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Bell  Rock,  its    Monument  and  Tablets,  Sylvester  Baxter.     (Three 

illustrations)          .         .          * 5 

Program,  unveiling  the  tablets,  October  12,   1910   ....  12 

History  of  Bell  Rock  Park,  an  address,  Frank  Erfiest  Woodxvard.  14 

Address,  Maiden,    her    Founders    and  Traditions,  l>y   the   Soc/'ct/s 

President       .         ■         ■         ■         ■         ■         ■         •         •         ■         •  ^7 

Puritan  Job  Lane,  who  built  the  Bell  Rock  Church,  Charles  Edzvard 

Mann 22 

Life  in  the  Old  Parsonage,  the  diary  of  Rev.  Peter  Thacher,  Delor- 

ainc  Pendre  Corey          .....••••  3° 

Childhood  in  the  Old  Parsonage,  Darius  Cobb           ....  60 

Maiden  Historical  Society,  officers  and  committees    .         .         .         .  65 

Maiden  Historical  Society,  members 67 

Necrologies,  Deloraine  Pendre  Corey,  Charles  Leroy  Dean,  Charles 

Russell  Prescott,  Joseph  Stevens.    (Two  portraits.)    ...  74 

Bibliography,  important  publications  of  members  of  the  Society      .  90 


SOLDIERS-    A.XD    SAILORS'    MOyUMENT. 

Be//  Ror/;,   .\Ja/i/,ii,  Mass. 

Coin-tesv  of  Ait  and  Protjress. 


BELL  ROCK,   ITS  MONUMENT  AND  ITS  TABLETS. 

By  SvLVESTEK  Baxter,  Chairman  Maiden  Park  Commission. 


The  year  1910  was  notable  for  the  dedication  of  the 
monument  to  the  Soldiers  and  Sailors  of  the  Civil  War  at 
Bell  Rock  Memorial  Park.  For  more  than  a  generation 
the  erection  of  such  a  monument  had  been  discussed. 

Finally,  thanks  to  the  initiative  of  the  Hon.  Alfred  E. 
Cox,  the  City  Council  of  1907  appropriated  $15,000  for 
the  erection  of  a  suitable  monument  under  the  direction  of  a 
commission  of  fifteen,  composed  of  the  mayor,  four  members 
of  the  City  Council,  and  ten  citizens  at  large,  appointed  by 
the  mayor.  The  commission,  as  at  first  constituted,  was 
as  follows:  Hon.  Charles  D.  McCarthy,  M.  D.,  chair- 
man; Allan  H.  Wilde,  secretary;  M.  Sumner  Holbrook, 
George  M.  Bishop,  Frank  M.  Sawtell,  William  G.  Wood, 
Robert  W.  McLain,  Joshua  H.  Millett,  Deloraine  P. 
Corey,  Sylvester  Baxter,  Michael  S.  O'Donnell,  Vesper 
L.  George,  Robert  Morrison,  Henry  Worcester,  William 
H.  Winship. 

At  the  time  of  the  dedication  a  few  changes  had  been 
made  in  the  membership.  Mr.  George  and  Mr.  Holbrook 
had  removed  from  town,  Mr.  Bishop  had  died  in  1908  and 
Mr.  Corey's  death  took  place  a  few  weeks  before  the 
dedication.  To  fill  vacancies  the  following  named  were 
added  to  the  commission  :  William  Neidner,  Charles  M. 
Blodgett,  Gilman  Page. 

Exceptional  care  was  taken  at  the  start  to  assure  a 
worthy  result.  Sub-committees  on  site  and  on  design  were 
appointed,  but  it  was  decided  that  the   question  of  design 


6  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

should  not  be  determined  until  that  of  the  site  had  been 
settled  ;  it  was  desired  to  make  the  design  appropriate  to 
the  location.  Prof.  Frederick  Law  Olmsted,  the  landscape 
architect,  was  engaged  to  advise  the  commissioners  regard- 
ing the  site.  After  careful  consideration — having  found 
no  favorable  site  in  the  center  of  Maiden  as  desired,  that 
on  the  High  School  grounds  proving  unsuitable — he 
recommended  one  of  two  locations  :  Bell  Rock  Park  or  a 
site  overlooking  the  playground  called  Coytemore  Lea — 
the  latter  condidonal  upon  the  erection  of  the  proposed  new 
armory  at  that  place,  the  monument  to  stand  on  a  terrace 
in  front.  Popular  sentiment  preferred  Bell  Rock.  So  the 
City  Council  appropriated  the  money  necessary  for  the 
purchase  of  additional  land  required  by  the  Park  Commis- 
sion to  complete  the  park  and  make  it  worthy  of  the  pur- 
pose. This  done,  the  site  at  Bell  Rock  was  selected  and 
the  Park  Commission  entered  into  cordial  cooperation  with 
the  Monument  Commission.  Messrs.  Olmsted  Brothers 
were  commissioned  to  design  the  park  in  harmony  with  the 
scheme  for  the  monument.  A  limited  competition  between 
the  two  Boston  sculptors,  Bela  L.  Pratt  and  Cyrus  E.  Dal- 
lin,  had  resulted  in  the  choice  of  the  design  submitted  by 
the  former,  and  the  problem  of  unifying  the  plan  for  the 
park  and  the  design  for  the  monument  was  studied  jointly 
by  the  landscape  architects  and  the  sculptor.  It  being  a 
locality  of  exceptional  historic  interest  the  landscape  archi- 
tects recommended  that  the  monument  be  made  a  feature 
in  a  general  treatment  whereby  the  site  should  be  developed 
to  commemorate  appropriately  historic  and  patriotic  events 
and  services.  This  motive  had  been  suggested  by  the 
circumstance  that  the  site  was  already  occupied  by  a  tablet 
placed  in  honor  of  the  men  of  Maiden  who  had  served  in 
the  War  of  the    Revolution.     The    recommendation    was 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  7 

adopted ;  the  purpose  was  given  thoughtful  and  artistic 
expression  in  the  design  of  the  terrace  to  accommodate 
not  only  the  Revolutionary  tablet  but  a  complementary  tab- 
let inscribed  to  set  forth  concisely  the  historic  relations  of 
the  site.  These  circumstances,  together  with  the  legisla- 
tion whereby  the  portion  of  the  park  around  the  monument 
was  reserved  for  the  commemoration  of  patriotic  services, 
are  given  in  some  detail  in  connection  with  the  account  of 
the  unveiling  of  the  two  tablets  on  the  terrace  on  Columbus 
Day,  October  12,  1910.  It  may  here  be  stated,  however, 
that  contributions  of  $50  each  from  the  Maiden  Chapter  of 
the  Sons  of  the  American  Revolution  and  the  Maiden  His- 
torical Societ}'  and  of  $20  from  the  Deliverance  Monroe 
Chapter  of  the  Daughters  of  the  Revolution  were  made 
towards  the  cost  of  the  historical  tablet,  the  rest  of  the 
expense  having  been  assumed  by  the  Park  Commission  in 
accordance  with  the  spirit  of  the  special  legislative  enact- 
ment aforesaid. 

The  character  of  the  monument  is  so  clearly  expressed 
in  the  accompanying  illustrations  that  it  would  be  super- 
fluous to  say  more  than  that  the  group,  "The  Flag 
Defenders,"  with  the  infantry-man  and  the  sailor  crouching 
on  guard  beside  the  standard  bearer,  symbolizes  the  spirit 
of  the  great  conflict  and  the  youthful  and  devoted  character 
of  the  men  who  made  up  the  two  great  arms  of  the  service. 

The  pedestal  of  the  monument  was  designed  by  the 
architect  Mr.  Clipstone  Sturgis.  The  inscription  on  its  face 
was  the  joint  work  of  the  late  Deloraine  P.  Corey  and 
Sylvester  Baxter,  while  that  on  the  tablet  in  the  pavement 
before  the  monument  was  prepared  by  Mr.  Henry  Wor- 
cester, of  the  Monument  Commission,  after  much  pains- 
taking research.  Mr.  Worcester  is  a  veteran  of  the  Civil 
War. 


8  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

The  inscription  for  the  historic  tablet  on  the  face  of 
the  terrace  was  composed  by  Mr.  Corey.  As  an  example 
of  beautifully  simple  and  concise  diction  it  will  bear 
comparison  with  the  celebrated  efforts  of  President  Eliot  of 
Harvard  in  that  line. 

The  bronze  group  was  cast  by  the  Gorham  Manufac- 
turing Company  of  Providence,  and  was  brought  all  the 
way  from  the  factory,  nearly  fifty  miles  distant,  on  the 
company's  motor-truck  —  a  significant  instance  of  the  new 
development  in  modern  transportation. 

The  cornerstone  of  the  monument  had  been  laid  on 
Memorial  Day,  May  30,  1909,  with  elaborate  masonic 
ceremonies  by  the  Most  Worshipful  Grand  Master  of 
Massachusetts,  Mr.  Dana  J.  Flanders  of  Maiden,  assisted 
by  the  officials  of  the  Grand  Lodge  and  the  local  masonic 
organizations  of  Maiden.  The  principal  speakers  on  this 
occasion  were  the  Rev.  Dr.  W.  H.  Ryder  of  Gloucester, 
formerly  pastor  of  the  First  Parish  Church  in  Maiden, 
and  the  Rev.  Dr.  Edward  A.  Horton  of  Boston,  chaplain 
of  the  Grand  Lodge. 

The  dedication  of  the  monument  and  of  Bell  Rock 
Memorial  Park  took  place  on  June  17,  1910.  A  pouring 
rain,  tropical  in  its  intensity  and  fortunately  also  in  its 
temperature,  interfered  with  the  program,  lasting  well  into 
the  afternoon.  In  its  midst  the  procession,  composed  of 
veterans  of  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic,  the  local 
organizations  of  Sons  of  Veterans  and  Veterans  of 
the  War  with  Spain,  and  a  large  detachment  of  the 
United  States  Marine  Corps  detailed  from  ships  at  the 
Navy  Yard  by  order  of  the  Secretary  of  the  Navy,  together 
with  guests  of  honor  in  carriages,  marched  through  the 
decorated  streets  to  Bell  Rock,  where  in  spite  of  the  rain 
a  great  multitude  had  gathered.     The  exercises  here  were 


DETAIL,    HEAD     OF    SAILOR. 
CouiU-sv  of  Art  aiul   Prog-ress. 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  9 

necessarily  limited  to  a  brief  introduction  by  the  former 
mayor,  the  Hon.  Charles  D.  McCarthy,  as  chairman  of  the 
Monument  Commission,  an  impressive  invocation  by  the 
Rev.  Richard  Neagle,  pastor  of  the  Church  of  the  Immacu- 
late Conception,  and  the  unveiling  of  the  mounment  by 
Miss  Katherine  Page,  daughter  of  Mr.  Oilman  Page  of  the 
Monument  Commission  and  a  veteran  of  exceptionally 
long  service  in  the  War  for  the  Union.  A  shout  of 
admiration  greeted  the  moument  as  the  flags  veiling  it 
parted  and  revealed  the  uncommonly  beautiful  group  for 
the  tirst  time. 

The  rest  of  the  exercises  took  place  in  the  Centre 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church.  First  came  the  dedication 
of  the  park  in  a  brief  address  by  Mr.  Frank  M.  Sawtell  of 
the  Monument  commission,  followed  by  its  acceptance  by 
the  chairman  of  the  Park  Commission,  Mr.  Sylvester 
Baxter.  Then  came  the  dedication  of  the  Monument  with 
the  regular  ritual  for  the  occasion  by  the  Major  General 
Hiram  G.  Berry  Post  40,  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic, 
Lucius  B.  Wright,  Commander,  assisted  by  Department 
Commander  J.  Willard  Brown  and  his  staff.  Department 
Junior  Vice-Commander  George  A.  Hosley  responded  for 
the  navy.  Department  Senior  Vice-Commander  Granville  C. 
Fiske  responded  for  the  Army,  the  Department  Officer  of 
the  Day,  Israel  H.  De  Wolf  responded  for  Peace,  Chaplain 
Robert  Morrison  made  the  prayer  of  dedication,  and 
Adjutant  John  O.  Woodman  read  the  Roll  of  Honor. 
Then  came  an  address  by  His  Honor  the  Mayor,  the  Hon. 
George  Howard  Fall,  who  closed  by  introducing  the 
sculptor  of  the  monument,  who  had  brought  his  two  young 
sons  with  him.  The  following  poem  was  then  read  by 
Mr.  Denis  A.  McCarthy  of  Boston. 


lO  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 


THE  FLAG  DEFENDERS 

Fixed  in  the  deed  of  their  brave  endeavor, 

Guarding  the  banner  that  blows  above, 
Lo,  these  generous  jouths  forever 

Offer  their  lives  for  the  land  they  love ! 
Shrined  as  it  were  on  their  country's  altar, 

Ever  they'll  speak  though  their  lips  be  dumb, 
Bidding  us  never  to  fail  or  falter 

Whatsoever  a  foe  may  come  ! 

Here  will  they  speak  of  the  days  departed, — 

Days  with  trouble  and  treason  curst, — 
Here  will  they  speak  of  the  dauntless  hearted 

Soldier-spirits  that  faced  the  worst ; 
Here  will  they  tell  of  the  light  that  dimly 

All  but  sank  in  engulfing  gloom. 
Here  will  they  tell  of  the  men  that  grimly 

Died  to  baffle  the  danger's  doom  ! 

Praised  be  the  brooding  spirit  that  brought  them 

Forth  from  nothingness  into  light! 
Praised  be  the  dexterous  hand  that  wrought  them 

Ready  and  steady  in  Freedom's  fight! 
Year  after  year  their  strength  and  beauty, 

Meeting  the  eye  will  make  men  pause, 
Stirring  the  heart  with  the  pulse  of  duty, 

Waking  the  soul  to  the  country's  cause! 

Hither,  oh,  come  for  your  inspiration, 

Freedom-lovers  through  all  the  years  ! 
Here  is  a  sign  of  the  land's  salvation 

Conquering  doubts  and  calming  fears. 
Every  frivolous,  shameful  fashion. 

Worship  of  wealth  or  wanton's  kiss. 
Fades  in  the  flame  of  the  patriot-passion 

Kindled  and  kept  by  deeds  like  this  ! 

Fixed  in  the  deed  of  their  brave  endeavor, 

Here  let  the  banner-defenders  stand, 
Making  the  citizen's  heart  forever 

Leap  with  pride  in  his  chosen  land! 
Shrined  as  it  were  on  their  (Country's  altar, 

Here  let  them  stand  as  the  years  go  by. 
Symbol  of  courage  too  firm  to  falter. 

Symbol  of  love  too  dear  to  die ! 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  II 

The  oration  of  the  day,  by  Col.  Edward  Anderson  of 
Qj^iincy,  was  a  most  eloquent  effort,  full  of  patriotic  ardor, 
sympathetic  appreciation,  and  no  little  humor.  Col.  Ander- 
son was  with  John  Brown  in  his  Kansas  Border  campaign 
and  was  intimate  with  Lincoln  before  the  war.  Short 
speeches  were  made  by  His  Honor  the  Lieutenant  Gover- 
nor, Louis  A.  Frothingham,  and  by  the  Hon.  Ernest  W. 
Roberts,  M.C.,  of  Chelsea.  After  a  formal  acceptance  of 
the  monument  by  Mayor  Fall,  closing  with  a  presentation 
of  the  sculptor,  the  benediction  was  pronounced  by  the 
Rev.  Richard  Eddy  Sykes,  pastor  of  the  First  Parish 
Church. 


12  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 


ORDER    OF    EXERCISES 

AT    THE 

Unveiling  of  the  Memorial  Tablets 

AT 

BELL    ROCK    MEMORIAL    PARK,  MALDEN 

Wednesday,  October   12,  1910 

at  10.30  a.  m. 


1.  Invocation 

Rev.  L.  J.  Birney,  D.  D. 

Pastor  Methodist  Episcopal  Church 

2.  Hymn 

"  Angel  of  Peace  "  Keller 

High  School  Chorus 

Melville  E.  Cluise,  Director 

3.  Introductory  Remarks 

Frank  E.  Woodward 

Pres.  Maiden  Chapter,  S.  A.  R. 

4.  Address 

Edwin  S.  Crandon,  of  Cambridge 
Vice-Pres.  Mass.  Society  S.  A.  R. 

5.  Address 

Hon.  George  H.  Fall 
Mayor  of  Maiden 

6.  Unveiling  of  the  Tablets 

Miss  Elizabeth  Dexter  Walker 

Descendent  of  Richard  Dexter 

Miss  Katherine  Hall 

Descendent  of  Thomas  Appleton 


MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY  1 3 

7.  Bugler 

Kingsley  Curtis 

8.  HvMx 

' '  To  Thee  O  Country  "  EicMerg 

High  School  Chorus 

9.  Address 

Sylvester  Baxter 

Chairman  Board  of  Park  Commissioners 

10.     Address 

Charles  E.  Mann 

President  Maiden  Historical  Society 


14  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 


INTRODUCTORY  REMARKS 

AT  THE  UNVEILING  OF  THE  TABLETS  AT  BELL   ROCK 

MEMORIAL  PARK. 

By  Frank  Ernest  Woodward,    President    Maiden    Chapter,    Sons    of    the    America 

Revolution. 


We  meet  once  more  upon  this  historic  spot  to  do  honor 
to  the  founders  and  patriots  of  Maiden.  The  story  of 
their  lives  has  been  often  told.  In  the  brief  hour  we  shall 
spend  here  this  morning  we  shall  not  attempt  to  repeat 
the  storv  but  shall  make  such  allusions  to  it  as  shall  seem 
appropriate  to  the  occasion  which  has  brought  us  forth. 

Some  years  ago,  through  the  initiatory  efforts  of  the 
Maiden  Historical  Society,  a  portion  of  this  plot  of  ground 
was  purchased  by  the  city  for  a  public  park. 

Shortly  after  the  Maiden  Chapter,  Sons  of  the  Ameri- 
can Revolution  and  the  Deliverance  Munroe  Chapter, 
Daughters  of  the  Revolution,  raised  seven  hundred  dollars, 
with  which  they  placed  upon  a  boulder  on  this  rock  a 
bronze  tablet  containing  the  names  of  all  the  soldiers  and 
sailors  from  Maiden  who  served  in  the  War  for  Independ- 
ence. This  memorial  was  dedicated  with  appropriate 
ceremonies  on  May  22,  1905.  There  was  at  the  time 
some  just  criticism  by  the  public  regarding  the  shape  of 
the  boulder  upon  which  the  tablet  was  placed,  and  had 
it  remained  in  its  old  position  we  should  have  improved  its 
shape  and  beautified  its  surroundings.  Shortly  after  the 
tablet  was  unveiled  the  question  of  purchasing  the  whole 
tract  of  land  between  the  two  streets  was  agitated. 


MALDEN    HTSTORICAI.    SOCIETY  1 5 

The  fact  that  we  had  placed  a  memorial  tablet  on 
Bell  Rock  served  to  attract  attention  to  the  natural  beauties 
of  the  spot,  and  recalled  to  the  minds  of  the  older  inhabit- 
ants the  historic  associations  connected  with  it. 

In  response  to  a  public  demand  the  city  council  some 
three  years  ago  purchased  the  remaining  portions  of  the  lot 
not  already  built  upon,  and  by  a  special  act  of  the  legislature 
have  set  it  apart  forever  for  memorial  purposes. 

The  act  reads  as  follows  :  "The  parcel  of  land  hereto- 
fore acquired  by  the  city  of  Maiden  for  park  purposes,  and 
called  'Bell  Rock  Park'  shall  hereafter  be  called  'Bell  Rock 
Memorial  Park'"  and  "shall  be  set  apart  as  a  perpetual 
memorial  of  the  self-sacrifice  and  patriotism  of  the  founders 
of  the  town  of  Maiden  and  of  the  inhabitants  thereof  in  the 
eras  of  the  Revolution  and  the  Civil  War ;  and  shall  be 
dedicated  to  the  promotion  of  patriotism ;  to  the  better 
understanding  of  civic  rights  and  duties,  and  to  the  reception 
of  monuments  or  memorials  for  those  who  have  labored  for 
the  welfare  or  defence  of  the  people." 

Previous  to  this  time  the  City  Council  had  appropriated 
$15,000  for  a  monument  to  the  Soldiers  and  Sailors  of  the 
Civil  War,  and  here  on  the  seventeenth  of  June  in  a  down- 
pour of  rain,  this  beautiful  work  of  art  was  unveiled. 

It  is  regarded  by  those  competent  to  judge  as 
standing  almost  alone  in  its  artistic  beauty  among  the 
memorials  of  a  similar  character  in  the  commonwealth, 
if  not  nation. 

In  order  that  this  monument  should  have  a  suitable 
environment  the  landscape  architects,  Olmsted  Bros,  were 
employed,  and  they  prepared  plans  for  a  most  beautiful 
park  worthy  of  the  cause  to  which  the  grounds  are  dedi- 
cated but  which  the  imagination  must  be  vigorously  used 
to  comprehend  at  this  time. 


l6  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

This  new  plan  necessitated  the  removal  of  the  boulder, 
but  with  the  consent  and  cooperation  of  the  patrotic  societies 
a  suitable  place  for  the  tablet  was  provided  on  the  right 
hand  facade  of  this  terrace,  while  on  the  left,  similar 
provision  was  made  for  its  companion  tablet  in  honor  of 
the  "founders"  of  Maiden  whose  domestic  social  and 
political  life  for  two  generations  centred  upon  this  very 
spot. 

To  the  unveiling  of  these  tablets  you  have  been  invited 
to  assist  by  your  presence. 

Five  years  ago,  when  the  Revolutionary  tablet  was 
first  dedicated,  we  were  honored  by  the  presence  of  the 
officers  of  Massachusetts  Society  Sons  of  the  American 
Revolution  and  of  Massachusetts  Society  D.  R.,  the  oration 
being  delivered  on  that  occasion  by  Hon.  Curtis  Guild,  Jr., 
since  Governor  of  the  State.  To-day  we  have  the  dis- 
tinguished honor  of  entertaining  the  whole  State  Society  on 
this  their  annual  "field  day."  They  have  come  at  our 
invitation  to  spend  the  day  in  Maiden  and  by  their  presence 
manifest  their  approval  and  appreciation  of  the  work  in 
which  we  are  engaged. 

We  extend  to  them  and  to  all  our  friends  who  have 
honored  the  occasion  with  their  presence  a  most  cordial 
welcome. 


MALDEN    HISTORICAT.    SOCIETY  17 


REMARKS 

Of  the  President  of  the  Maiden  Historical  Society  at  the  unveiling  of  the 
tablet  to  the  Founders  of  Maiden,  October  12,  iqio. 


Mr.  President  : 

"It  accords  well  with  the  best  feelings  of  our  nature  to 
meet,  as  we  do  to-day,  to  commemorate  our  fathers." 
Tlius  spoke  Hon.  James  D.  Green  of  Cambridge,  the 
orator  of  the  day  at  the  two  hundredth  anniversar}^  of  the 
incorporation  of  Maiden,  in  1849.  That  celebration,  like 
this,  was  held  in  "Bell  Rock  Pasture,"  the  stand,  bearing 
settees  enough  to  accommodate  150  persons,  being  placed 
"on  the  western  declivity  of  the  rock,  with  a  gentle  swell 
of  land  in  front,  and  an  unobstructed  view  to  the  right  over 
Mystic  river,  to  the  far-off  hills  of  Medford,  West 
Cambridge,  etc."  "  Directly  in  front  of  the  stand,  some 
two  hundred  or  more  yards  distant,"  the  classic  report  of 
the  exercises  goes  on  to  say,  "  was  the  mansion  in"  which 
the  orator  of  the  day  was  born,  and  on  the  left  the  old 
parsonage  house."  All  these  elements,  we  are  told, 
"produced  a  most  happ}^  effect  upon  the  orator,  and  nerved 
him  to  discharge,  in  a  perfectly  satisfactory  manner,  the 
ever  onerous  duty  of  addressing  a  large  multitude  in  the 
open  air." 

That  celebration  was  the  first  formal  attempt  to  honor 
the  founders  of  Maiden,  and  it  was  also  the'  initial 
dedication  of  the  ancient  churchyard  as  the  permanent 
historic  centre  of  Old  Maiden,— dedicated,  as  we  now 
rededicate  it,  to  the  sacred  purpose  of  recalling  the  memor}' 
of  Maiden's   founders    and    preservers,  the    Puritans    and 


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patriots  of  1649,  of  1775  and  1861.  The  double  duty 
falls  upon  me  of  taking  up  the  theme  where  Mr.  Green 
left  it,  and  also  of  speaking  in  the  place  of  Maiden's 
lamented  historian  and  my  cherished  friend,  Deloraine  P. 
Corey,  so  long  the  president  of  the  Society,  and  the  author 
of  the  fitting  inscription  upon  the  tablet  we  unveil,  who, 
had  he  lived,  would  undoubtedly  have  been  asked  to  make 
this  address.  It  is  pleasant,  therefore,  for  your  speaker 
to  reflect  that  he  is  a  kinsman  of  Mr.  Green  through 
descent  from  his  ancestor,  Thomas  Green  of  Maiden,  and 
of  Mr.  Corey  through  descent  from  Joseph  Hills,  in  whose 
honor  the  town  was  named,  and  from  Job  Lane,  the  builder 
of  the  Bell  Rock  church. 

Three  centuries  have  gone  since  Nanapashemet,  king 
of  the  Pawtuckets,  left  his  ancient  seat  in  Saugus  for  a 
new  home  on  the  banks  of  the  Mystic.  A  decade  more, 
and  he  had  passed  to  the  happy  hunting  grounds,  and  left 
his  dw^indling  kingdom  to  his  Squaw  Sachem,  to  two  princes, 
Wonohaquaham,  or  Sagamore  John,  at  Mystic  Side  ; 
Montowampaite,  or  Sagamore  James,  at  Saugus;  and  to 
the  princess  Yawata,  at  Natick.  Another  decade,  and  we 
see  Ralph  and  William  Sprague,  planters  of  ancient 
Naumkeag,  plodding  their  way  through  the  woods  to 
Mishawam,  following  the  Indian  trail  which  ran  from 
Saugus  to  the  Mystic  lakes,  including  portions  of  what  are 
now  Clifton  street,  Rockland  avenue.  Elm  and  Pleasant 
streets.  As  they  crossed  the  plain  north  of  Waitt's  Mount, 
they  must  have  been  attracted  by  the  meadows  through 
which  runs  Spot  Pond  brook,  to  which  they  returned  and 
established  their  homes  a  little  later.  Yet  another  decade 
and  Wenepoyken,  or  Sagamore  George,  the  successor 
of  Wonohaquaham,  finds  liis  domain  occupied  by  the 
Spragues  and  their  friends  :  Joseph  Hills,  the  first  lawgiver 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  I9 

of  Massachusetts  Bay,  already  famous;  John  Greenhind  ; 
Thomas  Coytmore,  the  miller ;  John  Wayte,  the  sturdy 
patriarch,  sharing  with  his  father-in-law,  Joseph  Hills,  the 
command  of  the  train  band,  the  speakership  of  the  General 
Court  and  the  work  of  editing  the  Colony  laws ;  William 
Sargeant,  shepherd  of  the  little  flock,  and  predecessor  of 
a  line  of  often  eminent  and  always  useful  preachers ; 
Thomas  Caule,  the  ferryman  ;  Richard  Pratt,  Edward 
Carrington,  Thomas  Squire,  Thomas  Greene,  Abraham 
Hill,  Thomas  Osborne  and  John  Lewis.  Soon  after  them 
came  Job  Lane,  builder  of  the  "artificial"  meeting-house 
which  stood  here,  with  its  bell  in  a  frame  upon  the  rock, 
William  Brackenbury,  Richard  Adams,  and  the  Uphams, 
Lyndes,  Barretts,  Howards  and  Vintons. 

How  fitting  it  is  that,  in  the  language  of  Ralph  Waldo 
Emerson,  the  more  famous  son  of  a  famous  sire  who  lived 
and  died  in  Maiden, 

"  We  raise  to-day  our  votive  stone 
That  memory  may  their  deeds  redeem 
When  like  our  sires  our  sons  have  gone." 

And  how  fitting  that  it  should  be  placed  upon  this  spot, 
for  near  this  place  lived  Benjamin  Blackman,  the  early 
pastor,  who  sold  "the  Bell  pasture"  to  another  forbear  of 
the  Bi-Centennial  orator,  "John  Green  of  the  Hill  " — this 
hill — whose  son  Samuel  added  to  it  the  land  of  another 
early  pastor.  Rev.  David  Parsons.  Near  here  lived  the 
poet-teacher  and  pastor,  Michael  Wigglesworth ;  while 
across  the  street  stands  the  Baptist  missionary  mecca,  the 
old  parsonage,  centre  of  the  traditions  of  nearly  two  cen- 
turies. In  that  holy  place  in  his  last  years  lived  Edward 
Emerson  and  his  sainted  wife,  Rebecca  Waldo,  who 
brought  into  the  family  a  surname  that  has  been  cherished 
for  generations,  while  over  in  the  Sandy  Bank  cemetery 


20  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

He  their  remains,  a  picture  not  easily  forgotten  beingthat  of 
the  pious  visit  to  her  grandparents'  last  resting  place  of 
Mary  Moody  Emerson,  with  a  youthful  and  thoughtless 
nephew,  Ralph  Waldo  Emerson,  skipping  about  among 
the  graves.  To  the  old  parsonage,  in  1737,  was  driven 
Maiden's  first  private  carriage,  as  I  suppose,  for  the  use  of 
Rev.  Joseph  Emerson,  who  writes  in  his  diary  : 

"Some  talk  about  mj  buying  a  shay.  How  much  reason  have  I  to 
watch  and  pray  ami  strive  against  inordinate  affection  for  the  things  of 
the  world." 

Soon  after  he  writes  again  : 

"  Went  to  the  beach  with  three  of  the  children  in  my  shay.  The 
beast  being  frightened,  when  we  were  all  out  of  the  shay,  overturned  and 
broke  it.  I  desire — I  hope  I  desire  it — that  the  Lord  would  teach  me  suit- 
ably to  repent  this  Providence,  to  make  suitable  remarks  on  it  and  be 
suitably  affected  by  it.     Have  I  done  well  to  get  me  a  shay?" 

In  the  goups  of  the  children  of  the  old  parsonage, 
afterwards  famous,  who  have  played  about  this  rock,  were 
William  Emerson,  Concord's  pastor  and  patriot,  who  built 
the  Old  Manse  ;  Rev.  John  Emerson,  revered  pastor  of 
Conway ;  Rev.  Joseph  Emerson,  of  Pepperell ;  Bulkeley 
Emerson,  first  postmaster  of  Newburyport ;  Rev.  Thomas 
Cushing  Thatcher,  long  pastor  of  the  first  church  in  Lynn  ; 
Rev.  Adoniram  Judson,  the  pioneer  Burmese  missionary  ; 
and  the  twin  brothers,  Cyrus  and  Darius  Cobb,  poets, 
painters,  and  sculptors. 

How  different  the  cosmopolitan  Maiden,  Everett  and 
Melrose  of  to-day  from  the  rural  Mystic  Side  of  1649  • 
How  important  that  the  busy  thousands  of  these  cities, 
absorbed  in  the  varied  interests  of  our  complex  modern  life, 
have  some  visible  reminder  of  the  Puritan  founders  ;  and 
how  appropriate  for  this  our  memorial  park,  in  its  location, 
its  setting  and  its  form  !    Here  may  it  long  remain,  to  speak. 


MAI.Di;X    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  21 

in  the  eloquent  words  or  Mr.  Corey's  inscription,  "in  com- 
memoration of  the  Founders  of  Maiden  and  of  the  devotion, 
sacrifice  and  patriotism  of  those  inhabitants  thereof  who 
helped  in  the  making  and  saving  of  the  nation  in  the  days 
of  the  struggle  for  independence  and  of  the  period  of  civil 
strife."  Through  its  influence  may  many  of  our  sons  and 
daughters,  who  would  perhaps  neglect  the  dusty  pages  of 
local  history,  be  led  to  think  kindly  and  gratefully  of  the 
little  church  of  Marmaduke  Matthews  and  Michael  Wiggle- 
sworth  ;  of  the  modest  bell  on  the  rock,  summoning  the 
then  scattered  inhabitants  of  what  are  three  densely  popu- 
lated cities  of  to-day  to  a  common  place  of  worship  or  to 
civic  action  in  the  ancient  town  meeting  ;  of  the  grave  but 
tender  ministrations  of  the  dominies  who  dwelt  in  the  old 
parsonage,  faithful  shepherds  of  their  puritan  flock,  and 
their  children  and  children's  children,  themselves  apostles 
of  civic  and  religious  liberty,  bearers  of  missionary  tidings, 
advocates  of  freedom,  painters,  poets  and  philosophers. 


2  2  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 


PURITAN   JOB  LANE   OF   MALDEN,  BUILDER   OF    THE 
OLD  BELL  ROCK  CHURCH 

By  Charles  Edward  Mann. 


It  is  the  purpose  of  this  paper  to  contribute  to  the 
knowledge  of  Maiden  people  concerning  Job  Lane,  one  of 
the  earliest  settlers  at  Mystic  Side,  builder  of  the  famous 
Bell  Rock  church,  a  founder  of  Billerica  and  one  of  New 
England's  Puritan  patriarchs,  whose  resting  place  in  Bell 
Rock  cemetery,  with  its  ancient  slate  headstone,  may  yet 
be  seen. 

Mr.  Corey's  authoritative  History  of  Maiden  states  that 
the  first  church  building  in  Maiden  was  mentioned  in  the 
report  of  the  committee  appointed  to  lay  out  the  way  from 
Reading  to  Winnisimmet,  in  1649,  as  "the  meeting-house 
on  Mistick    Side."      It    stood    on    the    southerly  slope    of 
Bailey's  hill,  perhaps  a  little  to  the  westward  of  Bell  Rock, 
and  Mr.  Corey  thought  it  might  have  been  built  for  some 
other  purpose,  and  utilized  as  a  temporary  place  of  meet- 
ing.     In  November,  1658,  the  selectmen  made  their  cele- 
brated contract  with  Job  Lane  for  the  building  of  what  was 
ever  afterwards  known  as  the  Bell  Rock   church.     This 
states    that    "the    said   Job    Lane    doth    hereby  covenant, 
promiss  and  agree  to  build,  erect  and  tinish  upp  a  good 
strong.    Artificial     meeting    House    of    Thirty-three    foot 
Square,  sixteen  toot  stud  between  joints,  with  dores,  win- 
dows,   pullpitt,    seats,    and    all    things  whatsoever    in    all 
respects  belonging  thereto  as  hereafter  is  expressed,"  etc. 
One    provision    was :      "  The    bell    to    be  fitted  upp  in   all 


MALDIiN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  23 

respects  and  Hanged  therein  fitt  for  use."  Had  this  been 
followed,  the  picturesque  name  of  "  Bell  Rock "  would 
never  have  existed,  but  for  some  unexplained  reason  the 
"territt"  was  not  built  for  many  years  and  meanwhile  the 
bell  hung  in  a  frame  on  the  rock,  which  was  renewed  at 
least  once,  as  the  town  records  show, 

The  selectmen  who  made  this  agreement  with  Job 
Lane  were  William  Brackenbury,  Lieut.  John  Waite, 
Ensign  J.  Sprague  and  Thomas  Green,  senior.  For  the 
work  the  builder  was  to  have  one  hundred  and  fifty  pounds 
in  "corne,  cord  wood  and  provisions,  sound  and  merchant- 
able att  price  currant  and  fatt  cattle." 

There  are  abundant  indications  that  Job  Lane  was 
not  only  a  skillful  builder,  and  was  kept  busy  at  his  trade, 
but  also  that  he  was  the  predecessor  of  the  great  army  of 
bridge  engineers  and  constructors  of  this  generation.  His 
methodical  habit  of  carefully  filing  his  papers  and  corre- 
spondence has  preserved  for  us  the  contract  for  building 
the  first  considerable  bridge  in  New  England,  over  the 
river  at  Billerica.  It  is  interesting  to  reflect  that  Mystic 
Side  not  only  gave  New  England  Job  Lane,  but  also 
Lemuel  Cox,  the  builder  of  the  Maiden  Bridge,  thq  Essex- 
bridge  between  Salem  and  Beverly  and  the  900-foot  bridge 
over  the  Foyle  at  Londonderry,  Ireland,  pronounced  an 
impossibility  by  English  engineers.  Job  Lane  was  also 
builder  of  one  of  the  earliest  buildings  of  Harvard 
College. 

The  key  to  the  birthplace  of  Job  Lane  was  furnished 
by  the  publication  of  the  Aspinwall  Notarial  Records,  in 
the  Boston  series  of  record  reports,  a  book  which  was 
edited  by  Mr.  Walter  Kendall  Watkins  of  this  society,  and 
which  has  solved  many  genealogical  mysteries.  On  page 
106  appears  the  following  entry  : 


24 


MAI.DEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 


'■20  (9)  1647.  Whereas  there  be  certaine  lands  Ijing  in  the  parish 
of  Rickmansworth  in  the  County  Buck,  now  or  late  in  the  possession  of 
Henry  Lane  or  of  John  Lane  to  the  use  of  the  sd  H.  Lane  wdi  lands  after 
the  decease  of  the  sd  Henry  doth  rightly  descend  to  Job  the  sonne  of  James 
Lane  of  Great  Missenden  in  Bucking. 

Now  Job'Lane  of  Dorchester  N.  E.  doth  constitute  Mr.  Lenthall  of 
Little  Hampden  in  Bucking,  his  lawful  atty  with  power  to  appear  for  the 
said  Job  in  Court  &  there  to  doe  all  acts  &c  according  to  the  custume  of 
the  place  &  all  debts  to  pay  &  all  vv<-'»  he  shall  doe  by  virtue  hereof  he 
doth  ratifie  &c." 

Abundant  evidence  connects  Job  Lane  with  Rickmans- 
worth, in  Hertfordshire,  where  until  a  comparatively 
recent  date  his  descendants  were  property  holders,  and 
where  the  English  Lanes  still  remain.  What  is  known  as 
the  "  Shepherd's  Farm,"  a  part,  apparently,  of  his  property, 
still  flourishes  and  is  visited  by  his  pious  descendants  who 
travel  in  the  vicinity.  Rickmansworth  is  but  nineteen 
miles  from  London.  At  the  King's  farm,  nearby,  William 
Penn  was  married,  and  at  Chalfont-St.  Giles,  hard  b}', 
Milton  wrote  "Paradise  Lost."  He  must  have  been  born 
about  1624,  as  he  was  thirty  years'  old  in  1654.  There  has 
been  much  discussion  as  to  whether  he  was  the  Job  Lane 
who  was  in  Rehoboth  in  1644,  but  as  there  is  no  doubt  at 
all  that  he  was  in  Dorchester,  as  stated  in  the  paper  quoted 
above  and  shown  by  other  evidence,  it  is  not  unreasonable 
to  assume  that  he  came  to  these  shores  in  early  life,  return- 
ing, perhaps,  for  a  short  stay  in  England,  and  linally 
finding  a  permanent  home  in  the  New  World.  He  came  to 
Maiden  in  1656,  purchasing  of  Nicholas  Parker  and  others 
the  easternmost  of  his  farms,  and  building  the  "mansion" 
which  stood  near  the  entrance  of  Woodlawn  cemetery  until 
demolished  by  the  cemetery  company.  The  farm  is  now 
included  in  the  cemetery  limits.  I  understand  that  a  part 
of  this  farm  was  the  lot  34  which  was  originally  set  off  to 
John  Harvard,  the  benefactor  of  Harvard  College.      Here 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  25 

Job  Lane  lived  until  1664,  when  he  built  for  Fitz  John 
Winthrop,  for  230  pounds,  the  governor's  house  in  New 
London,  Conn.,  receiving  in  lieu  of  the  money  the  cele- 
brated Winthrop  farm  of  1,500  acres  in  Billerica  on  which 
he  built  the  garrison  house  still  standing  by  the  main  road 
between  Billerica  and  Bedford,  being  now  within  the  limits 
of  Bedford.  In  this  house  a  few  years  later,  lived  his 
granddaughter,  Mary  Lane,  afterward  the  wife  of  John 
Whitmore,  whose  name  was  transmitted  through  many 
generations  from.daughter  to  daughter  to  the  writer's  sister. 
She  was  the  heroine  who,  during  troublous  times,  seized  the 
musket  of  a  sentr}^  in  the  house  who  had  identified  a  distant 
object  as  a  stump  and  shot  at  it.  The  "stump"  rolled  over, 
a  dead  Indian.  The  Winthrop  and  Dudley  farms,  at  Bil- 
lerica, were  always  known  as  the  "Two  Brothers"  farms, 
from  the  (jreat  rocks  at  their  boundarv,  near  the  river 
bank,  so  named  b}^  Winthrop  and  Dudley  in  token  of  their 
amicable  settlement  of  differences,  after  their  children  were 
betrothed.  Neither  of  the  great  men  ever  lived  upon  these 
farms.  The  Winthrop-Lane  farm  now  forms  thirteen 
distinct  farms. 

After  living  in  Billerica  about  twenty  years.  Job  Lane 
returned  to  Maiden,  leaving  his  farm  in  possession  of  his 
son,  Major  (afterwards  Colonel)  John  Lane,  the  famous 
Indian  fighter.  Here  he  purchased  from  Mrs.  John 
Coggan,  widow  of  Governor  John  Winthrop  and  previously 
widow  of  Thomas  Coytmore,  the  Coytmore  mill  propert}', 
which  he  later  bequeathed  to  his  daughter  Dorothy  and 
her  husband,  Edward  Sprague.  Mr.  Corey  believed  that 
upon  his  return  to  Maiden  Job  Lane  resided  in  the  mansion 
house  on  his  original  farm,  but  there  are  certain  expres- 
sions in  his  will  which  give  color  to  the  theory  that  he 
lived  in  a  house  located  somewhere  on  the  Coytmore 
property.     Of  this,  more  later. 


20  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

For  seventeen  years  Job  Lane  lived  in  Maiden,  and 
then  his  sturdy  form  was  laid  away  in  the  Sandy  Bank 
cemetery,  and  over  him  was  placed  a  slab  of  slatestone, 
grewsomel}'  ornamented  as  was  the  habit  of  those  days, 
with  an  inscription  still  easy  to  decipher  :  "  Here  lyeth 
buried  y*^  body  of  Job  Lane,  aged  77  years  Dyed  August 
ye  23,  1697." 

Job  Lane  was  a  selectman  of  Billerica  in  the  years 
1676-77,  1679-81.  He  represented  that  town  in  the  General 
Court  in  the  years  1676  and  1679.  With  the  exception  of 
the  period  from  1657-1660  Joseph  Hills  represented  Maiden 
in  the  General  Court  from  1649  to  1664.  He  was  suc- 
ceeded by  Capt.  John  Wayte,  his  son-in-law,  who  served 
for  19  years,  becoming  in  1683  a  member  of  the  court  of 
assistants.  In  1686  Job  Lane,  w^ho  had  served  in  many 
sessions  from  Billerica  with  each  of  these  men,  was  elected 
as  a  representative  from  Maiden.  In  1683  he  was  a  select- 
man in  Maiden  and  held  the  same  office  during  1686-87. 

By  concurrent  action  of  the  town  authorities  of  Billerica 
and  Major  Simon  Willard,  in  command  of  the  Middlesex 
forces,  Job  Lane  was  allowed  to  garrison  his  own  house 
during  the  troublesome  days  of  King  Phillip's  war,  and  he 
was  allowed  two  soldiers  to  aid  him  "if  they  could  be 
spared."  However,  that  was  not  his  only  service,  and  the 
Billerica  records  show  that  at  some  time  during  the  war  he 
was  impressed.  He  does  not  appear  to  have  been  as 
much  of  a  soldier  as  his  douglity  son,  while  he  was  spared 
the  dangers  which  his  son  faced  in  the  later  troubles 
through  his  removal  to  Maiden,  and  spared  also  the  tragic 
experiences  of  his  brother  James  and  those  nephews  who 
met  their  fate  from  the  Indians  at  Falmouth.  The  Lane 
papers  clearly  show  that  his  greatest  usefulness  lay  not  in 
militarv  fields  and  not  as  a  town  officer  or  representative, 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  27 

though  he  has  a  good  record  in  these  respects,  but  as  a 
skilled  mechanic  and  man  of  business  ;  and  before  consider- 
ing him  as  Job  Lane  the  patriarch,  it  is  fitting  that  these 
be  examined. 

The  first  of  the  Lane  collection  of  papers,  published 
in  1857  by  W.  H.  Whitmore,  is  a  document  by  which 
Ebedmelech,  a  negro,  freed  by  his  master,  Clement  Eneroe 
of  St.  Christophers,  binds  himself  to  Job  Lane  for  nine 
years. 

The  next  paper  is  a  letter  written  from  Rowley  by 
Humphrey  Reyner  to  "  his  louing  Cosin  Anna  Reyner." 
Anna  Revner  was  the  daughter  of  John  Reyner,  second 
pastor  at  Plymouth,  the  second  wife  of  Job  Lane,  and 
mother  of  at  least  half  of  the  Lane  and  allied  families  of  this 
country.  Humphrey  Reyner  was  her  uncle.  His  daughter 
Mar}^  married  Rev.  Michael  Wigglesw'orth,  Maiden's  poet- 
pastor,  and  it  would  appear  that  the  intimacy  between  the 
families  may  have  brought  Anna  Reyner  to  Maiden,  to 
meet  and  wed  Job  Lane. 

In  1654  Jere.  Gould,  agent  for  Job  Lane  in  London, 
writes  to  him  at  length  concerning  Job's  feeling  that  his 
brother  James  Lane  had  deluded  Gould  into  making  way 
with  the  estate.  Whatever  difficulties  there  were  were 
soon  smoothed  out,  plainly,  for  in  1660,  James  Lane  of 
Maiden,  turner,  appoints  his  brother  Job  Lane  his  attorney. 
I  have  heretofore  published  in  Gloucester  a  lengthy  dis- 
cussion of  the  family  of  James  Jane,  father  of  all  the  Lanes 
of  Cape  i\nn,  where  a  village  bears  their  name,  and  of 
their  children,  now  scattered  over  all  parts  of  the  country. 
The  Lane  Theological  Seminary,  known  everywhere,  is 
named  for  Ebenezer  Lane,  of  Oxford,  O.,  its  founder,  a 
decendant  of  James  Lane.  James  Lane,  son  of  James  and 
brother  of  our  Job,  we  are  told,  was  a  member  of  the  guild 


28  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

of  turners  of  London  in  1654.  ^^  came  to  this  country 
the  following  year  and  about  1660  went  to  Casco  Bay,* 
setding  in  North  Yarmouth,  where  a  point  of  land  and  an 
island  still  bears  his  name.  Sullivan's  history  of  Maine 
tells  the  story  of  the  massacre  of  the  inhabitants  of  Lane's 
Island,  Sept.  13,  1688,  in  which  it  is  supposed  James  Lane 
was  murdered.  He  married  Sarah  White,  daughter  of 
John  White  of  Nequasset,  in  Kennebec,  whose  wife  was 
Mary,  widow  of  James  Phips,  who  had  twenty-six  children 
by  her  two  marriages.  James  Lane  of  Maiden  and  North 
Yarmouth  was  therefore  a  brother-in-law  of  Sir  William 
Phips.  After  the  massacre  his  son  John,  and  I  believe 
other  sons,  setded  upon  Cape  Ann,  while  his  son  Job 
followed  his  uncle  to  Billerica,  becoming  father  of  a 
distinct  line  of  Lanes  in  that  vicinity  which  always  puzzled 
the  late  Abram  English  Brown,  historian  of  Bedford,  until 
the  writer  directed  his  attention  to  the  solution  of  the 
mystery . 

In  1657  Job  Lane  has  a  letter  from  his  loving  friend 
John  Cogan.  In  1660  Job  Lane  engages  to  raise  the  frame 
of  a  house  for  Thomas  Robinson  of  Scituate  upon  land  of 
Mary  Robinson  in  Boston,  his  compensation  to  come  from 
her  mother,  Mrs.  Martha  Cogin,  it  being  the  legacy  due 
Mary  Robinson  by  the  will  of  John  Cogin. 

In  a  deposition  signed  February  7,  1662,  Edward 
Hutchinson  and  Joshua  Scottovv  testify  that  they  were 
present  when  Mrs.  Martha  Cogin  sold  Job  Lane  the  mill 
in  Maiden,  etc.,  and  that  he  agreed  to  pay  the  legacies  to 
Joseph  Rock  and  Thomas  Robinson  or  their  children,  due 
under  the  \xi\\  of  Mr.  John  Cogan.  This  explains  the 
quitclaim  deed  given  by  these  children  in  1695. 

*A  ciise  in  the  Middlesex  files,  if/n,  sheds  light  on  James  Lane's  home  in  Maiden. 
William  Sargeant  sues  Job  Lane  for  the  rent  ot  his  farm  in  Maiden,  now  in  Everett, 
oCcui)ied  by  James  Lane  for  three  years,  Sergeant  having  moved  to  the  Cape.  This  was 
evidently  the  reason  for  the  power  of  attorney. 


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In  1662  Rev.  John  Reyner  grants  to  his  son-in-law, 
Job  Lane  of  Maiden,  one  half  the  rents  due  him  as  tenant 
for  life  for  housing  and  lands  in  Edstone  and  Welburne, 
in  the  East  Riding  of  York,  in  England.  Two  years  before 
he  had  granted  the  other  half  of  these  rents  to  his  son, 
Jachin  Re3mer. 

March  6,  1662-3,  Job  Lane  and  Theodore  Atkinson, 
forger,  agreed  to  build  a  draw-bridge.  August  3,  1664, 
he  made  the  agreement  to  build  the  governor's  house  in 
London,  Conn.,  for  Fitz-John  Winthrop,  and  July  4,  1665, 
John  Winthrop  receipted  for  payment  received  of  Job  Lane 
for  land  sold  him.  I  suppose  this  was  the  Winthrop  farm 
in  Billerica. 

There  are  a  number  of  cases  where  men  or  boys  are 
bound  to  Joe  Lane  for  a  term  of  years.  If  these  were 
apprenticed  to  learn  Job  Lane's  trade,  they  were  clearly 
bound  to  a  good  master. 

In  the  Lane  papers  are  a  number  of  long  letters  from 
connections  in  England.  One  of  these,  from  a  cousin, 
John  Dickenson,  troubled  Mr.  Whitmore  from  its  clear 
reference  to  the  teacher-poet,  Michael  Wigglesworth,  in 
the  phrase  "your  wife's  sister  and  husband."  He  surmised 
that  Rev.  John  Reyner  may  have  adopted  his  niece.  An 
interesting  letter  of  1678,  is  from  John  Lane  to  his  cousin 
Job,  where  the  writer  grieves  that  Job  Lane  should  "  write 
so  short  giving  no  account  whether  the  heathen  be  yet 
subdued  or  not,  neither  anything  concerning  your  own 
family  nor  my  sisters." 

In  1688  there  is  an  agreement  whereby  Job  Lane  lets 
his  Maiden  lands  to  James  Wayte.  It  states  these  lands  to 
be  "where  John  Scolly  and  John  Ross  lived."  This  is 
dated  May  11,  and  eight  days  later  Job  Lane  made  a  will, 
it  being  witnessed  by  John  Sprague  senior,  Samuel  Sprague 


30  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

and  Edward  Sprague.  Mr.  Whitmore  reproduces  from 
the  papers  connected  with  this  or  a  second  will  to  which 
reference  will  soon  be  made  the  signatures  of  four  sons-in- 
law  of  Job  Lane,  Edward  Sprague,  William  Avery,  James 
Foster  and  Samuel  Fitch. 

I  refrain  from  quoting  at  length  from  these  price- 
less Lane  papers  the  correspondence  and  other  material 
concerning  Job  Lane's  children.  Sarah  Lane,  the  first  wife 
of  Job,  died  May  19,  1659.  The  marriage  of  Job  Lane  to 
Hannah  or  Anna  Reyner  occurred  in  July,  1660.  She 
was  the  daughter  of  Rev.  John  Reyner,  second  pastor  of 
the  church  at  Plymouth  and  later  of  Dover,  New  Hamp- 
shire, where  his  grave  is  often  visited  by  pious  descendants. 
I  can  speak  but  binefly  of  their  children. 

Col.  John  Lane,  through  whom  the  lamily  name  was 
carried  down  to  the  present  generation,  spent  his  life,  when 
not  engaged  in  warring  against  the  Indians,  upon  the 
Winthrop  farm  in  Billerica.  He  married  Susanna  Whipple 
of  Ipswich,  daughter  of  the  famous  Capt.  John  Whipple. 
His  oldest  daughter,  Susanna,  married  Nathaniel  Page, 
and  from  them  descended  a  notable  family.  Mary  Lane, 
to  whom  reference  is  made  elsewhere,  married  John  Whit- 
more of  Medford.  The  writer  is  descended  from  this 
marriage,  and  notable  among  Mary  Lane's  descendants 
was  Hon.  William  H.  Whitmore,.  long  the  city  registrar  of 
Boston,  whose  work  has  contributed  more  to  a  knowledge 
of  the  antecedents  of  the  Lane  family  than  that  of  any  other 
person.  Col.  John  Lane's  sons  who  came  to  maturity  were 
Job,  John  and  James.  A  daughter  Martha  married  James 
Mi  not  of  Concord. 

Job  Lane's  daughter  Sarah  married  Samuel  Fitch  of 
Reading  and  died  in  1679,  leaving  one  son,  Samuel,  who 
settled  in  Lunenburg  and  whose  name  is  preserved  and 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  3 1 

memory    honored     by    one    of  Massachusetts'  most   thriv- 
ing cities,  Fitchburg. 

Mary  Lane,  the  second  daughter,  married  Deacon 
William,  son  of  Dr.  William  Aver}',  of  Dedham.  The 
Avery  oak,  the  most  precious  possession  of  the  old  town  of 
Dedham,  which  appears  upon  the  town  seal,  shares  with 
the  Fairbanks  house  the  interest  of  visitors.  She  died  in 
1681,  at  the  age  of  29.  I  understand  both  Sarah  and 
Mary  Lane  to  have  been  children  of  Job  Lane's  first 
marriage,  and  another  child  of  this  marriage  must  have 
been  Elizabeth,  who  married  Robert  Avery  of  Dedham, 
son  of  Dr.  William,  and  whose  broken  gravestone  in  the 
Dedham  cemetery  shows  that  she  died  in  1746  at  the  age 
of  91.  She  was  the  mother  of  a  most  numerous  family, 
particularly  through  her  son.  Rev.  John  Avery,  for  a  life- 
time pastor  of  the  church  in  Truro.  His  wife,  Ruth 
Little,  was  a  great-granddaughter  of  Richard  Warren  of 
the  Mayflower.  John  Avery,  the  great  Boston  merchant, 
father  of  John  Avery,  so  long  Secretary  of  the  Common- 
wealth, was  Rev.  John  Avery's  son.  Another  son  was 
Job  Avery,  evidently  named  for  Job  Lane.  The  latter's 
grandson.  Job,  was  father  of  Capt.  Peter  Lombard  Avery, 
whose  daughter  Mary  married  Joshua  Lewis  of  Maiden. 
They  were  parents  of  Dr.  Joshua  F.  Lewis,  a  member  of 
this  society,  George  W.  and  Lawrence  B.  Lewis  and  Mrs. 
Lyman  H.  Richards,  all  of  Maiden. 

Anna  Lane,  daughter  of  Job  and  Anna  (Reyner) 
Lane,  married  James,  son  of  Capt.  Hopestill  Foster  of 
Dorchester,  and  died  in  1732,  aged  67. 

Jemima  Lane,  born  in  1666,  married  Matthew  Whipple, 
of  the  great  Ipswich  family,  and  their  son  Matthew  inherited, 
but  apparently  never  occupied,  one-fourth  of  the  Billerica 
farm. 


32  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

Dorothy  Lane,  youngest  child  of  Job  and  Anna 
(Reyner)  Lane,  was  born  July  24,  1669,  and  married 
Edward  Sprague.  As  she  was  the  only  one  of  Job  Lane's 
children  who  remained  all  her  life  in  Maiden,  and  married 
a  grandson  of  one  of  Maiden's  founders  (Edward  Sprague 
was  son  of  Capt.  John  Sprague,  who  married  Lydia  Goffe, 
and  as  I  understand  it  came  to  America  with  his  father 
Ralph  Sprague  —  son  of  Edward  of  Upway,  in  England  — 
who  married  Joan  Warren),  I  have  given  careful  study  to 
the  records  which  remain  concerning  her  in  connection 
with  the  problem  of  the  location  of  Job  Lane's  home  when 
he  died. 

Job  Lane's  will,  carefully  preserved  from  decay  by 
mounting  between  sheets  of  white  silk,  is  on  record  at  East 
Cambridge.  It  was  made  Sept.  28,  1696,  and  leaves  to 
his  wife  "  Annah  "  ten  pounds  annually  and  the  use  of  the 
west  end  of  his  dwelling-house.  Should  she  marry,  she 
was  to  have  five  pounds  per  year  for  the  rest  of  her  life. 
To  his  son,  Maj.  John  Lane,  he  left  his  land  and  house  in 
Yorkshire,  England,  one-half  of  his  farm  in  Billerica  and 
the  house  in  which  he  then  lived  in  Billerica.  His  daugh- 
ter Sarah's  son  Samuel  Fitch  was  given  one-quarter  of  the 
Billerica  farm,  the  remaining  quarter  going  to  the  son  of 
his  daughter  Jemima,  Matthew  Whipple.  The  children  of 
his  daughter  Mary  Avery,  wife  of  William  Avery  of  Ded- 
ham,  were  given  "one-third  part  of  those  two  farms  in 
Maiden  now  in  possession  of  John  Chamberlain  and 
Samuel  Wait,"  with  one-fourth  of  the  lands  "  lately  laid 
out  to  me  in  Maiden."  The  reference  to  the  two  farms 
speaks  of  "both  housing  and  upland."  The  children  of 
his  daughter  Elizabeth,  wife  of  Robert  Avery  of  Dedham, 
and  of  his  daughter,  Annah,  wife  of  James  Foster  of 
Dorchester  each  receive  equal  portions  of  the  two  farms 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL-  SOCIETY  33 

and  the  Maiden  common  land  gant,  and  it  is  provided  that 
the  parents  of  these  grandchildren  shall  have  the  improve- 
ment of  these  farms  until  the  sons  reach  21  and  the  daugh- 
ters 18  years  of  age.  Finally,  he  gives  his  daughter, 
Dorothy,  wife  of  Edward  Sprague  (evidently  his  favorite) 
the  eastern  end  of  the  dwelling-house  "  I  now  live  in  "  to 
the  chimney  from  bottom  to  top,  wath  his  mill  and  the 
lands  adjoining  and  also  the  west  end  of  the  house  "  when 
my  wife  leaveth  it."  This  daughter  Dorothy  was  given 
his  worsted  rug  and  each  of  the  other  daughters  a  pewter 
platter,  his  remaining  pewter  and  personal  belongings 
being  given  to  his  wife.  The  witnesses  to  the  will  were 
John  Greenland,  John  Green,  John  Linde  and  Samuel 
Sprague.  The  inventor}-  showed  an  estate,  outside  the 
English  possessions,  value  unknown,  of  2039:  11:  00. 
The  appraisers,  James  Converse  and  John  Greenland, 
divide  the  property  into  the  homestead,  consisting  of  "one 
dwelling  house,  barne,  corn  mill,  streams,  dams  &  ponds, 
22  acres  of  land  adjoining,"  with  two  acres  of  salt  marsh 
"below  Lewis  his  bridge."  That  this  homstead,  in  which 
his  widows  and  apparently  his  daughter  Dorothy  Sprague 
were  living,  was  not  the  Chamberlain-Wait  property,  now 
Woodlawn  Cemetery,  which  was  given  to  his  grandchildren 
and  not  to  Dorothy  Sprague,  is  clear  from  the  next  item  in 
the  inventory  which  describes  two  farms  or  tenements,  "  in 
occupation "'  of  Thomas  Wait  and  John  Mudge,  which 
consists  of  261  acres,  with  housing,  etc.  Another  item 
was  the  Billerica  farm,  valued  at  800 :  00  :  00,  the  Mudge- 
Wait  farm  being  inventoried  at  913  :  00  :  00  and  the  home- 
stead property  at  125  :  00  :  00. 

The  "  homestead "  was  of  course  the  Coytmore  mill 
property.  When  Doroth}- Sprague  died,  in  1723,  Timoth}- 
Sprague,   her  son,   was  appointed  her  administrator,   and 


34  MAI.DEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

the  court  appointed  Jonathan  Sargeant,  Thomas  Wayte, 
Thomas  Pratt  and  William  Sargeant  a  committee  to  make 
an  inventory  of  her  estate.     The}'  found  it  to  consist  of  a 
dwelling-house  and  barn,  a  corn  mill  and  mill  pond,  also 
Spot  Pond  in  Stoneham,  with  the  flats  about  and  the  con- 
nection between  Spot  Pond  and  the  mill  pond,  the  dams, 
sluices,  etc.     They  describe  the  homestead  as  having  21 
acres    (Job   Lane's    appraisers    found    it  to  be  22   acres), 
bounded    north    by    Samuel    Sprague,  west    bv  highway, 
south    by  highway,   east   and    north    by  highway   and  T. 
Sprague.     The  corn  mill  of   Thomas  Coytmore  stood  in 
the  vicinity  of  Middlesex  court,  Mr.  Corey  tells  us,  while 
the  dam  which  furnished  the  water  power  was  eventually 
"breadthened"  into  the  highway  which  we  call  Mountain 
avenue.     Mr.    Corey  prints  the  deposition    of    Isaac    and 
Abraham  Hill  to  show  that  this  mill  was  afterward  operated 
b}'   John    Coggan,    who    married    the    Widow    Winthrop, 
formerly  Coytmore's  widow,   and  by  Abraham    Hill,   and 
that  the  mill  of  Edward  Sprague  stood  on  practically  the 
same    site.     The    highway    south    of    Dorothy    Sprague's 
property  I  take  to  be  Pleasant    street,  the  property  being 
crossed  by  the  dam,  crowned  by  the  roadway.     Easterly 
and  northeasterly  it  was  bounded  by  what    is  now  Main 
street,  then  the  Reading  highway,  while  north  of  it  was 
the  original  grants  to  the  Spragues.      Mr.  Corey  thought 
that  the  house  occupied  by  Joseph  Hills  on  the  site  of  the 
Baptist  church  (the  house  which  later  became  the  Kettell 
tavern^   might  have  been  the  original    home    of   Thomas 
Coytmore,  who    sold   the  land  to  Hills,   and  this  may  be 
true.     That  it  was  not  the  home  of  Coytmore  at  the  time 
of  his  tragic  death  would  seem  to  be  indicated  by  a  deed 
given  b}^  John  and  Martha  (Coytmore)  Cogin  to  Samuel 
Adams    in    1657  of   land  in  Charlestown  on  which  stood 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  35 

Thomas  Coytmore's  house  "sometime  since  burnt  down." 
The  bounds  of  the  land  sold  Adams  were  :  "  North  by  y^ 
common  trayning  place,  south  by  town  street,  southeast  by 
private  lane  and  west  by  Samuel  Adams."  This  deed 
suggested  to  my  mind  a  doubt  as  to  whether  Job  Lane 
reall}^  purchased  the  Coytmore  mill  property  from  Martha 
Coggin,  as  had  been  supposed.  This  was  dispelled  by 
consideration  of  the  Hutchinson-Scottow  deposition,  cited 
above.  Apparently  Abraham  Hill  operated  the  mill  for  a 
long  time  under  lease  from  Coggin  and  others.  Added 
evidence  of  the  care  in  business  matters  characteristic  of 
Job  Lane  appears  in  a  quitclaim  deed  given  him  only  a  few 
months  before  his  death,  in  1695,  by  Jacob  Green,  Joseph 
and  his  wife  Sarah  Robinson,  and  Thomas  Robinson  in 
which  they  release  to  him  their  interest  in  the  corn  and 
water  mills  and  forty  acres  of  land  bounded  by  Capt.  John 
Wait,  north  ;  Charlestowm  Common,  northwest ;  by  high- 
way east  aud  soutii.  Some  of  these  were*  children  of 
Martha  Coggin. 

It  seems  to  me  fairly  clear  that  all  these  deeds  refer 
to  the  property  given  by  Job  Lane  to  Dorothy  Sprague, 
and  inventoried  as  part  of  her  estate  at  her  death.  While 
all  the  descriptions  var}-  as  to  the  northern  boundary,  this 
is  not  strange  in  the  light  of  history.  "  Charlestown 
Common"  clearly  refers  to  the  common  lands,  a  part  of 
which  were  reserved  as  a  training  field.  This  training 
field  was  at  the  base  of  Mount  Prospect  (which  we  know^ 
as  Waitt's  mount),  where  Mountain  avenue  now  crosses 
Main  street,  and  of  course  adjoined  Capt.  Wait's  property. 
Mr.  Corey  tells  at  length  the  story  of  the  efforts  of  the 
town  to  sell  this  six  acres  of  common  or  training  field 
property  to  Edward  Sprague.  He  did  not  buy  it,  and  the 
town,  instead  of  keeping  the  training  field  as  a  common 


36  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

or  park,  as  nine  out  of  ten  New  England  municipalities 
have  done,  finally  gave  it  to  Lieut.  Thomas  Newhall,  on 
condition  that  he  provide  a  training  place,  as  he  for  years 
continued  to  do.  It  seems  the  irony  of  fate  that  two 
centuries  later  Maiden  should  have  been  compelled  to  take 
valuable  property  adjoining  this  very  training  field  by 
eminent  domain  in  order  to  create  the  park  known  as 
Coytmore  Lea. 

I  despair  of  ever  being  able  to  locate  the  site  of  the 
house  in  which  Job  Lane  died  and  which  he  gave  to 
Dorothy  Sprague.  If  Thomas  Coytmore's  house  which 
was  burned  faced  Pleasant  street  (for  instance,  in  the 
vicinity  of  Dartmouth  street)  it  would  seem  to  be  a  fair 
inference  that  Job  Lane  built  for  himself  a  house  upon  the 
same  site.  But  of  course  the  house  could  have  been  upon 
the  Coytmore  property  and  been  located  so  as  to  face  the 
Reading  road  at  any  point  from  Maiden  square  to  Clifton 
street,  thoug'h  at  some  points  it  would  have  been  on  a  side 
hill.  Coytmore  sold  to  Joseph  Hills  the  land  east  of  Main 
street,  so  that  is  eliminated  from  consideration.  All  I  can 
assert  positively  is  that  the  Lane-Sprague  house  was  upon 
the  Coytmore  mill  property,  and  while  it  may  have  faced 
the  Salem  path  (Clifton  street ;  Summer  Street  was  known 
as  Sprague's  lane,  and  may  be  the  highway  referred  to  on 
the  west  in  the  Dorothy  Sprague  inventory)  it  does  not 
seem  probable.  Richard  Sprague,  uncle  of  Edward, 
settled  on  this  Salem  path  (between  Washington  and 
Summer  streets)  very  early,  according  to  Mr.  Corey. 

Edward  Sprague  was  long  the  town  treasurer,  and 
prominent  in  local  affairs  in  other  ways.  He  died  at  the 
age  of  fifty,  April  14,  17 15.  The  children  of  Edward  and 
Dorothy  Sprague  were  William,  Ann,  Dorothy,  Timothy, 
Ebenezer,   Hezekiah,  Jemima    (who  married  Joseph  Jen- 


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kins)  Lydia  and  Phoebe.  William  and  Dorothy  Sprague 
gave  to  the  town  the  lot  on  which  still  stands  the  brick 
church  of  the  First  Parish,  latterly  devoted  to  parochial 
school  purposes  and  soon  to  make  way  for  the  terminal  of 
the  elevated  railwa}-. 

To  the  writer  Bell  Rock  memorial  park  is  not  only  a 
memorial  to  the  ancient  church  and  the  people  of  the 
ancient  town,  but  in  a  peculiar  sense  a  memorial  to  the 
keen,  well-to-do  man  who  built  the  meeting-house.  In 
the  ancient  Bell  Rock  cemetery  is  not  only  the  much- 
photographed  headstone  of  Job  Lane,  but  beside  it  is  that 
of  Anna  Reyner  Lane,  his  wife.  Not  far  away  is  the 
stone  of  her  "  cozen "  Mary  Reyner  Wigglesworth  and 
her  revered  husband,  "  Mauldon's  physician  for  soul  and 
body  two,"  Michael  Wigglesworth ;  and  nearby  are  the 
graves  of  Edward  and  Dorothy  Sprague.  Job  Lane,  so 
tar  as  this  world  is  concerned,  lives  to-day  only  in  the  hearts 
of  the  sturdy  tribes  who  in  so  many  useful  walks  of  life 
have  honored  their  ancestry. 


38  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 


LIFE  IN  THE  OLD  PARSONAGE  1772-1784. 

FROM    THE    DIARY    OF    REV.    PETER    THACHER. 

Bv  the  Lille  Delokaine  Pemjre  Corey. 


[One  of  the  most  interesting  meetings  of  the  Maiden 
Historical  Society  in  recent  years  was  held  at  the  old  par- 
sonage, by  the  invitation  of  Miss  Wilson,  then  its  owner, 
when  our  lamented  president,  Mr.  Deloraine  Pendre  Corey, 
presided,  and  after  an  interesting  sketch  of  Rev.  Peter 
Thacher,  D.  D.,  long  the  pastor  of  the  First  Church  in 
Maiden,  and  later  pastor  of  the  Brattle  Street  church  in 
Boston,  read  many  extracts  from  Dr.  Thacher's  diary, 
kept  during  his  two  pastorates.  A  note  upon  Mr.  Corey's 
copy  of  this  diary,  which  was  made  by  Mr.  Corey  from 
copies  from  the  original  made  by  Mrs.  Mary  Washburn 
Parkinson,  states  that  the  diary  belongs  to  Hannah  Wash- 
burn, daughter  of  Reuben  and  Hannah  (Thacher) 
Washburn,  who  lived  in  Ludlow,  Vt.  Hannah  Thacher 
Washburn  was  daughter  of  Rev.  Thomas  Cushing  Thacher 
for  a  time  pastor  of  the  First  church  in  Lynn,  who  was  the 
son  of  the  writer  of  the  diary.  Rev.  Parsons  Cooke  of 
Lynn,  in  his  celebrated  "Century  of  Puritanism,''  Chapter 
XI,  says  of  the  diarist :  He  "graduated  at  Cambridge  at 
the  age  of  seventeen  :  was  ordained  pastor  of  the  church 
in  Maiden  at  the  age  of  eighteen.  He  was  a  delightful 
yet  pungent  preacher.  No  young  man  preached  to  such 
crowded  assemblies  as  he.  Whitefield  called  him  the 
young  Elijah.  He  was  a  thorough  Calvinist,  and  earnest 
for  the  Puritan  faith.      After  a  ministry  of  fifteen  years  in 


MALDEN    IIISTORICAI.    SOCIIiTV  39 

Maiden  he  became  pastor  of  the  Brattle  Street  church  in 
Boston,  where  he  labored  seventeen  years,  and  died  in 
1802.  ...  In  prayer  he  was  uncommonly  gifted, 
uttering  in  pathetic  language  the  devout  feelings  of  his 
own  heart,  and  exciting  deep  emotions  in  his  hearers.  He 
was,  in  short,  one  of  the  greater  lights  of  the  Boston  pul- 
pit." The  portions  of  the  diary  read  by  Mr.  Corey  are 
here  reproduced.] 

1772.  Jan.  28.  I  was  at  home  all  the, forenoon.  Dr. 
Porter  smoaked  a  pipe  with  me  before  dinner.  In  the 
afternoon  I  went  to  Mr.  J.  Shute's  and  prayed  with  his 
wife ;  &  spent    the    evening    at    Dr.    Porters's     with    Mr. 

Kettell. 

Feb.  3.  Went  to  Stoneham  to  visit  Mr.  Searl  who  is 
much  indisposed  with  a  cold;  dined  with  him.  I  stopped 
at  Capt.  Lyndes  &  prayed  with  him,  returned  before  night ; 
the  taylor  sent  me  home  a  new  suit  of  cloaths.  D.  Ser- 
geant came  home  ;  it  was  very  raw  cold  &  yre  came  up 
much  snow  in  the  evening  :  afterwards  it  rained  &  hailed 
very  severely. 

Feb.  4.  I  was  engaged  at  home  all  day  in  my  study. 
Mr.  J.  Howard  came  to  see  me  &  brot  me  a  cheese;  Mr. 
Hills  2  sons  were  here  in  the  evening.  It  was  considerably 
pleasant. 

Feb.  6.  Went  to  Boston  in  a  slay.  Attended  (torn)* 
Lect.  &  heard  Mr.  Bacon  preach  upon  redeeming  the 
time.  Bot  a  riding  hood  for  my  Dr,  gave  25  pounds  for 
it.  Dined  at  Mr.  Bacon's.  Bot  Howell's  works  for  3 
pounds.  Brot  Mr.  Hopkins  from  Charlestown  with  me  in 
the  slay;  spent  the  evening  at  Mr.  J.  Sprague's  y"  came 
home. 

♦Comments    in    parenthesis    are    Mr.  Corey's;  in    brackets  arc  liy  tlie   committee   on 
publication  of  the  Society.  < 


^O  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

Feb.  7.  Mother  Hawkes  went  home.  Studied  from 
Psal.  97,  10.  Mr.  Hopkins  and  his  wife  dined  with  us. 
Mr.  Shearman  and  his  wife  drank  tea  with  us.  I  was  a 
good  deal  indisposed  in  the  eve'g  with  a  cold.  One  of  my 
cows,  my  nag  and  m}^  dog  were  bit  as  we  fear  by  a  mad 
dog  :   it  was  pleasant. 

Feb.  13.  Brother  Cheney  and  sist'r  went  to  Chelsea  ; 
I  went  to  Mr.  J.  Tufts,  spent  the  day  (torn)  Mr.  Holt  of 
Danvers  and  bis  wife  dined  (torn)  Mr.  Treadwell  called 
and  smoaked  a  pipe  with  me.  Mr.  Tufts  sent  me  a  cow 
to  try  till  Monday  ;  I  put  up  5  bacons  in  the  kitchen  chim- 
ney ;  it  continued  extreme  cold. 

Feb.  14.  .  .  .  Mr.  Willis  and  his  wife  were  here  a 
visiting  in  the  afternoon  :  Cap'n  Lynde  sent  us  a  shoulder 
of  pork.  I  studyed  in  the  evening  tho'  I  was  much 
indisposed  with  the  headache. 

Feb.  18.  Studyed  before  noon  in  preparation  for  the 
young  men's  lecture  :  Mr.  Tufts  had  my  black  cow  &  I 
am  to  give  him  two  dollars  to  boot ;  I  was  ill  in  the  after- 
noon but  studied  a  little  just  before  night :  y*^  bacon  was 
put  up  Mr.  Tufts  chimney.  It  was  a  warm  thawing  day. 
Mr.  W.  Emerson  was  here  in  the  evening. 

Feb.  19.  I  was  quite  ill  in  the  forenoon,  but  studyed  : 
just  before  noon  I  rid  down  to  Madam  Emerson's,  in  the 
afternoon  preached  a  lecture  to  the  young  men,  from  Isa. 
54,  13.  '  Y'<^  were  a  good  many  at  lect.  The  society  sent 
me. a  hind  quarter  of  veal :  it  was  a  very  warm  day.  Mr. 
Emerson  and  Miss  Ruthy  were  here  and  supped  in  the 
evenmg.    .    .    . 

Feb.  22.  Rid  over  to  Medford  with  Mr.  Emerson, 
dined  and  spent  the  day  with  Mr.  Turell,  returned  just 
before  night.  There  was  a  man  stabbed  at  Boston.  The 
clerk  of  the  man  of  war  was  ^tabbed  by  the  [purser?] 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  41 

Feb.  26.  Went  to  Medford,  dined  at  Dr.  Tufts, 
smoaked  a  pipe  at  Capt.  Blodget's  :  returned  before  night  ; 
Dr.  Barnstead*  lodged  here. 

Feb.  28.  Studied  before  noon.  Mr.  Willis  preached 
my  lecture  from  i  Pet.  i,  8.  After'ds  he  &  his  wife 
drank  tea  with   us.      Studied  in  the  evening   and  finished 

early. 

March  2.      I  rid  to   .    .    .  &  prayed  with  him.   Visited 

at  Mr.  E and   Mr.  Pralts  :   prayed  with  the  town  in 

y'^  annual  town  meeting.  My  Dear  went  a  visiting  with 
Cushing  to  Mad'm  Emersons.  Left.  Pratt  rid  to  Mistick 
with  me  &  I  conversed  &  prayed  with  his  sister  Blanchard  ; 
he  with  Mr.  T.  Pratt  &  Mr.  Sprague  of  Chelsea  &  Mr. 
Bucknam  of  Maiden  were  here  in  the  evening.  Left. 
Pratt's  horse  ran  away. 

March  5.  It  was  dull  and  cold  in  the  morning.  I. 
went  to  Boston,  carried  Mr.  J.  Tufts  from  Medford, 
attended  the  Thursday  lecture,  heard  Dr.  Chauncey ; 
afterward  went  to  y*^  Old  South  meeting  &  heard  Mr. 
Warren  pronounce  an  oration  in  commemoration  of  y^ 
massacre  perpetrated  y^  day  2  yrs  ago.  Dined  at  Mr. 
Polleys  ;  came  home  in  a  most  violent  storm  of  snow  which 
was  so  deep  I  w'as  forced  to  leave  my  chaise  at  Charles- 
town  &  borrow  a  slay  &  it  was  so  drifted  by  Mr.  Hallo- 
wells  y'  I  was  forced  to  untackle  y*^  sleigh  &  let  y*^  horse 

come  home  & y®  sleigh  in  y*^  road. 

Blessed  be  God  for  his  goodness  to  me  y*  day  of 
preservation  over  me.  I  will  declare  to  speak  of"  his 
benefits. 

March  6.  Detained  at  home  all  day  by  the  storm. 
Mr.  W.  Wait  was  here  in  the  eve'g  &  we  settled  and 
balanced  accounts. 

*  Perhaps  Buichstead.  D.  1'.  C. 


^2  iMALDE^     HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

March  7.  It  was  very  cold.  I  rid  to  Mistick,  dined 
at  Mr.  Hall's  y"  went  and  smoaked  a  pipe  at  Squire 
Hulls  (?)*  with  General  Brattle  &  returned.  Bro.  Billy 
came  over. 

March  8.  Sab.  Bro.  Billy  drove  me  to  Charlestown 
in  y^  slay:  I  preached  y""^  all  day  &  administered  the 
Sact.  Text.  A.  M.  Exod.  16,  14,  15  ;  P.  M.  Zep.  i,  2. 
Baptized  2  children,  dined  and  drank  tea  at  Mr.  Grays, 
returned  and  smoaked  a  pipe  at  Mistick :  got  home  abt  8 
o'clock  :  it  was  very  pleasant.  Mr.  Elliot  preached  for  me. 
I  came  home  on  horse  back. 

March  9.  Spent  the  afternoon  with  Mr.  Elliot  who 
dined  here  y"  went  down  &  prayed  with  y^  parish  at  y«^ 
annual  meeting.  Mr.  Elliot  went  home  in  the  afternoon. 
Mr.  Shear  (?)  lodged  with  us. 

March  16.  I  visited  the  Widow  Waite  in  the  fore- 
noon. Dined  at  Dr.  •  Porters.  Mrs.  Porter  gave  me  a 
dollar.  Smoaked  a  pipe  at  Mr.  Kittell's.  Mr.  R.  Dexter 
drank  tea  with  us. 

March  20 It  was  a  very  gt.  storm  of 

snow.  I  spent  the  whole  day  in  my  study.  Began  the 
chh.  records  in  book  I  brought  up  yesterday  for  y^ 
purpose. 

March  21.  This  day  I  tinished  my  twentieth  year. 
The  L^  humble  me  y*  I  have  lived  so  long  and  done  so 
little  for  him  and  his  glory  ;  I  spent  the  forenoon  at  home, 
in  the  afternoon  I  went  to  Mr.  Kettells  ...  he  and 
Mr.  Sargeant  came  &  smoked  a  pipe  with  me.  Mr.  Cog- 
gin  came  in  the  eve.      Old  Mrs.  Blanchard  died. 

March  24.  I  studyed  in  preparation  of  y*^  Sab.  Mr. 
Dexter  was  here  before  noon.  I  went  to  Mad'"  Emerson's 
P.  M.  &  spent  y*^  eve'g  at  Mr.  Kettell's. 

Probably"  Halls." 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  43 

March  26.  It  was  cloudy;  I  spent  the  forenoon  at 
home.  P.  M.  went  down  to  John  Paine's  vendue  &  hot  a 
slay  &  sundry  other  thgs  to  y^  amount  of  12  :  20  :  o. 

April  I.  It  was  exceeding  pleasant.  I  studied  all 
day  in  preparation  for  the  Fast.  Mr.  Smith  of  Reading 
dined  here.  Mr.  Parker  and  Mr.  Phillips  came  and  tarred 
my  apple  trees  to  prevent  the  canker  worms  going  up. 
Mrs.  Billy  came  over  y"  evening. 

April  2.  General  Fast;  it  was  very  raw  cold;  I 
preached  the  fast  from  Hos.  (?)  6.  i.  2,  both  parts.  Y'" 
were  many  strangers  at  meeting.  Mr.  Sargeant  stayed 
with  me  at  noon ;  Mr.  Emerson  supped  with  us  ;  Bro. 
Billv  went  home.  Misses  B.  &  R.  Emerson  were  here  in 
the  eve'g. 

x\pril  3.  A  very  g*  storm  of  snow,  more  snow  y"  we 
have  had  v^  winter  before  ;  I  was  at  home  in  mv  studv  all 
day. 

x\pril  4.  1  studyed  before  noon  ;  in  the  afternoon  I 
attended  the  funeral  of  Mr.  Willis'  two  negros  wo  died 
the  day  before  fast ;  y"  returned  to  my  study.  Mr.  Kettell 
dined  with  me. 

April  5.  A  very  pleasant  day.  I  preached  all  day. 
Text  A.  M.  Rom.  9,  27;  P.  M.  Matt.  11:  2,  8.  The 
Sact.  was  omitted  upon  act.  of  the  bad  traveling.  Dea. 
Shute  and  Left.  Upham  dined  with  me.  Mr.  Kettell 
spent  the  eve.  with  me. 

April  8 Capt.  Dexter  was   here   in   the   evg. 

Mr.   Ramsdell  sent  us   a  couple  of    wild  fowl.      Hannah 
Tuttle  came  to  live  with  us. 

April  10.  A  ver}-  warm,  pleasant  day.  Went  to 
Boston  (torn)  from  Mistick  in  company  with  Mr.  Haven(  ?) 
of  Reading.  Dined  at  Mr.  Hopkins  :  stopped  at  Mistick 
on  my  return.      My  d"^  was  not  well. 


44  MALDKN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

April  II.  .  .  .  Capt.  Dexter  sent  us  two  bushels  of 
meal  and  Mr.  Philips  a  bushel  and  a  half  of  corn.  Mr. 
Searl  and  Dr.  Tufts  drank  tea  with  us.  I  lent  Mr.  Searl 
the  I  vol.  of  Mr.  Coopers.  We  bagan  to  wean  Gushing. 
I  study ed  in  preparation  for  the  Sab. 

April  12.  Sab.  and  Sac'"*  20.  Windy  and  cool.  I 
preached  all  day  &  admitted.  Text,  A.  M.  Psal.  116, 
7  1^.  M.  Luke  13,  25,  26,  27.  Enjoyed  some  enlargement. 
Y'  were  many  strangers  at  meeting.  Mr.  Saran  (Soren) 
&  R.  Pool,  Dea.  Shute  &  Dea"  Howard  dined  with  us. 

April  13.  .  .  .  P.  M.  went  to  Mistick.  Attended 
Mr.  I.  HalTs  funeral.  Prayed  there.  Drank  coffee  at 
Mr.  Hall's,  smoked  a  pipe  at  Mr.  Pool's. 

April  14.  Very  windy  and  blustering.  I  rid  up  to 
the  farther  end  of  the  Towai ;  visited  at  Mrs.  Widow  Pratts, 
Widow  Pells,  Patty  Barretts  and  B.  Green's.  Prayed  with 
y'"  all.  Mr.  Allet  (?)  of  Charlestown  was  here  P.  M.  & 
J.  Hills  in  the  eve'g. 

April  15.  Warm  and  pleasant;  engaged  in  seculars; 
bottled  cyder,  set  out  current  bushes.  Mr.  Brown  and  his 
wife  visited  here  in  the  even'g.  Mr.  Perkins,  Mrs.  Phillips 
&  Mrs.  Pain  visited  my  wife.  Had  some  spiritual  discourse 
with  Mrs.  P ps. 

April  17.  Rid  to  Boston  in  company  with  Mr.  Brown 
of  Reading.  Dined  at  Mr.  Pollys.  Prayed  wdth  a  dying 
woman  in  Charlestown.  Bot  my  d'  tickets,  smoked  a  pipe 
at  Mystick  on  my  return. 

April  18.  Rid  out  before  noon  with  my  d''  to  Mr  J. 
Tufts.  He  gave  us  some  sauce.  Capt.  Harnden  and  Left. 
Pratt  dined  with  me.  In  the  evening  read  Mr.  Howells. 
xA  man  hanged  himself  at  Boston. 

April  19.  Sab.  Exchanged  pulpits  with  Mr.  Payson. 
He   preached  for    me  and   I  preached   at  Chelsea.      Text 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  45 

A.  M.  Psal.  51  :  II  ;  P.  M.  Psal.  57,  21.  Went  to  Mother 
Hawkes  after  meeting.  Mr.  Kettell  and  Misses  B.  &  R. 
Emerson  were  here  in  the  eveninir. 

April  20.  A  very  g*  storm  of  wind  and  rain  in  y^ 
forenoon,  l)ut  it  cleared  up  at  noon  P.  M.  I  went  down  to 
attend  chh  meeting 'to  choose  a  deacon,  w'^''  was  appointed 
on  ye  day,  but  y  were  so  few  of  y«^  chh  together  y*  it  was 
thought  best  to  adjourn  ;  afterwards  I  went  into  Mad'" 
Emersons  &  visited  there ;  Mr.  Martin  gave  us  a  sparerib 
&  a  partridge. 

April  23.     Went  to  Boston heard  part 

of  Mr.  Hunts  sermon  at  lecture.  Dined  at  Deacon  Smiths  : 
prayed  with  Mr.  Hopkins.  Bot  Gushing  a  jocky  cap. 
Returned  in  y^  evening. 

April  25.  I  studied  in  preparation  for  the  Sab:  had 
horse  sent  me  to  look  at.  Had  a  good  deal  of  company  to 
dinner. 

x\pril  26.  Sab.  Preached  at  home  all  day.  Text 
A.  M.  Phil,  I,  II.  P.  M.  Ha.  13:  27.  Baptized  two 
children.  Mr.  Walton  (  ?)  &  Bro.  Jonathan  from  Lynn 
&  Bro.  Billy  from  Boston  were  here.  Just  at  night  Gush- 
ing was  taken  with  a  kind  of  convulsive  fit.  I  went  awav 
for  the  Dr.  but  before  he  got  here  he  seemed  to  be  consid- 
ably  come  to.     Blessed  be  Gd  wo  preserved  him.      Oh   yt 

he  might  live  in  his  sight 

May  3.  Sab.  .  .  .  I  preached  all  day  &  admin- 
istered Sact  21.  Text  A.  M.  Phil  2,1;  P.  M.,  Eel.  12, 
2-7.  The  deacons  dined  with  us.  Mr.  Hopkins  drank 
tea  with  us  after  meeting.  Mr.  Wm.  Wait  &  his  wife, 
Mrs.  D.  Parker  &  Miss  B.  &  R.  (K?)  Dexter  were  here  in 
ye  evn'g.  My  dear  stayed  at  home  in  the  afternoon  with 
Gushing. 

May  4.     Engaged   in    seculars.     Visited    at    Deacon 


46  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

Perkins  &  Mr.  R.  Dexters  in  y^  forenoon.  Mended  m}?^ 
wall.      Mr.  Searl  was  here  P.  M.     Gushing  was  ill. 

May  6.  Garden  made  and  ploughed  for  my  corn. 
Sister  Leonard  and  Mrs.  B.  Elliot  was  here.  Grandmother 
went  home  &  Mother  Hawkes  came  here.  Dr.  Porter  was 
here  in  y^  evening. 

May  9.  Dug  some  in  my  garden  and  cleaned  my 
chaise.  Mother  Hawkes  went  home.  Dr.  Tufts  drank  tea 
with  us  and  Mr.  Abbott  came  in  the  eve§^. 

May  12 I  studyed.      In  y^  afternoon  went  to 

Mvstick.  Drank  tea  with  Mr.  W.  Hall ;  returned  and 
supped  at  Mr.  Kettell's.  Mr.  Harnden  gave  me  a  cowskin 
&  his  wife  some  butter.  Mr.  Kettell  sent  my  dear  some 
salmon. 

May  13.  Mr.  R.  Dexter  and  Mr.  R.  Shute  were 
here  in  the  morning  and  breakfasted  with  us.  I  carried 
Mad'"  Emerson  to  Mrs.  Barrett.  We  had  a  private  fast. 
Mr.  Roby  prayed  first,  y"  I  read  a  Psalm  and  prayed. 
After  taking  a  little  refreshment  Mr.  Treadwell  & 
preached  from  Psal.  55  :  21  ;  y"  Mr.  Roby  prayed;  after 
which  I  read  a  chapter  &  prayed  :  y"  we  supped  and  came 
home.  I  went  to  Mr.  Willis's  prayed  with  his  sick  negro 
Vv^oman  smoked  a  pipe  at  Mr.  Dexter's  and  so  home. 

May  17.  Mr.  Cheever*  came  from  his  Bro.  Parker's 
and  breakfasted  with  us:  he  preached  A.  M.  from  Rom. 
10.  I.  x\fter'^*  I  prayed  &  admitted  R.  Parker  into  the 
chh  ;  P.  M.  I  preached  from  Mat.  5  :  20.  Y"^  were  many 
from  Stoneham  and  Mistick  at  meeting.  Mr.  Sargeant 
and  wife  were  here  after  meeting.  Dr.  Porter  called  upon 
us  &  Miss  B.  &  R.  Emerson  spent  the  Eve.  with  us. 

May  18.  In  the  morning  rid  up  with  my  Dr.f  to  visit 
Mrs.  Howard,  prayed   with   her.      Mrs.  J.  Lynde  gave  us 

*Of  Easthaiii. 
t  Dear 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  47 

a  cheese.  P.  M.  Prayed  at  town  meeting  before  the  choice 
of  Representative.  Y"  rid  to  Mistick.  Drank  tea  at 
Col.  Royall's.  Stopped  at  Dr.  Tufts.  Carried  Miss  B. 
Emerson. 

May  19.  A.  M.  rid  up  to  Mr.  J.  Upham's  dined  y' 
with  Mr.  Roby  &  visited  at  Mrs.  Pell's :  stopped  and 
smoked  a  Pipe  at  Left.  Upham's.  I  was  ill  with  y^  colic 
in  y^  evening. 

May  20.  Before  dinner  Mr.  Niles  and  Mr.  Lewkins 
(?)  of  Charlestown  came  and  dined  with  us.  Mr.  Niles 
preached  the  young  men's  lecture — a  most  excellent  ser- 
mon on  .  .  .  Mr.  T.  Upham,  Dr.  Porter,  Dea"  Per- 
kins &  J.  Hill  drank  tea  with  us. 

May  22.  My  son  Cushing  rid  out  in  the  morn.  I 
went  to  Boston.  Carried  Mr.  Leonard  to  Milton.  My 
grandfather  and  grandmother  agreed  to  come  and  live  with 
us.  I  returned  in  the  evening.  Mr.  Kettell  gave  us  a 
quarter  of  veal. 

May  23.  Rid  out  a  little  way  with  Dr.  &  Cushing. 
P.  M.  went  down  to  M'^'"  Emerson's  &  saw  her  son  John 
from  Conway.  Was  sent  from  home  to  Mrs.  Tuft's  &  Dr. 
Brooks  w°  spent  the  afternoon  &  drank  tea  with  us.  Mr. 
Upham  came  in  y^  evening  and  lodged  with  us. 

May  26 I    attended    Mr.    White's   ( ?) 

negroe's  funeral.      Mr of  Stonington  prayed. 

I  was  very  ill  with  a  cold. 

May  29.  Mr.  J,  Payson  &  his  wife  and  Mr.  Prentice 
of  Reading  came  to  our  house  before  dinner.  Mr.  Payson, 
Mr.  Prentice  &  Mr.  Chene}^  &  I  took  a  walk  up  Capt" 
[Wait's]  Mount.  They  and  Mr.  ^Ward  of  Portsmouth 
dined  with  us  but  went  away  directl}"  after  dinner.  Mrs. 
Tufts  and  Dr.  [John?]  Brooks  came  P.  M.  I  rid  up  to 
Widow  Oakes  with  him,   }-"  my  Dr.   &  I   went  to  Mistick 


48  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

with  Tufts  and  returned  in  y^  evening.  Mr.  W.  Emerson 
and  Mr.  J.  Emerson's  son  John  were  here  to  breakfast. 

June  r.  Artillery  election.  Mr.  Emerson  carried  me 
in  his  chaise  to  penny  ferry  ;  I  walked  from  hence  to  Bos- 
ton, heard  Mr.  Robbins  of  Milton  preach  the  sermon ; 
dined  in  the  hall.  P.  M.  went  upon  the  common  and 
returned  in  the  even'g.  My  Dr.  carried  Gushing  to 
Chelsea  in  my  chaise. 

June  6.  I  studyed  in  preparation  for  3'^  Sab.  My  D'' 
rid  out  with  Gushing  A.  M.  Mr.  Bores  &  Mr.  Leonard 
were  here  P.  M.     T.  Pratt  gave  us  a  little  chair. 

June  7.  Sab.  &  Sact.  22.  I  preached  A.  M.  Gor.  6  :20 
and  administered.  P.  M.,  Job  21,  23,  24,  25,  26.  A 
funeral  sermon  Mr,  Blaney.  My  Grandfather  &  grand- 
mother were  at  meeting.  Dea.  Shute  and  his  wife  dined 
with  us.  O"^  chimney  caught  afire  in  y*^  forenoon  service 
but  no  damage  was  done  blessed  be  God  for  it. 

June  9  A.  M.  I  went  down  to  Mad'"  Emersons  and 
Mr.  E.  &  I  took  a  walk  up  on  Gapt  Mount.  I  came  home 
to  dinner.  Mrs.  Shute  and  her  daughter  were  here  assist- 
ing in  y^  P.  M. 

June  10.  Uncle  Wait  brought  us  a  load  of  sand.  M3' 
dr.  &  I  rid  to  Mr.  Willis's  &  visited  y'«^.  We  went  also  to 
Mad'"  Emerson's  &  I  went  to  Mrs.  Kettell's  &  she  gave  us 
some  cold  roast  lamb.  P.  M.  Mr.  Willis  carried  us  to  y^ 
poor  house.  T  prayed  and  he  preached  3''^  from  Mat.  8,  3. 
Y"  I  visited  and  prayed  with  Patt3^  Barrett.      Returned. 

June  12.  I  studyed  in  preparation  of  the  Sab.  Mrs. 
Gook  and  Mrs.  Hopkins  visited  and  dined  with  us.  Miss 
Sally  Eustis  came  to  ,wk  &  lodged  with  us.  Mrs.  Gook 
gave  us  a  cheese  &  some  cake. 

June  14.  Sab.  In  y''  morning  ver3^  earl3^  I  was 
called  to  go  up  and  visit  Mrs.  Rand  :   got  back  at  8  o'clock. 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 


49 


1  preached  all  day  at  home.  Texts  A.  M.  Job  i6,  9. 
P.  M,  Gal.  6,  7.  We  had  a  charitable  contribution  for  y'' 
Widow  Jenkins.  Gathered  21  pounds  13s.  Bro.  Billy 
was  over.  Mrs.  Hopkins  &  Mrs.  Cook  dined  with  us. 
Mr.  Hills  and  Mr.  R.  Dexter  were  here  in  the  even'g. 

June  17.  I  was  engaged  in  y*^  garden  in  y^'  morning. 
Bro.  went  away,  y"  I  went  over  to  Mistick,  dined  at  Mr. 
Turrell's,  smoked  a  pipe  at  Mr.  W.  Hollis',  stopped  at 
Capt.  Dexter's  &  Mr.  Kettell's  on  my  return  ;  was  raw  cold. 
June  29.  My  dr.  carried  Gushing  to  ride  ;  I  visited 
and  prayed  with  Margaret  Jenkins.  I  was  then  called  to 
pra}^  with  D.  Howard's  children.  P.  M.,  catechised  the 
children  at  y*^  meeting  house ;  prayed  twice  with  y"\ 
Afterwards  went  to  Mr.  W.  Wait's  &  drank  tea  y'^.  Mr. 
Sargeant  of  Chelsea  was  here  and  settled  about  David's 
board. 

June  30,  Cap".  Dexter  gave  us  a  breast  and  neck  of 
veal ;  Bro.  Ned  and  Mr.  Tuttle  were  here  ;  I  spent  the 
forenoon  in  ni}-  stud}'.  Walked  down  to  carry  home  Sally 
to  Mr.  Kettle's.  My  d'  rid  with  Cushinir.  I  went  to  Med- 
ford  and  got  some  wine. 

July   I.      I  studyed  A.  M.     Mr.  Phillips  gave  us  some 
peas.      P.  M.  1  went  to  Cap"  Dexter's  &  visited  y'«. 
July  2.      .      .      .      Divers  sent  in  peas. 
Juh^  6.     Went  to  Boston  to   get  th"''  for  y^"  ministers 
meets.      Dined  at  Mr.  Polly's,  returned  P.  M.  Dea"'"  Shute 
sent  us  some  string  beans  &  Mr.  J.  Tufts  sent  us  some  peas. 
July  7.      It  was  ministers  meeting  at  my  house.      Mr. 
Willis,  Mr.  Roby,  Mr.  Payson,  Mr.  Treadwell,  Mr.  Whit- 
well,  Mr.    T.    Barnard,   Mr.     Mansfield,    Mr.    Thair    & 
Mr.   Hills  were  here ;    Mr.  Treadwell  preached.      Mad"' 
Emerson  dined  with  us.      Y'  all  went  away  at  night :   Miss 
B.  &  Miss  R.  Emerson  were  here  in  y'^  ev'g. 


50  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

July  8.  Mother  Hawkes  went  home.  I  went  for  my 
2d  degree  to  Cambridge.  The  class  met  &  chose  me 
moderator.  Dined  at  Steward  Hastings.  Visited  divers 
&  returned. 

July  lo.  A.  M.  Employed  in  seculars.  P.  M.  went 
to  Cap"  Dexters  &  down  to  Blanchards  Point;  Mr.  J. 
Tufts  brought  hams:  stopped  to  smoak  a  pipe  at  Mr. 
Kettle's  on  my  return. 

July  13.  Men  mowed  for  me.  Dr.  W.  &  wife  went 
away  in  y^  morning.  I  raked  hay  all  day.  In  y^  even- 
ing went  down  to  y®  bridge. 

July  15.  Commenc't.  I  carried  Dr.  Green  to  Cam- 
bridge ;  attended  the  public  exercises.  I  took  mv  degree 
of  Master  of  Arts.  Dined  at  Mr.  Hill's  chamber ;  returned 
in  y*^  evening  &  Dr.  Green  supped  with  us. 

July  21.  Went  to  Mistick  A.  M.,  to  Col.  Royall's ; 
returned  before  dinner.  Dr.  Whitaker  and  his  daughter 
called  upon  us.      I  went  down  to  y*^  bridge  just  at  night. 

July  23.  I  went  to  Boston,  heard  Dr.  Elliot  preach 
y^  lecture.  .  .  .  Mr.  Hopkins  gave  us  2  gallons  of 
Lisbon  (?)  wine. 

July  27.  Uncle  W.  Farrington  (?)  and  his  wife 
breakfasted  with  us.  I  went  up  to  visit  Mrs.  Pell  and 
Patt}'  Barrett.  Mrs.  Dexter  &  Mrs.  Coffin  were  here 
P.  M.  Mr.  Story  &  his  wife  d'^  tea  with  us.  M}^  corn 
was  hulled. 

July  29.  Mother  and  sister  went  away.  Mr.  Cheney 
&  I  went  down  to  y^  bridge.  Mr.  Lynde  &  Mr.  Kettell 
were  here.  Miss  B.  Emerson  &  Miss  S.  Hopkins  were  at 
dinner  here.  I  went  and  carried  Mr.  Cheney  to  Chelsea 
just  at  night. 

Aug.  I.  I  studyed  all  day  in  preparation  for  y'^  Sab. 
Mr.  J.  Tufts  sent  us  some  new  potatoes  y^"  evening. 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  5 1 

Aug.  8.  .  .  .  Y"^  was  very  fierce  lightening 
&  thunder  in  y*^  night  so  y^  my  Dr.  &  C  got  up  and  sat  up 
a  considerable  time. 

Aug.  8.     I  went  down  to  y^  bridge  A.  M. 

Aug.  II.  I  went  on  horseback  &  Mother  Hawkes  & 
mv  D""  in  y^  chaise  to  Walpole.  Baited  at  Blaney's,  dined 
at  Mr.  Morey's,  stopped  at  Dean's  in  Dedham  &  got  to 
Walpole  at  sunset.      It  rained  some  in  y^  evening. 

Aug.  13.  I  came  home  from  Walpole.  Baited  at 
Ames'  in  Dedham  ;  dined  at  Mr.  Morey's,  stopped  at 
Prentice's  in  Cambridge  and  got  home  at  sun  down. 

Aug.  18.  I  spent  y*^  day  in  my  study  till  just  before 
night,  then  rode  down  to  Winnesemmett  ferry  to  carry 
home  B.  Luckins  ;  but  she  could  not  get  over  y*^  ferry  and 
I  brot  her  back  ;  I  stopped  at  Mr.  J.  Sprague's  in  Chelsea. 
He  gave  me  2  chickens,  y"  I  stopt  at  Mr.  Burdetts'  & 
returned. 

Sept.  15.  Mad"i  Emerson  &  Miss  B.  &  Master 
Jenkins  dined  with  us.  Mrs.  J.  Tufts  sent  us  a  roasting 
pig.  P.  M.  set  out  for  Milton.  Stopped  and  prayed  with 
Mrs.  Sweetser  as  I  went  along.  Carried  Aunt  Betty  to 
Milton. 

Sept.  19.  This  day  2  y'''^  I  was  ordained.  The  L'' 
humble  me  for  my  sinfulness  and  unsuccessfulness. 
Studyed  A.  M.  P.  M.  carried  my  d'  and  Miss  Becky 
to  Charlestown  to  Mrs.  Sweetser's  funeral.  Attended  it 
and  prayed  with  the  relatives  after  it 

Oct.  7.  It  was  very  rainy.  I  was  at  home  all  day. 
We  put  up  y*^  green  curtains  in  y^  lower  room. 

Oct.  II  Sab.  This  day  my  son  Cushing  is  a  y'  old, 
blessed  be  God  w°  has  spared  him  &  oh  y^  he  might  live  in 
God's  sight.  I  went  to  Boston  preached  all  day  in  y*^  Old 
South.     Texts  A.   M.  Mai.  3,  8  ;  P.   M.   Eph.  5,  15,  16. 


52  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

Stopped  and  supped  at  Mr.  Halls  of  Mistick  on  my  return. 
Mr.  Kettle  and  Mr.  Hills  were  here  in  y*^  eve'g. 

Oct.  12.  Mr.  Bacon  went  away.  I  was  engaged  in 
seculars  A.  M.  General  Brattle,  Squire  Hall,  Mr.  Speaker 
Gushing,  Mr.  Pool,  Mr.  W.  and  A.  Hall  dined  with  us. 
Mr.  Emerson  and  his  wife  spent  the  ev'g  with  us,  Mr. 
Coffin  of  Boston  lodged  here. 

Oct.  i8.  Sab.  Preached  at  home  all  dav.  Texts 
A.  M.  Job  2,  5,  6;  P.  M.  2  Tim.  4,  8.  Deacon  Shute  & 
wife  dined  with  us.  Mr.  Hopkins,  Mr.  Waldo  Emerson, 
Dr.  Green  and  Mr.  Ruggles  drank  tea  with  us.  I  w^ent 
over  to  Mistick  to  visit  a  dying  man,  y"  supped  at  Mad'" 
Emerson's. 

Oct.  29.  At  home  all  day  and  studyed.  Mr.  W. 
Wait  gave  us  a  couple  of  chickens.  Br.  Merriam  and  his 
wife  were  here.  My  honored  grandfather  died  at  Milton 
between  10  and  11  o'clock  at  night.     AE  92. 

Nov.  9 Deacon   Shute    and   his   wife   were 

here  y"  brot  us  some  sauce.      Mr.  Green  ga\'e  us  a  large 
cheese. 

Nov.    18 After   lecture  I   went   down    to   the 

bridge,  to  Madam  Emerson's,  Mrs.  Kettle,  etc. 

Nov.  23 Mr.  Ramsdell  sent  us  a  pair  of  fine 

black  ducks. 

Dec.  2.  [Mr.  Thacher's  second  child,  Peter,  was 
born  the  preceeding  day,  and  the  day  following  was  general 
Thanksgiving.]  Deacon  Shute  and  Mr.  S.  Green  sent  us 
each  a  turkey  &  Mr.  Na  L^nde,  Cap"  Dexter  &  Mr.  J. 
Wait  sent  us  each  a  goose.  Cap"  Harnden  sent  me  some 
flour. 

Dec.  7.  I  set  out  this  morning  to  attend  the  Ordination 
of  Mr.  Upham  at  Deerfield  in  New  Hampshire.  Deacon 
Perkins,  Mr.  Kettle,   Mr.    Howard  and  Lt.   Upham  went 


.MAI.DEX    HISTOKICAL    SOCIETY  53 

with  me  as  delegates.  We  overtook  Mr.  Roby  with  his 
messengers  at  Andover,  dined  at  Col.  Fry's  &  lodged  the 
night  at  Kingston.     It  was  very  cold. 

Dec.  21.  I  went  to  Milton  to  attend  the  vendue  of  m^^ 
Grandfather's  personal  estate.  Bot  so  much  as  came  to 
sixty  pounds,  old  tenor.      Returned  y"  evening. 

Dec.  22.  I  was  at  home  A.  M.  In  the  evenin<x 
smoked  a  pipe  with  Capt.  Dexter.  My  things  came  from 
Milton.     The  large  glass  was  broke.    .    .    . 

1773- 
Jan.    I.      In    the    morning    I    was    called    to   visit   Mr. 

Thos.   Waits  wife*   who  was   apprehended   to   be   dying, 

then  went  to  my  study  ;  studyed  hard  all  day  in  preparation 

for  the  Sab.      Mr.  J.  and  Mr.  R.  Wait's  wives  visited  my 

dr.  i^ 

Jan.  2.  I  again  visited  and  prayed  with  Mr.  Thos. 
Wait's  wife.    .    . 

Jan.  4,  I  went  again  to  Mr.  Thos.  Wait's  to  pray 
with  his  wife. 

Jan.  5.  I  dined  at  Mr.  J.  Sprague's ;  prayed  with 
the  town  in  their  meeting.  Mrs.  Wait  died  this  day,  I 
visited  and  prayed  with  the  family. 

Jan.  8.      I  attended  Mrs.  Wait's  funeral.    .    .    . 

Jan.  II.  I  w^as  at  home  A.  M.  P.  M.  Mr.  Willis 
and  I  spent  time  together  in  preparing  something  for  a 
committee  of  the  town.f  We  met  with  y"^  a  little  while 
in  the  ev'g.  Our  chh  met  and  I  read  to  y'"  a  letter  missive 
to  go  to  ordination  at  Salem  ;   y'>  voted  to  send.:|: 

Feb.  3.  [Omitted  by  Mr.  Corey  in  reading]  I  hung 
my  chaise  on  a  slay  y^  day. 

*  Mr.  Corey  lierc  ))encilod  in  tlie  margin  "  Mary  Spraguc,  my  O.  G.  Gilm." 

t  Address  to  citizens  of  Boston,  etc.,  Jan.  14,  I'jy^-l).  P.  C. 

tThis  was  the  ord.  of  Rev.  Thos.  Barnard,  jr.,  at  Nortli  Church,  Salem-D.  P.  C. 


54  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

Feb.  6.  I  studyed  all  day  in  preparation  for  y*^  Sab. 
Carried  my  d"".  to  ride,  she  caught  cold  and  was  very  ill  y^ 
ev'g  and  night. 

Feb.  9.  [Omitted  by  Mr.  Corey]  I  went  to  Marble- 
head.  Dined  at  Col.  Lee's  [The  Lee  mansion  is  now  the 
home  of  the  Marblehead  Historical  Society.]  Attended 
Mr.  Whitwell's  funeral  &  was  a  bearer  ;  returned  y"  even- 
ing.      I  had  a  ring. 

1784. 

May  9.  Sab.  I  went  to  Boston,  preached  all  day  at 
Dr.  Cooper's  meeting.  Job.  13,  7;  Dan.  5,  25.  I  dined 
at  Maj.  Phillips  &  drank  tea  at  y^  governors.*  He  sent 
me  to  y'^  ferry  in  his  chariot.  Mr.  Howard  preached  for 
me. 

'  June   2.      [torn]      .      .      .      were  a  number  of  young 
women  who  spun  for  us.  • 

June  6.  .  .  .  The  congregation  after  meeting 
voted  to  omit  read'g  y*^  psalm  for  one  month  f'"  y^  day.  It 
was  extreme  hot. 

June  13.  Sab.  I  went  to  Roxbury.  Preached  y'^ 
all  day.  Phil.  3,  13,  14;  (?)  i,  6  &  baptized  a  child.  T 
dined  at  Mr.  D.  Wait's  who  gave  me  some  worsted.  D'' 
tea  at  Gen'l  Heath's ;  it  rained  much  Y^  evening  as  I 
returned. 

June  27.  I  was  in  my  study  and  read.  Cap.  Smith 
sent  us  in  a  hind  quarter  of  veal. 

June  30.  I  studyed.  A  number  of  men  mowed  for 
me. 

Juh'  I.  I  went  down  in  the  harbour  w.  Cap.  Smith 
and  a  large  company  of  men  and  women.  It  was  very 
windy.      I  was  a  little  sea  sick. 

*lu  Hancock  House. 


>I,\I,1)1':\    HISTOKICAI.    SOCIKTV  55 

July  6.  I  was  in  my  study  &  read.  2  men  mowed 
for  me  &  we  got  in  2  loads  of  hay.  J.  Hancock  sent  me 
12  psalm  books  to  be  divided  between  y^  poor  people. 

July  12.  I  was  engaged  in  Seculars.  We  got  in 
more  hay. 

July  23.   .      .      .   Cap.  Smith  gave  me  some  mackerel. 

July  25.      Sab.      I  preached  at  home  all  day. 
Mrs.  Hopkins  and  her  daughter  dined  w  us  w.    Cap.  Smith, 
Mr.  Kettell,  Cap.  Green  &  Dr.  Sprague  were  here  in  y*^ 
ev'g. 

Aug.  7.  I  was  in  my  study  &  dined  w  Cap.  Smith  ; 
my  d''  had  two  teeth  drawn. 

Aug.  II.  I  studyed  hard.  My  d''  had  another  tooth 
pulled. 

Aug.  19.  •  I  went  to  Boston.  Saw  Cap.  Smith's  ship 
launched  &  dined  at  Mr.  Thos.  Russel's. 

Aug.  21.  I  studyed  and  prepared  for  y*^  Sab.  Mr. 
R.  Shute  sent  us  some  cabbages. 

Sept.  I.  Mr.  Payson  called  me  &  went  together  to 
Cambridge.  Dined  at  y®  president's.  Mr.  Payson  preached 
y'^  dudlian  lecture;  y^  subject  was  revealed  religion. 

Sept.  16.  I  went  to  Boston,  heard  Mr.  Smith  preacii 
y^  lecture,  2  Pet.  2,  9.  I  dined  at  y*^  lieutenant  gover- 
nor's.* 

Sept.  19.  Sab.  This  day  14  yrs  I  was  ordained, 
my  God  forgive  the  sins  of  my  ministry  !      .      .      . 

Sept.  21.  I  studyed  hard.  Dea'n  Perkins  sent  us  a 
roast  pig. 

Oct.  8.  This  day  14  years  I  was  married  ;  may  God 
forgive  y*^  sin  of  y*^  relation  !      .      .      .      . 

Oct.  15.  I  went  to  Boston,  dined  at  y*^  governor's 
&  was  exercised  w  y"^  headache  y^  night. 

*Thos.  Cushing's. 


50  MALDEN    HISTORICAL-  SOCIETY 

Oct.  19.  I  went  to  Boston.  Y'*^  was  a  public  enter- 
tainment given  to  y*^  Marquis  LaFayette.  I  dined  in 
Faneuil  Hall. 

Oct.  25.  I  was  in  my  study  and  read.  I  heard  y^ 
y'^  church  in  Brattle  street,  Boston,  yesterday  voted  to  write 
me  to  remove  from  hence  to  v"\  Mav  God  overrule  & 
direct  in  v^  important  concern  !  I  went  to  Medford  and 
d'^  tea  with  Mr.  Osgood. 

Nov.  8.  I  was  in  mv  studv  &  read.  In  y^  eveg  y''^ 
was  a  committee  of  y*^  chh  w  me  abt  y*^  gt  concern  before 
us.      We  had  much  conversation. 

Nov.  t6  1  went  to  Boston  to  consult  my  fds  y^'^'  w 
respect  to  the  p'snt  state  of  things  here :  dined  at  y° 
governor's.      I  was  at  Cap.  Smith's  y*-'  evening. 

Nov.  19.  I  was  very  busy  writing.  Mr.  Payson  & 
Dr.  Dexter  dined  w  me.  Y^  chh  met  y*  afternoon.  T  c'^ 
not  get  y"'  to  act  upon  my  affair  so  I  told  y"^  y^  if  y^'  did 
not  give  me  an  answer  y'^  day  Ibrtnight  I  sh^'  take  it  as  a 
denial.      I  was  much  broken  of  my  rest  y^  night. 

Nov.  22.  I  was  in  my  study  and  read.  Dr.  Sprague 
gave  us  a  turkey. 

Nov.  23.   I  went  to  Boston.   Dined  at  Mr.  Ed  Green's. 

Capt.  Dexter  &    Cap.   Smith  sent  us  each    a    goose,    the 

wid"   Dexter   a  roast'g  piece  of  beef  &  Mr.  S.  Sprague  a 

spare-rib. 

Nov.    24.     I    studyed    hard.      Capt.    Green,    Mr.  J. 

Lynde  &  Mr.  N.  Lynde  sent   each  of  y'"  a  goose;  Mr.  T. 

I  fills  &  Mrs.   C.   Hill   2  fowls  each.      Dr.   Dexter  &  Dr. 

Sprague    dined    w  us.      I    was  sent    for    to     Mr.  S.    (T?) 

Sprague  &  prayed  on  occasion  3-^  y^  death  of  y'*^  son. 

Nov.  25.     Gen'l  Thanksgiving.      I  preached  at  home 

Rom.  2,  4.   Mrs.  Shute,  Dr.  Sprague  &  his  wife  and  child 

&  Bro.  Billy   dined  w    us.     Cap.   Green  and  Mr.   Kettell 

were  here  in  y*^  eve'g. 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  57 

Dec.  8.  This  day  I  wrote.  Dr.  Dexter  &  Dr.  Gowan 
dined  w  us.  Y^  afternoon  y*^  chh  &  parish  met  upon  my 
affair ;  at  first  y^  appeared  determined  to  refuse  y^  request 
&  I  was  ready  to  give  up  all  hope  ;  w»  y'^  m'^'^  suddenly 
altered  &  yy>'  voted  me  a  dismission  w  more  unanimity 
yiu  J  (_.d  i^Q^y  expected.  May  the  Almighty  overrule  y^ 
transaction  to  his  glory  &  y'^  benefit  of  all  concerned. 

Dec.  12.  Sab.  I  preached  at  Maiden  all  day.  Job 
14,  27  :  Acts  21,  14  being  my  farewell  sermon  to  y'"  Col. 
Davis  &  his  daughter  drank  tea  w  us.  I  had  much  com- 
panv  N""*  evening. 

Dec.  16.  I  studved  hard.  Dined  at  Mr.  Willis's: 
Mr.  Becham  sent  us  sparerib  &  Dea"  Perkins  a  roasting 
piece  of  beef. 

Dec.  21.  I  went  to  Boston,  dined  at  y^  Lieutenant 
Governor's.      I  went  by  way  of  Medford. 

Dec.  24.  I  was  in  mv  study  and  read.  Y'^'  went  to 
Medford  Sc  dined  w  Mr.  Bishop,  j"'.  He  gave  me  a  silk 
handkerchief. 

Dec.  26.  Sab.  Mr.  Clarke  preached  to  y^'  c'^'^  in 
Brattle  Street  A.  M.  I  preached  to  y'"  p.  m.  2  Cor.  2,  i6_, 
I  returned  my  answer  y^  night.  I  dined  at  Dea"  Newell's, 
d''^  tea  at  y^'  governor's  &  spent  y"  '^v'g  &  supped  at  y" 
lieutenant  governor's. 

Dec.  27.  I  was  at  y*^  governor's;  he  gave  me  a  rich 
damask  gown  for  my  wife ;  &  at  Mr.  Ed.  Green's  & 
returned  to  Maiden  y'^  night. 

1785- 
(Jn  the  4th   of   January,  1785,   I   removed  my  family 
from  Maiden  to  Boston  and  w^e  kept  at  the  house  of  Wm. 
Cooper,   Esq.*      On  the  12  Jan,  1785  I  was  installed  in  v'^ 

*Son  of  the  former  pastor  of  Brattle  Street  clmrcli ;  town  clerk;  clerk  of  (  oimnittce  of 
correspondence;  buried  in  Granary  Burying  Ground.     He  lived  on  Hanover  street. 


58  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

pastoral  care  of  y^  c'^'^  in  Brattle  street.  We  remained  at  Mr. 
Cooper's  till  Jan.  26,  w"  we  removed  into  our  own  house. 
May  God  y'^  important  proceeding  to  his  glory  &  to  our 
good  I  may  he  enable  me  to  b^^  honor  to  him  &  good  to 
mankind  ! 

Feb.  II.  I  was  in  mv  study  &  divers  called  upon 
me  ;  I  dined  as  Mr.  J.  Hall's.  He  gave  me  some  oranges. 
Mr.  Stover  sent  me  a  looking  glass,  some  stockings,  &c 
&  to  my  wife  divers  other  things.  I  drank  tea  at  Cap. 
Brailsford.      I  visited  a  number  of  others. 

Feb.  12.  I  prepared  for  y*^  Sab.  Dined  w  y"  french 
consul,  Mr.  John  Kneeland  gave  my  dr  a  pound  of  tea. 

Feb.  14.  ...  A  large  number  of  ladys  visited  m}- 
wife.  Mr.  Carnes  was  here  in  y^  evg.  Judge  Gill  sent 
us  a  very  elegant  Wilton  carpet. 

Feb.  15.  I  visited  Mrs.  Mills,  dined  at  Mr.  Lowell's 
&  spent  y^  evening  at  y'^  governor's.  Mr.  Austin  sent  us 
a  pair  of  andirons,  Mrs.  Hayslip  a  carpet,  Mr.  W.  Green- 
leaf  a  rich  table  cloth  and  some  earthern  mugs. 

Feb.  16.    .   .    .  The  governor  sent  me  a  large  hog. 

Feb.  28.  This  day  y®  governor  resigned  y"^  chair,  T 
attended  y^  solemnity,  dined  at  y^  lieutenant  governor's  & 
had  company  y^  afternoon  and  evening.* 

Feb.  19.  I  prepared  fr  y^  Sab ;  dined  w  my  family 
at  Governor  Hancock's.     Mr.  Ed  Green  sent  us  a  turke}-. 

Feb.  20 Mr.   Ruggles    dined   with   us.     The 

lieutenant  governor  and  other  spent  the  even'g  here. 

Feb.  21.  I  visited  and  prayed  w  Judge  Sullivan. f 
&  visited  Mrs.  Baker,  Mrs.  Wells  (  ?)  &  Mrs.  Inches.  Y« 
latter  gave  me  2  guineas.  Dined  at  Mr.  Hancock's,  was  at 
ministers  meeting  at  Mr.  Freeman's.  We  had  much  com- 
pany. 

*For  some  reason  this  entry  was  omitted  by  Mr.  Corey. 

fHon.  James  Sullivan,  afterwards  governor;  G.  G.  Father  of  the  late  Dr.  J.  Langdon 
Sullivan. 


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59 


Feb.  22.  I  studyed  :  dined  ai^ain  at  y"^  governor's; 
I  had  a  load  of  ha}-. 

March  2.  I  studyed.  Mrs.  Lowell  send  us  green 
tea  &  a  loaf  of  sugar ;  T  dined  at  Mr.  Barrett's  &  preached 
y""  lecture  y«  ev'g  for  Mr.  Stillman,  Rev.  19,  11-16.* 

M^i'ch  4 Gen'l  Lincoln  was  here  in 

v«  ev'ij. 

March  10.  This  morning  Mr.  Bowdoin  sent  me  a 
present  of  nine  guineas  I  studyed  a  little ;  attended  y^-' 
Thursday  lecture  w^  Mr.  Lathrop  preached.  Dined  at 
Mr.  Jon  Amory's  ;  visited  at  Mr.  Thos.  Russells  &  spent 
y'^  ev'g  at  y^  governor's. 

[Mr.  Corey  copied  many  -pages  more  of  the  diary, 
but  those  here  reproduced  were  all  that  he  marked  as 
bearing  on  life  in  the  ancient  parsonage,  and  evidently 
those  marked  were  only  illustrative,  as  many  entries  occur 
unmarked  which  would  interest  descendenls  of  the  parish- 
ioners referred  to.] 

*The  previous  day's  recoid  is:  "I  went  to  Makien,  visited  divers  yre.  Dined  at 
Dr.  Sprague's.  Returned  ys  cveg.  Dr.  De.xter  went  w  me.  Mr.  W.  Greenleaf  sent  me  a 
(luintal  of  excellent  fish. 


6o  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 


CHILDHOOD  IN  THE  OLD  PARSONAGE 

Bv  Darius  Cokh 


[The  old  parsonage  house  has  a  chamber,  in  which 
WilHam  Emerson,  son  of  the  parish  minister,  and  grand- 
father of  Ralph  Waldo  Emerson,  Adoniram  Judson,  the 
missionary  to  the  Burmese,  and  the  twin  brothers,  Cyrus 
and  Darius  Cobb,  one  a  sculptor  and  the  other  a  noted 
painter,  first  saw  the  light.  Rev.  Joseph  Emerson,  Rev. 
John  Emerson  and  Rev.  Thomas  Cushing  Thacher  were 
also  born  in  the  house.  By  special  invitation,  the  only 
survivor  of  the  four,  Darius  Cobb,  at  present  a  member  of 
the  society,  was  present  at  the  meeting  referred  to  in  the 
preceding  article,  and  gave  his  recollections  of  his  child- 
hood home.      He  spoke  substantially  as  follows.] 

This  incident  I  remember  when  two  years  of  age  ;  we 
moved  from  the  old  parsonage  w^hen  Cyrus  and  I  were 
three.  It  would  be  1836  as  we  were  born  in  1834.  To 
introduce,  I  will  say  that  everything  was  presented  to  us 
alike  and  I  remember  that  two  chairs  were  presented  to  us 
and  we  both  were  out  one  Sunday  and  took  a  hatchet,  and 
Cyrus,  being  hve  minutes  older,  first  chopped  the  front 
part  of  the  chair  out  four  inches  W'ide,  and  I  took  the 
hatchet  and  I  chopped  my  four  inches,  and  my  uncle  came 
out  just  then  and  said,  "Here,  what  are  you  about,  boys?" 

My  next  recollection  is  of  going  about  half  a  mile 
away  from  home  and  my  sister  Haley  called  us  back  (she 
was  eight  years  older  than  Cyrus  and  l).  When  I  got 
grown  I  found  that  half  mile  was  about  eight  rods  from  the 
house  over  a  cliff,   but   1   thought  we  were   about  half    a 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  6l 

mile  from  home.  I  can  see  the  rock  now.  I  remember 
we  looked  out  of  the  window  and  there  was  a  man  with  a 
striped  shirt.  We  had  noticed  in  pictures  that  a  pirate  was 
represented  in  a  striped  shirt,  and  this  man  was  working 
for  my  father,  and  we  would  not  go  out  there  for  we  said, 
"That  is  a  pirate  who  will  cut  our  heads  off," 

The  last  I  remember  was  when  we  were  three  years 
old  father  moved  to  Waltham  and  settled  there,  and  I 
remember  just  as  plain  as  possible  that  red  and  white  cow 
that  was  driven  out  of  the  yard  and  over  to  Waltham.  I 
can  see  the  cow  going  after  the  furniture  wagon.  That 
closed  the  Maiden  scene  for  forty-three  years  and  it  was 
forty  three  years  after,  in  1870,  when  I  was  there  again. 

One  remarkable  incident  of  the  religious  life  of  my 
father  was  the  battle  of  Universalism  in  Maiden,  when  it 
battled  against  Orthodoxy.  That  was  after  the  first  parish 
church  had  divided  and  father  was  preaching  to  the  parish, 
which  had  become  Universalist  in  the  old  original  parish 
church  while  he  occupied  the  old  original  parish  parson- 
age. My  father.  Rev.  Sylvanus  Cobb,  was  the  first  min- 
ister after  they  turned  Universalist. 

Sylvanus  and  three  of  the  children  were  born  in 
Watertown  and  the  rest  were  born  in  Maiden. 

Forty-three  years  after  I  left  the  old  parsonage  and 
forty-three  years  after  those  battles,  I  had  painted  my  pic- 
ture depicting  "Christ  before  "Pilate,"  and,  although  he 
knew  I  was  a  Universalist,  Dr.  J.  W.  Wellman  invited  me 
to  go  to  Maiden,  to  address  his  prayer-meeting,  at  the 
preparatory  lecture  before  the  sacrament,  on  the  subject  of 
"Christ."  For  six  months  I  refused,  but  at  last  I  consented, 
only  saying  that  T  could  not  go  to  his  regular  meeting  on 
Friday  evening.  "I  will  consult  my  parish,"  said  he, 
"and  see  if  they  will  not  consent  to  have    the  meeting  on 


62  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

Wednesday  evening."  "Let  Dr.  Witherell  go,"  I  had 
argued.  "We  do  not  want  Dr.  Witherell,"  was  the  reply  ; 
"we  want  you  to  speak  to  us  on  vour  picture  of  Christ." 
My  brother  Cyrus  went  with  me.  We  spent  the  night  with 
Dr.  Wellman,  and  to  my  astonishment,  at  supper  he  said 
tome  "I  am  in  the  habit  of  asking  a  blessing '  and  he 
asked  me  if  I  would  ask  it.  The  next  mornincr  vvhen  we 
arose,  Cyrus  and  I  thought  we  would  take  a  walk,  going 
up  by  the  old  parsonage.  We  had  Kossuth  hats,  and  it 
was  very  dusty.  A  maid  came  to  the  door,  and  Cyrus 
said — he  was  five  minutes  older  than  I,  and  so  always 
spoke  first — "  Is  the  lady  of  the  house  in?"  and  she  looked 
scared,  began  to  stammer,  and  said  "No — no,  sir,  I  don't 
think  you  can  see  her,"  evidently  mistaking  us  for  tramps. 
Cyrus  put  on  a  deep,  grave,  ministerial  voice,  and  said 
"I  am  very  sorr}^ ;  because  we  were  born  here,  and  our 
name  is  Cobb." 

"Jane,  tell  the  gentlemen  to  walk  in  "  we  heard  from  up 
stairs.  And  we  went  in,  and  the  lady  showed  us  about  the 
house.  She  showed  us  the  front  room,  and  on  the  old- 
fashioned  window-pane  was  my  brother  Sylvanus'  name, 
cut  on  the  glass  when  he  was  twelve  years  old.  His 
mother  had  upon  some  occasion  shut  him  in  the  room  and 
he  had  carved  his  name  as  though  he  was  carving  his  name 
on  the  world.  She  showed  us  about,  but  did  not  show  us 
our  birth  chamber.  The  first  time  we  saw  that  was  at  the 
Judson  centennial,  in  1891.  We  were  born  in  the  room  in 
which  Adoniram  Judson  and  son  of  Rev.  William  Emerson 
and  grandfather  of  Ralph  Waldo  Emerson  was  born. 
Michael  Wigglesworth,  the  early  minister  and  schoolmaster 
of  Maiden,  once  took  a  ride  on  horseback.  Returning,  he 
brought  a  slip,  and  planted  it  in  front  of  the  house.  It 
grew  into  the  big  butternut  tree  which  now,  I  guess,  is 
gone. 


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At  that  time  she  showed  us  into  the  kitchen.  It  was 
papered  flush,  and  there  was  no  door  excepting  the  one  by 
which  we  entered,  and  one  by  which  to  go  out  into  the 
entry.  I  pointed  and  said  :  "When  I  was  two  years  old, 
there  was  a  door  right  there,  where  you  have  now  papered, 
and  that  door  led  up  by  a  flight  of  stairs,  into  a  store-room 
overhead."  "That  is  it  exactly,"  she  responded,  "and  it 
was  covered  a  year  ago  when  we  papered."  I  said,  "I  know 
that  for  this  reason  :  It  was  Sunday,  and  my  brother  Eben, 
six  years  older,  it  being  a  very  icy  day,  had  put  Cyrus  on 
a  sled.  He  went  all  right.  Then  he  put  me  on  the  sled 
and  the  sled  slewed  and  struck  the  tire  of  an  ox  team, 
hitting  me  near  the  temple  ;  and  I  remember  them  taking 
me  into  this  room.  I  was  bleeding,  and  in  order  to  do 
everything  the}^  needed  to  they  took  me  up  into  that  room 
out  of  sight,  and  there  they  dressed  the  wound.  I  can  see 
that  door  and  the  stairs  now,  and  I  see  them  carrying 
me."  This  is  an  illustration  of  one  class  of  incidents  that 
by  an  accident  are  stamped  on  the  memory  ;  and  yet,  the 
memory  of  the  chopping  of  those  chairs  is  just  as  vi^'id. 

While  speaking  of  this,  I  remember  another  incident 
which  occiHTed  after  we  had  moved  to  Waltham,  when  we 
were  four  years  old.  We  were  coming  by  the  school- 
house,  and  we  saw  the  door  open,  and  walked  in.  Cyrus 
(being  five  minutes  older,  as  I  have  said),  led.  Howard 
Banks,  a  friend,  had  been  whipped  by  the  teacher.  We 
found  the  place  deserted,  and  children  as  we  were,  almost 
babies,  we  tore  off  railings  of  the  seats,  the  railings  of 
teacher's  desk,  spilled  ink  over  books,  tore  up  books  and 
smashed  the  windows.  Then  we  went  home.  A  man  met 
us  as  we  walked  along.  Later  we  were  told  that  the  man 
had  been  found  in  the  school-house  and  taken  prisoner. 
We  said  "that  is  too  bad."     Years  afterward  they  found 


64  MAI.DEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

out  we  were  the  culprits.  Twins  at  four  years  old  are 
terrible.  Twins  are  like  two  piston  rods  on  an  engine, 
working  reciprocally. 

I  have  written  many  articles  for  the  press,  but  only 
one  book,  and  that  I  suppressed.  I  wrote  this  during  the 
Andover  controversy,  using  no  names,  but  calling  the 
persons  to  whom  I  referred  "X"  "Y"  "Z"  etc.,  but  I 
found  that  the  publisher  was  going  to  print  the  names  of 
these  good  men,  and  so  stopped  the  publication,  rather 
than  have  the  book  a  personal  affair.  Cyrus  wrote  ■'  The 
Veteran  of  the  Grand  Army."  They  had  on  the  title  page 
"  Written  by  the  brothers  Cobb  ''  but  my  work  has  been 
mostly  blank  verse  and  poetry. 


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MALDEN  HISTORICAL  SOCIETY. 

Organized,  March  8,  1886. 
Incorporated  February  7,  1887. 


President. 
CHARLES  E.  MANN 

Vice- Preside  n  ts . 

JOSHUA  W.  WELLMAN,  D.D. 
GEORGE  L.  GOULD. 
ROSWELL  R.   ROBINSON 

Secretary. 
FRANK  E.  WOODWARD 

Treasurer  and  Assistant  Secretary. 
JOHN  W.  NEEDS 

Directors. 

Charles  H.  Adams  Roswell  R.  Robinson 

George  W.  Chamberlain  H.  Heustis  Newton 

George  L.  Gould  Walter  Kendall  Watkins 

Charles  E.  Mann  Arthur  W.  Wellman 

John  W.  Xeels  Joshua  W.  Wellman,  D.I). 

Frank  E.  Woodward 


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COMMITTEES. 

Finance. 

George  L.  Goulu  William  G.  Merrill 

Arthur  W.  Walker 

Piihltcation. 


Charles  E.  Mann 
Frank  E.  Woodward 
Deloraine  p.  Core^* 


Roswell  R.  Robinson 
Arthur  H.  Wellman 
Sylvester  Baxter 


Membership. 

George  B.  Murray  Mrs.  Percy  E.  Walbridge 

Mrs.  Mary  A.  Berry  Hon.  Charles  Bruce,  Everett 

George  E.  Damon,  Melrose 

Social. 

Mrs.  William  G.  A.  Turner  Mrs.  J.  Parker  Swett 

Mrs.  Charles  E.  Mann  Mrs.  Sylvester  Baxter 

Mrs.  Fred  T.  A.  McLeod 

Genealogies. 

Walter  Kendall  Watkins  Dr.  Charles  Burleigh 

George  W.  Chamberlain  Mrs.  Robert  B.  Burlen 

William  B.  Snow 


Truman  R.  Hawley 


Cameya. 


Peter  Graffam. 


William  L.   Hall  worth 


♦Deceased. 


HONORARY   MEMBERS. 

Rk.v.  T-  W.  Wellman,  D.D.  Roswell  R.  Robinson 

Phineas  W.  Sprague 


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67 


MEMBERS,   1910-1911. 


Adams,  Charles  II. 
Allen,  Claude  L. 
Ammann,  Albert 

liailey,  Dudley  P. 
Bailey,  Adelaide  P. 
Bailey,  William  M. 
Barnes,  Roland  T), 
Batting,  Henry  C. 
Baxter,  Sylvester 
Belcher,  Charles  F. 
Bennett,  Frank  P.  Jr. 
Bennett,  Frank  P.  Sr. 
Berry,  Mary  A.  . 
Bickford,  Erskiiie  F. 
Bliss,  A.  E. 
Bliss,  E.  P. 
Boutwell,  Harvey  L. 
Bradstreet,  George  F. 
Bruce,  Charles  M. 
Bruce,  Charles,  Mayor 
Burgess,  J.  H.    . 
Burleigh,  Dr.  Charles 
Burlen,  Mrs.  Robert  B. 
Burnham,  Arthur  G.  . 

Casas,  William  B.  de  las 
Carter,  Aldert  A. 
Chadwick,  Dr.  Mara  L. 
Chadwick,  F.  Henry   . 
Chamberlain,  George  W. 
Chandler,  John  G. 
Chester,  Dr.  Carey  R. 
Chester,  Dr.  H.  Coryell 


.  Melrose 

.   Melrose 

50  Acorn  street.  Maiden 


Greystone  road, 

23  Spring  street, 

.    S6  High  street, 

52  Murray  Hill  road, 

148  Hawthorne  street. 


79  Mountain  avenue, 

.     38  Main  street, 

60  Linden  avenue, 

17  Linden  avenue, 

37  Pierce  street, 

208  Maple  street, 

155  Hawthorne  street, 

72  Mountain  avenue, 

53  Washington  street, 

107  Dexter  street, 

30  Francis  street, 

95  Cedar  street, 

3  Earl  street, 

7  Kneeland  street, 

30  Mt.  Vernon  street, 

29  Hillside  avenue, 

2  Dexter  street, 

33  Holmes  street, 

90  Dexter  street, 


Everett 
Everett 
Maiden 
Maiden 
Maiden 
Maiden 
Maiden 
vSaugus 
Saugus 
Maiden 
Maiden 
Maiden 
Maiden 
Maiden 
Maiden 
Maiden 
Everett 
Maiden 
Maiden 
Maiden 
Maiden 

Maiden 
Maiden 
Maiden 
Maiden 
Maiden 
Maiden 
Maiden 
Maiden 


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Chester,  Horace 
Chester,  William  F. 
Clark,  John  L.     . 
Cobb,  Darius 
Coggan,  Marcellus 
Coggan,  M.  Siininer 
Corbett,  John  M. 
Corey,  Mrs.  D.  P. 
Covell,  Leroy  J. 
Cox,  Alfred  E.    . 
Croxford,  Harry  B. 

Damon,  George  E. 
Damon,  Herbert 
Daniels,  Charles  A. 
Davis,  Dr.  Myron 
Dennett,  Charles  E. 
Donovan,  James 
Drew,  Frank  E. 
Dutton,  George  C. 

Eaton,  Charles  L. 
Eldridge,  Alton  W. 
Estey,  Frank  W. 
Evans,  Wilmot  R.  Jr 
Evans,  Wilmot  R.  Sr 

Fall,  George  H.,  May 
Fernald,  B.  Marxin 
Fogg,  Willis  A. 
Foss,  PaulM.       . 
Fovvle,  Frank  E. 
Freeman,  Melville  C. 
French,  Mrs.  CM. 

Gay,  Dr.  Fritz  W. 
Gay,  Edward 
Gould,  Edwin  Carter 


or 


56  Earl  street.  Maiden 

39  Rockland  avenue.  Maiden 

61  Hathorne  street,  Maiden 

.     Boston 

Tremont  Building,  Boston 

17  Garland  avenue.  Maiden 

79  Tremont  street.  Maiden 

2  Berksley  street.  Maiden 

4  Everett  street,  Maiden 

So  Appleton  street,  Maiden 

2  Kernwood  street,  Maiden 

Melrose 

191  Mountain  avenue,  Maiden 

88  Mt.  Vernon  street.  Maiden 

227  Salem  street.  Maiden 

13  Tremont  street,  Maiden 

33  Grace  street,  Maiden 

99  Washington  street.  Maiden 

.   Glenrock,  Maiden 

Dexter  street.  Maiden 
.  Melrose 
136  Hawthorne  street.  Maiden 

.    Everett 
.    Everett 

Evelyn  place,  Maiden 

.  Melrose 

37  Judson  street,  Maiden 

45  Florence  street.  Maiden 

321  Summer  street.  Maiden 

455  Highland  avenue,  Maiden 

217  Clifton  street.  Maiden 

105  Salem  street.  Maiden 

18  Dexter  street,  Maiden 

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Gould,  George  L. 
(jould,  Le\  i  vS.    . 
Gould,  Lizzie   L. 
Graff  am,  Peter    . 

IlalKvorth,  William  L. 
Hardy,  Arthur  P. 
Hastings,  William  H. 
Haven,  Rev.  William  Ingraham 
Hawley,  Alice  C. 
Hawley,  Truman  R, 
Hawley,  W^illiam  H. 
Hawley,  William  D.   . 
Heath,  Alexander 
Heath,  Mr.  William     . 
Heath,  Mrs.  William 
Herrick,  George  W. 
Hobbs,  Williams  J.     . 
llolden,  Leverett  D.    . 
Hosford,  Arthur  P. 
Houdlette,  Edith  L.     . 
Howard,   William 

Johnson,  George  H.     . 
Johnson,  Gilbert  Haven 
Jones,  George  R. 
Joslin,  F.  N.        . 

Kerr,  Alexander 
King,  Edward  S. 
King,  Mr.  Robert  C. 
King,  Mrs.  Robert  C. 

Lewis,  Dr.  Joshua  F. 
Locke,  Col.  E.  E. 
Locke,  Col.  Frank  L. 
Lord,  Charles 
Lund,  James 


24  Alpine  street.  Maiden 

Melrose 

34  Alpine  street.  Maiden 

iSi  Clifton  street. 


47  Meridian  street 

41  Ivy  road 

68  Plymouth  road 

Bible  House,  Ne 

36  Washington  street 

40  Newhall  street 

40  Newhall  street 

36  Washington  street 

20  Oxford  street 

2  Heath  place 

2  Heath  place 

109  Maple  street 

33  Converse  avenue 

40  Prescott  street 

30  Kernwood  street 

•  •  ■ 

49  Glen  street 

481  Salem  street 
99  Washington  Street 

•  •  • 

34  Concord  street 

40  Glen  street 

25  Garland  avenue 

47  Francis  street 

47  Francis  street 

Francis  street 

37  vVlpine  street 

2  19  Clifton  street 

133  Mt.  \'ernon 

142  Hawthorne  street 


Maiden 

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Maiden 
Maiden 
w  York 
Maiden 
Maiden 
Maiden 
Maiden 
Maiden 
Maiden 
Maiden 
Maiden 
Maiden 
Maiden 
Maiden 
Melrose 
Maiden 

Maiden 

Maiden 

Boston 

Maiden 

Maiden 
Maiden 
Maiden 
Nfalden 

Maiden 
Maiden 
Maiden 
Maiden 
Maiden 


JO 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 


Magee,  Charles  R. 
Makepeace,  Lloyd 
Mann,  Charles  E. 
Mann,  Mary  Lawrence 
Mansfield,  Mrs.  S.  E. 
McDonald,  Daniel 
McDonald,  Luther 
McCiregor,  Alexander 
McLain,  Lewellyn  1 1 . 
McLeod,  Willard 
McLeod,  Fred  T.  A. 
Merrill,  William  G. 
Miles,  Charles  C. 
Millett,  Charles  H. 
Millett,  Joshua  IL 
Millett,  Mrs.  M.  C. 
Millett,  Mrs.  R.  M. 
Miner,  Franklin  M. 
Moore,  Eugene  H.,  Mayor 
Morse,  Tenney 
Mudge,  Rev.  James 
Murray,  George  B. 

Neels,  John  W. 
Newton,  IL  Heustis 
Newhall,  Louis  C. 
Newhall,  Nathan 
Nichols,  Mrs.  A.  A. 
Noon,  Rev.  Alfred 

Ogden,  John  W. 
Otis,  James  O.     . 

Page,  .Vlbert  N. 
Parker.  John  1 1. 
Peabody,  Charles  N. 
Perkins,  Clarence  A. 
Perry,  Eugene  A. 


Pleasant  street  park 

58  Dexter  street 

8  Woodland  road 

8  Woodland  road 

Glenwood  street 

3o8  Washington  street 

28  Newhall  street 

Glen  Rock 

•  •  • 

147  Walnut  street 
147  Walnut  street 
149  Walnut  street 
4^  Lincoln  street 
2  1 7  Clifton  street 

22  Parker  street 
217  Clifton  street 

22  Parker  street 
127  Summer  street 

•  •  • 

65  Las  Casas  street 

33  Cedar  street 

20  Greenleaf  street 

.2S6  Cross  street 

•  •  •  • 

I  Irving  place 

I  Irving  place 

187  Summer  street 

•  •  •  • 

15  Clarendon  street 
.  2  l4)ham  street 

349  Pleasant  street 

.  25  James  street 

93  Hawthorne  street 

.     57  High  street 

145  Summer  street 


Maiden 
Maiden 
Maiden 
Maiden 
Maiden 
Maiden 
Maiden 
Maiden 
Melrose 
Maiden 
Maiden 
Maiden 
Maiden 
Maiden 
Maiden 
Maiden 
Maiden 
Maiden 
Melrose 
Maiden 
Maiden 
Maiden 

Maiden 
Everett 
Maiden 
Maiden 
Maiden 
Everett 

Maiden 

Maiden 

Maiden 
Maiden 
Maiden 
Maiden 
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71 


Phillips,  Wellington     . 
Pitman,  David  B. 
Plummer,  Arthur  J.     . 
Pliimmer,  Dr.  Frank  W. 
Priest,  Russell  P. 
Prior,  Dr.  Charles  E. 
Proctor,  Dr.  Charles  M. 
Porter,  Dwight    . 

C^uinn,  Bernard  F. 

Rich,  Thomas  S.  .> 

Rich,  Mrs.  Thomas  S. 
Richards,  George  Louis 
Richards,  Capt.  Lyman  H. 
Riedel,  E.  Robert 
Roberts,  Walter  H.      . 
Robinson,  Roswell  R. 
Roby,  Austin  H. 
Rood,  John  F.    . 
Ross,  Alexander 
Ryder,  Dr.   Godfrey 
Ryder,  Mrs.  Gertrude  Yale 

Sargent,  Jesse  W. 
Schotield,  William 
Shove,  Francis  A. 
Siner,  James  B.  . 
Sircom,  Frank  R. 
Slack,  Adelaide  B. 
Smith,  George  E. 
Smith,  Robert  B. 
Snow,  William  B. 
Sprague,  Emeline  M. 
Sprague,  Phineas  W. 
Staples,  Dr.  Clarence  IL 
Stevens,  Dr.  A.  J. 
.Stevens,  E.  Allen 


1 1  I  Linden  avenue 

33  Holmes  street 

54  Wyoming  avenue 

334  Pleasant  street 

66  Summer  street 

77  Summer  street 

36  Hawthorne  street 

149  Hawthorne  street 

6^  Judson  street 

240  Clifton  street 

240  Clifton  street 

84  Linden  avenue 

I  7  Howard  street 

I  s  Evelyn  place 

490  Highland  avenue 

S4  Linden  avenue 

105  Washington  street 

61  Cross  street 

Woodland  road 

331   Pleasant  street 

321  Pleasant  street 

4  Evelyn  place 

136  Summer  street 

87  Beltean  street 

10  Hawthorne  street 

69  Bartlett  street 

72  Mountain  avenue 

.     Swa 

196  Salem  street 

109  Rockland  a\enuc 

84  Salem  street 

339  Pleasant  street 

539  Main  street 

Elm  street 


Maiden 
Maiden 
Maiden 
Maiden 
Maiden 
Maiden 
Maiden 
Maiden 

Maiden 

Maiden 
Maiden 
Maiden 
Maiden 
Maiden 
Maiden 
Maiden 
Maiden 
Maiden 
Maiden 
Maiden 
Maiden 

Maiden 
Maiden 
Maiden 
Maiden 
Maiden 
Maiden 
mpscott 
Maiden 
Maiden 
Maiden 
Boston 
Maiden 
Maldei: 
Maiden 


72 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 


Stevens,  Mary  L. 
Stover,  Col.  Willis  W. 
Sullivan,  Mrs.  K.  T. 
Sullivan,  Lynde  ■ 
Sweetser,  Col.  E.  Leroy 
Swett,  J.  Parker 

Trafton,  William  VV'. 
Tredick,  C.  Morris 
Turner,  Henry  E. 
Turner,  Mrs.  Henry  E. 
Turner,  Mary  Greenleaf 
Turner,  William  G.  A. 

Upham,  Artemas  B.     . 
Upton,  Eugene  C. 

Walbridge,  Percy  E. 
Walbridge,  Mrs.  Percy  E 
Walker.  Arthur  W. 
Walker,  Clarence  O. 
Walker,  Hugh  L. 
Walker,  Mrs.  C.  I. 
Walker,  Oscar  W. 
Watkins,  Walter  K. 
Wellman,  Arthur  H, 
Wellman,  Jennie  L. 
Wellman,  Joshua  W.,  D.D 
Welsh,  Willard 
Wentvvorth,  Dr.  Lowell  F. 
Wescott,  Charles  H. 
White,  Clinton 
Whittemore,  Edgar  A 
Wiggin,   Joseph 
Wight  man,  J.  Lewis 
Willcox,  El  fa  (;. 
W^ing,  William  H. 


26  Dexter  street.  Maiden 
.    Everett 
Maiden 
Maiden 
.    Everett 
71  (jreenleaf  street,  Maiden 


87  Cedar  street, 
87  Cedar  street. 


30  Milton  street,  M.dden 

36  Alpine  street.  Maiden 

37  Washington  street.  Maiden 

37  Washington  street,  Maiden 

Ridgewood  road,  Maiden 

Ridgewood  road,  Maiden 

66  Greenleaf  street.  Maiden 
55  Dexter  street.  Maiden 

105  Elm  street,  Maiden 

.     105  Elm  street.  Maiden 

16  Alpine  street,  Maiden 

74  Dexter  street.  Maiden 

14  Newhall  street.  Maiden 

Maiden 

Newton 

47  Hillside  avenue.  Maiden 

193  Clifton  street,  Maiden 

193  Clifton  street.  Maiden 

Summer  street.  Maiden 

Francis  street.  Maiden 

Melrose 

125  Hawthorne  street,  Maiden 

Melrose 

2  Woodland  road.  Maiden 

55  Clarendon  street.  Maiden 

245  Mountain  avenue.  Maiden 

So  Mountain  avenue.  Maiden 

4 1  Pierce  street.  Maiden 


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73 


VVingate,  Edward  L. 
Winship,  William  H. 
Woodside,  Charles  L. 
Woodward,  Frank  E. 
Woodward,  Mrs.  Frank  E. 
Wright,  Warren   H. 

Young,  John  W. 


