselves  sid-ject 
to  the  Government  of  the  INIitssachusetts  Bay,  and  took  the  oath  of  free- 
man. At  a  town  meeting  held  at  York  about  the  Sth  of  December,  lf>.'-\ 
"It  is  ordered  tliat  m'' William  Hilton  is  to  have  the  use  of  the  ferry  for 
the  Term  of  one  i.^  twenty  years.  Eying  betvrixt  the  house  where  he  nu*v 
.livetli,  aod  The  Ttjwn  o£  I'ork  :  and  he  is  duly  to  attend  the  sd  Ferry  wich 
Canncos  sniiielent  for  the  safe  transportation  both  of  Strangers  i?-  rov.'i;:- 
men  if  occisiou  requireth.  If  ticae  tt  tydes  be  Seasonable,  he  is  to  pa-s 
persons  over  to  &.  from  the  Stage  Island  :  If  not  he  is  &  must  provide 
a  Canoo  to  Lye  ready  at  the  point  of  Land  on  his  own  Side  the  River,  uj-on 
all  Such  occasions  to  transport  {)eople  without  danger.  In  Consideration 
whereof  the  s^  ^,Vi!liam  Hilton  is  to  liave  allowed  him  two  pence  a  pt^ice  for 
Every  strangers,  &  four  pence  apeace  for  fLvery  beast,  or  horse  ■which  ho 
swimmeth  over,  or  that  are  Sworn  by  any  Strangers  themselves,  he  or  his 
servants  being  ready  to  attend,  ct  one  penny  a  time  for  Every  Towusuu-.u 
he  fetcheth  or  carrieth  over :  unle^-s  the  sd  Inliahitant  go  over  In  his  own 
Gaimoo,  which  Liberty  remaines  to  Every  Townsman,  being  made  use  of  to 
Exempt  him  or  them  from  the  payniirat  of  any  fL;rriage."tt     He  was   one 

*  Piigc  20,  In  wrii'ound  or  stitcbnl  MS  in  Oifice  of  Clm-k  of  Courts,  Yr.ik  Co.,  Mc 
t  This  seems  to  be  ti.e  only  autliuritv  for  Mr.  fc^av;igc's  a--c!lio:)  that  he  h.ii  -  co..irol  of 
Great  I^lairl." 
t  Page  -21.  in  nnboumi  or  stitclicil  MS.  in  ofRce  of  Cloriv  of  Court".  York  Co.,  Me. 
§  Pa^'e  (•-,  in  nnbound  (,r  <titchfil  :MS.  in  .aKju  uf  Cork  of  Court.-;,  YorkC<..,  Me. 
|l  SutfuSk  l>.;:.tis.  Lil..  i.  fol.  Vli. 

H  Page  16,  in  iinl)i)i;nii  or  stitrh<  li  MS.  in  Oui'C  of  Ci(.rk  of  Coiuts,  Yorii  Co.,  M"-- 
**  Loo.-o  sheet  in  unlKH!,-Kl  or  .-titc'ied  .MS.  in  <.^i:^c  of  Clerk  cf  Courts,  Y'oric  Cc.  Me.  Fwc- 
.cor<\<.A  also  with  York  DeeiU,  Lib.  i.  fol.  lo. 
tt  York  ToviU  Rc:orJf,  i.  p.  I". 


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1577.1  Deacev.dants  of  WiUiom  UlJton.  1S3 

of  tlic  Sil'.'cfmcn  of  York  in  10'>2,  IG.ju  aud  1004,  and  had  p-aiK.s  of  Linu 
fti'in  the  t'Mvn,  one  July  U  iOoii,  rn:d  another  Juno  4,  ]  li.Jl,  of  twonty 
acri'.s  *•  next  adjoinini.r  unto  n'/  Edward  Gf^dt'reys  house."*  lie  died  IG.j.'i 
or  IGoG,  and  letters  of  adiiiini'^.tratiun  on  Ids  estate  were  graiited  -Juno  .30, 
1G5G,  to  Kicliard  \\'hil.e,  wliu  had  married  Franci.-s,  hi^  widow.  Ilia  elnld- 
reu  were  : 

2.  AVii.M.\M, 

and  ptrha[;3  others.f 

Tliere  was  a  "William  Hilton  of  Xewhury,  marine'-,  who  is  often  con- 
founded with  the  William  above  named,  and  whose  relatiousldp  to  him  is 
not  as  yet  satisfactorily  determined.  It  is  liardly  prohahle  that  he  was  a 
son  of  that  "WillLain,  as  Savage  supposes,  not-  eoiild  tin.-y  liave  been  one  and 
tlie  eame  person,  as  inaintaintd  by  CoHin  and  others.  He  was  defendant 
in  a  suit  brought  by  Tliomas  Tuck,  at  a  Court  held  at  Salem  on  the  last 
dav  of  4ih  nio.  1G40,  and  had  several  graiits  of  land  in  >sewl;ury.  but  these 
grants  are  scattered  through  the  Town  llet.-ords,  generally  without  dares, 
ii!,d  iii  wVsr  disregard  of  chronological  order.  Dec.  29.  104'J,  he  sold 
James,  his  Indian,  to  George  Carr,  in  c^.chang^;  for  quarter  of  a  vessel. $ 
"  "W"  ir.hon,  Newb."  rook  the  oath  of  freeman,  May  lb,  IGOG.  His  child- 
ren, born  in  2\tv.'bury,  were:  .  .      / 

«  York  Town  Record.^  i.  p.  IC. 

t  John  Tlilton,  of  Dover,  Mas,  I  think,  a  son  of  "\Vil!i:',in'  bv  his  first  ^ifc.  lie  w.i-  t-xicil 
at  Dovci-  i  s  eariv  as  104S.  and  had  grants  of  land  rli>Te.  Bv  deed  d:irL'd  y  June,  17"il  (  U<;ck- 
iiighaiu  IVcds  Lib.  l'_\  lul.  IGl),  .Ci.a  Hilton,  '.vidow  of  Wiliiai;i  Hilton,  Ij'jdj  iiidn  Eluton, 
Saiiiiiel  Moore  and  ILunnii  Hilton,  alias  Colo,  all  of  York,  and  Malachi  Edwanis  and  Jo- 
sepii  Day,  liotli  of  Wells  in  the  roimty  of  York,  ccnviy  to  Cai.t.  'Uiomas  Millet  of  Oyster 
River,  six  uiidividcd  seventh  parts  of  two  :,'iants  uf  land  made  tu  John  Hilton  d-^'-ea-cJ, 
at  a  town  meeting  held  at  Dovir,  4:  10  mo.  lij-36.  And  William  UiltM;;  of  Marblehcad, 
mariner,  conveys  to  said  Millet  the  other  undivided  seventh,  by  deed  dated  3  Sejit.  1721, 
recorded  as  aforesaid,  Lib.  12,  fol.  222. 

Magdalen,  wife  of  James  Wiggin  ot  York,  was  probably  a  daughter  of  William  Hilton. 
At  altevent^,  she  was  a  daucjhterof  Frances  his  ■wife,  possibly  by  a  former  liusbiiad.  She 
was  m.  to  Wiggin  prio'-  to  16-57. 

There  was  .a  M;r,;nering  or  Manning  Hilton  in  York  as  caWy  a;  16G7.  Administration  on 
his  estate  was  iriantcd  4  Jnlv,  1(571,  to  Tliomas  M-nUton,  hi>  fatL  ,r-in-law. 

The  Town  Record-  <:.f  York  record  the  b-nh,  21  St-pt.  1691,  of  a  child  of  Nath'l  Adams, 
by  his  wile  V,  hose  maiden  nurne  was  '•  Maguclon  "  Hilton.  To  this  record  the  Hon.  Na- 
thaniel G.  Marshall,  the  pre.-eiit  Town  Clerk,  has  added  that  she  was  the  daughter  of  Ma.n- 
warrn  and  Mary  Hilton,  but  I  do  not  know  the  authority  for  the  statement.  She  after- 
ward m.  Elias  Weare,  and  again  John  Weblier. 

Mannerel  or  Maunerwei!  Hilton  of  York,  batchelor,  was  defendant  in  suits  brought  by 
Joseph  Hammond  et  al.,  at  Court  of  Common  Pleas,  held  at  York  3  July  and  2  Oct.  170o, 
and  2  July,  1706. 

Administration  on  the  estate  of  Rolicrt  Hilton  of  Wells,  "  who  is  apprehended  to  bee  de- 
ceased," was  granted  to  Mr.  t^amuel  Wheelwriu'ht  and  Fiancis  Littlelield,  29  Sept.  ICS5. 
Rol^eit  Hilton  of  Wells,  weaver,  conveyed  land  to  Jonithau  Littleiield  of  WelJs,  by  deed 
dared  1.3  Nov.  1694,  recorded  with  York  Deeds,  Lib.  I:J,  fol.  27-3. 

A  William  Hilton,  who  was,  I  think,  a  son  of  Edward  Hilton,  Sen.,  of  Exeter,  wa-  of 
Kittery  in  1660,  in  which  year  he  was  one  of  the  graod  jury.  He  w;;s  constable  in  1661, 
r.:?d  had  a  grant  of  land  in  Kittery.  17  July,  1C6L,  which  was  laid  out  20  Feb.  166J,  "  in  y 
great  Co'e  below  y  boyliiig  rock."  He  was  presented  liy  the  urand  jury  to  a  <  ..urt  held 
at  York,  7  July,  166-^,  as  follows:  "  Wee  F'sent  William  Hdtoa  Coiist.ibie.  of  Kiitcry  for 
tcareing  of  a  spetiall  warrant,  sent  by  the  secixtary  from  Bo-ton  to  Kittery,  for  ieudmg  a 
D.puty  to  the  General!  Court." 

John  Symmons  of  Kittery,  p!:tnccr,  by  deed  dated  IS:  2  mo.  1667,  recorded  with  York 
Deeds,  Lib.  2,  fol.  33,  conveys  to  his  son-in-law  William  Hilton,  huu.-o  aipl  laud  in  Kitrery 
"  as  a  dowry  with  my  dauirhtcr  Rcbcckah  now  wife  unto  the  s"  William,"  in  the  presonci; 
of  f-'ian.  l'lia:ripernowne,  Uoiie  ■  Gret-Tdaiid,  Evtw  :  li:lt  )n.  He  \vMs  wi  E.vetor.sJiortly  after, ' 
and  died  there  about  1691),  le.iviiig  a  widow.  A.dmiiil^Cr.ition  on  his  e^tate  was  griiiitcd,  9 
April,  1691,  to  Richard  Hilton,  his  e!de-t  son.  He  i.■^  styled  Cap:.  Widiatr!  Hilton  iu  v.uiou-j 
instruments.  Nurics  of  such  of  liis  children  as  are  kii'.-  'n  to  me  vcre : 
i.    Richa'-d.        ii.   John.        iii.    William. 

t  Records  of  [Old]  Co.  of  Norfolk  at  S.ueru,  Lib.  2,  io\.  197. 


184  Dtsceiulcoits  of  Wuli.itm  JILlLon.  [^^l""il, 

i.      Sakati,  b.  June.  1641. 

ii.     Cii\ruLF>,  !).  Jii;.-'.  Itil3. 

iii.    An.nk,  b.  I'cl).  TJ.  ItWo. 

iv.    £Lr/.\nKTii,  \).  Nov.  0,  IfijO  ;  m.  in  Cl.arlestowti,  Pec.  22,  iC'3,  Tinw 

thy  Cutler. 
V.     Wn.Li.A\r,  \).  June  28,  1653. 

He  removed  shortly  after  to  Chailestown,  bou<,Mit  hou^ie  aud  land  tlieri; 
of  liulpli  iMousull,  Sejit.  29,  IGo-D,*  and  there  m.  (2)  ^lohitable,  daughter  of 
Increase  Nowell,  10:  7th  mo.  1G.;0.  lie  was  admittoil  a  luemuer  of  f'lc 
church  in  Charle.'^town  hy  a  letter  of  dismi.ssion  from  the  church  in  Xuw- 
bury,  Aug,  1-1,  1G7C>,  and  died  in  Charle.stown,  7  :  7th  mo.  lG7o.  Admi:ii>> 
tration  on  his  e-tate  was  gr;iuted  14:  11  th  mo.  1075,  to  his  widow  Mehila- 
ble,  who  m.  Deacon  John  Cutk-r,  29:  8th  mo.  1G81.  His  children,  \>y  his 
second  wife,  all  born  in  Charlestown,  were  : 

vi.  NowEM,,  h.  May  t.  hapt.  May  10,  lOfi:!.  (A  mariner,  whose  wil', 
dated  Oct.  fi,  ItiST,  was  probated  Siept.  17,  lOi'.J,  at  Doctors  C'uu- 
niotis,  Li>n(ii;ii.) 

vii.    Er>\v.M:D,  b.  .Nh^rch  3,  bapt.  March  4,  IfiGfi. 

viii.  JoiiN,  l)apt.  24  :  3  nio.  I(jGS. 

ix.  Kri1ai;i>,  b.  Sept.  13,  bapt.  S.'ejit.  13,  1070  ;  ni.  in  C'hnrlc-stoWii,  Jan. 
2-J,  1711-12,  EHrabcth  Lord,  and  died  theiu,  Jan.  25,  1720-1. 

X.      Cn.NRLES,  b.  -^pril  19,  bajtt.  April  27,  1G73. 

Beside  tlie  children  above  named,  lie  had  others,  for  Mehitable  Cutler, 
then  widow  of  Lit-ut.  John  Cutler,  in  her  will,  dated  Dec.  8,  1709.  ,)roi>at- 
ed  Oct.  22,  1711,  makes  her  two  sons,  John  and  Richard  Hilton,  residuary 
legatees  and  executors,  on  condition  that  they  niainrain  their  brother  Sam- 
uel Hilton.  Mary  Hilton,  wdio  married  "William  Mai-.-iiall,  in  Charlestov.'i.. 
2:  8th  mo.  IGCG,  was  another  daughter  of  William  Hilton.t 

2.  "\Villi.a.m'  (  WilUcuii}),  of  York,  mariner,  was  the  son  of  the  TViuiara 
first  above  named,  as  appears  from  the  fallowing  deposition  :  "  Th.e  D.^;)0- 
sition  of  Majo''  John  Davess  aged  7(>  years,  or  y  abouts,  &  Cap'  Charles 
F[rost]  aged  52  years  or  there  abouts,  these  Deponents  respectively  tes- 
tify, &  Say  y*  Wi!lia[rn]  Hilton  now  rescident  iu  yor'ie,  in  the  provinct:  of 
Mayne,  was  CoiTionl\'  known,  &  [repu^ted,  to  bee  y*  soun  vi  William  Hil- 
ton Senior  deceased,  &  formerly  lived  in  Yorke  abo[  ]  on  y'  Trac'-  oi 
Land,  y'  lyeth  on  the  South,  or  South  AVest  side  of  y*  liiver  (_  ]  yorke 
over  against  the  lishing  flakes.  &  next  the  Ferry,  &  further  Sayth  no[t] 

Taken  upon  oath  in  Court  this  30"^  of  May  1083:  p  Edw:  Ivishw[orth] 
Recor."t 

He  had  a  grant  of  land  from  the  town,  Aug.  25,  1G79,  and  another, 
which  bears  no  date,  '"  upon  the  neck  of  Land  on  the  South  Side  of  Yurk 
River,  between  Arthur  Bales  Land,  &  major  Shapleighs,  and  James  Wig- 
gens  t<:  William  mores  Land.  &  tlie  Lan(l  that  was  formerly  m"  William 
Pliltons,  provided  it  be  free  from  any  mans  propriety  or  former  grant."? 
He  wa;}  one  of  the  forty-six  men  wh.o  took  the  oath  of  allcLdance  to  the 
King,  3Iarcli  22,  1G80.    Another  grant  of  land  was  made  to  iiim,  Marcli  18. 

*  Cliarlo^toun  Anliivo.^.  >:xxiv. 

t  TLioin.w  Seers  and  Mary  liilton,  nli.is  Downer,  were  m.  in  Newbcry.  11  D-c.  ")•>>. 
Jonathan  Woodman  and  Hanna  Ililtcn  wore  ni.  in  Ncwhury,  .Inly  2,  l(3o8.  Sara  Hiiruii 
was  one  of  the  witiu  sm.s  to  a  diicd  fVorn  ^Vi!!iam  Sawyer  to  Tlio'nias  ?e,:re<,  of  I;.;ii!  in 
X;'wl)ury.  (.lar>  il  ^l  uxli  _';,  ItUS.  (Town  llccir.ls,  1.  p.'.';7.)  Join  Ililrijn  .-eein-  :o  \y^•^<i 
been  raxed  in  Newhinv  I'l-VJ  (Town  Records.  I.  p.  100),  unless  tiierc  is  an  error  la  t'le  i-  I'oiM. 

1  York  Deeds,  Lib.  3,  f-d.  Vl.-,. 

\  York  To.vn  llecordi,  I.  p.  73. 


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1877.]  Descendants  of  William  Ilillon.  185 

If.Oo-G.     He  died  between  Marcli,  iOOO,  and  Juno,  1700,  leaving;  a  v/ido-sv 
Aiiii'*"  and  children : 

3.  i.       Wn.i.iAM. 

ii.     IlANNAn,  iti.  (n  aMut   1703,  John  Coh.>.     lie  d.  about  1712  or  1713, 
and  she  m.  ('2)  Murk  Shepard. 

4.  iii.    Benjamin. 

iv.    DdT.LAS,  ui.  S;iniuel  Moor.  ■; 

And  probably  others. 

3.  AVili.iam'  (  iriV/Ai?;?,'  Wlllinni'),  b.  about  1 078,  probably  in  York; 
m.  in  Marblehcad,  June  2,  1690,  Margaret  Stilson,  dauf.diter  of  James  and 
^Mur^aret  Stilson.f  He  harl  a  grant  of  thirty  acres  of  land  in  York,  Feb. 
17,  1702-3,  which,  with  ten  acres  more,  formerly  granted  to  his  father 
(Au^r.  2o,  1G70).  were  laid  out  to  him.  F».'b.  21,  lt02-3.  He  had  another 
orant  of  thirty  acres  at  the  head  of  Ilradbote,  Broadbote,  or  Braveboat, 
Harbor,  March  17.  1702-3,  laid  out  to  him,  ^Nfarch  20,  1702-3.  Thisja^t 
tract  of  land  lie  conveyed  to  Joseph  Hoult,  by  deed  dated  June  4,  1711, 
recorded  with  York  Deeds,  Lib.  7,  fol.  196.  In  this  deed  he  styles  himself 
pf  York.  P'len-.ui'.i.  He  already  had  a  dwelliiig-honse  in  IManclifister, 
Mas;.,  at  Black  Cove,  in  that  niirt  of  the  town  calbjd  Newport,  when  he 
bought  lund  there  of  Plrlip  Nichols.  Nov.  22.  1709  (Esse.x  Dood^.  Lib._23, 
fol.  268).  He  bought  other  land  adjoining,  of  John  Seward,  vSept.  •"'>,  1714 
(Essex  Deeds,  Lib.^27.  fol.  63).  lii  these'' deeds  he  is  styled  of  ^Mauches- 
ter.  fisherman  and  coaster.  He  had  a  dwellingdiouse  at  Muscongus,  when 
he  bought  lands  there  of  Kichard  Peirce,  by  deed  dated  Feb.  1,1710-20 

*  Her  HLiidcn  name  mav  b.-.v?  been  Peale.  for  M'illiam  Hilton,  iiy  deed  dated  March  o, 
16S1,  recorutil  with  York  Deed?,  Lit).  7,  fol.  194.  convev-  the  above  described  land  pr.iated 
him  by  the  Town  of  York,  to  his  loving  iirother,  Arthui-  Bcalc.  Kenlc  may,  however,  Lave 
mfLrrii-d  a  si.-ti-r  of  William  Hilton. 

t  Ji'hn  Biowii,  >on  of  RLhard  Brown,  of  Barton  Reiis,  co.  Gloucester,  England,  m. 
Mariiarct.  dan.  of  Francis  Havward,  of  Bristol,  England,  and  settled  at  Pcmaquid,  .it  tb6 
licad  of  New  HarV.or,  in  what  "is  now  the  tov.n  of  Bristol  in  the  County  of  Lincoln,  .Maine- 
By  deed  dated  Jalv  15,  16-2.5,  Somerset,  or  Samosct,  and  Unnoni^oit,  Indian  S.^.gainorei, 
convcved  to  him  a  tract  of  land  embracinu-  a  lar^re  pan  of  the  pre.-cnt  County  of  Lincoln, 
and  ineliif  in'.;  Mu-con^rns  L-hrnd.  He  had  a  -on  John  and  daughters:  Margaret,  who  m. 
Alexandci,  or  Sav.dev  Gould;  Elizabeth,  who  ra.  Richard  Peirce,  son  of  John  Peirce;  asd 
Emma,  who  m.  Nicholas  Deminir. 

Alexander  and  Margaret  Gould  had  three  daughters,  one  of  whom,  Margaret,  b.  in  New 
Harhor  about  16-59.  m.  ( 1)  James  Stilson,  by  whom  she  had  children :  Margaret  Stiison,  above 
named,  b.  about  1679;  James  Stilton  ;  a  daughter  wliose  name  is  not  known,  and  perhaps 
ethers.  [The  records  rf  the  Fir^t  Church  of  Marblehead,  Mass.,  show  the  admis-ion  of 
Margaret  Stiison,  April  IS,  1686.  Mav  2,  163'j.  Margarett  Stilson  was  baptized,  an>i.  May 
Ifi,  bJSi;,  ^Ln-garecr,  James,  Mary  and  John,  children  of  Mar-are:t  StiUon,  were  baptized. 
Margaret  Stilson,  innuka,  was  one  of  '-the  children  of  the  Church,  who  bcim:  growne  up 
did  iJcrsonaily  owne  tho  Covenant  of  their  Parents,  &  by  their  owne  act  eutred  themselves  in 
iliis  societv,""  Jnlv  '26,  I'^O^,  "  heinir  of  ace  so  to  doe."] 

Ali.nit  the  year"l6S6,  16S7  or  16SS,  James  StiNon,  the  fothcr,  while  crossing  the  water  at 
Muscongus  in  a  canoe,  was  fire. I  upon  and  killed  by  the  Indians,  who  took  his  youngest 
dauL'hteV,  asackinc:  babv,  from  her  mother's  bri'ast,'))unied  it  in  the  fire  and  carried  the 
mother  and  the  other  two  children  captives  to  Canada.  In  Mass.  Archive*,  xxxviii.  A.  2, 
in.ali.-t  of  "  Nams  of  Eni:li-h  Captives  Redeemed  from  Qubek  by  math'  Cary  in  oct'-, 
i'''^),"  is  that  of -m"  Mar-  StiNon  Pemei,ad."  In  the  following  list  of  "  Nams  of  thos 
Ueniainimr  Still  in  liands  of  the  frcnch  ar  C.inada,"  are  those  of  "  Jam'  Stdtson  {sic]  boy 
iVtnjqu.l  "  a:!  I  "maiw:  [sic']  Stilson  gcrll  pt-niqud."  Mary  is  undoubtedly  a  mi -fake  tor 
^l  ir_Mrct.    These  p.-ts  we're  pn'nti.I  in  the  Register,  vi.  p.  87,  the  name  of  the 


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iiii-lir;ut>d  Stliton.  After  her  re!ea>e  from  captivitv,  Margaret  Stilson,  the  mother,  m.  (2), 
in  Marblehead,  March  3i>,  Ifii-i,  Thomas  Pitman,  who  \\a>  admitted  a  member  of  the  church 
In  M:nblcl-cad,  Feb.  4  or  5,  lOSG,  and  who  died,  4  mo,  I73G,  aged  94.  She  died  11  mo,  1750. 
.-.r;"a92. 

J.^mc^  Stilson,  the  son,  and  his  >ister  Margaret  w-ve  afterward  ransomed.  H-  removed 
"^  N'\\castle  and  Port-riomii.  N.  IL.,  and  -lie  m.  J.ine  2,  1609.  William  Ililt'.n.  as  at<ove 
"^•t  Ibrtii.  The  dep-.-iiioiis  h.:r-"'iiafrt'r  referred  to,  with  ch.'racteri.-tic  ina-?i-urai  y,  sc.tte  that 
»ht  rcit'ained  six  vears  in  ccrivltv  after  the  r^iease  of  her  mother,  and  twelve  years  in  a!J. 


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186  Descendants  of  William  Hilton.  [April, 

(Essex  Deeds,  Lib.  39,  fol.  70).     Bat  little  reliance  can  be  plac^.'d  on  th.) 

recitals  in  tiie  numoruiis  (iccds  in  which  h'3  appears  us  grantor  or  giuiu,!-, 
for  in  these  he  is  stvlr:;d  .soraetimes  of  York,  and  sunietimus  of  Manchcifr. 
lilarhlehead  and  .AfusconiTH,  his  oocupatioa  being  that  of  mariner,  coaster 
and  fishei-nian.      He   evidently  occupied    lands   at   IMuscongus,   \v!'.i<-li   h- 
held  in  the  right  of  his  wife  Mariraret,  and  lands  which  he  himself  bouglit  «f 
Gi3sar  jMoxis'aud  Giistin,  Indian  Sagamores  (hv  deeds  dated  June  .0,  17 is, 
and  Oct.  20,  I7i0,  Essex  Deeds,  Llh.  oi*.  fols.  87,  88),  bn.t  whetherhe  was 
an  actual  resident,  or  only  lived  t!iere  during  the  tithing  season  in  cuch 
year,  is  a  matter  of  some  doubt.     He  seems  to  have  been  extensively  en- 
gaged in  the  lldieries  and  coasting  trade  at  Muscongus,  making  great  iui- 
provenients,  and  having  a  large  stock  of  cattle.     At  a  town  meeting  in 
Manchester,  Dec.  1,  1715,  he  was  made  one  of  a  committee  to  procure  a 
minister  to  preach  the  gospel,  and  March  12,  171.3-lG,  was  chosen  one  of 
the  selectmen  of  Manchester.     His  name  appears   on  the  tax  list  of  ^Slan- 
chester  for  the  years  1717  and  1718,  and  in  the  former  year  he  was  one  of 
the  tythingmen,  and  in  the  latter,  one  of  the  "  Chowerds  and  feld  Driveei  v'' 
ITis  v,-ife  was  admitted  a  member  of  the  church   in  Manchester.  :\Iay  20, 
1717.     June  11,  1719,  the  tovai  laid  out  a  higliway  from  Black  Cove,  near 
Hilton's  swamp  and  garden.     In   t}\s  claim  entered  by  Margaret  Hilton, 
Dec.  1,  1720,  in  the  Book  of  Eastern  Claims  in  the  Secretary's  ollice,  Boston, 
she  styles   herself  the  wife   of  ^Villiam   Hilton   now   living  at  Muscon.i'iis. 
But  if  he  had  any  intention  of  permanently  settling  there,  the  outbreak  of 
bostib'tics  with  the  Indians  comi)elled  him  to   change  his  purpose.     In  ih.e 
journal  of  the  Rev.  Joseph  Baxter,  missionary  to  the  Eastern  Indians,  is  the 
following:  ''The  next  Day  which  was  Saturday,  Aug:  12  [1721],  we  had  a 
good  wind,  and  towards  night  we  arrived  at  Casco-Bay,  where  we  met  with 
M' Hilton,  of  Muscongus  "in   a  small  vessel  with  bis  cattle  and   Hogs  on 
board,  removing  to   y^^  w^estward,  who  informed  us   y*  all   the  People  were 
gone  from  MuscoDiius  upon  y*^  rumours  they  had  heard  about  the  Indian'?."' 
He  was  buried  in  the  old  burial  ground  at' Manchester,  and  his  gravestone 
bears  this  inscription  :  t 

Here  lyeth  the 

body  of  lifnt 

William  Hilton 

"Who  died  June        i.i  ; '      ~ 

Y«  2P'  1723  aged 

45  years.  •  ^ 

His  widow  m.arried  in  Manchester,  Dec.  8,  1727,  John  Allen,  who  died 
about  1737,  and  died  a  widow  in  IManchester,  Nov.  1763,  aged  84  years.+ 
Children  of  "William  and  Z^Iargaret : 

i.  Elizabeth,  bapt.  in  MarbleheaJ.  Dec.  8,  1700;  m.  (1)  Joim  KhdwI- 
tou  {puhlisheJ  xwM^wchc^xux.  Oct.  18,  1719);  m.  (-2)  in  Manches- 
ter, Nov.  6,   17-"J,   John  Hassam;^    m.  (3)  in  \Venbam,  Nov.  '20, 

•  Regist"R,  xxi.  p.  5o. 

t  "Lifut"  is  an  alibreviatioa  for  Licutunant.  k.t  the  foot  of  tiic  grave  \s  another  gravi - 
stone,  erected  about  tVirty  years  n;;.^  by  ilie  late  Capt.  Amos  Hilton,  whi:-h  bears  uiuu  was 
intende'l  to  I'e  a  Ci.pv  of'tlic  aLovc  inscri;itiou,  which  had  become  almosc  illcjrib'e  from  Ion-' 
exposure  to  the  wiaihcr.  By  it  mistake  of  the  ?tune-cutter,  however,  the  date  of  deatU  is 
given  June  "i-S,  1723. 

t  Ajicd  SS  or  89,  according  to  a  copy  of  the  entry  in  the  Chnroa  Rec^trds,  ?cnt  me  '■.• 
John  Loe,  E~n.,  Toun  Clor'c  of  Manvht-ster.  lianna'h  T'.'wksluirv,  in  a  dcpL.sitiou  herc-a- 
aftcr  retcn-;.'d  to,  v,iii,li  ij  proljaijly  more  correct,  gives  the  age  as  S+  years. 

}  Register,  xxiv.  p.  4li. 


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1877.]  Descendants  of  William  Hilton.  187 

171 1 ,  John  Day,  Sen. ,  of  Maiichcstor ;  and  d.  a  widovr  in  Manchester 
nb<.ut  IT'J-J. 
6.  ii.     Stilso.v. 

iii.  Marv,  Uipt.  in  Marblehead,  April  10,  1701;  m.  (1)  Samuel  Wood- 
bury (pnUishtil  in  Maiicli(,-ti;r,  Uct.  18,  1710)  ;  ui.  (2)  in  Manches- 
ter  April  1.0,  17:3.3,  Btiij  luiiii  l'iv».'<ijn. 

iv.  M.m<(;aket,  l);i.|(t;.  in  Marhl.jiieud,  May  :^f),  170G ;  ci.  iu  Manchester, 
^ov.  12,  17-Jl,  J.jMaii  Allen. 

6.  V.     JosHiA,  bapt.  in  ^lai-blebcc!.'l,  March  11,  1707-8. 

7.  yi.    \V  iLLiAM. 

8.  vii.  Samiel.  b.  in  MaLchester,  May  10,  1713  ;   bapt.  in  Marblehead,  Aug. 

9,  1713. 
viii.  Thomas,  b!\pt.  in  Marblehead,  Auij;.  M,  1715. 

9.  ix.    DiiNjAitiN,  b.  in  Manchester,    Aug.  27,  1717;  bapt.  in  Manchester, 

^ept.  1,  1717. 

10.  X.     Ai'Ori,  bapt.  in  Marblehead,  March  12,  1720-1.     [The  record  errone- 

ously gives  the  name  ot  the  niuther  a.s  Mary.] 

4.  ]5i:xj.\min'  (Wilh'mn,'  William^),  of  York,  had  grant  of  land  there, 
March  23,  1712-13.  By  his  wife  Elizabuth,  daughter  of  JooepU  Crocket, 
of  Kittery,  he  had  children,  all  born  iu  York  : 

i.  JoSHiM,  b.  April  12,  17M. 

ii.  Elizabeth,  b.  Oct.  5,  1717. 

iii.  SiRAH,  b.  April  18,  1720. 

iv.  Mary,  b.  Oct.  5,  1722. 

Y.  William,  b.  JSTov.  11,  1724. 

vi.  BfLVjAULN,  b.  March  9,  1726-7. 

5.  SjiLSOyi*  (Willi'atn,'  William,'  William^).  According  to  the  ^larble- 
head  records,  Stephen  Plilton  and  ilannali  Severy  were  m.  Feb.  7,  1721. 
This  is  undoubtedly  a  mistake  for  Sli/son  Hilton,  who  had  a  wife  Hannah. 
Stilson  and  Hannah  Hilton  became  members  of  the  first  church  in  Marble- 
head, .July  1-1,  1723.  She  was  admitted  to  full  communion  with  the  church 
in  Manchester,  Mass.,  March  26,  1738.  He  died  about  17-11.  His  widow 
married  in  Manchester,  Jan.  7,  17G2,  Richard  Day.  Children  of  Stilsou 
ind  Hannah  were : 

11.  i.      Stilson',  bapt.  in  Marblehead,  July  4,  1725. 
Hannah,  bapt.  in  Marblehead,  March  24,  1727-S. 
Elizaeltu,  bapt.  in  Marl)leht'ad,  Sept.  14,  1729  ;  m.  in  Manche^ster, 

May  14,  1749,  John  TewLsbury. 
Thomas,  b.  in  Manchester,  July  15,  1733. 
Hannah,  b.  in  ^Manchester,  Jan.  6.  1735-6;  bapt.  there,  Jan.  11,  1736, 

m.  Jan,  24,  1757,  Jacob  Tewksbury. 
Amos,  b.  in  ^lanchester,  Dec.  27,  1733  ;  bapt.  Dec.  31,  1738. 
Samuel,  b.  in  Manchester,  Oct.  7,  1741  ;  bapt.  Oct.  11,  1741. 

0.  Joshua'*  (WiUiam,"  William,'^  William^),  m.  in  IManchester,  Mass., 
May  1,  1732,  Miriam  Haskell.     Children,  both  born  in  Manchester,  were  : 

i.      William,  b.  April  14,  1733. 
li.     John,  b.  Dec.  29,  1734. 

His  name  is  found  as  Joshua  Hilton  of  Sheepscott,  Maine,  among  tha 
grantors,  in  a  deed  from  Stilson  Hilton  et  al.  to  Elizabeth  Day.  widow, 
dated  July  1,  17G5  (Essex  Deeds,  Lib.  121,  fol.  159),  buc  the  deed  does  not 
bear  his  signature. 

7.  ^ViL-LJx:si*  (William,'  William,'^  WiUiam^),  m.  in  Manchester,  Mass., 
Dt.'c  1,  1731,  Mary  Lee.  Names  of  such  of  their  chikU'cn  as  were  bom  in 
Alanchester,  were : 


11. 

iii. 

12. 

iv. 

V. 

13. 

vi. 

14. 

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188  Descendants  of  William  Hilton.  [-^pril, 

i.  ]M\RY,  b.  Auq;.  20,  l^npt.  'J7,  1732. 

ii.  \ViT  riAM,  1).  ha:.  -J:),  rVr,  (opt.  J:in.  5,  l7ni-5. 

iii.  J.MiKs,  b.  June  '21 ,  liapt.  .'uly  10,   1737. 

iv.  ]iicuAi?D,  b.  Sept.  I  [?J,  bapt.  Oct.  7,  1739. 

V.  Anna,  b.  Dec.  1'2,  bapt.  13,  1711. 

lie  removed,  prubably  after  the  fall  of  Loui-^bourg,  with  his  uife  ami 
cLiklreii,  to  i\Iiiseoiigu>;,  luid  setllt;il  at  IJroad  Cove,  on  lands  belonging  to 
his  parents.*  Tb.ere  he  lived  until  tlie  summer  of  17;)8,  when,  in  going  by 
water  from  Round  Poiid  towards  Broad  Cove,  with  three  of  his  sons, 
"William,  Richard  and  John,  tlio  Indians  fired  upon  them,  killeil  and  scalped 
"Wiliiam  ilio  son,  mortally  wounded  the  father,  and  slightly  wounded  Rich- 
ard. John,  said  to  have  been  then  a  lad  of  about  seventeen  years,  returned 
the  fire  and  drove  the  Indians  back,  so  that  the  survitors  had  lime  to  make 
good  their  retreat  to  Round  Pond,  wliere  ^\'illiaIn,''  tlie  father,  was  burieil. 

From  the  depositions  and  other  papers  in  su[)port  of  the  claim  of  the 
Hilton  heivs,  below  referred  to,  it  appears  that  the  children,  born  after  he 
left  Mauclioster,  were  as  follows  : 

Ti.    Jnn.v  (whose  only  daughter  ID.  Thomas  Hilton). 

vii.   EuESEZER  (d.  when  4  years  of  age). 

viii.  Klt;i  (m.  Knich  Avery,  and  afterward  S'.muel  Waters,  Esq). 

ix.    Elizakefh     (hapt.    in   Manclicster,   Aui;-.    12,    IVjO,   as   daughter  oi 

"  Wiil-m  Hilton  k,  marj  of  Broad  Bay;''  m.  David  Avery,  and 

afterward  Kphraini  Brown). 
X.     Joseph  (setuled  in  New  iNIilturd). 
xi.    Maihias  (d.  very  yoang). 

From  the  same  source  it  appears  that  Mary*  above  named,  the  eldest 
daughter,  married  Matchlove,  and  died  without  issue  ;  that  "William,*   who 

*  The  deed  from  the  Sagainores  Samoset  and  Unnoni^oit  to  John  Brown,  dated  July  1-5, 
1625,  is  said  to  Vie  the  t^l■^t  deed  of  conveyance  of  Ainerican  soil.  It  was  recorded,  Dec.  2;, 
1720,  at  the  request  of  James  8tilson  and  his  sister  Margaret  Hilton,  in  a  Book  of  Recordi 
of  Eastern  Lands.  This  Book  \va-  destroyed  by  iirc  when  the  Tuv,-n  House  in  Boston  was 
burned,  Dec.  9,  1747.  Two  atte>tcd  cot>ies  of  the  deed,  however,  have  been  found,  one  of 
them  recorded  with  Yorli  Deeds,  lab.  21,  fol.  IIG.  and  the  other  with  Lincoln  Deeds.  Lib. 
74,  fol.  6.  This  deed  is  printed  in  John-ton's  Hist,  of  Bristol  and  Bremen  and  Poma  [uiJ. 
A  tract  of  land  cisht  miles  square,  lioing  part  of  the  land  des(  .-ihed  in  this  deed,  was 
conveyed  bv  Brown,  by  deed  dated  Au;:.  S,  IbiiO  (attested  copies  of  wliich  are  record';d  with 
Lincoln  Deeds,  Liij.  74," fol.  7,  and  York  Deeds,  Lib.  21,  fol.  116),  to  his  daughter  Margaret 
Gould,  and  her  husband  Alexander  Gould,  and  to  the  heirs  of  her  body.  Their  daughter 
Margaret,  tiien  wife  of  Thomas  Firman,  by  deed  dated  Dec.  27,  1720  (York  Deeds,  Lii).  15, 
fol.  233),  conveyed  the  same  to  her  son  James  Stilson  and  her  daugluer  Margaret,  then 
wife  of  \Villi:tra^  Hilton.  It  was  this  land  and  that  which  he  bought  of  C;esar  Moxis  and 
Gnstin,  Indian  Sagamores,  from  wlneh  William-*  Hilton  was  driven  by  the  Indians  in  1721. 
Daring  his  lift-  time,  Wiiiiani''  Hilton  seems  to  have  held  these  lands  against  all  coiners,  but 
after  his  death,  and  the  end  of  the  war,  particularly  in  the  years  1761,  1762  and  1763, 
settlers  crowded  in  from  every  side,  some  claiming  title  under  heirs  of  Brown,  others  with 
no  color  or  pretence,  l)ut  by  simple  force,  and  gradually,  piece  tiy  piece,  dispossessed  the 
legal  owners  and  reduced  them  to  a  very  small  part  of  their  ancestral  estate.  The  heirs  of 
William-'  and  Margaret  Hilton  made  several  etlbrts  to  recover  the  land,  of  whieh  they  had 
thus  been  disseized,  both  before,  and  immediately  after,  the  Revolutionary  war,  but  the 
troubles  of  the  times  prevented  anytlsirig  from  l>eir.g  done.  Tiie  last  attempt  was  made 
before  the  Commissioners  .ippointcd  by  the  Governor  of  Massachusetts,  to  hear  and  deter- 
mine the  rights  and  titles  of  tlie  aon-resident  claimants  to  lands  within  the  County  of 
Lincoln,  in  oppu-;[ion  to  the  rights,  titles  aaal  cl-.dms  of  the  Commonv>-ealth  and  ti:os-"i  of 
the  resident  seiiiers  thereupon.  Tlie  Commissioner^  reported,  Jan.  2i,  1813,  adversely  to 
the  claimants.  Copies  of  the  depo.-irlons  of  Richard  Hilton,  Ma'-garet  Pituum,  Hiimah 
Tewksbury,  Richard  Peirce,  Eli/.alietli  Crafts,  Samuel  Allen,  Aaron  Lee  a.iul  others,  xiie 
petition  of  tl-.e  Tlilton  iieirs.  statement  of  case,  and  other  papers  used  in  the  hearings  before 
the  Commissioner--,  wue  >ome  of  tliem  bon:;ht  at  an  au'rj)!i  sale  in  Boston,  about  twenty- 
rears  ago,  by  Charles  H.  Mor.-e  Jv-q.,  of  Cambralgf,  M..ss.,  now  of  Washi'Mton,  D.  C, 
from  who;n  they  passed  into  tiie  possession  of  the  Maine  Historical  Socu-ty,  and  sor,;c 
vvcre  found  among  the  papers  of  the  late  Capt.  Au'.os  fiilioa.  An  account  of  tins  and  orher 
claims  of  land  ma>  be  fuuud  in  Johnston's  ilist.  of  Briacol  and  Bremen  and  Pemaquid. 


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1877. J  Descendant's  of  William  Ilil'on.  189 

was  killed  as  abore  describoil,  loft  one  child,  ^vho  was  drowned  v/hen 
vorv  voni'ir;  tlmt  Ann;i*  inrinied  John  ]\IoCurd;i ;  ar>d  that  .binx-s*  had  ii 
wifl-  S:irah  and  childivi!  ^fary  (ni.  Jouatluui  JNicn-itt),  William,  John, 
ilanios,  JciiTiy  (in.  Jonathan  Peaslee),  lV;;';:y  (m.  ALi-uii  Htlron),  Joshua, 
Josei)li,  Eliz.il)eth  (m.  Thomas  ?vli;('iir,hij,  Sally  (m.  I-mcl  Woo'iluny),. 
Susannah  (oi.  Jos-.'ph  Liuscott),  I.yuia  (in.  T'liuj.unin  Hilton),  and  Nancy 
(ui.  John  Lynn).  But  it  would  exceed  the  limits  jtifscribud  tor  this  article 
to  follow  this  bniuch  of  the  family  further. 

8.  Samuel^  (William,^  Vnlliifm,^  WiUiain'^),  b.  in  Mancliester,  ;^^ay  IG. 
171.'3  ;  ni.  ( 1 )  in  lieverly,  Ajuil  I  •_>,  17.'^>''3,  Eleanor  Griggs,  dau<^hter  of 
Jacob  (iiig<4s  of  Salem,  removeil  to  ^Macblohead  and  aftorward  to  lioston. 
He  had  house  and  land  in  Boston  on  a  oJL  street,  iio'.v  Pleasant  Street.* 
Child  of  Samuel  and  Eleanor  was  : 

i,  Sarah,  b.  in  Boston,  Juno  6,  1734;  m.   in  I.uiionburc;,  June  21,  1753,. 
Abiier  Whitney,  of  Di.-trict  Shirley. 

He  m.  (2)  in  Kcwtou,  ]Mass.,  April  17,  1735,  Sarah  Clark  of  Ne^vtou, 
and  aftervvard  removed  there,  and  subsequcnrly  to  Lunenburg,  where  he 
uieJ,  Maifli  21.  17.3G.  She  died  Eeb.  2,  1702.  -Chiklron  of  Samuel  and 
Sarah  were  : 

ii.     Samukl,  b.  in  Pxi^ton,  Nov.  6,  17.30. 

15.  iii.    yAMr;i.L,  b.  in  Nev.ton,  Jan.  i,  1738-9. 

iv.     Hannah,  b.  in  Newton,  March  21,  1740-41  ;  d.  May  2,  1741. 

V.     AViLT.iAM,  b.  in  Mewton,  June  21,  1742. 

vi.     Hannah,  b.  in  Newton,  Auir.  16,  1744. 

vii.    Mary,  b.  in  Newton,  Jan.  20,  1740-7. 

viii.  Elizabf.th,  b.  in  Newton,  Dec.  20,  1749  :  m.  April  6,  1793,  John  i"iu- 

gerald. 
ix.    Thomas,  b.  in  Lunenburg,  June  14,  1752. 
X.     David,  b.  in  Lunenburg,  April  12,  1752  [?]  ;  bp.pt.  April  27,  1755. 

9.  Be-V.ta.min'*  (  William,^  William,^  William^),  b.  in  Manchester.  A.u^-- 
27,  1717  ;  m.  there,  Jan.  9,  1737-8,  .Miriam  Badcock,  and  was  •■  killed  by 
the  French,"!  174G  or  1747.  His  widow  married  in  Manchester.  Aug.  J, 
1771,  J  )h.n  j?.[orie,  of  Beverly.  Children  of  Benjamin  and  Miriam,  all 
born  in  Manchester,  were  ; 

i.      MiKiAM,  b.  Dec.  19,  1733  :  m.  May  27, 1750,  Paul  Leach,  Jr. 
ii.     Margaret,  b.  July  11,  1740  ;  m.  March  29,  1765,  Charles  Hill. 

16.  iii.    Benjamin,  b.  Feb.  6,  1743-4. 

iv.    Elizaeeth,  a  po?thuinou.s  daughter,  b.  June  6,  bapt.  June  7, 1747  ;  m. 
'  in  Beverly,  April  20,  1705,  Joseph  Foster,  Jr.,  uf  Beverly. 

10.  Amos^  [William?  William,^  William'-),  mariner,  bapt.  in  Marble- 
head,  March  12,  1720-21  ;  m.  in  Manchester,  Mass.,  July  17,  1740,  Eliza- 
beth, daughter  of  Nathaniel  Lee,  and  was  '■  killed  by  the  Indians. "I  Ad- 
ministration on  his  estate  wis  granted,  Aug.  20,  1744,  tu  his  widow  Eliza- 
beth, who  m.  (2)  Joseph  Hill,  July  1 G,  174G,  and  (.J),  Oct.  li>,  \~:y>,  in 
^ilaaehester,  NaLlianiel  Rogers  of  Wenham.  Children  of  Amos  and  Elizabeth, 
both  born  in  Manchester,  were  : 

17.  i.      Amos,  b.  Oct.  20,  1741. 

18.  ii.     NATHAJxrEi.,  b.  July  S,  1744.  .   ■  .  i< ,      •     ' 

11.  Stilson^  (Slilson,-'  William,''  William,''  WiUiam^),  mariner,  bapt.  ia 

•  SiifTolk  DceJs,  Li!).  ,5:3,  fnl.  110;  Lib.  68,  fol.  .59  and  Ibl.  01. 

T  Depo.-itiun  of  Rich.u-il  Ililtun. 

I  Deposition  of  Richard  Hiltoa  and  unvan-ing  tiimilv  tradiuon. 

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190  Descendants  of  Vy'iUiam  llUton.  [-'^pri'. 

IMurblehead,  .Tu!v  '1,  17-25  ;  ru.  in  Mandiostor,  Mass.,  July  23,  1717,  Mar- 
f,r;uf,t  Allen,  dauL'liter  of  Josinli  Allen.  A  Slilson  Hilron  (probJjly  Uii.^ 
titilsou)  was  a  private  in  Capt.  Jc^soi)!!  Wliipplo's  cninpouy^  raised  iorjJi- 
del",  ace  of  thu  sea-co:;st  in  tli.-  County  of  Essex,  July  l-'^-Dco.  ol,  1770, 
and  was  one  of  the  American  jM-i-^oncrs  of  war  exc'nangod  at  Halifax,  .lun,- 
28,1777,  havinj^  been  taken  in  the  ••  AVashint^ton"  privateer.'''  lie  di.;d 
in  Manchester,  Deo. -iC),  17 :)5.  She  died  ii  widow,  Sept.  7,  1700.  Thuir 
children,  all  boT-n    in  Maiichester,  were  : 

i.       Marovret.  h.  J:in.  1,  1718-9;  d.  April  29,  1750. 
19.  ii.     iSriLSON,  b.  March  ii,  17.10-51. 

iii.    Jacou,  b.  Aug.  12,  175J  ;  d.  17HI. 

iv.    Mari'.aret,  b.  July  '2-2,  1755  ;  d.  May,  1759. 

V.     Marv,  bnpt.  July  01,  1757  ;  d.  July,  1759. 

Ti.    Thomas,  b.  April -27,  1T59  ;  d.  June,  1771. 

\rii.   IIannah,  b.  .March  S,  17(U  ;  ni.  July  I7,_^i:?3,  William  Dow. 

viii.  Margault,  b.  July  27,  ITb'J;  d.  Juuc,  17G5. 

12.  Thomas*  {SlUsvi.*  JVilliam.^  WilUam^  WilUani^),  manner, _b.  in 
Iilanchcster,  Mass.,  July  15,  17;3;5;  m.  in  Manchester,  Dec.  0,  175.'^,  Sasau- 
na  Lee,  and  died  in  France  about  1758.  His  wido-.v  died  in  ^[aachester, 
UcL.  17,  18U5,  aged  71  years.     Child  : 

i    ScsANNUi,  b.  in  Manchester.  Aug.   3,   1757;  m.  Sop t.  20,  1776,  Ezukicl 
Leach,  and  d.  Aug.  2,  1792. 

13.  Amos*  {Stihori*  William,''  William;'  William'),  b.  in  :Manche.stGr, 
Mass.,  Dec.  27,  l7o8  ;  m.  there,  Ai-^r.  5,  17G2,  Mary  J.ee.  :Name3  of  5uc!» 
of  their  children  as  were  boru  in  M-.mchester,  were : 

i.  McLLY,  b.  Feb.  17,  1761. 
ii.  Thomas,  b.  Nov.  8,  1765. 
iii.    Amos,  b.  June  30,  1707. 

He  removed,  probably  before  the  Revolutionary  war,  to  Nova  Scotn. 
where  his  descendants  are  still  ]iumerous.  Two  of  his  children  were  livM'g 
as  late  as  18G9.  Nathan  Hilton,  Esq.,  of  Yarmouth,  Nova  Scotia,  has 
collected  much  information  as  to  this  branch  of  the  family. 

14.  Samuf.l*  {St'lson,*  Wlllkmi,''  William,^  William'),  b.  in  Manches- 
ter, Mass.,  Oct.  7,  1741,  was  in  Col.  William  Allen's  regiment,  and  after- 
ward in  Capt.  Andrew  Gidding's  company.  Col.  Jonathan  Bagley's  regi- 
ment, of  Provincial  troops,  raised  for  the  invasion  of  Canada,  175'J.*_  He 
m.  about  17G1.  Judith  Carter,  of  Gloucester  {published  April  20,  1701). 
Child : 

i.  Sauuxl,  b.  in  Manchester,  March  19,  1702. 
His  name  is  found,  as    Samuel  Hilton  of  Sheepscott,  Maine,  among  the 
grantors  in   a  deed   from   Stilson  Hilton  et  al,  to   Elizabeth  Day,  widow, 
dated  July  1,  17G5,  Essex  Deeds,  Lib.  121,  foL'"150,  but  the  deed  does  not 
bear  his  signature.  ,  ... 

15.  Sxv.zel'  {Samuel,*  William,"  William,'  7I7//;a7?i*),  b.  in  Newton. 
Mass.,  Jan.  4,  173S-0;  m.  in  Lunenburg,  Nov.  17,  17 Go,  Rebecca  Sticii- 
ney,  and  died  there,  Jan.  15,  1823.     She^died  July  1,  1818.     Children  : 

i.      Sarah,  b.  in  Lunrnburg,  March  1,1768;  m.  in  Lunenburg,  Dec. -'7, 

17S7,  boloruon  (jieen,  of  Jallrey. 
ii.     Kehecca,  b.  in  Lunenburg,  Nov.  14,  1770  ;  m.  in  Lunenburg,  May  21, 

1798,  Stephen  Nichols,  of  Westfurd. 

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iii.    Samcel,  hapt.  iu  private,  Aucr.  II,  1773;  d.  Jan.  1771. 

20.  iv.     S.\MUEL,  b.  ill  Liuienhiir:!.  Jan.  I'J,  1775. 

IG.  r>r:x.TA'\riN*  (/icnjiaiii'n.*  Williani,^  WllUnm,'^  WiUimn^),  mariner, 
b.  in  M:ui<-iu;ster,  Ma.ss.,  i\,'l).  G,  I7l;5  - 1  ;  ni.  Jan.  'iO,  ITOT.  Ju'lith  Searl, 
and  was  lost  at  sea  about  177:if,  coming  from  the  \Vcst  Indies.     Child: 

21.  i.     BtNJAMi.N,  b.  in  Manchester,  Dec.  20,  1771. 

17.  i\MOS*  [Amos,*  William.^  William.^  WiJ'inm}),  master  mariner,  b. 
in  Idanchestrr,  Z^Iass.,  Oct.  2t;,  1711,  was  in  Capt.  Fuller's  company  of  Col. 
Bagley's  ro'^riment,  in  the  exp-.dition  to  Lake  George,  17.>8,  arid  at  Louis- 
bourg  in  17o'J  and  17G0,  in  Capt.  Andrew  Giddlng's  com[)an\'  of  Col.  Jon- 
athan IJagley's  regiment  of  Provincial  troops.*  He  m.  iu  Beverly,  Nov. 
IG,  17G2,  Appliia  Brown,  and  was  lost  at  sea  about  1783.  Administration 
on  his  estate  was  gronted  to  his  widow,  jMay  6,  178S.  She  died  a  widow 
in  ]\Ianchestcr,  July  2-3,  ]8l."»,  aged  7G.     Cliildren  : 

22.  i.       Amos,  b.  in  rRVorly,  April  G.  17f-l. 
ii.     Joseph,  b.  in  Beverly,  July  1,  1707. 

iii.    }.J.vKY,  III.   (•)  ill  Manchester.  April  10,  1706,  Geor?c  Cro<^?,  Jr.  ;  ra. 

(2) Nuurse,  and  died  a  widow  in  Manchester,  Jan.  2!),   lo'iS, 

agod  92  year-  and  8  nios. 
iv.     Elizabeth,  b.  iu  Manolicster,  April  15,  1770;  in.  Sept.  7,  1733,  Georija 

Cross  [Jr.],  and  died  Aug.  12,  176'J.  __ 
V.      Natuax,  b.  in  Mancliescer,  Nuv.   16,  1773. 
vi.     Ai'Fuii,  b.  in  Manchester,  May  24,  1775;  m.  (I)  July  4.  1793,  Nchc- 

miah  Driver  ;  m.  (2)  about  1805,  Charles  Adams,  uf  Beverly. 
Tii.    HANN-\n,  b.   in  ^ianchestcr.  May  14,   177S  ;    m.  (.^  Maicii  IJ,    17'J^. 

George  Norton  :  m.  (2)  about  18r4,  Thoiuiis  Leuch. 
viii.  Peggy,  m.  Jan.  10,  ISOl,  Willinm  Girdler,  and  d.  a  widow  in  i?ever'y, 

Dec.  14,  1S61,  aged  79  j'ears  II  nios. 
ix.    William,  b.  in  Mauchescer,  June  1,  17S3. 

18.  Nathaniel*  {Amos*  William,^  William,'  William'),  b.  in  Manches- 
ter, Mass.,  July  8,  1744;  had  a  wife  Martha,  who  died  a  widow  in  Man- 
chester, Oct.  30,  1839,  aged  90  years,  and  children,  all  born  in  Manchester: 

i.      Nathantel,  b.  Au.2.  23,  170S  ;  d.  Oct.  7,  176>^. 

ii.     Elizabeth,  b.  Aug'.  25.  1769  ;  m.  June  30,  1789,  Benjamin  Crombie. 

23.  iii.    Nathaniel  RoGEr.s.  b.  Ft-b.  17,  1771:. 

iv.  Thomas,  b.  April  I,  1777  ;  bapt.  April  6,  1777  (as  son  of  Thomas  [?] 
and  Martha)  ;  d.  April  7,  1777,  or  April  3,  1778. 

V.  Patty,  b.  June  26,  1782;  d.  Feb.  14,  1781.  (Bipt.  according  to 
church  records,  Julv  2,  1781,  and  died  Feb.  14,  17t3.) 

vi.     Thomas,  b.  Aug.  22.  r734 ;  d.  Nov.  21.  1801. 

vii.   Patty,  b.  Anz-  3,  1787  ;  m.  Nov.  28,  1805.  John  Orsmenc  Morgan. 

viii.  ScsANXAn,  b.  June  4,  1791 ;  m.  De^:.  27,  1815,  Jacob  Morgan. 

19.  Stilsox^  (Slilson,''  S/ihon*  William.'  William,''  William'),  b.  in 
Manchester,  Mass.,  March  2,  17o()-ol;  m.  Jan.  25,  1774.  Lois  Tewxbury, 
daughter  of  JaJin  Tewxburv.  He  was  mate  of  the  '•  Liverpool"  sloop,  pri- 
vateer.f  1780,  and  died  Ma'rch  5,  1829.  His  wife  died  April  17,  182.3.  aged 
about  70  years.  The  date  of  his  dearh  and  that  of  four  of  his  children 
are  not  found  in  the  Town  Records,  but  are  taken  from  an  old  family  biijle 
in  the  possession  of  one  of  his  descendants.  Children,  all  boru  in  !Mau- 
chester,  were  : 

•  Muster  Rolls,    Joaraal  of  Gibsoa  Clouglj,  printe  J  in  Hist.  Coll.  o.'"  Esicx  Institute,  iii. 
i*30,  201. 
t  Master  Rolls. 


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192  Desce)iJa:its  of  WiUUan  Ifillon.  [April, 

i.  Be:tv,  b.  Dec.  I'j,  1770;  d.  Mircli  21,  1B18. 

ii.  Lois,  h.  May  li.   1781  ;  :n.   (I)   Oct.  4.  18'^!).  Xehcminli  Abbott;  m. 

(•2)  lioniiuiiin  (.'loinbie,  !in<.l  iliuii  u  Nvidow,  Jan.  L'G,  Ibfit. 

iii.  Moi.LV,  1.'.  J^i  !it.  1.  17K1  :  .1.  ,J;,n.  2i,  18o7. 

iv.  .M.A!;c;.\ra.T,  b.'S'i't.  i.'r.,  Hr-H  :  d,  IVb.  -Jl,  1&2'J. 

.-.  .      .      V.  Sarah,  b.  Nov.  'i,  17'j1  ;    J.  Dec.  til,  IH-Jii. 

vi.  Hannah,  b.  May  2b,  17'J3  ;  d.  July  9,  1hJ8. 

20.  R.\mi;i:l«  {ScmrwU'  SawmJ*  )ni/fa,n=  IVilliam,'  WilHam'),  h.  in 
Luiienljiipx,  Jan.  10,  177j;  m.  (I)  in  ^Vc•strord,  Fob,  20,  180],' JS'ancy 
IJixioks,  ol  Wo.>ttui«l.  She  (lied  ^hiy  17,  loOS,  and  lio  m.  (2)  June  .■)(). 
1813,  .Mary  15arrctt.  Tliey  reniovt'(l  to  Tt.rn[ilf^,  Me.,*  wiier*;  tliey  <1ii;d 
about  .  Children,  all  by  his  fiist  wife,  and  all  born  ia  Lunenburg, 
v,-ere  : 

i.       Nancy,  b.  !r^cp t.  2R,  IROl  ;  m.  Slcplicn  Normnn  Nichols. 

ii.      Maky,  b.  July  4.  IhOii  ;  niui  ried  Tlionut^  :^lJauldi•l■^^ 

iii.    Samlkl,  I;.  May  IS.   IhOj  :  (m.   l;j  March,    1>'?;]0,  Mary  <7hnndlpr,  and 

after  the  birth  of  one  child,  Mary  L.,  b.  Au_'-.  2'.),  1^3:2,  removed  lo 

Tmple,  Mc.*) 
iv.     SorniA,  b.  .May  9,  1807;  di.  Nov.  30,  18:29,  nilliard  L.  Woo'lward,  of 

Chchusford. 

21.  BcN'JAMiN^  {}Jiija)n!n,''  Beitjinm'n*  WlUiain.^  WilJiom^  WiHimi^), 
b.  in  jMuncliester,  j\Ia.«s.,  Dec.  'Iii^i,  1771;  m.  iu  lieverly,  June  1,  17'JI. 
Elizabeth  Morse,  dautjhter  of  William  Morse.  Administration  on  his 
-estate  was  ^'ranted  June  .'».  1810,  to  Mrs.  Judith  liiltou,  probaljlv  his  mother. 

Children  of  Benjamin  and  Elizabeth,  both  born  iu  Beverly,  were : 

i.       Elizabeth,  b.  July  8,   1797;  m.  in  Bcvcvly.   April  5,   18U,  Ji'sspii 

RussfU,  of  Manchester,  and  d.  in  Hevevlv,  March  9,  18t30. 
ii.     Jldith,  b.Sopt.  16,  1790';  d.  Sept.  19,  1601. 

22.  Amos®  {Amos,''  Amos*  William,^  William,'  William^),  master  mar- 
iner, b.  in  Beverly,  April  (3,  17G1;  in.  in  ^lanchester,  ]\Ia.ss.,  Dec.  lo,  1785, 
Nabby  Ober,  and  was  lost  at  sea  about  17'.)C.  Administration  on  his  i--;rate 
was  granted,  Feb.  7,  1803,  to  Nabby  Hilton  bis  widow,  who  m.  in  ^fiin- 
chester,  Mass.,  Feb.  22,  1803,  Asa  llerrick,  of  CoU' ord,  .N.  II.,  and  die<l 
in  Concord,  N.  II.,  iNIarch  11,  1841.  Childrea  of  Amos  and  Xabby,  all 
born  in  Mancliester,  Mass.,  were  : 

24.  i.      Amos.  b.  March  26,  1786. 

ii.     Nabby,  b.   Feb.  8,  17S3  ;  m.   in  Concord,  N.  II..  about   1813,  I~nac 
L)Di;,  of  Hopkintnn.  N.  II.,  and  d.  m  C(jneord,  N.  IL,  July -20,  1670 
iii.    Joseph,  b.  x\.uir.  .SO,  1791  ;  d  Feb.  11,  1792. 
iv,    Israel  Ober,  b.  June  27,  1793 ;  d.  in  Concord,  N.  H.,  Dec.  20,  1313. 

23.  Nathanifx  RoGEns®  {Nathaniel,^  Amos,*  William,''  William,''  Wil- 
liayn^),  usually  called  Nathaniel  Hilton,  Jr.,  b.  in  Manchester,  [Mass.,  Feb. 
17,  1774;  m.  there,  Nov.  9,  1797,  Patty  Crombie,  and  died  about  18i)4. 
His  widow  ra.  Oct.  31,  180.3,  Capt.  Joseph  Porter,  and  died  a  widow,  in 
that  part  of  IMahion  whicli  is  now  Everett,  June  10,  18Go,  aged  about  90 
years.     Child  of  Nathaniel  and  Patty  : 

i.  Charlota,  b.  in  iManohoster,  July  20.  179S  ;  xa.  in  Charlestnwn.  (O 
Joiin  Ciurney,May  IG,  1819;  (2)  Samuel  S.  Sargent,  April  10,  182S  ; 
and  d.  a  widow  in  Everett,. Mass.,  July  14,  1673. 

♦  This  statement  i.>  nndo  on  tii?  au'hority  of  a  m:inn?cript  entitled  "  Gcn^nlo^j.-s  or 
Families  in  the  Townot  Lanontmrjr,  >ra-:!;a(lHi-(.'tt.-.  From  tlio  rir-t  Sctrk-nionf  cf  tl;o  T.\wn 
In  1719  to  1874,  Prepared  from  various  =ourrcsard  arranirod  l>v  Ge'.ru'e  A.  Cimn.iLrliaMi," 
'now  deceased.    It  ia  in  the  posiCisioa  of  his  mother,  Mrs.  >'.  F.  Ciiui-.lDgliaui,  of  LuiK-iii.ir.^'. 


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18'7.]  Deacendant^  of  WiUvrm  Ililton.  103 

24.  Amos'  {Amos*  Amon.^  Jmos*  IVilUam,"  MTdlam,''  William'),  mas- 
t-r  nmriiiiM-,  U.  in  >.rar.fho5t._T,  M:i;^s.,  .Mureli  2G,  I7s6;  ni.  July  .'>,  1 508, 
llaiinuh  Leacli,  "lauglitor  oC  ICzokiol  L<-a(li.  ami  died  in  Hostuii.  ^.'o\.  2  t, 
18.jl».  Slie  died  a  widow,  in  IJostoii,  .laa.  '1,  \'yC,\,  aged  about  70.  Cliild- 
roii,  all  bull!  ill  Marj<;ln-.stci\  ^lass.  : 

i.  Hannah  Leach,  b.  Aprils,  1300;  ra.  (1)  X..v.  10,  1.^3(i,  .fohn  Rich- 
ards; m.  (•-')  \y\'Z.  I'J,  l^ll,    llf-iiiy  F.  Lee,  and  d.  June  7,  IHIG. 

ii.      Avos,  b.  April  •-?,  IHl-J  ;  d.  in  B»t'jn,  }dai-cli  11,  l^jS.  nniinrrif;d. 

iii.  AiacAit  OiaFS.  b.  Mny  5,  I'-IH;  ni.  in  ^banciic-ter,  Maso.,  M^y  13, 
l-joG,  Juiin  ilassam,*  u!'  iioston. 

The  iiitenlioiis  of  uiarriag(i  of  Tiniutby  Starns  [^/f]  and  Polly  Hilton 
were  published  in  i\IanchcitLT,  dan.  27,  H'Jo. 

In  Force's  Collection  of  Historical  Tracts,  Vol.  IV.,  Washington,  18i(3, 
is  a  reprint  of  "A  j  Kelatjox  {  of  |  A  Discovery  lattdy  made  on  the  Coast 
of  I  Flouida,  I  (From  Lat.  31.  to  3o  Deg.  45  Miu.  North-Lat.)  |  liy  Wil- 
liam Hilton  Commander,  atid  |  Commissioner  with  Capt.  Anthmnj  Long,  \ 
and  Pri<^r  F'lhif-n.  in  the  Jr-hip  Adventure,  which  set  |  Sayl  from  SplLea 
Bay,  A»g.  I'b  iGGo.  and  was  j  set  forth  by  several  Gentlemen  and  Mer-  | 
chants  of  the  I.  land  of  Bauf.vdoks.  |  Giving  an  account  of  the  nature 
and  tempera  j  ture  of  the  Soyl,  the  manners  and  disposition  |  of  the  Natives, 
and  whatsoever  else  is  |  remarkable  thuiein.  | 

Together  ^vith  [  Proposals  made  by  the  Commissioners  j  of  the  Lords  Pro- 
prietors, to  all  such  per  |  sons  as   shall  become  the  iirst   Setlers   on   tiie  j 
Rivers,  Harbors,  and  Creeks  there.  I  London,  j  Printed  by  J.  C.  for  ^'iimon 
Miller  at  tiie  Star  neer  the  "West-eiul  of  St.  Pauls,  IGGd." 

In  this  vovage  the  Carolina  coast  was  explored,  and  names  were  given 
to  various  localities.  One  of  tlie  rivers  was  c;\lled  Hilton's  River.  _  Hilton 
Head,  which  was  occupied  l)y  the  Federal  troops  during  the  Civil  War,  may 
have  taken  its  name  from  this  navigator.  It  is  found  on  the  earliest  map 
of  South  Carolina  I  have  been  able  to  consult,  that  of  T.  Jelf'erys,- London, 
1757. 


In  Suffolk  Deeds,  Lib.  7,  fol.  22C,  is  the  following  deposition  :  '•  Sept. 
y*  IS""  1G71  Appeared  before  me  John  Tuder  Aged  about  22  years  or 
thereabouts  being  Sworne  before  mee  Deposeth  as  foloweth 

That  theese  three  Ticketts  now  showue  with  the  Name  of  Christopher 
Codrington  to  them  was  delivered  to  the  said  John  Tuder  by  Walter  Brie 
for  the  procurem'  of  the  passage  of  Paul  Ste[diens  John  Hunt  i&  Stephen 
Miller  of  &  from  the  Island  of  Barbados  in  the  Amity  Cap'  William  Hil- 
ton Comander  »i;  that  they  are  to  the  best  of  his  knowledge  the  Gouern'^^ 
hand  And  further  this  deponent  Saith  not.  sworne  before  ns  the  13'''  of 
Septemb'  1G7I  J-V  Lecerett  Dep'  Go' 

Elia  Lusher 

Recorded  lic  compared  15:  7*-^  1G71     p  fFreegrace  Beudall  Cler." 

Administration  on  the  estate  of  William  Hilton,  mariner.  ''  lat-:ly  belong- 
ing to  his  ilaj"*^'  good  shipp  or  vessell  called  the  Deptford  ftVi-ott  Cap'  Carr 
Comander  granted  to  his  brother  Richard  Hilton  of  the  town"  of  Portsm"' 
yeoman."-Nov.  25,  1700. — (Rockingham  Probate  Records.) 

•  BEcrsTEn,  xxiv.  414. 
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194.  Descendants  of  WiV.ina  Hilton.  [-^pi'ii, 

Tliorc  was  a  "William  Milton  of  Gloucester,  who  is  pnid  by  the  Hon.  Jolia 
J.  Inibsou  to  liuve  riianioJ  tlif'i'e,  iSo\'.  20,  1711,  IMary  Tiick«M-,  perliiipi 
d'xughtcr  of  J"lm  Tucker.  C'liilclreii  :  I\!ary,  h  .Au;^.  :jO,ljjpL.  {)>.{.  2i;.  1712  ; 
Sarah,  U  April  4,  hapt.  Sept.  18,  171.3,  d.  April  2-^,  1721;  William,  h. 
Auii.  4,  bapt.  Oct.  ('),  1717  ;  and  Elizabeth,  b.  May  2'J,  bapl.  June  5,  172iJ. 

\\'iHiaui  Hilton,  Ji..  and  Mary  "Wharf  were  inairied  in  Glouce.-ter,  Sept. 
22.1711.  His  daughter  Sarah  was  horn  Arnr- ",  1717.  AViJliani  Ilillon 
and  Anna  Penny  were  ni.  in  Ciloucester,  Oct.  27,  17G1. 


(Records  of  INIass.  iv.,  Part  1st,  p.  430.  j 

At  a  General  Court  held  at  Pjoston,  JNIay  31,  IGGO,  "In  ans' to  the 
petition  of  Willjani  liilton,  hunihly  craving  this  Courts  allowauc  &  con- 
liruiatiou  of  a  deed  of  guift  of  six  miles  .sipiare  of  land  lying  on  y"  Riuer 
Peiinieconaiiuigg,  being  a  riulet  running  into  the  Riuer  l\tiacook(;,  w"*  two 
miles  of  the  best  meadov,'  lying  on  the  north  east  side  of  Pennacook,  giuen 
to  his  father  &  him  in  y*  yeere  1G3G  by  Tahanto,  y*  sagamore  there  ;  *&; 
the  Court,  hauing  considered  y*^  contents  of  this  petition,  judg  m';ece  not; 
to  graunt  the  same,  but  couiiderhig  the  petitioners  groumls  for  the  approba- 
tion of  the  Indians  graunt,  doe  judge  meete  to  graunt  tluit  three  hundred 
acres  of  the  sajd  land  be  sett  out  to  the  [)etitioner  by  a  cornittee  chosen  by 
this  Court,  so  as  that  it  may  not  prejuilice  any  plantation  ;  and  this  as  a 
finall  end  of  all  future  clajmes  by  virtue  of  such  graunt  from  tlie  Indian?." 

(Massachusetts  Archives  xvi.  oG4.)  "To  the  honored  Geir'  Court  Now 
sitting  in  Boston  the  IS"^  March  IGSf  The  humble  petition  of  James  Rus- 
sell Executo''  to  his  honon-d  fFather  Richd  Russell  Esq^  to  this  honored. 
Court  is  y*  whereas  my  honored  fFather  long  Since  bought  of  m''  "William 
Hilton  of  Charlstowne  A  certain  pcell  or  tract  of  Land  y'  was  conveyd 
to  y*  Said  Hilton  by  tahanto  Indian  Saggamoar  of  penny  Cooke  and  A!:-.o 
Acknowledged  &  recorded,  as  Appears  by  Said  Deeds  in  Court,  w^"  Still 
want  the  Confirmation  of  this  Court  to  make  y*^  Said  Deeds  Authentick. 
w*^"^  is  humbly  requested  from  this  Court  y'  they  wold  pleas  to  contirme  y° 
Same  v;'^^  will  oblldge  , 

"     .     '  Yo'"  humble  Serv' 

Ja:  Russf.ll." 


William  Hilton  was  admitted  to  full  communion  with  the  church  at  Wen- 
lam,  1716. 


[The  utter  lack  of  any  system  of  registration  of  births,  deaths  and  mar- 
riages at  Dover,  York  and  Kittery,  during  the  earlier  period  of  their 
history,  renders  a  co.mplete  genealogy  of  any  of  the  families  of  their 
first  settlers  almost  impossible.  The  destruction  by  fire,  in  174:2,  of  the 
Church  Records  of  York  is  particularly  to  be  deplored.  It  is  to  be  hoped, 
however,  that  this  contribution  to  a  genealogy  of  the  Hilton  famdy  may 
result  in  bringing  to  light  more  information  concerning  it.  Such  informa- 
tion, especially  in  regard  to  the  earlier  generations,  will  be  gladly  received 
•by  the  compiler.     Ail  dates  in  this  article  prior  to  1751  are  old  style. 

J.  T.  n.1 


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1877.1      Churches  in  Ilarrolnlon  and  South Ivnton,  Ct.  195 


CIiriiCIIES  IX  IIAiaVIXTOX  and  SOrTIIIXGTOX,  CT. 

By  Ji-.iiirL  Chksti.h  Hart,  Iv^q.,  of  ri.iinville,  Ct. 

rpiIE  Ivcv.  li.  Planning  (.'liij)nian,  in  \\h  history  of  iraiwinton, 
A.  pu1)lishc(I  in  I'SIJ'),  says  Daniel  Mosscncrcr  was  the  pioneer 
settler  of  the  town  ;  tliat  lie  eanie  from  Hartford,  Ct.,  in  the  month 
of  January,  1730.      In  him  we  recognize  the  founder  of  the  town. 

The  first  town  meeting  in  TIarwinton  was  held  at  the  house  of 
Jacob  lienton,  on  December  20,  1737.  The  town  was  incorporated 
by  act  of  the  legislature.  The  session  began  Oct.  13,  1737.  The 
Rev.  ^Ir.  Chipmau  states  thut  the  church  was  organized  and  the 
first  minister  settled  on  the  same  day,  Oct.  4,  1738.  The  first  set- 
tled minister  was  the  Kev.  Andrew  l^artholomew;  A.  slab  of  gncis- 
pic  stone,  in  the  ancient  grave-yard  at  llarwinton  Centre,  presents 
an  inscription  as  follows  : 

"  Here  lips  the  Body  of  the  |  Rev'*  Andrew  Bar^holome-vv  |  The  1"  Pas- 
tor of  the  Church  ]  of  Christ  in  Ilarwiuton  who  |  witli  tiHal  regard  for  the  | 
Glory   of  god  ft'.;dioiisly  |  Labored  in  the  \inyard  |  of   Christ  ?'S   years. 
A  lover  |  of  piety  peace  and   good  |  order  and   zealous  for  the  faith  j  he 
died  March  the  G"'^  AD  [  177G  hi  the  G3<*  year  of  bis  age." 

The  act  incorporatinrr  the  first  Ecclesiastical  Society  of  Southing- 
ton  was  passed  Saturday  morning,  May  30,  1724,  O.  S.  This 
Society  was  taken  from  the  ancient  town  of  Farmington,  souili  of 
the  old  society.  The  first  minister  was  the  Eev.  Daniel  Buck.  He 
was  not  settled,  but  supplied  the  pulpit  about  two  years.  The  fir=t 
settled  minister  was  the  Hev.  Jeremiah  Curtiss,  ordained  Nov.  13, 
1728,  and  Thomas  Barnes  and  Samuel  ^V'oodruff  were  chosen  to  be 
deacons,  and  were  ordained  April  9,  1729.  ]Mr.  Curtiss  was  dis- 
missed in  175.3,  and  died  ]March  21,  1795,  aged  88  years.  His 
pastorate  continued  about  twenty-seven  years.  The  following  is  the 
inscription  on  his  tomb-stone  : 

"  This  Monument  is  j  Erected  in  Memory  of  the  |  Rev  Jeremiah  Cur- 
tiss I  He  Early  devoted  himself  to  the  |  Gospel  Ministry  |  He  was  settled 
Nov  1728  I  in  the  2.3'*  year  of  his  age  &  was  |  dismiss**  regularly  1754 
or  5  I  Integrity  Sleekness  v&  Humility  |  were  conspicuous  &  acknowledged 
I  parts  of  his  character  both  in  |  public  and  private  life.  |  The  memory  of 
the  Just  is  Blessed." 

The  second  minister  of  Southington  was  the  Rev.  r>enjamin 
Chapman,  ordained  ^Nlarch  17,  1756;  dismissed  Sept.  28,  1774; 
died  June  22,  178(5,  aged  61  years;  pastorate  eighteen  years.  The 
third  pastor  of  Southington  Church  was  'the  Rev.  William  Robin- 
son. [See  his  life,  by  his  son  Prof.  Edward  Robinson,  noticed  in 
Reoisteii,  xiii.  175.]  The  fourth  pastor  was  the  Rev.  David  L. 
Og<len,  ordained  Oct.  31,  1821;  dismissed  Sept.  13,  1836;  died 
at  Xew  Haven,  Oct.  31,  1863,  aged  71  years.    The  fifth  pastor  wa'i 


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196  WasJiinrjton  to  Knox,  1789.  [-^prll, 

the  Rev.  EHslia  Cowles  Jones,  ordained  June  28,  1837.  He  dinl 
Miuch  9,  loT:?,  ai,a'd  05  yeard  ;  p:istor:it(!  tliirty-five  years.  Aftci- 
the  death  of  Mr.  Jones,  the  Ilev.  Alexander  I  full  supplied  tlic  j)ul[)it 
for  sonic  length  of  time,  until  railed  t<^  the  chureli  in  l*lain\i!!r. 
In  1872,  the  Kev.  W.  \l.  'i'indow  was  invited  to  heconic  {ja^^tor 
of  the  chureh,  and  was  in-italhid  Kcli.  27,  1873;  disini-:.ied  in  the 
winter  of"  187"),  and  now  has  j-iiiu-d  the  J^i)i3C0[)alians.  Sept.  !.">, 
1870,  the  Rev.  C  P.  (Joborne  was  installed  pastor  of  the  ehurcli. 

The  second  Congregational  Church  of  Southington  is  located  at 
Plantsville,  and  ap[)ears  to  flourish.  The  late  pastor,  Mr.  Kastinan, 
was  dismissed  within  tht,'  year  past. 


LETTKU  OF  AVASIllXGTON  TO  KXOX,  APRIL  1,   1780. 

>  EAPi-AD.MIRAL  Henry  Knox  Thatcher,  U.S.X.,  who  some 
years  ago  presei^.ted  to  the  New  England  Historic,  Genealogi- 
cal Society  the  invaluable  manuscripts  of  his  grnndfathor,  General 
Henry  Knox,  of  the  Revolution  (ayite,  xxvii.  -lot)),  read  at  the 
annual  meeting  of  this  Society,  on  tiie  3d  of  January  last,  the  fol- 
lowing letter  from  Gen.  AVa:?hington  to  Gen.  Knox,  whic!;  he  had 
recently  found  among  his  papers,  and  which  he  now  presented  to  tlu; 
Society.  It  was  written  while  ^rashington  was  M'aiting  for  official 
notice  that  he  had  been  elected  to  the  office  of  President  of  the 
United  States.         ;. 

Mount  Vernon,  April  1,  1780. 
Mr  DF..vn  Srn, 

The  Mail  of  the  "0'^  brought  me  your  fiivor  of  the  23^,  For  which. 
&  the  regular  information  you  has-e  had  the  goodness  to  transmit  of  the 
state  of  things  in  New  York,  I  feel  myself  very  much  obhgetl,  and  thank 
you  accordingly.  I  feci  for  those  ^lembers  of  the  new  Congress,  who, 
hitherto,  liave  given  an  unavailin;:^  attendance  at  the  theatre  of  business. 
For  my'^elf,  the  delay  may  be  comjtared  to  a  reprieve  ;  for  in  confidence  1 
can  assure  j/oit. — with  the  trorld  it  would  ol/tain  liffle  credit — that  mv  movp- 
ments  to  the  chair  of  Government  will  be  accompanied  witli  feelings  not 
unlike  those  of  a  culprit  who  is  going  to  the  place  of  his  execution;  so  unwil- 
ling am  I  in  the  evening  of  a  life  nearly  consumed  in  public  cares  to  quit 
a  peaceful  abode  for  an  ocean  of  ditUculties,  without  that  competency  of 
political  skill,  abilities  and  ini;lination  which  is  necessary  to  min':)':;e  the  helm. 

I  am  sensible  that  I  am  embarkinij  the  voice  of  my  Countiwrnen  and  a 
good  name  of  my  own  on  this  voyage,  but  what  retnrns  will  be  made  for 
them  Heaven  alone  can  foretell,  integrity  &  firmness  are  all  that  I  can 
promise — these  Vie  the  voyage  lon^- or  sliort  never  shall  forsake  me  akhou:];h 
I  may  be  deserted  by  all  men.  For  of  the  consolations  which  are  to  be  de- 
rived from  these  (uiider  any  circumstances)  the  world  cannot  deprive  me. 

With  best  wishes  for  ^V'  Knox  &  sincere  friendship  for  yourself,  I  re- 
main Your  affectionate 

The  Ilon'''^  G°  Washingtox. 

Maj''  Gen^  Knox.  ■     "  '^  •..».-. 


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GENEALOGY   OF    TlfK  CRKSSKY    FAMILY,  DESCENDANTS 

OF  MIGIIILL  CRFSSEV  OF  8ALKM  AND 

irSWlCII,  MASS. 

By  Geokge  Bhaixatid  Blodgette,  A.M.,  of  Ilowlcy,  Mass. 

"?*^T1GIIILL'  CRESSEY  lancLd  uf,  Sal. m,  with  his  brother  William, 
IVl.  probably  in  the  year  IGll).  He  wa-=  .'50  y<fars  old  in  1  OOS  (Ricors- 
TKK,  vol.  vi.  p.*  249).  tie  lived  for  a  time  in  the  family  of  Lieut.  Thoraar, 
Lathrop,  afterwanl  Capt.  Lathrop,  who  ^vith  bi.Kty  of  his  .soldiers  full  in  tlio 
massacre  by  the  Indians  at  Bloody  Lrook,  in  Doerfield,  Sept.  18.  1  C7o. 
They  were  styled  "the  llowor  of  Essex."  From  June,  10-32,  to  May, 
1656,  he  livcdiu  the  family  of  Joshua  Ray,  at  "  R.oyal  Side,"  Salem,  now 
Bo>erly  (annexed  Sept.  12,  17o.O).  His  brother  A'.'illiam  nettled  in  Con- 
uecticut.  '  3IighiII'  married,  1658,  Mary,  dau.  of  John  and  Elizabeth 
Rachcldor.  of  '•  Royal  Side."  She  was  bay/t.  at  Salem,  Sept.  10,  1640.  and 
died  in  childbed,  August,  1650.  The  child  nirvived.  He  tlien  moved  to 
Ipswich,  and  married,  April  6.  1660,  Mary,  dau.  of  Mark  Quilter  of 
ipswieh.     She  was  born  in  Ipswich,  ]May  2,  1611. 

Mighill'  Cressey  died  in  Ipswich,  Api-il,  1670.  The  vecor.i  of  the  court 
concerning  the  settlement  of  his  estate  is  as  follows  :  ''  May  3  1G70 — Mig- 
hill  Cresie  dyeing  intestate  The  Court  grants  Administration  unto  ^rary 
Cresio  the  widdow.  A[nd]  there  being  an  Inventory  presented  of  fifty- 
two  pounds,  and  foure  children  The  Court  order  the  eldest  &onn  to  have  8' 
in  the  land  at  Salem  if  it  be  worth  it  or  elce  made  up  8'  and  the  other  3 
chil.ii-en  4'-  a  peece  all  when  they  come  to  age.  The  widdow  to  enjoy  the 
rest  of  the  Instate."     His  children  were  : 

1.  i.       Joiix,^  b.  Aur;u>t,  1059,  in  Sii'eni. 

2.  ii.     MicniLL,"  b.  April  1,  1601,  in  Ipswich. 

3.  iii.    WiLLiAii,'^  b.  1003,  iu  Ipswich. 

iv.    Marv,-  b.  leer,  m  Ipswich;  in.  x\pril  20,  16"8,  Sarauel  Hidden  of 
Piowley. 

IMary  his  wi'low,  with  her  three  children,  moved  to  Rowley,  Mass., 
April,  1671.  The  oldest  son,  John,  lived  at  Salem  with  his  grandfather 
Baohelder.  She  died  in  Rowley,  May  7,  1707.  This  christian  name  is 
sometimes  spelled  "^Michael"  on  old  records,  but  Mighiir  Cressey,  the 
emigrant,  spelled  his  own  name  "  Mighel   Cresse." 

On  the  various  record.s  I  find  this  surname  (Cressey)  spelled  in  twenty- 
three  different  ways. 

1.     John-   Cressky  {^JighiU'^)  was  born  at  '"Royal  Side,"  Salem,  Aug. 

1650.     In  1675  he  chose  in  court  his  uncle  Joseph 

Bachelder  to  be  his  giiardiin.     Was  a  tailor.     He     I      Hq^q  Lvt-th  the       I 

m.   Sarah,    dau.  of    John    and  !Marv   (Tredwell)  \i  ^..  Jn^^ocn        1 

*-tamos  ot  Ipswich.     vShe   was  d.  ui    l])swiGh,  Nov.  ^  ,      r.„„.,.  „.u., 

-•',  Ibbo,  and  d.  at  •*  Rova!  Side,     April  4,  l/ol.        ,.   ,  ,  i      .  n.-»,i  i-j- 
u;,  u  -CI  '     1      1     .  t   i>       1  c-1."        died  July  %••=  0-J<i  1/33 

ills  norae  was  in  Salem  on  lanil  at      Ivoval  feiae,  _      ^   "  .,  r.       ' 

f  „        ,         ,  ,.  ,^    ,        T,     ,    11       *  xr  1      In  v«  ,6''yoarot 

Jurnierly  ot  his  grandfather  Bachelder.     He  was  i  '  i,-   .  ^, 

a  deacon  of  the  second  church   in   Bt-verly.     His      i  '  ~    

grave  is  marked  by  a  slate-stone,  the  inscription  on  "" 

whioh  is  printed  in  the  margin.     His  will  was  dated  June  12,  i7.j4,   and 

approved  August  18,  1735.     Childrea: 


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4. 

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6. 

Ti. 

19S  The  Cresscy  Family.  [April, 

i       MvRv,'  b.  July  7,  hapt.  Au^.  2,  lOSG;  m.  Joseph  Foster  of  Ipswich  ; 

pub.  July  10,  i:i:. " 

JoHV,='  b.  <?nt.  'J,  Inpt.  Oct.  U,  ir.^S;  d.  Dec.  17,  1G90. 

SAU\n,3  b.  Aug.  :j.  b;ipt.  Aug.  7,  ICO-' ;  m.  Feb.  2,  171B-9,  Jarac^  Smith 

of  IJcveily. 
JoiiN,^  1>.  Alia;.  5,  bapt.  Aaz-  5,  1091. 
Jos.;ri[,^  b.  Jr.ne  10,  bapt.  Jiin..'2l,  lt;OG. 
o.  TI.     1).\NIEI„=  b.  July  11,  baj.t.  July  IK.  160S. 

7.  vii.   Jon,3  b.  Dec.  17,  IGOO,  oajjt.  Jan.  IG,  ir,'.)9-I700. 

8.  viii.  Benjamin,^  b.  April  5,  bapt.  April  10.  1702. 

ix.  11annau,='  b.  June  21,  b;ii)t.  July  8,  1705;  m.  Danirl  Ualli^  oF  Bev- 
erly; pub.  Ani;.  1,  17-23.  , 

X.  AuiGAiL,'  b.  Oot^  1.5.  bapt.  O.'t.  2f),  1707;  m.  Nov.  13,  1729,  Bartnclo- 
Dicw  Allen  of  Manchester. 

9.  xi.     NoAU,^  b.  Aug.  21,    bapt.  tfcpt.  3,  1710. 

2.  MiGHiLi/  CuESSEY  {Mfr/hUl^)  was  born  in  Ipswich,  April_l,  ICCl. 
Moved  to  Rowlev  with  liis  moiiiei-,  1G71,  and  died  th<;re,  Oct.  o,  1740.  lie 
m.  Aa:,^  20,  lG8u,  Sarah,  dau.  of  Andrew  and  Sarah  Hidden  of  Rowley. 
She  was  b.  Oct.  L  IGCI  ;  d.  April  15.  1751.  He  settled  hid  estate  in  his 
lifctirue  by  deeds.  (Iv^^ex  Decdi,  lib.  40,  fol.  2,  and  lib.  S-'J.  fol.  50.) 
Children  : 

i.       Mtonii.T,,'  h.  yeb.  27.  bant.  March  3,  loS8-9  ;   m.  Martha  Dutch,  of 

Ipswich,  and  died  July"l5,  l7-'0,  without  issue. 
ii.     Joseph,'  b.  Deo.  5,  bapt.  Dec.  7,  1690,  not  mentioned  in  scttlemcoc 

of  tather's  estate.  . 

iii.    SARiii,^  u.  Dec.  7,  bapt.  Dec.  11,  1G02 ;  m.  Dec.  9,  1714,  Benjamin 

Scott  of  Iv)w!ey. 
10    iv.     JoN-iTUAN-,^  b.  .\Jav  11,  bapt.  May  12,  1605. 

V        Tamlr,'  b.  Feb.  4^  bapt.  Feb.  0,  l(;97-8  ;  d.  May  29,  171G.  unm. 

vi.     Abigail,^  b.  April  15,  bapt.  April  20,  1701 ;  o.  Nov.  U,  1720,  W  iluara 

Rowse  of  Rowlev. 
11.  vii.   DAViD.^i  b.  March's,  bapt.  March  12,  1703-4. 


.     WiLLi.vM*  Cresset  (Jlif/hill^)  was  born  in  Ipswich,  1663  ;  moved  to 
;\dev   with  his  mother,   1671.     He  ra.  Jan.  23,  1686-7,  Anne,  dau.  of 


3. 

RowL        _  , 

Andrew  and  Sarah  Hid  leu  of  Pv0^vl^y.  She  was  b.  June  22,166.^;  fl. 
June  24,  1748.  He  d.  Feb.  9,  1717-i8.  Administration  granted  to  son 
John,'  March  18,  1717-18.     Children  : 

i.       Ann-e,='  b.   April  5,  10S8,  bapt.  Sept.  29,  1689;  m.  Samuel  Tenney  of 
Rowlev  (Jan.  171-3?).         '  ... 

"      ii.     WilliamV  bapt.  Aug.  3.  1090 ;  d.  in  Ipswich,  1714,  without  issue  ;  bis 
widow  Mary  d.  in  Rowley,  Jan.  30.  1722-3. 

12.  iii.    John,'  b.  Dec.  4.  bapt.  Deo.  13.  169-2. 

iv.    Mary,'    b.  Nov.  4,  bapt.  Nuv.  8,  1696;  m.  March  5,  1717-8,  James 

Brown  of  Rowley. 
V.      Hannah,'  b.  Aprii  1,  bapt.  April  2,  1699;  m.  Oct.  3,   lr2o,  John 

Ilodskins  of  Ko'^vley. 

13.  vi.     ABEL,''b.  Dee.  27.  bapt.  Dec.  20,  1700. 

14.  vii.   Samuel,'  b.  July  23,  1701,  bapt.  siiuc  day. 
viii.  ]NIaP(C,'  bapt.  M'ln-h  -Jl,  1705-6:  d.  in  infancy. 

15.  ii.    Joseph,'  b.  July  1,  bapt.  July  6,  17o7. 

4.  John'  Chessey  {Juhn,'^  Ml-jhUr)  was  born  in  Salem,  Aui'.  5,  1604. 
He  m.  Nov.  20,  1717.  :Mary  Lovett  of  Beverly,  and  d.  Oct.  19,  1718.  11:5 
widow  m.  June  2S,  1722.  John  Conant  of  Beve.'-ly.     Child  : 

16.  i.      JoEN,*  bapt.  Feb.  1,  171*-i9. 

5.  Joseph^'  Chessey  (Johi^  M^rjhUl'^)  was  born  in  S.-^.lem.  Jane  10, 
1696.     ^>Vas   a  yeoman.     He  m.  twice:   first,  Feb.  26,  1718-0,  Saraii.  diiu. 


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of  "William  and  Hannah  Do'l^e  of  S.ilera.  She  was  b.  1701  ;  d.  Sept.  30, 
1732.  He  ui.  hccond,  April  2.3,  17:M,  Hannah  llolton  of  Sale kl  Shed. 
March  ol,  1783,  aged  7-4.  He  d.  iMarch,  17C7,  leaving  a  will  dated  ]\Lireh 
0,  17G7,  approved  April  (5,  ]7(;7.  Wife  Hannah  and  sou  Andrew''  named 
executors.     His  children,  all  b.  at  "  lioyal  Side,"  were  : 

i.      II.oNAH,-'  b.  Juiv  i!5,  hipt.  July  .30,  17:21  ;  m. Porter. 

ii.     AniG.ML,*  bapt.  March  7,  1701-5;  d.  May  7,  172G. 

iii.    liitant  dan.,*  d.  Jrai.  '-'J,  17-2(;-7. 

iv,     Ini.mt  cliild,-*  d.  Doc.  18,  17-J7. 

y.      Infant  R.)n,-»  d.  JulyJ'J,  1729. 

vi.     yAKAH,*    h.  Jan.  G,  bapt.  Jan.  \2,  1731-5;  m.  Aug.  8,  1758,  Samuel 

Dove  of  tialcai. 
vii.   Sl-sanna,-»  b.  Sept.  10,  173f3 ;  m.  Fob.  21,  17C4,  Joseph  M;>.=ury  of  Salem. 
\iii.  JosF.rii,*   b.  Au^.  10,  bapt-  Aug.  20,  173S  ;  d.  before  .Man!'.  5,  17o7. 
ix.     Mf.uitable,'    b.^Maroh  25,  bapt.  Marcli  30,  1710;  m.  April  2?,  17C7, 

Nathaniel  Yell. 
I.      Jamfs,*  bapt.  March  11,  171.0-4;  d.  before  March  5,  17r.7. 
xi.     A.NDRL^^-,^  bapt.  Feb.  9,  1745-6;  m.  Mary  Woodbury  ;  jmb.  June  2i. 

1770. 
xii.   Amos,*  bapt.  Oct.  2,  17 IS  ;  m.  Nov.  8,  1771,  Anna  This^t■U. 
xiii.  IIanxah,'*  m.  Benjamin  Woodman,  Jr.,  of  Salem,  pub.  Sept.  3,  1769. 

6.  Daniel''  Ckessey  {John,''  211  ghilP)  was  born  in  Salem,  July  11, 
1698.  "Was  a  yeoman.  Hem.  Oct.  20,  1720,  Sarah  lugleson  (probably 
dau.  of  John  and  Mary  Ingleson)  of  Salem.  About  1740  he  moved  to 
Connecticut,     Nothing  further  is  as  yet  known  of  him.     Children  : 

17.  i.      JonN',^b.  July  31,  1721. 

ii.     RtTn,*  bapt.  Jliu.  20,  J722-3  ;  d.  June  4,  1723. 

iii.    Mary,*  b.  April  11,  bapt.  April  19,  1724  ;  m.  March  5,  1745-6,  Abncr 

Ashley  of  ilanipton,  Conn. 
iv.    EcTH,*  "bapt.  March  13,  1725-6 ;  m.  Nov.  23,  1746,  Samuel  Ashley  of 

Hampton,  Conn. 
■     T.     Sarau,*  bapt.  March  30,  1729;  m.  Nov.  5,  1751,  Joseph  Asulcy  of 

Hampton,  Conn. 

18.  vi.     Daniel,*  bapt.  Oct.  11,  1730.        '  - 

19.  vii.   Joseph,*  bapt.  June  4,  1732. 

viii.  Elizat-etu,*  bapt.  Sejir.  21,  1735.  ^^ 

is.    EicHAR.r;,*  bapt.  April  17,  1737;  probably  died  in  Bradford,  ii.H., 

Sept.  9,  1S09 
X.      Ebenezer,*  died  in  Pomfret,  Conn.,  about  1818,  without  issue. 
xi.     Anna,*  m.  Nathan  Griggs. 

7.  Jon'  Cresset  [John,-  MighilP)  was  born  in  Salem,  Dec.  17,  1G99. 
Was  a  tailor.  He  m.  twice  :  first,  June  27,  1723,  at  Marblehead,_Rebecca, 
dau.  of  Edward  and  Rebecca  Diamond  of  Marblehead.  She  d.  1744.  He 
m,  second,  March  27,  174*3,  Berthiah  Bachelder  of  Beverly,  who  surv^ived 
him.  Administration  on  his  estate,  which  amounted  to  £5.52  13  2, 
granted  sou  Nathaniel,"  Oct.  1,  1781.  His  children,  all  bapc.  iu  Beverly, 
were : 

20.1.      N.THAviEL,*  b.  1724,  ■>  C  [Gavett  of  Salem, 

ii.     LecY,*  >  b-pt.  Nov.  30,  1727,  I  m.  Feb.  28, 1750,  Joseph 

iii.    Reelcca.*  )  ( d.  youn,:,'. 

iv.    Job,*  bapt.  Jan.  10,  1730-1.     No  record  of  him  lound. 
V.      Abigail.*  bapt.  June  25.  1732. 
vi.     Anne,*  bapt.  July  28,  1731. 
vii.   Mary,*  biipt.  Aug.  1,  I73o. 

viii.  Rebecca,*  bapt.  June  21,  1739.  , 

ix.     Lydia,*    bapt.  Jan.  24,  1741-2;  m.  April  26,  1764,  John  Ingleson  cl 
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8.  Bknjamin' Crkssky  (John,-  Mn/hilP)  wa*  born  in  Sulom,  April  .'., 
170:^.  AV.vs  a  nliechviiulit.  lie  m.  June  0,  iTl'j,  Christian,  duu.  of  Jnl.u 
and  Elizabeth  Trask.  She  was  b.  iMay  L^J,  1701  ;  d.  before  her  husbati.l. 
lie  d.  Oct.  1783.  His  will  wa.s  dated  Sopt.  11,  1782;  ai)proved  Nov.  ;;, 
1783.  Peter  Dodge,  his  son-in-law,  named  executor.  Value  of  C3tatv, 
£72-l-  12  5.     Children,  all  b.  at  '•  Koyai  Side,"  were: 

21.  i.      Ef-NjAMiN,"  h.  :May  7,  bapt.  Mav  15,  17-2C. 

ii.     Wii.uAM,-'  b.  Dec.  20,  bupt.  Dec.  22,  1728;  d.  1753, 

iii.    S.^ML-EL,*  bapt.  Nov.  1,  17:ji) ;  d.  Dec.  18,  1731. 

iv.     Samikc,'*  b.  July  (>,  1733;  d.  17.J0. 

V.      Klizabetu,-*   b.  Sent.  0,  hapt.  Sept.  12,  1736;  m.  1st,  June  14,  175G, 

William  JktclifKkT,  Jr.,  uf  r.everly ;  2Dd,  Peter  Dodge,  of  Wcahain, 

pub.  Dt'C.  2;>,  1701. 
yi.     Anna,*  b.  Au^;.  IG,  bapt.  An?.  20,  1739  ;  in.  Ut,  Dec.  6,  1764,  Tni- 

liam  Dod2:c,\jr.,  2nil,  Daniel  Fisher. 

22.  vii.   JosiAH,*  b.'July  18,  bajit.  July  20,  1740. 
\iii.  Israel,'  bai)t.  June  24,  1741  ;  d.  in  infancy. 

9.  NoAii'  Crkssky  (John,''  MujhU?)  was  born  in  Salem.  Anj.  24. 1710. 

"Was  a  weaver.     Ho  m.  Dee.    13,  1730,  Rebecca,  dau.  of  Joseph  and 

Trask  of  Salem.     She  died  in  1758.     His  .-ecoiid  wife  was  Anna , 

who  survived  him.  He  died  1784.  His  will  was  dated  Au^-.  20,  1784,  and 
approved  Oct.  5,  1784;  sous  Jonathan*  and  Nathan"*  named  executors. 
Children,  all  bapt.  in  Levcrly,  were  : 

i.      JoxATHAN,''  bapt.  Julv  30,  1733;  in.  Nov.  22,  1750,  Ilitty  UutchinsoD 

Tra^k. 
ii.     Noah,*  bapt.  Au:;.  20.  1733  :  d.  before  1784  vithout  i£=ue. 
ill.    Nathan,'*  bapt.  July  31,  1743 ;  m.  Sept.  I,  1788,  Phccbe  Kiraball. 

10.  Joxathan'  CnESsr.Y  [Miijhill,^  JMUjIdll^)  was  born  in  Rowley,  May 
11,1695.  Was  a  yeoman.  He  m.  first.  March  28,  1722,  Sarah  Harris,^ 
who  d.  July  28,  1723;  second,  Oct.  25,  1724,  at  Kittery,  Eleanor,  dau.  of 
Michael  and  Sarah  Bartor  of  Kittery.  In  172G  ho  moved  to  Littleton, 
Mass.,  having  bouglit  (with  John  Sawyer  of  Rowley)  of  Jonathan  Pres- 
cott  of  Concord,  Mass.,'20U  acres  of  land  in  Littleton  t  )r  £G00,  He  moved 
to  Grotou,  Mass.,  1744,  where  he  was  living  in  1752.     His  children  were: 

i.      Marv,'^  bapt  Jan   13   1722-3  ;  d.  Jan.  26,  1722-3,  >  -^  p^^j 
11.     Sarah,*  d.  April  22,  1/2G,  )  ■' 

23.  iii.    Michafl,*  b.  Aur^.  10,  1728.  in  Littleton. 

iv.  ilErsiBATu,*  b.  July  13,  1730,  in  Littleton  :  m.  first,  June  10,  17-32, 
Josiah  Chamberlin  ;  eecond,  Nathaniel  BiiiEham.  of  Chesterfield, 
N.  H. 

24.  T.     JoNATUAN,''  b.  IMay  14.  1732,  in  Littleton.  •    - 
vi.     TAiiER,*  b.  Aug.  19,  1733,  in  Littleton;  unm.  1782. 

11.  David^"  CiiiiSSKY  {JJi'ghil!,-  Jfifjliiir)  was  born  in  Rowley,  March 
5,  1703-4.  Was  a  yeonian.  He  m.  first,  Deo.  7.  1727,  Hephzibab,  dau.  ot 
John  and  Judith  (Foster)  Plaits  of  Rowley.  She  was  bapt.  Dec.  5,  1703, 
and  died  17G8.  He  m.  second,  Nov.  5,  1771,  Ruth  Warren  of  Little-ton. 
Mass.  He  bought  of  Nathaniel  Boynton  of  Littleton,  00  acres  of  Ian!, 
with  buildings  in  L..  for  £120;  deed"  dated  July  5,  1751  ;  recorded  wifU 
Middlesex  Deeds,  Book  50.  page  G5o.  On  this  farm  lie  lived  and  died. 
His  will  was  dated  Nov.  8,  177G,  and  bled  in  tb.e  Probate  Otliee,  Doc._^10, 
177G  ;  disproved  April  17,  1781.  His  widow  Ruth  d.  before  Jan.  6,  1779. 
His  children  were  all  born  in  Rowley,  and  all  died  without  issue. 


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i.  JosErn*  il.  Sept.  1,  1730. 

ii.  Jl-1)!tii,«  });ipt.  April  L'H,  1730;  d.  Sept.  II,  1730. 

iii.  JoJiV,'  liiipt.  Oi:t.31.  1730;  li.  in  Littlttoi;,  17.-jU. 

iv.  JiDiTii,''  h;ipt.  \ov.  ,'),  173S  ;  d.  y(;un^'. 

V.  Daviii,*  hapt.  June  15,  1710  ;  d.  An-.  8,  1740. 

vi.  D.wm/  biipt.  Dec.  U,  1713;  d.  youiiij. 

1?.  John'  Crf.ssey  {^William?'  Mi'jhliP)  ^vas  born  in  Rowley,  Uec.  4, 
109 J.  He  m.  Oct.  13,  1720,  .Sarali,  duu.  of  Corn«jliu.s  and  Kli/abeth 
(Hidden)  Davis  of  Rowley.  She  was  b.  July  22,  1G99.  His  home  was 
on  IWadford  Street,  in  Rowley,  where  he  died  Sept.  4,  1741.  Administra- 
tion on  his  estate,  which  amounted  to  £8.>.'),  was  granted  to  ids  widow, 
Oct.  5,  1741.    She  died  ^luy  o,  I  77 1.    Children,  all  bora  in  Rowley,  were 

i.  Elizalkth,*  bapt.   April  8,   17i20  ;  m.  i;?njaiuin  Smith  of  linv/lcy,  to 

whom  s!ie  Wiis  puMi-'liod.  Jan.  :^3,  1711--2. 

ii.  ANNi:,-"  bapt.  Sept.  ^7,  17-J4  ;    d.  Jan.  13,  17^0-7. 

id.  Annk.,'   b.  Jan.  24.  17i?7-8;  d.  Anril  Id,  1730. 

iv.  SAKAn,-*  b.  March  8.  hiipt.  Mur.h'lO,  17-'0-.30  ;   d.  April  8,  1736. 

V.  JonN,"*  b.  April  1,  bapt.  April  11,  1731  ;  d.  April  4,  1730. 

25.  vi.  M.sRK,''  b.  Jan.  18,  bnjtt.  Jan.  27,  17.3:i-4. 

vii.    Ltty,*  b.  March  4,  bapt.  March  7,  173.5-0  ;  ui.  Asa  Axidrewd  of  Box- 
ford  . 
viii.  Mvur,*  ^  b.  Aug.  30,  r  ui.  Jan.  15,  1751,  Bcuj.  ^Vinter  of  ilowley. 

>  bapt.  Supt.  < 
ix.    S.'iR.AH.'*  )    3,  1738  ;     (  m.  Dec.  8,  1757,  Ezekicl  Parsons  of  Gloucesier. 

26.  X.     Jon-v,*  b.  May  8,  bapt.  May  10,  1741. 

13.  Akel^  Cressey  (  WllUain^  MirjhiW)  was  born  in  Rowley,  Dec.  27, 
1700.  Was  a  blacksmith.  He  m'.  lUy  'll ,  1727,  Hap.iiah  Lowdl.  She  d. 
i\Iay  4.  1773.  He  d.  Nov.  2,  17G5,  leaving  a  will  dated  Aug.  12,  170-3,  in 
which  mention  was  made  of  "  the  two  children  of  my  son  William  deceased."' 
It  was  approved  March  10,  176G_.  son  Abel  executor.  Children,  all  born 
iu  Rowley,  were  : 

i.  Hann-ae,''  b.  Feb.  17,  bapt.  March  10,  1727-8;  m.  March  23,  1762, 
James  Davis  of  Ipswich. 

ii.     Meititauu;,*  bnpt.  Aprii  2,  1720  ;  d.  May  24,  173G. 

iii  WiLiiAM,*  bapt.  S.^pt.  J3,  1730:  d.  before  A u 2:.  12,  1705.  Was  it  his 
widow  Mary  v,ho  in.  Dec.  20,  1772,  James  Stickney  of  Newbury  ? 

iv.     James,-*  Ijapt.*  Jan.  10,  1731-2;  d.  Mav  20,  1730. 

V.      Sarah,*  bapt.  Nov.  18,  1733  ;  d.  April  10.  1750. 

vi.     Eunice,*  bapt.  March  9,  1734-5  ;  d.  May  25,  1736. 

vii.   Caleb,*  bapt.  Sept.  5,  1730  ;  d.  Dec.  1,  1730. 

viii.  Ja3ies,*  bapt.  Jan.  1,  1737-8;  m.  March  15,  1763,  Sarah,  widow  of 
Mo.^es  llopkinson  of  Rowley. 

ix.    A  still  child,*  d.  Jan.  18,  1739-40. 

X.  Abel,*  b.  Oct.  5,  bapt.  Oct.  11,  1741  ;  m.  Elizabeth  Hidden  of  New- 
bury, pub.  Oct.  5,  1705. 

xi.  Calef,,*  b.  Dec.  0,  bapt.  Dec.  9,  1744.  Was  in  the  army,  1702  (CapL 
Gideon  Parker's  company) ,  and  probably  died  in  the  service. 

14.  Samuf.l'  Cff-SSEY  (  William,''  JL'r/h HP)  was  born  in  Rov.dey,  July 
23,  1704.  Was  a  shipwright.  He  m.  Oct.  7,  r72.">,  Mary  Andrews,  who 
'1.  Feb.  14.  1737-8.  He  m.  .'^econd,  Aug.  22,  1738,  Manha  Veran  of 
Ipswich.  He  moved  to  Newbury,  1739,  and  died  there  about  1775.  There 
Wad  no  administration  on  his  estate,  as  he  seems  to  have  arranged  it  by 
•Ict'ds  in  the  year  1773.  Ilis  children  (live  bora  in  Rowley  ai.d  live  in  Nev?- 
'>'iry)  were  : 

i.      Mart,*  b.  June  30,  bapt.  July  2,  1727  ;  m.  Oct.  3,  1750,  John  Faline^ 
of  Rowley. 
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il.     ScsANNAii,*  linpt.  Alii.  1"},  17:n  ;  tl.  in  a  few  dn.vs. 

iii.    !Sl:,a.s.n.ui,-»  1j.  Aug.  \:,,  Iwpt.  All-.  r.»,  17:«  ;  d.  Mnrch  21,  173.^,-r,. 

iv.     k?A\ri  f.L,''   b.   .fi'ti.  T),  })apt.   Jan.  11,  l7o.")-C  ;  m.  Iji^t,  April  Ki,  17.v7, 

Alary  Sweet ;  .ec"  fful,  Juno   1,    177-',   L'.sin:i  I5c'/.iin;i  ol'  Miu-ljlelioiid  , 

d.  I7e>l,  on  board  the  I'ri.son  Ship  at  6c.  Lucia  (iiKciiijji,  vol.  Id,  p. 

290). 
V.      A  still  child,'  d.  Jan.  0,  1737-S. 

■vi.     Anne,*  b.  April  7,  1740;  iii.  Feb.  l.j,  1701.  John  George  of  Newbury, 
vii.    FKANtis,*  b.  Doc.  20,   1711;  in.  Sarah  (jl'vltVev,  pub.  Oct.  12,  170j. 

She  il.  June  21,  IHIi-J.  rur^d  93.     lie  d.  Jnn.  23.  IfeOO. 
viii.  William,''  b.  Ajjril  0,  1711;  ui.  June  7,  1701,  Mary  Carr  of  Newbury- 

port.     Shod.  Jnn.  7,    lc<2G.     lie  d.  Sept.  10,  17!t5. 
is.     JAMFi,*  b.  Nuv.  27,  1746. 
X.     SuiiAN'NAH,*  b.  July  31,  1749;  m.  Feb.  1j,  1778,  Thoma.'?  Johnson  of 

Newburyport. 

15.  JosRpii^  Cressky  (  William,^  M'kjJuIV)  was  born  in  Rowley,  July  1, 
1707.  Very  little  is  known  of  him.  lie  m.  Elizabeth  Jone.5  of  Ips'Aica  ; 
published  July  8,  1739.     Child  : 

i.  ElizabilTH,'*  bapt.  in  Ips=\iiich,  Feb.  21,  1747-8, 

He  may  Lave  had  other  childreu, 

IG.  JoHN^  CRF.S:;Er  {Jo!m,^  Jolui^  MiyliHI^)  was  born  in  Salem  ;  b'ipt. 
Feb.  1,  1718-9.  Was  a  weaver.  lie  m.  Dec.  24,  1740,  Elizabeth,  dau. 
of  Samuel  and  Hannah  (Dodge)  Woodbury  of  Salem.  She  died  before 
her  husband.  Admliastratiou  wa.s  granted  on  bis  estate  March  10,  1796, 
to  Joseph  Wood  of  Beverly.     Childreu,  all  born  at  "Royal  Side,"  wore: 

i.      Elizabeth,*  b.  Dec.  30,  1741 ;  d.  Nov.  29,  180.5,  unra. 

ii.     JoHN,^  b.  Mpvrch  0,  174G  ;  m.  first,  Jan.  3,  1773,  widuw  Mary  Ilerrick  ; 

second,  May  18.  1790,  Rebecca^  Cre.sscy,  dau.  of  Nathaniel''  (20). 
iii.    Anxa,*  b.  Au^'.  30,  1755;    m.   first,  April  4,   1776,  John  Ilerrick ; 

second,  July  29,  1787,  Morris  Nash. 

17.  John*  Cresset  [Daniel,^  Johx^  MighiW)  was  born  in  Saleru, 
July  31,  1721.  I-Ie  moved  to  Connecticut  with  his  fiither.  He  m.  Debo- 
rah "V^'adley.  They  moved  to  Gorhain,  Me.,  about  1747,  where  he  d.  17S-}. 
His  widow  d.  179G.  Exact  dates  cannot  be  given.  His  great-grandson, 
Samuel'  Cressey,  E.?q.,  of  Gorham,  writes  :  "  There  are  no  grave-stones : 
the  Probate  Records  were  burned  in  the  Portland  fire,  186G  ;  the  old  town 
records  were  eaten  up  by  mice.  John  Cressey  belonged  to  the  Congrega- 
tional church,  but  there  were  no  records  then  kept  by  the  church."  Child- 
ren, all  born  in  Gorham,  were  : 

i.      John,*  b.  Feb.  22,  1749;  m.  Dec.   1,  1770,  Susanna,  dau.  of  Charles 

McDonald.    Hed.  at  Buxton,  Me.,  Dec.  23,  1841. 
ii.     Joseph,*  b.  Oct.  26,  1753  ;  m.  Aulc.  28,  1770,  Hannah,  dau.  of  Abner 
and  Mary"^  (Cressey)  A.shley  of  Connecticut.     She  was  b.  Deo.  2i>, 
1760  ;  d.  Dec.  22.  1848.     He  d.  July  22,  1S32. 

iii.    Elizabeth.*  h.  April  18,   1757;  m.  "Dec.  17,1774,  Harding  of 

Baldwin,  Me.     She  d.  Feb.  17,  1823. 
iy.    Mart,*  b.  Mnv  I,  1702;  m.  Oct.  4,  1754,  David  Watts  of  Buxton. 

She  d.  Dec.  18,  1834. 
V.      Noah,*),    t  r„  ,  i?  i-r-    (  d.  1770. 
vi.    Job,*     r-^^'^^'^'^'^'U.  1766. 

18.  Daxiel*  Crks.sky  {Daniel^  Johi,"  Mighil?)  was  bapt.  in  Beverly 
Oct.  11,  1730.  He  m.  .Abigail  Allen  of  Bevcily,  and  lived  for  a  time  in 
Salem,  N.  PI.  In  1779  he  went  to  Bradford,  N.  H. ;  was  the  third  settler, 
and  died  there  1817.     His  ohildi'en  were: 


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i.      Andrew,*  b.  Feh.  10,  ITfifi,  in  linulford,  N.II. ;  m.  Iliildah . 

ii.      B.\itTHOi.o>iF.v.',*  bapt.  Nu\.  I'J,  ITG'J,  in  lieverly,  Mass.  ;  m.  Fully . 

iii.    Maky,*  \).  Ai!L-.  G.  ITT^i,  in  llojiliiiiton,  N.  11.  ;  lu.  Jionuiali  Bryant; 
d.  Au-r.  22,  18627 

And  probably 

John,*    Edward,*        and  perhaps  uthera. 

19.  Josr.i-ii^  Ckessky  {Daniel,^  John,^  MighiW)  was  baj)t.  in  Ut-voily, 
June  4,  1732.  He  went  to  Connecticut  with  his  father.  He  m.  wiilosv 
Freelove  (WaJloy)  Hall.  Lived  in  Salem.  N.  H..  whei-e  his  children  were 
boru.  He  inovcl  to  ToIUmd,  Ct.,  about  1778,  thence  to  Charlemont,  Mass., 
whore  lie  was  taxed.  170  3,  and  d.  thei-o  Dec.  \'-'),  ISlo.  His  widow  di'/d  in 
1818.  He  was  a  soldier  in  the  French  and  Indian  war,  and  was  drafted  to 
serve  in  the  Revolutionary  war,  but  his  sou  Jonathan*  served  in  his  place. 
Children : 

i.      MEniTABU-:,*  ni.  Benjninin  Coinstock.    Settled  in  Genenee  Co.,  In.  Y. 

ii.  Ki  I!),*  ij.  M^rch  31,  1764  ;  u\.  Lazarus  Barni.s.  Shed.  Feb.  2,  lti48,  in 
Ashiidd,  Mass. 

iii.    JoN'ATiiAN',*  in.  Prudence  Brown.     Lived  in  Itowe,  Mass. 

iv.    llF/KKT.»n.*     Lived  in  Aurclius.  N.  Y. 

V.      BETsrv,*  d.  1632  in  Ashiield,  unm. 

vi.  NoM'^  (i'er.),  b.  April  9,  1777  (Will.  Coll.  Ii05)  ;  ra.  Sophia,  diu.  of 
Moc'jy  and  Dolly  (Fartuun)  Sj)oli'i;d,  uf  Anduver.  ILj  was  past'jr  of 
the  Church  in  Nurway,  Me.  ib*  d.  Dec.  29,  18^)7,  in  Boston,  \v'a3 
buried  in  Portland,  Me.,  where  he  liad  long  resided.  See  Durfeo's 
BioirraphiiT^il  Annals  of  Williams  Coll.,  page  26t3. 

vii.   Lavi.ma,=  b.  1781  ;  m.  Josenh  Ford.    She  d.  ISoS  in  Ohio. 

viii.  Benjamin,^  frozen  to  dtwth  at  tiie  age  of  16  years. 

ix.     Sarau,*  Ei.  first,  Abraham  I'eanell ;  second, Stiles. 

20.  Nathaniel*  Cressey  {Joh,'  John,*  MigJdir-)  was  born  in  Salem, 
172-i.  He  m.  first,  Sarah,  dau.  of  Richard  and  Rriscilla  (Woodbury)  Ober 
of  Beverly,  to  whora  he  was  published,  Feb.  IG,  1743-4  ;  second,  Dec.  30, 
1787,  Elizabeth  Conaut  of  Beverly.  She  died  Feb.  2)3,  1803,  .a^-ed  G'J. 
He  m.  third,  April  22,  1804,  Hittv,  dau.  of  William  and  Mercy  (Trask) 
Haskell.  She  was  b.  Oct.  11,  n'OO,  and  d.  July  21,  LS47.  He  lived  on 
the  old  ho^iestead  at  "  Royal  Side,"  find  died  there  Sept.  27,  1809.  His  will 
was  dated  Nov.  11,  1808,  and  approved  Oct.  16,  180'J — Jonathan  Smith  of 
Beverly  named  executor.     His  children,  all  born  at  "  Royal  Side,"  were  : 

i.      Priscilla,*  b.  Deo.  15,  bapt.  Dec.  25,  1744  ;  m.  June  6,  1771,  James 

Gray. 
ib      Keuecca,*  b.  Aug.  13,   bapt.  Auj;.   16,   1747;  m.  first,  Dec.  3,   1772, 

Daniel  Twiss  ;   second,  Thomas  Davis,  pub.  May  10,   177S  ;    third, 

John  Lander,  pub.  Au:;ust  15,  1784  ;  fourth,  May  18,   1790,  John 

Cressey.* 
iii.    Nathaniel,*  b.  Feb.  19,  bapt.  March  4,  1349-50. 
iv.     Diamond,*  b.  Juno  4,  bapt.  .June  14,  1752;  m.  Joanna  Baehelder  of 

Danvers,  pub.  Sept.  17,  17vS0. 
V.      Jo.s,*  b.  Aoril  19.  bapt.  May  4,  1755  ;  m.  Jan.  6.  17S8,  Sirah  Do<l,ire. 
vi.     Sarah,*  b.  ^-^n.  20,  bapt.  .Ian.  29,   1758  ;  m.  Williaiu  Dedman,  pab. 

Xv.g:.  2;>.  1779. 
vii.   AbiG.uL,*  b.  Jan.  28,  bapt.   Feb.  8.  17GI  ;  m.  May  11,  1786,  Joseph 

Masury  of  Salem. 
viii.  AcioAiL,*  mentioued  in  father's  will  as  '*  young  daughter." 

21.  BENJA:\iiN''  Crkssei:  {Benjamiiu^  John,'  MlyhilV)  was  born  in 
Salera,  .May  7,  1720.  Was  a  carpenter.  Fie  ra.  Sept.  10,1747,  I\lehiia- 
bie  Brown  of  Beverly.     He  died  July  16,  1803,  in  Beverly.     His  will  wa^ 


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dated  July  IG,  1700,  and  apptovcd  Aug.  2,  1S03.  Son  Israel'  executor, 
(No  iiU'iJtu.u  of  ^u^e.)  Value  of  citato,  $2-173.'18.  Children,  all  born  ut, 
*'  Ko}Lil  Side,"  were  : 

i.      Marv,*  b.  July  10,  1710  ;  unm.  May  20.  180G. 

ii.     Samiei.,*  b.  April -JO,  17.11;  m.  Feb.  *J0,  177(3,  Elizabeth  Green.     Il<.- 

d.  Fell,  l.'j,  17><'.?,  wiLliijut  isrue. 
ill.    WiLLiAJi,*  biijit.  Nuv.  2'>,  17j3.     Not  mentioned  in  father's -will, 
iv.     Benjamin,*  1).  June'J7,  17.JG  ;  m.  July  22,  1791,  Abi;^ail  Trask.     He 

d.  bftoie  July  10,  \V.i\). 
V,      IsKAKi,,*  b.  Feb.  U,  17J'J ;  d.  May  18,  1637,  in  Ecverly. 
m\.    John,*  ^  f  m.  (pub.  July  20,  1702,)  .Mel)iuible,*dau.  of 

!  1).  May  6, J      Jouailian'  smd  llitty  11.  ('J  lask)  Cre:.sev. 
f     1702;     \      lied.  Jidy  1.  1S41. 
Tii.   MfJiiTABi-K,*  J  (died  Jan.  11,  1705. 

\iii.  JIenry,*  b.  :klaruh   18,   1705;  ni.  6m\L  2.'!,   1701',  Naney  Woodbury. 

5?he  d.  May  12,  1&31.     lie  d.  June  2,  IBltJ. 
ix.     Meuitaule,^  bapt.  .luly  5,  1707  ;  uniu.  May  20,  180G. 
X.      Nancy,*  m.  April  lu,  "1701,  Llias  Eudicutt  of  iJanvcrs. 

22.  JosiAH^  Ckkssey  [Jyi'iijatiu)),"  J'Jiii,'  Mif/hilP)  was  born  in  Salem. 
July  18,  1740,  lie  m.  Sept.  o,  17G7,  ^NLiriam.  duu.  of  Kbenczer  and  }>i:iry 
(Kix)  Trask.  She  was  b.  Jan.  23,  1737.  He  was  a  uuuincr,  and  v.as  lu.-t. 
at  .soa  about  1780.     Child  : 

i.  Josun,*  b.  May  10,  bapt.  May  13,  1770,  in  Beverly. 

23.  JIiCHAKL*  CiiESSKY  [Jonatliun,^  JlijJiil/'  Mi^hilP)  was  born  in 
Littleton,  3Ia53..  Aug,  10,  1728.  He  m.  Dec,  20,  17o2,  at  Groton,  3I.i-*., 
Katharine  Wetherbee,  of  Bolton,  Ma>s.,  who  was  b,  Nov,  1,  1730,  and  di.-(l 
Nov.  9,  17S6,  lie  lived  in  Groton,  Mass.;  thence  moved  in  17G3  to  Ches- 
terfield, N,  H,,  and  died  tliere  Nov,  6,  1812,  "Was  representative  for  lowu.s 
•of  Chesterfield  and  Hin.^dale,  1776,  '7,  '8  and  '0,  and  appointed  justice  of 
peace  in  1781.     Children: 

i.      Elizabeth,*  b.  June  26,  1754, 

ii.     Jonathan,*  b.  June  15,  1750  ;  m.  April  7,  1785,  Lydia,  dau.  of  Aaron 

and  Ann  Wright  of  Hinsdale,  N.  H.     He  d.  May  9,  1SU3. 

iii.    Annff.,*  b.  Jnn.  20.  175S. 

iv,     Moses,*  b.  March  23,  1700  ;  m.  Jan.  17,  1702,  Hannah  Parker. 

V,      Aauon.*  b.  Feb.  21,  1702. 

vi,     LociSE,*  b.  Oct.  2S,  1701  ;    \  ■>    ■,  nu^^,^^f:^}A    ,-,r„v. 
..     ■n  \  1,   c     1.    ti    i-/-~    >  u.  ju  Ltiesternela,  unm, 

vii.   Eunice,*  b.  bent.  14,  liO/  ;  >  ' 

viii.  Mercy,*  b.  Feb.  20,  1770. 

ix.    Polly  or  Maky,*  b.  Aug.  16,  1774. 

24.  JoxATUAN^  Cresset  (Jonathan,"  Mighill^  Jlityht'ir)  was  born  in 
Littleton,  Mass.,  'May  14,  1732,  He  m.  July  11,  1759,  at  Groton,  Mass., 
Anna,  dau,  of  Benjamin-  Davis  of  Groton,  She  was  b.  Feb,  2,  1742,  and 
■d.  April  17,  1797,  They  lived  in  Groton  until  1771,  then  moved  to  Ches- 
terfiebl,  N.  H.,  where  he  died  April  26,  1821,  Children,  first  six,  born  in 
Oroton,  were : 

i,      Henry.*  b.  Feb.  11,  1700. 

ii.     Bstty,*  b.  April  8,  17-2 ;  m.  April  20,  1602,  Daniel  Allen. 

iii.    Wm.i.iam.*  1).  De<;.  8,  170:!  ;   d.  in  \Vi!liaii;>town.  Vt..  unm. 

iv.     DoncAS,*  b.  July  15,  1700;  m.  March  25,  1787,  Syhanus  B.dlard. 

V.      Sarah,*  b.  May  8,  I7ti-l  ;  m.  Ue:.  22,  17S8,  Benjamin  Ballard, 

vi.     Levi,*  b.  April  1,  1770;  d.  Jidy  25,  1705,  unm. 

vii.   JosFPu,*  m.  Martha  J^'uith  ;  d.  Aw^.  27,  lc3U. 

viii,  Benjamin,*  m.  S>areph  BritttrfieM. 

ix,    Nancy,*  m.  Jan.  12,  1812.  Daniel  Rogers. 

X.      LucTi',*  d.  June  15,  1817,  unm. 

xi.     Lydia,*  d.  uum. 

xii,  Susan,*  m. Walkup, 


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2o.  M.VHK*  Cressey  {.Tohn^  WiUiam^  Mirfhiir)  was  born  iu  Rowley, 
Jan.  1'*^.  \~-')o-i.  He  served  in  the  army  on  tlie  Eastern  froncier  in  1754 
and  l7o7  ;  was  in  the  battle  of  iJuiiker  Hill,  Jane  17,  177o,  as  ensign  in 
Capt.  John  liaker,  Jr.'s  company  of  Col.  Doolittle's  regiment ;  afterwards 
became  lieutt-nant.  He  m.  lirst,  Jan.  '27,  17.j7.  Klizal)eth  UiclianU  ;  second, 
Dec.  10,  ll'M),  Elizabeth,  dau.  of  Dr.  William  and  Martha  (Johnson)  Ilulc 
of  Kowley.  lie  lived  in  tht;  house  his  father  built,  on  Bradford  Street,  in 
Kowlcy,  and  died  tlierc,  jNfay  4.  181G.  His  will  named  wife  Elizabeth, 
executrix.     Value  of  estate,  SoGGO.     Children  : 

i.       EnzAPETn,*  b.  Oct.  5,  1757  ;  m.  July  8,  1753,  Thos.  Merritt  of  Rowley. 

ii.     Mehit.vule,*  ba[>t.  Jan.  3,  17r)"2  ;  d.  Marcli  15,  17G2. 

iii.    Ma.ik,*  bapt.  xMay  0,  I7fl7  ;  d.  Nov.  iO,  i:€7. 

iv.     iMarth\-Halk,*  b.  A[)ril  27,  179-2;    ni.   May   15,   181G,  Capt.  Alien 

Perlpy  of  Ku\vlL'y  ;  d.  Feb.  24,  1'571. 
V.      Mark,'  b.  April  21,  1793;  went  to  sea  about  1825,  and  was  never 

heard  from. 

S6.  John*  Cuksset  (Jo/di,*  William^  MijhM)  was  born  in  Rowley, 
May  8,  1741.  He  lived  for  a  short  time  in  Newburyport,  where  he  m. 
^^eb.  17.  17G.5.  ^r.nih  Walker,  who  d.  in  Rov,ley,  March  17.  17GG.  He  m. 
second,  Feb.  16,  1767,  Elizabeth,  dau.  of  Richard  and  Elizabeth  (Cooper) 
Lowell,  a  descendant  of  Peroival  Lowell,  of  Xewburv-  She  was  b.  Jan. 
14,  1741-2,  and  d.  March  20,  181 G.  He  d.  Aug.  2.5.'l799.  His  will  wus 
<lated  Aug.  24,  and  approved  Oct.  8, 1739.  Wife  named  executrix.  Value 
of  estate,  §3.32-3.G7.  His  home  in  Rowley  was  on  Central  Street. 
Children  : 

i.       A  still  child. ="  March  17,  1766. 

27.  ii.     John,*  b.  Sept.  15,  1767. 

iii.    Sarah,*   b.  Sept.  14,    17GS ;    m.   Dec.   6,    1792,  Samuel  Pearson  of 
Kuwley. 

28.  iv.     RicHART),-  b.  July  2,  1770. 

v.      EtiZAiJETH,*  b.  Dec.  20,  1771  ;  m.  Feb.  9,   1797,  Amos  Dunnclis  of 
^iewbury. 

27.  Joiix*  Cresset  {John*  John,^  WilUam^  Wigh{JJ>)  wa^  born  in 
Rowley,  Sept.  1-5,  1767;  m.  Nov.  15,  1792,  Phrebe,  dau.  of  Nathaniel 
and  PbojiK:-  (Jewett)  Bradsireet  of  Ipswich.  She  was  bapt.  in  Rowley, 
Jan.  3,  1773,  and  d.  Oct.  20,  1849.  He  d.  Jan.  2ii,  1834.  Children,  all 
born  in  Rowley,  were  : 

i.      Thomas,«  b.  Aug.  3,  1794  ;  m.  Mary  Saunders;  d.  Aug.  21,  1869. 
,    ■       ii.     JoHN,^  b.  Feb.  27,  179S  ;  .m.  lirst,  Susam:iah  Jewett;  (-ccond,  Lydia 

Ptrkiris. 
iii.    Nathaniel.*  b.  Sept.  17.  1800;  m.  first,  Sarah  Jewett  Hale;  second, 

Abit;ail  Lambert ;  d.  Oct.  4,  1875. 
iv.     Melina,^  b.  March  11,  IS03  ;  d.  March  17,  ISIO,  unra. 
V.      BRADsmEET,*  b.  March  G,  160G ;  m.  Sarah  W.  Hooper;  d.  Dec.   14, 

18G7. 
vi.     ELizAiiFin,*  b.  Jlay  17,  180S ;  d.  July  C>',  i>."5,  unm. 
vii.   George  Washington*  (.Kcv.),  b.   Deo.  13.'  ISIO  (?,,..wd.  Coll.   18:55); 

m.  fii-st,  Caroline  ]\I.  Litrle  ;  secnd,  Sirah  Cro-woll;  third,  Nancy 

Wentvrorth.     Was   pastor   of  Cong.    Church   at  Keanebunk,  Me., 

twelve  vears,  and  at  Buxiun,  Me.,  fifteen  yean*,  where  he  d:ed,  leb. 

12,  1667. 
viii.  Phebe  Jet,-ett,«  b.  Feb.  9,  1814  ;  d.  Oct.  11,  1837,  unm. 

28.  Ricu.vrd'  Cresset  (John,*  John.^  WUUani*  Mi>jhUV)  was  born  5a 
Rowley,  July  2,  1770.  Lived  in  Rowley  on  the  farm  his  father  bought, 
Jan.  lo,  ITH.     (Essex  Deeds,  Book   139,   leaf  194.)     He  m.  March  24, 

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20G  Barristers  al  Lixio  in  ]\[assac1>.U8etts.  [Apr!!, 

170;'),  Dorothy,  dm;,  of  :^[ll.s(•s  ;unl  Saruli  (Mi-liill)  r.rad.street  of  RoAlr-y. 
SIi.-  w.is  h.  J;-ii.  5,  i:/G,  .u.a  d.  :\iurcli  lo,'  loO.S.  He  cl.  I'tb.  20,  Ls'/g. 
Children  : 

i.      DunoTiiY,*  b.  July  5,  ITOfi;  il.  Sept.  18,  182.'',  unm. 

ii.     Ki.iZAUKTii,*  b.   Au;^.   18,   l7i/7  ;  m.  tirst,  KilmunJ  Boyuton  ;  K'cjri-i. 

Cii-fiiiid'  lliizen. 
iii.    SxRAii  .MKWui.r-,*  b.  Feb.  '21,  li^OO  ;  m.  Dr.  George  Moody. 
iv.     CiiARr.E.-,'*  b.  Sept.  20.  lS(fJ  ;  m.  .M;u-y  Dnidlrjy  ;  d,  S^-pt.  3,  li^IS. 
T.      Thomas  Bkadstkkkt,*  !».  Got.    10.    HO  I;  m.  tirst,  R'.ioda  Ann  W'ii  it- 
tier  ;  second,  widow  Kinily  W .  f-ydston. 
vi.     RiriivKO,^  b.   April  S,  1^07;  ni.   .Mivry  Elizabecli  Harris  ;  d.  Sept.  17, 

ISOl. 
vii.    Ta-cv  Janf..«  b.  April  12,  ISIO;  ni.  J.jshr.a  Hale  ;  d.  Jun.,-  17,  1S73. 
viii.  Mauv,«  b.  Jan.  2!>,  1-^13  ;  lu.  Sept.  22,  16.V»,  Sl^erburue  CliU'..»rd  i'dud;;- 

ette. 
ix.     MobEs  Bradstref.t,*  b.  Ffb.  7.  1815. 
X.      iRn.NK  Bkadstrket,*  b.  Sept.  30,  1820. 


BAERISTErvS  AT  LATV  IX  MASSACHUSETTS. 

By  AnxHLR  M.  Ai.okr,  T,L.T;.,  T;uii)t,on,  M;iss. 

THE  distiucdon.?  hctwecn  Ijarrlstcfs  and  attorneys  '»\lilcli  liavr 
existed  tor  many  years,  and  are  still  tenai;io;uly  ad!)ercd  to  in 
the  legal  profession  in  England,  wero  f<)r  souie  time  sii.-t.'iine'i  at 
the  Massachusetts  Ixir.  The  first  barrister  iu  Massaehuserts  inad.-' 
his  appearance  iu  the  year  1(588  in  the  person  ot'  Th.omas  Xk^'.vton, 
an  Englishman  by  biith  and  education,  wiio,  estai)i!s}iing  h'mseU'in 
Boston,  soon  attained  prominence,  and  in  tlie  coiTse  of  tiuje  became 
attorney-general  and  one  of  the  deputy  judges  of  the  Court  of  Ad- 
miraltv.  To  his  influence  may  be  attributed  the  introductii'U  of  tin' 
title  of  barrister,  and  tlie  subseqiicut  adoption  ot  tlie  distinctions  be- 
tween oarristers  and  attorneys.  Shortly  after  his  arrival,  the  older  and 
more  learned  practitioners  at  the  bar  began  to  be  styled  barristers, 
but  no  fixed  qualifications  appear  to  have  been  attached  to  the  tiilc 
until  the  year  17G1,  when  a  rule  was  established  \)y  the  Supcn-ior  Court 
that  no  one  should  be  admitted  as  a  barrister  who  had  not  practised 
three  years  in  the  interior  court.  At  the  same  time  barristers  were 
required  to  array  themselves,  when  they  appeared  in  court,  after  the 
fashion  of  tlieir  English  brethren,  in  black  silk  gowns,  bands,  and 
tie-wio;s.  This  costume  was  shortly  after  discontinued,  but  was  re- 
sumed at  the  close  of  the  revolutionary  war,  to  be  discarded,  how- 
ever, in  a  ^K^-^s'  years.  The  cause  of  its  being  laid  aside,  so  the 
etory  goes,  was  a  countryman's  expression  of  astonifshmcDt  at  the 
manner  in  which  the  Boston  parsons  would  SAvear,  after  havin-j 
heard  a  Boston  barrister,  arrayed  in  his  gown,  utter  a  volley  ot 
oaths  to  a  man  with  whom  he  v^'a>>  l)argaining  for  a  \o:n\  of  wood. 
In  17G3  the  term  of  practice  required  of  attorneys  before  admit- 
tance as  barristers  ^vas  lengthened.  John.  Adams  wrlt^'s  in  liis 
diary  for  that  year  :    "The  bar  has  at  last  introduced  a  regular  pro- 


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1877.]  liarristers  at  Lav:  in  MassacKusetts.  207 

orcss  to  the  ^own,  and  scvoii  yoars  must  be  tlie  state  of  probation." 
j'luce  }eai3"  tLiiuy  \\i\-i  ii  coiiditioii  precedent  to  adnuision  as  au 
{iltorney.  Ti;e  attorney  after  two  years'  practice  became  a  coimt-el- 
lor,  and  after  t\V(j  years  as  a  counsellor,  a  barrister.  The  ri^ht  to 
ar^ue  ca^e^;  before  tiie  Su[)reme  C(nut  bcluiigcd  only  to  tho-o  who 
had  attained  tlie  last  rank. 

In  17<S1,  soon  after  the  adoption  of  the  constitution,  a  ride  was 
established  by  the  Supreme  Judicial  Court,  to  the  etl'ect  tliat  where- 
as learninp,'  in  the  law,  when  duly  encouraged  and  rightly  directed, 
was  peculiarly  j)rumutive  uf  [»rivate  justice  and  public  good,  and  the 
Court  deemed  it  ad\  isaldc  to  bestow  peculiar  marks  of  a[)ijrobation 
on  the  gentlemen  of  the  bar  distinguishfd  for  legal  scii.nce,  honor 
and  integrity,  therefore  no  gentleman  should  be  called  to  the  degree 
of  barrister  till  he  had  merited  the  same  l-y  his  conspicuous  learn- 
ing, ability  and  honesty.  In  1782  the  Court  was  authorized  by 
statute  to  confer  the  degree  at  discretion.  1'he  f(dlowir!g  year  the 
form  of  a  writ  to  be  used  for  calling  applicants  before  the  Court  wa> 
prescribed  ;  and  recipients  of  degrees  were  ordered  to  take  rank 
according  to  the  dates  ot  thiir  respective  writs.  The  f(.'Ilo^ving  ac- 
count of  the  formalities  observed  on  one  of  tiie  occasions  of  confer- 
ring degrees  is  of  interest.  It  appeared  in  the  ''  ^Massacliusetts 
Gazette  "  for  1784  : 

''  Boston,  Tuesday,  Febriuivy  17,  1784.  This  being  the  third  Tuesday 
of  the  mondi,  the  day  apj^oiuted  l>y  I.iw  for  the  sitting  of  the  Suiireme 
Judicial  Court  of  the  Coniuionwealth  for  the  couuty  of  Suffolk,  the  Hon- 
ourable the  Judges,  arrayed  in  tlieir  scarlet  rolies,  the  Atrorney  General 
and  other  Barristers  at  Law,  in  their  projicr  habits,  walked  iu  procession 
from  State  Street,  preceded  by  their  Prothonotary,  and  the  High  Sheritf 
with  his  otficers  and  servants,  to  the  County  Court  House.  There  was  a 
large  concourse  of  respectable  citizens  collected  ou  the  occasion,  who 
shewed  much  ideasure  in  this  additional  proof  of  confirmed  peace,  liberty 
and  law.  The  Court  being  opened  in  form,  the  Grand  Jury  were  impan- 
neled,  to  wliom  ]Mr,  Chief  Justice  Cashing  g-xya  a  learned  and  animated 
Charge.  The  Rev.  Mr.  Howard  then,  at  the  request  of  the  Court,  made 
an  excellent  prayer,  wt.II  adapted  to  the  occasion.  After  which  the  follow- 
ini:  gentlemen,  practiiing  Attorneys,  were  by  special  writ  called  to  the  bar, 
to  take  upon  them  the  character,  degree  and  dignity  of  a  Barrister  at  Law, 
viz.  Caleb  Strong,  Es<[.,  of  Nortliampton,  Theodore  Sedgwick,  Lsq.,  of 
Sutlield,  John  Sprague.  P2s(p,  of  Lancaster,  AVilliam  Tudor,  Beiijamiu 
Hitchborn,  and  Perez  Morton,  Esqrs..  of  lioston.  AVilliam  "Wetmore,  Lsq., 
of  Salem,  and  Levi  Lincoln,  Escp,  of  "Worcester.  Theophilus  Prirsons.  Iv'-q., 
of  Newbaryport.  being  by  sickness  lii^Hlered  from  atteudiu2r.  had  day  given 
him  to  appear  at  a  future  term,  to  take  the  degree  of  Barrister." 

The  Chief  Justice  theu  made  the  foUowiui;  char;re  : 

"  The  Court  have  thon-ht  tit  to  call  each  of  you,  ^entlemf-n,  to  the  bar, 
hy  special  writ,  to  take  U[)ou  you  the  character,  dignity  and  de-^froe  of  a 
Barrister  at  Law.  The  qualihcations  necessary  for  which,  are  a  competent 
degree  of  knowledge   and  learning  in   general :  particular  experience  and 


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208  Barristers  at  Law  in  Massachusetts.  [April, 

skill  ic  the  honorable  profession  to  which  you  have  devoted  yourselves; 
close  industry  and  afiplicatioa  to  study,  by  which  knowledge  is  acquired  and 
increased;  joined  with  firm  probity,  that  inflexible  integrity  of  mind,  pro- 
ducing rectitude  of  conduct  and  fairness  of  practice,  with  which  those  tahints 
are  directed  to  the  most  useful  purposes,  and  without  which  the  greatest 
abilitit.'S  may  be  but  the  occasion  of  tiie  greatest  mischief  to  mankind  ;  ttieso 
qualifications  united  must  form  the  useful  member  of  Society,  and  be  sub- 
scrvieut  to  the  gn.-at  and  good  purpose  o\'  promoting  private  and  pu!>lic 
justice,  of  preserving  the  freedom  and  ailvancing  the  general  welfare;  arid 
happiness  of  the  peo[)le.  'Tis  a  persuasion  of  your  being  possessed  of  these 
qualifications  that  has  induced  tlie  Court  to  call  you  to  this  honor.  There 
is  a  wide  Held  open  for  the  exertion  and  display  of  the  greatest  human 
powers  and  abilities.  The  union  of  the  States  is  in  its  infar»cy,  and  ought 
to  be  cemented  on  the  jirinciples  of  equality  and  justice.  Our  constitution 
is  new,  and  wants  the  vigor  and  support  of  its  framers  and  constituents. 
Our  system  of  laws  is  imperfect,  and  needs  the  skilful  finishing  hand  of  the 
lawyer.  There  ever  will  be  parties,  more  or  less,  in  the  best  constituted 
government,  and  some  to  foment  them  :  whi^e  the  wisdom  of  the  states- 
man and  the  patriot  moderates,  conciliates  and  restrains,  or  directs  all  to 
the  ])ublic  good.  There  are  weighty  atlairs  to  be  transacted  for  settling 
public  credit  upon  a  3uro  and  permanent  foundation,  a  point  most  essential 
to  our  security  and  happiness.  As  from  your  character  and  situation  in 
life  your  may  be  called  upon  to  take  part  in  carrying  into  efiect  these  great 
public  designs,  of  which  you  readily  comprehend  and  feel  the  importance, 
permit  me  to  remind  you  tha*'  the  love  of  our  country  will  ever,  under  all 
circumstances  and  upon  all  occasions,  guide  and  direct  to  the  noblest  con- 
duct. And  learning  and  skill  in  the  laws  under  the  government  of  right 
principles,  eminently  qualify  for  every  department  in  the  State,  as  well  as 
to  promote  truth  and  justice  in  the  cause  of  your  clients. 

I  therefore  now  in  the  name  of  the  Court  formally  charge  you  so  to 
conduct  yourselves,  and  so  improve  the  talents  and  abilities,  both  natural 
and  acquired,  with  v.hich  you  are  blessed,  as  to  be  of  singular  service  to 
your  coui  try  by  ever  defending  its  constitutiouid  freedom,  by  strengthening 
as  opportunity  calls  you,  that  union  of  the  States  which  has  been  the 
groundwork  of  the  present  revolution,  and  must  continue  to  be  the  basis  of 
our  liberty,  so  long  as  liberty  shall  endure  ;  aud  in  your  general  conduct  and 
behaviour,  as  well  as  in  your  particular  profession,  so  to  demean  yourselves 
as  to  continue  and  increase  the  reputation  you  have  already  acquired,  and 
thereby  do  signal  honor  to  the  Court  aud  the  Bar." 

This  was  tlie  last  occasion  upon  which  the  degree  of  barrister-at- 
law  was  conferred.  In  IbOG  the  profession  was  divided  into  two 
ranks,  attorneys  and  counsellors.  Candidates  for  admission  as 
attorneys  were  not  considered  qualified  unless  they  were  possessed  of 
a  jxood  school  education,  and  had  devoted  seven  years  to  literary 
acquisitions,  three  of  v/iiich  must  have  been  in  the  office  of  a  bar- 
rister or  counsellor.  After  two  years'  practice  an  attorney  was  en- 
titled to  admission  as  a  counsellor,  with  the  privilege  of  managing 
and  arguing  causes. 

Finally,  all  distinctions  between  attorneys  and  counsellors  were 
abolished  by  the  lievised  Statutes_,  and  so  stands  the  law  to-day. 


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ADDRESS  OF  THE  HON.  MAIJSIIALL  P.  WILDER. 

Delivered  at  the  Annual  Mectin;,'  of  tiic  Ni.w-Knoi.anp  Historic,  Gi:nl  vi.ooical 
Socitry,  January  3,  l»77. 

Gentle"men  of  the  Sociktv  : 

I  cannot  cxpres?<  too  stronprly  my  sense  of  ^ratitiu.lc  for  this 
repeated  testimony  of  youv  eonfuk-ncc  in  appointin^^  nic  to  preside 
over  your  deliberations  for  another  year. .  J  sliall  perforin  my  du- 
ties, prompted  hy  the  deep  interest  I  feel  in  the  objects  of  the  Soci- 
ety, M-ith  the  bes't  strength  that  a  gracious  Trovidence  shall  bestow 
upon  me.  The  state  of^my  health^  although  I  have  reason  to  thank 
God  for  much  improvement  of  late,  will  be  a  sufticient  ap<dogy  for 
limiting  my  present  remarks  to  a  few  brief  words. 

I  aiu  ha]^[.y  to  congratidate  you,  as  I  have  for  several  years  past, 
on  the  steady  and  successful  progress  of  the  Society  in  all  its  depart- 
ments. The  reports  of  the  several  officers  and  committees  soon  to 
be  offered  will  bear  testimony  to  this. 

The  library  has  been  steadily  increasing  in  the  number  of  its 
volumes,  in  valuable  manuscripts  and  rare  autograph  letters  ;  and 
we  are  also  gradually  accumulating  a  collection  of  curious  relics 
highly  important  to  the  illustration  of  the  ditferent  epoclis  of  our 
history. 

Our  gallery  of  portraits  is  also  increasing.  "SYe  have  the  por- 
traits of  several  colonial  worthies,  by  Smibert,  Copley  and  other 
distinguished  painters,  besides  some  of  more  modern  date.  An 
effort  has  been  made  to  place  upon  oiu-  walls  portraits  in  oil  of  those 
who  have  held  office  in  the  Society,  or  who  have  otherwise  coatri- 
buted  to  its  success.  A  year  ago  we  possessed  only  two,  namely, 
those  of  Charles  Ewer,  Esq.,  its  first  president,  and  the  Rev.  Wd- 
liam  Jenks,  D.D.,  for  several  years  chairman  of  its  publishing 
committee.  Last  year  the  portrait  of  your  president  was  added 
to  the  collection,  which  to-day  is  exchanged  for  one  of  larger  size 
and  higher  cost ;  while  three  others  are  presently  to  be  added 
to  it,  namely,  those  of  Col.  Alraon  D.  Hodges,  a  former  president, 
the  Hon.  George  B.  Upton,  a  vice-president,  and  Col.  Albert  H. 
Hoyt,  for  eight  years  editor  of  the  Society's  periodical,  the  New- 
England  Historical  and  Genealogical  Register. 

Tlie  financial  affairs  of  the  Society  have  been  administered,  as  in 
years  past,  with  the  strictest  regard  to  economy,  a  principle  of  the 
greatest  importance  in  all  institutions,  but  especially  in  a  Society 
like  this  ;  and  from  this  principle  I  hope  we  shall  never  depart.  The 
rule  which  we  have  adopted  is  a  good  one,  never  to  spend  a  dollar 
that  is  not  already  in  the  treasury.  Tins  is  the  secret  of  financial 
independence,  the  sheet-anchor  of  success.     Xo  other  method  can 


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secure  the  public  confidence.  No  other  method  ought  to  euc- 
ceed.  During-  the  \)■^•^t  year  we  hiivc  had  a  signal  tci^timony  of  con- 
fidence in  tlie  administration  of  the  iSociety,  by  a  generous  testa- 
mentary bequest.  John  ^l.  Bradl)ury,  P^"-(].,  of  Ipswich,  one  of  our 
active  ineuil)ers,  \s\\o  died  on  the  2 1st  of  March  last,  left  by  will  to 
the  Society  the  sum  of  two  thousand  dollars,  and  otiier  securities 
which  may  somewhat  increase  the  amount.  ^Vc  hope  that  others 
will  follow  this  noble  example,  and  make  testamentary  gifts  to  the 
Society.  An  income  of  a  thousand  dollars  a  year  is  greatly  needed 
to  enable  us  to  put  into  the  library  r«?-e  and  vaJiuxhle  hl.^torical 
works,  which  arc  niuch  wanted. 

The  year  vrhich  has  just  completed  its  circuit  will  always  be  a 
marked  one  in  the  history  of  our  country.  It  is  the  centennial  year 
of  our  national  existence.  It  has  been  celebrated  by  thousands  of 
municipalities  all  over  the  land.  It  has  quickened  the  Interest  of  our 
whole  people  in  our  local  and  family  history.  It  has  recounted  the 
ecrvlccs  of  our  fatliers  in  their  struggles  to  lay  the  foundations  of 
the  republic.  It  has  told  over  again,  in  greater  fulness  and  truer 
proportions,  the  story  of  their  aspirations,  their  sufferings  and  their 
achievements,  which  thus  enlarged  and  perfected,  has  enriched  and 
endeared  to  us  the  record  of  our  national  history.  Monuments  of 
brass,  and  m.arble,  and  of  solid  granite,  have  sprung  up  in  every 
part  of  the  land,  to  mark  the  spots  where  noble  deeds  were  done, 
and  to  embalm  the  memory  of  those  who  performed  them.  And  not 
more  important,  though  more  impressive  to  the  eye,  was  the  gatho 
ing  on  the  banks  of  the  Schuylkill  of  the  industries  of  the  wh(;lc 
world,  the  fobrics  and  the  handicraft  of  the  nations,  to  be  examined, 
compared,  criticized  and  admired  by  millions  of  our  own  population 
and  thousands  from  other  countries.  All  this,  my  friends,  marks 
an  era  in  our  national  history,  and,  In  my  judgment,  is  a  harbin- 
ger of  that  higher  attainment  to  which  the  whole  civilized  world 
is  gradually  advancing. 

The  principle  on  which  the  Society  is  administered  is  a  good  one  ; 
the  field  of  local  and  family  history  is  a  broad  and  noble  one  ;  let 
us  cultivate  it  with  assiduity  and  perseverance  ;  let  us  turn  neither 
to  the  right  hand  or  to  the  left;  and  as  time  goes  on,  the  result  of 
our  labors  will  be  the  ditiuslon  of  an  historical  taste,  the  encour- 
agement of  an  ennobling  study,  and  the  accumulation  and  pre- 
servation of  iilstorical  material,  which  is  now  daily  yielding  to  the 
wasting  poorer  of  decay. 

By  the  report  of  the  historiographer  It  will  be  seen  that  the  num- 
ber of  deaths  the  past  year  has  been  unusually  small,  only  twenty- 
three  members  having  during  the  year  passed  from  their  labors  on 
earth,  while  in  1875  we  were  called  to  mourn  the  loss  ol  thirty- 
eight.  Tiiere  has  been  a  corresponding  decrease  in  the  deaths  of 
officers  of  the  Society  and  those  who  have  held  office,  only  four  of 
these    having    died    in    1876  ;    namely,    two    officers,    William   B. 


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1877.]       Births,  Marriar/es  and  Deaths  in  Lyme,  Ct.  211 

Towno,  Esq.,  vice-president  for  New  ITampshirc,  and  the  Hon. 
Henry  P.  Haven,  viec-president  for  Connecticut;  and  two  past 
officers,  Salomon  Alofscn,  Esq.,  for  ei^dit  years  honorary  vicc-i)rc3i- 
dent  for  Now  Jersey,  and  the  Rev.  Saumel  11.  Kiddel,  who  held  the 
otHces  of  recordin;.!;  and  corresponding  secretary,  and  who  deserves 
to  be  reuienibcred  for  the  efficient  services  rendered  the  Society  as 
an  officer  in  its  early  days.  Many  of  our  deceased  members  Irave 
a  national  reputation  as'  autliurs,  while  others  have  honored  other 
v/alks  of  life. 

With  hearts  full  of  gratitude  for  the  loving  kindness  which  has 
spared  our  lives  to  the  present  time,  and  committing  our  way  unto 
Him  who  is  rich  iu  mercy  to  guide  our  steps,  let  us  commciioe  the 
new  year  with  renewed  hope  and  enterprise  ;  and  should  any  of 
us  be  called  to  lay  down  our  work,  let  us  feel  assured  that  others 
will  take  it  up  and  carry  it  on  through  all  coming  time.  AVe  may 
die,  but  our  institution  shall  live,  and  us  tim.e  advances  will  be- 
come dearer  and  dearer  to  the  hearts  of  our  Xcw  England  people. 


BIRTHS,  MARRIAGES   AND   DEATHS   IN   LYME,    CONN. 

Commnnicated  hj  the  late  Fr.EDcKic  W.  Chapmax,  A.M.,  of  Rocky  Hi]!,  Conn. 
[Continued  from  vol.  xxiv.  p.  32.] 
Enoch  Lord  and  Hepsibah  Marvin  were  married  March  31,  1743.     Rioh- 
anl,  born  Sept.  15,  1752.     Ann,  Dec.  4,  175-1.     Joseph,  June  3,  1757. 
Enoch,  July  28,  1760.     TTilliam,  July  16,  1762.     Lyde  (son),  July  17, 
1767.     Hepsibah,  June  30,  1770. 
John  Lord  and  Hannah  Rorers  were  married  Jan.  18,  1734-5.     Anna,  bom 
April  4,  1736.     Sarah,  Jan.  19,  1738.     John,  May  19,  1740.     Luce  [?], 
April  24,  1749. 
Joseph  Lord  died  Nov.  25,  1 687. 

Joseph  Lord  and  Sarah  Wade  were  married  May  11,  1749.     Ruben,  bom 
Jui:e  27,  1750.     Sarah,  May  18,  1752.    William,  April  22,  1754.     Ehz- 
abeth,  daughter  of  Richard  Lord,  born  Oct.  'I'd,  1683. 
Richard  Lord  and  Elizabeth  Lynde  were  married  July  11, 1720.     Richard, 
born  April  17,  1722.     Susannah,  Jan.  16,  1724.     Enoch,  Dec.  15,  1725. 
Elizabeth,  Nov.  14,  1727.     Ann,  Dec.  22,  1729.     Lynde,  Feb.  1,  1733. 
Elizabeth,  Nov.  9,  1735. 
Oxford,  negro  man,  and  Temperance,  mulatto  girl,  hired  servants  of  Richard 
Lord,  of  Lyme,  were  married  tr,2,ether  by  Rev.  Moses  Noyes,  Jan.  26, 
1725-6. 
Thsophilus  Lord  and  Deborah  Mark  were  married  May  8.  172?.     Lyma, 
born  March  19,  1728-9.     Deborah,  Nov.  26,   1730.     Sarah,  Feb.   20, 
1732-3.     Hiddah,  July  16,  1735.    Hepsibah,  Jane  22,  1737.    Elizabeth, 
July  5,  1739. 
Thc!nii5  Lord  and  l^sther  3Iarvin  were  mnrried  Dec.  28,  1727.     Esther, 
born  Jan.  19,  1728-9.     Mary,  Sept.  27,  1730.     Abner,  March  9,  1733. 
Matthew.  March  20,  1734-5."    Thomas,  Anril  7,  1737.     Renold,  August 
12. 1739.    Taphena,  June  5,  1741.    Barnabas  Tuthiil,  March  31, 1743-4. 
Matthew  Lord,  died  Oct.  29,  1730. 


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Reuolil  Loi'l,  (VumI  Juno  .">,  1711. 

Samuel  Lovdaml  aii<l  li(jiioco:ili  noulin  were  married  jMarch  C,  1735. 
Saumel,  born  Doc.  1?,  17oo. 

Benjamin  ^Marvin  and  Deborah  ^MatluT  were  marricil  Nov.  11,  1712. 
licujaniin,  bora  Nov.  7,  17-1;J.  jMelutabel,  Oct.  11,  llib.  Azubub,  Dec. 
23,  17  IS. 

Jonathan  ]N[ark  and  Sarah  Bennett  were  married  Aui,'.  2-1,  1727.  Joseph, 
born  July  22,1728.  Jonathan,  July  1,  1730.  Love,  A[)ril  1.5,  1731. 
John,  Jan.  13,  1737.  Eli::abeth,  Dec.  30,  173.S.  Jonah,  Jau.  25,  1740-1. 
Samuel,  May  3,  1743.  Sarah,  April  8,  1745.  Abijah.  Sc-pt.  3,  174C. 
Love,  Nov.  30,  1747.     Lydia,  Nov.  12,  175L 

John  Marvin  and  Sarah  Urooker  were  married  Feb.  10, 17-1G-7.  Hepsibali, 
boru  Dec.  7,  1747.  Sarah.  June  27,  174'J.  Giles,  Dec.  23,  1751.  Lois, 
Muv  12,  1754.  Ksther,  Sept.  12, 175G;  died  Nov.  22,  1759.  John,  May 
6,  1*753  ;  died  June  14,  1750.  Lydia.  Dec.  4,  17r,0.  John  2d.  D-c.  Vj, 
17G3.  Mr.lly,  ]Mai--..h  2,  17GC.  AVionijali,  born  at  Guilford,  New  Hamp- 
shire, April  10,  17G9. 

JosCiJi  IMarviu  and  Fhebe  Starlin  v/ere  married  Got.  IG,  1733.  Fanny, 
.  .    boru  Oct.  7,   17rt4.     Fhebe,  June   7,   176G.     Yv'iliiam,  May   12.  1788. 

"  Jemima,  March  2S,  17'J1.    .Joseph,  Feb.  8,  1793.    Glari,=a,_May  5,  1795. 

Nathan  Marvin  and  Lvdia  Lewi:,  were  married  May  17,  1743.  Samuel, 
born  Feb.  14,  1743-4.  Henry,  Dec.  21,  1745.  Martin,  May  G,  1750. 
Lebbeus,  Feb.  10,  1752.  Nathan,  Feb.  7,  1754.  Jienry  Marvin  died 
Marcli  18,  1755. 

Reynold  ^larvia  and  widow  Sarah  Lay  wera  married  Dec.  23,  1725. 

Keyuold  3Iarvin.  of  Lyme,  and  Jliss  Mary  Kelley,  of  Colchester,  were  mar- 
ried July  7,  174G.  Ann  and  Eve,  twins,  born  Sept.  30,  1748  ;  Ann  died 
Jau.  9,  1748-9.     Esther,  born  Feb.  14,  1755.     Judith,  April  IG,  1757. 

Mary  Marvin  died  March  9,  1S12,  aged  97. 

Samuel  ilarviu  and  Marv  TTeate  were  married  April  2,  1740.  Sarah,  boru 
Jan.  27,  1740-1.     Martha,  5lay  2,  1743. 

Thomas  Marvin  and  Sarah  Lay  were  married  May  23,  1784.  JLucy,  boru 
Feb.    1,  1785 ;  died  July  1,  1785.    Thomas,  born  July  7, 178/.    Abigail. 


A  YANKEE  PRrV^ATEEFvS^IAN  IN  PRISON  IN  ENGLAND, 

1777-1779. 

V        Commnnicated  by  "William  racHAiiD  CuTTEK,  of  Lexington,  Mass.,  with  Notes. 

[Continued  from  page  20.] 

[1778,  June.]     Thursday,  18th.     Fine  weather.     Nothing  remarkable. 

Friday,  19th.  Fine  weather.  Thia  morning,  Capt.  Chew  was  close 
confined  to  his  apartment,  and  in  a  few  hours  Mr.  Duckett  came  and  the 
ofticer  of  the  guard  to  set  him  free;  and  in  tlie  afternoon  seven  American 
prisoners  came  on  shore,  and  were  examined  at  the  Royal  Hospital,  and 
afterwards  committed  to  Forton  Prison.     [See  Roll.] 

Saturday,  20th.     Clear  weather.     Nothing  remarkable  this  day. 

Sunday,  21st.  Fine  weatht-r.  We  liavo  tlie  news  of  three  thousand 
troops  having  arrived  at  Spithead  (Scotch)  for  America,  but  their  orders 
are  countermanded.  Likewise  a  cartel  ship  arrived  with  them  to  carry  us 
away.  Mr.  Tliomas  (turnkey)  had  laid  a  guinea  that  they  are  to  carry  u5 
to  be  exchanged,  and  gi-eat  talks  we  shall  not  be  here  a  week  longer. 


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Monday,  22^.  Very  fine  ^catlter.  All  the  olTicers  put  upon  full  allow- 
aucc,  wUich  m.tl.os  twunty-thrO';  .lays  d.oy  lui\e  lioeu  upon  half.  Xo  news 
about  our  f!;oui_^  borne.  This  d.iy  it  has  all  turned  out  to  be  a  falsehood. 
Out  of  all  iiopes.     Nothing  new. 

Tucsdav,  20d.  Fine  weather.  Mr.  Wrenn  and  ^^r.  Duckett  came  and 
.paid  us  our  money;  and  likewise  told  me.  he  would  write  to  Mr.  Ilartiy, 
and  let  him  know  that  there  are  three  tninsports  now  in  the  river.  I'ra 
very  sick  all  this  d:»y,  <Scc.  ttc.  Occ. 

AVedne.silay,  2  kli.  This  day  very  clear.  The  eclipse  of  the  sun  appears 
very  clear.  Nothing  new  this  day.  Tm  not  very  well  myself,  &e.  &.c. 
Thursday.  2.")tli.  Nothitig  remarkable  this  day.  Very  tine  weather. 
Friday,  2lU1i.  Clear  weather.  iMr.  "Wrenn  came  and  brought  the  news 
of  a  sea  fight  between  three  Frtnch  frigates  and  an  American  armed 
schooner  and  two  English  men  of  war:  the  former  had  two  frigates  taken 
with  the  schooner,  the  other  was  towed  into  the  port  and  by  that  means 
was  saved. 

Saturday,  27th.  Cloudy  and  rainy  weather.  N.ithuig  remarkable  this  day. 
Sunday,  28th.  Clear  weather.  This  day  it  is  contradicted  by  the  n^^ws- 
papers  concerning  the  American  armeti  schooner  that  was  taken.  It  was  a 
French  one,  and  carried  ten  carriage  gun.s  and  one  hundred  and  twenty  men. 
The  newspapers  give  a  long  account  concerning  the  battle.  The  Arethusa 
was  so  much  shattered,  as  to  be  obliged  to  go  into  dock  as  soon  as  she 
arrived.     (Admiral  Keppel's  fleet  that  engaged.)^ 

Monday,  2Dth.  Very  fine  weather.  Nothing  remarkal>le  this  dny. 
Tuesday,  oOth.  Clear  weather.  }tlr.  Wreuu  and  Mr.  Duckett  came  and 
paid  us  our  money,  brought  no  news.  At  night  came  twenty-four  French 
prisoners  belonging  to  the  Palace  frigate  taken  by  the  English  fleet,  com- 
manded by  Admiral  Keppel.  Our  provisions  not  being  good  we  condemned 
them,  and  had  cheese  in  the  room. 

"Wednesday,  July  1st.  Rainy  weather.  Fifteen  more  prisoners  came  on 
shore  (all  French)  and  were  committed  to  Forton  Prison,  both  officers  and 
privates  taken  in  the  Palace.* 

Thursday,  2d.  This  morning  the  Fiftieth  Merchant  Regiment  of  foot 
marched  here  from  Winchester  and  embarked  on  board  the  men  of  war  to 
do  duty  as  marines,  and  the  marines  that  are  on  board  to  do  duty  as  seamen. 
General  Howe  arrived  here  last  night  from  America,  but  we  have  not  heard 
any  news  as  yet.*  Forty  French  prisoners  were  to  have  come  on  shore  but 
did  not,  for  what  reason  I  know  not. 

Friday,  3d.  Cloudy  weather.  I  went  into  the  hospital  to  see  the  meat 
weighed,  and  at  night  came  fifty  more  French  prisoners  and  were  committed 
to  Forton  Prison,  which  makes  eighty-nine  in  the  whole.  No  news  con- 
cerning us. 

[Tc  be  continued.] 

'  The  contributor  would  not  multiply  no:o5.  Aiirairal  Krppel  s;nlcd  from  St.  TIclon3 
Monihiy,  June  Sth.  Tnesilay,  IGfli,  witJi  ruviity-ou':'  .<iiips  of  the  line  and  three  friixates, 
he  p^i-s-cu  by  Plyniou;h.  On'  the  ISth,  his  .<iv->"'iron  tell  iu  with  French  crui^L-rs — La  Bi.lla 
Poule,  La  Licorr.p,  La  P:il!as.  filiates,  anJ  L;\  Coure.ir.  sioop.  The  Lieorne,  Pailas;,  nnJ 
the  sloop  he  captured.  The  Belle  Poule  was  ^Lri%-tn  on  ^hul•e  on  the  coast  oi'  Fnnee.  The 
Arethusa  much  shattered  in  cor.t;-;!  with  the  Belle  Poule,  was  wrecked.  March,  i779^on 
the  rocks  near  Ushanr,  while  in  pursuit  of  the  eneniv, — Gende.imn's  Mctgazim?,  tV'r  1773, 
pp.  '284,  28.3.  &c.  Au;:.  16,  177G,  arrived  at  Pcrt>mouth,  the  Arjthusa.  Capt.  Ucnc,  in  nine 
v,-eek.s  from  St.  Hcieu.i,  %viih  the  tuilowin.:  Indianua  under  her  convoy:  tlie  Ankerw\ke, 
Banvell,  iVom  Coa-^t  and  Bay  ;  the  Grpsvenor,  Saunders,  from  Coast  aud  China,  &c. — Town 
and  Country  Manazine,  for  1776,  o,  4+o. 

*  "  Palace."  in  t!ie  original.    The  Pallas  had  3'2  jr-ms.  and  '220  nncn,  when  sh'i  wai  taken. 

'  Genera,!  Howe  arrived  on  tiic  Andromed.^,  friijare,  iroiu  Philadelphia. 

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Thoiiia.s.  S.  of  m"'  John  &  Ah.  K.iyner  — 

.Mark  S.  of  'Shwk  &.  JOlizabcth  While;        —  — 

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18 


;:>r.  Elkins  OOjorn        ______ 

Thomas  S.  of  m'^  Andrew  &  AljiLrail  X':'\vcl  — 
jSarrdi  ]).  of  m""  Jof.'ph  &  Surah  Cafwell  —     — 

Mark.  S.  uf  m''  Jouathan  &  Kaihariuo  Kittel 
jdolia  S.  of  m^  Jidin  i^:  Ilailah  Fu'ker  —  — 
jKiehard  S.  of  n;"' John  &  .Sprague  —     — 

lEUzabeth  D.  of  m''  15enj  &  Mary  Kettle  —  — 
'hjhn  Coalin.'in,  nn  Aduh  pcrfon  —     — 

|Jacob.  S.  of  Elias  Stone  jun''  &  Abiirail  's  wife 
|Mary  D.  of  Charles  &  Sufannah  Wliite  —  — 
|Timothy  S.  of  Tiuiutiiy  iS:  ^lehitaliel  Swan  — 
Marzarit.  J)  of  ni"'  Thomas  6:  ]\I  ivjarit  T'avlor 


IDavid  S.  of  Srepheii  cS: 


Ford            —  — 

lelTs.  S.  of  ni"'  John  &             Johufon        —  — 

John  S.  of  m''  Timothv  &              Goodwin  — 

Alice  1).  of  m'  Caleb  i  Anne  Call             —  — 

Sarali  D  of  n\^  Ebcnez''  &             Fowl      —  — 


IJofeph  S.  of  ni'  James  &  Miller      —     — 

John  S  of  ni''.rohn  Hand  junr  &  Anne  's  wife  — 
Anne  D.  of  m"'  Kichard  &  ]Mary  Miller  —  — 
jElizabeth  D.  of  m''  Benj.  ic  Hard   —     — 

lllannah  D.  of  m'^  Beni.  l^         f^'l^V'"',;!'!- K"lTi;;*'K"' 


Penny 

iLavner 

AVhite 

Smith 
AFu^rn. 

Minors 

Carter. 

Otis 

Mallet. 

Fofdick 

Newel 

I'ovlftone 

Pai'ker 

Srolly 

Iliichifori 


Ofborn 
Xewid 

Cafw.-ll 

Ketrrl. 

Fulker 

Sprazue 

Kettel 

Coalman 

St.-ne 

While 

Swan 

Tayl(,r 

Ford 

Johnfnn. 

Go"d'.vin 

Call 

Fowl 

:Mi!!cr 
Rand 
Miller 
Hiir.l 


'1 


lEbenezer  S.  of  u/.  Eben''  it  IlanmJi  Breed     —      Breeil 


1716   17'  Baptized         —  Pa-e  324 — 

M       I  D   I 
January  ;     6  'Abi-ail  D.  of  ni'  John  &  m*  Allah  Phillips       — 


Februrj- 


13 

Sarah  D.  of  m''  Th.imas  &  Anne  Chapman       — 

20 

Hannah  1^  of  ivJ  Thomas  iS:              Brazier        — 

27 

Daniel  S.  of  ^P.  Daniel  ii  m'.  Pvebecca  Riifr.d 

lElizabeth  ; 


Twins  of  m''  Eleaz'  &  Lydia 


Phillips 
Chapman 
Brazier 
Ruflel 

Phillips 


I/. 


1877.]      llexord-Bool:  of  the  First  Church  in  CharJestorrn,     215 


Sluixh 


1717 

April 


May  r 

1717 

iM 

May 

lane 


—  Page  3l'1  {Conclude,!).  — 

Doborali  D.  of  in''  C'lniftoplier  & —     — 

17    Mabel  ])7T)7  in' DaVifl^^  Mabel  Tuwiiteinl    _— 
'23~  Sarah  D.  of  lb.';  Rcvnl  M"- Jos'-pb  &  Surali  Stevens 

lllicbanl  S.  of  m^  .Samm;]j<c  Mary  Cary  —  — 
lo"  1  lieu] a^iii firs 77) f  111'.  Ebenc//  &  Aufiin     — 

lllaunab  D.  of  lu'  Jofqib  &  HaarJi  L>.-v/i:i  — 
17  Sanuiel  S.  of  nif  Samiiol  &:  .loaniiab  IJill  —  — 
24  iKiobortTS.  of  James  &  ^lary  Auftiu  —  — 
IT j William  .S7  of  mrrWiUiam""&  Sarah  I'iiifon      — 

■Hannah  1)  of  m^  Tbomas_c^:  Hanab  iloul'.il --__ 

iCa^th7rrm77r)  of  T)'^TlioT&Tii"  Sibyll  Greaves  — 

tb  IJacub.  S.  of  William  &  :\rariraiit  Alley    —     — 

7   iJofbuali  S.  of  Robert  &  Sufauab  Fof^-it—  ■  — 

T4"iGeor7e~S.'"orin''.  r>enj.  ■&  AbiL^ail  Bunker        — 

IXatbaniel  S.  of  Nathaniel  &  Martha  Kcbblns  — 

7iT|3Vnnari)'.77f  u^TTTofepbjfc  Eiiz.  FbilHp.^    —     — 

2S"|WTiTiaiirS.  of  Th<inias  &  Maiy  Dyer        —    — 

Abi'i;ail  1>.  of  John  oc  AboiQ^^    __ — '_  Tl 

;JBen]arnin^'S.~T7flu'  Thomas  &  Mary  Frothiugbam 


July 

Auguft 
Septem'' 


D 

1.9 

Jd 
\) 

23 

"scT 


Baptized 


Paa:e  -325  — 


I  Samuel  S  of  nv.  John  &  !Mary  Grift'en      —  — 

|l7lany.  S.~c>f^'  .luleph  ^  Mary  Wood     —  — 

iMary  D  of.T^  John  l^  Mary  I^irkiu  —  — 

Ebcnezer  S.  of  m''  Samuel  Frotbinnbam  —  — 


Goodwin 

Townf>;nd 

Stevens 

Cary 

Auftin 

Lewis 

'liilf 

Auftin 

Pinfon 

:VIouf-il. 

Greaves 

Alhv 

J'olkit 

)>unk3r 

Kobbins 

Pldllips 

Dyer 

A  born 

rrotbin-'h.'ini 


GritTen 

^Vood  • 

Lark  in 

Frotbingh?-in 

Hopping 

Teal 

Davis 


Marv  D.  of  m''  William  &  Mary  Hoppin  —  — 

Caleb.  S.  of  ^V'illiam  ik  Teal  —  — 

|Mary  D.  of  m'  Zeebariah  &  :Mildred  Davis  — 

lMf^JohnP7i\-er3    —    —    —"—    _    —  —      Powers 

jWiliiam  S.  of  m'' Samuel  &  Trumble  —      Trumble 

Eliz^ibetb  I  ry^^.^^  ^j  .^^,  J.  j,^  ^  .J.,       Cary  -      Cary 

!&  Dorrar^  ^ 


jMary  Davis,  aneilla  Ft.  D.  Stevens  —  — 

M?  Doroa?  Soley.  wii'e  of  m'' John  Soley  —  — 

Ruth  D.  of  ni''  John  6:  Ruth  Stiinpfon      —  — 

James  S.  of  m''  James  &.  Maru^arit  Sherman  — 


,Natiianiel  S.  of  m^  Xathaniel  &  Mary  Tuft.  — 

lElizabeth  D.  of  m''  John  8: Powers.       — 

'Sla.ry  D.  of  m'  John  iS:  Dorea?  Soley         —     — 
iRebecoa  D  of  m""  Xathaniel  iii;  Elizabeth  "Waters 


'Jofiah  S.  of  m'  Jofepb  AVhicamore  jur     — 
Sufauab  D.  of  m''  John  .S:  Lo'iin      — 

'Elizabeth  D.  of  m''  AVilUam  &  Hanab  Bottril 


Davis 

Soley 

Stimpfon 

Sherman 

Tuft 

Powers 

Soly 

Waters 

Wbi  tarn  ore 

IvO.nu 

Bottril 


I7i: 


Baptized 


—  Pa^e  32G  — 


M 

Sept 


D   jJohn  S.  of  ui'  Richard  v.^'  ]Mary  Whitamore 
lr>  j^L'vrtha  D.  of  m"^  John  Call  & 

hvLartha  D.  of  William  ^;  Fir.ton  _  — ^ 

22    WTlliam  S.  of  m''  John  it  Grace  Ni.wel     — 

Mary  D.  of  ni'  John  ^Sc  Mary  Fowl ^^ 

Octob"^     13    21-.  TiiOtuus  Cammon  —    —     —     — 


"\rhit2aiore 
Call 
Fin  ton 
X.nvel 
Fowl 

C.^iTjon 


no      J  rl  // 


216     Tiecord-BooJc  of  the  First  Chnrc'/i  171  Charlestoicn.     [April, 


^JovcJii' 


Dei.em'*'' 


1717 
Jan. 


Feb 


1717J1S 

M 
Febr. 


March 


20 
27 

~ir 

T7' 


21 
1 

~20 


—  Page  3?G  (Cmcbtdcu').  — 
Miwy  1).  or  riv''  JuK-pi.  ^  Kiiz.  J^enion      — 
S  M\iii  i>ror  m^  Ahr:ib.  ^  •MarthTlIilT'^^ 
IMary  1>.  of  Timothy  it 


Read  —    — 


Sarali  1>.  of  nJ  Ileury  A  Sarah  Wheeler  — 
Mr.  I5'jnjari)in  Swiiotsor  Tertius  [V]  ? 

is:  liis  Uroriicr  |  William  S'.veijtser    \ 
Sarah  i).  of  ^I'.  Thuiiuts  (^  .Sarah  Cainmon 
John  S.  of  III'-  Chriftoph'jr  &  iilatchford 

Klizaboth  1)  of  in'  .Mark  i<  Elizabet)«  White 
Kftlier  D.  of  ii'y  Vv'illiam  &  AhiLrail  Keltel 

\nne  1).  of  m'  Jolin  &  IJuiliiah  Tavler     — 


1718 
April 


16 

5 

TF 


D 

9th 

2d 
9 


24 


James  S.  oi  m'' James  &  Mary  Kcrtol      — 
Abigail  I».  of  m'  Andrew  I'fe  Abigail  Xewel 
William  S.  of  m''  VV'illiam  ^  .XLionii'Gmv^fcrT 
l.n  inn.ih_l;.^f  in''  John  Rand  inn'  '.t  Anne 
Mildrt-d  is.  of  in'  J(.>!\;ph  »\.  Kuad     ^^ 

lv'irnai)a.s  J>avi3  Adit  [>'  — -  —  —  — 
Sarah  lily  Adult  pei-i'on  —  —  —  — . 
Ebcnezer  S.  of  m'  William  vie  Maiy  Sheath 


s  -sviff; 


Baptized 


—  Panre  327 


Jofhiia  S.  of  ni'  Benjaniin  .^  Lucy  Philipp,^     — 
Daniel  S.  of  m'  Elias  Stone  junr/Sc  Abigail  's  v.-jf 
Edmund  S.  of  m' John  &  Elizabeth  Spra'^^ue  — 
■Toleph.  S.  of  m^  Jofuph  &  Eaith  Hopkins^      — 
Saimiel  S.  of  &  Marv~HiItton       ^^^     II-"" 


Rebecca  D.  of  m'  James  &  Elizabeth  Flukor  — 
Hannali  D.  of  m'  Vincent  &  m\  Planah  Carter 
Mary  D.  of  m'.  Charles  &  Ec-becca  Burroutrhs 


James  S.  of  m'  Geori;e  &,  Abigiiil  Darling 
Richard  S.  of  ni''  Richard  &  Grace  Otis  —     


Mav 


June 


lAlice  wife  of  J;>enj:;mi!i  Woodwel      —     —  

SO  I.Mary  Johnfon,  &  her  sifter  Abiel  Johnfon  — 

[Jonathan  S.  of  m'  Jonathan  &  — 

6  jjames  S.  of  m'  John  &  Hannah  Fulker    —  ^^ 

1 3  |Elizab7tirDT~oFm' ThomasXElizrWelTh  ^I^ 


Lemon 

"Tiiir 

Read 
Wheeler 

Sweetsers 

Cahlon 
Blatchford 

White 

Kettel 
Tayler 
Ivetiei:""" 
Xewel 

Gowen 
Rand 

Davis 

Bly. 

SlieatL 


Fhilipps 
t>  Stone 
Spraaue 
Hopkins 
Hutton 
Fiuker 
Car.er 
Burroughs. 
Darling 
Otis 

Woodwel 
John  Ion. 
Kendal 
Fulker 
Welfh 


4th 

"is" 

25 


jJohn.  S.  of  ni''  Ebenez',  i!^  Hauah  Breed  —  — 
iSarah  D.  of  m'  Richard  &  Sarah  Fofcer  —  — 
jRebecca  D.  of  m'  Samuel,  &  Sufanah  Hill  ju'. 

M'.  William  Clements  —     —     —     

plary  D.  of  said  W'"  Clements  —     —     

!Jame*  S.  of  m'  James  &  Fowl       —    — 

jNathaniel  S.  of  m'  Benjamin  &  ^Tercy  Frothimrliam 

John  S.  of  xi\'  Tliomas  Harris  jun'     —     —     

^ohn  S.  of  m^.  Andrew  Mallet  —     


Breed 

Fofter 

Hill 

Clements. 

Clements 

Fowl 

Frothingham 

Harris. 

:V[al!et 


M       D  Baptized        —  Pa^e  328 

June  ]l718: 

_8_;A!ice  D.  of  Benjamin  &  .■Vlice  ^V'oodwel  — 


Juh 


^jTimo|hv;^S^of_M^^en'e/ev  &  Auftin    — 

7   ^IV  Al)!ah  Slierujun.  w.  of  m""  Samuel  Sherman 
ISteven  S.  of  m'  Jamas  &  iliUer      —    — 


W^oodwel 
Auftin 
Sherman 
Miller 


1  ■ 


/'.J. 


[■>:Pi.    ■ 


1877.]     Rccord-Booh  of  the  F  irst  Church  in  Charlestown.     217 


Augft 

Sept. 

Octol/ 
Novem' 


—  Page  32S  (Concluded).  — 
27  iMartlia  D.  of  in'  Jolin  \  in'  Mary  Gary   —    —      Cary 
10  'Jacob.  S.  of  in''  Adam  &  Uai-liol  A\'atCTS  —     — 
Anne  1)  of  ra"^  Ifati'?  &  Grace  i'arker  —     — 

AblgairiKif 7i?rjore{)h\^;  Kliz  —     — _ 

24    Hauah  I),  of  m'  IJeuj.  Sweetzcr  ju"",  i^  Conitit.Qt 

hi;j  wife. 


Hauah  D.  of  m'.  Jolm  & 


Penny 


7  lAniiaii.  1).  of  lu"^  Jan 


Lowden  jmir  &  flanali's 

11  v.-ife. 

I  Sarah  D.  of  nl^  \\'iUiam  »Jc  Sarah  Eaton  —     — 

j  28  jXath.miel  ]).  of  m'.  Thnothy  &  Goodwin. 

5  I^Liry  1).  of  lu'  Samuel  &  Abiah  Sheruiaii.       — 
I   12  jThomas  S.  of  m''  John  i^  Grace  Kads       —     — 
;   2''  IThoiuas  S.  of  m''  Thomas  &  Sarah  JaoK-fon     — 
:     9  i.Tofeph  S  of  m'' Jofeph  Aufiiu  jua"'  ic  &  Joaila  his 
I  wife. 

1         iTiinothy  S.  of  lu'' Jok-j>li  6c  Xewel  —     — 

I         \Jo\\D.  S.  vH"  iii"^  Jeuu  \  ilauah  Dyiiion        —     — 
JTe"} Caleb." ~S7of  m^  Caleb  &  AniiV Call  I_~~ir" 

I   23  iMcliitabol,  I),  of  iif.  Jonathan  &  Katharine  Kettcl 
I  30  |Abol  PiU'bury,  Adulc  {lerfon       —     —     —     — 
Jonathan  S.  of  m''  Saniuel  it  ni'  ^Nlary  Gary    — 
Elizabeth  D.  of  uf.  Charles  6c  Sufauah  A\'hite 


M 


Dece 


m" 


D 


\\'arer3 
I'arker 
Fhlllips 

Swcot' 
Penny 

Lov.'iloii 
Eaton 

Goodw. 
Sherman 
Ea.ls 
Jackfon 

Aultin 

Xewel 

lAiucn 

Call 

Kettel 

rilfbury 

Carv 

"White 


Baptized  171S 


Paire  320  — 


7  rhriftopher  S.  of  m-^  The.  & 
lEiizabeth  D.  of  iii^  Joleph  & 


Brazier 
Lawrence  • 


1718110 
January 


February 


21 


lAiiibrose  Ci^leby  juycnis 
'Johi;  S  of  ur  John  ic  ni^  Eli: 


Stanly         — 


VOL. 


3^  jAndrew  .S.  of  M^  Andiew  &  Abigail  Xewel 
11   : Jonathan.  S.  of  nv  Benjam  v!\;  Kettel 

ijlaac.  S.  of  m''  John  Baud  jun''  & 
iThomas.  S.  of  m^  Abel  i.t  Sufafiah  Pilfbury 
Anna  D.  of  mr.  Bieb.ard  iV  Anna  Kettel 
2-5  -John  S.  of  m''  Thomas  i*>c  Anna  Chapman 
iDavid  S.  of  uv  Dayid  iX:  Mabel  Townlend 
{Abigail,  D.  of  va'  James  &  Eliz.  Capea    — 
l^i" ; Fuehard  S.  of  m^  liichiird  &  Mi ller 

Sarah  I),  of  m''  George  &  Either  Manors  — 
iMehirabel  I)  of  m''  Jul.  Whitamore  ju-  — 
S  'Beniamin  S.  of  lu""  Benj.  (X 
;  Jofeph  S.  of  nl^  Joteiui  & 
!l-.e!)ceca  D.  of  ni"  John  ^"ic 
IHannah  D  of  m"'  John  & 
!  Anaah_D^  ^L^i'-_!^'i^-ii^ 
1.^  'Jonarlian  S.  of  ^I''  Stephen  &  Ford 

22"  jDaniei  S.  of  m''  Elas,  jur  &  Abigail  Stone 
John  S.  of  m''  John  &  Miiry  Gritr'en  — 

iJofepLi.  S.  of  m'  John  \  Faith  Salter       — 
[To  be  continued.] 

xxsi.  19' 


Kurd 
Froft 
Simins 
Aborn 
Fowl 


Brazier 
Lawrence-^ 

Coleby 

Stanly 

Xewei 

Kettel 

Band 

Pillbury 

Kettel 

Chapman 

Townfend 

Capen 
':\[iller 

Elinors 

Whitamu 

Ilurd 

Froft 

Simins 

Aborn 
_rwwl 

Ford 
Stone 
Gritfen 
Salter 


\     ■ ' 


>.-  ;</ 


;i     ■•;  ,    I,,,   .i»'i 


218  Notes  and  Queries.  [April, 


N01  ES  AND  QUEIilES.  ^ 

ExGMsn  Captives  in  Can.»i>\. — Ris/umrth — Dummcr. — In  No.  110  of  the  IIii-  ^i 

TOR[CAL  AND  (I KNKA LOGICAL  Kjx :~-TKi:,  Vol.  :ixviii.  )Ki;ie   1»jO,  rc.-^poctiu;^  tl;e  ubovf  j] 

cai)tives,  it  is  stated,  thnt  '•  iMiivy  Kishvvi.rth,  dan.  vi  Kdward,  oi  l-inouln,  Krii^Lui'^,  {4 

.  .  .  burn  S  Jan.  IGGO.  in  Yui  k,  ui.  Ist,  William  Saver  ;  -M,  Jaine.s  PltistL-d ;  t.ikou 
by  tbc  Indians  of  Acadiu  '25  Jan.  16132,  witli  her  two  cliildren  Genevieve  and  .Mary 

Jot^eph  travel' Mary  (lenovievc  ,  .  .  born  4  April,  KJfJl Mary 

Jo^cph,  her  fister,  born  9  March,  1G85." 

Ah  to  tlic  nnmt;  of  tlie  first  liusl>and  of  Mary,  I  think  a  mistake  has  been  made. 
I  find  on  vol.  i.  ]).  418,  of  Yc^rk  to\sn  reoonln,  as  follows  ; 
"  James  Plai.-teed — Dearth  of  his  children 

Lydia  Piaisteed  wa^  Borne  the  fonorth  day  of  Jenewary  in  y'-  Year  1G96. 

Olife  i*laistecd  waa  Borne  the  first  day  of  May  in  ye  Year  lt;U8. 

Mary  Sa'word  was  Borne  the  ftuiertli  April  IGSl. 

Susannah  Sayword  ^Tas  Bovne  the  ninth  day  of  May  1GS3. 

K^tev  Sayword  was  Borne  the  Seventh  day  of  liiarcli  1GS5. 

Hannah  Saywovd  was  Borne  the  twenty  on  of  June  1087. 

Jolin  Sa^nord  was  Borne  the  Seeuud  day  of  Jeaewary  1G90." 

The  above  Tt-c'.rd,  in  the  hand-writing'  of  James  Plaisted,  he  being  tovvn-c!crk  of 
Y'ork,  was  evidt'.;tly  all  made  at  the  .same  time,  to  v.-ic,  IGOS — Lj,dia  and  Olife  (Oli\o) 
Leinu  tlien  the  uni}'  children  burn  of  hi.s  wife  .Mary  Sayxvard. 

It  will  be  seen  the  birth  of  Mary  Saywavd  as  recorded  by  him  exactly  air.'ecs  with 
her  birth,  as  stated  in  the  Kkcistkr — and  that  the  birth  of  Eiter  agrees  v.'ith  that 
of  Mary  Joseph  in  the  Begistek,  lackin^^  two  days. 

That  Mary  Bishworth  m.  Jolin  Snyward,  previous  to  her  marriage  ■with  James 
Plaisted,  is  certain, — for  on  vol.  iii.  j-ase  1-1,  of  York  Co.  Hcj;.  of  Deeds,  Etiward 
Kishwurth,  father  of  Mary,  Oct.  16,  lt;8-2,  convej's  to  his  "  beloved  daughter  xMary 
Sayword,  wife  of  John  Sayword,"'  all  his  real  estate  in  York.  On  the  game  day 
John  Sayword,  by  a  writing  recorded  in  same  records,  vol.  iii.  pp.  l'2"2-3.  obligated 
himself  to  pay  the  debts  of  said  Rishworth,  callini;  him  his  '•  father  in  law."  tan 
there,  therefore,  be  any  doubt  that  Mary  the  daughter  of  Edward  Ilishw  orth  married 
John  Sayword  ? 

That  Janies  Plaisteedm.  ^lary  (Rishworth)  Sayword,  widow  of  John  Sayword. 
is  equally  certain;  for  on  page  IfiO,  vol.  i.,  of  York  town  records,  I  Had.  the 
following  : 

"  Pursewant  to  an  Er.strenicnt  of  Severuall  Considerations  made  and  Confirmed 
by  the  Select  Men  of  this  Town  of  Y'ork,  bareing  date  Decern- :  10  :  ICSO  :  to  M". 
John  Sayicord  late  of  York  Deceased  :  By  request  of  3/''.  James  Plaistecd  as  he  Siands 
Related  to  said  Sa;;ards  Estate  by  7nnrriing  his  [Viddoto.  We  the  Subscribers 
Selectmen  of  York  Aforea*!  have  according  to  our  best  Judgment  laid  out  and  Stated 
an  Articall  or  Paragrafe  of  said  Enstrement  Relating  to  Pine  and  oake  Timber  fit  for 
Sawing  "  &c.  &c. 

"  I^aid  out  and  bounded  by  us  Decern^  yc  :   11:  1701.  Sam"  Domel, 

Mathew  Auste.v, 
Abra™  Preble." 

Can  there,  therefore,  be  any  doubt  that  Mar\%  the  dau.  of  Edward  Rishworth,  b. 
in  York,  Jan.  8,  1660,  m.  (1)  John  Sayicard ;  "{2)  James  Plaisteed?  It  Will  be  seen 
that  ehe  was  but  21  years  old  when  her  first  child  Mary  Sayward  was  born — njt 
probable,  therefore,  that  she  had  previously  married  William  Saver. 