85  Dexter  street.  Maiden 

227  Mountain  avenue.  Maiden 

27    Appleton  street.  Maiden 

Wellesley  Hills 

Wellesley  Hills 

.   52  Grace  street.  Maiden 

150  Hawthorne  street.  Maiden 


74  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 


NECROLOGIES 


DELORAINE    PENDRE   COREY 

This  Society  sincerely  mourns  the  loss  of  Deloraine 
Pendre  Corey,  historian  of  Maiden  and  long  its  president, 
who  died  at  his  home  in  this  city  Friday,  May  6,  iqio.  Mr. 
Corey  was  born  in  South  Maiden,  now  Eyerett,  September 
4,  1836,  the  son  of  Solomon  Pendre  and  Martha-Skinner 
(Waite)  Corey.  He  was  in  the  eighth  generation  from 
William  Corey,  a  freeman  of  Portsmouth  and  made  a  free- 
man of  Rhode  Island  and  Providence  Plantations  May  18, 
1658,  the  line  being  William^  William^,  Benjamin'^  Ben- 
jamin* (married  Prudence,  daughter  of  Solomon  and 
Patience  (Ray)  Pendre),  Capt.  Solomon"'  (married  Char- 
lotte (Delano)  Winsor),  Solomon  Pendre*^,  Deloraine 
Pendre".  Through  his  grandmother,  Charlotte-Delano 
(Winsor)  Corey  he  was  descended  from  John  and  Priscilla 
(Mullins)  Alden,  the  Plymouth  Pilgrims,  thus:  William' 
Mullins,  John  and  Priscilla'-^  (Mullins)  Alden,  William 
and  Elizabeth'^  (Alden)  Pabodie,  John  and  Mercy'^  (Pa- 
bodie)  Simmons,  Ebenezer  and  Martha'''  (Simmons) 
Delano,  Joshua*^  and  Hopestill  (Peterson)  Delano,  Samuel 
and  Rhoda"  (Delano)  Winsor,  Peter^  and  Charlotte 
(Delano)  Winsor,  Charlotte-Delano"  (Winsor)  Corey. 
Through  his  mother,  Martha-Skinner  (Waite)  Corey,  he 
was  descended  from  Maiden's  two  Puritan  captains,  Cap- 
tain Joseph  Hills,  who  made  the  tirst  compilation  of  Massa- 
chusetts Bay  Laws  (1648),  of  which  but  a  single  copy  is 
known  to  be   in  existence,    and  who  is   supposed  to  have 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  75 

given  the  name  of  his  English  home,  "  Mauldon,"'  to  Mr. 
Corey's  native  town,  and  Capt.  John  Waite.  One  of  the 
chapters  in  Mr.  Corey's  "  History  of  Maiden  "  is  devoted  to 
a  discussion  of  the  lives  and  eminent  public  services  of 
these  two  men.  His  maternal  line  is  as  follows  :  Joseph^ 
and  Rose  (Clerke)*  Hills,  John^  (son  of  Samuel^)  and 
Mary2  (Hills)  Waite,  Joseph'^  and  Mercy  (Tufts)  Waite, 
Thomas^  and  Deborah  (Sargeant)  Waite,  Thomas''  and 
Mary  ( Sprague)  Waite,  Thomas'*  and  Lydia  (Hitchins) 
Waite,  Thomas"  and  Hannah  (Cheever)  Waite,  Martha- 
Skinner^  Waite,  Through  Hannah  (Cheever)  Waite, 
Mr.  Corey  traced  his  ascent  to  Rev.  Thomas  Cheever,  the 
first  minister  of  Rumney-Marsh  (Chelsea)  and  his  more 
famous  son,  Ezekiel  Cheever,  the  famous  New  England 
schoolmaster;  also  to  Capt.  Joseph  Cheever,  who  led  his 
company  at  Bunker  Hill  and  Trenton,  another  Revolu- 
tionary sire  having  been  Peter  Winsor,  a  non-commissioned 
officer  who  was  at  the  taking  of  Burgoyne.  Job  Lane, 
the  builder  of  the  Bell  Rock  church,  where  stands  Maiden's 
memorial  park  and  monument,  was  an  ancestor  of  Mr. 
Corey,  and  he  included  eight  passengers  upon  the  May- 
flower in  various  lines  of  ascent. 

Mr.  Corey's  childhood  and  youth  were  spent  in  the 
public  schools  of  Maiden.  At  the  age  of  seventeen  he 
became  a  bookkeeper  in  the  hardware  business  of  Flint  & 
Carter  of  Boston,  remaining  for  thirteen  years,  becoming 
a  partner  of  the  concern  in  1866,  which  continued  as 
Stratton,  Orton  &  Corey  and  Stratton,  Corey  &  Co., 
until  the  great  tire  of  1872.  A  new  tirm,  Corey,  Brooks 
&  Co.,  was  then  formed,  from  which  he  retired  in  1877,  o" 
the  formation  of  the  Maverick  Oil   Company,  of   which  he 


*Claik. 


76  MALDEN    HISTORICAI.    SOCIETY 

soon  became  treasurer,  a  position  he  retained  when  the 
corporation  ceased  and  the  business  was  merged  in  and 
continued  by  the  Boston  department  of  the  Standard  Oil 
Company.     He  retired  from  active  business  in  1898. 

Mr.  Corey's  determination  to  become  an  authority 
upon  the  history  of  Maiden  must  have  been  formed  before 
he  left  the  public  schools  of  his  birthplace.  He  wrote  the 
preface  to  his  History,  covering  the  period  from  1633  to 
1785,  in  1898,  and  there  said  the  work  of  collecting  and 
verif3ang  facts  had  been  carried  on  for  more  than  forty-five 
years.  In  1903  the  Vital  records  of  Maiden  were  published, 
having  been  compiled  by  a  commission  of  which  Mr. 
Corey  was  chairman.  Certain  of  the  earlier  record  books 
were  in  such  a  dilapidated  condition  that  it  was  necessary 
to  treat  them  first  by  the  Emery  process  for  permanent 
preservation  before  they  could  be  used,  and  then  it  was 
found  that  many  pages  were  partially  lost  or  undecipher- 
able. In  this  emergency  Mr.  Corey  produced  exact  copies 
of  all  the  entries,  made  by  himself  in  the  closing  year  of 
the  Civil  War,  with  his  characteristic  care  and  accuracy. 
•  Many  dates  were  supplied,  as  is  usual,  from  the  grave- 
stone records  in  the  ancient  Bell  Rock  Cemetery  ;  and  here 
again  the  work  of  his  earlier  years  proved  useful,  for  with 
his  son  Arthur  he  had  sperrt  many  toilsome  days  in  copying 
the  inscriptions,  in  frequent  instances  from  stones  which 
have  since  disappeared.  Mr.  Corey's  editing  of  the 
Maiden  Vital  Records  differed  from  the  usual  stvle  in 
several  respects.  He  published  the  records  of  marriage 
intentions  in  a  separate  section  of  the  book,  while  against 
each  entry  of  a  birth,  marriage  or  death  be  placed  the 
figures  showing  the  page  on  which  it  appears  in  the 
original  record,  each  feature,  of  course,  adding  greatly  to 
the  value   of  the  book.      These   characteristics    of    infinite 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL     SOCIETY  77 

pains  to  secure  accuracy  and  add  to  the  value  of  his  work 
appear  in  even  a  more  marked  degree  in  his  History.  A 
printed  collection  of  the  footnotes  to  that  work  would  be  a 
valuable  historical  volume  in  themselves,  while  the  nar- 
rative, prepared  in  his  later  life,  after  years  of  study  had 
made  him  absolutely  familiar  with  his  subject,  is  attractive 
in  matter  and  easy  and  pure  in  style.  An  old  friend, 
Daniel  L.  Milliken,  since  deceased,  wrote  of  this  History 
in  1903:  "For  this  work  he  began  collecting  materials 
when  about  sixteen  years  of  age.  That  a  boy  of  snxteen 
should  step  so  far  out  of  the  ordinary  track  and  trend  of 
boyhood  thought  and  action  is  certainly  remarkable,  and 
of  great  significance.  We  believe  it  to  be  without  a 
parallel  in  American  biography.  Displaying  and  culti- 
vating the  historic  spirit  thus  early,  it  is  easy  to  understand 
what  every  page  of  his  completed  book  so  clearly  reveals, 
that  the  production  of  that  great  work  was  with  him,  from 
first  to  last,  a  labor  of  love."  Another  reviewer  said  : 
"  The  result  is  a  history  far  above  the  average  town  history 
in  every  respect.  He  has  the  instinct  of  a  true  historian, 
and  the  book  is  a  noble  gift  to  the  public.  As  a  picture  of 
life  prior  to  1785,  it  is  a  model."  A  writer  in  the  American 
Historical  Review  said  :  "  It  is  entitled  to  high  rank  in  the 
department  of  local  history  because  of  its  valuable  con- 
tribution to  knowledge,  and  the  admirable  manner  of  its 
execution." 

In  the  New  England  Historic,  Genealogical  Register, 
April  number,  1879,  Mr.  Corey  published  a  genealogy  of 
the  Waite  family  of  Maiden,  which  he  intended  to  be  the 
beginning  of  a  larger  history  of  the  decendents  of  Capt. 
John  Wa3'te.  A  mass  of  material  for  this  book  remains, 
and  this  he  was  intending  to  arrange  and  publish  at  the 
time  of  his  death.     Mrs.  Corey  feels  it  to  be  a  sacred  duty 


78  MALDEX    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

to  ha\e  the  work  completed  and  published.  In  Drake's 
standard  history  of  Middlesex  county  the  history  of  Maiden 
is  by  Mr.  Corey,  and  it  is  both  readable  and  reliable.  In 
1891,  he  published  a  memorial  of  his  only  son,  Arthur 
Deloraine  Corey,  Ph.  D.,  which  has  gone  through  three 
editions.  His  chapter  on  "Joseph  Hills  and  the  Massa- 
chusetts Laws  of  1648"  from  the  History,  was  reprinted  as 
a  pamphlet  in  1899.  In  the  New  England  Magazine,  vol. 
XX,  pp.  357-378,  appears  his  story  "Two  centuries  and  a 
half  in  Maiden."  His  "Memorial  of  the  Celebration  of  the 
Two  Hundred  and  Fiftieth  Anniversary  of  the  Incorporation 
of  the  town  of  Maiden,  Mass.,"  a  volume  of  over  350 
pages,  was  issued  in  1900;  a  memoir  of  John  Ward  Dean, 
A.  M.,  originally  published  in  the  Register,  in  1902  ;  the 
vital  statistics  of  Maiden  in  1902  ;  and  a  memon-  of  William 
Blake  Trask,  A.  M.,  reprinted  from  the  Register  in  1907. 
Mr.  Corey's  monument  is  the  beautiful  Converse 
Memorial  Library.  For  over  three  decades,  from  its 
establishment,  he  was  president  of  the  board  of  trustees 
of  the  Maiden  public  library.  To  it  he  gave  incessant 
labor,  being  found  more  often  at  his  desk  in  the  library 
building  in  the  evening  and  at  all  times  during  his  later 
years,  than  at  an}-  other  place.  The  building  was  the  last 
work  of  the  late  H.  H.  Richardson  and  is  a  memorial  to 
Frank  Eugene  Converse,  son  of  our  tirst  president  and 
Maiden's  first  mayor,  Hon.  Elisha  S.  Converse,  who 
practically  placed  his  wealth  at  the  disposal  of  Mr.  Corey 
to  the  extent  needed  to  erect  the  building,  equip  it,  embellish 
the  two  art  galleries  with  rare  paintings,  and  liberally 
endow  it  for  future  needs.  This  done,  Mr.  Corey  gave 
his  best  endeavors  to  the  work  of  making  the  librar}^  meet 
the  needs  of  the  community  for  which  it  was  established. 
So   great  was  the    appreciation   of   his   value   and   special 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  79 

knowledge  that  he  was  long  a  member  of  the  free  public 
library  commission  of  the  commonwealth,  holding  the  office 
of  chairman  until  a  few  month  before  his  death. 

While  never  seeking  elective  office,  Mr.  Corey  never 
refused  requests  for  public  service  in  other  directions.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  trustees  of  public  reservations  and 
one  of  the  trustees  section  of  the  American  Library  associ- 
ation, taking  particular  delight  in  attending  the  association's 
annual  meetings.  He  was  a  life  member  of  the  New 
England  Historic,  Genealogical  Society,  a  member  of  the 
American  Antiquarian  Society,  an  honorary  member  of 
the  New  York  Genealogical  and  Biographical  Society  and 
the  Somerville  Historical  Society.  He  was  active  in  the 
formation  of  the  Maiden  Historical  Society,  and  was  many 
years  its  president,  declining  a  re-election  at  the  last 
annual  meeting.  Upon  him,  as  the  best  fitted  man  in 
every  way,  fell  the  duty  of  preparing  the  inscriptions  which 
were  placed  upon  the  Bell  Rock  memorial  and  similar 
historic  tablets.  The  bowlder  which  stands  near  the  site  of 
the  home  of  Joseph  Hills  in  Maiden  square  was  his  gift, 
and  bears  a  filial  tribute  to  his  worthy  ancestor. 

A  fine  evidence  of  the  eminent  place  he  held  in  the 
esteem  of  his  fellow-citizens  and  of  the  hold  he  had  upon 
their  affections  was  given  in  the  request  from  leading  citi- 
zens, made  upon  his  completion  of  thirty  years'  service 
as  chairman  of  the  public  library  trustees  that  he  accept  a 
complimentary  banquet.  Unwillingly  he  consented,  and 
hundreds  of  Maiden  citizens,  with  distinguished  guests  from 
abroad,  gathered  to  do  him  honor.  It  was  a  tribute  such 
as  is  given  few  men  in  private  life  under  any  circumstances. 

He  was  innately  modest.  A  conviction  of  public  duty 
would  draw  him  into  the  open,  but  he  loved  rather  the 
quiet  of  his  library.      His  home  was  a  magazine  of  historic 


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and  antiquarian  lore,  and  lie  accumulated  one  of  the  best 
private  libraries  upon  those  subjects  in  the  commonwealth. 
The  walls  of  his  home,  as  of  the  art  galleries  of  the 
Converse  Memorial  Library,  bear  abundant  evidence  of  his 
love  for  and  taste  in  art,  and  he  was  equallv  devoted  to 
music,  as  all  admitted  to  his  fireside  can  testify. 

On  May  ii,  1865,  Mr.  Corey  married  Isabella  Holden, 
daughter  of  Dana  and  Almira  (Cowdrey)  Holden.  Their 
only  child,  Arthur  Deloraine  Corey,  graduated  from  Har- 
vard University  and  received  the  degree  of  Ph.  D.  from 
the  Royal  Friedrich  Wilhelm  University  of  Berlin,  Ger- 
many, in  1891.  He  died  in  Maiden,  August  17  of  the  same 
year.  It  seemed  ever  after  that  the  love  the  stricken 
parents  had  lavished  upon  him  in  life  was  given  to  all 
young  people  in  general,  especially  for  those  who  needed 
it  most.  Within  a  year  of  his  death  Mr.  Corey  and  his 
wife  joined  in  meeting  the  expense  of  remodeling  the 
Young  Men's  Christian  Association  building  in  Maiden  and 
fitting  up  attractive  quarters  for  a  boys'  department,  to  be 
a  memorial  to  Arthur  Deloraine  Corey.  Within  a  few  days 
of  his  death,  he  attended  nightly  meetings  held  to  raise  a 
large  sum  of  money  for  the  work  of  the  same  association, 
making  an  initial  gift  of  many  thousands  and  adding  to  it 
from  time  to  time  as  subscriptions  lagged.  His  last  appear- 
ance in  public  was  at  one  of  these  meetings.  While  a 
regular  attendant  at  the  First  Baptist  Church  in  Maiden, 
Mr.  Corey  was  extremely  broad  in  his  religious  sympathies, 
and  though  everywhere  recognized  as  representing  the 
finest  type  of  the  christian  gentleman,  supporting  all  good 
causes  with  voice,  pen  and  purse,  he  was  in  no  sense 
sectarian. 

Mr.  Corey  was  able,  kindly,  generous  ;   alert  to  meet 
every  crisis,  putting  his  heart,  his  time  and  his  means  into 


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every  worthy  cause  :  willing  to  labor  for  years  with  no 
reward  other  thhn  a  knowledge  that  thereby  priceless 
memorials  of  the  past  were  preserved  ;  patient  when  his 
work  was  unappreciated  ;  grateful  but  modest  when  recog- 
nition came  ;  bearing  his  personal  sorrow  bravely,  and 
meeting  failing  health  and  the  summons  of  the  Last  Mes- 
senger with  resignation — this  world  can  never  have  too 
many  men  like  him. 

RESOLUTIONS 

At  a  meeting  of  the  board  of  directors  of  the  Maiden 
Historical  Society,  called  to  take  action  on  the  death  of 
Mr.  D.  P.  Corey,  late  president  of  the  Society,  held 
Saturday,  May  7,  1910,  the  following  minute  was  adopted, 
and  ordered  spread  upon  the  records  : 

Deloraine  Pendre  Corey,  for  over  twelve  years 
president  of  this  Society,  was  born  in  South  Maiden, 
September  4,  1836,  and  died  at  his  home  May  6,  1910. 
He  was  the  son  of  Solomon  Pendre  and  Martha  S.  (Waite) 
Corey,  his  ancestr}'  running  back  to  the  Puritan  founders 
of  Maiden,  Joseph  Hills  and  John  Wait,  whose  biographies 
he  compiled,  and  to  John  and  Priscilla  (Mullins)  Alden, 
the  Pilgrims  of  Plymouth.  His  entire  life  was  spent  in  his 
native  town ;  here  he  was  educated,  and  his  honorable 
business  career  in  Boston  enabled  him  to  establish  his  home 
in  Maiden.  Mr.  Corey  nobly  solved  the  problem  of 
rendering  the  finest  civic  service  to  the  community  without 
entering  the  contests  of  political  life,  and  as  a  result  he 
was  continually  the  recipient  of  honorable  recognition, 
through  calls  to  positions  of  responsibility  and  eminence. 
The  Maiden  Public  Library  is  his  monument,  and  he  filled 
tiie  position  of  chairman  of  its  board  of  trustees  for  a 
generation.  The  free  library  system  of  the  state  and 
nation  also  felt  the  influence  of    his  fostering    care.     But 


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through  all  his  active  career  the  sacred  task  of  gathering 
and  preserving  for  posterity  the  history  and  traditions  of 
Maiden  lay  nearest  his  heart,  and  the  short  history  of  the 
city  in  the  Drake  History  of  Middlesex  County,  his  more 
elaborate  History  of  Maiden,  published  in  1899;  the  Vital 
Records,  compiled  and  printed  with  unique  detail,  and  his 
memorial  of  the  250th  anniversary,  will  always  be  the 
standard  sources  of  accurate  local  history.  He  was  deeply 
interested  in  this  Society  and  its  progress,  and  we  mourn- 
fully record  our  sense  of  sorrow  for  the  loss  of  one  whose 
peculiar  place  in  our  midst  can  never  be  tilled. 

The  Commonwealth,  his  City,  his  Church,  with  its 
allied  organizations  wall  always  miss  him  ;  but  he  will  be 
most  missed  in  the  home  which  was  his  delight ;  and  we 
assure  the  wife  who  has  been  through  life  his  devoted  help- 
meet and  who  has  so  gladly  shared  in  his  labors,  his 
ambitions  and  acts  of  beneficence,  both  public  and  private, 
of  our  sincere  sympathy. 


CHARLES    LEROY    DEAN 

Hon.  Charles  Leroy  Dean,  mayor  of  Maiden  for 
seven  terms,  thrice  senator,  from'  the  three  cities  of  Old 
Maiden — Maiden,  Melrose  and  Everett,  and  long  a  mem- 
ber of  this  Societ}^  died  in  this  city  July  29,  1909. 

J\Tr.  Dean  was  born  in  the  town  of  Ashford,  Connecti- 
cut, May  29,  1844,  the  son  of  John  Sales  and  Hannah 
Minerva  (Knowlton)  Dean.  He  belonged  to  that  branch 
of  the  Dean  family  whose  ancestors,  Walter  and  John, 
were  born  in  the  town  of  Chard,  in  Somersetshire,  located 
in  the  beautiful  vale  called  Taunton  Dean.  Dr.  Samuel 
Fuller,  in  the  famous  work  known  as  "Fuller's  Worthies" 


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speaks  of  it  thus  :  "Where  should  I  be  born,  else  than  in 
Taunton  Dean?"  These  brothers  came  to  New  England 
and  settled  in  Taunton,  their  descendants  gradually  spread- 
ing into  the  other  states,  Col.  Dean's  branch  having  been 
loner  in  Ashford.  His  mother  was  descended  from  Capt. 
William  Knowlton,  who,  with  his  wife,  Ann  Elizabeth 
Smith,  sailed  for  New  England  in  a  vessel  of  which  he  was 
part  owner,  and  died  on  the  passage.  His  sons  settled  in 
Ipswich,  and  several  of  his  children  in  the  fourth  genera- 
tion migrated  to  Ashford,  some  of  them  winning  laurels  by 
their  bravery  in  the  Revolutionary  War.  Hannah  Knowl- 
ton was  first  cousin  to  the  father  of  Hon.  Marcus  P. 
Knowlton,  chief  justice  of  the  Massachusetts  Supreme 
Court,  and  the  relations  of  Col.  Dean  and  his  distinguished 
kinsman  were  always  of  a  very  close,  even  intimate,  nature. 
Few  men  were  better  known  in  either  Massachusetts 
or  Connecticut  than  the  subject  of  this  sketch.  In  Con- 
necticut he  was  always  called  "Colonel  Dean"  through  his 
service  as  senior  aide  on  the  staff  of  Gov.  Andrews  in  1879 
and  1880.  In  Maiden  he  was  successively  known  as 
as"  Councilman,"  "Alderman,"  "  Representative,"  "Mayor" 
and  latterly  "  Senator  Dean,"  as  he  held  one  office  after 
another.  He  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  Ashford, 
and  at  the  age  of  sixteen  began  to  earn  his  own  living, 
learning  the  business  of  glassmaking  with  the  Westford 
Glass  Company.  At  twenty-one  he  became  a  member  of 
the  firm  of  E.  A.  Buck  &  Co.,  at  the  same  time  being  ap- 
pointed postmaster  of  Ashford.  When  twenty-five  years 
of  age,  he  was  elected  a  county  commissioner  of  Litchfield 
county,  a  position  which  he  filled  for  six  years.  In  1881 
and  1882  he  was  a  member  of  the  Connecticut  House. 
His  father  had  been  a  member  of  both  branches  of  the 
Connecticut  Legislature,  having  had  the  unusual  distinction 


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of  being  appointed  as  a  layman  upon  the  judiciary  com- 
mittee, and  the  same  honor  was  tendered  the  son,  but 
decHned,  his  tastes  leading  him  in  the  direction  of  the 
financial  committees.  He  honored  the  memory  of  his 
father,  and  one  of  his  ambitions  was  to  serve  in  both  the 
House  and  Senate,  like  his  father,  the  latter  service,  how- 
ever, coming  later,  in  Massachusetts. 

Long  before  his  legislative  service  in  Connecticut,  in 
187 1,  he  had  established  himself  in  business  in  Boston,  as 
the  head  of  the  firm  of  Dean,  Foster  &  Co.,  on  Blackstone 
street,  a  relation  he  held  at  the  time  of  his  death.  Two 
years  perviously,  July  28,  1869,  he  married  Miss  Juliette  A. 
Fuller,  of  Stafford  Springs,  who,  with  their  only  child, 
John  Knowlton  Dean,  born  May  5,  1882,  survives 
him.  In  1892  he  became  a  member  of  the  Maiden 
Common  Council,  serving  two  terms.  Then  he  entered 
the  Board  of  Aldermen,  serving  three  vears.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  Massachusetts  House  in  1897-98,  serving 
on  the  committee  on  ways  and  means  each  year.  In  the 
latter  year  he  was  elected  mayor,  a  position  he  held  until 
made  a  member  of  the  Senate  from  the  Fourth  Middlesex 
district,  in  1905,  where  he  remained  until  his  retirement 
from  political  life,  in  1908.  As  a  senator,  he  served  on  the 
committees  on  ways  and  means,  banks  and  banking,  educa- 
tion and  printing.  All  his  public  service  was  characterized 
by  elements  of  practical  wisdom  and  devotion  to  duty.  He 
made  no  claims  to  oratory,  and  rarely  occupied  the  floor 
during  legislative  deliberations,  but  his  business  sagacity 
and  his  keenness  of  political  vision  made  him  a  wise 
counselor  and  a  useful  committee  member.  Meanwhile, 
from  the  days  when  he  went  into  the  Board  of  Aldermen 
until  his  death,  he  was  constantlv  responding  to  calls  for 
his  presence  as  a  public  representative  at  social  events  and 


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public  gatherings.  He  was  very  conscientious  in  this 
service  ;  often  attending  two  or  three  gatherings  in  a  single 
evening.  He  was  proud  of  his  record  in  church  attendance, 
being  present  at  church  on  the  morning  after  the  great 
storm  of  November  26,  1898,  when  only  20  others  ventured 
out.  Morning  and  evening  on  Sunday  would  tind  him  in 
his  pew,  and  the  afternoon  would  be  devoted  to  making 
duty  calls  upon- friends  in  sickness  or  trouble,  or  to  funerals. 
The  death  of  a  citizen,  while  mayor,  or  of  a  constituent, 
w^hen  senator  and  representative,  meant  that  the  family 
would  be  sure  of  the  presence,  to  share  their  grief,  of  this 
sincere  man.  In  such  kind  service,  religiously  performed, 
this  good  man  literally  wore  his  life  away,  but  he  never 
expressed  any  sentiment  other  than  satisfaction  in  hav- 
ing performed  it. 

Few  citizens  are  more  absorbed  in  the  political  move- 
ments of  his  day  than  he  was.  He  never  lost  his  interest 
ill  Connecticut.  Until  a  few  months  before  his  death  he 
remained  president  of  the  First  National  Bank  of  Stafford 
Springs,  and  he  often  returned  for  a  few  days  to  his  boy- 
hood home  in  Ashford.  He  was  a  subscriber  to  a  score  of 
Connecticut  papers,  and  one  had  but  to  mention  a  business 
or  public  man  of  the  Nutmeg  state  to  gain  from  Senator 
Dean  a  complete  history  of  his  career,  the  story  of  the  rise 
and  progress  of  his  firm,  and  other  details.  But  this  was 
also  true  of  Massachusetts.  He  was  a  constant  reader  ot 
the  newspapers  of  the  Bay  State,  and  one  who  imagined 
him  versed  in  Maiden  politics,  easily  found,  on  inquiry, 
that  he  was  equally  at  home  in  discussing  situations  in 
Pittsfield,  New  Bedford,  Worcester  or  any  other  section 
of  the  commonwealth.  He  had  a  great  capacity  for 
acquiring  information,  and  when  an  invited  guest  as  mayor, 
in  any  municipal  celebration,   never   came  away   without 


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having  mastered  its  commercial,  social,  business  and 
probably  religious  history.  He  had  great  prophetic 
powers,  and  nothing  pleased  him  more  than  to  see  his 
judgment  vindicated  by  the  result  of  a  political  election  or 
the  success  of  some  political  or  ministerial  friend  whose 
future  he  had  forecast. 

While  Mr.  Dean  was  a  great  business  man,  being 
president  of  the  Maiden  Trust  Company  as  well  as  of  the 
bank  in  Stafford  Springs,  and  a  director  in  the  Maiden 
Cooperative  bank  and  in  various  enterprises,  he  was  deeply 
interested  in  benevolent  and  religious  work.  He  was  a 
trustee  and  member  of  the  finance  committee  of  the  Maiden 
Hospital,  member  of  the  building  committee  of  the  Maiden 
Young  Men's  Christian  Association,  and  a  trustee  of  the 
Centre  Methodist  Episcopal  church  of  Maiden,  of  which  he 
was  a  member.  He  was  early  iniife  made  an  official  of  the 
Methodist  church  in  Ashford,  and  never  lost  his  interest  in 
it.  It  probably  headed  the  list  he  always  carried  in  his 
pocket  of  some  four  score  churches  he  had  aided  financially, 
a  list  by  which  he  constantly  reminded  himself  of  their 
need.  It  is  doubtful  if  he  ever  gave  to  such  an  object 
without  frequently  thereafter,  through  careful  inquiry, 
ascertaining  how  the  church  was  prospering,  and  whether 
he  ought  to  help  it  more. 

Senator  Dean's  funeral,  from  the  church  he  loved, 
was  attended  by  a  gathering  which  overflowed  the  great 
auditorium,  while  thousands  stood  outside.  Earnest  words 
of  eulogy  were  spoken  by  his  pastor,  by  his  legislative 
associate.  Judge  William  Schofield,  and  others.  The  burial 
was  in  his  native  town. 


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CHARLES  RUSSELL  PRESCOTT 

Hon.    Charles    Russell    Prescott,    a    member  of  this 
Society,  died  at  his  home  in  Maiden,  November  12,  1910, 
after  a  long  illness.   Mr.  Prescott  was  born  in  New  Sharon, 
Maine,  August  21,  1842,  the  son  of  Calvin  S.  and  Martha 
L.   (Russell)  Prescott.      His  ancestry  was  interesting,  he 
being   in  the  seventh    generation  from   James   and  Mary 
(Boulter)  Russell,  early  settlers  in  Hampton,  New  Hamp- 
shire, who  came  to  this  country  from  Dryby,  in  Lincoln- 
shire, England.  Jedediah  Russell,  an  ancestor  in  the  third 
generation,  married   Hannah   Bachiler,   daughter  of  Rev. 
Stephen  Bachiler,  the  founder  of  Hampton  and  progenitor 
of  a  host  of  New  England  people,  whose  heavy  eyebrows 
are  supposed  to  have  repeated  themselves  in  the  features 
of  Daniel  Webster,  John  Greenleaf  Whittier  and    Ralph 
Waldo  Emerson. 

When  Mr.  Prescott  was  a  boy,  his  father  entered  into 
business  relations  in  Boston  and  moved  to  Maiden,  which 
was  ever  after  his  home.  Mr.  Prescott  was  educated  in 
the  Hathaway  School  in  Medford  and  the  Chauncy  Hall 
School  in  Boston.  For  many  years  he  was  in  the  dry 
goods  importing  firm  of  Turner,  Prescott  &  Company,  on 
Summer  street,  in  Boston,  but,  like  Mr.  Corey,  lost  every- 
thing in  the  great  fire  of  1872.  Later,  he  became  manager 
of  the  Readville  Rubber  Company,  but  about  twenty-five 
years  ago  entered  the  service  of  the  Commonwealth,  being 
a  clerk  in  the  Bureau  of  Statistics  of  Labor.  He  succeeded 
the  late  Hon.  E.  P.  Loring  as  Controller  of  County 
Accounts  in  1895,  meanwhile  engaging  in  the  business  of 
fire  insurance  in  Maiden,  the  office  being  managed  by  his 
son.  He  was  a  faithful  and  efficient  public  official,  a  man 
of  engaging  personal  qualities,  which  made   all  who  once 


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came  in  contact  with  him  his  fast  friends.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  tirst  Baptist  Church  of  Maiden,  Mystic  Side 
Council  of  the  Royal  Arcanum,  and  Mizpah  Lodge  of 
United  Workmen.  He  is  survived  by  a  widow  and  two 
sons. 


CAPTAIN  JOSEPH  STEVENS 

Captain  Joseph  Stevens,  a  member  of  this  Society, 
died  suddenly  at  his  home  on  Barrett  street,  in  Maiden, 
March  12,  1910. 

He  was  born  in  Truro,  in  1840,  and  from  early  youth 
followed  the  sea,  tirst  with  his  father,  in  a  trading  vessel, 
and  at  21  becoming  master  of  the  Charles  A.  Stetson, 
running  between  Provincetown  and  Philadelphia.  Later 
he  became  master  of  the  Annie  Myrick,  Captain  L3'man 
H.  Richards,  now  of  this  Society,  being  his  mate,  and 
later  his  successor  when  he  was  captain  of  the  J.  Paine,  run- 
ning to  the  Gulf  of  Mexico.  Afterwards  he  commanded  the 
Julia  A.  Ward,  making  occasional  trips  to  Liverpool,  and 
at  other  times  engaging  in  coasting.  Thirty  years  ago  he 
removed  to  Maiden.  At  the  time  of  his  death  he  was 
treasurer  of  the  Boston  Marine  Societ}',  and  a  director  in 
the  Cape  Cod  Steamship  Company.  Locally,  he  was 
engaged  in  the  real  estate  business.  As  a  master  of  sailing 
vessels,  he  had  a  record  of  never  having  had  an  accident 
or  lost  a  man. 

Captain  Stevens  was  a  great  lover  of  children,  served 
many  years  as  a  teacher  in  the  Sunday  School  of  Centre 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  and  for  a  long  time  was 
chairman  of  the  concert  committee.  It  was  a  pleasant 
sight  to  see  the  delight  which  the  hardy  old  sea  dog  had  in 
preparing  programmes  which  always  turned  out  to  be  well 
selected  and  interesting.     At  his  death  he  was  the  senior 


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member  of  the  board  of  stewards  of  the  church,  and  had 
for  many  years  acted  as  an  usher  at  the  Sunday  morning 
service.  He  was  a  member  of  Middlesex  Lodge  of  Odd 
Pillows.  He  married,  in  1864,  Miss  Mary  Hopkins  of 
Truro,  who,  with  a  grandson,  Alfred  Vinton,  son  of  his 
only  daughter,  Mrs.  Jessie  Stevens  Vinton,  who  died  a  few 
years  since,  survives  him.  There  is  little  doubt  that  the 
sorrow  for  loss  of  his  daughter  hastened  his  death.  He 
was  a  good  man,  whom  many  friends  will  long  and 
lovingly  remember. 


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.  A  BIBLIOGRAPHY 

OF    IMPORTANT    PUBLICATIONS    OF     MEMBERS     OF     THE     MAI.IJEN 

HISTORICAL    SOCIETY. 

I  Members    of    the    Society    ;ive  urged    to  .send  to  the  Coiniiiittee  on  Pulilication  any 
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.Vbstracts  Relatino;  to  the  Revolutionary  War,  from  Rev. 
Isaac  Hasey's  Diaries,  1775-17^3-  By  George  Walter  Cham- 
berlain. In  Collections  Maine  Historical  Society,  Second 
Series,  IX,  132.      1S98. 

Address  at  Bell  Rock,  Maiden,  accepting  in  behalf  of  the 
city,  as  chairman  of  the  park  commission,  the  tablet  in  com- 
memoration of  the  men  of  Maiden  who  served  in  the  Revolu- 
tion.     By  Sylvester  Baxter.      Included  in  souvenir  pamphlet. 

Address  on  presentation  of  bust  of  Elisha  S.  Converse  to 
Maiden  Public  Library.      By  Arthur  H.  Wellman.      1890. 

Advance  Guard  of  Puritanism,  the.  Massachusetts  before 
the  coming  of  Endicott  and  Winthrop.  A  paper  read  before 
the  Forty  Whims  of  Maiden,  by  Charles  E.  Mann.  Gloucester 
Times,  May  28,    1908. 

A  Great  Mexican  State  Capital.  l>y  Sylvester  Baxter, 
(Guadalajara).     Harper's  Weekly. 

A  Great  Modern  Spaniard.  By  Sylvester  Baxter.  Atlantic 
Monthly,  April,  1903.      An  essay  on  Armando  Palacio  \'aldcs. 

American  Revolution.  History  and  Origin  of  the  Com- 
mittees of  Correspondence,  .Safety,  Inspection  and  Observation, 
being  a  Report  as  Historian  General  of  the  National  Society, 
Sons  of  the  American  Revolution.  By  Walter  Kendall  Watkins. 
8  t'o.,  pp.  4,  Washington,  1).  C. 

Along  the  Rio  Grande.  By  Sylvester  Baxter.  Harper's 
Monthly,    1883. 

America's  Story  for  America's  Children.  By  Mara  L. 
Pratt-Chadwick.      Five  volumes.      D.  C.   Heath,  Boston. 


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A  Mexican  Vacation  Week.    By  Sylvester  Baxter.   Atlantic 

Monthly,    1886. 

A  Model  City  Government  in  Europe.  Address  before 
Tax-payers'  Association  of  Baltimore,  1891,  By  Sylvester 
Baxter,  in  Baltimore  Daily  Record. 

Amon<r  the  Hills.  The  White  Mountains,  descripti\e.  By 
Charles  E.  Mann.      J5oston  Traveller,  September,  1S92. 

An  Aboriginal  Pilgrimage.  By  Sylvester  Baxter.  J'he 
Century  Magazine,  1882. 

An  Artist's  Sketch-book  of  Old  Marblehead.  By  Lester 
Hornby.      Text  by  Sylvester  Baxter. 

Ancestry  of  Bishop  Gilbert  Haven,  the,  and  of  his  cousin, 
Bishop  Erastus  O.  Haven.  By  Charles  E.  Mann.  New  York 
Christian  Advocate,  February  28,    1901. 

Ancient  Middlesex.  By  Levi  S.  Gould.  Biographical 
sketches  with  portraits  of  Middlesex  County  othcers  from  its 
incorporation. 

A  New  England  Crusade.  By  George  Walter  Chamberlain. 
New  England  Magazine,  April,  1907. 

A  New  England  View  of  the  South.  By  .Sylvester  Baxter. 
Manufacturers  Record,  November  16,  1905. 

Annals  of  Melrose  in  the  Great  Rebellion;  1861-65.  liy 
Elbridge  H.  Goss. 

A  Plunge  into  Summer.  By  Sylvester  Baxter.  Atlantic 
Monthly,    1885. 

A  Railroad  with  Trolley-Line  Branches.  (An  account  of 
Boston  &  Maine  developments  in  New  Hampshire.)  By  Syl- 
vester Baxter.      Review  of  Reviews. 

Architectural  Features  of  the  Boston  Parks.  By  Sylvester 
Baxter.      American  Architect,  1898. 

Architecture  in  Boston's  Metropolitan  Park  vSystem.  By 
Sylvester  Baxter.      The  Architectural  Record. 

A  Review  of  Dr.  A.  W  G.  Allen's  Biography  of  Jonathan 
Edwards.      By  Rev.  Joshua  W.  Wellman,  D.  D. 

Argument  before  the  Visitors  of  Andover  Theological 
Seminary.      In    the    famous    ''Andover    Case"    so-called.       By 


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Rev.  Joshua  W.Wellman,  U.  D.      Published  in  book  called  the 
"Aiulover  Case." 

Armorial  Families  of  New  England,  the.  By  George 
Walter  Chamberlain.  Magazine  of  History,  \"1,  28s  ;  \  III, 
32,  loi,  168.      1907. 

Arnold  Arboretum,  the.  The  World's  Work.  By  Sylvester 
Baxter.     September,  190 1. 

Arthur  Deloraine  Corey,  1866-1891.  A  Memorial.  By 
Deloraine  Pendre  Corey.  Cambridge,  1892,  pp.  231  ;  2d  edition, 
1S33;  3d  edition,    1S99. 

Articles  for  Various  Medical  Magazines.  H\  Godfrey 
Ryder,  M.  U. 

Articles,  280,  in  Monthlies  and  Qiiarterlies,  and  Many 
Thousands  in  Weeklies.      By  Rev.  James  Mudge,  D.  D. 

A  Social  Tempest  in  Washington's  Time.  Abigail  Adams' 
story  of  the  First  "  Birthnight  Ball."  By  Charles  E.  Mann. 
New  York  Christian  Advocate,  February  18,  1904. 

Atlas  of  Massachusetts,  Original  and  various  revisions. 
By  Oscar  W.  Walker.  Boston.  Walker  Lithograph  and  Pub- 
lishing Company. 

A  Trust  to  Protect  Nature's  Beauty.  By  Sylvester  Baxter. 
Review  of  Reviews.  (Massachusetts  Trustees  of  Public  Res- 
vations) . 

At  Sea  with  a  Circus.  By  vSylvester  Baxter.  (Travel 
Sketch.)      vSunday  Herald,  Boston. 

At  the  Public  Bath;  an  Idyl  of  the  Town.  A  prose  poem. 
By  vSylvester  Baxter.      Privately  printed. 

Auditor  of  the  Commonwealth,  annual  reports  of.  Henry 
E.  Turner  auditor;  William  D.  Hawley,  deputy  auditor. 
1901-1910.  (Mr.  Hawley  has  prepared  much  of  this  report 
annually  since  1866.) 

Austrian  Postal  Banking  System,  the.  By  Sylvester  Baxter. 
North  American  Review  . 

Author  of  Looking  Backward,  the.  By  Sylvester  Baxter. 
New  England  Magazine. 

A  Wabanaki  Cave-Legend.  By  George  Walter  Chamber- 
lain.     New  England  Magazine,  September,  1908. 


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Ballot  Law  Commission  Reports.  Francis  W.  Estey, 
commissioner. 

Berlin,  a  Study  in  Municipal  Government.  By  Sylvester 
Baxter.  (Pamphlet).  Published  by  the  Essex  Institute, 
Salem,  18S9. 

Best  of  Browning,  the.  Rev.  James  Mudge,  D.  D.  Intro- 
duction by  Rev.  W.  V.  Kelley  D.  D.  Methodist  Book  Con- 
cern, New  York,  1898.     252  pp. 

Biographical  Sketches  of  York  County  Members  of  the 
Constitutional  Convention  of  Maine,  18 19.  By  George  Walter 
Chamberlain.  In  Nash's  Edition  of  the  Maine  Constitutional 
Convention,  1894. 

Births,  Marriages  and  Deaths  at  Cape  Elizabeth  previous  to 
1800.  By  Charles  Burleigh,  M.  D.  (MSS.  in  library  of 
Maine  Genealogical  Society.) 

Births,  Marriages  and  Deaths  in  the  Town  of  Maiden, 
1649-18^0.  By  Deloraine  Pendre  Corey.  Cambridge,  1S93. 
pp.  XV,  393.  (Edgar  A.  Whittemore  and  Frank  E.  Woodward 
collaborated  with  Mr.  Corey  in  this  work.) 

Black-Letter  Volume,  The.  (Short  Story.)  By  Sylvester 
Baxter.      Published  in  Lucifer,  London. 

Blackman,  John  of  Boston,  his  heirs-at-law  and  their  issue. 
By  Walter  Kendall  Watkins.      87-0.      pp.  16.      Boston,  1900. 

Boston  at  the  Century's  End.  By  Sylvester  Baxter. 
Harper's  Magazine,  November,  1899. 

Boston,  Aspinwall's  Notarial  Records  of.  Edited  by  Walter 
Kendall  Watkins.      8  w.      pp.  X,  455.      Boston,  1903. 

Boston,  Defence  of,  in  the  War  of  181 2- 15.  By  Walter 
Kendall  Watkins.      Svo.      pp.  42.      Boston,  1899. 

Boston  Daily  Advertiser.  Charles  II.  Adams,  publisher 
since  1887. 

Boston  Evening  Traveller.  Charles  E.  Mann,  political 
editor,  1S91,  news  editor,  1892,  managing  editor,  1893. 

Boston  Evening  Record.  Charles  H.  Adams,  publisher 
since  1887. 


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BQston  ill  iSoo.  By  Walter  Kendall  Watkins.  8  vo. 
pp.  20.      Boston,  1905. 

Boston  Park  Guide.  By  Sylvester  Baxter.  Small,  May- 
nard  &  Co.,  Boston,  1895. 

Boston  Public  Library,  the.  By  Sylvester  Baxter.  Harper's 
Weekly,  September  32,  1894. 

Boston,  social,  commercial  and  manufacturing  .statistics  of, 
1882.  259  pp.  Prepared  by  Carroll  D.  Wright  under  direction 
of  a  committee  of  which  Alderman  Clinton  White  was  a  mem- 
ber, this  being  the  forerunner  of  the  work  of  the  Boston 
statistical  department. 

Bo.ston  Young  Men's  Christian  I'nion.  Annual  reports, 
1908,  1909,   19 10.      Frank  L.  Locke,  president. 

Burley,  Burleigh  Genealogy.  By  Charles  Burleigh,  M.  D., 
Portland,  Maine,  1880.      [A  revision  in  preparation.] 

Cape  Ann  Evening  Breeze.  Edited  by  Charles  E.  Mann, 
1884- 1 888. 

Cape  Ann  and  the  North  Shore  in  Story,  Legend  and  Song. 
By  Charles  E.  Mann.      350  pp.      (In  preparation.) 

Catalogue  of  Lynn  High  vSchool.  James  Mudge,  Editor. 
1S60. 

China  :     Her  History,  Productions,  Customs,  Government, 

Laws,   Religions,   Superstitions,  Missions,   and  Martyrs.      Rev. 

James  Mudge,  D.  1).     Thomas  Cranen,  Chicago.    1900.    256  pp. 

Centennial  Fourth,  1876,  the.      By  Elbridge  H.  Goss. 

Christianity  and  Our  Civil   Institutions.       By   Re\ .  J.  ^V. 

Wellman,  D.D. 

Church  Polity  of  the  Pilgrims,  the.  By  Rev.  Joshua  W. 
Wellman,  D.  D. 

City  Building.  By  Prof.  Theodor  Fischer.  \  translation 
made  for  the  Metropolitan  Improvements  Commission.  By 
Sylvester   Baxter.      (Pamphlet.) 

City  Editor,  the.  (Sketch.)  By  vSylve.ster  Baxter.  The 
Outlook. 

City  Ownership  of  Seaside  Parks.  By  Sylvester  Baxter. 
The  Cosmopolitan,  August,  1902. 


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Civic  Improvement.  Various  Articles  on  the  subject  in 
the  Century  Magazine.     By  Sylvester  Baxter. 

Cleveland,  Grover,  New  England  Ancestry  of.  By  Walter 
Kendall  Watkins.      Square  folio,      pp.25.      Salem,  1892. 

Cochranes  of  Renfrew^shire,  Scotland.  By  Walter  Kendall 
Watkins.      8  vo.     pp.  10.      Boston,  1904. 

Col.  Paul  Revere,  Life  of.  By  Elbridge  H.  Goss.  2  v. 
1892. 

Congregational  Building,  Boston,  Address  at  Dedication  of. 
By  Arthur  H.  Wellman.      1S99. 

Controller  of   County    Accounts,   annual    reports  of,    1S95- 

1910.  Charles     R.    Prescott,    controller,    William    H.    Wing, 
deputy. 

Cortez  and  Montezuma.  By  Mara  L.  Pratt-Chadwick. 
Educa.  Pub.  Co. 

Covered  Ways  for  a  Business  District.  By  Sylvester  Baxter. 
In  Proceedings  of  City  Planning  Conference,  Rochester,  New 
York,  May,  19 10.  Also  in  The  American  City,  September, 
1910. 

Cox,  Lemuel.  Bridge  Builder  and  Inventor.  1736- 1806. 
By  Walter  Kendall  Watkins.      Svo.     pp.26.      Boston,  1907. 

Cowell,  Dore  and  Chamberlain  Families  of  Lebanon, 
Maine.  By  George  Walter  Chamberlain.  In  Collections  Maine 
Historical  Society,  Second  Series,  V,  306.      1S94. 

Cruise  of  a  Land-Yacht,  the.  By  vSylvester  Baxter.  Little, 
Brown  &  Co.,  Boston.      1892. 

Cuban  Teachers  at  Harvard  University,  the.  By  .Sylvester 
Baxter.      The  Outlook,  August,  1900. 

Deloraine  Pendre  Corey.  A  Memoir.  By  Charles  E. 
Mann.      New  England  Historic,   Genealogical  Magazine,  April, 

191 1. 

Descendants  of  John  Woodward  of  Lisbon,  Maine.  By 
Frank  Ernest  Woodward,  1898.  (By  the  same  author  in  MSS. 
Descendants  of  Robert  Woodward  of  Scituate,  Mass.) 

Descendants  of  Michael  Emerson  of  Haverhill.  By  Charles 
Burleigh.  M.  D.      (In  prepration.) 


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Descendants  of  Thomas  Chamberlain  of  Chehnsford, 
Massachusetts,  1644-1S97.      By  George  Walter  Chamberlain. 

De  Soto,  Marquette  and  La  Salle.  By  Mara  L.  Pratt- 
Chadwick.      Educa.  Pub.  Co. 

Directory  of  Men  who  make  the  Cotton  Industry.  Frank 
P.  Bennett,  Boston. 

Docks  and  Terminal  Facilities,  report  of  special  state  com- 
mission, Woodward  Emery,  Clinton  White  and  J.  R.  Leeson. 
upon,  1897. 

Doctrinal  Essays  —  Prayer,  Divine  Providence,  The  Lord's 
Day,  Baptism  with  the  Holy  Ghost,  Sinlessness,  Christian  Alis- 
sions,The  Real  New  Testament.  By  Rev.  James  Mudge,  D.  D. 
(Essays  read  before  the  Alpha  Chapter  of  the  Convocation  of 
Boston  University  and  printed  by  it  in  pamphlet  form.) 

Doctrines  of  God's  Holy  Word,  the.  By  Rev.  James 
Mudge,  D.  D.  Lucknow,  India,  1S79.  pp.  88.  Part  of 
Handbook  bound  separately. 

Dogtown  Genealogy.  Sketches  of  the  Day,  Carter,  Stan- 
wood,  Lane  and  other  families.  By  Charles  E.  Mann.  Gloucester 
Times,   1901. 

Duties  of  Pastors  to  Missions.  By  Rev.  James  Mudge,  D.  D. 
Address  delivered  at  Philadelphia  Missionary  Convention,  and 
printetl  in  vohmie  of  proceedings,  1903. 

Earliest  American  Poem,  1625,  the.  By  George  Walter 
Chamberlain.     Magaznie  of  History,  IX,  278-1909. 

Early  Bells  of  Massachusetts.      By  Elbridge  H.  Goss,  1874. 

Electric  Lines  of  the  New  York,  New  Haven  &.  Hartford 
Railroad,  the.  Their  Operation  in  Connecticut  and  Rhode 
Island.  By  Sylvester  Baxter.  (Pamphlet.)  Reprinted  from 
the  Boston  Evening  Transcript,  June  4  and  i^,    19 10. 

Everett,  inaugural  addresses  of  mayors :  Charles  Bruce 
1891,  1S92,  1908,  1909,  1910.     H.  Heustis  Newton,    1905. 

Expeditions  against  Port  Royal  in  17 10  and  Qiiebec  in 
1711.      By  Walter  Kendall  Watkins.   Sz;t).  pp.  62.   Boston,  1S97, 

Expedition  to  Canada  in  1690,  under  Sir  William  Phipps. 
By  Walter  Kendall  Watkins.      8  vo.  pp.  122,  Boston,  1898. 


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Father  of  the  Pueblos,  the.  (An  account  of  Zuni  and  of 
the  ethnological  discoveries  of  Frank  Hamilton  Gushing).  By 
Sylvester  Baxter.     Harper's  Magazine,  1882. 

Felipe.  (Short  story.)  By  Sylvester  Baxter.  Published 
in  Boston  Herald. 

Fenelon,  the  Mystic.  By  Rev.  James  Mudge,  D.  D, 
Methodist  Book  Concern.  Cincinnati,  1907.  227  pp.  ^'Men 
of  all  Kingdom  "  series. 

Fenway  as  an  Educational  Center,  the.  By  Sylvester 
Baxter.     The  Outlook. 

Fenway  Court.  (An  account  of  Mrs.  Gardner's  palace.) 
Bv  Sylvester  Baxter.     The  Century  Magazine. 

First  Woman  in  Spain,  the.  By  Sylvester  Baxter.  Cos- 
mopolitan Magazine.     An  essay  on  Emilia  Pardo  Bazan. 

Folk  Song.  By  Sylvester  Baxter.  Poem  in  the  Century 
Magazine. 

Foulsham,  John  of  Hingham,  England  and  Hingham,  Mass. 
By  Walter  Kendall  Watkins.     Svo.     pp.  7.     Boston,  1900. 

Foxborough  State  Hospital.  Annual  reports.  Frank  L. 
Locke,  trustee. 

Franklin's  Head.  A  story  of  Court  Street,  Boston.  Bv 
Walter  Kendall  Watkins.      Svo.      50  pp.      Boston,  1909, 

Frederic  Kidder's  "Expeditions  of  Capt.  John  Lovewell." 
Second  edition  ;   edited  by  George  Walter  Chamberlain.      1909, 

Free  Public  Library  Commission  of  Massachusetts.  Annual 
reports.  Deloraine  P.  Corey,  member  and  for  a  time  chairman 
of  commission. 

Fresh  Facts  from  the  Foreign  Field.  By  Rev.  James 
Mudge,  D.  D.  Prepared  for  the  New  England  Conference 
Missionary  Society  and  printed  by  it  in  pamphlet  form. 

From  the  Stage  Coach  to  the  Parlor  Car.  The  evolution 
of  travel.  Synopsis  of  lecture  delivered  before  various  historical 
and  social  organizations.  By  Charles  E.  Mann.  Daily  Evening 
Item,  Lynn,  December  13,  1907. 

Future  of  Invention,  the.  By  Sylvester  Baxter.  Cosmo- 
politan. 


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Faber,  Frederick  William  ;  a  sketch  of  his  life,  together 
with  selections  from  his  works  in  poetry  and  prose.  By  Rev. 
James  Mudge,  D.  D.   McDonald  &  Gill,  Boston,  188^.   264  pp. 

Garrison  of  Cape  Ann,  the.  Analysis  of  Whittier's  poem 
and  Cotton  Mather's  narration,  to  fix  its  location.  By  Charles 
E.  Mann.     Cape  Ann  Breeze,  Gloucester,  1897. 

Genealogical  Reports  of  the  Chamberlain  Association  of 
America.     By  George  Walter  Chamberlain,  1900  to  1905. 

Genealogies  of  the  Mayflower  Passengers.  By  George 
Walter  Chamberlain.     Magazine  of  History,  IV,  122,  195.     1906. 

Genealogy  of  the  Hawley  Family  of  Marblehead.  By 
William  D.  Hawley.      Boston,  W^right  &  Potter  Printing  Co. 

Genealogy  of  William  Chamberlain  1620-1706,  of  Billerica, 
Massachusetts,  the.      By  George  Walter  Chamberlain,  1910. 

German  City  Planning.  By  Cornelius  Gurlitt.  (Illustrated). 
A  translation  made  for  the  Metropolitan  Improvements' Commis- 
sion.    By  Sylvester  Baxter.      (Pamphlet.) 

German  Way  of  Making  Better  Cities,  the.  By  Sylvester 
Baxter.      Atlantic  Monthly,  June,  1908. 

Glances  at  the  Temperance  Problem  in  Europe.  By  Rev. 
Alfred  Noon,  Ph.D.      Boston,  1909. 

Gile,  Guile,  Guild  (jenealogy.  By  Charles  Burleigh,  M.D. 
Portland,  Maine,  1S87. 

Glossary  of  Cotton  Fabrices.  Published  by  Frank  P. 
Bennett,  Boston. 

Golden  New  England.  By  Sylvester  Baxter.  The  Out- 
look, October,  19 10. 

Good  Stories  and  Best  Poems.  Rev.  James  Mudge,  Com- 
piler and  Editor.  American  Methodist  Mission  Press,  Lucknow, 
India.     3  vol.,  401,  440,  448  pp.,  1S78,  1879,  1882. 

Greater  Boston ;  a  Study  for  a  Federated  Metropolis. 
Boston,  1891.  By  Sylvester  Baxter.  (Pamphlet.)  Containing 
the  first  suggestions  for  metropolitan  park  and  water  systems 
and  directly  leading  to  the  movement  for  the  former. 

Great  November  Storm  of  1898,  the.  By  Sylvester 
Baxter.     Scribner's  Magazine,  November,  1899. 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  99. 

Growth  of  a  City,  the.  By  Sylvester  Baxter.  Architec- 
tural Review,  1894. 

Growth  ill  Holiness.  By  Rev.  James  Mudge,  D.  D. 
Methodist  Book  Concern,  New  York,  1895.     316  pp. 

Handbook  of  Methodism.  By  Rev.  James  Mudge,  D.  D. 
American    Methodist    Mission    Press,    Lucknow,    India,    1877. 

484  PP- 

Handbook  of  the  Building  for  the  International  Bureau  of 

American    Republics    at   Washington.        By    Sylvester    Baxter. 

Published  by  the  Bureau,  1910. 

Plarbor  and  Land  Commission,  annual  reports  of,  1902- 
1910.  George  E.  Smith,  chairman.  1897-1901.  Clinton 
White,  commissioner. 

Havana,  Capture  of  1762.  By  Walter  Kendall  Watkins. 
8  vo.  pp.  38.     Boston,  1899. 

Haven  of  Dead  Ships,  the.  (Short  story.)  By  Sylvester 
Baxter,      The  Cosmopolitan,  1894. 

Haverhill,  2^oth  Anniversary.  Qiiaint  Chronicles;  folio 
pp.  32.     By  Walter  Kendall  Watkins.     Worcester,  1890. 

Henry  Chamberlain's  English  Home  and  Descendants.  By 
George  Walter  Chamberlain.  (Report  to  Chamberlain  Associ- 
ation,   1908.) 

Historic  Acadia.  A  study  of  Eastern  Maine  during  the 
Commonwealth.  By  Charles  E.  Mann.  White  Mountain  Echo. 
Bethlehem,  September  26,    1908. 

Historical  Sketches  of  Centre  Methodist  Episcopal  Church, 
Maiden.  By  Charles  E.  Mann.  In  various  editions  of  the 
church  directory  and  in  the  Manual  for  the  New  England  Con- 
ference, 1906. 

History  of  Maiden,  Mass.,  1633- 1785,  the.  By  Deloraine 
Pendre  Corey,  Maiden,  1899,  pp.  XVII,  870. 

History  of  Melrose.      By  Elbridge  H.  Goss,  1902. 

History  of  Methodism.  By  Rev.  James  Mudge,  D.  D. 
American  Methodist  Mission  Press,  Lucknow,  India.  187S. 
400  pp. 

History  of  Methodism  in  Great  Britain  and  the  countries  of 


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Asia,  Africa,  Europe,  Oceanica.  By  Rev.  James  Mudge,  D.  D. 
In  collaboration  with  Bishop  J.  F.  Hurst.  "  Illustrated  His- 
tory of  Methodism."     7  vols. 

History  of  Methodist  Missions.  By  Rev.  James  Mudge, 
D.  D.,  Lucknow,  India,  1879.  pp.  145.  Part  of  Handbook, 
bound  separately. 

History  of  the  New  England  Conference  of  the  Methodist 
Church.  By  the  Rev.  James  Mudge,  D.D.  Published  by  the 
Conference,  Boston,  1910.     48 1  pp. 

Honey  from  Many  Hives.  By  Rev.  James  Mudge,  D.D. 
Methodist  Book  Concern,  New  York,  1899.     331  pp. 

Hotel  Cluny  of  a  New  England  Village,  the.  (The 
Whipple  House,  Ipswich.)  (Pamphlet.)  By  Sylvester  Baxter. 
Originally  in  American  Architect.     Salem  Press,  1901. 

Howells'  Boston.  By  Sylvester  Baxter.  New  England 
Magazine,  October,  1893. 

How  the  Bills  of  Socialism  will  be  Paid,  By  Sylvester 
Baxter.      The  Forum,  August,  1894. 

Hunt's  Reminiscences,  or  Weymouth  Ways  and  Weymouth 
People.     316  pp.     Edited  by  George  Walter  Chamberlain,  1907. 

Hydraulic  Measurements.  By  Dwight  Porter.  Prepared 
for  the  use  of  students  in  civil  engineering  at  the  Massachusetts 
Institute  of  Technology,  1909. 

Imaginative  Element  in  Landscape,  the.    By  Sylvester  Baxter. 
American  Architect,  January  8,  1898. 

Index-Digest  of  Decisions  of  the  Massachusetts  Railroad 
Commission,  1869  to  1905.  By  Charles  E.  Mann.  Wright  & 
Potter  Co.,  Boston.      (New  edition  in  preparation.) 

Representative  Inequality  of  .Senators ,  By  Sylvester 
Baxter.     North  American  Review. 

Ingalls  Genealogy.  By  Charles  Burleigh,  M.  D.  Maiden, 
1903. 

Inscribed  on  the  Clouds.  (Sketch).  By  Sylvester  Baxter. 
Kate  Field's  Washington. 

In  the  Heart  of  Cape  Ann,  or  The  Story  of  Dogtown.      By 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  lOl 

Chares  E.  Mann.       Illustrations  by  Mrs.   William  G.   Merrill, 
Procter  Bros.,  Gloucester,  1896;   second  edition,  1908. 

Java  as  an  Example.  By  Sylvester  Baxter.  Reviews  of 
Reviews,  February,  1899. 

John  Chamberlain,  the  Indian  Fighter  of  Pigwacket.  By 
George  Walter  Chamberlain,  189S. 

John  Lewis  Bates,  a  biographical  sketch.  By  Charles  E. 
Mann.      Generally  published  in  Massachusetts  press,  1899. 

John  S.  Sargent's  decorations  for  the  Boston  Public 
Library.      By  Sylvester  Baxter.      Harper's  Weekly. 

Joseph  Hills  and  the  Massachusetts  Laws  of  1648.  By 
Deloraine  Pendre  Corey,  Boston,  1S99.      pp  24.      [Reprints.] 

Journal  of  Proceedings  of  the  Joint  Special  Committee  on 
the  Revision  of  the  Public  Statutes.  By  Charles  E.  Mann. 
300  pp.      Boston,  1 90 1. 

Land  of  Faith,  the.  Rev.  James  Mudge,  D.  D.  Methodist 
Book  Concern,  Cincinnati,  1903.      184  pp. 

Various  articles  in  Garden  and  Forest,  Landscape,  Parks, 
etc.      By  Sylvester  Baxter. 

Law  of  the  Apothecary,  the.  By  George  Howard  Fall, 
Boston. 

Leaflets — The  Will  Divine  (a  poem).  The  Isabella 
Thoburn  College.    Think  It  Over.    By  Rev.  James  Mudge,  D.  D. 

Lectures  before  the  Maiden  Old  and  New  and  various 
women's  clubs  (in  print).      By  Godfrey  Ryder,  M.D. 

Life  and  Ancestry  of  Francis  Douglas,  bookseller  and 
author,  of  Aberdeen  and  Paisley,  Scotland.  By  Walter  Kendall 
Watkins.      8  fc,  p.  37.      Boston,   1903. 

Life  Ecstatic,  the.  By  Rev.  James  Mudge,  D.D.  Ameri- 
can Tract  Society,  New  York,   1906.      223  pp. 

Life  of  Bishop  J.  M.  Thoburn  By  Rev.  James  Mudge, 
D.  D.      Article  in  Creeyfan's  "  Great  Missionaries." 

Life  of  Love,  the.  By  Rev.  James  Mudge,  D.  D.  Metho- 
tlist  Book  Concern,  Cincinnati,  1902.      140  pp. 

Lisbon,  N.  H.,  and  Sugar  Hill.  By  Charles  E.  Mann. 
White  Mountain  Echo,  September  15,  1900. 


I02  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

Literary  Lynn.  By  Charles  E.  Mann.  Biographical 
notices  of  Alonzo  Lewis,  Cyrus  M.  Tracy,  Josiah  F.  Kimball, 
Joseph  W.  Nye,  George  D.  Emery,  James  Berry  Bensel  and 
others.     In  Lynn  Saturday  Union,  December,  18S3. 

Lost  leer,  the.  By  Sylvester  Baxter.  (Short  story.)  The 
Red  Book,  March,  1909. 

Lot  Woodbury,  the  first  hotel  keeper  of  Bethlehem.  A 
study  of  a  name.  By  Charles  E.  Mann,  White  Mountain  Echo, 
Bethlehem,  August  21,  1909. 

Ludlow,  Mass.  A  Century  and  a  Centennial.  By  Rev. 
Alfred  Noon,  Ph.  D.  250  pp.  Clark  W.  Bryan  &  Co., 
Springfield,  187=;. 

Lynn  Daily  Press.  Charles  E.Mann,  political  editor,  1S89, 
managing  editor,  1890,  1891. 

Maiden,  History  of.  By  Deloraine  Pendre  Corey.  In 
Drake's  History  of  Middlesex  County,  vol.  2,  pp,  1 13-136. 

Maiden,  Inaugural  Address  of  the  Mayor,  Marcellus  Coggan, 
1886,  1887. 

Maiden,  Inaugural  Address  of  first  Mayor,  Elisha  vSlade 
Converse,  1892. 

Maiden,  Inaugural  Addresses  of  the  Mayor,  Charles  Leroy 
Dean,   1899-190=;. 

Maiden,  Inaugural  Addresses  of  the  Mayor,  George  Howard 
Fall,  1910,  191 1. 

Maiden,  Inaugural  Addresses  of  the  Mayor,  George  Louis 
Richards,  1908,  1909. 

Many  short  historical  and  genealogical  articles  in  Maine 
Recorder.      By  Charles  Burleigh,  M,  D. 

Marsters  Family,  the.  Descendants  of  Deacon  Richard 
Marsterson  of  Leyden  and  Plymouth  and  his  father,  John  Mas- 
ters, New  England's  first  canal  builder.  By  Charles  E.  Mann, 
Gloucester  Times,  1899. 

Massachusetts,  annual  reports  of  the  savings  bank  commis- 
sion. James  O,  Otis,  secretary  or  savings  bank  commissioner 
from  1885. 

Massachusetts  in  the   Expedition  under  Admiral    Vernon  in 


maldp:n  historical  society  103 

1 740- 1  to  the  West  Indies.  By  Walter  Kendall  Watkins.  Svo. 
pp.  60.     Boston,  1899. 

Massachusetts  in  the  Intended  Expedition  to  Canada  in 
1746.  By  Walter  Kendall  Watkins.  Svo.  pp.55-  Boston, 
1900. 

Massachusetts  in  the  Lake  George  Expedition,  i7S5'  By 
Walter  Kendall  Watkins.      8  vo.     pp.  54.      Boston,  1906. 

Massachusetts  Methodism's  First  Parish.  Old  Home  Week 
address  at  Lynn  Common  Church.  By  Charles  E.  Mann. 
Lynn  Evening  News,  Daily  Evening  Item,  July  29,  1907. 

Massachusetts  Railroad  and  Railway  Laws.  Complied  by 
Charles  E.  Mann.  300  pp.  Editions  of  1904,  1905,  1906  and 
1908.     Wright  &  Potter  Co.,  Boston. 

Massachusetts  Railroad  Commission,  annual  reports. 
Clinton  White,  member  of  Commission  from  1902.  Reports 
for  years  1903-1911  edited  by  Charles  E.  Mann. 

Melrose,  History  of.  By  Elbridge  H.  Goss.  In  Samuel 
Adams  Drake's  History  of  Middlesex  County,  1880. 

Melrose,  Inaugural  Address  of  first  mayor,  Levi  S.  Gould, 
1900. 

Melrose,  Inaugural  Addresses  of  Mayor,  Eugene  H.  Moore, 
1910,  191 1 

Melrose  Memorial.     By  Elbridge  H.  Goss. 

Memoir  of  John  Ward  Dean,  A.M.  By  Deloraine  Pendre 
Corey.      Boston,  1902.      pp.  17.      (Reprint.) 

Memoir  of  William  Blake  Trask,  A.  M.  By  Deloraine 
Prendre  Corey.      Boston,  1907,  pp.    10.      (Reprint.) 

Memorial  of  the  Celebration  of  the  Two  Hundred  and 
Fiftieth  Anniversary  of  the  Incorporation  of  the  Town  of 
Maiden,  Mass.,  May,  1S99.  By  Deloraine  Pendre  Corey. 
Cambridge,  1900,  pp..  XII,  340. 

Memorial  of  Rev.  Z,  A.  Mudge.  By  Rev.  James 
Mudge,  D,  D.     Alfred  Mudge  &  Son,  Boston,  1890.     56  pp. 

Mercuries  of  the  State.  Story  of  the  evolution  of  the  office 
of  sergeant-at-arms  from  1664.  By  Charles  E.  Mann.  Boston 
Transcript,  December  i,  1900, 


I04  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

Methodism's  Beginning  in  Massachusetts.  The  building  of 
the  first  church  in  Lynn.  By  Charles  E.  Mann.  Ne\\-  York 
Christian  Advocate,  February  3  and  February  12,  1908. 

Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  the.  By  Rev.  James  Mudge, 
D.  D.     Article  in  "Popular  and  Critical  Bible  Cyclopedia." 

Metropolitan  Park  Commission,  annual  reports  of,  1894- 
19 10.     William  B.  de  las  Casas,  chairman. 

Metropolitan  Park  System,  the.  Lecture  before  Massa- 
chusetts Horticultural  Society.  By  vSylvester  Baxter.  Trans- 
actions of  Society,  Part  I,  1894. 

Middlesex  Fells,  the.  Bv  Sylvester  Baxter.  In  Boston 
Herald,  1879.  (The  article  that  gave  the  name  to  the  region 
and  led  to  the  Metropolitan  park  movement  culminating  in 
1S93.  Reprinted  in  volumes  by  Elizur  Wright  and  George  E. 
Davenport.) 

Minot  Family  in  America  and  England.  By  Weaker  Ken- 
dall Watkins.      2  vo.      pp.  5^.      Boston,  1897. 

Missions  in  India,  Burma  and  Ceylon.  By  Rev.  James 
Mudge,  D.  D.      Article  in  Grant's  "Christendom  in  1901." 

Motorman,  the.  (vS ketch.)  By  Sylvester  Baxter.  The 
Outlook,  January  6,  1906. 

Municipal  Democracy.  Address  before  Advance  Club, 
Providence,  May  9,  1S91.  By  Sylvester  Baxter.  In  PamHet 
"Souvenir  of  the  Banquet."     Providence,  1891. 

Musical  Lynn.  By  Charles  E.  Mann.  vSketches  of  the 
Barker  Family  of  singers,  the  Hutchinson  Family,  the  Aborn 
family,  the  Chandler  family,  Madame  Calista  Huntley  Piccioli, 
v\von  D.  Saxon,  J.  Warren  Andrews  and  others.  In  Lynn 
Saturday  Union,  18S4. 

My  i^rother  and  I.  By  William  Ingraham  Ihuen,  D.D. 
New  York. 

My  Experience  of  Full  Salvation.  By  Rev.  James  Mudge, 
D.D.  Article  in  "  Forty  Witnesses "  published  by  Methodist 
Book  Concern,  1SS8. 

My  Mad  Career.  (Short  story.)  By  Sylvester  Baxter. 
Published  by  S.  S.  McClure  Syndicate,  18S5. 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  IO5 

New  Boston.  By  Sylvester  Baxter.  Frank  Leslie's  Weekly, 
May  30,  1895. 

New  England  Conference   Minutes.      Rev.   James  Mudge, 

Editor.      35  vols.,  1886-1910.     J.  P.  Magee  and  C.  R.  Magee, 

Boston . 

Nibelungen  Trilogy  at  Baireuth,  the.     By  Sylvester  Baxter. 

Letters  about  the  first  production  in  1876.  Boston  Daily  Adver- 
tiser. Also  about  the  grand  rehearsals,  in  Boston  Herald,  as 
sul)stitute  for  regular  correspondent,  W.  R.  Balch. 

Nicholas  Snow  and  his  Descendants,  By  William  B.  Snow. 
600  pp.      (In  preparation.) 

Notes  on  Stereotomy.  By  Dvvight  Porter.  Prepared  for 
the  use  of  students  in  civil    engineering    at    the    Massachusetts 


Institute  of  Technologv. 


't)j 


Notes  on  \\'arped  Surfaces.  By  Dwight  Porter.  Prepared 
for  use  of  students  in  civil  engineering  at  the  Massachusetts 
Institute  of  Technology. 

Ochterloney  Family  of  Scotland.  By  Walter  Kcmlall 
Watkins.      8  vo.  pp.  16.      Boston,  1902. 

Old  Bacon  House  and  Farm,  successively  located  in  the 
towns  of  Dedham,  Needham  and  Natick,  and  the  counties  of 
Suffolk,  Norfolk  and  Middlesex,  with  the  record  of  service  of 
Jonathan  Bacon  in  the  Constitutional  Convention  of  1820.  By 
his  great  grandson,  Charles  E    Mann,  Natick  Bulletin,  1910. 

Old  Hart  House,  the.  Home  of  Richard  Haven  and  of  tiie 
builder  of  the  Constitution.  A  paper  read  before  the  Lynn  His- 
torical Society.  By  Charles  E.  Mann.  Lynn  Daily  Item, 
April  26,  1901. 

Old  New  World,  the.  An  account  of  the  researclies  of  the 
Hemenway  vSouthwestern  Architological- Expedition  in  the  Salt 
River  Valley,  Arizona.  (Pamphlet.)  J5y  Sylvester  Baxter, 
Published  by  the  Essex  Institute,  Salem,  1888. 

Olla  Podrida  of  Wesleyan  University.  James  Mudge, 
Editor.      1S62. 

Orchard,  Robert,  of  the  the  Art  antl  Mystery  of  Feltmakers 
of  Boston  in  New  England.  By  Walter  Kendall  Watkins.  8  vo. 
pp.  26.      Boston,  1907. 


Io6  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

Our  Nation  under  the  Government  of  God.  A  war  sermon, 
preached  in  1S62.      By  Rev.  Joshua  W.  WeHman.  D.  D. 

Pastor's  Missionary  Manual.  By  Rev.  James  Mudge,  D.D. 
Missionary  Society  of  the  M.  E.  Church,  New  York,  189 1. 
122  pp. 

Pemberton  Family.  8vo.  pp.  9.  By  Walter  Kendall 
Watkins.      Boston,  1893. 

Poem  for  Dedication  of  the  Nurses'  Home  at  the  Maiden 
Hospital.      By  Sylvester  Baxter.     In  M  dden  newspapers. 

Poems  with  Power  to  Strengthen  the  Soul.  Rev.  James 
Mudge,  Compiler  and  Editor.  Methodist  Book  Concern,  New 
York,  1907.      330  pp.      Enlarged  and  revised  edition.      1909. 

Possibilities  of  Scientific  Prophecy,  the.  By  Sylvester 
Baxter.      (Pamflet.) 

Prison  Commissioners,  Massachusetts  Board  of.  Annual 
Reports.     Arthur  H.  Wellman,  member  of  board. 

Public  Control  of  Urban  Transit.  By  Sylvester  Baxter. 
Cosmopolitan. 

Public  Work  directly  Performed.  By  vSylvester  Baxter. 
Review  of  Reviews,  April,  1897. 

Quest  of  the  Holy  Grail,  the.  A  characterization  of  the 
frieze  by  Edwin  A.  Abbey  in  the  Boston  Public  Library.  By 
Sylvester  Baxter.     Curtis  &  Cameron,  Boston. 

Rambles  in  Rockingham.  Southeastern  New  Hampshire, 
historical  and  descriptive.  By  Charles  E.  Mann.  Boston 
Traveller,  1893. 

Rejuvenation  of  an  Old  State,  the.  By  Sylvester  Baxter. 
The  Review  of  Reviews.  (An  account  of  industrial  develop- 
ments in  Maine. ) 

Remaking  a  Railway.  (An  account  of  the  reconstruction 
of  the  New  York,  New  Haven  &  Hartford  Railroad,  1903- 1909. ) 
By  Sylvester  Baxter.      The  Outlook,  Jaiuiary,  1910. 

Remarks  at  presentation  of  Samuel  Kitson's  bust  of  Mrs. 
E.  vS.  Converse  to  the  Maiden  Public  Library.  By  Sylvester 
Baxter.      Included  in  souvenir  pamphlet. 

Renascence  of  the  Country  Home,  the.  By  Sylvester 
Baxter.      Outlook. 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  I07 

Report  upon  a  Sanitary  Inspection  of  Certain  Tenement 
House  Districts  of  Boston.      By  Dwight  Porter,  1889. 

Reports  on  Water-Power.  By  Dwight  Porter.  Constitut- 
ing portions  of  Vo/s.  XVI  and  XVII,  Tenth  U.  S.  Census, 
1880. 

Restraints  upon  Alienation  Thwarting  Testator's  Intention. 
By  Arthur  H.  Welhnan.     Central  Law  Journal,  April  18,  1S84. 

Rev.  Aaron  Wait  of  Maiden  and  Methodism  on  Cape  Ann. 
An  address  by  Charles  E.  Mann.  In  Gloucester  Times,  October 
1,  1903. 

Reviews  and  poems  ;  also  unsigned  articles  in  the  Contribu- 
tors Club.      By  Sylvester  Baxter.      In  the  Atlantic  Monthly. 

Rev.  Daniel  Fuller,  a  chaplain  of  the  Continental  x\rmy. 
Annotated  extracts  from  his  diary.  By  Charles  E.  Mann. 
Gloucester  Times,  1904. 

Review  of  the  vSabbath  Hymn  and  Tune  Book.  By  Rev. 
Joshua  W.  Wellman,  D.  D. 

Revised  Laws  of  Massachusetts.  1969  pp.  Issued  in  1902. 
Henry  D.  Coolidge,  James  W.  Kimball  and  Charles  E.  Mann, 
editorial  clerks.  George  R.  Jones,  William  Schoheld,  H. 
Heustis  Newton,  George  Howard  Fall  and  Aaron  C.  Dowse 
members  of  committee  on  revision. 

Revolutionary  Soldiers  of  Lebanon,  Maine.  By  George 
Walter  Chamberlain,  1897. 

Revolutionary  Soldiers  of  York  County,  Maine.  By  George 
Walter  Chamberlain,  New  England  Historic,  Genealogical 
Register,  Jan  ,  April,  191 1. 

Richardsons  of  West  Mill,  Herts,  England  and  Woburn  in 
New  England.  8  vo.,  pp.  6.  By  Walter  Kendall  Watkins. 
Boston,  1903. 

Roman  IIist(jry  Stories.  By  Mara  L.  Pratt-Chadwick. 
Educa.  Pub.  Co. 

Rushing  Freight  to  New  York.  By  Sylvester  Baxter.  In 
American  Review  of  Reviews,  December,  191  o. 

vSaintly  Callings,  the.  By  Rev.  James  Mudge,  D.  D. 
Methodist  Book  Concern,  Cincinnati,  1904.      260  pp. 


I08  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

Seaside  Pleasure  grounds  for  Cities.  By  Sylvester  Baxter. 
Scribner's  Magazine.     June,  1898. 

Seeking  the  Sunset  by  Land  and  Lake.  Lake  Memphrem- 
agog.  By  Charles  E.  Mann.  White  Mountain  Echo,  Bethlehem, 
September  8,  1906. 

Sermon  on  250th  Anniversary  of  the  First  Church  in 
Maiden.  By  Re\  .  Joshua  W.  Wellman,  D.  D.  Published  in 
the  Memorial  of  the  Incoporation  of  the  Town  of  Maiden. 
Cambridge,  1900. 

Sermons,  Addresses  and  Magazine  Articles.  Unlisted.  By 
Rev.  Joshua  W.  Wellman,  D.  D. 

Sermons  —  Christian  Perfection;  Work  and  Wages  ;  Christ 
Raising  Lazarus  ;  The  Captivity  of  Judah  ;  Paul  as  a  Missionary. 
By  Rev.  James  Mudge,  D.D.  The  last  three  printed  in  "  Boston 
Homilies,"  the  other  two  published  separately. 

Seventieth  Birthday  Anniversary  of  John  Wallace  Hutchin- 
son, 1891.     By  Charles  E.  Mann.      (Pamphlet.) 

Sheafe  Family  of  Old  and  New  England.  8  vo.,  pp.  14. 
By    Walter  Kendall  Watkins.      Boston,  1901. 

Significant  Comparisons  of  the  Cost  of  Light.  By  Sylvester 
Baxter,     Advance  Club  Leaflets  No,  i.     Providence  1891. 

Spanish  Colonial  Architecture  in  Mexico.  By  Sylvester 
Baxter.     J.  B.  Millet  Company,  Boston. 

Spanish  Traits  and  the  New  World,  By  Sylvester  Baxter, 
Review  of  Reviews,  August,  1898, 

vSpecial  correspondence  from  Mexico,  By  Sylvester  Baxter, 
In  New  York  vSun,  1884,  1891. 

Special  correspondence  from  Mexico  and  the  Southwest. 
I^y  Sylvester  Baxter,      In  Boston  Herald  1881,  '82,  '83,  '84,  '91. 

Speech  at  Dinner  on  occasion  of  the  Conference  for  Good 
City  Government  Organization  of  the  National  Municipal 
League,  Philadelphia,  1S94.  %  Sylvester  Baxter.  In  \olume 
of  proceedings. 

Speech  at  Wendell  Phillips  Memorial   Celebration,  Faneuil    ' 
1  lall.      By  Sylvester  Baxter.      Printed  in  Boston  Commonwealth. 

Spiritual  Songs.  Rev.  James  Mudge,  Editor,  Lucknow, 
India,   1880.      159  pp. 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIKTY  IO9 

State  Board  of  Charity,  Annual  Reports.  Charles  H. 
Adams,  member  of  board;  Joshua  F.  Lewis,  M.  D.,  superin- 
tendent of  adult  poor. 

State  Board  of  Insanity,  Annual  Reports,  Lowell  F.  Went- 
w'orth,  M.  D.,  deputy  executive  officer. 

Storm  of  a  Suburban  Place,  the.  By  Sylvester  Baxter. 
Garden  and  Forests. 

Story  of  Columbus.  By  Mara  L.  Pratt-Chadwick.  Edu- 
cational Publishing  Company. 

Story  of  Pizzaro.  By  Mara  L.  Pratt-Chad\^  ick.  Educa- 
tional Publishing  Company,  Boston. 

Story  of  the  Hutchinsons,  tribe  of  Jesse,  the.  Illustrated, 
2  v.,  1000  pp,  by  John  Wallace  Hutchinson,  edited  and  com- 
piled bv  Charles  Edward  Mann.  Boston,  Lee  &   Shepard  Co., 

1897. 

Strolls  About  Mexico.  By  Sylvester  Baxter.  In  various 
numbers  of  the  American  Architect,  1884  and  later. 

Sunday  School  Missionary  Speaker.  Rev.  James  Mudge, 
Compiler  and  Editor.  Missionary  Society  of  the  M.  E.  Church, 
New  York ,  1 905 .      1 5  7  pp . 

Sundry  discussions,  reports  and  short  papers.  By  Dwight 
Porter.     Published  in  society  proceedings,  journals,  etc. 

Suwalet-i-ilm-i-Ilohi.  Rev.  James  Mudge,  Translator  and 
Editor.  A  Catechism;  editions  in  Roman-Nerdu,  Persian- 
Nerdu,  Hendi,  Burmese  and  other  languages,  Lucknow,  India, 

1877.   38  pp. 

Taunton.  250th  Anniversary.  Quaint  Chronicles;  folio 
pp.  33.     By  Walter  Kendall  Watkins.     Worcester,    1889. 

Telephone  Girl,  the.     By  Sylvester  Baxter.     Outlook; 

Tendencies  Toward  Revision  in  American  Methodism.  By 
Rev.  James  Mudge,  D.  D.  Article  in  "New  History  of 
Methodism,"  published  by  Hodder  &  Gloughlin,  London,  1909. 

Ten  Temperance  Lessons.     By  Rev.  Alfred    Noon   Ph.D., 

Boston,  1897. 

The  Building  of  the    Frigate   Constitution.      By   Charles  L. 

Woodside,  Boston. 


no  MALDEN    HISTORICAI.    SOCIETY 

The  Electrification  of  a  Commonwealth.  A  definition  of 
ideals  in  beneficent  industrial  centralization.  Hy  Sylvester  Baxter. 
Engineering  Magazine,  December,  1910. 

The  Evolution  of  the  Class-Meeting.  By  Charles  E.  Mann. 
Zion's  Herald,  Boston,  Mav,  19 10. 

The  Lucknow  Witness.  Rev.  James  Mudge,  Editor. 
American  Methodist  Mission  Press,  Lucknow,  India.  8^  vols. 
1 874- 1 88 1. 

The  Melrose  Journal.  Charles  H.  Adams,  editor  and  pub- 
lisher for  many  years. 

The  Middlesex  Fells,  historical  and  descriptive.  Illustrated, 
By  William  B.  de  las  Casas.  In  New  England  Magazine, 
August,  1898. 

The  Monitor.  Rev.  James  Mudge,  Editor.  American 
Methodist  Mission  Press,  Lucknow,  India.      2  vols.^  1879,  1880. 

The  Nation  and  Undeveloped  Peoples.  An  address  before 
the  American  Missionary  Association  at  New  London,  Connecti- 
cut.    By  Arthur  H.  Wellman. 

The  New  New  York.     By  Sylvester  Baxter.     The  Outlook. 

The  New  West  Point.  By  Sylvester  Baxter.  Century 
Magazine,  July,  1904. 

The  Old  Planters ;  story  of  the  Dorchester  Company's 
settlement  of  Cape  Ann.  By  Charles  E.  Mann.  Boston 
Transcript,  Gloucester  Times,  1897. 

The  Old  Road  from  Boston  to  Marblehead  —  Salem  Street, 
Medford,  Pleasant  and  Salem  streets.  Maiden,  Boston  street  and 
the  Common,  Lynn.  A  study  of  colonial  transportation.  By 
Charles  E.  Mann.      Lynn   Business  Magazine,  December,  1902. 

The  Perry  Pictures.  9,600  subjects.  Eugene  A.  Perry. 
Boston  and  Maiden. 

The  projected  metropolitan  park  system  for  Boston  from 
an  economic  point  of  view.  Report  of  the  Secretary  in  report 
of  the  preliminary  Metropolitan  Park  Commission.  By  Sylvester 
Baxter.      1893. 

The  Public  Library  Movement  in  its  Parent  Commonwealth. 
By  Sylvester  Baxter.      Review  of  Reviews. 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  III 

The  Riches  of  His  Grace.  By  Rev.  James  Mudge,  D.  D. 
Methodist  Book  Concern,  New  York,  1909.  316  pp. 

The  School  Guard,  Boston,  Rev.  Alfred  Noon,  Ph.  D. 
editor  for  twelve  years. 

The  Scotland  Ancestry  of  Major  (reneral  Sir  David 
Ochterloney  :  H.xrt.  as  Native  of  Boston  in  New  England. 
By  Walter  Kendall  Watkins.      8  vo.,  pp.  11.      Boston,  1902. 

The  Temperance  Cause,  Boston.  Edited  by  Rev.  Alfred 
Noon,  Ph.D.  for  twenty  years. 

The  Theatre  in  Germany.  By  Sylvester  Baxter.  Atlantic 
Monthly,  1878. 

The  Winning  War  against  Consumption.  By  Sylvester 
Baxter.     Review  of  Reviews. 

Three  Lynn  Captains  :  Robert  Bridges,  first  speaker  of  the 
Massachusetts  House  of  Representatives ;  Richard  Walker, 
deputy  governor  of  Acadia  ;  Thomas  Marshall  of  Cromwell's 
Ironsides.  By  Charles  E.  Mann.  Lynn  Daily  Item,  February 
II,  1910;  also  Boston  Transcript,  March  4,9,  April  i,and 
October  28,  1908;  March  28,  1910.  [In  press  for  Register  of 
Lynn  Historical  Society.] 

Tracts — The  Model  Class  Leader,  Qiiestions  for  Self- 
Examination,  The  Conference  Missionary  Society,  Should  Self 
Die,  Thirty  Years  with  Jesus.  By  Rev.  James  Mudge,  D.  D. 
Published  by  the  Methodist  Book  Concern  and  the  Willard 
Tract  Depository. 

Transportation,  water-supply,  telephone  and  other  economic 
subjects.  By  Sylvester  Baxter.  Various  special  articles  in  the 
Boston  Evening  Transcript. 

Trolley  in  Rural  Parts,  the.  By  Sylvester  Baxter.  Harper's 
Magazine.      1898. 

Two  Centuries  and  a  Half  in  Maiden.  By  Deloraine 
Pendre  Corey.     New  England  Magazine,  IW.  XX,  pp.  357-37^* 

Two  Hundreth  and  Fiftieth  Anniversary  of  the  Incorpora- 
tion of  Maiden,  Address  at.  By  Arthur  II.  Wellman.  In 
Memorial  Volume,  1899. 

United  States  Investor.  Frank  P.  Bennett,  publisher ; 
Frank  P.  Bennett,  Jr.,  editor.     Boston. 


112  IMALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

University  of  Maine,  the.  By  George  Walter  Chamberlain. 
Americana,  January,  19 lo. 

The  VV'^aite  Family  of  Maiden.  By  Deloraine  Pendre 
Corey.     Maiden,  1878,  pp  11,      (Reprint.) 

Walt  Whitman  in  Boston.  By  SvKester  Baxter.  New- 
England  Magazine. 

Water  Front  of  Boston  Bay,  the.  Report  by  the  Secretary 
in  Report  of  the  Metropolitan  Im])ro\ements  Commission. 
By  Sylvester  Baxter.      Boston,  1909. 

Water-I*ower  Streams  of  Maine.  By  Dvvight  Porter.  Con- 
stituting a  portion  of  the  Nineteenth  Annual  Report  of  the  U.  S. 
Geological  Survey,  1897-98,  part  IV. 

Water  Way  Transportation  in  New  England  for  a  Century. 
By  Charles  E.  Mann.  White  Mountain  Echo,  Bethlehem, 
July  31,  1909. 

Waterworks  owned  by  a  Public  Library.  (One  of  H.  H. 
Rogers  benefactions  at  Fairhaven,  Massachusetts.)  By  Sylvester 
Baxter.      Review  of  Reviews. 

Wesley's  Overlooked  Grandfather.  The  story  of  Rev.  John 
White,  the  Partriarch  of  Dorchester,  England,  and  Assessor  of 
Westminister  Assembly.  By  Charles  E.  Mann.  New  York 
Christian  Advocate. 

Western  World  in  Conference,  the.  (Several  articles  on 
Rio  Janeiro,  Buenos  Aires,  and  other  .South  American  subjects 
in  several  numbers,  beginning  in  September.)  By  .Sylvester 
Baxter.      The  Outlook.      1906-07. 

Weymouth,  Ancient  and  Modern.  By  Georgfc  Walter 
Chamberlain.      New  England  Magazine,  August,  1906. 

Wheeling  among  the  Aztecs.  By  Sylvester  Baxter. 
Outing.      1885. 

Why  Am  I  a  Methodist?  By  Rev.  James  Mudge,  D.  D. 
Article  in  "The  Coming  Age,"  reprinted  as  a  tract. 

Willard  and  Loveitt  Genealogies.  By  Charles  Burleigh, 
M.  D.      (MSS.  in  library  of  Maine  Genealogical  Society.) 

William  Berry  of  New  England.  By  George  Walter 
Chamberlain.     Magazine  of  History,  z^.,  92,  1907. 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  II3 

VVingaersheek  or  Wynoard's  Iloeck?  Indian  or  Dutcli? 
A  study  of  the  early  name  of  Cape  Ann.  By  Charles  E.  Mann. 
Gloucester  Times,  August,  19 10. 

VVinthrop     Murray    Crane.      Biographical,    with     portrait. 
The  first  extended  sketch  of  the  present  United   States   Senator 
By  Charles   E.  Mann.      Simultaneously   publislaed  in  the  Mass- 
achusetts press,  1S94. 

With  Ruskin  in  Cloudland.      A  paper  for  the  Forty  Whims 
of    Maiden.      By  Charles    E.   Mann       White    Mountain    Echo 
Bethleham,  October  i,  1910. 

Wool  and  Cotton  Reporter.  Frank  P.  Bennett,  publisher, 
Boston. 

Woolson-Fenno  Ancestry,  144  pp.  Edited  by  George 
Walter  Chamberlain,  1907. 

Worldly  Amusements.  Rev.  James  Aludge,  D.D.  Article 
in  *"  The  Impending  Peril." 

York  County,  Maine,  Marriage  Returns,  177 1-1794.  By 
George  Walter  Chamberlain,  1909. 

Computing  the  Radii  of  Achromatic  Lenses  By  Charles 
L    Woodside.      In  Scientific  American. 

On  Computing  Occultation  of  Stars  by  a  Short  Method. 
By  Charles  L.  Woodside.  In  Scientific  American  and  in  the 
English  Mechanic. 

Music,  published  in  different  magazines  By  Charles  L. 
Woodside. 


Jhe  j^egister 

of  the 

Maiden  J^istorical  Society 

Maiden  Itiassachusetts 

Ifumher  %f\i90 


THE  REGISTER 


OF   THE 


lalclGR  Historical  Society 


MALDCN,  MASSAcnuserrs 


NUiMBCR  2 


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Edited  Dy  the  ConAinirrcc  o\\  PuDlicallon 


CONVEPSE  MEMOPIAL 


LYNN,    MASS. 

FRANK   S.   WHITTEN,   PRINTER 

1912 


TABLE   OF   CONTENTS. 


Page 

EHsha  Slade  Converse  (With  portrait)       ......  5 

An  Historical  Reception  (Three  illustrations) " 

Sam  Walter  Foss  as  I  Knew  Him,  an  address,  by  the  Prestdefit        .  22 

Maiden's  Old  Meetinghouses  (Illustrated)  Walter  Kendall  Watktns,  33 

Some  Notable  Women  in  the  Annals  of  Maiden  Mary  La-wrence 

Mann    .....•••••••  54 

Inscriptions  from  the  Bell  Rock  Cemetery,  Deloraine  Pendre  Corey,  63 

Maiden  Historical  Society,  officers  and  committees  ....  74 

By-Laws  of  the  Society 7° 

Members  of  the  Society •         •         •  79 

Necrologies,  Adelaide  Pamela  Bailey,  Benjamin  Marvin  Fernald, 
Joshua  Francis  Lewis,  John  Henry  Parker,  William  Schofield, 
James    B.    Siner,    Henry    Edward    Turner,    Clarence    Orville 

Walker,  (Three  portraits) S6 

Papers  delivered  before  the  Maiden  Historical  Society,  1880-1912, 

George  Walter  Chamberlain        .......  102 


I 


ELISHA   SLADE   CONVERSE. 

First  President  of  the  Maiden  Historical  Society. 


At  some  future  date,  a  skilled  historian  will  write  the 
story — both  history  and  tradition  —  of  the  Middlesex  Fells. 
The  material  is  already  assembling  in  various  ways.  To 
the  average  visitor  the  Fells  to-day  speak  only  of  the 
departing  glory  of  a  primeval  forest ;  of  attractive  drives 
and  fascinating  by-paths  ;  of  the  music  of  carolling  birds  ; 
of  vistas  of  shady  road  and  wide  prospects  from  sightly 
hilltops ;  of  beauty  still  in  the  making.  The  casual 
traveller  seeks  the  formerly  pine-shaded  Ravine  road,  sees 
the  partly  devastated  Virginia  Woods,  perhaps  is  told  the 
story  of  how  they  and  the  Fells  were  preserved  for  future 
generations  to  enjoy  because  of  the  public  wrath  provoked 
by  the  mistaken  policy  that  stripped  the  landscape  of  most 
of  its  growth  of  trees  and  made  of  it  a  wilderness,  and 
wanders  to  the  point  where  the  ancient  dam  and  still 
picturesque  cascades  mark  the  site  of  the  Old  Red  Mills, 
and  easily  votes  this  region  the  most  attractive  in  the  Fells. 
But  not  one  in  a  thousand  of  these  visitors  will  know  that 
here  in  the  Virginia  Woods,  by  his  management  of  the  old 
Red  Mills,  Elisha  Slade  Converse,  millionaire  and  philan- 
thropist, the  benefactor  of  Old  Maiden  in  so  many  ways 
—  religious,  social,  educational  and  humanitarian — laid 
the  foundation  of  the  fortune  which  was  to  be  used  so 
wisely  and  graciously  for  the  benefit  of  his  fellows. 

Mr.  Converse  was  the  first  president  of  the  Maiden 
Historical  Society,  and  it  is  fitting  that  the  Register 
should  signalize  the  action  of  the  trustees  of  the  Maiden 


6  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

Public  Library  (so  magnificently  housed  and  enriched  by 
the  generosity  of  Elisha  Slade  and  Mary  Diana  Converse) 
in  offering  the  Society  a  home  in  the  library  building  by 
presenting  a  biographical  sketch  and  portrait  of  Maiden's 
first  Mayor  and,  so  long  as  he  lived,  her  first  citizen. 

On  the  eightieth  anniversary  of  Deacon  Converse's 
birth,  July  28,  1900,  the  Boston  Herald^  in  a  lengthy 
article  said : 

"Entering  the  city  of  Maiden  in  any  direction,  the 
visitor  at  once  meets  with  the  public  benefactions  of  Hon. 
Elisha  S.  Converse.  From  the  west,  and  just  over  the 
Medford  line,  tower  the  Maiden  Hospital  buildings,  largely 
the  growth  of  his  labor  and  his  gifts.  From  the  north,  and 
before  quite  leaving  Melrose,  one  is  attracted  to  the  '  Pine 
Banks  Park'  with  its  hundred  acres  of  shady  groves, 
beautiful  drives,  walks  and  useful  buildings,  all  free  to 
the  general  public.  [After  Deacon  Converse's  death,  his 
children  gave  this  lovely  park  to  the  cities  of  Maiden  artd 
Melrose,  thus  making  it  a  perpetual  public  domain.] 
From  the  east,  the  magnificent  'Memorial  Public  Library 
Building,'  with  a  capacity  to  house  150,000  volumes, 
greets  the  eye  of  the  student  and  the  scholar,  which,  with 
much  that  is  within,  is  the  gift  or  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Converse. 
A  few  rods  beyond,  the  stranger  is  informed  that  a  grand 
cathedral  which  he  sees  is  the  Third  Baptist  Church  edifice 
that  the  good  '  deacon '  helped  to  build  for  his  brethren  and 
the  Lord,  he  always  paying  more  than  half  the  cost. 
Further  on  the  splendid  home  of  the  Young  Men's  Chris- 
tian Association  meets  the  eye,  and  still  further,  that  for 
aged  people  is  seen.  Half  or  more  is  to  be  passed  up  to 
the  credit  of  the  same  generous  public  benefactor.  Indeed 
his  monuments  are  all  around." 

The  writer  failed  to  speak  of  the  home  of  the  Day 
Nursery,  not  far  from  the  Library  building,  adjoining 
which  is  a  later  substantial  building,  erected  by  one  of  the 
deacon's  children  as  an  administration  building  and  a  home 
for  the  Associated  Charities  and  the  Maiden  Industrial  Aid 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  7 

Society.  The  article  was  written  before  the  magnificent 
Maiden  Auditorium  had  replaced  the  "Wigwam"  built 
upon  the  same  site  for  use  at  the  two  hundred  and  fiftieth 
anniversary  of  the  incorporation  of  Maiden,  an  event 
which  gave  the  citizens  many  opportunities  to  honor 
Deacon  Converse.  This  auditorium  building,  with  its 
great  assembly  hall  and  its  many  reception  and  banquet 
halls,  gives  the  citizens  facilities  that  are  enjoyed  by  few 
suburban  communities.  And  few  have  attempted  to  esti- 
mate the  benefactions  of  the  good  deacon  outside  of 
Maiden,  conspicuous  among  them  being  the  great  Tremont 
Temple  in  Boston,  with  its  glorious  organ,  his  gift,  in 
Converse  Hall,  while  the  whole  building  is  a  monument  to 
the  memory  of  his  brother.  Deacon  James  Wheaton  Con- 
verse, as  well  as  to  the  subject  of  this  sketch. 

Generosity  and  public  spirit  are  peculiarly  marked 
traits  in  the  Converse  family.  Deacon  Elisha  Slade  Con- 
verse was  a  third  cousin  to  John  Heman  Converse,  so  long 
head  of  the  Baldwin  Locomotive  works  in  Philadelphia, 
donor  of  Converse  Hall  of  the  University  of  Vermont,  of 
the  fine  administration  building  of  the  Presbyterian 
Hospital  of  Philadelphia,  of  buildings  of  the  University  of 
Pennsylvania,  his  alma  mate?',  and  who  did  so  much  to 
beautify  Fairmount  Park,  as  president  of  the  Fairmount 
Park  Art  Association.  His  wealth  for  years  made  possible 
the  wide  evangelistic  work  of  Dr.  J.  Wilbur  Chapman 
and  Charles  M.  Alexander. 

The  beginning  of  the  Converse  family  activities  in 
New  England  were  coincident  with  the  Great  Emigration. 
Deacon  Edward  Converse,  with  his  wife  and  three  children 
was  in  the  Arbella  with  Winthrop.  In  October,  1630,  he 
recorded  his  desire  to  be  made  a  freeman,  and  he  took  the 
oath  May  18,  163 1.     To  him  belongs  the  honor  of  initia- 


8  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

ting  the  great  system  of  public  transportation  which  now 
gridirons  New  England  and  extends  by  land  and  water 
over  two  hemispheres,  for  in  November,  1630,  within  six 
months  of  the  settlement  of  Charlestown  and  less  than  two 
months  of  the  settlement  of  Boston,  he  established  a  ferry 
between  the  two  towns.  In  1640  he  became  one  of  the 
original  settlers  of  Woburn,  building  the  first  house  in  the 
town,  in  what  is  now  Winchester — another  town  which 
has  benefitted  by  the  generosity  of  Deacon  Elisha  Slade 
Converse  —  established  the  first  corn-mill,  was  made  one  of 
the  first  selectmen  and  was  one  of  the  first  two  deacons 
of  the  Woburn  church.  Edward  Converse  was  a  direct 
descendant  of  Roger  de  Coigneries,  a  trusted  chieftain  of 
William  the  Conqueror. 

The  line  from  Deacon  Edward^  to  Deacon  Elisha  Slade 
Converse  is  Sergeant  Samuel^,  Samuel^,  Ensign  Edward*, 
Jonathan^,  Deacon  Jonathan^,  Elisha",  Elisha  Slade^. 
Deacon  Jonathan  was  a  soldier  in  the  Revolutionary  War. 
Ensign  Edward  Converse  for  3'ears  kept  the  ''Converse 
Tavern "  in  Thompson  Parish,  Killingly,  Connecticut. 
Elisha  Converse  also  kept  the  tavern  for  a  long  time.  He 
married  Betsey  Wheaton  of  Thompson,  a  descendant  of 
Robert  Wheaton,  who  came  to  this  country  in  1632. 
Elisha  Slade  Converse  was  born  in  Needham,  July  28, 
1820.  When  he  was  four  years  old  his  parents  moved  to 
Connecticut,  and  until  he  was  thirteen  years  old  he  lived 
on  a  farm  in  Woodstock.  He  then  went  to  Boston  to  live 
with  his  older  brother,  James,  already  referred  to,  and  for 
three  years  attended  the  McLean  grammar  school.  He 
then  returned  to  his  father's  farm  for  a  year,  and  at  the 
age  of  seventeen  went  to  Thompson,  to  learn  the  clothing 
trade  with  Albert  A.  Whipple.  Within  two  years  the 
apprentice   had    become   a   partner  in  the   concern,    later 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  9 

buying  out  Mr.  Whipple's  interest.  In  1844  ^^  came  to 
Boston,  on  his  brother's  advice,  forming  a  partnership  with 
Benjamin  Poland  in  the  wholesale  boot,  shoe  and  leather 
business  on  North  Market  street.  The  firm  soon  purchased 
the  Red  Mills  in  Stoneham,  and  began  grinding  drugs, 
spice  and  dye-stuffs.  He  had  previously,  September  4, 
1843,  married  Mary  Diana,  daughter  of  Hosea  and  Ursula 
(Burgess)  Edmands  of  Thompson,  a  descendant  in  the 
seventh  generation  from  William  Edmands,  who  settled  in 
Lynn  in  1630.  They  established  their  home  in  the  Stone- 
ham  forest,  near  the  mill,  rather  a  lonely  location,  from 
which  they  removed  in  three  years  to  Maiden.  In  1849 
his  tirm  dissolved  partnership  and  he  joined  with  John 
Robson  in  business  under  the  name  of  Converse  &  Robson. 
Meanwhile  the  Edgeworth  Rubber  Company  had  been 
formed,  a  concern  which  proved  unsuccessful,  and  in  1853 
it  was  succeeded  by  the  Maiden  Manufacturing  Co.,  Mr. 
Converse  being  elected  its  treasurer.  Thus  began  his  suc- 
cessful career  as  a  rubber  shoe  manufacturer.  In  1855  the 
concern  was  incorporated  as  the  Boston  Rubber  Shoe  Co. 
During  his  management  the  business  increased  from  an 
output  of  from  three  to  six  hundred  pairs  of  boots  and 
shoes  per  day  to  about  50,000  pairs  per  day. 

From  his  coming  to  Maiden,  as  his  lifelong  friend 
Deloraine  Pendre  Corey  pointed  out  in  a  biographical 
sketch  in  1899,  Mr.  Converse  was  "the  head  and  front  of 
all  movements  for  her  welfare,  and  his  liberal  gifts  made 
his  name  a  household  word  within  her  borders.  He  was 
largely  instrumental  in  securing  the  incorporation  of  the  city, 
and  was  elected  its  first  mayor  by  a  practically  unanimous 
vote.  In  1878  and  1879  ^^^  represented  his  district  in  the 
Massachusetts  House  of  Representatives,  and  in  1880  and 
1881  in  the  Senate."     The  Library  building,  made  after 


10  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

plans  by  the  late  H.  H.  Richardson,  was  the  joint  gift  of 
Deacon  and  Mrs.  Converse,  and  was  a  memorial  to  their 
oldest  son,  Frank  Eugene  Converse,  whose  death,  Mr. 
Corey  says,  "was  one  of  the  tragic  pages  in  Maiden's 
history."  The  dedication  was  a  notable  event,  among  the 
speakers  being  Governors  Long  and  Robinson.* 

Among  other  benefactions  of  Deacon  Converse  were 
gifts  to  the  Consumptives  Home  in  Boston  and  to  Wellesley 
College,  of  which  he  was  a  trustee.  Beside  his  business 
directorships,  among  them  being  the  Maiden  National 
Bank,  of  which  he  was  president  from  1856,  the  National 
Exchange  Bank  and  the  Boston  Five  Cents  Saving  Bank, 
he  was  long  a  trustee  of  the  Soldiers'  Home  and  president 
of  the  Maiden  Hospital  Corporation.  He  was  a  life-long 
Baptist,  and  for  most  of  his  active  life  a  deacon  in  the 
First  Baptist  Church. 

Deacon  Converse  died  June  5,  1904,  Mrs.  Converse 
having  died  December  16,  1903.  They  left  three  children 
to  honor  their  memory  and  conserve  their  benefactions  — 
Mary  Ida  (Mrs.  Costello  C.  Converse),  Col."  Harry  E., 
and  Frances  Eugenie  (Mrs.  Lester  Leland).  Of  Deacon 
Converse's  personality  it  is  almost  unnecessary  to  speak. 
His  good  and  beneficent  life  and  works  speak  for  them- 
selves, and  their  memory  is  embalmed  in  the  hearts  of 
those  who  knew  him  best  and  loved  him  most.  Many  of 
his  most  characteristic  deeds  of  kindness  were  of  the  sort 
that  never  were  meant  to  be  publicly  proclaimed,  and  only 
reached  general  knowledge  because  the  beneficiaries  could 
not  be  persuaded  to  let  such  kindness  go  without  credit, 
while  some  of  them  were  the  kind  of  acts  that  bring  tears 
to  the  eyes  on  their  relation.  Countless  generations  will 
honor  the  memory  of  this  good  man. 

*On  June  19,  1912,  the  trustees  presented  a  fine  bronze  tablet  to  the  library,  in  memory 
of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Converse. 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  II 


AN    HISTORICAL    RECEPTION. 


An  event  occurred  on  Saturday  afternoon,  January  28, 
19 II,  so  unique  in  the  annals  of  the  Maiden  Historical 
Society  as  to  deserve  a  permanent  record  in  the  pages  of 
the  Register.  At  that  time  the  members  of  the  society 
were  entertained  by  a  reception  and  afternoon  tea,  given  by 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  William  George  Arthur  Turner,  at  their 
spacious  home  on  Ridgewood  road.  Maiden.  For  three 
hours  the  members  and  invited  guests  enjoyed  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Turner's  hospitalities,  going  from  room  to  room  and 
from  floor  to  floor,  finding  new  beauties  without  and  fresh 
attractions  within  wherever  they  wandered.  So  sightly  is 
the  location  of  the  house  that  the  vision  is  practically  un- 
interrupted, whether  one  views  the  horizon  at  the  entrance 
of  Boston  Harbor,  with  the  Graves  light  flashing  at  night, 
to  the  Middlesex  hills  on  the  upper  Charles,  the  Blue  Hills 
of  Milton  filling  the  middle  distance  by  day  and  the 
numberless  lights  of  the  cities  of  the  metropolitan  district 
twinkling  like  torches  at  night.  But  the  historic  flavor  of 
the  recepdon  was  the  main  attraction  and  every  room  in  the 
house  contributed  its  fascinating  share  to  make  the  occasion 
memorable. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Turner,  with  her  sister.  Miss  Agnes 
Howard  Dawes,  assisted  by  Misses  Dorothea  Lawrence 
Mann  and  Mildred  Swett  and  Messrs.  Paul  Dawes  Turner 
and  Richard  Greenleaf  Turner,  greeted  the  guests  upon 
their  arrival  the  cordial  welcome  banishing  all  restraint,  and 
soon  the  members  were  talking  over  rare  books  and  pictures. 


12  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

ancient  china  and  coins,  Paul  Revere  spoons  or  other  ancient 
silverware,  viewing  priceless  products  of  the  loom,  rare 
pieces  of  furniture,  famous  clocks  or  autographs.  In  the 
picturesque  billiard  room  on  the  upper  floor  Mr.  Fred  J. 
Libbie  gave  the  guests  the  benefit  of  his  expert  knowledge 
of  antique  values,  whether  of  old  blue  china,  pictures  or 
autographs.  Here  were  shown  a  collection  of  photographs 
of  old  Maiden,  another  of  programmes  of  many  important 
Maiden  events,  another  of  continental  bills  and  notes.  Mrs. 
Turner  is  a  descendant  of  two  men  famous  in  the  colonial 
and  revolutionary  history  of  Boston  and  vicinity — Col. 
Thomas  Dawes,  the  architect,  irreverently  dubbed  by  the 
British  soldiery  "Johnny  Smoothing-Plane,"  who  was  one 
of  the  commission,  with  Charles  Bulfinch  and  Edward  H. 
Robbins,  that  built  the  Massachusetts  State  House  ;  and 
Judge  Richard  Cranch,  of  the  Court  of  Common  Pleas, 
who  married  Mary,  daughter  of  Rev.  William  Smith  of 
Weymouth,  and  sister  of  Abigail  (Smith)  Adams,  the  first 
mistress  of  the  White  House  and  the  only  woman  who  has 
been  both  wife  and  mother  of  a  President  of  the  United 
States.  The  Turner  family  must  have  the  largest  collection 
in  existence  of  Continental  bills  and  other  Massachusetts 
evidences  of  indebtedness,  each  specimen  bearing  the 
autographs  of  both  of  these  men — Thomas  Dawes  and 
Richard  Cranch — who  were  often  associated  in  the  difiicult 
work  of  financing  the  new  commonwealth. 

When  the  guests  entered  the  dining  room  their  pleasure 
in  the  bountiful  entertainment  there  given  was  enhanced  by 
the  fact  that  the  lunch  was  served  from  a  table  long  in  the 
famous  dining  room  of  the  old  Hancock  house  in  Boston. 
Around  this  table,  the  first  signer  of  the  Declaration  of 
Independence  and  his  amiable  wife,  Dorothy  Qiiincy 
Hancock    (a  -descendant,   as    is    Mrs.    Turner,   of    Judge 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  1 3 

Edmund  Quincy)  may  often  have  entertained  their  aristo- 
cratic friends  at  functions  which  the  old  diarists  like  Samuel 
Breck  have  made  famous. 

Mrs.  Turner  has  a  collection  of  hundreds  of  letters  and 
other  manuscripts  in  the  handwriting  of  Abigail  Adams. 
Most  of  them  are  letters  written  to  Mrs.  Cranch,  her  sister, 
from  Philadelphia  and  Washington,  during  John  Adams' 
presidency  and  his  prior  service  in  the  Continental  Con- 
gress, or  from  England,  when  he  was  serving  his  country- 
men there.  Included  in  the  collection  is  the  journal  of 
Mrs.  Adams'  voyage  to  England  with  her  husband.  A 
few  of  these  letters  appear  in  the  two  volume  edition  of  the 
letters  of  Mrs.  Adams,  edited  by  her  grandson,  the  first 
Charles  Francis  Adams,  but  most  of  them  have  never  been 
published  nor  have  they  been  seen  by  any  of  the  living 
members  of  the  Adams  family.  Mrs.  Adams,  with  her 
clerical  father  as  her  chief  tutor,  developed  the  most 
remarkable  literary  ability  of  any  American  woman  of  her 
generation.  We  are  permitted  to  reproduce  from  the 
Turner  collection  one  of  her  letters,  written  to  Mrs. 
Cranch  from  Philadelphia  during  the  earlier  part  of  her 
husband's  administration,  and  of  great  historic  interest,  as 
being  one  of  the  earliest  records  of  a  celebration  of  Wash- 
ington's birthday  : 

Philadelphia,  Feb.  28,  1798. 
My  dear  Sister  : 

I  have  this  moment  received  your  kind  letter  of  Feb. 
18,  prevented  by  bad  roads  from  reaching  sooner,  and  I 
have  got  now  to  be  as  anxious  and  as  solicitous  for  the 
arrival  of  the  eastern  post  as  I  used  to  be  at  Quincy  for  the 
arrival  of  the  southern.  I  thank  you  for  all  your  com- 
munications. I  saw  the  Centinal  last  Saturday  and  thought 
I  knew  my  own  letter,  but  did  not  know  whether  it  was'^an 
extract  from  one  to  you  or  to  Mr.  Smith  [her  son-in-law], 
to  whom  I  sometimes  scribble. 


14  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

In  my  last  I  believe  I  gave  you  some  account  of  the 
intended  birthnight  ball,  and  the  President's  reply,  which 
on  the  morning  of  the  day  appeared  in  Bache's  paper 
[Bache  was  Benjamin  Franklin's  son-in-law],  to  my  no 
small  surprise,  though  I  cannot  say  I  was  sorry  to  see  it. 
It  was,  however,  accompanied  by  insolence  and  abuse  and 
fully  shows  the  temper  of  even  those  who  were  the  managers 
of  the  birthnight  ball ;  not  of  the  President  of  the  United 
States,  but  of  a  private  citizen.  The  publication  had, 
however,  a  direct  contrary  effect  to  what  was  intended ;  it 
threw  a  gloom  and  damp  upon  the  whole  proceeding, 
everyone  was  inquiring  the  why  and  the  wherefore.  Many 
who  had  subscribed  upon  the  faith  that  the  President  was 
going  refused  afterward  to  attend,  amongst  them,  in  justice 
to  him  I  must  say,  was  the  Vice-President  [Jefferson],  who 
declared  himself  shocked  with  the  impropriety  of  the  thing 
when  he  first  heard  of  the  proposal,  but  was  led  to  lend  his 
name  because  he  would  not  give  offense.  This  is  certain, 
he  did  not  go,  and  I  have  my  information  so  direct  that  I 
know  what  his  opinion  was ;  yet  these  very  persons  who 
set  the  matter  on  foot  are  now  endeavoring  to  make  it 
believed  that  he  was  the  first  mover,  in  order  to  give  offense 

to  the  President.     Give  the  D 1   his  due,  but  lay  no 

more  than  he  deserves  to  his  charge.  I  have  been  informed 
that  of  the  150  who  subscribed  15  only  were  present  of 
ladies,  and  they  have  been  so  mortified  that  not  a  wori 
has  been  published  in  their  newspapers  respecting  it.  I 
hope  in  time  they  will  learn  to  appreciate  themselves  as  a 
nation ;  they  have  had  and  now  have  a  head  who  will  not 
knowingly  prostrate  their  dignity  and  character,  neither  to 
foreign  nations  nor  the  American  people. 

My  dear  sister,  your  son  [The  Hon.  William  Cranch, 
later  of  the  Supreme  Court  at  Washington] ,  has  been  with 
with  us  ever  since  he  came,  which  is  a  week  to-morrow. 
Next  to  my  own  children  I  love  those  of  my  sister.  He  is 
very  well,  and  says  Mrs.  Cranch  and  children  are  so ;  but 
he  will  write  you  himself.  Tell  Mrs.  Black  I  shall  see  the 
baby  tomorrow.  I  had  a  bonnet  made  for  it,  which  I  gave 
it  a  fortnight  ago.     I  think  it  wants  a  dimity  cloak,  which 


MALDEN    HISTORICAI.    SOCIETY  I5 

I  will  get  for  it.     I  will  write  her  the  result  of  my  con- 
ference with  the  nurse. 

I  shall  take  cousin  Betsey  in  hand  shortly.  At 
present  I  fear  the  post  will  go  without  my  letter  if  I  do 
not  immediately  close,  after  presenting  my  kind  regards  to 
all  friends,  from 

Your  ever  affectionate  sister, 

(Signed)     A.  ADAMS. 

At  the  time  Richard  Cranch  married  Mary  Smith, 
her  father.  Rev.  William  Smith,  celebrated  the  event  by 
preaching  to  his  Weymouth  congregation  on  the  text 
"Mary  hath  chosen  that  good  part,  which  shall  not  be 
taken  away  from  her."  Judge  Cranch  could  not  at  that 
time  have  been  a  lawyer,  for  when  Abigail  Smith  chose 
John  Adams,  a  young  lawyer  of  Braintree,  for  a  husband, 
Weymouth  people  had  their  doubts  of  the  wisdom  of  the 
union.  On  the  Sabbath  following  her  marriage  her  father 
chose  a  different  text:  "And  John  came  neither  eating 
bread  nor  drinking  wine,  and  ye  say  he  hath  a  devil."  In 
the  Turner  library  is  a  small  worn  volume,  "  English  and 
L<atin  Exercises,"  by  N.  Bayley,  schoolmaster,  published 
by  James  Holland  at  the  Bible  and  Bell  in  St.  Paul's 
Churchyard,  17 17.  Scribbled  over  the  fly  leaf  are  the 
scrolls  and  detached  comments  of  a  boy  who  signed  himself 
"Guielmus  Smith,  Sept.  1719,"  while  on  another  Jeaf,  and 
in  another  hand,  is  the  name,  "William  Smith"  and  the 
date  "1758."  The  old  Weymouth  parsonage,  famous  not 
only  as  the  birthplace  of  Mary  and  Abigail  Smith,  but  of 
the  famous  essayist,  William  Haslett,  is  still  standing. 

In  the  Turner  library  is  also  a  three-volume  edition  of 
the  works  of  Francis  Hopkinson,  the  Philadelphia  jurist, 
author  of  the  "Battle  of  the  Kegs"  and  a  song  containing 


l6  MAI.DEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

a  line  "And  ne'er  shall  the  sons  of  Columbia  be  slaves" 
which  was  sung  to  the  air  which  this  generation  knows  as 
"The  Star  Spangled  Banner."  These  bear  on  each  title- 
page  the  autograph  of  John  Adams,  and  the  fact  that  they 
were  purchased  in  Philadelphia  in  1799,  price  $5.00. 

One  of  the  attractive  places  for  the  guests  was  the 
living  room,  where  the  most  interesting  of  Mr.  Turner's 
fine  collection  of  clocks,  from  the  parsonage  of  Parson 
Willis,  who  preached  in  the  South  Parish  of  Maiden  a 
century  ago,  stands.  It  is  a  hall  clock,  the  case  in  as 
perfect  a  state  of  preservation,  with  every  joint  intact,  and 
the  doors  fitting  as  closely  as  on  the  day  that  Simon 
Willard,  America's  most  famous  clock-maker,  put  in  the 
works,  set  the  great  pendulum  swinging,  and  pasted  on  the 
inside  of  the  door  his  circular  of  directions  for  setting  the 
clock  in  motion,  printed  by  the  famous  publisher  of  the 
"Old  Farmer's  Almanack,"  and  furnishing  evidence 
additional  to  that  of  the  dial  as  to  the  maker  of  the  clock. 
The  circular  reads  as  follows  : 

CLOCK   MANUFACTORY. 

Simon  Willard. 

At  his  Clock  Dial,  in  Roxbury  street,  Manufactures 
every  kind  clock  work,  such  as  large  clocks  for  steeples, 
made  in  the  best  manner  and  warranted,  prices  with  one 
dial  500  dollars  ;  with  two  dials  600  dollars  ;  with  three 
dials  700  dollars  ;  with  four  dials  900  dollars.  Common 
eight  day  clocks,  with  very  elegant  faces  and  mahogany 
cases,  price  from  50  to  60  dollars. 

t 

Elegant  eight  day  time  pieces,  price  30  dollars. 
Spring  clocks  of  all  kinds,  price  from  50  to  60  dollars  ; 
clocks  that  will  run  one  year  with  once  winding  up,  with 
very  elegant   case    price    100    dollars.     Time    pieces    for 


THE  OLD  PARSONAGE  CLOCK. 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  1 7 

astronomical  purposes,  price  70  dollars.  Time  pieces  for 
meeting-houses,  to  place  before  the  gallery,  with  neat 
enameled  dials,  price  55  dollars. 

Chime  clocks  that  will  play  6  tunes,  price  120  dollars. 

Perambulators  are  also  made  at  said  place,  which  can 
be  affixed  to  any  kind  of  wheel  carriage,  and  will  tell  the 
miles  and  rods  exact,  price  15  dollars. 

Gentlemen  who  wish  to  purchase  any  kind  of  clocks 
are  invited  to  call  at  said  Willard's  Clock  Manufactory, 
where  they  will  receive  satisfactory  evidence  that  it  is 
much  cheaper  to  purchase  new  than  old  and  second  hand 
clocks.  He  warrants  all  his  work,  and  as  he  is  ambitious 
to  give  satisfaction  he  doubts  not  of  receiving  the  public 
approbation  and  patronage. 

Directions  to  Set  Clocks  in  Motion, 

First,  place  the  clock  perpendicular,  then  fasten  it 
with  a  screw,  pull  out  the  nails  which  fastens  the  pendu- 
lum and  pulleys,  then  hang  on  the  weights,  the  heavier  on 
the  striking  part. 

You  need  not  wind  up  any  until  the  clock  is  run  down. 

You  may  set  the  clock  to  the  right  hour  by  moving  the 
minute  hand  forwards  or  backwards. 

The  month  and  moon  wheel  is  fixed  right  by  moving 
them  with  your  fingers. 

Screw  the  pendulum  ball  up  to  make  the  clock  go 
faster,  and  down  to  go  slower. 

Printed  by  I.  Thomas,  Jun.,  Worcester. 


l8  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

Rev.  Eliakim  Willis  was  a  native  of  that  part  of  the 
town  of  Dartmouth  now  known  as  New  Bedford,  and  be- 
came pastor  of  the  South  Parish  of  Maiden,  now  included 
in  the  bounds  of  Everett,  in  1752.  He  was  a  classmate  at 
Harvard  of  Rev.  Aaron  Cleveland,  the  ancestor  of  President 
Cleveland  and  his  predecessor  in  this  pastorate.  He 
remained  pastor  of  this  church  until  it  was  consolidated 
with  the  First  Parish  and  then  became  pastor  of  the  united 
churches,  his  flock  comprising  the  inhabitants  of  what  is 
now  Maiden,  Everett  and  Melrose  and  the  Greenwood 
section  of  Wakefield.  The  cottage  house,  which  was  his 
home,  and  was  long  the  repository  of  the  old  hall  clock, 
has  been  for  a  century  a  landmark  in  Everett.  This  house, 
with  most  of  the  South  Parish,  was  within  military  lines 
during  the  investment  of  Boston  and  as  a  result  most  of 
Mr.  Willis'  parishioners  moved  to  the  vicinity  of  Black 
Ann's  Corner,  or  to  North  Maiden.  Mr.  Willis  was  both 
a  useful  and  a  patient  man,  often  being  compelled  to 
relinquish  his  salary,  and  trust  to  the  voluntary  offering  of 
his  waning  congregation  for  his  support. 

A  fact  that  makes  the  old  parsonage  clock  more 
interesting  than  it  might  otherwise  be,  is  that  it  ticked  off 
much  of  the  lifetime  of  Lieut.  Col.  John  Popkin,  who  spent 
his  early  days  in  Boston,  served  throughout  the  Revolution- 
ary War  in  the  artillery  branch  of  the  Colonial  forces,  and 
who  married  as  his  second  wife  Sarah,  widow  of  the  Rev. 
Nahum  Sargeant,  daughter  of  Ebenezer  Willis  of  Reading, 
Vermont,  and  neice  of  the  Rev.  Eliakim  Willis,  October 
12,  1797,  and  lived  in  the  old  parsonage,  which  had  been 
transferred  to  Mr.  Willis  by  the  parish,  the  rest  of  his 
days,  until  his  death  in  1827.  The  Widow  Sargeant  was 
noted  as  a  very  beautiful  woman,  and  tradition  has  it  that 
both  Col.  Popkin  and  his  son,  the  learned  Prof.  John  S. 


SIMON  WJLLAlir 


i'JL  L    liis    Clock     Dim.,     in  RoXBUR^: 

Srr..;r,  ■.-..^r.uha-^u-i  cn-y  kind  of  CI  OCK  U'OKK  ,  !«i::!  ::f  is-- 
Clf^!.^  I    ^  .Steeples,    111.*  ]',:  i.t  '.!:e  bell  i:[:i.iijtr.         '  ' 

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iV..:'     ;CZ  dJA.na;  ■,;i:h  har  d:;:h,  a^<>  doWin.' 

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-iil<  g.n;;  <-i;;li:  c^i:   >  .:  ,  ^  .e^.s,  j.iivc  50  t!u!!a)  j.-    in 
::!Un  30  ho:i:i,  3.-;^  ••.•.•.ir;.n;c-d,  price  :c '^-■i':v;.—Sj;T;: 
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i  ::;.i:  |<; ec-.T, fur  /.P.rCT.otr.u.!!  p   ip'jits,  yitiii:  ;. ... 

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.•  ;n  I;  ;.:::;.i;i  10  any  tint!  1.:  ,,        1 
a;'i'  !■■  ;-  ...;ir"f,  ;,.;ce  15  ilcjll.m. 


.  .1  J'-i.,f^t':iit  t(  is  .■!::n/i  ihcoper  to  li.,  -J'. if   ; 
CK-  .-  ik  u-nrraati  rM k:^  uc: k~^y  : 
d^ubli  :i<ii  ofreiT.v'.it^  the  public  ap^ . .. 


DlRECnONS  TO  SET  CLOCKS  l.\  ..iwiiu. 

Fj'ft  i-^accthe  Cltck  pcifcr-dlcubr,  Ij-.tn  iaficnit  ujilia  fcu«,  i.;:'.l  c-.:t  ihc 
fiJknihc  f.cr.Jii!(j:n  a:iJ  piiMcjs,  then  har!g,cnli;c  wt'!;;Iils,  tSchcivicIl  o:nliefi:ikii:c  -  ^- 

You  need  not  winJ  up  any  until  ilic  clock  is  nin  down. You  mvj  fci  t|:t  tlt.^ '    i 

ilic  r^Iu  hour,  by  moving  the  nnnmclijii'!  u-rwjjiJs  or  bicswitd; 'lite  Mi-nrls  , 

Moon  whtcl  infixed  niiht  by  moving;  thcinuitli  joi;rfj[i:,cr. Urnv  [I.e  i^n'-ili  :ii  1 

up  to  make  thccVck  ^o  Udcr,  arid  dt-n  togonui\cr. 


S/M()\   WILLARD'S  CLOCK  CIRCULAR. 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  I9 

Popkin  of  Harvard  University,  were  rivals  for  her  hand, 
the  old  warrior  winning  out  against  his  scholarly  son.  The 
romance  ended  in  a  bachelor  life  for  the  professor.  The 
latter  has  left  a  record  that  his  father,  who  was  an  inspector 
in  the  custom  house,  walked  back  and  forth  from  the 
manse  to  his  office  in  Boston  six  days  in  the  week  for  many 
years.  "  His  walk,  I  think,"  wrote  the  professor,  "would 
compass  the  globe  more  than  once."  Mr.  Turner  owns 
the  1 80 1  edition  of  a  hand-book  of  the  Society  of  the 
Cincinnati, bearing  Col.  Popkin's  autograph,  and  containing 
a  list  of  the  members  in  Massachusetts.  The  colonel  has 
marked  with  a  lead  pencil  check  the  names  of  those 
members  of  the  society,  including  his  own  name,  who  "are 
Irish  and  Irish-American." 

One  of  Mr.  Turner's  banjo  clocks  was  wound  by  its 
owner  daily  for  a  generation  before  he  discovered  it  to  be 
an  eight-day  clock.  In  the  same  room  with  the  Willis 
clock  was  a  small  but  exquisite  plaque,  painted  by  a 
Russian  peasant,  in  which  golden  sunlight  seems  to  stream 
through  a  window,  gilding  the  recumbent  figure  on  a  couch 
and  shining  in  the  folds  of  a  table  cover,  the  mysterious  art 
by  which  the  effect  was  gained  being  lost  forever.  The 
title  of  this  plaque  is  "John  the  Terrible,"  and  the  original, 
a  celebrated  painting,  is  in  Moscow.  On  the  end  of  the 
staff  of  the  man  in  the  picture  is  a  spear  or  spike,  which 
he  is  supposed  to  use  to  make  his  remarks  impressive. 

Two  perfect  specimens  of  the  famous  Boston  Fusileer 
pitchers  were  exhibited  in  the  library.  These  pitchers 
were  a  part  of  a  lot  of  one  hundred  made  over  one  hundred 
years  ago,  as  shown  by  the  sixteen  stars,  representing  the 
states  then  constituting  the  Union,  upon  them.  Each 
member  of  that  military  company  received  one,  and  as 
they  were  passed  down  from  generation  to  generation  they 


20  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

became  widely  scattered  or  destroyed.      Four  are  known 
to  be  in  existence,  one,  an  imperfect  specimen,  being  in 
the  Bostonian  Society's  collection,  and  Mr.  Turner  having 
these  two.     The    pitchers    are    ten    and    one-half   inches 
in  height,  and  have  a  capacity  of  three  quarts  each.     On 
one  side  is  a  representation  in  colors  of  a  soldier  in  the 
uniform  of  the  Boston  Fusileers  at  that  time,  bearing  the 
Massachusetts  state  flag.     This  is  within  an  oval,  with  a 
motto   at  the    top,   "Aut  vincere    aut   Mori,"  and   below, 
"Success  to  the  Independent  Boston  Fusileers,  Incorporated 
July  4,  1787.     America  forever,"  surmounted  by  Masonic 
emblems.     This  design  is  enameled  in  appropriate  colors. 
On  the  other  side  in  plain  print  within  an  oval  composed 
of  palm  and  laural  leaves,  with  sixteen  stars  surmounted 
by  the  American  Shield  and  Eagle,  are  seated  on  a  mound 
three  figures  representing  Liberty,  Justice  and  Peace.     At 
the  base  of   the  oval  enclosed  by  the  motto  "  United  We 
Stand,    Divided  We    Fall "   is    a   landscape   with    figures 
emblematic  of  Agriculture,  Trade  and  Commerce  in  the 
foreground,  and    in    the   distance    three   hills   or  mounts, 
perhaps  meaning  "Trimount."     On  the  base  of  the  nose  is 
a  leaf  in  red  enamel  with  veins  of  gold,  and  below  on  the 
body  of  the  pitcher  two  pinks  in  plain  print;  below  the 
handle  a  spray  of  lilies  in  plain  print. 

Mrs.  Turner  was  assisted  in  serving  tea  by  Mrs.  J. 
Parker  Swett,  Mrs.  Sylvester  Baxter  and  Mrs.  Charles  E. 
Mann  of  the  social  committee  of  the  society  and  by  Mrs. 
F.  J.  Libbie.* 

*There  has  since  the  reception  been  added  to  the  Turner  collection  a  fine  "  high-boy  " 
until  recently  the  property  of  the  late  Harriet  H.  Robinson  of  Maiden,  widow  of  William 
S,  Robinson,  better  ]<nown  as  "  Warrington  "  the  publicist.  Its  history  left  over  Mrs. 
Robinson's  signature,  is  as  follows  : 

"This  'High-Boy'  once  belonged  to  the  grandmother  of  Ralph  Waldo  Emerson, 
whose  maiden  name  was  Phoebe  Bliss.  Her  first  husband  was  the  Rev.  William 
Emerson;  and  one  of  their  five  children  was  Rev.  William  Emerson,  father  of  R.  W.  E. 


BOSTON  FUSILEER  I'lTCJlERS. 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  21 

(another  child  was  the  famous  Mary  Moody  Emerson).  The  "Old  Manse"  at  Concord, 
Mass.,  was  built  b}' her  first  husband,  who  died  in  1776  (Young).  About  17S0,  she  married 
the  Rev.  Ezra  Ripley,  a  young  minister,  and  they  lived  in  the  "Old  Manse,"  and  had 
three  children.  Mrs.  Ripley  died,  Feb.  16,  1S25.  Dr.  Ripley  died,  at  90  years  of  age,  in 
1841.  At  the  sale  of  the  household  efTects,  this  'High-Boy'  came  into  the  possession  of 
Martha  Cogswell  Robinson,  mother  of  William  S.  Robinson  —  no  doubt  purchased  by 
.  him,  for  her.  At  her  death,  in  1S56,  it  was  brought  to  our  house,  where  it  has  since 
remained.  W.  S.  R.,  died  in  1S76.  In  18S6,  it  was  given  by  his  wife,  H.  H.  R.,  to  their 
eldest  daughter,  Henrietta  Lucy  Robinson  Shattuck.  Its  age  is  uncertain.  The  first 
William  Emerson  w.is  first  cousin  to  Lieut.  Emerson  Cogswell,  grandfather  of  W.  S.  R. 
R.  W.  E.,  and  W.  S.  R.,  thus  had  a  common  ancestry.  Thomas  Emerson,  1641 ;  John 
Cogswell,  1635.'  " 

HARRIET   H.  ROBINSON. 
Malden,  Mass.,  April  13,  1904. 


22  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 


SAM   WALTER   FOSS   AS    1    KNEW  HIM. 

An  Address  delivered   at  the   Annual    Meeting  of  the  Maiden  Historical 
Society,  1911,  by  the  President. 


This  society  has  great  reason  to  remember  with  love 
and  gratitude  Sam  Walter  Foss,  poet,  philosopher  and 
friend  of  humanity,  who  as  head  of  the  Public  Library 
of  our  neighboring  city  of  Somerville,  has  brought  that  in- 
stitution to  the  place  where  it  stands  third  in  the  Common- 
wealth in  the  circulation  of  its  books.  Not  long  ago  he 
spoke  before  us  upon  the  invitation  and  as  the  guest  of 
our  revered  president,  the  late  Deloraine  P.  Corey.  They 
were  most  congenial  friends.  Your  present  President 
knew  him  intimately  at  the  beginning  of  his  literary 
career,  and  felt  it  a  privilege,  a  few  days  ago,  to  join  the 
multitude  of  sincere  mourners,  representing  not  only  the 
present  generation  of  writers  and  public  men,  but  the 
children  of  his  city,  who  felt  they  had  lost  a  loyal  friend, 
sorrowing  at  his  bier. 

In  the  summer  of  1883,  Sam  Walter  Foss,  just  gradu- 
ated from  Brown  University,  with  a  fellow-graduate, 
William  E.  Smythe,  who  has  in  the  last  decade  been 
prominent  in  political  and  conservation  work  on  the  Pacific 
coast,  started  out  to  make  their  fortunes,  or  at  least  a  living, 
as  book  agents.  Each  looked  forward  to  newspaper  work 
as  an  ultimate  field  of  usefulness.  Foss  had  worked  his 
way  through  the  New  Hampshire  Conference  Academy  at 
Tilton  and  through  Brown.  Meanwhile,  Mr.  Charles  E. 
Walker,  of  Lynn,  had  been  editing,  with  indifferent 
financial  success,  a  weekly  paper,  called  the  Lynn  Union. 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  23 

His  able  political  editorials  had  secured  him  a  position  in 
the  Boston  Custom  House,  and  he  was  looking  for  a 
customer  for  his  paper  when  the  ambitious  young  men 
became  tired  of  book  canvassing  and  heard  of  him.  The 
terms  of  purchase  were  easy  to  arrange  where  one  man 
was  anxious  to  sell  and  two  men  were  anxious  to  buy,  and 
so,  early  in  November,  an  enterprise  which  was  to  prove 
both  a  valuable  and  costly  experience  for  Foss,  was 
launched.  The  make-up  of  the  paper  was  completely 
changed,  and  it  appeared  under  the  name  of  the  Lynn 
Saturday  Union,  its  initial  issue  having  a  decidedly 
literary  tone,  although  its  editorial  columns  thundered  as 
of  old.  Smythe  wrote  the  editorials,  and,  although  he  was 
by  no  means  without  literary  ability,  the  literary  tone  was 
furnished  by  Foss.  Within  a  month  it  became  evident 
that  somebody  was  writing  on  the  paper  who  found  it  a 
vehicle  for  a  variety  of  expression.  A  quaint  old  person- 
age named  "Pogram"  delivered  himself  of  a  humorous 
philosophy  on  current  events.  A  vein  of  homely  humor 
pervaded  everything  excepting  a  column  headed  "  The 
Day-Dreamer"  which  was  to  the  paper  what  the  "Listener" 
has  often  been  in  the  Transcript,  excepting  perhaps  that 
it  was  more  reflective  and  didactic.  Then  poems  of 
exquisite  taste  were  dropped  in  here  and  there,  bearing  no 
signature.  Meanwhile,  a  definite  bid  was  made  for  special 
articles  of  local  interest. 

On  Forefathers'  Day  of  that  year  it  happened  that  the 
Thorndike  Local  Circle  of  the  Chautauqua  Literarv  and 
Scientific  Circle  gave  a  public  entertainment  in  the  Young 
Men's  Christian  Association  Hall  in  Lynn.  Your  speaker 
had  prepared  the  programme,  which  was  intended  to  show 
what  Lynn  authors  had  done  and  were  doing.  The  music 
was    all  by  L3'nn  composers.     Old  ''Waterhill,"  a  psalm 


24  MAI. DEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

tune    of    a    century  gone,   and  perhaps    the  first  piece  of 
published  music  by  a  Lynn  composer,  was  rendered ;  and 
there  was  music  from  the  pen  of  Charles  Frederic  Lummis, 
better  known  as  a  poet  and  traveller  in  these  days.     Your 
speaker  recalls  that  he  aided  the  surviving  members  of  the 
once  famous  Barker  family  in  rendering    his  old    friend 
Nathan  Barker's  plaintive    setting  of  "  Sweet  Alice,  Ben 
Bolt,"  while  another  old  friend,  John  Wallace  Hutchinson, 
whose  biographer  he  afterwards  became,  with  his  children, 
sang  "The  Old  Granite  Hills."     A  week  before  this  event, 
I  wandered  into  the  Saturday  Union  office,  and  asked  a 
stocky,  curly-headed  man  whom  I  found  in  the  editorial 
room,    to    insert    a    short    reading    notice    of   the    coming 
entertainment.     I  had  had  some  experience  as  a  printer  in 
the  composing  room  of  the  Lynn  Semi-  Weekly  Reforter^ 
edited  by  the  redoubtable    Peter  L.  Cox,  but  had  never 
written  an  item  for  a  newspaper  in  my  life,  and  had  long 
before  deserted  the  "art  preservative"  for  business.     The 
curly-headed  man  immediately  became  excited,  called  his 
partner,   and  they  united  in  a  request  that  I  give  them  a 
special  article  with  sketches  of  the  authors  of  Lynn,  for 
the  issue  in  which  my  notice  was  to  appear.     I  agreed  to 
see  what  I  could  do,  went  home  to  my  dinner,  and  wrote 
the  article,  which  was    heartily  commended  by  my  new 
curly-haired    acquaintance,  who  proved  to  be  Mr.   Foss, 
and  appeared  in  the  issue  of  December  15.     In  the  issue 
of  the  following  Saturday,  which  bore  a  four-page  moss- 
green  cover  with  a  broadside  of  local  poetry,  appeared  the 
first  poem  I  ever  put  in  print.     Two  weeks  later  saw  me 
the  announced  associate  editor  of  the  paper,  and  from  that 
time  on  until  I  left  it  for  a  salaried  position  in  another  city, 
I  wrote  for  it  incessantly.     One  of    Sam    Foss's  favorite 
remarks  when  I  was  in  range  of  his  bubbling  wit  in  recent 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  25 

years  was  that  I  once  worked  for  him,  and  that  the 
connection  was  far  more  to  my  advantage  than  his,  for 
while  I  worked  without  salary,  he  ran  into  debt. 

Of  course  I  immediately  became  intimate  with  both 
Sam  Foss  and  his  partner.  Each  was  cordial  in  praise  of 
the  work  I  did,  and  Mr.  Smythe  did  not  hesitate  to  pen  ful- 
some tributes  to  the  honor  of  the  new  associate  ;  but  I  very 
soon  learned  that  Sam  Foss  would  not  permit  me  nor  any 
other  contributor  to  his  paper  to  do  less  than  the  best  work 
of  which  we  were  capable.  When  poetic  effusions  were 
written,  Mr.  Smythe  might  applaud  them,  but  Sam  Foss 
was  the  critic  who  returned  them  with  the  suggestion  that 
they  be  rewritten  and  shortened  by  half,  without  leaving 
out  any  of  the  ideas  originally  incorporated  ;  or  who  found 
that  a  contributor  was  doing  nothing  to  entitle  him  to  write 
for  a  publication  with  the  high  aims  of  the  Saturday 
Union.  Probably  one  occurrence  which  opened  his  eyes 
to  the  fact  that  not  every  person  with  ambitions  in  Lynn 
was  worthy  of  his  encouragement  was  the  following  effusion 
undoubtedly  penned  by  N.  Allen  Lindsay  of  the  Marble- 
head  Messenger^  which  appeared  in  that  publication  the 
week  following  one  of  Sam's  amber-tinted  special  issues, 
with  a  broadside  of  poems  on  the  front  page  : 

THE    BARDS    OF   LYNN. 

Near  us  in  energized  Ljnn,  the  land  of  the  lap-stone, 

Rising  over  the  whistles  and  noise  of  machin'ry, 

Rising  over  the  din  of  the  labor  incessant 

Cometh  the  bardic  strain,  the  voice  of  the  muses. 

Not  as  of  old  thej  sang  by  cool  Hippocrene, 

Or  bj  Castilian  springs  on   windy  Parnassus, 

Yet  w^ith  a  fervor  so  like  and  full  of  enchantment, 

Wonderingly  we  list  to  their  rapt  inspiration. 

Tell  us,  we  pray,  O  Thalia,  Euterpe  and  Clio, 

Yes,  and  Melpomene  too,  and  each  of  the  others. 


26  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

What  you  discover  in  Lynn,  the  city  of  leather; 
Soothly  is  it  your  voices,  or  Tom,  Dick  and  Harry's, 
Blending  in  melody  sweet  in  the  satisfied   U7iion^ 
Set  in  nonpareil  leaded  and  breathing  of  taffy? 

After  a  council  of  war  in  the  Union  office,  the  task  of 
properly  punishing  Lindsay  was  committed  to  Sam,  who 
did  it  without  malice,  in  the  following  language : 

List  to  the  wail  that  goes  up  from  the  jealous  and  piqued  Marbleheader, 
There  mid  the  rocks  it  goes  up  like  the  tones  of  a  dissonant  fog-horn, 
Not  like  the  idyllic  swain  on  his  oaten  straw  by  his  sheep-cote. 
But  like  the  tin-music  that's   played  on  the  horn  of  the  vender  of  the 

cod-fish. 
Jealous  the  Bard  of  the  Rocks  of  the  fame  of  the  poets  of  Leather. 
Laugh  not,  O  Bard  of  the  Rocks  at  the  bards  of  the  satisfied  Union, 
Drown  not  with  irony  rude  the  gentle  voice  of  the  Muses, 
Bend  down,  O  Bard  of  the  Rocks,  thine  auricular  cavern  and  hear  me. 
Leave  thine  abode  mid  the  rocks,  and  come  to  the  city  of  leather; 
Leave   behind   thee   the  smells  that  are  fishy  and  breathe  our  air  odor- 
iferous. 
And,  in  a  climate  congenial  pour  forth  thy  bardic  effusions, — 
And  thy  song  shall  appear  in  the  Union  and  thou  shalt  be  happy. 

One  quiet  afternoon  Sam  opened  the  drawer  of  the 
pine  table  he  used  as  an  editorial  desk,  and  produced  a 
number  of  poems,  which  he  read  to  me,  not  in  the  finished 
way  in  which  he  has  recited  his  work  before  cultured 
audiences  in  recent  years  ;  but  in  the  bashful  manner  of  a 
school-boy.  I  shall  never  forget  the  surprise  I  felt  when 
I  first  heard  him  recite  his  poems  after  he  had  become 
famous,  for  I  had  a  foolish  notion  that  while  he  could  write 
well,  somebody  else  had  best  read  his  works,  popular  as 
they  had  become  with  elocutionists.  Among  the  poems 
he  read  me  that  day  were  some  that  have  become  familiar 
in  his  published  volumes  since,  though  then  they  had  not 
appeared  in  print.  Before  many  weeks  he  was  asked  to 
prepare  a  poem  for  Memorial  Day,  and  this  he  read  to  a 
great  audience  in  the  Lynn  Theatre  : 


i 

MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  2*J 

When  Nature  from  her  lavish  urn 
Pours  forth  the  fulness  of  her  wealth, 
And  flowers  in  every  valley  burn 
Like  roses  on  the  cheek  of  health ; 

*        *        *        * 
We  deck  the  graves  of  those  who  bled 

To  keep  this  heritage  of  ours, 
And  for  the  unforgotten  dead 

We  dress  this  festival  of  flowers. 
Rose-wreaths  for  heroes'  deeds  we  pay, 

And  garlands  for  their  deadly  strife ; 
We  deck  their  graves  with  flowery  spray 

And  give  a  lily  for  a  life. 

Sam  read  this  poem  much  better  than  he  had  read  his 
earHer  effusions  to  his  audience  of  one,  but  confessed  when 
the  ordeal  was  over  that  he  was  troubled  by  his  inability  to 
find  me  in  the  audience  as  he  looked  from  the  platform,  for 
he  had  intended  to  read  the  poem  to  me  and  forget  the  rest 
of  his  hearers. 

I  found  that  Sam  was  a  great  admirer  of  Walt 
Whitman,  but  that  he  was  not  unmindful  of  the  uncouth 
form  of  some  of  the  work  of  the  good,  gray  poet,  as  when 
he  celebrated  Lynn  Common  in  a  quite  Whitmansque 
effort,  "promulging"  as  he  put  it.  Sam  liked  to  promulge, 
as  I  found  when  on  Saturday  afternoons  we  would  roam 
through  what  is  now  known  as  the  Lynn  Woods,  but  was 
then  crossed  by  infrequent  paths,  most  of  which  I  knew, 
Sam  reciting  classic  phillipics  of  antiquity,  the  works  of 
Adams  and  Webster  or  of  the  great  poets,  at  the  top  of  his 
lungs.  Judge  James  Robinson  Newhall,  the  historian  of 
Lynn,  was  then  living,  and  when  we  called  upon  him 
could  tell  much  of  Whitman  as  he  knew  him,  an  editorial 
associate  upon  a  Brooklyn  paper.  At  that  time,  he  said, 
Whitman  was  a  jovial  companion,  but  quite  conventional  in 
his  literary  work.     A  few  months  later,  when  I  was  sitting 


28  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

on  my  own  editorial  tripod  in  Gloucester,  Sam  published 
a  fulsome  eulogy  of  Whitman,  which  I  challenged.  He 
replied,  and  I  printed  a  sharp  rejoinder,  which  called  forth 
this  personal  letter  by  mail : 

Dear  Charles  : 

Well,  you  have  laid  out  Walt  in  good  st3de.  Still  I 
remain  an  unrepentant  and  unregenerate  admirer.  Should 
like  to  continue  the  discussion,  as  you  are  a  good  man  to 
fight  with,  and  your  generous  personal  allusions  are  very 
flattering — but  am  sorry  to  say  that  the  great  mass  of  the 
world,  particularly  that  part  which  consists  of  the  constant 
readers  of  my  valuable  paper  don't  care  a  whiff  for  Walt 
or  any  other  poet.  Your  recent  "Day  Dreamer,"  Charles, 
was  a  masterpiece.  I  read  it  to  a  little  woman  of  my 
acquaintance  who  remarked  "That's  the  best  day-dreamer 
you  ever  wrote,  Sam."  Well,  I  guess  it  was.  The  Breeze 
is  as  bright  as  a  new  dollar.     Long  may  it  blow. 

Yoiir  friend, 

(Signed)     S.  W.  FOSS. 

Sam's  allusion  to  my  Day-Dreamer  was  a  very  charac- 
teristic thing.  He  was  always  sure  any  literary  friend  of 
his  could  do  anything  that  he  could.  When  he  began  to 
make  a  living  from  the  publication  of  his  humorous  poems 
in  the  New  York  and  Boston  papers,  he  urged  me  to  go 
and  do  likewise,  assuring  me  that  there  was  a  great  market 
for  my  wares.  But  I  kept  out  of  it.  In  the  same  way 
after  he  became  librarian  of  the  Somerville  Library,  he 
was  unable  to  see  why  I  did  not  go  and  find  another  one 
and  become  a  fellow-librarian.  The  illustration  of  this 
characteristic  that  proved  of  the  most  value  to  me,  how- 
ever, was  furnished  about  six  months  after  my  first  associ- 
ation with  him.     His  paper  had  not  paid,  and  Smythe  had 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  29 

turned  over  the  entire  outfit  to  Foss,  debts   and   all.      A 
newspaper  publisher  came  down  from  Cape  Ann  to  renew 
an  offer  he  had  made  to  Foss  before  he  bought  the  SaUirday 
Union.     Inclination  might  have  led  him  to  accept  it,  but 
duty,  especially  to  his  creditors,  bade  him  remain  where 
he  was.     He  therefore  assured  his  caller  that  he  could  not 
go  to  Gloucester,  but  that  he  was  sure  a  man  in  the  next 
room  would  do  as  well  as  himself,  and  perhaps  might  be 
willing  to  go.     So  I  went.     A  few  weeks  later  a  stranger 
entered  the  Saturday  Union  office,  and  stated  his  willing- 
ness to  take  the  place  I  had  vacated,  and    at  the  same 
salary  (or  lack  of  it),  until  he  had  proved  himself  indis- 
pensable.    He  told  Mr.  Foss  that  he  had  been  conducting 
a  humorous  column  somewhere,   and    felt  sure  that  in  a 
month  he  could  convince  him  that  this  column  was  the  one 
thing  necessary  to  the  success  of  the  Union.      So  he  went 
to  work.     The  humorous  column  scintillated,  and  by  four 
weeks  the  Saturday  Union  was  being  quoted  everywhere. 
But   the  subscription   list  remained  stationary,    and   Sam 
sadl}^  told  his  new  assistant  that  if  he  required  a  salary  he 
must  try  somewhere  else.     So  he  left,  and  behind  him  he 
left  a  big  exchange  list,  caused  by  the  work  he  had  done. 
Publication  day  arrived  before  Sam  bethought  him  of  that 
"funny  column."     Then  he  sat  down  and  wrote  one  of  his 
own,  with  many  misgivings.     When  his  exchanges  began 
to  come  in  the  following  week,  he  found  his  own  "funny 
column"  was  quoted  to  a  far  greater  degree  than  any  of  its 
predecessors.     This  set  him  thinking,  and  to  help  out  the 
scanty   returns    from  his    paper,   he  wrote   a    number   of 
humorous  poems,  and  sent  them  to  the  Nezv  York  Su7i^ 
Puck,  Judge,  2in6.  Tid-Bits.    Many  were  accepted.    When 
the  crash  came,  as  it  was  bound  to  do,  and  the  day  arrived 
that  no   Saturday    Union  could  be  published,   Sam   had 


30  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

found  his  feet,  and  also  found  a  way  of  not  only  maintain- 
ing himself,  but  of  paying  the  accumulation  of  debt,  which 
to  his  honor  be  it  said,  he  manfully  shouldered  and  dis- 
charged, laughing  at  his  ill-luck.  Day  after  day  he 
would  write  his  poems,  committing  them  to  the  mail  and 
sending  those  returned  by  one  flint^^-hearted  editor  to  others, 
who  usually  took  them.  Soon  he  had  regular  contracts  to 
fill  a  certain  amount  of  space  in  the  humorous  papers  and 
his  troubles  were  over. 

I  think  Foss  had  some  regrets  in  leaving  Lynn.  His 
associations  with  many  of  the  literary  coterie  there  were  of 
the  pleasantest  kind.  James  Berry  Bensel  was  a  frequent 
visitor  to  his  sanctum,  until  his  untimely  death,  and  printed 
some  of  his  best  poems  in  the  Union.  Like  him,  I  loved 
Bensel,  and  printed  an  appreciation  of  his  work  in  my 
paper.  The  mail  immediately  brought  me  a  letter  from 
Sam,  urging  me  to  send  the  article  to  Bensel's  sister. 
George  E.  Emery,  a  poet  who  deserved  a  far  wider 
reading  than  he  ever  got,  was  also  among  his  frequent 
callers.  To  us  each,  Sam  would  expound  the  quaint 
philosophy  that  finally  found  so  clear  a  voice  in  his  poems 
and  made  him  the  idol  of  the  plain  people  everywhere.  "I 
have  noticed,"  he  said  to  me  once,  "that  a  man  never  gets 
his  salary  raised  until  he  earns  more  than  he  is  getting." 
Perhaps  I  would  spend  the  night  with  him  at  his  room  on 
Warren  street.  Then  I  would  find  how  deep  was  the 
religious  nature  that  in  later  years  found  voice  in  his 
books.  While  in  Lynn  I  persuaded  him  to  write  a  paper 
for  a  literary  circle  to  which  I  belonged,  on  William 
Shakespeare.  He  read  it  for  us  and  printed  it  as  a 
"Book- Worm"  in  his  paper.  I  pasted  the  clipping  in  my 
scrap-book  where  it  stayed  nearly  a  quarter  of  a  century, 
at  the  end  of  which  period  I  invited  him  to  come  to  Maiden 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  3 1 

and  read  the  same  paper  to  the  "Forty  Whims."  He  had 
forgotten  it.  I  had  it  typewritten  and  sent  it  to  him  with 
the  date  of  the  meeting.  He  wrote  me  from  Somerville 
February  17,  1908: 

"I  shall  be  glad  to  come  to  your  place  February  24th 
with  that  old  essay  on  Shakespeare.  It  doesn't  seem  to 
me  that  I  ever  wrote  it ;  but  if  you  say  I  did  I  will  read  it 
and  if  it  takes  I  will  own  it,  and  if  it  doesn't  I  will  deny 
the  authorship.  I  suppose  you  will  not  care  if  I  read  in 
connection  with  it  'When  Shakespeare  Slings  Himself.'" 

When  the  evening  came  Sam  humorously  persisted 
that  I  was  trying  to  get  him  to  read  one  of  my  own  pro- 
ductions, but  he  gave  the  Forty  Whims  one  of  the  best 
evenings  they  ever  had. 

A  few  years  before,  I  had  invited  Sam  to  read  in 
Maiden,  at  an  entertainment  in  which  the  musical  part  of 
the  programme  was  furnished  by  the  late  John  W.  Hutch- 
inson and  members  of  his  family.  The  two  men  were  old 
friends,  and  Mr.  Hutchinson  was  so  pleased  when  Sam 
read  his  poem  "  He  Worried  About  It,"that  he  immediately 
set  it  to  music,  and  proposed  that  they  should  go  upon 
the  road  together  and  give  some  entertainments.  I  was 
appointed  business  manager  of  the  enterprise,  which  had 
but  indifferent  success,  but  was  one  in  which  we  all  con- 
trived to  have  some  fun. 

The  real  spirit  of  Sam  Foss  was  shown  by  what  is 
undoubtedly  his  most  widely-quoted  poem  : 

"  Let  me  live  in  my  house  by  the  side  of  the  road 
And  be  a  friend  to  man." 

He  illustrated  it  the  first  time  I  saw  him,  and  all 
through  the  following  years.  How  anybody  could  have 
known  him  and  not  loved  him,  as  his  literary  associates 


32  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

loved  him  and  the  children  of  Somerville  loved  him,  would 
have  been  a  mystery,  but  I  never  knew  of  such  a  thing 
happening.  In  some  sunny  realm  he  must  still  be  making 
somebody  happy. 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 


33 


^T'-k.HL  lu.    ny 


MALDEN'S  OLD  MEETINGHOUSES- 


Walter  Kendall  Watkins. 


Correct  and  accurate  data  regarding  the  construction 
of  the  dwellings  of  the  earliest  emigrants  to  New  England 
is  not  over  abundant.  Early  dates  are  apt  to  be  assigned 
to  most  of  the  surviving  structures,  dates  which  recede  into 
the  past  as  their  story  is  retold.  The  small  dwellings  of 
the  first  settlers  also  often  increased  in  area  with  the  growth 
of  the  family  and  w^ere  covered  in  their  later  years  by 
additions  to  the  structure. 


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MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 


Sometimes  accurate  information  is  given  as  to  the 
construction  of  a  house  by  its  contents,  noted  room  by 
room,  in  an  inventory  of  an  estate. 

In  a  few  cases  the  original  contract,  not  performed  by 
one  party  or  the  other  in  the  constructing,  is  preserved  in 
the  case  at  law  to  settle  the  dispute. 

It  is  such  a  case  I  desire  to  present,  and  it  is  of  more 
public  interest  inasmuch  as  it  is  a  building  devoted  to  public 
uses  of  which  I  shall  speak. 

One  would  suppose  from  the  prominence  of  the  church 
in  the  early  affairs  of  the  Bay  Colony  that  it  would  be  easy 
to  describe  the  early  meetinghouses  as  to  their  exterior 
and  interior  with  accuracy. 

An  examination  of  the  published  town  histories  and 
records  of  Massachusetts  towns  reveals  the  contrary  for 
the  first  century  and  a  half,  and  it  is  mainly  of  the  meeting 
houses  built  after  the  Revolution  that  descriptions  have 
been  preserved. 

A  picture  of  Boston's  first  meetinghouse  has  been 
engraved  but  it  is  but  a  fancied  sketch  and  shown  with  a 
thatched  roof,  which  could  be  found  on  several  early 
meetinghouses  in  the  colony,  but  situated  in  the  thickly 
settled  highway  in  Boston  it  was  too  dangerous  and  against 
the  early  town  laws  for  preventing  fires.  This  picture  has 
been  adopted  by  several  town  historians  as  a  likely  type 
for  their  first  meetinghouse. 

Maiden's  careful  historian,  our  late  president,  con- 
scientiously refrains  from  adopting  this  type  in  his  work 
and  with  the  other  citizens  of  our  commonwealth  we  will 
ever  remain  in  ignorance  of  the  exact  description  of  the 
early  meeting  places  of  our  fathers. 

In  most  instances  the  first  structure  was  soon  outgrown 
and  a  new  building  necessary.     Unlike  our  sister  towns 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  35 

we  are  fortunate  in  having  preserved  for  two  centuries  a 
document  which  describes  with  some  minuteness  the  second 
meetinghouse  in  Maiden. 

Like  its  predecessor  it  stood  on  the  slope  of  Bell  Rock 
but  more  to  the  southward.  The  paper  which  gives  the 
information  was  in  existence  in  1849  but  has  since  dis- 
appeared. It  recites  the  articles  of  agreement  between 
the  town's  committee  and  Job  Lane,  a  carpenter.  A  sketch 
of  the  builder's  life  has  been  ably  presented  by  our  president 
in  our  volume  issued  last  year. 

The  agreement  itself  was  first  printed  in  the  Bi-cen- 
tennial  Book  of  Maiden  in  1850  and  reprinted  in  the  History 
of  Maiden  by  Mr.  Corey. 

It  tells  us  of  an  oak  frame  thirty-three  feet  square  and 
sixteen  feet  stud.  It  was  clapboarded  and  the  roof  shingled. 
Its  windows  and  doors  are  as  to  number  and  position  so 
well  described  that  an  outline  elevation  is  given  of  the 
south  front  in  the  Bi-centennial  Book  which  has  been  more 
artistically  shown  in  a  perspective  sketch  by  a  more  modern 
artist,  Mr.  Henry  L.  Moody,  in  Mr.  Corey's  book.* 

Surmounting  the  meetinghouse  roof  in  the  centre  was 
a  turret,  such  as  is  still  shown  on  the  ''  Ship  Church  "  at 
Hingham. 

In  this  turret  swung  for  a  time  the  bell  which  fell  in 
the  fire  of  1848  from  the  Pleasant  street  schoolhouse. 

The  inside  of  the  meetinghouse  was  lathed  and 
plastered  with  lime  over  clay. 

The  pulpit  and  deacons'  seat  were  enclosed  in  wains- 
coating,  but  the  seats  for  men  and  women  were  planks  with 
backs,  such  as  are  still  to  be  seen  in  some  English  parish 
churches. 

On  the  back  of  the  agreement  was  traced  a  plan 
showing  an  alley  from  the  south  door  to  the  north  wall  and 

*The  illustration  heads  this  article. 


36  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

another  running  from  the  east  door  to  the  west  door  across 
the  house.  The  windows  with  their  diamond-shaped  panes 
were  hinged  and  could  be  opened,  unlike  those  of  the 
Dedham  church  of  that  date.  In  Dedham  the  glass  was 
taken  from  the  lead  frames  in  summer  in  order  to  get  air 
and  replaced  for  the  cooler  weather. 

The  Maiden  congregation  of  those  days  came  from  a 
territory  much  larger  than  the  Maiden  of  to-day.  Melrose 
and  Everett  were  then  parts  of  the  town  and  Charlestown, 
Chelsea  and  Revere  got  part  of  their  religious  instruction 
from  Maiden. 

From  his  house  on  what  is  now  Maiden  street,  Revere, 
came  Colonel  Nicholas  Paige,  who  married  the  grand- 
daughter of  Robert  Keayne.  In  1692  he  was  allowed  to 
build  a  pew,  one  of  those  square  pen-like  structures  which 
survived  into  the  last  century.  Early  in  the  next  century 
other  leading  families  were  allowed  to  build  pews.  This 
necessitated  more  room,  though  galleries  had  been  built 
around  the  sides,  and  in  1703  it  was  voted  to  add  on  to  the 
meetinghouse.  A  first  plan  was  to  cut  the  house  in  two 
near  the  middle  and  "carry  off  one  end  14  foots."  A  later 
plan  was  to  make  the  addition  of  fourteen  feet  upon  the 
south  side  of  the  house. 

In  1727  it  was  voted  to  build  a  new  meetinghouse  on 
the  town's  land  near  the  old  meetinghouse. 

This  was  the  beginning  of  a  long  strife  between  the 
people  of  the  north  and  south  parts  of  the  town.  It  was 
an  experience  similar  to  other  cases  in  other  towns  of  the 
state  and  had  to  do  with  the  location  of  the  meetinghouse. 
27  March,  1727  it  was  voted  "that  the  new  meeting  house 
shall  be  set  upon  the  knole  on  y^  North  west  of  Mr. 
Emerson's  Orchard."  This  action  was  taken  on  an  "ex- 
cessive Stormy  Day"  by  the  few  voters  present.     Another 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  37 

meeting  was  held  on  22  May  and  one  on  28  June.  At  the 
latter  date  it  was  reconsidered  as  to  the  place  of  location 
and  it  was  voted  "to  set  it  between  Leweses  bridge  and  the 
pound  on  the  west  of  the  country  road." 

This  vote  was  not  pleasing  to  thirty-four  of  the  towns- 
men and  at  a  meeting  held  17  November,  1727  ten  men 
were  chosen,  five  from  the  north  and  five  from  the  south 
side  to  choose  another  committee  of  five.  This  last  com- 
mittee was  to  decide  where  the  house  should  be  located  ; 
either  on  the  land  between  Bell  Rock  and  the  old  meeting- 
house, or  on  the  knoll  on  the  northwest  end  of  Mr. 
Emerson's  orchard,  or  on  the  land  between  Lewis's  bridge 
and  the  pound.  The  committee  composed  of  five  prominent 
men  of  the  province  decided  on  the  site  between  Lewis's 
Bridge  and  the  pound.  The  written  decision  fell  into  the 
hands  of  the  selectmen  who  were  of  the  south  side,  who 
refused  to  have  it  entered  on  the  town  records.  Appeal 
was  made  to  the  General  Court  who  ordered  it  recorded. 
At  a  town  meeting  3  April,  1728,  sixty  of  the  north  side 
protested  and  refrained  from  action  on  a  vote  against  the 
recording  and  a  vote  ordering  the  house  to  be  built  near 
the  old  one — just  west  of  it. 

On  21  May  1728  William  Sprague  and  his  wife, 
Dorothy,  gave  a  piece  of  land  between  Lewis's  Bridge 
and  the  pound  to  build  the  meetinghouse  on,  and  the 
General  Court  passed  a  resolve  ordering  it  built  there,  as 
the  committee  had  selected. 

Meanwhile,  the  south  side  had  chosen  a  committee, 
15  May,  to  choose  a  workman  to  build  a  house.  They 
agreed  upon  Aaron  Cleveland,  a  carpenter,  of  Charlestown. 
He  was  of  the  same  family  as  President  Cleveland,  both 
being  descendants  of  Moses  Cleveland  of  Woburn.  The 
agreement,  which  has  never  appeared  in  print  is  as  follows  : 


38  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

"Articles  of  Agreement  Indented  and  made  and  fully 
concluded  and  agreed  upon  this  19th  day  of  November  in 
the  year  of  his  Majestys  Reign  King  George  y^  second, 
Defender  of  the  faith  Anno  Donimi  Seventeen  hundred 
twenty  &  eight.  By  and  between  Aaron  Cleveland  of 
Charlestown  in  y^  County  of  Middlesex  within  his 
Majestys  Province,  Massachusetts  Bay  in  New  England, 
Carpenter,  on  y^  one  part  and  John  Green  Jr.,  Richard 
Dexter,  Ebenezer  Pratt,  Thomas  Burditt,  Ebenezer 
Upham,  Samuel  Blanchard,  Samuel  Bucknam,  Lieutenant 
Samuel  Green  and  William  Sargent  all  of  the  Town  of 
Maiden,  in  the  county  aforesaid,  Gentlemen,  on  y^  other 
part.  Witnesseth  That  the  said  Aaron  Cleveland  Doth  by 
this  present  agreement  engage  as  followeth,  viz  : 

"To  erect  a  good  substantial  Frame  for  a  Meeting 
House  in  and  for  the  Town  of  Maiden  aforesaid  where 
said  Town  hath  appointed  or  shall  appoint,  of  the  same 
dimensions  or  equivalent  followeth.     Viz  : 

"  Said  House  to  be  fifty-five  feet  in  length  and  forty  and 
four  feet  wide  and  thirty-three  feet  from  the  top  of  the  sill 
unto  the  top  of  the  plate  with  a  well  proportionable  steeple 
unto  the  same  and  to  find  and  provide  all  the  Timber  and 
slit  work  substantial  sound  and  good  to  compleate  the  same 
and  likewise  to  lay  a  good  and  substantial  foundation  with 
stone  and  lime,  firm  and  good  to  Raise  said  frame  upon 
and  also  to  provide  a  Gin  to  Raise  said  frame  withall. 
Said  House  to  be  fitted  to  Raise  at  or  before  the  fifteenth 
day  of  August  next  ensueing  the  Date  hereof.  Also  said 
Cleveland  his  heirs  or  assigns  is  by  this  present  greement 
to  finish  said  Meeting  House  as  followeth,  viz  : — to  provide 
boards  both  White  pine  and  pitch  pine  suitable  and 
sufficient  to  finish  both  the  Inside  and  out  side  of  said 
House  and  to  Double  Board  the  Roof  and  Single  board 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  39 

the  outsides  and  ends.  Likewise  to  provide  clapboards 
and  shingles  for  said  House  and  Steeple  and  lay  them  on 
said  House  workmanlike  and  to  provide  all  the  Nails  of 
each  sort  sufficient  to  finish  the  Inside  and  outside  said 
House  and  board  and  shingle  the  steeple  the  pike  of  it  and 
provide  and  put  up  the  weather  Cock  and  Ball  upon  the 
Top  of  said  Steeple  and  board  and  clapboard  the  sides  of 
said  Steeple  with  four  oval  Windows  in  the  Square  of  said 
Steeple  with  handsome  Galleries  upon  the  Squares  and 
Mundillions  under  said  Galleries  and  to  put  up  Weather 
Boards  on  said  House  and  make  and  put  up  forty  and  six 
Window  frames  and  all  to  be  glazed  with  good  Glass  six 
and  fours,  the  lower  teer  of  Windows  to  be  eleven  Quorries 
deep  in  both  Sashes  and  the  second  teer  to  be  ten  Quorries 
deep  in  both  sashes  and  the  upper  teer  to  be  eight  Qiiorries 
deep  in  both  sashes.  Also  to  make  and  put  up  Mundillions 
and  Troughs  and  Trunks  under  the  eves  of  said  House 
and  make  three  shells  over  the  outside  Doors,  one  Shell 
over  each  Door.  Likewise  to  make  Steps  at  each  Door 
what  shall  be  needfull.  Also  to  make  three  outside  Doors, 
Wainscott  work  and  to  colour  the  outside  said  House  as 
followeth  with  a  lead  colour.  Viz.,  the  Steeple  and 
Galleries  and  all  the  Mundillions  and  the  fatheers  Weather 
Boards  and  Window  frames  with  the  cases  Troughs  & 
Trunks  with  the  Shells  over  each  Door  all  the  above 
mentioned  particulars  to  be  of  a  lead  colour  and  the  Inside 
work  to  be  finished  as  followeth,  viz. — To  lay  a  Double 
floor  below  in  said  Hoi|se  and  make  two  Bodys  of  Seats 
Below  and  a  Handsome  Pulpitt  with  a  Handsome  Canopee 
over  it  with  the  Deacons  Seats  and  a  Communion  Table 
and  one  pew.  Also  to  erect  two  teers  of  Galleries  in  said 
House  with  substantial  pillars  to  support  them  what  is 
needfull  and  to  make  as  many  Seats  in  each  Gallery  as  the 


40  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

Room  will  conveniently  allow  with  wainscott  work  in  the 
front  of  each  Gallery.  Also  to  erect  four  pair  of  framed 
Stairs  one  pair  at  each  corner  of  said  House  from  the 
lower  floor  into  the  upper  Galleries  and  to  Ceil  with 
Boards  from  the  floor  up'  to  the  bottom  of  each  teer  of 
Windows  and  all  the  Rest  of  the  Sides  and  Ends  to  be 
lathed  and  plaistered  also  to  lath  and  plaister  all  over  head 
and  under  each  Gallery  and  Whitewash  all  the  plaistering. 
Also  to  provide  Hinges  Bolts  and  Locks  for  the  outside 
Doors  and  for  the  Pulpitt  and  Pew^  Door  and  hang  the 
same.  Also  provide  all  the  Iron  Work  sufficient  for  said 
House  and  all  the  said  Work  to  be  completed  and  finished 
unto  the  Turning  of  the  Key  at  or  before  the  fifth  Day  of 
March  in  the  year  seventeen  hundred  twenty-nine  thirty, 
and  the  above  named  John  Green,  Richard  Dexter,  Eben'' 
Pratt,  Thomas  Burditt,  Eben''  Upham,  Samuel  Blanchard, 
Samuel  Bucknam,  Lieut.  Samuel  Green  and  William 
Sargent,  all  being  a  committee  chosen  by  the  Town  of 
Maiden  aforesaid  to  agree  with  some  meet  person  to  Erect 
and  Build  and  finish  certain  Meeting  House  in  Maiden  as 
is  before  expressed  accordingly  we  have  agreed  with 
Aaron  Cleveland  aforesaid  as  followeth,  viz. — to  pay  or 
cause  to  be  paid  unto  said  Aaron  Cleveland  his  heirs  or 
assigns  In  consideration  for  the  aforesaid  Meeting  House 
the  full  and  just  sum  of  one  thousand  and  forty  pounds 
good  and  current  passable  bills  of  creditt  in  the  Province 
aforesaid  at  such  time  and  times  and  particular  payments 
as  followeth  Viz.,  three  hundred  pounds  of  said  money  at 
or  before  the  first  day  of  April  next  ensueing  the  Date 
hereof  and  two  hundred  and  ten  pounds  of  the  aforesaid 
money  at  or  before  the  fifteenth  of  August  next  ensueing 
the  Date  hereof  and  two  hundred  and  ten  pounds  of  the 
aforesaid  money  at  or  before  the  first  day  of  December 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  4I 

next  after  ensueing  the  Date  hereof  and  three  hundred  and 
twenty  pounds  more  at  on  or  before  the  first  day  of  March 
next  after  that  ensueing  which  makes  up  the  aforesaid 
sum  of  one  thousand  and  forty  pounds.  Also  to  provide 
men  enough  to  Raise  said  House.  Further  it  is  to  be 
understood  that  if  the  Town  see  good  not  to  have  any 
Steeple  to  said  House  but  only  a  plain  pitched  Roof  then 
the  agreement  between  said  Cleveland  and  the  said  Com- 
mittee is  that  there  shall  be  Eighty  pounds  taken  out  of  the 
aforesaid  one  thousand  and  forty  pounds  and  to  the  true 
performce  of  the  aforesaid  mentioned  articles  of  agree- 
ment the  aforesaid  mentioned  parties  have  herein  Bound 
themselves  each  to  the  other  upon  the  none  performance 
of  either  a  party  in  the  forfeiture  of  fifteen  hundred  pounds 
good  and  passable  Bills  of  Creditt  in  the  Province  afore- 
said and  in  Testimony  whereof  the  Parties  have  hereunto 
Sit  their  hands  and  Seals  the  Day  and  the  year  before 
written. 

"Signed  Sealed  and  Delivered  in  presence  of  Peter 
Tufts,  John  Greatton.  Signed  John  Green  and  Richard 
Dexter,  Sam'  Green,  W'"  Sargent,  Thomas  Burditt,  Eben'' 
Upham,  Samuel  Blanchard,  Eben*"  Pratt. 

''Middlesex  ss.  Medford,  April  4,  1730,  Peter  Tufts 
personally  appeared  before  me  the  subscriber  and  made 
oath  that  he  saw  the  above  named  John  Green,  Richard 
Dexter,  Sam'  Green,  William  Sargent,  Thomas  Burdett, 
Eben""  Upham,  Sam'  Blanchard,  Eben''  Pratt,  Sign  Seal 
and  Execute  this  Instrument  and  at  the  same  time  he  saw 
John  Greatton  with  himself  sign  as  witnesses  to  the  Execu- 
tion hereof. 

Sworn  before  me,  JOHN    RICHARDSON, 

Justice  of  the  Peace. 


42  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

"Apr.  1 6,  1729,  Then  rec'd  of  the  Committee  in  part 
for  the  Meeting  House  Seventy-five  pounds. 

"A  true  copy  Exam  p  SAM' L    PHIPPS,    Clerr 

This  contract  was  accepted  at  a  town  meeting,  14  Jan. 
1728-9,  fifty-one  north  side  men  protesting  against  the 
location. 

As  soon  as  the  weather  would  permit,  Mr.  Cleveland 
collected  his  material  and  began  the  erection  of  the  house, 
but  in  May  at  the  annual  town  meeting  the  north  side  were 
in  the  majority  and  refused  to  raise  money  for  town 
expenses.  The  action  of  the  town's  officers  in  ignoring 
the  orders  of  the  General  Court,  as  to  location,  was 
brought  to  the  attention  of  the  Justices  of  the  Superior 
Court  of  Judicature.  Three  of  these  were  members  of  the 
Committee  of  arbitration  and  they  issued  a  writ  of  Man- 
damus to  the  Town's  Committee  for  them  to  desist  from 
erecting  the  house  anywhere  except  where  ordered  by  the 
General  Court. 

The  temporary  writ  was  made  final  4  August  and  Mr. 
Cleveland  at  once  removed  the  materials  to  the  land  given 
by  the  Spragues.  The  south  side  people  attempted  to  get 
the  General  Court  to  again  interfere  but  unsuccessfully 
and  the  house  was  completed  according  to  the  contract. 

At  a  town  meeting  11  May  1730,  the  south  side  men 
succeeded  in  passing  a  vote  that  the  building  committee 
stand  a  trial  in  law  brought  by  Cleveland  against  them  for 
money  to  pay  for  a  house  which  the  Committee  considered 
"not  sit  to  y^  satisfaction  of  y^  town."  64  north  side  men 
protested  this  vote. 

The  committee  lost  their  suit  in  the  Inferior  Court  of 
Common  Pleas  for  Middlesex.  7  August  the  town  voted 
Mr.  Cleveland  be  paid  the  money  he  had  recovered  by 
judgment  of  the  Court,  £870  with  £12  costs.  This  he 
received  from  the  committee  21  Dec.  1730. 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  43 

At  a  town  meeting  14  Apr.  1731,  it  was  voted  that 
the  town  would  not  allow  any  bills  granted  to  the  Com- 
mittee that  went  to  law  with  Mr.  Cleveland  also  that  they 
would  not  raise  money  to  pay  the  committee.  At  last, 
however,  the  matter  was  patched  up  and  3  March  173 1-2 
the  committee  received  the  sum  they  paid  Cleveland  with 
£49  for  their  trouble. 

The  suit  in  the  Inferior  Court  had  been  decided  in 
Cleveland's  favor.  It  was  for  a  breach  of  covenant  and 
the  record  and  papers  filed  in  the  case  have  preserved  a 
description  of  the  third  meetinghouse  erected  in  Maiden. 
These  papers  are  not  to  be  found  in  the  files  of  Middlesex 
County  as  the  committee,  not  satisfied  with  the  verdict 
against  them,  appealed  to  the  Superior  Court  of  Judicature  of 
the  Province.  The  appeal  was  decided  by  a  jury  in  favor 
of  Cleveland,  the  verdict  of  the  lower  court  being  affirmed, 
and  the  committee  were  taxed  the  costs  of  court.  A  copy 
of  the  agreement  and  other  papers  are  therefore  found  in 
the  files  of  the  higher  court  in  Boston, 

Through  these  documents  we  find  that  the  committee 
appeared  on  the  day  of  the  house  raising  in  August,  1729. 
That  Cleveland  requested  their  assistance  according  to  the 
contract,  that  they  refused  to  assist  and  furnish  sufficient 
help  unless  the  building  was  put  next  the  old  meetinghouse. 
Cleveland  then  turned  about  to  the  crowd  assembled  and 
asked  them  to  assist  and  he  or  the  committee  would  see 
them  satisfied  for  their  work.  Some  forty  responded  to 
this  appeal  and  were  compensated  at  the  rate  of  six  shillings 
each,  which  sum  was  reckoned  in  the  damages  awarded 
in  the  suit. 

That  the  contract  furnishes  a  correct  idea  of  the  con- 
struction we  may  feel  assured.  On  19  May  1730  Cleveland 
called    on    his    fellow    townsman,    Samuel    Frothingham, 


44  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

carpenter  and  housewright,  ancestor  of  the  Portland  family 
of  that  name.  With  him  was  Zachariah  Hicks  of  Cam- 
bridge, a  carpenter,  father  of  Zachariah,  an  eminent  school- 
master of  Boston,  and  great-grandfather  of  Zachariah 
Hicks,  who  established  the  saddlery  and  trunk  business  in 
Boston,  after  the  Revolution,  now  carried  on  by  Mr.  William 
H.  Winship  of  this  city. 

The  trio  proceeded  to  Maiden  and  viewed  the  com- 
pleted structure  with  the  articles  of  agreement  before  them 
and  decided  that  the  work  was  done  in  a  workmanlike 
manner  and  as  much  as  required  by  his  articles. 

Contemporary  with  the  third  meetinghouse  in  Maiden 
was  the  third  meetinghouse  in  Bridgewater.  Built  in  1731 
it  stood  for  nearly  a  century.  It  was  smaller  than  the 
Maiden  church,  only  fifty  by  thirty-eight  feet  and  twenty- 
two  feet  high.  It  was  three  stories  high  with  two  galleries 
one  above  the  other  on  three  sides  of  the  house.  It  was 
shingled  and  the  windows  were  probably  the  same  in 
number  as  shown  in  the  sketch  of  the  house  that  has  been 
preserved.  It  was  used  as  a  place  of  worship  for  seventy 
years  till  1801.  It  was  used  for  town  meetings  from  1802 
till  taken  down  in  1823.  A  new  spire  was  erected  on  it 
in  1767. 

Rev.  Thomas  C,  son  of  Rev.  Peter  Thacher,  the 
eighth  minister  of  Maiden,  writing  in  1849  ^^  ^^e  third 
house  of  worship,  says  :  "There  seems  to  rise  again  before 
me  that  ancient  weather-beaten  church,  the  place  of  my 
earlier  worship,  and  where  my  venerable    father   taught 

and  prayed It  was  one  of  the  plainest  and 

strictest  of  its  sect.  It  looked  the  old  Puritan  all  over.  It 
had  no  tower  nor  belfry.  Its  little  bell  was  hung  outside  on 
a  beam  projecting  from  the  gable  end  of  the  building." 

That  this  meetinghouse  was  provided  with  a  steeple 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  45 

at  first  is  doubtful.  14  January  1728-9  they  voted  it  should 
not  have  a  steeple,  thirteen  days  later  they  voted  "that  y^ 
Town  will  have  A  tarrett  upon  y^  new  Meeting  house  to 
hang  y*^  Bell  in."  In  1764  they  voted  "to  build  a  Bell  free 
and  put  up  the  spindle  again  and  Weather  Cock  as  before." 
This  was  not  then  done,  as  in  1767  the  vote  was  recon- 
sidered and  it  was  voted  to  repair  the  belfry  and  build  a 
steeple  which  was  done  in  1768.  This  steeple  is  shown 
on  the  church  on  the  plan  of  Maiden  in  1795. 

Mr.  Corey  presents  in  his  history  (p.  523)  a  floor  plan 
of  the  1730  meetinghouse  as  drawn  by  John  Pratt  (1783- 
1863)  from  memor3^  This  shows  stairs  only  in  the  two 
south  corners  of  the  building.  Stairs  were  in  each  of  the 
corners  of  the  building  according  to  the  contract.  In  1763 
it  was  voted  "  that  the  mens-  and  womens  north  stair  be 
took  down  in  order  to  build  more  pues."  At  the  same 
time  "new  doors  were  ordered  made  lower  in  proper  shape 
with  shells  over  them"  as  before.  Iron  bolts  and  straps 
were  put  in  and  the  ceiling  repaired. 

At  the  annual  town  meeting  in  May,  1801,  the  question 
of  building  a  new  meetinghouse  was  considered.  At  a 
meeting  in  December  it  was  voted  to  build  it  of  brick  rather 
than  wood.  It  was  also  voted  to  buy  the  brick  rather  than 
make  them  on  the  spot  from  the  clay  pits  nearby. 

In  April,  1802,  the  committee  were  given  leave  to  place 
the  meetinghouse  in  any  part  of  the  town's  square,  as  the 
location  was  called.  They  were  also  given  leave  to  pull 
the  old  meetinghouse  down  when  they  deemed  it  necessary. 

This  was  done  the  next  month  and  on  a  Frida}''  in 
May,  1802,  the  windows  were  sold  at  auction.  This 
original  account  of  the  sale  was  found  among  the  papers 
of  Mr.  Corey  and  the  number  of  windows  agree  with  the 
statement  made  in  the  building  contract  with  Aaron 
Cleveland. 


^6  malden  historical  society 

Sale   at   Auction   of  the  windows    in    Malden 

Meetinghouse  on  Friday  of  May  1802 

ON  THE  Premises. 

North  Side  of  S'^  House. 

5  upper  and  middle  windows  to  Mr.  Samuel  Tufts  at  6^ 

cents  per  square. 
5  Do  at  6  cents  to  Mr.  Samuel  Tufts. 

4  Lower  Do  to  Mr.  Samuel  Wait  Jun""  (cb  6  cents. 

West  End. 

5  upper  Windows  to  Ezra  Sargent  Esq.  (a>  6i  cents. 

5  middle  and  lower  Do  to  Mr.  Will'"  Parker  (a)  6\  cents. 

South  Side. 

5  upper  Do  to  Mr.  Daniel  Wait  at  6  cents. 
5  middle  Do  to  Mr.  Nathan  Holden  (a)  6  cents. 
4  lower  Do  to  Mr.  Will'"  Parker  (a)  6  cents. 

East  End. 

4  upper  Do  to  Mr.  Daniel  Wait  (a)  6  cents. 

5  middle  and  lower  Do  to  Mr.  Nathan  Holden  (a)  6  cents. 
3  Bellfry  Do  to  Capt.  Amos  Sargent  (cb  6J  cents. 

Samuel  Tufts  Windows  184  sq.  $11 -So 

Samuel  Wait  Jun"".  Do  lOi  Do  6.06 

Daniel  Wait  143  Do  8.58 

Will'"  Parker  208  13  • 

Capt.  Amos.  Sargent  72  4.68 

43-84 
Windows 
Benja  Waitt  15  a  7  cts.  $1.05 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  4^ 

In  1 701  we  find  mention  in  the  town  records  of  the 
town's  pound  which  needed  repairs.  In  1771  it  was  voted 
to  build  a  stone  pound  in  place  of  the  wooden  one. 

In  building  the  meetinghouse  in  1802  it  was  necessary 
to  remove  the  stone  pound  and  the  stones  were  used  in  the 
meetinghouse.  The  stones  in  the  foundation  of  the  old 
meetinghouse  were  also  utilized*.  A  new  pound  of  wood 
was  built  on  a  site  now  included  in  Central  Square.  A 
later  pound  stood  on  a  site  covered  by  the  Cox  block. 

Edward  Wade,  a  prominent  citizen  of  the  town  a 
century  ago,  who  died  in  1825,  was  employed  to  pull  down 
the  old  1730  meetinghouse  which  he  did  in  two  and  a  half 
days  (May  31  to  June  2,  1802)  at  a  cost  of  $2.92  and  his 
attendance  in  superintending  the  job  one  and  a  half  days 
$1.83.  On  4  June  he  laid  out  the  foundations  and  on  the 
eighth,  ninth  and  tenth  dug  the  trench  for  the  same.  On 
the  seventeenth,  eighteenth,  nineteenth  and  twenty-first  he 
laid  the  stone  for  the  foundations. 

The  following  extracts  are  from  Mr.  Corey's  papers : 

The  Committee  of  the  Town  of  Maiden  for  Building 
a  Meeting  House  to  Edw^  Wade  Dr. 
1802 

Feb.  19  &  20     one  hand  one  day  &  half  to  cut  timber  1.75 

May  31  to  June  2     pulling  down  the  old  house  2i  days  2.92 
the  4th     half  day  do  .58 

the  8th     one  day  diging  trench  1.17 

the  9th  &  loth     two  days  do  2.35 

the  17  &  18     team  one  and  half  day  3. 

the  19  &  21     do  to  do  3. 

the  22  &  23     one  hand  two  days  sticking  bords  2.33 

bringing  two  casks  of  lime  1,50 

July  I  &  2     team  two  days  4. 

the  3  &  5     do  to  do  4. 

the  10     one  day  do  and  one  load  of  stones  2.50 

♦These  stones  recently  taken  from  the  church  have  been  used  in  Everett  near  Wood- 
lawn  for  building  purposes. 


48  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

the  14     half  day  do  ^' 

the  22     do  to  cart  windoAV  frames  and  haul  timber  i. 

the  24     do  to  get  poles  and  haul  timber  i- 

the  28     carting  one  load  of  Sand  -75 

the  30     carting  3  thousand  bricks  at  f  i-25 

Augt  3  &  4     a  hand  one  day  and  half  i-75 

the  5'h     team  to  haul  timber  and  fetch  from  the  lot  4- 

carting  27  thousd  Bricks  at  j;  H-^S 

the  14     one  day  &  half  overhauling  old  stuff  i-75 

the  16     one  day  do  i-'7 

the  19  &  20     two  days  do  2.33 

turn  over  5^-33 

Continued         brought  over  S^-33 

Sept  S     one  day  overhauling  stuff  i*i7 

the  10     do  to  do  ^•17 

the  15  &  17     two  days  &  half  do  2.92 

the  18     one  day  do  ^-^7 

the  28     making  fence  against  Mr.  Wait  -S^ 

the  30     bringing  15  hundred  of  Bords  from  Sargent  1.50 

Octr.  4     fetching  10  thous  lathes  1-25 

5  &  6     one  hand  two  days  to  paint  2.33 

the  7*     fetching  6  casks  of  lime  2. 

the  8th     one  hand  half  day  diging  sand  -67 

fetching  hare  &  one  days  work  i-4^ 

the  9tli     one  hand  making  paint  and  painting  i-i7 

theiitli     one  hand  to  paint  &  team  to  get  windows  i-66 

the  12  &  13     one  hand  to  paint  one  day  &  half  i-7S 

Nov.  28  &  29     team  one  day  and  half  3- 

one  hand  to  paint  i-i7 

From  Nov.  30  to  Dec.  22     i^h  days  painting  20.42 

101.64 
16.49 


Second  acct  added 


$118.13 


Maiden  22  of  Dec.^  1802 

Bringing  200  Bords  from  Medford  i-S^ 


Corrected 


119.63 

7-33 

$ 

112.30 

lO. 

$132.30 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 


49 


Committee  of  Maiden  for  building  a  Meeting  House 
to  Edvyd  Wade. 


1802 

Feby  12.  19  &  20     to  the  Town  lot  2  days 

April  3     one  day  do 

May  31     attending  on  pulling  down  Meeting  h  one  day 

June  2     half  day  do 

the  4     one  day  to  lay  out  the  spot 

8.  9.  10     3  when  diging  trench 

17.  18.  19  &  21.     3i  days  when  laying  stone 

22  &  23     2  days  when  sticking  boards 

the  30     one  day  at  Meeting  house 

July  25.  30  &  31     2i  days  do 

Aug.  3.  4  &  5     3  days  do 

the  13  &  13  &  16     2^  days  do 

25.  27  &  28     3  days  do 

the  30     I  day  do 

Sept.  10     I  day  do 

Oct.  I  to  7     6  days  do 

9.  II  &  12     3  days  do 
the  18     I  day  do 

the  23     I  day  do 
from  25  to  30     6  days  do 
Nov.  I  &  2     2  days  do 
4.  5  &  6     3  days  do 
from  8  to  13     5  days  do 
13.  15  &  16    3  days  do 

Carried  forward 
Nov  18     one  day  at  meeting  house 
the  20     I  day  do 
22.  23  &  24    3  days  do 
26  &  27     2  days  do 
Dec  I  to  4     4  do 
the  6     I  day  do 
From  8  to  1 1     4  days  do 
13.  14  &  15     3  days  do 
17  &  18     2  days  do 
20.  21  &  22     3  days  do 

4  days  out  of  town 
the  24  &  25     2  days  at  the  Meeting  house 
the  27  &  28     2  days  do 


Dr. 

2-33 
1.25 
1.25 
.58 
1.25 

3-50 
4.8 

2-33 
1-25 
2.92 

3-50 
2.92 
3-50 
1-33 
1-33 
6. 

3- 
I. 

I. 

6. 

1.84 

2-75 
4.60 

2.75 

$62,26 
.92 
.92 

2-75 
1.84 

3-67 
.92 

3-67 

2-75 
1.84 

2-75 
6. 

1.84 

1.84 


50                                MALDEN  HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

the  29  &  30     2  clays  do  1.84 

the  31     I  day  do  .92 

Jany  i     i  day  do  .92 

the  3.  4.  5  &  6     4  days  do  3.67 


$101.32 
extra  time  service  and  expenses  25. 


126.32 
add  4.00 


Maiden.  S  of  Jany  1803  130.32 

The  estimate  of  cost  of  materials  and  labor  were  also 
found  among  Mr.  Corey's  papers. 

An   Estimate  of  Materials  &  Labour  Necessary  for 
Building-  a  Brick  Meeting  House. 

$140 
288 
200 
260 
48 
300 
120 

Shingle  Nails  15 

Board  Nails  80 

Hinges  for  Doors  &c  50 

Lime  100 

Plastering  Lathes  &c  180 

Completing  ye  Inside  work  700 

Completing  ye  Roof  250 

Painting  Doors  81  1.  side  work  200 


Timber 

Mercht  Boards 

18th 

@  $16 

Clear  Do 

@    20 

Windows 

@      8 

Doors            6 

@      8 

Building  pews 
Shingles 

@      5 

40th  @      3 

2931 


Bricks  216  thous  @  $5  1080 

Lime  100 

Masons  Work  540 

Sand  &c  20 

1740 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  5 1 

Cupelow  200 

Turnover  1S40 

2931 


4771 
Stones  340 


501 1 


The  brick  used  in  the  construction  were  of  two  kinds: 
merchantable  brick  and  black  brick ;  the  latter  being  the 
well  baked  brick  taken  from  the  arches  of  the  kiln.  The 
price  was  $4.50  a  thousand.  The  brick  was  furnished  by 
William  Wait,  known  as  "Brickmaker  Bill"  (b.  1776,  d. 
1856)  who  was  father  of  William  Wait  of  Boston,  who  died 
in  1903. 

The  first  load  of  brick  was  delivered  19  June,  1802, 
and  on  13  August  twenty-five  thousand  were  delivered. 

Maiden  June.    1802    the  Committee   of    the   Meeting 
Hous 
Mr.  Ezra  Sargent. 

to  W'"  Wait  3'-^  Dr. 
Mr.  Edward  Wade. 

Capt  Richard  Dexter. 

1  thousand  of  black  Brick  2 

2  thousand  of  black  Brick  5 
July    2''i     I  thousand  of  black  Brick                                                           2 

Sth     I  thousand  of  black  Brick  3 

Qth     I  thousand  of  black  Brick  3 

iQtli     I  thousand  of  black  Brick  3 

14th     8  hundred  of  black  Brick  2 

August  i2tli     9  thousand  of  Brick  Carted  by  E.  Wade  42 

6  thousand  of  Brick  by  Winslow  Sargent  28 

3200  of  Brick  by  Eben  Harnden  15 

5  thousand  of  Brick  by  Joseph  Floyd  23 

3  thousand  of  Brick  by  Edward  Waide  14 


50 

50 

66 
66 
94 


94 
33 


52  MAI.DEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

4  thousand  of  Brick  by  Thomas  Hunt  18.66 

1800  by  Eben  Harnden  7.93 

2  thousand  by  Winslow  Sargent  9.33 

4250  of  brick  by  Nathan  Lynd  19.82 

1  thousand  of  Brick  by  Amas  Sargent  4.66 

2  thousand  of  Brick  by  Samuel  Tufts  9.33 
i5tl>     2  thousand  of  Brick  by  Benjamin  Lynde  9.33 

6  thousand  of  Brick  Carted  by  Edward  Wade  28. 

1  thousand  of  Brick  by  Nathan  Lynde  4.66 
I  thousand  of  Brick  by  Benjamin  Lynde  4.66 

i6tli     6  thousand  of  Brick  by  Barnard  Green  28. 

2  thousand  of  Brick  by  Bene  Lynde  9.33 
4  thousand  of  Brick  by  Edward  Wade  18.66 

4  thousand  of  Brick  by  Joseph  Floyd  18.66 
I7tli     6  thousand  of  Brick  by  Nathan  Lynde  juni"  28.00 

6  thousand  of  Brick  by  Winslow  Sargent  28.00 

5  thousand  of  Brick  by  Joseph  Floyd  23.33 
5  thousand  of  Brick  by  Thomas  Hunt  23.33 
I  thousand  of  Brick  by  Samuel  Tufts  4.66 


960DO  thousd  March  bricks  @  4.50  $432.06 

15000  Do  Black  Do  .  23.26 


47 1. 87 


1 1 1000  455-26 

Maiden  May  13  1803 

Reed  the  full  contents  of  this  account 

William  Wait^ 

The  timber  was  taken  from  the  town's  lot  and  some 
of  the  boards  and  joists  came  from  Medford.  Posts  and 
banisters  came  from  Boston. 

By  October  the  work  was  advanced  to  that  degree 
that  painting  was  being  done  and  the  latter  part  of  the 
month  the  windows  were  put  in.  On  17  November  the 
staging  was  carted  away  and  on  the  twentieth  a  team  was 
occupied  in  carting  away  the  "brick  bats"  on  the  land 
about  the  building.  The  painting  was  finished  on  22 
December  and  on  the  20th  at  a  town  meeting  the  thanks 
of  the  town  had  been  voted  the  committee. 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  53 

COLUMBIAN  CENTINEL  WEDNESAY,  JANUARY  26,    1S03. 

"On  Wednesday  last,  a  new  and  elegant  Brick  Church 
was  consecrated  to  the  purposes  of  divine  worship  by  the 
Society  of  Congregational  Christians  in  the  town  of 
Maiden — Their  Pastor,  the  Rev.  Aaron  Green,  delivered 
a  discourse  on  the  occasion,  from  ii  Chron.  II-4.  Behold 
I  build  an  House  to  the  name  of  the  Lord  my  God,  to 
dedicate  it  to  hifn.^^ 

"It  contained  a  number  of  historical  notices,  and  is,  we 
learn  with  pleasure  to  be  committed  to  the  press.  The 
Rev.  Dr.  Osgood  made  the  dedicatory  prayer,  and  the 
introductory  and  closing  prayers,  and  the  reading  of  the 
scriptures,  were  performed  by  the  Rev.  Mr.  Tuckerman. 
Sacred  music  was  had  at  proper  intervals,  and  every  part 
of  the  service  executed  with  great  solemnity  and  order. 
It  is  said,  that  the  utmost  regularity  and  concord  have 
attended  the  founding  progress  and  completion  of  the 
edifice,  which  is  ornamented  with  a  bell,  presented  by 
Timothy  Dexter,  Esq.,  of  Newbur^^port,  and  internally 
with  one  of  Willard's  beautiful  patent  clocks,  the  gift  of 
John  Harris,  Esq.,  of  Charlestown.  The  ladies  of  Maiden 
furnished  the  hangings  and  ornaments  of  the  window  and 
pulpit  and  presented  their  minister  with  a  gown  and 
cassoc." 


54  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 


SOME   NOTABLE    WOMEN    IN    THE  ANNALS 
OF  MALDEN. 

A  Paper  read  before  the  Maiden  Old  and  New  by  Mary  Lawrence  Mann. 


At  various  times  a  controversy  has  raged  over  the 
problem  as  to  which  Massachusetts  town  established  the 
first  public  school.  Was  it  the  Boston  Latin  School,  the 
school  at  Dorchester,  or  did  the  Old  Planters  of  Cape  Ann 
and  ancient  Naumkeag  maintain  a  school  supported  by 
public  funds?  Nobody  seems  quite  able  to  settle  the 
question.  A  more  modern  issue  perhaps  might  be  the 
question  which  Massachusetts  town  had  the  first  woman's 
club?  and  the  average  searcher  for  truth  would  hardly 
think  of  going  back  much  more  than  a  generation  for  light 
concerning  it.  The  fact  is,  however,  that  ancient  Maiden 
organized  her  women  for  action  within  two  years  of  the 
incorporation  of  the  town;  that  is,  in  165 1  ;  and  that  the 
custom  of  women  banding  themselves  together,  having 
committees  on  legislation  and  signing  appeals  to  the 
General  Court  had  its  first  illustration  upon  New  England 
soil  here. 

The  Massachusetts  Archives,  the  repository  of  price- 
less historical  treasures,  have  preserved  for  us  the  roll  of 
membership  of  this  famous  woman's  club,  which  was 
organized  to  save  to  Mystic  Side  the  services  of  its  first 
settled  pastor,  Rev.  Marmaduke  Matthews.  The  petition 
of  these  women  was  presented  to  the  Court  by  Capt.  Joseph 
Hills,  the  father  of  the  town,  and  it  pleads  with  the 
"  Hono'd  Court "  to  "  pass   by  some  personall  &  perticul'' 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  55 

ffaylings  And  to  p''mett  him  to  jmploy  those  tallents  God 
hath  ffurnish'd  him  w^^all." 

Many  of  these  mothers  of  Maiden  would  have  remained 
unknown  had  this  petition  not  been  preserved  ;  and  yet  the 
names  have  a  very  familiar  look,  for  they  are  those  of 
many  of  the  club  women  of  Maiden  to-day.  The  name 
of  Mrs.  Sargeant,  for  example,  heads  the  list,  and  perhaps 
she  was  the  president  of  Maiden's  first  woman's  club. 
Not  all  the  petitioners  were  matrons,  for  the  last  signature 
was  that  of  Rebecca  Hills,  a  daughter  of  the  Captain,  who 
some  time  after  married  Thomas  Greene  of  North  Maiden. 
Her  sister  Mary,  wife  of  Capt.  John  Wayte,  is  a  signer, 
and  her  name  is  followed  by  that  of  Sarah  Hills,  her  step- 
mother. -The  Mrs.  Shepard  of  that  day  bore  the  rather 
unique  name  of  "Thankslord."  The  second  signer  is  Joan 
Sprague  (wife  of  Ralph),  aud  among  other  names  are 
those  of  the  widow  Blanshar(d),  Mary  Pratt,  Bridget 
Dexter,  Elizabeth  and  Margaret  Greene,  Hannah  Barrett 
and  Hannah  Whittemore. 

The  reason  the  leader  in  this  petition  signs  her  name 
as  "Mrs."  Sargeant  is  quite  easy  of  explanation.  Up  to 
the  coming  of  Marmaduke  Matthews  the  little  flock  at 
Mystic  Side  had  been  sheperded  by  a  lay  preacher,  William 
Sargeant,  who  soon  after  sold  his  farm  on  the  Everett  slope 
of  Belmont  Hill  and  moved  to  Cape  Cod,  although  his 
descendants  remain  among  us. 

Such  a  subject  as  that  of  this  paper  leads  one  of 
necessity  to  think  of  the  wives  of  the  ministers  of  the 
ancient  town.  It  is  probable  that  in  the  early  period  of 
settlement  William  Sargeant  had  a  successor  who  preceded 
Matthews.  This  was  Rev.  Benjamin  Blackman,  who 
certainly  lived  here,  however  little  he  may  have  preached, 
and  whose  farm  included  Bell  Rock.     He  soon  went  to 


56  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

Black  Point,  on  the  Saco,  and  founded  Scarborough.  His 
wife  was  a  daughter  of  Capt.  Joshua  Scottow,  whose  farm 
was  in  the  heart  of  Boston,  and  included  the  site  of  the 
present  City  Hall  and  of  King's  Chapel.  It  was  Joshua 
Scottow  who  wrote  the  famous  "Narrative"  of  the  Great 
Emigration,  saying  of  Cape  Ann  "There  was  an  island 
.  and  sweet  single  roses,"  a  remark  that  has 
furnished  the  theme  for  many  poems. 

Marmaduke  Matthews  left  Maiden,  and  in  his  place 
came  that  gentle  poet,  physician,  pastor  and  teacher, 
Michael  Wigglesworth ;  and  with  him  came  his  wife, 
Mary,  daughter  of  Humphrey  Raynor  of  Rowley.  What 
a  life  she  must  have  led  with  the  patient  author  of  "  The 
Day  of  Doom." 

With  the  building  of  the  old  parsonage,  opposite  Bell 
Rock,  came  Joseph  Emerson;  and  he,  too,  had  a  wife 
Mary,  daughter  of  Rev.  Samuel  Moody  of  York,  whose 
grandfather,  John  Sewall,  was  a  brother  of  the  famous 
Chief  Justice  Samuel  Sewall,  who  presided  at  the  witch- 
craft trials.  Mary  Emerson  was  great  grandmother  of 
Ralph  Waldo  Emerson,  and  upon  the  death  of  her  husband 
and  the  coming  of  Rev.  Peter  Thacher  to  the  parsonage, 
"Madam  Emerson"  as  she  was  always  called,  moved  to  a 
house  which  stood  on  the  main  road  near  the  corner  of 
Irving  street,  where  the  diaries  and  journals  of  her  time 
show  that  that  she  shared  the  duty  and  dignity  of  enter- 
taining ministerial  and  other  visitors  with  the  inhabitants 
of  the  parsonage. 

Into  this  later  home  of  Madam  Emerson,  at  the  out- 
break of  the  Revolution,  came  a  little  baby  girl,  sent  from 
the  Old  Manse  in  Concord  by  her  father,  the  Rev.  William 
Emerson,  upon  the  death  of  her  mother.  This  child  was 
Mary  Mood}--  Emerson.     Upon  the  death  of    her  grand- 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  57 

mother,  an  aunt,  Ruth,  adopted  her,  making  her  heir  to 
the  home  in  which  she  lived  until  the  year  1807,  when  she 
moved  to  the  home  in  Maine,  within  sight  of  the  White 
Mountains,  where  she  spent  most  of  her  later  life.  Mar}- 
Moody  Emerson,  if  we  may  judge  her  by  the  standard  of 
her  partial  nephew,  Ralph  Waldo,  was  the  most  remark- 
able woman  who  ever  lived  in  Maiden.  Her  list  of  favorite 
authors,  beginning  with  Plato  and  ending  with  B3^ron, 
shows  mental  qualities  of  the  highest  order.  Early 
American  history  furnishes  the  name  of  but  one  other 
woman  of  similar  tastes  and  attainments,  Abigail  Adams, 
and  she,  too,  was  a  minister's  daughter. 

In  an  essay  written  late  in  his  life  Emerson  reproduced 
many  extracts  from  the  journal  of  his  favorite  aunt,  written 
during  her  life  in  Maiden,  and  these  show  her  a  frequent 
visitor  at  the  house  of  Capt.  Dexter  and  others,  and  very 
fond  of  long  walks,  in  what  must  then  have  been  the  fields 
and  woods  of  the  neighborhood.  We  can  easily  imagine 
her  following  the  highway  upon  which  she  lived  to  the 
Lynde  Woods,  now  included  in  Pine  Banks  Park,  perhaps 
crossing  the  meadows  and  Three  Myle  Brook  to  the  Cas- 
cades, following  up  Shilly  Shally  Brook,  and  thence 
returning  by  way  of  Jerry  Jingle  notch  through  Capt. 
Dexter's  woods  to  his  pastures,  dotted  with  cedars,  now 
the  West  End,  and  thence  to  the  mansion  on  the  Salem 
road. 

Madam  Emerson  had  a  rival  claimant  to  her  dignities 
in  the  parsonage  of  the  South  Parish.  This  was  her 
cousin.  Madam  Susanna  Porter  Cleveland,  a  w^oman  far 
more  famous  in  her  time  than  Emerson's  granddame,  who 
was  also  to  have  a  great  man  for  a  descendant  in  the  fourth 
generation,  Grover  Cleveland.  Her  husband.  Rev.  Aaron 
Cleveland,  was  in  his  descent,  like  Joseph  Emerson,  one 


58  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

of  a  long  line  of  ministers.  After  a  comparatively  brief 
pastorate  in  the  South  Parish  of  Maiden,  he  became 
interested  in  the  Church  of  England,  went  to  Halifax, 
Nova  Scotia,  where  he  founded  St.  Matthew's  church, 
which  still  flourishes,  the  oldest  in  that  city.  He  returned 
to  the  colonies,  and  died  in  1757  at  the  house  of  his  friend, 
Benjamin  Franklin,  in  Philadelphia. 

Susanna  Porter  Cleveland  was  the  daughter  of  Rev. 
Aaron  and  Susanna  Sewall  of  Salem,  her  grandfather 
being  a  brother  of  Jndge  Samuel  Sewall,  the  famous 
diarist,  already  referred  to.  The  death  of  her  husband 
found  her  with  ten  children  to  care  for ;  and  histor}^  tells 
us  that  she  returned  to  her  old  home  in  Salem,  where  she 
not  only  reared  her  numerous  family  respectably  but 
preserved  her  social  position,  associating  always  with  the 
best  circles,  and  receiving  as  her  visitors,  the  learned,  the 
witty  and  the  celebrated  of  her  time. 

Meanwhile,  in  the  north  part  of  Maiden  a  child  was 
maturing  in  the  Upham  family,  who,  for  reasons  which 
will  be  stated,  became  a  woman  of  great  interest  in  Ameri- 
can life.  Hannah  Upham  was  the  daughter  of  Phineas 
and  Hannah  Waite  Upham.  She  was  born  in  Maiden, 
May  6,  1734.  She  was  descended  from  John  Upham,  the 
early  Maiden  settler ;  from  Capt.  John  Way te  and  his  wife 
Mary  Hills,  daughter,  as  already  stated,  of  Capt.  Joseph 
Hills,  the  founder  of  the  town;  from  Rev.  Mr.  Oakes,  the 
fourth  president  of  Harvard  College,  and  from  John  How- 
land,  the  Mayflower  Pilgrim.  When  she  was  four  years 
old  her  father  and  three  of  his  four  children  died  of  the 
throat  distemper,  and  Hannah  was  brought  very  low.  Dr. 
Tufts,  of  revered  memory,  attended  her,  but  his  remedies 
were  ineffectual.  Returning  one  day  from  visiting  her 
he  resolved  to  spend  the  night  in  study  and  prayer  on  her 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  59 

account.  He  found  a  medicine  which  he  had  not  tried  and 
administered  it.  She  began  to  improve  and  in  time  re- 
covered. She  was  married  in  Maiden,  by  the  Rev.  Joseph 
Emerson,  to  John  Ilaskins,  the  noted  Boston  merchant,  her 
age  then  being  eighteen,  and  became  the  mother  of  sixteen 
children.  At  her  death,  in  her  eighty-sixth  year,  it  was 
said  of  her :  "She  has  performed  all  the  duties  of  life  well ; 
with  truth  may  it  be  said,  she  is  one  of  the  best  of  mothers, 
best  of  wives,  best  of  Christians,  and  best  of  women."  Her 
daughter  Ruth  Haskins  married  Rev.  William  Emerson, 
and  died  at  the  home  of  her  famous  son,  Ralph  Waldo 
Emerson,  in  Concord,  in  1853.* 

John  and  Hannah  Upham  Haskins  lived  in  a  great 
house  on  Rainsford's  lane,  now  Harrison  avenue,  Boston. 
He  was  a  pew  holder  in  King's  Chapel,  Boston,  and  one 
of  those  who  strongly  opposed  the  modifications  made 
in  the  prayer  book  used  by  that  society,  attending  there- 
after Trinity  church,  although  always  retaining  his 
pew  in  the  old  stone  chapel  on  Tremont  street,  which 
remains  one  of  the  most  precious  landmarks  of  Boston. 
Hannah  Upham  never  forgot  the  teachings  of  Joseph 
Emerson,  and  remained  a  devout  Congregationalist  all  her 
life.  Every  Sunday  the  fond  couple  would  walk  from 
their  mansion  to  the  corner  of  Winter  and  Marlboro, 
(now  Washington)  streets,  followed  by  their  sixteen 
children  walking  in  pairs.  At  this  point  the  father  and 
the  children  sharing  his  views  would  turn  down  Summer 
street  to  Trinity  church,  while  the  mother  and  the  rest  of 
the  children  would  go  to  Park  Street  church.  If  a  guest 
were  with  them  Mr.  Haskins  would  gravely  inquire  :  "  Do 
you  prefer  to  go  to  meeting  with  Mrs.  Haskins,  or  will  you 

*From  Rev.  William  Emerson's  diary :  "1779— April  6.     I  went  to  church  this  morning 
and  stood  sponsor  for  John  Haskins'  son — is  named  Ralph." 


6o  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

worship  with  the  saints  and  sarvants  of  the  Lord  at 
Trinity?"* 

Capt.  John  and  Mary  Hills  Waite,  already  referred  to 
as  ancestors  of  Hannah  Upham,  originally  lived  in  a  house 
at  Mystic  Side  which  they  purchased  in  1644  of  Widow 
Martha  Coytmore,  who  became  the  wife  of  Governor  John 
Winthrop.  As  the  spouse  of  a  great  governor,  this 
interesting  person  ought  not  to  be  omitted  from  the  list  of 
Maiden's  notable  women.  Martha  Rainsworth  Coytmore, 
whose  husband's  name  is  preserved  in  one  of  our  public 
parks,  after  the  death  of  Thomas  Coytmore,  married  John 
Winthrop,  and  for  a  time  lived  in  the  house  on  Cornhill, 
now  Washington  street,  near  the  Old  South  church  and 
facing  up  School  street.  Upon  the  death  of  the  famous 
governor,  she  again  ventured  upon  the  sea  of  matrimony, 
marrying  John  Coggan,  and  returning  to  Maiden.  John 
Coggan  died,  and  then,  we  are  told,  this  widow  of  one 
governor,  two  very  respectable  millers  and  the  mother  of 
six  children  "discontented  that  she  had  no  suitors, 
encouraged  her  farmer,  a  mean  man,  grew  discontented, 
despaired,  and  tooke  a  great  quantity  of  ratts  bane,  and  so 
died." 

The  period  which  preceded  the  Civil  War,  was  in 
Maiden,    as  elsewhere  in    New  England,  one  of   contro- 

*Ruth  Haskins  was  the  seventh  child  of  this  interesting  couple.  She  had  five  sisters 
and  one  brother  older  than  herself,  as  she  ^rew  up,  and  three  sisters  and  three  brothers 
younger.  Before  her  marriage  to  William  Emerson,  D.  G.  Haskins  tells  us,  she 
frequently  visited  her  grandmother,  Hannah  Waite  (Upham)  Cooke  and  her  Aunts  Waite 
in  Maiden,  meeting  Mr.  Emerson,  who  would  come  from  Concord  to  see  his  grandmother, 
Madam  Emerson  and  his  aunts,  Brinton  and  Rebecca  Emerson  (the  "B.and  R.  Emerson" 
of  Peter  Thacher'd  diary,  for  which  see  the  last  issue  of  the  Register)  and  his  Aunts 
Waite,  with  whom  his  sister,  Mary  Moody  Emerson  lived.  Ruth  Haskins'  "Aunts 
Waite"  were  Ruth  and  Sarah,  sisters  of  her  grandmother,  who  both  died  unmarried. 
William  Emerson's  "Aunts  Waite"  were  Rebecca  and  Ruth  Emerson,  one  the  third 
and  the  other  the  fourth  wife  of  Samuel  Waite  of  Maiden.  It  is  doubtful  if  the  fact  has 
ever  before  been  noted  that  two  of  Ralph  Waldo  Emerson's  grandparents  and  four  of  his 
great-grandparents  were  natives  of  Maiden. 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  6 1 

versy  over  slavery.  There  were  at  least  three  stations  of 
the  underground  railroad  here,  and  it  goes  without  saying 
that  to  maintain  these  required  heroism  on  the  part  of  the 
women  in  these  homes.  The  mistress  of  the  Wilson 
house,  so  long  the  old  parsonage,  was  one  of  these ; 
another  was  Almira  Bailey  Morey,  wife  of  David  B. 
Morey,  whose  home  was  on  Hillside  avenue.  This  worthy 
couple  named  most  of  their  children  after  noted  Abolition- 
ists. Still  another  station  was  the  home  of  Gilbert  and 
Hannah  (Burrell)  Haven.  Hannah  Haven  was  a  descend- 
ant of  John  and  Priscilla  Alden,  and  the  mother  of  Bishop 
Gilbert  Haven.  She  was  a  real  daughter  of  the  Revolu- 
tion. In  the  days  of  the  Rebellion,  as  during  the  Revolu- 
tion, every  Maiden  wife  and  mother  was  a  heroine. 

You  will  hardly  expect  me  to  catalogue  the  women 
who  have  been  prominent  in  Maiden  during  this  genera- 
tion ;  but  it  is  not  easy  to  forget  the  service  to  the  commu- 
nity of  such  a  woman  as  Mrs.  Mary  D.  Converse ;  of 
Mrs.  Harriette  H.  Robinson,*  the  friend  of  LucyLarcom, 
and  the  inspirer  of  the  gifted  "  Warrington  "  in  his  work  as 
a  publicist;  of  Mrs.  P.  S.  J.  Talbot,  sister  of  the  brave 
General  Oliver  Otis  Howard,  and  herself  a  leader  in 
reform  work ;  of  such  an  educator  as  Miss  Marcia  Brown, 
whose  work  established  the  primary  school  system  of  Sao 
Paulo,  Brazil ;  of  Mrs.  Harriette  Robinson  Shattuck,  the 
noted  parliamentarian  ;  or  of  Mrs.  Jenness  Miller,  of  dress 
reform  fame,  for  many  years  a  resident  here,  and  Mary 
A.  Livermore  of  Melrose,  so  long  a  part  of  old  Maiden, 
whose  memory  all  womanhood  reveres. 

The  spirit  of  the  remonstrants  against  injustice  to 
Marmaduke    Matthews    abides    in    the    hearts    of   their 

•Mrs.  Robinson  has  died  since  this  paper  was  read. 


62  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

successors,  and  who  can  doubt  that  the  women  of  Maiden 
are  as  ready  to  exercise  their  right  of  petition — to  uphold 
goodness  and  to  protest  against  wrong  —  as  were  the 
women  of  ancient  Mystic  Side. 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  63 


INSCRIPTIONS  IN  THE  BELL  ROCK  CEMETERY. 

Transcribed  by  the  late  Deloraine  Pendre  Corey, 


[The  Bell  Rock  Cemetciy  contains  the  graves  of  many  of  the  founders  of  Maiden,  and 
of  manj'  of  the  pastors  and  others  prominent  in  the  early  history  of  the  town.  Here  is  the 
grave  of  Michael  Wigglesworth,  New  England's  first  noted  poet;  that  of  the  builders  of 
the  Old  South  Church  in  Boston,  of  Job  Lane,  New  England's  first  bridge  builder,  of 
many  of  Ralph  Waldo  Emerson's  ancestors.  Mr.  Corey,  with  the  assistance  of  his  son, 
Dr.  Arthur  D.  Corey,  copied  these  inscriptions  many  years  ago,  a  labor  of  love  that  con. 
sumed  many  weeks  of  time.  Since  that  work  was  done  many  of  the  stones  have  dis- 
appeared.] 

Alice  Brakenbury  Wife 

of  William  Brakenbury 

Aged  70  Years  Died 

Decern  38,  1670 


Fugit  Dora 

Here  Lies  Y*  Body  Of 

Thomas  Call 

Aged  79  Y'" 

Dec''  in  May 

1676 

Memento  Te  Esse  Mortal'-''" 


Here  Lies  Y^  Body  Of  Samuel 

Lee  Aged  36  Y"^  Deed''  In 

August  1676 


Here  Lyes  y*^  Body 

Of  lohn  Dexter 

Aged  38  Years 

Died  December  8 

1677 


64  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

Rvth  Vpham 

Aged  12  Years  °'"' 

December  y   8"'  1676 


Fugit  Dora 

Here  Lies  y*"  Body 

Of  Thomas  Call 

'""^  Aged  About 

45  Y^^  Dec'^  In  Noue;,, 

1678 


Here  Lies  y*^  Body  Of 

John  Allin  Aged 

About  30  y''  Dec''  In 

Nouember  1678 


Mary  Lee  Aged 
13  y"  Died  in 
Janviary  1678 


Marcy  Allin  Wife 

To  John  Allin  Aged 

35  y^  Dec''  in  lanuary 

1678 


Hannah  Lee 

Aged  5  y"  Dec'' 

In  January 

1678 


Fugit  Dora 

John 

Winslead 

Aged  28  Years 

Dyed  January 

the  10,  1683 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  65 

Here  Lyes  y*"  Body 

Of  John  Upham 

Aged  84  y=  Died 

Feb'  25,  1 68 1 


With  Upham  stones  are  the  following  heads-tones  of  children 
lU  SU 

16S3  1684 

MU 
MU 
1684 


Here  Lyes  y*"  Body  of 

Elizabeth  Tufts 

Wife  to  Peter 

Tufts  Who  Died 

Julyy^  15,  16S4 

And  in  the  33  Year 

Of  Her  Age 


Mary  Upham 

Daughter  Of 

Phinehas  And 

Mary  Upham 

Aged  2  Years  Died 

August  20,  16S7 


Here  Lyes  y-^  Body  Of 
Cap'  John  Sprague 

Aged  6"^  Years 

Who  Departed  This 

Life  The  25  Day 

Of  June  1692 

The  Memory  Of  y=  lust  Is  Blessed 


66  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

Here  Lyes  y^  Body  Of 

Elizabeth  Blanchard 

Wife  To  loshvia  Blanchard 

Aged  21  Years  Died  luly  15 

16S8 


lonathan  Tufts 

Son  Of  lonathan 

&  Rebekah  Tufts 

Aged  3  Years  & 

5  M°  Died  Decern 

ber  15,  1688 


Here  Lies  The  Body  of 

Martha  Wigglesworth 

Late  Wife  to  Michael 

Wigglesworth  Who 

Dec'^  September  4  1 690 

Aged  About  28  Years 


Here  Lyes  y^  Body  Of 
Sibble  Doolitell  Wife 

To  John  Doolitell 
Aged  About  82  Years 

Died  September  23 
1690 


Ebeneyer  Floyd 

Son  of  Hu  & 

Elener  Floyd 

Born  February 

31  1690 

Died  luly  30 

1692 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  67 

Here  Lyeth  The 

Body  Of  Mary 

Lynd  Aged  Ab 

out  34  Yer^  Died 

December  y^  22 

1690 


Here  Lyes  y^  Body  Of 

Beniamin  Eustes  Son 

Of  William  &  Sarah 

Eustes  Aged  25  y' 

Died  4  Of  lanuary 

1690 


Here  Lyes  The 

Body  of  Phinehas 

Sprague  Aged  53 

Years  Died  y*'  23  Of 

January  1690' 


Nathanael 

Floyd  Son  of 

Joseph  And 

Elizabeth  Floyd 

Aged  9  Month 

Died  March 

y^  12""  1692 


Here  Lyes  y"  Body 

Of  Elizabeth 

Wife  To  Richar-i 

Hildreth  Aged 

68  Years  Died 

August  3 

1693 


68  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

Here  Lyes  y*  Body 

Of  Isaac  Lewes 

Aged  34  Years 

Who  Departed 

This  Life  April  y-^  6'" 

1 69 1 


Here  Lyes  y"  Body 

Of  Ralph 

Shephard  Aged 

90  Years 

Died  September  y""  11 

1693 


Here  Lyes  y*"  Body 

Of  William 

Bucknam  Agfed 

41  Years  Died 

September  y*"  1 7 

1693 


Here  lyes  y^  Body 

Cap  lohn  Wayte 

Aged  75  Years 

Died  September  26 

1693 


Momento  Mori  Fugit  Dora 

Here  Lyes  y"  Body  Of 

Ensign  Thomas  Lynd 

Aged  78  Years  Died  y^ 

15  Of  October  1693 

Also  The  Body  Of 

Elizabeth  His  Wife 

Aged  81  Years  Died  y*^ 

2  Of  September  1693 

The  Memory  of  y^  lust  Is  Blessed 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  69 

Thomas 

Green  Aged 

42  Years  Died 

April  28 

1694 


Here  Lyes  y""  Body 

Of  loses  Bucknam 

Aged  53  Years 

Died  The  24  Of 

August  1694 


Rebecca 

Newhall 

Aged  18  Years 

Died  October 

1694 


Here  lyes  Buried 

y^  Body  of  M^ 

Jacob  Parker 

Who  Departed  this 

life  Octo'^^  31^'  1694 

Aged  42  Years 


Here  Lyes  y*^  Body 

Of  Ruth  Uppam 

Aged  60  Years 

Died  lanuary 

18  1696  7 


Here  Lyes  y*"  Body 

Of  William 

Boordman  Aged 

38  Years  Died 

March  14  1696 


70  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

Margaret 

Auery  Died 

Nouember  lo 

1694  &  in  y° 

9  year  of 

Her  Age 


Here  Lyes  y'  Body  Of 

Lois  Sprague  Wife 

To  Samuel  Sprague 

Aged  24  Years 

Died  April  6  1696 

Also  Here  Lyes  Their 

Child 


Here  Lyes  y^  Body  Of 

Lieutenant 

Samuel  Sprague 

Aged  65  Years 

Died  October  3 

1696 

Y"  Memory  Of  y=  lust  Is  Blessed 


losiah 

Blanchard  Son 

Of  Joshua  & 

Mehetabel 

Blanchard 

Died  April  iS 

1697 


Here  Lyeth  Buried 

y°  Body  Of  Job  Lane 

Aged  77  Years  Died 

August  y'=  23 

1697 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL   SOCIETY  ^I 

Here  Lyes  y*"  Body 

Of  Hannah  Shephar'' 

Wife  to  Thomas 

Shepard  Aged 

59  Years  Died 

March  14  169S 

Elizabeth 

Townsend 

Wife  To 

Samuel  Townse"'' 

Aged  40  Years 

Died  Nouember 

20  1699 


Here  Lyes  y*^  Body  Of 
Elizabeth  Lynde 

Wife  to  lohn 

Lynde  Aged  38 

Died  January  19 

1699 


Mary  Floyd 
Daughter  Of 
Hu  &  Elener 

Floyd  Born 

luly  22,  169S 

Died  March 

10  1699 


Here  Lyes  y*"  Body 

Of  Elizabeth 

y=  Wife  of 

Joseph  Lamson 

Aged  45  Years 

Dec''  June  y'  10"" 

1703 


72  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

Here  Lyes  The  Body  Of 

Peter  Tufts  Aged  83 

Years  Died  May  13 

1700 

Also  Here  Lyes  Y=  Body  Of 

Mary  Tufts  His  Wife 
Aged  75  Years  Died  January 

1703 


Here  Lyes  ye  Body  of 
Samuel  Brackenbury 
Physician  Who  Died 
Nouember  36  1702 
Aged  About  30  Years 


Here  Lyes  y^  Body  Of 
Hannah  Pabody 

Wife  To  lohn  Pabody 
Aged  About  60 

Years  Died  Decembe"^ 
24  1703 


John  Mitchell 

Son  to  John  & 

Elizabeth  Mitchell 

Aged  z)  Years  & 

9  M°  Died  August 

ye  27"'  1703 


Elizabeth 

Boldwin  Da^^-^ 

Of  Joseph 

&  Elizabeth 

Boldwin  Aged 

3  Years  &  6  M° 

Died  May  y'=  35"' 

1703 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  73 

Elizabeth 

y"^  Daughter  Of 

Oliver  &  Anna 

Atwood 

Aged  10  M°  14  D'' 

Died  July  y^  31' 

1703 


Here  Lyes  y^  Body 

Of  Jonathan  Houard 

Aged  35  Years 

Desesed  March  y^ 

6"'  1702 


Here  Lyes  y"^ 

Body  of  Beniame" 

Whittemore 

Juner  Aged 

33  Years  Died 

October  y=  6"^ 

1703 


Abigail 

Mitchell  Dau' 

To  John  & 

Elizabeth  Mitchell 

Aged  I  Year  & 

8  Months  Died 

October  y''  1 1"' 

1703 


Here  Lyeth  Buried 
y^  Body  Of 
John  Sprague 
Aged  51  Years  9  M° 
&  6  Days  Died  y^  16 

Of  Decem"^  ^703 
(To  be   Continued.^ 


th 


74  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 


MALDEN   HISTORICAL   SOCIETY. 

Organized,  March  8,  i8S6. 
Incorporated  February  7,  1887. 


President. 
CHARLES   EDWARD    MANN 

'Vice  Presidents. 

JOSLIUA   W.  WELLMAN,  D.  D. 
GEORGE    L.  GOULD 
ROSWELL    R.  ROBINSON 

Secretary-  Treasurer. 
GEORGE   WALTER  CHAMBERLAIN 

Directors. 

Charles  H.  Adams  Roswell  R.  Robinson 

Sylvester  Baxter  William  G.  A.  Turner 

George  W.  Chamberlain  Walter  Kendall  Watkins 

George  L.  Gould  Arthur  W.  Wellman 

Charles  E.  Mann  Joshua  W.  Wellman,  D.D. 
H.  Heustis  Newton 

Libyarian  and  Curator. 
Herbert  W.  Fison 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  7$ 

COMMITTEES,   1913-13. 

Finance. 

George  L.  Gould  William  G.  Merrill 

Arthur  W.  Walker 

Pubhcaitott. 

Charles  E.  Mann  Sylvester  Baxter 

W.  G.  A.  Turner  Roswell  R.  Robinson 

Arthur  H.  Wellman 


Membership. 

George  W.  Chamberlain  Thomas  S.  Rich 

Charles  H.  Adams  Rev.  Alfred  Noon 

Mrs.  a.  a.  Nichols  Mrs.  Henry  W.  Upham 

Genealogies. 

Walter  Kendall  Watkins  Dr.  Charles  Burleigh 

George  W.  Chamberlain  William  B.  Snow- 

Mrs.  Alfred  H.  Burlen 

Social. 

Mrs.  Mary  Greenleaf  Turner  Mrs.  Mary  Lawrence   Mann 

Mrs.  J.  Parker  Swett  Mrs.  F.  T.  A.  McLeod 

Mrs.  Sylvester  Baxter 

Ca7nera. 

William  L.  Hallworth  Peter  Graffam 

Eugene  A.  Perry  J.  Lewis  Wightman 

Richard  Greenleaf  Turner 


Historic  Loan  Exhibition. 

William  G.  A.  Turner  Mrs.  William  D.  Hawley 

Mrs.  S.  E.  Mansfield 


76  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 


BY-LAWS 

OF    THE 

MALDEN    HISTORICAL   SOCIETY. 

[Adopted  at  the  annual  meeting  March  13,  191 3.] 


NAME 

This  society  shall  be  called  the  Maiden  Historical 
Society. 

OBJECTS 

The  objects  of  this  society  shall  be  to  collect,  preserve 
and  disseminate  the  local  and  general  history  of  Maiden 
and  the  genealogy  of  Maiden  families ;  to  make  anti- 
quarian collections ;  to  collect  books  of  general  history, 
genealogy  and  biography  ;  and  to  prepare,  or  cause  to  be 
prepared  from  time  to  time,  such  papers  and  records 
relating  to  these  subjects  as  may  be  of  general  interest  to 
the  members. 

MEMBERSHIP 

The  members  of  this  society  shall  consist  of  two 
classes,  active  and  honorary,  and  shall  be  such  persons 
either  resident  or  non-resident  of  Maiden,  as  shall,  after 
being  approved  by  the  board  of  directors,  be  elected  by 
the  vote  of  a  majority  of  the  members  present  and  voting 
at  any  regularly  called  meeting  of  the  society. 

Honorary  members  may  be  nominated  by  the  board 
of  directors  and  shall  be  elected  by  ballot  by  a  two-thirds 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  77 

vote  of  the  members  present  and  voting  at  any  regularly 
called  meeting.  They  shall  enjoy  all  the  privileges  of  the 
society  except  that  of  voting. 

OFFICERS 

The  officers  of  the  society  shall  include  a  recording 
secretary,  and  a  treasurer,  who  shall  be  members  of  the 
board  of  directors.  The  society  may  in  its  discretion  elect 
one  person  as  secretary-treasurer  to  perform  the  duties  of 
recording  secretary  and  treasurer.  The  other  officers  to 
be  elected  by  the  society  shall  be  a  board  of  eleven 
directors,  including  the  officer  or  officers  named  above. 
The  recording  secretary,  treasurer  (or  secretary-treasurer), 
and  directors  shall  be  elected  by  ballot  at  the  annual 
meeting  of  the  society. 

The  board  of  directors  shall  from  their  number  elect 
by  ballot  a  president  and  three  vice  presidents,  and  from 
the  members  of  the  society  may  elect  a  librarian  and 
curator  and  such  other  officers  as  may  be  deemed  neces- 
sary. All  officers  shall  serve  for  one  year,  or  until  their 
successors  are  elected  and  qualified.  The  board  of 
directors  may  fill  any  vacancies  for  unexpired  terms. 

COMMITTEES 

The  board  of  directors  may  elect  annually  committees 
on  finance,  publication,  membership,  genealogies  and  such 
other  committees  as  the  society  may  direct  or  the  board 
deem  desirable. 

DUES 

The  annual  dues  of  the  society  shall  be  one  dollar. 
Any  active  member  may  become  a  life  member  by  the 
payment  of  twenty-five  dollars  during  any  one  year,  which 


yS  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

shall  exempt  such  member  from  the  payment  of  further 
annual  dues.  The  board  of  directors  shall  have  discretion 
to  drop  from  the  membership  roll  any  person  failing  to 
pay  his  annual  assessment  for  two  successive  years. 

MEETINGS 

The  annual  meeting  of  the  society  shall  be  held  on 
the  second  Wednesday  in  March  for  the  election  of  officers 
and  the  transaction  of  other  business.  Regular  meetings 
shall  be  called  in  May,  October,  December  and  January. 
Special  meetings  may  be  called  by  the  president  at  his 
discretion  and  five  members  shall  constitute  a  quorum  for 
the  transaction  of  business  at  any  meeting. 

AMENDMENTS 

These  by-laws  maybe  altered,  amended  or  suspended, 
by  a  two-thirds  vote  of  the  members  present  and  voting  at 
any  meeting,  notice  of  such  proposed  action  having  been 
given  in  the  call  for  said  meeting. 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 


79 


MEMBERS  1911-1912. 


Adams,  Charles  H. 
Allen,  Claude  L.     . 
Ammann,  Albert     . 

Barnes,  Roland  D. 
Bailey,  Dudley  P.  . 
Bailey,  WilFiam  M. 
Baxter,  Sylvester     . 
Belcher,  Charles  F. 
Bennett,  Frank  P.,  Sr. 
Berry,  Mrs.  Mary  A. 
Bickford,  Erskine  F. 
Bliss,  Alvin  E. 
Bliss,  Edwin  P. 
Boutwell,  Harvey  L. 
Bradstreet,  George   F. 
Bruce,  Charles 
Bruce,  Judge  Charles  M 
Burbank,  Edwin  C. 
Burleigh,  Dr.  Charles 
Burgess,  James  H. 
Burgess,  Mrs.  O.  B. 
Burlen,  Mrs.  Alfred  H. 

Carr,  Joseph  T. 
Casas,  William  B.  de  las 
Chadwick,  F.  Henry 
Chadwick,  Dr.  Mara  L. 
Chamberlain,  George  W 
Chandler,  John  G. 


.  59  Orient  avenue,  Melrose 

Melrose 
50  Acorn  street.  Maiden 

23  Spring  street,  Maiden 
.    Lock  Box  5,  Everett 
2  Ridgewood  road.  Maiden 
32  Murray  Hill  road.  Maiden 
148  Hawthorne  street.  Maiden 
Saugus,  Mass. 
79  Mountain  avenue.  Maiden 
38  Main  street.  Maiden 
60  Linden  avenue.  Maiden 
17  Linden  avenue,  Maiden 
37  Pierce  street.  Maiden 
208  Maple  street.  Maiden 
Everett 
155  Hawthorne  street.  Maiden 
.     37  Beltran  street,  Maiden 
53  Washington  street.  Maiden 
72  Mountain  avenue,  Maiden 
72  Mountain  avenue.  Maiden 
978  Blue  Hill  avenue,  Dorchester 


.     218  Salem  street,  Maiden 
95  Cedar  street,  Maiden 
30  Mt.  Vernon  street.  Maiden 
(Pratt)       .  34  Florence  street.  Maiden 
29  Hillside  avenue.  Maiden 
2  Dexter  street.  Maiden 


8o 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 


Chase,  James  F. 
Chase,  Melville  E. 
Chester,  William  F, 
Cobb,  Darius  . 

Coggan,  M.  Sumner 
Converse,  William  H. 
Corbett,  John  M.     . 
Corey,  Mrs.  Isabella  H. 
Covell,  Leroy  J. 
Cox,  Alfred  E. 
Croxford,  Harry  B. 

Damon,  George  E. 
Damon,  Herbert 
Daniels,  Charles  A. 
Davis,  Dr.  Myron    . 
Dawes,  Miss  Agnes  H. 
Dearborn,  John 
Dennett,  Charles  E. 
Donovan,  James 
Doonan,  Owen  P.   . 
Drew,  Frank  E. 
Dutton,  George  C. 

Eaton,  Charles  L. 
Elwell,  Fred  S. 
Estey,  Frank  W.     . 
Evans,  Wilmot  R.,  Sr. 

Fall,  George  Howard 
Fison,  Herbert  W. 
Fowle,  Frank  E.     . 
Freeman,  Dr.  Dexter  C. 
Freeman,  Melville  C. 
French,  Mrs.  C.  M. 


20  Crescent  avenue.  Maiden 

7  Ashland  street.  Maiden 

39  Rockland  avenue.  Maiden 

1 10  Tremont  street,  Boston 

or  Newton  Upper  Falls,  Mass. 

17  Garland  avenue,  Maiden 

4  Park  avenue.  Maiden 

.  79  Tremont  street.  Maiden 

.     2  Berkeley  street.  Maiden 

4  Everett  street,  Maiden 

80  Appleton  street.  Maiden 

3  Kern  wood  street,  Maiden 

Melrose 

191  Mountain  avenue.  Maiden 

88  Mt.  Vernon  street,  Maiden 

.     237  Salem  street.  Maiden 

I  Ridgewood  road.  Maiden 

435  Main  street.  Maiden 

.  13  Tremont  street.  Maiden 

33  Grace  street,  Maiden 

93  Highland  avenue.  Maiden 

99  Washington  street.  Maiden 

.     Glen  Rock,  Maiden 

44  Dexter  street,  Maiden 

166  Lawrence  street,  Maiden 

136  Hawthorne  street.  Maiden 

Broadway,  Everett 

12  Evelyn  place.  Maiden 

Public  Library,  Maiden,  Mass. 

331  Summer  street.  Maiden 

20  Cross  street.  Maiden 

Roxbury 

.    317  Clifton  street,  Maiden 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 


8l 


Gay,  Edward 
Gay,  Dr.  Fritz  W. 
Goatman,  Florence  C. 
Goodwin,  Dr.  Richard  J 
Gould,  Edwin  Carter 
Gould,  George  L.    . 
Gould,  Mrs.  Lizzie  L. 
Gould,  Levi  S. 
Graffam,  Peter 

Hallworth,  William  L. 
Hardy,  Arthur  P.    . 


1 8  Dexter  street.  Maiden 

.     105  Salem  street.  Maiden 

425  Main  street.  Maiden 

481  Pleasant  street.  Maiden 

Melrose 

24  Alpine  street.  Maiden 

34  Alpine  street.  Maiden 

3S0  Main  street,  Melrose,  Mass. 

.    I  Si  Clifton  street,  Maiden 

.47  Meridian  street.  Maiden 
.    41  Ivy  road.  Maiden 


Haven,  Rev.  William  Ingraham,  D.D. 

Bible  House,  Astor  place,  New  York,  N.  Y. 


Hawley,  Mrs.  Alice  C. 
Hawley,  William  D. 
Hawley,  William  H. 
Heath,  Alexander   . 
Hobbs,  William  J. 
Holden,  Leverett  D. 
Hosford,  Arthur  P. 
Houdlette,  Mrs.  Edith  L 
Hutchins,  John  W. 

Jenkins,  Thornton  . 
Johnson,  George  H. 
Jones,  George  R.  . 
Joslin,  Frederick  N. 

Kerr,  Alexander 
King,  Edward  S.    . 
King,  Robert  C. 
King,  Mrs.  Robert  C. 
Kirtland,  Ralph  M. 

Kirtland,  Mrs.  R.  M. 


36  Washington  street.  Maiden 

36  Washington  street.  Maiden 

.  40  Newhall  street.  Maiden 

30  Oxford  street,  Maiden 

33  Converse  street.  Maiden 

.    40  Prescott  street,  Maiden 

32  Kernwood  street.  Maiden 

Melrose 
3  Main  street  Park,  Maiden 

14  Gellineau  street.  Maiden 
.    481  Salem  street,  Maiden 

Melrose 
.  34  Concord  street,  Maiden 

40  Glen  street.  Maiden 

25  Garland  avenue,  Maiden 

.    47  Francis  street.  Maiden 

.    47  Francis  street.  Maiden 

49  Pierce  street.  Maiden 

49  Pierce  street.  Maiden 


82 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 


Lang,  Thomas 
Locke,  Col.  Elmore  E.   . 
Locke,  Col.  Frank  L. 
Lund,  James  . 

Magee,  Charles  R. 
Mann,  Charles  E. 
Mann,  Mrs.  Mary  Lawrence 
Mansfield,  Mrs.  S.  E. 
McDonald,  Daniel 
McGregor,  Alexander 
McLain,  Lewellyn  H. 
McLeod,  Willard    . 
Merrill,  William  G. 
Millett,  Charles  H. 
Millett,  Mrs.  M.  C. 
Millett,  Joshua  H. 
Millett,  Mrs.  R.  M. 
Miner,  Franklin  M. 
Moore,  Eugene  H. 
Morse,  Tenney 
Mudge,  Rev.  James,  D.D. 

Neels,  John  W. 
Newhall,  Louis  C. 
Newton,  H.  Heustis 
Nichols,  Mrs.  Adeline  A. 
Noon,  Rev.  Alfred,  Ph.  D. 
Norris,  Dr.  Albert  L. 


202  Mountain  avenue.  Maiden 

37  Alpine  street.  Maiden 

.    219  Clifton  street.  Maiden 

142  Hawthorne  street.  Maiden 

Pleasant  street  park,  Maiden 

14  Woodland  road.  Maiden 

14  Woodland  road.  Maiden 

57  Glenwood  street,  Maiden 

20S  Washington  street.  Maiden 

.     Glen  Rock,  Maiden 

Melrose 

147  Walnut  street.  Maiden 

149  Walnut  street.  Maiden 

217  Clifton  street.  Maiden 

217  Clifton  street.  Maiden 

22  Parker  street,  Maiden 

22  Parker  street.  Maiden 

127  Summer  street,  Maiden 

Melrose 

65  Las  Casas  street,  Maiden 

33  Cedar  street.  Maiden 

2S6  Cross  street.  Maiden 

I  Irving  place.  Maiden 

Everett 

65  Tremont  street,  Maiden 

Everett 
283  Clifton  street.  Maiden 
Norris,  Charles  Sewall,  21  Woodland  ave.,  Melrose  Highlands 


Otis,  James  O. 

Page,  Albert  N. 
Parker,  Charles  L. 
Peabody,  Charles  N. 


2  Upham  street,  Maiden 

349  Pleasant  street.  Maiden 

47  Converse  avenue.  Maiden 

93  Hawthorne  street,  Maiden 


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83 


Perkins,  Clarence  A. 
Perkins,  Frank  J.   . 
Perry,  Eugene  A.    . 
Phillips,  Wellington 
Pitman,  David  B. 
Plummer,  Arthur  J. 
Plummer,  Dr.  Frank  Wentwo 
Porter,  Prof.  Dwight 
Pratt,  Earl  W. 
Pratt,  Ezra  F. 
Priest,  Russell  P.    . 
Prior,  Dr.  Charles  E. 

Qiiimby,  Rev.  Israel  P. 
Qiiinn,  Bernard  F. 

Rich,  Thomas  S.    . 
Rich,  Mrs.  Thomas  S.    . 
Richards,  George  Louis  . 
Richards,  Lyman  H. 
Riedcl,  E.  Robert   . 
Roberts,  Walter  H. 
Robinson,  Rosw^ell  R.  (life) 
Roby,  Austin  H.     . 
Rood,  John  F. 
Ross,  Alexander  S. 
Rowe,  Miss  Edith  Owen 
Ryder,  Mrs.  Gertrude  Yale 
Ryder,  Dr.  Godfrey 

Sargent,  Jesse  W. 
Shove,  Francis  A. 
Smith,  George  E.   . 
Smith,  Robert  B.    . 
Smith,  Walter  Leroy 


57  High  street.  Maiden 

Si  Washington  street.  Maiden 

145  Summer  street,  Maiden 

1 1 1  Linden  avenue,  Maiden 

.    33  Holmes  street.  Maiden 

54  Wyoming  avenue.  Maiden 

rth      334  Pleasant  street.  Maiden 

149  Hawthorne  street.  Maiden 

138  Pleasant  street,  Maiden 

129  Pleasant  street.  Maiden 

Winchester,  Mass. 

.  77  Summer  street,  Maiden 

.  65  Tremont  street.  Maiden 
65  Judson  street.  Maiden 

.  240  Clifton  street.  Maiden 
.  240  Clifton  street.  Maiden 
.  84  Linden  avenue,  Maiden 
.  17  Howard  street.  Maiden 
.    14  Harnden  road.  Maiden 

490  Highland  avenue.  Maiden 
.  84  Linden  avenue.  Maiden 

105  Washington  street.  Maiden 

61  Cross  street.  Maiden 

38  Woodland  road.  Maiden 

.  149  Walnut  street,  Maiden 

321   Pleasant  street.  Maiden 

321   Pleasant  street.  Maiden 


67  Summer  street.  Maiden 

87  Beltran  street,  Maiden 

Swampscott,  Mass. 

196  Salem  street.  Maiden 

18  Everett  street.  Maiden 


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MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 


Snow,  William  B. 
Sprague,  Mrs.  Emeline  M. 
Sprague,  Phineas  W.       .      47 
Starbird,  Louis  D. 
Stevens,  Dr.  Andrew  J. 
Stevens,  Ezra  A.    . 
Stevens,  Miss  Mary  Louisa 
Stover,  Col.  Willis  W.    . 
Sullivan,  Mrs.  K.  T. 
Sweetser,  Col.  E.  Leroy 
Swett,  J.  Parker     . 

Thompson,  Henry  M. 
Trafton,  William  W.      . 
Tredick,  C.  Morris 
Turner,  Mrs.  Henry  E. 
Turner,  Mrs.  Mary  Greenleaf 
Turner,  William  G.  A. 


Upham,  Artemas  B. 
Upham,  Henry  W. 
Upham,  Mrs.  Henry  W. 
Upton,  Eugene  C. 

Walbridge,  Percy  E. 
Walbridge,  Mrs.  Percy  E. 
Walker,  Arthur  W. 
Walker,  Mrs.  C.  Isabel 
Walker,  Hugh  L. 
Walker,  Oscar  W. 
Warren,  Charles  G. 
Watkins,  Walter  Kendall 
Welch,  Willard       . 
Wellman,  Arthur  H. 
Wellman,  Mrs.  Jennie  L. 
Wellman,  Rev.  Joshua  W.,  D.D. 


79  Dexter  street,  Maiden 

84  Salem  street.  Maiden 

Commonwealth  avenue,  Boston 

213  Mountain  avenue.  Maiden 

539  Main  street.  Maiden 

.  5  Elm  street.  Maiden 

26  Dexter  street.  Maiden 

Everett 

87  Cedar  street.  Maiden 

Everett 

71  Greenleaf  street.  Maiden 

.  53  Boylston  street,  Maiden 

30  Milton  street.  Maiden 

36  Alpine  street,  Maiden 

37  Washington  street.  Maiden 

.     Ridgewood  road.  Maiden 

.     Ridgewood  road,  Maiden 


66  Greenleaf  street,  Maiden 
285  Clifton  street,  Maiden 
285  Clifton  street.  Maiden 
55  Dexter  street.  Maiden 

105  Elm  street.  Maiden 

105  Elm  street.  Maiden 

16  Alpine  street.  Maiden 

74  Dexter  street.  Maiden 

14  Newhall  street.  Maiden 

400  Newbury  street,  Boston 

13  Upham  street,  Maiden 

47  Hillside  avenue,  Maiden 

50  Francis  street.  Maiden 

193  Clifton  street.  Maiden 

193  Clifton  street.  Maiden 

117  Summer  street,  Maiden 


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85 


Wentworth,  Dr.  Lowell  F 
Wescott,  Charles  H. 
White,  Clinton 
Whittemore,  Edgar  A. 
Wiggin,  Joseph 
Wightman,  J.  Lewis 
Willcox,  Miss  Ella  G. 
Wingate,  Edward  L. 
Winship,  Addison   L. 
Winship,  William  H. 
Woodward,  Frank  E. 

Young,  John  W. 


Melrose 
125  Hawthorne  street.  Maiden 

Melrose 

.    2  Woodland  road.  Maiden 

55  Clarendon  street,  Maiden 

345  Mountain  avenue,  Maiden 

80  Mountain  avenue.  Maiden 

85  Dexter  street.  Maiden 

Melrose 

.     309  Maple  street.  Maiden 

.    Wellesley  Hills 

150  Hawthorne  street.  Maiden 


86  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 


NECROLOGIES 


ADELAIDE   PAMELA   BAILEY 

Adelaide  Pamela  (Pierce)  Bailey,  wife  of  Dudley  P. 
Bailey,  and  for  many  years  a  member  of  the  Maiden 
Historical  Society,  died  at  her  home  in  Everett,  April  12, 
1911.  She  was  the  daughter  of  Levi  and  Sabra  Pierce, 
and  was  born  in  Lincoln,  in  this  commonwealth,  August  5, 
1841.  Like  many  of  the  most  efficient  men  and  women  in 
public  life,  in  professional,  educational  and  social  circles  in 
New  England  for  three  generations,  she  obtained  her 
education  in  the  New  London  Scientific  and  Literary 
Institution,  now  known  as  Colby  Academy,  in  New 
Hampshire.  After  graduation  she  taught  for  several  years 
in  the  Literary  Institution  at  Suffield,  Connecticut.  In 
1869  she  married  Rev.  George  B.  Potter  of  Ashland. 
He  died  in  187 1,  and  she,  with  her  father's  family, 
removed  to  Everett,  which  was  afterwards  her  home.  In 
1874,  with  a  sister,  she  established  the  Home  School, 
where  some  of  the  best  work  of  her  life  was  done,  her 
influence  having  much  to  do  with  forming  the  characters 
of  many  women  who  remember  her  now  with  gratitude  as 
the  helpful  friend  of  their  youth.  The  school  was  discon- 
tinued in  1900.  On  March  2,  1901,  she  married  Mr. 
Bailey,  at  Geneva,  Switzerland. 

Mrs.  Bailey  was  a  member  of  the  First  Baptist 
Church,  of  Everett,  which  her  father  was  influential  in 
founding.  She  was  greatly  interested  in  foreign  mission- 
ary   work,     and    was    for    years    secretary    for    Eastern 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL   SOCIETY  87 

Massachusetts  of  the  Woman's  Baptist  Foreign  Missionary 
Society.  She  was  the  first  president  of  the  Woman's 
Auxiliary  connected  with  the  Everett  Young  Men's 
Christian  Association  and  the  first  Woman's  Auxiliary 
convention  ever  held  occurred  in  Everett  through  her 
efforts.  She  was  a  director  of  the  Woman's  Baptist 
Social  Union,  and  for  many  years  was  a  trustee  of  the 
Everett  Public  Library.  This  brief  statement  of  certain 
lines  of  endeavor  which  marked  her  useful  life  does  not 
portray  the  strength  and  sweetness  of  a  character  which 
made  her  loved  and  respected  wherever  she  was  known. 


BENJAMIN   MARVIN   FERNALD 

Died,  October  30,  1911,  Hon.  Benjamin  Marvin 
Fernald,  a  member  of  this  society,  and  long  a  prominent 
and  useful  citizen  of  Melrose.  Judge  Fernald  was  a  fine 
representative  of  the  English  stock  which  a  little  over  a 
century  ago  settled  in  Southern  New  Hampshire.  He  was 
the  son  of  Benjamin  Ayres  Fernald,  and  was  born  in 
Somersworth,  New  Hampshire,  in  1847.  He  began  active 
life  as  a  farmer,  with  his  father,  and  later  worked  on  a 
farm  in  Exeter.  Here  he  made  the  public  library  of 
Exeter  useful  as  an  aid  in  the  pursuit  of  knowledge,  eventu- 
ally attended  and  graduated  from  Phillips  Exeter 
Academy,  and  entered  Harvard,  from  which  he  graduated 
in  1870.  Then  he  read  law  in  the  office  of  the  late  Judge 
Wiggin,  in  Maiden,  being  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1873,  and 
becoming  a  partner  with  Judge  Wiggin.  Later  he 
practiced  alone,  and  in  association  with  Arthur  H.  Damon. 
He  was  appointed  a  special  justice  of  the  Maiden  District 
Court  in  1907. 


88  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

Judge    Fernald    was    a    Republican    in    politics,    and 
represented  Melrose  in  the  legislatures  of  1881  and  1882. 
He  was  senator  from  the  Malden-Melrose-Everett  district 
in  1891  and  1892,  serving  as  chairman  of  the  Joint  Judici- 
ary committee,  the  most  important  in  the  General  Court. 
He  served  on  the    commission  to  revise  the  laws    of  the 
Commonwealth  in  1892.     Locally,  he  held  many  import- 
ant places  of  trust,  being  on  the  commission  to  erect  the  • 
Melrose  High  School,  and  on  the  commission  which  made 
the  settlement  on  behalf  of  his  city  for  Spot  Pond,  taken  as 
a  metropolitan    water   supply.     He  was  a  trustee    of  the 
Melrose  Hospital,  treasurer  of  the  Fells  Ice  Company,  a 
member    of  Woming    Lodge  of  Masons,  of   the  Congre- 
gational church  and  of  the  Middlesex  and  Melrose  clubs. 
He  is  survived-  by  a  widow,  who  was  Miss  Grace  Fuller, 
daughter  of  Richard  F.  Fuller  of  Boston,  and  daughters 
Grace  and  Margaret.     Personally,  he  was  a  good  friend,  a 
faithful  counsellor  and  a  wise  and  prudent  judge. 


DR.  JOSHUA   FRANCIS    LEWIS 

Dr.  Joshua  F.  Lewis,  a  member  of  this  society,  and 
long  a  resident  of  Maiden,  died  February  26,  191 2,  from 
a  complication  of  diseases,  at  the  age  of  58  years.  He  had 
been  in  infirm  health  for  a  long  time,  having  been  a 
chronic  sufferer  from  asthma,  having  for  this  reason  spent 
many  seasons  in  the  Carolina  pines. 

Dr.  Lewis  was  born  in  Provincetown,  the  son  of 
Captain  Joshua  and  Mary  (Avery)  Lewis.  Through  his 
mother  he  was  descended  from  Job  Lane,  the  builder  of 
the  second  Bell  Rock  church,  the  line  being.  Job  and 
Anna  (Reyner)  Lane ;  Deacon  William  and  Mary  (Lane) 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  89 

Avery;  Rev.  John  and  Ruth  (Little,  great-granddaughter 
of  Richard  Warren  of  the  Mayflower)  Avery;  Job  and 
Jane  (Thatcher)  Avery;  Job  and  Jerusha  (Lombard) 
Avery  ;  Capt.  Peter  Lombard  and  Betsy(Chapman)Avery  ; 
Joshua  and  Mary  (Avery)  Lewis ;  Dr.  Joshua  F.  Lewis. 

Graduating  from  the  Provincetown  High  school,  Dr. 
Lewis  entered  Wilbraham  Academy,  and  pursued  his 
collegiate  studies  at  Dartmouth,  from  which  he  graduated 
in  1879.  Later  he  attended  Harvard  Medical  School, 
taking  the  full  degrees  in  1886.  Soon  after  he  became  an 
attache  of  what  is  now  known  as  the  state  board  of  charity, 
the  early  name  being  the  state  board  of  health,  lunacy  and 
charity,  and  he  saw  the  successive  movements  that  divided 
the  work  of  his  board  between  several  large  boards  and 
commissions,  leaving  the  state  board  of  charity  a  much 
larger  commission  than  the  original  body.  He  was  a 
faithful  and  loyal  subordinate  during  the  years  when  Dr. 
Stephen  C.  Wrightington  was  the  head  of  the  department 
of  outdoor  poor  of  the  board,  and  upon  Mr.  Wrightington's 
death  became  his  successor,  the  title  of  the  office  being 
superintendent  of  the  department  of  adult  poor,  at  the  time 
of  Dr.  Lewis'  death.  Through  all  the  years,  qualities  of 
wisdom,  discretion,  grasp  of  social  and  political  conditions 
were  necessary  and  all  these  qualities  Dr.  Lewis  displayed 
in  a  marked  degree.  If  courage  was  necessary,  he  was 
never  found  wanting,  and  he  never  lacked  diplomacy. 
The  expenditure  of  large  sums  was  a  part  of  his  duty,  and 
in  this  he  was  wise  and  trustworthy.  Meanwhile,  the  fact 
that  he  must  deal  with  the  unworthy  as  well  as  the  worthy 
poor  never  destroyed  his  trust  in  human  nature  or 
hardened  his  naturally  warm  and  generous  heart.  The 
writer  will  never  forget  his  meeting  with  the  doctor  on  a 
Sunday  morning  a  few  years  since,  trudging  along  on  a 


90  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

walk  of  two  miles  from  his  home  with  a  market  basket  on 
his  arm,  filled  with  necessaries  of  life  for  a  family  whose 
needs  were  called  to  his  attention  simply  through  the 
routine  work  of  his  office.  Dr.  Wrightington  made  it  his 
rule  to,  keep  closely  in  touch  with  the  political  conditions  in 
every  part  of  the  commonwealth,  particularly  concerning 
the  complexion  of  the  Legislature,  which  could  easily 
mark  or  mar  his  administration,  and  for  years  he  absolutely 
relied  upon  Dr.  Lewis'  investigations  in  connection  with 
any  section  where  he  was  sent  to  test  the  political  situa- 
tion. When  a  great  industrial  upheaval,  like  the  Lowell 
and  Fall  River  mill  strikes,  occurred.  Dr.  Lewis  always 
found  plenty  of  work  to  do.  He  was  also  active  in  super- 
vising the  establishment  of  the  leper  colony  at  Penikese. 

Dr.  Lewis  was  always  interested  in  educational 
matters  serving  as  a  member  of  the  Maiden  School  board 
for  several  years,  and  also  being  a  member  of  the  school 
committee  of  Hyde  Park  during  the  period  when  hoping 
for  relief  from  his  asthmatic  affliction  he  made  his  home  in 
that  community. 

The  Doctor's  funeral  services  were  held  in  the  Centre 
Methodist  Episcopal  church,  which  he  attended,  and  was 
attended  by  a  large  gathering  of  official  associates  and 
sorrowing  friends.  A  widow,  and  two  daughters,  Mrs. 
Frederick  Hammett  of  Kingston  and  Miss  Etta  Lewis  of 
Maiden,  survive  him. 


NATHAN   NEWHALL 

Nathan  Newhall,  a  lifelong  resident  of  Maiden,  and 
a  member  of  this  society,  died  February  13,  191 2,  at  his 
home  on  Irving  street,  at  the  age  of  81  years.  Thomas 
Newhall,  the  emigrant    ancestor    of  the  family,  came  to 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL   SOCIETY  9I 

Naumkeag,  or  Salem,  with  Endicott,  and  was  one  of  the 
three  original  settlers  of  Lynn,  or  Saugus,  in  1629.  To 
his  wife  Mary,  was  born  that  year  another  Thomas,  the 
first  white  native  of  Lynn,  who  married  Elizabeth, 
daughter  of  Nicholae  Potter  of  Lynn  and  Salem.  Their 
son,  Lieut.  Thomas  Newhall,  married  Rebecca,  daughter 
of  Thomas  and  Rebecca  (Hills)  Greene  of  Maiden  and 
moving  hither  settled  upon  the  farm  of  his  bride's  grand- 
father, Mr.  Joseph  Hills,  the  site  of  their  home  being 
indicated  by  the  memorial  bowlder  of  the  founder  of 
Maiden  in  the  upper  square.  Nathan  Newhall  could 
therefore  claim  descent  from  both  Joseph  Hills  and  Thomas 
Greene  among  the  founders  of  Maiden.  It  appears,  also, 
that  he  was  descended  from  Capt.  John  Wayte  and  his 
wife  Mary  (Hills)  Wayte,  for  Daniel,  son  of  Lieut. 
Thomas  and  Rebecca  (Greene)  Newhall  married  Sarah 
Fosdick,  and  their  son  Nathan  married  Tabitha  Wayte. 
A  second  Nathan  married,  it  is  supposed,  Phoebe  Fether- 
stone  and  a  third  Nathan,  in  1827,  Nancy  Townsend  of 
Marblehead,  the  subject  of  this  sketch  being  the  fourth 
Nathan. 

Mr.  Newhall  was  a  carpenter  and  builder,  and  in  his 
active  life  to  quite  an  extent  an  operator  in  real  estate. 
The  Building  on  Central  Square  now  used  as  City  Hall, 
was  the  old  Town  Hall,  and  was  erected  by  him  in  1859. 
In  all  his  affairs  the  old-time  Puritan  instincts  of  honesty 
and  plain  dealing  manifested  themselves,  and  no  person 
who  purchased  property  of  him,  or  who  engaged  him  for 
work  of  construction  had  reason  to  fear  that  he  would  get 
anything  less  than  he  had  bargained  for.  Perhaps  he  was 
not  familiar  with  Ruskin ;  but  he  understood  before 
Ruskin  that  sincerity  was  one  of  the  seven  lamps  of 
architecture,  and  behind  every  bit  of  plaster  or  clapboard 


92  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

and  under  every  shingle  was  as  honest  construction  as  that 
which  was  open  to  the  eye.  The  old  High  School 
building  on  Salem  street  is  a  fine  example  of  his  work.  It 
was  built  by  him  in  1872,  as  were  all  the  other  wooden 
school  buildings  erected  by  the  town  up  to  1882,  when 
Maiden  became  a  city. 

Mr.  Newhall  was  a  member  of  Mount  Vernon  Lodge 
and  Beausant  Commandery  of  Masons,  and  of  Post  40, 
G.  A.  R.  He  was  mustered  into  the  Union  service  in 
January,  1862,  and  mustered  out  at  Washington  January 
12,  1865.  He  was  in  the  Fifth  Corps  of  the  Army  of  the 
Potomac  until  after  the  battle  of  Antietam,  and  then  for 
two  years  his  regiment  was  a  provost  duty  in  Washington. 
As  sergeant  of  the  guard  on  duty  in  and  about  the 
White  House  he  had  the  honor  of  acting  as  body  guard  to 
President  Lincoln  on  many  occasions. 

Nathan  Newhall  married  in  1856,  Mary  Phillips 
Chappelle  of  Salem,  daughter  of  Samuel  Chappelle  and 
Livinia  Symonds,  both  of  Salem.  His  son,  Louis  C. 
Newhall,  honors  his  father  in  his  fine  work  as  architect  of 
many  important  buildings  in  Boston  and  elsewhere.  Two 
daughters  Mrs.  E.  F.  Crocker,  and  Mrs.  E.  C.  Atwood, 
two  grand-children  and  a  great-granddaughter  also  survive 
him. 


JOHN    HENRY   PARKER 

A  distinct  loss  in  the  business,  social  and  religious  life 
of  the  community  came  in  the  death,  February  22,  1911, 
at  his  home  on  Main  street  in  Maiden,  of  Deacon  John 
Henr}'-  Parker.  Not  only  his  own  generation,  but  scores 
of  young  people  shared  their  grief  in  his  departure. 

Deacon    Parker    came    of   a   line    of  deacons,  which 


JOHN  HEXR  Y  PARK  Eli 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  93 

commenced  with  Deacon  Thomas^  Parker,  who,  with  his 
wife  Amy,  came  to  America  in  the  Susan  and  Ellen  in 
1635,  making  his  home  in  Lynn  Village,  now  Reading. 
The  line  from  him  was  :  Lieut.  Hananiah^  and  Elizabeth 
(Browne)  Parker  ;  John^  and  Deliverance  (Dodge)  Parker  ; 
John*  and  Experience  (Clayes)  Parker ;  Peter^  and  Ruth 
(Eaton)  Parker ;  John*^  and  Deborah  (Lamb)  Parker ; 
Deacon  John"  and  Mary  Ann  (Fales)  Parker  ;  John  Henry^ 
Parker. 

Experience  Clayes  was  the  daughter  of  Peter  Clayes 
and  Mary  Preston  of  Framingham.  Mary  Preston  was 
the  daughter  of  Thomas  and  Mary  (Nurse)  Preston  and 
granddaughter  of  Rebecca  (Towne)  Nurse,  the  martyr, 
hanged  during  the  Salem  witchcraft  delusion,  Deacon 
Parker  being  in  the  seventh  generation  from  that  good 
woman.  John  and  Deliverance  (Dodge)  Parker  were 
grandparents  of  Capt.  John  Parker,  the  hero  of  the 
Lexington  fight  of  April  19,  1775.  The  deacon  was  born 
in  Southboro,  Sept.  14,  1835.  At  the  age  of  26  he 
became  superintendent  of  the  shoe  factory  of  Kimball, 
Robinson  &  Co.,  of  Brookfield.  He  moved  to  Holliston  in 
1863,  and  a  year  later  came  to  Maiden,  becoming  the  same 
year  a  partner  in  the  shoe  manufacturing  firm  of  Charles 
F.  Parker  &  Co.  In  his  later  life  he  manufactured 
specialties  connected  with  the  shoe  trade  with  his  son, 
Charles  L.  Parker,  and  James  E.  Andrews,  who  was 
associated  with  him  for  28  years. 

At  the  time  of  his  death  Mr.  Parker  was  the  senior 
deacon  of  the  First  Baptist  church  in  Maiden,  in  which  he 
had  also  been  superintendent  of  the  Sunday  School  and 
chorister.  He  dearly  loved  music,  and  practically  as  long 
as  he  lived  directed  the  music  in  the  social  services  of  his 
church.     For  a  long    time  he  was    superintendent  of  the 


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Sunday  school  of  the  Harvard  street  church  in  Boston, 
supported  by  the  Boston  Baptist  Social  Union,  and  in  con- 
nection with  this,  aided  by  members  of  the  Boston 
symphony  orchestra  conducted  a  popular  song  service 
which  has  since  been  imitated  in  various  parts  of  the 
country.  It  was  a  satisfaction  to  Mr.  Parker  to  recall 
that  in  his  youth  he  was  a  close  friend  to  Dwight  L. 
Moody,  and  that  he  took  that  famous  evangelist  to  the  first 
prayer  meeting  he  ever  attended.  He  was  very  interested 
in  matters  of  temperance  reform.  He  was  long  the  auditor 
of  the  Maiden  Industrial  Aid  Society,  treasurer  of  the 
Maiden  Associated  Charities,  a  director  of  the  Home  for 
Aged  Persons  and  the  Young  Men's  Christian  Association. 
He  was  a  Republican  in  politics,  and  for  nine  years  served 
as  warden  in  the  elections  in  his  ward. 

Deacon     Parker    married,    March    30,    1859,    Anna 
Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Freeman  Gilmore  of  Boston,  who 
died  May  16,  1905  at  the  age  of  74.     A  son,  Lieut.  John 
F.  Parker,  military  instructor  in  the  Maiden  High  School, 
died  June  5,   1890.     His  children  who   survive  are  Mrs. 
Ellen    L,  Cudworth    of  Melrose    Highlands,    Charles  L. 
Parker  of  Maiden,  Mrs.   Harry  E.  Converse  of  Marion, 
Mrs.  Willis  Goss  of  Melrose,   Harry  D.  Parker  and  Mrs. 
Minna  W.,  widow  of  Lieut.   Parker.     He  left  15   grand- 
children.    A  few  years  since    Deacon    Parker,   with    his 
wife,  made  an  extended  tour  of  Egypt  and  the  Holy  Land 
and  this  he  enjoyed,  as  he  did  all  life's  pleasant  experiences, 
to  the  full.     Few  men  have  left  more  happy  impressions  of 
their  good  lives  in  the  memories  of  their  friends  than  has 
he. 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  95 

JAMES    B.  SINER 

James  B.  Siner,  a  member  of  the  society,  died  at  his 
home  on  Hawthorne  street,  Maiden,  September  17,  1912, 
after  a  protracted  illness.  Mr.  Siner  was  one  of  those 
quiet,  but  resourceful  men,  who  help  to  make  a  community 
and  a  neighborhood  where  they  live  an  attractive  place  to 
dwell,  and  who  become  the  reliance  of  the  interests  they 
serve.  He  was  born  in  Lowell,  the  son  of  James  and 
Eliza  (Bradford)  Siner,  April  13,  1835.  He  obtained  his 
education  in  the  grammar  and  high  schools  of  his  native 
city  and  for  a  time  taught  school  in  Georgia.  His  father 
was  a  carpet  manufacturer  on  an  extensive  scale,  and  the 
practical  knowledge  obtained  in  association  with  him  was 
turned  to  good  account  by  the  son,  who  for  twenty-two 
years  was  mechanical  superintendent  of  the  Washington 
mills  at  Lawrence,  and  then  for  a  quarter  of  a  century 
was  in  charge  of  the  appraisal  department  of  the  Factory 
Mutual  Fire  Insurance  Company,  where  his  work  increased 
in  value  as  the  years  sped,  so  that  he  had  the  satisfaction 
of  knowing  that  the  company  felt  him  to  be  more  useful  to 
it  in  his  last  years  of  service  than  in  the  years  of  middle  life 
when  he  felt  himself  to  be  more  active.  He  married  Miss 
Lena,  daughter  of  Warren  Mallard  of  Lawrence,  in  1875, 
she  having  been  principal  of  the  Teachers  Training  School 
of  Lawrence.  They  moved  to  Maiden  some  twenty-five 
years  since.  Prior  to  that  time  Mr.  Siner  had  refused  a 
nomination  as  mayor  of  Lawrence,  owing  to  the  pressure 
of  his  private  business.  In  politics  he  was  a  Republican, 
and  he  was  a  member  of  the  old  St.  Anne's  Episcopal 
Church  in  Lowell.  Besides  the  widow  he  left  a  son,  James 
S.  Siner  of  Maiden,  who  died  October  16,  1912,  leaving  a 
widow  Mrs.  Susie  (Slayton)  Siner. 


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WILLIAM   SCHOFIELD 

Hon.  William  Schofield,  a  member  of  this  societ}-, 
and  at  the  time  of  his  decease  a  judge  of  the  United  States 
Circuit  Court,  died  at  his  home  on  Summer  street  in 
Maiden,  June  10,  1912. 

Judge  Schofield  was  a  scholar  of  wide  attainments,  a 
jurist  of  the  highest  character  and  ability,  a  citizen  who 
had  a  profound  sense  of  his  duty  to  his  community,  and  a 
student  of  government  who,  had  the  opportunity  for  service 
in  the  national  Congress  come  to  him,  would  have  proved 
himself  a  statesman  of  the  finest  type. 

He  was  born  in  Dudley,  Mass.,  February  14,  1857, 
the  son  of  John  and  Margaret  Thompson  Schofield.  He 
was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  his  native  town ; 
prepared  for  college  at  Nichols  Academy  at  Dudley ; 
graduated  from  Harvard  in  1879 '  spent  a  year  in  the 
study  of  Roman  law,  and  then  took  a  course  in  the 
Harvard  Law  School  from  which  he  graduated  with  the 
degrees  of  LL.  B.  and  A.M.  in  1883.  The  following 
year  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar,  and  meanwhile  from 
1883  to  1885  he  acted  as  private  secretary  to  Justice 
Horace  Gray  of  the  United  States  Supreme  Court.  In 
1886  he  returned  to  the  Harvard  Law  School  as  instructor 
in  torts,  and  from  1888  to  1892  was  instructor  in  Roman 
law  at  Harvard  University. 

Judge  Schofield  associated  himself  in  the  practice  of 
law  with  ex-Mayor  Marcellus  Coggan  of  this  city,  and 
made  his  home  in  Maiden.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Maiden  Deliberative  Assembly,  and  was  made  a  member 
of  the  committee  which  a  few  years  since  made  a  study  for 
a  new  charter  for  Maiden.  He  was  elected  to  the  legisla- 
lature  as  a  republican  in  1898,  and  from  the  time  of  his 


WILLIAM  SCIIOFIELD 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  97 

election  until  1903,  when  he  was  appointed  by  Governor 
Crane,  in  many  ways  his  most  intimate  personal  friend,  a 
Justice  of  the  Massachusetts  Superior  Court,  he  was  the 
leading  spirit  in  the  lower  house.  His  committee  appoint- 
ments were  always  important,  and  he  had  a  grasp  of 
public  questions  and  an  eloquence  and  power  in  their 
presentation  upon  the  floor  of  the  house  which  made  him 
the  leader  of  that  body,  regardless  of  who  might  be  holding 
other  committee  chairmanships,  which  usually  carried  with 
them  the  leadership.  From  his  appointment  to  the 
superior  bench  until  his  elevation  to  a  justiceship  in  the 
United  States  courts,  he  was  regarded  as  one  of  the  men 
who  would  grow  in  influence  and  power,  while  his  industry 
and  courage  resulted  in  the  assicrnment  of  much  exactinor 
and  difficult  work  to  him,  thus  putting  upon  him  burdens 
which  undoubtedly  shortened  his  life.  He  was  the  author 
of  many  articles  on  legal  subjects  which  appeared  in  the 
Harvard  Law  Review,  the  Green  Bag  and  other  law 
publications. 

Judge  Schofield  was  married  to  Miss  Ednah  May 
Green  of  Rutland,  Vermont,  who  survives  him,  December 
I,  1892.  His  father,  four  brothers  and  a  sister  are  living. 
He  was  a  trustee  of  the  Maiden  Public  Library,  the  Grand 
Army  Post  Associates,  and  the  Deliberative  Assembly. 
He  was  a  Harvard  Phi  Beta  Kappa  man,  and  the  first 
president  of  the  University  Club  of  Maiden.  He  was  a 
very  effective  public  speaker  and  in  demand  for  all 
important  gatherings,  commemorative  or  political.  At  the 
funeral  of  the  late  ex-Mayor  Dean,  a  few  months  before 
his  own  death.  Judge  Schofield  pronounced  the  eulogy. 
His  trend  of  mind  was  well  illustrated  a  few  years  ago, 
when  at  a  Ladies'  Night  banquet  of  the  Deliberative 
Assembly  he  used  the  opportunity  given  him  in  responding 


98  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

to  a  toast  to  read  a  scholarly  essay  on  the  use  of  English 
words — a  paper,  by-the-way,  which  would  make  a  very 
effective  text-book  for  teaching  purposes.  Only  those 
who  were  privileged  to  have  his  close  friendship  could 
appreciate  the  deep  interest  he  took  in  the  progress  of  the 
youth  of  his  city,  his  anxiety  for  the  success  of  the  highest 
and  broadest  types  of  public  men,  his  broad  religious 
sympathies,  and  his  conscientious  purpose  to  meet  in  every 
respect  the  demands  of  the  city,  the  commonwealth  and 
the  country  upon  his  time  and  his  abilities,  in  return  for 
the  honors  each  had  conferred  upon  him. 


HENRY   EDWARD   TURNER 

Few  men  with  a  greater  capacity  for  friendship  have 
in  recent  years  passed  from  the  activities  of  life  than  Henry 
Edward  Turner,  who  at  the  time  of  his  death,  June  28, 
191 1,  had  been  for  many  years  auditor-general  of  the 
Commonwealth.  He  died  at  his  home,  37  Washington 
street.  Maiden  and  there,  a  few  da3's  later,  hosts  of  the 
friends  he  had  made  gathered  to  show,  by  their  wealth  of 
floral  gifts  as  well  as  by  their  sincere  sorrow,  how  great 
was  the  love  they  bore  him, 

Henry  Edward  Turner,  Jr.,  was  born  in  Boston,  May 
4,  1842,  the  son  of  Henry  Edward  and  Sophronia  Ann 
(Burns)  Turner.  His  ancestral  line  from  the  emigrant, 
Humphrey  Turner,  who  died  in  1673,  was  Humphrey^  and 
Lydia  (Gamer)  Turner;  John^  and  Ann  (James)  Turner; 
Japhet^  and  Hannah  (Hudson)  Turner ;  Joshua*  and  Mary 
(Perry)  Turner  ;  John^  and  Mary  (Randall)  Turner  ;  Job^ 
and  Sally  (James)  Turner;  AbeF  and  Alice  (Rogers) 
Turner ;  Henry  Edward^  Turner ;  Henry  Edward^  Turner, 


HENR  y  ED  WARD   TURNER. 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  99 

Jr.  His  Mayflower  line  was  Edward^  Doty,  who  died  in 
Plymouth,  August  23,  1655,  married  (January,  1634-35) 
Faith  Clark  (born  1619,  died  December,  1675,  buried  at 
Marshfield)  ;  Edward^  and  Sarah  (Faunce)  Doty ;  Eliza- 
beth^  (Doty)  and  Tobias  Oakman ;  Edward^  and  Sarah 
(Doggett)  Oakman ;  Abiah^  (Oakman)  and  Asa  Rogers ; 
Alice^  (Rogers)  and  Abel  Turner ;  Henry  Edward'^ 
Turner  ;  Henry  Edward^  Turner,  Jr.  Sarah  Faunce  was 
the  daughter  of  John  Faunce  and  his  wife  Sarah.  They 
came  to  America  in  the  ship  "Ann"  in  1623.  Faith  Clark 
was  the  daughter  of  Thurston  and  Faith  Clark,  who  came 
to  American  in  the  "Frances"  in  1634.  The  Rogers  line 
is  Timothy^  and  Eunia  (Stetson)  Rogers ;  Timothy^  and 
Lydia  (Hatch)  Rogers ;  Israel^  and  Bethiah  (Thomas) 
Rogers ;  Asa^  and  Abiah  (Oakman)  Rogers ;  Alice^ 
(Rogers)  and  Abel  Turner;  Henry  Edward^  and 
Sophronia  Ann  (Burns)  Turner ;  Henry  Edward"  Turner, 

Jr. 

In  1845   Mr.  Turner's  parents  moved  to  Maiden,  his 

father,  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Moses  Pond  &  Co.,  being 
one  of  the  first  Boston  merchants  to  select  Maiden  for  his 
home,  where  he  lived  until  his  death  in  1890.  The  son 
was  educated  in  the  Maiden  public  schools.  Pierce  Academy 
in  Middleboro  and  private  schools  in  Norwich,  Conn,  and 
Medford.  In  1858  he  began  a  business  career  of  over  fifty 
years  as  clerk  and  then  bookkeeper  in  the  wholesale  dry 
goods  house  of  Wellington,  Winter  &  Gross  of  Boston.  A 
service  of  fourteen  years  with  this  concern  was  followed 
by  eighteen  years  as  expert  accountant,  financial  manager 
and  partner  in  the  crockery  importing  firm  of  Clark, 
Adams  &  Clark.  For  two  years,  immediately  following 
the  civil  war,  he  was  a  lieutenant  in  the  state  militia. 

Meanwhile,    he    had   become    actively   interested   in 


lOO  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

politics.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Common  Council  in 
the  first  and  second  city  governments.  He  served  in  the 
Massachusetts  Legislature  at  two  periods,  1889,  1890,  1891, 
and  1898.  He  was  clerk  of  the  Committee  on  Drainage 
at  the  period  when  the  Metropolitan  Sewerage  Act  was 
passed  and  active  in  the  work  of  securing  the  enactment 
of  the  bill.  He  also  saw  service  on  the  railroad  committee. 
Locally,  he  was  long  a  member  of  the  Republican  City 
Committee  on  which  he  served  as  treasurer,  and  a  seven- 
year  term  as  president.  In  1891  he  was  elected  Auditor 
of  the  Commonwealth,  an  office  to  which  he  gave  faithful 
and  able  service  until  his  death. 

Mr.  Turner  was  an  active  member  of  the  Middlesex 
Club  and  an  original  member  and  long  on  the  executive 
committee  of  the  Republican  Club  of  Massachusetts ;  was 
a  founder  of  the  Maiden  Club  ;  ex-commodore  of  the  Great 
Head  Yacht  Club  ;  a  member  of  the  Hull  and  Corinthian 
Yacht  Clubs,  the  Home  Market  Club  and  of  many  Masonic 
bodies.     He  was  an  early  member  of  this  society. 

Mr.  Turner  married  Lucinda  A.  Barrett,  July  i,  1863. 
She  died  in  March,  1865.  On  December  17,  1867  he 
married  Huldah  S.  Crowell  of  Maiden,  who  with  two 
children,  Mrs.  Anabel  Thorne  of  Maiden  and  Harry  H. 
Turner  of  Walla  Walla,  Washington,  and  several  grand- 
children, survive  him. 


CLARENCE   ORVILLE  WALKER 

Clarence  Orville  Walker,  formerly  mayor  of  Maiden, 
and  for  many  years  a  member  of  this  society,  died  at  his 
home  on  Dexter  street,  February  20,  1911,  after  a  brief 
illness,  he  having  presided  at  a  banquet  of  the  Sons  and 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL   SOCIETY  lOI 

Daughters  of  Portsmouth  at  the  Hotel  Bellevue  in  Boston 
but  four  nights  before.  It  was  a  meeting  for  organization, 
and  Mr.  Walker  was  elected  president,  as  was  most 
appropriate,  as  he  had  worked  for  a  long  time  to  form  the 
association. 

Mr.  Walker  was  born  in  Portsmouth,  N.  H.,  October 
30, 1848,  the  son  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Nathaniel  K.  Walker.  He 
was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  his  native  town,  and 
in  early  life  became  associated  with  his  father  in  the  hat 
business.  In  1877  he  became  associated  with  the  Philadel- 
phia &  Reading  Coal  and  Iron  company  as  a  salesman, 
and  moved  to  Maiden.  In  later  years  he  became  a  partner 
with  his  brother  in  the  coal  business,  under  the  firm  name 
of  J.  Albert  Walker  &  Co.,  he  handling  the  business  in 
Boston  and  his  brother  caring  for  the  Portsmouth  business. 
His  brother  having  died,  Mr.  Walker  has  more  lately 
conducted  the  business  under  the  name  of  C.  O.  Walker 
&Co. 

Mr.  Walker  was  a  member  of  the  Common  Council 
in  1889  and  1890  and  alderman  in  1891,  1892  and  1893, 
being  chairman  of  the  board  during  the  last  two  years, 
and  served  as  mayor  in  1896.  He  was  president  of  the 
Fifteenth  City  Government  Association.  He  was  past 
master  of  Mount  Vernon  Lodge,  a  member  of  many 
fraternal  orders,  and  a  deacon  of  the  First  Congrega- 
tional church,  acting  also  as  superintendent  of  the  Sunday 
School  of  the  Forestdale  chapel.  At  the  time  of  his 
decease  he  was  a  member  of  the  commission  to  consider 
changes  in  the  City  Charter  of  Maiden.  A  widow,  Mrs. 
Clara  Isabel  Stevens  Walker,  and  four  children,  Edgar  C. 
Clarence  Stevens,  Nathaniel  K.,  and   Isabel,  survive  him. 


I02  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 


PAPERS    DELIVERED   BEFORE  THE   MALDEN 
HISTORICAL   SOCIETY,   1886-1912 

Compiled  from  the  Kecords,  by  George  W.  Chamberlain,  Secretary. 


May  2,  1894.  "  Slavery  in  Maiden"  —  a  chapter  from  his 
forthcoming  history.     By  D.  P.  Corey. 

Oct.  3,  1898,  address.  "  Public  Parks."  By  Sylvester 
Baxter. 

November  7,  1898,  paper.  "  Two  School-masters  of  the 
Colonial  Days,"  by  Miss  Elizabeth  Porter  Gould. 

December  5,  1898,  paper.  "  Old  Maiden  Families."  By 
George  L.  Gould. 

January  16,  1899,  paper.  "The  Territorial  Growth  of 
the  United  States."     By  Frank  E.  Woodward. 

February  6,  1899,  address.  "Alaska."  By  Hon.  Arthur 
H.  Wellman. 

March  6,  1899,  address.  "School  Remimiscences."  By 
Charles  A.  Daniels. 

April  3,  1899,  talk.  "The  Flora  of  Maiden."  By  Frank 
S.  Collins. 

May  10,  1S99,  ^^  address.  "  The  Children  of  Rev.  Joseph 
Emerson  of  Maiden."     By  Abram  English  Brown. 

October  4,  1S99,  a  lecture.  "  Travels  in  Egypt  and  on  the 
Continent."     By  Howard  A.  Carson. 

November  i,  1899,  paper.  "Extracts  from  the  Diary  of 
Rev.  Peter  Thacher."     By  D.  P.  Corey. 

December  13,  1899,  ^^  address.  "  Temperance  Instruction 
in  the  Public  Schools."  By  George  W.  Fitz  of  Harvard 
University. 

February  7,  1900,  address.  "The  History  and  Develop- 
ment of  the  Metropolitan  System  of  Parks."  By  W.  B.  de 
las  Casas. 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  IO3 

March  7,  1900,  a  talk.  "  An  Experiment  in  Education." 
By  Rev.  James  F.  Albion. 

April  4,  1900,  an  address.  "  The  Ordeal  of  Free  Govern- 
ment in  American  Cities."     By  Dudley  P.  Bailey. 

October  3,  1900,  a  paper.  "Colonial  Social  Life."  By 
John  Rowland  Crandon. 

December  12,  1900,  a  paper.  "Our  Ancestors,"  By 
Deloraine  P.  Corey. 

January  2,  1901,  a  paper.  *'  The  Parish  System  of  Massa- 
chusetts."    By  Henry  T.  Lummus. 

February  6,  1901,  a  talk.  "Genealogical  Researches  in 
Great  Britain."     By  Walter  Kendall  Watkins. 

March  6,  1901,  a  talk.  "  The  Organization  of  the  Army 
of  the  James  and  its  Commanders."     By  Tristram  Griffin. 

April  3,  1901,  a  paper.  "The  Message  of  the  Puritan 
Fathers  to  the  Men  of  our  Time."  By  Rev.  E.  H.  Byington, 
D.D. 

May  20,  1901,  a  lecture.  "Horace  Mann. —  A  Story  of 
the  Educational  Awakening  in  Massachusetts  Sixty  Years  Ago." 
By  Hon.  Frank  A.  Hill,  Sect.  State  Board  of  Education. 

October  28,  1901,  a  paper,  "Maiden  in  the  Revolution." 
By  Deloraine  P.  Corey. 

October  28,  1901,  a  talk.  "  A  Visit  to  Maldon,  England." 
By  Walter  K.  Watkins. 

December  18,  1901,  a  paper.  "A  Massachusetts  Colonial 
Governor  and  His  Ancestry."     By  Charles  S.  Ensign. 

January  22,  1902,  a  talk.  "The  Massachusetts  Reforma- 
tory." By  Joseph  F.  Scott,  Superintendent  of  the  Concord 
Reformatory. 

April  21,  1902,  an  address.  "Oliver  Cromwell,  the  Man 
of  Iron."     By  Rev.  C.  S.  Macfarland. 

October  20,  1902,  a  paper.  "Puritan  Job  Lane,  the 
Builder  of  the  Bell  Rock  Meeting-House."  By  Charles  E. 
Mann. 

November  17,  1902,  a  paper.  "Scottish  History  as  Told 
in  Ballad  and  Song."     By  Mrs.  Walter  Kendall  Watkins. 


I04  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

December  15,  1903,  a  paper.  "Why  the  First  Church 
and  Parish  Differ."     By  Deloraine  P.  Corey. 

January  21,  1903,  a  paper.  "  The  Unpublished  Letters  of 
Abigail  Adams."     By  William  G.  A.  Turner. 

February  16,  1903,  a  paper.  "The  True  Mission  of  the 
Public  Schools."     By  George  E.  Gay. 

March  16,  1903,  a  paper.  "Abraham  Lincoln."  By 
Frank  E.  Woodward. 

April  37,  1903,  a  talk.  "The  Association  of  Historical 
Societies  in  Essex  and  Middlesex  counties."     By  John  F.  Ayer. 

May  3 tj,  1903,  a  paper.  "  Governor  Shirley."  By  Francis 
Hurtubis,  Jr. 

October  3i,  1903,  a  paper.  "  The  New  England  District 
School."  By  Katharine  H.  Stone,  Sect.  Old  South  Historical 
and  Educational  Work. 

December  3i,  1903,  a  paper.  "Old  Middlesex."  By 
Hon.  Levi  S.  Gould,  County  Commissioner. 

January  18,  1904,  a  paper.  "The  Separation  of  Church 
and  State  in  Massachusetts."     By  Charles  M.  Ludden. 

February  15,  1904,  a  paper.  "Paper  Money  of  the 
Colony,  Province  and  State  of  Massachusetts."  By  Walter  K. 
Watkins. 

March  3i,  1904,  readings.  "  Selection  from  his  Writings." 
By  Sam  Walter  Foss  of  Somerville. 

April  18,  1904,  a  paper.  "The  Beginnings  of  Massachu- 
setts."    By  Charles  E.  Mann. 

November  21,  1904,  a  talk.  "Life  in  Colorado."  By 
Rev.  Richard  E.  Sykes. 

December  19,  1904,  a  paper.  "  The  Frigate  Constitution." 
By  Charles  L.  Woodside. 

January  16,  1905,  a  paper.  "  Old  Taunton  in  New 
England."     By  Channing  Howard  of  Winthrop. 

February  20,  1905,  a  paper.  "  Lemuel  Cox,  Bridge- 
Builder  and  Inventor."     By  Walter  K.  Watkins. 

March  20,  1905,  a  paper.  "From  Stage  Coach  to  Parlor 
Car."     By  Charles  E.  Mann. 


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May  29,  1905,  a  lecture.  "The  Story  of  the  Middlesex 
Canal."     By  Moses  Whitcher  Mann  of  Medford. 

October  16,  1905,  a  paper.  "  A  Sketch  of  Joseph  Hills  of 
Maiden."     By  Deloraine  P.  Corey. 

December  18,  1905,  a  paper.  "The  American  Revolu- 
tion. The  Royalist  Side  of  the  Qiiestion."  By  James  H. 
Stark  of  Dorchester. 

February  19,  1906,  a  talk.  "Carrying  the  First  Despatch 
Through  the  Lines  From  Grant  to  Lincoln."  By  Sergt.  James 
R.  Wood  of  Woburn. 

April  33,  1906,  a  paper.  "  Over  Boston  Neck  to  Mystic 
Side."     By  Walter  K.  Watkins. 

May  21,  1906,  a  paper.  "The  Old  Parsonage,"  (145 
Main  street).  With  extracts  from  Rev.  Peter  Thacher's  Diary, 
1772.     By  Deloraine  P.  Corey. 

May  21,  1906,  a  talk.  Reminiscences  of  my  Early  Life  in 
the  Old  Parsonage.     By  Darius  Cobb  of  Boston. 

October  29,  1906,  "Reminiscences  of  Lydia  Maria 
Child."     By  Mrs.  R.  P.  Hallowell  of  Medford. 

January  21,  1907,  a  paper.  "The  Haven  and  Newhall 
Families  of  Lynn  and  Maiden."     By  Charles  E.  Mann. 

February  iS,  1907,  a  paper.  "Maldon,  England,  Sixty 
Years  Ago."     By  Deloraine  Pendre  Corey. 

April  i^,  1907,  a  paper.  "The  District  Schools  of 
Maiden."     By  Deloraine  P.  Corey. 

November  iS,  1907.  "  How  I  got  the  Spinning  Wheel." 
By  F.  H.  C.  Woolley. 

February  17,  1908.  "Charlemagne."  By  Melville  C. 
Freeman. 

April  20,  1908,  a  paper.  "  My  Visit  to  Old  Maldon." 
By  Deloraine  P.  Corey. 

December  14,  1910,  a  lecture.  "Historic  !3pots  and 
Happenings  about  Boston."     By  John  S.  C.  Andrews. 

March  8,  191 1,  a  talk.  "Sam  Walter  Foss  as  I  Knew 
Him."     By  Charles  E.  Mann. 


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November  15,  191 1.  "Maiden's  Old  Meeting  Houses." 
By  Walter  Kendall  Watkins. 

February  14,  1912.  "How  Time  was  Kept  When  We 
Lived  Under  a  King."     By  John  Albree. 

March  13,  191 2.  "The  Old  State  House  and  its  Prede- 
cessor the  First  Town  House."     By  Charles  F.  Read. 

May  I,  191 2.  "The  Birds  of  the  Middlesex  Fells."  By 
Gordon  Boit  Wellman,  A.  B. 


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FRANK  S.  WRITTEN,  PRINTER 

1914 


FORM  OF  BEQPEST 


I  bequeath  the  sum  of dollars  to 

the  Maiden  Historical  Society,  incorporated  under  the  laws 
of  the  Commonwealth  of  Massachusetts,  and  direct  that 
the  receipt  of  the  Treasurer  of  the  said  Society  shall  be  a 
release  to  my  estate  and  to  its  executors  from  further  liability 
under  said  bequest. 


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TABLE  OF  CONTENTS 


Page 

George  Louis  Farrell  (portrait) Frontispiece 

Form  of  Bequest * 

The  Birds  of  the  Middlesex  Fells,  Gordon  Bait    IVellmati,  5 

Records  of  the  Washington  Guards  of  Maiden     ...  27 

The  Family  Records  of  the  Willis-Popkin  Families,  George 

Walter  Chamberlain      .......  41 

The  Establishment  of  a  Right  of  Way  in  North  Maiden  in 

1722 47 

Maiden's  Provincial  Tax  in  1755 49 

Inscriptions  in  Bell  Rock  Cemetery  (Continued)Transcribed 

by  the  late  Deloraine  Pendre  Corey       ....  51 

The  Register 

Officers 75 

Committees 7" 

By-Laws 77 

Members,  1912-1913 ^ 

Founders  of  the  Society 86 

Necrologies 

George  Louis  Farrell °7 

Frank  Henry  Chadwick 9° 

William  Frederick  Chester 9^ 

Caroline  (Starbird)  French 9* 

Robert  Cushman  King  (portrait) 93 

David  Barnes  Pitman 94 

Jesse  Warren  Sargent  (portrait) 95 


THE   BIRDS    OF  THE   MIDDLESEX   FELLS. 

An  Address  before  the  Society  by  Gordon  Boit  Wellman. 


I  assume  that  you  are  all  acquainted  with  the  Middlesex 
Fells,  the  lay  of  the  land,  its  contours  and  perhaps  with  its 
flora.  But  it  is  important  for  our  mutual  understanding  to 
look  the  territory  over  together ,  ornithologically ,  so  to  speak . 
The  Fells  do  not  present  a  region  of  infinite  variety,  although 
one  may  find  almost  every  kind  of  natural  physiography  in 
miniature.  In  general,  the  Fells  consist  of  a  huge  glacial 
ledge  well  smoothed  and  serrated  by  the  ice  age.  On  the 
south  this  region  is  defined  by  a  natural  barrier,  a  sharp 
ridge  of  rock  that  in  most  places  rises  to  two  hundred  feet 
above  ocean  level.  This  ridge  runs  pretty  well  east  and 
west  and  forms  the  northern  boundary  of  the  great  mouth 
basins  of  the  Mystic  and  Charles  Rivers.  North  of  this 
rather  definite  southern  boundary  the  Middlesex  Fells 
stretch  away  at  a  fairly  level  altitude,  undulating  slowly 
down  to  the  east  and  the  west.  Bear  Hill  is  the  highest 
point  in  the  Fells,  being  three  hundred  and  seventeen  feet 
above  the  sea.  Cairn  Hill,  the  highest  point  this  side  of 
Spot  Pond,  is  but  a  little  lower,  three  hundred  and  three 
feet.  The  southeast  face  of  this  glacial  plateau,  which  is 
the  side  presented  to  our  city,  rises  very  rapidly,  attaining 
the  height  of  two  hundred  and  fifty  feet,  just  on  the  border 
of  the  Park  back  of  the  residence  of  Mr.  Button  and  the 
considerable  height  of  two  hundred  and  seventy-five  feet 
on  the  ridge  back  of  the  Bear's  Den. 

The  rock}"  foundation  of  this  district  is  but  scarcely 
filled  with  soil.     Most  of  the  deeper  depressions  contain 


6  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

water  the  whole  of  the  year.  It  might  be  well  to  call  to 
your  mind  these  little  ponds.  They  are  Cranberry  Pond, 
the  Winchester  Basins,  Duck  Pond,  Little  Spot,  Spot  Pond, 
the  High  Service  Reservoir,  Hemlock  Pool,  Shiner  Pond 
and  Ben  Wright's.  The  tree  growth  is  that  which  one 
would  expect  from  the  geological  nature  of  the  region. 

Red  and  white  oak  in  abundance  ;  grey  and  black 
birch  everywhere  ;  scarlet  and  silver  maple  in  the  damper 
parts ;  white  and  yellow  pine  in  limited  groves,  and  pig- 
nut, ash,  savin,  buttonwood,  beech  and  hemlock  in  fair 
numbers.  The  lower  growth  is  chiefly  scrub  oak,  witch 
hazel,  pepper  bush,  alder,  sassafras,  dogwood  and  choke- 
cherry.  Small  swamps  are  numerous,  but  they  are  not  of 
sufficient  size  to  hold  many  aquatic  plants.  Besides,  these 
swamps  all  dry  up  during  the  summer  months  and  are  only 
filled  again  before  winter  if  the  autumn  be  a  fairly  wet  one. 
Running  water  is  very  limited  and  in  most  cases  also  ceases 
to  flow  during  the  summer.  Animals  as  they  affect  the 
birds  are  almost  a  negative  quantity.  Red  and  grey  squir- 
rels are  doing  well ;  chipmunks  are  numerous ;  the  ground 
hog  and  white-footed  mouse  are  in  good  numbers ;  the 
moles  and  the  rabbits  are  greatly  reduced  and  are  to  be 
found  in  the  remote  parts  occasionally.  The  snakes  are 
the  black,  garter,  water  adder,  milk  adder  and  green,  all 
harmless  as  kittens.  The  red  and  grey  newt  are  common, 
the  salamander  and  the  muskrat  fairly  so.  The  flying 
squirrel,  mink,  skunk  and  little  bat  I  find  occasionally  in 
limited  numbers. 

The  meteorological  conditions  which  prevail  in  the 
Fells  are  well  known  to  you  who  live  in  Maiden.  My 
records  show  that  Spot  Pond  usually  closes  for  the  winter 
just  before  Christmas  and  opens  again  in  the  middle  of 
March.      The  difference  of    humidity  which   is  such  an 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  7 

important  factor  in  the  distribution  of  bird  life  is  now  nearly 
eliminated  by  the  extensive  opening  of  the  forests.  The 
only  really  bit  of  forest  still  standing  is  the  so-called  Virginia 
Woods  lying  at  the  base  of  the  Ravine  Road  and  between 
there  and  Pond  street. 

The  ornithologist  must  thoroughly  understand  his  zool- 
ogy, botany,  geology  and  meteorology.  An  ornithologist 
would  be  able,  given  the  longitude  and  the  latitude,  to  tell 
you  even  from  my  meager  description  just  given  of  the 
Fells  what  kind  of  birds  one  would  find  in  that  resion. 
The  other  day  I  was  showing  a  friend  the  excellent  new 
book  of  Mr.  William  Brewster  on  the  "Birds  of  the  Cam- 
bridge Region,"  and  I  made  the  remark  that  I  wished  that 
the  book  covered  the  Middlesex  Fells  also.  The  friend 
answered,  "Why?  Do  you  expect  to  find  different  birds  in 
Maiden  from  those  in  Cambridge?"  Certainly,  it  must  be 
so ;  for  these  environments  are  as  different  as  black  and 
white. 

In  studying  the  birds  of  any  one  locality  not  only  must 
one  take  into  account  the  intrinsic  nature  of  the  land,  but 
its  immediate  surroundings  are  most  important ;  particu- 
larly is  this  true  of  the  ground  under  discussion,  for  on  its 
very  southern  border  man  has  built  a  mighty  metropolis,  a 
potent  factor  in  the  bird  distribution  of  the  Fells.  But  this 
is  not  all ;  for  the  ornithologist  must  place  his  region  in 
relation  to  the  great  continental  movements,  the  migratory 
streams  of  the  western  hemisphere.  He  must  even  under- 
stand the  world  balance  of  bird  distribution  to  such  an  extent 
that  a  slight  movement  in  the  tiny  region  under  observation 
is  significant  to  him  of  a  whole  order  of  things  that  are 
world  wide.  Do  you  see  into  what  a  comprehensive  sub- 
ject the  study  of  the  "Birds  of  the  Middlesex  Fells"  resolves 
itself? 


8  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

It  is  only  fair  that  you  see  into  what  new  fields  the 
science  of  ornithology  is  leading,  It  is  just  beginning  to 
enter  the  shallows  of  those  deep  problems  of  the  movement 
and  distribution  of  the  feathered  creatures.  Migrations 
are  not  only  sweeping  north  and  south,  but  we  recognize 
movements  in  all  directions  and  must  account  for  them.  In 
the  dozen  years  that  my  records  in  the  Fells  cover  not  only 
do  I  have  to  recognize  these  counter  movements,  but  a  gen- 
eral shifting  and  change  which  when  we  think  of  in  centu- 
ries rather  than  in  years  is  suggestive  of  mighty  upheavals 
in  the  present  order  of  things.  Just  as  we  recognize  in  our 
own  universe  the  regular  movements  of  the  planets  about 
the  sun,  and  also  find  that  this  whole  world  system  is  itself 
moving  onward  through  unknown  space,  so  in  the  move- 
ment of  the  birds  we  now  see  a  great  onward  movement 
back  and  independent  of  the  regular  migrations.  Do  you 
not  see  what  a  tremendously  interesting  field  and  how  pro- 
ductive a  one  is  open  to  the  student  of  the  birds  in  such  a 
region  as  the  Fells? 

The  Middlesex  Fells  are  also  placed  in  an  unusually 
strategic  position.  I  refer  to  the  fact  that  we  live  here  in 
the  transition  zone  of  animal  life  of  North  America. 
North  of  us  are  found  the  Canadian,  Hudsonian,  Sub- 
Arctic  and  Artie  faunas,  while  south  are  the  great  austral 
zones  and  the  tropics.  So  close  are  we  to  these  different 
life  belts  that  if  we  should  raise  a  mountain  here  in  Maiden 
to  say  the  height  of  Mount  Washington  we  would  have  on 
it  all  these  different  faunas  exhibited,  one  below  the  other. 
This  is  virtually  what  takes  place  on  even  the  little  slopes 
in  Massachusetts.  Thus  we  have  a  great  variety  of  birds, 
a  greater  variety  than  many  places  and  more  interesting 
problems  to  solve.  But  although  Nature  has  done  so  much 
for  the  Fells  in  the  way  of  bird  life,  man  has  done  a  deal 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  9 

of  interrupting  and  subverting  of  her  ways.  Our  country 
has  gone  through  more  radical  changes  in  a  short  time 
than  probably  any  other  has  ever  felt  through  the  influence 
of  man.  Great  smoking  cities  stand  where  was  a  few 
years  before  nothing  but  sedge  grass.  Dark  forests  make 
way  for  wheat  fields  and  huge  swamps  are  turned  into 
pasture  lands.  To  all  this  the  birds  must  accustom  them- 
selves, adapt  themselves  to  the  environment  or  die.  I  have 
recently  seen  the  birds  of  Europe  at  home  and  one  of  the 
first  things  that  impressed  me  was  the  fact  that  there  the 
balance  of  things  is  and  has  been  more  firmly  settled,  for 
drastic  changes  are  slow  to  come  in  the  old  world.  To 
make  the  thing  concrete,  look  for  a  moment  at  the  influence 
of  the  city  of  Boston  in  one  respect  on  the  bird  life  of  the 
Fells.  Take  the  movement  of  the  spring  migration,  during 
which  the  birds  move  slowly  north  in  small  bands,  not 
quickly  as  they  go  south  in  the  fall.  These  we  presume 
come  in  the  course  of  time  to  the  Blue  Hills  south  of  Bos- 
ton. They  see  before  them  this  great  mass  of  buildings 
beneath  the  pall  of  smoke,  a  veritable  cauldron.  What 
will  they  do?  Why,  the  most  natural  thing,  pass  around  it, 
which  means  that  they  follow  the  Arlington  Ridge  and  do 
not  visit  the  Fells.  You  may  verify  this  for  yourselves  by 
a  walk  during  the  spring  months  in  the  Fells  and  then  over 
Arlington  and  Belmont  way. 