Edward  Rishworth  was  a  le;iding  man  in  York  from  1G58  to  near  the  time  of  his 
death.  lie  was  one  of  t!)e  "  Exeter  Combination'"  and  came  from  Exeter,  N.  U. 
to  Wells  with  the  Kev.  Joim  Wheelwright  about  1613,  and  married  a  dau.  ot 
"Wheelwright.  He  sold  his  property  in  Wells  to  John  Barrett,  vol.  i.  p.  61,  York 
Co.  Registry  of  Deeds  ;  came  to  York  a  little  prior  to  1658.  Nov.  2-2,  1G58,  the  town 
granted  to  him  '" '20  acres  of  land  near  againsi,  the  Corne  Mill,"  ....  "and  in 
Ciise  there  is  no  Improvement  of  t!ie  said  land  within  one  year  It  is  forfeited  again 
to  the  Towne." — the  terms  of  this  grant  indicating  it  to  be  the  first  one.  He  sub- 
sequenth'  had  numerous  grants  of  land  in  York,  was  a  very  large  landholder  and 
largely  engaged  iu  lumber  and  mill  operaiions.    lie  was  net  fortunate  in  ixls  peeu- 


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1877.]  2Tot€S  and  Queries.  .219 

niary  enterprises,  and  I  think  wheu  he  conveyed  hia  real  estate  to  his  eon-in-law, 
Jo!in  ^nijwanl,  it  \va.-!  but  a  sniaii  rtnjir.int  of  his  previous  lar^'o  possessions.  The 
urticlo  iti  the  Khcijsikk  alludei  to  in  tiiis  cciamiiuiciaiun  v.ojUi  it.Jiuate  that  lie  was 
rii  fmiijraiU  IVom  "'  Lincoln,  England,"  thtn.lore  tlie  tiist  of  tlic  nuuie  in  tiiis  pan 
of  New  Eni;land. 

It  issaiJ  tlio  Rev.  Sliubael  Dunimer,  born  in  1C3C,  a  c;raduatc  of  Harvard  Co'- 
lou'u  in  lii.>(i,  iiKirried  the  t^auie  year  a  dan.  <jf  l-M\varJ  Ri.-;tivvunh.  and  una  or  more 
vritiTri  .vtate  that  iior  name  was  Mary.  Tiadiiiun  litre  \<,  that  ilie  liev.  iShubiiel 
Duuuiier  ni.  Mary  ilishworth. 

iMr.  Dnniiner  cuinet.)  York  about  IGGO,  hi.s  a£;;e  then  being  about  20  years.  If 
nianied  in  lUoG  ho  was  but  Ol)  years  uUl.  Ihi.s  hitter  date  wan  four  year.s  before  the 
birth  of  •'  jihiry  the  dau.  ot  Edwiird  of  Lincoln,  Kn|'lund."  \\'ljen  he  came  to  York 
in  Itifi-J  this  iNhirv  -vvus  but  two  years  old.  Tliis  disjjarity  of  age  and  the  proofs  I 
have  adduced  forbid  the  idea  that  iNhiiy  Uish worth,  h.  in  Ki'jf),  was  tlic  wife  of  Mr. 
Dumuier, — and  IfCiid'S  Ai&  \sdi  tlie  wile  of  ^^ayward  certainly  fnm;  lO-fl  to  lO'jO, 
and  of  Pluistcd  from  lOiXj  to  1GU3,  a  period  suObeiiueat  to  the  dcatli  of  xMr.  Dummtr 
iu  1G1}2. 

1  have  never  gccn  the  b  jok  published  by  Mr.  J.  L.  Sibley,  giving  sketcbf.s  of  the 
craduatc:!  of  Harvard  College,  but  have  l)efore  me  a  letter  from  a  gentlenjan,  cele- 
brated i">r  hi.s  grnealo:;icai  researches,  wherein  he  pay«  :  •*  ,Sil)loy,  in  las  account  of 
Cambridge  graduatet-.  says  that  liev.  bhubael  Dummer,  who  wcs  killed  at  the 
massacre^t  York,  Elaine,"  married  iu  1G5G  2Iary,  daughter  of  Edward  Kish worth 
who  n.anicd  a  dajghl'ji  ul  John  ^Vheelwrig[lt." 

Mr.  Sibley  may  be  ri(jlU  iu  saying  Mr.  ]>iiiuner  n).  JIary  Rishworth  :  and  ivror.g 
in  faying  she  was  the  daughc  n-  of  J'ldward  lUshworth  who  married  the  daugiiter  of 
Rev."Joiin  Wheelwright.  "Who  tiien  was  Mary  l?ishworth  the  wife  of  Kev.  bhubael 
Dummer?  My  theoi'y  is,  tliat  she  miijht  have  l)ecn  t!ie  sister  of  Edward  Kifchworth 
who  married  the  daughter  of  Rev.  John  Wheelwright. 

Richard  Dummer,  "the  fatlier  of  Shubael,  was  born  in  1599,  and  the  Rev.  John 
Wheelwright  about  159i.  The^^  were  friend-*,  iov  Dumraer  and  his  wife  favored 
Wheelwright's  religious  doctrines,  for  which  \ve  was  banished  from  Boston.  Riirh- 
worth  was  utidoubteuly  of  the  same  persuasion,  for  he  was  one  ol  the  foliowevs  of 
"Wheelwright  when  he  went  from  Boston  to  Bxetjr,  and  went  with  hiui  to  "Weils 
about  1G13,  and  married  his  daugiiter. 

Rishworth  was  the  leading  spirit  iu  Wells,  under  Wheelwright,  and  when  t'ne 
latter  left  W  ells,  he  (Rishwortli)  was  the  leading  man  there. 

As  before  stated,  he  came  from  Wells  to  York  about  1638,  finding  the  Rev.  Mr, 
Hull  preaching  here.  Mr.  Hull  left  here  in  1659,  and  being  without  a  minister, 
Rishwurth  ruight  natuially  have  invited  his  brother-in-law,  Mr.  Dummer,  then  the 
minister  at  iali.-bury,  to  e  jii'.e  to  York  and  take  the  place  of  ^h.  Jlull.  ile  came,  as 
stated,  ahoi  ;  166-J.  The  connection  of  Rishworth  with  the  faruily  of  Wheelwright, 
and  the  friendship  and  intimacy  existing  between  the  Dummeisand  ^Vheelwrigut3, 
fnrnislics  good  ground  for  the  theory  I  vci.ture  to  assume,  viz.,  that  the  wi'e  oi  the 
Rev.  Shubael  Dummer  was  tiie  sister  of  Edward  Rishworth,  ''  the  Recorder." 

I  hope  others  more  eapable  than  myself  will  unravel  this  confusion  and  present  a 
theory  more  satisfactory  than  1  have  been  able  to  give. 

York.  Maine.  Nathaniel  G.  Marshall. 

[The  Rev.  John  Wheelwright,  in  his  will,  dated  May  25,  16T9,  printed  in  Bell's 
"John  Wheelwright  "  (Prince  Society's  Publications),  pp.  2'i9-33,  makes  bequests 
to  "my  sone  in  law  E'iw.  Rishworth,"  and  to  "Mary  White  my  grand  eliilde, 
daughter  of  y*  s*^  Rishworth."  This  indicates  that  Sayward  was  not  the  hrst  hus- 
band of  Mary  Rishworth. 

Col.  Chester,  in  his  article  on  the  Hutchinson  Family,  in  the  Registlr,  vol.  xx. 
for  the  year  1866,  gives  at  page  360  the  names  ot  the  bruthers  and  sisters  of  Edward 
Rishwortli,  children  of  the  Rev.  Thomas  Rf-^hworth,  of  Laceby,  co.  Lincoln,  Eng., 

namely — Faith,  m. Genyson  ;  P'rancis,  eldest  son;   Sutanna  ;   Margaret  and 

Charles.  It  is  probable,  therefore,  that  the  wile  of  the  Rev.  .^huhael  Duuimer  wa3 
Dot  one  of  them,  tiioiigh  it  is  not  impu-sible  that  a  daughter  Mary  may  have  been 
born  alter  the  date  of  tiic  Rev.  Mr.  Rishworth's  will.  Mrs.  Dummer,  it  her  maiden 
name  Wiis  Rishworth,  may  have  been  a  niece  or  other  relative  of  Edward  Rish- 
worth.—Ed.] 

N\  OODUCRT  AND  Eltot. — The  following  document  is  copied  from  the  original, 
loaned  t(j  the  editor  of  the  RE'JisiEii  by  Mr.  Charles  K.  Woodbury,  a  studeni;  ia 
Yale  College,  I'iew  Haven,  Ct.  ;— 


■i  tl' 


220  Notes  cud  Queries.  '  [Ajuil, 

"  I  Benjamin  EILh  of.  Dcvorley  iu  the  County  of  E.-;.sox  in  New  En;^Iauu  Coar^ter 
do  !icrofiy  AcknowlcMi/e  my  self  Juftiy  injehtecj  &  liereby  liiri'l  my  Self  my  Heirs' 
>J.\ec"  ik  Ai.lm"  to  pay  untu  Andrew  W'oo'ihury  of  lij.svvioli  in  v'  County  Iluslcmd- 
man  iiiri  Exec"  AJm'^  or  As.sii;ii.s  Tiic  Sum  of  iliircy  I'uiiudr*  Lnwrull  .Mom^y  (,f  X,;\7 
En^ltiud  \\  ituess  my  IlLiml  i;  Seal  Thirf  third  day  ul  Doccuiber  Anno  Dofuini 
Seventeeu  Ilundrol  and  Thirty  live. 

The  Con^litiuu  oT  thi:^  (.tbligatimi  is  that  if  tho  above  nam'd  .Andrew  Togothor  v\  !tu 
Elizabeth  hl=;  now  Wl'e  shall  nut  f^ntliwith  Join  w-''  the  <''  i^i-iijamin  in  a  Petition 
to  the  ,£;reat  it  Ci'on''  Gnut  of  This  Province  to  :;et  a  oertuide  Deed  once  m:ide  to  tlie 
s^  Benjamin'ri  (.ireat  O'randfatlier  Andrew  Eliot  from  oin;  Zaehariah  Symnie.H  of 
Cbarlestuwu  Continn'd  (the  s''  JJeed  \»i\\\<s,  dehie'd)  k,  if  tlie  .s'  Gen*'  Court  shall  not, 
confirm  thee'  Deed  so  as  to  Kender  it  \'aiid  in  Law  then  this  01jlii,'ation  ftiiall  be 
void  or  else  Kcmaiu  in  foree  so  far  as  Ij  Oblii;e  the  s''  Benjamin  his  lleir.s,  Ei'ee'-  & 
Adm'^  tu  pay  unto  the  .s'  ]\ter  his  Exec-'  Adui'''  m-  .-Vssi:,'ns  the  .Sum  oi  tiiiecn  pound-; 
Good  Bills  of  Credit  or  Lawful  Silver  Money  of  >'ew  En^^land  w''''  Lawful  lattrcst 
for  the  awuic  At  or  berorc  the  Third  day  of  ikccctuber  ucxl. 

Sign'd,  Seal'd  k  Deliver'd  Benj.  Enor. 

In  Presence  of 
John  Thorn<like  Jun^ 
Henry  IJale." 

[Endor.-ed  ;  "  Bond,  ^icxi"  Eliot  to  xVnd.  Woodbury." 

In  the  notes  on  the  Eliot  rreneology  in  t!:e  liEur-iTKR,  voL  x.xiii.  pp.  336-JO,  we  find 
no  Beujamiu  Eliot,  ereat-giands'in  of  Andrew  Eliot,  mentioned,  thuuyi:  the  naine 
Benjaniin  apncar--  amon^  the  descendants  of  Jacijb,  brother  of  the  Hqs.  John  Elioi, 
thi'  •' A['Ostl  "  to  the  imfians."  The  pedigree  of  the  latter  fimily,  printed  in  the 
IvKCiSTF.R,  vol.  xxyiii.  PJ5.  U4-5,  indicate:^  that  tiiere  was  no  very  near  coni'eotion 
between  the  fahiilies.  AVho  were  the  father  and  great-grandfather  of  thi^  Btniamia 
Eliot  of  Beverly  ?—Ed.j 

A  Treacle  lEicn'o  out  of  a  Viper  {ante,  xsx.  462). — Cotton  ^klather  13  tlie 
author.  The  title  is  included  under  tne  date  of  ITUH.  in  the  li.-t  of  his  books  made 
by  his  son  Kev.  Samuel  Matiitr,  and  printed  in  his  li!e  of  Cotton  Mather. 

Chicago,  111.  vVir.Li.xii  f .  Poole. 

[This  query  has  been  answered  by  several  other  gentlemen. — Eo.] 


Douglas,  Campbell  and  Lillibridge. — Charles  II.  J.  Douglas,  50  Olive  Street, 
Providence,  R.  1.,  who  has  been  for  some  years  engaged  in  pre'iraring  a  genealoiry  of 
the  Douglas  family,  expects  to  publish  it  nest  fall.  He  fu-nishes  "the  pediirrte  o'i 
the  late  Senator  Douglas  for  this  number  of  the  REGiSTEri,  nle,  p.  106.  il<i  is  also 
engaged  on  the  Campbell  and  Lillibridge  families,  and  will  receive  and  furnish  in- 
formation eonoerning  them. 

Wife  of  Willia.m  Cutter.— I  perceive  by  the  elaborate  and  excellent  Cutar 
Genealogy,  page  51,  that  obscurity  there  rests  upon  the  alliance  of  William  Cuicer. 
His  consort  was  daugiit*^  of  Jonatlian  Bice  of  Sudbury.  This  is  made  esidcnt 
by  the  will  of  ^lary.  widow  of  Jacob  Watson,  of  Cambridge,  March  10,  17:.'5-o, 
where  she  beiiueatijs  to  David  and  Henry  Bice,  and  to  Ann,  wife  of  William  Cutter. 
Their  mother  was  Kebecca.  eldest  baptized  child  of  John  Watson,  of  Cam.  The 
Bice  Genealorjy,  page  I'J.  unfortunately  spells  the  name  Cutler,  thus  preventing 
this  alliance  from  being  known  to  the  compiler  of  the  Cutter  Family.  The  marriage 
of  u  Cutler  on  the  line  preceding,  however,  is  correct;  being  Elizabeth,  dau.  of 
James  Cutler,  Jr.,  of  Sudbury.  t.  b.  w. 

Cle.u-ei-and  .\nd  Pr.AF.r?ox. — If  any  one  can  furnish  information  of  the  place  and 

dat.^  of  the  marriage  of  Benjamin  C!ea\ eland  to  Kachel of ,  occurring 

about  A.D.  I7J6;  and  also  place  and  date  of  marriage  of  their  daualiter  Piielw 
Cleayeland  to  Epuraim  Pearson  (or  Par.~ons),  or  where  any  descendant->~of  the  bttcr 
are  now  living,  plt-ise  addres.3  without  delay,  HoiiACE  G.  Cleveland. 

Cleveland,  Ofiio. 

CLEAyELAXD.— -Horace  G.  Cleveland,  of  Cleveland,  Ohio,  is  preparin2:  for  pub- 
lication a  genealogy  of  the  descendants  of  Moses  Cleaveiaud,  oi  Wuburn,  Mass. 
Bccordi  and  other  mutters  relating  to  tlie  fiioiilv  are  desired. 


1877.]  ■  .^otes  and  Queries.  221 


Baxkes.— Any  it\formation  respecting;  the  history  of  Richar'l  Biinkes,  York,  1049 
^'■iv;i;^',  vol.  i.p.  11:2),  .>r  any  ol  his  dtrcfnihintri,  is  earnestly  policitud  hy  tlic  un- 
JiT-ii;'ned,  who  has  just  oomu:unccd  a  retoaroh  ai'tor  the  ilaiiks  I'ariiily  of  America. 

j\^Jllrc.«fl CUARLhb   E.    Xj.vNta. 

Ill  Lincoln  i^trect,  Portland,  Mdnr. 


i 


ANTnoNY.— The  ur.der.;i;,'ncd  is  now  eiiLca^ed  on  a  Gcnealoj^y  of  the  Anthonvfi  of 
Ncw-kiml  uid,  and  requests  tlic  coijperatioii  of  all  who  an;  connected  with  it  Ijy  r.-irth 
or  marriai^e,  sd  that  ic  may  be  made  as  full  aud  coujplrte  as  jx^ssihle. 

Cambri'dijeport,  Mass.  John  Gould  AnthO-NIT. 

DcRSTOx.— On  tl;e  York  County  (Maine)  Probate  Recordf,  June  8,  1703,1  find 
ndministratioM  irranted  to  Tho,nas"  DiM-t.tu,  o!  llavorhiU,  or;  the  estate  of  his  father, 
Thomas  I'iurstijn,  of  Kictery,  deiHa-.'d,  intestate.  Q/i-.;-//.— The  relationship  hulwoea 
tlu-se  Tlionia<  Durst'.ms  and  TiMinas  the  has!;and  of  ilannuh,  the  slayer  of  the 
Indians  in  IGOH.  (jlokoe  A.  (JOKDO.v. 

Lowell,  ^lass.  

I)ur::le.— Is  anytldng  known  fbout  the  parcntcac  of  Natlnniel  T)urk>;e,  of 
Windham,  Conn.,  who  married  Mary  Baker  Aug.  21,  I7i!7?  He  lived  in  Hampton, 
Conn.,  1730  to  1T37;  bought  land  in  Woodbury,  Coun.,  in  l7od,  and  had  a  brother 
iJcdidiah  C.  E.  Dc'dnex, 

Saratoga  Sprinr/s,  N.  Y.  

ITealkt  {nn(^,  p.  67).— In  the  January  number  of  the  Register  I  find  the  pardon 
of  William  ILalcy,  of  H-nuptou,  who  was  convicted  of  treason  in  connec.i'jn  with 
Gove's  insurr^n'tion  in  ItiSS, 

William  Hrak'j  (as  those  of  the  name  and  family  have  always  written  an<l  i?pelled 
it)  was  the  fourtli  child  of  William  Ikalev  who  was  made  a  freeman  at  Mai^htield  in 
16J3.  William  2d  was  born  at  Ko5bary,"JuIy  11,  1652  ;  married  -S  irali^  Drown.  29, 
9,  1077,  aud  removed  to  Hampton,  probahly  ^\liat  is  now  Seabrook,  N.  n_.  After 
his  pardon  for  his  connection  with  Gove,  he  returned  to  Cambridge,  and  died  there 
in  Iti.-i). 

Tlie  name,  though  its  bearers  spelled  it  Hcaley,  was  variously  written  hy  others, 
and  not  infrc'iuently  Hehu  find  I  cannot  resist  tlie  impression  tiiat  a  ctirt-ful  esamina- 
tion  of  the  original  will  show  that  tlie  word  is  there  written  Hdy.  That  the  person 
and  name  are  properly  Healey,  there  can  be  no  doubt,  as  continuous  records  and 
faniilv  tradition  make  it  entirely  certain. 

Ea-cter,  N.  H.  John  J.  Ecu.. 

Amoerst  Wilder  was  born  1771  or  2.  Married  and  lived  in  Cavendish,  Yt.,  in 
1795.  Removed  to  Lewis,  tlssei  Co.,  N.  Y.,  where  he  died  in  18.j1.  Can  any,  who 
8ee  this,  tell  me  his  father's  name  and  residence?  He  had  brothers  Jael  and 
Jot^eph,  and  married  Mary  Proctor,  of  Newfane,  Vt.  Moses  H.  Wilder. 

Brooklyn,  iV.  Y. 

FisKE,  Browx,  Campfi-ei,d,  Dimon  and  Hill. — Phineas  Fiskc,  of  Salem  1641, 
Wenliam  1611,  estate  settled  1673.     Whom  did  he  marry? 

John,  his  son,  m.  Remember  .     Who  was  slie  ? 

Samuel  Brown,  of  Stonington.  Conn.,  b.  1722  ;  m.  May  12,  1748,  Phoebe  Wilbour, 
of  Little  Compton.     Who  was  she? 

Lieut.  Thovws  Carapfitld  of  New  Haven,  of  Milford  16-47 ;  d.  1687.  Wife 
Phfjcbe.     Who  was  she?     Who  was  he? 

Moses  Dimon  or  Dymond,  sou  of  Thomas  of  Fairfield,  b.  1642  ;  m.  Abigail . 

Who  was  she? 

Hi.s  8,n  Moses,  b.  1672  :  m.  Jane .    "\7ho  was  she? 

Eliphalet  Hill,  son  of  Eliphalet  of  Fairfield,  Conn.,  b.  1695.  Whom  did  he  marry? 
New  York,  N.  Y'.  J-  D.  C,  Js. 


Champion. — Is  there  a  genealogy  or  coat-of-arms  of  the  Champion  family  to  which 
I>r.  Rfubtn  Champion,  surgeon  in  the  retolutionary army,  who  died  at  licondcroga, 
^-  Y.,  March  27,  1777,  belonged?     Will  some  of  his  descendants  communicate? 

Wc.':tji€ld,  Mass.  AIbs.  Maria  31.  \ViiiiNET. 


222  2^otes  (uid  Queries.  '  [^^pili, 

Presentation  CoPr  or  Tirn  Rfv.  Cotton  Matiikr's  Ratio  Discipmn.c. — I  ecinl  f.,r 
in.'5trri'in  in  tlio  Rvcf^tki:,  a  tran.~cri]it  ot  inuiuisiript  riut's  by  Cotton  Matlior.  in  » 
copy  of  oiv  of  l.i^  works  in  the  llSrary  oC  F.  C.  I'.nrjkf,  K-;4.,  Ulfijnl,  ;i(,ar  V.'.,  '. 
bridge,  Suliolk.  'I'lie  title-i)nL,'c'  ot  tiir  book  is  :  "  llatio  Di^ciplina;  Fnitrum  |  X  ,\. 
AiiL^loruru  |  —  |  A  |  Faithful  AcC'juiu  |  uf  the  I  Diseipliiie  |  l'n>fcssecl  and  Pnicti-.  I 
I  in  tlie  I  Chiirohe.-  |  of  |  Ne\v-£nylaud.  I  —  |  Bostun  ;  Priuted  for  IS.  Gerrieii  in 
CoruIiiU  I  17-Jtj." 

On  the  recto  of  the  first  Uy-lcuf  is  written  : 

"  yumuel  Bridircwell 

April  1-J,  1760." 

Beneath  this,  in  the  autograpli  of  }»Iather,  is 

*'  To  the  Reverend 
Mr.  Loftus 
Minibterof  tlie  Rmrlish  C'liurch 
at  Rotterdam." 

On  the  recto  of  the  second  fly-leaf,  also  in  the  outograijh  of  Cotton  Matlicr,  is 

"  To  the  Reverend 
Mr.  Loftus, 
Sr 

Ko  vessels  that  I  have  known  of,  sailing  from  hence  to  Rotterdam ,  {iiv  Vi  luuz 
time,  1  have  wanted  oppoitunicics  to  have  transmitted  unto  you  many  TbiCj;-, 
wherewith  1  \9-ould  have  entertained  von. 

But  an  iniTcnuous  young  Gentleman  whose  name  is  Mr.  Ebcnezer  Rohi<i,  boi:r.d 

[♦which  I    from  hence  for  Amsterdam,  allowes  me  to  hope,  that  he  will  rind  a  \v;iy  to 

happen  to   Convey  to  you*  Haifa  dozen  Books  [more  particularly,   1,  This  Ka'.n 

havL- at      D/sciplirKP.      2,  pareniator    or   y-  .Li tie  of  D''    Mather.     3,    Cales'rtny 

ba.na]       ^^   Mnnuductio   nd  Minhtcrium.     5,  Psaltcrlvni   Aincricanwn.      6,  Zd'- 

monah,  and  another  pamphlett  or  twu]  which  I  humbl}-  tender  t^  your  acceptan';e. 

Many  years  have  rolled  away  simx"  I  heard  fruni  dear  Mr.  Ward,  v«hich  makoj 
me  fear  he  may  have  gone  to  the  place  of  Silence  ; 

If  the  Good  Soul  be  yett  sojourning  in  this  Land  of  the  Dying,  I  pray  rememlcr 
me  to  him,  and  Ictt  my  Ci-KLKSTINUS  from  me  wait  upon  liim. 

These  Things  come  to  yuu  from  a  Far  Countrey ;  But  we  are  not  far  from  a  Let- 
ter ;  for  the  Faith  &  Hope  of  which  I  am  S^ 

Your  Brother  &  Servant 
Boston,  N.  England,  Cotton  Matheii." 

Juti.  17,  17-:6." 

You  may  rely  on  the  correctness  of  this  copy.  It  is  in  the  hand-writing  of  yir. 
Brooke. 

31  Cornhill,  Ipswich,  England.  Jaites  Re-vd. 

Letter  of  Daniel  Cueeter,  1774. — {Commmiicated  by  Mrs.  Isabella  James  of 
Cambridcjc,  Mass.) 
Revi  Sir  :  "  Salera,  Oct.  20;^,  1771. 

You  cannot  be  unaci-juainted  with  the  great  Loss  I  have  sustained  by  the  Late 
terrible  Fire  in  this  Town. 

ily  House,  Shop,  B;irn,  more  than  "20  Tun  of  good  hay,  70  Bushels  of  Indian  corn  ; 
with  my  winter  wood,  Sec.  itc,  are  all  consume,!  by  tlie  triumphant  Flames.  TiiU'^ 
as  in  a  moment  I  am  stript,  and  made  poorer  than  tlie  poor.  I  have  siuce  lose  a  .I'l'-i 
Horse, — and,  which  adds  greatly  co  my  alHictiun,  God  in  his  Providence  hiis  taken 
away  my  youngest  Son  by  Death  ;  he  was  carried  sick  out  of  my  burning  IL.iu;-e. 
and  now  is  no  more — and  ■t)y  an  unha[)i!y  Bhjw  on  my  Head,  by  wliich  my  Lifi;  '^vu-' 
greatly  endangered,  I  am  rendered  yet  mure  miserable.  Thus  unoerrain  are  all  e;:' 
earthly  enjoyments  !  and  thus  Atilictions  in  melanebolly  Train  succeed  each  other. 
It  would  be  happy  for  me  and  my  poor  distres''  Family  if  all  these  Tryals  should  '>e 
bles"^  for  our  best  guod.  Tliai  this  may  be  the  Eveiit  I  ask  the  Prayers  of  all  God'.: 
People. 

And  as  I  am  thus  reduced,  I  think  it  my  Duty  to  ask  the  charitable  assistance  ot 
my  fellow  men. 

1  have  been  advised  to  write  to  sjme  of  the  neighboring  Towns,  and  ask  the;r 
Aims,  and  I  shall  submit  the  matter  to  your  wL-^dom  db  prudence ;  Liut  hope,  if  v^^ 


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1S77.J  JSiotes  and  Queries.  223 

tliink  proper,  my  case  nipy  he  \m<\  before  your  Pcojjle.     To  do  jjoo'l  to  all  as  vrc  have 
ryviTtuiuti;,  is  u  comni'i  that  will  ever  liuve  gre.it  weight  with  the  bUss'.d  FoUovvcrs 

Any  tliiri:.';  that  (alls  from  the  ITnnd  of  Charity  will  he  thnnkluliy  rcofivt-d,  and 
(.TutcVuUy  aceqited  hy,  S'  your  vory  humble  servant 

and  Friend, 
To  I  theriov'i  Lsuao  Story  |  Marhk-hcnd."  Damel  Cukhver. 


TuE  SvMONDS  Famii.t. — Wlwt  fiiinilies  of  this  ivviue  arc  tlicrc  in  the  U.S.A.,  from 
v!u)ia  <\o  tiiey  tra.v?  descorit,  and  whuo  can  po.iiiircos  be  I'ouad?  Was  William 
S.M'ioiids.  A\ho  SL-ttled  at  Woburn  in  1611,  married  Judich  Shiiipcn,  and  died  in 
lii7-.',  C'liuiectcd  wit!)  S.nuuel  Syuionds,  de|)iity  Governor  of  M;i.-s.  /  Samuel  Jiad  a 
t;<pii  WilH;ini,  who  died  in  IbTO,  and'  married  a  Mi.vs  Wade;  but  this  could  not  be 
il:u  same  person  as  the  Mr.^t  mentioned  William.  Any  ^leuealoLrical  information  will 
be  tlianktully  received.  'W.  G.^Uimock  Flktcuer. 

i2l)8  Cowley  Road,  Orfurd,  Enrjiand. 

[No  connection  has  been  traced  between  the  Fp.-wich  and  Wcjljurn  families.  Mr. 
Appleton,  in  the  '•Ancestry  of  I'riscilla  Baker"  (noticed  in  the  Kloistek,  xxv. 
'Jti),  gives  the  p.:digive  of  Den.  Gov.  Samuel  Syinonds  for  several  generations,  and 
wtber  docnments  relative  tt>  his  family;  and  the  late  Kcv.  Samuel  Scwall,  in  his 
"  lli>tory  of  W'oburu  "  (noticed  in  the  llKctsxtrv,  xxii.  4^3),  gives  an  account  of 
\\'illiam"SiiiionJs  and  his  descendants. — Ed.] 

RiuDKLLS,  RiDm-ES,  RiDT.ONs  AND  R[DLKvs. — A  genealo2:ical  and  biographical  his- 
tory of  tliese  families  "  ot  England,  France,  Scotland,  Ireland  and  Am(rica,"_by 
ilie'Rev.  G.  T.  Kidlou,  of  Harri-on,  ^hunc,  is  now  announced  as  ready  lor  put)iica- 
tioii.  At  a  muetiiig  of  the  families  iij  f  hilailehdiia,  July  o,  ii76,  a  "  Co-operative 
Publishing  Committee"'  was  appointed,  and  they  have  issued  a  prospectus  ol  the 
Work.  The  sui'scriptioa  .price  will  l)c  live  dollars  a  copy.  Those  in  want  of  the 
buok  are  invited  to  send  ihc-ir  orders  at  once  to  the  author,  that  the  committee  may 
know  how  lar^e  an  edition  is  needed. 


Davenport.— B.  F.  Davenport,  M.D.,  751  TremontSt.,  Bo.«ton,  Ma«s.,  is  collect- 
ing for  publication  a  geneuloirical  History  of  the  Davenport  Families  in  America, 
otlier  than  those  of  the  Kev.  John  Davenpnrt.  of  Boston  atnl  Nc^v  Haven,  which  have 
been  alrtady  published  by  'Sh.  A.  B.  Davenport,  of  367  Fidton  St.,  Brooklyn,  >.".  Y. 
Of  the  descendants  of  Ti^omas  Davenport  ot  i<orchester,  Mass.,  in  ItUO,  he  already 
has  about  iC  )0  of  the  Davenport  name  with  the  place  and  date  of  birth,  marriage 
and  death.  Of  Capt.  Riejrard  Davenport  of  Salem  \Cy2S,  and  in  IGd-J  commander 
of  the  Castle  in  Boston  Harbor,  he  already  has  about  300  of  the  Daveii[iort  naine. 
He  lias  also  numerous  names  of  the  descendants  of  the  Davenport  families  which 
tirst  settled  in  Virginia  and  at  New  Rochelle,  N .  Y.  He  wishes  all  who  can  to  aid 
him  in  making  his  histury  Complete,  by  sending  him  the  lull  name,  place  and  date 
of  birth,  marriage  and  (when  dead)  the  death  of  any  member  ot  a  Davenport  family 
they  may  know,  with  the  P.O.  address  of  those  who  can  tell  him  more  than  they  can 
themselves. 


Rev.  Sfth  Xoei-e,  1)orn  in  Wcstfield,  Mas.s.,  April  15,  1743,  a  Whig  rel^ugee  in 
1777,  fnjui  Mangerville,  Xova  Scotia,  where  iie  had  been  a  (Cong.)  minister  for 
several  years,  Commenced  his  ministry  in  Bangor,  Me.,  Sept.  10,  17^0. 

Can  any  one  inform  me  wiiere  he  was,  and  how  eimnged.  from  1777  to  1750  ?  He  is 
known  to  have  supplied,  fir  a  few  munths  in  17S.5  ana  17&6,  the  iCong.,)  ehurcli  in 
Aui^iisia,  Me.,  and  is  said  to  have  jireaiditd  for  three  }ears  to  a  (Fre.-ii.)  eliiu-e!\  in 
^caorouk,  N.  IT  His  f  nuily  were  resident,  in  1783,  and  in  Feb.  i7SG,  m  2sew  .Mar- 
ker, N.  H.  The  ciuirch  there  n^t  l)eing  at  ttiat  time  vacant,  it  ha.s  been  corijectured 
that  durinu:  those  years  he  Avas  preachiiiir  in  Searirook.  Five  or  six  years  ot  his  lite, 
between  1777  and*17^t^  are  therefore  still  unaccouiiced  for. 

Can  anyone  also  infl'rm  me  whetiser  he  Avas  ever  connected  with  any  College? 
He  Was  nCt  a  CoKe-e  (jradu^.V-.  yet  is  known  to  have  been  a  Latin  student.  Did  he 
study  theology  in  Newbury,  Mass.?    It  so,  when  and  with  wiiom? 

iLiriJ'ord,  Conn.  Li}cai>  M.  Boltwood. 


224  Notes  and  Qaerles.  [April, 

Figure  Hevi)  of  Tnc  Con'stitutio.v. — The  following  letters  relative  to  rppairin? 

the  f;-iivi-  l.:'vl  I'f  t!io  Ci>'i,-iirati'>n,  ha\o  been  copifHl  for  us  from  tli«  files  ot  tin* 
Niiry  Dcpartmont,  \\'astiini;ton,  by  Rear-Adm.  (ieov;.'e  Henry  Preble,  L'.S.N'.  Tlit; 
ligure  head  oi  PresiiJeiit  Jackson  hud  been  cut  oil'  IVum  this  trii^ute  July  2,  lb3l,  by 
Samuel  \V.  Dewey.  A  narrative  of  this  exploit  will  be  found  in  Drake's  "  llisc'oric 
Fields  and  Macsioas  of  Middlesex,"  pp.  41. — 
"  Cuiuniodore  Cliarles  0.  Ridgeley, 

Commander  Navy  Yard,"  Navy  Department, 

^'ew  Yorit.  13  Miuch,  1633. 

Sir: 

I  have  ju«t  received  a  letter  from  the  Commissioners  of  the  Navy  Board  of  tlie 
9th  icst.,  and  liud  there  is  some  mitiunderstandin!:';  as  to  repairing'  the  fi'^ure  head 
of  the  Con-titution.  No  H'on-  is  wanted,  than  that  so  much  of  the  Fi'_'-ure  iicad 
as  has  been  removed  sho^jld  be  restored,  which  certainly  can  be  dune  in  two  dayij. 
I  wrote  you  a  private  letter,  that  yon  mii;;ht  have  Mr.  Dodge  prepared  before  hand 
to  have  this  done  with  the  least  possible  delay. 

It  is  of  immense  iuiportance  that  the  ship  should  .sail  for  France  immediately. 

1  must  rei^uevt  you  to  afi'ord  every  facility  in  Ciiuipping  her  for  sea  without  delay. 

The  Coni:iiisH:oiiers  havi.  given  directions  thai  ttie  noVder  necessary  for  the  thip 
should  be  purchased,  if  that  sent  from  Norfolk  should" not  arrive  in  time. 

The  Constitution  will  go  to  France  and  return  before  she  performs  further  service, 
so  tliat  her  stor::<  nerd  not  bo  so  extensive  as  if  she  vras  upon  a  long  cruise.  Des- 
patch is  the  great  object,  and  every  thing  must  yield  to  that. 

if  the  head  which  Mr.  Dodge  has  been  preparing  can  be  completed  sooner  than 
the  repairs  I  have  directed  can  be  made,  let  it  be  done — not  otherwise — 1  am  not 
willing  to  lose  a  day.  I  am  very  KespectfuUy, 

M.    DiCKESSOX, 

Secretary  of  the  J^'lavy.''' 

'•  Commodore  Jesse  D.  Elliott, 

U.  S.  iihip  Constitution,  '  •       ■       Navy  Department, 

New  York.  13  March,  1.^35. 

Six : 

I  am  much  mortified  to  hear  that  there  may  be  delay  in  completing  the  Figure 
Head  of  the  Constitution. 

I  wish  nothing  more  done  than  merely  replacing  as  much  of  the  Head  as  had  been 
removed,  which  I  know  can  he  done  in  two  or  three  days,  and  I  wrote  on  to  Ne»7 
York  to  have  Mr.  Dodge  employed  to  make  the  repair  with  the  least  possible  delay. 

I  have  directed  Commodore  Ridgeley  to  afford  you  every  facility  iu  fitting  out 
yoursh.ip  ;  despatch  is  all  iiuportant. 

It  is  the  wish  of  the  President  that  not  a  moment  should  be  lost  in  the  sailing  of 
the  ship. 

If  it  is  your  pleasure  to  take  oat  your  son  as  a  boy  doing  midshipman's  duty,  it 
■will  not  be  objected  to. 

I  am  very  Respectfully, 

M.    DiCKERSON, 

Secretary  of  the  Navy^ 

Booth  and  Hollingsworth.— Can  any  one  give  me  information  concerning  John 
and  Ebcnezcr  Booth,  brothers,  who  lived  at  or  near  Elkton,  Cecil  Co.,  Md..  of  wh()m 
it  is  said  that  John  was  Capt.  and  £b(,"nezer  a  Lieut,  in  command  of  a  company  of 
•'  Light  Horse,"  that  was  called  to  the  detence  of  a  fore  at  or  near  Elk  Point.  MJ., 
during  the  war  of  lSl-2?  By  tradition  wo  are  iuformed  that  the  British  made  an 
attempt  to  land  there,  that  the  troops  in  the  fort  or  other  defence  were  cjmmauueJ 
by  Capt.  John  Booth,  and  that  they  prevented  the  British  troops  from  landing. 

I  have  never  been  able  to  find  anythinic  in  written  history  conlirming  this  tradition. 
Will  some  reader  of  the  ReL,ister  inform  me  where  such  written  int'uriuation  can  be, 
if  it  is  to  be,  found?  Can  some  reader  give  the  names  of  the  "Pilgrims  of  St. 
Mary's,"  who  came  over  in  the  "  Ark  and  Dove"?  In  Register,  vol.  xxi.  pa!;o 
254,  may  be  fjund  cupy  of  Mrs.  iSIary  Gates's  will,  in  wliieh  she  boLpiealhed  to  Joim 
Booth  of  Deiamere,  or  B<joth's  Mills.  Md.,  a  picture  of  his  ancestor,  Rev.  Roberi 
Booth,  and  to  Frank  Hollingsworth  her  "  line  edition  of  Ovid's  Metamorphoses." 
How  and  to  what  lixmily  of  Booths  was  she  related?  What  relationship  did  she 
bear  to  Frank  Holliugbworth?     Was  this  Frank  Uoliicgsworth  a  descendaat  of 


l^;77.]  I^otes  and  Queries.  225 

If.niry  IloUini^^worth  who  held  the  ofHcc  of  Sherifl"  of  Cliostcr  Co.,  Penn.,  16"JJ, 
.ill!-;  \v;u\i.s  Mirveyor  of  C''"il  Co.,  M<i.?  Were  tleiiry  iluliini^swovch  and  tii'j  Booti)3 
of  Ufhuviiro  Co..  Fa.,  otid  Ceoil  L\>.,  Md.  related?  if  so,  how?  In  my  iiouth  iroa- 
(•!ilo'j;ical  research  1  licid  one  (.Jeoriire  Uuoth  who  U  siiid  to  have  mari-ied  u  Millie 
Wriulit,  or  Rite,  arid  with  a  br'jcher  Stephen  lived  in  or  near  Rye,  We.«ti;iic>ti t 
Co.,"N.  Y.,  about  l-'O  ycar^  ago.  supposed  to  have  been  about  17:50.  From  Rye.  N. 
Y.,  lie  moved  to  Montiri'iaery  Co.,  Va.,  thenoe,  .suon  after,  to  Ru>sell  Co.,  Va., 
bou;;ht  a  farm  on  nortii  .-id<j  o''  Clinch  mountain,  and  there  died  about  siiity  years 
ai;o.  IIi>  descendants  think  he  came  direct  from  England,  bat  are  not  positive. 
Could  this  George  Booth  be  a  descendant  of  Ensign  John  Booth  of  Soutiiold,  L.  I.? 
if  fco.  please  give  the  ouauection.     Address,  Joes  T.  Bootd. 

}Vyo/ninr/,  OIi/o. 

Wells— WET.D.—Ch.arles  K.  Wells,  Esq.,  of  Milwaukee,  Wis.,  author  of  tho 
AVellb  Gcnealugy,  noticed  in  tljc  RFcisTErM  xxix.  C16,  cailo-  our  attention  to  }i\s  Ap- 
pendix, p.  15,v.iiei-e  "An  iuventjry  of  tiie  estate  of  John  Vt'elln  of  Wells,  ^sh't 
deceased  the  11th  of  April,  1677,"  is  referred  to.  This  John  Wells  Avas  tiie  second 
son  of  Thomas  Wells  of  Ipswich.  Mr.  Wells  queries  v>!iether  this  is  not  the  j;erson 
who,  under  the  r-iinc  of  John  Vv'eld,  is  reported  in  Ilubbird's  "Indian  ^V'ars  " 
(Drake's  ed.,  li.  230)  as  having  been  killed  with  i>-_njamin  Storer.  by  tiie  Indiana  in 
Wells,  Maine,  April  V2,  l'S77.  Williani^^on,  in  his  "  IJistory  of  Maine,"  i.  549, 
and  ii.ie.rue  in  his  "  History  of  Well-  and  Kennsbonk,"  p.  1-10,  give  still  another 
date  (April  13),  as  that  or.  -which  Storer  and  Weld  v,ere  killed.  The  names  Wells 
and  N^eld  are  frequenrly  confiunded.  Any  faces  touching  this  subject;  will  be 
thankfully  received  by  Mi\  "Weils. 

Stetexs,  Notes,  Ils  LET  AXD  BrvOCKLECAXK.. — Perhaps  lean  throw  some  light  on 
several  queries  in  the  January  mimber  of  the  Register. 

1st  (ant':,  p.  104),  "  William  Stevens,  Who  was  he?  "  In  1G53  a  William  Stevens 
was  owner  of  land  in  "'  Noj'es's  I\eck  "  in  Xewbury.  The  same  year  Nicholas  Noyes 
and  George  Little  wr r^  two  of  the  ai^praisera  of  the  estate  of  AVilliim  Stevens. 

\Vas  this  the  Williai;'.  Scevens  wh..  married  one  of  the  two  dai'.ghcers  of  Samuel 
Bidtield  of  SalTjlk  Co.,  May  19,  1645?  The  other  daughter,  2^Iary,  married  Samuel 
Plumer,  of  Newbury. 

Sad  {ante,  p.  104),  '•  Who  was  Moses  Noyes?  "  Taken  in  connection  with  OLher 
circumstances  I  should  think  he  was  the  son  of  Rev.  James  Noyes,  "  sometime 
teacher  of  Newbury,"  and  was  born  in  that  town,  Dec.  6,  1613,  graduated  at  fl.ir- 
vard  1659,  and  afterwards  settled  in  Lyme,  Conn.,  where  he  was  it:  tirot  miisistcr. 

3d  (an  e,  p.  !  10).  In  regard  to  the  name  of  Isaac  Ilsley  and  wife,  all  I  can  find  in 
theNewoury  records  is  the  birth  of  Isaac  I'sley,  July  3,  1698,  and  the  niarriaire  ot 
Laac  llsley  and  Abigail  Moody,  .March  16,  1721. 

4th  and  hist  (ante,  p.  US) ,  the  person  who  wishes  to  know  about  the  Brocklebank 
family  would  do  well  to  send  to  Rowley,  Mass.,  for  information.  It  was  the  earliest 
hoDie  of  the  family  in  this  country,  but  there  are  a  few  of  the  name  there  now. 

yewbuiy,  Mass.      ,  ■■.-■..  .  ,;.';'•;    >  ..  ■^i-  T\  Little. 

Whitney. — J.  M.  Bancroft,  192  Broadway,  New  York  city,  will  send  an  obituary 
of  the- late  H.  II.  Whitney,  of  Montreal,  Canada,  who  d.  Jan.  29,  1S77,  as  published 
in  an  editorial  of  the  Mont  eal  ilerald  of  Jan.  30th,  to  any  one  wishing  it. 


G.  T.  RiDLO-V,  of  Harrison,  Me.,  will  soon  have  a  complete  list  of  Maine  families- 
filled  out  iu  alphabetii  al  arrangement ;  it  will  be  very  valuable  to  aid  in  opening 
correspondence  with  tnese  families  for  historical  purposes.  Any  person  dcbirmg  in- 
formation relative  to  3Iaine  families  nxay  have  assistance. 


Americaxs  of  Rotal  Descent. — Charles  11.  Browning,  Esq.,  1632  Spruce  Street, 
Philadelphia,  is  collecting  the  pedigrees  of  Americans  who  can  trace,  withoui  a 
doubt,  in  consecutive  geuerations,  their  descent  from  Royalty,  for  the  purpo.-e  of 
combining  them  in  a  borjk  after  the  style  of  Burke's  ''Rovil  Families  ot  England, 
Scotland  and  Wales."  The  title  will  probably  be  •'  Americans  of  Roy.il  Descent." 
He  wishes  such  persons  to  s-rud  kim,  at  the  above  address,  their  pedigrees  made  out. 
la  as  simple  a  form  as  possible,  a:jd  at  an  early  day. 

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226  Motes  ayid  Queries.  [-A-pril, 

^Maotf:  Statk  CEiErniTiES. — I.  am  still  prathering  dr.t.i  for  the  abuve-namcd  work, 
nr.fl  p.ilii.'it  onrri'spdndfin'c  rclativo  to  all  distini;;uisli(.(i  lucn  and  wou':';!i  of  t!ie  st^Ui; 
from  ite  settli-nicnt  duwii  to  tlie  present  time.  I  have  a  large  biograjdiioal  cullectioii 
alrtidy — the  result  ol' several  years  reHoarch.  G.  T.  Kidlon. 

Hnrriion,  Aie.  •   -•      ,  i  . .  ■>  I     ■ 

TuE  ScoTcn-lRisn. — lafonuation  relative  to  the  liistoiy  of  the  "Scotch-lri.sli " 
families  who  came  tu  this  country  from  A.T).  1718  to  1750  is  now  v.-antcd  hy  tho 
Kev.  G.  T.  iiidlun,  Harrison,  Mc.  The  rainilies  that  settled  in  Bedford  and  Lon- 
donderry, N.  11.,  are  known. 

The  Litkuart  World,  a  monthly  journal,  founded  hy  Samuel  R.  Croekcr, 
nearly  seven  years  ngo,  and  till  then  edited  and  r)ut)lished  liy  hira,  was  in  Marcli  ki-t. 
purchased  by  ]\Iessrs.  Ei.iward  Abbott  and  Kdward  11.  llauies.  resjiectivcly  of  the 
editorial  and  husirics.^  departuiont  of  The  Cotirir'rjationalist.  We  arc  ,i:lad  that  the 
publication  has  fallen  into  their  hands.  3Ir.  Abl)ott,  the  new  editor,  we  f'vei  con- 
fident will  sustain  the  high  reputation  which  the  Littrarij  World  has  attained  under 
I^lr.  Crocker's  manaireuient.  The  subsLription  price  is  .^l.oO  a  year.  Address,  E. 
II.  llamcs  oc  Co.,  6  Congregational  House,  1  Jjomerset  trjtreet,  Boston. 


ViRC.iNiA  History. — Robert  A.  Brock,  Ksrp,  of  Richmond,  Va.,  ha.s  published  fii.nn 
time  to  time,  in  the  Richmond  newspapers,  valuable  articles  illustrating  the  hist'jry 
of  that  city  and  the  statj  of  Virginia,  la  the  Daily  D''->pa'.(:h,  March  3,  wiil  be 
found  a  communication  I'rom  him  introducing  a  letter  from  \V.  2soel  Sainsbury, 
Esq.,  of  Lomlon,  Eug.,  compiler  of  the  "  Calendar  ct  Colonial  State  I\ipers,"  whif 
ha«  furnished  to  the  Virginia  State  Library,  abstracts  of  important  papers  relating 
to  that  state  from  the  Public  Record  Oilice  at  London,  "  enriched  with  critical  and 
explanatory  notes  drawn  from  thev^ealtti  of  his  careful  and  extended  invescigation." 
The  letter  gives  new  lacts  relative  to  (Joy.  John  Harvey  and  RK-iiani  Stephens  a 
nieinber  of  his  Council.     Stephens,  in  1601,  foui^ht  a  duel  with  George  Harrison. 

Mr.  Brook  makes  a  strong  appeal  thv  the  collection  and  preservation  of  ma'crials 
for  the  history  of  the  Old  Dominion,  and  expresses  a  hope  that  measures  will  bo 
taken  by  the  General  Assembly  to  retain  the  services  of  .Mr.  Saiuabury  until  the 
valuable  resources  under  his  control  have  yielded  all  that  is  desirable.  ''  Nor  should 
the  precious  matter  in  our  own  archives,"  says  Mr.  Brock,  "  be  allowed  to  rest 
neglected.  The  publication  of  the  '  Calendar  of  State  Papers,'  so  loviaudy  edited 
by  Dr.  Palmer,  should  be  speedily  completed  with  the  second  volume,  whicti  is  said 
to  want  but  little  further  preparation  for  hnal  committal  t(  the  printer." 


PuBLTCOLA. — "Who  was  "  Publlcola,"  the  pseudonj^m  of  the  author  of  the  "  Nev7 
Vade  Mecum  ;  or  a  Pocket  Companion  for  Lawyers,  Deputy  Sheriffs,  and  Constables, 
euggesting  many  Grievous  Abuses  and  Alnrming  Evils,  which  attend  the  Present 
Mode  of  Administering  the  Laws  of  New  Hampshire."  &c.  &c.,  "  By  Pcblicola." 
[Published  in  Boston,  Ma.ss.,  and  Concord,  N.  il.,  1819  ;  12  mo.,  pp.  155. J 

Boston.  A.  B.  ii. 

Old  Georgetown  and  Woolwich,  Maine. — The  Rev.  II.  0.  Thayer  of  Woolwich, 
Me.,  is  gathering  materials  for  a  history  of  that  town,  which  will  ako  include  an 
extended  notice  of  the  connected  region — the  Old  Georgetown.  He  will  be  thankful 
for  any  items  or  documents  concerning  the  territory  of  Sagadahoc,  especially  under 
Gov.  Andros's  administration. 


Rogers. — Information  is  wanted  of  the  names  and  any  other  particulars  of  the 
•wife  and  child  or  children  of  William  Rogers,  son  of"  the  Rev.  John  and  Mrs. 
Martha  (Whittingham)  Rogers,  of  Ipswich,  Mu.-s.,  who,  in  1731,  had  been  '"  in 
Maryland  eleven  years,"  and  who  died  at  Annapolis,  July  29,  1749,  in  the  3lBt  year 
of  hia  aire.  He  arrived  in  New  England  on  a  visit  in  1731,  and  was  an  officer  in  tlie 
Koyal  military  service. 

Information  is  ulso  wanted  of  Timothy  Rogers,  son  of  the  Rev.  Nathaniel  and 
Mrs.  Margaret  (Crane)  Rogers,  of  Ipswich.  He  was  "a  merchant  of  Bo-ton, 
Mass.,  Nov.  9,  168S.  Augustus  D.  Rogers. 

Salem,  Mass. 


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1877.1  Societies  and  their  Proceedings.  227 


SOCIETIES  AXD  TPIEUl  PROCEEDINGS. 

New-En'gi.avd  Historic,  CrNEAi.oGiCAL  Society. 

Hoslon,  Mas:iarhus/:lts,  Wtdri'sc/ay,  Ot tub'T -I,  1876. — A  quarterly  meeting  wa-s 
heM  tlii-^  afr.erncoii,  at  .3  (•"cirnjk.  at  trie  Suciety'ei  House,  18  Sumenset  Street,  the 
proideiit,  the  Hon.  Maiiliall  P.  Wilder,  in  the  t;hair. 

The  toliowin^'  geiuleim  n  M"ere  apjiuintL-d  a  corainittee  to  nominate  ofScer«  for  the 
m.-ainir  yoar,  viz.  :  Frederic  Kidder,  William  B.  Trank,  Jeremia^i  Colburn, 
David  (}.  Haskin?,  Jr.,  aud  tiie  Huu.  James  W.  Austin. 

Tlie  Hon.  James  W.  Aastin  of  Boston  then  read  a  paper  on  "  New  England  in 
tlie  I'acitic."  He  spoke  particularly  of  the  influence  tliat  New  England  had  exert- 
ed on  the  Hawaiian  or  Sandwich  Islands. 

John  Ward  Dean,  tlie  librarian,  reported  that  46  volumes,  132  pamphlets  and  a 
ruuiher  of  oHior  articlc^^  had  been  presented  the  last  niDnth.  Letters  were  read 
iroiu  Lt.-C'ul.  J, lilies  H.  Jijnvs  and  Thomas  C.  Smith  relating  to  their  dunatiuns. 

Tiie  Kev.  Edmund  F.  Shifter,  the  corresponding  rsecretury,  read  letters,  accepting 
the  i:iei"iie'-sriip  to  which  they  had  been  elected,  from  Jost^pti  Atidre  Cassimir  Conte 
of  JMar^pillts,  France:  Divie  Bethune  Mel'artie  of  Tokio,  Japan,  and  Spencer  Bjn- 
s-^.!!  of  Philadfiphia,  as  Curres!)'>nding  members;  and  from  the  Hon.  Charles  R. 
Train  of  Bjstuii,  George  L.  Austin  of  Cambridge,  Frederic  R.  Nourse  of  Booton, 
tiie  Rev.  Charles  W.  Hayes  of  Portland,  Me.,  tiie  Rev.  John  Weiss  of  Boston,  and 
the  Hon.  Natlian  Crosbv'  of  Lowell,  as  resident  members. 

The  nominalinj  committee  reported  tfie  names  of  John  Ward  Dean,  Col.  Albert 
11.  Hoyt,  Jeremiah  Colburn,  William  B.  Trask  and  Charles  W.  Tutcle.  as  omdidatLS 
fur  a  Oiinmittee  on  publiL-ation,  from  October,  1976,  to  October,  1677,  and  tiiey  were 
unanimously  elected  as  such. 

_  Tha:.j3  were  voted  to  Ji,d>-e  Austin  for  his  paper,  aud  to  the  several  donors  men- 
tioned by  the  librarian  fur  their  gifts. 

Novemhrr  I. — A  stated  meeting  was  held  this  afternoon,  at  the  usual  place  aud 
time,  president  \rilder  in  the  chair. 

William  Carver  Bates,  of  Newton,  read  a  paper  on  the  "  Life  and  Revolutionary 
Services  of  Col.  Joseph  Ward."  Remarks  on  the  subiect  were  made  bv  tlie  Rev. 
Doras  Clarke,  D.D.,  William  Allen,  the  Hon.  Marsliall  P.  Wilder,  Joseph  W . 
Tucker,  ai  1  William  H.  C.  Lawrence.  Thanks  were  voted  to  Mr.  Bates  for  his 
paper. 

The  librarian  reported  as  donations  during  October,  11  volumes,  57  pamphlets, 
3  rii:\nuscripts,  and  several  other  articles. 

The  corresponding  secretary  reported  the  acceptance  of  the  Rev.  Stephen  H. 
riayes  of  Boston,  Frederic  L.  Gay  of  Cambridge,  aud  Simon  W.  Hathaway  of 
B'j-;tMn. 

The  Rev.  Samuel  Cutler,  the  historiographer,  read  a  memorial  sketch  of  the  late 
Hon.  James  Gregory  of  Marblehead,  a  resident  member. 

W  Uliam  H.  Montague  made  some  remarks  on  the  services  to  the  Society  in  its 
early  days,  of  the  late  Rev.  Samuel  H.  Riddel,  and  on  motion  of  the  Hon.  George 
^V  .  W  arren.  Mr.  Montague  was  requested  to  prepare  a  paper  on  the  subject,  with 
suitable  resolutions. 

Dpcember  6. — A  monthlj"  meeting  was  held  this  afternoon,  president  Wilder  in 
the  ■•iiair. 

Sidni-y  Brooks  read  a  paper  entitled,  "  Incidents  in  the  History  of  a  Cape  Cod 
To-.sii."'  ')Vhile  the  (laper  related  to  one  of  the  towna  (Harwich),  it  presented  cen- 
tciiniil  thoughts  on  Cape  Cod  as  Ctmnected  with  the  irieat  events  in  tlie  v\-orld"s 
history.  He  was  followed  by  remarks  from  Frederic  Kidder,  Dr.  William  M.  Cor- 
nell, and  the  Rev.  Edaiund  F.  >lafter.     Tlianks  were  voted  to  Mr.  Bvuoks. 

Tlu-  lilirarian  re[iorc<'d  tliat  during  November,  17  volumes,  6-1  pamplil.Ts,  besides 
otii.  r  :'.;-ticli>.:,  ha'i  bcsa  preseuied.  ^  A  letter  irom  Aaron  D.  Capcu  relating  to  Li-j 
dmati.ja  was  read. 

J  lie  f'onespondinu'  secretary  reported  letters  accepting  membership  from  tlie  Hon. 
Jjhn  B.  D.  Cog-weii  of  Yarmoath  Port,  M.  Armand  Guys  of  Boston,  is  resident, 


228  Societies  arid  their  Proceedings.  [April, 

and  from  the  Rt.  Rev.  Alexander  Grcgi^,  D.D.,  of  Galveston,  Texas,  and  George  A. 

Stookwell  of  P'jrl  lluron,  Mich.,  n>  con'e-poiulini:;  nioiiiber.s. 

Tlie  liiKti)rio;-^r:v>litT  vind  moniriria!  pkctiMies  nt  tlie  fjliuwing:  deceased  nienr.hfrs, 
viz.  :  tlie  Hon.  lienry  "\ViI*ui  of  Natick,  tlic  Hon.  Henry  P.  Haven  of  Now  I/.n' 
don,  Ct.,  Samuel  G.  Drake  of  liuc^t'in,  Wiili.iui  I).  Towne  of  Milford.  X.  H.,  Kii;ri, 
C  Rolte.  M.D.,  of  F.oston,  Goorire  Baty  iJlako  of  Brookline.  JoIki  \\'t!l>  Parker  i.t 
Boston,  Salomon  Alut^en  of  .\rnh"ni,  Xetlierlands,  Daniel  F.  Ciiild  of  Baston,  the 
Hon.  Gurdon  Trumbull  of  Hartfurd,  Ct.,  and  Abel  Ball,  M.D.,  of  Boston. 

RnODK-IsLAND    HISTORICAL   SoCIETY. 

Providence,  Tuesday,  D'Xcmlier  5,  1S7G. — A  stated  meotin?  vra.s  held  in  tlio  Cabinet 
on  Waterman  Street,  this  evening  at  Ih  o'cloek,  the  prcsideut,  the  Hon.  Samuel  G. 
Arnold,  in  the  chair. 

The  Kev.  Edwin  M.  St^ne,  the  librarian,  reported  a  large  li=-t  of  donations. 

The  Hon.  Samuel  G.  Arnold  then  read  a  paper,  entitled,  "  An  Historical  Sketch 
of  the  Town  of  .Middletown.  R.  I." 

Remark.-!  ^vcre  made  by  Prof.  J.  L.  Diman  and  the  Hon.  Zachariah  Allen,  and  on 
motion  of  the  foruier,  thanks  were  voted  to  Mr.  A'-nold  for  his  able  hi=toriea!  pajicr. 

Dcccmhrr  19. — A  nieeting  M-as  held  this  evening.  President  Arnohl  in  the  chair. 

Col.  John  Ward  of  Novi,-  York  read  a  paper  on  "The  Life  and  Services  of  Gov. 
Saiiij'.l  Vrurd  cf  Rh'.'dc  I<Liiid,"  giving  an  intorestii;g  account  of  the  part  taken  by 
Gov.  Ward  in  the  events  preceding  and  in  the  early  iiart  of  the  Revolutionary  war. 
G'lv.  Ward,  wlio  was  tlie  ari'-estoi  of  tlie  author  of  the  paper,  died  at  Philadeloiua, 
March  2tj,  1776,  while  representing  his  state  in  the  Continental  Congress.  William 
EUery  was  his  successor. 

After  remarks  by  Prof.  "William  Gammell,  LL.D.,  thanks  were  voted  to  Col.  Ward 
for  hi-^  paper. 

The  librarian  reported  a  list  of  donations. 

January  2,  1877. — A  meeting  was  lield  this  evening,  President  Arnold  in  the  chair. 

Rev.  Edwin  M.  Stone  read  a  paper  on  "  Rochambeau's  Army  in  America." 

Remarks  from  vice-president  Zacliariah  Alien  followed,  and  on  motion  of  A.  V. 
Jenks,  the  thanks  of  the  society  were  voted  to  the  Rev.  Mr.  Stone  for  his  paper. 

January  30. — A  meeting  was  held  this  evening. 

The  Rev.  Frederick  Denisou  of  Westerly  read  a  p>aper  on  the  "  History  of  tho 
Township  of  Westerly,"  supplemented  with  a  paper  upon  "The  Bivouac  of  Capt. 
John  Mason." 

After  '•emarks  bv  President  Arnold,  the  thanks  of  the  societv  were,  on  motion  of 
the  Hon  Seth  Padelford,  voted  to  the  Re-.  .Mr.  Denisoo. 

Fchr-uary  1.3. — A  meeting  was  held  this  evening  at  the  usual  time  and  place. 

The  Hon.  John  Russell  Bartlett  read  a  valuable  paper  on  "Arctic  Geography," 
giving  an  account  of  the  efforts  made  by  navig-ators  in  search  of  a  north-west  pas- 
sage, and  to  reach  the  north  pole,  from  the  earliest  times  to  the  present  day. 

Vice-president  Allen  a  id  President  Arnold  made  .«ome  remarks  upon  the  subject, 
and,  on  motion  of  the  former,  thanks  were  voted  to  .Mr.  Bartlett  for  his  paper. 

The  meeting  was  the  largest  held  for  some  time. 

New  London  County  Historical  Society. 

New  London,  Monday,  Noc.  27. — The  annual  meeting  was  held  in  the  common 
council  chamb'er  in  this  city  at  11  o'clock,  A.M.,  the  president  the  Hon.  La  Fayeite 
S.  Foster  in  the  chair. 

The  president  made  a  few  appropriate  and  well-timed  remarks  relative  to  the  deatli 
of  the  Hon.  Heury  P.  Haven  uf  New  London,  and  Jof-eph  G.  Lamb  of  Norwich,  both 
members  of  the  advisory  committee.  Remarks  were  also  made  by  the  Rev.  Dr. 
Daggett,  and  suitable  resolutions  adopted. 

At  twelve  o'clock  a  recess  was  voted  to  hear  the  annual  address  by  the  Rev. 
Thomas  L.  Shipman,  at  the  conference  house  of  the  First  Congregational  Church. 
The  subject  of  t!ie  add:e>s  was  "  Reminiscences  of  Olden  Times."  Thanks  vrere 
voted  to  the  Rev.  Mr.  Shipman  for  his  interesting  "  Reminiscences." 

The  following  IL-t  of  oiiicers  for  the  ensuing  year  was  elected  unanimously  : 

Presidtni — The  Hon.  L.  F.  S.  Foster,  of  Norwich. 

Vice-Prciidenfs—Ths  Hon.  Charlos  J.  McCurdy,  of  Lyme  ;  Dr.  Asiibel  Wood- 
ward, of  Franklin  ;  the  Hon.  F.  B.  Loomis,  of  New  London. 


1377.]  Societies  and  their  Proceedings.  229 

Advisory  Committee— Ti\c  Rev.  Oliver  K.  Uaa^ett.  of  New  London  ;  the  Rev. 
Ww.wu  V.  Anns,  of  Novvich  ;  tlio  H((n.  Williaiu  il.  Putter,  of  Mystic  River; 
William  H.  Starr,  of  New  London  ;  the  Hon.  John  T.  Wait,  of  Norwich  ;  tiie  Kev. 
Tlionias  L.  Sliipman,  of  Jewett  City  ;  the  tlMnoralfk's  Ualph  \\'iit;L-l.^r  of  New  L>n- 
d.>n,  Iliolia'd  A.  Wheeler  of  6tonIn;z:ton.  J.  P.  L'.  M.itiier  of  New  Lon<ion,  DaviJ 
A.  Well.'^  of  Norwieh,  (.Tfori,^e  W.  Ciuddard  of  New  London,  Jolm  W.  t^tfdii.an  of 
Norwich;  Me<.-r.s.  John  C.  Turner  of  Norwich,  Jnhn  W.  L'rary  of  iStwuinirton, 
Henry  1.  Gallup  of  North  Stonington,  Jaiues  GriswolJ  of  Lyme,  Ledyurd  BiU  of 
Lot^ton,  Daniel  l^e  of  New  I-ondon. 

iyxretary — .Mr.  William  H.  ^Stavr,  of  New  Loudon. 

Treasurer — Mr.  William  il.  Howe,  of  New  London. 

The  Kev.  Dr.  Arm?,  one  of  the  committee  to  whom,  at  the  f^^rmer  meeting  of  the 
fiociety,  was  referred  the  matter  of  determinin:.'  the  priority  of  the  foundin<^  of  the 
tirst  Congregational  church  at  New  Londim  and  that  of  Norwich,  reported  in  part, 
but  in  tiie  ah-cnce  of  the  other  two  members  of  the  committee  the  society  deferred 
action  until  a  future  meeting. 

The  Historical  SocnrrT  of  Delaware. 

Wilminqtnn,  Dec.  1,  1S76. — The  annual  meetini;;  was  held  this  evening;  at  the 
rooms  of  the  Society,  the  Kev.  John  Wilson,  vice-president,  presiding.  Tbie  follow- 
iug-  uHicfrs  for  the  ensuing  year  were  elected,  viz.  : 

President — Hon.  Daniel  ^L  Bates. 

Vice-Presidents— Vion.  John  P.  Coracgys,  Rev.  John  Wilson,  Hon.  T.  F.  Baj'ard. 

Recording  S'.rretari/ — Josenh  K.  Waiter. 

Corresponding  Secretary — Dr.  L.  P.  Bush. 

Librarian — Dr.  K.  P.  Johnson. 

Trcnsurer — Elwoo<i  Garrett. 

Historirirjrapher — Hon.  Leonard  E.  ^Yales. 

Directors — Kev.  Fielder  Israel,  William  D.  Dowe,  John  H.  Adams,  Col.  H.  S. 
McComb,  E.  G.  Bradford,  Jr. 

After  the  transaction  of  the  current  business,  Joseph  R.  "Walter,  from  tha  com- 
mittee on  revising  the  constitution,  reported  a  draft  which  was  considered  and 
adopted,  and  the  same  committee  was  requested  to  prepare  a  code  of  by-laws. 

December  14. — The  rooms  of  the  Society  were  well  filled  this  evening  with  a  high- 
ly appreciative  audience,  to  hear  the  litei-ary  exercises  of  the  annual  meeting. 

President  Bates  announced  the  following  standing  committees  for  the  ensuing 
year : 

•.*    Library— Dr.  R.  P.  Johnson,  Elwood  Garrett,  Rev.  W.  J.  Frost. 

Publications— Joseph  K.   Walter,  Kev.  F.  Israel,  ^V^  S.  McCauUey. 

Biography — Hon.  L.  E.  Wales,  Rev.  T.  G.  Littell,  C.  A.  Rodney. 

Donations— Dr:.  L.  P.  Bush,  J.  P.  Wr.les,  Thomas  S.  Bellah. 

Finance — Elwood  Garrett,  S,  A.  Macallisrer,  Dr.  A.  U.  Grimshaw. 

Chief  Justice  John  P.  Comegys  read  a  valuable  paper  on  the  Early  History  of 
Delaware,  for  which  the  thanks  of  the  Society  were  voted. 

Various  donations  were  announced,  after  which  the  members  and  invited  guests 
repaired  to  the  Ladies'  Bazaar,  where  they  partook  of  the  annual  supper. 

The  Virgixia  Historical  Society. 

Richmond,  Friday,  Nov.  lil,  1876. — A  meeting  of  the  executive  committee  was  held 
this  evening,  William  Green  in  the  chair. 

Ihe  subject  of  a  motto  for  the  seal  of  the  society  was  discussed,  and  several  mot- 
toes were  suggested  ;  but  the  sunji-ct  was  again  refcired  to  the  sub-committee  who 
have  had  the  matter  under  consideration. 

Robert  A.  Brock,  the  correspondinir  secretary,  read  letters  from  Joseph  Jucksoa 
Howard.  LL.D.,  of  London.  Kng..  the  Kev.  Edwin  A.  Dalrymple,  D.l).,  of  Balti- 
more, Md.,  and  General  Jamei  McDunald.  secretary  of  "the  Comaionwealth  of 
\  irginia.  Gen.  McDonald's  letter  enclosed  one  from  Lucius  E.  Chittenden,  of  New 
lork,  who  writes :  "  I  have  a  valuable  almanac  tor  the  year  1762,  wtiich  I  think 
balonged  to  the  Rev.  William  Douglas,  an  Episcopal  clergyman,  who  settled  ia 
<joochiand  county.  It  is  completely  iiileu  witii  notes  and  memoranda  of  thj  inos; 
VOL.    XXXL.  20* 


230  Xccrology  of  Hi'itorlc,  Genealogical  Society.       [April, 

intero.'^ting  character,"  &c,  &c.    llopi.s  ■^•ore  expressed  tliat  this  might  be  obtainc-i 

fur  t'lK;  j'jCicl^  . 

A  largo  li.st  of  donation.s  wore  reported  from  gentlemen  in  vanoiiB  part?:  of  the 
union  and  in  Knaland. 

It  vas  aniioun.'f,!  that  Dr.  I5acrby  had  prepared  a  lecture  v.-ritten  in  his  liappio-t 
vein,  on  "  The  Old  Virginia  ( ieutleinan,"  \y\\\dx  he  i>ropoFe-  deliverinj^  in  diHeront 
cities  of  the  statj,  the  proceeds  to  he  ajiplied  to  aid  the  proposed  subscription  for  ilic 
erection  of  a  iire-proof  building  for  this  society. 


NECROLOCxY  OF  THE  XEW-EXGLAXD  IITSTOrJC, 
GENEAEOGICAL  SOCIETY. 

Prepared  by  the  Rev.  Samcel  CeTLEK,  Historiographrir  of  tLe  Society. 

TIic  Hon.  Samtfj,  Hooper,  a  life-member  and  benefactor  of  this  Society,  and  at  hh 
deatli  ameuiber  of  Congress  from  the  fourth  Congve.-sional  D:.-trict  in  Ma.-.aehusetts, 
died  at  his  residence  in^'Wasliington,  D.  C.,on  Sunday  morning,  February  14,  1676. 
of  pneumonia,  aired  fi7  vears  11  davs. 

lie  was  born  in  lUarbiehead,  Iviass.,  Feb.  3,  1H03.  His  fother,  John*  Honp>.r, 
born  Fel-".  177G,  died  Dec.  U.  ISol,  was  a  descendant  in  the  tburth  mer.rTution  lr..;,i 
Benry^  //oojjtr  of  Marhlehead,  who  m.  March  11,  IGDl,  Mary  Norman,  througii 
ISathdniel,-  and  Robert^  wlio  m.  Mary  In^alls  {ante,  xsii.  253). 

In  the  twofold  aspect  of  merchant  and  legislator,  Mr,  Hooper  leaves  a  conspicu- 
ous record  among  the  prominent  men  of  Ids  time.  As  a  merchantacd  financier  his 
course  has  been  eminently  successful.  His  educational  advantages  in  early  life  were 
not  larae,  but  he  improved  them,  lie  spent  four  years  in  a  counting-rourn  in  Bu-^tun, 
and  then  represented  the  interests  of  his  father  (John  Hooper)  in  voyai:cs  to  Ru.-;ia, 
Spain  and  tlie  West  Indies.  In  1S32,  the  year  of  his  marriage,  he  took  up  Ids  re.-.i- 
dence  in  Boston,  engaging  in  the  China  trade  with  the  wt■ll-kno^f^  firm  of  Bi-yant. 
Sturgis  &  Co.,  witii  whom  he  became  junior  partner.  Ten  years  later  he  unireii 
with  the  house  of  William  Appleton  &  Co.,  and  upon  the  death  of  Mr.  Appleton 
became  the  head  of  the  firm,  continuing  its  large  and  varied  interests  under  tde  ^!^m 
of  S.  Hooper  &  Co.  As  a  director  of  the  Merchants  Bank,  and  as  interested  in  the 
development  of  railroad  enterprises,  Mr.  Hooper's  name  has  also  been  prominent. 

In  public  life  Mr.  Ilooper  has  been  honored  in  the  contideaoe  of  tlie  people  of 
Boston  :  First,  i'.i  Lis  election  as  a  member  of  the  Stare  House  of  Representatives,  in 
1851,  and  the  two  following  years,  wlien  \\>-  declined  a  reelection.  In  ISoShe  served 
a  sin<!:le  term  in  the  State  Senate.  His  business  engagements  prevented  iiis  accept- 
ance of  a  reunmination.  Second,  in  his  election  in  1661  to  fill  a  vacancy  in  one  ol 
the  Boston  districts  caused  by  the  resignation  of  the  Hon.  William  Appleton.  a 
member  of  the  37th  Congress.  He  was  sworn  into  oflice  on  Monday,  Dec.  2,  Isol, 
and  by  successive  reelecti.jns  continued  in  the  House  of  Representatives  till  his 
death.  He  declined  a  reelection,  so  that  ids  congressional  lire  would  huve  closed 
by  his  own  choice  on  the  -Ith  of  March,  1875.  ^For  ten  years  Mr.  HuOper  was  a  use- 
ful and  active  member  of  the  Committee  on  Ways  and  Means. 

In  the  organization  of  the  committees  of  the  4-d  Cungress,  Mr.  Hooper  was  made 
chairman  oT  the  Committee  on  Banking  and  Currency.  As  he  had  given  much 
thought  to  public  finance,  he  entered  intelligently  upon  his  duties,  and  was  prominer.t 
in  shaping  a  policy  made  neccssiry  by  t'.ie  exigencies  of  the  war  of  the  rebelliou, 
and  in  aidinir  the  Secretary  of  the  Treasury  in  his  plans. 

At  the  coir.roencement  of  the  i3d  Congre.-s,  Mr.  liji-ace  Maynard  wi'.s  made  chair- 
man of  the  Conuuittee  im  Banking  and  Currem-y,  and  Mr.  Hooper  was  made  chair- 
man of  the  Committee  on  Colna'^e,  Weights  rnd  Measures.  \\  ith  In-;  acoust  auC'J 
fidelity  he  atteniled  to  the  duties  of  his  new  p-sition.  His  reputati^'U  was  tliat  "t 
an  ethcient  worker  rather  than  a  ready  orator,  although  he  was  able  to  explain  w.'t.i 
clearness  and  precision  his  re-isons  tor  the  measures  he  advocated  or  opposed.  He 
was  industrious  and  UEOStentatious. 

Socially  Mr.  Hooper  was  hospitable  and  genial.  Nor  were  the.-e  traits  C':nL't:e(J 
to  men  of  his  own  party;  for  those  holding  diverse  and  Conflicting  views  were  wel- 
come to  his  liberal  board. 

He  married  Anne,  dauglitcr  of  William  Sturgis  of  Boston,  June  U,  1^2-2.  i^■^■^ 
wife,  two  daughters  and  several  ::randchildren  survive. 

He  was  admitted  a  member,  Feb.  16,  185b. 


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The  Hon.  ALr.FUT  Fearing,  a  life  mcmhcr,  died  at  his  rthidence  in  Iliughnm, 
J!  i.--.,  Miiy  -1,  11^73,  n.f^cd  77  yrs.  2  iiidh.  I'j  ils. 

Hewi'.s  Itiirn  in  llini:!iivm  on  the  ICtli  .-f  -Marcn,  17i)3.  of  hi;i,hly  respectable  parent- 
n^e.  beini?  tlu  sun  ol  Jliiwko  and  Leah  Fearing.  His  iiictlicr  ^va^  a  duiighciir  ol  tiio 
lirtc"  Knock  Lincoln.  He  wa.s  educated  at  the  public  ecliool  ul'  \i\»  native  town.  Tn 
his  ininority  he  removed  to  ^Vurcestcr,  Mats.,  and  was  ia  the  employ  of  his  unelc 
Abraiiam  Lini'oln,  a  noted  ajictheiary  in  that  town.  On  altaiiun;f  liis  m;i,ji)iity  he 
returned  to  Hini^ham,  and  entered  into  bu-^iness  with  his  older  brother  Daviil,  under 
the  tirni  of  ]).  &  A.  FearinLi.  At  about  the  aL^u  i,r  thirty-live  he  came  to  i'o.-.Con, 
Rud  establislud  luni.-elf  as  a" .ship  chandler,  und^-r  cho  t^tyle  of  Albert  I'Varini^  cc  Co., 
Mr.  Itaviii  ^V'hiton  bein;^  hie  [lartner.  In  l^iA)  tlie  lirni  v,as  chanired  to  Ft.arini.^, 
Tliatcher^-  \Vhiton,  continuing;  under  this  style  until  1S.')7,  when  it  became  Fearing, 
Thatcher  Jo  Co.  Tiiis  co-partnership  v\a.s  dissolved  Jan.  1,  IbGcs,  and  Mr.  Fearionj 
retired.  .  ... 

As  a  business  man  ^Ir.  Fearing  held  a  high  position.  Possessing  superior  busine.?.'* 
talents,  iiis  mercantile  operations  were  successful.  A=  his  means  and  business 
increased,  he  became  identilicd  with  the  Hinghain  Cordage  Company,  the  Lawrence 
Duck  Company,  and  the  factory  at  riyuioi'th,  gaining  in  the  progress  of  years  uiuch 
wealth,  and  a'higli  reputation  as  an  upright  nam  and  honorable  niorehant._ 

As  a'politician Mr.  Fearing  was  well  known,  an(.l  for  many  years  gave  his  he  arty 
Fupport  to  such  men  and  measures  as  met  his  approval.  He  wat  a  Clay  and  Webster 
"Whig.  He  A>"as  a  member  of  the  city  and  county  committee  in  the  celebrated  and 
excitmg  Harrison  campaign  of  1840.  He  was  one  of  the  electors  ior  President  in 
18-lS.  on  the  election  of  Zaehary  Taylor.  He  was  elected  to  the  senate  of  Massachu- 
sctls'ln  1841.  He  was  piv.-ideik  of  tlie  ]5oston  Port  and  Seamen's  Aid  Society,  presi- 
dent of  the  "  Children's  xMissiou,"  and  al-o  pre>ident  yf  the  "  Honie  for  Aged  .'\]en." 

In  his  native  town  his  memory  will  be  fragrant  as  uiie  of  the  principal  founders  of 
the  Hingham  Agricultural  and  I'ortioultural  Society.  He  gave  .•sG,000  toward  the 
building  now  occupied  by  that  society,  and  contributed  additional  sums  to  defray  its 
expensijs.  He  was  also  the  iounder  of  the  Hingham  Fuldic  Library,  having  given 
more  than  $30,000  to  the  building  fund,  and  for  the  purchase-  of  bouks. 

Thus,  in  larger  measure  than  is  common  with  men  of  large  means,  he  was  his  own 
almoner.  He'enjoyed  the  luxury  of  duing  good,  with  a  purtinn  of  that  with  v,-iuch 
Gud  had  prospered  him.  And  now  that  he  has  gone,  we  hnd  he  has  devised,  and  as 
it  would  seem  most  judiciously,  an  unknown,  but  probably  large  amount  for  the 
Children's  Mission,  and  other  religious  and  charitalile  purposes. 

Mr.  Fearing  leaves  no  family.  He  married  Miss  Catherine  Gushing  Andrews, 
dauchter  of  Mr.  Thomas  Andrews,  wdio  died  before  him. 

He  was  admitted  to  resident  membership,  ^lay  10,  1S47. 

Charles  Douglas  CLEvr:LAND,  M.D..  of  Boston,  a  resident  member,  was  born  at 
Royalton,  Yt.,  Sept.  25.  1818 ;  died  in  Hnst^jn,  Nov.  20,  IS75,  aged  57. 

He  was  the  sun  of  Jedediah  and  Harriet  B.  (Randall)  Cle\eland.  Part  of  his 
education  was  at  Dartmouth  College,  Hanover,  N.  H.  Subsequently  he  attended 
a  course  of  medical  lectures  at  Wuudstock,  Vt.  He  began  his  profeesiunal  life  in 
Chester,  Vt.,  wdiere  he  continued  five  years.  He  then  removed  tu  Boston,  ^lay  16, 
1846,  and  in  this  larger  sphere  was  a  successful  practitioner  in  medicine  until  his 
death. 

"  Dr.  Cleveland,"  writes  a  friend,  "  is  mourned  by  all  who  knew  him;  for  as  a 
friend  as  well  as  a  physician  his  place  can  never  be  tilled  in  the  hearts  and  homes 
where  his  kindly  face'was  always  sought  for  to  soothe  the  sick  and  suffering,  and 
never  in  vain." 

He  married  Stella  L.  Deming.  of  Chester,  Vt.,  in  Dee,  1843.  They  had:  I, 
Charles  E.,  born  in  Chester,  Vt.,  May  15,  1845,  who  died  in  Boston,  Aug.  .3,  l'-^16  ; 
2,  Frank  i).,  burn  in  Brandon,  Vt.,  Feb.  3,  1851 ;  3,  Lizzie  T.,  also  byrn  in  Brandon, 
Aug.  25,  18fi2.     They,  with  their  mother,  are  living. 

He  was  admitted  to  this  society,  April  20,  1658. 

JosircA  PrTNAM  Pre-stox,  of  Boston,  a  resident  member,  was  the  son  of  Capt. 
Joshua  and  Mrs.  Sarah  Augusta  (  Wvman)  Preston,  and  was  born  dune  20,  i^\}^,  in 
Hu.ston,  wiicre  bodied  Dec  10,  lb76,'au<d  6H.  il,.-  paternal  grandlather  was  .Jjha 
Preston  of  Danvers.  His  maternal  grandfather  was  Abijaii^  Wyman  of  Asiilcy, 
e-jn  of  Abijah-'  of  Lancaster  (No.  124  "in  Wynian  genealogy,  KtCiSTfR,  iii.  37),  who 
m.  Abigail  Smith,  Aug.  8,  1744. 


232  Necrology  of  Historic,  Genealogical  Society.      [April, 

Mr.  Preston  baa  all  his  life  been  a  citizen  of  Boston.  He  receivc-d  his  ediu-ution 
at  tl;e  IJostoii  Latin  ,Scliu(;I,  an-l  Icarnci  his  businoHS  of  th.,-  f  )niiei-ly  Wfll-kn-jsvn  lin'u 
of  Hurtlett  it  fJrtwer.  Ife  turiK'd  hi.s  attfiiti'm  to  tiie  iijami(a<:Cure  uf  fliornicals 
and  soon  becaMe  one  of  tlio  bc-st  known  chfuiistB  in  New  Knirland.  lie  wa^  fijr 
many  year.s  tiic  senior  partner  of  the  lioiLse  of  Preston  &  M-.-rrill,  retirintr  1i-,,d,  ij 
but  a  icw  yetirs  t^ince  in  ;,-oiisi'r|uenee  of  impaired  health.  As  a  business'' man  he 
sustained  tlie  ciiaracter  of  a  thoron-rhly  Cunseienlioiis  and  uprijilit  merchant  and 
Dianufiieturer.  To  lii.s  family  he  was  a  thou-htful  and  devoted  Imsljand  and  fallier 
ever  ready  to  Pacriiiee  his  own  to  otiiers'  couifort.  He  leaves  an  ample  fortune' 
acquired  t)y  loni;  application  to  legitimate  business,  not  by  speeulatiou,  in  whieii  he 
never  indulged,  and  the  bettor  legacy  of  an  unsullied  reputation. 

Mr.  Preston  married  Jiarah,  dau.  of  Samuel  and  Lucv  (Davi^)  Somes  of  GIoucp- 
ter,  iMass.,  by  whom  he  had:  1,  Samuel  Somes;  2,  "Uoralio  Wyman;  3,  Joshua 
Clarence. 

iliti  membership  in  this  society  dates  from  Aug.  27,  1864. 

JoR.v  Wells  Parker,  of  Boston,  a  life  member,  was  the  son  of  Samuel  and  Euscbia 
(Moore)  Parker,  and  was  born  April  21,  ISOO,  in  Koxbury,  Mass.,  where  ho  died 
Jiuie  3,  1875,  aged  (i6. 

He  \vas  a  de.-eeadant  in  the  7th  generation  from  SarnueV-  Parker  of  Dedham  and 
vyifo  Sarah  Uoliuan,  through  Nathaniel'  and  wife  Mar^^'aret  AViswel! ;  Nutth'  and 
wife  Sarah  Cummings  ;  Thomas*  and  wife  Eunice  Hammond  ;  Joseph^  and  wife 
Eunice  Carver;  and  Samuel^  (his  father),  b.  June  3,  1777,  d.  June  9,  18:il.  John 
"\\  ei!s^  Parker  was  married  to  Caroline  Augusta  Durant.  at  I'oxbury,'  July  L'l).  JS51. 
by  Kov.  George  Putnam,  and  had  :  1,  Frank  Wells;  2,'A0r,ie  iJi.raut ;  Z,  Jane  Aii- 
gusta;  \,  Aliee  Moore.     TIjc  two  last  named  died  in  infancy. 

Mr.  Parker  had  brothers:  Benjamin  F.,  born  Nov,  21,"l810,  died  18-14  :  Joseph 
C,  born  Feb.  7,  1S13. 

Mr.  Parker  received  a  good  practical  education  at  the  schools  in  Koxbury,  includ- 
ing the  Latin  Sclnxd.  Me  then  entered  the  service  of  Mr.  William  Davis,  who  car- 
ried un  a  mercantile  bu&ineis  in  Boston.  In  1653  he  was  with  Mr.  Enoch  Train  03 
book-keeper,  and  remained  with  him  until  he  gave  uu  business.  Subsequently  he 
held  au  office  as  assi-^ta.nt  in  the  city  treasury  dei)artment  of  Boxbury,  which  he 
retained  until  the  annexation  of  Koxbury  to  Boston.  He  then  t,jok  the  pli'.ee  of 
assistant  treasurer  and  secretary  in  the  Koxbury  Institution  forSavioTS,  which  ofSces 
he  held  until  five  weeks  before  his  death.  ° 

Mr.  Parker  was  one  of  the  founders  of  the  Prince  Society,  and  its  treasurer  for 
jSve  years,  from  its  organization  in  IS58  to  1S63.  He  was  a  member  of  th^  old 
Norfolk  Guards  and  was  clerk  of  the  company  under  Captains  Spooner  and  Gibbs. 
Of  the  Koxbury  AtheusDuui  he  was  treasurer,  and  v\as  alsc  a  devoted  officer  of  the 
Koxbury  Charitable  Society. 

He  was  admitted  a  member  of  the  society,  Feb.  10,  1851. 

Jasper  Hazex  York.  M.D.,  of  Dover,  N.  H.,  a  life  member,  was  born  in  Lee. 
N.  H.,  Feb.  27,  1816  ;  died  in  Dover,  N.  H.,  April  7,  1674,  aged  58  years  1  month 
10  days. 

He  was  the  fifth  child  and  third  son  of  John  and  Ptebeeca  Stevens  (Dur"-in)  York. 
About  two  years  after  his  birth  his  father  removed  to  Kochester,  N.  II.  ''llis  early 
advantages  for  an  education  were  limited  to  the  district  school  for  about  three 
months  in  the  year.  Asa  boy  he  manifested  a  taste  for  studv,  and,  as  he  "-rew 
older,  feeling  het^hould  not  be  content  to  si)end  his  life  on  a  "farm,  he  deeide^l.  if 
possible,  to  fit  himself  for  tiie  medical  profession.  A  part  of  his  [trelirainary  studies 
were  at  Phillips  Academy,  Exeter.  He  studied  medieine  with  Dr.  Cahin  Cutter  in 
Dover,  N.  11. ;  subsequently  with  Dr.  John  C.  Warren,  and  at  the  Harvard  MediV.il 
School,  Boston.  He  was  a  graduate  of  that  school,  Au^r.  23.  1813.  In  October,  the 
eame  year,  he  commenced  tlie  practice  of  medieine  in' South  Eioston.  His  success 
was  soon  as--ured,  and  from  that  time  his  practice  rapidly  increased.  lie  at  once 
became  distinguished  as  a  surgeon,  and  was  noted  ft>r  his  clear  insight  and  excellent 
judgment  in  diagnosis. 

In  1851  his  profes?ionaI  calls  were  so  great,  and  his  labors  so  exhaustin'',  as  to 
impair  his  genera!  health.  From  the  prostration  iie  never  fully  recovered,  fn  I85fi 
he  g-ave  up  his  practice  in  South  Boston,  and  returned  to  his  old  hi^me  in  Koeher-ter, 
N.  H.  The  two  following  years  his  health  had  eo  far  improved  that  he  returned  to 
South  Boston  to  resume  his  practice,  and  to  find  that  the  rest  of  two  years  had  not 
given  him  power  to  endure  the  exhaustive  labor  of  his  city  work.    His  bu^inesd 


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incrcaseil,  but  his  streni^tb  fliileJ,  so  tliat  in  1863  he  again  left  Boston  and  went  to 
]!over,  X.  II. 

In  M;iy,  1SG4,  he  entorefl  the  service  of  the  United  States  as  actm?  assistnnc  sur- 
ccon,  U.S.A.  He  wa.-;  stiitii)ned  at  Fairfax  Seminary,  and  Judiciary  S.iuure 
hospitals,  in  all  ahout  sis  nioiuii-;.  UiMjn  leavini;  the  tervice  he  retiu-ned  to  Boston, 
nnd  then  lo  Dover  ■v\here  he  re.^ided  till  his  death. 

Dr.  York  ^\•as  marked  hy  a  str.^nir  intellect,  hy  fine  literary  and  .ceicntific  tastes. 
He  was  a  i,'reat  reader  and  dee])  tlunker.  His  inliueuce  ^vas  pu.-:itivc.  He  was  a  man 
of  decided"' opinion'^,  who  had  hi-^  enemies  as  widl  as  frieiuls.  Of  a  warm-ljearted, 
genial  temj^erament,  he  was  a  hivorite  witli  his  ass.>eiates.  He  was  a  tlioroiigh 
anti-?lavery  man,  and  used  his  money  and  his  inllnence  lur  the  reliel  of  the  duv/n- 
trodden  and  oppressed.  Ho  manifested  his  interest  in  education  by  servin;?  on  the 
school  committees  in  Kcstun  and  Dover,  where  his  usyiol  .-ervices  were  so  marked  as 
as  to  inspire  confidence  and  carne-tness  araon^^hhs  associates. 

He  married,  July  5,  ISGO,  Mary  Elsie  Watts,  of  South  Boston,  who,  with  a 
daughter  born  about  18GB,  survive  hirn. 

He  was  admitted  a  member,  March  2,  1857. 

AvnriJTvs-  Toiv.vjend  nALL,E*q.,a  life  member  and  benefactor, -was  born  in  Boston, 
on  Hanover  near  Cross  Street,  An;;.  30,  ITUS.  He  died  at  his  residence,  67  Beacon 
Street,  Boston,  Nov.  '22,  1S75,  aa;ed  77.  ,  .  , 

Mi-.  Hall  reixived  his  early  education  at  the  Eliot  Grammar  School.  At  his  grad- 
uation he  received,  then  anion::  the  first  is;-:ued,  the  Fnniklin  medal,  which  sives 
evidence  of  his  youtliful  abilicv'and  industry,  and  which  even  in  his  later  years  lie 
hii^hiv  prized.  He  bci:an  his  business  life  as  clerk  in  tlie  wholesale  crockery  store  of 
Mr.  Michael  :\Iellen,  on  Merchants  Bow.  At  the  age  of  twenty-two  he  began  business 
in  his  own  name.  • 

In  February,  ISIG,  he  retired  from  the  crockery  trade,  built  several  vessels,  and 
purchased  others,  which  were  employed  in  the  East  India  and  South  American  busi- 
ness. Before  the  war  of  the  rebellion  a  considerable  number  of  his  vessels  were 
engaged  in  cotton  transportation.  For  the  last  five  years,  having  disposed  of  his 
shippinii  interests,  he  was  occupied  as  a  representative  of  the  different  compa- 
nies witli  which  he  Wcis  connected.  In  1831  Mr.  Hall  was  chosen  a  director  in  the 
Tremont,  now  Treniont  National  Bank,  and,  in  IS-U,  its  president,  which  oiEce  hs 
held  until  aeath.  Fur  fortv  years  past  he  has  very  acceptably  filled  the  o/Tice  of  trea- 
eurer  of  the  Xew  England  Glass  Company.  He  has  been  president  of  two  manufac- 
turing companies,  and  a  director  in  other  manufacturintj  and  insurance  conioanies. 
He  ^^•as  also  an  active  and  strung  friend  of  the  Sailors'  Snug  Harbor,  in  which  cor- 
ponition  hi  held  the  ofHce  of  director.  ,   ,  -    i 

Mr.  Hal'  s  success  in  the  variety  of  business  engagements  through  his  long  life, 
humanly  speaking,  is  due,  if  we  rightly  apprehend  his  characteristics,  to  his  ^un- 
tiring industry,  his  methodical  arrangement  of  time,  his  remarkable  punctuality, 
his  good  judgment  in  planning,  his  energy  in  executing  his  engagements,  and  his 
courteous  and  upright  dealings  with  all  men. 

Mr.  Hall  leaves  a  widow,  and  one  child,  the  wife  of  the  late  Mr.  Monroe,  of  the 
firm  of  John  Munroe  &  Co.,  bankers,  Paris,  France. 

He  was  admitted  a  member,  Dec.  30,  1871. 

The  Hon.  Benjamin  Pomerot,  a  corresponding  member,  admitted  March  5,  1859, 
wa::;  bo'-n  Nov.  2,  1818,  in  Nortli  Stonington,  Conn.  He  was  a  descendant  in  the 
seventh  seneration  from  Eltwood  or  Eltwred'^  Pomcroij  (the  first  of  the  family  in 
New  England,  who  landed  at  D^jrchester,  Ma.^s.,  in  1630,  but  soon  after  removed  to 
Windsor  Conn.,  and  in  1673  died  in  Northampton,  Mass.),  through  Mcdad,"  Jo- 
s-'pk,^  Benjamin*  Elihu,^  and  Benjamin^  his  father.  His  educational  a'ivantagea 
Were  good,  and  his  father,  himself  a  prominent  lawyer  in  New  London  county,  in- 
tending him  for  the  bar,  fitted  him  for  college  ;  but  his  inclinations  at  that  tims 
Were  opposed  to  the  profession,  thouixh  in  after  life  he  often  expressed  his  reu^et 
that  his  father  had  not  insisted  on  thTs  course.  So  strong,  however,  was  his  desire 
f'.ir  a  mercantile  life,  that,  at  the  aire  of  sixteen,  a  clerkship  was  obtained  for  him 
with  Amos  Shefrield  of  Saybwuk,  Conn.  Soon  after  Cumins:  of  age,  he  became  a 
«-!erk  in  the  wholesale  dry-i,oods  house  of  Browning  &  Co.,  New  York.  In  lS-13  he 
went  into  tliat  business  with  Benjamin  F.  Browning,  under  the  firm  of  Browning  k 
Pouu-roy.  This  partnership  was  dissolved  in  1318.  In  June  of  the  same  year  he 
married  Mary  Josephine  Bulkley,  dau.  of  Capt.  Andrew  and  Mrs.  Sarah  (Dimon) 


'2M  Necrolofjy  of  Historic,  Genealogical  Society.      [April, 

Ba!k.;IeyorSoutIiport,  Ct.  (see  Chapman's  Bulkeley  Genealogy,  pp.  209 and  231),  and 
*?-iM  "'?  '^'"^  !r-i,unce  in  tliat  place.  In  \>s2,  li.j  l.icauie  a  jiinioi-  [)artrier  in  the  !irii! 
•  ^  ,  V';'*v"^  Davids  ic  Co.,  manufuctiTn'is  of  ink,  >.:-tlinic-\va.K.  waters  and  mufila-o, 
lu  wliica  he  made  many  .succet^sful  experiincnt.i  and  inipnivenipnts.  On  the  hreakuc' 
out  ut  the  late  war  ho  took  an  active  part  in  politics,  and  in  Ihtili  was  elected  i)y  the 
republicans  a  representative,  and  in  1865  a  state  senator,  liis  lieaith  iailing  him 
about  tins  time,  he  was  ohliired  to  give  no  busincs.-^,  and  tried  various  renit;dii':) 
vritiiont  hencht.  In  October,  1S60,  he  saih-d.  acconipani.-d  hv  a  physician,  fur  the 
Island  of  St.  Croix,  West  Indies.  Here  he  died  on  the  'l-itXx  o"f  Deceniher,  a^rtd  4>f. 
Hg,  was  a  rnan  of  strict  inte;rrity,  of  decided  views  on  all  subjc-ts  with  which  he 
was  acquainted,  yet  jKilite  and  perHua-^ive  in  ciminunicatinir  them  toothers,  lli« 
public  spirit  and  Lcenerosity  are  well  attested  hv  many  public  improvements  in  his 
own  town.  _  lie  was  greatly  interested  in  genealn:,Mc,il  and  hi-torical  rescarehcs. 
Hekdt  a_  widuw  and  three  children,  nanieiv  :  Benjamin,  the  writer  of  the  sketch  'A 
which  this  13  an  abstract;  Josephine  Bulk/ey,  wiio  dird  Oct.  10,  IbG-S  ;  and  Mar^/ 
Frances.  >  j  j 


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Mar3'  wuvis  ',uiua,or  JKoxhury,  „uu  vid-  uinn  i^eu.  -.i.  iou/,;uiu  mru  ^iiii.  ij,  looi. 
iihe  was  the  daughuer  of  Samuel  and  Sarah  (Mears)  Guild  of  Koxbury.  In  tlie  Iv.-a 
*^v,-i  r  ^^^^^'  ^"'  ^■^'  '°  ^^''^"^  measure  coiit[>ensated,  in  the  kind  attentions  ot  his 
chddren,  two  daughters  and  th.-ee  sons,  who  were  a  source  of  common  happin-.ss  in 
iis  later  years.  The  eldest,  Mary  Louisa  Everett,  horn  May  27,  I'-lll  ;  m.  F'-unoi.s 
iiush.  2,  Franklin  David,  b.  Nov.  24,  1842.  is  Superintend.^nt  of  the  llinkiey 
\Vorks  3.  George  Frederick,  b.  Aug.  9.  1S44  ;  m.  Alice  Ilunnewe':!  of  Br. -kiine, 
>Jl^'',  '.f^'^-  ^'  ^^'liiLiei  Guild,  b.  July  21,  1849.  5,  Sophia,  b.  June  3,  1^.33;  m. 
Charles  ilarback.  of  New  York,  June  7,'  187G. 

Mr.  Child  was  favored  v>-ith  a  common  Boston  school  education.  His  immediate 
surroundings  made  him  familiar  with  trade  an.l  business  transactions,  in  widid.  he 
was  generally  successful,  enabling  him  to  deal  liberally,  satisfactorily,  and  even 
gciierously  in  all  cases.  He  was  reticent  with  regard  to  the  pecuniary  aflii's  of 
others  as  well  as  his  own;  but,  when  required,  ^ave  a  frank  and  candid  replv  w:;!ch 
could  always  be  relied  on.  Ever  willing  to  reward  to  tlie  uttermost,  he  would  s..oner 
go  oyer  the  mark  than  be  charged  with  injustice.  Tenacious  of  his  opinion,  and 
nrm  in  his  protest  against  public  wl•on:,^  he  was,  in  his  private  relations,  t!ie  mo^t 
genia!  of  men.  Thus  an  even  and  tranquil  life  was  his  lot,  and  the  regard  of  his 
tellov,--men  his  reward. 

Mr.  Child  was  treasurer  of  the  "  Boston  Locomotive  Works,"  and  for  fortv-two 
^t^jr  f '"-"^'^/'•'  of  t'lat  and  the  several  corporations  wduch  succeeded  it,  namely,  the 

llinkleyand  Williams  Locomotive  Works,"  and  the  present  '•  Hinkley  I.ocoiaotive 
Works.  He  had  naturally  a  mechanical  mind,  wnich  iu;iined  iiim  to  this  empljv- 
ment^.  In  the.se  and  in  other  trusts  committed  to  him  it  is  presumed  he  gave  entire 
satisfaction,  in  view  of  his  characteristic  integrity  and  intelligence  in^ pecuniary 
matters.  °  i  •> 

He  was  admitted  a  member,  April  9,  1870. 

Abel  Bali.,  M.D.,  resident  member,  of  Boston,  was  born  at  Northboro',  Mass., 
Dec.  ^  IblO.     He  died  at  Philadelphia,  Nov.  3,  1676.  a'^ed  65 

He  w-as  a  descendant  in  the  8th  generation  from  John'  Ball  (said  to  be  from  Wilt- 
shire, Eng.),  who  with  two  sons  settled  in  \Vatert.,wn,  Mass.,  wherj  he  d.  in  ir..-,.3; 
through  7t>/m-oiW.;  John?  oi  VVatertown  and  Cuncjrd,  b.  1314,  m.  S.^rah  Bal- 
lard; Jani's*  uf  Uatertown  and  Northboro',  b  1070.  m.  Eii-bsth  "^is-s-  Jcmes," 
$i  Vu?    .•  ^^'H'  Siephrn,^  of  N.,  b.  1733,  m.  .Mary  F.^irbacko;  and  Jr.  SL.vha^  of 

'ri^^i '"■'''''        ^'^''^  "^-  ^^'''''^  Lincoln,  of  Hin-,d;am. 

Dr.  Ball  studied  medicine  with  his  futher  in  Nortiiboro',  Ma^;s.  He  recdved  the 
degree  of  .M.J.  from  Bowdoin  College  in  1837.  .sinco  which  he  hcs  been  m  the 
practice  of  d-ntistry.     He  marri-^d  Elizabeth  R.  (.diild. 

Ine  <ii>it'i  '^r  Dr.  Ball  was  very  .ieiden.  He  was  on  a  vi^it  to  Plaladelohia,  and 
ma  attended  the  Centennial  Exhibition  during  the  day,  and,  on  his  reciirn  to  t!ie 
L-lobe  lljcel,  he  fell  dead  in  the  wash  room  in  the  act  of  putting  his  hand  to  the 
water  laucet.     ine  cause  oi  hiis  death  was  disea.se  of  the  heart. 


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His  relative  anj  fiitnd,  Mr.  Isaac  Child,  says  of  him  ;  "  His  reputation  for  skill 
in  lii.1  pror^.-.-ion  va.s  vo'-v  hi:^h.  lie,  was  truly  a  man  whoui  to  know  was  to  love. 
lie  lia.'i  a  iieart  as  tender  a?  a  ctiild'H,  and  liis  syniiratliies  were  ever  ready  to  fi..w 
out  to  every  ore  who  reeded  them.  Mis  amiableand  atlectiunate  nature  buund  lii.s 
friiuds  to  liim  in  the  «tron;i.:--t  ties,  and  deep  and  universal  will  be  the  mjurnin^,'  fur 
Lici  sudden  and  unexpected  departure."  '^ 

He  was  admitted  a  member,  Nov.  4,  loG5. 

Hon.  James  C.RF.fioRy.  of  Marblehead,  Ma.^'.,  a  resident  member,  was  bnrn  in 
Marbhiheicd,  (Jet.  21,  1700,  and  died  in  that  town,  with  wlu»sc  history  and  interests 
all  his  lite  had  been  connected,  Oct.  7,  lb7l,  aired  77  yrs.  11  mos.  10  dn.  He  wan  of 
En^i^lish  descent,  hi.s  ance^tiu-r*  t^ectHni,^  in  Le\crly,  Alase. ;  his  mother  wa.s  tho 
dauii^hter  of  Tlioma.s  and  3Iar.  (Elli.s)  Hooper. 

Mr.  (ire^'ory  married:  I.  in  June,  Ih-Jt,  Mrs.  Grei;;orv  (widow  of  his  brother 
Joseph),  who  died  in  1S.31.  -2,  in  July,  18.J9,  Mrs.  Mary  iJrown,  of  Salem,  widow  of 
C'apt.  Robert  Brown.  By  his  first  wife  he  had  nine  children,  s-even  of  whom  .survive 
him. 


In  briefly  tracing  the  euccfssful  and  useful  life  of  Mr.  Greirory.  we  find  that  in 


As.sociation  of  Salem. 

In  his  early  manhood  he  vv-as  one  of  tlie  pioneers  of  the  .shoe  business  In  his  native 
town,  and  such  was  the  scrupulnus  honesty,  the  characteristic  enertry,  and  eseeed- 
ing  care  with  which  he  coudueted  the  business,  that  tliose  able  to  judse  considered 
It  the  pecuniary  misfortune  of  his  life  that  he  withdrew  from  it  priur  tu  the  pi<r-:per- 
0U3  times  tliat  came  with  later  days.  During  these  years,  he  was  a  memU^r  of  ihc 
Board  of  Selectmen,  and  held  vari'.ms  offices  oV  trust  in  town  atiairs.  For  two  terms 
he  was  C.jllector  of  the  Customs  for  Marblehead  and  Lynn.  Subse.jiientiy  he  ixrire- 
Fented  Marblehcad  in  the  Holisc  of  Representatives,  and  afterwards,  Es-e\  Coiin^y 
in  the  Senate  of  Massachusetts.  For  forty  years  he  lield  a  commi^sioii  as  Xotary 
Public,  and  Justice  of  the  I'eace,  during  a  portion  of  the  time  as  a  trial  Justice  •  his 
impartiality  and  integrity,  tempered  with  kindness,  being  dietinguished  characteris- 
tics. During  these  years  he  also  acted  as  agent  for  claims,'  his  bu^in-.-s  beini>- 
largely  extended,  and  involving  a  vast  amount"of  correspondence.  To  thiVmay  he 
added  a  large  proportion  of  the  Probate  business  of  the  town,  the  drawing-  of  deer's 
and  of  wills.  =        -     -  > 

His  intercourse  with  his  feUow  citizens  was  characterize!  by  probity  above  su';- 
picion,  great  industry,  a  remarkable  intellectual  activity  nd  rare  conversiitional 
powers.  They  knew  him  as  one  who,  to  his  pecuniary  bss,  strove  with  men  as  the 
patient  peacemaker,  whom  the  Saviour  of  men  pronounced  '"  ble.ssed."  Tliey  knew 
him  as  the  tender  friend  of  the  many  poor  widows  and  fatherless  ones  in  their 
afflictions. 

In  his  family  and  social  relations,  he  was  a  most  tender  and  affectionate  husband 
father,  and  friend,  attending  to  the  minutest  wants  of  each  and  all.  "     ' 

Surrounded  by  a  sorrowing  tamily,  as  the  end  of  life's  labors  drew  nio-h  •  slowly 
and  painlessly  and  fearles^sly  he  passed  into  and  through  the  dark  valle\~.  declann'T 
his  trust  in  the  atoning  blood  of  Jesus  as  his  Saviour— thus  enteriijn'  into  Eest 

Admitted  to  membership,  Jan.  9,  1860.  '^ 

William  Elkavah  Doggett,  Esq.,  of  Chicago,  TIL,  a  correspondin "■  member,  was 
born  in  Assonec  ^  lUage,  Freetown.  xMass.,  Nov.  20,  1820 ;  died  at  Palatka,  Florida, 
April  3,  10,6,  aired  55  yrs.  4  mos.  6  ds. 

In  the  paternal  line  he  was  a  descendant  in  the  eighth  generation  from— 1,  Thomas^ 
Uog-ett,  of  Marshfield,  who  married,  Aug.  17,  11^54,  ttie  widow  of  John  Chillin-r- 
jvoith  ;  through  John,-  Tnomas,^  Thomas.-*  Son-on,^  Thojaas,^  E/kanahJ  his  fath-"^ 
<Jn  the  maternal  side  he  was  a  descendant,  in  the  eiirhth  generation,  from  Dr 
^mueP-  Fuller,  of  the  Ship  May  Flower ;  whose  son,  thc^Rev.  Samuel,-  was  the  tirsf 
minister  of  MiddleSwro',  whnse  granddaugliter,  Joanna*  Fuller,  was  married  to 
Ih.  mas  Doggett,  Dec.  11,  ITCd. 

Mu^^'  ^''S'-^^^^  ^'^^^  t'"^  junior  member  of  the  firm  of  Ward  &  Doggett,  Chica-n)  in 
If  n  t>  ^^  ^^™  ^^5^  changed  in  1W52  to  Ward.  Do-irett  &  Co.,  oil' the  admission  of 
Ji-  i>.  Bassett,  and  so  remained  till  1557,  when,  bylihe  death  of  JMr.  Ward,  D  H 


236  Booh  Notices.  [April, 

Hills  became  a  member  of  the  house,  unuer  the  style  of  Dngirett,  Bag.sctfc  &  IliH. 
Tlmsfl'i'  thirty  ytp.rs  lit*  Ir.vl  been  iiriminont  in  tlie  Bhoc  and  leather  business  uf 
Chicago, 
His  iiienibership  in  this  society  dates  from  April  29,  1605. 

Joshua  Perklvs  Converse,  Esq.,  of  Woburn,  Mass.,  a  resident  member,  wan 
born  iu  Woburn,  Dee.  16,  1814,  and  died  there,  March  10,  187G,  a^'ed  61  yrs.  3  inon. 

He  was  a  de-ccndanc.  in  the  fcjurth  i^eneration,  from  JosialO-  and  Sarah  Ei:an%  . 
Concersf,  throui:;h  Josi'i/i-  and  Hepzibah  Brooks  ;  Joshua,^  his  father,  who  m.  Pbcbo 
Perkins,  November,  1806,  at  W'ohurn. 

Mr.  Converse  had  been  a  life-long  resident  of  the  town  of  Woburn,  and  di.-l 
suddenly  of  epilepsy — a  disease  to  which  he  had  been  suljcct  in  youth,  and  which 
had  returned  to  trouble  him,  a  few  years  prior  to  !iis  death.  He  was  a  yraduato  at; 
Brown  University  in  1811,  and  wat^  a  member  of  botii  t!ie  Middlesex  and  Suffolk  bars. 
He  was  of  the  Ih-m  of  JMe^srs.  Converse  &  Kelley,  counsellors-at-law  in  tiie  city  of 
Boston.  He  filled  many  positions  of  trust  and  honur  in  Woburn,  and  was  one  of 
the  most  respected  citizens  of  the  town,  flis  father  died  a  few  years  since,  at  the 
great  age  of  101  years. 

He  was  admitted  to  membership,  Feb.  21,  1859. 


BOOK  NOTICES. 

Collections  of  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Societij.  Volumes  If.  and  III. — Fifth 
Series.  [Being  Vols.  I.  and  II.  of  the  Belknap  Papers.]  Published  at  the  charge 
of  the  AppletoD  Fund.  Boston  :  Published  by  the  Society.  M.DCcc.Lixvu. 
[8vo.  pp.  sx.  and  500,  viii.  and  461.] 

Letters  and  Docv/iunis  relating  to  Slavery  in  Massachusetts.  Edited,  with  a  Preface 
and  Notes,  by  Charles  Deane.  Repriu'.ed  from  the  Collections  of  the  Massachu- 
setts Historical  Society.  Cambridge:  Press  of  John  Wilson  i  Son.  1877.  [Svo. 
pp.  ii.  and  375-442.    twenty-five  copies  printed.] 

English  literature  is  peculiarly  rich  in  the  published  correspdhdence  of  scholars 
and  cultured  men  and  women.  Unlike  formal  treatises  on  such  subjects  as  law, 
Bcience,  history  and  art,  it  is  governed  by  no  rigid  rules  of  style  or  construction.  It 
is  sufficient  in  this  respect  if  the  ordinary  code  that  regulates  the  intercourse  uf  well- 
bred  and  friend iy  people  be  observed.  This  kind  of  writing  is  but  another  mode  of 
conversation  ;  and  those  elements  that  often  best  serve  to  interpret  spoken  language 
and  impart  to  ii  its  distinctive  charm, — the  varying  tones  and  intlections  ol  the 
voice,  the  play  of  features,  and  all  that  goes  to  make  up  the  individual  manner, — 
naturally  find  their  corresponding  expression  in  the  free  exchanire  of  written 
thoughts  and  feelings  between  persons  of  kindred  tastes  and  pursuits.  When  we 
come  to  read  such  communications,  if  we  know  enough  of  the  writers'  character 
and  surroundings,  and  enough  of  the  history  of  their  times,  we  are  able  to  plai,e  our- 
selves in  close  relations  to  tliem,  and  to  enter  into  their  spirit. 

If  this  kind  of  literary  intercourse  is  not  already  in  the  catalogue  of  "  lost  arts," 
there  is  reason  to  fear  that  it  is  being  rapidly  superseded  by  other  arts.  The 
newspaper,  the  review,  and  other  issues  of  the  periudical  press,  cheap  postal  facili- 
ties and  the  telegraph,  have  wrought  va.st  changes  in  the  character  and  extent  of 
such  private  correspondence.  It  is  not  reasonable  to  suppose  that  these  causes  will 
cease  to  operate  in  this  respect.  In  proportion,  therefore,  as  we  realize  this  fact,  wo 
shall  the  more  fully  appreciate  the  treasures  we  now  have  and  the  little  that  may 
be  in  store  for  us. 

To  this  cla>s  of  writings  belongs  the  chief  part  of  these  two  volumes  of  letters, 
being  the  conespondence  between  the  Rev.  Jeremy  Belknap,  D.D.,  the  "  Historian 
of  New  Hampshire  "  and  principal  founder  of  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society, 
and  Ebenezcr  Hazard,  Esq.,  whose  "  Historical  Collections,"  in  two  volomec,  b-.ar- 
ing  his  name,  are  lamiliarly  known  and  in  constant  use. 

The  first  letter  of  the  series  bears  date  29  January,  1779,  and  it  is  supposed  that 
their  acquaintance  began  about  this  time,  when  probaiily  Mr.  Hazard  v.as  on  a 
visit  to  New  England  in  his  official  capacity  as  surveyor  of  post-roads  and  otlices. 
He  was  already  engaged  ia  making  his  collection  of  original  papers  illustritive 


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cf  tfift  early  hi^^tory  oF  the  colonies,  anil  Dr.  Belknap  was  known  to  be  preparing 
':'-;  Hi«foiy.  TlK\y  were  t.ntli  in  scaruh  of  th'j  •^[wnv.  s'-attfTcd  and  precious  iiiucerial. 
This  vaH  the  mai^net  thjit  drew  them  to::erher,  ar.d  their  ac^uaiiitanco  soon  ripen- 
cd  into  relations  of  friendship  and  oonfidenci;. 

When  Dr.  L'elknap  entered  upon  the  ciiieC  literary  labor  of  liis  life,  there  was  not 
in  all  the  colnnies  what  <-7e  should  now  rc,::;ard  as  a  <;oud  workin:^  library.  Ic  is  not 
known  that  there  was  a  sin;j;le  historical  society  in  the  land  :  the  colonial  archives  were 
in  a  chaotic  state  :  many  of  the  nio'^t  iniportant  d>jcuinents  atid  manuscripts  were 
held  in  disi)ersi.d  and,  to  a  i^reat  extent,  in  unknown  private  iiands.  ilo  was  then 
settled  in  Dover,  N.  II.,  and  with  his  family  livin;,'  upon  a  email  salary.  The  people 
were  absorl^ed  in,  and  distressed  by  the  war.  All  means  of  communication  wc-re 
glow,  uncertain  and  costly.  Books  were  a  forbidden  luxury  to  a  country  clerf,'y- 
man  thus  situate  I,  and  to  employ  paid  copyists  was  quite  out  of  the  quehtii»n. 
In  view  of  these  (acts  we  may  in  some  dei^ree  estimate  the  appallini^  difficulties  Dr. 
Ik'lknap  encountered  in  the  prostcution  ot  his  literary  labors.  That  he  accomplished 
60  much  as  he  did,  will  forever  be  a  cause  of  marvel. 

These  difficulties,  the  anxieties  and  perplexities  incident  to  his  labor,  and  the 
steps  of  his  jirogress  to  the  end  are  revealed  in  these  letters.  His  correspon- 
dent had  ampler  means,  and  was  enterprising,  ubiquitous,  and  inquisitive.  The. 
latter  was  a  very  different  man  from  the  IlisCariaa  in  both  natural  and  acquired 
abilities,  but  he  was  a  man  of  affairs.  It  is  obvious,  therefore,  ttiat  his  friendship 
and  cooperation  could  not  fail  of  being  helpful ;  and  these  letters  prove  such  Uj  have 
been  the  fact. 

The  whole  correspondence  is  entertaining  and  valuable.  Did  ppace  permit,  we 
pbould  be  gliid  to  particularize  some  features  uf  it,  and  call  attention  speciiilly  to 
such  parts  as  seem  to  us  to  throw  new  liglit  on  n^  it  a  few  interesting  subjects.  These^ 
however,  the  reader  will  doubtless  see  for  himself. 

Appended  to  this  corresj^ondenoe  are  more  tlian  fifty  pages  of  letters  and  documents 
which_ chiefly  relate  to  slavery  in  jNIassachusetts.  In  IT'Jd,  when  the  question  of 
emancipation  was  engaging  the  attention  of  the  people  of  Virginia.  Judge  St.  George 
Tucker  of  that  state  addressed  a  series  of  relevant  inquiries  to  Dr.  Belknap.  The 
latter  opened  a  correspondence  with  several  of  the  most  eminent  and  Ijest  informed 
citizens  of  Massachusetts,  soliciting  infurmation  and  opinions  to  be  used  by  him  in 
his  reply.  .Most  of  the  answers  to  these  letters  have  been  preserved,  and  are  here 
printed  for  the  first  time.  They  are  important  in  several  respects.  A  few  copies  of 
these  letters  and  documents  relating  to  slavery  have  been  issued  in  a  separate  form. 

These  volumes  are  handsomely  brought  out,  under  the  editorial  supervision  of  a 
committee  of  which  Dr.  Charles  Deane  is  chairman.  He  has  furnished  appropriate 
introductory  remarks  and  foot-notes. 

It  only  remains  to  congratalate  the  Massachusetts  Historic  al  Society  on  its  having 
acquired  these  Papers.  This  tinal  disposition  of  them  could  not  but  be  agreeable  to. 
Dr.  Belknap  and  to  Mr.  Hazard  were  they  still  living.  A.  H.  IIoyt. 

Takott  Pedigree  in  England  and  America,  from  1558  io  187fi.  Compiled  by  S.  V. 
T.\LcoTT.     Albany:    Weed,  Parsons  &  Company.     1876.     [8vo.  pp.  316.     Index.] 

A  Genealogical  Record  of  the  Corliss  Family  of  America;  including  Partial  Records 
of  some  of  the  Families  connected  hi;  Intermarriage ;  am-^tig  ivhich  are  those  of 
Neff\Hutchins,  Ladd,  Eastman,  Rnby,  Ayer,  Kingsbury,  Merrick,  Haynes,  Messer, 
George,  Hastings,  Bailey.  Davis,  Dustin,  Pa/tee,  Hinds,  ^c.  Also,  Notes  on  the 
Corlies  Family.  First  Edition.  Compiled  from  Public  and  Private  Records  by 
AcGCSTCS  W.  Corliss,  assisted  by  Mrs.  Betsey  Ayer  and  Mrs.  Margaret  H. 
Webster  of  Haverhill,  Mass.     Yarmouth,  Maine  :   18^5.     [Svo.  pp.  337.     Index.] 

A  Genealogy  of  Samuel  Allen  of  Windsor,  Connecticut,  and  some  of  his  Descendants. 

By  WiLLARD  6.  Allen Boston:  Privately  Printed.     1876.     [Svo.  pp. 

76.     Index.     Price,  ,-52.] 

Jones  Records.  Nathaniel  and  Rachel  (Bradford)  Jones,  Ipswich,  Mass.^  and  some 
qf  their  Descendants.     A  Help  to  Family  History.     [18mo.  pp.  7.]. 

The  first  named  book  contains  the  result  of  more  than  forty  year^i  research,  and, 
what  is  mere,  of  siKcessful  research  ;  for  the  author  cot  only  has  been  able  to  give 
a  very  full  list  of  the  American  Talcotts,  but  to  cijonoot  tliem  with  the  English  family 
'Jt_  the  name,  and  to  trace  tlif-m  for  several  generations  in  that  country.  A  branch 
;1.- ^^.^^''^^^^i^-'kshire  family  of  Talcot  settled  in  Colchester,  in  Essex,  as  early  as 
*^-^,  irom  which  w;is  de-ronded  John  Talcot,  who  emigrated  to  New  England  in- 
Vol.  XXXI.  21 


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23S  Booh  JSTotices.  [AprIK 

1632.  From  him  all  of  the  name  in  this  country  are  sup^wsed  to  be  desoen'l.-i. 
He  was  uneof  tin;  Rev.  Mr.  Ilnukcr'.s  eoinixmy,  wliich  settleJ  tirst  at  Cainl>ri'l-..-, 
and  urtci'ward.s  reuioved  witii  him  to  llurttord. 

Tlie  portion  uf  tiiis  hi>v>!c  devoted  to  the'l'ilcots  in  En:;land  contains  the  wills  <,f 
Pereral  of  tlie  ancestors  ul  thi-  einiirrant.  Tlie  work  is  clearly  arranized,  and  hesid.s 
beiny  eiiihellislu'd  witfi  portraits  and  other  en^ravitii^s  has  many  foldin;^  tabular 
pedii,'rees  inter8persed,  thus  enablin;;  uoe  to  see  at  a  ^'•lanee  the  relationship  of  tlie 
diflereut  individuals  to  eacii  other.     The  tyiioi^ruphical  execution  is  cxeellenl. 

A  very  limited  edition,  only  sixty-two  co;)ies,  of  the  Corliss  genealogy,  the  second 
book  wiio3e  title  appears  ab  ive,  has  been  printed,  to  preserve  from  the  chance  (d' 
loss  the  sjenealoijical  material  which  Cape.  Au^u6tus  W.  Corliss,  U.S.A.,  the 
author,  and  others  have  been  many  years  colleetins:.  Iti  18-21,  Ephraim  Corlis.^ 
(b.  17rt-2,  d.  I808)  of  Haverhill,  Mass.,  havinir  many  fanuly  papers  and  a  taste  lor 
geneal.i^y,  bei^an  a  re-ord  of  this  family,  which  after  his  de-.ith  was  continued  ')y 
Mrs.  Betsey  (Corliss)  Aver  of  the  .same  place.  In  1H(>8,  Capt.  CVtrlisa,  who  kncv 
nothing  of  what  had  been  done  in  this  line,  commenced  hia  researclies,  and  ha.s  Ci^n- 
tinued  them  under  unusual  difficulties,  chieOy  from  the  change  of  station  by  the 
regiment  to  wliich  he  belongs.  ''  Began  in  (leorgia,  the  work,"  he  states,  "  has  been 
carried  on  in  North  and  Sjuth  Carolina,  Dakota.  Montana  and  Nebraska,  and  was 
completed  in  far-ofi'  Arizona,  Many  of  the  pages  were  prepared  after  long  marches 
in  the  wonderful  Yellowstone  countr}',  durinir  the  Yellowstone  Expeditions  of  18T-2-3, 
or  at  the  Spotted  Tail  Indian  Agency  on  White  Earth  River,  Dakota,  in  ISTJ  " 
The  precjs-wurk  of  the  volume  was  perfjrmed  on  a  small  hand-pres."?  at  Camp  .Mc- 
Dowell, Arizona. 

Tlie  author  deserves  great  credit  for  his  performance,  which  would  do  credit  if 
executed  under  more  favorable  circumstances.  He  wishes  new  material  and  correc- 
tions of  this  volume  addressed  to  him  at  Yarmouth,  Cumberland  County,  Maine; 
as  it  is  his  intention  to  prepare  a  second  edition.  In  case  no  other  edition  appears, 
hi3  note-books,  memoranda,  &c.,  are  to  be  deposited  with  the  New  England  liisioric, 
Genealogical  Society. 

The  early  generati«;;ns  of  the  Allen  gcneilogy,  appeared  in  the  Register  for  Octo- 
ber last.  Mr.  Allen  has  added  tlie  later  generations,  tliereby  greatly  extending  the 
work,  and  besid''S  an  index,  has  added  an  appendix  of  wills  and  other  documents, 
with  some  genealogical  matier  rel_ative  to  the  Cleveland  family.  He  has  made  au 
attractive  book. 

The  Jones  Records  are  by  the  Rev.  Augustine  Caldwell  of  Ipswich,  the  author  of 
the  Caldwell  genealogy,  noticed  in  the  Register  for  July,  1874  {ante,  xxviii.  356). 
This  pamphlet  is  probably  a  reprint  of  a  newspaper  article,  and  the  title  deseribea 
its  contents.  '  J.  W .  De^n. 

The  True  Bhie-Laws  of  Connecticut  and  T^cw  Haven,  and  the  False  Blue-Laws 
of,  invented  bi;  the  R^c.  Santuel  Peters,  to  which  are  added  Specimens  of  the  Laws 
and  Judicial  Proceedings  of  other  Colonies  and  some  Blue-Laws  of  England  tn 
the  Reign  of  James  1.  Edited  by  J.  1I.\.mmond  Trumbull.  Hartford,  Conn.  : 
American  Publishing  Company.     1876.     [12mo.  pp.  360.] 

In  A.D.  1781,  the  Rev.  Samuel  Peters,  a  native  of  Connecticut,  and  at  that 
time  a  political  refugee  from  his  enraged  countrymen,  found  a  printer  in  Lon- 
don for  his  "  General  History  of  Connecticut,"  in  which  he  forged  his  so-called 
".  Blue-Laws"  of  the  New  Haven  Colony.  He  could  not  successfully  contend  against 
a  mob,  or  a  whole  community  hostile  or  violently  patriotic,  but  he  could  write  and 
print  a  libel.  This  he  did  to  some  purpose  and  effect;  for,  from  that  day  to  tl;e 
present,  Peters's  fal.^e  and  burlesque  history  of  his  native  State  has  held  its  own 
against  exposures  and  refutations  repeatedly  made  on  the  highest  authority  and  in 
the  most  public  manner.  Grave  and  stately  historians,  poets,  rhymslers  and 
pamphleteers,  orators  "on  the  stump"  and  orators  of  the  lyeeum,  lawyers  before 
juries,  and  retailers  of  old  and  new  jokes  in  Europe  and  in  America,  have  persisted 
in  giving  renewed  life  to  the  malicious  falsehoods  and  silly  caricatures  published  by 
the  revengeful,  exasperated  and  mendacious  Peters.  And  so  we  fear  it  will  continue 
to  the  end  ot  Time  ;  for  it  .seems  to  be  a  law  of  human  nature  to  inherit  and  per- 
petuate historical  Error,  wliich  is  one  of  the  persistent  Forces  of  the  spiritual  World- 

But  if  this  old  and  senseless  slander  of  the  New  Haven  Colony  and  her  ancient 
laws  shall  continue  to  live,  it  will  not  be  the  lault  of  the  loyal  children  of  Connec- 
ticut,   The  Kingsleys,  father  and  son,  have  ably  and  thoroughly  exposed  the  utter 


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1877.]  Booh  JSFoiicts.  239 

faii>ity  (tf  Pctftrs's  History.  Now  Dr.  Trumbull  puts  his  rerutation  into  a  shape  that 
i.  lil;c!y  to  havo  ereatiT  publi.jity.  He  liis  pritUeil  the  laws  of  the  CoiirieotiL'ut  and 
New  liaven  L'oloiiics  ns  tiiey  aetually  \v<,'re,  side  by  side  witli  Peters'e  ful.-e  "  blue- 
laws,"  so  tliat  ;i!l  liiay  sec  the  striking  ciintr:»st.  He  has  done  more:  lie  haa 
"carried  the  war  into  Africa,"  by  siiowiii'^  tiie  character  of  the  cunteiupwrary  laws 
of  other  American  coluuies  and  of  England  ;  fruiii  wiiich  exhit)ic  ic  may  !>e  seen  tliat 
Qt  that  period  tlie  peuple  uf  CunnecUcut  were  n)\vi-e  Its.j  intellii;ent,  Icbs  liberal 
or  less  humane  tlian  tiieir  conteuipijraries  in  Europe  or  America.  Certainly  uo 
American  viio  makes  or  sliall  make  even  the  slii^htest  pretence  to  candor  and  intel- 
ligence or  to  a  decent  respect  fur  tiie  opinion  of  well  informed  people,  can  aiford  to 
diiiime  himself  by  repeating  "Sam  Peters." 

We  should  add  that  the  editor  of  tliis  volume  has  also  furnished  an  Introiluction, 
which  of  itself  i?  a  valuable  as  well  as  interesting  bibliographical  and  historical  ac- 
count of  the  subject.  a.  n.  n. 

Reminiscences  of  a  Long  Ministry.     A  Serinon  preached  before  the  "  Conference  of 

Congreyatioivd  Churches  in   yorlhcrn  New  London   Cminty,  and  the  'Viciniti;.''' 

By  Ker.  T.  L.  J?ai!'i.'AX,  an  ex-Pastor  of  the  Congregitional  Church   in  Jewett 

City,  June  28,  1(376.     2\or\vich  :  Bulletin  Company  Print.     1376.     [8vo.  pp.  27.] 

Not  the  least  interesting  and  useful  discourses  are  such  sermons  as  this  by  the 

venerable  and  honored  Mr.  Siiipman.     They  often  contain   iidormatiun  that  would 

otherwise  fail  to  be  preserved,  and  which  serve  as  material  fur  future  bi.Jirraphical 

and  histurical  compiiations.     \'>'e  cannot  have  too  many  of  them,  and  we  ieel  deeply 

grateful  to  every  aged  clergyman  who  commits  to  paper  and  to  type  the  remiuio- 

cences  of  his  sac.-ed  calling.^  A.  h.  u. 

The  Founders  of  Maryland  as  portrayed  in  Manuscripts,  Provincial  Records  and 
Early  Documfats.     By  Rev.  Ei«Vv-ard  D.  Neill,   A.li.,  author  of  "  English  Culo- 
nizatian  in  America,"  "  Virginia  Company  ot  London,"  ••  Terra  Marlii2,'  "  Fair- 
faxes of  England  and  America,"  "  History  of  Minnesota,"  etc.    "  Ncc  falsa  di- 
cere,  nee  vera  reticere."     Albany  :  Joel  Mun^ell.     1S7G.     [8 vo.  pp.  11^4.] 
We  have  had  repeated  occasions  to  notice  Mr.  Neill's  contributions  to  our  early 
colonial  history;  and  the  readers  of  the  liECiSTKR  have  had  frequent  opportunities  of 
becoming  acquainted  with  the  fruits  of  his  industrious  arid  sharp-sighted  research. 
lie  has  devoted  special  attention  to  the  early  history  of  Maryland  and  Vircdnia,  as 
will  be  observcil  by  a  glance  at  the  list  of  his  publieations.     Tiie  principal  "merit  of 
these  Works  is  that  they  are  mainly  occupied  -with  original  documents  or  records. 
This  kind  of  historical  matter  is  generally  of  the  highest  value.     Well  autlienticated 
and  accurately  transcribed  original  papers,  drawn  from  foreign  or  domestic  depu&i- 
tories,  ill  .scrative  of  our  early  history,  and  printed  as  they  were  written,  have  a 
value  far  beyond  any  ah-stract  or  paraphrase  of  their  cuntents.     They  speak  for 
themselves;  and  their  statements,  unless  impeached  by  proofs  of  equal  authenticity 
and  greater  authority,  must  be  and  are  held  to  be  conclusive.     It  is  evidently  upon 
this  principle  that  the  author  has  prepared  this  book. — the  object  of  which,  he  says 
in  his  Preface,  "  is  to  state  facts  which  had  become  obscured  or  forgotten,  concern- 
ing the  fii-sc  European  settlers  on  the  shores  of  the  Putomac  River  and  Chesajteake 
Bay  ;  "  *  #  "  f^cts  gleaned  frum  the  Provincial  Records  at  the  capitol  of  Maryland, 
and  other  documents  of  the  provincial  period." 

The  titles  of  the  contents  are  as  follows:  Henry  Fleet,  early  Indian  trader; 
Fleet's  Journal  of  a  Voyage  in  the  ship  Warwick  ;  William  Chiyborne  of  Fleet  Is- 
land ;  Embarkation  of  Lord  Baltimore's  Colony;  Leonard  Calvert,  first  Governor ; 
Thomas  Cornwallis  and  Jerome  Hawley,  Commi-sioner.s  ;  Early  Religious  History  ; 
Condition  of  Religion  duririg  the  Ascendancy  of  Parliament ;  Religious  Parties  Irum 
the  Accession  of  Charles  IL  to  A.D.  1700. 
The  Volume  is  furnished  with  an  index.  a.  n.  n. 

1  he  First  Half  Century  of  Dartmouth  College :  being  Historical  Collections  and  Per- 
sonal Reminiscences.  By  Nathan  Crosbv,  of  the  Class  of  1820.  Read  bfiore  tlie 
Alumni  at  the  Commencement  in  1875.  Published  by  request  and  order  of  the 
Alumni.     Hanover  :  J.  B.  Parker.     1876.     [Svo.  pp.  56.] 

This  is  a  discrurse,  f  )r  wliich  not  alone  the  alumni  r,f  Dartmouth  College,  but 
every  native  of  New  Hampshire  has  reason  to  thank  Judcc  Crosby,  it  Cuntains 
much  that  has  never  before  l^een  printed,  and  which,  tut  for  the  special  occasion 
J,"^J^'^a-"ed  it  out,  might  never  have  reached  the  jiublic  eye.  A  full  history  of  ths 
College  is  a  desideratum,  and  the  author  of  this  discourse  is  eminently  Qualified  to 

^'t^'t-  A.  U.  U. 


240  Booh  Notices.  [April, 

Extracts  from  th"  Diary  nf  Christopher  Marshall,  kept  in  Philadelphia  durinn  tlv 

AmerKaiL  llcioIuUun,  ill-l-llSl.     EdiccJ  by  William  Duane Allunv  • 

Joel  Munsell.     1877.     [l:}mo.   pp.   330.      Indfi.      Price,  $2.      for  siile   by  \' 
>\illuiiJ8  ic  Co.,  Bunton.]  "^   *  ■ 

Tn  1839,  Mr.  Duane  published  the  earlier  portion  of  these  extracts,  under  the  title 
of  "  Pabsnices  trom  the  Kfiiieuibrancer  of  Christopher  .Marshall."  Furiher  extriftH 
■were  printed  by  him  in  1849.  lie  has  now  given  us  the  Avliole  of  Mr.  iMar.shali'j, 
diary  or  "  Remeiubrancer,"  as  he  called  it,  except  such  entries  as  relate  to  private 
aflairs,  the  state  of  the  leather  and  other  matters  which,  in  the  editor's  opinion 
would  not  interest  the  public.  ' 

Mr.  Marshall  was  an  ardent  patriot  and  an  associate  of  the  prominent  whhrH 
whose  confidence  he  had.  Kesidini;  at  Philadelphia,  where  the  Continental  ConTreM<i 
was  held,  he  has  been  able  to  preserve  many  important  historical  facts,  espetMaliy 
concerning:  the  early  days  of  the  revolution,  which  are  no  where  else  to  be  found. 
The  editor's  annotations  are  judicious  and  valuable.  j.  w.  d. 

The  Congrer/ational  and  Presbyterian  Ministry  and  Churches  of  New  Harnpshirp 
Part  1.    Towns,    Churches   O'ul   Pastors.       Part   11.    Alphahetical    Catalonup   of 
Ministers.       By    iJKNRy    A.    Hazen.       (Reprinted    from    the    "  Con'rre'^ati.^nai 
Quarterly,"  Oct.  1875  and  April  1676.)     Boston  :  Alfred  Mudge  &■  Son,  Printers 
1875.     [8vo.  pp.  73.] 

Thellev.  Mr.  Hazen  is  one  of  the  most  thorough  and  accurate  of  our  historical 
Bnd  bio-raphical  investiL'-ators,  and  he  has  here  produced  a  book  that  will  save  iiia'ny 
persons  many  days  of  vexatious  research.  The  work,  he  states,  "  has  grown  out  of 
inquiries  into  which  the  writer  was  led  while  serving  the  General  Association  as 
Statistical  Secretary."  No  one  who  has  not  had  experience,  can  form  an  idea  ot  the 
immense  amount  of  labor  and  time  that  are  required  to  collect  and  verify  so  many 
dates  and  names  as  tliis  book  contains.  j,  -v^-,  jj. 

Notes  on  the  Settlement  and  Indian  Wars  of  the  Western  Parts  of  Virginia  and 
Pennsylvania,  from  1763  to  17S3  mclusive.  Together  icilk  a  View  of  the  State 
of  Society  and  Manners  of  the  First  Settlers  of  the  Western  Country.  '' By  Joseph 
Doddridge.  With  a  Memoir  of  the  Author,  by  his  Daughter.  Edited  by 
Alfred 'W  iLLiAMS.  Albany,  N.Y.:  Joel  Munsell.  1876.  [lOmo.  pp.  331.  Index.] 
The  first  edition  of  this  book  was  published  at  WellesburghjYa.,  in  18-2-1 ;  and  hav- 


irlare]  hasapproacl „_. 

ity  or  exactness,  and  both  have  the  best  attestation  to  the  value  of  their  works  in 
the  frequent  reproduction  of  them  in  Collections  and  Narratives  of  Border  Warfare, 
-without  acknowledgment  of  the  sources  from  which  all  that  is  valuable  has  been 
taken." 

Miss  Narcissa  Doddridge,  a  daugliter  of  the  author,  contemplated  publishing- a 
Bew  edition  of  this  book,  and  had  prepared  the  very  full  life  of  her  father.  whiclTis 
here  printed.  The  work  having  been  interrupted  by  her  death,  Mr.  Williams  of 
Circleville,  Ohio,  undertook,  by  request  of  her  family,  the  task  of  editin"-  the  new 
edition.  Besides  the  life  and  a  brief  preface,  he  has  added  an  appendix,  consisting 
of  sketches  by  Miss  Doddridge,   illustrating  the  pioneer  history  of  the  west  •  two 

P?^^',^^/,  P'^^^^  ^^'  ^'^®  author ;  and  reminiscences  of  him  by  Judo-e  Thomas  Scots 
of  Chillicothe,  0. 

Mr.  Munsell  has  done  a  good  service  to  historical  students  by  rcproducin'-^  the 
Rev.  Dr.  Doddridge's  book  in  so  satisfactory  a  form.  j.  yf'^n. 

Historical  Sketch  of  Ship  Building  on  the  Merrimac  Pker.  By  John  J  Currier. 
Newburyport;  William  11.  Huse  &  Co.,  Printers,  Uerald  Office.  1877.  fSvo. 
pp.  80.] 

The  art  of  ship  building  is  nearly  as  old  as  the  human  race.  It  originated  amonz 
the  earliest  manrmie  nations  of  antiquity,  and  will  expire  onlv  with  civilization  itself" 
Ihis  ancient  and  useful  art  was  one  of  the  first  practised  in  the  New  World,  where 
-water  carriage,  for  a  long  period,  preceded  land  carriage.  The  necessity  of  constatit 
communication  between  difibrent  parts  of  the  great  American  continent'and  Europe, 
made  the  merchant  marine  an  extensive  interest  in  the  period  of  colonization. 


187 7.  Booh  JS^otices.  241 

Some  years  before  the  name  New  Enoiland  was  heard  of,  a  ship  was  built  of 
native  timber  in  tlie  Kennebec  river  by  Kn^'lis-h  coloiiir^ts,  atnl  af'ttrwardH  em- 
iiluyeil  to  wale  European  emigrants  fo  American  ^^ll()^eH.  New  Eni^land  then,  and 
\oT\iS,  alter,  supplied  abuiniance  of  the  best  uiateiiiils  fur  f-hiijs  of  all  kinds.  Its  riverj 
nnii  harbors  were  favorably  tituated  for  this  kind  of  induttry.  It  is  Bald  that  uiany 
of  the  ehij^-yards  ot  tu-day  were  i^cenes  of  activity  luoio  than  two  centuries  a;:o. 
Certain  it  is  that  sliip  luiiidini;  has  been  carried  on  in  many  of  our  rivers  without 
joterruptiun  from  the  tirst  settlement  of  t!ie  country. 

Amon;;  the  i;reat  rivers  of  New  England  which  have  gained  celebrity  from  lon2; 
practice  of  this  art  in  their  -waters,  is  tiie  xMeriimac.  Eight  and  nine  genera- 
tions have  been  employed  in  l)uilding  ships  in  tids  river  ;  and  the  art  is  still  practised 
there.  The  sails  of  ships  built  in  Newburyport  still  widten  on  every  t-ea  and  watery 
circuit  of  the  globe. 

This  historical  sketch  of  ship  building  on  the  Merrimac  river  may  be  regarded  as 
the  first  attempt  to  present  a  full  histcndcal  and  statistical  account  of  shi{)  building 
in  any  river  in  New  England,  if  not  in  America.  Thirty  years  ago  the  Rev.  Mr. 
Baker  of  Medford  published  his  discourse  on  ship  building  at  that  place,  and  added 
a  list  of  vessels  built  there  in  this  century.  Kear-Admiral  Preble's  sketches,  in  the 
Registkr,  relate  mainly  to  naval  vessels  built  in  New  England  waters.  This  em- 
braces the  merchant  marine,  and  is  contined  to  the  region  of  the  tide-waters  of  the 
Werrimac  river.  It-  covers  the  entire  period  of  tiie  settlements  on  tliat  river,  ruMnir:g 
over  nearly  two  hundred  and  hl'ty  years.  The  author  has  ransacked  all  the  public 
records,  earl}"  and  late,  and  has  brought  together  a  vast  amount  of  useful  and  in- 
teresting inf(;rmation  on  tliis  subject.  It  is  apparent  tliat  but  little  more  is  to  be 
gleaned  in  this  field  of  inquiry.  The  narrative  is  plain  and  clear,  and  presents  a  full 
Jiistory  of  ship  building.  That  it  must  have  cost  the  author  much  labor,  ail  know 
who  have  had  any  experience  in  writing  accurate  history  from  original  materiala  to 
be  culled  from  manuscript  records. 

Mr.  Currier  brought  to  this  undertaking  peculiar  fitness.  His  ance!=tors,  for 
manv"  generations,  have  carried  on  ship  building  in  the  Merrimac  river.  He  is  con- 
cerned in  ship  building  with  his  fatiier,  Mr.  John  Currier,  wiio  has  already  built 
nearly  one  hundred  vestels  in  Newburj^port.  C.  W .  Tcttle. 

■Potter's  American  MontkJy,  an  Illustrated  Magazine  of  History,  Literature,  Science 

and  Art April,  1877 John  £.  Potter  &,  Co.,  Philadelphia,     [im. 

4to.  pp.  80 ;  price,  ;j:3  a  year,  or  25  cents  a  number.] 

This  issue,  which  is  the  fourth  number  of  the  eighth  volume,  and  the  sixty-fourth 
number  since  the  periodical  was  commenced,  fully  sustains  the  reputation  of  the 
Monthly.  It  contains  much  interesting  matter  concerning  American  history  and 
biography,  besides  other  valuable  historical  and  literary  matter.  Among  the  arti- 
cles which  >?'ill  interest  our  readers  are  a  history  and  description,  by  the  Kev.  W"A- 
liam  Hall,  of  the  ''  Old  Coeyman  House,"'  with  a  view  of  it ;  a  biographical  sketch, 
by  William  L.  tstone,  of  Maj.  John  Rose,  eaid  to  be  the  only  Russian  who  served  in 
the  American  army  during  the  Revolutionary  war  ;  a  notice,  by  James  Grant  Wil- 
son, of  Gunning  Bedford,  Jr.,  of  Delaware,  one  of  the  framers  of  the  Constitution 
of  the  United  States ;  Notes  and  Queries;  Current  Memoranda,  &c.  &c.  Many  of 
the  articles  are  illustrated  by  engravings.  The  price  of  the  Monthly  is  now  so  low 
that  few  who  wish  to  own  it  need  deny  themselves  the  privilege.  j.  w.  d. 

Extracts  from  a  Lancashire  Diary  10^3-1678,  in  the  Possession  of  John  Leijland, 
Esq.,  of  the  Grange,  Hindfey,  near  Wigan.  Reprinted  frorti  the  "  Local  Glean- 
ings'' of  the  *'  Manchester  Courier."  Manchester:  T.  isowler  &  Co.,  Printers, 
Red  Lion  St.,  St.  A.nn's  Square.     1S76.     [l~mo.  pp.  72.] 

The  author  of  this  diary  was  Roger  Lowe,  a  young  mercer  of  Ashton-in-Macker- 
Celd,  near  Warrington,  Lancashire.  It  contains  niany  curious  entries,  and  there 
are  various  "  allusions  to  the  ejected  and  Nonconformist  ministers  of  the  neighbor- 
hix)duf  Warrington,  with  occasional  notices  of  the  clergy  of  the  various  churclies  in 
that  district."     Very  full  illustrative  notes  are  added  by  the  editor. 

In  the  Manchester  Courier,  an  old  established  paper  posscsbiug  a  very  extensive 
Circulation,  in  which  this  diary  was  first  printed,  there  appears  every  Eriday  from 
oue  and  a  half  to  two  columns  devoted  to  original  documents,  notes,  queries  and 
rejilies — historical,  genealogical  and  topographical — relating  to  the  two  counties  of 
Lancashire  and  Cheshire.  In  these  "  Local  Gleanings"  columns  many  very  in- 
teresting documents  and  papers  have  appeared.     They  are  reprinted  every  quarter 

VOL.    XXXI.  21* 


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242  Booh  Notices.  -       [April, 

in  book  form  ;  but  of  these  reprints  only  250  copies  are  printed,  most  of  which  are 
subsrribfd  tor  by  those  iiiterc-tod  in  such  recoris.  Six  of  these  quarterly  partu  havo 
already  ap.pearel,  and  the  seventh  part  which  will  contain  an  index,  &c.,  will  cuui- 
plete  tie  tirst  Vdluuie  Oi'  "  Local  Gleanin;rs." 

The  editur  of  ihis  departu'ent  of  the  Manchester  Courier,  John  P.  Earwaker,  Eiiq 
M.A.,  F.S.A.,  of  Withington,  West  Manchester,  En;^land,  who  is  also  the  ed'itur  of 
the  work  whoso  title  heads  thi.s  notice,  writes  us  tliat,  if  any  of  our  readers  in- 
terested in  Lancashire  or  Cheshire  families  will  send  him  any  queries,  Ac,  on  the 
subject,  he  will  gladly  give  them  a  place  in  his  columns,  so  that  a  chance'may  he 
given  to  the  many  readers  .d'  the  Courier  familiar  with  such  subjects,  to  furnish  thu 
information  needed  when  in  their  poscsestiion.  j.  ^v,  j, 

Manual  of  the  First  Church  in  Dover,  N.  H.  Organized  December,  1633  Ay  IV 
September  !5,  1876.  Dover,  N.  11.:  Morning  Star  Steam  Job  Printin'^  Hou^^e' 
167G.     [12mo.  pp.  52.]  ° 

A  Brief  lUslory  of  ike  First  Church,  Newton  (Neieton  Centre), ivith  Articles  of  Faith 

Covenant,  Standing  Rules,  and  the  ISames  of  its  Members.     Boston  :    Franklin 

Press;  ttand,  Avery  &  Co.     1ST6.     [12mo.  pp.  46.] 
Historical  Sketch,  Confssion  of  Faith,  Coeenant  and  Membrrship  of  th"  First  Church 

of  Christ,  Marblehtad,  Mass.     Marblchead  :  N.  Willard  Sanborn,  Printer      1876 

[8vo.  pp.  38.] 

The  FirbL  Church  in  Dover  dates  from  about  the  time  of  the  arrival  of  its  first 
minister,  the  Kev.  Willium  Leverich,  in  1633.  The  pamphlet  befure  us  contain-; 
brief  biographical  sketches  of  him  and  his  successors,  to  and  includin"  the  pre-mt 
pastor,  the  Kev.  George  B.  Spalding;  the  Principles,  Form  of  Admission  and  Stand- 
ing Rules  of  the  Church  ;  its  present  members  and  officers,  the  latter  alphabedcully 
arranged  with  dates  of  admission  and  residence;  and  a  chronoloncal  l;«t  of  all  its 
members  from  1718  to  1876.  ° 

The  First  Church  of  Newton  was  ftrmed  in  1664,  while  the  territory  was  a  part  of 
Cambridge,  known  as  Camhridge  Village.  This  "  Manual  "  contains  an  Histurical 
Sketch  ot  the  church  ;  a  list  of  its  five  church  edifices,  with  the  dates  when  they 
were  built ;  lists  of  pastors  and  deacons,  with  the  dates  of  their  service  as  such  ; 
lists  of  other  officers;  the  Form  of  Admission,  Confession  of  Faith  and  Standing' 
Rules  :  and  a  chronological  list  of  its  members  from  1773.  ^ 

The  present  First  Church  of  Marblehcad  was  not  ororanized  till  1684,  though  there 
had  then  been  preaching  there  for  nearly  half  a  century.  Its  •'  Manual  "  now  before 
U6  contains  an  Historical  Sketch  of  the  church  ;  its  C<mfessionof  Faith  ;  lists  of  its 
preaclieis,  pastors  and  deacons,  with  the  dates  of  their  service  ;  and  a  chronolot^ical 
list  of  Its  members  from  1684  to  1676. 

The  three  pamphlets  of  which  we  have  given  a  description  above,  appear  to  be 
carefully  prepared,  and  will  be  of  much  service  to  genealogists  as  well  as  to  their 
own  members. 


J.   W.    D. 


i:arly  Maps  of  Ohio  and  the  West.  By  C.  C.  Baldwin,  Secretary  Western  Reserve 
and  .Northern  Ohio  Historical  Society.  Cleveland,  0. ;  Fairbanks,  Benedict  &  Co., 
Printers,  Herald  Oflice.     1875.     [8vo.  pp.  26.] 

One  of  the  most  enterprising  historical  and  archKoIoirical  societies  in  the  United 
States  IS  the  one  above  named.  It  has  had  and  now  has  a  very  active  and  zealous 
corps  ot  officers  and  friends.  Among  its  treasures  is  a  large  collection  of  valuable 
maps  and  charts,  of  which  C.  C.  Baldwin.  Esq.,  has  prepared  and  published  an 
historical  description.  It  is  a  useful  and  hisrhlv  creditable  production  A  similar 
catalogue  of  maps  relating  to  New  England,  owned  by  our  historical  societies  and 
ottier  institutions,  is  greatly  needed.  ^,  H_  H_ 

ThePre-Hisioric  Femains  ichich  icere  found  on  the  Site  of  the  Citg  of  Cincinnati 
Ohio  with  a  Vindication  of  the  "  Cincinnati  Tablet  "  By  Robert  Clarke  Cin- 
cinnati    1876.     [8vo.  pp.  34.] 

Our  friend  Mr.  Clarke  not  only  publishes  many  books,  but  finds  time  in  the  midst 
ot  his  pressing  and  multifarious  busine<,s  to  read  and  study  almost  every  thin-,  and 
to  keep  abreast  ot  the  times.  In  this  pamphlet  he  presents  a  concise  account  of 
tfie  interesting  pre-histonc  remains  found  in  Cincinnati  at  different  times-,  be-inning 
aaearlyasl/'J4  which  were  then  supposed  bv  competent  authorities  to  have  been 
deposited  there  by  the  mound  builders.  This  supposition  has  been  abundantly  coo- 
nrmea  by  subsequent  investigations. 


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1877.]  Booh  N^otices.  ,     243 

Mr.  Clarke  also  2::ve3  the  history  of  the  ptone  relic  or  *'  tablet  "  unearthed  from 
one  uf  t'.ie  Cincinnnii  Mounds  in  ISU,  winch  hears  un  its  two  sarfaces  several  sculp- 
tiir<"vl  tiLTiires  and  devices.  Ih.is  tablet  lias  l)een  tiie  i^uhjcet  ut  a  yood  deal  ut'  f-kepti- 
Ciil  criti'.ism,  but  the  autl)or  shows  heyond  doubt  its  autlieiitieity,  and  its  correspond- 
ence to  acknowledged  pre-historic  remains  iouiid  in  other  parts  of  tlic  country.  An 
engraved  yiic-ii. 7ii/e  of  the  "  tablet"  accompanies  the  te:;c.  a,  u.  n. 

Proceedings  of  the  American  Anti'iunrian  Sucieti/,  at  the  Annual  Mtftinf/,  held  at 
Worcesttr,  Oclobcr^l,  1S76.  Worcester:  Printed  by  Charles  Ilamiltou,  Central 
Eichnnge.     1676.     [Number  G7.] 


pop 
education. 

The  report  of  the  librarian,  S.  F.  Haven,  Esq.,  contains  an  interesting  and  instruc- 
tive survey  of  the  recent  progress  of  historical  and  archaeological  investigations. 

A.    H.    H. 

Society  of  the  Army  of  the  Cumlter land  Tenth  Reunion  Philadelphia  1676  Pub- 
lished hy  Order  of  the  Society  Cincinnati  Robert  Clarke  &  Company  1&76.  l8vo. 
pp.  236.] 

There  is  no  apparent  selfishness  or  pi^JItical  significance  in  these  annual  social 
reunions  of  the  "Society  of  the  Army  of  the  Culuberland."  A  strong  leeling  of 
mutual  ret^peet  and  affection  pervades  the  association,  which  centres  about  the  nalues 
and  services  of  their  great  leaders  in  the  field. 

This  volume  dntains  a  portrait  of  ^Iaj.-(jen  D.  S.  Stanley.  U.S.A.,  the  oration 
of  Col.  W.  C.  Wilson,  memoirs  of  tienerals  A.  C.  Harding,  William  Sanborn,  L'enj. 
J._  Sweet,  Henry  31.  NVhittlesey,  dl.  Robert  H.  Ramsey,  and  Major  J.  F.  Huber, 
with  the  other  Proceedings  of  the  Society  at  their  reunion  in  Philadelphia  in  July 
last.     The  volume  is  published  in  uniform  style  of  elegance  with  its  predecessors. 

A.   H.    H. 

Pioneer  History  of  Milwaukee,  from  the  First  American  Settlement  in  1833  to  1641, 
with  a  Topograiihical  Description,  as  it  appeared  in  a  Stale  of  Nature,     illuslrultd 
with  a  Map.     By  James  S.  Bcck;.     [Seal.]     Milwaukee:    Milwaukee  Xews  Com- 
•     pany,  Printers.     1876.     [Svo.  pp.  29-2.     Table  of  Contents,  but  no  Index.] 

Mr.  Buck  arrived  at  Milwaukee  in  January,  1S37,  a  few  years  after  its  settlement. 
He  has  resided  there  till  the  present  time,  upwards  of  forty  years,  witnessing  its 
rise  from  the  post  of  an  Indian  trader  to  a  city  of  upwards  of  seventy  thousand 
inhabitants.  The  author  coniincs  himself  to  the  pioneer  history,  or,  to  speak  more 
definitely,  to  the  first  eight  years  after  its  settlement.  Special  attention  is  paid  t« 
the  biography  of  the  pioneers  ;  and  Mr.  Buck  has  been  very  successful  in  obtaining 
facts  relative  to  their  lives.     The  book  is  illustrated  by  numerous  portraits. 

The  present  inhabitants  of  Milwaukee  owe  a  debt  of  gratitude  to  the  author  which 
we  have  no  doubt  they  recognize  ;  but  when  the  centenary  of  its  settlement  is  cele- 
brated, his  labors  will  be  still  more  highly  appreciated.  j.  w.  d.    . 

iVeu7  England  Academies  and  Classical  Schools,  with  Sketches  of  Phillips  Academy, 
Andover,  Lawrence  Academy,  Groton,  and  Monson  Academy.     By  Kev.  Cu.vRLES 

H.\MM0ND,  Principal  of  Monson  Academy Boston  :    Wright  &  Putter, 

State  Printers.     1877.     [Svo.  pp.  61.] 
A   Century  of  Education :  being  a  Conase  History  of  the  Rise  and  Progress  of  the 
Public  Schools  i?i,  the  City  of  Providence.    By  Edwin  Martln  Stone.    Providence : 
Providence  Press  Co.     1876.     [6vo.  pp.  84.     Index.] 

Much  relative  to  the  history  of  Education  in  New  England  will  be  found  in  the 
above  two  pamphlets.  The  Rev.  INIr.  Hammond  treats  of  academies  and  classical 
schools,  which,  before  our  state  and  cities  had  so  abundantly  provided  for  teaching 
the  higher  branches  of  learning,  bore  a  more  iirominent  place  than  no.v  in  the  educa- 
tiori  of  the  people.  The  Rev.  Mr.  Stone  devotes. his  pamphlet  to  public  schools, 
giving  an  exhaustive  history  of  those  in  Providence,  Riiode  island.  Both  works  are 
aeijerving  of  high  praise.  j  w  d 


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244  Booh  Notices. 


[April, 


Proceedings  in  the  City  of  Lowell  at  the  Semi-Centennial  Celebration  of  thp  Incor 
poralioa  ot  the  To  an  of  Loieell,  March  1.  1876.  Lowell,  iMats.  :  Peuhalluw 
rniiUiig  L^taMi.-,hi;ieut.     167G.     [dvo.  pp.  1j1-|-1  t.] 

^%^^^.  "f  ^{^-  Proceedings  and  Eserasrs  at  the  Celebration  of  the  One  Hundred  and 
f^{ll\cl!}  Anniversary  of  the  IncorporaUon  of  the  Tcivn  n/  Kingston,  Mass.  June 
27,  lb/6  iiostjn  :  L.  B.  Stillings  &  Co.,  Printers.  1876.  (Ruyul  Svo.  pp.  l.-.l' 
Price,  i5  cts.,  or  hy  luuil  83  ctt-.,  to  bu  obtained  of  Horatio  Adams,  Koom  44  No' 
40  Water  btreet,  Boston,  .Mass.j 

The  Five  Ministers.  A  Strnwn  in  West  Church  [Boston],  by  C.  A.  B\RTor  on 
(he  J- orli'th  Anniversary  of  his  Ordination.  Boston  :  Published  by  A.  Willi'ams 
&  Co.,  '2bo  \V  asliinyton  Street.     1877.     fSvo.  pp.  21. J 

Exercises  attheBi-Centennial  Commemoration  of  the  Burning  of  Medfidd  hj  Indians 
\"- J}' rig  Philip  s  War,  February  L'l,  1876.  Medfield  :  Printed  by  Gieor-^eH  Ellis 
13/6.     [Svo.  pp.  56.]  ° 

Addresses  delivered  at  the  Dedication  of  the  Town  Hall,  Medfield.  S-ptember  2  187--> 
and  at  its  Rc-Dtd,cation.  November  10,  1874.  By  Rof.ert  R.  Bisnop  '  "' 
Boston  :  George  II.  Elli.s,  Printer.     1875.     [Svo.  pp.  31.]  •  •  •  • 

1714.  HUherto  Hafh  the  Lord  hdpcd  us.  1876.  Historical  Discourse  preached  on 
ttie  Vne  Hundred  and  Snly  Second  Anniversary  of  the  First  Church  of  Christ 
t  fr^^'ji^^'r  ^'f^^  ^'''''^'"^  "^  October,  1876.  Bv  Rev.  E.  0.  J..iiESO.v,  Pastor' 
Pubhslied  by  the  Church.  Boston  :  Alfred  Mudge  &  Son,  Printers.  Ib77.  |8vo 
pp.  oo.j  •■ 

Addresses  delivered  at  the  Centennial  Celebration  of  the  Congregational  Church  in 
i^  u'^'il  ^?'"pshirc,  October  28,  1S72.  By  Rev.  Silvancs  UAV^VARD.  Dover, 
JN.  il. :  H.  H.  Goodwin,  Book  and  Job  Printer.     1873.     [8to.  pp.  63.] 

Centennial  Discnurse.  Historical  of  the  Town  of  Londonderry,  N.  H.,  and  its 
Yf^y[^'-\'l'l  Church  and  Society.  {Founded  April,  171'J.)  Delivered  SaU-ath, 
July  2d,  18/6  By  LrinER  B.  Pert,  Pastor.  E>:eter  :  News-Letter  Press.  1876! 
[ovo.  pp.  2'J.] 

Twerity-Fjfth  Anniversary  of  the  Orgaiiization  of  the  Presbyterian  Church,  Madison, 
V\is.,  Oct  4  18.6.  fi'S^firal  Address.  By  Daniel  b.  Dlrrie.  Published  by 
Request  of  the  Church,  Madison,  Wis.  :  Atwood  &  Culver,  Printers  and  Stereo- 
typers.     18/6.     [Svo.  pp.  29.J 

The  town,  now  city,  of  Lowell,  Muss.,  was  incorporated  .March  1,  1826,  and  ^he 
Wtieth  annivcr.'.ary  ot  that  event  was  celebrated  in  a  manner  in  every  way  worthy 
oi  the  city  and  tlie  occasion.  The  oration  was  by  the  lion.  Benjamin  P.  Butler,  and. 
IS  an  able  production.  Besides  this,  many  addresses,  letters,  ic,  are  ^iren  in  the 
volume  w  .u.se  tit  e  heads  tiiis  list ;  and  amun- them  are  addresses  from  the  Hon. 
Marshall  P.  Wilder,  president  of  the  New  England  Historic,  Genealu-ical  Society, 
and  ttie  lion.  Charles  Cowley,  chairman  of  the  committee  of  arrangement,  who  has 
the  honor  ol  initiatinu^  the  movement  for  this  celebratiun.  A  plan  of  the  territory 
in  1821,  then  a  part  of  Chelmsfurd,  and  one  of  the  town  in  1832,  illustrate  the  work, 
^u^ir^'^/^"  has  made  a  valuable  contribution  to  centennial  historical  literature  in 
the  thick  pamj)hlet  before  us.  The  town  was  incorporared  June  16  17-^6  0  S 
corresponding  to  June  27,  X.  S.;  so  that  one  hundred  and  tiity  years  of 'its  independ- 
ent history  were  completed  last  June.  The  principal  addresses  were  an  orati:m  hy 
the  Rev  Joseph  F.  Loveri.n-  and  an  Ilisturical  Sketch  of  the  town  by  Dr.  T.  B. 
Drew;  besides  which  we  have  a  variety  of  speeches,  poems  and  letters  of  an  inter- 
esting  character.  Ihe  pampnlet  is  handsomely  printed  with  a  wide  mar-in,  and  is 
Illustrated  by  several  engravings,  including  a  lar-e  map  of  the  town. 

The  Rev.  Dr.  Bartol,  now  sole  pastor  of  the  West  Church,  Boston,  was  ordained 
there  as  a  collea,!;ue  of  the  late  Rev.  Charles  Lowell,  March  1,  1837,  and  on  the  4th 
f  ,  ..  ^'  ""  ^"fiday  loliowing  the  lortieth  anniversarv  of  his  settlement,  he 
preached  the  commemorative  address  whose  title  we  give  above.  West  Church  was 
gathered  Jan,  3,  1/.  s  and.  in  the  one  hundred  and  iortv  vears  since,  has  had  but 
tive  ministers,  namely,  W  illiam  Hooper,  Jonathan  MayheV,  D.,D.,  Simeon  Howard, 
D  D.,  Charles  Lowel  and  Cyrus  Augustus  Bartol,  D.D.  The  author  sketehes  the 
characteristics  ot  his  lour  predecessors,  and  uurratt.s  the  principal  events  of  their  and 
nis  own  ministry. 

Medfield  vvas  burnt  by  the  Indian.s,  February  21,  1676.  0.  S.     The  celebration  of 
the  two  hundredth  anniversary  of  that  event  was  held  on  the  same  day  of  the  month, 


■.s      i\ 


1877.] 


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without  the  nsnal  correction  style.  Robert  R.  Bishop,  Esq.,  of  Newton,  delivered 
nn  oration,  nrd  Jnnies  Hewins,  Es-(j.,  of  Medticld,  read  unoriginal  poem  entitled 
"  A  Legend  of  Mcdtield."  Amont^  the  atter-dinner  .=j)eeche.s  is  one  Injin  D.  T.  V. 
Iluntoon,  Esq.,  as  a  delegate  from  the  New-England  Hi.storie,  Genealogical  Society. 

The  title-pa^ie  of  the  next  pamphlet  showa  the  time  and  occasions  when  the  two 
addresses  which  it  contains  were  delivered.  The  author,  ^Ir.  Ui.shop,  has  added 
6onie  historical  notes. 

The  town  of  Medway  was  incorporated  Oct.  25,  1713,  and  one  of  its  first  acts  was 
to  appoint  a  committee  fjr  building  a  meetini^-house.  The  hou.«e  was  erected  so 
that  services  were  held  in  it  on  ttie  tirst  Sabbath  in  October,  1711,  by  the  Rev.  ])avid 
Deming,  who  was  settled  as  the  pastor  of  the  church  on  the  :20ih  of  November,  1715. 
The  Rev.  Mr.  James  jn's  IJisturical  Discourse  commemorates  the  lirst  services  held 
by  the  Rev.  Mr.  Deminij  in  Medway.  It  gives,  with  considerable  minuteness,  the 
bi.story  of  the  church  during  the  ministry  of  his  eight  predecessors,  he  himself  being 
the  ninth  pastor.  Appended  is  an  historical  sketch  of  the  Sabbath  School  connected 
with  that  church,  which  is  sixty  years  old,  dating  from  the  spring  of  lbl7. 

Gilsum  was  chartered  July  13,  1763,  and  a  church  was  organized  there,  October 
27,  1772.  It  is  this  last  event  which  the  Rev.  Mr.  Hnywavd's  address  commemo- 
rates. Besides  a  history  of  the  church  and  biographies  of  its  ministers,  he  devotes 
much  space  to  a  history  of  the  settlement  and  to  notices  of  the  early  settlers.  A 
tabulated  list  of  the  mem.bers  of  the  church  from  1772,  with  dates  of  admission,  &c., 
La  appended.  We  arc  pleased  to  learn  that  Rev.  Mr.  Hayward  is  writing  a  history 
of  the  town. 

Ijondonderry  was  settled  by  the  Scotch  Irish,  to  whose  hardy  virtues  Mr.  Derby 
pays  so  glowing  a  tribute  in  our  January  number  {ante,  p.  34).  The  Rev.  Jtlr. 
Pert's  discourse  sketches  the  history  of  the  town  and  church  from  the  settlement  of 
the  place  in  1719.  Autographs  of  all  the  ministers,  five  in  number,  and  of  Capt. 
Robert  Rogers,  of  the  famous  "  Rangers,''  and  other  noted  citizens  of  the  town,  are 
given. 

^Ir.  Durrie  of  IMadison,  Wisconsin,  the  author  of  the  address  on  the  twenty-fifth 
anniversary  of  the  organization  of  the  Presbyterian  church  there,  is  one  of  its  ori- 
ginal members,  and  is  conversant  with  its  entire  history.  He  is  the  author  of  the 
History  of  Madison,  noticed  in  the  Register  {ante,  xxis.  127).  Besides  a  valuable 
history  of  the  church,  he  furnishes  an  alphabetical  list  of  its  members  during  the 
twenty-five  years  of  its  existence.  j.  w.  d. 

An  Answer  to  a  Letter  sent  from  Mr.  Coddington  of  Rode  Island,  to  Governour 
Leveret  of  Boston,  in  lohat  concerns  R.  W.  of  Providence.  JBoston.  Printed  by 
John  Foster  [between  1678  and  16S0.] 

A  rare  publication,  bearing  the  above  title,  which  seems  to  have  escaped  the 
notice  of  bibliographers,  recently  came  into  the  hands  of  the  Rev.  E.  M.  Stone  of 
Providence,  and  we  infer  is  now  the  property  of  the  Rhode  Island  Historical  Society. 
He  has  caused  one  hundred  copies  to  be  reprinted  in  facsimile,  at  the  office  of  the 
Providence  Press  Company.  To  this  he  has  prefixed  an  Introduction.  The  title 
and  Introduction  cover  four  pages,  and  the  facsimile  covers  ten.  This  "  Answer" 
is  unmistakably  the  product  of  Roger  Williams,  and  is  an  interesting  addition  to 
the  controversial  literature  of  that  period.  a.  h.  h. 

Contributions  to  the  Kisiorical  Society  of  Montana,  with  its  Transactions,  Act  of 
Incorporation,  Constitution,  Ordinances,  Officers  and  Members.  Vol.  I.  Helena, 
Montana  :  Rocky  Mountain  Publishing  Company.  1876.  [8vo.  pp.  357.] 
_  The  Territory  of  Montana  was  organized  in  May,  18GI,  and  the  February  follow- 
ing the  "  Historical  Society  of  Montana  ''  was  incorporated  by  its  legislature.  This 
volume,  besides  the  proceedings  of  the  Historical  Society  from  Feb.  25,  1865,  to 
-April  21,  1875.  and  the  other  documents  named  on  the  title-page,  contains  a  number 
of  valuable  biographical  and  historical  papers,  among  which  are  the  Ad\cntures  of 
James  Stuaic,  on  the  Upper  Missouri,  with  a  life  and  portrait  ;  Early  Life  of  Malcom 
Clarke,  for  thirty  years  among  the  Indian  tribes  on  the  Upper  ^Missouri ;  and  papers 
and  letters  relative  to  various  expeditions  to  this  region  ;  besides  lists  of  the  ofBcers 
?li'"^  territory  from  1861  to  1S7G  ;  the  steamboat  arrivals  at  Fort  Benton,  1859  to 
18(4  ;_and  the  names  of  all  persons  except  Indians  who  are  known  to  have  been  in 
*hat  is  now  Montana  "during  the  winter  of  1862-3,  which  was  the  first  winter 
aftrr  the  Gold  Mines  of  this  Region  had  been  noi'=ed  abroad."' 

J.he  hook  makes  a  handsome  volume,  and  in  every  respect  is  highly  credit^'ible  to 
"Je  young  Territory  and  Society  which  send  it  to  us.  j.  -w.  d. 


I'\i  ,'  . 


246  Booh  I^otices.  [April, 

The  Histori/  of  the  Bunker  Hill  Moniwicnt  Association  during  the  First  Century  rf 
the  United  States  nf  Amcrira.  hy  (<Kor.c^E  ^VA?ll[^'GTON  W^arrev.  Mormiiiiti;^ 
themselves  Memoriiils  need.  With  llliibti-iitions.  JJoston  :  James  R.  Osl,'  ..,1 
and  Company  (Late  Ticknor  and  Fields,  and  Fields,  Osgood  and  Compiuiyj. 
M.DCCC.LXXVi.     I'].  U.S.A.L'I.     [6vo.  pp.  svi.-f-l27.] 

No  pereon  hett(r  fitted  to  write  the  history  of  the  Bunker  Hill  Monument  Associa- 
tion than  J  udi;e  W'.irren  eould  be  found.  He  has  held  oiKce  in  that  eoeiety  con- 
tinuously frjm  1336  to  the  present  time,  a  period  of  more  than  forty  year.'j.  and 
durini!;  all  that  time  haa  heen  indefatii^able  in  his  labors  to  accomplish  the  ohjecis 
for  which  that  society  was  organized.  Born  too  "  at  the  foot  of  Bunker  Hill,  and 
often  in  cliildhood  iiaving  rambled  over  the  battle-field  while  a  pastme,"  his 
reverence  for  the  memories  of  the  spot  was  early  developed.  He  was  the  secretary 
of  the  association  from  IH39  to  1847,  when  he  was  chosen  president,  whicii  latter 
office  he  filled  with  the  highest  credit  till  the  centenary  of  the  battie,  June  17,  l'^75. 
Judge  Warren  "■  was  requested  by  Mr.  Webster  to  prepare  an  account  of  the  ;ir>t 
two  great  celebrations  on  Bunker  Hill,  to  accompany  his  orations  in  a  proposed  re- 
publication. This  he  undertook  to  do  ;  but  when  Mr.  Everett  kindly  assuaied  the 
editorship  of  all  the  works  of  the  great  Statesman,  no  other  hand  was  required. 
Subsequently,  tlie  authoi'  has  been  frequently  requested  to  prepare  a  history  uf  the 
Association,  embracing  the  note-worthy  events,  and  giving  a  summary  of  the  labors, 
the  difficulties,  and  the  triumphs  it  has  experienced." 

In  this  volnnT?  Judge  Warren,  besides  a  hi.-tory  of  the  Bunker  Hill  Monument 
Association,  gives  details  of  the  circumstances  and  events  which  preceded  and  led  to 
its  formation,  including  the  several  commemorative  exercises  and  the  erection  of  the 
masonic  monument.  The  pi'rtion  of  the  book  devoted  to  the  history  of  the  associa- 
tion itself  clearly  and  minutely  narrates  the  disinterested  labors  of  tho-^e  who  planned 
and  carried  into  execution  the  erection  of  the  monument  on  Breed's  Hill.  The  fol- 
lowing dedication  of  this  volume  shows  to  whom  Judge  Warren  thinks  the  credit 
should  be  given  :  '•  To  the  Memory  of  Daniel  Webster,  Edward  Everett,  Thomas 
Ilandasyd  Perkins,  John  Collins  "Warren  and  Wiiliiim  Tudor,  the  principal  Ori- 
ginators of  the  Bunker  Hill  Monument,  of  Henry  Alexander  Scammell  Dearborn 
and  William  Sullivan  their  chief  co-adjutors  ;  and  of  Amos  Lawrence  and  Judah 
Touro,  who  added  their  noble  Donations  to  the  means  raised  by  the  ^Vomtn  of  the 
Country  fir  its  completion  in  1840  ;  also,  of  Natlianiel  Pope  Russell,  the  Faithful 
Treasurer,  and  Solomon  Willard,  the  Devoted  Architect,  This  Humble  Memorial 
of  their  Imperishable  Work  is  gratefully  Dedicated  by  the  Author." 

No  pains  have  been  spared  to  make  the  book  worthy  of  its  subject.  Elegant 
paper  and  numerous  steel  engravings  render  it  one  of  the  finest  productions  ot  the 
modem  press.  A  view  of  the  battle,  on  steel,  forms  the  frontispiece  ;  and  steel 
portraits  of  Joseph  Warren,  Daniel  Webster,  Thomas  H.  Perkins,  Edward  Everett, 
John  C.  Warren,  Amos  Lawrence,  Robert  C.  Winthrop  and  Uriel  Crocker;  helio- 
type  portraits  of  Nathaniel  P.  Russell  and  Sarah  J.  Hale  ;  and  heliotype  tac-similes 
of  letters  from  Daniel  Webster,  John  Marshall,  Thomas  Jefferson,  Lafayette, 
Nathaniel  P.  Russell,  Edward  Everett,  James  Madison,  James  Monroe,  William 
Bainbridge,  James  Kent,  Robert  Y.  Hayne  and  Henry  Clay  ;  with  numerous  other 
illustrations,  add  much  to  the  value  as  well  as  the  beauty  of  the  book.        j.  w.  d. 

John  Wheelwright ,  his  Writings,  including  his  Fast-Day  Sermon,  1637,  and  his 
Mercurius  Aniericanus,  1645;  with  a  Paper  upon  the  Genuineness  of  the  Indian 
Deed  of  16:]9,  and  a  Memoir.  By  Charles  H.  Bell,  A.M.  Boston  ;  Printed  for 
the  Prince  Society.     1376.     [Fcp.  4to.  pp.  253.    Index.] 

Of  this  volume,  the  ninth  of  the  "  Publications  of  the  Prince  Society,"  it  is  suffi- 
cient praise  to  say  that  it  is  worthy  of  a  place  beside  its  predecessors.  No  memoir  of 
the  Rev.  John  Wheelwright,  the  subject  of  this  monograph,  has  before  been  written, 
though  a  few  of  the  events  in  his  life  have  been  the  subject  of  much  comment  and 
criticism.  As  one  of  the  leading  advocates  of  a  "  covenant  of  grace  "  in  the  famous 
Antinomian  controversy,  his  name  has  been  conspicuous  in  the  early  history  of 
Massachusetts  ;  and,  as  the  principal  founder  of  the  town  of  Exeter,  he  has  oeen 
known  to  the  readers  of  New  Hampshire  history  ;  but  little  concerning  other  points 
in  his  life  has  been  known  till  recently.  His  life  in  Enirland  before  his  emigration 
was  almost  a  blank,  till  Col.  Chester,  by  one  of  his  wonderful  re-oarches,  unravelled 
the  mystery  which  surrounded  it,  and  gave  the  result  of  his  labors  to  the  world 
through  our  pages  {ante,  sxi.  363-5). 
Mr.  Bell  has  coilceted  in  this  volume  all  the  known  writings  of  Wheelwright,  and 


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emoir, 
nown 


cverytliin;:  that  coultl  be  gatliorod  conccrninijliis  life.  Thematorinls  for  the  me 
nmny  of  wliich  exist  only  in  manuscript,  have  heen  "collected  iv',u\  all  known 
R)urceriof  intormauon  on  the  subject  in  tiiia  country,  Pupnicmi'ntc'l  by  the  truits  of 
ijuoh  inquiry  in  Ijiiiland  as  time  ;Mid  upixjitunity  all .Mved,"  Tiie  "  i-'uht-Day  Ser- 
in .n,"  which  led  t)  his  banishment  Innu  the  .Massachusetts  colonv,  is  lien;  printed 
Iroiii  the  only  compk-te  contemporary  manuscript  known,  wiiich  i.s'now  in  tlie  Mas- 
Kudiucctts  archived.  The  sermon  remained  in  manu-rript  tiil  ls07,  wiicn  itwaa 
printed  by  Mr.  Dawson  and  t!ie  .Massachusetts  Historical  Society  ;  but  both  copy 
In.m  a  manuscript  which  does  not  api)enr  to  have  been  the  work  of  a  peiTon  so  well 
educated  as  the  scribe  of  that  hero  printed.  The  "  Mercurius  Americanus  "  thou^rf, 
be-armg  the  name  of  John  \\  heelwri-!it,  "junior,"  as  the  author,  is  <'rneially  sup- 
posed to  be  by  our  John  W  lieelwri-ht.  It  is  here  reproduced  verbatim  Mr 
Ik-ll  s  review  ot  the  evidence  in  relation  to  the  famous  Wlieelwri'lit  de^d  of  IG-'o' 
whose  genuineness  has  been  questioned  bv  Savage,  ij^uton  and  otlier  writers  is  'an 
elaborate  and  candid  arguumit,  and  presents  some  new  and  important  views  of  a 
much  discuf-sed  question. 

The  book  is  beautifully  printed  by  John  Wilson  &  Son,  of  Camhrid-e,  and  is 
illustrated  by  heliotype  lac-similes  of  the  Indian  deeds  of  1(338  to  hiin  and  others 
whose  genuineness  ainnot  be  controverted.  j.  vy_  ^^    ' 

The  Life  and  Industrial  Labors  of  William  Wlirelwrirjht  in  Soiilk  Amrrica  Bv 
J.  B.  Alberdi  (Late  Minister  of  the  Ari^entine  Republic  to  France  and  En'r]und)' 
irausuuea  irom  the  Spauisli,  with  Additional  .AJemoranda.  \Yith  an  Introduction 
^lu^*"  ^H°->''-'^^'^  Cl-siiixg,  United  States  Minister  to  Spain.  Boston-  -\. 
A^il'"^"^?,*-^  C'^-'  ^^3  Washington  Street.  1877.  [Large  12mo.  pp.  yL+a^lS 
+5/.     lable  ot  contents,  but  no  index.     Price,  ,§1.50.] 

,"■?!''•  1X1'®'^^ ^"'S!^^  ^11,  the  early  part  of  his  life  was  a  sailor  and  shipmaster.  In 
1&-1.  at  the  age  ot  j2b,  he  took  up  his  residence  at  Guavaquii  in  Columbia,  and  soon 
after  was  appointed  Lnited  States  consul  at  that  pijrt,*  which  ofrice  he  held  sev.-rai 
years.  In  KS29,  alter  the  dismemberment  of  Columbia,  he  removed  to  Valparaiso, 
in  Lhih  in  both  places  he  was  indethtigable  in  developing  the  commercial  resources 
ot  the  Facihc  coa.t  of  South  America.  In  1833,  he  projected  a  steam  navigation 
company,  for  winch  he  obtained  important  privileges  from  the  republics  of  Pern  and 
i.'tuli.  ^  After  much  toil  and  discouragement,  necessitatinir  a  visit  to  Ecnand  he 
suceeeaed  in  inducing  English  capitalists  to  enga-e  in  the  enterprise  ;  and? in  183^, 
ttie  Facihc  Steam  Navigation  Company  was  tormed  with  a  capital  ot  £2.50  000 
y\r  \\  nee  wright,  as  superintendent  of  the  company's  ooerations,  n-ave  his  ener^nea 
to  the  work,  overcame  the  numerous  ot«tacles  which  he  met  with,  and  saw  his  pUina 
crowned  with  brilliant  success.  In  18o.5,  more  than  twenty  years  aftev  he  had 
planned  It,  i  Ir.  A  heelwright  withdrew  from  the  company  and  turned  his  efforts  to 
the  construction  of  railways  in  South  America,  to  which  he  devoted  himself  for  the 
remainder  of  his  life,  with  proht  to  himself  and  his  associates,  and  with  untch^ 
k!"!;  t-J  the  countries  where  they  were  constructed,  lit  died  in  London,  Septem- 
Dtr  .().  18/ J,  it-aving  an  ampie  fortune,  a  liberal  portion  of  which  he  left  to  his  native 
'-ity,  rsewburyport,  for  charitable  purposes. 

This  memoir  of  Mr  Wheelwright  was  written  in  the  Spanish  langua-e  by  Mr. 
Alberdi,  whom  Mr.  Cushin-  characterizes  as  "  an  eminent  citizen  of  the  Ar-^eutino 
^onlt-dcration,  distinguished  in  diplomacy  and  as  a  writer  on  questions  of  i'ntcrna- 
Uona  jurisprudence."  To_  the  translation  of  this  work  are  added  biographical 
memoranda  and  the  whole  is  prefaced  by  an  introduction  from  the  pen  of  the  Hon. 
^■Ufb  Lushing,  the  companion  of  Mr.  Wheelwright  in  youth  and  his  friend  in 
inaturer  years.  j  w  d 

The  American  Bibliopolist,  a  Literary  Register  and  Repository  of  Notes  and  Queries, 

^hakcspeanana   etc.  .        February,  1877 J.  Sabin  &  Sons,  84  Nassau  Street 

New  lork  L^vo  pp.  20+10.  Annual  SuI,scription,  $1.25,  inclusive  of  prepaid 
postage.  Single  Numbers,  issued  Bi-Monthly,  25  ctd.  each.] 
The  present  number  of  the  .bnerican  BibUnpolist  is  the  first  number  of  the  ninth 
^0  umeand  the  eighty-hfth  since  its  first  issue.  In  these  numbers  much  curious 
«i;J  \a.uable  information  concerning  books  and  kindred  subjects  h;is  been  r.re^crved 
u'.H^iI"'!'l'^"^'^'^••^^  are  :-Liierary  and  other  Jottings';  Qliituaries.  Notes  and 
vuerie-,  Shakespearian  Gossip  :  review  of  Bryant  and  Gay's  History  of  the  United 
f'f  ..  [,  m'"  the  London  Athai'F.um;  Gossip  about  Portraits,  &c.  ic.  Sixteen  na^'es 
c-f     Bibliography  "  kom  "  Oldys  "  to  "St.  Louis  "  are  given.  j.  w.  d? 


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248  Booh  JSFotices.  [April. 

Cehbration  by  the  Inhahitants  of  Worcpster,  Mass.,  of  th".  Centennial  Anniver.'an/  ,if 
the  Declaration  of  Indrpendence,  Juhj  4,   la76.      To   which  are  added  Hislorm: 
and  Chronuloi/iC.al  Aoies.     Worcester  :    Printed  by  Order  of  the  City  Cuuiicil 
Mi)CCCL.xx7i.     [S\'o.  pp.  146.     Large  Paper.] 

Note?,  Hi.-forica/  and  Chronolorjical,  on  the  Town  of  Worcester,  Mass.  By  Natiiam  j-  r. 
Paine.  Worcester:  Thirty-tive  Copies  printed  for  Private  Distribution.  loTij. 
[8vo.  pp.  76.     Large  Paper.] 

The  oration  of  the  Hon.  Benjamin  F.  Thomas  befjre  the  inhabitants  of  VTorccstor 
on  the  occasion  above  .stated  is  one  of  the  ablest  and  mu.st  valuable  of  all  the  dis- 
courses delivered  on  the  National  Anniversary  in  187B.  His  special  theme  vras  tiic 
Rise  of  the  Republic  in  its  leiijal  and  cunstitutioiial  aspects  ;  which  waf  treated  con- 
cisely, but  with  that  clearnesri  and  comprehensive  grasp  which  characterize  all  tlie 
utterances  of  this  learned  and  distinguished  jurist. 

Two  other  editions  of  this  pamphlet  have  been  issued  on  smaller  paper  ;  one  cut, 
the  other  uncut. 

Appended  to  the  oration  and  other  proceedings  of  the  day,  are  extended  hi=toriral 
and  chronological  Notes,  prepared  by  Nathaniel  Paine,  E-([.,  "  with  the  intenti'^a 
of  indicating  »  *  *  the  condition  of  atl'airs  in  the  town  of  Worcester  a  century  ago, 
cspeoially  as  to  the  stand  taken  upon  the  important  political  questions  then  agitat- 
ing the  country."  These  notes  are  very  valuable,  and  evidently  are  the  result  of 
very  careful  research.  They  are  illu'-trated  with  a  facsimile  of  a  page  of  the  town- 
records  upon  which  the  protest  of  tlie  L>yalists  of  \Vorcester  in  1774  was  recorded, 
and  afterward  defaced  by  order  of  the  people  ;  of  the  Worcester  Spy  for  July  17, 
1776,  cont:'.ining  the  Declaration  of  Independence;  and  of  the  Old  South  Church, 
as  it  ajipeared  in  1776,  in  which  the  Declaration  was  first  publicly  read  in  iMa.ssa- 
chusetts,  by  Isaiah  Thomas. 

A  small  separate  edition  of  these  Notes,  enlarged,  has  also  been  printed  for  Mr. 
Paine,  with  additional  illustrations.  These  publications  are  issued  in  elegant. 
style.  A.  E.  H. 

The  Neiv  York  Genealo(jical  and  Biographical  Record.     Devoted  to  the  Interests  of 

American  Genealogy  and  Biography.    Issued  Quarterly.     [Seal.]     .January,  1S77. 

Published  for  the  Society.     Mott  Memorial  Hall,  No.  64  Madison  Street,  New 

York  City.     [^ko.  pp.  48.     Price  ,$2  a  year.] 
The  Maine  Genealogist  and  Biographer.     A   Quarterly  Journal.     "Wm.  B.  Laphau, 

Editor.     March,  1877.     Augusta,  Me.  :    Printed  for  the   Society  by  Sprague, 

Owcn&Nash.     [8vo.  pp.  32.     Price,  ,$1.50  a  year.] 

These  two  periodicals  contain  much  interesting,  matter  relating  to  American  gen- 
ealogy and  biography.  Tlie  Record  with  tiiis  number  enters  on  its  eighth  year  and 
volume,  while  the  Genealogist  atid  Biographer  i.s  near  the  close  of  the  second. 

This  number  of  the  Record  contains  a  biogriqjhical  sketch  of  the  late  Rev.  Dr 
William  B.  Sprague  ;  Long  Island  Families  in  Chester  County,  Pa.  ;  Contribi'tioca 
to  the  History  ot  the  Ancient  Families  of  N'ew  York  (Loockermans  and  Varick)  : 
copies  of  church  records  in  New  York  City  and  Harlem ;  Notes'  and  Queries,  and 
a  goodly  number  of  book  notices. 

The  present  number  of  the  latter  periodical  contains  heliotypo  portraits  of  Mrs. 
Abiah  (Soule)  Kilgore.  the  last  revolutionary  pensioner  in  eastern  Maine,  and  the 
late  James  W.  Bradbury,  Jr.,  a  promising  young  lawyer  in  Augusta.  Me.,  with  bio- 
eraphical  sketches  ;  genealogies  of  the  families  of  Flagg,  Cilley  and  Ricker ;  Rev.> 
lutionary  Pensioners  in  Maine  ;  Notes  and  Queries  ;  Editorial  Notes,  and  a  variety 
of  other  articles  illustrating  town  and  family  history. 

We  commend  both  works  to  the  patronage  of  our  readers.  J.  w.  D. 

A  Discourse  delivered  in  the  First  Church  of  Dover,  May  18,  1873,  on  the  Two 
Hundred  and  Fiftieth  Anniversary  of  the  Settlement  of  Dover,  N.  H.  By  Georgb 
B.  Spalding,  Pastor  of  the  First  Ciuireh.  (Published  l)y  Request.)  Dover, 
N.  II.  :  Freewill  Baptist  Printing  A.ssociation.     1873.     [l-2mo.  pp.  29.] 

The  Dover  Pulpit  during  the  Revolutionary  War,  a  Discourse  commemorative  of  the 
Distinguished  Service  rendered  by  Rev.  Jeremy  Belknap,  D.D.,  to  the  Cause  of 
American  Independence,  preached  l>y  Rev.  (Jeokge  B.  Spalding,  July  9,  1S76. 
Published  by  Request.  Dover,  N.  U.  :  Morning  Star  Steam  Job  Printing  House. 
1876.  [8vo.  pp.  31.] 
In  the  first  discourse  the  author  gives  a  concise  summary  of  the  early  religious 

history  of  Dover,  and  brief  sketeiies  of  its  early  ministers  : — Levcrich,  BurJctt, 


.1877.] 


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Knollys,  Larkham,  ?.Iaii<l,  and  Reyner.  On  wme  other  nocasion,  not  remote,  we 
hope  iie  will  briri'j;  tliis  history  iiml  these  skftches  down  to  the  present  time, — a  his- 
tory not  ot  one  chureii  only,  !)uu  of  all.     Sucii  a  work  hy  one  on  the  Bpot,  having 

hich 
lero- 


access  to  all  the  existin;^  records,  could  not  fail  to  he  valuable. 

The  ministry  ot  the  Kev.  Dr.  Belknap,  the  historian  of  New  Hampshire,  wl 
ntinued  in  Dover  for  nearly  twenty  years,  covered  the  whole  period  of  the  R 


■con 


luti  inary  War.  By  sermons,  by  letters  to  public  men,  by  communicationH  to  the 
newspapers,  he  showed  his  hearty  and  intelliirent  zeal  in  the  struy^le  lor  political 
independence,  and  exercised  a  large  degree  of  influence  upon  his  contemporaries. 
AH  this  Mr.  Spalding  sets  fortli  clearly,  and  shows  inonovor  that  Dr.  Hclknap  fully 
perceived  and  proclaimed,  in  sermons  preached  in  1772  ami  1774,  the  true  grounds 
■of  the  dispute  between  Great  Britain  and  her  American  Colonies.  a.  n.  a. 


DEATHS. 


Baldwix,  Mrs.  Hannah  Stanton,  in  Wor- 
cester, Mass..  March  19,  1377,  aged  91 
years  and  8  days.  She  was  the  widow 
of  Daniel  Baldwin,  of  North  Stoniiig- 
ton,  Conn.,  was  born  March  11,  1786, 
And  had  among  her  ancestors  some  of 
the  most  prominent  of  the  early  settlers 
-o^  Stonington  and  Groton,  Conn.  She 
was  a  lineal  descendant  of  the  first 
Thomas  Stanton,  of  Stonington,  being 
the  daughter  of  Capt.  Xithaniel  Stan- 
ton, of  Groton,  who  was  son  of  Nathan- 
iel, of  Preston,  who  was  son  of  Joseph, 
-of  Stonington,  who  was  sou  of  Capt. 
John,  of  Stonington,  who  was  son  of 
the  first  Thomas.  Her  great-grand- 
mother Stanton  was  the  granddaughter 
of  both  William  Chesebro'  and  Capt. 
George  Dennison,  of  Stonington. 
Thomas  Stanton  and  William  Chesebro' 
were  the  first  two  settlers  in  that  town. 
Her  grandmother  Stanton  was  a  daugh- 
ter of  Rev.  Joseph  Coit,  the  first  min- 
ister of  Plainfield,  Conn.,  whose  wife 
was  Experience  Wheeler,  of  Stonington. 
Through  her  mother,  she  was  a  descen- 
dant of  tlie  first  James  Avery  and  of 
the  first  James  Morgan,  of  Groton. 
She  lived  a  brave  life,  and  died  worthy 
of  all  honor. 