Again  in  the  Fells  man  has  also  been  at  work  and 
during  the  last  ten  years  the  park  has  gradually  assumed 
wholly  new  appearances.  To  illustrate,  take  two  birds  of 
the  same  family  but  differing  in  their  habitats  —  the  chest- 
nut-sided warbler  and  the  black-throated  green  warbler. 
The  first  of  these  birds,  the  chestnut-sided  warbler  desires 
warm,  open  land,  low  bushes  in  which  to  nest,  and  sunny 
hillsides  to  feed  upon.     The  second  named  bird  needs  tall 


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pines,  the  dampness  of  the  forest  and  the  shaded  ways  of 
primeval  woods.  This  latter  environment  has  almost  ceased 
to  be  in  the  Fells,  whereas  the  former,  the  open,  bushy 
land  prevails.  The  consequence  is  that  during  the  years 
that  I  have  studied  the  birds  in  the  Fells  the  chestnut-sided 
warbler  has  increased  to  be  one  of  the  commonest  birds, 
whereas  the  black-throated  green  warbler  is  limited  to  two 
or  three  groves.  It  was  formerly  a  bird  as  common  as  the 
chestnut-sided  is  now.  With  such  comparisons  I  could  go 
right  through  all  the  birds  which  are  resident  in  the  Fells, 
and  show  how  the  changes  wrought  by  man  have  made 
corresponding  revolutions  in  the  bird  distribution.  So  rapid 
has  the  change  come  about  that  some  birds  like  the  golden- 
winged  warbler,  which  could  only  rarely  be  found  ten  years 
ago  in  the  Fells  and  whose  nest  was  only  found  for  the  first 
time  six  years  ago,  are  now  very  common  throughout  the 
entire  park.  Such  changes,  which  are  so  advantageous  to 
certain  species  we  welcome,  but  they  cannot  repay  the 
great  loss  of  man}^  other  birds,  for  the  simple  reason  that 
the  balance  set  by  Nature  has  been  so  irrevocably  upset 
by  man. 

This  is  a  day  when  we  are  looking  at  all  things  in  the 
light  of  their  relation  to  other  things,  when  we  no  longer 
pocket  events  in  air-tight  compartments ;  but  rather  when 
we  recognize  the  intricate  woof  and  warp  of  the  universe. 
To-day  the  cry  is  for  comparative  studies,  and  we  have  a 
new  view  of  life  and  business  where  efficiency  and  economy 
are  based  on  the  nice  relation  of  the  whole.  Nature  has 
been  proceeding  on  this  basis  for  a  long  time  and  all  life 
on  this  fflobe  is  set  with  the  finest  balance.  Civilized  man 
has  at  last  been  forced  to  learn  that  he  can  only  live  and 
increase  when  he  has  formed  a  fair  relation  with  his  fellow- 
men  ;  he  is  learning  that  this  "  balance  of  power  "  must  not 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  .  II 

be  upset,  and  yet  he  does  not  apply  this  lesson  to  his  deal- 
ings with  Nature.  He  runs  ruefully  into  the  equilibrium  of 
Nature  and  wonders  when  things  seem  to  be  going  all  to 
ruin ;  when,  by  the  way,  he  takes  away  the  wherewithal 
of  whole  families  of  birds  and  then  wonders  why  certain 
insects  are  eating  up  his  trees. 

In  the  Fells,  formerly,  were  to  be  found  a  few  of 
nearly  all  the  species  of  birds  of  New  England  and  each 
one  had  his  work  to  do.  Now  certain  birds  of  only  a  few 
species  are  increasing  rapidly,  while  the  variety  of  birds 
that  were  dependent  on  a  variety  of  country  are  going  and 
gone.  There  is  still  a  chance,  and  if  the  authorities  only 
would  work  now  the  really  valuable  birds  might  be  saved, 
while  the  thing  would  not  go  on  in  this  haphazard  way  any 
longer.  What  policy  there  has  been  in  the  Fells  in  regard 
to  the  birds  has  been  perfectly  inconsistent. 

You  know  how  there  is  a  bird  for  each  harmful  thing 
in  the  outdoor  world, —  the  vireo  to  glean  noxious  life  under 
the  leaves ;  the  warbler  to  work  on  top  of  the  leaves  ;  the 
woodpecker  to  run  up  the  trunk ;  the  nuthatches  to  pry  on 
the  under  side  of  the  branches  ;  the  creeper  to  look  beneath 
the  bark  ;  the  sparrows  for  the  noxious  seeds  of  weeds  ;  the 
waders  in  the  shallows  ;  the  mergansers  rushing  through 
the  water's  depths  for  crustacians  ;  the  swallows  in  the  air 
by  day,  the  swifts  in  the  evening  ;  the  night  jars  by  night, 
and  so  on,  a  great  barrier  set  by  Nature  against  the  undue 
preponderance  of  any  noxious  life.  We  should  keep  some 
of  each  of  these  different  police  birds,  but  alas  the  policy 
in  the  Fells  has  been  such  that  we  have  lost  some  for 
good  and  that  the  most  valuable  are  on  the  verge  of  going. 
For  instance,  take  a  common  family  that  you  know  the 
worth  of,  the  woodpeckers.  These  birds  are  going  to  leave 
the  Middlesex  Fells  for  the  simple  reason  that  man  in  his 


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interference  with  Nature  has  never  thought  to  place  a  little 
compensation  in  the  way  of  these  birds.  There  are,  indige- 
nous to  the  Fells,  the  downy  woodpecker,  hairy  and  golden- 
winged  woodpeckers,  and  sapsucker,  not  to  speak  of  three 
others  coming  occasionally.  All  of  these  birds  desire  a 
dead  branch  for  nesting  use  or  drumming.  The  Fells  are 
now  swept  clean  of  all  such  dead  wood  b}^  gangs  of  work- 
men ;  at  first  thought  an  admirable  work,  but  the  conse- 
quence is  that  a  far  more  valuable  band  of  workers,  which 
work  every  day  in  the  year,  are  driven  out.  Could  not 
foresight  leave  such  occasional  dead  wood  as  is  firm  and 
not  unsightly,  thereby  keeping  the  woodpeckers.  You  do 
not  care  to  hear  a  long  tale  of  woe  concerning  the  birds  in 
the  Fells  ;  but  if  any  one  inquire  we  have  the  facts  to  give 
them  to-day.  When  statistics  are  pointing  out  the  fact  that 
each  tiny  bird  stomach  holds  eight  or  nine  thousand  unde- 
sirable seeds,  that  a  single  species  like  the  tree  sparrow 
eats  over  a  million  pounds  of  weed  seed  in  a  season  in  our 
State  alone,  and  when  we  find  in  each  nighthawk  some 
seven  hundred  insects,  we  are  bound  to  open  our  eyes  to 
cold  facts,  as  we  call  them. 

I  have  just  hinted  at  some  of  the  fascinating  problems 
that  confront  the  ornithologist  in  the  Middlesex  Fells  ;  now 
for  the  more  pertinent  topic,  the  birds  in  the  Fells  to-day. 
Birds  of  any  one  place  readily  fall  into  three  groups  :  per- 
manent residents  that  stay  throughout  the  year  in  the  same 
region,  annual  visitors  that  spend  the  summer  or  the  winter 
only,  and  transitory  visitors  that  merely  pass  through  on 
their  way  to  other  climes.  The  permanent  birds  of  the 
Fells  are  few  in  number  and,  as  you  may  guess,  are  the 
hardiest  of  our  birds,  for  they  have  to  weather  the  extremes 
of  our  rugged  climate.  However,  there  is  never  a  time 
during  the  year  when  we  are  reduced  to  having  the  perma- 


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nent  residents  alone,  for  the  list  of  birds  is  always  aug- 
mented by  some  of  the  annual  visitors.  In  the  winter  when 
the  bird  tide  is  at  its  lowest  ebb,  the  interest  of  the  student 
is  not  allowed  to  lagc  for  a  moment.  There  are  sure  to  be 
new  conditions  each  winter  in  our  variable  climate  ;  either 
the  season  is  a  mild  one  and  we  have  birds  with  us  all  win- 
ter that  should  normally  be  in  the  south,  or  the  period  may 
be  an  exceptionally  cold  one  and  the  bird  lover  may  go  out 
in  the  Fells  and  see  birds  from  the  barren  steppes  of  the 
Hudson  Bay  region.  Or  again  there  may  be  a  scarcity  of 
bird  food  in  the  west,  and  from  this  direction  the  rare  birds 
come  to  us.  The  winters  of  1899-1900,  and  1906-1907 
were  severe  in  the  north  country  and  the  result  was  a 
wealth  of  bird  life  in  our  parks.  Throughout  the  autumn 
of  1899  the  rare  birds  of  the  Canadian  and  Hudsonian 
faunas  began  to  appear  in  the  Fells,  and  by  midwinter  the 
life  was  really  abundant ;  so  much  so  that  they  attracted 
great  notice  and  people  came  out  from  Boston  to  see  them. 
Great  flocks  of  the  redpoll  linnets  were  to  be  found  on  the 
birches  and  the  alders :  white-winged  and  American  cross- 
bills were  in  the  Virginia  Woods,  and  large  flocks  of  the 
winter  residents  roamed  through  the  Fells,  such  as  the 
chickadees,  red-breasted  and  white-breasted  nuthatches, 
brown  creepers,  downy  and  hairy  woodpeckers,  jays  and 
kinglets,  while  in  the  swamps  were  tree  sparrows,  fox 
sparrows,  juncoes,  goldfinches  and  siskins.  Quite  a  list  of 
birds  for  winter,  you  would  say,  and  yet  the  ordinary  win- 
ter brings  us  just  about  this  same  number  ;  though  not  all 
are  so  rare  as  they  were  this  particular  year.  In  1906- 
1907  came  the  pine  grosbeak  in  great  numbers,  attracting 
much  attention  by  his  size  and  fine  colors.  White-winged 
crossbills  were  here  again  this  winter,  and  so  tame  were 
they  that  one  could  often  touch  them.     People  are  apt  to 


14  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

think  that  this  unusual  lack  of  timidity  results  from  extreme 
hunger,  but  not  so ;  it  is  rather  because  these  northern 
birds  are  unacquainted  with  man  and  have  never  learned 
to  fear  him.  This  winter  of  1906  also  proved  to  be  a  sea- 
son for  the  winter  wren  and,  through  one  of  those  curious 
instances  of  distribution,  a  bird  of  the  Carolinian  fauna  was 
present,  the  Carolina  wren.  The  latter  individual  made  its 
home  in  the  lower  Virginia  Woods,  where  so  many  good 
finds  are  to  be  sought. 

It  is  astounding  to  find  how  a  region  that  can  offer  the 
right  environment  to  a  bird  will  almost  always  contain  that 
special  bird.  It  simply  goes  to  show  how  widespread  is 
the  movement  of  birds  in  their  outlook  for  food  and  nesting 
sites.  For  instance,  in  the  winter  of  1905  there  were  a 
great  many  dead  trees  standing  which  had  been  killed  by 
the  raid  of  the  gypsy  moth,  and  so  what  should  we  have 
but  an  Arctic  three-toed  woodpecker  to  work  all  winter  in 
the  woods.  Again,  the  plantings  on  the  side  of  Bear  Hill 
are  such  that  the  robin  finds  good  winter  feeding  and  usually 
there  are  quite  a  few  of  these  birds  here  all  winter.  These 
are  robins  that  come  from  the  north,  and  not  the  same 
robins  that  we  have  with  us  during  the  summer.  It  is  never 
very  difficult  to  find  these  northern  robins  about  Boston  in 
the  cold  months.  One  of  the  best  examples  of  the  bird 
appearing  instantly  in  the  spot  fitted  for  him  is  the  fact  that 
all  through  the  winter  the  ducks  watch  the  state  of  the  ice 
on  the  ponds  so  carefully  that  let  there  come  the  merest 
opening  and  they  are  found  to  be  there  on  the  free  water. 
This  goes  to  show  that  it  would  not  be  difficult  to  get  the 
desired  birds  in  the  Fells  when  once  the  correct  environ- 
ment was  furnished. 

The  winter  skies  are  often  seen  well  filled  with  gulls, 
the  herring  and  the  great  black-backed  gulls.     These  birds 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  1$ 

frequent  Spot  Pond  the  most  and  with  but  a  few  exceptions 
do  not  stay  inland  all  night.  They  begin  to  arrive  about 
ten  o'clock  in  the  morning,  coming  over  from  the  Lynn 
marshes  about  in  a  line  with  the  mount.  They  leave  again 
at  dusk.  They  gather  during  the  day  to  about  the  number 
of  five  hundred  or  more,  and  when  they  leave  they  rise  in 
huge  spirals,  presenting  a  wonderful  sight  to  one  seeing 
them  from  the  Fells.  The  ducks  realized  at  once  that  the 
Basins  and  Spot  Pond  were  protected  waters  and  the  Fells 
bids  fair  to  do  a  great  work  in  the  protection  of  the  wild 
ducks  during  the  autumn  and  early  winter  months.  Mal- 
lard, black  duck,  widgeon,  teal,  shoveler,  pintail,  canvas- 
back,  scaup,  golden-eye,  bufflehead,  American  and  hooded 
merganser,  horned  and  pied  grebe  all  appear  on  the  waters 
of  our  ponds  and  make  a  show  of  bird  life  that  is  hardly  to 
be  equaled.  It  is  regrettable  that  blank  cartridges  are  being 
used  on  Spot  Pond  to  drive  off  the  birds.  The  ducks  are 
sent  off  to  the  shore  where  they  come  in  contact  with  the 
deadly  automatic  gun.  Many  of  our  beautiful  American 
ducks  are  on  the  verge  of  extinction. 

Not  only  do  these  ducks  and  gulls  make  the  bird  life 
in  the  Fells  conspicuous,  but  one  may  see  a  red-shouldered 
hawk  or  perhaps  the  great  American  rough-legged  hawk. 
The  latter  is  often  taken  for  an  eagle.  The  only  eagle 
that  one  could  see  in  the  Fells  to-day  is  the  bald  eagle  with 
unmistakable  white  head  and  tail  when  in  adult  plumage. 
We  let  free  an  adult  bald  eagle  from  Bear  Hill  in  1903. 
In  twenty-four  hours  he  had  been  shot  and  the  papers  next 
day  appeared  with  the  news  that  children  were  once  more 
saved  from  the  talons  of  the  king  of  birds.  The  commonest 
owls  are  the  barred,  screech  and  saw-whet  owls.  The 
barred  owl  is  a  wonderful  creature  with  deep,  liquid,  amber 
eyes.     This  past  winter  I  have  noted  but  one  about.    They 


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have  never  recovered  from  the  time  they  were  hunted  down 
by  Park  orders.  This  was  done  at  a  time  when  artificial 
conditions  had  been  produced  by  feeding  the  winter  birds 
and  was  undoubtedly  warranted  by  good  judgment. 

The  summer  season,  corresponding  to  the  winter,  con- 
sists of  the  same  elements  of  bird  life,  that  is,  permanent 
residents  and  annual  visitors.  Only  in  this  case  the  annual 
visitors  are  some  eight  or  nine  times  more  numerous  than 
they  were  in  the  cold  months,  and  are  even  more  interesting 
since  they  are  in  the  midst  of  nesting.  The  regularity  with 
which  individual  birds  return  to  the  identical  spot  to  nest 
has  always  been  one  of  the  wonders  of  natural  science. 
Amongst  the  larger  birds  such  as  the  stork  it  has  attracted 
great  attention,  but  it  is  really  more  startling  among  the 
smaller  birds.  I  could  point  out  to  one  in  the  Middlesex 
Fells  just  about  where  most  of  the  different  species  will 
nest  this  next  summer.  So  definite  an  area  is  chosen  by 
some  species  that  I  could  show  you  almost  the  very  bush 
which  will  be  taken  for  the  nesting  site  ;  this  is  true,  for 
instance,  of  the  prairie  warbler.  Thus  summer  and  winter 
present  a  thousand  fascinating  problems,  but  far  and  away 
the  greatest  time  for  birds  in  the  Fells  is  the  migration 
period.  Migration  begins  usually  the  first  of  March  and 
lasts  until  the  tenth  of  June  ;  then  after  a  short  lapse  begins 
again  the  fifteenth  of  August  and  goes  on  steadily  until  the 
middle  or  even  last  of  November.  These  dates  show  that 
the  migration  period  in  the  Fells  covers  about  half  the 
year.  This  is  significant  when  we  think  that  all  these  six 
months  the  bird  interest  is  at  its  highest  pitch.  It  proves 
the  Fells  to  be  a  rich  region  for  the  field  ornithologist. 

In  speaking  of  bird  migration  I  mean  that  which  is 
usually  signified  by  that  term,  the  annual  movement  of  the 
birds   northward  to   nest  and  the  return  south  with  their 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  1 7 

young  when  this  has  been  accomplished.     The  spring  mi- 
gration differs  from  the  autumn  flight  not  only  in  the  method 
of  procedure  but  in  the  kinds  and  number  of  birds.     Most 
birds  have  regular  routes  of  movement  and  since  these  are 
usually  circular,  that  is  they  do  not  return  over  the  outward 
path,  we  have  in  any  one  region  such  as  the  Fells  different 
species  in  the  spring  and  in  the  autumn.     Some  idea  of  the 
weahh  of  bird  life  in  the  Fells  in  the  migratory  season  may 
be  gained  from  these  figures:    there  are  about  forty-five 
purely  transitory    species    of   birds    passing   through    our 
woods  during  migration  ;  add  to  this  the  number  of  perma- 
nent   residents,   which  is  about  twenty  species,    and   still 
further  augment  the  list  by  the  number  of  the  annual  sum- 
mer residents,  about  seventy  species,  and  in  toto  we  have 
the  good  number  of  one  hundred  and  thirty-five  species, 
which  may  be  present  at  any  one  moment  during  the  migra- 
tion months.     The  climax  of  the  spring  migration  is  on  the 
tenth  of  May,  and  this  date  probably  surpasses  any  other 
time  in  the  year  for  its  number  of  birds  present  in  the  Fells. 
A  walk  at  this  time  in  the  park  may  easily  reveal  some  sixty 
different  species  of  birds. 

The  records  show  that  the  first  migrant  of  the  spring 
flight  to  reach  the  Fells  is  the  bronzed  grackle,  due  the 
tenth  of  March.  The  dates  are  made  up  on  the  average  of 
ten  years'  experience.  The  last  bird  of  the  spring  migra- 
tion is  the  blackpoll  warbler,  leaving  the  Fells  about  the 
fifth  of  June.  The  first  southern  bird  returning  comes  to 
us  in  the  middle  of  August,  the  solitary  sandpiper ;  and 
the  last  fellow  leaving  in  the  fall  is  the  orange-crowned 
warbler,  sometimes  seen  as  late  as  Thanksgiving  time. 
Between  these  dates  come  the  great  flights  of  birds.  Tiny 
warblers  and  kinglets  that  have  crossed  the  Isthmus  of 
Panama,  the  Great  Gulf,  and  have  made  the  long  journey 


l8  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

up  the  Atlantic  coast ;  snipe  that  have  come  from  the  wastes 
of  Patagonia,  crossed  the  torrid  Amazon  and  are  on  their 
way  to  the  far  north  ;  little  hummers  from  South  America ; 
sparrows  from  Cuba;  geese  and  duck  from  the  Ever- 
glades ;  hawks  and  flycatchers  from  Mexico ;  swallows 
and  sandpipers  from  Bahama  and  the  Southern  Islands  ; 
and  blackbirds  and  orioles  from  the  Carolinas.  Our  New 
England  lands  are  called  barren  and  rocky  and  sometimes 
laughed  at  by  those  who  live  in  a  more  flowery  country.  I 
only  wish  that  all  these  scoffers  could  go  forth  with  open 
eyes  into  our  woods  in  the  month  of  May ;  they  certainly 
would  remain  to  worship.  The  trees,  bushes  and  every 
grass  blade  it  seems  are  fairly  dripping  with  bird  life. 
Little,  bright,  flitting  gems  bringing  color  and  music  from 
the  tropics  are  dancing  through  our  prim  and  sturdy  oaks, 
making  a  picture  of  bird  life  that  I  think  cannot  be  equalled 
in  all  the  world.  Certainly  there  is  nothing  that  can  ap- 
proach this  scene  in  the  migrations  of  either  Europe  or 
Africa.  In  Asia  I  have  not  been,  but  there  conditions  are 
different.  And  then  there  is  the  glamour  cast  over  the 
whole  affair  when  we  enter  into  the  birds'  interest  in  this 
great  movement.  We  think  of  these  mere  handfuls  of 
feathers,  bones  and  flesh  that  are  shooting  themselves  at 
cannonball  speed  (this  is  no  hyperbole)  through  the  air 
for  thousands  of  miles  and  we  are  silent  for  wonder. 
Some  morning  we  walk  along  the  shore  of  Ben  Wright's 
Pond  and  see  a  dainty  little  bird  with  snow  white  breast 
stepping  gracefully  among  the  pebbles,  the  solitary  sand- 
piper. He  seems  perfectly  at  home,  as  plump  and  bright- 
eyed  as  if  he  had  been  here  all  summer.  But  in  truth 
what  a  story  he  would  have  to  tell  of  the  past  months  ! 
Probably  he  has  just  arrived  here  the  morning  that  you  dis- 
cover him  and  although  it  may  be  only  the  first  of  August 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  19 

he  has  already  been  far  north  in  the  wild  regions  of  Ungava, 
built  his  nest  while  there  was  still  snow  on  the  ground, 
raised  his  young  and  now  arrived  away  back  here  in  the 
Fells  on  his  return  to  South  America.  I  wonder  some- 
times how  many  thousands  of  birds  scattered  all  over  our 
hemisphere  carry  in  their  memory  little  pictures  of  tall 
pines  in  the  Virginia  Woods,  pleasant  nooks  where  they 
have  nested  on  Bear  Hill  or  coves  in  the  ponds  where  they 
have  sported  in  the  waters. 

In  the  autumn  migration  the  birds  proceed  in  large 
flocks  and  in  general  move  faster  when  they  pass  through 
the  Fells  than  they  do  in  going  north  in  the  spring.  These 
flocks  are  made  up  of  many  different  species,  traveling 
together  in  harmonious  company.  When  we  know  more 
about  the  migration  movement  and  its  causes,  we  shall 
probably  perceive  some  connection  in  the  relation  of  these 
different  species  that  travel  south  together.  When  one  goes 
birding  in  the  Fells  in  April  or  May,  the  woods  seem  to  be 
full  of  birds  scattered  throughout  the  region,  but  in  Sep- 
tember and  October  there  are  long  stretches  of  country  that 
do  not  yield  a  species  to  the  ornithologist.  But  at  last  one 
comes  upon  one  of  these  great  autumn  flocks  and  at  once  a 
veritable  paradise  of  birds  has  been  found.  Although  the 
birds  are  probably  more  numerous  in  the  fall  than  in  the 
spring,  there  is  not  the  same  interest  attached  to  them.  In 
the  first  place  they  are  very  difficult  to  distinguish,  as  there 
are  many  young  among  them  and  as  the  most  of  the  others 
are  in  the  semi-moulting  stage.  The  warblers  after  the 
late  summer  moult  all  seem  more  or  less  alike  ;  for  the  most 
part  they  are  all  little  greenish-yellow  nondescript  birds 
and,  since  at  this  time  there  is  only  the  call  note  to  go  by, 
the  identification  becomes  most  difficult. 

The  autumn  walks  do  not  reveal  quite  as  many  species 


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at  any  one  time  in  the  Fells  as  do  the  walks  in  the  month 
of  May.  I  take  at  random  the  record  of  a  walk  through 
the  Fells  from  the  Maiden  side  to  Spot  Pond ;  this  will 
give  you  a  better  idea  of  the  bird  status  than  anything 
else.  October  9,  1907.  The  day  was  clear,  cool  and  wind 
west,  light ;  I  give  the  species  just  in  the  order  that  they 
come  in  the  record:  Blue  jay,  four;  white-throated  spar- 
row, fourteen  ;  osprey,  one  ;  bluebirds,  five  ;  hermit  thrush, 
two,  chewink,  twenty  ;  junco,  forty  ;  yellow  palm  warbler, 
eight;  robin,  sixteen;  sapsucker,  two;  golden-crowned 
kinglet,  two ;  chickadee,  five  ;  common  crow,  six ;  song 
sparrow,  two;  white-breasted  nuthatch,  three;  brown 
creeper,  four;  black-throated  green  warbler,  one;  black- 
throated  blue  warbler,  one  ;  blackpoll  warbler,  two  ;  Black- 
burnian  warbler,  one ;  ruby-crowned  warbler,  one ;  paru- 
lar  warbler,  five ;  black  duck,  fifty-two ;  herring  gull,  one 
hundred;  myrtle  warbler,  nine;  Maryland  yellow-throat, 
one  ;  catbird,  one  ;  scarlet  tanager,  one  ;  kingfisher,  one  ; 
winter  wren,  one;  flicker,  one;  pied-billed  grebe,  one; 
phoebe,  one;  red-breasted  nuthatch,  one;  olive-backed 
thrush,  four.  This  is  a  typical  list  made  by  a  walk  through 
a  part  of  the  Fells  in  the  month  of  October.  Of  course 
another  day  or  another  part  of  the  park  would  yield  a  dif- 
ferent record,  which  might  have  less  than  half  of  the  birds 
seen  in  this  list  in  it,  and  yet  be  as  large  a  list  or  larger. 

The  proximity  of  a  region  like  that  of  the  Fells  to  a 
city,  as  for  instance  to  Maiden,  naturally  brings  the  ques- 
tion of  the  part  which  such  a  territory  plays  in  the  relation 
of  the  birds  to  thickly  settled  districts.  The  problem  would 
seem  to  be  one  that  would  lend  itself  to  an  easy  solution^ 
but  not  so.  Just  at  present  the  question  of  the  relation  of  a 
region  favorable  to  bird  life  to  the  surrounding  country  is 
being  interestingly  worked  out  in  a  little  country  town  of 


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New  Hampshire.  We  await  the  results  with  the  keenest 
interest.  However,  so  far  as  I  know,  the  influence  of  the 
Middlesex  Fells  upon  the  number  of  birds  that  we  may 
have  in  Maiden  is  almost  nil.  Nearly  all  the  birds  of  that 
great  order  Passeres  manifest  a  distinct  fondness  for  the 
abode  of  man.  The  field  ornithologist  is  constantly  forced 
to  recognize  this  fact  as  he  searches  the  different  kinds  of 
territory  for  the  birds.  Again  and  again  one  goes  through 
a  wild  forest  region  without  seeing  a  bird  and  then,  when 
the  woods  open  up  and  barns  and  houses  appear,  the  birds 
come  also  and  in  a  few  minutes  the  keen  ear  may  detect 
many  species.  This  then  is  an  important  fact,  for  the  Fells 
present  to-day,  as  I  have  just  shown,  a  region  that  appeals 
to  only  a  few  species  that  come  in  any  considerable  num- 
ber. And  so  this  piece  of  country  bereft  of  houses  and 
human  inhabitants,  and  likewise  of  the  most  desirable  kinds 
of  bird  haunts,  is  not  destined  to  play  a  great  part  in  the 
distribution  of  birds  in  our  city.  The  question  of  having 
birds  in  our  streets  is  then  quite  aside  from  that  of  the  birds 
in  the  Fells,  although  I  do  not  doubt  that  if  the  conditions 
in  the  park  were  only  made  better  there  would  be  a  pro- 
portional increase  in  the  number  of  birds  in  Maiden. 

The  problem  of  bringing  the  birds  into  our  back  yards 
is  only  the  same  old  question  of  the  proper  environment ; 
that  is,  to  a  great  extent  it  is  this  problem.  My  own  home 
in  this  city  is  closely  bounded  on  three  sides  by  houses.  I 
have  only  a  cedar  tree,  one  pine  and  a  few  pear  trees ;  yet 
in  this  limited  area  I  have  noted  sixty-five  species  of  birds 
in  the  last  ten  years.  There  has  been  no  special  attraction 
offered  to  the  birds,  such  as  suet  or  bathing  water,  so  the 
test  has  been  a  fair  one.  If  I  had  made  the  place  desirable 
by  some  of  these  little  things,  how  many  more  species 
might  I  have  had?     In  looking  over  this  list  and  the  times 


22  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

of  the  different  arrivals  I  cannot  make  the  Fells  account  for 
a  single  one  of  the  birds  which  I  saw.  On  the  other  hand 
it  ought  to  be  made  clear  that  such  little  park  areas  as  occur 
within  the  city  itself  are  great  attractors  for  the  birds  and 
act  in  a  wholly  different  way  from  the  large  and  somewhat 
remote  district  of  the  Fells.  Is  it  not  a  significant  fact  that 
my  friend  Mr.  Wright  has  seen  during  the  last  dozen  years 
one  hundred  and  twenty-one  different  species  of  birds  in 
the  Public  Garden  of  Boston?  This  goes  to  show  how 
many  birds  do  wander  into  the  midst  of  smoking  cities  and 
find  veritable  islands  of  refuge  in  these  little  city  parks. 

In  so  far  as  the  cities  will  come  into  close  contact  with 
the  borders  of  the  Fells  in  the  near  future,  the  Fells  will 
react  as  bird  reserves  for  those  neighboring  parts  of  the 
city.  This  is  apparent  already  to-day.  The  richest  por- 
tions of  the  Fells  for  birds  are  those  districts  that  border  on 
the  settled  land.  Even  during  the  migration  times  there 
are  not  half  the  birds  in  the  central  parts  of  the  Fells  that 
there  are  along  the  so-called  border  roads.  On  our  side  of 
the  Fells  there  is  short  Border  road  running  from  Summer 
street,  this  city,  to  the  Middlesex  Fells  Parkway  and  on  to 
Highland  avenue.  There  are  seven  small  swamps,  so  small 
indeed  that  they  can  hardly  be  termed  swamps,  along  this 
road.  I  have  numbered  these  little  hollows  one,  two,  three, 
and  so  forth,  for  convenience  and  made  a  fairly  close  study 
of  them  for  the  past  twelve  years.  The  number  of  birds- 
that  visit  and  make  their  home  in  these  places  is  marvelous, 
and  the  more  so  when  one  considers  that  this  road  is  open 
to  automobiles  and  has  twice  the  traffic  that  the  roads  within 
the  Fells  have.  It  isn't  the  noise  and  proximity  to  human 
beings  that  disturb  the  birds  so  long  as  they  can  find  shelter 
and  food.  Three  years  ago  these  swamps  were  bushed  out 
and  since  then  the  birds  have  dropped  away  in  just  about 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    vSOCIETY  23 

half  their  former  number.  If  this  had  not  occurred  I  feel 
assured  that,  other  things  being  equal,  they  would  have 
held  their  number  despite  house  building  a  few  feet  away. 
Thus  the  Fells,  if  treated  in  a  proper  way  for  a  bird  reserve , 
would  act  in  two  definite  ways  ;  in  the  first  place  as  a  great 
refuge  place  for  migrating  birds,  and  secondly  as  supplying 
a  noble  breeding  territory  for  our  resident  birds  upon  the 
very  borders  of  our  cities.  It  is  important  to  emphasize  the 
great  amount  of  good  that  such  birds  do.  Conclusive  statis- 
tics could  be  made  by  taking  the  area  covered  by  the  species 
of  any  one  of  the  swamps  that  I  have  mentioned.  It  would 
show  an  area  of  great  size  which  is  patrolled  by  these  insect 
and  seed  hunters.  I  have  incidentally  got  an  idea  of  this 
territory  in  my  study  of  the  other  habits  of  these  birds. 
For  instance  the  following  :  a  male  rose-breasted  grosbeak, 
which  had  its  nest  in  swamp  number  one,  went  for  food  to 
the  district  about  the  Glenwood  School,  a  quarter  of  a  mile 
away.  All  day  long  through  two  nestings  he  made  contin- 
uous flights  to  and  fro,  gleaning  from  this  particular  spot. 
At  the  same  time  in  swamp  number  three  was  a  cuckoo 
which  hunted  the  tent  caterpillar  over  in  Oak  Grove,  a  half 
mile  away.  In  swamp  five  were  blackbirds  that  found  food 
for  their  young  down  on  Highland  avenue.  In  swamp  six 
was  a  brown  thresher  that  fed  exclusively  in  the  farm  lands 
of  Medford. 

This  will  serve  to  give  you  an  idea  of  the  part  that 
the  Fells  will  play  in  our  city  when  the  houses  are  any- 
where within  a  half  mile  of  its  borders,  provided  that  the 
Fells  are  not  all  made  into  lawns  and  open  vistas  by  that 
time.  At  present,  then,  the  Fells  are  preeminently  valu- 
able for  the  first  of  those  advantages  which  I  have  just 
enumerated,  namely  as  a  safe  refuge  place  for  the  migra- 
tion species  to  rest  on  their  perilous  journey,  and  seconda- 


24  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

rily  as  a   spot  where   many  birds  may  be   raised  without 
disaster. 

Thus  far  I  have  spoken  wholly  from  the  economic  and 
systematic  sides  of  the  study  of  ornithology.  It  is  rather 
from  the  aesthetic  point  of  view  that  the  average  man  con- 
templates the  birds.  It  is  their  color,  their  music  and  their 
delightful  presence  that  first  came  to  your  mind  to-night 
when  you  knew  that  you  were  to  listen  to  a  talk  about 
birds.  And,  indeed,  what  would  the  world  be  without  the 
birds  !  With  the  exception  of  a  very  few  species  they  are 
a  joy  forever  and  they  form  one  of  the  great  under  cur- 
rents of  pleasure  in  this  world  where  there  is  never  too 
much  of  music  and  exuberant  spirits.  Do  you  know  what 
gems  of  color  and  ecstasy  of  song  await  a  morning  walk  in 
the  Fells  at  just  this  time  of  year?  Of  course,  just  as  in  all 
the  things  of  sense,  one  must  educate  the  ear  and  eye  before 
the  best  pleasure  can  be  deducted,  but  that  comes  quickly 
enough  to  the  ordinary  person.  A  morning  at  this  date, 
the  first  of  May,  one  may  sit  himself  down  in  the  Fells  and, 
if  his  ear  is  trained,  may  close  his  eyes  and  yet  record  all 
the  birds  about.  I  do  so  just  to  show  you  to-night  the  result. 
It  is  thirty-five  species  that  I  hear  about  me  in  the  time 
from  five  to  seven  o'clock,  a.  m.,  sitting  by  a  swamp  back 
of  the  Dutton  estate.  Perhaps  it  will  not  be  too  tedious  for 
me  to  close  by  running  over  the  list,  as  it  will  give  some  of 
the  birds  just  now  here  and  in  the  territory  under  discussion. 

First  of  all,  then,  there  was  the  carol  of  the  robin 
which  continued  all  the  two  hours.  Then  came  the  kee- 
you,  kee-3^ou  sounding  very  far  off  in  the  skies,  the  call  of 
our  buteo,  the  red-shouldered  hawk.  At  hand  a  chickadee 
gave  the  phoebe  song  so  plaintive  and  then  at  once,  as  if 
the  command  for  song  had  been  given,  yellow  warbler,  red 
start  and  parula  warbler  burst  into  music.     Away  down  in 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  25 

the  swamp  came  the  most  beautiful  note  of  all,  the  clear 
ringing  anvil  song  of  the  wood  thrush.  The  yellow-billed 
cuckoo  gave  a  single  call  and  suddenly  with  a  little  bustle 
a  rose-breasted  grosbeak  began  singing  very  loudly,  as  is 
their  wont,  drowning  out  the  fine  notes  of  a  field  sparrow. 
The  red-eyed  vireo  now  began  his  song,  which  he  will  con- 
tinue all  day  at  regular  intervals  and  the  yellow-throated 
vireo  gave  a  little  flash  of  music  as  if  to  show  how  much  he 
could  better  his  cousin  the  red-eye's  song.  Meanwhile 
there  had  been  a  desultory  kind  of  song  going  on  at  a  little 
distance  which  I  could  not  quite  catch,  but  now  it  broke  out 
into  the  rolling,  mimicking  song  of  the  brown  thrasher. 
When  these  thrashers  sing  of  a  morning  in  the  Fells  I  feel 
sure  that  they  can  be  heard  for  at  least  a  half  mile.  It  is 
without  doubt  the  most  conspicuous  song  of  our  resident 
birds.  This  burst  of  music  had  probably  lifted  me  up  from 
the  sounds  near  the  earth  and  I  heard  for  the  first  time  the 
swifts  rattling  in  their  flight.  White-breasted  and  barn 
swallow,  too,  were  sweeping  by.  A  catbird,  probably 
roused  by  the  haughty  strain  of  the  thrasher,  began  to  mew 
in  the  bushes  and  threatened  to  touch  up  a  little  rivalry 
song  to  the  opera  above.  There  is  really  the  most  interest- 
ing play  of  feeling  going  on  during  these  morning  cho- 
ruses, a  true  opera  where  love,  enmity  and  jealousy  are  toss- 
ing for  great  stakes.  After  a  short  lull  came  four  new 
notes,  the  crow,  black  and  white  creeper,  flicker  and  gold- 
finch. And  then,  curious  to  say,  I  heard  from  our  two 
really  blue  birds  almost  at  once,  the  blue  bird  and  the  blue 
jay.  There  was  a  litde  sharp  chatter  and  an  ovenbird  began 
its  dry  song  from  just  behind  me.  Towhees  and  white- 
throats  were  now  calling  in  the  swamp.  About  six-thirty  a 
ruffed  grouse  drummed  in  the  distance,  and  I  also  heard 
the  rather  unusual  call  of  bob- white  in  the  south.     Two  or 


26  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

three  red-wings  flew  over,  or  there  may  have  been  more, 
and  then  three  more  warblers  spoke  up,  the  chestnut-sided, 
golden-winged,  and  the  yellow  palm  warblers.  This  made 
thirty-four  species  for  the  morning,  and  as  if  to  make  the 
list  complete,  the  best  and  most  familiar  of  our  little  door- 
step birds  sprang  up  on  a  branch  just  as  I  arose  to  leave, 
the  chippy,  and  poured  his  poor  little  lay  forth  as  proud  as 
a  peacock. 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  27 


RECORDS   OF  THE   WASHINGTON    GUARDS 


The  follovnng  records  of  a  famous  military  organization  of  Maiden  are  communi- 
cated by  Mr.  William  G.A.  Turner,  and  are  exact  copies,  transcribed  from  the  original 
record  book,  novj  in  kis possession. 


The  Constitution  and  By-Laws  of  the   Washington  Guards 
of  Maiden^  Massachusetts.,  as  Adopted  April  8.,  184.2. 

Article  First 
The  Company  shall  bear  the  name  of  the  Washington 
Guards 

Article  second 

There  shall  be  a  Standing  Committee  elected  annually, 
consisting  of  three  persons  whose  duty  it  shall  be  to  have  a 
general  superintendence  of  all  Company  property,  and 
settling  with  the  Treasurer, 

Article  third 

Any  person  wishing  to  become  a  member  of  the  Com- 
pany, shall  make  application  to  the  Standing  Committee 
who  shall  if  they  think  proper,  propose  Him  to  the  Com- 
pany for  Admission. 

Article  fourth 
Every  Member  admitted  into  the  Company,  shall  sub- 
scribe to  the  By-Laws  &  conform  to  the  Uniform  of  the 
Company 

Article  fifth 
There  shall  be  a  treasurer  chosen  annually  who  shall 
keep  a  true  record  of  all  money  received  and  disbursed 


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MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 


Article  sixth 

It  shall  be  the  duty  of  all  members  of  the  Company  to 
be  preasant  at  all  Company  drills  ordered  by  the  Com- 
manding Officer,  or  pay  a  fine  according  to  the  following 
ratio 

Each  private  shall  pay  twenty  five  cents 

Each  Sargent  shall  pay  fifty  cents 

Each  C  Officer  shall  pay  one  Dollar 
not  excepted  except  by  a  vote  of  the  Company 

Article  seventh 

There  shall  be  Choosen  annually  a  committe  of  one 
to  provide  Musick  agreeable  to  instructions  of  the  Company 

Names  of  the  Members  belonging 
to  the  Washington  Gaurds 


Stephen  Stimpson 
Benjamin  W  Dodge 
Joseph  H  Waitt 
George  P  Cox 
John  S  Nichols 
Samuel  Drown 
Zachariah  Mansfield  Jr 
Freeman  Upham 
Wm  B  Emerson 
Henry  Whittemore 
John  S  Newhall 
Francis  J  Fay 
Edmund  Emmons 
Joseph  Prentiss 
William  H  Brown 
Joseph  W  Tufts  Jr 
Joseph  Warren  Cox 
Daniel  P  Wise 


Edward  Tufts 
S  A  Cox 
John  D  Stimpson 
Nather  Oaks 
Joseph  Printiss  Jr 
Elemuel  Nichols 
Seth  Sweetser 
Daniel  Emons 
Geo  W  Dodge 
Pendleton  Emons 
L  D  Warner 
Israel  Emons 
Stephen  Emons 
Isaac  A  Stiles 
S  L  Taylor 
Geo  Fisher 
Sullivan  Rogers 
Francis  Odiorne 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIErY 


29 


George  Whittemore 
Lawveston  Stiles 
Franklin  Pierce 
Joseph  Whittemore 
John  F  Cox 
John  Watkins 
George  W  Vaughan 
Moses  Sarorent 
James  Cox  Jr 
Francis  D  Howe 
Stephen  Lynde 
Lowell  Howard 
Joseph  W  Edwards 
Albert  Tweed 
Eabud  Simonds 
Frances  D  Stratton 
James  Barrett 
Owen  B  Knapp 
Wm  Ramsdell  Jr 
Aaron  Butler 
John  C  Edwards 
Royal  Pierce 
George  E  Fuller 
Sumner  Pennell 


James  Mann 
George  Newhall 
X^Joseph  H  Mills 
Alfred  Odiorne 
A  M  Meader 
Fobes  Baker 
John  Baker 
James  Cane 
Henry  T  Rowell 
Josiah  Shattuck 
George  Plaisted 
L  Green 

Saml  E  C  Turner 
Aaron  Hall 
John  A  Cox 
Chas  Boardman 
D  K  Page 
Alfred  Morrison 
George  W  Gar}?^ 
Joseph  Wilson 
Henry  Shattuck 
Warren  Dunton 
Samuel  H.  Waitt 
Benjamin  F  Smith 


Aaron  Faulkner 

Regimental  Order 

Charlestown  Head  Quarters 

July  8,  1841 
to  Daniel  P  Wise  Greeting 

Sir  you  are  hereby  ordered  to  Notify  or  caused  to  be 
warned  all  the  Non  Commission  Officers  &  Privates  belong- 
ing to  the  Washington  Gaurds,  so  called  situated  in  Maiden, 
in  the  second  Devision  third  Brigade  and  fourth  Regiment 


30  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

(by  giving  ten  Days  notice  according  to  law)  to  appear  at 
the  useual  place  of  parade  on  the  19th  day  of  July  1841, 
at  6  O  clock  precisely  then  &  there  to  give  in  their  votes 
for  Captain  first,  second  &  third  Leiutenant  hereof  fail  not 
&  make  return  to  me  at  the  place  of  meeting 

Carter 
Leuutenant  Col  Cmd  T 
2d  Div  3d  Brig.  4th  Reg 
Returned  according 
to  Law 


D.  p.  W 

Attest 

Daniel  P  Wise 

July  19th  1 84 1 

Clk 


Company  met  in  persuance  of  orders  & 
chose  (by  a  unanimous  vote)  Stephen  Stimpson  Captain, 
Benjn  W  Dodge  first  Leiutenant  Joseph  H  Waitt  2d  do 
George  P  Cox  3d  do 

•  •  •  •  •  •  •'•  • 

voted  that  the  above  officers  constitute  a  committe  to  select 

the  Materials  for  Uniforms 

voted  to  bring  in  the  plumes  at  the  next  meeting 

voted  that  pattern  pants  be  brought  also 

voted  to  adjourn  the  meeting  two  weeks 

voted  to  bring  in  the  plumes  at  the  next  meeting 

Company  met   agreeable    to  adjournment    and    instructed 

their  Committe  to  proceed  with  the  uniforms  according  to 

the  sample 

Regimental  Orders 

Agreeable   to    Division    orders  of  the  20th  Inst,   and 
Brigade  orders  of  the  20th  Inst. 

Capt.  Stephen  Stimpson  will  assemble  the  Company 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  3 1 

under  his  Command  at  E  Hinkly's  Hotel  in  Wobourn  ou 
wensday  Sept  15th  inst  at  Eight  O'clock  A.  M.  presizely 
for  Review  Inspection  &  Military  Discipline 
The  line  will  be  formed  at  half  past  8  presizely 

Capt.  Stimpson  will  Report  Himself  at  head  quarters 
at  8  O'clock  with  His  Company  in  Uniform  complete,  & 
supplied  with  powder  according  to  Law 
By  order  of  Chas  Carter 
Col  4  Regt  3d  Brig  2  Div  M.M. 
Maiden  Sept,  i,  1841 

Augustus  L  Barrett  Agt 
Daniel  P  Wise  Clk 
Coppy  Attest 

Company  Orders 
To  Mr  Daniel  P  Wise 

Sir  you  Are  hereby  ordered  to  warn  and 
give  fore  Days  notice  to  all  the  Non  Commissioned  Officers 
&  privates  enrolled  in  the  Company  under  my  Command 
(viz) 

by  Delivering  to  each  man  in  person  or  by  leaving 
at  his  last  &  usual  place  of  abode  a  written  or  printed  order 
directing  Him  to  appear  withe  the  Uniform  Arms  and  Equip- 
ments required  by  law  at  E.  Hinkly  Hotel  in  Woburn  on 
Wensday 

Jan  5  1842 
Company  met  &  instructed  B  W  Dodge  to  offer  Mr 
Pray  50  Dollars  as  a  preasant  to  bear  his  expences  while 
he  taught  a  Military  School  of  12  Evenings 
the  above  was  ecepted 

D  P  Wise  Clk 
voted  to  meet  twice  in  one  iveek 

met  accordingly  till  March  and  then  voted  to  meet  one  a 
week 


32  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

voted  as  members  of  the  Company 

George  Whitteme,  Aaron  Faulkner,  Frances  Howe,  Wil- 
liam Brown  Frances  D  Stratton 

May  25  "42 
Company  metm  &  listened  to  the  roll  call  heared  the  Militia 
Laws  read  by  the  Cleark 

voted  for  standing  Committe  Joseph  W  Tufts  Jr  Frances  D 
Howe  Samuel  Drown 
voted  for  Treasurer  Samuel  Drown 
do.     '*    Musick  Committe  F.  Upham 

July  7  1842 
Company  met  in  persuance  of  Orders  &  made  Choise  of 
Joseph  H  Waitt  as  ist  Leiut  for  second  Do  George  P  Cox 
for  third  Do  Sumner  Pennell 

Freem  Upham  Clk 

Sept  2  1842 
the  Company  met  Agreable  to  Orders  to  go  to  Mr.  Tafts. 
Paid  Mr.  S.  Drown  One  Hundrd  &  Fiv  Dollars 

F  Upham  Clk 

Maiden  Sept  2  1842 
Company  met  According  to  Order 

Voted  to  have  Fatige  Caps     Voted  to  Choos  A  Committee 
for  the  Same     Made  Choice  of   Capi  Stephen  Stimfson 
and  Leut  J  H  Waitt  he  declined  serving  on  account  of 
Business     Chose  Liu  G  P  Cox 
Voted  to  go  to  Cambradge  in  the  Omnibus 
Voted  to  Choose  A  Committee  fore  the  Same     Chose  Mr 
S  Drown  &  F  Upham 
Paid  Mr  Drown 

Maiden  May  31  1843 
Company  Met  Agreable  to  Order  for  May  Inspection 
Voted  for  Music  Committee 
Mr  Samuel  Drown  for  the  Year  Ensuing  Voted  for  Treas- 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  33 

urer,  Samuel  Drown  for  Standing  Committeee  J  H  Waitt 

Sumner  Pennell  F  D  Howe 

Voted  to  turn  Out  on  the  4  of  July  to  Due  Escort  Duty  for 

the  Temperance  Celebration 

Voted  to  Receiv  as  Members  of  the  Washing.  Guard  the 

Following  Gentlemen  (Viz) 

Lemuel  Nichols  Pendleton  Emmons  Seth  Sweetser 

Geo  W  Dodge     L  D  Warnen 

Voted  &  go  to  Charlestown  on  the  17th  of  June 

Voted  &  go  with  the  Markee 

Voted  for  Committee  of  Arrangements  (viz)  Capt  S  Stimp- 

son  Lewt  J  H  Wait  Lewt  G  D  Cox 

Maiden  June  13/43 
Compan}'-  met  Agrable  to  Orders 

Voted  to  Receive  as  Members  of  the  Washington  Guards 
Israel  Emons  Stephen  Emons  Isaac  A.  Stiles  S  L  Taylor 
Voted  to  go  to  Charlestown  on  the  i6th  of  June  Provided 
we  hav  a  Invitation 

Maiden  June  17/43 

Company  met  Agrable  to  Orders  to  attend  the  Dedication 

of  the  Monument  at  Charlestown 

Paid  over  to  Samuel  Drown  One  Hundred  and  thirty  Seven 

Dollars  an  50/100 

F  Upham,  Clk 

Maiden  Sept  23/43 

Company  Met  According  to  Orders  with  Forty  Members 

and  had  a  fine  Drill     the  Company  never  Appeared  Better 

F  Upham 

Maiden  May  29th  1844 

Company  Met  agreeable  to  orders  for  May  Inspection 

Chose  Sumner  Pennell  }►  Treasurer 

Chose     Saml  Drown        )cf„„j:„„ 
T  1      -iir  .1  •  /Standmg 

John  Watkms      >  ^  -.f 

o  Ti         11  (Committee 

Sumner  Pennell  ) 


34  MAI.DEN    HISTORICAl.    SOCIETY 

Chose  Samuel  Drown      )  ,.     .    ^ 

Geo.  P.  Cox  I  ^^'^^  Committee 

^Committee  for 
Chose  Jos.  W.  Tufts,  Jr  >  examining  Powder 

)  House  &c. 
Jos.  W.  Tufts,  Jr.  reported  that  the  Amunition  &c  in 
the  Powder  House  was  as  the  law  directed  it  should  be. 

Maiden  May  29th  1844 
Company  meet  according  to  orders  answered  to  the 
calling  of  roll,  listened  the  reading  of  Militia  Law. 
Chose  Sumner  Pennell  }^  Treasurer 
Saml  Drown  ^ 

John  Watkins        >  Standing  Committee 
Sumner  Pennell    } 

Saml  Drown    >    tvt     •    /-^ 
/">        r>    /^         ?   Music  Com. 
(jeo.  r.  Cox    5 

T      AA/   T  ff      ^  Committee  for  examining 

I  OS    VV  .    x  UIlS      )■  T>         J         TT  o 

''  5  Powder  House  &c 

see  other  end  of  this  book. 

Original  title — The  Washington  Guards'  Book     Mai- 
den 1840.     I.  Aug.  Stiles 

Maiden  28th  May  1845 
Company  met  according  to  Orders  for  May  Inspection  &c 
Chose  Isaac  A.  Stiles  }>  Clerk 

Voted  to  admit  as  members  of  the  Company 

Mr.  Francis  Odiorne 
"    James  Mann 
"     George  Newhall 

Chose  W.  A.  Richardson  )> Treasurer 

A  committee  of  3  chosen  for  the  supervision  of  the  Com- 
pany's Property  and  finances,  consisting  of 


c>,      1-         f  Lieut.  Geo.  P.  Cox 
Standing    \  ^       ^    ^       ,,.  ,^        , 
Committee^  ^^'"^t-  Geo.  W.  Vaughan 
I^Josiah  1  ownsend 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  35 

Chose  Francis  Odiorne  >  geargents 

Isaac  A.  btiles     5 
Chose  Francis  Odiorne  ]^  Lieut.  Brevet 

Maiden  28th  May,  1845 
Voted  to  give  Franklin  Pierce  his  honorable  discharge  at 

his  request. 

Chose  for 
F.  Odiorne    Chairman  )  ^^^.^  Committee 
(jeorge  r.  Cox  ) 

The  Clerk  of  the  Company  is  instructed  to  request  the 
treasurer  of  last  year  to  make  his  report  and  settlement 
with  the  Commanding  Officer  of  the  Company 

^,  „         ,         ,    ,T  ^17-  -..     ^  A  Committee  to  make  ar- 

Chose  Capt.  Joseph  H.  Waitt    |  .^^gements  for  a  newCap. 

After  inspection  and  review  by  Capt.  J.  H.  Waitt,  Company 
adjourned  to  Saturday  evening  May  31st  'S)  8  O'clock. 

I.  A.  Stiles  Clk 
Maiden  31st  May  1845 
Company  met  agreeable  to  adjournment 

Admitted  as  members  of  the  Company 

J  Joseph  H.  Mills 
(  Alfred  Odiorne 

I  have  notified  the  Treasurer  of  last  year  as  per  Com- 
pany's instructions  May  28th 

Meeting  was  adjourned  to  Saturday  eve.  June  14th  at 

8  O'clock 

Isaac  A.  Stiles     Clk. 

Maiden  14th  June  1845. 

Company  met  agreeable  to  adjournment     no  business 

before  the  meeting     after  a  drill  adjourned    to   Saturday 

eve.     June  21st  at  8  O'Clock. 

Aug.  Stiles     Clk. 

Maiden  21st  June  1845. 

Company  met  agreeable  to  adjournment 


36  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

Voted  to  loan  the  Company's  Marquee  to  a  Picnic  Party 
at  Cambridgeport  in  consideration  of  a  benefit  of  $5  to  the 
Company's  Treasury.  The  said  Marquee  to  be  under  the 
care  and  supervision  of  one  of  the  Company's  members 
competent  for  the  purpose.     Chose  as  that  committee 

Capt.  J.  H.  Waitt. 
A  Committee  of  3  consisting  of  J.  H.  Waitt,  Geo.  P. 
Cox  and  I.  A.  Stiles  volunteered  to  notify  the  members  of 
an    especial    meeting    to    be  holden  on  Saturday  evening 
June  28th  at  8  O'clock  to  which  time  they  adjourned 

I.  A.  Stiles     Clk. 

Maiden  28th  June  1845 
Company  met  agreeable  to  adjournment.     No  business 
of  importance.     Adjourned  to  time  indefinite 

Aug.  Stiles     Clk. 

Maiden  21st  Aug.  1845 
Company    met    agreeable  to  notification  from   Com- 
manding Officer. 

Were  drilled  by  Capt.  Jos.  H.  Waitt. 

No  important  business  before  the  meeting.  After  general 
remarks,  consultation  and  advice.  Company  adjourned  to 
Tuesday  evening,  Aug.  26th,  at  7  1/2  O'Clock. 

Aug.  Stiles     Clerk 

Maiden  26th  Aug.  1845. 
Compan}'^  met  agreeable  to  adjournment     The  Chairman 
of  the  Music  Committee  made    their    report   in    favor  of 
hiring  the  Salem  Brass  Band  for  Muster,  which  report  the 
Compan)-^  voted  to  accept 

Chose  as  committee  of  arrangements  for  the  coming  muster 
at  Lowell 

Capt.  Joseph  H.  Waitt,  Chairman"]      Committee 
1st  Lieut.  George  P.  Cox  V  of 

Orderl}^  Seargt.  Samuel  Drown      J  Arrangements 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  37 

Voted  to  admit  as  members  of  the  Co. 

A.  M.  Header 

Fobes  Baker  John  A.  Cox 

John  Baker  Chas.  Boardman 

James  Cane  D.  K.  Page 

Henry  F.  Rowell 


Josiah  Shattuck 
George  Plaisted 
L.  Green 

Samuel  E.  C.  Turner 
Amon  Hall 


Full  attendance 
39  members  present. 
y  after  a  fine  drill 
adjourned  to  Thursday 
eve.  Aug.  28th     I.  A.  Stiles 

Clerk 

Maiden  28th  August  1845 
Company  met  agreeable  to  adjournment  for  a  Com- 
pany drill. 

The  Committee  of  arrangoments  made  a  partial  report 
through  their  chairman  which  report  was  accepted  by  the 
Company. 

Voted  to  admit  as  a  member  of  the  Company  Mr.  Alfred 
Morrison.  A  full  report  of  the  Music  Committee  was  also 
made  through  their  chairman. 

Voted  to  extend  to  our  Ex.  Captains  Capt.  Stephen  Stimp- 
son  and  Capt.  Wm.  Barrett  an  invitation  through  our  Com- 
manding Officer  to  dine  with  us  at  Lowell  on  Muster  Day. 
Company  adjourned  to  Saturday  evening,  Aug.  30th  at 
7-1/2  O'clock. 

Isaac  A.  Stiles  Clerk 

Maiden  Aug.  30th  1845 

Company  met  agreeable  to  adjournment  and  after  a 
fine  drill  by  Lieut.  Cox  and  Sergt.  Drown,  adjourned  to 
Tuesday  evening,  Sept.  2d  at  7-1/2  O'Clock. 

Aug.  Stiles     Clerk 


38  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

/ 

Maiden  2d  Sept.  1845 
Company  met  agreeable  to  adjournment  for  a  Co.  Drill 
and  adjourned  to  Thursday  Eve.  Sept.  4th  (a)  7-1/2  O'Clock. 

Aug.  Stiles     Clerk. 

Maiden  4th  Sept.  1845 
Company  met  and  adjourned  to  Saturday  Eve.  Sept. 
6th  (a)  7-1/2  O'clock. 

I.  A.  Stiles,  Clerk. 
Company  Orders  have  been  received  from  Capt.  J. 
H.  Waitt  for  appearance  at  the  Armory  for  Military  Duty 
on  Saturday  &  Tuesday  the  13th  and  i6th  of  this  present 
month  (Sept.)  and  Regimental  Orders  for  appearance  at 
Lowell  for  Inspection  and  review  on  Wednesday  Sept.  17th. 

I.  A.  Stiles     Clk. 
Maiden  6th  Sept.  1845 
Company  met  and  adjourned  to  Tuesday  Eve.  Sept.  8th  ® 
7-1/2  O'Clk. 

Aug.  Stiles     Clk. 

Maiden  9th  Sept.  1845 
Company  met  agreeable  to  adjournment.    The  Squad  pres- 
ent were  drilled  by  Capt.  J.  H.  Waitt  36  members  present. 
Voted  to  admit  as  a  member  of  the   Company,   Mr. 
George  W.  Gary. 

Adjourned    to    Thursday    Eve.    Sept.    nth   ^  7-1/2 
O'clock. 

Aug.  Stiles     Clk. 

Maiden  nth  Sept.  1845. 
Company  met  agreeable  to  adjournment. 
Adjourned  to  Saturday  P.  M.  ®  i  O'Clock  for  Military 
duty. 

Isaac  A.  Stiles 

Clk. 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  39 

Maiden  13th  Sept.  1845 
Company    met    agreeable    to    adjournment,    armed, 
equipped  and  uniformed  for  Military  duty.     Voted  to  admit 
as  members, 

Joseph  Wilson 
Henry  Shattuck 
Warren  Dunton 
Saml  H.  Waitt 

Company  adjourned  to  Tuesday 
A.  M.  at  9  O'clock  as  per  orders. 

Isaac  A.  Stiles     Clk. 

Maiden  16  Sept.  1845. 
Company  met  according  to  Orders,  armed,  equipped  and 
uniformed  for  Military  duty  &c    Admitted  as  member  Mr. 
Benj.  F.  Smith 

I.  A.  Stiles     Clk. 
Maiden  17th  Sept.  1845. 
Company  met  at  Lowell  for  inspection  and  review,     re- 
ported 42  guns  present  and  47  members. 

Isaac  Aug.  Stiles     Clerk 

Maiden  i6th  Apl  1846. 
Regimental  Orders  have  been  received  for  a  meeting  of 
the  Company  under  the  Command  of  Lieut.  Francis  D. 
Howe  at  their  Armory  on  Tuesday  the  28th  of  this  present 
month  of  Apl.  for  the  choice  of  Capt.  ist  &  2d  Lieut,  and 
to  fill  such  other  vacancies  as  may  then  and  there  exist. 
In  pursuance  of  the  said  orders,  I  have  duly  warned  and 
notified  the  members  of  the  Washington  Guards  of  the 
aforesaid  meeting. 

Augustus  Stiles 

Clerk 


40  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

Maiden  28th  Apl  1846. 
The  Company  met  agreeable  to  notification  and  pro- 
ceeded to  the  choice  of  officers  under  the  direction  of  Col. 
R.  Douglass  and  his  adjutant.  After  several  unsuccessful 
attempts  the  meeting  was  dissolved  without  choice  of  any 
officers. 

Augustus  Stiles, 

Clerk. 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  4I 


THE  FAMILY  RECORDS  OF  THE  WILLIS-POPKIN 

FAMILIES. 

By  George  Walter  Chamberlain,  M.  S.,  Secretary  of  the  Society, 


On  the  west  side  of  "the  Road  leading  down  to  penny 
Ferry,"  as  Main  street  in  Maiden  and  Everett  was  formerly 
called,  directly  opposite  the  end  of  Beacon  street  in  Everett, 
stands  (1913)  the  Old  South  Parsonage,  where  it  has  stood 
for  more  than  one  and  one-half  centuries.  This  ancient 
landmark  was  occupied  by  Rev.  Aaron  Cleveland,  ances- 
tor of  Grover  Cleveland,  twenty-second  and  twenty-fourth 
President  of  the  United  States,  from  1747  to  1750.  It  was 
again  occupied  by  Rev.  Eliakim  Willis,  pastor  of  the  Second 
Parish  and  of  the  united  parishes  of  Maiden,  from  1752  to 
1801.  The  Second  Precinct  voted  to  give  the  house  and 
seventeen  acres  of  land  to  Mr.  Willis  in  1766  and  upon  the 
latter's  death  in  1801,  it  was  occupied  by  Col.  John  Popkin, 
an  officer  of  the  Revolution  who  married  a  niece  of  Mr. 
Willis,  he  living  there  until  his  death  in  1827.  His  widow 
remained  in  the  house  until  her  death  in  1847. 

Through  the  courtesy  of  Mr.  William  G.  A.  Turner 
the  Maiden  Historical  Society  recently  came  into  posses- 
sion of  two  Bibles  which  were  the  property  of  the  occupants 
of  the  Old  South  Parsonage  in  the  present  city  of  Everett. 
The  older  Bible  was  printed  in  Edinburgh  by  the  assigns 
of  Alexander  Kincaid,  "His  Majesty's  Printer,"  in  1785. 
The  early  records  in  this  appear  to  be  in  the  handwriting 
of  Miss  Betsy  Willis  in  the  year  1788.  The  later  Bible 
printed  by  Collins,    Perkins  and  Co.  in  1807,  bears  the 


42  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

signature  "  W.  Popkin."  These  Bible  records  supplement 
the  Vital  Records  of  Maiden  and  other  Massachusetts 
towns  and  possess  great  genealogical  value.  The  records 
of  the  Willis  Bible  read  as  follows : 

Bible  Record  — Miss  Betsy  Willis  1788. 
Ebenez""  Willis  Born  October  y*^  23  y*"  1726. 
Elizabeth  his  wife  Born  September  y^  12th  1728. 
Married  Desember  the  17th  1751. 

The  Names  and  Bearths  of  their  Children, 
Hannah  Willis  Born  February  y^  12th  1753  on  Monday. 
Esther  Willis  Born  Tuesday  y^  4th  of  June  1754. 
Elizabeth  Willis  Born  Tuesday  y^  i6th  of  November  1756. 
Sarah  Willis  Born  Friday  October  y^  12th  1759. 
Samuel  Willis  Born  Tuesday  October  y^  27th  1761. 

Esther  Willis  Departed  this  Life  y^  8th  day  of  May  1774. 
Elizabeth  Willis  Departed  this  Life  Sep*  y^  28th  1784. 
Samuel  Willis  Departed  this  Life  y^  4th  of  March  1795  :  in 

the  Westinges  y^  34th  year  of  his  age  he  being 

33  years  4  munts  &  5  days  old. 

Father  Willis  Departed  this  Life  y«  4th  of  Octob""  1763  in 

the  76th  year  of  his  age. 
Mother  Willis  departed  this  Life  January  y^  i8th  1782  in 

the  95th  year  of  her  age. 

Elizabeth  Willis  wife  of  Ebenez''  Willis  Departed  this  Life 
August  ye  9th  1807,  78  years  &  10  months  old. 

Ebenezer  Willis  departed  this  life  November  7*^  1809,  83 
years  old. 

[Back  cover  of  same] 

A;  C.  Fuller  was  born  August  ist  1812. 

Harriet  E.  Fuller  July  20th,  1814. 

Obed  F.  Fuller  Born  May  nth  1817. 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  43 

The  Popkin  Bible  reads  as  follows : 

[First  column] 
Ebenezer  Willis  was  born  October  23rd  1726  in  New  Bed- 
ford. 
Elizabeth  Howeswas  born  September  12th  1728  inChatham. 

They  were  married  December  17th  1751. 
Nahum  Sargeant  was  born  in  Vv^orcester  March  23rd  1758. 

Married  to  Sarah  Willis  October  i6th  1786  in  Maiden. 
By  the  Rev.  Eliakim  Willis 
Rev.  Eliakim  Willis  was  born  in  Dartmouth   (since  New 

Bedford)  January  9th  1713/14. 

Married  to  Miss  Lydia  Fish  of  Duxbury  July  20th  1738. 
Mrs.  L.  Willis  died  Januery  25^^  1767  in  the  59th  year  of 

her  age. 

Married  to  Miss  Martha  March  ant  of  Boston  March  ist 

1770. 
Mrs.  M.  WilHs  died  June  29th  1796  in  the  71st  year  of  her 

age. 
Rev.  E.  Willis  died  March  14th  1801  in  the  88th 
87  years  and  two  months. 

[Second  column] 

John  Popkin  was  married  to  Rebecca  Snelling  January  26th 
1769.     In  Boston. 

John  Popkin  was  married  to  Mrs.  Sarah  Sargeant  Octo- 
ber I2th  1797  in  Maiden,  by  the  Rev.  E.  Willis. 

William  Popkin  was  married  to  Lydia  Wiswall  December 
5th  1819  on  Sunday. 

Betsey  Popkin  was  married  to  Frederick  Mayhew  July  — 
1811  on  Sunday. 

Sarah  Popkin  was  married  to  George  Frost  Campbell  July 
14th  1819  on  Wednesday  morning. 


44  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

Died 
Sarah  L.  Popkin  Daughter  of  W'"  and  Lydia  Popkin 
Born  January  26th  1827 
Died  November  i8th  1870  aged  43  years. 

Births  [First  column] 
Hannah  Willis  Monday  February  12th  1753. 
Esther  Willis  Tuesday  June  4th  1754. 
Elizabeth  Willis  Tuesday  November  i6th  1756. 
Sarah  Willis  Friday  October  12th  1759. 
Samuel  Willis  Tuesday  October  27th  1761. 

In  New  Bedford. 

Births  [Second  column] 

Martha  Willis  Sargeant  September  21st  1787  In  Maiden 

Elizabeth  Howes  Sargeant  October  26th  1790.    In  Reading, 

Vermont  State. 

Births 

In  Boston 

John  Snelling  Popkin  June  19th  1771- 

Rebecca  Popkin  June  nth  1774. 

Polly  Popkin  August  19th  1776. 

William  Popkin  March  30th  Sabbath  1783. 

Betsey  Popkin  July  6th  1785  In  Bolton  [Boston] 

Sally  Popkin  December  nth  1789  In  Boston. 

Ebenezer  Willis  Popkin  September  22nd  1799  In  Boston. 

In  Maiden 
Samuel  Willis  Popkin  December  nth  1801. 

John  Snelling  Popkin  died  Tuesday  Evening  at  ten  o'clock 
March  2nd  1852,  aged  80  years  In  Cambridge. 

Sarah  P.  Campbell  died  Saturday  morning  at  8  o'clock 
November  9th  1861,  aged  71  years  11  months  In 
Cambridge. 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  45 

Deaths 
John  Popkin  died  Tuesday  morning  May  8th  1827  aged 

85  years.     In  Maiden. 
Mrs.  Rebecca  Popkin  died  April  26th  1796.     In  Boston 
Miss  Rebekah  Popkin  died  February  28th  1803  aged  29 

years.     In  Maiden. 
Polly  Popkin  died  June  5th  1790  aged  14  years.     In  Boston. 
William  Popkin  died  January  21st  1827   Sabbath  aged  44 

years     In  Dorchester. 
Mary  W.  Popkin  died  March  19th  1827  on  Monday  morn- 
ing aged  36  years.     In  Dorchester 
Samuel  WilHs   Popkin    died  September  17th  1827.       On 
Monday  evening  at  8  o'clock  at  Mayaguez  in  Porto 
Rico. 
George  Frost  Campbell  died  Sept.  23rd  1828  aged  45  years 

Tuesday  evening  at  7  o'clock     At  Newbury  Port 
Frederick  Mayhew  died  July  12th  1832     In  Troy,  Ohio 
Betsey  P.  Mayhew  died  Sept  23rd  1833  aged  40  years  at 

Troy  in  Ohio. 
Mrs.  Sarah  Popkin  died  Wednesday  at  two  o'clock  in  the 
evening  October  27th  1847  aged  88  years.     In  Maiden. 
Samuel  Willis  died  at  Dartmouth    (since  New  Bedford) 

October  4th  1763  in  the  76th  year  of  his  age 
Mrs.  Mehitable  Gifford  Willis  died  January  i8th  1782  in 

the  95th  year  of  her  age. 
Ebenezer  Wilhs  died  November  7th  1809  aged  83  years. 
Mrs.  Elizabeth  Howes  Willis  died  Sabbath  day  August  9th 

1809  in  the  79th  year  of  her  age. 
Mrs.  Hannah  Willis  Mayhew  died  Sabbath  eve&  October 

25th  1812  in  the  60th  year  of  her  age. 
Esther  Willis  died  May  1774  aged  20  years 
Elizabeth  Willis  died  September  28th  1784  aged  28  years. 


46  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

Samuel  Willis  died  March  4th  1795  in  the  34th  year  of  his 
age.     He  died  in  the  West  Indies. 

Sarah  Willis  wife  of  Rev.  N[ahum]  Sargeant  and  after- 
wards of  Col.  Popkin  died  October  27th  1847  Wednes- 
day at  2  o'clock  aged  88. 

Deaths 
Rev.  Nahum  Sargeant  died  at  Chelsea  October  7th  1792 

in  the  35th  year  of  his  age. 
Miss  Mercy  Marchant  of  Boston  Sister  of  Mrs.   Martha 

Willis  died  in  the  Autumn  of  1863.     Past  70  years  of 

age.     In  Maiden. 
Mrs.  Elizabeth  Kempton  Grand  daughter  of  Samuel  Willis 

died  at  New  Bedford  November  29th  Wednesday  1848 

aged  95  years  2  months  and  7  days. 
Miss  Mercy  Marchant  Died  Oct.  nth  1803  aged  76  years. 

Le  Marchent  is  the    name  as  written    in    St.   Paul's 

Church  London 

Le  Marchant. 
Martha  Willis  Sargeant  Died  September  28th  1863.     Mon- 
day morning  2  o'clock.    Aged  76  years  and  7  days. 
Elizabeth  Howes  Sargeant  died  February  ist  1877,  aged 

86  years  3  months  5  days.     Thursday  morn,  at  seven. 
Ebenezer  Willis  Popkin  son  of  Col.  John  and  Sarah  Popkin 

died   at  Everett,   Dec.    nth   1883,    aged  84  years    2 

months  and  19  days,  at  8  o'clock  Wednesday  evening. 
Mary  R.  Popkin,  grand  daughter  of  Col.  John  Popkin, 

daughter  of  William  Popkin,  and  niece  of  Ebenezer 

Willis  Popkin,  died  in    Cambridge,    Mass.  July  20, 

1889,  aged  64  years. 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  47 


THE   ESTABLISHMENT   OF   A    RIGHT   OF   WAY   IN 
NORTH    MALDEN    (NOW  MELROSE)    IN    1722. 


Articles  of  agreement  were  made  22  May,  1722,  by 
John  Pratt,  Phinehas  Sprague  and  Joseph  Green  all  of 
Maiden  and  Jonathan  Green  and  Daniel  Green  of  Charles- 
town  as  follows  : 

"That  there  be  a  convenant  passable  way  from  the 
corner  of  John  Greens  field  near  to  Joseph  Greens  barn 
upon  Joseph  Greens  land  ...  to  the  gate  now  between 
Phinehas  Spragues  land  and  Joseph  Greens  land  at  the 
south  end  of  Joseph  Greens  orchard.  And  from  the  said 
gate  upon  Phinehas  Spragues  land  ...  to  the  gate 
between  John  Pratts  land  and  Phinehas  Spragues  land 
standing  near  to  Bramble  meddo.  And  from  the  said  gate 
upon  John  Pratts  land  over  the  brook  where  the  path  now 
goes  and  from  the  said  brook  upon  John  Pratts  land 
.  .  .  .  to  the  gate  that  now  stands  near  to  Phinehas 
Spragues  house  between  John  Pratts  land  and  Phinehas 
Spragues  land.  And  from  said  gate  upon  Phinehas 
Spragues  land  .  .  .  .  to  the  way  that  leads  from 
Phinehas  Spragues  land  over  Howards  land  and  Capt. 
Lynds  land  to  the  Country  road." 

Jonathan  Green  agreed  to  build  a  gate  "four  feet  and 
four  inches  high"  "across  the  way  in  the  line  between 
John  Pratts  land  and  Phinehas  Spragues  land  where  a  gate 
now  stands  near  to  L  Pond  meddo."  (Document  in  pos- 
session of  the  Maiden  Historical  Society.) 

To  this  document  John  Pratt,  Phinehas  Sprague, 
Joseph   Green,  Jonathan    Green   and   Daniel   Green  each 


48  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

signed  in  the  presence  of  Jacob  Green  and  John  Green, 
witnesses.  Acknowledgment  was  made  at  Maiden,  May 
ye  4,  1724,  by  John  Pratt  and  Phinehas  Sprague  in  the 
presence  of  Thomas  Tufts  "Justes  Pacice." 

The  document  shows  that  a  right  of  way  was  estab- 
lished in  North  Maiden  (now  Melrose)  west  of  the  "Reading 
Road,"  as  Main  street  was  formerly  called,  and  south  of  the 
"Country  Road"  (now  Franklin  street  at  Melrose  High- 
lands) on  or  before  May  22,  1722.  This  right  of  way 
probably  formed  what  was  later  called  the  "  Stoneham 
Road  "  which  began  near  where  the  Masonic  Hall  in  Mel- 
rose now  stands  and  followed  what  is  now  Wyoming  ave- 
nue, Hurd,  Cottage,  W.  Foster  and  Vinton  streets  to 
Franklin  street.  The  residence  of  the  late  Mrs.  Liberty 
Bigelow  stands  on  the  site  of  the  Sprague  homestead. 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  49 


MALDEN'S    PROVINCIAL  TAX   IN    I755- 


A  commission  was  issued  by  Harrison  Gray,  Esq., 
Treasurer  and  Receiver-General  for  His  Majesty's  Prov- 
ince of  the  Massachusetts  Bay  to  Phinehas  Sprague,  Junr., 
"Constable  or  Collector  of  the  Town  of  Maiden,"  to  collect 
the  sum  of  £i68  :  ii  :  ii,  Nov.  i,  1755. 

This  commission  was  granted  by  the  authority  of  an 
act  of  the  Great  and  General  Court  held  at  Boston  on 
Wednesday,  May  28,  1755,  and  by  virtue  of  another  act  of 
the  said  Assembly  specially  convened  at  Boston  on  Frida}-, 
Sept.  5,  1755,  in  the  twenty-ninth  year  of  His  Majesty's 
reign,  George  H.,  apportioning  and  assessing  a  provincial 
tax  of  £18,000. 

From  the  commission  it  appears  that  each  town  was  to 
pay  its  proportion  of  said  tax  on  or  before  March  31,  1756. 

According  to  the  act  passed  on  May  28,  1755,  the  in- 
habitants had  authority  to  pay  in  commodities,  as  follows  : 
in  merchantable  hemp  at  three  pence  per  pound  ;  in  "  First 
Fair  Isle  of  Sable  Codfish  "  at  twelve  shillings  per  quintal ; 
in  "refined  Bar-Iron"  at  £17  :  10  per  ton;  in  "  Bloomery- 
Iron  "  at  £14  per  ton ;  in  hollow  Iron  Ware  at  £10  per 
ton;  in  "good  Indian  Corn"  at  two  shillings  per  bushel ; 
winter  rye  at  two  shillings  and  four  pence  per  bushel ;  win- 
ter wheat  at  four  shillings  per  bushel ;  barley  at  two  shil- 
lings per  bushel ;  barrel  pork  full  weight  at  £2  :  10  per 
barrel ;  barrel  beef  at  £1  :  10  per  barrel ;  "  Duck  or  Can- 
vas weighing  Forty-three  Pounds  each  Bolt"  at  £2  :  15  per 
bolt;     "long    Whalebone"  at    three  shillings    per  pound ; 


50  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

merchantable  cordage  at  £i  :  12  :  06  per  hundred;  "Train 
Oyl "  at  £1  :  10  per  barrel;  bees-wax  at  one  shilling  per 
pound  ;  bayberry  wax  at  six  pence  per  pound  ;  "  try'd  tal- 
low "  at  four  pence  per  pound ;  "pease"  at  four  shillings 
per  bushel ;  sheep's  wool  at  nine  pence  per  pound ;  or 
"tanned  sole  leather  "  at  eight  pence  per  pound. 

"The  several  persons  paying  their  taxes  in  any  of  the 
commodities  aforementioned  are  to  run  the  Risque  and  pay 
the  charge  of  transporting  the  said  commodities  to  the 
Province-Treasury."  (Commission  in  possession  of  the 
Maiden  Historical  Society.) 

The  collector,  Phinehas  Sprague,  Jr.  lived  on  the  old 
Sprague  homestead  in  North  Maiden  (now  Melrose)  where 
now  stands  the  residence  of  the  late  Mrs.  Liberty  Bigelow 
(Goss's  History  of  Melrose,  p.  51.)  He  was  the  father  of 
Dr.  John  Sprague,  for  a  quarter  of  a  century  following  the 
Revolutionary  war  Maiden's  famous  physician  who  lived  in 
the  ancient  Joseph  Hills  house  which  stood  a  little  in  front 
of  the  present  site  of  the  First  Baptist  Church  in  Maiden 
Square. 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 


51 


INSCRIPTIONS   IN  THE   BELL    ROCK   CEMETERY. 

(Continued  from  No.  a,  Page  73.) 
Transcribed  by  the  late  Dbloraine  Pendre  Corey. 


[The  Bell  Rock  Cemetery  contains  the  graves  of  many  of  the  founders  of  Maiden,  and 
of  many  of  the  pastors  and  others  prominent  in  the  early  history  of  the  town.  Here  is  the 
grave  of  Michael  Wigglesworth,  New  England's  first  noted  poet;  that  of  the  builders  of 
the  Old  South  Church  in  Boston,  of  Job  Lane,  New  England's  first  bridge  builder,  of 
many  of  Ralph  Waldo  Emerson's  ancestors.  Mr.  Corey,  with  the  assistance  of  his  son, 
Dr.  Arthur  D.  Corey,  copied  these  inscriptions  many  years  ago,  a  labor  of  love  that 
consumed  many  weeks  of  time.      Since  that  work  was   done  many  of  the  stones  have 


disappeared.] 

Elizabeth 

y*  Dau'  Of  Jose 

ph  &  Elizabeth 

Lamson  Aged 

14  Year  &  4  M° 

Died  Jan'  y*  1" 


Here  Lyes  y*  Body 

Of  John  Pratt  Son 

To  John  &  Mary 

Pratt  Aged  2 1  Years 

Died  October  y*  10 

1704 


Memento  Mori         Fugit  Hora 
Here  Ly£s  y^  Body  of 
Sarah  Hills  Wife  To 

Ebeneyzer  Hills 

Aged  42  Years 
Died  March  y^  1'  1703 


Here  Lyes  y*  Body 

of  Elizabeth 

Pratt  Daughter 

Of  John  &  Mary 

Pratt  Aged  15  Year^ 

&  10  M"  :  Died  Nouem' 

y«  22'*   1704 


y'  Body 

ane 

Job 

Lane  Aged  72 

Years  Died 

April  y=  30 

1704 


Momento  Mori       Frugit  Hora 

Here  Lyes  Buried 

Y«  Body  of  Cap' 

Joseph  Willson 

Aged  58  Years 

Who  Died  lanua'" 

y«  14"^  170* 


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MALDEN    HISTORICAI.    SOCIETY 


Here  Lyes  y*  Body 

Of  Sarjeant 

Joseph  Floyd 

Aged  38  Years 

Died  January 

y«4  1705 


Memento  Mori         Fugit  Hora 

Here  Lyes  Buried  y"  Body  of 

That  Faithfull  Servant  Of 

Jesus  Christ  y^  Reuerend 

M'  Michael  Wigglesworth 

Pastour  Of  y^  Church  Of  Christ 

At  Maulden  Years  Who 

Finished  His  Work  and  Entre'* 

Apon  An  Eternal  Sabbath 

Of  Rest  On  y*  Lords  Day  lune 

y^  10  1705  In  y^  74  Year  Of 

His  Age 


Here    Lies    Intered   In    Silent 

Grau^ 

Below         Mauldens  Physician 

For  Soul  And  Body  Two 


Here  Lyes  y=  Body 

Of  Ezekiel 

Jenkens  Aged  57 

Years  Who  Died 

luly  y®  30"'   1705 


Mauldens  Late 

School  Master  From 

A  Painful  Life  Is 

Gone  To  Take 

His  Rest  His  Lord 

Hath  Called  Hi""  Who"' 


Memento  Mori 

Here  Lies  y*  Body  Of 

Mr^  Lyddia  Greenland 

Wife  To  Deaken  John 

Greenland 

Aged  51  Years  & 

4  Months         Died 

January  y^  30"* 

170^ 


Memento  Mori         Fugit  Dora 

Here  Lyes  y^  Body 

Of  Insine 

Tryall  Newbery 

Aged  56  Years 

Died  December 

y"  10  1705 


Esther  Green 
Daughter  Of 
Samuel  And 

Elizabeth  Green 
Aged  I  Year 
&  5  M°  Died 

December  y*  1 7"' 

1705 


\ 


Here  Lyes  y* 

Body  of 

Mary  Prat 

Wife  to  John 

Prat  Who 

Departed  This 

Life  July  y^  17 

1 710  In  y'  56 

Year  of  Her  Age 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 


53 


Marcy  Bucknam 

Daughter  Of 

Jopet  &  Hanna'' 

Bucknam  Aged 

7  M°  &  21  Day= 

Died  May  y'  37"^ 

1706 


Memento  Mori         Fugit  Hora 

Here  Lyes  y^  Body 

Of  John  Moulton 

Aged  About  76 

Years  Who  Died 

Sudenly  April 

y=  8"^  1707 


A  head-stone,  with  the  face 
cracked  off,  shows  only  the 
date : — 

1707 
The    foot-stone    is    in    good 
condition  and  is  lettered  : — 
Susanna 
Lynd. 
This  is   probobly  the  grave 
of     Susanna,    wife     of     John 
Lynda,  Jr.,  who  died  Sept.,  9 
or  16,  1707. 


Here  Lyes  the 
Body  of  M" 
Sarah  Hichens 
The  Wife  of  M^ 
Daniel  Hichens 
Aged  57  Years 
Who  Deceased 
March  y-^  6"'  17I  [170^.] 


Here  Lyes  y^ 

Body  Of  Cap' 

William  Green 

x\ged  70  Years 

Died  December  y^ 

30'  ^705 


Memento  Mori         Fugit  Hora 
Here  Lyes  y^  Body  of 
John  Pratt  Sen'  Aged 
53  Years  &  4  M°  Who 
Ended  This  Life  In  A 
Sudden  Death  Ivne  y'  3"^ 
1708 
All  You  That  Are  Alive 
Now  Stand  Upon  Your  Gard 
Least    Sudden    Death    Should 

Come 
And  Find  You  Unprepard 
When  Death  Doth  Come 
No  Man  Can  It  Revoke 
Neither  In  Sicknes 
Nor  From  Thunder  Stroke 


Here  Lyes  y®  Body 

Of  Thomas  Mitchell 

Aged  81  Years  &  10  M° 

Who  Departed  This 

Life  September  y*  i" 

1709 


Here  Lyes  The 

Body  Of 

Benjamin  Willson 

Aged  About  34 

Years  Deceased 

February  y"  16  17 12 


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MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 


Here  Lyes  y^  Body 
Of  M"  Sarah  Wayt 
Wife  To  Cap'  lohn 

Wayt  Aged  8i 

Years  Who  Departed 

This  Life  January 

¥«=  is'i^  1701 


Memento  Mori         Fugit  Hora 

Here  Lyes  y*  Body 

of  Samuel  Sargent 

Who  Departed  This 

Life  September  y^ 

22''  1 7 10  in  the  66 

Year  of  His  Age 


M.-\^K»,a.\^x  J      v-fJL    J        ^i^ov     10     l^l^J-Ot* 

Memento  Mori         Fugit  Hora 

Here  Lyes  the 

Here  Lyes  y'  Body 

Body  of  Elizabeth 

Of  Mary  Mitchell 

Wayt  wife  to 

Wife  To  Thomas 

Jonathan  Wayt 

Mitchel  Aged  70 

Aged  19  years  & 

Years  Who  Died 

n"  died  march  10*''  17 14 

January  y<=  7"^  I'jH 

Here  Lyes  The 

Abigail  Jenkins 

Body  Of  M' 

Daugh"  of  Lemuel 

Lemuel  Jenkins 

&  Marcy  Jenkins 

Sen'  Aged  70 

Aged  10  years 

Years  Deceased 

And  4  Months 

December  20***  1713 

Died  March  15"'  17 14 

Here  Lyes  y*  Body 

Here  Lyes  y^  Body 

Of  Joseph  Floyd 

of  Mr.  Joshua 

Jun'  Aged  24 

Blanch ard  ;  Who 

Years  8  M"  &  7 

Deceased,  July 

Dayes  Deceased 

the  15"^,  1 716:  in  y' 

'April]  y'  19*''  1 714 

55  Year  of  His  Age. 

Here  Lyes  The 

Jonathan  Tufts 

Body  of  Joseph 

Son  of  M" 

Boldin  Aged 

Jonathan  &  M" 

51  Years  Who 

Sarah  Tufts 

Deces"^'*  Novem'" 

Born  &  Died 

The  32^  1714 

Aug''  13'''  1 7 16 

MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 


55 


Here  Lyes  y*  Body 

Of  Cap'  John  Green 

Late  Deacon  Of  y^ 

Church  in  Maiden 

Aged  75  Years  Who 

Departed  This  Life 

October  y=  i6*  1707 

Y'  memory  of  y'  just  is  blefsed 


David  Bucknam 
Son  Of  M' 

Josses  & 
M'^  Hannah 

Bucknam 

Aged  12  Yea'' 

Died  April 

The  i"  1714 


Here  Lyes  y"" 

Body  Of  vSarah 

Bucknam  Da^*"' 

Of  M'  Jofses 

&  M"  Hannah 

Bucknam  Aged 

6  Years  &  i  M° 

Died  May  31  17 14 


Here  Lyes  The 

Body  of  M'=- 

Mary  Green 

Wife  To  M' 

Samuel  Green 

Aged  66  Years 

And  6  Months 

Died  No'y'^  H  ^7^5 


Here  lyes  Buried 

y'=  Body  of  M'^  Mary 

Sprague  Wife  to  M' 

Jonathan  Sprague 

Who  Died  July 

30"'  1 7 14  Aged 

about  56  Years 


Here  Lyes  the  Body 

of  M"  Abigail  Ireland 

the  Wife  of  M'  William 

Ireland.     Aged  74  Years 

who  Deceased  the  21 

of  November  1 7 1 5 


Here  Lyes  Entr'd 
y-  Body  Of  Cap' 
Edward  Sprague 

Who  Decest  y* 
14  Of  April  1715 

Aged  52  Years 


Jabuy  Green 

Son  of  Joseph 

and  Hannah 

Green  Aged 

9  Years  &  8  Da^ 

Died  July  y'  13  17 16 


Here  Lies  y'^  Body  of  M' 

John  Sargant  Aged 

76  Years  &  9  Months 

Departed  This  Life 

September  y'=  9 

1716 


56 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 


Head  Stone : 

*  *  #  * 

m  #  *  * 

m  *  *  * 

1715  Iny= 
75  Year 
Of  His  Age 
Foot  Stone  : 

Lazarus 
Grouer 


Here  Lyes  y* 

Body  Of  Mary 

Ridgaway  Da"^''" 

Of  M' John 

&  M'^  Anna 

Ridgaway  Aged 

23  yea"  &  2  M° 

Died  June  14"'  1714 


Daniel  Upham 

Son  of 

Nathaniel  and 

Mary  Upham 

Aged  I  Year  & 

5  m"  died  Sept"' 


th 


I7I4 


Here  Lyes  the 

Body  of  Elizabeth 

Jenkins  Daughter 

Of  Lemuel  and 

Marcy  Jenkins 

Aged  14  Years  &  9  mo 

Died  March  n  17 14 


Rebecca  Lams"" 

Daugh'"  Of 

Joseph  & 

Hannah 

Lam  son  Aged  3 

We''^  &  5  D=  Died 

March  y'  15  17 14/15 


Here  Lyes  y* 
Body  of 
William  Wayt 
Who  Deceased 
January  y®  16^ 
1 7 II,,  In  y''  31^' 
Year  Of  His  Age 


Phebe  Boldwin 

Daugh"  Of  Josep*" 

&  Elizabeth 

Boldwin  Aged 

3  Years  &  2  M° 

Died  January 


Here  Lyes  y*  Body 

Of  Mary  Flyn  Wife 

to  Patrick  Flyn  Dec^ 

May  24*  1720  in  y* 

27'^  Year  of  Her  Age 


Here  Lyes  y"  Body 

of  Caleb 

G rover  Who 

Dec^  June  4"'  1720 

in  y^  24"'  Year  of  His  Age 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 


57 


Here  Lyes  y'^  Body  of 

Elizabeth  Jewell 

Wife  To  John 

Jewell  Aged  About 


Here  Lyes  y"* 

Body  of  Anna 

Howard  wife  to 

Jonathan  Howar** 


19  Years  Dece'* 
July  y«  8* 

1715 

Aged  22  Years 

Died  March 

The  19"^  1715 

Here  Lyes  The 

Body  of 

Sarah  Upham 

Wife  To 

Nathan^'  Upham 

Aged  53  Year" 

&  8  Months 

Mary  Tufts 

Daug"  of  M' 

Jonathan  &  M'^ 

Sarah  Tufts 

Aged  8  Weeks 

Died  Octo'^^  7"^ 

1716. 

Died  Octobe' 
y^  14""  1 7 15 

Here  Lyes  y''  Body  Of 

Mary  Sargant  Wife 

To  Jonathan  Sargant 

Aged  38  Years  & 

4  M'  &  14  Dayes 

Died  Nou'  y'  19 

1716 

Here  Lyes  y*^ 

Body  Of 

Abigail  Barret 

Wife  To 
Jonathan 

Barret  Aged 

38  Years  &  8 

Months  Died 

Q^.jober  ye    33    I^I^ 

Here  Lyes  Buried 

The  Body  of 

Lieu'.  Henry  Green, 

Aged  78  Years  & 

8  Months.     Died 

September  y^  19"^  171 7 

»         *         Wilson 
*         *         tr  Of 
Samuel  And 

Margaret 
Wilson,  Aged 

Year  &  7  M^ 
Died  January 
The  29"\  171I. 

Mehetabel  Skinner 

Dau'^  of  M'  Thomas  & 

M".  Mehetabel  Skinner 

Died  Sep'.  19*.  1 7 18. 

Aged  16  Months. 

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MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 


Enock  Son  Of 

Here  Lyes  the 

John  &  Zybel 

Body  of 

Green 

vSimon  Grover, 

Aged  a  Eleuen 

Aged  about  63 

Months  died, 

Years,  Died  Nov'"''" 

January  y*^  lo'** 

The  28*  1 71 7 

1 7 1 6/ 1 7 

Here  Lyes  the 
Body  of  M'^  Sarah 

Here  Lyes  y'=  Body 

of  Abigail 

Green  Wife  to 

Upham  wife  to 

Cap'  John  Green 

John  Upham 

Aged  74  Years  & 

Aged  52  Years 

6  m°  Died  Dec*"*"  i''  17 17 

Died  August 

The  23  1717 

Here  Lyes  y"  Body 

of  Sarah  Sargant 
Dau'  of  John  & 

Here  Lyes  Buried 

The  Body  of  M' 

Lydia  Sargant 

John  Mitchell 

Aged  24  Years 

Aged  53  Years 

&  17  Days  Died 

Deceased  Septem' 

Dec'  5  1 71 7 

The  28"'  1 71 7 

Here  Lyes  y*  Body 

Here  Lyes  y^  Body 

of  M'^  Elizabeth 

of  Serf 

Burditt  Wife  to 

Nathaniel  Upham 

M'  Thomas  Burditt 

Aged  56  Years 

Aged  about  65  Years 

Who  Deceased 

Died  Jan'yy<=  26*  171 7/8 

Nov'''  y^  11"'  1717 

Here  Lyes  y^  Body 

Here  Lyes  the 

of  Tabitha  Pain 

Body  of  M' 

Wife  To  William 

Joseph  Seargeant 

Pain  Junier 

Aged  54  Years  & 

Aged  About 

7  M°  Who  Dec^ 

29  Years  died 

^ov] ember  y"  27*  1717 

April  7"*  1 72 1 

MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 


59 


Anna  Howard 

Daughter  of 

Jonathan  &  Anna 

Howard 

Aged  2  Years 

Died  in  April  1718 


Phebe  Sprague 

Dau"  of  M'  Stower 

&  M'=^  Phebe 

Sprague ;   Dec''. 

Jan'".  6*.  1 718/9  Aged 

6  Years  4  M°^  &  20  T>\ 


Here  Lyes  y^  Body 

of  M'  Jonathan 

Sprague,  Jun% 

Who  Dec"'.  Nov''^ 

S"'.  1 7 19,  in  y* 

40"^  Year  of  His  Age 


Here  Lyes  y*  Body 

of  M^ 

Richard  Sprague 

Who  Dec^  Sep' 

16  1720  in  y' 

35"^  Year  of  His  Age 


Here  Lyes  y"" 
Body  of  Abigail 
Barret  Daugh" 
of  Jonathan  & 
Abigail  Barret 
Aged  19  Years 

&  10  M°  Died 
April  30"*  172 1 


Sarah  Blanchar"* 
Daug".  of  Samuel 

And  Sarah 

Blanchard.     Aged 

2  Years  &  14  Day". 

Died  Marc"^  30'"  1720. 


Here  lyes  y' 

Body  of  M'  John 

Ridgaway  Aged 

About  68  Years 

DiC  Nov*"  10  1721 


Here  Lyes  y"  Body 

of  Samuel 

Sargent;   Who 

Dec-'.  Deem**'  y^  7*. 

1721,  in  y"  34* 

Year  of  His  Age. 


Here  Lyes  y'  Body 

of  M*  Benjamin 

Sweetser  Dec"* 

Septemb'  23  1720 

In  the  55"^  Year 

of  His  Age 


Here  Lyes  y"  Body 

Of  M'  Samuel  Wayt 

Aged  70  Years  De^"* 

Septem'''  20  1720 


Here  Lyes  y*  Body  of 

Deacon  Phineas  Upham 

Dec"^  Octo*"  19"*  1720  in 

The  62"''  Year  of  his  Age 


6o 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 


Mary  Sweetser 

Daug"  of  M'  Samuel 

&  M"  Elizabeth 

Sweetser  Dec'* 

Deem'''  1 6"'  1721 

Aged  about  6  M° 


Here  Lyes  the 

Body  of  M' 

Samuel  vStower 

Who  Dec'*  Decem''' 

26  1 72 1  in  the  57"^ 

Year  of  His  Age 


Here  Lyes  the 

Body  of  M'^'* 

Ruth  Pain,  Wife 

to  M'  William 

Pain,  Aged  5  c; 

Years  &  6  M°  Dec'*. 

April  11"'.  1722. 


John  Knower 

son  of  John 

&  Elizabeth 

Knower  Aged 

6  Weeks  Dec'* 

April  18*  1722 


Here  Lyes  y'^  Body 

of  Abigail  Mitchell 

Daugh'^  of  M'  John 

&  M-^^  Elizabeth 

Mitchell  Dec'* 

Sep'  9"'  1722  in  y=  19* 

Year  of  Her  Age 


Here  Lyes  the 

Body  of  M"" 

Jonathan  Tufts 

Who  Dec'*  August 

13"'  1722  Aged  63 

Years  3  Mon"  &  1 1  Da' 


Here  Lyes  y^  Body 

of  Sarah  Knower 

Daugh'^  of  M' 

Jonathan  &  M" 

Sarah  Knower 

Aged  43  Years 

&  2  M°  Dec'* 

gepfbr    yth     J  ^2  2 


Here  Lyes  y"  Body 
Of  M'  Jonathan 
Knower  Aged 
77  Years  who  Dec'*. 

October  15"'  1722. 


Here  Lyes  Buried 

the  Body  of  Deacon 

John  Dexter  Aged 

51  Years  2  M°  &  24  Da' 

Dec'*  Nove'''  14"^  1722 

And  by  Him  the  Bodyes  of 

Eight  of  His  Children 


Here  Lyes  y*  Body 

of  M"  Sarah  Knower 

Wife  to  M'  Jonathan 

Knower  Aged  about 

75  Years  Who  dec'* 

Octob'  y*  21''  1722 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 


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Here  Lyes  y^  Body 

of  Sarah  Oaks 

Daug*'  of  M'  Thomas 

&  M''  Sarah  Oaks 

Who  Dec''  Janu'>'  y^ 

4"'  1722/3  in  y'  zS"" 

Year  of  Her  Age 


Here  Lyes  y'^  Body 

of  Josiah 

Blanchard 

Who  Dec''  Feb^y 

y«  ist  1^22  in  y^  24'" 

Year  of  His  Age 


Here  Lyes  Buried 

The  Body  of  M'. 

Samuel  Green ; 

Who  Dec''.  Octob^ 

The  31^'.  1724,  Aged 

79  Years  7  M°.  &  19  D^ 


John  Green 

Son  of  John  & 

Phebe  Green 

Dec**  in  Sept' 

1724  Aged 

about  17  M'' 


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Here  Lyes  Buried 

the  Body  of 

Cap'  John  Lynde 

Who  Departed  this 

Life  September  17'" 

Anno  Domini  1723 

Aged  about  75  Years 


Here  Lyes  y^  Body 
of  M"  Lydia 
Skiner  Wife  to 
M'  Thomas  Skiner 
Formally  Wife  to 
M'  Thomas  Call 
Who  Dec''  Decern 
ye  lyth  jy23  Aged 
about  87  Years 


Here  Lyes  y^  Body 

of  M'  Jacob  Green 

Aged  34  Years  &  10 

Wee''^  Dec"  July  19"'  1723 


Here  Lyes  y^  Body 

of  M'  Samuel 
Townsend  Aged 
61  Years  Who  Died 

November  i8"'  1723 


Phebe  Upham  Dau" 

of  M""  Nathaniel 

&  M"  Mary 

Upham  Dec* 

April  y"  3""  1725 

Aged  15  Years 

&  8  Months 


Lydia  Waitt 
Daug"  of  M' 
Joseph  &  M" 
Lydia  Waitt 
Dec''  April  y-^  23 
1725  Aged  17 
Years  &  9  M" 


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MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 


Here  Lyes  the 

Body  of  M' 

Joseph  Waitt 

Who  Dec"  April 

ye  9th  1725  in  y*  49*'' 

Year  of  His  Age 


Here  Lyes  the 
Body  of  Joseph 

Howard  Who 
Dec<^  May  y''  iS*** 

1725  Aged  22 
Years  &  i  Month 


Martha  Upham 
Daug''  of  M' 

Nathaniel  &  M'^ 
Mary  Upham 

Dec'*  May  y*  31'* 
1725  Aged  14 
Years  2  M°  &  23  D^ 


Here  Lyes  the 

Body  of  M' 

John  Tufts  Jun"^ 

Who  Dec^  August 

yc  j^th  jy25  in  y^    36 

Year  of  His  Age 


Here  Lyes  y*  Body 

of  John  Bucknam 

Son  of  M'  Samuel 

&  M'^  Deborah 

Bucknam  Dec** 

Feb'y  28*  1725  in  y« 

18""  Year  of  his  Age 


Here  Lyes  Buried 

the  Body  of  Deacon 

Nathaniel  Nickoals 

Who  Dec"*  May  10*^  1725  in 

y^  60""  Year  of  His  Age 


John  Pain  Son 

of  M'  John  & 

M'^  Abigail  Pain 

Died  Decemb' 

2""^  1725  Aged 

4  Months 


Here  Lyes  y^  Body 

of  Jacob  Bucknam 

Son  of  M'  Joses 

&  M-^  Hannah 

Bucknam  Who 

Dec"*  Jan'y  y^  18 

1725  in  y*"  16"' 

Year  of  His  Age 


Here  Lyes  y^  Body 

of  Abigail  Tufts  Daug' 

of  M'  Jonathan  & 

M'^  Rebeckah  Tufts 

Who  Dec"*  April  y' 

26  1726  Aged  18 

Years  2  M°  &  18  Da* 


Here  Lyes  the 

Body  of  Susanna 

Howard  Who 

Dec**  July  y* 

7*''  1726  Aged 

about  47  Years 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 


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Here  Lyes  Buried 

the  Body  of  M" 
Rebeckah  Newhall 

Wife  to  Lieu' 

Thomas  Newhall 

Who  Dec'  May  y* 

25"'  1726  in  y  73'* 

Year  of  Her  Age 


Here  Lyes  y=  Body  of 
John  Hutchinson  Son 
of  M'  John  &  M^=  Mary 
Hutchinson  Who  Dec'' 
July  y^  30""  1729  in  y* 
12'''  Year  of  His  Age 


Here  lyes  y''  Body  of 

M'^  Mary  Green 

Wife  to  M'  Samuel 

Green  Who  Died 

Jan'y  24  1729  in  y"" 

54*  Year  of  her  Age 


Here  Lyes  Buried 

ye  Body  of  M' 

Jonatha"  Sprague 

Who  Died  March 

8*  1 730/ 1  in  y^  75 

Year  of  His  Age 


Here  Lyes  Buried 

y^  Body  of  M' 

William  Sargent 

Who  Died  March 


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^5     ^731/2  in  y'  52  year 
of  His  Age 


Here  Lyes  Buried 

y^  Body  of  Lieu' 

Thomas  Newhall 

Who  Dec''  July  13' 

Anno  Dom'  1738  in  y* 

75"^  Year  of  His  Age 


,th 


Here  lyes  Buried  the 

Body  of  Deacon 

John  Greenland ; 

Who  Departed  this 

Life  Octo*"^  17"*,  1738  in  y" 

85'"  Year  of  His  Age 


Here  lyes  Buried 

y'^  Body  of  M'' 

Thomas  Burdit 

Who  Departed  this  Life 

June  y"  30"'  AD  1729  in 

Year  of  His  Age 


Lydia  Waitt 

Dau"  of  M'  Joseph 

&  M'^  Lydia  Waitt 

Dec"  Jan'"  y^  9 

1738  Aged  2 

Years  &  3  M" 


Here  Lyes  y° 
Body  of  Jacob 
Wayte  Son  of 
M'  Thomas  & 
M"  Mary  Wayte 
Who  Dec"  Octo*^"^ 
y«  I  St  1727  Aged 
about  20  Years 


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Here  lyes  Buried 

y^  Body  of 

Lieu*  Thomas  Pratt ; 

Who  Departed  this 

Life,  June  25"'  Anno  Dom" 

1732.     Aged  63  Years. 


Here  lies  y^  body  of 

David  Green  Son  of  M' 

John  &  M"  Jsabell 

Green  Who  Died 

Octo^"  9  "^732  Aged 

30  Years  &  6  Months 


John  Wayt  Son 
of  M'  John  & 

M"  Anne  Wayt 
Died  April  y-^ 


rth 


,th 


II'"  1733  in  y^  10 
Year  of  His  Age 


Here  lyes  y^  Body  of 
Benjamin  Skinner  Son 
of  M'  Thomas  &  M" 

Mehetabel  Skinner  Who 
Died  Decem*"'  16  1727 

Aged  8  Years  &  2  Mon" 


Here  Lyes  Buried 

y*^  Body  Of  M'^ 

Dorothy  Sprague 

y-^  Widow  Of  Cap'" 

Edward  Sprague 

Died  March  y^  29 

1727         in         58"' 


Year  of  Her  Age 


Here  lyes  y*  Body 

of  Stephen  Green 

Son  of  Dea'^""  Joseph  & 

M'*  Hannah  Green 

Who  Died  Feb^ 

y'3'  1733 

Aged  21  Years 


Here  lyes  Buried  y" 

Body  of  M"^  John 

Tufts ;  Who  Dec'' 

March  y''  28"^  Anno  Dom"' 

1728.     Aged  63  Years 

Also  y^  Body  of  Timothy  Tufts 

Son  of  M'  John  &  M"  Mary 

Tufts  Who  Dec"^  May 

2''  1727  Aged  23  Years. 


Here  lyes  Buried 

y^  Body  of  Deacon 

Joseph  Green,  late 

Deacon  of  y^  Church  in 

Maldon,  Who  Departed 

this  Life  Nov"'  28'"  AD  1732 

Aged  54  Years  &  i  Mon"" 

The  Memory  of  the 

Just  is  Blefsed 


Here  Lyes  y*  Body 

of  Mehetable 
Bucknam  Daug*' 

of  M'  Samuel 

&  M""'  Deborah 

Bucknam  Who 

Dec"*  Sep'  30""  1726 

Aged  2 1  Years 


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Also  Here  Lyes 

y*^  Body  of 

M"  Elizabeth 

Whittemore,  Wife 

to  M'  Benjamin 

Whittemore  :  Dec'' 

July  1 8'"  1726,  in  y"^ 

83  Year  of  Her 

Age 


Waldo  Son  of  y-^ 

Rev"*  M'  Joseph  & 

M"^  Mary  Emerson 

Died  July  8'^  1734 

Aged  14  Days 

Rom  5  14 


Here  lyes  y^  Body  of  M""^ 
Mehetabel  Wayt  Relict 

of  M'^  Samuel  Wayt 

Who  Died  Septem^-^  1 7'" 

Anno  Dom'  1734  in  y^ 

81^'  Year  of  Her  Age 


James  Douglafs  Son 

of  M'  Thomas  & 

M'""  Mary  Douglafs 

Died  Octob'  13"^ 

1734  in  y'  6'" 
Year  of  his  Age 


Here  lyes  Buried  y"  Body 

of  M'"  Elizabeth  Lynd 
Wife  to  M"^  Joseph  Lynd 
Who  Died  June  the  20"" 
1733  Aged  73  Years 


Here  Lyes  y" 

Body  of 

M'  Benjamin 

Whittemore 

Who  Dec*  July 

y*"  16  1726 

y«  87"^  Year 

of  His  Age 


Sarah  Green 

Dau'^  of  M'  John  & 

M"  Isabell  Green 

Died  Janu'y  7''' 

1726,  Aged  6 

Years  &  15  Days 


Here  lyes  Buried 

y*"  Body  of  Lieu' 

Samuel  Newhall 

Who  Died  April  17* 

Anno  Dom'  1733  Aged 

43  Years  1 1  M°  &  21  D 


Here  lyes  y*"  Body  of 

M"  Lydia  Falkener 

Wife  to  M'  Benjamin 

Falkener  Who  Died 

May  26  1733  iny^  36 

Year  of  her  Age. 


Here  lyes  Buried 

y"  Body  of  M' 

John  Upham  ; 

Who  Died  June  1 1'^ 

Anno  Dom"'.  1733,  in  y* 

67""  Year  of  His  Age. 


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Here  lyes  Buried 

y"=  Body  of  M' 

John  Mudge 

Who  Died  Octo' 

29**'  1733  i»iy'  79'" 

Year  of  His  Age 


Here  Lyes  Buried 

y"=  Body  of  M' 

Thomas  Oakes 

Who  Died  Sep'  11*  Anno 

Domini  1733,  in  y^  73'' 

Year  of  His  Age 


Here  lyes  y*  Body  of 
Jonathan  Skinner  Son 
of  M'  Thomas  &  M'^ 
Mehetabel  Skinner 
Died  Nov'''  i=*  1733 
Aged  7  Years  &  12  Day^ 


Here  lyes  y^  Body  of 
M'^  Ruhamah  Green 

Wife  to  M'  James 

Green  Who  Died 

Jan"^  10"'  1733/4  in  y' 

26  Year  of  her  Age 


Here  lyes  Buried  y"  Body 

of  M"  Susanna  Dexter 

Wife  to  M'  John  Dexter 

Who  Departed  this  Life 

March  9"'  Anno  Dom  1735/6 

Aged  22  Years  &  8  Months 

Buried  By  Her 

Three  of  Their  Children 


Here  lyes  Buried 

y^  Body  of  M'^ 

Ruth  Mudge 

Wife  to  M'  John 

Mudge  Who  Died 

Octo'  17""  1733 

in  y^  67'''  Year 

of  Her  Age 


Sarah  Upham 

Daug"  of  M'  David 

&  M"  Sarah  Upham 

Died  January  y^ 

21^'  1734  Aged 

3  Months  &  1 5  D= 


Here  lyes  y"  Body 

of  M'-^  Dorothy 

Col  man  Wife  to 

M"^  John  Colman 

Who  Died  Jan'^  24'" 

1734  Aged  42  Years 


Here  lyes  Buried 

y'^  Body  of  M' 

Samuel  Tufts 

Who  Departed  this 

Life  April  21'^'  A  D  1735 

Aged  38  Years 


Here  lyes  Buried  y^ 

Body  of  M'  Joseph  Lynd 

Who  Departed  this 

Life  January  y^  2"** 

Anno  Domini  1735/6 

Aged  83  Years 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 


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Here  lyes  y^  Body 
of  Benjamin  Wayte 

Son  of  M'  Thomas 
&  M'"  Mary  Wayte 
Who  Died  June  y" 

2"'*  1735  in  y""  22"'* 

Year  of  His  Age 


Jacob  Sweetser  Son 

of  M'  Jacob  &  M" 

Elizabeth  Sweetser 

Died  March  38'''  1736 

Aged  3  Years  &  2  M° 


Here  lyes  y*^  Body  of 

Elizabeth  Hovey 

Daugh""  of  M'  James 

&  M''  Elizabeth  Hovey 

Who  Died  June 

1736  Aged 

9  Months 


Here  lyes  Buried 

y*=  Body  of  M' 

John  Green  Who 

Departed  this  life  Aug" 

29""  Anno  Dom  1736  in 

ye  ^yth  Year  of  His  Age 


Here  lyes  Buried 

y^  Body  of  M' 

Phineas  Sprague, 

Who  Departed  this 

Life,  August  29*  Anno 

Dom"'  1736  in  y* 

71"  Year  of  His  Age 


John  Upham  Son 

of  M'  Samuel  & 

M"  Mary  Upham 

Died  Sep'  6'"  1736 

Aged  2  Years 

&  1 1  Months 


Here  lyes  Buried  y^ 

Body  of  M'*^  Elizabeth 

Sprague  Relict  of 

M'  John  Sprague ; 

Who  Died  Sep'  28* 

Anno  Dom'  1736,  in  y* 

85  Year  of  her  Age. 


Here  lyes  y^  Body  of 

Mary  Baldwin  Dau''  of 

M'  Joseph  &  M^^  Elizab"' 

Baldwin  Who  Died 

Oct'  11"^  1736  Aged 

28  Years  &  about  20  D^ 


Nathaniel  Payne 

Son  of  M'  Nathaniel 

&  M"  Abigail 

Payne,  Died  Jan'*" 

1 1*  1736  Aged  20 

Months  &  5  Days 


Here  lyes  Buried 

y^  Body  of  M"^'  Anna 

Falkner  Wife  to  M' 

Benjamin  Falkner 

Who  Died  Sept""' 

23"*  1737  iny«35''' 

Year  of  her  Age 


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MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 


Here  lyes  y'  Body  of 
M'=  Isabell  Green 

Wife  to  Cap'  William 

Green  Who  Died 

March  13*  1736  in  y^  85*'' 

Year  of  her  Age 


Here  Lyes  Buried  y* 

Body  of  M' 

Thomas  Skinner 

Who  Departed  this  life 

June  1='  1737  Aged  50 

Years  10  Months  &  25  Da' 

Buried  by  Him 

Four  of  his  Children 


Jonathan  Newhall 

Son  of  Lieu'  Samuel 

&  M'^  Sarah  Newhall 

Died  June  8"'  1737  Aged 

8  Years  10  M"  &  38  D^ 


Here  lyes  Buried 

y*^  Body  of  M"" 

Ebenezer  Harnden 

Who  Departed  this  life 

March  zcf"  1738  in  y* 

63''  Year  of  His  Age 


Here  lyes  y*"  Body  of 

Marcy  Upham  Dau'' 

of  M'  Samuel  &  M'" 

Mary  Upham  Who 

Died  Aug''  17"' 
1738  in  y"^  18"'  Year 
of  Her  Age 


Abigal  Sargant 
Dau"  of  M'  Phineas 

&  M''  Abigail 
Sargant  Died  July 

4*^  1738  Aged  7 
Years  5  M"  &  6  D' 


Here  lyes  Buried  y* 

Body  of  M"  Joanna 

Stearns  Wife  to  Cap' 

John  Stearns  (Formerly 

Wife  to  M'  Jacob 

Parker)  Who  Died 

Decem'^'  4""  1 737  in  y^ 

79*^  Year  of  her  Age 


Here  lyes  Buried 
y*  Body  of  M' 

Phinehas  Upham 
Jun'  Who  Died  July 

y*  17"^  1738  Aged 
31  Years  &  6  Mont''" 


Here  lyes  y^  Body  of 

Abigail  Pain  Dau"  of 

M'  John  &M'' Abigail 

Pain  Who  Died  Agu" 

2""^  1738  Aged  9 

Years  &  6  Months 


Hannah  Pain  Dau" 

of  M'  John  &  M'' 

Abigail  Pain 

Died  Aug"  lo"* 

1 738  Aged  6 

Years  &  6  Months 


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Phebe  Sargant  Dau'' 

of  M'  Joseph  &  M'^ 

Hannah  Sargant 

Died  Aug"'  y''  24"* 

1738  Aged  8 

Years  & 


Solomon  Sargant  Son 
of  M^  Joseph  &  M'^ 

Hannah  Sargant 
Died  Aug  34""  1 73S 
Aged  6  Years 
2  Months  &  20  D^ 


Jacob  Sargant  Son 

of  M'  Joseph  &  M'^ 

Hannah  Sargant 

Died  Sep'  i^'  173S 

Aged  I  Year  9 

Months  &  20  D' 


Here  lyes  y"  Body 

of  Daniel  Upham 

Son  of  M'  Nathaniel 

&  M"  Mary  Upham 

Who  Died  Sept'  iS"^ 

1738  in  y^  19""  Year 

of  His  Age 


Thomas  Knower 
Son  of  M'  John 
&  M'^  Elizabeth 

Knower  Died  Sep' 

3^  1738  Aged  6 
Years  &  9  Months 


Here  lyes  Buried  y' 

Body  of  M'^  Susanna 

Willson,  Wife  to  M' 

Jacob  Willson, 

Who  Departed  this 

life  in  Decern*^"  1 739 

Aged  74  Years 


Here  lyes  y^  Body 

of  Ebenezer  Wayte 

Son  of  M' Thomas 

Wayte  Ter^  &  M'"  Abigail 

his  Wife  Who  Died 

April  21^'  1740  in  y=  16"" 

Year  of  His  Age 


Here  lyes  y*"  Body  of 

Abigail  Upham  Daugh' 

of  M^  Nathaniel  &  M"^' 

Mary  Upham  Who  Died 

Sep'  22"''  1738  in  y*=  14' 

Year  of  Her  Age 


th 


Here  lyes  Buried 

y'^  Body  of  M'' 

Mary  Dickerman 

Who  Died  March 

20"'  1738/9  Aged 

about  78  years 


Here  lyes  Buried  y*" 
Body  of  M"^'  Hannah 
Millinnor  Wife  to  M"" 

James  Millinnor 
Who  Died  Feb-^y  y<= 
1 739/40  Aged 


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MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 


Eunice  Wait  Dau" 
of  M^  Edward  &  M'^ 
Tabitha  Wait  Died 
Decern *"  22"''  1740 
Aged  6  Years,  4 
Months  &  28  Days 


Rebeckah  Caswell 
Daug""  of  M*^  Joseph 

&  M'^  Bathsheba 

Caswell ;  Died  Octo''' 

31^'.  1740.     Aged  II 

Months  &  23  Days. 


Phebe  Paine,  Dau" 

of  M'  Stephen  & 

M".  Rebeckah 

Paine,  Died  Nov*". 

12*,  1740,  in  y*"  4"'. 
Year  of  her  Age. 


Here  lyes  y^  Body  of 

M'  Samuel  Newhall 

Who  Departed  this 

LifeNov'^y'  17*  AD 

1740  in  the  26* 

Year  of  his  Age 


Here  lyes  Buried 

y^  Body  of  M'" 

Hannah  Kettell 

Wife  to  M'  John 

Kettell  of  Charlstow" 

Who  Died  Aug^'  4"' 

1 74 1  Aged  25  Years 

I  Month  &  1 2  Days 


Here  lyes  Buried  the 
Body  of  M^'  Elizabeth 

Pratt  Wife  to  M^ 

Thomas  Pratt  Who 

Departed  this  life  Jan'^'' 

12*  Anno  Dom'  1 740/1  in  y' 

64*^  Year  of  Her  Age 


Here  lyes  Buried 

y*  Body  of  Cap' 

Samuel  Waitt 

Who  Departed  this  life 

Jan-^y  14'"  Anno  Dom"'  1740 

in  y'  60"^  Year  of  His  Age 


Here  lyes  y*^  Body  of 

Ruth  Sargant  Daug" 

of  M"^  Joseph  &  M^^ 

Hannah  Sargant ;   Who 

Died  March  31"  1740/r 

Aged  15  Years  &  i  M° 


Here  lies  Buried 

y^  Body  of  M' 

William  Paine 

Who  died  April  14th 

Anno  Dom'  1741  in  y'= 

78*  Year  of  His  Age 


Here  lyes  Buried 

y'=  Body  of  M^^ 

Sarah  Green  Wife 

to  M'  Ezra  Green 

Who  Departed  this 

Life  July  7"^  A  D 

1 741  Aged  26  Years 


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Here  lyes  Buried  y*^ 

Body  of  M-"^  Martha 

Pratt  Wife  to  Dea'^"" 

John  Pratt  Who 

Departed  this  hfe  Sep' 

30'*'  Anno  Dom'  1743 

Aged  79  Years  &  3  M° 


Here  lyes  Buried  y"^  Body 

of  Dea""  John  Pratt 

(One  of  y"  Deacons  of  y' 

First  Church  of  Christ  in 

Maldon)  Who  Departed 

this  life  Nov'^'  15"'  AD  1742 

Aged  Si  Years  &  7  Mon' 


Here  lyes  y*"  Body 

of  M''  Martha  Oakes 

Wife  to  M'  Jonathan 

Oakes  Who  Died  July 

y<^  18*  1 74 1  in  y^  30"' 

Year  of  Her  Age 


Here  Lyes  Buried 

the  Body  of 
M'  Jacob  Willson 
Who  Departed  this  life 
April  16"'  Anno  Domin' 
1741  Aged  69  Years 


Here  lyes  Buried 

the  Body  of  M"^ 

John  Willson 

Who  Departed  this  Life 

July  the  21"  1 74 1  in  y^ 

66"'  Year  of  His  Age 


Phebe  Upham  Dau" 
of  M'  Samuel  &  M'^ 
Mary  Upham  Died 
Sep'  14"'  1 73  S  Aged 
7  Years  &  6  Mont^ 


Hoc  Sacrum  Memoriae 

Dom  :  Mehetab^'  Blanchard 

Relictae  Dom  : 

Joshuae  Blanchard 

Qiiae  Ob  :  lo"""  Januarii 

Die  Ann° 

Domini  1742'*'' AEtatisque 

Suae  76'"  Nepos  fecit ;   Duode 

cimo  Februarii  Die  AD  1745'° 


[Foot  Stone] 

M"  Mehetabel 

Infreta  dum  Fluvii  Current  du"" 

Montibus    Umbrae  Lustrabunt 

Convexa  Polus  dum  Siderae 

pascet  Lemp^'  Honos 
Momenque  tuum  Laudesque 


Here  Lyes  Buried  y*" 

Body  of  M"  Mary 

Hills  Wife  to  M^  Benj 

Hills  Who  Died  Jan'^ 

31^'  Anno  Dom  1743  in  y* 

56  Year  of  Her  Age 


William  Upham  Son 

of  M^  Samuel  &  M" 

Mary  Upham  Died 

Aug''  15"'  1738.     Aged 

2  Years  &  5  Mont' 


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MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 


Mary  Daugh"  of 

Nathaniel  Upham 

Jun"'  &  Rebecka''  his 

Wife  Died  Sep'  8'" 

1 738  in  her  8*^  Mon* 


Here  lyes  Buried 

y"  Body  of  M' 

Thomas  Wayte 

Who  Departed  this 

Life  Decern'"'  23''  Ann 

Dom  1742  in  y^  82<* 

Year  of  His  Age 


Here  lyes  Buried  y* 

Body  M-^^  Phebe 

vSprague  Wife  to  M 

Stower  Sprague ; 

Who  departed  this  Life 

March  15"'  A  D  1742  Aged 

51  Years  3  M"  &  22  D' 


Here  lyes  Buried  y*"  Body 

of  Edward  Emerson 

Esq'  (sometime  Deacon  of  y^ 

4"^  Church  in  Newbury)  who 

departed  this  Life 

(very  suddenly) 

May  9"'  Anno  Dom"'  1743 

AEtat  73 


Martha  Chadwick 

Daug"  of  M'  Joseph  & 

M''  Mary  Chadwick 

Died  Aug  30""  1743 

Aged  2"  6""  4^^  2" 


Here  lyes  y^  Body  of 

M''"  Elizabeth  Baldwin 

Widow  of  M'  Joseph 

Baldwin  Who  Died 
Jan'"  2"  1744/5   Aged 
75  Years  &  5  Months 


Here  lyes  Buried 

the  Body  of  M' 

Jonathan  Knower 

Who  Departed  this  Life 

Decern*"  y^  21''  A  D  1745 

Aged  64  Years 


Here  lyes  y^  Body  of 
Martha  Waitt  Daug" 
of  Cap*  Samuel  &  M'^ 

Ann  Waitt  Who 
Died  March  S"*  1745 
Aged  27  Years  7  M° 


Here  lyes  Buried 

y^  Body  of  M" 

Elizabeth  Waitt 

Wife  to  M'  Samuel 

Waitt  Who  Died  July 

y^  16*^  A  D  1746  in  y= 

32**  Year  of  her  Age 


Here  lyes  Buried  the 

Body  of  M'=  Bethiah 

Wheeler  Wife  to 

M'  Isaac  Wheeler 

Who  Departed  this 

life  May  16"'  1747  in  f 

83'^'  Year  of  Her  Age 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 


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Here  Lyes  Buried 

y-^  Body  of  M' 

Samuel  Sprague 

Who  Departed  this  life 

Nov'''  1 3*  Anno  Dom'  1 743 

in  y^  85*  Year  of  His  Age 


Here  Lyes  Buried 

y<=  Body  of  M' 

John  Knower 

who  Departed  this  life 

Nov"'  28"^  1 746  in  y^ 

57"^  Year  of  His  Age 


Here  lyes  Buried 

y-^  Body  of  M"^ 

Richard  Dexter 

Who  Departed  this  life 

April  the  3i''  1747 

Aged  69  Years 


Here  Lyes  Buried 

the  Body  of  M' 

William  Sprague 

Who  Departed  this  life 

Nov'^'^  2  1^' A  D  1747  in  y"' 

53'*  Year  of  His  Age 

Buried  By  Him 
Four  of  His  Childr" 


Here  Lyes  Buried 

y'  Body  of 

M'  John  Green 

Who  Departed  this 

Life  Nov^"  28"'  1747  in  y= 

74">  Year  of  His  Age 


Here  lyes  y'^  Body  of 
Ruth  Baldwin  Daug"  of 
M'  Joseph  &  M'^  Elizab"' 

Baldwin  ;   Who  Died 
Decem*''  18*  1747.  Aged 

44  Years  9  M''  &  3  D 


Here  lyes  Buried  y*"  Body 

of  M''  Abigail  Dexter 

Wife  to  M"^  John  Dexter 

Who  Departed  this  life 

Jan'y  19"'  AnnoDom'  1746/7 

in  y^  31  Year  of  Her  Age 

Also  Buried  by  her 

thair  Son  John  Dexter 

Who  Died  Jan^''  2'^  1746/7 

Aged  3  Days 


Here  lyes  Buried  y* 
Body  of  M'^  Sarah 
Hills         Wife  to  M' 
Thomas  Hills 
Who  Departed  this 

Life  in  y^ 

Year  of  Her  Age 
[She  died  Sept.  15,  1748.    The 
date  was  never  engraved  upon 
the  stone.] 


Here  Lyes  y*"  Body 

of  M"  Elizabeth 

Mitchell,  Widow  of 

M"^  John  Mitchell, 

Who  Departed  this 

Life  June  27"' :  1749 

Aged  83  Years. 


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MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 


Here  Lyes  Buried 

the  Body  of  Lieu' 

Samuel  Bucknam 

Who  Departed  this 

Life  July  3"^  Ann°  Dom' 

1 75 1  in  the  77"*  Year 

of  His  Age 


Lydia  Sargent,  Dau'"" 
of  M'  Nathan  & 
M'*  Mary  Sargent 

Died  Aug^'  29""  1749 
Aged  5  Years  3 
Months  &  4  Days 


Here  lyes  Buried 

the  Body  of  Deacon 

Jonathan  Barret 

Who  departed  this  life 

Septemb'  y^  7*  1 749 

Aged  73  Years 


Here  lyes  y^  Body  of 
Ebenezer  Emerson 

Son  of  y^  Rev'"^  M' 
Joseph  &  M'"  Mary 

Emerson  Dec''  July 
lo"'  1750  AEtatis  14 
A  Dear  Son  a  Pleasant  Child 


Here  lyes  y^  Body  of  M'* 

Elizabeth  Sweetser 

Wife  to  M'  Samuel 

Sweetser  Who  Died 

March  12"'  1752  [175^]  in  y= 

76"'  Year  of  Her  Age 


Here  Lyes  Buried 

the  Body  of  M" 
Deborah  Bucknam 

Wife  to  Lieu' 

Samuel  Bucknam 

Who  Departed  this  life 

Aug"'  1 7'*"  1 75 1  in  y=  82'' 

Year  of  Her  Age. 


Here  lyes  Buried  y''  Body 

of  M"  Rebecca  Emerson 

the  Consort  of  Edward 

Emerson  Esq'  Who  Dec** 

April  23''  1752  Etatis  90 

Prudent  &  Pious  Meek  &  kind 

Virtue  &  Grace 

Adorned  her  mind 

This  Stone  may  moulder 

into  Dust 

But  her  Dear  Name 

Continue  must 


Here  Lyes  Buried  y* 

Body  of  M'^  Elizabeth 

Hovey  Wife  to  Deac"" 

James  Hovey  Who 

Departed  this  Life 

Octo*"  y'=  4"'  1 750  in  y* 

55""  Year  of  Her  Age 


Here  Lyes  Buried 

the  Body  of  Cap' 

Benjamin  Blaney 

Who  Departed  this  Life 

Feb'y  y^  8">  Anno  Domini 

1 750/1  Aged  51  Years 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  75 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL   SOCIETY. 

Organized,  March  8,  1886. 
Incorporated  February  7,  1887. 


President. 
CHARLES   EDWARD   MANN 

Vice  Presidents. 

JOSHUA   W.  WELLMAN,  D.  D. 
GEORGE   L.  GOULD 
ROSWELL    R.  ROBINSON 

Secretary-  Treasurer. 
GEORGE   WALTER   CHAMBERLAIN 


Directors. 

Charles  H.  Adams  Roswell  R.  Robinson 

Sylvester  Baxter  William  G.  A.  Turner 

George  W.  Chamberlain  Walter  Kendall  Watkins 

George  L.  Gould  Arthur  H.  Wellman 

Charles  E.  Mann  Joshua  W.  Wellman,  D.D. 
H.  Heustis  Newton 


Librarian  and  Curator. 
Herbert  W.  Fison 


76  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

COMMITTEES,   1913-14. 


Finance. 

George  L.  Gould  William  G.  Merrill 

Arthur  W.  Walker 


Publication. 

Charles  E.  Mann  Sylvester  Baxter 

W.  G.  a.  Turner  Roswell  R.  Robinson 

Arthur  H.  Wellman 


Membership. 

George  W.  Chamberlain  Thomas  S.  Rich 

Charles  H.  Adams  Rev.  Alfred  Noon 

Mrs.  a.  a.  Nichols  Mrs.  Henry  W.  Upham 

Genealogies. 

Walter  Kendall  Watkins  Dr.  Charles  Burleigh 

George  W.  Chamberlain  William  B.  Snow 

Mrs.  Alfred  H.  Burlen 

Social. 

Mrs.  Mary  Greenleaf  Turner  Mrs.  Mary  Lawrence  Mann 

Mrs.  J.  Parker  Swett  Mrs.  F.  T.  A.  McLeod 

Mrs.  Sylvester  Baxter 

Camera. 

William  L.  Hallworth  Peter  Graffam 

Eugene  A.  Perry  J.  Lewis  Wightman 

Richard  Greenleaf  Turner 


Historic  Loan  Exhibition. 

William  G.  A.  Turner  Mrs.  William  D.  Hawley 

Mrs.  Sarah  E.  Mansfield 


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BY-LAWS 

OF   THE 

MALDEN    HISTORICAL   SOCIETY. 

[Adopted  at  the  annual  meeting  March  13,  191^.] 


NAME 

This  society  shall  be  called  the  Maiden  Historical 
Society. 

OBJECTS 

The  objects  of  this  society  shall  be  to  collect,  preserve 
and  disseminate  the  local  and  general  history  of  Maiden 
and  the  genealogy  of  Maiden  families ;  to  make  anti- 
quarian collections  ;  to  collect  books  of  general  history, 
genealogy  and  biography ;  and  to  prepare,  or  cause  to  be 
prepared  from  time  to  time,  such  papers  and  records 
relating  to  these  subjects  as  may  be  of  general  interest  to 
the  members. 

MEMBERSHIP 

The  members  of  this  society  shall  consist  of  two 
classes,  active  and  honorary,  and  shall  be  such  persons 
either  resident  or  non-resident  of  Maiden,  as  shall,  after 
being  approved  by  the  board  of  directors,  be  elected  by 
the  vote  of  a  majority  of  the  members  present  and  voting 
at  any  regularly  called  meeting  of  the  society. 

Honorary  members  may  be  nominated  by  the  board 
of  directors  and  shall  be  elected  by  ballot  by  a  two-thirds 


78  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

vote  of  the  members  present  and  voting  at  any  regularly 
called  meeting.  They  shall  enjoy  all  the  privileges  of  the 
society  except  that  of  voting. 

OFFICERS 

The  officers  of  the  society  shall  include  a  recording 
secretary,  and  a  treasurer,  who  shall  be  members  of  the 
board  of  directors.  The  society  may  in  its  discretion' elect 
one  person  as  secretary-treasurer  to  perform  the  duties  of 
recording  secretary  and  treasurer.  The  other  officers  to 
be  elected  by  the  society  shall  be  a  board  of  eleven 
directors,  including  the  officer  or  officers  named  above. 
The  recording  secretary,  treasurer  (or  secretary-treasurer), 
and  directors  shall  be  elected  by  ballot  at  the  annual 
meeting  of  the  society. 

The  board  of  directors  shall  from  their  number  elect 
by  ballot  a  president  and  three  vice  presidents,  and  from 
the  members  of  the  society  may  elect  a  librarian  and 
curator  and  such  other  officers  as  may  be  deemed  neces- 
sary. All  officers  shall  serve  for  one  year,  or  until  their 
successors  are  elected  and  qualified.  The  board  of 
directors  may  fill  any  vacancies  for  unexpired  terms. 

COMMITTEES 

The  board  of  directors  may  elect  annually  committees 
on  finance,  publication,  membership,  genealogies  and  such 
other  committees  as  the  society  may  direct  or  the  board 
deem  desirable. 

DUES 

The  annual  dues  of  the  society  shall  be  one  dollar. 
Any  active  member  may  become  a  life  member  by  the 
payment  of  twenty-five  dollars  during  any  one  year,  which 


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shall  exempt  such  member  from  the  payment  of  further 
annual  dues.  The  board  of  directors  shall  have  discretion 
to  drop  from  the  membership  roll  any  person  failing  to 
pay  his  annual  assessment  for  two  successive  years. 

MEETINGS 

The  annual  meeting  of  the  society  shall  be  held  on 
the  second  Wednesday  in  March  for  the  election  of  officers 
and  the  transaction  of  other  business.  Regular  meetings 
shall  be  called  in  May,  October,  December  and  January. 
Special  meetings  may  be  called  by  the  president  at  his 
discretion  and  five  members  shall  constitute  a  quorum  for 
the  transaction  of  business  at  any  meeting. 

AMENDMENTS 

These  by-laws  maybe  altered,  amended  or  suspended, 
by  a  two-thirds  vote  of  the  members  present  and  voting  at 
any  meeting,  notice  of  such  proposed  action  having  been 
given  in  the  call  for  said  meeting. 


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MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 


MEMBERS  1912-1913. 


Adams,  Charles  H. 
Allen,  Claude  L.     . 
Ammann,  Albert     . 

Barnes,  Roland  D. 
Bailey,  Dudley  P.  . 
Bailey,  William  M. 
Baxter,  Sylvester     . 
Bayrd,  Mrs.  Adelaide  Breed 
Belcher,  Charles  F. 
Bennett,  Frank  P.,  Sr.    . 
Bickford,  Erskine  F. 
Bliss,  Alvin  E. 
Bliss,  Edwin  P. 
Boutwell,  Harvey  L. 
Bradstreet,  George  F. 
Brigham,  Mrs.  Augusta  R. 
Brooks,  Harvey  N. 
Bruce,  Charles 
Bruce,  Judge  Charles  M. 
Burbank,  Edvv^in  C. 
Burleigh,  Dr.  Charles 
Burgess,  James  H. 
Burgess,  Mrs.  O.  B. 
Burlen,  Mrs.  Alfred  H.    . 

Carlisle,  Frank  H. 
Carr,  Joseph   T. 
Casas,  William  B.  de  las 
Chamberlain,  George  W. 


.  59  Orient  avenue,  Melrose 

.     268  Grove  street,  Melrose 

50  Acorn  street.  Maiden 

23  Spring  street,  Maiden 
.    121  Linden  street,  Everett 

2  Ridgewood  road.  Maiden 
32  Murray  Hill  road.  Maiden 

24  Spruce  street,  Maiden 
148  Haw^thorne  street.  Maiden 

Saugus,  Mass. 

38  Main  street.  Maiden 

.  60  Linden  avenue.  Maiden 

.  17  Linden  avenue,  Maiden 

37  Pierce  street.  Maiden 

.     208  Maple  street.  Maiden 

.   21  Concord  street,  Maiden 

Murray  Hill  Park,  Maiden 

8  Forest  avenue,  Everett 

155  Hawthorne  street.  Maiden 

.     37  Beltran  street.  Maiden 

53  Washington  street.  Maiden 

72  Mountain  avenue.  Maiden 

72  Mountain  avenue.  Maiden 

.   255  Clifton  street,  Maiden 

35  High  street,  Maiden 

.     242  Salem  street,  Maiden 

95  Cedar  street.  Maiden 

29  Hillside  avenue.  Maiden 


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Chandler,  John  G. 
Chase,  James  F. 
Cobb,  Darius  . 
Converse,  Costello  C. 
Converse,  Mrs.  Mary  Ida 
Corbett,  John  M.     . 
Corey,  Mrs.  Isabella  H 
Cox,  Alfred  E. 
Cummings,  E.  Harold 

Damon,  Herbert 
Daniels,  Charles  A. 
Dawes,  Miss  Agnes  H. 
Donovan,  James 
Doonan,  Owen  P.   . 
Drew,  Frank  E. 
Dutton,  George  C. 

Eaton,  Charles  L. 
Elwell,  Fred  S. 
Estey,  Frank  W.     . 
Evans,  Wilmot  R.,  Sr. 

Fall,  George  Howard 
Fison,  Herbert  W. 
Fowle,  Frank  E.     . 
Freeman,  Dr.  Dexter  C. 

Gay,  Edward 
Gay,  Dr.  Fritz  W. 
Goodwin,  Dr.  Richard  J 
Gould,  Edwin  Carter 
Gould,  George  L.    . 
Gould,  Mrs.  Lizzie  L. 
Gould,  Levi  S. 
Graff  am,  Peter 


2  Dexter  street.  Maiden 

20  Crescent  avenue,  Maiden 

no  Tremont  street,  Boston 

2  Main  street,  Maiden 

2  Main  street.  Maiden 

.  79  Tremont  street.  Maiden 

.     2  Berkeley  street.  Maiden 

80  Appleton  street.  Maiden 

515  Highland  avenue.  Maiden 

191  Mountain  avenue.  Maiden 

88  Mt.  Vernon  street,  Maiden 

I  Ridgewood  road.  Maiden 

33  Grace  street,  Maiden 

92  Highland  avenue.  Maiden 

99  Washington  street,  Maiden 

.     Glen  Rock,  Maiden 

44  Dexter  street,  Maiden 

166  Lawrence  street,  Maiden 

136  Hawthorne  sti-eet.  Maiden 

591  Broadway,  Everett 

12  Evelyn  place.  Maiden 

Public  Library,  Maiden,  Maiden 

321  Summer  street.  Maiden 

20  Cross  street,  Maiden 

18  Dexter  street,  Maiden 

.     105  Salem  street.  Maiden 

481  Pleasant  street.  Maiden 

20  W.  Wyoming  avenue,  Melrose 

24  Alpine  street.  Maiden 

24  Alpine  street.  Maiden 

280  Main  street,  Melrose 

.    181  Clifton  street.  Maiden 


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Hallworth,  William  L.    .  .  .47  Meridian  street,  Maiden 

Hardy,  Arthur  P.    .  .  .  49  Las  Casas  street.  Maiden 

Haven,  Rev.  William  Ingraham,  D.D. 

Bible  House,  Astor  place,  New^  York,  N.  Y. 
Hawley,  Mrs.  Alice  C.   .  '37  Washington  street.  Maiden 


Haw^ley,  William  D. 
Hawley,  William   H. 
Hobbs,  William  J. 
Houdlette,  Mrs.  Edith  L.,  55 
Hutchins,  Prof.  John  W. 

Johnson,  George  H. 
Jones,  George  R.  . 
Joslin,  Frederick  N. 

Kerr,  Alexander 

King,  Mrs.  Robert  C.      . 

Lane,  Miss  Ellen  W. 
Lang,  Thomas,  Jr. 
Locke,  Col.  Elmore  E.    . 
Locke,  Col.  Frank  L. 
Lund,  James 

Magee,  Charles  R. 
Mann,  Charles  E. 
Mann,  Mrs.  Mary  Lawrence 
Mansfield,  Mrs.  Sarah  E. 
McDonald,  Daniel 
McGregor,  Alexander 
McLeod,  Willard     . 
Merrill,  WiUiam  G. 
Millett,  Charles  H. 
Millett,  Mrs.  M.  C. 
Millett,  Joshua  H. 
Millett,  Mrs.  R.  M. 


37  Washington  street.  Maiden 
.  40  Newhall  street.  Maiden 
33  Converse  avenue.  Maiden 
Botolph  street,  Melrose  Highlands 
3  Main  street  park.  Maiden 

.     613  Salem  street,  Maiden 

63  Prospect  street,  Melrose 

.    34  Concord  street.  Maiden 

10  Holmes  street,  Maiden 
.     47  Francis  street.  Maiden 

.     19  Sprague  street.  Maiden 

202  Mountain  avenue.  Maiden 

37  Alpine  street.  Maiden 

.  219  Clifton  street,  Maiden 
142  Hawthorne  street.  Maiden 

Pleasant  street  park,  Maiden 

14  Woodland  road.  Maiden 

14  Woodland  road,  Maiden 

57  Glen  wood  street,  Maiden 

20S  Washington  street,  Maiden 

Glen  Rock,  Maiden 

147  Walnut  street.  Maiden 

149  Walnut  street.  Maiden 

217  Clifton  street.  Maiden 

217  Clifton  street,  Maiden 

22  Parker  street.  Maiden 

22  Parker  street.  Maiden 


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83 


Miner,  Franklin  M. 

Morse,  Tenney 

Mudge,  Rev.  James,  D.D. 


127  Summer  street,  Maiden 

65  Las  Casas  street,  Maiden 

33  Cedar  street,  Maiden 


Newton,  H.  Heustis         .         .         .92  Waverly  street,  Everett 
Nichols,  Mrs.  Adeline  A.  .  .65  Tremont  street.  Maiden 

Noon,  Rev.  Alfred,  Ph.  D.      .  .  Lunenburg,  Mass. 

Norris,  Dr.  Albert  L.       .  .  .   283  Clifton  street.  Maiden 

Norris,  Charles  Sew^all,  21  Woodland  ave.,  Melrose  Highlands 


Otis,  James  O. 

Page,  Albert  N. 
Parker,  Charles  L. 
Perkins,  Clarence  A. 
Perkins,  Frank  J.    . 
Perry,  Eugene  A.    . 
Phillips,  Wellington 
Plummer,  Arthur  J. 
Plummer,  Dr.  Frank 
Porter,  Prof.  Dwight 
Pratt,  Earl  W. 
Pratt,  Ezra  F. 
Priest,  Russell  P.    . 
Prior,  Dr.  Charles  E, 


2  Upham  street.  Maiden 

349  Pleasant  street.  Maiden 

47  Converse  avenue.  Maiden 

57  High  street,  Maiden 

81  Washington  street.  Maiden 

145  Summer  street.  Maiden 

1 1 1  Linden  avenue.  Maiden 

.     4  Hudson  street,  Maiden 

Wentworth      334  Pleasant  street.  Maiden 

149  Haw^thorne  street.  Maiden 

128  Pleasant  street,  Maiden 

129  Pleasant  street.  Maiden 

Winchester,  Mass. 
.  77  Summer  street,  Maiden 


Quimby,  Rev.  Israel  P. 
Quinn,  Bernard  F. 

Rich,  Thomas  S.    . 
Rich,  Mrs.  Thomas  S. 
Richards,  George  Louis 
Richards,  Lyman  H. 
Riedel,  E.  Robert   . 
Roberts,  Walter  H. 
Robinson,  Roswell  R.  (life) 


.  65  Tremont  street.  Maiden 
.     65  Judson  street,  Maiden 

.  240  Clifton  street.  Maiden 
.  240  Clifton  street.  Maiden 
.  84  Linden  avenue,  Maiden 
.  17  Howard  street,  Maiden 
.  14  Harnden  road,  Maiden 
490  Highland  avenue.  Maiden 
.  84  Linden  avenue,  Maiden 


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Roby,  Austin   H.     . 
Rood,  John  F. 
Ross,  Alexander  S. 
Rowe,  Miss  Edith  Owen 
Ryder,  Mrs.  Gertrude  Yale 
Ryder,  Dr.  Godfrey 


105  Washington  street,  Maiden 

61  Cross  street,  Maiden 

38  Woodland  road.  Maiden 

.  149  Walnut  street,  Maiden 

321   Pleasant  street.  Maiden 

321   Pleasant  street.  Maiden 


Shove,  Francis  A. 
Siner,  Mrs.  James  B. 
Smith,  George  E.   . 
Smith,  Walter  Leroy 
Snow,  William  B. 
Sprague,  Mrs.  Emeline  M. 
Sprague,  Phineas  W. 
Starbird,  Louis  D. 
Stevens,  Dr.  Andrew  J. 
Stover,  Col.  Willis  W. 
Sullivan,  Mrs.  K.  T. 
Sweetser,  Col.  E.  Leroy 


47 


.     87  Beltran  street.  Maiden 
156  Hawthorne  street.  Maiden 
Swampscott,  Mass. 
18  Everett  street,  Maiden 
79  Dexter  street.  Maiden 
84  Salem  street,  Maiden 
I  Commonwealth  avenue,  Boston 
213  Mountain  avenue,  Maiden 
599  Main  street.  Maiden 
100  Waverly  street,  Everett 
87  Cedar  street,  Maiden 
81  Hancock  street,  Everett 


Swett,  J.  Parker,     Highland  ter.,  cor.  Ridgewood  road,  Maiden 


Thompson,  Henrj'  M. 
Tredick,  C.  Morris 
Turner,  Alfred  Rogers 
Turner,  Mrs.  Mary  Greenleaf 
Turner,  William  G.  A. 

Upham,  Henry  W. 
Upham,  Mrs.  Henry  W. 
Upton,  Eugene  C. 

Walbridge,  Mrs.  Percy  E. 
Walbridge,  Percy  E. 
Walker,  Arthur  W. 
Walker,  Mrs.  C.  Isabel 


200 


39  Grace  street.  Maiden 

36  Alpine  street,  Maiden 

Broadway,  Paterson,  N.  J. 

Ridgewood  road.  Maiden 

Ridgewood  road.  Maiden 

285  Clifton  street,  Maiden 

285  Clifton  street.  Maiden 

55  Dexter  street.  Maiden 

105  Elm  street,  Maiden 

105  Elm  street.  Maiden 

16  Alpine  street.  Maiden 

74  Dexter  street.  Maiden 


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85 


Walker,  Hugh  L. 
Warren,  Charles  G. 
Watkins,  Walter  Kendall 
Welsh,  Willard       . 
Wellman,  Mrs.  Jennie  L. 
Wellman,  Arthur  H. 
Wellman,  Rev.  Joshua  W.,  D 
Wentworth,  Dr.  Lowell  F. 
Wescott,  Charles  H. 
White,  Clinton 
Whittemore,  Edgar  A. 
Wiggin,  Joseph 
Wightman,  J.  Lewis 
Wingate,  Edward  L. 
Winship,  Addison  L. 
Winship,  William  H. 
Woodward,  Frank  E. 


.    14  Newhall  street,  Maiden 

13  Upham  street.  Maiden 

47  Hillside  avenue.  Maiden 

.     50  Francis  street,  Maiden 

.    193  Clifton  street,  Maiden 

,    193  Clifton  street,  Maiden 

D.      117  Summer  street,  Maiden 

.    19  Bartlett  street,  Melrose 

125  Hawthorne  street.  Maiden 

106  Bellevue  avenue,  Melrose 

.    2  Woodland  road.  Maiden 

55  Clarendon  street.  Maiden 

245  Mountain  avenue.  Maiden 

85  Dexter  street.  Maiden 

.     65  Laurel  street,  Melrose 

.     209  Maple  street,  Maiden 

Wellesley  Hills,  Mass. 


Young,  John  W. 


150  Hawthorne  street,  Maiden 


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FOUNDERS  OF  THE  SOCIETY. 


The  Maiden  Historical  Society  was  organized  on  March  8, 
1886.  The  charter  members  and  founders  of  the  Society  were 
the  following  in  the  order  as  originally  recorded  : 

Rev.  Joshua  W.  Wellman,  D.  D.,  living  at  117  Summer 
street,  Maiden. 

Rev.  Samuel  W.  Foljambe,  D.  D.,  died  Nov.  16,  1899,  in 
New  Haven,  Connecticut. 

Russell  B.  Wiggin,  died  Nov.  14,  1886. 

George  Dana  Boardman  Blanchard,  died  Dec.  17,  1903. 

Hon.  John  K.  C.   Sleeper,  died  April  18,  1893. 

Prof.  Charles  Augustus  Daniels,  A.  M.,  living  at  88  Mt. 
Vernon  street.  Maiden. 

George  David  Ayers,  LL.  B.,  supposed  to  be  living  in  a 
western  state. 

Hon.  Elisha  Slade  Converse,  died  June  4,  1904. 

Deloraine  Pendre  Corey,  died  May  6,  1910. 

Thomas  Lang,  Sr.,  living  at  202  Mountain  avenue,  Maiden. 

Honorary   Members. 

Hon.  Loren  L.  Fuller,  d.  July  15,  1895,  ae.  75y.  5m.  zed. 
Hon.  Marcellus  Coggan,  living  in  Winchester,  Mass. 


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NECROLOGIES 


GEORGE   LOUIS   FARRELL. 

Doctor  George  Louis  Farrell,  Mayor  of  Maiden  and 
a  member  of  this  Society,  died  on  New  Year's  day,  1913, 
at  the  age  of  forty-six  years.  At  the  time  of  his  death  he 
was  undeniably  the  most  popular  man  in  Maiden,  having 
achieved  this  personal  triumph  after  one  year  in  the  office 
of  Mayor,  to  which  he  was  elected  in  191 1,  by  a  plurality 
over  his  nearest  competitor  of  197  votes,  while  a  few  weeks 
before  his  death  he  was  elected  by  a  majority  of  2,591,  a 
vote  exceeding  all  previous  records  in  Maiden's  municipal 
history.  At  his  death  not  only  his  city  but  other  communi- 
ties mourned.  The  President  of  the  United  States  sent  his 
condolences  to  the  widow.  The  reason  for  this  overwhelm- 
ing change  in  public  sentiment  was  the  fact  that  for  a 
twelvemonth  Doctor  Farrell  had  given  most  of  his  time 
without  stint  to  the  city  which  had  so  honored  him.  He 
was  industrious,  alert,  public  spirited  and  high  minded. 
An  activity  that  in  other  public  positions  had  caused  irrita- 
tion among  his  associates,  developed  into  a  tireless  and 
prodigious  energy  in  the  work  of  his  administration,  that, 
while  not  saving  him  from  some  criticism,  disarmed  in  the 
minds  of  a  great  majority  of  citizens  any  disposition  to  criti- 
cise and  won  him  general  applause.  He  sacrificed  to  a 
very  great  extent  a  lucrative  practice  that  he  might  give 
the  more  time  to  the  interests  of  any  citizen  having  a  claim 
upon  his  attention.  All  Massachusetts  knew  that  he  was 
the  mayor  of  Maiden  and  that  it  would  not  be  his  fault  if 


88  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

Maiden  did  not  have  the  best  administration  she  ever  had. 
The  tributes  of  the  press  and  the  outpouring  of  grief  and 
sympathy  which  attended  his  funeral  exercises,  and  the 
memorial  meetings  that  followed,  and  the  universal  desire 
to  honor  his  memory  in  other  ways  are  all  convincing  evi- 
dences of  the  respect  and  even  affection  with  which  he 
was  regarded. 

Doctor  Farrell  was  born  in  the  town  of  Webster.  His 
father  was  Thomas  Farrell,  whose  name  is  borne  by  the 
latest  school  building  in  the  town,  he  having  been  for  man}' 
years  a  public  servant ;  and  his  mother's  maiden  name  was 
Katharine  Thompson.  He  was  a  cousin  to  Judge  William 
Schofield,  whose  memory  Maiden  and  Massachusetts  de- 
light to  honor.  In  his  early  days  Mayor  Farrell  sold  news- 
papers and  did  odd  jobs  while  attending  school  and  during 
his  summer  vacations  worked  in  dry  goods  stores  in  Wor- 
cester. Leaving  the  high  school  he  came  to  Boston  and 
for  a  time  was  in  the  employ  of  The  Jordan  Marsh  Com- 
pany, his  room-mate,  also  a  native  of  Webster,  being  Mr. 
F.  N.  Joslin,  a  member  of  this  society.  He  was  a  good 
salesman,  and  often  won  the  prizes  for  records  of  sales  in 
his  department.  After  a  time  he  worked  in  the  dry  goods 
business  in  Providence  and  then  went  to  Jefferson  Medical 
College  in  Philadelphia,  graduating  as  class  president  and 
the  fifth  in  rank  in  a  membership  of  250.  His  brother, 
Reverend  James  J.  Farrell  was  then  curate  at  the  Immacu- 
late Conception  Church  in  Everett,  and  this  circumstance 
led  the  doctor  to  locate  in  Maiden  in  1895. 

For  awhile  Dr.  Farrell  lived  at  number  377  Highland 
avenue,  but  in  the  year  1900  he  purchased  the  estate  at 
the  corner  of  Pleasant  street  and  Highland  avenue  which 
was  his  home  for  the  rest  of  his  life.  In  1906  he  became  a 
member  of  the  school  board,  leading  the  ticket  with  2,651 


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votes.  The  following  year,  by  an  act  of  the  General 
Court,  the  membership  of  the  school  board  was  reduced 
from  nine  members  to  five  and  a  new  election  was  held, 
Dr.  Farrell  being  a  candidate  but  failing  to  be  elected. 
He  immediately  announced  that  he  would  run  for  the  office 
of  Mayor  the  following  year,  and  after  three  attempts  won 
the  election  as  stated  above. 

At  the  time  of  his  death.  Mayor  Farrell  was  a  mem- 
ber of  about  thirty  different  societies,  many  of  them  being 
medical  associations.  He  was  a  past  grand  knight  of  Santa 
Maria  Council  Knights  of  Columbus ;  supreme  physician 
of  the  Buffaloes,  N.  E.  O.  P.  ;  the  Massachusetts  Medical 
Society  ;  the  Jefferson  Medical  Society  ;  the  Maiden  Delib- 
erative Assembly ;  the  Maiden  Board  of  Trade  ;  an  hon- 
orary member  of  the  High  School  Literary  Society  ;  past 
president  of  the  Maiden  Medical  Society  ;  and  was  also  a 
member  of  the  William  S.  Forbes  Anatomical  League  ;  the 
W.  W.  Keen  Surgical  Society  ;  the  Ancient  Order  of  Hiber- 
nians ;  the  Massachusetts  Catholic  Order  of  Foresters  ;  the 
Ancient  Order  of  United  Workmen ;  the  Benevolent  and 
Protective  Order  of  Elks ;  the  Heptasophs,  and  other  organ- 
izations. He  was  past  president  of  many  of  these.  For 
sixteen  years  he  had  been  medical  examiner  for  the  Pru- 
dential Insurance  Company. 

The  survivors  of  Dr.  Farrell's  family  are  the  widow,  a 
son,  John  T.,  a  daughter,  Helen  Jeanette,  and  brothers. 
Rev.  James  J.  Farrell  of  Worcester,  and  Dr.  Henry  W., 
now  of  Maiden. 

By  his  official  life  he  certainly  fulfilled  his  ambition, 
as  expressed  to  his  eulogist  Harvey  L.  Boutwell,  Esq.,  at 
the  time  of  his  first  election:  "I  will  leave  a  good  record. 
The  people  of  Maiden  shall  know  that  I  can  be  a  good 
mayor.  The  best  monument  which  I  can  leave  to  my 
family  is  a  good  record  as  mayor  of  Maiden." 


^O  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

FRANK   HENRY   CHADWICK. 

Good  citizenship  never  had  a  finer  exemplification  than 
in  the  life  of  F.  Henry  Chadwick,  a  member  of  this  Society 
who  died  at  his  home  on  Mount  Vernon  street,  Maiden, 
February  17,  1914.  His  was  a  quiet  life,  the  life  of  a  man 
who  found  no  occasion  for  self-laudation  nor  self-exploita- 
tion, but  was  content  to  be  a  faithful,  useful  member  of  the 
community,  enjoying  to  the  full  its  educational,  musical 
and  religious  privileges ;  using  his  education  and  experi- 
ence as  an  accountant  for  a  single  Boston  firm  for  a  half- 
century  and  his  musical  gifts  as  an  aid  to  public  worship 
and  in  pointing  the  way  for  others  who  were  fortunate 
enough  to  be  able  to  make  a  profession  of  an  art  which  was 
for  him  an  avocation.  Thousands  of  graduates  of  the  New 
England  Conservatory  of  Music,  and  many  thousands  more 
who  have  been  inspired  and  profited  by  the  compositions 
of  its  director,  George  W.  Chadwick,  have  reason  to  bless 
the  memory  of  the  good  elder  brother  who  gave  the  future 
symphonist  his  first  piano  instruction. 

Mr.  Chadwick  was  in  his  74th  year.  He  was  born  in 
Boscawan,  New  Hampshire,  the  son  of  Alonzo  Calvin  and 
Hannah  (Fitts)  Chadwick.  His  father  was  a  native  of 
Boscawan  and  his  mother  of  Candia,  N.  H.  In  1864  he 
enlisted  from  Lawrence  as  a  private  in  the  Fourth  Massa- 
chusetts regiment,  and  served  under  Gen.  Banks  in  the 
Port  Hudson  campaign.  Returning,  he  resumed  his  posi- 
tion as  bookkeeper  for  the  hardware  firm  of  A.  J.  Wilkin- 
son &  Co.,  in  Boston  and  was  at  his  desk  within  a  week  of 
his  death. 

Mr.  Chadwick  was  a  member  of  the  official  board  of 
Centre  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  which  he  joined  some 
twenty   years  ago.      For  a  time  he  was  organist  of   the 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  9I 

church,  and  he  was  also  chairman  of  its  music  committee 
and  a  member  of  the  choir.  He  was  a  retired  member  of 
the  Amphion  Club  of  Melrose,  and  a  member  of  Hiram  G. 
Berry  Post  40,  G.  A.  R.,  as  also  of  its  glee  club. 

Mr.  Chadwick  married  in  Boston,  December  18,  1867, 
Harriet  Blanchard  Wheaton,  daughter  of  Mason  Wheaton, 
a  native  of  Providence,  R.  I.,  and  Julia  Ann  (Blanchard) 
Wheaton,  born  in  Antrim,  N.  H.  A  son  and  three  daugh- 
ters survive  him. 


WILLIAM   FREDERICK   CHESTER 

A  member  of  this  Society,  died  at  his  home,  39  Rock- 
land avenue,  Maiden,  April  25,  1913,  in  the  79th  year  of 
his  age. 

While  the  personnel  of  any  community  may  correctly 
be  said  to  be  made  up  of  average  men  and  women,  the 
term  "representative  men"  in  a  New  England  city  or  town, 
at  least,  has  come  to  mean  something  more.  It  means  men 
whose  lives  are  in  close  touch  with  the  municipal,  moral 
and  social  forces  of  their  home  city,  who  represent  the  best 
elements  of  each ;  and  in  this  high  sense  Mr.  Chester  was 
certainly  a  representative  man.  Born  in  Boston,  the  son 
of  John  and  Sally  Willington  Chester,  he  was  educated  in 
her  public  schools,  being  a  Franklin  medal  pupil  in  the  old 
Endicott  school  and  for  a  time  an  attendant  at  the  English 
High  School.  At  the  age  of  fourteen  he  learned  the  wood 
turning  business  in  which  he  established  himself  at  18  and 
21  Harvard  place,  Boston,  for  some  thirty  years,  moving 
to  55  Haverhill  street,  where  he  remained  until  a  year 
before  his  death. 

Fifty-four  years  ago  he  married  Miss  Matilda  Crosby 


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of  Wellfleet  and  he  made  his  home  in  Boston  and  East 
Somerville  until  his  purchase  of  the  house  on  Rockland 
avenue,  Maiden,  where  he  spent  the  rest  of  his  life.  Mrs. 
Chester  and  a  son,  Marshall  F.  Chester,  survive  him. 

On  coming  to  Maiden,  Mr.  Chester  immediately  be- 
came active  in  the  social,  religious  and  political  life  of  the 
town.  He  served  occasionally  as  moderator  in  town  meet- 
ings, was  a  member  and  Chairman  of  the  Board  of  Select- 
men, and  a  representative  to  the  General  Court  in  which 
position  he  aided  in  securing  a  city  charter  for  Maiden. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Water  Board  of  Maiden  and  for 
a  time  its  Chairman.  While  in  the  Legislature  he  served 
on  the  committees  on  towns  and  public  charities.  He  was 
very  prominent  in  Masonic  circles,  holding  important  posi- 
tions in  various  branches  of  the  order,  and  was  a  member 
of  the  Post  40,  G.  A.  R.  Associates.  For  several  decades 
he  served  as  an  usher  in  the  Centre  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church,  of  which  he  was  a  member.  He  had  a  long  term 
of  service  as  an  official  member  of  the  church,  being  at  the 
time  of  his  death,  with  a  single  exception,  the  senior  member 
of  the  board  of  trustees. 


MRS.  CAROLINE   M.  FRENCH. 

Caroline  M.  (Starbird)  French  was  born  in  Boston 
Jan.  7,  1833.  Her  parents  were  Nathaniel  Watson  and 
Mary  (Delver)  Starbird.  She  attended  the  public  schools 
of  Boston  (old  Bowdoin  School)  and  upon  moving  to  Mai- 
den with  her  parents  in  1848  attended  school  here  for  a 
time,  later  going  to  the  academy  at  Framingham. 

Much  of  her  early  life  was  devoted  to  the  study  of 
music  and  at  seven  years  of  age  she  possessed  her  first 


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MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  93 

piano.  Lowell  Mason  was  her  first  teacher  and  later  she 
passed  on  to  other  teachers  until  she  became  quite  profi- 
cient as  a  player  of  piano  and  organ.  Always  an  ardent 
Unitarian  and  having  attended  Dr.  Barrett's  church  while 
in  Boston  she  helped  to  form  the  Unitarian  Society  of  Mai- 
den where  for  several  years  she  was  organist. 

In  185 1  she  was  married  to  Dr.  Nathan  French  by  her 
former  pastor  in  Boston,  Dr.  James  Walker,  afterward 
President  of  Harvard  College. 

She  was  much  interested  in  the  early  welfare  of  Mai- 
den and  gave  much  time  to  the  local  associations  of  those 
days.  She  joined  this  Society  many  years  ago.  During 
the  war  she  was  one  of  the  secretares  of  the  Soldiers'  Aid. 
Of  late  years  she  was  unable  to  work  actively  but  always 
retained  an  interest  in  the  progress  of  the  times.  She 
passed  away  December  8,  191 2  and  was  buried  at  Mount 
Auburn. 


ROBERT   CUSHMAN   KING. 

Robert  Cushman  King,  long  a  member  of  this  Society, 
died  at  his  home  at  47  Francis  street,  Maiden,  on  May  4th, 
1913,  leaving  a  widow  and  two  children. 

The  son  of  Caleb  and  Ann  E.  King,  he  was  born  in 
Mattapoiset,  Mass.,  July  17,  1855.  His  boyhood  was 
spent  in  the  town  of  Duxbury,  Mass.,  where  he  received 
his  education  in  the  public  schools  and  academy.  He  later 
attended  the  Bryant  and  Stratton  school  in  Boston  and  soon 
after  entering  upon  his  business  career  became  a  bookkeeper 
for  Thomas  E.  Procter,  a  Boston  leather  merchant  whose 
business  was  subsequently  merged  with  the  United  States 
Leather  Co.  Of  this  company  Mr.  King  became  cashier 
and  later  credit  man.     He  was  a  member  of  the  Boot  and 


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MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 


Shoe  Club,  and  at  one  time  a  director  of  the  Shoe  and 
Leather  Association  of  Boston. 

While  still  a  young  man,  Mr.  King  moved  to  Maiden, 
where  he  lived  with  his  parents  on  Summer  street.  In 
1883  he  married  Ellen  Holbrook  Wellman,  daughter  of  the 
Rev.  Joshua  W.  Wellman,  D.  D.,  former  pastor  of  the 
Congregational  Church,  and  built  a  house  at  47  Francis 
street,  where  he  resided  until  his  death,  having  been  a  res- 
ident of  this  city  for  nearly  forty  years. 

Almost  from  the  time  of  his  coming  to  Maiden,  Mr. 
King  belonged  to  the  Congregational  Church,  taking  a 
deep  interest  in  its  affairs  and  also  was  a  member  of  the 
Congregational  Club  of  Boston. 

Mr.  King  always  retained  his  boyhood  affection  for 
Duxbury,  where  for  the  last  ten  years  he  has  had  a  sum- 
mer residence,  and  where  he  is  buried. 


DAVID   BARNES  PITMAN. 

David  Barnes  Pitman,  a  member  of  this  Society,  died 
in  Boston,  March  17,  1913,  at  the  age  of  forty-nine  years. 
Mr.  Pitman  was  for  his  lifetime  one  of  the  most  active  men 
in  Maiden,  and  few  of  its  citizens  were  better  known.  He 
had  a  great  capacity  for  friendship,  and  was  never  more 
happy  than  when  he  was  able  to  do  service  for  any  one  of 
the  large  circle  of  his  acquaintances.  His  profession  was 
accounting,  and  for  many  years  he  held  the  position  of  chief 
clerk  in  the  office  of  the  auditor  of  passenger  accounts  of  the 
Boston  &  Maine  Railroad.  Several  years  ago  he  became 
ill  and  never  fully  recovered  his  health.  About  three  months 
before  his  death  he  was  stricken  with  pneumonia,  and 
although  apparently  rallying  from  that  disease,  a  trouble  of 


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MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  95 

the  heart  followed  which  was  the  ultimate  cause  of  his 
death.  He  was  the  son  of  John  W.  and  Anna  M.  Pitman. 
For  many  years  he  was  very  active  in  the  Centre  Meth- 
odist Episcopal  Church,  holding  various  offices  in  the  Sun- 
day school,  but  in  his  later  years  he  had  other  religious 
affiliations.  He  was  a  great  lover  of  music  and  displayed 
a  good  deal  of  talent  in  executive  capacities  connected  with 
musical  and  literary  entertainments.  For  a  long  time  he 
was  a  prominent  member  of  the  Amphion  Club  of  Mel- 
rose, and  at  one  time  its  president.  Two  sisters  and  three 
brothers  survived  him. 


JESSE   WARREN  SARGENT. 

Jesse  W.  Sargent,  a  member  of  this  Society,  died  sud- 
denly while  attending  a  service  with  his  fellow  members  of 
the  Beauseant  Commandery  of  the  Knights  Templar  at  the 
First  Universalist  Church  in  Maiden,  on  Sunday,  April  12, 
1914.  The  pastor  of  the  church.  Rev.  Dr.  Sykes,  was 
preaching  the  occasional  sermon  to  the  organization,  and 
was  not  informed  of  Mr.  Sargent's  death  until  near  the  end 
of  the  service,  when  in  fitting  words  he  made  the  announce- 
ment to  the  congregation.  The  sermon  itself,  as  was 
pointed  out  in  the  press  on  the  following  day,  was  most 
appropriate,  for  under  the  theme  "It  is  raised  a  spiritual 
body,"  the  preacher  had  dealt  with  the  permanent  and 
transitory  things  of  life.  The  death  was  due  to  heart  dis- 
ease, and  it  is  assumed  was  hastened  by  fatigue  caused  by 
the  march  of  the  commandery  to  the  church. 

Mr.  Sargent  was  fifty-four  years  of  age,  was  a  native 
of  Gloucester,  his  parents  being  Solomon  and  Charlotte 
Plumer  Sargent.  There  are  two  Sargent  families  which 
originated  on  Cape  Ann,  both  founders  having   come  to 


^6  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

these  shores  very  early  in  the  history  of  New  England,  and 
the  families  have  been  represented  by  famous  soldiers, 
scholars,  authors  and  artists,  among  them  being  Col.  Epes 
Sargent ;  his  nephew,  Epes  Sargent,  whose  school  readers 
were  famous  a  generation  ago,  and  who  wrote  "A  Life  on 
the  Ocean  Wave" ;  Judith  Sargent  Murray,  the  colonel's 
daughter,  who  married  Rev.  John  Murray,  the  apostle  of 
Universalism  in  this  country,  and  was  his  biographer; 
Lucius  Manlius  Sargent,  a  famous  Boston  business  man 
and  publicist,  and  his  son.  Prof.  Charles  S.  Sargent  of  Har- 
vard University  ;  Gen.  Horace  Binney  Sargent  and  John  S. 
Sargent,  whose  famous  mural  decorations  adorn  the  Boston 
Public  Library,  and  whose  portraits  are  world  famous. 

After  obtaining  his  schooling  in  his  native  town  Mr. 
Sargent  engaged  in  mercantile  pursuits,  later  entering  the 
drug  business,  and  graduating  from  the  Massachusetts  Col- 
lege of  Pharmacy  in  1889.  Coming  to  Maiden  about  thirty 
years  ago,  he  worked  for  his  brother-in-law,  Mr.  A.  B. 
Morgan,  for  a  few  years,  then  purchased  what  was  known 
as  Learned's  pharmacy  on  Pleasant  street  near  Commer- 
cial. When  Holmes  Block  on  Summer  street  was  erected 
he  moved  to  the  store  which  he  has  conducted  for  so  many 
years.  He  was  president  of  the  Eastern  Middlesex  Drug- 
gists' Association  ;  a  member  of  the  Stirling  and  Mount 
Vernon  lodges  of  Masons,  and  many  other  Masonic 
bodies ;  of  the  Middlesex  Lodge  of  Odd  Fellows ;  the 
Spartan  Lodge  of  the  Knights  of  Pythias  and  the  Glouces- 
ter Council  of  the  Royal  Arcanum.  A  widow  and  three 
brothers  survive  him.  He  was  a  man  whom  to  know  was 
to  respect,  as  was  abundantly  shown  in  the  confidence  re- 
posed in  him  by  the  business  men  who  aided  him  in  putting 
his  business  on  a  secure  foundation,  by  the  medical  pro- 
fession and  his  professional  associates,  and  by  the  large 
public  who  were  his  customers. 


Jhe  j^egister 

of  the 

Maiden  J^istorical  Society 

Maiden,  Massachusetts 

Number  four 


THE  REGISTER 


OF    THE 


MQidGR  Historical  SociGty 


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MALDEN,  MASSACHUSETTS 


NUMBER  4 


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Edited  Du  the  Comn^ittee  on  PuDlication 


I.YMN,  MASS. 

Frank  S.  Whitten,  Printilk 
igi6 


FORM  OF  BEOyEST 


I  bequeath  the  sum  of dollars  to 

the  Maiden  Historical  Society,  incorporated  under  the  laws 
of  the  Commonwealth  of  Massachusetts,  and  direct  that 
the  receipt  of  the  Treasurer  of  the  said  Society  shall  be  a 
release  to  my  estate  and  to  its  executors  from  further  liability 
under  said  bequest. 


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TABLE   OF  CONTENTS 


Page 

Joshua  Wyman  Wellman  (portrait) Frontispiece 

Form  of  Bequest    ...••••••  ^ 

Joshua  Wjman  Wellman 5 

The  Old  Hill  Tavern  and  its  Occupants,    George  Waller 

Chamberlain  .....••••  H 

Methodist  Beginnings  in  Maiden 3° 

Reminiscences  of   North  Maiden  (Melrose)  and  Vicinity, 

Hon.  Levi  S.  Gould       ....•••  "5 

The  Harrison  Funeral  Celebration 85 

The   Dearborn    Willard    Family    of    Maiden,    Erskine    F. 

Bickford ^^ 

Inscriptions  in  the  Bell  Rock  Cemetery  (Continued)  Tran- 
scribed by  the  late  Deloraine  Pendre  Corey  .         .         .  91 

The  Register 

Officers 100 

Committees 1°' 

By-Laws i°2 

Members,  1915-1916 105 

Necrologies 

Frederick  N.  Joslin i" 

Joshua  Howard  Millett  (portrait)           ....  112 

Wellington  Phillips  (portrait) 116 


JOSHUA   WYMAN   WELLMAN. 

Vice  President  of  this  Society  from  its  incorporation. 


Joshua  Wyman  Wellman  was  born  November  28, 
1821,  in  Cornish,  New  Hampshire,  and  died  in  Maiden, 
September  28,  1915.  His  father.  Deacon  James  Ripley 
Wellman,  owned  a  farm  on  the  hills  some  miles  back  from 
the  Connecticut  river,  and  on  this  farm  the  son  was  born 
and  grew  to  manhood.  By  hard  work  on  the  farm  he 
gathered  strength  of  body  and  mind.  He  never  lost  his 
liking  for  farm  life  and  all  its  beauties.  He  loved  animals 
and  was  indignant  at  cruelty  to  them.  The  memory  of 
brooks,  fields,  and  hills  was  always  a  delight  to  him  and 
often  in  his  last  days  at  the  mention  of  Ascutney  or  Croy- 
den  Mountain,  his  face  would  brighten. 

The  father,  James  Ripley  Wellman,  was  the  grandson 
of  Reverend  James  Wellman,  the  first  minister  in  Cornish. 
Reverend  James  Wellman,  graduated  at  Harvard  in  1744 
and  was  the  son  of  Abraham  Wellman,  who  died  at  the 
siege  of  Louisberg,  Cape  Breton,  Nova  Scotia.  Abraham 
Wellman,  was  the  grandson  of  Thomas  Wellman,  who 
settled  in  what  is  now  Lynnfield,  Massachusetts,  about 
1640. 

Through  his  mother,  Phebe  Wyman  Wellman,  Joshua 
Wyman  Wellman,  was  descended  from  Francis  Wyman, 
Ezekiel  Richardson  and  Samuel  Richardson,  all  early 
settlers  of  Woburn,  Massachusetts. 

Through  his  grandmother,  Alethea  (Ripley)  Well- 
man,  he  was  descended  from  Governor  Bradford  and  Elder 
William  Brewster  of    Plymouth.       William    Ripley,    the 


6  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY. 

father  of  his  grandmother,  Alethea  Ripley,  was  a  sergeant 
in  Stark's  Brigade  in  the  Rev^olutionary  War. 

As  a  boy,  he  attended  the  public  schools  in  Cornish 
until  he  was  fifteen  years  of  age,  fitted  for  college  at  Kim- 
ball Union  Academy,  and  graduated  from  Dartmouth  Col- 
lege in  1846,  giving  the  Latin  Oration  at  his  commencement. 

He  was  a  member  of  Kappa,  Kappa,  Kappa,  and 
Phi  Beta  Kappa. 

Among  his  classmates  were  George  T.  Angell  of 
Boston,  Hon.  Benjamin  F.  Ayer  of  Chicago,  Dr.  J.  Whitney 
Barstow  of  New  York,  Judge  Isaac  W.  Smith  of  Man- 
chester, New  Hampshire,  Hon.  Moses  T.  Stevens  of 
Andover,  Massachusetts,  and  Rev.  Alonzo  H.  Quint,  D.  D. 
of  Boston.  His  college  ties  were  strong  and  he  was  always 
a  loyal  son  of  Dartmouth.  At  the  time  of  his  death  he 
was  one  of  the  oldest  living  graduates.  In  the  winter  of 
1838,  at  the  age  of  seventeen,  Mr.  Wellman  taught  school 
in  Hartford,  Vermont,  and  later  during  his  college  course, 
in  Upton  and  East  Randolph,  Massachusetts.  From  1846- 
1849  he  taught  a  part  of  each  year  in  Kimball  Union 
Academy  and  in  1847  was  principal  of  the  Academy  in 
Rochester,  Massachusetts. 

Entering  Andover  Theological  Seminary  in  1847,  he 
graduated  in  1850,  and  during  the  year  following  was  a 
resident  licentiate.  He  was  licensed  to  preach  by  the 
Suffolk  North  Association  in  Boston,  April  9,  1850. 

He  was  ordained  to  the  ministry  and  installed  pastor 
of  the  First  Church  in  Derry,  New  Hampshire,  June  18, 
185 1,  where  he  remained  five  years.  He  was  installed 
pastor  of  the  Eliot  church,  Newton,  Massachusetts,  June 
II,  1856,  and  was  dismissed  October  23,  1873.  March  25, 
1874,  h^  became  pastor  of  the  First  Church  of  Christ,  in 
Maiden,  from  which  position  he  retired  May  6,  1883.      He 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY.  7 

never  again  was  settled,  but  continued  to  preach  in  various 
parts  of  New  England  for  many  years.  He  resided  in 
Maiden  until  the  time  of  his  death. 

In  the  spring  of  1862  he  went  with  his  brother-in-law, 
Dr.  Alfred  Hitchcock  of  Fitchburg,  a  member  of  Governor 
Andrew's  Council,  to  the  scene  of  conflict  in  the  South. 
They  visited  Fortress  Monroe,  Yorktown,  were  at  the 
headquarters  of  General  McClellan,  and  saw  much  of  the 
horrors  of  war.  Dr.  Hitchcock,  being  a  noted  surgeon, 
worked  in  the  hospitals,  where  there  was  at  the  time  great 
need  of  skillful  surgeons,  and  Mr.  Wellman  assisted  him. 
While  with  the  army,  Mr.  Wellman  was  shocked  to  learn 
that  the  son  of  an  intimate  friend  and  member  of  his  church 
in  Newton,  for  whom  he  was  inquiring,  had  just  been 
killed  in  battle.  Mr.  Wellman  returned  to  Newton  and 
conducted  the  funeral  services  of  the  young  soldier  in 
Eliot  church. 

All  these  experiences  made  a  deep  impression  on  Mr. 
Wellman,  and  not  long  after  his  return  he  preached  a  war 
sermon  on  the  subject  "  Our  Nation  Under  the  Government 
of  God."  This  sermon  excited  much  criticism,  the 
preacher  was  bitterly  attacked  and  threats  were  made  that 
he  must  leave  his  pulpit.  In  the  sermon  slavery  was 
opposed,  but  the  position  was  taken  that  whatever  one's 
views  as  to  slavery  might  be,  it  was  the  duty  of  every  loyal 
citizen  to  rally  to  save  the  country  and  to  this  end  arming 
the  slaves  was  urged.  The  larger  part  of  the  congrega- 
tion soon  came  to  the  support  of  their  pastor  in  his  patriotic 
work,  and  twenty-seven  young  men  from  the  parish 
enlisted  in  the  army. 

During  Mr.  Wellman's  Newton  pastorate,  Eliot  church 
grew  to  be  large  and  prominent  and  a  new  meetinghouse 
was  erected. 


8  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY. 

Mr.  Wellman  was  a  lover  of  books.  He  took  a  deep 
interest  in  establishing  the  Newton  Public  Library  and 
made  an  address  when  the  library  building  was  opened. 
After  coming  to  reside  in  Maiden  he  became  interested  in 
the  Maiden  Public  Library  and  took  part  in  the  exercises 
at  the  dedication  of  the  Converse  Memorial  Building. 

At  Maiden  Dr.  Wellman  became  pastor  of  an  old  his- 
toric church  which  had  numbered  among  its  preachers 
many  noted  men,  including  Marmaduke  Matthews,  Michael 
Wigglesworth,  author  of  "The  Day  of  Doom,"  Adoniram 
Judson,  Sr.,  Alexander  W.  McClure  and  others.  During 
his  ministry  in  Maiden  the  church  was  built  up  in  every 
way  and  he  left  it  a  strong  and  working  organization. 

Dr.  Wellman  was  a  delegate  to  the  famous  Council 
called  by  Plymouth  Church,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.  in  February, 
1876.  This  Council  took  up  the  charges  which  had  been 
made  against  Henry  Ward  Beecher,  found  that  they  had 
not  been  sustained  by  proof  and  that  therefore  Beecher 
must  be  held  innocent.  Dr.  Wellman  took  a  prominent  part 
in  this  Council.  While  he  did  not  agree  in  all  respects 
with  Beecher's  views  as  to  theology  and  many  other  matters, 
it  seemed  to  him  that  these  questions  were  not  in  issue,  and 
that  Beecher  was  entitled  to  be  judged  on  the  evidence  as 
to  his  guilt  or  innocence.  Dr.  Wellman  considered  care- 
fully all  the  evidence  presented,  and  even  sought  informa- 
tion wherever  he  could  get  it,  with  the  result  that  the  find- 
ing of  the  Council  met  his  hearty  approval.  In  a  speech 
at  the  close  of  the  Council  Dr.  Wellman  said  "  I  believe 
the  time  is  coming  and  coming  soon  when  this  scandal  and 
all  these  misrepresentations  and  suspicions  will  be  swept 
away  and  this  pastor  will  be  left  free  to  work  and  toil  here 
in  joy  and  hope."  For  the  stand  he  took  in  this  matter 
Dr.   Wellman  was  severely  criticised    both   in  the  public 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY.  9 

press  and  in  private  conversation.  Some  of  his  best  friends 
felt  that  he  had  made  a  serious  mistake,  but  time  has  fully- 
justified  his  views.  He  lived  to  see  Beecher  greatly  hon- 
ored and  those  who  attacked  him  well  nigh  forgotten. 

Dr.  Wellman  was  for  many  years  a  trustee  of  Phillips 
Academy,  Andover,  and  was  deeply  interested  in  the 
Andover  Theological  Seminary.  There  came  to  be  a 
feeling  that  the  teaching  in  the  Seminary  was  not  in  accord 
with  the  provisions  of  some  of  the  deeds  of  gift.  In  this 
feeling  Dr.  Wellman  shared.  Complaint  was  made  to  the 
Board  of  Visitors,  who  after  lengthy  hearings  removed 
one  of  the  professors  from  his  office.  On  appeal  to  the 
Supreme  Court  however,  the  removal  was  held  to  be  void 
(Chief  Justice  Field  dissenting)  because  the  visitors  had 
not  complied  with  all  the  provisions  of  law  in  conducting 
their  hearings.  The  fundamental  proposition  for  which 
Dr.  Wellman  contended  in  the  Andover  case  was  that 
where  funds  are  left  in  trust  for  specified  charitable  pur- 
poses those  purposes  should  be  strictly  carried  out,  and  it  is 
not  for  trustees  to  use  funds  committed  to  their  care  con- 
trary to  the  express  directions  of  the  donor,  even  though 
they  feel  that  they  can  improve  on  the  plan  set  forth  in  the 
deed  of  trust. 

During  the  Civil  War  the  sharp  dissension  over  the 
questions  involved,  much  disturbed  the  friendly  relations 
which  had  previously  existed  between  the  Congregational 
clergymen  in  Boston  and  vicinit}^  After  the  close  of  the 
war,  Dr.  Wellman  believed  something  should  be  done  to 
bring  the  ministers  into  more  friendly  relations  and  to  this 
end  he  proposed  a  weekly  ministers'  meeting.  The  first 
meeting  was  held  April  6,  1868,  and  Dr.  Wellman  pre- 
sided. This  was  the  beginning  of  the  ministers'  meetings 
which  have  continued  to  be  held  to  the  present  time. 


lO  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY. 

In  1869  Dr.  Wellman  brought  before  the  ministers' 
meeting  the  plan  of  forming  a  Congregational  Club.  The 
meeting  acted  favorably  upon  the  project  and  Dr.  Well- 
man,  with  others,  was  appointed  on  a  committee  which 
later  made  a  report  recommending  the  formation  of  the 
club  and  a  form  of  orgranization.  Dr.  Wellman  became 
one  of  the  original  members  and  remained  a  member  until 
the  time  of  his  death,  being  the  last  survivor  of  the  original 
members  of  the  club. 

From  his  early  years  Dr.  Wellman  was  much  inter- 
ested in  missions.  This  may  have  partly  come  about 
because  his  great-uncle,  Colonel  James  Ripley,  married  a 
sister  of  Samuel  J.  Mills  (known  as  the  father  of  foreign 
missions  in  America),  and  Mr.  Wellman  saw  much  of  his 
aunt  during  his  early  life.  He  was  elected  a  corporate 
member  of  the  American  Board  in  1867  and  at  the  time  of 
his  death  had  been  longer  a  corporate  member  than  any 
other  person  living. 

Dr.  Wellman  was  deeply  impressed  with  the  inade- 
quacy of  compensation  given  to  many  clergymen  and  the 
need  of  reform  in  this  matter.  He  was  for  a  long  time  a 
member  of  the  Board  of  Ministerial  Aid  in  Massachusetts, 
serving  on  its  executive  committee.  He  gave  much  time 
and  thought  to  the  matter  and  made  numerous  addresses 
on  the  subject  of  aid  to  clergymen  and  kindred  topics. 

Dr.  Wellman  believed  one  should  always  be  search- 
ing for  the  truth  with  an  open  mind  and  should  follow 
the  light  wherever  it  led.  He  was  slow  in  forming  an 
opinion,  earnest  and  painstaking  in  seeking  to  get  all  the 
facts  ;  but  when  he  had  reached  a  conclusion  did  not  readily 
change  it.  If  the  matter  seemed  to  be  of  importance  he 
would  make  great  sacrifices  to  uphold  what  he  felt  to  be 
the  right.      Had   he   lived  in   the   days  of   persecution   he 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY.  II 

would  have  died  a  martyr  rather  than  yield  his  convictions. 
He  felt  that  a  strong  character  was  not  created  in  a  brief 
period  of  excitement,  but  was  the  slow  growth  of  years. 
He  was  convinced  that  the  gospel  of  Jesus  Christ  was 
needful  for  the  salvation  of  sinful  men,  that  the  lasting 
uplift  of  the  world  could  only  come  through  an  increase  in 
the  number  of  men  filled  with  a  passion  for  righteousness 
and  justice,  and  that  such  men  could  only  be  produced 
under  the  influence  of  the  Christian  religion. 

He  received  the  degree  of  D.  D.  from  Olivet  College 
in  1868  and  from  Dartmouth  College  in  1870. 

He  v/as  for  many  years  one  of  the  managers  of  the 
Congregational  Sunday  School  and  Publishing  Society, 
and  later  a  Trustee.  He  was  a  director  of  the  Congrega- 
tional Education  Society  and  on  his  retirement  from  active 
work  was  made  an  honorary  director  for  life. 

He  was  a  member  of  the  New  England  Historic 
Genealogical  Society,  of  the  Royal  Historical  Society  of 
London,  of  the  General  Theological  Library  in  Boston,  of 
the  Bunker  Hill  Monument  Association  and  of  the  Winthrop 
Club.  He  was  for  a  time  a  trustee  of  the  Pinkerton 
Academy  in  Derry,  New  Hampshire.  He  was  one  of  the 
founders  of  the  Maiden  Historical  Society,  having  been 
vice  president  from  the  beginning  until  the  time  of  his 
death.      Among  his  published  works  are  the  following  : 

1.  Church  Polity  of  the  Pilgrims.      1857. 

2.  Review  of  the  Sabbath  Hymn  Book.      1859. 

3.  The  Organic  Development  of  Christianity  in  the 

Direction  of  Education  and  Learning.  (An 
address  delivered  before  the  Society  for  Pro- 
motion of  Collegiate  and  Theological  Educa- 
tion in  the  West.)      i860. 


12  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

4.  Our  Nation  Under  the  Government  of  God.     (A 

war  sermon  preached  in  Eliot  Church,  New- 
ton.)    1854. 

5.  Christianity  and  Our  Civil  Institutions.      1870. 

6.  Sermon  in  Memory  of  John  C.  Potter.      1870. 

7.  Address    at   the  Opening  of    the  Newton  Free 

Public  Library.      1871. 

8.  Sketch    of    Life    of    Reverend  James    Monroe 

Bacon.      1875. 

9.  A  Sermon  in  Memory  of  Mrs.  Maria  Brigham 

Furber.      1883. 

10.  The  Transcendent  Value  of  the  Christan  Sanc- 

tury.  (A  sermon  preached  at  the  rededication 
of  the  meetinghouse,  First  Church  of  Derry, 
N.  H.)     1885. 

11.  Review  of    Dr.  A.  V.  G.  Allen's  Biography  of 

Jonathan  Edwards.      1890. 

12.  Argument   in  the  Andover  Case,   published    in 

"The  Andover  Case,"  1887. 

13.  "The    Question  at  Issue  in  the  Andover  Case." 

Arguments  by  Rev.  O.  T.  Lamphear  and 
Rev.  Joshua  W.  Wellman,  1893. 

14.  The  Ecclesiastical  History  of  Maiden.    Published 

in  the  History  of  Middlesex  County.      1890. 

15.  Historical  Discourse  delivered  on  the  Two  Hun- 

dred and  Fiftieth  Anniversary  of  the  First 
Church  in  Maiden.      1899. 

16.  Origin    and    Early    History    of    Eliot    Church, 

Newton.     A  sermon  preached  in  1870,  pub- 
lished in  1904. 
Dr.  Wellman   was   much   interested  in  the  history  of 
the  Wellman  Family  and  did  much  work  with  a  view  toward 
publishing  such  a  history,  but  was  not  able  to  do  so  before 
his  death. 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  I3 

Dr.  Wellman  was  married  October  24,  1854  ^^  Ellen 
Maria  Holbrook,  daughter  of  Caleb  Strong  Holbrook  and 
Prudence  (Durfee)  Holbrook  of  East  Randolph,  now 
Holbrook,  Massachusetts.  There  were  four  children ; 
Arthur  H.  Wellman,  Ellen  H.  Wellman  (Mrs.  Robert  C. 
King),  now  living,  and  Edward  W.  Wellman  and  Annie 
Durfee  Wellman,  deceased. 


14  MALDEN    HISTORICAI.    SOCIETY 


THE  OLD  HILL  TAVERN  AND  ITS  OCCUPANTS 

By  George  Walter  Chamberlain,  M.  S. 


Through  the  courtesy  of  Mrs.  Emeline  M.  Sprague  I 
am  permitted  to  use  the  following  materials  which  were 
originally  prepared  for  her. 

On  Friday  27,  November,  1914,  there  was  demolished 
the  oldest  house  which  has  recently  stood  within  the 
present  limits  of  the  City  of  Maiden.  From  1857  to  1914 
it  stood  just  south  of  the  City  Hall  on  Irving  street  and  was 
known  to  a  former  generation  as  the  Hill  Tavern.  It  was 
originally  located  on  the  site  of  the  City  Hall  where  it  stood 
from  about  1725  to  1857.  In  the  latter  year  it  was  removed 
from  its  original  site  to  Irving  street  to  make  room  for  the 
new  Town  Hall  then  about  to  be  erected  in  Maiden  Square. 
Through  almost  two  centuries  it  stood  and  during  the  first 
century  of  its  existence  it  was  the  best  known  landmark  in 
town,  except  the  Bell  Rock  Meeting  House,  standing  near 
the  center  of  the  ancient  township.  Its  history  is  asso- 
ciated with  the  very  beginning  of  the  settlement  of  Maiden. 

Abraham  Hill,  a  carpenter  by  trade,  appeared  among 
the  early  settlers  of  Charlestown  as  early  as  1636.  He 
united  with  the  First  Church  of  Charlestown,  3  June,  1639. 
In  1638  the  Charlestown  proprietors  granted  him  five  lots 
of  land,  one  of  which  was  situated  "  in  mistick  feilde," 
which  later  formed  a  part  of  the  town  of  Maiden.  About 
1646  he  removed  from  his  first  home  which  was  on  the 
"  south  side  of  mill  hill  "  between  "  crookede  lane  "  and 
"  midle  streete  "  in  Charlestown  to  Maiden.     His  Maiden 


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house  he  erected  on  or  near  where  the  City  Hall  now  stands, 
on  the  easterly  side  of  the  Great  road  (Main  street)  near 
its  junction  with  the  Medford  road  (Pleasant  street),  then 
called  "the  way  to  Coytmore's  mill."  (Corey's  History  of 
Maiden,  117.) 

His  farm  extended  from  Pemberton's  brook  along  the 
southerly  side  of  the  Great  road  to  the  Salem  road  —  from 
Main  street  to  Salem  street.  Pemberton's  brook  still  runs 
along  the  Saugus  Branch  of  the  Boston  and  Maine  Rail- 
road. On  the  northwest  side  from  his  house  Three  Mile 
brook  crossed  the  way  to  the  mill  and  at  this  point  in 
Pleasant  street  there  was  early  erected  a  rude  bridge  called 
Hill's  bridge.  On  the  bank  of  Three  Mile  brook  near 
where  the  present  Police  Station  stands,  Thomas  Coyt- 
more  erected  a  corn-mill  prior  to  27  August,  1641. 

Abraham  Hill  rented  and  was  the  keeper  of  this  mill 
from  1646  to  1656  or  longer.  Down  from  the  mill-pond 
(now  Coytmore  Lea)  through  a  wooden  sluce-way  the 
waters  were  taken  to  grind  the  wheat  and  corn  of  all  of  the 
inhabitants  who  dwelt  on  the  north  side  of  the  Mystic 
between  Pullen  Point  and  the  northern  bounds  of  Reading. 
Out  of  each  bushel  of  grain  he  took  his  toll  for  grinding. 

At  length  the  town  "being  destitute  of  an  Ordinarie 
Keeper"  the  Court  "licensed  him  to  keep  an  Ordinarie  in 
Maiden,"  23  June,  1657,  and  he  and  his  widow  Sarah 
appear  to  have  continued  to  keep  Hill's  Ordinary  from  1657 
to  1679  —  a  period  of  about  twenty-two  years. 

According  to  his  deposition  he  was  born  about  1605, 
undoubtedly  in  England  and  he  appears  to  have  been  very 
closely  associated  both  in  Charlestown  and  in  Maiden  with 
Thomas  Coytmore  and  his  wife  Martha. 

Mr.  Hill  died  in  Maiden,  13  February  1669/70,  aged 
about  65  years.      He  married    about    1639,    Sarah   Long 


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daughter  of  Robert  Long  of  Charlestown  and  she  survived 
him.  In  1705  Nathaniel  Ball  testified  that  he  had  lived 
with  Abraham  Hill  at  the  mill  fifty-nine  years  before, 
which  indicates  that  Mr.  Hill  was  keeper  of  the  Coytmore 
mill  in  Maiden  as  early  as  1646.  (Wyman's  Charlestown 
Families). 

In  1664  Abraham  Hill  obtained  letters  patent  for  "  a 
new  way  of  making  of  a  gun  or  pistoll,  the  breech  whereof 
rises  upon  a  hindge  by  a  contrivance  of  a  motion  from 
under  it,  by  which  it  is  also  let  downe  againe  and  bolted 
fast  by  one  and  the  same  motion."  (New  England  His- 
torical and  Genealogical  Register,  33:351.)  It  appears 
that  in  1664  there  was  only  the  Maiden  Abraham  Hill 
living  in  New  England  but  whether  the  inventor  lived  in 
Maiden  or  in  Old  England  is  a  matter  for  further  investi- 
gation. 

Among  the  first  English  children  to  play  about  Maiden 
Square  over  two  and  half  centuries  ago  were  the  following 
children  of  Abraham  and  Sarah  (Long)  Hill : 

I.     Ruth  Hill,  b,  2  June  1640;  m.  7  Oct.  1659,  ^^ 
Maiden,  William  Augur  (Eager). 
2.     II.     Isaac    Hill,  b.    29    Oct.    1641  ;  bapt.    at   the 
Charlestown  First  Church,  31  Oct.  1641. 

III.  Abraham  Hill,  Jr.,  b.  i  Oct.  1643. 

IV.  Zachary  Hill. 

V.  Sarah  Hill,  b.  19  Aug.  1647  ;  d. — Oct.  1649. 

VI.  Sarah  Hill,  b.  —Oct.  1649,  in  Maiden. 

VII.  Mary  Hill,  b.  May  1652,  in  Maiden. 

VIII.  Jacob  Hill,  b.  — March  1656/7,  in  Maiden. 

2.  Isaac  Hill  (Abraham^)  was  b.  29  Oct.  1641  ;  d. 
in  Maiden,  prior  to  23  Feb.  17 20/1.  He  m.  (i)  at  Maiden, 
—  June    1666,    Hannah    Hayward     (Haward,     Howard) 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  l7 

daughter  of  Samuel  Hay  ward  (Howard)  of  Maiden.  He 
removed  to  Cambridge  where  his  wife  d.  25  April  1679. 
He  m.  (2)  12  Jan.  1679/80,  Sarah  Bicknell  (Bicknal). 
He  returned  to  Maiden  about  1682  and  was  living  here  in 
1704,  when  he  and  his  brother  made  a  deposition  as  fol- 
lows : 

"  Isaac  Hill  of  maiden  Aged  about  sixty-three  yeeres 
and  Abraham  hill  about  sixty-one  Testifieth  and  saith  y* 
their  father  Abraham  Hill  was  tennent  and  keeper  of  y^ 
corn-mill  in  maiden  formerly  belonging  to  m"^  Thomas 
Coitmore  at  y^  time  of  m""  John  Coggains  marrige  with  y® 
widdow  wintrope  formerly  ye  widdow  Coitmore.  And  y* 
after  said  Coggins  marria  :  w^^  s*^  wido  :  he  y^  s<^  Abraham 
Hill  continued  Tennant  in  possession  of  said  mill :  In 
right  of  said  Coggan  for  sundrey  yeeres  —  and  paid  y^ 
rent  to  said  Coggan:  but  y^  mill-pond  in  Maiden  beeing 
neer  half  a  mile  distance  from  y^  mill  and  considering  y^ 
grate  charge  in  maintaining  of  troues  and  frams  to  bare  y^ 
troues  over  a  thurt  y®  Streeme  to  carry  y^  water  ouer  y*^ 
land  doun  to  y^  s^  mill :  The  s^  Coggain  Altred  and 
Remoued  y®  said  mill  further  up  y^  streeme  neere  to  y®  s"^ 
mill-pond  [Coytmore  Lea] .  And  after  s'^  mill  was  remoued 
The  same  was  still  Improued  and  possessed  by  said 
Coggan:   and  his  sucessers,"  etc.      (Corey,  87). 

The  marriage  of  John  Coggan  to  Mrs.  Martha  (Coyt- 
more) Winthrop  occurred  in  Boston,  10  March  165 1/2  and 
Mr.  Coggan  died  27  April  1658,  which  approximately 
indicates  the  period  of  Abraham  Hill's  service  as  keeper  of 
the  mill  and  of  its  removal  to  the  site  of  the  Maiden  Dye 
House. 

"  At  a  meeting  at  Isak  hills  of  the  Selectmen  and  com- 
missioner" 30  Aug.  1684,  it  was  reported  that  "expenses 
about  the  bell  taking  downe  and  hanging  up  2  shillings 

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j8  malden  historical  society 

and  4  pence"  had  been  incurred.  (Ibid.  206).  "At  a 
Meeting  of  y*^  selectmen  at  Isaac  Hills  y®  19  January 
1693/4,  It  is  ordered  y^  one  Wensday  next  which  is  y^  24 
of  this  Instant  Janeuary  shall  be  the  day  for  all  y^  Inhab- 
itants of  this  Town  to  cut  an  carry  firewood  for  Mr. 
Wigglesworth  "  (Ibid.  286).  He  was  made  a  freeman  22 
March  1689/90.  He  was  one  of  the  proprietors  and  free- 
holders who  share  i  in  the  allotment  of  3,500  acres  in  the 
north  part  of  the  town.  (Ibid.  377).  Much  of  the  town 
business  was  transacted  at  the  Hill  ordinary  for  many  years. 

He  was  a  trooper  in  the  Middlesex  Militia  when  Sir 
Edmund  Andros  was  Governor  in  168 1  and  became  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Foot  Company  in  1689.  He  was  appointed  on 
various  committees  to  act  for  the  town  in  1691,  1693  and 
1695,  and  was  a  member  of  the  committee  to  lay  out  a  high 
way  on  the  west  side  of  the  Three  Mile  Brook  Meadows 
and  beyond  Wayte's  Mount  in  1695.  He  was  one  of  the 
proprietors  and  freeholders  for  the  allotment  of  land  in 
1695  also.  In  1705  the  selectmen  petitioned  "for  the 
hanging  of  a  Gate  neer  the  pound  of  Isaac  Hills."  Two 
years  later  the  town  authorized  the  selectmen  to  agree  with 
Mr.  Hill  for  entertaining  ministers  for  time  past.  From 
1681  to  1698  the  town  allowed  him  to  keep  an  "  ordarye." 
In  17 II  he  was  chosen  to  represent  the  town  at  the  Court 
of  Sessions  of  the  Peace.  He  was  a  representative  to  the 
General  Court  in  1698.      (Corey's  History  of  Maiden,  669.) 

In  his  chapter  on  an  Historic  Corner  published  in 
"  Days  and  Ways  in  Old  Boston,"  Walter  Kendall  Watkins 
says  that  Hezekiah  Usher,  son  of  the  first  bookseller  of  the 
colony,  "while  on  a  journey  in  the  winter  of  1696/7  "  fell 
from  his  horse  in  the  town  of  Maiden  and  was  taken  to  the 
tavern  of  Isaac  Hill  in  an  injured  condition."  So  the  old 
tavern  sheltered  the  sick  and  the  afflicted  as  well  as  the 
weary  traveller  of  "  y^  olden  tymes." 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  I9 

Children  by  wife  Hannah  : 

I.     Isaac  Hill,  Jr.,  b.  — June  1670,  in  Maiden. 
II.     Zachariah  Hill,  m.   at  Maiden   1700,  Judith 

Bucknam. 
III.     Sarah  Hill,  b.  5  Feb.  1677/8,  at  Cambridge. 

Children  by  wife  Sarah  : 
3.       IV.     Moses  Hill,  b.  27  Sept.  1680,  at  Cambridge. 

V.     Thomasin  Hill,  b.  11  Dec.  1685,  at  Maiden; 
m.    at    Maiden,    23    Nov.    1703,    Phineas 
Upham  of  Maiden. 
VI.     Abraham  Hill,  b.   22  March  1687/8,  at  Mai- 
den. 
VII.     Isaac  Hill,  Jr.,  b.  i  Dec.  1693,  at  Maiden. 

3.  MosES  Hill  (Isaac^,  Abraham^)  was  born  in 
Cambridge,  Mass.,  Sept.  27,  1680;  died  at  Maiden,  July 
21,  1743.    He  m.  at  Maiden,  Dec.  i,  1708,  Sarah  Parker. 

Mr.  Hill  was  an  early  schoolmaster  and  subsequently 
a  farmer  in  Maiden.  At  a  meeting  of  the  selectmen  of 
Maiden  held  June  3,  1710,  "Moses  Hill  is  chose  a  school- 
master for  y^  yeer  insuing  and  he  excepts  [accepts]  and 
will  serve  for  y^  benefit  of  y^  scholars."  One  month  later 
the  Court  ordered  that  as  the  town  had  no  latin  grammar 
school  it  should  provide  "  a  good  able  sufiicient  school- 
master to  teach  their  children  to  write  and  Read."  This 
was  no  reflection  upon  Mr.  Hill,  but  illustrates  the  poverty 
of  the  New  England  of  that  period.  In  1727  Mr.  Hill 
was  chosen  a  member  of  a  Committee  to  set  off  certain 
families  from  Maiden  to  Reading  (the  part  of  which  is  now 
Wakefield  called  Greenwood)  and  in  1737  he  was  chosen 
sealer  of  weights  and  measures.  He  owned  the  property 
east  of  Main  and  south  of  Salem  streets,  and  at  his  death, 
the  Hill  Tavern,  which  he  undoubtedly  constructed,  passed 
into  the  possession  of  his  son  Isaac  Hill,  the  younger. 


20  MAlvDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

Children  all  born  in  Maiden  : 

I.     Jacob  Hill,  b.  9  Aug.,  1710. 
II.     Tabitha  Hill,  b.  13  July,  17 12. 

III.  Sarah  Hill,  b.  4  Dec,  1714. 

IV.  John  Hill,  b.  10  June,  1718. 
4,         V.     Isaac  Hill,  b.  30  March,  1723. 

4.  Isaac  Hill  (Moses^  Isaac^  Abraham^)  was  born 
at  Maiden,  30  March,  1723;  died  there,  22  June,  1764, 
aged  forty-one  years.  He  m.  at  Framingham,  Mass., 
29  Dec,  1743,  Sarah  Haven  of  Framingham,  a  daughter 
of  Richard  and  Lydia  (Whitney)  Haven  of  Framingham 
where  she  was  born  11  Sept.,  1719.  She  m.  (2)  13  Feb., 
1765,  James  Kettell  of  Charlestown,  Mass.  She  was  his 
second  wife  and  d.  at  Charlestown,  17  Dec,  i774.(Wyman, 
Charleston,  583.) 

He  was  chosen  "Dear  reve  "  (a  town  officer  to  pre- 
serve the  wild  deer)  of  Maiden  in  1747/8,  He  served  the 
First  Parish  as  clerk  in  1757  and  1758.  Since  the  early 
church  records  of  Maiden  are  not  preserved,  we  cannot 
tell  how  long  he  served  the  First  Parish  as  its  clerk.  As 
landlord  of  the  Hill  Tavern  he  was  a  popular  and  a  well 
known  citizen  of  colonial  days. 

After  Mr.  Hill's  death  his  widow  joined  her  fortunes 
with  James  Kettell  of  Charlestown.  Mr.  Kettell  became 
the  new  landlord  of  the  Hill  Tavern,  and  he  displayed  the 
sign  of  the  "Rising  Eagle"  —  prophetic  and  patriotic  — 
on  the  ancient  tavern.  Here,  on  3  Nov.,  1766,  John 
Adams  dined  as  the  following  extract  from  his  diary  shows  : 

"  1766  Monday  Nov.  3d.  Sett  off  with  my  wife  for 
Salem.  Stopped  half  an  hour  at  Boston.  Crossed  the 
Ferry ;  at  three  o'clock  arrived  at  Hill's,  the  tavern  in 
Maiden,  the  sign  of  the  Rising  Eagle  at  the  brook  near 


MALDEN    HISTORIC Al.    SOCIETY  21 

Mr.  Emerson's  meeting-house,  five  miles  from  Norwood's 
where  namely  at  Hill's  we  dined.  Here  we  fell  in  com- 
pany with  Kent  and  Sewall.  We  all  oated  at  Martin's 
where  we  found  the  new  Sheriff  of  Essex,  Colonel  Salton- 
stall.  We  all  rode  into  town  [Salem]  together.  Arrived 
at  my  dear  brother  Cranch's  about  eight  and  drank  tea  and 
are  all  very  happy.  Sat  and  heard  the  ladies  talk  about 
ribbon,  catgut  and  Parish  net,  riding-hoods,  cloth,  silk  and 
lace.  Brother  Cranch  came  home  and  a  very  happy 
evening  we  had.  Cranch  is  now  in  a  good  situation  for 
business,  near  the  Court  House  and  Mr.  Barnard's  meeting- 
house and  on  the  road  to  Marblehead  ;  his  house  fronting 
the  wharves,  the  harbor  and  shipping,  has  a  fine  prospect 
before  it." — Diary  of  John  Adams. 

(Hurd's  History  of  Essex  County,  Vol.  I.  ;  LXIII.) 
Mr.  Adams  dined  at  the  Hill  Tavern  again  on  17  June, 
177 1.  After  Mrs.  Kettell's  death,  the  "Rising  Eagle" 
reverted  to  her  only  son  Charles  Hill,  Sr.,  last  of  the  Hill 
landlords  to  keep  a  house  of  public  entertainment  in 
Maiden. 

Children  born  in  Maiden  : 

I.  Charles  Hill,   b.   5,    April  1746;  d.  there  May 
12,  1749. 

H.  Lydia  Hill,  b.  26  Feb.,  1749/50. 

HI.  Elisabeth  Hill,  b.  11  March,  1753. 

IV.  Sarah  Hill,  b.  29  Sept.,  1754. 
5     V.     Charles  Hill,  b.  21  Feb.,  1756. 
VI.     Mercy  Hill,  i  Dec,  1758. 

5.  Charles  Hill,  Sr.  (Isaac*,  Moses'^,  Isaac^, 
Abraham^)  was  born  at  Maiden,  21  Feb.,  1756;  d.  there 
29  April,  1804,  aged  forty-eight  years.  He  m.  at  Maiden, 
18  Dec,  1777,  Mary  Wait,  daughter  of  Samuel  and  Mary 


22  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

Wait.       She  was  born  in  Maiden,  8  Dec,  175 1,  and  d. 
here  17  Sept.,  1826,  according  to  the  church  records. 

He  was  landlord  of  the  Hill  Tavern  from  i777  ^^ 
1804.  The  townspeople  frequently  met  in  Charles  Hill's 
best  room  to  discuss  public  affairs  and  occasionally  they 
met  there  to  transact  the  town  business,  especially  during 
the  period  following  the  Revolutionary  War.  At  a  town 
meeting  held  in  Maiden  on  12  Aug.,  1779,  it  was  ordered 
that  New  England  rum  should  be  nineteen  shillings  a  bowl 
and  West  India  toddy  eighteen  shillings  a  bowl  with  half 
loaf  sugar,  and  sixteen  shillings  with  brown  sugar ;  and 
tavern  keepers  might  charge  twenty-four  shillings  for  a 
dinner  "with  two  dishes  —  one  Roast,  one  boyled  and 
suppers  in  proportion  to  the  Dishes."  Lodging  was  fixed 
at  six  shillings.  The  traveler's  horse  should  be  kept  over 
night  with  English  hay  for  eighteen  shillings  and  a  mess 
of  oats  at  noon  would  cost  six  shillings.  The  townsmen 
then  voted  to  adjourn  this  meeting  into  Charles  Hill's  west 
room,  which  was  the  famous  house  of  entertainment  in 
Maiden. 

After  Mr.  Hill's  death  his  son  Isaac  Hill  occupied  it 
till  1855.  Ii"^  1857  the  town  purchased  the  land  for  a  town 
hall  and  the  ancient  Tavern  was  removed  to  Irving  street. 

Charles  Hill,  Sr.  was  a  "  minute-man"  of  Capt.  Benj- 
amin Blaney's  Company  which  went  to  Watertown  on  the 
Lexington  alarm  of  19  April,  1775,  for  which  service  he 
was  allowed  one  shilling,  four  pence,  besides  fees  for 
travelling  thirty-four  miles.  His  company  was  the  fourth 
in  the  first  regiment  of  Middlesex  Militia.  He  also  served 
as  Corporal  of  Capt.  Nailer  Hatch's  Maiden  Company  in 
May,  1775,  in  the  eight  months'  service.  Again,  he  was 
with  Capt.  Benjamin  Blaney  in  the  Point  Shirley  expedi- 
tion in  June  1776.     He  was  allowed  the  state  bounty  on 


MAI.DEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  23 

12  June,  1778,  for  one  week's  service  in  the  lines  at  Boston, 
with  Capt.  Stephen  Dana  of  Col.  Mcintosh's  Regiment. 
(Ibid.  818.) 

In  his  excellent  History  of  Maiden,  Mr.  Core}'  repro- 
duced his  autograph  on  page  670. 

Charles  Hill,  Jr.  (1778-1850)  erected  in  1812  the 
house  now  (1915)  standing  on  the  corner  of  Main  and  Irv- 
ing streets.     It  is  now  used  as  a  harness  shop. 

Children  all  born  in  Maiden  : 
I.     Charles  Hill,  b.  11  Oct.,  1778  ;  d.  26  Aug.,  1850  ; 

aged  72  years,  7  months. 
II.     Isaac  Hill. 

III.  John  Dexter  Hill. 

IV.  Polly  Hill. 

V.     Sally  Hill,  b.  3  Nov.,  1785;  m.  at  Maiden,   17 

Nov.,  1805,  John  Sprague. 
VI.      Lydia  Hill,  b.  7  Jan.,  1790;   d.  29  Sept.,  1792. 
VIII.     Rebecca  Wait  Hill,  b.  7  Dec,  1791  ;  d.  6  April, 
1805,  age  15  years. 
IX.     Patty  Hill,  b.  28  Nov.,  1793. 
X.     Benjamin  Goodwin  Hill,  b.  i  Dec,  1795  ;  second 
post-master  of  Maiden,  under  President  Jack- 
son. 

CALENDAR  OF  HILL  PAPERS. 

From  a  collection  of  Hill  Papers  now  in  possession  of 
the  Maiden  Public  Library  the  following  calendar  was 
made  : 

1786,  Oct.  26.  Deed  from  Charles  Hill,  innholder, 
to  Mercy  Hill,  spinster,  both  of  Maiden,  of  about  four 
acres  "  lying  westerly  from  the  road  leading  to  Penny 
Ferry."  Autographs  of  Charles  Hill,  Mary  Hill,  his  wife, 
Nehemiah  Torrey,  Ezra  Sargeant. 


24  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

1790,  Aug.  12.  Letter  from  Rebeckah  Wait  of 
Maiden  to  Miss  Rebeckah  Harris  of  Worcester  contain- 
ing news  relating  to  Maiden. 

1797,  Oct.  II.  Deed  from  Charles  Hill  innholder, 
and  wife  Mary  Hill,  of  Maiden,  to  their  father  Samuel 
Waite  of  Maiden,  tanner,  quitclaim  in  estate.  Autographs  of 
Charles  Hill,  Mary  Hill,  Ezra  Sargeant,  Rebeckah  Wait. 

1800,  Jan.  20.  Deed  from  Ezra  Floyd,  saddletree 
maker,  to  Charles  Hill,  Jun.,  leather  dresser,  all  of  Maiden, 
of  land  in  Maiden.  Autographs  Ezra  Floyd,  Polly  Floyd 
his  wife. 

1804,  March  2.  Will  of  Charles  Hill  of  Maiden  men- 
tions wife  Mary,  sons  Charles,  Isaac  and  Benjamin  Good- 
win and  daughters  Mary,  Sally,  Lydia,  Rebeccah  Wait 
and  Martha.     Samuel  Wait,  Jr.  of  Maiden  executor. 

1810,  Feb.  27.  Charles  Hill's  account  with  Barrett 
and  Shattuck  from  27  Feb.  1810  to  Dec.  1811. 

1810,  June7.  Agreement  between  William  Barrett 
of  Maiden  and  Meshach  Shattuck  of  Boston,  silk  dyers, 
under  the  firm  name  of  Barrett  &  Shattuck  and  Charles 
Hill  of  Maiden.  [Probably  the  Maiden  Dye  House  prop- 
erty.] 

1812,  Sept.  15.  Charles  Hill's  account  with  William 
Barrett  from  9  Jan.  1812  to  15  Sept.  1812. 

1816,  Dec.  16.  Deed  from  Eben""  Nichols,  Nathan 
Holden,  James  Crane,  Isaac  Emerson  and  Edward  Wade, 
Jr.,  selectmen  of  Maiden,  to  William  H.  Richardson  of 
"  a  lot  a  few  rods  north  of  the  Brick  Meeting  House  on  the 
opposite  side  of  the  Road,"  lot  No.  3,  "  which  the  inhabi- 
tants of  Maiden  purchased  of  Isaac  Wyman." 

1819,  Aug.  13.  Warrant  to  Charles  Hill,  collector  of 
the  north  part  of  Maiden,  by  Eben""  Nichols,  James  Crane, 
F.  Hall,  Isaac  Emerson,  Henry  Gardiner,  assessors  of 
Maiden. 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  25 

1819,  Oct.  18.  Warrant  to  Charles  Hill,  constable  of 
Maiden,  to  lev}-  taxes  for  the  Eastern  School  District  by 
James  Crane,  Henry  Gardiner,  F.  Hall,  selectmen  of 
Maiden. 

1820,  April  20.  Order  to  James  Crane,  town  treas- 
urer of  Maiden,  to  pay  to  Mr.  Thomas  Waitt  ten  dollars 
($10.83)  belonging  to  the  Eastern  School  District,  "it 
being  part  pav  for  a  lot  of  land  to  sett  a  school  house  on  in 
s^  District." 

1820,  May  17.  (liiiitclaim  deed  from  Benjamin  Good- 
win Hill  to  Charles  Hill,  both  of  Maiden,  to  i6  acres,  "the 
homestead  of  their  late  father  Charles  Hill  in  the  village 
near  the  meeting  house  with  the  buildings  which  were 
devised  to  our  mother  Mary  Hill."  [City  Hall  property 
and  adjacent  lands]. 

1820,  Sept  II.  Warrant  to  Charles  Hill,  collector,  to 
levy  taxes  to  pay  Daniel  Sargent,  Treasurer  of  the  Com- 
monwealth, John  Keyes,  county  Treasurer,  Capt.  Nathan 
Nichols,  treasurer  of  the  ministerial  funds  of  Maiden  and 
James  Crane,  treasurer  of  Maiden,  various  sums. 

1821,  July  12.  Execution  issued  by  Charles  Hill, 
constable,  to  sell  Elias  Tufts'  real  estate  with  one-half  of 
dwelling  situated  in  southwardly  part  of  Maiden,  bounded 
by  Phillips  Lane,  etc. 

182 1,  Sept.  27.  Warrant  to  Charles  Hill,  collector 
of  Maiden,  to  levy  taxes  by  Eben  Nichols,  James  Crane, 
Isaac  Stiles,  John  Sargent,  assessors  of  Maiden.  Twenty- 
four  assessed  persons  named  on  reverse  side. 

1822,  Jan  7.  Receipt  from  Sally  J.  Waitt  to  Charles 
Hill  for  "instructing  Master  Green  from  9  Oct.  up  to  this 
date,  13  weeks  at  12  1/2  c.  per  week  $1.62  1/2  " 

[Private  School  tuition]. 

1822,  Ma}^  21.     Warrant  to  Charles  Hill,  collector  of 


26  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

Maiden,  to  levy  $708.64  tax  in  the  Centre  School  District, 
by  Eben''  Nichols,  Edw^  Wade,  Jun,  Isaac  Emerson, 
assessors  of  Maiden. 

1822,  July  I.  Warrant  to  Charles  Hill,  collector  of 
Maiden,  to  levy  part  of  $8,500  for  Rev.  Aaron  Green's 
salary  as  Gospel  Minister  of  s'^  Town  and  other  purposes, 
by  Eben  Nichols,  Edw'^  Wade,  Jr.,  Isaac  Emerson,  asses- 
sors of  Maiden.  Twenty-eight  assessed  persons  named 
on  reverse  side. 

1822,  July  5.  Warrant  to  Charles  Hill,  constable,  by 
the  Overseers  of  the  workhouse  in  Maiden,  concerning 
"Thadeus"  Simonds.  Autographs  of  Edw^  Wade,  Jr., 
Isaac  Stiles,  overseers. 

1822,  Sept.  10,  Receipts  from  John  Keyes,  treasurer  of 
Middlesex  Co.  for  $139.00  in  part  of  taxes  from  Charles 
Hill,  collector  of  Maiden  for  182 1. 

1822,  Oct.  II.  Warrant  to  Charles  Hill,  collector  of 
Maiden,  to  assess  tax  upon  the  Centre  School  District,  by 
Eben''  Nichols,  Edw.  Wade,  Jun^  Isaac  Emerson,  assessors 
of  Maiden,  Fourteen  persons  named  on  reverse  side. 

1823,  March  21.  Warrant  to  take  Andrew  Blaney  to 
the  house  of  industry  in  Maiden. 

1823,  July  7.  Warrant  to  Charles  Hill,  collector  of 
Maiden,  to  levy  taxes  by  Eben""  Nichols,  Edw^  Wade,  Jr., 
Isaac  Emerson,  assessors  and  selectmen  of  Maiden. 

1824,  June  16.  Letter  to  Mr.  Cotton  Sprague  of 
Maiden,  relating  to  land  titles  of  Evans  estate.  Names  of 
heirs  to  estate  given. 

1824,  Sept.  6,  Warrant  to  Charles  Hill,  collector,  to 
levy  Maiden's  tax  of  $4,336.58,  by  Ebenezer  Nichols, 
Edw'^  Wade,  Jr.,  Isaac  Emerson,  assessors  of  Maiden. 

1825,  March  10.  Deed  from  James  Hitchins  to 
Edward    Newhall,    both  of    Maiden,    pew  43    in    Baptist 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  27 

Meeting  House  in  Maiden   [which  then  stood  in  what  is 
now  the  Salem  Street  Cemeter}^] 

1825,  Aug.  18.  Warrant  to  Charles  Hill,  collector,  to 
lev}^  tax  of  $3,590.55,  by  Eben''  Nichols,  Edw^  Wade,  Jr., 
Isaac  Emerson,  assessors  of  Maiden. 

1825,  Aug.  24.  Warrant  to  Charles  Hill,  constable 
of  Maiden,  to  levy  taxes  to  repair  the  Meeting  House,  by 
Eben''  Nichols,  Edw'^  Wade,  Uriah  Oakes,  assessors  of 
Second  Society  of  Maiden. 

1826,  Jan.  17.  Deed  from  Mary  Porter,  Banjamin 
Jarvis,  Mary  Jarvis,  all  of  Boston,  to  Charles  Hill  and 
Edward  Wade,  both  of  Maiden,  three  acres  in  Maiden. 

1826,  Jan.  19.  Deed  from  Frederic  Tudor  of  Boston, 
merchant,  to  Charles  Hill  of  Maiden  land  in  Maiden, 
"  being  the  same  which  my  father  the  late  William  Tudor 
conveyed  to  me,"  31  Dec.  181 1. 

1826,  March  28.  Receipt  from  Sarah  Richardson  to 
Charles  Hill  for  "  instructing  Julia  Ann  11  weeks  at  6  1/4 
cents  per  week  $0.68."    [Private  School  tuition.] 

1826,  April  25.  Notice  that  Charles  Hill  has  been 
appointed  administrator  of  the  estate  of  John  Howard,  late 
of  Maiden,  deceased. 

1826,  May  29.  Deed  from  John  Trask  of  Boston  to 
Charles  Hill  of  Maiden,  one-half  of  a  dwelling  house  and 
shop  in  Maiden  on  the  road  leading  to  Chelsea,  "  which  were 
conveyed  to  me  by  John  Howard." 

1826,  Aug.  18.  Warrant  to  Charles  Hill  to  levy 
taxes  $2,232.25  by  Eben''  Nichols,  Edw^  Wade,  Isaac 
Emerson,  assessors  of  Maiden. 

1826,  Sept,  14.  Warrant  to  Charles  Hill,  constable, 
to  levy  a  tax  on  the  First  Congregational  Society  of  Maiden 
of  $697  by  Eben''  Nichols,  Ew^  Wade,  Chs.  Hill,  asses- 
sors of  said  Society. 


28  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

1826,  Oct.  5.  License  of  Charles  Hill  adm.  of  estate 
of  John  Howard,  late  of  Maiden,  to  sell  real  estate. 

1827.  April  8.  Thomas  Flo3^d  received  of  the  Uni- 
versalist  Society  $3.87  "for  playing  the  violin  for  their 
Lectures  from  27  Aug.  1826  to  8  April  1827,"  by  B.  G.  Hill. 

1827,  June  18.  Deed  from  James  Crane,  Mary  Crane, 
John  Sprague,  Sally  Sprague,  Wm.  H.  Richardson,  Lydia 
Richardson,  Samuel  N.  Bredeen  and  Martha  Bredeen  to 
Charles  Hill,  Isaac  Hill,  Benj.  Goodwin  Hill  of  the  Hill 
homestead  belonging  to  the  late  Charles  Hill  and  pew  No. 
33  in  the  Brick  Meeting  House. 

1827,  July  24.  Thomas  Whittemore  received  of 
Charles  Hill  $16  in  behalf  of  the  Universalists  in  Maiden 
for  "preaching  lectures." 

1827,  Sept.  I.  Deed  from  Isaac  Hill  and  Benjamin 
G.  Hill,  trader,  to  Charles  Hill,  all  of  Maiden,  of  three 
lots,  viz.  three  acres,  five  and  one-half  and  ten  acres  of 
wood  land  and  pew  No.  33  in  the  Brick  Meeting  House  of 
Maiden. 

1827,  Sept.  I.  Deed  from  Charles  Hill  and  Isaac 
Hill  to  Benjamin  G.  Hill,  trader,  all  of  Maiden,  four  acres 
including  "the  late  dwelling  house  of  Charles  Hill  deceased." 
Autographs  of  Chas.  Hill,  Phebe  Hill,  Isaac  Hill. 

1827,  Oct.  5.  Deed  from  Charles  Hill  to  Nathan 
Nichols,  Esqr.,  Treasurer  of  the  Trustees  of  the  Con- 
gregational Society,  of  land  in  Maiden  with  buildings. 

1829,  June  23.  Whereas  Robert  Gerry  of  Maiden, 
gent,  recovered  judgment  against  Ephraim  Buck  of  Maiden, 
Esq.  said  Gerry  attached  11  shares  in  the  Marine  Elevat- 
ing Dock  Corporation,  etc. 

1830,  Feb.  16.  Claims  of  forty-seven  Maiden  persons 
against  unknown  estate  —  probably  the  estate  of  John 
Howard  late  of  Maiden. 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  29 

1830,  Dec.  I.  Deed  from  Thomas  O.  Brackett, 
Deputy  Sheriff,  in  favor  of  Nathan  Nichols  vs.  Nathan 
Newhall  and  Edward  Newhall,  all  of  Maiden,  to  Charles 
Hill,  of  land  and  buildings  in  Maiden. 

183 1,  June  4.  Deed  (mtg.)  from  Charles  Hill,  to 
Joseph  B.  Wilson,  millwright,  both  of  Maiden,  of  land 
and  buildings  ;  released  7  June  1849. 

1835,  Aug.  31.  Letter  to  James  Crane  relating  to  the 
financial  affairs  of  Charles  Mclntier  and  accounts  in  the 
Marine  Elevating  Dock  Corporation.    Item  : 

"June   9,    1829,   stage    fare   from  Boston    to  Maiden 

37  i/2c." 

1836,  July  25.  Deed  from  Charles  Mclntier  of  Boston 
to  James  Crane  and  Charles  Hill,  both  of  Maiden,  mill 
privilege  in  Maiden.  Autographs  of  Charles  Mclntier  and 
Mary  L.  Mclntier. 

1841,  Dec.  7.  Deed  from  John  Hitchins  and  George 
Hitchins  to  Aaron  Green  Hill  of  woodland  in  Stoneham. 
Martha  S.  wife  of  George  Hitchins  signed  with  them. 

1848,  June  5.  Deed  from  Isaac  Hill  of  Maiden  to 
Robert  Gerry  of  Ellsworth,  Me.,  gentleman,  all  rights  in 
flats  "  on  the  westerly  side  of  a  new  road  leading  from  near 
the  Baptist  Meeting  House  in  Maiden  towards  Chelsea 
Ferry." 

1848,  June  5.  Deed  from  Robert  Gerry  of  Ellsworth, 
Maine,  gent,  to  Aaron  G.  Hill,  painter,  and  William  H. 
Nichols,  trader,  both  of  Maiden,  of  land  on  "  westerly  side 
of  a  new  Road  leading  from  near  the  Baptist  Meeting 
house  towards  Chelsea  Ferry,"*  *  *  "  lately  belong- 
ing to  William  Haskins." 

1849,  May  17.  Warrant  of  the  East  District  of 
Maiden  to  the  sheriff  or  deputies  or  constable  of  Maiden, 
to  levy  taxes  on  nine  persons  named  by  W.  S.  Stearns, 
treasurer  and  collector  of  Maiden. 


30  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 


METHODIST  BEGINNINGS    IN    MALDEN. 

An  Address  by  the  President  of  the  Society 


There  is  no  doubt  at  all  that  the  seed  that  finally 
germinated  and  bore  fruit  as  Maiden  Methodism  was 
planted  by  Rev.  George  Whitefield,  and  that  the  unwitting 
cause  of  its  planting  was  Rev.  Joseph  Emerson,  pastor  of 
the  First  Church,  the  first  occupant  of  the  old  parsonage 
(which  later  became  known  to  fame  as  the  birthplace  of 
Rev.  Adoniram  Judson)  and  the  great-grandfather  of 
Ralph  Waldo  Emerson.  If  the  first  Methodist  sermon  in 
Maiden  could  not  have  been  preached  by  John  or  Charles 
Wesley,  modern  Methodists  could  certainly  ask  for  no 
greater  distinction  than  to  have  had  it  fall  from  the  lips  of 
Whitefield. 

Whitefield  was  a  Calvinistic  Methodist,  while  the  Wes- 
leys  were  Arminians.  The  difference  in  view  is  not  much 
emphasized  in  these  days,  but  for  a  time  it  caused  a  seri- 
ous breach  between  the  great  evangelists  and  their  fol- 
lowers, though  it  could  not  separate  the  three  men  long. 
All  had  been  members  of  the  Holy  Club  at  Oxford  and 
shared  the  characterization  of  "Methodists,"  given  as  a 
term  of  reproach,  but  accepted  as  the  most  fitting  title  the 
societies  they  formed  could  have.  At  just  the  time  when 
John  Wesley  (preceded  a  while  by  his  brother  Charles, 
who  returned  via  Boston),  sailed  for  England  after  the 
failure  of  his  missionary  work  in  Georgia,  Whitefield  was 
taking  ship  from  England  for  America.      He  made  seven 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  31 

voyages  hither,  and  finally  his  weary  body  was  laid  at  rest 
in  the  crypt  beneath  the  pulpit  of  the  Old  South  church  at 
Newburyport,  a  place  which  has  been  a  shrine  for  almost 
150  years.  My  copy  of  the  "  Memoirs  of  Rev.  George 
Whitefield  "  bears  a  book-plate  showing  it  once  was  a  vol- 
ume in  the  library  of  the  First  Presbyterian  church  of 
Newburyport. 

The  doors  of  King's  Chapel  in  Boston  were  closed  to 
Whitefield,  as  were  those  of  most  of  the  established  churches 
when  he  was  in  England,  but  the  pulpits  of  the  other  Bos- 
ton churches,  the  First  and  Second  and  the  Old  South 
among  them,  were  open  to  him  always,  and  it  was  only  the 
need  of  room  for  his  hearers  that  drove  him  to  the  Com- 
mon, where,  on  one  occasion,  in  1740  (one  of  the  Boston 
pastors  has  left  the  record),  he  preached  to  twenty-three 
thousand  people,  "at  a  moderate  computation."  But  he 
loved  to  preach  in  Presbyterian  churches,  as  their  form  of 
doctrine  was  most  nearly  like  his  own,  and  this,  doubtless, 
made  Newbury,  as  he  called  it,  attractive  to  him,  for  there 
Presbyterianism  was  strong. 

On  June  5,  1740,  Whitefield,  having  crossed  the 
ocean,  reached  Savannah,  and  after  spending  some  time 
in  Charleston,  where  he  built  his  orphanage,  he  sailed  for 
New  England  in  the  orphanage  sloop  late  in  August, 
reaching  Rhode  Island  September  14.  Soon  he  came  to 
Boston,  being  met  ten  miles  outside  the  town  (probably  at 
Dedham)  by  Gov.  Jonathan  Belcher's  son  and  a  "train  of 
the  clergy  and  the  principal  inhabitants-"  The  record 
shows  that  besides  preaching  many  times  in  Boston  he 
rode  one  hundred  and  seventy  miles  in  about  a  week, 
preaching  in  other  places  sixteen  times.  Whenever  he 
preached  in  Boston  the  Governor,  the  Secretary,  Josiah 
Willard,   and  several  of   the  Council  generally  attended. 


32  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

Gov.  Belcher,  like  Benjamin  Franklin  and  other  noted 
men  of  those  days,  was  very  fond  of  him,  and  when  he 
left  Boston  for  Northampton,  to  visit  the  Rev.  Jonathan 
Edwards,  the  governor  rode  fifty  miles  of  the  journey  with 
him. 

Fortunately  we  have  Whitefield's  own  story  of  his  first 
visit  to  Maiden,  175  years  ago.  On  October  6,  being  on  his 
return  journey  to  Boston  from  the  east,  he  reached  Salem, 
at  nine  o'clock  in  the  morning  and  two  hours  later  preached 
at  Marblehead.     He  writes  in  his  journal : 

Monday,  October  6.  At  the  Intreaty  of  Mr.  Emerson-, 
Son-in-Law  to  dear  Mr.  Moody ^  I  believe  a  real  Man  of 
God;  we  went  to  Maiden,  14  miles  from  Ma7-blehead 
where  I  preached  not  with  so  much  Power  as  in  the  Morn- 
ing. But  one  Girl  came  crying  to  me  and  saying.  She 
feared  she  had  not  true  Faith  in  Jesus.  On  that  thousands 
others  began  to  doubt  also !  Here  the  Secretary  and 
several  Friends  from  Boston  gave  us  the  meeting ;  with 
them  after  Sermon,  I  immediately  sat  out,  and  got  privetely 
into  Boston  about  7  at  Night. 

The  reference  to  Rev.  Samuel  Moody  of  York,  in  the 
District  of  Maine,  is  interesting,  as  showing  Whitefield's 
estimate  of  one  of  the  greatest  and  most  useful  of  the 
clergymen  of  that  period ;  and  it  indicates  a  reason  why 
Whitefield  sailed  for  York,  on  his  second  visit  to  New  Eng- 
land. 

Whitefield  returned  to  England  the  following  year  to 
find  that  in  his  absence  one  of  his  devoted  followers,  John 
Cennick  (author  of  "  Children  of  the  Heavenl}'^  King  "  and 
other  classics  of  Methodist  hymnology),  who  was  master  of 
Wesley's  Kingswood  school,  had  opened  the  breach  between 
the  two  wings  of  Methodism  by  charging  "Brother  John  " 
with  preaching  that  "  there  is  righteousness  in  man."  "  So," 
said  Wesley,  "  there  is,  after  the  righteousness  of  Christ  is 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  33 

imputed  to  him  through  faith,"  and  promptly  dismissed 
Cennick  from  the  school  and  excommunicated  him  and 
his  adherants  from  the  Band  Society  in  Kingswood.  Mean- 
while Cennick  had  written  to  Whitetield  to  "  fl}^  "  to  him, 
saying  "With  universal  redemption  Brother  Charles  pleases 
the  world.  Brother  John  follows  him  in  everything."  We 
cannot  detail  the  controversy  over  the  doctrine  of  election 
that  ensued,  but  evidently  Rev.  Joseph  Emerson  and  his 
brother  clergymen  in  New  England  followed  it  closely  and 
approved  Whitefield's  attitude.  They  were  not  so  many 
generations  away  from  John  Cotton  and  the  Mathers,  as 
not  to  know  how  great  were  the  services  performed  by  their 
predecessors  for  independency  in  the  days  preceding  the 
Commonwealth ;  they  must  have  kept  much  more  closely 
in  touch  with  the  Great  Awakening  in  England  than  we 
have  sometimes  realized,  and  it  seems  very  probable  to  the 
writer  that  a  great  deal  of  the  opposition  met  by  Jesse  Lee 
and  his  associates  a  half-century  later  had  its  root  in  the 
clerical  prejudice  that  would  have  spurned  John  Wesley 
had  he  visited  Boston,  but  which  saw  in  Whitefield,  the 
calvinist,  simply  one  of  themselves. 

However  this  may  be,  when  Whitefield  reached  York 
in  the  autumn  of  1744,  after  a  tedious  voyage  from  Eng- 
land of  eleven  weeks,  he  was  met  by  Sir  William  Pepperell 
with  some  friends  in  his  own  boat,  and  invited  to  his  house. 
Whitefield  was  so  ill,  however,  that  he  declined,  and  went 
to  some  other  house,  where  he  remained  for  three  weeks. 
Colonel  Pepperell  did  not  give  him  up,  but  at  the  end  of 
that  period  followed  him  to  Boston,  where  he  constantly 
attended  his  lectures,  until  he  was  commissioned  to  head 
the  first  expedition  against  Cape  Breton.*     Rev.   Thomas 

*At  the  time  of  the  expedition  toLouisburg  commanded  by  Coi.  William  Pepperell, 
Rev.  George  Whitetield  gave  the  following  motto  which  was  inscribed  on  the  flag  of  the 
expedition:  '■'Nil  desperandum  Christo  duce."  "Nothing  need  be  despaired  of  where 
Christ  takes  the  lead." 


34  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

Prince,  pastor  of  the  Old  South,  and  an  accurate  historian, 
in  his  "  Christian  History  "  No.  XCIV,  says  : 

Saturday,  November  24,  1744,  the  Rev.  Mr.  White- 
field  was  so  far  revived  as  to  be  able  to  set  out  from  Ports- 
mouth to  Boston,  whither  he  came  in  a  very  feeble  state  the 
Monday  evening  after;  since  which,  he  has  been  able  to 
preach  in  several  of  our  largest  houses  of  public  worship, 
particularly  the  Rev.  Dr.  Coleman's,  Dr.  Sewall's,  Mr. 
Webb's  and  Mr.  Gee's  to  crowded  assemblies  of  people, 
and  with  great  and  growing  acceptance.  At  Dr.  Cole- 
man's desire,  and  with  the  consent  of  the  church,  on  the 
Lord's  day  after  his  arrival  he  administered  to  them  the 
holy  communion.  And  last  Lord's  day  he  preached  for 
Mr.  Cheeverof  Chelsea,  and  administered  the  holy  supper 
there.  The  next  day  he  preached  for  the  Rev.  Mr.  Emer- 
son of  Maiden. 

That  would  make  the  date  of  his  sermon  in  Maiden 
Monday,  Dec.  10,  1744.  It  was  of  course  preached  in  the 
third  meeting-house,*  predecessor  of  the  brick  First  Parish 
church,  recently  demolished,  and  then  a  building  only  14 
years  old. 

Years  passed  before  Whitefield  again  visited  New 
England.  In  April,  1754,  he  sailed  for  South  Carolina, 
putting  in  at  Lisbon  and  spending  a  month  in  Portugal. 
Reaching  Charleston,  May  27,  he  spent  several  weeks 
there,  arriving  at  New  York  by  water  July  27,  and  preach- 
ing between  there  and  Philadelphia  until  the  middle  of 
September.  Gov.  Belcher  journeyed  to  Elizabethtown,  New 
Jersey,  to  meet  him,  and,  it  being  commencement,  New 
Jersey  college  at  Princeton  presented  Whitefield  with  the 
degree  of  A.  M.  Then,  with  the  president,  Mr.  Burr 
(father  of  Aaron  Burr),  he  set  out  for  New  England.  He 
reached  Boston,   Oct.  9,  and  preached  in  this  vicinity  for 

*For  a  description  of  the  church  in  which  Whitefield  preached,  see  Vol.  II  of  this 
Register,  pp.  33-53, 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  35 

nearly  a  month,  with  great  success.  He  writes  :  "  In 
Rhode  Island  and  Boston  souls  fly  to  the  gospel  like  doves 
to  their  windows."  He  traveled  as  far  north  as  Portsmouth, 
preaching  two  or  three  times  a  day,  so  it  seems  probable 
that  he  again  came  to  Maiden.  In  1764  he  came  to  Boston 
again,  it  being  his  sixth  visit  to  America.  As  the  small 
pox  was  spreading  through  the  town,  he  preached  for 
some  time  in  the  parts  adjacent.  Great  success  came  to 
him  in  Newbury.  The  probabilities  seem  to  favor  his  hav- 
ing preached  in  Maiden  during  this  time,  also. 

In  1769,  Whitefield  sailed  for  America,  never  to  return 
to  England.  The  voyage  consumed  thirteen  weeks,  the 
last  week  within  sight  of  port.  He  wrote:  "The  wind 
blew  hard,  and  our  ship,  like  a  young  christian,  for  want 
of  more  ballast,  would  not  obey  the  helm."  He  left 
Savannah  April  24,  1770,  spent  four  weeks  in  Philadelphia 
and  then  departed  for  New  York  and  Boston.  His  health 
was  failing  rapidly.  Late  in  September  he  reached  Boston, 
where  he  preached  three  days.  He  preached  in  Newton 
September  20,  and  then  started  on  an  excursion  to  the  east- 
ward, intending  to  return  in  a  little  over  a  week.  He 
preached  at  Exeter  September  29,  and  died  at  the  house  of 
Rev. Jonathan  Parsons,  in  Newburyport,  the  following  day, 
Sunday,  September  30,  1770.  John  Wesle}^  preached  his 
funeral  sermon  at  Whitefield's  Tabernacle,  in  London, 
November  18,  1770. 

The  direct  narrative  in  my  own  copy  of  the  Life  of 
Whitefield  says  nothing  of  his  preaching  in  Maiden  in 
1770,  but  Gov.  Belcher  had  his  successors  in  their  admira- 
tion for  the  great  evangelist,  and  one  of  these  was  John 
Rowe,  the  Boston  merchant,  whose  name  persists  in  Rowe's 
wharf,  and  who  was  instrumental  in  placing  the  "sacred cod- 
fish "  in  the  original  house  of  representatives'  chamber.   His 


36  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

diary  remains,  and  it  shows  that  he  followed  Whitefield 
in  person,  or  in  thought,  wherever  he  preached.  A  foot- 
note in  the  diary  records  that  Whitefield  preached  in  Maiden 
August  19,  1770,  citing  Rev.  Luke  Tyerman's  "Life  of 
Whitefield  "  as  authority.  A  footnote  in  my  earlier  printed 
"Life"  confirms  T3'erman. 

What  happened  on  that  day  is  also  a  matter  of  record, 
for,  in  a  letter  written  to  Mr.  Corey,  the  late  Rev.  John  G. 
Adams,  D.  D.,  stated  that  "an  aged  school  teacher.  Miss 
Porter,  who  was  living  in  Medford  in  1840,  remembered 
hearing  him  in  the  old  meetinghouse  in  Maiden.  The 
house  was  thronged  and  the  preacher  was  forced  to  make 
his  way  to  the  pulpit  by  a  ladder  through  a  window  which 
opened  into  the  back  of  the  building.  His  text  was  'Who 
is  this  that  cometh  up  from  the  wilderness,  leaning  upon 
her  beloved?'" 

Rev.  Peter  Thacher,  then  18  years  and  six  months 
old,  was  ordained  and  installed  pastor  of  the  First  Parish 
on  September  19,  1770,  just  one  month  after  Whitefield 
preached  his  last  sermon  in  Maiden.  Whitefield  was 
preaching  in  Boston  on  that  day,  and  may  have  attended 
the  ordination  service  ;  if  he  did  not,  it  may  have  been  his 
prayer  at  his  own  service  on  August  19  that  caused  him  to 
comment  on  the  singular  fervor  of  Thacher's  prayers,  and 
to  call  him  "the  young  Elijah."  But  as  we  are  also  told 
that  Whitefield  esteemed  Mr.  Thacher  as  "  the  ablest 
preacher  in  America,  and  looked  upon  him  as  one  born  for 
the  defence  of  New  England  Orthodoxy,"  the  internal 
evidence  seems  to  be  that  he  had  met  him  more  than  once, 
and  had  heard,  not  only  his  prayers,  but  his  preaching. 

Referring  to  Whitefield' s  last  sermon  in  Maiden,  the 
date  of  which  escaped  Mr.  Corey,  and  which  I  should 
have  had  difficulty  in  tracing  had  John  Rowe's  diary  never 
been  published,  Tyerman  says  : 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  37 

"Whitefield  sailed  from  New  York  on  Tuesday,  July 
31,  and  arrived  at  New  Port  on  the  Friday  followin^r.  He 
preached  August  4  to  8  at  New  Port;  9  to  12  at  Provi- 
dence; 13  at  Attleborough,  and  14  at  Wrentham.  With 
the  exception  of  the  19th,  when  he  discoursed  in  Maiden, 
he  officiated  every  day  at  Boston  from  the  15th  to  the  25th." 

This  statement  is  confirmed  by  the  itinerary  published 
as  a  footnote  in  the  "  Life,"  and  it  may  be  added  that  both 
authorities  state  that  he  preached  in  Medford,  August  26,  and 
not  on  the  20th,  as  the  editor  of  John  Rowe's  Diary  thinks. 

Twenty  years  after  the  death  of  Whitefield,  Jesse  Lee, 
the  Southern  born  apostle  of  New  England  Methodism, 
preached  his  first  sermon  in  Maiden.  Two  decades  later 
saw  the  establishment  of  Methodist  preaching  in  North 
Maiden,  now  Melrose.  Before  the  lapse  of  another  ten 
years,  what  is  known  as  the  Centre  church  had  its  begin- 
nings, as  the  result  of  a  revival  in  the  North  Maiden  church. 
It  is  interesting  to  reflect  that  the  life  of  Centre  church  is 
embraced  in  that  of  one  of  its  living  members,  Mrs.  Sarah 
O.  Cox,  now  103  years  old,  the  daughter  of  one  of  its 
founders,  Gilbert  Haven,  Senior,  and  the  sister  of  Bishop 
Gilbert  Haven.*  Many  years  ago  she  repeated  to  me  many 
of  her  reminiscences  of  the  early  church  and  its  pastors, 
and  these  I  preserved.  She  was  a  child  of  eight  years 
when  the  movement  began  which  resulted  in  its  formation, 
and  was  a  member  of  the  choir  when  the  first  church  build- 
ing of  the  Society  was  dedicated.  The  late  Miss  Mary 
C.  Waitt  and  the  late  Mrs.  George  D.  Allen  (daughters  of 
Aaron  Waitt,  Senior  and  Unite  Cox,  respectivel}^  both 
founders  of  the  Society),  Wilbur  H.  Sargeant,  son  of  Rev. 
Aaron  D.  Sargeant,  and  Hon.  George  Howard  Fall,  a 
member  of  the  Society  and  a  grandson  of  James  Howard, 

*Mrs.  Cox  died  Sept.  21,  1915,  thus  dissolviug  the  last  tie  with  the  first  generation 
of  the  church.  Two  months  later,  Wilbur  Iledding  Sargeant  (son  of  Rev.  Aaron  D.  Sar- 
geant, a  founder  of  the  church)  died,  he  being  the  last  survivor  of  the  second  generation 
from  the  founders.  Gilbert  Haven,  Senior,  and  Hannah  Burrell  were  married  in  Boston, 
by  Rev.  Charles  Lowell,  father  of  James  Russell  Lowell,  and  she  was  born  in  Boston, 
June  1 1,  1912. 


^8  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

the  leader  in  the  church  enterprise,  as  also  the  late  Del- 
oraine  P.  Corey,  have  helped  me  greatly  in  my  researches. 

The  beginnings  of  Methodism  in  New  England  are 
generally  familiar.  In  1789,  after  it  had  become  well 
established  in  the  central  and  southern  states,  Jesse  Lee 
was  sent  to  open  up  the  work  in  the  East.  He  spent  a  year 
in  Connecticut  and  Rhode  Island,  with  such  success  that  it 
was  July  9,  1790,  before  he  reached  Boston,  where,  pre- 
vented from  securing  any  church,  hall  or  schoolhouse,  he 
chose  a  monumental  spot  under  the  Old  Elm,  on  the  Com- 
mon, and  preached  what  is  usually  termed  the  first  Metho- 
dist sermon  in  Massachusetts.  In  December  he  reached 
Lynn,  where  at  the  home  of  Benjamin  Johnson  he  preached 
the  sermon  which  was  to  mark  the  beginning  of  Methodism 
there  and  lead  to  the  founding  of  the  first  church  in  the 
state.  On  February  20,  1791,  that  church  was  organized, 
with  eight  members.  In  June  a  chapel  was  built,  and, 
meanwhile,  Jesse  Lee  was  busy  planting  in  nearby  places. 
He  came  to  Maiden,  we  are  told,  and  at  some  time  during 
the  year  formed  a  class  which  met  in  "Peter  Tufts'  lane," 
now  Cross  street,  and  he  seems  to  have  conducted  his  first 
preaching  service  in  the  old  house  demolished  a  few  years 
ago  to  make  way  for  the  Lincoln  School  building.  It  was 
the  home  of  John  Waitt, —  a  direct  descendant  of  that  John 
Wait  who  was,  with  Joseph  Hills,  a  founder  of  Maiden  ; 
who  was  Hills' son-in-law,  and,  like  him,  an  early  Speaker 
of  the  General  Court,  and  the  man  in  whose  honor  Wait's 
Mount,  formerl}'  his  property,  is  named.  The  later  John 
Waitt  was  a  man  who  had  the  courage  of  his  convictions, 
was  well-to-do,  apparently,  and  gladl}"  made  his  ancient 
lean-to  house  the  shelter  for  the  new  faith. 

In  some  earlv  sketches  the  name  of  Daniel  Smith 
appears  as  in  charge  of  the  work  and  as  the  one  who  formed 


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MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  39 

the  class  which  worshipped  for  many  years  in  John  Waitt's 
house.  It  is  difficult  to  write  briefly  of  Daniel  Smith.  He 
was  born  in  Philadelphia,  February  4,  1769,  and  entered 
the  ministry  at  nineteen  years  of  age.  He  was  but  22  when 
he  became  pastor  of  the  "society"  of  which  the  Maiden 
class  formed  a  part.  He  appears  to  have  left  a  charge  in 
Charleston,  S.  C,  and  travelled  more  than  a  thousand 
miles,  of  course  on  horseback,  to  take  his  appointment  as 
colleague  of  Jesse  Lee  at"  Boston,"  October  4,  1790.  He 
was  at  the  conference  in  New  York  in  May,  1791,  at  which 
he  received  his  appointment  to  Lynn,  his  colleague  being 
John  Bloodgood,  and  Lee  being  appointed  presiding  elder, 
Rev.  Enoch  Mudge,  the  first  native  Methodist  preacher  of 
New  England,  wrote  of  him  : 

He  was  a  man  of  an  humble,  sweet  spirit,  and  a  very 
good  and  useful  preacher.  No  one  of  his  time  was  more 
beloved.  He  always  spoke  feelingly,  for  the  obvious 
reason  that  he  always  lived  under  a  deep,  feeling  sense  of 
the  presence  of  God,  and  of  the  importance  of  personal 
religion.  The  people  of  Lynn,  Boston  and  vicinity,  who 
knew  him,  were  ardently  attached  to  him.  It  was  a  day 
of  weeping  with  us  when  he  left  Lynn.  He  gave  an  after- 
noon lecture  in  the  newly  erected  and  unfinished  meeting- 
house and  then  left,  to  lecture  at  Maiden  in  the  evening. 

The  first  Methodist  conference  in  this  vicinity  met  in 
the  uncompleted  chapel  in  Lynn,  August  i,  1792.  After 
a  three-days  session,  it  adjourned  on  the  Sabbath  ;  so  it 
must  have  been  during  the  following  week  that  Daniel 
Smith  preached  his  farewell  sermons  in  Lynn  and  Maiden. 
Father  Mudge  preserved  for  us  his  text :  Rev.  14  :  10,  11. 
During  his  pastorate  at  Lynn,  John  Mudge,  brother  to 
Rev.  Enoch,  and  one  of  the  most  useful  laymen  of  his  day, 
was  converted.  Mr.  Smith  was  appointed  by  Bishop  Asbury 
to  John  Street,  in  New  York,  Methodism's  oldest  church. 


40  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

soon  located  and  entered  business  and  public  life.  He 
preached  on  Sundays,  however,  to  large  congregations  in 
New  York,  his  last  sermon  being  preached  in  John  Street 
Church  only  a  fortnight  before  his  death,  which  occurred 
October  22,  1815. 

John  Bloodgood,  Daniel  Smith's  colleague  at  the 
beginning  of  the  Maiden  class,  became  one  of  the  best- 
known  figures  in  early  American  Methodism.  His  personal 
appearance  was  imposing.  Much  of  his  life  was  spent  in 
the  Middle  states,  and  some  of  his  greatest  successes  in  the 
pastorate  were  in  Baltimore  and  vicinity,  where  he  spent 
his  last  days. 

There  were  fifteen  or  twent}^  members  in  the  class  at 
John  Waitt's  house.  Several  persons  took  certificates  of 
attendance  on  and  support  of  the  Methodist  ministry,  as  the 
statutes  of  those  days  provided,  thus  being  relieved  of  the 
burden  of  supporting  the  regular  preaching  in  the  First 
Parish  church,  A  copy  of  one  of  these  certificates  reads  : 
"This  may  certify  that  John  Waitt  of  Maiden  attends  pub- 
lic worship  with  the  Methodists  in  Maiden,  and  freely  con- 
tributes to  the  support  of  their  ministry.  Signed  in  behalf 
of  the  Society,  the  26th  day  of  November,  1791,  Daniel 
Smith,  preacher."  The  late  Dr.  David  Sherman,  in  his 
history  of  the  New  England  Conference,  assigns  this  class 
to  no  circuit,  but  it  was  a  part  of  the  Lynn  circuit,  with  its 
centre  only  five  miles  away.  Unfortunately  the  first  book 
of  records  of  luynn  Common  church — a  priceless  record  of 
Methodism's  beginnings  in  Massachusetts  —  cannot  be 
found,  but  it  is  doubtful  if  anything  would  be  discovered 
concerning  the  work  here  if  it  could  be.  The  late  Horace 
Mann,  of  Natick,  told  the  writer  years  ago  that  Maiden 
was  a  part  of  the  Needham  circuit,  and  no  doubt  in  his 
historical  researches  he  found  records  concerning  it.     A 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  4I 

search  in  the  earliest  Minutes  of  the  New  England  Con- 
ference confirms  his  statement  and  develops  the  inform- 
ation that  this  circuit  was  fifty  miles  long,  including  Need- 
ham,  Harvard,  Weston,  Milford,  Holliston  and  Maiden. 

In  1800  that  magnificient  soldier  of  the  Cross,  Joshua 
Soule,  in  his  later  years  of  the  church.  South,  a  bishop 
whose  active  ministerial  life  extended  over  the  first  half 
century  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church,  was  appointed 
to  the  Needham  circuit,  and  he  made  a  record  of  the  mem- 
bership of  the  class  at  Maiden,  dated  1803.  It  was  :  John 
Wait,  Ruth  Wait,  John  Briant,  Mary  Briant,  David  Wait, 
Richard  Clarrinbold,  Elizabeth  Cheever,  Seth  Briden,  and 
Samuel  Steavens.  This  showed  that  though  the  class  was 
serving  its  purpose  in  keeping  alive  influences  that  were  to 
result  in  the  formation  of  several  churches,  its  member- 
ship had  already  shrunk  one-half. 

Before  sketching  the  circumstances  which  led  to  the 
formation  of  the  North  Maiden  and  later  the  Center 
Methodist  churches,  it  may  be  well  to  put  together  the 
facts  known  and  obtainable  concerning  the  class  on  Cross 
street,  which  seems  to  deserve  all  the  credit  usually  awarded 
it  of  being  the  seed-planting  of  Methodism  here,  if  not  that 
of  being  the  real  beginning  of  the  Center  church.  First, 
as  to  the  personnel  of  this  class :  John  Wait,  the  moving 
spirit  in  it,  apparently,  was  the  son  of  another  John,  born 
in  Rumney  Marsh,  March  13,  172 1,  and  who  lived  until 
1807.  He  married  Sarah  Faulkner,  daughter  of  Benj- 
amin, and  so  came  into  the  possession  of  what  was  always 
known  as  the  "  old  Waitt  house  "  until  it  made  way  for  the 
Lincoln  school.  The  elder  Faulkner's  house  stood  and 
still  stands  on  the  opposite  side  of  the  street.  Doubtless 
this  John  Wait  was  living  with  his  son  in  the  house  at  the 
time  the  class  was  formed.     There  were  several  brothers 


42  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

and  sisters  in  the  family.  David  Wait  was  one.  He  was 
born  April  i6,  1755,  remained  a  bachelor  to  the  end  of  his 
life,  was  blind  for  forty  years  and  finally  met  his  death  by 
a  fall  down  stairs,  in  the  house  of  his  sister  Mary — also 
named  with  him  in  the  list  of  members  of  the  first-class,  — 
who  married  John  Bryant,  another  member.  Still  another 
member  of  the  class  and  a  sister  to  the  others  was  Ruth 
Wait.  She  married  Seth  Breeden,  whose  name  likewise 
appears  in  the  above  list,  in  1793.  It  will  thus  be  seen  that 
of  the  nine  members,  six  were  of  one  family,  or  allied  to 
it  by  marriage.  The  identity  of  Samuel  Stevens  is  doubt- 
ful. Richard  Clarrinbold  lived  in  the  same  section,  a  part 
of  the  village  of  Faulkner,  and  Elizabeth  Cheever  was  of 
Chelsea  stock,  three  of  the  Cheever  family,  sisters,  having 
married  three  Waitt  brothers,  of  another  branch.  I  am 
indebted  to  the  late  Deloraine  P.  Corey  for  the  foregoing 
biographical  facts. 

But  one  of  these  members  lived  to  see  a  regular  church 
organization  at  Maiden  Center — David  Wait,  whose  name 
I  find  on  the  roll  of  the  church  for  over  twenty  years  after 
its  formation.  In  the  revision  of  1844  it  had  disappeared. 
Therefore  he  is  the  one  link  connecting  the  two  organiza- 
tions, and  giving  color  to  a  claim  that  Center  church  is  now 
124  years  old. 

I  have  endeavored  in  every  possible  way  to  secure 
the  date  of  the  first  sermon  at  John  Wait's  house*  in  Cross 

*It  would  be  interesting-  to  trace,  if  we  might,  the  influences  that  brought  Jesse  Lee 
or  his  colleague,  Daniel  Smith,  to  Maiden  and  to  the  house  of  John  ^Vait.  For  years  the 
key  may  have  been  within  my  reach,  but  I  did  not  know  it,  for  my  neighbor  was  Mrs. 
Nancy  S.  Newhall,  widow  of  Charles  New  hall  and  daughter  of  John  and  Hannah  (Faulk- 
ner) Breeden.  I  suppose  John  Breedon  was  the  son  of  Seth  Breeden  and  Ruth,  daughter 
of  John  Wait.  Seth  Breeden  was  married  to  Ruth  Wait  by  Rev.  Eliakim  Willis  July  25, 
'793-  ]ohn  Breeden  of  Maiden  was  married  to  Ruth  Ingalls  of  Lynn  September  30,  1792. 
The  name  "  Narramore  "  is  often  repeated  in  the  Breeden  family  "of  Maiden.  The  Lynn 
records  show  that  Samuel  Narramore  was  living  in  Lynn  early  in  the  eighteenth 
century,  and  that  in  June,  1730  Samuel  Breeden  of  Boston'  married  his  daughter  Sarah 
Narramore.  Several  of  their  children  are  recorded  as  born  in  Maiden,  and  it  seems  to  me 
that  both  John  and  Seth  Breeden  were  grandsons  and  probably  brothers;  if  so  it  was  John 
Wait's  prospective  son-in-law  who  interested  him  in  the  tidings  of  Jesse  Lee's  work  in 
Lynn. 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  43 

Street.  I  have  Jesse  Lee's  own  story  of  the  planting  of 
Methodism  in  New  England  ;  and  he  is  very  careful  to  give 
the  dates  of  his  first  sermons  in  many  of  the  towns  and 
states  his  reason  to  be  "that  the  people  in  those  parts  may 
known  when  they  were  first  visited  by  us."  Daniel  Smith 
joined  him  February  27,  1790.  On  October  4,  1790,  the 
fifty-fourth  conference  met  in  New  York.  The  first  circuit 
in  Massachusetts,  called  "  Boston  "  was  formed  at  this  con- 
ference. Lee's  first  sermon  in  Massachusetts  was  preached 
at  Wilbraham,  May  3,  1790.  Injuly  he  preached  on  Boston 
Common.  July  12  the  first  Methodist  sermon  was  preached 
in  Salem.  July  20  he  preached  for  the  first  time  in 
Charlestown,  but  he  did  not  preach  his  first  sermon  in  Lynn 
until  December  14  and  he  did  not  preach  in  Needham  until 
September  13,  1791 .  At  the  conference  this  year  Lee  says 
the  name  of  the  Boston  circuit  was  changed  to  "  Lynn." 
The  Needham  circuit  w^as  not  reported  until  the  conference 
which  met  in  Lynn,  August  3,  1792. 

On  Thanksgiving  day,  1831,  Rev.  S.  Osgood  Wright 
preached  a  notable  sermon  in  Maiden  on  the  beginnings  of 
the  various  churches.  It  was  printed,  and  its  faded  pages 
furnish  most  of  the  material  upon  which  any  historian 
must  rely  for  facts  concerning  Maiden  Methodism's  earlier 
religious  history.  In  it  he  remarked,  "James  Howard 
moved  from  North  Maiden  to  the  Center,  who  with  his 
wife  were  the  only  Methodists  in  that  part  of  the  town, 
excepting  Mr.  Waitt.  His  remark  is  of  value  as  showing 
positively  that  only  David  Wait  remained  of    the  original 

class. 

Mr.  Wright's  full  story  of  the  introduction  of  Methodism 
into  Maiden  and  of  this  class  is  as  follows:  "Soon  after 
the  introduction  of  Methodism  into  New^  England  in  1791, 
a  class  was  formed  in  Lynn.     The  excitement  which  this 


44  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

subject  produced,  induced  many  of  the  neighboring  inhab- 
itants to  hear  the  doctrines  taught  by  this  sect.  The 
venerable  Jesse  Lee  and  his  coadjutors  occasionally 
preached  in  the  South  part  of  the  town,  soon  after  this 
period,  and  succeeded  in  forming  a  class  of  tifteen  or  twenty 
members,  but  they  were  never  organized  into  a  church. 
The  venerable  David  Waitt,  the  blind  man  occasionally 
seen  at  church,  was  a  member  of  this  class,  and  is  the  only 
survivor.  The  unsparing  fingers  of  death  gradually 
thinned  away  this  class ;  and  the  spirit  of  Methodism 
awoke  not  again,  until  the  voice  of  productive  circumstances 
called  it  forth  in  1813."  He  then  proceeds  to  relate  the 
stor}?^  of  the  formation  of  the  North  Maiden  church. 

These  facts  appear  to  settle  a  controversy  which  has 
in  former  years  prevented  the  preparation  of  a  history  of 
the  churches  in  which  all  could  agree.  Methodism  in 
Maiden  is  as  old  as  Methodism  in  Lynn  :  A  class  con- 
nected with  the  Lynn  church  was  formed  in  Maiden  the 
very  same  year  that  the  Lynn  church  was  formed.  The 
key  is  in  the  certificate  as  to  John  Waitt's  church  affilia- 
tions, already  quoted.  In  it  Daniel  Smith,  1791,  certifies 
that  John  Waitt  attends  public  worship  with  the  Methodists, 
and  freely  contributes  to  the  support  of  their  ministry. 
Father  Smith  signs  it  in  behalf  of  the  "society."  What 
society?  In  1791,  Jesse  Lee  and  Daniel  Smith  are  recorded 
in  the  first  minutes  as  pastors  at  Lynn,  and  so  organized 
Maiden  Methodism  and  Lynn  Methodism  are  identical  as 
to  length  of  history.  David  Waitt  was  John  Waitt's  brother, 
and  appears  to  have  been  successively  a  member  of  the 
Boston  Circuit,  the  Lynn  circuit  and  the  Needham  circuit 
(each  class  counting  as  part  of  the  membership  of  the  circuit 
or,  strictly  speaking,  church),  and  of  the  North  Maiden 
and  Maiden  Center  churches,  while  Aaron  D.  Sargeant, 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  45 

who  always  contended  that  the  Center  church  should  date 
its  beginning  from  1791  instead  of  thirty  years  later,  with 
James   and  Mary    Howard,    made  additional  links  which 
prevented  a  break  in  its  continuity.     To  James   Howard 
undoubtedly  belongs  the  credit  of  organizing  Methodism  in 
Maiden  Center  on  a  basis  which  resulted  in  a  local  church 
organization  and  the  erection  of  a  building.      He  was   the 
father  of  Maiden  Center  church,  undoubtedly ;   and  when 
he  recorded  Father  Wiley's  sermon  in  his  home  in  August, 
1S16,  as  the  first    Methodist  sermon,  he  was  doubtless  of 
the  opinion  that  his  statement  was  correct,  as  it  was,  so  far 
as  the  Center  church  enterprise  was  concerned  ;  but  the 
evidence  is  overwhelming  that  the  first  Methodist  sermon 
was  preached  here  in  1740  by  Whitetield  ;  that  in  1790  or 
1 791,  Jesse  Lee,  the  apostle  of  New  England  Methodism 
preached    here ;     that    in    conjunction   with    his  collegue, 
Daniel  Smith,  who  must  have  preached  here  frequently,  he 
organized    the    Maiden  adherents   into    a   class,   and  that 
practically  until    the  organization  of  the  Melrose  church 
they  had  the  ministrations  of  the  successive  preachers  of 
the    Needham    circuit,  —  viz:      1792,  John   Allen;    1793, 
John  Hill;   1794,  Amos  G.  Thompson;    1795,  John  Van- 
naman ;     1796,    George    Pickering,    Joshua   Hall;     1797, 
Daniel   Ostrander,    Elias  Hull;     1798,    Daniel    Brumley ; 
1799,  Stephen  Hull;   Elijah  R,  Sabin  ;   1800,  John  Finne- 
gan,  Nathan  Emery  ;   1801,  Joseph  Snelling  ;    1802,  Joshua 
Soule,   Daniel  Perry;    1803,  Reuben  Hubbard,    Thomas 
Rawlin  ;   1804,  Nehemiah  Cove,  Joel  Wicker ;  1805,  Clem- 
ent Parker,    Erastus    Otis;     1806,   John    Gove,    Thomas 
Amesbury  ;   1807,  Benjamin  Hill,   Isaac    Scarrett ;   1808, 
John  Tinkham ;    1809,   B.   R.    Hoyt,   Nathan   Hill;    1810, 
Isaac  Bonney,  Robert  Arnold;   1811,  Isaac  Bonney,  Elias 
Bonney ;     1812,    Elisha    Streeter,   John    Vickary ;     1813, 
Orlando  Hinds,  V.  Osborn. 


46  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

The  writer  has  endeavored  to  ascertain  from  the  Mel- 
rose church  records  whether  others  of  the  Cross  street  class 
were  on  its  original  roll,  but  the  roll  seems  to  be  lost,  so 
that  this  is  impossible.  However,  the  line  is  clear:  The 
Melrose  church  was  used  by  Providence  to  keep  alive 
Methodism  in  the  central  part  of  Maiden,  just  as  a  few 
years  later  the  Center  church  w^as  used  to  keep  alive 
Methodism  in  Medford,  until  the  church  formed  in  1822 
was  revived  in  1842.  Methodism  in  Maiden  is  nearly  125 
years  old  ;  the  Melrose  church  is  right  in  claiming  to  be 
the  mother  church  of  the  original  town  ;  and  the  descend- 
ants of  James  Howard  are  right  in  claiming  him  as  the 
founder  of  the  Center  Methodist  church. 

Let  us  now  turn  to  the  story  of  the  events  which  led  to 
the  founding  of  the  Melrose  church,  and  the  revival  of  the 
movement  to  establish  Methodism  in  the  center  of  Maiden. 
The  first  two  decades  of  the  nineteeth  century  were  crucial 
years  in  the  history  of  the  Puritan  church,  which  up  to  that 
time  had  been  the  only  permanent  organization  here.  It 
had  always  been  a  church  subject  to  storms.  This  was 
true  of  it  from  the  days  when  that  saintly  seer  and  poet, 
Michael  Wigglesworth,  was  compelled  to  teach  school  and 
practice  medicine  while  his  flock  wrangled  over  his  status 
as  pastor,  down  through  the  later  period,  when  a  question 
arose  as  to  the  propriety  of  moving  the  location  of  the 
second  church  building  in  which  Whitefield  preached,  a 
few  rods  down  the  road  from  Bell  Rock,  near  the  present 
Ellis  avenue,  to  the  corner  of  what  is  now  Eastern  avenue 
to  accommodate  North  Maiden  people.  The  result  of  that 
controversy  was  the  establishment  of  the  South  Maiden 
(Everett)  parish — a  languishing  body,  over  which  Pres- 
ident Grover  Cleveland's  great  grandfather  preached 
for    a    time,   and    which    had    the    ministrations    of    Rev. 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  47 

Eliakim  Willis — and  the  final  location  of  the  First  Church 
on  what  is  now  called  the  "Elevated  lot."  It  was  the 
beginning  of  a  feud  which  found  its  climax  when  Everett 
refused  to  join  in  Maiden's  250th  anniversary  celebration. 
But  the  church  was  now  to  be  rent  in  twain  and  more,  not 
only  by  the  questions  which  were  everywhere  sundering 
the  established  congregational  body  into  "  Orthodox," 
Unitarian  and  Universalist  denominations  but  over  political 
questions. 

The  good  man  who  saw  all  these  changes  come,  and 
who  lived  to  see  his  single  parish  broken   into   a   dozen 
parishes  divided  among  three  towns  and  a  half-dozen  sects, 
was  Rev.  Aaron  Green,  Maiden  born,  son  of  Ezra  Green, 
and  a  descendant  of  original  settlers  here.     He  succeeded 
Eliakim  Willis,  left  the  only  pastor  in  Maiden  with    the 
departure    of    the  elder  Judson.     Mr.  Green  was  a  good 
man,  saintly  in  his  life,  but  disposed  to  Arminianism,  per- 
haps an  unfortunate  attitude  at  a  time  when  Calvinism  was 
on  trial,  and  there  were  revolts  on  all  sides.     More  than 
this,  he  was  a  staunch   Federalist,  and  these  were   times 
when  the  "  Republican  "  predecessor  of  the  present  Demo- 
cratic party  was  gaining  many  adherants.     The  first  break 
came  when  a   minister  on   exchange  with   Mr.  Green,  in 
1813,  preached  a  particularly  strong  Federalist  sermon. 
The  people  of  the  North  Maiden  section  were  very  strong 
in  their  "Republican"  sympathies  —  in  fact,  we  are  told 
that  Democrats  continue  to  be  plentiful  in  that  section  of 
Melrose  where  the  revolt  began  —  and  they  immediately 
determined  that   a   change  in  conditions    was    necessary. 
Therefore  a  meeting  was   held  at  the  house  of  Phinehas 
Sprague,  on  Main  street,  and  this  meeting  voted  to  engage 
Rev.  Timothy  Merritt,  a  member  of  the  legislature    from 
the   district  of  Maine,  and  a  Methodist  preacher,  to  serve 


48  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

them  on  Sundays  during  the  sessions  of  the  General  Court. 
He  preached  his  first  sermon  February  7,  1813,  and  from 
that  time  on  services  continued.  In  1816  a  chapel  was 
constructed  at  the  junction  of  Main  and  Green  streets. 
Green  street  takes  its  name,  not  from  the  family  of  Rev. 
Ezra  Green,  but  from  that  family  which  sprung  from 
Thomas  Greene  and  Rebecca  Hills,  the  latter  a  daughter  of 
the  founder,  Joseph  Hills.  The  Melrose  Highlands  section 
is  largely  located  on  the  Greene  farm.  Two  churches  were 
successively  built  on  the  site  of  the  first,  the  society  wor- 
shipping on  the  spot  for  many  years. 

A  word  as  to  Phinehas  Sprague,  whose  efforts  estab- 
lished Methodism  in  Melrose.  He  was  a  descendant  of  the 
early  settler,  William  Sprague,  who  is  understood  to  have 
journeyed  hither  from  ancient  Naumkeag  when  Massa- 
chusetts was  seeing  its  beginnings.  From  an  ancient 
printed  pamphlet  with  his  autograph  on  the  fly-leaf  we  find 
that  his  father  was  one  of  the  most  daring  advocates  of 
American  liberties  before  the  Revolution.  The  father's 
name,  also,  was  Phinehas,  and  at  the  breaking  out  of  the 
war  he  was  advanced  in  years  and  very  deaf.  During  the 
Concord  fight,  when  the  rest  of  his  party  were  flying  from 
the  enemy,  he  was  observed  on  a  piece  of  rising  ground 
swinging  his  hat,  and  shouting  "Victory!"  In  1792  aged 
Phinehas  again  proved  himself  a  man  of  courage,  for  he 
took  charge  of  a  house  used  as  a  hospital  in  the  north  part 
of  Maiden,  which  during  an  epidemic  of  small-pox  had 
twenty  patients.  He  died  in  1805.  His  son  was  a  force- 
ful person  who  made  his  life  a  part  of  the  history  of  North 
Maiden  in  many  ways.  The  name  is  still  preserved,  each 
generation  having  one  or  more  Phinehas  Spragues. 

Besides  Phinehas  Sprague,  there  were  on  the  com- 
mittee appointed  by  the  indignation  meeting,  which  history 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  49 

says  met  in  a  barn,  James  Green  and  Jesse  Upham.  The 
family  of  Jesse  Upham  soon  drifted  from  Melrose,  but 
another  branch  became  famous  in  Methodism.  Frederick 
Upham  was  the  son  of  Samuel  S.  Upham,  and  in  the 
seventh  generation  from  John  Upham,  the  English  emi- 
grant, whose  son  Phinehas,  also  an  ancestor  of  Frederick, 
was  a  famous  Indian  fighter  and  one  of  the  founders  of 
Worcester,  called  in  his  will  "  Consugameg,  or  Lydbery." 
The  first  name  evidently  is  a  corruption  of  "Chaubunagunga- 
maug  "  still  appliedto  a  pond  in  Webster.  Frederick  Upham 
was  born  October  4, 1799,  and  died  in  Fairhaven,  March  20, 
1891.  He  was  converted  soon  after  the  establishment  of 
the  Melrose  Methodist  church  and  in  1821  became  a 
preacher,  being  appointed  to  Scituate.  From  1837  to 
1847  he  was  a  presiding  elder,  and  during  his  long  min- 
isterial career  he  preached  in  New  Bedford,  Providence, 
Newport,  Fall  River,  Taunton,  Provincetown  and  many 
other  important  charges.  He  was  a  member  of  four 
general  conferences,  in  1832,  1840,  1844  and  1872,  and 
at  the  first  he  met  Bishop  McKendree,  elected  in  x8o2, 
being  the  second  bishop  after  Asbury  and  Coke.  He 
married  Deborah  Bourne,  a  lenial  descendant  of  Rev. 
Richard  Bourne  of  Scituate,  a  celebrated  Puritan  clergy- 
man. In  1855  DePauw  (then  Asbury)  University  con- 
ferred upon  him  the  degree  of  "D.  D."  Samuel  Foster 
Upham,  D.  D.,  his  son,  was  born  in  Duxbury,  May  19, 
1834  ^^^  married,  April  15,  1857  Lucy  G.  Smith  of  Middle- 
town,  Conn.  Dr.  Upham  graduated  from  Wesleyan  Uni- 
versity in  1856,  for  many  years  was  assigned  to  the  most 
important  pulpits  of  the  New  England  conference,  and 
from  188 1  until  his  death  was  professor  of  pastoral  theology 
in  Drew  Theological  seminary.  He  was  a  delegate  to 
many  general  conferences.  Three  of  his  sons,  Frederick 
4 


50  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

Norman  Upham,  Dr.  Francis  B.  Upham  and  Walter  H. 
Upham  became  clergymen,  the  former,  now  deceased,  hav- 
ing been  licensed  by  Maiden  Center  quarterly  conference. 
Dr.  F.  B.  Upham  is  now  a  district  superintendent,  living 
in  Brooklyn.  W.  H.  Upham  preaches  in  Chester,  New 
Hampshire. 

Another  early  member  of  the  North  Maiden  church 
was  William  Emerson,  a  Revolutionary  soldier,  who  mar- 
ried Mary  Vinton  and  was  the  father  of  George  Emerson, 
who  married  a  daughter  of  Phinehas  and  Sarah  (Fuller) 
Sprague,  and  Warren  Emerson,  who  was  an  effective 
preacher  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  connection  for  40 
years.  Rev.  Warren  Emerson  was  of  the  Ipswich  Emer- 
son stock  which  furnished  pastors  for  so  many  of  the  New 
England  Puritan  churches  during  the  seventeenth  and 
eighteenth  centuries,  the  First  Parish  church  having  one  of 
them,  and  he  therefore  was  a  distant  cousin  of  Ralph  Waldo 
Emerson.  He  was  born  February  6,  1796,  and  after  a 
season  during  his  young  manhood  spent  in  teaching  school, 
he  was  licensed  to  preach  by  the  North  Maiden  quarterly 
conference  in  1825.  He  was  sent  to  the  church  in  Lynn- 
field  and  in  1S28  he  joined  the  New  England  conference, 
being  transferred  to  the  Providence  conference  in  1840. 
He  died  May  15,  1882.  Father  Emerson  during  his  long 
service  was  assigned  to  24  stations  and  served  through  15 
"full"  pastorates.  During  his  latter  days  he  was  given  a 
supernumery  relation,  but  acted  as  pastor  of  the  church  in 
West  Thompson,  Conn.  In  1870  he  was  superannuated, 
but  continued  to  serve  the  West  Thompson  church.  His 
first  wife  was  Mary  Barrett  and  his  second  Susannah  Jones, 
who  died  in  1876.      He  left  several  children. 

In  1816,  the  year  the  North  Maiden  church  was 
erected,  the  pastor  was  invited  to  the  house  of  Samuel  Cox 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  5 1 

on  Pleasant  street  to  hold  a  preaching  service.  This  house, 
just  demolished,  was  near  Florence  street,  and  there  Mrs. 
Lemuel  Cox,  already  mentioned,  resided  many  years.  These 
services  came  about  in  this  way  :  James  Howard,  the 
founder  of  the  church,  with  his  wife,  experienced  religion 
at  the  services  in  North  Maiden,  May  12,  1815.  He  soon 
after  moved  to  the  Center,  hiring  the  westerly  half  of  the 
Samuel  Cox  house.  Among  his  manuscripts,  collected  by 
his  grandson,  Hon.  George  Howard  Fall,  this  minute  is 
found. 

"  Moved  into  Centre  Maiden  in  1816.  The  first  Metho- 
dist sermon  was  preached  in  my  house  in  August  of  the 
same  year  by  E.  Wiley.  Text:  "These  are  they  which 
came  out  of  great  tribulation,  and  have  washed  their  robes 
and  made  them  white  in  the  blood  of  the  Lamb."  Another 
item  is  this  :  "  My  wife's  relatives  all  belong  to  the  Baptists, 
and  she  was  very  much  tried  to  know  which  to  join,  and 
in  her  trial  she  opened  to  this  passage  in  the  Psalms : 
'Harken,  O  daughter,  and  consider  and  incline  thine  ear; 
forget  also  thine  own  people,  and  thy  father's  house  ;  so 
shall  the  King  greatly  desire  thy  beauty  ;  for  he  is  thy  Lord, 
and  worship  thou  him.'  " 

In  1819,  as  stated,  Rev.  Isaac  Jennison  was  sent  to 
the  North  Maiden  church,  and  the  Center  was  included  in 
his  responsibilities.  Mr.  Jennison  died  in  Natick,  Septem- 
ber 13,  1878,  at  the  age  of  88,  having  been  60  years  in  the 
ministry,  which  he  entered  in  18 18.  Evidently  this  was 
his  first  charge,  and  the  results  show  his  enthusiasm  and 
devotion  to  his  work.  The  writer  well  remembers  him  in 
the  days  of  his  superannuate  relation,  a  patriarch  among 
the  Natick  people,  and  still  an  enthusiast  for  the  faith  and 
customs  of  the  church  of  his  choice.  In  1820  he  formed 
the  first  class  at  the  Center,  which  held  its  initial  meeting 


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at  the  house  of  James  Howard  on  Summer  street,  whither 
the  latter  had  removed  the  previous  year,  and  where  his 
daughter  Rebecca,  mother  of  Ex-mayor  Fall,  was  born. 
Mr.  Howard  was  appointed  leader  of  the  class,  and  accord- 
ing to  an  historical  sermon  preached  by  Rev.  A.  D. 
Sargeant,  May  i8,  1880,  as  recorded  by  Brother  Fall  in 
his  diary,  (it  being  the  sixtieth  anniversary),  the  members 
were  as  follows  :  James  Howard  and  wife,  Aaron  Waitt 
and  wife,  Aaron  Waitt,  Jr.,  David  Sargeant,  Mary  Herring, 
Sarah  Herring,  Aaron  D.  Sargeant,  Unite  Cox,  Gilbert 
Haven,  Hannah  Guile.  Mrs.  Mary  (Day)  Upham  was 
known  in  1883  as  the  oldest  member  of  the  church,  and  is 
the  Mary  Herring  whose  name  appears  above. 

The  Howard  house  stood  near  Rockland  avenue,  and 
a  fine  photograph  of  it  was  on  exhibition  in  the  loan 
exhibit  during  Maiden's  250th  anniversary. 

Meanwhile,  the  Howard  family  was  not  the  only 
one  in  which  there  were  solemn  questions  pending,  as 
the  following  extracts  from  the  records  of  the  First 
Church, — transcribed  by  its  clerk,  Frederic  I.  Winslow, 
will  show  : 

"  August  15,  1819.  The  pastor  stayed  the  brethren  of 
the  church  after  divine  service,  at  the  request  of  brother 
Haven,  when  he  stated  to  the  church  his  desire  to  be 
dismissed  from  us,  and  be  recommended  to  the  Baptist 
church  in  this  Town.  After  some  consulation  the  church 
voted  to  adjourn  the  meeting  to  the  day  of  our  next  com- 
munion." 

"September  5,  1819.  The  brethren  of  the  church 
stopped  after  communion  agreeably  to  adjournment,  when 
brother  Haven  withdrew  his  proposal  to  be  dismissed  from 


us." 


"June  3,  1 82 1.     The   pastor  stayed  the  church  after 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  53 

communion,  and  the  brethren  voted  to  dismiss,  according 
to  his  request,  brother  G.  Haven,  that  he  may  unite  with 
the  Methodists." 

"April  4,  1824.  The  pastor  stayed  the  church  after 
communion,  and  brethren  voted  to  dismiss,  according  to 
her  request,  sister  Hannah  Haven,  that  she  may  unite  with 
the  Methodists." 

I  pass  over,  for  the  time  being,  a  sketch  of  the  mem- 
bers of  this  first  class,  their  antecedents  and  subsequent 
history,  that  the  story  of  the  growth  of  the  church  may  be 
unbroken.  It  was  the  consecration  and  enthusiasm  of 
James  Howard  which  made  the  beginnings  of  the  church 
possible  ;  it  was  the  sound  sense  and  devotion  to  Methodism 
which  characterized  the  elder  Gilbert  Haven,  combined 
with  his  growing  influence  in  public  affairs,  which  gave  to 
the  struggling  movement  a  standing  that  gained  it  the 
respect  of  onlookers.  Gilbert  Haven  was  at  about  this  time 
thirty  years  old  ;  he  was  born  in  Framingham,  of  a  famil}^ 
which  originated  in  Lynn,  married  in  Boston,  in  1811, 
Hannah  Burrell  of  East  Abington,  the  daughter  of  a 
Revolutionary  soldier,  the  ceremony  being  performed  by 
Rev.  Charles  Lowell  of  the  West  Church,  father  of  the 
poet,  James  Russell  Lowell.  The  west  church  building  is 
now  the  West  End  branch  of  the  Boston  Public  Library. 
In  the  following  year.  Sept.  6,  181 2,  they  presented  their 
first  child,  Sarah,  for  baptism,  in  the  West  Church,  and 
on  the  same  day,  on  profession  of  faith,  they  were  admitted 
to  membership.  In  1813  they  removerd  to  Maiden,  taking 
their  church  letters  to  the  First  Congregational  church, 
which  had  just  occupied  the  brick  structure  afterward 
known  as  the  First  Parish  (Universalist)  church.  Before 
leaving  and  joining  the  Methodists,  Gilbert  Haven  had 
formed    the    first    Sunday    School    in    Maiden,    and    was 


54  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

its  superintendent  up  to  the  time  he  was  dismissed.  He 
entered  heartily  into  the  plans  of  Isaac  Jennison  for  the 
formation  of  a  church  from  the  little  company  worshipping 
in  James  Howard's  house,  and  in  1821  it  was  organized 
and  incorporated.  It  immediately  commenced  to  worship 
in  Stiles'  hall,  which  stood  at  the  corner  of  Pleasant  and 
Washington  streets,  on  the  site  of  the  present  church.  The 
hall  was  occasionally  used  for  Masonic  purposes,  and  there 
was  a  tenement  in  the  same  building,  which  was  occupied 
at  different  times  by  George  P.  Cox  (who  became  one  of 
the  most  useful  members  of  the  church)  Leonard  Emerson, 
Lorenzo  Newhall,  Charles  Symonds,  William  Waitt  and 
others.  In  later  years  the  building  was  moved  to  Franklin 
street.  At  the  corner  of  Salem  and  Sprague  streets  was  a 
schoolhouse  where  services  were  occasionally  held,  and  at 
other  times  until  the  building  of  the  church  edifice  there 
were  services  in  the  brick  schoolhouse  on  the  site  of  the 
present  Yerxa  block. 

In  1822  a  Sunday  school  was  formed,  and  Gilbert 
Haven  was  of  course  made  its  superintendent,  a  position 
he  was  to  hold  for  34  years.  John  Adams  was  at  this  time 
serving  as  pastor  of  both  the  North  Maiden  and  Center 
churches.  The  first  pastor  assigned  to  this  church  was 
Rev.  Joseph  Marsh,*  a  theological  student,  who  seems  to 
have  been  with  the  church  two  years,  1825  and  1826.  For 
90  years  the  precious  memory  of  "  Father  Marsh  "  has 
lingered  in  the  church,  for  it  was  through  his  ardent  efforts 
that  its  first  edifice  was  built  and  it  became  a  permanent 
body,    starting  on  a  career    of  usefulness  which    has  not 

*In  1S74,  Dr.  Bradford  K.  Pierce  (son  of  Rev.  Thomas  C.  Pierce  of  the  North  Maiden 
church),  at  that  time  editor  of  Zioii's  Herald,  wrote  concerning  the  dedication  of  the 
present  church  building,  the  following  reference  to  F.ather  Marsh  :  "The  first  minister, 
a  Wesleyan  local  preacher,  not  long  before  landed  from  England  —  an  expert  glass-blower 
by  trade  —  who  secured  the  first  house  of  worship,  sat  on  the  pulpit  platform  near  to  the 
preacher." — Zion's  Herald  May  21,  1S74. 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  55 

ceased  as  3-61  to  increase  in  volume  and  power  with  each 
successive  year. 

It  was  no  small  task  to  bring  the  youthful  society  to 
believe  that  it  would  be  justified  in  undertaking  the  responsi- 
bility of  building  a  church.  We  honor  the  men  who  by 
their  spirit  of  sacrifice  and  large  generosity  built  and 
eventually  cleared  the  debt  from  the  present  sightly  edifice. 
They  did  this  because  many  of  them  were  descendants  and 
all  had  before  them  the  example  of  the  heroes  and  heroines 
of  1825, — for  it  was  the  sacrifices  of  the  women  which  aided 
not  a  little  in  accomplishing  the  initial  result.  A  lot  of  land 
was  purchased  on  Main  street,  near  Mill  street  (Mountain 
avenue).  One  street  further  up  (then  known  as  Jackson 
and  now  called  Clifton  street),  was  a  house  which  was  to 
become  historic.  It  was  the  home  of  Unite  Cox,  and  a 
part  of  it  was  occupied  by  Gilbert  Haven,  while  toddling 
about  the  premises  was  an  auburn  haired  youngster,  born 
September  19,  182 1,  bearing  his  father's  name,  who  would 
few  years  later  serve  with  great  dignity  as  the  sexton  of 
the  church  to  be  built,  ushering  in  the  strangers  with  such 
grace  as  to  be  the  observed  of  all  observers.  This  boy  was 
to  unite  with  the  church  in  early  youth,  and  eventually 
reach  the  highest  dignities  it  had  to  offer.  In  recent  years 
the  Unite  Cox  house  has  been  moved  across  the  street, 
where  it  is  now  numbered  37,  but  there  are  good  pictures 
still  extant  of  the  birthplace  of  Bishop  Haven  as  it  appeared 
in  those  early  times. 

The  cost  of  the  site  of  the  new  church  was  $100.  The 
building  cost  $2,000.  It  contained  62  pews,  capable  of 
seating  300  persons.  It  was  in  form  like  a  chapel,  and  the 
vestry  was  in  front,  standing  upon  supports,  above  the 
entrance,  like  a  bird  house.  Later  the  vestry  was  enlarged, 
and  moved  to  the  rear. 


56  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

The  leaders  in  this  successful  enterprise  were  Gilbert 
Haven,  Father  James  Howard,  Lemuel  Cox,  Samuel  Cox, 
David  Sargeant,  Benjamin  Wilson  and  William  C.  Brown. 

April  26,  1827,  was  a  notable  day,  for  on  that  date  the 
new  church  was  dedicated.  Through  the  thoughtfulness 
of  Mrs.  Mabel  A.  Mann  of  Everett,  nearly  three  quarters 
of  a  century  after  this  occurrence,  the  church  came  into 
possession  of  a  copy  of  the  original  programme  of  the  exer- 
cises, which  included  a  sermon  by  Rev.  Timothy  Merritt, 
then  or  not  long  after  editor  of  Zion's  Herald,  and  soon  to 
become  pastor,  and  exercises  by  clergymen  of  other  denom- 
inations. The  plan  which  Maiden  followed  closely  in  her 
250th  anniversary  of  having  the  words  of  every  anthem 
sung  printed  upon  the  programme,  was  carried  out  at  this 
time,  so  that  while  we  do  not  have  the  sermon  preserved, 
and  cannot  know  the  substance  of  the  prayer  of  Father 
Isaac  Bonney,  we  can  easily  reproduce  the  remainder  of 
the  service. 

Rev.  Ebenezer  Blake,  who  made  the  closing  prayer, 
left  the  New  England  for  the  Providence  conference  in 
1841.  We  shall  probably  never  know  how  it  happened 
that  Rev.  James  Sabine  was  given  a  place  upon  the  program. 
He  was  a  very  noted  and  useful  Congregational  clergy- 
man, and  at  the  time  pastor  of  the  Essex  Street  Religious 
Society  of  Boston.  There  were  three  Methodist  itinerants 
with  the  same  surname  in  early  days,  and  possibly  he  was 
a  connection  of  one  of  them  ;  or  it  may  be  that  he  had 
relations  of  friendship  with  the  maker  of  the  program  which 
led  to  his  being  invited.  Within  a  short  time  a  collection 
of  his  sermons  and  lectures,  bearing  evidence  of  his  busy 
and  notable  work,  exchanged  hands  in  a  Boston  book  sale. 

The  music  on  that  day  was  led  by  the  gifted  Gilbert 
Haven,  who  for    many  years    continued    to    be    not   only 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  57 

superintendent  of  the  Sunday  School  and  a  class  leader, 
but  chorister.  Of  course  such  singing  could  not  be  done 
without  a  fairly  good  chorus  choir.  Mrs.  Cox,  who  soon 
after  became  a  member  of  this  choir  and  continued  thirty 
years,  tells  me :  "  The  choir  of  that  first  church  are  all 
dead  but  myself.  The  Havens  and  Coxes  did  all  the  sing- 
ing. I  had  just  been  to  singing  school.  A  Mr.  Bailey — 
uncle  to  Mr.  Shute  —  taught  us.  We  never  had  had  any- 
thing in  Maiden  worth  singing  to  before.  Before  I  went 
into  the  choir  an  oldish  lady  had  been  singing ;  but  she 
took  herself  out,  and  I  was  put  in  her  place,  and  sang  30 
years.  Among  the  choir  were :  Mrs.  Townsend,  Mrs. 
Lewis,  myself,  my  father  (leader),  my  husband  (Lemuel 
Cox),  a  young  man,  Aaron  Waitt,  who  played  the  bass 
viol,  Albert  Cox,  who  played  flute  and  violin,  Josiah 
Townsend,  and  Augustus  Stiles,  who  also  played  the  bass 
viol.  The  latter  was  a  good  musician,  and  later  played 
our  first  organ,  which  was  a  very  good  one,  when  it  was 
put  into  the  second  church." 

There  were  services  in  the  evening  of  dedication  day 
in  the  new  church,  in  which  clergymen  of  several  denom- 
inations participated.  On  the  following  Sunday  the  first 
session  of  the  Sunday  School  in  its  new  quarters  was  held. 
Superintendent  Gilbert  Haven  must  have  looked  with  pride 
upon  his  charge,  of  40  members,  which  is  a  smaller  num- 
ber than  is  now  connected  with  single  classes  of  Center 
Sunday  School,  and  much  smaller  than  the  number  of 
teachers  necessary  for  the  entire  school.  His  daughter 
gives  this  very  clear  hint  of  the  interest  taken  by  Squire 
Haven  in  the  school  during  the  quarter  of  a  century  he 
remained  its  superintendent :  "  He  kept  resigning  and 
resigning,  but  they  would  give  him  a  Bible  and  then  he 
would  stay." 


58  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

The  church  membership  of  forty  was  divided  into  two 
classes,  one  of  which  was  led  by  James  Howard,  meeting 
at  his  home  on  Summer  street,  and  the  other  by  Gilbert 
Haven,  it  meeting  with  him,  first  on  Jackson  street,  then 
at  his  house  on  Salem  street,  and  then  in  his  later  residence 
on  Main  street,  between  the  church  and  Maiden  square. 

I  must  now  quote  again  from  the  historical  sketch  in 
the  Thanksgiving  sermon  of  Rev.  S.  Osgood  Wright,  18315 
concerning  the  establishment  of  this  church  : — "  In  1816 
an  individual,  now  a  member  of  this  church,  moved  from 
North  Maiden  to  the  Centre,  who  with  his  wife  were  the 
only  Methodists  in  that  part  of  the  town,  excepting  Mr. 
Waitt,  before  alluded  to.  They  continued  to  live  in  the 
love  and  fellowship  of  the  church  of  their  espousal,  with- 
out receiving  any  accession  to  their  number,  until  the  year 
1820.  At  this  time  a  revival  commenced  in  the  North 
Society  and  extended  to  the  center  of  the  town.  Several 
persons  now  withdrew  from  the  Baptist  church,  and  one 
from  the  Congregationalist ;  who  together  with  several 
others  were  formed  into  a  class.  These,  like  many  in 
similar  circumstances,  had  many  difficulties  to  encounter, 
and  many  prejudices  to  overcome.  Being  without  a  house 
of  worship,  they  met  in  the  schoolhouse  hall,  and  were 
supplied  a  portion  of  the  time  with  preaching  by  the  min- 
ister of  the  North  church.  Receiving  a  gradual  accession 
of  numbers,  they  proceeded  to  erect  a  meetinghouse,  which 
was  dedicated  in  1825.  Rev.  Joseph  Marsh  labored  very 
successfully  with  this  society  at  this  time ;  and  to  him 
belongs  much  praise  for  his  activity  and  perseverence  in 
providing  a  house  of  worship.  The  first  preacher  who 
resided  with  them,  was  Rev.  Ebenezer  Ireson,  who  came 
in  1828.  Rev.  John  T.  Burrill  succeeded  him,  and 
remained  two  years ;    and   gave   place  to  Rev.   Timothy 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  59 

Merritt,  the  present  minister.  This  church  has  had  its 
seasons  of  adversity  and  prosperity.  It  has  moved  onward 
under  the  guidance  of  the  day-star  of  hope,  and  sat  down 
in  tears,  amid  the  darkness  of  clouds  of  disappointment. 
It  has  received  a  gradual  increase  of  members  ;  and  the 
whole  number  is  now  fifty,  divided  into  two  classes." 

Mr.  Wright  omitted  in  his  sketch  the  name  of  G.  W. 
Fairbank,  who  succeeded  Mr.  Marsh,  and  whom  Mrs.  Cox 
remembered.  He  was  transferred  to  the  New  Hampshire 
and  Vermont  conference  in  1829.  I  can  find  little  concern- 
ing Joseph  Marsh,  who  built  the  church,  and  who  is  said 
by  Mrs.  Cox  to  have  been  a  theological  student.  Appar- 
ently he  never  entered  the  New  England  conference. 
Ebenezer  Ireson  entered  the  conference  in  1824,  and  died 
December  26,  1833  at  the  age  of  33  years.  Mrs.  Cox  says 
Mr.  Burrill  was  a  very  fine  preacher,  who  married  in  Maiden 
an  Episcopal  lady,  and  changed  his  order.  Of  John  Adams, 
who  succeeded  Father  Jennison  and  preceded  Joseph  Marsh, 
she  says  :  —  "  He  was  an  oddity,  very  devoted  —  they  used 
to  call  him  'extra  holy.'  He  was  one  of  those  who  went 
into  the  New  Hampshire  and  Vermont  conference  in  1829. 

Timothy  Merritt  deserves  a  more  extended  notice  than 
possible  in  this  sketch,  without  breaking  its  continuity. 
Fine  abilities  as  a  preacher,  great  literary  powers,  and  the 
skill  of  the  politician  were  blended  in  him.  He  cultivated 
the  young  songstress  of  the  Haven  family,  and  her  state- 
ments show  that  she  became  one  of  his  most  loyal  supporters, 
rendering  particular  aid  in  pitching  the  tunes  in  the  week 
night  prayer  service.  "  Father  Merritt  "  she  says,  "  was 
one  of  the  best.  He  boarded  at  our  house  until  his  familv 
came,  and  always  wanted  I  should  sing  before  we  went  to 
meeting.  In  the  fall  (183 1)  he  went  to  keeping  house  on 
Salem  street.     We  lived  on  Main  street,  and  when  I  saw  him 


6o  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

turn  the  corner  T  would  get  out  my  book  ready  to  sing  to 
him." 

At  some  time  during  this  period  Charles  Newhall  was 
added  to  the  orchestra.  He  was  a  violin  player,  married 
Nancy  Breeden  and  resided  in  the  house  recently  demolished 
which  gives  the  name  to  Newhall  street,  an  Main  street. 

In  1832  Asa  U.  Swinerton  was  stationed  at  the  Maiden 
charges.  He  was  transferred  to  the  Providence  conference 
in  1841.  The  following  year  Charles  Noble  came,  and  in 
1834  -^-  ^'  Spaulding,  who  located  in  1842.  In  1835 
came  Ralph  W.  Allen.  He  had  been  a  member  of  the 
conference  two  years.  After  a  half  century  of  noble  ser- 
vice, he  returned  to  Maiden,  residing  on  Newhall  street. 
He  died  April  16,  1891,  at  the  age  of  79,  having  spent  58 
years  in  the  ministry. 

Edward  Otheman,  another  man  who  spent  a  half 
century  in  the  ministry,  came  in  1836.  It  was  his  second 
year  as  a  traveling  preacher.  He  died  March  9,  1886,  at 
the  age  of  76.  Dr.  David  Sherman  speaks  of  him  as  a 
man  honored  in  the  conference,  who  traveled  but  a  short 
time.  In  connection  with  a  reference  to  his  brother, 
Bartholemew,  and  son,  Edward  B.,  he  refers  to  his  services 
as  very  great.  He  studied  at  Brown  University,  and  was 
one  of  the  few  graduates  of  a  college  preaching  at  the  time 
of  his  service  at  Maiden.  H.  B.  Skinner  came  in  1837, 
and  was  well  remembered  by  Mrs.  Cox.  He  withdrew  from 
the  conference  in  1841. 

In  1838  the  charges  in  North  Maiden  and  Maiden  had 
grown  so  strong  that  each  was  given  a  preacher  of  its  own. 
Charles  Hayward  was  sent  to  Maiden.  His  appointment 
must  have  been  as  a  supply  by  the  presiding  elder,  how- 
ever, as  he  had  located  in  1814,  and  seems  never  to  have 
rejoined  the  conference. 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  6l 

In  1839  came  Stephen  G.  Hiler,  Jr.,  who  in  his  later 
days  returned  to  Maiden,  and  died,  after  having  had  the 
privilege  of  attending  the  75th  anniversary  of  the  church, 
where  his  charactistic  modesty  prevented   his   doing  more 
than  rising  to  receive  the  welcome  of  his  old  charge.      He 
battled  with  ill  health  most  of  his  life,  but  notwithstanding 
rendered  exceptional   services  to  his  loved  church.      His 
one  year's  pastorate  in  Maiden  was  very  significant  in  its 
results.     In  his  congregation  was  young  Gilbert  Haven. 
There  was    also   the  latter's  cousin,  Erastus  Otis  Haven, 
a    college   boy,    destined    to    become  not   only   pastor  of 
the  church,   but    president    of    Northwestern    University, 
Chancellor  of  Syracuse  University  and,  like  his  cousin,  a 
bishop.      Did  ever  a  modest  young  preacher  have  a  similar 
experience,   of  seeing   two  future   bishops  in  his  Sunday 
congregation?     To  help  himself  through  college,  one  sum- 
mer, Erastus  O.  Haven  accepted  the  duty  of  painting  the 
church.      Had  he  not  been  a  great  educator  and  preacher, 
this  famous  man  would  have  become  a  great  decorator  or 
artist.     There  is  a  kitchen  floor  in  Framingham, — or  was 
within  a  few  years, — which  he  decorated  in  his  boyhood 
days,  with  such  skill  as  to  represent  mosaic. 

Pastor  Hiler  also  had  in  his  congregation  a  young  man 
named  David  P.  Cox  and  a  maiden,  Mary  C.  Waitt.  Dur- 
ing his  year  of  service  he  gave  the  right  hand  of  fellow- 
ship to  these,  with  Gilbert  Haven,  Jr.  and  also  to  Wilbur 
Fisk  Haven,  his  brother,  active  in  almost  every  department 
of  church  work,  until  September  21,  1900.  David  P.  Cox 
lived  to  honor  the  church  for  over  a  half  century  after  he 
joined  its  ranks.  He  was  most  of  his  life  a  member  of  the 
choir,  part  of  the  time  its  leader,  and  long  a  member  of  the 
music  committee.  He  was  a  trustee  up  to  the  time  of  his 
death. 


62  MALDEN    HISTORICAI.    SOCIETY 

In  1840  came  Moses  Palmer.  He  was  a  young  man 
of  25,  and  it  was  his  third  year  in  the  ministry.  He  died 
March  18,  1850,  at  the  age  of  35. 

In  1841,  came  "George  Landon,  the  brilHant,"  as  he 
is  called  by  Dr.  David  Sherman  in  his  history  of  the  New 
England  Conference.  One  has  but  to  mention  the  name 
of  Landon  among  the  older  members  of  the  conference  to 
arouse  the  greatest  enthusiasm. 

So  successful  was  he  that  during  the  first  year  of  his 
pastorate  a  lot  of  land  was  purchased  on  Pleasant  street  from 
Samuel  Cox  and  the  second  church  building  was  erected. 
The  land  cost  $600  ;  the  building  $6,000.  It  was  dedicated 
October  20,  1842,  Rev.  Mark  Trafton  preaching  the  ser- 
mon. The  Mystic  Theatre  now  stands  on  the  site  of  this 
building. 