Day,  Charles,  in  Portland,  Me.,  Oct.  14, 
1876,  ae.  79.  He  was  the  oldest  printer 
in  that  city.  He  learned  his  trade  in 
the  office  of  the  Eastern  Argus,  and  for 
some  years  had  charge  of  its  job  office. 
While  a  partner  in  the  fixra  of  Day  & 
iVaser,  he  printed  "The  Yankee,"  a 
weekly  newspaper  edited  by  John  Neal, 
commenced  Jan.  1328.  As  a  member 
of  other  firms  he  printed  the  first  edi- 
tion of  Willis's  "  History  of  Portland" 
(2  vols.  1831  and  1833) ;  and  published 
Zion's  Advocate,  commenced  1831,  and 
the  Mechanic  and  Workingman's  Advo- 
cate. 

Foster,  Eben  B.,  in  Cambridgeport,  Aug. 


26,  1876,  ae.  73,  He  was  the  son  of 
John  and  Mary  (Haskell)  Foster,  and 
was  b.  in  Deer  I^le,  Maine,  May  2, 
1803 ;  being  the  4th  i.i  descent  from 
John^  Foster  of  Roxbury,  bom  about 
1700,  through  Cape.  Siim.ntd,'^  and  Johu,^ 
above,  his  father.  He  svas  broaght  up 
in  the  business  department  of  the  Bos- 
ton Daily  Advertiser,  which  he  left  to 
assume  the  financial  management  of  the 
Daily  Courier,  while  it  was  edited  by 
Joseph  T.  Buckingham ;  and  he  after- 
wards became  one  of  its  proprietors. 
On  the  organization  of  the  Pawner's 
Bank,  he  was  chosen  its  cashier,  which 
office  he  held  tiU  about  a  year  before 
his  death. 

Hale,  Miss  Abigail  Grout,  daughter  of 
Harry  and  Lucinda  (Eddy)  Hale  (see 
Register,  vol.  xxvi.  p.  356),  at  .Chelsea, 
Vt.,  February  13,  1877,  in  the  60th 
year  of  her  age. 

Hatmes.  Guy  Carleton,  in  East  Boston, 
March  16,  aged  91.  He  was  the  young- 
est of  the  twenty-three  children  of  Jo- 
seph Haynes  of  Haverhill,  Mass.,  and 
was  born  in  that  town,  Feb.  5,  1786.  He 
was  the  oldest  resident  of  East  Boston, 
being  one  of  the  first  settlers  after  the 
project  of  improvement  in  1833.  He 
built  the  first  house, — the  one  since 
occupied  by  him,  and  in  which  he 
died,  at  the  corner  of  Webster  and  Cot- 
tage Streets.  This  was  in  May,  1333. 
He  moved  into  it  when  it  was  about 
half  finished,  and  when  there  were  but 
three  females,  including  his  wife,  on 
the  island. 

Three  of  Mr.  Haynes's  brothers,  Da- 
vid, Ammi  R.  and  Joseph,  served  in 
the  French  war  in  Canada  in  1757. 
over  two  years  before  the  capture  of 
Quebec  by  Gen.  Wolfe.  Full  particu- 
lars of  this  family  will  be  found  in  the 
Register  for  Oct.  1855  (ix.  349— fi"*, 
in  ail  article  commimicated  by  hiin. 


250, 


Deaths. 


[April, 


HoBART,  lion.  Benjamin,  in  South  Ab- 
ington,    the  place  of  his  birth,  at  noon, 
Jan.  25,    1877,  in  his  96th   year.     His 
great-great-grandfather  w;^  Jacob  Nash, 
one  of  the  prominent  early  settlers   of 
Wej-mouth,  who  left  a  large  estate  in 
"VVejTOouth,    Abiiigton,    Braintree   and 
Briclgewater,   to  be  divided  among  his 
descendants.     Mr.  Hobart's  mother  -was 
Thankful    "WTiite,    daughter   of  Joseph 
and  Ruth  (Xash)   White,  and  married 
for  her  first   husband  Elihu,  brother  of 
President  John  Adams,  by  whom   she 
had  tliree  children.      She   married   for 
her   second,  husband,    Xov.    2o,    1777, 
Col.  Aaron  Hobart,  a  prominent  man 
in  his  day.     Of  six  children    by    this 
marriage,  the  Hon.  Benjamin  and  Jo- 
sejjh  (twins)   were  born  Oct.   24,   1781. 
Joseph  died  August  1,  1787.    Benjamin 
Hobart  was  graduated  at  Brown  Uni- 
versity in  IS'^4,  and  was  its  oldest  sur- 
viving alumnus.    He  attended  the  com- 
mencement of  his  alma  mater  last  sum- 
mer.   Mr.   Hobart  was  originally  pre- 
pared for  the  bar,  but  about  sixty  years 
ago  he  commenced  the  manufacture  of 
iron  tacks,   in  which  he  was  very  suc- 
cessful.     He   delivered   an   oration   on 
the    fourth    of    July,     1805,    and    re- 
presented Abington    in   the  legislature 
in  1823,     He  was  active  in  securing  the 
location  of  the  Old  Colony  Railroad  in 
the   town,    and    in    1866  'published    a 
•'History  of    Abington"     {ante,    xxi. 
299),  written  after  he  had  reached  the 
age  of  eighty  years.     An    "Historical 
Sketch  of  Abington"    (^Svo.  pp.    176) 
had  been  -written  by  his  nephew,  the 
Hon.  Aaron  Hobart   (b.  1787,  d.  1852, 
see  Register,  xiii.  90),  and  was  pub- 
lished in  1839. 

LoBD,  Melvin,  in  Boston,  May  16,  1876, 
jet.  84— the  oldest  bookseller  in  Boston. 
He  was  born  in  Saybrook,  Ct.,  Sept.  2, 
1791,  being  one  of  eight  children  of 
Capt.  Russell  and  Mrs.  Hannah  (Sill) 
Lord,  who  removed  to  Troy,    N.  Y., 

'-■  about  1795.  At  the  age  of 'twelve  he 
came  to  Boston  and  entered  the  store  of 
Thomas  &  Andrews,  publishers  and 
booksellers,  the  seiiior  partner  of  that 
firm  being  Isaiah  Thomas,  author  of  the 
"  History  of  Printing."  AVhen  t^venty- 
one  he  became  a  clerk  with  West  & 
Richardson  (John  West  and  Eleazer  T. 
F.  Richardson),  and  after  a  while  was 
admitted  a  partner,  the  firm  being  West, 
Richardson  &  Lord.  West's  interest  in 
the  firm  ceased  in  1820.  and  the  style  be- 
came Richardson  &  Lord.  His  part- 
ner, Mr.  R.,  died  in  1829,  and  after  be- 
ing sole  proprietor  for  a  time,  he  admit- 
ted John  C.  Holbrook  as  a  partner,  the 


firm  being  changed  to  Richardson,  Lord 
&  Holbrook.  in  a  year  or  two  tl.i  v 
sold  their  retail  trade  to  Marsh,  Capi  n 
&  Lyon,  and  confijied  themselves  to  a 
wnolesale  business.  They  publisht'd  a 
large  proportion  of  the  school  books 
used  in  New  England,  and  were  al-o 
large  importers  of  stationery.  In  lS.'i:i 
Mr.  Lord  di.-poscd  of  his  interest  in  the 
business,  which  has  since  been  carried 
on  under  various  proprietors  and  styles 
to  this  time,  the  pre>cnt  firm  being  \Vil. 
liam  Ware  &  Co.,  who  have  lately  suc- 
ceeded Brewer  &  Tileston. 

Among  his  publications  and  those  of 
the  firms  of  which  he  was  a  member, 
are  the  Farmer's  Almanac,  by  Robert 
B.  Thomas  (annually),  Morse's  Gc'o- 
graphy,  abridged,  and  Atlas,  Brooke's 
Oazetteer,  Smith's  Latin,  Greek  and 
Hebrew  Grammars,  Sullivan's  Moral 
and  Political  Class  Books,  Webster's 
Chemistry,  Pierpont's  series  of  rcadin-r 
books,  Webster's  Spelling  Book  (the 
annual  demand  of  which  at  one  time 
was  estimated  as  high  as  three  hundred 
thousand  copies),  Perry's  and  Emerson's 
Spelling  Books,  Lem'priere's  Classical 
Dictionary,  Paley's  Moral  Philosophy, 
Peter  Parley's  (Goodrich's)  several  his. 
tories,  Stoniford's  and  Frost's  English 
Grammars,  Worcester's  Reader,  \Vor- 
cester's  Spelling  Book,  Ainsworth's 
I-atin  Dictionary,  Bradford's  History 
of  Massachusetts,  Butler's  Analo'-y, 
Mrs.  Susannah  Rowson's  Exercises°in 
History,  and  Thatcher's  Medical  Bio- 
graphy; also  the  following  collections 
of  Church  JIusic,  some  of  which  had 
large  sales,  viz.  :  the  Bridgewater  Col- 
lection {ante,  xviii.  223),  the  Handel 
and  Haydn  Society's  Collection,  the 
Boston  Academy's  Collection,  CarmLna 
Sacra,  the  Choir  and  the  Psalmist. 

He  married,  March  21,  1821,  Susan- 
nah Ridgeway,  dau.  of  George  Homer 
of  Boston.  She  d.  Jan.  26,  r876.  He 
never  recovered  from  the  shock,  and, 
though  active  in  mind  and  body  to  the 
last,  he  died  in  less  than  four  months. 
They  had  ten  children,  five  of  whom 
survive. 

Reichel,  Rev.  W^illiam  C,  in  Bethlehem, 
Pa.,  Nov.  1,  ast.  53 ;  a  linguist,  a  botan- 
ist and  an  historian.  He  was  professor 
of  Latin  and  the  Natural  Sciences  in 
theMoravian  Seminary,  the  author  of 
various  articles  and  books  relative  to 
Moravian  history,  and  the  editor  of 
Heckewelder's  "Indian  Nations,"  no- 
ticed in  our  last  number  {ante,  p.  13S>. 
At  the  time  of  his  death  he  was  engaged 
on  histories  of  Northampton  county 
and  Bethlehem. 


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Presented  to  the  Sew-En,jland  Historic,  Genealogical  Society  since  the  issue  of  last  Number. 

An  illiistratnJ  History  of  Missouri,  compri>lncr  Irs  oarlv  Record,  and  Civil    Poliiicid  iuid 

Milit.iry  Hi>t()ry  iVoiii  its  Fir.-t  Kx[)lunirio!i  to  tin-  Pn-ciit  Tiiuo Hv-  \V:ilt.r  L;i<  k- 

lord  Diivis  and  Danii,'!  S.  Dunic,  A.M.  Sokl  hv  Sali>rri|)tion.  St.  Loiij^;  \"  J  Hall  6c  Co 
Ciiicinnati :  Robert  Clarke  ;«  Co.     1876.     [8vo.  pp.  G^l).     Index  and  Illustrations.] 

The  Ciiroiiicles  of  Baltimore;  h.in;,'  a  Complete  History  of  "Baltimore  Town"  and 
Haltimore  City  from  tlic  Earliest  Pcnoil  to  the  Present  Time.  Bv  Col.  J.  Thomas  Scharf 
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[Svo.  pp.  7.36.    Index.] 

Histori'-al  Collections  of  Coshocton  Connty  (Ohio),  a  Complete  Panorama  of  the  Coiintrv 
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17t5t-1876.  By  William  E.  Hunt.  Cincinnati:  Robert  Clarke  &  Co.,  Printers.  1876! 
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S.-cretary  and  Profes-or  of  Zoology  and  Phvsiolo^'v  in  the  Massadiusctrs  Iti>;ltuti-  of 
Technology.  With  Map  and  Nineteen  Illi;stratious."  Bostou  :  Loclavood,  Brooks  &i  Co. 
1876.     [12mo.    No  Index.] 

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by  Order  of  Congress.  Forty  Fourth  Congress.  First  Session.  1876.  iRoyal  Svo.  pp. 
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cut), delivered  in  the  Senate  and  House  of  Representatives,  February  8,  187'i.  Published 
by  Order  of  Congress.    Forty  Fourth  Congress.     First  Session.    1877.     [Royal  Svo.  pp.  65.] 

Papers  of  the  New  Haven  Colony  Historical  Society.  Vol.  II.  New  Haven :  Printed  for 
the  Society.    1S77.     [Svo.  pp.  3&8.    No  Index.] 

A  Paraphrase  of  Henry  Wadswonh  Longfellow's  Poem,  entitled  The  Courtship  of  Miles 

Star.dish,  by  Ariel  Standi^h  Thurston R.  M.  Watts's  Lake  St.  Publishing  House, 

Elmira,  N.  Y.     [Sq.  16mo.  pp.  .52.] 

Bi-Centcnary  of  the  Burning  of  Providence  in  1676.  Defence  of  the  Rhode  Island  Svstcm 
of  Treatment  of  the  Indians,  and  of  Civil  and  Reli-rious  Libertv.  An  Address  delivered 
betore  the  Rhode  Island  Historical  Soeictv,  April  lU,  1876.  Bv  Zachaiiah  Allen,  LED. 
Providence:  Providence  Press  Co.,  Printers  to  the  State  and  City.     '876.     [Svo.  pp.  34.] 

New  Hamp-bire  at  the  Centennial.  The  Address  of  Governor  Cenev;  the  Oration  of 
Prof.  E.  D.  Sanborn,  of  Dartmoarh  College;  and  an  .\ccount  of  the  other  Exercises  on  the 
rjew  Hampshire  Day  at  Philadelphia,  Octoner  12,  1876;  to  which  is  prefixed  a  8' ketch  of 
the  Great  Centennial  E.xhibition.  Compiled  by  J.  Bailey  iMoore.  Manchester:  Published 
by  John  B.  Clarke.    1876.     [Svo.  pp.  54.    Portrait.] 

,,-'^''rit''^''^^  History  of  the  Subsistence  Department  of  the  United  States  Army  from  June 
JO,  lu-i,  to  August  1-5,  1876.  Compiled  under  the  Direction  of  the  Commissary  General  of 
bansi-tence,  by  John  W.  Barriger,  Major  and  Cr>mmissarvof  Subsistence  and  Bvt.  Bri-a- 
ciier-Geueral,  U.  S.  Army.  Second  Edition.  Washington:  Government  Printing  Office. 
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A  Sketch  of  the  Organization  of  the  Quartermasters'  Department  from  1774  to  1S76. 
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ALEXIS   CASWELL,  D.I).,   LL.D.,   EX-PKESIDE:rr  OF 
BKOWX  UNIYEESITY. 

By  William  Gammell,  LL.D.,  of  Providence,  Pi..  I. 

rnilE  death  of  this  beloved  and  honored  educator  took  place 
X  at  his  residence  in  Providence,  R.  L,  on  the  ei!:;hth  di-iy  of 
January,  1877,  at  the  age  of  nearly  seventv-eight  years.  He  bad 
been  a  member  of  the  Xeu-  England  Historic,  Genealogical  Society 
eince  1870,  and  was  an  active  promoter  of  its  objects.  His  high 
character,  his  honorable  success  as  a  teacher  of  science,  and  the  emi- 
nent positions  'which  he  so  worthily  filled,  unite  in  demanding  a  some- 
what extended  notice  of  his  life  and  career  in  the  pages  of  the 
Register. 

Alexis  Caswell  was  a  twin  son  of  Samuel  "and  Polly  (Seavcr) 
Caswell,  and  was  born  in  Taunton,  January  29,  1799.  His  twin 
brother  Alvaris  is  stillliving  in  a  vio;orous  old  age  in  ^  orton.  Before' 
the  birth  of  the  twins  there  were  born  of  the  same  parents  one  sister- 
and  three  brothers,  and  one  sister  and  two  brothers  after  awards.. 
The  younger  sister  died  m  childhood.  All  the  others  lived  to  ma- 
ture age.  The  oldest  brother  and  the  twin  brother  alone  remain. 
The  family  has  resided  in  Taunton  from  the  first  settlement  of  the 
town.  At  the  date  of  its  incorporation  in  1639,  the  name  o^  Tho- 
mas Caswell  appeared  in  the  list  of  its  householders  and  proprietors. 
Like  the  other  original  settlers  he  probably  came  from  Taunton, 
m  Somersetshire,  England,  and  his  will  was  admitted  to  probate  in 
1G97,  which  was  undoubtedly  the  year  in  which  he  died.  From 
him  in  the  sixth  generation  the  subject  of  this  notice  was  descended 
in  a  direct  line.  His  grandfather,  Ebeneicer  Caswell,  who  v.-as  born 
la  Taunton,  June  30,  1731,  married  Zebiah  "White,  the  gre.u-graad- 
daughter  of  Peregrine  '\^^^te,  who  was  born  on  board  the  May- 
flower while  anchored  off  Cape  Cod,  Nov.  20,  1620,  and  who  died 
ia  Marshfield,  July  22,  1704. 
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254  Alexis  Casioe/i,  JD.D.,  LL.D.  [Juh-, 

Hi3  ancestors,  from  the  date  of  their  settlement  in  Xew  Englond, 
LuJ  been  owucid  and  tillcia  of  the  soiJ,  and,  as  was  to  be  expected 
his  own  early  years  were  devoted  to  a<,mcultural  laljors  on  iii^  fu! 
ther'ti  estate.  As  manhood  approached,  he  soon  formed  the  pur- 
pose of  obtaining  a  liberal  education  in  order  that  he  might  prenare 
for  some  profession.  For  this  the  Academy  in  his  native  town 
afforded  the  facilities  which  he  required.  He  accordinglv,  in  i'5l5, 
became  a  member  of  this  institution,  of  which  the  Kev.  Simeon  Do'-'- 
gett  was  at  that  time  the  preceptor.  In  September,  iyi8,  at  the 
age  of  nineteen  years,  he  entered  tlie  freshnran  class  in  Brown  Uni- 
versity. Among  his  classmates  were  Wdliam  Allen  Crocker  and 
Samuel  Leonard  Crocker,  of  Taunton,  who  had  beeji  his  fellow 
students  at  the  Academy,  and  an  unusual  number  of  others  v/ho'iQ 
names  have  since  been  well  known  to  the  public.  Among  them  mav 
be  mentioned  the  Eev.  Benjamin  Clarke  Curler,  Isaac  JJuvis,  Thol 
mas  Kinnicutt,  Solomon  Lincoln  and  Jacob  Hersey  Loud.  His 
college  hfe  was  distinguished  for  industry,  and  on  his  graduation  in 
1822  he  bore  the  highest  honors  of  his  class,  and  according  to  the 
usage,  spoke  the  valedictory  addresses  at  commencement.  During'- 
this  period,  also,  he  experienced  that  moral  change  which  made  him 
a  genuine  and  earnest  christian  man,  and  which,  more  than  any  other 
event,  shaped  his  entire  subsequent  life.  In  July,  1820,  ho  became 
a  member  of  tlie  First  Baptist  Churcli  in  I'rovidenoe,  and  of  that 
church  he  continued  to  be  a  member  so  long  as  he  lived,  every  year 
binding  him  to  it  by  closer  ties  and  moreteuder  associatipns,'  till 
his  character  and  intluence  came  at  length  to  be  regarded  as  precious 
treasures  by  all  his  brethren. 

luamediately  on  completing  his  college  residence  he  accepted  an 
appointment  as  tutor  in  the  institution  now  known  as  Columbian 
University,  at  V^ashington,  D.  C,  an  institution  wiiich  was  then  iu 
its  infancy,  having  been  founded  only  in  the  year  preceding ;  and 
he  entered  upon  his  duties  there  in  September,  1822.  In  the  per- 
formance of  these  duties  he  spent  the  five  following  years.  The 
president  of  the  College  was  the  Eev.  Dr.  Staughton,  a  Baptist  clergy- 
man from  England,  wlio  had  considerable  reputation  for  eloquence 
and  learning,  and  with  him  Mr.  Caswell  also  studied  theology  and 
practised  the  composition  of  sermons.  The  years  spent  at  Wash- 
ington were  years  of  earnest  work,  varied  with  occasional  attend- 
ance on  the  debates  in  one  or  the  other  house  of  congress,  and  with 
vacation  excursions  into  Vii'ginia,  to  the  homes  of'^students  who 
resided  at  the  college.  In  one  of  these  excursions  he  visited  ex-Presi- 
dentMadisor,,  and  also  ex-President  Jefferson,  and  sliared  the  hos- 
pitalities of  each  of  these  venerable  men.  Pubhc  life  at  W'ashir.g- 
ton  fifty  years  ago  was  invested  with  an  interest  for  an  educat.Td 
young  man  which  it  no  longer  possesses,  and  the  debates  in  c^-n- 
gress  seemed  then  to  have  an  importance  which  thcv  have  lo-ig 
since  lost.     The  time  to  him  passed  quickly  away,  and  he  always 


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looked  back  upon  it  as  a  profitable  period  of  bis  life.  It  undoubt- 
edly created  within  him  the  tastes  and  inclinations  wliich  led  him  to 
the  profess-iou  that  ho  adopted,  and  which  controllod  his  eubsc- 
quent  career. 

In  the  summer  of  1827  the  finances  of  the  institutiun  with  which 
he  was  connected  became  embarrassed,  and  Mr.  Caswell  with  others 
of  its  instructors  withdrew  from  it.  He  immediately  returned  to  New 
England  in  search  of  employment,  intendinp:  probably  to  seek  a  set- 
tlement as  a  minister  of  the  gospel.  He  was  soon  invited  to  visit  Hali- 
fax, N.  S.,  where  a  few  families  of  culture  and  refinement,  who  had 
been  connected  with  the  established  church,  were  desirous  of  forming 
a  Baptist  church  and  maintaining  ■\vorshi[)  as  a  separate  congrega- 
tion. In  this  journey  he  was  accompanied  by  the  Kev.  Irah  Chase, 
D.D.,  at  that  time  a  professor  in  the  Theological  Institution  at 
Xewton,  jNIass.  The  church  was  formed,  and  the  services  of  Mr. 
Cnswell  proving  acceptable,  he  was  ordained  as  its  minister  on  the 
7th  of  October,  1827.  Here  he  spent  nearly  a  year,  and  here,  as 
it  proved,  he  began  and  ended  his  settled  ministry  of  the  gospel. 
In  August,  1828,  he  received  an  intimation  that  his  services  would 
be  requii"ed  in  Providence  by  the  church  of  which  he  was  a  member, 
as  assistant  to  the  venerable  pastor,  the  Rev.  Dr.  Gano,  who  had 
become  disabled  by  ill  health.  He  soon  returned  to  Providence, 
Dr.  Gano  having  died  before  his  arrival.  While  temporarily  sup- 
plying the  pulpit  of  this  church,  the  professorship  of  Mathematics 
and  Natural  Philosophy  in  Brown  University  became  vacant  by  the 
resignation  of  the  Kev.  Alva  "Woods,  D.D.,  and  he  was  chosen  to 
fill  the  vacant  chair.  The  position  was  an  honorable  one,  and  was 
also  in  harmony  with  his  intellectual  tastes  and  his  previous  occu- 
pations. He  immediately  accepted  the  appointn  ent,  and  the  work 
on  which  he  entered  became  the  work  of  the  remainder  of  his  life. 

He  was  now  once  more  a  resident:  at  the  place  of  his  education, 
a  professor  in  the  college  in  which  he  had  spent  the  years  of  his 
etudent  life,  and  with  whose  history  and  surroundings  he  was  fami- 
liar. He  was  in  the  thirtieth  year  of  his  age,  and  in  the  full  vigor 
of  his  manlv  strength.  The  collefre,  eijjhteen  months  before,  had 
passed  from  the  presidency  of  Dr.  Messer  to  that  of  Dr.  Wayland, 
who  had  brought  to  its  administration  great  energy  of  character 
and  rare  enthusiasm  for  the  work  of  education.  He  had  established 
a  higher  standard  of  instruction  and  a  more  exact  system  of  disci- 
pline than  hr.d  before  prevailed.  The  change  was  so  marked  that 
it  for  a  time  encountered  no  little  opposition.  Professor  Caswell, 
however,  gave  to  it  his  hearty  support,  and  entered  into  the  new  ar- 
rangement with  energy  and  zeal.  His  influence  began  iuunediately 
to  be  felt  among  those  who  were  under  his  tuition  and  care.  The 
college  was  at  that  time  but  imperfectly  proviiled  either  with  books 
or  with  the  means  of  scientific  illustration  and  experiment.  Its  de- 
partments of  instruction   were  not  fully  organized,  and  new  sciences 


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256  Alexis  Caswell^  D.D.,  LL.D.  ['Tuly* 

had  been  caddecl  to  its  course  of  study  bpfore  professors  were  appoint- 
ed to  teach  them.  He  was  always  ready  to  as.-unie  any  additioiuj 
duties  tiiat  were  required  to  meet  the  emergency.  In  this  manner, 
in  addition  to  his  own  regular  work,  he  at  different  times  taugiit 
classes  in  chemistry,  in  natural  hi?tory,  in  ethics  and  in  constitu- 
tional law.  The  funds  of  the  institution,  too,  were  exceedingly  in- 
adequate to  its  wants,  and  he  M'as  soon  enlisted  in  an  enterprise  fur 
increasing  them.  In  labors  like  these  for  the  general  prosperity  of 
the  University  did  he  begin  his  career  as  a  professor,  and  they  were 
but  a  specimen  of  those  that  marked  his  career  to  its  close.  lie 
was  always  self-sacrificing  and  public  spirited,  and,  wholly  beyond 
his  special  department  of  instruction,  he  rendered  services  of  great 
importance  to  the  institution  with  which  he  was  connected. 

No  life  is  more  uniform  and  quiet  than  that  of  a  college  instructor. 
He  is  constantly  occupied  with  scientific  or  literary  studies,  and  witli 
the  teaching  of  classes.  He  can  seldom  mingle  in  the  excitements 
which  lie  without  the  sphere  in  which  he  lives.  He  has  cares  and 
annoyances,  and,  it  may  be,  ambitions,  all  his  own,  but  they  are 
not  like  those  of  other  men.  He  has  few  public  relations  compared 
with  those  of  other  professional  men.  The  rule  is  now  undoubtedly 
far  less  inflexible  than  it  was  fifty  years  ago,  but  it  has  not  essen- 
tially changed.  Such  a  life  is  still  comparatively  without  events, 
and  is  distinguished  mainly  by  the  uniformity  of  its  current.  Such 
was  it  in  the  case  of  Professor  Caswell.  Day  succeeded  day,  and 
year  followed  year,  and  still  he  was  at  the  same  work  of  study  and 
of  teaching.  In  1850  the  style  of  his  professorship  was  changed 
from  that  of  mathematics  and  natural  philosophy  to  that  of  mathe- 
matics and  astronomy,  a  portion  of  his  former  work  having  been 
assigi  cd  to  another.  Of  the  science  of  astronomy  he  was  an  as- 
siduous votary,  and  though  he  had  not  the  advantages  of  an  ob- 
servatory, yet  with  such  instruments  as  he  had  at  command,  he  was 
constantly  scanning  the  starry  heavens  and  watching  the  occultations 
and  transits  which  they  revealed.  He  also  kept  himself  carefully 
informed  of  the  progress  made  in  the  science,  and  was  in  frequent 
correspondence  with  several  of  its  eminent  promoters.  In  1855 
the  presidency  of  the  University  became  vacant  by  the  resignation 
of  Dr.  Wayland,  who  had  filled  the  oflfice  since  1827.  Professor  Cas- 
well was  now  the  senior  member  of  the  faculty,  and  had  rendered  im- 
portant services  to  the  University  and  to  the  cause  of  education,  and 
it  was  naturally  expected  that  he  would  be  chosen  to  fill  the  vacancy. 
In  this  expectation  he  probably  shared.  Another,  however,  was 
preferred,  on  the  ground  that  certain  advantages  would  be  secured 
by  calling  to  the  position  one  who  had  not  hitherto  been  connected 
with  the  University.  The  occurrence  made  no  change  in  his  devo- 
tion to  its  interests.  He  continued  to  discharge  the  duties  of  his 
professorship  without  any  apparent  disappointment,  and  he  gave  to 
the  new  president  the  same  cordial  support  which  he  had  given  to  hi3 
predecessor. 


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1877.]  Alexis  Casicell,  D.J).,  LL.D.  257 

In  18G0  he  went  abroatl  \\\\\\  Mrs.  CasMcll,  and  spent  a  year  in 
travelling  in  Europe.  During  his  ah.-iencc  he  made  the  acquaintanec 
of  many  eminent  men  of  science,  visited  several  of  the  great  ob- 
eervatories,  and  attended  the  meetings  of  some  of  tiic  leading  scien- 
tific associations,  both  of  Great  Britain  and  the  (Jontinent.  Return- 
ing in  18G1,  he  resumed  his  duties  and  continued  them  till  the 
autumn  of  18G3,  when  he  resigned  tlie  professorship,  after  a  eervice 
of  thirty-five  years.  This  service  had  been  almost  unprecedented  in 
duration,  and  b.ad  been  in  many  ways  productive  of  signal  advantages 
to  the  University.  He  was  greatly  respected  and  beloved  by  tiie 
scholars  whom  he  taught.  His  [)ublic  s[)irit  had  aided  in  promoting 
and  securing  many  improvements,  and  he  had  the  happiness  of  seeing 
the  institution  making  constant  progress  during  the  period  of  his 
connection  with  it — a  {)rogress  to  which  his  own  labors  and  character 
had  largely  contributed.  The  cessation  of  regular  academic  occu[)a- 
tions  was  of  course  a  very  great  change -in  his  habits  of  life.  He, 
however,  soon  supplied  tiioir  place,  and  filled  up  his  unaccustomed 
leisure  with  scientific  studies  and  philanthropic  labors  of  various  kinds 
in  the  community.  Pie  had  a  share  in  nearly  every  important  en- 
terprise of  this  character  that  was  undertaken,  and  he  always  yielded 
readily  to  the  claims  which  the  higher  interests  of  society  are  con- 
stantly making  on  the  time  and  energies  of  generous-minded 
citizens.  He  also  became  actively  concerned  in  the  management  of 
certain  financial  corporations  with  which  his  interests  were  connected, 
and  was  made  the  president  of  the  National  Exchange  Bank,  and 
also  of  the  American  Screw"  Company,  both  of  which  were  established 
in  Providence. 

In  September,  1867,  the  presidency  of  the  University  again  be- 
came vacant  by  the  resignation  of  the  Rev.  Dr.  Sears,  who  had  held 
it  for  twelve  years.  No  small  difficulty  was  experienced  in  obtain- 
ing a  successor.  An  election  v/as  made,  but  it  was  dechned,  and 
the  vacancy  was  not  finally  filled  till  the  following  January,  when 
Dr.  Caswell  was  chosen  president.  He  was  now  sixty-nine  years  of 
age  ;  but  he  was  in  good  health,  and  the  duties  to  which  he  was 
called  were,  for  the  most  part,  such  as  he  had  been  familiar  with 
during  his  whole  professional  hfe.  His  occupancy  of  the  position, 
of  course,  could  not  be  regarded  as  other  than  temporary,  either  by 
himself  or  by  those  who  elected  him.  It  was  deemed  a  judicious 
arrangement  for  meeting  a  somewhat  critical  emergency  in  the  afi'airs 
of  the  University,  and  he  entered  upon  it  with  a  cheerful  confidence 
in  his  resources.  With  the  otfice,  while  he  held  it,  no  duties  of  in- 
struction were  connected,  in  order  that  his  energies  might  not  be 
overtasked.  The  experiment  was  not  without  its  risks,  and  the  suc- 
cess in  which  it  resulted  aifordod  a  very  gratifying  proof  not  only  of 
the  facility  with  which  he  could  resume,  at  a  late  period  of  life,  the 
academic  labors  which  he  had  laid  aside,  but  also  of  the  intellectual 
vigor  and  the  genial  spirit  which  years  seemed  scarcely  to  have 
VOL.  xixi.  23* 


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258  Alexis  Caswell,  D.D.,  LL.D.  [July, 

abated.  His  a(lministratl(»n  was  entirely  creditable  to  liim,  and  his 
venerable  character  and  lon<^^  services  contributed  to  its  success.  Ho 
withdrew  from  the  olKce  in'  September,  l>i72,  iiaving  held  it  four 
years  and  a  half,  and  he  left  the  University  in  all  respects  in  a  better 
condition  than  that  in  which  he  found  it.  Its  students  had  become 
more  numerous  ;  its  funds  had  been  increased  ;  a  new  [»rofessor?hlp 
had  been  establisiied,  and  an  important  enlargement  had  been  niadtj 
of  its  museum  of  natural  history.  The  years  of  his  presidency, 
added  to  those  during  which  he  was  a  professor,  make  the  wliJle 
period  of  his  services  in  Brown  University  thirty-nine  and  a  half 
years — a  period  not  equalled,  save  in  a  single  instance,  by  any  other 
officer  of  instruction  in  its  entire  history.  In  the  year  following  his 
resignation  he  was  elected  a  trustee,  and  two  years  later  he^vvas 
elected  a  fellow  in  its  corporation,  thus  continuing  his  connection 
with  its  management  to  the  end  of  his  life. 

As  appears  from  the  foregoing  sketch,  the  entire  active  life  of  Dr. 
Caswell,    with   the   exception  of  the  brief  year  of   l;is  ministry  at 
Plalifax,  was  spent  in  the  study  and  teaching   of  science,   a  work 
eminently  favorable  to  the  culture  of  the  intellect  and  the  elevation 
of  the  character.      Such  a  work  is,  of  itself,   a  contribution  to  the 
interests  of  science,  for  it  extends  its  influence  over  many  minds, 
and  trains  a  multiUide  of  students  to  be  its  votaries,  its  promoters  or 
Its  discoverers.      Such  may  now  be  found  among  his  pupils,  whose 
first  aspirations  were  awakened  and  encouraged  by  him.     Neither  of 
the  sciences,  however,  which  he  was  engaged  in  teaching  was  such 
as  to  invite  him,  in  any  special  degree,  to'original  resear'ches  of  his 
own.     If  astronomy  is  an  exception,  it  is  onlv  with  the  aid   of  an 
observatory  and  the  special  facilities  which  it  affords,  that  such  re- 
searches can  be  attempted  with  advantage.     But  he  was  an  expert 
niathematicia.n  and  a  thorough  expounder  of  the   laws  of  mechani- 
cal philosophy  ;  and  with  the  progress  of  astronomical  science  he  kept 
up  a  minute  acquaintance,  and  was  exceedingly  fond   of  its  study. 
For  this  purpose  he  maintained  a  frequent  correspondence  with  those 
who  were  prosecuting  it  in  circumstances  more  propitious   than  his 
own.     He  was  one  of  the  early  members  of  the  American  Associa- 
tion for  the  Promotion  of  Science,  and  often  served  on  its  important 
committees.     He  was  President  of  this  Association  for  a  vear,  and 
delivered  the  customary  official  address  at  its  annual  meeting,   held 
in  Springfield,  in  1859.     He  was  also  one  of  those  who  are  named 
in  the  Act  of  Congress,  approved  :March  3,  18();3,  which  created  tiie 
National  Academy  of  Science.     At  the  preliminary  meeting  of  ita 
members  for  organization,  held  in  New  York  the  "following  April, 
he  was  made  temporary  secretary,  and  also  chairman  of  the  commit- 
tee on  the  plan  of  organization.     When  the  Academy  was  organized 
and  Its  members  were  arranged  in  sections,   he  was  assigned°to  the 
section  on  astronomy,  geography  and  geodesy.     He  was°also,  at  the 
aame  meeting,  appointed  on  a  committee,  created  at  the  request  of 


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1877.]  Alexis  Caswell,  D-D^,  LL.D.  259 

the  Navy  Department,  to  report  upon  certain  questions  relatin"-  to 
the  mctliod  of  prepaiinp^  and  publishing  cliarts  ot"  winds  and  currents, 
and  also  oi'  the  sailing  direction:;  connected  therewith.  It  was  one 
of  the  objects  of  tlie  Acadeuiy  to  give  advice  on  questions  of  science 
when  called  upon  to  do  so  by  the  government  of  the  United  States. 
At  the  annual  meeting  held  in  January,  18(JG,  in  accordance  with  an 
appointment  previously  made,  he  read  a  carefully  prepared  [):iper  on 
the  life  and  scientific  services  of  the  late  Professor  IJenjamin  Silliman 
a  member  of  the  Academy,  who  had  died  just  before  the  preceding 
annual  meeting.  Very  early  in  his  career  as  a  man  of  science,  he 
began  to  keep  a  daily  meteorological  record,  which  he  continued  to 
the  end  of  his  life.  These  records  were  published  every  month  in 
the  Providence  Journal,  and  compilations  of  them  have  appeared  in 
the  volun)es  of  the  Smithsonian  Institution.  He  also,  at  tJie  invita- 
tion of  Professor  Henry,  the  head  of  that  Institution,  delivered  a 
course  of  lectures  on  astronomy  in  its  hall,  at  Washino-ton,  in  the 
Trintcr  of  l(So8. 

The  published  writings  of  Dr.  Caswell  are  comparatively  few,  and 
these  for  the  most  part  are  scattered  among  the  transactions  of 
learned  societies,  or  the  scientific  and  literary  periodicals  to  which 
they  were  contributed.  He  had  no  fondness  for  the  preparation  of 
text-books,  though  often  urged  to  the  undertaking  in  connection 
with  some  one  of  the  sciences  which  he  was  engaged  in  teaching. 
Even  the  few  pa})ers  which  he  published  were  prepared  at  the  soli- 
citation of  the  editors  of  the  journals  in  which  they  appeared.  He 
of  course  wrote  a  large  number  of  annual  reports,  for  the  University 
and  for  the  various  institutions,  literary,  charitable  and  reli^'ious 
with  which  he  was  connected,  and  in  which  his  services  were  very 
frequently  put  in  requisition  for  this  purpose.  He  also  published 
now  an(  then  a  discourse  prepared  for  some  public  occasion.  He 
also  wrote  frequently  for  the  newspaper  press,  and  often  discussed 
subjects  in  a  series  of  articles  which  were  thus  presented  to  the  pub- 
lic. Apart  from  publications  of  this  kind,  the  followino-  list  con- 
tains all  those  with  which  his  name  is  known  to  be  connected  : 

Oration  before  the  Phi  Beta  Kappa  Society  of  Brown   University 
in  1835.  '  ^  ^ 

^  Whe  well's  Bridge  water  Treatise,  an  article  in  the  Christian  Ee- 
vievv  for  June,  1836. 

"The  Principle  of  Emulation"  in  connection   with  education,   an 
article  in  the  North  American  Review  for  October,  1836. 

Kichol's  Architecture  of  the  Heavens,  an  article  in  the  Christian 
■Review  for  December,  LStll. 

Four  Lectures  on  Astronomy,  delivered  at  the  Smithsonian  In- 
stitution in  Washington,  D.  C,  in  1858. 

_  Address  at  the  opening  of  the  session  of  the  American  Associa- 
tion for  the  Promotion  of  Science,  at  Springfield,  in  1859. 


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260  Alexis  Caswell,  D.L.,  LL.D.  [Jujv, 

Meteorological  Observations  at  Providence,  from  1830  to  ISGO, 
publi.^hed  in  the  Quarto  Series  of  the  Smithsonian  Institution,  vol.  xii! 
■  JNfemoir  of  John  Jiarstow,  an  article  in  the  Historical  and  Geueu- 
logical  Kegistcr  for  October,  18 64. 

Memoir  of  iionjamin  Silliman,  LL.D.,  read  before  the  National 
Academy  of  Science  and  i)ui)]i.shod  in  its  Annual  Volume  for  1800. 

Sermon  on  the  Life  and  Christian  Work  of  the  Kcv.  Franci.s 
Wayland,  D.D.,  18G8. 

From  his  character  and  ecrvices  as  a  nian  of  science  we  turn  to 
contemplate  him  in  his  relation  to  the  comniiinity  and  to  the  intercuts 
of  philanthropy  and  religion.      His  services  here  have  already  been 
incidentally  alluded  to  as  signally  honorable  and  useful.      His  natural 
benevolence  was  very  strong,  and  this  quality  of  his  -character  was 
heightened  hy  his  sense  of  religious  duty  to  his  fellowmen.      He  was 
interested    in    every    enterprise   that  was    designed    to    relieve    the 
miseries  or  to  elevate  the  character  of  the  human  race,  or  to  bring 
them  under  the  influence  of  true  religion.      In  him  the  poor  always 
found  a  friend  and  a  benefactor.     A  teacher  himself,  he  was  a  life- 
long promoter  of  popular,  as  well  as  of  scientific,    education.     lie 
was  also  enlisted  in  the  efforts  of  those  who   were  enga^-ed   in  tiie 
abolition  of  war,  and  of  those  Avho  were  laboring  for  the''  benefit  of 
the  freedracn  of  the  South  and  scarcely  less  in  the  improvement  of 
their  brethren  in  Africa.      Even  before  his  days  of  leisure  becran,  he 
generously  shared  in  the  labors  and  expenditures  of  the  public  chari- 
ties pf  Providence,  and  he  soon  began  to  give  to  thes*e  charities  much 
of  his  time  and  attention.     His  continued  connection  with  the  Boards 
of  the  University  has  been  mentioned,  and  it  did  not  fail  to  bring 
with  it  some  special  cares  and  duties.     At  the  organization  of  the 
Rhode  Island  Hospital  in  18G3,  he  was  appointed  o'neof  its  trustees, 
and  after  faithfully  discharging  this  trust  for  twelve  years,  he  was, 
in  1875,  chosen  president  of  the  Hospital,  an  office  which  he  contin- 
uedto  hold  to  the  end  of  his  life.     He  performed  for  this  important 
institution  a  great  amount  of  work,  and  afforded  it  much  valuable  aid 
by  his  counsels.      Such  was  the  estimation  in  which  his  services  and 
character  were  held  by  those  who  were  associated  with  him.  in  the 
management  of  the  hospit^d,  that  a  few  of  his  friends  have,  since  his 
death,  endowed  a  free  bed  within  its  walls  in  honor  of  his  memory, 
which  is  to  bear  forever  the  name  of  "The  President  Caswell  Free 
Bed."     He  was  also,  for   several  years  immediately  preceding  his 
death,  one  of  the  inspectors  of  the  State  Prison,  where  he  often^con- 
ducted  religious  services  on  Sundays  ;  and  he  was  much  interested 
in  the  questions  relating  to  prison  disciphne,  and  in  the  well  being  of 
those  whom  this  discipline  concerns.  ^ 

The  religious  o()inions  and  sentiments  of  Dr.  Caswell  were  decided 
and  earnest,  and  they  blended  gracefully  with  every  attribute  of  his 
character  and  entered  into  all  the  pursuits  and  scenes  of  his  life. 
Though  they  were  associated  with  positive  articles  of  faith  and  united 


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1877.]  Alexis  Caswell,  D.B.,  LL.D.  2G1 

him  with  a  particular  branch  of  the  Christian  church,  they  were  very 
far  from  being  exclusive  or  narrow.  Tliey  were  derived  rather  from 
the  Bible  than  from  any  school  of  theology.  As  was  well  said  of 
him  by  his  recent  pastor  at  his  funeral,  "  His  secret  life  was  nourished 
out  of  profound  convictions,  out  of  a  perpetual  communion  with  an 
invisible  world  and  a  living  God.  His  were  not  occasional  excursions 
into  spiritual  regions,  but  a  constant  walk  with  God.  There  was  in 
him  a  beautiful,  we  may  say,  an  uncommon  combination  of  the  spir- 
itualities of  a  sincere  religion  with  the  activities,  the  interests,  the 
joys  of  life."  His  religious  faith  and  his  scientific  conclusions  were 
never  seriously  at  variance  with  each  other.  He  believed  that  Nature 
and  Revelation  were  alike,  in  their  respective  modes,  manifestations 
of  the  character  and  will  of  God,  and  he  did  not  doubt  that  the 
teachings  of  the  Bible,  when  rightly  interpreted,  would  prove  to  be  in 
full  harmony  with  the  teachings  of  all  true  science.  His  faith  in  the 
Copernican  system  was  scarcely  greater  than  his  faith  in  the  ultimate 
prevalence  of  Christianity  throughout  the  world.  He  believed  it  to 
be  designed  to  become  the  religion  of  mankind.  He  was,  therefore, 
an  earnest  advocate  and  a  liberal  promoter  of  Christian  missions,  as 
one  of  the  most  important  agencies  for  reclaiming  and  improving 
the  human  race.  He  watched  their  operations  and  rejoiced  in  their 
successes  in  every  quarter  of  the  globe.  He  regarded  them  as  the 
grandest  enterprise  in  Christian  history,  and  as  the  continuation  of 
the  work  begun  by  the  Apostles  at  the  command  of  our  Lord  him- 
self; and  he  delighted  to  contemplate  their  connection  with  the 
ultimate  destiny  of  man  as  an  immortal  being. 

The  life  of  such  a  man  could  scarcely  fail  to  be  happy.  His 
temperament  was  cheerful  and  his  health  almost  uniformly  good. 
Though  in  early  life  he  was  wholly  dependent  en  his  own  exertions, 
industry  and  prudence  had  secured  for  him  a  liberal  competence. 
His  relations  to  others  were  kindly  and  benignant,  and  his  domestic 
life  was  singularly  fortunate.  He  bore  the  trials  and  sorrows,  from 
which  no  human  lot  is  free,  with  serene  composure  and  with  devout 
submission  to  the  Divine  Will.  He  lived  to  nearly  four  score  years, 
and  yet  without  seeming  to  be  old.  With  his  faculties  scarcely 
dulled  by  age,  with  his  children  and  grandchildren  around  him,  he 
received  the  consideration  and  respect  w^hich  are  always  so  readily 
accorded  to  those  who  have  served  well  the  generation  to  which  they 
belong.  He  was  called  to  suffer  from  no  wasting  disease,  from  no 
lingering  decny  of  strength.  He  was  withdrawn  by  only  a  few  days 
of  illness  from  the  activities  and  duties  in  which  he  greatly  delighted, 
and  he  died  as  he  had  lived,  in  calm  submission  to  his  Heavenly 
Father's  will,  and  with  an  unfaltering  faith  in  the  life  and  immortality 
which  are  brought  to  light  in  the  gospel. 

Br.  Caswell  was  twice  married  :  first,  on  May  7,  1830,  to  Esther 
Lois,  daughter  of  Ebenezer  K.  Thompson,  of  Providence,  who  died 
June  25,  1850 ;  second,  on  January  31,  1855,  to  Elizabeth  Brown, 


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262  Memoir  of  William  llotch.  IJ^^^Jy 

daiifjhtor  of  Thomas  Edmands,  of  Newton,  Mass.,  who  survives  hor 
husband,  i)^  the  first  marriage  six  children  wore  born,  of  wliom 
three  died  in  January,  and  three  survive  their  father,  viz.  :  .Sarah 
Swoope,  wife  of  James  B.  AnQ;ell,  LL.D.,  president  of  the  Univer- 
sity of  Michigan  ;  Dr.  Edward  Thompson  Caswell,  physician  of 
Providence,  and  Thomas  Thompson  Caswell,  paymaster  in  the  Navy 
of  the  United  States. 


AN  AUTOBIOGRAPIITCAL  :ME:MOm  OF  ^VILLIAM 

ROTCIl. 

■WRITTEN  IN  THE  EIGHTIETH  YEAR  OF  HIS  AGE.* 
Cornmnnicated  by  Frederick  C.  Santord,  Esq.,  of  Nantucket. 

Memoranda. 
FRIEND  of  mine   has    repeatedly  requested  me    to   })ut    on 
paper  some  of  the  occurrences  of  about  twenty   years  of  my 
life,  from  1775   to   1794,  which  he  had  heard  me  relate  in  conver- 
sation. 

When  the  revolutionary  war  broke  out  in  1775,  I  saw  clearly  that 
the  only  line  of  conduct  to  be  pursued  by  us,  the  inhabitants  of  the 
Island  of  Nantucket,  was  to  take  no  part  in  the  contest,  and  to 
endeavor  to  give  no  occasion  of  offence  to  either  of  the  contending 
forces.  A  great  portion  of  the  inhabitants  were  of  the  denomination  of 
Friends,  and  a  large  number  of  the  considerate  of  the  other  societies 
united  in  the  opinion  that  our  safety  was  to  be  found  in  a  state  of 
neutrality,  as  far  as  it  could  be  obtained,  although  we  had  no  doubt 
that  suLering  would  be  our  lot,  and  which  we  afterwards  experienc- 
ed from  both  parties.  Our  situation  was  rendered  more  difficult 
from  having  among  us  a  few  restless  spirits  who  had  nothing  to 
lose,  and  who  were  often  thwarting  our  pacific  plan  and  subjecting 
us  to  dangers,  not  caring  what  confusion  they  brought  upon  us,  if 
they  could  gain  sometlung  in  the  scramble. 

My  own  troubles  began  soon  after  the  war  broke  out.  In  the 
year  1764  I  had  taken  the  goods  of  a  merchant  in  Boston,  de- 
ceased and  insolvent,  who  was  deeply  indebted  to  me.  Among 
these  were  a  number  of  muskets,  some  with,  others  without  bayo- 
nets. The  Straits  uf  Belleisle  opened  a  new  field  for  the  whale 
fishery.  There  wild  fowl  were  abundant,  and  my  muskets  met  with 
a  ready  sale  ;  but  whenever  guns  with  bayonets  w-ere  chosen,  I  inva- 
riably  took   that   instrument   of  war   from  them.     The   purchaser 

•  William  Rotch,  an  enlerprising  and  successful  mcrchrint  of  Nantacket  and  New  Bed- 
ford, wa<  bom  at  Nantiifket,  Oct.  14  0.  S.  (15  N.  S.).  1734,  and  died  at  Now  Bedford, 
May  I'j,  1828.  For  liis  l)io_r;raptiy  and  genealuLrv,  see  Rici.etion's  "  History  of  New  Bed- 
.  ford,"  pp.  10>-15.  Sec  al>o  "  Nantucl<et  in  tlie  Revolution,"  in  tlic  Registlr  {ante,  xxviii. 
272-^,  4.'W— 1'2;  xxix.43— 5J,  14I-.5.  I lii.n  autobioiirapby  is  dated  "  New  Bedford,  lid  mouth, 
1814."— Ed. 


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1877.]  Memoir  of  William  Rotch.  263 

would  insist  on  havinj;  it,  but  I  as  strenuously  resisted,  and  I  laid 
thciu  all  by.  jNIuny  years  afterward  I  removed  to  nuothcr  store, 
leaving'  much  rubbiih  in  the  one  1  had  left.  Amongst  the  rubbish 
were  those  bayonets,  neglected  and  forgotten  imtil  the  war  com- 
menced, when  to  my  surprise  they  were  brought  into  view  by  an 
application  made  for  them  by  a  person  from  the  continent. 

The  time  had  now  come  to  support  our  testimony  against  war, 
or  forever  abandon  it.  As  this  very  instrument  was  a  severe  test,  I 
would  not  hesitate,  and  therefore  promptly  denied  the  ap[)licant. 
My  reasons  for  not  furnishing  the  bayonets  were  demanded,  to 
which  I  readily  answered :  "As  this  instrument  is  purposely  made 
and  used  for  the  destruction  of  mankind,  and  I  cannot  put  into  one 
man's  hand  to  destroy  another  that  which  I  cannot  use  myself  in  the 
same  way,  I  refuse  to  comply  with  thy  demand.''  The  person  left 
me  much  dissatisfied.  Others  came  and  received  the  same  denial. 
It  made  a  great  noise  in  the  country,  and  my  life  was  threatened. 
1  would  gladly  have  beaten  them  into  '*  pruning  hooks."  As  it  was, 
I  took  an  early  opportunity  of  throwing  them  into  the  sea. 

A  short  time  after,  I  was  called  before  a  committee  appointed  by 
the  court  then  held  at  Watertown,  near  Boston,  and  questioned, 
among  other  things,  respecting  these  bayonets.  I  gave  a  full  ac- 
count of  my  proceedings,  and  closed  it  by  saying  :  "I  sank  them  in 
the  bottom  of  the  sea.  I  did  it  from  principle.  1  have  ever  been 
glad  that  I  had  done  it.  If  I  have  done  wrong,  I  am  to  be  pitied." 
The  chairman  of  the  committee,  one  ]Major  Plawley  (a  worthy 
character) ,  then  addressed  the  committee  and  said  :  "  I  believe  Mr. 
Eotch  has  given  us  a  candid  account  of  the  affair,  and  every  man 
has  a  right  to  act  consistently  with  his  religious  principles,  but  I  am 
sorry  we  cannot  have  the  bayonets,  for  we  want  them  very  much.'" 
The  Major  was  desirous  of  knowing  more  of  our  Friends'  princi- 
ples, on  which  I  informed  him  as  far  as  he  inquired.  One  of  the 
committee*  in  a  pert  manner  observed,  "Then  your  principles  are 
passive  obedience  and  non-resistance."  I  replied,  "No,  my  friend, 
our  principles  are  active  obedience  or  passive  suffering."  I  passed 
through  no  small  trial  on  account  of  my  bayonets,  and  the  clamor 
long  continued  against  me. 

From  the  year  1775  to  the  end  of  the  war,  we  were  in  continual 
embarrassments.  Our  vessels  were  captured  by  the  English,  and 
oiu"  small  vessels  and  boats  sent  to  the  continent  for  provisions  de- 
nied and  sent  back  empty,  under  pretence  that  we  supplied  the  Brit- 
ish, which  was  without  the  least  foundation. 

Prohibitory  laws  were  often  made  in  consequence  of  these  reports, 
unfounded  as  they  were.  By  this  inhuman  conduct  we  were  some- 
times in  danijer  of  bein":  starved.     One  of  these  laws  was  founded 

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on  an  information  from   Gov.   Trumbull  of  Connecticut,   who   had 

been  imposed  upon  respecting  our  conduct  in  supplying  the  British. 

*  Judge  Paine. 


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I  wrote  to  tlie  Governor  on  the  subject,  and  laid  our  distress  home 
to  him,  at  the  same  time  that  I  assured  him  that  nothing  of  that 
kind  had  taken  phice.  lie  was  convinced  of  hi.s  error,  and  was  ever 
after  very  kind  in  assisting  us  within  his  jurisdiction.  But  there 
were  so  many  petty  officers,  as  committees  of  safety,  inspection,  &Q., 
in  all  parts,  and  too  many  of  them  chosen  mucli  upon  the  principles 
of  Jeroboam's  priests,  that  we  were  sorely  tried  and  afflicted. 

It  was  a'ouut  the  year  1778,  when  the  current  was  very  stron''- 
against  us  in  Nantucket,  when  the  vessels  we  sent  after  provisions 
were  sent  back  empty,  and  great  suffering  for  want  of  food  was 
likely  to  take  place,  that  the  people  (not  Friends)  who  thought  we 
ought  to  have  joined  in  the  war,  began  to  chide  and  murnmr  against 
me.  They  considered  me  the  principal  cause  that  we  did  not  join 
in  the  war  (which  I  knew  was  measurably  the  case),  when  we  miirht 
have  been  plentifully  supplied,  but  now  were  likely  to  starve — little 
considering  that  if  we  had  taken  part  there  was  nothing  but  super- 
natural aid  (which  he  had  no  reason  to  expect)  tliat  could  have 
prevented  our  destruction. 

Though  1  had  done  everything  in  my  power  for  our  preserv^ation, 
this  murmuring  of  the  people  operated  so  severely  upon  my  spirits, 
that  I  was  once  (a  tim.e  never  to  be  forgotten)  on  the  point  of  ask- 
ing that  Divine  Being  who  gave  mc  life,  that  he  would  take  il  from 
me,  for  my  affliction  seemed  more  than  I  could  bear ;  but  sustained 
by  that  good  hand  which  had  so  often  been  my  deliverer,  after  shed- 
ding a  flood  of  tears,  my  mind  was  more  easy  and  my  spirits  revived. 
In  the  year  1779,'  seven  armed  vessels  and  transports  with  troops 
from  Nen-j^ort  came  to  us,  the  latter  commanded  by  George  Leon- 
ard, an  American,  as  were  the  troops  in  general,  having  joined  the 
English.  They  plundered  us  of  much  property,  some  from  me, 
and  a  considerable  amount  from  one  Thomas  Jenkins.  "While  they 
were  plundering  his  store,  I  attempted  to  pass  the  guard  they  had 
set,  being  desirous  to  see  Leonard  and  intercede  with  him  to  desist, 
but  the  guard  arrested  my  progress  with  the  bayonet.  After  some 
time  Timothy  Folger  succeeded  in  speaking  to  him,  and  advised 
him  to  go  off,  as  the  people  would  not  bear  it  much  longer.  He 
took  the  hint  and  retired  much  enraged. 

We  soon  had  information  tliat  Leonard  and  company  were  pre- 
paring a  much  more  formidable  expedition  against  us.  The  town 
was  convened  to  consult  what  measures  should  be  taken  in  this  try- 
ing emergency,  which  resulted  in  sending  Dr.  Benjamin  Tupper, 
Samuel  Starbuck  and  myself  to  Newport,  and  thence  if  necessary  to 
New  York,  to  represent  our  case  to  the  commander  of  the  army 
and  navy. 

[To  be  continueil.] 

•  This  was  an  error  in  date,  which  should  be  1778.    Count  DTstaing,  with  bis  Sset, 
arrived  off  Newport,  Aug.  29,  1773. 


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A  STUDY  OF  THE  VIRGINIA  CENSUS  OF  1G24. 

By  the  Rev.  Edwakd  D.  Neill,  A.B..  President  of  Macalcstcr  College,  Miancapolis,  Minn. 
[Continued  from  p.  153-1 

John  Laydox. 
JOTIN'  Latdox,  of  Elizabctli  City,  at  the  time  of  the  taking  of 
tlic  census,  was  the  only  survivor  of  the  fast  company  of  colonists, 
who  I'eft  England  in  December,  inOG.  He  was  a  passenger  in  the 
Susan  Constant,  and  came  out  as  a  laborer  when  twenty-six  years 
of  age.  His  ^^'ife  Ann  was  also  alive,  Avho  when  sixteen  years  of 
age  arrived  in  Virginia  in  the  ship  Mary  ^largarct,  in  October, 
1608.  Her  maiden  name  was  Ann  Burras,  and  she  was  the  first 
female  servant  in  the  colony,  as  her  mistress,  iMrs.  Forest,  was  the 
first  gentlewoman,  and  both  came  in  the  same  vessel.  Her  mar- 
riage also  was  the  first  in  Virginia.  Three  daughters,  Virginia, 
Alice  and  Katherine,  are  enrolled.       .         .  . 

'Nathaniel  Causey. 
Nathaniel  Causey  was  another  of  the  few  surviving  old  settlers. 
He  arrived  at  Jamestown  on  April  22,  1608,  in  the  ship  Phenix, 
Capt.  Nelson.  His  wife  Thomasine  arrived  in  xVugust  of  the  next 
year  in  the  ship  Lion,  one  of  the  Gates  and  Somers  tleet.  At  the 
time  of  the  census  they  were  living  at  Jordan's  Journey,  and  had 
five  white  servants. 

Vestcexcio  axd  Berxaedo,  Italians. 

These  two  Italians  are  reported  as  living  at  the  Glass  House,  near 
James  City.  Bernardo  had  a  wife.  They  formed  part  of  Capt. 
William  Norton's  glass- workers,  who  in  July,  1621,  sailed  in  the 
ship  George. 

In  the  letter  of  the  Virginia  Company,  written  from  London  on 
August  21,  1621,  and  brought  over  in  the  Marmaduke,  are  these 
words  : 

In  the  next  place  we  commend  unto  your  care  Capt.  Wm.  Norton  and 
his  Italians,  together  with  the  rest  of  his  company,  to  whom  we  pray  you 
to  be  helpful  at  his  landing.  *  ♦  *  *  "VVe  will  expect  the  best  help 
and  advice,  especially  in  making  choice  of  a  healthfid  place  to  plant  him- 
self in,  near  to  the  best  inhabited  town,  either  in  Charles  City  or  Henrico, 
but  by  no  means  lower  than  James  City.     *     *     *     * 

The  making  of  beads  is  one  of  Capt.  Norton's  chief  employments,  which 
being  the  money  you  trade  with  the  natives,  we  would  by  no  means  have 
through  too  much  abundance,  viliiied,  or  the  Virginians  at  all  permitted  to 
*«e  or  understand  the  manufacture  of  them. 
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26G  The  Virginia  Cenms  of  l(S2i.  [July, 

The  Boxalls  axd  La  Guard,  Frenchmen. 
Anthony  Bonall,  Juines  Bonall  and  L:i  Guard,  Frenchmen,  arc 
dwellers  at  Elizabeth  City,  near  Hampton.  These  persons  arrived 
in  1622,  in  the  "Abiirnil,"  to  impart  informatiou  relative  to  the  rais- 
innr  of  sdk.  Two  of  them  were  related  to  John  Bunoel,  or  Bonall 
8dk-worm  raiser  to  the  Kinir.  On  October  30th,  1G21,  Deputy  Far- 
rar  informed  the  Virginia  Company  "of  the  great  pains  that  Mv. 
Bonnell,  the  Frenchman,  Master  of  the  King's  silk-worms  at  Oat- 
land, had  taken  in  penning  a  treatise  in  French  concerninu'  the  order- 
ing of  silk-worms  and  making  of  silk,  which  treatise,  thatlt  miuht  be 
ot  special  use  to  the  planters  of  Virginia,  he  therefore  moved  this 
Court  would  please  to  recommend  it  to  some,  to  translate  it  into 
English,  and  afterward  that  it  might  be  prepared,  and  bein-  ap- 
proved It  might  be  printed  ;  which  the  Court  assented  untor  and 
prayed  Mr.  Deputy  to  see  it  done,  and  that  a  good  number  of  the 
.  said  buorc  might  be  sent  into  Virginia  by  the  next  ship." 

_  The  book  was  printed  at  London   by  Felix  Ivingston,  with  the 
title, 

"His  Maiesties  gracious  letter  to  the  Earl  of  Southampton,  Treasurer  of 
the  Virgiiua  Compauy  commandiacr  the  present  and  settincr  up  of  Silke 
Workes  and  Plunting  of  Vines  in  Virginia.  Also  a  Treatfse  on  makic- 
siJks  by  John  Bonnoel,"  etc.  ° 

John  Bonnoel  was  silk-worm  raiser  to  the  Iving.  The  book  is 
supposed  to  have  been  translated  by  a  member  of  tlie  London  Com- 
pany, George  Ruggle,  the  talented  author  of  the  comedy  of  "■  Iimo- 
ramus,"  at  the  performance  of  which  the  sides  of  beer-guzz1ino- 
-h.ing  James  used  to  shake  with  laughter.  ° 

In  December,  1621.  the  London°Company  write  to  the  Vir'^iuia 
authorities :  ° 

We  have  sent  a  very  small  quantity  of  silk  worm  seed.  *  *  *  T^e 
pray  you  that  these  now  sent,  and  those  you  formerly  had,  mav  be  improved 
by  the  most,  and  the  skill  of  the  Frenchmen  diffused  amon^st^'many,  thou-h 
they  have  not  much  matter  to  exercise  it  in.  =  ./  = 

On  the  10th  of  January,  1622-23,  the  Company  again  write  : 
There  is  likewise  some  provisions  for  the  Frenchmen,    and   the   next 
ship   shall  bring  their   apparel!  ;  their  wages  have  been  paid  here   to  Mr. 
^onall ;  their  kind  usage,  and  the  instructing  and  training  up  of  maay,  in 
the  skill  and  arts,  are  things  we  especially  recommend  to  you. 

In  the  muster  of  Anthony  BonaU  for  1625,  appears  Elias  L^Tar- 
do,  aged  thirty-eight,  the  same  as  La  Guard  of  the  census,  and  Iwo 
other  Frenchmen  who  came  out  in  the  Abigail. 

Daniel  Gookin. 

At  Elizabeth  Gty,  now  Hampton,  arc  enrolled  the  servants  of 

Daniel  Gookm,  the  mtm  who  was  instrumental  in  incrcadin^-  and 
miproving  the  stock  cf  cattle.  ° 


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1877.]  The  Virginia  Census  o/1624.  267 

Although  a  native  of  Kent,  England,  he,  with  his  brother  Sir 
ViuccuL  Goukiu,  was  a  resiJent  uear  IJundon,  county  Cork,  Ireland. 
On  the  2ad  of  July,  1G21,  the  Deputy  Governor  of  the  Virginia 
Company  of  London  spends  a  letter  "from  Mr.  Gookin  of  Ireland, 
who  desired  that  a  clause  in  the  contract  between  him  and  the  Com- 
pany touching  cattle  which  he  had  undertaken  to  transport  to  \'ir- 
trinia  at  the  rate  of  eleven  pounds  the  heifer,  and  she  goats  at  three 
pound,  ten  shillings  apiece,  for  which  he  might  take  any  commudi- 
ties  in  Virginia,  at  such  prices  as  the  Company  here  had  set  down  ; 
he  desired  that  these  words  be  more  clearly  explained." 

And  to  this  effect  Mr.  Deputy  signified  that  they  had  drawn  a 
letter  in  the  name  of  the  Council  and  Company  unto  ^Ir.  Gookin, 
declaring  that  their  interest  and  meaning  was,  it  should  be  lawful 
for  him  and  his  factors  to  trade,  barter  and  sell  all  such  commodi- 
ties he  shall  carry  thither,  at  such  rates  and  prices  as  he  shall  think 
good,  and  for  his  cattle  shall  receive  either  of  the  Governor  or  other 
private  persons,  any  of  the  commodities  growing  there,  at  such 
prices  as  he  can  agree. 

And  lastly,  according  to  Mr.  Gookin's  request  in  his  said  letter, 
they  had  promised  that  he  should  have  a  patent  for  a  particular 
plantation,  as  large  as  that  granted  to  Sir  Vfilliaiu  Xewce,  and 
should  also  have  liberty  to  take  one  hundred  hogs  out  of  the  forest, 
upon  condition  that  he  repay  the  said  number  again  unto  the  Com- 
pany, within  the  term  of  seven  years,  provided  that  he  use  them 
for  breed  and  increase,  and  not  for  present  slaughter. 

The  authorities  in  Virginia  were  on  August  12,  1621,  instructed 
as  follows  :  "Let  him  have  very  good  tobacco  for  his  covrs,  now  at 
his  first  voyage,  for  if  he  makes  a  good  return,  it  may  be  the  occa- 
sion of  a  trade  with  you  from  those  parts,  whereby  you  may  be 
abunaantly  supplied,  not  only  with  cattle,  but  with  most  of  those 
commodities  you  want  at  better  and  easier  rate." 

The  master  of  the  ship  "  Flying  Hart "  Avas  Cornelius  John- 
eon,  of  Horn,  in  Holland,  and  in  November  he  safely  landed 
Gookin's  cattle  in  Virginia.  Governor  Wyatt  writes  :  ''  There  ar- 
rived here  about  the  2 2d  of  November  a  ship  from  !Mr.  Gookin,  out 
of  Ireland,  wholly  upon  his  own  adventure,  without  any  relation 
at  all  to  his  contract  with  you  in  England,  which  was  so  well  fur- 
nished with  all  sorts  of  provision,  as  well  as  with  cattle,  as  we  could 
wish  all  men  would  follow  the  example.  He  hath  also  brought  with 
him  about  fifty  men  upon  that  adventure,  besides  thirty  other  pas- 
senijers.  We  have  according'  to  their  desire,  seated  them  at  New- 
port's  News,  and  we  do  conceive  great  hope  if  the  Irish  plantation 
prosper,  that  from  Ireland  great  multitude  of  people  will  be  likely 
to  come  hither." 

Gookin  remained  in  Virginia  during  the  winter  of  1G21-22,  acted 
the  part  of  a  brave  man  at  the  time  of  the  great  massacre  by  the 
Indians,  and  in  July,  in  the  ship  "  Sea  Flower,"  returned  to  Eng- 


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268  The  Virginia  Census  of  IQ2A,  [July, 

land  with  the  sad  news.  The  next  year  he  arrived  in  the  colony  in 
the  ship  ''Providence."  Gov.  Wyatt,  on  April  7,  1G23,  writes: 
"  A  ship  has  lately  arrived  for  ]Mr.  Gookin,  with  forty  men  and 
thirty  passengers." 

^  His  eon  Daniel,  at  this  time  only  eleven  years  of  age,  became  a 
distinguished  man.  In  1642,  Daniel,  Jr.,  resided  in^Xansemoiid 
Parish,  and  with  others  applied  to  the  ^Massachusetts  churches  for  a 
Puritan  minister.  Offending  Gov.  Berkeley  by  his  non-conformi.-it 
tendencies,  he  removed  to  Boston  and  became  superintendent  of 
Indian  afiairs,  and  the  intimate  friend  of  John  Eliot  the  Indian 
missionary.  He  owned  a  plantation  on  South  Kiver,  Ann  Arundel 
County,  ^laryland. 

During  the  last  week  of  July,  1G53,  four  Piscataway  Indians 
"entered,"  said  Hatton,  the  attorney-general  of  Maryland,  "into  the 
house  of  Capt.  Daniel  Gookin-,  in  the  County  of  Ann  Arundel, 
within  tliis  Province  of  jVlaryland,  and  then  and  there  in  a  mosc 
barbarous,  cruel  and  felonious  manner,  murdered  one  Jacob  "War- 
rone,  a  negi-o,  servant  of  the  said  Capt.  Gookin,  and  a  child  of  said 
negroes  about  seven  years  of  age,  and  .grievously  wounded  the  said 
negroe's  wife,  leaving  her  for  dead." 

Two  of  the  party,  Skigtanmough  and  Counaweza,  were  ti-ied  in 
September,  at  Saint  Mary,  found  guilty,  and  executed  the  day  they 
were  sentenced. 

Daniel  Gookin,  Jr.'s  tombstone,  at  Cambridge,  Mass.,  states 
that  on  the  19th  March,  1686-87,  he  departed  this  life. 

[For  the  genealogy  of  the  Gookin  family,  see  Register,  i.  345- 
52  ;  ii.  167-74;  and  Paige's  History  of  Cambridge,  pp.  563-6.— 
Editor.] 

Dr.  Jonj^  Pott. 

John  Pott,  A.M.,  M.D.,  jshysician  for  the  colony,  arrived  with 
Ids  wife  Elizabeth  in  October,  1621,  in  the  ship  Geori^e.  He  was 
appointed  on  the  recommendation  of  Dr.  Theodore  Gulston,  the 
founder  of  the  Gulstonian  lectureship  of  anatomy,  still  maintained 
by  the  London  College  of  Physicians. 

The  minutes  of  the  Virginia  Company,  under  date  of  July  16, 
1621,  contain  the  following  statement : 

For  so  mxich  as  the  physician's  place  to  the  Company  was  now  become 
void  by  reason  of  the  untimely  death  of  Dr.  Bohiine,  slain  in  the  fi^rht 
with  two  Spanish  Ships  of  War  on  the  19th  of  March  last,  Doctor  g'uI- 
stone  did  now  take  occasion  to  recommend  unto  the  Company,  for  the 
said  place,  one  Uv.  Potts,  a  Master  of  Arts,  and  as  he  atfirmed  well  prac- 
tised in  chirurgory  and  physic,  and  expert  also  in  distilling  of  waters,  and 
that  he  had  many  other  ingenious  de^-Isc>,  so  as  he  supposed,  his  service 
would  be  of  great  use  unto  the  Colony  in  Virrrinia.  but  prayed  that  where- 
as Dr.  Bohune  was  tied  by  his  contract,  to  supply  such  of  his  tenants  as 
died  after  the  tirst  year,  at  his  own  charge,  that  Mr.  Pott  might  be  released 


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of  that  covenant,  being  too  strict,  and  overliard  as  he  supposed  ;  but  it  was 
ttUaUorcJ,  it  v-us  uot,  in  the  power  of  any  olht;r  but  a  Quarter  Court  to  re- 
verse or  alter  the  same,  but  should  always  find  the  Couipauy  in  all  things 
verv  reasonable  to  all  well  deserving  men.  And  therefore  if  Mr.  Pott 
would  .•iccopt  of  the  place,  upon  the  same  conditions  as  Dr.  liohune  did,  he 
should  be  entertained,  and  for  his  hotter  content,  should  be  specially  rocom- 
mended  to  the  Governor,  to  be  well  accommodated,  and  sliould  have  a  chest 
of  physic  of  20ib  charge  unto  the  Company,  and  all  things  thereimto  ap- 
pertaining:, together  with  101b  in  books  of  physic,  which  should  always 
belong  unto  the  Company,  which  chest  of  physic  and  books  Dr.  GulstOLa 
was  desired  to  buy. 

And  seeing  he  intended  to  carry  over  with  him  his  wife,  a  man  and  a 
maid,  they  should  have  him  transported  free. 

With  Dr.  Pott  came  two  other  chirurgeona.  lie  was  made  a 
member  of  the  Council  nntlor  Gov.  Francis  Wyatt.  In  1G2U,  Wcbt 
having  gone  to  England,  Pott  acted  as  governor  until  Harvey's  ar- 
rival. Pott  was  then  arraigned  for  pardoning  Edward  Wallis, 
condemned  for  murder  and  appropriating  cattle.  He  was  found 
guilty  and  confined  to  his  plantation  at  ILurrope,  now  Williamsburg, 
until  the  King's  pleasure  could  be  ascertained.  Gov.  Harvey  for- 
warded the  recommendation  of  the  Council  for  his  pardon,  and  Mrs. 
Pott  crossed  the  sea  and  pleaded  her  husband's  cause,  alleging  there 
was  no  proof  to  justify  the  harsh  proceedings  toward  him.  The 
commissioners  to  whom  the  petition  Avas  referred,  reported  to  the 
King  that  "condemning  him  for  felony  was  very  rigorous,  if  not 
erroneous,"  and  recommended  that  he  should  be  restored  to  liberty 
and  his  estate,  and  the  practice  of  his  profession. 

Upon  Pott's  restoration  he  manifested  no  friendship  toward  Gov, 
Harvey,  and  in  May,  1(335,  was  one  of  those  who  compelled  the 
goven  .or  to  go  to  England. 

Capt.  Willi a:m  Epps. 

The  name  of  William  Epps  is  the  first  in  the  list  of  the  inhabi- 
tants of  the  Eastern  Shore.  He  came  to  Virginia  in  1G19,  a  pas- 
senger of  the  ship  "  William  and  Thomas."  His  wife  Margaret 
came  in  1621,  in  the  "  George."  He  became  somewhat  notorious 
from  having  killed  Edward  liowcroft  alias  Stallenge,  in  a  quarrel. 
Among  the  manuscript  records  in  the  Library  of  Congress,  is  the 
following  warrant  from  Gov.  Francis  Wyatt : 

Whereas,  it  is  ordered  by  the  Governor  and  Council  that  ^Ir.  Bolton, 
Minister,  shall  receive  for  his  salary,  this  year,  throughout  all  the  planta- 
tions at  the  Eastern  Shore,  ten  pounds  of  tobacco,  and  one  bushel  of  corn 
for  every  planter  and  tradesman  above  the  age  of  sixteen  years,  alive  at 
the  crop. 

These  are  to  require  Capt.  William  Eps,  commander  of  the  said  plan- 
tation to  raise  the  said  ten  pounds  of  tobacco,  and  one  bushel  of  com,  to  be 
levied  accordingly  throughout  all  the  said  plantations,  charging  all  persons 
there  residing  to  yield  ready  obedience,  and  to  be  aiding  and  assisting  unto 
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the  said  Capt.  "William  Ejjs,  in  the  cxecutioa  of  the  warrant,  as  they  will 
answer  ut  their  puril.     Given  at  James  City,  November  21,  1G23. 

KeV.    Mk.    r>OLTOX. 

The  Loudon  Company's  Transactions  for  the  10th  of  July,  1621, 
eay  :  "Upon  the  Kight  Honorable  tlie  Earl  of  Southampton's  re- 
commendations of  ]Mr.  liolton,  Minister,  for  his  honesty  and  suffi- 
ciency  of  learning,  and  to  undertake  the  care  and  charge  of  the  niin- 
ietiy,  the  Company  liave  been  pleased  to  entertain  him  for  their 
minister,  in  some  vacant  place  in  Virginia,  and  have  therefore  re- 
ferred him  to-  the  Committee  to  be  treated  and  concluded  with  touch- 
ing his  allowance  and-  seated  where  they  ahull  tliink  fit  and  most 
convenient  for  him." 

He  sailed  with  Gov.  AVyatt,  Dr.  Pott,  Christopher  Davison  the 
Secretary,  and  others,  in  the  ship  George,  and  arrived  in  Virginia 
in  October. 

The  Company,  in  their  letter  to  the  Council  at  Jamestown,  write  : 
"We  have  likewise  sent  to  you  two  sufficient  preachers,  ]Mr.  Ilaiit 
Wyatt  who  is  to  be  preacher  to  the  Governor's  tenants,  and  Mr. 
Bolton  whom  we  have  consigned  to  Elizabeth  City,  to  inhabit  with 
Capt.  Thomas  Nuce,  to  whom  we  recommend  him,  understanding 
that  Mr.  Stockton  is  otherwise  stated." 

Jontis  Stockton  had  arrived  the  year  before,  and  for  a  period  he 
preached  at  Henrico  and  Bermuda  Hundred.  Rev.  George  Keith, 
who  came  in  1617,  was  living  at  Elizabeth  City  when  Bolton  ar- 
rived, and  probably  on  that  account  he  was  assigned  to  the  planta- 
tions of  Accoraac. 

He  appears  to  have  died  or  left  the  coimtry  before  the  census  was 
taken  in  February,  1623-4. 

George  Newce.  .i 

George  Newce,  or  Nuce,  was  the  only  one  of  that  name  at  Eliza- 
beth City  when  the  census  was  taken. 

Sir  William  Newce,  of  Bandon,  co.  Cork,  Ireland,  who  had  been 
the  neighbor  of  Daniel  Gookin,  on  April  12,  1621,  offered  to  trans- 
port, before  midsummer  of  1625,  two  thousand  persons  to  Virginia. 
The  services  of  such  a  man  were  highly  appreciated  by  the  London 
Company.  With  Sir  George  Carew  he  had  served  in  Ireland 
against  the  Spaniards  at  the  famous  siege  of  Kinsale.  After  the 
coimtry  was  quieted,  with  others  he  settled  on  what  Spenser  called 

"  The  pleasant  Bandon,  crowned  with  many  a  wood." 

His  lease  was  obtained  from  Sir  Bernard  Grenville,  and  he  deter- 
mined to  build  a  tov.ii  in  the  centre  of  his  estate,  and  call  it  Newce- 
town,. but  was  diverted  by  the  following  occurrence.  AV^hile  mea- 
suring the  ground,  he  put  his  foot  upon  the  end  of  the  line  and  said 
to  an  assistant,  "Here  will  be  the  end  of  this  street."     A  rude  Irish 


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chief  at  that  moment  stepping  up,  with  fierceness  said,  "  May  you 
end  there  yours^elf,  too." 

Tills  determined  him  to  come  down  to  the  edge  of  the  stream  and 
connnence  a  hamlet  directly  ojiposite  the  town  of  "  jioncst  and  pluin 
dealing,  ]Ma^ter  r>cecher,"  another  English  settler.  The  celebrated 
Bardon  Bridge  was  built,  and  thus  a  community  of  interest  was 
established  between  the  settlement  of  Henry  liec'cher  and  ^Villiam 
Xevvce.  The  "  wild  Iri^h "  were  not  permitted  to  dwell  among 
them,  and  it  was  arranged  "that  every  inhabiter  there  should  have 
as  much  libertie  as  a  free  holder  in  England."  And  permission 
was  also  made  for  a  learned  preacher  and  a  free  school.  After  just 
such  a  model  the  Puritans  of  Massachusetts,  a  few  years  later,  or- 
ganized themsehes. 

Bandon  was  incorporated  as  a  town  in  1C1.3,  and  William  Newce 
was  the  first  Provost  or  Mayor,  and  the  inhabitants  chiefly  English 
Puritans.  In  1^20  the  first  court  was  held  at  this  place,  and  a 
Mr.  Newce  furnished  a  sheep,  and  ]\Ir.  Gookin  a  cook  for  three 
days,  in  entertaining  the  judges. 

Under  date  of  May  2,  1()21,  there  is  the  following  entry  in  the 
transactions  of  the  London  Company  :  "  Proceeding  to  the  eleccon 
of  Marshall,  for  so  much  as  Captaine  AVilliam  Newce  was  onely  pro- 
posed to  stand  to  the  elcccon,  and  to  be  put  to  the  Balloting"  Box, 
was  by  the  same  chosen  with  a  generall  consent  f  saue  of  three  balls 
onely  found  in  the  negative  boxes)  to  be  ^Marshall  of  Virginia." 

His  residence  in  Virginia  was  soon  terminated.  Arriving  in 
1622,  he  did  not  survive  above  two  days  the  reading  of  his  patent. 
He  brought  with  hira  very  few  people,  sickly,  ragged,  and  alto- 
gether without  provision.  His  sudden  death  and  great  debt  left  his 
estate  much  entangled. 

On  May  17th,  1620,  George  Thorpe  and  Thomas  Newce  were 
appointed  deputies  of  the  Company's  lands  in  Virginia,  and  for  the 
entertainment  of  Newce  and  his  successors  as  deputy,  it  was  ordered 
that  1200  acres  should  be  assigned,  600  at  Elizabeth  City,  400  at 
Charles  City,  100  at  Henrico,  and  100  at  James  Citv.  The  next 
month  he  was  made  a  councillor.  The  London  Com'panv  unite  on 
the  25th  of  July,  1621,  to  the  Council  in  Virginia  : 

The  vessels  of  the  earth  you  sent,  we  have  not  received,  when  trial  is 
made,  you  shall  hear  from  us.  And  we  pray  you  all  in  general  that  such 
extraordinary  ore  or  earth  as  you  tind,  send  us  over  in°i)leiitv,  for  that 
which  was  sent  by  your  Capt.  [Tho's]  Newce,  was  in  so  small' proportion 
as  we  would  hardly  make  any  trial  thereof.  We  conceive  it  to  be  Terra 
Lemnia,  and  it  is  exceedingly  good  for  the  flux  ;  we  desire  you  therefore 
Captain  Newce  to  send  us  over  three  or  four  ton  of  said  white' earth.  *  *  * 

We  have  sent  a  ship  of  catde  from  Ireland,  whereof  we  desire  that 
^apt.  Newce  first,  be  served  with  liis  promised  part. 

Deputy  Thomas  Newce  did  not  long  survive  Sir  William.  On 
August  6,  1623,  the  step-father  of  the  holy  poet  George  Herbert, 


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Sir  John  Danvers,  acquainted  tl.e  London  Companv  that  he  Irul 
received  a  k.^ter  from  .Mr..  Xewcc,  the  uife  of  Deputy  Xevvcc  de- 
ceased in  \irgima,  req.icstin-  tlmt  in  re-ard  of  lier  -r'cat  lo8s  '' ;,n.l 
left  desolate  and  comfortlcvs.s  in  a  strange  Countrv,  far  from  all  hc^ 
triends,  she  m.gl.t  .till  enjoy  tiie  use  of  the  tenant's  labor,  until  a 
successor  was  appointed." 

Nicholas  Ferrar  also  signified  that  he  had  received  a  letter  from 
V  n-gmia,  commending  much  the  Gentlewoman's  good  carria-c  and 
chanty  to  divers  in  the  country."  °^ 

[To  be  continued.] 


THE   POWDER-MILL   IN    CANTON. 

By  D.  T.  V.  nuNToo>-,  Esq.,  of  Canton,  Mass. 

;j>ORGE  POND  lies  iu  a  north-easterly  direcrion  from  the  villn-e  of 
bouth  Canton.  It  receives  its  supply  of  water  from  Mashaooo- 
brook,  the  confluence  of  Leaver  and  Steep  brooks  on  the  south  and  IV 
quit  brook  on  the  north.  The  outlet  to  this  pond  is  near  the  m^^iu  .treef  of 
the  village,  not  tar  ±rom  the  Mashapog  House.  This  outtlowin^r  stream 
was  known  to  the  Indians  as  a  portion  of  Alashapo-  brook.  The  earlv 
settlers  culled  It  ''Saw  Mill  River,"  and  on  the  modern  maps  it  bears  the 
name  of  the  -East  Branch  of  the  Neponset  River."  It  is  not  a  Ion- 
stream  ;  not  more  than  two  miles  from  its  starting  point,  it  ioins  the  Ne''- 
ponset  River  m  the  Fowl  Meadows.  The  water,  as  it  rush's  aIon<r,  fur- 
nishes to-day  the  motive  power  for  the  Kinsley  Iron  and  M-ichine^  C'-m- 
pany,  the  Revere  Copper  Company  and  the  Neponset  Cotton  Facto'-y 

Ihe  early  settlers  of  Canton  saw  in  this  brook  a  Greater  canability  for 
nsetuluess  than  ever  the  poor  Indian  dreamed  of.  They  purchased  "from 
him  all  the  rights  he  claimed  to  have  in  the  water  and  the  river  bed,  and 
they  resolved  that  henceforward  the  stream  should  be  utihzed.  \ea-  the 
close  of  the  seventeenth^  century  a  saw-mill  was  built  upon  its \anks,  *a 
few  years  afterward  a  grist-mill,  and  then  a  powder-mill  was  erected  Of 
this  powder-mill  and  its  successor  we  propose  to  ^ive  an  account 

In  order  to  do  this  it  will  be  necessary  for  us  tS  go  back  to  the  rear  1673. 
On  the  twenty-second  of  August  of  that  year  we  find  the  Rev.  John  Oxen- 
bridge,  pastor  and  the  Rev.  James  Allen,  teacher,  of  the  First  Church  in 
Boston,  with  Robert  Sanderson,  one  of  the  deacons  of  the  church,  enterincr 
into_  a  partnership  which  savors  more  of  things  temporal  than  spiritual  for 
having  joined  with  Capt.  Johu  Hull  and  Freegrace  Bendall,  both  rmaaaed 
m  trade  m  Boston,  these  wortliies  purchased  a  piece  of  land  for  the°p°ir- 
pose  of  erecLing  a  powder-mill.  Two  years  after  thev  take  in,  amon- 
other  partners,  Mr.  John  Wi^wall,  Sen.,  who  was  possibly  the  first  white 
man  who  ever  lived  in  what  is  now  the  town  of  Canton,  these  .-entlemen 
entered  into  a  sort  of  stock  company,  organized  for  the  special  purpose  of 
'erecting  a  building,  and  improving  a  powder-miU  at  Neponset  in  the  town- 
ship ot  Milton." 

This  mill  was  situated  just  above  the  bridge  that  crosses  the  Neponset 
River  m  iiinton,  and   was  on  the  Milton  side  of  the  river ;  but  the  watch- 


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house,  which  was  of  stone,  and  the  house  occupied  by  the  workmen  were 
on  the  norilierly  side  of  the  river,  iu  wliat  is  now  ku(jwo  a3  Ward  XXIV. 
of  the  city  of  Boston.  The  comj)ariy  appointed  one  Walter  Kvercndon  (now 
Everton),  a  Kentish  man,  as  overseer.  In  h.-ss  than  three  montiis  from 
the  comraencemont  of  the  enterprise  the  work  had  been  so  vigoronsly  pro- 
secuted, tliat  the  General  Court,  consi(h;rin<^  tlie  danc^er  of  the  d<;struction 
of  the  buildings  by  lire,  or  otherwise,  from  Kin;;  Philip  during  the  time 
of  his  war,  order  that  a  constant  watch  be  kept  at  "  Unkety "  for  the 
preservation  of  the  powder-mill,  and  the  grist-mill  which  was  in  its  imme- 
diate vicinity,  and  watchmen  were  appointed  to  look  after  them.  The  Gene- 
ral Court  also  signified  its  interest  in  the  undertaking,  by  allowing  tlie  pro- 
prietors, who  were  about  to  erect  a  stone  watch-house,  authority  '-to  repair 
to  any  magistrate  by  the  law  empowered  to  give  warrants,  to  impress  work- 
men to  carry  on  public  works,  of  which  sort,  this  is." 

In  1701,  Walter  Everendon  bought  out  Joseph  Wiswall's  interest  in  the 
concern,  and  from  time  to  time  purchased  the  interests  of  others,  so  that  in 
1722  Everendon  and  Israel  Howe  owned  all  the  property,  and  divided  it, 
Everendon  taking  all  on  the  Dorchester  side  of  the  river.  In  1721  Howe 
retired  from  the  business,  and  Walter  Everendon,  having  been  in  the  busi- 
ness for  nearly  half  a  century,  sold  out  to  his  son  Eei'jamin,  and  the  fol- 
lowing year  was  gathered  unto  his  fathers.  In  174-4  the  original  mill,  on 
the  Milton  side  of  the  river,  blew  up.  Benjamin  Everendon  continued 
the  business  of  manufacturing  powder  on  the  Dorchester  side  of  the  river 
until  1749,  possibly  until  1757,  when  he  sold  out  and  removed  to  Stough- 
ton  (now  Canton). 

The  Neponset  Cotton  Factory,  a  large  stone  building  erected  in  1824, 
is  easily  seen  from  the  viaduct  of  the.  Boston  &  Providence  Eailroad  in 
Canton.  It  occupies  the  last  water  privilege  on  the  easterly  branch  of  the 
Neponset  River.  In  1717,  the  very  spot  now  occupied  by  this  corporation 
was  selected  by  a  company  of  gentlemen  as  a  suitable  place  whereon  to 
erect  a  mill  for  the  smelting  of  iron  ore.  It  consisted  of  Edmund 
Quincy  of  Braintree  (Quincy),  John  White  of  Boston,  Standfast  Foster, 
Samuel  Paul,  Thomas  Tileston,  Ebsnezer  Maudsley  (Mosely),  Ebenezer 
Jones  and  Robert  Royall. 

From  the  ninth  lot  iu  the  "  Twelve  Divisions  "  originally  laid  out  by  the 
town  of  Dorchester  (of  which  Canton,  with  other  towns,  was,  at  the  time 
of  which  we  are  writing,  the  South  Precinct)  they  purchased  two  acres  of 
land  lying  upon  the  stream  before  mentioned,  and" here  in  connection  with 
Timothy  Jones,  the  owner  of  the  property,  they  built  a  dam  and  erected 
buddings  suitable  for  extracting  pure  iron  ore.  These  works  were  continued 
for  some  time,  but  the  cost  of  procuring  iron  in  this  manner  was  so  great  that 
the  business  was  discontinued,  the  buddings  unused  and  finally  uUerly  de- 
molished. Mr.  Everendon's  attention  was  called  to  the  fact  that  an  excel- 
lent mill  privilege  at  Stoughton  was  for  sale  at  a  low  price.  He  purchased 
^.'i.-^J"^^  ^''°'^  '^^^  heirs  of  Ebenezer  Maudsley,  a  seven-eighth  part,  and  iu 
17o3  of  Timothy  Jones  one-eighth  part,  of  what  was  then  known  as  "  Ye 
Old  Iron  Works;"  and  he  aUo  procured  about  two  acres  of  land  adjoining 
the  site  of  the  former  works,  all  lying  upon  the  southerly  side  of  the  stream! 
Here  he  erected  buildings  suitable  for  the  purpose  of  manufacturing  pow- 
der. He  also  erected,  as  he  had  done  at  Milton,  a  gri..t-mill,  and  before 
ttieyear  175o  the  buildings  were  completed  and  the  works  in  running  order, 
and  so  continued  until  the  time  of  his  death,  which  occurred  in  17Gg!  Xor 
^^  It  probable  that  the  manufacture  of  powder  .at  these  mills  then  ceased, 


274  The  Powder-Mill  in  Canton.  [July, 

for  Benjamin  Everendon,  by  his  will,  devised  his  powder  and  corn  mill.., 
with  the  privilege  of  ihe  stream,  to  his  sou  Abijah  Everendon.  It  is  probu- 
blc  that  the  works  were  discontinued  before  the  breaking  out  of  the  Revo- 
lutionary war,  but  wo.  are  unable  to  ascertain  the  exact  time.  In  speakin;; 
of  the  estate  as  it  existinl  in  1784,  it  being  then  the  property  of  Tiioni;n 
Everendon,  grandson  of  Konjamin  and  great-grandson  of  Walter,  the  IIci. 
Elijah  Dunbar  says,  ''There  was  no  mill  then  standing  on  the  spot."  With- 
out doubt  the  buildings  were  removed  from  their  original  sites  and  convert- 
ed to  other  uses. 

The  year  1775  dawns;  the  dark  clotids  of  strife  are  gathering  over  tlio 
land  ;  prudence  demands  that  some  preparation  must  be  made  for  ammuni- 
tion as  well  as  for  soldiers  to  meet  the  exigencies  of  the  approiiching  contest. 
The  first  and  most  important  duty  would  seem  to  be  to  procure  au  ample 
supply  of  powder. 

In  1774  the  town  of  Canton  (then  Stoughton)  had  been  selected  as  the 
most  fitting  place  to  assemble  the  Sutiblk  County  Congress,  because  it  was  a 
retired  place,  remote  from  the  busy  world,  yet  within  easy  access  of  Boston. 
The  same  reo'^ons  undoubtedly  influenced  those  at  the  head  of  atlairs  two 
years  afterward  in  selecting  this  town  as  the  most,  suitable  place  to  com- 
mence the  manufacture  of  powder  ;  moreover,  the  distance  from  the  sea 
was  great  enough  to  render  it  safe  from  the  attacks  of  an  enemy  landing  on 
the  coast,  and  yet  near  enough  to  render  transportation  easy.  But  over 
and  above  all  these  advantages,  the  town  of  Canton  possessed  skilled  work- 
men who  understood  the  manufacture  of  powder,  and  who  had  been  long 
engaged  in  the  business.  The  Everendon  family,  powder-makers  for  gen- 
erations, were  still  resident  here,  and  were  designated  on  legal  documents 
as  "  powder-makers  "  by  vocation.  These  considerations  undoubtedly  in- 
fluenced the  government  in  a  great  measure  in  determining  the  location  of 
the  mill.  But  the  immediate  cause  was  probably  an  anonymous  letter  re- 
ceived by  Dr.  Joseph  Warren,  to  which,  in  the  light  of  subsequent  events, 
it  would  appear  he  paid  some  attention.     The  letter  is  as  follows  : 

May  31,  1775. 
Sir, 

I  shall  just  take  the  liberty  to  give  you  a  friendly  line,  which  I  have  often 
mentioned  in  conversation,  but  perhaps  it  will  arrive  so  late,  as  to  merit  no  higher 
honor  than  just  to  ligiit  your  pipe.         *         *         •         •         * 

Tliere  is  now  livin:r.»or  rather  pining  in  poverty,  one  Everton  in  Stoughton  that 
by  proper  encouragement  miiiht  at  this  day  hecouie  a  most  useful  member  of  society. 
He  perfectly  understands  usakmg  gunpowder,  and  reviving  that  which  is  damaged, 
and  he  is  the  only  one  in  the  Province  that  has  the  practical  skill.  What  pity  the 
art  should  die  with  him.     But  what  am  I  about !     tiat  verbum,  itc. 

A  True  Son  of  Liberty. 
To  Dr.  Joseph  Warren, 

President  of  the  Congress  at  Watertown. 

The  iNovember  following  the  receipt  of  this  letter,  the  contents  of  which 
"without  doubt  Gen.  Warren  had  communicated  to  parties  interested,  the 
House  of  Ilepreseutatives  appointed  a  committee  to  consider  a  proper  place 
to  erect  a  powder-mill.  The  committee  were  authorized  in  December  "  to 
purchase  the  remains  of  a  powder-mill  in  the  town  of  Stoughton,  with  so 
much  of  tiie  Ian<I  and  stream  as  may  be  sutlicient  to  prepare  said  mill  for 
the  manufacture  ot  powder."  This  vote  was  subsequently  reconsidered, 
and  the  committee  appointed  to  visit  Andover,  Sutton  and  Stoughton,  to 
take  a  view  of  the  place  in  each  of  the  towns  where  it  was  proposed  to 


tT' 


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1877.]  The  Fowder-Mill  in  Canton.  275 

erect  the  mill.  Tlio  town  of  Stongliton  was  considered  to  have  tho  most 
advaiitiigos,  but  the  colonuil  government  did  not  deem  it  best  to  purchase 
the  property  which  had  formerly  been  occupied  by  the  Evcrendons,  but 
bou<.T:lit  the  privilege  on  the  same  stream  next  above.  Thi.s  site  was  ov/ned 
bv  one  Samuel  Briggs  and  his  son,  who  on  the  twentieth  of  February, 
1^70,  conveyed  about  th'-ee  (]uarters  of  an  acre  and  fifteen  rods  of  land,  part 
upland,  part  mill-pond,  to  the  Colony  of  the  Massachusetts  liay,  the  consider- 
ation being  £I0U  ;  and  the  grantors  agree  not  to  damage  any  water  works 
that  may  be  built  by  the  colony.  This  land  was  near  the  house  occupied 
by  the  late  Joseph  \Varren  Kevere,  and  still  in  the  possession  of  that  fajn- 
ily.  On  the  uineteeuth  of  January,  177G,  the  House  of  Representatives 
ordered  the  committee  appoirited  to  erect  the  jjowder-mill  for  the  use  of  the 
Colony,  "  to  commence  the  building  of  the  mill  at  Stoiighton,  and  to  exert 
themselves  to  hurry  on  this  important  and  necessary  business  without  de- 
lay," and  cause  the  same  to  be  constructed  in  such  manner  as  shall  appear 
to  them  most  advantageous. 

The  building  of  the  mill  was  begun  in  February,  177 C,  and  in  May 
everything  was  ready  to  commence  operations.  The  building  where  the 
powder  was  stored  was  protected  by  a  high  post  and  rail  fence,  behind 
which,  night  aud  day,  guards  were  posted,  with  positive  orders  from  the 
government  '•  to  fire  upon  any  persons  who  shall  attempt,  upon  being  three 
times  forbid,  by  such  guards  to"  enter  the  said  lines." 

So  successful  was  the  enterprise  that  in  the  September  following,  37.962 
lbs.  of  powder  and  34,15.3  lbs.  of  saltpetre  were  in  the  storehouse  of  Maj. 
Crane ;  and  during  the  first  three  years  of  the  war  the  Canton  Powder- 
Mill  furnished  the  greater  part  of  the  powder  that  was  used  by  the  provin- 
cial army.  A  writ^er  of  the  time  says  that  *•  not  only  was  a  large  quantity 
of  gunpowder  manufactured  at  this  mill,  but  that  it  was  of  an  excellent 
quality,  made  from  saltpetre  the  product  of  the  towiis  in  the  vicinity." 
Upon  a  re(juisition  from  the  board  of  war,  the  powder  was  placed  in  wa- 
gons, and  under  the  protection  of  a  guard  stealthily  by  night  conveyed  over 
the  rough  roads  to  its  destination,  and  distributed  as  the  military  necessities 
of  the  army  demanded.  On  Sept.  12,  1776,  three  hund  -ed  and  fifty  pounds 
were  sent  on  board  the  schooner  "Langdon."  During  the  years  1777-(S-9, 
7600  pounds  were  used  on  the  continental  frigate,  "The  Boston."  Forty 
barrels,  containing  one  hundred  pounds  each,  were  sent,  on  Oct.  20,  1777,  to 
"  the  Castle,"  for  which  Paul  Revere,  the  commanding  ofiicer  at  the  time, 
gives  his  receipt  to  Maj.  Crane.  Large  quantities  were  also  at  various 
times  delivered  at  the  Castle  and  at  the  powder-house  m  Boston. 

On  the  first  of  March,  1779,  the  General  Court  passed  a  resolve,  that  a 
committee  consisting  of  George  Partridge,  Lemuel  Kollock  and  Samuel 
Phillips,  should  have  power  to  sell  by  auction,  or  private  sale,  the  powder- 
mill  at  Canton,  with  all  the  appurtenances  thereunto  belonging.  They  fur- 
ther instructed  their  committee  that  an  express  condition  should  be  made 
with  the  purchaser  or  his  successor,  that  during  the  succeeding  four  years 
he  should  be  obliged  to  manufacture  for  the  state  all  the  gunpowder  that 
the  General  Court  shall  from  time  to  time  order  to  be  made,  provided  the 
quantity  is  not  greater  than  the  capacity  of  the  mill.  The  state  was  co 
furnish  the  materials,  but  the  owner  was  to  be  at  the  expense  of _  procuring 
sulphur  and  coals.  The  compensation  the  owner  was  to  receive  for  his 
powder  was  "as  much  per  pound  as  shall  be  equivalent  to  what  eight 
pence  was  at  the  time  the  mill  first  began  to  work." 


.!i    '.  .•:    'i 


276  The  Powder-Millin  Canton.  ' ''     [July, 

On  the  seventeenth  of  April  following,  the  gentlemen  before  namcl 
actnigLy  aiuliority  from  tlie  State  of  .Massachusetts  Bay,  convey  the  lan.l 
and  nnll-pond  with  stream  of  water,  the  powder-mill,  together  with  all  thu 
ntensds  of  whatever. hind  that  have  been  purchased  by  the  state  for  the 
accommodotion  of  the  powder-mill,  to  Samuel  Osgood,  of  Andover,  he  i.ay- 
ing  in  consideration  thereof  the  sum  of  £3200. 

Major  Thomas  Crane  previously  referred  to,  who  was  appointed  IMay  y, 
1776,  to  carry  on  the  manufacture  of  powder  at  the  colony  mill  at  Stou-rh- 
ton,  and  "  employ  such  skilful  persons  as  manufacturers  as  may  be  sutli- 
cient  for  the  purposes,"  was  a  distinguished  citizen  of  the  town  in  the  days 
of  the  Revolution,  and  was  ever  active  and  vigilant  in  the  cause  of  the 
patriots.  When  the  demands  of  the  mill  upon  his  time  were  not  impera- 
tive. It  was  his  custom  to  go  about  from  house  to  house  solicitinfr  clothiii'r 
and  money  for  the  continental  soldiers.  His  manner  is  said  to  ifave  beeS 
so  impressive,  and  his  persistency  so  great,  that  many  who  had  never  been 
known  to  give  a  penny  for  the  good  cause,  deposited  with  him  their  con- 
tributions. A  favorite  remark  of  his  when  soliciting  subscriptions  was, 
"My  friend,  the  child  Independence  is  about  to  be  born ;  be  hberal,  and 
give  him  an  easy  delivery." 

On  the  thirty-lirst  of  October,  1779,  the  powder-mill  at  Canton  was 
blown  into  atoms. 

The  large  stones  which  had  been  used  to  grind  the  powder  were  carried 
to  the  grist-mill  afterwards  owned  by  Maj.-Gen.  Richard  Gridley,  and 
standing  near  where  the  old  Bay  Road  crosses  Mashapog  brook,  opposite 
to  what  is  now  the  factory  of  the  American  Net  and  Twine  Company. 
\V  ithin  the  memory  of  those  now  living,  these  stones  have  been  used  for 
the  purpose  of  grinding  corn. 

From  the  ownership  of  Osgood,  the  old  powder-mill  property  passed  into 
the  possession  of  Samuel  Phillips,  of  Andover,  who  deeded  it,  in  1792,  to 
Quaker  Leonard  and  Adam  Kinsley,  ironmongers  ;  but  this  time  the  des- 
cription IS  changed,  and  in  place  of  "a  powder-mill  "  we  find  '•  the  remains 
of  a  powder-mill  standing  thereon." 

On  the  fourteenth  of  xSfarch,  1801,  Cob  Paul  Revere,  of  revolutionary 
tame,  purchased  the  property  and  other  real  estate  in  its  immediate  vicinity. 
Upon  the  ground  there  were  then  standing  a  dwelling-house,  trip-hammer 
shop  and  "  cole  "  house.  Col.  Revere  soon  began  to  erect  new  buildin-s 
and  reht  the  old.  From  this  time  forward  until  his  death,  the  ^^allant  pat- 
riot was  a  resident  of  Canton  during  the  summer  months,  and  was  ever 
active  in  promoting  the  best  interests  of  the  town.  By  his  diligence  and 
perseverance  lie  laid  the  foundation  of  a  large  business,  which  has°been  suc- 
cessfully continued  by  his  son  and  grandson  to  the  present  day,  and  which 
bears  his  honored  name. 

As  in  the  days  of  the  Revolution  the  old  powder-mill  manufactured  pow- 
der for  the  supply  of  the  army,  so  in  these  latter  davs,  upon  almost  the  same 
site,  the  Revere  Copper  Company  turned  out  bras's  field  pieces  for  the  use 
or  the  artillery  durmg  the  late  war. 


i'vr..[d 


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1877.]  Immigrants  from  Jersey.  277 


DOCmiEXTS  KELxVTLXG  TO  IMMIGRANTS  FliOM 

JERSEY. 

No.  I. 
Papers  ix  thk  Case  of  Masury  vs.  English. 

Communicated  by  IIenuy  F.  Waters,  A.B.,  Salem,  Mass. 

ri^IIE  following  documents  arc  on  file  among  the  Essex  Co.  Court 
X    Papers,  liook  27,  Leaf  2G,  &c. 

Warrant  to  Henry  Skerry,  IMarsliall  of  Salem,  or  his  deputy,  to  attach 
the  goods  &  for  want  thereof  the  body  of  I'hilli[)  KiigH.-ili,  and  take  head  of 
hini  to  the  vahie  of  twenty  pounds  with  sulRcient  security  for  his  appear- 
ance at  the  next  County  Court  hekl  at  Salem  tlie  hi^t  Tuseiuay  of  tliis  month 
to  answer  the  couiphiint  of  James  Browne  aturney  to  Benjamin  ilazuro 
in  an  action  of  the  case,  for  his  pfideus  and  fahitious  act,  in  demannding 
seuen  pounds  of  Benjamin  masure,  for  the  passage  of  Jane  masure*  his 
sister,  &  arestining  of  the  said  Benjamin  for  the  said  snrne,  &  hohling  of  the 
said  phiintife  a  prissoner  and  at  hist  the  said  mazure  was  forst  for  want  of 
sureties  to  compound  with  the  sd  English  to  give  him  a  bill,  which  is  now 
sued  for,  and  now  it  doth  appeere  that  the  aboue  said  Jane  mazure  was  the 
said  Englishes  seruant,  and  was  to  remain  his  seruaut  till  her  passage  was 
paid,  and  therefore  it  was  a  cheate,  after  the  death  of  the  said  seruant  to 
(lemaund  her  passage  of  her  Brother,  which  is  to  the  pits  great  damage^ 
and  heare  of  make  returne,  dated  o:  Uber  1G77; 

The  testimony  of  Philip  legroo,  Aged  sixteen  yeeres  or  thereabouts,  tes-- 
tifyeth  that  when  Jane  margery  came  aboard  our  ketch,  I  asked  her  why 
she  came  to  new  eugland  she  tould  me  that  her  brother  Benjamin  margery 
had  sent  to  her  to  come,  and  that  he  would  pay  for  her  passage  shee  further 
tould  tliat  shee  went  to  my  fathers  house  to  meete  wit  i  m''  Philip  English 
and  there  did  speake  with  him,  and  agreed  for  lier  passage  seuen  pounds  to 
be  payed  by  her  brother,  and  that  she  showed  his  letter  (wherein  he  en- 
gaged to  pay  her  passage)  to  the  sayd  m''  english  and  upon  that  slie  was 
admitted  aboord  the  vessel.  Sworne  in  Court  at  SaJem  27:  9:  77 

The  Deposition  of  John  maseure  agede  19  years  ore  theireabouts — This 
deponant  testifieth  and  saith  that  he  hurde  his  ifather  in  Jersey  say  that  he 
had  bound  Jeane  masere  sister  to  bingamin  masere  a  saruant  to  Pliillep 
English  then  bound  to  new-england  also  this  deponant  testitieth  being  in 
the  same  uessel,  at  sea  :  that  he  hirde  y®  said  English  then  master  say  that 
y'  aboue  saide  maide  was  his  saruant  allso  saith  that  he  sawe  phillepes  sar- 
uant-maides  weare  y®  abouesaid  dede  maides  cloathes  and  ifurther  saith  not. 
Taken  upon  oath  1:  9  mo:  77 

The  testymony  of  Peeter  Britton  aged  eighteen  yeares  saith  that  he  being 
a  passenger  with  m'  Phillip  English  from  Jerzey  heard  Benjamin  Marzeu- 
rys  sister  which  died  on  Bord  the  sd  m''  English  ketch  say  that  sliee  should 
be  free  when  shee  came  to  new  eugland  for  her  Brother  had  sent  her  a  Let- 
ter to  come  to  him  and  he  would  pay  for  her  passage  this  siiee  said  when 
shee  first  came  on  Bord  and  before  shee  was  taken  sick  :  and  further  saith. 
liot.  Taken  upon  oath  8:  9  mo:  77: 
VOL.  xxsi.  25 


>  ...  ■> 


278  Immigrants  from  Jersey.  [July, 

The  deposition  of  ellener  Laroke  aged  about  15  yeeres: 
This  <lct-.on;uit  testyfyeth  ami  suitJi  t!iat  being  seruunt  to  m' phillip  uvV-^ 
coniin  from  Jersey  Jaiiu  iNIazary  sester  to  benjamin  mazary  was  witiru.-i 
acomming  to  nue  Inglang  in  the  same  uesell  the  suide  June  mazary  dyc-ij  nt 
fiae  and  after  slie  was  dead  the  saide  ingles  gafe  me  a  wascote  that  was 
Jane  IVtazaryes  and  furder  saith  not. 

Sworne  in  court  at  Salem  27   9  77  •  "'       -' " /- 

Mary  Pary  aged  aboute  17  yeares  testifyeth 

That  shee  being  In  Jarsay  at  th(i  liouae  of  Phili()e  Lagroue  with  M' 
Philipo  English  to  hane  my  Indentures  made  Jane  Me.^uro  broug  a  letter 
to  m'  Englisli  which  shee  saide  shec  Reed:  from  her  brother  In  New  en'r- 
land  whose  Name  was  Bcinamin  IMesure  which  Letter  was  Read  By  m' 
English  and  another  man  there  which  wordes  I  Rember  theay  Read  that 
If  bis  sister  would  come  to  New  england  he  would  payc  for  her  pasage  soe 
her  unckell  and  shee  agreed  that  m^  English  should  bane  seuen  pounds  for 
her  pasage  but  if  her  Brother  was  Dead  before  shee  came  to  New  england 
that  then  shee  was  to  sarue  m'  English  six  yeare  and  further  saith  not" 

Arid  further  I  testifye  that  being  one  of  those  that  tended  upon  her  in 
the  time  of  her  sicknesse  she  did  desire  that  those  that  had .  tended  upon 
her  during  her  sickne..se,  might  haue  what  was  left  in  her  chest  of  her 
cloathes,  aud  then  gauo  the  key  to  me,  that  we,  that  tended  her  might  share 
them  amongst  us,  and  in  my  Judgment  they  were  not  all  worth  twenty 
shillings.         27:  9:  77  ^ 

The  deposition  of  Richard  Harris  aged  27  yeares  or  there  about 
Saith  that  f  maid,  w^"  dyed  at  sea  w*^*^  was  sist^  to  Benjamin  Majere  I 
heardPhillip  english  say,  aft'  she  was  dead,  that  she  was  his  servant  ^  itt 
was  his  losse,  yet  saith  he  I  heere  of  a  letter :  w'=^  her  Brother  sent  for 
her  to  Jersey  &  therefore  I  will  try  for  one  halfe  of  her  pasad^re  saith  he, 
and  he  further  testyfyeth  that  he  saw  Phillip  English  devide '"her  cloths 
amouge  y"  rest  of  his  servant  maidens  &  further  saith  not       1:  9  mo:  77. 

The  deposition  of  Ezckiol  Cheever  Aged  22  yea  -s  testifieth  aud  sayeth 
that  I  bemg  at  worke  in  my  shope  on  a  lecture  d:.y  the  latter  end  of  this 
summer  John  Tuckerraan  of  Boston  with  two  strangers  came  to  my  shope 
and  delivered  me  G  letters  or  their  abouts  and  desired  me  to  deliver  them 
unto  the  parties  to  whom  they  were  sent  and  I  told  them  I  knew  them  not ; 
hut  my  Landlord  was  a  jersieman  and  I  would  deliver  them  unto  him  which 
accordingly  I  did.  I  could  not  read  the  superscription  of  them  for  they 
were  freuch  but  I  heard  my  Landlord  say  that  one  of  them  was  for  Benja- 
min Mergere,  and  further  sayeth  not         27:  9:  77 

Mary  Morel  aged  about  30  years  testyfyeth  and  saith  that  about  some 
tyme  in  agust  last  that  thomas  uelley  came  to  my  house  with  a  boute  sixe 
Letters  to  hafe  me  Read  tlie  superscrepshon  whoe  thev  ware  toe,  and  this 
Letter  to  beinjaraen  mazare  was  one  which  I  then  brocke  up  ye  sell  and 
can  testyfy  it  is  the  same  and  farder  saith  not         27:  9:  77 

^  escrite  le  28  iour  de  mar  1G77  Au  nom  de  dieu  se  soit  mon  frere  ben- 
leumm  ces  deux  petis  mos  sont  pour  vous  faire  savoir  de  ma.  bonne  saute 
grace  a  dieu  ic  pries  dieu  quel  en  soit  ainsi  de  vous  tons  nos  bons  amis  de 
Jerze  sont  en  bonne  sante  grace  a  dieu  les  quels  se  recommande  bien  a  vous 
en  pnans  dieu  quil  vous  soit  bien  et  a  vos  frere  en  general  es  quels  vous 
freres  mes  humble  baise  mains  en  leur  declarant  le  desir  que  iay  de  leur 
prospente  pnans  dieu  iournellemeuc  pour  eux    pour  vostre  seur  Jenue  eUo 


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1877.]  Barnstable  Family  Karnes.  279 

fiotoit  loues  ?  philipe  lenglols  a  mon  apcence  de  quoy  ic  fm  marries  mais 
ik  I'alut  (luellc  souLaniuiu  rnoy  euvoyans  cela  ie  lasiste  for  bieu  de  toute 
Borte  de  harde  poiir  leutretien  de  son  corps  et  luy  haillo  un  cofVe  de  deu3 
lequcl  ie  mis  plusieur  petite  barde  que  ie  vous  avois  euvoies  par  recou- 
oissance. 

Autre  chose  pour  Ie  present  siuonque  ie  demeure  vo  .tre  bumble  et  hobei- 
eante  seur  racbel  luce  veuve  dedouar  Ie  messarier 

Mary  Moral!  owned  in  court  that  the  aboue  writ'en  is  the  same  letter 
that  she  mentions  under  oath  tliat  she  brook  up  the  seale  of ;  when  it  wa3 
brought  to  her  with  other  letters  by  tho  Veley  27:  'J:  77 

The  following  translation  of  the  above  is  on  file,  an  1  was  evidently  made 
at  the  time  :  / 

Written  y*  29>''^  of  March  1G77. 

In  the  uarae  of  god  be  tliis. — Brother  Renjaniin  ;  These  Two  small  words 
are  to  acquaint  you  of  my  good  health  Tbankes  be  to  god  ;  &  I  pray  god 
that  it  may  be  y*  same  of  you  all  o''  ffriends  of  Jarsie  tiiankes  be  to  god 
ai-e  h^.  got,d  Lc.Jfli  who  rccommeud  them  well  to  you  &  to  yo'  Brothers  in 
generall  to  whome  my  humble  baise  mains  ;  declaring  to  them  y"  desire  I 
haue  of  theirc  prosperitic,  praying  God  dayley  for  them  ;  as  for  yo'  Sister 
Jane;  she  was  bound  to  phillip  English  in  my  absence;  at  w''-  I  was  trou- 
bled but  I  seing  that  shee  must  be  embarqued  ;  did  ffuruish  her  very  well 
with  all  sorts  of  necessaries  for  her  Apparrell  &  gaue  her  a  coffer  in  w*^^  I 
putt  seueral  small  cloaths  w'-"''  I  sent  to  you  for  a  Token;  not  elce  for  pre- 
seiit  but  that  I  remayne 

Yo''  humble  &  obedient  Sister 

Rachel  Luce,  widdow  of 
^.    ■..  >  . ,    •  Edward  Le  Messiuier. 

Superscribed — 

The  present  be  giuen  to  Benjamin  Le  Messurier.  Liveing  in  Salem 

In  new  England. 

A  Po'  -er  of  Attorney  from  Benjamin  Mazure  of  Salem,  Seaman,  to  "  his 
loueing  freind  James  Browne  of  Salem  aforsaid  glazier,"  witnessed  by 
Hilliard  Veren  Sen'  and  Larrance  masury         27:  9:  77 


BARNSTABLE  FAMILY  NAMES. 

By  the  Rev.  G.  T.  Ridlon",  of  North  Fairfield,  Maine. 

THE  following  names  were  copied  from  a  marriage  certificate  found  in 
Fairfield,  jNIaine.  This  old  document  was  drawn  in  Yarmouth,  Barn- 
stable Co.,  Massachusetts,  and  was  witnessed  by  the  parties  who  were 
present  at  the  Quakers'  meetinc:  at  the  time  the  marriage  ceremony  was 
performed;  all  belonged  to  the  Society  of  Friends,  and  their  descendants  are 
now  identified  with  the  same  persuasion  in  Maine — an  excellent  people. 

The  parties  married  were  as  follows :  Samuel  Covil,  sou  of  Nathaniel 
Covil  and  Rebecca  his  wife  ;  and  Mary  Ilolaway,  daughter  of  Barnabaa 
Holaway  and  Elizabeth  his  wife.  Date,  "  Yarmouth,  Barnstable  County, 
Massachusetts,  11th,  oth  mo:  1701."     - 


>•  ■..    r'    T  .) 


» »  ••  » 


;  ■■ :  'iie.^ 


,Ii/;.-  '  .': — I  ::  i,U- 


280 


Barnstable  Family  Names. 


[July, 


Giilcon  Alien 
Saiimtl  '\^'illg 
Joseph  Iloxie 
Ruth  AVing 
8:iruh  Ilillurd 
Beiilah  ^^'iuir 
Comni  [?]  AVing 
Ebenezcr  Alien 
John  Iloluwaj 
Mary  Wing         ._ 
Donithy  Wing 
Hannah  Killey 


Elizabeth  Wing,  Jr. 
Grace  Wing 
Desire  Talier 
Content  Killey 
^lary  Allen 
Edward   Wing 
John  Wing.  Jr. 
Jos«'[)h  Wing 
Phebe  Wing 
Benuet  Wing 
Samuel  Covil 
Mary  Covil 


John  Wing 
Abigail  Wing 
Abigail  Ilolaway 
Content  Wing 
Barnabas  Ilolaway 
Stephen  Wing 
Joseph  Wing 
Ilittie  Killf^y 
Isaac  Iloxie,  .Jr. 
Lucretia  Allen 
Abner  iloxie 


Notes  to  tqe  Preckdixg. 
Samtet,  Covit,,  whose  luarringc  ceremony  was  witnessed  by  the  pej-sons  before- 


named,  was  liorn  in  Yarin')uth,"Barnst;'.ljle  County,  .Mass.,  Deo.  '2-2,  1703;  married 
Mary,  dauuhter  of  Barnabas  and  p:iizalieth  (Win:,')  ^^'jl^'^^'^y  '^^  ^^'^''^  town,  .May 
11,  1791.  "His  wile  was  born  April  '22,  1770,  and  di^d  .May  20,  181.').  lie  diL-d  Dec. 
2,  16jj.  Samuel  settled  in  F.iirfi.dd,  .Somerset  County,  Me.  His  parents  were 
Nathaniel  Co\il  and  Itehecca  Rider,  and  his  i^rnndparents  .John  Covil  and  Thank- 
ful Bani^s  ;  maternally,  Zaclarlali  Rider  and  Kvp-^rianoe  smitii.  Kis  wife's  grand- 
parents, pnternnllv,  were  Gideon  Ilolaway  and  Esperianee  Winir  ;  maternally, 
^__,  _'/<-•  1    ._..-    Tr  ..!,      II. ./^..■; i-,.\  „i.:i,i — ,. «  ,.0  i.^l^.1,■i.  • 


2,  16o3. 

Ki 

ful 

parei     ,  ,  ^  ,  .  , 

Stephen  ^Ving  and  Annie  Iloxie.     llis  (Samuel's)  children  were  as  follows 

1.  GR.iCi',  born  July  5,  179-3  ;  m.  John  Davis,  settled  in  Fairfield,  Me.,  and  died 

April  1,  1813,  leavinj;  issue. 

2.  Elizabktu.  b.  Au^.  19.  1794  ;  d.  May  3,  I8r,2. 

3.  Sylvanls,  b.  July  5,  1796  ;  m.  Rosanna,  daughter  of  .\lden  and  Alice  (Jones) 

Bowerman  {^eehdoio),  of  Fairfield,  Me.,  and  had  issue,  Elvira,  h.  Jan. 

16,  1S36,  and  Jane  £.,  b.  Feb.  19,  lb39,  d.  Feb.  6,  1860.    Mr.  CoTil  d. 

Dec.  19,  1865. 
ALT.E.V,  b.  April  15,  1799;  died  Aug.  17,  1863.  • 

DEnoKAB,  b.  Mav  17,  1801. 

Samlel,  Jr.,  b.  Jan.  3,  inOl  ;  died  Nov.  2.  1829. 
Rebecca,  b.  May  31,  lsU9  ;  died  Nov.  3,  1830. 

-,  and  settled  ia  Sandwich  or  Yarmouth, 


4. 
5. 
6. 

7. 


He  had  Benjamin,  whom.  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  ,7iiliam  and  .^h^^Y  (:?_vYiiL) 
,  and  died  lOth  month,  I7th.  1777;  his  wife  died  4rh  mo.  7.  1874.^  .'^''''^^', 
arried  in  '"  Sandwieh  Old  ^Meetinghouse."  She  was  a  member  of  the  friends' 


Benjamin  Bowermax,  m.  Hannah 

Ma.ss. 

Gifford 

were  m 

*'  Select  meeting  fourteen  years."     Their  cluldren  were  as  follows  : 

1.  Euflu,  born  in  Yarmouth,  Mass.,  8ch  mo.  24th.  1757  ;  m.  Annoy,  dau.  of  Eben- 
ezerand  x\hiry  (Allen)  Allen,  10th  mo.  I5th.  1779,  and  "  lived  with  ner 
over  20  years."  He  m.  second,  Sarah  Varney.  settled  in  Fairfield,  Me., 
and  died  M;iy  22,  1854.  aged  97  years.  Ho  was  one  of  the  first  .settlers 
in  his  town,  and  endured  great  deprivations  and  hardships,  freq"ent!y 
living  on  mut-h  made  from  meal  and  frozen  potatoes.  He  was  many 
years  an  Elder  in  the  Society  of  Friends  ;  always  sat  on  the  '*  high  seat 
and  broke  up  the  meetings."  Mr.  Bowerman  was  a  noble  specimen  ot 
a  man  ;  was  compactly  built,  muscular,  oreet.  with  a  finely  developed 
and  well-poised  head.  He  retained  his  physical  and  mental  powers  until 
very  old,  and  could  write  a  clear,  steady  hand  when  over  ninety  year~  of 
age.  In  a  letter,  written  t'l  a  gramldaugiiter  when  past  ninety,  he  says  : 
'•  I  saw  my  grandfather  Gi)Tjrd"s  iarher  and  mother  wlien  I  was  young, 
and  if  they  were  living  n^nv  (March  20,  iSiS)  they  would  he  abuut_l&0 
years  old."  His  cliildren  were  as  follows  :  1.  Alden,  H.  Jan.  3.  17r-'; 
m.  Alice  A.  Jon^^s,  in  July,  1807,  and  settled  in  Fairfield,  Me.  His  wile 
died  Nov.  15,  1855;  he  died  July  31.  l'?70.  Issue  as  follows:  Josipfi, 
b.  April  17,  l-O?  ;  Ihsanna,  b.  Nov.  13,  1810  ;  A^kt  J.,  b.  Dec.  26.  IfU. 
■aaidAlmira  W.,  b.  Jan.  21,  1821.  2.  Wcilia.m,  m.  Sarah  Bark.-r  tiud 
had  issue.  Amy,  Cordelia,  Satirat,  Edward.  Sardh.  Man/,  £■'*,  and 
David,    o.  Marabt,  m.  Eliphalet  Allen  and  beC^Icd  in  Faufield,  Mo. 


■  >^. 


1877.]  Marriages  in  West  Springfield,  Mass.  281 

2.  Harper,  m.  Mary  ,  and  settled  in  Fairfield,  Me.     He  sub<:equently 

moved  to  New  York  'Sr-Ha.     His  chiUren  were  Joseph,  Danid,  Eltzadeih, 
end  Pameha. 

3.  Zacheus,  m.  first, Jones;  pecond,  Elizabeth  "Wing.     Lived  in  Fair-field, 

Me.,  and  lia-i  D-.niamin,  EiizaUth,  Rose,  Hannah,  Avis,  Daniel.     .Mr. 
Bowerniiin  lived  to  tK;  over  SO. 

4.  Benjamin,  m.  Pl'oi'O  Shtpherd  (-iiscor  to  Abncr)  ;  settled  in  Fairfield,  Me.,  and 

had  is6ue,  Anney,  Lydia,  Barnabas,  Phebc,  Btnjairun,  Patience,  Ruth, 
and  Rest. 
6.  S.uniEL,  m.  first, Sherman:  second,  Experience  Davis;  .settled  in  Fair- 
field, Me.,  and  had  i<sae,  RJioda,  Paul,  and  Pattie. 
Note. — Many  of  this  fiimily  now  spell  the  name  "  Bowman.''^ 


ALLE>f  Famil7.— Elivhalet  Allen,  a  descendant  of  the  Aliens  of  Yarmouth, 
Mtvse.,  morriod  Maraby  Kowerman,  vLiui^hter  of  Elihu  (i-ee  BowermanH),  and  Het- 
tled  in  Fairfield,  2^1e.,  where  he  had  i^sue,  EliphaUl,  Charles,  Benjamin,  Aldea, 
Elihu,  Amy,  and  Jane.    Some  descendants  are  now  living  in  Fairfield. 

HoxiE  Family. — Acel  Hixie,  a  son  of .  who  was  from  Bam?tal)le  County, 

Mass.,  settled  in  Fairfield,  Me.,  and  had  issue,  Isaac,  Abel,  Salo/nnn,  Samuel,  Silas, 
Aaron.  These  sons  are  and  were  wealthy  farmers  in  Fairfield,  Me.,  and  have  nu- 
merous descendants  now  livin^i;  in  that  town — very  respectable  people. 

Wrsr,  Fa-milt. — Several  fomilies  of  Wing?  settled  in  Maine,  and  two  branches 
are  now  rej)resented  in  Fairut-Id — i^vne  now  Hvin^;  over  90.  A  very  full  family  tree 
is  preserved  iu  the  family  ot'  Mr.  Paul  Wing  in  diat  town. 

Note.— Several  other  families  named  in  the  catalogue  are  represented  in  Fairfield, 
among  them  Gijfords  and  Halaiccys.  I  hope  to  find  other  documents  relative  to 
the  early  settlers  of  this  town. 


AIARRIAGES  IN  "WEST  SPRINGFIELD,  MASS.,  1774-06. 

Contributed  by  Lyma>-  H.  Bagg,  A.M.,  of  New  York,  N.  Y. 

[Continned  from  vol.  xxx.  page  196.] 

The  L  tention  of  Marriage  between  Gideon  Allen  J"  and  Hannah  Eow- 
ker  both  of  West  SpriDrfeld  was  entered  Feb^  11*^  &  pnbiibhed  the  12'^ 
1786. 

The  Intention  of  Marriage  between  TYilliam  Day  and  Lucretia  Mclncier 
both  of  West  Springtield  was  entered  11.  February  &  published  the 
next  Sunday. 

The  Intention  of  Marriage  between  Mr.  Calvin  Torrey  of  Southampton 
and  Mary  Carrier  of  West  Springfield  was  entered  March  third  1786  &: 
published  the  Sunday  next  following. 

The  Intention  of  Marriage  between Ely  and  Abigail  Flower  both 

of  West  Springfield  was  entered  25""  of  March  &  published  y*  2G'^  1786. 

The  Intention  of  Marria-e  between  Andrew  Broga  of  West  Springfield 
and  Huldah  Wait  of  Soiu.hwick  was  entered  &  published  3'^  of  April  1786. 

The  Intention  of  ^Marriage  between  Mr.  Frederick  Burt  of  Longmeadow 
and  Mrs.  Mehicabel  Lauckton  of  West  Sprini^^tield  was  entered  July  the 
U'"  and  published  the  16'^  1786. 

The  Intention  cf  ^Marriage  between  Heindrick  Weber  and  Eunice  Smith 
both  of  West  Sprnigfield  was  entered  August  -i'-^  and  publislied  y«  6'''  1736. 

The  Intention  of  Marriaae  between  Enoch  Eiv  &  Esdier  EIv  both  of 
West  Springfield  was  entered  August  ll'-^  &  published  the  13'^  1786.  fM. 
Oct.  2a]  or  L 

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,(.  ,.r  ... . 


282  Marriarjca  in  West  Sprltirjfield,  3fass.  [July, 

The  Intention  of  Marriage  between  S;unuel  Black  and  Achsuh  Joufs 
botli  of  Weat  Spriii-iiL-Ivl  was  entered  August  19"*  &  published  the  20'" 
178G. 

The  Intention  of  ^larriage  between  Lt.  Jacques  Ilarmorid  of  Suirield  i\; 
Mi.ss  Kulh  Lankton  of  Wt  Spriuglield  was  entered  Sept.  8""  6:  pubii.shed 
the  10"'  1780. 

The  Intention  of  ^Marriage  bet?v^een  Doct'  Jabez  Cleveland  of  Spencer- 
town  in  the  State  of  New  York  &  !Mis.s  Ive/iah  Cooper  of  ^V'c^t  Spring- 
field was  entered  October  18"^  &  published  y"  ■22'^  1780. 

The  Intention  of  ^Marriage  between  Jonathan  liirchard  6c  Beulah  Ely 
both  of  AVest  Spriiiglield  was  entered  October  20'^  &.  published  y"  2l'''  1780. 

The  Intention  of  Marriage  between  Kzekiel  Bagg  and  11  uldah  Cooly 
both  of  West  Springfield  was  entered  Novetn.  27''^  &,  published  tlie  'Z'J^^ 
1780. 

The  Intention  of  ^larriage  between  David  iMorley  and  Hannah  Griswold 
both  of  West  Sprin^rlit'l  1  was  entered  &  published  y*  5"^  Xovom'  1780. 

The  Intention  of  Marriage  between  Joseph  Ely  Jun'  &  Martha  '^niith 
both  of  Wtjst  Sprin:.'tield  was  entered  November  y'  8"^  &  [)ublished  y" 
12"'  178G. 

The  Intention  of  ^larriage  between  Alexander  Cooly  i.^  Lydia  Day 
both  of  "West  Springtield  uas  entered  Nov'  11,  &  published  y""  12"^  1780. 

The  Intention  of  ^larriage  between  John  Church  c<:  Lucy  Se.^ton  both 
of  West  Springfield  wa-;  entered  Aug.  and  published  the  13"'  1780. 

The  Intention  of  Marriage  between  Darius  Ely  &  Margaret  Ashley  both 
of  West  Spriugtleld  was  entered  Noveuiber  11  &  published  y'-  12,  1780. 
[M.  Dec.  21] 

The  Intention  of  Marriage  between  Benjamin  Copley  of  Westficld  & 
Plannah  Killum  of  West  Springfield  was  entered  and  published  December 
y«  10"^  1780. 

The  Intention  of  Marriage  between  Mr.  Ithamar  Jones  and  ]Mis3  Thr.nk- 
full  Day,  both  of  West  Springfield  was  entered  Decena''  30"^  &  published  y* 
31,  17SI 

The  .ntention  of  Marriage  between  Ileindreick  Wilner  of  Springfield 
and  INIary  Hayward  of  West  Springfield  was  entered  February  y"'  3*^  iS: 
published  y'  4"^  1787. 

The  Intention  of  ilarriage  between  Stephen  Taylor  of  West  Springfield 
&  Anna  Stebbins  of  Longmeadow  was  entered  February  lU"^  &  published 
yo  ll"'  1787. 

The  Intention  of  ^larriage  between  Moses  Ely  &  Chloe  Day  both  of 
Wt  Springfield  was  entered  3Iarch  9'^  &  published  y*  11"^  1787. 

The  Intention  of  ^larriage  between  Lewis  Warriner  &  Betty  Remington 
both  of  West  Springfield  was  entered  March  17'^  &  published  y*  18"^  1787. 

The  following  Persons  were  married  on  the  Day  of  the  Date  affixed  to 
their  respective  names.     [Pr.  Joseph  Lathrop.] 

Justin  Day  and  Abigail  Morgan  both  of  AVest  Springfield,  Feb^  11*^ 
1785. 

Samuel  Smith  of  Sandisfield  and  Lovisa  Ely  of  West  Springfield,  Feb- 
ruary 22, 1785. 

Ithamar  Morgan  &  Chloe  Bagg  both  of  West  Springfield  June  23"^  1785. 

Aaron  White  &  Lucy  Kellogg  both  of  West  SpringfieLl  August  2o,  1785. 

Elijah  Bliss  iS:  Charlotte  Bagg  both  of  West  Springfield  "October  10"" 
1785. 


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1877.]  Marriages  in   West  Springfield,  Mass.  283 

Roiiben  Foot  &.  Ilaunah  Farnliurn  both  of  West  S[iriiigfiel<l  December 
M'"  178.'>. 

Solomon  Stebbens  and  iluhih  Day  both  of  West  Springfield,  December 
20,  1785. 

IIcii(h-ick  Weber  tJc  Eunice  Smith  of  West  Sprinfjfield  Angust  21,  1786. 

Enoch  Ely  <^  Esther  Ely  both  of  West  Sprin-iieM  (October  20"''  17.SG. 

Jonathan  liurehard  &  Heul  ih  Ely  both  of  West  Springfield  November 
IG,  17.'^0. 

Joseph  Ely  Jun''  &  Martha  Smith  both  of  West  Springfield  November 
23,  17«G. 

Darius  Ely  &  Margaret  Ashley  both  of  West  S[)ringlield,  December  21, 
178G. 

Alexander  Cooly  ii  Lydia  Day  botli  of  West  Springfield  December  21, 
1780. 

Ezekiel  Bagg  &  Huldah  Cooly  both  of  West  SDringficld  January  4,  1787. 

The  Intention  of  ^Marriage  between  Solomon  Lee  of  Westfield  and  Anna 
Lamb  of  West  Springtleld  was  entered  ^IMarch  31,  1787  li  published  y* 
rext  Sin'day. 

The  Intention  of  Marriage  between  Stephen  Bliss  of  Wilbraham  & 
Clara  Leonard  of  West  Springtield  was  entered  April  G"^  &  Called  otT  at 
three  Publick  meetings. 

The  Intention  of  Marriage  between  [Lovewell  ?]  Lindsy  of  WerTtfield 
&  Clarissa  Nelson  of  West  Springfleld  was  entered  April  18'-'^  and  pub- 
lished y«  22,  1787. 

The  Intention  of  Marriage  between  Oliver  Dewey  of  Westfield  Sc  Huldah 
Morley  of  West  Springfield  was  entered  April  24  and  published  y^  29"^ 
1787. 

The  Intention  of  Marriage  between  Azahel  Colton  of  Longraeadow  and 
Sarah  Lancktou  of  West  Springfield  was  entered  April  24  and  published 
the  29"^  1787. 

The  Intention  of  Marriage  between  Joseph  Pheland  .Junior  and  Anna 
Flower  both  of  West  Springfield  was  entered  &  published  ]May  12"^  1787. 

The  Intention  of  Marriage  between  Noadiah  Smith  &  Tirzah  Taylor 
both  of  West  Springfield  was  entered  &  published  Jlay  12,  1787. 

The  Intention  of  Marriage  between  Luke  Parsons  Jun'  &  Esther  Jones 
both  of  West  Springfield  was  entered  May  '2<u^^  &  published  y*  27"^  1787. 

The  Intention  of  Marriage  between  Stephen  Day  &  Sophia  Bagg  both 
of  West  Springfield  was  entered  ]May  17'^  &  publisiied  y=  26"^  17»7. 

Abraham  Ripley  and  Mary both  of  West  Springfield  were  joined 

together  in  marriage  June  the  19"^  1785. 

John  Stone  of  Chesterfield  and  Elizabeth  Leonard  of  West  Springfield 
were  joined  together  in  Marriage  July  G"'  1785. 

Alexander  Wolcott  Esq'  of  Springfield  &  iliss  Frances  Burbank  of  West 
Springfield  were  joined  together  in  Marriage  22*^  September  I7b5. 

Gideon  Allen  t!t  Hannah  Bowker  both  of  West  Springfield  were  joined 
in  Marriage  March  y^  8'^  178G. 

William  Day  and  Lucretia  Mclntier  both  of  West  Springfield  were 
joined  in  IMarriage  ]March  9"^  1786. 

Israel  Fitts  and  Sarah  Cook  both  of  West  Springfield  wore  joined  in 
Marriage  July  6""  178G. 

Frederick  Burt  of  Longraeadow  &c  Mehitabel  Lankton  of  Wett  Spring- 
field were  joined  in  Marriage  Septcaiber  7'^  17SG. 


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284  A  TanJcec  Pnvatecrsman  in  Prison.  ['^ii^y, 

Duvitl  Morley  and  Hannah  Griswold  both  of  West  Springtield  were 
joined  in  IMarriage  Decern"  .i,  178G. 

Benjaraiu  Co[)ley  of  Westfield  and  Hannah  Killam  of  A\''e^t  Spfingfield 
were  joined  in  ^NTarriaLje  January  the  first,  1787. 

Lt.  Jacqutis  Ilarmond  of  Sutlield  and  Miss  Ruth  Lankton  of  West 
Sprinf^icld  were  joined  hi  IMarriago  the  4."'  of  January  1787. 

Doct'  Jabez  Clevehind  of  Speucertowu  in  y"  State  of  New  York  and 
^Iis3  Keziali  Cooper  of  West  Spriugfield  were  joined  in  marriage  February 
11"^  1787. 


A  YANKEE  PRIVATEERS:\rAN  IN  PRISON  IN  ENGLAND, 

1777-1779. 

Communicated  by  William  Hicicakd  Cutter,  of  Lexington,  Masa.,  with  Notes. 
[Continued  from  page  213.] 

[1778,  July.]  Saturday,  4th.  Cloudy  ^veather.  Mr.  Duckett  came 
here,  brt  brou^'ht  lio  news.  This  day  several  of  the  French  otTicers  taken 
on  board  of  the  La  Palace,  were  sent  into  the  country  on  their  parole.  No 
news  from  Gen.  Howe  transpired  as  yet.  No  news  concerning  us  this 
eometime.  The  French  prisoners  give  us  an  account  of  nine  hundred,  or 
cue  thousand,  English  prisoners  being  in  Nantes  and  its  environs. 

Sunday,  5th.  Clear  weather.  We  have  the  news  of  the  I^ritish  troops 
having  evacuated  Philadelphia  [June  18,  1778],  and  had  retired  to  New 
York.  There  are  twenty-seven  sail  of  the  line  lying  at  Spithead,  waiting 
for  a  fair  wind  to  proceed  to  sea.  We  have  the  news  of  the  Andromeda  hav- 
ing taken  an  American  privateer,  one  hundred  men  on  board ;  twenty-five 
men  of  which  entered,^  and  the  rest  are  to  come  on  shore  to-morrow  ;  the 
privateer  they  destroyed  at  sea. 

Monday,  July  Gth.  Clear  weather.  This  day  sixty-four  American  pri- 
soners '.ame  on  shore  and  committed  to  Forton  Prison.'  The  privateer 
taken  proved  to  be  the  Angelic,  a  brigantine  of  eighteen  guns,  Capt.  Dannis^ 
commander ;  and  was  informed  by  some  of  the  hands  of  my  brother  AVil- 
liam's  being  well,  and  all  things  going  on  in  a  flourishing  way  at  Boston, 
which  I  am  very  glad  to  hear.  No  news.  The  brig  was  taken  by  the  An- 
dromeda six  days  after  they  left  Boston.* 

Tuesday,  7th.  Clear  weather.  One  hundred  and  three  French  prison- 
ers came  on  shore,  and  were  committed  to  Forton  Prison.  ]Mr.  Wrenn 
and  Mr.  Duckett  came  and  paid  us  our  money,  but  brought  no  news  con- 
cerning us. 

Wednesday,  8th.     Clear  weather.     The  fleet  not  as  yet  sailed  from  Spit- 

*  That  is,  "  entered  "  the  British  sei-vice.  This  phrase  is  more  fully  explained  under 
entries  of  Journal  for  Nov.  13,  Doc.  14,  1-5,  16,  17,  19,  1778. 

«  All  of  Che  ADg-'iicii,  <au  of  Boston— see  Roll. 

'  "Diinnis  "  in  ori^'imU.  Wiili;ii:i  Davi';,  c:ipt;;in.  commander  of  the  brigantine  Anq'cH- 
ca,  one  of  Boston— coiumitted  to  Foiton  Pii<ou  with  sixts'-three  of  his  uiun,  Jtilv  7,  177? — 
see  Roll.  The  Angelica  ^uf  lo  L;uns — according  to  Roll)  '\v;is  taken,  May  OO,  lj'7S,  hy  rhc 
Andn  wieda,  of  2S  gnu.-— mx  diys  (sec  Journal)  after  lcavi.n:r  Boston.  Capt.  "  Dannia  " 
etiected  his  escape  I'nn.i  prisoD,  Juiy  23,  177S — ciury  of  Journal,  for  Julv  'Ji,  1778. 

■•  See  entry  iimuediucely  previous.  "  The  Andiornecla,  in  which  ship  General  Howe  c^me 
passenger,  in  her  way  home  fell  in  with  and  took  the  Angelica  privateer  from  Bo-ton, 
mouaiiug  sixteen  guns,  »i:c  pounders,  and  98  men;  aud  after  taking  out  the  hands,  set  the 
ehip  on  tire." — Gentleman's  Magazine,  for  1773,  p.  330. 


n 


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1877.]  A  Yankee  Privat.eersman  in  Prison.  285 

head.  Nothing  remarkable  at  present,  only  fljiug  stories  in  the  papers.  A 
revir'.v  of  clothes  tlii-'  day. 

Thursday,  9th.     Clear  weather  ;  nothing  remarkable  this  day. 

Friday,  lUth.  Very  hot.  Mr.  Wrenii  and  Mr.  Duckett  came  hero,  and 
brought  us  the  news  of  hi-,  having  received  a  letter  from  Mr.  Il.'irtly.  v,ho 
informs  him  of  Loid  North's  sending  over  to  France  to  ascertain  t!ie  num- 
ber of  oilicers  and  private  mtm  that  they  have  got  there  pri.-oners.  Like- 
wise this  day  it  is  in  the  papers  that  the  king  and  ministry  (by  some  informa- 
tion from  General  Howe)  has  allowed  the Independency  to  America; 

and  the  same  shi{>  is  disputehed  off  immediately  to  the  Commissioners,  now 
in  America,  that  bnjught  General  Howe. 

Saturday,  11th.  Aery  hot  weather.  It  is  the  report  this  day  that  Ad- 
miral Keppel's  fleet  sailed  yesterday.*  Likewise  that  John  Cockran  was 
arrived  at  Boston  before  the  Angelic  sailed.  He  broke  out  of  this  prison 
2d  December,  and  got  home  by  way  of  France;  likewise  our  boatswain  and 
captain's  clerk,  all  in  the  same  ship.' 

Sunday,  12th.  Very  hot  weather  for  this  sometime  past.  It  is  certain 
the  fleet  sailed  on  Friday.  No  news  of  onr  being  exchanged.  In  great 
expectation  of  a  war  with  France  [see  entiy,  July  22,  1778J. 

Monday,  13th.  Very  hot  weather.  Admiral  Kepriel's  fleet  returned 
home  again,  being  out  (only)  four  days,  having  seen  a  fleet  in  the  Channr-I 
enough  to  eat  them ;  and,  it  is  said,  of  all  nations.^  Nothing  more  material 
this  day;  (only)  one  hundred  and  twenty-one  French  prisoners  were  com- 
mitted this  day,  that  were  taken  in  the  frigate  La  Belle  Poula  ;'*  likewise 
have  seen  an  extract  of  a  letter  from  Dr.  Cooi)er  to  Dr.  Franklin,  dated 
Boston,  iNIay  the  loth,  177S.  The  pressgangs  are  very  thick  in  all  parts 
of  this  country,  so  that  a  man  is  not  safe  in  his  bed  for  robbers  and  press- 
gangs. 

Tuesday,  14th.  Very  hot  weather;  no  rain  this  sometime  past.  Mr. 
Wrenn  and  Mr.  Duckett  came  and  paid  us,  as  usual,  but  brought  no 
news.     This  day  thirteen  months  since  we  came  to  Forton  Prison. 

Wednesday,  15th.  Very  hot  weather  still.  Mr.  "VVrenn  and  Mr.  Duck- 
ett, Esq.,  came  here  twice  this  day,  but  brought  no  news  worth  mentioning. 
This  morning  increases  our  guard.  One  captain  and  one  subaltern,  and 
sixty  men  mount  now,  whereas  half  that  number  (only)  mounted  before. 
It  is  said  we  shall  be  sent  away  before  September  next.  (It  is  like  the  rest 
of  their  talk  !) 

Thursday,  16th.  Fine  weather.  This  day  nine  of  the  French  othcers 
went  from  this  prison  to  Winchester,  on  their  parole  of  honor.  Nothing 
new  this  day. 

Friday,  17th.  Summer-like  weather.  This  day  the  French  prisoners 
were  let  out  into  the  large  airing  ground  by  the  doctor's  house  ;  and  in  the 
afternoon  Mr.  Wrenn  and  Mr.  Duckett  came  here,  and  told  us  Mr.  Eben- 
^zer  Phut  was  taken  while  going  to  South  Carolina,  and  sent  into  Port 
Glasgow.^ 

j  See  entries  for  July  12  and  13,  immedintely  following. 
J  ,>lin  Cockran  w.is  boat^^vaiu  of  the  Yiinkec,  florid  Boston — see  note,  timlcr  entry  of 
Joiinial,  tor  July  3(1.  1777.    Thomas  Cummins  was  the  boatswain,  and  Daniel  Dana  the 


"rope. 

\  Ij-'C  note,  entry  of  Journal  for  Juno  28,  1778. 
■1-U2  name  of  Mr.  Ebeuezer  Flatt  is  not  again  mentioned  in  the  Journal. 


,1  ■  li    '<.■  1-. 


286  A  Yanhee  Privateersman  in  Prison.  [July, 

Saturday,  18th.  Very  hot  weather.  This  day  came  on  shore  five  olTicers 
beloiiglug  to  the  Alfred,  twenty  gim  ship,  out  of  Bostoa  ;  Capt.  Inman,  hh 
first  and  second  sailing  lieutenants,  and  captain  and  lieutenant  of  marines.' 
Likewise  came  on  shore  five  more  prisoner.^,  all  Americans  ;  the  prize  mas- 
ter and  four  hands  taken  in  a  prize  belonging  to  the  schooner  Hawk,  out  of 
Marblehead  (but  belonging  to  Manchester),  mounting  ten  carriiige  guns, 
one  Capt.  Hibhet  commander.^     No  news  for  us  as  yet.     Out  of  all  hopes. 

Sunday,  TJth.  Very  hot  weather.  Great  numbers  of  people  of  both 
sex  here  to  day  to  see  the  American  monsters.     Nothing  remarkalsle  this 

day. 

Monday,  20th.     A  little  rain  this  mornii;g,  and  cleared  off  very  hot.  _  A 
:  report  this  day  of  the  Alarm  frigate's  being  taken  by  two  American  priva- 
teers.' 

Tuesday,  21st.  Cloudy  and  rainy  weather.  'Mr.  "Wrenn  and  ISIr.  Duok- 
ett  came  and  paid  us  our  money ;  likewise  Itrought  the  news  of  a  battle 
between  the  French  and  English  fleets;  the  particulars  we  have  not  heard 
as  yet.  ' 

Wrdnesdnv.  July  22d.  This  day  cloudy  and  rainy.  Last  night  a  ship 
arrived  froni  America  (the  Porcupine''),  but  what  news  she's  brought  ha3 
not  transpired.  Admiral  Keppel's  fleet  consists  of  the — Victory,  of  a  hun- 
dred guns  ;  five,  of  ninety  guns  ;  eighteen,  of  seventy-four  ditto  ;  seven,  of 
sixty-four  ditto  ;  that  makes  thirty-one  sail  of  the  line — besides  one  of  thirty- 
two  2uns,  four  of  twenty-eiglit  ditto,  one  of  twenty -four  ditto ;  in  ail  six  frigates. 
The^French  fleet  consists  of  thirty  ships  of  the  line,  besides  two  of  fifty,  and 
fifteen  frigates.  Both  fleets  having  sailed,  we  shall  soon  hear  of  a  battle ;  as 
the  reporr  of  a  war's  being  declared  in  France  against  England  was  in  tho 
public  newspapers  ten  days  ago.*  This  day  fourteen  French  oflicers  went 
on  their  parole  of  honor. 

Thursday,  23d.  Rainy  weather.  This  day  it  is  afilrmed  that  war  was 
declared  in  France  against  England  the  loth  instant.  This  afternoon  one 
hundred  and  twenty-one  French  prisoners  came  here  from  on  board  the 
Princess  Amelia.  Mr.  Wrenn  came  here  and  brought  us  the  news  of  the 
Commi  sioners  being  on  their  passage  home  again  from  America,  without 
doing  anything  with  Congi-ess.* 

'  Their  names  are  civen  in  Roll.  Elisha  Hinman,  captain  of  the  Alfred  (of  the  United 
States  Navy)— committed  to  Forton  Prison.  July  IS,  efTected  his  escape  from  prison  July 
23,  177!*— entry  of  Journal,  for  Julv  2i,  1778.  Tlie  Alfred  was  captured  by  the  Ariadue 
and  Ceres,  March  9,  177S.  Elisha  Hinman  took  rank  as  the  twentieth  captam  of  the  navy, 
in  1776.  Paul  Jones,  when  lirst  lieutenant  of  the  Alfred,  displayed  the  Ameriam  llai:  on 
board  her  with  bis  own  hands,  before  Philadelphia, ybr  the  first  time,  Dec.  1775.  An  aecmint 
of  Capt.  Hinman  is  published  in  Drake's  Biographical  Dictionary,  and  Lossing's  Field  Book 
of  the  Becolution,  ii.  6-10. 

*  Their  names  are  given  in  Roll.  Robert  Walker  was  the  prizemaster.  Two  men  be- 
longins  to  a  "  prize  of  ye  Hawk" — were  committed  to  Fortou  Prison,  April  2,  1778 — see 
Roll.    "  Brig"  Hawk,  14  guns,  \~,~il—vide  Register,  xxv.  3G8. 

■•  See  entries  iu  Journal,  for  July  25,  aud  Nov.  2,  1773. 

*  Sec  entry,  for  July  27,  1778. 

*  July  22,  177S,  Franklin  wrote :— "  The  English  and  French  fleets  of  nearly  equal  force 
are  now  both  at  ^-ea.  It  is  not  doul.'tod  but  that  if  they  meet,  there  will  be  a  battle ;  for, 
though  England  through  fear,  affects  to  uiiderstaiul  it  to  be  biill  peace,  and  would  cxcus.. 
the  depredations  she  has  made  on  the  commerce  of  France,  by  pretences  of  illicit  trade,  &.e., 
yet  France  considers  the  war  begun,  from  the  time  of  the  King's  message  to  Parlianieut, 
complaining  of  the  in.-ult  France  had  given  i)y  treatin-j  with  us,  and  demanding  aids  to 
resist  it,  and  the  answer  of  butli  Uouso:,  ofioring  their  lives  and  fortunes.  These,  and  the 
taking  sever;d  frigates,  are  deemed  indisputable  hostilities." 

8  See  note,  under  entry  of  jMtirnal  for  April  16,  177S.  Franklin  wrote  to  Hartley,  frooi 
France,  Oct.  20.  1778: — "Your  Commissioners  are  acting  very  indiscreetly  in  Amcri'ii. 
They  first  spoke  very  disrespectfully  of  our  good  aliy.  They  have  since  called  in  questioa 
the  powers  of  Congress  to  treat  with  them :  and  had  endeavored  to  begin  a  diapute  about 


. '  •>  /  «•  c 


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1877.] 


A  Yanhee  Privateer sman  in  Prison.  287 


Friday,  2-^th.  Rainy  weather  tljis  week  past.  Last  uight  ten  of  our 
o(riccf:-4  ui:i<lo  their  esc:ipe  l)y  cutting  a  Jiolo  through  their  chumher  floor 
into  the  Lhiok  Hole,  and  have  got  ort'  clear,  aud  have  not  been  heard  of 
since.  They  were  as  follows:  Capt.  Iliumau,  Caot.  Daiiuis,  Capt.  ?.Iui7)liy, 
Capt.  Ch-nv,  Capt.  Slacomb,  Dr.  Burns,  Mr.  Wail'and,  Mr.  Lagear,  Mr. 
Tryon,  Mas.  [sj'c]  Bubotrong,  a  French  gentleman.*  It  was  not  made 
known  till  five  o'clock  this  afternoon,  when  strict  search  was  made  after 
them,  but  to  no  effect. 

Saturday,  2.3th.  Fair  weatiier  this  afternoon,  but  nothing  strange.  We 
have  the  agreeable  news  of  the  Lively,  carrying  tweuty-two  guns,  is  taken 
by  a  French  frigate  aud  carried  into  Ijrest.*  Likewise  the  Alarm  frigate, 
aud  a  cutter,  are  all  taken  aud  carried  into  France. 

Sunday,  2Gth.  Clear  weather  this  day.  No  news  concerning  us.  Num- 
bers of  the  inhabitants  came  here  to  see  us. 

Monday,  27th.  Fine  weather.  This  day  came  on  shore  from  on  board 
the  Princess  Amelia,  eight  American  prisoners,  who  were  examined  at  the 
Koyal  lIosi>ital,  and  were  committed  to  Fortou  Prison.  They  were  taken 
by  the  Porcupine  frigate.     They  mostly  belong  to  Boston.' 

Tuesday  2S[h.  Clear  weather.  Mr.  Wrenu  and  Mr.  Duckett  came  and 
paid  u?  our  money.  Likewise  a  report  that  the  French  and  English  fleets 
have  had  a  battle,  in  which  Admiral  Keppel  was  killed,  aud  thirteen  sail  of 
ships  disabled.  One  of  the  French  prisoners  made  his  escape,  but  was 
taken. 

"Wednesday,  July  29th.  Clear  weather.  Nothing  in  the  report  concern- 
ing Keppel's  having  a  battle.  Monday  last  we  began  to  undermine  at  one 
corner  of  the  prison,  to  make  our  escape,  which  goes  on  very  well  as  yet. 
No  news  remarkable  concerning  of  our  exchange. 

Thursday,  30th.     Rainy  this  day,  and  we  are  employed  about   getting 

the  detention  of  Burgovne's  troops,  au  affiiir  -svhicb  I  conceive  not  to  be  within  their  com- 
mission. Thev  are  vainly  striving  by  pnblications  to  excite  the  people  against  the  Congress. 
Governor  Johnstone  hasbcen  atteniptmg  to  t)ribe  tlie  members,  and  without  the  least  regard 
to  truth,  has  as-L-ned  three  propositions,  which  he  says  he  will  undertake  to  prove.  The  two 
first  of  them,  I  know  tu  be  faNe,  and  I  bdieie  the  third  to  bo  so :  [events  proved  that  Frank- 
lin was  right  in  ail  threel.  The  Congress  have  refused  to  treat  with  the  Commissioners, 
while  he  continues  one  of  them,  and  he  has  thereibre  resigned.  These  gentlemen  do  not 
appear  well  quahtied  for  iheu:  position.  I  think  they  will  never  heal  the  breach,  but  they 
may  widen  it." 

•"in  this  hst  of  names  we  have  followed  the  spelling  of  the  original.  For  mention  of 
Capt.  Hinman— see  note,  under  entrv  of  Journal  for  July  18,  177S;  for  mention  of  Cant. 
"Dannis" — see  note,  entry  of  Journal  for  Julv  6,  1778;  Capt.  Murphy — see  note,  entry  for 
Jan.  23,  1778;  Capt.  Chew— see  note,  entry,  Jan.  23,  177S;  Capt.  Shicomb— note,  entry  for 
Jan.  23,  1778,  &c.  Dr.  Burns— Dr.  Thoinas  Bums,  of  the  Angelica,  out  of  Boston— see 
Roll — committed  to  Forton  Prison,  July  7,  1778.  Mr.  •' Wailland  "—Benjamin  'Whaland, 
midshipman,  Sturdv  Beir^ar,  MaryLind — see  Roll  and  List  of  Officers  appended — committed 
to  For:on  Prison,  Jan.  23^  177S.  Mr.  "  Lagear"- Edward  Leger,  lieutenant  of  the  Hornet, 
belonging  to  Maryland— see  note,  entry  oi^Journal  for  May  16',  177S.  Mr.  Trs'on — William 
Tryon,  lieutenant.  Notredame,  belonginir  to  South  Carolina — see  note,  entry  of  Journa!  for 
July  30,  1777.  Mons.  "Bubotrong,"  French  gentleman— see  note,  entrv  of  Journal^tor 
Aug.  9,  1777.  An  account  of  the  escape  in  the  Givif/'nian's  ilaijnzine  for  1778,  p.  3o2, 
states :  "  Thineen  American  officers  made  their  escape  from  Forton  Prison ;"  and  adds,  that 
on  "  the  same  day  there  was  a  mutiny  in  the  hospital,  which  was  so  serious  that  the  miutia 
■who  were  encamped  near  Wevil  Brewhouse  were  ordered  to  lie  on  their  arm.s  all  nig!)t."  _ 

J^  The  Lively,  Thomas  Bishop,  commander,  20  !n;ns,  130  men,  one  of  the  squadron  in 
North  America,  under  the  command  of  Admiral  Graves,  April,  lllo.—To'xn  and  Cou.itnj 
Maijazine  for  177-5,  p.  220.  The  Lively,  ship  of  war.  the  tirsc  to  tire  on  the  American  work^ 
ifi  Bunker  Hill  Battle.— /5'''i,  for  177-5'  p.  390,  &c.  From  "  an  exact  li>t  of  English  men-of- 
war  and  frigates  destroved  in  the  present  war,"  pu'-li-lied  in  the  Crcntleman's  i£::g.izine  for 
1778,  p.  .54(3,  is  the  iteni— "Lively,  20,  Taken  hv  the  French  otf  Brest." 

■*  Their  names  are  given  in  Roll.  Holdon  Rhodes  was  nrizemaster,  and  S.imuel  Rice,  his 
itnat_t-.  They  were  of  "  a  prize  of  the  Brigg  Satisfaction  "-^see  Roll.  "  Sloop  "  Satiifaction, 
1/77 — vide  F.EGisTEQ,  xxvi.  26. 


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288  The  Indian  Attach  upon  Casco.  [July, 

all  the  money  we  can,  to  make  onr  escape  this  night,  as  we  have  a  licit;  llvo 
feet  deep,  and  fourteen  in  lengtii,  and  siv  round  ;  so  that,  it  being  all  tini.sliril, 
we  intend<;d  a  [lusli  at  abont  twelve  o'clock,  when  we  all  got  ready  to  go.  Tlic 
guard  having  infornirt'joii  of  our  intentions,  rather  than  kill  us  as  we  caino 
out,  came  into  the  p:i.-.uir  with  ten  lanthorns  and  proceeded  for  the  huh:, 
and  caught  two  Frenchmen  in  it  with  lights  to  work.  Thoy  were  carried 
off  immediately  to  the  liiick  Hole,  and  there  close  confined.  The  prison 
now  being  in  an  uproar,  as  there  were  a  great  number  agoing,  such  liop- 
ping  anil  skipping  as  we  never  saw  liefore — they  placed  sentinels  over  our 
woTks,  and  thus  we  were  secured ;  taking  all  the  sentinels  out  of  the  i)ri-;.ju 
from  among  us,  and  placing  twice  the  number  all  around  us,  on  the  out.sido 
— so  we  ended  the  tirst  night's  work  of  sorrow  for  us. 

Friday,  3lsU  This  day  we  found  out  that  tlie  information  was  giveuhy 
one  of  our  own  people  (an  Englishman)  who  had  been  a  i)risoner  near 
twenty  months,  and  is  now 'confined  from  us  in  the  hospital,  and  has  peti- 
tioned the  Admiralty  to  go  ou  board  of  the  men  of  war.  This  day  cp.mo 
on  shore  one  hundred  and  three  French  prisoners,  and  two  Americans 
amongst  them,  and  were  committed  to  Forton  Prison.  This  night  the 
lio-hts  and  sentinels  are  taken  out  of  both  prisons. 

'^Saturday,  August  the  1st.  Clear  weather.  All  the  French  oflicers  went 
to  Alfred,  "twenty-four  m.iles,^  on  their  parole  of  honor.  They  continue  to 
keep  us  without'lights  and  sentinels  in  the  inside.  This  night  some  of  the 
people  got  the  keys  of  the  prison,  which  caused  a  disturbance  ;  but  after 
some  plague  and  trouble  they  were  delivered  up. 

[To  be  coutinued.]  '      ■ 


THE  INDIAN  ATTACK  UPON  "CASCO"  IN  1G76. 

Commnnicited  by  John  S.  H.  Fogo,  M.D.,  of  South  Boston,  Mass. 

rilllE  following  letter,  written  from  "  Casco  "  jy  Thaddeu?  Clark, 
X  three  dayd  after  the  Indian  attack  upon  that  place  in  August, 
167G,  diifers  somewhat  from  the  various  accounts  of  that  atlair 
which  are  on  record. 

A  reference  to  Willis's  "Portland,"  pages  204-5,  \vill  make  this 
more  apparent.  Gcijrge  Lewis  is  there  stated  to  have-  escaped  to 
the  island  in  safety  ;  in  the  letter  he  and  his  w-ife  are  said  to  be  kill- 
ed or  captured.  In  "  Willis  "  the  Wakely  killed  is  Isaac;  in  the  let- 
ter it  is  plainly  Daniel.  Hubbard  says  there  were  34  persons  killed 
and  made  captive — agreeing  exactly  w'ith  Clark's  statement,  viz.  : 
''Of  men  slain  11,  of  women  and  ch'ildren  23  killed  and  taken."  Wil- 
lis says,  page  206,  "To  what  extent  the  buildings  were  destroyed  we 
have  no  means  of  ascertaining."  Hubbard  states  "  that  the  homes 
of  those  killed  and  taken  prisoners  w^ere  burned,"  while  Clark's  let- 
ter says,  "G""  Wallis  his  dv/elling  house  and  none  besides  his  is 
burnt." 

On  the  20th  of  August  George  Munjoy  was  sent  to  Falmouth 
from  Boston  with  fifteen  hundred  pounds   of  bread  for  the  relief  of 

>  •'  Alfred,  24  M."  in  original— Alford,  co.  Somerset  ( r) 


;j'i:v 


H 


1877.]  The  Indian  Attack  upon  Casco.  289 

persons  there.  This  was  probably  immediately  upon  the  receipt  of 
Clark's  letter  to  Mro.  Ilarvcy,  written  on  the  l-itii  ut*  Au^rust, 

"Willis  says  (page  200)  that  in  the  beginning  of  10 75  Elizabeth 
Harvey,  the  mother  of  Tluiddeiis  Clark'.-;  wife,  was  a  member  of 
Thomas  Brackctt's  fauiily  in  Falmoutli.  She  nmst  have  gone,  sub- 
sequently, to  Boston,  as  Clark's  letter  is  addressed  to  her  there. 
She  probably  went  with  James  Andrews,  her  son-in-luw,  who  re- 
moved from  Falmouth  to  Boston  in  1G75.  Andrews  died  in  Boston, 
170i.  ^frs.  Ilarvcy  was  a  daughter  of  George  Cleeves,  was  mar- 
ried to  ^Michael  Mitten  (prominent  in  the  early  history  of  Maine), 
who  was  the  father  of  all  her  children.  Subsequently  she  married 
a  flarvey,  and  died  a  widow  in  1G82. 

Mr.  "Willis,  in  his  "Portland"  (page  292),  is  in  error  as  to  the 
education  of  Clark.  He  says  "  he  was  not  nujcli  educated  ;  his  sig- 
nature to  instruments  was  made  by  a  mark."  The  letter  whicli  fol- 
lows is  unusual  for  that  period,  in  its  expression  and  in  its  chiro- 
graphy,  especially  from  one  occupying  no  official  position. 

Honoured  [Mother 

After  my  duty  &  my  wifes  presented  to  your  selfe  these  may  inform 
you  of  our  present  health,  of  our  present  being  when  other  of  our  friends  are 
by  the  burbarous  heathen  cut  off  from  having  a  being  in  this  World.  The 
Lord  of  late  hath  renewed  his  witnesses  against  vs,  &  hath  dealt  very  bit- 
terly with  vs  in  that  we  are  deprived  of  the  Societie  of  our  nearest  friends 
by  the  breaking  in  of  the  adversarie  against  us  :  On  Friday  last  in  the  morning 
your  own  Son  with  your  two  Sons  in  Law,  Anthony  &  Thomas  Bracket  & 
their  whole  families  were  Killed  &  taken  by  the  Indiiins,  we  Know  not  how, 
tis  certainly  known  by  us  that  Thomas  is  slain  &  his  wife  &  children  carried 
away  captiue,  &  of  Anthony  &  his  familie  we  haue  no  tidings  &  therefore 
think  that  they  might  be  captivated  the  night  before  because  of  the  remoteness 
of  their  haliitation  from  neighbourhood.  G"'  Corban  &  all  his  family  G™ 
Lewis  &  his  wife,  James  Ross  &  all  his  family,  G™  Durham,  John  ^lunjoy, 
&  Daniel  Wakely,  Benjamin  Iladwell  &  all  his  family  are  lost,  all  slain 
by  Sun  an  hour  high  in  the  Morning  &  after.  G™  AVallis  his  dwelling 
house  &  none  besides  his  is  burnt,  there  are  of  men  slain  11,  of  women  & 
children  23  killed  «S:  taken;  we  that  are  aliue  are  forced  upon  INfAndrewes 
his  Island  to  Secure  our  own  &  the  Hues  of  our  families,  we  haue  but 
little  prouision  &,  are  so  few  in  number  that  we  are  not  able  to  bury  the 
dead  till  more  strength  come  to  us,  the  desire  of  the  people  to  your  Selfe 
is  that  you  would  be  pleased  to  Speak  to  iNP  Munjoy  &  Deacon  Philips 
that  they  would  entreat  the  Governour  that  forthwith  aid  might  be  Sent  to 
us  either  to  fight  the  enemie  out  of  our  borders  that  our  English  Corn  may 
be  inned  in  wherby  we  may  comfortably  Hue  or  remoue  vs  out  of  danger 
that  we  may  prouide  for  our  Seines  elswhere,  hauing  no  more  at  present 
but  desiring  your  prayers  to  God  for  his  preservation  of  vs  in  these  times 
of  danger,  I  rest  Your  dutifuil  Son 

from  Casco-bay  Thaddecs  Clark. 

14.  6.  7G. 

remember  my  Loue  to  my  sister  &''. 

[Addressed  :  *•  These  |  ffor  his  honoured  Mother  I  M"  Elizabeth  Harvy, 
Hving  I  in  Boston."'] 
VOL,  XXXI.  26 


ill 


290  Boston  Oommittee  of  Correspondence,  &c.  [July, 


RECORD  OF  THE  BOSTON  CO:\rMITTEE  OF    CORRES- 
PONDENCE, INSPECTION  AND  SAFETY, 
MAY  TO  NOVEMiiEK,  177G. 

Copied  by  permission  of  S.vMVKr,  F.  McCLF..vnY,  Esq.,   Citv  Clerk,  from  the  original 
record-hook  in  tlic  archives  of  the  City  of  Boston,  Mass, 

[Continued  from  piise  33.] 

1776.  4  O'clock  Afternoon  met  acccorflin^j  to  Aflionrnment. 

July  *0.  .  o  J 

^V  Wiswell,  late  of  this  Town  Shoemaker,  brought  before  this 
appears.       Committee  and   cliarged    with   being   our   Enemy    to   Americr.n 
Rights — he   was  ordered    to    attend   this    Committee   to   morrow 
jMorning  11  0"Clock. 

Adjourned  to  11   O'Clock  to  IMorrow  iMorning  at  the  Council 
Chamber. 
30.      At  a  Meeting  of  the  Committee  of  Correspondence  Inspection 
«&;  Safely  at  the  Council  Chamber  July  oO.     11  O'Clock 
M"^  Brown  in  the  Chair — 
.MrKii'tis         M'  Eustis  returned  as  au  Absentee  ou  the  late  Muster  attended, 
attends.       g^^j  offered  further  Evidence  in  his  favor — the  Committee  agreed 
to  suspend  any  Order  for  a  prosecution  untill   Satturday  Fore- 
noon— 
DaniWis-       Daniel  Wiswall  late  of  this  town,  taken  in   a  vessel  of  Jollv 

Willi  com- 

piaiu'd  of  to  Aliens,  bound  from  tiii.s  Town  to  Hallifax  and  sent  up  here  froni 

Enquiry!     Cape  Cod — again  attended  &  being  examined  by  [page  2C]   the 

Committee —  it  was  Voted,  that  a  Complaint  be  entered  against 

■  -       him,  with  Joseph  Greenleaff  Esq.  one  of  the  Court  of  Inquiry, 

and  that  the  Names  of  the  Witnesses  be  returned  to  said  Court. 

Adjourned   to    5   O'Clock    Afternoon  to  meet  at  the    Council 
Chamber. 

At  a  Meeting  of  the  Committee  of  Correspondence  Inspection 
&,  Safety  at  the  Council  Chamber — 5  O'Clock  V.'^l. — 
8end'8^™"         M''  Shippy  Townsend  one  of  the  Absentees  on  the  late  Muster 
excuse.        Day  attended  ;  and  olfers  in  excuse  therefor  that  it  is  contrary  to 
his    Religious    Sentiments    to   take  up  Arms  in  any  case  what- 
ever— 
Mr  Pitchers      M''  ]Moses  Pitcher  another  of  the  Absentees  attended,  and  offers 
excuse.        ^^^  y^^^  excuse  with  M'  Townsend  adding,  that  he  could  not  be 

satisfied  that  it  was  lawful  to  oppose  the  Authority  of  the  King. 
Mf  How'a         Mr.  How  attended,  and  gives  in  excuse  for  not  attending  in  the 
excuse.        Common  on  the  "22(1  Instant,  that  it  was  against  his  Conscience  to 

take  up  Arms  for  any  Government  whatever. 
Mr  Mans-         M''  Isaac  ^lansfield  attended,  and  ofllered  the  same  excuse  for 
exciise.       ^'^^  appearing  ou  tlie  late  Muster  Day  as  was  given  by  M'  How. 
Mr  How's         -^^^  Henry  King  attends  and  gives  as  his  reason  for  not  attend- 
[sicjcxcuse.  ing  in  the  Common  on  the  22d  Instant — that  he  did  not  think  the 
present  Powers  were  so  established  as  that  he  could  conscientiously 
yield  his  full  obedience  ro  them  ;  and   that  he  could  not  with  a 
good  Conscience  take  xip  Arms  in  any  Cause  whatsoever. 

M'  Meins  attended,  and  acquaints  the  Committee  [page  27]  that 
•xcuse.       te  had  lived  out  of  Town  for  ton  Years,  and  did  not  apprehend 


{...i-.i      y. 


1877.]         Boston  Committee  of  Correspondence,  d'c. 


201 


Str  Mac- 

kocu's 

excuse. 


Jfr  Bost- 

wicks 
excuse. 


Mr  Wells' 


Mr  Gook- 


Juiy'30.  ^in^-^^^^'  to.l^e  an  iiih.abitant  of  Boston,  and  tliorefore  not  obliged 
to  ;i;)i)(;ar  in  the  Common  on  the  late  JMustor  Day,  and  that  it  was 
the  Hist  time  that  he  was  ever  called  upon  to  make  au  appearance 
in  the  Militia  of  this  Town. 

I\l'  Maokeon  another  of  the  Absentees  attended  and  says,  that 
he  was  under  Bonds  to  appear  at  Court  that  Dav,  which  pr.'v'.'iited 
his  attendini;  the  late  Muster,  hut  he  had  contributed  ten  Shillin'^j 
tow;irds  procurinir  Men  for  tlie  Service.  ° 

Adjourned  to  tomorrow  11  O'Clock  in  the  Forenoon 

'^-      At  a  JMeetin^^  of  the  Committee  of  Correspondence  Inspection 
&  Safety  at  the  Council  C^hami.er  July  ol  — 

Zachary  Bostwick  an  Absentee  at  tJie  late  Muster  Day  appeared 
and  informed  the  CommitK^e,  that  he  was  not  an  Inliabitant  of  this 
Town,  his  home  beini,'  Hartford  in  Connecticut — he  was  told,  that 
if  he  departed  from  Boston  in  a  hw  Days,  he  would  not  hear  fur- 
ther from  the  Committee,  but  if  he  rem'iined  here  the  fine  for  his 
non  appearance  on  the  'iid  Instant  would  be  demanded. 

]\f  "■  John  ^Vells  one  of  the  Absentees,  appeared  and  informs  that 
he  was  in  the  field  on  the  late  Cluster  day,  but  left  it  before  Roll 
Call;  his  Wife  &  Family  being  under  the  Small  Pox  requiring 
his  assistance — that  he  had  been  so  lonnr  a  time  out  of  Town,  as 
led  him  to  think  that  he  was  not  an  Inhabitant. 

^^'  Gooking  another  of  the  Absentees  appeared,  and  says  that 
excuse.        he  was  that  Day  out  of  Town  after  Sheep,  and  it  was  after  Roll 
Call  before  he  could  reach  the  Common ;  and   [page  28]  that  he 
had  paid  two   Dollars  toward  procuring  Men  for  "the  Service  iu 
his  Ward, 
excu^"!  ^^  ^    ^  ^^'  J'-'hii  Henley  one  of  the  Absentees,  appeared  and  savs  his 
Non  attendance  in  the  Common  on  the  22d  Instant  was  occasioned 
by  his  being  unwell  that  day,  his  inability  to  attend,  owin^^  to  a 
Strain  received  in  removing  some  Cannon. 
fiy'seSiTe.      -^^',  J^^ob  Henley  attended  and  made  it  appear  to  the  Commit- 
tee, that  he  was  in  Cap'  Adams'  Company  in  the  Common  on  the 
late  Muster  Day. 

The  Committee  of  Correspondence  have  information  "iven  them, 
that  a  Brigautine  lying  at  a  Creek  in  Lynn,  was  fitting  for  Sea, 
and  some  suspicious  Persons  concerned'  of  those  who'had  been 
lately  brought  in  Prisioners — whereupon  Cap'  Proctor  and  Coll" 
Barber,  were  appointed  to  proceed  immediately  to  Lynn,  and  make 
inquiry  relative  to  the  foregoing  information. 

Adjourned  to  6  O'Clock  this  Afternoon  to  meet  at  the  Council 
Chamber. — 

jj^  6  O'Clock  P.M  :  Met  according  to  Adjournment, 

excusef^^  ^^^  Hoganny  returned  as  an  Absentee  on  the  late  Cluster  Day, 
attended  and  made  it  appear  to  the  Committee  tliat  he  was  one  of 
the  French  Prisoners,  brought  into  this  Province  in  the  late  War, 
and  that  he  had  never  done  duty  in  the  IMilitia  of  this  Town. 
Adjourned  to  Fryday  Forenoon,  Council  Chamber  11  O'Clock. 
At  a  Meeting  of  the  Conmiittee  of  Correspondence  Inspection 
&  Safety,  Aug'  2d,  Charles  Cambridge  returned  as  au  Abseritee  at 
the  late  [page  2'J]  ^Muster  Day,  appeared  and  asserted  that  he  was 
on  the  Common  at  that  time. 


Informa- 
tion of  a 
Vessel  at 
Lynn. 

Commee 
for  Lynn- 


August  'J 

ilr  Ciltn- 

briUges 
excuse. 


...M-       ■■    I 


■J  .1 


292  Boston  Committee  of  Correspondence,  <&c.         [July, 

1776.  ;^ir  RoLcrt  Tvii^cjles  ritteiulcd,  and  informs,  that  his  abscnoo  in 

the  Co'.iimoii  uii  the  late  iMustcr  Uay  was  oecar-ione«l  by  hia  bi.iu" 
Mr  Ku^-'les^^'^-^^  ^^  .!^''^  to  Portsmouth,  in  order  to  lay  in  his  Claim  to  purt 
excuse?"     of  the  Goods,  on  board  a  Prize  sent  in  by  Cap'  Manly. 
MrGieeua        Bartho*  Green  returned  as  an  Absentee  on  the  22d  of  July  last, 
excuse.        attended,  and  informs,  that  he  was  on  the   Common  most  of  tliat. 

Day,  and  that  it  was  sickness  that  obliged  him  to  leave  it  when  ho 

did. 
ne'-s'^"'^'         Elisha  Sigorney,  returned  as  an  Absentee,  attended  and  informs, 
excuse.       that  he  appeared  in  the  Independent  Company  on  the  Common  at 

the  late  Muster. 
Mr  Parkers       Thomas  Parker  an  Absentee  appeared  and  says  that  a  lamenes3 

prevented,  his  attending  in  the  Coramou  on  the  Day  re<juired. 
Mr  Greens        Andrew  Green  returned  as  one  of  the  Absentees,  attended,  and 

CXCtlS6« 

declares  that  he  did  appear  in  the  Common  on  the  late  Muster  in 
AVai-d  N-  7. 
exc^se"'^^'      AVilliam  Cromby  Jun'  another  of  the  Absentees  attended,  and 
informs  that  he  had  been  out  of  Town  for  a  Week  before  the  late 
Muster. 

Adjourned  to  G  O'CIock,  tliis  afternoon  Council  Chamber. 
^  ■      August  2d  G  O'clock,  3Iet  according  to  Adjournment. 

M""  Constable  Thomas,  directed  to  require  the  attendance  of  a 
number  of  Persons,  returned  to  this  Committee  as  Absentees  on 
the  late  iNIuster  Day. 

Adjourned  to  to  iMorrow  11  O'Clock. 

An^'Jst'sd.       [P^S®  '^^•]     -^^  ^  meeting  of  the  Committee  of  Correspondence 

Inspection  &  Safety  at  the  Council  Chamber  Auo-  3d — 11  O'Clock 

A:  M: 

Jtr  Pikes         Jonathan  Pike  an  Absentee  at  the  late  Muster  appeared,  and 

excuse.        informed,  that  he  could  not  give  his  attendance  on  said  Day,  being 

then  sick  of  the  Small  Pox — he  is  of  AVard  N"  2. 
Mr  Welch's       Henry  Welch  of  Ward  N°  3  appeared,  and  affirmed  that  he  was 
excuse.       {^  j-ji^  Common  at  the  late  Muster  but  his  came  was  not  called 

over. 
Mr  Bacons       John  Bacon  of  Ward  N°  7  appears,  and  affirms  that  he  was  in 
excuse.       ^^^^  Field  the  late  muster  Day,  and  answered  to  his  Name  which 

was  called  over. 
SnbCommee      The  Sub  Committee  appointed  to  go  to  Lynn  and  examine  into 
toT^ap't'^'^    the  truth  of  the   Reports  respecting  Cap*  Pines  Vessel  Reported 
Pines  that  they  had  waited  on  the  Committee  of  Correspondence  at  Lyn 

&  acquainted  them,  with  the  Circumstances  of  said  Vessel,  where- 
upon said  Committee  as  by  y'  Letter  on  file  assure  this  Committee, 
that  Cap'  Pines  Brigantine  then  in  the  Harbour  of  Lyn,  should 
not  depart  from  thence  till  they  had  received  a  line  from  us,  and 
that  to  prevent  it  they  would  immediately  take  all  her  Sails  into 
their  keeping — whereupon — 
ReBort  to        Voted,  that  i\P  Gray  be  appointed,  to  lay  before  the  Hon''''' 
before  the    Ijoard  the  Report  made  by  the  Sub  Committee  relative  to  Cap' 
Council.      Pines  Brigantine  fitting  out  at  Lyn. 

*•      At  a  Meeting  of  the  Committee  of  Correspondence  Inspection 
&  Safety,  at  the  Council  Chamber  August  5. 

M'  Brown  in  the  Chair — 


./     r 


•n  H 


1877.]         Boston  Committee  of  Correspondence,  &c.  293 

aII%.  [1*'^?'^  '^l-J  Joseph  Loring  an  Absentee  at  the  late  IVIuster  of 
MrLoruig>5*''"  ^"^/''if'^iJ^tftmlp.!  :iii(l  nuid..'  it  ;i[.[»ear  that  [he]  is  now  one  of 
excuse.        the  I' iters  in  tlie  Ccjlonial  Aruiy — 

Informa-  ^poii  infonuation  i:;iven  respectiti.i(  one  Corporal  Wade  of  the 

cor\orai      ^^^^'S"':!'"^'  ^^'  liutchbiirue  was  appointed  to  make  inquiry  into  the 
Wttdo!^''       Ground  of  this  lvei)oi-t. 

ifrRand  Daniel   Rand  of   Ward   N"   8.   attended  and   infornn  that  his 

excu»€.  absence  from  the  Coninion  on  the  late  ]Muster  was  wholly  owirur 
to  his  being  sick  with  the  Small  Pox  and  tliat  he  had  contributed 
his  proportion  for  the  hiring  of  iMen  for  the  public  Service. 
MrWTiite'i  ^^'  William  White  returned  as  an  Ab^jntee  on  the  late  truster, 
excuse.  ^  attended,  and  acquainted  the  Coumiittee  that  he  was  not  an  Inhabi- 
tant of  Boston,  whicli  was  the  reason  for  his  not  attendin*^'-  as 
required  by  the  Warning. 

Adjourned  to  6  0" Clock  in  the  Evening  at  the  Council  Cham- 
ber. 

5,      Met  according   to   Adjournment   at   the    Council   Chamljer   G 
O'clock  P.  :\I  : 

Voted ;  that  the  following  Letter  be  sent  the  Comui'=  of  Corre- 
spondeni^e  &c.  fur  the  Town  of  Lynn. — Viz' — 

Letter  to  ye        ^^^^'^J^^en 

Committee  This  Comniitiee  acknowledge  the  Receit  of  your  favor  of 

""  •^>'^°-  the  oV  Ultimo,  by  the  hand  of  ColP' Barber  &  Major  Proctor  two 
of  their  Members  &  would  inform  you  that  in  consequence  of  it, 
they  have  made  a  Representation  to  the  Council  of  the  Situation 
of  Cap'  Pines  Brigautine,  and  pray'd  the  Ilon^""  Board  to  send 
such  directions  to  you  as  shall  be  suflicieut  to  remedy  the  evil 
Complained  of. 

[Page  o2.]  We  should  do  injustice  to  you  as  well  as  to  the 
cause  we  are  iugaged  in,  did  we  not  notice  with  pleasure  your  very 
ready  attention  to  tliis  matter.  We  feel  ourselves  obliged  bv  it, 
and  the  Committee  of  Lynn  may  always  depe.id  upon  ou"r  peculiar 
attention  to  any  advice  they  may  see  necessary  to  communicate 
to  us,  and  our  cheerful  cooi^peration  with  them  in  the  duties  of  our 
department. 

We  are  verj  truly 

Your  Friend  &  Hum^  Ser"" 

John  Bkoa\'N-,  Chairman. 
to^c^fucJjT      The  following  representation  respectin>r  Cap'  Pines  Vessel  was 
Camfinea  S'^^"  ^"  ^^  ^^e  Hon"'  the  Council  of  this^State— Viz'— 
Brig.    "^^^       To  the  Hon"'  the  Council  of  the  State  of  Massachusetts  Bay, 
now  sitting  at  Watertown. 

The  Committee  of  Correspondence  Inspection  »fc  Safety  for  the 
Town  of  Boston  beg  leave  to  Represent  to  your  Hon"'  Board  that 
a  comphiint  has  been  made  to  them,  that'  a  certain  Brigantino 
lately  a  Prize  taken  by  one  of  the  Continental  Cruissers  wliereof 
one  Pine  a  Person  inimical  to  these  States,  is  now  blaster  is  in  a 
very  secret  manner  getting  ready  for  Sea  at  an  obscure  part 
of  the  Harbour  of  Lynn,  called  the  Pines,  a  Situation  pecidiarly 
adapted  for  such  a  clandestine  purpose  as  carrying  otf  Prisoners  cf 
War  and  other  disatJected  Persons  &  very  contiguous  to  the  resi- 
dence of  one  of  the  most  capital  Prisoners  amono-  us — It  is  un- 
voL.  xx.^i.         26* 


.•rf)J    .,! 


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294  Thomas  JVewco7nb's  Account  Booh.  [July, 


1776, 
Aug.  6. 


necessary  foi"  this  Committee  to  sugi^est  to  your  Honors  the  darii^'cr 
to  which  the  (loTKirUiro  oi'  this  Vessel  might  siihject  us,  it  is  too 
striking  to  need  any  re[)re3cntations. 

[Page  3o.]  "NV'c  therefore  pray  your  Honor  to  give  such  diree- 
tious  to  the  Committee  of  Lynn  in  whose  name  as  well  as  our 
own  we  moke  this  opplicatioti,  as  to  your  wisdom  shall  aeem  com- 
petent to  remedy  the  evil  complained  of — 

liy  order  &  in  behalf  of  the 
Committee 

John  Pjhown,  Chairman. 

Adjourned  to  to  Morrow  II  O'Clock,  Council  Chamber. 

[To  be  continued.] 


THOMAS  NEWCOME'S  ACCOUNT  BOOK. 

Communicated  by  John  B.  Netvcomb,  Esq.,  of  Elgin,  Illinois. 

ri'^HE  fullcwing  names  are  copied  from  the  account  book  of  Thomas* 
I  Newcomb,  kept  by  him  at  Lebanon,  Cc.,  in  the  years  173.3-38.  The 
names  followed  by  a  ('=)  are  mentioned  in  the  accounts.  For  a  full  notice 
of  this  Thomas'*  "Newcomb  (Si'mon,^  Andreiv,'^  Arulrev:^),  see  pages  38,  3'j 
and  40  of  a  "  Genealogico,!  Memoir  of  the  Newcomb  Family,'*  published 
in  137-i  by  nie.  I  think  the  publication  in  the  Registfk  of  these  ijames 
will  be  of  service  to  many  persons  engaged  in  genealogical  research. 

Caleb  xYbcl,"  John  Abel,  Timothy  ^Aeirs,  Eben''  Albrig,  Amos  -\Ilei'.  of 
Windham,  his  brother  Wm.,-^  his  father,^  Daniel  Alien  of  Windham,  John 
Allen,  Joshua  Allen,  his  father,''  Joshua  Allen,  Jr.,  Samuel  Allen,  Jr.,  bro- 
ther Joshua,^  W"^  Allen,  son  Amos,^  W"  Allen,  Jr.,  brother  Amos,^  Gide- 
on Arnold,  John  Arnold.^ 

Ebeii"'  Badcock  of  Coventry,  Joseph  Badcock  of  Windham,  Isaac  Bai- 
ley, his  v/ife,-^  Joseph  Bailey,  Samuel  Bailey,^  Saxton  Bailey,  John  Bald- 
win, Benjamin  Ball,  Benj.  Ball,  Jr.,^  Josiah  Bartlett's^  Boy,''  Ignatius 
Barker,  James  Bettes,  David  Bosworth,  Nathaniel  Bosw(jrth,  Benajah 
Bill,  Ebeuezer  Bill,  James  Bill  of  the  Crank,  sou  Jeremiah,*  James  Bill 
of  Goshen,  John  Bill,  Jr.,  Stephen  Bingham,  Benjamin  Bissell,  Daniel 
Bissell,  brother  Benjamin's''  wife,*  John  Bissell,*  Elisha  Black,*  Joseph 
Blackman,*   Ebenezer    Bliss,  his  father,*   Henry  Bliss,  John  Bliss,  John 

Bliss,  Jr.,  Nathaniel  Bliss,  Jr.,  sister   Mary,*  Saml.  Bliss,  Boyd*  of 

Newport,  Benjamin  Brewster,  son  Daniel,*  Benjamin  Brewster,  Jr.,  Com- 
fort Brewster,*  Daniel  Brewster,  John  Brewster,*  Oliver  Brewster,''  Peter 
Brewster,  Samuel  Brewster,  Samuel  Brotton,  Capt.  Ebeuezer  Bi-own, 
Ephraim  Brown,  Samuel  Brown,  Stephen  Brown,  Saml.  Buckingham, 
Abel  Buell,  John  Buell,  Peter  Buell,  son  Solon^on,*  Timothy  Buell,  his 
father,*  William  Cuell  of  Hebron,  his  father,*  Ephraim  Burt,  Daniel 
Burchard,  Malakiah  Butler. 

James  Calkin,  Eliza  Calkin,  Jeremiah  Calkin,  his  father,  John  Calkin, 
2d,  John  Calkin,  3d,  brother  James,*  James  Case,  Jf>nathan  Case,  Caleb 
Chappell,  Jabez  Chappell,  Joshua  Chappell,  John  Chipman*  of  Newport, 
Robt.  Coggswell,  Samuel  Coggswell,  sr.,  Samuel  Coggswell,  jr.,  Aaron 
Clark,  his  son  Aaron,*  Lis  sou  Eliphalet,  Aaron   Clark,  jr..  Benony  Clark, 


r.'^P 


I'.  . 


1877.]  Thomas  Newcomh's  Account  Booh.  295 

Eliphnlet  Clark,  Gershora  Chvrk,'  Jonathan  Clark,  Jonathan  Clark,  jr., 
Jo^ti)h  Cl.irk,^  Tii'iothy  Ch.rk,  \\'^  Clark,  jr.,  .John  Clo.,.soii,  Nt;honu:ih 
CkTsbOu,  Kbonozcr  Cole,  Jo.-,liua  Cole,  iJeiijamin  Collins,  Wni.  Collins, 
Judah  Colmari,  Niles  Colmaii,*  Isaac  Corhitt,*  John  Corbitt,  W"'  Clorhict, 
Daniel  Croos  of  Mansfield,  Stopht-n  Croos  of  iMansfield,  KIcu/at  Curti.-:.s 
Dewdatus  Ciirtiss,  his  father,'  Henry  Curtiss,  Solomon  Cnrti.vs.  Solomon 
Curtis,  jr.,  Thomas  Cushman,  W"  Cushman. 

Beuj.  Davenport,  Ephraim  Davenport,  Seth  Dean  of  Colchester,  David 
Dewey,  John  Dewey,  Jonathan  Dewey,*  Joseph  Dewey,  Josiah  Dewey, 
Nathaniel  Dewey,='  Noah  Dewey,  his 'father,'  Sanuiel  DeA-ev,'  Sim-jon 
Dewey ,-^  Thomas  Dewey,  his  tatlier,'  Vi"'  Dewey,  Henry  Diar,  Kii:ih.i  Dou- 
bleday,  Andrew  Downer,  Ebenezer  Dunham. 

Hezekiah  Eilgeton,  Josej)!!  Edijeton,  2d,  of  Norwich,  Daniel  P:dwavd3, 
Daniel  Edwards.  Jr.,  of  Coventry,  dau.  Hannah,"  Ebenezer  Edwards,  Jo- 
seph Eugli.-h,"'  Richard  English. 

Nathaniel  Fitch,  Joseph  Fitch,  Asa  Foster  of  Goshen,  brother  Phine- 
has,'  John  Foster  of  Windham,  Aaron  Fowler,  John  Fowler  of  Coventry, 
John  Fowler,  Jonathan  Fowler,  Isaac  I'ox  of  Norwich,  John  Frencli  of 
Coventry,  Jonathan  French,  Isaac  Frink,  Ebenezer  Frisket,  Abial  Fuller, 
Amos  Fnller,  Aaron  Fuller,  Benjamin  Fuller,  jr.,  Ezekiel  Fuller,  Jeremi- 
ah Fuller,'  Joshua  Fuller,  Nathaniel  Fuller,' Israel  Fnlsom. 

John  Garner  of  Coventry,  bro.  Benjamin,'  Samuel  Garner  of  Coventry, 
son  John,'  Stephen  Garner  of  Colchester,  Philip  Gay,  Daniel  Geiet,  Eben- 
ezer Gelet,=  Eleazer  Gelet,  Noah  Gelet,  Samuel  Gefet  of  Colchester,  Philip 
George,  John  Gibbs,  Betty  Glover,  Henry  Glover,  jr.,'  Nathaniel  Gove  or 
Gore,  jr.,  John  Gott,'  Dr.  Gray,  F/beiiezer  Gray,  Simeon  Gray,  Hannah 
Guild,  Israel  Guild  of  the  Craiik,  Keziah  Guild.' 