The  present  church  building  was  erected  in  1875  and 
its  history  as  well  as  that  of  the  activities  of  the  Society 
occupying  it  for  40  years,  hardly  belongs  to  a  recital  of  the 
beginnings.  It  may  be  said,  however  that  the  Center 
Methodist  Episcopal  church,  in  its  career  of  nearly  a 
century  has  always  had  among  its  official  members  men 
who  were  connected  with  the  general  life  of  the  church — 
editors  of  Zion's  Herald,  Book  Concern  agents,  chaplains, 
professors  in  Boston  University,  and  supernumary  or  retired 
members  of  the  conference.  Of  its  former  pastors,  three, 
Gilbert  Haven,  Erastus  Otis  Haven,  and  Edwin  Holt 
Hughes,  have  been  promoted  to  the  office  of  bishop;  and 
it  was  the  spiritual  birthplace  of  Bishop  Gilbert  Haven. 
In  addition  to  E.  O.  Haven,  once  president  of  Northwestern, 
it  contributed  from  its  list  of  pastors  Joseph  Cummings,  to  be 
president  both  of  Wesleyan  and  Northwestern  universities, 
and  Edwin  H.  Hughes  left  its  pulpit  to  become  president  of 
DuPauw  University.     Joseph  Dennison  was  president  of 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  63 

Kansas  Agricultural  College,  Daniel  Steele  professor  and 
for  a  time  head  of  Syracuse,  Luther  T,  Townsend  and  John 
Reid  Shannon  have  been  professors  and  Lauress  J.  Birney, 
a  recent  pastor,  is  now  dean  of  Boston  University  School 
of  Theology.  Daniel  C.  Knowles  was  long  president  at 
the  New  Hampshire  Conference  Seminary,  at  Tillon,  where 
E.  S.  Tasker  is  Ladd  professor.  Many  of  its  pastors  in 
recent  years  have  left  to  occupy  the  largest  pulpits  in  the 
church  at  large,  in  New  York  city,  Baltimore,  Washington 
and  other  centers.  From  its  membership  it  has  contributed 
a  number  to  the  roll  of  the  strongest  preachers  in  the 
denomination,  and  many  sons  are  now  doing  pastoral  work. 

In  the  class  meeting  which  was  the  beginning  of  the 
permanent  Center  church  organization  were  two  young  men 
who  within  five  years  after  became  preachers  in  the  regular 
connection.  From  their  labors  resulted  several  churches 
which  are  prominent  in  Methodism  to-day.  They  were  the 
two  Aarons — Aaron  Waitt  and  Aaron  D.  Sargeant.  The 
name  of  Aaron  Waitt  is  precious  in  Ipswich  and  Gloucester. 
Within  a  decade  of  the  formation  of  Center  church  he  had 
formed  the  societies  in  each  place  and  built  churches. 
Almost  before  his  service  in  Gloucester  was  over  its  one 
parish  had  become  three.  Aaron  D.  Sargeant  was  19 
years  old  when  assigned  to  James  Howard's  class,  and  the 
very  next  year  began  to  preach.  He  was  the  father  of  the 
churches  in  Weymouth  ;  Somersworth,  N.  H. ;  Worthen 
Street,  Lowell;  and  Stoneham. 

The  average  member  of  the  Center  church  doubtless 
thinks  that  its  only  daughters  are  the  Belmont,  Faulkner, 
Maplewood  and  Linden  churches,  which  together  have  a 
combined  membership  of  over  500,  each  with  a  good 
church  property.  But  a  glance  through  its  records  shows 
that  for  a  long  time  quite  a  group  who  later  formed  the 


64  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

Woburn  church  belonged  to  this  society  ;  that  when  Method- 
ism in  Medford  died  down  from  its  beginnings  in  1822, 
Center  church  established  there  and  maintained  a  class, 
which  continued  for  many  years,  the  final  result  being  that 
under  the  labors  of  Rev.  Joseph  Whitman  there  was  a 
revival,  a  hall  was  hired,  and  the  church  was  reestatab- 
lished.  For  a  time  this  church  took  a  lively  interest  in 
establishing  preaching  at  Glenwood,  from  which  doubtless 
resulted  the  Wellington  church  ;  while  in  very  recent  years 
Centre  church  joined  with  the  church  in  Everett — itself, 
strangely,  an  off-shoot  of  Chelsea  Methodism — in  establish- 
ing the  Methodist  church  in  Glendale. 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  65 


REMINISCENCES  OF  NORTH  MALDEN   (MELROSE) 

AND  VICINITY 

An  address  delivered  by  Hon.  I>evi  S.  Gould  before  the  Maiden  Historical  Society, 

May  20,  1914. 


In  a  very  unguarded  moment  some  two  years  ago,  I 
promised  my  good  friend,  the  president  of  your  body,  who 
is  also  in  a  way  a  blood  relation  of  mine  —  perhaps  he  does 
not  know  it,  but  I  tliink  he  does  —  that  I  would  come  here 
and  give  a  talk  to  you  at  some  future  time.  I  am  going  to 
start  my  talk  by  saying  to  you  that  I  am  a  descendant  of 
John  Gould,  who  came  to  this  country  in  1635.  He  settled 
in  Charlestown,  and  so  far  as  I  have  been  able  to  discover  in 
the  history  of  his  life  there,  he  lived  there  near  to  the  present 
Harvard  Church,  in  fact,  under  the  very  shadow  of  Thomp- 
son's square.  He  lived  there  some  fifteen  years,  was  a 
well  known  citizen,  and  took  part  in  public  affairs,  and 
took  part  in  the  distribution  of  lands,  which  I  find  took 
place  at  that  time  in  Charlestown.  Charlestown  then 
extended  really  from  the  Charles  river  to  practically  three 
miles  north  of  the  Merrimac  river,  which  made  a  very  great 
territory,  and  much  of  that  territory  was  distributed  at 
various  times  to  the  citizens.  At  one  of  these  distributions, 
John  Gould  received  a  large  tract  of  land,  which  would 
now  be  in  the  position  of  Wakefield,  near  Stoneham.  At 
that  time  it  was  called  Charlestown  End.  So  far  as  I  have 
been  able  to  discover,  John  Gould,  probably  with  his  wife 
and  the  children,  who  went  with  him,  were  the  earliest 
settlers  of  this  country,  which  was  nothing  but  a  wilderness, 
where  there  were  plenty  of  opportunites  for  business.     In 


66  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

process  of  time  others  came,  and  in  process  of  time  Stone- 
ham  was  a  part  of  that  particular  territory.  John  Gould 
lived  to  be  about  8i  years  of  age.  He  was  recorded  as 
having  been  connected  with  the  soldiers  in  King  Philip's 
War.  He  left  a  large  family,  and  that  family  settled 
around  him,  so  that  at  one  time  it  is  said  that  all  the  land 
belonged  either  to  him  or  his  descendants,  or  those  who  had 
married  into  his  family.  A  person  could  start  from  where 
Wakefield  Station  is  at  the  present  time  (that  was  a  part  of 
the  land  granted  to  him  —  that  is,  most  of  the  land  on  the 
westerly  side  of  the  Boston  &  Maine  Railroad,  using  the 
land  upon  which  John  Gould  originally  settled,  and  his 
house  was  built  on  the  highlands  west  of  the  station)  it  was 
said  that  at  that  time  or  afterwards,  when  the  country 
became  somewhat  settled,  and  walk  from  John  Gould's  to 
Spot  Pond,  without  stepping  off  a  foot  of  land  that  did  not 
belong  to  him  or  some  one  of  his  family.  The  house  of  my 
original  ancestor,  the  son  from  whom  I  descended,  was  at 
the  head  of  Spot  Pond,  and  it  was  known  as  the  "  Gould 
Estate,"  down  to  the  present  generation.  It  has  been  taken 
by  the  Commonwealth,  and  the  old  house  was  destroyed 
some  years  ago,  but  a  new  house  built,  by  an  uncle  of 
mine,  is  now  the  property  of  the  Commonwealth  in  which 
the  Superintendent  of  the  Fells  lives.  From  that  house 
one  of  my  great  uncles,  Jacob  Gould,  went  to  the  Battle  of 
Lexington. 

My  ancestor  on  my  mother's  side  was  Francis  Whit- 
more,  who  was  a  very  early  settler  of  Cambridge.  He 
settled  there  about  the  same  time  that  John  Gould  settled 
in  Charlestown,  and  he  became  quite  a  man  there,  was  a 
member  of  the  Board  of  Selectmen,  and  afterwards  had  a 
mill  in  the  neighborhood  of  the  part  now  known  as  Arling- 
ton.    In  later  life  he  lived  in  Medford. 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  67 

My  father  was  Levi  Gould.  He  was  the  youngest  of 
a  large  family  of  children,  was  born  in  the  center  of  Stone- 
ham  on  a  farm  belonging  to  his  father,  and  early  in  life  he 
made  up  his  mind  he  would  do  something  better  than  work 
on  a  farm  and  make  shoes,  so  he  went  to  Bowdoin  College. 
When  he  got  through  there,  he  came  out  as  a  physician, 
and  he  married  the  girl  who  became  my  mother,  and 
settled  in  Dixmont,  Maine.  There  I  was  born.  When  I 
was  nine  months  old,  he  moved  back  to  his  native  town, 
and  I  have  been  practically  a  resident  of  this  town  ever 
since.  I  have  lived  in  Melrose,  or  what  is  the  territory  of 
Melrose,  71  years.  After  my  father  had  lived  a  while  in 
his  native  town,  he  made  up  his  mind  that  there  was  an 
opening  for  him  at  Wilmington.  Now  the  reason  for  that 
is  interesting. 

When  he  moved  there,  it  was  in  1834,  so  I  was  two 
years  old  when  he  removed  to  Wilmington,  in  sight  of  the 
Boston  and  Maine  railroad,  which  had  then  been  com- 
pleted down  to  the  Junction  with  the  railroad  at  Wilming- 
ton. Now  the  Boston  &  Maine  railroad  (it  was  called 
first,  I  think,  the  Andover  and  Wilmington)  ran  from 
Wilmington  to  Andover  South  Parish  ;  then  it  was  extended 
to  Andover,  and  then  extended  to  Haverhill ;  so  that  my 
recollection  of  the  Boston  &  Maine  railroad  was  a  railroad 
that  was  not  at  that  time  any  longer  than  from  the  Junc- 
tion at  Wilmington  to  Andover,  when  my  earliest  recollec- 
tion begins.  I  can  remember  the  road  when  I  was  two 
years  old,  and  this  was  two  years  after  the  road  was  built. 
I  recollect  the  cars  and  engine.  The  cars  were  built  like 
a  cab,  and  you  went  in  on  the  side.  They  had  rough  bolts 
and  timbers,  covered  over  with  leather,  and  that  leather 
was  stiffened  with  iron  or  something  of  that  kind,  so  that 
the  cars,  as  they  came  together,  would  strike.    They  were 


68  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

chained  together.  There  was  no  method  of  communica- 
tion between  them.  You  went  in  on  the  side  as  you  go 
into  a  cab.  The  brakeman  sat  on  the  top,  and  directed  the 
cars  from  the  top.  The  engine,  I  remember  very  well, 
was  all  out  doors,  and  the  engineers  had  to  run  their  trains 
out  in  the  open.  The  tender  was  no  more  than  a  flat  car, 
with  a  big  wood  pile  on  it.  They  could  never  exceed  a 
speed  of  over  lo  miles. 

In  this  connection,  I  would  say  that  some  years  ago  I 
delivered  an  address  before  a  commercial  travelers'  associa- 
tion, so  that  I  looked  up  the  matter  of  railroading  some- 
what, and  I  discovered  some  letters  that  were  written  by  the 
directors  of  the  Lowell  railroad,  about  the  time  that  they 
made  up  their  minds  to  start  running  their  train,  and  they 
wrote  to  a  person  who  knew  more  than  any  other  man  of 
that  time  about  railroads,  and  they  asked  him,  among 
other  things,  what  the  speed  of  the  passenger  train  ought 
to  be,  and  also  the  speed  of  the  freight  train.  His  idea 
was,  I  recall,  that  a  freight  train  ought  to  run  about  12 
miles,  and  that  a  passenger  train  should  not  exceed  about 
15  miles.  That  was  his  idea  of  the  speed  a  train  should 
go.  I  presume  that  at  the  time  I  recollect  (and  I  can 
recollect  from  the  time  I  was  four  years  old,  and  that  would 

be    in   1836 that  portion  was  finished   in  1836)  they 

might  have  had  25  hands  on  that  road.  Now,  heaven 
knows  how  many  they  have,  and  the  few  miles  are  extended 
to  hundreds,  and  hundreds  perhaps  to  thousands  of  miles. 
I  remember,  by  the  way,  in  this  connection,  the  first  engi- 
neer that  ran  on  that  road.  His  name  was  Morrill,  and  if 
I  could  have  access  to  the  books  of  the  Boston  &  Maine 
Railroad,  I  could  prove  what  I  say,  as  I  rode  on  the  engine 
with  him,  when  I  was  four  or  five  years  old.  He  had 
children  of  his  own  about  my  age,  and  he  would  take  us 
up  for  a  little  way. 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  69 

In  1840  (and  this  is  an  interesting  thing  in  an  historical 
way)  my  father  and  my  mother  desired  to  take  a  trip  down 
into  my  mother's  native  place  above  mentioned.  At  that 
time,  there  were  no  railroads  running  to  that  section,  and 
there  was  only  one  way  to  go,  and  that  was  by  a  stage  line 
that  ran  from  Boston  to  Portland.  What  he  did  do  was  to 
drive.  He  hitched  up  a  pair  of  horses.  One  of  us  was  a 
boy  in  arms,  and  I  was  the  oldest,  six  years  old,  but  he 
drove  through  to  Bath  and  back  again.  I  remember  the 
road  very  well,  and  I  have  stopped  at  some  of  the  places 
since  then  to  renew  my  acquaintance  with  conditions,  and 
found  them  very  different  from  the  time  when  I  went 
through  as  a  boy  six  years  old.  You  would  be  surprised 
if  I  should  tell  you  we  forded  rivers,  where  there  were  no 
bridges,  between  here  and  Bath.  The  thing  I  remember 
distinctly,  was  that  when  we  got  to  Newburyport  we  came 
across  the  Old  Chain  Bridge,  and  I  remember  that  they 
were  then  grading  the  road  from  Salem  up  to  Newbury- 
port,    That  was  in  1840  or  '41. 

To  bring  the  matter  down  to  my  recollections  of 
Maiden  and  vicinity :  in  1843  my  father  agreed  to  come 
back  to  this  section,  and  settle  here  for  some  reason  or 
other,  but  before  he  came  here,  he  had  heard  that  there 
was  to  be  quite  a  city  built  up  in  the  neighborhood  of  what 
is  now  Lawrence,  and  I  remember  that  he  drove  up  there 
to  see  if  that  would  be  a  good  place  for  him  to  settle  in  or 
not.  He  said  there  was  nothing  there  but  a  dam  ;  that  there 
were  no  buildings  to  amount  to  anything,  and  he  could  not 
see  that  there  were  man}-  prospects.  So  he  came  down 
and  bought  a  place,  which  is  now  in  Melrose.  It  was  one 
of  the  Vinton  places.  The  Vintons  were  very  early  settlers 
of  this  section  of  the  country,  and  the  Vinton  farm  that  he 
bought  was  the  farm  where  one  of  the  old  settlers  had  died, 


70  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

and  he  had  left  quite  a  sum  of  money.  Among  other 
things  he  left  a  bell  to  the  Baptist  church.  I  think  the 
bell  must  have  been  destroyed  by  fire.  The  church,  in 
which  the  bell  hung,  was  where  the  present  church  now 
stands,  but  at  all  events  I  know  that  he  gave  the  bell.  He 
bought  that  place  in  1843,  and  there  were  60  acres  of  land 
that  are  now  right  in  the  heart  of  the  Highlands,  and  on  that 
60  acres  I  did  more  or  less  work,  and  also  worked  out 
somewhat.  I  very  often  drove  a  horse  to  plough.  He 
bought  that  60  acres  of  land  with  a  large  marsh.  The 
marsh  was  near  the  Chemical  Works  down  below  here, 
and  afterwards  he  sold  it  for  the  same  price  he  gave  for  it, 
and  that  was  $225  (before  any  railroad  was  built).  Every 
farmer  had  a  piece  of  marsh,  and  he  cut  that  the  very 
last  of  all  his  work.  In  cutting  hay,  as  a  rule,  he  always 
watched  the  tops  to  see  when  the  proper  time  came  to  cut 
it.  When  he  did  cut  it,  there  was  no  method  of  cutting 
it  up  on  the  highlands,  unless  you  saw  fit  to  put  some  big 
shoes  on  the  horse's  feet.  My  father,  was  a  doctor  and 
at  the  same  time  had  to  run  the  farm,  as  no  man  could  get 
a  living  simply  as  a  doctor.  He  had  to  cut  the  marsh,  and 
I  was  the  only  helper  that  he  had,  so  I  had  to  go  down 
and  help  him  pole  the  hay  up  to  a  little  highland  that  there 
is  up  there.  We  got  it  all  up  on  the  highland,  and  the 
next  day  drove  the  team  down  to  bring  a  portion  of  it  to 
make,  and  that  day  it  was  very  windy.  My  father  was  a 
ver}^  religious  man  (when  he  came  to  what  is  now  Melrose 
in  1843,  he  was  the  only  member  of  the  Congregational 
church  in  the  present  territory  of  Melrose)  and  he  was  a 
man  whom  I  never  heard  swear  at  all,  and  I  have  always 
looked  upon  him  as  one  of  the  very  best  of  men  that  I  knew, 
but  that  day,  after  he  pitched  the  hay  up  two  or  three  times 
and  I  was  trying  to  hold  it  up  the  best  I  could,  it  would 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  71 

blow  off  on  one  side  about  as  fast  as  he  could  pitch  it  up 
on  the  other,  so  he  got  discouraged,  and  threw  his   fork 

down,  and  said  :     "  I  wish  every bit  of  it  would  blow 

away." 

In  1843  there  were  but  very  few  people  in  Melrose, 
about  400,  as  I  remember,  and  there  were  about  35  houses. 
The  people  were  engaged  in  agriculture  in  the  summer 
time,  and  in  the  winter  time  they  nearly  all  made  shoes  in 
the  old  fashioned  way.  Every  one  had  a  shoe  shop,  and 
they  got  all  their  spare  money  that  way.  They  earned 
their  living  from  the  farm  in  the  summer,  their  spare  money 
came  in  the  winter  in  the  way  of  shoe  making.  My  father 
was  not  only  a  farmer  and  physician  (and  probably  as 
good  as  many  of  that  day,  as  he  was  well  educated)  but 
he  was  also  a  shoemaker  and  besides  a  school  teacher. 
We  had  one  school  in  what  is  now  Melrose  at  that  time,  and 
he  taught  that  school,  and  I  was  one  of  the  scholars.  He 
was  very  strict  in  his  discipline  with  me.  He  did  not  give 
me  any  consideration  from  the  fact  that  I  was  his  son. 

He  had  to  do  all  of  these  things  to  get  a  living  in  every 
way  possible,  and  when  he  died,  he  left  nothing,  and  that 
was  a  pretty  good  evidence  there  was  nothing  to  be  made 
in  his  day.      He  died  in  1850. 

There  were  Uphams,  Barretts,  Emersons,  Lyndes, 
and  Greens  in  profusion  at  that  time  in  that  locality.  In 
fact,  there  were  very  few  of  any  other  name.  The  main 
family  as  you  probably  all  well  know,  was  the  Lynde 
family,  which  was  undoubtedly  the  earliest  family  that  ever 
landed  in  that  part  of  Maiden.  Ensign  Thomas  Lynde 
came  there  in  1640,  and  that  really  is  as  early  as  we  have 
any  settlers  recorded. 

The  Greens  came  shortly  after,  although  there  is  an 
indication  that  they  came  before  the  Lyndes,  but  it  cannot 
be  proved. 


72  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

I  owned  a  little  piece  of  land,  which  some  may  have 
heard  about,  near  the  Boston  Rock.  I  do  not  own  any  of 
Boston  Rock.  I  owned  a  piece  on  the  corner  of  Main  street, 
and  Silver  street.  That  land  I  bought  21  years  ago  of 
Deacon  Converse,  after  he  had  procured  the  entire  Lynde 
farm,  and  in  looking  up  the  title,  I  noticed  one  thing,  and 
that  was  that  when  Ensign  Thomas  L3mde  made  his  will,  he 
described  a  certain  portion  of  the  land  that  he  gave  to  one 
of  his  sons — he  had  two  sons,  —  as  being  bound  by  the 
Green  mold.  That  Green  mold  was  troublesome  for  my 
mother  for  a  good  many  years.  I  could  not  understand 
what  it  meant.  I  finally  made  up  my  mind  that  the  grass 
grew  green  there,  therefore  they  called  it  Green  mold. 
Afterwards  in  conversation  with  a  man,  who  knew  more 
about  Maiden  matters  than  any  other  man  living,  Mr. 
Artamus  Barrett,  he  told  me  that  Green  mold  meant  a 
mold  right  in  the  center  of  a  farm  of  Ensign  Thomas 
Lyndes  that  belonged  to  the  Greens,  but  I  could  not  figure 
it  out  how  the  Greens  could  own  a  piece  of  land  right  in 
the  middle  of  Thomas  Lynde's,  as  he  understood  it,  and  he 
allowed  he  could  not  understand  it,  unless  the  Greens  had 
been  there  before  the  Lyndes  had,  and  continued  to  own 
that  piece  of  land.  There  is  nothing  to  prove  this.  There 
is  no  knowledge  that  the  Green's  came  there  until  15  years 
after  Ensign  Thomas  Lynde  came  there.  The  Greens 
settled,  as  you  see,  up  at  the  Highlands,  it  was  then.  Well, 
of  course,  afterwards  that  was  part  of  the  town  of  Stone- 
ham.  The  school  district  of  Stoneham  was  where  the 
Greens  settled,  and  in  my  boyhood  days,  I  could  find  the 
cellar  of  the  brick  house  that  sat  there.  The  brick  house 
had  been  destroyed,  but  the  old  cellar  was  there,  but  it  is  a 
question  whether  the  Greens  were  not  there  before  the 
Lyndes  came.     There  is  no  way  to  prove  it. 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  73 

There  were  two  Goulds,  who  were  physicians  in  this 
town  at  the  same  time — my  father,  who  probably  was  the 
first  settled  physician  in  the  northern  part  of  the  town  of 
Melrose,  and  Dr.  Daniel  Gould,  who  lived  down  here  on 
Gould  avenue.     His  son  is  still  living. 

This   Dr.    Daniel   Gould, — I  remember  him  very  dis- 
tinctly— was  a  very  peculiar  man.      He  was  a  man  who 
enjoyed  dancing  very  much  indeed.     In  the  early  history  of 
the  settlement  of  North  Maiden,  there  was  a  hall  built  up 
there.     The  Boston  &  Maine  railroad  was  built  in  1845, 
and  the  first  train  of  cars  landed  in  Maiden  on  the  fourth 
day  of  July,  1845.     After  that  they  began  settling  up  in 
Melrose  (but  of  course  Maiden  was  the  starting  point  really 
of  something  being  done  north  of  Boston  towards  getting 
the  people  to  settle  in  that  direction),  and  some  of  the  peo- 
ple who  bought  land  out  there  united  together  and  built  a 
building  that  was  very  near  to  the  present  Wyoming  station. 
It  was  a  hall  called  Lyceum  Hall,  and  it  was  a  very  good 
hall  for  dancing  and  for  all  purposes.     It  had  a  basement, 
and  in  that  basement  was  kept  at  different  times  a  seminary. 
First  it  was   a   young  ladies'  seminary,   and  afterwards  it 
was  used  largely  for  young  men,  and  I  had  the  honor  of 
attending  it.      When  we  held  dances  up  there,   Dr.   Daniel 
Gould,  who  had  two  very  handsome  daughters,  was  in  the 
habit  of  coming  up  and  dancing  all  night,  if  it  was  neces- 
sary.     It  was  generally  necessary.     They  generally  held 
those  balls  until  pretty  early  in  the  morning,  and  that  meant 
usually  dancing  all  night  long.      He  weighed  250  pounds. 
Some  will  remember  that  fact  about  him,   how  much  he 
enjoyed  affairs  of  that  character. 

In  1849  you  had  a  two  hundreth  anniversary  here  in 
Maiden.  Well,  I  was  not  much  of  a  boy  then,  but  I  was 
running   around  bare  foot  in  November  in   1849.     I  was 


74  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

fifteen  years  old,  and  I  remember  coming  down  bare  foot 
to  see  the  affair  and  the  shows.  I  had  no  money  to  go  into 
any  of  the  shows,  and  I  had  no  right  to  enter  the  tent ;  in 
fact,  they  would  not  allow  me  to  go  into  the  tent  where  the 
exercises  were  going  on,  but  I  crawled  down  on  my  hands 
and  knees,  and  peeked  in  and  saw  and  heard  some  of  the 
people  who  were  there,  and  heard  some  of  the  speeches, 
etc.  We  also  had  another  anniversary  in  Maiden  in  1899. 
There  was  a  slight  difference  then,  because  I  came  down 
then  as  the  guest  of  the  city,  while  before  I  had  been  only 
a  bare  foot  boy.  I  only  mention  that  to  show  you  how 
the  whirligig  of  time  moves. 

The  old  mill  that  stood  down  here  at  the  outlet  of  the 
pond,  is  well  remembered  by  me,  for  as  a  boy,  I  was  in  the 
habit  of  going  down,  as  other  boys  did,  and  catching  the 
fish  that  ran  up  there,  and  tried  to  get  over  the  dam,  and 
frequently  I  came  down  here  nights  and  speared  them. 
It  was  all  water  where  the  department  store  is  now,  and 
where  all  those  buildings  near  it  are.  In  one  end  of  the 
pond  on  the  opposite  side,  was  the  engine  house,  which  I 
remember  very  well.  It  had  posts  that  stood  out  into  the 
water.  In  1846,  by  the  way,  the  schoolhouse  in  Melrose 
was  burned  and  nearly  destroyed,  and  we  had  no  method 
of  putting  out  fire  at  that  time,  excepting  by  buckets. 
Someone  set  the  building  afire  up  in  the  roof,  and  we  had 
to  see  it  burn  down,  and  then  the  town  of  Maiden  purchased 
an  engine,  and  sent  it  up  there,  the  Andover  engine.  I 
recall  very  well  when  it  came  into  town,  it  came  in  the 
summer,  and  I  with  a  number  of  other  boys  was  down  near 
what  is  now  the  Fells  station.  There  was  a  place  down 
there  where  we  went  in  swimming.  We  knew  that  the 
engine  was  coming  to  town  that  day,  and  while  we  were 
in  the  water  (there  was  a  few  dozen  of  us)  we  saw  the 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  75 

train  go  by  with  the  engine  on  one  of  the  flat  cars.  We 
just  grabbed  our  clothes,  and  rushed  up  the  raih'oad  track, 
and  dressed  as  well  as  we  could.  We  got  there  about  the 
time  they  unloaded  the  engine.  A  number  of  young  men, 
not  living  now,  crowded  on  the  engine,  and  went  all  over 
town  with  it.  That  engine  company  made  me  president  m 
due  process  of  time,  and  it  was  the  first  office  I  ever  held  of 
any  kind.  I  was  a  very  proud  fellow  when  I  was  elected 
president  of  that  institution.  I  have  run  with  that  engine 
to  the  forests  here  in  Maiden,  time  and  time  again.  I  have 
also  run  with  that  engine  as  far  as  Chelsea,  and  as  far  in 
the  other  direction  ;  but  those  were  in  the  old  times  that 
will  never  come  back  again. 

In  my  boyhood  days,  they  used  peat  for  fuel  in  all 
these  towns  about  here,  Maiden  and  Melrose.  I  never  saw 
a  particle  of  coal  in  my  life  until  long  after  I  left  my 
father's  home.  There  were  plenty  of  peat  bogs  up  there 
on  the  farm.  That  farm  is  worth  considerable  now,  the 
land  being  assessed  for  more  than  $1,000,000,  but  he  sold 
it  for  $2,500.  In  1859  there  was  a  sham  battle  with  the 
Indians  —  one  of  them  is  depicted  in  the  picture  presented 
by  Mr.  Turner.  It  was  a  real  Indian  sham  battle,  where 
a  party  of  men  dressed  as  Indians,  and  a  number  of  men 
as  regular  troops,  who  attacked  to  dislodge  them.  They 
started  up  around  what  they  called  Reading  Hill.  Reading 
Hill  is  the  place  now  where  the  cars  stop  at  Franklin  street. 
They  started  up  there  in  the  low^er  part  of  Wakefield,  and 
they  fought  all  the  way  down,  and  the  Indians  finally  made 
a  stand  in  the  growth  of  trees  there  near  Dixie's  Point. 
Dixie's  Point  is  the  presentlocation  of  the  Memorial  building, 
in  Melrose.  At  that  time  it  was  surrounded  by  the  pine 
trees  that  you  can  imagine  had  grown  in  this  vicinity.  It 
was  a  long  time  before  the  militia  was  able  to  dislodge  the 


76  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

Indians  from  that  particular  locality.  They  drove  them  as 
far  as  the  Masonic  Temple,  which  is  on  the  corner  of  Main 
street  and  the  old  road  to  Stoneham.  Finally  they  captured 
them,  and  the  fight  was  over.  Charles  Porter,  a  man  I 
knew  very  well,  and  who  died  as  an  old  man  at  the  house 
of  a  man  by  the  name  of  Hemenway,  whose  family  were 
very  early  residents  of  North  Maiden,  took  the  part  of  an 
ensign.  Porter  became  a  very  prominent  man.  He  went 
finally  to  Lynn,  and  became  very  wealthy  there,  and  had 
a  very  large  leather  trade  in  Boston,  but  about  the  time  of 
the  trouble  of  the  Civil  War,  he  got  into  financial  difficul- 
ities,  and  lost  his  money.  Porter  street  in  Melrose,  near 
the  corner  where  the  hospital  building  is  located,  is  named 
after  him. 

I  remember  the  Mexican  war  perfectly,  1846  to  1848. 
At  that  "  far  away  "  date  no  one  ever  saw  a  daily  paper  in 
Maiden  or  its  vicinity  except  under  extraordinary  circum- 
stances when  some  event  of  national  importance  took 
place.  On  such  occasions  a  certain  man  loaded  his  riding 
vehicle  with  papers,  and  drove  out  through  the  towns  of 
Charlestown,  Maiden,  South  Reading  and  Reading  selling 
them  to  such  as  wished  to  purchase  on  the  route.  He 
carried  a  fish-horn  and  at  intervals  warned  the  farmers 
and  others  of  his  coming  by  sturdy  blasts.  On  one  of  these 
occasions,  in  1847,  I  was  working  with  my  father  in  the 
field  when  he  heard  the  horn,  and  surmising  that  something 
important  had  happened  gave  me  the  money  to  purchase  a 
paper  and  I  ran  across  lots  and  intercepted  them.  It 
proved  to  be  an  account  of  some  very  important  event  in 
connection  with  the  Mexican  war  then  in  progress.  I  men- 
tion this  to  show  my  personal  knowledge  of  the  immense 
progessof  the  newspaper  art  during  the  past  seventy  years. 

About  town  meetings  in  Maiden.     My  father  never 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  77 

attended  town  meetings  anywhere.  Maiden  Town  Meet- 
ing commenced  early  in  the  morning  and  lasted  all  day. 
It  was  a  white  day.  There  was  plenty  going  on.  All 
sorts  of  games,  everything  else  you  can  think  of,  were 
carried  on  during  the  time  the  meeting  was  in  session,  or 
while  they  were  not  doing  anything.  The  people  were 
outside.  In  Melrose  there  was  a  man  living  who  was 
known  all  over  that  section,  called  George  Washington 
Groove.  He  could  neither  read  nor  write,  but  he  was  born 
in  Maiden.  His  ancestors  were  very  patriotic  people,  one 
of  them  was  a  captain  in  the  Revolution.  He  did  not  know 
how  to  read  or  write  himself,  neither  did  his  wife,  and  he 
would  not  allow  any  of  his  children  to  learn  until  he  was 
forced  to  do  it  by  the  laws  of  the  Commonwealth.  He  said 
they  were  smart  enough  without  it.  He  used  to  drum,  and 
there  was  an  old  fellow  there  who  used  to  fight.  The 
people  would  gather  together,  and  would  march  down  to 
Maiden  here  in  a  body,  and  make  a  fight  for  what  they 
wanted.  At  one  time  they  came  pretty  near  to  getting 
what  they  wanted.  A  man  by  the  name  of  Green  (he  was 
the  uncle  of  the  Green  who  committed  the  murder  here — 
I  remember  him  well)  ;  came  very  near  being  elected 
representative — within  one  hundred.  I  think  there  were 
representatives  elected  from  that  vicinity,  but  the  North 
End  and  the  South  End  and  Black  Ann's  Corner,  as  they 
were  called,  were  always  lined  up  against  the  Center,  so 
that  if  they  could  ever  get  together  and  agree  on  anything, 
they  were  pretty  sure  to  beat  the  Center  people,  and  it  was 
always  a  fight  to  a  finish,  and  there  was  no  peace  or  no 
harmony  between  the  north  neighbors  and  the  Center 
people,  or  between  the  Center  and  the  South  Neighbors. 
South  Maiden  and  North  Maiden  residents  were  an  agri- 
cultural people.     There  were  few  people  in  South  Maiden. 


78  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

They  had  large  farms,  two  or  three  of  them.  The  people 
on  the  east  side  were  always  ready  for  a  scrimmage. 

There  was  a  mill  down  here.  This  was  original 
Coytmore  mill,  the  dam  being  built  in  1640.  I  understand 
it  afterwards  passed  into  the  hands  of  the  Odiornes  —  a 
good  many  years  afterwards,  probably  200  years  after  that, 
and  then  afterward  it  went  into  the  hands  of  parties  who 
were  Dyers.     The  dam  is  now  known  as  Mountain  avenue. 

I  was  a  member  of  the  Legislature  in  1869.  This  dam 
was  sending  the  water  up  into  Melrose  to  such  an  extent 
that  it  was  the  worst  nuisance  that  could  possibly  happen 
in  that  section.  If  it  was  possible  to  do  so,  we  wanted  to 
connect  a  hole  through  that  dam  and  let  the  water  loose  to 
run  down  to  the  water  in  Maiden.  We  succeeding  finally 
in  getting  laws  passed  through  the  Senate  and  signed. 
The  government  was  to  work  on  it,  depending  upon  the 
assent  of  Maiden  and  Melrose.  Melrose  was  in  favor  of 
it  but  Maiden  was  different.  Maiden  did  not  seem  to  care 
much  about  it.  They  called  a  town  meeting,  and  they  very 
courteously  allowed  me  to  come  down,  and  take  the  full 
charge,  which  I  did.  While  there  was  a  great  opposition 
to  it,  some  of  the  voters  finally  sided  with  me,  and  it  was 
carried  through  by  a  very  bare  majority,  so  that  the 
dam  was  connected  down,  and  we  have  seen  the  great 
benefit  that  has  come  from  it.  We  did  not  get  all  the  bene- 
fits we  should  have,  but  I  suppose  that  sooner  or  later  we 
shall  have  received  the  benefits  that  we  really  needed. 

There  was  one  thing  that  happened,  interesting  in  an 
historical  way.  There  was  a  nail  factory  and  nail  mill 
carried  on  here  in  early  days.  My  father  told  me,  and  he 
knew  the  facts.  It  was  up  in  the  neighborhood  of  Red 
Mills,  just  over  the  line  in  Stoneham.  There  was  a  little 
settlement  of  Indians  that  had  gone  in  there,  and  their  wig- 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  79 

warns,  and  they  made  baskets  and  sold  them  around  in 
Maiden  and  elsewhere.  They  were  a  hardy  people,  but 
some  men  went  up  there  one  night  from  the  Odiorne  mill. 
They  were  armed  with  guns  that  they  had  loaded  with 
nails.  They  were  probably  drunk.  They  went  up  there, 
and  shot  into  those  Indians,  and  shot  them  terribly  so  that 
two  of  them  died,  and  it  was  a  terrible  affair,  of  course. 
My  father  was  there,  and  saw  the  Indians  after  they  were 
shot,  and  told  me  about  it. 

The  Upham  family  came  to  Melrose  just  before  1700, 
and  they  were  residents  of  Maiden.  They  were  born  here. 
Their  father,  John,  lived  here,  and  he  was  one  of  the  very 
early  inhabitants  of  Maiden,  and  he  was  the  father  of  a 
great  family.  Lieut.  Phineas  Upham  was  one  of  his  sons, 
and  he  was,  as  you  know,  a  great  fighter  during  King 
Philip's  War,  and  was  a  soldier  at  the  time  King  Philip 
was  captured,  and  only  lived  a  short  time  and  died.  I  am 
descended  from  that  man  on  one  side.  The  Uphams  came 
to  Melrose  1700.  They  came  on  the  invitation  of  the  pub- 
lic authorities  of  the  town  of  Maiden.  They  received  quite 
a  large  amount  of  land.  They  settled  there,  and  they  built 
a  house,  and  that  house  is  said  to  be  the  first  house  of  the 
Upham  tribe.  It  is  said  to  have  been  built  in  1703,  and 
probably  it  was.  Whether  it  was  the  the  first  house  or  not 
is  a  question.  I  think  not,  but  I  am  not  going  to  get  into 
any  fight  with  my  associates.  This  is  taken  by  the  His- 
torical Society  of  Melrose.  It  is  one  of  the  earliest  home- 
steads of  the  times  that  can  be  found  in  this  vicinity.  The 
Boardman  house  is  older.  That  is  not  in  the  confines  of 
the  old  town  of  Maiden.  We  are  to  put  it  in  shape,  so  it 
will  be  preserved  for  all  future  time. 

We  had  another  matter  up  there  that  was  of  consider- 
able interest,  and  that  was  the  fact  that  the  timbers  of  the 


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Frigate  Constitution  was  cut  in  what  is  now  Melrose  on  the 
farm  of  Capt.  Unite  Cox.  He  was  a  captain  in  the  Rev- 
olution, and  was  a  direct  descendant  from  the  very  earliest 
families  that  ever  settled  here,  and  he  cut  those  that  were 
necessary  for  the  keel,  and  he  hauled  them  with  great 
teams  of  oxen,  over  to  the  Constitution  wharf,  where  the 
Constitution  was  being  built.  There  were  twelve  pairs  of 
oxen. 

Another  interesting  thing  which  happened  was  this : 
there  is  a  pond  up  in  Melrose  that  is  known  as  Long  Pond, 
perhaps  not  many  have  visited  it.  It  is  up  on  the  east  side 
out  of  the  way,  and  that  pond  has  a  history.  That  prob- 
ably was  among  the  early  settled  portions  of  Melrose,  not 
the  earliest  part,  of  course,  but  among  the  other  early 
settlements  of  Melrose.  They  had  a  mill  there.  It  was 
always  necessary  to  have  mills  near  any  settlements. 
There  was  plenty  of  water  for  a  mill.  They  built  a  dam, 
and  had  a  saw  and  grist  mill  there.  The  main  thing  is, 
that  the  Tudors,  who  were  the  originators  of  the  ice  busi- 
ness in  New  England,  perhaps  in  the  world,  one  of  them, 
built  a  mansion  on  Newburyport  Turnpike,  and  that 
mansion  to-day  is  the  Saugus  Poor  Farm.  It  was  in  the 
immediate  vicinity  of  Long  Pond,  and  they  were  the  first 
people  that  ever  shipped  any  ice  so  far  as  I  ever  heard  of, 
and  the  first  ice  that  they  shipped  was  ice  that  was  cut 
from  water  that  they  brought  down  from  Spot  Pond,  and 
flooded  their  ponds.  That  ice  was  cut  then  over  the  line 
in  Saugus.  They  brought  this  water  down  from  Long 
Pond,  which  was  in  Maiden,  to  make  the  ice.  That  is  the 
first  ice,  so  far  as  I  have  heard,  which  was  cut  for  Ameri- 
can shipping  ports.  It  was  hauled  to  Boston,  and  sold  for 
twenty-five  cents  a  pound. 

As  a  boy  I  skated  without  taking  off  my  skates,  or 


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coming  off  from  the  ice,  from  Melrose  Highlands  down  here 
to  Mountain  avenue.  Now,  that  shows  you  what  that 
dyer's  dam  did  for  us  up  in  Melrose,  and  it  was  why  I 
used  all  the  efforts  that  I  had  to  get  it  out  of  the  way. 

When  I  thought  of  getting  this  Dyer's  dam  torn  down, 
I  went  to  Mr.  Gooch,  who  was  then  a  member  of  Congress 
from  our  section,  and  I  asked  him  if  he  would  give  me  a 
hearing  in  the  matter.  He  said  he  would  very  gladly 
investigate  and  that  if  I  was  successful  in  getting  the  town 
of  Maiden  and  Melrose  to  tear  down  that  dam,  he  said  he 
would  see  that  the  Spot  Pond  Water  Company  turned 
over  to  Maiden,  Melrose  and  Medford,  the  charter  which 
he  held,  if  they  would  pay  him  the  sum  of  $50,  which  it 
cost  him  to  get  it.  It  all  depended  npon  my  getting  that 
dam  torn  down.  This  Spot  Pond  Water  Company  was  a 
private  affair.  Mr.  Gooch  and  certain  gentlemen  from 
Maiden  and  Medford,  well  known  citizens,  had  gone  to 
the  Legislature  and  asked  for  the  charter  and  received  it, 
but  when  they  came  to  take  the  thing  up,  this  dyer 
had  them,  because  he  told  them  he  not  only  owned  the 
right  to  follow  the  water  back  up  in  Melrose,  but  he 
also  owned  the  waters  of  Spot  Pond,  and  if  they  under- 
took to  take  the  waters  of  Spot  Pond  for  domestic  purposes, 
he  would  commence  a  suit  against  them.  Mr.  Gooch 
finally  said  the  purposes  of  this  charter  was  to  turn  the 
water  over  to  the  three  towns,  and  he  did  so,  and  that 
action,  of  course  gave  these  three  places  the  benefits  of  the 
supply  of  water,  which  they  received  for  so  many  years  for 
a  little  or  nothing.  Of  course,  the  County  Commissioners 
did  not  pay  any  attention  to  Mr.  Dyer.  He  commenced 
proceedings  against  the  town  of  Melrose,  and  the  other 
towns  for  tearing  down  his  dams.  That  was  tried  out  in 
Court,  and  he  received  what  the  jury  were  willing  to  give 


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him  for  the  dams,  but  he  could  not  get  anything  for  Spot 
Pond.     We  never  paid  anything  for  Spot  Pond. 

One  of  the  teachers  that  I  recall  in  my  school  days, 
was  Miss  Mary  Wood.  Miss  Mary  Wood  was  a  remark- 
able woman.  She  afterwards  became  Mrs.  Henry  L. 
Putnam,  and  was  the  mother  of  all  the  Putnam  family.  I 
do  not  think  there  is  a  family  in  any  town  that  has  the  real 
native  build  of  that  Putnam  family,  and  a  good  deal  of  it 
must  have  come  from  Miss  Mary  Wood,  who  was  the  sec- 
ond wife  of  Mr.  Putnam,  and  the  mother  of  all  the  Putnam 
children  that  you  know  of  to-day,  and  they  all  have  been 
remarkable  for  their  intelligence  to  take  hold  of  matters 
and  things.  This  Miss  Wood  was  nothing  but  a  young 
girl  when  I  remember  her.  She  could  have  been  but  15 
years  old.  She  lived  in  Maiden,  and  she  used  to  walk  to 
Melrose  until  her  father  objected  because  she  used  to  go 
through  the  woods.  Something  happened  to  some  young 
woman,  and  her  father  decided  she  should  not  go  that  way 
any  longer.  So  she  rode  to  Melrose  while  she  taught 
school. 

We  went  to  a  church  in  Melrose,  that  was  there  in 
1843,  and  that  is  the  present  Methodist  Episcopal  church. 
It  stood  between  Main  and  Green  streets  and  that  land  itself 
was  given  to  the  public  by  a  Maiden  man.  He  deeded  that 
to  the  public  quite  a  number  of  years  ago,  when  we  were 
a  town.  I  had  something  to  do  with  town  affairs.  Mr. 
Isaac  Emerson,  who  would  not  do  anything  wrong,  claimed 
that  he  owned  it,  and  tried  to  sell  it  to  the  town.  I  remem- 
bered something  about  that  thing,  so  I  went  over  to  the 
registry,  and  found  the  deed  on  record  that  the  Maiden 
man  had  given  to  the  public  this  land,  as  he  wanted  it  kept 
for  the  church.  The  good  brother  Emerson  never  forgave 
me  for  telling  that  story.     Mr.  Emerson  was  the  big  man 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  83 

in  North  Maiden  at  that  time.  He  was  supposed  to  be  the 
wealthiest  man  there,  and  he  ran  the  only  store,  and  he 
was  the  principal  factor  in  the  Methodist  church,  and  there 
was  a  time  when  he  owned  a  great  deal  of  land,  and  Emer- 
son street,  which  is  one  of  the  principal  resident  streets, 
was  laid  out  by  him  on  his  own  property  after  the  railroad 
came  in  there.  He  left  a  large  estate.  On  the  corner  of 
Emerson  street  and  Main  street  is  the  house  that  belonged 
to  him.  It  was  built  in  1803.  It  is  iii  years  old.  When 
I  was  a  small  boy,  I  remember  that  I  used  to  go  and  churn 
for  his  mother  in  the  basement  of  the  house  for  ten  cents. 
I  thought  I  was  making  money  fast.  This  house  was  the 
only  place  in  Melrose  where  there  was  anything  that  could 
be  considered  a  store. 

The  year  1843,  the  time  I  came  to  Melrose,  was  the 
year  that  Daniel  Webster  delivered  his  famous  oration 
at  the  completion  of  Bunker  Hill  Monument.  I  remember 
the  time  distinctly,  and  I  wanted  to  go.  I  was  only  a  boy, 
but  I  had  heard  much  about  Daniel  Webster.  I  had  seen 
that  the  monument  was  just  finished,  and  I  wanted  to  hear 
the  oration  very  much,  and  so  I  asked  my  father  if  he 
would  give  me  the  money  to  go  in  a  stage  (the  only  way 
of  going  to  Boston  in  1843  from  either  Maiden  or  Melrose 
was  by  a  stage  coach  that  ran  three  times  a  week,  going 
in  the  morning  and  coming  out  at  night,  and  this  stage 
was  going  in  that  morning.  The  fare  was  twenty-five 
cents  in  and  twenty-five  cents  out,  and  I  asked  my  father 
if  he  would  give  me  the  money,  and  he  told  me  he  would 
like  to  do  so,  but  he  really  could  not  afford  it,  and  I  know 
that  he  felt  badly  not  to  give  it  to  me.  I  felt  so  bad  that  I 
went  up  on  a  hill  that  is  right  in  the  neighborhood  of  the 
Highlands  station ,  down  at  the  foot  of  the  hill,  where  the  rock 
stands  right  over  it.    I  went  up  and  sat  on  that  rock  by  the 


84  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

Station  and  listened  to  the  guns  and  to  the  rumble  of  the 
teams  that  I  could  hear  that  were  going  in  from  this  section 
of  the  country  and  crossing  Maiden  bridge,  which  was  then 
one-half  mile  long.  You  could  hear  the  rumble  of  the 
teams  over  the  bridge  wa}^  to  Melrose. 

In  1861  I  was  sent  on  an  affair  that  would  easily  have 
cost  me  my  life,  but  it  did  not.     I  was  then  in  the  United 
States  Treasury  at  Washington,  and  it  became  necessary 
to  send  some  money  down  to  Memphis,  down  on  the  Missis- 
sippi River,  where  General  Grant  was  at  that  time,  so  they 
selected  me  to  take  that  money,  and  I  do  not  suppose  my 
life  was  worth  a  ten  cent  piece.      On  my  forty-five  miles  to 
General  Grant,  with  others  I  was  on  a  river  boat  and  they 
blew  up  the  steamer.     We  just  succeeded  in  escaping,  and 
went  home  afterwards.    On  the  way  home,  I  had  a  furlough 
of  three  or  four   days,  and   I  had   to   make  tracks  pretty 
lively,   as  I  wanted  to  come  home  to  see  my  wife,  and  I 
arrived  in  Boston  about  ten  o'clock  at  night.     This  was  in 
1861,  and  there  were  no  means  of  getting  home,  out  this 
way,  at  that  time  of  night.     It  was  Saturday  night.     There 
were  no  trains  on  Sunday.    There  was  only  one  way  —  to 
walk  it,  so  I  started  from  the  Boston  and  Albany  station  at 
about  ten  o'clock,  when  I  got  in,   and  I  walked  right  out 
home.     It  was  pretty  cold  coming  across  Maiden  bridge. 
There  were  no  lights,  and  it  was  a  long,  mean  kind  of  a  jour- 
ney for  me.   I' was  armed,  of  course.    A  man  would  not  be 
very  likely  to  go  there  without  being  armed,  and  as  I  came 
along  through  a  wild  and  very  dark  place  in  the  road,  I 
heard  a  dog  coming  after  me,  but  I  could  not  see  anything 
at  all.     I  knew  he  was  coming,  but  I  could  not  see  him. 
I  thought  I  would  protect  myself,  and  pulled  out  my  pistol. 
When  the  fellow  got  near  enough,  I  pulled  the  trigger,  but 
it  would  not  go  off.     However,  he  did  not  touch  me. 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  85 

THE  HARRISON  FUNERAL  CELEBRATION. 

With  Comments  prepared  by  the  Secretary  of  the  Society. 


The  National  Funeral  Celebration  in  commemoration 
of  the  life  of  William  Henry  Harrison,  President  of  the 
United  States,  was  called  the  National  Fast  and  occurred 
on  Friday,  May  14,  1841. 

William  Henry  Harrison,  died  on  Sunday,  April  4,1841, 
of  bilious  pleurisy.  On  April  7,  1841  The  Boston  Courier 
published  the  news  of  the  "  Death  of  the  President."  On 
the  same  day  The  Daily  Atlas  under  the  caption  "Death 
of  the  President  of  the  United  States  "  said  :  "  We  received 
yesterday  morning  by  an  extraordinar}'^  express  from  New 
York  the  sad  intelligence  of  the  death  of  the  President  of 
the  United  States."  This  news  reached  Boston  about  48 
hours  after  the  President  passed  away. 

On  21  of  May  1841  The  Boston  Recorder  contained 
the  following  :  "  The  National  Fast  was  observed  in  this 
city  on  Friday.  The  stores  were  nearly  all  closed,  and 
the  churches  were  very  fully  attended.  Many  very  fine 
discourses  were  delivered.  Mr.  [Rufus]  Choate  delivered 
his  Eulogy  in  the  evening,  at  the  Odeon,  and  was  listened 
to  by  a  very  large  auditory.  All  were  highly  gratified 
with  both  the  manner  and  matter  of  the  orator." 

The  other  Boston  papers  gave  a  similar  account  except- 
ing The  Bosto7i  Courier  of  May  17,  1841,  which  in  addi- 
tion to  the  account  of  the  exercises  in  the  city  included  a 
brief  paragraph  relating  to  the  observance  in  Cambridge, 
Brighton  and  Brookline. 

Not  a  word  was  printed  in  any  Boston  paper  of  the 
observance  in  Maiden  and  this  broadside,  the  original  of 
which  is  in  the  possession  of  the  Society  gives  all  that  has 
been  preserved  of  the  National  Fast  as  observed  here  three 
quarters  of  a  century  ago. 


86 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 


*' 


funeral  Ceremonies 

AT  MALDEN 

— "•nl^ii«"~- 

The  citizens  of  Maiden  being  desirous  to  manifest  their 
recognition  of  the  death  of  William  Henry  Harrison, 
late  President  of  these  United  States  on  FRIDAY,  the  14th 
inst.,  being  the  day  appointed  for  a  National  Fast,  have 
made  the  following  arrangements,  viz: 

The  citizens  of  Maiden,  and  all  others  who  may  wish  to 
unite  with  them  on  that  day,  will  assemble  at  the  Baptist 
Meeting  House  at  9  o'clock,  A.  M.  A  procession  will  then 
be  formed  under  the  direction  of  the  Chief  Marshal,  Capt- 
Stimpson,  in  the  following  order: — 

Military  Escort,  consisting  of  Maiden  I^ight  Infantry. 

Chief  Marshal,  with  his  Aids. 

Chairman  of  Committee  of  Arrangements  and  Orator. 

Officiating  Clergymen. 

Committee  of  Arrangements. 

Selectmen  and  other  Town  Officers. 

Maiden  Fire  Department. 
Citizens  of  Maiden  and  its  vicinity. 

The  procession  will  move  precisely  at  10  o'clock,  from 
the  Baptist  Meeting  House  to  the  corner  of  the  Reading 
Road;  from  thence  to  Barret's  Corner,  so  called;  it  will 
then  cross  to  the  Stoneham  Road,  down  to  the  Medford 
Road  to  Main  street;  through  Main  street  to  the  Orthodox 
Meeting  House. 

The  services  will  consist  of  a  Funeral  Oration  and  other 
appropriate  services. 

The  Teachers  of  the  several  schools  are  requested  to  meet 
at  the  Baptist  Vestry  with  their  pupils,  at  9  o'clock,  A.  M. 

It  is  respectfully  requested  that  all  persons  who  join  in 
the  procession,  wear  crape  on  the  left  arm,  above  the  elbow. 

The  side  pews  will  be  reserved  for  the  ladies,  and  no 
other  persons  will  be  permitted  to  enter  the  Meeting  House 
until  after  the  procession  has  passed  in. 

Per  order  of  the  Committee  of  Arrangements. 

U.   CHAMBERLAIN,   Chairman. 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  87 


NOTES. 


In  1841  the  Baptist  Meeting  House  stood  in  what  is 
now  the  east  corner  of  the  Salem  Street  Cemetery  and  the 
Orthodox  Meeting  House  stood  on  the  east  corner  of  Main 
street  and  Eastern  avenue.  "  Barrett's  Corner  "  was  formed 
by  the  intersection  of  Barrett's  Lane  and  the  Reading  road 
(Main  street)  near  where  the  Home  for  Aged  Persons  now 
stands.  The  procession  marched  through  Barrett's  Lane 
across  lots  by  Odiorne's  nail  factory  to  the  Stoneham  road 
(now  Washington  street)  down  to  the  Medford  road  now 
Pleasant  street  and  to  Main  street  (Maiden  square).  In 
1841  there  was  no  public  highway  leading  from  Main 
street  to  Washington  street  in  the  vicinity  of  Mountain 
avenue  but  passing  through  Barrett's  Lane  and  on  through 
a  gate  down  a  steep  hill  over  private  property  was  some 
times  permitted  as  appears  from  the  orders  of  marching. 


THEY  PLEDGED  THEIR   FORTUNES. 

Maiden  Citizens  who  Loaned  Money  to  the  Government  during  the 
American  Revolution,  177S-1783. 


Buckman,  Benf .  Oaks,  Jonathan 

Caswell,  Joseph  Paine,  Rebecca 

Chittenden,  Isaac  Sargent,  Nathan 

Gould,  John  Sargent,  Solomon 

Green,  Barnard  Smith,   Isaac 

Green,  Phineas  Sprague,  Joseph 

Green,  Samuel  Wait,  John 

Jenkins,  John  Wait,  William 

Merritt,  Sarah  Willis,  Eliakim 
Nichols,  James 


88  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 


THE   DEARBORN    WILLARD   FAMILY   OF   MALDEN. 

Communicated  by  Erskine  F.  Bickford,  Esq.  of  Maiden. 


[On  May  21,  1900,  Mr.  Erskine  F.  Bickford,  a  mem- 
ber of  this  Society,  donated  the  Society  a  Bible  record  of 
the  family  of  the  late  Abraham  Drake  Dearborn,  M.  D., 
an  old  time  physician  who  lived  on  Main  street  at  the  corner 
of  Belmont  street,  directly  opposite  the  estate  of  the  late 
Hon.  Elisha  Slade  Converse. 

Abraham  Drake  Dearborn  was  the  son  of  Freese  and 
Abigail  (Drake)  Dearborn  and  was  born  at  Hampton, 
N.  H.,  15  Feb.  1802.  He  was  the  grandson  of  Major 
Josiah  Dearborn  of  Hampton  who  occupied  the  ancient 
homestead  in  Hampton  upon  which  his  ancestor  Godfrey 
Dearborn,  who  emigrated  from  the  parish  of  Willoughby 
in  Lincolnshire  in  1639  settled  at  Hampton  about  1649. 

Dr.  Dearbon's  father  was  a  deputy  sheriff  and  removed 
from  Hampton  to  Exeter,  N.  H.  in  1810,  where  he  was 
for  man}^  years  keeper  of  the  Rockingham  County  jail. 
The  young  man  was  educated  at  Exeter  and  graduated 
from  the  Harvard  Medical  School  in  1825.  He  practiced 
medicine  in  several  places  including  Exeter,  N.  H.,  Saugus 
and  Maiden.  Dr.  Dearborn's  son  Frederick  Merriweather 
Deaborn  was  a  distinguished  surgeon  in  the  United  States 
Navy  from  1862  to  1883.  He  also  graduated  from  the 
Harvard  Medical  School  in  1865,  being  a  classmate  of 
Dr.  Albert  Lane  Norris  of  Cambridge  and  more  recently 
of  Maiden  and  a  member  of  this  Society.     The  senior  Dr- 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  89 

Dearborn  died  in  Maiden,  2  Dec.  187 1,  and  the  junior  Dr. 
Dearborn,  died  in  New  York  city,  24  April  1887.  Other 
members  of  the  family  were  the  senior  Dr.  Dearborn's 
wife,  who  was  Harriet  Newell  Willard  daughter  of  Emory 
and  Sarah  (Farwell)  Willard,  who  is  remembered  a  woman 
of  culture  and  refinement.  She  died  in  Florida  between  1885 
and  1900.  Their  only  daughter,  Harriet  Willard  Dearborn 
died  in  Maiden,  28  Oct.  1884. 

Mr.  Bickford  has  three  souvenirs  which  came  from  the 
Deaborn  home  on  Main  street  marked  a  "  Tobacco  box  of 
Maj.  Josiah  Dearborn,  1728-1814,  Hampton,  N.  H.,"  a 
"  Tobacco  box  of  Freese  Dearborn,  1778-1862,  Hampton 
and  Exeter,  N.  H."  and  some  "snuff  that  Father  made 
before  he  went  to  keep  the  Gail  in  1810,  at  Exeter,  N.  H."] 

[Willard  Bible  Record.] 
[First  page] 

BIRTHS  DEATHS 

Abr"i  Williard  born  Dec.  23,  1748;  died  April  20,  1817. 
Hannah  Willard  his  wife  Jan.  20,  1749  ;  died  June  12,  1816. 

Their  Children 

Isaac  Willard  born  Janv  24,  1779;   died  Febv  16,  1840. 

Emory  Willard  born  Feb^  12,  1786;   died  NoV  18,  1824. 

Levi  Willard  born  Oct.  15,  1781. 

Emory  Willard  Feb.  12,  1786;  NoV  18,  1824. 

Sarah  Farwell  Willard  his  wife 

Feb.  6,  1787     July  9,  1834. 


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MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 


Their  Children. 


Evander  Zenophon  Willard  born  Sept.  8,  1815. 

Harriet  Newell  Willard  Feb.  24,  1817. 

Laura  Ann  Willard  Sept.  22,  1818. 

Emory  Lorenzo  Willard,  July  29,  1820. 

Sarah  Farvvell  Willard  Nov.  18,  1822  ;  June  27,  1823. 

Sarah  Josephine  Willard  Janv  24,  1825  ;  April  24,  1830. 

[Second  page.] 

DEATHS 

Abraham  Drake  Dearborn,  Jr.,  Feb.  12,  1844. 

[Third  Page.] 

BIRTHS  DEATHS 

Abraham  D.  Dearborn 

February  15,  1802  December  2,  1871. 

Harriet  Newell  Willard 

February  24,  181 7. 

Their  Children. 

Frederic  Merriwether 

February  28,  1842. 
Abraham  Drake 

Feb.  12,  1844  Feb.  12,  1844. 

Harriet  Willard 

Jany  3,  1847  October  28,  1884. 

[Fourth  page.] 

Abraham  Drake  Dearborn   and    Harriet  Newell  Willard 
were  married  March  7,  1841. 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 


INSCRIPTIONS    IN    THE   BELL    ROCK   CEMETERY, 

(Continued  from  No.  j,  Page  74) 
Transcribed  by  the  late  Dkloraine  Pendre  Corey. 


[The  Bell  Rock  Cemetery  contains  the  graves  of  many  of  the  founders  of  Maiden,  and 
of  many  of  the  pastors  and  others  prominent  in  the  early  history  of  the  town.  Here  is  the 
grave  of  Michael  Wigglesworth,  New  England's  first  noted  poet;  that  of  the  builders  of 
the  Old  South  Church  in  Boston,  of  Job  Lane,  New  England's  first  bridge  builder,  of 
many  of  Ralph  Waldo  Emerson's  ancestors.  Mr.  Corey,  with  the  assistance  of  his  son, 
Dr.  Arthur  D.  Corey,  copied  these  inscriptions  many  years  ago,  a  labor  of  love  that 
consumed  many  weeks  of  time.  Since  that  work  was  done  jmany  of  the  stones  have 
disappeared.]. 

Mary  Sprague 
Dau**'  of  M''  Benjamin 

&  M'-s  Phebe 

Sprague ;   Died  June 

ye  -jo'i" :  1752,  Aged 

2  years,  &  6  Mon^ 


Here  Lyes  Buried 
the  Body  of 

M""  Uriah  Oakes 
Who  Departed  this 
Life  Aug'*  23'^  1752 

Aged  52  Years 


Here  lyes  Buried 

y«  Body  of  M^^ 

Martha  Green 

Wife  to  Cap*^ 

Samuel  Green 

Who  Departed  this 

life  May  29**^  i754  in  y^ 

72*^  Year  of  Her  Age 


Here  Lyes  Buried  y"^ 

Body  of  M''s  Winefred 

Dexter  Widow  of  Dea""" 

John  Dexter 

Who  Departed  this  Life 

Decern'"'  5"^  1752  in  y^  79*** 

Year  of  Her  Age 


Here  lyes  y'^  Body  of 

Benjamin  Bucknam 

Son  of  M''  Benjamin 

&  M"  Rebeckah 
Bucknam  Who  Died 
Feb"^'  22*1  1752  [175  2-3]  Aged 
3  Years  &  10  Months. 


Here  Lyes  Buried 

the  Body  of  M"" 

John  Pain 

Who  departed  this  life 

Feb''^  the  25*''  1753 

Aged  52  Years 


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MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 


Mary 

Lynd  Died 

July  the  1 2*h 

1 753  Aged 

12  Years. 

The 


Phebe 

Lynd  Died 

July  the  13*^ 

1753  Aged 

5  Years. 

Children    of   M"". 


Elizabeth 

Lynd  Died 

July  the  1 2*^ 

1753  Aged 

3  Years. 

Joseph 


&  M'"^  Mary  Lynd. 


In  Memory  of 

Aney  Tufts  Dau*"" 

of  M''  Stephen  &  M""^ 

Kathrine  Tufts  Who 

died  Nov'"  16*'^  1754 

Aged  3  Years 


Here  lyes  y^  Body  of 

M'-s  Lydia  Lynd 

Widow  to  Deacon 

Thomas  Lynd 

Who  Died  Octo'^''  y^ 

j^th  jy^^  Aged  70  Years 

2  Months  &  8  Days 


Here  lyes  Buried 

the  Body  of  M"" 

John  Lynd 

Who  Departed  this  life 

July  the  I  ith  1756 

Aged  46  Years 


Here  Lyes  Buried 
y*^  Body  of  M"" 

Nathan  Newhall 

Who  Departed  this  life 

Jan'^J  iS'ii  1757  in  y"  38''» 

Year  of  His  Age 


Here  lyes  y*^  Body  of 
M'"^  Elizabeth  Green 
Wife  to  M""  Phinehas 

Green  Who  Died 

Feb-^yyepth  1757  Aged 

27  years  &  2  Months 


Here  lyes  y*^  Body  of 

M"  EHzabeth  Jenks 

formerly  Wife  to  M"" 

Joseph  Floyd  Who 

Died  June  6"'  1757 

Aged  86  Years 


Here  lyes  Buried 
the  Body  of  M"" 

Samuel  Sweetser 
Who  departed  this  life 

July  the  18  1757 
Aged  83  Years 


Here  lyes  y'^  Body  of 

M''^  Abigail  Waite 

Wife  to  M-" 

Thomas  Waite 

Who  departed  this 

life  March  i^^^  1759 

Aged  72  Years 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 


93 


Here  lyes  y*"  Body  of 

^iss  Abigail  Sweetser 

Dau*'-  of  M'-  Samuel  &  M'« 

Abigail  Sweetser  Who 

died  Sepfye  5""  1758 

Aged  59  Years 


Here  lyes  Buried 

The  Body  of  Elder 

Thomas  Burditt 

Who  Departed  this  Life 

Octo'"  the  15"'  1758  in  y« 

76*^  Year  of  His  Age 


Here  lyes  Buried 
the  Body  of  M'^ 
Rebekah  Parker 

Wife  to  M'. 

Thomas  Parker, 

Who  Departed  this 

life  Dec*",  y^  20*^  1758 

Aged  75  Years. 


Here  lyes  y^  Body  of 

M'^  Mary  Sargeant 

Widow  to  M''  Joseph 

Sargeant  Who  Died 

April  ye  g^^ 

91 


1759  in  ye 
^'  Year  of  Her  Asre 


Here  Lyes  Buried 

the  Body  of  M' 

Thomas  Wheeler 

Who  Departed  this  life 

May  ye  ig^^^  1759  in  y^ 

53^  Year  of  His  Age 


Here  lyes  y*"  Body  of 
M'^  Sarah  Sargeant 

Wife  to  M^  John 

Sargeant ;   Who  Died 

August  the  3^^  ^759 

Aged  61  Years 


Here  lyes  Buried 

the  Body  of  M^ 

Joseph  Baldwin 

Who  Departed  this  life 

Octo'  ye  25"'  r7!;9  in  ye 

est!"  Year  of  His  Age 


Here  Lyes  Buried 

the  Body  of  M' 

Daniel  Newhall 

Who  Departed  this  life 

Feb-'y  the  3^  1760 

Aged  75  Years 


Here  lyes  Buried 

the  Body  of  M' 

John  Willson  Jun' 

Who  Departed  this  Life 

May  the  4*''  1760  in  y® 

52*^  Year  of  His  Age 


Here  lyes  Buried 

the  Body  of  M' 

Thomas  Parker 

Who  Departed  this 

life  July  ye  31  st^  1760 

Aged  79  Years. 


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Here  lyes  Buried  y*^  Body 

of  M'^  Mary  Green  Wife 

to  M'  Isaac  Green 

Who  Departed  this  life 
Aug^'  the  6  1 760  in  the 

65*^  Year  of  Her  Age 


Here  lyes  y*^  Body  of 
M'*  Eunice  Green  Wife 

to  Lieu*  Ezra  Green 
Who  Departed  this  life 

Octo"^  ye  2*^  1760  in  y*^ 

^yth  Year  of  Her  Age 


Here  Lyes  Buried 

the  Body  of  M' 

David  Parker 

Who  Departed  this  life 

Octob'  the  5*'';    1760 

Aged  50  Years. 


Here  lyes  Buried 

The  Body  of 

M'  Benoni  Vinton 

Who  departed  this  Life 

Octo'  10'^  1760  in  y^ 

41^*  Year  of  His  Age 


In  Memory  of 
Miss  Polley  Porter,  Daug'. 
of  Doct'  Jon*,  and  M'^ 

Hannah  Porter 
who  Died  July  21*'.  1762 
in  the  5*''  Year 
of  her  Age, 


Here  lyes  Buried 

ye  Body  of  M' 

Joseph  Sargeant 

who  departed  this  life 

NOV^'  ye   19th   jy5Q  Jj^  ye 

71  Year  of  His  Age 


Here  lyes  Buried 

ye  Body  of  M' 

John  Sargeant 

Who  Departed  this  Life 

November  y^  26"'  1760 

Aged  63  Years 


Here  lyes  Buried 

ye  Body  of 

M'  Isaac  Wheeler 

departed  this  life 

Decem"^  ye  15*11  1760  in  y* 

56'''  Year  of  His  Age 


Here  lyes  Buried  y^  Body 

of  M"^^  Tabitha  Barret 

Wife  to  M'  James  Barret 

Who  Departed  this  life 

July  the  3''  1 76 1  in  ye 

49  Year  of  Her  Age 


Here  lyes  Buried 

ye  Body  of  Cap' 

Samuel  Green 

Who  Departed  this 

Life  Feb'>'  the  21^' 

1 761  in  ye  82*^  Year 

of  His  Age 


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Here  lyes  y®  Body  of 

Isaac  Wait  Son  of 

M'  Isaac  &  M"  Deborah 

Wait  Who  Died 

July  y**  22^*  1 76 1  in  y' 

Year  of  His  Age 


Here  lies  y*^  Body  of 

M'«  Hannah  Burditt 

wife  to  M'  John  Burditt 

who  departed  this  Life 

Sept*  y«  12*  1 76 1 

Aged  76  Years 


Here  lyes  Buried 

the  Body  of  M' 

Phinehas  Sargeant 

Who  Departed  this  life 

Sep'  the  25'^  1 76 1 

Aged  59  Years 


Here  lyes  y^  Body  of 

M"  Mary  Burditt,  Widow 

to  Elder  Thomas  Burditt ; 

Who  Departed  this  life 

Octo'  the  27*  1 76 1,  in  y« 

76"'  Year  of  Her  Age 


Here  lyes  y*  Body  of 
M'^  Mary  Sargeant 

Wife  to  M' 

Thomas  Sargeant ; 

Who  departed  this  Life 

May  the  11*,  1763 

Aged  38  Years 


Here  lyes  Buried  y^  Body 

of  M"  Sarah  Dexter 

Widow  to  M'  Richard 

Dexter  Who  Departed 

this  life  Dece*^'  y"=  24'*'  1761 

Aged  81  Years 


Here  lyes  Buried  y*  Body 

of  M'  Obadiah  Jenkins 

Who  Departed  this  Life 

Feb^y  the  4*  1762 

Aged  72  Years. 

Here  lyes  y'  Body  of  a  tender 

husband  to  me 
I  shall  lament  my  lofs  so  long 
as  my  life  shall  be 


Here  lyes  y'  Body  of 
M"  Mary  Wait  Widow 

to  M'  Thomas  Wait 

Who  Departed  this  Life 

Jan'^  y^  6'''  1763  in  y'^ 

97*^  Year  of  Her  Age 


In  Memory  of 
Samuel  Dexter 
Who  died  Sep' 
3^  1762  Aged  2 
Years  &  4  Mont^ 


Here  lyes  Buried 

the  Body  of  M' 

Thomas  Burditt 

Who  departed  this  life 

March  8""  1 763  in  y* 

58*^  Year  of  His  Age 


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In  Memory  of 

Sarah  Dexter 

Who  died  »Sep' 

4"^  1762  Aged  3 

Years  &  9  Mont® 

The  Children  of  Cap'  John 

&  M'^  Joanna  Dexter 


Here  lyes  Buried 

the  Body  of  Ensign 

Joseph  Lynd 

Who  departed  this  Life 

March  16"'  1763  in  y^ 

73''  Year  of  His  Age 


Here  lyes  y*  Body  of 
M"  Elizabeth  Sergant 

Wife  of  M''  Nathan 

Sergant  jun'  who  died 

Octo^""  y^  18  1763  Aged  28 

Years  7  Months  &  25  Day® 

Also  Nathan  Their  Son  died 

Octo^'y^i4*i763  Aged  2  Years 

2  Months  &  15  Days 


Here  Lies  Buried 

The  Body  of 

M'**  Mary  Bay  ley 

Wife  Of  M'  James 

Bay  ley  Of  Boston 

&  Dau'  Of  M'  Thomas 

Wayt  Of  This  Town 

Died  Aug®  30'''  1763 

In  The  37*  Year 

Of  Her  Age 


In  Memory  of 

Anne  Phillips  Dau^  of 

M'  Francis  &  M'®  Anne 

Phillips ;   who  died 

August  23'*  1763 

Aged  1 1  Months 


Here  lies  Buried 

the  Body  of  M' 

Nathaniel  Howard 

Who  departed  this  Life 

Decem'  17'''  1763  in  y* 

63*1  Year  of  His  Age 


Here  lyes  Buried 

the  Body  of 

M""  Jabez  Wait 

Who  departed  this  life 

April  the  15'*'  1764 

Aged  6S  Years 


Here  lyes  Buried 

the  Body  of 

M'  Isaac  Hill : 

Who  departed  this  Life 

June  y*  22*^  1764  in  y* 

42^  Year  of  His  Age 


Here  Lyes  y*  Body  of 

M"  Elizabeth  Payn 

Widow  to  M' 

Stephen  Payn 

Who  departed  this  Life 

March  14"'  1766  in  y' 

97"'  Year  of  Her  Age 


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Here  lyes  y'  Body  of 

M"  Rebecca  Harnden 

Widow  to  M'  Ebenezer 

Harnden  Who  died 

November  y''  1 8""  1 764 

Aged         Years 


Here  lyes  y"  Body  of 

M'^  Isabel  Green,  Widow 

to  M'  John  Green  ; 

Who  departed  this  Life 

August  the  9"^  1 765 

Aged  88  Years 


Here  lyes  Buried  y*^  Body 

of  M'^  Hannah  Green  Widow 

of  Deaco"*  Joseph  Green 

who  departed  this  Life 

August  the  25*  1765 

Aged  83  Years 


Here  lyes  Buried 

the  Body  of 

M"  Isaac  Green 

Who  departed  this  Life 

August  25*  1765  in  y' 

77 


th  \- 


Year  of  His  Age 


In  Memory  of 

M"  Sarah  Clewley 

Wife  to  M'  Isaac 

Clewley  who  died 

Juny'6'^  1766 

Aged  28  Years 

Also  their  dau"  Aged  3  Months 


Here  lyes  y"  Body  of 

Rachel  Lynd  Dau"  of 

M'  Jabez  &  M'^  Rachel 

Lynd  who  departed  this 

Life  Aug.  iS'^  1764  Aged 

21  Years  &  10  Months 


In  Memory  of 
Sarah  Waitt  Dau" 

of  M'  Stephen  &  M" 
Sarah  Waitt  Who 
died  May  8  1766  in 

y"^  4  Year  of  her  Age 


Here  lyes  y^  Body  of 

Richard  Dexter,  Son 

of  M^  Richard  &  M^^ 

Rebecca  Dexter ;   Who 

died  May  9""  1 766  in  y* 

10*  Year  of  His  Age 


In  Memory  of 

M"  Lydia  Willis 

the  amiable  consort  of 

Rev^'  Eliakim  Willis 

Who  died  Jan'y  25 

1767 

The     rules    of    true    piety    & 

religion 
Were  her  guide  &  companions 

in  life 
Be  not  slothful  but  followers  of 
Them  who  thr"  faith  &  patience 
Inherit  the  promises 


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Here  lyes  y'  Body  of 
M"  Mary  Sparks  Wife 
to  M'  Thomas  Sparks 
&  Dau'^  of  M'  Samuel 
Sweetser  Who  [Died] 
Feb'y  [19'^]  1767 
Years 


Here  lyes  Buried 

The  Body  of 

M'  Joseph  Pain 

Who  departed  this  life 

May  y'  16^''  1767  in  y* 

35*  Year  of  His  Age 

Blessed  are  y^  dead 
Which  die  in  y*  Lord 


Here  lyes  y*  Body  of 

M'^  Mary  Sweetser 

Wife  to  M"^  Samuel 

Sweetser  Who  died 

Sep'  the  14*  1767 

Aged  57  Years 


Here  lyes  y*  Body  of 

M"  Abigail  Blaney  Widow 

to  Cap'  Benjamin  Blaney 

Who  departed  this  Life 

Decem'  the  15"'  1767 

Aged  65  Years 


Here  lyes  Buried 

the  Body  of 

M'  Stephen  Paine 

Who  departed  this  Life 

Jan'y  5"^  176S  in  y« 

72''  Year  of  His  Age 


Here  lies  Inter'd  the  Remains 
of  that  learned,  Pious,  and 

f aithfuU  Minister  of  the 

Gospel,  the  Reverend  M' 

Joseph  Emerson  late  pastor  of 

y^  first  Church  of  Christ  in 

Maiden  who  very  suddenly 

departed  this  Life  July  the  13* 

Anno  Dom"'  I'jG']  in  y^  68* 

Year  of  his  Age  &  45"" 

of  his  Ministry. 

Now  Blefsed  are  y^  Dead 

which  die  in  the  Lord 

from  henceforth  :  yea  saith 

y*  Spirit,  that  they  may  rest 

from  their  Labors  :  &  their 

Works  do  follow  them 

Precious  in  y''  Sight  of  y^  Lord 

is  the  Death  of  his  Saints 


Here  lyes  the  Body  of 

Jonathan  Perkins  Son 

of  M'  Joseph  &  M''  Mary 

Perkins  Who  died 

Octo'  the  21"  1769  in  y* 

20*  Year  of  His  Age 

Wrapt  in  his  arms  who  Bled 
on  calvarys  plain 

We  murmer  not  Blest  Shade 
nor  Dare  complain 

Fled  to  those  Seats  where  per- 
fect Spirits  Shine 

We  mourn  our  loss  yet  Still 
rejoyce  in  thine 


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Here  lyes  y'  Body  of 

M"  Susanna  Hovey 

Widow  to  Deacon 

James  Hovey 

Who  Departed  this 

Life  Feb'>  14'*'  1768 

Aged  57  Years 


Here  lies  Interr'd  y*"  Remains 

of  Eyra  Green  Esq"^  one  of 

the  Dea°°=  of  y^  first  Church 

in  Maiden 

Who  departed  this  Life 

April  the  28"^  1768  in  y" 

54"'  Year  of  His  Age 

Now  Blessed  are  the  Dead 

Which  Die  in  the  Lord 

From  henceforth  yea  saith 

y^  Spirit  that  they  may 

Rest  from  their  labour  & 

their  works  do  follow  them 

For  thy  Dead  men  shall  live 

together  with  my  Dead  Body 

shall  they  arise.     Awake  & 

Sing  y*"  that  dwell  in  y" 

Dust  for  thy  dew  is  as  y^ 

due  of  herbs  and  the  Earth 

shall  cast  out  the  Dead 


Here  lyes  the  Body  of 
M''  Elizabeth  Barratt 
Wife  of  Mr.  Ebeneyer 

Barratt  Who  died 

February  the  1 1'*"  1769 

Aged  58  Years 


Here  lyes 

Buried  the  Body  of 

M'  Jonathan  Howard 

Who  departed  this  Life 

May  the  19  1769  in  v*" 

77  Year  of  His  Age 


Here  lyes  Buried 

the  Body  of 

M""  Jonathan  Oakes 

Who  departed  this  life 

Sep'  the  25'^  1769 

Aged  60  Years 


Here  lyes  Buried 

the  Body  of 

M^  Thomas  Shute 

Who  departed  this  Life 

Jan'>'  the  9"'  1770  in  y* 

150'''  Year  of  His  Age 


In  Memory  of 
M^*  Hannah  Sprague 

wife  of 
M"^  Phinehas  Sprague 
who  died  May  13"' 
1770 

In  the  44""  Year  of  her  age 
She  was  a  beauty  in  her  day 

In  virtue  she  excell'd 
There    was    no    Parson    that 
could  say 
Deceit  did  in  her  dwell 


lOO  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL   SOCIETY. 

Organized,  March  8,  1886. 
Incorporated  February  7,  1887. 


President. 
CHARLES   EDWARD   MANN 

Vice  Presidents. 

JOSHUA   W.  WELLMAN,  D.  D.* 
GEORGE    L.  GOULD 
ROSWELL    R.  ROBINSON 

Secretary-  Treasurer. 
GEORGE   WALTER   CHAMBERLAIN 

Directors. 

Charles  H.  Adams  H.  Heustis  Newton 

Sylvester  Baxter  Roswell  R.  Robinson 

George  W.  Chamberlain  William  G.  A.  Turner 

George  Howard  Fall  Walter  Kendall  Watkins 

George  L.  Gould  Arthur  H.  Wellman 
Charles  E.  Mann 

♦Deceased. 


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COMMITTEES,   1913-14. 


Finaftce. 

George  L.  Gould  William  G.  Merrill 

Arthur  W.  Walker 

Publication. 

Charles  E.  Mann  Sylvester  Baxter 

W.  G.  a.  Turner  George  W.  Chamberlain 

Arthur  H.  Wellman 

Membership. 

George  W.  Chamberlain  Thomas  S.  Rich 

Charles  H.  Adams  Mrs.  Henry  W.  Upham 

Mrs.  a.  a.  Nichols 

Genealogies. 

Walter  Kendall  Watkins  Dr.  Charles  Burleigh 

William  B.  Snow  Mrs.  Alfred  H,  Burlen 

Social. 

Mrs.  Mary  Greenleaf  Turner  Mrs.  Mary  Lawrence  Mann 

Mrs.  J.  Parker  Swett  Mrs.  Sylvester  Baxter 

Camera. 

William  L.  Hallworth  Peter  Graffam 

Eugene  A.  Perry  J.  Lewis  Wightman 

Richard  Greenleaf  Turner 


Library  and  Historic  Collection. 
William  G.  A.  Turner 


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BY-LAWS 

OF    THE 

MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY. 

[Adopted  at  the  annual  meeting  March  13,  1912.] 


NAME 

This  society  shall  be  called  the  Maiden  Historical 
Society. 

OBJECTS 

The  objects  of  this  society  shall  be  to  collect,  preserve 
and  disseminate  the  local  and  general  history  of  Maiden 
and  the  genealogy  of  Maiden  families ;  to  make  anti- 
quarian collections ;  to  collect  books  of  general  history, 
genealogy  and  biography  ;  and  to  prepare,  or  cause  to  be 
prepared  from  time  to  time,  such  papers  and  records 
relating  to  these  subjects  as  may  be  of  general  interest  to 
the  members. 

MEMBERSHIP 

The  members  of  this  society  shall  consist  of  two 
classes,  active  and  honorary,  and  shall  be  such  persons 
either  resident  or  non-resident  of  Maiden,  as  shall,  after 
being  approved  by  the  board  of  directors,  be  elected  by 
the  vote  of  a  majority  of  the  members  present  and  voting 
at  any  regularly  called  meeting  of  the  society. 

Honorary  members  may  be  nominated  by  the  board 
of  directors  and  shall  be  elected  by  ballot  by  a  two-thirds 


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vote  of  the  members  present  and  voting  at  any  regularly 
called  meeting.  They  shall  enjoy  all  the  privileges  of  the 
society  except  that  of  voting. 

OFFICERS 

The  officers  of  the  society  shall  include  a  recording 
secretary,  and  a  treasurer,  who  shall  be  members  of  the 
board  of  directors.  The  society  may  in  its  discretion  elect 
one  person  as  secretary-treasurer  to  perform  the  duties  of 
recording  secretary  and  treasurer.  The  other  officers  to 
be  elected  by  the  society  shall  be  a  board  of  eleven 
directors,  including  the  officer  or  officers  named  above. 
The  recording  secretary,  treasurer  (or  secretary-treasurer), 
and  directors  shall  be  elected  by  ballot  at  the  annual 
meeting  of  the  society. 

The  board  of  directors  shall  from  their  number  elect 
by  ballot  a  president  and  three  vice  presidents,  and  from 
the  members  of  the  society  may  elect  a  librarian  and 
curator  and  such  other  officers  as  may  be  deemed  neces- 
sary. All  officers  shall  serve  for  one  year,  or  until  their 
successors  are  elected  and  qualified.  The  board  of 
directors  may  fill  any  vacancies  for  unexpired  terms. 

COMMITTEES 

The  board  of  directors  may  elect  annually  committees 
on  finance,  publication,  membership,  genealogies  and  such 
other  committees  as  the  society  may  direct  or  the  board 
deem  desirable. 

DUES 

The  annual  dues  of  the  society  shall  be  one  dollar. 
Any  active  member  may  become  a  life  member  by  the 
payment  of  twenty-five  dollars  during  any  one  year,  which 


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MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 


shall  exempt  such  member  from  the  payment  of  further 
annual  dues.  The  board  of  directors  shall  have  discretion 
to  drop  from  the  membership  roll  any  person  failing  to 
pay  his  annual  assessment  for  two  successive  years. 

MEETINGS 

The  annual  meeting  of  the  society  shall  be  held  on 
the  second  Wednesday  in  March  for  the  election  of  officers 
and  the  transaction  of  other  business.  Regular  meetings 
shall  be  called  in  May,  October,  December  and  January. 
Special  meetings  may  be  called  by  the  president  at  his 
discretion  and  five  members  shall  constitute  a  quorum  for 
the  transaction  of  business  at  any  meeting. 

AMENDMENTS 

These  by-laws  may  be  altered,  amended  or  suspended, 
by  a  two-thirds  vote  of  the  members  present  and  voting  at 
any  meeting,  notice  of  such  proposed  action  having  been 
given  in  the  call  for  said  meeting. 


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MEMBERS  1915-1916. 


Adams,  Charles  H. 
Adams,  Walter  E. 
Am m anil,  Albert 

Barnes,  Roland  D. 
Bailey,  Dudley  Perkins 
Bailey,  William  M. 
Baxter,  Sylvester     . 
Bayrd,  Mrs.  Adelaide  Breed 
Belcher,  Charles  F. 
Bennett,  Frank  P.,  Sr.    . 
Bickford,  Erskine  Frank 
Blakeley,  William  Monroe 
Bliss,  Alvin  E. 
Boutwell,  Harvey  L. 
Bradstreet,  George  Flint 
Brigham,  Mrs.  Augusta  R. 
Brooks,  Harvey  N. 
Bruce,  Charles 
Bruce,  Judge  Charles  M. 
Burbank,  Edwin  C. 
Burleigh,  Dr.  Charles 
Burgess,  James  Henry    . 
Burgess,  Mrs.  Ovilla  Bishop 
Burlen,  Mrs.  Alfred  H.    . 

Carlisle,  Frank  H. 
Carr,  Joseph  T.      . 
Casas,  William  B.  de  las 
Chamberlain,  George  Walter  . 


.  59  Orient  avenue,  Melrose 

.  20  Florence  street,  Maiden 

50  Acorn  street.  Maiden 

Bristol,  Connecticut 

.     1 2 1  Linden  street,  Everett 

3  Ridgewood  road.  Maiden 

33  Murray  Hill  road.  Maiden 

34  Spruce  street.  Maiden 

148  Hawthorne  street.  Maiden 

Saugus 

38  Main  street.  Maiden 

385  Washington  street,  Maiden 

.  60  Linden  avenue.  Maiden 

309  Summer  street.  Maiden 

.     3o8  Maple  street,  Maiden 

.   21  Concord  street.  Maiden 

Murray  Hill  Park,  Maiden 

8  Forest  a\enue,  Everett 

155  Hawthorne  street,  Maiden 

.     37  Beltran  street.  Maiden 

Waverley 

73  Mountain  avenue.  Maiden 

72  Mountain  avenue,  Maiden 

.    255  Clifton  street.  Maiden 

Davisville,  R.  L 

,     243  Salem  street,  Maiden 

95  Cedar  street.  Maiden 

29  Hillside  avenue,  Maiden 


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MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 


Chandler,  John  Girard    . 
Chase,  James  F. 
Cobb,  Darius  . 
Coggan,  Marcellus. 
Converse,  Costello  C. 
Converse,  Mrs.  Mary  Ida 
Corbett,  John  M.     . 
Corey,  Mrs.  Isabella  Holden 
Cotton,  Frank  E.     . 
Cox,  Alfred  Elmer 
Cox,  Charles  M. 
Cummings,  E.  Harold     . 

Damon,  Herbert 
Daniels,  Charles  A. 
Dawes,  Miss  Agnes  H. 
Dillingham,  William  C. 
Donovan,  James 
Doonan,  Owen  P.   . 
Drew,  Frank  E. 

Eaton,  Charles  L. 
Elwell,  Fred  S.       . 
Estey,  Frank  W.     . 
Evans,  Wilmot  R.,  Sr. 

Fall,  George  Howard 
Fenn,  Harry  W. 
Fison,  Herbert  W. 
Fowle,  Frank  E.     . 
Fuller,  Alvan  T. 

Gay,  Edward 
Gay,  Dr.  Fritz  W. 
Goodwin,  Dr.  Richard  J.  P. 
Gould,  Edwin  Carter 


2  Dexter  street.  Maiden 

20  Crescent  avenue,  Maiden 

no  Tremont  street,  Boston 

Tremont  Building,  Boston 

2  Main  street.  Maiden 

2  Main  street.  Maiden 

79  Tremont  street.  Maiden 
2  Berkeley  street,  Maiden 

48  Glen  street.  Maiden 

80  Appleton  street,  Maiden 

Melrose 

515  Highland  avenue.  Maiden 

191  Mountain  avenue.  Maiden 

88  Mt.  Vernon  street.  Maiden 

I  Ridgewood  road.  Maiden 

66  Appleton  street,  Maiden 

33  Grace  street,  Maiden 

92  Highland  avenue.  Maiden 

60  Glenwood  street.  Maiden 

44  Dexter  street.  Maiden 

166  Lawrence  street,  Maiden 

136  Hawthorne  street.  Maiden 

591  Broadway,  Everett 

12  Evelyn  place.  Maiden 

48  Grace  street.  Maiden 

24  Main  street  park.  Maiden 

321  Summer  street.  Maiden 

Si  Appleton  street.  Maiden 

18  Dexter  street.  Maiden 
.     105  Salem  street.  Maiden 
481  Pleasant  street,  Maiden 
20  W.  Wyoming  avenue,  Melrose 


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Gould,  George  Lambert 
Gould,  Mrs.  Lizzie  Lawrence 
Gould,  Levi  Swanton 
Graff  am,  Peter 


24  Alpine  street,  Maiden 

24  Alpine  street.  Maiden 

280  Main  street,  Melrose 

iSi  Clifton  street,  Maiden 


Hallworth,  William  Leigh       .  .  47  Meridian  street,  Maiden 

Hardy,  Arthur  P.    .  .  .  49  Las  Casas  street.  Maiden 

Haven,  Rev.  William  Ingraham,  D.D. 

Bible  House,  Astor  place.  New  York,  N.  Y. 


55 


37  Washington  street,  Maiden 
37  Washington  street.  Maiden 
.  40  Newhall  street.  Maiden 
33  Converse  avenue.  Maiden 
.  26  Prescott  street.  Maiden 
Botolph  street,  Melrose  Highlands 
20  Main  street  park.  Maiden 

.     613  Salem  street.  Maiden 
21  Howard  street 

10  Holmes  street,  Maiden 
.  88  Summer  street.  Maiden 
25  Garland  avenue,  Maiden 

47  Francis  street.  Maiden 

.     19  Sprague  street.  Maiden 

202  Mountain  avenue.  Maiden 

37  Alpine  street.  Maiden 

.  219  Clifton  street,  Maiden 
142  Hawthorne  street.  Maiden 

24  Pleasant  street  park.  Maiden 
14  Woodland  road.  Maiden 
14  Woodland  road,  Maiden 
Mansfield,  Mrs.  Sarah  Elizabeth       57  Glenwood  street,  Maiden 


Hawley,  Mrs.  Alice  C.   . 
Hawley,  William  Dickerson 
Hawley,  William  H. 
Hobbs,  William  J. 
H olden,  Arthur  P.  . 
Houdlette,  Mrs.  Edith  L 
Hutchins,  John  W. 

Johnson,  George  H. 
Jones,  Louis  G. 

Kerr,  Alexander 
Kimball,  Edward  P. 
King,  Edward  Samuel 
King,  Mrs.  Robert  C. 

Lane,  Miss  Ellen  W. 
Lang,  Thomas,  Jr. 
Locke,  Col.  Elmore  E. 
Locke,  Col.  Frank  L. 
Lund,  James 

Magee,  Charles  R. 
Mann,  Charles  Edward 
Mann,  Mrs.  Mary  Lawrence 


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MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 


McGregor,  Alexander 
Merrill,  William  G. 
Millett,  Charles  Howard 
Millett,  Mrs.  M.  C. 
Millett,  Mrs.  Rosina  Maria 
Miner,  Franklin  M. 
Morgan,  Albert  B. 
Morse,  Tenney 
Mudge,  Rev.  James,  D.  D. 

Newton,  H.  Heustis 

Nichols,  Mrs.  Adeline  Augusta 

Norris,  Dr.  Albert  Lane  . 


Otis,  James  O. 

Page,  Albert  Nelson 
Parker,  Charles  Lincoln 
Perkins,  Clarence  Albert 
Perkins,  Frank  J.    . 
Perry,  Eugene  A.     . 
Plummer,  Arthur  J. 
Plummer,  Dr.  Frank  Wentw 
Porter,  Prof.  Dwight 
Pratt,  Earl  W. 
Pratt,  Ezra  F. 
Priest,  Russell  P. 
Prior,  Dr.  Charles  E. 

Qiiimby,  Rev.  Israel  P. 
Quinn,  Bernard  F. 

Rich,  Thomas  S.      . 
Rich,  Mrs.  Thomas  S. 
Richards,  George  Louis  . 


Glen  Rock,  Maiden 

.  149  Walnut  street,  Maiden 

.    217  Clifton  street,  Maiden 

.    217  Clifton  street,  Maiden 

22  Parker  street.  Maiden 

127  Summer  street,  Maiden 

.  50  Pleasant  street.  Maiden 

65  Las  Casas  street.  Maiden 

33  Cedar  street.  Maiden 

.  92  Waverly  street,  Everett 

37  Cedar  street.  Maiden 

.   283  Clifton  street,  Maiden 

.   9  Woodland  road,  Maiden 


349  Pleasant  street,  Maiden 
47  Converse  avenue.  Maiden 
57  High  street,  Maiden 
81  Washington  street.  Maiden 
145  Summer  street,  Maiden 
4  Hudson  street,  Maiden 
orth       340  Pleasant  street.  Maiden 
149  Hawthorne  street.  Maiden 

128  Pleasant  street,  Maiden 

129  Pleasant  street.  Maiden 
411  Winthrop  Building,  Boston 

I  Mountain  avenue.  Maiden 

.  65  Tremont  street.  Maiden 
.     65  Judson  street.  Maiden 

.  240  Clifton  street,  Maiden 
.  240  Clifton  street,  Maiden 
.  84  Linden  avenue,  Maiden 


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Richards,  Lyman  H. 
Riedel,  E.  Robert   . 
Robinson,  Roswell  Raymond 
Roby,  Austin  H. 
Rood,  John  F. 
Ross,  Alexander  S. 
Rowe,  Miss  Edith  Owen 
Ryder,  Mrs.  Gertrude  Yale 
Ryder,  Dr.  Godfrey 

Shove,  Francis  A. 
Shumway,  Franklin  P.    . 
Siner,  Mrs.  James  B. 
Smith,  George  E.    . 
Snow,  William  Brown 
Sprague,  Mrs.  Emeline  M. 
Sprague,  Phineas  Warren,    47 
Starbird,  Louis  D. 
Stevens,  Dr.  Andrew  Jackson 
Stover,  Col.  Willis  W.     . 
Swett,  J.  Parker,     Highland 
Sullivan,  Mrs.  K.  T. 


Tredick,  C.  Morris 
Turner,  Alfred  Rogers 
Turner,  Mrs.  Mary  Greenleaf 
Turner,  William  G.  A. 

Upham,  Henry  W. 
Upham,  Mrs.  Henry  W. 
Upton,  Eugene  Charles  . 

Walker,  Mrs.  Annie  Dexter 
Walker,  Arthur  W. 
Walker,  Mrs.  Clara  Isabel 
Walker,  Hugh  L. 


.    17  Howard  street.  Maiden 

.    13  Harnden  road.  Maiden 

.  84  Linden  avenue,  Maiden 

105  Washington  street.  Maiden 

Maiden 

38  Woodland  road,  Maiden 

.  149  Walnut  street,  Maiden 

321   Pleasant  street.  Maiden 

321    Pleasant  street,  Maiden 


205  Mountain  avenue.  Maiden 

25  Bellevue  avenue,  Melrose 

156  Hawthorne  street.  Maiden 

Swampscott 

79  Dexter  street.  Maiden 

84  Salem  street,  Maiden 

Commonwealth  avenue,  Boston 

213  Movuitain  avenue,  Maiden 

599  Main  street.  Maiden 

100  Waverly  street,  Everett 

ter.,  cor.  Ridgewood  road.  Maiden 

87  Cedar  street.  Maiden 

36  Alpine  street.  Maiden 

200  Broadway,  Paterson,  N.  J. 

I  Ridgewood  road.  Maiden 

I  Ridgewood  road,  Maiden 


285  Clifton  street,  Maiden 

285  Clifton  street,  Maiden 

55  Dexter  street.  Maiden 

16  Alpine  street.  Maiden 

16  Alpine  street,  Maiden 

74  Dexter  street.  Maiden 

14  Newhall  street.  Maiden 


no 


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Warren,  Charles  G. 
Watkins,  Walter  Kendall 
Wellman,  Mrs.  Jennie  Louise 
Wellman,  Arthur  Holbrook 
Welsh,  Willard 
Wentworth,  Dr.  Lowell  F. 
White,  Clinton 
Whittemore,  Edgar  Augustus 
Wiggin,  Joseph 
Wightman,  J.  Lewis 
Wingate,  Edward  Lawrence 
Winship,  Addison  L. 
Winship,  William  Henry 
Woodward,  Frank  Ernest 


677  Main  street,  Maiden 

47  Hillside  avenue.  Maiden 

.    193  Clifton  street.  Maiden 

.     193  Clifton  street,  Maiden 

60  Greenleaf  street,  Maiden 

.    19  Bartlett  street,  Melrose 

106  Bellevue  avenue,  Melrose 

.    2  Woodland  road,  Maiden 

55  Clarendon  street.  Maiden 

245  Mountain   avenue,  Maiden 

85  Dexter  street.  Maiden 

65  Laurel  street,  Melrose 

.     209  Maple  street.  Maiden 

Wellesley  Hills 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  III 


NECROLOGIES 


FREDERICK   N.  JOSLIN. 

Within  two  years,  three  members  of  the  Maiden  His- 
torical Society  passed  away  who  were  natives  of  the  town 
of  Webster  —  Judge  William  Schofield,  Mayor  George  L. 
Farrell  and  Frederick  N.  Joslin.  The  name  of  Joslin  is 
familiar  in  the  locality  near  Webster.  The  family  origi- 
nated in  this  country  in  Hingham,  crossed  Rhode  Island 
or  possibly  the  Blackstone  Valley  into  Killingly,  now 
Thompson,  Connecticut,  and  from  thence  spread  into 
Worcester  County  in  Masssachusetts.  One  of  the  land- 
marks of  Webster  is  the  Joslin  House,  for  years  kept  by 
Mr.  Joslin's  father,  as  the  father  of  Elisha  Slade  Converse 
and  his  fathers  before  him  kept  the  Converse  Tavern  in 
the  neighboring  Thompson  Parish  in  Killingly.  Maiden 
owes  much  to  this  region,  for  to  the  names  mentioned 
above  should  be  added  that  of  Col.  Charles  L.  Dean,  our 
lamemted  former  mayor  and  senator,  born  on  Ashford, 
and  for  many  years  engaged  in  business  in  Thompson  and 
Stafford  Springs. 

Mr.  Joslin  died  October  19,  1914,  after  a  long  illness, 
at  the  age  of  48  years.  While  well  known  in  Maiden,  this 
fact  was  not  due  to  his  having  been  active  in  public  or 
social  life,  but  to  his  being  the  head  of  the  great  depart- 
ment store  which  has  long  borne  his  name.  To  this,  until 
a  few  months  before  his  death,  he  gave  himself  with  an 
absolute  devotion  ;  he  won  success  because  he  determined 
to  deserve  it,  but  he  won  it  at  the  expense  of  his  personal 


112  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

comfort,  his  health  and  his  life.  Naturally  retiring  and 
unassuming,  he  did  not  lack  public  spirit,  but  his  view  of 
what  public  spirit  meant  in  his  case  was  to  build  for  the 
people  of  Maiden  a  trade  center  which  should  rival  the 
great  department  houses  of  Boston,  and  this  ambition  he 
realized. 

Mr.  Joslin  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of 
Webster  and  in  Phillips  Andover  Academy.  His  early 
dry  goods  experience  was  in  the  house  of  Coleman  Mead 
and  Company,  where  he  was  associated  with  Mr.  L.  B. 
Lewis,  with  whom  he  formed  a  partnersip  in  1891,  the  firm 
purchasing  the  dry  goods  store  of  G.  E.  Tufts,  which  has 
through  their  enterprise  grown  to  be  the  largest  of  its  class 
in  the  Metropolitan  district,  outside  of  Boston  itself.  He 
became  active  in  the  Board  of  Trade  ;  was  a  director  of 
the  First  National  Bank,  a  trustee  and  a  member  of  the 
investment  committee  of  the  Maiden  Savings  Bank.  In 
these  positions,  as  well  as  in  the  conduct  of  his  great  busi- 
ness, he  proved  himself  a  substantial  business  man,  and 
in  every  sense  a  good  citizen.  A  large  circle  of  friends 
and  business  associates  deplored  the  breaking  of  his  health 
and  hoped  for  a  recovery  that  was  not  to  come. 

With  his  family,  he  attended  St.  Paul's  Episcopal 
church.  He  married  Emma  F.  Evans  of  Maiden  March 
7,  1894,  who  with  a  daughter,  Freda,  his  mother,  Mrs. 
Sarah  A.  Joslin  and  a  sister,  Mrs.  Chester  M.  Elliott,  both 
of  Putnam,  Conn.,  survive  him. 


JOSHUA    HOWARD    MILLETT. 

Among  the  Mayflower  descendants  who  have  lived  in 
Maiden  few  have  more  truly  honored  their  ancestry  than 
Joshua  Howard  Millett,  long  a  member  of  this  Society, 


JOSHUA   H.  MILLETT 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  II3 

who  died  at  his  home  in  this  city  October  14,  1914.     Mr. 
Millett  was  a  descendant  in  the  eighth  generation    from 
Mary,  daughter  of  James  Chihon  (who  signed  the  May- 
flower compact  in  the  harbor  of  Provincetown  and  soon 
after  died),  the  young  woman  who  has  for  nearly  three 
hundred  years  had  the  credit  of  being  the  first  to  step  on 
Plymouth  Rock.      His  father,  Joshua  Millett,  belonged  to 
that  branch  of  the  family  of  Thomas  Millett  of  Gloucester 
which  emigrated  from  Cape  Ann  to  the  District  of  Maine 
in  early  days.     Thomas  Millett    appears    to    have   settled 
first  in  Dorcester  in  1633,  later  going  to  Gloucester,  where 
he  was  for  a  time  the  preacher  in  the  church  at  Cape  Ann, 
then  moving  to  Brookfield  and  returning  to  Gloucester  to 
spend  his  last    days.      He  lived  at  Kettle  Cove,  now  the 
flourishing  summer  resort  known  as  Magnolia,  and  one  of 
his  last  known  descendants  was  Judith  Millett,  who  taught 
the  older  generation  of  Cape  Ann  their  letters,  and  as  the 
village  schoolmistress,   was  wont  to  take  her  pupils  to  a 
beautiful  oak  grove  for    picnics  —  the    grove,   now  sadly 
denuded  of  its  magnificent  oaks,  having  ever  since  borne 
the  name  of  "Judy  Millett's  Parlor."     Mr.  Millett' s  mother 
was  Sophronia  Howard,  sixth  in  line  from  John  Howard, 
who  joined  the  Plymouth  Colony  in  1643,  and  was  one  of 
the  original  proprietors  of  Bridgewater,  his   descendants, 
bearing  either  the  name  Howard  or  Hayward,  being  very 
numerous  in  the  Old  Colony,  as  well  as  in  all  parts  of  the 
country. 

Mr.  Millett  was  born  in  Cherryfield,  Maine,  March  17, 
1842.  He  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  Wayne, 
Maine,  at  Hebron  Academy,  and  at  Waterbury  College 
(now  Colby  University),  where  he  graduated  in  1867,  later 
being  given  the  degree  of  A.  M.  Coming  to  Boston,  he 
entered  the  law  office  of  Judge  Isaac  F.  Redfield,  formerly 


114  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

chief  justice  of  the  supreme  court  of  Vermont,  and  a  great 
authority  and  writer  on  legal  subjects,  whose  associate  was 
William  A.  Herrick.  Like  many  another  promising  young 
man,  he  proved  that  the  active  work  of  the  office  was 
his  best  preparation  for  success,  and  on  December  15,  1870, 
he  was  admitted  to  the  Suffolk  bar,  being  admitted  to  the 
firm  a  year  later.  The  partnership  of  Redfield,  Herrick 
and  Millett  continued  until  the  death  of  Judge  Redfield  in 
1876,  after  which  the  practice  was  continued  by  his  surviv- 
ing partners.  Mr.  Millett's  admission  to  the  United  States 
Supreme  Court  occurred  in  1885  ;  and  Mr.  Herrick  dying 
the  following  year,  he  formed  a  partnership  with  Ralph  W. 
Foster  which  continued  to  1898. 

Meanwhile,  the  business  instincts  which  must  have 
made  him  a  most  valuable  counselor  to  clients  interested 
in  mercantile  or  manufacturing  affairs,  had  led  him  to 
engage  in  several  large  enterprises,  notable  the  Crosby 
Steam  Gauge  and  Valve  Company,  of  which  he  was 
president  for  nearly  forty  years.  Becoming  interested  in 
politics,  he  represented  Maiden  in  the  General  Court  in 
1884  and  1885,  being  on  the  committee  on  mercantile 
affairs,  and  during  his  service  interesting  himself  particu- 
larly in  the  pilotage  laws  of  the  State,  which  still  bear 
evidence  of  his  painstaking  efforts  for  their  modification 
and  improvement.  The  committee  gave  fourteen  hearings, 
and  the  bill,  drafted  by  Mr.  Millett,  was  passed  with  very 
slight  amendment.  As  was  appropriate,  he  also  served  on 
the  judiciary  committee  and  the  committee  on  metropolitan 
police. 

Mr.  Millett  married  Rosina  M.  Tredick  June  19,  1867, 
and  soon  after  came  to  Maiden,  making  his  home  on 
Parker  street.  From  his  coming,  he  interested  himself  in 
the  social  and  corporate  affairs  of  the  town  and  city.      For 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  II5 

five  years  he  was  a  member  of  the  school  committee,  and 
he  was  also  a  trustee  of  the  public  library  and  the  park 
commission.  He  was  chairman  of  the  sub-committee  that 
framed  the  city  charter,  and  doubtless,  had  he  shown  any 
disposition  to  actively  push  his  candidacy,  his  name  would 
have  been  enrolled  as  one  of  our  earliest  mayors.  Mr. 
Millett's  qualities  were  substantial  rather  than  spectacular, 
but  his  sterling  character  and  reliability  made  him  con- 
stantly sought  for  service  on  important  committees  and 
commissions,  and  as  the  guiding  spirit  in  large  enterprises. 
At  the  time  of  his  death  he  was  president  of  the  Maiden 
Home  for  Aged  Persons,  of  which  he  was  a  charter  member. 
He  was  a  member  of  Maiden  Lodge  of  Masons,  of  Beausant 
Commandery  of  Knights  Templar,  the  Massachusetts  Bar 
Association  and  the  B.  K.  E.  of  Colby  University.  His 
widow,  a  son,  Charles  Howard  Millett  and  a  daughter, 
Mrs.  Alfred  B.  Carhart  of  Winchester,  survive  him. 

Mr.  Millett  had  an  interesting  Revolutionary  ancestry. 
He  was  admitted  to  the  Massachusetts  Society  Sons  of  the 
American  Revolution,  25  April,  1889  —  ^^^  days  after  the 
organization  of  the  aforesaid  society.  His  record  :  "  The 
son  of  Joshua  and  Sophronia  (Howard)  Miller,  grandson 
John  and  Sally  Millet;  great  grandson  of  Thomas  and 
Eunice  Millet.  His  great  grandfather,  Thomas  Millet, 
joined  the  army  at  Cambridge  about  June  i,  1775,  from 
Gloucester,  Mass.,  and  remained  with  it  until  after  the 
battle  of  Trenton,  December,  1776;  then  after  his  return 
shipped  as  a  marine  on  board  the  Continental  ship,  Han- 
cock, Capt.  Manly,  April,  1777  ;  was  captured  by  the 
British  and  after  varied  experiences  was  exchanged, 
September,  1778.     He  died  in  1823,  a  pensioner. 


Il6  MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 

WELLINGTON   PHILLIPS. 

America  owes  much  to  the  Phillips  family.  Beginning 
with  Rev.  George  Phillips,  the  iirst  pastor  of  the  Water- 
town  church  and  on  through  his  descendants,  the  founders 
of  Phillips  Exeter  and  Phillips  Andover  academies,  and 
the  Andover  Theological  Seminary,  John  Phillips,  the  first 
mayor  of  Boston,  and  his  son,  Wendell  Phillips,  and 
Bishop  Phillips  Brooks,  all  have  honored  the  name.  The 
subject  of  this  sketch,  Wellington  Phillips,  belonged  to  a 
branch  of  the  family  which  established  itself  in  the  District 
of  Maine,  and  he  was  born  in  Norrigewock,  in  1855,  being 
educated  in  the  public  schools  of  that  town  and  in  North 
Anson  Academy.  He  came  to  Boston  in  1872,  entering 
the  clothing  business  at  Old  Oak  Hall,  in  North  street.  Thir- 
teen years  later  he  established  the  tailoring  firm  of  Bartel 
&  Phillips.  While  in  Oak  Hall  he  was  given  important 
positions,  being  in  charge  of  contract  work  for  military 
and  other  uniforms,  and  similar  duties. 

Mr.  Phillips  was  an  active,  pushing  man,  and  one 
who  made  many  friends  and  thoroughly  enjoyed  his  mem- 
bership in  the  large  number  of  organizations  to  which  he 
belonged.  He  saw  a  good  deal  of  service  in  the  City 
Government.  For  a  time  he  served  Ward  One  as  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Common  Council,  and  later,  having  moved  into 
Ward  Four,  he  was  returned  to  the  Common  Council  for 
that  constituency.  He  was  a  good  debater,  and  constandy 
participated  in  the  discussions  of  that  body,  as  well  as 
those  of  the  Maiden  Deliberative  Assembly,  of  which  he 
was  long  a  member.  He  was  active,  also,  in  the  Univer- 
salist  church. 

Among  the  organizations  to  which  he  belonged  were 
Maiden  Lodge  of  Odd  Fellows,  being  also  a  district  deputy, 
Mount  Vernon  Lodge  of  Masons,  the  Fusileer  Veterans,  the 


WELL  ING  TON  PHIL  LIPS 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  II7 

Maiden  Club,  the  Melrose  Chapter  of  the  Eastern  Star,  of 
which  he  was  a  past  patron,  Middlesex  Encampment,  the 
Royal  x\rch  Chapter,  Canton  Maiden  and  the  Maine  Club. 
Mr.  Phillips  married,  November  7,  1889,  Clara 
Savage,  and  besides  her,  left  two  daughters,  Irene  A.  and 
Marion  A.,  two  sisters  and  two  brothers. 


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Edited  Dg  the  Committee  on  Publication 


LYNN,    MASS. 
FRANK   S  WRITTEN,   PRINTER 
1918 


FORM  OF  BEQIJEST 


I  bequeath  the  sum  of..... dollars  to 

the  Maiden  Historical  Society,  incorporated  under  the  laws 
of  the  Commonwealth  of  Massachusetts,  and  direct  that 
the  receipt  of  the  Treasurer  of  the  said  Society  shall  be  a 
release  to  my  estate  and  to  its  executors  from  further  liability 
under  said  bequest. 


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Mrs.  George  L.  Gould  (portrait) Frontispiece 

Form  of  Bequest 3 

A    Walk    up  Salem  street,  By   the  late  Deloraiiie  Pendre 

Corey       ..........  5 

The  Early  Baptists  of  Maiden,  George  Walter  C/tomberlain,  13 

The  Mudges  of  Maiden,  Rev.  James  Mndge,  S.  T.  D.         .  39 

An  Early  Dedication  Program 55 

Michael  Wigglesworth    and   the    "Best   Seller"   of    1689, 

F.   W.  Coburn 58 

Why  Aberjona.'     Sylvester  Baxter 68 

A  Scrap  of  Paper,  The  President  of  the  Society  ...  71 

The  Register 

Officers 76 

Committees -77 

By-Laws 78 

Members  1918 81 

Founders  of  the  Society 86 

The  Gilbert  Haven  Collection 87 

Necrologies 

Levi  Swanton  Gould 9° 

Mrs.  Lizzie  Lawrence  Gould          .....  93 

Joseph  Webber  Chadwick       ......  95 

Dr.  Frank  Wentworth  Plummer,  M.  D.         .         .          .  98 

Clinton  White loi 


A    WALK    UP   SALEM   STREET. 

An  address  delivered  at  the  Faulkner  School,  October  19,  1S99,  by  the  late  Deloraine 
Pendre  Corey,  President  of  the  Society. 


When  I  was  asked  by  Mr,  Wightman  to  take  part 
with  you  in  this  pleasant  exercise — this  house  warming — it 
was  with  some  hesitancy  that  I  accepted  the  invitation  ; 
and  I  think  that  it  was  the  pleasure  which  I  always  have 
in  looking  upon  gatherings  of  young  people  and  children 
that  turned  the  scale. 

Frankly,  Mr.  Chairman,  I  did  not  come  here  to  see 
the  grown  people,  I  came  to  see  the  children,  and  if  I 
must  speak  with  them.  I  came  here  to  be  a  boy  again 
— in  mind,  for  the  spirit  of  childhood  can  never  return 
to  us.  Though  I  am  not  yet  the  oldest  inhabitant,  my 
memory  holds  vividly  the  knowledge  of  a  condition  which 
if  reproduced  to-day  would  seem  strange  to  the  most  of 
you.  There  may  be  a  few  here — not  many, — who  remem- 
ber Salem  street  and  the  Faulkner  farm  as  it  appeared 
from  50  to  60  years  ago.  You  will  hardly  believe  that  at 
that  time  but  five  dwelling  houses  stood  on  the  south  side 
of  Salem  street  from  the  cemetery  to  Black  Ann's  corner 
at  Linden.  In  the  present  district  of  Faulkner,  consider- 
ing it  for  convenience  as  bounded  on  the  west  by  Franklin 
street,  south  and  east  by  Cross  street  and  north  by  the 
rocks  and  the  woods,  we  would  have  found  but  six  houses 
inhabited  by  not  over  35  people.  Having  an  uncle  living 
near  this  spot  in  a  house  which  stood  where  the  Rev.  Mr. 
Bailey  now  lives,  I  knew  the  way  well,  was  acquainted 
as  a  child  with  all  the  people,  and  I  know  I  could  recognize 
them  all  if  I  could  meet  them  as  they  appeared  then. 


6  MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY 

Suppose  we  take  a  little  walk,  you  and  I,  leaving  these 
grown  people  with  their  knowledge  and  experience  to 
remain  here  while  we  go  out,  with  our  young  hearts,  into 
the  past  which  can  never  come  back  to  them. 

Here  we  are  at  the  beginning  of  Baptist  Row  (Salem 
street  these  grown  people  would  call  it,  but  we  know 
better)  at  the  home  of  my  childhood  where  the  great  High 
School  building  now  stands.  If  I  were  going  to  school,  I 
would  go  by  the  mill  pond  in  the  square  to  the  old  brick 
schoolhouse  on  Schoolhouse  Hill  —  both  have  disappeared  ; 
but  we  are  going  eastward  and  have  no  care  for  the  school- 
house  >  for  school  does  not  keep  for  us  to-day.  The  street 
is  Baptist  Row,  so  called  because  the  First  Baptist  church 
was  gathered  in  a  barn  which  stood  on  the  north  side  of 
the  road,  where  Mr.  Davenport's  house  now  is,  and  because 
most  of  the  people  who  lived  in  the  vicinity  were  Baptists. 
It  has  greatly  changed.  There  were  seventeen  houses 
between  the  square  and  the  cemetery  at  the  time  which  we 
are  considering.     Only  two  of  the  seventeen  remain  to-day. 

***** 

The  burying  ground — we  seldom  or  never  heard  the 
name  of  cemetery  in  those  days — did  not  come  up  to  the 
street.  The  old  Baptist  meeting-house,  an  uncouth  barn 
of  a  house  with  immense  windows  and  a  squat  belfry  in 
which  hung  a  bell  which  rang  the  curfew  at  nine  o'clock, 
interposed.  This  house  was  built  in  1804.  In  it  were 
received  my  first  Sabbath-day  impressions ;  and  my 
earliest  recollections  thereof  are  of  three  conditions : 
I.  One  of  exquisite  uneasiness,  for  the  day  was  hot,  the 
seat  was  hard,  and  the  sermon  was  long.  2.  One  of  awe 
at  the  presence  of  the  Minister,  Mr.  Williams,  and  the 
contemplation  of  the  way  he  pounded  the  Bible.  3.  One 
of  curiosity  as   to  whether    the  sighs    and    groans  which 


MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY  7 

came  from  the  gallery  were  from  a  suffering  baby  or  a 
dog.  I  was  inclined  to  the  first,  but  I  have  since  learned 
that  it  was  the  double  bass  viol. 

Uncouth  as  was  this  old  meeting-house,  it  was 
endeared  to  many  by  loving  memories.  It  was  closed  in 
a  blaze  of  glory  by  a  ratification  meeting  in  the  days  of 
Clay  and  Frelinghuysen,  when  each  little  square  of  glass 
held  its  own  candle,  festoons  of  lights  illumined  the  interior, 
and  the  great  chandelier  with  its  glittering  pendants  shone 
as  it  never  shone  before.  The  house  was  crowded  ;  and 
eloquence  and  a  brass  band  graced  the  occasion.  Then 
spoke  the  celebrated  Rufus  Choate,  perhaps  in  some 
respects  the  most  eloquent  man  Massachusetts  has  pro- 
duced. He  was  suffering  from  a  cold  and  spoke  but  a 
short  time.  One  who  followed  him  said  that  after  such  a 
speech,  his  own  poor  words  would  be  like  the  rattling  of 
beans  in  a  tin  pan  compared  with  old  fashion  dog-day 
thunder.  I  would  give  you  the  date  if  it  were  not  that  it 
might  have  a  personal  bearing.  Remember,  you  and  I  are 
children  together. 

The  oldmeeting-house  was  put  on  rollers  and  the  last  I 
saw  of  it,  it  was  going  up  Main  street — Reading  road,  I 
should  have  said.  It  was  standing  a  few  years  ago  in 
Woburn  or  Wilmington  and  was  used  as  a  factory  for  some 
kind  of  wood  working.  Nearby  the  meeting-house  stood 
a  vestry  and  a  hearse  house,  both  painted  yellow. 

Leaving  the  meeting-house  the  way  became  a  country 
road.  The  partly  developed  sidewalk  ceased,  and  the 
roadside  was  lined  with  a  luxurient  thicket  of  barberry 
bushes,  sumac,  and  blackberry  vines,  of  tall  mullens,  broad 
burdocks,  and  sweet  wild  roses.  Franklin  street  was  a 
private  way  leading  to  a  bridge  over  Harvell's  brook, 
where  were  a  beautiful  tiny  species  of   turtle,   bullfrogs. 


8  MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY 

waving  flags,  and  mosquitoes.  Near  by  was  the  rocky 
Cedar  Hill,  a  delightful  play-ground,  rich  in  the  season 
with  tufts  of  wild  columbine  and  wide  spaces  of  the  great 
pedate  violet ;  with  its  cool  grove  of  whispering  cedars  and 
a  wide  outlook  upon  green  fields  and  dark  woods. 

This  line  nearly  marked  the  western  limit  of  the  east 
school  district,  and  the  few  children  who  lived  near  its 
easterly  side  had  to  go  to  the  little  one-roomed  school- 
house  where  the  Maplewood  school  now  stands.  It  was  a 
long  way — a  weary  and  dusty  one  in  summer,  and  a  diffi- 
cult one  in  winter,  especially  if  the  roads  were  not  broken 
out.  No-school  signals  were  never  heard  in  those  days 
be  it  ever  so  stormy.  The  school  session  was  as  merci- 
lessly sure  as  death  and  the  internal  revenue  tax. 

A  large  orchard  was  upon  the  north  side  of  the  road 
opposite  the  meeting-house,  which  in  the  season,  strewed 
the  wayside  with  its  juicy  fruit.  From  the  cemetery  to 
Harvell's  Brook  Lane,  the  present  Cross  street,  there  was 
but  one  house  on  the  south  side  of  the  road — that  of  Mr. 
Reuben  Waitt,  which  is  still  standing  and  is  occupied  by 
Mr.  Frank  Venn.  Farther  along,  nearly  at  Cross  street 
was  one  of  Mr.  Faulkner's  barns,  which  was  burned  early 
one  Sunday  morning. 

On  the  other  side  of  the  road,  passing  over  the  school 
district  line,  we  would  see  first,  at  the  easterly  corner  of 
Porter  street,  which  however  did  not  then  exist,  a  house, 
weather  worn  and  antiquated.  Here  lived  Mr.  William 
Waitt,  who  owned  the  adjoining  land  on  which  some  of 
his  descendants  still  live.  This  was  one  of  the  historic 
houses  of  Maiden  —  the  old  tavern  of  the  Newhalls,  once 
known  as  "the  Half  Moon." 

Next  was  a  house  occupied  by  Ezra  Holden  and,  I 
think,  by  Anthony  Lovett,  his  brother-in-law.     The  former 


MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY  9 

was  the  sexton  of  the  old  Baptist  meeting-house.  This 
house  is  now  occupied  by  Mr.  Joseph  T.  Carr  and  others. 
We  are  now  passing  through  the  Faulkner  farm,  which 
extended  north  into  the  woods  and  south  and  east  to  Cross 
street.  Somewhat  elevated  from  the  road  stands  the 
Faulkner  house,*  large  and  white  as  we  know  it  to-day 
still  little  changed  in  its  outward  appearance ;  and  a  little 
farther  east,  where  we  now  stand,  on  a  knoll  now  levelled 
stands  the  old  farm-house,  which  many  of  you  remember. 
This  house  and  the  land  belonging  to  it  was  purchased  by 
Mr.  John  B.  Faulkner  in  1833  for  $3,600.  Probably  any 
gentlemen  here  to-night  would  be  glad  to  buy  45  acres  of 
Faulkner  land,  with  other  outlying  land    thrown    in,  for 

$3,600. 

***** 

A  little  east  of  the  farm-house  was  the  capacious  barn 
of  Mr.  Faulkner,  with  a  large  cowyard  running  down  to 
the  road ;  and  between  the  barn  and  the  rocks  was  the 
beginning  of  away  leading  into  the  woods — Jacob  Pratt's 
path.  There  is  no  spot  in  Maiden  to-day  that  can  compare 
with  the  sylvan  beauty  of  that  old  path.  Orginally  it  was 
probably  an  open  way  for  the  herds  and  flocks  of  the  early 
settlers  to  pass  into  the  common  lands.  Winding  between 
the  hills,  which  in  places  were  quite  steep,  and  shaded  by 
a  forest  of  tall  trees,  it  was  an  ideal  spot,  and  it  was  the 
favorite  lovers'  walk  of  the  village.  Near  Gardner's  Hill 
it  turned  to  the  right  over  a  wide  and  rocky  way  and  ended 
for  the  nonce  at  a  stone  wall  and  a  pair  of  bars,  beyond 
which  was  a  clearing  in  the  woods  known  as  Barnes's 
Garden.  Here  once  stood  two  houses,  one  of  which  was 
used  for  small-pox  patients  during  the  Revolutionary  War. 
The    other  house,   which  was    standing  until  about  1870, 

*On  this  site  now  stands  the  Faulkner  M.  E.  church. 


lO  MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY 

was  occupied  at  the  time  of  our  supposed  visit,  by  Jacob 
Pratt,  a  son-in-law  of  Thomas  Barnes,  its  builder. 

Beyond  Barnes's  Garden  the  path  was  renewed  and 
led  by  the  side  of  the  hill  and  by  the  dismal  swamp,  called 
Green's  Hole,  to  Lebanon  street  and  Swain's  pond.  Jacob 
Pratt's  Path,  south  of  Gardner's  Hill,  with  all  its  beauty, 
has  disappeared,  with  the  exception  of  a  few  faint  traces 
which  may  be  found  in  a  ravine  north  of  Knollin  street. 

There  was  a  fine  view  on  Faulkner's  rocks  near  Salem 
street — Maiden  village  and  the  fields  unbroken  by  streets 
and  houses  ;  but  the  elms  are  now  so  high  that  the  outlook 
is  nearly  if  not  entirely  destroyed.  At  the  foot  of  the  rdcks 
was  a  vine  which  was  unique  in  Maiden,  an  immense  vine 
or  collection  of  vines  of  the  Celastrus  Scandens — Roxbury 
Wax  Work  we  called  it,  which  in  the  fall  and  early  winter 
covered  the  thicket  and  the  trees  with  its  wreath  of  waxen 
scarlet  berries.  Its  sprays  remaining  unchanged  for  months 
were  a  favorite  ornament  in  many  houses.  It  was  the  only 
specimen  then  known  in  the  vicinity.  Years  after  a  few 
feeble  vines  appeared  in  the  thickets  near  Wayte's  Mount, 
but  were  short-lived. 

At  the  junction  of  Faulkner  street  were  the  magnifi- 
cent Faulkner  Elms.  Beautiful  they  were  individually; 
but  together,  in  shape  and  position,  they  were  one  of  the 
finest  tree  groups  I  have  ever  seen.  Their  destruction 
was  inevitable  as  the  vicinity  became  settled  and  street  traffic 
increased.  From  their  position  they  became  a  menace 
to  life  and  limb.  It  is  a  pity  that  beauty  and  utility  are 
not  always  companionable.  It  is  a  shame  that  beauty  is 
not  considered  at  times  when  convenience  and  safety  need 
not  be  sacrificed  by  its  preservation. 

Just  beyond  the  rocks  and  the  elms,  on  the  north  side 
of    the  road,  was  a  neighborhood    shoemaker's  shop,   an 


MALDEN     HISTORICAI.     SOCIETY  II 

object  which  is  known  no  more  in  Maiden,  and  which  has 
almost  disappeared  from  Massachusetts.  With  the  disap- 
pearance of  the  old-time  shoemaker,  the  man  who  could 
make  a  shoe  from  the  side  of  leather  to  the  finished  article, 
there  was  no  need  of  their  little  shops  which  had  been 
thickly  strewn  all  over  the  country.  I  have  many  pleasant 
memories  of  the  old  shop  and  its  inmates.  One  fell  in  the 
Civil  War,  and  another,  the  last,  I  think,  but  recently  died 
at  a  ripe  old  age. 

Nearby  the  shop  was  one  of  the  largest  clumps  of 
lilacs  I  have  ever  seen,  of  an  unknown  antiquity,  which 
despite  its  age  never  failed  to  fill  the  air  with  the  fragrance 
of  its  multitude  of  flowers  until  some  owner  of  the  land  did 
it  to  death  in  the  improvement  of  his  possessions. 

A  little  farther  on,  beneath  the  rocks  and  behind  two 
large  mulberry  trees,  was  the  third  Faulkner  house,  in 
which  lived  my  uncle  Joshua  Waite,  and  which  was  the 
goal  of  my  frequent  travel  along  the  Salem  Road. 

***** 

We  have  now  come  to  Cross  street,  which  we  have 
fixed  as  the  eastern  limit  of  Faulkner.  Our  time  has 
elapsed  and  our  journey  should  end ;  but  let  us  take  a 
hasty  walk  down  the  road,  called  Harvell's  Brook  Lane, 
before  we  return  to  these  people  who  are  getting  tired  and 
are  thinking  we  have  strayed  away.  There  was  no  house 
on  the  lane  north  of  the  brook.  There  were  two  or  three 
on  the  hill  where  the  street  now  turns  to  the  southwest 
and  no  others  until  the  little  collection  of  houses  then  called 
the  Faulkner  village,  in  the  vicinity  of  the  present  Lincoln 
school,  was  reached.  It  was  a  narrow,  crooked  way.  At 
the  present  railroad  crossing  was  a  bridge  over  Harvell's 
Brook  and  a  watering  place  for  cattle  which  in  earlier  days 
was  used  as  a  flaxing  place  when  the  women  knotted  their 


12  MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY 

flax  before  it  was  hackled  to  separate  the  fibre  from  the 
woody  parts  of  the  plant.  Qn  the  easterly  side  of  the  lane 
we  could  see  the  embankment  which  formed  the  dam  when 
James  Harvell  had  his  mill  nearly  two  hundred  years  ago. 
The  brook  itself,  which  you  now  know  and  dislike  as  the 
Saugus  Branch  Ditch,  in  its  long  course  from  its  junction 
with  the  Maiden  River  near  Edgeworth  was  a  clear  running 

stream. 

***** 

We  must  get  back  into  the  present.  If  you  have 
enjoyed  our  little  walk  I  am  glad.  It  has  been  more  than 
a  passing  enjoyment  to  me,  for  all  along  the  way  I  have 
seen  real  people  whom  you  could  not  see.  John  Faulkner 
and  Reuben  Waitt,  Ezra  Holden  and  Oliver  Drown  and 
others  of  the  earlier  day  have  stood  by  their  front  gates 
and  have  looked  after  us  as  we  passed,  wondering,  I  sup- 
pose, what  that  Corey  boy  was  doing  with  all  those  girls 
and  boys  —  wondering  more  where  so  many  strange  chil- 
dren could  come  from,  for  in  the  whole  town  of  Maiden, 
including  the  present  cities  of  Everett  and  Melrose,  there 
were  but  779  children  entitled  to  school  privileges  in  1846. 
In  December,  1898,  in  the  Faulkner  School  alone,  435 
pupils  were  registered. 

If  our  walk  or  my  disconnected  sentences  and  my 
my  almost  unavoidable  confusion  of  the  past  tense  with  the 
historic  present  have  fatigued  you,  I  am  sorry.  I  thank 
you  for  your  companionship. 


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TOGETHER  WITH  SOME  POETRY,  NEVER  BEFORK. 
PCBI-lSHED 


"  Those  that  sin,  rebuke  before  all  ;  that  others  also  may 
fear.", 

"  May  he  that  frustratetli  the  tokens  of  the  liars,  and  ma- 
kelh  diviners  mail,  bless  this  latlc  book." 

Now  if  it's  wrong,  or  if  it's  evil, 
I  really  wish  it  to  the  devil : 
But  if  it's  rijiflit,  and  if  it's  just, 
I  really  wish  it  may  l)c  blest. 


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FEBRUAHV,  1812. 


TITLE    PAGE,   DR.    SPRAGUE' S  FAMOUS  "  WARS  AND   FIGHTINGS' 


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THE   EARLY  BAPTISTS   OF   MALDEN. 

Paper  Read  Before  the  Maiden  Historical  Society,  Marcii  12,  1913. 
By  the  Secretary  of  the  Society. 


The  Baptists  of  New  England  were  born  in  an  age  of 
religious  intolerance.  Like  other  sects  they  received  their 
full  share  of  persecution  from  the  standing  order — the 
Puritan  churches  of  Massachusetts  Bay  Colony.  The 
greater  the  persecution  the  more  intense  and  devoted  they 
became  to  their  distinguishing  doctrines.  Since  the  days 
of  Martin  Luther  all  religious  sects  have  shown  loyal 
devotion  to  their  own  distinguishing  tenets. 

The  reality  of  these  things  may  be  seen  in  the  diary 
of  the  old  mint-master  and  Treasurer  of  the  Massachusetts 
Bay  Colony  John  Hull.  In  his  diary  under  the  date, 
28  May,  1665,  the  mint-master  wrote: 

"Some  time  this  summer,  several  Anabaptists — 
Thomas  Gould,  Edward  Drinker,  William  Turnor,  John 
George,  Thomas  Osborn — gathered  themselves  privately 
into  a  church,  baptized  themselves,  administered  the 
supper:  meet  every  Lord's  Day."  (Hull's  Diary  in  the 
Transactions  and  Collections  of  the  American  Antiquarian 
Society,  3  :2i9).  Here  we  have  Mr.  Hull's  reference  to 
the  formation  of  the  First  Baptist  Church  in  Boston. 

Three  years  later  under  the  date  14  and  15  April 
1668,  Mr.  Hull  again  wrote : 

"Was  a  public  dispute  between  six  of  our  ministers 
[Allen  of  Boston,  Cobbett  of  Lynn,  Higginson  of  Salem, 
Danforth  of  Roxbury,  Mitchell  of  Cambridge  and  Shep- 


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herd  of  Charlestown]  and  a  company  of  Anabaptists,  in 
Boston  meeting-house,  who  had,  against  the  laws  of  the 
country,  gathered  themselves  into  a  church.  Three  of 
them  were  excommunicate  persons.  They  had  been 
several  times  admonished  by  the  Court  not  to  persist  in 
their  meeting,  or  administrations  of  the  seals,  but  charged 
to  hear  the  word  in  some  of  the  public  congregations  ;  but 
they  would  not  obey.  In  the  public  dispute,  they  behaved 
themselves  exceeding  obstinately,  absurdly  and  ignorantly.'' 
(Ibid.  226). 

Half  a  month  later  under  date,  2  May,  1668,  Mr. 
Hull  again  wrote :  "  This  General  Court  of  Election, 
Thomas  Gould,  William  Turner  and  John  Farnum  were 
called  before  them  ;  asked  whether,  after  all  pains  taken 
to  convince  them  of  their  evils,  they  would  lay  down  their 
assemblings,  and  cease  profaning  the  holy  ordinances, — 
the  supper  and  baptism:  but,  with  great  obstinacy,  they 
professed  themselves  bound  to  continue  in  these  ways,  and 
were  ready  to  seal  it  with  their  blood."     (Ibid.  227). 

Into  this  atmosphere  the  Baptists  of  Massachusetts 
Bay  were  born  and  cradled.  Like  the  beginning  of  all 
religious  sects  over  the  wide  world  the  more  bitterly  they 
were  opposed  the  greater  they  resisted  the  opposition. 

The  troubles  had  their  beginning  in  the  First  Church 
of  Charlestown  when  Thomas  Gould  refused  to  take  his 
infant  children  to  the  Church  to  be  baptized  and  so  the 
First  Baptist  Church  of  Boston  was  composed  not 
only  of  those  who  lived  in  Boston,  but  also  of  those 
who  lived  in  the  vicinity  of  Boston.  Mr.  Gould  became 
the  first  "Elder"  of  the  Boston  church  although  he  lived 
in  Charlestown.  By  marriage  he  and  his  family  were 
related  to  the  Howards,  the  Skinners,  the  Goodwins  and 
the  Bunkers.      Some  of  his  kinsfolk  thought  as  he  did  on 


MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY  I5 

religious  matters.  At  the  time  of  his  death  he  owned  land 
on  Mystic  Side  and  it  is  probable  that  some  of  his  acquain- 
tances in  Maiden  attended  the  First  Baptist  meetings  held 
in  Boston.  As  there  are  no  specific  records  on  this  point 
it  is  impossible  to  state  who  they  were  or  when  they  wor- 
shipped there. 

In  October,  1720 — fifty-five  years  after  the  Boston 
Baptist  Church  was  organized  — James  Upham  of  Maiden 
was  admitted  to  membership  in  the  aforesaid  church.  He 
had  won  the  heart  and  hand  of  the  youngest  daughter  of 
Rev.  Michael  Wigglesworth,  "  Maulden's  Physician  For 
Soul  and  Body  Two,"  as  his  gravestone  informs  us.  This 
marriage  occurred  about  four  years  after  the  death  of  Mr. 
Wigglesworth.  Whether  Mr.  Upham's  children  were 
baptized  into  the  First  Church  of  Maiden  we  shall  never 
know  as  the  records  of  that  church  prior  to  1770  have  not 
been  preserved. 

His  son  Edward  Upham,  born  here  in  1710,  graduated 
at  Harvard  College  in  1734,  ^"<^  accepting  the  faith  of  his 
father,  was  received  into  the  First  Baptist  Church  of  Boston 
in  March,  1737.  He  became  an  "Elder"  and  supplied  the 
Boston  church  for  several  months  in  1738.  He  must  have 
been  one  of  the  earliest  college  graduates  to  enter  the 
Baptist  ministry  in  Massachusetts.  Later  he  held  pas- 
torates in  West  Springfield  and  at  Newport,  R.  I.  It  was 
said  of  him  that  he  was  "  an  open  communion  Baptist  "  and 
that  his  orthodoxy  was  not  of  the  strictest  sect.  His  views 
probably  resembled  Arminianism  more  closely  than  they 
did  Calvinism.  He  appears  to  have  been  the  first  native 
born  Baptist  minister  of  old  Maiden. 

Other  Maiden  inhabitants  ^yere  enrolled  in  the  mem- 
bership of  the  First  Baptist  Church  of  Boston.  Among 
them  was  Phineas  Sweetser  who  was  baptized  in  1744,  and 


l6  MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY 

Richard  Shute  baptized  in  1767.  Thirty-six  years  later, 
Mr.  Shute  became  one  of  the  founders  of  the  Baptist 
Church  in  Maiden.  The  name  of  Hannah  Waite  appears 
on  the  Boston  Baptist  Church  record  in  1770  and  Samuel 
and  Mary  Waite  were  there  baptized  in  October,  1770. 
These  last  named  persons  were  the  parents  of  Samuel 
Waite,  Jr.,  one  of  the  first  deacons  of  the  Maiden  Baptist 
Church  at  its  organization.  Other  Maiden  people  accepted 
the  Baptist  faith  more  than  a  generation  before  the  church 
was  founded.  Sarah  Low  was  baptized  in  1772  and  Joseph 
Cheever  in  1773.  They  were  united  in  marriage  in  1774 
and  removed  to  Maiden  before  the  church  was  here  gath- 
ered. John  Waite,  a  son  of  Samuel  and  Mary  Waite  of 
Maiden,  was  baptized  in  1774  and  became  a  deacon  of  the 
First  Baptist  Church  of  Boston  in  1801.  Phebe  Shute, 
either  the  wife  or  the  daughter  of  Ebenezer  Shute  of  Maiden, 
was  baptized  into  the  Baptist  faith  in  1787. 

On  the  site  of  the  present  City  Hall  stood  for  about  a 
century  and  a  quarter  the  old  Hill  Tavern.  According  to 
the  Baptist  Church  records  of  Boston,  Mary  Waite  was 
baptized  4  May,  1777.  She  was  the  daughter  of  Samuel 
and  Mary  Waite  of  Maiden  and  about  six  months  later 
became  the  wife  of  Charles  Hill,  last  of  the  Hill  landlords 
to  keep  a  tavern  in  Maiden.  Mrs.  Hill,  was  dismissed 
from  the  First  Baptist  Church  of  Boston  to  the  Baptist 
Church  here  in  1817.  Her  death,  not  included  in  the 
Vital  Records  of  Maiden,  occurred  according  to  the  Baptist 
Church  records,  17  Sept.,  1826. 

Thus  it  appears  that  Mrs.  Mary  Hill,  Richard  Shute, 
Capt.  Joseph  Cheever,  his  wife  Mrs.  Sarah  Cheever, 
Phebe  Shute,  Samuel  Waite,  Jr.,  and  others  whose  names 
are  unknown  professed  the  Baptist  faith  and  were  inhabi- 
tants of  old  Maiden  before  the  end  of  the  eighteenth 
century. 


MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY  1*] 

In  1797  Dr.  Samuel  Shepard,  a  physician  and  a  Bap- 
tist minister,  then  widely  known  throughout  southern  New 
Hampshire,  visited  Maiden  and  was  invited  to  preach  in 
the  dwelling  house  of  Mr.  John  Tufts.  That  house,  long 
known  as  the  Peter  Tufts'  house,  stood  on  Cross  street 
near  the  site  of  the  Lincoln  school.  It  was  demolished  in 
1883 — obliterating  the  earliest  Baptist  landmark  in  Maiden. 

Dr.  Samuel  Shepard  preached  the  earliest  known 
Baptist  sermon  in  Maiden.  He  was  one  of  the  most  active 
and  devoted  ministers  of  the  denomination.  A  nadve  of 
Salisbury,  Mass.,  he  was  in  early  life  a  schoolmaster  at 
Durham,  N.  H.  He  studied  medicine  and  after  practicing 
a  short  time  at  Stratham  settled  on  a  farm  in  the  extreme 
northern  part  of  the  town  of  Brentwood.  He  is  reputed  to 
have  embraced  the  Baptist  faith  by  reading  Norcotfs 
Work  on  Baptism.  In  June,  1770,  he  was  baptized  by 
Rev.  Hezekiah  Smith  of  Haverhill,  Mass.  On  18  July, 
1770,  he  united  wdth  thirteen  others  to  form  a  Baptist 
Church  at  Stratham,  and  on  25  Sept. ,1771,  he  was  ordained 
at  Stratham  and  accepted  the  pastoral  care  of  the  Bapdst 
Church  at  Stratham  near  the  salt  marshes,  the  Church  at 
North  Brentwood  near  his  home  and  the  Baptist  Church 
at  Notdngham  among  the  hills.  Over  this  wide  stretch  of 
country  extending  inland  from  the  Adantic,  both  by  name 
and  nature  he  was  the  Shepard  of  a  large  flock.  His  untir- 
ing energy,  his  great  powers  of  endurance,  his  active  mind 
in  a  vigorous  body  were  the  chief  factors  of  his  wonderful 
success.  He  organized  the  first  Baptist  Association  having 
jurisdiction  over  the  Bapdst  Churches  of  New  Hampshire 
and  Maine.  Of  him  it  was  said  that  he  "  ruled  like  a  Bishop 
in  the  midst  of  his  diocese."  He  journeyed  on  horse-back, 
frequently  covering  a  circuit  of  two  hundred  miles. 
Wherever  he  went  revivals  and  conversions  attested  the 
power  of  his  preaching. 


l8  MA  L  DEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY 

To  the  Baptists  of  Maiden  the  coming  of  Dr.  Shepard 
was  like  "the  voice  of  one  crying  in  the  wilderness."  To  them 
it  meant  increasing  strength  and  encouragement  through 
church  fellowship.  His  first  sermon  must  have  been  a 
beautiful  message.  His  theme  was  based  upon  the  follow- 
ing text:  "Therefore,  my  beloved  brethren,  be  ye  stead- 
fast, immovable,  always  abounding  in  the  work  of  the 
Lord,  forasmuch  as  ye  know  that  your  labour  is  not  in 
vain  in  the  Lord." 

The  subject  could  advantageously  become  the  inspi- 
ration to  Christian  service  for  all  shades  of  Christian  belief. 
With  a  large  well-proportioned  frame,  dark  eyes,  flowing 
locks  and  a  mild  yet  commanding  expression.  Dr.  Shepard 
undoubtedly  made  a  lasting  impression  upon  the  hearts  of 
his  Maiden  hearers.  From  time  to  time  as  circumstances 
permitted  he  visited  Maiden  during  the  summer  of  i797 
and  was  always  most  acceptably  received. 

In  October,  1909, 1  visited  the  decadent  town  of  Brent- 
wood, driving  over  from  Exeter.  Near  the  church  where 
he  labored  longest  is  the  Shepard  burying  ground  from 
which  I  gleaned  a  brief  story  of  an  eventful  Christian  life. 
It  runs  as  follows  : 

"  Elder 

Samuel  Shepard 

died  Nov.  4,  1S15. 

JEt  'j6. 

He  was  useful  as  a  Physician 

And  was  a  Preacher  of  the  Gospel  40  years 

Blessed  are  the  dead  which  die  in  the 

Lord  that  they  may  rest  from  their  labours 

And  their  works  do  follow  them." 

The  second  Baptist  preacher  here  is  described  as  a 
"tall,  slim  man,  dignified  in  appearance  and  of  consider- 


MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY  I9 

able  intellectual  power."  He  was  Elder  John  Peck,  long 
pastor  of  the  Baptist  Church  of  Woburn  who  occasionally 
preached  here  before  the  church  was  organized.  During 
that  period  the  Maiden  Baptists  frequently  attended  Mr. 
Peck's  Church  in  Woburn.  Mr.  Peck  preached  here 
occasionally  through  a  long  period  even  as  late  as  the  fall 
of  1831. 

Another  man  who  assisted  the  Baptist  movement  in 
Maiden  in  its  formative  period,  was  Elder  Elias  Smith. 
In  early  life  Mr.  Smith  was  a  schoolmaster  and  com- 
menced preaching  in  1790.  He  was  somewhat  erratic 
and  after  preaching  a  few  years  he  withdrew  from  the 
ministry.  One  thing  he  did  do  which  is  worth  remember- 
ing. He  founded  the  first  religious  newspaper  which  was 
published  in  New  England. 

"The  Herald  of  Gospel  Liberty"  owes  its  existence 
to  Elias  Smith  who  published  it  from  September,  1808,  to 
October,  1817.  The  paper  was  published  first  at  Ports- 
mouth, N.  H.,  then  at  Portland,  Me.,  next  in  Philadelphia 
and  last  in  Boston.  Out  of  Mr.  Smith's  initiative  each 
denomination  now  supports  its  own  religious  paper. 

Of  the  mustering  of  the  early  Baptists  of  Maiden, 
prior  to  the  organization  of  the  Baptist  Church,  27  Dec, 
1803,  there  are  no  records.  For  the  events  of  that  forma- 
tive period  we  have  a  "Brief  History  of  the  Church" 
which  was  published  in  1859.  ^  have  not  seen  that  publi- 
cation but  Mr.  Corey,  the  historian  of  Maiden,  said  :  "In 
its  earlier  portion,  which  was  compiled  from  tradition,  the 
publication  is  somewhat  unsatisfactory,  being  confused  and 
somewhat  contradictory  in  its  statements." 

At  a  town  meeting  held,  25  Dec,  1795,  the  town 
"voted  to  forgive  Mr.  Nath^  Waite  his  ministerial  taxes" 
and  on  12  Dec,  1796,  voted  "that  Benjamin  Bucknam  of 


20  MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY 

Maiden  should  also  be  forgiven  his  ministerial  rates  as  he 
attends  worship  with  the  Methodists  in  Maiden  and  freely 
contributes  to  the  support  of  the  ministry."  (Maiden  Town 
Proceedings,  II.  pp  250,  440.) 

Whether  Mr.  Waite  attended  the  Baptists  or  the 
Methodists,  we  are  left  to  conjecture.  His  name  is  not  in 
the  list  of  Baptist  members. 

Prior  to  the  year  1799  three  persons  were  baptized  in 
Maiden  by  immersion.  The  first  of  these  was  Mrs.  Lois 
Tufts  in  whose  home  Dr.  Shepard  had  preached  the  first 
Baptist  sermon  of  which  there  is  a  record.  She  was 
followed  by  Samuel  Wheeler  who  became  one  of  the  first 
deacons  at  the  organization  of  the  church  in  1803.  For 
some  reason  Dea.  Wheeler's  name  appears  not  to  have 
been  included  among  the  original  members  of  the  church. 
The  third  person  to  be  baptized  by  immersion  was  Phebe 
Howard.  Her  name  likewise  does  not  appear  among  the 
original  members.  These  facts  lead  me  to  believe  that 
the  early  records  of  this  church  are  exceedingly  defective 
and  incomplete. 

In  August,  1799,  Mrs.  Annie  Phillips,  wife  of  Francis 
Phillips  withdrew  from  the  First  Parish  Church  of  Maiden. 
In  her  letter  of  dismission  it  was  stated  that  "  she  has  had 
her  mind  exercised  upon  the  subject  of  baptism,  and  views 
herself  not  baptized  according  to  the  mode  and  the  example 
of  her  Savior."  She  was  baptized  by  immersion  with  Mrs. 
Lydia  Shute  wife  of  Richard  Shute,  who  appears  to  have 
withdrawn  from  the  First  Parish  without  a  dismissal — or  at 
least  without  a  record  of  such  dismissal. 

At  that  time  no  Baptist  organization  existed  in  Maiden, 
but  in  the  year,  1800,  five  persons  to  whom  two  others  were 
subsequently  joined  proceeded  to  form  a  society  for  the 
support  of  regular  Baptist  preaching  here.     To  the  late 


MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY  21 

Deloraine  Pendre  Corey,  historian  of  Maiden,  the  names 
of  those  seven  persons  were  unknown,  but  he  believed  that 
their  names  were  among  those  who,  three  years  later,  united 
to  form  the  First  Baptist  Church  of  Maiden. 

Among  Dr.  Samuel  Shepard's  admirers  in  the  town  of 
Stratham  among  the  salt  marshes  of  New  Hampshire  was 
Samuel  Pottle  and  his  family.  His  family  of  ten  children 
came  under  the  inspiration  of  this  great  apostle  of  the  Bap- 
tist faith.  Samuel  Pottle  married  Jane  Piper,  a  daughter 
of  Samuel  and  Jane  (Cate)  Piper  who  was  a  grandson  of 
Nathaniel  Pyper  who  emigrated  to  New  England  from 
Dartmouth  in  Devonshire.  These  are  ancestors  of  the 
writer.  The  New  Hampshire  Patriot  published  at  Con- 
cord, May  3,  1814,  tells  me  all  that  I  have  been  able  to 
learn  concerning  Samuel  Pottle.  It  runs  as  follows  :  "Died 
—  At  Stratham  April  16  [1814]  Mr.  Samuel  Pottle,  in  the 
78th  year  of  his  age,  after  a  short  but  severe  illness,  per- 
fectly resigned  to  the  will  of  God."  Of  his  ten  children 
two  were  ministers.  His  son  Henry  Pottle,  first  pastor  of 
the  First  Baptist  Church  in  Maiden,  was  born  at  Stratham, 
8  Oct.,  1775,  and  died  there,  11  Jan.,  1834.  He  was 
ordained  as  an  evangelist  by  Dr.  Shepard  and  through  the 
influence  of  the  latter  came  to  Maiden  to  preach  about  a 
year  before  the  church  was  organized.  Possessed  of  what 
in  our  day  would  be  considered  to  be  a  meagre  common 
school  education.  Rev.  Henry  Pottle  is  represented  to  have 
been  a  "warm-hearted  and  zealous"  evangelist.  As  he 
entertained  strong  Arminian  sentiments  his  teachings  were 
looked  upon  by  some  as  unsound. 

In  imagination  one  pictures  this  young  evangelist 
setting  out  on  horse-back  on  Friday  from  his  home  in 
Stratham  ;  now  he  crosses  the  salt  marshes  of  Hampton 
and  Salisbury  ;  he  passes  the  Merrimack  over  the  ferry  at 


22  MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY 

Newburyport ;  along  the  ancient  thoroughfare  he  journeys 
to  Ipswich.  Here  he  halts  to  bait  his  horse ;  he  finds 
Baptist  fellowship.  It  is  evening  and  he  is  invited  to 
spend  the  night  there  and  speak  in  the  evening  at  a  farm- 
house. He  accepts  and  on  Saturday  morning  resumes  his 
journey  through  Salem,  and  Saugus  to  Maiden.  The 
Sabbath  dawns  and  his  Ipswich  friends  set  out  earl}'  to 
follow  the  young  evangelist  to  his  Maiden  pulpit.  Here 
they  meet  in  private  houses  until  such  houses  prove  to  be 
inadequate  ;  next  they  assemble  in  a  small  schoolhouse  on 
Salem  road  (now  Salem  street).  The  house  stood  at  the 
present  west  corner  of  Salem  and  Sprague  streets,  near 
the  house  of  Joseph  Dyer.  Hostility  to  the  Baptist  princi- 
ples drove  them  from  the  schoolhouse.  They  next  took 
possession,  on  the  Lord's  Day,  of  a  barn  owned  by  Benja- 
min Faulkner  which  stood  on  the  site  now  occupied  by  the 
beautiful  residence  erected  by  the  late  Albert  H.  Daven- 
port. In  1880,  Mr.  Corey  said:  "The  barn  of  Benjamin 
Faulkner  stood  on  Salem  street  until  within  a  few  years." 
Temporary  seats,  without  backs,  with  the  hay-loft  as  a  gal- 
lery and  a  small  rude  pulpit,  were  the  meagre  conveniences 
afforded  them  in  the  Faulkner  barn.  The  piercing  winds 
of  winter  entering  at  every  crack  must  have  chilled  even 
the  fervent  hearts  of  that  little  band. 

The  first  baptistry,  formed  by  the  eddying  of  Three- 
Mile  Brook,  occupied  what  is  now  the  basement  of  Joslin's 
Big  Store.  Here,  in  1803,  Rev.  Henry  Pottle  baptized 
over  forty  persons  before  the  church  was  organized. 
Summer  and  winter  alike  the  old  mill-pond  opposite  Hill's 
Tavern  was  the  baptistry.  Here,  Hannah  (Cheever) 
Waite,  daughter  of  Captain  Joshua  and  Sarah  (Lowe) 
Cheever  and  wife  of  Thomas  Waite  was  baptized  in  Feb- 
ruary, 1804,  attendants  cutting  through  the  ice.      At  that 


MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY  23 

time  her  youngest  child,  Thomas  Waite,  Jr.,  was  six  weeks 
old,  having  been  born  as  the  records  show  3  Jan.,  1804.  No 
harm  befell  either  mother  or  child,  both  lived  many  years 
thereafter  and  the  child  became  Deacon  Thomas  Waite  of 
the  same  church. 

During  those  years  the  Baptists  were  accustomed  to 
assemble  at  the  Hill  Tavern,  march  across  the  road  to  the 
pond,  baptize  their  converts  there,  return  to  the  old  Tavern, 
change  their  clothing  and  return  to  their  homes. 

In  course  of  time  the  pond  near  Hill's  Tavern  was 
filled  in  and  the  Baptists  resorted  to  the  Coytemore  mill 
pond,  passing  up  Barrett's  Lane  to  a  point  near  where 
Mountain  avenue  is  to-day — to  Coytemore  Lea.  Here 
was  the  second  baptistry  which  was  used  until  their  third 
meeting-house  was  built  in  1856  when  the  baptistry  was 
built  within  the  church. 

On  27  Dec,  1803,  fifty-two  persons  were  organized  into 
the  First  Baptist  Church  of  Maiden.  The  names  of  those 
persons  are  given  on  the  first  page  of  the  original  records 
of  the  church.  They  were  all  baptized  prior  to  the  date 
of  the  organization.  Some  time  prior  to  27  of  Dec.  of 
that  year  those  whom  Mr.  Pottle  had  baptized  proceeded 
under  his  direction  to  organize  a  church.  We  are  told 
that  they  proceeded  by  irregular  forms  which  resulted  in 
failure.  The  Arminian  teachings  of  the  first  pastor  caused 
dissatisfaction  among  those  who  believed  in  the  Calvinistic 
principles.  To  quiet  all  discontent  "an  ecclesiastical 
council  was  called  for  the  purpose  of  procuring  a  regular 
recognition  in  agreement  with  Baptist  usage." 

The  first  recorded  church  meeting  was  held  on  Satur- 
day 24  Dec,  1803,  at  the  house  of  Mr.  Francis  Phillips 
which  stood  on  the  corner  of  Ferry  street  and  LorenPark. 
At  that  meeting  Samuel  Waite  was  chosen  clerk  of    the 


24  .    MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY 

society  and  Joseph  Dyer  clerk  of  the  church.  A  commit- 
tee was  also  chosen  to  provide  the  communion  vessels 
which  were  afterwards  reported  to  have  cost  $i7.i7' 

The  council  was  composed  of  the  pastors  and  delegates 
of  four  Calvinistic  Baptist  churches,  viz.  :  the  First  and 
Second  Baptist  Churches  of  Boston  and  those  of  Newton 
and  Beverly.  The  council  convened  on  Tuesday,  17  Dec, 
1803,  at  the  usual  place  of  assembly.  Here  in  the  rude 
barn  on  Salem  road,  then  called  "  Shoe-maker's  Row  "  and 
afterwards  "  Baptist  Row,"  the  church  was  duly  organized. 
Concerning  that  beginning  the  church  record  reads  as 
follows  :  "  The  proceedings  of  the  afternoon  were  attended 
with  great  solemnity." 

Dr.  Samuel  Stillman,  pastor  of  the  First  Baptist 
Church  of  Boston  from  1765  to  1807,  preached  the  sermon, 
and  Dr.  Thomas  Baldwin,  pastor  of  the  second  Baptist 
Church  (1790-1825)  commonly  called  the  Baldwin  Place 
Baptist  Church  of  Boston,  gave  the  right  hand  of  fellow- 
ship to  William  Parker  as  the  representative  of  the  church. 
It  appears  that  Elder  Henry  Pottle  was  not  recognized  as 
the  pastor  of  the  church  at  that  time.  In  a  petition  which 
Mr.  Pottle  wrote  for  Peter  Tufts  which  is  now  in  possession 
of  the  Baptist  Church  he  styled  himself  "  Public  teacher  of 
a  Religious  sect  or  denomination  called  Baptist  in  the  town 
of  Maiden,"  on  27  March,  1804.  According  to  the  account 
given  by  John  Sprague,  one  of  the  members,  in  February, 
1 81 2,  the  church  chose  a  committee  to  hire  Elder  Pottle 
one-half  of  the  time  and  Elder  Dodge  the  other  half. 
Deacon  Samuel  Waite,  being  a  member  of  the  committee 
refused  to  hire  Elder  Dodge,  although  the  church  and 
society  had  agreed  upon  this  plan  and  had  subscribed 
money  expecting  those  men  to  preach.  Deacon  Waite 
asked  Deacon  John  Jenkins  to  go  with  him  to  hire  another 


MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY  25 

man  but  Deacon  Jenkins  replied  that  he  could  not  act  con- 
trary to  the  vote  of  the  church.  To  this  Deacon  Waite 
replied  that  we  do  not  want  Elder  Dodge  and  then  pro- 
ceeded to  employ  Elder  William  Bentley  who  became  the 
second  pastor  of  the  church.  Writing  in  1812  Mr.  Sprague 
says  that  "  from  this  time  the  people  began  to  leave  the 
meetings."  These  troubles  continued  until  the  North 
Maiden  (Melrose)  Methodist  Church  was  organized  in 
1815,  and  the  First  Parish  Universalist  Church  had  its 
beginning  some  years  prior  to  7  June,  1828. 

On  the  Sabbath  following  the  organization  of  the 
Baptist  Church  4  Jan.,  1804,  the  first  Baptist  communion 
in  Maiden  took  place.  Sixty-four  persons  partook  of  the 
sacrament,  of  whom  in  the  language  of  the  church  records, 
"fifty-two  were  young  converts."  The  records  contain  the 
names  of  the  fifty-two  who  had  been  baptized  in  1803  and 
a  later  hand  added  in  pencil  the  names  of  eight  persons 
who  had  been  baptized  prior  to  1800.  These  probably  all 
partook  at  the  first  celebration.  Assuming  that  Capt. 
Joseph  Cheever  and  his  wife  Sarah  were  present,  as  is 
probable,  then  there  remains  only  two  persons  whose 
names  have  not  been  preserved  and  are  not  reproduced  in 
this  paper  or  its  subtended  list  of  members. 

One  of  the  immediate  results  of  the  organization  of  the 
church  was  the  preaching  of  two  discourses  in  the  First 
Parish  Meeting  House  (which  stood  on  the  corner  of  Main 
and  Charles  street  until  it  was  demolished  in  1911)  by  the 
Rev.  David  Osgood,  D.  D.,  minister  of  the  church  at  Med- 
ford.  These  were  considered  to  possess  such  value  that 
two  rival  editions  were  printed  under  the  explanatory  title  : 
"  The  Validity  of  Baptism  by  Sprinklingj  and  thej  Right 
of  Infants  to  Take  Ordinance!  Supported  and  Defendedj 
inj  Two  Discourses!  Delivered!  at  Maiden!  in  the  Begin- 


26  MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY 

ning  of  the  Year  iSo^j  Occasioned!  ^y  ^^^  Setting  up  of 
aj  Baptist  Society!  in  that  Place.  By  David  Osgood,  D. 
D.,  Minister  of  the  Church  at  Medford.!''''  In  these  dis- 
courses the  Reverend  Divine  paid  his  respects  to  "our 
Baptist  brethern "  as  he  called  the  infant  society  in  no 
uncertain  words. 

In  the  meantime  Mr.  Francis  Phillips  gave  half  an 
acre  of  land  for  "  the  purpose  of  erecting  and  keeping 
thereon  a  meeting-house."  The  land  thus  given  was  a 
portion  of  the  present  Salem  Street  Cemetery  where  were 
buried  many  of  the  founders  of  the  church.  On  that  lot 
the  First  Baptist  Meeting-House  in  Maiden  was  erected  in 
1804.  It  was  occupied  before  it  was  completed.  At  its 
dedication  Dr.  Thomas  Baldwin,  of  the  Second  Baptist 
Church  of  Boston,  preached  the  sermon,  his  text  being 
"Hitherto  hath  the  Lord  helped  us."  The  meeting-house 
stood  on  the  south  side  of  the  cemeter}^  facing  Salem  street. 
It  is  described  as  an  "exceedingly  plain  house  with  large 
windows  and  a  square  belfry."  It  was  occupied  by  the 
Baptists  as  their  house  of  worship  from  September  1804  to 
1843.  In  the  latter  year  the  second  meeting-house  was 
erected  on  the  present  site  of  the  First  Baptist  Church. 
The  old  first  meeting-house  was  removed  from  Salem  street 
to  South  Woburn  (now  Winchester),  a  large  number  of 
oxen  being  used  to  draw  it  thither.  The  first  vestry  was 
moved  from  Salem  street  to  the  corner  of  Forest  and  Pierce 
streets  by  James  Pratt.  That  house  has  been  remodelled 
several  times  but  the  vestry  now  forms  the  ell  part  of  house 
No.  151  Forest  street  nearly  opposite  Forestdale  Cemetery. 

The  early  records  of  the  church  are  singularly  unsat- 
isfactory and  imperfect ;  and  the  lists  of  baptisms,  admis- 
sions and  dismissions  are  confusing.  Much  that  a  church 
historian  would   like  to   know  he  there   fails  to  find.     In 


MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY  27 

January,  1806,  "the  Brethren  and  Sisters  in  Ipswich" 
asked  to  be  dismissed  from  the  watch  and  care  of  the 
Maiden  church  that  they  "  might  be  constituted  a  regular 
Baptist  Church,"  and  a  letter  of  dismission  was  given  them. 
Only  upon  their  departure  do  we  learn  of  them,  for  the 
record  gives  no  intimation  of  how  or  when  these  Ipswich 
brethren  came  to  be  members  of  this  church.  At  the  foot 
of  a  page  containing  a  record  of  baptisms  from  1804  to 
181 1,  are  these  tantalizing  words  :  "Nine  added  to  our 
number  from  Ipswich  :  twenty-two  added  from  Ipswich." 

The  members  thus  dismissed  in  1806  from  the  First 
Baptist  Church  of  Maiden  formed  a  Baptist  Church  in 
Ipswich  and  their  first  pastor  was  "  Elder "  Henry  Pottle 
who  took  a  general  letter  of  dismission  from  this  church  in 
1807  having  baptized  about  tifty  persons  and  married  six- 
teen couples  who  appear  to  have  been  Baptist  church 
members.  It  is  apparent  that  the  first  pastor  had  the 
divided  charge  of  the  Maiden  and  the  Ipswich  churches  for 
a  time.  The  Baptist  church  of  Ipswich  existed  from  1806 
to  1815  or  thereabouts  when  it  became  extinct.  In  their 
reports  on  extinct  churches  neither  Carroll  D.  Wright  nor 
his  successors  as  Commissioners  of  Public  Records  of  the 
Commonwealth  have  reported  an  extinct  Baptist  church  in 
Ipswich.  The  records,  however,  of  the  Maiden  Baptist 
church  must  be  taken  as  evidence  that  a  Baptist  church 
was  organized  in  Ipswich  in  1806. 

After  the  departure  of  the  first  pastor  in  1807,  the 
condition  of  the  church  here  was  most  discouraging.  The 
advocates  of  the  Calvinistic  and  the  Arminian  principles 
appear  to  have  been  nearly  equall}'  divided^  and  while  a 
few  were  admitted  to  church  membership  many  were  set 
aside  or  excluded  from  membership  because  of  their  dis- 
belief in  certain  Calvinistic  doctrines  of  those  times. 


28  MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY 

From  July,  1807,  to  the  latter  part  of  the  year  1815 
eight  Baptist  "  Elders  "  appear  upon  the  records  as  having 
for  brief  periods  ministered  to  this  church.  They  were 
Elder  William  Bentley,  Elder  Eli  Ball,  Elder  Spooner, 
Elder  Jason  Livermore,  Elder  Samuel  Wydown  and  others 
whose  names  have  not  been  preserved. 

One  of  these  men  is  worthy  of  special  notice  as  a  tj'^pe 
of  the  itnerant  who  served  the  churches  of  the  common  peo- 
ple during  the  first  quarter  of  the  nineteenth  century — men 
who  with  little  or  no  education  but  with  a  zeal  and  earnest- 
ness that  overlapped  great  obstacles  possessed  a  rough  but 
natural  eloquence  which  appealed  with  force  to  the  hearts 
of  the  common  people.  Elder  Jason  Livermore  belonged 
to  this  class.  He  had  served  in  the  American  Revolution 
as  a  privateer's  man,  and  having  been  captured  at  sea,  was 
carried  to  Charleston,  South  Carolina.  After  being  detained 
for  some  time,  it  is  said  that  he  borrowed  one  of  his 
Majesty's  cavalry  horses  and  forgetting  to  return  the  beast, 
rode  back  to  Massachusetts.  Twenty-five  years  later 
"  being  a  zealous  Christian  and  endowed  with  fluency  of 
speech  he  became  an  ordained  Baptist  clergyman  preach- 
ing and  doing  mission  work  in  Maine."  In  November, 
i8io,he  made  a  preaching  tour  from  Maine  to  Massachusetts 
and  at  the  end  of  nine  days  arrived  in  Maiden.  On  Sun- 
day, 18  Nov.,  18 ID,  he  preached  his  first  sermon  here  in  the 
Baptist  meeting-house.  From  his  diary  we  learn  that  "On 
the  Lord's  Day  I  preached  to  this  people  who  have  invited 
me  to  preach  with  them  three  or  four  months."  Here  he 
remained  during  the  winter  and  on  30  March,  1811,  he 
wrote:  "  The  dear  people  have  seen  fit  to  give  me  an 
invitation  to  settle  with  them,  if  it  may  be  be  for  His  glor}/- 
and  their  good." 

While    engaged    here    in    the  work  of  the    ministry. 


MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY  29 

Mr.  Livermore's  life  was  saddened  by  the  trial  and  con- 
viction of  his  son  for  the  murder  of  an  Indian  at  Spot 
Pond  in  November,  1813.  Some  time  prior  to  i  Aug., 
1814,  Mr.  Livermore  removed  from  the  shadow  to  Tiver- 
ton, Rhode  Island,  where  he  reported  "for  home  mission 
and  evangelistic  work  in  any  part  of  that  State." 

Among  those  who  held  Arminian  principles  in  the 
Baptist  Church  John  Sprague  is  destined  to  be  best  known 
to  students  of  church  history.  It  was  his  literary  produc- 
tion entitled  :  "  The  \  History  I  of  I  Wars  and  Fightings  j 
[  Without  Shedding  of  BIood'\  jin  the  j  Baptist  Churchlin 
Maiden  I  .  Written  by /John  Sprague/Sh[oe]mak[er]/ 
O^ie  of  the  Members. I  Together  With  Some  Poetry 
Never! Before  Published! February  1812,''''  which  must 
perpetuate  his  name  for  years  to  come. 

It  appears  that  Mr.  Sprague  did  not  believe  in  certain 
Calvinistic  doctrines  which  Rev.  Jason  Livermore  was 
preaching  and  because  of  his  unbelief  he  was  excluded 
from  church  fellowship,  but  upon  presenting  himself  before 
the  church  he  was  restored  to  church  membership.  He 
then  brought  forth  his  literary  effort  in  a  pamphlet  under 
the  extravagant  title  aforesaid. 

As  his  poetry  was  "never  before  published"  it  may 
not  be  uninteresting,  after  the  lapse  of  a  full  century,  to 
reproduce  a  portion  of  it  in  this  connection. 

The  introductory  section  runs  as  follows  : 

"As  in  my  shop  one  day  I  wrought, 
My  mind  was  full,  and  thus  I  thought — 
A  little  book  I'll  now  compose. 
Of  one  part  verse,  the  other  prose  : 

That  all  who  want,  or  wish,  to  see. 
May  find  out  what  the  troubles  be ; 
And  see  if  I  have  done  as  bad 
As  what  you'll  find  the  elder  had 


30  ALDEMN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY 

A  meeting  now  was  call'd,  they  say, 
To  hunt  up  such  as  go  astray ; 
Hireling  shepherds,  what's  the  matter? 
How  you  make  the  sheep  to  scatter." 
******** 
Referring  to  the  troubles,  Mr.  Sprague  wrote  : 

My  heart's  desire  is  and  I'll  pray 
The  elder  and  the  deacons  may 
Have  all  their  wickedness  forgiven. 
And  cease  to  sin,  and  seek  for  heaven. 

And  when  their  lives  they  do  look  over, 
And  see  they've  sinn'd  against  Jehovah, 
O  may  they  on  their  knees  fall  down. 
Confess  to  God,  lest  he  should  frown. 

Now  may  the  Lord,  who  dwells  on  high, 
Forgive  their  sins,  and  pass  them  by, 
That  through  the  Saviour's  love  and  merit. 
They  may  eternal  life  inherit." 

******** 

Concerning  his  own  exclusion  from  the  fellowship  of 
the  church,  the  poet  wrote  : 

"Another  meeting  now  had  they, 
To  hear,  report,  and  turn  away 
All  such  as  do  not  like  the  creed. 
And  turn  about  and  wear  a  weed. 

And  you  shall  see  it  was  so  dark. 
It  puzzled  elder,  deacon,  clerk. 

The  elder  said  it  meant  one  thing; 
The  deacon  said  another  ; 
The  clerk  he  found  it  was  not  sound 
And  wish'd  it  for  to  smother." 

The  elder  called  a  meeting  next ; 
It  seems  the  man  was  much  perplext. 
If  you'd  been  there,  O  how  unstable ! 
'T would  made  you  think  of  building  Babel. 

'Twould  make  you  read  the  Acts  all  o'er 
To  find  that  part  that  Paul  call'd  more  : 
For  the  7nore-part  knew  not  whether. 
For  what,  or  why,  they'd  come  together. 


MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY  3I 

And  now,  as  is  an  awful  fashion, 
Pray  do  not  get  into  a  passion." 

In  the  autumn  of  1815  Rev.  Ebenezer  Nelson  was 
called  to  the  work  of  the  ministry  here.  He  remained  in 
in  active  service  until  27  Oct.,  1823,  when  he  preached  his 
farewell  sermon.  At  that  time  he  was  in  ill  health.  He 
remained  here  till  his  death,  4  May,  1825.  From  1816  to 
1825  Mr.  Nelson  lived  in  South  Maiden  (now  Everett) 
on  Broadway  in  the  Capt.  Thomas  Oakes  house  which  was 
subsequently  owned  by  Elisha  Webb.  In  that  building 
later  called  Webb's  Hall,  in  1837,  there  was  opened  ihe_^rsi 
primary  school  in  Maiden  South  District. 

During  the  pastorate  of  Mr.  Nelson,  14  June,  1818,  a 
Sunday  School  was  organized  in  the  Baptist  Church  with 
about  sixty  scholars.  During  its  first  year  it  continued  for 
about  six  months  closing  during  the  winter  months. 

This  Sunday  School  was  one  of  the  earliest  in  Massa- 
chusetts being  preceded  by  Sunday  Schools  in  Boston, 
Charlestown  and  West  Dedham,  the  latter  of  which  was 
organized  in  1817. 

The  Baptist  society  which  was  behind  the  church  had 
been  from  the  beginning  a  voluntary  association  working 
under  no  legal  compact,  and  its  efforts  for  nearly  twenty 
years  had  been  desultory  and  weak.  With  the  intention 
of  obtaining  concerted  and  vigorous  action  nine  men  pro- 
cured an  act  of  incorporation  as  the  First  Baptist  Society 
in  Maiden,  with  power  to  hold  property  to  the  amount  of 
twenty  thousand  dollars.  The  incorporation  dated  from 
21  Feb.,  1820;  and  the  incorporators  were  Samuel  Waite, 
William  Oliver,  James  Crane,  Nathaniel  Pratt,  Ebenezer 
Harnden,  Ezra  Holden,  Jabez  Howard,  Timothy  Bailey 
and  Edward  Newhall. 

On  24  March,  1824,  Rev.  John  Cookson,  an  English- 


32  MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY 

man  who  had  then  recently  come  to  America,  was  ordained 
by  a  council  composed  of  delegates  from  ten  neighboring 
churches.  The  council  met  in  the  forenoon  at  the  house 
of  James  Crane  which  stood  on  the  corner  of  Salem  and 
Tremont  streets.  Rev.  Aaron  Green,  minister  of  the  First 
Church  of  Maiden,  was  invited  to  sit  in  this  council.  In 
the  afternoon  the  public  services  took  place  in  the  meeting- 
house which  stood  as  already  indicated  in  what  is  now  the 
Salem  Street  Cemetery.  Rev.  Daniel  Sharp,  pastor  of 
the  First  Baptist  Church  of  Boston,  preached  the  sermon, 
Rev.  Thomas  Baldwin,  D.  D.,  pastor  of  the  Baldwin  Place 
Baptist  Church,  Boston,  delivered  the  charge  and  Rev. 
Ebenezer  Nelson,  Jr.,  of  Lynn,  a  son  of  the  preceding 
pastor  of  this  church,  gave  the  right  hand  of  fellowship. 

During  the  years  immediately  preceding  the  ordina- 
tion there  were  formed  both  Methodist  and  Universalist 
churches  in  the  community  which  drew  portions  of  their 
membership  from  the  Baptist  Church  but  though  materially 
enfeebled  by  withdrawals  this  church  became  stronger  and 
more  closely  united  in  its  religious  life. 

HOW  THE  BAPTISTS  LOCATED  ON  THE  CORNER. 

The  lot  upon  which  the  Baptist  Church  now  stands 
was  secured  through  the  generosity  of  Thomas  Vinton,  an 
erratic  bachelor  who  bequeathed  to  the  Society  the  Vinton 
homestead  situated  in  the  east  part  of  Stoneham  near  the 
North  Maiden  (Melrose)  line. 

Thomas  Vinton,  only  surviving  child  of  Thomas  and 
Mary  Vinton  of  Stoneham,  inherited  his  father's  homestead 
in  1828.  He  was  a  quiet  peaceable  man  who  lived  chiefly 
at  home  It  is  said  that  he  never  went  off  from  his  farm 
for  forty  years,  and  although  he  lived  within  eight  miles  of 
Boston  he  never  visited  the  city  but  once  in  his  lifetime. 


MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY  33 

He  never  married  and  had  no  near  relatives.  On  28  June, 
1838,  he  made  a  peculiar  will.  After  bequeating  small 
legacies  amounting  to  about  $200  to  his  kindred,  he  gave 
to  the  Baptist  Church  in  South  Reading  (now  Wakefield) 
$150  to  purchase  a  communion  service.  He  then  directed 
that  his  household  furniture,  stock,  farming  utensils,  etc., 
should  be  sold  at  auction  to  such  male  members  of  the 
Baptist  churches  of  South  Reading  and  Maiden,  as  should 
attend  the  sale  and  bid  therefor  and  the  executor  was 
directed  to  receive  bids  from  no  other  ^ej-sons.  The  resi- 
due of  his  estate  both  personal  and  real,  which  was  con- 
siderable, he  gave  to  the  Baptist  society  in  Maiden  and 
requested  that  the  personal  estate  should  be  invested  and 
the  income  only  should  be  applied  to  the  support  of  the 
ministry  in  the  Maiden  church  forever.  But  the  real 
estate  he  desired  should  remain  unsold  for  at  least  forty 
years.  After  the  lapse  of  the  said  forty  years  the  society, 
if  it  were  not  dissolved  or  had  become  extinct,  should  sell 
the  real  estate  and  invest  the  proceeds  so  that  the  income 
only  could  be  used  for  the  support  of  the  ministry.  In 
case  the  society  ceased  to  exist,  the  property  was  to  pass 
into  possession  of  the  Baptist  society  of  South  Reading 
(now  Wakefield.) 

The  testator  was  not  a  member  of  any  church,  in  fact 
it  is  said  that  he  was  adicted  to  the  excessive  use  of  the 
bottle.  He  died  on  the  last  day  of  the  old  year  1841,  at 
the  age  of  70  and  his  will  was  proved  on  15  Feb.,  1842. 
The  Baptist  Society  of  Maiden  obtained  a  special  power 
from  the  General  Court,  as  I  am  told,  to  dispose  of  the 
Vinton  real  estate  consisting  of  a  large  farm.  That  power 
was  granted  to  the  executor  Timothy  Bailey  of  Maiden 
who  sold  the  farm  to  Winthrop  Richardson  of  Boston  16 
May,  1846.      With  the    proceeds    the    Baptist    society    of 


34  MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY 

Maiden  paid  for  their  "  corner  "  in  the  crotch  of  the  Read- 
ing and  Salem  roads  in  Maiden,  having  built  their  second 
meeting-house  thereon  in  1844. 

Within  one  or  two  years  from  the  date  of  sale  of  the 
Vinton  farm  the  Boston  and  Maine  railroad  was  built 
straight  through  it  and  the  property  immediately  increased 
in  value  many  fold  but  the  "corner "lot  in  Maiden  gave 
the  society  one  of  the  finest  locations  in  the  old  town  and 
increased  the  usefulness  of  the  Baptists  a  hundred  fold  even 
"in  this  life." 

In  his  ^^ Historical  Discourse  Delivered  at  Maiden  on 
the  Day  of  the  Annual  Thanksgiving,  i  December,  1831. 
By  S.  Osgood  Wright "  he  refers  to  the  Baptists  as  follows  : 

"The  church  was  formed  with  sixty-four  members  ;  of 
which  fifty-two  were  the  fruits  of  the  revival  in  that  year, 
1803,  under  the  preaching  of  Rev.  Henry  Pottle  who  was 
the  first  pastor  and  continued  in  that  office  until  1807." 

"In  1820  Mr.  Nelson  baptized  seventeen;  in  1824-5 
Mr.  Cookson  baptized  thirteen  ;  in  1827  Mr.  Brown  baptized 
twenty-five  ;  and  Mr.  Briggs  baptized  seventeen." 

Writing  in  1831,  Mr.  Wright  said:  "This  church  is 
the  largest  in  town  consisting  of  about  117  members.  Their 
ministers  have  been  active  and  zealous  in  their  calling. 
The  society  has  not  been  retarded  in  its  growth  by  internal 
dissensions  as  have  some  others." 

From  those  feeble  beginnings  to  the  present  hour  your 
speaker  believes  that  the  First  Baptist  Church  of  Maiden 
has  proved  itself  to  be  one  of  the  institutions  here  which 
upholds,  magnifies  and  intensifies  the  highest  and  best  ideals 
which  the  world  possesses. 

About  1900,  with  my  family  I  journeyed  to  the  town 
of  Plymouth.  It  was  a  beautiful  June  day  and  after  spend- 
ing some  time  in  Pilgrim  Hall  we  rested  for  a  brief  hour 


MALDEN    HISTORICAl.     SOCIETY  35 

on  Burial  Hill.  Standing  there  my  mind's  eye  glanced 
backward  over  many  intervening  centuries.  I  seemed  to 
see  the  landing,  the  Mayflower  at  anchor  off  shore,  the 
long  voyage,  the  embarkation,  and  the  eventful  years  in  far 
away  Holland.  I  seemed  to  hear  the  earnest  words  of 
the  saintly  Robinson.  I  seemed  to  see  the  sixteen  volumes 
which  were  printed  by  Elder  William  Brewster  in  Leyden, 
and  then  I  paused  a  moment  to  reflect  upon  the  mighty 
influences  which  led  them  from  the  shires  of  old  England 
to  the  spot  where  they  ended  their  "  Pilgrimage."  Among 
the  memorials  at  my  feet  my  eye  caught  a  familiar  name 
— a  name  which  has  been  heard  in  every  land  where  the 
missionary  has  been.  Its  echo  runs  as  follows  :  "  Maiden 
His  Birthplace.  The  Ocean  His  Sepulchre.  Converted 
Burmans,  and  the  Burman  Bible  His  Monument" — Rev. 
Adoniram  Judson,  D.  D.  (i 788-1850.)  And  over  all  I 
heard  the  voice  of  the  ages  ringing — "They  sought  a  faith's 
pure  shrine.  " 

On  the  first  page  of  the  revised  records  of  the  First 
Baptist  Church  are  seventy-three  "names  of  those  that 
have  been  baptized."  The  list  includes  all  of  the  founders 
of  the  church  whose  names  are  preserved  and  is  repro- 
duced in  the  order  given  on  the  revised  records  as  follows  : 

William  Parker,  dismissed  July  5,  1811. 

Aaron  Waitt,  "erased"  March  15,  1821. 

Joseph  Dyer,  first  clerk,  dismissed  July  5,  181 1  ;  returned 

by  letter  from  the  Methodist  Church  of  Maiden,  July 

6,  1831  ;  d.  April  26,  1858. 
Josiah  Tufts,  dismissed  Sept.  17,  1809. 
Peter  Lear,  d.  March  29,  1817. 
John  Grover,  excluded  Aug.  30,  1805. 
William  Haskins,  excluded  April  2,  181 2. 
Ebenezer  Harnden,  d.  April  11,  183 1,  aged  80. 


36  MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY 

Isaac  Hill,  d.  June  12,  1855. 

Samuel  Paine,  d.  April  28,  1818,  aged  34. 

Elnathan  Breeden,  excluded  April  30,  1829. 

Samuel  Howard  was  chosen  deacon  Feb.  15,  1821. 

Joseph  Cheever,  Jr.,  excluded  March  10,  1808  ;  d.  at  Brad- 
ford, Mass.,  Sept.  17,  1879,  aged  87. 

Thomas  Burditt. 

Samuel  Call,  d.  Oct.  4,  1828,  aged  79. 

James  Hitchings,  d.  Aug.  13,  1868,  aged  96. 

Charles  Hill,  Jr.,  excluded  in  181 2. 

John  Sprague,  "the  hand  of  fellowship  was  withdrawn 
from  him,"  April  30,  181 2.  He  was  excluded  Nov. 
26,  i8ii,and  restored  before  February,  1812.  [Pos- 
sibly he  was  twice  excluded  as  a  heretic] 

James  Sweetser,  d.  Jan.  6,  1815,  aged  53. 

William  Oliver,  d.  at  the  age  of  93. 

David  Sargent,  Jr.,  "erased  between  Jan.,  1818  and  Oct., 
1822." 

James  Crane,  dismissed  to  a  church  in  Lowell,  Mass. 
March  3,  1838;  d.  June  21,  1844. 

James  Howard,  d.  Nov.  12,  1829,  aged  56. 

Stephen  Tufts,  excluded  1809;  d.  March  12,  1832,  aged  84. 

Nathaniel  Tainter,  d.  Feb.  — ,   1852. 

John  Jenkins,  Jr.,  d.  Dec.  26,  1828,  aged  53. 

John  Burditt,  dismissed  to  the  Baptist  Church  of  Harvard, 
Mass.  Dec.  — ,   1819. 

Josiah  Simonds,  excluded  March  20,  1806 ;  restored  and 
dismissed  to  the  Middle  street  church  of  Portsmouth, 
N.  H.,  March  22,  1834. 

Unite  Cox,  Jr.,  "erased  "Jan.  21,  1821  ;  restored  Aug.  29, 
1833  ;  excluded  Feb.  25,  1848. 

Phebe  Waitt  (wife  of  Micah,  Jr. ,  and  second  wife  of  Charles 
Hill.) 


MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY  37 

Susan  Waitt  (wife  of  Andrew)   dismissed  to  the  Baptist 

church  of  Charlestown,  Mass.,  May  i,  1842;  d.   at 

Charlestown,  Dec.  2,  1857,  aged  76. 
Hannah  Sargent. 
Mary  Burditt  (wife    of  John)    dismissed    to    the    Baptist 

Church  of  Harvard,  Mass.,  Dec. — ,  1819. 
Hannah  Tufts  (wife  of  Stephen)  d.  Oct.  27,  1820,  aged  67. 
Eliza  Jenkins  (wife  of  Dea.  John)  restored  Aug.  29,  1827  ; 

d.  1854. 
Rhoda  Shute. 
Rebecca  Tufts  (afterwards  wife  of  Samuel  Paine)  d.  Aug. 

28,  1820,  aged  36. 
Nancy  Tufts  (afterwards  wife  of  James  Watkins)  d.  

1864. 
Sally  Tufts   (afterwards  wife    of    Edward    Newhall)    d. 

April  19,  1832,  aged  43. 
Mary  Parker  (wife  of  Isaac)  d.  a  widow,  Aug.  26,  1841, 

aged  64. 
Mary  Newhall  (first  wife  of  Barnard)  d.  Dec.  27,  1817. 
Betsy  Mansfield. 
Hannah  Tufts. 
Elizabeth  Shute   (wife  of  Solomon)    d.   March  21,  1848, 

aged  90. 
Rebecca Haskins  (wife of  William)  d.  Sept.  7, 1845, aged 79. 
Susan  Sweetser,  lived  in  South  Reading  (now  Wakefield) 

excluded  April  3,  1815. 
Susan  Dexter  dismissed,  1807  ;   at  one  time  lived  on  Cape 

Ann. 
Persis  Fuller, 

Ruth  Breeding  (wife  of  Seth)  d.  April  6,  1832,  aged  64. 
Eliza  Grover  (wife  of  John). 
Jane  Nobles  excluded  Aug.  30,  1805. 
Sally  Dyer  (afterwards  wife   of  Jesse  Holden,  Sr.)  dis- 


38  MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY 

missed  to  Farmington,  Maine,  April  8,  1840  ;  d.  Sept. 

14,  1849,  ^gcd  67  ;  buried  in  the  Salem  street  Cem- 
etery, Maiden. 
Mary  Paine  (afterwards  the  second  wife  of  Isaac  Hill)   d. 

Feb.  28,  1819. 
Lucy  Johnson  dismissed  to  the  Second  Baptist  Church  of 

Boston,  Jan.  30,  1806. 
Susan  Hitchings  (  wife  of  James)  d.  Sept.  14,1821,  aged  47. 
Mary  Harnden  (wife  of  Ebenzer)  d.  Dec.  5,1813,  aged  59. 
Lucy  Knight  (colored)  (wife  of  Simon)  d.  before  1819. 
Martha  Waitt  ("  Patty"  wife  of  Micah)  excluded  June  27, 

1806;  d.  May  31,  1853,  aged  97. 
Amos  Howard,  Jr.  d.  Dec.  9,  1826. 
Barnard  Newhall,  d.  April  18,  1855. 
Peter  Tufts. 
Charles    Simonds,    dismissed    to    the    Baptist    Church    of 

Ipswich,  Aug.  II,  1816;   returned  April  27,  1824. 
Peter  Nassau  (colored)  dismissed  about  1815  ;  d.  in  Ver- 
mont about  1857. 
Nancy  Waitt  (wife  of  Aaron)  d.  Dec.  27,  1852,  aged  75. 
Mary  Cheever  (afterwards  wife  of  William  Raymond)  d. 

Aug.  II,  1853. 
Rachel  Wheeler  (wife  of  Dea.  Samuel). 
Eliza  Dexter. 
Harriett  Sweetser   (wife  of  Seth)   dismissed  to  the  First 

Baptist  Church  of  Reading,   Mass.,  July  25,    1811  ; 

returned  Sept.  10,  1836;  d.  Feb.  8,  1841,  aged  54. 
Eliza  Dyer  (afterwards  wife  of  Zodac  Trask)   rejoined  by 

letter  from  Hallowell,  Maine,  Oct.  15,  183 1   excluded 

June  4,  1839. 
Sally  Dyer  (wife  of  Joseph)  dismissed  July  5,  1811. 
Lois  Lear  (wife  of  Peter)  d.  Oct.  18,  1835,  aged  68. 
Eliza  Parker  (wife  of  William)  dismissed  July  5,  1811. 
Lydia  Tufts  (wife  of  Josiah)  dismissed  Sept.  17,  1809. 


MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY  39 


THE  MUDGES  OF  MALDEN 

(By  Rev.  James  Mudge,  S.  T.  D.,  a  member  of  the  Society) 


In  the  center  of  what  we  call  the  Bell  Rock  Cemetery, 
but  which  was  known  in  earlier  times  as  the  Grave  Yard 
or  Burying  Ground  at  Sandy  Bank,  is  a  large  double  stone, 
very  solid,  in  an  excellant  state  of  preservation,  whereon 
are  inscribed  these  words  : 

Here  lyes  Buried  Here  lyes  Buried 

y«  Body  of  M^"  ye  Body  of  M''^ 

John  Mudge  Ruth  Mudge 

who  Died  Octo''  Wife  to  M'"  John 

29th  iy^2  jjj  ye  ^^th  Mudge,  who  Died 

Year  of  His  Age  Ocf  I'j^^  1733 

in  y^  67*^^  Year 
of  Her  Age 

And  not  far  away  from  this  stone  is  another,  a  smaller 
one,  now  nearly  sunk  in  the  ground,  on  which  this  may  be 
clearly  read  : — 

Here  lies  The  Body  of 
Martha  Wiggles  worth 
Late  Wife  to  Michael 
Wigglesworth  who 
Dec'^  September  4  1690 
Aged  about  28  Years. 

This  Martha  Wigglesworth,  second  wife  to  the  Rev. 
Michael  Wigglesworth,  so  famous  in  those  early  days,  was 
a  younger  sister  of  John  Mudge.  They  were  two  of  the 
eight  children  of  Thomas  Mudge,  who  was  born  in  England 


4©  MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY 

about  the  year  1624,  during  the  reign  of  James  I,  and 
came  from  Devonshire  to  Massachusetts  Ba}^  it  is  thought, 
with  his  brother  Jarvis,  not  far  from  1638.  The  Records 
of  Massachusetts  (Vol.  I,  p.  238)  show  the  presence  of 
Jarvis  Mudge  in  Boston,  in  connection  with  certain  court 
proceedings,  wherein  he  was  a  witness,  Dec.  4,  1638. 
There  is  no  court  record  of  Thomas  Mudge  until  Oct.  6, 
1657,  when  he  and  his  wife,  Mary,  appeared  as  witnesses 
at  Cambridge  against  James  Barrett  "for  prophaning  the 
Sabbath  and  assaulting  George  Knower." 

These  two,  Thomas  and  Mary  appeared  again  as  wit- 
nesses, Dec.  28,  1698,  at  the  County  Court  in  Charlestown 
in  the  case  of  Peter  Tufts  and  his  servant  Henry  Swillaway, 
who  had  been  beaten  by  his  master  "with  the  great  end  of 
a  goode  sticke"  and  threatened  with  still  more  chastise- 
ment. He  naturally  retaliated,  and  this  brought  him  into 
Court.  Thomas  Mudge  "aged  about  thirtie  foure"  testified 
"  I  se  his  man  strike  his  master  upon  the  breast  with  his 
hand."  Mary  Mudge  "aged  about  thirty"  affirmed,  "that 
she  being  at  Goodman  Torfs  of  an  arand,  Gudie  Torfs  and 
she  hearing  the  Dine  in  the  yard,  we  went  out  of  its  dore, 
and  his  man  had  got  up  a  great  stone,  and  held  it  up  to 
throw  at  his  master,  as  I  conseved,  but  when  he  se  me  he 
threwe  it  downe ;  I  further  Testifie  I  heard  him  cal  his 
master  base  Rouge." 

In  1668,  ten  years  later,  Thomas  Mudge,  Jr.,  "aged 
15  years  or  thereabouts "  testified  in  a  lawsuit  between 
Thomas  Shepherd  and  Samuel  Sprague,  that  Shepherd 
reviled  Sprague  and  said  "thou  art  a  bays  villaine";  "I 
did  hear  Thomas  Shepherd  strike  Samuel  Sprague  two 
blows,  then  Samuel  Sprague  said,  "what,  dost  thou  meane 
to  playe  the  foole,  I  am  resolved  I  will  not  strike,  for  this 
is  not  the  way  to  end  the  difference.     My  spirit  rises  against 


MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY  4I 

you  wherever  I  see  j^ou  ;  and  whenever  I  meete  with  you,  I 
shall  remember  you.  "  And  further  this  deponent  saith  not." 
So  much  for  young  Thomas  Mudge.  His  eldest  sister, 
Mary,  about  i8  years  old,  also  appeared  as  witness  April 
6,  1669,  against  James  Tufts,  a  son  of  Peter  Tufts,  doubt- 
less, for  holding  her  violently  and  kissing  her.  She  pulled 
him  by  the  hair  of  his  head,  but  could  not  get  him  away 
from  her,  until  she  called  to  her  brothers,  Thomas  and 
John,  who  caused  him  to  desist  and  depart.  Benjamin 
Buncker  and  Michael  Wigglesworth  colleagues  in  the  pas- 
torate, the  latter  afterward  marrying  Mary's  sister  Martha, 
also  gave  written  testimony  in  this  case,  sending  a  letter  to 
the  Court,  but  as  to  the  outcome  of  the  trial  whether  there 
was  condign  punishment  for  that  reprehensible,  indefen- 
sible and  every  way  objectionable  kiss  and  for  the  outraged 
feelings  of  Miss  Mary,  that  modest  Puritan  maiden,  we 
are  not  informed. 

Of  Thomas'  other  children,  his  oldest,  James  Mudge, 
born  in  Maiden  about  1648,  just  a  little  before  the  first 
incorporation  of  the  town,  1649,  was  l^i^^ed  at  Bloody  Brook, 
So.  Deerfield,  by  the  Indians  in  King  Phillips  war,  Sept. 
18,  1675.  He  served  with  Captain  Lothrop  in  the  com- 
pany called  "The  Flower  of  Essex,"  which  was  ambushed 
and  cut  to  pieces  by  a  force  of  Indians  ten  times  their  num- 
ber, all  but  four  being  slain.  His  brothers,  John  and 
Thomas,  also  his  brother-in-law,  John  Martin,  who  married 
his  sister  Mary  were  in  Capt.  Moseley's  company  which 
advanced  bravely  to  the  rescue  of  the  others  and,  after 
some  reinforcements,  drove  the  Indians  from  the  field. 
Two  other  younger  sons,  George  and  Jonathan,  were  not  in 
the  war,  but  left  interesting  wills,  with  carefully  inventoried 
estates,  not  very  large,  Jonathan  bequeathing  his  house  and 
lands,  clothing,  "  cattel  and  gun,"  to  his  cousins,  Ebenezer 


42  MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY 

Grover  and  Mary  Upham.  Among  George's  property  we 
notice  "  8  full  bottles  of  Rhum  and  12  empty  bottles,"  valued 
at  six  shillings  and  four  pence.  Bottles  were  evidently 
scarce  in  those  days,  and  rum  was  rather  cheap. 

But  the  chief  interest  in  this  earliest  American  Mudge 
family  attaches  to  John  and  Martha  4th,  and  8th  of  the 
children  of  Thomas  and  Mary.  Martha's  marriage  to  the 
celebrated  parson,  "  Maulden's  physician  for  soul  and  body 
two,"  as  his  tombstone  says,  "y^  Reverend  Mr.  Michael 
Wigglesworth,  pastor  of  y^  church  of  Christ  at  Maulden, 
who  finished  his  work  and  entered  upon  an  eternal  Sabbath 
of  rest  on  y^  Lord's  Day  June  y^  10  1705  in  y^  74  year 
of  his  age,"  author  of  that  very  famous  poem  "  The  Day 
of  Doom,"  whose  commercial  success,  it  is  said,  has  never 
been  equalled  since  in  this  country,  the  circulation  con- 
sidering the  small  extent  of  the  population  being  prodigi- 
ous and  unparalleled, — awakened  wide  spread  interest, 
and  was  indeed  accounted  almost  if  not  quite  a  scandalous 
thing.  Mr.  Wigglesworth's  first  wife  died  Dec.  21,  1659. 
His  remarks  about  the  event,  which  he  called  "  a  heart- 
cutting  and  astonishing  stroke  "  are  exceedingly  appropri- 
ate and  edifying.  "  Lord,  help  me  to  bear  it  patiently,"  he 
says,  "and  to  profit  by  it,  help  me  to  know  Thee  now  in  the 
fires,  by  maintaining  good  thoughts  of  thee,  and  speaking 
good  and  submissive  words  concerning  thee;  and,  O,  teach 
me  to  die  every  day  ;  fit  me  for  the  sweet  secret  she  is  gone 
unto,  where  solitariness  shall  no  more  affright  or  affect 
me.  O  Lord,  make  up  in  thyself  what  is  gone  in  the 
creature.  I  believe  thou  cans't  and  will  do  it,  but  O,  help 
my  unbelief." 

He  remained  unmarried  in  his  "solitariness,"  for 
nearly  twenty  years.  Then,  having  reached  the  age  of 
forty-eight,  and  his  onl}'  daughter,  Mercy,  having  left  him 


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for  a  home  of  her  own,  he  naturally  felt  a  desire  for  com- 
pany, and  his  thoughts,  rather  naturally  too,  turned  to  his 
youthful  housekeeper,  Martha  Mudge,  with  whose  family 
he  had  been  intimate,  a  damsel  onl}^  eighteen  years  of  age, 
but  very  comely  and  capable.  The  project  soon  got 
bruited  abroad,  as  such  things  will,  and  some  of  his  dis- 
tinguished friends  were  much  exercised  regarding  it, 
especially  because  young  Martha  was  not  a  member  of  the 
church,  (just  think  of  it)  not  even  baptized  (shocking  to 
relate),  and,  being  just  a  plain  farmer's  daughter,  was  not 
considered  on  quite  the  same  social  level  as  the  eminent, 
scholarl}^  minister  and  author.  Dr.  Increase  Mather, 
pastor  of  the  North  Church  in  Boston,  accounted  the  most 
learned  American  minister  of  his  day,  and  President  of 
Harvard  College,  in  which  Wigglesworth  had  been  a 
Fellow  and  Tutor,  wrote  him  a  lengthy  remonstrance  full  of 
sharpness,  which  has  been  preserved  and  makes  intensely 
interesting  reading.  He  urges  six  reasons  against  the 
marriage  (which  I  will  not  give).  He  says  "the  like 
never  was  in  New  England,  nay,  I  question  whether 
the  like  hath  been  known  in  the  Christian  world."  Evi- 
dently he  was  in  a  state  of  mind,  greatly  disturbed.  He 
suggests  that  if  his  friend  would  "put  the  object  of  his 
affections  out  of  his  sight,  and  look  up  to  the  Lord  Jesus 
for  supplies  of  grace,  he  will  be  enabled  to  overcome  these 
temptations."  The  distinguished  pastors  of  the  other 
Boston  churches,  together  with  the  apostolic  Eliot  of 
Roxbury,  and  various  pious  and  learned  men,  were 
brought  into  the  affair  for  counsel,  but  found  themselves, 
it  is  said,  "  not  very  forward  to  give  advice."  Prudent 
people  !  They  perceived  that  the  thing  had  gone  too  far  to 
be  stopped.  "It  is  now  too  late,"  they  said;  "It  is  not 
good  after  vows,  to  make  inquiry.      Had  you  advised  with 


44  MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY 

them  before  your  treating  with  the  party  concerned,  you 
may  be  sure  they  would  earnestly  have  dissuaded.  Nor 
is  there  any  of  them  that  dare  encourage  your  proceedings 
as  things  are  now  circumstanced."  "  His  affections  had 
biased  his  judgment,"  they  think.  Alas,  not  for  the  first 
time,  or  the  last  time  I  What  becomes  of  judgment  when 
the  heart  is  really  roused  !  Their  prayer  is,  "The  Lord  in 
mercy  be  with  you  and  direct  you  to  do  that  which  shall 
be  pleasing  in  his  sight,  and  for  the  honor  of  his  name,  yea, 
and  of  your  own  name,  and  the  comfort  of  those  that  are 
concerned  in  you."  They  were  all  greatly  concerned. 
Let  us  hope  and  suppose  that  the  Lord  indeed  did  so 
direct.  At  any  rate,  in  spite  of  all  objections  and  uncalled 
for  meddling,  the  pastor  held  to  his  purpose,  and,  in  1680, 
married  Martha  Mudge,  who  "made  him  a  good  wife,"  as 
Mr.  D.  P.  Corey,  the  historian  of  Maiden  says,  and,  in 
the  short  ten  years  of  her  married  life,  "bore  him  five 
daughters  and  one  son,  among  whose  descendants  have 
been,  and  are,  honored  clergymen,  lawyers,  professors, 
and  scholars,  who  need  not  hold  otherwise  than  in  honor 
the  day  of  that  much  debated  marriage.  The  3^  Hollis 
Professor  of  Divinity  at  Harvard  College  was  the  Rev. 
David  Tappan  a  grandson  of  Abigal  the  eldest  son  of  Mr. 
Wigglesworth  by  Martha  Mudge.  His  two  predecessors 
in  the  chair,  had  been  a  son  and  grandson  of  Parson 
Wigglesworth  by  his  3d  wife.  Her  husband  testified  to 
her  worth  in  after  years,  and  ascribed  to  her,  under  God, 
his  recovery  to  a  better  state  of  health.  In  his  will  he 
bequeathed  to  his  unmarried  daughters  quite  a  sum  of 
money  which,  he  says,  fell  to  them  as  "their  own  mother's 
portion  from  their  grandfather  Mudge's  estate."  That  he 
himself  received  no  serious  disparagement,  detriment  or 
loss  of  reputation    from    the    marriage,   either  without  or 


MAIvDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY  45 

within  the  parish,  is  evident  from  the  fact  that  a  very  few 
years  after  it  he  was  entreated  to  become  President  of 
Harvard  College,  and  that  he  remained  pastor  of  the 
church  until  his  death  in  1705. 

Of  John  Mudge,  my  immediate  ancestor,  my  great- 
grandfather's great-grandfather,  to  be  exact,  born  in 
Maiden,  1654,  and  residing  here  throughout  his  long  life 
of  79  years,  there  is  considerable  to  be  said.  He  was  quite 
a  man.  He  was  one  of  the  74  proprietors  or  freeholders 
among  whom  was  divided  in  1695,  the  common  lands, 
amounting  to  about  3,500  acres,  nearly  50  acres  apiece  or 
something  like  half  the  town  as  it  was  then  constituted, 
seven  miles  long  by  four  wide.  He  was  also  one  of  the 
Narragansett  grantees,  having  been  a  soldier  in  the  war  of 
1675  and  an  active  participant  in  the  great  Swamp  Fight, 
Sunday,  December  19,  1675,  when  nearly  1,000  Indian 
warriors  are  said  to  have  perished.  Captain  Moseley's 
company,  to  which  he  belonged,  were  the  first  to  enter  the 
fort  of  the  enemy  and  lost  19  of  his  men.  He  was  elected 
constable  for  the  town  of  Maiden,  March  14,  1692.  John 
Mudge  was  the  onl}'  Maiden  survivor  of  this  fight  among 
the  Narragansett  grantees  in  1732.  He  was  also  tithing- 
man,  collector  of  rates,  surveyor  of  highways,  1692,  fence 
viewer,  etc.,  etc.,  holding  these  offices  several  years.  The 
duties  of  the  tithingman  (so  called  from  being  orginally 
set  over  10  families)  was  chiefly  to  preserve  order  in  the 
meeting-house  and  enforce  the  general  observation  of  the 
Sabbath,  with  reference  to  which  the  Puritans  were  exceed- 
ingly particular. 

The  constable  was  a  man  of  great  importance.  There 
was  but  one  such  town  officer  during  most  of  the  colonial 
period,  although  during  part  of  the  time  in  certain  places 
two  were  found  necessary.     He  was   a  petty  magistrate 


46  MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY 

and  enforcer  of  the  law  with  power  over  all  offenders.  He 
could  "  apprehend  without  warrant  such  as  be  overtaken 
with  drink,  swearing,  Sabbath  breaking,  lying,  vagrant 
persons  and  night  walkers."  He  was  obliged  "to  take 
notice  of  common  costers  [accosters]  unprofitable  fowlers, 
and  other  idle  persons  and  tobacco  takers,"  and  secure 
"  any  inhabitant  or  stranger  after  tenne  of  the  clock  at  night 
behaving  themselves  deboist  [debauched  or  in  debauchery] 
or  that  giveth  not  a  reasonable  ground  to  ye  constable  or 
watchman,  or  shall  be  in  drinck  "  ;  to  give  warning  "  unto 
any  inhabitants  of  their  town,  whether  men  or  women,  that 
live  from  their  husbands  or  wives,  to  appear  at  the  said 
court  of  ye  county  to  answer  for  their  so  doing."  The 
constable's  badge  of  office  provided  by  the  town  was  a  black 
staffe  about  5^  foote  long,  tipped  at  the  upper  end  about  5 
or  6  inches  with  brasse.  To  John  Mudge  and  a  few  others 
(Benjamin  Hills,  Thomas  Burdett,  Nathaniel  Upham)  the 
town  voted,  March  16,  1713,  permission  to  build  a  gallery 
in  the  meeting-house,"  between  the  two  great  beams  over 
the  front  gallery."  He  was  one  of  the  owners  of  stable 
room  for  two  horses  in  the  sheds  near  the  meeting-house. 
The  Mudge  farm,  occupied  by  the  family  for  some  sixty 
years,  was  in  the  south-east  part  of  the  town,  at  what  was 
called  Turkey  Hill,  a  tract  of  65  acres,  previously  a  part 
of  the  lands  of  Job  Lane,  builder  of  the  Bell  Rock  meeting- 
house ;  previously  to  that  it  was  a  portion  of  the  allotment 
to  the  Rev.  John  Harvard,  benefactor  of  the  College,  then 
to  Leavitt  Corbett  of  Charlestown  who  resided  there  till 
his  death  in  1855.  The  house  was  not  torn  down  until 
1893.  The  land  afterwards  passed  to  the  Chittendens  and 
is  now  a  portion  of  the  Woodlawn  Cemetery  property. 

John  Mudge  married  Ruth  Burdett  in  1684  and  was 
survived   by  two   children,  John   and  Martha.      He   made 


MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY  47 

his  will  in  1726,  seven  years  before  his  death,  then  72 
years.  It  begins  as  follows :  ''  In  the  name  of  God, 
Amen.  In  the  year  of  our  Lord,  1726,  I,  John  Mudge 
of  Maiden,  in  the  county  of  Middlesex,  in  New  Eng- 
land, yeoman,  being  in  good  health,  though  very  aged, 
but  of  perfect  mind  and  memory,  thanks  be  given  unto 
God  for  it,  therefore  calling  to  mind  the  unstability  of  my 
body,  and  knowing  that  it  is  appointed  for  man  once  to  die, 
do  make  and  ordain  this  my  last  will  and  testament,  that 
is  to  say,  principally  and  first  of  all,  I  give  and  recommend 
my  soul  into  the  hands  of  God  that  gave  it,  and  free  pardon 
and  forgiveness  of  all  my  sins ;  and  to  inherit  everlasting 
life ;  and  my  body  I  commit  to  the  earth  to  be  decently 
buried  at  the  discretion  of  ray  Executor  hereafter  named, 
nothing  doubting  but  at  the  general  Resurrection  I  shall 
receive  the  same  again  by  the  mighty  power  of  God." 

His  principal  heir  and  sole  executor  was  his  "well- 
beloved  son  John,"  born  in  Maiden  1685,  and  dying  here 
in  1767,  at  the  age  of  82.  He  was  a  farmer,  but  did  not 
prosper  as  did  his  father  (who  was  also  a  tanner),  and  sold 
off  his  land  at  various  times  to  different  parties,  chiefl}'  to 
his  brother-in-law  Peter  Edes  of  Needham,  who  paid  him 
at  one  time  "  £500  lawful  money  "  for  70  acres,  including 
wood  lot  and  dwelling  house.  He  was  chosen  Surveyor  of 
Highways  in  1720  and  in  1746.  Also  when  the  South 
Parish  was  set  off  in  1734,  ^^  was  an  active  participant  in 
the  building  of  the  new  meeting-house  in  what  is  now 
Everett,  he  living  in  that  part  of  the  town,  and  was  chosen 
Deacon  of  the  church,  Jonathan  Sargent  and  Ebenezer 
Upham  being  the  ruling  elders. 

This  Deacon  John  had  a  son  John,  my  immediate 
ancestor,  born  in  Maiden,  Dec.  30,  1713,  who  was  mar- 
ried to  Mary  Waite  by  the  Rev.  Joseph  Emerson  —  pastor 


48  MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY 

at  Maiden  46  3'ears  1721-67,  great  grandfather  of  Ralph 
Waldo. Emerson  —  May  4,  1738,  and  had  by  her  nine  chil- 
dren. Only  five  of  these  —  Samuel,  Mary,  Lydia,  John, 
Simon  —  belonged  strictly  to  Maiden,  as  the  father,  soon 
after  the  birth  of  Simon,  about  the  year  1750,  removed  to 
Lynnfield,  where  he  died,  1762.  Of  these  three  sons, 
Samuel  was  killed  in  Canada  during  the  French  War  of 
1775,  and  John  served  in  the  War  of  the  Revolution  in  1778' 
So  did  Simon,  and  also  his  four  younger  brothers  born  in 
Lynnfield.  Of  these  my  own  immediate  ancestor,  Enoch, 
had  his  name  on  the  Ticonderoga  roll,  and  also  served  at 
Concord  and  Lexington.  He  liked  to  tell  how  he  stood 
(more  then  6  feet  tall)  as  a  sentinel  before  the  Old  Province 
house  at  Cambridge,  when  Washington  occupied  it  as  his 
headquarters.  Simon,  although  not  a  great  while  in  the 
army,  his  poor  health  causing  his  discharge  after  a  few 
months'  service,  had  the  distinction  of  leaving  a  diary  in 
which  he  recalls  particulars  of  the  march  from  Danvers 
to  Ticonderoga,  through  New  Hampshire  and  Vermont, 
that  dairy  is  still  in  possession  of  his  descendants  in  Dan- 
vers. The  day's  marches,  beginning  July  30,  varied  from 
10  to  25  miles.  The  total  was  215  miles,  and  the  money 
compensation  £1,12  sh,  3d,  which  probably  included  the 
day's  wages  as  well  as  the  marching  allowance,  which 
latter  was  usually  a  penny  a  mile.  He  records  that  at 
certain  parts  of  the  way  the  people  were  "very  uncivil,  not 
willing  to  oblige  any  of  us ;  our  Lieutenants  went  to  buy  a 
sheep  but  could  find  nothing  but  an  old  ram  for  "which  they 
charged  15  shillings."  At  another  place  he  mentions  "a 
famous  mountain,  prodigious  high  inhabited  with  innu- 
merable bodys  of  rattlesnakes,  where  I  have  been  informed 
have  been  killed  170  in  a  day."  At  still  another  place  he 
sadly  says  "  Rum   sells  for  nine   shillings   and  4  pence  a 


MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY  49 

gallon,  and  the  most  miserable  stuff  I  ever  drank."  That 
was  Aug.  6,  1776.  Aug.  8th,  the  entry  is,  "This  day's 
march  was  beyond  conception,  being  chiefly  up  hill  all  the 
way,  and  the  road  almost  every  fifty  yards  distance  was  a 
dismal  slough  enough  to  bury  a  horse  at  a  step  ;  however 
our  horses  made  shift  to  get  through  them."  By  far  the 
most  frequent  entry  in  the  diary,  during  the  months, 
(Aug.^^  to  Nov.^'^,)  spent  at  Ticonderoga,  is  "went  upon 
furtege"by  which  I  suppose  he  meant  what  we  call  "forage," 
"Furtege"  was  perhaps  an  old  English  form  of  the  more 
modern  word.  I  cannot  find,  however,  any  trace  of  it  in 
any  of  the  dictionaries.  Can  it  have  had  remote  connection 
with  furtive  or  stealthy,  foraging  and  stealing  not  being 
very  unlike  ? 

We  may  count,  then,  four  generations  of  Mudges  resid- 
ing wholly  in  Maiden,  covering  about  a  century,  reaching 
from  Thomas,  who  arrived  perhaps  in  1640  and  coming 
down  to  John,  his  great  grandson,  who  left  for  Lynnfield  in 

1750. 

These  early  Mudges  belonged,  very  emphatically,  to 

the  common  people,  making  no  boast  of  birth  or  rank, 
humble  farmers  and  craftsmen,  who  cleared  their  lands 
and  built  their  homes,  guarding  their  privileges  and  main- 
taining their  rights,  with  the  manly  independence  of  the 
primitive  Puritan  stock.  They  had  pluck,  patience  and 
perseverance,  were  ready  to  fight  for  their  liberties,  and 
die  if  need  be  in  defence  of  home  and  country.  They 
led  laborious  lives,  enduring  hardships,  and  suffering  not 
a  little,  as  all  pioneers  must,  but  maintaining  the  faith  and 
deserving  well  of  the  generations  following.  They  attended 
diligently  upon  the  worship  of  God  in  their  plain  bare 
meeting-houses,  and  helped  to  lay  strong  and  deep  the 
foundations  of  a  mighty  republic. 


50  MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY 

Let  US  pass  on  now  another  step.  In  Lynnfield  was 
born,  Aug.  i,  i754»  my  great-grandfather,  Enoch, —  son 
of  the  third  John,  grandson  of  Deacon  John,  —  Enoch, 
who  died  in  Lynn,  1832,  aged  77J  years.  He  also  had  a 
slight  connection  with  Maiden,  hence  I  legitimately  bring 
him  before  you.  He  was  a  very  highly  respected,  pros- 
perous shoe  manufacturer  in  Lynn,  long  a  prominent  mem- 
ber of  the  First  Cong'l  church  there.  He  afterwards 
became  the  first  member,  first  class  leader,  first  steward, 
and  first  local  preacher  of  the  first  Methodist  Episcopal 
society  or  church,  formed  in  Lynn  by  the  Rev.  Jesse  Lee, 
the  pioneer  Methodist  apostle,  Feb.  20,  1791,  the  125th 
anniversary  of  whose  formation  I  had  the  pleasure  of  par- 
ticipating in  three  months  ago.  This  Enoch,  a  most  devoted 
Christian  layman,  had  a  son  Enoch  (the  second  of  14 
children)  who  became  the  first  itinerant  Methodist  preacher 
raised  up  in  the  uncongenial  soil  of  New  England.  He 
joined  the  itinerant  ranks  (they  were  a  body  of  genuine 
heroes)  when  barely  17,  and  did  great  work  during  a  long 
life  until  he  died  at  Lynn,  his  native  place,  in  1850.  I 
knew  him  personally.  His  closing  active  years  were  spent 
as  the  greatly  revered  minister  to  seamen  at  New  Bedford. 
He  was  twice  honored  with  an  election  to  the  Legislature 
of  Massachusetts  and  was  a  member  of  the  State  Conven- 
tion for  revising  the  Constitution  in  1819.  He  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  General  Conference  of  1824,  and  made  the  speech 
there  which  put  into  nomination  for  the  episcopacy,  his 
intimate  friend,  Elijah  Hedding,  whom  he  also  persuaded 
to  accept  an  election  to  the  office.  Abel  Stevens,  the 
Methodist  historian,  says  "  I  never  knew  him  surpassed  in 
the  purity  of  his  moral  character."  "  His  personal  presence  " 
says  another,  "  was  a  benediction.  He  had  the  simplicity 
of  a  child,   and  the  sweetness  of  an  angel."     These  two 


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Enochs,  father  and  son,  both  preachers,  from  their  home  in 
Lynn,  often  visited  the  surrounding  towns — Saugus,  Marble- 
head,  Swampscott,  Maiden,  Boston — to  hold  religious 
meetings,  at  which  many  were  converted.  It  is  highly 
probable  that  they  visited  the  burial  place  of  their  ances- 
tor John  Mudge  in  Bell  Rock  cemetery,  and  looked  upon 
the  grave  stone,  then  only  60  years  in  its  place  ;  but  this  we 
do  not  positively  know. 

Having  much  closer  connection  with  Maiden,  how- 
ever, is  still  another  of  the  Lynn  Mudges,  namely,  my  own 
father,  James  Mudge,  Jr.,  grandson  of  the  elder  Enoch  just 
mentioned,  nephew  of  the  preacher  Enoch.  He  too  was 
an  itinerant  Methodist  preacher,  as  I  have  been  for  50 
years.  But  he,  poor  man,  in  his  brief  life,  had  constantly 
to  struggle  against  illness,  which  hampered  him  at  every 
step,  defeating  his  plans  for  a  thorough  education,  prevent- 
ing his  going  to  college  for  which  he  was  well  prepared, 
and  whether  his  three  brothers  went  (at  Middletown, 
Conn.)  and  cutting  short  his  days  at  the  early  age  of  34. 
He  was  a  young  man  of  very  sweet  spirit  and  large  ability, 
very  winning  with  children  and  wholly  consecrated  to  God. 
His  coming  to  Maiden  was  after  this  fashion.  Born  in 
1811,  and  converted  in  1829,  he  was  given  a  license  to 
preach  in  1832,  when  he  was  21  years  of  age.  With  this 
authorization  he  held  forth  a  little  here  and  there,  while 
engaged  helping  his  father  in  the  shoe  business  at  Lynn, 
and  his  efforts  were  well  received.  It  was  in  the  spring 
of  1833  that  he  took  up  what  might  be  called  his  first 
pastoral  charge,  or  regular  preaching  effort,  under  the 
Presiding  Elder,  Benjamin  F.  Lambord.  He  was  engaged 
at  North  Maiden  for  several  months,  until  his  health  gave 
out,  as  it  was  so  constantly  in  the  habit  of  doing.  A  little 
vest  pocket  book  in  my  possession  has  this  entry  :  "Maiden, 


52  MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY 

July  5,  1833  ;   engaged  in  the  ministry,  health  still  feeble, 
my  prayer  is,  that  if  consistent  with  His  will,  God  would 
either  take  me  from  this  world  or  restore  me  to  health.     O 
God,  give  me  love ;  for  thine  own  sake,  for  the  sake  of 
sinners,   give  me  perfect   love."     This  was  his   constant, 
eager  cry,  until  he  was  able  to  say,  "Eureka."     He  writes, 
again,  "If  there  is  one  thing  I  desire  more  than  another  it 
is  to  have  a  heart  filled  with  love  to  God  and  man,  to  be 
made  more  like  my  Master,  Christ,  to  be  baptized  with  the 
Holy  Ghost."     This  was  the  spirit  in  which  he  did  his  work 
everywhere.     We  have  no  details  as  to  what  he  accom- 
plished at  No.   Maiden.     We    know   not  whether  it  was 
much  or  little.     He  was  back  at  Lynn  in  November,  and 
writing  from  there  to  his  brother,  Thomas,  on  the  26th,  he 
speaks  of  hard  work  at  making  shoe  boxes,  being  moved 
to  it  by  the  endeavor  to  pay  his  debts.      He  says  "  I  sunk, 
while  at  Maiden,  $17.     I  wore  my  coat  into  the  pulpit  until 
I  had  a  hole  in  the  elbow,  and  then  I  thought  I  needed  a 
new  one.     I  though  I    should  receive   money   enough   to 
pay   such   necessary   expenses.      But   I   did   not.      Had  I 
thought  I  should  not  I  would  have  worn  my  old  coat  still. 
I  am  resolved  that  hereafter  I  will  never  run  in  debt.     I 
received  at  the  rate  of  $38.50  per  annum  while  at  Maiden. 
This  to  pay  travelling  expenses,  buy  books,  clothing,  etc. 
I  have  understood  that  this  place  was  as  fair  as  our  small 
stations  would  average."     My  own  researches  into  the  pay- 
ments made  to  the  preachers  of  that  period  conform  this 
supposition.      Of  course  he  was  boarded  by  his  parishion- 
ers, and  probably  his  ministry  was  appreciated  by  them  to 
a  certain  extent.     Nevertheless,  their  delinquency,  not  to 
say  stinginess,  in  failing  to  give  him  more  than  $20  for 
over  six  months  service,  75  cents  a  week,  and  permitting 
him  to  run  in  debt  for  the  sorely  needed  new  coat,  is  a  sad 


MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY  53 

commentary  on  both  their  financial  and  spiritual  condition, 
and  throws  distressing  light  on  the  privations  endured  by 
the  early  Methodist  preachers.  I  could  tell  other  stories 
about  that  if  it  were  proper  at  this  time.  He  exhorts  his 
brother  Thomas,  to  when  he  is  writing,  if  he  is  thinking  of 
the  ministry  (as  he  was)  to  prepare  himself  as  a  good 
soldier  to  endure  this  kind  of  hardness,  to  form  the  habit 
of  strict  economy  so  as  to  be  ready  to  bear  these  trials 
which  will  probably  be  his  lot ;   as  they  were. 

I  could  give  very  many  further  particulars,  perhaps 
of  an  interesting  sort,  concerning  the  life  of  this  young 
Methodist  minister  in  the  olden  time  —  he  was  ordained  by 
Bishop  Hedding  in  1837,  joined  Conference  in  1838, 
found  my  mother  in  his  pastorate  at  So.  Boston  in  1840, 
married  her  in  1841  and  died  in  Greenfield  in  1846,  while 
I  was  still  a  baby  —  but  such  a  sketch  would  not  be 
precisely  germane  to  the  purpose  of  this  paper  and  I  will 
not  detain  you  with  it. 

I  may  fitly  close,  perhaps  with  a  brief  reference  to  the 
distinctly  Providential  way  in  which  I  myself  have  come  to 
be  numbered  with  the  Mudges  of  Maiden.  It  was  by  no 
means  my  plan.  When  the  time  arrived,  eight  years  ago, 
for  my  retirement  from  the  fatigues  of  the  Methodist 
itinerancy  which  I  had  endured  for  40  years,  and  which 
had  resulted  in  very  serious  impared  health,  my  thought 
turned  at  once  to  Lynn  where  I  had  been  brought  up, 
from  whose  High  School  I  had  gone  to  college,  where  my 
immediate  ancestors  had  taken  a  leading  part  in  the  old 
Common  Street  Methodist  Church  and  with  which  I  had 
many  delightful  associations.  I  spent  two  days'  hunting 
for  a  house  there,  but  found  none  that  was  any  way  suit- 
able or  desirable.  The  entire  central  part  of  the  city,  with 
which   my  connections  had   been,  was  entirely  changed, 


54  MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY 

filled  with  tenements  and  flats  and  foreigners,  but  with  no 
single,  separate  houses  anywhere  to  be  had,  so,  drawn  to 
Maiden  by  the  presence  here  of  a  half-brother  and  its  near- 
ness to  the  city,  but  with  no  thought  whatever  as  to  the 
early  connection  of  the  family  with  the  place,  I  here 
setded  down  to  pass  my  declining  days  in  these  delightful 
surroundings  and  have  been  very  glad  ever  since  that  I 
so  did. 

There  was  truly  a  fitness  in  it,  in  more  than  one  way. 
From  Maiden  to  Lynn  went  the  family  after  lOO  years  of 
residence  here.  From  Lynn  to  Maiden  (after  150  years 
there)  now  it  comes  in  the  person  of  one  of  its  latest  repre- 
sentatives. And  since  I  have  a  son  and  grandson  in  Mel- 
rose, which  is  substantially.  Maiden,  who  knows  but  what 
there  may  be  another  hundred  years  of  Mudge  history 
here.  At  any  rate  let  us  hope  that  the  old  name,  which 
comes  down  from  Norman  times  in  England  and  has  been 
associated  with  a  good  deal  of  distinction  across  the  water, 
whether  its  duration  around  Boston  in  this  20th  century  be 
long  or  short,  whether  it  mount  high  or  sink  low  so  far  as 
worldly  fame  is  concerned,  may  still  remain,  as  it  has 
always  been  in  the  past,  a  name  of  probity,  integrity, 
honesty,  spirituality,  industry,  fidelity,  a  name  characterized 
by  sterling  worth  and  exemplary  actions,  a  name  connected 
with  God-fearing,  hard-working,  truth-speaking,  peace- 
loving,  conscientious,  honorable,  high-principled,  public- 
spirited  men  and  women,  who  are  accustomed  to  leave  the 
world  better  than  they  found  it,  and  to  pass  on  to  their 
children's  children  an  unstained  record  of  brave  deeds. 
Malden,  May  17,  1916. 


MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY  55 


AN   EARLY  DEDICATION    PROGRAM. 

Contributed  by  the  President  of  the  Society. 

ORDER    OF   EXERCISES 
AT  THE   DEDICATION  OF  THE 

METHODIST   MEETING-HOUSE   IN    MALDEN,* 

April  27,  1826. 


1.  ANTHEM — I  was  glad  when  they  said  unto  me,  we  will  go  into  the 
house  of  the  Lord.     Peace  be  within  thj  walls,  and  plenteousness 

within  thy  palaces.     Amen. 

2.  READING    OF   THE    SCRIVT\JKES—By  the  Rev.  J.  Sabine. 

3.  HYMN— 

Thou  Great  Jehovah — Israel's  God, 

There's  none  in  Heaven  or  earth  like  Thee ; — 

The  King  of  Saints,  the  Sovereign  Lord; — 
The  Glorious  coeternal  Three. 

This  house  be  thine,  forever  more, 

Which  now,  to  Thee,  we  dedicate : 
Here  may  thy  saints  thy  name  adore. 

And  sinners  fall  before  thy  feet. 

Within  these  walls  record  thy  name. 

And  all  the  house  with  glory  fill. 
Kindle  in  us  a  sacred  flame, 

And  O,  thy  Mighty  Self  reveal. 

*This  building,  the  first  home  of  the  Center  M.  E.  church,  still  stands,  as  a  dwelling 
house,  on  Main  street,  in  the  rear  of  the  apartment  house  known  as  the  Weld.  The  Gilbert 
Haven  collection  contains  an  item  showing  that  work  on  the  buildinj;  commenced  in 
September,  1825. 


56  MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY 

O  let  no  strange  unhallowed  fire 

Upon  thy  sacred  altar  glow  ; 
Ma}-  love  to  Thee  our  souls  inspire 

And  love  to  man  our  hearts  o'erflow. 

Come,  then,  thou  glorious  conq'ring  King 

Within  us  reign  and  sin  destroy. 
Help  us  by  grace  thy  name  to  sing, 

And  fill  our  hearts  with  sacred  joy. 

To  thy  great  name,  O  God  of  love 

Shall  honor,  power  and  praise  be  given ; 

And  when  our  souls  shall  mount  above 

Our  songs  shall  ring  the  courts  of  Heaven. 

4.  PRAYER— By  the  Rev.  Mr.  Bonney. 

5.  ANTHEM— 

Lo  !  my  Shepherd  is  divine, 
How  can  I  want  when  He  is  mine. 
By  the  stream  that  wanders  slow, 
Through  the  meads  where  flowerets  grow, 
He  leadeth  me  and  there  I  rest, 
In  love  and  peace  divinely  blest. 

6.  SERMON— By  the  Rev.  Mr.  Merritt.* 

7.  ANTHEM — Blessed  be  thou.  Lord  God  of  Israel,  our  Father,  forever 
and  ever.  Thine,  O,  Lord,  is  the  greatness  and  the  power  and  the 
glory  and  the  victory  and  the  majesty,  for  all  that  are  in  the  Heaven 
and  in  the  earth  are  thine.  Thine  is  the  kingdom,  O  Lord,  and  thou 
art  exalted  as  head  over  all.  Both  riches  and  honor  come  out  of 
Thee,  and  Thou  reignest  over  all,  and  in  Thine  hand  is  power  and 
might,  and  in  Thine  hand  it  is  to  make  great  and  give  strength  unto 
all.  Now,  therefore,  O  God,  we  thank  Thee  and  praise  Thy  glorious 
name. 

8.  PRAYER— By  the  Rev.  Mr.  Blake. 

*Father  Timothy  Meriitt's  text  was:  "What  could  have  been  done   more   to  my 
vineyard  that  I  have  not  done  in  it." 


MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY  57 

9.  ANTHEM— O  be  jojful  in  the  Lord  all  ye  lands.  Serve  the  Lord 
with  gladness  and  come  before  his  presence  with  a  song.  Be  ye  sure 
that  the  Lord  He  is  God;  it  is  He  that  hath  made  us,  and  not  we 
ourselves,  we  are  His  people  and  the  sheep  of  His  pasture.  O,  go 
your  way  into  His  gates  with  thanksgiving  and  into  His  courts  with 
praise.  Be  thankful  unto  Him,  and  speak  good  of  His  name.  For 
the  Lord  is  gracious;  His  mercy  is  everlasting  and  His  truth 
endureth  from  generation  to  generation.  Glory  be  to  the  Father  and 
to  the  Son  and  to  the  Holy  Ghost.  As  it  was  in  the  beginning,  is 
now,  and  ever  shall  be,  world  without  end.     Amen. 

10.     BENEDICTION. 


58  MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY 


MICHAEL  WIGGLESWORTH  AND  THE  "BEST  SELLER" 

OF    1689. 

By  F.  W.  CoBURN 
(Reproduced  from  the  Boston  Tronscripf,  June  23,  IQ17.1) 


Michael  Wigglesworth,  poet,  of  "Maldon"  in  New 
England,  hereby  salutes  Isaac  Finstein  and  Antonio  Schia- 
parelli,  his  fellow  citizens,  inviting  them  to  enjoyment  of 
"  The  Day  of  Doom  "  and,  if  their  stomachs  repudiate  that, 
of  "Meat  Out  of  the  Eater." 

Arranged  in  glass  cases  at  the  model  public  library  of 
Boston's  cosmopolitan  rubber  town  is  a  special  exhibition, 
lent  by  William  G.  A.  Turner,  of  that  city,  of  original  and 
reproduced  documents  relating  to  early  Maiden  history. 
In  such  a  display  there  is  no  escaping  Wigglesworth. 
Title  page  after  title  page  of  the  once  popular  "  Day  of 
Doom  "  stands  to  allure  the  studious  Hebrew  children,  and 
a  few  New  England  Yankees,  who  enter  the  library  to 
draw  or  return  Henty  books  or  copies  of  "  Popular  Machan- 
ics."  Sweet,  indeed,  are  the  uses  of  local  patriotism.  In 
this  time  of  intense  and  anxious  struggle  toward  democracy 
let  it  be  known  to  prospective  conscripts  of  the  Rumney 
Marsh  region  that  after  all,  life  has  not  been  prevailingly 
perilous  in  the  peaceful  town  beneath  the  Fells.  Here,  by 
way  of  contrast  with  the  ghastly  stories  of  present-day 
newspapers,   one  may  read   "The    History   of  Wars   and 

'No  more  useful  service  in  the  cause  of  interesting  the  public  in  local  history  could 
have  been  rendered  than  the  through  exhibition  during  June,  1917,  described  by  Mr. 
Coburn. 


»-i.--#5=^'^ 


The  DAY  of 

DOOM: 

O  R, 

A  Poetical  Ds^fcription 

OF 
The  GREAT   and    LAST 

WITH 
A  Short    DISCO  7JRSE  ^bout 


3y  St9tff]acl  lDi0gIcfb)O?tf|,  Teacher  (jfthe 
Church  at  MaUcn  in  N.  £. 


Ji^e  f  ifrti  €DiriOn.  enU-ged  with 

6Vr;f);r«re  ana  Marginal  Nules.  . 


Alb  J  7  3  5.  Bectufe  he  httsh  aff»\nxtd  a  day  in  the  rehich  ^ft 

H.-  h»:lj  Or.:M:f(d.  -,— - 
V!.it   2.4,;io,   jind  :hin  jka^  4ppiar  tht  Sign  if  she  Ssp  tf 
Man  1,1  heMven^flrtd  [hi/tjhall  all  tht  Tr. bis  of  the  etrtb 
Mourn,  .tnd  thiy  ftsujie-  the  ie«  cj  Wi«   (aning   in  the 

,  d«uds  oj  heaven  ^itjt  fosctr  end  ^rgnf  glcry. 


ROSrON:    Piinted  by  B  Green,  and  J  Aii'n, 
for  Benjatnio-Blici,  -^t  hh  Stop  urc'er  che 
Wert   End  of  the  Towr-H.-u(c.   1701, 


TITLE  PAGE,   "  T/IE  DAY  OF  DOOM^ 


MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY  59 

Fightings  (without  Shedding  of  Blood)  in  the  Baptist 
Church  in  Maiden"  written  by  John  Sprague,  one  of  the 
members,  whose  famous  couplet  is  also  recalled  : 

Dr.  Goss,  he  mounted  his  hoss, 

And  put  his  wife  behind  him  ; 
He's  gone  to  Cape  Cod,  so  far  from  God 

'T would  puzzle  the  devil  to  find  him. 

Thank  the  photostat  for  making  possible  such  an  exhi- 
bition as  the  one  at  Maiden.  Under  the  cold  mercury 
vapor  light  in  the  photographic  rooms  of  the  Massachusetts 
Historical  Society,  the  Widener  Librar}-  and  at  least  one 
commercial  establishment  in  Boston  you  can  now  for  a  few 
cents  get  a  photographic  facsimile  of  a  document  or  printed 
page  of  which  a  print  from  a  glass  negative  would  cost  you 
at  least  a  couple  of  dollars. 

Only  a  few,  for  example,  of  the  precious  source  books 
of  early  Maiden  history  are  owned  in  Maiden.  They 
are  scattered  among  libraries  and  historical  associations 
throughout  the  land.  With  aid  from  the  photostat,  how- 
ever, it  is  easy  and  inexpensive  to  bring  together  with  con- 
siderable completeness  reproductions  that  supplement  the 
original  papers. 

A    LUGUBRIOUS    "  BEST     SELLER  " 

Without  the  photostat,  indeed,  it  could  hardly  have 
been  visualized  to  Maiden  folks  what  a  really  great  poet, 
estimated  in  terms  of  popularity,  rather  than  of  artistry, 
their  Rev.  Mr.  Wigglesworth  was.  The  town's  first  poet, 
from  all  accounts,  came  near  being  the  only  one  (despite 
the  claims  of  the  versifier  just  quoted)  down  to  the  present 
generation,  in  which  Sylvester  Baxter  has  been  a  resident, 
and  as  he  lived  so  long  ago  it  is  quite  possible  that  there 
are  simple  people  lately  come  to  Edgeworth  or  Maplewood 


6o  MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY 

who  have  never  heard  of  him.  No  statue  of  him,  certainly, 
looms  above  the  flivvers  and  dogcarts  at  the  square ;  no 
portrait  of  him  glooms  downward  from  the  library  walls. ^ 
Here,  where  the  first  American  poet,  a  graduate  of  Har- 
vard in  the  class  of  165 1,  penned  his  immortal  solemnities 
no  memorial  in  breathing  bronze  or  imperishable  granite 
has  been  created  by  a  later  generation  grateful  for  his  sub- 
lime "  Meditations  concerning  the  Necessity,  End  and  Use- 
fulness of  Afflictions."  But  at  least,  thanks  to  Mr.  Turner's 
public  spirit  in  forming  and  showing  such  a  collection, 
young  Maiden  may  now  get  an  idea  of  the  vogue  accorded 
by  antique  New  England  for  fully  two  centuries  to  the 
graceful  lines  of  the  sweet  singer  of  infant  damnation. 

For  this,  to  one  casual  visitor,  is  perhaps  the  most 
astonishing  revelation  inthe  whole  exhibition  of  Maldeniana, 
the  number  of  editions  which  the  "  Day  of  Doom  "  went 
through  between  1662,  when  eighteen  hundred  copies  of  it 
were  printed,  down  to  1867,  when  the  American  News 
Company  of  New  York  reprinted  it  with  evident  hope  that 
it  might  take  rank  among  the  six  best  sellers  of  the  recon- 
struction period.  Bibliographers,  of  course,  have  long 
known  about  the  persistent  popularity  of  this  book  of 
gloom ;  to  the  unlettered,  on  the  other  hand,  who  had 
thought  of  Wigglesworth  merely  as  a  long  forgotten 
rhymester,  nearly  contemporary  with  Milton,  it  comes  with 
surprise  to  discover  that  he  was  still  being  printed  for  sale 
to  simple-minded  country  folks  in  the  days  when  his  own 
grandfather's  attic  was  filling  up  with  the  publications  of 
Robert  Bonner  &  Sons. 

This,  of  course,  is  one  of  the  things  which  the  photo- 
stat has  permitted  Mr.  Turner  to  do,  to  spread  out  in  a  long 

'  Michael  Wigglesworth's  grave,  with  a  headstone  which  describes  him  as  '"Mauldon's 
phisitian  for  soul  and  body  two,"  is  in  the  Bell  Rock  Cemeterj'.  An  appreciative  biog- 
raphy of  the  poet  appears  in  Mr.  Corey's  History  of  Maiden. 


MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY  6l 

array  the  title  pages  of  many  editions  of  this  "  poetical 
description  of  the  great  and  last  judgment."  The  biblio- 
graphical facts  about  the  various  copies  have  already  been 
set  forth  before  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society  with 
much  circumstance  by  Dr.  Samuel  A.  Green,  who  quotes 
Sibley,  in  his  "Harvard  Graduates,"  as  saying:  "This 
work  represented  the  theology  of  the  day,  and  fora  century, 
with  the  exception,  perhaps,  of  the  Bible,  was  more  popu- 
lar throughout  New  England  than  any  other  that  can  be 
named.  It  passed  through  several  editions  in  book  form, 
besides  being  printed  on  broadsides  and  hawked  about  the 
country.  As  late  as  the  early  part  of  the  present  century 
many  persons  could  repeat  the  whole  or  large  portions 
of  it." 

"Collectors,  therefore,  know  all  about  these  editions, 
some  of  which  are  preserved  in  but  a  single  copy ;  but  it  is 
a  safe  guess  that  many  people  in  Maiden  and  other  northen 
suburbs  have  had  no  idea  until  now  what  a  poet  amongst 
them  once  plied  his  goose  quill,  inditing  such  word  pic- 
tures as  : 

Wallowing  in  all  kinds  of  sin  vile  wretches  lay  secure  ; 

The  best  of  Men  had  scarcely  then  their  Lamps  kept  in  good  ure, 

Virgins  unwise,  who  through  disguise  amongst  the  best  were 

numbered, 
Had  clos'd  their  eyes  ;  yea,  and  the  wise  through  sloth  and  frailty 

slumber'd. 

Both  "The  Day  of  Doom"  and  "Meat  out  of  the 
Eater"  are  plentifully  represented  in  the  rows  of  title  pages 
at  Maiden.  Of  the  former  poem  there  are  pages  from  the 
Massachusetts  Historical  Society's  copy  (the  title  page 
lacking)  of  the  1666  edition,  probably  printed  by  Samuel 
Green  at  Cambridge  ;  the  Boston  Public  Library  copy  of 
the  third  edition,  1773  ;  the  same  institution's  fifth  edition, 


62  MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY 

1701  ;  the  Frederick  Lewis  Gay  copy,  of  1701 ,  which  looks 
identical  with  the  foregoing  until  you  note  near  the  bottom 
of  t!ie  page  that  one  was  printed  for  Nicholas  Buttolph  and 
the  other  for  Benjamin  Eliot ;  a  Boston  Public  Library 
edition  of  171 1  ;  the  William  H.  Winship  copy,  the  sixth 
edition,  1715  ;  the  John  W.  Farwell  copy,  sixth  edition, 
1715  ;  Boston  Public  Library's  seventh  edition,  1751  ; 
Massachusetts  Historical  Society's  unique  copy  of  the  1774 
edition  :  New  York  Public  Library's  copy  of  1811  edition, 
published  at  Newburyport  by  E.  Little  &  Company  ;  the 
1828  edition,  published  by  Charles  Ewer,  Boston  ;  finally, 
the  American  News  Company's  ornate  outgiving  of  1867. 

IN    RE    "  MEAT    OUT    OF    THE    EATER  " 

Just  why  "Meat  out  of  the  Eater  "  did  not  survive 
through  as  many  editions  as  did  "  The  Day  of  Doom  "  is  a 
problem  for  some  student  of  the  morbid  psychology  of  our 
immediate  ancestors  ;  it  was  certainly  quite  as  bad  poetry 
as  the  other,  if  that  was  really  a  recommendation.  The 
fact,  at  all  events,  is  shown  in  the  smaller  number  of  title 
pages  at  Maiden ;  a  reproduction  from  the  Frederick 
Lewis  Gay  copy  of  1689  ;  the  John  W.  Farwell  and  Massa- 
chusetts Historical  Society  fifth  edition  copies,  1717-  This 
limited  display  makes  it  evident  even  to  young  Finstein 
that  the  poetic  champion  of  seventeenth  century  New  Eng- 
land was  of  those  who  could  not  come  back.  He  was 
essentially,  it  would  appear,  a  one-book  author.  He  made 
his  great  hit  by  telling  the  conscientious  young  person  of 
the  period  that  her  "  best  enjoyments  are  but  Trash  and 
Toyes,"  but  he  could  not  repeat. 

Even  to  list  the  other  literary  curiositities  in  some  way 
related  to  Maiden  which  Mr.  Turner  has  amassed  and 
placed  in  this  exhibition  would  require  the  space  limits  of  a 


MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY  63 

fat  brochure.     One  is  not  through  with  Michael  Wiggles- 
worth    after    reading   his   delightfully    lugubrious    poems. 
You  must  then  look  into  a  treatise  wherein  is  "A  Faithful 
Man  Described  and  Rewarded  "  by  that  most  voluminous 
author,   the   Puritan  priest  of  Barrett  Wendell's  especial 
adminiration,  the  Rev.  Cotton  Mather.      It  is  apparently 
established  that  on  June  24,  1705,  Cotton  Mather,  the  great 
leader  of  the  Bay  State   theocracy,   unhitched  his  horse, 
crossed  over  on  the  Penny  Ferr}'  from  Charlestown  and  rode 
over  the  marshes  to  "  Maldon,"  where  he  preached  the  fun- 
eral sermon  of  his  literary  confrere,  Wigglesworth.     This 
sermon,  as  a  photostat  from  the  Boston  Public  Library  copy 
shows,  was  afterwards   published  in   the   guise  of  "  Some 
Observable  Passages  in  the  Life  and  Death  of  Mr.  Michael 
Wigglesworth  late  pastor  of  Maldon,  who  Rested  from  his 
Labours,   on    the  Lords-Day,  June    loth,    1705.      In    the 
Seventy  Fourth  3^ear  of  his  Age.     And  Memorials  of  Piety 
Left  behind  him  among  his  Written  Experiences."  Along 
with  the  title  page  goes  a  first  page  of  the  preface  of  the 
sermon  in  which  Cotton  Mather,  the  son  of  Increase  Mather, 
congratulates    his  hearers  that  their  deceased   pastor  still 
speaks  to  them  "by  his  Divine  Poems,  which  are  (I  sup- 
pose) in  many  of  your  houses."     Very  likely  the  gentle 
humorist,  too,  of  the  "  Magnalia  "  is  author  of  the  epitaph  of 
"  the  excellent  Wigglesworth  "  appearing  on  the  last  page  of 
the  William  H.  Winship  copy  : 

His  Pen  did  once  Meat  from  the  Eater  fetch  ; 
And  now  he's  gone  beyond  the  Eater's  reach. 
His  Body  once  so  Thin,  was  next  to  None  ; 
From  hence  he's  to  Unbodied  Spirits  flown. 
Once  his  rare  skill  did  all  Diseases  heal ; 
And  he  does  nothing  now  uneasj  feel : 
He  to  his  Paradise  is  joyful  come ; 
And  waits  with  joy  to  see  his  Day  of  Doom 


64  MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY 

Much  more  of  the  churchianity  of  early  Maiden  is 
impressed  on  the  modern-minded  visitor  as  he  looks  over 
Mr.  Turner's  title  pages  and  other  reminders  of  the  past. 
A  community  whose  first  settlers  were  so  keen  to  have  a 
meeting-house  with  a  settled  minister  that  they  incurred  a 
fine  from  the  Great  and  General  Court  for  moving  to  that 
end  "  without,  if  not  against,  the  consent  of  the  neighboring 
churches,  and  allowance  of  the  magistrates,"  was  obviously 
due  to  remain  religious  for  many  decades.  Many  souvenirs 
of  this  disposition  have  survived,  and  it  surely  is  stimulating 
to  the  young  people  of  the  present  to  read  on  one  of  the 
striking  title  pages  of  the  exhibition  of  "  Early  Piety 
Encouraged,  a  Discourse  occasioned  by  the  joyful  and 
triumphant  Death  of  a  Young  Woman  of  Maiden,  who  died 
of  the  Throat-Distemper,  Sept.  6,  1738.  Aetat  21."  This 
homily,  it  should  be  added,  was  one  of  the  literary  efforts 
of  Joseph  Emerson,  V.  D.  M.,  whose  ordination,  as  is 
learned  from  the  Boston  Public  Library  copy,  "  ex  Libris 
Nathan  Bucknam,  1722,"  was  preached  at  Maiden,  Oct. 
31,  1721.  Several  other  printed  exhortations  of  the  Rev. 
Emerson  are  included,  and  then,  of  the  year  1767,  is  noted 
a  junior  clergyman's  pious  tribute  to  his  father :  "  An 
extract  from  a  late  sermon  on  the  death  of  the  Rev.  Mr. 
Joseph  Emerson,  pastor  of  the  First  Church  in  Maiden,  who 
died  very  suddenly  on  Monday  evening,  July  13,  1767,  in 
the  68th  year  of  his  age.  Delivered  at  Maiden,  by  Joseph 
Emerson,  A.  M.,  pastor  of  the  Church  at  Pepperell." 

Rev.  Peter  Thacher's  ordination  on  Sept.  19,  1770; 
his  three  illustrious  and  inspiring  sermons  of  October, 
1782,  in  which  he  proved  "that  the  Punishment  of  the 
finally  Impenitent  shall  be  eternal ;  Or,  that  all  Men 
shall  not  be  saved ;"  his  plea  for  the  minister's  right 
to    a    life    job    under    the    title    of    "  Observations    upon 


MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY  65 

the  Present  State  of  Clergy  of  New  England,  with 
Strictures  Upon  the  Power  of  Dismissing  Them,  Usurped 
by  some  Churches  " ;  his  reply  to  the  strictures  of  "  Mr. 
J.  S.,  a  Layman"  upon  the  foregoing  "observation";  the 
beginnings  of  the  invasion  of  the  so  called  "popular  sects" 
as  evidenced  by  the  Rev.  David  Osgood's  pamphlet  on 
"  The  Validity  of  Baptism  by  Sprinkling  and  the  Right  of 
Infants  to  that  Ordinance.  Supported  and  Defended  in 
Two  Discourses  Delivered  at  Maiden  in  the  Beginning  of 
the  year  1804,  occasioned  by  the  Setting  up  of  a  Baptist 
Society  in  that  Place";  the  funeral  sermon  of  Captain 
Jonathan  Barrett,  who  died  November  18,  1822,  as  preached 
by  Rev.  Aaron  Green  of  the  Congregational  Church ;  A 
Thanksgiving  Day  sermon  of  November  27,  1828,  by 
Sylvanus  Cobb,  father  of  the  artists  Darius  and  Cyrus 
Cobb,  the  former  of  whom  is  still  with  us  ;  the  beginnings 
of  the  temperance  movement  in  Maiden,  of  Greenwood 
Cemetery  and  several  other  entertaining  titles. 

A    THRILLING    MURDER    TRIAL 

Then,  to  show  that  religion  did  not  exclusively  occupy 
the  Maiden  mind  the  Turner  collection  includes  a  few  pages 
covering  other  subjects. 

Everybody  loves  murders,  of  course,  and  as  a  conces- 
sion to  that  taste,  as  strong  a  century  ago  as  it  has  shown 
itself  during  the  Tucker,  Phelps  and  Richeson  cases  of 
recent  memory,  behold  among  the  churchly  documents 
"The  Trial  of  Alpheus  and  Samuel  Angier,  before  the 
Supreme  Judicial  Court  of  the  Commonwealth  of  Massa- 
chusetts upon  an  Indictment  for  the  Murder  of  Nichols 
John  Crevay,  an  Indian,  committed  November  23,  1813, 
Containing  the  Evidence  at  large,  the  Arguments  of  the 
Solicitor  General  and  of  the  Counsel  for  the  Prisoners,  the 


66  MALDEN     HISTORICAI.     SOCIETY 

Charge  of  the  Hon.  Judge  Sevvall  to  the  Traverse  Jury  and 
his  Address  on  pronouncing  Sentence  of  Death."  This 
record  of  one  of  the  classic  murders  committed  on  the 
shores  of  Spot  Pond  needs  only  to  be  supplemented  by 
some  data  of  the  Gould  murder,  which  occurred  under 
Bear  Hill,  to  convince  the  youthful  Maldenite  that  there  is 
something  fascinating  in  local  history  after  all. 

So  much,  perhaps  too  much,  for  the  work  of  the 
photostat  in  restoring  old  Maiden  to  the  consciousness  of 
the  greater  Boston  of  to-day.  In  another  long  case  are 
original  documents  ranging  from  deed  of  the  seventeenth 
centur}'  to  pamphlets  and  newspapers  of  the  middle  nine- 
teenth, and  all  in  some  way  bearing  upon  the  story  of  this 
suburban  town. 

Among  pen-written  curiosities  which  the  collector 
acquired  some  time  ago,  and  which  he  now  shows  for  the 
first  time,  is  the  record  book  of  the  Maiden  Bridge  Com- 
pany, one  of  the  many  toll-gathering  corporations  in  which 
wealthy  Bostonians  of  the  late  eighteenth  and  early  nine- 
teenth centuries  invested  their  money  with  reasonable  expec- 
tation of  getting  ten  per  cent. 

The  standard  histories  of  Maiden  give  the  facts  of  the 
opening  of  a  bridge  in  place  of  the  Penny  Ferry  at 
Winnisimmet,  on  Sept.  29,  1787.  It  is  on  record,  too, 
that  the  people  of  Medford,  through  whose  array  of  tav- 
erns travelers  passed  from  Boston  to  and  from  the  North 
Shore  towns,  were  quite  furious  when  this  deflection  of 
profitable  traffic  was  proposed.  "Fools,"  "  Maiden  miser- 
ables "  and "  ignoramuses "  were  epithets  hurled  at  the 
petitioners,  as  by  the  Rev.  Dr  Osgood,  inveighing  against 
"  distracted  creatures  "  who  "  leave  their  corn  unhoed,  and 
their  grass  not  cut,  to  carry  petitions  for  a  bridge  "  in  con- 
sequence of  which  "  their  families  next  winter  will  have  no 
bread  and  their  cattle  no  hay." 


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Despite  this  jeremiad  the  bridge  was  duly  opened  with 
the  customary  potent  festivities  of  the  period  and  a  new 
connection  with  the  Newburyport  turnpike  was  made  possi- 
ble by  way  of  Black  x\nn's  Corner. 

The  complete  records  of  the  management  of  this 
bridge  company  from  March  8,  1787,  to  April  25,  1808, 
are  in  the  book  now  shown  at  Maiden.  The  list  of  incor- 
porators discloses  some  of  the  best  names  of  the  Boston  of 
that  day.  Thomas  Russell  was  president.  Among,  his 
associates  were  William  Tudor,  Ezra  Sargent,  John  Low- 
ell, Aaron  Dexter,  John  Haskins,  Jr.,  and  others,  proud  of 
purse  and  lineage. 

The  votes  and  resolves  of  this  record  book  appear  to 
be  mostly  formal.  Now  and  then,  however,  there  is  a 
touch  of  human  interest  as  when  the  h.  c.  of  1.  shows  itself 
responsible  for  an  entry  of  Jan.  2,  1796  :  "A  petition  from 
the  Toll-gatherers  being  read,  whereupon.  Voted,  That 
thirty-five  dollars  be  granted  Benj.  Calder  &  twenty-five 
dollars  to  Samuel  S.  Sargent  on  consideration  of  the  high 
price  of  necessaries  of  Life." 

Several  other  record  books  of  moment  are  open  at 
characteristic  pages.  One  of  Mr.  Turner's  amusing  finds 
is  the  constitution  by-laws  and  minutes  of  the  Washington 
Guards,  long  the  crack  militia  company  of  Maiden. 
Under  date  of  June  13,  1843,  occurs  the  entry:  "Voted 
to  go  to  Charlestown  on  the  i6th  of  June,  provided  we  have 
an  Invitation."  The  invitation  must  have  been  forthcoming, 
for  under  date  of  June  17  it  is  noted  that  "Company  met 
agreeable  to  orders  and  attended  the  Dedication  of  the 
Monument  at  Charlestown." 


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WHY   ABERJONA? 

By  Sylvester  Baxter,  a  member  of  the  Society. 


In  looking  up  some  data  in  early  local  history  I  have  just 
come  across  something  that  seems  to  throw  a  light  upon  one 
of  our  old  geographical  names  whose  origin  has  always 
puzzled  me  and  which,  so  far  as  I  know,  appears  to  be 
unknown.  The  Mystic  river — which  geologically  has  a 
peculiar  interest  as  having  in  the  preglacial  period  actually 
been  the  Merrimac,  carrying  the  greater  stream  by  a  short 
cut  from  near  Lowell  to  Massachusetts  Bay — has,  since  the 
first  settlements,  borne  two  names  in  different  parts  of  its 
course,  altho  the  entire  valley  has  been  known  as  that  of 
the  Mystic.  From  its  confluence  with  the  Charles,  near 
the  Navy  Yard,  up  through  its  tidal  reaches,  or  what  were 
tidal  until  the  building  of  the  dam  and  locks  at  Medford, 
up  to  the  Mystic  Lakes,  it  has  been  called  the  Mystic. 
Above  the  lakes,  from  Wilmington  down  through  Woburn 
and  Winchester,  it  appears  to  have  been  always  known  as 
the  Aberjona,  a  name  that  is  found  in  the  early  records  of 
Woburn.  Since  most  of  our  names  of  rivers,  ponds,  hills, 
etc.,  are  of  Indian  origin,  it  has  usually  been  assumed  to 
be  an  aboriginal  designation.  To  many,  however,  the 
name,  with  its  "jona",  has  suggested  a  Scriptural  deriva- 
tion. And  since  many  place-names  have  come  from  those 
of  persons  living  in  the  neighborhood  it  has  also  been  some- 
what fantastically  suggested  that  perhaps  the  name  is  a 
corruption  of  "  Abbie  Jones'  river,"  just  as  the  Greater  New 
York  borough  of  the  Bronx  derives  its  picturesque  name 


MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY  69 

from  an  old-timer  named  Broncks.    But  there  is  no  evidence 
in  behalf  of  either  of  these  assumptions. 

Just  now,  however,  having  had  occasion  to  look  up 
some  facts  in  relation  to  the  famous  expedition  of  the  three 
Sprague  brothers,  Ralph,  Richard  and  William,  pioneers 
in  the  settlement  of  Charlestown,  across  country  through 
the  woods  from  Salem,  I  find  that  in  the  Charlestown 
Records  it  is  related  that  this  party  "lighted  of  a  place 
situate  and  lying  on  the  north  side  of  Charles  river,  full  of 
Indians,  called  Aberginians."  Often  as  I  had  read  that 
account,  I  had  never  before  attached  any  particular  signi- 
ficance to  the  name  of  those  Indians  other  than  that  it 
seemed  so  different  from  Algonquin  nomenclature  in  gen- 
eral, except  that  it  was  somewhat  suggestive  of  "Virgini- 
ans" and  might  possibly  have  come  from  the  circumstance 
that  New  England  was  orginally  regarded  as  a  part  of 
Viriginia, 

Now  a  place  name  is  often  derived  from  the  name  of 
the  people  who  live  there,  or  the  name  of  the  people 
may  come  from  that  of  the  place.  We  are  here  informed 
that  the  Indians  of  that  neighborhood  were  called  "  Aber- 
ginians." And  is  there  not  a  striking  resemblance  between 
that  name  and  "  Aberjona"?  And  in  face  of  this  extra- 
ordinary resemblance  is  it  not  reasonable  to  infer  that  the 
name  of  those  Indians  came  either  from  that  of  the  river 
on  whose  banks  they  lived,  or  that  the  river  took  its  name 
from  the  Indians  ?  It  would  require  only  a  transition  from 
a  single  vowel  to  make  "Aberginians  "  identical  with 
"  Aberjonians."  Hence  it  seems  quite  natural  to  assume 
that  Aberjona  was  originally  the  name  of  the  entire  river, 
from  its  source  down  to  the  sea,  instead  of  being  limited 
to  the  section  above  the  lakes  as  at  present — the  lakes,  or 
ponds,  being  simply  slack-water  and  a  tidal  basin,  respec- 
tively, in  the  river. 


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In  the  same  Charlestown  records  occurs  the  following 
passage  describing  the  Charlestown  or  Mishawum,  penin- 
sular as  the  first  settlers  found  it :  "  Upon  surveying,  they 
found  it  was  a  neck  of  land,  generally  full  of  stately  tim- 
ber, as  was  the  main,  and  the  land  lying  on  the  east  side 
of  the  river  called  Mistick  river  (from  the  farm  Mr. 
Cradock's  servants  had  planted,  called  Mistick,  which  this 
river  led  up  unto)  and  indeed  generally  all  the  country 
round  about  was  an  uncouth  wilderness,  full  of  timber." 

The  name  "  Mystic,"  as  applied  to  this  river,  has  been 
derived  by  some  students  of  history  not  from  the  English 
word,  but  has  been  held  to  be  of  Indian  origin,  coming 
from  the  Algonquin  "  Mistuck,"  signifying  "  great  tidal 
river,"  or  estuary.  But  according  to  this  early  record  the 
name  of  the  river  came  from  that  of  the  Cradock  farm  in 
Medford.  In  that  event  it  might  naturally  have  been  lim- 
ited to Jhe  lower  reaches  of  the  stream,  taking  the  place  of 
the  original  name,  the  Aberjona,  which  was  retained  for 
the  upper  portion.  Altogether,  the  remarkable  likeness  of 
Aberjona  and  Aberginian  seems  to  afford  the  most  rational 
solution  for  the  origin  of  the  name  of  one  of  the  most  beau- 
tiful of  our  little  rivers.  And  would  it  be  altogether  fan- 
tastic to  suggest  a  possible  relationship  between  the  word 
"  Aberginians  "  and  "  aborigines  "? 


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A   SCRAP    OF    PAPER 
OR,    WHY   JOSEPH    HILLS    WAS    ARRESTED. 

By  the  President  of  the  Society. 


Had  not  Rev.  Jose  Glover  and  Deputy  Governor  John 
Humphrey  been  fellow-passengers  on  the  "Planter,"  in 
1634,  it  might  never  have  happened.  The  celebrated  case 
to  which  the  writ  here  presented  refers  was  tried  at  the 
session  of  the  Essex  Quarterly  Court  at  Salem  25  :g  -.1662, 
the  judges  being  the  Worshipful  Mr.  Simon  Bradstreet, 
Major-General  Daniel  Denison,  and  Major  William 
Hathorne  (ancestor  of  Nathaniel  Hawthorne).  The  writ, 
bearing  the  autograph  signature  of  Hillyard  Verin,  long 
the  clerk  of  the  court,  related  to  the  sale  of  a  windmill  of 
Mr.  John  Humfries,  a  farm  in  Lynn  and  a  barn.  The 
Humfrey  farm  in  Lynn  included  what  is  now  known  as 
the  "Paradise"  section  of  Swampscott,  and  eventually 
passed  through  the  hands  of  Lady  Deborah  Moody,  Daniel 
King  (hence  the  name  of  King's  Beach,  a  metropolitan 
reservation)  his  wife's  brother  Shubal  Walker,  the  Burrill 
family,  and  the  late  Enoch  Redington  Mudge.  John 
Humphrey,  of  Dorchester,  England,  was  the  Treasurer 
and  the  first  Deputy-governor  and  for  nine  years  an  assist- 
ant of  the  Massachusetts  Bay  Colony,  having  previously 
been  in  the  Dorchester  company  of  Cape  Ann  and  Salem. 
He  married  Susan,  a  daughter  of  the  Earl  of  Lincoln, 
who  was  a  sister  of  Lady  Arbella,  wife  of  Isaac  Johnson 
of  Boston,  who  came  over  with  Winthrop  in  1630  in  the 
Arbella,   named  for  his  wife.      Humphrey  came  in   1634 


72  MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY 

and  settled  on  his  Lynn  farm,  which  extended  from  Wind- 
mill Hill  to  Forest  River,  in  Salem,  and  which  he  called 
"  Swampscot."  A  house  appears  to  have  stood  on  what  is 
now  Nahant  street,  in  Lynn.  In  1641,  Lord  Say  attempted 
to  form  a  plantation  at  New  Providence,  in  the  Bahamas, 
with  Mr.  Humfrey  as  Governor.  The  scheme  failed 
through  the  island  falling,  for  a  time,  under  the  control  of 
Spain.  Meanwhile,  he  had  been  active  in  the  court  of 
assistants,  but  his  wife  longed  for  the  comforts  of  her 
English  home  and  so  he  sold  the  farm  to  Lady  Deborah 
Moody  and  went  back.     In  1661  he  died. 

John  Humphrey  being  dead,  the  writ  was  brought 
by  Mr.  Joseph  Humphries  and  Mr.  Edmond  Batter,  his 
administrators,  against  Mr.  Edward  Collins  and  Mr. 
Joseph  Hills,  executors  of  the  will  of  Mr.  Henry  Dunster, 
deceased.  The  verdict  was  for  the  plaintiff,  the  farm  to 
be  delivered  up,  and  the  defendant  to  pay  "  for  want  of  the 
barn  and  milne."  It  was  appealed  to  the  next  Court  of 
Assistants,  Mr.  Joseph  Hills  and  Mr.  Walter  Price  being 
bound.  The  records  of  that  court  thus  far  printed  do  not 
mention  the  case.  The  plaintiff  demanded:  "For  the 
wind  milne,  100  li ;  barn,  30  li ;  seven  cattle,  50  li ;  two 
oxen,  four  cows  and  one  mare,  50  li ;  total,  180  li.  It 
appears  Mr.  Humphrey  mortgaged  his  farm  for  the  pay- 
ment of  a  debt  of  80  li  :oo  :oo. 

In  1662  the  farm  passed  into  the  hands  of  Francis 
Ingalls  (son  of  Edmond  Ingalls  the  earliest  settler  in 
Lynn)  and  Mr.  Collins  copied  from  Mr.  Dunster's  book, 
records  of  several  payments  by  Mr.  Ingalls  on  the  prop- 
erty, some  in  money,  some  in  flax,  some  in  provisions 
and  once,  a  cow.  The  portion  of  the  farm  which  appears 
closely  connected  with  the  case  extended  from  Windmill 
(or  Sagamore)  Hill  in  Lynn  to  Mr.  Humphrey's  Paradise 


MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY  73 

property  above  referred  to,  and  now  includes  by  far  the 
wealthiest  residental  section  of  Lynn.  It  had  long  been 
in  the  occupancy  of  Francis  Ingalls,  he  having  leased  it  of 
Mr.  Dunster  and  Mr.  Increase  Nowell  of  Charlestown 
(whose  farm  comprised  the  Edgeworth  section  of  Maiden) 
in  1747.  Evidence  in  the  case  showed  that  when  Mr. 
Dunster  sold  the  mill,  it  was  in  good  condition.  It  was 
pulled  down  and  taken  elsewhere,  the  result  being  that 
Lynn  people  had  testified  they  had  to  go  as  far  as  Salem 
to  have  their  corn  ground  until  a  tidewater  mill  could  be 
built.  The  mill  was  bought  by  Samuel  Bennett,  who 
lived  in  that  part  of  Lynn  (now  Saugus)  near  the  Melrose 
line,  parts  of  his  farm  having  been  at  one  time  or  another 
included  in  three  counties,  Suffolk,  Essex  and  Middlesex, 
and  in  Boston,  Chelsea,  Revere,  Lynn,  Saugus,  Maiden 
and  Melrose.  Sagamore  Hill,  where  the  mill  stood,  was 
the  home  of  the  sachems  who  long  ruled  in  this  vicinity  — 
Nanapashamet,  Wanoquaham,  Montowampate  and  Wene- 
poykin. 

Henry  Dunster  was  the  first  president  of  Harvard 
College,  who  welcomed  into  his  Cambridge  house  the  first 
printing-press  set  up  in  America,  brought  over  by  Rev. 
Jose  Glover,  who  died  on  the  passage,  in  1638.  Later, 
Dunster  married  Glover's  widow,  Elizabeth. 

Rev.  Jose  Glover,  called  by  Littlefield  the  "  Father  of 
the  Massachusetts  Press  "  was  from  Surrey,  in  England, 
and  being  disciplined  for  non-conformity  came  to  this  coun- 
try, doubtless  in  the  "Planter,"  of  which  he  owned  one- 
third,  in  1634,  coming  that  year  into  possession  of  the 
present  site  of  the  Ames  Building,  Washington  and  Court 
streets,  upon  which  he  built  a  dwelling-house.  He  soon 
returned  to  England,  spent  some  months  raising  funds  for 
the  new  college  at  Cambridge,  of  which  he  expected  to  be 


74  MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY 

made  president,  and,  with  his  family,  embarked  on  his 
fatal  voyage.  Two  of  his  daughters  married  sons  of  Gov. 
Winthrop,  Adam,  and  Deane,  and  after  living  for  a  time  in 
the  Boston  home,  his  widow  bought  the  palatial  house  of 
Gov.  Haynes  (who  had  moved  to  Hartford)  in  Cambridge, 
and  in  1642  married  President  Dunster.  Until  her  death 
in  1656,  Dunster,  with  Mr.  Nowell  and  William  Hibbins, 
managed  the  great  Glover  estate. 

Mr.  Dunster  denied  the  validity  of  infant  baptism, 
which  led  to  his  dismissal  from  the  college,  where  he  had 
taught  Michael  Wiggles  worth,  among  other  distinguished 
pupils.  Harvard  College  could  do  little  for  Dunster  by 
way  of  support,  and  there  are  few  more  pathetic  appeals 
than  Dunster's,  that  the  Harvard  authorities  permit  him  to 
remain  in  the  president's  house  for  a  time,  rather  than 
drive  him  forth  in  the  dead  of  winter. 

Of  course  the  writ  was  served  in  Maiden,  because  it 
was  the  home  of  Joseph  Hills,  one  of  Maiden's  founders, 
as  Edward  Collins  was  one  of  the  founders  of  Cambridge. 
The  Dunster  will,  of  which  these  men  were  executors, 
speaks  of  "our  sister,  Mrs.  Hills,"  and  this  has  led  to  the 
belief,  until  recent  years,  that  Rose,  Joseph  Hills'  second 
wife  was  Dunster's  sister,  but  it  is  now  known  that  her  name 
was  Rose  Clark.  Mr.  Corey  believed  that  Helen  Atkinson, 
Mr.  Hills'  third  wife,  was  a  sister  of  Elizabeth  (Glover) 
Dunster,  but  the  latter's  name  was  Elizabeth  Harris. 
Joseph  Hills,  John  Dunton  tells  us,  was  a  contributor  to 
the  Harvard  library,  which  must  have  been  stored  in  the 
original  Harvard  building,  built  by  Job  Lane  of  Maiden, 
and  it  is  well  known  that  Mr.  Hills  was  under  suspicion  of 
sharing  Mr.  Dunster's  theological  views  (see  Michael 
Wigglesworth's  list  of  Hills  heresies  in  Mr.  Corey's  his- 
tory).    Those    interested   in   following    up  the  story  con- 


MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY  75 

nected  with  the  writ  here  presented  in  fac-simile  (the  orgi- 
nal  being  the  property  of  Mr.  William  G.  A.  Turner)  will 
find  a  review  of  the  evidence  in  Volume  III  of  the  records 
of  the  Essex  Quarterly  Court,  pages  9-11  ;  and  in  Suffolk 
Deeds  Lib.  I  p.  66  the  deed  of  the  mill,  signed  in  1645  by 
Nowell,  Hibbins  and  Dunster,  to  Bennett,  for  60  pounds  ; 
also  the  acknowledgement  before  Gov.Winthrop  by  Bennett 
(p.  77)  of  the  purchase  of  the  mill  from  these  men,  as  the 
foeffees  in  trust  for  the  children  of  Mr.  Glover,  to  be 
"payed  in  three  several  payments."  The  annals  of  Lynn 
show  that  in  1653  Samuel  Bennett,  carpenter,  sold  his 
corn  mill  to  Thomas  Wheeler  for  220  pounds.  Ten  years 
later,  Joseph  Humphrey,  who  brought  the  suit,  disposed  of 
his  farm  "where  Francis  Ingalls  now  lives"  by  will. 


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MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCETY. 

Organized,  March  8,  1886. 
Incorporated  February  7,  1887. 


President. 
CHARLES   EDWARD   MANN 

Vice  Presidents. 

GEORGE   LAMBERT   GOULD 
ROSWELL    RAYMOND    ROBINSON 
WILLIAM   GEORGE    ARTHUR   TURNER 

Secretary-  Treasurer. 
GEORGE   WALTER   CHAMBERLAIN 


Directors. 

Charles  H.  Adams  Charles  E.  Mann 

Sylvester  Baxter  Roswell  R.  Robinson 

George  W.  Chamberlain  Godfrey  Ryder,  M.  D. 

George  H.  Fall  William  G.  A.  Turner 

George  L.  Gould  Walter  K.  Watkins 

Arthur  H.  Wellman 


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COMMITTEES,   191 7-18. 


George  L.  Gould 


Finance. 

William  G.  Merrill 
Arthur  W.  Walker 


Charles  E.  Mann 
Wm.  G.  a.  Turner 


Publication. 

Sylvester  Baxter 
George  W.  Chamberlain 
Arthur  H.  Wellman 


Membership. 


George  W.  Chamberlain 
Charles  H.  Adams 


Thomas  S.  Rich 

Mrs.  Adeline  A.  Nichols 


Genealogies. 


Walter  Kendall  Watkins 
William   Brown  Snow 


Mrs.  Alfred  H.  Burlen 
Mrs.  Augusta  R.  Brigham 


Social. 


Mrs.  Mary  Greenleaf  Turner 
Mrs.  J.  Parker  Swett 


Mrs.  Mary  Lawrence  Mann 
Mrs.  Annie  Dexter  Walker 


Camera. 


Eugene  A.  Perry 
Peter  Graffam 


J.  Lewis  Wightman 
Richard  Greenleaf  Turner 


Library  and  Collections. 

William  G.  A.  Turner  Dr.  Godfrey  Ryder 

Herbert  W.  Fison 


78  MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY 


BY-LAWS 

OF    THE 

MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY. 

[Adopted  at  the  annual  meeting  March  13,  191 2.] 


NAME 

This  society  shall  be  called  the  Maiden  Historical 
Society. 

OBJECTS 

The  objects  of  this  society  shall  be  to  collect,  preserve 
and  disseminate  the  local  and  general  history  of  Maiden 
and  the  genealogy  of  Maiden  families ;  to  make  anti- 
quarian collections ;  to  collect  books  of  general  history, 
genealogy  and  biography  ;  and  to  prepare,  or  cause  to  be 
prepared  from  time  to  time,  such  papers  and  records 
relating  to  these  subjects  as  may  be  of  general  interest  to 
the  members. 

MEMBERSHIP 

The  members  of  this  society  shall  consist  of  two 
classes,  active  and  honorary,  and  shall  be  such  persons, 
either  resident  or  non-resident  of  Maiden,  as  shall,  after 
being  approved  by  the  board  of  directors,  be  elected  by 
the  vote  of  a  majority  of  the  members  present  and  voting 
at  any  regularly  called  meeting  of  the  society. 

Honorary  members  may  be  nominated  by  the  board 
of  directors  and  shall  be  elected  by  ballot  by  a  two-thirds 


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vote  of  the  members  present  and  voting  at  any  regularly 
called  meeting.  They  shall  enjoy  all  the  privileges  of  the 
society  except  that  of  voting. 

OFFICERS 

The  officers  of  the  society  shall  include  a  recording 
secretary,  and  a  treasurer,  who  shall  be  members  of  the 
board  of  directors.  The  society  may  in  its  discretion  elect 
one  person  as  secretary-treasurer  to  perform  the  duties  of 
recording  secretary  and  treasurer.  The  other  officers  to 
be  elected  by  the  society  shall  be  a  board  of  eleven 
directors,  including  the  officer  or  officers  named  above. 
The  recording  secretary,  treasurer  (or  secretary-treasurer), 
and  directors  shall  be  elected  by  ballot  at  the  annual 
meeting  of  the  society. 

The  board  of  directors  shall  from  their  number  elect 
by  ballot  a  president  and  three  vice  presidents,  and  from 
the  members  of  the  society  may  elect  a  librarian  and 
curator  and  such  other  officers  as  may  be  deemed  neces- 
sary. All  officers  shall  serve  for  one  year,  or  until  their 
successors  are  elected  and  qualified.  The  board  of 
directors  may  fill  any  vacancies  for  unexpired  terms. 

COMMITTEES 

The  board  of  directors  may  elect  annually  committees 
on  finance,  publication,  membership,  genealogies  and  such 
other  committees  as  the  society  may  direct  or  the  board 
deem  desirable. 

DUES 

The  annual  dues  of  the  society  shall  be  one  dollar. 
Any  active  member  may  become  a  life  member  by  the 
payment  of  twenty-five  dollars  during  any  one  year,  which 


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shall  exempt  such  member  from  the  payment  of  further 
annual  dues.  The  board  of  directors  shall  have  discretion 
to  drop  from  the  membership  roll  any  person  failing  to 
pay  his  annual  assessment  for  two  successive  years. 

MEETINGS 

The  annual  meeting  of  the  society  shall  be  held  on 
the  second  Wennesday  in  March  for  the  election  of  officers 
and  the  transaction  of  other  business.  Regular  meetings 
shall  be  called  in  May,  October,  December  and  January. 
Special  meetings  may  be  called  by  the  president  at  his 
discretion  and  five  members  shall  constitute  a  quorum  for 
the  transaction  of  business  at  any  meeting. 

AMENDMENTS 

These  by-laws  may  be  altered,  amended  or  suspended, 
by  a  two-thirds  vote  of  the  members  present  and  voting  at 
any  meeting,  notice  of  such  proposed  action  having  been 
given  in  the  call  for  said  meeting. 


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MEMBERS  1918. 


Adams,  Charles  H. 
Adams,  Walter  E. 
Am m arm,  Albert 


59  Orient  avenue,  Melrose 

South  Station,  Boston 

50  Acorn  street,  Maiden 


Bailey,  Dudley  Perkins  .  .    121  Linden  street,  Everett 

Ball,  Rev.  Archey  Dectaur,  D.D.ioo  Washington  street,  Maiden 


Barnes,  Roland  D. 
Baxter,  Sylvester     . 
Bayrd,  Mrs.  Adelaide  Breed 
Belcher,  Charles  F. 
Bennett,  Frank  P.,  Sr.    . 
Bickford,  Erskine  Frank 
Blakeley,  William  Monroe 
Bliss,  Alvin  Evarts 
Bliss,  Edv^^in  P. 
Blodgett,  Charles  Martin 
Boutwell,  Harvey  L. 
Boynton,  Thomas  Jefferson 
Bradstreet,  George  Flint 
Brigham,  Mrs.  Augusta  R. 


Bristol,  Connecticut 

33  Murray  Hill  road,  Maiden 

.     24  Spruce  street.  Maiden 

148  Hawthorne  street.  Maiden 

Saugus 

38  Main  street,  Maiden 

.    285  Washington  street.  Maiden 

.  60  Linden  avenue.  Maiden 

.  17  Linden  avenue,  Maiden 

.  94  Lebanon  street.  Maiden 

209  Summer  street.  Maiden 

.   60  Summer  street,  Everett 

107  Warren  street.  West  Medford 

.   2  1  Concord  street,  Maiden 


Bruce,  Judge  Charles  Mansfield  155  Hav^^thorne  street,  Maiden 


Buckminster,  William  B. 
Burbank,  Edw^in  C. 
Burgess,  James  Henry     . 
Burgess,  Mrs.  Ovilla  Bishop 
Burlen,  Mrs.  Alfred  H.    . 

Carlisle,  Frank  H. 
Carney,  Peter  F.  J. 
Carr,  Joseph  T. 


41  Dexter  street.  Maiden 

.     37  Beltran  street.  Maiden 

72  Mountain  avenue.  Maiden 

72  Mountain  avenue.  Maiden 

.    255  Clifton  street.  Maiden 

35  High  street.  Maiden 
60  Pebble  avenue,  Winthrop 
.     242  Salem  street.  Maiden 


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MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY 


Casas,  William  B.  de  las 
Chamberlain,  George  Walter 
Chamberlain,  Mrs.  Harriet  Sh 
Chandler,  John  Girard    . 
Chase,  James  F. 
Cobb,  Darius  . 
Coggan,  Marcellus 
Converse,  Costello  C. 
Converse,  Mrs.  Mary  Ida 
Corbett,  John  Marshall   . 
Corey,  Mrs.  Isabella  Holden 
Cotton,  Frank  E.     . 
Cox,  Alfred  Elmer 
Cummings,  E.  Harold 


95  Cedar  street,  Maiden 
29  Hillside  avenue.  Maiden 
erman  29  Hillside  avenue,  Maiden 
10  Dexter  street.  Maiden 
20  Crescent  avenue,  Maiden 
no  Tremont  street,  Boston 
.    Tremont  Building,  Boston 
2  Main  street.  Maiden 
2  Main  street.  Maiden 
.  79  Tremont  street.  Maiden 
.     2  Berkeley  street.  Maiden 
48  Glen  street,  Maiden 
80  Appleton  street.  Maiden 
515  Highland  avenue.  Maiden 


Damon,  Herbert 

Daniels,  Charles  A. 

Dawes,  Miss  Agnes  H. 

Dillingham,  William  C. 

Dobbs,  Rev.  John  Francis,  D 

Doonan,  Owen  P.   . 

Dowty,  Rev.  William  Edmund 


Eaton,  Charles  L. 
Estey,  Frank  W. 
Evans,  Wilmot  R., 


Sr. 


Fall,  George  Howard 
Fall,  Howard 
Fenn,  Harry  W. 
Fison,  Herbert  W. 
Fowle,  Frank  E.     . 
Fuller,  Alvan  T. 


Gay,  Edward 

Gay,  Dr.  Fritz  Walter    ♦. 

Goodwin,  Dr.  Richard  James  P. 


195  Mountain  avenue.  Maiden 

88  Mt.  Vernon  street.  Maiden 

I  Ridgewood  road.  Maiden 

66  Appleton  street.  Maiden 

D.,  411  Pleasant  street.  Maiden 

92  Highland  avenue.  Maiden 

20  Florence  street.  Maiden 

44  Dexter  street,  Maiden 

136  Hawthorne  street.  Maiden 

.    28  Chestnut  street,  Boston 

12  Evelyn  place.  Maiden 

12  Evelyn  place.  Maiden 

.    279  Clifton  street.  Maiden 

22  Main  street  park,  Maiden 

311  Summer  street,  Maiden 

85  Appleton  street.  Maiden 


1 8  Dexter  street.  Maiden 
.  105  Salem  street.  Maiden 
481  Pleasant  street.  Maiden 


MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY 


83 


Gould,  Edwin  Carter 
Gould,  George  Lambert  . 
Graff  am,  Peter 


20  W.  Wyoming  avenue,  Melrose 

24  Alpine  street.  Maiden 

.    181  Clifton  street,  Maiden 


Hardy,  Arthur  Proctor    .  .  49  Las  Casas  street.  Maiden 

Haven,  Rev.  William  Ingraham,  D.D. 

Bible  House,  Astor  place.  New  York,  N.  Y. 


Hawley,  Mrs.  Alice  C.   . 
Hawley,  William  Dickerson 
Hawley,  William   H. 
Hobbs,  William  Joseph  . 
Holden,  Arthur  P.  . 


37  Washington  street.  Maiden 

37  Washington  street.  Maiden 

.  40  Newhall  street.  Maiden 

33  Converse  avenue.  Maiden 

26  Prescott  street,  Maiden 


Hughes,  Bishop  Edwin  Holt,  D.  D.,  LL.  D. 

235  Summer  street,  Maiden 
Hutchins,  John  W.  .  .         20  Main  street  park.  Maiden 


Johnson,  George  H. 

Jones,  Louis  G.       .         .         . 

Kerr,  Alexander 
Kimball,  Edward  P. 
King,  Edward  Samuel     . 
King,  Mrs.  Ellen  H. 
King,  Hervey  Wellman    . 
Knapp,  C.  Henry    , 

Lane,  Miss  Ellen  W. 
Lang,  Thomas,  Jr. 
Locke,  Col.  Elmore  E.    . 
Locke,  Col.  Frank  L. 
Lund,  James 

Mann,  Charles  Edward  . 
Mann,  Mrs.  Mary  Lawrence   . 
Mansfield,  Mrs.  Sarah  Elizabeth 
MacLellan,  Mrs.  Christine 


.     615  Salem  street.  Maiden 
.   21  Howard  street.  Maiden 

133  Hawthorne  street.  Maiden 

.  88  Summer  street.  Maiden 

.     26  Beltran  street.  Maiden 

.     47  Francis  street,  Maiden 

39  Brook  Hill  road,  Milton 

631  Highland  avenue,  Maiden 

.     19  Sprague  street.  Maiden 

202  Mountain  avenue,  Maiden 

.      37  Alpine  street.  Maiden 

.    219  Clifton  street.  Maiden 

142  Hawthorne  street.  Maiden 

14  Woodland  road.  Maiden 

14  Woodland  road.  Maiden 

57  Glenwood  street.  Maiden 

.    135  CHfton  street,  Maldeu 


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MAI.DEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY 


Merrill,  William  G. 
Millett,  Charles  Howard 
Millett,  Mrs.  M.  C. 
Millett,  Mrs.  Rosina  Maria 
Miner,  Franklin  Matthias 
Morgan,  Albert  Benton     . 
Morse,  Tenney 

Moss,  Rev.  Charles  Henry,  D.  D. 
Mudge,  Rev.  James,  D.  D. 

Nichols,  Mrs.  Adeline  Augusta 
Norris,  Dr.  Albert  Lane  . 


.  149  Walnut  street.  Maiden 

.    217  Clifton  street.  Maiden 

.    217  Clifton  street.  Maiden 

22  Parker  street.  Maiden 

127  Summer  street,  Maiden 

.  50  Pleasant  street.  Maiden 

65  Las  Casas  street.  Maiden 

28  Salem  street.  Maiden 

33  Cedar  street.  Maiden 

37  Cedar  street.  Maiden 
.   283  Clifton  street,  Maiden 


Otis,  James  O. 

Page,  Albert  Nelson 
Parker,  Charles  Lincoln 
Perkins,  Clarence  Albert 
Perry,  Eugene  A.     . 
Perry,  Miss  Mary  W. 
Plummer,  Arthur  James 
Porter,  Dv^ight 
Priest,  Russell  P. 
Prior,  Dr.  Charles  E. 

Quimby,  Rev.  Israel  P. 


Rich,  Thomas  S. 
Rich,  Mrs.  Thomas  S.     . 
Richards,  George  Louis  . 
Richards,  Lyman   Harrison 
Robinson,  Roswell  Raymond 
Roby,  Austin  Hayv^ard  . 
Rowe,  Miss  Edith  Owen 
Ryder,  Mrs.  Gertrude  Yale 
Ryder,  Dr.  Godfrey 


.   9  Woodland  road.  Maiden 

349  Pleasant  street,  Maiden 

43  Converse  avenue,  Maiden 

57  High  street.  Maiden 

145  Summer  street.  Maiden 

.    48A  Maple  street.  Maiden 

4  Hudson  street.  Maiden 

149  Hawthorne  street.  Maiden 

411  Winthrop  Building,  Boston 

I  Mountain  avenue.  Maiden 

.  65  Tremont  street,  Maiden 

.  240  Clifton  street.  Maiden 
.  240  Clifton  street,  Maiden 
•  84  Linden  avenue,  Maiden 
.  1 7  Howard  street.  Maiden 
.  84  Linden  avenue.  Maiden 
105  Washington  street,  Maiden 
.  149  Walnut  street.  Maiden 
321  Pleasant  street.  Maiden 
321   Pleasant  street,  Maiden 


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85 


Shove,  Francis  A. 
Shumway,  Franklin  P.     . 
Siner,  Mrs.  James  B. 
Smith,  George  E.    . 
Snow,  William  Brown 
Sprague,  Mrs.  Emeline  M. 
Sprague,  Phineas  Warren,    47 
Starbird,  Louis  Delver     . 
Stevens,  Dr.  Andrew  Jackson 
Stover,  Col.  Willis  w!     . 


Swett,  J.  Parker,     Highland  ter.,  cor.  Ridgewood  road.  Maiden 


Sykes,  Rev.  Richard  Eddy,  D 

Tredick,  C.  Morris 
Turner,  Alfred  Rogers 
Turner,  Mrs.  Mary  Greenleaf 
Turner,  William  G.  A. 

Upton,  Eugene  Charles  . 

Walker,  Mrs.  Annie  Dexter 
Walker,  Arthur  Willis     . 
Walker,  Mrs.  Clara  Isabel 
Walker,  Hugh  L. 
Warren,  Charles  G. 
Watkins,  Walter  Kendall 
Wellman,  Arthur  Holbrook 
Wellman,  Mrs.  Jennie  Louise 
Wellman,  Gordon  Boit 
Welsh,  Willard 
Whittemore,  Edgar  Augustus 
Wiggin,  Joseph 
Wightman,  J.  Lewis 
Wingate,  Edward  Lawrence 
Winship,  Addison  L. 
Winship,  William  Henry 
Woodward,  Frank  Ernest 


205  Mountain  avenue.  Maiden 
25  Bellevue  avenue,  Melrose 
156  Hawthorne  street.  Maiden 
Swampscott 
79  Dexter  street.  Maiden 
84  Salem  street.  Maiden 
I  Commonwealth  avenue,  Boston 
213  Mountain  avenue.  Maiden 
599  Main  street.  Maiden 
100  Waverly  street,  Everett 


D.       22  Sprague  street.  Maiden 

36  Alpine  street.  Maiden 

200  Broadway,  Paterson,  N.  J. 

Ridgewood  road,  Maiden 

.     Ridgewood  road,  Maiden 

55  Dexter  street.  Maiden 

16  Alpine  street.  Maiden 

16  Alpine  street.  Maiden 

26  Dexter  street.  Maiden 

.    14  Newhall  street.  Maiden 

677  Main  street.  Maiden 

47  Hillside  avenue.  Maiden 

.    193  Clifton  street.  Maiden 

.    193  Clifton  street.  Maiden 

.     54  Beltran  street.  Maiden 

60  Greenleaf  street.  Maiden 

.    2  Woodland  road.  Maiden 

55  Clarendon  street,  Maiden 

245  Mountain  avenue.  Maiden 

85  Dexter  street.  Maiden 

65  Laurel  street,  Melrose 

.     209  Maple  street.  Maiden 

Wellesley  Hills 


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FOUNDERS   OF  THE   SOCIETY. 


The  Maiden  Historical  Society  was  organized  on  March  8, 
1886.  The  charter  members  and  founders  of  the  Society  were 
the  following  in  the  order  as  originally  recorded  : 

Rev.  Joshua  W.  Wellman,  D.  D.,  died  at  117  Summer 
street,  Maiden. 

Rev.  Samuel  W.  Foljambe,  D.  D.,  died  Nov.  16,  1899,  in 
New  Haven,  Connecticut. 

Russell  B.  Wiggin,  died  Nov.  14,  1886. 

George  Dana  Boardman  Blanchard,  died  Dec.  17,  1903. 

Hon.  John  K.  C.  Sleeper,  died  April  18,  1893. 

Prof.  Charles  Augustus  Daniels,  A.  M.,  living  at  88  Mt. 
Vernon  street.  Maiden. 

George  David  Ayers,  LL.  B.,  supposed  to  be  living  in  a 
western  state. 

Hon.  Elisha  Slade  Converse,  died  June  4,  1904. 

Deloraine  Pendre  Corey,  died  May  6,  1910. 

Thomas  Lang,  Sr.,  died,  Maiden. 

Honorary  Members. 

Hon.  Loren  L.  Fuller,  d.  July  15,  1895,  ae.  75y.  5m.  2od. 
Hon.  Marcellus  Coggan,  living  in  Winchester,  Mass. 


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THE   GILBERT   HAVEN    COLLECTION. 


This  collection  was  recently  given  to  the  Maiden  His- 
torical Societ}^  by  a  grandson,  Rev.  William  Ingraham 
Haven,  D.  D.  of  New  York,  son  of  Bishop  Gilbert  Haven, 
and  possesses  considerable  historical  value.  It  contains  : 
"Account  Book,  1810-1811"  comprising  160  pages  with 
an  index  to  195  names,  apparently  of  Framingham  people. 
Haven  &  Howe's  Book  of  Accompts,  18 11  and  Gilbert 
Haven's  Day  Book,  Memorandum  Book,  &c,"  1811-1852. 
This  second  account  and  memorandum  book,  contains  the 
business  transactions  of  the  Centre  Methodist  Society  of 
Maiden,  1825-1842.  It  also  contains  accounts  with  the 
Centre  School  District  of  Maiden  and  several  with  the 
Town  of  Maiden.  Here  are  found  items  relating  to  the 
settlement  of  the  estates  of  eight  or  ten  Maiden  families, 
1828-1852. 

There  are  also  files  of  papers  relating  to  the  settlement 
of  estates  for  the  same  period.  Bills  in  the  estate  of  Lemuel 
Cox.  Packages  of  papers  marked  "Civil"  1837-1858  and 
"Criminal"  1839-1854 ;  Warrants,  1852-1857  ;  writs  and 
attachments,  1859-1861.  Five  commissions  as  Justice  of 
the  Peace,  1837-1858.  Old  Deeds  and  Lists  of  the  early 
companies  of  firemen  in  Maiden. 

Gilbert  Haven,  Sr.,  was  a  native  of  Framingham.  He 
removed  to  Boston  before  19  Aug.,  1811  and  lived  until  after  17 
Sept.,  181 2.  He  next  appears  in  Maiden  where  he  was  residing 
22  July,  1814,  and  where  he  continued  to  reside  till  death.  He 
was  one  of  the  leading  men  in  the  town  of  Maiden  for  over  half 
a  century.    He  was  on  the  school  committee,  a  selectman,  a  lead- 


88  MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY 

ing  member  of  the  Centre  Methodist  Society  and  held  the  office 
of  Trial  Justice,  183710  1861.  Five  Governors  of  Massachusetts 
commissioned  him  Justice  of  the  Peace  for  Middlesex  County, 
viz.,  Edward  Everett,  Marcus  Morton,  George  N.  Briggs, 
George  S.  Boutwell,  and  Nathaniel  P.  Banks. 

His  son.  Bishop  Gilbert  Haven,  was  known  wherever  the 
Methodist  Church  ministered  to  the  people. 

A  record  of  marriages  performed  in  Maiden  by  Gilbert 
Haven,  Sr.  is  found  in  his  memorandum  book.  One-half  of 
these  are  not  found  in  the  Vital  Records  of  Maiden.  An  exact 
reproduction  of  these  marriages  follows  : 

[249]. 

Married  by  Gilbert  Haven,  J.  P. 

Maiden  July   ist  1839 

I  hereby  Certify  that  I  this  day  Joined  in  Marriage  Mr. 
Elias  Elliot  Jr.  &  Miss  Elizabeth  Waitt,  both  of  Maiden 

Attest     Gilbert  Haven  Justice  of  Peace 

Maiden,  May  10,   1841. 

This  day  married  Mr.  Adam  Thompson  &  Miss  Mary  H. 
Cox  both  of  Maiden 

Attest     Gilbert  Haven  Justice  of  Peace 

t 

Maiden  August  39th   1841 

This  day  Married  Mr.  John  C  Robbins  &  Miss  Alice  Eliza 
Mann,  the  former  of  Maiden,  the  latter  of  Boston 

Attest  Gilbert  Haven  Jus  Peace 

Maiden  October   loth   1841. 

This  day  Joined  in  Marriage  Mr.  Joseph  H.  Waitt  &  Miss 
Elizabeth  Abbott  both  of  Maiden. 

Attest     Gilbert  Haven  Jus  of  Peace 


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Maiden  March  ist  1842. 
This  day  Joined  in  Marriage  Mr.  Wm.  H.  D.  Millar  and 
Miss  Selina  E.  Marshall  both  of  Boston. 

Attest  Gilbert  Haven  Jus  of  Peace 

Maiden  June  7th  1843. 

*I    this    day  Joined  in  Marriage  Mr.  Joseph  C.  Cox   and 
Miss  Mary  A.  Perkins,  both  of  Maiden. 

Attest  Gilbert  Haven  Jus  of  Peace 

Maiden  Nov'  24  1843 

*I  this  day  Joined  in  marriage  in  this  town  Mr.  Wm.  F. 
Locke  and  Miss  Mary  F.  Burnham,  both  of  Braintree. 

Attest  Gilbert  Haven  Jus  of  Peace 

Maiden  March  8th  1843. 

*I,  this  day  Joined  in  Marriage  Mr.  John  G.  Higgins  and 
Miss  Cordelia  Emerson  both  of  Maiden. 

Attest  Gilbert  Haven  Jus  of  Peace 
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Record  of  Marriages  Continued  from  page  249. 

Maiden  Dec  26,  1854 

*I,  this  day  Joined  in  Marriage  Mr.  Augustus  Canney  of 
Maiden  aged  21  years  and  Miss  Sarah  E.  McLain  of  Appleton, 
Me,,  aged  17  years. 

Attest  Gilbert  Haven  Justice  of  the  Peace. 

Maiden  October  15,  1859 
*I  this  day  Joined  in  Marriage  Mr.  Samuel  L.  Watson  o^ 
Maiden    aged  twenty-three  years  and  Miss   Isabella  G.  Smith 
also  of  Maiden   aged    twenty  years.     The   marriage  was  cele- 
brated in  my  dwelling  house. 

Attest  Gilbert  Haven  Justice  of  the  Peace 

♦Not  found  in  the  Vital  Records  of  Maiden. 


9©  MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY 


NECROLOGIES 


LEVI    SWANTON   GOULD. 

Levi  Swanton  Gould,  a  member  of  this  Society,  chair- 
man of  the  Middlesex  County  Commissioners  and  the  first 
mayor  of  Melrose,  died  at  his  home  in  that  city  March  22, 
1917. 

Mr.  Gould  was  born  in  Dixmont,  Maine,  March  26, 
1834,  the  son  of  Dr.  Levi  Gould,  the  first  settled  physician 
in  the  section  north  of  the  present  limits  of  Maiden.  Dr. 
Gould,  a  direct  descendent  of  John  Gould,  a  trooper  in 
King  Philip's  war,  and  the  first  settler  in  Stoneham,was  a 
man  of  great  usefulness  in  his  community,  teaching  school 
in  addition  to  the  practice  of  his  profession,  delivering 
Lyceum  lectures,  singing  in  the  church  choir  on  Sunday 
and  occasionall}^  filling  the  pulpit.  To  him  the  Congrega- 
tional church  owes  its  organization,  he  being  the  only  com- 
municant of  that  faith  in  North  Maiden  at  its  formation. 
The  son  inherited  his  father's  activity  and  public  spirit  and 
in  his  long  life  was  always  locally  prominent  and  useful  as 
well  having  a  wide  prominence  in  political  and  Masonic 
circles  outside  of  Melrose.  His  mother  was  Elizabeth 
Whitmore,  a  descendant  of  Francis  Whitmore,  an  early 
settler  of  Cambridge,  and,  through  a  marriage  of  one  of 
Whitmore's  sons,  also  of  Rachel  Eliot,  daughter  of  Philip, 
who  was  a  brother  of  Rev.  John  Eliot,  the  apostle  to  the 
Indians  and  a  helper  in  John  Eliot's  work. 

In  a  recent  address  before  this  Society,  Mr.  Gould  told 
the  story  later  printed  in  the  Register  of  his  journey  from 


LEVI  S.   GOULD 


MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY  pi 

Maine  to  North  Maiden  on  his  father's  return  to  his  home 
town.  This  was  in  1843,  and  he  was  then  nine  years  old, 
and  a  short  time  before  his  death  he  compiled  from  memory 
a  map  of  Melrose  as  he  found  the  village,  with  the  names 
of  the  occupants  of  the  82  houses.  In  1850  Dr.  Gould 
died,  his  death  putting  the  son  upon  his  own  resources. 
He  learned  the  trade  of  a  shoemaker,  worked  in  a  whole- 
sale drug  store  in  Boston  and  eventually  filled  a  position  as 
bookkeeper  in  a  wholesale  store  in  St.  Louis.  At  the  out- 
break of  the  Civil  War  he  returned  to  Melrose,  and  soon 
was  appointed  to  a  position  in  the  United  Stale  Treasury  at 
Washington.  Two  years  later  he  associated  himself  with 
the  F.  M.  Holmes  Furniture  Company,  becoming  the  senior 
member  of  the  firm  upon  the  death  of  Mr.  Holmes. 

In  1887  he  left  the  furniture  business  to  engage  in 
public  affairs,  in  which  he  had  always  been  interested. 
From  1865  on,  for  over  30  years,  he  was  moderator  of  the 
Melrose  town  meetings,  presiding  over  215  regular,  special 
and  adjourned  meetings.  He  was  long  connected  with 
the  Melrose  Water  Department,  was  many  years  a  select- 
man and  was  chairman  of  the  board  from  1885  to  1893. 
In  1868  and  1869  he  was  a  member  of  the  General  Court, 
and  in  the  latter  year  he  led  the  movement  which  resulted 
in  the  establishment  of  w^ater  supplies  for  Maiden,  Melrose 
and  Medford.  With  the  incorporation  of  Melrose  as  a  city, 
in  1900,  his  unprecedented  term  of  service  as  a  moderator 
of  the  town  meetings  came  to  an  end,  his  fellow-citizens 
presenting  him  with  a  commemorable  gold  medal,  which 
he  afterwards  wore  upon  public  occasions.  They  also 
elected  him  to  the  office  of  Mayor,  he  stipulating  that  he 
should  be  asked  to  serve  but  a  single  term. 

In  1896  there  was  much  discussion  of  matters  involved 
in  the  work  of  the  Middlesex  County  Commissioners,  and 


92  MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY 

particular  criticism  of  the  chairman  of  the  commission,  who 
had  held  the  office  for  a  quarter  of  a  century.  Mr.  Gould 
was  elected  a  member  of  the  commission,  and  immediately 
succeeded  the  chairman  of  the  body,  all  discussion  of 
county  affairs  ceasing,  and  for  20  years  he  held  the  posi- 
tion. Without  doubt  he  would  have  equaled,  if  not  sur- 
passed, the  long  term  of  service  of  his  predecessor,  had 
not  death  cut  short  his  useful  life.  Always  interested  in 
historical  research,  he  made  frequent  addresses  on  historical 
subjects,  and  published  articles  relating  to  the  history  of 
Maiden,  Melrose  and  Stoneham,  his  most  ambitious  effort 
being  his  "  History  of  Middlesex  County  "  it  being  mainly 
confined  to  the  story  of  the  county  governments  and  biog- 
raphies of  county  officials,  thus  using  material  which 
county  histories  containing  extended  town  histories  might 
not  have  space  for.  He  recently  prepared  a  map  of  North 
Maiden,  as  stated,  giving  the  location  of  every  house  stand- 
ing in  his  boyhood. 

Besides  his  supervision  of  the  county  buildings  con- 
structed during  his  term  of  service,  Mr.  Gould  served  on 
many  local  building  committees,  among  them  on  the  erec- 
tion of  the  Melrose  Soldiers  and  Sailors  Memorial  Build- 
ing, he  being  president  of  the  Association,  and  the  High, 
Lincoln,  Washington  and  Franklin  schools. 

Mr.  Gould  was  affiliated  with  the  First  Congregational 
Church  of  Melrose  and  active  in  connection  with  the  work 
of  the  Young  Men's  Christian  Association.  He  took  his 
Masonic  degrees  in  1856  and  was  a  32d  degree  Mason,  the 
senior  past  master  of  Wyoming  Lodge  and  president  of  its 
board  of  trustees,  past  High  Priest  of  Waverly  Royal 
Arch  Chapter,  and  past  prelate  of  Hugh  de  Payens  com- 
mandery.  Knights  Templar.  He  was  an  Odd  Fellow, 
first  master  of  Melrose  Grange,  a  member  of  the  Knight's 


MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY  93 

of  Pythias.  He  married,  February  23,  i860  Mary  "Eliza, 
daughter  of  Samuel  and  Mary  (Vose)  Payne  of  Boston, 
who  survives  him.  He  also  left  two  daughters,  Mrs. 
Frederick  L.  Putnam  of  Melrose  and  Mrs.  Joseph  Remick 
of  Winchester,  and  a  brother,  Edwin  Carter  Gould,  city 
auditor  of  Melrose. 


MRS.  LIZZIE  LAWRENCE  GOULD. 

Mrs.  Lizzie  Lawrence  Gould,  wife  of  George  Lambert 
Gould,  passed  away  at  the  Thomas  Hospital  in  Peabody, 
November  18,  1916,  her  death  resulting  from  an  accident 
in  Peabody  square,  November  10,  by  which  she  was  thrown 
from  her  automobile.  For  days  the  anxiety  of  her  imme- 
diate family  had  been  shared  by  a  large  circle  of  friends 
in  two  communities — Maiden,  her  home  for  many  years, 
and  Topsfield,  which  had  long  been  her  summer  home  and 
to  which  she  seemed  to  become  more  strongly  attached  as 
the  years  passed.  Convincing  proof  of  her  hold  upon  the 
affections  of  these  friends  was  afforded  on  the  day  of  her 
funeral,  when  a  train  conveyed  from  Maiden  and  Boston 
a  company  which  half  filled  the  spacious  auditorium  of  the 
Topsfield  Congregational  church,  the  remaining  seats  being 
filled  by  an  equal  representation  of  the  townspeople.  The 
sorrow  and  love  of  one  community  was  voiced  by  her  pas- 
tor. Rev.  John  F.  Dobbs,  D.D.,  of  Maiden  and  of  the  other 
by  Rev.  Arthur  H.  Gilmore,  pastor  of  the  village  church, 
but  both  voices  spoke  the  same  message — the  story  of  a 
woman  whose  life  radiated  happiness  and  cheer,  who  was 
instinctively  thoughtful  and  helpful  in  her  home  and  among 
her  neighbors  and  friends,  who  never  permitted  personal 
cares  or  griefs  to  prevent  her  from  ministering  to  the  needs 
or  sharing  the  sorrows  of  others. 