John  Hadlock,  Caleb  Haraman  of  Scotland,  Jonathan  Hartshorn,  Samuel 
Hartshorn,'  John  Hartwell,  Peter  Hartwell,  Hannah  Harsel,  Susaimah 
Hatch,'  Joel  Harvey,  Bartholamew  Heath,  Ezekiel  Herrick  of  Coventry, 
John  Hibbard,'  Philip  Hill,  his  father  Cutten,'  Samuel  IIUl,  jr.,  of  Goshen, 
Gershom  Hinckley,  Abel  Holbrook,  Nathaniel  Holbrook,  Nicholas  Hol- 
brook,  Samuel  Holmes,' Samuel  Horskius  of  Norwich,  Nathaniel  House,  jr., 
Widow  Hepzebah  Hutcheson,  sons  John,'  Timothy,'  dau.  ^Margaret,'  Heze- 
kiah Hutcheson,  Samuel  Hutcheson,  sou  Stephen,' Moses  Hutcheson,'  Sam- 
uel Hutcheson,  jr.,  John  and  Sam.  Hunkes  [brothers,  Indians],  Ebenezer 
Hunt,  Phiuehas  Hunt,'  Simeon  Hunt,  his  father,'  sister  Esther,'  Widow- 
Hunt,  Nath.  Huntington.  John  Huton,' .Josiuia  Hunton  of  Norwich.  Abner 
Hyde,'  Daniel  Hyde,'  David  Hyde,'  Ebenezer  Hyde,  jr.,  Elijah  Hyde,' 
John  Hyde,  Samuel  Hyde. 

Joseph  Ingraham. 

David  Jacobs,  of  Mansfield,  son  Owen.^  Samuel  Jacobs  of  Mansfield, 
Jonathan  Janes,  Noah  Janes,  Wm.  Janes,  sons  Jonathan,'  Abel'  and  Timo- 
thy,'John  Johnson,  son  Seth,'  ]Marve(sk(?)  Johnson,  :Mary  Joyce. 

Thomas  Kellogg,  Ephraim  Kidder  of  Coventry,  Jonathan  Kilborn,* 
John  King,'  Nathaniel  Knap[). 

Joseph  Leonard,  Hezekiah  Lamphier,'  John  Leach.'  D.ivid  Loe.  An- 
drew Lisk,  Benajah  Loomis,'  Ephraim  Loomis,  Ezekiel  Loom:s,  I.^rael 
Loomis,  John  Loi/mis  of  the  Crank,  Nathaniel  Loomis,  Zachariah  Loomis, 
Benjamin  Lothrop,  Jahez  Lyman,  his  father,'  Jaed  Lyman,'  John  Lyman, 
Jonathan  Lyman,  Jonathan  Lyman,  jr.,  Samuel  Lvman,  Stephen  Lvmaa,' 
Joseph  Luse. 

Benajali  Mackall,  James  Mackall,  Israel  Markham  of  Windiiam,  Dennis 


:j        I  •       'i      ■    ,    i    T 


296  Thomas  JVeiccoiub's  Account  Booh. 


[July, 


IMeraugh,   Capt  IMar.sh,'^   Matthias  ]\rarsh   of  Co\ciitry,  Jeremiah   :\Iason, 

Ebeat.^cr  Mi'»i;:i^r,  .^oii  H.'iiJMiiin/   ^..n  Timothy,''  •h'nathau  iilctealf,  Joiki- 
athan  jMetcalf,  jr.,  Wm.  IMctcali","  J(;hii  .Mory,  Liiilunl  ]Morv. 

Samuel  Nt\i:iis.  jr.,  Wm.  x>(.-l'us,   JJeiijamiu  N«;ucomb,t    llezekiah  Xew- 
comb,t  Johu  iS"f;wcomh,f  Obadiah  Ne\vcomb,t  Simou  Newcomb,!:  Josoi.h 
■  Newman. 
^1       Elias  Osborn,   Benjamin  Owen,  Caleb  Owen,  Joseph  Owen,  jr.,   Joshua 
Owen,  Moses  Owen,  liuth  Owen." 

Benj.  Paine,  Joseph  Taine,  Nehemiah  Palmer,  Ste[)h'^n  Palmer,  Capt. 
Samuel  Parker.  Samuel  Parker,  jr.,  of  Coventry,  John  Par tri(li,Mi,' Caleb 
Peirce,  Johu  Pombor,  Cornelius  Phelps  of  Hebron.  Dorathy  Ph(;r[)s,  Jaoob 
Pheliis,  Je<h'(iiah  IMielps,  sou  Paul,''  Widow  Sarah  Phelps,  soti  Jos-ph,* 
Josiah  Pheney,  Joshua  Phina,  James  Pineo,  his  bro.  Jose[.h,''  Johu  Porter 
2(1,  of  Ilel)ron,  John  Porter,  Natlianiel  Porter,"  Samuel  Porter,  ])ro.  John  '" 
Thomas  Porter,  John  Powell,"  Roland  Powell,  Stephen  Powell  Truman 
Powell. 

Abraham  Keddington  of  ^Mansllfld.  Amos  Randall,'  David  Ripley,'  John 
Robards,'  Daniel  Rose,  Joseph  Rose,'  John  Robeson'  of  Coventry,  Jehial 
■Rose  of  Coyenuy,  \hx\\A  Ripley,  Daniel  Royce  of  Mansfield,  Nehemiah 
RojTe,  Benjamin  Ruhm;in  or  Richman,  Samuel  Rust. 

Jacob  Sayar  or  Soyar  of  Windham,  Benjamin  Seabury,  Ebenezer  Searl, 
son  Ebenezer,'  sou  John,'  John  Searl  of  Coventry,  Joseph  Shattuck.  Sam.' 
Shipman  of  Hebron,  John  Simras,  Johu  Slate,^  Joseph  SIuuiuu,'  David 
Sluman,'  Benjamin  Smalley,  Francis  Smalley,'  Joseph  Smallev.  Benjamin 
Smith,  Daniel  Smitli'  of  Windham.  Jolin  .Suiith  of  C'.)lohesteV,  JMattuew 
Smith,' Amos  Spatibrd,  Henry  Spallbrd,'  Samuel  Spafrbrd.  Thomas  Snalibrd," 
Ebenezer  Spencer,  Ebenezer  Sprague  i5c  wife,'  John  Sprau^ae,  jr.,  bro. 
Eliakim,  W"^  Spragae,'  Widow  Stedman,'  Amos  Stickney.  Jedeihah  Strong, 
Josiah  Strong  of  Colchester,  Phinehas  Strong,  John  Swetlaud,'  Joseoh 
Swetland  of  Hebron,  W"'  Swift. 

ha  Taylor.  .Margaret  Taylor,  Ephraim  Terry,  Jr.,  and  John  Terry, 

brothers,  Samuel  Terry,  his  father,'  Mary  Thatcher,  Partridge  Thatcher, 
Peter  Thatcher,  son  Peter,'  son  John,'  Ralph  Thatch-  r.  dau.  Sarah,'  Tiio- 
mas  Thatcher,  son  Dean,'  Thomas  Thatcher,  jr.,  Grace  Thomas,  ^Mabel 
Thomas,  Thanktul  Thomas,  James  Toby,'  Joseph  Troope,  bro.  Dan,'  John 
Ticknor,'  AV"  Tieknor,  his  mother,'  Ebenezer  Tildon,  Isaac  Tildou.'  Joshua 
Tildon,'  .Joshua  THleson,'  Ebenezer  Tisdal,'  James  Totlitf.  .Jonathan 
Trumble,  John^Tupper,  Ebenezer  Trisket, —hab  Turner,  Robert  Turner, 
James  Tuttle,  Nathan  Tuttle,  Stephen  Tuttle.' 
W"  Valance,'  Daniel  Vaughan,  John  Voce. 

John  Wadsworth  of  Goshen,  Joseph  Walden  of  Windham,  Cornelius 
Waldo  of  Scotland,  Mr.  AV'ard,'  Thomas  Warner,  Ebenezer  Waterman, 
John  Wattles,  Timothy  Webb  of  Scotland,  Jieriah  Webster,'  Beuaiah 
Webster,  Ebenezer  AVebster,  George  Webster,  John  AVebster,  Marv  Web- 
ster, Samuel  AVehster,  Zerviah  AVebster,  Jonathan  AVelcli.  Amos  AA^'est.  son 
Moses,'  his  father,^  Nathan  West.  Perigrene  A\'h(;eler,  his  father.' Phi^nehas 
Wheeler,  Resolved  AVh-eler,  Sarah  AVheeler,  Robert  AA'hite  of  Staiibrd,  sons 
James'  and  Ebenezer,'  James  AAliite,  Robert  AV'hite'  of  Ashford,  .Joseph 
Wighton' of  Ashford,  Daniel  AA^illiams,  Samuel  AA'illiams,' Josiah  AVilsun, 
Philip  Woodhouse,   Israel  AVoodward,'  LeukJi  Wuodv.ard,'  Thomas  AA'ooU- 

t  Brothers  of  owner  of  the  booi, 
+  Their  i:\ihtT. 


•  lil    r>-:  '  I 


1877.]  The  Gayer  Fatnihj.  297 

wnrfl,  Amos  TT'oodworth"  &  wife,  Benjamin  Wooclworth,'  Caleb  Wood- 
woi'tli,  Ehonezer  "Wocdwortli,  ICzekicl  Woodworth,'  Jodediah  Woodworth, 
liis  futlier.*  Joseph  "Woodworlli,  Sen"',  Jusejih  "Woodworth.  Saiimel  Wood- 
wort[i  of  Coventry,  Daniel  "Wortliincfton.  BcnjaTnin  "Wii'.dit,  Klir-inizcr 
"Wright,  bro.  Kj)hraim,''  Ephruiiu  Wright,  Samuel  Wriglit,*  Timothy 
Wn'irht  of  Colchester. 


THE  GAYER  FAMILY. 


Communicated  by  William  C.  Folgf.u,  Esq.,  of  Nantucket,  Mass.,  Corresponding 
Member  of  ttie  N.  E.  Historic,  Genealogical  Sociciy. 

"Y\riLLIA]M  GAYER,  Esq.,  came  to  this  country  from  Devonshire, 
f  Y  Er)::jland.*  He  married  Dorcas  Starbnck,  dauijhter  of  Elder  Ed- 
ward Starbuck  by  his  wife  Katherine  ReynoMs  of  Wales.  He  was  au 
early  settler  cf  Nantucket;  probably  had  been  a  ship-carpenter;  was 
a  farmer  and  a  justice  of  the  peace.  I  find  by  the  records  in  the  othce  of 
our  Secretary  of  Sta:.e,  that  Capt.  John  Gardner  and  Mr.  "William  Gayer 
were  representatives  to  the  general  court  from  Nantucket  on  th.e  8th  of 
June,  1G92,  being  the  first  representatives  from  that  island  after  its  transfer 
from  the  colony  of  New  York  to  the  Province  of  Massachusetts  Bay. 
'V\'illiam  Gayer,  Esq.,  was  one  of  five  judges  appointed  by  the  Governor  of 
Massachusetts,  in  1704,  to  try  an  Indian  ou  Nantucket,  named  Sabo,  for  the 
crime  of  murder. 

He  lived  in  a  double  house,  one  and  one-half  stories  in  height,  on  Church 
Street,  in  Nantucket,  occupied  long  since  my  first  remembrance  by  descend- 
ants of  his  daughter,  Damaris  CotFm.  This  house  for  a  lon^  time  was  consid- 
ered the  oldest  on  the  island,  and  I  think  was  built  in  1G82,  of  solid,  oak 
timber,  the  growth  of  the  island,  and  strengthened  with  oak  knees,  like  a 
ship,  and  very  firmly.  It  passed  into  the  hands  of  strangers  about  1S39  cr 
1840,  and  was  taken  down  to  give  place  to  a  modern  dwelling  house.  A 
bureau,  with  a  sort  of  book-case  or  cupboard  on  top,  which  was  made  in 
Oliver  Cromwell's  time  and  brought  over  by  "William  Gayer,  probably  in 
Charles  the  Second's  reign,  belonged  to  my  grandmother,  a  great-grand- 
daughter of  "William  Gayer,  Esq.  It  was  made  in  part  of  English  oak, 
colored  a  dark  red,  and  ornamented  with  turned  pieces  of  maple,  painted 
black  and  nailed  on ;  and  the  top  part,  or  cupboard,  was  in  part  supported 
by  two  maple  urns,  or  short  pillars,  painted  black.  It  was  altogether  an 
unique  but  useful  piece  of  furniture.  After  the  death  of  both  of  my 
grandparents,  it  was  placed  in  the  cabinet  of  curiosities  of  the  Nantucket 
Atheneum,  but  was  burned  up  in  the  great  fire  of  184G,  when  that  build- 
ing, with  its  fins  collection  of  books,  south-sea  shells,  war  weapons,  ttc,  was 
destroyed. 

"William  Gayer  was  called  Mr,  in  the  old  records,  and  was  a  very  respect- 
able man.  His  first  wife,  Dorcas,  according  to  tradition,  died  \i\  the  8th 
mo,  16DG.  He  afterwards  married  a  widow  named  ^lary  Guard,  of  pjiiscon 
or  its  vicinity,  and  as  she  had  a  daughter  named  Christian  Cuud}',  it  is  pro- 

•  The  father  of  WilH.im  Gnycr  probaMv  died  in  Enjrland.    His  wido\7  Jane  ws5  livin? 
in  Plymouth,  England,  in  1C94.    'I'h'ir  children,  as  far  as  I  can  learn,  were:  i.  Wt-ham 

(above);  ii.  Jc.ne,-^.. Lee;    iii.  /c/cn,  ni.  Thomas  Hooper;  iv. ,  father  of  ELiza- 

betli  Gayer;  v,  ^vc  John,  m,  first, Harper — m.  second,  Miiry . 


1  '' 


1  •  A 


.( 


298  The  Gayer  Family.  [July, 

bable  she  had  been  married  twice  previous  to  her  marrin^ijc  with  Mr.  Gayer. 
!Slit;  is  aaid  ti>  liave  dictl  wlicii  on  u  vi.^it  to  liobtoii,  in  warm  weatlier.  Her 
husband  survived  Ijcr  some  years,  dyiujj  at  his  residence  ou  Nantuclcet  the 
2.')d  of  7th  mo.  1710.  The  childrjn  of  William  and  Doreaa  (Starhuck) 
Gayer  were  : 

i.      Damaris,  h.  Oct.  21,  1073 ;  m.  on  Nantucket  by  William  Worth,  Ksq., 
17tti  of  Sth  nio.  lfi'.)2,  O.  S..  to  Nutluuiiel  Culfin,  ?')n  of  James  Coliio, 
.  .  I  ,  ,  ,  Esq.,  and  gnindson  to  Tri'^tnim  Cullin,  Sen.     lie  wa.s  a  captain  in 

the  merchant  Horvico,  and  nmde  voyai^'cs  t'j  Eiiroj)e  and  elsewhere. 
He  died  An-.  '2«),  1721,  aged  50  yei'-vs!     Dumaris  Coflin  Riirvived  her 
.   .    I  :  hn.sband  ovur  furty-three  years,  dying  0th  of  Och  mo,  1764,  aged  90 

years  10  mos. 

ii.  Dorcas,  b.  2t)th  of  August,  1675;  m.  6th  of  December,  1091,  hcT 
cousin  Jctliru  Starbuck,  son  of  Nalii:ini«d  and  Mary.  He  w:--*  born 
14tb  of  December  [  Qu.  4th  Dccend)er,  O.  S.  ?],  1071,  and  di<:d  l-'rh 
of  August,  1770,  aged  98  yrs.  8  mos.  0  days.  Dorcas,  his  wife,  died 
10th  cf  11th  mo.  1747,  0.  S.,  aged  72  years. 

iii.  William,  Jr.,  b.  June  3,  1677;  m.  in  England  hi.s  cousin  Eli/abcth 
Gayer.  The  Christian  name  of  her  f  ither  I  never  learned.  WilJi'ani 
Gayer,  Jr.,  died  in  Engli:nd  the  latter  part  of  1712,  or  early  part  of 
1713.  He  had  become  quite  wealtliy  ;  vas  in  early  life  a  seaman  ; 
at  a  later  period  with  his  uncle  .Sir  John  Gayer  in  India,  in  tl.e  ser- 
vice of  the  East  India  Cunipuny  ;  then  had  gune  tu  England,  the  birth- 
place of  his  father,  married  and  probably  setth-d  down  with  a  pros- 
pect of  3'eavs  of  comfort  Ijcfore  him,  till  seized  by  the  maladv  wbieh 
ended  his  days  in  the  tbirty-tifth  year  of  his  age.  With  the  death 
of  William  Gayer,  Jr.,  the  name  of  the  Nantucket  branch  of  rhe 
fiimily,  as  a  surname,  became  extinct ;  but  desi.-endants  of  iiis^  tv.-o 
sisters,  down  to  my  time,  have  l.>orne  the  names  of  Wiliia.n  Gayer 
and  Gayer  used  as  tirst  and  .-econd  names — as  William  Gayer  Co'iia. 
Gayer  Starbuck,  Gayer  Gardner,  &c. — showing  with  -what  r..spect 
the  ancestral  name  has  been  held. 
(.    H..       ,  From  Capt.  Nathaniel  and  his  wife  Damaris  (Gayer)  Cofiin.  who 

had  a  large  family  of  children,   descended,  besides  many   worthy 
Nantucket  families,  some  cf  the  Amory  family  of  Boston  ;_  and  aj-o 
;■.       s-  ;.  •  from  William  Collin,  son  of  the  said  parents,  was  Nathaniel  Coffm, 

the  father  of  the  late  British  General  John  Cotan,  and  his  brother 
Admiral  Sir  Isaac  Coffin,  Bart.,  of  the  'British  Navy. 

From  Jethro  and  Dorcas  (Gayer)  Starbuck  are  descended  most  of 
the  present  Starbuck  and  Mitchell  himilies  of  Nantucket,  and  the 
Roteh  and  Rodman  llimilies  of  New  Bedford. 

The  descendants  of  William  Gayer,  Esq.,  through  his  two  daugh- 
ters, are  quite  numerous,  and  are  scattered  through  many  of  the 
States. 

I.    Letters  by  Mejibers  of  the  precedixg  Family. 

The  following  letter  is  from  Jane  Gayer,  mother  of  "William  Gayer,  Sen., 
from  Plymouth,  England,  to  her  son  William  Gayer  at  Nantucket. 

Sonn  my  dearest  love  to  you  and  to  your  wife  and  t?  my  Grand  children  hoping 
that  these  few  Imes  will  tind  you  in  good  health— .\.s  through  mercy  I  Inj..y  att  this 
present  writing  :  I  have  sent  you  two  letters  by  ^1'':  Blag_  of  newvurk  ;  and  I  have 
sent  you  eeverall  leaters  by  outher  mean  by  I  never  Keceived  none  from  you  since 
the  1  of  October  1592  bearing  tiiis  date  :  Deare  Sonn  I  should  Ecquc^t  you  tiiut  I 
might  heare  from  you — your  Brother  S'"':  John  sailed  from  ti;e  d^wns^thc  hist  of 
'  may  was  A  12  months  Agon  and  All  his  famaly  with  him,  die  ra oi.th  after  he  Avent 
a-way  they  put  in  for  the  madeara  I  received  a  letter  from  him  or.t  of  the  niadaris's, 
since  I  have  not  heard  from  him  fur  there  hatli  not  a  Shi[)  cninliMUie  irom  that  place 
since  :  I  did  not  know  weather  there  was  .-V  new  imxland  man  tier-j  or  no  bef.Te 
your  unkols  land  com  to  me  to  know  how  to  dirict  a  leatcr  tu  you  and  that  Is  con- 
sarning  Cousin  Jane  Brays  busaes  :  I  shall  l)e  like  a  fulc  to  dubull  my  Kequ.jst  to 
you  that  I  might  hear  from  you  and  y'  I  might  know  how  to  dirict  My  letters  to 


r.    .Fi 


1877.]  The  Gayer  Famihj.  299 

yon  fir  I  doe  fear  tliat  they  doe  not  cum  to  your  Land  :  Your  Brother  hooper  and 
^i^^vife  and  y.)iir  .^i.^ter  la.irey  desairri  to  l.x,-  renit;iuUTod  to  y(ni  and  yoiirn,  your 
Vukui.s  aiid  Auiiclai.i'  duth  the  s-auie  ;  liiy  kiud  Ke.-'pcct.s  to  Cohdu  Jane  liray  and 
her  t'auialy  nut  Ea'f  att  present  but  my  prayers  Constantly  to  the  Lord  fur  vou  tic 
reiiiaiii  your  loving  iiiotlit^r  "        Jan£  UAVtii. 

From  plym",  this  11  JuiiC  IC91.  , 

f^"  These  for  M'  William  Gayer 

Livinij  on  the  Inland  ol  nantockitt,  nowingland. 

The  next  letter  is  from  Vv'illiam  Gayer,  Jr.,  to  Lis  father  William  Gayer. 

Barbadoes:  march:  y>=  20:  169S-9. 
Ever  Honoured  Father 
S'^  havin>,'  tliis  oppcrtuuity  thought  It  But  my  Duty  and  \ourdue  that  I  should 
present  you  with  these  tew  lines  honing  in  (iod  that  they  may  find  you  In  good  healtii 
as  1  aui  at  this  present  wrighcing  ijle.->ed  he  (;.)d  f^r  it  :  liorir.urrd  <,',  pTuy  present 
my  Duty  to  mother  ;  &  my  Love  to  all  my  llclations  anil  friends  that  ask  or  Desire 
to  here  of  me  or  my  v.ellare  &  as  for  nuse  1  have  hut  Little  or  none  ;  But  uf  thinf^a 

hapivd  amongst  oursthcs <!c  we  £ct  eavl  from  Buston  in  New  Kn^rland— y'   iJO- 

ofDesember  1093  bound  for  Barbadoes  &  Soltitudes  ye  wind  at  N  W  ;  &  Blowed 
hard  &  very  Cold  our  fulk  som  of  them  froz  tlieir  fingers,  Jc  W"'  Atkins  ,t  some 
others  ri'n  down  to  tlieir  Cabbins  finding  most  l.'omfurt  there  I  believe  they  would 
a  Layd  there  tel  y  Ship  had  sunk  voder  thera  if  they  mi:;ht ;  It  was  very  hard 
with  us  by  y  Reson  our  jnimps  fn^s  &  but  few  men  that  could  stand  vpon  Deck  ; 
y  next  nsorning  we  could  [not]  Se  what  our  Ship  was  mad  of  lor  Evs  after  that 
we'^S  or  3  very  bad  sturm.s  &  out  of  eyght  horses  we  had  4  washed  over'board  ;  but 
with  gods  ;  assistances  we  arrived  sate  in  barbadoes  y  24  of  Jancwary  foUowiri"-  ; 
there  Is  so  many  Sayl  Gon  down  to  s^Jitudos  that  we  have  olt.^rd  our  voIl'  &  Design 
Right  home  very  Spedely  we  shoul.l  a  Sayled  before  now  If  Goods  k  freights  had 
presented  but  It  is  very  scarce  oc  Dear— I'tum  is  IS'  by  y"  hhd  &  molasses  twelve  we 
shall  not  stay  to  Lod  :  pray  S':  If  n^t  to  much  troble  be  plesed  to  wright  I  shall  Re- 
ceive with  much  Joy  &,  Comfort  Jc  Return  many  thanks  all  at  present  but  Dceirino- 
your  prayers.  Remaining  your  Dutiluli  Son  ° 

T.       Ti    ,      T^  ,.  -r  WiLLLjji  Gayer. 

rray  lather  Deliver  y-  Inclosed  as  Dii-ected 

_  The  foUowing  letter  is  from  William  Gayer,  Sen.,  to  his  daughter  Dama- 
ns Coffin,  vife  of  Capt.  Nathaniel  Cotliu. 

Daughter  Damaris 

These  may  serve  to  iniorm  you  we  are  all  well,  whereas  1  writ  you  that  your 
mother  Coffin  was  designed  to  boston  by  Land  I  find  i  w-as  mistakeen  she  tells  me 
since  her  intent  was  only  to  tiic  main.  Christian  is  now  at  her  grand  ffiither  Coffins, 
mr  ffjlger  came  whom  from  1  oston  yesterday  and  informs  me  v^  John  Sowters  bro- 
ther eame  from  Euirland  lately,  &  sayeth  he  spoke  with  your  brother  William  Gayer 
m  the  East  Indies  Eighteen  months  since  if  you  have  a  convenient  opertunity  I  wish 
you  would  speak  with  him  (A:  inquire  what  you  Can  about  him,  I  hope  you  will  let 
n\e  hear  from  you  as  often  as  you  have  opertunity  for  I  take  great  Delight  to  hear 
ot  your  welfare  so  with  my  love  to  yourself  &  Children  with  all  other  friends  I  re- 
main your  ffather  William  Gayer. 

nantucket  Septr:  9:  1T09. 

mr  nathaniel  Coffin  |  in  [  Charls  Towne 

In  a  letter  from  Thomas  au:l  Jane  Hooper  to  William  Gayer,  Xantucket, 
(^ated  "  Stone  house  near  Plymouth,  the  loth  of  Fel.rnarv,  1CU9-70,"  they 
saj,  "Mother  desires  to  be  remembered  unto  all."  His  wife  had  been  sick 
about  6  mos.,  they  had  heard  by  his  son  William  from  their  brother  Vv'il- 
iium  of  Nantucket,  nothing  eke  important, 

I  give,  last,  a  copy  of  a  letter  from  ]Mrs.  Domaris  Coffin,  wife  of  Capt. 
Nathaniel  Coffin  and  daughter  oi  William  Gaver.  Esq.,  of  Nantucket,  to 
her  uncle  Sir  John  Gayer,  then  in  the  East  Indies, 


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300  The  Gayer  Famihj.  [«Tuly, 

Boston  N.  E.  10'"  Jan.  y  1711-12. 
Most  Ilor*  Vncle 

IdoIo.-cJ  is  a  Copy  of  wirat  my  huslmiJ  wrote  you  in  his  last,  advising  vou 
of  tlie  Jeath  of  iny  huu'  fatber  yu'  br<itlier  W"  Gayer  &.  of  the  Disposition  we  liud 
made  of  our  t-on  W'^  &c.  to  w'lich  reler  you. 

1  have  now  before  me  the  lion'  ot  your  iiind  letter  of  the  S"  Janry  170'J-10,  Di- 
rected to  uiy  deceased  father. 

The  tiood  Cliaraeter  6i  Hopeful  State  of  my  brother  witli  you  is  very  reviving  4 
the  more  Comfortable  eecini^  you  Express  an  Ineliiiation  to  send  him  for  DritLiin, 
&  in  hopeti  you  will  soon  lolluw  him  your  self,  For  wliich  JJlessing  1  daily  Elevato 
my  Prayerd  to  my  God,  That  he  would  Jihs-^  prosper  k,  protect  you  both,  <t  eeud 
you  to  the  heii^ht  of  yo'  desire?  therein  in  ht  alch  i  safety. 

My  .Son  goes  on  hopefully  with  his  book  &  am  in  hopes  that  God  will  bless  you 
Sc  send  you  Safe  to  yo'  native  Country,  and  will  prepare  my  boy  to  wait  on  y(ju  to 
your  content  &  Satisfaction,  whenever  you  please  to  your  Commands  on  him  So  to  dj. 

my  Good  llusl)and  hath  mett  with  hard  Fortune  in  his  hist  voyage  from  Lisboa 
bein^  taken  &  Carried  into  Frame,  where  he  hath  been  a  Prisoner  a  1  jni'  time  & 
vras  not  released  in        last  but  was  in  hops  to  procure  his  Liberty  in  a  short  time  oc 

fo  for  London  from  whence  probably  you  may  hear  from  hiui,  he  has  been  from 
ome  nijw  roouths  &  when  he  will  wliich  is  uncertain,  God  Direct  him  &  us  for 

the  beet  I  must  Conclude  with  my  really  Duty  to  you  i  my  true  reipects  to  my 
brother  if  with  you,  &  am  most  sincerely 

JLlon'^  Uncle 

Yo' most  affec  " 

Niece. 

II.    Abstracts  of  Wills. 

I  append  the  wills  of  the  brothers,  William  and  Sir  John  Gayer,  and  of 
William  Gayer  son  of  the  former.* 

Sir  John  Gayer' s  Will. 
I,  John  Gayer,  of  Bombay,  Knight,  in  perfect  health,  do  make  this  my  last  Will 
and  Testament.  My  Body  to  be  Interred  at  the  Discretion  of  my  hereafter  named 
Executrix,  and  if  I  die  in  India,  in  the  tjmb  ol  my  former  Wife.  Debts  discharged, 
I  give  as  foUoweth.  Unto  my  Brother  William  Gayer,  of  the  Island  of  Nantucket, 
one  Hundred  Pounds  Sterling.  Unto  his  son  William  Gayer,  my  Nephew,  now  in 
the  East  Indies,  Eight  Thousand  Pounds  Sterling.  Unto  the  children  of  Eldest 
Sister  Jane  Lee,  hve  Hundred  Pounds  Sterling,  to  be  Equally  divided  amongst 
them,  an.c  in  Ca-o  of  any  of  their  Mortality,  before  marriage,  their  part  to  the  Sur- 
vivor, Unto  the  children  of  my  Sister,  Joan  Hooper,  Seven  Hundred  Pounds  Ster- 
ling, to  be  Equally  Divide*!  amongst  them,  and  in  Case  of  Either  of  their  ^lortal- 
ity  before  marriage  their  part  to  the  Survivor.  Unto  the  Children  of  niy  Sister, 
Elizabeth  Matthews,  Two  Hundred  Pounds  Sterling,  to  be  Equally  Devided  Amongst 
them,  etc.  Unto  my  Niece  Elizabeth  Gayer,  two  thousand  Pounds  Stcriing,  to  be 
kept  in  the  hands  of  my  Executrix  and  Improved  by  her  for  her  maintenance  while  she 
lives  a  single  life  ;  but  if  she  Marry,  at  the  Day  of  her  Marriage  the  Principal  and 
■what  is  gained  thereby,  except  so  much  as  Defrays  the  Charge  of  her  Maintenance 
before,  is  all  to  be  paid  her,  but  in  Case  of  her  iJecease  before  r^Iarriage  then  that 
Sum  of  Two  Thousand  Pounds,  with  what  is  Gained  thereby,  I  give  to  my  Above 
Mentioned  Nephew,  William  Gayer,  to  be  forthwith  paid  him,  besides  the  sum  of 
Eight  Thousand  Pounds  before  Mentioned.  Unto  the  children  of  Robert  Harper, 
my  deceased  Wife's  Brother,  Three  Hundred  Pounds  Sterling,  to  be  Equally  divided 
amongst  them,  etc.  Unto  Joseph  Harper,  my  Decea.-ed  wife's  Brother,  if  he  be 
alive  at  the  time  of  my  decease,  one  Hundred  Pounds  Sterling.  Unto  the  childi-en 
of  my  Cousin,  Mercy  Throgmorton,  four  Hundred  pounds  Sterling,  etc.  Unto  the 
children  of  my  Cousin,  Johii  Either,  deceased,  two  thousand  Pounds  Sterling,  etc. 
Unto  my  cousin,  James  car,  two  Hundred  Pounds  sterling,  in  case  he  survives  me. 
Unto  my  Cousin,  Elizaf'cth  Phrip,  ten  pound  Sterling.  Unto  thr  children  of  my 
Sister  in  law,  Judith  Battin,  two  hundi-ed  Pounds  Sterling,  to  be  equally  divided 

•  Mr.  Folder  fumi'hed  full  copies  of  these  wills,  which  will  be  preserved  in  the  archives 
of  the  Ne»v-Engl:ind  Historic,  Gcne.ilo^-ioal  Society.  These  abstracts  have  bccu  m^ide  from 
them  for  us  by  William  B.  Truik,  Esq. — Editoh. 


1877.]  7%e  Gayer  Family.  301 

Amongst  them,  4;c.  Unto  my  Cousin  Lucy  hule,  fifety  Pounds  Sterlinj.  Unto  my 
(^ou-^iij,  r.achel  Dale,  if  ►^hc  bt.-  ulivo  at  Clic  tiii><!  ot  id}'  D'j'Ju.i.-t.-,  ten  Poundd  Ster- 
ling. Unto  my  lovin^'  FricnJ,  Mr.  Thoma.>^  Woollt.-y,  Sicietiry  to  tlie  E.ivt  InJia 
Coiii(i;iny,  filty  i'minil-;  i?t'Tling.  L'tjlo  my  lovirii^  Fiiend,  .Mr.  Haniaid  Wirhc  of 
isiirrat,  Fitty  Founds  Steflitig.  L'nto  Mr.  ICobeit  Luynler,  (jf  .■iurratt,  Fitty  Pounds 
Sterling,  if  he  be  alivo  at  the  time  of  my  decease.  1  Dtdic.itc  and  Devote  to  (iod, 
for  tlic  Service  of  hi.s  Cliurch,  iive  tilou^aad  Puunds  Sterling,  t  >  l^e  disposed  ol',  by 
the  persons  here  after  mentioned,  to  young  Student.s  lor  tlie  Mini.stiy  and  to  .such 
ns  arc  Newly  Entered  into  that  Sacred  ofiice,  to  furnish  them  with  \>  hat  [may  be] 
Needful  to  make  them  mu.<t  useful  in  the  discharge  of  that  great  trust  for  which 
they  are  devoted  to  <Jod  ;  and  it's  my  Earnest  de>ire  that  thdsc  persons  amoug't 
wiiom  this  sum  shall  be  Di-tributcd,  may  be  men  of  Sjbcr,  .Moderate  principles,  not 
Inclined  to  Domination,  iiur  to  unucsscary  Seperatioii,  and  to  Express  my  mind 
more  fully,  I  say  unto  iren  of  suoli  principles  a.s  the  late  fLcve-reiid  and  truly  Worthy 
Mr.  liichard  La.'iter  was,  in  whom  tlie  P/imitive  Spirit  of  holiness,  Euve  and  Mod- 
eration, did  brightly  Siiine,  from  vvhuse  works  I  give  God  thanks  I  liave  received 
great  benefit.  Now  the  persons  I  most  earnestly  lequest  in  Conjunction  witii  my 
wife  and  Nephew  William  Gayer  to  undertake  fac  Distributing  uf  1  have  so  eriJemnly 
devoted,  are  the  Rt.  \\'orshipfull  iJenry  Ashurst,  Liar",  &  .Mr.  I'homas  W'oolley 
before  .Mentioned.  I  do  further  Kcque:?t  that  they  will  all  be  as-^isting  to  my  Be- 
loved Wile  in  the  Whole  management  of  all  Iier  alfiirs. 

If  my  E.state  amount  to  le.s.s  than  what  it  id  in  my  present  books,  Ending  the  last 
of  July,  1710,  wuen  it  airivcs  in  England,  accounting  wiiat  is  in  iluptes  at  two 
shillings  and  six  pence  to  a  Paipee,  then  I  order  that  Every  Legacy  herein  men- 
tioned .shall  bj  so  much  les-  in  proportion  as  the  whole  of  my  Estate  at  the  time  of 
all  its  arrival  in  England  tails  Short  of  what  it  is  in  Said  books.  Tiie  Rest  of  my 
Estate,  whether  money,  Plate,  Gold  or  Silver,  Jewels,  Goods,  Household  Furniture, 
wearing  Apparel,  Books,  Debts,  Lat;ds,  and  Whatsoever,  hi)ih  Re-al  and  per-onal, 
I  shall  be  possessed  of,  at  my  Decease,  1  give  unto  my  Wife,  Dame  .Mary  Gayer, 
whoai  I  make  Sole  Executrix  of  this  my  last  will  and  Testament.  In  witne.sc3  Where- 
of 1  have  set  my  hand  and  Seal  in  Bombay  Castle,  5th  of  October,  1710. 

John  Gayer. 
In  presence  of  us,  where  no  stampt  paper  is  procuraole,  &c.  &c.  &c. 

William  Aislabie,   William  Barnes,  Abraham  Barnot,  ■  -    ■ 

Richard  Wilmer,  John  LI  ill. 
A  true  Copy  from  the  Original  Witnesses,  John  Eaton  Dodsworth, 

James  Osborne,  William  Gayer,  Richard  Bull. 

Will  of  William  Gayer,  Sen.,  Esq.* 
I,  William  Gaj'cr,  of  the  Island  of  Nantucket,  being  sick,  but  of  Found  mind  and 
memory,  make  this  my  last  will.  L'nto  my  son  William  Gayer,  one  Share  of  land 
on  the  Island  of  Nantucket,  with  all  the  privileges  belonging  (if  my  s**  son  shall 
ever  come  hither  again)  To  my  dau.  DamarJs  Coffin,  one  eighth  partofaahare 
of  land  on  the  Inland  of  Nantucket,  of  that  land  I  had  of  my  iiither  in  law,  Edward 
Starbuck.  I  give  my  Daughter,  Dorcas  Starbuck,  one  Eighth  part  of  a  Share  of 
[s;iid]  land.  My  part  of  the  Island  of  miskegct  to  my  s"*  Daughters,  Damaris  Coflia 
and  Dorcas  Starbuck,  Eijually  to"  be  divided  between  them.  To  my  house  keeper, 
Patience  Foot,  one  Cow  6:  fourty  Sheep  with  Commonage  for  them,  as  also  half  of 
the  barn  &  try  house,  with  half  the  garden,  half  of  the  land  and  fence  about  my 
dwelling  house,  half  the  lot  and  fence  towards  monomoy,  the  horse  pasture  Except- 
ed, as  also  the  west  Chamber  and  Garret,  and  half  the  leanto  of  my  now  dwelling 
house.  I  give  to  Africa,  a  negro,  once  my  servant,  twenty  Sheep  and  Commonage 
for  them  and  for  one  horse,  as  also  the  E;ist  Chamber  of  my  now  dwelling  house, 
and  half  the  leanto,  and  the  other  half  of  my  barn  and  try  house,  with  the  half  of 
all  the  lands  and  fence  about  my  house,  and  the  half  of  the  lot  towards  monomoy. 
1  will  that  my  dau.  Damaris  CofBa  have  the  use  of  the  rest  of  my  Dwelling  house, 
if  she  should  come  hiclier  to  live.  My  two  LJaughtevs.  Damaris  CofSn  and  Dorcas 
Starbuck,  Joynt  Executrices  of  this  my  last  will  &  testament.     Sept.  21,  1710. 

In  the  pre.'^cnce  of  W  iluam  Gates. 

Richard  Gardner,  Elcazer  Folger  Jun"",  Eunice  Gardner, 
Jabez  Bunker,  Juditii  Gardner. 
Probated  24  day  Oct.  1710.  James  Cofsis,  Judge  of  Probate. 

Eleazer  Folger  Reg^ 

*  From  Nantucket  County  Records  of  Wills,  Book  I.  page  26. 
VOL.  XX5I.  .  27. 


302  Town  Rates  of  Xtwton  atul  B  ill  erica.  [July, 

Will  of  Willmm  Gayer,  Jr.* 
0"'Nov'.  1710.  I,  Williaiu  (-'ayer,  C.cntleman,  of  y*  pari«h  of  Beokenlmm  in 
Kent,  being  sick,  but  of  sui:nd  niiJ  dispusini;  niind  and  meuiory,  do  make  my  last 
■will.  Paynientof  all  debts.  To  ciy  elder  si.ster,  Damaris  CulHn,  one  half  part 
To  my  younger  Pister,  Dureas  ."^tarbiick,  y- other  half  of  what  belon;;^  to  nic  in 
Nf>\v   F.nirlnnd        'I'liniv  ftv^i  ciuforu  .^Ci  .ro,.-.;.!     fi».>    H,^...o.,  ,,.1    .^ ^■.,t„.j: it     .^  ■ 


^--j.  10  iur.s.  luaruia  L'eacun,  .Mrs.  AOi<,'ail  fiteh  leach  XIOO.  Keinainder  of 
my  estate  to  my  Miit-  Elizabeth  Gayer,  whom  1  appoint  sole  Executrix  of  tiiis  niy 
last  Will.  WxLLUii  Gav£r. 

In  y"  presence  of 
Susanna  Uolland,  William  Norman,  Andrew  Stoddart. 


TOAYX  RxiTES  OF  XEWTON  AND   BILLEPJCA,   IMASS. 

Commnnicated  by  Waltek  Lloyd  Jeffries,  A.B.,  of  Bo>ton. 

^pME  foilowincj  town  rates  of  Little  Cambrid-c  [now  Xewton] 
-*-  and  Billerica  are  selected,  out  of  a  number  of  such  papers, 
among  the  JetFries  family  documents.  As  Billerica  as  weU  as  Xew- 
ton  originally  was  a  part  of  Cambridge,  the.?e  lists  may  pro])erly  be 
grouped  with  the  rate  for  Cambridge,  Brighton,  &c.,  lately  published 
in  the  Rev.  Dr.  L.  E.  Paige's  "History  of  Cambridge." 

A  sketch  of  the  authority  uiider  which  these  taxes  were  levied 
may  be  of  interest.  John  Usher  was  appointed  treasurer  and  re- 
ceiver-general of  Xew  England,  May  25,  168G,  by  J.  Dudley, 
President.  On  Sir  Edmund  Andros's  arrival  he  was  continued  in 
office.  Andros's  commission  contained  a  clause  for  the  le^Tin.-T  of 
rates  and  taxes  as  then  "laid  on,  untill  he  and  his  counciil  should 
settle  ot  ler  taxes." 

The  governor  and  council  passed  an  act  for  the  continuation  of 
the  former  taxes,  agreeing  wurd  for  word  with  the  printed  law,  and 
ordering  the  treasurer,  on  the  14th  of  July  of  each  year,  without 
further  order,  to  send  out  his  warrants  for  the  commissioners  to 
assess  the  inhabitants  ;  the  commissioners  to  meet  at  the  "  Shear 
Townes  "  on  the  first  Wednesday  in  September,  make  their  assess- 
ments and  return  them  to  the  treasurer,  who  should  then  issue  war- 
rants for  the  collection  of  the  rates. 

John  tJsher^  as  treasurer,  followed  out  this  law,  and  raised  the 
rates  in  1G8G-7-8  ;  though,  as  they  were  entirely  insufficient  to  meet 
the  expenses  of  the  governor,  and  as  several  towns  refused  to  pav,  he 
was  obliged  to  liquidate  many  of  the  public  bills  from  his  private 
funds,  while  others  were  charged  to  the  Province. 

^  After  the  revolution  of  1G88  the  government  refused  to  pav  these 
biiis,  but  held  him  liable  for  all  the  taxes  he  had  received ;  he  was 
sued  March  6,  1G93-4,   by  Col.  S.  Shrimpton,  for  arms  and  am- 

♦  From  a  mannscript  copy  of  the  inotrament. 


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18/7.]  Town  Rates  of  Xewton  and  BiUerica.  303 

nmnition  wliich  he  ordered,  by  command  of  the  rrovernor  and  coun- 
cil, foi-  Sir  JCdinuiid  Audroa'd  expedition  to  the  eastward.  The  case 
was  decided  auainst  him,  and  he  was  imprisoned  till  he  paid  it.  Hid 
farm  of  Ton  Hills  wa^j  also  seized  on  similar  dehto. 

Mr.  Usher  had  previously  petitioned  the  Kin:;-  and  IVivy  Council 
to  protect  him  and  order  a  stay  of  proceedings  against  his  property. 
This  petition  was  granted,  and  an  order  of  the  King  and  Council 
issued  September  25,  KJbO,  ordering  the  New  England  courts  to 
protect  Mr.  Usher  against  all  such  claims.  This  order,  and  others 
of  a  similar  nature,  were  entirely  disregarded,  and  his  property,  to 
the  value  of  several  thousand  pounds,  seized  on  debts  that  rightfully 
belonged  to  the  Province. 

He  frequently  appealed  to  the  General  Court,  which  as  often  ap- 
pointed committees  to  investigate  ;  the  counuittees  ahvays  allowed 
the  whole  or  the  greater  part  of  his  claim,  but  it  never  was  paid. 

He  kept  the  rates  and  bills,  which  came  to  him  as  treasurer,  in 
proof  of  his  claim,  after  they  had  been  audited  at  the  riantatiou 
Office ;  and  at  his  death  gave  them  to  his  son-in-law,  David  Jef- 
fries, through  whom  they  come,  after  many  had  been  destroyed  or 
stolen,  into  my  hands.  In  the  Belknap  Correspondence,  lately 
published  by  the  ^lassachusetts  Historical  Society,  they  are  spoken 
of,  under  date  of  about  a  century  ago,  as  belonging  to  Deacon 
JefFriea. 

The  authority  for  raising  the  rates  was  disputed  in  the  case  of 
"Lin,"  Sir  William  Phips  saying  that  Mr.  Usher  ought  to  be  hung, 
whereupon  the  matter  was  referred  for  a  legal  opinion  to  Sir  John 
Somers,  who  found  that  ^Mr.  U.  was  fully  justified,  and  not  liable 
to  be  sued  for  having  obeyed  the  orders  of  the  governor  and  council. 
Most  of  the  facts  stated  above  are  taken  from  this  opinion. 

The  authority  for  raising  the  rates  is  written  on  the  back  of  some 
of  them  by  the  commissioners  and  selectmen.  They  are  all  essen- 
tially the  same.  That  on  the  Newbury  rate  gives  their  authoricv  ad 
an  order  from  John  Usher,  Esq.,  treasurer,  &c.,  dated  14  July, 
1688,  pursuant  to  an  act  of  council,  and  contains  a  list  of  all  male 
inhabitants  of  14  years  and  upwards,  and  a  true  estimation  of  all 
real  and  personal  estate. 

Bellerica  Eates. 

Billerica  list  of  y«    Number   Males  &   Rateable  estate   taken   by    Licfc. 
Tompsoa  Commssi'  &  their  Selectmen  ye  24  of  august  1688. 

Henry  Aldin,  1  p'son  &  estate  .... 

Michal  Bacon,  3  p'sons  &  estate  .... 
johQ  Baldwin,  2  p'sons  &  estate  .... 

jonath  Baldwin,  1  p'son  &  estate  .... 
Peter  Brackit,  1  p'son  &  estate  .... 

Simon  Crosbe,  2  p'sous  &  estate  .... 


x. 

d. 

01 

11 

12 

04 

07 

07 

02 

00 

04 

08 

11 

09 

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304 


Town  Hales  of  Neinton  and  Billerica. 


[July. 


Simon  Crosbe  Jun,  1  p'son 
Tho  Crosbe,  1  p'son 
Will'"  CharnhLMiiii,   1  p'son 
Edmund  Chiunheilin,  1  p'son  i^  cow 
Cap'  Dantortli,  3  p'sons  &  estate 
jonatli  Daiiforth  .lun"",  1  p'son  &  estate 
John  Dunkin,  his  estate 
Tlio  Duttou  sen',  1  p'son  &  estate    . 
Tho  Dutton  jiur,  his  estate 
John  Dutton,  2  p'sons  &  estate 
josepli  Ellice,  1  p'son  &  estate 
John  fi-ench.  Ids  estate 
Jacob  french,  3  p'sons  &  estate 
Patrick  Fassit,  2  p'sons  &  estate 
Stephe  Farr,  1  p'son  &  estate    . 
Sam"  frost,  2  p'sons  &  estate 
James  frost,  3  p'sons  &  estate 
Joseph  foster,  1  p'son  &  estate 
Gcorg  farloe,  1  p'son  li,  estate 
Sain^'  farle,  his  estate 
Edw''  farmar,  2  p'sons  &  estate 
Left.  Hill,  3  p'sons  &,  estate 
Nath:  Hill,  4  p'sons  &  estate 
■Jouath.  Hill,  3  p'sons  &  estate 
Georg  Gricoes.  1  p'son  &  estate 
Abru  Gorton,  1  p'son  &  estate 
Henry  jetFeson,  2  p'sons  &  estate 
jaraes  Kidder,  1  p'son  &  estate 
Eaph.  Kidder,  1  p'son  <t  estate 
Stepli  Kidder,  1  p'son  &  estate 
Enoch  Kidder,  1  p'son  &  estate 
John  Kitterage,  1  p'son  &  estate 
John  lane,  1  p'son  &  estate 
John  levistone,  1  p'son  &  estate 
San"  Planning  Sen'',  2  p'sons  &  estate 
Sam"  Manning  jun',  1  p'son  &  estate 
John  Marshall,  2  p'sons  &  estate 
James  pattison,  2  p'sons  Sc  estate 
Benj.  Parker,  1  p'son  &  estate 
Tho.  Pattin,  4  p'sons  &  estate 
Nath.  Page,  2  p'sons 
Widdow  Rogers,  1  p'son  &  estate    . 
John  Rogers,  2  p'sons  &  estate 
Dani.  Rogers,  1  p'son  &c  estate 
Nath.  Rogers,  1  p'son  &  estate  » 

Tho.  Richison,  1  p'son  &  estate 
Daniel  Shead,  1  p'son  &  estate 
John  Shead,  1  p'son  &  estate 
Zach  Shead,  1  p'son  &,  estate     . 
Sam"  Shead,  1  p'son  &:  estate 
John  Sandern,  1  p'son  &  estate 
John  Sheldin.  2  p'sons  &  estate 
Isack  Starns,  1  p'son  &  estate 


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1877.] 


Tuicn  Hates  of  ITewton  and  Billerica. 


305 


Tho  Starns,  1  p'son  &  estate 
Li-'H  Toiujisnn,  "  p'sDns  &  estate 
Nath  Tay,  1  p'son  &■  estate 
John  Tnill,  2  p'sons  &  estate 
Sam"  Trull,  1  p'son  &  estate 
Joseph  Walker,  1  p'son  &  estate 
John  Wilson,  1  p'son  &.  estate 
James  Kitterage,  1  p'son  &  estate 
Koburt  Sharpe,  1  p'son  &  estate 
Obe.  Johnson,  1  j)'sou  &  estate 
John  More,  1  p'son 
Georg  Smith,  1  p'son  &  cow 
Hugh  Ditson,  1  p'son 
John  Parker,  1  p'son  &  one  cow 

heads  103  :   impotent  persons  12  : 

This  is  a  true  Coppie  or  list 
John  Starns  >  ^,      ^  , , 
Tho.  Ross      j  <-oastables. 


Sep*  5"^  1688_ 
Attested  by  y°  Comissionours 
Sam"  Phipps 
Joseph  Cooke,  Sen' 
Peter  Hones  Sen. 
Henry  Woodis 
John  Cummings 
John  Whitmore 


[Indorsed] 


Billerica  List 

Country  Rate 

1688: 


02 

11 

09 

05 

03 

OG 

06 

05 

03 

03 

05 

09 

07 

01 

02 

03 

03 

01 

02 

03 

01 

08 

01 

11 

01 

OS 

01 

11 

Siim  total]  19  11 

05 

as  attest 

Joseph  Tompson,  sen',  Commissioner 
Samuel  Manning  sen',  Clarke 


John  IMous 
Stephen  hall 
John  Bacheller 
Joseph  AVilson 
Solloman  Keyes 


[Indorsed] 


Bilrica  Rate 
£19,,  11„  0 


John  Stearns  ^  r^      ^  t. 
iTi,      -D  r  LoDstab 

ino:  Koss        j 


Little  Cambridge  Rates. 


Cap.  Thomas  Prentice,  2  persons  &  Estate 
Lieut*  Isaac  Williams,  one  per:  &  estate 
Efis.  John  Ward,  4  per:  &c  estate 
Jonathan  Hides  Sen',  3  per:  &  estate 
James  Trowbridge,  3  per:  &  estate 
William  Hides,  one  per:  &  estate 
Daniel  l^Fackey,  2  per:  &  estate 
Nathaniel  Mackey,  1  per: 
John  Prentice,  2  per:  &  estate 
Thomas  Prentice  sen',  2  per:  «&  estate 
Joseph  Willson,  1  per:  &  estate 
John  Parker,  one  per:  &  estate 
Nathaniel  Hamund,  one  per:  &  estate 
Thomas  Hamund,  2  per:  &  estate 
Joseph  Beech,  one  per: 
Isaac  Parker,  one  per:  &,  estate 
VOL.  XXXI.  27* 


t.  d, 

17  00 

08  06 
16  03 
11  06 
15  01 
02  08 
05  10 
01  03 
10  0-i 

09  08 

05  01 

04  00 

06  03 

07  03 
01  08 

05  01 


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306 


Town  Rates  of  Newton  and  Blllerica. 


[July, 


Tho:  Chamborlain,  one  per:  &  estate 
Tho:  Sadi^nive.  ono  |)er:  &  estuto     . 
Tho:  Greenwood,  2  [ler:  &  estate 
John  Clark,  2  per:  &  estate 
"VViliiani  P^Iere,  one  per:  &  estate 
Tho:  Tarke,  o  per:  &  estate 
Sebeas  Jackson,  one  per:  &  estate 
Stephen  Cooke,  one  per;  &  estate    . 
Increase  Turner,  one  per:  &  estate 
Ephraim  Wheeler,  one  per:  &  estate 
Jacob  Bacon,  one  per:  &  estate 
Samuel  Bacon,  his  estate 
Henry  Sayer,  one  per:  &  estate 
Daniel  Sterling,  one  per:     . 
John  ^Nlason,  one  per:  &  estate 
Abraham  Jackson,  .3  per:  &  estate   . 
Ebenezer  Stone,  his  estate 
John  Knop,  one  per:  &  estate 
John  Fuller  Sen",  2  per:  <L  estate 
Isaac  Williams,  one  per:  &  estate     . 
Joseph  Inigh,  one  per:  &  estate 
Will  Robinson,  one  per:  &  estate 
Jeremiah  Moss,  one  per:  &  estate 
John  Farke,  his  estate 
John  ffuller  Jun',  one  per:  &  estate 
Jonathan  fluUer,  one  per:  &  estate 
■Jeremiah  {fuller,  one  per:  &  estate 
Edward  Jackson,  2  per:  &  estate 
John  Mirick,  2  per:  &  estate 
Nat:  Willson,  one  per:  &  estate 
Dec'  Samuel  Hides,  his  estate 
Humjihrey  Uland,  2  per:  &  estate 
John  Gibson,  one  per:  &  estate 
Samuel  Hides  sen',  one  per:  &  estate 
Samuel  Hides  jun-",  one  per:  &  estate 
Joseph  ffuller,  one  per:  &  estate 
Isaac  Beech,  one  per:  &  estate 
John  Woodard,  one  per:  &  estate     . 
John  Spring,  one  per:  &,  estate 
John  Ward  juu",  2  per:  &  estate 
Sam  Hides  at  y*  pond,  one  per:  &  estate 
Joseph  Bartlet,  one  per:  &  estate 
William  Thomas,  one  per:  &  estate 
John  Alixander,  his  estate 
Tho.  Prentice,  jun',  one  per:  <Sc  estate* 
John  Staples,  one  per:  &  estate 
Koah  Wiswall,  2  per:  &  estate 
Ebenezer  Wiswall,  2  per:  &  estate 
Jonathan  Hides,-  his  estate 
Nat.  Healy,  one  per:  &  estate 
Nat.  Willson  sen',  one  per:  &;  estate 
John  Hides,  one  per:  &  estate 


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1877.] 


Col.  Ilumjjhret/s^s  FavTii  at  Lynn. 


307 


Sam  V/illson,  one  per:  &.  estate 
Ueiijaiiua  Willsoii,  2  per:  &,  estate 
Kleazer  Hides,  one  per: 
John  Keurik,  one  per:  »S:  estate 
John  P;'.rker  sen',  liis  estate 
Joseph  I'arker,  one  per:  &  estate 
Jonatlmn  Parker,  one  per:  <Sc  estate 
Nat:  Kidor,  one  per:  &■  estate 
John  Daniel,  one  per:  &  estate 
James  Prentice,  sen',  one  per:  &  estate 
James  Prentice,  jun',  one  per:  &  estate 
Samuel  Trusdeeli,  one  per:  &  estate 
Joseph  ISIiiler,  2  per:  <fe  estate  .... 
One  hundred  &  one  persons 

persons  &  estates  amounteth  unto 

Thomas  Gueenwood 
New  Cambridge 

John  Clark  Constable 


02 

01 

05 

04 

01 

08 

03 

09 

02 

01 

02 

04 

02 

01 

01 

09 

03 

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07 

00 

04 

05 

07 

02 

05 

11 

21 

01 

10 

Commlstioner 

[On  the  back.] 

New  Cambridge  rate 

Sigined  by*  y*  Commission' 

Sam"  Phipps  Nat:  Wilson 

.    ,     Henry  Wordit  Joseph  Wilson 

Tho:  Greenwood  John  Mous  Comissn". 

Joseph  Rice  John  Bacheller       .    ■ 

James  Convers  jun'  Stephen  hall 

James  Knapp  Joseph  Tompson  sen' 

5  Septemb.  1G88 
[Indorsed]     New  Cambridge  Rate 

£21,,  1„  10  John  Clarke    Constab. 


DOCUMENTS  RELATING  TO   COL.  JOHN  HUMPHREYS'S 
FARM  AT  LYNN. 

Copied  from  the  Essex  County  Court  Files,  by  Hekrt  F.  Waters,  A.B.,  of  Salem. 

Elen'.  Clarke  aged  fourescore  yeares  or  thereabouts  testifyeth  «&;  saith 
that  to  her  best  remembrance  she  was  about  nine  or  ten  yeares  of  age  when 
she  came  first  into  this  country,  and  that  she  came  ouer  with  her  fatlier 
Richard  Wriglit,  who  came  over  in  the  first  tieet  y'  came  hirher  and  in  Col: 
Humphryes*  Imploy — when  he  came  hither  he  took  up  Lands  y'  were  sd.  to 
be  granted  to  him  sd.  Colon^^  Humphryes,  and  built  upon  that  part  of  y*^  sd. 
Laud  call'^  by  y®  Indian  name  Saugus  or  Sangus  according  to  y"  best  re- 

•  Col.  John  Hiimfrcy  or  Humphreys  was  chosen,  in  1629,  deputy  i^ovemor  of  tho  Massa- 
chusetts Company,  biu  dcilLiin;^  to  remain  in  Eiv-riiind,  his  piuoe  was  tilled  by  th.;  election 
of  Thomas  Dudley.  In  lUU  he  came  licre.  His  wito,  .Susan,  dau.  of  Tlioma^  Clinton,  third 
earl  of  Lincoln,  was  a  sister  of  Arliella.  wire  of  !s;:ac  Joimson.  One  of  hi>  daughters 
married  Adam  Otiey  of  Lynn.  Another  dan^jliter  Ann  married,  1st  William  Palmes,  and 
2d  Rev.  John  Myles  of  bwaiizey.    See  Sivage's  Gen.  Diet,  for  uther  children.— Ed. 


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308  Col.  Humphreys's  Farm  at  Lynn.  [Julv, 

membrance  of  this  deponent  near  to  a  place  call'*  the  great  plaine  or  plaine 
f:"-ui-\  w"""  also  this  deponent  rijmcniber.s  was  rejtiited  y*  land  of  y*  sd.  Coi  • 
Humphryes,  and  his  cattlo  used  to  feed  &  range  thereon :  &  further  this  de- 
ponent testifyoth  that  some  few  yeares  after,  y«  sd.  Col:  Iluinphryes  came 
over  into  New  England,  <^'  after  his  arrivall  this  deponent  live<l  vv"''  y"  sd. 
Col.  Humphryes  upon  y'  farme  aforesd  call"  Saugus  ur  San^us.  And  she  re- 
members very  well  that  y"  sd  Col:  Humphryes  brought  w'ith  him  a  youn- 
gentlewoman  whoso  name  was  Ann  Humi.hrves:  who  was  afterwards 
married  to  one  m^  Palmes  in  Ireland  or  England'as  this  deponent  hath  been 
informed,  and  after  y-^  sd  m^  Palmes  dyed,  was  ag"  married  to  one  m^  utiles 
a  minister  who  soLuetin>es  lived  in  Swanzy  in  New  En^rland  &  farther  this 
deponent  testifyeth  that  y*'  aforesd  m"  Ann  was  y"  reputed  daughter  of  y" 
sd  Col:  John  Ilumphryus,  &  that  she  brought  over  w"'  her  when  she  came 
last  into  this  country  one  sou  &  three  daughters  &  farther  saith  not. 

Decemb^  29,  1701. 

Abigail  Holbrook,  aged  seventy  eight  yeares  or  thereabouts,  "  who 
dwelleth  at^Scituate  but  now  being  at  roxbury"  made  oath  Novemb'  4'^ 
lil'l  d.LL  ^Iij  v.iis  about  eiglit  ycarus  of  age  when  she  came  first  into  this 
country  '•  with  her  father  Richard  Wright "  &c.  &c.  Her  depobitiou  is  to 
the  same  purport  as  her  sister's. 

Nehemiah  Walter*  aged  38  yeares  or  thereabouts  testifyeth  &  saith  that 
there  came  over  w^th  him  from  Ireland  in  y«  same  ship  of  w*-*^  Capt.  Grecian 
of  Boston  was  Comander  in  y«  yeare  IGSU  the  widow  of  m^  Palmes  in  Ire- 
land, who  had  with  her  fou'-e  children  (viz)  .Jonathan,  Ann,  Elizabeth  and 
Susanna  Palmes  who  were  her  reputed  children  and  acknowledged  by  her 
to  be  her  children,  and  farther  saith  not.  December  29   1701. 

Mr.  Nicholas  Lang  &  m"  Ann  Palmes  were  maried  on  the  tenth  day  of 
Januuary  1G8|-  M^  Samuel  Avery  of  New  London  was  maried  to  m". 
Susannah  Palmes  on  the  20  :  of  October  1686 

Transcribed  out  of  the  Register  of  Swauzey,  May  25  :  1701 

P  W  LLIAM  IXGRAHAil 

Town  Clarke 

The  deposition  of  Hugh  Alley  aged  53  years  or  thereabouts  sworne 
saith  John  Humphreys  ^:sq^  deceased  did  posse-ss  the  plaine  farmes  as  wee 
goe  to  Marblehead  adjoyning  to  m^  Peters  his  farme  &  that  the  said 
Humphrey  kept  servants  at  his  house  on  the  said  land  &  this  deponent  saith 
alsoe  that  he  earned  seuerall  poundes  for  worke  done  there  on  y^  plaines 
farme  which  was  pd.  him  alsoe  by  the  said  Humphrey  &  when  the  said 
Humphrey  went  for  England  left  his  sonne  in  Law  Oately  at  y*  house  when 
he  went  for  England.  26  4™'*  '6'^ 

•  An  account  of  the  Rev.  Nehemiah  ^Valter  and  his  descendants  will  be  found  in  ^he 
Register,  vol.  vui.  up  20.>-14.  This  document  fixes  the  exact  vear  of  his  comin-  to  New 
England,  and  the  commander  of  the  vcjscI  in  which  he  arnved,  which  we  tliink  ^"^rc 
not  known  before.  Tlie  name  of  Thomas  Grecian  i.s  found  in  a  list  of  the  inh-bitrnt^'of 
Boston  m  1681,  m  the  "  First  Report  of  the  Record  Commissioners  of  Boston  "  (1876)  p  74 


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Passengers  and  Vessels  to  America. 


309 


PASSENGERS  AND  VESSELS  THAT  HAVE  ARRIVED 
IN  AMERICA. 

,,     .,        [Continued  from  vol.  XXX.  page  460.]  '         '•*.■.'"■  ^ 

UNDER  this  head   we  propose  to  print  lists  of  passcnircrs  and 
memoranda  of  the  arrival  of  vessels  in  America.     Contribu- 
tions to  this  series  of  articles  are  solicited  from  our  friends. 

No.  VI. 

A  List  of  "Ships  wnicii  AaKivp:D  is  New  England  in  1G30. 

From  Prixcf.'s  New  England  Chronoloot,  Appendix  to  1630. 


No. 

Names. 

Whence 

When 

Wh-n 

Where 

fiet  sail. 

set  sail. 

arrived. 

arrived. 

England. 

1630 

1630 

New -England. 

1 

Lion 

Bristol 

Feb.    dd 

May  e. 

Salem               i 

2 

^Mary-o^ohn 

Plymouth 

March  20 

May  30 

Nanta-rket 

3 

Arbtlla 

"1  Yarmouth 

April  8 

June  12 

1 

S  Salem 

4 

Jewel 

1      at  the 

ditto 

June  13 

5 

Ambrose 

f     Isle  of 

ditto 

June  18 

6 

Talbot 

J      AVighfc 

ditto 

July  2 

7 
8 

Mnv-Flower 
Whale 

S.  Hampton 
ditto 

ijay 
ditto 

\ 

July  1 

Charlesto-vna 

9 
10 

Hopewell 
Wm.  (SbFran. 

ditto 
ditto 

ditto 
ditto 

i 

Julys 

(Salcra) 

11 
12 

Tryal 
Charles 

ditto 
ditto 

ditto 
ditto 

] 

Julys 

)  Charlestowa 
5  Salem 

13 

Success 

ditto 

ditto 

July  6 

(Salem) 

14 

Gift 

May  e 

A 

LUgust  20 

Charlesto'.vn 

15 

\nother  dd 

June   dd 

16 

iandmaid 

August  6 

October  20 

Plymouth 

17 

Another  set  on 

t  by  a  private  n 

merchant,  dd 

These  seventeen  ships  arrived  all  safe  in  New  England,  for  the  increase 
of  the  population  here,  this  year,  1630.     dd 

[Note. — The  letters  dd  in  italics,  denote  that  the  authority  for  the  otatements^  is 
Gov.  Dudley's  letter  to  the  Cjuntess  of  Lincoln,  which  is  printed  ia  tiie  New 
Hampshire  Historical  Collections,  vol.  iv.  pp.  224-49  ;  Force's  Tracts,  vol.  ii.  Tract 
4;  Young's  Chronicles  of  Massachusetts,  pp.  301-41  ;  Massachusetts  Historical  Col- 
lections, 1st  series,  vol.  viii.  pp.  36—47.  The  other  facts  seeui  to  be  derived  from 
Winthrop's  History  of  New  England. — Ed.J  .  .^     , 


No.  VII. 

Capt.  Jenner's  Ship,  1677  or  1678. 

Copied  bv  He:trt  F.  Waters,  A.B.,  from  the  Essex  County  Court  Files. 

Thomas  Clark  of  Chelmsford  Clerk  Testifieth  and  saith  that  about  sea- 
enteen  years  since  he  came  ouer  I'rom  England  w'"''  Capt  Thom^is  Jerjner 
late  of  Charlestowiie  DecG'l  and  with  hira  canie  u'  tfrances  TV'illougliby  the 
Reputed  son  of  y"   Honourable  fi'rances  Willoughby  Esqr  of  s"*  Charles- 


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310  Passengers  and  Vessels  to  America.  [July, 

to^mo  deced,  passenger,  which  said  ffrances  Willoughby  died  on  board  ^aid 
ship  of  y«  distx-mp'  of  y«  Sm:.ll  Vox*  and  was  then  in  his  sight  and  vie.v 
solemnly  thrown  ouerboard  into  y'  Deep,  and  further  testifieth  that  he  was 
very  well  accpiainted  w'"  the  said  tTninces  WilloutrhLv  jiur  in  ICnirlaiKl  be- 
fore he  took  siiip,  and  y'  he  spake  to  him  about  uu^hour  ln;fore  hi/d^:ath. 

^,     ,  Thomas  C'lauk. 

Charlestowne  March  8"*  94-5      -      ■ 

The  reverend  m'  Thouias   Clark  made  oath  to  the  truth  of  the  above 
written  before  me  Thomas  Hinchma.v,  Justice />cace. 

No.  VIII. 

Arrivals  ix  Bostox,  Mass.,  June,  1712. 
From  Manuscripts  belonging  to  the  N.  E.  Histokic,  Gexealooical  Societt. 
Massachusetts  Impost  Qilice  Boston 

Vessells  Entered  in  the  Month  of  June  1712 
y*  2=^  Sain'-^  Hatch  y'^  Brig"  John  &  George  from  Mada^  &  Fyall 
No  passengers 
John  EUery  y«  Brig"  Mayflower  from  Fayall 

No  passengers 
Thomas  Dimond  y*'  ship  Vpton  from  Fyall 
No  passengers 
gd  W"  Partridge  y«  Sloop  Han"  &  Eliz"^  from  Fyall     ' 
No  passengers  but  Marreners 
Philip  Jenkens  y<=   Ship  Marlborough  from  Bristoll 
Thomas  MoHUtt  Merch"  Edward  Fisher  Merch" 
.    '.     John  Goodson     Ditto       Sam^' Storke      Ditto 
Sam'^  Carter  Puterer 
:•■"•  W- Atwood   )  ,^  ,  ,      \.,i,^ 

John  V  Marreners 

John  Jones      j 
5'^  Joshua  Furbur  y«  Sloop  Betty  from  Fyall 

No  passengers  but  Marreners  ^i 

6*^  Jethro  Furbur  y^  Sloop  Tryall  from  Fyall 
George  Alvis  &  3  Seruents 
Willis  Finderson  Merch" 
James  Huistin  Corurgoa 
John  FHmore  y^  Ship  Mary  from  Topsham 

Joshua  Norman  Richard  Short  ] 

Caleb  Norman  John  Youlden    | 

Thorn' Langaford  Mary  Souton     V  Seruants 

Edward  Pentrall  Eliz»  Dande       I 

,-/■  Eliz»  Bartlet  &  her  Son  Eliz»  Tea^ue    J 

Thomas  Neck  y«  Barqe  Prosperity  from  Topsham 
William  Edwards  A  Gentleman 
y«  9"*  Joseph  Arnold  y«  Sloop  fortune  from  Proudendce 
No  passengers 
lO*"*  Henry  Davis  y^  Sloop  Speadwell  from  Fyall 
No  passeagera 

*  Savage  states  that  Francis  Willoii-hbv,  Jr.,  died  of  the  simll-pox   J-ine  lo    '67S  •  bnt 


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1877.]  Passengers  ajid  Vessels  to  America.  311 

1 1""  Thomas  Couerly  y"  Sloop  Ilanah  £c  IMavy,  Surrenam 

No  pas'^oiigers 
W"  Glouer  y*  Sloop  Mary  from  S'  Thomases 

No  pa.sseni^crs  but  jMarrcners 
12''"  Timothy  Williamson  y"  Sloop  Soatryall  from  Virgina 

No  passeii|j;er3  .,      .,,  "..■•, 

Thomas  Hunt  y''  Ship  Prouidence  from  Georges 

No  passengers 
13""  Thomas  Clarke  y""  Sloop  Mouuscratt  from  Faro 

No  passengers 
Joseph  IJerry  y*  Sloop  W"  from  IMadera 

No  passengers 
Jon*  Bassett  y"  Sloop  Mary  &  Abigail  from  New  London 

Mary  Jess 

Pripila  a  free  Negro 
y'  IG'**  Theopolis  Grigory  y'  Ship  Oley  Frigett  from  London 

Thomas  S.taples  A  Bricklayer 

John  Lev.is  A  Joyner 

Sam"  Tibbs  A  ]Mas.soa 

&  Three  Manlners 
Richard  Loue  y^  Ship  Peter  &  Phillip  from  London 

forty  five  Seruants  JNIale  &  Female 

James  Atchison  y''  Ship  Sarah  Gaily  from  London 

Kichard  Harris  )  tm- 

-r,     ,  /-,      •  ,        >•  Marrmers 

Paul  Gerri.~h      )  .        ,,  . 

Roger  Foot  1  '•  " 

Heren?  Braillsford  .■.,•, 

Sam"  "Whittwall       y  all  Timbermen  .   . 

Thomas  Wharton       Robert  forrister  Ditto 

James  Goodwin       J 
n'''  John  Allexander  y*  Ship  Queen  Ann  from  London 

Cap^  Bedgood,  Cap'  Wliale  |  ^^^^^^„ 

Cap'  Winter  &  M'  John  Rogers     )      ' 

M"'  Henry  ]\[arsh  A  Gentleman 

M"  Francis  Tarrant  with  a  Maid  &  Man  Seruant 

M"  Dilly  &  Children 

Fourteen  Traids  Men 

Thirteen  Marriners 

David  Jones  A  Taylor 
Obadiah  Wakefield  y^  Brig"  Prince  Eugene  from  London 
■   William  Cooper  A  Ropemaker 

Sam"  StUl  a  Ditto 

Arno  A  Glouer 
Raulins  A  Joyner 
18*  Robert  Luist  y^  Brig" "Dolphin  from  Neuis 

John  Swiniton  A  Cooper 
19*^  Sam"  Northy  y'  Sloop  Elizabeth  from  North  Carolina 

No  passengers 
23"^  Benj"  Goold  y'^  Sloop  :Mary  from  Fyall 

No  passengers  but  jNTarriners 
ST*"*  Nath"']iIason  y'  Sloop  Elizabeth  from  N  Foundland 

Anthony  Poer  A  Nantucketc  man 
28"*  John  Welch  y"  Sloop  Eliz*  from  Barbados 
No  passengers 


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312  The  DalUher  Family.  [July, 

30""  Thomas  Burnton  y*  Ship  Margrett  from  barbados 
No  passeii^fers 
Francis  PlaisttMl  y*^  Ship  John  &  Dorothy  from  Barbados 
Johu  IIoo[)er  Gentleman 

Dated  Boston  June  30"*  1712 

p  Dan:  Russell  Com' 


DOCUMENTS  RELATIVE  TO  THE  DALLIBER  FAMILY. 

Copied  bv  William  B.  Tuask,  Esq.,  froni  the  originals,  in  the  possession  of  Chaeles 
Kemble  WooDBtiiY,  Esq.,  of  New  Haven,  Conn. 

I. — Letter  of  Tristram  Dalliber,    of  Stoke  Ahhas,  Dorsetshire,   Etujland, 
April  20,  IGIS,  to  John  Batch  and  William   Woodbury,  of  Salem,  N.  E. 

Deare  *&  louing  frinds  my  loue  Remembred  vnto  you  &  to  wiues  &-  all 
your?  b.opinj^  of  yo'.i's  h'  Iths  <fe  b.apines  as  I  am  and  yours  friuds  at  the  writ- 
ing heare  of  blessed  be  the  lord  for  it  I  haue  Receaued  your  leter  ;v"='^  you 
sent  me  by  John  whitt  wheare  in  I  dooe  see  that  you  haue  sent  me  by  him 
33'".  13*.  9^^  w=''  is  all  that  you  haue  that  is  for  the  p'sent  «S;  I  shall  desicr 
you  to  gye  in  the  Rest  as  spedy  as  may  be  db  so  I  dooe  thancke  you  for 
your  pains  &  pray  tacke  for  your  payns  out  of  the  same  If  m''  torry  had  not 
bin  gon  before  I  knew  of  I  should  haue  sent  you  some  token  of  my  loue 
to  you  but  siiiug  he  is  gone  I  shall  Remaine  your  debter  vntill  the  ne.xt 
yeare  and  then  I  shall  send  it  by  Johu  whitt.  I  pray  deliuer  to  my  brother 
Samuell  Dalliber  8'^  10'.  If  he  be  soe  plesed  for  he  hath  6'"  13'  heare 
oing  him  If  he  be  content  there  w'^  I  shall  be  plesed  that  he  shall  haue  soe 
much  ther  for  the  same  I  pray  gye  in  the  Rest  as  spedy  as  you  Cane  tS:  I 
doe  hear  by  John  whitt  that  willi.  vinson  is  grone  pore  therefore  you  may 
dooe  well  to  tack  what  you  Cane  of  him  he  doth  denie  to  pay  the  Eyglit  shil- 
lings but  goodman  merry  doth  know  of  it  &  as  for  osment  Dooch  I  wooid 
intreat  you  to  procecute  the  lawe  against  him  to  the  vtmost  for  John  stoodly 
&  Willm  Vinson  doth  know  that  he  was  to  paye  me  \V^  pound  in  good  & 
marchandable  fish  for  they  did  acknoledg  soe  much  at  goodman  merryes 
house  all  thoughe  we  had  noe  bond  vpon  him  for  the  same  therefore  you 
must  drawe  them  to  witnis  the  same  &  wheare  as  you  thought  I  did  tast 
you  for  vniust  dealing  I  had  noe  such  thought  of  you  at  all,  but  I  know  that 
many  men  woold  be  backward  enofe  to  Pay  as  I  vnderstand  by  John  whitt 
they  be  and  as  for  willi  wodbery  I  Could  have  noe  nusse  of  him  when  wee 
Came  to  london  for  I  was  at  the  Exchange  all  most  eury  day  for  to  see 
wheare  I  Could  heare  of  him  &  Could  not  &  therefore  I  should  desire  you 
not  to  be  ofended  w""  me  for  it.  I  pray  deliuer  the  wedg  &  the  £rowe[r]  to 
my  brother  Samuel  Dalliber  &  soe  w'"'*  my  loue  to  you  I  Rest 

from  stocke  abbots  Your  louing  frind 

in  Dorset  the  20  of  TfiisxRAii  Dalliber 

aprill  1648 

There  is  Robert  ellwell  wife  hath  S'**  heare  in  hir  sister  in  lawes 
hand  w'^^  her  brother  ^ave  her  at  his  deth  if  he  be  plesed  to  tacke  it  there 
I  shall  be  Content  soe  as  they  will  send  an  aq  liitance  sealed  vp  in  a  leter 
to  me  soe  as  I  may  haue  it  from  them  at  the  next  Retorvne  for  they  told 
me  that  they  wold  send  a  leter  to-  me  &  I  should  send  it  ouer  w"*  myne  but 
I  neuer  hard  more  of  them 


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1877.]         Baptisms  in  Dover,  K.  11.,  17G7— 1787.  313 

I  pray  send  me  what  yeare  my  wife  dyed  a  what  day  of  the  month  for  I 

haiic  u  l.^Ljaso  to  Ttof-t.-aiie  hoare  w*^'*  doth  heloii;^'  to  iru;  when  my  wif^;  wu.s 
of  one  &  twenty  yeares  of  age.  I  pray  send  ouer  a  uote  vnder  m'  luducootw 
Land  a  years  of  her  deth  ..     .   ,  ,  .,  „..,      .    ,,,  ^ 

[Addressed  :] 

To  lii-s  louing  frinds  |  John  balch  &  William  |  Woodbery  of  Salem  I  in 
iieweiigland  giuc  |  these  1  pray  |  you 

II. — Power  of  ACorncy,  March  'll ,  1C52,  from  Tnstram  DalUber  to  Ais 
friend  William  Woodbury  of  Saletii  and  his  brother  Samuel  DaUiber  of 
Afarblehead,  JV.  E. 

Knowe  all  men  by  these  p'sents  that  I  Tristram  Dalliber  of  Stoocke 
ahbotts  in  the  County  of  Dorset  haue  institutfil  ordayned  &  made  and  in 
my  place  &  steede  haue  put  my  well  beloued  freinds  William  "NVoodbery  of 
Sidefii  &  my  brother  Samuell  Dalliber  of  marbellhed  my  trew  and  lafuU 
attorneys  to  a.=ke  and  Kcco'er  &  Receaue  of  John  AVhitt  of  wenomon  the  soiTie 
of  fifty  pounds  of  good  and  lafull  English  mony  for  princypall  and  Charg 
gcuen  and  granting  to  my  said  atomics  there  executors  administrators  or 
asines  full  power  &  authoryty  to  sue  arest  impreson  &  imploade  the  sayd 
John  Whiit  his  executors  &  asines  &  to  geue  such  a  quittance  or  aquittauces 
as  if  I  weare  there  presant  in  my  proper  person  and  what  soe  euer  my  sayd 
attornies  dooe  in  the  p'mises  I  the  sayd  Tristram  DalUber  dooe  by  these 
p'seuts  Rattyfy  &  Conferme.  In  witnes  wheareof  I  haue  heare  vuto  sett 
my  hand  &  sealle  2Gih  day  of  March  anno  domie  10.32. 

TrasTRA'  Dalliber.     [Seal] 

Wee  whose  names  Ar  hear  subscribed  doe  testifie  that  tristram  daliber 
did  seal  this  »&  asign  it  to  william  woodbery  &  samuel  daliber  of  Sallem  &; 
marbellhead  iu  our  Preseus 

Aaron  Cook 

Jo°:  Hitchcocke  .  ,  ■  \      ■ 

Samuel  Pucker  [.''] 
( .■ 


BAPTISMS  IN  DOVER,  N.  II.,  FROM  1767  TO  1787,  BY 
REV.  JEREMY  BELKNAP,  D.D.* 

Commnnicated  by  Jokn  K..  Ham,  M.D.,  of  Dover. 
1767. 
March     8.     Sarah,  D""  of  Stephen  Evans. 
May       24.     Anna,  D^  of  .Job  Clements. 

July         5.     Moses,  son  of  Richard  Kimbal.     Eliza,  D^  of  John  Waldron. 
o^. — baptized  by  i\Ir,  Pike. 
"  12.     Sarah,  D'  of  Ebenezer  Deraerritt.  '      • 

"  19.     Hannali,  D'  of  John  Waldron,  2^. 


•  A  copy  of  the  Ilev.  Dr.  Jeremy  Belknap's  marriages  in  Dover,  N.  H.,  while  pastor  of 
the  First  Church  frcin  1767  to  17S7,  is  printed  ia  the  Register,  vols.  xxv.  pp.  5t>-9,  and 
xxviii.  pp.  15-3-S.  We  uow  pniu  a  coi)y  of  his  b.ipti.-tns  durini:  the  .^:in-.e  period.  The 
record  of  baptL-ms  by  the  Rev.  Jonathan  Cushin:;,  the  prcdeces,-cr  of  the  Rev.  Dr. 
Belknap,  has  been  copied  for  the  Register  bv  Dr.  Ham.  and  the  baptisms  from  1717  to 
1742  have  !)een  pnnrcd  in  vol.  xxix.  pp.  •2(51-70,  and  vol.  xxx.  pp.  -iob-'t.  The  baptiims 
from  1743  to  1766  ore  on  tile  fur  publication. — ^Ec. 

VOL.    XXXI.  28 


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314  Baptisms  in  Dover,  JV.  /T.,  1767 — 1787.  [July, 

Samuel,  son  of  Samuel  Emerson —  \  j^  private. 

Jolm,  sou  of  ^l'Iclll)lus  Uicker —        ) 

.fon:itli:u\.  son  of  E[)lii-aiui  Wentworth,  Jr. 

Il;iiituih  lyc  .Mury,  D"  of  Klijuli  Bunker.  John,  sou  of  JoLd 
>V:iUliOM.  2''. 

Betty,  D'  of  lIon\ird  Henderson — ba{>tizeLl  by  IMr.  Hall. 

Mary,  D'  of  Joseph  Hodgclon.  Daniel,  sou  of  Joshua  Per- 
kins, Jun'. 

Sarah,  D'  of  Jeremy  Belknap,  baptized  by  Mr.  Cu.<*hing,  being 

y*  last  that  ever  he  baptized. 
James  Chesley,  sou  of  Otis  Baker. 
Ezekiel,  sou  of  Daniel  Hayes. 
Charles,  sou  of  Thomas-Westbrooke  Waldron. 
Molly,  D'  of  Moses  Howe. 
Ephralm,  sou  of  John  "Whitehouse — in  private. 
James,  son  of  Joseph  Roberts. 
Paul  iSc  Silas,  sons  of  John  Whitehouse. 
William,   son  of  Samuel   Emerson.      Joshua,   son  of  Joshua 

Perkins. 

James,  son  of  Elijah  Bunker-         )  j^  ^^^^^^ 

Jeremiab,  son  or  Eoenezer  Horn —  ) 

Shadrach,  son  of  Eben'  Hanson. 

Eph™,  son  of  Eph""  Plummer — iu  private. 

JeVemy,  son  of  Ebeu'  Demerritt.     Samuel,  son  of  Sam^  Ham. 

Nathaniel,  son  of  Richnrd  Kimbal. 
Isaac,  son  of  Nicholas  Ricker. 

Mary,  D'  of  Alexander  Caldwell,  aged  10  years — in  private. 
Jeremiah,  son  of  John  Waldron,  3*^. 
Richard,  son  of  John  Wentworth,  at  East-Town. 
Samuel,  son  of  Josiah  Willey. 
Benj",  son  of  Isaac  Mason. 
Jonathan  &  Thomas,  sons  of  Jon"  Bickford. — baptized  by  Mr. 

Merriam. 
Joseph,  son  of  Jeremy  Belknap — born  Dec.  2**. 
Peter,  negro  servt.  to  Thomas  Hanson,  baptized  confessing 

his  sins. 

Thomas,  son  of  Otis  Baker. 

Moses  &  Andrew,  sons  of  Andrew  Wiggin.  Jane,  D'  of 
Widow  Mary  Fullington.  Samuel  Conner,  son  of  John 
Sinclair.  Jane,  D""  of  James  Lucas. — Baptized  at  Wolfe- 
borough  at  a  Lecture. 

Stephen,  son  of  James  Berry,  at  New  Durham. 

Corjdon,  Dinah  &  Rhoda,  children  of  Peter,  servt.  to  Tho*. 
Hanson,  &.  Venus,  servt.  to  Nath'  Cooper. 

Ichabod,  son  of  Daniel  Hayes. 

Mary,  D'  of  Joseph  Roberts. 

W'%  son  of  Joshua  Perkins. 

Enoch,  son  of  Job  Clements. 

Abigail,  D'  of  Thomas- Westbrook  Waldron. 


July 

Aug. 

29. 

Sepu 

13. 

27. 

Oct. 

4. 

Nov. 

29. 

17C8 

April 

10. 

u 

24. 

May 

1. 

8. 

ii 

29. 

June 

23. 

Aug. 

21. 

Oct''. 

23. 

u 

30. 

1769. 

Jan. 

6. 

(( 

9. 

Mar. 

19. 

^lay 
June 

2. 

18. 

July 
Aug. 

2. 

23. 

Sept. 

10. 
13. 

u 

15. 

Oct". 

1.5. 

Nov. 

26. 

Dec. 

10. 

u 

31. 

177 

0. 

Jan.r 

21. 

March 

;      10. 

ts 

11. 

May 

20. 

July 
Sept. 

1. 

9.' 

a 

30. 

177 

1. 

Feb. 
1 

24. 

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William,  son  of  Samuel  Hoflcje. 
Tf.-niperauLC,  I)'  of  Stephen  Evans — in  private. 
Wiliiatn,  son  o'.  y*  Widow  Suruh  Titcomb — in  private. 
Ann,  \y  of  Eben""  Hanson,  hafitized  by  Dr.  Langdon. 
Jeremy -Whcelwrii^ht,  son  of  Samuel  Ham. 
Wilmot,  son  of  Jon*  iiickford,  baptized  by  Mr.   Stevens,  of 
Kittery. 

Samuel,  son  of  Jeremy  Belknap,  born  Dec'  31,  1771. 

IMoses,  son  of  Job  Clements. 

John,  son  of  Joiiu  Wentworth. 

Peter,  son  of  Peter,  servt.  to  Thomas  Hanson,  &  Venus,  servt. 

to  Natli'  Cooper, 
^lartha,  I)'  of  Xatli'  Cooper — baptized  by  Mr.  McClintock. 
Elizabeth,  D''  of  Stepiien  Evans — born  y*  same  day. 
John  Smith,  of  Durham,  aged  \\,  in  private. 

Richard,  son  of  Jobn  W.^.Mron,  y*  S**. 
Nathaniel,  ?:0^  of  Daniel  Hayes. 
Jlargaret,  D"'  of  John  Wentworth. 
George-JetTerds.  son  of  Sam^  Ham. 
Joseph,  sou  of  Samuel  Emerson — in  private. 
Eliza,  D''  of  Ebeaezer  Demerritt. 

PLlizabeth,  T)'  of  Jeremy  P>olknap  (born  y*  same  day). 

Samuel,  sou  of  James  Guppy — being  sick. 

Lydia,  D''  of  Stephen  Evaus.     Phillis,  D"'  of  Peter  Hanson — 

negro. 
Elizabeth,  D"'  of  John  Wentworth,  Esq. ;    baptized  by   Mr. 

Adams,  of  Durham. 
Walter,  son  of  Nath'  Cooper. 

Nathaniel,  son  of  Jonathan  P>ickford. 

William,  son  of  Samuel  Ham.  '    •  ■ 

Elizabeth  Ham. 

Elizabeth.  Daughter  of  Nathauiel  Ham.  ,   *..  ■ 

Joanna,  D''  of  Capt.  John  Waldron — in  private. 

Dudley,  son  of  Barnabas  Palmer,  at  Rochester. 

Josiah,  son  of  Capt.  Smith,  of  Newcastle. 

Richard  Canney,  of  Newcastle  (private — moriturus). 

Ephraim,  son  of  Epliraim  Evans,  dec**,  offered  by  the  grand- 
father Stephen  Evans;  who  publickly  engaged  fory®  Child's 
Christian  Education.  Joseph  Frost,  sun  of  John  Yv^out- 
worth  Esq, 

Joseph,  sou  of  Daniel  Peirce,  of  Portsmouth. 

Cato,  son  of  Peter  Hanson — negro — baptized  by  Mr.  Tenny. 

IVIehetabel.  Wife  of  James  Chesley — on  a  sick  bed — aged  Oa. 

Sarah,  D'  of  Jonathan  Biokford.  ' 

Joseph.  P^lizabeth,  Daniel,  JMehetabel  &  Mary,  Children  of 
Benjamin  Peirce. 

John,  son  of  Jeremy  Belknap — bom  Dec.  30,  1776, 


Blarch 

10. 

April 

May 

Juno 

27. 
14. 
23. 

July 
Oct". 

21. 
6. 

1772 

Jan. 

0. 

April 

!May 

Aug. 

5. 

24. 
2. 

Octob. 

4. 

(( 

25. 

Nov, 

19. 

1773 

. 

Jlay 

2. 
23*. 

u 

30. 

July 
Sept. 

4. 
23. 
26. 

1774 

, 

April 

3. 
25. 

June 

5. 

Aug. 

14. 

Sept. 
1775 

4. 

Jan. 

-5. 

Feb. 

26. 

June 

25. 

July 

Sept. 

Octob. 

16. 
1. 
1. 

Nov. 

19. 

1776 

, 

Jan. 

7. 

Feb. 

18. 

March 

10 

June 

30. 

Aug. 

12. 

Oct. 

13. 

ii 

27. 

1777 

Jan. 

5. 

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Jan. 

26. 

Feb. 

2. 

April 

13. 

u 

28. 

May 

4. 
25. 

June 

20. 

Sept. 
Nov. 

14. 

30. 

1775 

I 

July 
Nov. 

12. 
1. 

177f 

). 

Feb. 

23. 

316  Baptisms  hi  Dover,  xY.  //.,  1767—1787.  [July, 

Elizabeth,  D'  of  Natli'  Coper— born  24  Inst: 
Ichubod-Chosley,  son  of  Stephon  Evans — born  Jan,  29. 
Daniel,  son  of'Xlio'  WIc  Walilron,  Esq.,  baptized  by  Doct. 

Haven. 
Hannah  Uampton,  a^^td  90  years  this  day,  &  sick. 
Sarah  D'  of  llcnjarain  Peirce. 
Lydia  Cook,  aged  19. 

Meshech-Weare,  son  of  John  "Wentu'orth,  Esq.,  born  June  17. 
Natha:  it.'l,  son  of  Natlianiel  llani,  born  June  28. 
Sarah  &  Martha,  D™  of  William  lirock.  ■,     ,    .- 

Mary  Bowers,  D""  of  Col.  John  Waldrou. 

Judith,  D'  of  .Jonathan  Bickford. 

Deborah  Sliackford,  D^  of  Nath^  Cooper,  born  Oct.  24. 

__       Ebenezer,  son  of  Samuel  Ilam. 

June         6.     Andrew  Elliot,  son  of  Jeremy  Belknap,  born  4"*  Inst: 
Timothy  "Winn,  son  of  Col.  John  Vv'aldron. 
Thomasin,  D'  of  Benj''  Peiree,  born  y*  same  day. 
July       25.     Dorothy  Frost,  D'  of  John  "Wentworth,  Esq. 
Dec''         5.     Nancy  »i:  Betsy  Hamilton,  children  of  Isaac  Watson. 

1780. 
Jan'y      27.     Samuel  Foss,  son  of  John  Barker,  at  the  Gore. 
Feb.       20.     Patty,  D^  of  Stephen  Evans,  Esq. 
July         9.     Mary,  Eleanor  I't  Kuth,  children  of  Ebenezer  Stacey. 
"         16.     Eunice,  D""  of  Ezra  Green,  born  y^  loth. 
Luke  Wentworth,  son  of  William  Brock. 
"         30.     INIary  Hanson,  aged  22. 
Aug.        2.     Nathaniel  Horn,  juu'',  aged  27. 
Sept.        8.     Samuel  &  Elizabeth,  Child"  of  Richard  Kimbal. 

Mary,  John,  Sarah  &  Isaac  Libbey,  children  of  Nath^    Horn, 
jun'',  at  a  Lecture  at  s*^  Horn's  house. 
"  20.     ^lary,  Sophia  Sc  Jeremy,  children  of  James  Guppy. 

Oct.        16.     Lydia,  Polly,  Samuel   &   Betsy,  children  of  George   Watson, 

baptized  by  Mr.  Buckminster. 
Dec'         5.     Elizabeth,  Lydia,  Benjamin,  Jonathan  &,  Joseph,  children  of 
Joseph  Whitehouse — at  his  own  house. 
«  17.     Rebecca,  D'  of  Ebenezer  Stacey. 

1781. 
Mar.      12.     Betsey,  D""  of  Joseph  Cate,  of  Barrington. 
April        8.     Gershom,  son  of  Jonathan  Bickford. 
June         3.     John,  son  of  Benjamin  Peirce. 
Aug.       19.     Dudley,  son  of  Nath^  Ham— born  y^  1V\ 
Sept.      30.     Deborah,  ^Vife  of  Aaron  Haves. 
October  21.     John  Wingate,  Jonathan  &,  Paul,  children  of  Aaron  Hayes. 

1782. 
Jan'y       6.     William  Siiackfcrd,  son  of  Nathaniel  Cooper,  born  y*  5"*. 
Feb.       10.     Hannah,  D' of  Isaac  Watson. 
June         9.     Paul,  son  of  John  Wentworth,  Esq. 
July       14.     Su^a,  Daiigli'' of  John  Widdrun. 
Aug.         4.     Ephraim,  son  of  Nath'  Ilurn.jun"'. 

Nov.       24.     Lydia.  "Wife  of  Dodavah  Ham,  &  her  children,  viz:  Nathaniel 
&  John.  . 


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1783 

Feb. 

1. 

April 

2. 

May 

18. 

Au-. 

24. 

f78i 

Jan. 

4. 

(( 

18. 

May 

9. 

July 

31. 

Octob. 

<j. 

1785 

Feb. 

'20. 

INIar. 

6. 

April 

10. 

June 

5. 

July 

3. 

Nov. 

20. 

Dec' 

13. 

1786 

, 

Jlarch 

26. 

July 

2, 

1786 

Dec. 

'  3. 

1787 

, 

Jan. 

21. 

(( 

28. 

April 

8. 

« 

15. 

June 

16. 

July 

8. 

(( 

8. 

Sept. 

2. 

u 

16. 

Oct. 

28 

u 

31 

Nov. 

11 

Ruth,  D""  of  Ebenf  Stacey — in  private. 

Abigail  ifc  M;i.ry,  tsviii  chiMreii  of  Jamos  Iloru — in  private. 

William,  son  of  Willijtn  r.rof:k. 

Reuben  Hayes,  sou  of  Ezra  Green. 

Samuel,  son  of  Natb'  Ham,  born  Dec  20.  •     - 

Lydia,  I)'  of  Deacon  Iknj*  Peirce,  born  Jan'y  1. 

Susanna,  D^  of  Ebeu^  Tebbetts,  born  y"  10'\ 

L}  dia,  D"'  of  Aaron  Hayes. — Robert,  son  of  George  "Watson. 

Judith,  D'  of  Gideon  Walker,  at  Massabt-sia 

Eleanor,  D'  of  Nath'  Horn,  jun^ 

John,  son  of  W"  Brock. 
John,  son  of  I^aac  Watson. 
Charles,  sou  of  Ezra  Green,  born  March  25. 
Joanna,  D"'  of  Ebenezer  Stacey. 
Richard,  son  of  Jonathan  liickford — in  private- 
Four  children  of  Nathan  Hunt  of  Newingtou,  viz :  Thomas, 

William,  Betty  and  Nathan. 
Andrew,  sou  of  Benjamin  Peirce,  born  y'  same  day. 

Charles,  son  of  Ebenezer  Tebbetts,  born  y'  17  Inst: 
Hannah  Ga;re. 


Baptisms  since  my  [Removal  to  Boston. 
Mary,  Daughter  of  Francis  Wright. 

Elizabeth  Eustis,  Daughter  of  Joshua  Gray. 

Sarah,  Daughter  of  Capt.  Weeks.  .    '  ••       ,  ■ 

Thomas,  son  of  John  lilackman. 

Lucretia,  D''  of  Martin  Coning. 

Mary,  D""  of  William  Woods,  baptized  by  Mr.  Jackson  of 
Brooklyn. 

Henry,  son  of  George  Geyer. 

Sarah,  D"'  of  Timothy  Heely. 

Clarissa,  Daughter  of  Henrv  Perkitt. 

Sally  Dickson,  Daugh'  of  W""  White,  Jr. 

Sally  Pons,  D^  of  Capt.  David  Hatch. 

John,  son  of  Capt.  Daniel  ^IcNeil. 

George,  son  of  William  Nichols,  &  Dorcas,  Daugh'  of  Abra- 
ham Adams. 


WnoFF — Wharf — Whokff. — Can  any  one  furnish  information  of  fatailieg^of  th® 
above  names  -whu  originated  in  Rowley,  Mass.?  A  branch  settieil  in  New  Hamp- 
shire, and  thence  went  to  Elaine,  where  the  descendants  now  live.  Can  any  one  tell 
the  origin  of  the  surname?  Were  they  English,  Irish  ur  German?  Those  now 
living  are  tall,  spare  and  quick  motioned,  and  have  long  Roman  noses. 

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loxg:^ieadow  (:vrASS.)  fa^hlies. 

Communicated  by  Willaud  S.  Aj,Lr.v,  E>i.,  of  East  Boston,  Maos. 
Records  of  Fa m ih'cs . 
T>RTXCIPALLY  such  us  liclcrii'..(l  to  Lon-ine.i(unv,  or  wrro 
■  JL  some  way  connected  with  those  families  ;  "containin'^r  date^  i>t' 
the  time  of  marrinires,  births  and  deaths,  and  some  ac.-onnt  of  v.hat 
became  of  the  children  of  the  several  families  so  far  as  thcje  several 
things  are  known. 

This  collection  is  taken  from  public  records  in  towns  in  which  the 

several  persons  were  born  or  resided  and  from  credible  information 

received  irom  individuals.     From  t.'ie  public  records  in  Sprln-fic-ld, 

the  greater  part  of  the  ancient  ii)formatioa  was  taken.     Jabez  Colton 

■  was  the  compiler  of  this  volume. 

[Page  2.]  :\rajor  "Walter  Ainsworch,  of  r.ongmpa.Iou-,  son  of  Nathan 
Ainswoith,  of  ^VuoL1^to^k,  wa.s  married  Julv  22,  17;)4,  to  Loice  Wood, 
d^xughter  of  Ilarbous  lIo\yard  Wood  and  Esther  his  wife,  of  Sooiers. 
Iheir  childreu: 

Ranslow,  born  June  SO,  1795;  Loice,  bora  ?da7  12.  1707-  W-^In-t  bora 
July  24  1799;  Alvari,  born  March  IG,  1794;  Sophia,  born  April  21,  1806; 
JNathan,  born  September  29,  1808. 

Stephen  Ashley,  of  Lon-meadow,  son  of  Joseph  and  Hannah  Ashlev.  of 
Springfield,  was  born  April  28,  1745,  and  was  married  February  14,  1771, 
to  Hannah  Cooley  daughter  of  George  Coolev.  of  Somers.     Their  children: 

SteplH^n  born  December  25,  1772,  died  August  8,  1775;  iSoah,  born 
June  1^  1^/4,  died  Aprd  2,  1800;  Hannah,  born  December  21,  1770; 
Hannah,  born  April  24,  1779;  Stepher,,  born  October  16,  1781;  Mary, 
born  June  2^,  1/84.  '  »  j? 

Hannah,  the  daughter,  was  married  September  17,  1709,  to  Cap^  Saniuol 
iving.     (See  page  1G4.)'  '■  '   '" 

Hannah,  the  mother,  died  October  26,  1802.  The  families  of  Xoah  and 
btephen  see  hereatter.     Stephen,  the  father,  died  March  21,  1820,  aged  75. 

Justin  Ashley,  of  Longmeadow,  son  of  David  and  Hannah  AshJpy,  of 

Spnngfaeld   was  oorn ^and  was  married  to  Love  Davis,  of  Staifbrd, 

daughter  of  Closes  Davis.     Their  children  : 

Joseph  born  December  14,  1788,  died  Oct.  26,  1830,  aged  42;  Moses, 
born  September  10,_1. 90  d.ed  Feb.  IC,  1791  ;  Sophia,  born  June  2,  1702 
died  March  <,  1 .  9o;  Allethea,  born  Sooteraber  IG,  1793;  died  April  26 
1812;  Amasa  born  March  25,  1796,  died  Aprd  6.  1797;  Sophv,  born 
?i?)?  1  ;  \\  \  ^^^^c  \'J>  ^P'"'-  -■^'  ^^"'^'  ^"^^^'^^^'  born  June  20, 
March  19,  1829,  age  b8. 

[Page  3.]  Capt.  Noah  Ashley,  son  of  Sterhon  and  Hai^nah  4shl-y 
(page  2),  was  mamed  Aup.t  31,  1798,  to  Nuamy  Field,  daughter  of  Oliver 
and  Ann  field  (page  130).     Children: 

be  found  eucluieJ  iu  Li-acket3.       °  =  '    '^""^  *°  *^"  P""'^'-^^  ^"^^  ""•" 


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Emelia,  born  May  27,  1799;  Aloxandor,  born  June  30,  1803;  N'^ah, 
bom  May  12,  180G. 

IS'aorny,  tho  motlier,  died  Octobc;r  21,  1807.  Her  dealii  was  occasioned 
by  a  sutlien  full  fioiii  a  wagon. 

Cajjt.  Noiih  A-sLlcy  was  uuirricd  again  1810,  to  Sarah  Douglcs. 

Stephen  Ashley,  of  Longmeadow,  son  of  Steplien  and  Ilannali  Ashley, 
was  married  Sei)temht:'r  12,  1805,  to  I'olly  Field,  danghter  of  (Jliver  and 
Ann  Field.     Tlieir  children  : 

Mary,  born  September  18.  1800;  Simeon,  born  ^lay  21,  1808;  Catha- 
rine, born  Feb.  11,  1820;  Harriet,  born  July  1.'),  1813;  Catharine,  born 
Sept.  1,  1824,  died  July  29,  1825,  aged  1  ;  Hannah  Cooley,  born  Jan.  27, 
1821. 

[Page  4.]  John  Atchin>on,  of  Longraeadow,  was  married  Feb.  25, 
1703,  to  Dorcas  Bart,  daughter  of  ^Nathaniel  and  Rebecca  Lurt  (page  21). 
Their  children :  ^ 

John,  born  October  12,  1704;  Benoni,  born  Nov.  10,  170G;  Nathaniel, 
born  Oct.  18,  1709;  Dorcas,  born  Aug.  22,  1711;  Mercy,  born  Sept.  28, 
1713;  Joshua,  born  Feb.  24,  1716;  It^xperieuce,  born  jNfay  1 G,  172i;; 
Deliverance,  Feb.  G,  1723. 

Jiihn  the  son  settled  in  Somers,  Benoni  in  Wilbraham,  Nathaniel  in  West 
Springfield.  Dorcas  was  married  July  4,  1754,  to  Joseph  Pomeroy,  of 
Suffield.  Deliverance  was  married  July  20,  1758.  Mercy  "VVarriner.  of 
"Wilbraham,  had  children  in  Longraeadow,  removed  to  Monson,  and  died  in 
that  town.  John  the  father  died  in  Brimfield,  Dorcas  his  widow  died  in 
Longraeadow,  October  21,  1770.  She  was  born  February  10,  1C80.  and 
died  above  90  years  of  age. 

Stephen  Avery,  of  Longraeadow,  son  of  Gardner  and  Amy  Avery,  for- 
merly of  ]Monson,  removed  to  Paria,  N.  Y.,  was  married  April  4,  lc'<»3,  to 
Mary  Stebbins,  daughter  of  Medad  and  Sarah  Stebbins  (page  202).  Their 
children : 

vS  a  rah.  born  December  13,1803;  Stephen  Stebbir  s,  born  December  2, 
180G  ;    Fidelia,  born  January  27,  181'';     Lucinda.   ooru  June   18.  1813. 

Stephen  Avery  died  October  7,  1813,  aged  37  years. 

Benjamin  Baxter,  son  of  Francis  Baxter,  of  Enfield,  was  married  Decem- 
ber 2»,  1780,  to  Mabel  Brown.     Their  children: 

Benjamin,  born  Aug.  23,  1781;  Alexander, ;  Hervy,  born  ^Liy 

16,  1765;  Ruth,  born  September  23,  1787;  Simeon,  born  November  21, 
1789  ;  Mabel,  born  August  21,  1791,  died  April  14,  1814;  Patty,  born  July 
22,  1793. 

Mabel,  the  mother,  died  August  6,  1793.  Benjamin  Baxter  was  married 
again,  January  22,  1794,  to  Hannah  Hale,  daughter  of  Silas  and  Hannah 
Hale  (see  page  140).     Their  children: 

Seth,  born  September  29, 1794.  Ruth  was  married  May  8, 1808,  to  Levi 
Hancock. 

[Page  5.]  Lieut.  Thaddeus  Billings,  of  Longraeadow,  son  of  Thaddeus 
Billings,  of  Somers.  was  married  November  14,  1778,  to  Rlioda  Terry, 
daughter  of  Samuel  Terry,  of  EntieM.     He  died  April  17,  1826. 

Thaddeus,  born   ;  Rhoda,  born . 

Rhoda  the  mother  died . ' 

Lieut.  Thaddeus  Billings  was  married  again  to  Ruth  Brown,  daughcer  of 


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David  T»rown,  of  Doiiglriss,  State  of  Massachusetts.  She  was  horn  Au-'u* 
1705.     'I'lieir  chiliheii :  ~     '' 

Ruth,  bom  October  11,  1787;  Reuben,  hnrn  f'ebriiarv  i;j,  1789;  J^f.,.; 
born  Deceiuber  2.3,  171)0,  tliod  Aiijjust  J.,  1827;  Sally,  horn  November  i'j' 
1792;  Orsemus,  horu  October  IC,  179!  ;  InciiL-i,  born  JVovembcr  \-2,  17;io.' 
Cynthia,  born  February  G,  1799;  Harry,  horu  March  2,  1801;  Lyuiui' 
born  Uaw  4,  180;3.  "'    '    ' 

Rhoda  the  daughter  was  married  January  1 6,  1803,  to  Abner  Pratt.  Rutij 
the  daughter  was  married  January  27,  1807,  to  Joseph  JMcGregory  (sc: 
page  1G8).  *         "     ' 

'J'haddeus   Billings,  of   Lorigmeadow,   son   of   Lieut.  Tliaddeus   Billiu'n 

above,  was  married  ]80.'>  to  Mercy  Waters,  of  Somers,  dau^-htfer  of. 1. 

Their  children : 

]\[ercy.  bora  December  4,  1804;  Warren,  born  February  12,  1807. 

[Pages  G  and  7  are  l)l;ink.  Page  8.]  Tlmmas  Bliss  died  at  Hartford  ; 
one  of  his  sons  went  to  Norwich.  Ct.,  and  was  the  ancestor  of  Col.  Bliss 
the  son-in-law  of  President  Taylor.  The  widow  of  Thomas  Bliss  wan 
Margaret,  wiio  camo  to  Spriugdeld  with  her  four  sous  ISuihaniel,  Lawrcnc-o, 
Saniuel,  JoIk;. 

Thomas  Bliss  was  married  to  Elizabeth  at  iho  latter  end  of  Oct.,  IGii. 

Klizabeth,  born  Nov.  20,  1G4.3;  Sara,  born  Aug.  20,  1G47:  Mary,  bora 
Feb.  7,  1G49;  Thomas,  born  March  o,  1  G.:)2  :  Deliverance,  born  the  begin- 
ning of  August,  IG.3.3;  Samuel,  born  Dec.  9,  IG.37  (see  [Hist,  and]  Gen. 
Reg.,  vol.  iv.  p.  20,  Thomas  Bliss  ;   vol.  i.  p.  .315,  Norwich,  IGGO). 

[Page  9.]     Blisses.     First  generation  in  Springfield. 

Amongst  the  early  inhalntants  of  Springfield  is  a  family  of  Blisses.  The 
name  of  tlie  father  of  this  family  is  not  mentioned  in  the  pubiick  records, 
and  it  is  probable  that  he  died  before  they  came  to  tnis  town.  Two  of  the 
sons  first  married  called  their  eldest  sons  by  the  name  of  Samuel,  hence  it 
is  probable  that  was  the  name  of  their  father.  The  mother's  name  was 
Margr.ret.  The  cliildren,  some  known  to  be  cf  th^  same  family  i>y  the 
records,  and  all  supposed  to  belong  thereto,  were  as  ' ol'ows : 

Nathaniel,  s\\\o  died  November  8,  1654;  Lawrence,  who  died  1G7G; 
Samuel,  who  died  March  23,  1720;  John,  who  died  Sept.  10,  1702.  M-ary 
was  married  to  Joseph  Parsons,  November  2,  1646;  Sarah  was  married  to 
John  Foot  July  20,  IG.39  ;  Hester  was  niarried  to  Edward  Foster  December 
26,  1661 ;   Elizabeth  was  married  to  Sevy  Morgan  P'ebruarv  15,  1670. 

Hannah  died  January  25,  16G1.  The  widow°i\Iargaret  Bli«s.  the  mother, 
died  August  28,  1684.     The  families  of  the  sons  were  as  follows : 

2nd  Generation.  Nathaniel  Bliss,  of  Springfield,  son  of  the  before  men- 
tioned family,  was  married  November  20,  1646,  to  Catharine  Chapin,  daugh- 
ter of  Deacon  harauel  Chapin.     Their  children  were  : 

Samuel,  born  November  7,  1647,  died  June  19,  1749,  a^red  102:  Mar^-aret, 
born  November  12,  1649,  died  April,  1745;  Mary,  born  Septembti^-  2j! 
1651 ;  Nathaniel,  burn  Murch  27.  lG5u,  died  December  2.3,  l7o6  ;  Nathaniel, 
the  father,  died  November  8,  1654.  Catharine,  his  widow,  was  married 
July  31,  1G55,  to  Thomas  Gilbert,  and  had  by  him  four  children.  Thomas 
Gilbert  dying  June  5,  1662,  she  was  again  m-trried,  December  28.  1664,  to 
Samuel  Marshlield,  and  by  him  she  i^.a(i  three  children,  and  she  died  Feb.  -4, 
1712.  The  famdies  of  the  sons  (see  pages  10  «.t  11).  MarL'aret  was 
married  to  Natiianiei  Foot,  of  Colchester.  Mary  was  married,  Februai-y  27, 
1G70,  to  Nathaniel  Holcomb. 


,A. 


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1877.]       Abstracts  of  the  Earliest  Wills  in  Svjjolh.  321 


ABSTRACTS   OF   THE   EAllLTEST  WILLS   ON  RECORD,  OK 

ON  THE  FILES  IN  THE  COUNTY  OF  SUFFOLK, 

MASSACIILSETTS. 

Prepared  by  Wilmam  B.  Tkask,  Esq.,  of  Boston. 

[Continued  from  page  179.] 

William  Paddv. — Leonard  Dowden*  and  Thomas  Paddy,  both  of  Bos- 
ton, principalis,  in  the  Sum.'  of  two  hundred  pounds,  and  Benjamin  Davis 
and  Daniel  Tuiill,  jun'.,  of  Boston,  Sureties,  in  one  hundred  pounds  apiece, 
bound  unto  Edward  TynL%  Esq.,  Treasuro'.  for  the  County  of  Suti'olke,  in 
New  England,  July  10,  lOSO,  to  administer  on  the  remaining  esta,te  of  M' 
William  Faddy,  their  Father,  Dece'^.  (formerly  under  y*^  charge  of  Cap*°. 
Tho:  Willett  and  Cap'°.  W"  Davis  Exeouto'^  of  y'  last  will  of  s^  m^  Paddy) 
according  to  Law,  &c.  [Signed  by  the  above  parties  and  witnessed  by  Is*. 
Addington  Clor.] 

See  abstract  of  the  Will  of  William  Paddy  and  the  inventory  of  his  estate, 
Register,  viii.  355;  vii.  330.  (File,  No.  180.) 

George  RcGGLES. — [Petition  of  his  widow.]  I  woldc  desier  the  honerod 
Courte  that  thay  wolde  be  pleased  to  take  in  to  Consideration  rtiy  youngest 
sonn,  as  touching  his  fathers  desier  Conseruing  the  hauing  of  the  ono  side 
of  his  fathers  house  which  was  well  knowtn  to  be  his  minde,  and  all  the  Post 
haue  had  somthing  alredy  and  he  is  now  unprouided  for  in  Respect  he  is  a 
yong  man  and  must  be  w  ith  mee  to  helpe  mee,  and  John  nuten  liiing  in  the 
house  with  vs  while  my  husband  was  yet  lifing  Cane  tcstifi  that  it  was  hise 
desier  it  sholde  so  be,  and  Elizebeth  Ellis  liveing  by  one  of  ouer  naibers  Can 
also  testifi  [tol  the  same. 

The  Testimony  of  Elizebeth  Ellis,  ageed  about  Twenty  four  yeers,  this 
deponaut  sayth,  that  shee  heard  Gorg  KugeK  say.  about  Two  or  Three  yeers 
since,  thf  t  his  Son  Samuell  should  haue  his  house,  and  firther  sayeth  not. 
'    ■■         Taken  vppon  Oath  this  27  July  IGCO, 

before  Jer:  Howchin  Coniiss. 

.  e^.  -  (File,  No.  194.) 

Le"vv7S  Martyn. — [Power  of  Attorney.]  Bee  It  knowne  vnto  all  men 
by  these  pn'ts.  That  on  the  Second  day  of  the  month  of  December  in  the 
yeare  of  our  Lord  one  thousand  six  hundred  fifty  and  nyne.  Before  me, 
John  Daniell,  notary  and  tabellioy  publick,  dwelling  in  this  Citty  of  London, 
admitted  and  sworne,  and  in  the  presence  of  the  witnesses  here  after  named 
personally  appeared,  John  Andrews,  Cittizen  and  marchantailor  of  London, 
principall  Legatary  of  the  Estate  of  Late  Lewis  Martin,  deceased,  in  his  hfe 
time  of  London,  marchant,  who  dyed  in  his  voyage  goeing  to  New  engiand. 
The  which  appearer  hath  in  the  best  manner  and  forme  unto  him  possible 
niade,  ordained,  constituted,  and  appointed,  and  by  these  presents  in  his  stead 
and  place  doth  make,  ordaine,  constitute,  and  appointe  i\P  Robt-rt  Gibbs, 
marchant,  at  present  resideing  in  New  England,  his  true  and  Lawfull 
Atturny,  Glueing  and  liy  these  presents  iirauntiug,  vnto  his  said  Atturay, 
full  power  and  authority  for  him  Constituant,  and  in  his  name,  and  to   His 

•  Leonard  Dowder.  rcairioil  Merer,  daughter  of  "tV'iUiam  Paddv.    He  died  in  16S2,  and 
Ins  wiuow  died  March  11,  IC'Ji. 


wl 


...     d.J    'V 


322  Will  ofTloheH  Fitt.  [Julv, 

vse,  to  aske,  demannd,  renouiier.  and  receauo,  of  whatsoeuer  person  or  ixr- 
Bons  as  of  rii;iiL  shall  appertaine,  all  SutntJiL!  and  Summ<,'S  of  moiiriv,  "(jod^ 
Estate,  Lauds,  houses,  Chattell,  Cattell,  and  other  things  what  soeuor  which' 
are  bequeathed,  deuised.  giuen,  or  Legated  vnto  the  said  John  Andrewcs 
by  the  said  Lewis  .^Lartill,  deceased.  And  of  the  recouerj'es  aud  receipts  to 
giiie  aoquitanced  or  other  Suflicient  discharges,  which  shall  bee  soe  firujo 
and  uallid  as  if  liee,  Con^tituaut,  himselfe  had  made  and  passed  the  same. 
And  if  neede  bee,  by  reason  of  the  premisses,  to  appeare  in  any  Court  of 
Justice  there  to  wSue,  Implead,  arrest,  Seaze,  Sequester,  attache,  imprison  and 
to  Condemne,  and  out  of  pri^-on  againe  to  deliuer,  And  generally  in  and 
Concerning  the  premisses  to  doe  all  things  which  hee,  C'on.stituant,'iiim.selfo, 
might  or  Could  doe,  beeing  personnaliy  present,  with  power  to  substitute 
one  or  more  Atturnyes  vmier  him,  with  like  or  Limudtted  power,  and  the 
Same  agrune  to  reuoake.  And  hee,  Constituant,  doth  promise  to  rattifv,  con- 
Crme,  and  hold  for  vallid,  all  &  what  soeuer  his  Said  Atturny  and  his  Sub- 
stitutes shall  lawfully  doe,  or  cause  tx)  bee  donne,  in  t<;  about  the  premisses 
bj  these  p'nts.  In  witnesse  where  of,  the  said  Constituant  hath  Sif^ned, 
Scaled  and  deliuered,  these  p'nts.  Thus  donne  and  passed  in  this  said  Citr.y 
of  London,  in  the  presence  of  the  persons  vnder  written,  witnesses  hereunto 
Called  acd  required.  Joux  Andkkws. 

John  Winder 

P.  Whetcomb  \  Qnodatt  escor 

Francis  Parson  rogatus  et  Requisitua 

W-  Allen  ^ 

1659       '-^  ;•■      ■ 
James  Whetcombe  Io=".  Daniell,  Not.  Pub-". 

■    1659.  (FUe,  No.  211.) 

See  inventory  of  the   Goods  of  Lewis  Martine,  deposition  of  Thomas 
Irapp,  &c.,  Eegister,  x.  87. 


WILL   OF   ROBERT   FITT. 

Communicated  by  Henry  F.  Waters,  A.B.,  of  Salem,  Mass. 

I  Robert  ffitt  being  Infirme  of  body  but  through  Gods  mercv  Injoying 
my  understanding  &  memory  and  not  knowing  how  soone  the  Lord  may  call 
me  out  of  this  world  doe  make  this  my  last  will  and  Testament  as  foloweth: 
first  1  committ  my  soule  into  the  hands  of  Jesus  Christ  mv  blessed  Redeemer 
m  hope  of  a  Joytull  resurrection  ;  my  bodv  to  be  desentl'v  buryed  where  the 
Lord  shall  dispose  my  departure  to  be  And  for  mv  outward  estate  that  God 
hath  lett  me  to  eujoye  I  thus  doe  dispose  Those  household  <^oods  and  estate 
which  my  wife's  mother-^  left  and  gave  to  mv  wife  I  promised  mv  wife  that 
shee  shall  have  them  to  dispose  otf  amongst  her  kindred  as  she  shall  thinko 
meete  The  rest  of  my  estate  I  doe  thus  dispose  mv  will  is  that  mv  sona 
Abraham  tiitt  shall  have  the  neck  of  Land  att  Salsbury  which  was'  latelv 
Bould  unto  Lionell  worth  but  returned  back  &  in  the  possesion  of  mv  tcn- 
nant  and  a.soe  I  ^^w.e  unto  him  thai  pcell  of  meddow  at  Salsburv  which  was 
purchased  of  my  brother  Willm  Barnes  Alsoe  I  giue  unto  m>  savd  sonn 
Abraham  all  my  armes  as  alsoe  my  beetle  &  wedges  iS:  chaines  plo'w  irons 

w^n^'^?hil^'^'''^,^'''T'''''P^^^''^''^'^°  '""^'^^^  a'  Ipswich  as  earlv  as  1537,  and  wlio 
was  probably  the  wido^-  Lord  who  died  in  Salisbury  12,  3,  1650  (see  REb.,  viii.  159;.-Ed. 


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1877.]  Genealogical  Waifs.  323 

and  implements  of  liusbandry  w"^''  are  fill  reflye  in  \\h  bauds  And  I  doe 
giuc  tV  buciucutli  uiiLo  uiy  buLved  wife  CI  nice  J//'^*  my  liou:^c  and  all  the  rest 
uf  my  lands  at  Salsbury  botli  nicdovv  &  upland  with  all  the  a|)pertenan(;e3 
&,  p'veledges  therunto  belonging  as  ulsoe  the  Intrest  I  have  iu  the  house  «fc 
laud  I  now  live  in  heere  iu  Ipswich  with  all  my  moveabls  <k,  househoidd 
etufe  and  my  two  cowes  Sc  rest  of  my  estate  and  all  this  1  di)e  givo  unto  her 
dureing  her  uatuiall  life  &  then  to  returue  unto  my  sonu  Abraham  and  his 
heires  for  ever  and  I  doe  constitute  and  apoyut  my  beloued  wife  Grace  flitt 
to  be  sole  executrix  of  this  ray  last  will  and  testament  In  wittnes  wherof  I 
have  sett  my  hand  and  scale  this  lifth  day  of  January  one  thousand  six 
hundred  sixty  three  1603 

Signed  &  Sealed  in  .       Robartt  ffitt     (Seal) 

the  p''sence  of  us 

Robert  Lord 
Thomas  Lord 

Ipswich  June  26""  1GG.3.  Robert  Lord,  &  Thomas  Lord,  the  subscribers 
as  witnesses  to  this  in?trum',  being  sworne  do  say  that  IJobert  fiitt  decead, 
being  of  sound  Jn.dgeiTu  &  memory  signed,  sealed,  &  declared  this  as  his  last 
will  &  testamt;  and  that  they  know  of  no  other. 

Before  us  Sai^iukl  Symonds 

Daniel  Denison 

The  above  will  is  on  file  in  the  Essex  County  Probate  Office  at  Salem. 
The  v.ills  in  this  office  at  that  date  are  arranged  alphabetically. 

In  Essex  Co.  Court  Papers,  B.  12,  L.  102,  &c.,  in  the  case  of  "  Grace 
fitt  agst  P^dw:  Gove,"  the  following  paper  is  found  : 

M'  verren  my  respects  p'sented  I  haue  hccre  inclossed  the  coppy  for  Capt:  Smith 
as  I  p'mised  take  j-ou  the  pay  for  it,  And  I  pray  eend  me  those  copie3  I  wrote  in  my 
sisters  ca^e  signed  under  your  hand  by  this  bearrer  Julm  Brewer  not  elce  but  re- 
maine  Yours  to  serve  Robert  Lord. 

July  1  67 
for  his  loveing  friend  1  M,  Hillyar  verren  at  |  his  house  in  Salem  [  these  p'sent. 

Then  follow  sundry  depositions  and  other  papers  cor  :erniiig  the  matters 
in  dispute  between  Grace  Fitts  and  Edw.  Gove ;  among  which  one  by 
Abraham  Fitt  speaking  of  the  complainant  as  his  mother,  and  a  deposition 
of  Robert  Lord,  aged  about  64  years,  in  which  he  calls  her  ''  my  sister 
Grace  fitt."     25-4-67. 


'     ——  GENEALOGICAL  WAIFS. 

Commnnicated  bv  Col.  Joseph  Lemuel  Chestek,  F.E..H.S.,  of  London,  England. 

Prerogative  Court  of  Canterbimi. 

Letters  of  administration  of  the  estate  of  Henry  Taylor,  late  of  St. 
Margaret's,  "Westminster,  but  who  died  in  Virginia,  granted  to  Joan  Taylor, 
his  relict,  May  17,  1677. 

Ditto,  of  the  estate  of  Daniel  Taylor,  late  of  St.  Martin's,  Ludgate,  Lon- 
don, but  who  died  in  2IaryLmd,  granted  to  his  sister  Anne  Yates,  July  24, 
1677, 

Ditto,  of  the  estate  of  Margaret  Rogers,  of  Ipswich,  in  New  England,, 
widow,   granted    to  William    Hubbard,   principal    creditor.     (The    former 

*  First  wrivten  Lord^  through  which  a  hne  is  drawn,  and  ffitt  written  over  it. — n.  p.  "W. 


N      ■;   .-'i  i: 


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324  Genealogical  Waifs.  [July, 

doubtless  tlin  willow  of  Tiov.  Nathaniel  Rogers,  and  the  latter  the  historian 
of  New  Eiiglaiul,  uho  la  tfrieJ  his  daughter.  Siie  was  probal)ly  entitled 
to  property  in  J'^iiglaud  through  her  father.)     Granted  March  21,  1C77-8. 

Ditto,  of  the  estate  of  John  Adams,  of  St.  Stephen's  Coleman  Street,  Lon- 
don, but  formerly  of  IJostou,  New  England,  granted  to  Ann  Adams,  his 
relict,  Dec.  17oS. 

Parisu  Registers. 

St.  Mary  Magdalen' s,  Bermondsey,  co.  Surrey. 
16o4-5,   ^Nfch.   7.      Buried,  Samuel  Lame  (Qy.  Lamb?),  "a  New  Eng- 
land man." 
1698,  Aug.  30.     Married  :   Ezekiel  Turner,  Bach\  a  mariner,  of  Boston,  in 
New  England,  but  at  present  of  Rotherhithe  (co.  Surrey),  and  Elizabeth 
Starter,  widow,  at  Mr,  Neele's  in  Rotherhithe.     By  license. 
Na^-estock,  co.  Essex. 
1639,  DfC.  15.    Baptized:  "  John,  grandchild  of  Thomas  Coale,  ajt.  3  yearea 
of  age,  w*^*^'  came  out  of  New  England," 
St.  Mary's,  Newimjtoii,  co.  Surrey. 
l67o-4,  Feb.  24.     Buried:   Thomas  North,  a  New  England  man. 
1682,  Oct.  16.     Married:  Robert  Yard  and  Isabella  Lewis,  late  of  Virginia. 

St.  George's,  Bloomsbury,  co.  Middlesex. 
1808,  Apl.  26.     James  Temple  Bowdoiu,  Esq.,  of  Boston,  in  the  State  of 
Massachusetts,  North  America,    Bachelor,  and  Mary  Dickason  of  this 
parish.  Spinster.     By  license. 
St.  Antholin's,  London. 
1638,   Oct.    18.     Christened:     Jane,  dau.  Urian   and  Jone  Oakes. 
Buried  Dec.  18,  same  year. 

of  ditto. 


1640, 

Aug. 

23, 

Christened 

:  Urian,    son 

1642, 

Sept. 

1, 

« 

Sarah,   dau. 

1644, 

June 

4, 

a 

Mary,       " 

1647, 

May 

11, 

u 

Mary,        " 

1(49, 

Apl. 

2, 

iC. 

Thomas,  son 

1650, 

Dec. 

17, 

li 

Hannah,  dau. 

1652, 

June 

10, 

(C 

James,     son 

1653, 

Aug. 

26, 

(( 

Hannah,  dau. 

1654-5, 

Mch. 

6, 

Buried : 

Thomas,  son 

1655, 

May 

5, 

u 

Thomas,    " 

1665, 

Sep. 

27, 

« 

Jone  Okes. 

1643,  Apl.  13. 

'•  Sarah 

Clegat  maried  by  a   Capt 

home." 

sic. 


If  the  relationship  between  Edward  Rawson.  the  Secretary  of  the  Colony 
of  Massachusetts  Bay,  and  Rev,  John  Wilson,  the  first  preacher  of  Boston, 
be  still  only  conjectural,  it  may  interest  their  descendants  to  know  that  I  am 
able  to  proce  the  fact.  Edward  Rawson's  mother  was  Margaret,  the  sister 
of  Rev.  John  ^Vilson.  Tiieir  parentage  is  of  course  well  known.  She  re- 
married William  Taylor,  a  wealthy  "  citizen  and  haberdasher  "  of  London. 
The  marriage  settlement  (whether  ante-  or  post-nuptial  I  am  unable  to  de- 
termine) was  dated  March  23,  1623-4.  She  had  ihree  children  by  Taylor, 
and  died  evidently  about  1627,  as  Taylor's  eldest  son  by  a  sub^C'iuent  wife 
was  of  age  as  early  as  May,  1G49.  (Consult  '•  The  Taylor  Family,"  by 
P.  A.  Taylor,  Esq.,  ]\I.P.,  a  copy  of  which  is  in  the  library  of  the  Massa- 
diusetts  Historical  Society.) 


'•T       VMmV^    '»,,      Mi,!,    I'     ) 


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[Continued  from  page  217.] 

Baptized     1718  I  lU     —  Tage  330  — 

-Mary  I)  of  mr  William  &  Sarali  Pinion    —  —  Pinfon 

Tahitha  I)  of  m^  John  &  Smith        —  —  Smith 

Ai)i':ail  P.   of  II''-  l>i-nj.  \-  Al-iLMUU'at^  ^11  Waters 
William    |    Thomas    |    llauah    |    Crouch^ 

Adult  ])erron8  —  Crouch 

?l^il:!!!^l^_?l^^J^^''^''^  ^^ '^^■"'^^^'' ^■"•-'''^  —  Precd 

John  S. _o f  I n '^. J oiuTsTS^'arr. dTT iic k c r     ~  —  "Tucker" 

Nathaniel  S.  of  nl^  ElUa/T^S'LyfrurPJilllips  —  Phillips 

Edward  S.  of  ni*-  Edward  &"  LydinTLarkin^  —  Larkin 

Samuel  S.  of  Henry  &  Hafiali  Pu<T<Ie        ^^^^  —  Bodge 

Timothy  S.  of  ra"-  John  &  Call         —  —  Call" 

Abi-ail'l).  of  m^  Samuel  &  Abigail  Webb  —  "W^ebb 

Powers 


D 

26 


John  S.  of  nl^  Tho.  it  Powers        —     ■ 

P^i:r]^i^-_^°il_^''^i[^£P^^li^  Blatchford    Blatchford 

John  S.  of  m"-  John  (Si  Larkin  —     —     —      Larkin 

Rebecca  P.  of  m'"  John  &  Ptuth  Stimpfon.        —      Stimpfon 
Nathaniel.  S.  of  m^  Chrifto')""  &  i^Iiiry     —     —      Goodwin 
Jofeph  S.  of  Rev'i.  m^  Jolepli  &  m  Sarah        —      Stevens 
Mary  P.  of^m""  Benj.  &  Mercy  Frothc^ham       —      Frothingham 
Abigjiil  P.  of  m^  Thoma^ ^'Margarit  Taylor  —      Taylor 

Kervd 
Sprague 
Swan 


Timothy  S.  of  m"^.  Timothy  &  Read  jn"-  — 

Richard  S.  of  m'  Jn"^  &  Sprague     —    — 

Abigail  P.  of  Timothy  &  Swan       —     — 


Baptized  1719         —  Page  331  — 

Jfaac  S.  of  m'  Willia  &  Abig'.  Smith      —     — 
Margarit  P.  of  Tho  Greaves  Efqr  &  m'.  Sibyl  w. 
Thankful  P  of  m^  &  Thanlcful         —     — 

P.  of  nV  Jofeph  &  Sarah  Grant       —     — 


Mar\ 


Nathaniel  S.  of  ni''  Zaehari;di  ^S;  :\iildred  —     — 


Jacob  S.  of  m'  Adam  &  Rchl  [Rachel]  Waters 
Barnabas  S.  of  m^.  Barnabas  ic  Eiiz.  Pavis     — 


13 


27 
12 


Poreas  P.  of  m"^  John  6c  Porcas  Soly 
John  I  iSc  [  Chriftopher  | 

S.  of  m""  Chrii'topher  &  Rebecca 
Jonathan  S  of  m"-  Stephen  Bad:;er     — 


Richard  S.  of  m"-  Richard  &  Mary  Whittamore 
Penelope  P.  of  m^  William  &  Ilauah  Botrli     — 
John.  S.  of  m^  John  6c  Sarah  Carter       —     — 


Jofeph  S.  of  ui^  Jofeph  \-  Eliz.  Phillips  —  — 

Thomas.  S.  of  rar  James  &  Eliz.  Flewcher  — 

James  S.  of  John  &  Login        —     —  — 

Samuel  S.  of  Samuel  &  Marv  Harris        —  — 

Mildred  P_of  m--  Jofeph  &     '        Rand      —  — 

Thomas  S.  of  m^  Samuel  cV:  Suauah  f?]  Hill  — 

5  iJohn  ^>.  of  Thonra.^  ii  Marv  Pinh      —     —  — 


Mai-v  P  of  .Mau.-^field  A: 


Taply  —    —    — 


Henry  S.  of  m'  Henry  .Sc  Sarah  Pavis      —  — 

Richard  S.  of  tvJ  Richard  (Sc  Sarah    —     —  — 

\V'iiliam  S.  of  m^  AViiliam  .S:  Ruth  Pady  —  — 
29 


Smith 
Greaves 
Chamberlain 
"  Grant 

■  Pavis 
Waters 
Pavis 
Soly 

Mastin 

Badger 

A^Tiittamore 

Bottrel 

Carter 

■  Phillips 
Flewcker 
Lo^in 
Harris 
Rand 
Hill 
Piah 
Taply 
Davis 
Randol 
Dady 


:A 


I 
I 


32G     Record-Booh  of  the  First  Church  in  Charlestown.     [July, 


A 

Not 

Dece"** 


1719-20 
Jan 


Feb 

Marcli 
April 


1720 

M 

Apr' 


Ml 


lune 


Iul7 


Au£ 


M 

1720 


17101  Baptized  1719         — Paj'e332  — 

I) 

22   JchailaD.  of  m' Jofcph  &  Auftin—  — 

_29_!Charle_s^  '^llJ^Li^''- J^'^"5L &  Rebecca  Kiiffel  — 

27   iJofujih  S.  o£  m'  Jol'eph  &  Dorothy  Kij7ltlr,  ^ 

jJolin  S.  of  m"'  John  &  IlaHah  Fulker,       —  — 

F^iizaheth  D  of  m''  (ioor'.'c  <S:  Abijcail         —  — 

i^ich'.'  (polt  nuitris  cuiifuffione)  D  of  Efthcr,  — 

_ K  ^^^^-^i  of"nv-"iroDry  &  ~ 

10    Sauiuel  S  of  in''  Jol'eph  &  Tdary  Wou<l       —  — 


Wheelr,    — 
.•  Wou<l 
17  j Grace  I),  of  mr  John  ii  Grace  Newel 
24    Jofiah  S.  of  m''  James  &  Mary  Aul'tin 
Elizabeth  D.  of  m''  Nath  c^c  Eliz  \V'ater3. 


31  Abif:jail  I),  of  m''  John  i*c  Grace  Eads  —  — 
_  Lydia.  D.  of  m'  Richd  &c  _  Bylftou  —  — 
7  i  Samuel  S.  of  ni'"  John  &  lo'.  Mary  Fowl —    — 


U 


D 

17 

17 
17 


2-t 


John  S.  of  lur  John  &  M'.  i'arnel  Codraan       — 
Edward  S.  of  m'  John  &  Bethiah  Taylor  —     — 

Samuel  S. 


>i  m''  Siuiiiu.!  & 
m''  James  &  Mary  Kettcl      — 


Jfaac  S.  of  Ri-  Jfaac  &  Grace  Parker        — 
Robert  S.  of  Robert  &  INIartha  Trevit      — 
Ebenez^  S  of  m^  Ebenezf  &  Ilah  Breed  — 
c    /,      )■  children  of  m^  John  &  Fran. 


Baptlzd 


Pajre  333  — 


Anderfon  Adams 

and  his  2  Sifters    i    aj  u      _r 
.,•     -Ill  >  Adult  perlons 

Abigail  Adams       j  ^ 

Mary  Adams  J 


Au?     28 


William  S.  of  m"'.  William  &  Katharine  —  — 

Samuel  S.  of  Samuel  (jun^)  (Sc  Ruth  Adams  — 

Oldham  S  of  m''  Samuel  Ci  Frothioh  — 

Timothy  .S.  of  m'^  Samuel  Sc  Trumble  ^^ 

Jofeph  S.  of  m''  Jol'eph  &  Lewis      —  — 

Hanah  D.  mr.  William  &  Hoppin<;  —  — 


Ezekiel  S.  of  ir.  Ezekicl  & 


CheeV       — 


Maximilian  S.  of  m''  Maximilian  &  Sarah  Dows 
Slartha  L).  of  Andrew  6c  Mullet 

Thomas  S.  of  m^  Jonathan  &  Sarah  Kendal 
Hauah  I),  of  m''  Jofeph  Froft  — 

:Mary  D.  of  m-"  Tho:  &  Ilauah  Moufal 


Rebecca  D.  of  m.'  Joieph  &  Ruth  Hopkins  — 
HaJiah  1).  of  m'.  Thomas  &  Elizabeth  ^^^^  ^^ 
Anne  L).  of  m''  Stephen  it  Anne  Bad'^er  —  — 
Dorcas  D.  of  m^  John  ic  ^lary  Gary  —  — 
Samuel  S.  of  m""  Timothy  &  Abicrail  Goodwin  — 
Mary  D.  of  Al"^  John  &  Penny  —     — 

Eaptiz'd  1720        —  Page  334  — 
Mar'^arit  k  '^'"^^  °^  ^^  Jofeph  &  Anue  Newel 


Auftin 
Rufjei 

Kidder 

Fulker 

Darhng 

Nichols 

Wheeler 

Wood 

Newel 

Auftin 

AV'aters 

Eads 

Boylfton 

Fowl 

Codman 

Taylor 

Fofdick 

—  Kettel 

—  Parker 

—  Trevit 

—  Breed 

—  Phillips 


Adama 

Sweetzer 

Adams 

Frothingham 

Trumball 

Lewis 

Hopping 

Cheever 

Dows 

Mullet 

Kendal 

Frolt 

Moufal 

Hopkins 

Welfh 

Badger 

Carf. 

Goodwin 


Penny 


Newel- 


'-    r      1    !-cA.    W 


I'       .      I  •.    ./ 


aul 


1877.]     JRccord-Booh  of  the  First  Chtirch  in  Charlestoicn.     327 


Sep' 


Octob' 


Novem^ 


■1 
IT'''' 


18 


16 

'so" 


"27" 


Decern''     n 
"25' 


M 

1720|l 
Janury 


Feb. 


March 


1721 

March 


D 


April 


M 
April 


—  Page  334  {Condudrd).  — 
Afary  D.  of  Thomas  &  Mary  Hawkins      — 
Martira  J),  of  rll^  William  ^i;"MarTlia        ~— 
Mary  D.  of  liichunl  it  (irace  Otis    —     — 
Hauah  1).  of  m""  Andrew  &  Al)t'. 
Mary  D.  of  m^.  Thouias  & 
S'lfafiali  D  of  Hobort  & 


Mary        —     —     — 


Kichaid  S.  of  ni''  Richard  jun''.  &  Sarah  —  — 

Gideon  S.  of  J5orij.  &  Alice  Woodwel       —  — 

George  S.  of  ui'"  Georije  &  Katharine        —  — 

William  S.  of  Henry  &  —  — 

Richard  S.  of  ir''  Richard  &  A  —  — 

Richard  S.  of  \n^  Richard  &  Marv  —  — 


Smith 


Benjamin  S.  of  m""  John  (t 
Robert.  S.  of  ni' John  &:  Eliz  Stanly         — 
Abi;:;ail  D  of  ui''  Elins  Stone  jun  &  Abij^ail 
Hannah  D  of  \\V  Richard  ii  Mary  — 

Sarjh  I)  of  AnJcrfou  6;  — 

William  S.  of  m''.  William  6c  Abi'^rail  Grub 
Ecthiah  D.  of  m^  Samuel  &  Ab.  "     Webb 


Baptized  1720  |  21 


—  Ease  335  — 


Mary  D.  of 


&  Mary  Hut  ton 


Anne  D.  of  ru'  Juhn  &  ^lary  Larkiu  — 
Edward  S.  of  in""  John  &  Haiiah  Simens  — 
Benjamin  S.  of  m''  Benj.  &  Abigail  Waters 
Stephen  |  Jofoph  |  Claudius  [ 

Sons  of  m^  Stephen  &  Mary  Butcher  — 
Anne  D.  of  m''  George  &  Hanah  Minors  — 


Timothy  S.  of  m^  John  &:  Call    — 

Jami^s  S.  of  m"".  Jobu  (jun'')  &  Anne  Raid 
JMaiy  D.  of  m'"  Thomas  oc  Brazier 

Siirah  D.  of  m'.  Narh.~& 


o 
19*J» 


gtti 


15 


D 


23 


31 

7tll 


Leman         — 


Andrew  S.  of  m"".  David  &  Townfend  — 

Anne  D  of  m''  Stephen  &  Anne  Elall         —  — 

Jofeph  ,S.  of  m"'.  Benj.  &  Hurd     —  — 

Elizabeth  D.  of  ra".  James  &  Fowl  —  — 


Jofiah  S.  of  m'' Joieph  VVhitamore  ju""    — 

STfaCairD.  of  tiV  Abel  i  SuaiTfairPilfburv     — 


Samuel  S.  of  m'.  John  &  Spra.:ne  —     — 

Sarah  D.  of  m'  Jonathan  &  Sarah  Phillips  — 
Elizabeth  D.  of  m""  Barnabas  &  Eliz.  Davis  — 
John  S.  of  m''.  John  &  Stimpfon      —     — 

Winnefred  D.  of  m"'.  Michael  li:  WiCefred  Brigd 


Baptized  1721 


Paore  336  — 


Hawkins 

Abraliiun 

Otis 

Newel 

Frotliiugham 

Fofkit 

Fofter 

^Voodwel 

Barrow 

Pounding 

Kettcl 

Sutton 

Smith 

Stanly 

Stone 

Miller 

Aildnms 


—      Webb. 


Plutton 
Larkin 

Simraens 
Water;j 

Butcher 

Minors 

CaU 

Rand 

Brazier 

Leman 

Towfej 

Hall 

Hurd 

Fo.vI    ■ 

"Whitamore 

Pillbury 

Sprague 

Phillips 

Davis 

Stimpfon 

Bridcren 


Elizabeth  D.  of  m'  Jfaac  &  Eliz.  Boynton       —  Boynton 

jKntharine  D.  of  ni""  William  ^  Kath.  Swcetz'' —  Sweetzcr 

iThomas  S.  of  m^  Thomas  &  Powers      —  Powers 

iBenjauiin  S.  of  the  Rev^  m-'  Jofeph  <Sc  Mrs  Sarah  Stevens 

I  Samuel  S.  of  m='  Ebon.  &  Aul'tia     —     —  Auftin 

IRiciiard  S.  of  m''  James  &  Annah  Lowden  Lowden 


.,.■{ 


...■/•i 


•Af. 


323      Itecord-Booh  of  the  First  Church  in  Chavlestoicn.      [July, 


lune 
Julv 


Aua* 


M 

1721 

Sept 


—  Page  336  {Concluded).  — 

|JonatL;iti  S.  of  u\^  .Tauies  6c  Capon  —     — 

ilJerliiah  ]>.  of  m""  Ilonrv  cSc  BethiaL  Fowl  —  — 
14'^^  'Joliii  S.  .)f  m^  John  ^c'llauali  Kami  —  — 
Jolin  S.  of  nif.  John  i^  Thankful  ( 'haniberl-nin 
ricl.i'c..-a  D.  of  W.  Daniul  \  M  K.-hc-ra  lliifk-l 
Anue  D.  of  M'' Jonathan  i^-  Katharine  Ketful  — 
Alar^'nrlc.  I),  of  ^l'.  Jaaies  &  M"  Mar;.'t  .Shcnnnn 
Abigail  D.  of  m'  Samuel  &  Phipi)3      — 


21 

'2i 


Jofc'ph  S.  of  ur.  Joliah  &  ^lary  Ik-nf^haw 


4«'>jMillocent.  D.  of  m''.  Jonatlian  ^t  Millioont  Piand 


•2(1  JoMthan  Sr(jf~ir7.~Jonathan  &  Eliz.  Call  — 
'd  ^]^riX^[^-  I^-  of  m"".  John  &  Ilauah  Dymon  — 
IG  |.IohaIiah  D.  of  m''  Thomas  (S:  Joannali  Jonner  — 
23  j  Sarah  D.  of  m^  Chrifrnpher  i\L-  Sarah  BlatchforTl 
6'  iThouias  S.  of  iwr  Samuel  Adams  jun"-  —  — 
!Mary  D.  of  mr  Bartholomew  &  Hilary  Trow     — 

Sarah     \  Twins  of  m^  Bonj.  &  Mary  Kettel    — 
Jacob  S.  of  ni''  Jacob  &  Dany      —    — 


Octob''. 


Novem^ 


Decern"' 

21 
Jan 


Capcn 

Fowl 

Band 

Cliamljcrl 

Ballol. 

Ketfel 

Sheraian 

Phippg 

Ilcnfhaw 

Ptand 

Call 

Dymon 

Jenncr 

Blatchford 

Adams 
Trov/. 

Kettfcl 

Dany 


Baptized  1721 


Pa-e  337  — 


10^1 

"T7~; 

~24 


Eleazer.  S  of  m''  Bartholomew  &  Mary  Trow  — 
Jofeph  S  of  m''  Jofeph  Sc  Sarali  Grant'  —  — 
Jofiau  of  m''  Chafts     — 

Abi^'uil  D.  of  ra''  Tin^.othy  &  Abi'jail  Goodwin 
France?  D  of  uv  John  &;  Frances  Phillips         — 
Sarah  D.  of  m''  Pichard  &  Sarah  Randalls    ~^^ 
Seth.  S.  of  m^  Andrew  &  Abii^ail  XeTvel         — 


James  S.  of  ln^  James  it  Eliz.  Fieuker    —     — 
John  S.  of  m"  Jfaac  &  Grace  Parker        —    — 
Elizabeth  D.  of  m"'  Zechariah  i\:  ilildred  Davis 
Safauah  D.  of  m""  John  (Sc  Ilafiah  Lo-^vn  —     — 


1 

"S  i 


Spencer  S.  of  m^.  Benj  <t  Alice  Phillips  —     — 
:\Iary  D.  of  m^  Tho.  &  IlaHah  Moufal       —     — 


Samuel  S.  of  nr.  Timothy  &  Mehitabel  Swan  — 
.rofi;di  S.  of  m'  Thomas  iSc  Dver  —    — 

Elizabeth  D.  of  m^  Caleb  &  Lamfon  — 


22  iBenjauiin  S  of  ra^  Caleb  &  Anne  Call        —     — 


Trow. 
Grant. 

Goodwin 
Phillips. 
Ptandals 
Xewel 
Fleuker 
Parker 
Davis 
Logy  a 
PhUlips 
Moufal 
Swan 
Dyer 
Lamfon 
"Cdl 


29  jSamuel.  S.  of  m-  Eliez--  &  Lydia  Phillips  —     — 

Sibyl.  P.  of  D^  Thomas  &  m^  Sibyl  Greaves  — 

5  iMargarit  D.  of  m^  William  &  Ilanah  Botril    — 
12  jM'.  Elizabeth  Benjamin  w.  of  m^  John  Benjamin 
19   :Erizal)eth  >  t>      .      •      TTT        7 

|&  Abi'zail  >     ^""J'"^™"' ^'^"^'^P'^'^''^^^        ~    ~ 
26  I  Anna  D.  of  m"'  John  &,  Anna  Afbury       —     — 

{Sufanah  D.  of  m"'  John  ik  Faith  Salter      —     — 


17   'John  Bjajaiuin  jan'  —     —     —     — 

Nathaniel  S.  of  M"' John  &  M^  Mary  Cary 


Baptised  1721-22 


Pacre  338  — 


Hanah  D.  cf  ni'.  John  &  Hannah  Fulker  —     — 
28  JM"  Edwai-d  Johnfon,  juvenis,     —    —    —    — 
[To  be  continued.] 


Phillips 
Greaves 
Botril 
Benjamin 

Benjamin 

Afbury 
Salter 
Benjamin 
Cary 


Fulker 
Johnfon 


1877.]  Notes  and  Queries,  329 


NOTES  AND  QUERTP:S. 

Teie  Ca?ti.f.  TAvrnv.— Droke  (Ili-^t.  of  ii.«ton,  p.  SOJ)  says  that  the  Cast!.;  Tnvcrn 
\vaa  in  Mucktrel  Lane,  corner  ol  Crab  Lane,     ft  Wiis  on  what  is  now  U.ucery  .March 
Street,  at  the  corner  (.r  Liberty  Sqiiuro.     The  land  on  which   it  stood   was  part  of 
what  was  iurnitriv  the  Town  Mar^li,  hascd  to  James  J.duison   by  the  StliUinen, 
23  :  12  :  10.50.     "  There  is  lett  to  C'apt.  James  Jolm-.m  all  y    waste  huid  bclon'Mic' 
to  y^  towne  on  y'^  soutii  side  of  y  -  Cieeke  by  ni^  wintliroi-s  warehouhe  &  a<lj  -yniip'  to 
y-'  land  already  lett  to  iien  ward  t  >  enjoy  y  same  fur  euer.  hee  pai,jn,<^  loure  p oiiniLs 
ten  shillinL,'^  i'.r  annu  for  eiier  toy  schoole  of  Boston,  alwayea  reseruin;;  hi'di  wayc.s 
throughy^-  same  land  for  ye  townes  vse,  <t  y--  s''.  land  to  hec  bounded  oriT'airp''-  &,  to 
bee  specilyed  in  couenants  expressly,  &,  y--  land  to  bee  liound  for  tecuiity  of  paijm'. 
W^  IS  to  bee  p'  euery  tir>t  of  y^'  first  m".  &  to  beirii,  y  first  inarch  57  on'  f./rfeitn're"'' 
(Boston  Town  Keoords,  i.  12!*).     This  was  e<jnfirnied  at  a  mnernl  town  me-etiii"  held 
12  :  1  :  10:>'J-(i(t  (lUit,  i.  155  ;  .sec  also  i.  1.57).     2-^-''  Jan.   lOtiO  [t.  e.   UjiH^-Ci],  the 
Town  granted  this  land  to  Johnsjn,  his  heirs  and  assigns  forever,  on  condition  'tiiat 
he  should  pay  i;5  per  annum  forever,  to  and  for  the  use  of  the  free  school  in  t!<e 
town  of  JJoston.     This  instrument  does  not  seem  to  have  been  recorded,  and  is 
known  only  by  recitals  in  other  cmveyanees  (see  also  Pnd,  ii.  3).     A  part  of  thia 
laijd,  bein^- the  premises  in  question,  was  conveyed  by  Johnson,  in  or  about  Jan. 
1060.  by  ^  jaie  unrecorded  deed,  to  Tliomas  Hull,  cooper,  who  seems  to  have  con- 
veyed it  by  some  deed,  a!s;>  not  of  record,  before  his  death,  which  tooknlaeein  1G70. 
>\  hen  the  street,  now  called  Battery  iMarcli  Street,  was  first  laid  out,  "l  July.  I<n3 
(Boston  Town  Keeords,  ii.  76),  this  corner  was  ocoa))ied  by  ''  y-  house  of  Xatiianiell 
Bt-^hop  knowne  by  the  name  of  the  blew  bell."     The  lilue  Beil  had  become   tha 
property  of  Deacn  Henry  Alline  and  Huirh  Drnrv,  a.s  tenant.^  in  common,  as  eariy 
as  1674  (see  Suffdk  Deeds  Lib.  13,  fol.  •li)7,  for -(:ced  of  an  adjoinin--  estate).     In 
the  inventory  of  the  estate  of  Hugti  Drury,  tiled  30  Julv,  lOSy.  his  pa^t  is  thes  sec 
forth  :    "  i'o   one  halfe  of  that   iiouse  m'':    Whee'er  Lives  in  and  'Jooper.s  .Siiopp 
£150-00-00-."     In  a  partition  of  his  estate  among  the  devi=ee3  und<  r  Lis  will    21 
April,  1092  (SutTolk  Deeds,  Lib.  15,  foi.  103).  tlere  was  set  off  to  Thomas  Drarv  of 
budbury,  eldest  son  ot  Jo!in  Drury,  and  grandson  of  the  testator,  "  One  .Moiety  or 
hiilfepart  of  the  house  &  land  conionly  called  &  knowne  by  the  Castle  Tavcrne  in 
Boston  afores'-  ncer  m^  Olivers  dock,  the  s'^  house  &.  land  being  in  partnersldn  be- 
tween the  s'l   Hugh  Drur^y  &  tl-.e  beforenamed  Henry  Alien.''     In  the  inventory 
filed  21  May,  1G.H3,  In-  Judith  Alline,  adm-  of  the  estate  of  her  lace  husband  Henry 
Alliue,  his  part  is  thus  descriited  :    '•  A  halfe  house  ;  and  halfe  :  shop  ;  ar<i  Land  • 
near  m--  olhuers  £150-00-00."     fn  her  account  filed  26  Dec.  17(iO,  said  adm''  charn-e.s 
fierself^with  rent  received  from  "  t!:e  dece"ds  halfe  of  the  Castle  Tavern  hou-^c  till 
July_1700,"  £41— and  asks  to  be  allowed  fur  repairs  on  the  same,  £2fi-6-8.     In  the 
division  of  Henry  Alline's  estate  amon^  his  widow  Judith  and  children  Joseph, 
Henry,  &  John,  11  Au^.  1703,  the  deceased'.s  half  of  the  Ca,<^tle  Tavern  and  Cio 
cooper  s  shop  adjoining  was  set  off  to  her  for  her  dower.     Joseph  and  John  Alline 
released J:o  her  their  reversionary  intercut  therein,  16  Dec.  1706  (Suffolk  Deeds,  Lib. 
23,  fol.  72).     Judith  Ailine  and  fhomas  Drurv  then  made  a  partition  ot  tlie  estate, 
by  an  indenture  dated  19,  Nov.  1707  (Sutlolk  Deeds,  Lib.  23,  fol.  190),  she  taking  the 
westerly  and  he  the  easterly  part.     It  probably  ceased  to  be  occupied  as  a  ta^vern 
Irom  thi.s  date.     In  tliis  indenture  the  whole  estate  is  thus  described  :    S.   by  land 
formerly  of  Thomas  Kawiins,  then  of  Samuel  Marshall,  and  land  of  Peter  01iv..r.  then 
ot  Nathaniel  W  iliiams,  87  f.  ;    W.  by  land  former!-,-  of  Peter  Oliver.  70  {. ;    L.   by 
*•  the  highway  leading  to  the  house  formerly  Ceniamin   Giilams  "    [now  Battery 
JIarch  Street],  52^  f.  ;  and  N.  by  "  the  highway  yMeadoth  from  the  Wharif  formerly 
belonging  to  Avnp  Ward  up  into  the  Towu  "  |atterwai-d  Water  street,  now  Liberty 
fcquare],  4^.i  t.     Judicii  Alline  in  her  will,  probated  10  March,  1721-22,  makes  her 
soti  Henry  residuary  les,^atee.     He  conveved  to  Robert  Williams,  bv  deed  datrd  10 
teb.  1723  (Suffolk  Deeds.  Lib.  37,  fol.  17^),  in  considerariou  of  £200,  the  westerly 
part  of  this  estate,  consisting  of  dwelling  house,  land,  and  coujier's  sftop,  then  in  the 
possession  of  John  Leach,  Samuel  Roberts  and  L/eklcl  C'ravath.     The  whole  tract; 
ot  land  bounded  by  Liberty  S^iuare.  Battery  March  Street.  iMilk  Street  and  KilLy 
-treec  now  belongs  to  the  Liberty  Square  \Vare  House  Couinauy. 

John  T.  Hassajj. 
VOL.  XXXI.        29* 


330  N'otes  ayid  Queries.  [JuJ-, 

Hancock.— The  following  record  is  from  a  Aimily  Ijille,  now  the  propevty  of  tlm 
Rev.  Daniel  AValdo  Sr-vpfi>i,  oj-  Vir.evard  HiiVL-n,  >ia<.s.  i'lu;  MMe  was  ol.f.iiric.l  l,v 
hira  hom  a  desrernlant  ol  tlie  Kev.  Natli:ini.;l  Hancock  (II. C.  1T21),  ut  Tifhiiry 
The  record  ont.iins  tacts  and  dates  not  in  tlie  Hancock  pediirrce  in  the  IlEGi.«TKn 
vol.  ix.  paL'e  352.  Tlio  entries  within  brackets  are  in  a  dillercnt  hund-wriliu"  houi 
the  redt  ot  the  recui-d.  ° 

[:'nd  Oc^c^ed  Scptem  the  20 :   \(\m] 
Natlianiell  Hancock  &  .Mary  Prentice  married  :  8:  .Mar<d/:   \F,f>\:  : 

1  NatlianicU  ilancjck  Jiinf;  ua.s  horn  :  2'i:   12:   ItJfU  ;   ]);f.!:  20:  5  m:   1G6.J  • 

2  Mary  Hancock  was  Ivjrn  :  6:  .Alay  :   ICtiO  :  Died:  2S  :  September:   1G>?G  : 

3  Sarah  Haiic.ck  was  li.jrn  :  23:  Aui^ust:   Wu  ; 

4  Nathanicll  Hancock  V, as  horn  :  29:  Dctober :   10^3: 

5  Abi-ail  Hancock  wa.->  born  :  20:   Dcccnifor:   IGfiO  :  Died:  7:  3:   IC72  : 

6  Julin  Hancock  was  born  :   1  :  Marcli  :   U'.TJ  : 

7  Saiiuicll  Hancock  wa.s  l)orn  :  2:  January:   KITS: 

8  AbiiraU  Hancock  was  burn  :  23  :  AuL'nst:   1C7"> : 
0     Elizabeth  Hancock  was  born  :  26:  Auiiiist :   1077:  Died:   10:  5:   1078: 

11 
12 

13  Elizalieth  Hancock  was  born:   I:  May:  lO-jG; 

14  Jlary  Hancock  \vas  born  :  20:  December:   16>7:   Died:   12:  6:   168S 
[Our  ilunuud  ;  ir'athcr  Died  :  In  Cambridge  April!  :   12  :  1719. j 


r.iiza'jetii  uancociv  was  Ijorn  :  20:  Auiiiist:   1077:  Di^d:   10:  5:   1078- 
Solomon  Hancock  was  ).iirn  :  26  :   April!  :   1070  :   [Died  t!ic  10  of  Mav    1700  1 
Ebenozcr  Hancock  wa^  born  :   10  :  March  :   10.-,l  :  "[Died  October  \--  21 '  1710  1 
Jo«cj.b  Hancock  was  born  :  2S  :   Aprdl  :   10S3  :  Died:  2:2:   1G84  :     ' 


RrcoRi.  r.y  Mrs.  Su.^.vnnah  Alden.— The  following  document  is  copied  from  the 
original  winch  ha.s  been  loaned  me  :  . 

'*  :My  M.'ther's  Great  Grandmother  died  at  WdLs  at  her  son  "WiiPehvriTbt'a  her 
name  ^yas  Susanah  Hutchinson.     Her  son  William  died  at  Ehode  Mand     ° 
^J:\y  li.i'Jthfr's  Father  was  kill'd  by  the  Indians  at  Quebaugli  in  the  vcar  IC7.3.    His 
V\  lie  died  at  Boston. 

Elizaheth  Hutchinson  was  born         -        -        November  4'-''.  16.30 
and  married  to  tidward  \Vin.-low   -        -        February    8.    IGtiS 
F.dward  Winslow  their  son  was  born        -        Noveiab'".    l!    16G9 
Katherine  ^^'  inslow  their  daughter  was  borne    June  2     1G7-' 

Elizabeth  Winslow  was  born  -        -        March       22.    1074 

Susanab  WuKslow  was  born  (Sus^Alden)-        July  31.    1675 

Ann  Winslow  was  born     -         -         -         _         Au-t'.  7.     1678 

My  father  died  at  Boston  -        -        -        Noveru-'.    I9!    1G.'52 

in  the  48'''.  year  of  his  acre. 
My    :\iother    was    born   Nov.    4'^.    1639.   died   Sep".    16.    1723 
m  the  8y-'i.  year  of  her  age. 

My  Mother  gave  me  this  Account 

ScsAx.^u  Allde.v.'' 

Mrs.  Susannah  Alden  was  the  daughter  of  Edward  and  Elizabeth  (Huteh'nsoi]) 

^mslow,  and  a  granddaoirhter  of  Capt.  Edward  Hutchia^on  {ante.z\x.  l.f    sx. 

363),  who  died  Aug.  19,  It>/5,  from  a  wound  received  from  the  Indiana    ^u.-j-c  •' 

She  w-as  the  .second  wile  ot  Capt.  John  Alden  of  lioston,  to  wiiom  sJie  wa<  m'lrried; 

i>aicm,  Mass. 


STARR.-Comfort  Starr  of  Guilford,  Conn.:  Comfort  Starr  of  Danbnrv  Conn  ; 
Thomas  Norton  and  wiie  Jlachel.  and  Daniel  Dennison  and  wife  ILrJa"!  ^f  Vw 
London  ;  Archi!,ald  t  ■ree:dmld  and  wile  Hannah  of  Lyme  ;  Jon:uhan  James,  tiio'mn  s 
Starr,  and  John  Lhester  and,  wife  .Mary  uf.  Grot.,i,,  Conn.  ;  Jo!,n  Sa -e  and  wife 
Hannah,  Jo.sepii  Kenn^y  and  wiie  Mary.  Jv,>eph  Starr  and  Eliza heni  War-l  of 
Middle  town  L-onn  and  \\  illiimi  P<  ab.nly  and  wife  Jeru.ha  of  Little  Compton, 
K.  1.,  in  l/oJ-4,  release  to  Benjamm  Starr  of  New  London,  their  ri-dit  in  400  aces 
of  land  "  grantci  by  the  As.sembly  in  the  Province  of  the  Ma^s.^B.iv  in  Gencnl 
Court  10  O.t  10.33  unto  the  wid.,w  of  Thomas  Starr  late  of  CiiarlesVown  and  by 
the  General  Court  (.1  said  province  in  Oct  1733  oonMrmed  unto  the  said  Ceniamin 
ana  the  rest  ot  the  descendants  of  the  said  wiJuw." 

The  above  facts  are  given  in  a  deed  recorded  an.ong  the  Worcester  County  Deeds, 
Lib.  V.  folio  32;.  HE.VRV  £.  Waite. 


1877.]  Notes  and  Queries.  331 

IIoRsiiAM. — In  Suffolk  Deeds,  Lib.  3,  folios  365  and  300,  there  nre  recorded  two 
executiMris  of  Juh:i  ilursuu,  iiiasti-r  of  tlie  "nliij)  Suup'fon  now  in  liarljor  of 
Bostou,  l)iudc'i»  r.iuiiy  luimi-ri  or  ttierL-aljoutJ*,"  against  *' Tlioinii-^  Luii'^ly  uior- 
chant  I't  ounj-  uf  Ij-lO'"  tliereot,'  iii  .satisfiictiun  of  -.i  Jad;^iiient  i^ranted  him  hy  a 
"  Speciall  Court  Sitcio;^  In  In-stuu.  "JT  Aprill.  lt)()0  for  t^o  'uiieli  diit,-.  ior  liis  oiirn;  A: 
Conipanyt;.  \vaL'i-.s.  for  ."^ervice  doiine  in  Sajd  fliip  "  anil  "  lur  inonry  hy  liiiu  di.-- 
buryC  on  ^;ajd  pl.ip."  'L'heu  follow  tlie  executions  of  '•  fJcorj^o  Ilobltinsijn  iiiate/' 
"  Ciiarles  Ijarnaliy  clurur_'eo(i,"  "  Jolin  liurrowe.s  IjoiUrwajne,"  "  Koljcrt  I'>oyd 
Gunner,"  *' Kicliartl  Warrington  uiarriner,"  "  ilt;nry  Terry  Cook,"  and  "  Jolin 
Touler  Cooper  of  sajd  ^\n\)  '"  ai^ainst  tlie  master,  uU  recorded  at  the  request  of  said 
Joliu  llorsaui,  n  >iay,  UKiO. 

In  Ma?s;Tcli;isctt.-<  Archives,  Ix.  33,  in  a  li;«t  headed  "  Tlie  namc.^  of  such  Ship'  & 
masters  that  have  Ccniu  iu  &  Gon  out  of  our  Ilarl^.tr  i  (liven  l»ond  for  His  tua';''" 
Custoiiies,"  IS  the  foUowinL' :  "  10  1(V""  01  The  Ship  Salamander  of  boston  burden 
70  tonn  hound  fur  London  Jno  Ilursain  Tho  l.iinis." 

Is  anythiniT  furtlier  known  al)out  this  Jolin  Horsham  ? 

At  a  County  Court  held  at  Charlestown,  June  17'''.  1070  (Middlesex  Court  Re- 
cords, iii.  -'-'1),  •■  Tiiomas  Norman  att  irnt^y  to  Necholas  Siu'.jjleih  aeknowledL'etii  a 
Jud^em-of  One  liundred  &  Six  pounds  iii  liun'ier,^;  twenty  Sliill:  money  for  clriri'e^^ 
unto  Samuel  nor>eIitnd  of  the  Hand  of   Derb-^luLS.  &;  Jn".    Horseman  &  eoiiipaily. 

Exceoueco  granted  "JU.  ti.  79  L>y  Tho:  D.mlorth.  11. "     Tlic  na'ue  of  the  plaintiil' 

is  properly  iiorshnm,  as  appears  from  the  oriirinal  pajicr^,  three  in  numi^er,  on  lilc 
iu  the  ta.-e,  viz.  : — 

I.  A  power  of  attorney  dated  April  15,  1078,  froni  "  S;;muell  Horsiiam  of  the 
Ldand  of  Barbadot's  ill  America,  ^lerchaut.  Agent  and  flaet^r  unto  John  ilMr-faai 
and  Company  M^n■cha^.ts  in  Plymouth  in  the  Ivingdomc  of  Hngland,"  to  L^  Kiciiard 
Way  of  ]>oston,  in  Nen-  Enirlaiid.  to  bring  suit  against  iNicholas  SiiapIeJgh. 

II.  The'vvrit  dircct-jd  to  tlie  xMai>hall  of  the  County  of  Suflblk  or  his  depi;ty, 
dated  i'ostun,  3  June,  1079,  *i  reiurnnlde  at  a  County  Court  to  be  held  at  Ciiarits- 
town,  17  June,  lG7ii.  Attarhment  was  made  11  June,  1679,  on  the  dwelling  house 
of  JS'ioholas  Shapk'igh  at  Kittery. 

III.  A  power  .jf  attorney  dated  11'^  1">"  1079  from  Nicholas  SIi:^pleigh  of  Kittery 
to  Thomas  Xorman  of  Boston  to  answer  suit  of  Samuel  Horsham  it  acknowledge 
judgment  if  he  ^hall  see  fit. 

The  will  of  Jolm  Horsham  of  Plymouth,  Co.  Devon,  merchant,  dated  11  Dec. 
16S8,  probated  6  July,  IHS9,  at  Doctors  Commons,  London,  mentions  his  son  John 
Horsham,  dau:rbter  Elizabeth  Martyn,  son  in  law  Thomas  ^lartyn,  granddaugliter 
Elizabeth  Horsbam  &  her  sister  Sarah,  his  nephew  Henry  iJrodridge,  Diony.-ia  and 
Elizabetli  Sheers,  sisters  of  said  Henry,  the  testator's  brothers  in  law  Mr.  Niciiolas 
Sherwill  and  Mr.  Abraham  Sherwill,  sisters  in  law  Mary  Laptliorne  and  .Martha 
Huwes,  x\nno  Hawes  daughter  of  said  iMartha,  Johane  Tucker,  wife  of  ^\'illiam 
Tucker,  of  Plymouth,  mariner,  for  her  care  of  testator's  children  in  their  inlancy, 
Elizabeth  Tucker  daughter  of  said  Johane  and  his  eervants  Johane  Jewell  and 
Wilmote  Veal. 

The  power  of  attorney  first  above  referred  to  is  said  to  have  been  recorded  in  the 
214th  and  2l5th  paires  of  the  5th  Book  of  Records  of  Notary  Public  of  the  Mass. 
Colony,  June  •2'2,  ltJ7s. 

Are  these  notarial  records  still  in  existence  ?  Jonx  T.  Hassau. 


The  Rev.  Benjajifx  Allfn's  JLxNrscairT  Diarv. — The  Rev.  Benjamin  Allen,  of 
Falmouth,  Me.,  was  installed  Nov.  10,  173 1,  as  minister  to  the  South  Parish,  and 
died  May  6,  1751.  He  kept  a  diary,  or  journal,  and  tradition  says  that  oi^c  of  his 
sons-in-law,  either  iiev.  (Jaleb  Upham,  Truro,  ^^a.«s..o^  Kcv.  Stephen  Pauery,  Cliat- 
ham,  had  his  j.a[-ers.  or  they  might  at'erwards  h;ive  pas.>ed  into  the  hands  of  liev. 
£nos  Hitchcock,  D.D,,  of  Proviiicnce,  R.  L,  whc)  married  a  granddaughter.  I  w mid 
like  to  have  tiiem  to  aid  in  a  hi.->tory  of  this  town.  S.  P.  aMayuekrv, 

Cape  Eiiza'.mh,  Me. 

Raymond — Thomas. — In  Hall's  Ancient  Historical  Records  of  Norwaik,  Conn., 
mention  is  made  of  Th.onias  loiuuond,  v.-ho  Iu  1700  married  Sarali  .Vndrews.  He 
was  a  freeman  of  Salem  in  1090.  As  [  cannot  find  his  name  in  any  of  tlie  lists  of 
arrivals  from  England,  I  pnsume  he  was  boru  m  the  Colony  of  Ma.-saehu.setts.  Can 
any  one  inform  mc  wiio  liis  parents  were?  C.  1.  31cCall. 

I^tw  Brunswick,  A'.  J. 


332  JVb^e.9  and  Queries.  ['^uly, 

Ancient  Wkecked  Vesskl.  -Iti  a  Sea  Poml*  which  was  on  the  Inland  of  Carnp- 
nholli  tlu.TL-  hns  !*'_■.> ri  a  wrt<-k  of  a  ves-^ol  jin-vious  to  the-  fir.-t  settlemeut,  of  wl.ic'i 
wreck  tliere  are  no  trailitii.iiri  aiuoii.ir  the  nottlfrs  now  on  the  It-land. 
^  In  the  year  IS'k'>  .Jo<c;jIi  K.tix-rt.i,  tiu.-n  of  liahtport,  now  of  Purtland,  went  ov..t  tn 
the  inland  after  !i  lifiivy  storm,  liavi II l;  li'-ard  that  tli>;  harrier  henveen  tho  H<a  an  I 
pond  had  heen  washed  away  and  the  p.tnd  drained.  The  report  was  correct.  He  UiiU 
what  tools  lie  wished  ami  visited  t!i'!  island,  ami  made  I'n  examination  of  t!ie  wre.-k. 
He  found  that  the  botti>iii  was  of  oak  put  to^^ether  with  treenails,  aLso  fastened  wit!i 
them.  The  keel  was  made  fast  hy  tlicic  wooden  treenailH,  and  no  part  of  it  showed 
that  any  iron  had  been  used  in  her  construction.  The  tioov  tiniher  was  eleven  ffct 
Ion:;,  and  eonserpicntly  sh.-  was  twenty-two  in  width  and  sixty-six  fei.t  in  len;rth,and 
her  tonna^re  would  he  ahout  IGO  ton.s.  He  l>rou'j:lit  off  a  fuor  tiuibe-r  made  of  wliite 
oak  which  was  .sjuml,  also  the  treenails  were  nearly  so. 

Gilbert  speaks  (,f  the  loss  of  a  vessel  in  1GU7  by  Sir  John  Popham.  and  tlie  Indian-* 
securing  the  small  boatd,  which  mi^rilt  have  been  tiiis  one.  Mr.  Iloberts  says  that 
the  island  and  the  mainland  in  that  vicinity  .show  indications  of  a  very  early  settle- 
ment. Perhaps  a  thorough  examination  mi^^'lit  tlirow  Bome  light  on  the  early  settie- 
inont  of  Maine.  S.  AUyberrt. 

Cape  FMzr.bcth,  Me. 

TuE  Kipp  Diamond.— When  Capt.  Kidd,  the  famous  pirate,  visited  Gardiner'3 
Isloi;.!  in  1700,  alter  burying  his  treasure  in  wliat  is  known  a-  "  Cherry  tree  field.' 
he  presented  to  t!ie  wife  of  L..rd  Gardiner  a  cradle-blanket  whieli  he  took  from  the 
Mcrish  5?liip,  the  Qu^dt,'.  M.  reliant,  and  which  was  a  part  o:'  the  furniture  of  the 
daughter  of  the  Great  .^l^gul.  The  blaid<et  was  a  curiou.s  interv/eaving  of  gold 
tijread  and  silk,  and  has  l)een  kept  by  tlie  descendants  of  the  family  ;  and  although 
cut  tor  the  purpose  of  uistributiou  among  die  daughters,  the  jneces  are  ?cili  in  a 
perfect  state  of  preservation.  Wlien  tiie  Commissioners  irom  ^la.ssachuiet ts.  Saniael 
Sewall,  Nath.  Bytield.  Jeremia'i  Drummer  and  Andrew  iJelcher,  appointed  >.y  t!ie 
Earl  >l  Eellemont  to  obtain  the  buried  treasure,  apjieared  on  the  manor  of  Gardiner's 
Island,  Gardiner  at  tir>t  relused  to  give  it  up,  as  Kidd  had  threatened  to  mag-acre 
himself,  his  fainily  and  servants  if  he  divulged  the  secret ;  but  upon  being  cotivincej 
that  Kidd  was  in  prison  he  delivered  up  the  treasure,  for  which  he  sot  a  receipt  s:ill 
preserved  on  the  manor.  When  the  Commissioners  were  counting  Flie  jewels,  a  dia- 
mond was  accidentally  lost  and  was  not  found  until  after  they  iiad  left,  (.variincr 
•wished  fj  take  it  on  to  Boston  and  give  it  to  the  authorities,  but  his  wife  would  not 
allow  him  to  do  so,  a.s  she  thought  he  would  get  into  trouble.  This  diamond  has 
been  in  the  possession  of  various  fenraie  descendants.  At  one  time  it  was  owneil  ''n 
Stoningt  m.  and  later  in  Uoston,  and  although  trace  of  it  has  now  been  lost,  it  i.=; 
thought  0  be  in  the  latter  city.   Can  any  one  give  me  any  information  concerning  it? 

New  York  City.  Osborn-  Keilev. 

Notes  hy  Hexry  F.  W.^ters,  Esq.— The  following  items  have  been  gleaned  by  Mr. 
Waters  from  the  i^Iafsachu.-^etts  Archives  in  the  office  of  the  Secretary  of  State, 
Bost(m  :—  ^ 

Tay,  Wocdn-ard,  c}-f.— Jeremiah  Tay  married,  March  4,  lfiS3,  Mercy,  daughter 
of  Nathanh-l  W'otidward,  who  calls  K-achel,  wife  of  Thomas  Harwood,  his  m.ither, 
and  Mercy  East  his  .sister.  Kachel  Harwood  was  only  dauL^hter  and  child  of  John 
Smith,  taylor,  who  speaks  in  his  will  of  a  brother  David.— Z^/t.  37.  No.  -JUL 

Bullock,  Cross,  cfc-.— Power  of  attorney  of  T'homas  Bullock,  of  Shipdhnm.  co.  of 
Norfolk,  £nglan<l.  gentleman,  and  Mary  his  wife,  late  relict  and  executrix  of  Samuel 
Crosse,  late  citizen  and  embroiderer  of  Lond.>n.  dec'd,  to  Peter  Lidget  of  F>  iston, 
N.  E.,  to  collect  of  John  Ch>->ckley,  late  of  the  Parisu  of  St.  Saviours  in  Southwurke, 
CO.  oi  Surrey,  and  now  resident,  as  is  said,  in  N.  £.,  June  4,  1670.  Wiitnestees  : 
Thomas  lues  (Ives)  and  Joiin  Browne.— i?/c.  100,  No.  145. 

A^ec-'/ia//.  — L'hoiaas  and  .\nthony  Xewhall,  of  Lynn,  were  brothers.  John,  .^on  of 
Anthony,  called  liimself  al)oufc  47  in  lfis3.  and  Thomas,  sou  of  Tiiomas,  calitd  his 
age  about  50,  ^}\.  10,  1(563.— .fiA.  39,  Nos.  839  and  849. 


Wyatt— Ix^.NG — John  U'yatt  and  Eli^.ibetli  L,nL' were  married  at  Cambridge.  8 
(8)1674.     See  County  Kecords.     Who  were  the  partie.s?  • 

*  A  Sea.  pond  is  a  puit  of  tlic  ocean  which  has  been  s-hat  off  trom  the  mala  by  the  fonna- 
tion  of  a  bur. 


1377.]  JVbtes  and  Queries.  333 

Hilton.— The  followinpr  bill  of  sale  of  an  Indian  is  recorded  in  Lib.  2  fol  197  of 
the  I.ccord^i  ot  ti.e  f'.)l,i]  -J-;,  of  Xorf.^lk  ac  Saleui,  and  is  tlio  one  referred  to  in  the 
article  on  "  .»me  ot  tI.e  D^^rceiidiuits  of  Wiiliai.i  lliltun"  (untr   -j    Ip'j)  • 

'.' ^"  cmsi.lcrac\.n  of  >•••  .fter  Vl■^.^ell  y'  I  y-  i^d:  Ge,.r-c  Carr  hiuie  liiadc  ovcrvnto 
"V\  illiam  liilcn  as  i-  in  wntin,'  t-xnresscd  :  I  y  said  William  Hilton  hnur  d-livt-r.'d 
Tiito  y^-e'  (jeor-o  tarr  Jamw  my  Indian,  .t  all  y  interest  1  Ikiuo  in  him  to  IdL-i  '&. 
ortolnsa>^i^u.fsforover  &,  I  y^'  s''  William  Hilton  due  !,in.le  myrolfe.  heires  & 
aseii^nes  to  Otoive  Carr  &  hi.^  assignert  to  make  s:ood  y^  sale  of  James  the  Indian  w'-^ 
1  iiaues.-ld  unto  y^^. said  George  Carr  his  heires  i  assi:rn..s  to  bee  y  afore.s''  Gcor^ 
Carr  u^  servant  tor  ever  or  to  whom  y'-  eaid  Cieorge  Carr  shall  as=i<'ue,  WittntdS 
this  L'!) :   L'ecemb"  l')49  ° 

Signed  &  dcliv.ied  in  y  pVx'nce  of  William  IIilto.v 

Abraham  Tappan  j^hes  y  Indian 

JohnLonde  his  m  marke 

Ak    u  f^J""jnd  brccnlif  doth  manilest  hi.scon3ent 

Abraham  Tiipirm  &  Johu  Bondo  made  oath  that  they  did  see  this  writin-  si.-acd 
&  delivered  >.vv..rn  by  y  b^  Tappan  &  Bunde  y«  21  :  of  y"  10'!>  mo  IGT'J  behjrc  mec 
Lnt:  y«=  24  :  10 :  m>  iti, 0  RoKtm  Pike  Comiss^ " 

In  a  foot  note  (rt/ifc.  p.  1^3)  I  have  said  that  I  did  not  know  the  aatboritv  for  the 
statement  that  >iagdelon,  ^vile  of  Xothanicl  Adams,  was  the  dauL'httr  of  JJanwaren 
ar.,1  .\iary  iiiiron.  I  have  received  a  commanieatiun  on  this  subject  from  the  Hon. 
i\ath::nn;.  G.  .dnrshall,  m  which  he  fays  : 

"The  authority  niven  rne  f  jr  making  the  addition  ia  the  followin"-  ct.  an  old  re- 
cord ol  '  l.irtLs  ct  Deaths  '  as  fjllows :  '  Ma^delon,  the  wife  of  John  -\\'ti;]jp-,  and 
dau^diter  of  Man  waring  and  iMary  Hilton,  afterwards  Mary  Braadon,  died  IVbruary 
^'  ^'-^^-  ^Jony  T.  ILiSSAii. 


Mai 
Ben 
the' 

Mr.  Lincoln  has  also  some  other  interesting:  relics  of  Gen.  Lincoln,  viz.  •  H)  A 
portrait  of  Lafayette  in  cornelian.  (-2)  His  Original  badge  as  a  .Member  of  the  '  'in- 
cinnati.     (3)  Two  Swords  with  silver  handles  (one  by  Lasham,  London) .  and  one  or 

fin^nr','"/^^'^'^^".?  '"'^i^^^'-  George  H.  Allan. 

60  VVest  Canton  Si.,  Boston.  ^.  ,  , 

_  Stone.— Y.' bat  was  the  full  maiden  name  of  Sarah,  wife  of  Josenh  Stone,  of  Lex- 
ington, son  ot  Dea.  Samuel  Stone,  and  grandson  of  Dea.  Grcorv'Stone  of  Wate-- 
town,  Mi'iss.  ?  =>    -  )  - 

Joseph  Stone  d.  in  Lex.,  17  Jany.  1702-3,  aged  32  years. 

"  Joseph  Stone's  wife  "  was  admitted  to  Lexington  Church  by  letter  of  dismission 
irom  church  in  Concord,  18  Dec.  1693. 

In  1705  Francis  Bowman,  who  m.  Lydia  Stone,  was  appointed  guardian  of  hii 
V«n-^'^¥i,-^^'^M^"  '^^^P^'  ^^'^"^'^  children  ;-Lydia,  b.  1G93 ;  Johnri695;  Jo.^eph, 
163/  ;  Abigtiil,  1699  ;  ^arah,  1700  ;  and  Tabitha,  1703.  Sarah,  the  widow  and  mother, 
m.  Joseph  U  ait,  of  W  eston,  and  had  Priscilla,  b.  14  April,  1707;  John,  bapt.  26 
Sept  1. OS  removed  to  Brookheld,  Ma.s.,  1740)  ;  and  Rebecca,  bapt.  S  April,  1711, 
and  died  in  ^\  orce.^ter  24  April,  1754 ;  the  lather  died  there  5  Oct.  1753,  a^-M  7o  years. , 

West  ^ewton,  Mass.  Us-nky  E.  Waits. 

Adaus  Pedigree.— In  the  Register  for  Jan.  1853,  vol.  vii.  page  39.  a  pedin-ce  of 
the  Adams  iamuy,  descendt^d  from  '•  Ap  Adam,"  who  "  came  out  of  the  ^larches 
?'/\'}.'f,^.  J^  printed  Irom  a  cony  furnished  to  J.  Wingate  Thornton.  Esm.,  by  the 
late  W  nham  Downing  Bruoe,  F  S.A.  Having,  many  vears  a^o,  heard  the  authen- 
ticity Oi  tnis  pedigree  questiou-'d,  we  wrote  lately  to  Col.  Chester  on  the  snbie-t. 
in  his  repiy  ne  writes  :  "  Attef  the  most  careful  investigation,  I  hnve  no  he-^itation 
in  pronouncing  t.^eporti,..n  connectinir  the  EuLdish  family  witii  tlie  Braintree  Adamses 
utterly  uiLorrecv.  '  Can  any  (  f  our  readers  tell  us  whether  the  "  ancicLt  parc!;ment 
roll  witn  arms  ^c..'  which  Mr.  Bruce  quotes  and  which  he  states  was.  in  ib.":i,  in 
the  po-ysion  01  Edward  Adams,  Esu.,  of  Middlcton  Hall,  Carmartueu:=bire,  is  sull 


.■-, :  i    ^ 


3S4  Notes  and  Queries.  ['Tuly, 

Harvard  College  TnrE.vxTAr,. — T  have  not  been  able  to  ascertain  the  places  or  tli'* 
dates  of  tho  death  of  tho  f  jllowin:;  ^.T.uliuitos  from  1700  to  15"120.  As  it  is  very 
iinport-.xnt  to  Ir.ive  tlitnn  to  uho  in  writiii:^  town  liistories  ami  for  l)io.rrii[>iiic:il  \,\\t- 

80SPS,  I  thii'k  it  Would  be  well  to  ask  for  inluriuation  rt-specting  tboui  through  tLic 
Iegistku. 
1820.  i\rchil)al'l  Dunhar  from  Natchez,  Miss. 
1815.  Joseph  Ixixter  of  li.v^tuii,  h,;rn  <  )ct.  10,  170.'),  received  M.D.  at  ColIe'.'C  of  PliyM- 

ciaiis  and  Siu\:;eoiit;  in  New  York  in  i'^iri ^  supposed  Ikj  have  died  as  a  private 

in  i!-.e  ainiy,  40  or  43  years  ai^(j. 
1812.  Adam  Lewis  Jiiniramau  from  Natchez,  Mi?.s.,  born  Feb.  11,  1703.     He  was 

married  on  the  evening  of  lii.s  graduation  to  Julia,  daugliter  of  Mr.  Murray, 

the  Univcr'^ali'Sf,  preaciior,  and  Murray's  wife  is  baid  to  have  been  sister  of 

Governor  S:ivg(.'nc.     liini^aman  went  into  Ijuniness  in  Nesv  (Jrleans. 
1810.  John  Eu^tis,  froni  Newl)uryport,  b.  -Jl  April,  17U0.     'When  and  where  did  he 

die?    Was  it  about  Ib.'U?     What  was  his  occupation  or  profcsoion?    He 

perhaps  followed  the  sea. 
18C6.  John  Ljvering  from  Boston,  bom  Feb.  8,  1788,  perhapa  died  at  sea.    "When, 

and  on  board  what  vcN-el? 
1S03.  John  Man  Taylor  from  George  ToAvn,  S.  C.     He  probably  was  dead  in  1830 

and  bctore. 
1802.  Jacob  Skidmore  Duunini!;,  bom  Dec.  19,  1780,  at  Orange,  N.  Y.         ^ 

1790.  Horatio  Gates  Eurnn.p  from  JMorrimne,  N.  II.,  born  January  9,  l/i7.    la. 

C'oliege  he  had  a  Q;reat  reputation  as  a  linguist,  particularly  an  Orientalist. 
1799.  Samuel  Tool  from  Yarmoutli,  iS.  S.,  born  !>ept.  11,  1776. 
1706.  Thomas  Barron  from  ^Vinherst,  born  April  19,  1772. 
1795.  Henry  Cumings,  born  at  Billerica,  Sept.  9,  1776.     Probably  died  some  time 

before  16331 
1794.  Oliver  Ainsworth  from  Woodstock,  bom  March  3,  1773.    He  was  brother  of 

Laban  Ainsworth,  of  Jaffrey,  N.  H.     -'Tis  said  that  in  college,  when  every 
-     :         body  wore  breeches,  he  would  go  to  the  pump  every  moaning,  summer  and 

wint'^r,  without  t-hoes  or  stockinirs,  and  bathe  hi.s  head  and  legs  in  cold  water. 
1793.  Daniel  Peters  of  Meodon,  born  July  27,  1770. 
1792.  Ebenezer  Eradish,  born  at  Cambridge,  Sept.  8, 1773.    It  is  supposed  he  studied 

law  and  died  near  Natc'iez.     Uis  mother  was  a  Paine,  of  U'orcester. 

1791.  Asa  King,  born  at  V/csttbrd,  Feb.  19,  1771.    Probably  died  a  private  in  the 

army. 
1791.  William  Hodge  from  Pownalboro',  born  June  14,  1772,  perhaps  lived  in  New- 
buryport.  John  Laxgdon  Sibley. 

_  CoKLTss  Family  Rkcord  {ante,  p.  2o7). — A  revised  edition  will  be  issued  with  ?.8 
little  delay  as  possible.  All  inteiested  are  requested  to  furnish  at  once  such  addi- 
tional items  as  have  come  to  light  tiuce  the  iirst  edition  was  printed,  and  to  give 
prompt  notice  of  any  errors  discovered  in  the  book.  Address  Capt.  Augustus  W, 
Corliss,  P.  0.  Box  251,  Yarmouth,  Maine.  A  few  copies  of  the  Iirst  edition  can  be 
obtained  at  $5  each,  of  Mrs.  Margaret  H.  'W'ebster,  77  Webster  St.,  East  Boston, 
Mass. 


Edward  Whalley,  the  FtEGicroE  {ante,  p.  132). — An  article  with  this  title,  in  the 
first  number  of  the  Pemi'n/lmnia  Magazine,  produces  evidence  which  leads  its  author, 
Robert  P.  Robins,  to  believe  that  Col.  Whalley  did  not  die  in  New  England,  but 
that  "his  later  years  were  spent  on  the  Eastern  shore  (;f  Maryland,  in  tfu^  then 
county  of  Somerset ;  and  that  he  there  died  and  was  buried."  The  will  of  Edward 
Wale,  of  Somcr.-ec  county,  Maryland,  dat:ed  April  1,  171S,  and  proved  June  18  of 
the  same  year,  Ls  printed  by  xMr.  Robins  ;  also  a  written  statement  of  Thomas  Robias, 
3d,  a  great-grandson  of  this  Edward  "Wale,  dated  July  6.  1769,  in  which  be  states 
that  his  ancestor  w  is  Edward  Whalley,  the  regicide,  and  gives  other  biographical 
and  genealogical  facts. — Ei>. 


Stephens. — Who  was  the  father  of  Uriah  Stepheas.  supp 
of  Canaan,  Cunn.?    His  sou  Uriah  was  in  Wyoming,  Pa., 
Marion,  Iowa. 


iipposed  to  have  died  in  town 
in  1774. 

R.  S.  Sriii'iiF.NS. 


Detroit,  Micshun. — We  learn  that  Silas  Farmer,  Esq.,  of  Detroit,  Michigan,  is 
preparing  an  elaborate  IiLstory  of  that  city. 


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1877,]  Societies  and  their  Proceedings.  335 

PniLAGATHos. — "  A  Pocm  commcmnrative  of  Goffe,  Whaley,  and  Dixwcll,"  <&:c. 
Ac,  by  "  Philagatlios,"  was  puljiislied  in  Rjston  iu  17'j3.  Who  was  "  Pbila^a- 
tliOvS  "?  A.  u.  n. 

Boston.  

A  NEW  WORK   ON  TITE  NONCONFORMISTS  OK  SCFFOLK  ANF/  NORFOLK,  EXCI.AND. — Thc 

Rev.  Tlnmias  W.  Davids,  now  of  [i<>iiil<jn,  Knir.,  autlior  of  the  Annal.s  of  Kvan!,'oUoal 
Nonconrurmity  in  Est^tx  (KKOthTEK,  sx.  r.)-2),VritfH  to  tlie  editor,  Ajjiil  17,  lrt77 : 

"iMy  friend,  Mr.  J'.nAvnc.  of  Wrentliani,  tiuff.lk,  is  carryin;^;  tljroiii^h  t!i<j  prcps  a 
work  on  SuOolk  and  Norfolk  similar  to  iiiin(;  on  Iv-sex.  1  have  Kt.M.-n  the  j)n>oI-bhcet« 
and  can  very  cunlidcntly  e:i.y  tiiat  it  will  be  a  very  valnabU;  contribution  to  onr  county 
history.  He  still  needs  a  tew  subscribers  to  hold  him  harmless  irom  loss.  The  j.rice 
of  hid  volume,  which  will  contain  about  GOO  pa^'es,  will  be,  to  eubscribern,  lOs.  Od." 


"  I  DFSTROT,  Bi-T  I  DEFEND." — Sir  Edward  Biilwer  Lytton,  in  his  novel,  "  Dever- 
eux,'"  Book  iv.  chap.  x.  vol.  2,  p.  100,  say?  that  the  motto  of  the  f  rcat  Master  of 
FortiPcation,  Vaulxui, — who  lived  and  flourished  in  the  yeara  1033-1707,— wa.s,  "I 
destroy,  but  I  defend."' 

I  have  not  been  able  to  discover  the  orif^inal  word.s,  of  which  this  Eni;!isli  motto 
is  a  tran.~lation,  but  I  think  that  they  must  be  identical  with  those  of  the  motto  of 
the  coat-armor  of  the  family  to  whieli  1  belong,  and  wiiJch  may  bo  thus  described: 
— Barry  of  6ix  or  and  2;ulcs,  Three  Cresecnus  ermine.  On  a  cliief  of  the  secuiid,  two 
lances  in  sahire  their  heads  broken  oli' argent.  Crest,  a  Griffin'a  head  erased  argent, 
ducally^gorged  or.    Motto:  Ferio  Tego. 

If  any  ot  your  readers  or  correspondents  can  furui.sh  me  with  any  information  on 
this  subject,  it  will  greatly  oblige  me.  Pafiku'&  Cursor. 


EincRANTs  FOR  NFiv  England,  lf^-2-3.— In  the  Reports  of  Commis.  (Endand),  vol. 
31,  p.  277,  is  this  abstract  uf  a  petition  to  the  Earl  of  Middlesex,  among"  the  L'c  La 
Warr  iSISS.  at  Knole  Park,  co.  Kent:—"  ir.-..>2,  Philemon  Powell,  Purser  of  a  Ship 
bound  for  New  England,  with  80  emigrants.  He  was  servant  to  Thomas  Weston, 
and  was  imprisoned,  and  does  not  know  why.  Aske  for  release."  This  pn^bably 
had  to  do  with  thc  Pilgrims,  but  how?  J.  W.  T'bor.ston. 


Wells. — Has  later  inquiry  added  to  or  corrected  Mr.  Savage's  mention  of  Frances 
Wells,  vvidow,  who  married  Thomas  Colmau?  Whose  daughter,  sister,  widow  was 
.she?  When  and  where  did  she  die,  and  what  was  her  age?  When  and  wich  whom 
did  ehe  come  to  New  England?  j.  w.  t. 


SOCIETIES  AND  THEIK  PKOCEEDINGS. 

New-England  Historic,  Genealogical  SoaETT. 

Boston,  Mass.,  Weii.i-ssday,  January  3,  1877. — The  annual  meeting  was  held  at 
the  Society's  House,  No.  IS  Somerset  Street,  at  three  o'clock  this  afternoon,  thc 
president,  the  Hon.  Marshall  P.  Wilder,  in  the  chair. 

Frederic  Kidder,  chairman  of  the  Nominating  Committee,  reported  a  list  of  can- 
didates for  offi(;ers  and  committees.  The  Hon.  George  Cogswell  and  Howlaud 
Holmes,  M.D.,  were  appointed  a  committtje  to  collect  and  count  votes.  They  re- 
porte<d  the  candidates  unanimously  elected.  The  officers  and  committees  lor  la77 
are : 

President.— Uou.  Marshall  P.  Wilder,  of  Boston,  Mass. 

Vicc-Pres2drnts.—llon.  Israel  Washburn,  Jr.,  LL.D.,  of  Portland.  Me.;  Rev. 
Asa  p.  Smith,  D.D.,  LL.D.,  of  Hanover,  N.  H. ;  Hon.  Hiland  Hail,  LL.D.,  of 
Bennington,  Vt. ;  Hon.  George  C.  Richardson,  of  Boston,  iMass.  ;  Hon.  John  R. 
Bartlett,  A.xM.,  of  Proviuence,  R.  I.  ;  Hon.  Marshall  JeweU,  A..M.,  of  Hartford, 
Conn. 

Honorary  Vice-Presidents.— Bon.  John  A.  Dix,  LL.D.,  of  New  York,  N.  Y.  ; 
Willia,in  A.  Whitehead,  A.M.,  of  Newark,  New  Jersey  :  William  Duane,  Esq.,  of 
Philadelphia,  Fonn. ;  Rev.  Edwin  A.Dairj-mple,D.D.,of  Baltimove,  Md.;IIon.  Wii- 


)     '        AWi   n/.f.     'i'  vjno^ 


336  Societies  and  their  Proceedings.  [JuK-, 

liam  A.  Richardson,  LL.D.,  of  Washington,  D.  C.  ;  Hon.  Silas  N.  Martin,  of  \\"\\- 
min^ton,  N.  C.  ;  fl'in.  'I'liuiiuis  Spooiier,  of  Cinciiii.ati,  O.  ;  Kev.  Josepli  F.  Tuttlc, 
D.D.,  (jf  L'rawloril-)Villc,  ind.  ;  Lymuu  C  Dnipur,  LL.D.,  uf  Matlisun.  Wis.  ;  iU:s. 
William  U.  Kliot,  D.l).,  LL.D.,  of  St.  Luuid,  Mo.;  Kt.  Kev.  William  1.  Kip, 
D.D.,  LL.D.,  of  tSuti  Kranci.^ivj,  Cal. 

Cornxtionding  Strntnn/. — llcv.  Edmund  F.  Slafter,  A.M.,  of  IJjston,  Macs. 

Rftcordiny  Sccr'tar-y. — David  (Jreciic  li;iTkin.s,  Jr.,  A.^L,  nf  Cambrid;^e,  Ma?3. 

Treasurer.  —  Benjamin  l);irstow  Torroy,  Esq.,  of  Eortton,  Mass. 

IIisti'ri(>yraj)litr. — Iter.  Samuel  Uiitlcr,  <jf  liustun,  Mass. 

Librarian. — John  ^\'aId  Di'an,  A.M.,  of  ]?uston,  M;)S8. 

Director!^. — Hon.  (ioiir;^t>  C.  ilichardson,  Bost^jn  ;  Hon.  Charles  Levi  Woodbury, 
Boston;  Hon.  John  Cuiiiminu'.-?,  Woburn ;  John  Foster,  Esq.,  Boston;  Hon. 
James  Walker  Austin,  A.M.,  Boston. 

Committee  on  Fuh/nalion. — John  Ward  Dean,  A.M.,  Boston;  Albert  H.  Hoyt, 
A.M.,  Boston  ;  Jeremiah  Colburn,  A.M.,  Boston  ;  William  B.  TruskjE-sq.,  Bot^ton  ; 
Henry  F.  Watert*,  A.H.,  Salem. 

Committee  on  the  Librdry. — Jamcs  F.  Hunnewell.  E=q.,  Boston;  George  T.  Li  t- 
tlefield,  E^rj.,  Bjston;  Deh^raine  P.Corey,  Esq.,  Maiden;  Prof.  Charles  P.  Otis, 
Ph.  D.,  Boston:   Henry  W.  HoUand,  LL.li.,  Cambridge. 

Conuni'.t:  :  on  Finr.nee. —  llcnry  Edwards,  Esq.,  Boston;  Hon.  Cl'.arle.''  B.  Hall, 
Boston;  Addison  Child,  E.sq.,  Boston;  A.  A.  Burrage,  Esq.,  Boston;  B.  B.  Tor- 
rey.  Esq.,  Boston. 

Co/;unlltee  on  Papers  and  Essaijj. — Rev.  Dorus  Clarke,  D.D.,  Rjston  ;  Rev.  I.  N. 
Tarbox.D.D..  Boston;  Albert  B.  Otis,  A.i\L,  JV.iston  ;  William  C.  BatcH,  iji^q., 
Ne.Ttou  ;  Artiiur  M.  AlL:er,  LL.B.,  Taunton. 

Committee  on  tli  raldry. — lion.  Thomas  C.  .\mory.  A.M.,  Boston  ;  Abner  C. 
Goodell,  Jr.,  A.M.,  Salem  ;  Au^nistus  T.  Perkins,  A.M.,  Boston  ;  George  B.  Chaee, 
A.M.,  Boston  ;  Walter  Lloyd  JeOVies,  A.B.,  Boston. 

The  Hon.  Marshall  P.  Wilder,  having  been  reelected  president,  proceeded  to  de- 
liver his  annual  address,  which  will  be  found  in  the  Register  for  April,  pj).  20f)-ll. 

At  the  fionolusion  of  tlie  !)resident's  address,  portraits  of  several  o.aicers  of  the 
Society,  all  painted  by  E  iward  D.  >Lircbant,  of  Philadelphia,  were  presented,  in 
behalf  of  their  respective  donors,  through  a  committee  appointed  by  the  directors. 
Edmund  T.  Eastman,  31. D.,  the  chairman,  presented  in  behalf  of  the  family 
of  the  president,  the  Hon.  Marshall  P.  Wilder,  in  exchange  for  a  portrait  of  Col. 
Wilder  painted  for  the  Society  by  Mr.  Marcliant  and  presented  to  it  by  him  in 
April,  lbT6.  a  larger  and  more  costly  one  by  the  same  artist.  Dr.  Eastman  als<j 
presented,  in  behalf  of  \Vil!iani  Parsr,iis.  a  life  member  of  the  Society,  a  portrait  of 
the  late  Hon.  George  Bruce  Cptcm,  vice-president  from  1866  to  1874  ;  David  G.  Il.is- 
kins,  Jr.,  in  behalf  ol  Col.  Almon  L).  Jlodgcs,  president  trom  ISj'J  to  16G1,  presented 
a  portrait  of  the  donor  ;  and  H.  IL  E  ies,  in  behalf  of  the  Refjister  Club,  presented 
a  portrait  of  Col.  Albert  II.  lloyt,  editor  of  the  Historical  axd  Genealogical  Reg- 
ister from  1SC)3  to  1S75.  The  portraits  were  of  uniform  size,  except  that  of  Col. 
Wilder  which  was  much  larger  than  the  rest.  The  presentation  of  each  portrait 
was  prefaced  by  brief  remarks,  and  appropriate  resolutions  were  adopted. 

Rear-Admiral  Henry  Knos  Tliatcher,  U.S.N. ,  presented  to  the  Society  an  auto- 
graph letter  of  Gen.  Ge  irge  \V'a-hington  to  the  donor's  grandfather,  Gen.  Henry 
Knox.    The  letter  is  printed  in  full  in  thcla.st  number  uf  the  Register  (anic,  p.  190). 

The  Rev.  Edmund  F.  Slaftcr,  in  behalf  of  the  Hon.  Joseph  W.  Lawrence  of  St. 
John,  X.  B.,  ])resented  an  autograph  of  a  revolutionary  general  whose  fame  differs 
much  from  Washingt  m'f<,  t.'iat  of  Benedict  Arnold.  Tiianks  were  voted  to  Admi- 
ral Thatcher  and  31r.  Lawrence  for  their  donations.  Admiral  Thatcher  then  stated 
that  he  also  had  a  lettvr  by  Gen.  Arnold,  which  at  some  future  time  he  would  pre- 
sent to  the  Society.  It  was  written  on  a  sheet  of  cartridge  paper  from  the  camp  at 
Watertown  to  a  lady,  accompanying  a  gift  to  her  of  a  package  of  ladies'  dresses. 

Charles  Carleton  CoiRn,  chairman  of  a  committee  appointed  at  the  last  annual 
meeting  (see  Regi-tcr,  xxx.  171),  reported  that  tliey  had  had  an  interview  with 
Gov.  Rice,  who  entered  heartily  into  their  plans  and  wishes,  and  promised  that  the 
revolutionary  documents  to  which  they  called  his  attention  should  be  arranged  and 
placed  in  the  chaige  uf  sumc  uilicial,  to  that,  at  u  more  favorable  time,  they  might 
De  printed. 

The  following  annual  reports  were  then  presented  : 


\  1877.]  Societies  and  their  Proceedings.  337 

y  The  Rev.  E'.lmund  F.  Slp.ftcr,  the  corresponding  secretary,  reported  tliat  fortj'-two 

rc;'!dcnt,  one  honorary  and  nine  eorvLsponilin:^  mi.iiibord  hail  lici-n  added  to  tlio  Soui- 
1  ety  during  tlic  year.     He  also  repurti.'d  the  usual  hi.-iturical  correspondence. 

[  The  Rev.  Samuel  Cutler,  the  hi.storioirrapher,  reported  that  the  nunil)er  of  deal.li.'3 

j  Inst  year  among  uicml)erf>,  a-;  far  an  kno'.vn,   is  twenty-three.     Their  united  a.^f-i 

I  ftre  l5oT  years  1  montli  '2\.  days,  being  an  average  ot  07  yuars  8  niDuths  and   IJ 

I  days.     Memorial  sketciies  of  thirty-bix  decua.-ied  memhers  have  been  prepared. 

(B.  B.  Torrey,  the  treat-un-r,  reported  the  tjtal  income  of  the  year,  ."^S.OGo.T.T,  and 
the  ordinary  expenses  ,<:i,G0i2.!J  I,  leaving  a  balance  on  hand  of  .*i~C2.7'J.     The  re- 
ceipts for  life-membertihip  were  .sl:2{).00. 
J  John  Ward  Dean,  the  librarian,  rejtovted  that  302  volumes  and  1,4.1.3  pamjiiilet^ 

{  had  been  adiled  diirinir  the  year  to  the  library.     The  liijrary  now  contain.-;  i3,'j;j'J 

I  Yoluuies,  anti  43,5JG  pamplilets. 

i'  James  F.  Ilunnevvell,  chairman  of  the  committee  on  the  library,  reported  its  con- 

dition and  specialties. 
1  John  Ward  Dean,  chairman  of  the  publishing  committee,  reported  that  the  thir- 

I  tieth  volume  of  the  Nicw-ENGLANrj   HistijRicvl  .\nd  Genealoo'.cal  llLGiiivi.  hud 

J  been  completed,  and  one  number  of  the  tiiirty-tirst  volume  (that  for  .January,  1ST7) 

*  had  been  issued.     The  annual  proceedings  for  1876,  and  the  Du-dicatiou  Address  of 

i  the  Hon.  Charles  H.  B.:!l  in  1871,  haii  al-o  been  issued  during  the  year. 

1  The  Rev.  Dorus  Clarke,  D.D.,  chairman  of  the  eommittee  on  papers  and  essays, 

\  reported  that  eight  papers  had  been  read  befjre  the  Society  in  18*/ 6. 

i  The  IIoQ.  'Ihonias  C.  Amory.  chairman  of  the  committee  on  heraldry,  reported  the 

I  ■work  done  by  the  committee  during  tlie  year  jusc  closed. 

\  Col.  Almon  D.  Hodges,  chairman  of  the  trustees  of  the  Barstow,  Bond,  Cushman 

f  and  Towne  funds,  reporied  as  follows  : 

I  The  Barstow  Fund  issl,000.00.    The  income  last  year  was  $68.62,  and  the  nam- 

:  ber  of  volumes  bound  I  I'J. 

I  The  Bond  Fund  is  n.)W  5531.25.     Last  year  ,$31.50  was  received  from  sales,  and 

i  $28.-15  for  interest.     Sis  books  have  been  purchased  at  an  expense  of  .^13.70. 

\  The  Cushman  Fund  now  amounts  to  $65. 13.     The  receipts  last  year  were  $3.00 

ifor  sales  and  $2.77  for  interest. 
The  Towne  Memorial  Fund  is  now  .$3,982.23.    The  income  last  year  was  .$240.00, 
of  ■which  , $13. 00  was  expended  for  printing  under  the  direction  of  the  late  chair- 
iman,  William  Blanchard  Towne,  the  fuunder  of  the  fund. 
Maine  Historical  SociETr. 

i  Portland,  March  22,  1877. — The  ■winter  session  was  he  id  this  day  at  the  Cuuimon 

Council  Room,  City  IJall.  In  the  absence  of  the  presiiient,  the  Hon.  James  W. 
Bradbury,  LL.D.,  and  of  the  vice-president,  t!ie  Hon.  Judge  William  G.  Barrows, 
I  the  Hon.  Charles  I.  Cilman  was  appointed  chairman.     The  following  papers  ■were 

communicated: — A  sketch  of  the  life  and  character  of  t!ie  late  Rev.  Dr.  Amos  D. 
Wheeler,  an  associate  ;  a  paper  on  the  life  of  Thomas  Purcbajse,  the  fii"st  European 
i  settler  on  the  territory  now^  embraced  in  the  towns  of  Brunswick  and  Topsham — 

both  papers  being  prepared  by  sons  of  the  late  Dr.  Wheeler  ;  a  paper  by  Judge 
Godfrey  of  Bangor,  on  Capt.  xMowatt,  under  whose  orders  Falmoutii  was  burned 
,  in  1775,  presenting  a  more  favorable  side  of  his  character,  as  inferred  from  his  d.> 

I  ingg  on  the  Penobscot ;  a  sketch  by  }klr.  George  1.  Varney  on  the  life  and  acts  of  the 

f  late  Com.  Tucker  of  Bremen  ;  a  ])aper  by  Charles  W.  Tattle,  Fsq.,  of  Bost)n,  a 

(corresponding  member,  on  the  "  Conquest  of  Elaine  "'  by  the  Duteh  in  1674  ;'  and 
one  by  Gen.  ..fohn  xM.  Brown  on  the  Jesuit  "  Mission  of  the  Assumption  in  Maine."' 
A  letter  was  read  from  Jos.  Wheaton  to  Gideon  O'Brien,  April,  1813,  one  wf  the 
i  party  under  Capt.  Jcre.  O'Brien  in  the  first  naval  achievemen:  of  the  Rcvulutiijn, 

in  the  waters  of  Macaias.  Ficv.  Dr.  Hill,  Portland,  read  portions  of  a  diary  of  his 
father,  giving  an  accuunt  ol  a  journey  through  West  Pennsylvania  in  17;j8.  Uoa. 
William  Goold,  Windham,  read  a  paper  on  the  life  and  military  services  of  Col. 
!  Arthur  Noble,'-  giving  a  full  documentary  account  of  the  capture  of  Grand  Prii  by 

'  The  Portland  Pres^,  in  its  report  of  the  procccdinLTS  at  this  meen'nj,  printed  in  its  issue 
I'  of  Friilay,  March  'o,  lt<77,  ^'ivcs  the  wiiole  of  Mr.  Turtle's  paper.    The  paper  also  appeared 

with  some  revision  in  the  Boston  Pnst,  March  28.  1877. 
*  This  paper  is  printed  in  full  in  the  Portland  Press,  March  23, 1877. 

1  VOL.   XSXI.  30 


^^^  Societies  and  their  Proceedings.  [July 

the  Frcncli  in  1717.     Announcoiuf-ntx  were  nia<]e  of  the  upeeily  issue  of  the  Pocond 
voluiae  ot  the  sori.s  oC  -  D..a,m.;..t.u-y  [li>rury,"  and  of  i)rogie=.s  in  the  voluuic  of 

Ihc  interest  of  the  meeting',  in  its  tiirue  sessions  of  the  day  and  eveoin"-.  was  well 

Rhode  Island  Historical  Society. 
Provid'mce,  Tursfhy,  Fihruanj  27,  1877.— A  meetinir  of  this  Society  wa.s  he'd  at 
itsLabinet  on    W  at.Tnian  Street  this  evening  at  7.45'o'clock,  the  Hon.  Ziichariah 
j  Allen,  vice-president,  in  the  chair. 

I  The  Rev.  Kdwjn  .M.  iitonc,  tlu;  librarian,  reported  the  donations. 

I  T,.  /■      m'^'^   ^}-  '^'"'■n'-'-.  "f  Newport,  read  a  paper  on  "  Th-j  Greenes  in  Colonial 

I  T  u  "/'■     '^^"'.";-^..*'^''th   in  i)ai-tieular  the  puhlie  relations  of  the  first  and  Becoud 

I  John  Greene  ot  \\  arwick,  K.  I. 

Keuiarks  followed  ln,m  Gcor-e  T.  Paine,  Ilev.  Mr.  Stone  and  the  presidin'r  ofKa-r 
the  la.'^t  named  bpeakin-  conoernin-  Randall  Holden,  one  of  the  oriirinal  scttlfrn 
with  John  Greene  of  Warwick;  and  the  thanks  of  the  Society  were  "voted  to  Dr 
iurner. 

'  ^n^''^  ^^-Tr^  mcctini^  was  held  thi3  evening,  vice-president  Allen  in  the  chair. 

i  leHon.  A  .raham  I'nyno  read  hi,>  jKiper,  "  Keminiscences  of  1642."  to  one  of 
t^e  largest  audiences  ot  Lidie.s  and  gentleuicu  that  ever  assembled  in  the  Cabinet . 
1  hanks  wore  Voted  for  the  paper, 

March  20.— A  meetinir  wna  held  this  evening. 

The  Hon.  George  .A.  Rrayton.  the  veneiahle'es-cluef-justice  of  Rhode  Island,  read 
a  valuable  pai)er  entitled,  "Some  account  of  Samuel  Gorton  ;  hislandin"  at  R.  ^^on  • 
his  residence  and  treatment  at  Plymouth  ;  his  arrival  at  Pocasset  in  pur^uanee  of 
jQis  .sentence  ot  banishment." 

Reniark.«  were  made  by  the  Hon.  John  R.  Bartlett,  the  Rev.  E.  M.  Stone  and  the 
non.  Ziichariah  Allen  ;  and  ou  motion  of  Mr.  Bartlett  thanks  were  voted  to  Jud-e 
iirayton  lor  his  paper.  ° 

April  3.— The  fii-st  quarterly  meeting  for  the  current  year  was  held  this  eveiun-, 
)  VJce-prcsident  Allen  m  the  chair. 

;  The  librarian  announced  the  donations. 

f  Isaac  H.  &.uthwick,  for  the  committee  on  grounds  and  buildings,  reported  in  re- 

j  lation  to  a  new  fence  in  front  of  the  Cabinet. 

'  o  The  Hon.  Zacliariah  Allen,  the  Rev.  Edwin  M.  Stone,  the  Hon.  Francis  Brinlev 

ana  Ueorge  1     Fame,  were  appointed  a  committee  on   removing  the  books  ana 
I  papers  in  the  Cabinet  at  Newport  to  the  Society's  Cabinet  in  Providence. 

Apnl  10.— .\  meetinir  was  held  this  evenino-. 

Henry  C.  Dorr,  of  Ne\y   Y-rk  city,  read  a'paper  entitled,  "The  Ancient  Hi?h- 
;  wajs  ot  Providence,     giving  the  history  of  public  improvements  down  to  160-^.,  wijcn 

the  town  council  hxed  the  names  of  streets  and  their  future  location.     Thanks  were 
voted  lor  the  paper. 

^;^n7  24.-A  meeting  was  held  this  evening,  vice-president  Allen  in  the  chair. 

ueorgeG.  Mason,  of  Newport,  read  two  interesting  papers,  one  on  '-Early 
Printing  in  Newport  '•  and  the  other  on  -The  Building  and  Launchincr  of  the 
Jbrigate  Gen.  Greene,  built  at  Warren,  R.  I.,  near  the  close  of  the  last  ^ntury. 
1  hanks  were  voted  for  the  papers. 

New  Jersey  Historical  Society. 
Newark  May  17,  1S77.— The  Society  met  to-day  in  its  rooms  in  this  city.  In  conse- 
quence of  the  absence  of  the  president,  from  sickness.  Mr.  Peter  S.  Dur^-ee,  second 
vice-president  occupied  the  chair.  The  report  of  the  corresponding  secretary,  from 
t.^e  number  of  .etcers  received,  their  varied  contents,  and  ttie  wide-spread  infiaenrc 
Oi  the  Society  which  they  manifested,  plainly  indicated  that  it  was  suceessfullv  fill- 
ing Its  .sphere  and  usefulness.  In  accordance  with  a  resolution  passed  at  the  meet- 
ing in  January  the  .secretary  also  reported  the  places  in  which  centennial  celebra- 
tions had  l^een  he  d,  so  far  as  they  had  been  made  known  to  him  in  response  to  cir- 
culai^  issued  for  the  purpose  of  securing  informadon  ;  and  read  a  full  account  of 
tbe  celebration  at  Prniceton,  commemorative  of  the  battle  there,  which  had  been 
prepared  by  the  Rev.  Dr.  Sheldon. 

Dr.  Pennin-fon   chairman  of  the  executive  committee,  reported  that  the  histori- 
cal documents,  which  had  been  loaned  for  exhibition  in  Philadelphia,  had  been 


1877.]  Societies  and  their  Proceedings.  339 

enfely  rt-tumcJ,  and  had  been  left  in  tJicir  frames  for  the  innpcction  of  the  memhors. 
These  v.'iltiaMc  ni:miisori{>ts,  conijirisini^  the  earliei<t  eviilcnues  of  the  estahliahmcut 
of  law  an<l  order  in  Xuw  Jt-r^ey,  attra<;ted  nuieh  atteritiiHi. 

Mr.  Dennis,  fioni  the  eomiuittee  on  tlie  library,  suhinitted  a  volunilnoiiH  report 
of  the  additions  made  to  tiie  historical  treasures  of  the  Society  since  January,  and 
alluded  particularly  to  the  vaUialde  collection  of  manuscripts  received  from  the  fiiii- 
ily  of  the  late  Alfred  \'ail  uf  Morrifttown,  who  was  tio  intimately  associated  with 
Prot.  iMorse  in  gettinL";  the  electric  t<df!:;raph  into  succe-islul  operation.  The  colleo 
tion  had  hoen  exaiiiiuL'tl  and  arranLa-d  so  as  to  he  acces-ihic  to  any  one  interest'  '1  in 
the  important  event  tliey  so  richly  illustrated — the  jtroL^ressive  devehjpmi.-nt  of  tele- 
graphic communication.  The  usual  cry  of  most  literary  institutions  {t)r  increased 
resources  was  leelingly  uttered — prunjpted  on  this  occasion  hy  the  anticipated  ex- 
pense of  a  printer]  cataloirue. 

Mr.  ^V'hite!lead,  from  the  committee  on  col')nial  documents,  reported  thnt,  aftc-r  .'v 
long  period  of  uncertainty  and  d  luht,  thry  were  enabled  to  state  ttiat  it  wxs  proba- 
ble the  remainder  of  tlie  transcripts  v.-luch  had  been  so  aniioiirily  l.joiied  for,  would 
be  received  before  many  months,  throu^'h  tlie  intervention  of  the  consular  service  ac 
London,  and  the  personal  intervention  of  ex-Gov.  W'aid.  now  in  Europe. 

The  paper  read  on  the  occasion  was  by  Ciiarles  ii.  Winfield,  K-q.,  of  Jersey  ("ity, 
being  "  A  sketch  of  the  life  of  John  Cleves  Symmes.  for  which,  after  some  pcrtinenc 
remarks  by  John  Y.  Ha::eman,  Esq.,  and  I'rof.  iMoUat  of  Princeton,  the  tiianks  of 
the  Si)cioty  were  returned,  and  a  copy  requested  for  publication.  It  will  probably 
appear  iu  the  ucxt  number  of  the  Society's  proceedings. 

ViRGrs'iA  Historical  Society. 

Hichmond,  Friday,  April  6,  1S77. — The  executive  committee  met  this  evening  at 
the  residence  of  the  Rev.  Dr.  Curry. 

The  motto  for  the  seal  of  thii  Society  was  adopted,  as  follows  :    Condere  ct  tradere. 

A  number  of  valuable  donations  were  announced. 

R.  A.  Brock,  the  corresponding  secretary,  reported  his  correspondence  on  histori- 
cal subjects,  lie  read  a  "plan"  and  "programme"  fur  a  "Post-Revolutionary 
or  Modern  History  of  Virginia,"  submitted  by  X.  F.  Cabel  of  Norwood,  Nelson  Co., 
Va.  ;  also  a  letter  from  Rev.  Edwin  A.  Dalrymple,  D.D.,  of  Baltimore,  in  relation 
to  some  pre-historic  remains  of  the  west  which  he  had  lately  obtained.  .Mr.  iJroek 
stated  that  he  had  recently  read  two  interesting  contributions  to  Virginia  liteiature, 
soon  to  be  published,  viz.  :  •'  The  History  of  St.  Clark's  Parish,  Culpepper  County, 
Virginia,"  by  Rev.  Philip  Slaughter,  D  D.,  and  "  Home  Reminiscences  of  John 
Randolph  of  Roanoke,"  by  Powhatan  Rouldin.  He  also  called  attention  lo  a 
notice  in  the  Tappahannock  Index,  which  states  that  th  jre  is  preserved  among  tiie 
records  of  Essex  County  the  minutes  of  a  court  held  in  Se])tember,  16.36,  which  con- 
tains a  treaty  entered  into  between  the  whites  and  Indians  at  that  time. 

The  Rev.  Dr.  Curry  exhibited  a  number  of  ancienc  relics,  implement.s  and  curi- 
osities obtained  by  hira  for  the  museum  of  the  Baptist  College  of  Richmond,  during 
a  recent  tour  on  the  European  continent  and  the  East. 

Friday,  May  3. — A  meeting  of  the  executive  committee  was  held  this  evening, 
the  Hon.  B.  R.  Wellford  presiding. 

A  list  of  valuable  donations  was  reported. 

The  corresponding  secretary  read  a  letter  from  the  Rev.  Dr.  Dalrymple  of  Balti- 
more, in  which  he  stated  that  being  recently  in  King  William  County,  a  friend  prc"- 
sented  him  with  some  wampum  beads  and  shells  found  long  ago  in  an  Indian  grave 
at  Mattaponi.  Aland-slide  had  exposed  the  skeleton  of  some  old  Indian,  at  tiich 
side  of  which  were  long  rows  of  beads  and  sht-lls,  apparently  joined  t>L'eth(.r.  and 
forming,  no  doubt,  true  belts  of  wnmpum.  When  touched,  tlit:>;trinirs  which  kejt 
them  together  crumbled  away,  and  the  order  of  the  beads  Avas  entirely  broken  up. 
But  most  curious  of  all,  several  plates  of  copper,  as  if  parts  of  a  cuirass  or  sofue 
piece  of  armor,  were  found  in  the  grave.  One  of  them,  having  iiirures  of  a  man  on 
horseback,  birds,  ic,  is  said  to  have  been  deposited  with  the  Virginia  Historiciil 
Society;  but  if  it  ever  was  deposited  here,  it  has  beeu  loat,  aa  many  of  the  Soci- 
ety's treasures  were,  in  the  late  civil  war. 

Mr.  Brock  announced  that  Col.  John  G.  James  is  preparing  a  biography  of 
Henry  Smith,  lirst  ijovcrnor  of  Texas;  and  also  tliat  the  Rev.  Edward  D.  Neili  has 
placed  in  his  hands  highly  interesting  and  valuaole  sketches  .)f  the  early  colonial 
gorernortj  of  Virginia,  which  are  to  appear  in  the  Rickinor.d  Dispatch. 


340  l^ecrology  of  Historic  y  Genealofjical  Society.       [July, 


NECROLOGY  OF  THE  XEW-EXGLAXD  IIISTOlilC, 
GEN  E  A  LOGICAL   SOCIETY. 

Prepareil  by  the  Rev.  Samlel  Cutler,  Historiogiaphcr  of  the  Society. 

Rear-Aijmiral  CiiARi.f;5  IIknry  Davis,  LL.I).,  U.S.N.,  a  correspond in'j;  memV>€r, 
■was  burn  in  il'istoa,  6ai\.  iC,  lri07  ;  died  iu  Washington,  D.  U.,  Fub.  lb,  1877,  a;^ud 
70  yrs.  1  aio.  -2  d.s. 

Admiral  Davi.-i  was  the  son  of  the  Hon.  Dtiniel  Davis,  Solicitor  General  of  tlic 
State  of  Massachu.-ectd.  He  entered  the  navy  as  niidsliipman,  Au:;.  \'2,  1823.  He 
became  past  niidihiprnan  in  liS-J'.),  lieutenant  in  18:Jt,  commander  iu  1854,  captain  in 
ISCI,  comrund.tre  in  lSi"i2,  and  rear-admiral,  Feb.  7,  l^d'S. 

From  18U  to  ISj'J  he  was  eni^ai^ed  iu  the  U.-S.  Coa-;t  Surrey.  In  l'itf>-49,  while 
surveying  the  water.''  abiut  XantuekeC.  Ma.s.s.,  lie  di-covered  the  New  South  Shoal, 
and  .several  smaller  shoal.s  directly  in  the  track  of  ship.s  sailinf^j  between  New  York 
and  i'lurope,  an  1  of  co.vjting  vessels  from  Jjuston.  He  was  eu!)sequently  engai^ed  in 
examining  the  harbor?  of  Boston,  New  York,  C'liarlcston,  S.  C,  vtc.  These  investi- 
gations led  him  to  study  the  laws  of  tidal  action,  and  to  contributions  from  him  on 
that  ar.J  kindred  topics.  In  ISIO  he  founded  the  American  Nautical  Almanac, 
superinteniling  it  from  IS19  to  1856,  when  he  was  ordei'ed  to  naval  service  in  the 
Pacitic,  in  command  of  the  sloop  of  war  •'  St.  Mary's." 

In  1861  he  wa.s  one  of  the  board  of  officers  assembled  at  Washingt'^i  t<3  in- 
quire into  and  report  upon  tlie  conditions  of  the  Southern  coast,  its  harfi^rs  and 
inlets,  with  a  view  to  offensive  operations  on  the  part  of  the  Government.  This  led 
to  the  organization  of  the  expedition  against  Port  Ro^al,  in  which,  as  Chief  of  Staff 
to  Flag  tMiicer  Dupont,  he  bore  a  conspicuous,  active,  and  meritorious  part,  and  for 
which  he  received  the  enipliatic  commemlation  of  Dup.~>nt. 

On  the  9th  of  May,  1S*''0,  he  relieved  Flag  Oifieer  Foote  of  the  command  of  the 
Western  flritllla  oir  Fort  Pillov/.  and  on  the  f dlowin;^  day,  with  a  fleet  of  seven 
vessels,  he  beat  off  a  squadron  of  eight  iron  dads  whicu  had  steamed  up  the  Missis- 
sippi and  attacked  him. 

For  his  services  during  the  civil  war,  in  addition  to  his  promotions  in  t!ie  service, 
he  received  the  thanks  of  Congress.  On  his  return  from  the  3ilississippi  he  was 
appointed  Chief  of  the  Bureau  of  Navigation,  and  in  1865  Superintendent  of  the 
Naval  Observatory.  In  1S57  he  was  detailed  as  Comraander-in-Ciiief  of  our  squadron 
on  the  coa.rt  of  Brazil, _where  he  remained  until  1S69.  In  1870  he  was  appi*;nted  to 
the  command  of  the  L.  S.  Navy  Yard  at  Norfolk,  Va.,  and  about  three  years  ago 
was  re-app(;inted  Superintendent  of  the  Naval  Observatory,  which  position  he  held 
at  the  time  of  his  death. 

He  was  admitted,  Nov.  8,  1851. 

Addison*  Weld  Champnev,  a  corre.'ponding  member.  wa.s  born  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y., 
May  21,  1839;  died  in  Brooklyn,  Oct.  2-2,  1876,  aged  37. 

He  was  the  eon  of  Samuel  Trowbridge  Ciiampney,  of  Brooklyn,  N.  Y..  the  great- 
gr_and.son  of  the  Hon.  Ebene2:er  Ciiampney.  and  also  of  the  Rev.  Caleb  Trowbridge. 
minister  of  Groton,  Mass.  He  was  a  member  of  the  New  Y'ork  Bar,  "  a  thorough 
read  lawyer,  of  a  clear  and  critical  intellect,  and  never  advocated  a  wrong  cause." 
He  was  a  member  of  the  tirec  Presbyterian  Church,  and  was  an  earnest  and  success- 
ful worker  in  the  Sunday  School. 

His  pastor,  who  was  familinr  with  his  labors  and  influences  in  the  conirregation 
and  Sunday  School  of  City  Park  Chapel,  Brooklyn,  of  which  he  was  one  of  the 
cfBcers  for  several  years,  says  of  him  ;  '•  His  work  was  singularly  disinterested  in 
its  motive,  and  abundant  in  its  results  for  the  good  of  the  peo].'ie.  His  presence 
among  them  was  always  hailed  with  pleasure.  The  irrectings  of  the  little  folks  as 
he  pa.^sed  them  on  the  streets  gave  pleasing  proof  of  the  place  which  he  occupied 
in  their  aG'octions.  His  warm  and  generous  heart  dictated  liberal  tiiinir=,  and  his 
hands  and  purse  executed  chceriUlly  what  his  lieart  ei;noeived.  I  speak  fnim  per.<unal 
experience  of  his  kindne.ss  wheu  I  .say  that  it  gathered  about  him  many  friends  who 
deeply  mourn  his  death." 

Mr.  Champney  Inh.erited  a  vigorous  constituti  .»n  and  had  the  prospect  before  him 
of  a  long  and  u.~eful  life,  but  dieu  after  a  few  days'  illness  of  congestive  pneumonia. 

He  was  admitted  a  member,  Jan.  10,  1801. 


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The  Hon.  Isaac  Emerv,  a  life  member,  died  very  suddenly  at  his  residence  in 
]lr.-ton,  (in  SafiiT'lay  eveniii:;,  July  3.  I«7."),  atced  8"J. 

lie  \VRS  thi-  tiicti  son  ot  iliuums  Etiu-ry,  ol  iJtixLon,  Me.,  and  wdd  born  in  that 
town,  March  31,  17U3. 

About  1817,  he  removed  tn  TJiJ  leford,  and  there  be:;an  but-inecs  at  what  is  known 
UH  Smith's  Corner.  In  addition  to  the  u-iiuil  biisintris  of  ii  country  .store,  he  uad 
intert*ted  in  the  t'oastinir  tnido.     ile  contir.u<^<l  in  hii>inesP  at  Ijidd'.-lord  until  1h;j7. 

lie  first  receiveci  reeoi.'nitiori  :if  a  public  man  in  .Maine.  In  IbJl  he  was  a|ipoirit(;d, 
to;;cther  with  the  Kite  Hon.  llobcrt  P.  Diinht)),  of  Brun.swick,  aide  tu  (iov.  Albion 
K.  Parris,  with  the  rank  of  L'ol.,  by  which  title  he  wa.s  designated,  h  w:is  in  tiiat 
year  Gen.  Lafayette  vis;ited  the  btate  of  Maine.  Meesra.  Emery  &  Dunla])  were  then 
m  the  primo  of  life,  of  marked  personal  appearance,  and  diiJ  the  honors  at  tho  wel- 
come of  the  di^tini:;ui.shed  Gcneml  to  the  State,  mobt  creditably  to  tliembclves,  and 
with  honor  to  the  State. 

Col.  Emery  was  chi'^en  a.s  a  Senator  from  the  County  of  York  to  the  Maine  IjCgis- 
lature,  then  holdin;:;  its  se??ion.s  in  Portland  for  the  year  182S.  It  wpa  durin;^  thi«j 
session,  that,  after  protracted  ballotintrs  and  ilisa^reemcnts  bet^reen  the  Scn:ite  and 
House  of  Kepresentativcfl,  'jov.  Albion  K.  Parris  was  ch.isen  Senator  to  Conjjrcf-s, 
in  the  place  of  tlte  Hon.  Jofin  Hr.lmts,  who;e  term  of  service  expired  March  4,  IS'28. 
It  wa.-i  at  this  session  the  decision  was  made  that,  after  1&3"2,  the  permanent  seat  of 
government  should  bo  esiablisiied  at  Augusta. 

The  writer,  a.s  a  fellow  boarder  with  Col.  Emery  at  the  time,  remembers  him  as 
an  affable  and  geiUlemaDiy  man,  and  an  interested  and  active  member  of  the  Senate. 
Asa  resident  uf  I^iddefbrd,  be  was  known  as  a  public  spirited  citizen,  and  for  Lis 
gentlemanly  deportment. 

Col.  Emery  removed  to  Boston  in  1833,  where  he  has  since  resided,  taking  an 
active  part  in  business,  politics  and  charitable  enterprises.  The  only  elective  office 
,he  held  was  that  of  Councillor  for  Suffolk  in  1851.  In  establishing  the  John  Han- 
cock Insurance  Company,  he  was  the  Icadina;  mind,  and  he  was  also  associated  in 
the  organization  of  the  Boylston  iJank.  Amonj  his  other  business  connections,  waa 
that  of  Director  of  the  Boston  k-  Worcester  Kail  Pv.oad  for  sixteen  years,  until  it3 
consolidation.  He  was  a  prominent  member  of  tlse  Provident  A'-sociution.  Col. 
Emery  was  a  communicant  uf  the  Episcopal  Church, — early  connecting  himself  with 
Trinity  Church,  Saco,— a  worsln'pper  at  ^St.. Paul's,  Boston,  and  for  a  long  time  one 
of  its  Vestrymen,  and  Treasurer.  In  politics  he  was  a  consistent  Democrat,  aiding 
by  his  counsels  and  influence  in  all  measures  of  public  interest.  He  was  a  thorough 
business  man,  vigorous  in  intellect,  energetic,  honorable,  and  of  the  loftie.-t  integrity, 
and  leaves  the  example  of  a  life  of  more  than  ordinary  u.sefulness,  and  of  distin- 
guished success.  It  is  only  within  nine  years  that  he  has  retired  from  active  busi- 
ness, kee[  ing  a  lively  interest  in  public  alKiiis  to  the  last. 

Col.  E.aery  was  twice  married.  His  fii-st  wife  was  Miss  Faith  Bigelow  from 
Weston,  Mass.  There  were  three  children  by  this  marriage — two  fcons,  and  a 
daughter  who  died  3'oung.  The  sons,  George  F.  and  William  H.,  survive  the  father 
and  are  residing  in  Boston.  He  married  for  a  second  wife,  who  survives  him,  ^Ii?3 
Sarah  Spring,  of  Biddeford,  daughter  of  Col.  Seth  Spring,  of  Saco,  and  sister  of  Cul. 
John  Spring.     There  were  no  children  by  the  second  marriage. 

The  remains  of  Col.  Emery  were  buried  in  Laurel  Hill  Cemetery,  Saco,  Me. 

He  was  admitted  to  the  society,  Jan.  12,  18G-J. 

Lewis  Rice,  Esq.,  of  Boston,  a  life  member  and  benefactor,  was  born  in  North- 
borough,  Mass.,  Not.  23,  1809;  died  in  Boston,  March  16,  1877,  aged  67  yrs.  3mo3. 
23  ds. 

The  ancestors  of  Mr.  Rice  were;  I,  Edmund,  born  about  159t.  and  who  came  to 
this  country  from  England.  2,  Samuel,  born  Nov.  12,  1634.  3.  Edmund,  of  West- 
borough,  b.  1663.  4,  S,=th,oi  Northborough,  b.  1705.  5,  Seth.  of  Northborough, 
b.  Nov.  9,  1737.  6,  William,  of  Northborough,  b.  Sept.  18,  1774,  the  father  of 
Lewis,  who  married  Lois,  born  April  3,  1779,  the  daughter  of  Abraham  Munroe,  of 
Northborough. 

Mr.  Rice  married,  Oct.  25,  1837,  Susan  Augusta,  daughter  of  Nathaniel  BriGrhara, 
of  Niirthborouirh.  She  was  born  in  Northborough,  Jan.  15.  I8l3.  They  had  :  Lewis 
Frederick,  burn  May  17,  1831) ;  Auirusta  Maria,  born  Dec.  26,  1841  ;  Henry  Brigham, 
born  July  21,  1843  ;  Ella  Frances." born  April  3,  1819. 

Mr.  Rice  was  for  many  years  the  well  known  and  highly  esteemed  proprietor  of 
the  American  House,  Hanover  street,  Boston.     Ambitious,  when  a  boy,  for  a  more 

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342  Necrology  oj  Historic,  Genealogical  Sociely.      [Anrij, 

active  life  tlian  the  country  seemed  to  ofTer,  he  came  to  Boston  in  April,  ISii').  an.l 
for  five  yrars  ^ns  io  tlio  fiuployuient  of  diU'-rent  personal  in  Fiineiiil  Ilail  Ma'rk.-t 
Here,  hy  his  industry  and  pruldty,  the  w.iy  was  oi)entd  fur  u  iiiw  ;-itiiati.in',  juid  iii 
April,  IWO,  he  entered  t'lcs^rvicj  of  Mr.  A.  M.  lirii^ham,  a«  clerk  in  the  .Merchant  V 
Hotel,  Hanover  street.  In  18;i7,  Oct.  1,  iMr.  l!iee  bueauie  the  proprietor  of  tlio 
American  House.  The  hotel  wag  rehuilt  in  HlU-50,  and  has  been  siicO(:r*dUil!y 
continued  under  his  careful  and  quiet  supervision  until  his  eudden  and  deeply  re- 
gretted removal. 

As  a  memherof  the  masonic  fraternity  Mr.  Rice  enjoyed  the  confidence  and  esteem 
of  his  associates.  Af  a  citizen  he  was  honored  in  eIe.;tiwnH  to  the  City  Council  in 
18f)-t,  "66,  '67  and  'G8,  and  as  a  member  of  the  IJuard  (jf  Alderni'n  in  lb01>.  As  a 
chrjcitian  his  lo^s  is  mouriifd  by  tlic  otiicers  and  members  of  Sc.  Paul's  Churcii,  of 
"which  he  was  a  communicant,  and  of  wh.jse  vestry  he  was  a  member. 

He  was  admitted  to  the  society,  Aug.  5,  IbTO. 

The  Hon.  Saml-el  Holden'  Parson9  Hall,  a  corre.«tpondin;  member,  of  BinHiam- 
ton,  N.Y.,  was  born  in  Middietown,  Conn.,  June  23,  lSO-1 :  died  in  Bin-^haniton. 
j\Jarch  5,  1ST7.  a-ed  T-J  yrs.  8  inos.  12  ds.  ° 

The  father  ut  .Mr.  Hall,  Dr.  William  li.  Hall,  was  a  irraduate  of  Yale  College,  and 
a  prominent  phy>ician  of  -Middletown.  Hia  i^-randfather  was  Brenton  Hall,  ot  M..ri- 
d^en,  Conn.,  and  his  great-grandfather,  the  Kev.  Samuel  Hall,  was  the  minister  at 
Che^^liire.  The  n-aternnl  grandfather  of  Mr.  Hall  was  Grneral  .Snmnel  Hohlou  Par- 
sons, whose  name  he  hoars.  He  was  an  officer  in  the  Army  of  tlie  devolution,  a  tried 
and  trusted  friend  of  A^'ashir.gtoii,  and  a  member  of  the  court  which  tried  and  con- 
demned the  unfortunate  Major  Andre.  The  father  of  Gen.  Parsons  was  the  Rev. 
Jonatiian  Parsons,  of  Newhurynort,  Mass.,  a  distinguished  divine  of  his  day,  and 
at  whose  house  George  WhiteHeld  died.     (Sue  Register,  i.  1.51),  273;  xsvi.  410). 

Alter  the  deatli  of  his  father,  which  occi'rred  in  1809,  Mr.  Hall  lived  in  Middle- 
town,  Conn.,  with  his  uncle  Enoch  Parsons. 

In  1826,  Mr.  Hall  married  Eme'.ine  Bulklev,  of  Rocky  Hill,  Conn.,  where  he 
resided,  and  was  engaged  in  business  until  1837,  with  the  e^.feption  of  one  veur 
during  which  he  was  in  Buffalo,  N.  Y.  In  the  spring  of  1837,  he  removed  to  Blni;- 
hamton,  N.  Y.,  where  for  a  number  of  years  he  was  extensively  engaged  in  mercan- 
tile pursuits.  After  holding  several  minor  offices,  in  18 16  he  was  elected  by  the  whig 
party  a  state  senator  from  the  sixth  senatorial  district.  After  the  adoption  of  riio 
Constitution  of  1846,  and  a  revision  of  the  senatorial  districts,  in  1817,  Mr.  Hall  was 
chosen  Senator  for  a  term  of  two  years  from  tlie  twenty-third  district.  In  the  division 
u  ^  )  r -^^  P^rty,  Mr.  Hall  remained  with  the  conservative  portion,  who,  under 
the  lead  of  Mr.  Fillmore,  obtained  the  name  of  "  Silver  Gray»," 

Since  the  expiration  of  his  senatorial  term,  Mr.  Hall  has  co  itinued  his  residence  in 
liinghamton,  and  for  a  large  part  of  the  time  has  been  engagetl  in  business.  Durincr 
the  war  he  stood  with  the  war  Democrats  ,and  was  tirm  in  his  support  of  the  govern"- 
mentm  putting  down  the  rebellion,  and  restoring  the  unity  of  the  States.  Thouirh 
tor  the  last  ten  years  he  has  retired  from  active  business,  he  has  never  ceased  'to 
take  part  in  matters  of  public  interest. 

The  surviving  children  of  Mr.  Hall  are  Charles  S.,  of  Binghamton,  N.  Y.,  and 
Theodore  P.,  of  Detroit,  Michigan.  '  o  .  , 

Mr.  Hall  was  admitted,  Feb.  5,  1818. 

The  Hon.  Oliver  Ames,  of  North  Easton,  Mass.,  a  life-member  and  benefactor, 
was  born  in  Plymouth,  Mass.,  Nov.  5,  1807  ;  died  in  North  Easton,  March  9, 1877, 
aged  69  jts.  4  mos.  4  (j^?,. 

Mr  Ames  was  the  third  son  of  the  Hon.  Oliver  and  Susanna  Ames,  and  a  brother  of 
the  Hon.  Oakcs  Ames,  the  chief  projector  of  the  "  Cnion  Pacific  Railroad,"  who 
died  in  1673  {ante,  xxix.  113) ,  and  with  whom  he  was  associated  in  that  great  under- 
taking. In  his  youth  :\Ir.  Ames  was  a  scholarly  bov,  rritli  a  love  of  historical  and 
philosophical  reading.  A  purpose,  at  one  time  entertained  bv  him,  of  a  coUe-e 
education  and  the  study  of  the  law,  was  abandoned,  and  he  entered  upon  active 
business.  In  1844  he  went  into  copartnership  with  hie  brother  Oakes  and  his 
father,  and  since  the  doath  of  the  latter  has  been  the  leading  member  of  the  friu 
of  Oliver  Ames  &  Sons,  .so  celebrated  as  the  manufacturers  "of  shovels  and  other 
agricultural  implements. 

.Mr.  Ames  was  in  politics  a  member  of  the  old  whig  partv,  and  waa  a  senator  in 
tne  legislature  of  ^lassachusetts  la  1852  and  in  1857. 


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In  addition  to  his  interest  in  the  Union  Pacific  Rnilroad,  of  which  for  ten  years 
h.-^  wa^ii  Icudincc  direet.ir— servin:,';i.s  prc^ideIlt  I'njin  1860  tu  1H71— he  was  u  large 
stock lioldfv  lu  U;e  Old  L'.iloiiy  and  other  niil'-oaiiy,  and  alsj  in  iiiuruifacturin/  c>^xlTo- 
rf.tions  iu  Canton  and  Taunton,  'ihe  valuable  aid  lie  n;ndend  as  a  diieetor  Tn  these 
interests  for  many  jears,  gave  him  a  higii  re{)utar,i.m  for  unrivalied  business  ability, 
and  the  esteeui  ot  his  associates. 

Ah  aj)lii!antlin)iji-.t,  Mr.  Ames  hciamc  interested  in  the  temperance  raoveuient  in 
18-2t;--27,  and  lias  ever  ^irl(■e  ■rivi-n  iiis  iiiliuenc;  tur  its  promotion.  He  wa.s  a  liberal 
Puh.scnber  tuwurds  the  biiildiu<j;  of  tlie  Young  Mcn'-s  Chri.stian  Union  in  tlie  city  of 
Boston.  IJe  caused  to  be  erected,  under  his  caielul  .^uijervision,  and  pi\!-er.ted  to 
the  Unitarian  Society  in  Nort.h  E.i=ton,  aa  editice  costing,  it  is  said,  one  hundred 
thousand  dollars. 

His  pastor,  the  Rev.  W.  L.  Challin,  in  a  funeral  sermon  on  the  day  of  his  burial, 
eulogizing  \\\s  character,  says  :  '•  He  was  a  man  of  moiit  unquestioned  integrity,  whoso 
word  wa.s  good  as  any  man's  bond,  who.se  name  always  BuzL'e.>ted  jjrobi"iy  and  up- 
nghtnes.s  ^vliuse  heart  wa.s  free  and  hands  clean  from  aUdishonor— a  strong  and 
vigorous  character  that  made  the  impre-^sion  uf  a  sturdy  determinaci jn  and''re_-o- 
lutewdl,  a  man  who,-^3  name  was  a  tower  of  strength  in  any  enterprise  in  which 
his  coiiperati'in  wa.s  secured.'"' 

In  June,  1-^33,  Mr.  Ames  married  Sarah,  daughter  of  Lion.  Howard  Lothrop  of 
Jiiston,  by  whom  he  had  Hon.  Frederic  L.  Amee'of  Easton,  born  June  8,  183j,  and 
Helen,  born  Nov.  II,  I.^3H,  who  survive  him. 

He  v/as  admitted  to  this  society,  DeO.  31,  1373. 

_  George  B.vTY  Blake,  E.sq.,  of  Boston,  a  life-member  and  benefactor,  wns  b-^m 
in  Brattleboro',  Vt.,  May  19,  180S,  and  died  at  his  .summer  residence,  Brookiine, 
.Maes.,  Aug.  6,  187-3,  aged  f)7  years. 

Mr.  Blake  was  long  and  favorably  known  as  a  prominent  and  successful  merchant, 
nrst  in  the  iiuportation  and  jobbin":  of  dry  goods  in  Boston,  and  sub.sefiuentlv  in  the 
Dancing  business.  On  coming  to  Boston  at  an  curly  aire,  he  entered  t!ie  drv  zo-Ai 
store  ot  Edward  Dickern^an.  wliere  he  Lniined  hishrst  knowledge  of  a  busines"s  which 
he  atterward.s  pursued  with  great  a.>;siduity  and  success.  In  earlv  manhood  h-^  i^e- 
came  a  partner  in  the  then  well-known  tirm  of  Edward  Clarke  &  Co.,  and  of  Wight, 
Blake  &  Vjo.  In  1633-34  he  dissolved  his  connection  with  Mr.  Clarke  and  formed  a 
copartnership  widi  Mr.  AV'illiam  Almy  and  Joseph  \V.  Patterson,  under  the  name  of 
Alniy,  Blake  &  Co.,  doing  business  at  No.  9  Liberty  Square.  Thev  removed  about 
163o  to  new  and  more  commodious  stores  in  Milk  Street.  About  1837-3^,  .Mr.  Blake 
left  Mr.  Almy  and  farmed  a  new  connection  witii  Mr.  David  Nevins,  and  for  several 
years  taey  conducted  an  extensive  and  lucrative  trade. 

Leav  ng  the  dry  goods  business,  Mr.  Blake,  about  1853,  united  himself  with 
AleSifT?.  Gilmore  and  Ward,  under  tlie  tirm  of  Gilmore,  Blake  &  AVard,  as  bankers. 
Mr.  Gilmore  dying  soon  after,  the  firm  was  changed  to  Blake,  Howe  &  Co.,  and  at 
a  later  period  to  Blake,  Brothers  &,  Co.,  Mr.  George  B.  Blake  being  the  .senior  mem- 
ber and  controlling  mind.  Tne  business  of  the  hou-se  is  continued  by  the  sons  of 
Mr.  Blake,  under  the  same  name,  in  Boston  and  New  York. 

Mr.  Blake  had  gre-at  busicea.s  talent,  which  enabled  him  to  pursue  a  successful 
career  as  a  merchant  and  a  banker.  He  wa.s  a  man  of  sreat  prudence  and  forecast 
m  his  eng-agements.  He  exercised  a  careful  supervision  of  the  details  of  his  busi- 
ness, and  demanded  of  his  employees  a  portion  at  least  of  his  own  careful  attention. 
His  judgment  of  men  was  discriminating.  His  iiains  were  sure  ;  and  a.s  his  ca{>ital 
^Q  h'^iespcrience  increased,  so  did  the  aggregate  of  his  dollars  from  year  to  year. 

Mr.  Biake  married  the  daughter  of  the  late  Capt.  Joshua  Blake  of  Bjstjn,  who 
died  a  few  years  since.     He  leaves  several  children. 

He  was  admitted  a  member,  June  30,  1883. 

Enoch  Carter  RoLFE,  M.D..  of  Boston,  a  resident  member,  was  born  in  Rum- 
ford,  Me.,  .April  10,  1812;  died  in  Boston,  March  'J7.  1675.  a^ed  62. 

He  was  a  descendant  in  the  ninth  irenenition  Ironi  //t/in/  Rulfc  of  Newbury,  who 
died  March  1,  iti-13,  throui^^h  John,-^D'nianun,^  Benjamin*  Htnrt/,"  who  removed 
to  Concord,  N.  H.  ;  Naf.h.iuH,^  born  in  Newbury,  1712,  died  at  Concord,  N.  11., 
180H  ;  Benjanun,'  born  in  llaveriiiH,  Ma.-s.,  May  31,  1752,  died  ot  Bumford,  Me., 
Oct.  1,  1828  ;  and  John^  (his  lather),  born  in  Concord,  N.  H.,  .March  7,  17.-5,  died 
atRumford,  Me.,  April  23,  1851.  His  mother,  Bet^y  (Abbot)  Rolfe,  wad  bora  at 
Andover,  July  20,  1738. 

•  See  Boston  Joamal,  March  13,  1877. 


344  Necrology  of  Historic,  Genealogical  Society.        [July, 

Dr.  Rolfo  was  a  gmdunte  of  Dowdoin  College  in  1838.     He  ecttlcl  at  Farmin-ton 
Me.,  wl,ere  J.e  pra.H-e.l  ined.ciric  until  M.s  removal  to  Cu.stou  i.i  18j0.     For  a""' ,  ut 
ten  years  lie  tolluwcJ  h.s  ,n-olc.ssion  in   l]a«^ron,  ,iu<l  then  bc-r-n  tlio  practice  of  d.n 
tistry,  m  coan^ctiun  \v;tli  Dr.  Daly,  \vlii,t,  ho  continued  until  lii.s  de;uh 

I)r    Kolleuas  Known  t,.  the  citi/.ens  of  l{,,«ton  not  only  in  his  profe.^'.ion,  b.it  thrir 
conhderu-o  was  nianilestnl  hy  electing  hin.  t.;  the  school  coiiMnittee.     Ho  w.'s  a  n  ! , 
berot  one  ot  it,s  committees,  un-l  chainnun  for  .sixteen  \rarrt.     In  IH.JO  ho  w.h  ^ 
representative  truni  Do-ton  in  the  Massachusetts  h-islature 

Dr.  Rolfe  married  at  Farmini;ton,  Me.,  in  1^.39,  Emeiine  Small,  who  snrvivcH  hi,., 
Their  children  were-Ocorge.  born  Aug. -JT,  18  52,  died  in  D.^ton,  July  Ifi  infi",  • 
Harry  and  Kmma,  born  Ju  y  30,  1811.  both  livirig.  Harry  re.idca  in  Vngiuia  City' 
Nevada.     Lmma  married  (Jeorgc  D.  Eustis,  Nov.  '20,  1800.  •*^- 

He  was  admitted  a  member,  Feb.  5,  ltij7. 

Jamks  Brown  TnoRNTOX,  an  honorary  member  of  thi.s  Society,  wa.<.  born  at 
Saco,  District  ol  Maine,  bept.  28  1791.  Hi.  father,  Tlioma-,  Gilbert  Toornton  a 
native  of  hoston  Aug.  31,  17HS,  b.voti.ed'  l,y  Rev.  Dr.  John  Lathrop,  rememb-red 
hib  father  iimothy_8  removal  from  Boston  to  Ipswich,  1771,  and  the  insolence  of  t!ie 
Lri  ish  authonti^^s  in  the  examination  of  their  eilectb.  ;  there  tauglit  echool  studied 
medicine  with  Dr.  John  Manning  (Thacher-s  Anwrkmi  Maiical  Binnronhy)  liis 
father  s  rieud  and  executor,  and  his  guardian.  Too  young  to  .'^l.are  in  the  War  of 
Independence,  he  volunteered  under  hi.s  kinsman,  Col.  Nathaniel  W'adc  of  f p.swich  » 
m^upn-Lv-sing  uierc!)dli..n  of  1760.  He  began  the  practice  of  his  profession  at 
tJiddetord  in  1,9>),  and  removed  across  the  river  t..  Saco  in  1701.  lie  was  a  leMle- 
luthe  'l(5''^'^%=.^^i^,if^^P^'[;l'^^-a'' .Piirty,  with  the  family  of  Cutts,  into  which  he 
married,  Nov.  20,  1;93,  barah,  daughter  of  Col.  Thomas  Cutts.^  "  Kepo^ini 
special  trust  and  conhdence  in  his  ability  and  skill  in  phvsic  and  surgery,"  Gov" 
bamuel  Adams  appointed  Dr.  Thornton  surgeon  to  the  third  re-iment  June  1  1791' 
and  his  commission  bears  the  tremulous  signature  of  "  the  man  of  the  KevolutJon  "" 
Dr.  Iliorntou  did  not  take  the  oath  of  oihce  till  .May  3,  1790.  He  was  for  e.-verai 
years  an  influential  member  of  the  House  of  Kepresentatives.  and  au  un«ucce-'-.:l 
candidate  for  Congress.  He  was  one  of  the  corporators  and  president  of  the  Sue 
±}_ank,oneot  the  earliest  monied  institutions  of  Maine.  In  1803  he  relinquished 
his  profession  for  commerce  and  shipping,  was  appointed,  unsolicited,  C.  S.  Marshal 
of  the  District  of  Maine  and  was  continued  in  the  office  till  his  death,  Marcli  4, 
lb21,  a  new  commission  being  received  after  liis  decease.  He  was  a  frequent  contri- 
butor to  the  Boston  Chronicle  and  the  Portland  Arrjus 

It  was m  this  period  of  political  commotion  that  Mr.  Nathaniel  WillLs  undertook 
the  publication  of  the  "  Argus,"  at  Purtland,  of  which  Dr.  Thornton  was  a  zealou-^- 
supporter  and  a  leading  contributor  to  its  columns.  One  of  Mr.  Willis's  unpleasant 
experiences  in  that  partisan  warfare  may  be  found  in  the  case  of  Joseph  Bartlett 
against    Willis,  in  tne  third   Massachusetts   Reports,    1S06-7 

He  was  much  interested  in  education,  was  one  of  its  efficient  friends,  and  '«  Thorn- 
«"/7^  y'^L,  'oti  "■'^'"*^'^,'.°  recognition  of  his  benefactions.  (Folsom's  Saco  and 
BiddiJord,m  31  ;  Bonds  ^V«^.r/ozr/i,  003;  Memoir  of  Dr.  Thomas  Gilbert 
l/iorn(on,  by  Dr.  Ebenezcr  Alden.) 

His  first  l>orn  James  Brown  Thornton,  at  the  age  of  twelve  was  at  Berwick 
Acauemy,  then  at  Gorham^  Academy  under  the  Rev.  Reuben  Nason,  and  in  1809  en- 
tered Bovvdoin  College.  Soon  after  the  opening  of  the  war  with  England,  June. 
1812,  he  was  captured  in  a  Saco  privateer  by  the  "  Bream."  of  ten  guns,  carried 
to  Halifax,  and  after  about  three  months  of  hard  experience  in  MellviUe  Wand 
prison  {Halhburions  ,\ova  is:otia,  ii.  22),  was  released  by  his  father's,  the  Mar- 
srial  8  care,  in  the  exchange  of  prisoners. 

Un.ler  a  midshi[.man-s  warrant,  obtained  by  the  influence  of  his  uncle  Richard 
Cutts,-*  then  in  Longress,  he  joined  the  fri-ate  -  Macedonian."  just  captured  bv  De- 
catur, then  under  command  of  Capt.  Jones  at  New  York.  He  was  transferred  to  the 
United  States,  of  the  r,quadron  under  Decatur,  blockaded  in  the  Tiiames  be- 
tween New  London  and  Norwich  until  the  close  of  the  war.  Those  days  of  idleness 
were  favorable  to  appeals  to  the  then  received  diabolical  code  of  duelling.     Midship- 

D;.SLu"i'SS:'ja?^i?;^5i''  ''^  grandfather,  Ebenezcr  Thornton,  wl  baptized  hy 

*  Felt's  Hist,  of  Ipswich,  1.51,  18S-190. 

'  |."ll!^''":s  "if  t-  ^'r^,tlie  District  of  Maine,  374 ;  Willis's  La^v  and  Lawvcrs  of  Maine,  2S.1. 
«  7,K,  H  ^'^'■•■^'■'^- ^f'h  "•  -•^-'^'^'  -^'-  ^'';  \Villi:.m<on-s  Hist,  of  Maiue,  i.  41^5,670; 
u.  70'J ;  Boston  Daily  Advertiser,  Nov.  12,  1845 ;  N.  E.  Kist.  and  Gen.  Res-.  v.  372. 


1877.}  Booh  JSFottces.  345 

nmn  Thornton  both  accepted  and  sent  a  challenge,  but  happily  nothin;?  came  of  them. 
At  till' eli)-i<.' of  tho  Ai"iif  lie  lol't  tlio  nrivy  and  cn'r.i2;ed  in  bui-itioss  at  iiaco,  owned 
lands,  Ava^  iutorestod  in  sliippini;,  iiiid  e'-'pi?cialiy  in  drawing  attention  to  tho  water 
power  at  iSaoo  for  nuinuf.iftLirinLr  purposes.  He  was  one  of  tlie  oricjinators  (jf  the 
I'ortiand.  8aro  <fc  Portsiiiuuth  Kailruud,  and  did  ftlieicnt  sorvice  in  ovcpMiiiin'^  ihe 
inertia  which  liinlyred  tlie  openini;  of  this  rail-coiuQiunicatiun  from  Portland  west- 
ward. Ho  had  amusini^  anecdotes  of  the  popular  in.scnsihility  to  the  prosjjcctive 
advantages  of  the  new  system.  January  i20,  \ri\l ,  he  married  Klizabcth,  dauirhter 
of  Judiro  Daniel  Cionkin  of  North  IJanij.tun,  N.  II.,  whom  the  Kev.  Dr.  Cuiuniin'^.^, 
of  the  "  Christ iaii  Mirror''  (July  -'7,  Ibo}) ,  couinieui  jratcil  aB  "  a  lady  distiu'^'iiibhed 
alike  by  the  pTai'es  of  literature,  a  rich  {)Oetic  fancy,  kindiy  all'ections  and  sixip- 
tural  pii^ty."  ^     They  travelled  nuich  and  visited  almost  every  j)art  of  the  country. 

Mr.  Tliornton  early  in  life  adoptf'd  the  piiictice  of  total  abstinence,  and  m^  exi- 
gency could  move  him  from  it.  If  not  tlie  very  HrHt,  he  was  anion;:  the  earliest  to 
induce  labor  to  exchange  the  ratioti  for  its  money  equivalent,  thuB  working  by 
demonstration  a  reformation  of  vast  beneiit  to  the  character  and  happinc.s.s  of  the 
men  and  their  families,  and  adding  greatly  to  the  productiveness  and  value  of  their 
labor.  lli.st')rically  tiiis,  it  is  believed,  wa.s  the  tir.st  ijractical  illustration  of  thi.s 
principle  in  Mune.  His  lips  were  I'.ever  sullied  by  prul'anity  or  impurity.  He  was 
a  man  of  au^'ust  purity  of  character,  serenity  of  temper,  and  benignant  manners. 
He  was  of  uniisual  stature,  fine  person  and  comnmnding  presence.  He  gave  a  gen- 
eron.^  but  s':^cret  sapport  to  the  christian  ami  benevolent  institutions  of  liie  state, 
memori;;ing  the  death  of  two  of  his  eons  near  the  close  of  his  life  by  large  gifts  to 
the  Maine  Missionary  Society.  The  last  twentv-tive  years  of  hi.s  life,  with  frequent 
absences,  were  parsed  on  hi?  e?i ate  at  Oak  Hill,  Scarboro',  near  Portland,  over- 
looking the  Atlantic  from  Saco  Bay  to  Cape  Elizabeth,  and  with  the  White  Moun- 
tain range  in  clear  outline  against  the  n<jrth.  There  he  died,  Feb.  13,  \b~i,  in  his 
79th  year,  in  full  possession  of  his  faculties — a  grand  old  man — and  was  buried  ac 
Laurel  Hill  Cemetery,  on  the  eastern  bank  of  the  iSaco,  by  the  side  of  his  vife. 

He  was  admitted  i'eb.  3,  18i7.  (^Communicated.) 

Edw.\rd  WroGLESwoRTH,  LL.B.,  a  benefactor  but  not  a  member,  died  suddenly  at 
his  residence,  81  Beacon  Street.  Boston,  Sunday  evening,  Oct.  15,  1S76.  He  was 
the  eldest  child  of  Thomas  and  Jane  (Norton)  Wiggleswortii,  and  was  birn  in 
Boston  in  1604.  He  was  a  descendant  in  the  sixth  generation  from  Edi'jard-  iVig- 
^/fsa'o/-//i  of  New  Haven,  Ct.,  through  Rev.  Michael-  (of  whom  a  memoir  will  be 
found  in  the  Kegtster,  vol.  XTii.  pp.  l'29-46),  Prof.  Edward,^  ProL  Edwari/,'^  nnd 
Thomas^  abr>ve  named.  He  graduated  at  Harvard  college  in  1S"J'3,  and  at  its  Law 
School  in  1SC5.  He  pIso  studied  law  with  Daniel  NYebster,  and  was  admitted  to 
the  Suifoll  bar  ;  but  after  maintaining  a  law  otlice  for  a  time,  he  relinquished  the 
profession,  and,  entering  his  father's  counting-room,  henceforth  devoted  himself  to 
mercantile  pursuits.  He  was  a  gentleman  of  cultivated  taste  and  literary  ability. 
He  assisted  Francis  Lieber,   LL.D.,  in  editing  the  "  £ncyclopa?dia  Americana,"' 

Sublished  1829-33.  He  married,  Nov.  10,  1S35,  Henrietta  May,  daugliter  of 
athaniel  and  Lucretia  (Dana)  Goddard,  -who  with  several  children  survive  him. 
Modest  and  retiring  in  his  nature,  he  was  a  generous  benefactor  to  all  worthy  ob- 
jects, and  his  name  was  alwaj's  associated  with  the  benevolent  enterprises  of  the 
day. 


BOOK  NOTICES. 


Memorials  of  the  Family  of  Scoft  of  Scot's- Hall  in  the   County  of  Kent.      With  an 
Appendix  of  lllustratice  Documents.     Bv  James  Kenat  Scott,  F.S.A.,  London  : 

1S"76.     [RoyaUto.  pp.  :;2G6and82.] 

This  magnificent  volume  traces  the  history  of  a  Kentish  family,  "which  has  pro- 
duced a  considerable  number  ot  distinguished  soldiers  atfd  lawyers,  and  which  p)S- 
sesded  this  estate  i'rom  A.D.  1421J  tiii  17^4.  ^Veshall  not  pr;'teud_to  describe  the 
volume  with  its  -wealth  of  engravings  and  pedigreea,  hut  fahall  notice  a  lew  points 
of  interest  to  our  readers. 

*  See  Aliibone's  Dictionary  of  Authors. 


34G  Booh  I^otices.  [Jiily, 

In  the  first  place  it  is  to  be  mentioned  that  the  author  claims  that  his  family  ori- 
glualod,  in  Kii^'umd,  \vita  Sir  Willi, un  !5;illiul,  surnanicd  Lc  Scut,  ymn'^cr  hrurlicr 
of  John  Baliol,  Kini;  of  Srotland.  After  six  dericetids  \vo  come  to  Jubn  S'.'ot,  wli'i 
married  the  heiress  of  Cumbe  in  Braburnc,  whose  son  was  William  iScot  of  Scofn 
Hall. 

The  derivation,  however,  is  disputed  hy  some  Eni^lisli  genealogists  who  cannot 

?uietiy  eoiiscnt  to  eiich  a  sudJeu  decay  or  obscurity  befalliiii;  one  of  a  royal  hoii--e. 
t  does  seem  soniewliat  improbable  that  the  brother  of  a  kiu-^  of  Scotland  should 
have  been  of  so  little  iiupurcauoe  as  tlic  Kcuntinei-n  of  reoon' ;  would  imply.  On  the 
other  hand  it  i:^  e'oar  that  the  uiaror  of  linibournc,  in  13-2 1,  waa  the  inheritance  of 
Joan,  wife  of  David  Stralbjli^i,  Karl  uf  Athol.  This  ni^bleman  took  the  side  of  the 
Enrjlish  in  tlie  war  with  fee<.>tland,  I'orfeitin^  bin  Scottish  title  ami  estates.  Ills 
grandson  died  about  Iof:i9,  Brabourne  pat^sed  to  his  daughter  Phillippa,  who  n:ar- 
ried  first  Sir  Ralph  Percy,  and  seciindly  John  Ilalsham.  Her  only  i^randohild  ari'i 
eventual  heiress  was  Johanna  Ilalsham,  who  carried  Brabourne  to  her  husband 
Sir  John  Lewknor,  and  their  daughter  carried  it  about  1475  to  her  husbaml  Sir 
John  Scotof  Scut".s-Hall.  Critics  say  that  as  the  manor  of  Brabourne  wa-  thus  held, 
it  follows  that  the  Scuts  of  the  earlier  pedigree  must  have  been  only  residentd  in, 
and  n  't  Ovvner.-  of.  Brabourue. 

On  the  whole,  the  evidence  of  the  descent  claim.ed  seems  to  be  not  bulEciently 
strong  to  satir;fy  the  demands  of  modern  genealo'iy. 

We  have  I^.koi  in  vain  in  this  book  for  some  account  of  that  branch  of  the  Scot 
family  from  which  a  descent  has  been  claimed  in  th';  Kegister  (vol.  xxii.  pp.  llj-la), 
for  Richard  Scott  of  Providence.  On  pace  188  is  a  brief  tabular  pediiiiec  of  the 
descendants  of  Uiehard  Scott  and  Mary  Wettenhall.  No  dates  are  L'iven,  but  her 
second  husband,  Fulke  Onslow,  died  in  1G02,  aged  8S.  The  pedigree  names  three 
sons — Reginald,  b.  15-11,  who  had  two  daughters  only  ;  Richard,  aucest.ir  of  the 
Scotts  of  Shrewsbury  ;  and  Edward,  "  a  quo  the  Scotts  of  Glcmsfoid,  Su{f  )!k,  and 
afterwards  of  Ohio  and  Massachu."-ett3  in  America."  Now  on  pp.  238 — ^iJO,  very 
careful  pedigrees  are  given  of  the  Shrewsbury  Scotts,  but  we  can  find  no  farther 
trace  of  the  Gleinsford  family,  though  on  page  6S  reference  is  made  to  it. 

We  fear  this  reference  to  the  Massachusetts  Scotts  must  be  considered  to  be  a  mat- 
ter of  courtesy  on  the  part  of  the  author,  rather  than  any  evidence  of  the  correct- 
ness of  the  claim.  Certainly  we  must  remain  incredulous  as  to  the  pedigree  of  Rich- 
ard Scott  of  Providence,  until  some  evidence  is  produced.  An  authentic  pedigree 
of  the  Scotts  of  Glemsford,  from  some  visitation,  would  be  one  step  in  the  right 
direction. 

One  other  Americi^.n  branch  is  to  be  considered.  In  the  Heraldic  Journal,  i.  103- 
106,  there  is  mention  of  a  certain  John  Scott  of  Long  Island,  and  extracts  are  given 
from  a  m  nuscript  pedigree.  The  present  authoritative  pedigree  is  entirely  contra- 
dictory of  the  one  there  given.  That  manuscript  says  that  Sir  Edward  Scott  of 
Scot's  Hall,  who  married  a  daughter  of  Lord  Goring,  was  son  of  Sir  William  S.  by 
Mary  Howard,  daughter  of  Charles,  Earl  of  Nottingham,  and  grandson  of  Sir  Regi- 
nald Scott  and  Mary  Tuke. 

This  book,  however,  makes  Sir  Edward  to  be  grandson  of  Sir  Reginald,  through 
his  son  Sir  Thomas  ;  and  the  peerages  are  silent  as  to  any  such  intermarriage  of 
Scot  with  a  daughter  of  either  of  the  three  Earls  of  Nottingham.  In  fact  the'last 
two  earls  died  issueless. 

The  American  pedigree  adds  that  Sir  Edward  Scott  had  a  brother,  Hon.  John 
Scott,  surveyor-general  to  Charles  I.,  who  married  a  daughter  of  Sir  George  Wor- 
tup,  and  that  his  son  John  lived  on  Long  Island. 

The  book,  however,  says  that  Sir  John  Scott,  brother  to  Sir  Edward,  was  of  Net- 
tlested  Place,  Kent,  had  two  wives  and  no  Issue,  and  died  before  January.  1617-Ip. 

We  are  utterly  at  a  loss  to  explain  these  contradictions,^  and  can  only  leave  them 

*  It  may  be  fair  to  give  such  facts  as  are  in  print  in  rejtard  to  the  Glemsford  branch.  In 
this  book,  p.  las,  rncution  is  made  ofEdward  (son  of  RiV-bard  Scott  and  Mary  V.'.tio:c!;alU, 
who  m.  Z'.Iary  Warren.  His  elder  brother  lliehard  was  born  in  1-5J4  and  c'lcd  ir.  10"2S.  Tliis 
Edward  is  said  {vidg  Register,  xxii.  17)  to  have  ha>l  a  son  Edward  or"  Giem-ford.  v.dio 
married  Elizal)Oth  Grome,  and  who  liad  two  sons,  Edward  and  Riehard,  each  havinjr  a 
son  Ricinird  horn  re^;;cctively  in  l'3)o  and  1G07.  Now  it  i-  not  quire  ini()')s>iblc,  bat  in  tuo 
hif^hest  dcLTrce  miprol'.il-le,  that  EJwaV'i  (husbtiiii  of  Mary  Warren ),  wLio  was  not  boni 
before  1-3.55,  wa.s  a  great-grandi'arber  at  tlia  aw  of  50.  That  is,  lie,  his  son  and  his  {grand- 
son, must  each  have  married  at  the  age  of  16  ! 

In  faet,  the  pedigree  of  bis  lirother  Rii.'iiard  sliows  a  son  born  in  lo34.  a  rrandson  I>oni 
in  1631.  and  a  great-_'randson  in  10(jj.  Evidently  the  Glemsford  pedi^TJC  as  srr.tC'J,  witn:)ut 
reference  to  the  question  whether  cither  Kiehard  was  the  emigrant,  needs  expUaatioa. 


J877.]  Booh  Notices.  847 

as  they  are.     On  pai^e  229  of  the  book  will  be  found  the  autlior's  statement  of  the 

.-  t-c  ;  but  bn  proir,^  to  bo  unnble  to  throw  any  lii^ht  upon  tlio  inattrr. 

Althoii''h  tho  fdiiily  in  no  loiii^.-r  powsesHed  of  SuoI'h  Hall,  the  line  is  tvcII  rer.re- 
mit^a.  I'Vancis  Talb,.t  Scott  eol.l  tiio  entiite  in  1781,  and  lelt  no  issue,  ills  brotliur 
W  ilham  bad  a  Hon,  (.'a^^t.  Henry  .S.\.tt,  ]:.N.,  still  livini,',  and  svith  male  issue 

Ihe  yrandiathcr  of  Branciri  T.  Sett  had  a  brotlier  William,  who  died  in  1730  and 
the  pedigree  .^ivcn  on  pa^^e  "JIS  hIiows  niimeroiH  desccudantrt  of  the  iiam.>  Hid 
grandson  Jolin  Scott,  banker  of  Loudon,  was  grandfather  of  Benjamin  ((Jhambcr- 
lain  ol  bMidun),  and  his  brother,  Jame^  K.  Scott,  the  autiiur  of  this  rr,.„,.;,i„,rv 

In  conclu.siuu,  wu  can  only  say  that  there  is  much  of  value  in  tho'ho.jk,  ai'.d  yet 
\ve  feel  a  sense  of  incompleteness  about  it.     The  more  diflicult  parts  of  the  pedi-re.- 
thcjuuior  branches,  seem  to  be  neglecte.l,  and  the  easily  accessible  portions  mpdc 
over-con.spicuuu8.      An  abridgment,  tracing  only  the  genealogies  and  expandin'^ 
those  in  our  American  fashion,  might  be  a  still  more  desirable  w.^rk. 

\V.  II.   WniTMORE. 

History  of  Cambridje,  Mn^s.,  lfi.30-I877.  With  a  Genealoqkal  Rcrjister.  By  Lurii's 
K.  Paige.  Boston  :  Published  by  II.  0.  Houghton  &,  Co.  New  York  :  Hard  & 
Uoughton.  Cambridge  :  The  Riverside  Press.'  1877.  [8vo.  pp.  731.] 
Cambridge  is  so  rich  in  historic  and  literary  associations,  that  it  would  have  been 
an  easy  task  for  the  author,  with  the  mass  of  materials  collected  bv  him  during 
inoro  thnn  a  third  of  a  century,  to  have  made  several  interestinL'  volumes  upon  us 
history  of  the  size  of  the  present  one.  The  <rreat  difEcultv  must  have  been  to  eomnress 
witliin  a  reasonable  limit  so  much  valuable  material.  In  order  to  do  this,  he  'n?s, 
WL-uly  refrained  from  giving  extended  accounts  of  Harvard  College  anrl  th.-'inilitary 
events_ which  transpired  in  Cambridge  during  its  occajiation  by  the  American 
lorces  in  the  eirly  jjart  of  the  revolution,  of  both  of  which  full  and  satistacrorv  his- 
tories have  been  written  by  others,  and  are  accessible.  President  (^uincv.  "i'rof. 
Pierce  and  Mr.  Elii)t  have  left  little  to  be  said  concerning  the  history  of  Harvard 
toUege  ;  and  Mr.  Frothingham,  in  his  "Siege  of  Boston,"  has  exhausted  the  hib- 
tory  of  the  milirary  movements  in  this  vicinity  wiiile  Cambridge  was  the  head  quar- 
ters of  the  American  armies  under  Ward  and  Washington. 

Ihe  book  is  arranged  under  heads,  the  titles  of  whicli  are  suggestive  of  the  matter 
to  be  found  in  these  pages.  We  have  here  the  civil,  ecclesiastical,  military  and 
Indian  history  of  the  town  ;  with  chapters  on  education,  heresy  and  witchcraft. 
Portions  also  are  devoted  to  genealogy  and  statistics.  The  former,  which  com- 
prises more  than  a  third  of  the  matter  in  the  book,  is  chiefly  confined  to  famiiies 
Who  lived  in  Cambridge  before  the  year  1700.  The  descendants  of  families  which 
remained  are  traced  to  a  recent  period.  A  few  families  wlio  became  residents  at  a 
later  date  are  included. 

The  author  has  made  the  earlier  liistory  of  the  town  exhaustive.  He  has  nscer- 
,?.IP5';',^"*?  residences  of  the  first  settlers,  and  furnished  a  plan  of  "  Cambrid-e  in 
lbjD,_  with  a  key  showing  the  owners  and  occupants  of  the  several  lots  on' t hid 
plan  in  163.3  and  in  1642.  the  former  before  and  the  latter  after  the  removal  of  the 
l^ev  ihomas  Hooker  and  the  larger  part  of  the  inhabitants  to  Hartford.  Ct.  Would 
that  some  one  would  give  us  as  satisfactory  a  plan  of  Boston  when  occupied  l)y  its 
hrst  settlers,  for  which  the  Book  of  Posse.ssions  would  furnish  the  groundwork, 
ine  late  iNathaniel  I.  Bowditch  could  have  done  it  with  comparatively  little  labor. 

Or.  Paige  has  preserved  much  that  will  illustrate  the  manners  and  customs  of 
Dygone  times  in  other  parts  of  New  England  as  well  as  Cambridge.  The  narrative 
portion  of  his  book  is  written  in  a  perspicuous  and  animated  stvie  ;  and  the  table.^ 
and  other  portions  intended  for  reference,— for,  as  was  to  be  expected  where  s.>  much 
oas  been  compressed  into  so  small  a  space,  there  are  parts  intended  fur  reference 
rather  than  reading,— are  compactly  and  clearly  arranged.  A  table  of  cont<.-uts  and 
IWY)  indices  render  it  easy  to  refer  to  the  things  contained  in  the  volume. 

Ihe  worK  is  beautifully  printed  at  the  Biverside  pre.ss,  and  is  embellished  with  a 
aie-like  portrait  of  the  author,  and  illustrated  by  several  plans.  J.  W.  Dea>:. 

First  Report  of  the  Record  Commissioners  of  the  Citu  of  Boston,  1S7G.     [Seal.] 
-Boston:  Kockwell  and  Churchill,  City  Printers.     1870.     [8vo.  pp.  ISO.] 
The  Record  Commission  of  the  citv  of  Boston  was  created  in  Julv,  1875,  bv  aa 

ordinance  passed  the  6th  of  that  month,  and  the  appointment  on  the  f-'th  of  .Messrs. 

»>iniam  H.  Uhitmore  and  William  Sumner  Appleton  as  the  commissioners.     To 

*^r.  V,  hitmore,  more  than  to  any  other  pei-son,  are  we  indebted  for  the  passage  o£ 


348  BooTc  ITotices.  [JuJy» 

this  ordinance ;  and  Mayor  Cobb  did  a  good  service  to  students  of  local  history 
when  he  pV.i'.cil  him  at  the-  lu':'.'I  of  tho  coiuiiiii-.-ioii. 

Tlie  tirtit  rc|)ort  of  the  oorumis^^ioni.Tb,  the  title  of  which  is  i^iven  above,  i^  an 
admirable  document  in  every  re-^pect.  In  it  has  been  c  )llccted,  from  variouF,  .souri.cs, 
a  mans  of  documents  rehitive  to  tlie  inliabitnnt-i  of  Huston  uurin:;  the  lirist  tiirt.-': 
quartcrfl  of  a  century  Ironi  its  st'ttienient ;  and.  by  printing  those  documents  as  ati 
appendix  to  their  report,  the  comiuissionert)  have  made  them  avaiiablu  to  a  multitiid'; 
of  people  who  could  never  have  consulted  them  had  copies  merely  been  deposited  at 
the  city  hall. 

It  is  probable  that  the  tax-liets  and  other  papers  here  printed  contain  the  names 
of  most  of  t!ic  tax-payers  in  fioston  durini;  the  last  quarter  of  the  Hcventeeuth  cen- 
tury ;  bchidcs  much  information  couccriiin.i,^  the  materia.l  resources  of  tlie  town. 

We  understand  that  the  second  report  of  this  commis.-iion  is  now  in  iiress,and  thnt 
it  will  contain  the  first  volume  of  the  town  records  of  Boston,  from  1034  to  IfioO; 
and  also  a  full  copy  of  the  invaluable  "  l>ook  of  Possessions,"  the  Doomsday  liou.k 
of  Boston,  of  which  an  abstract  is  printed  by  Mr.  Drake  at  the  end  of  his  llistury 
of  Boston.     It  will  prol^ably  appear  in  the  autumn  of  this  year. 

An  excellent  inde::  of  names  adds  much' to  the  usefulness  of  the  present  volume. 

J.    W.    D. 

History  of  The  Old  Cheraws;  containing  an  Account  of  the  Ahnrirfinefi  of  the  Pcclij;, 
thr  Firs'.  White  Seflfe/ncnts,  their  st^/bse picnt  Progress,  Cicil  Changes,  the  tiirv'jgie 
of  the  Revolution,  and  Growth  of  the  Country  afterwards:  extending  from  nhout 
A.D.  1730  to  ISIO,  tcith  Notices  of  Fciniltes,  and  Sketches  if  Individuals.  By  the 
Right  Reverend  ALEX^ixoEK  CIkegg,  D.D.,  Bishop  of  the  P.  £.  Church,  in  Texas, 
formerly  Rector  of  ISt.  David's  Ctuircli,  Cheraw,  S.  C.  New  York  :  Richard:;*:;!!  i 
Company.     1867.     [8vo.  pp.  viii.  546. J 

The  general  character  of- this  work  may  be  gathered  from  the  title-pa i;e.  "  The 
Old  Cheraws  "  is  the  designation  of  one  of  the  districts  of  South  Carolina,  lying 
back  from  the  coast,  on  the  Pdlee  River.  Tiie  naiue  is  derived  Irom  that  of  an  Iciiaa 
tribe  which  farnierly  inhabited  the  region,  and  eventually  became  incorporated 
with  the  Catawbas.  An  interesting  aceount  of  these  Indians  is  given  in  the  open- 
ing chapter  of  the  volume.  The  author's  original  purpose  embraced  nothing  niore 
than  the  preparation  of  such  an  account.  But  in  the  course  of  his  researches,  he 
was  encouraged  to  further  investigations  by  the  unexpected  discovery  of  .^ome  very 
interesting  documentary  matter,  relating  to  the  first  white  settlers  of  this  region, 
and  to  the  leading  part  which  tlie  Wliigs  of  the  Old  Cheraw  District,  hiiherto  un- 
known to  fame,  took  in  the  events  which  were  connected  with  the  revolutic^n.  The 
results  of  these  investigations  are  given  in  the  work  before  us,  aud  furnish  another, 
and  most  striking,  illustration  of  the  importance  of  prescr  ing  old  family  letter.^, 
deeds,  medals,  and  mementoes  of  all  kinds,  as  materials  for  history. 

Though,  in  the  main,  a  local  history,  ii  has  a  close  and  continuous  connection  with 
the  early  history  of  the  state  and  of  the  country.  The  writer  shows  more  fully  than 
has  ever  been  attempted  before  that  the  popular  discontent  and  the  hostilities  be- 
tween the  regulators  and  moderators,  which  prepared  the  way  for  the  revolution, 
were  occasioned  by  the  want  of  circuit  courts,  which,  though  long  and  earnestly 
petitioned  for  by  the  colonists,  the  mother  country,  with  strange  persistency,  re- 
fused to  establish. 

The  volume  also  contains  some  new  testimony  to  the  strong  sympathy  felt  in 
South  Carolina  with  the  revolutionary  spirit  of  the  North.  A  resolution  passed  at 
the  ceneral  provincial  meeting  in  Charleston,  July,  1774,  was  in  these  words  : 

"  That  while  the  oppressive  acts  relative  to  Boston  are  enforced,  we  will  cheer- 
fully, from  time  to  time,  contribute  towards  the  relief  of  those  poor  persons  there, 
who-se  unfortunate  circumstances  may  be  thought  to  stand  in  need  of  most 
assistance." 

In  t.his  connection,  a  list  is  given  of  over  thirty  subscribers  in  St.  David's  parish, 
the  aggregate  of  whose  contributions  for  the  poor  of  Boston  is  fiity-one  pounds,  fif- 
teen shillings. 

A  still  more  interesting  testimony  to  the  patriotism  of  the  Whigs  of  the  Old 
Cheraws,  is  the  gratitude  which  they  expressed  to  Lord  Chatham  for  his  defence  of 
the  colonies.  The  author  has  in  hi^  possession  a  medal,  which  was  found  near  bt. 
David's  Church,  on  which  is  the  head  of  Mr.  Pitt,  with  his  name:  and  up'on  the 
reverse,  the  inscription  :  "  The  man,  who,  having  saved  the  Parent,  pleaded  with 
success  for  her  children.''    At  the  time  it  was  Ibuod,  nothing  wa3  known  of  the 


1877.]  Booh  Notices.  349 

existence  of  this  medal.    Subt^equently,  however,  the  author  diacovered  an  account 
nf  it  in  tho  S'nitli  Carolina  Gazette  uf  July  OO,  170G. 

l1i^*hop  GiegL'H  book  is  a  valuable  ci)iiCii''uUun  to  our  hi.stori'jal  literature,  and 
will  be  read  with  interest  alike  by  the  antiquary,  the  genealogist  ami  the  student 
ofhibtory.  I>.  G.  Hjshi.ns. 

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of  Education,  as  the  contribution  of  the  Bureau  ot  Education  to  tlie  Centennial  An- 
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addre*.-ed  to  dilferent  sources  of  informattun,  and,  but  for  the  aid  of  government, 
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before  been  published  in  this  enunCry.  As  a  work  of  reference,  it  supi>lies  a  want 
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45,f)"J3  vols. ;  in  I87G  we  had  3,662  public  libraries,  containing  l-/J7G,'JGi  vols,  aad 
1.500,000  pamphlets.  Nearly  3,000  of  these  libraries  have  beca  organized  since 
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The  thanks  of  all  interested  in  libraries  are  eminently  due  to  the  Bureau  of  Educa- 
tion for  this  volume  so  happily  conceived  and  so  well  executed.  It  does  not  profesa 
to  treat  of  the  private  libraries  of  the  country,  many  of  which,  like  the  Brown  library 
of  Providence,  and  that  of  Mr.  Lenox,  of  New  York,  arc  so  very  rich.     A  second 

{)art  of  the  work,  issued  separately,  is  devoted  to  the  best  manner  of  preparing 
ibrary  catalogues.  W.  C.  Todd. 

A  Royal  Descent,  u-ilh  other  Pedigrees  and  Memorials.     Compiled  by  Thomasin 

Elizabetu  Sharpe.    London  :  Mitchell  it  Hughes,  Printers 1875.    [Koyal 

4to.  pp.  135.] 

The  hobby  of  tracing  a  descent  fi'om  some  monarch  of  England  is  one  in  which 
many  British  genealogists  indulge.  Years  ago  iSir  Bernard  Burke  published  two 
portly  vole  oies  containing  some  400  such  pedigrees.  The  late  Lord  farnham  also 
printed  several  pamphlets  tracing  various  families. 

It  is  to  be  observed  that  these  descents  are  always  in  the  female  lines.  The  ille- 
gitimate branches  of  the  reigning  family,  or  families  rather,  those  preserving  a 
descent  in  the  male  line,  are  very  lew.  We  find  on  the  record  some  d'Estes  or  Fitz- 
Clarences,  ofishoots  of  the  Hanoverian  line  ;  the  Dukes  of  Richmond,  Grafton  and 
St.  Albans  descended  from  Charles  It.  ;  the  Beauforts  from  John  of  Gaunt.  Duke  of 
Lancaster;  but  after  all,  the  number  of  these  families  is  very  limited.  The  usual 
line  of  tracing  descent  is  through  the  spindle  side,  from  the  daughters,  grand- 
daughters and  remoter  issue  of  the  royal  house. 

We  believe  that  no  princess  of  the  Hanoverian  and  Stuart  lines  married  outsideof 
a  royal  or  princely  family ;  but  prior  to  the  reign  of  Henry  VHI.  marriages  with 
peers  were  not  infreiiuent. 

The  tendency  of  the  system  of  primo-geniture  is  of  course  to  degrade  the  younger 
eor.s  and  the  iemales  of  a  family,  and  to  create  a  constantly  detori(uating  position  in 
their  marriages.  In  this  way  the  daughters  of  royalty  have  intermarried  witli  great 
peers,  their  daughters  with  lesser  peers,  whose  isi.ue  again  have  espoused  knights, 
and  thus  the  line  proceeded  to  commoners,  and  even  to  those  innumerable  grades  cf 
\Thich  British  genealogy  disdains  to  take  note. 

In  the  present  work  we  notice  the  extreme  tennity,  to  the  genealogist's  eye,  of 
the  royal  stream.  The  autiior's  great-great-great-grandmother  was  a  Cope,  whoso 
grandfather  married  a  Cliaworth,  wuuse  great-grandmother  was  a  Wyndhain. 
Alary  Wyndham's  grandmother  was  a  Howard,  granddaughter  of  a  I")uke  of  Nor- 
folk, whose  great-grandfather  married  a  gianddaughter  of  Edward  I.  That  is,  in 
twenty  generations,  the  sixth  was  a  Howaid,  and  from  there  down  the  pedigree 
VOL.   SSL2J..  3i 


350  Booh  Notices.  [July, 

includes  no  one  hii^hcr  tlian  a  kni^^lit  or  baronet.  Moreover  this  connection  u 
iiioetly  on  tlwj  ('■Millie  !?ilc  thrun.^hout. 

One  is  involi'iitarily  reinindol  of  two  fiicts,  cKHliioihle  from  the  arithractic-.il  cmi- 
putation,  namely,  t!at  in  ttie  twentieth  degree,  the  jnopurtiMn  which  one  ancestor 
oears  to  all  others  e4Uii!ly  pro^euitors  of  the  descendant,  is  iniinitehiuially  siiiall. 
Secondly,  tliat  the  nuniher  of  pussihU;  de-cendantn  of  that  ancestor  now  living  aij.J 
equally  entitled  to  tin-  ghiry  ol  the  desci/nt,  -s  infinitely  large. 

IStill  wo  Would  not  disparage  the  feeling  whicli  has  led  the  author  of  this  book  to 
collect  many  \aluahle  facts  relative  to  the  many  families  from  which  she  is  descended. 
It  is  the  more  interesting  I'rom  the  lact  tliat  much  of  the  matter  is  not  to  be  found  in 
Burke,  and  may  be  of  H-rvice.  even  in  this  country,  to  genealogists. 

The  families  to  whose  record  most  sr)ace  is  given  are  tliose  ot  Cope.  fJllis,  !Shar[/'', 
Jenkinci,  i>tul>b3,  W'oodrutle  and  (.iouldsmyth  ;  but  it  is  hardly  posbiblc  to  gi^e  any 
satisfactory  abstract  of  these  fragmentary  pedigrees.  vr.  h.  w. 

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ciety,  it  is  not  published  by  that  Society,  nor  does  the  Society  asiume  responsihiliry 
for  the  work.     The  other  periodical,  the  Fennsylvania  Magazine,  the  first  number 
of  which  appeared  in  May,  is  more  clearly  the  organ  of  the  Society  which  it  re-jire- 
sents — the  Historical  Society  of  Pennsylvania — for  it  is  issued  at  the  charge  of  its 
Publication  Fund. 

Each  number  of  the  New  York  work  contains — 1,  An  original  article  on  sc-me 
point  of  bistory  from  a  recognized  and  authoritative  pen  ;  2,  a  biographical  sketch 
of  some  character  ol  historic  interest;  3,  original  documents,  diaries,  and  letters; 
4,  reprints  of  rare  documents  ;  5,  notes  and  queries  in  the  well-known  English 
form  ;  6,  reports  of  the  proceedings  of  the  New  York  Historical  Society  ;  7,  notices 
of  historical  publications.  The  pablisliers  announce  that  Mr.  Stevens,  the  e<Jitor, 
is  to  ha-e  "  the  active  cooperuti-m  of  many  of  our  most  distinguished  historians," 
among  vhom  they  "'are  permitted  to  name  Messrs.  J.  Hammond  Trumbull,  John 
G.  Shea,  Henry  C.  Murphy,  0.  H.  Marshall,  J.  Carson  Brevoort,  George  H.  ^Moore, 
John  Russell  Bartlett,  George  Henry  Preble,  E.  B.  O'Callaghan,  Henry  Under- 
donk,  Jr.,  Thomas  Balch,  B.  F.  DeCosta,  and  Charles  W.  Baird."  The  five  num- 
bers issued  Contain  many  valuable  articles,  and  with  so  capable  an  editor  as  Mr. 
Stevens,  and  .sucli  enterprising  publishers  as  Messrs.  A,  S.  Barnes  &  Co.,  we  do  noi 
see  how  it  can  fail  to  succeed. 

The  initial  immber  of  the  Pennsylvania  Magazine,  and  the  only  one  which  hi-^ 
yet  appeared,  is  also  highly  creditable  to  its  conductors.  It  contains  "•  The  Diary 
of  Robert  Morton,"  kept  in  Philadelpiiia  in  1777;  ''The  Ue&^ians  in  Philadel- 
phia; "  "  Edward  Whalley,  the  Regicide;"  and  biographies  of  Baron  Stiegel,  the 
Kev.  William  C.  Reichel,  and  the  Rev.  William  M.  Reynolds,  D.D.  ;  besides  a  selec- 
tion from  the  memoirs  prepared  for  the  Congress  of  Authors  at  Piiiladelphia  last  July 
(see  Registkr,  xxs.  461)  ;  the  proceedings  of  the  Society  of  which  this  raagazice  is 
the  organ  ;  a  tabular  pedigree  of  the  descendants  of  Ur.  William  Shippen ;  and 
several  pages  of  Notes  and  Queries.  Among  the  authors  whose  articles  appear  here, 
are  the  Hon.  Charles  Francis  Adams,  the  Rev.  Henry  W.  Bellows.  Gen.  A.  A. 
Humphreys,  the  Hon.  Richard  H.  Dana,  Jr.,  Charles  J.  Hoadly,  William  \V'est 
Henry,  Craig  Biddle,  Town^^end  Ward,  John  W.  Jordan,  Charles  R.  Hildebum, 
Miss  Helen  Bell,  Robert  P.  Robins,  and  the  Rev.  Joseph  H.  Dubl^s.  The  magazine 
la  sent  free  to  the  subscribers  to  the  Publication  Fund  of  the  Pennsylvania  Histori- 
cal Societj',  of  which  we  gave  an  account  in  the  Regist£r  for  January,  187-i  (^arJe, 
xsviii.  10!>-I0). 

The  field  which  these  periodicals  have  entered  is  one  in  which  there  is  no  dargcr 
of  having  too  many  workers.  We  wish  them  success  in  their  efforts  in  the  cause  ol 
historical  literature.  i.  w.  o. 


1877.] 


Booh  JV^otices.  351 


The  ICiStiiry  of  the  Church  of  North  Middlehnro\  Massachusetts,  in  ^ix  Discourses, 

Prrached  by  its  Artinj  I'as/or,  S.  IIoi-kins   Esiery,  aullior  (jf  "The  Miniftry  of 

Tiuiiituu/'     [.Mucto.j     Piibliv-lied   by   Rc'iiiest  of  the  Cliurcli  ami  Cun'rregatiun. 

Mitldleborough  :  Harlow  Sc  TliatolitT,  I'riiitcrs.     18Tt>.     [Hvo.  pp.  lOt).]^ 

Tiiese  six  discourses  were  dolivorod  in  tlio  summer  of  1875.     Tliey  are  a  valuable 

contribution  to  tlie  t-^colesia^tie-al  liistury  of  N^w  h:ii-lan({.     Thiv.  cluiroii  was  or^Mn- 

izc<]  in  17  IS,  and  its  first  pastor  was  tbe  K(!v.  I-^aai;  B;iekus,  then  aconi,'roi,'ationalist, 

but  afterward  celebrated  a.s  a  baptist,  and  as  the  hi.^torian  of  that  ilunonunation  irx 

this  country.     The   Rev.    .Mr.   Emery  i,'ivc.s  a   history  of  the  territory  before  the 

or,i,'anization  of  the  church,  and  a  minute  history  of  tlic  church,  with  bioL'raijhies  of 

the  .several  ministers.     He  has  evidently  spared  no  labor  in  preparin-  thi-Tworkjand 

few  churches  have  6c  good  a  history.     Lists  of  the  members  in  lb7U  and  of  the  V:ul>- 

scribers  to  the  work  are  given  ;  also  indexes  of  subjects  and  names.  j.  w.  d. 

IVie  Indian  Miscc/lnni/ ;  containintj  Papers  on  the  Historij,  Antiquities,  Arts,  Lnn- 
gunrjcs,  Rclifjions,  Traditions  and  Su/)"rslitions  of  the  American  Ahori'jines ;  with 
Descriptions  of  their  Domestic  Life,  Manners,  Customt,  Traits.  Amuserrtcnts  and 
ETplotts;  Travels  and  Adrentures  in  the  Indian  Countn/;  Incidents  of  Border 
Warjare;  Missionary  Relations,  etc.  Edited  hy  \V.  \V  BE.scn.  Albanv  J 
Munsell,  8J  State  St.  1677.  [8vo.  pp.  4ti0.  Price,  gi.  For  sale  by  A.  Williams 
<fc  Co.,  Boston.] 

This  is  a  collection  of  papers  relating  to  the  aborigines,  most  of  which  have 
uppL-areJ  b<iiore  in  various  periodicals.  One  of  them,  the  "  Tradition  of  an  Indiaa 
Attack  on  Hadley,"  is  reprinted  from  the  liEOisTER  {ante,  xxviii.  37!J). 

The  volum-  1  e fore  us  is  well  written,  as  might  l)e  expected  when  wc  state  that 
Fome  of  the  best  writers  on  Indian  history  are  the  authors  of  articles  in  its  nazes.. 
It  IS  also  well  printed,  being  from  the  press  of  our  old  friend  Munseil,  whose  tyno- 
graphic  skill  is  unrivalled,  and  who  has  labored  long  to  preserve  the  history  of  our 
country  and  to  give  the  historical  works  from  his  presa  an  attractive  dress.  We 
appreciate  his  earnest  and  un-^eltish  eflorts,  and  trust  that  he  will  have  his  reward. 
_  Among  the  great  number  of  articles  and  the  many  diflercnt  authups,  it  may  ^een^ 
invidious  to  particularize;  but  we  will  venture,  however,  to  note  a  few  which  strike 
usas  being  of  more  than  usual  interest,  probably  because  we  have  nerrr  read  fheia 
before,  namely:  "The  Aboriginal  Inhabitants  of  Connecticut,"  "  Tiie  Mi=sIoa 
Colony  of  the  Rappahannock,"  by  Dr.  Shea;  "  The  Indian  Reservations  of  Califor- 
nia; '"  Dj'cing,  Spinning  and  Weaving  by  the  Camanches,"  &c.  ;  "  The  Chippe- 
was  of  Lake  Superior;"  "The  Indian  Languases  of  the  Pacific,"  containing  a 
'■emarkable  analysis  of  the  Indian  diala:ts  of  the  Pacific  states;  and  The  "  Las^t  of 
the  Pequods,"  an  eloquent  tribute  to  the  memory  of  that  race  by  our  friend,  Benson 
J.  Los^ing. 

Mr.  Beach  has  done  a  good  service  fir  the  cause  of  history  in  collecting  and  pub- 
lishing these  scattered  materials  illustrating  the  history  of  the  aborii:ines''of  various 
parts  of  our  country.  He  appropriately  dedicates  his' book:  "To  the  Memory  of 
bamuel  Gardner  Drake,  who,  throughout  a  long  and  studious  life,  devoted  constant 
and  unwearied  etfjrt  to  the  Recovery  and  Preservation  of  whatever  related  to  the 
liistory  of  the  Race  whose  annals  must  erelong  constitute  their  only  Monument." 

F.  Kidder. 

Young  Folks'  History  of  the  United  States.  By  Thomas  Wentworth  Higginsox, 
Author  of  "  Atlantic  Essays."  "  Army  Life  in  a  Black  Re2:iment."  "  Malbone," 
etc.     Illustrated.     Boston  :  Lee  &  Shepard,  Publishers.     Itt77.     [ISmo.  pp.  370.] 

Young  Folks'  Series.  A  Book  of  American  Explorers.  By  Thomas  Wentworth 
HiGGiNsoN-.  .  .  .  Boston  :  Lee  &  shepard.  xNew  York  ;  Charles  T.  Dillinj: ham. 
1&77.     [18mo.  pp.  367.] 

The  "Young  Folks'  History  of  the  C"nite<i  States"  was  first  issued  two  years  aco. 
>>e  find  in  the  publisher's  advertisement  the  theory  of  the  boik  thus  brietiy  and 
clearly  stated.  "  It  is  that  Ameri&in  hi-tory  is  in  itself  one  of  the  most  attractive 
of  ail  subjects,  and  can  be  made  interesting  to  old  and  voung  by  bein:;  presented  in 
a  simple,  clear  and  graphic  way.  In  this  book  only  such  names  and  (iates  are  intro- 
<iuctd  as  are  necessary  to  secure  a  clear  and  definite  thread  of  connect.-d  incident  in 
ine  mind  of  the  reader  ;  and  the  space  thus  s  ived  is  devoted  to  illustrative  traits  and 
incidents,  and  the  details  of  daily  livin-.  By  this  m.?ans,  it  is  believed  that  much 
^°[^u-*^'?  ^"^  conveyed,  even  of  the  philosophy  of  history,  than  when  it  is  overlaid 
^^a  hjd-ien  by  a  ma^  of  mere  statistics." 


352  Booh  N'otices.  [July, 

Col.  Higs;!nson  has  BuccecdeJ  admimhly  in  reducing  bis  ideas  to  practice,  ond  Ins 
written  a  \voi k  whi'-li  ^vill  interest  the  youni»  and  at  ttie  same  time  repay  the  poru-.;! 
of  those  of  iiinturer  j^iirs. 

ThecoKiiKuiion  volume  to  the  preceding;  work,  the  "  Book  of  American  Kxplorers," 
•was  puMisin'il  the  prc-^ent  year.  It  ri-latf*,  in  tlie  very  words  of  the  ori'^inal  ;iutfi(;ri- 
tics,  tlie  incidents  in  tlie  expeditimis  of  the  sevenil  explorerrt  of  various  natinnalitios 
to  these  ehorcs,  from  the  vi-it*;  of  the  Northmen  in  the  tenth  century  to  theHCttieiiicrit 
of  the  Ma6Siiohus3tts  colony  by  the  PJoplieh  in  the  seventeenth.  "Oneg^real  thm-^ 
which  I  v.islitd  my  readers  to  learn,"  tlic  author  tellh  us.  "is  the  cl.nrni  of  lul 
ori^ijinal  narrative.  We  should  all  rather  hear  a  shipwrf  ek  descril)ed  by  a  tailor  wiio 
was  on  board  the  ship,  than  to  read  the  best  account  of  it  afterward.-",  prepared  hy 
tbe  most  skilful  writer  " 

The  volumes  are  illustrated  witb  numerous  engravings.  i.  w.  d. 

Hhtoricnl  Sketches  of  Nor/ hern  Ncio  York  and  the  Adirondack  Wilderness ;  including 

Trodi/iuns  of  the  Indians,  Earlij  Eiplorirs,  Pionrer  S'.ll/crs,  Htrmit  Hunters,  cfc. 

By  N.vTiiAMF.L  Bartlftt  iJYi.vESTER,  of   the  Troy  Bar Troy,  N.  Y.  : 

"VVilliam  H.  Young.     1877.     [8vo.  pp.  311.     Price" ;<2.     For  sale  by  A.  Williams 

&  Co.,  Boston.] 

The  summer  touriet  who  visits  the  picturesque  re,2:lons  of  northern  Nev,-  York  will 
find  this  voluTue  an  agreeable  and  instructive  cmipanion.  The  perusal  of  it.-«  pa^'t^ 
will  iriorcaso  his  interest  in  the  scenes  whuse  beauty  and  grandeur  had  attmctcl 
him;  for  be  will  barn  that  they  liave  been  the  theatre  of  important.  Stirling  p.nd 
romantic  events.  The  region  here  described  was  long  the  seat  of  the  warlike 
Iroquois,  the  famous  Five  Nations  of  lu'lians.  Here  one  of  the  decisive  battles  of 
the  World  was  fought.  ^Vith  this  country  the  names  of  many  remarkable  personages 
have  been  linked,  and  many  wonderful  events  have  here  transpired. 

Mr.  Sylvester  has  given  a  great  variety  of  incidents  in  his  historical  and  descrip- 
tive sketches.  lli>tury  here  has  all  tlie  charm  and  interest  of  fiction,  and  the  crea- 
tions of  fancy  arc  here  rivalled  by  reality. 

The  book  is  handsomely  printed,  and  is  illustrated  by  fine  portraits  of  Champlain 
and  Sir  William  Johnson.     Both  a  table  of  contents  and  an  index  are  given. 

J.   W.   D. 

Local  Gleanings  relating  to  Lajicashire  and  Cheshire.     Edited  by  J.  P,  Earwaker, 
M.A.,  F.S.A.     Reprinted  from   the  "Manchester  Courier."     Pveviscd  and  Cor- 
rected.    Vol.  I.     April,  1875— December,  1676.     Manchester:  J.  £.  Cornish,  33 
Piccadilly,  Thomas  J.  Day,  53  Market  Street.    ["  Only  250  copies  printed."    4to. 
pp.  2Si?,  issued  in  7  parts,  price  two  shillings  each.] 
Notes  on  the  Life  of  Dr.  John  Heicytt,  a  Lancashire  Worthy,  Born  at  Ecclcs,  co. 
Lane,  September  4,  1614;  Beheodtd  on  'lower  Hill,  June  8,  1653.      With  a  fac- 
simile of  a  contemporary  Portrait  of  Dr.  Hewytt.     Reprinted  from  '■^  Local  Glean- 
ings'" in  the  "  Manchester  Courier.''     EJited  by  J.  P.  Karwaker.  M.A.,  F.S.A. 
Manchester  :  Thomas  Sowler  &  Sons,  "  Courier  office."     1877.     [12mo.  pp.  24.] 
In  the  Register  for  April  last  (ante,  p.  241),  we  gave  a  brief  notice  of  the  "  Lo'.tiI 
Gleanings"  of  the  Manchester  Courier.     Eight  quarterly  parts  of  the  renrinc  of 
these  "  Gleanings"  are  now  before  us.     The  parts  tor  the  vears  1S75  and  1S76,  scven 
in  number,  complete  the  first,  and  that  fof  April,  1877,  begins  the  second  vt>lumc. 
Mr.  Earwaker,  in  his  introduction  to  the  "  Local  Gleanings  "  column  in  the  Courier, 
thus  remarks  :  ^'  One  of  the  mosc  hopeful  features  of  the^present  age  is  the  arrowing 
interest  whicti  is  evinced  towards  historical  studies,  and  to  no  branch  of  this  wide 
field  of  inquiry  is  so  much  attention  being  given  as  to  local  history,  which  indeed 
supplies  the  materials  tor  history  itself.     Our  local  historians  havc'good  reason  to 
congratulate  themselves  on  the  valualdo  materials  for  county  historv  which  have  W^n 
provided  to  their  hands  by  the  labors  of  the  Chethara  Society.     There  arc  however 
in  existence  very  many  valuable  documents  which  it  might  Oesomewhat  beyond  u\c 
province  of  th.at  society  to  edit,  and  ibr  these  documents  this  column  will  always  lie 
open.     Such  historic  fragments  we  desire  to  gather  up,  and  it  is  proposed  to  make 
this  weekly  column  the  receptacle  of  any  matter"-;  that  tend  to  illustrate  bygone  time-' 
in  the  two  counties.     Local  topography  and  literature,  local  ceiebritie^^  iic-,wiil 
also  find  a  place." 

Mr.  Earwaker,  the  editor,  has  performed  his  task  in  a  very  able  and  conscientious 
manner.  Familiar  himself  with  the  history  of  the  portii^n  ot  England  in  whicii  he 
resides,  he  has  had  the  good  fortune  to  enlist  among  his  contributora  other  gentle- 


1877.]  Booh  Kolices,  353 

incn  distinj^-uishcd  for  their  anti'iuarinn  attainments.  In  tlio  eiglit  part^  which  hav 
nlremly  apiHareil,  imich  \alii;il)k  and  intereslin;:^  material  is  j>reserve(l,  n-latin^  t 
the  liistui.) ,  l)ioiCi'apljy,  iiiblio.iiiraphy  and  gencalo/y  ot  the  two  counties.  Numerou 
dix-uinentd  illu^tnuini^  these  suhjccts,  never  bctore  printe<^l,  apjicar  in  th^ne  pa^«-s 
Tlie  first  volume  of  the  reprint  has  a  irood  index,  as  all  such  bouLi  should  have 
Indeed  a  book  like  tliis  •with  mt  an  index  would  lose  half  its  value. 

From  the  liniited  number  printed,  the  W(;rk  will  soon  become  fccaroe.  Even  now, 
it  is  ditljoult  to  procure  some  of  the  early  numlifr-i.  Those  who  intend  to  add  it  to 
their  libraries  are  advised  to  secure  it  without  delay. 

Besides  the  quarterly  parts,  two  separate  works  have  been  reprinted  from  these 
columns  in  the  Courier.  One  of  them,  "  Extracts  from  a  Lanca-^hire  Diary,"  v/aa 
noticed  in  our  last ;  tlie  other,  "  Notes  on  the  Life  of  Dr.  Jolin  Hewytt,"  whose  title 
we  give  above,  is  now  before  us.  Dr.  Hewytt,  a  nsitive  of  Lanca.shire,  was  a  dis- 
tinsiuished  preacher  in  London  in  the  time  of  the  commonwealth,  and  suflered  death 
under  Cromwell  for  his  devotion  to  the  exiled  kiri;:^.  Air.onir  the  new  information 
here  found  is  a  valuable  genealogical  contribution  by  Col.  Chester,  lloth  works  arc 
contained  in  the  serial  reprint  of  "Local  Gleanings;"  and  Mr.  Earwaker  is  the 
editor  of  both.  J-  w.  d. 

Memorial  of  the  Semi-Centennial  of  the  Philomathean   &}dely,  Phillips  Academy 

Andocer,  Mass.     [8vo.  pp.  142.] 

Phillips  Acade.Tiy,  Andover,  in  less  than  a  year  will  be  a  century  old,  it  having 
Iceu  op>.:ii.-d  April  30,  1T73.  During  this  time  many  persons  Avhosc  names  have 
since  been  identified  with  the  literature  or  history  of  the  country  have  received 
instruction  v.ithiii  its  -avails.  Midway  between  that  opening  and  the  present  time, 
the  Philomathean  S  jciety  was  formed  among  its  students.  Ihe  earlitot  record  of  its 
doings,  preserved,  bears  date  January  5,  18'J5. 

The  fiftieth  anniverstvry  of  the  society  was  celebrated  at  Andover,  May  30,  1875. 
An  historical  address  was  then  delivered  by  the  Hon.  :;amuel  B.  Xoyes  of  Canton, 
which  was  followed  by  a  poem  by  Charles  A.  Dickinson  and  other  appropriate 
exercises  ;  all  of  which  are  preserved  in  the  beautiful  pamphlet  before  us. 

The  committee  of  arrangements  in  their  preface  to  this  work  express  their 
obligations  to  the  Hon.  Samuel  B.  Noyes,  "  not  only  for  the  painstaking  labor  in 
preparing  ids  admirable  address  (the  hVst  and  only  complete  and  accurate  history  of 
the  society),  but  also  for  the  liberality  which  ensured  from  the  outset  tlie  financial 
eucce.ss  of  the  enterprise.  To  him  we  owe,  also,  the  preservation  of  the  free  utter- 
ances of  the  after-dinner  speeches." 

The  work  is  embellished  with  a  portrait  of  the  late  Rev.  Samuel  H.  Taylor,  LL.D., 
principal  of  the  Academy  from  1837  to  1871,  and  with  views  of  some  of  the  Academy 
Duildiogs  and  other  illustrations.  J.  w.  d. 

Voyages  of  the  Northmsn  to  America;  including  Extracts  from  Icelandic  Sagas  relat- 
ing to  Western  Voyages  by  Northmen  in  tlie  'ie nth  and  Eleventh  Centuries  in  an 
English  Translation  by  North  Ludlow  Beamish;  icilha  Synopsis  of  the  Historical 
Evidence  and  the  Opinion  of  Prof.  Rafn  as  to  the  Places  visited  by  the  Scandina- 
vians on  the  Coast  of  America.  Edited  with  an  Introduction  by  the  Kev.  Edmcnd 
F.  Slafter,  A.m.  Boston :  Printed  for  the  Prince  Society.  1877.  [Fcp.  -Ito. 
pp.  162.] 

This  is  the  last  issued  volume  of  the  "  Publications  of  the  Prince  Scciety."  The 
previous  volume,  Mr.  Bell's  monograph  on  the  Rev.  John  Wheelwright,  was  noticed 
in  the  April  number  of  the  Register  {ante,  page  246). 

The  editor  of  the  present  volume,  the  Rev.  Mr.  Slafter,  states  so  concisely  the 
object  and  contents  of  the  book,  that  we  cannot  do  better  than  to  quote  his  words  : 
''  The  historical  interest  which  attaches  to  the  voyages  of  the  Northmen  to  America 
in  the  tenth  and  eleventh  centuries,  has  led  the  council  of  the  Prince  Society  to  be- 
lieve that  the  character  of  these  voyages,  as  set  forth  and  delineated  in  the  original 
Icelandic  sagas,  or  ancient  Scandinavian  manuscripts,  should  be  renderod  acce^sible 
to  the  meml^rs  of  the  society  in  an  English  translation.  The  excellent  version  of 
Mr.  Beamish,  long  since  out  of  print,  has  been  used  for  this  purpose.  To  this  hag 
been  added  Prof.  Rafn's  sj-nop?is  of  the  historical  evidence  contained  in  the  sagas, 
and  his  attempt  to  identity  the  place.?  visited  by  the  Northmen. 

"  The  introduction  contains  an  account  of  the  first  publication  of  the  sagas  by  the 
Royal  Society  of  Northern  Antiquaries,  and  the  views  of  the  editor  aa  to  the  crsdi 
bility  of  these  manuscripts  as  historical  documents. 
VOL.    XXXI.  31* 


354  Booh  Notices.  [July, 

"  As  the  text  of  Hii3  volume  contains  nil  that  may  be  considered  trustworthy  evi- 

donco  veiatini^  to  t!io  vi>iH  of  tlic  Nortliruru  to  this  country,  it  is  cotifiJontly  iiopcii 
that  it  will  prove  to  bo  not  the  k'ust  vahialile  of"  the  suciety'.s  puhlicalior.s." 

Mr.  Slitter  un-ives  at  the  corulusion  that  thoutjli  there  is  prcsaniptivi."  oviJenro 
that  the  Northmen  vi«itiil  tlitsc  fstioros,  n>  authentic  traces  oi'  tlieir  le-idenco  Ihto 
can  be  fourul.  This  opinion,  wo  thinlc,  i^  now  entertained  by  the  I)rst  writers  on 
American  history.  Thougli  he  considers  the  jutlines  ot  the  narratives  of  the  cagaa 
so  clear  and  distinct  that  unprejudiced  students  of  history  will  not  ditJer  as  to  tiicir 
general  interpretation,  yet  "in  the  minor  features  ana  lesser  desciiptions  "  lie 
thinks  them  •'exceedingly  indefinite,"  so  that  it  is  impussilile  t )  "  ti.x  upon  tho 
exact  movements  of  tlie  Northmen  on  our  coast,  and  the  particular  localities  which 
they  occupied  wlien  here." 

Tlie  editor  shows  a  thorou2;h  knowledge  of  his  .subject,  and  has  performed  his  task 
■with  judgment  and  ability,  llis  annotations  are  never  cu'nbrous,  and  are  made  to 
assist  tf-.e  reader  rather  than  for  display.  The  book,  like  its  predecessi^rs,  is  beau- 
tifully printed,  and  does  credit  to  the  press  of  John  Wilson  &  Son,  liimoue  for  it.^ 
superior  typography.     It  is  illustrated  by  maps  and  lias  a  good  index.        J.  w.  d. 

The  Pequot  Indians.  An  Hh/orical  Sketch.  By  Richard  A.  TVnEKi.ER.  ["  G.  B.  it 
J.  11.  Utter,  .Steam  Printers,  Westerly,  R.  I."  Ib77.  8vo.  pp.  23.] 
We  presume  that  this  is  tho  paper  by  Judge  Wheeler,  whicii  he  read  before  the 
New  London  Oninty  iiistorieal  Society,  on  the  i!"Jd  of  Feltruary,  ISTO.  (See  Reg- 
ister, sxx.  2.VJ  )  it  is  a  very  interesting  paper,  and  probalily  contains  ail  the  in- 
formation wliich  can  he  obtained  on  tlie  subject.  We  tirid  suiue  I'aets  Ptattd  hero 
which  we  have  not  met  wit ti  before,  but  which  Judge  Wheeler  probably  obtained 
from  local  traditions. 

Our  readers  are  aware  that  the  above-named  Society  intends  to  erect  a  monument 
on  the  site  of  the  old  Pequot  fort,  captured  in  lihM  by  Capt.  John  Mason  (a«/e,  sx:?. 
129,  252  ;  xxsi.  1 19  )  ^\'e  have  seen  a  photograpli  of  the  proposed  monument,  widch 
is  described  in  the  last  volume  of  tlic  IlKcisTtii  (j).  252),  and  are  nuich  pleased  with 
the  design.  The  site  of  this  monutnent  is  uneipialleiJ,  commanding  as  it  docs  an 
uninterrupted  view  of  the  town  of  Groton,  and  ttie  valley  and  ^illages  of  the  Mystic, 
as  well  as  the  northern  shores  of  Fisher's  island,  all  of  which  is  historic  ground,  as 
here  dwelt  one  of  the  largest  tribes  of  the  aborigines.  With  the  multitude  of  ves- 
sels continually  passing  the  Sound,  its  magnificent  view  will  constantly  recall  to  the 
mariner  that  this  was  the  hunting-ground  and  war-path  of  the  now  nearly  extinct 
Pequots.  F.  K. 

Transfer  of  Erin,  or  the  Acquisition  of  Ireland  bij  England.     By  Thomas  C.  Amort. 

Philadelphia:    J.  B.  Lippincott  &  Co.     18T7.     [Svo.  j  p.  G51.     For  sale  by  A. 

Williams  &  Co.,  Boston.     Price,  ,$4  ] 

The  present  book  is  an  enlargement  and  completion  of  the  work  by  Mr.  Amory, 
which  appeared  in  successive  numbers  of  the  Rkgistlr  in  the  years  1874  and  "15. 
In  this  volume  the  aut*>or  has,  to  use  his  own  words,  "  endeavored  to  present  tho 
leading  incidents  of  that  momentous  struggle,"  in  Ireland,  "  for  tribal  or  national 
independence,  which  at  the  commencement  of  the  seventeenth  century  terminated 
in  Complete  subjugation  of  the  island  to  the  English  crown."  From  the  invasion 
of  Ireland  in  the  twelfth  century  to  the  establisliment  of  the  Episcopal  church  in 
the  sixteenth,  a  period  of  more  than  three  centuries  and  a  half,  the  two  races 
were  of  the  same  faith,  so  that  religious  difierences,  whicii,  soon  after  the  period  at 
which  this  history  ends,  became  so  prominent  in  the  troubles  of  the  Irish  people, 
had  then  no  existence.  Mr.  Amory  has  therefore  little  occasion  to  dwell  upon  thid 
element  of  discord. 

In  this  book  we  have  a  full  and  impartial  history  of  the  long  and  bloody  wars  in 
Ireland,  and  tho  ruin  which  they  brought  to  that  afiGicted  country.  Ttie  author 
shows  great  familiarity  with  the  characteristics  ami  history  uf  tfic  various  Irish 
septs  or  tribes,  and  the  ancient  legends  with  which  Ireland  abounds,  as  well  as  the 
wars  which  form  the  principal  subject  of  his  volume. 

We  have  been  permitted  to  read  a  number  of  highly  complimentary  letters  which 
the  author  has  receive  i  from  writers  and  others,  f.'.miliar  with  tlie  subjects  of  which 
he  treats.  One  of  them,  which  we  hare  ventuievl  to  quote,  .s;iys :  "As  idten  as  I 
have  taken  it  [the  '  Transfer  of  Erin  ']  up.  which  i«  as  often  as  I  have  leisure,  1  have 
been  greatly  delighted  with  it.  Your  treatment  of  those  parts  of  the  hi.^tory  illu«- 
irated  by  the  late  published  State  Papers  makta  your  book  aa  oriyinal  work.    1 


-T 


1877.]  Booh  JSFoticcs.  355 

have  never  S5cn  tlie  history  of  the  Di^smonds,  and  espocially  the  war  of  the  la-^t  Karl 
P.fiil  lii's  ilea  til,  toM  with  anytliinir  H'ko  the  saino  complotenei-s  iui'l  puw.  r.  lrel;'.r.d 
cannot  fail  to  teel  the  vahie  ut  an  iiKlepeiiiJeiil  tcritiui my  hko  y.niis.  Comiii;^  from 
such  a  distance,  it  is  like  couiini;  from  posterity,  beioic  above  the  current  jj.ior.ions 
ot  the  country  treated  of." 

Mr.  Auiory  is  hopuful  of  the  future  of  Ireland.  "  AVith  more  of  the  general  dirTu- 
sion  of  kniAvle'li^e  and  the  consicjufnt  enualization  of  i)ruperty,"  ho  nn:  'rkn, 
"  with  modilieJ  laws  of  guct;i.'-.-i'in,  likely  tu  apprcjvc  thelll.-l;iv(J^1  to  ^rrowiii;;  enli;ilit- 
eninent.  what  ia  unrta-^  )nal)le  will  rectily  itnell."  lie  rLt'ers  ii>  tiiu  facr,  that  "  par- 
liament has  heen  sustained  hy  public  opinion  in  recoirnizinj;  tlie  duty  of  inakirnj 
nniends.  and  the  impolicy  of  leavinj^  any  just  ground  ofjcalou»y  to  the  inilli>n-  wiio 
fight  the  national  battles.  The  tenure  act,"  he  adds,  •'  is  an  initial  sti'ii,  which, 
if  followed  out  in  the  same  spirit,  will  soon  disarm  what  r^'inains  of  di^atliction." 

The  book  has  a  good  index,  and  is  beautifully  printed  by  Me.-3srs.  David  L'lapp  4 
Son.  J.  w,  D. 

The  Alarm  on  the  is'ight  of  April  18,  177.'>.     [Boston,  16TG.     8vo.  pp.  12  ] 

Paul  Revere  s  Signal.     The  Irue   Stort/  of  (he  St/jnal  Lanterns  in    Chri.it    Churrh, 

Boxton.     By  the  Rev.  John  Lee   Watson,   D.L).      Wtth  llmarks  on  La<jintj  Dr. 

Watson's  Commumcation  before  the  Massnchusdls  H/st'incal  iV>m/_(/,  Nuv.  9,  1>7G. 

By  Charles  Deane.     Cambridge:    Press  of  John  Wil-jn  &  Sun.     1S77.     [Svo. 

pp.  16.] 

The  first  of  these  pamphlets  is  by  the  Hon.  Bichard  Frothingbam,  author  of  the 
"  History  of  the  Sic::e  of  Boston."  It  id  a  remonstrance,  presented  in  Dccciiiher, 
1S76,  to  the  authorities  of  the  city  of  B  jston,  against  tlie  proposed  placing  of  a  tablet 
on  Christ  Church  bearing  an  inscription  that  troia  the  steeple  of  lh;it  cfuircli  lan- 
terns were  shown  giving  warning  of  the  march  to  Lexington.  These  lanterns  are 
eaid  to  have  been  shown  from  the  steeple  of  the  "  North  Chuich,"'  and  the  que.-tioa 
is  what  building  bore  tliat  designation  {ante,  p.  109).  Mr.  Frothinghaui  argues  that 
it  was  the  Congreg-arionalisc  meeting'ioase  in  North  Square,  known  as  the  "*  Old 
North,"  and  quotes  books,  almanacs  and  maps,  as  evidence  that  this  building  vrad 
known  as  the  "  North  Church,"  and  that  the  Episcopal  Church  in  fcalem  Strt-et  was 
always  called  "  Christ  Church."  The  project  of  placing  a  tablet  on  Christ  Church 
vras  defeated. 

In  the  second  pamphlet  a  different  opinion  is  advanced.  Dr.  Deane  b.as  here  re- 
printed tlie  article  by  tlie  Rev.  Dr.  Watson,  which  appeared  in  the  Boston  Dai'i; 
Advertiser  ot  July  '20,  ls'76,  and  of  which  we  gave  an  abstract  in  the  RtoisTE.i  iov 
January  (p.  100).  He  has  also  printed  a  letter  addressed  to  himself  tiy  Dr.  W  at- 
Eon,  d;'.ted  Orange,  N.  J.,  Oct.  21,  l»7ti,  in  which  other  reasons  were  given  for  t;,e 
•views  x pressed  in  the  A<hertiscr.  But  the  most  important  part  of  ttie  pamphh-t 
is  that  written  by  Dr.  Deane  himself,  in  which  he  shows  conclusively,  Irom  conteui- 
porary  books  and  manuscripts,  that  Christ  Church  was  called  the  "  xNorth  CLuich  ' 
as  early  as  the  list  century,  the  first  book  quoted  having  been  printed  in  17(""^.  After 
reading  this  pamphlet,  few  will  doubt  that  the  signals  were  shown  from  the  rtcc['lc 
of  Chrh-t  Church.  It  h;\,-i  been  asserted  that  Mr.  Newman,  the  sexton  ot  that  church, 
was  arrested  by  the  British,  but  tliat,  no  evidence  being  found  against  him,  he  was 
discharged.  It  is  somewhat  singular  that  in  none  of  the  Englis'.i  letters  and  other 
accounts  from  Boston  at  that  time,  which  have  been  made  public,  do  wu  find 
mentioned  the  display  of  such  signals  by  the  Americans,  nor  the  arrest  ot  any 
person  lor  this  oSence.  J-  ^^'-  ^■ 

Greenes  of  Waricick  in  Colonial  History.  Read  before  the  Rhode  Island  llistoneal 
Society,  Ftbruary  27,  1877.  By  Uesry  E.  Turner,  -M.D.  Newport,  R.  1.  : 
Davis  ifc  Pitman,  Steam  Printers.     1877.     [8vo.  pp.  71.] 

This  volume  is  devoted  to  what  may  be  styled  the  elder  branch  of  the  dc-cmdanta 
of  John  Oreene,  an  early  settler  of  bhawomet  or  Warwick,  R.  1.,  a'd  an  elljc!..at 
co-laborer  with  Samuel  Gorton  in  the  cause  of  civil  and  religious  hbeity  Be.-idcs 
an  account  of  the  American  progenitor  ot  this  race,  we  have  iiere  a  tell  nieiu.jir  of 
his  son  John  Greene,  who  was  active  in  the  atlaira  of  the  colon}-,  holding  various 
important  offices,  among  them  that  of  lieutenant  governor;  and  .>.ketihe-^  ot  other 
prominent  descendants,  twocfwiiom,  both  named'William,  weic  governors  ot  the 
colony.  Gen.  Nathaniel  Greene,  of  revolutionary  fame,  though  a  de>cenUant  ot  the 
first  John  Greece,  was  ot  a  diHerent  branch  Irum  those  whoso  memoriais  are  here 
given. 


356  Booh  JVbtices.  [July, 

Dr.  Turner  is  better  acquainted  with  tlie  i^enealoc^y  of  his  state  than  any  other 
person  we  know  of.  In  tlie  i)rcseiit  wurk,  he  lias  thoroughly  investignt:.'(l  lii.-i  Hub- 
jt:ct,  and  h:'s  cnllerred  ni;ich  matter  that  has  never  before  appeared  in  print.  In  U'lti 
ujenioir  of  tlie  first  John  (ireene,  he  jives  full  di.-tails  of  the  treatment  uf  tlie  .Hcttkrs 
of  Shawomet  by  the  authorities  of  Massachusetts,  wlio  now,  as  on  .*<oine  other  occa- 
sions, »ihr)ued  iitth.'  regard  for  the  rights  of  thuir  weaker  nei<;libors,  and  reniorse- 
lessly  souglit  to  crush  out  their  liberties.  Other  important  historical  subjects  arc 
treated  under  other  names.  j.  w.  d. 

A  List  of  the  Colhrtions  of  th>'  Kansas  State  Ilintoricil  Socuty.      With  an  Account 

of  the  Oryanizntt'in  of  the  SiKirty  and  an  J'jTplanntion  of  its  Objects.     Conimon- 

■wealtli  tSteain  I'rinting  House,  Topeka,  Kansas.     [1877.     8vo.  pp.  18.] 

This  society  was  ort^Mnized  in  Topeka,  Dec.  1.3,  1875,  and  promises  to  be  a  very 

useful  institution.    Ge(jr!^e  A.  Crawford  is  the  president,  and  F.  G.  Adams,  secretarj-. 

''Tl>e  collections  of  the  society  are  made  tiie  property  of  the  state.     Thirty  bound 

copies  each  of  the  several  publications  of  the  state  are  donated  to  the  s^ocicty,  a.=» 

published,  for  the  purpose  of  exchange  with  other  societies  and  institutions." 

J.   W.   D. 

A  Crosby  Family.     Josiah  Crosby  [and]  Sarah  Fitch  ....  and  their  Descendants. 

By  their  grandson  Nathan  Crosby,  of  Lowell,  Mass.     Lowell,  ^laas. :  Stone, 

liusc  &  Co.,  Book  and  Job  Printers.     1877.     [8vo.  pp.  143.] 
Gen'''ih->ny  (f  th"  D^i^'-c^.dnnts  of  Dr.   V.'Uliam  Shippen,  the  elder,  of  Philadelphia, 

Member  of  the  Continental  Cnngre.^s.     By  Kohekdeau  Bucdanan,  author  ol  the 

Genealogy  of  the  Koberdeau  Family.     Privately  Printed.     Washington:  Josiah 

L.  Pearson,  Printer.     1877.     [Bvo.  pp.  IG.] 
Genealogical  History  of  Thomas  Boston  Clarkson  and  Sarah  Caroline  Clarkson  nee 

Heriot.     [No  place  nor  date.     8vo.  pp.  4.] 
Biographical  Notes  of  our  Beloved  Parents,  Mr.  and  Mrs.    William  Ball,  late  of 

Cleveland,  Ohio.     Cleveland  :  Leader  Printing  Company.     1876.     [l-2mo.  pp. -26.] 

In  the  book  whose  title  is  first  given,  the  author,  Judge  Crosby,  ha,s  eiven  a  com- 
plete genealogy  of  the  descendant-Tof  his  grandparents,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  .Josiah  Crosby,  of 
Amherst,  N.  ]£.,  with  full  biographical  sketches  of  the  more  prominent  personages. 
The  book  has  for  a  frontispiece  the  portraits  of  Dr.  Asa  Crosijy,  of  Hanover,  and  his 
six  sons,  three  of  whom,  Dixi  and  Alpheus,  professors  in  Dartmouth  Colleije,  and  the 
Hon.  Nathan,  the  author  of  this  work,  have  been  quite  distinguished.  Prefixed  is 
the  American  ancestry  of  Josiah  Crosby  and  an  article  on  the  Crosbys  of  England. 
It  is  a  work  of  much  merit. 

Mr.  Buchanan  prefaces  bis  genealogy  by  the  statement  that  it  is  intended  merely 

a  continuation  of  that  published  in  1355  in  the  Shippen  Papers  by  the  late  Thomas 
Balch.     The  work  is  well  arranged,  and  the  dates  are  full  and  precise. 

Thomas  Boston  Clarkson,  whose  genealogy  is  given  in  the  third  pamphlet,  was 
born  in  Charleston,  S.  C,  Sept.  4,  1809.  His  maternal  grandmother  was  Christiana, 
daughter  of  Thomas  Boston,  V.D.M.,  whose  ancestry  is  traced  back  five  generations 
to  her  tresayle,  Andrew  Boston,  born  in  Ayre,  Scotland,  about  1597. 

About  one  half  of  the  last  pamphlet  is  devoted  to  the  genealogy  of  William  and 
Mary  Thomas  (Haines)  Hall,  furnishing  one  line  of  families  of  the  names  Hall.  Haines 
and  Thomas.  j.  w".  d. 

Notes  and  Additions  to  the  History  of  Gloucester.  By  Joux  J.  Babsox.  Part  First  : 
Early  Settlers.  Gloucester,  Mass. :  M.  V.  B.  Perley,  Telegraph  Office.  1876. 
[8vo.  pp.94.] 

Abstract  of  the  History  of  Hudson  from  its  First  Settlement  to  the  Centennial  Anni- 
versary of  the  Declaration  of  our  National  Independence,  July  4,  1876.  Bv  Cuarles 
Hoi>soN.  With  the  Action  of  the  Town  and  the  Proceedings  at  the  Celebration. 
Published  by  Vote  of  the  Town.  1877.  [8vo.  pp.  78.  \Fith  portrait  of  the 
Orator  and  Heliotype  Illustrations.] 

Historical  Address  doAivercd  at  the  Centennial  Celebration  in  Easthamston,  Mass., 
July  4,  187G.     By  Kev.  Payso.v  \V.  LriiAX.    Springfield,  Mass. :  Clark  W.  Bryan 
&  Company,  Printers.     1877.     [Svo.  pp.  85.     Price' in  paper,  25  cts.] 
These  three  works  may  be  considered  as  supplements  to  previous  histories  of  their 

native  towns  by  the  same  authors.     In  ISoO,  the  Hun.  John  J.  Babson  published  his 

History  of  Gloucester,  an  elaborate  work  on  which  for  years  he  had  been  engaged. 


as 


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1877.] 


Booh  Notices.  357 


Since  its  publication  much  sonealo2;ical  mittnr  relative  to  the  early  settlers  of  Glou- 
cc'tor  lius  CMnc  into  his  hanJ^  which  in  1S7-2  he  commcncod  pu'^iishir';^'.  by  instal- 
ments, in  the  G'oucester  Tderjraph.  With  the  ejime  type  a  few  copies  have  been 
printed  iu  this  form.  ,  ,.  ,     ,  ,,  -^    • 

The  lion.  Charles  Iliidsin,  of  Lexincrton.  in  1R6J.  piibli^hf.d  an  equally  ^lorl^orlOug 
work,  the  History  ot  Marlh  )roi!!rli  {nntr,  :i\\.  19S).  Four  ye:irs  lat<.T,  m  IbiiO.ancw 
town  WHS  fornif.i.  chiuHv  fruni  Marlhonm-h,  to  which  was  uiven  the  name  ut  Hud- 
eon.  List  year  beini'  tlic  tenth  anniversary  uf  its  incorporation,  tiie  town  coinnicmo- 
rated  that  event  and  tlie  centenary  of  American  independ-  ncc  by  a  ijublic  celebration, 
the  proceedin2;3  at  wliich  arc  printed  in  one  of  the  hooks  before  us.  Very  appropri- 
ately, the  person  in  whose  honor  the  town  was  named  was  invited  to  deliver  the 
addre.-'s.  a  circumscauce  which  perhaps  nevt.T  h.-fore  occurred. 

In  ISfiO,  the  Kcv.  Pavson  W.  Lyman,  of  Uelchertnvn,  published  a  valuable  history 
of  Easthampton,  in  a'duodecimo  of  I'J-J  pages.  Hid  address  last  July  is  chieQy 
devoted  to  the  services  of  this  town  in  the  revulution.  To  a  few  ot  the  copies  have 
been  added  the  "  Helclicrtown  War  Record,"  14  yra.ses,  in  which  he  does  fur  his 
adopted  town  what  Judge  ^V'orceste^  has  done  in  the  Keoister  for  lloUis,  N.  11. 

J.   W.   D. 

Proceedings  at  th':  Dedication  of  the  New  Building  of  the  Brighton  Branch  of  the 

Public   Library.     Ootuber  2'Jth,    1371.     [Seal. J     Boston:  Issued  by   the   Boston 

Public  Library.     Rockwell  and  Churchill,  City  Printers.     1870.     [8vo.  pp.21.J 

On  tlie  annexation  of  the  town  of  Brighton  to  the  city  of  Boston  in  January, 

IS74,  the  Holtoa  Library,  the  property  of  that  town,  which  was  opened  to  the 

public  in  1S61,  w;us  transferred  to  Boston  and  became  a  branch  of  the  Public  Library 

of  that  city.     BrightJQ  was  at  that  tiaie  erecting;  a  building  for  its  library.     This 

was  finished  by  Bjston  the  same  year,  the  whole  cost  of  the  building  being  about 

seventy  thousand  duUars.     A  heliotype  view  of  this  beautiful  edifice  embellishes  the 

pamphlet  before  us.  __  .  , 

The  address  at  the  dedication  was  by  the  Rev.  Frederic  A.  Whitney,  who  was 
connected  with  the  Hjlton  Library,  during  the  whole  term  of  its  separate  existence, 
either  as  president  or  trustee.  Mr.  W'hitney  takes  as  a  text  the  catalogue  of  a  social 
library  established  m  Brighton  fifty  years  previously  (1524),  of  which  catalogue  one 
copy,  and  perhaps  only  one,  has  been  preserved.  He  compares  the  books  four.d  in 
it  with  the  literature  of  the  present  day,  noting  many  books  now  considered  indis- 
pensable that  were  not  then  written.  Besides  this,  he  gives  a  history  of  the  several 
libraries  in  Brighton,  showing  that  it  has  long  been  a  reading  ccmmanity.  One  of 
our  earliest  American  novels,  '"The  Coquette,"  was  written  by  Mrs.  Hannah  Fos- 
ter, a  resident  of  Brighton.  We  believe  that  no  novel,  except  Mrs.  Morton's  "  Power 
of  Sympathy,"  was^written  in  this  country  before  it.  J.  ^-  »• 

General  Confe-.-ewe  of  the  Congregational  Churches  in  Maine.  Semi- Centennial 
Anniversary,  iacludinq  the  Address  by  Rev.  A.  S.  Packard,  the  Historical  Sketch, 
1867-1876,  Index  for^50  Years,  and  oth-^r  Documents. —Maine  Missionary  Society 
Sixty  Ninth  Anniversary.— Held  with  the  Churches  in  Portland,  June  27,  2s  and 
29,  i876.     Portland  ;  B.  Thurston  &  Co.,  Printers.     1876. 

Last  year  was  the  fiftieth  anniversary  of  the  organization  of  the  General  Confer- 
ence of  the  Congregational  Churches  of  Maine,  this  Conierence  having  been  organ- 
ized at  Portland,  Jan.  1826,  preliminary  steps  fur  which  were  taken  in  1621.  The 
*'  Minutes  "  for  the  present  year  contain,  besides  the  annual  statistics  and  necrologv, 
much  historical  matter,  suited  to  the  occasion.  A  temi-Centennial  Discourse  by  Prot. 
Alpheus  S.  Packard,  D.D.,  of  Bowdoin  College,  gives  a  history  of  the  Conierence. 

isince  1855,  the  :^Iinutes  have  been  edited  by  Dea.  Elnathan  F.  Duren  of  Bangor, 
the  compiler  of  the  Manual  of  the  Hammond  Street  Church  in  that  city,  publisucd 
in  1871,  which  is  a  model  fcT  such  publications,  especially  in  the  fulness  and  con- 
venient arrangement  of  the  statistics  of  members.  In  lBe".7,  Dea.  Duren  prepared 
for  that  year's  minutes  an  alphabetical  list  of  the  Congregational  churches  ut  Maine, 
from  1672  to  1567,  with  the  dates  of  their  organization  and  of  the  settlement  ot  their 
several  ministers  as  far  as  he  could  obtain  ihem  ;  and  other  important  particulars. 
This  list  is  very  carefully  prepared,  and  shows  commenda'ole  research  on  t.ie  pare  of 
the  compiler.  It  is,  we  tiiink.  the  second  compilation  of  a  list  of  all  the  Congrega- 
tional churches  in  a  slate.  The  first,  ibr  Greenleafs  "  Ecclcsinsticai  Sketches  of 
Maine  "  does  not  profess  to  give  all  the  ministers,  was  the  lists  of  chureiies  and 
their  ministers  in  the  several  towns  in  Massachusett-.  which  was  ocii-.inenced,  by 
counties,  io  the  ''American  Quarterly  Register  "  iu  1S34,  and  completed  in  1642. 


358  Boole  Notices.  ['^uly, 

The  tliiru  state  of  which  such  a  lint  has  boon  prepared  is  Now  ILnnpshire,  a  list  of 
its  churches  and  niini.'-rcrs  liavin;;  recently  hecii  L-oniiMled  by  tho  liev.  Henry  A. 
liazeu,  and  puliliohed  in  the  "  Cuuffru^^atiunal  Quarterly"  for  Octubirr,  1675,  and 
April,  IHTfj.  Tlii-i  has  sini;e  been  reprinted  (nnlc,  p.  '210).  No  biuiilar  lists  lor 
Coniiecticur,  Iliiodo  Inland  and  Vermont  are  known  to  us. 

In  the  niinut'-s  of  the  Conference  fur  tho  present  year,  Dea.  Duren  has  continued 
his  li^ts  from  1807  to  tlie  prcsi-nt  tinu^,  and  has  fupjiiied  Bouie  previous  dates  which 
he  failed  to  procure  in  reason  Ibr  his  former  compilation.  j.  w.  d. 

Journal  of  a  Tour  to  Nia'iara  Falls  in  thr  yrar  1^05.     By  TiMOrnv  BtcELOW.     With 

an  Introduction  by  a  Grandson.     [Motto.]     Boston  :  PrcoS  of  John  Wilson  and 

Son.     I87G.     [8vo.  pp.  121.] 

On  the  8th  of  July,  1S05,  the  author,  accompanied  by  eeveral  of  his  friends,  left 
Boston  "  to  visit  tlie  celebrated  Falls  of  Nia^'ara  ;  purpo.sinj;,  however,  to  examine 
all  the  natural  curiosities  to  be  met  with  near  their  route,  which  should  not  occasion 
too  great  a  diversion  from  tlieir  main  object;  nnd  to  return  home  by  the  way  of 
Montreal  and  Lake  Chainplain."  The  journal  is  valuable  as  a  des'.'rij)tion  of  the 
country  through  which  they  travelled  at  the  beginning  of  this  century,  and  which 
has  seen  such  wonderful  ehanires  since. 

The  autti  jr.  the  Hm.  Tiiuothy  JJigelow,  an  eminent  lawj-er  in  this  state,  died  at 
Medford,  May  18,  Ib'JI.  a^^ed  5-1.  One  of  hii^  sons  was  the  Rev.  Andrew  Bigelow, 
D.D.,  of  Boston;  another,  the  Hon.  Jolui  P.  Bigelow,  was,  from  1849  to  1852, 
Mayor  of  l>j«tou ;  while  his  dauc^hter,  Katharine,  was  the  wife  of  the  Hon.  Abbott 
Lawrence,  from  1819  to  18.32  Uiiited  Stares  3Unister  to  Great  Britain.  A  sun  of 
this  coufile,  Abbott  Lawrence,  Ksq.,  of  Boston,  is  the  editor  of  the  volume  before  u=. 
It  has  been  privately  printed  In  an  elegant  style,  which  does  credit  to  the  judicmont 
and  taste  of  ^Ir.  Lawrence.  j.  w.  d. 

Proceedings  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  the  Most  Ancient  and  Honorable  Fraternilg  of 
Free  and  Ar.cepted  Masons  of  the  Commomcealth  of  Massachusetts,  in  Union  loick 
the  Most  Anci^'nt  and  Honorable  Grand  Lodges  of  Europe  and  America,  according 
to  the  Old  Constitutions.  Special  Communication,  jNlarch  8,  1^77,  Quarterly 
Communication,  ^March  11,  1S77,  and  Special  Communication,  March  23,   1877. 

Boston  :  Pres^  of  Rockwell  &  Churchill,  39  Arch  St.     1877.     [8vo.  pp. 

iv.  and  175.] 

On  the  8th  of  March  last,  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Ma3.'=achusett«  celebrated  its  one 
hundredth  anniversary  as  a  sovereign  and  independent  organization.  Among  the  in- 
teresting proceedings  on  that  occasion  was  the  Oration  of  the  Hon.  Charles  Levi 
Woodbury,  in  which  he  set  forth  at  length  and  with  great  research  the  history  of 
the  two  Grand  Lodges  which  existed  here  at  the  beginning  of  the  Revolution  and  of 
the  meas__.res  that  resulted  in  their  union,  the  condition  of  the  various  Masonic 
organizations  in  this  and  the  other  colonies  and  their  relations  to  each  other  at  that 
period,  the  influence  of  these  organizations  upon  the  war  and  upon  the  cause  of 
political  Independence,  and  the  important  services  of  many  individual  members  of 
the  Fraternity  in  the  Army  and  Navy,  in  the  public  councils,  and  in  civil  life. 
The  record  is  as  interesting  as  it  is  honorable  and  remarkable. 

This  discourse  with  the  appended  documents,  and  the  other  proceedings  of  this 
anniversary  celebration,  make  a  very  valuable  contribution  to  our  centennial 
history.  a.  h.  h. 

A  Narrative  of  the  Captivity  of  Luke  Swetland  in  1778  and  1779,  among  the  Seneca 

Indians.    Written  by  Himself.     Waterville,  N.  Y. :  James  J.  Guernsey,  Printer, 

Times  Office.     1875.     [12mo.  pp.  38-(-4.] 

This  is  a  reprint  of  a  pamphlet  printed  for  the  author  at  Hartford,  Ct.,  which  is 
now  so  rare  that  its  title  does  not  appear  in  Field's  "  Indian  Bibliography,"  and  the 
editor  of  this  edition,  a  descendant  from  Mr.  Swetland's  brother,  knows  of  no  other 
copy  in  the  family  but  the  one  inherited  by  him  from  which  he  prints  ;  and  this  lacks 
the  title-page.  The  original  manuscript  is  still  preserved  in  the  possession  of  a  de- 
scendant from  the  author  of  the  narrative,  Mrs.  Caroline  M.  (Swetland)  Pettibone, 
wife  of  Payne  Pettibone,  Es,j^.,  of  Wyoming,  P,i. 

Luke  Swetland  was  born  in  Lel^anon,  Ct.,  June  16,  1729,  and  was  one  of  the 
Connecticut  settlers  of  Wyoming,  residing  in  that  valley  in  1776,  when  he  entered 
the  American  service.  At  the  time  of  the  battle  of  U'yoming,  July  3.  1778,  on 
account  of  some  disability,  he  was  in  Forty  Fort,  three  miles  below  the  battle  ground, 


1S77.] 


Booh  Notices.  '  35*) 


and  took  no  part  in  the  fi!?ht.  On  the  2jt!i  of  Auj^ust  following,  he  nnd  a  noi-hbur, 
.ro;=-l)li  Phinoiiarl.  ■vvero  tiik-.;n  pri—rKMs  iH;ir  Nauticuke  in  the-  Wy^jiniii'^'  viilliv,  hy 
ft  party  of  Seneca  Iridian^,  wli  i  cr>.rrif(l  tljciu  to  tlit-ir  uwn  country  ncir  ij^rura  Lake. 
After  sulforiri^'  severely  from  col'.l  and  want,  ami  failing  in  several  atteiii|ilH  t.j  fM-;i|>c, 
he  was  at  length  rcsi-ucd  by  our  army  under  (Jen.  Sullivan,  lie  died  in  WvouiijiL'' 
Jan.  30,  \r,-Z\\  a.c;ed  )i3.  ^  ^' 

Tlie  editor  of  this  edition,  Amos  0.  O'^born,  Rsij.,  of  Watcrvillc,  N.  Y.,  Ims  ndi-.l 
from  a  small  manuscript  of  Luke  S\veti;>.nd,  now  owned  by  hi-;  descendant  .Mrs.  i'l-tii- 
bone,  of  Wyoming,  tiie  autlior's  "  Kspcrience  while  in  cajjtivity  am<>ri;;  tin;  S.jru.-:! 
Indians  at  Appktown,"  now  Koiiiulus,  N.  V.,  never  befjre  printed  ;  andni  an  :u)|,.,ri- 
dix  an  extnicc  from  Miner's  •'  History  of  Wyoming,"  rehitive  to  iMr..  bwethmd 
and  his  captivity;  some  "  Genealogical  Notes"  on  the  Swetland  family,  and  other 
matters  of  interest.  j.  >v.  u. 

A  Memorial  Sermon  on  the  Rev.  Frederick  Wtlliam  Chapman  of  Rocky- Hill,  Conn., 
who  dird  July  21,  1876.  By  the  Rev.  Wiixiam  P.  Fi^hkr.  Delivered  at  Jl,«-kv- 
Ilill,  July  30,  1870;  also  at  South  Gla^tenburv,  AuijuHt  13,  I87G.  With  a  Kio- 
graphical  Sketch.  Hartford:  Fowler,  Miller  it  Co.,  Printers,  2  State  Street.  lo77. 
fiemo.  pp. '20.) 

The  late  Rev.  Mr.  Chapman,  of  Rocky-IIill,  Ct.,  was  one  of  the  best  and  most 
prolific  writers  on  New  England  genealogy.  A  memorial  sketch  of  his  liie  will  l;o 
found  in  onr  Jomiary  nim:her  (aiitc,  p.  ih).  The  Rev.  Mr.  Fisher  in  this  Fcrtnon 
nays  a  fittmg  tribute  to  his  character.  Tiie  Biographical  Sketch  appended  is  Ijy 
Henry  A.  Chapman,  of  Hartfurd,  Ct.,  son  of  the  deceased,  who  has  written  an  in- 
teresting account  of  his  father.  j.  w.  d. 

The  Strom  Staff  and  the  Beautiful  Bod  Broken.  A  Sermon  commemorative  of  the 
Life  and  Character  of  Joseph  'Smith,  late  Rear-Admiral  in  the  Nac}/  of  the  Unit  d 
States  of  America,  preached  on  Septua^csima  Sundai/,  Jan.  28,  A.D.  "1877.  in  .S?. 
Andrew's  Church,  JIanovrr,  Diocese  of  Massachusetts,  bv  the  Reverend  William 
Henry  Brooks,  S.T.D.,  Minister  of  tlic  Parish.  Published  by  Request.  B^'Ston  ; 
A.  Williams  and  Company.     1877.     [8vo.  pp.  24.] 

Rear- Admiral  Smith  was  born  in  Hanover,  Mass.,  March  30,  1790,  and  died  in 
the  City  of  Washington  on  the  17th  of  January  of  the  present  year.  He  entered  the 
Navy  as  a  midsliipman  on  the  16th  of  January,  1809,  and  largely  particii>attd  in 
the  hardships  and  in  the  honors  of  that  branch  of  the  public  service  durini:  a  long 
life.  He  was  a_  thoroughly  competent,  brave,  high-toned  and  useful  ofhcer,  and 
possessed  at  all  times  the  fullest  confidence  of  his  associates  and  of  the  public. 

Dr.  Brooks  pays  an  eloquent  and  fitting  tribute  to  the  moral  worth  and  public 
services  of  this  gallant  and  distinguished  officer.  a.  h.  u. 

Pre-Historic  Wisconsin.     Annual  Address  before  the  State  Historical  Society  of  Wis- 
consin,in  the  Assembly  Chamber,  Feb.    18,  1876.     By  Prof   James  D.    Bliler, 
LL.D.     [Bvo.  pp.  31,  with  five  pages  of  Illustrations  in  heliotype.] 
Large  and  important  discoveries  of  pre-historic  remains  have  been  found  in  W'is- 
consin,  and  these  have  been  chiefly  gathered  into  the  archieological  department  o!"  it-« 
Historical  Society  :  being  about  nine  thousand  products  of  the  stone-age,  from  \n  ith- 
in  less  than  one-fifth  of  the  area  of  the  state.  Uf  these  discoveries,  the  ui't-t  intcrt->t- 
ing  and  certainly  the  most  unexpected,  was  the  recent  finding  of  impleiueiits  of 
copper,  of  which  the  Society  pcssesses  the  largest  collection  in  the  world,     llic^? 
were  all  found  in  W'isconsin,  and  most  of  them  brought  toirether,  since  November, 
1871,  "  by  the  zeal  and  perseverance  of  one  man,  Frederic  S.  Perkins." 

Dr.  Butler  gives  a  brief  history  of  the  progress  of  discovery  of  pre-liistoric  n-mains 
of  diSiereut  kinds  in  Europe  and"America,  and  especially  the  history  i-f  tlie  ^V  i«o'n- 
sin  remains.  In  addressing  the  Society,  he  was  consciously  sptuking  al.-o  t >  tiic 
whole  people  of  the  state.  He  seeks  to  impress  upon  tliem  a  due  sen.se  of  the  n-nj- 
ficance,  value  and  use  of  such  relics,  and  hence  of  the  duty  and  imporumcc  ot  C'i.'jct- 
ing  and  preserving  them.  His  learninij,  humor,  wit  and  tact  enable  him  to  in'.t>t 
■with  fresh  interest  any  subject  upon  wliich  he  speaks  or  writes.  Iniieed,  he  "  limJs 
tongues  in  trees,  books  in  the  running  brooks,  sermons  in  itones,  iM<\  <f''od  tn  every 
thing," — unless,  perhaps,  in  some  legislator  ''  who  fees  no  u.se  in  tuch  btull'." 

He  has  enriched  this  address  v^lihyac-similes.  in  heliotvfie,  of  twenty-four  repre- 
sentative copper  implements  mentioned  in  the  text  and  descnbtd  in  an  apjicnded 
note.    Annexed  co  this  address  ia  an  interesting  report  made  by  Dr.  Butk-r  tu  the 


360  Booh  Notices.  '  [July, 

Society,  in  ISHl,  on  a  ineJal  struck  in  Munstcr,  in  1G18,  in  commemomtlon  of  the 
"  rcaec  uf  \\'<.-'tplialiii.."  This  medal  ^v;^s  li>uri(l  in  IbGl  :ibout  ^ix  inclit-s  hi-ncath 
the  eurliice  of  tlie  soil,  at  a  n'-u-  settleincnt  numed  Maxwell,  Wi.scun.iin,  by  a  rariner 
in  plo^YinL!;.  Fac-simiks  of  both  the  obverj^e  and  rrverte  are  .i;ivcn  in  holi.jtypc  II.jw 
thiti  uitdufcame  to  be  carried  into  tlie  uncultivated  wilderness  of  North  Aincri'M, 
about  two  centuries  n;,'o,  is  as  ;,'reat  a  mystery  as  is  its  present  location.  It  !i;\s 
been  nHj>>iu^  from  the  cabinet  of  the  Society  lur  .several  years,  and  is  suppo><.<l  to 
have  been  .stolen.  Let  the  thief  have  no  peace  till  he  restores  it  to  the  lawful 
custodians!  •*•  ^-  Q- 

The    Washinc/ion-Crairford   Lrllers.      Bcinrj  the    Correspnndenre  bclweai    Gecrnr. 
iVashin(jlon  and    William    Crawford,  J'oni   1767   to    17'il,  concerninr;    We.t/ern 
Lands.     With  an  Appendix,  lontainiri^  later  Letters  of  ^Vashington  on  the  .«am<: 
Sul^eet ;  and  Letters  from  N'alentine  Crawlurd  to  Washington,  written  in    177 1 
and  1775.     Chronoloaically  arranejed  and  carefully  annotated.    By  0.  \V.  Bctter- 
FiELu.     Cincinnati  ^Hubert  Clarke  &  Co.     1B77.     [8vo.  pp.  xi.  and  107.] 
Besides  the  revelations  these  letters  make  of  tlie  bcginnin.t:  of  Western  land  specu- 
lations  theY  brinii;  to  lii^ht  incidents  of  importance,  little  known  hitherto,  in  the 
early  settlement  of  the  trans-Alleghany  region,  and  in,  what  is  generally  styled. 
Lord  bunmoie's  War.     They  also  furnish  not  a  little  curious  information  about 
Washington's   large   and  valuable   posse.-sions  in   the  Ohio  Valley,  and  in  souio 
measui-e^hclp  to  reaify  and  complete  the  history  of  that  part  of  the  country. 

Whatever  relates  to  the  life  and  character  ot  Washim^ton  will  have  an  abiding 
interest  for  liis  Countrymen,  and  every  fresh  contribution  in  that  regard  v.-ill  be 
ea"-erly  welcomed.  His  correspondent  and  agent,  William  Crav.ford,  who  suh,-e- 
quently  perished  by  torture  at  the  hands  of  the  savages,  has  given  to  Western 
Annals  one  of  their  most  affecting  and  romantic  chapters. 

Mr.  Butterlield's  annotations  add  great  value  and  interest  to  the  work,  and  like 
all  his  historical  labors  show  an  accurate  and  full  knowledge  uf  his  subject. 

The  volume  is  furnished  with  an  Index,  and  is  handsomely  and  appropriately 
printed.  a.  H.  H. 

The  Centennial  Celebrations  of  the  City  of  Newton  on  the  Seventeenth  of  June  and  the 
Fourth  of  July,  by  and  under  the  direction  of  the  City  of  Newton.  [Seal.]  New- 
ton :  Publi.shed  by  Order  of  the  City  Council,  1876,  [Royal  8vo.  pp.  1G7.  'W  uh 
Heliotypes.] 

JuIyA,  1S76.  Centennial  Celebration  at  Canton.  H'-'itorical  Addresshy  lion.  Charles 
End'icott.     Boston  :   William  Bense,  Printer.     1870.     [8vo.  pp.  47.] 

History  of  the  Town  of  Ilnnlinglon  in  the  County  of  Han  oshire,  Mass.,  From  its 
First  Settlement  to  the  Year  1376.  By  Rev.  J.  II.  BisB  ,£.  Springheld,  Masa.  : 
Clark  W.  Bryan  &  Co.,  Printers.     1876.     [8vo.  pp.  40.] 

Address  delivered  in  the  First  Parish  Church  in  Bolton,  July  4,  1876,  at  ihe  Center.- 
nial  Cehbration  of  the  Anniversary  of  American  Independence;  and  also  in  Observ- 
ance of  the  l3Sth  Anniversary  of  the  Incorporation  of  the  Town.  By  Richard  S. 
Edes.  Together  with  Other  Proceedings  relating  to  the  same  Occasions.  \\^ith 
an  Appendix,  Clinton  :  Printed  by  W.  J.  Coulter,  Coui-ant  Office.  1S77.  [Svo. 
pp.  57.] 
In  our  January  (p.  136)  and  April  (p.  211)  numbers  of  the  current  year,  we 

noticed  some  of  the  historical  addresses  which  the  centennial  year  ot  American 

independence  brouiiht  out.     We  give  above  the  titles  of  a  few  other  works  of  the 

same  character.     .Much  local  history  is  preserved  in  them.  J.  w.  D. 

The  Stars  and  Strives:  the  Flag  of  ihe   United  Slates  of  America:    When,  where, 
and  by  whom  it  was  first  Saluted?     The  Question  Answered.     Concord,  N.  H. : 
Printed  by  the  Republican  Press  ^Association.     1876.     [8vo.  pp.  26.] 
This  valuable  collection  of  documents  relative  to  the  first  salute  to  the  American 


cof^nition  by  a  forei  'n  power  ot  American  indepen-iencc.  preceded  taat  given  to  i'aui 
Jones  by  the  Preach  in  Quiberon  bay,  fcb.  15,  177d  {ante,  xxLs.  13,  317) ;  but  we 


1877.]  Recent  Publications.  361 

(loiiht  whetiier  the  Cng  saluted  tore  the  stars  as  well  as  the  stripes.  EviJence  is 
pr.|(Ju''eil  th-.it  it  bore  thirteen  Ptripcs,  hut  Ko;ir-AJui.  Prel)ie  in  tiis  •'  Hihtnry  ut'tlio 
Aiiii^riciin  Ha'^'"  ;;ives  sesenil  tl;l.^-;  with  thid  devii.e,  wiiioh  wore  iit<i;<J  juuviuus  to 
Jiiue  14,  1777.  when  t!ie  Auii-Tican  fuiiL'ress  pasj-eii  the  rer^ijlvu  :  " 'I'hat  the  l!:i"  iif 
tlie  tiiirtL'on  Uniteil  States  be  ihirtren  stiiijo.s,  altermite  red  iinii  wliifc  ;  th:it  the 
uuion  be  thirteea  starw,  white  in  a  blue  Held,  repi'eseutiug  a  new  constellation." 

J.  w.  n. 


RECENT  PUBLICATIONS, 

Presented  to  the  Neic-Englatid  Historic,  Genealogical  Society  to  Juno  1,  1877, 

Narritive  of  Le  Moync,  an  Artist  who  accomp.inicJ  the  French  Ex]>cdition  to  Flori-Li 
under  LnudonniLTC.  I.j'34.  Tran-Uited  from  the  Latin  of  De  Bry.  With  Heliotypi.-s  of  tho 
En;;nivhi;:i  Mkcn  from  the  Artist's  Original  Drawings.  Boston  :  James  li.  Osgood  &  Co. 
Ibli).    [FoUo,  pp.  23|-15,  and  41:  plates.] 

War  Department.  Report  of  the  Reconnaissance  from  Carroll,  Montana  Territory,  on  the 
UppL-r  Mi.^-imri,  to  the  Yi.'l!o'.vsrorie  National  Park  and  Return,  made  in  tin- summer  of 
IS7.5.  By  William  LudloA-,  Captain  of  Engineers,  Brevet  Lieutenant-Colonel  U.  .S.  Army, 
Ctiief  Engineer  of  the  Department  of  Dakota.  Washington  :  Government  Piiating  Olllee. 
1876,    [Folio,  pp.  1>5.     With  Illustrations.] 

Annual  Report  of  the  Chief  of  Engineers  to  the  Secretary  of  War  for  the  Year  1876.    la 

Three  Parts Washington:   Governiaent  Printing  Olfice.     1876.     [Svo.,  3  vols. — 

i.  pp.  774;  ii.  pp.  70ij;  iii.  pp.762.    With  Illustrations.] 

Railways  of  New  South  Wales.  Report  of  their  Construction  and  Working  from  1872  to 
1875  inclusive.  By  John  Rae,  A.M.,  Commissioner  for  Railways.  Presented  to  Parlia- 
ment by  Command.  Sidney  :  Thomas  Pvichards,  Government  Printer.  1876.  [Folio,  pp. 
128.    With  Illustrations.] 

Report  upon  the  Census  of  Rhode  Island.  IS7o.  With  the  Statistics  of  the  PopaI:iti>-n, 
Agriculture,  Fisheries  and  Shore  F.irm^,  and  Manufactures  of  the  Suite.  By  Edwin  M. 
Snow,  M.D.,  Saperintenilent  of  the  Census.  [Seal.]  Providence;  Providence  Press  Com- 
pany, Slate  Printers.     1S77.     [Svo.  159.] 

United  States  Geological  Explorations  of  the  Fortieth  Parallel.  Clarence  King,  Geolo- 
p"st-iu-Charge.  Microscopical  Petrography.  By  Ferdinand  Zirkel.  Submitted  to  the 
Chief  of  Engineers,  and  published  by  order  of  the  Secretary  of  War  under  .\uth0rit7  ol" 
Congress.  Illustrated  bv  Twelve  Plates.  Washington :  Government  Printing  Oiliee.  1876. 
[Folio,  pp.  297.     With  Illustrations.] 

_  Directory  of  Danvers,  Marblehead,  Peabody,  Manchester,  Essex,  Wcnham  and  Top?- 
field.  With  Street  and  Advertising  Directories,  Town  Registers,  Map,  etc.  No.  3.  [Wood 
Cut.]  By  D  Dudley  &  Co.  .  .  .:.  Boston,  M  iss.  1S77.  [8vo.  pp.  322-)-32.  "  For  salo 
by  A,  A.  Smith  &  Co.,  Salem;   B.  F.  Stevens,  Peabody."] 

Archifeology  :  or  Miscellaneous  Tracts  relating  to  Antiquity.  Published  by  the  Society 
of  Antiquaries  of  London  ....  [Seal.]  London  :  Printed  by  Nichols  Sc  Sons,  2d  Parha- 
ment  Street.     [Royal  4to.  pp.  261.    VoL  44,  Part  2.    With  Illustrations.] 

Report  of  the  Massachusetts  State  Commission  to  the  Centennial  Exhibition  at  Philadel- 
phia.    187G.    Boston:  Albert  J.  Wright,  State  Printer.     1877.     [8vo.  pp.  Iu2.] 

International  Series.  The  American  Journal  of  Education.  Published  Quarterly.  E'liteil 
by  Henry  Barnard,  LL.D.  Volume  One.  Entire  Series.  Volume  XJvVL  Hartfurd: 
Otfice  of  American  Journal  of  Education.     1876.     [Svo.  pp.  916.] 

Report  of  the  Commission  to  procure  Memorial  Statues  for  the  National  Statuary  ILUl  at 
Washington.    1876.    Boston  ;  Albert  J.  Wright,  State  Printer.     1877.     [8vo.  pp. 'il.J 

The  Fisheries  of  Gloucester,  from  the  First  Catch  by  the  English  in  1G23,  to  the  Centen- 
nial Year  1876.  Giving  an  Account  of  the  First  Settlement;  Development  of  the  Fi-hing 
Business;  Various  Branches  ;  St;tti-tics  of  Catch  ;  Models  of  Vessels  ;  The  Gnimte  Inter- 
est; The  Advantages  of  Cape  Ann  as  a  Place  of  Summer  Resort,  etc.  etc.  [Wool-cut.] 
Gloucester:  Proctor  Brothers,  Pul-lishers,  Cape  .\nn  Advertiser  Oliiee.     [Svo.  pp.  ».S.] 

Proceedings  of  the  Bunker  Hill  Monument  Association  at  the  Annual  Meeting,  June  17, 
1876.  With  the  Address  of  Richard  Frothingham,  President  of  the  /\j>.soaaUon.  liostou: 
Bunker  Hill  Monument  Association.     1876.    [8vo.  pp.  53.] 

Norfolk  Countv  Manual  and  Year  Book  for  1876.  Compiled,  Prepared  and  Fublisfaed  by 
H.-nr>- 0.  Hildreth.    Dedham,  Mass.     1877.     [Svo.  pp.  l-5o.] 

Oliver  Smith  Chapman.  Bom  August  la,  1511.  Died  February  3,  1S77.  Privately 
printed.    1877.    [Svo.  pp.  23.] 

HoUis  Street  Church  from  M;xther  Byles  to  Thom;is  Starr  King,  1732—1861.    Two  Dis- 
courses given  in  Holds  Street  ^Meeting-house,  Dec.  31,  1S7j,  and  Jan.  7,  1877.    By  George 
VOL.  XXZI.  32 


362  Recent  Publications.  [July, 

Leonard  Chancy.    Boston  :  Press  of  George  H.  Ellis,    1S77.    [8vo.  pp.  70.    With  Hclio- 
t>pcs.] 

A  Kricf  Acconat  of  the  University  of  the  South.  By  the  Rev.  Davi.l  Gr-en.;  Ilaskins, 
Cambiidgc,  Mii-s.  [Seal.]  Mew  York:  E.  i'.  Dutton  &  Company.  1877.  [12  mo.  pp. 
47.] 

Pleasant  "Waters.  A  Sons  of  tho  Sea  an.]  Shore.  By  James  Davis,  [Motto.]  Cam- 
bridge: Printed  at  the  Riverl-ide  Press.    1877.     [ISaio.  pp.  101.] 

Proceedings  of  the  Worcester  Society  of  Anri.iuity,  from  its  Institution,  Jan.  21,  187),  to 
the  Re-or"ani/ation  under  the  General  Laws  of  the   Conunonwcalth,  March  6,   1877. 

Wovcister :  Published  by  the  Society,     1877.     [8vo.  pp.  69.    No.  I.  of  the  pul>- 

lications  of  this  -:ocicty.] 

Constitution  and  Bv-Laws  of  the  Worcester  Society  of  Antiqnirs-,  together  \vith  the  Cer- 
tificate of  Incorporation Worcester :   Press  of  Leagrave  &  Tyler.     1877.     [Svo. 

pp.  7.    No.  II.  of  the  publications.] 

Bulletin  ot  the  Essex  Institute.  Vol.  8,  Nos.  9-12.  Salem,  Mass.,  Dec.  1876,  [8vo. 
pp.  74.    With  title-page  and  contents,  completing  the  volume.] 

Proceedings  of  the  Department  of  Maine,  Grar.d  Army  of  the  Republic.  [Seal.]  1867 
to  1877  inclusive.  With  a  brief  account  of  thj  First  National  Encanipuient,  and  of  the 
Introduction  of  the  Order  into  Maine.    Augu>ta:  George  E.  Nason.    1877.    [8vo.  pp.  38.) 

Tuskaloosa,  the  Oriirin  of  its  Name,  its  History,  etc.  A  Paper  read  before  the  Alabama 
Historical  Society,  By  Thomas  Maxwell,  July  1,  i87G.  Printed  at  the  Office  of  the  lus- 
kaloosa  Gazette.     [Svo.  pp.  H'O.] 

Pieibytulaui'iu  in  the  Sewicklev   Valley.    Tli^orical  Discourse,  delivered  by  James 

Allison,  July  16,  1S76 Pittsburgh:  Nevin,  Gribbio  &  Co.,  Publishers.     1S7C. 

[8v'j.  pp.  42.] 

Wakefield  [M.^ss.]  Consregational  Church.  A  Commemorative  Sketch.  lC4t-1877.  By 
Rev.  Charles  R.  Bliss,  Pastor  of  the  Church,  [Motto.]  Wakcdeld :  W,  H.  Twombly, 
Printer.    1877.     [Svo.  pp.  90.] 

Fund  Publication.  No.  7  (Supplement).  Excerpta  ex  Diversis  Litteris  Missionarioram . 
Ab  Anno  163S,  ad  Annum  1677.  [Seal.]  Extracts  from  Ditlerent  Letters  of  Mi-^^'o^- 
arics,  from  the  Year  1G3S  to  the  Year  1677-  Edited  by  Hev.  E.  A.  Dalrymple,  a.l.D. 
January,  1S77.     [Svo.  pp.  41.] 

The  Census  of  Ma'-'achust'tts,  1S75.    Prepared  under  the  Direction  of  Carroll  D.  Wright, 

Chief  of  the  Bureau  of  Statistics  of  Labor Boston :  Alljert  J.  Wright.  State  Prniter. 

1876.     [3  vols.  Svo.    Vol.  I.  "  Population  and  Social  Statistics,"  pp.  809 ;  Vol.  IL  (m  press) ; 
Vol.  III.  "  Agricultural  Products  and  Property,"  pp.  790.] 

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1876,"'pp.  8 ;  No.  3,  May  1877,  pp.  8.    See  Advertisement  on  cover  of  the  Register.] 

Sentry  or  Beacon  Hill :  The  Beacon  and  the  Monument  of  lG3.i  and  1790.  By  Will-am 
W.  Wheildon.  Illustrated  with  Maps  and  Hehotype  Plates.  Prepared  for  the  Bunker 
Hill  Monument  Association.    Boston:  Lee  and  Shepard.     1877.     [Svo.  pp.  116.] 

In  Memoriam,  A  Discourse  on  the  Life  and  Character  of  Rev.  John  Blagden  Bacon, 
D.D.,  dehvered  at  the  Orange  Valley  Congregational  Church.  By  Rev.  F.  F.  Ellmwood, 
D.D.,  Sunday,  March  18,  1877.    Privately  Printed.    1877.     [Svo,  pp.  28.] 


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the  weekly  issue  of  the  Library  Table  appeared  May  17,  1877.  Previously  it  had 
been  published  monthly,  and  sixteen  number.s  completing  two  volumes  had  appeared. 
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number  contains  16  folio  pages  of  similar  shape  with  the  London  Saturday  Review. 
The  numbers  that  have  appeared  indicate  that  it  will  take  a  high  rank  among  literary 
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publications.  Published  every  Thursday  by  Henry  L.  Hinton  k  Co.,  47  Lafayette 
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tled The  Index  was  commenced.  Its  olject  was  '•  to  furnish  an  Index  to  the  currct:t 
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abroad,  and  the  reports  and  other  publications  of  the  several  departments  of  govern- 
ment "'    In  April  last,  tliis  periodical  was  united  with  the  Amencan  Booksdkr,  a 


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Deaths. 


363 


DEATHS. 


AcuT,  Hon.  David,  in  Green  lUiy,  Wis., 
Jan.  30,  iigcd  S'2.  He  was  a  son  of  Johu 
and  Elizab-.'tli  (Reed)  A:^'ry,  and  was 
born  i;i  Uallowell,  Mc,  Auij.  11,  1704. 
He  grad.  at  Dartmouth  Colle;^a  in  1815. 
He  read  law  in  his  native  place,  and 
practised  in  Bangor,  Mc.,  hut  in  1S40 
'removed  to  Green  Lay.  He  held  various 
offices,  among  them  that  of  County 
Judge,  to  which  he  was  elected  in  lb-50. 

Aldex,  Rear  Adm.  James,  in  San  Fran- 
cisco, Cal.,  Feb.  6,  aged  G6.  He  Avas  a 
son  of  James  and  Elizabeth  (Tat>j) 
Alden,  and  was  bom  in  Portland,  Me., 
March  31,  1810.  lie  wim  the  6th  in 
d^'^cent  from  John}  Aldan  and  his  wife 
Priscilla  Mullins,  through  DavlcP  by 
wife  Mercy  Southworth ;  Bunjamin^  by 
wife  Hannah  ;  Darin'*  by  wife  Elizabetli 
Thorndike;  and  James,^  above,  his  father. 
His  mother  was  a  daughter  of  Kobert 
Tate  and  a  niece  of  Admiral  George  Tate 
(b.  June  19,  174o,  d.  Feb.  17,  1821)  of 
the  Ilus>iau  Navy.  At  the  age  of  18 
he  entered  the  United  States  Navy  as  a 
niidshipman,  and  rose  by  successive 
promotions  to  the  rank  of  rear  admiral, 
which  he  attained  June  19,  1871.  He 
distinguished  himself  greatly  in  the  late 
civil  war.  He  was  "  not  only  one  of 
the  bravest  in  action,  but  one  of  the 
most  courtly  and  accomplished  men  in 
the  navy." 

Balch,  Thon^as,  in  Philadelphia,  March 
29,  aged  5-5.  He  was  a  son  of  Lewis  P. 
W.  Ealch,  and  was  born  in  Leesburg, 
Loudon  county,  Va.,  July  23,  1821.  He 
read  law  with  Stephen  Cambreling  of 
New  York  city,  and  afterwards  removed 
to  Philadelphia,  Avhere  he  was  admitted 
to  the  bar  Feb.  9,  iSoO.  In  18-52,  he 
married  Emily,  daughter  of  Joseph 
Swit't,  Esq.,  descended  from  the  Shippen 
family.  In  18-54,  he  was  elected  to  the 
Common  Council  for  one  term,  and 
served  upon  important  committees.  In 
lS-59,  he  went  to  Europe,  where  he  re- 
mained many  years  travellmg  extensive- 
ly, bat  making  Paris  his  headquarters. 
In  1873,  he  returned  to  this  country, 
where  he  resided  till  his  death. 

He  p\iblished  "Letters  and  Papers 
relating  chictiy  to  t)\o  Provincial  Histoiy 
of  Pennsylvania,"  2  vols.  12mo.  lS.5->, 
better  known  as  the  "  Shippen  Papers  ;" 
"The  Examination  of  -Tor-epli  Gallowav, 
Esq.,  by  a  Committee  of  the  House  of 


Commons,"  8vo.  18.5-5  ;  ••  Papers  relat- 
ing to  the  Marykuid  i.ino  during  tlie 
Revolution,"  8vo.  l«-57  (the  last  two  is- 
sued by  tlie  Seventy  Six  Soci<ty);  '•  Les 
Franjaiscn  Amerique  pL-ndunt  i'a  Gu;  rrc 
del'Independencedes  Eruts  L'nis,"  lh7.'- 
"Journal  (jf  Claude  lihmchard,"  trtum- 
lated  by  Williani  Duanc,  edit' d  hv 
Thomas  Balch,  fcp  4to.  1870  (-;.„',■,  xx\'. 
390.)  He  was  also  "  the  author  of  n.uny 
valuable  essays,  both  in  Frc^ndi  mid 
English."  He  had  given  us  rca.-on  to 
hope  for  a  series  of  articles  for  the 
Register  from  his  pen,  on  "The  .'^ocial 
Life  of  the  Middle  Colonics  before  the 
Revolution." 

In  a  full  and  appreciative  obituary 
sketch  of  !;im  in  the  ^^lv/rL■:hl/;  of  .li,i-rt- 
can  Historj  for  June,  he  is  thus  spoken 
of:  '«Mr.  Raich  was  distinguiVned  for 
untiring  research.  The  processes  of  his 
mind  were  not  rapid,  hut  marked  by 
precision  and  thoroughness.  His  jicr- 
sonal  qualities  endeared  him  to  all  with 
whom  he  was  brought  in  contact." 

GooDRiPGE.  Mrs.  Priscilla  (Lang),  Bostin, 
Dee.  21,  1876,  aged  92  yrs.  4  mos.  I'lj 
days;  widow  of  the  late  Samuel  G<.od- 
ridge.  She  was  a  descer-dant  frcm 
Nathaniel  Lang  of  Portsmouth,  X.  11., 
through  Jeffrey  and  Hannah  (Symrnt-) 
L.  and  William  and  Bridget  (I'erhy) 
L.,  of  whom  she  was  the  last  surviving 
child.  E.  s.  L.  B. 

Hart,  John  Seely,  LL.D.,  in  Philadelpl;ii, 
March  2t3,  aged  67.  He  was  born  in 
Stockbridge,  Mass.,  Jan.  28,  IS  10.  H:< 
parents  removed  in  1812  to  Penn-yha- 
rua.  He  graduated  at  New  Jersey  Col- 
lege in  1830,  and  became  for  a  hh^Tt 
time  a  teacher  in  Natchez,  Mi-^s.  Ho 
was  principal  of  the  Phihulelp!ii;v  }1\l\\ 
School  trom  1842  to  1858,  and  in  IS'.J 
was  chosen  professor  of  English  Lit< n- 
ture  in  New  Jersey  College,  und  hi  Id 
the  office  several  years. 

He  was  an  industrious  writer,  ino-t 
of  his  works  being  of  an  ctlucational 
character.  Among  thtm  are  "  ."^ji^n- 
cer  and  the  Faery  (iuecii."  *•  Fitn.-ilc 
Prose  Writers  of  America,"  "  Compo- 
sition and  Rhetoric, ''  "English  Gram- 
mar," &c. 

Motley,  John  Lothrop,  LL.D.,  D.C.L.. 
the  eminent  historian,  at  the  re^idt-nce 
of  his  daughter,  ilrs.  fciicridan,  King- 


364 


Deaths. 


[July. 


ston  Russell  Ilousf;,  Dorsetshire,  Eng- 
lariil,  Miy  'I'J,  a.'wl  63.  lie  was  a 
eon  of  Tlioinus  .Mutiev,  and  w:is  bora  iu 
Dorchester,  Mass..  April  1.3,  18  U.  He 
>vas  the  4th  in  do.-'cent  frotn  Johit}-  .\[otici/, 
■who  emigrated  from  Belfast,  Ireland, 
previous  to  17<3S,  and  settled  in  Port- 
land, Maine,  through  Thomas,"  and 
Thomas^  above,  his  fatlier.  (See  Reo- 
.     ISTER,  xviii.  '29S.) 

He  graduated  at  Harvard  College  in 
1831,  and  afterwards  spent  a  year  at 
eafh  of  the  univer-itie.s  of  Gottingt'u 
and  Berlin.  He  then  travelled  in  Italy, 
returned  to  America,  studied  law,  and 
in  lS3i)  was  ad;iiltted  to  the  Sutfolk 
bar.  but  soon  gave  up  the  practice  of 
law.  On  the  lOth  of  Scpte.mber,  1841, 
he  was  commissioned  e.s  secretary  of 
legation  to  Russia.  After  holding  the 
position  eight  months  he  resigned  and 
returned  home.  In  ISol,  he  em- 
barked for  Europe  for  the  purpose  of 
pursuing  his  historical  researches,  and 
remained  abroad,  with  the  exception  of 
two  visits  in  ISoS  and  186S-9  to  the 
United  States,  till  his  death.  On  the 
10th  of  August,  1861,  he  was  appointed 
by  President  Lincoln  envoy  extraordi- 
nary and  minister  plenipotentiary  from 
■  the  United  States  to  Austria,  and  held 
the  position  till  June  lo,  18(37.  Presi- 
dent Grant,  on  the  13th  of  April,  1869, 
appointed  him  minister  to  Great  Britain, 
wliich  olhce  he  held  till  Dec.  6,  1870. 

His  principal  works  are  : — Morton's 
Hope,  1839  ;  Merry-Mount,  1349  ;  The 
Rise  of  the  Dutch  Republic,  3  vols., 
1856 ;  History  of  the  United  Nether- 
lands, rom  the  death  of  William  the 
Silent  to  the  Synod  of  Dcrt,  4  vols., 
1860-7  ;  Life  and  Death  of  John  Bar- 
neveld,  advocate  of  Holland,  2  vols., 
1874. 

Mr.  Motley  married  a  sister  of  Park 
Benjamin.  She  died  in  December,  1874. 
He  leaves  two  daughters,  the  wives  of 
Algernon  Sheridan,  great-grandson  of 
the  author  of  the  "  School  for  Scandal," 
and  Sir  William  Vernon  Harcourt,  the 
emiiient  publicist. 

RlCKA-RDSON,  Hon.  Origen  Drew,  at 
Omaha,  Neb.,  Nov.  29,^1875,  aged  81. 
Also  at  Omaha,  Dec.  2,  1876,  Sarah  P. 
(Hill)  Richardson,  widow  of  the  pre- 


ceding. She  died  from  age  and  the 
shock  of  her  husbaml's  death.  Thoy 
Were  two  of  the  oldest  and  mo>it  higldy 
respected  citizens  of  Nebraska.  He  was 
born  in  WooiNtijck,  Vt.,  July  20,  179.3. 
He  studied  law  and  was  in  practice  in 
his  native  town  till  1826,  when  he  re- 
moved to  Pontiac,  Mich.  In  1840  he  was 
chosen  lieutenant  governor  of  Michigan, 
and  wo-s  reelected  in  1842.  In  1834  he 
removed  to  Omaha.  e.  a.  l.  e. 

UrUAir,  Mrs.  Anii  Susan,  in  Salem,  April 
5,  aged  7  2.  She  was  born  in  Cam- 
bridge. -May  1-3.  1804,  and  m.  March  29, 
1826,  Rev.  Charles  W.  Upham,  who 
died  in  lS7o  (^anfe,  p.  124).  She  was  a 
daughter  of  the  Rev.  Abiel  Holmes, 
D.D.,  and  a  sister  of  Oliver  Windell 
Holmes,  and  shared  largely  in  the  bril- 
liant tileiit  of  the  family.  Her  descent 
from  Mrs.  Anne  Bradstrect,  the  earliest 
New  England  poetess,  from  whom  some 
of  the  most  distinguished  American 
writers  are  descended,  will  he  found  in 
the  Registek,  vol.  viii.  p.  315. 

WooDBiTRT,  John,  in  Boston,  Mass.,  Jan. 
21,  1876,  aged  95,  at  the  residence  of  his 
son,  the  late  Joseph  Page  Woodbury, 
674  Treraont  St. 

He  was  bom  in  Sterling,  Mass.,  Sept. 
21,  1780,  and  was  tiie  second  sou  of 
Joseph  and  Abiel  (Porter)  Woodbury 
of  Beverly  and  Sterling,  Mass.,  and  the 
eighth  in  lineal  descent  from  John^ 
Woodhunj ,  one  of  the  founders  of  the 
Massachusetts  Colony,  who  came  from 
England  to  Cape  Ann  iu  1624,  removmg 
to  Salem  in  1626,  where  he  died  in  1641 ; 
through  Pe'er,'^  b.  1640,  by  wife  Sarah 
Dodge  ;  PcU-r?  b.  1664,  by  wite  Mary  ; 
Peter,*  by  wife  Hannah  Khnball  ;  Jo- 
seph,'' by  wife  Huldah  Putnam  ;  Johii,^ 
by  wife  Sarah  Allen ;  and  Joseph,'^  above 
named,  his  father. 

The  deceased  lived  to  see  four  genera- 
tions of  his  descendants.  He  was  the 
father  of  eleven  children,  seven  sons  and 
four  daughters,  four  of  whom  only 
survive  him,  viz. :  J.  Porter  and  Seth 
Dodge  of  Lynn,  James  Atkins  of  Boston, 
and  Angeline  Elizabeth,  wife  of  Andrew 
M.  Haines  of  Galena,  Illinois. 


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IN  MEMORIAM  MAJORUM. 


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OCTOBER,  1877. 


SKETCH  OF  JOHX  :\IERrJLL  BR.VDBURY. 

By  JoKx  Ward  Deax. 

THE  interest  which  'Mr.  Bradbury  took  in  the  Register,  and  in 
the  New-England  Historic,  Genealogical  Society,  shown  in 
many  ways  during  his  life,  as  well  as  the  liberal  bequest  which  he 
left  to  the  Society  at  his  deatli,  make  it  appropriate  that  his  nien^oir 
should  appear  in  these  pages. 

Joiix  Merrill  BRADiiURY  was  a  sou  of  the  Hon.  Ebenezer  and 
INIrs.  Nancy  (^Merrill)  Bradbury,  and  was  born  in  Newburyport, 
Thursday,  October  29,  1818.  His  father,  a  silversnuth  by  trade, 
was  a  noble  specimen  of  the  self-made  man.  Though  he  had  a  very 
large  family,  by  industrious  and  economical  habits  he  brouglit  up 
his  childien  in  comfort  and  gave  them  a  good  education.  He 
had  an  innate  desire  for  knowledge  of  every  kind,  and  acquired  ex- 
tensive information  by  steady  and  methodical  habits  of  study.  His^ 
benevolence  and  genial  temper,  united  to  sterling  integrity  ^  ot 
character,  won  for  him  the  respect  and  good  will  of  his  fellow  citi- 
zens, and  gave  him  great  political  influence  in  his  native  town.  Ha 
was  a  fluent  speaker,  and  presided  over  public  assemblies  with  ease 
and  dignity.  Noted  for  his  public  spirit,  he  was  ever  ready  to  Icnu 
a  helping  hand  in  the  prosecution  of  any  enterprise  promising  ad- 
vantage to  the  public.  His  interest  in  tducation  was  to  the  hu-t 
unabated,  and  to  his  wisdom  and  untiring  activity  in  tliis  cause,  the 
prosperity  of  the  public  schools  of  Newburyport  during  his  residence 
in  that  place  was  largely  due.  He  was  frequently  entrusred  with 
public  office.  In  the>ars  1828,  1830,  1841,  1:?44  and  1817.  he 
represented  Newburyport  in  the  Massachusetts  legislature  ;  and  he 
Was  chosen  by  the  house  of  representatives  its  speaker  in  the  latter 
year.  In  1845  and  1846  he  was  a  member  of  the  executive  coun- 
cil, and,  in  1849,  he  was  chosen  to  the  responsibie  oirice  of  treasu- 
rer of  the  commonwealth,  which  office  he  held  two  years,  as  long  as 
VOL.  XXXI.  33 


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3GG  Sketch  of  John  Merrill  Bradbury.  [Oct. 

the  y;]\\^  pirtv,  to  wliicli  lie  beloncced,  remained  in  power.  In  ISoo 
he  was  Ji  tli'lc^ate  tVoia  Newton,  wht;re  he  tlien  re.sideil,  to  tlie  Con- 
stitutional Convention,  and  the  next  year  re[)re?ented  that  town  in 
tlie  General  Court.  Lnter  in  life  he  was  Jud^^e  of  the  Municipal 
Court  of  the  town  of  ]Milfn-d.  Upright  and  honest  in  his  dcaiini^.^, 
modest  and  uiiassuniing  in  his  denieani^r,  pure  and  consistent  in  his 
patriotism,  kind  and  obliging  to  every  one,  he  served  his  town  and 
state  iaithfully  in  every  tru?t  committed  to  his  hands,  and  died 
lamented  by  all  who  knew  him. 

'J'hc  earliest  innnigrant  ancestor  of  the  subject  of  this  memoir  was 
Thomas  liradbury,  wljo  came  to  New  Enghind  in  the  year  1 G3 1, 
as  the  agent  of  Sir  Fordinrmdo  Gorges,  and  after  a  few  years'  resi- 
dence at  Agamenticiis,  now  York,  Maine,  settled  in  Salisbury,  Mass., 
where  he  was  long  prominent  in  the  atKiirs  of  the  town,  county  and 
colony.  "Plis  handwriting  preserved  in  tlie  colony  records,  has  been 
admired  for  clearness,  elegance  and  force,  having  no  superior  in  our 
colonial  archives.  In  every  generation  of  his  desocndants  there  has 
been  one  or  more  pron:iinent  in  public  ofl^lce.'"  There  are  strong 
reasons  for  believing  that  Thomas  Bradbury,  of  Salisbury,  was  a  son 
of  Wymond  Bradbury,  of  Wicken  Bonant  in  Essex,  of  the  same 
family  as  Sir  Thomas  Bnulbury,  who  in  1500  was  mayor  of  London, 
and  that  his  mother  was  a  niece  of  Archbishop  Whitgift.^ 

^Ir.  Bradbury's  youth  was  spent  in  his  native  town,  where  he 
received  a  good  English  and  classical  education  at  the  public  schools, 
and  also  at  the  Dumnter  Academy  in  the  adjoining  town  of  New- 
bury, while  this  institution  was  under  the  charge  of  Nehemiah  Cleve- 
land, LL.D.,  recently  deceased.^  In  Newburyport  he  was,  at  one 
time,  a  pupil  of  Albert  Pike,  the  poet,  since  distinguished  in  south- 
era  po  itics. 

One  of  his  earliest  schoolmates  and  most  intimate  friends,  the 
Rev.  George  D.  Wildes,  D.D.,  has  written  for  the  family  his  recollec- 
tions of  the  youth  of  his  friend,  which  it  would  give  us  pleasure, 

»  Ohituarv  of  John  M.  Bradbury,  Esq.,  by  Charles  W.  Tuttle,  A.M.,  in  the  Xeichiryport 
Herald,  April,  1876. 

*  See  Mr.  Bra  lliurv's  arti.le  on  the  "  Whirgifr-Bnulhury  Fdniily  "  in  the  Register,  vol. 
xxxiii.  pp.  262-6,  where  the  reascms  for  this  l)encf  are  ffivcn.  Mr.  Bradbnrv  was  the  eighth 
in  descent  from  Thomas.^  of  S.iU^iiiirv,  whose  wife  was  Mary,  dan.  of  John  Peri<in«,  of 
Ipswich;  through  m/mond:-  16:^7-16-.9.  l)y  wife  Sarah  Pik'-;  U'l/mond,^  1669-173l,_by 
■wife  Maria  C'Ttoii ;  Theophiia^*  17('fi-17'^4,  hv  wife  Ann  Woodtuan;  Jonathan,''  1732- 
1812,  by  vvifo  Ai)ii,'nl  Sniitli;  Theophi/iis.^  1763-18IS.  bv  wfc  L')is  P,il>!liurv;  and  Hon. 
Ebenezer,^  b.  at  Newburyport,  July  31,  1793,  d.  at  Suli^tmry,  1S54;  to  Jbhn  lf.,8  the  sub- 
ject of  this  article. 

'  The  follcjwiniT  memorandum  of  the  institutions  at  which  he  obtained  his  edncation, 
was  funiiiiied  to  the  New-England  Historic,  Genealogical  Society,  a  few  years  bcfo:e  bis 
death,  by  Mr.  Bradliuiy: 

"  Lanca.-teri  in  School      (public),    Newi>uryport,     from    Dec.  1S23  to  Feb.  1S26. 
Dummer  Academy,  Ncwhurv,  "        Feb.   1826   to    Aug.  IS27. 

Hi^h  Sihool  (public),    >"ewi.urvport,      "       Aug.  1^27  to    D«c.  1S23. 

Classical  School  (private),  "     "  "        Dec.    l.v2S  to    Mav,  lS-;0. 

High  School  (public),  "  "       Mav,  18:;0  to  Dec.  1S32. 

Classical  School  (private),  "  "        Feb.    1S33   to  Ort.    l^o^. 

At  businos.  "  "        Oct.    1^33   to  Fob.   IS-o. 

Dickinsuu  College,  Carlisle,  Penn.  "       Apr.    1835  to  Apr.  l^io." 


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1877.]  Shetch  of  John  Merrill  Bradbury.  307 

did  space  permit,  to  tran.^^fcr  to  tliesc  pngca.  "VV'e  content  ourselves 
witii  ii  few  extracts. 

"  Of  no  one  of  the  associates  of  my  boyliood,"  says  he,  "  roiiM  I  write 
more  that  would  illustrate  tiie  value  of  youthful  example.  Anmni:  pfMsonal 
influences  tending  to  monld  the  purpose  aii<l  direct  the  etlorts  of  any  of  his 
early  companions  who  have  attained  to  station,  vvlir'ther  of  usefulness  «jr 
honor,  I  am  sure  a  large  place  will  be  concu-dcd  to  tlieir  association,  more 
or  le.s-s  intiniiite,  with  John  I\I.  liradhury,  the  hoy  and  the  man.  I  caniiot 
recall  the  time  when  I  did  not  know  him.  Tiie  imnge  of  a  bright  liitlu 
'chubby-faced'  boy,  with  bright  eyes,  a  quick  step,  and  a  '  laui:liiiig 
morning  f-ice,'  coming  to  school  from  the  'North  Kud'  in  old  Ncwliury- 
port,  almost  always  comes  first  in  the  retrospect  of  my  own  school  davs  ; 
and  I  have  an  impression  that  when  scarcely  more  than  six  or  seven  v»;irs 
of  age,  we  were  at  our  first  '  man's  school,'  under  the  instruction  of  the 
late  George  Titcomb." 

Dr.  Wildes  states  tliat  they  were  '^in  the  same  class,  and  almost 
uniformly  occupyinfr  nei!;rhboriug  desks  in  the  Latin  depirtment  of 
the  High  School  still  standing  at  the  east  end  of  the  mall,"  where 
Mr.  Nason,  now  the  Kev.  Ellias  Xason,  of  North  Billerica,  after- 
wards taug-lit,  but  which  was  then  under  the  charge  of  Mr.  How- 
ard, now  the  Kcv,  Roger  S.  Howard,  D.D.,  rector  of  the  Epi^-co- 
pal  church  in  Webster,  ]Ma5s.  He  represents  his  schoolmate  as  a 
good  classical  scholar,  but  as  excelling  in  mathematics. 

"  The   inevitable    slate    was    often    before    him    in    the    hours    assigned 

to  our   studies   in    Latin   and    Greek The   '  slates '    of   one   and 

another  of  us   were   quite    as    fre<juently    before    him   as    his   own.      He 

could  not  resist   the  request   daily  forced   upon  him The  sight  of  a 

problem  in  mathematics  was  to  him  an   inspiration Put  before  him 

any  congeries  of  numerals,  or  any  formula  in  which  x  and  y,  -j-  or  —  were 
terms,  and  tliey  were  i: resistible.  The  ease  with  which  he  overcame  what 
to  the  most  of  us — with  perhaps  the  exception  of  the  late  Stephen  Tilton 
and  his  brother  .Joseph,  still  living  in  Boston — were  thought  to  be  insupera- 
ble difficulties,  was  to  us  an  entertainment  as  well  as  an  easy  moiie  of  p.<T- 

forming  our  own  tasks-  . In  limiting  myself  thus  fur  to  the  mention   of 

the  mathematical  tastes  of  my  friend,  I  may  have  done  injustice,  or  only 
partial  justice  to  other  characteristics.  He  was  a  well-grounded  historical 
scholar.  Indebted  as  I  was  to  him  for  more  of  guidance  and  substantial  ln-lp 
in  what  was  to  myself  distasteful,  namely,  his  own  delightful  Hgures.  I  am  no 
less  indebted  to  him  for  a  youthful  and  common  sympathy  m  historical 
studies  and  a  taste  for  the  Euglibh  classics." 

Dr.  Wildes  represents  him  as  entering  with  zest  into  the  sports  of 
boyhood,  in  which  his  good  nature  and  buoyant  spirits  made  him  a 
universal  favorite. 

In  April,  1835,  in  his  seventeenth  rear,  Ttfr.  Bradbury  entered 
Dickinson  College  at  Carlisle,  Pennsylvania,  where  he  studied  three 
years,  leaving  the  institution  in  April,  1838,  after  completing  his 
junior  year.  On  leaving  college,  he  immeiliately  went  to  Philadel- 
phia, intending  to  go  into  business  there  ;  but  after  a  resid'^nce  of  six 
months  he  returned  to  Nevvburyport,  w  here  he  became  an  assistant 


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in  his  father's  l)u?incjs,  rcuitiinin;]^  more  than  two  years  in  that  posi- 
tion. In  Febniarv,  l<'*i41,  lie  ohtaiiicil  uu  appointment  as  teacher  of 
a  district  school  in  Xowl  ury.  Soon  after  the  term  of  this  school 
was  comjjJeted,  he  was  appointed  teacher  of  a  grammar  school  in 
Newlnnyport,  which  position  he  held  one  year.  After  a  year's 
interval,  he  was  placed  in  charge  of  another  school  of  the  same  grade, 
where  ho  reinaincd  six  years. 

On  the  28th  of  August,  1843,  he  was  married  at  Gloucester  to 
Miss  Sarah  Ann  Hayes,  daughter  of  Daniel  and  Abigail  (Sargent) 
Hayes,  a  lady  of  cultivated  tastes,  who  appreciated  and  encouraged 
his  studies,  and  made  his  home  pleasant  and  attractive. 

In  Mav,  1840,  he  came  to  lioston,  and  soon  after  received  an 
appointment  to  the  second  clerkship  in  the  state  treasury,  and  on  the 
resignation  of  the  chief  clerk,  in  December,  1850,  he  was  advanced 
to  fill  the  vacancy.  Very  soon  after  this  ]jromotion,  he  engaged 
with  Messrs.  Gilmore,  Blake  and  \Vard,  bankers,  as  their  account- 
ant, which  position  he  held  through  various  changes  of  tiie  firm' 
to  the  end  of  the  year  18<JG,  when  his  interest  in  the  house  ceased, 
and  he  retired  with  a  competent  fortune.  The  life  of  a  banker  is  so 
much  one  of  routine,  that  there  is  little  to  be  said  of  it  that  will 
interest  the  public.  It  was  one,  however,  for  which  his  tastes  and 
attainments  admirably  fitted  him.  He  made  himself  master  of  iliis 
business,  so  that  his  opinion  upon  difficult  matters  was  sought ;  and  it 
was  always  safe  to  follow  his  advice  on  such  occasions.  He  was 
seldom  absent  during  the  hours  of  business,  but  applied  lumself 
assiduously  to  his  duties. 

He  did  not  suffer  his  business  cares,  however,  to  eradicate  liis 
literary  tastes.  His  leisure  hours  were  largely  employed  with  books, 
his  fav(  rite  reading  being  history  and  belles-lettres.  He  thus  added 
greatly  to  his  fund  of  information. 

The  Kev.  Dr.  Wildes,  referring  to  his  residence  in  this  city,  says  : 

"During  many  years  spent  in  Boston,  it  was  my  very  grateful  privi- 
lege, more  or  less  frequently,  to  meet  with  my  early  and  loved  friend. 
Our  professions  and  pursuits  were  in  quite  distinct  lines,  yet  I  never  met 
him  when  the  old  atit'cdon  and  old  glow  of  our  youthful  associations  were 
not  uppermost.  He  was  still  in  the  '  world  of  figures.'  The  interests  of 
a  larse  baokiuiz  house — and  that  one  in  which  a  friend  and  neirrhlior  of  mv 
later  life  was  principal — were  largely  under  his  management.  "We  talked 
of  our  several  pursuits,  but  with  the  affairs  of  an  important  business  interest 
in  his  mind  and  upon  his  hands,  and  with  my  own  duties  concerned  with 
'  things  spiritual,'  we  always  talked  as  the  boys  of  our  old  town,  and  never 
without  grateful  remembrance  of  our  '  mother  by  the  sea.' " 

In  September,  1868,  accompanied  by  his  wife,  he  took  passage  for 
Europe.  They  travelled  in  England,  Scotland,  Ireland,  France, 
Italy,  the  Tyrol,  Switzerland,  Germany  and  Belgium. 

'  Blake,  "Ward  &  Co.,  Blake,  Howe  &  Co.,  aud  Blake,  Brothera  &  Co. 


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1877.]  Sicetch  of  John  Merrill  Bradbury.  3C9 

In  Lonilon  tlicy  met  liis  friciul  and  corrospondcnt,  the  late  Il,,r:i- 
tiu  G.  fciuini-ihy,  Kmi.,  like  liiiii.«^elf  a  native  of  New Liiry port,  wlio 
was  of  niucli  assisfanec  in  dircctin^^  them  to  the  points ' (,f  in'tere.st 
to  be  vi<itc(l,  and  in  whose  society  tliey  6[)cnt  many  plea^-int 
evenings  duiin.^c  their  stay  in  that  city.  Soon  after  x\Ir.  jiradl.iiry'd 
arrival,  he  obtained,  throu-h  ^Mr.  .Someiby,  a  reader's  tirlu-t  at 
the  British  Museum,  and,  at  a  Jattr  period,  to  the  department  of 
Literary  Inquiry  in  the  principal  registry  of  Jler  Majesty's  Cnirt  of 
Probate,  connuonly  called  Doctors'  Commons.  After  he  had  bec-.m.; 
weary  with  sight-seeing,  he  spent  much  time  in  liistoricul  and 
genealogical  research  at  these  two  institutions. 

A\  hdc  at  Ivondon  he  made  several  excursions  into  the  country, 
particularly  to  places  where  his  ancestors  had  lived  or  which  had^l 
epecial  interest  ibr  Americans.  He  mentions,  in  his  early  letters  to 
the  writer  of  this  notice,  visits  to  Boston  in  Lincoln-hire,  for  which 
our  own  city  was  named,  Wieken-Bonant  and  Newport  in  Essex,  and 
Croydon  in  .Surrey.  He  early  visited  Wicken-Bonant,  where  hi.^ 
cangiant  ancestor  is  supposed  to  have  been  born.  In  a  letter  dated 
London,  October  1J.I,  I6ti8,  he  writes: 

"  Mv  visit  to  Wicken-Bonant  was  the  pleasantest  experience  I  have  liad  in 
i^ngland.  The  rector  was  away  on  a  vacation,  and  I  did  not  therefore  .^fC 
the  registers  which  wouM  have  been  a  irratification,  and  I  was  indehted  to 
the  churchwarden's  ^  ife  for  admission  to  the  church.  You  are  funiihar  with 
its  appearance,  both  before  and  after  restoration,  from  the  photo^raplis  I 
have  shown  you.  It  is  a  small  church  still,  and  the  addition  made  to  its 
length  by  Mr.  Sperlmg,  the  late  rector,  has  not  improved  its  proportions. 
Ut  course  the  surfaces,  internal  and  eiternal,  are  new,  and  there  is  not!un<' 
to  remmd  the  vi.sitor  of  its  age  excei-t  a  mural  tablet  iu  the  chancel,  date  .If 
lOJ/,  and  the  square  font  standing  on  live  square  supports,  which  is  a  veri- 
table piece  of  antiquity.  Undoubtedly  Thomas  Bradbury  [baptized  Feb. 
^8,^1610-11,  supposed  to  be  the  emigrant]  was  baptized  at  tfiis  font. 

"  From  the  church  our  conductress  guided  us  to  the  '  Brick  Ifou^e,' 
where  we  were  most  cordially  received  by  it5  proprietor,  Mr.  John  Poliitt. 
lie  took  us  through  the  old  mansion,  pointing  out  the  alterations  and  addi- 
tions which  had  been  made,  giving  us  its  traditions  and  history.  He  also 
showed  us  over  the  grounds,  which  are  well  laid  out  and  nicelv  kept,  and 
took  us  to  points  where  we  could  get  the  best  views  of  the  house  and  its 
surroundings,  as  well  as  the  village  generally.  "VVe  dined  with  him,  and 
received  his  most  assiduous  attention  during  the  whole  time  of  our  stav — 
more  than  four  hours." 

On  the  1-Sth  of  November,  1868,  he  left  London,  and  the  same 
evening  arrived  at  Paris,  where  he  remained  till  the  following  spring, 
and  then  returned  to  London.  In  a  letter  from  that  citv,  dated  Feb. 
18,  1869,  he  writes: 

"I  find  Paris  a  very  pleasant  city  to  live  in.  It  is  a  complete  contrast  to 
London  in  being  a  light  and  cheertui  place.  If  vou  wish  lo  lind  here  the 
dinginess  of  even  the  besc  streets  of  London,  you  will  have  a  long  hunt  for 
It.  The  building  material  here  is  a  iighr.-buff  colored  stone,  which  darkens 
very  little  by  age,  and  of  which  the  fiesh  surface  is  elegant.  It  i^  so  soft 
VOL.  XXXI.  33* 


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370  SJcetch  of  Jolm  Merrill  Bradbury.  [Oct. 

when  first  quarrierl  that  it  is  very  easily  wrought  into  the  minutest  architectural 
details,  and  conscq'iciitly  atlonls  scope  for  ornamentation  not  to  ho  found  in 
grarnte  or  even  in  the  softest  freestone  i»st;(l  at  homo.  The  emheilishini  iit 
is  all  done  after  the  walls  of  the  huildini;  are  up,  and  it  is  interestin:^  to 
ohserve  how  rapidly  a  souihre  jail-like  fiunt  with  heavy  angular  projections 
and  euvernous  window-openings  is  transfurtned,  mider  the  ehisels  of  the 
Btone-workors,  into  a  graceful  and  elegant  exterior.  Boston  can  never 
indulge  in  this  sort  of  architecture,  as  a  material  so  soft  and  fiialde  would 
not  stand  the  frosts  of  half  a  dozen  New  England  winters.  One  matter  of 
complaint,  by  those  interested  iu  the  historical  localities  of  Paris,  is  the  fre- 
quent and  needless  change  of  street  names." 

On  the  31st  of  Auf^st  he  again  left  liondon  on  a  hrief  tour. 
After  travelling  a  few  weeks  in  Ireland  and  Scotland,  he  returned 
to  Enghmd,  arriving  in  York  on  t!ie  23d  of  September.  As  seve- 
ral of  the  early  i:ettlers  of  Ej^sex  County,  Mass.,  from  whom  lie 
was  descended,  came  from  Yorkshire,  he  remained  here  nearly  a 
week,  employing  much  of  his  time  in  genealogical  research,  making 
abstracts  of  wills  and  extract;  from  the  transcripts  of  the  registers  of 
the  various  parishes  in  the  diocese  deposited  there.  Of  the  latter 
he  gives  this  description  :  "  The  transcripts  are  on  separate  rolls  of 
parchment  about  six  inches  long,  and  in  size  from  a  stick  of  cinna- 
mon to  a  man's  wTist.  The  rolls  are  tied  up  together  in  ar.nual 
bundles,  and  look,  at  first  sight,  very  much  like  packages  of  kind- 
ling stuff.  In  the  bundle  for  1631,  there  are  perhaps  a  hundred 
and  fifty  rolls,  most  of  which  had  to  be  partially  unrolled  to  find 
the  name  of  the  parish  to  which  they  belonged,  the  indorsement 
being  illegible."  From  York  he  went  to  Hull,  and  also  visited 
other  places  in  the  county  which  had  a  genealogical  interest  for  him. 
On  his  way  back  to  London,  he  spent  one  day  at  Oxford. 

The  following  winter  he  visited  the  continent.  In  a  letter  from 
Naples,  dated  Feb.  6,  1870,  he  writes  : 

"  I  have  been  in  Naples  over  three  weeks,  enjoying  its  delightful  scenery 
and  indulging  quite  freely  in  the  '  dolce  for  niente.'  My  excursions  thus 
far  have  been  to  Vesuvius,  which  I  ascended  to  the  crater  of  IS 63,  at  the 
foot  of  the  cone,  but  did  not  attempt  the  cone  itself;  to  Pompeii,  which 
would  well  repay  a  dozen  visits :  to  Puteoli,  where  are  the  ruins  of  an 
Amphitheatre,  in  which  the  seats,  the  arena  and  the  substructious  are  all 
well  preserved ;  to  the  Lake  of  Avernus  and  to  Baice.  The  drive  along  the 
shores  of  the  bay,  from  BaicC  to  Naples,  atfords  the  tinest  views  of  mountain 
and  ocean  scenery  blended  that  I  have  ever  seen  or  expect  to  see." 

In  the  same  letter  he  mentions  a  visit  to  Eome,  where  he  spent  a 
fortnight,  and  which  he  intended  to  visit  again.  The  next  letter 
that  we  received  from  him  was  dated  ''Brigliton,  England,  Dec. 
19,  1870,"  and  gave  an  account  of  a  lameness  which  had  come 
upon  him  the  previous  spring.  At  first  he  had  supposed  it  to  be  a 
sprain,  but  it  was  something  more  serious  and  resulted  in  the  loss 
of  his  foot.  The  letter  exhibits  a  marked  characteristic  of  the  writer 
— his  uncomplaining  disposition  and  sclf-forgetfulness.     Though  he 


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liad  experienced  extreme  sufTerin£(  for  months,  no  allusion  to  this  id 
made;,  and  tliorc  is  not  ti  word  of  coinplaint. 

lie  returned  to  this  country  in  duly,  1871,  aud  resided  in  l»o-ton 
till  the  next  p[)ring-,  when  he  purchased  an  estate  in  I|)>\vich,  \vh(  re 
he  resided  till  his  death,  llis  residence  was  near  the  tfunuuit  of 
Tosvn-Hill,  from  which  the  fine  view  is  obtained  which  his  friend, 
the  Rev.  Mr.  Na^ou,  paints  in  such  vivid  colors.'  Here  he  died  ou 
Tuesday  morninu:,  March  21,  187G,  in  his  fifty-eighth  year,  lca\in',' 
a  widow  hut  no  children.  ^ 

jNIr.  liradlnuy  was  admitted  a  resident  member  of  the  \ew  I^ri2-- 
land  Historic,  Genealogical  Society,  April  11,  1853,  and,  in  1^(;.>,  Ik; 
made  himself  a  life-member.  From  18G3  to  l8f>7  he  served  o)i  the 
Committee  on  Finance,  and  from  18G7  to  1870  was  one  of  the 
I'onrd  of  Directors.  In  1860,  his  eminent  fitness  for  the  position 
induced  the  nominating  committee  to  tender  him  the  office  of  Treas- 
urer, and  he  took  the  matter  into  consideration,  but  finally  decided 
that  he  would  not  have  the  requisite  leisure  to  perform  the  duties  of 
the  office.  lie  was  also  a  member  of  the  Prince  Society  of  lioston, 
and  the  Essex  Institute  of  Salem. 

The  portrait  vrhich  illustrates  this  memoir  is  engraved  from  a 
photograpli  taken  in  London,  Eng.,  in  1871,  just  before  his  return 
to  this  countiy.  The  likeness  is  an  excellent  one,  though  the  portrait 
would  have  a  more  familiar  look  to  casual  acquaintances  had  i!ie 
photograph  borne  the  spectacles  Avhich  Mr.  Bradbury  usually  wore. 

In  his  will  he  left  one  thousand  dollars  to  his  native  city,  fur  the 
benefit  of  its  library,  and  two  thousand  dolla/s  and  certain  stock 
securities  to  the  Xew-England  Historic,  Genealogical  Society.  The 
bequests  to  the  city  of  Xewburyport  and  to  this  society  have  botii 
been  funded,  and  designated  "  The  Bradbury  Fltn'd." 

In  regard  to  the  legacy  to  this  society,  Charles  AV.  Tuttle,  Esq., 
on  reporting,  June  7,  1876,  resolutions  of  respect  to  the  memory  of 
our  benefactor,  said  :  "  This  is  the  largest  unconditional  bequest  yet 
made  to  the  society  ;  and  it  places  the  name  of  Mr.  Bradbury  among 
the  worthiest  of  our  benefactors."  ^ 

Mr.  Bradbury  had  made  extensive  collections  for  a  genealogy  of 
the  Bradbury  family,  and  it  was  his  intention  to  publish  a  book  on 
the  subject  had  his  health  been  restored  sufficiently  for  him  to  do  so. 
The  manuscript  is  now  in  the  possession  of  his  family.  One  object 
of  his  visit  to  Europe  v.as  to  add  to  the  alreadv  extensive  collections 
concerning  the  Enghsh  families  of  this  name,  which  he  then  pos- 
eessed  through  his  own  research  and  that  of  his  friend,  yir.  >>nn- 
erby.     After   his   return   to  this  country,   and  especially  during  \\ii 

'  Dean's  "  Memoir  of  Nnthaniel  Ward,"  pape  87. 

*  The  cliinse  of  his  wii!  rnakiii^'  the  he.iuo.<t  is  ;is  fullows: 

"Toche  >'ew  England  Hi>toric,  Genealogical  Societv,  now  iocattd  at  No.  IS  Sumerset 
Street,  Boston,  I  give  the  sum  of  two  thoiibtind  dollars^  and  also  all  ny  shares  [l.'-5  >hjres] 
in  the  xLiistin  City  Water  Company." 

The  resolutions  paised  Ji:ne  7,  1376,  are  printed  in  the  Register,  voJ.  xxxi.  page  121. 


....•..( 


372  8hetch  of  John  Merrill  Bradbury.  [Oct. 

residence  in  Ipswich,  he  spent  much  time  in  investi^jating  the  ^f:x\r., 
nlogy  of  the  I'uadburjs  and   other  Essex  County  families!     II?  wh 
very  t-ucccesful  in  these  researches,   for  he  possessed  the  qualities  of 
mind  whieii  ensure  success  in  such  pursuits.      The  facts  thus  obtained 
were  g-cnerously  furnisiicd   to   those   interested,  and  some  were  con- 
tributed tu  the  pajres  of  tlie   Regi.steij.      One   article  from  his  pen 
on  "The  Iknnet  Family  of  Ipswich,"  appeared  in   the  nund>er  for 
April,  1875,  and  a  small  edition  of  it  in  j.aniphlet  furm  was  reprint- 
ed for   private  circulation.     Another  article  by  him,  entitled  "The 
AVhitgifc-Biadbury  Family,"  had   been  printcMi  in  the  July  number 
for  IbGl),  while  he  was  in  England.     His  other  contributions  are,  a 
memoir  of  Horatio   Gates   Somerby,    published   Julv,  1874,  and'  a 
number  of  shorter   articles.     All    I'd.s  communications  to  this  work 
bear  the  characteristics  of  his  mind  so  well  described  by  Charles  ^\^ 
Tuttle,  Esq.  :  '•'  He  was  methodical  in  his  investigations,  and  aimed 
to  discover  the  truth.     Nothing  was  taken  for  granted.    He  demanded 
proof  for  every   statement,  and  was  unwearied  in  hunting   for  the 
scattered  evidence  of  almost  forgotten  occurrences.    ...   His  mind 
was  clear,  discriminating  and  inquisitive,  which  led  him  to  investirrate 
fully  whatever  he  thought  worth  knowing.      Accuracy  was  a  htbit 
of  his  life."  ' 

jMr.  Tuttle  has  written  for  us  the  following  reminiscences  of  his 
friend  : 

"  I  became  acquainted  with  the  late  Mr.  Bradburv  while  I  was  livinrr  ia 
Newburyport  about  twenty  years  ago.  Plis  iiitefligence,  frankness,  °ind 
gentle  manners  attracted  me  to  him  at  once;  and  I  saw  much  of  him  after 
I  came  to  Boston  where  he  was  then  liviiicr, 

"  While  he  was  ftmiliar  with  a  wide  ran^e  of  sul^jects,  beint^  a  constant 
reader,  there  were  two  on  which  he  most  freqnentl\  discoursed  wuh  mp. 
Of  astronomy  lie  had  considerable  knowled^re,  havint^  been  drawn  to  tliat 
science  by  his  early  fondness  for  matfiematics.  He  watched  its  pro-rress 
with  more  than  ordinary  interest,  and  was  acquainted  with  the  names' and 
discoveries  of  tlie  great  observers  throughout  the  world. 

"  But  his  chief  delight  and  interest  were  in  the  history  and  antiquities  of 
JNew  England.  He  had  a  keen  relish  for  antiquarian  research,  and  never 
lost  an  opportunity  to  a<ld  to  his  stock  of  tliis  kind  of  information.  He  was 
as  familiar  as  one  could  well  be  with  the  local  history  of  both  banks  of  the 
Merrimac  River  where  the  early  settlements  were  made.  His  ancestors 
for  six  and  seven  generations  had  lived  and  died  there,  and  he  knew  the 
history  of  each  generation  with  marvellous  accuracv  and  fulness.  He  had 
gathered  local  traditions  and  examined  ancient  reco'rds  till  he  was  master  of 
the  history  and  genealogy  of  all,  or  nearly  all,  the  old  families  between 
Haverhill  and  Plumb  Idand. 

"  In  these  researches  he  was  careful  and  exact  bevond  any  one  I  ever  knew. 
A  result  was  carefully  weighed,  and  only  the  highest  degree  of  n'-obabie 
evidence  would  satisfy  him  of  its  being  true.  Tufs  fastidiousness,  the  con- 
sequence of  mathematical  training,  prevented  his  quickly  arriviD-^  at  results 

•  Obituary  in  the  Netcburyport  Berald. 


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] 87 7.1  Sketch  of  John  Merrill  Bradbury.  373 

satisfactory  to  him,  and  giving  to  the  world  many  things  he  had  undertaken. 

A  riteiitivc  and  evuct  DK-mory  i^reaLly  facilitated  his  invo>tigationb. 

♦•While  in  Eii,!,d:iti(l,  and  sutlering  from  severe  htmeiiess,  he  io\\w\  time  to 
write  several  letters  giving  me  iidorr.iatioii  which  he  liad  copied  from  an- 
cient record.^,  of  persons  of  my  surname  who  hud  died  there  in  the  fon;  part 
of  the  seventeenth,  century,  and  telling  me  of  his  wui.dering.s  in  that  merry 
land.  These  letters  show  how  ardently  he  was  pursuing  his  inquiries  and 
how  thoroughly  he  was  enjoying  his  raraldes  among  the  venerable  anticpiities 
of  EnLilandrespeoially  any  connected  with  our  New  England  forefaflw.rs. 

"]\fr.  Bradbury  was  a  man  of  large  practical  common  sense.  Tliere  was 
no  petty  jealousy  in  his  composition.  He  was  serene  under  all  cireuin- 
stanees.  He  loved  peace,  and  minded  his  own  affairs.  I  remember,  with 
mingled  feelings  of  pleasure  and  sadness,  how  cheerful  and  happy  he  was  in 
his  pleasant  home  in  Boston  where  he  always  was  when  not  at  his  otlice; 
how' he  made  every  one  welcome  there,  and  how  like  a  benediction  his 
politeness  and  hospitality  were.  I  am  sure  all  who  had  the  pleasure  of  his 
acquaintance  revere  his  memory." 

TrilllamL.  Faxou,  :M.D.,  of  Quincy,  Mass.,  under  wliose  care 
he  spent  some  time  for  medical  treatment  in  the  summer  of  1875, 
writing  of  Mr.  Bradbury's  residence  in  his  fomily,  thus  refers  to  his 
love  of  astronomy  : — 

"  He  read  works  on  astronomy  during  the  day,  and  at  night  watched  the 
Btars.  The  heavens  were  familiar  to  him,  and  he  knew  the  constellations  as 
he  knew  the  faces  of  the  intimate  friends  of  his  boyhood.  Several  young 
persons  visited  me  during  the  time  that  Mr.  Bradbury  was  here,  and  to 
them  he  was  very  cordial,  and  always  endeavored  to  lead  them  to  contem- 
plate the  stars,  saying  often  that  nothing  so  lifted  our  minds  above  the  cojes 
of  earth." 

The  Rev.  Elias  Nason,  author  of  the  "  Memoir  of  Mrs.  Susan- 
nah Rovvson,"  and  other  works,  furnishes  us  with  these  recollections 
of  his  jersonal  appearance  and  mental  characteristics  : 

;  "In  person  Mr.  Bradbury  was  of  medium  height,^  compactly  built,  and 
capable,  one  would  suppose,  of  enduring  great  physical  exertion.  His  step 
was  slow  and  steady,  his  whole  bearing  dignified  and  manly.  In  his  con- 
versation he  was  subdued  and  quiet,  always  speaking  modestly,  correcdy 
and  to  the  point.  His  head,  according  to  the  phrenologists,  was  evenly 
formed,  no  undue  prominence  being  observable  in  any  organ.  His  l>row 
was  fair  and  ample,  his  eye  somewhat  deeply  set,  and  his  lip  expre-siye. 
He  had  the  appearance  of  a  solid,  substantial  and  equable  Englishman.  ^  Of 
the  present  literati  of  our  country,  few  men  had  a  more  ample  fund  ot  in- 
formation, and  of  bibliographical  anecdote  and  facetia^  he  was  very  fond.  His 
criticisms  on  men  and  books  were  very  keen,  and  should  have  been  recorded. 
Ko  man  could  spend  an  hour  with  him  without  receiving  some  new  thought 
or  some  fresh  inspiration.  His  memory  was  retentive,  hoMmg  its  hoarded 
tieasures,  each  in  its  proper  place,  most  clearly  and  distin«'tly,  so  that  hia 
statements  were  exact  .and  true.  His  language  was  correct  and  clear,  though 
not  imaginative,  and  his  smile  was  gentle  as  the  suubeaoi.     His  fnenUs   re- 

'  His  pa-ssport  famishes  this  description  of  him :  "  Stature,  -5  fjet  S  iucncs.  Erc'i'^; 
Foreiu-ad,  medium;  Eve?,  hazel  [more  correcriy,  dirk  prey];  Nose,  sniad:  M<jatli, 
niedium;  Chin,  small;  Hair,  bro\vn;  Comphxioa,  dark;  face,  oval."— J.  w.  d. 


374  Sketch  of  John  Merrill  Bradbury.  [Oct. 

gret  that  he  wrote  so  little;  but  his  generous,  lovtn«T,  unaffected  character 
aud  ft'liowship  s\ill  always  Lc  to  iheui  a  bcuediction." 

IMrs.  Bradbury,  at  our  request,  has  written  some  interesting 
particulars  concerning  her  husband,  with  which  wc  chjae  thid 
sketch  ; 

"  From  my  earliest  acquaintance  with  Mr.  Eradbury  I  noticed  a  particular 
diffidence.  AVheii  meetinL,'  with  stramjers,  he  wouM  be  very  reticent  and 
retiring  ;  on  the  contrary,  when  witli  familiar  friends,  he  was  ever  kind,  genial 
and  communicative,  so  that  the  remark,  '  On'j  cannot  be  in  your  husbauil's 
society  one  half  hour  witiiout  learning  something,'  has  often  been  made  to  me. 
Yet  he  was  very  unobtrusive,  and  would  always  listen  to  conversation  rather 
than  seek  to  attract  attention  by  his  own  remarks.  Mr.  Bradbury  formed 
strong  attachments  to  those  whom  he  knew  intimately — some  who  were  his 
schoolmates,  and  others  whose  acquaintance  he  made  at  a  later  period.  At 
home,  he  was  uniformly  pleasant,  and  though  quiet,  there  was  a  certain 
preseiice  about  him  tliat  lent  a  charm  to  his  society ;  and  now  that  he  ha3 
left  this  earthly  dwelling  for  the  one  all  enduring  in  the  briglit  world  be- 
yond, may  his  pure  sinrit  find  the  rest  and  peace  denied  him  here. 

"In  the  tou'u  in  which  Mr.  Bradbury  made  his  home  during  the  last  years 
of  life  he  was  thought  to  be  a  man  of  uncommon  culture,  and  secured  the 
respect  of  high  aud  low.  He  would  often  converse  with  persons  in  the  lower 
walks  of  life,  and  while  they  were  pleased  with  the  attention,  he  was  solicit- 
ing from  them  some  simple  facts  relating  to  the  quaint  traditions  of  the  early 
settlers,  which  added  greatly  to  his  well-filled  store,  and  were  like  apples  of 
gold  to  his  antiquarian  taste.  He  had  an  innate  love  for  old  things — old 
papers,  books,  letters,  old  friends,  old  associations,  all  were  infinitely  more 
congenii\l  to  him  than  anything  of  a  novel  nature. 

"  While  abroad,  Mr.  Bradbury  enjoyed  frequent  visits  to  those  grand  old 
libraries  scattered  throughout  the  land  where  Shakespeare  lived  and  sung; 
neither  were  his  researches  confined  to  libraries,  but  he  loved  to  visit  the 
Rolls  of  ice  and  linger  over  pages  of  old  manuscripts  to  which  he  had  access 
through  the  kindness  of  friends.  It  was  a  severe  trial  to  him,  when  he 
became  an  invalid,  to  have  to  give  up  many  cherished  plans  which  he  had 
formed,  and  in  which  he  took  such  deep  interest;  but  he  bore  this  great  dis- 
appointment with  a  noble  and  courageous  spirit.  While  in  England,  Mr. 
Bradbury  visited  with  true  pride  the  fine  old  family  mansion  of  his  fore- 
fathers, the  present  occupant  being  a  truly  liberal  hearted,  hospitable  man, 
who  with  his  pleasant  family  made  our  visit  a  red  letter  day  in  our  sojourn 
in  the  old  country. 

"  Mr.  Bradbury  did  not  publish  much,  but  the  style  of  his  writing  was 
clear  and  scholarly.  His  memory  for  dates  was  quite  remarkable  ;  seldom 
if  ever  did  he  err  in  a  question  of  statistics.  He  applied  himself  to  business 
early  in  life,  rarely  if  ever  resting  for  a  short  vacation.  The  clock  would 
often  strike  the  miilni:jht  hour  before  he  reached  his  home.  He  early 
formed  habits  of  industry  in  regard  to  reading  and  ■studying.  When  at 
leisure  he  was  always  engaged  with  his  book,  or  intent  on  some  problem 
in  mathematics,  or  iri  research  of  some  kind.  His  mind  was  evei*  active, 
even  after  sickness  had  laid  its  paralyzing  hand  upon  him.  His  ta,-ie  in 
regard  to  reading  was  of  a  high  order.  He  was  much  impressed  with 
poems  of  a  rich  imagery.  '  Thanatopsis  '  was  always  a  favorite  with  hini, 
and  he  never  tired  of  the  sweet  flowinij  strains  of  *  Lvcidas.'     One  of  the 


•J'J--I 


1877.]  Papers  in  Case  of  Guy  vs.  King.  375 

last  poems  he  read,  wliich  seemed  almost  like  prophecy,  was  the  beautiful 
though  bud  one  of  Mrs.  Browning,  '  He  givtjth  liis  Beloved  Sluop.'  Ho 
seemed  to  dwell  upon  those  words  as  if  there  was  iu  them  a  kind  of  promise, 
a  cotisolation,  whicli  to  one  who  had  so  long  heeu  deprived  of  tliat  'sweet 
restorer,'  seemed  to  assure  him  of  a  rest  fur  llie  worn  sfiirit  in  anoilicr  and 
better  world.  There  is  no  shadow  of  duiil)t  that  liu  fully  realized  liis  situa- 
tion, though  he  never  expressed  a  thought  relative  to  it  except  once,  during 
his  sickness,  wlien  he  alluded  to  some  souvenir  he  wished  to  be  given  to  a 
friend.  I  treated  it  as  a  consequent  effect  of  his  disease,  a  kind  of  depres- 
sion, and  did  not  regard  it.  fur  I  tidly  believed  he  would  rally  and  be  again 
restored  to  us;  but  this  was  a  fatal  delusion  ! 

"In  respect  to  Mr.  Bradbury's  belief,  he  was  never  a  member  of  any 
church,  but  he  was  a  most  practical  christian.  He  always  kept  the  Sabbath 
strictly,  and  was  almost  severe  in  his  ideas  of  honesty  and  truthfulness. 
He  could  not  endure  a  person  upon  whose  word  you  could  not  depend, 
I\Ir.  Bradbury  had  a  very  correct  taste  for  music,  and  practised  some  on  the 
piano  with  a  refined  and  sensitive  appreciation.  As  he  was  never  a  singer, 
his  prnctioe  was  entirely  instrumental. 

'•It  was  a  mysterious  Providence  that  prostrated  Mr.  Bradbury  in  the 
prime  of  life.  Enjoying,  as  he  did  from  his  youth,  a  high  state  of  health, 
who  could  have  looked  for  such  a  fatal  termination,  who  could  have  pro- 
phesied for  him  this  sudden  surrender  to  a  fell  disease?  But  now  that  ho 
has  passed  away,  may  the  sweet  influences  of  his  truly  christian  cliaracier 
help  us  to  imitate  his  virtues,  that  we  may  hope  to  meet  him  in  those 
mansions  above,  which  in  the  words  of  Holy  Writ  are  said  to  bo  prepared 
for  us." 


PAPERS  IN  CASE  OF  GUY  VS.  KING. 

Communicated  by  Hexrt  F.  Waters,  A.B.,  of  Salem,  Mass. 

THE  following  documents  are  copied  from  Essex  County  Court 
Papers,  Book  i),  Leaf  45,  dec. 

Memorandum  this  G"'  May  1653  that  I  Danell  Kinge  of  Becomfeld  in  tlio 
County  of  Buckes  being  bound  for  New  England  have  Rec.  ot  my  co-en 
TViUiara  Guy  A  parcell  of  goods  amounting  to  the  valew  of  tFortey  tlivo 
pounds,  ffourtene  shillings  nine  pence  starling  mony  which  goo(b  1  have 
Rec:  upon  the  account  of  Guy  as  an  Adventure  by  him  proniiseii.g  ti)  '.-.-e 
my  outmost  indeuor  for  the  sale  of  the  aforesaid  goods — and  lo  n.uke  ii.m 
returnes  by  Chrismas  next  if  they  safely  arrive  iu  the  Harbor  of  J>')-''-n  m 
New  England  they  being  now  sliipt  abord  in  the  Nue  England  >uer'-haut, 
to  which  pray  God  blesse  the  Good  Ship  to  the  appointed  llar'oor  "NN  itues 
my  hand  the  day  aboue  written.  Subscribed  Daniel!  King  Under  is  wnttcu 
Ja°  "Wyatt.     Dauid  Siudry.     Digorey  Carwitheu  blaster 

vera  copia  Fred^  Reire  Not  pub"" 

1658 


37 G  Papers  in  Case  of  Guy  vs.  King.  [Oct. 

Bostown  this  14  of  Auc^st  165S  These  presents  Wittnes  that  I  Danlell 
Kii);^  of  Lin  Sener  dot;  akno\vle(li;o  th;it  C:i[)t  Jii"  Peirce  Coruimder  of  the 
81ii|)  Kxclianf^  hiitli  lieue  with  mee  ami  dtimamled  of  uiee  a  de.bt  of  aboutt 
forty  fine  pounds  wliich  my  sone  Dariiell  did  Receive  in  goods  of  M'  Wfii 
Guy  of  Ivondon:  haberdaslier:  and  my  Answer  is  that  my  sone  Daniidl  is 
gone  to  burbados  and  liath  carried  with  Ijim  goods  in  order  to  the  making 
the  Ketturne  much  more  then  I  can  judge  will  Balhince  that  ace".  And  [ 
hope  eitlier  by  this  time  or  very  sudeuly  hee  will  Retturne  a  satisfacktory 
ace":     This  is  all  I  haue  to  answer  att  present 

Wittnes  my  hand        Damell  King  : 
"Wittness 

Lancellot  tlletcher 

Ephraim  Turuor 

Loudon  the  8"'  of  Aprill  1GC3  "Wee  whose  names  are  heere  underwrit- 
ten beeinge  at  this  time  servauts  to  ^P  Richard  Bates  with  Will.  Guy 
Daniell  Kinge  .Junior — beeinge  bound  for  new  Inglaud  came  to  visit  his 
kinsman  Guy  &  uppou  discourse  coneerniuge  y"  Cuntry  trade  Guy  prolP.rr- 
ed  to  Adventure  some  goods  by  him,  hee  presently  tould  him  what  comoditis 
would  bee  best  for  y*^  place,  and  turne  to  y"  best  Accompt,  as  he  verrily 
belcived,  uppou  which  without  any  more  A  dooe,  theii-e  was  a  note  drawne 
by  Kings  order  what  goods  hee  would  have,  w'^''  weare  accordingly  bought 
&  packt  upp  &  delivered  to  y®  said  Kinge  to  his  good  likinge,  and  theiro 
was  such  seeminge  honesty  &  Honest  expressions  by  y^  said  Kinge  y'  lieo 
would  make  returne  y*^  next  shippinge  in  ould  Beavor  or  Bever  (Guy 
beeLnge  to  stand  to  all  Hassard  by  sea  y"*  goods  were  shipt  in  Cap  Kirwithies 
vessell)  y'  oure  maister  m"'  Bates  had  so  good  an  opinion  of  his  honesiy  y' 
hee  would  have  given  him  credit  for  above  as  much  more  And  for  v' 
goods  wee  saw  them  &  know  what  they  cost  and  doe  verrilie  beleive  theire 
was  not  one  penny  got  by  them  Havinge  often  heard  Guy  say  (wee  askinge 
him  what  hee  ment  too  sell  such  goods  as  hee  bought  w'*^  redy  mony  they 
beeinge  as  fresh  as  could  possibly  been  had)  hee  An?  .vered  the  profit  would 
bee  by  y*  retumes  the  truth  of  w*^^  wee  doe  alErme 

"Witness  oure  hands  y*  day  &  yeare  above  written  Johx  TVtatt 

Da:  SrxDRY 


from  Linn  in  New  England  Decemb'  the  23"^  1660 

Loueing  Cusden  After  Respeckts  prescented  these  earr  to  lett  you  under 
stand  that  yours  wee  have  receued  Return  you  Manny  thanks  for  your 
patiente  lines  But  beeing  much  troubled  that  wee  yett  cannot  Answer  your 
ends  According  to  your  expecktations  Manny  ways  wee  have  tryed  By 
Barbudoes  By  Bills  of  Exchange  »&  By  getting  of  Bever  for  you  But  as  yet 
canno'  proceure  anny  of  them  But  By  the  next  shepping  I  hoape  wee  shall 
find  out  some  way  or  other  wheerby  you  shall  haue  sattisfacktion  my  sonn 
Ralph  &  my  sonn  Blaenny  douth  Intend  if  pleas  god  the  Hue  «i  doe  well  to 
com  for  England  soe  hoaping  that  you  will  bee  pleased  to  Ad  one  mitt  of 
patience  unto  your  Abondaui^e  which  you  haue  had  soe 

Resting  &  Remaining  your  Euer  Loueing  xVnte  tell  Death 

Elizabeth  King 


:  ;.l:i-.y.' 
•       .    1   -A 


l(->>n<.v 


,   J.  n-      .    -liTUt!  "'.■'      •'T-uiuTT' 


..  .;  1   -i-.T 


1877.1  Battle  of  Lexington.  377 


LATTLE  OF  LEXIXGTOX, 

WITH    PERSOXAL    HKCOM-KCTIONS    OF    MKN    KNGAOKD    IN'    IT. 
By  Rev.  A.  B.  Mc/.zet,  of  Caml»ridge,  M.iss. 

HAVING,  from  my  earliest  child'iootl,  and  in  my  native  {dace, 
heard  the  story  of  the  opening,' scenes  of  the  lievukition  from 
the  lips  of  several  who  took  part  in  it,  and  known,  iiKne  or  less, 
many  others  of  them,  I  am  unwillini,^  tliat  tiieir  share  in  it  should 
be  lost  to  the  annals  of  that  day.  To  Lexington  and  Concord  be- 
longs the  honor  of  these  opening  scenes.  In  all  contem[»oraneous 
history'  Lexington  stands  as  the  ])lace  where  the  Hrst  resistance  v.as 
made  to  the  king's  troops,  and  Concord  as  the  place  where  they  met 
their  first  repulse  and  began  their  retreat.  Lexington,  by  her  band 
of  proto-martyrs,  led  the  determined  train  that  finally  threw  off  the 
Pa-iti^jh  yoke.'  "Too  few  to  resist,  too  brave  to  fioe,"  their  bloud 
was  the  seed  of  that  great  freedom-harvest  gathered  by  those  who 
came  after  them.  Their  service  was  little,  of  necessity,  in  a  mili- 
tary point  of  view,  but  in  a  national  and  political  aspect  its  import- 
ance was  inestimable. 

The  motives  of  the  colonists,  from  the  beginning,  were  high  and 
pure.  Their  pacific  spirit  was  seen  up  to  the  last  critical  and  deci- 
sive hour,  and  in  sight  of  an  invading  force.  Nothing  was  done  at;, 
that  moment  except  on  the  defensive.  In  view  of  the  threatening 
condition  of  the  country  a  military  company  had  been  formed  in 
Lexington,  under  Capt.  John  Parker.  It  had  loO  names  on  its  roll. 
]My  paternal  grandfather,  who  was  a  member  of  tliis  company,  and 
whose  name  stands  also  on  the  roll  of  five-months  men  at  Ticonde- 
roga  in  17 7G,  and  that  of  the  three-months  campaign  at  Cambridge 
in  1778,  was  apprehensive  of  an  approaching  conflict.  lie  had 
seen  a  few  men  riding  on  horseback  past  his  house  at  dusk  on  the 
evening  of  the  18th  ;  and  as,  beyond  the  waving  grass  of  that  pre- 
mature season,  the  wind  blew  tlieir  overcoats  open,  he  noticed  their 
uniforms  and  swords  underneath.  This  aroused  the  su.■^picion3  of 
the  people,  and  he,  with  another  man,  was  sent  early  the  next  morn- 
ing to  get  intelligence  of  any  movement  below  by  the  British  troops. 
He  stopped  in  Arlington,  then  Menotomy,  at  u  tavern  called  the 
"Black  Horse,"  kept" by  a  Mr.  AVetherby,  where  the  two  Provin- 
cial Committees  of  Safety  and  Supplies  usually  met.  A\  hde  there, 
the  enemy  arrived,  and'  my  grandfather  narrowly  escaped  being 
made  a  prisoner.  He  found  his  horse  let  loose  and  injured,  though 
not  disabkd.  At  a  later  hour  in  the  day,  r>Ir.  Samuel  AVhittemore, 
then  80  years  of  age,  who  married  my  great-grandmother,  was  shot, 
bayonetted,  and  left  for  dead;  but  he  was  afterwards  taken  to  the 
above  tavern,  and  finally  recovered  and  lived  to  the  age  of  ninety-six. 
VOL.  XXXI.  34 


'^ 


378  Battle  of  Lexington.         ^  [Oct. 

My  granJniother, — wlicu  the  British  troops,  600  grcnaJiers  junl 
li^ht  int'antry,  under  Li»;ut.  C.'ul.  Fraiioid  Smith  of  the  lOlii  J>iiii~li 
regiment,  and  ^laj.  John  Pitcairu  of  tlie  inarincd,  had  pa^-.-^ed  hi-r 
door  in  the  centre  of  Lexington  on  their  >vay  to  Concord, — left  the 
house,  taking  her  two  children,  my  father,  who  was  nine  years  old 
that  day,  and  his  hrother,  a  boy  of  four,  to  spend  the  dread  day 
■with  a  neighhor  and  friend.  A  foot  weary  soldier  had  fallen  behind 
the  column,  and,  as  the  sun  was  rising,  he  met  and  s.duted  my 
grandmother.  "  Good  morning,  madam  ;  the  king's  troops  are  pay- 
ing you  an  early  visit  this  morning."  Her  reply,  in  the  custom  of 
those  days,  was  from  Scripture,  in  the  language  of  the  elders  of  the 
town  of  Jk'thlehem,  who  met  Samuel,  and  "  trembled  at  his  com- 
ing." She  said,  "Come  ye  peaceably?"  Tlie  soldier  could  not 
reply,  as  the  prophet  did,  "Peaceably,"  but  said,  with  little  of  her 
re\crence,  "Ah,  madam,  yovi  have  carried  the  joke  rather  too  far 
with  his  ^Majesty." 

AVhcu  the  troops  returned  from  Concord,  they  entered  my  grand- 
father's house,  broke  a  large  mirror,  a  part  of  the  frame  of  which 
is  still  in  the  family,  and  demolished  the  "  beaufet,"  with  ita  contents 
of  valuable  crockery,  some  of  which  I  remember  seeing  in  my  boy- 
hood. ]My  grandfather  said,  "they  must  have  dressed  their  wound- 
ed there,  for  the  floor  had  stripes  of  blood  all  over  it,  as  if  a  pig 
had  been  stuck  and  dragged  around  the  room."  No  marvel  that, 
after  this  experience,  the  old  gentleman, — whose  life  "was  prolonged 
until  December  10,  1822,  he  then  dying  at  the  age  of  ^'2, — when, 
in  the  war  of  1812,  that  mere  "skirmish,"  as  he  called  it,  as  his 
memories  went  back  to  the  scenes  of  the  old  Revolution,  our  state 
government  located  a  depot  of  military  stores  at  Lexington  and 
almost  within  sight  of  our  own  door,  as  he  recited  the  story  of  the 
British  march  to  destroy  military  stores  at  Concord, — no  marvel  he 
made  the  boy,  like  himself,  tremble  with  apprehensions  for  this  new- 
depot.  For  the  regulars,  not  content  with  other  damage,  fired  at  his 
house,  either  before  reaching  or  after  leaving  it,  several  bullets,  one  of 
which  passed  through  a  partition,  on  which  I  often  gazed  from  the 
bed  in  my  childhood,  and  two  others  I  took  from  the  brick  lining  to 
our  walls  when  the  house  Avas  repaired  forty  years  afterward.  The 
British,  in  their  wantonness,  on  their  retreat,  and  when  reinforced, 
burned  three  houses  besides  a  barn  and  two  workshops  within  a  mile 
of  my  grandfatlier's.  They  also  set  fire  to  several  other  houses, 
and  pillaged  very  many  as  they  passed  on,  breaking  dours  and  win- 
dows, destroying  furniture,  and  carrying  away  clothing.  And  they 
took  the  lives  of  several,  and  in  modes  hardly  less  savage  than  those 
of  our  Xorth  American  Indians.  It  is  to  the  honor  of  our  pro- 
vincials that  they  oonmiitted  no  acts  of  barbarity,  ah.hough  charged 
in  foreign  accounts  with  all  manner  of  cruelties,  even  to  cold-blouded 
murder,  and  mutilating  and  scaqiing  tlieir  victims. 

The  forbearance  of  our  people  was  illuotrated  in  the  cool  and 


.,  I 


M.:    lUiuii 


1877.]  Battle  of  Lexington.  379 

pnident  conduct  of  Capt.  I'arker.  Fearing  lest  some  c»f  liin  men,  in 
their  oxcitciiiL'ut,  would  fii'e  prcuiaturely,  and  so  l)(;;iu  tlu;  cunt*'-!, 
he  ordered  tUcni  not  to  fire  unless  they  Merc  fired  upon  ;  inMii.i:, 
"but  if  thov  want  a  war,  let  it  lje_iriu  here.*'  As  the  little  huiid  of 
eixty  stood  before  tenfold  their  number  of  disciplined  troops,  :i  U-w 
of  them  naturally  lor  a  mouioiiL  faltcnxd.  Parker  ordeiid  evtrv 
man  to  "  stand  his  ;^round  till  he  bhould  order  him  to  V-.wv  it  ;  " 
and  added  that  he  \v(juld  "order  the  first  man  to  be  shot  down  who 
should  attempt  to  leave  his  post." 

I  often  heard  individuals,  \Yho  witnessed  the  scenes  of  that  mnt-n- 
ing,  describe  them  in  detail.  About  half  past  four  o'clock,  .M:.j. 
Pitcairn,  with  six  companies  of  light  infantry  and  marines,  rode  up 
on  the  right  of  the  meeting-house,  saw  Parker's  company,  which  war* 
just  forming  in  two  ranks,  and  ordered  them  to  disperse  ;  this  com- 
mand was  re[ieated,  and  it  not  being  obeyed,  he  fired  his  pistol  and 
brandished  his  sword.  Col.  Smith's  force  was  then  about  twelve 
rods  distant,  in  front  of  the  meeting-house  and  on  the  left  side  wf 
it.  Pitcairn  passed  up  the  l>edford  road  and  around  to  tlic  back  .>f 
the  meeting-house,  where,  by  his  command,  after  firing  over  th'? 
heads  of  our  men,  his  troops  fired  a  second  volley  and  killed  Jonas 
Parker,  Robert  Munroe,  Isaac  Muzzey  (a  kinsn-iun),  and  Jonathan 
Harrington.  Two,  Samuel  lladley  and  John  Brown,  fell  near  the 
Common.  Two  others  were  also  killed — Caleb  Harrington,  as  lie 
was  leaving  the  meeting-house,  and  Asahel  Porter,  an  esca[»(.'d  pris- 
oner, near  the  Common.  The  British  wounded  nine  others,  aii-l 
rushed  forward  to  bayonet  Parker's  men.  Jonathan  Harrinutoii 
fell  in  front  of  his  own  house  on  the  Common.  His  wife  saw  liiia 
fall,  and  then  start  np,  the  blood  gushing  from  his  breast ;  h'- 
stretched  out  his  hands  towards  her,  and  fell  again.  Itising  a  little, 
he  crept  across  the  road  ;  she  ran  to  meet  him  at  the  door,  but  he 
died  at  her  feet.  Four  of  the  company  went  into  the  meeting-hoiisc 
for  ammunition.  IlearinGr  the  dischare"e  of  jruns,  one  of  theni, 
Joshua  Simonds,  cocked  his  piece,  and  laid  down  by  an  open  ca.-K 
of  powder,  resolved  never  to  be  taken  living.  Jonas  Parker  w:'.s  a 
true  Eoman  hero.  He  had  often  said,  let  others  do  as  tlK\v  pha-.  d, 
he  would  never  run  from  the  British.  Having  loaded  his  mu-kct, 
he  placed  his  hat,  and  in  it  his  ammunition,  on  the  ground  betvv.rn 
his  feet.  He  was  soon  wounded  and  sunk  upon  his  kners  ;  and  in 
this  state  discharged  his  gun.  "While  loading  it  again,  aixl  siri\ui_: 
to  fire  once  more,  he  was  pierced  by  a  bavonet,  and  died  ai  he  had 
promised. 

From  the  little  one-storied  Xew  England  sehool-housc,  wh'.ih 
stood  a  few  yards  from  the  monument  erected  in  17!'l)  on  the  battle 
field,  anil  in  which  I  attended  school  until  I  left  home  to  pr«  pare 
for  college,  I  saw  day  after  day  the  old  Harrington  Ikuisc,  and  felt 
many  a  thrill  at  the  sad  tale  of  the  hero  and  uiartyr  who  once  .'ccu- 
pied  that  venerated  building. 


380  Battle  of  Lexington.  [Oct. 

Pitcaira  then  galloped  around  to  the  Concord  road  and  joined  Col. 
Siuuh.  The  eniiagcinent  hxi^ivA  aijout  half  an  hour,  ^vhcn,  after 
•riving  throe  huzza.-',  tlie  column  marched  toward  Concord.  Ahuiit 
the  middle  of  t!ie  forenoon,  ('apt.  Parker  collected  a  part  of  his 
company,  and  they  moved  bravely  toward  Concord  in  pursuit  of"  the 
Briti.-h. 

It  is  said  that  not  less  than  forty  unarmed  persons  witnessed  the 
engagement.  I  knew  individuals  too  young  to  bear  arms,  avIio  were 
on  the  Common  that  day,  at  a  greater  or  loss  distance  of  space  and 
time,  and  gave  tlieir  accounts  of  the  battle.  Levi  Harrington,  then 
in  his  (ifteouth  year,  was  quite  near,  and  testified  that  tlic  British 
fired  first.  Abijah  Harrington,  who  was  in  the  fourteenth  rear  of 
his  age  at  that  time,  when,  at  a  later  period,  it  was  douijted  whether 
our  men  returned  the  British  fire  at  all,  Avas  accustomed  to  sav,  "I 
was  on  the  spot  where  the  red-coats  stood,  after  the  battle  that  day, 
and  saw  in  one  place  a  large  i)Ool  of  blood."  He  himself  lived  to 
the  advanced  age  of  ninety-one.  His  testimony  was  confirmed  bv 
the  deposition  of  Elijah  Sanderson,  who  saw  blood  where  tlio  column 
stood  when  Solomon  P.rown  fired  at  them.  ;Mr.  Ptufus  MeiTiam, 
wdio  lived  until  ^May  7,  1847,  was  in  his  thirteenth  year  at  the  time  of 
the  battle.  Himself  and  family  were  near  neighbors  to  us,  and  he 
spoke  of  standing  on  the  door-steps  of  the  old  Buckman  house,  after- 
ward his  own  home,  and  seeing  the  British  column  coming  up  the 
road.  Some  of  our  men  were  firing  from  the  house,  when  ]Mr. 
Buckman  asked  them  to  stop,  as  it  led  the  British  to  fire  back. 
Certaia  loyalists  then  in  the  house  had  said,  ''  Oh,  they  won't  fire 
on  us,  for  we  are  their  friends."  Mr.  Buckman's  house  shows 
to-day  that  this  was  no  protection  ;  several  bullet  holes  are  still  to 
be  seen  tliere. 

A  British  officer  who  shared  in  the  expedition  that  day,  testified 
that  "a  man  of  the  10th  light  infantry  was  wounded  by  a  Yankee." 
Anothc:-  testified  that  ''Maj.  Pitcairn's  horse  was  grazed  bv  a  bullet, 
and  a  soldier  wounded  in  the  leg."  Some  British  prisoners  taken 
that  day,  said,  "  One  of  our  soldiers  was  wounded  in  the  thigh,  and 
another  received  a  shot  through  his  hand." 

It  will  be  recollected  that,  "through  the  night  of  April  IStli,  John 
Hancock,  who  was  a  grandson  of  the  minister  of  Lexington  of  that 
name,  and  Samuel  Adams,  were  at  the  house  of  Rev." Mr.  Clark, 
who  married  a  cousin  of  Jr.hn  Hancock.  These  two  patriots  had 
been  marked,  and  Avere  finally  proscribed  by  King  Georcrc,  whose 
first  order  was  that  "  they  be  sent  over  to  Englandfor  trial."  The 
second  orders  were  to  "  hang  them  in  Boston."  Xo  wonder  they 
sought  shelter  at  such  a  moment  among  kindred  and  friends. 
While  here,  they  were  Wid<ed  about  midnight  by  the  renowned  Paul 
Revere.  j\Ir.  Clark's  house,  not  far  north  of  the  Common,  was 
familiar  to  me  in  early  life.  Of  :\Ir.  Clark's  twelve  children  there 
were  two  of  whom  I  have  a  vivid  recollection  :   Elizabeth,  who  died 


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Dec.  5,  1843,  unmarried,  aged  80;  and  Sarah,  wlio  died,  also  un- 
marrled,  Jan.  2S,  J^!.j,  aged  GO.  They  pre^iofvcd  every  ohj.-ct  — 
the  old  room  u'hieh  Hancock  and  Adanid  had  occupied,  with  tlie 
table,  chairs  and  cn-fhions,  the  hiLrh  wainscotinLf,  iiard  pine  ll'n>r-j, 
and  even  tiie  dilapidated  pa[)er,  ^\ith  the  utmost  reverence.  'JIhv 
were  very  kind  to  us  children,  and  even  to  the  feline  sjji-iii -;,  miH.' 
of  which  I  once  saw  arranged  around  their  good  old  wide  iire-pla-c, 

AVhile  the  two  patriots  were  here  they  were  protected  I>v  a  'jniri! 
of  eight  mlruite-men  under  the  command  of  Sergeant  ^Villi:lm  .M'lu- 
roe.  Tiicy  were  ads  ised,  after  the  attiu-k  on  the  (JiMumon,  and  w  inii 
the  British  had  started  toward  Concord,  to  flee  f  )r  safety.  At  11. -t 
they  retired  to  a  hill  south-east  of  ^Lr.  Clark's,  then  and  still  p.irtiv 
covered  with  wood.  ^Vllilc  waiting  there  for  the  liritish  eolnnui  t't 
pass  on  toward  Concord,  the  almost  inspired  Adams,  standing  on 
n  rock  which  has  been  pointed  out  to  me  by  my  brother-in-l:'.\v. 
Gen.  Chandler,  who  owned  the  premises,  uttered,  as  the  sun  was 
ii  little  way  up,  that  immortal  sentence  :  "  What  a  glorious  nunn- 
ing  for  America  is  tlus  I  " 

I  often  heard  from  mv  ^rraudtattier,  one  of  whose  cousins  m.i.-- 
ried  Ebenezer  Fiskc,  from  whom  Fiske  Hill  received  its  name,  tiio 
history  of  the  encounter  at  that  place  between  James  Hay  ward  of 
Acton  and  a  British  soldier.  Hay  ward  left  his  father's  house  wiiii 
one  pound  of  povrder  and  forty  balls,  met  and  followed  the  liriii-h 
from  Concord  to  the  foot  of  Fiske  Hill,  and,  being  thirsty,  st<»pp.'  <1 
at  the  well  in  front  of  the  house.  xV  British  soldier,  who  was  in  tin; 
house  for  plunder,  saw  him,  stepped  to  the  door  and  aimed  his  pici-e 
at  him.  "  You  are  a  dead  man,"  said  one,  "  and  so  are  you,"  was 
the  reply.  Both  fired,  and  both  fell,  the  British  soldier  dead,  II  ly- 
ward  mortally  wounded.  The  ball  which  hit  him  passed  through  lii-' 
powder-horn  and  drove  the  splinters  into  his  body.  He  lingered 
eight  hours,  during  which  he  repeatedly  expressed  his  v/illingne-^  to 
die  in  defending  the  rights  of  his  country.  He  was  a  young  ni:in 
of  high  character,  and  died  at  the  age  of  twenty-live.  I  reealh.d  i!ie 
memorable  well  with  new  interest  April  19,  1835.  It  was  tliin, 
when  the  remains  of  the  martyr  soldiers  were  removed  from  the  <>id 
burying  ground  in  Lexington  and  placed  under  the  monuincnt,  tliat 
Edward  Everett,  the  orator  of  the  day,  exhibited  the  ]»owd.T-h'>rn 
worn  by  Hayward  in  that  deadly  encounter.  I  saw  the  hole  in  it 
made  by  the  bullet  which  killed  him,  and  was  glad  to  learn  tiiai  this 
venerated  relic  was  bequeathed  by  Mr.  Everett  to  the  town  ot 
Acton,  the  home  of  Hayward,  and  is  now  deposited  in  that  piaoe. 

It  will  be  remembered  that  a  reintbrcement  of  B^iti^^  tro.>[.>i,  a 
brigade,  consisting  of  three  regiments  of  intautry  and  a  detachment 
of  marines,  to  the  number  of  about  1200,  with  two  lieId-pic-\-j, 
under  Lord  Percy,  came  out  to  Lexington  in  the  after  part  of  the 
day,  and  met  the  force  of  Col.  Smith  about  half  a  n.ile  below  the 
village.      One  cannon  was  placed  on  an  eminence  near  the   ^luuroc 

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tavern,  the  other  on  a  hii^^h  point  near  the  fork  of  main  and  AVolniru 
routls.  On  this  hitter  .<put,  it  i.s  probable,  tiie  shot  was  fired  whieii 
Btnick  the  meeting-house  that  stood  aI)out  twenty  feet  north  of  that 
which  was  erected  afterward,  in  ITlJi,  passing  tliroiigh  or  near  the 
pulpit,  and  i'alling  at  the  door  of  one  of  Ca^t.  Parker's  companv, 
back  of  the  green  where  the  enemy  were  met.  'J'his  act  of  desecra- 
tion shocked  all  wlio  ever  saw  its  eftects.  The  liev.  Mr.  Morrill, 
of  Wilmington,  who  ju-eached  the  annual  sermon,  Ai)ril  19,  178U,' 
says  of  it :  "  Let  the  mark  of  Britisli  tyranny  made  in  th-  house  of 
God,  remain  till  time  itself  shall  consume  the  fabric  and  it  mouider.s 
into  dust."  I  recollect  seeing  this  cannon  ball  in  my  boyhood,  and 
I  shared  in  tlie  feeling  of  horror  at  the  tale  of  impiety  it  seemed  to 
tell. 

I  have  spoken  of  Capt.  Parker's  pursuit  of  the  British  on  their 
march  to  Concord.  One  of  his  company,  Jedediah  Munroe,  had 
been  wounded  in  the  morning,  but  the  heroic  man  was  not  stopped 
by  the  loss  of  blood ;  he  pushed  forward  with  the  company,  and 
fell  at  length  in  the  afternoon.  Another,  Francis  Brown,  .Sergeant 
of  the  company,  encountered  the  enemy  in  the  morning',  {oined  iiis 
comrades  on  the  march  to  Concord,  and"^ meeting  the  British  in  their 
flight  at  Lincoln,  received  a  very  severe  wound;  a  ball  entered  his 
cheek,  passed  under  his  ear  and  fodged  in  the  back  part  of  his  neck, 
where  it  remained  until  the  next  year.  But  still  the  brave  man 
commanded  the  company  in  1776,  and  survived  nearlv  twentv-five 
years.     He  died  Ajiril  -11,  1800,  aged  G2. 

The  provincials  were  charged  with  firing  only  from  behind  houses, 
trees,  and  stone  fences  ;  and  yet,  when  results  were  summed  up.  it 
appeared  that,  while  the  British  had  lost,  in  killed  and  wounded, 
273,  the  American  loss  was  93. 

^  Of  those  who  bore  arms  on  that  eventful  mor.iing,  a  number  sur- 
vived to  my  boyhood,  and  a  few  to  my  early  maShood.  I  recall 
several  of  those  honored  men.  There  was  the  venerated  Dr.  Joseph 
Fiske,  wdio  told  in  my  hearing  many  a  sad  story  which  would  draw 
tears,  of  his  sufferings  in  the  old  continental  army.  He  was  in  the 
sixth  campaign  in  177(3  at  Dorchester,  at  the  capture  of  Burgovne, 
the  surrender  at  Yorktown,  and  in  many  other  battles  ;  and  "was 
surgeon  during  almost  the  whole  Revolution.  He  was  one  of  the 
origmal  members  of  the  Society  of  Cincinnati,  and  had  a 'certificate, 
preserved  by  the  family,  signed  by  Wasidmrton  as  president  and 
Gen.  Knox  as  secretary.  He,  like  the  otirers,  carried  with  him 
something  of  the  moral  power  that  pervaded  the  ^reat  cause  thev 
so  nobly  defended.     He  died  Sept.  25,  1837,  xt.  85. 

I  remember  well  the  large  form  of  the  veteran  Col.  William  :^run- 
roe,  the  orderly  sergeant  of  Capt.  I'arker's  companv,  a  man  of  irravc 
and  determmed  aspect.  His  eldest  daughter  niarried  mv  uncle,  the 
boy  I  have  spoken  of  as  but  four  years  old  on  the  dav  of  the  battle. 
Often,  as  I  sat  by  his  side,  I  imagined  his  feehngs  when   he  drew 


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up  that  little  Laiul  on  the  Common.  He  was  a  man  of  few  words, 
Lul  i.hi;y  were  wi-c  and  wci-lity.  "\\''ell  educated  for  hi-*  tiiiK.-,  he 
was  a  thorough  master  as  well  as  reader  of  Shakspeare.  And  his 
moral  nature  stood  high.  Xo  profane  .sentence  ever  MuUied  W-^  llp^, 
anv  more  than  those  of  his  commander,  Sijrciy  t(Mnpted  tlmu-jh  tlu  v 
were  in  the  peril  and  excitement  of  that  hour.  \Vhat  a  coutra-t  did 
these  men  present  to  the  foul  language  of  2^Iaj.  Pitcairu  in  th-.t 
eccne,  "  Di^peree,  ye  rehcl-s"  repeated,  and  with  an  oath  <;i' !i 
time  !  We  are  struck  with  the  purity  of  the  men  in  gencnd  on  our 
side,  compared  with  the  rank  vices  tending  always  to  cluster  around 
the  camp,  and  grown  to  fearful  proportions  at  that  period  amonu' 
the  hireling  army  of  Gen.  Gage.  Col.  ^Nlunroe — he  was  a  col..n>l 
in  the  miUtia — was  honored  m  town,  being  nine  years  one  of  \U 
selectmen,  and  two  years  representative  in  the  legislature.  _Hc  was 
a  lieutenant  in  the  army  at  the  capture  of  Burgoyne  in  1777,  aii.i 
took  part  in  suppressing  the  Shays  rebellion.  He  kept  the  [puhiic 
house  known  as  '' Munroe  Tavern."  Here  the  _13ritish  stopp' .1  (;n 
their  retreat,  and  murdered  John  Raymond,  an  inoffensive  mm,  as 
he  was  leaving  the  house.  Here  Washington  dined  in  l^'^^'s  ••li.-.i 
he  visited   the^  battle-ground.     Col.   Munroe  died  Oct.   ol»,    l^-'J, 

«t.  85. 

Next  in  my  memory  is  Daniel  Harrington,  who  was  clerk  of  (apt. 
Parker's  compauv.  His  manly  form  and  long  white  locks  iinprtss- 
ed  me  deeply.  He  was  a  blacksmith  in  former  days;  and  m  the 
shop,  which  his  son  occupied  in  my  boyhood,  was  kept  the  six- 
pound  cannon-ball  fired  through  the  meeting-house.  Here  al.-o  was 
found  the  tongue  of  the  bell  Vhich  sounded  the  alarm  the  morning 
of  the  battle.  This  valuable  relic  was  obtained  from  ^h.  Harring- 
ton by  a  nephew  of  mine,  Col.  John  L.  Chandler,  about  forty-iivo 
years'a2:o.  It  was  exhibited  at  the  centennial  celebration,  1  ■><.>. 
and  afterwards  presented  by  him  to  the  town  of  Lexington,  to  bo 
preserved  as  a  sacred  deposit  in  the  Memorial  Hall. 

Mr.  Harrington  was  a  prominent  citizen,  and  was  called  to  uKiuv 
posts  of  honor  and  trust ;  he  was  a  selectman  in  1779,  '^-J  and  >'•• 
He  married  Anna  Munroe,  daughter  of  Ensign  Kobert  ^^''"'■'"'j 
who  stood  bravelv  at  his  post  on  the  battlefield,  April  i;»,  1.  '•'•  -'^-d 
fell,  one  of  the  first  martvrs  of  the  Revolution.  He  had  Inen  a 
soldier  in  the  French  War  J  and  bore  the  standard  at  the  takm-  ';t 
Louisburg,  in  1758;  he  served  also  in  17G2.  A  wife,  the  mi.cri- 
tor,  we  cannot  doubt,  of  such  valor  and  patriotism  as  his,  mu-r.  n.'.yo 
inspired  with  heroism  the  husband,  and  subject  of  our  notux-,  wno 
died  Sept.  27,  1818,  a?t.  79.  . 

I  pass  next  to  William  TIdd.  He  was  heutenani:  '"^  .^ -'l'^- 
Parker's  companv,  and  uave,  in  an  affidavit,  l-^-i-k  a  grap.uc  ac- 
count of  the  firing  of  the""  re-ulars  ;  he  add.s  :  "  I  then  retreated  up 
the  north  road,  and  was  pursued  by  a  British  .^iHcer  on  horseback, 
calling  oui;  to  me  with  an  oath,  'Stop,  or  you  are  a  dead  man.      1 


384  Battle  of  Lexington.  [Oct. 

feareil  I  coukl  not  escape  liiiii  unless  I  left  the  road.  I  therefore 
spranj::  over  a  pair  of  bar.-Ji,  and  made  a  stand,  and  di.--cliar;^ed  my 
gun  at  hiiu ;  upon  which  he  immediately  retreated  to  the  muiii 
body." 

^V'iien  a  boy,  I,  for  one  season,  passed  his  house  day  by  day  on 
my  way  to  school, — a  venerable  mansion  of  the  ancient,  rectangular 
style.  He  was  short  of  stature,  had  a  compact  frame  and  an  erect 
gait,  and  was  active  on  to  old  ivjui.  In  addition  ti)  his  services  A[)ril 
19,  17  7.5,  he  was  in  the  seventh  campaign,  September,  177(3,  at  ^Vhite 
Plains,  contributed  to  tlie  eleventh  campaign,  1777,  to  Benning- 
ton, and  enlisted,  and  served  some  time,  in  the  Continental  Line. 
He  died  Oct.  25,  182G,  at  90,  having  filled  various  offices  in  town. 
He  was  four  years  an  assessor, — then  a  very  high  and  responsiljle 
position, — and  was  one  of  the  selectmen  in  the  Kevolution.  Mr. 
Tidd  belonged  to  the  old  school,  who  kept  their  seats  iu  the  pew 
and  bowed  to  the  minister  as  he  passed  out  first.  Instances  have 
been  lieard  of  since,  in  which  the  boys  rusiied  by  the  preacher,  and 
showed  the  power  of  the  elbow.  Our  respected  friend,  I  think  from 
his  bald  head,  ^vore  a  red  cap  which  attracted  us  youth  somctiuics 
more  than  the  minister  in  the  pulpit.  He  varied  this  practice,  I  was 
told,  by  wearing  a  white  cap  when  at  home.  His  v.'ife,  also,  was  a 
daughter  of  the  heroic  Ensign  llobert  Munroe.  Her  strongly 
marked  character  made  her  a  fit  companion  of  her  husljand,  sympa- 
thizing alike  in  his  distinguished  military  and  civil  achievements. 
She  lived  to  May  14,  1839,  dying  at  the  advanced  age  of  97. 

We  come  now  to  Isaac  Hastings,  who  was  in  Capt.  Parker's 
command.  He  came  of  a  military  family ;  a  brother  and  their 
fi\ther  were  with  him  in  the  engagement.  He  was  a  man  of  great 
energy  of  chariicter,  remarkably  gifted  and  fluent,  as  I  recollect, 
in  conversation.  His  life  was,  at  some  of  its  stages,  one  of  great 
perils,  hardships,  and  thrilling  adventures,  which  he  would  relate 
with  graphic  spirit  and  power.  He  once  gave  in  my  hearing  the 
details  of  a  shipwreck  and  approaching  starvation,  when  a  tallow 
candle  was  "one  of  the  sweetest  morsels  he  ever  tasted."  We  find 
him  at  Cambridge  as  a  soldier,  ]May  6-10,  and  also  June  17.  Pie  was 
a  prominent  man  in  town  aftairs,  and  in  1808  was  chosen  deacon  of 
the  church.  Throughout  my  boyhood  I  remember  well  his  position 
in  the  meeting-house,  sitting  under  the  pulpit,  with  his  associate,  aa 
was  the  custom,  on  the  opposite  sides  of  the  deacons'  seat.  He 
lived  on  the  ancient  homestead,  still  in  the  possession  of  his  most 
respected  daughter,  Mrs.  Cary.  His  death,  at  the  ripe  age  of  76, 
occurred  July  2,  1831. 

His  ftither  and  brother  were  both  men  of  mark,  but  neither  of 
military  age  April  19,  1775.  The  father,  Samuel  Hastings,  was 
beyond  it,  hut  so  patriotic  and  bra\e  that  he  stood  in  the  ranks  that 
day.  Pie  was  with  the  army,  July  3,  the  same  year,  when  A\'a*h- 
ingtou  took  command.     Pie  was   distinguished  in  town  alfaira,  and 


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often  calldl  to  places  of  lionor  and  trust.  lie  died  Feb.  8,  1820,  at 
the  <]:rcat  aiic  of  ninety-nine.  The  brother,  Samuel  Ila.stini::-,  Jr. ,  was 
less  than  l^  that  day,  but  the  young  hero  appeared  with  the  com- 
pany on  the  Common.  Soon  utter,  he  volunteered  in  tiie  f^ervico, 
and  was  one  of  Gen.  Lee's  life-iruard  ;  he  was  taken  ]>ri>oner  with 
him  at  Long  Island.  At  the  time  of  his  capture,  a  Briti.'^h  ofHcer 
struck  him  in  the  neck  with  a  sword.  He  used  to  say,  "  AFy  rpieue 
eaved  my  life,  as  it  broke  the  force  of  the  blow,  thou^di  my  wuund 
was  severe."  lie  was  afterward  paroled,  but  never  cxchani^^cd.  He 
was  at  one  time  major  of  the  Lexington  Artillery.  Although  he 
resided  on  the  borders  of  Lincoln,  I  was  familiiu-  with  his  house, 
partly  from  the  circumstance  that  his  eldest  daughter  was  at  one 
time  a  tenant  of  my  father,  and  lived  across  the  road  from  ourhou?c. 
I  saw  him  often ;  he  was  a  man  with  strongly  marked  features  and 
a  stout,  vigorous  frame.  He  died  Jan.  b,  1834,  having  nearly 
reached  thcage  of  seventy-seven.  His  family  testified  their  honor  and 
love  for  him  by  erecting  a  beautiful  monument  to  his  memory,  with 
the  eloquent  inscription,   ''  a  Ivevolutionary  Soldier." 

It  should  be  noticed  that  while,  owing  partly  to  the  scarcity  of 
muskets,  only  some  sixty  stood  at  any  one  moment  in  the  ranks  of 
Capt.  Parker's  company,  about  one  third  of  whom  were  either 
killed  or  Vvounded  on  or  near  the  spot,  or  elsewhere,  during  the  day, 
of  two  published  rolls  of  the  company  one  contains  113  names,  the 
other  120.  And  there  is  evidence  that  there  were  not  less  than  130 
in  all,  including  the  "alarm  men,"  the  youth  and  the  superannu- 
ated, many  of  whom  were  in  arms  that  raoi'ning.  AVe  have  in  prmt 
depositions,  dated  April  'Id,  1775,  taken  by  order  of  the  Provincial 
Congress,  of  fourteen  persons  who  say,  "  We  w^ere  ordered  by 
Capt.  John  Parker  (who  commanded  us),"  &c.  &c.  Of  these 
fourteen,  a  part  must  have  been  under  military  age.  The  names  of 
five  are  not  on  the  printed  rolls,  but  should  be  preserved  in  history. 
They  are  Samuel  Hastings  ;  Xathaniel  Parkhurst,  whom  I  cannot 
identify,  but  think  he  was  a  brother  of  John  Parkhurst,  Avho  was  in 
the  battle;  John  Munroe,  3d;  Jonas  Parker,  2d;  and  Micah  1  la- 
gar,  who  appears  in  the  list  of  the  "  First  Campaign  of  Eight 
Months,  1775,"  and  again  with  the  "  ^Men  who  enlisted  in  Lexing- 
ton for  three  years  or  during  the  War,  and  served  in  the  Conrincnt:d 
Line."  Still  another  roll  of  118  names  is  found  in  the  ''  P.oston 
News  Letter,"  June  3,  182G,  which  varies  from  the  two  others, 
containing  five  names  more  than  one  of  them,  two  less  than  the  other, 
and  that  of  Stephen  !Munroe,  not  found  on  either. 

We  have  also  the  depositions  of  several  spectators  of  the  battle. 
Benjamin  Tidd  of  Lexington  and  Joseph  Abbott  of  Lincoln  were 
upon  the  Common  that  morning  on  horseback.  William  Draper  of 
Colerain  "stood  within  three  or  four  rods  of  the  regulars,  and  saw 
them  tire."  Thomas  Fessenden  saw  Parker's  men  eighteen  or  twen- 
ty rods  from  the  meeting-house.     "A  British  otlicer  rode  up  within 


386  Battle  of  Lexington.  [Oct. 

six  rods  of  the  company  and  criocl  out,  '  Disperse  ! '  A  second 
officer  tljcPx  tirc(i  iiis  pi.st(jl,''  John  Ikiteinan,  of  tlio  52d  rciriinciil, 
a  liritish  soldier,  j)robai)Iy  a  prisoner,  testified  at  Lincoln,  April  2'6, 
1775,  ''there  was  a  small  party  of  men  gathered;  when  our  troops 
marched  by,  1  heard  the  word  of  commrrnd  given  to  the  troops  to 
fire,  and  some  of  said  troops  did  fire,  and  I  saw  one  of  said  small 
party  lie  dead  on  the  ground  nigh  said  meeting-house."  This  may 
well  offset  the  account  given  of  tiie  Ijattle  by  his  Excellency  Gov. 
Gage,  in  a  letter  to  Gov.  Trumbull  of  Connecticut,  which  makes 
one  almost  despair  of  the  veracity  of  history,  amid  the  conflicts  of 
opposing  testimony.  "  I  ordered  six  companies  of  light  infantry  to 
take  two  bridges  in  Concord."  "  AVheu  two  miles  from  Lexington 
they  heard  500  men  were  in  arms  to  oppose  the  Iving's  troops." 
"  IMaj.  Pitcairu  saw  about  200  armed  men."  "  lie  ordered  his  troops 
not  to  fire,  but  surround  and  disarm  them  ;  "  "  the  people  fired  be- 
hind a  wall,  wounded  a  man  of  the  10th  Infantry,  and  hit  the 
IMajor's  horse  in  two  places;"  "they  also  fired  from  a  meeting- 
house;" "then  the  Light-Infantry,  icithout  order  or  regularity, 
killed  several  of  the  country  people,  but  were  silenced  as  soon  as  the 
authority  of  the  officers  could  make  them  "  ! 

I  knew  well  Jonathan  Loring,  as  a  neighbor  ;  his  dwelling-house 
being  some  third  of  a  mile  only  from  my  father's.  When'it  was 
known  that  several  British  officers  had  gone  up  toward  Concord  on 
the  evening  of  the  18th,  Loring,  \,\i\x  two  others,  volunteered  to 
follow  them  and  watch  their  movements.  He  was  taken  prisoner 
and  detained  several  hours,  until,  on  the  return  of  the  13ritish  offi- 
cers, he  was  set  at  liberty  on  or  near  Lexington  Common.  He  bore 
arms  in  the  battle ;  and  he  was  a  brave  man,  as  his  face  indicated, 
although  quite  lame  and  bowed,  as  I  recall  him.  His  courage  and 
patriotism  were  tested  by  his  marching  to  Cambridge  with  a  detach- 
ment. May  6,  and  also  taking  part  in  the  battle  "^of  Bunker  Hill. 
He  was  in  Cambridge  again  in  the  campaign  of  1776. 

His  family  took  a  prominent  part  on  that  day.  The  church  plate 
was  kept  at  his  father's.  Deacon  Joseph  Loring.  Lydia,  a  sister  of 
Jonathan,  took  this  plate  and  concealed  it  under  some  brush  near  | 

the  house,  to  prevent  its  being  carried  off  by  the  British  soldiers.  ? 

The  house   was  pillaged  and   burnt  by  the  JBritish  on  their  return  S 

from  Concord.     Deacon  Loring  made  out  a  full  statement   of  his  | 

loss  on  that  day.  | 

A  large  mansion  house  and  a  barn  70  feet  long,  and  a  corn-house,  \ 

a'i  burnt £350  0  0  | 

Household  goods  and  furniture,  viz. :  eight  good  feather  beds  and  I 

bedding;  a  large  quantity   of  pewter  and  brass  ware;  three  \ 

cases  of  drawers  ;  two  mahogany  tables,  with  the  furniture  of  | 

eight  rooms £930  0  0  ^ 

All  the  wearing  apparel  of  my  family,  consistini:  of  nine  persona     £00  0  0  V' 

All  my  husbaniby  tools  and  utensils,  with  a  cider  mill  and  press,  | 

with  live  tons  of  hay  and  two  calves         ....  £72  00  f 


1877.]  ,        Battle  of  Lexington.        .  387 

About  two  hundred  rods  of  stoue  wall  thrown  down     .         .  £5  0  0 

Specie £3  0  0 


£720  0  0 

N.  T». — The  ahove-montioiied  buildings  were  the  first  tlirit  wore  destrovcd 
in  tiie  town,  aud  near  the  ground  where  tlie  brigade  eouuuiuidi.d  by  J^ord 
Percy  met  the  detachment  retreating  under  Lt.  Col.  Smith,  it  does  not 
aj)pear  that  any  of  the  militia  were  in  or  near  these  buildings;  neitlier  could 
they  in  any  way  oppose  or  retard  the  British  troops  in  tlieir  operations ; 
therefore  the  destruction  nui-:t  be  considered  as  brutal,  barbarous,  ami 
wauton.  JosEi'ii  Loking. 

I  spoke  of  Lydia  Loring,  the  energetic  sister  of  our  suijjcct,     Tli.-^ 

(laughter  Polly  was  a  frequent  visitor  at  my  father's.      She  dis[>elietl  | 

my  belief  as  a   boy  in  the  perfect  honesty  of  every  body  living,  by  J 

saying  one  day  in  my  hearing,   "  O,  ^Irs.  M.,  there  is  so  much  dc-  i 

ceptiou  in  the  world!"     Mr.  Loring  died  in  ]\Iason,  X.  11. ,  Sept.  3 

20,  1630,  aged  SI.  I 

The  committee  appointed   by  the  Provincial  Congress,  IVIay  12,  | 

1775,  to  estimate  the  losses  by  tlie  British  destruction  of  pro})crty,  i 

April  19,  at  Concord,  Lexington  and   Cambridge,  report  the  wliolc  1 

loss  at  Concord,  £274  IG  7 — less  than  one  half  of  Mr.  Loring'd  at  \ 

Lexington  ;    at   Cambridge,    £1202  8  7  ;  while  that   of  Lexington  I 

was  17G1  1  15.     The  details  of  the  losses  at  Lexington,  cml,'ra:;iiig  | 

no  less  than  twenty-four  names  of  those  whose  houses  were   invaded  \ 

and  ravaged,  are,  in  some  cases,  quite  touching.     Lydia  Winshij),  } 

believed  to  have  been  a  widow,  testified  that  her  household  furui-  | 

ture   and   wearing  apparel  were  destroyed,  with  her  loss  in  money,  | 

to   the  amount   of  £GG  13  4,   over  S220 — a  large  sum  in  that  day  ;  ? 

while  Lydia  ]\lulliken,  a  widow,  with   her  son,  lost  house  and  she-p  | 

by  fire,  with  furniture,  wearing  apparel,  and  clocks  and  tools  of  her  \ 

son,  $2155,  in  real  and  personal  property.     Joshua  Bond  lost  liis  1 

house,  shop  and  other  property,   to   the  amount  of  $94G.     Tlic  lu;3  -^ 

of  "William  ^Itmroe  was  also   heavy,  being,  in  household  furniture,  | 

clothing,  and  goods  in  a  retail  shop,  over  $1000.  I 

Benjamin  AVellington   comes  before  my  memory  at  an  advanced  | 

age,  being  32  at  the  time  of  the  battle.     I  remember  his  vigorous  I 

and  well-knit  frame  ;  and  that,  though  of  moderate  stature,  he  bore  i 

a  commanding  presence.     He  had  the  distinction  of  being  the  iirst  i 

prisoner  taken  within  the  town  that   day.     He  was  captured   early  j 

in  the  morning,  at  the  foot  of  v/hat  is  now  called  ''  Mount  ludepeml-  | 

ence,"  in  East  Lexington.     The  British  officer  who  took  him  a^ked,  j 

"  What  are  you  going  to  do   with   that   firelock?     AVhcre  arc  you  | 

going  now?  "     He  replied,   "  I  am  going  home."     "  I  thought  with-  \ 

in  myself,"  he  used  to   say,    "  but  not  till  I  have  been  upon  the  ! 
Common."     Tlie  otficer  took  his  firelock  from  him  and  soon  passed 
on.     ;Mr.    "Wellington    then    left   the    main    road,    waded    through 
swamps,  and  reached  the  Common  in  time  to  join  Capt.  Parker'd 


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company  before  tlie  enga;;^cracnt,  having  doubtless  secured  a  gun, 
and  used  it  to  good  puipo^c  tliat  day.  lie  was  with  a  detach- 
ment of  the  company  at  Cambridge  the  ensuing  May  (3,  in  the 
seventh  campaign,  177(3,  at  AVliite  Phiins,  and  was  a  sergeant  with 
eight  men  from  Lexington  at  tiie  taking  of  Burgoyne  in  1777.  He 
was  honored  in  town,  iiolding  the  ofiice  of  selectman  in  1785  and 
1792.      lie  died  Sept.  14,  1812,  in  the  70th  year  of  his  age. 

Let  us  next  notice  Daniel  Mason.  I  premise  his  record  by  say- 
ing he  had  a  brother  Josepli  in  the  battle,  of  whom  I  have  a  slight 
reminiscerice.  He  had  a  fine  form,  a  gentlemanly  appearance,  and 
was  a  distinguished  teacher  in  the  town.  He  died  Oct.  3,  1814, 
aged  seventy-eight.  His  estate  gave  rise  in  the  locality  to  the  name 
of  "]Mason"'s  Hollow."  The  house,  nearly  opposite  the  old  Munroe 
Tavern,  is  still  standing  and  occupied.  Daniel  •Mason  had  little  of 
the  soldier  in  his  bearing,  as  I  recollect  him,  although  he  did  his 
duty  in  the  little  band  under  Capt.  Parker.  He  wore  long  white 
locks,  I  remember,  and  had  a  grave  and  apostolic  countenance,  re- 
minding me  of  pictures  of  John  Wesley.  But  he  could  sometimes 
make  a  shrewd  remark  with  a  very  sober  face.  Speaking,  in  my 
hearing,  one  day,  to  my  father,  of  generosity,  he  said,  ''I  never 
feel  so  generous  as  when  I  haven't  a  single  cent  in  my  pocket." 
Hapless  man,  he  was  very  destitute  himself  at  the  last.  I  was  once 
the  bearer  of  a  little  gift  to  him,  I  think  the  day  before  Thanksgiv- 
ing, and  the  old  man's  fiice  lighted  up  as  if  he  had  received  a 
fortune. 

Then  there  was  Joseph  Estabrook,  one  of  tlie  youngest  on  the 
immortal  roll  of  that  company.  For  he  was  then  but  a  month  be- 
yond the  age  of  seventeen.  He  was  of  a  military  fixmily,  his  father 
being  ifterward,  in  177G,  in  the  campaign  to  Ticonderoga.  ]Mr. 
Estabrook  graduated  at  Harvard  College  in  1782,  and  was  ordained 
at  Athol,  Nov.  21,  1787.  He  was  a  fine-looking  man,  and  very 
agreeable,  as  I  well  recollect,  in  manners  and  conversation.  In  my 
youth  I  heard  him  preach,  which  he  did  most  acceptably.  He  lived 
long,  and  labored  on  to  the  last,  dying  April  30,  1830,  in  the  forty- 
third  year  of  his  ministry,  and  at  the  age  of  seventy-two. 

I  recall  here  Joseph  Underwood.  March  7,  1825,  ]\[r.  L'nder- 
wood  testified  on  oath  before  my  father,  who  was  a  Justice  of  the 
Peace,  that  "on  the  evening  of  April  18,  1775,  about  forty  of  the 
mihtia  company  assembled  at  Buckman's  tavern,  near  the  meeting- 
house, for  the  purpose  of  consulting  what  measures  should  be  adopt- 
ed." "  The  first  certain  information  we  had  of  the  approach  of  the 
British  troops  was  given  by  Thaddeus  Bowman,  between  four  and  five 
o'clock  on  the  morning  of  the  19th,  when  Capt.  Parker's  company 
were  summoned  by  the  beat  of  the  drum,  and  the  line  formed. 
When  the  regulars  had  arrived  within  about  one  hundred  rods  of  our 
line  they  chai-ged  their  pieces,  and  then  moved  toward  us  at  a  quick 
step.    Some  of  our  men,,  ou  seeing  them,  proposed  to  quit  the  field." 


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And  no  marvel, — fifty  or  sixty  iiiulisciplined  men  in  presence  of  six 
hundied  ic-ular  troops  !  "  Capt.  I'arker  gave  orders  for  every  man 
to  stand  his  gioiind,  and  said  he  would  order  the  first  man  shot  that 
offered  to  leave  his  post.  I  stood  \cry  near  Capt.  Parker  when  the 
regulars  came  u]i,  aud  am  confident  he  did  not  order  his  men  to  dis- 
perse till  the  British  troops  had  fired  upon  ns  the  second  time." 

Mr.  Underwood  was  a  man  of  nuxlcsr  mien,  quiet  in  manner  and 
movement,  yet  of  tliat  firm  air  and  hearing  which  was  needed  at  the 
perilous  hour  of  battle.  Jle  was  a  true  independent.  I  see  him, 
in  the  old  meeting-house,  walk  to  his  seat  in  the  broad  aisle  with  an 
old  lioman  front.  AVhen,  in  a  midsummer  Sabbath  afternoon,  the 
preacher  is  lengthening  his  discourse  on  and  on,  'Mv.  Underwood 
takes  his  coat  oft',  and  stands  up  for  a  change  and  relief  of  posture  ; 
and  liere  and  there  some  good  old  farmer  is  seen  to  do  likewise.  lie 
joined  a  voluntary  detachment  to  Cambridge,  ]May  10  ;  and  again, 
June  17,  we  find  him  at  Bunker  Hill.  He  lived  until  Feb.  27, 
1825;),  dying  at  the  age  of  eighty.  AVe  may  not  forget  that  he  mar- 
ried a  woman  who  doubtless  sustained  and  animated  his  courage. 
His  wife,  named  "Deliverance,"  was  a  sister  of  the  patriot  hero, 
Capt.  John  Parker.  In  commending  the  bravery  of  our  own  sex, 
I  think  we  sometimes  overlook,  aud  fail  to  do  justice  to,  the  noble 
wives,  mothers,  and  sisters,  who  more  than  seconded,  who  of:en 
prompted,  the  heroic  deeds  of  those  days.  Some  wise  and  true  man 
should  seek  out,  and  give  their  due  to,  the  as  yet  unrecognized  and 
unrewarded  women  of  the  llevolution. 

Something  should  be  said  of  Amos  Locke,  who  resided  in  the 
north  part  of  Lexington,  and  whose  house  was  fiimiliar  to  me  in 
boyhood.  He  was  a  man  of  large  frame,  and  above  the  ordinary 
height.  He  was  of  a  martial  air  and  spirit,  and  had  been  toned  up  to 
the  day  of  blood  in  our  town  by  having  ser^'ed  during  the  French  war 
in  17G2.  Like  his  kinsman,  Benjamin  Locke,  who  reached  the  age 
of  eighty-five,  and  who  was  also  in  the  battle  of  April  19,  he  had 
extraordinary  vitality;  he  lived  until  July  27,  1828,  dying  at  the 
age  of  eighty-seven. 

On  the  list  of  Capt.  Parker's  company,  and  as  a  corporal,  stands 
the  name  of  Joel  Viles.  In  my  early  days  he  was  quite  lame  and 
mfirm,  but  still  his  florid  countenance  and  commanding  figure  gave 
assiu-ance  of  the  energy  of  his  character.  His  patriotism,  generosity, 
and  personal  self-sacrifice  were  attested  by  the  fact  that  at  three 
several  times  after  the  battle,  once  ]\[ay  10  at  Cambridge,  then  June 
17,  and  finally  for  two  months,  in  1776,  he  bore  arms  for  his  country. 

A  word  should  be  said  of  John  Parkhurst,  who  married  Elizabeth 
Bowers  of  Billerica,  a  sister,  I  think,  of  the  wife  of  my  grandfather. 
Both  of  them  in  Capt.  Parker's  company,  they  were  bound  together 
ahke  by  the  ties  of  home  and  country ;  and  tlieir  remains  rest  in  the 
same  tomb  in  Lexington  churchyard  ;  "  they  were  pleasant  in  their 
lives,  and  were  not  divided  by  death."  Although  Mr.  Parkhurst 
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died  in  my  early  d:iyg,  his  face  was  quite  familiar  to  nic ;  among 
other  things,  the  red  cap  of  the  veteran  at  churcli  maile  a  stroma 
impression.  His  house  was  on  the  line  of  march  of  the  Ihiti-h 
troops  toward  Concord,  a  charming  location,  s(jlid,  simple,  and 
firm,  like  its  master.  He  was  in  tiie  campaign  to  AN'hite  i'Jains,  and 
was  honored  as  a  selectman  of  the  town.  He  died  July  2,  1512, 
aged  seventy-seven. 

"Joshua  liced  I  knew  well,  as  his  son  Charles  married  my  sister. 
He  was  a  man  of  portly  bearing,  tail,  well-developed,  and  muscu- 
lar. His  face  indicated  intelHgence ;  his  conversation  was  wise, 
accompanied  by  a  manner  gentle  no  less  than  digniticd.  His  whole 
character  gave  assurance  of  a  man  of  mark.  His  lineage  was 
rather  remarkable  ;  the  father,  named  also  Joshua,  was  a  member 
■witli  him  of  Capt.  Parker's  company,  and  a  sister  of  the  latter, 
Betsey  Reed,  married  Ebenezer  Muzzey,  a  brother  of  the  martyr 
Isaac  ]Muzzey.     Mr.  Reed  died  Sept.  8,  1826,  aged  ^0. 

Ebenezer  Simonds,  one  of  Capt.  Parker's  company,  and  in  the 
battle  when  but  little  over  17  years  old,  was  of  a  family  distinguished 
as  large  land  holders  in  Lexington,  and  who  held  many  public  offices 
in  town.  They  were  of  remarkable  longevity.  His  father  died  at 
83  ;  Joseph,  ensign  of  Parker's  company,  at  73  ;  Joshua,  so  brave  in 
the  battle,  died  in  his  70th  year ;  his  son  of  the  same  name,  at  88  ; 
and  the  subject  of  this  notice  died  Aug.  23,  1845,  at  87.  He  lived, 
up  to  my  early  manhood,  on  the  old  homestead  occupied  by  his 
grandfitther.  His  clear  eye,  compressed  mouth,  firmly  set  chin, 
indeed  his  whole  face  and  his  every  movement,  expressed  great  force 
of  character.  I  think  of  him  as  erect  and  stalwart ;  as  belonging  to 
that  grand  old  race,  of  which  it  was  said,  "Five  of  you  shall  chase 
an  hundred,  and  an  hundred  of  you  shall  put  ten  thousand  to  flight." 
To  the  last  his  eye  was  not  dimmed,  nor  his  natural  force  abated. 
He  was  sorely  atHicted  by  losing  nine  of  his  ten  children,  and  several 
under  trying  circumstances.  I  was  struck,  in  attending  the  funeral 
of  one  of  them  in  my  boyhood,  at  his  fortitude  mingled  with  a 
father's  tenderness. 

It  is  fitting  to  close  this  record  of  Personal  Recollections  with  a 
tribute  to  him  who  was  the  last  survivor  of  those  engaged  in  the 
battle  of  Lexington,  Jonathan  Harrington.  For  many  long  years 
a  contemporary  with  him,  I  knew  him  well.  He  was  tall,  with  a  full 
eye,  a  firm  mouth,  and  in  general  a  marked  and  strong  face.  He 
was  a  cabinetmaker  by  trade,  and  to  us  boys_  curiosity  for  such 
workmanship  made  his  shop  a  favorite  resort.  Though  only  16  years 
of  age  at  the  time  of  the  battle,  he  was  a  fifer  in  Capt.  Parker's 
company.  No  marvel  he  began  life  a  patriot,  and  continued  one 
to  the  last,  for  his  own  father  was  in  tiie  engagement,  beside  another 
of  his  name,  also  a  kinsman.  On  the  roll  of  Capt.  Parkers  com- 
pany we  find  no  less  than  eleven  by  the  name  of  Harrington,  a  mjblc 
testimony  to  the  gallant  spirit  of  the  family.     This  wad  exceeded 


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only  by  the  Munrocs,  of  whom  there  are  fourti^en.     Then  ronuv  the 
Smiths,  \\\\o  ^ii^taiiicd  the  iaiuily  reputation   hy  a  llt-t   ol"  ten  ;    wo        .  } 
have  seven  of  the  Kccils,  nnd  four  of  the  Tid<ls  ;  a  proud  li<Me(hty  all  j 

this  of  patriotism,  self-sacrifice,  and  i)ravcry.  It  is  due,  without  dis- 
paragement of  others,  to  speak  of  the  noble  s<n-vicc  of  tiie  Muiiroes 
in  the  old  French  AVar.  Sergeant  William  iMunroe  served  in  \l')\-bh, 
Lieut.  Edmund  :\[unroc  in  1757,  '58  and  '01,  Jonas  Munroe  in 
1755  and  '57,  James  :\funroc  in  1757,  '58  and  '59,  Ensign  iiohcrt 
IMunroe  in  1758  and  'G2,  David  :\funroe  in  1757  and '50.  To  the<e 
-we  must  add  Thaddeus,  John,  Abraham,  Stephen  and  Jo-iah. 
Eleven  of  one  name  in  the  French  war  and  fourteen  in  that  of  the 
Revolution,  from  a  little  town,  at  the  opening  of  the  latter,  of  only 
700  inhabitants  !     Greece  ai^.d  Rome  cannot  outshine  this  as  a  ii:ili- 

tarv  record.  i  i  • 

in  1875,  at  the  Centennial  celebration,  when  the  descendants  ot 
Ensiiin  Robert  :\rnnroe  j<nned  in  presenting-  a  standard  to  the  coiu- 
pany'^of  "Le:s.inoton  ]\iimite  .Men,"  the  name  of  a  little  boy,  0 
weeks  old,  Robert  :Mimroe  Harrinirton,  born  ^vlarch  10,  1875,  was 
placed  at  the  close  of  the  list.  AVhat  a  roll  to  enter  !  and  wl.at  a 
iineacre  for  that  unconscious  child,  the  heir  of  two  names,  both  illus- 
trious, one  in  two  great  wars,  and  the  other  in  the  openiiigof  tiiat 
Revolution  which  did  so  much  in  laying  the  foundations  of  civil  aiid 
religious  liberty  ou  this  continent  and  eventually  through  the  wide 
world ! 

Jonathan  Harrington  died  March  27,  1854,  having  lived  to  the 
great  age  of  9,5  vears,  8  months  and  18  days.  He  would  relate 
the  leading  incidents  of  the  day  of  blood  with  the  deepest  interest. 
His  mother,  a  pattern  mother,  roused  him  early  that  day  with  the 
cry,  "  Jonathan,  iret  up,  the  regulars  are  coming,  and  something' 
must  be  done."  He  did  get  up, 'hastened  to  the  Common,  and  ^was 
with  the  companv  when  Uie  British  drew  near.  And  "somethmg_ 
was  done."  At 'the  age  of  91  he  attended  the  75th  anniversary  ot 
April  19th,  at  Concord.  Being  asked  for  a  sentiment,  he  gave,  out 
of  his  full  patriotic  heart,  the  following,  written  with  his  own  haiui, 
*'The  19th  of  April,  1775.  All  who  remember  that  day  will  sup- 
port the  Constitution  of  the  United  States." 

His  funeral,  of  which  the  Hon.  Mr.  Hudson  in  his  History  ot 
Lexington  gives  so  graphic  an  account,  was  attended  by  a  large 
concourse  ;  and  it  was'an  imposing  spectacle, — thousands,  ot  all  ai:es 
and  conditions,  2:athered  by  one  common  sentiment  of  respect  and 
affection.  It  is  worthv  of  note  that,  of  sixteen  survivors  ot  Lcxmgt()n 
battle,  spoken  of  above,  the  average  age  at  their  dc'iths  was  8l 
years  and  G  months.  A  remarkable  coincidence  at  one  p.'int,  show- 
ing that  brave  men  often  outlive  their  great  suiferings  in  war,  is 
that,  of  the  sixteen  survivors  of  the  war  of  1812,  who  met  the 
present  year  (1877),  at  the  end  of  sixty-five  years,  the  average  age 
wa3  precisely  the  same,  8i  years  and  G  montlis. 


.  .  ■  i  ■  /; 
1^     ■•       •  I,  ^ 


*     IfT 


i      .     !/ 


392  Battle  of  Lexington.  [Oct. 

Let  one  tiling  more  be  said  in  regard  to  tlie  motives  of  the  patriots 
of  the  Kcvolutlon.  From  their  first  to  their  hist  act,  they  "vvere,  as 
a  Avholc,  free  fruui  tlio  temper  of  malice  and  rt^venge.  Stirred  at 
£ome  moments;  to  indignation,  they  -were  still  calm  and  furbcaring. 
Rev.  Mr.  Adams,  of  Lnnenburg,  in  the  annual  sermon  at  Lexing- 
ton, April  19,  1783,  after  the  close  of  the  war,  says,  with  magnani- 
mity, although  they  could  not  forget  the  transactions  of  the  past, 
^'the  laws  of  Christianity  oblige  us  to  furgive." 

In  speaking  of  the  character  of  the  men  before  us,  we  should 
bear  in  mind  that  they  were,  to  a  large  extent,  cultivators  of  the 
sod  which  they  protected.  The  occupation  of  the  patriots  of  Lex- 
ington is  indicated  by  the  circumstance  that  their  home  was  called, 
originally,  "  Cambridge  Farms."  As  I  look  over  the  roll  of  Capt. 
Parker's  company,  I  find  a  large  proportion  of  them  were  farmers. 
Several  family  estates  of  to-day  have  descended  from  men  of  tliat 
corps.  My  grandtather  was  the  third  generation  who  had  owned 
and  occupied  the  same  estate,  and  it  gives  me  pleasure  to  add  that  it 
is  novr  occupied  by  the  sixth  generation  of  the  family.  It  was  the 
taunt  of  the  British  aristocracy  that  they  could  easily  put  down 
"the  peasantry  of  America";  "five  regiments  of  regulars  could,'*'  it 
•was  boasted,  ''  easily  march  across  the  continent."  To  us  it  may  be 
a  just  source  of  pride  that  our  country  gained  its  independence  largely 
through  the  toils  and  sacrifices  of  the  owners  and  tillers  of  the  sod. 
"In  defiance,"  says  Edv^^ard  Everett,  "  of  the  whole  exerted  powers 
of  the  British  empire,  the  yeomanry  of  the  country  rose  as  a  man, 
and  set  their  lives  on  this  dear  stake  of  liberty."  "Without  detract- 
ing in  the  least  from  the  noble  services,  in  those  trying  days,  of 
men  in  other  vocations,  we  may  never  forget  that  it  was  largely  by 
the  strong  arm  and  wise  counsels  of  the  great  ag  "iculturist  of  Mount 
Vernon,  and  the  united  labors  of  men  who  fougiit  for  the  soil  they 
owned,  that  the  foundations  of  our  civil  and  religious  liberties  were 
laid.  The  Koman  empire  fell  mainly  because  her  citizens  forsook 
the  culture  of  the  land  by  their  own  hands.  That  is  the  great  rock 
of  a  nation's  virtue  and  stability.  If  we  wish  to  uphold  tliis  country 
through  all  ages,  we  must,  like  our  fathers,  secure  homes  for  the 
people.  So  long  as  our  citizens  are  living  on  their  outi  acres, 
able  and  ready  to  defend  them  against  every  aggressive  or  dis- 
organizing power  and  influence,  the  Union  will  be  safe.  \Ye  need 
commerce,  the  mechanic  arts,  manufactures,  and  every  branch  of 
honest  industry,  fur  our  complete  outward  prosperity.  But  all  honor 
to  agriculture,  honor  to  those  brave  farmers  who  ''poured  out  their 
generous  blood  before  they  knew  whether  it  would  fertilize  the  land 
of  freedom  or  of  bondaiie  "  !  Out  of  that  blood-ofl:erin;2:  comes  a 
voice : — 

"  Stern  and  awful  are  its  toces, 
Aa  the  patriot-martyr  i^roans  ; 
But,  the  deatii-i)ul3e  beating  hish, 
ilapcure  blends  with  aaronv." 


I   ll 


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1877.]  ^otes  on  American  Ilifitory.  393 

And  let  U3,  lookins-  at  the  jjlorious  results  of  tlic  ^tonn  and  strui^- 
trle  (.tf  that  dawu-liour  nt'  the  licvoluticm,  dwell  on  the  inid-d;iy  8un, 
\viii('h,  sliiniPL,^  out  from  f:iO!=e  our  skies,  ligiits  up  the  wide  world  uf 
aspirants  for  liberty.  Joy  for  April  19th,  1775,  when  ix-^aii  form- 
ing that  putriutic  proccs>ion,  led  i)y  the  immortal  Parker  and  his 
hrave  associates.  Heai-t  to  heart,  and  hand  to  hand,  let  ud  pledge 
ourselves,  and  may  we  he  followed  hy  our  latest  posleritv,  to  honor 
with  our  lips  and  our  lives  the  memory  of  those  star-bright  names. 


NOTES  OX  AMERICAX  mSTOIlY. 

By  the  Rev.  Edwaed  D.  Neill,  A.n..  Presiikiitof  Mucalester  CoUcse,  Minneapolis,  Minn. 
[Coutiaued  from  page  272.] 

"■'■'•    ''■     ■      '  No.  XV.      [Continued.]        ' 

A  Study  of  t}ie  Vjugixia  Census  of  A.D.  1624. 
'   "  •       *'  JEdicard  Waters. 

EDWARD  WATERS,  registered  as  living  at  Elizabeth  City,  led 
a  romantic  life.  He  was  one  of  the  crew  of  the  Sea  Venture, 
wrecked  about  the  last  of  July,  1G09,  at  Bermudas.  Daring  the 
sojourn  of  Gates  and  Soniers  on  the  isle,  he  killed,  in  a  quarrel,  a 
eailor  named  Edward  Sauiuel,  and  was  arrested  and  bound  to  a  tree. 
One  night  his  friends  clandestinely  cut  the  cords,  and  he  tied  to  a 
hiding  place.  "When  in  May,  1610,  the  shipwrecked  party  em- 
barked in  the  Deliverance  and  Patience,  two  small  vessels  con- 
structed during  the  winter,  Waters  and  one  Christopher  Carter 
remains  \. 

During  the  latter  part  of  the  summer,  Sir-George  Soniers  returned 
for  a  supply  of  wild  hogs,  and  died.  His  kinsman,  ^Matthew  S('mors, 
took  charge  of  the  vessel  and  sailed  for  England  instead  of  Virginia, 
leaving  one  of  his  crew  named  Edward  Chard. 

The  three  now  on  the  isle  were  monarchs  of  all  they  surveyed. 
An  old  chronicler  alleges  that  Chard  and  Waters  were  about  to  tiLrht 
«n  one  occasion,  when  Christopher  Carter,  who  disliked  both,  pacified 
them  by  threatening  to  turn  against  the  man  who  struck  tirst. 
After  this  they  became  friendly,  and  industriously  and  profiLablj 
worked  together. 

In  their  exploration  of  the  island,  they  discovered  a  large  lump  of 
ambergris,  and  soon  after  the  ship  Plough  arrived  in  1()12  with 
some  colonists,  of  which  Mr.  Moore  was  the  governor.  Suys  one  : 
As  soon  as  we  landed  all  our  companv  we  went  to  prayer,  and  gave 
thanks  unto  the  Lord  for  our  safe  arrival,  and  whilst  we  were  at 
prayer,  we  saw  three,  men  coming  down  to  us.'"  A  writer,  under 
<late  of  April  28,  IGl'i,  states:  "The  climate  I  hold  to  be  very 
VOL.  X2XI,         35* 


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394  Nbte.'S  on  American  History.  [Oct. 

good  and  fc^rreeable  with  our  constitutions  of  England,  for  the  three 
lueu  Mliich  were  left  there  are  very  fat  and  fiir,  not  tanned  or  burned 
in  the  sun,  fio  much  as  we  which  came  hist." 

I'oth  ^^'aters  and  Carter  hecaine  nienihers  of  the  Governor's  Coun- 
cil, but  about  the  year  lOlS  they  arrived  in  Virginia.  At  the  taking 
of  the  census  A\'ater3  was  thirty-nine  years  of  age,  and  his  wife 
Grace,  who  came  in  10 18  in  the  ship  Diana,  was  only  twenty  yera-s 
of  age,  aTid  at  the  taking  of  the  census  they  had  a  son  named  A\'il- 
liani.  At  tlie  time  of  the  massacre  in  1022,  AVaters  lived  on  the 
south  side  of  the  James,  and  he  and  hia  family  were  taken  jjrieoners 
by  the  jSansemond  Indians,  btit  were  rescued  by  a  boat's  crew  and 
carried  to  Kecoughton,  or  Elizabeth  City,  now  Hampton.  In  Fcb- 
ruarv,  1025,  his  wife  had  a  dauirhter  named  jMnrj:rarct.  A  creek  in 
Upper  Elizabeth  once  bore  his  name.  Governor  Pott  in  March, 
1628-9,  made  him  a  commissioner  for  the  district  between  South- 
ampton Kiver  and  Fox  Hill,  and  he  was  a  member  of  the  County 
Court.  Lt.  Col.  Waters,  of  Xansemond  County,  to  whom  George 
Fox  in  1073  presented  some  quaker  books,  is  supposed  to  have  been 
his  descendant. 

Christopher  Carter. 

Christopher  Carter  is  enrolled  as  residing  in  Accomac.  and  seems 
to  have  been  in  the  service  of  Capt.  William  Epps,  of  whom  a  notice 
has  been  given. 

Thomas  Savage. 

Thomas  Savage,  of  the  Eastern  Shore,  called  the  "Ancient"  in 
■early  records,  was  what  we  call  an  "old  settler."  He  arrived  with 
Newport  in  Jauuaiy,  1008,  in  ship  "John  and  Francis."  When 
Captain  Xev,-port  Avas  received  by  Powhatan,  the  Indian  chief, 
Savage  accompanied  him. 

Capt.  John  Smith,  in  his  Relation  of  Virginia,  published  in  1008, 
writes  : 

"  But  Seeing  Captnine  Nuport,  and  Maister  Scrivener  comming  a  shore, 
the  King  returned  to  his  house,  and  I  went  to  meete  hina,  with  a  truoapet 
before  him  [Capt.  Newport]  wee  marched  to  the  King:  who  after  his  old 
manner  kindly  received  him.  especially  a  Boy  of  thirteen  years  old,  called 
Thomas  Saluage,  whom  he  gave  him  as  his  Sonne." 

In  return  for  Savage,  Powhatan  presented  Newport  with  an  Indian 
lad  named  Xamontack,  whom  he  took  to  England,  and  never  re- 
turned, having  soon  died.  Savage  having  acquired  the  Indian 
language,  was  of  great  service  to  the  colony  as  an  interpreter. 

Ealph  Plamor,  secretary  of  the  colony,  states  that  he  was  the  in- 
terpreter who  presented  Sir  Thomas  Dale's  proposal  to  Powhatan 
to  take  a  sister  of  Pocahontas  as  "his  nearest  companion,  wife,  and 
bed-fellow."  Hamor's  words  are  :  "  It  pleased  Sir  Thomas  Dale, 
myself  being  much  desirous  before  my  return  for  England,   to  visit 


:  ♦=»--- 


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,   1 


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1877.]  J^otes  on  American  Uistory.  395 

I*o\vbatan  and  his  Court  (because  I  would  be  able  to  epeak  somc- 
wliut  thereof,  by  mine  own  knowledge) ,  to  imploy  myself  and  one 
'Ihonu's  Salvage,  who  had  lived  three  years  with  Powhatan,  ;ind 
speaks  the  language  naturally,  one  whom  Powhatan  iniieh  affeetL'th, 
upon  a  message  unto  hint,  whieh  was  to  deal  with  him,  if  by  any 
means,  I  might  procure  a  daughter  of  his,  who  (Pocahuntas  b^ing 
already  in  possession)  is  generally  reputed  to  be  his  dcli^iit,  and 
darling,  and  surely  he  esteemeth  her  as  his  own  soul,  tor  a  sure 
pledge  of  peace." 

Ilaraor,  through.  Savage  as  interpreter,  spoke  as  follow?  :  ''  Tkc 
bruit  of  the  exquisite  perfection  of  your  youngest  daughter,  being 
famous  throughout  all  your  territories,  huth  come  to  the  hearing  of 
your  Brother,  Sir  Thomas  Dale,  who  for  this  purpose,  hath  ordered 
nie  hither  to  entreat  you,  to  permit  her,  with  me,  to  return  unto 
him,  partly,  for  the  desire  her  sisfer  hath  to  see  her,  of  whoni,  if 
fame  hath  not  been  prodigal,  as  like  enough  it  hath  not,  your 
jirother,  by  your  favor  would  gladly  make  his  nearest  companion, 
wife  and  bed-fellow." 

John  Eolfe  and  Sir  Thomas  Dale  had  both  been  married  before 
they  applied  for  the  daughters  of  Powhatan. 

Soon  after  the  taking  of  the  census  of  1G24,  Savage  was  married 
to  a  youHLT  v.-oman  who  in  1(')21  came  in  the  ship  "Sea-Flower." 
Savage's  Xeck  in  Xorthampton  County,  Virginia,  vv-as  long  rlie  re- 
sidence of  his  descendants.  One  bearing  his  name  was  an  :ic- 
quaintance  of  the  writer,  whose  wife,  a  cultivated  Avoraan,  is  the 
lineal  descendant  of  the  second  president  of  Harvard  University. 

Richard  Sfephep.s.  '  '  i  ' 

Richard  Stephens,  in  1623,  arrived  in  the  ship  George,  and  may 
have  been  the  person  who  obtained  a  share  of  the  London  Company 
in  April,  1622,  a  paper  stainer  in  that  city,  and  the  next  year  was  a 
member  of  the  Virginia  Legislature.  In  April,  1624,  he  fought  a 
duel  with  Geor^re  Harrison  and  wounded  him  in  the  knee,  from  the 
effects  of  which  he  died  in  ten  days.  At  a  later  period  he  was  a 
member  of  the  Council,  and  had  an  altercation  with  Governor  Harvey, 
who  knocked  out  one  of  his  teeth  with  a  cudgel.  After  the  death  of 
Stephens  the  governor  married  his  widow,  and  she  may  have  been 
partly  the  occasion  of  the  personal  encounter.  In  a  letter  from 
Point  Comfort,  dated  May  8,  1G40,  the  ex-Governor  complains  of 
his  poverty  and  many  bodily  suflerings  ;  and  in  September,  PI  12, 
the  celebrated  Dutch  trader  and  traveller,  Captain  David  Peterson 
De-Vries,  instituted  a  suit  for  the  recovery  of  £4  14  shillings  sterl- 
ing, due  him  from  the  estate  of  Captain  Richard  Stephens  fu*  goods 
sold  to  Lady  Harvey,  who  was  at  the  time  Avifc  of  said  Stephens. 

Samuel  Stephens,  of  Warwick,  was  the  son  of  Richard,  and  his 
widow,  following  the  example  of  her  mother-in-law,  marnod  a 
governor  of  Virginia,  the  celebrated  Sir  Vv'illiam  Berkeley,  Kt. 


'..i 


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396  2\Fotes  on  Ajneriran  Ili.'itory.  [Oct. 

Capt.  Iio(je.r  Sialth. 

Roger  Smith,  registered  as  belonging  to  James  City,  came  to  Vir- 
ginia in  1C21  on  board  of  rim  Abigail.  In  the  minutes  of  the 
V'irginia  Company  for  loth  December,  1620,  we  find  tiie  fnllowing : 

"  Capt.  Roger  Smith  \)wj.%  desirous  to  go  this  present  voyage,  moved  that 
he  might  have  the  charge  of  some  of  those  people  that  were  uow  sent  to  be 
the  Company's  tenants,  and  further  that  the  Company  would  please  to  be- 
stow upon  him  some  means  to  make  him  the  better  tit  for  the  said  voyage. 

"  Forasmucli  therefore  as  the  said  Captain  Smitli  was  reeommended  to 
be  a  gentleman  very  sufficient  for  that  employment,  and  in  regard  of  his 
good  experience  already,  having  heen  in  Virginia  heretofore,  about  three 
years,  the  Court  was  pleased  for  his  better  encouragement  to  give  him  £30, 
to  furnish  him  with  necessaries,  and  ordered  chat  he  should  have  the  com- 
mand of  fifty  persons  now  transported  to  be  tenants  upon  the  Company's 
lands. 

"  The  said  Captain  Smith  further  moved  in  the  behalf  of  a  young  scholar 
desirous  to  go  with  him,  this  present  voyage,  that  he  might  be  admitted 
preacher  to  the  people  now  sent.  The  Court  hereupon  agreed  to  give  him 
a  test  to  preach  upon,  about  a  fortnight  hence,  in  the  handling  whereof  if 
they  found  him  a  sufficient  scholar,  he  should  be  entertained  accordingly." 

Richard  Doicnes.  '  ' 

Richard  Downes  is  registered  as  living  within  the  corporation  of 
James  City.  He  sailed  from  England  in  February,  1620,  on  the 
ship  Jonathan.  In  June,  1623,  Edward  Downes,  his  father,  stated 
to  the  Virginia  Company  of  London,  that  his  son  Edward,  bred  a 
scholar,  who  crossed  the  ocean  in  the  hope  of  preferment  in  the 
college  at  Henrico,  and  had  lived  four  years  in  the  colonv,  might 
have  fifty  acres  to  plant  upon.  The  company  considered  his  petirion 
very  reasonable. 

William  Garrett. 
"William  Garrett  appears  as  one  of  the  servants  of  Abraham 
Piersey.  When  a  boy  about  seventeen  years  of  age,  in  1619,  he 
arrived  in  the  ship  George.  He  became  a  quaker.  Edmundson, 
a  minister  of  the  Society  of  Friends,  in  1672  writes  :  "As  I  returned 
it  was  laid  upon  me  to  visit  the  Governor,  Sir  "William  Barclay 
[Berkeley],  accompanied  by  William  Garrett,  an  honest,  ancient 
friend." 

The  Waraskoyak  Census  of  1624. 

The  Waraskoyak  Plantations  extended  from  Hog  Island,  fourteen 
miles  toward  the  mouth  and  on  the  south  side  of  James  River.  Thi3 
neighborhood  began  to  be  settled  in  A.D.  1618,  under  the  auspices 
of  private  persons. 

Captain  John  Bargrave,  the  brother  of  the  Rev.  Dr.  Bargrave, 
the  Dean  of  Canterbury,  was  the  first  planter  of  a  private  colony, 


r   VM 


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1877.]  ITote-s  on  American  History.  397 

and  at  E^eat  cost  sent  servants  and  sLippIng  to  malco  a  settlement 
above  Martin  Brandon.  A\'ard's  Creek  stiJl  desigiuitoi  the  neigliLor- 
hood.  In  June,  1G18,  Lord  Zoucli,  a  man  of  strong  puritan 
sympathies,  wrote  to  Capt.  Ward  that  he  intended  to  adventure  \\'\a 
pinnace  ■svith  Bargrave,  and  desired  him  to  write  an  agreement. 
In  June,  1G19,  Capt.  Ward,  in  the  ship  Sampson,  arrived  at  Mon- 
hegan,  for  the  purpose  of  fishing.  He  was  admitted  to  a  scut  in  the 
first  leglshature  of  1G19,  altliough  he  was  without  any  patent  from 
the  Virginia  Company,  "considering,"  says  the  journal  of  its  pro- 
ceedings, '"he  held  been  at  so  great  charge  and  pains  to  augment 
this  Colony,  and  had  adventured  his  own  person  in  the  action,  and 
since  that  time  had  brought  home  a  good  quantity  of  fish  to  relieve 
the  Colony." 

The  same  year,  Richard  Wiseman,  Nathaniel  Basse  and  other 
gentlemen  sent  out  Christopher  Lawne  to  establish  a  plantation,  wlio 
was  probably  the  person  of  that  name  who  had  been  one  of  the 
English  non-conformists  residing  in  Holland.  Lav^ne  represented 
his  settlement  in  the  legislature  of  July,  1619,  but  soon  after  died. 
Lawne's  Creek  preserves  his  name.  On  November  3,  1G20,  the 
London  Company,  upon  the  petition  of  Nathaniel  Basse  and  others, 
resolved  to  call  Lawne's  the  Isle  of  Wight  Plantation.  On  Novem- 
ber 21,  1621,  Edward  Bennett,  a  prominent  London  merchant,  who 
had  lived  at  Delft  in  Holland,  with  his  associates  Robert  and  Richard 
Wiseman,  Thomas  Ayres,  Thomas  and  Richard  Bennett,  determined 
to  extend  the  settlement  in  that  neighborhood. 

In  the  list  of  the  slain  by  the  Indians  in  March,  1621-22,  Waj- 
askoyak  is  called  Edward  Bennet's  Plantation. 

N^athaniel  Basse. 
Nathaniel  Basse  appears  in  the  census  of  1624  as  living  at  a  place 
called  Basse's  Choice.  He  had  removed  from  London  in  the  year 
1622,  and  arrived  in  July  in  the  ship  Furtherance.  At  the  time  of 
the  census  he  was  thirty-four  years  of  age,  and  had  been  a  resident 
of  Virginia  about  eighteen  months.  He  became  a  prominent  man, 
and  member  of  the  Council.  In  1632  he  was  authorized  to  invite 
those  of  New  England  who  "disliked  coldness  of  climate  or  barren- 
ness of  soil  to  settle  in  Delaware  Bay." 

Benjamin  Symmes. 
Benjamin  Symes  or  Symmes  was  another  resident  of  Basse's 
Choice,  and  was  thirty-two  years  of  age.  His  name  we  should  not 
"willingly  let  die,"  as  he  was  the  first  English  colonist  in  America 
who  made  a  bequest  for  the  establishment  of  a  free  school.  In  his 
■^'ill,  made  in  1634,  he  gave  two  hundred  acres  on  the  Poquoson  "with 
the  milk  and  increase  of  eight  cows,  for  the  maintenance  of  a  learned 
and  honest  man,  to  keen  upon  the  said  ground  a  free  school,  for  the 
education  and  instruction  of  the  children  of  the  adjoining  parishes  of 


■|  ;•>    1  Ji\\<*'Jie^ 


398  27'otes  on  American  History.  [Oct. 

'Elizabeth  City  iind  Kip^notan,  from  ]\Iary's  IMount  downward  to  tlio 
Poquoson  river."  The  autlior  of  a  ''Description  of  Yirgin'ui/' 
published  in  1G49,  writes  :  "I  may  not  forget  to  tell  you  we  liavc  a 
free  school  with  two  hundred  acres  of  land,  a  fine  house  upon  it, 
forty  milch  hiue,  and  other  accommodations  to  it.  The  benefactor 
deserveth  perpetual  mention,  ]Mr.  Benjamin  Symmes,  worthy  to  be 
chromcled." 

...  \  Rev.   William  Bennett. 

"William  Bennett  was  the  first  preacher  at  Warashoyak.  Tie 
came  in  1621  in  the  ship  "Sea  Flower,"  and  the  next  year  Catlia- 
rine,  his  wife,  twenty-two  years  of  age,  arrived  in  the  Abigail.  He 
died  about  the  year  1624,  leaving  a  widow  and  son  William  about 
three  weeks  old. 

Hohert  Bennett. 

Robert  Bennett,  one  of  the  proprietors  of  the  plantation,  is 
enrolled  as  residing  at  James  City,  and  soon  died.  There  is  a  war- 
rant preserved,  dated  November  20,  1623,  for  the  collection  of  tlie 
salary  of  William  Bennett,  minister  for  two  years,  from  the  estate 
of  Kobert  Bennett. 

"We  are  told  that  the  Rev.  Henry  Jacob,  a  graduate  and  scholar, 
the  founder  of  the  first  Congregational  church  in  London  in  1G34, 
resigned  his  pastorate,  and  went  to  Virginia  where  he  hoped  to  be 
more  useful,  where  he  soon  died.  Did  he  go  to  the  plantations  of 
Basse  and  Bennett,  citizens  of  London'?  Was  he  the  successor  of 
Rev.  Wm.  Bennett?  These  queries  cannot  be  answered  satisfactori- 
ly, but  as  the  Waraskoyak  people  were  of  puritan  sympathies,  there 
■was  probably  his  brief  period  of  service  before  death.  In  1641  a 
minister  who  had  been  preaching  in  the  Waraskoyak,  now  knoun  as 
the  Nansemond  and  Isle  of  Wight  districts,  resigned.  The  Virginia 
Assembly  of  1G42  divided  Nansemond  or  Upper  Norfolk  County 
into  three  parishes.  The  Act  published  in  Hening's  Statutes  has  the 
following  preamble. 

"  For  the  better  enabling  the  inhabitants  of  this  Colony  to  the  religious 
worship  and  service  of  Almighty  God  which  is  often  neglected,  and  slack- 
ened by  the  inconvenient  and  remote  vastness  of  parishes,  Resolved,  That  the 
County  of  Upper  Norfolk  be  divided  into  three  parishes." 

The  act  bounded  the  South  Parish  by  these  limits  :  on  the  south 
side  of  the  Nansemond  River,  from  the  glebe  to  the  head  of  the 
river;  and  on  the  other  side  of  the  stream,  from  Cooling's  Creek 
upward  to  the  head  of  the  west  branch  of  the  Nansemond. 

East  Parish  included  the  glebe  and  parsonage  house,  and  extended 
on  the  east  side  of  the  Nansemond  to  its  mouth. 

West  Parish  extended  on  the  west  side  from  Cooling's  Creek  to 
mouth  of  Nansemond,  including  the  Chuckatuck  on  both  sides. 


:    -J  ;/ 


1877.]  Notes  on  American  History.  399 

The  olJ  pnrsonage  was  in  the  East  Parish,  and  here  the  nephews 
v^  i''Jv\iud  l;ounol.t  resided.  There  appears  to  have  been  no  church 
huildinpf  at  tliat  time.  We  have  no  evidence  of  any  brick  church, 
before  A.D.  1638,  being  completed  anywhere  in  Virginia. 

Soon  after  these  parishes  were  authorized,  on  the  2Ith  of  May, 
Kichard  Dennett,  Daniel  Gookin  and  others  wrote  a  letter  to  tlic 
"Pastors  and  Elders  of  Christ  Churcli  in  New  England,"  in  wliich 
they  stated  that  each  of  the  new  parishes  was  willing  to  maintain  a 
pastor. 

One  William  Durand,  who  afterwards  secured  legislation  in  Mary- 
land recognizing  liberty  of  conscience,  wrote  to  Ilev.  John  Daven- 
port, of  New  Haven,  Ct.,  whom  he  had  known  in  London  as  Vicar 
of  St.  Stephens,  that  they  had  abandoned  the  idea  of  sending  to  Old 
England  for  ministers,  and  that  Philip  Bennett  had  gone  to  Boston 
to  procure  religious  teachers. 

•  In  October,  1642,  Rev.  John  Knowles,  a  ripe  scholar  of  Im- 
manuel  College,  Cambridge,  ^^lliam  Tompson,  who  had  been  an 
Oxford  student,  and  Thomas  James,  all  ministers  of  experience, 
eailed  for  Xew  Haven  to  take  charge  of  these  parishes. 

Churlish  Governor  Berkeley  had  an  act  passed  in  1644,  that  those 
who  did  not  conform  to  the  Book  of  Common  Prayer  should  not 
officiate  in  the  churches.  These  ministers  then  preached  in  barns 
and  private  houses,  to  as  large  congregations  as  they  had  in  the 
churches. 

John  TJtie. 

John  Utie  had  a  plantation  on  Hog  Island,  and  came  in  the 
Francis  Brown  Venturer,  while  Ann  his  wife  and  infant  son  came 
in  the  fall  of  1621,  in  the  Sea  Flower.  He  was  frequently  a  mem- 
ber of  the  House  of  Burgesses.  In  1637  he  was  called  to  London 
to  answer  charges  growing  out  of  opposition  to  Governor  Harvey. 
His  son  became  a  prominent  man  in  jNIaryland. 

Capt.  William  Peirce. 

Capt.  William  Peirce  was  one  of  the  ancient  colonists,  having 
been  one  of  the  passengers  in  tke  "  Sea  Venture,"  and  his  wile 
Joane  came  in  1610  in  the  "Blessing."  He  was  one  of  Governor 
Harvey's  opponents,  and  was  sent  to  London  in  1637  to  be  ex- 
amined.    He  had  a  plantarion  on  Mulberry  Island. 

Thomas  Purfray. 

Thomas  Purfray  or  Purify  was  forty-two  years  of  age,  and  came 
in  1621  in  the  "George.".  Young,  writing  of  his  friend  Governor 
Harvey,  in  July,  1634,  says  :  "He  hath  acquired  to  himself  extreme 
hatred  and  malice  from  all  the  rest  of  the  country,  to  whom  I  can 
only  find  two  of  this  Council  inditFerent,  the  one  of  them  called 
Captain  Purfree  a  soldier  and  a  man  of  an  open  heart." 


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1 

400  ITotes  on  American  ILstory.  [Oct.        j 

\ 
William  Ilnrwood.  | 

AVilllam  Ilarvvood  was  the  superintendent  of  the  plantation  of  \ 
Martin'o  Hundred,  seven  niilea  above  James  City,  on  the  north  side  '  \ 
of  James  Iviver.  He  arrived  in  the  ^larmaduke  in  Xovembcr,  1G21.  \ 
The  London  Company  introduced  liim  as  follows  :  "  The  adveuturerd  | 
of  Martin's  Hundred  intend  to  proceed  in  tlieir  plantation.  Tiicy  \ 
have  sent  twelve  lusty  youths  in  this  ship,  which  supply  they  will  1 
secure  with  a,  quota  of  forty  more  in  the  Magazine  Ship  very  sud-  J 
denly  to  follow.  Their  governor,  ]\lr.  Harwood,  is  engaged  to  ] 
acquaint  you  with  his  instructions,  to  v/hom  we  pray  you,  give  your  \ 
best  assistance."  This  plantation  was  named  after  Capt.  John  Mar-  1 
tin,  a  brother-in-law  of  Sir  Julius  Caisar,  Kt.  1 

Martin  arrived  at  Jamestown  in  1607  with  Capt.  Newport,  and  \ 
was  a  member  of  the  first  Council.  I'iqued  at  AVingfield  because  <! 
he  chided  him  for  indolence,  he  united  with  liatclitfe  and  John  Smith  .; 
in  depoiiug  liim.  Lord  Delaware  in  IGIU  made  him  superintendent  I 
of  contemplated  iron  works.  He  again  became  disallected,  and  I 
about  1612  published  a  pamphlet  derogatory  to  Virginia,  and  there-  I 
fore  was  removed  from  the  Council,  by  Lord  Delaware,  as  a  most  J 
unworthy  person.  ' 

In  October,  1618,  Martin  obtained  a  patent  which  was  never  duly  ; 
confirmed  by  the  Virginia  Company,  granting  him  extraordinary 
pri^-ileges.  His  tenants  were  exempted  from  the  control  of  the  | 
colonial  authorities,  except  in  case  of  war;  he  was  also  allowed  | 
unlimited  fishing,  and  to  enjoy  his  lands  in  as  large  and  __ample  | 
manner  as  the  lord  of  any  manor  in  England. 

Under  his  privileges  he  made  his  plantation  a  receptacle  of  vao-a- 
bonds,  bankrupts  and  disorderly  persons. 

Captain  Bargrave,  a  brother  of  the  Dean  o^  Canterbury,  estab- 
lished with  Capt.  AVard  the  first  private  plantation  in  Virginia,  and 
when  visiting  his  native  laud  left  his  aflfau's  in  charge  of  Martin,  who 
abused  the  trust. 

When  the  first  legislature  met  in  1619,  Capt.  Martin  sent  bur- 
gesses to  represent  his  people,  but  they  were  not  admitted,  as  he 
claimed  to  be  independent  of  the  Governor  and  Legislature  of  the 
colony.  At  the  same  assembly  John  Rolfe  complained  that  Martin 
"  taxeth  him  both  unseemly  and  amiss  of  certain  things  wherein  he 
was  never  faulty,  and  besides  casteth  some  aspersion  upon  the  pre- 
sent government." 

The  complaints  against  Martin  led  to  a  reorganization  of  his  plan- 
tation. The  Virginia  Company  on  Sept.  11,  1621,  write  to  the 
colonial  oflficers  : 

"The  Society  of  Martin's  Hundred,  whose  designs  by  many  misfortunes, 
as  well  here,  as  in  Virginia,  have  been  hitherto  cheeked,  do  now  2:0  forward 
cheerfully,  sending  a  supply  of  people  largely  furnished  with  all" necessary 
provisions.     The  succoring  and  cherishing  of  them  and  their  proceedings 


I.  'i 


The  Gates  Famihj.  401 

/V77  ' 

^/ij?  it'CODimcnd  *  *  *  *  anJ  in  j^articular  of  tho  inhaliitants  of  Wolstcn- 
li.^ipt''.s  Tow  11. 

"If  old  tenants  sliall  inikiuflly  refuse  to  eiiterlain  for  rnvhilc  th's  now 
comers  in  tlieir  liouses  .ve  (Ic-sii-e,  tl.at  by  your  commanil,  tlic-y  be  l.-illc-tijcl 
amongst  theai,  and  thoy  coiupellrd  to  be  eluuitable.  ^  *  *  *  *  r  xiie 
coinniaiid  and  oversight  of  these  people  they  have  committed  to  I\Ir.  Uichard 
Ke  i:ie,  uow  in  Virgiuia." 

Robert  Staples,  vriih  a  certificate  from  nearly  twenty  divines  as  to 
his  tcliolarship  and  coriversation,  was,  in  1622,  reconnncndcd  by  tiic 
Company  as  a  fit  minister  for  ]\Ianin's  Hundred. 

In  the  great  massacre  by  the  Indians  in  ]March,  1022,  liichiarl 
Staples,  a  brother  of  the  minister,  witli  his  Avifc,  children  and  ser- 
vants, Lt.  Keane,  tlic  superintendent,  and  about  seventy  others,  u\rc 
slaughtered,  and  it  is  probable  that  Kobert  Staples  by  this  sad  i)i- 
telliiience  was  deterred  from  ci'ossing  the  ocean. 


THE  GATES  FA^IILY. 

Communicateu  by  the  Hon.  Benjamin  A.  G.  Fcllkk,  A.M.,  of  Boston. 

T~^ROM"  certain  old  manuscripts  in  my  possession,  it  appears  thar  .'^te- 
_!.  pben  Gates,  the  second  oon  of  Thomas  Gates,  of  Norwich,  Nurioik 
County,  England,  came  to  tliis  country  in  1642,  and  settled  first  ut  Jliiij:- 
ham.  Mass.  TViih  him  came  his  wife,  two  sons,  Stephen  and  Simon,  and 
a  daughter  Elizabeth.  A  son  Thomas  and  a  daughter  Mary  (as  appears 
from  iiis  will,  though  she  is  not  named  in  any  other  of  the  papers)  were 
born  in  this  country.  He  removed  to  Nashaway  (Lancaster)  in  1053,  and 
became  one  of  the  largest  proprietors  of  the  town,  and  was  one  of  the  peti- 
tioners for  its  incorporation  in  liJo-L  He  subsequently  removed  to  Cam- 
bridge, wh  re  (as  shown  bv  his  will)  he  hired  a  farm,  and  where  he  died  in 
1GG2. 

This  will,  witnessed  by   Edmund  Augier  and  Esther  Sparhawke,  and 
proved  Oct.  7,  1662,  is  as  follows  : 

CaJlb^  y«  g""  of  y«  4'-^  :  1663.  I.  Stephen  Gates  being  sick  upon  my  bed,  but 
of  pi'fect  meinorie  Desire  to  Coinit  my  Soul  to  God  that  guue  it  in  a  hope  of  a  Joy- 
full  resurrection  and  my  body  to  be  comely  buried.  Aud  for  myother  Estate  my 
will  is  that  my  wife  and  my  son  Simon  continue  in  y«  place  where  God  bane  nov.-  set 
me  During  the  time  I  haue  in  it,  and  to  keep  the  stock  in  theire  hands  till  the  term 
is  out  and  to  pay  the  Rent  according  to  my  agreement ;  and  that  my  son  IIioukls  to 
continnue  with  them  as  long  as  he  please.  1  give  to  my  wife  a  Third  ot  my  I-:iniJs, 
and  all  the  rest  of  my  Estate  during  her  life.  "l  give  to  my  Son  Stephen  my  iiuu-^e 
and  mv  house  ioit  of  Twenty  acres  at  Nashaway  and  Twenty  acres  of  liitcry:ue 
Lands'and  all  my  Land  at  Hemp  Swamp  aud  all  my  Medow  at  Postepolekin.  Iht 
third  uf  these  Lands  being  excepted  asaboue  to  my  wife  during  her  lite.  Item.  I  give 
Three  hundred  and  fourteen  acres  of  Laud  wi*-''in  the  bounds  of  Nasl'.aw;iy,_  and  a 
parcell  of  Mtdow  at  Still  Liver  To  be  Divided  E.iually  between  Siiuon  k  Thuir.as. 
Item  my  mind  is  that  my  wife  Shall  give  a  Colt  of  a  year  old  unto  my  Daugiif^r 
Elizabeth  when  y'  Le.-eofy"  fl'arm  is  cut.  Item  my  will  is  that  }ny  wife  ■s.'vdc  to 
my  baui^htcr.  M;iry  Maynara  heiier  of  Two  years  old  when  y'  Leate  of  the  u.irm  ;.s 
out.  Item.  I  give  power  to  my  wife  to  dispose  of  all  tiie  St"Ck  and  my  moveaiiie?! 
when  fhe  die  amon::sr,  mv  Children  accordin;;  to  liei'  discretion.  Item  my  will  .'s 
that  Elizabeth  Lradshuw 'abide  w'!'  my  wife  her  Service  Ship  and  thiit  when  her 
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402  The  Gates  Family.  .  [Oct. 

time  is  out  my  wife  shnl!  put  her  in  a  double,  suit  of  apparell  and  glue  her  a  heifer 
a  year  (^lil.     i  appoint  my  wife  uud  luy  son  ^iuKJii  tu  bo  Executors. 

The  clesoeiidaiits  of  this  St:^pheii  are  quite  numerous,  and  the  manuscripts 
iu  iny  uossf-ssiun  show  us  follows  : 

i.     STE>'utN-  (flii,t  son  b.  in  En<;land),  settled  in  Stow  ;    m. ,  and  had  eiL[lit 

children  :  Stephen,^  Siiuoa,^  Thomas,^  Jsaac,^  JSathanid,^  Dunid,^  Rebec- 
ca,"^ Sarah. ^ 

ii.  SiMON^  (second  son  h.  in  En:ilnnd),  lived  at  \7inter  Hill;  m. ,  and  had 

Si/non,^  who  resided  in  Marlboro',  and  had  Hons  who  renided  in  Worcester  ; 
Amos,^  who  livfd  in  FiaminL^huLu  ;  .S.;//u/f7  ;=  [Jonathan,^  b.  in  Cambridge, 
1683,  and  d.  in  Worcester,  1756,  wile  Pcrsis*]. 

iii.  Thomas,-  resitied  at  Stow,  and  had  eleven  children,  viz.  :  John,^  of  Stow  (see 
below);    Jox.ph;^   Josiah  ;^    Caleb  ;^   Elizaheth,^  m.    Hohnes  ;   Sarah,^  d. 

unni.  :    Mary^-^  m. Rose  ;    Joanna.^  m.  Standish  ;  AJAydd,^  m. 

Forbes  ;   Anne,^  m. Tyler  ;   Ruth,^  m. Sandei-s.     Several  of 

these  resided  at  I'reston  and  Colchester,  Ct. 

JouN^  Gatks   {Thomas,'  Stephen^),  of  Stow,  had  five  cliilJren. 

i.     Hezej^-iah*  (see  below),  ^vho  settled  at  Lancaster,  Mass. 

ii.  Ei'iiSAiii.*        iii.  Samlli,.-        iv.  Joiin.*        v.  Mary.*        .AllofStov?. 

Hezekiah''  Gates  (Jolvi,^  Thomas,^  Stephnv),  had  seven  children. 

i.  Thomas,*  of  Lancaster.  i 

ii.  3L\RY,^  m. Kathhurn,  of  Colchester,  Ct.  .  . 

iii.  Elizai.eth,*  m. Leach,  of  Portsmouth,  N.  H. 

iv.  Dorothy,*  m.  Peter  Thurston,  of  Lancaster,  Mass. 

V.  Resecca,*  m. Houghton,  of         "  " 

vi.  Sarah,*  m. Elder,  of  Lancaster. 

vii.  An>e,*  m. Moore,  of  Lancaster. 

This  Hezekiah  Gates  was  a  large  landed  proprietor  of  Lancaster,  and 
owned  lands  which  had  belonged  to  his  great-grandfather  Stephen.  la 
1759  he  published  a  pamphlet  of  17  pages,  entitled, 

King  George's  Right  to  the  Crovra  of  Great  Britain  Displayed  ;  Being  a  Cullec- 
tion  from  History  from  the  tii>t  known  Times  to  the  present  year,  1769.  Jlxrracted 
for  the  B  notit  ot  those  in  the  Province  of  rvlassachusetts  Bay  who  have  not  Leisure 
to  study  History.  Shewing  it  to  be  the  Duty  of  ail  officers  and  others  to  defend  the 
Heirs  of  Sophia,  being  Protestants,  upon  the  British  Throne,  and  the  undoubttd 
Right  that  King  George  the  Third  hath  to  the  Crown  of  Great  Britain.  Printed 
by^Richard  Draper,  in  Newbury  Street,  Boston.    1789. 

Dorothy  Thurston,  dau.  of  Peter  and  Dorothy,  granddaughter  of  Heze- 
kiah Gates,  married  Josiah  Flagg,  of  Lancaster,  whose  daughter  Sally  still 
resides  there,  aged  about  85  years,  and  from  whom  these  papers  hare  come 
into  my  hands.  To  save  these  loose,  detached  memoranda  from  oblivion, 
I  have  put  them  in  shape,  and  send  them  to  the  Register  for  preserva- 
tion, if  perchance  of  interest  and  value. 

It  is  proper  for  me  to  add  that  said  Hezekiah,  notwithstanding  the  ll'ls^ 
of  his  pamphlet  may  suggest  a  doubt,  was  wholly  patriotic  in  the  days  of 
the  Kevolutlon,  and  in  1777  was  elected  by  the  town  of  Lancaster  as  one 
of  the  "  Committee  of  Safety  and  Correspondence." 

*  The  addition  within  brackets  is  made  on  the  authority  of  a  mantiscript  genealogical 
record  ccmpilcd  by  Gaidiner  Fair.o  Gatf^,  of  W'if^t  Newton,  and  placed  by  him  in  mc 
archives  ot  the  New-En;,'land  n;-.-Curr',',  Gcm.'alu^'ical  Societ}-.  In  tiiis  mauuaoriiit  the  descent 
of  the  compiler  is  thus  jrivon  ;  Stephen^  Gates  of  Hinghaoi,  Simon,*  Jonathan,-^  Jonathan,*^ 
Paul,^  ^athaniel,^  Garditier  P.' — En. 


i.^Vl 


I   ,» 


1877.]  Could  Putnmv  command  at  Bunher  ITill  1  403 


COULD  GEXEKAT.  PUTX.UI  COMMAND  AT 
BUNKEIl   IIILLV 

A  paper  read  before  the  Ne'w -England  IIi.stoiuc,  Genealogical  Societt,   May  2.1877. 
by  Col.  Francis  J.  Pakker,  of  Newton,  Mass. 

rf^IIE  question  of  the  command  at  Bunker  Hill  is  one  of  loniurk- 
X  able  vitalitv.  Tiie  debate  concerning  it  lias  comprised  c\ery 
variety  of  contention.  It  lias  included  the  opinions  of  soldiers,  has 
fitirreil  the  pasi:-ions  of  jjoHticians,  has  developed  the  ingenuity  of 
advocates  and  has  occupied  the  pages  of  great  histories. 

A  late  chief-justice  of  New  Hampshire,  on  learning  that  the  case 
next  on  his  trial  list  was  one  concerning  flowage,  said,  "  Oh  !  then 
I  know  all  about  it.  There  will  come  a,  certain  number  of  old  men 
who  \\  ill  declare  upon  their  oaths  that  at  a  certain  time  they  were 
catching  fish  at  a  certain  spot,  on  wliich  the  same  number  of  men  of 
like  age  ^vill  depose  that  they  were  at  that  very  time  hoeing  or  har- 
vesting a  crop  of  Indian  corn  70  bushels  to  the  acre."  The  case 
of  Bunker  Hill  is  analogous.  About  1818  to  1825,  testiimniy 
of  eye-witnesses  was  abundant  on  every  point  connected  v.ith  the 
■discussion  and  on  each  side  of  every  assertion.  If  one  party  were 
to  be  believed,  General  Putnam  was  the  alpha  and  omega  of  the 
battle  and  always  commanding ;  but  if  the  other  side  were  to  be 
credited,  he  was  never  there  at  all,  except  that  late  in  the  day  he  \v-as 
skulking  behind  the  great  hill,  presiding  over  the  great  army  of  terri- 
fied bummers  who  occupied  that  important  position. 

Throwing  out  all  of  that  nineteenth  century  testimony,  there  is 
not  a  particle  of  direct  evidence  that  Putnam  exercised  the  command 
of  the  provincials  in  the  battle  of  Charlestown.  On  the  contrary, 
when  he  is  harrowing  up  the  feelings  of  the  Cambridge  committee 
less  than  a  year  after  the  battle,  by  recounting  his  deeds  and  sutftr- 
ings  in  their  behalf,  he  does  not  fail  to  say  that  he  took  possession 
of  Prospect  Hill  the  very  night  after  the  fight,  but  he  not  only  does 
not  say  anything  about  what  he  did  in  the  fight,  but  declares  that 
what  he  did  at  Prospect  Hill  was  "  without  orders  from  any  person." 
If  the  commanding  officer  at  the  fight  had  halted  and  turned  at  bay 
at  Prospect  Hill  and  there  held  his  position,  he  would  hardly  have 
said  that  he  had  orders  from  no  person  to  do  so,  for  it  would  have 
been  in  the  line  of  liis  previous  authority.  It  seems  to  me  tiiat 
Putnam's  letter  to  the  Cambridge  committee  is  substantially  his  own 
testimony  that  he  did  not  command  in  the  battle  at  Charlestown. 

When  I  read  what'his  son  and  orrandson  declare  were  General 
Putnam's  assertions  in  his  feeble  age  as  to  his  pcrtcrmances  at 
Charleotown,  I  begin  to  fear  that  at  the  same  time  of  Hk-  I  may  put 
forward  a  claim  to  have  commanded  the  Army  of  the  IViti.mac  for 
at  least  two  of  its  campaigns.     The  truth  is,  that  in  so  far  as  there 


:  I 


404  Could  Puinam  command  at  Bunker  Hill  ?  [Oct. 

can  be  said  to  have  been  any  coniuian.ler  in  tlie  battle,  that  com- 
mander was  AViUiam  Prcscott,  and  if  he  ^Yas  not  the  commander 
there  was  no  comni;iiider  there. 

But  these  rutnamitcs  die  hard— old  soldiers'  yarns,  notoriously 
the  result  of  a  growth  by  evolution,  have  been  made  to  do  duty 
as  evidence,  for  want  of  better ;  these  have  been  bolstered  by  other 
fictions  such  as  those  about  ^Vlajor  Small  of  the  marmes,  and  tlic 
whole,  coated  over  with  a  meringue  of  patriotic  declamation,  has 
done  duty  as  popular  history. 

But  facts  are  also  touuh,  and  the  best  array  of  accumulated  errors 
of  memory  or  fabrications  of  story  has  met  a  solid  wall  of  tact  which 
cannot  bo  overcome,  and  this  wall  is  constructed  of  such  stones  as 
these:— 1.  The  known  jealousy  existing  between  the  different  pro- 
vinces and  their  represeutatives"'in  the  army  in  front  of  Boston. _  2. 
The  military  impossibility  of  rank  giving  command,  without  rcquinn^g 
o];cdIunce.  3.  Tlie  orders  of  Connecticut,  as  well  as  Rhode  Island, 
given  directly  after  the  battle,  by  which,  for  the  first  time,  the  armies 
of  those  provinces  were  put  under  General  Ward's  orders.  4.  Ihc 
fact  that  General  Putnam's  own  regiment  did  not  go  to  Bunker 
Hill,  if  it  went  at  all,  on  General  Ward's  order,  but  on  Putnam's, 
and  then  only  at  tlie  last  moment. 

In  view  of  all  the  facts  I  have  felt  justified  in  stating  it  as  an  es- 
tablished and  insuperable  objection  to  the  claim  of  General  Putnam, 
that 

"General  Putnam  owin^  no  obedience. to  the  commanding  general,  and 
having  no  claim  to  rank  in  the  Massachusetts  army,^  could  not  have 
commanded  Massachusetts  soldiers  on  Massachusetts  soil." 

But  now  comes  the  Rev.  Increase  N.  Tarbox  and  writes  a  biog- 
raphy of  General  Ptitnam,  and  quotes  my  proposition  as  a  prepos- 
terous absurdity  and  as  an  illustration  of  "Massachusetts  haugh- 
tiness," and  declares  not  only  that  he  cotdd  command  but  that 
he  actually  did  command  Massachusetts  troops  on  Massachusetts 
soil,  and  gives  four  or  five  instances  in  support  of  this  assertion,  which 
instances  I  shall  presently  discuss. 

But  first,  in  order  that  I  may  disabuse  the  Doctor's  mind  pf  the 
idea  that  there  is  any  :Massachusetts  haughtiness  involved  in  my 
asserted  point,  let  me  make  it  by  inversion  and  say,  that  at  the  same 
time  and  under  similar  circumstances  Major-General  Ward,  owing  no 
obedience  to  the  authorities  of  Connecticut,  could  not  have  com- 
manded Connecticut  troops  on  Connecticut  soil. 

Then  as  to  the  absurdity  of  the  theory  which  the  biographer 
denounces,  declarinir  that  the  besieging  force  was  one  army  and  not 
four  armies,  and  that  the  people  of  tliat  day  looking^  upon  those 
camps  did  not  talk  of  the  Connecticut  army  or  the  :\rassachusetts 
army,  but  that  it  was  called  the  American  army,  let  me  say,  thattne 
people  of  those  times,  represented  by  the  Boston  Giizette  of  June  5, 


t*-.. .". 


1877.]  Could  Putnam  command  at  JBunlcer  Hill  9  405 

1775,  loukinj:;  utjoii  the  Chel-«ca  allnir  said,  that  the  troops  on  one 
side  were  partly  of  the  Xc^v  llainpthh'e  forces  and  partly  tlir  Massa- 
chusetts forces.'  The  rruvincial  Cougro?s  gave  passcb  adihesscd  t«) 
the  generals  of  rlie  Massaciiusetts  army,  and  coiumi-.?ii>ii(,d  (i.n.-  ral 
Vv^ard  as  iMajor-Gcneral  of  the  Massachusetts  army.  The  aufli'>ri- 
ties  of  Xew  linmpshire  by  express  orders  placed  theu-  tr(j(>ps  undi  r 
General  Ward's  counnand.  The  regulations  of  the  "  Rhcde  Is- 
land army  of  observation,"  under  General  Greene,  j)rovldcd  tiiat 
all  stores  and  materials  captured  should  be  retained  f(.r  tiio  une 
of  that  colony;  and  as  I  have  said,  in  the  very  case  of  Coniun-ticiit 
after  the  battle,  perhaps  because  of  son\e  incident  in  the  battle.^  the 
war  committee  and  the  governor  gave  explicit  orders  that  their  ofhrcra 
should  render  obedience  to  the  commanding  general  in  ^lassachu-cttrf 
while  serving  there.  Xow  if  there  had  been  no  occasion  for  is.niing 
this  Connectkut  order  it  woidd  not  have  been  issued  ;  if  there  was 
any  occasion  for  issuing  it,  it  demonstrates  the  fact  that  on  the  day  ot 
the  battle  General  Putnam  did  not  owe  obedience  to  General  A\  ard, 
and  "  it  goes  without  saying,''  as  the  French  say,  that  if  he  owed  no 
obedience  he  could  exercise  no  command  beyond  what  Connecticut 
gave  him,  namely,  his  own  regiment.  Let  it  be  added  that  there  is 
no  record  of  any  order  prior  to^July  4,  1775,  addressed  by  any  oiru-cr 
of  one  province'^to  any  officer  of  another  province,  except  from  ]^lassa- 
chusetts  to  New  Haiiipshu-e,  and  the  Xew  Hampshire  troops  were 
placed  under  Ward's  orders  by  special  command  of  their  o\\u 
authorities. 

I  do  not  blame  Dr.  Tarbox  for  contesting  ray  theory,  for,  unless  it 
can  be  demolished,  there  is  no  case  for  Putnam  ;  but  I  have  shown 
that  the  facts  are  against  his  theory  of  the  absolute  oneness  of  the 
army  aboit  Boston",  and  I  now  proceed  to  consider  his  assertion  that 
the  facts  are  against  ray  theory  that  Putnam  could  not  conmKm(l 
here  at  that  time.  Dr.  T.  says  that  he  did  exercise  coramand,  and 
cites  these  five  instances  in  support  of  his  assertion. 

1.  That  General  Putnam  was  a  member  of  the  Council  of  War,  aud 

that  his  rank  was  recognized  thereby. 

2.  That  it  was  a  part  of  his  daily  life  to  command  Massachusetts  anU 

New  Hampshire  officers,  in  the  camp  at  Cambridge. 

3.  That  he  did  command  a  body  of  2200  men,  whomarched  trom  Lam- 

bridge  to  Charlestown  and  back,  jMay  13,  1775. 

4.  That  he  was  concerned  in  the  exchange  of  prisoners,  Jun_o_n,  1  w.j. 

5.  That  he  commanded  in  the  fight  at  Chelsea,  March  'li.lito. 

Let  us  take  these  up  seriatim  :  and 

First.     As  to  the  Councils  of  AVar. 

Mr.  Tarbox  entertains  the  idea  that  none  but  generals  cnnposcd 
the  Council  of  AVar.  The  persons  composing  the  Council  oi  \\  ar, 
April  20,  were  three  entitled  generals,  six  colonels,  and  six.  liLiit.- 
colonels.  General  Spencer  and  General  Putnam  were  commanders 
of  regiments,  just  as  Prescott  was.  If  Connecticut  chose  to  caU 
VOL.  XXXI.         36* 


406  Coidd  Putnam  command  at  Bunher  IIlll  7  [Oct.       \ 

its  battalion  commnnders  generals,  why  sliould  they  rank  above  \ 
officers  exercising  precisely  the  same  command  in  the  Massachu-  \ 
setts  line  -vvlio  were  commissioned  as  colonels?  General  Ward,  wlio  ] 
was  the  only  Massachusetts  commissioned  general  officer  June  IG,  || 
would  hardly  desire  to  sit  alone  in  council  and  woukl  summon  to  | 
it  those  next  in  rank.  ^\'ard,  Greene,  Folsoin  and  Spencer  as  the  | 
senior  otlicers  of  the  four  armies  were  practically  equals,  but  there  | 
were  no  brigades  and  no  brigadiers,  and  the  next  rank  to  theirs  was  f 
that  of  regimental  commanders,  and  no  doubt  such  of  them  as  could  i 
attend  were  invited,  whether  they  were  called  general  or  colonel.  5 

The  army  before  Boston  was  an  allied  army,  bound  together  by  | 
patriotic  fervor  and  common  interests,  but  troubled  by  jealousies  | 
between  officers  and  men  of  the  different  contingents  comprising  | 
it,  as  allied  armies  were  always  wont  to  be.  The  preeminence  of  | 
course  was  in  ^Massachusetts,  for  it  was  her  territory  that  was  occu- 
pied by  the  army,  and  her  authority,  such  as  it  was,  extended  over 
all  who  were  on  her  soil.  In  all  allied  armies  careful  courtesy  is 
observed  between  the  officers,  and  by  that  courtesy  the  higher  officers 
of  each  army  should  be  invited  to  councils  of  war.  A  council  is  not, 
however,  a  place  where  authority  is  exercised,  but  the  officers  being 
called  to  consultation  every  one  has  just  that  weight  which  his  judg- 
ment and  ability  give  hini  in  influencing  the  body. 

This  is  the  common  sense  of  it,  and  as  for  the  fact  we  know  that 
Lieut. -Colonel  Henshaw  was  not  only  a  member  of  the  council  but 
was  chairman  of  one  of  its  sub-committees.  And  so  vanishes  Dr.  T.'a 
idea  that  the  council  must  have  been  composed  entirely  of  generals, 
or  that  Putnam's  presence  at  a  council  indicated  his  rank  for  com- 
mand. I  shall  show  that  there  is  some  reason  to  doubt  whether  he 
did  attend  upon  the  councils. 

/Second.     As  to  the  camp  at  Cambridge. 

Daniel  Putnam  seems  to  argue  that  because  the  officers  of  the 
grand  rounds  were  taken  partly  from  the  Connecticut  troops, 
therefore  General  Putnam  must  have  had  authority  over  the  v.'hole 
camp  at  Cambridge  ;   but  this  does  not  follow. 

What  I  have  said  of  the  courtesy  to  be  observed  between  allies 
applies  in  full  force  to  the  division  of  honors  in  the  camp  details,  and 
it  can  hardly  be  needful  to  argue  that  the  camp  duties  in  an  allied 
camp  must  be  shared  proportionably  as  well  as  the  honors.  The 
sentinels  were  for  the  protection  of  the  contingents  of  all  the  prov- 
inces in  that  camp,  and  should  have  been — must  have  been — and 
were  detailed  from  all. 

The  number  of  subalterns  and  of  men  to  be  furnished  from  each 
regiment  was  probably  fixed  by  agreement,  and  the  number  being 
fixed,  the  quotas  could  be  detailed  by  the  commander  of  each  regi- 
ment, and  as  some  authority  must  be  permitted  to  tell  off  the  chief 
officials  for  each  day,  the  duty  fell,  not  by  right  of  command  but 
by  military  courtesy,  to    General  Ward,    and  accordingly  all   the 


..ii'L 


t<   (j< 


..I  1,'jt'i 


1877].  Could  Putnam  command  at  Banher  Hill  ?  407 

details  of  chiefa  for  camp  duty  appear  iq)on  Iiis  orderly-book, 
and  include  the  field  oHicers  of  the  various  re;L,^iuu'nis  coniprisiti"' 
the  camp,  excepting  only  General  Putnam.  It  would  be  t-urprisin" 
if  any  instance  could  be  adduced  of  allies  so  situated,  ho\ve\cr  inde- 
pendent one  of  another,  where  residrs  were  not  the  p^uine.  If  (Tcwtral 
Putnam  was  on  duty  as  a  brigadier  over  the  troops  encamped  at 
Cambridge,  of  course  the  orders  of  the  commanding  general  tiMcrtin"" 
those  troops  would  be  addressed  to  Putnam  or  promulgated  thnnigfi 
him,  and  the  officers  of  the  day,  the  guard  and  fatigue  parties  would 
be  detailed  by  him.  I  haA-e  already  said  that  such  details  were  made 
by  Ward,  and  I  shall  hereafter  show  that  he,  by  direct  orders  to 
the  colonels,  sent  Massachusetts  troops  from  that  camp  on  detached 
service. 

Third.     As  to  the  march  to  Charlestown,  May  13,  177;k 

The  story  as  told  by  INIr.  Prothingham  is  almost  incredible.  Tfie 
authority  cited  by  him  is  Baldwin's  diary,  which  1  have  not  hern  ablo 
to  examine.  It  is  confirmed  by  the  diary  of  a  British  officer  in 
Boston,  recently  published  in  the  Atlantic  Monthly,  but  the  stury 
itself  is  hard  to  believe. 

That  there  should  have  been  a  march  like  that  described  by  Daniel 
Putnam,  which  was  limited  to  parading  about  on  the  high  grounds  at 
Charlestown,  is  quite  credible ;  but  that  2000  to  3000  raw  troops 
drawn  out  to  a  long  and  thin  line  should  have  been  marched 
down  into  Charlestown  village,  directly  under  the  guns,  and  witliin 
musket  shot  of  a  man-of-war,  can  be  really  believed  only  by  believ- 
ing also  that  the  commander  of  the  detachment  was  an  idiot  or  in- 
sane. It  w^as  not  a  reconnoissance  in  force,  for  the  committee  of 
the  council  of  war  had  reported  only  the  day  befjre  the  result  of 
tLeir  re  ^oniioissance  made  without  force. 

The  reason  given  by  Frothinghara  is,  that  it  might  inspire  the  army 
with  confidence  ;  but  I  do  not  hesitate  to  express  the  opinion  that  it", 
as  should  have  been  expected,  the  British  man-of-war  had  opened  it.^ 
guns  upon  the  detachment,  the  party  would  have  been  ins[)ircd  with 
a  very  proper  desu'e — 1st,  to  get  Bunker  Hill  between  them  and  the 
guns  at  the  earliest  possible  moment ;  and  2nd,  to  tar  and  feather  the 
commander  who  had  led  or  permitted  them  to  be  led  into  such  a 
preposterous  position. 

But  I  have  found  no  proof  that  it  was  General  Putnam  who  com- 
mitted this  act  of  folly,  if  it  was  committed  at  all.  Xol)ody  that  I 
can  find  among  original  authorities  says  that  he  commanded  then  and 
there,  and  besides  he  was  in  favor  of  keeping  the  legs  of  his  men 
covered,  and  was  careful  of  life. 

Daniel  Putnam,  reporting  in  1825  some  yarns  of  the  General's 
later  years,  does  say  that  at  one  time  General  \\'ard  peruiittoil  Lri;n- 
eral  Putnam  to  march  most  of  the  army  from  Camijridge  to  (Charles- 
town for  the  purpose  of  a  reconnoissance,  but  the  story,  like  all  of 
those  with  which  it  is  associated  by  Daniel  Putnam,   is  probably 


I        >f .  » 


408  Gould  Putnam  command  at  Bunlcer  Ilill  7  [Oct. 

untrue,  and  if  true  refers  to  some  other  affair  between  June  6  and 
16,  of  wliich  nobody  eltse  ever  licurd. 

Whatever  was  therefore  the  cliaracter  of  the  parade  or  tlie  extent 
of  it,  there  is  a  failure  in  proof  that  General  Putnam  eornmanded 
Massachusetts  troops,  or  even  his  own  regiment  in  connection  with 
it,  and  there  is  weii^hty  evidence  to  prove  that  he  was  not  even 
present  on  that  occasion  at  all,  which  evidence  I  shall  presently  adduce. 

Fourth.     As  to  the  exchange  of  prisoners,  June  <J,  1775. 

Dr.  Tarbox  thinks  he  sees  evidence  of  General  l*utnam*.s  authority 
to  command  ^lassachusctts  troops  in  his  presence  on  this  occasion, 
but  I  see  in  it  no  scintilla  of  sucli  evidence. 

The  only  body  of  troops  present  to  be  conmiaudcd  by  any  one 
was  Captain  Chester's  company  from  Wethersfield,  Connecticut, 
Eelected  no  doubt  because  they  were  neatly  uniformed,  well  equipped 
and  tolerably  well  disciplined,  and  would  therefore  be  likely  to  give 
to  the  British  ofHcers  a  better  impression  of  their  enemy  than  any 
other  body  from  the  camp  at  Cambridge.  Being  Connecticut  troops, 
it  would  not  do  to  send  a  Massachusetts  ofticer,  and  General  Putnam 
was  selected  as  being  the  highest  Connecticut  ofHcer  at  that  camp, 
and  perhaps  also  as  being  one  well  known  to  many  of  the  British. 
Dr.  Warren,  the  highest  civil  officer  of  ^Massachusetts,  represented 
the  province  at  the  exchange,  which  seems  to  have  been  a  jolly  good 
time. 

Out  of  this  matter,  however,  there  comes  a  notable  piece  of  evi- 
dence concerning  the  chief  matter  under  our  present  consideration,  to 
which  I  have  already  alluded.  Daniel  Putnam's  letter,  1825,  gives, 
in  connection  with  his  account  of  the  exchange,  one  of  his  dramatic 
stories.  "One  afternoon,"  he  says,  "as  Putnam  had  been  marking 
out  a  new  line  on  which  his  men  had  just  commenced  work,  Col. 
Prescott  and  Col.  Gardiner  came  up.  'I  wish.  General,'  said  Pres- 
cott,  'your  men  were  digging  nearer  Boston.'  Putnam  replied  that 
he  wished  so  too,  and  hoped  ere  long  we  should  all  be  of  one  mind." 

"Next  day  [after  the  excliange  of  prisoners  which  was  June  G],  there 
was  quite  a  levee  of  oHicers  at  Putnam's  quarters  to  talk  about  the  exchange, 
&c.  He  related  to  them  all  the  particulars,  and  turning  to  Col.  Prescott 
said, '  Colonel,  I  saw  ground  yesterday  that  may  suit  your  purpose.  I  suppose 
you  have  not  forgotten  your  remark  of  the  other  day  about  digging;  but 
more  of  this  another  time.'  Prescott  called  in  the  evening,  and  they  walked 
out  together ;  for  several  succeeding  days  he  was  at  Putnam's  quarters,  and 
they  were  in  private  conversation." 

Daniel  goes  on  to  quote  his  father's  later  statements  on  this  point, 
to  the  effect :  That  he  had  at  various  times  conversed  with  both 
civil  and  military  characters  on  the  subject,  some  of  whom  were  in 
favor  of  the  measure,  but  more  against  it.  That  he  htid  mentioned 
it  to  some  of  the  Committee  of  Safety,  and  to  two  members  of  Con- 
gress at  Watertowu,  but  found  little  encouragement  from  either. 
That  he  had  once  pressed  the  consideration  of  the  subject  upon  Gen- 


'.:■    "J 


.ly  '.(   c   as 


1877.]  Could  Putnam  command  at  BunJcer  Ilill  9  409 

ernl  Wtird,  who  discountenanced  it,  but  afterwards,  at  his  particular 
request,  permitted  him  to  march  most  of  the  army  f-om  Caml>rid^'C 
to  Charlestown,  when  he  again  examined  the  ground  more  minutely. 
And  he  adds,  "It  was  not^long  after  this  that  a  council  of  war,  at 
which  Warren  was  present,  determined  to  fortify  liunkcr  Hill." 

Here  Col.  Prescott  is  represented  as  first  suggesting  to  I'utnam 
that  it  was  desirable  to  be  digging  nearer  to  Boston,  and  so 
impressing  Putnam  with  the  originality  of  the  idea,  that  when  he 
went  to  Charlestown  under  the  cartel,  June  G,  and  apparently  for 
the  first  time  observed  the  topography  of  that  peninsula,  he  is  re-  ] 

minded  of  Prescott's  remark,  and  consults  with  him,  and  for  several  ,j 

succeeding  days  confers  with  him  in  private  apropos  to  the  same.  > 

This  view  of  the  case  makes  it  absolutely  clear  that  the  march  to  \ 

Charlestown,  four  weeks  previous,  was  not  a  reconnoissance  by  Gen.  | 

Putnam,  and  is  good  evidence  tending  to  show  that  it  was  on  the  j 

6th  of  June  that  Putnam  saw  the  easterly  slope  of  Bunker's  llill 
for  the  first  time,  and  consequently  that  he  was  not  even  present 
with  the  colunm  on  its  march.  May  13. 

But  there  is  another  view  of  this  which  is  quite  surprising,  name- 
ly, that  Gen.  Putnam  appears  to  have  been  conversing  with  mditary 
and  civil  characters,  and 'even  getting  permission  from  Geii.  ^^  ard  , 

to  make  a  reconnoissance  with  a  view  to  the  occupation  of  Charles-  \ 

town  peninsula,  and  receiving  no  intimation  from  the  Committee  of  5 

Safety,  members  of  the  Provincial   Congress,  the  General  ot  the  | 

Massachusetts  army,  or  even  from  Col.  Prescott  in  his  private  con-  | 

sultations,  that  the  thing  which  he  was  urging  upon  them  as  the  | 

child  of  his  own  brain  and  creature  of  his  own  military  genius,   ha-i  | 

been  long  before  the  subject  of  debate  and  action  in  the  Committee  | 

of  Safety,  the  Congress  at  Watertown  and  the  Council  of  "\\  ar.  | 

Nobody  would  seem  to  have  told  the  dear  old  gentleman  that  a  | 

month  before  he  saw  the  ground  so  well  adapted  to  Col.  Prescott  3  | 

purpose,  the  erection  of  fortifications  there  had  been  a  subject  di3-  « 

cussed  by  the  civil  and  military  authorities,  and  that  twenty-five  days  . 

before,  a  joint  committee,  having  personally  reconnoitred  the  locality,  , 

reported  a  recommendation  throuoh  their  chairman,  a  mere  lieuten- 
ant colonel,  that  Bunker  Hill  should  be  fortified.  Was  it  indeed 
the  fact  that  such  matters  were  kept  concealed  from  Gen.  1  utnama 
knowledge,  or  may  we  rather  admit  that  all  of  these  statements  aro 
of  the  class  known  as  old  soldiers'  stories  ? 

Fifth. — Concerning  the  Noddle's  Island  affiiir. 
Frothin-^ham  cites  no  authority  for  his  account,  and  we  may  ilis- 
miss  it  from  our  consideration,  because  there  are  accounts  quite  tuU 
and  distinct,  and  undoubtedly  contemporary.  The  account  m 
Force's  Amcricnn  Archives  is  equally  without  mention  ot  autho- 
rity; but  Dr.  Tarbox  quotes  it  largely,  evidently  ior^  two  rea- 
sons :  1st,  that  it  describes  the  troops  engaged  as  the  American 
army,"  which  accords  with  his  theory  of  the  unity  of  the  besiegmg 


410  Could  Putnam  command  at  Bunher  Hill  ?  [Oct.         1 

\ 
force,   a  theory  which  is  absohitely  necessary  if  one  must  maintain  | 

that  Gen.   ruLuaiu   couuuamlcd  at   Bunker   Hill;   and   2J,  because  \ 

this  account  mentions  Gen.  Putnam  as  being  present,  although  only 
after  nine  o'clock  in  the  evening. 

Notwithstanding  the  use  of  t!)at  uncommon  phrase,  the  "  Ameri- 
can army,"  I  am  inclined  to  believe,  from  internal  evidence,  that 
this  account  is  contem[)oraneous,  and  it  is  probahlc  that  Putnam  did 
go  to  Clielsea  with  the  reint'orcement  of  three  hundred  men  and  two 
pieces  of  cannon,  which  arrived  about  nine  o'clock  in  the  evening ; 
but  there  is  one  full  and  certainly  contemporary  account  to  be  found 
in  the  columns  of  the  Boston  Gazette,  which  reads  as  follows  :        -  « 

On  the  ITth  (27)  ult.  as  a  Party  of  the  Massachusetts  Forces,  together  \ 

vfi1\\  a  party  of  the  New  Hampshire  Forces,  in  all  about  GOO,  were  attempt-  | 

ing  to  bring  oti"  the  Stock  upon  Hog  Island,  and  about  30  men  upon  Nod-  \ 

die's  Island  were  doing  the  same,  about  a  hundred  Eegulars  landed  upon  the  | 

last  mentioned  and  pursued  our  Men  till  they  had  got  safely  back  to  Hog  | 

Island;  then  the  Regulars  began  to  fire  very  briskly  by  Platoons  upon  our  \ 

Men.     In  tlie  mean   time  an  armed   Schooner  with  a   number  of  Barges  i 

came  up  to  Hog  Island  to  prevent  our  people's  leaving  said  Island,  which  \ 

she  could  not  effect ;  after  that  several   Barges  were   towing  her  back  to  j 

her  Station,  as  there  was  Httle  wind  and  Hood  tide.     Our  people  put  in  a  | 

heavy  Fire  of  small  arms  upon  the  Barges,  and  two  3  Pounders  coming  up 
to  our  assistance  began  to  play  upon  them,  and  soon  obliged  the  Barges  to 
quit  her  and  to  carry  oif  her  crew ;  after  which  our  people  set  Fire  to  her, 
although  the  Barges  exerted  themselves  very  vigorously  to  prevent  it.  She 
was  burnt  upon  the  way  of  WinisimeL  Ferry. 

We  have  not  lost  a  single  Life,  although  the  Engagement  was  very  warm 
from  the  armed  Schooner  (which  mounted  four  G  Pounders  and  12  Swi- 
vels), from  an  armed  Sloop  that  lay  within  Peach  of  small  Arms,  from  one 
or  two  12  Pounders  upon  Noddle's  Island,  and  from  the  Barges  which  were 
all  fixed  with  Swivels. 

Hog  Island  was  swept  of  its   Stock,  and  some  was  taken  from  Noddle's 
Island. 
■    Two  or  three  Persons  only  of  our  Men  were  wounded,  but  not  mortally. 

How  many  of  the  Enemy  were  killed  and  wounded,  we  cannot  ascertain. 
We  have  got  into  our  hands  all  on  the  schooner  that  was  not  destroyed  by 
fire.     *     *     *     \_Boston  Gazette,  June  5,  1775. 

It  will  be  observed  that  in  this  account  the  troops  engaged 
are  described  as  partly  New  Hampshire  forces  and  partly  >\Ias- 
sachusetts  forces,  which  ^Ir.  Tarbox  claims  was  a  style  of  language 
which  we  do  not  find  in  the  writings  of  that  period.  It  will  also  be 
noticed  that  it  does  not  even  mention  the  name  of  Putnam,  or  inti- 
mate his  presence  on  the  occasion. 

The  affair  grew  out  of  the  action  of  the  Massachusetts  Commit- 
tee of  Safety,  who  two  or  three  weeks  earlier  had  recommended  the 
expedition,  placed  the  execution  of  it  in  the  hands  of  the  selectmen 
of  Chelsea,  Maiden,  ]Medford  and  Lynn,  and  the  Committees  of 
Correspondence  of  the  same  towns,  and  had  authorized  them  to  call 
upon  the  troops  at  Medford,  who  were  New  Hampshire  troops,  but 
placed  under  Ward's  orders,  for  assistance  in  carrying  out  the  project. 


J.  "I  01 


...  :1 


>llC.4ii- 


1877.]  Could  Putnam  command  at  Bunher  Hill  7  411 

It  was  a  raid  upon  the  cattle  on  Xoddle's,  Hog  and  Snake  Islands. 
The  troops  forded  the  ciiaunel  before  Chelsea  in  the  late  ebb  tide,  and 
succeeded  in  dri\  ir.;^-  of!  from  Hog  Island  a  large  number  of  beasts 
before  the  flood  ■was  too  high.  The  raiding  party  was  covered  by 
a  small  body  of  soldiers  on  Noddle's  Island,  who  repulsed  tlic  ma- 
rines sent  to  attack  it.  The  loss  on  the  British  sidu  was  two  killed, 
and  perhaps  four  wounded.  Not  a  man  of  the  Americans  was  killed. 
A  small  vessel  sent  to  prevent  the  return  of  the  provinei.ds  to  the 
main  land,  getting  becalmed  in  the  strait  betwLxt  the  islands  and  the 
main,  drifted  up  on  the  flood  tide,  grounded,  was  abandoned  by  it.'S 
crew,  and  captured  and  burned  by  the  raiders.  It  was  a  bri-^ht, 
smart  and  successful  atfair,  and  did  much  good  by  in.-piritinL,'  and 
giving  confidence  to  the  rebels,  and  the  property  captured  was  valu- 
able to  them. 

It  is  not  easy  to  criticize  on  any  military  principles  an  expedition 
which  was  ordered  by  a  civilian  executive,  and  placed  for  execucion  ] 

in  the  hands  of  eight  other  bodies  of  civilians  ;  and  it  is  quite   pos-  \ 

sible  that  during  the  night    when  this  detachment  of  soldiers   on        '   I 
land  was  contending  against  an  armed  schooner  stuck  in  the  mud  j 

of  a  narrow  creek,  all  semblance  of  military  order  was  lost.  I 

Putnam  was  an  active,  stirring  man,   and   very  likely  was    for  a  \ 

time  prominent  in  the  "muss  ;  "  but  that  does  not  constitute  him  a  \ 

military  commander  of  troops,  any  more  than  the  loud-voiced  man  at  \ 

a  country  fire   who  makes  himself  heard  above  others  in  shouts   of  1 

"Play  away,  One,"   or  ''Hold  on,  Two,"  exalts  himself  thereby  to  J 

the  chief  engineer  of  the  fire  department.     If  Gen.   Putnam  was  .^ 

there  and  active,  so  too  was  Dr.  Warren  the  chief  of  the  executive  f 

who  ordered  the  raid  ;  and  nobody  knows  how  many  of  the  score  or  I 

two  of  selectmen,  or  committee-men,  who  were  charged  with  the  I 

execution  of  the  order,  and  all  of  whom  would  seem  to  have   had  J 

legal  authority  above  any  soldier.  | 

When  the  story  reached  New  York,  it  was  magnified  to  the  dimen-  \ 

sions  of  a  battle.     ^Ve  find  the  following  in  the  Boston  Gazette,  | 

June  19.  1775  ;  | 

New  York,  June  12.     A  gentleman  that  left  Boston  about  six  days  Vigp,  I 

asserts  for  Fact  that  he  saw  landed  on  the  Long  Wharf  at  that  IMace  out  I 

of  one  boat  aloue  no  less  than  Gi  dead  men  that  had  been  kiiled  by  the  I 

provincials  at  the  late  attack  at  Noddle's  and  Hog  Islands,  as  meuticucd  in  \ 

our  last.  I 

The  magnified  story  reached  Philadelpdiia  just  when  the  Congress  ! 

was  about  to  elect  major  generals,  and  it  was  so  magnified,  and  Put-  |i; 

nam  cut  so  large  a  figure  in  it,  that  he  was  unanimously  choson.  \ 

The  truth  is,  that  in  those  early  days  Putnam  and  his  ambuscaded  |i 

played  very  much  the  same  part  in   the   popular  imagination  as  did  ■- 
the  Black  Horse   cavalry  and  the  masked  batteries  in   later  times. 
His  acquaintance  with  Maj.  Small  and  other  British  otficers  may 


,'•»  •>rxj(» 


412  Could  Putnam  command  at  Bunher  IIill  ?         [Oct. 

account  for  some  of  this,  and  much  of  it  no  doubt  was  due  to  personal 
quaHtics,  which  made  him  prominent  in  the  popular  adminition. 

General  Ward,  writing  several  nionths  later,  incidentally  speaks  of 
this  actit)n  as  one  conducted  l,y  Gen.  I'utnam,  and  Mr.  Taibox  does 
not  scruple  to  quote  this  letter  as  iithrming  Gen.  Tutnam's  power  to 
command  ]Massachusetrs  troops;  indeed,  he  says  that  tins  le.  .r 
"  settles  it  that  Putnam  was  commander."  Well,  if  it  settles  that, 
it  also  ''settles  it"  that  he  did  not  connnand  at  Bunker's  Hill,  for 
the  same  letter  savs  that  there  had  been,  up  to  Oct.  oO,  1775,  no 
one  action  with  the  enemy  which  had  not  been  conducted  by  an 
officer  of  Massachusetts,  except  that  at  Chelsea.  But  the  letter 
does  not  settle  it  as  to  Chelsea.  The  exception  as  to  Putnam's 
command  there  is  a  sort  of  addendum  or  after-thought  to  the 
chief  thought  in  Ward's  mind,  namely,  that  all  the  actions  of 
any  importance  had  been  commanded  by  Massachusetts  officers. 
When  that  letter  was  written  in  October,  the  army  had  really 
become  a  unit,  Gen.  Putnam's  disability  to  connnand  no  longer 
existed,  and  the  fact  of  his  previous  disability  would  not  strike  AVard 
forcibly.  But  however  it  may  have  liappcned  that  Gen.  Ward 
wrote  what  he  did  write,  it  is  equally  certain  that  this  statement  was 
an  error,  and  that  Putnam  did  not  command  the  Chelsea  expedition  ; 
and  my  evidence  is  from   Gen.  Ward  himself,   and  his  record  made 

at  the  time. 

Gen.  AVard's  orderly  book,  date  May  28,  1775,  contains  the  fol- 

lowmsr  orders  : 

"That  Col.  Doolittle,  with  400  men,  march  to  Chelsea  and  relieve  Col. 
Nixon  aud  his  party  with  the  other  troops  that  went  from  this  encamp- 
ment, and  he  is  to  conduct  [this  is  Gen.  Ward's  word  for  command]  in  such 
manner  as  he  may  judge  whl  contribute  m03t  to  the  general  safety. 

"  That  the  cannon  which  was  in  the  Schooner  that  was  taken  yesterday 
be  secured,  if  practicable,  without  exposing  the  troops  too  much,  of  which 
Col.  Doolitde  is  to  judge  and  determine." 

Thus  we  may  see  that  although  Stark's  New  Hampshire  command 
from  Medford  was  probably  the  original  party  engaged,  it  was 
reinforced,  or  more  properly  reheved  by  Col.  NLxon  from  Cambridge 
about  nine  o'clock  in  the  evening,  and  that  this  was  the  party  which 
Putnam  accompanied  to  the  scene  of  action.  Nixon's  command, 
having  been  on  active  duty  all  night,  was  in  turn  relieved  by  Col. 
Doolittle  and  his  400  men  on  the  morning  of  the  28th. 

Thus  it  appears  by  the  record  made  at  the  time  that  the  military 
commander  overnight  was  Col.  Nixon  and  not  Gen.  Putnam ;  for 
Col.  Doohttle  was  ordered  to  relieve  Col.  Nixon,  and  he  was  not 
sent  to  relieve  a  subordinate  commander,  but,  as  chief  of  an  expedi- 
tionary force,  he  was  to  ''conduct,"  to  "judge,"  to  "determine." 
Nobody  pretends  that  Putnam  was  present  at  the  raid,  nor  until  ten 
hours  after  the  fighting  began, — if  he  was  there  at  all,  he  went  with 
the  troops  commandetl  by  NLxon,  who,  as  chief  of  the  expedition,  was 


O    VQ     V"^ 


1877.]  English  Wills.  4I3 

relieved   the  next  morning  by  tie   order  of  Gen.    Ward,— issued 
dircclhj  to  DouIitLic. 

^  And  now,  disclaiming  any  feeling  of  Massachusetts  or  otiier  liau:;!i- 
tincss,  I  must  reiterate  my  former  assertion  that  "General  Putn:ri.j, 
owing  no  obedience  to  the  commanding  general  and  having'  no  claiin 
to  rank  in  the  Ma.^saclm-^ettg  army,  could  not  have  commanded 
]\rassachusctts  soldiers  on  Massachusetts  soil,"  at  the  date  of  the 
Battle  of  Bunker "s  Hill. 


ENGLISH  WILLS. 
Commanicated  by  William  S,  Appleto.v,  A.M.,  of  Boston. 

TWICE  before  (xxiv.  78,  and  xxvii.  238)  I  have  communicated  to 
the  Register  certain  wills  from  the  Re<^istry  of  Probate,  Loiidon» 
mentioning  rehitives  in  New  England;  and  as  if  to  show  the  richness  in 
store  there,  a  few  days'  research  last  May  gave  me  several  more.  They 
seem  equally  worth  printinir. 

Simon  Whiting,  of  Dedham,  Essex,  in  his  will  written  17  April.  1G37, 
mentions  "ould  Richard  Sherman  of  New  England;"  proved  in  1G37. 

James  Carter,  of  Hinderclay,  Suffblk,  in  his  nuncupative  will,  dated  8 
Sept.,  I600,  mentions  the  "children  of  my  brother  Thomas  Carter  who  now 
IS  in  the  New  England;"  proved  in  Ifioo. 

John  Cooper,  of  Weston  hall,  in  his  will  written  21  Nov.,  1G54,  mentions 
his  "brother  Timothy  Cooper  now  in  New  England,"  with  children; 
proved  in  IGoo. 

_  Thomas  Peake,  of  Birmingham,  in  his  will,  1651,  mentions  nephews  and 
nieces  named  Peake,  Thomas  Kirbie,  of  Lutterworth,  son  of  his  sister 
Margaret,  the  "daughters  of  my  brother  Peake  which  dwell  in  EuTland," 
and  "every  of  his  daughters  which  dwell  beyond  the  seas;"  proved  ia  IGoo. 

Gov.  Edward  Winsiow,  "of  London,"  in  his  will  written  11  Dec,  1C54, 
mentions  bis  sou  Josia,  Plimoth,  Marshfield,  &c. ;  proved  in  1655. 

Clement  Chaplaiue.  of  Thetford,  Norfolk,  Clerk,  in  his  will,  1656,  gives 
to  his  wife  Sarah  "Houses  and  Lands  Iving  and  being  in  Harford  and 
>V  eathersfield  in  New  England,"  and  mendons  his  brother  Thomas  Chap- 
laine  of  Bury  St.  Edmunds,  and  his  "kinsman  M^  William  Clarke  of 
Kocksbury  in  New  England;"  proved  in  1656. 

Edward  Shrimpton,of  Bednall  Green,  Midd.,  Merchant,  in  his  will,  1661, 
mentions  his  son  Jonathan,  and  orders  "£650  to  be  paid  him  at  Boston  in 
^ew  England,"  also  his  dau.  Mary,  his  brother  Henry,  his  sons  Ehenezer, 
Epaphras,  and  Silas,  his  daus.  Elizabeth  and  Lydia,  and  wife  Elizabeth  ; 
proved  in  1661. 

Thomas  Brialey,  of  Datchett,  Bucks,  in  his  will,  1661,  mentions  his  sons 
^rancis,  Thomas  and  William,  and  the  children  of  his  dau.  Grissell,  wife  of 
Nathaniel  Silvester,  "dwelling  in  New  England  in  the  partes  of  Auieri.:a 
m  an  island  called  Shelter  Island;"  proved  in  1661. 

Elizabeth  Winch,  of  Great  Alhallowes,  London,  spinster,  in  her  will, 
it.ji),  calls  herself  -  bound  for  Virginia,"  mentions  Whico  V/ulthani,  Berks, 
and  her  brothers  Richard  and  John  ;  proved  in  1G61. 

Robert  Clarke,  of  Redriffe,  in  his  will  written  16  Sept.,  16G2,  calls  him- 
selt  "now  resident  in  Boston  ia  >^'ew  England:"  mentions  wife  and  child; 
proved  in  1663.  =>        > 

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'■r 


414  Immigrants  from  Jersey.  [Oct. 


NOTES  ON  MR.  WATERS'S  ARTICLE  RELATING  TO 
IMMIGRANTS  FROM  JERSEY. 

Commnnicnted  hv  Colonel  J.  Bf.rtrwd  Paten-Patne,  Knicht-Commnndrr  of  tht^  Imi)C- 

rial  Mu^»■uiInau  OrJer.>  of  tlie  Mcdjidic,  ihe  Liuii  lUiu  Sim,  Jind  the  Niehau;  of 

Tciiipsfuid  House,  SouiU  Kcnbiiigton,  London,  England. 

I  HAVE  read,  with  interest,  the  extracts  given  from  the  Essex  County 
Court  Papers, •given  in  tlie  July  number  of  the  Registkr  {aide,  pp. 
277-0);  and  have  much  pleasure  in  giving  a  few  brief  notes  on  the  familie.'i 
whose  names  appear  there. 

The  family  of  Lanylois,  or  Lenglois  (translated  "English"),  is  one  of 
considerabie  anli(}uity  in  the  island  of  Jersey.  In  13.'31,  Philip  Langloia 
■was  a  Jurat  of  the  Royal  Court  there.  lu  144.5.  Humphrey,  Duke  of 
Gloucester,  warden  or  govenor  of  the  Channel  Islands,  by  letters-patent 
imder  his  own  seal,  granted  to  Richard  Lengioz  permission  to  erect  on  his 
own  estate,  situated  in  the  parish  of  St.  Lawrence,  and  in  the  vicinity  of  his 
dwelling-house,  a  Cnluvibier,  or  square  dove-cot — at  that  time  a  fer.dal  ap- 
purtenance, indicating  consideraljle  rank  in  its  owner.  More  than  two 
centuries  later,  namely,  in  1649,  Lawrens  Ilamptonne,  who  had  purchased 
from  the  descendants  of  the  above  Richard  Lenglez,  the  house  and  a  por- 
tion of  the  land  thereunto  appertaining,  obtained  from  His  Majesty  King 
Cbarles  II.,  a  renewal  of  the  right  of  possessing  and  of  rebuilding  the 
Cohuhhier — '•  on  the  lands  of  Langlois,  as  had  formerly  been  allowed  to 
Eichard  Langlois."  Of  the  first  beneficiary,  Richard  Langlois,  little  is 
known,  save  that  by  tradition  he  is  said  to  have  been  a  member  of  the 
household  of  Duke  Humphrey.  His  family  continued  in  possession  of  the 
estate  at  St.  Lawrence,  until  1638,  when  it  was  sold  to  Lawrens  Hamp- 
tonue  by  the  grandchildren  of  Frances,  daugliter  of  John  Langloys,  in 
whose  person  the  eldest  branch  of  the  family  became  extinct  in  the  male 
line.  The  eider  section  of  a  second  branch  has,  it  is  believed,  descendants; 
but  documentary  evidence  to  prove  this  fact  is  entirely  wanted.  In  its  native 
island,  this  ancient  feudal  family  is  represented  by  a  member  of  a  junior 
bi'anch — Philip  Langlois,  Esq.,  a  judge  of  the  Royal  Court  of  Jersey,  re- 
siding at  Millbrook,  in  that  island.  Arms  of  Langlois  :  Azure,  a  chevron 
or,  between  three  crescents  argent :  on  a  chief  gules,  as  many  mullets  of 
six  points,  piercevi,  of  the  second.     Crest :  A  rock,  ppr. 

A  pedigree  of  tliis  family  from  the  sixteenth  century,  and  copies  of  the 
documents  relating  to  the  erection  of  the  above-mentioned  Colunxbier,  ap- 
pear at  page  190  et  sceq.  of  my  "  Armorial  of  Jersey." 

Le  Mesurter  (Le  ^lessarier,  Marzeurys,  Mazure,  Maseure  or  Masure), 
is  the  name  of  a  family  of  considerable  distinction  in  the  island  of  Guern- 
sey, of  which  GtlVlioots  occasionally  appear  in  the  sister  island  of  Jersey,  as 
landowners;  the  name  frequently  ai)pears  in  the  Extente,  or  King's  Rtnt- 
Eoll  of  Guernsey,  tt:mp.  Edward  III.  One  member,  Paul  Le  Mesurier, 
was  Lord  M;iv"or  of  Lundon  at  the  commencement  of  tlie  present  centarj, 
and  was,  bfcsid'jc%  M.  P.  for  tlni  borough  oi  Southv.  ark.  One  branch  of  thii 
famil}-  were  hereditary  governors  of  the  island  of  Alderney,  by  lotlers- 
patent,  a  right  lately  redeemed  by  the  Crown.  The  only  son  of  the  lijt 
governor  of  Alderney  rebuilt  the  church,  ia  that  island,  ai  his  sole  expca.s-3^ 


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1877.]  Immigrants  from  Jersey.  415 

and  in  .ma;;:nifioent  style.  Arms  of  Le  Mcsurier  :  A  chevron  botw^en  three 
dc'xtiM-  liauds  gules.  These  uncieiit  bearii.o;.s  have  been  snper>.e(h'(l  by  tho 
following,  for  wliich  a  grant  was  obtained' from  the  College  of  Arni.^  in 
Lo!idon,  some  eighty  year^  since  :— Argent,  on  a  chevron  betwc<-n  tlireo 
dextor  hands  gules,  as  many  bezants.  Crest:  A  hawk  j)i.r.,  win-s  ex- 
tended or.  ° 

Le  Gros  (Legroo  or  Lagroue)  is  the  name  of  a  family  common  to  both 
Jersey  and  Guernsey.  Jn  120  1.  .John  Le  Gros  was  a  judge  of  the  Royul 
Court  of  Guernsey;  and  in  1218,  Peter  Le  Gros,  or  Gross°e,  appears  as  uno 
of  the  inquisitors  to  declare  before  the  King's  Justices-Itinerant  the  sorvicca, 
customs  and  liberties  of  the  people  of  that^'i^land.  In  1292,  the  name  ajJ 
pears  in  Jersey  in  an  instrument  dated  on  St.  Clement's  day.  in  that  vear. 
In  l.'33l,  Guiile  Le  Gros  was  one  of  the  twelve  sworn  men'  called  updn  to 
declare  the  King's  rights  and  dues  in  the  parish  of  vSt.  John,  Jersey.  In 
the  latter  part  of  the  sixteenth  century,  a  member  of  the  family,  who  had 
settled  in  P:ngland,  is  described  in  a  deed  under  his  hand  and  seal,  touching 
certain  pro{>€rty  he  held  at  Peckham,  co.  Surrey,  as  Peter  Le  Grose,  p:sq?, 
late  ot  lUr  Majesty's  Island  of  Jersey.  Another  of  the  name  settled  in 
the  island  of  Serk,  after  its  colonization  by  the  Seigneur  of  St.  Ouen,  and 
was  possessed  of  one  of  the  forty  freeholds  in  that  island.  Several  of  his 
descendants  were  "Juges  et  Capitaines  de  I'lsle  de  Sere:" — one  of  whom. 
Judge  John  Le  Gros,  was  the  father  of  Susan  Le  Peilev,  whose  husband 
purchased  the  Lordship  of  the  island  of  Serk.  in  1  721.  The  principal  repre- 
sentative of  this  widely-ditfused  family  now  is  Gervais  Le  Gros,  M.A.,  of 
Jesus  College,  Cambridge.  Vicomte  or  Sheritl'of  Jersey,  of  Seafield,  in  tliat 
island.  Arms  of  Le  C^ros  :  Azure,  three  lions  rampant  or:  a  cliief  argent. 
Crest:  a  dexter  arm,  embowed,  ppr.  vested  irules,  holding  bv  the  bladu  a 
sword,  point  downwards,  hiked  or.     Motto  :  In  Deo  Contklo.' 

Luce.  This  family,  which  has  been  settled  in  the  parish  of  St.  Law- 
rence, Jersey,  prior  to  1500.  claims  to  have  migrated  from  Wales,  and  to 
be  a  branch,  of  tiie  fomous  Norman  house  of  Lucy  or  Lucie,  one  of  whoso 
members  vvas  a  companion  of  the  Conqueror.  Arms  ^f  Luce:  Azure,  a 
crescent  argent.  Crest:  An  Eagle  with  wings  displayed,  reguardant,  hold- 
ing in  the  dexter  claw  a  sword  erect,  all  {)pr." 

A  pedigree  of  this  family,  from  IGlO,  appears  in  my  "Armorial  of 
Jersey." 

Le  Breton-  (Britton).  In  1283,  Philip  Le  Breton  held  the  franc-fief 
of  Noirmont,  the  fief  es  Guarauz.  and  the  tief  Burnouf.  In  1370,  William 
Le  Breton  was  a  judge  of  the  Royal  Court  of  Jersey.  The  family  Ik-u 
given  to  that  island  three  deans  and  two  baillies  (or  chief  ma2;istrates).'  TI;a 
chief  representative  of  this  ancient  house  in  Jersey,  is  the  V'ery  Rev.  Wil- 
liam Corbet  LeBreton,  :M.A.,  Dean  of  Jersey,  and  Rector  o'f  St.  llelicr. 
Arms  of  Le  Breton:  Azure,  two  chevrounels  or.  Crest:  A  rose  gules, 
slipped  and  leaved,  vert. 

La.  Rocque  (Laroke).  A  family  of  ancient  settlement  in  Jersey,  long 
extinct.  Arms  of  La  Rocque  :  Argent  a  fesse  between  three  trt foils  slip;..;d 
and  couped,  sable. 

ihe  reader  must  not  be  surprised  to  see  coupled  with  the  important  per- 
sonages mentioned  in  the  foregoing  notes,  individuals  of  the  humble  positions 
recorded  by  Mr.  Waters.  In  the  Channel  Island.^,  as  in  all  other  small 
places,  persons  of  tho  same  lineage  are  found  in  all  positions  in  life,  from  the 


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41G  The  Anthonys  of  ye^v  Enrjland.  [Oct. 

uiO!?t  important  to  the  most  menial.  In  largor  countries,  sucli  anomalies  are 
the  less  glaring  because  tlit:  poorer  uu-nibers  of  a  great  fihiiil y  are  wont  to 
migrate — their  kin  forgetting,  and  tlieuist'lves  forgot.  But  tliat  such  cases 
are  iiot  uncommon  iu  conservative  England,  the  fact  that  tlic  last  of  the 
IMantaganets  (iu  the  female  line)  are,  at  this  day,  to  he  found  iu  a  sexton, 
a  butcher,  and  a  toll-gate  keeper,  is  of  itself  a  siguiticant  proof. 

In  conclusion,  periuit  me  to  add  that  a  rich  mine  of  Jersey  genealogy 
exists  in  the  United  States,  in  which  great  country  live,  at  the  present  time, 
many  junior  representatives  of  the  old  feudal  iS'orraarmo-Jersey  families, 
ignoiant  probably,  careless  possibly,  of  the  grand  and  stirring  histories  of 
their  forefathers,  who  iu  that  outpost  of  the  English  kingdom,  kept  intact 
their  liule  territory  against  the  overwhelming  onslaughts  of  the  French  for 
some  seven  centuries  ;  and  who  in  their  rock-bound  islet  preserved  the  pur- 
est remnant  left  of  the  Christian  soldiers  of  Kollo  and  of  "William  the 
Conqueror. 


GENEALOGY  OF  THE  ANTHONYS  OF  NEW  ENGLAND. 

Communicated  by  John*  Gocld  Anthony,  Esq.,  of  Cambridgeport,  Mass. 

1.  John'  Axtiiont,  or  Axtiioxie  as  he  wrote  it,  was  the  founder  of 
the  name  in  New  England,  and  came  to  this  country  in  the  barque  Hercu- 
les, John  Klldey,  master.  April  IG,  1G34.  He  had,  says  Savage,  previ- 
ously resided  iu  the  beautiful  village  of  Hampstead,  near  London.  Tradi- 
tion says  he  was  accompanied  by  his  wife  ;  but  we  find  her  name  nowhere 
mentioned. 

The  first  mention  we  find  of  John  is  in  the  Colonial  Records  of  lihode 
Island,  14th  7th  mo.  1640,  when  he  was  admitted  a  freeman  of  Ports- 
mouth,  R.  I.,  and  soon  after  chosen  corporal  in  a  military  company.  Oa 
14th  9th  no.  1644,  his  laud  was  assigned  him  at  a  place  called  "  The  Wad- 
ing liivei."  On  May  '2b,  1G55,  he  w'as  chosen  by  the  General  Court  one  of 
the  two  persons  authorized  by  law  to  keep  houses  of  entertaiumeut  in 
Portsmouth. 

This  is  all  the  notice  we  find  of  him  in  the  Colonial  Records,  except  as 
deputy  and  commissioner.  He  died  July  28,  1G75,  aged  68  years,  leaving 
five  children  : 

2.  i.    Jon>-,  iv.  Susanna, 

ii.  Joseph,  v.   Elizabeth. 

iii.  Abraham, 

2.  John- Anthont  (/o;^«')  m.  twice:  first,  Frances  Wordell  or  War- 
dell,  daughter  of  William  Wordell,  one  of  the  original  purchasers  with 
Samuel  Gorton  of  Warwick,  R.I.  She  died  Oct.  12,1692.  Dy  her  he 
iad: 

i.       John,  b.  June  2S,  1071  ;  d.  in  inflxncy. 
ii.     JosEPU,  b.  Oct.  -^ji.  1(373;  d.  Dec.  IK,  1709. 
3.  iii.    William,  b.  July  18,  1h76;  d.  in  1757. 
iv.     Slsanna,  b.  Jaa.  1.  1079;  d.  in  l^^'OS. 
V.      Mary,  b.  June  10,  lti8l;  d.  OfC.  S,  IfiSl. 
vi.     Sarah,  b.  Oct.  1,  1G83;  d.  May  13,  lt»S4. 
"vii.   Elizabeth,  b.  Sept.  14,  1686. 
viii.  Alice,  b.  April  iG,  1089. 
ix.    Samuel,  b.  Oct.  8,  16'JL 


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J377.1  Longmendow  Families.  417 

He  marrleil   for  second  wife,  Jnri.  ?>,  1G04,   Su5aan.i,  daughter  of  Juhu 
Albro.     Sliu  died  Oct.  "JO,  171.3.     iJy  her  he  had  : 

4.  X.      ALBfto,  b.  Sept.  *25.  W-)\. 

xi.  Sakmi,  0.  .\y.\s.-  I.  l'"''^~  '•  J-  '^^^-  9,  11^^,  over  one  nun'lrcd  yonrn  oM  ; 
111.  i't'.iniitvs  Gould,  of  .Mid'iktown,  K.  I.,  O.-c.  I,  \',S.\.  il- r  clrild- 
reii  were-  1.  Eltzahitii,  h.  July  17,  17-J)  ;  d.  June  l.'-J,  17j1. 
2.  Thomas,  b.  May  U-  17-'8 ;  d.  Feb.  5il,  174'J.  3.  Jo/m,  b.  Aug. 
29,  I73fi  ;  d.  i^ept  '2,  1^11. 
xii.  Jou.v,  h.  tVb.  U3,  IG'J'J. 

3.  William'  An-tiiony  {John,-  Jolm^),  \u  July  18,  1C7G;_  d.  Nov.  0, 
1757  ;  m.  I'aiitjace  Freeborn,  b.  in  lo7G,  and  d.  April  27,  17j7.    Children: 

i,  William,  b.  May  22,  1702. 

ii.  AuiG-ML,  b.  April  28.  1701. 

iii.  Gideon,  b.  Jan.  U,  I70*i;  d.  June  10,  1717. 

iv.  David,  b.  July  I'J.  1709. 

V.  bcsANNA,  b.  July  20,  1712. 

4.  Albuo'  AsTnON-r  {Joha,^  John^\  b.   Sept.  2.5,  1G91;  d.  in  171G  ; 
m,  Susan  Hefferman,  v7ho  was  b.  iu  1G'J7,  and  d.  in  1771.     Children  : 

5.  i.  Eltz^bftii,  b.  in  1723;  d.  in  1816.  She  married  Gilbert  Stuart,  of 
Perthshire,  Scothind.  Iut  cl)ildren  were  :  I.  Jamts,  d.  an  iul:.r.t ; 
2.  Anne,  b.  Nov.  19,  1753.  3.  GUbert,  b.  Dec.  3,  1755;  d.  July 
28,  18-5— the  celebrated  painter. 

ii,     SAR.ru,  b.  in  1730. 

iii.    John,  b.  Oct    13.  1732;  d.  Feb.  26,  1814. 
I        iv.     \ViLLiAM.  b.  in  1734.  ■  i       .  . 

V.      SAiivtL,  b.  in  1730. 

vi.    Joseph,  b.  in  1738  ;  d.  in  1793. 

vii.  Mary,  b.  in  1743  ;  d.  in  1822.  .       . 

The  present  fragment  of  genealogy  is  put  forth  with  a  double  motive,— t-o 
call  attention  to  the  work  on  the  subject  I  have  now  in  preparation,  and 
at  the  same  time  to  correct  two  errors  in  the  generally  received  accoun:  ol 
Gilbert  Stuart,  the  painter.  It  has  always  been  stated  in  his  biography 
that  his  mother  was  PLlizabeth,  daughter  of  Capt.  John  Anthony,  and  tliat 
she  was  of  Welsh  descent ;  whereas  her  father  was  Albro  Autiiony,  and 
the  family  are  purely  English,  as  my  researches  into  the  early  records 
abuudauily  prove. 


LONGMEADOW  (MASS.)  FAMILIES. 

Communicated  by  "Willard  S.  Allex,  Esq.,  of  Eo.st  Boston,  Mass. 

rContinued  from  page  .320.] 

2d  Gener.\tion.     Laurence  Bliss,  of  Springfield,  son  of  ]\rargaret  Bliss, 


1662,  died  March   15.1733;   Hannah,  born  May   26,   IbGo,  di^:d  .Nov    b, 
1737;  Sarah,  born  Nov.  27,  10G7  ;  William,   borii   April  2^,  IG.O;  tela- 


tiah,  bora  Aug.  19,  1674.  died  June  2,  1747.  .    ,    T^       i- 

The  sons  had   families   in   Sprin-tield.     Hannah   was  roamed    Dec.lr, 
1691,  to  Capt.  Thomas  Colton,  of  LoDgmeaxiow  (seo  p.  oO).     Sarah  was 
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418  Longmeadov}  Families.  [Oct. 

married  to  Geoi-fre  Webster,  Dec.  13,  IGO.l  Laurenro  Bli-=s,  the  father, 
died  1G70.  Lv<iiu,  hi<  w'kIonv,  was  marriod  Oct.  31,  1078,  to  John  Norton, 
who  died  Aug.' 2-1,  1G8T.  an<l  Jan.  7,  1GH8,  Lydia  Norton  was  married  to 
John  Lamb,  who  also  died  Sept.  '1^,  1  O'ln  ;  ai.d  -Maroh  1,  1C'J2,  the  widow 
Lydia  Lamb  was  married  to  Ceorgo  Colton,  callcl  C^iiarteiTnaster  Cokon, 
the  father  of  Cai.t.  Thonia*  Coltoii  who  married  the  dan.  ILuinah.  Quar- 
termaster Cokoii  died  Feb.  13,  IGO;),  and  Lydia,  his  widow,  died  Dec.  17, 
1G99. 

[Page  10.]  2d  Generation.  Samuel  diss,  of  Springfield,  son  of  ^lar- 
garet  Hii.^s  (page  9).  was  married  Nov.  10,  1GG4,  to  Mary  Leonard,  dan.  of 
John  and  Sarah  Leonard.     Their  children  were: 

Hannah,  born  Dec.  20,  IGGG;  Thomas,  b.  Feb.  8,  1GG8  :  Mary,  bora 
Aug.  4,  1670  ;  Jonathan,  born  Jan.  5,  1G72  ;  Martha,  born  June  1,  1G7I  ; 
Experience,  born  April  1,  1G79,  died  April  7,  1G97  ;  Mercy,  bora  July  \6, 
1680;  Ebenezer,  born  Jidy  29,  1683,  died  Sept.  7,  1717  ;  Margaret,  bora 
Sept.  11,  1GS4,  di^^d  Jan.  19,  1736  ;  Esther,  born  April  2,  1088. 

The  sons  Thomas  and  Ebenezer  had  families  in  Springfield.  By  En- 
field records,  Jonathan  Bli.s  was  married  March  7,  17U2,  to  Sarah  Eggle- 
ston,  and  ii  is  supposed  that  he  settled  in  East  Windsor.  Mary  was  mar- 
ried Feb.  1,  IGoT",  to  Philip  Smith.  ^lartha  way  married  Nov.  10,  1697, 
to  Samuel  Ely.  :Mercy  was  married  Dec.  30,  1703,  to  John  Ely.  :Mar- 
garet  was  married  Jan.  16,  1707,  to  Samuel  Colton  (page  53).  Estlier 
was  married  May  10,  1716,  to  Henry  Chapiu,  of  Chicopee.  Samuel  Bliss, 
the  father,  died  March  23,  1720.     Mary,  his  widow,  died  Jan.  1,  1724. 

2d  Generation.  John  Bliss,  of  Longmeadow,  supposed  to  have  been 
the  son  of  Margaret  Bliss,  of  the  family  (page  9),  was  married  Oct.  7, 
1667,  to  Patience  Burt,  dau.  of  Henry  Burt  (see  page  24).  Their  children 
were : 

John,  born  Sept.  7,  1669  ;  Nathaniel,  born  Jan.  26,  1671  ;  Thomas,  born 
Oct.  29,  1673,  died  Aug.  12,  1758  ;  Joseph,  born  1676,  died  March  1,  1754  ; 
Hannah,  born  Nov.  16,  1678;  Henry,  born  Aug.  15,  1681,  died  Nov.  30, 
1684  ;  Elienezer,  b.  1683,  died  Nov.  4,  17G1. 

John  and  Nathaniel  married  in  Longmeadow;  removed  to  Enfield,  ar.d 
from  thence  to  Lebanon,  Conn.,  and  died  in  that  tovvn.  The  families  of 
Thomas  and  Ebenezer  (see  page  1 1 ).  Hannah,  the  daughter,  was  married 
to  Henry  Wright,  of  Chicopee,  May  24,  1705.  John  Bliss,  the  father, 
died  Sep't.  10,  1702.  Patience  Bliss,  his  widow,  died  Oct.  25,  1732,  in  her 
87th  year. 

3d  Generation.  Samuel  Bliss,  of  Longmeadow,  son  of  Nathaniel  and 
Catharine  Bliss,  was  married,  Jan.  2,  1672,  to  Sarah  Stebbins,  dau.  of 
Thomas  and  Hannah  Stebbins  (see  p.  196).     Their  children  : 

Samuel,  born  Aug.  10,  1677,  died  Aug.  31,  1692  ;  Nathaniel,  born  Sept. 
8,  1679,  died  March  12,  1751  ;  Sarah,  born  Oct.  1681  :  Margaret,  b.  Nov. 
23,  1G83  ;  Thomas,  born  Jan.  22,  1685,  died  Sept.  4,  1767  ;  Hannah,  bora 
August,  1687,  died  April  15,  1711  :  Juhn,  born  Nov.  4,  1690.  died  Oct.  8, 
1784;  Samufl,  born  April  25,  1694,  died  Dec.  21,  1724;  Ebenezer,  boru 
March  4,  1696,  died  Aug.  29,  1734. 

Sarah,  the  daughter,  was  married  to  Nathaniel  'Mighel.  of  Westfield, 
Jan.  15,  1702,  and  afrer  his  death  to  William  Nichols,  Aprd  23,  1712. 
Margaret  was  married  lo  Benjamin  Coolr^y,  Jan.  31,  1701.  Hannah  was 
married  to  Ebenezer  Warner,  of  Springtield.  Jan.  9,  1707,  and  had  one 
son,  Samuel,  horn  Oct.  3,  1708,  and  died  April  15,  1711.  This  son  settled 
in  Wilbrahauij  and  w;.s  called  clerk  Warner.    Sarah,  the  mother,  died  Nov. 


1877.]  Longmeadoto  Families.  419 

C,  1721.  Samuel  Bliss,  the  father,  died  June  19,  17.')0,  in  hi.^  lOiM  year. 
Tl.e  f:;'.!;i:iLS  of  the  fuiir  sons  in  pai^'^.s  11,  12  uml  13. 

[Page  11.]  o'.l  G<Mieration.  Nalhaniel  ]Miss,  of  Longmeailow,  son  of 
Nailiunit'l  and  Cathei'ine  liliss  (paijo  9),  was  marrieu  Doc.  2'^,  HITil,  to 
Uel)Orah  Colton,  dau.  of  (ieorge  and  Deborah  Coltun  (pagi.^S).  'I'liey 
having-  no  children,  took  Joshua  Field,  son  of  S.'.nu;ol  and  Sarah  l''icld,  and 
DKule  hitn  his  principal  heir.  Tliis  Jo.sliua  Field  was  the  son  of  hi.-,  half- 
sister,  his  mother,  Samuel  Field's  wife,  \)n\u<r  the  dau.  of  Thomas  Gilhort 
and  Catharine,  who  was  the  mother  of  this  Nathaniel  liliss. 

Nathaniel  lUiss  died  Dec.  2."),  173G,  and  Deijorah  dietl  Nov.  20,  17.13, 
and  he  is  said  to  have  been  buried  on  the  east  side  of  Capt.  Tlioinas  Col- 
ton, his  wife's  brother,  and  she  on  the  west  side,  in  Longmeadow  buryin;^ 
ground. 

3d  Generation.  Thomas  Bliss,  of  Longmeadow,  son  of  John  and  Pa- 
tience Bliss  (page  10),  was  married  3Iay  27,  1714,  to  Mary  iLicronnv, 
dau.  of  William  and  Margaret  Macrouny.  She  was  born  Nov.  2,  IC'JO. 
Tiieir  children  : 

iSIary,  born  Dec.  4,  1715;  Thomas,  born  May  .".0,  1719,  died  M^iy  24, 
1747  ;  llearv,  boru  Deo.  5,  1722  ;  llenrv,  bora  Aug.  21,  1726,  died  i'eb. 
8,  17G1. 

Mary,  the  daughter,  was  married  Feb.  3,  1736,  to  Nicholas  Ilolbrook. 
Thomas  was  marrieil  to  Ivachel  Parsons,  of  Northampton,  and  died  with- 
out issue,  and  his  widow  returned  to  her  native  town.  Thomas  Bliss,  the 
father,  died  Aug.  12,  1758.     Margaret,  his  widow,  died  March  30,  17t;i. 

3d  Generation.  E'oenezer  Bliss,  of  Longmeadow.  son  of  Jolm  and 
Patience  (page  10),  was  married  July  23,  1723,  to  Joanna  Lamb,  dau.  of 
Saiuuel  and  Rebecca  Lamb.  She  was  born  June,  1095.  Their  cliildreu 
were : 

Joanna,  born  Dec.  10,  1723;  Ebenezer,  born  Dec.  7,  1725;  Noah,  boru 
Jan.  12,  1728  ;  Kebecca,  born  Oct.  15,  1729  ;  Stephen,  born  Feb.  2C, 
1732;  Joel,  boru  June  18,  1734;  John,  born  June  6,  1736;  Eunice,  boru 
June  25,  1739.  The  families  of  the  sons,  see  on  pages  13  and  14.  Joanna 
was  married,  Sept.  23,  1773,  to  Deacon  Nehemiah  EstaV  rook,  of  Lebano.n, 
N.  H.  Rebecca  was  married  May  12,  1774,  to  Eli  Cooiey  (see  page  ]04). 
Eunice  was  married  Feb.  22,  1775,  to  Aaron  Day,  of  West  Sprinyileld. 
Ebenezer  Bliss,  the  father,  died  Nov.  4,  1761.  Joanna,  his  widow,  dieil 
May  18,  1768. 

4th  Generation.  Nathaniel  Bliss,  of  Longmeadow,  son  of  Samuel  and 
Sarah  Bliss  (see  page  10),  was  married  Jan.  20,  1704,  to  Mary  ^lor^an, 
dau.  of  David  and  Mary  Morgan.  She  was  born  Dec.  24,  l6>iG.  Tlieir 
children  were : 

Nathaniel,  born  Oct.  26,  1704,  died  Nov.  23,  1771  ;  Mary,  born  Sept. 
11,  1706,  died  Jan.  17,  1725;  Mercy,  born  April  24,  1709  ;  Hannah,  bora 
May  26,  1711,  died  July  19,  1712;  Hannah,  born  Oct.  1,  1713,  died  July 
3,  1800;  Pelatiah,  born  March  4,  1717,  died  Oct.  24.  1789  ;  Ba:ii>heba, 
born  Aug.  30,  1722,  died  Feb.  15,  1794;  Mary,  born  Julv  31.  1725,  died 
Aug.  2,  ^725  ;  Abner,  born  Aug.  19,  1726,  died  April  20, 'l782. 

[Page  12.]  The  families  of  the  sons,  see  page  15.  Hannah  wa.s  mar- 
ried to  Jonathan  Day.  Jan.  8,  1733.  Bathsheba  was  married  Ap.al  2-J, 
1742,  to  Samuel  Nichuls,  of  Pirimfield.  Mary,  the  mother,  died  Nov.  22, 
1739.  Nathaniel  Bliss,  the  father,  was  married  a^ain  Dec.  (j,  1742,  to 
ilary  Cooiey,  the  widow  of  Joseph  Cooiey,  of  Somers  (see  page  94),  an<.l 
died  3LircQ  12,  1751.  Mary,  his  last  wile,  died  April  2,  1773;  sue  w-a 
boru  Sept.  3,  1694. 


420  A  Por/e  from  the  History  of  the  W'lhhrs.  [Oct. 

4t}i  Generation.  Thomas  Biiss,  of  Longtneadow,  son  of  Samuel  and 
8;n-;ih  Jilis.;  ( ;ii.^o  ]0].  \/as  njarriod  2Sov.  2,  1710,  to  Sarah  Dorchester, 
dau.  of  Junies  ami  Saruh  Dorch'^^ter.     Their  ohiIt1'"»;a  were  : 

Suruh,  born  Dec.  10,  1711  ;  Mur-raret,  born  Au^.  3,  171o,  died  June  IC, 
1714;  IMiriiim,  born  Sept.  27,  1717,  died  Nov.  20,  1789;  Jemima,  borr 
May  15,  1720  ;  Ann,  b(jr!.  April  21,  1722,  died  May  2,  1772  ;  :Mary,  burn 
Sept.  30,  1728,  die<l  April  6,  lyOl. 

Sarah,  the  daughter,  was  married  to  Stephen  Ste])l>ins,  Oct.  9,  1733  (see 
page  200).  .Miriam  was  married  Feb.  1,  1737,  to  Noah  Ilale  (see  }>a2e 
131)).  jMargaret  wa.^  inirried  to  .loriathaii  Stel)l»iti3,  Dec.  11,  173.5.  Jerni- 
Eua  was  married  to  William  King,  of  Wilhraham.  Ann  and  iMary  died 
unmarried.  Sarah,  tlie  mother,  died  Sept^-.mber  HI,  174.K  Thoma^  liiis.'-, 
the  father,  was  m.arricd  again,  Nov.  0,  1740,  to  Mclutahle  Lum!)ard,  the 
widow  of  David  Lumhard,  of  Brimfield,  and  he  died  Sept.  4,  1707,  and  his 
widow  died  July  28,  1780. 

4th  Generation.  John  Bliss,  of  Longmeadow,  son  of  Samuel  and  Sarah 
Bliss  (page  10),  was  married  to  Lydiu  Field,  of  Sunderland.  Their 
children  were  : 

John,  burn  Feb.  1,  1727,  died  Nov.  3,  1800  ;  Aaron,  born  May  3,  1730, 
died  Feb.  1,  1810.  Lydia,  the  n:iother,  died  Feb.  29.  17G0,  aged  ^jj.  John 
Bliss,  the  father,  died  Oct.  8,  1734,  aged  94  years  nearly.  The  families  of 
the  sous,  see  page  IG. 

4th  Generation.  Samuel  Bliss,  of  Longmeadow,  son  of  Samuel  aud 
Sarah  Bliss,  was  married  Dec.  4.  1713,  to  Elizabeth  Warriner,  supposed  to 
hixve  been  dau.  of  Joseph  ^^^arriner,  who  was  the  son  of  William  Warriner, 
of  SpringOeld.     Their  children  were  : 

Abigail,  born  1714;  Josiah.  born  Oct.  8,  1716,  died  Oct.  27,  171G; 
Esther,  born  Nov.  22,  1717,  died  April  30,  171S;  Esther,  torn  June  8, 
1719  ;  Elizabeth. 

Abigail,  the  daughter,  was  married  to  John  Charles,  of  Brimfield.  Eliza- 
beth was  married,  Nov.  22,  1739,  to  Seth  Chapin,  of  Somers.  Samuel  Bliss, 
the  father,  was  in  a  state  of  distraction  some  years  before  his  death,  and 
died  iu  that  state,  Dec.  21,  1724.  Elizabeth,  the  w'dow,  was  married  Nov. 
12,  1729,  to  John  Pease,  of  EntieM.  Joshua  Fiehi  (see  page  11)  was  the 
son  of  Samuel  Field  aud  his  wife,  who  was  the  dau.  of  Thomas  and  Catha- 
rine Gilbert. 


A  PAGE  FROM  THE  HISTORY  OF  THE  WILDERS. 
Communicated  by  the  Rev.  MosEs  H.  Wilder,  of  Brooklyn,  X.  Y. 

FROM  the  examination  of  English  works  and  a   correspondence   with 
Frederic   Wilder,  Esq.,  of  Puidey  Hall,  the  seat  of  the  W'ilder  estate 
of  Euiiland,  we  learn  that  our  ancestors  were  a  branch  of  that  familv. 

In  1497,  Henry  VII.,  as  a  special  token  of  his  regard  for  services  ren- 
dered in  ihe  contest  with  Richard  HI.  at  the  battle  of  Bosworth,  granted 
to  Nicholas  Wilder  a  landed  estate  with  a  coat  of  arms.  The  esrate  was 
located  about  four  miles  west  of  Reading,  in  Berkshire,  and  is  in  the  parish 
of  Sulham.  The  family  rt-sidence  was  not  a  part  of  the  entailed  estate. 
John,  the  third  from  Nicholas,  died  at  Shiplake,  on  the  Thames,  about 
twelve  miles  from  Sulham.  Here  Thomas,  son  of  John,  w.is  born  and 
died.     From  here  Martha  departed  when  she  emigrated  to  Ma.ssachusetw  ; 


'Ul 


1877.]  The  Waite  Faynily.  421 

aiul  die  succeeding  inheritors  of  the  estate  made  this  their  homo  unfil,  on  the 
aooesoioii  oC  iieiiiy  WiKler,  LL.l).,  Kcctur  vi  SuUkuii,  to  tiit,-  hiiidcd  fstatc 
in  1777,  he  puri'tiused  Purh-y  Hull,  a  beuutiud  residence  built  l»y  Ilawoa, 
a  director  of  the  South  Sea  Coinpany.  in  1720,  for  his  own  use.  On  rcinov- 
in;,'  to  Piirley  [lull,  Dr.  Wilder  sold  the  old  family  seat  to  tlic  I'hiili- 
mores,  who  still  reside  there. 

Thomas  Wilder,  Esq.,  was  the  fourth  from  Nicholas,  and  dio-l  in  1  r,']  t. 
IManha,  who  is  the  mother  of  us  all,  was  his  widow,  or  Shiplake  conM  not 
have  been  her  residence.  If  so,  Thomas,  Elizabeth  and  Edward.,  v,\\o  were 
here  to  welcome  tlieir  mother,  though  we  do  not  know  when  or  how  they 
came,  were  his  children,  and  ail  the  Wilders  of  this  country,  with  the  ex- 
ception of  a  few  German  families,  are  the  lineal  descendants  of  the  military 
chieftain  of  the  battle  of  Bosworth. 

iVederic  Wilder,  P'sq.,  now  forty-five  years  of  age,  is  the  twelfth  in  de- 
scent i'rom  Nicholas  Wilder. 

Note  by  the  Editor. — The  author  of  the  precedinp;  article,  the  Rev.  Mo«es  11. 
Wilder,  313  Kaymoni  Street,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  has  devoted  tils  entire  citne  f'jr  the 
last  two  year?  to  the  prepiration  of  a  histiiry  and  nrene;ilo;^y  of  the  Wilders  of  Eng- 
land and  the  United  States.  He  has  cuilectcd  nenrly  tivc  thousand  names  of  tlio 
descend;int3  of  the  first  emigrants.  His  work  will  be  put  to  press  as  soon  as  sufS- 
cient  encouraL^ement  is  uS'ered.  As  he  is  now  in  his  eiglitieth  year,  it  is  hoped  that 
a  prompt  refp.mse  will  be  given. 

We  have  btt n  favored  wTth  a  copy  of  a  letter  frorn  Dr.  Alexander  Wilder,  presi- 
dent of  the  Eclectic  Medical  College,  New  York  city,  who  has  examined  the  man- 
uscript of  the  Rev.  Mr.  Wilder,  and  expresses  tiie  opinion  that  he  has  "  exliibited 
a  rare  capacity  and  fidelity  in  hi:- undertaking."     lie  further  says  ; 

"  It  is  my  jiidgment  and  desire  that  those  of  our  number,  who  are  able,  shall  pre- 
sent ti>  the  Kev. "Moses  II.  Wilder  such  amounts  of  money  as  they  can  afl'ird.  tiiat 
he  may  be  enabled  to  print  a  large  edition,  not  only  tor  those  who  bear  the  namo, 
but  for  the  use  of  public  libraries,  where  the  value  of  such  works  is  often  beyond 
computation." 


THE  WAITE  FAMILY  OF  BOSTON,  MASS. 
Communicated  by  Hexrt  E.  Waite,  Esq.,  of  "West  Newton,  Mass. 

Marshal  Richard  Waite,  of  Bostox. 

ON  one  of  the  ancient  gravestones  still  standing  in  King's  Chapel  Bury- 
ing Ground  in  Boston,  appears   the  following  inscription  :  "  Richard 
Wai/fe,  aged  8-1  years,  died  17  Sept.  1680." 

The  records  of  Boston  show  that  he  was  admitted  to  the  church  Aug. 
28,  1634,  took  the  freeman's  oath  ^larch  9, 1637  ;       ^/^ 
was  to  be  disarme<l  Nov.  30,  1637,  for   "holding     (U  S^  %^y*ro^i^LD^ 
to   the  opinions  of  Mr.  Wheelwright  and    Mrs.  (_yS^^-^ 
Hutchinson;"  member  of  the  Ancient  and  Hon-  (1653.) 

oral.ie  Artillery  Company,  1638;  subjected  to  malediction  of  the  church, 
January,  liio!',  for  "  taking  buckskin  leather  to  make  gloves,"  iiUt  wus  .soon 
after  reinstated.  Was  one  of  Mt.  Wollaston  petitioners.  May  13.  1640, 
asking  to  be  incorporated  in  a  town  to  be  called  Braintree;  was  Sei^eant, 
July  \>6.  1647,  when  he  was  sent  as  messenger  to  the  chief  s^'-clicm  of 
the  Narragansett  Indians,  and  again  April  18,  1653.  At  Boston  Coun- 
cil, Oct.  3,  1654,  being  then  marshal  or  sheritF  of  the  Colony,  he  was  ap- 
pointed "Commissary  of  the  Horse"  in  au  expedition  against  the  Narra- 


422 


The  Waite  Family. 


[Oct. 


gansett  Indians  the  following:;  month.  He  petitions  General  Court  at 
Boston,  M.iy  20,  IG08,  for  iidO  acres  of  lurui — on  account  of  services 
ill  the  Fequot  war  and  clsewlierc; — which  was  granted  and  hiid  out  Oct.  liO, 
1658,  "  in  tlie  wilderness  between  Cochituate  and  Ni[»!io[),  'J20  acres  oa 
a  neck  surrounded  by  Sudl)ury  river,  great  pond  ami  small  brook,  five 
patches,  "20  acres  meadow,  and  GO  acres  on  N.  E.  side  Wa-ihakum  pond," 
all  now  included  iu  Framingham,  Mass.  He  was  allowed  Xo  out  of  the 
treasury,  Nqv.  12,  10.30,  fi)r  '•  his  great  and  diligent  pains,  riiling  day  and 
night,  in  summoning  those  entertaining  (Quakers  to  this  Court."  Was 
appointed  Governor's  Guard,  0(;t.  16,  IGGO,  at  all  public  meetings  out 
of  Court.  lie  was  called  a  tailor,  and  owned  land  on  Broad  Street. 
His  will,  dated  January  G,  1G7'J,  proved  Nov.  9,  1G80,  mentions  wife 
Rebecca,  and  children  Return,  Richard  and  John  Wayte,  and  Abigail 
Jones;  his  brother  Gamaliel  and  brother's  sou  John,  executors.  Ht  nuir- 
ried,  first,  Elizabeth,  who  was  admitted  to  Boston  church  from  the  church 
at  Newbury,  and  died  about  1651,  and  he  soon  after  married  R'3becca  Hep- 
bourue.     His  children,  by  wife  Elizabeth,  were: 

i.  Joseph,  d.  Nov.  20,  1651,  ased  H  vears. 

ii.  L,A.vc,  b.  A112;.  9  ;   d.  Au-.  21,  1G38. 

2.  iii.  KETORX.b.  Julv  S,  1(139;  d.  Sept.  1702;  m.  Martha . 

iv.  Il.iNNAn,  b.  ::;ept.  14.  1(341. 

V.  Nathaniel,  b.  Oct.  25,  1643.   Not  mentioned  in  his  father's  will,  1679. 

vi.  Mary,  b.  Feb.  15,  1615-fi. 

vii.  Samcel,  b.  June  19,  1618.     Not  mentioned  in  his  father's  will,  1679. 

viii.  Elizabeth,  bapt.  Nov.  17,  1650. 

And  by  wife  Rebecca,  were  :  ... 

ix.    JoHy,  b.  Nov.  1,  1653  ;  d.  Nov.  5,  16.58. 

i:.     Abigail,  ui.  first,  Thnums  Jones,  and  second,  in  1687,  Thomas  Afkirs. 

xi.  KiCHARD,  b.  Dec.  16,  1G;3;  m.  Doc.  9,  1686,  Lydii  Hale,  of  Charles- 
town.  Their  dan.  Lydia  b.  March  27,  16.S9.  The  rcotlier  d.  Jnn. 
•  21,  1700,  aged  31,  and   ho  m.  agiin  in   PiymoiUh,   Oct.  21,   1T06, 

Elizabeth  Connady.  He  was  master  of  the  barque  John  and  Katha- 
't       I.'  rine  of  Charlestown,  five  men,  for  Antego,  Nov.  1688,  and  of  the 

sloop  Swallow  in  April,  1700. 

xii.  JoH.N',  b.  Feb.  9,  1660  ;  m.  April  2S,  1687,  Ki  th  Edmands  of  Charles- 
town,  who  d.  Dec.  28,  1721,  aired  52  years.  He  was  a  "  ship  joiner," 
.  ,.  and  d.  in  Chariest  )wn,  Jan.  29,  1704-5.     The  children  of  John  and 

Ruth  were  :— 1.  Juhn,  b.  Feb.  3.  1690-1  ;  d.  April  14,  1691.  2.  John, 
V'  b.  Sept.  3,  1695;  d.   Dec.  18.  1721,  unm.     3.  Richard,   b.  Feb.  27, 

1692-3;  m.  Dec.  12,  1716.  Klizibeth  Weeks,  of  Boston,  where  their 
dau.  Elizabeth  was  born,  Feb.  4,  171G-7.  They  were  livinrr  in  Med- 
ford  in  1722,  where  their  dau.  Abi;i;ail  vvns  burn,  Jan.  27.  1723-4, 
•where  he  died,  Feb.  I,  1740,  "  very  suddenly."  4.  William,  b. 
June  29,  1700;  m.  July,  1730,  Mehitable,  dau.  of  Andrew  and 
Mehitable  Starkey  of  Actleboro*.  He  was  a  cooper,  li\  ing  in  Med- 
ford  in  1744,  where  he  d.  Jane  24.  1750.  She  d.  .March  23,  1773, 
asred  64  years.  No  children.  5.  Ruth,  b.  Feb.  22,  d.  11  March, 
1698-9. 

xlii.  Rebecca,  b.  Jan.  3,  1663, 

xiv.  Sarah,  b.  June  23,  1665, 

2.     Return^   Wayte    (RicharcP),   b.    16.39;    was   a   member  of    the 
Artillery  Company  in  1G62; 
a    Sergeant  in    regular   pay, 

1674-81;  w.as  a    tailor,  and  /^^iy^H^/^'^Z4^'''^  JcZ_-£j 

imported  part  of  the  show 
at  Gov.  Leverett's  funeral, 
March,  1679.  appearing  him-  (1681.) 


1877.]  The  Waite  Family.  423 

self  in  tlie  procession.     He  succeedod  his  tUther  .13  nuirslinl,  ai.rl  died  ia 
September,  17U2,  aged  63  years.     His  childreo,  by  wife  Muriha,  ucre  : 

i.      Return,  b.  Dec.  28,  1679;  m.  in  Plymouth,  Dec.   10,  1707,  Mary, 

widuw  ot  Dr.  Fnuu'is  Lo  I'.iron.  Sht;  died,  and  ho  iii.  a;4iin  in  Ply- 
mouth, Feh.  7,  1737-H.  M^irtha  Tiippt.T.  His  will.  (lat<d  tinTO, 
Dec.  IG,  \1'X^,  proved  Nov.  4,  1751,  '^\\c<.  all  hi^  e.sUte  to  wife  M.ir- 
tha.     No  childixii  iiientioued.     Lie  was  a  tailor. 

ii.     Martha,  b.  Auj;.  4.  1G81. 

iii.    Ei.iZABf.TU.  b.  Aui^.  6,  IfiSG. 

iv.    Mary.  h.  Dee.  24,"lGo7  ;  m.  Feb.  19,  1712-13,  Capt.  Jabcz  Shurtlcff 
of  Plymouth. 

V.      Nicholas,  h.  Feb.  6,  IGS9  ;  d.  July  19,  IGOO. 

•vi.  Tho-mas,  h.  Dec.  14,  IflDl  ;  in.  Ucc.  1,  1714,  Abigail  Bunihani.  Tbcir 
dau.  Abigail  b.  April  28,  1716.  The  mother  d.  Nov.  29,  1717,  a^'ed 
25  years  and  5  months,  and  he  m.  nijain,  June  4,  1718,  Mary  W  or- 
der, dan.  of  Jonathan  LiU  of  Clielsca.  She  wn.s  livint;  in  17t.<5. 
His  will,  dated  Boston,  April  1.  1774.  prove'!  May  19,  1775,  men- 
tions wife  Suviah,  and  no  children,  and  gives  to  the  lirst  chnrch,  of 
which  he  was  deacon  twenty  years  or  mure,  a  "  silver  tl.igon  priual 
in  size  and  value  to  that  given  by  Hon.  William  Dummer,"  and 
al.'^o  to  taeh  of  the  poor  of  ilie  church  12s.  Ho  was  a  "tciilorand 
shopkeeper,"  and  owned  land  on  Leverett's  Lane,  (^ucen  Strtct,_ 
Cornhill,  and  elsewhere.  In  1724  he  bought  of  IPinnah,  widow  of 
Samuel  Holbrook,  the  cast  half  of  a  tenement  in  King  Street, 
"  known  by  the  name  of  the  sign  of  the  bunch  of  grapes,"  on  the 
east  side  of  Mackerel  Lane,  lie  was  living  on  Queen  Street  in  17G1. 
3.  Tii.  Richard,  b.  Oct.  21,  lfi93;  m.  in  Plymouth,  Dec.  4,  1722,,  Mary.  dau. 
of  John  and  Mary  Barnes.  She  was  b.  Feb.  8,  1701.  He  wa.=:  of 
Middleboro'  1715,  Taunt'm  1718,  and  afterwards  of  Plymouth,  from 
whence  he  .mailed  as  master  of  a  coasting  vessel  between  that  place 
and  New  London,  for  many  years.  In  1749  he  paid  £3700  tor  iiou?e 
and  land  on  Leverett\s  Lane,  in  Boston,  and  in  April,  1751,  buys  on 
Cornhill,  and  removes  to  Bostijn  ;  in  June,  1752,  back  in  Plymouth, 
and  again  in  Boston  in  1757  with  wife  Mary. 

3.  Richard"  Waite  [Return,^  Richard})^  m.  Mary  Barnes.  Their 
children,  b.  in  Plymouth,  were:  .  .   •    .   , 

i.      Mart,  b.  Feb.  27,  1722-3. 
ii.     Lydia,  b.  Jan.  25,  1724-5. 

iii.    Martda,  b.  April  22,  1727.  -v^ 

iv.    Elizabeth,  b.  July  27.  1729;  d.  Sept.  16,  1730.        .'       •'- 
V,      Abigail,  b.  July  27,  1731. 
vi.     Elizabeth,  b.  .April  15.   1734. 
■y^  vii.   Sarah,  b.. March  1,  1735-6. 

viii.  Thomas,  b.  April  3,  1739  ;  d.  July  23.  1740.  ""^  -^ 

Is.     Thomas,  b.  April  13,  1741  ;  d.  Aug.  25,  1741. 
X.      Hannah,  b.  June  22,  1743. 
4.  xi.    Richard,  b.  Oct.  6,  1745. 

4.  Richard*  Waite  {Richard.''  Return,''  Richard^),  b.  in  Plymonth. 
Oct.  6,  1745;  removed  to  Bostou,  and  to  Champion,  N.  Y. ;  m.  Submit 
Thomas,  b.  ia  Hardwick,  Mass.,  Oct.  28,  17'17.     Children  : 

i.  Tromas,  b.  Aug.  10,  1772. 

ii.  Dorastls,  h.  Aug.  22.  177G. 

iii.  Mary.  b.  March  11,  1779. 

iv.  Matilda,  b.  .May  22,  1781. 

V.  KtcuASD,  b.  Ap -il  6.  1784. 

vi.  Sally,  b.  April  6,  1786. 

"    nIncy,     }    b.Mayl3,17S9, 


5.  vii 

viii 


ix.    ScBiiiT,  b.  Not.  9, 1791. 


424  The   Waite  Family.  [Oct. 

5.  ^JamesMVaite  {Richard*  Richard,^  Return,'^  Richard}),  b.  May 
13,  17>^0  ;  removed  from  In  niiiiigton,  V't..  to  Cliampion,  N.  Y.,  in  l«ij,S, 
where  he  d.  in  1S72  ;  m.  Esther  L.  Coughiun  of  Dummerstou,  Vt.  His 
children  v/ere : 

i.      Wii.LiAM  L.,  b.  S»-pt.  17,  IRII. 

ii.     TuoMAS  C,  b.  Oft.  1,  l«ll. 

iii.  lliRAM  I1;:nkv,  b.  Au-.  13,  1816;  now  living,'  in  Ilopkintnn,  N.  Y.  ; 
a  clerjrvciiin  ;  ni.  b.  Maria  Kandnll,  uf  Antwerp,  N.  Y.  His  t^on 
Henry  Randall  ]fVaite,h.  Dec.  IfJ,  1815.  a  cleii,'} man,  or-anized  and 
was  pa.stor  ot  the  xXmerican  Union  Cliapfi  in  Rome.  Italv,  tbreo 
years,  until  Sept.  !h74  ;  now  connected  with  the  ••International 
Review,"  puhlijthcd  in  New  Yorli  city,  where  Le  resides. 

U.    Helia  A.nn,  b.  Feb.  13,  1820.  ,     ^  , 

V.      Setu,  b.  July  2fj,  18t'3.  '        ' 

vi.    JcLiA  A.,  b.  Sept.  1,  1^25. 

Tii.  James  iM.,  b.  Sept.  8,  1827.     '.••■'. 

Gamaliel  Wayte,  of  Eostox, 

Brother  of  maishal  Richard  '^Vayte,  was  admitted  to  the  church.  Dec.  15, 
1633;  on  list  of  freemen,  Marcli  4,  1635;  disarmed  Xov.  3U,  1G37,  for 
holding    to   opinions  of  Mr.  "Wheel-     /f%^        /l     /X  /  /   ' 

wnght  and^Irs.  IJntcliiGson;    owed  ^^u>?<Ai&J^  ^T^A^^i^ — ■ 
Elias  Maynard,  of  Sidmouth,  co.  De-  ^  /j^j^  s 

VOD,  England,  ]March  16,  1653;  with  other  fishermen  he  prays  the  Court 
at  Salem,  Oct.  14,  1657,  for  exemption  from  training  in  the  fishing  season; 
received, ^in  1G70,  a  grant  of  one-half  an  acre  of  land-in  Boston,  on  south 
side  of  Sentry  Hill,  to  plant  and  improve ;  owned  land  on  Long  Island, 
in  Boston  harbor,  in  1673.  His  children,  in  1667,  were  John  and  Debo- 
rah, and  his  grandchildren  Ebeuezer  and  Richard  Price  are  mentioned. 
Judge  _Sewall,  in  his  diary,  says  :  "Gamaliel  Wayte  died  suddenly,  Dec. 
9,1685,  aged  87  years;  lately  had  several  new 'teeth."  Administration 
of  his  estate  granted  Jan.  12,  1685-6,  to  his  widow  Grace,  aged  about 
Gl  in  16/1,"  and  again  Jan.  5,  1691,  to  his  dau.  Deborah  Paddy.  Hi3 
children,  by  wife  Grace,  were: 

i.  Mos£S,  b.  June,  1637  ;  d.  March,  1638. 

ii.  Grace,  b.  Jan.  10.  IG38-9;  m.  May  6,  1662,  Richard  Price 

iii.  Moses,  b.  Sept.  1640:  4.  Sept.  1641. 

iv.  Samuel,  b.  Nov.  7,  1641. 

V.  Deborah,  b.  Jan.  17,  1644  ;  m. Paddy. 

2.  vi.  John,  b.  1646  ;  m.  first.  Mary ,  and  second^  Eunice 

vii.  Gamaliel,  bapt.  Nov.  17,  1650. 

2.     John'  Watte  {Gamaliel^),  b.  1646;    son  of  GamaHelj  m.  first 
lilary,  who  was  living  in  1774,  ' 

but  soon  after  died,  when  he 

m.    again,  Eunice    [Roberts].  ^ 

He  was  a  merchant   of  Bos-      ^yf/~^^^^^^?^yy^      ^y^^  ^  ^ /  J> 

ton;   witness  to  will  of  Gov./-^ -^iZ^    >^^^^^^^ 

Leverett ;    surety  on   bond  ot^ —  ,^59^  . 

Eunice,  widow  and  administratrix  of  the  estate  of  Moses  Maverick  of 
Marblehead  in  1686;  owned  land  on  Long  Island  in  Boston  harbor  in 
1673,  and  in  16'Ji  sold  "  Beudal's  Dock."  Administration  on  his  estate 
granted  to  his  wife  Eunice,  April  8, 1702.  The  children  of  John  and  Eunice 
were : 


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1877.]  The  Angd  Goffe  Again.  425 

i.  EcNiCE,  b.  July  II,  1677  ;  m.  June  27,  1700,  Thomas  Coram. 

ii.  Joiiv,  I).  April  "J,  Iti-^O;  d.  yoim:;. 

iii.  Grace,  b.  Feb.  7,  in^I  ;  m.  April  7,  170-2,  Thorn-.is  Wallace. 

iv.  LtuIA,  b.  June  5,  1084;  ru.  Au^.  15,  1700,  WiUiatii  Ilruwn. 

V.  GiiJAHLii,   b.  St'pt.  21,   1080.     Adiniiii.strution  oa  Lis  esUxto  ijr.iutcii 

to  hiti  mother  tiuiioe,  N>iv.  7,  1709. 

vi.  ELiZABtTH,  b.  Feb.  20,  1088. 

Tii.  JoKX,  b.  Sept.  13,  lO'Jl. 


TIIE  AXGEL  GOFFE  AGAIN. 

Comraanicated  by  the  Hon.  Geouoe  Sueldo.v,  of  Deerfield,  Mass. 

r^PIE   able  and  exliaustive  paniplilet  on  the  ReL^iciclcs,   Wliallcy 
jL      and  Goffe,  by  Prof.  Franklin  B.  Dexter  [a?i^e,  p.  132],  con- 
tains the  usual  story  of  tlie  latter's  mystcrioud  appearance  at  Iladley, 
Sept.  1,  1C75.     To  this  he  adds: 

"I  veiilurj  to  suugest  that  a  contemporary  hint  at  the  occurrence  may  be 
found  iu  a  letter  from  the  Rev.  Jolia  Kussell  to  Increase  Matlier  (M.  II.  C. 
(4)  viii.  81),  who,  as  we  shall  see  later,  was  a  trusted  friend  of  the  regicides. 
Mr.  Russell  comments  thus  on  Mather's  'History  of  the  Indian  Wars,'  in 
which  the  attack  on  Iladley  was  hrielly  mentioned  without  reference  to  the 
mysterious  leader: — 'I  find  nothing  considerable  mistaken  in  your  history; 
nor  do  I  know  whether  you  proceed  iu  your  intended  second  edition.  Tliat 
which  1  most  fear  in  the  matter  is,  lest  !Mr.  B.  or  some  of  Connecticut  should 
clash  with  ours,  and  contradict  each  other  in  the  matter  of  fact.  Should 
that  appear  in  print,  which  I  have  often  heard  in  words,  I  fear  the  event 
would  be  exceeding  sad.'  Viewed  in  the  light  of  subsequent  fucts,  these 
sentences  mean  that  Goffe  had,  before  the  date  of  this  letter  (April  18,  1  077), 
removed  to  Connecticut,  and  3[r.  Russell  is  appreliensive  lest  •  Mr.  B.,'  or 
others  with  whom  Goffe  was  now  living,  should  contradict  a  iy  ■printed  vrsion 
of  the  dramatic  appearance  ci  Hadley,  and  lest  in  any  event  the  safety  of 
the  poor  hunted  regicide  should  be  endangered." 

The  italics  are  mine.     Appended  is  the  following  marginal  note  : 

"  I  have  thought  it  best  to  leave  the  passage  respecting  the  attack  on  Ilad- 
ley, as  it  was  written  six  years  ago.  It  should  be  stated,  however,  that  a 
recent  paper  in  the  New  England  [Historical  and]  Genealogical  Register, 
by  Hon.  George  Sheldon,  of  Iladley  [Deertield],  re-examines  the  grounds 
of  the  common  tradition,  and  decides  against  it ;  the  author  makes  no  refer- 
ence to  the  letter  of  Mr.  Russell,  on  my  interpretation  of  which  I  still  rely. 
August,  1876." 

"With  aU  due  deference  and  courtesy  to  ]Mr.  Dexter,  I  have  to  pay, 
in  reply  to  his  note,  that  in  my  article  {ante,  xxviii.  379),  I  made  no 
reference  to  Mr.  llussell's  letter,  seeinir  nothin"-  in  it  bcarinir  on  the 
question  at  issue  ;  nor  do  I  now  discover  the  pertinency  ot  its  mter- 
pretation  as  given  by  the  learned  antlcpj.ary. 

Even  accepting  as  authentic  history  the  tradition  of  Goffe's  "dra- 
matic experience,"  to  connect  it  with  the  passage  quoted  from  IVlr. 
VOL.  xxxi,  38 


•r  ■  ^tA 


426  The  Angel  Goffe  Again.  [Oct. 

Russell's  letter  sccnis  to  ine  struiniii^  a  point,  and  since  the  fact  is 
quci^tioned,  the  letter  would  seem  of  no  ^alllc  as  evidence.  The 
iuterprotatioii  1  venture  to  put  upon  Mr.  Kussell's  words,  disconnects 
them  entirely  from  ilie  subject  of  Gofl'e's  appearance  at  lladlcy,  Sept. 
1,  1675.  Mr.  Russell  has  received  a  copy  of  Mather's  work,  and 
connaenting  on  it  iu  a  friendly  way,  says  to  the  author,  in  substance, 
I  have  examined  your  History  and  find  no  considerable  mistakes  to 
be  corrected  if  you  go  on  with  your  second  edition  ;  our  Connecticut 
friends,  however,  contradict  some  of  your  facts,  and  if  they  should 
circulate  in  print,  what  I  have  heard  them  utter,  "the  event  would 
be  exceeding  sad."  Sad,  because  such  a  proceeding  would  increase 
the  ill  feeling  and  jealousy  between  the  colonics,  which  had  often 
been  shown  in  bickerings  during  the  war.  ^lay  we  not  fairly  as- 
sume, judging  from  the  results  that  usually  follow  the  publication  of 
any  couteniporaneous  military  history,  that  some  of  the  Connecticut 
officers  were  dissatisfied  with  blather's  relation  of  operations  in  wliich 
they  had  been  actors?  that  they  had  sharply  criticized  the  author, 
and  threatened  to  print  their  version  of  the  affair?  If  this  presump- 
tion be  true,  and  "Mr.  B."  refers  to  Capt.  Bull,  of  Hartford,  we 
can  easily  believe,  with  Mr.  liussell,  that  this  defence  of  the  Con- 
necticut men  would  be  made  with  an  emphasis  and  vigoi  which 
would  indeed  have  made  "the  event  exceeding  sad" — for  ]\Ir.  Mather. 
Again,  I  do  not  discover  in  Mr.  Russell's  letter,  or  elsewhere,  any 
allusion  to  an  intention  of  Mather  to  print  any  "version  of  the 
dramatic  appearance  at  Iladley."  Whether  the  regicide,  at  the  date 
of  this  letter,  was  at  Hadley,  or,  as  is  more  probable,  ac  Hartford,  we 
know  that  he  was  in  the  hands  of  friends  whose  very  lives  were 
bound  up  with  the  secret.  If  Goffe's  appearance  was  a  verity,  was 
it  safer  to  proclaim  the  fact  in  a  second  edition,  t  lan  it  had  been  in 
the  first  a  few  months  earlier?  And  if  printed,  what  sad  conse- 
quences could  follow  the  ^'^  contradiction^^  of  such  a  story  as  "a 
matter  of  fact,"  by  "Mr.  B.  or  some  of  Connecticut"?  How  could 
the  safety  of  the  hunted  fugitive  be  "endangered"  by  such  a  course? 
It  would  be  the  publication,  and  not  the  denial  of  the  story,  which 
would  put  his  life  in  jeopardy. 

A  careful  study  of  the  facts  now  in  our  possession,  leads  me  clearly 
to  the  conclusion,  that  it  is  well  nigh  impossible  for  the  extract  from 
Russell's  letter  quoted  by  Dexter  to  refer  to  the  appearance  of  Goffe  ; 
but  taking  the  simple  and  apparent  interpretation,  that  it  refers  to  the 
events  of  the  war,  as  recorded  by  Mather,  all  difficulties  disappear. 


1      t.-. /. 


...  ,.'l  .' 


1S77.]  I^otes  and  Queries.  427 


NOTES  AND   QUERIES. 

IIlSTORV  OF  CoNGREC.ATIONALIS\f  IV  XonFOLK  AND  SlFFOr.K. — TllC  RfiV.  .Tolin  P.rKV.-Tl.', 

B.A.,  of  Wrentluun,  Erv^!'^r>'l.  l>a-^  '"  press  a  work  with  tliis  title.  It  wii.-,  liiit-lly 
announced  in  the  Kkgi-ter  fL>r  July  {nnte,  p.  3;J.>).  The  book  will  be  diviileil  into 
two  parts.  The  tirst  will  give  notices  ol  the  esirly  proteslant  feclini;  in  tiii)-»i  cuiin- 
tics,  the  ri*e  of  piiricanisuj,  and  tlie  history  of  CMri;^reii:itii>naliani  an-i  ni)n-cuiil(jrmity 
there  to  the  present  time.  The  secorul  part  will  lie  flevoted  to  nn-iU'jrialrf  of  tiie  eon- 
gregational  and  tantist  churches,  with  notices  (;f  the  old  pvesdy  terian  chnrchi's.  eacli 
eiiuVch  to  have  a  6fjtarate  history.  Appen<lices  will  eontain  lists  of  mini-ters, 
silenced,  deprived  and  ejected  at  varioi^s  periodti.  The  e-.istcrn  countiert  are  riidi  in 
puritan  and  non-conTorniist  history,  and  the  author  has  colleeted  a  cjreat  d«il  of 
inforiuatinn  which  will  he  new  and  interistini^  ti  those  who  dciii^ht  in  such  matiei-s. 
The  work  will  be  pubii^hed  by  subscription,  at  10s.  (id.  a  copy,  or  21"*.  a  co|>y  c,n 
lar^e  paper.  Address,  the  Kev.  J.  Hrowne,  Wrenth.am,  or  Messrs.  Jarrnld  A  S>n.-^, 
Norwich  and  I/ondon.  England.  We  hoi)e  a  large  sub^scription  will  be  received  by 
them  from  the  United  States.  x 


FiiA.v^vr.iiAM,  Ma.j.— The  Rer.  J.  H.  Tuniple  has  been  at  work  for  several  years 
on  a  history  of  this  town,  and  the  book  is  nearly  ready  for  the  p^.^-^"'-  -'^^-  Teuiple 
is  a  mtivcof  Framini^haai.  and  of  course  familiar  witli  its  localities  and  traditions. 
He  has  been  fortun-ate  in  the  discovery  of  valuable  orii!;inal  papers,  m  the  State 
archives,  and  in  the  Middlesex  and  Suffolk  County  oltici-s,  and  elsewhere,  which 
enable  him  to  give  full  accounts  of  the  Indian  clan-;  that  occupie-d  the  territory  ;  tl»e 
earliest  white  settlements  ;  and,  in  general,  the  annals  of  the  plantation  and  town. 
It  is  intended  that  the  C/enuiloyirs  shall  be  complete;  and  the  author  will  gladly 
receive  records  and  items  of  family  history  from  all  who  have  been  residents,  or 
whose  ancestors  once  lived  in  Framini'ham. 


PxjFFER. — I  am  coUectin*  materials  for  a  history  of  the  Puffer  family.  Persons 
bearing  the  name  will  conter  a  favor  by  sending  me  their  address  with  such  other 
information  as  they  may  be  able  to  furnish.  Loklxg  \^ .  PiiTzii. 

Brockton.  Mass. 


Lexjamin  Eliot  (nfife,  p.  2Q0)  .—Matthew  A.  Stickncy,  Esq.,  of  Salem,  has  shown 
us  some  genealogical  notes  concerning  tiiis  family,  from  which  we  obtain  the  pedi- 
gree of  Benjamin  Eiiot  concerning  which  inquiry  was  made.  Wil'iani-  EUio/t.  son 
of  Andrew^  (see  Register,  xsiii.  337),  married  >lr8.  Mary  Parker,  widow  of  Na:h.in 
Parker,  and  daughter  of  Francis  Brown,  of  Newbury.  Their  son  \Vulia/n,'  h. 
Sept.  14,  1H65  (bap.  June  6,  16S6).  m.  Anna  Porter,  of  Salem.  Oct.  '21,  l7i>S. 
Their  son  Be/y'awm.*  b.  April  10.  1709,  was.  it  will  be  seen,  a  great-grandson  of 
Andrew,^  as  he  represents  himself  to  be  in  the  di;cument  printed  on  page  —O.  ^He 
m.  in  Ipswich  Abig-ail  Groves.  Sept.  5.  173-2  ;  and  died  in  Wiscaseet,  --^ug.  -o,  1/oG. 
He  has  descendants  living  in  Salem  and  elsewhere. — Ed. 


Ratmovd.— In  the  July  number  of  the  Register  (p.  331)  an  inouiry  is  made  a.s 
to  the  parentage  of  Thomas  Raymond,  of  Norwalk,  Conn.,  who  was  in.irritd  to 
Sarah  Andrews,  Nov.  15,  17()-J.  Perhaps  the  following  may  throw  some  li.dit  on 
the  subject. — In  the  Norwalk  Records  of  transfers  of  iieal  Estate,  there  is.  i"  l''® 
year  lhy9,  a  deed  from  John,  Samuel,  Thomas  and  Hannah  Kaym.md  to  W  il.iani 
Haynes,  of  certain  lamLs  in  the  town  of  Norwalk.  In  Hall's  "  .Vncieiit  lie.-.irds  of 
^NOrwalk,"  it  is  scared  tliac  John  Raymond  (son  of  Kiciiard  Raymond,  ofS.iU-m) 
had  by  his  wife  Mary,  daughter  of  Thomas  Betts,  of  Norwalk,  Jolin,  Jr.,  D.  Srpi. 
9,  lfi«.5  :  Samuel,  b.  July  7.  1673,  and  perhaps  others.  I  think  there  can  be  little 
doubt  that  the  Lhomas  and  Hannah  mcsitioned  in  the  above  d<ed  wore  t!ie  other 
children,  and  probably  joined  in  giving  deed  of  property  lt-(t  tliemby  their  father, 
John  Raymond.  Perhaps  a  reference  to  the  Keoords  of  Wills,  I  think  kept  .)C  tair- 
lield.  Ct",  might  determine  the  point.  James  L.  KaVuo.vd. 

83o  Broadway,  is'iw  \ork. 


428  I^otes  and  Queries.  [Oct. 

Expedition  to  Canada. — The  followirif^  itfm  has  been  copied  for  tfie  Register,  by 

Frerif^rii;  Kiikler,  Esm.,  fnnn  tho  I{ti.<t«n  K'-cnin<!  F'ost,  Anirust  1 1,  1710  : 

"  Wliertnis  thiTC  is  now  nii.sini^  in  l/mdi^n'I'-ny  in  tlic  I'luvincc;  uf  New  Hanipshiro 
a  comjruiy  of  irishmen  under  tliu  coniiiiixnd  of  me  the  aubsoriber  to  <j,o  on  the  pie.H'iit 
expcditiuu  aij'ainst  L'an;ui;i.  These  niC  to  notify  all  my  countryiii<rn  or  others  thiit 
have  a  miiul  to  }>ruOped  iu  the  said  expedition,  that  if  they  viil  cuine  and  inlist  that 
they  shall  have  p.'od  encoiiraLjouicnt  as  is  given  to  any  in  the  Province,  and  tliey 
may  depend  I  will  use  them  kindly.  Andrkw  Todd." 

AndrcM'  Todd  was  one  of  tlie  orijjinal  proprietors  of  Londonderry.  He  was  b<jru 
in  Ireland. 


Rings  and  Horse  Shoe?. — In  repairing  my  house,  in  the  summer  of  1S76,  a 
curious  fact  was  discovered  in  connection  with  tlie  first  chamber  stairs.  On  the 
strini;;  pieces,  under  each  tread,  a  wrought  iron  10'  nail  was  liglitly  driven,  and  on 
each  nail  hunp:  an  iron  rini^  ;  most  of  thefic  were  evidently  taken  from  an  old  hames 
harnt'ss.  and  placed  there  when  the  house  was  built,  some  135  years  ago. 

What  is  the  esplanatiun  ? 

T  have  a  hovfc  shue  which  was  nailed  to  the  door  post  of  the  "  Old  Indian 
House,"  in  this  town,  when  it  was  built,  about  16S6.  This,  as  we  all  know,  wps  a 
BpecitJc  against  witches ;  possibly  the  rings  wore  a  charm  to  confine  them  to  the  first; 
floor.  .  Georg;?,  SaELDON. 

JJccrJicId,  Mass.  

Dexmson. — Was  Robert  Dennison,  of  New  Haven  in  1658,  and  afterwards  of 
Newark,  New  Jersey,  a  si»n  of  William  and  .Margaret  Dennison  of  Ruxbury,  Mass., 
and  brother  of  L'apt.  George  Dennison  of  Stonington,  Ct.  ? 

Slonincjton,  Ct.  "  Richard  A.  Wheeler. 


FisKE  (a7^^r,  2-21).— "Phineas  Fiske."_   The  Fiske  Family,  by  Albert  A.  Fiske, 

i  edition  (1867),  paie  205,  says  he  married  (1st)  Sarah (the  mother  uf  his 

lildren),  and  m.  (2d)  Sarah  Easterick."     The  full  name  of  his  son  John's  wife  is 


Fi 

2d 
chi 

not  given.  £.  S.  L.  RiciiAKDiON. 

Chicaijo,  HI.  

Lang. — "  Inventory  of  Estate  of  Robert  Lang,  1716,  on  File  at  Exeter,  N.  H." 
Thos.  Leavitt,  Clerk.  Who  was  R.  L.  ?  Was  he  a  son  of  John  L.,  of  Portsmouth, 
N.  H.?  The  REGISTER,  vol.  xxv.  p.  118,  says:  "  Wra.  Lang  and  L^ic^/^  Rennett 
were  m  rritd  Dec.  19,  1731."  Our  Family  Record,  copied  from  old  MSS.  in  l&oO, 
re-copied  1S13,  says  :  "  \Vm.  Lang  ru.  i^oraA  Bennett  "  (no  date).  Which  is  right? 
The  Rkgister,  vol.  xxv.  p.  120,  says:  "  Samuel  Lang  and  Hannah  Tout,  were  m. 
June  28,  1733."  Our  Family  Record  says  he  m  Hannah  Trout.  The  Register, 
xsiv.  p.  357,  says:  John  Lang,  Sen.,  married  Widow  Ruth  Sherburne,  May  10, 
1725.     Whuse  sou  was  he,  and  who  was  hi^  wife?  E.  S.  L.  Richardson. 

Chicago,  111. 

Richardson. — "Who  was  Zaccheus  Richardson,  a  soldier  in  the  war  of  1812,  and 
who  drew  for  his  service  160  acres  of  land?  Was  he  No.  5891,  Richards.jn  Memorial, 
p.  605.  or  his  son,  No.  6040,  p.  605?  £.  S.  L.  Richardson. 

Chicago,  III. 

Hay. — It  has  been  observed  that  hay  is  seldom  mentioned  in  early  inventories  of 
estates.     Perhaps  the  reason  for  sucli  omis^i  .'n  may  l)e  sufficiently  indicated  thus  : — 
In  the  inventory  of  the  estate  of  William  .Myriek,  Harwich,  1732,  are  included 
"  One  OS,  witli  liay  to  eat,  91.;. 

Two  cows,  with  hay  to  eat,   16£. 
One  c.\lf,  with  hay  to  cat,       2£. 
One  marc,  with  hay  to  eat,     5£  ;" 
and  on  the  inventory  of  the  estate  of  Samuel  Abbott,  Sudbury,  1755,  is  an  endorse- 
ment by  Judge  Danforth,  that  "  The  Administrator  mentions  some  hav  necessary 
for  the  use  ofthe  creatures,  notpriz'd." — Barnstable  and  Middlesex  probate  Reccrds. 

L.  E.  Paige. 


1877.]  2^otes  and  Queries.  A^^ 

^V'A.^)LKIOU.— !Major  Thomas  Deane,  of  Eioter,  N.  II.,  in  a  family  record  has  tliis 
CD  ti  >  : 

'*  June  y  9  Day  ITX  Died  my  Si.--t'?r  Mary  Wadl." 

I  ju-ef-uine  the  n(>^>re\inttd  ^urn;u)lc  is  ititunded  fur  U'jidlei^li.  She  was  a  daiiiih- 
ter  of  Thomas  and  Jjr.r  (^I'luuiii',:;)  Do;  nc ;  \va«  born  in  Jloston.  Aws,.  -0,  lti:''J, 
and  married  Ajui!  f),  ITIU.  I)avid  C'arwithin,  who  died  ah<ji:t  ITlTi  {nnO\  ix.  'J'.'). 
What  was  tho  chiis'>''an  rjajiie  ot  htr  la.-jt  hu.-band,  wad  his  buruaiue  VVudlLi;:h,  and 
where  did  he  reside?  j.  w.  d. 

Henrv  Ward  uiarritd  Hiiih,  daughter  of  Thomas  Cailey,  Jr.,  of  WcyniDnthi 
previous  to  IG91.     \S'l;ere  did  he  beloug?  Josefii  W.  i'oKTtu. 

BurUncjton,  Maine. 

E.ARi.Y  SriTLERS  OF  H_^RRr«oN,  Maine  C«ee  Register,  xxx.  408).— Thi.f  work  will 
contain  a  hi.story  of  the  fettiement  of  the  town,  its  resourees  and  proi;re.-s,  witli 
pencil Kigies  of  about  filty  fanulics.  But  few  copies  besides  tliose  suhscribtd  lur  will 
be  }!rintt;d.  Price,  one  dollar.  Addre^H  the  author,  Kev.  LI.  T.  Kidlon,  Nurth 
f airfield,  Me. 

STorcnroN'. — What  is  the  pedigree  of  Huth,  wifeof  Lieat.  John  Stouirhton,  whose 
only  child  married  the  second  Guv.  Oliver  Woloott?  Thi^  .John  Stoughton  wa-  t!ic 
son  of  Nathaniel.'*  the  son  of  John,'  the  son  of  Thoni.i.-;,-  who.^e  fithcr  was  'J"lioma.>.' 
who  gottif<i  in  Connecticut,  who  was  uncle  of  Lt.  Gov.  William  Stouirhtuu  -jf 
Ma«.sachu«etts.  W.O.  IttKEiiii.uN. 

JS'eio  I'ont  Cily.  

William  AND  Mart  SocTHWORTH,  of  TJttle  Compton,  Bristol  Co.,  Mass.,  deeile<l 
land  in  Sa.ybr(K»k  and  Lyme,  Dec.  4,  1777,  to  '"  our  beloved  son,  Jo^Jcpii  Blague,  uf 

Saybrook."     Was  Mary  Soutiiworth  the   widow  of  Joseph  iilague,  of  tfayl'rook, 
formerly  of  Boston,  who  was  liither  of  the  Joseph  to  whom  land  was  conveyed? 

•  £.  P.  Blagle. 

MofTAT.- — The  undersigned  will  be  very  glad  to  receive  any  inf^jruiation  concern- 
ing the  birth  and  parentage  of  the  Rev.  John  }^Iofiat,  of  the  cla'=s  of  1749  Primecjii 
College,  who  at  the  age  of  eighteen  immigrated  to  this  country,  and  in  17.JC  m. 
Margaret,  dau.  of  the  Rev.  John  Little,  and  Frances  Fitzgerald  of  Little  Bri-.\ia, 
Orange  Co.,  N.  Y.  J.  L.  Moffat,  M.D. 

17  Sc.hermerhorn  St.,  Brooklyn,  N,  Y. 

Barclay. — Thomas  Barclay,  b.  March  IH,  1755,  in  St.  Mary's  Co.,  Md. ;  cam?  to 
Monmouth,  X.J.  ;  an  American  officer  in  1776-7  ;  d.  probably  1804  ;  m.  Catherine, 
dau.  of  John  Wiliinrus  and  Deborah  White,  and  had  seven  children  : — Kobcrt, 
William,  John  Williams,  Ge^trge  Brinley,  Joseph,  Elizabeth,  and  Daniel.  Auy 
inlormation  concerning  his  parenrase  will  be  thankfully  received  by 

17  Schemierhorn  St.,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.  J.  L.  Moffat,  M.D. 

Memoirs  OF  TDE  Chesters  of  Chichley. — Robert  Edmond  Chester  Waters.  F.-q., 
B.A.,  Barrister  of  the  Inner  Temple,  London,  England,  is  compiling  a  geiit-.il":,'M-:ii 
work  under  the  ab.jve  title.  A  small  edition  (28  copies  small  paper,  price  JL5.  m., 
and  6  copies  large  pnpcr.  price  £2.  2s.)  of  two  chapters  of  that  work  has  U'en 
printed  under  the  title  i>f  "  Genealogical  Memoirs  of  the  Kindrwl  Families  of  TIiomuv.-} 
Cranuier,  archbishop  of  Canterbury,  and  Thomas  Wood,  bishop  of  Litihtield." 
Application  for  copies  should  be  addressed  to  the  author,  at  Robt^ou  &  Sons,  Printers, 
20  Pancras-road,  London,  England. 


Paine. — In  examining  into  the  genealogy  of  our  family  I  trace  it  through  Lemu**! 
Paine,  whose  father  Edward  Pame  and  grandfather  William  were  all  alivc  at  the 
breaking  out  of  the  Revolutionary  War,  the  youngest  '."eing  then  old  ca')U>{h  to 
bike  part  in  it,  and  the  o!de?t,  tlinugh  then  between" v)'">  and  10')  years  >..f  ai:e,  waa 
not  too  old  to  interest  himself  in  fitting  out  his  sun  and  gninds<;n  fur  tt'.e  fight.  All 
of  them  lived  at  that  time  in  Foxhorough,  Masa.,  and  from  them  have  sprung  a  large 
descent.     Can  any  of  your  readers  inform  me  of  the  original  stick  ? 

Albert  W.  Paine. 
VOL.  XXXI.         38* 


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43Q  Notes  and  Queries.  [Oct. 

Items  fbom  the  New  Encland  CriKONicr.E,  1775. — The  following  items  from  the 
above  nc\v>paper  have  bei'U  oupicd  for  the  Kfx.isTEK  by  Geurge  11.  Allan,  £-q.,  of 
Boston  : — 

DIED.— In  London,  .March  21,  a^rd  71,  tlie  H  m.  Thomafl  Perm,  Ei^qr:  one  of 
the  Pruprictaries  .rf  Ft-nnsylvania  and  last  Survivur  of  all  the  Children  of  Wjlliaui 
Penn,  the  Founder  of  that  I'rovince.  {June  8,  1775.) 

I^sx— By  the  Suh?criber  on  the  Mornin^^  of  the  I9th  April,  a  Silver  Watch,  with 
a  steel  Chain  and  silver  Sial  euirraved  K.  G.  ;  also,  a  fev-r  Days  after,  an  outside 
Garnient  usually  called  a  French  /rrtat  Coat,  with  a  crimson  velvcc  C-ipe.  Any 
Person  who  will  cause  the  eauie  to  Le  returned,  bhull  be  rewarded  therefor,  hy 

ELBKnM;F  GKURY. 

P.  S.— The  Watch  is  marked  on  the  face  "  EUia,  London,"  if  tlie  Owner  rL'titly 
remein>)ersi.  {June  15,  1775.) 

W'atertown,  May  25,  1775. 

On  Momlay  Eveninir,  last  Week,  was  married,  at  the  Seat  of  Thaddeus  Burr, 
Esq,,  in  Fairfield,  Connecticut,  by  the  Rev.  Mr.  Eliut,  the  Honourable  Ji.'UN 
IL^NCocc,  L>i\.,  President  of  the  Continental  Congress,  to  Miss  DoRoTuy  Qci.vcv, 
Dau^jhter  of  Ei'Mlwd  Qcincy,  Esq.,  of  Bo.^ton.  {Sept.  7,  1775.) 


StErurx  Pr.'TT. — He  and  his  wife  Lucy  Curtis  were  born  in  Bmintree,  Mn.s?., 
1761,  and  were  married  17&0.  Their  children  were  :  Polly,  Stephen,  Daniel,  Nancy, 
Chloe,  Clark,  CIari.=si,  .-Vbcl,  Lucy,  Curtis  and  Sophia.  Any  information  in  reg^ird 
to  the  ancestors  of  this  family  would  be  thankfully  received  throuj;h  the  Rkgister  or 
by  letter.  R.  L.  RiCHAROioN. 

West  Stratford,  Conn. 

Mellon. — Can  any  of  your  readers  furnish  information  concerning — 1st.  The 
place  of  interment  of  Thomas  Mellon,  a  soldier  of  the  war  of  1S12?  His  musket, 
captured  from  a  lli^hlandcr  at  the  battle  of  New  Orleans,  was  on  exhibition  at 
Independence  Hall,  Philadelphia,  as  late  as  1S62,  but  it  has  since  disappeared.  2i. 
Where  the  remains  of  Lieut.  Colonel  Mellen  of  Colonel  Weston's  regiment  wore 
buried?  who  was  at  the  defence  ot  Fort  Schuyler  in  August,  1777.  3d.  W  hat 
branch  of  the  family  did  the  two  .=oldiers  mentioned  above  belong  to?  4th.  ^V'h■dt 
was  the  origin  of  namini:  Melknville,  in  Columbia  Co.,  N.  Y.  ;  Mellonville,  Orange 
Co.,  Fla.  ;  .Mellenville,  Kentucky?  &c.  George Mello.n. 

335  E.  W.  St.,  i\.  Y.  City. 


Proposed  Memorial  in  BER.yrDA  to  Gate3  and  Somers. — The  Rev.  Alfred  Malim, 
M.A.,  chaplain  to  Her  2»IaJesty's  Forces  at  St.  George's  garrison,  has  written  a 
letter  to  Gov.  Kemper  of  Virginia,  dated  "  Cambridge  House,  St.  George's,  Ber- 
muda, June  13,  1S77,"'  which  is  printed  in  the  Rtch/nund  Dispatih  June  20.  Rev. 
Mr.  Malim  is  collecting  money  to  build  a  church,  lor  the  use  of  the  troops  of  that 
garrison,  in  memory  ot  the  deceased  othcers  and  men  who  have  served  in  the  Ber- 
muda islands.  He  wislies  particularly  to  commemorate  Sir  Thomas  Gates,  governor 
of  Virginia,  and  .\dmiral  bir  George  Somers,  who  were  wrecked  here,  in  1609,  on 
their  way  from  England  to  \'irginia,  and  suggests  that  the  people  of  Viriiinia  con- 
tribute towards  a  memorial.  He  adds  that,  if  this  be  done,  "  it  will  not  be  the  tirst 
garrison  church  in  which  a  memorial  has  been  erected  by  Americans  ;  for  when  I 
was  stationed  at  Portsmouth,  some  two  or  three  years  ago,  the  people  of  New  Hamp- 
ehire  erected  a  memorial  in  the  garrison  church  of  that  station  to  Capt.  Ji)hn 
Mason,"  the  founder  of  that  state.     Contributions  may  be  sent  to  Rev.  Mr.  Malim. 


Penn. — We  learn  that  John  Snow,  Esq.,  of  Tuscaloosa.  Alabama,  is  preparing  a 
genealogy  of  the  Penn  family  descendants  of  Gabriel  Penn  of  Amherst  County,  Va., 
born  atMjut  1735,  from  whom  descended  John  Penn,  the  signer  of  the  Declaration  of 
Independence. 

Harvard  Graduates. — In  continuation  of  the  article  publisb.ed  on  page  334  of 
the  last  number  of  the  Register.  I  send  the  following  names  of  graduates  trom  1760  to 
1789,  of  whom  it  is  very  desirable  to  get  the  places  of  their  death,  and  the  year,  the 
day  and  the  month.    I  have  added  occasionally  something  that  Uiay  furnish  a  clew 


i««T 


1877.]  Notes  and  Queries.  431 

to  them.  I  have  ^iven,  too,  the  date  of  the  yef.r  when  they  were  first  ptarred,  as 
boiu;^  deiiii,  on  tlie  Tiitiiiiiul  L'atal'i^iie,  l')r  proUibly  they  (Jinl  in  th:a  year  or  uot 
lorii;  prcviu'if^lv  ;  thoimli  in  some  case?*  tliey  may  have  died  ijimhv  yearn  hei-ire. 

The  dutes  ot  deaths  aro  particularly  inipovtant ;   but  any  other  l:icls  in  their  lives 
or  hi>toiy  will  lie  gratelully  received.  Jciiv   I.anciujn  >iiiii;v, 

Coinhriiljc,  Muss.  Editor  of'  the  Trunniat  (  tttnlogue, 

1789.    Ji>n;ithan  Proctor,  from  Westfoid,  born  Aug.  l!i,  ITtifJ ;  starred  in  Iblj. 
178U.    Israel  Andrew,  Danvers,  Oct.  17,  I7til  ;  .starred  in  1833. 
1788.    Adam  Gordon,  Unnstable,  Feb.  'Jl,  I7fir). 
17hO.    IViter  Lnniinus,  lii-;wioii,  Nov.  9,  1763;  starred  in  1839. 
1786.   Eli>lia  iJardner,  iJrookline,  Dec.  ii9,  1700,     Perhaps  a  merchant,  and  died  at 

the  ^011  th  ;  starred  in  1^06. 
1755.    Earzilhii  Cant\ett,  l-'.ridge\>  ater,  June  17,  1761 ;  settled  in  Maine,  member  of 

Congnss.  periuips  didl  ot  the  cliolcra  about  183"J  on  the  lliid.^on. 
17B5.    Joseph  iiardner  Andrewt*,  lioston,  Feb.  7,  17(j-J  ;  starred  in  1H-J7. 
1764.    Samuel  Grittin,  Ilawke  or  Kingston,  N.  11.,  July  3,    1*6'2;    starred  in   1315, 

probably  died  in  Maryhind  or  Virginia. 
17S2.   Reuben  Hayes,  N.  Yaruioutli,  Deo.  2,  17fii} ;  starred  in  I79t. 
1731.   Tuuot'iy  Swan,  Concord,  1)80.  21,  1759.     JJid  he  die  at  Washington,  N.  C'., 

in  17p8  or  before '.' 
1780.  Jes.>e  Thomas,  Marshfield,  Feb.  5,  1760  ;  died  probably  in  1788  or  before. 
17bG.   Nciicinicih  Mason.  Stoniugton,  April  10,  1757.     I)id  he  die  Oct.  21,   1816, 

near  Mystic,  Conn.  ? 
1779.   Enoch  Whip-jle,  Pvev.,  Sherl'iurne,  March  23,  17.55.     Was  settled  at  Alexan- 
dria,  N.  II.,  July  3,   l7f<S,   and   remained  till    179i.      Died   in    13;i3  or 

previously.     Is  said  to  have  gone  to  Peru,  N.  Y. 
1779.   James  Gordon,  enpposcd  to  be  dead  in  1833  ;  do  not  know  the  place  or  date 

of  his  birth  ;  perhaps  from  Amherst  or  Dunstalile. 
1779.   Daniel  Friend,  Wenham,  March  3,  1758.     Probably  died  before  ho  had  been 

graduated  8  years. 
1779.  Samuel  Chandler,  Andover,  Nov.  4,  1758.     Did  he  die  at  Woodstock,  Tt., 

Oct.  27,  1813? 
1778.   Jesse  Tucker,  Milton,  July  17,  1759.    Did  he  die  at  Newfoundland  in  1782 

or  before  ?  ■ 

1778.    Henry  Pynchon,  Springfield,  Dec.  30,  1760  ;  starred  in  1833. 
1778.    Brown  Emerson.  Reading,  March  22,  1749;  starred  in  IbOB. 
1778.   Joseph  Blaney,  Salem,  ^Lirch  11,  1759;  starred  in  1762. 
1777.   William  Traill,  Portsmouth,  N.  H.,  March  4,  17.59  ;  died  in  1842  or  before. 
'  1777.   Aaron  Smith,  East  Sudbury,  Nov.  3,  1757;  starred  in  n09. 
1777.   Jonathan  Porter,  Bridgewater.  July  5,  175*1.    Lost  atse  .  in  the  Revolutionai7 

War.     When  and  wliere?    Starred  in  1783. 
1777.    Dudley  Odlin,  £.^eter,  N.  H.,  Aug.  13,  1757  ;  starred  in  1803. 
1777.   Jacob  Conant.     Where  and  when  born?     lie  appears  to  have  once  been  a 

resident  of  Charlestown.     See  Mass.  Hist.  Coll.,  sii.  178. 
1776.   John  Williams,  Easton,  Sept.  22,  1750;  died  1765  or  before.    After  his  fa thf-r's 

death  his  mother  married  the  Hon.  Col.  Ephraim  Leonard,  of  Manstield. 

He  came  from  Man^tield  to  college. 
1776.   Jonathan  Willard,  Winchester  [N.  H.?],  Jan.  7,  1753:  died  1785  or  before. 
1776.   Benjamin  Allen  Upham,  Truro,  Feb.  5,  1756  ;  died  1800  or  before. 
1776.   Ezekiel  Henley,  Charlestown,  July  6,  1756  ;  died  1735  or  betore.    Perha{«  he 

was  of  Rowley. 
1776.   John  Haven,  Dedham,  June  18,  1753;  died  1785  or  before,  perhaps  ntst-a. 
1775.   Jonathan  Eames,  a  Tutor,  born  Hopkinton,  April   17,  1751  ;    died  l!:24  or 

before. 
1774.    Ecla  W  hippie,  Cumberland,  May  2,  1754  :  died  1782  or  before. 
1774.   Benjamin  Thurslon,  Rev.,  Bradford,  Mass.,  Sept.  25,  1755.    Settled  at  North 

Hampton,  N.  H.     Left  his  parish  and  supposed  to  have  died  at  the  South 

before  1826  ;  perhaps  near  Raleigh,  N.  C. 
1774.   Nathaniel  Thomas.  Marshlield,  Aug.  5,  1755  ;  died  1824  or  before. 
1774.   Narhun  Morey.  Norton,  Dec.  15,  1747  ;  died  probably  a  pri-.ntr  at  Ilalifai, 

N .  S.,  before  .March  26,  1778,  when  his  will  v.as  probated  ai  launton,  Mord. 
1774.    Asahel  Goodenow,  Sudbury.  July  21.  1747;  starred  I8l8. 
1774.  Timothy  Dwighc,  Medford,  Sept.  7,  1750.    Probably  died  at  Brooklyn,  N.  Y., 

17v)7  or  before. 
1773.  Joehua  Eaton,  Spencer,  Jan.  14,  1751  ;  starrcu  in  1797. 
1773.  Nahum  Cutler,  Sudbury,  June  8,  1746 ;  probably  died  1/  (6  or  before. 


."  ( 


432  I^otes  and  Queries.  [Oct. 

1773.   Isaac  Bradish,  Cambridge,  Nov.  16,  1752.     Probably  lived  to  be  70  years  old, 

1773.  Moses  Uaniard,  Iluivaid  or  Ujltun.  Min:!)  17,  1710.  Perhap.s  died  in  Carolina 
bt'Kire  1815,  tliouirli  Boine  say  in  Pepiijitl),  Mut,s. 

1772.  Phinea?  So^vman,  OxCuni,  April  18,  1750.  PerJ-iaps  died  at  Newburg,  N.  Y., 
in  1815  or  belbre. 

1772,  Jo.«epii  Crosby,  South  Pjraintree,  Feb.  20,  1751.  Supposed  to  have  died  in 
178.'?  or  before. 

1772.    Samuel  Murray,  Rutland,  April  13,  17.'M.     Died  as  early  an  1785. 

1771.  Benjamin  Hast-y,  Cambriili:;t',  April  'Jl,  175'J.  lie  went  to  f-ondon.  Was  he 
lost  at  sea?  When?  ilclorc  lo03  ?  It  ie  said  he  sailed  for  Cape  Coast 
Ciustle,  and  was  n  jt  heartl  Irum. 

1771.  William  Soalts,  ( ieurL^c  Town  or  Brunswick.  Maine,  born  Oct.  5  or  25,  1742  ; 
almost  -'9  years  old  at  i^iuduation.  11h  became  ultimately  insane  and  a 
vagabond.  Tiic  traditions  respecting  him  are  that  he  preached  and  alter- 
wardrt  abandoned  Conirregati<jnalism  lor  Quakerism.  Dr.  J ererny  Belknap, 
ot  Dover,  N.  H.,  published  a  scrmun  on  war.  The  Quakers,  who  were 
pretty  numerous,  considered  themselves  attacked  by  him,  and  they  employed 
tje-ales  to  write  an  answer,  wliich  lie  published.  As  it  wa5  at  his  own 
ex|jensc,  c^pectinLC  ccmpensation  he  was  disappointed.  lie  abandoned 
Quakerism,  saying  it  coiisistcl  in  77/c/^'.v  and  Thous.  fl  ipped  liatsand  smrxjth 
coat.s.  W'deu  Uev.  Mr.  Leiand  pre5:eDted  the  Cheshire  cheese  to  Presiilent 
Jrft>r?on,  Mr.  Leiand  obscrvci  that  it  did  not  bear  any  more  proportion  to 
the  attachment  of  the  Cheshire  people  to  Jcd'erson  than  a  barley  kernel  to 
the  whole  earth.  Stiorfly  after  Scales  was  at  President  McKeen's,  and  on 
going  to  bed  asked  fur  a  light.  One  of  the  President's  sons  rising  early 
tound  him  up.  lie  had  been  all  night  e-alculating  how  much  the  Cheshire 
people  had  come  short  of  what  they  owed  Jetierson,  how  many  cows  it 
would  take  to  make  such  a  chee.se,  luiw  large  the  cheese  would  be,  and  how 
many  planets  of  the  size  of  the  earth  would  be  necessary  for  the  pasturage 
of  the  cows.  Did  he  die  at  Bowdoin,  or  Bowdoinham,  Maine?  When? 
About  the  year  1616? 

1771.   Samuel  Wheeler,  died  ]^2i  or  earlier.     Where  from,  and  when  born? 

1771.    William  Scott,  died  in  1806  or  before.     \Vhere  from,  and  when  boiTi  ? 

1771.  Samuel  Plummer,  Gloucester,  .Aug.  4,  1753;  died,  perhaps,  about  1815.  See 
Babson's  Cloucester,  page  277. 

1771.  Edward  Kitchen  Turner,  Salem.  When  born?  Admitted  to  the  Sophomore 
class,  Aug.  19,  1768.     Son  of  John  Turner.     Died  in  1785  or  before. 

1770.  Zebulon  Butler,  Rev.,  Edirarton,  April  27,  1749.  Ordained  at  Falmouth,  Oct. 
18,  1775  ;  dismissed  1778  ;  went  to  Nantucket,  and  became  a  manufacturer 
of  snuff.  Did  he  die  there  in  1791  or  earlier?  Freeman's  Cape  Cod,  ii. 
450,452. 

1769.  Nathaniel  Harrington,  Watertown,  Aug.  12,  1750.  Said  to  be  a  physician, 
died  in  Jamaica.     If  so,  was  it  before  1782? 

1768,  William  Keous  (took  his  degree  of  M.A.  in  1775),  Dedham,  June  14,  1741. 
Did  he  go  to  Zanesville,  Ohio?     Did  he  die  in  1818? 

1768.  Isaac  Knuwlcs  had  leave  to  go  home  to  Eastham,  Dec.  26,  1767.  Did  he  live 
till  1839?     Where  and  when  born? 

1768.  Lawrence  Sprague,  Button,  Sept.  10,  1748;  starred  in  1785,  Whereandwhen 
did  he  die  ?     W  ho  was  his  father  ? 

1767.  John  Marston  Minot,  Jamaica  Island,  Oct.,  1747.  He  is  said  to  hare  lived 
in  Castine,  Maine.     Place  and  time  of  death  unknown. 

1767.  William  Moore,  Cambridge,  Jan.  6,  1745  :  died  1776  or  before.  Not  the  per- 
son mentioned  on  page  916  of  Mass.  Cincinnati  Societj-,  published  in  lri72. 

1767.  Nicholas  Dudley,  Rev.,  Epping,  July  7,  1740.  Ordained  at  Town^^lend, 
Vermont,  June  26,  1777.  Was  he  afterward  settled  in  Connecticut?  When 
and  where  did  he  die  ?     lie  was  not  stiirred  till  1836. 

1767.  Zephaniah  Briggs,  Rochester,  Jan.  9,  1743.  Died  in  1782  or  before;  but  not 
known  when  or  wnere. 

1766.  Elijah  Putnam,  Sutton,  Feb.  3,  1747.  Did  not  take  his  degree  of  M.A.  till 
1777  ;  starred  in  1797. 

1766.   Ebenezer  Barnard,  Deerficld,  May  11,  1745;  starred  in  1791. 

1766.  Joseph  Dow.«e,  Boston,  April  3,  1747.  Said  to  have  been  a  son  of  Joseph 
Dowse,  ot  Salem,  and  a  surgeon  in  the  British  army.     Starred  in  1827. 

1765.  Penniman,  Joseph,  Rev.,  Braintree,  Oct.  2H.  1737.  Took  his  second  degree 
in  1769;  ordained  at  Bedford, -May  22,  1771;  diimissed  Nov.  1,  1793;  re- 
moved to  Harvard,  and  there,  perhaps,  died. 


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1765.   Charles  Curtid,  Scituate,  Aug.  6.  1715.     Perhaps  died  in  New  York  as  early 

as  XKV^. 
17G5.  Seth  Williiurn,   rauiitnn,   Feh.   1,   1715.    Took  a  eeconJ  dej^rec  at  "i -le  in 

1773  ;  sill  1  to  huve  Jird  in  Lundoii,  P>.'.'.,  a  refu^^ee,  bt.-tijre  17^1. 
1764.   Isanc  Wiiicdi  ^t(^^,  Bru.Aiir.i-,  Auir.  5.  1713;  Ktaind  in  177'J. 
17G4.   Jut'Kih  L;ui;;Lmi,  B-sron,  March  13,  171f3.     Lived  in  Sudbury.     Perhapa  died 

ator  luar  iiailowcil.  ahuut  April.  iSOd. 

1761.  John  ScMlli'V,  Bjston,  June  14,  1745  ;  slarrcd  in  I77fi. 

17ti3.    Jamos  Parker,  "  Monoc,"  Sjuthhoro',  July  6,  I73'.i ;  ?tr\rrcd  in  1701. 
17(i3.    Beiijaruin  Bov.on,  Woodstock.  Oct.  4.  1740  ur  1741  ;  starred  in  17'.Jl. 
17f;3.    Samufl  Waterman,  Haliiax,  po^~ihly  Wellflret,  July  H,  1713  ;   -tarred  in  1^2*. 
1703.    Jonathan  White,  U-omiiister.  March  05,  1710;  starred  in  1770. 
176;:.   Jo>epli   L)o;nett,  Kev.,  B.>stun,  July   15,   1742.      Thought  to  have  been  an 
F-pi^iOOpnl  missionary  in  Eni^dand  :  starred  in  1809. 

1762.  Matthew  Cimiin2,  'I'aiinton,  Aja-il  6,  1741  ;  btarred  in  1603.        _  ^ 
1762.   Ephraini  Keith,  Hrid-ewater,  Sept.  6,  1739.    Tradition  tixea  him  &t  Titicnt 

1763  ;  frtarrod  in  1765. 
1762.  John  Swilt,  Acton,  Dec.  9,  1741.     He  was  living  April  24,  17/7,  but  starred 

in  17f^2. 
1762.   John  New,  Nevis.  Mav,  1742. 

noi.  Adam  Porter,  Abint,'ton,  Nov.  17,  1742.     Not  starred  till  1830. 
176!.   J.j^iah  Brown.  Abin^-ton,  Jan.  7,  1740;   .<:taned  in   1779.     Was  he  a  tavern 

keeper  in  Milton  and  master  of  one  of  the  ships  that  brought  the  obnosioua 

tea  to  Boston  ?  U        r.      ■   <»    t    i_     xu 

1761.  John  Bass.  Newbury,  Oct.  9,  1738.     Did  he  ^o  to  Nova  Scotia?    Is  he  the 

man  mentioned  in  Thayer's  Family  Memorial,  pnce  64?    Starred  in  1S18. 
1760.   John  Warren,  Wenham,"Nov.  1,  1740;  starred  in  1779. 
1760.   Lewis  VasialJ,  liustun,  Sept.  27,  1741  ;  stiirred  in  1785. 


SOCIETIES  AND  THEIR  PROCEEDINGS. 

New-Engl-vnd  Historic,  Genealogical  Society. 

'Boston,  Massachuselfs,  Wednesday,  February  7,  1877.— A  stated  meeting  was 
held  at  the  ricietv"s  lionise,  in  this  city,  this  afternoon  at  three  o'clock,  the  pre- 
sident, the  tlon.  Marshall  P.  Wdder,  in  the  chair.  -,  r^   tt    ,  •        t 

After  the  reading  of  the  record  by  the  recording  secretary,  David  G.  hoskms,  Jr., 
the  president  announced  the  death  of  the  lion.  Silas  N.  Martin,  honorary^vioe- 
president  for  North  Carolina,  and  appointe  1  Edward  Kidder  of  Wilmington,  N.  C, 
Frederic  Kidder  of  Melrose,  and  John  Ward  Dean  ot  Boston,  a  committee  to  prepare 
resolutions.  .  ,  ^  p  •»» 

The  Hon.  Carroll  D.  Wright  read  a  paper  on  the  "  Material  Progress  of  Massa- 
chusetts," a  synopsis  of  which  is  printed  in  the  Boston  Journal,  Feb.  8,  18/  /,  and 
in  the  Transcript  of  the  t-ame  date.  , 

John  Ward  Dean,  the  librarian,  reported  the  donation  of  22  volumes,  103  pampn- 
lets,  398  manuscripts  and  other  articles  during  the  month.  The  manuscripts  were 
from  R.  F.  Gerrish.  Esq..  of  Kittery,  Me.,  through  J.  S.  H.  Fogg,  M.D.,  ot  SoutH 
Boston,  :^Iass..and  consisted  of  important  family  and  commercial  papers  ol  the 
Gerrishes  and  Peprerreiis. 

The  Rev.  Edmund  F.  Slafter.  the  cnrrespondin?  secretary,  reported  the  acceptance 
of  the  membtTf^hio  to  which  thev  had  been  elected,  by  the  Hon.  Joseph  W  .  Law- 
rence of  St.  Juhn.'  N.  B.,  corr^.<ijondinn :  and  William  H.  Emery,  (-.eorge  b.  Cunn- 
ing, Bennet  F.  D  ivenp  )rt,  M.D.,  and  John  W.  Leatherbee,  all  of  Bjston  ;  Henry 
Deerin-;  of  Portland,  Me.,  and  Edward  S.  Barrett  of  Concord,  Mas.s..  r>st:knt. 

The  Rev.  Samuel  Cutler,  the  hi-torioirraplier.  read  a  memorial  sketch  ot  Kear- 
Adm.  Joseph  Smith,  U.S.N,,  of  Washington.  OC.  an  honorary  ineiuber. 

Col.  Allx-rt  II.  Hoyt,  in  behalf  of  Robert  Clarke  ot  Cincinnati,  presented  a  col- 
lection of  original  paners  beloni:ing  to  commis-sary  and  quartermaster  dcpartmenta 
of  the  British  army  in  our  revolutionary  war,  and  a  cufiuus  documenc  relative  to 
the  publication  ot  Shavp's  work  on  Boston. 


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434  Societies  and  their  Proceedings.  [Oct. 

Penimnin  A.  O.  Fuller  prp-'cnted  a  tin  hox  containing  pamphlets,  circulars  and 
cards  collected  at  the  L'etuenniul  l!;sliil)itii)n  ot' Pliilaielpliia,  with  a  reqiit-Ht  that 
a  letter  from  the  pre-^ent  pre>ident  of  the  Society  to  his  successor  io  197ti,  be  ailded 
to  the  contents,  and  that  tl^e  box  be  then  BCjiled,  nut  to  be  opened  for  one  hundred 
years.     It  was  voted  to  do  this. 

Thanks  wore  voted  to  Mr.  Wright  for  his  paper,  and  to  Messrs.  GerrLih,  Clarke 
and  Fuller  for  tlieir  gitts. 

March  7. — A  meetini;  was  held  this  afternoon,  president  \ViIder  in  the  chair. 

The  lion.  Juhn  15.  D.  C'(j:,'wu<.-11  of  Yarmouthport  read  a  paptT  on  "'  Some  old 
Ministers  and  Doctors  of  (.':i[)e  (_\.d,"  in  which  he  introduct'i  Uiucii  relatin;;  to  the 
manners  and  customs  of  the  inhahitants  of  the  Cape,  and  al.so  to  the  character  of 
that  people,  their  lon.jevity,  jbe.     Thank.s  were  voted  for  the  paper. 

The  liSrarian  reported  as  donations  during  February,  75  volumes,  127  pamplileta 
and  other  articles. 

The  corret-pondin^T  secretary  reported  the  acceptance  of  the  Rev.  Edwanl  N.  Neill, 
of  Minne;\polis,  Min.,  as  a  corresponding,  and  '>l  Jolin  G.  Anthony  of  Catuhridge- 
port,  Samuel  VV.  Wintlow  of  Boston,  and  Edward  P.  Usher  of  Lynn,  as  resident 
membiT"'. 

The  historiographer  read  memorial  sketches  of  the  following  deceased  members, 
namely  :  P».ear-Adm.  Charles  fl.  Davis,  Lf^.D..  U.S.N. ,  of  W'ashiijgtijn  ;  William 
E.  "WaiTcii,  of  Newhurgh.  \.  Y.,  and  Addison  W.  Champney,  of  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

On  motion  of  William  H.  Montague,  one  of  the  two  surviving  founders  of  this 
Society,  the  following  preamble  and  resolutions  were  adopted  : 

Whereas,  it  is  the  custom  of  this  Society  to  record  the  genealogy  and  history  of 
it";  members,  to  keep  in  memory  their  virtuous  and  praiseworthy  deeds,  and  t. >  trans- 
mit tlieiii  to  those  who  shall  come  after  us,  for  their  encouragement  and  imit;ition  : 

And  Whcrtas,  Those  who  originate  and  early  aid  any  great  and  commendable 
work,  deserve  specially  to  be  kindly  remembered  by  those  who  have  entered  into 
and  are  reaping  the  fruit  of  their  labors  :  therefore, 

Resolved,  That  the  late  Rev.  Samuel  H.  Riddel,  the  first  elected  member  of  this 
Society,  who  for  many  years  was  one  of  it.s  directors,  its  recording  and  correspond- 
ing secretary,  and  a  benefactor  when  it  stood  in  special  need  of  his  services,  is  here- 
by gratefully  remembered  and  his  name  honored,  not  only  for  the  valuable  aid  ren- 
dered by  him  to  the  Society  as  an  officer  and  meraber  for  a  quarter  of  a  century, 
but  also  for  the  excellency  of  his  character  and  bis  fidelity  as  a  Chri~tian  pastor,  for 
his  ability  and  useful  services  as  secretary  of  the  American  Education  Society,  and 
for  the  well-deserved  esteem  in  which  he  was  held  by  his  brethren  in  the  gospel 
ministry. 

Resolced,  That  we  sincerely  regret  the  loss  we  have  sustained  by  his  removal  from 
ns  ;  and  while  we  bow  in  humble  resignation  and  acquiescence  to  the  will  of  tlie  all- 
wise  Disposer  of  events,  we  deeply  sympathize  with  nis  bereaved  and  afflicted  rela- 
tives. 

Resolved,  That  these  resolutions  be  entered  on  our  records,  and  a  copy  be  trans- 
mitted to  the  relatives  of  the  deceased. 

April  4. — A  quarterly  meeting  was  held  this  afternoon,  president  "Wilder  in  the 
chair. 

The  Rev.  Artemaa  B.  Muzzey,  of  Cambridge,  a  native  of  Lexington,  read  a  paper 
on  the  "  Battle  of  Lexington,"  which  is  printed  in  this  number  of  the  Registsh, 
pp.  377-393.     Thanks  were  voted  for  the  paper. 

The  librarian  reported  as  donations  during  March,  23  volumes,  45  pamphlets,  320 
manuscripts  and  other  articles.  The  manu-cripts  are  a  second  donation  from  the 
Gerri.sh  and  Pepperrell  manuscripts  from  K.  F.  Gerrish,  through  Dr.  Fogg,  and  are 
equally  valuable.     Both  donations  amount  to  upwards  of  seven  hundred  manuscripts. 

The  librarian  also  read  a  letter  from  J.  C.  Briirham,  special  administrator  of  the 
estate  of  the  late  Jotiu  Haven  Dexter,  a  respected  member  of  our  Society,  accompa- 
nying certain  volumes  and  other  manuscripts,  being  Mr.  Haven's  collection  ot  ma- 
terials illustrating  the  local  history  of  Boston  and  the  biography  of  its  princi[iul 
citizens.  It  is  particularly  full  in  relation  to  the  streets  and  hotels  of  Boston,  and 
the  residences  of  prominent  persons.  Mr.  Brigham,  knowing  the  interest  his  rela- 
tive felt  in  this  Society,  took  an  early  opportunity  to  place  these  valuable  manu- 
ecripts  in  its  archives. 

The  corresponding  secretary  reported  the  acceptance  of  Richard  TV.  Sears  as  a 
resident  meoiber- 


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The  historiographer  read  memorial  sketches  of  the  following;  deceapo<l  members 
vl:^  :_  Jo!.u  II.  J)..xter,  of  Bo-toii  ;  the  ll.jii.  S.Miiuel  11.  W  ll.iU,  nl  l]in^'h;iiiiton,' 
N.  Y.  ;  the  Hon.  Oliver  Ames,  of  North  K  i.-<ton  ;  Lewid  liice,  of  liu.ston,"' and  tho 
lion.  Emory  Washburn,  LL.D.,  of  Cambridije. 

Boston,  April  2.5.— A  special  meeting  was  held  thi.s  afternoon,  tlie  Rev.  Do'us 
Clarke,  D.D.,  in  the  eh;\ir. 

Henry  Baylied,  of  iMaMt-n,  read  a  paper  on  The  Origin  and  Import  of  tlie  In.scrip- 
tion  on  Uighton  Rock.    Thanks  were  voted  for  the  ptiper. 

May  2. — A  stated  meeting  wa-s  held  this  afternoon,  president  Wilder  in  tho 

chair. 

Col.  Francis  J.  Parker  read  a  paper  entitled,  "  Could  General  Putnam  command 
at  Lunker  Hill?"'  Thank.s  were  voted  for  the  paper,  which  is  printed  in  the  prc- 
eent  number  of  the  Rkihstek,  pp.  -103-13. 
_  The  librarian  reported  46  volumes,  G51  pamphlet!,  besides  other  articlcH,  as  dona- 
tionB  during  the  past  month.  Among  them  were  a  li<.r;;e  quantity  of  manuscri;.t.8 
received  through  H.  E.  Scudder  from  the  t.-tatc  of  tiie  late  Rev.  tjamuel  II.  Ri-ldt.-l, 
being  some  of  his  geneulogieal  and  biographical  collections  ;  alt^o  town  report.s  frnu 
the  clerks  of  155  towns  in  this  state,  received  in  response  to  a  circular  fro.u  the  com- 
mittee on  the  library. 

The  historiographer  read  memorial  sketches  of  the  following  deceased  meml)ers, 
vi?.  ;  of  the  Rt;v.  Dr.  Alexis  Caswell,  of  Providence,  R.  I.  (printed  in  the  .Iul>  num- 
ber, ante,  pp.  253-62)  ;  tlie  Uon.  L*jrenzo  Sabine,  of  Boston  ;  Henry  B.  (jroves,  of 
Sakm  ;  the  Rev.  John  T.  Sargent,  of  Boston  ;  the  Hon.  Josiah  Dunham,  of  South 
Boston,  Mass.,  and  Jarvis  M.  Hatch,  of  Rochester,  iN.  Y. 

ViRGtMA  Historical  Society. 

Richmond,  Friday,  June  1. — A  stated  meeting  of  the  executive  committee  was  held 
this  eveninir,  A.  M.  Keiley  in  ttie  chair, 

A  valuable  list  of  donations  was  reported,  among  them  an  autograph  letter  of 
Gen.  Washington,  Oct.  6,  1778.  to  Dr.  David  Griffiths,  presented  by  the  wifo  of  l.ho 
Rt.  Rev.  F.  M.  Whittle,  Episcopal  bishop  of  Virginia. 

R.  A.  Brock,  the  correspondiiig  secretary,  read  from  his  correspondence  a  number 
of  interesting  letters. 

Mr.  Brock  stated  that  he  had  for  several  years  been  collecting  materials  for  a 
genealogy  of  the  descendants  of  Pocahontas,  and  had  ijicidentally  gathered  the  pedi- 
grees of  a  majority  of  the  prominent  Virginia  families.  His  investigations  reveal 
the  singular  tact  that  nearly  every  family  of  this  state,  of  any  duration  of  residence, 
is  lintaily  or  colJatemlly  interlinked. 

He  also  stated  that  the  Rev.  Edward  D.  Neill,  of  Minneapolis,  Min.,  who  had 
kindly  furni.shed  sketches  of  the  early  colonial  Governors  of  Virginia,  now  propo.<c'tl 
to  furnish  sketches  of  the  presidents  of  the  colony,  which  will  be  printed  in  tLo 
Richnond  Dispatch  as  the  former  series  has  been. 

Friday,  July  6. — A  stated  meeting  of  the  committee  was  held  this  evening,  A.  il. 
Keiley  presiding. 

Many  valuable  donations  were  reported,  and  much  interesting  correspondence 
was  read. 

Adjourned  to  October  5. 

Rhode  Island  Historical  Society. 

Providence,  Tuesday,  July  3. — A  quarterly  meeting  was  held  this  evening  at  the 
Cabinet,  "Waterman  Street.  In  the  absence  of  the  president  md  vice-presidentd, 
Prof.  J.  Lewis  Diman,  D.D.,  was  chosen  president  pro  tern. 

An  invitation  from  the  First  Light  Infantry  Veteran  Association,  through  Col. 
W.  W.  Brown,  the  c^^mmandL*r,  to  unite  in  celebratins  the  one  imndrtdih  tinuivcr- 
sary  of  the  capture  of  Gen.  Richard  Prescott,  by  Col.  William  Biirton,  July  10,  1777, 
at  the  place  where  the  famous  capture  was  made,  was  accepted. 

I.  H.  Southwick,  in  behalf  of  the  committee  on  Grounds  and  Baildi.ng.  reported 
the_ expense  of  the  new  wrought-iron  fenCTS  and  grading  the  grounds  as  5;7j'J.j8,  of 
which  sum  $685  had  been  raised  by  subscription.  Thanks  were  voted  to  tha 
committee. 

W.  F.  Channing,  M.D.,  inbehalf  of  the  committee  for  erecting  a  boulder,  properly 
iiiscribed,  on  the  spot  whore  King  Philip  was  kiUed,  aa  a  mcnumeat  to  hid  aiemory, 


mH 


438  Kecrolorjy  oj  HUloric^  Genealogical  Society.         [Oct. 

reporte<l  progress.    Prof.  J.  Lewis  Diman  and  George  L.  Collins  were  added  to  the 
conunittee. 

Tile  BccretP'-y  ivmi  a  letter  to  the  lion.  Ziohariah  Allen,  LL.D.,  vice-pre.-iJent, 
from  twenty-three  chiefs  and  prominent  Indians  re.-<idin:r  on  the  northern  bhorcj  ol' 
Lake  Huron,  rettirninij;  thanks  for  copies  ot  his  t)ook  entithd,  "  Kiiode  leland  Sy;steiu 
of  Civil  and  Kelii,n  uis  Liberty  and  Treatment  of  the  Indians,  lG76-ltt7tJ."  He  also 
read  other  correspondence  on  the  subject. 


NECROLOGY  OF  THE  NEW-ENGLAND  HISTORIC, 
GENEALOGICAL  SOClETr. 

Prepared  by  the  Rev.  Samuel  Cutler,  Historiographer  of  the  Society. 

TiTE  Rev.  Chacncey  Colton,  D.D.,  a  corresponding  member,  was  bom  in  Long 
Meadow.  .Mate.,  Aug.  3U,  i"?()0,  and  died  at  the  residence  of  his  youngest  &_)n,  the 
Rev.  R.  Francis  Cokon,  in  Jenkintown.  Pa.,  April  15,  187G,  a'j;ed  75. 

lie  was  the  son  of  Gad  and  Ann  Colton.  ilis  mother  died  during  his  childhood. 
lie  was  educated  at  Monson  AAcadeniy,  and  Amhcrsr  and  Vale  College.?,  entering  the 
latter  institution  as  resident  i,naduato.  lie  then  had  charge,  with  his  brother-in- 
law,  Francis  IVU  .we--,  of  Mount  Pleasant  Academy,  near  Amherst.  He  was 
ordained  as  Deacon  in  ••  The  Protestant  Episcopal  Church  in  the  United  States," 
by  Bishop  Griswold,  then  having  jurisdiction  in  what  was  known  as  "The  E;istern 
Diocese,'"  July  28,  1830.  He  was  ordained  as  Presbyter  in  the  same  church  in 
1831.  His  active  labors  in  the  ministry  of  the  gospel  may  be  thus  summed  up, 
more  brieliy  than  if  the  dates  were  in  our  possession.  He  was  Rector  of  it.  Paul's 
Church,  Rochester,  N.  Y.,  and  Trinity  Church,  Wastiingtun,  D.  C. ;  Professor  o*^ 
Homiletics,  Gambler  Theological  Seminary,  Ohio ;  and  Rector  of  Emmanuel  Church, 
Cumberland,  Md. 

Dr.  Colton  married,  Oct.  15,  1832,  Ann,  daugliter  of  William  Coxe,  of  Burling- 
ton, N.  J.  They  had  six  children,  of  whom  only  the  youngest  son,  the  Rev. 
Richard  Francis  Colton,  Rector  of  the  Church  of  the  Saviour,  Jenkintown,  Pa., 
survives. 

He  was  admitted  to  membership,  Dec.  13,  1847. 

The  Rev.  John"  Turner  Sargent,  A.M.,  of  Boston,  a  resident  member,  was  bom 
in  that  city,  July  12,  18u7  ;  and  died  there  March  2f\,  187  ,  aged  69. 

He  was  the  eldest  son  of  John  T.  and  Christiana  Keadie  (Swan)  Sargent.  Ilia 
fiither,  a  merchant  of  Boston,  died  in  1814,  aged  44  years.  After  the  death  of  his 
father,  he  was  placed  at  boarding  schools  in  Duxbury.  Dorchester  and  Boston,  and 
•was  from  1818  to  18-21  connected  with  the  Boston  Latin  School.  He  entered  the 
Sophomore  class  of  Harvard  College  in  18:25,  and  graduated  in  18-.27.  The  same 
year  be  entered  the  Divinity  School,  in  Cambridge,  and  thence  graduated  in  1830. 

In  1830,  Mr.  Sargent  accepted  an  invitation  as  minister  at  large,  of  the  Benevolent 
Fraternity  of  Churches  in  B(jston.  He  was  ordained  to  that  office,  Oct.  29,  1837,  and 
was  settled  over  the  Sutlolk  Street  Chapel.  The  building,  situated  on  Shawmut  Avenue 
(then  Suffolk  Street),  corner  of  Rutland  Street,  is  now  standing,  and  is  owned  and 
occupied  by  the  First  Baptist  Church.  After  eight  years  of  service,  in  this  then 
sparsely  populated  part  of  the  city,  he  vacated  and  resigned  the  office  on  questions 
arising  as  to  the  freedom  of  the  pulpit.  In  the  fall  of  16)^5,  be  resumed  his  ministry 
in  Somerville,  Mass.,  where  he  remained  about  three  years.  On  the  20th  of  .May, 
1849,  he  accepted  a  call  from  a  small  Universalist  Society,  in  Canton  Street,  Boston  ; 
and  in  1850,  on  account  of  ill  health,  again  resigned  the  ministrj-,  and  was  for  six 
months  in  Europe. 

Mr.  Sargent  wa.s  noted  for  a  large  liberality  in  his  theological  views,  and  was 
prominent  and  earnest  in  several  philanthropic  movements.  He  was  one  of  the 
earliest  among  the  W'jrk'^rs  lor  tlie  aboliti')n  of  shivery,  and  iirst  and  zealous  in  hia 
advocacy  of  total  abstinence  and  prohibition  in  the  temperance  cause,  when  such 
■works  lacked  any  elements  of  popularity,  lieports.  addresses,  and  sermons  from 
his  pen,  on  a  variety  of  themes,  have,  since  1836,  kept  his  name  before  t!ie  public  ; 
-while  of  late,  the  eo  called  disciples  of  advanced  thought  have,  under  his  genial 
roof,  peri'>iically  assembled  to  compare  and  discuss  their  pbiiosophic  and  pniiaa- 
thropic  plans. 


1877.]      NecTolog])  of  Historic,  Genealogical  Sociely.  437 

Mr.  Sargeut  mnrricd,  first.  Dec.  2.  1831,  Charlotte  Sophia  Wliitc,  younciest 
rl\iiL'-ht«r  of  Ciijit.  Josopli  ami  Kli/.a  "Wliite,  fonnrrly  of  Sali-iii,  Mass.  .^Iie  died 
May  31,  1B51,  li-avini;  several  cliilihcn.  lie  uiarrit-il,  seoomlly,  June  4.  Ipj.j,  Mary 
KliiMhoth,  daiifrhtLT  uf  KLeuezer  and  Mary  ElizaU-tli  Fiskc,  of  liuxljury,  Mass., 
formerly  of  New  Orleans. 

lie  was  admitted.  Nov.  7,  ISjO. 

Rear  Admiral  Josf.pe  Smith,  U.S.N.,  an  honorary  member  of  this  Si>c-ir,'ty,  and  a 
citizen  of  Massacluisett:?,  residinc;;  in  Washinj^tm,  D.  C,  was  Ijorii  in  Il.inovtT* 
Coi-nty  of  Plymouth,  Ma.-4S.,  March  30,  17'JL) ;  and  difd  in  \Va.shington,  \).  C,  Jan. 
17,  1B77,  a2;ed  80. 

His  f:rea~t-.i,'randf;ither,  Thomas  Smith,  born  Feb.  1,  1700,  died  July  7,  178=^,  wad 
a  prominent  minister  in  IVmhroke,  .Mass.  An  account  of  him  and  hi.s  an(.v.>-try  is 
printed  in  thi.s  volume  of  the  KKi;i?Tt:ii  {anffi.  pa'j;e>  Os  and  GiJ).*  His  ^ramllather, 
Josiah  Smith,  born  in  Pembroke,  .Masrf.,  Feb.  2C>,  173->,  -was  a  member  of  (JonLrreiw. 
durinsr  the  administration  of  Thomis  Jeti'erson,  ami  died  April  4.  1S03.  Uis  f^i'her, 
Albrrt  Smith,  was  born  in  Pembroke,  Marcli  2-J,  1703,  and  died  in  llau'Aer,  .Ma'-s., 
May '2S,  1823.  His  mother.  Anna  (f/'nthall  Eelli)  Smith,  was  born  in  Llanover, 
Mass..  July  18,  170.");  died  May  7,  b>35. 

AdmirafJusoph  Smith  married,  ^larch  1,  1313,  Harriet,  daughter  of  Nathaniel 
Bryant,  of  Nobleboro', -Maine.  They  had  two  sons  and  two  dau^'hters.  1.  Alht.rl 
Nathaniel,  born  in  Belta.st,  Me.,  Nov.  •22,  132-2.  lie  died  in  Boston,  Sept.  8,  lhOr),_ 
at  wiiicli  time  he  was  a  commandtr  in  the  U.  S.  Navy,  and  Chief  of  the  Bureau  ol 
Equipment  and  Kecruiting.  2.  Joseph  Bryanl,  born  in  Belfast,  .Me.,  ])cc.  2l),  1820. 
He  entered  the  navy  in  1841,  and  was  killed  in  battle,  March  8,  1S';2,  while  in 
command  of  the  U.  S.  Fri^^.ite  '•  Con^^ress,"  in  the  engagement  with  the  Kam 
"iMerrimao,"  ofi"  Newport  News.  His  daughter,  Anna  £.,  survives  him  and 
resides  at  Washington,  D.  C. 

The  life  of  Admiral  Smith  was  devoted  to  his  country.  He  entered  the  United 
States  Navy  as  midshipaian.  .Jan.  16,  1809.  Promoted  to  lieutenant,  July  21,  1813. 
He  served  with  Comm  )dore  Thomas  .Macdonough  at  the  battle  of  Lake  Champiain, 
where  he  was  wounded.  In  1313,  at  the  capture  of  the  Algerine  vessels,  his  gal- 
lantry gained  for  him  favorable  mention  in  the  otBcial  report.  He  was  coinrai>-ionei 
master  commander,  March  3,  1327,  when  he  was  attached  to  the  Boston  Navy  Yard, 
of  which  he  was  commandant  in  1834,  and  was,  in  1840,  commander  of  the  Receiv- 
ing Ship  Ohio,  iu  the  port  of  Boston.  He  was  promoted  captain,  Feb.  9,  1837.  la 
1838  and  1839  he  commanded  the  U.  S.  Ship  "Ohio"  (74),  bearing  the  broad 
pennant  of  Commodore  I?aac  Hull,  on  the  .Mediterranean  station.  Was  comman.iier 
in  chief  of  the  Mediterranean  squadron,  flag  ship  "  Cumberland,"  in  1812,  '43  and 
'44.  May  2),  ls46,  he  was  appointed  Chief  of  the  Bureau  of  Yards  and  Docks  in 
the  navy  de[  artment,  and  h-cld  that  ofBoe  until  April  27,  1869,  when  he  was  appointed 
president  of  a  board  to  examine  naval  officers  for  promotion.  He  received  Ins  com- 
mission as  rear  admiral,  July  30,  1SG2.  Was  "  retired  "  by  a  "  Boai-d  "  in  Septem- 
ber, 1855,  but  was  "  restored  "  by  an  Act  of  Congress.  Was  placed  on  "  Waiting 
Orders,"  Sept.  18,  1871. 

Of  late  years,  Admiral  Smith  has  spent  a  portion  of  his  summers  at  the  North, 
among  his  relatives  and  friemls  in  his  native  state  and  town.  His  old  age,  notwith- 
standing the  loss  of  wife  and  children,  and  the  infirmities  which  pres.'^  up  jn  one  who 
has  90  overlapped  the  fourscore  years  of  man,  has  been  serene  and  hapf^y,  and  he 
has  passed  away,  having,  by  his  loyalty  and  services,  honored  the  old  Commonwealth 
which  gave  him  birth. 

He  was  admitted  to  the  society,  Oct.  14,  1875i 

The  Hon.  Emory  Washboix,  LL.D.,  of  Cambridge,  Mass.,  a  corresponding  mem- 
ber, died  in  that  city,  ^Liroh  18,  1877,  aged  77. 

He  was  born  in  Leicest-r,  Mass.,  Feb.  14,  1800.  He  was  fitted  for  college  at  the 
academy  in  Leicester,  epenc  two  years  at  Dartmouth  College,  and  graduated  at 

•  The  native  place  of  John  Smith,  the  emigrant  ancestor  of  this  tamilv-,  is  not  known. 
The  particulars  Riven  in  a  foot-note  on  page  68  of  this  volume,  drawn  from  a  documcut 
d.atcd  Feb.  8,  l6ol,  relate  to  John  Chapman,  and  not  tn  John  Smiih.  Tlirou;,-h  the  kiadncss 
of  C.  Q.  P.  Waterman,  Es].,  of  Sun.hvich,  Mass.,  v.o  have  t.een  p.miitted  t<_)^f.\Mriu!»c  the 
original  of  this  document,  an  I  we  tind  the  name  written  plainly  Chip-ncn.  The  document 
is  now  owned  bv  William  C.  Chipman,  Esq.,  of  Sand-.vich.  A  copy  i-  prir.tcd  m  the  Kko- 
IRTER,  vol.  iv.  pp.  23-4,  furnished  by  the  Rev.  R.  Mannin;?  Chipm.iu,  now  ot  I/sl.r.n,  Ct. 
There  are  a  few  typographical  errors  tiiere,  which  will  be  corrected  iu  a  futarc  number  of. 
the  Register. — Ed. 

VOL.  xxxi.        39 


f.  -I   '• 


438  JSi'ecrologij  of  Historic^  Genealogical  Society.  [Oct. 

Williaina  College  in  1817.  In  1821,  havinir  gnultiated  at  the  Harvard  L-\w  School, 
he  \viis  a'Juiittrd  ta  the  l.ar  at  Lcn.tx,  anJ  fur  a  d-w  ycaia  pracni-i-il  lii-t  prol'exsion 
in  his  iintive  ti)wri,  eervini:  n'^  tcwn  clerk,  ami  in  IH-JO-CT  roprtbentin:^  the  town  in 
the  State  legislature,  la  .March,  ly-J8.  he  rejii-jveJ  to  \Vorce-itLT,  and  tor  thirty 
years  was  one  of  it-<  f.jieiuo-;t  ciuzenrt.  In  HU-J-J,  he  wan  a  number  of  the  Stat<i 
senate.  In  ISll,  he  was  app:nnted  JudL,'e  of  the  Court  of  Common  Picas,  by  Gov. 
Bri^-gs,  hut  in  1617  he  resi-nti'  tlie  i)Mfiti.jn  t »  ixturn  to  the  jtracticeol  law.  He  was 
chosen  Governor  of  Mas-^aohntietts  in  185.'J,  as  the  siiceessor  of  Gov.  John  H.  Cli!r;rd. 
In  l!?j(i,  he  aceeijted  the  ijjs-ey  professorship  of  Law  in  Harvard  Cniverrsity,  which 
he  held  for  twenty  }ear^,  winniiii,'  the  respect,  and,  in  a  remarkable  deirree,  the 
affeotion  of  tho'^e  who  came  uinier  his  in.-,truction.  He  was  eleeti.-d  to  the  le/i>lature 
of  .Mass.  in  Nov.,  isTf),  fruui  Cambridge,  and  as  the  senior  metuber  of  the  House  of 
Kepresentatives  presided  at  its  oriranization,  and  was  honored  by  the  appointment 
as  chairman  of  the  Judiciary  Committee. 

In  the  midst  of  other  engros-sin^  occupations.  Governor  Washburn  found  time  to 
prepare  and  pabii.->h  several  standard  woikrf  tliat  have  a  hiirh  reputation;  among 
them  are  "  lli-toiical  Si^etches  of  the  Town  <d'  Leicester,  MaAs."  ;  "Sketches  of 
the  Judicial  fiistory  of  Ma^-sachusetts  "  ;  "  A  Treatise  on  the  Lavv  of  Real  Proper- 
ty"; and,  "The  L'lw  of  Easeiuents  and  Servitudes." 

The  degree  of  LL.D.  was  conferred  upon  him  in  1854,  by  both  Williams  and 
Harvard  Colleges. 

\\  e  cl;)se  our  brief  sketch  of  Governor  Washburn  by  the  following  fcentences  from 
an  address  by  Rev.  Alexander  McKenzie,  at  his  funeral : — 

"  H  we  sc;k  Words  to  express  the  cliaractcr  of  our  revered  friend,  thev  are  fidelity, 
integrity,  lo}alty  and  truth.  Lu:,alty  to  his  God.  *  *  He  always  listened  to  tnc 
To:ce  of  right,  and  his  constant  words  were,  Speak,  Lord,  Thy  servant  heareth ; 
Lord,  what  wonld'st  thou  have  me  do"?  *  *  iMen  trusted  him.  *  *  He  was 
never  unfaithful,  and  he  never  betrayed  the  confidence  reposed  in  him.  *  *  No 
one  was  too  poor  or  humble  to  be  kindly  greeted  by  him.  He  was  blessed  in  high 
places  and  low  places.  *  *  He  loved  his  country,  and  at  the  age  of  sixty,  when 
it  was  in  peril,  he  gave  it  his  presence,  his  means,  and  his  sympatijy.  He  loved  hia 
God,  the  Sabbath,  and  the  Church,  and  honored  and  maintained  the  institutions  of 
religion.  •  *  He  had  prayed  for  the  light  of  God's  forgiveue.-s  over  his  seventy- 
seven  years  of  life,  and  he  ieit  tliat  it  was^received.  Here  on  this  side  of  the  river 
we  greet  him,  '  Hail  and  Farewell,'  '  Servant  of  God,  Well  Done.'  " 

He  was  admitted  to  this  society,  April  18,  181G. 

Georgf  Lyman  Barr,  E-q.,  of  Medford,  Mass.,  a  resident  member,  was  bom  in 
^ew  Ips  vich,  N\H.,  March  12,  1830;  died  in  Springfield,  Mass.,  April  1,  1877, 
aged  47. 

He  was  the  only  son  of  Dr.  James  and  Laura  Livermore  (Bellows)  Barr.  Hia 
father  was  bom  in  New  Ipswich,  N.  H.,  May  23,  1790;  his  mother,  in  Walpoie, 
N.  H.,  Sept  7,  IS04.  He  received  his  education  in  the  New  Ipswich,  now  Appleton 
Academy  of  his  native  town.  He  lost  his  father  at  an  early  age,  and  his  motiiCr,  a 
woman  of  uncommon  intelligence  and  force  of  character,  removed  with  her  family 
to  Medfbrd.  Mass.  Soon  afterwards  he  entered  as  a  clerk  in  a  drv  goods  store  in 
Boston,  and,  upon  reacliing  manhood,  establisiied  himself  in  the  same  business,  on 
Hanover  Street,  B-jston.  He  followed  successfully  the  business  for  several  years, 
when  he  was  admittted  as  a  member  of  the  firm  of'  Daniel  Lawrence  i  Sons,  Med- 
ford,  and  continued  his  connection  with  the  same  until  about  1S67.  Upon  hia 
retirement  from  business,  having  acquired  a  competency  and  being  weary  of  active 
pursuits,  he  sought  the  quiet  contentment  of  domestic'life.  Ave^rse  to  all  public 
employments,  he  yet  took  the  interest  of  an  intelligent  citizen  in  the  atiairs  of  the 
country,  and  as  a  resident  of  Medford,  lending  a  ready  hand  and  purse  to  the  pro- 
motion of  many  good  works,  his  induence  was  always"  felt  in  matters  touching  the 
public  Welfare.  He  gave  special  attention  to  the  building  up  of  the  fire  departljient 
of  Medford,  and  consented  for  several  years  to  take  supervision  of  it  as  Chief 
Engineer.     This  was  the  only  public  office  he  ever  held. 

_Mr.  Barr  had  strong  predilections  for  antiquarian  pursuits,  and  gave  much  of  hi3 
leisure  to  the  collection  of  rare  books,  coins,  and  a.-ticles  that  drew  their  interest 
from  a  by-gone  age.  He  shared  in  the  enthu^ius/n  of  others  tor  his  favorite  pursuit, 
and  was  generous  in  his  contributions  to  many  public  and  private  coHection.4, 

Mr.  Barr  w;vs  deeply  interested  in  n^iison-e  organizations,  attaining  to  the  hi-^hest 
degrees  as  a  Koyui  Arch  Mason,  and  Knight  Templar. 


1877.]  Booh  Notices.  439 

He  married,  Nov.  20,  1852,  Eli/.ahoth  Maria,  the  only  daughter  of  D;u)i«;l  and 
E!i/.;ii'cih  L;i\vrc;icc,  III'  .MflLirJ,  Miiss.,iir.d  tlnir  fhiMrcii,  Iporri  in  .Mrdiord.  are  : 
1.  FAizabttli  L.     2.  Laura  M.     3.    Carrie  II.     4.  James  C.     5.  Daniel  Latcrcnce. 

IJe  was  admitted  to  aieinbership,  Feb.  20,  1870. 

WiT-MAM  Applktox,  Ksc^.,  of  Bostofi.  a  life  member,  was  born  in  Button,  Jan.  2t, 
1825;  ditd  tliere,  Fel).  10,  IS77,  nged  52. 

Mr.  Applecun  was  tlie  .«un  of  the  ili'n.  William  Appleton,  a  distini;uii<hed  nier- 
cliant,  at\d  a  repre'-encative  in  Cnn.i;re<s  of  the  city  of  JJostun,  of  wlioui  a  uiemuir  is 
printed  in  the  Keoister,  vol.  xvii.  pages  2'.>:J  to  30t. 

]Mr.  Appi'jton  received  must  ut  his  education  in  hif  native  city.  On  account  of 
his  health  he  \v;is  nuieli  fVouj  hoiac.  lie  is  kindly  reinemberfd  by  his  coru- 
panh.inH  who  M'cre  liis  ielhnv  travullers  durinif  a  long  and  eventful  j.jurney  in  tiic 
East.  He  was  of  a  retiring  disposition,  and  distrustful  of  hilll^•ei^.  This,  with  ;i 
delic-ato  constitution,  preveute<l  hiin  from  engaging  in  active  biisines^s,  or  in  [lopular 
movements.  His  time  was  mostly  spent  in  his  own  home  and  in  works  of  private 
charity.  He  will  be  reiaembered  for  his  benevolence  to  tlie  poor,  and  for  iiis  interest 
in  and  benefactions  to  the  Society  for  the  Prevention  of  Cruelty  to  Dumb  Anim:ils. 

Mr.  Appleton  took  a  deep  interest  in  early  American  history.  His  health  liid  not 
permit  him  to  engage  ex^en^ively  in  those  laboriuus,  original  inve"-ti^ations  i.a- 
which  he  had  ttie  natural  taste  and  discriminating  judgment,  and  which  iu  other 
circumstances  wjuli  hove  insured  to  him  eminent  succeeis. 

He  prepared  a  map  of  Boston  as  it  was  from  1630  to  IC50,  laying  down  t!ie 
stieets  and  the  name:;  of  the  resiilents.  'fhis  he  constructed  after  a  careful  and 
painstaking  study  of  ttie  Book  of  Possessions  belonging  to  the  city.  He  moacfttly 
styles  his  map  *'  A  rough  and  inaccurate  sketch  of  the  streets  of  Boston  as  tlicy  arc 
euppoped  to  have  been  first  laid  out,  and  the  owners  of  the  soil,  from  IfiHO  to  JbjO  or 
thereabouts."     Copies  of  it  were  struck  off  for  private  ei:      '  uion  in  1860. 

Mr.  Appleton  published  a  royal  quarto,  entitled  a  •'  x\  'uve  of  Le  Moync,  an 
artist  who  accompanied  the  French  expedition  to  Florida  '...  ''-•:  Laudnnniere.  trans- 
lated from  the  Latin  of  De  Bry,  with  heIioty}>es  of  the  eo^ruviniis  taken  frum  the 
artist's  original  drawings."  Ihis  expedition  to  Florida  was  made  in  lj(it.  The 
drawings  by  Le  Moyne,  heliotyped  for  tlie  volume,  are  forty-two  in  number.  They 
are  "  worth  perusal,"  says  ^Jr.  Appleton,  "  Irom  the  information  they  give  of  tl»o 
habitsof  the  aborigines  three  hundred  years  ago.  as  well  as  the  arms  and  costumes 
of  the  Europeans  of  the  .same  period."  A  copy  of  this  work  has,  since  his  decease, 
been  presented  to  our  sf>ciety  by  his  widow. 

.Mr.  Appleton  married  Miss  Emily  Warren,  daughter  of  John  Collins  Warren, 
M.D.,  of  Boston,  Oct.  9,  1815.     They  had  : 

1.  i\/ij/j/,  m.  J.  Arthur  lieebc  of  Boston.  2.  William.  3.  Susar.  Warren,  <L.  in 
Boston,  Sept.  21.  1672.  aged  24. 

The  membership  of  Mr.  Appleton  dates  from  March  5,  1863. 


BOOK  NOTICES. 


Dorurryfmtary  Hisfonj  of  the  State  of  Maine.  Vol.  II.  Contnininf)  a  Di^rourst 
on  Western  Plantinfj,  written  in  the  year  1.584,  by  Rich.^rd  H.MvI.ivt.  With  a 
Preface  and  an  Introduction,  by  Leon-ard  Woods.  LL.U.,  late  Presidetit  of  B  .w- 
doin  CoUe^re.  Edited,  with  Notes  in  the  Appendi.^,  by  Charles  Deane.  Piit>- 
lished  by  the  Maine  Historical  Society,  aided'bv  appropriations  from  tlie  State. 
Cambridge  :  Press  of  John  Wilson  and  Son.     1877.     [8vo.  pp.  Ixi.-f-  253.] 

_  The  entire  mnne  of  historical  studits  dues  not  afford,  to  us  of  the  present  ge.ieni- 
tion,  a  more  fascinating  subject  than  the  discovery  and  C"limizati<;n  (.1  America. 
Their  history  is  the  story  in  part  of  the  travail  of  many  nations,  and  of  the  lailure 
of  scores  of  heroic  men  to  realize  their  hopes  and  aspirations.  Here  poet.-^,  dra- 
matists, painters  and  scul}itors  linve  found  uuitenals  for  tne  e.xerci.-e  >>f  their  imagi- 
native or  representative  arts  ;  and  as  thestnry  in  its  details  beCimies  still  luither  un- 
folded, they  will  find  such  materials  more  abundant.  Here,  al.«>,  is  a  key  to  much 
of  the  polities  and  state-craft  of  Western  Eunne  tor  the  two  hundred  years  that  fol- 
lowed the  discoveries  of  Coiumbus  and  the  Cabuts  i.i  the  waters  and  on  the  curu^ts  of 
America. 


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440  Booh  Notices.  [Oct. 

"VVhatevor  mnv  l.o  oar  jiul<;nu'nt  of  their  motives,  or  the  motivcH  of  tlieir  patrons, 
we  cauiiut  fail  to  iiave  uur  sensibilities  deeply  stirred  v.lioiiever  we  read  or  tliink 
of  ttie  men  who,  in  t^o  many  instances,  saeviliced  life  and  fortune  iu  braviiig  the 
danii«.'i-s  of  unknown  seas  and  iuho.-pitabie  climes.  Moreover,  when  we  consider 
what  vast  cluinges  have  come  iii)i)n  ttiis  Ccjntinent  since  the  first  P'uropean  settle- 
ment was  made,  tiie  uien  who  laid  the  i'nindatiuns  of  this  "  Western  Plantin;^  "  in 
such  a  li'iij^  and  paiiitul  a;^ony  of  ailventure,  becouiC  invested  with  tra;:io  intt-iest. 

The  history  ot  the  early  voyai'ies  to  or  toward  this  continent,  v.'fieupoever  attempt- 
ed or  by  whom>oover  prosecuted,  is  involved  in  alni(j?t  hopeless  confusion  and 
obscurity.  Now  and  then  a  little  additional  li^ht  is  thrown  u{)on  it  by  some  frag- 
ment of  newly  discovered  evidence;  but  it  can  hardly  be  expected  that  the  mist  of 
doubt  and  uncertainty  will  ever  be  wholly  lifted.  As  we  afipro'ich  the  period  which 
culminated  in  tlie  actual  discovery  of  the  contirient,  and  from  that  time  onward,  the 
way  is  clearer,  and  we  come  into  the  re^c'-'n  uf  demonstrable  fact. 

IJappily  we  have  ampler  and  more  reliable  materials  for  a  history  of  American 
•colonization.  \\  e  kuuw  when,  where  and  by  whom  the  various  attempts  at  plant- 
ing Europeans  were  made,  under  what  circumstances  they  were  undertaken,  and 
the  causes  ot  their  success  or  failure.  We  also  know,  that  althouirh  the  honor 
•of  having  first  discovered  the  mainland  of  America  is  justly  due  to  England,  yet 
•Dearly  a  century  had  elapsed  before  any  eflurt  was  made  by  her,  or  in  her  behalf,  to 
reduce  this  discovery  to  posv-^ession.     In  the  meanwhile  other  nations  were  not  idle. 

That  Qutuu  Lii/.abeth  and  her  coun-;el!nrs  were  induced  at  lust  to  look  favorably 
upon  the  policy  or  upon  any  scheme  of  Anjcrican  colonization  was  mostly  due  to 
the  genius  and  zeal  uf  ISir  Walter  Kalegh,  the  founder  of  England's  colonial  em- 
pire,— an  empire  now  almost  encircling  the  globe  and  worthy  of  such  a  nation  and 
-such  a  government.  The  natural  and  actual  heir  of  Kalegh 's  vast  ideas,  so  far  aa 
North  America  is  concerned,  was  Sir  Ferdinando  Gorges,  the  founder  and  chief  pro- 
moter at  a  later  day  of  New  England  colonization. 

Between  these  two  men,  but  in  close  relations  to  each,  we  may  fitly  place 
Richard  ilakluyt,  a  "  preacher,"  as  he  styled  himself,  of  the  Church  in  Eng- 
land. Ijorn  probably  in  1")53,  and  in  or  near  London,  he  was  graduated  from  Ox- 
ford university  in  1574,  and  took  his  Master's  degree  in  1577.  While  yet  a  youth 
and  in  the  school  at  Westminster,  he  became  interested  in  cosmography  and  mari- 
time discovery  when  listening  to  the  instructive  discourse  of  his  cousin  Richard 
Hakluyt,  a  gentleman  of  the  Middle  Temple.  Here  he  formed  the  resolution,  as  he 
«ay8,  that  if  ever  he  "  were  preferred  to  the  univertity,  where  better  time  and  more 
convenient  place  might  be  ministred  for  these  studies,''  he  "would,  by  God's  as- 
sistance, promote  that  knowledge  and  kinde  of  literature.''  This  resolve  he  carried 
into  practice  ;  and  subsequently  to  his  i^raduation  he  delivered  lectures  on  these  sub- 
jects, probably  in  Bristol  and  London,  and  perl.aps  in  Oxford. 

But  he  was  not  content  merely  to  cultivate  a  better  knowledge  of  these  suhjects 
:among  his  countrymen.  He  saw  clearly  the  condition  of  Western  Europe, — its  re- 
ligious contenti'jns  and  political  rivalries,  and  especially  the  restless  ambition  of 
ISpain  for  territorial  expansion  and  continental  domination.  He  was  not  blind 
•to  the  extending  colonial  power  of  Portugal  and  of  the  Netherlands.  With 
*heee  facts  before  his  eyes  he  rightly  divined,  that  if  England  would  maintain  her- 
self, much  more  if  she  would  rise  to  the  plane  she  ought  to  occupy  for  her  future 
■eecurity  ;  if  in  fact  she  would  not  lose  but  rather  would  extend  her  political  in- 
"fluence, — which  he  regarded  as  essential  to  the  highest  welfare  of  Europe  ;  if,  more- 
over, she  would  promote  the  best  interests  of  her  own  people,  morally,  socially,  and 
•commercially,  she  must  find  new  stimulations  and  wider  fields  tor  the  employment 
of  their  wealth,  their  energies  and  their  industries.  She  must  engage  in  plans  for  a 
:systematic  colonization  of  distant  and  unoccupied  rei^ions.  ishe  must  carry  English 
people,  Eniilish  laws  and  customs,  to  other  parts  of  the  earth.  She  must  also  avail 
herself  of  the  opportunities  and  advantai^ts  of  maritime  tratiic. 

To  promote  these  objects,  information  was  sought  by  liakluyt  in  ail  quarters  and 
from  all  men.  To  tiiis  end  he  labured  diligently  to  enlist  the  intelliirenee,  wealth. 
«nd  influence  of  his  contemporaries.  Fortius  purpose  he  wrote,  and  published  in 
1582.  his  Divers  Voyai/es  touclinvj  the  DiscoLery  of  America  ami  the  Islands  adjacent. 

Wtiile  chaplain  to  the  Engli.-^h  Embassy  in  France,  he  industriouslj'  gathered 
from  all  sources,  and  out  of  every  language,  whatever  of  information  mizhc  tend  to 
aid  the  plans  of  Ralegh,  or  influence  the  minds  of  the  other  courtiers  and  statesmen 
of  his  own  country. 

A.s  the  results  of  his  investigations  and  studies  he  be^an  in  1589  fc-?  publi>'h  his 
principal  wurk  and  chief  hi&torical   Uionument,  now  brictiy  entitled  his   Genera^ 


1877.] 


Book  Notices.  441 


Colkction  of  Voyancs  and  Trnvrls.  Two  additional  volumes  followed,  tho  tl.ird 
hu"n.'  hoenin.hl.sLeJ  in  IP.OO.  His  la.t  puMitaii^n  (Im  l'i(V.))  ^s^H■^.  tn.P.skuon  of 
thf  l.i't^ry  ot  Do  boto-6  Ji.covory  ai.d  con.iut>L  of  Fluiida.  by  wind,  l.c  urxlc-rtook 
to  fiird.er  the  inter*^.t-(  ot  the  Vir-iiiin  Colony,  tlun  in  -rcut  dan-cr  ui  l.ii  urc. 

lie^dcH  tlir«e  iinu.Lnso  labors.  I..;  wrote,  tnuisl.ited  and  pi.hli>l..;d.  ai.d  miluctd 
Othci-;  to  w.itf  ur  tianr^ii.te  oli.er  vvorkn  bfarni-  upon  Ins  lav.jrite  purhuiL.  \\  .K.t  ho 
accompli-<l.ed  in  the.-er.spocts  cannot  be  lully  fHt:mat..'d,  nnlisri  we  n-nicib.  r  tl.at 
m-aiiy  all  bis  initoiiaJH  had  to  be  bn.u-bt  Iruni  io.e.-n  suL;r.;eH  a..d  j,.ru-n  lau- 
giia^es;  and  ibat  whun  be  bc-an  there  wa-s  but  one  Enj-libb  book  lu  eiistunco 
rela'iin<?  to  ir.aritiine  di-i'overy.  ..,-...  •  i         •»    „.,„ 

There  is  abui'.dant  es  Idence  of  the  estimation  ni  which  hifi  porvioesand  merits  were 
held  by  bis  contemporaries.  Besides  1ms  c!,aplaincy  to  the  Knj^lish  embassy  to  I  ,.r.H 
he  wu^niade  rectur  of  a  parish  church,  and  received  from  the  ([ueen  li.e  olnce  ol 
nrebend  in  Bristol  Catb(drul,  and  s.lb^equen^ly  the  tame  otfi.-e  at  \.  er-tmin.^ter. 
liis  name  is  one  of  the  few  that  Drayton  tmbaluied  in  veibe,  eaym-  m  hw  Udt  to 
the  Viiyinian  Voyage: 

"  Thy  Voyages  attend 
Imbistrious  Haklvit. 

Whose  reading  shall  inflame 
Men  to  seeke  tame. 
And  much  commend 
To  after-tiincs,  thy  wit." 

Rohcrb^on,  the  historian,  ir.-^es  even  so  far  as  to  say.  that  "  The  most  active  and 

efficacio.l^  promoter  ot  this  (ihe  colonization  of  Vir-ini,.)  was  Kiebard  iiakluyt.  to 

whoin  En-land  is  more  indebted  tor  its  Anu-iican  possessions  than  to  any  other 

man  ot  thi't  a"-e  "—(//?><•'•/  A-vi..  iv.  171.  lOtli  MiC.)  ,     t^     ,       r      i 

As  is  well  known,  he  was  the  confidential  fnend  of  Gilbert.  Ralc-h.  Drake,  Lord 

Admiral  Howard,  Walsin-ham.  CVcil,  Philip  Sianey.  and  other  leadin-  hn.LM.^h- 

men  of  his  dav.    From  Ralegh,  in   l5Srt.  he  received  the  a.e.crnment  o    1>|«  I^'tent 

of  di^coverv,  granted  bv  the  queen  in  15&4.     It  ib  equally  well  known  that  he  m..s 

one  of  the  nromoteis  of  the  scheme  which  resulted  in  the  tormUion  ot  the  Lonuoti 

.  Company  and  the  Plymouth  Company,  fur  colonizing  ^Sorth  America,  and  that  lie 

was  one  of  the  patentees  of  the  London  Company.      ,  ,        ,         .  .        ^    ,, 

It  had  been  supposed,  until  very  lately,  that  we  had  Ions  been  in  possession  of  ail 

Hakluyt's  writings  relating  to  America.    It  was  reserved,  however,  to  Ur.  V^  ^'Jcs,— 

while  ^earchin"-  in  Europe,  in  1668,  for  additional  materials  for  the  early  history  ct 

Maine  —to  tind  another  and  unpublished  Hakluyt  manuscript.     About  a  qunrter 

of  a  century  airo,  this  manuscript  came  into  the  p.jssession  o.  our  countiyin  ai 

Henry  Stevens   F  S.A.,  of  London.     He  statts  in  ni^  "  HistTical  and  beogrMphuai 

Notes,"  published  in  iSr.Q.  that  he  endeavored  "  to  find  fur  it  a  rceting  ph^ce  m 

Eome  public  or  private  library  in   America,  and  subsequently   in  the  bnti=n   ..lu- 

seum  •  "  but  fading  in  this,  it  was  gold  at  auction  in  London  m  l«^*',the  titic-oaj.c 

and  a  descriotion  being  given  in  the  catalogue.     It  was  purchased  f.r  i.41  r.j  ..ir 

Thomas  Phillipps,  Bart.,  in  whose  library  Dr.  Woods  found  it.  and  by  whose  pc- 

mission  acopv  was  made  for  publication.     The  Maine  Historical  5ucu-ty  now  Has 

the  honor  of 'first  giving  this  work  to  the  public  in  print.     It  is  a  wort.iy  8acc«;^=o^ 

of  the  volume  compiled  by  Dr.  Kohl  and  issued  by  the  Society  in  lf!<0. 

The  publication  ot  this  volume,— owing  to  the  fire  that  consumed  a  portion  ol  ur. 
Woods's  papers,  and  his  subsequent  and  continued  iltne.s,',— has  xen  long  aein\eu. 
Dr  Wood.s,  unfortunntelv.  nut  being  able  to  complete  his  editorial  hibors,  tne 
Society  en<raged  the  valuable  services  of  Dr.  Deane.  From  bis  editorial  note,  we 
learn  that'the  Introduction  prepared  by  Dr.  Woods  was  destroyed  by  the  tire  aN)vo 
mentioned  ;  but  that  from  the  rough  notes  and  memoranda  that  e=<.Mi>ea  the  i-imes 
he  was  able  to  deduce  the  Preface  and  Introduction  now  given,  and  mostly  in  the 
lan^uac^e  of  their  author.  From  these  we  g-ain  an  exceedingly  interesting  account 
of  rhis^lakluyt  manuscript,  the  mode  and  agents  of  its  'Jiscovery,  a  :er  it  liaa 
slumbered  for  nenriv  three  hundred  years,  and  the  tortunata  results  ot  Ur. 
Woods-s  investigations  as  to  its  purport,  and  the  precise  time  anu  place  ol  as 
ori-in.  The  manuscriDt  nroved  to  he  a  discourse  concerning  the  grc't  necessity  of 
undertaking  the  colonizing  of  North  Am.rica,  and  the  mamiold  advanuges  that 
would  accrue  theietrom  to  the  realm  of  England.  It  was  wr  tten  m  1d>,1  b>  Y-ch- 
ard  Hakluyt  in  Umdon,  at  the  request  of  Mr.  \S  alter  Ral.gh  (ut^erward  bir 
>V alter),  and  probably  was  presented  by  the  aathor  in  person  to  l^ueec  LhzabeiH. 

VOL..  XXII.  39* 


412  liooh  Notices.  [Oct. 

This  ahly-writtr-n  and  inteiot^tln;;  disfourfC  is  an  impassioned  appeal  f  jr  a  prompt 
and  luaity  tiir.u;j;.i!ii;iit  i/.i  ihu  p.uT  of  Kni^himi  in  the  V/uric  of  wcetern  colonization. 
It  vecoiiiUienf!-;  the  colonization  of  NorutJlt)e^a. — a  tniot  of  country  wliiuli  llakluyt 
seems  to  consider  as  exti;ndini^  from  Cape  Urcton  aJDnic  tlie  coast  withoot  definite 
limits,  in  p.  touih-wt  stci'.y  dnt-ctii.n  ;  '"  and  draws  .^jjicial  attentiiHi  to  toe  rcj;iot\  of 
Cape  IJretun,  or  th'j  tract  near  l>y,  as  offcTiny  Hiipt-riDr  adva!it:i^';tjs  fjr  i\\*-  t)eL;inning 
of  the  enterprise.  Tiie  writer  contends  tliat  Kn-land  lias  a  just  title  to  all  that  firiii 
land  of  Amrriea,  fruai  Florida  nurtliward  to  f>7",  and  not  yet  in  any  (,'hri.stian 
prince's  actual  posiessiun,  as  l)ein^  first  discovered  by  Sebastian  (.'abot  at  the  cost  of 
King  ilenry  VII.  ;  and  tliat  Eui^land  should  consummate  tlii.s  title  by  takin;^  posses- 
sion by  colonization."  {Introduction,  p.  li.)  Thcf-e  views  were  urged  upon  every 
ground  that  secnied  to  warrant  ciicsidcration.  'Miis  discourse  may  fairly  claim  to 
represent  the  historical  and  gcograi)hical  knowledi^e  relating  to  Ameriea  then  pod- 
scssed  by  the  most  enlighicned  and  interested  Kngli.-hmen.  It  also  throws  additional 
ligbt, — sometimes  indirectly,  however, — upon  several  interesting  questions,  one  of 
which  is  the  mooted  ([uestion  of  Verrazzano's  voyage  to  America. 

The  text  is  enriched  with  valuable  and  learned  Notes  by  Doctors  Woodn  and  Deana, 
principally  by  ttic  last  named;  and  illustrated  hy  facsimiles  of  the  title-page  of 
the  manuscript,  ard  jfeertain  important  papers  in  Hakluyt's  own  hand. 

We  observe  that  in  the  printed  co[)y  of  the  title-page  of  tlie  manuscript,  on  the 
first  page  of  the  text,  Ralegh's  name  is  given  as  "  Rayhly  "  ;  and  that  the  same 
citl.'igr  :pliy  is  iisL'd  on  [mgc  xi.  of  the  [utroducti(m  an'l  in  a  Note  at  page  171. 
In  this  Note  it  is  remarked,  that  this  way  ("'Rayhly  '')  of  spelling  Ralegh's  name  i.s 
■"  quite  unique."  This  !s  a  inistake,  for  there  can  be  no  doubt  that  in  me  facsimile 
<of  the  title-page  the  name  is  written  Ra(jhly  and  not  "  Rayhly." 

The  voJume  is  handsomely  printed,  and  furnished  with  an  excellent  index.  The 
Waine  Historical  Society  is  to  be  congratulated  upon  the  publication  of  this  work  ; 
for  the  recovery  of  this  llakluyt  Mi>.  and  its  presentation  to  the  public  under  such 
.auspices  is  an  important  event  which  must  greatly  redound  to  the  honor  of  all  con- 
•cerntd.  ~  A.  U.  Hoyt. 

History  of  the  City  of  Belfast  in  the  State  of  Maine,  from  its  First  Settlement  in 
1770^0  1875.  By  Joseph  Williamson.  [Motto.]  Portland:  Loring,  Short  and 
Harmon.  IS77.  [bvo.  pp.  vii.+9n6.  Price,  §6.  For  sale  by  A.  Williams  &  Co., 
283  Washington  St.,  Boston,  Mass.] 

Mr.  Williamson,  the  author  of  this  history,  is  a  well  known  "  lover  and  searcher 
of  venerable  antiquities."  His  contril)ution8  to  historical  publications  show  him  to 
have  been  a  diliicent  student  of  Nev."  England  history.  The  mantle  of  the  author  of 
the  History  of  Maine  has  worthily  fallen  on  his  nephew,  ani  given  new  lustre  to  a 
name  that  has  long  been  at  the  head  of  the  historical  literature  of  the  State. 

Maine  is  fortunate  in  having  several  town  histories  of  the  greatest  merit.  The 
histories  of  Portland,  Augusta,  Union,  Kennebunk,  Warren,  !;aco  and  BiddeforJ, 
and  now  Belfast,  belong  to  the  first  class  of  this  kind  of  literature.  One  of  these, 
the  very  earliest  to  appear,  deserves  to  be  praised  as  often  as  mentiotyed.  The  history 
of  Saco  and  Biddeford  is  defective  in  arrangement,  and  deficient  on  some  points  of 
historic  interest;  but  it  is  unrivalled  for  the  amount  of  accurate  and  valuable 
historical  matter  crowded  into  it,  drawn  almost  wholly  from  original  manuscript 
records.  It  is  nearly  as  much  a  hisforv  of  Gorges's  old  Province  of  Maine,  as  it  is 
a  town  history.  The  author,  Mr.  Folsom,  was  almost  the  first  to  recognize  the 
merits  of  Gorges,  and  to  distinguish  his  colonists  from  the  Puritans. 

Belfast  is  one  of  the  leading  commercial  cities  of  Maine,  situated  about  midday 
between  the  ca>tern  and  western  frontiers  of  that  great  State.  It  lies  in  the  very 
heart  of  ancient  Noruiubega,  that  barbarous  counray  whose  name  resounded  through 
maritime  Europe  more  than  three  centuries  ago,  and  was  long  ^ince  immortalized 
in  the  majestic  verse  of  3Iilton.  Although  European  mariners  and  peltry  traders 
frequented  this  region  in  the  days  of  Queen  Elizalicth,  yet  Belfast  is  without  a  legend- 
ary history,  and  iTarely  a  century  old.  No  fabled  Cecrops,  no  Romulus  and  Remus, 
were  concerneil  in  founding  it.  The  origin  of  Belfast  is  as  clearly  known  as  if  it 
were  of  yesterday.  The  name,  as  well  as  the  dace,  of  the  first  whire  man  that  viewed 
the  primeval  forest^s  covering  the  site  of  Beliiist,  and  selected  it  for  the  colony  which 
•came  to  inhabit  there,  is  preserved.  This  person  was  John  Mitchell,  one  of  the 
colony,  a  land  surveyor  by  profee^ion,  whoso  name  is  famous  in  connection  with  his 
viQap  of  Eaglisb  and  French  North  America,  used  by  the  commissioners  to  as  the 


jg-jy.]  Booh  N'olices.  443 

boundaries  between  the  United  States  nnd  En-rland,  in  1783  From  tbnt  time  to 
tiiiH,  <vor>  event  of  interest  which  has  trantpirt-d  there  mny  be  tound  rccurded  in 

^^Oilrhundred  and  tt-n  ycrirs  a-o  tlie  site  of  Belfast  was  "  a  h-.rrid  aiid  uiu.iltiN^tcd 
>s-ild  rn.-B  "  as  described  by  the  first  t^ettlors  ;  to-day  it  m  a  llourislun-  city  ol  6ir 
thuusuui  iut>ahitarits.  Such  rapid  -rowth  is  cumiaon  tii..u-h  m  the  -.-..■at  west ;  but 
cann.a  l,e  matchcl  many  tiaKS  in  New  i:n,huui  In  17.3,  los  than  l.yoy-ars  after 
the  tirst  axe  was  laisc-d  a<!;aiiist  tiie  t..r.  st  which  spread  over  the  site  ol  Lclluat,  tno 
settlement  'vas  incorporated,  and  in  1^^5:5  the  town  ^yas  made  a  city 

Of  cour-e  there  can  be  no  rich  tlav.-r  of  aiituiuity  in  the  history  of  a  seltciiient  W 
connvaratively  recent.     But  there  is  a  tinge  of  romance  in  the  liv*s  and  chiiru.-tera 
of  the  tirsc  .cttlers  of  Belfast.     A  pathetic  interest  attaches  to  all  exiles,  wi.at-ver 
r^av  be  the  cause  of  their  misfortunes.     Ttie  ^tory  of  the  little  colony  of  Scotrh-Irisli 
emi-rants  which  came  to  Boston  in  the  summer  nl    1  / 18,  has  often  been  told  ;  and  i-4 
no  where  better  reniemhered  than  among  their  ae-,cendants.     Ihat  the.^.-  wortny 
Dpople  had  a  cold  reception  from  the  puritans  of  .Massachusetts  Hay  is  not  to  bo 
wondered  at      Presbyterians  from  Ireland  were  not  likely  to  run  in  puritan  cour-rs  ; 
for  *hev  had  a  way  of  their  owu  in  church   matters,  and  were  as  ri:;id  i>s  New 
FnMvid  p;;ritan8.     But  that  tiiese  people  were  obli-ed  to  remain  on  board  their 
S-ins  uvxnv  months,  and  drift  away  to  Casco  Bay  in  search  of  some  abidm-  phico.  w 
aninterest'ing  incident  in  the  lives  of  some  of  the  yoiini;er  memoersot  that  eouqnny. 
After  oa^sin-  a  dreary  winter  in  Falmouth  harbor,  they  plun-cd  into  the  w.  Ueriu-^ 
of  Nevv  iiiiurpshiro,  a'nd  there  lounded  Londonderry,  a  name  derived  from  the  place 
of  their  chiet'  habiuxtion  in  Ireland,     from  this  oriuMr>.al  .tocic  have  sprun-  s.ine  of 
the  most  distin-ui-hed  ciiaraciei.  in  .New  E^u^^^na  history.     Half  a  century    ater 
this  new  Londonderry  sent  forth  a  colony  tnat  pitched   in  the  wilderness  at  u.c 
bo  torn  of  Xt  is  now  Belfast  Bay,  .till  nearer  the  fatherland.     Ot  this  colony  there 
wer^  a  few  a^ed  persons  of  the  original  colony  Irom  ire  and  ;  the  others  were  of  a 
voun-er  .veneration  and  of  American  birth.     The  venerable  James  Miller   who  had 
endured  "the  hardships  of   two  emigrations,  -aye   this  new  settlement  the  name 
Bri"  .^T,  in  pious  regard  for  his  native  Belfa^t  in  Ireland,     i  Ims  was  Belfast  iounue-d 
and  =Jttied  by  a  homogeneous  people,  hardy,  frugal,  industrroas  and  inted.gont. 
emigrants  from  New  ihimpshire.     But  it  seems  a  strar.^re  thing  that  the  ir..th.-r 
colony  should   have   for-otten   her  offspring  go  .«con.     ihere   is  not  the  slightest 
aUu^ion  in  the  printed  history  of  bjndonderry  in  New  Hampshire,  or  in  any  histori- 
cal discourses  pertaining  to  it,  that  Belfast,  xMaine,  is  a  scion  ot  that  stock. 

Belfa'^t  had  no  existence  in  the  period  of  colonization  on  these  shores ;  it  haa  ju  t 
been  settled  when  the  Provincial  period  ended.     Its  history  contains  no  calenl^r  ut 
b'oodv  Indian  massacres  within  its  limits,  such  as  stain  the  records  ot  older  <otne- 
ments  in  tint  re-ion.     The  Pequod.  Philip's  and  Lneweirs  Indian  wars,  haver.^ 
rlace  in  the  pa.'os  of  this  history      But  it  is  rich  with  events  of  aier  times,  covering 
the  period  oi  American  Independence.     At  one  time  in  the  revolutionary  war  it  was 
utterly  deserted,  but  the  vigor  and  tenacity  of  the  first  settlers  brought  ttiem  jv.run 
to  th  -ir  homes.   It  has  been  tcathed  by  fire  ;  and  it  has  experienced  all  tlie  other  vici- 1- 
tudes^of  commercial  life.     But  in  spite  ot  all,  Bellast  annually  increases  in  po[.ulutiori 
and  in  wealth.     It  is  not  behind  any  city  in  Maine  for  intelligence,  enterprise,  and 
hi'-h  social  qualities.     It  is  enough  to  say  that  Belfast  is  worthy  ot  n>  onu'in.       ^^ 
Sir   Wh'te   a  lawver  in  B-lfast,  wrote  a  history  of  that  town,  publi.-he-l  .n   l---, 
about  midway  between  the  date  of  the  settlement  and  the  present  time,     it  i.sa  mitc 
compared  with  this  history,  although  it  was  thought  to  be  adequate  at  that  time. 
The  events  of  the  last  httv  vears  make  a  greater  part  of  the  history  otbeuast. 
■     Mr    W  illiam^on  has  performed  his  task  well,  and  the  citizens  of  Behast  may  wen 
be  proud  of  a  history  so  comprehensive,  accurate,  well  written,  and  well  printe.i  .vs, 
thi?is      Tne  hardy  founders  and  their  families  arc  briefly  sketched.     Lvery  brancn 
of  industry  and  every  profession  are  fully  noticed.     Municipal  and  military  atnirs 
take  up  a  large  portion  of  the  volume;  tor  Belfast  had  considerable  part  in  i..e  «ar 
of  the  revolution,  as  well  as  in  the  late  civil  war.     The  subjects  arc  well  cla.<.-,tie.J. 
and  arranged  in  easy  readable  chapters.      The  narrative  is  un.fpnnly  ciear  and 
acn-eeable.     It  ha.=  many  tine  representations  of  old  houses  and  otner  p.romii.ent 
buildin'-s      There  s-re  .^cvenl  portraits  of  Belfast  worthies,  some  ut  whoin  i-aye  more 
than  a  focal  reputation.     There  is  also  a  tine  colored  lithograph.ic  view  of  l>eha-^t.  a3 
a  frontispiece.     Several  plans  and  outline  maps  explain  and  illustrate  the  t..p..griphy 
of  Belfast      Two  indiees,  one  of  names  and  the  other  ot  plaecs,  eompiete  the  vulume. 
It  is  printed  on  tine   white   paper,  by  John    Wilson  &  Son,  of   Cambridge,     len 
copies  have  been  printed  on  large  paper,  making  an  elegant  quarto  volume. 


444  Booh  JVotices.  [Oct. 

Just  tis  this  notice  is  finished,  the  London  ppiii)di(^alH  finnounce  tfie  app^irance  of 
a  history  oC  Bcir.it>r.  in  IrehinJ,  by  tjeorge  liuua,  tlie  tirut  ttiut  lian  heen  written.  It 
ifl  an  octavo  ot  770  pagfs.  C.  W.  Tcttle. 

A  History  of  Dunstable,  Mntsachusctts,  from  its  Earliest  Sr'tl'^nrnt  to  the  Ytnr  of 
our  Lord  1873.  By  the  Uev.  Kli.as  N.vSo.v.  M.A.,  author  ni  the  "  Life  of  Henry 
Wilrton,"  the  ''  Lifo  of  Chnrle.^  Suinntrr,"  the  '"  Ga/t-ttet-r  of  ^^l^•s.l(;hut^t•tt.^," 
and  other  work.s.  [Mottoe.-;.]  Cottou  :  Alfred  Madge  &.  5on,  frintcrs,  34  Sohuol 
Strt'tt.     1^77.     [8vo.  pp.  31G.] 

In  1810,  a  "  Hi.story  of  the  Old  Township  of  Dunfltablc."  by  Charles  J.  Fux,  waa 
published  in  a  duodecimo  Vdlunie  of  278  paires.  The  author  died  while  hi^  buuk 
was  in  |tros;s.  so  that  it  oouhl  nut  receive  hin  final  revision  ;  hut  it  is  nevertheless  a 
valuable  and  intereetiui;  honk.  It  is  chittly  cuntincd  to  tlie  New  Hainpsliiie  portion 
of  "  Old  Dunstable,"  while  the  b.jok  ludore  u.-  i.s  dfYottd  more  particularly  to  the 
Mas.^achusetts  portion,  and  is  much  fuller  in  its  det  lils. 

The  ancient  town  of  Dunstable  was  incori)or;\trd  by  the  MafisachuFctts  General 
Court,  October  IG,  1673.  The  township  embraced  a  large  tract  of  land, — estimated 
to  Contain  more  than  two  hur.dred  square  mdes, — from  which  portion  after  portion 
was  detaciicd  to  torm  nt'W  towns,  till  in  1741  the  new  boundary  lint;  between  the 
provinces  of  Massachusetts  and  New  tlMmpshire  severed  what  remained  of  Dun- 
stable nearly  in  the  middle.  The  city  of  Nashua,  N.  11.,  contains  the  oldest 
settled  part  of  "  Old  Dunstable'"  which  icU  to  that  province.  Since  this  divioiun, 
Dunstable,  Mass.,  has  again  been  shorn  of  its  territory  to  form  the  town  of 
Tyngbborougii. 

The  present  work  has  been  written  at  the  request  of  the  town,  and  has  been 
printed  at  its  expense,  under  the  superintendence  of  a  committee  of  arrangements, 
of  which  Benjaruin  French,  Esq.,  is  chairman.  The  author,  the  Rev.  Mr.  Nason, 
has  an  established  reputation  as  an  investigator  and  as  a  writer,  and  this  book  will 
be  found  worthy  of  his  fame.  After  narrating  the  events  previous  to  the  division  of 
the  town  in  1741,  which  period  is  rich  in  romantic  interest,  he  takes  a  survey  of  the 
territory  contained  in  the  present  town  of  Dunstable — its  to|)Ography,  water-supply, 
geology,  mineralogy,  suil,  productions,  old-houses,  inhabitanL-;,  ic.  Mr.  Nairn's 
descriptive  powers  make  the  part  of  this  chapter  in  which  he  paints  the  scenic  beau- 
ties ot  the  town — its  hills,  valleys,  rivers,  &e. — one  of  the  mi^st  attractive  portions 
of  the  Volume.  From  1741  to  the  present  time  the  work  is  continued  in  the  form  of 
annals.  The  space  beins  limited,  the  committee  thought  it  best  that  no  portion  of 
the  volume  should  be  devoted  to  genealogy  proper;  but  as  the  inscriptions  in  the 
several  burial-grounds  and  the  births  and  deaths  on  the  town  records  are  here 
printed,  while  the  m;iny  biographies  interspersed  through  the  bock  contain  some- 
thing of  pedigree,  this  deficiency  will  not  be  so  much  felt.  The  mottoes,  with  which 
the  autlior  prclaccs  his  chapters,  a  prose  and  a  poetical  quotation  froiu  our  best 
writers  being  selected  for  each,  do  credit  to  his  taste,  besides  indicating  the  contents 
of  the  chapters. 

On  the  17th  of  Septemhcr,  1873,  the  town  commemorated  its  two  hundredth  an- 
niversary. The  proceedings  on  this  interesting  occasion,  including  the  oration  by 
the  Hon.  George  B.  Loring,  of  Salem,  will  be  lound  in  this  book. 

The  Volume  is  beautifully  printed  by  Messrs.  Alfred  Mudge  &,  Son,  and  is  embel- 
lished with  a  portrait  of  the  lion.  Amos  Kendall,  a  native  ot  the  town.  A  full  index 
of  names  and  subjects  makes  the  book  handy  for  reference.  J.  W,  Deax. 


Facts  ahout  Carroll  County  Kearsarge  Mountain,  of  New  Hampshire.  Read  before 
the  Appalachian  Mountain  Club.  By  G.  V.  Fox.  [Boston;  Quarto,  pp.  17. 
Privat'jiy  printed.] 


There  are  two  niountalnfi  in  New  Hampshire  popularly  known  by  the  name  of 
Kearsarge.  One  of  these  is  in  the  county  of  Merrimviek,  having  its  highest  summit, 
which  reaches  an  altitude  of  2!)43  feet,  in  the  town  ot  Warner,  distant  about 
eighteen  miles  from  Concord  in  a  north-wettcrly  direction.  Its  name  appears  to  have 
been  Cowwissewasjiek  ia  1746,  but  Irom  some  period  in  the  seventeenth  century 


mJ      -^ 


1877.]  Book  Notices.  445 

it  has  borne  a  yarlctv  of  appellationa,  from  Omisaja  ar.d  Cuwi^ce  to  Kyasage  and 
the  name  by  wliioh  i't  is  ii..\v  ki'.own.  Since  aljuut  the  year  InOl,  it  has  been  quite 
unifoiudy  fctvled  KcMrsiriic. 

The  othor  inoLititain,  th.;  .;ne  fur  v.hi(.-h  the  famous  corvette  Kcarsar;^e  was  named, 
is  in  the  county  of  Car;oll,  havinj;  its  hLiniinit  in  the  town  of  Chatham,  and  attaio- 
in2;an  elevation  uf  :<-J51  tett.  It  is  ahuo>t  ur.iversally  called  KcarKir;re,  or  Kiar- 
Kir<4e,  by  the  po  .j)le  uf  t!ie  nelL^hborhou.J  ;  hut  by  ;i  lew  poople  ot  the  State  it  ir*  called 
Pequawket.     Kuth  are  well-known  and  attractive  mountiiins. 

The  Carrull  Kearsari^e  lies  in  a  district  uutside  the  "  Ma«onian  Grant,"  and  outside 
the  "Masonian  Proi)rietor's  Line,"  sd-called,  and  hence  that  district  wius  n..t  sur- 
veyed probably  till  about  the  year  ITW.  Hence,  also,  this  muuntam  is  not  desij;- 
nattd  by  name  un  the  earliest  map.-;.  Dr.  Iklknap,  while  on  a  loi:r  through  thid 
region  iu  1764,  copied  a  sketch-map  previou-ly  inude  by  or  t.jr  Cul.  Jo=o;.h  W  hippie, 
who  owned  lands  in  the  vicinity  ot  the  White  Hills,  and  was  accustomed  to  pass  and 
repass  through  that  part  of  tiio  State.  On  this  sketch  the  mountain  is  nauied 
Kyarsarire.  ,,.  ,     ,  .     ,...    ^  ,, 

On  "  Carrijain'e  Map,"  8o-calkd,  which  was  published  jn  181G  nt^thc  expense 
of  the  State,  tliis  mountain  is  nauied  "  Fi.i,'wacket  furnit-rly  Kiar.-uri,'e."  The  com- 
piler thus  applied  a  new  name  to  the  mouiitain  withuut  authority  in  law  or  history  or 
tradition  or  local  usage.  Nevertheless,  the  people  living  in  the  vicinity  of  the  moun- 
tain, and  the  public  at  large,  have  continued  generaliv  to  adhere  to  the  old  uumo. 

Attempts  have  rccntly  '"^en  made  to  obtain  legislative  sanction  lot  a  change  of 
the  name  of  this,  the  countv  Larroil.  mountain  from  Kearsarge  io  Pequnu.-kvt  but 
so  far  these  attempt-;  have  been  unsuccessful.  The  author  of  the  "  Geology  of  New 
lJaini)-liire,"  published  in  IS'b  at  the  expense  of  the  State,  also  took  liberty  to 
apply  the  name  uf  Pequawket  to  tiiis  mountain.  ,,        „  ^  • 

xMore  recentlv  the  question  as  to  the  true  name  of  the  county  Corroll  mountain 
■was  brought  before  the  "  Appalachian  Mountain  Club,"  at  the  request  or  su^L'ertijn, 
it  is  saidTof  the  Coast  Survey  Bureau.  The  question  was  fully  consiueied  ly  this 
Association  at  a  public  meeting,  wlien  elaborate  and  learned  arguments  were  pre- 
sented, especially  by  the  Hon.'G.  V.  Fox  and  G.  K.  Emery,  E<q. 

Mr.  Fox  claimed  that  the  original  and  only  true  name  is  kearsarge;  and  tbat 
Pio-wacket,  or  Ptquawker,  as  a  name  for  this  luountein  has  never  been  emp.;<..yed  svj 
the  native  populntion  of  the  neighlvjrhood.  nor  by  the  besc  authorities;  aud  Iib 
strenuously  denied  the  right  or  propriety  of  changing  the  name.  . 

Mr.  Eme-v,  oa  the  contrary,  claimed  that  the  original  and  true  nanic  is  1  ig- 
■wacket,  or  some  variety  of  orthography  of  that  word  ;  that  the  name  Kiarsarge  w^j 
borrowed  from  the  county  Merrimack  mountain  ;  and  that  this  name  has  never  been 
the  unifont  appellution  of  the  more  northern  mountain.  . 

The  comjiittee  of  the  Club  to  whom  the  subject  was  specially  referred,  have 
now  made  ctieir  rep'irt.  Their  conclusions  may  be  briefly  stated  in  their  own  lan- 
guage (oraittir.2  no  essential  words).  They  find  '•  that  there  are  I'.vo  mountains  in 
New^  Hampshire  which  at  present  bear  the  name  Kearsarge ;  that  so  fiir  as  they  are 
able  to  jud"e,  the  name  is  equally  the  ori-inal  name  of  both,  and  handed  down  oy 
unbrok'-'u  ar.d  reliable  tradition  ;  that  another  name,  Pigwacket.  with  several  varia- 
tions of  orthography,  ...  has  also  been  quite  frequently  applied  to  the  .  .  .  Ln''rtti- 
ern]  mountain  since"  1816,  .  .  .  and  .  .  .  must  be  considered  a  name  for  the  -^^"^e, 
although  the  other  seems  to  have  over  it  the  advantage  of  priority  aud  especiai.y  ot 
general  local  usas^e."  , 

■\\"e  do  not  understand  that  the  Club  propose  to  change  the  name  ot  tbe  county 
Carroll  mountain  ;  the  L-.-iiislatureof  New  Hampshire  has  not. sanctioned  the  proposal ; 
and  the  people  most  interested  in  this  their  favorite  mountain  stoutly  and  un;ver^aJiy 
protest  agaiust  it.     The  Coast  Survey  has  no  authority  or  rights  in  cms  matter. _ 

"Who  has  the  right  to  change  well-known  and  long-escablished  topograpnical 
names?  Has  any  map-maker,  book-maker  or  association,  whenever  it  may  suit  his, 
or  their  caprice?  if  anv  one  has  the  rii^ht,  so  has  every  one  ;  and  who  shah  J.-ter- 
mine  when  the  decree  of  variation  and  confusion  has  reached  the  limit  ot  human 
endurance?  If  t!ie  right  exists  anywhere,  it  is  in  the  people  :  they  give  and  t.iey 
alter  names.  Thev  aud  they  oniv  escablish  the  law  that  gi^vcrns  aud  will  alwavs 
govern  in  such  a  m'atter.— the  law  of  lo.  al  osaire.  And  yet  we  doubt  wtietner  tne 
people  themselves,  even  th.e  owners  of  vhe  soil,  have  the  moral  right  to  lUter  names 
that  have  become  public  nroperty.  -'  . 

We  cannot  clo^e  the>"e  remarks  without  irotesting  against  the  too-common 
and  mischievous  i^ractice  of  alterino;  t.ie  name.s  of  rivers,  mountains,  towns 
and  streets.    Such  chanirea  are  usually  the  legitimate  but  unfortumite  otispnng  ot 


446  Booh  ITotices.  [Oct. 

ignorance  or  vanity.  At  one  time  there  was  a  street  in  Portsmouth,  N.  H., 
named  iifter  Colonel  John  'I'nftun  Mmhoii,  of  hit^tMric  fame  ;  now  it  lah.jrs  iinJer  some 
inaij^nifiearic  name.  A  hemilatid  on  the  eoast  of  that  ^tatc  was  kni.wn  on  map-;  ar;il 
charts  fi.r  ^generations,  as  Locke's  Point  ;  it  is  now  railed  Straw's  I'l.int,  a  name  not 
very  likely  to  survive  the  next  transfer  of  the  property.  Now  we  n  ad  that  the  author 
of  the  *'  (jeoloLiy,"  above  referred  to,  lias  as^umed  tochani;e  the  name  of  one  o(  the 
prineipiil  trihutarics  t.j  the  Merrimaek,— hlottin^'  out,  as  far  iiJ;  he  may.  a  name  kn  .wii 
for  more  than  two  hundred  yearn  in  New  llampbhire  history.  liut  sueh  evil  praetiocs 
are  not  coidined  to  New  Hampshire.  Even  in  Maesachusetts  a  rich  man  can  buy 
the  privilc'je  of  giving  hid  name  to  an  old  town  or  street.  a.  u.  u. 

Account  of  Arnold's  Campaign  nqnin/ft  Qwbcc.  and  of  the  llarri^hips  and  Si/Jferinr/s 
of  (hat  Danil  of  Heroes  ivho  Tracerscd  the  WilJrrnPss  of  Muine  from  Cam/)r:/f-/e 
to  th>:  Si.  Lawrence  in  the  Autumn  of  1775.  By  Jouv  Joskf-h  IIevrv,  One  of  the 
Survirorn.  Albany  :  Joel  Munsell.  1877.  [l-2mo.  pp.  1U3.  Price,  $2.  Forsale 
by  A.  Williams  &  Co.,  Boston.] 

Though  much  has  been  written  concerning  Arnold's  expedition  to  Canada,  the 
work  of  Judge  Henry,  here  r:>printed,  is  both  the  earliest  published  narrative  of 
that  bold  and  haicardouri  undertakiMLj  and  the  most  minute  in  details.  Beside.s  this 
account  of  that  campaign,  journals  have  been  printed  of  at  least  tive  actors  in  it, 
namely.  Dr.  Isaac  Sencer,  in  184f),  by  the  Historical  Society  of  Pennsylvania  :  Joseph 
Y'ar.,  iii  1Sj2,  in  rhe  Hegisteh  {ante,  vi.  r2i)-41)  ;  Jan)es  Mr-ivin,  in  1S.37.  by 
"The  Club  ;  "  Major  Return  J.  Meigs,  in  Ibbl,  by  Charles  I.  Bushnell  ;  and  CipC 
Siraeon  Thayer,  in  1S67,  in  the  si.\th  volume  of  the  Collections  of  the  Rhode  hlatid 
ili-storical  Society.  To  the  last,  the  editor,  the  Uev.  Edwin  M.  Stone  of  Providence, 
has  pretised  a  carefully  prepared  bibliography  of  the  subject.  Other  journals  exist 
in  manuscript,  and  much  will  be  found  on  the  subject  in  other  books.  " 

Judge  Henry's  narrative  was  dictated  to  his  daughter  Anne,  "with  the  aid  of 
casual  notes  and  memi'randa,  from  his  bed  of  sickness  in  his  latest  yetirs.  The 
manuscript  received  no  revision  at  his  hands,  for  he  was  called  away  very  shortly  after 
its  last  p:i!res  were  written.  His  widow  gave  it  to  the  pre<s  in  1S12,  and  it  w-s 
printed  without  even  the  correetion  of  verba!  and  typographical  errors." 

The  author  died  at  Lancaster,  Pa.,  April  15,  ISil,  aged  53.  The  year  after  his 
death,  the  original  edition  of  this  work  was  printed  at  Lancaster,  in  a  duodrcimo 
of  225  paijes.  A  second  edition,  "  with  corrections  and  alterations,"  was  published 
by  Knowlton  &  Rice  at  VV'atertown,  N.  Y.,  in  a  16mo.  of  2)2  pages. 

The  present  edition  contains  a  memoir  of  the  author  by  his  irrandson,  Aubrey  11. 
Smith  of  Philadelphia,  son  of  the  Hon.  Thomas  Suiith  of  Delaware  county,  "Pa., 
whose  wife  wa.s  Anne  .Mary,  daughter  of  Judge  Henry.  S  le  was  the  amanuensis 
of  her  father,  a.s  stated  ah  )ve,  and  was  also  the  author  of  a  'ifeof  her  father  prefixed 
to  this  Work.  The  editor.  Mr.  Munsell,  in  a  preliminary  chapter,  in  an  appendix,  and 
in  many  notes  interspersed  through  the  pages  of  the  book,  has  made  important 
additions  of  documents  and  Hicts.  j.  w.  d. 

Transactions  of  the  R'-iyal  Historical  Society.     Edited  by  the  Rev.  Charles  Rogers, 

LL.D.,  Historiographer  to  the  Royal  Historical  SocictV London:  PiinteJ 

for  the  Royal  Hietorical  Society.     [8vo.  Vol.  IV.  1876,"  pp.  453  ;  Vol.  V.  1&77,  pp. 

Leaves  from  My  Autobiography.     By  the  Rev.  Charlks  Rogers.  LL.D.,  Historio- 

ffnipher  to  the  Royal  Hi-torical  Society London:    Longmans,   Green 

&  Company.     1876.     [8vo.  pp.  376. j 

Geneahfjiral  Memoirs  of  the  Fumi'y  of  Sir  Walter  Scott,  Bart.,  of  Ahbotsford,  rcith 
a  Reprint  of  his  Memorials  of  the  Halihurtons.  By  the  Rev.  Cuarlks  R'x;crs, 
LL.D.,  Historiographer  to  the  Royal  Historical  Societv,  Fellow  of  the  Societv  of 
Antiquaries  of  Scotland,  Member  of  the  Historical  Societv  of  Quebec.  Memhe'r  of 
the  Historical  Society  of  Penn.sylvania,  and  Corresponding  Member  of  the  Histori- 
cal and  Genealogical  Society  of  New  England.  London:  Printed  for  the  Royal 
Historical  Society.     1877.     [Svo.  pp.  78.     Illustrated.] 

The  "Koyal  Ili-^-torical  Society"  was  organized,  in  ISGO.asthe  "Historical  Society" 
of  Great  t>rir^iin_,  with  which  name  the  tiist  volume  of  its  "  Tran.sactions  "  was 
published  in  1872.  The  same  yer.r,  by  permission  of  the  oueen,  the  society  was 
authorized  to  take  the  name  of  the  "  Royal  Historical  Society.""  The  .-econd  v.-lume 
of  "  Transactions  "  appeared  in  1873,  and  the  third  in  187-t.     This  series  of  volumes 


1877.]  Book  Kot Ices.  447 

has  been  noticed  before  in  the  Re.;ister  (xxviii.  103  ;  xxix.  21.j),  and  the  contentn  of 
two  volumes  t,'iveu.  Tlie  |);i])LTri  in  tlic  t'ourtii  and  tilth  volunns  are  of  cbe  siinic 
chariictin'  us,  and  of  cqiial  valm.'  with  the  previouH  ones.  The  CDiitrihufnti,  bi.-si.ii-e 
the  olitor,  are  Ednuuid  C.  li.ilten,  t'.KS.Fl,  Giist.ivus  (joor'..;t;  Z^Hi,  I'li.  D., 
F.R.S.li.,  Joseph  1'  slier,  Ciijit.  Charles  Warren,  Jl.bl.,  William  W.  Old.  CJcorge 
Harris,  LL.U.,  F.S.A..  (Je;>rL'»t  il,u•:^t.  Elihu  Rich,  tiie  Rev.  A.  II.  Wraii-I:iw,  LJ. 
I-aurtnce  (joinine,  WiUiain  Winters,  6yilni-y  Rohjohns,  Jamtri  Ikywood,  K.R.S., 
and  Renjaniin  W.  Richardson,  M.D.,  F.R.S. 

The  editor  of  these  voluiues,  the  Rev.  Dr.  Rn;;crs,  lias  published  his  autobiuccraphy 
in  a  hands  Jtne  vi>lunie  whose  title  is  i;iven  above.  Dr.  Ro;.^ers  has  been  the  nrojcc- 
tor  of  many  patriotic  and  benevolent  enterprises,  and,  thoui,'h  he  has  met  wild  liercc 
oppo>ili()n  fruin  a  few  individuals,  he  has  had  tlie  satishn^tion  of  seeiii!^  the  most 
imp.^rt  uit  of  his  projects  cn^wned  with  success.  He  orii^inated  the  inuvenn-nt  fur 
erectin;:  the  national  r.ionu  iient  to  Wallace  vvliicli  now,  from  Abbey  L'rai;,'.  "  Ixikd 
down  on  the  scene  of  the  hero's  greatest  triumph,"  and  performed  the  most  labori- 
ous part  of  the  work  in  making  it  a  success.  Besides  ttii.s  he  has  been  instrumental 
in  erecting  monuments  to  other  Scottish  worthies.  He  wi.s  the  founder  of  the 
"Grampian  Club"  for  printinij;  "works  illustrative  of  Scottish  literature,  history 
and  antiquities,"  and  was  one  of  the  founders  of  the  Royal  Historical  Society  noticed 
above.  Of  the  latter  institution  he  is  the  sscietary  and  historiographer,  auti  he  haa 
been  the  editor  of  all  its  i)uhlications.  These  and  other  patriotic  and  literary  .--er-.icer» 
led  .«ome  of  his  friends  and  aduiirers,  in  IbTS,  to  present  him  with  a  handsome  iiou.ic 
in  M j'Mc  P^irk.  Surrey,  where  he  now  resides.  The  Earl  of  JSlar  was  president  of  the 
committee  for  this  testin'.oni:il. 

The  ias-  work  v^  hose  title  we  have  given  is  also  by  Dr.  Rogers.  It  is  devoteil  to  the 
genealogical  memoirs  ot  the  family  of  Sir  Walter  Scott,  from  the  reign  of  David  I. 
of  Scotland  to  the  present  time. "giving  his  ancestors  and  several  lines  uf  their 
descendants,  and  also  the  descendants  of  Sir  Walter  himself.  The  motlier  of  this 
celebrated  writer  was  a  Rutherford  and  his  grandmother  a  Haliburton,  and  the 
author  furnislies  brief  accounts  of  these  lamilies.  He  also  reprints  a  work  privately 
prinfcd  by  Sir  AV'alter  Sc»tt,  entitled,  "  .Meuiorials  of  the  llaliburtons."  Two 
small  editions  of  only  30  copies  e  '.ch  were  printed  in  18-20  and  1":!4.  It  is  a  c^ipy 
of  a  manuscript  family  register,  from  the  middle  of  the  seventeenth  century  to  IT'iO, 
kept  by  the  lairds  of  Nesvmains,  representatives  of  the  Haliburtons,  barons  of  Mcr- 
toun,  in  which  are  quaintly  recorded  many  inieresting  details.  J.  w.  D. 

A  Short  History  of  Rhode  Island.  By  George  Washington  Greexe,  LL.D.,  late 
Nun-Kesidenc  Professor  of  American  History  in  Cornell  University  ;  author  of 
"  The  Life  of -Major-Gencral  Mathanael  Greene  "  ;  "  Historical  View  of  the  Ameri- 
can Revoluti  >n,'''  etc.  etc.  Providence  :  J.  A.  &  R.  A.  Reii'.  Pu!>lishers.  1877. 
[l-2mo.  pp.  3.56.     Piice  5f2.     for  sale  by  A.  Williams  Jc  Co.,  Boston.] 

There  is  great  need  of  a  condensed  history  of  each  of  the  States.  Few  pei-sona  re- 
quire, or  have  leisure  to  read,  the  larger  histories,  usually  in  several  volumes;  and 
lewer  still,  have  money  to  buy  them.  A  good  manual,  or  handbook,  of  the  history  of 
a  State,  is  yot  to  be  writtti.  The  model  of  such  a  work  is  Goodrich's  History  of 
the  United  States,  revised  by  Seavty. 

This  centennial  era  has  produced  a  throng  of  writeTS  on  historical  subjects.  There 
has  been  a  demand  for  historical  literature  without  regard  to  quality  ;  and  the 
supply  has  exceeded  the  demand.  The  country  is  Hooded  with  a  mass  of  popular 
history  whicn  does  more  harui  than  good. 

It  is  therefore  a  r:al  pleirsurc  to  find  an  author  of  ability,  learning  and  literary 
etill,  seriously  at  wurk  in  tiiis  much  abused  province  of  literature.  The  anrials  of 
Rhode  Island  are  unique.  The  heroic  steps  by  which  a  few  exiles,  banished  Irom 
Massachusetts  Bay  for  political  and  reliirious  heresies,  founded  a  permanent  colony 
on  the  shores  ot  the  Narr.igansett  Bay,  based  on  new  and  untried  theories  ot  n-ligioa 
and  politics,  will  never  cease  to  interest  the  historian  and  the  phiiosopher.  ihe  in- 
fluence and  the  example  of  this  little  colony  of  freemen  have  not  yet  ceased  to  affect 
the  interests  of  mankirid. 

The  great  name  of  Roger  Williams  throws  a  radiance  over  the  whole  historic 
period  of  Rhode  Isi-ind.  Had  lie  lived  among  the  nations  of  clas-^ioal  antiquity  he 
could  not  have  escaped  being  deiacd.  The  area  of  the  little  State  founded  by  him 
Ib  not  greater  tl'.an  some  counties  of  iMa&sachiisetts  ;  it  is  not  easy  to  tind  on  an 
average  sized  map  of  the  L'nited  States.  And  yet  the  history  of  this  little  republic 
ia  net  inferior^  ia  interest  and  picturesqueness,  to  any  other  of  the  I\ew  England 
Stateij. 


448  Booh  Notices.  [Oct. 

It  13  some  years  since  Mr.  Arnold  ^rote  a  comprelicnsive  aiiil  accurate  history  of 
Rhode  Ihland,  a  work  chut  funii^heH  atiund'mt  uiutcrials  fur  any  les.«er  perloiujunoe. 
But  I'or  that  woik,  Vi\>i.  Grccno  dcidarcs  that  lus  liad  not  titcn  written. 

Prof.  Greene  docvi  not  clearly  state  the  dertiijn  of  ids  hook  ;  hut  it  i.s,  undoubtedly, 
a  popular  history  df.signed  tor  tho^u  who  have  not  Arm.ld.  While  it  is  a  scholarly 
performance,  and  luoie  acjiirato  than  any  of  the  kind  i.-Mit  d  during'  thid  Cf;nteu- 
rial  epoch,  tiieeveiit>  and  charaetois  seem  to  lack  vivid  iirescntalion.  The  nanatlve 
is  too  uniform  and  stately  ;  ami  it  id  nut  easy  to  distinguish  the  rtlative  importance 
of  evento  and  characters.  Besides,  there  are  scarcely  any  dales  IJxini^  the  chionolo^^y 
of  historical  events.  There  is  not  a  i-ini^le  illustration  in  the  te.\t,  and  only  one 
map  of  the  State,  and  that  a  modern  one.  This  gives  the  hi)ok  a  hald  and  unattract- 
ive appearance.  One  or  two  historical  maps  would  assist  the  reader  very  much; 
these  maps  are  one  of  the  features  of  improvement  in  the  histories  of  our  day. 

Of  Course  there  are  many  matters  of  interest  that  must  be  omitted  altofjether  in  a 
brief  history  of  this  kind  ;  hut  the  omission  of  the  name  of  the  t-iev.  William  Blaxton 
the  first  Kuropean  settler  in  Rhode  Island,  and  a  dweller  there  fur  forty  years  ;  nndalno, 
the  considerable  allair  of  the  c;);>tureof  'jen.  Pre'^cott,  an  event  that  has  just  been  fitly 
commemorated  by  a  public  celebration  in  Rhode  Island,  cannot  be  otherwise  than 
accidental. 

The  statue  of  Roller  "Williams  forms  an  appropriate  frontispiece.  The  Appendix 
islar^e,  and  contains  a  great  deal  of  very  imjjortant  historical  and  statistical  matter. 
Tlie  book  is  exceedingly  -well  printed,  ou  tine  paper,  and  makes  a  pretty  volume. 

C.   W.  T. 

Thp  Capture  of  Itlount  Washinglon,  November  l^th,  1776,  the  Result  of  Treason. 
By  Edward  JF.  DE  La.ncef.     2sew  York  :   1877.     [Sm.  4to.  pj).  3-J.] 

This  is  a  reprint  of  an  able  article  which  Mr.  de  Lancey  contributed  to  the  Feb- 
ruary number  of  the  "  Magazine  of  American  History."  lie  gives  here  much  new 
information  concerning  the  capture  of  Mount  Wasiiington  by  the  British,  which  he 
conclusively  shows  was  effected  through  the  treason  of  \V'illiam  Demont,  an  ailjutdnt 
in  the  American  army.  J.  w.  d. 

The  Maine  Gencalofjist  and  Biographer.  A  Quarter!//  Journal,  Published  under  the 
direction  of  the  Matne  Genealoj/ical  and  Biographical  Society.  Wu.  Berky  Lapham, 
M.A.,  Editor.  Volume  1[.  1876-7.  [Motto.]  Augusta  :  Printed  for  the  Society. 
[8vo.  pp.  141.     Price,  $1.50  a  year,  or  50  cts.  a  number.] 

The  Genealogist.  Edited  by  George  ^^^  Marshall,  LL.D.,  Fellow  of  the  Society  of 
Antif^uaries.  Volume  I.  L<^ndon  :  Golding  and  Lawrerice,  55  Great  Russell 
Street,  Bloomsbury.     1377.     [8vo.  pp.  vii.+4-20.     Price,  2  Is.] 

The  Genealogist J^uly,  1877 Issued  on  the  First  of  each  Month. 

[8vo.  pp.  C2.     Price,  Is.] 

Miscellanea   Genealogica  et  Heraldica.      New  Series.      Edited  by  Joseph  Jackson 

Howard,  LL.D.,  F.S. A.      No.  LXXIV.      July,  1877 Hamilton,  Adams 

&Co.,  Paternoster  Row,  London.  [Royal  8vo.  Monthly.  20  pages  each  num- 
ber.    Price,  6d.  a  number.] 

ITie  New  York  Genr.alogical  and  Biographical  Record.  Dexoted  to  the  Interests  of 
American  Genealogy  and  Biography.  Issued  Quarterly.  [Seal.]  July,  1S77. 
Published  by  the  Society,  .Mott  Memorial  Hall,  No.  64  Madison  Avenue,  Now  York 
City.     [Large  Svo.  48  pages  each  number.     Price,  §2  a  year.] 

The  Maine  Gcnralogisi  and  Biographer  has  now  been  issued  two  years,  and  with 
the  June  number  itw  second  volume  was  completed.  This  quarterly  has  preserved 
much  genealo^dcal,  biographical  and  historical  matter  relative  to  Maine,  and  should 
receive  a  liberal  support  from  the  citizens  and  natives  of  that  state. 

The  London  Genealogist  has  also  couipleted  tvy^o  ye-ars  of  its  existence,  and  the 
quarterly  numbers  make  a  handsome  volume  of  over  four  fiundred  pages  elaborately 
indexed.  The  success  of  this  periodical  has  been  such  that  the  publishers  are  en- 
couraged to  issue  it  more  frequently.  With  the  July  number  the  work  has  been 
changed  from  a  quarterly  to  a  montniy  publication.  This  will  make  it  more  useful 
as  a  medium  ^.-f  iuttrcouxmunicatlon  for  genealogists,  wiiich  is  a  new  feature  of  the 
work.     The  Genealogist  is  a  worthy  successor  of  the  Herald  end  Genealogist. 

The  Miscellanea  Genealogica  ct  HeraUtica,  vAno  published  at  I>:)ndon,  was  like  the 
Genealogist  commenced  a.s  a  quarterly,  but  it  has  for  some  tirue  been  issued  monthly- 
The  firet  number  appeared  in  July,  18G6,  so  that  it  is  now  lirruiy  etablished,  being 


1877.]  Booh  Notices.  449 

more  tliiin  eleven  years  old.  It  is  devoteil  cbiefl)''  "to  transcripts  from  original 
and  iiU'dited  doeiimi'iils  robitiii;^  principally  to  <:ftnc;iloi;y  and  licral'lry." 

The  IS'fw  York  Gcnenloijicul  and  Dto/jraphicfil  Wxurd  s\iis  cuiiniiciici'd  in  January, 
1870,  and  wiih  its  i-su''  fur  tin?  prr-iMit  niunth  will  ccnpl-ifi  itHei;^iitii  annua!  vulunic. 
It  is  "  dovotfd  to  tiie  iuteresH  of  American  LjcnealDucy  -.uid  bio;;raphy  in  gcnerul,  but 
more  particularly  as  connected  witii  the  slate  of  New  York."' 

Tiie  editors  of  these  pi-riiidiraln,  \)v*.  Lijthain,  M;irBhall,  ILjward  and  Purple, 
deserve  great  credit  for  the  abdiiy  and  jud,i,'meiit  with  which  thiy  liave  coiiductcd 
their  refpective  works,  vvliicb  we  lieartily  commend  to  tl:e  patrona;^e  of  tho-^e  inter- 
ested in  such  studies.  J.  w.  d. 

Retmspection :  an  Histnriral  Resume  nflh'^  Putnam  Prcsl'ijterinn  Church,  Z'lnrscillf, 
Ohio,  df/ivercd  at  the  For/y-Scrond  Annii'cr^arj,  Jauuarij  ~th  and  2l.it,  1"577.  I'y 
the  Pastor,  Addison  Kt.vjsuL'KV.  Published  bv  Uequest.  Zanesviile,  O.:  .SuUivaa 
&  Pai-i^ons,  Printers.     1877.     [8vo.  pp.  56.     A^ith  photijgrapb  of  the  Author.] 

The  Putnam  Presbyterian  Clmreh,  Zanesvllle,  was  organized  January  1,  183.'), 
the  lirst  pastor  beini;  tliu  Kcv.  W'illium  11.  Becchcr,  who  cuntiiuied  there  four  ye;irrt. 
He  was  succeeded  Jan.  1,  1840,  by  the  present  pastor,  the  author  of  the  Wi>rk  Ijcfore 
us.  The  Rev.  Dr.  Kingsbuiy  had  tlien  preached  eleven  ye;'.r.->  in  WashiuL'ton  o.)unty, 
Ohio,  one  year  as  a  huine  missioimry  and  ten  years  as  pa-;tor  of  iJelpre  and  Warreo. 
These  discourijes,  besides  commemorating  the  forty-jiecond  anniversary  of  the  organ- 
ization of  the  churcli,  also  mark  the  thirty-seventh  anniversary  of  his  own  settlement. 
During  his  pastorate  here  he  hiis  preached  nearly  three  thousand  (2\l'.)0)  writf-n  and 
many  unwritten  sjrmons,  has  delivered  a  series  of  doctrinal  lectures,  more  tlian  one 
hundred  iu  number,  be.-:Jes  numerous  other  lectures.  Tiiis,  with  his  panturul  duties, 
has  made  his  life  a  very  bu*y  one. 

The  present  work  abounds  with  biographical  sketches  of  the  benefactors  and  active- 
workers  of  the  church,  and  is  a  valuable  addition  to  tlie  local  history  of  Ohio. 

J.  W.  D. 

Henry  Dunsier  and  his  Descendants.  By  Samvel  Dunster,  of  Attleborough,  Mass>. 
[Facsimile.]  Central  Falls,  P^  I.:  E.  L.  Freeman  &  Co.,  Steam  B 'ok  and  Job 
Printers.  1876.  [Ii!mo.  pp.  333.  Price,  ,i;-2.  For  sale  by  the  author,  and  by 
'William  H.  Merriam,  172  Washington  St.,  Ijjston.] 

Descendants  of  George  Little  who  came  to  Newbury,  Massachusetts,  in  1610.  Cora- 
piled  by  Geokge  T.  Little.  Cambridge:  Printed  at  the  University  Press  by 
Charles  J.  Little.     1877.     [Sm.  4to.  pp.  62.] 

A  Brief'  Genealogy  of  the  Whipple  Families  u'Au  settled  in  Rhode  Island.  Ji  two 
Paris.  .By  H.'!;NrvT  E.  Wuipple.  [M  )tto.]  Proudenee  :  \.  fraw.'ord  Gieeno, 
Steam  Book  and  Job  Printer.     1673.     [8vo.  pp.  63.] 

Descendants  of  William  Shippen.  Compiled  by  Charles  R.  liiLDEBLtiN".  [Sheet 
pedigree.] 

A  life  of  the  Rev.  Henry  Dunster.  the  first  president  of  Harvard  College,  by  the 
Rev.  Dr.  Ch.iplin,  was  puHiished  in  1S7-2  and  noticed  in  the  Register  for  July  of  that 
year  (anie,  xxvi.  340).  Appended  to  that  volume- is  ?.  brii.f  geueaiogy  of  hi-'  d-isceu- 
dants,  by  the  author  of  the  book  before  us  and  his  son  Dr.  Edward  S.  Dunster  of 
Kew  York.  S:ime  descendants  through  the  lemale  lines  complained  bee-ause  they 
and  their  children  were  left  out.  The  present  volume  will  be  welcomed  by  such.  It 
Contains  genealogical  data  concernmg  all  of  the  descendants  of  President  Dun'.ter, 
of  every  name,  so  far  as  they  came  to  the  knowledge  of  the  Compiler.  An  introduc- 
tory chapter  is  devoted  to  the  English  ancestry  and  relatives  of  the  president,  and  to 
persons  of  the  name  in  the  L'nited  States  not  descended  from  him.  Tiiis  is  foll.jwed 
Dy  a  concise  life  of  President  Dunster,  in  which  is  introduced  a  letter  from  his  father 
referring  to  his  brothers  and  sisters.  Many  wills,  letters,  and  other  d)Cuments 
illustrating  tiie  lives  of  the  s.^veral  individuals,  accompany  their  genealogical  reootd.s. 
The  volunie  is  tilled  with  facts  of  interest  to  the  t'amily  and  others. 

In  the  work  on  the  Little  uimily,  biographical  sketches  of  the  emigrant  and  other 
prominent  members  of  the  family  precede  the  genealogy  proper.  The  latter  portion 
of  the  work  is  carefully  prepared,  bi.-ing  very  full  and  precise  in  the  lines  uken  up. 
Though  it  is  elegantly  |)rinted  and  illustrated  with  line  engravin^^s,  the  w.-rk  is 
intended  to  be  prelimin:iry  to  a  larger  work  on  whicii  the  author  is  i.ow  engaged,  and. 
in  -which  the  other  lines  will  be  foUo-.ved  out.  Mr.  Little  will  be  thauufal  foe 
adi.ijtions  and  corrections  to  his  book. 
VOL.    iXXI.  40 


450  Booh  Notices.  [Oct. 

T!ie  next  work  is  devoted  to  tlic  Whipple  fhmily  of  Rlio<]e  Island.  No  connection 
has  huMj  trared  l)er,\vffn  t'li-j  wnd  tlie  Ipsnich  fiiuiiiy  of  tlie  ruiinc,  of  which  a  ;;erie- 
alo^y  hy  John  A.  Houtelh'  of  \\'ol)uni  was  prii.ted  in  \n'o~  {antr,  xi.  3«»0).  The 
work  hcfove  us  is  dividtd  into  two  pmts,  tl:e  tir-^t  {riviri;^  tlie  niiUe  descendants  of 
John  Whijiple  an  early  sctlh-r  in  I'rovideiiee,  siid  to  be  '*  the  firr-t  of  tlic  nanie  who 
settled  in  New  Kriicland."  The  second  part  fu^ni^het^  brief  accounts  of  tfiree  other 
early  settlers  in  lUiodc  I^land,  namely,  Samuel  and  David  of  Providence,  and  Eleazer 
of  N\'arwielc;  and  ot  their  descendants. 

The  Shippen  pedi^jree  will  form  a  good  accompaninicnt  to  Balcb's  Shippen  Papers 
{ante,  p.  3»J3j.  J.  w.  i>. 

Eulogy  on  lion.  Tajipan  Wcntworth,  A.M.,  Munificent  Dnnor  of  Dartmouth.  Col- 
lt(je,  (idicrred  h''fi>re  the  As.sorialion  of  the  Ahtmai,  by  N.MU.w  Ckoshv  (Class 
of  IWO),  at  the  Annual  Corn/nrncuncnt,  June,  1^76.  P'ubiishfd  at  their  llequcst. 
Lowell,  iMasa.:  Press  of  Marden  &  Kowell.     1877.     [8vo.  pp.2G.] 

This  is  an  able  eulo;xy  on  one  of  our  nio'^t  judicious  public  benefactors.  Mr- 
Wentworth,  a  lawyer  of  hiL;;li  standin;^  in  Lowell,  who  perved  two  yeara  in  Coni^resj 
and  had  held  high  office  in  his  Ktate,  died  June  12,  1875,  leavin:^  to  Dartmouth 
CulU'ire  the  whole  of  his  estate,  after  the  payment  of  certain  lec^m.-iee?  and  annuities  to 
liis  widiiw  <md  others.  The  Alumni  Association  of  that  ci'IIclcc  invited  Jud^e 
Crosby  to  deliver  an  eulogy  upon  hii;i,  and  that  gentleman  has  performed  the  service 
in  0  Ti'',-  1  :';'py  r.r'nnci'.  Only  four  eulii.Mes  have  before  been  delivered  at  the 
request  of  tlie  association,  namely,  "upon  Daniel  Webster  by  Rufiis  Choatc  in 
18.i3  ;  upon  llufus  Choatc;  by  Ira  Perley  in  186G  ;  upon  Nath.an  Lord  by  Alpheu.s  B. 
Crudby  in  1872,  and  upon  Salmon  P.  Chase  by  William  M.  Evurts  in  lo74. — men 
who  have  shed  lustre  ujjon  tiie  college  and  gained  especial  favor  in  different  fields  of 
erudition,  fame  and  power."  J.  av.  d. 

Report  of  the  Joint  Committee  of  the  Library  \_of  the  Virginia  Legislature.  Eich- 
mond  :  1877.     "  Senate  Doc.  No.  xsv."     8vo.  pp.  16.] 

This  report  is  accompanied  by  that  of  the  State  Librarian,  G''n.  James  McDonp.ld, 
and  by  letters  from  Dr.  William  P.  Palmer  of  Richmond,  and  W.  Noel  Sainsbury 
of  L  )ndon.  Dr.  Palmer  has  been  engaged  in  calendaring  the  historical  papers  in  the 
archives  of  Virginia,  and  had  couspleted  his  work  to  the  early  part  of  1767,  when  in 
May,  IS7H,  he  was  obliged  by  sickness  to  suspend  his  labors.  We  regret  to  ada  that 
in  his  letter  he  announces  that  his  health  will  not  allow  him  to  resume  them. 

Mr.  Sainsburj-,  of  her  Majesty's  State  Paper  Ollice,  has  been  employed  by  the 
State  authorities  to  furnish  abstracts,  extracts  and  copies  of  all  the  papers  in  the 
bands  ui  the  British  g'nernmcnt  relating  to  the  colonial  h'story  of  Virginia.  Tiiese 
papers  begin  as  early  as  1378.  Mr.  Sairsbury  has  complef  jd  his  work  to  the  end  of 
1720.  We  hope  a  successor  equally  competent  will  be  found  for  Dr.  Palmer,  and 
that. Mr.  Sainsbury  will  be  able  to  comjjlete  his  work.  The  letters  of  both  these 
gentlemen  contain  interesting  facts  in  the  history  of  Virginia.  The  authorities  of 
that  State  deserve  great  credit  for  what  they  have  done  in  this  matter.        j.  w.  d. 

Jn  Memoriam.     Sister  Sainte  Claire,  Order  of  St.  Ursula.     Pretiosa  in  conspecta 

Domini   mors  Sanctorum  ejus.      Ps.    115:   15.     Charlestown :   Advertiser  Press, 

1376.     [12mo.  pp.  25.     Edition,  50  copies.] 
Verrazzano :    A  Motion  for   a  Stay  of  Judgjnent.     [Motto.]     New  York:    1376. 

[ISmo.  pp.  16.] 
Soldier  and  Sage.      Memorials   of  George    Washington  and  Benjamin  Franklin. 

Philadelphia  :  ^.IcCalla  >t  Scaveley.     1876.     [iSmo.  pp.  18.] 
The  Lost  City  of  JXew  England.     By  B.  F.  DeCosta.     [1877.     Sm.  4to.  pp.  7. 

Edition,  25  copies.] 

The  author  of  these  works  is  the  Rev.  Benjamin  F.  DcCosta,  of  New  York  city, 
a  writer  of  indefatigable  research  and  varied  knowledge,  whose  historical  works 
have  frequently  been  commended  in  the  Reohter. 

The  first  work  is  a  rarmoir  of  Miss  Mary  Rebecca  Theresa  DeCoeta,  who  was  bom 
in  Boston,  .Vprii  Ifl,  178-^,  and  died  in  New  Orleans,  Sept.  21,  I87i.  On  New  Yt-ars' 
eve,  1820,  .she  entered  th.e  Ursuline  Convent  at  Boston,  established  a  few  years 
previous.  Sister  Mary  S;iint  Claire,  which  was  the  name  she  took,  was  the  tirsfc 
novice  received  into  the  community.  The  convent  in  1826  was  removed  to  xMount 
Benedict,  Charlestown,  where  aa  is  well  known  the  building  was  burned  by  a  mob, 


1877.]  Booh  j^oticcs.  451 

Aul::.  13.  1831.  A  Eiinnte  and  intcrestin£?  history  of  the  convent  will  be  founfl  in 
tlicse  [>:i::es  Si-ter  Saint  (Jhiire  Wiis  transOrrc'l  t )  Rixhtiry,  then  to  Qui  l>c'i.'.  :ui(J 
tlnrilly  to  New  Oilcuus,  wiiere  slic  nrrivei  in  ISIO,  nni!  whore  t?he  resided  till  licr 
dentil.     A  tiil)al:ir  pfdii^t- ■!  of  tlie  Dei.'osta  I'iiinily  is  [)reiix('d. 

The  t^eeond  work  i-^  a  review  of  a  notice,  in  tiie  ilF.oi^ri-.it  for  January,  IRTfi.  of  "Sir. 
Murphy'.s  work  on  V'erraz/.ano.  and  also  of  Mr.  Murphy's  work  it-elt".  Mr.  I)eCosta 
arrives  at  the  same  concluision  on  this  suhject  a.-s  Mr.  Bruvoort,  iianu'ly,  tint  tlie 
evidence  is  in  favor  of  a  voyage  beinu;  made  l)y  Vei-raz'.ano  to  those  bhores  ;  and 
of  Course  he  dissent.s  from  the  views  of  .Messrs.  Mur[)hy  and  SlafCfr. 

The  third  work  contains  a  letter  written  from  Nrwburirh  l\y  (Ven.  Wiisiilnrrton, 
April  11.  17S3,  to  the  Indian  Commander,  and  two  htt'Ts  written  from  I'liiiu'lelphia 
by  l>r.  Franklin  to  (Jen.  Henry  BoU(inet  of  the  British  Army;  one  dated  Ani;.  16, 
and  the  other  Sept.  30,  ITGi.  I'he  three  Ictfeio  were  copied  Ijv  the  K.ev.  Mr.  iJct'osta 
from  the  originals  auiou!.^  the  Haldimand  M."^S  in  tluj  I.!ritish  Mus-um.  and  are  here 
printed  for  tlie  first  time.  Thia  contribution  to  oentenaial  literature  is  botli  inter- 
estini;  and  valuable. 

The  last  work  is  a  reprint  of  an  article  in  the  January  numixr  of  the  Magazine 
of  A/nrriran  History.  The  "  L^'st  City  of  New  England  "  is  "  Norumi)ei.':i,"  of 
which  many  fabulous  deseriptiun.s  are  here  collected.  j.  w.  d. 

Report  and  CoL'fcnonsof'l/ie  Slate  Hhlorical  Society  of  Wisconsin.,  for  thf  Y>ars 
lf^73,  1871.  IN7,5  and  1S70.  Vol.  Vil.  Madisou,  Vv'is.  :  £.  13.  Bulens,  State 
Printer.     l&7ti.     [tivo.  pp.  495.] 

Tin's  T  dumc,  like  it.s  predecessors,  is  filled  with  valuable  material  relative  to  the 
history  of  the  west,  and  particularly  of  Wisconsin.  Besides  the  elal>or<ite  reports 
of  the  executive  committee  of  the  Wisconsin  Historical  Society  for  four  years 
(lS73-7r)),  it  contains  a  necroloijy  of  the  pioneers  and  public  men  of  Wisconsin  for 
the  years  1S74  and  187.S.  prepared  by  Lyman  C.  Draper;  and  upwards  of  twenty 
historical  and  bioiz:raphicul  p;ipers  relative  to  that  state.  The  authors  of  these 
papers,  which  are  upon  a  L^reut  variets"  of  topics,  are  Prof.  James  D.  Butler,  LL.D., 
John  (Jilmary  Siiea,  Lfi.D.,  Joseph  Tas^e,  Lyman  C.  Drr-per,  LL.D.,  the  lion. 
James  D.  Doty,  Gen.  Albert  G.  Lllis,  Kdwat-d  D.  Beouchard,  the  Hon.  John  T. 
Kinsston,  John  T.  De  Li  Ronde,  the  Hon.  J.  A.  Noman,  the  lion.  C  C  Trow- 
bridge. N.  Matson,  Daniels.  Durrie.  the  Hon.  E.  H.  Edis,  and  the  Hon.  A.  B.  Bmley. 

Prof.  Butler's  papei-s  are  entitled  "  Fre-Historic  Wis^ionsin"  and  the  "  West- 
phalia Medal  of  lOlS."  They  have  been  reprinted  in  pamphlet  form,  and  a  notice 
of  them  appeared  in  our  last  number  {ante,  p.  359).  Dr.  S'iea  contributes  a  paper 
on  the  "Discovery  of  the  Missis-iiipi,"  Gen.  Ellis  gives  "  Fifty-four  years'  iiecol- 
Icctions  of  Wisconsin,"  Mr.  Kingston  furnishes  reminiscences  of  "  Early  ^\  esieru 
Days,"'  Mr.  Merrill  writes  about  "Pioneer  Life  in  Wisconsin.'"  Gov.  Doty  about 
"Northern  Wisconsin  in  18-JO,"  and  Mr.  De  La  Ronde  contributes  a  "Personal 
Narrative,"  giving  inrerestinix  particulars  of  Indian  life  and  history.  An  elaooiate 
memoir  of  Charles  de  Langlade, — a  western  pioneer,  born  I7"2y,  who  was  "  one  of  the 
most  eouraijreous  defenders  of  tlie  French  cau«e  in  Canada."  and  who  h;is  been 
credited  with  planning:  the  ambuscade  which  def-iated  Gen.  Braddock. — written  in 
J^enoh  for  the  society  by  Mr.  fasse,  and  translated  by  Mrs.  Sarah  F.iirciiild  De:in, 
also  appears  hers.  Our  space,  however,  will  not  allow  us  to  refer  to  all  the  interest- 
ing topics  treated  of  in  this  volume.  i-  w.  d. 

Maine  :  Her  Place  in  History.  Address  ddivered  at  the  Centennial  F.jhibilioa.  Phila- 
delphia, Nov.  4,  I87(j,  and  in  Convention  of  thn  L^fjislalure  of  Maine.  F'bruary  6, 
1877.  Bv  Joshua  L.  CiixMRSur,  mv.  W'lUi  a  Coinmnmratinn  from  the  G  n-rnor 
and  the  Report  of  the  Centtnnial  Coin/ntsston.  Pubhsh:d  by  Od'C  of  th".  L-jis- 
latur-e  of  Maine. 'oC  Ftfruary  7,  1S77.  Augusta  :  Sprague,  Owen  &  Nash,  Printers 
to  t!ie  State.     1877.     [8vo.  pp.  v. 4-129.] 

This  centennial  period  is  destined,  among  other  tliini;?,  to  he  famous  for  the 
nmiiber  and  quality  of  idstorical  publications  that  Cotce  from  the  press.  As  t  >  many 
of  these,  wniie  it  would  not  have  been  money  in  tlie  pockets  of  tlie  writers  or 
publisliers,  had  thev  never  arincared,  it  wouM  have  lie  n  money  in  the  pockets  (d  the 
purchu-ers,  a.id  credit  to  the  ii.telliLfenee  of  t';.^  Amenc  in  people.  Tiie  (laan'ity  of 
sliailow,  i^ippant  matter,  called  liistoricai  iiterature,  that  iias  been  cast  on  the  pu'dic: 
witliin  a  few  years,  is  amazing.  A  govxl  deal  of  tiiis  has  been  in  the  form  of  orations 
and  address'-s,  an  e;'.sy  way  for  smatterers  in  history — men  who  never  looked  into  an 
orii;iual  reiiord,  nor  have  the  aligiitesc  knowledge  of  the  sources  of  history — to  gtX, 


452  Booh  Notices.  [Oct. 

into  public  notice  ani  ohtnin  crclit  r)r  whit  they  never  had.  "Little  orators  on 
low  Ptuinps,"  t)  i|;i'>te  .Mr.  (J  i'j:'.te's  felii'it)UH  Je^i-ripti  mi  of  them,  have  sliouted 
quite  enuui^h  of  their  vie\v.^  and  interjiretiitions  of  history.  A.s  such  thiiii^i  are 
beneiich  the  (ii.'.iiity  "f  cricicism  they  [ia>N  current.  There  i.s  consolation  in  the  re- 
tleetion  that  these  cheap  proliictiuris  arr  de-lined  to  come  to  Kpeedy  forgettiiiness. 

At  lenL'th  there  comes  forth  a  pamphlet — more  wortliy  of  the  name  of  a  book — 
with  no  hi;;her  title  on  the  outfiJc  tlian  "Centennial  Address,"'  \vho«e  very  ^reat 
nle^it^  and  interest  place  it  anion;;  the  best  of  our  centennial  historical  literature. 
The  author  has  so  many  titles,  civil  and  military,  that  it  is  not  eapy  to  fix  on  tlie 
one  by  which  he  i--  mo-t  ap[)r(;priate]y  dcsi^rnated.  lie  has  now  shown  that  be  has 
a  new  title  to  pult'.ie  consideration. 

Tfiis  historienl  e«say  is  a  surprise.  While  itbrinii^s  to  lifrht  no  new  facts,  it  phowa 
great  research  amoni;  the  best  authorities,  a  just  appreciation  of  the  olfice  of  his- 
tory, and  a  real  interest  in  this  subject,  ft  is  tlie  most  cjmi)rehensive  and  candid 
review  of  the  history  ot  .Maine  tliat  ha.^  yet  appeared.  f'resident  Chamberlain 
has  discussed,  amoni;  other  things,  with  f.irness  and  fulne-s,  nil  the  controverted 
points  in  the  early  history  of  Maine.  In  this  he  has  proccffled  logically,  and  his  poinH 
stand  out  clear  and  sliarp.  He  places  Maine  and  her  worthy  founder  in  tlie  front 
rank  of  New  Hn-lund  history,  where  they  3->  rii;htfully  bt_-lijn:;.  He  reviews,  briefly, 
the  whole  history  of  Elaine  to  the  present  time,  prtsentinir  in  vivid  sketches  each 
period,  and  not  forgettini;  to  notice  the  ::;reat  characleis  that  have  inaile  her  name 
respcftel  anion::  the  ■■t:Ut.;".  The  several  historical  niaps  and  charts  contribute  much 
to  a  clear  understanding  of  American  history,  and  are  of  great  value. 

Tl'.ere  is  not  space  here  to  notice  some  of  the  more  striking  and  interesting 
ftacures  of  this  address,  nor  to  point  out  some  inaccuracies  and  defects,  hardly  appre- 
ciable among  so  mucli  that  is  excellent.  We  ditfer  from  him  only  in  those  matters 
vhere  his  judgments  are  pometimes  rather  against  Maine  and  her  worthy  colonizers. 
It  is  plain  enough  to  see  that  when  the  record  of  the  actions  of  l*ophaiu.  Gorges, 
Mason,  and  their  associates  shall  be  made  cmplete,  there  will  be  no  k-nger  ground 
for  any  controversy  as  to  where  tlie  merit  belongs  of  founding  and  settling  New 
England,  nor  as  to  the  true  place  of  Maine  in  history. 

There  is  one  source  of  historical  information  which  strangely  escapes  the  notice  of 
some  writers,  and  that  is,  the  Kkoister.  It  is  superfluous  to  add  that  the  thirty 
volumes  contain  hundreds  of  original  documents  and  yxipers  illustrative  of  Xew 
England  history,  not  to  be  found  elsewhere.  Eesides,  there  are  historical  sket<;he8 
and  biographical  memoirs  made  up  from  original  research.  If  President  Chamber- 
lain had  looked  into  some  of  the  later  volumes,  he  would  have  found  that  ijir  Ferdi- 
nando  Gorges  was  never  "  Governor"  of  Plymouth  ;  and  tl;at  tlie  matter  of  the  nam- 
ing of  Ma'ne,  alleged  to  be  in  honor  of  the  French  Princess,  Henrietta  Maria,  is  set 
at  rest.  xo  writer  on  the  Popham  colony  has  yet  recognized  the  statement  by  Hub- 
bard, on  tiie  title  page  of  his  "  Narrative  of  the  Indian  Wars,"  etc.,  that  "  the  Srst 
planting  of  New  England"  was  "  in  IG07,"  though  made  public  some  years  since 
at  a  meeting  of  the  Maine  Historical  Societ}'. 

This  able  address  is  not  without  literary  merit.  The  stj-le  is  fresh,  vigorous  and 
attractive,  a  sreat  contrast  to  most  historical  productions.  It  ought  to  go  into  every 
household  in  Maine.  c.  w.  t. 

The  Hi.^forical  Magazine  and  No/es  and  Queries  concerning  the  Antiquities,  History 
and  Btograph'/ of  Afnn^ra.  Ajiril,  [815.  Morrisania,  N.  Y.  :  Henrv  B.  Dawson. 
[Sin.  4to.  Published  monthly,  61  pages  in  each  number.  Price,  ,<o  a  ye-ar,  or 
75  ct.s.  a  number.  Back  volumes  from  1607  supplied  by  the  publisher  at  the 
subacription  pi-ice.] 

In  the  Pec.ister  fjr  .April,  1S75  (ayite,  xxis.  2\8),  we  noticed  the  second  and  third 
•numbers  (February  and  Marcli.  1871).  of  the  third  volume  of  the  third  series  of  the 
Historical  Mag.'izint\  We  have  just  received  from  Mr.  Daw.son.  the  editor  and  pub- 
'lisher  of  this  magazine,  the  fjurth  number  of  ttiat  volume,  beirinsr  date  April,  1^73. 
The  deranirement  of  his  business  by  reason  of  renewed  attacks  of  ill-healtli  and  other 
causes  (ante,  sxlx.  2il»),  has  led  Mr.  Dawson  to  drop  twelve  nu-'nbera  of  his  issues, 
from  April,  l'^74,  to  .March,  l-57a.  both  inclusive. 

Our  nadt-rs  are  already  familiar  with  the  character  of  this  periodical,  and  are 
aware  of  the  learnin!;  and  industry  of  the  editor.  The  number  before  us  contains 
the  usual  variety  ot  valimble  articles  illustrating  the  "  antiquities,  history  and  bio- 
graphy of  America."  We  find  here  :  I.  "  Diary  of  Knsign  Caleb  Clap  "  of  the  Con- 
tinental Army,  contributed  by  Cape.  Thomas  W.  Ripley  ;  2,  "  KecoUection?  of  the 


1877.]  Booh  Notices.  453 

Civil  History  of  the  War  of  1910,"  by  Joseph  (JaleH  ;   3,  "  The  Vermont  Contnv 

ver-'V unpiil>li.-<hi.'(l  papi  is  CoMceniiriL;  the  reliitiims  of  New   il;uii|ishir(;  and 

the  Verinonte.-^t' ;"  4,  "  iiie  lli.-roricul  St  itus  of  tlie  N«.virro,"  hy  \\  itiiam  L'.  t'owler, 
LL.U.  ;  5,  "  J>arly  Kec  )pis  ut  h-inity  L'liiiioh,  Nt-w  Vorlc  city;"  <>,  "  lli'turiial 
and  PtTtional  l;eiiiiniMcei:ce.s  of  L'henaiiiio  (  ounty,  N.  V.,"'  hy  .<aniiiei  S.  Kandall, 
LL.I).  ;  7,  '■  Maj  ir  LliiMs,  U.S.A.,"  extracts  from  hie*  correspondence  ;  8,  "  J'sal- 
moiiy  of  the  I'unt.in  Fathcis,"  hy  the  ll'iii.  J.ilin  I.  Ymin:^  ;  i),  "  Il'.'V.  .]  >\\n 
Heckewelder,  the  .Moravian  M  issi(jnary,"  hy  Isaui-  Sinocker  ;  10.  '*  Jielative  Streni^th 
of  the  Two  AnuieH  in  tlic  War  uf  Secct^sion,''  hy  -Maj.  Gf-n.  A.  A.  Ilaiiii)!ire>i,  Cluef 
of  Rngimers,  U.S.A.  ;  and  11,  "  lleinmiscciices  of  the  Klectii»n-iJay  {)s.  at  iJintoii, 
M<is.s.,"  in  1770.  15e.<ides  the:^e  articlCM,  we  have  deparfment-^  erititlfd,  "  V\  .tfiuin," 
"Notes,"  '"Queries,"  "Replies,"  "B>oks"  and  '"  Uurrent  Events."  The 
"  Notices  of  Recent  Publications  "  are  very  lull,  and  are  continued  in  an  e.xtia  of 
16  pages  numbered  live,  whicli  is  gratuitously  presented  to  the  .^ulwcribers,  as  the 
previous  extras  have  been.  j.  w.  i>. 

Centennial  Memorial  of  Lynn,  Essex  County,  Massachvsrfts,  Ernljracijir/  an  Ilii' 
turical  Skr.ti:h,  16:2!.)-i676.  By  Jamks  R.  Newii.mx.  And  Notice.-;  of  the  Mayors, 
witli  Purtraits.  Lynn:  Pul)lished  hy  Order  of  the  City  Council.  Kinihili  i 
Courtis,  Printers.  lS7ti.  [8vo.  pp.  "204.  Illustrated.  Sold  by  T.  B.  Breare, 
Lynn.     Price,  $3.     By  mail,  -25  ct.s.  extra.] 

History  of  tht:  D'q-tist  Church  in  Mcdfield,  Mass.  Addresses  and  Poems  deUre'fd  on 
the  Occasion  of-  its  Centennial  Annivtrsary,  August  liith,  1670.  Boston:  Prest;  of 
George  U.  Eliis.     1877.     [Svo.  pp.  71.] 

History  of  the  Br iykf on  Church.  Five  Disrourses  delivered  in  January,  Fdiruary 
and  March,  1877.  By  Rev.  Joseph  R.  P.\ge,  D.I).  Published  by  the  Society. 
Rochester,  N,  Y. :  Evening  Express  Printing  Company.     1877.     [8v'o.  pp.  00. J 

History  of  the  First  Preshyt^rian  Church,  Auburn,  N.  Y.  A  Discourse  dtlivcred  on 
successive  !Sabhalhs,  July  '2d  and  0th,  1870,  in  accordance  with  the  Recornni' nda/ion 
of  the  General  Assemidy  in  the  Observance  of  [he  Nation's  Centennial.  P.y 
CuARLF.s  I/.vwLKV,  D.D.,  Pastor.  Auburn,  N.  Y.  :  Daily  Advertiser  and  Weekly 
Journal  Steam  Book  Print.     1876.     [Svo.  pp.  75.] 

We  continue  from  former  numbers  (ante,  pp.  136,  244  and  360)  our  notices  of 
historical  addres-^es  brought  out  by  the  centennial  celebration  of  our  Independence. 

The  contents  of  the  Lynn  memorial  vulurae  may  be  learned  from  its  tidc-pnge. 
The  historical  address  is  b}-  James  R.  Nevvhall,  whose  name  we  associate  with  ttiat 
of  Alonzo  Lewis,  as  an  historian  of  Lynn.  He  is  also  the  editor  of  the  volume.  The 
memoirs  of  the  mayors  of  the  city  are  accompanied  by  portraits;  and  tiiere  are 
biograpldcal  sketci'cs  and  portraits  of  other  prominent  men.  Other  illustrations 
are  given.     The  mfclianioal  execution  of  the  hook  is  excellent. 

The  centenary  of  the  Baptist  Church  at  .Medtield  was  celebrated  last  August,  and 
the  proceedings  on  tliat  occasion  are  in  print  before  us.  They  consist  of  a  mstory 
of  the  church,  by  William  S.  Tilden;  an  addre.<s,  by  Rev.  Alvah  Hovey.  D.U..  en- 
titled the  "  I'rogres:^  of  a  Century,"  in  which  the  Baptists  of  1776  and  lS7i)  are  cv.m- 
pared  ;  a  pceiu  for  the  occasion  by  the  Rev.  Theron  Brown,  and  a  list  of  the  members 
of  the  church. 

The  Presbyterian  Chnreh  at  Brighton,  N.  Y.,  was  organized  Sept.  18,  1S17,  the 
Rev.  Solomon  Allen  being  the  first  minister.  The  Rev."  Dr.  Page,  in  tlie  live  dis- 
courses, whose  title  appears  above,  gives  an  interesting  history  ot  the  churcli  with 
bioijraphical  sketches  of  its  several  ministers. 

The  First  Presbyterian  Ciiurch  of  Auburn,  N.  Y.,  was  organized  in  1810.  The 
Rev.  Dr.  Hawley  gives  a  comprehensive  history  of  the  church,  witli  biographical 
notices  of  it3  ministers,  preceded  by  a  sketch  of  the  settlement  of  the  town  and 
vicinity.  J.  w.  J). 

Rills  from  the  Hilts.  A  Semi- Centennial  Discourse  delivered  at  Franklin,  N.  //. , 
June  12,  1877,  on  the  Fiftieth  Anniversary  of  the  Formation  of  the  Memmack 
County  Conference  of  Churches.  By  Nvth.\niel  Boston,  D.U.  Concord,  N.  H. : 
Printed  by  the  Republican  Press  Association.     1877.     [8vo.  pp.  31.] 

Of  the  twenty-eeven  persons,  mini.sters  and  delegates,  who  met  at  Salisbury, 
N.  H.,  June  27,  1S27,  to  organize  this  association,  only  two  were  li\ing  at  the  semi- 
centennial celebration  this  year,  namely,  the  venerable  author  of  this  di6Course,aud 
VOL.   XXXI.  40* 


454  Booh  JVotices.  [Oct. 

the  Rry.  Liba  Connnt,  of  Xorthfiolil,  now  residing  at  Orford.  Dr.  Bouton  tikes  for 
hi.s  sul  jei.-t,  '•  Tlif  ojntrihuti  m  uf  tht;  Meniiimck  County  C'onfcrtTce  of  Chun-hes  to 
the  C'hristiuti  ciitfrprises  unit  tlie  |ir(i;:rL'(^3  of  the  Kiniriluui  of  <JU'l  in  tf.e  lii.-.t  Filty 
Yeiir-;,"  ami  lie  8ho\vs  the  vjiritdis  rt.li^imis  and  benevok-nt  Ciuist^s  whii-h  liave  been 
aided  by  ttiis  cnnf-'itnce  and  the  iiii;ust(,T.s  who  cuuipo-sed  it.  Much  biography  and 
local  hiatory  enrich  the  pagea  of  this  work.  j.  w.  d. 

Winslow  Mrmorial.  Fmnihj  Rirords  of  iVinsloirs  and  tluir  Descendants  in  America, 
with  the  English  Ancestry  a.<^far  as  hiimi-n.  Kfni'lm  Winslow.  Vol.  I.  Hy  David 
Parsons  IIoi.ton,  A.M.,  M!d.,  liie  Meniher  of  the  New  En:.H:ind  Iii..t.  ijt-n. 
Society,  Ke>ident  Meiul)er  of  the  New  York  Gen.  and  iiiog.  Society,  and  of  the 
Piliirim  Kecord  Society;  and  his  wife,  Mrs.  Fk.^.ncls  K.  (Forward)  Hoi.ton, 
I\e.<ide[>t  Member  ot  the  New  York  (Jen.  and  ]Jio;r.  Society,  and  of  the  I'il^rim 
Kecord  Society.  New  York  :  D.  P.  iloiton,  .M.D.,  Pablialier,  61  East  5'Jtli  Street. 
J877.     [8vo.  pp.  656.] 

The  descendants  of  Kenelm  Winslow,  the  fir.'it  of  that  name  In  America,  arc  to  he 
•conirratulafed  (jn  tliu  puhliration  of  this  voltinie.  Many  ^ears  a^ro  tfie  ta='k  of  coni- 
■piliniT  a  g.  nealoi:y  of  this  family  was  umhrtaken  by  Ktv.  Hubbard  Winslow,  D.D. 
Alter  iiis  death  in  1864,  ids  si^ii  Kenelm  Win.-low,  a  Btuder.t  in  th.eoloL'y,  entered 
upon  the  untJnished  ]al)or  with  great  /leal ;  but  the  Iioj^es  of  hi-  kindred  were  airain 
disappointed  by  what  seemed  to  be  his  premriture  death  in  l^fiT.  Undaiintid  by 
tliese  repeated  di-asters.  Dr.  llvjlton,  hiniself  a  det-cendaut  from  the  fcacie  stock, 
assumed  the  task,  wliich  he  has  prosecuted  with  the  energy  and  perseverance  c!;arac- 
teri^tio  ot  the  race.  He  lias  been  efficiently  encouraged  and  a=sisted  by  his  wife,  in 
his  arduous  labor  ;  ard  the  result  begins  to  apptar^'in  this  volume, — tcjr  it  nuist  be 
considered  that  this  is  the  first  of  two  volumes  devoted  to  the  \Vinslow  Family,  to 
be  followed  by  similar  memorials  of  three  otl^er  families  for  which  the  materials  are 
already  g-athered.  In  this  volume,  the  authors  have  very  properly  departed  .'■ome- 
what  from  tlie  customary  usage,  by  admitting  daughters  and  their  descendants  to  a 
full  equality  with  the  sons  and  their  posterity,  inasmuch  as  both  classes  bear  an 
equal  relati  inship  to  the  Cimimon  an-estor.  The  general  arrangement  of  the  gen- 
ealogy is  persj)icuous.  and  the  line  of  dr.scent.  upward  or  downward,  is  easily  traced. 
The  book  is  well  printed,  well  bound,  illustrated  by  luanv  charts  of  famines,  and 
.embellished  by  portraits  of  Ciov.  Edward  \V in:-low' and  Dr.  J.  G.  Holland.  Two 
•very  full  indices  are  added.  The  appearance  of  the  second  volume  will  be  awaited 
with  lively  interest.  L.  R.  Paige. 

The  Boston  Directory,  embracing  the  City  Record,  a  General  Directory  of  the  Citizens, 
and  Business  Directory.  [Seal  of  Boston.]  No.  LXXIll.  For  the  Year  commenc- 
ing J  aly  1,  1)377.  Boston ;  Sampson,  Davenport  and  Company.  [8vo.  pp.  1370. 
Price,  $5.] 

It  must  he  admitted,  we  tidnk,  that  Lr  fulness,  accuracy  and  convenien-^e,  Boston 
has  the  best  Directory  of  any  city  in  tlie  union.  On  a  former  occasion  (ante.  xvi. 
.3s7),  we  gave  a  brief  history  of  the  Boston  Directory,  from  the  small  thin  volume 
which  John  Norman  rmblished  in  1769  to  the  goodly  ?\7.ed  book  issued  by  Adams, 
Sampson  (t  Co.  in  lSt>2.  At  thf-  last  named  date,  the  work  had  grown  from  an  l8mo. 
of  56  pages  with  1476  names,  to  an  octavo  of  65-2  pages  and  55,519  names.  In  the 
fifteen  years  that  have  since  passed  away,  the  work  has  increased  to  more  than  double 
the  number  ot  pages,  and  to  consideralify  more  than  double  ttie  numl-er  of  names,  the 
present  volume  containing  1-2S,!^56.  It  may  give  an  idea  of  the  vast  amount  of  labor 
necessary  to  peril-ct  a  work  like  this,  to  state  that  more  than  fifty  thousand  changes 
have  been  made  since  last  year.  j.  •w.  d. 

The  Public  Records  of  the  Colony  of  Conned  icvt,  from  May.  Vol.  to  February.  1757, 
inclusive.  Transcribrd  and  Edited  m  accordance  ivith  a'Resolution  of  the  (Jentrai 
Assembly.  [:?eil.]  By  Charles  J.  Hoadlv,  State  Librarian,  ilurtford :  Press 
of  the  Case,  Lockwood  and  Brainard  Co.     1877.     [bvo.  pp.  05-3.] 

This  id  the  tenth  volume  of  tlie  Colonial  Records  of  Connecticut,  printed  by  order 
cf  the  state,  in  oiu-  reviews  of  previous  volumes,  we  h>:ve  shown  the  arJle  and 
thorough  manner  in  whicii  ih.ey  have  hvcu  edited.  The  present  volume  fully  sustains 
the  ci;ariierer  of  tne  work.  W  e  copy  the  '•  pielatory  note,'"  which  will  give  an  idea 
of  the  conteuta  of  the  volume. 

"  The  following  pages  complete  the  publication  of  the  eighth  manuscript  voluraa 
•of  the  Records  of  the  Colony  of  Conmclicut,  and  contain  the  acts  of  twenty-one 


1877.1  Booh  Notices.  455 

sepfions  of  the  Ccncral  Assembly.  In  the  Appen^iij;  mny  be  found  tho  Census  of 
"l7:)6,  ami  also  Qiu-ries  from  tho  limrij  oC  Triuli-  with  the-  Answern  thereto,  1755-0. 
For  the  time  covered  by  this  pul)lieation,  neither  Journals  of  the  <J')v«ruor  and 
t'ouncil,  uf  the  Committees  of  War,  nor  of  either  braneli  ot  the  General  Assembly, 
are  among  tlie  State  Archives."  J-  «•.  d. 

Chronology  of  the  Origin  and  Progrrxx  of  Paprr  and  Pnp^r-Malinrj.  V,y  Joku 
Ml'nskll.  "Filth  Eiiiiion,  with  A<lditioni.  [Monoi^rain.  |  Albany  J.  .Munsell, 
8-2  State  Street.  IhTU.  [l^mo.  pp.  203.  Priee,  i<'2.  For  sale  by  A.  Williau.s  & 
Co.,  Boston,  Mass.] 

This  is  a  ci.lleotiou  of  facts,  chronolo2;ically  arranired,  relatiii;,'  to  the  history  of 
paper  and  pMper-makinir,  and  to  notabilities  connected  with  the  trade.  It  is  a  store- 
hout^e  of  iullirmation,  and  beiii^i,'  thoroii;^hiy  indexed,  people  in  searcli  of  lactd  or 
dates  on  tliese  sulijects  will  lienerally  iiave  little  trouble  in  tiiidinjj  tliem. 

The  first  edition  ot  this  W'irk  w;is  printed  in  IbJG  m  an  octavo  of  i^^  pa^'rfl.  Thifl 
was  intended  lor  private  distribution  only.  The  second  e<iition,  publi-hid  in  \H'>7, 
contained  110  pa^es,  Hvo.  ;  tlie  third,  in  iVifit,  had  174  pa^a-s,  bvo.  ;  and  th.-  fourth, 
in  lt^70,  had  -^-JCpa^ies,  8vo.  The  two  U^<t  editions  were  fully  noticed  at  tlie  time  in 
the  Rfgistf.r;  the  third,  by  the  bite  John  II.  Siiep[)ard,  Emi..  in  October,  l^i>r,  (ante, 
six.  379),  and  the  fourth  by  Col.  Albert  11.  Hoyt,  in  April,  iHli  (ante,  xsv.  ;Jo7). 

The  book  is  now  tAventy-one  years  old ;  and  the  author  gives  it  its  hced^.m  in  these 
words:  "The  collector  of  these  disjur.ctive  ctjnjunctives  proposes,  with  this  filth 
edition,  in  tiie  h!ty-second  year  of  his  typo^a-aphical  career,  to  let  the  piiper  mauu- 
facture  go  on  as  it  may,  without  any  further  surveillance  of  bis,  with  beat  wishes  lor 
its  prosperity  to  the  end  of  time."  J-  w.  D. 

En(]Jand  and  WnJex.     Return  of  Owners  of  Land,  1873.     L<jndon  :  1S75.     [2  void. 

4to.  of  about  pp.  1000  each.] 

These  two  volumes  contain  the  surnames  and  christian  name.s  of  all  the  200. 517 
owners  of  land  of  one  acre  and  upwards  in  England  and  Wales.  It  is  the  first  [)ul>- 
licatlon  of  the  kind  matle  in  the  Sessional  Papcis  of  Parliament.  It  has  great  vahie 
for  all  those  interested  in  tracing  the  origin  and  hi.story  of  particuhtr  lamilie.s. 
Owners  in  London  are  not  included.  There  is  a  similar  volume  for  Scotlind.  Ihe 
two  volumes  can  be  ordered  separately,  and  only  cost  lOs.  6d.  sterling  a  VMlume  at 
the  office  ot  her  mojesty's  printer,  H.  A.  llouxi. 

Annals  of  Sttiten  Island,  from  its  Di'fcovcry  to  the  Present  Time.  By  J.  J.  CinE. 
[Motto.]  New  York:  Press  of  Charles  Voi:t,  No.  114  Fulton  St.  Ii-i77.  [-ivo. 
pp.  404.  Illustrated.  Price,  ^3.  A.  11.  Caffey,  sole  agent,  No.  9  Murray  St., 
Koom  22,  New  York  city.] 

The  author  of  this  work,  during  a  residence  of  between  forty  and  fifi-y  years  on 
Staten  Island,  had  collected  a  niu.^s  iA  material  relative  to  its  history  and  gene:doay, 
whicii  he  has  been  induced  to  embody  in  this  volume.  These  annals  C()mim-iice  with 
the  discovery  of  the  island.  Verrazzano  is  said  to  have  entered  the  bay  in  i5-Ji,  and 
Iludson  certainly  anchored  there  in  1609.  The  principal  events  which  have  tran- 
spired on  the  island  from  that  time  to  the  present  are  narrated  in  a  char  and 
animated  manner.  The  portion  devoted  to  tlie  history  of  the  island  during  tho 
revolutionary  war,  the  most  eventful  period  in  its  annals,  contains  many  iutere-ting 
details.  .       . 

The  history  ot  its  churches,  the  biography  of  its  celebrities,  accounts  of  its  villages 
and  noted  localities,  and  extracts  from  old  records,  are  some  of  the  ot!:er  valuahlc 
matters  preserved  here.  The  readers  of  the  Register  will  be  intcie.-ted  to  le:'.rii 
that  more  than  one  MIth  of  the  book  is  devoted  to  the  "*  Old  families  "  of  the  i>land. 
The  preparation  of  these  irenealogies,  of  which  seventy-nine  ditftrenc  tamiliej  are 
given,  has  been  attended  with  much  extra  labor,  owing  to  the  various  way.s  in  which 
the  surnames  are  sjHdled  on  the  records,  and  to  the  perplexing  ciietoui  wiiich  tho 
Dutch  settlers  had  of  takini;  new  family  names,  or  rather  of  having  no  family  Jiatacs, 
so  well  described  by  Piot.   Pearson  {ante,  xxvii.  82). 

The  work  is  Well  printed,  and  does  credit  to  both  author  and  publislicr.      •   —   - 


J.  W.  D. 


Addresses  delivered  before  the  Dauphin  County  Historical  Society  ir.  the  State  Capitol, 

Jiarrisburg,  July  4.  1876.     fSvo.  pp.  85.] 

Dauphin  county,  in  which  Ilarri.sburg.  the  capital  of  Pennsylvania,  is  situated, 
was  chiefly  settled  by  the  Scotch-Irish,  who  came  to  this  country  early  in  tho  last 


)    'I 


456  Booh  Notices.  [Oct. 

century.  The  present  work  contains  three  a(i<lie«se6  :  l^t.  on  the  "Ecclesiastical 
Hi.stnry  "  of  t!iu  county,  by  the  Kev.  Thoiriri'S  H.  Robinson,  D.D.;  2'i,  on  its 
•' liCVulaLiOMiUy  SolJiert*.'"  by  A.  Lioyd  IJaiuiltun,  Ivq  ;  and  3J,  an  "Historical 
Review,"  by  Wilbnui  II.  Ei^lu,  M.D.,  author  (jf  ttie  "  History  of  lVnnsyi\iiriia," 
noticed  in  our  January  iiunjber  (ante,  p.  Kiti).  Tiic  ai'dicfscs  are  all  f-'.refully  pre- 
pared and  well  wntteu  productiou.s.     The  last  is  partiuularly  lull  and  \uluablf . 

Jf.  W.  D. 

American  Journal  of  Numixmalirs  and  BulUJin  of  American  JSumixmalic  and 
Arch(ro/o(/ical  Societies,  Ju/ij,  1677.  [Seal.)  iJoston  :  pLiblihhed  by  the  liuston 
Numismatic  Society.     Quarterly.     [Royal  8vo.  pp.  ^H.] 

The  present  number  of  tliis  valua])Ie  periodical  commences  the  twelfth  annual 
volume,  and  tully  sustains  the  cbaraiter  we  have  heretofore  ;,nven  it.  Tlie  oommittee 
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Presented  to  the  New-England  Historic,  Genealogical  Society  to  August  1,  1877. 

A  History  of  St.  Mark's  Parish,  Culpepper  Count-,  Viririnia.  ^\'ith  Xote.s  of  Old 
Churches  and  Old  Families,  and  llhistrarioiis  of  tii'>  M'.inners  mid  Cusrr.ni^  of  riie  Oldea 
Time.  Bv  Kev.  Philip  Siauirhter.  D.D.,  Rector  of  Erumauuel  Ciuircii,  Culpppuer  Co..  Va. 
Author  of  the  Histories  of  .St.  Gcorire's  ami  Bristol  Parishes,  Va.     1S77.     [12  ino.  pp.  iOO.J 

Sermons  by  tho  Rev.  William  Sparrow,  D.D.,  late  Professor  of  Systematic  Divinitv  and 
the  Evidences  of  Christianity  in  the  TheoloLMcal  ScTninarv  of  the  Prntt-staut  Epiicopal 
Church  in  the  Diocese  of  Virginia,  ^'cw  York:  Thomas  NVhittaker,  2Biblc  House.  Ia77. 
[8vo.  pp.  342.] 

Commission  Internationale  dc  L'Association  Africaine.  Session  de  .Juin,  1877.  Bruxelles ; 
F.  Hayez,  Imprimeur  fie  I'Academie  Royale  de  P.elgiriue.     1877.     [Folio,  pp.  .55,] 

Grundti-iTekkcne  i  den  ^illdste  Norske  Proccs.  Af  Ehbe  Hertzhcrg,  Cand.  Jur.  TJniver- 
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Brandt,  Pr  fessor  iLovkvndiudied.  Universitetsproi:r:im  for  Furstc  Halvaar.  1874.  Kxisti- 
ania,  Trykt,  hos  A.  W.  Brogger.     1S74.     [Svo.  pp.  279.] 

Ungcdructe,  Unhoachtcte  and  Vv'cnig  Bcachtetc  QucUin  zur  Geschichte  des  Tanfsvmhols 
mid  der  Ghiubciisregel,  Herau^gegelien  und  in  Alihandlungen  Erl.'iutert  von  Dr".  C.  P. 
Caspar!,  Professor  der  Thcologic  an  der  Norwegisclien  Universitat.  III.  UniversitaLspro- 
gramnu    Ciiri;Man:a.     Gedruct  bei  P.  F.  Malliug.     187-5.     [Svo.  pp.  oU.] 

Heilagra  Manna  Soirur.  Fortiellinger  og  Legender  om  Helliije  Mai-nd  og  Kvinder. 
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Semester.    1877.    Christiania,  Trykt  hos  B.  M.  Bcntzou.     1877.     [Svo.  pp.  71G.] 

Congressional  Rec^ird,  containing  the  Proceedings  and  Debates  of  the  Fortv-Founh 
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Proceedings  of  the  Somite  sittini;  :br  the  Trial  of  Williiin  W.  Belknap,  late  Secretary  of 

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DEATHS. 

CLiPP.  Theophilus  Capen.  in  Needham,  and    Adams,   and    U.   S.   Minister   to 

Mass.,   Aug.   11,   aged  73  vrs.  8   mos.  France.    lSl7-2o    (««;^^.    p.    31J.      ibe 

He  v.-as  the  sixth  in  descent  from  Nicho-  deceased  was  au  hor  ot  "  Letters  on  tlie 

las,^  who  was  born  in  England  in   1612  Kebellion,  to  a  Citizen  of  V\  ash.ngtcn 

and  settled   in  Dorchester  probablv  in  from  a  Citizen  ot  Fmladeiphia ;       •   A 

163.3, -through   yathanielr   Jonathan,^  Protest  against  the  Southern  Rebeiiion, 

David*  and^Datid'   his  father,   all  of  and  a  lite  ot  his  lather. 

•whom  as  well  as  hitrself  were  born  in  ^          ,  -rr        n        :i  t«-ii;-t« 

Dorchester.      On  the  maternal  side  he  Williams.  Samuel  HoweJ  and  ^J  dli-i^ 

was  descended  from  Barnard^    Capen.  T.,  in    St.    Paul.    Mm..   June  23  ;    the 

who  was  in  Dorchester  in  l63J,throu-h  former  agea  17  and  the  xattcr  11.      laey 

Johrr-     (also     an    emigrant;.     HamMcl,^  wereson=  of  J.  rietcher  \\  ilUams.  fc.>q.. 

Jonathan,^  Jonathan,'  and  Azubah<^  his  secretary  of   the   Minnesota    rf.^;'^'^=^^i 

—Qtup-  Society  and  autnor  of  tae  ••  History  ol 

'  St.  Paul,   Min."      They  with   another 

Busn,    Benjamin,    at    London.    England,  brother  were  on  Lake  Como.  in  a  nmt 

June  30.  ae.  6G.     He  was  a  grandson  of  which  was  upset.      ihe  oldest  ot  tne 

Dr.  Benjamin  Hush,  one  of  the  signers  brothers  sou-ht  to  save  tne  youngest  ana 

of  the  Declaration  of  Independence,  and  caught  him,  but  the  latter  clung  so  ag..i 

a  son  of  Hon.  Richard  Rush,  a  member  that  both  went  down  and  were  drown-Ki. 

of  the  cabinets  of   Presidents   Monroe 


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INDEX  OF  NAMES. 


Abbott,  90,  OC,  216, 252,;  Angell,  2r,2  iBnkowell,  252  iTSaty.  22S,  2n 

34:},  :!5.S,  3a5,  4-^^,  45(5    lAiitrii-r,  401  lUiilr h,  4S».  ;i!2,  313,  35<j.  Baxter,  yi,  18G,  3Ci,31?, 

Abei,  J^.H  Aiith  >iiy,    IS,    117,    221,'     .'iot),  :iu.!,  450.  4o7  !     '<-ti 

Abuiu,2l4.  21.j,  217  3:i2,  4ir.,  417.  437  ,Caldnin.  24,    242,    249,iBayn'-d,  i-iO 

Abruiiai!!,  327  lAnpIeton,  .iO,  80,  88,  92,1    2'J4,  30  ;.  4u7  ll;iiyley,  11/.  120 

Adiini^.  17,  18,  37,  46,49,1     WS.   98,    112,    113,  22:5.;I'dIe.-<.  16)  ilicacli,  ll^;,  202,  3C5,  306-, 

61,  tW.   -I,    er,   t'O,  nj,!     ■.':;0,  20ii,  047,  413,  4:;U,.!iuli"oi;r,  1,1  I     ^"1 

131,  13o,  l.s:i,  l<jl,20'5,i     450  iH  j!1.  X2-,  2.J4,  i!<-4  ilA-ale,  18.5 

22y,  244,  2:.<>    Ji.'l,  :j]t,  Argvle,  Dukecf,  57         !H;iilai)tine,  109  lin-a-nisli,  ni'i 

317,   r.24,    3-D-JS,   2;:;.  Ariiii>teaa,  ".0  j  hid  lard.  .5.0.  b2,  122,  204     I'.euri--,  71-4 

?44,  3'M),  X'.G.  o,-)0,  3Sl,'Ariiuta-'e,  104,  175  il:-ailiol,  'M6  |Dta.^ou,  16 

3'.i-J,  448,  4.J.8  ■  iArrns  --^J  |l>.TL-toiie.  108  !>•.  aiitort.  34y 

Addington,  ZO,  104,  10o,'Aruold,  2-3,  24,  96,  lll,'I!;dtinn-.rt;,Lord,13o,2oO,P-eo:io;ii.  J.O 
170  I     l-,;:i,  100,  L'OS,  294,  310,  I'.anjprop,  :;io  Jleik  .^7 


Addison,    51,    130,    3.36,     3:;0,  410, 448 

340,  4.;4,  449  |  Arthur,  50 

Aeirs.  -J^M  :Asbury,  90,  .328 

AgTy,.3tJ.i  Ash  lev.    199,    202, 

Ainsworth,  250, 313,  3,34  i    ■JS3,  318,  319 
Aislabie,  .301  Ashurst,  301 

Albei'di,  247  lAtcbiiison,  319 

Albri^j,  294  |Atclii-;oo,  311 

Albro,  417  LVtliertDU,  i07 

Alden,  91,  280,  330,  344,iAtkiii.s,  -JO,  .364,  422 


S0.3 
Aldevns,  5o 
Aidin,  •)(Xj 
Alertun,  180 
Alexauder,  3^36,  311 


'narDi'by,331 


Atkinson,  lU,  165,  175 
lAttwei;,  140 
Atwater.  t'7,  17r> 

Atwood,  78,  81,  244,  310,;     301,  3-51,  432,  4.>3 
457  ;P.:\rncvfcld,  jW 

AJger,  101,  If.',  1J2,  206,  Aubrey,  21  iBariiev,  .iO 

336  iAusiin,  So,   82,  123.  129,:i5iiriiof.  ^^I'l 

Alison,  130,  362  I    215-18,   J-.V,  326, '  3i:7,;  barns.  72,  195,301 

AUeu,   i'.),  51,  ,13,  54,  56,      JvG,  3-0O,  ;.'j7  I     :;oO,  42-3,  457 

60.  69.  70,  101,  UV,  120,  Averv,  102,  1,><8,  242,  249,|B:Kr,  4  ;S 


12;l,  ms.  164,  175,  1H6-1     3US,  319 

88,   I'JO,' l-.>8.  202,  2(,i4.:A\vbrfy   102-04 

227,  iriS;  2:17,  2:18,  3.il.  Aver,  98.  J:J7,  238 

272,280,  aM,  -si,  204,  A  vres,  :W7 

318,  322,  :W1,  .3:;:!,  :5:w,| 

304,  417,  4,;0,  431,  4:30,1  B 

453  Baboon,  194,  356,  4.32 

Alley,  215,  -303  ^Dac.'ielacr,  1U7,  199,  200,!n:i;-teli.  49,  52 

Allibnne,  112,  126,  129-     20!  IBartholomt-w,  19.5 


Baus:,,  2"0  ili.;ckw'th,  13 

IJanks  2-'l  Be.Uord.  2U 

i!ani\ist>3r,  89  il.'iid.'jor.d.  oU 

linuf,  61)  'U''ebf-,4;9 

Barber,  22,  31,  .32,  291,!Ueei  ner,  ;:71 

2V'3  B<Udi-r.  5.'.  5Ci,  57. 64,  TO, 

Il.vrberie,  50,  59,  63  |     17.',  170,  •>:>2 

Uarrlav,  4-'y  iBelkuur. 07. )  14, 1-'.,  134, 

Bar feTiive,  :596.  397,  400    i     l'>2,  2:  0,  2 17,  24<1,  249, 
Barker,    11,    71-5,    2!0,j     30:'.,    Ol-VlO,   4-32,   4^5, 
.     4.10 

;Bc!I,   120,   2.9,  i'-2J,  24v, 
Barnard,    49,    109,    2.52,i     25',  3:i7.  ::00,  ..oo 
Belia)!,  i-'y 
]l!H!lin:jiia:n,  105 
iBello-.v  j,  \>2,  lioO,  ■i3i 
Beinis,  121 
Beiiardl.  l'J3,  272 
lOeii'-liCt,  242 
li'.t'iin  iiii.  I'.'f' 
JKeUJ:'.iuiu.l40,  a28,  3« 
Beukfi-.  ("1 
Ir.piin,  4}4 

B.;T;nort.  22,  72,  W.  121. 
I;j5,  212,  372, 3'J7-yy;  i2d 
'  lieu  11 V,  7u 
I  Kense.  ■'■v't 

'.Sensor.,  70.  77,  I3o.  Col 
Bfiiil'-y, : 


Barrett,  192,  213,  43:; 
|U:.'rriij^r,  251 
iBHfron,  53,  5(>,  57,  o34 
|Barro%v3,  327.  :>37 
iBi-.rnis.  20 < 

Barstow,  71,  72,  74, 
•jr.O,  ttii.  :«7 


31,  345 
AUine,  .329 
AIli3,  1--5 
Almv,  343 
AlotW.n,211,223 
Alvis,  310 


iBacbclJer,  .305,  307  iBartlett.  70.  77,  i,6,  131,'-ie>itoii,  1U.'> 

I  Backus,  351  \     1 '.2,  IV).  2-8,  2.32,  2'J4,  Bfeiitzeil.  4.';6 

'Bacon,  1:-^,  292,303,  306.1     .3i.O  310,  G35,  3o8,  3H.  Beou^-U-ud.  451 


302  .350, 

iBadcock,  ISO,  2*94  iBartol.  244 

I BadKiT,  78,  CO,  131,  325,ilJanoii,  4:i5 


Bartor,  J'JO 

iidii,  l.iO,  <97,  .398,  4:>3 

Bass'.'t,  7:;.  7a,79,8:i,2o 

2;6.  VA 
B-u  iheldtf,  Oi 


Ames,  24,  ICG.  170,  342,     3J0 
343.  4.^)  Badley,  5:j 

Amirv,  50,  5*3,  298,  300,  Bijro^',  2!0 
3.37, ■:«4.  -ioli  i Ba,"_';  J: l-.^; 

Anderson,  127  jKatrU-v,  I'.w.  191 

Andre,  13.':.  342  |Bailey,5o,  115,  116,  2S7,'iBat'?,  142 

Andrew,  4:;i  j     251, -".'4.  i.'O  B.iteiurtii,  :;^0 

And-cw-.J,  51.  79,  81,  114.  lu-iilK'S,  4:;5  jB.Ui?.  7:^-4.   H!-i 

139,  141,  ISj,  201,  231.  I5.iinbrid;^f,  91,  243  229,  ..;iO  .TG 

250,  -'52,  2J'9,  321,  322.  IScii-d,  3.',0  |l!att,.'il,  i0.i 

331.427,451  Baker,  60,  70,  72-4,  83,  Bat:.  >,,  44; 

Andres,  60,  62,  65,  66.1    80, ')3, 10l,2'.»5,2:.'l,i;3,  Bart.?ii:v,  103 
226, 302,  .3<XJ  1    241,314  Bauin,  icO 


Berktlev,  ;jiv:,  393,  396 

i     3-J9 

I  Bernard,  270 

il;crni>.d>!,  -ti> 

Berry.  :;il    :!-:,  4"* 
3    Uoa.'o.'d.'ri'.  131,  I— ; 

jLVs^iJ.  1)4 

lBetti->.::Jt.  4:7 

'i'everlr'y,  \S,' 
'.'.fczi:n:i,  vuj 
7,  B'CKlovd.^U;!,  311-17 

^  Bi  I  in.:  i^Af 

!:}id:ield.2:;5 

JBigelo'V,  ;J4J,  358 

'Bi^.^,  170 

IBiU,  161,  ZiO,  2:4,  425 


4G0 


Index  of  2Tames. 


BUlIngs,  51,  53,  114,  31'J,'BradfoH,  73,  04, 2^:9,  237,'nulflnch,  60,  51,  53-5 

320  I     •.'."lO,  ;!i>4  jHulkolfV,     124,     i'o.-.-i. 

Bingamaa,  .'v3i  |lJr;i;ll-'li,  334,  432  :.':i.3,  v3»,  342 

JMiigtiuin. -J*  4  Ikii'llif,  IJ-'.  1.-5, 200,2521  Hull,  liw,  14J,  301,  420 

JUliu.Jv,  17,  IS,  715,  77         'liriiiMiiiW,40l  'IJull.ird, '.'H 

liircli/iril,  :;n^  jUr.i.btieft,  SO,  2fij,  200,'IUillo,:k,  .■;;2 

Bird,  l.'i3  3Ji;  llluhver,  335 

Bisbc,  71,  74,   131,  132,1  liraillsford,  311  |Huiu9ti-a(i,  70 

3(X)  jliraiiKird,  1.;-;,  107,  4.'',4 

Bishop,   70,  71,  73,  102,iHniley,  451 


244,  '^45,  ;;S7,  329 
Bissfll,  2*.'4 
Black,  -'bi.',  204 
Bliicknuui,  Z'Ji.  317 
Bhick-toiie,  14J,  173 
Bhig,  -.^'JS 
Llagdeu,  302 
Blague,  iZ'j 
Blrtir,  51 
BlaisUfll,  95 
BliikL-,  o-.',  -'2S,  343,  3GS 
Blaucbard,  :io7,  'ii'J,  o'J3 
Blauclier,  51 
Blimey,  :y,  -VA 
J{!atoli!ord,  Jlo,  325,  G- 

Bliixtou,  443  ,         ,        , 

Blessington,  130  Krtwsier,  'rz,  loZ,.i'H 

Blipli,  lul  Briokett,-4>> 

BU-.   IV.   2-;2,  2S3,  2\j4,  l^iid-^;,  4''. -i^ 


brand,  57,  tii,  74 
lirandon,  57,  3'J7 
Brant z,  jy,  i:kj 
IJniaii-,  57,  5'J 
brav,  4'J,  Wo,  200 
Hrajley,  lol 
Bra)  ton,  :J.W 
Brazier,  MJ,  214,  217 
Breare,  453 
Brcck,  lOS 


Bunker,  61,  tf2,  215,  301 

314 
Hiin\an.  130 
Burbaiik.  •Jf3 
Burcliard,  L«3,  2W 
Biirden,  l<>t 
Burd.-lt,-.'4.-< 
BurdMill.  U7 
Barge.  171,  172 
32?iBurL")viie,  I'J,  25,  20,  43, 
44747,  4d,  133,  ;.';*?,  3«2, 
—  3>8 

Bre»-dl  ;(0,  60-2,  214,  216,  n.irke,  6"),  57,  6.3-5,  12; 

'i-^o,  3i:("i  j     Wi.  2:5,  .34'J 

Brent,  154  B'jrket.  '.)6 

ISreutoii,  342  Ilium,  11.5 

/i;ie\ourt,  U,>0,  451  ir.uruiip,  3.i4 

Bren  tr,  40,  i^J::,  250,  323  Bariiett,  00.  53 


Bridgeu,  :;:.*: 

Bridgeweii,  i^ 

Br'dgiuau,  17 

Brie.'l'j.j 

Brigaiii,  175 

Kfigiliu,  17 

Briggs,  71,  73-5,  275,  432 
4;^ 

Brjgliam,  .341.  342.  434     ,     ..„ 

Uriidey,  I:j5,  3.3?,  41.;,  42'.t  Buiton,  72 
iBriiJo,  loi  Buali,  5.',  2-.;y,  234 

jBrit'.ou. -^77  |Bij.,l,ne!l,  :::4,  14G 

iBrixc^,  55  iiiu.s.-ey,  4W 

Bnxse;-,  52  IBiuclier,  --VS? 


Biirnha/n,  'Z^^i,  423 
[Burns,  :iS7 
iJi:riiti)n,  312 
Burr,  lili,  JiO 
Uiirra^e,  330 
Burraj,  -ii5 
Burritt,  Isy 
Bunoiigli,.   70,   82,   100 

140,  -Jlo 
Bur.-ow.-',  130.  .331 
Burt,  -m,  2b3,  i;>J4,  ZX'i 

416 


320,  30-',  417-20 
Blod.'ett,  l'J7, -UO 
Bloo  I,  is,  171 
Bly,  lMO 
Bcl'tiiuj,  74 
Bodi;=h.  1-.) 
Bodge,  7 'J.  jl,  325 
Bohii,  UO 
Bohiine,  -'(>S,  209 
Boleiii,  451,  4Jo,  457 
Boiling,  l-« 
Boltou,  110,  2G9,  270 
Bidtwood.  -:.'3 

Boiiall, -'00  , -,  , ^....,  .-, 

Bond,  94,  110,  r.33,  337,  biook,  !-;i>i,  226,  229,  310,  Butler,  51.  72,  122,  2^ 

344,  3b7  317,  :i3'>,  i;i5  -JoO, -J'Jt,  :j5i',  4;i.!,  451 

Bongiirden,  lOS  Brodridge,  J3l  "  ...—-. 

Bonnell.  :J00  Broga,  ijl 

Bonne)  ,  70.  75  Bry.^ger,  i56 

Boniioei,  vii^o  BrokieJjHiih,  US,  225 

Bonsall,  -^-7  Broujdoii.  114 

Booth,  ;■.:+.  22:'  Brooke,  ■J.zi,  \l:,0 

Bo:ovve  ,  l,'?0  Brooker, -jl^  „^..,, , 

Boston,  :}.50  Brooks,  37,  4,S,  10^2,  227,  By lo'o, 

Bostwiek, -vl  I     230.  i;51,  :.'5.i,  35y  i 

Bo^well,  s'J  iBrooiue,  1,'5  |  C 

Boswoith,  7.5,  77,  S4,  2r,4  Brotron,  jj4  'Cable.  04,  .3:'.y 

Botrell.  8-'.  llii,  i-z^,  izi    Brougiiani,  !:;•.•.  1.30  i(;a!.>or,  4;!;',  442 

Botstord,  l:;'j  Brovvn,  li. -J.;,  4„'-52,  55,'Cad,\va!lad.er,  140 


244 


Buf.ei  titld,  i35,  20 1,  ::52 
I    300 

ButterTv-orth,  101 
'Ba:t;lp:i.  104 
iBviirU;.  ;-i2 
iLS.-i*-s,  301 
iBylry,  J5'3 

■         J,  130 


Bourher,  51 
Boudiiiot,  iiy 
Boulcin,  3-39 
Boulter,  Ibl 
Bouquet,  451 
Bourue,  92,  ."^o 
Boutelle.  450 
Boutoii.  lOJ.  -.iT,  453,  451 
Bowditcb,  347 
BoTvdoiii,  -ii,  ^2i 
Boivdon,  50  ' 
Bowcn,  lol,  177,  433 
Bowerman,  '^m,  «^1 
Bowers.  170.  3ir.,  3e9 
Bowker,  ■.;sl,  ;:s:{ 
Bowuiuu,  :',h6,  432 
Bo}d,  uiH,  u-jl,  -i^tii 
Bover,  32 
B  ' 


ir>, 

203, 


3-."J, 


95,  UJ,  IZ;,  l.jl.  135,  Carter,  -i.o 
Iso,  ls.<,  I'jl,  l:i,s,  Caiu,  70 
2'J.\,  S'^y,  :i0l,  277,  <.  aid  Weil.  238,  314 
2'yj.    ::9.'-'.»4,    .ily,  Caiki:;.  u'^ 
3.;j,  3;i5,  .137:  344,  Call,  ''j-i^l,  214,  215,  21 
ill 9,  3..'0,  :.-.>>2,  399,  4^5,       3J5,  3J7.  3u'3 
4,'7,  431,  i3:i,  435,  iUi,  Callyxvay,  IJ? 
457  Caivcrt,  135,  23'J 

Browning,  225,  2.33,  375    Calvin,  7s 
Br:iv.e,  3;-;,  ;j:ki  :l,'...iiUiiel!:\5,  ■^'■> 

Brunet.  liu  jCaiubrid^'u.  291 

I'.ruho,  5/  Cuiuiuojiie,  lyj 

Bryan,  ,iZ-(\  .3i>3  'caiiuuDn,  i;i5.  21') 

Bryant,  (vi,  7.;,  114,  140,  C.>u'.;<Ut-i;,    4'J,    57,    U: 

li'oi,  -.ioO,  -,47,  4.j7  I     1-7.  l-'N,  I'.i),  ;i;o 

Bubustruiig,  •.i,»7  .OainplieUl,  "JUl 

Bucliaiian,  U'<>,  :i56  (au  l:ig'.-,  iJl 

Buck,  141,  147-50. 195,243  Cancler,  li«>-i3 
y,  315 


jCarlyle,  1.30 
,|Carp»-iiter,  101,  :'30,  ^-j^ 

Carr,  Wit,  W\,  lyj,  •.;02, 
•.^51,  ;J"<J,  :i.l.J 

Carnck,  57 

carrier,  '.jxl 

Carroll,  1  i^,  3J2,  433 

(Jarrutli,  Ijl 

Carsley,  \\>i 

Carsou,  :i50 

Carter,  79,  fe2,  190,  214. 
21*),  :tli>,  3ii,  313,  393^ 
3'>4,  413 

C:irtw.-iBht,  r»4 

Carver,  75.  r.'7,  '.^32 

('arwiiiifti,  :',75.  4:9 

Carv,  Mj,  3.:,  loy.  Ihj,  215, 
217,  .3-'0.  .!.'!*,  .{.»4 
',|Ca»e,  130.  •."J4,  457 

Caspari,  45<i 
,  Ca>-e!l4,  lis 

Ca-!well,  57,  31,  120,  214, 
i!5  i.  202,  i-'to 

Gate,  310 

Cau-f-y.  -('.o 

Cuveridisli,  22 

Ci.x-il,  441      • 

Cl.abot,  .5.S 

ClittfDn.  343 

iChamberiain,  10.  71.  73- 
I     5,  "7,  .U),  3i4,  :,'..;,  5-'5, 
!     3--'S,  347.451,  45J 
iCIiamljeriiiig.  77 
'Chaaitjers,  5.j 
jClia  ur.'iruo\v!-.e,  i«>3 
IChanipioii,  sLl 
'Ctia-iiplai'-i,  XjJ 
Coampiiey,  34^.  434 
Chauuier,    ':,    y^.    103, 

^.zci,  lie,  3s I,  3*-J,  411 
C'ianey.,  3oJ 
iCiiannu'ig.  i:'0,  4.1.; 
!Ct)apin,  .j-0,  4o,  luO 
iCIiiipiaiue.  413 
iCMapiiu,  44-.' 
:,;Cliapinau,  itS,  t3,  73,  ?1,     ^ 
ll;.    \Z.'.,    ;;.'4,    14 ,-40,    '^ 
195.  2U,  -'14,  ;.;l,-,  3.i9, 

Chi'.p;)tH,  294 

Chiir.i,  3J3 

Clia.i-.-i,  i;0 

CSi-iil^.s  !(.,  67,  23S,  2y7, 

3-!9 
•Chiise,  54.  9;..  97,  l'4,-i50 

C'laaala:,  ll.s 
jCiiaf.-aa'jhan;!.  1.3'; 
iClia.asCf/.  4y,  3>,  05,  \'rj 
■C'.iuwi.rth,  34.' 

C'hearaky ,  .01 
ICheoklfcy,  j!7.  332 
jClir-tver,   ■Z.-i.   tS\,   273. 


ICbeney,  251 
{CllfcsPbPj",  249 
Cliesiey,  17,  314-15 
Cliester,    liS,    U-', 
I     151,  :00,   107,  1j,5. 


133, 

"-■9, 

3,  353, 


Boylstoue,  5.5,  79.  214        Buek-.u^naai,    1;:4,    :;49,  Caiiu^y,  I'-io 
BomtOJi,    \)'j,    lui,    I7i      2'.4  ;Ca;)<-ii,  bu,  t;,  !0«*,  2 

2b<j,  vOo,  3 -'7  ISuekland.  101  I     -.:7, -50.  3,»,  liS 


Braokett.  I.V..  isy.  ;jo3 
Brad'jurv,  l7,   hj,   y 

121,  ;.;i'o,  zii,  337,  G-. 

75 
Brad  dock,  451 


JBi'-ckaian,  :'^>j,  .'{SS 
),  llujkiiiiiis'ter,  316 
-  Buckntfi;,  101 

•Buel,'.-',  1--D,  294 
Biigii,  5ij0 
IBu-^er,  7i 


Carew .  z'.a 
'Cargul,  57 
!Cjrh.eu,  57 
(t.-.-i,  liO 

I'Ciirielou,  21,  iH,  i.>5,  .;iJ, 
■     iM 


240,  :'.s\, 

I     40S,  4-9 

!(?lief.vode,  154 
,  Chew,  ::u.  ;;l-.;,  -^^7 

■i^bill,  :;-.>,  v.ii,  iio,  33<5 

'Cliihl-s  t.i3 

jCliilii!i!^Mrjfth.  2.15 

Ichip'jian,  l.ij,  x-A,  133 

!     2y-i.  437 
,!Ch!titiidc:»,  22U 
'iCiiitt'.-ndoii,  I'.'-J 

C.'iiity,  ;y.  .'3.: 

Choate,  141.  J50,  152 

CholAic!:,  0^? 
jChaljbuck,  71.74 

'Clurcli,  71.  7-'.  ::3,  2S2 
jChufciull,  i*l,  3i7, 3i7, 358 


Index  of  Names. 


461 


ChnshJnp,  50 

Cillev.  -j;},  25,  47,  -i-A-i 
Ci.-t,  jy 
Clitttin.  <S 
CiaK^ftl,  .".0 
Cluiiciirty,  Karl  of,  62 


iCool-, ,  28'»,  283,  318,  3I9,lCu«tis,  5D 

-lis.  Jl'i  ;Cutl.r,   79.  00,  U9,  K'4, 

Co(ti,er,   T,',   49,  5?,    9?,l     1^4,  r;o.  2i7,  '-' '.0,  -'O*, 

ir.',  -."o,  L'?.;,  vftl.  .'so,!    .Mii,  iJ7,  ;i4u,  4:il,  4.i:i, 


.•!U,:):i-li 
Cope,  .H'J. 


3:tl,  4l:{ 


Clapp.   71,   lO.t,  M,',  13o,  Coplev, -JiJ'J, -Jb,;,  2!34 
:i5;-,,  4./-',  4J8  iCiipp.  IW 

Clark,    3S,   5-'-5,    58,  6:5,i(opp.T,  i:!7 
43o,  71,  110,  114,  liy--'i,'Corura,4..'5 
IGO,    17.>-77,    isy,    U'L'7,iCorbun,  2^9 
24-',  211,  215,  251,  2:V.',:rorbft,  122,295 
264,  2jsS,  2,->'.t,  2>.H,  2'.'.J,tCorbiM,  I:;,'.  IhO 
30ii,  307,    :{0J-I1,    :'.;•;,, Co ri'v,  HI.  lii<J,  •■!.'!() 
337,  r,4.;,  350,  Sso,  ;«jl,;Corli'>.s  2:17,  2'.S,  ;U4 


Cornell.  119,  12.',  227 
CoriHsli,  2.02,  4.",S 
Currivvalli>,  4..t,  2^9 
Corser,  175 
Corwiii,  12 
Coteler,  79 
Cotteiis.  liW 
Cotilf,  h4,  8(> 

|Collon.51.  ll.S,  154,  l.iO- 

.5S,  175,  177,  :H4,  :iOO 
Coii(.'lil:in,  424 

Icoulter,  06O 

Cotiuts  :>i 

Courtis,  451 
Coverlv,  :!11 
Covil,  j.i', -280 
Corvcl,  175 
Corwtn,  74 
Cowles,  19*5 
Cowley.  119,  244 
Cowper,  l;;o 
Cox,  49,  52,  .i4,  72,  436 
L'oytt-iuore,  lOii 
Cr;itt.s  141,  1S.S 
Crane,  22t).  275,  276 
Craufif  Id,  (57 
Coffin,  IS,  50,  SI,  S3.  9.i.  Ci  aniner.  429 
97,    i:;6,    lt>l,    lt;7,   l.'i.i,'Crarv,2J9 
2'27-y9,  ;'0I,  :>02,  ^Z(i       iCravuta,  108.  329 
Cogiiiis,  107  iCruwford,  ;i5i>,  .'HOO,  449 

Co^r.Kiin,  6s,  IOC,  107  Cre.-sey,  ly7-^i'o 

Cc^i^in^'s,  10')  ICricli'.ev,  175 

Cogswell,   120,  227,  294,iCritteiiden,  !2 

:to5,  4  ;4  jCrocker,  50,  Kjl,  22G,  246, 

Coit,  4'.*,  .">0.  ."iS,  124,  249        :;5t 
CoHjurn,    lOS,    115,    123,  Crockot.  l&T 

227.  :t.lO.  450  Croiuby,  191,  192,  2'J2 

Colcord,  181  ICroruw'oLI,   19,    175,  297, 

Colcote,  l.«l  I    .3"):j 

Cole.  !0o,  114,  1S.3,  295      Crooker,  7U74 


4i:i,  4:i:M5 
Clarksuu,  :i5ri 
Clay,  w,  2:W.  245 
Clayboriie,  239 
Cleeve.s,  2b9,  :!:i9 
Ciegnt,;J24 

Clement.s,  24,  216,  31.T-15 
Cleveland,  220,  231,  23^ 

2SJ,  2^4,  3ln. 
Clirtord.Ss,  206,  433 
Clinton,  ■!,■>,  y4,  307 
Clo.-^siu.  V'.)5 
Cloiife'li,  U'l 
Clute,  4.)5 
Coal.  ,  3:4 
Coal  am  n,  214 
CoiUe-i,  52,  137 
Cobb,  l;;o,  343 
Cobbet,  52 
Cook,  50,  lOS 
Cock'. an,  2.'^5 
Coddingtou,  245 
Codmuu,  9i.i,  326 
Codriugton,  1'j3 
Coevinun,  241 
Cotleeu,  ^9,  103 


Coleby,  217 
Co;.riil -^u,  1.30 


Crooks 
Croos 


121 

195 


Cutter,  18,  212,  '220,  •2.32, 

284 
Cutta,  344 

D 
Dadvr,  325 

Uallornu,  lOS 

L>;i;.'gett,  loJ,  146,  '^23, 
2. 'J 

Dal»>,  21,  14S,  301,  391. 
3J5 

Dull,  110 

DulHl^.r,  312,313 

Ualryniple,  229,-^55,  3.39, 
362 

Daly,  127.  .344 

Uainoii,  78,  79 

Dana.  2.n>,  315,  350 

Daudc,  310 

Dune,  ll'J 

Uantord,  76,  77 

Diint'ortli,  107,  111,  1.3."), 
171,  .304,  33 1,4 -'S 

Daniel,  24,  '.iO.  27,  105, 
218,  3'>7,  321,  .3-22 

Dannis,  2.84.  2t;7 

Daay,  3J8 

Danvers,  22,  272 

Darling,  72,  73,  82,  216, 
326 

L'asou,  77 

Davenport,  .53.  59,  106, 
223,  li'.ij,  -M'J,  4.;3,  454 

David  I.,  4+7 

Davids,  2  ;4,  .135 

Davidson,  92,  362 

Uavie,  59,  W,  111 

Davi.s,  51,  .M,  55,  57,  59, 
62,  64,  78,  80--3,  105, 
1.^4,  2in,  2U3.  -'04,  2H- 
16,  2.i2.  2;;t.  2.!7,  251, 
2.i4,  2.S),  2«l,  2.'<4.  .310, 
■■i'^.  321,  3.'5,  -327,  32i>, 
310,  355,  .362,  4  14 

I>avis<-Q,  140,  151,  152, 
270 

Diiwes,  12-2 

Dawron,  ii'J.  247,  452 

Day,  151.  1^7,  !W,  249, 
:rtl->3,  3-02,419,  457 

i'a;-  too,  2.j2 

Deacon,  3U2 


C.HUns,  ii-3,246,  205,4.36,!Cro.-by,  70,  02,  123,  2-i7,|Dt;iu.  VJ,  100,  116,  117 


4:;9 
Colnian,  17,  55,  13:5,295, 


3U3,  304,  356,  432, 
4.50 
Cros.-j,  103,  161,  191,^32 
Cp)'?srnan,  5s 
t 'roswi^il.  7."'.  "^05 


11:1.  1,0,  123,  132-:.l. 
160,  161,  2-7,  2.;6-:;>. 
29.5,  3.;6,  3.'.7,  .347,  :ki."., 
3(>5,  371.  429,  1:13,  43.), 
I  441,  4-12,  4-i4,  451 
Dearboru,  .■Jo,  3S-10,  48, 

De  Brv,  361,439 
ID  ■  l.o-:n,  .3.50,450,451 
iDi-dinan,  203 


Colnirr,  133 

Colniery,  \iol 

Oiltou,  2v5,  31.8,  417,  41S,|Crouoh,  49,  60.  3^5 

419,  436  Icn-.w.  l.» 

Colurnbu.s,  439  k'rowtbi-r,  58,  59 

Coi)er,  76,  77  'c'U'l worth.  115 

Con.egys,  229  jCnher,  131,  244 

Coni^tock,  203  Cumuiings.  59,  1-35,  174,1  Deerin^',  *;:'. 

•Coaiyn,  59  ','32,  2^5,  305,  3.i4,  *J6.  De  (jr nt",  Mf> 

Conant,  a)8,  2a3,  431,  454      345,  4.:3  De  Lancey,  .",6,  59,  448 

Conui  J,  317  jCundy,  297  Delano,  7:,  ."4 

Couiiady,  422  Icuniiingham,  52,  53,  19J  De  La  Ko  .ue,  451 

Connor,  314  jCurlew,  71  iL»t>U',  76.  77 

Connor:*,  .i3  ICurrier,  114,  117,240,  241' Denierritt,  313-15 

Couroy.  173  jCurry,  :i:;9  peniont,  44« 

Coiisiunt,  111  ICnr^or,  :i:'.5  Denuis,  ii-W 

Coute.  1:3.227  !Curti^,  72,  93,    195,  295,iDe'iin.iiQ,  ■.:28,  240,  32:;. 

Con/trs.  5;,  121.  i56,.307i     43u.  4i-t  I     :j..O.  42« 

CoiikP,    56,   ,5S^,   6:-4.|Curwen,.")9  Dmt,  213 

71)  72.  105,  116,  123,  12t,|'Ji*!iins,    50-1,    71.    7.'.|Deri^v,   -14,   95,   96,    131 
l-'7,  2.->.3,  305,  .>li6,  3;3,>     74.    !iiS,   119,  207.    2.!l,|     -J-l^,  :;i"i.i 
316,331  j      "17,313,311.413.457      l>e  ^.lUto,  441 

Coo  idge,  93  [Cu-iitnaii,  72,  73, 95.  2^5,  D'E.-.rain,:;,  J<.?,  284 

Coohirj.',  398  I    337  !Detteu,jj 

VOL.    XXII.  41 


Dc  Vcrgennei,  W 

Uevv«  y,  224,  283,  2U.5 

De  Witt,  lul 

Di-  Wolf,  11.; 

D.  xler,  95,  132,  125,  426, 

4!  I,  4.15 
Dial),  .325 

l>ianinnd,  199,  2U3 
Dick.ns,  l.-V 
Dickeruian,  343 
Uick<T>ou,  -224,  324 
Dickinson,  'Ji,  110,  .353 
Di':kion,317 
l>i»;>;i'.'<.  2-r 
Diliiii^'lmin,  331 
Dilly,  311 

Diman,  1::3,  "^28,  435,  4.30 
Diinock,  2'-'3 
Diini.n.  221,  233 
Dii80n.  '.'j)i 
Dix,  3.35 
Dixon,  1-28 
Dixwell,  .335 
Do-ldridue,  240 
Dodge.  >-5,  K.%  12C',   ICO, 

2^0,  20J,  20  !,  224,  3.J4 

Dcd^wortli.  301 

Doggett,    121,   235,  23^, 
•-'54 

D0I-,  85.  95 

Do.nett,  433 

Donijan,  oJ 

Di.ucli,  312 

Doolictle,    12.3,  205,  412, 
4i3 

Dorcbe-iter,  420 

I>orr,  4J.  :'.:!3 

Dorre'.l,   103 

Dorsou.  77 

Dotv.  451 

Doub:.id,iy,   50,    53,    SO, 
2-^5 

Douglas.  89, 118,  IW,  220, 
2--J,  23'..  319 

Dove.  I'J9 

Dov/,  25,  :;.5,  174.  195 

l.»ov,-dt;n,  321 

Dosve,  229 

Duw.ier,  184,295 

Do\vae-,3y6 

Downing  3-'<3 

Dows,  51.  7S.  81,  W,  .326 

D^.tvs-,  ;4,4:/2 
'Dr;ip-r,   .t'.-3,   3".-3,    385, 
I     4'.:.  4)1,  457 
[Drake,  111,  1'.4,  224,  2':5, 
I     22->,   2a>',  329,  348.  35i, 
I     441 

|Dreer,  112 
'Dres.^er,  92 

D  ew,  •J41.  364 
I  Driver.  I'Jl 
|Druniiu';r,  :132 

Drur).  3:9 

Di-vden.  130 
p.ime,  24'j,  3.35,  363 
!Dubb>,  :<:50 
(iJucke:t,  18-20,  212,  2L3, 

2H-<>7 
puri.ev,  21,22,59.  65,  56, 
■J4,    1:4,    1.14,  :i"2,  3u7, 
3ir.i,  :.6 1,431,  432 
jDuif.  157 
iDaninior,  86.98,  218,219, 

423 
j  Dunbar,  !34,  274,  334. 
]  Uunean,  .57 
i  i>u.W::tUi,  •:!.^'i,  4  "i 
iDuiiK.u.  .10 1 
{Diliiiap.  '.','•': 
.Duntii'T.-,  160 
I  Dun ac' Is.  205 

Dar.ninj,'.  .t)4 
!Du3-tt.T,  72,  44* 
■  Dupout,  34U 


462 


Index  of  Names. 


E 


Enils,  79.  217,  rijO 
Ettinc-i.  71,  4  W 
Karwiiker,  ;:4.'.  3o'J,  -"Jd 
East,  .Ti,; 
Easterbrook,  'i't'i 
Eastnmn,  lur.,  -.M",  T.<S 
Eastwiok.  j'.i,  lia,  M4 
Eatou,  irj,  ::17,  ool,  ai'J, 

431 
Eddy,  91,  120,219 
Edet,  W,  awi,  of.o 
EdgctMii.-'.ri 
Edmuiiils,  .Jiil,  4J2 
Edniunds,  7t>,  17 J 
Edmuuilson,  o'.mj 
Edwnnl  III.,  151 
Edwards,  51,  5!,  .S5,  141 

livt, -'.'0,  310,  3-;0 
EelLs,  417 
Egle,  1.36.  137,  450 
Eggleston.41S 
Eglestone,  5-! 
Elder,  40 J 
Eliut,  6i',  W.  210,  220, 26S, 

3:'.f.,  3-17.  427,  4:''i 
Elizubt'tli,  Queen,    440- 

Al 
Ellory,  <¥).  223,  300,  310 
ElliCf,  :,iH 
EllioU,  5y,  1(H,  -i-A,  3:10, 

362 
E'.Hnwood,  3f)2 
Ellis  5.',  74.  l.«,  134,  2.^^, 

244,  321,  :i.:y,  3'j2,  451 

45;i 
Ellwoll,  312 
Eltnood,  2:13 
Ely,  2>l-:i,  4:8 
Emt-r-on,  23.  2'i.  27,  iWi 

\7\X,  172.  250,   o'.i,   315 

4:51 
Emerv.  SS,  SO,  :«1,  341 

3ol,'433,  445 
Ernmcn-?,  4'.t,  52,  54 
Endicott,    111,  20t,  313 

3(X) 
English,  Co,  175,  277-70 

En;:-,  17 

Ep7).s  2;i0,  270.  304 

Erviiig.  tl>j 

E.-tabrook,  3S3,  410 

Esteii,  Ki 

Ettii.g.  30 

Eusiis,  3:;.  43,54,200, 317, 

*;4.  344 
Fvaits,  4:0 

Evins  2:!!,.  31.3,  315,016 
Evercd,  175 
Evi  nU,  175 
Evcn-mion,  273-75 
Evt-!rt-tl,  12,  14,  'J2,  r.O 

•Z''A.  21.i,  -ai.  :W2,  4.".7 
Evert. ill    1|J.:^,  273,  274 
Kwt-r,  vJOU 
Eyre,  50,  60,  G4 


IFnst.  49 
F:irrer,  107 
l-'iixoii.  373 
Kay.  151 

Kuyer weather,  51,  63 
K>-:iriM;<,  j31 
I'Vllow.i,  03,  4  10 

Kelt,  ^^,yl,  no,  114,  I60, 

314 
Ktnnirnore,  112 
1-  crneliy,  122 
KLTiiside,  107 
Fcrrar,  l.-O,  151   272 
hVrry,  251 
Fe,-senilt  n,  .7.85 
Kewsniitli,  252 
iM.-ld,  lli7,  ItiO,  210,  31S, 

310,  -.M,  410,  4-'0,  450 
Fit-ldt-r,  220 
Fields  240 
hilliiiure,  0-16,  141,  SIO, 

342 
Fiiidcrson,  310 
Finno,  50 
Fiiiut  moil,  112 
Fiiiion,  215 
Fisli,  72-75 
Fij^h.T,  101,  200,  310,  350, 

447 


Fi^-ke,  136,  221,234,  381.  Ful!ii.?!oii 
;i^2,  428,  4:17  FuUuiii,2'. 


Franklin,  14,  19,  51,  9.'5, 
loo,  132,  1:;^,  234,  ■.:42, 
285-b7.  425.  450,  431 

Frii-.-r,  41,  240 

Fr.ttj..rri,  417 

Frffiiiaii,  06,  111,  432, 
41'J 

Fr.ii(:h,20,'>,  304,444 

Fii.iid,  451 

Frink,  205 

Fri>bie,  0.1 

Fri-kut,  205 

FrD.t.  7j?,  70.  1S»,  217, 
2-".t,  250,  .304,  315,  310, 
3.'0 

Frothinghum,  35,  40.  4-'5, 

7n-^i.  i;;.  214-10,  32:>- 

27,  347,  365,  361,  407, 

4<jO 
Fr>ar,  164 
Frvej-.  M.  102-C5 
Fu'llord.  (M 
Fulke,  :;4>i 
Fulk.  r,  SO,  214,  £16,  32r,, 

32,S 
Fuller,  54,   60.   71,    110, 

15!,  101,  235,  2'J5,  :«..d, 

401,  4:-.4 
Fidierii  n, 


:,ii 


Fiicli,  40,  52-4,  205,  302,: 

:t56 
Kitt,  .322,  32-3 
Kitt.S  -'t-3 
Fitz  Clarence,  319 
Fitz    Gerald,    130,    18.', 

420 
FUitrs,  243,402 
'■■i.t t.  2.;o 

Fletclier,    54,    223,   376. 

458 
Flewcber,  325,  328 
Flint.  lOS,  155 
Flower,  281,  283 
Flovd.  Ill 
Fluke,'.  216 
Fogg,  00,   102,  288,  43;^ 

4.14 
Folger,  2'it.  20 
K..I1.  tt,  I'U 

Folsom,47,  113,  3H,40o 
442 

FO'>rd,  74,  75 

Foot,  2S3,  301,  311,  320 
340 

Forbes  402 

Force,  103,  300,  40^< 

Ford.  51,   70-:.;,   74.    7S 
hWj.  -ij.!,  214,  217 

Furela'.i'l.  .)3 

Fore-t,  205 

Forriiter,  .(11 
i  For^ter,  Ti 
IFo'.«  ird,  4.:4 
JF.jsdick,  ,^0,214 
llo...kit. -l.V  327 
IKo-s,  :Uii.  458 
!  Foster,  .51)-:! 


Furliur,  31u 
Furue.-<,  HO 
F>ti.,!d,  40 
F)iimore.  112 

G 


3.-3,  3>6 


37.  40,  45,  31; 
,  77,  107 


Gales,  451 
ijallowHV,  363 
Ga.iMp,  2-0 
Ga'piu,  7- 
Gal>,jilie,.53 
Gauimell,  228,  253 
,G:imiett,  431 


,G:ins  77 
100,  SOlK.ardiuer,  54,   332,    402 
I     4  h 
Gardner.  91.95,  103   120 

r.i7.  2'.i8.  ;i01,o51,4.'.l 
Gartitid,  1..'0 
Garner.  205 
G.iriiet,  71-4 
Garrett.  220,  3% 
G;;ies,   44,   47,    147,  14.8, 

•-■24,  2'0.  3. 4,  372,  303, 

401.  40 J,  430 
(javftt,  I'.'O 

Gav,   llu.    111,  22:,  247, 
1     205 

liiayer,  riT ,  303 
<jee,  5:;  ,05 
tieiet,  ,'y5 
iGe'.tlee,  123 
|(ieuy<on,  ilO 
74,  70,;(j(;-TVey,  71 


32'i 


Fabian,  193 
FairLiliiks.  ';'.4,242 
Faircniid,  451 
F.urfiiX.  1 10,  2:10 
Fiini.M.  08 
Fallet.  54 
Faunitif?,  128 
Farle,  ::'^4 
Farlee.  Mi 
Farmer,  z;.  .■:04,  .■{."4 
Faruliain,  2- i.  'MJ 
Farnuru,  176,  ■-■o.j 
Farr,  iui 
Farrar,  17,  266 
Faisit,  o04 


01.05,  IM,  12'J,  171),  )?'.». IGe  Tge,  :-ir>,  237.  295 

1V8.  21U.  216.   22?.  24:..N;eoij;..-  11I..4-'U 

24'.",  27:1,  205,  304,  320,:Gerri..h.  Co,  67,  2"_'2,  311 

:(.:7,  xiti.  .137  I    4;:!,  4  ;4 

FoTVl.  60,  62,211-17,  326-,Gerrv,  4  :0 

2.^  ll.eyt-r.  317 

FoAle,  108,  109  'Gii.lifus.  5i>-3 

Fowler.  0:>.  205.  ^.oO,  4.Vt  .(jibbiu-,  12.  .52,  12'J,  J?. 
Fox,  1J<),   1.0,   i-^;.  lo'J-'Gib'.s,  .So,   f<<>,  lU,  175 


iCill.  79,  82,  102,  IM 

;(>illaiii,  329 
(;illp:itrk'k,  118 

{(jdnitin,  24,.%37 

.Gihuarv,  451 
Gilinori-,  14  J,  3f8 
Girdler,  101 
ijlail-toiie,  i:!0 
Gleiidour,  02 
Glover,  4  l.  72,  20.'').  311 
G'.ddard,  «2.  22'J,  3!5 
Godl'rev,  Ir  1,  •iSn.  Xi7 
Golle,  l:;2.  .I.15,  4'5,  426 

iGold.-t^orough,  95 
(Jolty,  l':o,  101 
Goiiinie,  447 
(ioodaii-,  '.'1 
Gooilell,  .3.30 
Goi.deiiijw,  431 
(ioodhue.  03 
(Joodricli,  l.-,6.  25),  447 
(.I'ood ridge,  3i>;j 
Goodsoii,  J)0 
Goodwin,  72,  7",  81,  96, 
i:ll,215,  217,  2H,  311, 
I    325.  :>v:6.  .3.7 
IGookiQ.  54.  26C-r.<i,  270, 
1     uri.  .01,  315,  3W 
[Go'^ld,  77 
iGorrion.  221.  431 
Gorf,  10 »,  177.20.> 
Gorges,  l&O,  .306, 4iO,  Hi, 
j    452 
iOorhim,  2-52 

Gcrtou,  .3(M,  .338.  r2>5.4l<5 

(jo.-s,  20,  27,  01,  124,  174 

Gott,  1:05 

|Gou!d,73,  7P,  77,  89,  90, 
i     1«.5,  i8.8,  ^21,  311,  337, 
I     lie.  417 
|i7oulds!iiyth,  .3-50 
iGove,  C7.  '.".'.5  "23 

(joweu,  ^;i',,  Jit- 

Grae.^st.-.  1"0 

iiraliaiu.  1-,  l->'- 

Gnm:,  8?,  r.7,  l:J8,  :il, 

3:'5.  3vS,  301 
IGra-.i^il'e,  60 

Grat'au.  129 

I  iravcs,  2^7 
,lGrav,  32,  1.30.  203,  295, 
317 

Greaves  r.-S.  S2,  21J,  325, 
o'.'o 

Gre;i»r.30^ 

lir^elf.  125 

IGreen.  11.50.  ?4,  8-2, 10<.>, 
l:;r,.  102,  -Mi.  220,  K'U 
316.  317.  331=.  X-M,  .?.5o, 
:"U)  ■>.  .'(62.  405,  405.  4-t6- 
4  ',  455 

Greenii.!d,330 

Greenhat.  .V),  54.  03,  So, 
97,  2'..'<).  3;^: 

Greenwood,  40,  6C^-2,  92, 
114,  .306.   Ai7 

.Gregg,  44.  r--^,  348,. 549 

iCiregory,  54.  227,23o,'Ul 

GreiiN  iiie.  ".^70 

'"jresl.air.,  1:2 

hireville.  1-5') 

iGribben.  :.*>2 

JGri-lley,  4.-<.  276 


.•j;,444,4J,i 
Fox  lev.  'lO 
Fo.-cw^ll,  Vii) 
Fov,  61 

Francis,  2-2,  29,  4.53 
Fraucke.  151 
Francklyn,  107 


1 

'(.Jibs  ■II,  l!!.  .*» 
',..;dH.g,  V}',  101 
|Gi:.!.Td.  lOr,  2.80,  281 
lUli'lert,  !l*,32U,3;i2,419 

4-.".', -itl 
IGil';.-',  5.">,  131 


i(irilVeii,  Jli.  217 
iGrillii.  6l.  176,431 
,|Grirti;U.s  4:;5 

G.-ig_'<.  '6'J   1'j9 

(iri.ii'.i.  :ii>i 
jrimsliaw.  2.'9 

ijri>wuld.  11;,  124,   229. 
2.S2.  2S4    4:0 

Groii:e.  :i4ii 

(Ji-out,  O*!.  91,  24* 

Grovti,  117 


Index  of  I^ames. 


463 


Groves.  437,  435 

Grub,  .'cr 
Guard.  ."J? 
G'-iennj-y,  .'158 
Guil.l,  -'.Jt,  .".'5 
Gul.-'ti'ii,  jik-^.  jCJ 
Guunini^,  241 
Gunnison,  61.  ITo,  l-iO 
Guppy,  .'il;),  310 
GurdoM,  tti 
Gurn.-v,  I'J-J 
GuttritlRe.  100 
Guy,  :;-j7,  :i7j,  .■)76 
Gwii'ii,  luft 

H 

Hack,  121,  i:?6 
Hadeii,  76,  77 
llailii-v..'{7'j 
Hadlo'ck,V!fl5 
Had\ve!l,-Jt.U 
Uugrtr,  ;;S.5  \ 

Haijcman,  .3.13 
Huhoina,  104 
.Hail,  60,  ;V.i 
Haines,  o;">6.  otH 
Hakluvt,  15  !.  4:t'J-42 
Half,  i;:!,  00.  8  >-'J^,  lOi 


Utisfltire,  94  IHindloy.  241 

llMSPy.  51,  .'it,  413  Hinds  •,':17 

HrtsktU,  1>7,  :;0J,  249         lllnrnan,  •>'(5.  2^7 
Hii<kct'.,  .'i4  |llltclibi.rn,  v;ii7 

hdSkiiis.    li;>,   122,    l'.-3.|llitclic<K;k,  :il.t,  3.31,457 

r,'7,  .no,  34'.i,  :i'li.  4:n     ^ 1 1  iic,  75 
Uassain,    17'.),    le>0,    ly.i.lfloiidl.y,  .-'50,  4.')4 

32'.),  3.I1,  :!:!3  lllobarr.  Hi.  170,  ■-•.'.o 

llasiiiijrs  2:t7,  ^^i,  ^'?^     lH..l.kin-on.  113,  Uti 
Uutoli,  71,  72,  74,67,2yj.lHoflfrdoti,  :I14 


.310,  317,  4.t.j 
Hathaway,  227 
llatht-rlv,  115 
llalioii,  2(3 
Ilaugh,  lOs,  117 


Uuvi-n.  10,  lJl-22,  211,  Hopanv,  2fl 
2-2>',  2»3,  :Ui>,  4.jl,  4:ji     |  Hohnvuy,  ■,79-Sl 

Harvard,  111 

1Ih«>-s.  ;i.il 

Hawkins.  ICS,  3-27 

Hawks,  51.  231 

Hawley,2:;y,  •.'6';,  4.VS 

Ha^fS.  123,  227,  314-17, iHolljtiid,  1 
3tVS,  431,  -Ijd 

{luvfz,  4.-,f) 

Ha\foid.71 

llavne,  245 

Huynei<,237,2i9.  407 


nulk,  ffu  fll 

1 1.1  II,  r,\.  107-00,210,272 

3:.-.i.  437 
(liil'ti'inuii,  12 
MuiiK',  12'.),  1.30 
llutni'H,  Wi 
Huinplirty,  02,  101 
lliiiiplircyii,     3u7,     309, 

■■;:•».  451 
Huiiilr.d,  160 
Hiii,k<(!,  2"0 
llunntwiU,  71),  2.31,  K«, 

■:..\7 
Hunt,  inx,  142,  193,251, 

2'J...  31!,  3 17 
Hunter,  '.'»),  'J7 
Huiitin;;t(iii.  :j'j5 
Hiintun,  2t'5 
llunt'jon,  IJO.  24'i,  L*72 
nur.i,7'',fj,t?^,  211,  217, 

327.  .047 
Hur.-t,417 

id.jiime,  '.'M,  "^40,  r.v; 

I     4.^4  |Hutclibiirne.  2'j:; 

lnollin;;5worth,  224,  225  jHutclK-soD,  .".'.) 
(HoliiMin,  232  iHutchins.  237 

Uohucs,  'iO,  91,  lOS,  12.')  lHutclii:).*'jn.  '34,  104,107, 


Moddc  .il5,  3.34 
Hodgej,  S'J,  120,  200,  3.35. 

.337 
Hodjjkins,  198 
Hc>d>dfn,  tlO 


Holbrnok,  Kr.',  MO,  252. 

2'J5,  .30^,  419,  42;{ 
fioltoriib,  3:iO 
Hi.ldtTi,  f.O,  267,3.38,  3<2 
riolf .  .30 1 


1-1,   211, 


I     r.-!,  177,  252,  2<j5. 
•Hi 


171,-:'  •.,  -I;-.   J-JU,   Liu,  Hawat.l,    ,=,."), 

24V,  31'.',  4-0.  42-2,4:7     I     245.  2n2.  .381  iHolt,  114,  MO 

Halev,  ,-'),  52-1  Frazarrl,  1(H.  !C9,  2:"'3.  23r:Hnliori.  i'j'.^,  454 

HaliUa  t'ju,  4  !7  ItiaEe.'i,  eo,  05,   13y,  iUiirUulv.  07 

Kolyoke.91,  113 
iHonian.  131 
|n-..-ue,54 
Homer,  2,^0 


Hall,   10.  12,   14,  .01,  52,1     232,  240,  3...-),  457 
72-4,  1<}4,  110,  12'J,  i:;0-iHazlitt,  130 
I'Jii,  213,  233,  L'41,  2ol,'Healey,  221,  306 
252,  .30.1,  307,  314,  327,1  Hearsey,  71 
Xn,  3.1.5,  3:i0,  312,  3o(j,:Hi-ath,  4?,  54.  295 
427,  4''.5  jHeckewflder,  lOS,  453 

HaUam,  12':,  130  liec-tor,  70 

HalUwcll,  1 '.0  Meil'erman.  417 


liely,  67,  221,317 
Heinpton,  55 
HendtT-son.  101,  102,314 
Helling,  3',  > 
Heaiev,2ol,431 


Ha'.bham.  3ib 
HaUitd,  87 
Hara,  313-17 
HaIP.es,  22(') 
Hanri'lti.n,  5.5,  137,  1*1, 

243,  252,  316,  44§,  450    i  H  en  aey ,  74 
Harnfian,  •^^)3  IHenrie't'a  ifaria,  452 

Hamrr.O'id,  V.O,  232, 23S,'Henry,  J.-.O,  350.  446 

243,  305,  :!50  JHenrv  VII..  420,  442 

Eawor,  U'jI,  ^\>o  Heiisiiaw,  111,  142,  C 

Hamotoni. ',  4;4  lO'").  l.'.i 

iianc'vick,     I'J,  iWO,  .341.ln<.pbourne,  422 

.360.  .>1,  4!0  ' "■ 

Handa-Hvii   -4u 
Handlev,  CO 


lo'^  V,'-,  20'J,  .ill),  330, 

I     ^21,42.1 

HutOD,  '.S'S 
ilI'ifton,21''.  327 

Hvdt,  113,  2'j5 


id.'Uy,  84,  Jf),  112, 
lln^alls,  2.30 
'l:i'/'<-i"i:i.  VJ9 


hoorTer,  124  ^^7,  C'>\  :'47'!ni.i^h,  177 
Iloopor,  1"0,  2'  5. 23o,2".5,|lns;r:'.Itani,  2'J5,  308 

244.  2;i7,  2'.i'J,  'iW.  312     jli'irs  17 
Hopkins,    62,    14*,    210,!'rnman.  2So 

.3:.:r).  351  1/mcs,  l.^^ 

Hopkinson,  115,  116,  iOiUrvin.'^,  94,  J2S 
llrw  in.  t;l 

jhleley,  s5  ^ 

(•'rae!.  22'J 
ilve.s75.  332 
ivory,  si 


Hoppinff,  215,  320 
Horn.3U-17 
Hor.-fiain,  331 
Hor'kiu?,  205 
Horroii,  148 
H  oxford,  -.0 
Hojmrr,  0.  IG 
Houchlr,,  175 
Houjrh,  UM) 
iH-  rijcrt,  21,  150,  271         iHor.>,'liton,  US,  13.5,  3i 

tlerudmi,  12  I     i\ii 

Ht-rrick,  91,94,  111,  192,! Moult,  ISj 


Hank 

HansotT,  314 -IC 

Ha.  ;)ack,  2.1 

Hartourt,  :;i'i4 

Harden,  7o 

Hardier.  105,  106 

Ha.-uinsj.  20  i,  21-3 

Hardy,  lU,  12S,t;57 

Harlo'v,  351 

Harriir,  150 

Harmon,  442 

Harmond,  2S2,  2it 

Harned,  1-35 

Harper,  215'.,  297,  300 

Hiirrin^an,  93,  'H 

Uarrins.'oii,     ;i;9,     .350,1  H ll.md.  3;k" 
3.H.i.  3'X),  3'.M.  432  I H  i  dtburn 

Harris.  U.  4'.),  ,-2,  ,';3,  79.;  H  i'drttli.  aOl 

82,   S'J,   -.00.    2'j'i,    2lb,iHill.  S2,  92,  ir«,  124,  12.0, 
■"  ",  311,  o25,  4^7  I     141,  isy,  215,  2i 


202,  2',Jo 
Hersev,  254 
Harvey,  5-1 
H^wins,  245 
How\tt,  352.  353 
H.'vward,  447 
Hibbard,  96,  205 
H:Obet,  2S(> 
Hi'.klir.g.  95 
Hick*.  12-*,  252 
Hidden,  197,  193,201 
Hidca,  .305-07 
iHiffsin'i,  .'•7,  M 


50,  445 


1^2, 


.Taokion,  51,  .>4,  f:i,  150, 
217,  224,  CTJ,  Z^A',  317, 

44-; 

.lacob,  39S 

.Jat-ob.i,  295 

la!:Vev.  ol,  65 

Jainci,C7,  73.  7?,  .■;i.222. 
030,  ;!-■!'.).  :i'.y 
.:2.  .lan.ej  I..  2::.s.  l"V\ 
iV/.'.'amesun,  244,  245 

j.JaRies,  2'.'5 

l.lasivriu,  .>1 

iaiiiie-'.  b.'i.  95 

Jarriild,  427 


House,  7:;,29.'> 
Hovev,  93,  94,  453 
H.jwaid,   29.  50,  70, 

116,  U'.>7,  229,  214. 

314.  3:S,  .343,  :H6, 

.367,  441,4-4t,449 
Howchiii,  321 
Howe,  IJ,  -C,  3J.  to.  4i 

48,   1«>,   1.35,    140,   2:; 

273.  2S4,  29',1,  314,  3i3,:..'arvis  61 

•M)ti  l.)av,.29,  175 

Howell,  453  Jc-tferson,  246,  054,  3<.M, 

Howes.  21  43-',  437 

Hi^'siia.soQ,  lO.i,  351,  352  iHowitt.  130  .leif-rvd,  *;,  193 

Hiiiiland,  73  jHowluud.  71.  72,  74,  aSo'.Ifirries,    51.    5C-07,    75, 

Ho.vie,  2f<J,  aSl  I     302.  .30.3,  T,:,r, 

Hoyiie,  1 ;:  ..r.>nkini.  2;;*.  310,  .'^0 

Hovr,  i-O,  123    It.-i,  n2,'..Vrik5,  2V.«,  22jS 

137.  209,  2-.;7,  2,i7,  .^OO.lJ'.-Uutr,  :.2S 
ii^aWKiS.  i'.'O 


2:S.  311,32.),  4^7  I     141,  isy,  215,  2it",  -j-l.      4'..t.  442,  4.05  I.Jear.e.-s,  iJO 

Harrisoii,  KO,  22c,  305    |     2-36,  :i52,  295,  301,  304. 'Hubbard.  55,  61.  i'>2.  105, . Jennings.  62,  72 


Har.^il.  295  i     325,  .^J7,  3'J4 

Har*,  I'y,  105  36,3  JHill.ird,  ^<^ 

Eartlev.  213,  ::^5,  •S.H,  |Hi;ler,  1&; 

Harr.i.Sl  iHilllard,  iOl.  102 

Hartshorn.  73,  81,  295  IliiUs,  'Jo,  I<",1,  2-><' 

Hartwoil,  2'J5  jHiiton,  17'>-'94,  3.33 
Harvey.  54.  2Ji),  269,  2S9,iHlLi:kej,  ,>0 

295,  3j:s  3':'.i  jliixiiikley,  I'ji,  2-34,  2 

Hit  wood,  3J2,  40O  jUiixckiiiui,  ;slO 


115,  i2'>,  I.SO.  225,  2£o,iJepsoa.  ^^ 
,323,  4iA4;H  |Jes-,31' 

H cboart .  OO-2, 54.  55        Uewiil,  3.31.  ^35 
Iiub<!r,  1,  ',  iJ.-wett,  24.  NO.  92,  <i\,  38, 

;Hucliin.?,<;j,7'',  21+  ll'l,  l'.'.'-71,  205 

!lhi(l'on,70,  175,  176,  .'.5C,:.;ot.ns,  lOb 
I    :■■",,  ".'ji  ijohnsoa,  70.  7S.  7»,  SI, 

;Hu,;lies  01.  349  1    e-', '.'3.  lOH.  129. 13;;,  140, 

;HuiiUi-,  3:0  1    iiii,  175,  V-j'Z,  a^o,  2Ii, 


464 


Index  of  Karnes. 


21fl,  200,  251,  252,  SfiT.jKtirn-Ifon,  :!7,  r.S),  M,  4C, 
•-".'5,  30.j,  307,  3-^8,  oV.".',!    57.  In".,  ■«»■. 
362  iKiiop..""0 

Johnston,  V,'l,  1^'j,  287    'Kiio.v,  !'.'<5,  VX>,  382 

Joliile,  i;6  K.hl.-lH 


Jones,  H,  7(i.77,  111,  Lit), 
15S,  1%,  2(1-',  227,  :':■■', 
2.'i^,  •.'7:t,  -80,  •jKj,  L'J<:! 
2Mi,  31U,  311,  341,  3t;o 
422 

Jons,  77 

Jordan,  72,  150,  151,  350 

Joie,  iii4 

Juis'lyii,  71,  72,  74,  7o 

•Jourdnn,  151 

Jo\  ce.  '.'^5 

Joylill'e,  105 


K 

Kay,  fil,  f;2 

Keadif ,  4:fii 

Kearnt»,  401 

Kear.^lf),  118 

Kfitts,  115 

Keavi'e,  105 

l\et'iir;^,  53 

Keen,  ;  1-7* 

Keilfv,  4^5 

Keinc,  •.;'.i,  116 

Kf'itti,  133 

)\«^llo.,  \V:  2!2   23C 

KeliO.':',  •->.',  2..; 

KellOdd,  i,-.'),  176 

Kelly,  so,  DO 

Kfm'bk',  312 

Kemp,  4i"i 

Ki-n<Uill,  14,  81,210,  326,' t.aplia:n,  71 

411 
Kendrkk,  24,  174 
Kenelni,  -MA 
Kennedy.  12,  29 
Keanv,  ol,  :;;jo 
Kenri'k,  307 
Kent,  tn.  9.',  lOS,  240 
Keou«,  4  ;2 
Koppel,  -'13,  2S5-.'^7 
Kettel,    rt-^l,   214,  2n,' r.aud.  154 

217,  32i'>-2)5  jLp.udoriniere, 

Key,  --'S-^iO,  110  L.-iw,  02 

K'-yes,  >i4.  30.>  ,    iLatvne,  3£»? 


Ko!;i)rk,27; 
KosDuth.  12 


Lnbden, 77 
I. arid,  115,237 
r.iiKavette,  i^'S,  24C,  333 

:;41 
l.;iffin,  115 
I  ajT'-ar,  IS,  2>7 
Laijuaid,  200 
Lake,  17ii 
Lamb,  130,  22S.  2S3,  324, 

41S41<> 
Lanihert,  40.  215 
Laraphier,  2'.i.i 
Lnmpory,  175 
Lnnison',  328 
Land'  n,  52 
Lauder,  20.1 
Landor,  130 
Lane,  71.  )>•.),  100,304 
Lan?.  .'.iii,  vfi\,  428 
Lhnjjalord.  310 
Liir;;:.;';.r.,l},4:i,  lOS,  115, 

••.■;4,  4    1.  433 
La:;f!(  r.  176 
Langlev,  3^51 
Lanf:loLs414 
Lii  ijrman,  150 
Laiiktan,  •jsi_«4 

-75.   114, 

l.'.l,  132,  L"4^,  44-<,  44'J 
L:i'.thijrne.  :'.il 
Larkhani,  24'J 
Lark  ill,  215,  .325,327 
Liirmon.  4'.* 
Lan-.ke.  278,  415 
La^l.lre,  l.-> 
LiitIirop,s7,12c.  197, 

34  4 


204,  270,  2M,  295,  321, ILytton,  .3.35 
30-',  41(S,  4:11 
Lerrllev,415  JH 

Levrrt  tt',    1 :;».   MO.   175,lMablc,  100 

170,  ly3,  245,  42V-24        |.>Iaoull.-t<T.  229 
Levi  rick,  f*.  242,  243       i-MacauIay,  1:'.),  I.'.O 
Levi.itone,  3i'4  piuchnnouKli.  02,  4-37 

Lewis,    m,    7«',  80,   117,  .Mucfurlund.  73 
l-'2,  l-.O,    \a,  212,  2l5,.3luckuli.2'.i5 
2^)S,  2ftU,  311,  324,  320,l.Ma(  kiirty,C2 
4.'- 1  |iluckay,3,:,  305 

L«  wknor,  346  .Maiktei..  -."Jl 

I.iMj.-y,  117,  316  I.Mackiiitosli,  \>fi,  130 

Lidirer,  .V.,  02,  05-67,  33;.-i.Ma(.T'<nr.y,  419 
Li<  Ofr,  :H5  j-Mucun   51 

1-illibridge,  2-0  .Maddis  55 

'-illie,  OJ  j.Mudison.  2i5,  210,  2'/4 

Liij.MlM.  10,71-73,75.207,  .Mahir,  2*.» 


2:(l,-2;4,:;54,333,  304 
LiniL-ay,  7-.; 
Liiid-ey,  I'lO,  2S3 
Linlbrd, 200 
LiDscoti,  ISU 
Lippinott,  129,  .354 
Liik.  ■J.\ii» 
Lit  tell,  229 


i-Mi'tlony.  4.>7 
).Mn!iin,4,0 
LMalling   JiTA 
lilaUit,  214,  210 

Man,  73,  74.  IDS,  .3.34 

Manly,  r.^» 

[Jlanniuir.  I,«-20,  10L133, 
195,  .'.'4,  .-.or-,  344,  437 


361.  439 


Littio.  :;.'5,  40    71.  73.  f^S.lMan.^u-ld.  |i;d,  l23,  2V0 

69.200,225.420,449      I  Mam  on.  98 
Litilerield,  1^  !,  .>;0  .Manwarin;;.  3.33 

Li",  eri.inre. -!;s  piarch.  s^ 

Liviiij,'>ton,  '12,  457  'Martliam,  120.  330 

Lloyd,  50,  75,   106,    302,iM.irden,  13ii.  4.-.0 

■ttO  I  Marpery.  277 

LotdelL  70,  77  .'Iiirinef.  54 

Lockr',  3>;!,  440  jlark,  211.  2:2 

Locktiart.  1-J'i.  130  lilarkham,  293 

Lockwix'd,  l.jO,  i',*)!,  454  ".Uarks,  50 
Lofrus,  222  j.Marjh.  250,  290.  311 

1.0f;in,  79,82, 215,32.?, 32^iMary!i.'::i,     U'J-:!.     r-3, 
Loiiir,  :^1.   103,  10^,    -O.',!     IM.  :;ii'j.  oio,  o-.v,  •;4<). 

i''3   3.32  I     ;:4L2iO,  .3i>4,  .32J,  •■.33, 

Lor.glVUow,  130,  251  335,  .3.30,  350,  4:>i,  «S, 

t.oiij;njan?,  44''>  449 

i  Looc.<enii,iri.  24S  |  Jrarston.  6.3,  140, 175,  432 

Lojiai.;,  52. ->^,  295  iil.irtili.  22,0.3,   1"1.  243, 

Lord,  52.  oO,  69,  100.  lOi,.     .3J1,  322,  331,  3.,0i  400, 

1>4,  •.';!.   2h.',   250,  32--.|     433 

o23,  4.",ii  'Marvin,  119,  211,  212,  45C 

Loriiig,  71-74.  76.  77,  139,i.Mason,  02,  10.'     l'."*.  1  :;.3, 

2W.  .W^j,  367.  442.  44i     I     131.  !.H,  175.  ISO-   2iS, 


Kidd,  .i3J  "JLawreni-e,  24,71,95,  IK, ILo-siiiar.  i;t5,  :.•»(•:,  :,.ii       I     i;90.  300,  311,   314,   3.\S, 

Kidder,  47,     5,  Si,  Va\     12'\  !•»,  -ilj,  r27,  2*(".|  Lo:l'r.ip.  >7,  2'Jj,  343,3«33,     .354,  i^A,  43C,  431,  -HS, 


119,   U'O,  1-22.  12!,  131.!     L'.52.  .3:ifi.  55e,  436,  439,  Loud,  ;;n4 
132,  -ill,  205,  .3o4,  320,'     447,  44^  '  Love,  311 


.3-35,  41.6,  4.33 
Kiddvy,  410 
Kilborn,  2".'5 
Kiibjrue,  113 
Kiiijv.  oi.  114 
Kll;;bi»,  243 
KiUey,260 
Killiiin,  -";2,  284 
Kilpatrick,  llj 
Kimball,  91.  93. 


La.xham,  333  Levi  joy,  171 

Lav.  i'.-t.  4.U3  ILov-jisind,  -IXI 

Laydon.  205  jLi.>verid,\,'e.  50 

Leach.   169-91,  193,  295,' Lover ing',  Ui,  244,  334 


3-2".i.  4(ri 
Leagrave,  302 
Learnard,  lu5 
|Leailierbee,  433 
i  i^eavit,  73.  7t.  42.3 
94,  200,1  Le  Baron,  423 


313,  314,  310.  ;,(H,  453     jLe  Hl'>nd.  50.  JOS,  115 
Kins,  71.  89,  I'O,  im,  i-iO.iLe  Breton.  415 
205.  Sl'i,  33i,  301,  o75,iLedyard.  :i29 


I'Loven,  108 
Lovewell,  •.-*-3,  443 
Lowden.  73-75,    7; 

|Lo'.\Uer.  53 
I  Loire,  'JO,  241 


I  Lowell,  64,  -so,  1.30.  13:3.!    .'lOO,  3i2 


4.-.2 
iMastcr,  49.  51 
I M ulcers.  »'. 
I. V as r in.  .325 
!Ma5ton,  79 

;Ma.iurv,  199,  203,  277-79 
|Ji.itchiove.  Iv* 
|.Mi-ther,  49,  Co,  117,  125, 
81,1  J32,  l.'Ji,  l.-,4.  155,  l.'i', 
I  1-59,  2 IJ,  2--':'.,  2-.%  229, 
!  344.  .30,,  42:..  420 
;M;ttthe%vs,   70,    161,  252, 


370,  420 
Kin<r>-burr,  237.  449 
Kinp.«ky,'l04,  236,  4,57 
Kingston,  58,  2L>0,  451 
Kin^.-'well,  ■.'2 
Kiunicutt  25t 
Kiu^lev,  -.^7^,  L'73 
Kip,  330 
Kirbie.  413 
Kirkpiitruk.  US 
KittcracT",  -04,  .3r.5 
Knap.  51,  -Oj,  .;o7 
Kn'.-el.if.d,  4.;,  5J   251 
KjickerhocKiT,  07 
Kinv.ir.  ;8.  o5,  90 
Kni^hticv,  50 
Ku"llvs,  Imu 
Knowles,  399,  432 


IH.  :;0I,20i.  244 
iLowii'Je.*,  1.30,  iJl 


Lee.   100,    111,    113.  121,;Liicu-!,  314 


16' -90.    19.' 


'0,    263.:Liire,  i:70,  415 


2'.>5,  son,  Z<Tl,  351,  ;io5,;  Ludlow,  X5:i.  oOl 


lo.:. 

Lefroy,  450 

Lc-ger,  )>,  20,  257 
jLvproo.  277.  273,  415 

Lfci.ch,  00,  CJ 
I  Leiije,  95 
ll.einn  I,  241.  4^2 
|Le  .Me>-ur:e'-.  414.  4:. 
[Lei:i.'ii^'n,  6.:,  2i0.  ';Vi 
|LeMo>ne,  31.1,  439 

L.jinpriere,  "50 

Lemprv,  170 
iLi-jioir,  .H 

Leno.x,  5--,  126,  319 


L^iit,  311 
i..,aiiibi.rii,  ■\l') 
|La.nr:ir..-,  431 
iLunt.oO 
iLuse,  295 
iLuslirr,  193 
!Lu<oii,  17S 
!Lydr.2'.: 
iLy.'.-ton.  -iW 
jLyfoM,  leO 


I  Ma- so:'.  451 

.Martie.  ion 

-M.itrocks.  252 
h'aud, 249 
I  Wajdjier,  273 
i.'lsveriik.  :il.42i 
|. Maxwell,  100.  :',)il 

.Mav.  29 

I  May  berry,  331.. ^^2 
!3Iayc.<ck,  52,  5-4,  53 
L^layrum,  52 
Mu>er.  29.  1.3^ 
l>Liyh.--,v, -44 
'^laVnar.  401 
iJLi'ii.rd 


jLeon.ira,   13.J,   UO,  254,' Lyon,  250 


Lyman.  281.295,  350, 357, 1    2:0  4.:4 

4.:«  451  iMoCiiil.  .331 

Lvncb    12  |McC»iii:l.  4.-0 

Lyi:n,  !Sk)  i.^:..Carthv,  62 


C4,     175, 


|McCartie,  227 


Index  of  2Tames. 


465 


McCaulIey,  2-,'9 

McChTv. .!'.;,  ^l,  *\,  4« 
JlcCli-Hiy,  ."il,  Li'JO 
BlcClplldii.  l:(.^ 
McCliiitock,  315 
McCotiib,  •::\> 
JlcCunlii,  IS'U 
Jlcrurilv,  2:.'S 
McUaiii'rl,  :n 
McDoiialil.  •J0-,»,  S'-XJ,  4^0 
JIcKttrlaiid,  7U,  73 
McCiill,  (iJ 
Mc(Joon,  71-5 
Mc«;rc^'or,  47 
lIc(Jre;;ory,  47 
Mclutiro,  2!>I,  ;^s.3 
BIcIntosh,  Ij 
iloKpen,  4:1".'. 
McKt'uzie,  43S 
JIcKetchnie,  iVZ 
JIcKulIock,50 
ilcLatlilon,  71 
McLniigliliu,  4S 
Jlc.Vfil,  ?A7 
Mead,  151,457 
Hears,  los,  iU 
Mecimi,  64 
Ml-'Ooh.  71 
Meigs.  44o 
Bleinzies,  49,  50 
Mellen,  2:n,  4)0 
Mellins,  l.!o 
Melton,  70,  77 
Jlehil.ol 
Melvin,  250,  446 
Mer:ii=rh,  2% 
Merefiith,  id'^i 
Merriam,  314,  350,445 
Blerrick,  2)7 
Merrill,  114,  121,1J1,232 

.?i;5-r4, 451 

Merritt,  Lvj,  205 
Merry,  312 
Me?3euger.  105 
Messer,  2;:7,  255 
Messurier,  27y 
aietcalf,  252,  296 
Metzdori",  146 
Mice,  03 
JTien'.,20') 
JU!:hol,415 
Mifea.  49,  .^07,  .?08 
Slilhird,  9,  10,  14,  15 
Miiliken,  50,  51 
Miller,  6y,  70,  7^3-2,  K-S 

193.  214,  216,  i:i7,  507 

327,  3f.O.  443 
Mi'.kt,  183 
Blil:-,  172 
Miln,  5H,  63 
M.ltoii,  130,  442 
BTiner,  17.=i,  359 
Minors,  SO,  214.  217,  327 
Miviot,  23,  4>2 
Mirick,  r.i,  84,  306 
Milchell,  71,  'jm,  29S,  349. 

442 
Jruten, C>9 
Mobberly,  ,50 
Mo-Jate,  310,  .339,  4-:r3 
Bloliitio,  7ij 

Moniiiqiie,  ilO,  22r,  434 
iTonrgomrrv,  vi 
Sloouy,  49  iO,  97,  9a,  22j 
Mooriev   170 
Moor,  53,  92,  lO-S.  loj 
Moore,  40.  41,  H.  46.  4«, 

51,56.?:;.  12,\  ir.',  ]:>• 

137,  \n.  232,  251,  r^f.i, 

393.  4l>2.  4  .2 
'Moore?,  tt>,  sy 
Jlore,  170.  176,  1,'!4,  'i-A 
Morehe.id,  54 
Morehouse.  132 
Morel,  278, 2J» 


.More V,  43! 

MorijMii,  7.S.  82.  ISl,  19 

24'J,  2^2,  ;.-0,  419 
Morlcy,  2n2-«>4 
Morrico,  .51 
Morrill,  f,'j,  ?.*i 
Jlorris,  54,  55,   100,  I:i5, 

252.  456 
Morri-oii,  9.J.  134 
Mora.-,   11,  UO,   HO,   IHS, 

l^''.».  192,  2.50,  339,  457 
Mora-i,  Oii.  '.)? 
-Mortimer,  "i 
Mortou,  207,  350,  ;Jo7 
.Mory,  2'jf. 
Mo,elev,  273 
.Mose3,  25,  33,  113 

MOr3,306 

.Motlev,  87.  3C.3,  304 

.Mould,  108  ,..  „_ 

Moulton,  37,  10!,  104,  lS:'.!()del,  24 
-MouiUlort,  110  lOdiiu,  431 

Mourcon,  32  0;.'u>-n,  195 

Mou-s  305.  307  |<);;ilhv,  21 

Mousal,  79,  184,  215,  32G,;(»mI,  447 

328  Oldliam.  71 

Moutv,  63 
Mowatt,  .-1.37 
-Mov.iy,  123 
Moxis,  186 


Norm(in.91,230,.3ft2,310,iPar\',  278 

331,451  I'uttee,  237 

North,  111)?,  2^-,,  .324,  353  |l'utr4ii,  7",  «0,  170,  304 
NortheuU.  >5.  fr7  ll'utti'oii,  li>4,  343 

Norton,     107,     122,    191.1 1'liul,  7-',  2,"  t 

265,  ,3.30,  :tl5,  4is  1 1'uiiMiiij.',  01,  138 

\our-e,  1.'3,  191,227,25^l'.iviie,  53.  116  :,',«,  4 U 
Nowell,  .50,  63,  1<4  |I'um<oii,  U.'.6 

Noves.  S~,  .5'.>,  61.  65,  07,  IViiljodv,  27,  51,  .',3.  M, 

~    ■■      9I-.5,  i25,  1 ;.;,  2.52,  .■i;jo 

Peiicocke,  10.;,  100 

Peake,  413 

I'earce,  170 

IVarson.  >^.  «M,  05,295, 

220,  3.56.  455 
I'easp,  420 
Pca-lic,  1^9 
I'echell,  120 
l"et.le.  175 
(t'eere,  22 

I'eircp,    22,  49,  72,   117, 
315- 


9S.    lot,    120,   130,  211, 

225,  .'i.53 
Nuce,  270 
Nupaite,  175 
N  urae,  79 

O 

Oakes,  1C8,  .324 
Olier.  192.  1''.;,  203 
<  »'Hrien.  337 
|0'Cu!lHgLiaa,  .V'vO 


lltf,  ISr.,  ISK,  291,  : 

17,  376,  39-9 
Pe'r-'On,  lO/i 
I'fcuiher,  2'J»3 
re'i.herton,  ^9 
t'enibfok",  -'2 
l'oiihallo^%-,  .'44 
P-nn,  i:i7.  4.:0 
P-noe.  K'7.  175 
Pen  lie  1 1,203 


Oliver,  104. 
onderdoijk.  ; 
Om-!|o\v.  34'1 

,  .....  Orne,  i»2,  136 

Muijge,  240,  244,  444,  457,Orsninit.  I'.il 

Miillett,  .3-'6  jOsborn,  214   2f»6,  :t32,  359,Per  niiriun,  13 

.Mulliken,  :i>7  |().-iboriie,  1 '.)''',  301  iPeniiinjrton.  33>> 

Mullinsol- 363  O^burii,  ^iO  jPfuny.  H4,  £0,  194,  214. 

idincklev,  63  ():-ciir.  Prince,  251  217.  326 

^Iu!ljov.  2f>.'!i,  2?9  losi^ood,  75.  240,  276,  36lir'Kntra;l,  310 

Muuro'e,  bSi,  2:W,  246,.341,'('Hi>,  •'«.  214,  216,  327,  ;J36'P'Pi<ere!l,  43.1,  134 
3.-1-55,    367,    .3S8,   .3'Jl,|0tlev,  3j7  il'ei-vs,  107 

4.>>*  iOvei'ton,.-'j  .jPercv,  46,  :M6,  .381, 3S7 

Mun^ei!.    in.    n<«,    239,!')wen,  131,  24.S.  20fi,  451'    Pe'ham.  V.4 
240,  252,  351,  446,  455,  O-Ve.abrid^e,  272  |Pcrkiii-',  5;,  53,  0.^.  11 

457  I  I     2U5,  2''.6,  2-^6.  314,  'i^'^ 


plurdoch,  119 

.Uiird'Tk,  252  jrabodie.  12.3 

Murphy,  -,0,  129, 1.37, 1:3S.' Packard.  79,  .357 

2s>7,  :;oO,  451  I  Packer,  16.5 

M  urray,  :'-34.  432  I  Paddock.  457 

Margrave,  ^H  \  Paddy.  32 1 ,  424 

I.Mu^oIe,  302  Padelford.  2:.'5 

l.Mu:.sey,  377,  379,  390,434  Pufeny,  10! 
iMvlam,  lul  'Pag.',   72,   131,  : 

JMyrick,  42S  |     4,^;.i 

I  _  ll^rtSit,  22 

X  IPai^e,  ir.5.  1! 

'Nash.  72-4,  131,  202.  24.^,'    .;47,  42>.  '4.54 
'     2.50,4.51  ;Pa!i\e,   50,    "- 


iXa-oii,  110.  122.  130,  .344 

!     362.  .367,  371,  373.  44 1     I     429 

Xeale,  1^0,  249,  .i:4  iPalev.  250 

LVeck,  31j  iPd!!.-ev,  111 

.Ned.  74  iPulurave,  !30 

LVelf,  237  jPiime,  201,  .307.  308 

jNegus,  1j7,  2'.)6  'ralrnt-r,   S3,  «5,  94, 

Neill.  21.   lit-,,    Uj,  n-J     -rJo,  ;',15.  45'J,  457 

239,  205,  339.  39.;,  4.;4,;Parlirtm    '    " 
'     43'  


Perkins 
:u5, 

359,  :,>j>) 
Perkit.  317 
Perley,    »:D.  9.3,   94,   205, 

:».-,6.  150 
Person.^,  Hi 
Pert.  21  J.  245 
iPeter.=.  23,'J.  230,  S'l?,  3.34 
'Peterson.  74,  75,  3-.'5 
304,  364.'  Pettil'Oiie.  ^O^,  -ioO 
IPbeiasid,  2'v; 
'Phelps.  10;t,-r.i6 
2(W,  .nirj  lpi!e!<...'V.  296 

'■Pnilbrick.S'.;.  112 
161,  24S.  Philliiaore,  li:j 


2W,  334,  33ii,  402,  Philip,    Km 

241.  273.  435.  d43 


lOl, 


iPhdHp",  52,55,  70,  71.74, 
78-?.',  K'-,  111.  151.  ;:5, 
214-17.  275,  2S9,  J-i-i3, 


iNel50D,265,  283,  457 
jNeveri,  Si 

Nevins.  34:>.  3<)2 

N^\v.4.33 

.Vu-vvberrv.  73 
'Newce,  267.  270-72 
I.Ve'.vcouib.  21H,  2*'i) 

Ne •■-■?; I.    45,    70.   79.    Si, 
I     2:4-!9.  32ii-2»' 
i.Newhni'.,  4.5'i 
,2.',->s>-ii;aii,   I'K.',  110,  296, 


214-17.  275,  2S9,  J. 
1     441.467 
iPhina.  -.'►8 
li'hippii).  110 
jPliipt,  l'"-3,  .300,  003.  305, 
Paris,  Comte  de,  137        ,    "•^'i-  32<J 
;'.irish.97  IPickard,  so.  h9,  W     - 

Parke,  170,  177,  306,  364,Pii-keria„'.  125 
457  Picke'.-^:.!. --O 

Pa'ker,  51.  S4,  S5.07.  iOO,IPick.-;u>..  175 
102,  11).  1.30.  162,  l(i7  il'itrce.  it,24.  4(>,  51;64, 
201,  2iH,  214,  217.   22S.!     75   80.  .^1,  111,  347 
I     2-(2,  2<9,  2!i2,  2>.)0,  .VH.'Pierpout,  210 
I     305.  3i -7    •V26,  32f.  377,  Pier.*ay,  390 
i     379,  .'fciO  .1$.'-S5,  •'o."-yn,,Pie!^ev.  22.  1.51 

-  Pike,   51.    la,    134. 

:;i.i.  :J33,  366 
Pi.Ubury,    90,  217. 


29-2. 


iVi,  593.  403,  427,  4 
4:!5 
Parkbnrr-t.  3So,  ;\S9 
Newport,  147,  3!t4,  400     ip.irlev.  250  I     ■■"■ 

NrMvtji)   r:;.»V4,2ii6  lpaiTi3.341  Pil.aiore,  112 

Ni.-hols. 2.5-7. 77, 108. 170,' Parson?,  49.  "7,  201,  207.!l'in.,  ."lO 

173,    1,-5,    I'.-O.    192.  iiV.i     220.  237.   2'^l,  .3-0,  •32-2,  Pine,  2»'2.  29.3,  2>Jfl 
317,  320.  361,  lis,  419     I     3-.6   342.  41",  44'i,  454     |Pi:niey,  li 
Noble.  223,  :i:i7  iPa'tridge,  •>',  275,  2"96,;P:ik-.>j,  7'./. -"'J.  21".  n::5 

*'^-»man,451  j    3i0  |Pitcaira,  a:j>-60,  ^3. 3a»5 


466 


Index  of  Names. 


Pitcher,  177,  290 
Fitiiiau,  183,  IwS,  3.''.5 
rilsou,  lu.» 
Pilt,  IJ'.'.  :i4^ 
Fitr-<,  50-.: 
PlaiHte..t,51,'H,,'lS,  21'.» 

Piatt,  i:;o,  283 

Pliitts.bo,  9-',i;00 

Play,  17 

Pluincr,  2-i5,  314.  4  12 

Poc-alioutfts,  3'j.j,  4:A5 

Poland,  173 

Pollitt,  .V)'J 

Pomerov,  3S,  39,  48,  133, 

^J3,  .'Uy 
PomptU',  74 
Ponipelii;,  73 
Poole,   il,   5.',    102,   110, 

113,  r-'O,  234 
Poolcy,  130,  151 
Poor,  :U,  30,  47,  85,  83 

91,  95,  110,  l:i3 
Pons,  317 
Pope,  l:iO,  24') 
Poptium,  :tt2,  452 
Porter,  113,  120,  121, 192, 

19V,  2<)i5,  ■i\A,  379,  *27, 

4j';,  ^-i,  i.;.; 
Post,  121 
Pott,  208-70,  394 
Potter,  119,  127,  13-7,220, 

241,243 
Potts,  112,  203 
Potwair,  54 
Potwine.  55 
Poiiui-e,  64 
Pounding,  327 
Pounjforcl,  253 
Pow.;ll,  SO,  108,  148,  293, 

3-35 
Powers,  10,  So,  9o,  170, 

215,311,3:5,  327 
Powhatan,  391,  3y5 
Powufl,  %-i 

Pratt,  119,  124.  320,  430 
Preble,   29,    116-18,  224, 

241.  aJO,  oiU 
Prentice,  3' '5-07,  3.30 
Prescott,    35-39,   41,  42 

4:>,  4n,  '.;5,  i.;y,  l-o,  2':o 

3p0,  4i>I,   1<;3,  408,  40J 

435,  443 
Preston,  IS.' 
Preston,  •J31,  232 
Price,  421 
Prime,  71,  125,  175,  232 

240,  3C0 
Prior,  120 
Proctor,  Zl.  ,32,  160,  221, 

29l,2\»3,  3ol,431 
Pubiicola,  j:l\i 
Puolier,  31.', 
Puffer,  4-^7 
Piilleu,  lOS 
Pullin;?,  32,  109,  110 
Pullman,  l-l.** 
Purchase,  151,  337 
Purdv,  30 
Purfray,  .399 
Purple,  i-;-9 
Putnam,   37-3'J,   4^,    4"' 

231.  232,    :vH,    403-13 

432,  435,  4-i9 
Pynchon,  131 


Qu."\r!e-J,  80 

QuUter,  1j7 

Quincy,  .=13,  273,  .347,  4'0 

■Quint,  117,  li),  l.)4,  l,!u 


l?nfn.353 
l;al..-ixli.  4»0_4-i 
lt:im.'*den,7o,  72 
l;ani«M.  243 
^CaI1.1,.W,7^-Sl,  214,  2in. 

•J'.",J12,  293,  323,    ;v.'7, 

3-'.S 
ICandall,  71-74,   231,290, 

3':3,  328,  3:18,  4-' I,  453 
liaudolph,  114,  .339 
Fiaii3tonl,  51,  52,  55 
Kaiislow,  318 
KatclitiV,  4lX) 
Uiiihburne,  402 
IJiiwdi.n,  48 
l<awlins,311,329 
Kaw.-ion,  8:t,  10.;-04,  IOC, 

107,  170,  324 
Kay,  197 


Roby,  237 

l{i)cliaiiibeaii,228 

l:ork,  107,  175 

KorkvvtU,  3ir,  367,  35.8 

Kodiiian,  -','8 

ICo.lfi.-y,  rJ9 

Uo«tt.'<.  11.  34.52,  04,(50. 
72, 7S,  90,  175,  177,  1H9, 
191,  192,    214,   211.  2-'0, 

•-M5,  :'.(>4,  311,  3:;3,  324, 

410,  417 
Ilolle,  84,85,87,  90.   148, 

149,  -IZH,  313,   344,  395, 

Ml') 
H..-,lo,4iG 
i:(!lp!i..'>7,  9'> 
Koniulus,  412 
Room,  1:U 
Koot,  \M,  4.57 


Raymond,  90,  ,3.31,  3€3.|Ko,-<e, '^41,  :J90,  402 

4^7  lUusi,  269,  305 

Kav'ner,  SO,  10.8,  214  Hoicn,  :iOJ.  :i04,  293 

Rf-ad,  137,  210,   222,  232,  lioulin,  212 

■.>,-io  Rouse,  175 

Rciiaitig,  72  Kowe,  2j9 

Redduck,  lOS  |RoH-crofl,  209 

Kedford,  0-1,  162,  103,  ICO'  Knv-.U,  130,  4.')0 
Kedin^ton,  91,  lOO,  iol.'Rowlesrone,  i08 

-■j,i  jiJo'vsf,  7S,  198 

Rfed,24.  34-44,47.  48,  51,  llowson,  250,  373 

7,\  119,  137,  .if/3. 3'.'0, 391  Royal,  50,  .51,  27S 


Reiclitl,  l-ix,  250,  350 
r.eid,  34,  +17 
Reid-sel,  4i 
Rtilev,  3:52 
Re!nin:jton,  2S2 
Rennes,  442 
Renat,  345 
Kev-.ire,  32 
Revere,  109,  110,  122,27 

275,  276,  .353,  £80 
.iReyner,  249 
Revnolds.  172,  297,  350 
Rhodes,  287  I 

Rice,   I'Jo,   114,  220,   287,  S 

.307,311.  34^1,435, -440     sabin,  247 
Rich,  447  L^abiiie,  435 

Richard  IIT..  420  jSud-rove,  306 

Richards,  71.74,  140,  rO.i^umn.  70,  115 

193,  205,  2;i4.  301  i.Sauord.  91 

Richardson,  54,   72.  108.|Sage   3.30 

l-,iO,  122,   i:-il.  140,  '.i.io.  saiusburv.  220,  4.)0 

3;!5,  330,  348,  304,  4;iS.  sainte     Llaire,    bi.ster 


Rovce,  290 

Rui?le^  -..I'-i,  321 

R  ihman,  '.J^G 

Runilord  (Count),  48 

Rush,  31,  4.5.-! 

Russell,71-73,  78.  79,  82 
102,  120,  1.(0,  192,  194 
228,  •!40,  31;;,  320,  3;;8 
350,  -iiio.  426 

Rust,  290 

Rudiert'i-rd,  447 

Ryder,  08 


4.30,  447,  4.)8 
Richison,  304 
j:i':hraond,  70,  236 
.iRi'jke.',  24b,  :U4 
IRicket.son,  20:i 


,  2il,  223,  227,  ,>wn 


Kidd-1,  1 

434,  4.35 
Rider,  73.  280 
Ridgaway,  51 
Rid^elev,  224 
Rid -.je way,  19,  2.50 
Uidicy,  22;} 
liifUon,  114,118,223.225, 

220,  279,  317,  429 
RinK>?old,  12 
Ripley,  94.  2.s3,  29«.  4.52 
Itiihworth,  1,:j4,  218,  ^19 
Rite.  225 
Rather,  300 
Riv,53,  204 
lio>ich   54 
Robards,  296 
Robbins,  121.215,3.34,350 
Roberdeau,  :l.^0 
Roberts-,  314,. eJ,  I'f.',  425 
Rob'-rt=0!i,  i;;0,  300,411 
Robeson,  29o 
Robie.  222 
Rcbir.son,   'iO,   124.    Ml, 


i.'iO,  451 
Sah^bury,  53 
Salter.  82,  217,  328 
.Saltonstall,  64,  frl,  110 
alva^e,  395 


Raciae.  130 
Bat:,  aei 


;lmo^et,  185,  188 
.8anivi^on,  75,  454 
iiani-ion,  71,  74,  75 
.Samuel,  3'J3 
iar.boru,    1.30,  242,  243 

251 
.Sai)d.;rQ,  ,304 
.-aiiders,  lOti.  402 
Sanderson,  272,  -380 
.•^andt"  ird.  05,  231,  202 
,Sandis,  152 
Sands,  30,  152 
Sandvs.  •£>,  151,  152 
8arj;eiit,   34,  41.  42,  89, 

192,  ;i34,  3C8,  i:i5-;>7 
Saunders,  105,  10>\  205 
^ava.lf,    18,    59.   .S3,   52. 
t     10!-0r>,    H»*.    110.    lol 

102,   l.vi,   1,-2.   1^1.  221 

247,  .307,  310,  .3;ii,  39-4 

;''3,  410 
Suwyer,  06,  1.84,  20'.'> 

iy.'r.  21f>,  290,  "Xki 


173.  195.  30ti,  3^1,  430     |>av\vard,  21S.  21J 
RobjohQi.  147  i.-c:'niiiiel.  2;!,  25,  47,  24C 

I'obaoa,  429  bcalei,  432 


Scanimon,  420 

carborou^'h,  101 
Scariitt.  173 
Sctu'.rf,  2.'>1 

hlegel,  130 
Sctmvi.r,  41,47,  l.Vi 
•Scilly.  21*.  4,i;i 
8cOtt,  29,  51.  51,  63,  90, 
91,    113.    129,    i:W,   19S, 
240,   340-47,    432,   419, 
447 
iSCdttOD,  17rt 
'Scribner,  118 
•acriveu'.r,  394 
',.-c'\'U:.T,4:;.5 
;.>':.ibury,  2'.n'» 
at-af^rttve,  438 
Seiiri,  191,  "296 
Sears,  5^1,  liA,  252,  Z'.T, 

4.34 
.Seavey,  447 
Sebe,  10! 
Sfdi?wi'-k,  207 

eely.  3ii3 
.Se;bv,  Vji 
Seiidall,  1<'7,  175 
.Senter,  4-10 
■ierjeant,  50 
Sovei-v,  J5'7 
Sewa'i.  17,  50,  53,  51,  98, 

223,  3.32,  424 
Seward,  18.3 
iS(  xton,  2^i 
Shuckford,  316 
8haKsri-Kr'^,  13'.',  371.  :>3-3 
lshap!e:.^-ii,  182,  184,  ;«1 
Shapltv,  175 
jhiijligti,  isl 
Sharpe.  57, 60, 61, 65,  ISC'), 
;     349,  3.iO 
j.Sharplisse,  21 
Shattuck.  295 
|Shaw,  252,  433 
iShea,  330,  431 
Sliead,  304 
She,if,  79,  SO,  82 
Siie-ith,  216 
l.-^hef  rii,  331 

Shetileld,  22, 1.36,  ;67, 233 
Sh'^ldoa.  53, 303, 3.'J8,425, 

4--3 
lshepurd,86.157,lS5,281, 
,1     331,  302.  453 
i;h.'-preeve,  "iS,  62-4,  63 
ialieroourae.  51,  .v4,  2>i, 
I     I28 

iSheriuaa,  12t\  3<"3,  364 
Lihcrrriuii.  73,  74,  79.  2.3- 
I     17,  3.-8.  413 
jSherwill,  l:'.3,  331 
i^jherwit.  13.3 
sLipnuin,  ir-'S,  229.  2.39, 

Shipp<rn,  76. 223, 3^,  3^6, 
'j     303,  4-1  J.  430 
i.Short,  83,  ;x).  tS,  319,  442 
iShr'captoii,  3J,  03,   3J2. 
1    413 

Shurtleff,  423 
Jsibley,  17,  49,  210,  3.3-», 
I    431 

Isidney,  130,  252.  441,  i47 
isi^f.jruey,  292 
ism;.  :-:.>} 

Sillimaii,  259.  260 
'•?;ijbee,  96,  iOi 
Silvei-,  93 
S!lvpg.,..r,  413 
■5iirimi,  c'je 
Siruon  437 

-•■tnonds.  2-.'.0.  372.  300 
Siincr.s,  21/,  327 
.Sinclair,  31* 
sindry,  375,  376 
likorry,  277 


Index  of  Names. 


467 


Skldmore,  .r5t 
t>kinii<r,  it.  108 
Macomb,  'Ml! 

t«iii!'uT,  nv-v2,  '.>'j:,  ^'o, 

Xi?,  3o{,  yi4, -JJJ,  iJl 
Slale,  V".iii 
SlaugliUT,  3.';9,  4uO 
Met'ptr,  11« 
Kluniaii,  j'jiJ 
i>iiialfd);i'?,  77 
Small,  3:.'4,  -ioj,  411 
Smart,  1^0 
SmilMTt,  -.'OJ 
Smith,  11,  1:9,  50,  fio,  rs- 

7:;;,  74,  :<<,  no,  y.'i,  Wf,. 

IKi,  11},  lir,  IJ'.P,  13:i, 

13-1,  15,:,  !:,:(,  i;?,  i.'j, 


Stnvrly,  450 
.St.  Clair,  iK) 
.>t<urus    134,    170,    lO.T 

304.  305 
St.-ljbiii8.    110,   28'-',  2ll;3 

31'.i,  418,  4jO 
>t<(iiiiiin,  'JS,  229,  2y6 
Sttpheiis,    lU,   1U3,  226, 

3..J4,  3y5 
.Sterliiig,  300 
.Stet.sou,  70-74 
Steveu.s,  73,  81,  S',),  10-1, 

K'9,  21.5,  22r>,  2::2,  31.i, 

3:j.  327,  3:iO,  3oO,  301, 

441,  4.-.7 
>tiWiirt,  129 
^tickllt.'y,    92,     ll.i,     190, 


Tiibf-aux.  118 
,!Tub<r,  2h0 
lainti-r.  i'r2 
riiibot,.H7 

Tulcjtt,  II,  111,2.37,238 
Tuiiuy,  Ijij 
'l:ipl> ,  3-^0 
liippiui,  333,  450 


lys,  201,  203,  -0^1,  214,      201,  viO.  4:;; 

227,  231,  260,  :i,V.',  2cO-  .Stitj;i-1,  350 

KJ.   2V«,  30O,  3!o,  323,  Milts,  153,  170 

32.5,  3>7,  332,  ;i.35,  3.!9.  .>till,  3U 

359,  3til,  SiHi,  3r«,  379- -'tilliii(^,.c,  24.1 

81,   3i7,   391,  390,  4'»o,|.^tiUuii,  165,187-91 


ilS,  431,  4:(3,  437,  440, 

Snmckcr,  4,53 

Smyth,  22.  Ill 

Snuw,   61,   52,    110,   301, 

III) 
Soley,  215,  325 
Solly,  HI,  05 
Souierby,  W,  64,  SO,  309. 

371,  372 
Someis,  112,  147,148,255, 

.3t.3,  393,  430 
Somes,  232 
Soper,  77 

Sou!e,  71,  72,  SO,  125,246 
SoaNby,  101 
Soutuainpton,  :i2 
Soutliey,  l;ju 

Southwiciv,  ;>;;,'*,  435 

Soutiiwortli,  30;),  429 
Soutoii,  310 
Sowerbuiis,  79 
Sowler,  •.:41,  3.52 
Sowters.  2'.i9 
Spari'di-i!,  66,  114,  206 
Spaliliii/,  ;!tJ,  U4>5,  24!) 
SparlKiwk,  41.1 
bpttrroiv,  4'>;i 
Spauliiiiig,  114,  19-2 
Spear,  71,  77 
Speiictr,    I2i,    155,   227, 

405,  400 
Sperling-.  309 
Spotlo'U,  90,21  3 
Spot.Mier,  2oL',  "Pm 
Sp'jt>wuO(i,  127 
Spowcr.-.31 
Sprjisuf,' 50,  51,  73,  76', 

fcO,    12,',    1-ri,   i:;i,  jir. 

214,  ^10,  r^x  290,  .3-.;,=; 

327,  432,  451 
Sprliijj,  ;;.  0,  341 
Stiicey,  3i  •,  317 
itaiioi.j,  101.  117 
M^lin-.-,  ■.■(;.,' 
Stjiiili-li,  :i,  7,;    74    75 

91.  251,402 

SflDll.-l,..-.   li'J 

c<taniruid,  J5o 


tinip-.un,  215,  325,  327 

tOL-kliUtii,  153 
StDcktoii.  97,  152,  270 
•"t'jckWt'll.  L'-6 

itoilihird.ol,  53,55,  141, 

17.),  :.oj 
itoue.  79,81.88,  109,  120, 

123,  214,  210,  217,  226, 

241,  i.'4:,,  •j-15,  26:;,  ;.or,, 

3:j7,  33.i,  3:,«,  350,  440 
-■toiie-brlf,  05 
6tooillt-y,  312 
.•"tt'ppurd.  130 
storrr,  51,  54,  79,  225 
.5t!Tke,  310 
.-story.  91,  130,  223 
itou'gWtoD,  Pv.4,  155,  177. 

429 
Stialboigi.  345 
SIraiijje.s,  104 
Mraiigeways,  104 
.-)tiu.igii:iKe,104 
.6ti  UU-,  440 
streeter,  1.35 
J'trickliind,  124 
Miiiiger,  65 
strong',  91,  207,  20'5 
■Stryker,  :w,  112,  i:;7 
'tuart,  I'.O.  1:j9,  •,:45,  417 
-tdb.s,  70,  77,  :i/iO 
^turgi.-,  110,  2'!0 
tiitcrvilU',  151 
j.Sugiir.  109 
>uiuvun,  43,  47,125.  240. 

250,  :i44,  359,  449  ' 
Jiuiiilliei-.-:,  21 
.■juuiner,  90.  97,  III,  1!3. 

l-!0,  1 12.  347,  444,  4.V> 
^uttin,  l06i,  327 
swain,  92 
.>wal!uw,  119 
awaii,  7-i,  60,  6!2,  91,  115. 

110,  l:to,  214,  325,  32^., 

4:;i.  430 
.Swtut,  51 
^wec't,  202,  243 
SwittiCT,   210.  217,  326 

327 
S\v.'t;an<l,290.  35.S,  359 


Tower,  77 
lowne,  93,  120,  122,  231, 

22t<,  .'i:!? 
Towiigirnl,  114,  2i.'5,  2!7, 

2.J  J,  2'.'<),  :;•.•; ,  ;;50 
Iriicy,  11,73.  llj 
'rmil,  54,  4  ;l 
1  ruin,  l2;t,  ^j7,  2.32 
Irapp.  :v:l 


luiO'jx.  118-20,  336,  404-;irii.-<k,  He.'.  120,  K'.-j,  175, 


10,  412,4.5; 
I  arranl,  3)  I 
la.-islro,  1.37 
ra:.se,  457 

I'uto,  ;ta{ 


200,  2a;,  •.'.,4,  £11,  ;iw, 

312,  321.  -.W, 
IrHui,  ll.j 
Treaawiil,  107 
Irtlawnfy,  lii,  u.'.3 


iay,  51,  ,55,  100,305,3.32  ll  r^i-veii. 
layh'r,  215  [  I  rf>lfr,  li':i 

lavlor.  !I-1.(,  .53,  05,  70.  Iii-vfiyaii,  120 

71,74,76,61,  120,   130,  Irc'vit,  .;a; 

l:i2,  214,  231.  26.',  201.  I'rewortl.i.',  V^l 

2V0,  .3:;o,    32:}-20,    334,  Iri^het,  2«.'C. 

3.'3  I  i  rooper.  29»; 

T.al,  79.  SO,  215  |lrout.  428 

Teufrii*;,  54,  310  iTrmv.  .3-.ij 

lebbits,  1:.'0.  J17  !'rruwbrid?c,124, 305,340, 

IV^Mcr,  130  j    :i51 

I'lil,  IH  'Tiiibner,  4.57 

IciMpie,  18,  35,  6.5.  .324.  t  .-i;t,.|i:i  w,  i,.", 

^-■7  Tru.-.lii;i,  107,  175,  .307 

Tenney,  94.  198,  315,  4  j;  I  rull,  ;i0.5 
i'tn'.iysoii.  l:;o  ^Vrviribii-,  79,  82,  115, 116, 

Ic-rry, -..inO,  3-0.331  |     215.  2'.«:,  320 

IVwkjbury,  1m;-68,  191    |Tni:i.bHll,  115,  2*28,  2.38, 
Thiiclier,  05,  I2U,  344        i     239,  -jo.i,  350,  366 
l'luii;kfray,  l.;o  I'll u.sltr,  i03 

TliJ.tclier,   92,    1('6,    231, 'i  ivah,  2)^7 

250,  •.:96,  330,  3M  il:'.bb,s  7'>>-4 

Thayer,  !8.  05,  loy,  220. 1 1  ack,  l.NJ 

•J3-,  140  I  lui  kur,  ;>2.  78.  127,  178, 

■n.i.->ell,  190  294,  2::7,  237,  325,  331, 

llichingf,  175  I     .3;{7.  431 

Ti!«)ri.a.-,3v.:i3.  47.7t,72.ITiukerii!aii.  55.278,429 

74,    105,  212,  248,   250. 'Tudor,  19.;.  1107,  2i6 

292,  2'.0,  .30U,  3;J1,  .'JoC  1  lift,  215 

■i23,  431  ;  lultci!.  02,  440 

Th3nip>on,    4g,    51,    70.;  li.ke,  ,340 

21.1,  :;0.-,  ;,05,  307,  .39V.  I'liiit'er.  204,  290,  423 

■157  iriii.'ll,  lOs 

Th'imscn,  133  I'lurlrf  y,  .04 

I'lunidikr.  220   .303  !  Tiirniju;!,  251 

'1 1'ornliill,  175,  170  ^Turm-r.  29.  06,  71,  75,  D.'., 

Ihorntoii,    47,    -.i.-i.',    3.35, 1     175,  178,  22<l.  •.".■6,  7\A, 

:>41,  .';-l5,  457  I     324,  3';S,  355,  350,  370, 

Thorpe,  '^71  432.  4.;!i 

Ilnx'.-mvjrvn,  306  |  Turnll,  109.  321 

Tliur.ow,  97  j  riit.iil!.  -.-ll' 

I'liur-toii.   K5,    131,  25'.,l  I'luor,  i:;i 

.';57, -JO.^.  ^:.l  iTutlli-.  94,  114,   115.   117- 

Tluviiig,  51,  108,  175         1    21,   123.    i::..  227,241, 
lil'ijs..;!!  i    290,  3:>J,  337,  :(«.,  371, 

Tickiior,    129,    13C,   246,i     372,  444 


Stanley,  -17,  243,  252,  327isw."it,  4...  40,  95 
fctanto,!,  •,■49  i-wnt,  li;n,  l.'.u,  ;J80,  296 

Star,  02.  -229,  3.30,  3^;i  :}i;,;,  4;;.; 

Slarbu.k,  ■.it^,  :;<J7,  2*)8.lswiiitoii,  311 
woopi-.  •:Sti 
6>y;visj.  r,  251,  .352 
^yniiiie-,    1 .1.   ;j-o,  3.39, 

iuii.  597.  :,'^'.'5 
^>  (i;j!iO'i..<,  16.! 
svnmnil.-',  84,  i-6,  9\  93 

■22.'!,  .3j:{ 
.Synipaou,  19 


il. 
Stare,  i: 

M:.p...-.,,  .,0;.  311,  401,  4.> 
St;i,  k,   9.  -M,  o4-4«,   i:i:.' 

l--'3.  412 
S^arkt  y.  1)5.  422 
St;irlin,  ■J12 
Start!  r,  324 
Slauglitoii,  254 


2J6 

Tidd,  .3.S:;-S5,  391 
liddeiiiaii.  li  9 
liUltn.  72, -joo.  453 
lilfsion,  L'50,  273 
I  illu.son.  296 
lilly,  105 
ril'o'i,  367 
Tim  low.  190 
1  irreli,  73 
1 1. son  If.  2116 
liicuml..  .'iU,  307 
i'ol'V,  vriHi 

lo'i'il.  1<0,  319,  423 

I'of  iir.  296 
Tolniaii,  74.  75 
rou-.kiii.-^.  .'at 
l..pl:rt,  14 
forri 


r^ct'l,  126 
iTwi-s,  203 
I  Twoiiiblv,  ;:'">2 
!  Tyler.  49,  50.  52.  54,  .W, 

L«J,  91, 119, 120.  3C.:,  402, 

453 
I  ryley,  50,  54.  H'S 
i!  v-np,  5'.i,  ;52,  6.'j,  vO,  .321 
iT'yrrtl,  70 

I  tJ 

■riaiul,  306 
!Ui.afrwi.o.I., '<%<;.  339 

I  UiiK--.  •»■•'"' 
!ri)ii<ir.;j..if,  1:%,-.,  ISS 
lUp.lik.-.  .26 

;•.  pl.uiH.  \ii.  124.  !25,.\-.l, 
.Jt4.  4  'I 


y.;>l.  53   73-5,  iOa.jI'pd.n,  131.  2t0,  .r.* 


.■i:;7 


'SI 

PouUr  :i:;l 
Coiiro.  -J  15 
Puurti-Hot,  1C2 
Tout,  42e 


l.r.iii,.':-! 
IC'-.'K-T.  5»-n.;.  7C,  102-05, 
I    .3UJ,  ;:o3.  434 
jUtio,  39y 
iL'iref,  354 


46S 


Index  of  JSf'.imea. 


V 

Vail,  ^39 

Valiince,  200 

Vak'iitini,  M'^ 

Vnn  •,  i,'.'j    10.) 

Variok,  i.Ms 

Varncy,  L'^0,  X17 

Varuuiu, '.'.',  r.'j.l'Jo 

VassuU,  00,  4:« 

Vuu chilli,  lu4,  165,  L'OG 

Veaf,.'Wl 

Velloy,  278,  279 

Veren,  IW.-.Ol,  279,  323 

Vernon,  ,'j<>t 

Verraz2ano,442,<00,4dl 

45d 
Vial,  lOfi 
Vibert,  50 
Vicker,  7t>,  77 
Viles,  3>9 
Vinal,  4J 
Vinceucio,  26.5 
Vincent,  'JO,  ul,  267 
Vinson,  312 
Viutou,  9^,  131 
Voce,  2'J() 
Vcgt,  455 
Vj.sall,  104 
Vi  J  liug,  55 


TTarrone,  2C8 
Wu-hLuru,  liO,  243,  335, 
435,  437,  436,  45.- 

>\ii!iiuiij.'toii,  .".0,  ;;S,  42, 
4i,  90,  ;<xi,  110, 119,  l.:i;, 

1!7,    Um;,  205,   241'.,  :i.;ii, 

347,    3'.0,   :ie2-i'4,   435, 

447,  450,  451 
Wuss,  61,  109 
Wutt-ruiaii,  113,296,433, 

4:i7 
Waters,  55,  82,  If-O,  16«, 

215,  217,  277.  307,  309, 

3^0.   322,    :Vj5--7,   :i->J. 

3;>2,  3311,  375,  393,  391, 

414,415,42.) 
Waterstoii,  133 
Watson,  S5,  91,  109,  110, 

220,  316,  317,  355 
Watties,  290 
Watts,  IOj,  131,202,233, 

251 
Wiiy,  331 

\Va\I;iud,  255,  256,266 
Waste,  111 
AVeare,  105,  1.S3,  316 
WeHiorii,  ISO 
Webb,  74,  i04,  107,  206, 


Whewell,  259  iVf  Inihip,  387 

Whipple.27, 190,431,445,  \Viii*l"jw,4S.  52,  70,  71, 
449,  450  1-22,  176,  3;W,  413,  434, 

Whitaiiiore,   78,  79,   81,1     4.i4 

215,  jl7,  327  |Win.«or,  )2() 

VVliiiLMiiib,  46,  47  iWinter,  201.  3jI 

White,  5.-.,  71,  74.  80,  81,  Winters,  447 
fc9,  9u,  Mo,  140,  17-<,  Ibl,  Winihrop.  >,  48,90, 106, 
lc3,  ::U,  21i;,  217,  21'.»,      117,  I3>J,  l.'-5,   156,   loO, 
250,  -'53,  ,;;3,  2ft2.  2'.i:i  .     24-j,  252,  .'109,  329 
2'."i.  317,  413,  429,  433,iWire,  frO 
437,413  Wiseman,  397 

WMl.held,  342  IWi-wall,   2:12,   272,   273, 

Wliiteliead,  79.  3-35,  330  i     -'W,  306 
Wiiiteliou-c,  51,  314,  31<;  With' rel,  72.  73 
Wliit;?ift.  366,  .372  IWifluTi   240 

Wiiitiii,  90  'Withir.gton,  142 

Whiting',  1..0-6-,',  413        IWiihrel,  72-4 
Wiiitiiiiiii,  73  Witfernore.  7.1 

^V^,itIno^e,  l.S.  132,  133,;  Wolcjtt,  2'}.3,  4-29 

:(U5,  347  |Wolt'e,240 

^Whitney,   ISU,  231,  225,| WoL-tenholrDO,  ?2 
!     357  Wood,  76,  79, 81.  1 25, 2C?., 

Wl!iton,231  215,  3H,  32>'.  y..'.  429 

Whitt,  312,  3!3  iWoodard,  142.  3t^< 

1  Whitlaker,  4.^6  :  Wc^'lbridge,  50,  W,  8fl 

Whitteniore,82,325,  37;|Wor,.lljurv,  120,  li7,  l99, 
""  ISJ,    2<>2-4>»,   219,    2:^0, 


Webber,  51,  77,  79,  1&8,! 

183,  •-•51,  -iSl  , 

Webster.  12,  38,  90,  U^. 
141,  •2;;l,  237.  240,  250, 
252,  -290,  3.>4,  345,  41-<,1 
450  I 

Weed,  95,  237  I 

Weeks,  5-t,  95,  252,  317, 
422 

Wege,  212 

Wel^^s,  IL.;,  227 
•,  2S1,  Welcli.  292,  --'.M-.,  311,  320 
|We!d,  •2^25,  -HO 
KVellfurd,  :i3y 

Wellington,  :i.*7 

IWells,  ba,  90,  131,  136, 
225,  ■■l.ili,  229,  232,  291, 


Wu'ie,  Sj,  108,  211,  22 

2'.I3,  3H 
"Wadleigh,  4-:0 
%VadU  vs  •-02,  203 
Wad3wortii,^251,2<?6 
Wager,  h~.  168 
Waillaud,  2"-7 
^V'aill,  50.  51 
■Wair.wrifilit.  03 
Waite,   lrK>-62,  2 

3:50,  333,  42! -•24 
Waketield.3il 
Wakely,  2>,".,  28'> 
Waldin,  •J9.),  457 
Waldo,  89.  U>>,  296,  3.30 
■Wa!dron,61-6,  164,  181,'     3:j5 

313-16  jWel.-h,  51,  52,  216 

Wale,  334  Welstead.  49,  53.  75 

Wales, -.i-.-tl  jWendall,  3u,  31,  49.  5-3, 

Wales,  I'rincp  of,  40,  46.    -"5,  l-.j,  .'Uil 
■Widker,   24.  51.   73,  74,  SVeniwurtii,  00.  r24,  2C5. 

115,  127,   175,  -205,  260,1     314-Ui,  :i51,     '• 


Whitt !er,  •2W 
Wh'ttiiighaai,  226 
Whicrle,  4.;5 
Wi,!ttl.-ev,243 
Whitwel,  90,  311 
W  hotl".  317 
Wibird,  67 
\V  idle,  301 
Wickliain,  1,53 
Wicom,  N5 


I     312,  313,  3.36.  35.-,  36i 
jWoodhousc,  296 

\\  oodi.-i,  305 

W.^idfiian.  S3-5,  «.?,  58, 
I     1^4.  Vjj,  im 
['.y'lodron,  18 

VVoodruiT.  195.  3.)<1 
I  Wood.:,  4.1,  2.55,  317,439, 
441,442 


Wiggiii,    120,    183,  184,!  Woodward.  16.  135,  IK, 

314  I     228,  2'.'6.  0.3-.; 

Wiggle<u'ortli,  345  i  Woodwel!,  9!).  2!0,  027 

WiiTiiron,  296  Woodwortli,  2V'7 


Wilbur,  ■.:2 1 
Wilcox,  1'3 
Wilder.  ll'J-21,  123,  IVj. 

221,  ^227,  -241,  335,  330. 

429,  421.  -i:i3-:t5 

Wildt-s,  :;0o-0o> 
Wilkie.  176 
Wilkins,  IG-J 
Wilkinson.  47.  l.'O 
Wilhird.  :o,  7;'.,  loi,  109, 


'..'ooUey,  301 
Worcester,  23,  24.  27,  35, 

36,   140,    IfiO,    171,   17i, 

2.i0,  .■!57 
Wordell,  416 
Worden,  42:1 
Wordit.  307 
Word-isyortli,  130 
Wurt''.  112,  29^,  322 
V.'irtlien.  •-•7 


305,  317,  .3:16 
WalWinsluiw,  113 
Wali;ui>,  -'04 
Wallace.  425,  447 
Wc'idon.  103 
Wai'.ingh.rd.  26 
Walli:<.  198.  -JO'.).  283, 2S9 
Wuipolt.  i:;(i.  ir.7 
Walsinghiim,  441 
WaltT,  -j-.'.t,  3f3 
Waltham,  413 
Walton.  130.  181 
Wanaianst-it,  59,  66 
Ward.;;6.;i7.4l,  lu. 


iWeseiiduiick,  00 

Wesley,  :,;e8 

West,    ^22,    66.    1-20, 

164,  2.50,  •296,  ;J50 
|Westbrco!...-,314 
:  We.-ton,  .l;;5 
,  Wetcoiiib.  ;6 
IWetherbte,  204,  .377 
'Wftmore,  -^7 

Wetteiilmll,  -316 

Wevinaii.  52 

What!',  17 
IWhaland.  287 
l-'0.'\Viiale.  3U 


103, 


123,  i;!9,  142,   l<,o,  161. iWhalUy.    132,  .3:^4,   3.35, 
222,  •227,  ■.\'.8,  ■--:'.'),  2'J6.|     .3.;0,  4-5 
3' 5.  3(Ml,  3-j'j.  :;;i(.,  :'.:;6,  Whurt,  194,317 
337,  .339,  343.  317,  :VM.  Wharton,  59,  Ot">,  67, 311 
305.  3t>',  :«i7.  400.  4o4-.  Wheat.  17u 
07,  4M>-11.  -in,  T-"-'.  4.).t  Wliealleigh,  105 
AVar.l-ii.  50,  51,  55  jWhejt..-!    l.;0,  3.'57 

Wai-dwel,  :o.-<  iW'hedoii.  457 

Ware,  I'-'O,  ljl,2.5n,  446  1  Wheeler. .-s^.  VjO.  !(m,216 
Warner,  24.  2'>';,  418  i  22-.I,  24-.',  2'.'<>,  306.  .3-'0 
Warren, :w,  .•■,')  41, 4s. 73,1  :\:\l.  .■►;7,  .IH,  4.'o,  432 
75,76.  1'.9.  l2''i,^.'(:0.'.;-->7.:VV!iri-l..ck,  '.4 
2.32,246,  •-■:!,  •J7,^.  :;itl,  Wl.e.-1-.vri-llt,  !03,  1.^) 
408.  409,  41  i,  43:;,  434  I  K!,  21^,  2!'.',  246.  247 
439.  447  i     315,  -.V.o.  •;.=,.;,  421,  424 

War.-iutr,  £9,  23.*,  319,  V,'hcild..n.  oi..' 

420  iWhetcoinb,:;..'2 

WaxrlDgloc,  331  iWheteua:;,  346 


;     155,  242,  -240,  o\^,  417,|  WonlULtrt'in,  297 

l-U  iVi'ortop,  316 

IWilb'tt,  321  W'oskv,  175 

Wiliey,  311  jWratiiJa^.v.  447 

Wihiini  ttie  Conqueror.!  Wreiiii.  19  2'j.  21.3,2S4-S? 
I     416  1  Wright.  a5,  124,  U.4.  225, 

IWiliiam  the  .'=;iiPCt,.364  i     243,  297,  3o7.  :.0~^.  317, 
iWilliatn.-,  5r,  55,  67,  KaI,!     561,  362,  4:7,  41-.  4;», 

121,  124.  154.  17-,  l.S!,;     434,457 
I     ^14,240,  •-•4»,  ■J4i,  247.!Wp)e?,54 

^5-^:,  2'.)*).  :i05,  :;iX),  .•;--"j.i  Wrothe,  2-2 
1    .351,:j.V.';  .3..4,  :*;,'..,  4-9,  Wvair.,  .•:07-70,  .332,  37-5, 
i     4.(1.  4  ;:;,  442.  444,  44'>-      376 
I     48,  455,  4,"i.8  ,VVver,  SO 

:Willi.imsoii,-225, 311, 344,1  U'vnian.  102.  115  231,232 
!     442,413  IW'vnond,  3.'i> 

W.ilis,  .52,  53,  --H-D,  2j«.vVvndoaiii.  "4.. 
I     2>'.),:i44  .Wynue,  121,  1:23 

:VViU  Higiibv,  118,300,  3101 
iWlhiL-r,  :.01  :  Y 

lWil„Pf, -^^2  iVard,  .3C4 

iWilsiiQ,    i.:7.    13C.    133.:  Yates  -:,:^\ 
I     \-v<^  2-28,  ::;9,  \i:>>,  241.  YeurlUy,  1::2,  WJ 
I     24  ;,  -'47,  -'5-',  -iOO.  3U.'k-  iVil.  vrj 
I    07.  3^4,  :-\i.  3".5,  3.'i5.;  York.  12;{.  23-2, --tS 

439.  iv:.  444.  4..6.  456     |  Vouider.  3;0 


WiiU'iin.  !7 
iWiuch.  ••:3 
Winchfjier,  'WS 

Winder.  ;>22 
|Wintield.  :j.'.9 

Wing,  2>0,  •-•(•! 
IWing.ste.  -23,  2J,  333 
IWinn,  315 


lYoii'ig.  .30.  T3»,  51  5>.  74, 
!     25i.  30!t,  :!.52.  .3.9,  463 
iYouagtmm,  173 


Z 


'■^erfS.  447 
'ZirWel,  .V'i 
(Zouch,  3o7 


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