P4  MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY 

Mrs.  Gould  had  been  a  member  of  this  Society  from 
its  formation.  She  was  born  in  Boston  May  3,  1856,  the 
only  child  of  Dr.  McLa\irin  Furber  and  Mary  Elizabeth 
(Moore)  Cooke.  Her  father,  who  was  a  graduate  of 
Dartmouth  College  and  also  of  Harvard  Medical  School, 
was  later  master  of  the  Hancock  grammar  school,  Boston, 
and  his  scholarly  attainments — especially  his  knowledge  of 
nature,  of  birds  and  flowers  and  forests  and  his  enthusiasm 
for  lovely  scenery — were  transmitted  to  the  daughter 
through  constant  association  in  walks  and  talks  and  study 
through  her  childhood  and  girlhood,  so  that  for  her  to  see 
a  rare  flower  or  any  flower — a  rare  bird  or  any  bird — was 
to  know  it  and  name  it,  and  for  her  a  drive  almost  any- 
where in  southern  Middlesex  or  Essex  counties  afforded 
not  only  a  succession  of  delights  in  a  wide-reaching  view 
or  a  woodland  vista,  in  a  glimpse  of  a  flower  or  the  call  of 
a  bird,  but  in  the  memory  that  at  this  point  she  once  saw 
a  rare  bird  or  found  a  rare  fern  or  blossom.  Books  of 
nature  were  all  about  her,  but  her  best  book  was  Nature 
herself,  which  she  read  with  an  expert  knowledge  born  of 
a  surpassing  love.  One  needed  no  other  interpreter,  could 
he  only  view  the  sunny  fields  or  tread  the  forest  paths 
with  her. 

Her  marriage  to  Mr.  Gould  occurred  in  Chelsea,  then 
her  home,  June  23,  1875,  the  Rev.  x\ddisonP.  P^oster  per- 
forming the  ceremony.  In  1877  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Gould  made 
their  home  in  Maplewood,  removing  to  24  Alpine  street  in 
1899,  and  thereafter,  excepting  when  travelling,  dividing 
their  time  between  their  beautiful  home  in  Maiden,  and 
Pinelands,  their  charming  summer  home  in  Topsfield,  each 
in  turn  becoming  the  center  of  warm-hearted  hospitality 
extended  to  hosts  of  friends  who  will  never  forget  the 
happy  hours  spent    as    her    guests.     Two  sons,    Warren 


MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY  95 

Furber  and  Bertram  Cheever  Gould,  and  two  daughters, 
Miss  Miriam  Gould  and  Mrs.  Rosamond  (Gould)  Childs 
of  Utica,  New  York,  with  Mr.  Gould,  survive  her. 


JOSEPH   WEBBER   CHADWICK. 

Mr.  Joseph  Webber  Chadwick,  who  died  at  his  home 
in  Maiden,  December  21,  1917,  was  born  in  China,  Me., 
May  8,  1836.  His  parents  were  Abel  and  Elizabeth 
(Starrett)  Chadwick.  On  his  mother's  side  he  was  of 
Scotch-Irish  descent ;  her  ancestors  were  Covenanters, 
who  having  been  compelled  to  live  in  caves,  fled  to  this 
country  to  escape  persecution.  His  maternal  grandmother 
was  a  Dane,  a  relative  of  the  Dane  for  whom  Harvard 
Law  School  was  named.  Mr.  Chadwick  was  entited  to 
become  a  member  of  the  Society  of  the  Colonial  Wars. 

His  father,  Abel  Chadwick,  was  a  descendant  of  John 
and  Joan  Chadwick  of  Maiden,  Mass.  This  John  appeared 
in  court  in  1680,  giving  his  age  as  seventy-nine,  according 
to  record,  which  makes  him  to  have  been  born  about 
1601,  presumably  in  England.  He  may  have  come  to  the 
Massachusetts  Bay  Colony  in  Governor  Winthrop's  fleet. 
Tradition  has  it  that  John  was  buried  in  Bell  Rock  Ceme- 
tery. 

James,  the  second  son  of  John  and  Joan,  when  a  young 
man  became  a  teacher  in  the  town  of  Sandwich,  Mass.  In 
1698  he  moved  with  his  family  from  Maiden  to  Cape  Cod, 
where  he  lived  until  the  close  of  the  Revolutionary  War. 
When  the  war  was  closing,  a  special  effort  was  made  to 
settle  new  lands  in  Maine  with  the  families  of  Revo- 
lutionary soldiers.  James,  the  grandson  of  James  first, 
emigrated  from  Falmouth  to  the  Kennebec  Purchase,  and 


^6  MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY 

settled  with  his  family  in  what  is  now  China,  Me.  Hence 
the  descent  of  Joseph  Webber  Chadwick  :  John^  of  Maiden, 
James^,  Benjamin^,  James"*,  Judah^,  Abel^,  Joseph' Webber. 
Mr.  Chadwick  spent  much  time  and  money  in  estab- 
lishing his  line  of  descent  in  New  England,  and  after  thirty 
years  succeeded  in  connecting  the  Cape  Cod  Chadwicks 
with  John  of  Maiden. 

Mr.  Abel  Chadwick,  father  of  Mr.  Joseph  W.  Chad- 
wick, was  one  of  the  founders  of  the  Free  Baptist  Church 
in  China,  Me.  and  was  its  deacon  for  many  years.  He 
and  his  wife  were  earnest  Christian  workers,  and  a  religi- 
ous atmosphere  always  pervaded  their  home.  When  seven- 
teen years  of  age,  Joseph  went  to  New  Hampton  Literary 
Institution,  New  Hampton,  N.  H.  and  there  fitted  for  col- 
lege, graduating  in  the  class  of  1857.  The  next  year  he 
entered  Bowdoin  College,  and  notwithstanding  that  he 
taught  five  out  of  the  twelve  terms,  he  was  graduated  with 
Phi  Beta  Kappa  honors,  ranking  fourth  in  a  class  of  twenty- 
seven. 

On  leaving  college  Mr.  Chadwick  became  principal  of 
New  Hampton  Literary  Institution  and  had  charge  of  the 
classical  department  for  four  years.  In  1866  he  was  elected 
professor  of  Latin  in  Bates  College,  but  did  not  serve, 
having  accepted  the  place  of  usher  in  the  Boston  Latin 
School.  He  passed  through  the  different  grades  of  service 
during  the  forty  years  of  teaching  in  the  Latin  School 
having  been  the  head  of  the  Latin  department  more  than 
thirty  years.  Of  his  success  the  large  number  of  boys 
admitted  without  conditions  in  Latin  to  Harvard  Collese  is 
a  proof. 

Mr.  Pennypacker,  present  head-master  of  the  Latin 
School,  in  "An  Appreciation"  published  in  a  recent  number 
of  "The  Latin    School   Register,"  said.     "Mr.  Chadwick 


MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY  97 

was  a  disciple  of  old-fashioned  thoroughness  in  scholar- 
ship, and  a  firm  believer  in  the  dignity  of  his  calling.  He 
held  the  boys  to  promptness  and  accuracy,  and  he  exacted 
as  much  or  more  from  himself.  He  took  great  pride  in 
the  Latin  School  —  in  its  traditions  and  in  its  standards  and 
he  felt  that  his  task  as  a  teacher  was  consecrated  labor." 

Retiring  from  teaching  in  1906,  he  traveled  much. 
He  devoted  his  summers  to  farm  life  in  Wolfeboro,  N.  H., 
where  he  helped  found  the  Huggins  Hospital,  of  which  he 
became  a  trustee. 

During  the  more  than  fifty  years  of  residence  in 
Maiden  Mr.  Chadwick  has  been  identified  with  many 
interests  for  the  public  good.  He  was  for  twenty-five  years 
secretary  of  the  Maiden  Industrial  Aid  Society,  one  of 
the  founders  of  the  Public  Library,  a  member  of  the  school- 
board  for  eight  years,  one  of  the  founders  of  the  Home  for 
Aged  Persons,  and  chairman  of  its  executive  committee 
until  his  death.  He  was  for  more  than  twenty-five  years 
Superintendent  of  the  Sabbath  School  of  the  Edgeworth 
Mission.  At  the  time  of  his  death  he  had  served  as  deacon 
of  the  First  Congregationalist  Church  for  twenty-five  years. 
No  other  public  interest  was  so  dear  to  him  as  that  of  the 
church  of  which  he  was  a  member. 

In  1863  he  married  Sarah  Ellen  Roberts  of  Maiden. 
Of  their  three  children  one  survives  him,  S.  Percy  R.  Chad- 
wick, head  of  the  history  department  of  Phillips  Exeter 
Academy,  N.  H.  In  1893  he  married  Lydia  F.  Remick, 
a  former  graduate  of  and  teacher  in  New  Hampton  Institu- 
tion, who  survives  him.  Both  wives  were  his  former 
pupils. 


98  MALDEN     HISTORICAI.     SOCIETY 

FRANK  WENTWORTH   PLUMMER,  M.  D. 

Frank  Wentworth  Plummer  was  born  at  Portsmouth, 
the  old  colonial  capital  of  New  Hampshire,  February  20, 
1870,  and  died  at  his  home,  340  Pleasant  street.  Maiden, 
December  15,  191 7, — twenty-four  days  after  his  honored 
parents  had  most  happily  observed  their  golden  wedding 
anniversary.  He  was  the  son  of  Selwin  Byron  and  Sarah 
Garvin  (Wentworth)  Plummer.  His  paternal  grandpar- 
ents were  James  and  Nancy  (Daniels)  Plummer — natives 
of  New  Hampshire,  and  his  maternal  grand-parents  were 
Ehjah  and  Mary  (Sherman)  Wentworth,  residents  of 
Maine.  His  ancestors  were  among  the  early  settlers  of 
New  England.  On  his  paternal  side  he  was  descended 
from  Francis  Plumer  who  emigrated  from  England  to  the 
Massachusetts  Bay  Colony  as  early  as  1634  and  was  the 
first  "ordinary"  (tavern)  keeper  in  the  "plantacion"of  Old 
Newbury,  1635-1637.  He  also  traced  his  descent  through 
Samuel  Plumer,  a  son  of  Francis,  who  was  ferryman  at 
Parker's  river  in  Newbury  from,  1649-1684,  and  a  deputy 
to  the  Great  and  General  Court  of  the  Massachusetts  Bay 
Colony  in  the  time  of  King  Philip's  War  in  1676.  A  kins- 
man Hon.  WiUiam  Plummer  was  a  United  States  senator 
from  New  Hampshire,  1802-1807,  and  Governor  of  New 
Hampshire  1812  and  from  1816-1818.  Through  his 
Daniels  ancestry  he  was  descended  from  Rev.  Joseph  Hull, 
a  graduate  of  St.  Mary's  Hall,  Oxford,  in  1614,  who  after 
spending  twenty-five  years  in  the  parish  churches  of  Old 
England  emigrated  from  Weymouth,  England,  to  Wey- 
mouth, Massachusetts,  in  1635  and  spent  nearly  thirty  years 
in  bringing  the  gospel  to  the  pioneers  of  New  England.  On 
his  maternal  side  Dr.  Plummer  was  descended  from  William 
Wentworth,  a  leading  settler  of  Exeter,  N.  H.  in  1639  and 


DR.  FRANK    IF.  PLUMMER 


MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY  99 

later  a  permanent  settler  in  that  part  of  ancient  Dover  which 
is  now  known  as  Rollinsford.  This  ancestor  is  remem- 
bered as  "  Ruling  Elder  "  in  the  First  Church  of  Dover  and 
as  the  progenitor  of  a  staunch,  high-minded,  worthy  pos- 
terity. Another  ancestor  Rev.  James  Keith,  "a  student  of 
divinity,"  educated  at  Aberdeen,  came  from  Scotland  and 
was  minister  of  the  First  Church  of  Bridgewater  (now 
West  Bridgewater)  for  fifty-six  years,  of  whom  Cotton 
Mather  said:  "He  was  a  man  greatly  to  be  beloved,  one 
among  a  thousand."  Two  of  his  ancestors  were  May- 
flower passengers.  They  were  Francis  Cook  and  "grave" 
Richard  Warren  —  men  who  had  the  exalted  privilege  of 
signing  a  compact  which  transformed  themselves  from  a 
little  band  of  Pilgrims  into  a  grand  old  Commonwealth,  the 
beginning  of  civil  liberty  for  the  world. 

Soon  after  Dr.  Plummer's  birth  his  parents  removed 
to  Charlestown  and  a  few  years  later  to  Maiden.  Here  he 
received  his  training  in  the  public  schools.  From  the  High 
School,  then  under  the  principalship  of  Mr.  George  E.  Gay, 
he  graduated  in  1887.  ^^  was  admitted  to  Dartmouth 
College  on  his  Maiden  High  School  certificate  and  gradu- 
ated therefrom  in  1891  with  the  degree  of  A.  B.,  receiving 
in  1894  the  degree  of  A.  M.  in  course.  He  studied  medi- 
cine at  the  Harvard  Medical  School  and  graduated  there 
in  1895  with  the  degree  of  M.  D,  After  spending  a  year 
in  the  Worcester  City  Hospital,  he  decided  to  locate  as  a 
physician  in  Pleasant  street  in  Maiden.  This  was  in  Sep- 
tember, 1896.  His  professional  success  was  steady  and 
rapid. 

His  college  preparation  supplemented  by  five  years  of 
professional  training,  adequately  fitted  him  for  his  life 
work.  Those  who  sought  his  advice  soon  found  that  they 
were  in  the   hands   of   a  physician    who    possessed   good 


lOO  MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY 

judgment.  He  was  withal  a  Christian  physician  and 
believed  that  each  person  possesses  an  immortal  soul.  In 
constantly  handling  bones  and  muscles  and  nerves  Dr 
Plummer  did  not  forget  that  these  are  the  temporary  home 
of  the  soul.  With  this  conception  constantly  in  mind  the 
serious  illness  of  his  patients  weighed  him  down  with  great 
personal  responsibility.  The  burden  of  other  lives  com- 
mitted to  his  care  often  made  him  a  serious  man.  For 
more  than  twenty  years  he  saw  many  approach  the  water's 
brink ;  some  he  had  the  satisfaction  of  seeing  restored  to 
health,  others  he  saw  cross  the  bar  and  enter  the  border- 
land. 

In  the  spring  of  1887,  during  the  pastorate  of  Rev. 
Willis  P.  Odell,  Dr.  Plummer  united  with  the  Centre 
Methodist  Church  of  Maiden.  Later  when  his  parents 
removed  to  Somerville  he  took  a  letter  of  dismissal  and 
upon  his  return  to  Maiden  in  1896  he  was  readmitted  to  the 
Centre  Church.  In  1914  he  was  elected  a  steward  of  this 
church.  At  Dartmouth  he  was  a  member  of  the  Theta 
Delta  Chi  fraternity.  After  locating  in  Maiden  as  a  phy- 
sician, he  became  affiliated  with  many  societies,  including 
Converse  lodge,  the  lodge  of  Stirling,  the  Royal  Arch 
Chapter  of  the  Tabernacle,  the  Melrose  Council  of  Royal 
and  Select  Masons,  Beausant  Commandery  of  Knights 
Templars,  the  Maiden  Lodge,  I.  O.  O.  F.  and  the  Patri- 
archs Militant. 

He  was  also  a  member  of  the  Maiden  Historical 
Society,  of  the  Maiden  Medical  Society,  of  the  Harvard 
Medical  Alumni  Association,  of  the  Massachusetts  Medical 
Society  and  of  the  American  Medical  Society.  He  was 
on  the  staff  of  the  Maiden  City  Hospital,  treasurer  of  the 
Middlesex  South  Medical  Society,  president  of  the  Maiden 
High  School  Alumni,  director  of  the  High  School  Athletic 


MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY  lOI 

Field  and  chief  medical  inspector  of  the  Maiden  public 
schools. 

He  was  an  energetic  worker  in  what  pertains  to  the 
public  welfare,  in  the  surgical  work  of  the  Red  Cross  and 
a  conscientious  physician,  loyal  to  Maiden  and  deeply 
devoted  to  his  profession. 

His  marriage  February  ii,  1903,  to  Deborah  Allen 
Wiggin,  a  graduate  of  Smith  College  in  1899,  daughter  of 
Hon.  Joseph  F.  Wiggin,  Mayor  of  Maiden,  1888  to  1891, 
and  of  his  wife,  Ruth  Hurd  Hollis,  was  a  happ}'^  union. 
Four  children,  Richard  Wentworth,  John  Allen,  Elizabeth 
Wiggin  and  Deborah  Allen  bless  that  union.  He  is  also 
survived  by  his  parents,  one  brother,  Arthur  James  Plum- 
mer,  and  one  sister,  Mrs.  Elmer  L.  MacDowell  (nee 
Grace  Daniels  Plummer) — all  of  Maiden.  The  funeral 
services  in  the  Centre  Methodist  Church  were  largely 
attended  and  were  conducted  by  Bishop  Edwin  Holt 
Hughes,  who  had  joined  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Plummer  in  holy 
wedlock  nearly  fifteen  years  before,  assisted  by  Dr.  Archey 
Decatur  Ball,  pastor  of  Centre  Church. 

As  was  said  of  the  Great  Physican  nearly  nineteen 
centuries  ago,  so  may  be  said  of  this  good  physician  :  "He 
saved  others,  himself  he  could  not  save."  So  in  the  midst 
of  great  usefulness  to  the  community  in  which  he  lived,  he 
entered  "into  that  peace  that  passeth  understanding"  and 
joined  the  countless  millions  who  walked  this  way  and  now 
belong  to  the  ages. 


HON.    CLINTON   WHITE. 

Hon.  Clinton  White,  a  member  of  this  Society,  died 
at  his  home  in  Melrose,  November  24,  1917,  after  a  pro- 
tracted illness.     Mr.  White  was  a  native  of  Charlestown, 


I02  MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY 

the  son  of  George  W.  and  Harriet  (Farrar)  White.  His 
line  of  descent  was  from  Thomas  White  of  Weymouth,  and 
included  in  his  ancestry  was  Thomas  Riggs,the  first  school- 
master of  Gloucester,  whose  ancient  house,  the  oldest  on 
Cape  Ann,  is  still  standing,  and  Samuel  Pearl  of  Edgecomb 
and  Wiscasset,  Maine,  who  had  a  fine  Revolutionary  record. 
His  father  was  a  prosperous  business  man  and  upon  his 
graduation  from  school  the  son  entered  business  with  him, 
but,  not  long  after,  established  himself  in  a  teaming  busi- 
ness which  soon  assumed  large  proportions,  so  that  through 
his  active  business  life  Mr.  White  became  recognized  as  a 
leading  authority  on  all  matters  connected  with  transporta- 
tion in  Boston,  and  on  railroad  and  steamship  lines.  At  a 
very  early  date  he  associated  himself  with  a  large  concern, 
through  securing  the  contract  for  doing  all  of  its  teaming, 
in  consideration  of  his  acting  as  the  "outside  man"  in 
handling  its  affairs.  As  time  wore  on,  he  made  similar 
contracts  with  sugar  refining  and  other  large  manufactur- 
ing concerns,  so  that  at  one  period  he  controlled  docking 
facilities  in  various  Southern  and  other  ports,  handling  all 
these  in  connection  with  his  Boston  affairs,  in  loading  or 
discharging  cargoes  at  the  points  both  of  shipping  and 
delivery.  He  served  as  a  member  of  the  Boston  Board  of 
Aldermen  in  1882,  and  at  that  time,  through  his  membership 
upon  a  special  committee,  published  the  first  collection  of 
statistics  of  Boston,  the  forerunner  of  the  elaborate  work  and 
publications  of  the  Boston  Statistics  Department.  Soon  after 
he  removed  to  Melrose  and,  while  holding  no  local  oflfice — 
other  than  membership  upon  various  school  construction 
commissions,  including  the  Melrose  High  School  —  he  was 
active  in  promoting  municipal  improvements  of  various 
kinds. 

Meanwhile    Mr.    White's    mastery    of    transportation 


MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY  IO3 

problems  led  to  a  large  influence  in  the  Boston  Chamber  of 
Commerce,  which  eventually  resulted  in  his  becoming  an 
annual  delegate  to  the  meetings  of  the  National  Board  of 
Trade,  of  which  he  was  for  a  long  period  first  vice  presi- 
dent, his  advice  being  sought  by  business  men  and  business 
organizations  in  various  parts  of  the  country.  Nothing  but 
his  refusal  prevented  his  occupying  the  office  of  president  of 
this  national  organization.  His  interest  in  the  development 
of  Boston's  water  front  led  to  his  selection  as  one  of  the 
Dock  Commission  twenty  years  ago,  and  the  great  develop- 
ment of  the  Commonwealth  dock  facilities  at  South  Boston, 
including  the  expensive  piers  now  there,  was  the  result  of 
his  work.  When  the  report  of  this  special  commission  was 
made  and  its  work  done,  Mr.  White  was  appointed  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Harbor  and  Land  Commission  which  did  the 
construction  work  at  South  Boston  referred  to.  In  1902, 
Gov.  Crane  transferred  him  to  the  Massachasetts  Railroad 
Commission,  now  the  Public  Service  Commission,  upon 
which  body  he  served  for  ten  years,  from  which  he  retired 
when  he  reached  the  age  of  seventy. 

Mr.  White  was  a  32d  degree  Mason,  a  member  of 
Faith  Lodge  and  Couer  de  Lion  Commandery  Kniorhts 
Templar  and  Howard  Lodge  Odd  Fellows,  all  of  Charles- 
town.  He  was  vice  president  of  the  Charlestown  Savings 
Bank,  vice  president,  and  for  a  time  president  of  the  Mon- 
ument Bank,  now  a  part  of  the  Bunker  Hill  Branch  of  the 
American  Trust  Company  where  he  served  as  a  member 
of  the  advisory  committee. 

Probably  no  Massachusetts  man  has  passed  away  in 
recent  years  who  had  a  liner  grasp  of  business  and  political 
questions  than  Mr.  White.  One  of  his  characteristics  was  a 
passion  for  helping  promising  men  in  all  conditions  in  life, 
and  no  finer  tribute  could  be  given  any  man  than  was  con- 


I04  MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY 

tained  in  many  personal  letters  he  received  upon  his  retire- 
ment from  public  office,  from  men  high  in  authority  who 
attributed  much  of  their  success  to  his  kindly  suggestions 
and  help. 

He  married  Helen  F.  Crawford  of  Roxbury,  who,^ 
with  his  only  son,  Harry  C.  White,  and  a  grandchild, 
survives  him. 


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THE   FIRST  PARISH  CHURCH 


THE  REGISTER 


OF    THE 


MaldGR  Historical  SociGty 


MALDEN,  MASSACHUSETTS 


NUMBER  6 


1919-1920 


edited  Dy  n^e  Cominitree  on  PuDlicarion 


LYNN,  MASS. 

FRANK   S.  WHITTEN,  PRINTER 

1920 


FORM  OF  BEQPEST 


I  bequeath  the  sum  of dollars  to 

the  Maiden  Historical  Society,  incorporated  under  the  laws 
of  the  Commonwealth  of  Massachusetts,  and  direct  that 
the  receipt  of  the  Treasurer  of  the  said  Society  shall  be  a 
release  to  my  estate  and  to  its  executors  from  further  liability 
under  said  bequest. 


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TABLE   OF   CONTENTS 


Page 
"  The  Old  Brick,"  Deloraine  Pendre  Corey  .         .         .     Frontispiece 

The  Governor's  Lad^,  Charles  Ed-ward  Mann    ...  13 
The     Original     Methodist     Church    of    Maiden    Center, 

Gilbert  Haven,  Sr.         .......  31 

Glimpses  of  the  Past,  George  Walter  Chamberlain    .         .  47 
The  Register 

Officers 58 

Committees     .........  59 

Bj-Laws           .........  60 

Members,  1919-1930 63 

Necrologies 

Charles  F.  Belcher 68 

William  Bradley  Buckminster        .....  69 

James  Henry  Burgess      .......  70 

Darius  Cobb 71 

Charles  Lynde  Eaton 74 

Deacon  Edward  Gay       .......  74 

Dr.  R.J.  P.  Goodwin 75 

Edwin  Carter  Gould        .......  76 

Arthur  Prescott  Holden 77 

Ellen  Watson  Lane .  78 

Rev.  James  Mudge,  S.  T.  D. 78 

Albert  Lane  Norris         .......  81 

George  Edwin  Smith 82 

Charles  Greeley  Warren          ......  83 


'THE   OLD   BRICK." 

An  Address  Delivered  at  the  One  Hundredth  Anniversary  of  the  First  Parish  Church  of 

Maiden,  January  ao,  1903. 

By  the  Late  Deloraine  Pendre  Corey. 


On  the  twenty-first  day  of  May,  1728,  William 
Sprague,  a  grandson  of  Job  Lane,  the  carpenter  who  built 
the  second  meeting  house  at  Bell  Rock,  with  his  wife, 
Dorothy,  made  a  deed  of  gift  to  the  town  of  Maiden  of 

"a  Certain  peice  of  land  purely  and  intirely  for  the 
building  and  placing  a  new  meeting  house  upon  the  said 
Land  lying  in  the  Town  of  Maiden  and  County  abovesaid 
Luises  Bridge  and  the  Pound  on  the  West  side  of  ye  Road 
staked  out  which  the  Hon.  Committee  chose  by  the  Town 
of  Maiden  for  the  ordering  the  place  for  the  new  meeting 
house  to  stand  have  unanimously  agreed  on  the  ground 
given  by  the  abovesaid  William  Sprague  to  the  Town  of 
Maiden  if  they  build  a  new  meeting  house  on  it  this  said 
Land  is  fifteen  Rods  long  and  six  rod  wide  the  length 
northerly  and  southerly  and  bounded  as  followeth  East- 
erly on  the  Road  Westerly  on  the  Land  of  William 
Sprague  northerly  and  southerly  on  William  Spragues 
Land  with  all  the  Rights  and  Privileges  thereunto  belong- 
ing unto  the  Town  of  Maiden  forever  if  they  will  build  a 
new  meeting  house  on  the  said  Land." 

This  piece,  which  contained  about  twenty-five  thousand 
square  feet  of  land,  has  been  shortened  upon  its  street 
line  and  extended  upon  its  side  lines  by  an  exchange 
of  land  which  was  made  in   1802,  but   its   area    remains 


6  MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY 

about  the  same  ;  and  it  is  that  upon  which  the  house  of  the 
First  Parish  [1903]  stands. 

The  old  house  at  Bell  Rock,  after  nearly  seventy- 
years  of  service,  although  it  had  been  enlarged,  was  small 
for  even  the  little  knot  of  inhabitants  which  Maiden  con- 
tained, and  it  was  far  south  of  the  centre  of  the  town, 
which  in  its  extreme  length  of  nearly  seven  miles  extended 
from  the  Mystic  to  Smith's  Pond,  far  up  in  the  present 
town  of  Wakefield. 

The  story  of  the  dissensions  which  the  change  of 
location  caused  is  a  long  one,  and  it  illustrates  the  ease 
with  which  petty  differences  and  local  jealousies  lead 
to  bitter  animosities  and  divisions.  It  includes,  as  results, 
the  loss  of  the  northern  portion  of  the  town,  now  known 
as  Greenwood  in  Wakefield,  and  the  incorporation  of  the 
South  Precinct  and  the  construction  of  the  Second  Church. 

The  course  of  the  latter  was  one  of  little  prosperity 
and  much  trouble.  By  appeals  to  the  General  Court  and 
by  law  suits,  real  and  threatened,  it  kept  the  town  in  a 
ferment  from  year  to  year,  until,  wearied  and  disheart- 
ened, it  ceased  from  strife  and  maintained  a  feeble  exist- 
ence with  little  of  spiritual  or  material  life.  The  estrange- 
ment had  continued  for  fifty-five  years  when,  in  1792,  the 
Rev.  Eliakim  Willis,  formerly  of  the  South  Church,  be- 
came the  minister  of  the  First  Church  and  the  pastor  of  a 
reunited  people. 

There  is  in  existence  a  copy  of  a  contract  with  Aaron 
Cleveland  of  Charlestown  for  building  the  new  house ; 
but  it  is  quite  certain  that  the  original  plan  was  not  fully 
carried  out.  The  contract  specified  a  house  of  forty-four 
feet  by  fifty-five  feet,  with  two  tiers  of  galleries  and  a 
steeple.  But  one  row  of  galleries  on  three  sides  was  built 
at  first,  the  second  row  being  added  in  later  years  ;   and  it 


MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY  *J 

is  likely  that  the  steeple  became  a  turret  in  which  the 
ancient  bell  of  Bell  Rock  was  hung.  The  outside  was  to  be 
painted  "with  a  lead  colour ;"  but  it  is  said  that  both  out- 
side and  inside  were  not  painted  and  so  remained  to  the 
end.  Forty-six  windows  of  six  by  four  glass  were  to  be 
provided  and  set  in  three  rows.  Seats  and  "a  Handsome 
Pulpitt  with  a  Handsome  Canepe  over  it  with  ye  Deacons 
Seats  and  a  Communion  Table  and  one  pew"  were  spec- 
ified.    Other  pews  were  afterwards  built. 

A  rude  plan,  with  a  quaint  description,  of  the  house 
in  its  latter  years  is  in  existence,  which  clearly  shows  how 
simple  were  the  furnishings  of  the  Lord's  House,  and  how 
much  of  discomfort  must  have  been  endured  by  our  fathers 
and  mothers  upon  each  returning  Sabbath. 

The  return  of  the  members  of  the  South  Church  and 
Parish  found  the  meeting  house  too  strait  for  the  en- 
larged congregation,  and  the  house  was  in  need  of  sub- 
stantial repairs.  The  town  was  troubled,  as  it  has  often 
been  troubled  since,  by  the  need  of  building  school  houses; 
and  the  voters  appear  to  have  approached  the  question  of 
the  meeting  house  with  reluctance. 

On  the  ninth  of  September,  1799,  a  committee  was 
chosen  to  "Consider  wheather  it  is  best  to  Repair  the  pres- 
ent meeting  house  or  Build  a  new  one."  A  report  in  favor 
of  building  a  new  house  was  accepted  in  October,  and  a 
committee  was  appointed  "to  git  a  plan,"  A  plan  was 
presented  in  December,  and  a  committee  was  instructed  to 
"Compute  the  Cost  of  a  House  agreeable  to  said  plan ;" 
but  in  January  the  voters  appear  to  have  become  less  will- 
ing to  involve  the  town,  and  it  was  "Voted  Not  to  Raise 
any  Money  to  Build  a  Meeting  house.  Voted  to  give?  the 
old  Meeting-house  for  the  Town  According  to  the  plan 
on  Record." 


8  MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY 

By  this,  it  appears  that  some  plan  had  been  evolved 
to  build  by  subscription ;  and  a  committee  was  appointed 
"to  Restrict  the  undertakers  of  said  house  that  said  house 
May  be  finished  according  to  the  orders  of  said  Commit- 
tee." Two  weeks  later,  the  same  committee  was  instructed 
"to  lookout  a  Spot  of  land  to  Set  the  New  Meeting-house 
on  which  shall  be  More  Convenient." 

Whatever  may  have  been  contemplated  was  held  in 
abeyance  ;  and  nothing  more  is  found  relating  to  the  sub- 
ject until  January  12,  1801,  when  the  town  approved  of  a 
report  "respecting  the  measure  of  building  a  meeting 
house,"  and  chose  a  committee  "to  form  a  subscription  for 
the  above  purpose."  The  plan  of  a  subscription  failed  ;  and 
in  the  next  May,  it  was  "voted  to  Build  a  Meeting  house 
&  choose  a  Committee  to  present  the  former  plan  of  a 
meeting  house  to  the  Town  with  such  alterations  as  they 
think  will  best  sute  the  Town."  Later,  the  plan  was  pre- 
sented and  accepted ;  and  it  was  voted  to  raise  fifteen  hun- 
dred dollars,  and  a  committee  was  chosen  to  "procure 
materials  for  the  meeting  house  in  the  best  manner  they 
can." 

There  was  now  a  delay  of  nearly  seven  months,  until 
December  3,  1801,  when  a  plan  was  submitted  to  the  town, 
which  provided  for  the  building  of  a  new  house  by  a  direct 
tax  which  should  be  refunded  to  the  tax  payers  from  the 
proceeds  of  the  sale  of  the  pews  "at  public  Oction."  The 
cost  was  estimated  at  five  thousand  and  nineteen  dollars, 
which  was  largely  exceeded  in  the  end.  This  plan  was 
approved  and  ordered  to  be  recorded ;  and  it  was  voted  to 

"Build   a   Brick    Meeting   House,"   and    to  "purchase   the 
Bricks  rather  than  make  them." 

The  location  of  the  new  house,  which  appears  to  have 
been  in  doubt,   was  settled    in  April,   1802,   when  it  was 


MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY  9 

"Voted  the  Committee  have  liberty  to  Hall  down  the  meet- 
ing House  when  they  shall  deem  it  necessary.  Voted 
the  Committee  Seet  the  new  meeting  house  on  any  part  of 
the  town  Square  that  they  Shall  think  best."  Later,  the 
stones  of  the  town  pound,  which  adjoined  the  old  house, 
were  ordered  to  be  used  in  the  foundations  of  the  new 
house,  an  order  which,  for  some  reason,  caused  the 
recorded  protest  of  two  voters.  The  windows  of  the  old 
house  were  sold  at  auction ;  and  an  exchange  of  land  was 
made  with  Nathan  Waite  "to  accomodate  the  Meeting 
house"  Most  of  the  bricks  which  were  used  in  the  new 
house  were  made  from  clay  taken  from  a  pit  near  the 
present  corner  of  Middlesex  and  Sherman  streets. 

The  building  was  completed  before  January  lo,  1803, 
when  the  town  passed  a  vote  of  thanks  to  the  building 
committee,  ordered  the  sale  of  the  pews  at  public  auction, 
and  appointed  Wednesday,  January  19,  for  the  dedication. 
At  the  same  time,  an  appropriation  of  fifteen  dollars  was 
made  "for  the  singers  on  the  dedication  day ;"  and  William 
Haskins  and  Samuel  Waite,  Jr.  were  appointed  to  "order 
the  preparation."  The  story  of  the  dedication  may  best 
be  told  in  the  language  of  the  church  record  : — 

"The  brick  Meeting  House  erected  for  Public  worship 
in  Maiden  was  dedicated  the  19th.  day  of  January, 
1803.  Introductory  prayer  and  Reading  the  Scriptures 
by  Rev.  Tuckerman  of  Chelsea.  Dedicatory  Prayer  by 
Doctor  Osgood  of  Medford.  Sermon  by  Rev.  Mr. 
Green  from  2  Chro.  2  Chapter.  4  verse.  Behold,  I 
build  an  house  to  the  name  of  the  Lord  my  God, 
and  dedicate  it  to  him.  The  concluding  prayer  by  Mr. 
Tuckerman,  followed  by  appropriate  music.  This  building 
has  been  erected  in  about  6  months  and  completely  fin- 
ished.    It  is  enriched  by  a  bell  of  13  hundred  weight  Pre- 


lO  JVALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY 

sented  by  Mr.  Timothy  Dexter  of  Newburyport  and  by  a 
clock  presented  by  Mr.  John  Harris  of  Charlestown.  The 
expense  of  the  house  7,646  dollars,  as  near  as  can  be 
ascertained,  which  the  sale  of  the  pews  fully  equals." 

And  so  was  built  the  fourth  meeting  house  of  the  town 
and  the  First  Parish,  the  walls  of  which  are  now  standing  ; 
but  which  in  its  present  appearance  [1903]   bears  little  re- 
semblance to  that  of  its  early  years.     The  bell,  which  was 
presented  by  the  eccentric  Lord  Timothy  Dexter,  a  native 
of  Maiden,  took  the  place  of  the  ancient  bell  of  Bell  Rock, 
and  having  become  cracked  was  itself  superseded   by   a 
new  bell  in  1824.     The  latter  was  replaced  by  a  larger 
bell    in    1835.     The  clock,  presented    by  John  Harris,  a 
wealthy  merchant  of  Charlestown,  whose  mother,  Mildred 
Harris,  lies  in  the  old  burying-ground  at  Bell  Rock,  at  the 
close  of  the  century  of  service  still  marks  the  flight  of  time 
and  is  a  prominent  object  in  the  auditorium  of  the  church. 
As  originally  built,  the  house  had  a  cupola  on  each  of 
its  eastern  corners,  in  one  of  which  the  bell  was  hung. 
Both  were  removed  in  1824,  and  a  steeple,  or  tower,  of  four 
stages  was  built.     One  of  the  cupolas,  used  for  domestic 
purposes,  remained  many  years  in  the  rear  of  the  Charles 
Hill  house,  at  the  corner  of  Main  and  Irving  streets.     A 
line  of    galleries  occupied  the  house  on  three  sides,  the 
pulpit,  with  its  sounding  board,  being  at  the  westerly  end. 
The  lines  of  the  windows  as  now  seen  from  the  exterior 
mark  the  division    between    the    floor  and    the    galleries. 
The  original  interior  arrangement  continued  until   1836- 
37,   when    a    second    floor,    which    now    forms   the    floor 
of    the    auditorium,    was  put    in    and    the   sides    galleries 
removed.     The    lower    floor    was  then  divided  into  three 
rooms.     The  larger  room  was  upon  the  northern  side  and 
occupied  the  entire  length  of  the  building,  with  the  excep- 


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tion  of  the  space  of  one  window  at  the  front,  which  opened 
into  a  large  closet  or  storeroom.  The  two  smaller  rooms, 
upon  the  south  side,  were  of  unequal  dimensions. 

Upon  its  completion,  the  large  hall  was  hired  by  the 
town  for  its  meetings,  at  a  yearly  rental  of  forty-five  dol- 
lars;  and  there  the  voters  met  until  the  building  of  the 
town  house  in  1857.  It  was  the  Town  Hall,  distinctively; 
and  there  all  the  public  meetings  and  entertainments  were 
held.  Travelling  shows  and  itinerant  lectures,  of  all 
grades  and  qualities,  came  to  the  Town  Hall.  There  was 
the  home  of  the  Maiden  Lyceum,  the  long  established  and 
popular  literary  society  of  the  town.  There  also,  as  a 
matter  of  course,  the  Sunday  school  held  its  sessions. 
The  larger  of  the  smaller  rooms  was  "the  vestry,"  where 
the  weekly  "conferences"  and  the  church  meetings  were 
held.  The  smaller  room  was  occupied  for  several  years 
as  the  armory  of  the  Washington  Guards ;  and  upon  the 
green  by  the  side  of  the  house  the  weekly  drill  of  the  men 
took  place  in  pleasant  weather. 

In  1857,  a  change  was  made  by  which  the  house 
arrived  at  its  present  condition.  The  lower  floor  was  car- 
ried down  to  increase  the  height  of  the  rooms,  the  inner 
partitions  were  removed,  and  the  present  division  made. 
By  the  removal  of  the  interior  walls  and  stairways,  the 
length  of  the  auditorium  was  increased  by  the  space  of 
one  window  on  each  side.  The  steeple  of  1837  being 
taken  down,  the  present  tower,  in  which  are  placed  the 
organ  loft  and  vestibule,  was  built  outside  of  the  old  front 
wall.  Arches  were  cut  over  the  square  heads  of  the  win- 
dows, and  new  glazing  introduced  as  it  now  appears.  At 
the  same  time,  a  coating  of  stucco  was  placed  upon  the 
brick  walls,  an  unfortunate  addition  which  time  is  endeav- 
oring to  remove.     With  the  town  hall  and  the  steeple,  the 


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old-time  orchestra  disappeared  from  the  Sunday  service, 
and  the  present  organ  took  its  place.  The  Rev.  Mr. 
Greenwood  wrote  soon  after.  "We  have  all  we  could  de- 
sire. There  are  few,  if  any,  more  elegant  buildings 
of  the  kind  in  the  state.  Its  architecture  and  finish  are 
faultless  ;  its  appearance  rich  and  imposing."  He  further 
states  that  the  cost  of  the  alterations  was  about  fifteen 
thousand  dollars. 

While  the  alterations  were  being  made,  the  attic  over 
the  auditorium,  which  had,  probably,  not  been  visited  for 
many  years,  was  entered  and  the  old  town  stocks,  a  relic 
of  the  Puritan  days,  were  found  reposing  in  the  dust 
which  covered  them.  Unfortunately,  they  were  removed 
from  their  resting  place  and  have  been  destroyed. 


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THE   GOVERNOR'S   LADY. 

Why  One  of  Maiden's  Public  Parks  Is  Called  "Coytmore  Lea." 
By  Charlbs  Edward  Mann. 


Sometimes  the  most  interesting  narratives  lie  just 
along  the  path  of  history,  unnoticed  ;  and  unless  somebody 
becomes  attracted  by  a  minor  detail  and  follows  it  out,  the 
story  is  lost.  One  who  studies  early  New  England  history 
notices  that  the  circle  of  men  who  formed  the  company 
that  eventually  founded  the  Massachusetts  Bay  Colony, 
consisted  of  a  coterie  of  friends.  Some  leading  mind, 
Rev.  John  White  of  Dorchester,  possibly,  was  quietly  at 
work,  from  the  days  of  the  Pilgrim  migration,  planning 
for  a  Puritan  commonwealth,  and  enlarging  the  circle, 
until  it  contained  just  the  elements  of  strength  he  desired. 
From  the  days  of  the  formation  of  the  Dorchester  Company 
to  fish  at  Cape  Ann,  he  enlisted  John  Humphrey  (who 
was  chosen  lieutenant  governor)  to  sail  in  the  the  Great 
Emigration ;  soon  after,  Dudley ;  then  Cradock,  and  after 
the  latter  had  conceived  the  scheme  of  sending  the  charter 
over  in  the  custody  of  a  man  who  should  succeed  him  as 
governor  of  the  plantation,  last  of  all,  Winthrop  was 
chosen  to  lead  the  enterprise.  A  quiet,  but  forceful  man, 
was  with  the  project  almost  from  the  first — Increase 
Nowell,  long  the  secretary  of  the  colony. 

The  intimate  official  relations  of  many  of  these  men 
were  paralleled  by  intimate  personal  friendships,  and  they 
grouped  themselves  into  neighborhoods  and  bore  intimate 
trusts  for  one  another.     It  was  natural  that  Cradock,  who 


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made  large  investments  of  his  wealth  in  the  new  world  (to 
which  he  never  came)  should  have  committed  some  of  his 
interests  to  Edward  Collins ;  others  to  Nowell ;  and  that 
Winthrop  should  at  first  have  established  himself  on  the 
Ten  Hills  farm,  adjoining  the  property  of  both  Cradock 
and  Nowell. 

Increase  Nowell  married  Parnel  Gray.  She  was  the 
daughter  of  Thomas  Gray,  of  Harwich,  county  Essex, 
England,  and  Katherine,  daughter  of  Robert  Miles,  of 
Sutton,  in  Suffolk.  Her  first  husband,  a  man  named 
Parker,  died  before  1626.  She  died  in  Charlestown  in 
1687.  Thomas  Gray  having  died,  her  mother  married 
Rowland  Coytmore,  of  Wapping,  near  London,  and 
became  the  mother  of  Thomas  Coytmore.  Thomas  Coyt- 
more was  therefore  a  half-brother  of  Parnel  Gray  and  a 
brother-in-law  to  Increase  Nowell. 

Capt.  Thomas  Coytmore  was  a  mariner,  and,  though 
he  died  early,  distinguished  himself  in  many  ways,  thus 
succeeding  in  coming  down  in  New  England  history  as 
one  richly  deserving  the  honor  of  having  his  name  borne 
by  one  of  Maiden's  public  parks — "Coytmore  Lea."  On 
June  24,  1635,  he  married  at  Wapping,  Martha,  daughter 
of  Captain  William  Rainsborough.  Thus  enters  upon 
the  scene  the  principal  figure  in  this  story,  and  we  may 
imagine  her  as  the  daughter  of  one  sea-captain  and  the 

bride  of  another,  destined  to   a  life  of  luxury young, 

vivacious  and  winsome.  Winsome,  indeed  1  She  had 
already  won  one  husband,  was  to  win  two  others  (one  the 
Hon.  John  Winthrop,  governor  of  the  colony)  and  to  die 
brokenhearted  because  she  could  not  win  a  fourth.  Had 
Mr.  Corey,  with  his  fine  sense  of  historical  values,  named 
the  park  "Martha  Coytmore  Lea,"  this  story  would  have 
abundantly  justified  his  choice. 


MALDEN     HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  I5 

In  company  with  his  mother,  Katherine  Coytmore, 
two  sisters  (probably  Katherine  Gray,  who  married 
Thomas  Graves  of  Charlestown,  and  widow  Susanna 
Eaglesfield)  and  his  wife,  Thomas  Coytmore  must  have 
immediately  sailed  for  Massachusetts  Bay.  He  settled  in 
Charlestown,  in  1636 ;  was  made  a  member  of  the  artillery 
company,  1639 ;  was  admitted  to  the  Charlestown  church, 
1640;  was  elected  a  deputy  to  the  Great  and  General 
Court  the  same  year.  In  1644  (Dec.  27),  he  was  to  lose 
his  life  by  shipwreck  on  the  coast  of  Cales  (Spain). 

There  are  facts  in  the  early  maritime  history  of  New 
England  that  show  that  Capt.  Thomas  Coytmore  was  a 
pioneer  in  the  adventure  of  furnishing  this  section  with 
means  of  developing  commerce,  and  for  this  alone,  he 
deserves  to  have  his  name  perpetuated,  although  long  ago 
his  body  disappeared  in  the  sea. 

Spear,  in  "The  story  of  the  Merchant  Marine,"  gives 
us  this  bit  of  history  : 

"In  1624  the  Pilgrims  exported  their  first  cargo  of  fish. 
Boston  sent  its  first  cargo  away  in  1633.  The  owners  of 
these  fish  had  to  pay  three  or  four  pounds  a  ton  freight ; 
and  an  agent  in  England  who  charged  a  good  commission 
for  doing  so  found  a  customer  to  buy  them.  The  New 
Englanders  saw  that  the  vessel  carrying  the  cargo  made  a 
profit  for  her  owner.  They  saw,  too,  that  an  agent  in  a  for- 
eign country  across  the  water  would  never  have  quite  the 
interest  in  selling  to  advantage  that  they  themselves  would 
have  if  they  were  there  to  sell.  In  short,  if  the  fish  business 
were  to  be  handled  in  the  most  profitable  way  possible,  they 
must  carry  the  cargo  in  their  own  ship  direct  to  the  con- 
sumer. Hugh  Peter  preached  this  doctrine  with  emphasis, 
without  doubt," for  it  was  he  who  led  in  building  a  300-ton 
ship  at  Salem.  From  catching  fish  to  carrying  them  to  the 
oversea  market  was  a  short  passage  quickly  made.     With 


l6  MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY 

this  in  mind,  consider  the  brief  story  of  the  voyage  of  the 
good  ship  Trials  Capt.  Thomas  Coytmore,  made  after  the 
fishing  business  was  well  in  hand. 

"The  Trial  was  the  ship  (of  i6o  or  200  tons)  built  in 
Boston  when  the  people  there  were  stirred  to  emulation  by 
the  work  of  Hugh  Peter  in  Salem.  Loaded  with  fish  .and 
pipe  staves,  she  sailed  away  to  Fayal  in  1642.  Fayal  was 
chosen  because  the  people  there  had  religious  views  lead- 
ing them  to  eat  fish  instead  of  flesh  on  many  days  of  the 
year,and  they  were  wine-makers, who  used  many  casks  every 
year.  The  Trial  found  the  market  at  Fayal  "extraordi- 
nary good,"  and  Captain  Coytmore  exchanged  the  fish  and 
staves  for  wine,  sugar,  etc.,  which  he  carried  to  St.  Chris- 
topher's, in  the  West  Indies.  There  he  traded  wine  for 
cotton,  tobacco  and  some  iron  which  the  people  had  taken 
from  a  ship  that  had  been  wrecked  on  the  coast,  and  was 
then  visible,  though  so  far  under  water  that  the  wreckers 
had  abandoned  all  work  upon  it.  As  the  New  Englanders 
were  exceedingly  anxious  to  get  all  kinds  of  iron  things  used 
about  a  ship.  Captain  Coytmore  must  needs  have  a  look  at 
the  wreck,  and  after  due  examination,  he  determined  to  try 
to  recover  more  of  the  wreckage.  Slinging  a  "diving  tub" 
(doubtless  a  good  cask,  well  weighted,  and  with  the  open 
end  down)  above  the  hulk,  he  got  into  it,  and  having  been 
lowered  to  the  sunken  deck,  made  shift  to  hook  good  stout 
grapnels  to  the  valvxable  things  lying  within  reach." 

In  1636,  Spear  tells  us,  the  Desire  (120  tons)  was  built 
at  Marblehead  for  the  fishing  business.  In  two  years  she 
made  a  voyage  in  the  slave  trade,  and  thus  won  enduring 
notoriety. 

However,  notwithstanding  the  courage  and  enterprise 
shown  by  Capt.  Coytmore  on  the  Trial's  maiden  trip,  the 
boat  had  a  new  skipper  on  her  next  voyage.  Probably 
Capt.  Coytmore  saw  opportunities  to  increase  his  worldly 
estate  on  land  more  alluring  than  those  which  bade  him 


MALDEN[i  HISTORICAL     SOCIETY  I7 

tempt  the  perils  of  the  sea.  Though  still  living  in  Charles- 
town,  he  had  established  himself  in  that  part  of  the  big 
settlement  known  as  "Mystic  Side,"  and  soon  to  be  named 
"Maiden."  Thomas  Coytmore,  however,  was  to  go  down 
into  history  as  of  Charlestown,  although  when  elected  a 
deputy  to  the  Great  and  General  Court  he  must  have  been 
living  on  the  spnt  that  for  two  centuries  has  been  recog- 
nized as  the  center  of  Maiden.  When  the  Indian  trail  from 
Saugus  ("Saugust"  was  then  Lynn)  to  the  Medford  ponds 
became  a  part  of  the  Salem  road,  its  course  was  changed 
so  as  to  run  from  Black  Ann's  corner  to  a  point  where  it 
crossed  the  ancient  road  from  Reading  and  points  beyond 
to  Winnisemet  ferry,  being  then  deflected  so  as  to  run  to 
Mr.  Nowell's  farm,  covering  what  is  now  Edgeworth  and 
including  much  of  Medford.  The  point  of  intersection  of 
the  two  roads  became  Maiden  square,  and  the  house  of 
Thomas  Coytmore  was  very  near  the  spot.  History  leaves 
us  in  doubt  whether  the  house  became  the  property  of 
Joseph  Hills  and  so  his  home,  or  whether  it  was  sold  by 
Martha  Coytmore  to  Job  Lane  and  was  the  house  left  in 
Job  Lane's  will  as  "the  house  where  I  now  live"  to  his 
daughter,  Dorothy  Sprague.  The  Reading  road  came 
down  from  Forest  street  to  Maiden  square  on  practically 
its  present  lines  and  crossed  a  portion  of  Thomas  Coyt- 
more's  land  near  Mount  Prospect,  or  Wayte's  Mount.  As 
Joseph  Hills  owned  practically  all  the  land  from  his  house 
(which  is  nowmarkedby  the  boulder  at  Maiden  square)  to 
Wayte's  Mount  and  Faulkner,  excepting  this  Coytmore 
land,  he  easily  persuaded  the  Captain  to  deed  it  to  him. 
Mr.  Corey  was  so  uncertain  on  the  matter  that  he  did  not 
put  Thomas  Coytmore's  name  on  the  memorial  boulder, 
preferring  to  honor  him  by  giving  his  name  to  the  "Coyt- 
more Lea,"  which  is  certainly  a  part  of  the  Captain's 
original  grant. 


l8  MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY 

This  grant  included  a  part  of  the  land  upon  which 
the  Hicrh  school  stands  and  extended  from  the  Salem  road 
(now  Pleasant  street)  and  ran  along  the  Three  Mile  Brook 
to  a  point  near  the  Mount,  not  far  from  Clifton  street. 
His  water  rights  extended  much  further.  Job  Lane  did 
not  hesitate  to  include  Spot  pond  in  the  property.  How- 
ever, although  Coytmore  built  the  dam  across  the  brook  at 
its  present  location  (Mountain  avenue)  he  resorted  to  pur- 
chase as  a  means  of  procuring  a  site  for  his  "corne  mill" 
south  of  the  road,  and  here  he  may  have  built  his  house. 

Under  date  of  May  29,  164^,  the  Court  took  the 
following  action  :  "If  the  towns  in  the  Bay  agree  with 
Mr.  Coitemore  for  taking  charge  of  the  Castle,  he  shall 
be  accepted  as  Captain  during  the  terme  they  shall  agree 
with  him  for,"  etc.  This  made  possible  a  military  career 
for  the  captain,  and  had  the  agreement  been  for  a  long 
"terme"  this  fragment  of  the  social  history  of  the  period 
would  never  have  been  written ;  but  brave  as  he  was,  and 
destined  to  perish  in  an  heroic  death,  he  was  not  to  lose 
his  life  in  defending  the  Castle."* 

By  1644  Capt.  Coytmore  again  heard  the  call  of  the 
sea.  I  do  not  know  the  name  of  his  vessel,  wrecked  on 
the  coast  of  Spain,  but  we  may  be  sure  one  of  the  daring 

♦The  appearance  of  Captain  Coytmore's  name  in  connection  with  Castle  island  is 
clearly  from  the  desire  of  the  Court  to  forestall  an  unwise  choice  of  a  commander.  But  a 
short  time  before  it  had  been  determined  to  dismantle  the  Castle  and  distribute  her  arma- 
ment among  the  different  towns,  for  the  reason  that  it  was  difficult  to  get  lime  for  masonry 
and  because  vessels  could  reach  Boston  by  a  channel  on  the  Bird  island  side  of  the  harbor 
out  of  range  of  the  guns  of  the  Castle.  But  the  visit  of  La  Tour  to  Boston  alarmed  the 
Governor  and  the  people.  They  realized  that,  but  for  his  friendly  spirit,  they  were  in  his 
power,  and  hastily  perfected  plans  to  rebuild  the  fort  and  close  the  Bird  island  channel. 
Six  towns  near  the  Bay— Boston,  Charlestown,  Koxbury,  Dorchester,  Cambridge  and 
Watertown  shared  the  labor  and  cost.  It  is  a  fine  tribute  to  Thomas  Coytmore's  character 
and  reputation  that  he  should  have  been  the  choice  of  Winthrop,  Dudley  and  their  associ- 
ates for  the  command.  A  contemporary  record  shows  he  was  to  have  twenty  men  in 
summer  and  ten  in  winter.  As  they  were  to  be  without  a  minister,  he  would  be  con- 
sidered as  head  of  a  family;  half  the  men  were  to  attend  church  every  Sunday,  and  he 
every  other  Sunday.     Lieut.  Richard  Davenport  was  finally  chosen  for  the  position. 


MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY  I9 

and  resources  of  the  gallant  captain  must  have  fought  to 
save  his  ship  and  cargo,  for  the  lives  of  his  crew  and  his 
own  life,  to  the  very  end  of  hope.  We  are  too  far  away 
from  the  time  to  do  other  than  imagine  the  scene  of  storm 
and  shipwreck,  or  try  to  bring  back  the  days  of  loneliness, 
suspense,  sorrow  and  despair  suffered  by  the  young  wife 
until  the  time  came  when  through  the  lips  of  a  survivor  or 
by  some  other  means  she  found  her  worst  forebodings 
realized. 

In  his  few  years  residence  in  America,  Thomas  Coyt- 
more  had  gathered  quite  a  little  property,  most  of  it  in 
land.  He  left  behind  him  a  small  son  bearing  his  own 
name,  and  the  little  Thomas  Coytmore  evidently  found 
himself  a  person  of  consequence  from  an  early  date.  His 
father  had  come  into  possession  of  ''two  lotts"  of  land  near 
Ell  pond,  and  on  these  the  trustees  of  the  Coytmore  estate 
built  a  house  for  the  use  of  the  young  man.  In  the  vexa- 
tious process  of  attempting  to  create  something  like  a 
straight  highw^ay  from  the  circuitous  meanderings  of  the 
Reading  road,  the  commissioners  appointed  by  the  General 
Court  made  quite  a  detour  to  avoid  taking  any  part  of  the 
"two  lotts"  of  Thomas  Coytmore.  If  Joseph  Hills  was  not 
living  in  the  original  Coytmore  house,  it  would  appear  that 
the  widow  contemplated  selling  it,  and  so  planned  to  take 
up  her  residence  with  her  son  ;  but  the  course  of  events 
shaped  things  otherwise. 

On  the  14th  of  June,  1647,  Margaret,  the  beloved  wife 
of  Governor  John  Winthrop,  died.  The  Governor  was 
then  fifty-nine  years  old.  He  had  been  thrice  married, 
first,  April  16,  1605,  to  Mary,  daughter  of  John  Fourth, 
who  brought  him  a  very  substantial  property.  She  was 
buried  June  26,  1615.  He  married,  second,  Dec.  6,  1615, 
Thomasine,    daughter    of    William    Clopton.      She    died 


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Dec.  8,  1616.  His  third  marriage,  April  29,  1619,  was  to 
Margaret,  daughter  of  Sir  John  Tindall,  Knight.  She 
followed  him  to  Boston  in  1631. 

This  is  not  the  place  to  rehearse  her  virtues  or  to  pic- 
ture the  devotion  of  her  illustrious  husband  to  her.  He  was 
a  good  husband  and  kind  and  loving  father — a  patriarch, 
whose  children  and  children's  children  have  revered  his 
memory  and  one  whom  Massachusetts  has  honored  for 
centuries.  This  is  the  story  of  Margaret  Winthrop's 
successor. 

In  a  letter  written  to  his  son,  John,  dated  3  :  (5)  :  48,  is 
a  short  postscript.  "My  wife  salutes  you  all."  Referring  to 
this,  his  biographer  (Robert  Charles  Winthrop)  on  page 
380  of  volume  two  of  the  "Life  and  Letters"  says  :  "Gov- 
ernor Winthrop  had  not  learned  to  live  alone.  His  child- 
ren all  scattered,  his  old  servants  all  dead  or  dying,  in  a 
land  still  thinly  settled  and  but  partly  civilized,  and  with 
the  weighty  cares  of  government  upon  him — he  needed 
the  support  and  comfort  which  another  marriage  could 
alone  afford  him.  And  so,  about  the  beginning  of  this 
year,  he  had  wedded  a  sister  of  Increase  Nowell,  the  old 
secretary  of  the  colony  and  the  widow  of  Mr.  Thomas 
Coytmore — "a  right  godly  man,"  and  a  gentleman  of 
good  estate,  who  had  been  a  deputy  to  the  General  Court 
from  Charlestown  in  1640  and  to  some  subsequent  courts  ; 
but  who  had  been  lost  at  sea  about  three  years  before. 
The  indentures  of  the  marriage  covenant  between  the 
Governor  and  Martha  Coytmore  were  deemed  important 
enough  to  be  admitted  to  a  place  in  the  colony  records, 
where  they  are  spread  out  in  detail,  with  many  curious 
particulars  of  goods  and  chattels  belonging  to  her.  The 
Governor  himself  had  not  many  goods  and  chattels  to 
bestow.    On  the  contrary,  his  part  of  the  covenant  contains 


MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY  21 

the  following  notable  passage  :  "And  whereas,  the  s'd  John 
having  disposed  of  his  estate  among  his  children,  and  such 
persons  as  he  was  engaged  unto,  so  as  he  hath  not  to 
endowe  the  s'd  Martha,  and  therefore  out  of  the  love  he 
bears  to  her  is  careful  to  have  her  owne  estate  so  secured 
to  her  as  that  by  the  blessing  of  the  Lord  it  may  be  pre- 
served and  remaine  to  her  and  her  children  after  the  death 
of  s'd  John  Winthrop,  etc." 

The  covenant  referred  to  appears  in  volume  II  of  the 
Massachusetts  Bay  records,  pp.  232-234,  and  is  preceded 
by  a  deed  from  Martha  Coytmore  as  executrix  under 
Thomas  Coytmore's  will,  in  which  she  conveys  to  Inrease 
Nowell,  William  Ting,  Joseph  Hills  and  William  Stitson 
as  foefees  in  trust  for  Thomas  Coytmore,  junior,  one-half 
of  his  father's  estate,  the  value  of  which  she  states  to  be 
1266  pounds,  nine  shillings  and  seven  pence.  The  other 
half  of  the  estate  was  the  property — "the  goods  and  chat- 
tels" which  she  brought  to  Governor  Winthrop  as  her  mar- 
riage dowry  and  which  he  was  so  anxious  to  have  secured 
to  her  in  the  event  of  his  death.  The  Winthrop  agreement 
shows  a  very  different  type  of  man  from  the  third  success- 
ful suitor  for  the  fair  Martha's  hand — but  we  are  antici- 
pating. 

The  schedules  of  real  estate  and  personal  property 
included  in  these  papers  are  illuminating,  as  bearing  on 
Capt.  Coytmore's  wealth  and  also  as  enabling  us  to  identify 
propery  of  which  his  wife  again  found  herself  the  heir 
upon  the  death  of  her  third  husband — but  again  we  antici- 
pate. .  Five  hundred  acres  of  land  in  Wbburn  were  valued 
at  26:01:10;  "ye  house  garden,  etc.,"  at  120  pounds; 
"half  the  further  mill,"  at  100  pounds;  five  cow  commons 
at  10  pounds:  23  hay  lots  at  041.00.00;  85  acres  of  land 
by  mill  at  63  :  10 :  00 ;   and  130  acres  of  land  at  Ell  pond 


22  MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY 

at  22.00.00.  Evidently  the  house  at  Ell  pond  was  built 
later,  by  the  ffoeffees.  The  inventory  of  household  treas- 
ures need  not  be  repeated  here.* 

Mr.  Watkins  would  take  us  to  King,  now  State,  street 
for  the  Governor's  mansion,  standing  on  the  present  site  of 
the  Exchange  building,  while  the  Governor's  noted  grand- 
son, Hon.  Robert  C.  Winthrop,  was  content  to  go  through 
life  believing  that  it  stood  on  Cornhill  (now  Washington 
street)  at  its  junction  with  Marlborough  street,  facing  up 
School  street,  and  that  its  demolition  furnished  firewood 
for  the  British  soldiers  quartered  in  the  Old  South  church 
during  the  siege  of  Boston.  The  Governor's  property  in- 
cluded both  sites,  while  both  authorities  would  doubtless 
have  agreed  that  Josiah  Blanchard,  whose  bones  lie  in 
Bell  Rock  cemetery,  built  the  Old  South  church  in  Mrs. 
Winthrop's  garden.     Either  site  was  about  the  same  dis- 


*A  while  ago  the  writer  was  visited  and  asked  to  suggest  incidents  in  the  history  of 
Maiden  appropriate  for  use  in  a  "historical  pageant,"  and  suggested  the  courtship  of 
Martha  Coytmore  by  John  Winthrop.  The  scene  would  be  picturesque.  Life  was  simple 
then.  The  Governor  could  not  then  take  the  train,  the  trolley-car,  an  automobile  or  a  car- 
riage. Carriages  came  into  use  during  the  next  generation.  Upon  horseback  he  could 
have  made  a  weary  journey  over  the  Neck,  through  Roxbury,  "Punch-Bowl"  village 
(Brookline),  Cambridge,  Medford  and  by  the  old  Salem  path  to  Mystic  Side.  Or  he  could 
have  mounted  his  steed,  proceeded  through  the  North  End  to  Ship  street,  whence  Edward 
Convers'  ferry  would  have  landed  him  on  the  Charlestown  shore,  where  Paul  Revere,  a 
century  later,  watched  for  the  lanterns,  thence  he  could  have  crossed  Bunker  Hill  to  the 
Charlestown  shore,  utilized  the  Penney  ferry  to  Thomas  Call's  hostelry  on  the  Mystic  side 
shore  and  sought  the  home  at  the  Widow  Coytmore.  That  the  courtship  caused  a  social  sen- 
sation goes  without  saying.  Considerations  of  jiersonal  safety  would  have  necessitated 
his  having  a  body-guard.  As  the  chief  magistrate,  he  would  have  required  men  of  stand- 
ing and  influence  for  his  companions,  while  the  publication  of  his  ante-nuptial  contract  in 
the  general  court  records  shows  the  importance  of  the  negotiations  in  his  mind.  So, 
knowing  something  of  the  personnel  of  the  group  counted  among  the  Governor's  inti- 
mate-^, we  can  almost  recognize  in  the  cavalcade  the  venerable  Increase  Nowell,  the  lady's 
brother-in-law,  whose  home,  in  the  Edgeworth  section,  might  have  formed  an  ostensible 
destination  for  the  excursion,  Captain  Robert  Kayne  of  the  artillery  company,  Richard 
Bellingham,  Edward  Collins  and  John  Endicott.  Judge  Samuel  Sewell,  in  his  diary,  writ- 
ten a  few  decades  later,  gives  us  a  picture  of  what  old-time  courtship  was  like,  though  we 
cannot  imagine  such  a  sincere,  grave  and  courtly  man  as  Winthrop  indulging  in  so  flirta- 
tious a  passage  as  that  between  Widow  Winthrop — the  Governor's  daughter-in-law and 

Sewall.  The  judge,  making  a  call,  asked  her  to  remove  her  glove.  Madame  Winthrop 
inquired  why  she  should  do  so.  He  replied  that  he  preferred  to  touch  a  live  lady  rather 
than  a  dead  goat. 


MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY  23 

tance  from  the  "mansion-house"  of  John  Coggan,"the  father 
of  Boston  merchants,"  at  the  corner  of  King  street  and 
Cornhill,  who  was  to  take  his  turn  in  befriending  the  luck- 
less Martha,  when  she  was  again  widowed. 

There  are  many  things  we  would  like  to  know  regard-  . 
ing  the  Governor's  lady  in  the  years  that  followed,  but 
details  are  lacking.  The  Winthrop  papers  are  rich  in 
letters  from  the  Governor  to  his  son  John,  and  to  his  other 
children,  and  good,  genuine  love  letters  to  Margaret  Win- 
throp and  Mary  Forth  are  not  lacking — letters  that  reveal 
the  warmth  of  his  affection  and  the  genuineness  of  his 
spiritual  feeling — but  either  he  wrote  no  letters  to  Martha 
Winthrop  or  there  was  nobody  interested  to  preserve  them. 
John  Winthrop  had  reached  the  place  where  his  highest 
ambitions  were  realized.  There  was  no  prouder  position 
on  this  side  of  the  water  than  the  governorship  of  the 
Massachusetts  Bay  Colony ;  and  nobody  cared  to  dispute 
his  right  to  it.  Year  after  year  he  was  re-elected,  as  a 
matter  of  course. 

Martha  Coytmore  Winthrop  had  reached  the  height 
of  her  ambition,  also.  One  hundred  and  fifty  years  were 
to  pass  before  anything  more  pretentious  was  to  be  seen 
than  the  executive  mansion  on  the  slope  of  Beacon  hill — 
before  Martha  Washington  of  Mount  Vernon  and  Abigail 
Adams,  the  first  mistress  of  the  White  House,  should  dis- 
pute the  title  of  the  first  lady  of  the  land. 

On  December  12,  1648,  another  son,  Joshua,  was 
born  to  the  Governor.  The  boy  must  have  brought  both 
joy  and  misgivings  with  his  advent.  The  Governor  was 
not  well,  and  in  a  few  months,  amid  all  the  pomp  and  cir- 
cumstance the  young  colony  could  muster,  his  body  was 
to  be  laid  in  the  King's  Chapel  burying  ground.  Young 
Thomas    Coytmore    had    been    provided    for    before    his 


♦ 


24  MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY 

mother  left  him  to  occupy  her  new  estate,  and  was  to  die 
before  he  could  make  use  of  his  wealth  ;  but  here  was  an 
heir,  born  into  the  world  with  no  patrimony.  His  revered 
father  was  annually  granted  an  honorarium  of  one  hun- 
dred pounds  in  recognition  of  services  creating  a  debt 
which  never  would — perhaps  never  could — be  repaid.  He 
was  the  infant  brother  of  stalwart  sons  and  comely  daugh- 
ters of  Winthrop,  most  of  whom  had  already  received  their 
inheritance,  but  at  least  two  of  whom  must  wait  until 
Providence  indicated  whether  the  baby  was  to  keep  or 
release  his  hold  on  life  before  they  could  claim  from  the 
colony  anything  from  their  father's  estate.  We  may  be 
sure  at  this  time  Thomas  Coytmore,  jr.,  was  replaced  by 
little  Joshua  Winthrop  in  the  mother's  solicitude,  while  it 
is  easy  to  imagine  the  fine  old  Governor  studying  the 
problem,  until  in  an  hour  of  respite  from  pain  he  sum- 
moned the  old  secretary  of  the  Colon}^  Increase  Nowell, 
(brother,  not  to  Mrs.  Winthrop,  but  half-brother  to  Thomas 
Coytmore)  and  told  him  to  make  the  child  the  foster-child 
of  the  colony.  We  may  reason  that  he  must  have  commit-' 
ted  the  sacred  trust  to  Nowell,  for  he  was  his  life-long 
friend,  a  member  of  the  Court,  and,  besides  had  a  direct 
personal  interest  in  the  child's  mother. 

The  Colony  records  show  that  the  echoes  of  the 
funeral  salutes  had  hardly  died  away  (the  Colony  declined 
to  permit  Boston  to  reimburse  her  for  the  great  quantity  of 
powder  borrowed  and  burned  on  the  mournful  occasion) 
when  the  council  "unanimously  agreed  and  voted  that  two 
hundred  pounds  should  be  given  for  the  infant  of  our  late 
honored  Governor,  John  Winthrop,  Esq.,  out  of  the  next 
country  levy." 

Oddly  enough,  Nowell,  or  whoever  made  the  entry  in 
the  records,  forgot  it,  and  sometime   after,  by  searching, 


MALDEN     HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  2$ 

was  unable  to  find  it,  so  he  made  inquiry  among  his  asso- 
ciates, found  they  recalled  the  unanimous  vote  and  had 
another  passed. 

Three  days  after  the  action  cited  above.  May  lo,  1649, 
this  entry  appears  :  "Forasmuch  as  our  late  honored  Gov- 
ern'r,  John  Winthrop,  Esq.,  upon  his  death  bed  did  express 
his  tender  desires  toward  his  wife  and  youngest  child,  that 
if  the  country  did  think  meete  to  bestow  anything  on  him 
for  his  service  donne,  that  it  shall  be  to  the  said  child,  and 
remayne  in  the  hands  of  the  said  wife,  for  its  education, 
and  the  stocke  preserved  intire  for  the  child's  use,  and 
forasmuch  as  the  Courte  hath  not  p'vided  for  the  disposing 
of  the  estate  in  case  the  child  should  dye,  the  Court  con- 
ceaving  it  just,  and  accordingly  orders,  yt  in  case  the 
infant  dyes  before  it  attayne  the  age  of  twenty  &  one 
yeeres,  the  one  third  pte  should  accrew  to  the  wyddow  of 
our  late  honnered  Governor,  and  the  other  two  third  partes, 
one  third  to  Mr.  Deane  Winthrop  and  the  other  to  Mr. 
Samuell  Winthrop,  they,  as  yett,  having  had  no  portions 
out  of  the  Govern's  estate,  nor  like  to  have." 

On  May  22,  165 1,  on  the  petition  of  Richard  Parker 
and  James  Penn,  Eight  pounds  per  cent  was  voted  to  Mrs. 
Winthrop  for  the  200  pounds  for  the  youngest  child  of 
John  Winthrop.  On  October  19,  1652,  it  was  voted  to 
make  the  date  of  the  200  pounds  payment  the  third  month, 
1649.  On  January,  1651,  Joshua  Winthrop  died,  and  evi- 
dently the  settlement  of  his  estate — that  is,  the  payment  of 
the  200  pounds  patrimony  he  never  saw,  to  his  mother 
and  two  big  brothers — was  still  in  process  in  1652.  On 
May  23,  the  Court  voted  that  one-third  part  be  paid  to 
Samuel  Winthrop  if  he  could  prove  his  right  to  it. 

Apparently  two  months  elapsed  from  the  death  of 
little  Joshua  Winthrop,  when  the  wedding  bells  again  rang 


26  MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY 

for  his  comely  young   mother.     John  Coggan's  wife  had 
died,  and  he  lost  no  time  in  paying  his  addresses  to  the 
Governor's    lady.      He    is    said    to    have   emigrated    from 
Devon  to  Dorchester  prior  to  1635,  and  must  have  done  so, 
if,  as  alleged,  he  opened  the  first  shop  in  Boston.     It  stood 
"over  against"  his  mansion,  which  would  locate  it  on  the 
present  site  of  the  Ames  building.     It  was  a  hatter's  shop. 
There  are   many  scattered  bits   of  information  that  show 
him  to   have  been  a  keen  man  of  business,  but  he  could 
not   have    been    wealthy,    and    plainly,    among    Martha's 
attractions  were   the    one-half   interest   in    the   Coytmore 
estate  which  Governor  Winthrop  so  thoughtfully  secured  to 
her  and  the  one-third  of  little   Joshua's  endowment  pro- 
vided for  her  by  the  Court.     Evidently  he  thought  ante- 
nuptial contracts  were  a  waste  of  time  and  paper.     Suffice 
it  to  say,  that  in  the  years  that  followed,  he  found  ample 
time  to  devote,  not  only  to  the  former  Governor's  lady,  but 
to  Captain  Coytmore's  property,  and  especially  to  his  mill. 
Valentine  Hill  operated  the  mill,  as   overseer  or  lessee, 
until  it  passed  into  the  custody  of  Job  Lane,  but  it  seemed 
to  be  considered  "Mr.  Coggin's"  mill  and  Martha  Coggan 
seems    to    have    been    overlooked.     Long    after    Thomas 
Coytmore's  death,  a  grant  of  land  in  Woburn  was  located 
for  his  heirs,  on  petition  of  John  Cogan,  the  land  to  be  "at 
the  charge  of  the  pet'r  until  the  right  heir  be  determined." 
This  land  was  in  what  is  now  Burlington,  long  known  as 
Woburn  Precinct.    Thomas  Coytmore,  jr.,  had  now  disap- 
peared from   the   record  and  was  apparently  dead ;  little 
Joshua  was  dead  ;  but  they  were  to  have  a  successor  in 
their  mother's  solitude.     This  was  the  third  marriage  of 
John  Coggan,  as  well  as  of  Martha.      He  had  children  by 
his  former  marriages,  though  not  such  a  troop  as  had  John 
Winthrop.     The  little  stranger  who  came  to  the  Coggan 


MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY  27 

mansion  was  alliteratively  named  Caleb,  and  for  a  third 
time  his  mother  attacked  the  problem  of  rearing  a  son, 
soon  to  be,  as  had  been  each  of  the  others,  an  orphan.  In 
1^57'  John  Coggan  died.  His  will  was  filed  December 
16  of  that  year.  To  his  widow,  Martha,  he  gave  during 
her  life,  one-third  of  his  estate  ;  after  her  decease  to  her 
son,  Caleb.  To  Caleb  he  gave  his  "now  mansion  house 
and  house  adjoining  and  two  shops,  all  my  farmes  and 
land  at  Rumney  Marsh,  and  my  corne  mill  at  Mauldon, 
1-8  part  corne  mill  in  Charlestown,  all  my  lands  in  Maul- 
den  and  500  accers  in  Woburn." 

For  some  time  the  widow  found  herself  in  trouble  in 
attempting,  as  executrix,  to  settle  the  estate.  John  Cog- 
gan had  made  a  generous  will,  especially  in  disposing  of 
Thomas  Coytmore's  property.  It  was  all  to  be  little 
Caleb's,  together  with  land  that  had  caused  him  much  liti- 
gation, at  Rumney  marsh,  and  the  Woburn  land,  which  he 
held  as  trustee  for  Thomas  Coytmore,  jr.  or  his  mother. 
Martha  must  have  been  charmed  to  have  her  spouse  even 
giving  away  the  Coytmore  mill — but  the  lad  was  the  bene- 
ficiary, so  all  was  well,  until  the  bills  against  the  estate 
began  to  come  in,  and  to  eat  it  up.  The  overseers  appoint- 
ed declined  to  serve  with  her  and  she  had  to  turn  to  the 
Court  for  light  on  the  problem  of  how  the  boy  was  to  be 
reared  and  educated  and  who  was  to  make  .good  the 
money  spent  upon  him. 

The  Court  put  the  problem  up  to  John  Norton  and 
Thomas  Danforth.  They  reported  that  there  would  be 
nothing  left  of  John  Coggan's  estate  for  the  education  of 
Caleb,  for  at  least  some  four  or  five  years,  and  if  more 
debts  should  happen  to  appear,  for  longer.  They  found, 
however,  that  an  allowance  of  20  pounds  per  annum  while 
the   lad  was   at  school    and  30  pounds  per  year  while  he 


28  MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY 

was  at  the  "colledge"  would  be  a  meet  recompense  to  the 
executrix,  and  recommended  her  to  reimburse  herself  by 
the  sale  of  the  property  in  Maiden  and  elsewhere,  men- 
tioned in  the  will. 

Poor  woman  !  The  outlook  was  dark,  indeed.  In 
her  perplexity  but  one  solution  presented  itself ;  heretofore 
she  had  found  release  from  her  solitude  and  sorrow  by 
re-marriage.  Why  not  flee  from  her  ti'oubles  again  in  the 
same  way?  Alas!  No  courtly  Governor  Winthrop  was 
waiting  to  take  her  to  his  home  this  time  ;  no  bluff  Gover- 
nor Endicott  was  waiting  to  act  as  her  legal  cupid  to  unite 
her  to  another  John  Coggan.  Foiled  in  her  effort  to  find  a 
suitable  yeoman,  even,  in  her  desperation  she  turned  to  a 
husbandman.  (No  joke  intended;  the  subject  is  far  too 
serious.) 

The  dignity  and  poise  of  the  Court  was  upset  in  the 
Fall  of  1660  by  a  rumor  that  one  of  its  wards  would  trouble 
it  no  more  for  friendly  advice  or  financial  succor.  This  is 
the  record:  "At  a  meeting  of  the  magists.,  24  Oct.,  pres- 
ent, dept.  Gov'r,  major  Atherton  &  Recorder.  The  Mag- 
ists, having  binn  informed  of  Mrs.  Coggan,  ye  relict  of 
ye  late  Mr.  John  Coggan,  sudaine  death,  yt  not  without 
suspition  of  poison,  Ordered,  yt  ye  recorder  issue  out  a 
warrant  to  ye  Constables  of  Boston  to  summon  &  impanell 
a  jury  of  inquest  for  the  inquiry  how  she  came  to  hir  end. 
And  also  judged  it  meete  for  ye  preservation  of  ye  estate 
left  by  hir  behind  hir,  yt  it  may  not  be  embezled  but  pre- 
served, to  appoint  Elder  James  Penne  &  Deacon  Richard 
Truesdall  Administrators  to  the  estate  of  ye  late  Mrs. 
Martha  Coggan,  impowering  them  forthwith  to  take  into 
their  custody  the  keyes,  plate,  &c.  of  ye  said  Mrs.  Coggan 
&  secure  ye  same,  taking  a  true  inventory  of  that  estate 
and  bringing  it  into  ye  next  County  Court  &  providing 
for  her  decent  interment." 


MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY  29 

Joseph  Rocke  of  Boston,  who  married  John  Coggan's 
daughter,  Elizabeth,  bound  himself  in  400  pounds  to  Ed- 
ward Rawson,  recorder,  Feb.  24,  1662,  as  administrator 
of  the  estates  of  John  and  Martha  Coggan.  On  him, 
therefore,  devolved  the  duty,  in  the  succeeding  years,  of 
carrying  on  the  tasks  Martha  Coggan  had  lacked  the 
courage  to  face.  One  was  to  secure  evidence  that  Martha 
had  borrowed  money  on  the  Coggan  mansion  from  a 
neighbor  and  repaid  it.  Another  was  to  discharge  obliga- 
tions for  little  Caleb's  education.  The  Lane  papers  show 
that  Job  Lane,  1662,  was  forced  to  get  Joshua  Scottow 
and  another  to  make  affidavit  that  they  saw  Martha  Cog- 
gan sign  the  deed  transferring  the  Coytmore  mill  and 
pond  to  him.  He  clinched  the  matter  by  getting  a  quit- 
claim deed  of  the  property  from  the  Rocke  and  Robinson 
heirs  of  John  Coggan ;  or  we  should  have  no  Coytmore 
Lea.* 

Who  composed  the  jury  of  inquest  and  the  nature  of 
their  report,  we  can  only  guess.  Few  people  could  have 
been  more  keenly  anxious  for  details  of  the  tragedy  than 
the  unfortunate  woman's  step-sons  and  daughters,  whose 
deceased  father  escaped  having  his  name  brought  into  the 
story  through  her  third  marriage.  Doubtless  countless 
numbers  have  read  a  letter  written  to  John  Winthrop,  Jr., 
in   Connecticut,   from   his  father's  old  friend.  Rev.  John 


♦Perhaps  Coytmore  Lea  is  as  good  a  place  as  we  have  to  identify  with  the  homestead 
of  Thomas  and  Martha  Coytaiore.  The  property  was  sold  by  Martha  to  obtain  the  money 
for  the  support  and  education  of  Caleb  Coggin,  as  the  story  shows.  Job  Lane  was 
evidently  familiar  with  it.  As  the  master  housewright  of  the  vicinity  he  probably  built  it. 
He  was  a  well-to-do  man  all  his  life  and  disposed  of  each  of  the  houses  he  had  lived  in  by 
his  will.  When  Connecticut  was  settled,  he  built  the  Governor's  house  for  Fitz  John  Win- 
throp. In  payment  John  Winthrop  deeded  him  the  Two  Brothers  farm  in  Billerica.  By 
the  Concord-Chelmsford  road  he  built  his  farm  house,  still  standing— two  stories,  with  a 
lean-to.  It  shows  just  about  the  type  of  a  house  he  was  accustomed  to  build,  one  of  them 
doubtless,  the  Coytmore  house.  Doubtless  early  Maiden  was  architecturally  mostly  like 
them,  while  the  ancient  dormitory  at  Cambridge  and  the  "artificial"  meeting-house  on 
Bell  Rock,  both  built  by  Lane,  were  different. 


30  MAI.DEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY 

Davenport  (preserved  in  the  Winthrop  papers)  with  no 
knowledge  concerning  the  victim,  or  why  the  second  Gov- 
ernor Winthrop  would  be  interested.  But  we  know  very 
well.  After  discussing  another  matter  Mr.  Davenport 
says  : 

"  *  *  *  *  Sir,  what  I  wrote  in  my  former  concerning 
Mrs.  Coghen  I  had  from  Anth.  Elcock,  who  received  it  at 
the  Baye,  viz.  that  she  was  discontented,  that  she  had  no 
suitors,  and  that  she  had  encouraged  her  farmer,  a  meane 
man,  to  make  a  motion  to  her  for  marriage,  which,  accord- 
ingly he  propounded,  prosecuted  and  proceeded  in  it  so 
farr  that,  aferwards,  when  she  reflected  upon  what  she  had 
done,  and  what  a  change  in  her  outward  condition  she  wae 
bringing  herself  into,  she  grew  discontented,  despaired, 
and  tooke  a  great  quantity  of  ratts  bane,  and  so  died. 
Fides  sit  penes  author  earn. '^ 


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MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY  3I 


THE   ORIGINAL   METHODIST   CHURCH    OF 
MALDEN    CENTER. 

From  the  Papers  of  'Squire  Gilbert  Haven. 


The  vicissitudes  that  usually  lead  to  the  destruction  of 
ancient  landmarks  appear  to  have  resulted  in  the  preserva- 
tion of  the  original  house  of  worship  of  the  Center  Meth- 
odist Episcopal  Church  of  Maiden,  a  representation  of 
which,  as  it  now  appears,  accompanies  this  article.  Its 
location,  and  adaptability  as  a  dwelling-house,  seems  to 
have  led  to  its  preservation.  In  former  issues  of  the 
Register,  the  story  has  been  told  of  the  efforts  made,  from 
the  days  of  Whitfield,  in  1740,  through  the  days  of  Jesse 
Lee  and  Asbury,  to  plant  Methodism  here,  until  the  com- 
ing of  Father  Timothy  Merritt  to  North  Maiden  in  1813. 
On  May  15,  1815,  Gilbert  Haven,  Sr.,  through  most  of 
his  life  known  as  "Squire"  Gilbert  Haven,  moved  from 
May  (now  Revere)  street  in  Boston  to  Maiden,  into  "E. 
Odiorne's  new  house,"  agreeing  to  pay  at  the  rate  of  eighty 
dollars  per  annum.  As  had  long  been  his  custom,  he  kept 
an  account  book,  and  as  he  soon  transferred  his  member- 
ship from  the  First  Parish  to  the  new  venture  of  the 
"people  called  Methodists,"  which  had  his  full  allegience 
and  active  support  from  that  time  on,  it  is  not  strange  that 
the  "Account  Book"  became  something  of  a  history  of  the 
church,  particulary  on  the  practical  side.  Mr.  George 
Walter  Chamberlain  of  the  Committee  on  Publication  of 
the  Society  has  copied  many  of  the  entries  in  this  Account 
Book,  so  that  we  have  the  advantage  of  having  the  facts 
that  interested  'Squire  Haven  most,  just  as  he  wrote  them. 


32 


MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY 


Among  many  entries  concerning  his  personal  affairs, 
is  the  following  on  p.  126  : — 

''Dec.  23,  1817.     Society  for  Promoting  Sacred  Music,  Dr. 

To  4  lbs.  candles 7*^ 

"    2   "  " 36c 

"    Candlesticks 50c 

During  the  building  of  the  church  the  society  wor- 
shipped in  the  hall  of  the  school-house  on  Pleasant  street. 
Under  date  of  May  25,  1823,  this  appears  : — 

"Centre  School  District,  Cr. 

By  use  of  hall  for  19  meetings  at  58  cts         .         .         $19.02" 

On  page  133  this  statement  of  account  is  entered  : — 
"1825.     Centre  Methodist  Society,  Br. 


Sept.     To  I  Day  with  the  several  carpenters  drawing 
plan  &  getting  proposals 
"    Cash  paid  for  postage  of  3  letters 
"    Journey  and  expenses  to  Newbury    . 
To  drafting  obligations  and  journey  to  Lynn 

&  cash  paid  for  horse,  &c    . 
To  journey  to  Charlestown  for  Dr.  Gardner, 
laying  out  the  land  and  cash  for  tolls 
Oct.  36.     To  journey  to  get  the  Deed 

"    31.      "        do        and  cash  for  tolls 
Nov.    5.     "    journey  to  Boston  and  services  about 
the  House       ..... 


1. 00 
.36 

2.84 

2.00 

.92 
1. 00 
1. 16 

4.00 

13.16 

To  lo  day 10.00 

"     i  do 50 

"  cash  for  tolls    ......  .23 

"   I  Day i.oo 

"   I  Day       ..-...,         1.00" 

Page  134  :— 

'Maiden,  Novr  26,  1825 
John  Johnson     .     .     .     Dr. 
To  cash  paid  for  getting  lumber  up  as  follows,  viz  : — 

To  hands  getting  rafts  up  to  Wf i.oo 

To  Pitts  I  Day i  .00 

"    Wetherbee  1  Day i.oo 


Dec.  I. 
Jan.   2. 


MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY 


33 


"   Dexter  for  man  and  team  i  Day     . 
"  J.  Cox  2i  days         .... 

"    Burditt 

"    Ramsdill  3  Days     .         .         ,         . 
"    Leml  Cox  Himself  and  team  if  Days 
"    Wm  Oliver  Himself  and  team  i  Day 
To  D.  Sargeant  i  Day  .         , 

"    Myself  6i  Days  at  7-6     . 
"    Refreshment  for  men 


Deduct  for  Dexter's  bill 


4-50 
2.50 
3.00 
3.00 
7.40 

4-SO 
1. 00 
8.12 
1. 17 


37-19 
•50 


36.69 

Dec.  24. 

Tc 

>  115  lbs.  of  Nails  at  6i  cts. 

•         7.48 

Nov.  28. 

( ( 

Cash  pd.  as  per  receipt 

100.00 

1826 

Jan.  ID. 

i  t 

2  lbs.  Nails 

•13 

"     12. 

it 

47  lbs.  Nails 

3.06 

"     H- 

ii 

2  lbs.  Brads    

.28 

"     16. 

t  ( 

Cash 

.        32- 

"     17. 

( t 

62  lbs.  Nails 

4.03 

"     18. 

41 

Cash  and  passage  to  Boston 

10.25 

"     19. 

t( 

Cash  of  J.  Howard         .         .         .         . 

100.00 

"     30. 

t< 

Cash 

50.00 

"      25- 

(( 

Turning  two  Colums     . 

3.00 

(  t 

Boreing  14  feet  at  8  cts. 

1. 12 

(i 

Cash  for  timber — 1.25     Trucking  .25 

1.50 

l( 

4000  Best  Shingles 

15-50 

l( 

Bringing  Shingles  &  Columns  home 

1.25 

Delivered  forward 


$666.79 


[P-   135] 


1825 


1826 
Feb.  4 


Unite  Cox     Dr. 
To  I  Hymn  Book 
Mrs.  Estes     Br. 
To  2  Hy.  Books 
Lemuel  Cox     Dr. 
To  1  Hymn  Book 
Samel  Cox     £>r. 
To  I  Hymn  Book 


•75 
1.50 

.75 
•75 


34 


MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY 


[P.  136] 

1825. 

Methodist  Society     Dr. 

Oct. 

To  Cas 

li  pd  to  Gardner    .... 

125.00 

"  Jno  Lynde     .... 

1. 00 

Saml  Cox            .... 

1I25 

John  Bryant        .... 

5.00 

for  recording  Deed     . 

.66 

Corner  stones     .... 

6.50 

Burditt  &  J.  Cox 

1.67 

Capt.  Nichols     .... 

24.00 

Isaac  Watts         .... 

5.00 

for  teaming  corner  stones 

.50 

John  Johnson      .... 

i|.00 

Johnson  in  teaming  . 
[P. 136] 

36.69 

Do  in  nails          .... 

7.48 

David  Sargeant  .... 

•50 

Cash  for  refreshment 

•52 

1826. 

Jan.  2. 

To  Mj  bill  up  to  this  day 

16.91 

Paid  away  to  Jan.  2,  1826 632.68 

10  To  Cash  paid  David  Sargeant  for 

putting  underbutments       ....  i.oo 
"    Myself  I  Day  preparing  for  raising 

&  putting  under  Buttments — vestry  .         .  i.oo 

13  To  Cash  for  timber  for  pillars  &  Trucking         .  1.75 
To  i  day  going  down  to  engage  the  pillars         .  "      .50 

14  "    Nails  to  Johnson  to  this  date      .   .         .         .  3.47 
"    Paid  J.  Sprague  for  refreshments  at  raising  5.36 

16  To  Cash  pd  Johnson             3a. 

17  "    62  lb.  Nails  to  Johnson           ....  4.03 

18  "    Cash  paid  Johnson  .         ...  .10. 

"    pd  Passage  to  Boston  for  Johnson          .         .  .50 

20   "    Cash  pd.  Johnson 50. 

25    "    Cash  pd.  Howard  for  money  had  of 

him  for  Johnson          .....  100. 

"    Cash  for  turning  3  pillars       ....  4.50 

"      Boring  24  feet  at  8  cts  ....  1.92 

"    Do  for  Horse  &  sled  and  time  going  after  pillars  i.oo 

"    25  lbs.  Nails  to  Johnson          ....  1.63 


Amt.  Carried  forward 


851.09 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY 


35 


[P- 137] 

1825     Contra     Cr. 

Oct.     By  Cash  Rec'd  of  the  following  persons 

Unite  Cox $20.00 

David  Wait 20.00 

Benjn  Wilson 

10.00 

Timo  Bailey      . 

2.00 

Mary  Herring  . 

2.00 

Sally  Herring    . 

1. 00 

Nathl  Pratt 

5.00 

Aaron  Wait 

7. 

S.  Leave    .... 

I. 

David  Sargeant 

3-50 

Mrs.  Aaron  Wait 

2. 

"     Hannah  Gile     . 

I. 

Huldah  Tufts    . 

5.00 

Lydia  Tufts 

3.00 

John  Bryant 

10.00 

Joseph  Cheever 

1.50 

A  Friend  .... 

.50 

James  Howard  2d 

10.00 

William  H.  Richardson    . 

5.00 

Joseph  Mash      . 

20.00 

George  Emerson 

3- 

Isaac  Emerson 

I. 

Rebecca  Green 

I. 

Wealthy  Goodwin     . 

I. 

Saml  Cox 

1.25 

Gilbert  Haven  .... 

5.00 

Dwight  Fisher 

.50 

1825   Nov.  7    Mrs.  Williams  on  mortgage  c 

)f  the 

house  500.00 

Mary  Copeland 

I. 

Isaac  Watts 

3- 

Leml  Cox          .... 

7-SO 

1826     Charles  Pratt      .... 

2.95 

Timo  Crane       .     >   . 

.25 

Thos.  Odiorne 

•        7-48 

Wm.  Oliver 

• 

4.50 

Rec'd  up  to  Jan.  2d,  1826  . 

.  $668.83 

Jan.    II.     David  Sargeant 

1. 00 

John  Sprague   .... 

5.00 

John  Bryant      .... 

•25 

36 


MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY 


i8.     Mr.  Mash 

19.    James  Howard  2d 


30. 

5- 


1826. 


[138] 

Methodist  Society     Dr. 
Amount  brot  forward        .         .         .         . 

700.08 
$851.09 

Jan.  30. 
Itted  25. 

To  Nails  to  Johnson 
'*    Cash  pd  Johnson  for  shingles 
Columns  &c     . 

.78 

22.87 

Feb.   8. 
16. 

<  1 

CI 

Accepting  Johnson's  order  pay- 
able to  Sprague 
Nails  to  Johnson 

17.00 
1.30 

22. 

Nails  to  Do          .         .        .        . 

4-23 

22. 

(« 
( t 

Cash  pd  Johnson 

Services  at  different  times  . 

13- 
2.00 

Mar.  9. 

( t 

Cash  for  screws  for  Johnson 

.67 

1 1 

Accepting  Johnson    order  pay- 
able to  Chamberlain 

30.00 

II. 

•  1 

Do  payable  to  Sprague 
Cash  pd  Johnson 

20.42 
15.00 

Mar.  II. 
21. 

To  Glass  to  Johnson 
"    2  Doz.  Hinges     . 
"    Nails  to  Johnson 

38.48 
2.67 
2.71 

23- 

(f 

Do         Do        .         .         . 

.98 

25- 

27. 
28. 

29. 
Apl.  I. 

3- 

4- 
6. 

7- 


"    Cash  pd  Johnson 

"    Accepting  Johnson's  order  in 

favor  of  J.  S.  Sargent 
To  I  Day  underpinning  the  steps 

and  other  services  etc 
*'    Cash  pd  Johnson 
"    2  lbs.  spikes  to  Johnson 


1023.20 
5.00 

33-0O 

1. 00 

14.00 

.16 


Cash  pd  Jona  Edmunton  for  bricks  15.00 


15  lbs  nails  to  Johnson 
15  lbs      Do  .... 
13  lbs.     Do  .... 
Accepting  Johnson's  order  in 
favor  of  Odiorne     . 


To  20  lb.  Nails  to  Johnson 
"    Glass  to  Johnson 


.98 
.98 
.85 

» 

24.32 

1 118.39 
1.30 
3-17 


MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY 


37 


"    pd  for  teaming  by  Cox 
'*     Nails  to  Johnson 


[P.  138]     error 
Methodist  Society     Cr. 
By  Cash  rec'd  brot  forward 
"      "      Rec'dof  Joseph  Mash 
"      "      Rec'd  of  Joseph  Mash  by  U.  Cox 
"      "      Rec'd  of  Leml  Cox  on  note 
"      "         "       "   Thomas  Odiorne 
March.     Cash  of  Jos.  Mash 

do     "  Stephen  Tufts 
"      of  Joseph  Mash    . 
"  Do  in  Glass  of  J.  Mash  . 
"  2  doz.  Hinges  of  J.  Mash 


•33 
•33 


1826. 

Jan.  20 

25 


15 
18 


25 

28 


Apr.  I. 


Joseph  Mash  in  Glass 
Lemuel  Cox  . 
Jona  Sprague 
Wm  Emerson 

Rollins 
J.  Parker 
J.  Breden 
N.  Tufts 


1124.19 


700.08 

59-75 

14.00 

100.00 

2.5a 
15.00 

8. 

6. 
38.40 

2.67 


946.50 

Cash  of  Jos.  Mash 5.00 

"      of  Do  of  N.  Cox 

10.00 

Cash  of  Mrs.  Watters 

2.00 

'      "  Mr.  Clap    . 

1. 00 

'      "  Louis  Chisley 

1.09 

' 

'     David  Faulkner 

2.00 

'     Jona  Edminston 

17.00 

'      Mr  Smith 

2.00 

'      Nathan  Lynde 

3.00 

*      Mr.  Coursen 

1. 00 

'      Rev.  Mr.  Tuckerman    . 

3.00 

'      A  Friend  to  the  Cause  . 

1. 00 

'     J.  H.  Putnam 

1. 00 

5-     ' 

'      Charles  Pratt 

2.00 

6.     ' 

'     Joseph  Mash  in  H. 

ymn  Book 

s 

9.00 

1004.50 

3-17 
1. 00 

7-50 
3.00 
3.00 
1. 00 
1. 00 

I.OQ 


38 


1 826. 


Jan. 


MALDEN     HISTORICAL 

SOCIETY 

"     David  Sargeant 

2.00 

"     J.  Cox    .... 

I. 

•  *'     Jesse  Upham 

3.00 

"      G.  Emerson  . 

I. 

"     James  Wait 

2. 

"     Isaac  Shute    . 

I. 

"      Wm  Brown    . 

5- 

"      Mr.  Pickering 

3. 

Carried  forward 

$1043.17 

[Page  140] 

John  Johnson 

Dr. 

Amount  brot  forward 

$666.79 

25.     To  25  lbs.  Nails  6ic      . 

1.63 

^0.      "    12    "      Do       . 

.78 

Feb.  8. 


II. 


March  9. 

lO. 

II. 
21. 

23- 


Apl 


200  p  Glass  brot  forward 

Acceptance  of  your  order  payable 

to  J.  Sprague 

"  20  lbs.  Nails  6i 

"  65  Do 

"  Cash 

"  Glass  for  Circulars 

"  Cash  pd  for  screws 


32- 

17- 
1.30 

423 

13.00 

6.48 

.67 


"  Accepting  ye  order  in  favor  of  Chamberlain   30.00 

"     Do  in  favor  of  Sprague  .         .         .       20.42 

To  2  Dozen  of  Hinges 2.67 


Cash  pd  Johnson 
37  lbs.  Nails    th. 
2  lbs.  Brads 
15  lbs.  Nails     6i 


15.00 
2.41 

•30 

.98 


25- 

"  Cash  by  J.  Mash 

27. 

"  Accepting  your  order  in  favor 

J.  S.  Sargeant 

29. 

"  Cash           .... 

"  30  lb  Nails  Deld  by  Burrows 

I. 

"  2  lbs  Spikes 

3- 

"   15  lbs  Nails        .  "       .    •     . 

4- 

"   15  lbs     Do         .         .         . 

6. 

"   13  lbs  Nails 

7- 

"  Order  in  favor  of  Odiorne 

of 


$815.66 

5- 

33- 

14. 

1-95 

.16 

.98 

.98 

•85 

24.22 

896.80 


MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY 


39 


10.     "  Cash 

"  paying  Sargent  for  boards 

[Page  141  ] 
John  Johnson 

Brot  up  . 

To  accepting  to'  pay  S.  Sprague 
"  "  "     "    U.  Chamberlain 

"  payg  Note  of  Goodridge  &  Fletcher 


"  Accepting  your  order  payable  to 
Capt.  Nichols 


Deduct  for  Glass  . 


50.00 
18.38 

978.38 

Dr. 

978.83 

17-25 
17.24 

33-53 
1046.40 

115.00 

1161.40 
7.00 


"Note       . 
Cash  to  Balance    . 


[Page  142] 

Methodist  Society 
1826  Amount  brot  forward 

Apr.  10.     Cash  to  Johnson     .         .         .         .         . 

to  Bailey  &  Odiorne  for  funnell,  black- 
smith work  and  time 


Deduct  for  Starbuck  Sargeant's  bill 
taken  by  Jos.  Mash 


1154.40 

50- 

00 

.   131. 

60 

1336. 

00 

Dr. 

$1124, 

.19 

•       50. 

00 

3.07 


1176.26 

•  33- 

$1143.36 

•  17-25 


Accepting  order  in  favor  of  J.  Sprague 

Do                           Do       U.  Chamberlain     17.24 
Cash 131.60 


To  amt  deducted  on  glass 
"    paying  Goodridge  &  Fletcher's  Note 
"    S.  Sargeant  by  Jos.  Mash 

To  Pd  Johnson  by  Jona  Sprague  . 


1309-35 
7.00 

33-53 
51.28 

1401.16 
7-50 


1408.66 


40 


MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY 


22 


To  Cash  pd  for  iron  work  about  the 

chimney       .         .         .         •         .         .         .  i.oo 

To  putting  on  lock  for   the   vestry 

and  work  abt  tending  Masons    .         .         .  1.62 

li  days  work  painting,  putting  up  lamps  &c.  i  .50 

Cash  pd  for  refreshment     ....  .22 

Cash  pd  Capt.  Wm  Nichols           .         .         .  65.00 


1478.00 

Cash  pd  Capt.  Stiles  for  Boards  for  galery 

1.50 

Cash  for  Bombagest 

. 

•30 

Cash  to  Bailey,  wire,  etc. 

.         • 

1.22 

E 

>o    to  Odiorne    . 

2.18 

1483.20 

To  6  days  work 

7-50 

(< 

li  day  writing  deeds 

1.87 

(( 

I  day  Delivering  deeds   . 
arried  forward 

. 

I.2S 

C 

$1492.82 

[P-  143] 
Contra 

Cr. 

1826            Amount  brot  forward 

$1043.17 

pril    7     By 

cash  of  Lemuel  Cox  on  note 

100. 

"         Richard  Lewis 

2.00 

"        John  Lewis    . 

2.00 

"        James  Crane 

3.00 

S.  G.  Estes    . 

5.00 

"         Aaron  Wait   . 

3.00 

"        Joseph  Chevers      . 

1.50 

"        Joseph  Mash 

"        Joseph  Mash  agreeing  ( 
S.  Sargent   . 

188.53 

i( 

0  pay 

•                  ■ 

1348.20 
51.28 

"  Cash  reed  of  J.  Mash  by  U.  Cox 

"  Lemuel  Cox 

"  Isaac  Stiles 

"  Jane  Sprague 

"  A  Friend    . 

"  Stephen  Lewis 

"  Dr.  Buck  by  U.  Cox 

"  Jos.  Lyndes 


1399.48 

2.00 
1.60 
I.oo 

•SO 
I.oo 

5.00 
5.00 

2.00 


22 


IMALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY 

"  Efither  Mitchell 

. 

.50 

"  James  Howard 

(Lent)    . 

10.00 

"  Wm,  Brown 

(Do)      .         . 

ao.oo 

"  Benja  Wilson 

(Do)      .        . 

5.00 

"  Aaron  Wait 

(Do)      .         . 

5.00 

"  Unite  Cox 

(Do)      .         . 

3.00 

"  Joseph  Mash 

1       .         .        . 

20.00 

*'  Barnard  Newhal 

1481.08 
2.00 

41 


1483.08 

The  trustees  gave  their  note  to  Capt.  Wm  Nichols  jun  for  50  dollars 
p&yle  in  Six  Months     Due  him  for  plastering  vestrj  $18.20. 

Maiden,  April  22,  1826.   The  trustees  of  the  Methodist  Meeting  House 
this  day  prized  the  pews  as  follows,  viz  : 


No.     I— $40 


No. 


3— 

5— 

7— 

9— 
II 

IS- 
17 
19— 

31 — 
23— 

27— 
29— 

31— 
33— 
35— 
37— 
39— 
41— 
43~ 
45— 
47— 


40 
40 
40 

37 
32 
28 
30 
IS 
15 
35 
37 
42 
40 
40 
40 
40 
37 
32 
28 
20 
15 
15 
12 


3— $40 
40 


4— 
6— 

8— 


12 — 

14— 
16— 
18— 
20 — 
22 — 
24— 
26— 
28— 
30— 
32— 
34— 
36- 
38- 
40— 
42— 
44— 

48- 


40 
40 

37 
32 

28 
20 
15 
15 
35 
37 
42 
40 
40 
40 
40 

37 
32 
28 
20 
IS 
15 
12 


$740 


$740— $1480 


[P-  145] 
Maiden,  April  29,   1826. 

The  Trustees  of  the  Meeting  House  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church  &  Society  in  the  Centre  of  Maiden  sold  the  following  numbered 
pews  : 


MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY 

Purchaser. 

Price. 

John  Bryant 

$40.00 

John  Sprague 

51-50 

Leml  Cox 

40.00 

James  Howard  2d 

46.00 

Unite  Cox 

38.00 

Jonathan  Sprague,  Jun. 

37.00 

Aaron  Wait 

40.00 

John  Sprague 

13.00 

Joseph  Mash 

42.00 

Benjamin  Wilson 

41.00 

Lydia  Tufts  and  Sisters 

41.00 

Benjamin  Wilson 

41.50 

Unite  Cox 

43-50 

Henry  Pitts 

16.00 

Nathan  Rollins 

32.00 

Joseph  Mash 

37.00 

David  Sargent 

32.00 

Charles  Pratt 

35-50 

Joseph  Mash 

43-50 

Charles  Lewis,  Esq. 

37.00 

G.  Haven 

37.00 

Phinehas  Green  Jr  &  Nath  Howard  2d 

40.00 

Thomas  Odiorne 

37.00 

Samuel  G.  Estes 

40.00 

Jona  Edmunton 

32.00 

R.  H.  Wade 

30.00 

42 

No. 

37 

35 

6 

36 

23 

21 

»9 
47 

5 
30 
33 

4 

7 

45 

37 

35 
II 

22 
3 

9 
38 
27 

36 
8 

38 
28 

[P.  146] 

Maiden,  May  i,  1826. 
Rented  Pew  No  38  to  Dwight  Fisher  for  one  year  at 
Rented  a  seat  in  pew  No.  15  to  Susan  Daniels  for  $  .50 
Rented  Pew  No  10.  to  Joseph  Cheever  for  (per  year)  $2.75.     Gave  up  May 

1,1828. 
Rented  a  Seat  in  pew  No.  28  to  Miss  Ruth  Chandler  for  $1.00 
Rented  a  Seat  in  pew  No.  40  to  Mrs.  Hogans  for  .67;  also  to  Sophia  Lear 

for  .67. 
May  16.     Lett  Pew  No.  39  to  Asaph  Winship  for  i  year  at  3.10 
Lett  a  Seat  in  Pew  i  to  Timo  Crosfield  for  .75 
Lett  a  Seat  in  Pew  No.  40  to  T.  C.  Thacher  for  .67. 
Lett  Pew  No.  13  to  Lous  Tufts  for  2.10 
June  I.     Lett  Pew  No.  2  to  Benja  Hoskins  for  $3.  per  year 
July  I.      Lett  Pew  No.  34  to  George  Barratt  &  Others  for  $3.00 
Lett  a  seat  in  Pew  No.  28  to  Mrs.  Mitchell  for  $i.oo 


MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY 


43 


Lett  a  seat  in  pew  to  Mrs.  Burditt  for  $i.oo  Gratis. 
Dec.  I.     Lett  seat  in  pew  No.  34  to  Silas  Sargent. 
1827.  June  I .   Let  seat  in  pew  No.  12  to  R.  Chandler  &  S.  Queen  at  4-6  each 

[Page  147] 
Maiden,  May  7th  1826. 

Received  7  Hymn  Books  &  3  Disciplines  of  Mr.  Mash 

Mr.  Morse  Dr.  to  i  Hy  Book  .75 

Sold  a  Hym  Book  to'^^Mr.  Gould  .75 

Saml  Cox  Dr  to  one  Hymn  Book  .75  on  the  day  settled  for. 

Received  of  Jona  Edmunster  for  Pew  15.00 

Received  of  Lydia  Tufts  and  Sisters  for  i  Pew  32.00 

Paid  Aaron  Waitt  for  money  Borrowed  5.00 

May  14,  1826     Mrs.  Hogans  Dr.  to  i  Hymn  Book  .75 
Joseph  Mash     Dr. 

To  Cash  reed  of  Mr.  Bryant $20.00 

"        Do  of  Jas.  Howard 10.00 

"       Do  of  myself 6.00 


To  be  paid  by  the  Stewards  the  first  money  they  collect. 

above  $6.00)  see  credits. 

[Page  168] 


$36.00 
(Reed  of  the 


Methodist  Society  Dr. 

Amount  Brot  Forward .....  1493.82 

To  Cash  pd  A.  Wait 5.00 

Do     "    Wm  Brov/n 20.00 

Do     "   John  Cox 5.00 

Do     "    Fitch  Wade 8.00 

Do  for  Curtains    .         .         .         .         .         .         .  2.50 

Do  to  Joseph  Mash       ......  6. 

Amt  charged  E.  Wade  for  painting  by  myself     .  i.oo 
Cash  pd  for  Boards  &  Nails  i  day  altering 

Singing  Gallery         ......  2.25 

May  26.     Order  charged  to  Wade  in  favor  of  D.  Sargent  5.00 
Cash  for  paper     ......  .20 

Services  for  superintending  the  Building 
the  House  &c.  as  per  agreement  of  com- 
mittee not  before  charged         .         .         .       15.00 
June  16.     Cash  paid  to  E.  Buck  Esqr  for  acknowledging 

deed 33 


Cash  for  Blind 


$1564.10 
6.00 


$1570.10 


44 


MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY 


Cash  for  Boards  &  Labor  fixing  Platform  in 
pulpit  &  Benches  in  the  Vestry 


1.50 


$1571.60 

Cash  pd  Wm  Nichols 

19.20 

Cash  pd  Wm  Nichols  Note 

1590.80 
.      50.00 

Interest  on  Do 

1.63 

Cash  pd  E.  Wade       .... 

.      30.00 

Do    "    J.  Johnson's  Note 

.      50.00 

Interest  on  Do 

1-75 

Carried  forwd 

[Page  149] 


1836. 


$1724.17 
$1483.08 


Contra     Cr. 
Amount  brot  forward 
May  I.     By  cash  rec'd  of  Jona  Edminster  for  pew     15.00 
By  Do    Lydia  Tufts  &  Sisters  for  pew        32.00 
20.      "  order  of  Ed  Wade  in  favor  of  David 

5.00 
27.00 


Sargent         .... 
"  Cash  of  T.  Odiorne  for  pew 

By  My  Pew  37  $5  out      . 

Reed  of  Joseph  Mash  for  Blind 


1562.08 
32.00 

1594.08 
6.00 


April. 


$1600.08 
Dr. 
1. 00 


Carried  forward  .... 
Edward  Wade 
To  I  day  painting  on  the  Meeting  House 
To  Cash  pd  Fitch  Wade  for  painting  on 

outside  of  Meeting  House      .         .         .  .83 

May  30.     To  pd  your  order  to  David  Sargeant         .         5.00 
Nov.  14.      "   Cash  on  a-c 30.00 


36.83 


Next  quarterly  Meeting  in  the  Centre  on  the  7th  of  September  after- 
noon &  evening  [1826]. 

Next  quarterly  Meeting  at  the  north  end  October  28th  &  29th. 

[Page  150] 

1827.     Dec.  I.     Mr.  Wentworth  and  Mr.  Elliott  hired  Pew  34  at  $3 
per  year. 

[Page  151] 

1827.     May.     Let  Pew  No.  i  to  Mr.  Sable  &  Mr.  Gove. 


MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY 


45 


Sep.  26. 


{James  Howard  &  Unite  Cox  Dr  for 
Pew  No.  7  purchased  April  29,  1826 
Interest  from  May  i,  1836. 

Lett  2  seats  in  Pew  No.  38  to  Rosea  R. 
Taylor  at  $1.50. 


43-50 


[Page  152] 

Methodist  Society 

1826.  Nov.     To  Amt  brot  forward    . 

"    Cash  paid  Mrs.  Williams 
"      "      dedd  D.  Sargent  for  Con- 
tingent expenses 

1827.  "   Assuming  E.  Wade  a-c  balance 

"   To  Writing  Deeds  . 
Sept.  22.     "    Pay  91  yrs.  Interest  on  Notes  to 
Leml  Cox         .... 
Endorsing  on  Note  to  Leml  Cox 
Octo  "  Cash  pd  for  Books  S.  School  . 

"  Note  from  G.  Haven  for  his  Pew 


Dr. 

1724.17 
30.00 

5.00 

35-87 
3.00 

12.00 

70.46 

.72 

37.00 

1917.22 
17-36 

1934-58 


Balance  carried  to  page  157    . 

[Page  153] 

Contra  Cr. 

1826.     By  amt  brot  forward 1600.08 

Oct.     "    Reed  of  Wm  Brown 14.00 

"       "          Edward  Newhall     ....  4.00 

"       "          Benja  Haskins  pew  rent          .         .  i.oo 

"       "          George  Barrett  do .         .         .         .  i.oo 

"                   Charles  Pratt,  Pew  and  intst          .  30.90 

"                  Samuel  Wait 85.00 

**  James  Howard  2d  endorsed  on  note       9.75 

*•                  B.  Wilson  endorsed  on  his  note     .  12.00 
[153  cont.] 

"                 Saml  Wait 15.00 

"                  Nathan  Rollins,  Note  and  Interest  15.04 

Wm  Brown  by  D.  Sargent      .         .  13.00 
By  Cash  reed  of  S.  G.  Estes  on  Note 

17.50    Interest  1.05     .         .  18.55 

Do         "     "     Mrs.  Floyd       .         .         .  i.oo 

"     "     Lois  Tufts  pew  rent         .  2.10 

"          "     Susan  Daniels        Do     .         .  .50 

•'          "     R.  Chandler           Do     .         .  i.oo 


1827.  April 


May 
June 


46 


MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY 


"  "  "     Esther  Mitchell  Do 

Augt     Interest  reed  on  A.  Waitt's  note 
Rec'd  John  Sprague'sNote 
"       Interest  on  do 
Sept.     rec'd  Lemuel  Cox's  Note 

Intrt  rec'd  on  Do 

Octo.     rec'd  Rollins  Note  . 
"      Interest  on  Do 
Nov      "      Interest  on  B.  Wilson's  Note 

"    Wilson  &  Howard's  Note 
1828.      "      of  B.  Ho^t,  Pew  rent 


•SO 
1.68 

51-50 
4.12 

30.00 
2.46 

14.50 

1-35 

1.70 

1-95 
1. 00 


1934-58 
The  two  sides  of  Squire  Haven's  characteristic  ledger 
having  arrived  at  a  balance,  it  may  be  well  to  stop  the 
narrative  at  this  point.  In  a  recent  copy  of  the  Register 
the  program  of  the  service  of  dedication  was  published. 
The  story  told  by  the  entries  in  the  Squire's  account  is  inter- 
esting, because  of  the  history  that  can  be  read  between  the 
lines.  From  the  records  of  the  pew  sales  the  congregation 
to  whom  Father  Merritt  preached  his  dedication  sermon 
may  be  reconstructed.  The  tireless  activity  of  Father 
Joseph  Marsh,  whether  in  furnishing  glass,  securing  hymn 
books,  finding  money  or  purchasing  pews,  is  very  evident. 
The  sturdy  devotion  of  Gilbert  Haven  superintending  the 
work  of  construction,  putting  in  days'  works  of  manual 
labor  here  and  there,  as  needed,  for  which  he  counted  his 
time  as  worth  a  dollar,  paying  as  he  went  along,  but  keep- 
ing so  careful  a  record  the  close  of  any  day  would  find 
him  ready  for  an  accounting,  a  "good  and  faithful  stew- 
ard," who  long  ago  has  heard  the  word  "well  done  !" 

Oliver  Wendell  Holmes  preserved  the  frigate  Consti- 
tution by  eloquently  committing  her  to  the  winds  and  waves 
and  storms.  So,  when  this  church  building  had  served  its 
generation  it  was  discarded,  and  still  survives,  in  a  good 
state  of  preservation,  while  many  succeeding  generations 
have  passed  away. 


MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY  4^ 


GLIMPSES    OF  THE   PAST. 

Miscellaneous  Facts  Concerning  Ancient  Maiden. 
Contributed  by  George  Walter  Chamberlain,  M.  S. 


THK    FIRST    PARSONAGE    OF    MALDEN. 

Eight  or  ten  rods  south  of  the  Judson-Cobb-Wilson  house 
on  Main  street  stood  the  first  parsonage  of  the  First  Parish  of 
ancient  Maiden.  That  house  was  the  home  of  Revd.  Marma- 
duke  Matthews,  Michael  Wigglesworth,  David  Parsons  and 
Joseph  Emerson. 

Mr.  Emerson  occupied  the  first  parsonage  about  two  years 
and  the  present  Judson-Cobb-Wilson  house  nearly  forty-three 
years.  After  completing  nearly  forty-six  years  as  minister  of 
the  First  Parish  of  Maiden  he  died  in  the  present  parsonage  13 
July,  1767?  in  the  6Sth  year  of  his  age.  Here  followeth  a  con- 
temporaneous account  of  the  destruction  of  the  first  parsonage 
as  printed  in  two  Boston  newspapers : 

The  New  Rngland  Courant  from  Monday,  July  27  to 
Monday,  August  3,  1724: 

"Boston,  August  3.     On  Friday  night  last  [July  31]  the 
Dwelling  House  of  the  Reverend  Mr.  Emerson  of  Maiden  was  • 
burnt  to  the  Ground,   and   'tis  said  almost  all    his  Books  and 
Household  Goods  are  lost." 

The  Boston  News-Letter  from  Thursday,  July  30  to 
Thursday,  Aug,  6,  1724: 

"Boston,  Aug.  5.  On  Friday  Night  last  [July  31,  1724] 
the  Dwelling  House  and  most  of  the  Goods,  &c.,  of  the  Rev. 
Mr.  Joseph  Emerson  of  Maiden,  were  consumed  by  fire." 


48  MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY 

From  the  Boston    Gazette  or   Weekly  Journal  of  Tuesday, 

June  4,  1 75 1 

Advertisement. 

"The  Ferry,  commonly  called  Penny- Ferry,  between 
Charlestown  &  Maiden  with  a  good  dwelling-House  for  a  Tav- 
ern, &  seven  Acres  of  mowing  Land  on  Maiden  Side.  Any 
Person  on  Persons  minded  to  hire  the  same  may  apply  to  the 
Select  Men  of  Charlestown,  who  are  impowered  to  Let  or  Lease 
the  same." 

From  the  JVew  England  Chronicle  or  the  Essex  Gazette 
published  at  Cambridge,  Thursday,  Aug.  10,  1775  : 
"Last  Sabbath  [Aug.  6]  the  Enemy  set  Fire  to  the  House 
at    Penny  Ferry,   Maiden    Side,    which    was  consumed.     This 
building  was  commanded  by  their  Cannon  on  Bunker  Hill." 

The  same  paper  published  at  Cambridge,  Sept.  7,  1775, 
contains  two  Maiden  items,  viz  : 

"One  of  the  Enemy's  Serejants  having  ventured  out  a 
Gunning  was  taken  prisoner  at  Maiden  last  Tuesday  [Sept.  5]." 

"Died  in  Maiden,  last  Thursday,  [Aug.  31,  1775],  in  the 
25th  year  of  her  age.  Miss  Sally  Porter,  second  daughter  of 
Doctor  Jonathan  Porter,  of  that  Place." 

From  the  New  Hampshire  Gazette  published  at  Portsmouth, 

Friday,  July  16,  1758: 
"Portsmouth,  June  16.  The  first  instant  died  [Mary] 
Wife  of  the  Rev.  Mr.  [Daniel]  Little  of  Wells,  in  the  32d  year 
of  her  Age,  and  Daughter  of  the  Rev.  Mr.  Joseph  Emerson  of 
Maiden,  greatly  lamented ;  has  left  three  small  children,  the 
youngest  but  12  Days  old — The  five  last  Days  of  her  Illness  had 
the  clear  and  unremitted  Exercise  of  Reason — In  her  Life,  an 
Example  for  Diligence,  Prudence,  Hospitality,  Modesty,  Sin- 
cerity and  Piety — In  her  death,  remarkable  for  Patience  and 
Resignation,  with  a  composed  unshaken  faith  in  the  Redeemer, 
while  on  the  Borders  of  Eternity,  earnestly  desiring  to  depart  to 


MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY  49 

the  World  of  Spirits  and  Glory — May  the  tender  Family,  so 
greatly  l^ereaved,  have  the  signal  Tokens  of  God's  Presence  and 
Blessing." 

From  the  Msscx  Gazette^  published  at  Salem,  Feb.  i3 
to  Feb.  19,  1771  : 

"Newbury,  Jan.  28,  1771. 

This  Day  died  Mrs.  Abigail  Toppan,  in  the  90th  Year  of 
her  age.  She  was  a  Daughter  of  that  eminently  pious  Man  of 
God,  the  Rev'd  Mr.  Michael  Wigglesworth  of  Maiden,  and 
truly  worthy  of  such  an  excellent  Father.  It  appears  from  her 
Writings  that  she  gave  herself  to  God  in  her  early  Days,  and 
her  Life  and  Conversation  testified  to  the  Sincerity  of  that 
Transaction  ever  afterwards.  Her  Memory  and  Understanding 
continued  surprisingly  to  the  last.  She  lived  many  Years  in 
daily  Expectation  of  Death,  and  apparently  waiting  for  her  last 
Change.  And  when  the  Hour  came,  she  was  found  upon  her 
Watch  and  took  her  Dismission  with  Joy.  May  her  Children 
that  survive  and  all  her  Descendants  be  Followers  of  her,  as  she 
was  of  Christ  Jesus  ! " 

THE    BENNETT-FLO  YD-SARGENT-WAITE-LEWIS     BIBLE. 

This  Bible  is  one  of  the  most  ancient  books  to  be  found  in 
Maiden  in  1919.  It  is  a  quarto  Bible,  containing  illustrations 
and  a  commentary  and  was  printed  in  London  by  the  command 
His  Majesty,  Charles  11,  in  the  year  1683. 

Some  of  the  owners  of  this  Bible  inscribed  their  names 
upon  the  inside  covers  so  that  it  has  been  possible  to  trace  the 
book  through  nine  generations  of  owners. 

It  is  conjectured  that  Elisha  Bennett,  a  wealthy  sea-captain, 
(whose  home  was  in  Rumney  Marsh,  in  that  part  now  Revere, 
and  north  of  the  creek  or  Pines  River)  brought  the  book  from 
London  to  his  home  and  gave  it  to  his  good  wife.  At  any  rate, 
his  wife  is  the  first  recorded  owner  of  the  volume.  On  the  in- 
side cover  in  a  distinct  hand  is  twice  written  :  "Dorithy  Bennett, 
her  Book,  the  5  of  Apriell,  1702,"  and  next  below:  "Now 
Sarah  Floyd's,  1742." 


50  MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY 

We  know  from  Chamberlain's  History  of  Chelsea  that 
Capt.  Elisha  Bennett  was  a  son  of  Samuel  Bennett,  who  em- 
ployed the  Scotch  prisoners  that  were  sent  to  Lynn  by  Oliver 
Cromwell  in  1650  to  build  in  1651  the  ancient  Bennett-Board- 
man  house  now  standing  on  the  Saugus  and  Revere  town  line. 
It  seems  likely  that  a  portion  of  Capt.  Elisha  Bennett's  boyhood 
days  were  passed  in  this  colonial  mansion,  now  preserved 
through  the  Society  for  the  Preservation  of  New  England 
Antiquities. 

Capt.  Elisha  Bennett  married  before  1690,  Dorothy who 

survived  her  husband  about  one  year  and  died  between  9  April 
and  18  Dec,  1727.  Their  daughter,  Sarah  Bennett,  married 
(i)  in  Rumney  Marsh  or  Boston,  12  July,  1708,  Nathaniel 
Viall.  After  his  death  she  married  (2)  at  Rumney  Marsh,  23 
Nov.,  1732,  John  Floyd  of  Chelsea.  This  marriage  was  sol- 
emnized by  Rev.  Thomas  Cheever,  first  minister  of  the  church 
at  Rumney  Marsh  and  expla*ins  how  the  book  became  Sarah 
Floyd's. 

By  her  first  husband,  Nathaniel  Viall,  she  had  a  daughter, 
Mary  Viall  (1711-1795),  who  became  the  wife  of  Nathan  Sar- 
gent, who  lived  in  Revere  and  Maiden.  They  had  a  daughter, 
Deborah  Sargent.  On  the  other  inside  cover  of  this  ancient 
Bible  is  written  "Deby  Sergent,  her  Book,  1772"  and  "Deby 
Sargent,  her  Book,  1791."  She  never  married,  apparently, 
and  was  closely  associated  with  her  elder  sister,  Sarah  Sargent 
(1741-1831),  the  wife  of  Ezra  Waite,  Sr.,  of  Maiden.  It  is 
apparent,  however,  that  the  volume  passed  into  possession  of 
their  son,  Ezra  Waite,  Jr.  (1774-1854),  as  he  "Presented  [it] 
to  his  Daughter,  Caroline  E.  Lewis,  1853,"  of  Reading. 

In  course  of  time  Caroline  Elizabeth  (Waite)  Lewis  gave 
it  to  her  daughter,  Hattie  (Lewis)  Taylor.  A  few  years  ago 
Mrs.  Taylor  gave  it  to  her  cousin.  Miss  Cora  Bell  Shattuck  of 
Maiden,  the  present  owner. 

Below  is  reproduced  verbatim  et  literatum  such  historical 
information  as  is  found  on  the  inside  cover  of  this  ancient  Bible. 


MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY  5I 

DEATHS. 
[See  Sargent  Genealogy,  pp.  39-40.] 

"Lydia  Sargant  Deceased  August  the  39  in  the  6  year  of  her 
age,  1749. 

One  Dead  Borne  in  the  year  1750. 

M''  Nathaniel  Sargant  deceased  October  the  37  in  the  34  year 
of  his  age  1766.  his  funeral  Sermon  Delivered  by  the 
Revernt  Mr.  Roby  [Rev.  Joseph  Roby,  minister  of  the 
third  Parish  of  Lynn  (now  Saugus)  from  1753  to  1S03] 
from  James  the  forth  Chapt  vers  13  14  15. 

M^  Nathan  Sargant  Deceased  March  the  15  in  the  69  year  of 
his  age  1774  his  funeral  Sermon  Delivered  by  the  Reverent 
M''  thather  [Rev.  Peter  Thacher  D.D.,  minister  of  the 
First  Parish  of  Maiden,  1 770-1 7S4]  from  the  first  of  Cor- 
inthians Sevn  Chapt  vers  29. 

Mis  Elisabeth  Sargant  Deceased  May  the  36  in  the  44  year  of 
her  age  17S1  her  funeral  Sermon  Delivered  by  the  Revent 
M*"  thather  from  Job  the  fourtheen  Chapt  vers  30. 

Mis  Mary  Sargant  wife  to  M"'  Nathan  Sargant  Deceased  Sep- 
tember the  9  in  the  85  year  of  her  age  O  1 795  her  funeral 
Sermon  Delivered  by  the  Reverent  M'  Green  from  Acts 
twentnine  (?)  Chapt  vers  S.  [Rev  Aaron  Green,  minister 
of  the  First  Parish  of  Maiden,  1 795-1 S36]. 

M*"  Nathan  Sargant  Deceased  November  the  29  in  the  64  year 
of  his  age  1798  his  funeral  Sermon  Delivered  by  the 
Revent  M''  Green  from  Micah  Q  Chapt  2  vers  10. 

[Another  handwriting.] 

Mary  Sargent  Deceased  January  the  17  aged  79  18 10 
M''  Samuel  Sargeant  Deceased  Apl  11  aged  74  1826 
Miss  Deborah  Sargent  Deceased  May  11  aged  81  1829 

[Owner  ot  the  Bible,  1791.] 

Mrs.  Sarah  Waitt  Deceased  February  15th  Aged  90  1832 
Miss  Lydia  Sargeant  Deceased    December  21st    1835   aged  83 
years. 

[One  of  the  owners  of  the  Bible.] 

Mr.  Ezra  Waitt  Died  July  27  1854 

Presented  to  his  Daughter  Caroline  E.  Lewis  1853." 


^2  MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY 

DEATH  OF  DEACON  JOHN  JENKINS,  1 828. 

[Deacon  of  the  First  Baptist  Church  of  Maiden,  1S03-1S2S.     Lived  Near  Black  Ann's 

Corner  in  Linden.] 

At  Maiden,  Mass.,  on  the  morning  of  the  26th  December, 
•  1828  died  suddenly,  Dea.  John  Jenkins,  aged  sixty-three  years. 
Rarely,  it  is  believed,  it  fall  to  the  lot  of  any  to  record  the  death 
of  a  private  individual  of  greater  moral  w^orth,  or  of  more  uni- 
form, exemplary  and  deep  toned  piety,  than  v^ras  exhibited  in 
the  life  of  this  good  man.  He  was,  in  truth,  "a  living  epistle 
written"  in  the  hearts  of  his  brethren,  and  read  and  acknowl- 
edged by  all  his  acquaintance,  uncommonly  amiable  in  disposi- 
tion, unassuming  in  manner,  modest  in  behaviour,  and  upright 
in  all  his  intercourse  with  his  fellow  men,  labouring  with  untiring 
assiduity  to  promote  peace  and  good  will  in  all  the  circle  in 
which  he  moved ;  his  Christian  virtues  shone  with  resplendent 
lustre  and  greatly  endeared  him  as  a  man  and  a  Christian,  to  all 
who  knew  him.  Few,  if  any,  were  ever  known  to  have  spoken 
ill  of  him  or  to  have  called  in  question  the  genuineness  of  his 
piety.  His  punctuality  in  attending  public  worship  on  the  Sab- 
bath, the  monthly  Church  meeting,  and  the  weekly  conferences, 
was  remarkable  and  praise  worthy.  And  though  through  ex- 
treme modesty,  and  the  deep  sense  he  habitually  cherished  of  his 
unworthiness,  he  was  by  no  means  so  forward  as  his  brethren 
could  have  wished,  to  take  the  lead  or  act  a  prominent  part 
in  the  social  meetings  of  the  Church,  yet  he  was  seldom  ever 
known  to  refuse  to  pray  or  to  exhort  in  them,  when  called  upon 
for  that  purpose.  And  the  uncommon  degree  of  solemnity  and 
fervor  with  which  on  such  occasions  he  usually  addressed  the 
throne  of  grace  and  the  earnestness  and  pathos  with  which  he 
often  urged  his  brethren  to  steadfastness  in  faith  and  perseverance 
in  well  doing,  and  exhorted  impenitent  sinners  to  an  immediate 
attention  to  the  one  thing  needful,  as  it  evinced  that  he  was  no 
stranger  to  prayer  and  devout  meditation — so  it  generally  pro- 
duced a  powerful  and  salutary  effect  on  all  present  and  will  not 
soon  be  forgotten.  He  is  believed  to  have  obtained  a  saving 
knowledge  of  Christ  in  early  life  and  for  many  years  he  filled 


MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY  53 

the  office  of  a  Deacon  in  the  Baptist  Church  in  Maiden  to  the 
entire  satisfaction  of  its  members.  In  all  the  various  relations 
of  domestic  and  social  life,  as  well  as  in  his  religious  intercourse 
with  his  brethren,  he  preserved  his  Christian  character  unspot- 
ted and  exhibited  no  ordinary  share  of  the  spirit  of  Christ, 
through  whose  atonement  and  righteousness  alone,  he  hoped  for 
eternal  salvation. 

On  the  evening  of  the  24th  he  paid  a  family  visit  at  the 
house  of  a  friend  in  a  distant  part  of  the  town  ;  near  the  close 
of  which,  the  religious  conversation,  in  which  they  had  been 
engaged,  having  turned  upon  the  uncertainty  and  brevity  of 
human  life,  and  the  possibility  that  all  present  might  never  meet 
again  on  the  shore  of  time,  he  was  engaged  in  prayer ;  which 
he  did,  in  a  manner  as  it  was  remarked  at  the  time  uncommonly 
solemn  and  fervent.  He  returned  home  well  that  evening  and 
continued  to  enjoy  usual  health  till  the  afternoon  of  the  25th, 
when  about  3  o'clock,  while  preparing  to  attend  the  public  con- 
ference in  the  evening,  he  was  suddenly  and  violently  seized 
with  an  acute  disease  in  the  stomach,  attended  paroxysms  of 
pain,  which  continued  with  some  intermission  till  about  2 
o'clock  the  next  morning,  when  he  obtained  relief  and  was 
thought  by  his  attending  physician  and  others  present  to  be  in  a 
fair  way  to  recover  speedily;  but  in  about  one  hour,  while 
enjoying  quiet  repose,  his  disease  is  supposed  to  have  fixed  upon 
the  heart,  and  he  died  instantly. 

Under  the  peculiar  circumtances  of  his  death,  but  little 
could  be  learned  respecting  the  state  of  his  mind  in  his  last 
moments ;  but  his  virtues  and  piety,  so  well  supported  by  his 
godly  life,  needed  not  the  confirmation  of  a  happy  and  trium- 
phant state  of  mind  on  a  dying  bed,  to  assure  survivors  that  their 
loss  was  his  unspeakale  gain. 

His  funeral  services  were  attended  in  the  Baptist  meeting- 
house on  Monday  last  *  week  by  a  large  and  solemn  assembly  of 
friends  and  citizens  whose  mournful  countenances  and  sympa- 
thizing tears  attested  how  highly  they  appreciated  his  worth  and 
how  deeply  they  felt  his  loss.   The  memory  of  the  just  is  blessed, 

•Written  within  a  week  of  26  Dec,  18*8. 


54  MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY 

On  the  reverse  side  of  the  same  paper  : 
Mrs.  Elizabeth  wife  of  Ezra  Waitt  died  Oct  24   1836     Aged 

39yrs 
Mr.  Ezra  Waitt  died  July  27th  1854 
Mr.  Ezra  Waitt  Jr.  died  Dec  ist  1847  aged  28  yrs 

"  DOCUMENTS  RELATING  TO  SPOT  POND  AND  MALDEN, 

1729,  1764. 

"Will™  Sprague  &  Grovers  Evidence 

William  Sprague  aged  33  years  Testifieth  &  Saith  that  I 
do  know  and  have  knoVvn  Timothy  Spragues  Water  Course 
that  runs  from  y^  said  Sprague  Spot  pond  in  Stoneham  to  y^  s** 
Spragues  mill  pond  in  maiden  above  this  [these]  Twenty  Years 
&  There  was  a  Saw  mill  built  on  James  Barretts  Lot  Where 
John  Greens  Corn  mill  now  Stands  &  there  was  a  Rowling 
Dam  built  for  said  Saw  mill  on  y*^  Land  Called  Barlows  Lot  & 
y^  said  Saw  mill  &  dam  was  broke[n]  down  &  Sum  time  after 
Capt.  Stephen  Richardson  &  Capt  John  Vinton  built  said 
Greens  Corn  mill  and  said  Vinton  &  Richardson  owned  said 
Greens  Corn  Mill  severall  years  &  Improved  it  &  they  Claimed 
no  right  to  y*^  water  of  s**  Spot  pond  but  s**  Vinton  &  they  who 
kept  said  mill  Came  to  me  y^  Depon*  &  Desired  Liberty  off  me 
for  to  Improve  y*^  water  of  said  Spot  pond  for  y®  said  Corn  mill 
where  upon  I  y*^  Depon*  gave  said  Richardson  &  Vinton  Lib- 
erty to  Improve  said  water  &  them  that  Improved  y*  mill  under 
them  If  they  would  be  prudent  and  Saveing  of  said  water  & 
they  ware  Saveing  of  y'^  water  &  preserved  said  water  for  my 
use  as  I  ordered  them  and  y*^  way  that  they  Improved  y^  said 
Corn  mill  was  by  drawing  &  stoping  y*'  water  at  said  Spot 
pond  Dam  for  y^  Dam  in  Controversy  which  stands  upon  y®  said 
Land  Called  Barlows  Lott  nor  no  other  Dam  on  said  Lott  was 
never  Improved  to  said  Greens  mill  till  a  Considerable  time 
after  s'^  Green  bought  said  Corn  mill  and  I  y*^  Depon*  was  miller 
in  maiden  a  grate  many  years  under  my  mother  widow  Dorothy 
Sprague  Late  of  Maiden  decs''  William  Sprague 


MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY  55 

Sam"  Grover  aged  38  years  doth  Testify  to  all  y®  above 
written  Testimony  to  be  true  Except  y«  above  named  Vinton  & 
others  asking  &  haveing  Liberty  for  to  Improve  the  above  said 
water  the  Depon*  ffurther  Say[s]  that  they  do  know  that  it  is 
not  three  years  since  y*-'  Sluice  in  Controversy  was  first  built 

Sworn  in  Sup""  Court  at  Cambridge  July  30  :  1729  by  both 
witnesses  att=^  Sam"  Tyley  .       Clark 

a  true  Copy  Exam<*  p""  Sam"  Tyley         Clark 

a  true  Copy  Exam«i  p*"  Benj^  Rosse         Clark 

a  copy  taken  from  a  Coppy" 

"JOHN    BATTS    LEASE    TO    [l]    TIMOTHY    SPRAGUE. 

This  indenture  made  the  Twenty  fifth  Day  of  March  Anno 
Dom  [torn]  1764  Between  Timothy  Sprague  of  Maiden  in  the 
Province  of  the  Massachusetts  Bay  in  New  England,  yeoman,  of 
the  one  part  and  John  Batts  of  the  abovesaid  Town  Cordwainer 
on  the  other  part  wittenssth  that  the  said  Timothy  Sprague  for  & 
under  the  Severall  Covenants  and  Reservations  hereafter  men- 
tioned hath  demissed  and  by  these  presents  doth  demise  grant 
Let  and  to  firm  Sett  unto  the  aforesaid  John  Batts  Two  certain 
pieces  of  Land  adjoyning  in  Stoneham  and  the  Letten  premisses 
aforesaid  Lyeth  on  the  west  Side  of  the  Country  high  Way  that 
Leadeth  through  Stoneham  to  Medford  &  the  Same  which  hath 
been  Lat[e]ly  Improved  by  Dahie[l]  Conore  by  a  Lease  from 
y*^  s**  Timothy  Sprague  together  w*  the  Dweling  House  &  Barn 
&  fences  thereon  and  in  Closed  the  s^  Land  including  in  the 
Whole  abought  Four  Acres  and  Lyeth  in  the  s*^  Stoneham  the 
s^  Sprague  Reserveing  to  himself  Spot  pond  dam  &  the  Water- 
course Leading  from  or  Running  from  the  s^  Spot  pond  w*  a 
wright  to  pass  and  repass  over  the  said  leased  Lands  to  &  from 
the  s<^  Spot  pond  Dam  at  all  times  as  the  said  Timoth[y] 
Sprague  shall  have  occasion  or  think  fitt  during  this  Lease  & 
allso  to  dig  Gravel  at  all  times  during  this  Lease  in  the  s** 
Leased  Lands  as  if  said  Leaser  shall  think  fitt  also  Reserving 
to  the  s*^  Sprague  all  the  wood  &  Trees  y'  now  are  on  the  said 
Leased  Lands  w*  a  Right  to  Cut  &  carry  away  all  the  Wood  & 
Trees  of  from  the  said  Leased  Lands  with  and  also  Leave  to 


56  MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY 

plant  Sum  frute  Trees  on  the  said  Leased  Lands  dureing  this 
Lease  all  ways  reserving  as  aforesaid.  To  have  &  to  hold  the  s** 
Demissed  &  Letten  premises  w*  y^  appurtenances  to  the  s''  John 
Batts  for  one  year  from  the  Date  hereof  before  mentioned  untill 
the  Tw^enty  fifth  Day  of  March  1765  being  the  full  term  of  one 
year  fully  to  be  completed  &  ended  he  the  s**  John  Batts  yielding 
&  paying  therefor  unto  the  said  Timothy  Sprague  his  Heirs  Ex- 
ecutors &  Administrators  the  Rent  or  Sum  of  Five  pounds  one 
Shiling  &  fore  pence  &  Also  the  said  John  Batts  Will  and 
Shall  clea[r]  and  Moe  all  the  under  Brush  y*  is  on  the  s** 
Leased  Lands  in  y''  Month  of  June  July  &  Aug*  next  insuring 
y^  Date  hereof  save  only  Six  foot  wide  of  the  s''  Land  which 
joyns  on  y''  s''  Pond  all  the  way  y*  the  Leased  Land  joyns 
against  Spot  Pond  y*^  s''  Brush  shall  not  be  cut  but  be  Left  Six 
foot  wide  which  will  be  in  1764  &  also  will  dig  up  all  the 
Stink  Wead  y'  is  in  or  on  the  Leased  Lands  in  the  before  men- 
tioned three  months  and  also  the  s-'  John  Batts  do  ingage  to  pull 
up  all  the  Mullens  y*  Shall  Groo  on  y*^  Leased  Lands  [2]  dur- 
ing this  Leas  before  any  of  said  mulings  get  out  of  the  blosum. 
Now  I  the  s''  Timothy  do  by  vertue  of  this  Indenture  of 
Leas,  Leas  my  pasture  of  abought  14  acres  more  or  Less  that 
Lyes  South  easterly  of  the  said  High  Way  in  Stoneham  a  fore 
Said  :  for  the  Sums  and  artickles  before  and  after  mentioned  & 
also  I  the  s*^  John  will  clear  all  the  afores''  Lands  of  all  the 
mullens  according  as  it  is  mentioned  aboute  the  Leas*^  Mullens 
&  I  the  s''  John  &  my  Family  and  all  those  that  L[i]ve  in  the 
before  mentioned  House  I  the  said  John  do  ingage  shall  Look 
well  after  Spot  pond  Dam  &  all  the  said  Timothy  Spr agues 
Lands  in  Stonham  as  shall  be  best  to  the  s''  Timothys  advantage 
during  the  term  of  this  Leas  and  in  Cuting  the  under  Brush 
aforesaid  y^  frute  Trees  are  reserved  to  the  Leasors  benefit  & 
are  not  to  be  cut  down  or  destroyed  &  allso  it  is  agreed  by  Both 
partys  that  said  John  Batts  shall  pay  all  the  Rates  and  Taxes 
that  shall  arise  for  the  s*'  Leased  Lands  for  all  the  Lands  before 
mentioned  during  this  Leas  &  also  the  s*^  John  is  to  keep  a  Cow 
or  two  or  any  other  Creatures  And  he  is  to  Leave  all  the  Dung 
y*^  Shall  be  made  on  the  s''   Leased  Lands   with    all   y^    Hay 


MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY  57 

Stoalks  &  other  things  &  foder  on  any  thing  y*  Groweth  or  is 
used  on  y^  $''  Leased  Lands  &  also  keep  up  the  fences  so  as  to 
prevent  and  preserve  the  frute  Trees  for  the  Rent  of  the  s*^  de- 
mised i^remisses  and  at  the  end  of  the  s''  Term  of  one  year  to 
Surrender  up  quiet  possession  of  the  s''  demissed  premises  w* 
out  any  Demolsshment  in  good  &  Tenantable  repair  fire  and 
other  Extraordinary  providences  Excepted  In  "Witness  whereof 
y''  s'^'  parties  to  these  presents  have  hereunto  interchangeably  Set 
there  Hands  &  Seals  the  Day  &  year  first  writen  Signed  Sealed 
and  Delivered  in  the  Presents  of  us 

It  is  agreed  by  both  the  Leasor  and  Lease  before  Signing 
and  Sealing  y^  the  Rent  of  the  above  writen  Leas  be  paid  by  per 
quarterly  payments  during  this  Leas  as  Rent  for  the  premises 
aforesaid  during  y*^  term  the  Lease  holds  the  same  by  vertue  of 
this  demisse  it  is  also  agreed  before  Signing  &  Sealing  y*  the 
Wido  Sarah  Conore  &  her  Daughters  Hannah  &  Lydia  Conore 
Shall  have  the  Chamber  of  the  above  Leased  House  to  Live  in 
dureing  the  term  of  this  Leas  and  it  is  also  agreed  by  both  the 
Leasor  &  Lease  y^  if  John  Batts  do  cary  away  y®  Hay  &  other 
foder  for  Catel  from  y^  Leased  Lands  &  Leased  Barn  on  s'^ 
Spragues  Land  in  Stonham  he  the  s*^  Batts  Shall  ingage  to  cary  all' 
y**  Dung  to  s*^  Spragues  Barn  in  Stonham  in  the  month  of  Apr' 
1765  therefore  I  the  s''  John  Batts  do  ingage  to  cary  all  the 
dung  y*^  is  maid  with  my  Stock  according  to  the  words  of  this 
Leas  from  Maiden  to  Stonham  Barn  afores^'  in  the  Month  of 
Apr"  1765  and  also  y®  Dung  y^  is  made  by  my  s''  Stock  in  May 
1765  I  will  carry  to  the  said  Leased  Barn  in  May  1765  and  if  y*^ 
s*'  Sary  Conory  and  her  two  daughters  before  mentioned  do 
leave  the  aforesaid  [3]  chamber  then  the  said  John  Batts  is  to 
have  the  s'^  chamber  the  term  of  this  lease  and  if  y®  said  Batts 
do  think  that  y*"  rent  of  this  lease  be  not  worth  no  more  than 
4-16-0  besides  all  the  artickles  mentioned  in  this  lease  then  he 
the  said  Batts  is  to  pay  the  4-16-0  besides  all  y^'  artickles  before 
mentioned  in  this  lease 

Mary  Dix  John  Batts 

Lydia  Sprague  Timothy  Sprague" 

(Original  Papers  in  the  Maiden  Public  Library,) 


58  MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY 


MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY. 

Organized,  March  8,  1886. 
Incorporated  February  7,  1887. 


President. 
CHARLES   EDWARD   MANN 

Vice  Presidents. 

GEORGE   LAMBERT   GOULD 
ROSWELL    RAYMOND   ROBINSON 
WILLIAM   GEORGE   ARTHUR   TURNER 

Secretary. 
GEORGE   WALTER   CHAMBERLAIN 

Treastcrer. 
WILLIAM   HENRY   WINSHIP 

Directors. 
Charles  H.  Adams  H.  Heustis  Newton 

Sylvester  Baxter  Roswell  R.  Robinson 

George  W.  Chamberlain  Godfrey  Ryder,  M.  D. 

George  Howard  Fall  William  G.  A.  Turner 

George  L.  Gould  Walter  Kendall  Watkins 

Charles  E.  Mann  Arthur  H.  Wellman 

William  Henry  Winship 


MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY        ^  59 


COMMITTEES,   1919-1920. 


George  L.  Gould 
William  G.  Merrill 


Finance. 


Arthur  W.  Walker 
William  Henry  Winship 


Charles  E.  Mann 
W.  G.  A.  Turner 
Arthur  H.  Wellman 


Publication. 


Sylvester  Baxter 
George  W.  Chamberlain 
William  Henry  Winship 


Membeyship. 

Georgb  W.  Chamberlain  Thomas  S.'  Rich 

Charles  H.  Adams  Mrs.    Henry  W.  Upham 

Mrs.  Adeline  A.  Nichols 


Genealogies. 


Walter  Kendall  Watkins 
William   Brown  Snow 


Mrs.  Alfred  H.  Burlen 
Mrs.  Augusta  R.  Brigham 


Social. 


Mrs.  Mary  Greenleaf  Turner 
Mrs.  J.  Parker  Swett 


Mrs.  Mary  Lawrence  Mann 
Mrs.  Annie  Dexter  Walker 


Camera. 


Eugene  A.  Perry 
Peter  Graffam 


J.  Lewis  Wightman 
Richard  Greenleaf  Turner 


Library  and  Historic   Collections. 

William  G.  A.  Turner  Dr.  Godfrey  Ryder 

Herbert  W.  Fison 


6c  MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY 


BY-LAWS 

OF    THE 

MALDEN    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY. 

[Adopted  at  the  annual  meeting-  March  13,  191 2.] 


NAME 

This  society  shall  be  called  the  Maiden  Historical 
Society. 

OBJECTS 

The  objects  of  this  society  shall  be  to  collect,  preserve 
and  disseminate  the  local  and  general  history  of  Maiden 
and  the  genealogy  of  Maiden  families ;  to  make  anti- 
quarian collections  ;  to  collect  books  of  general  history, 
genealogy  and  biography ;  and  to  prepare,  or  cause  to  be 
prepared  from  time  to  time,  such  papers  and  records 
relating  to  these  subjects  as  may  be  of  general  interest  to 
the  members. 

MEMBERSHIP 

The  members  of  this  society  shall  consist  of  two 
classes,  active  and  honorary,  and  shall  be  such  persons 
either  resident  or  non-resident  of  Maiden,  as  shall,  after 
being  approved  by  the  board  of  directors,  be  elected  by 
the  vote  of  a  majority  of  the  members  present  and  voting 
at  any  regularly  called  meeting  of  the  society. 

Honorary  members  may  be  nominated  by  the  board 
of  directors  and  shall  be  elected  by  ballot  by  a  two-thirds 


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vote  of  the  members  present  and  voting  at  any  regularly 
called  meeting.  They  shall  enjoy  all  the  privileges  of  the 
society  except  that  of  voting. 

OFFICERS 

The  officers  of  the  society  shall  include  a  recording 
secretary,  and  a  treasurer,  who  shall  be  members  of  the 
board  of  directors.  The  society  may  in  its  discretion  elect 
one  person  as  secretary-treasurer  to  perform  the  duties  of 
recording  secretary  and  treasurer.  The  other  officers  to 
be  elected  by  the  society  shall  be  a  board  of  eleven 
directors,  including  the  officer  or  officers  named  above. 
The  recording  secretary,  treasurer  (or  secretary-treasurer), 
and  directors  shall  be  elected  by  ballot  at  the  annual 
meeting  of  the  society. 

The  board  of  directors  shall  from  their  number  elect 
by  ballot  a  president  and  three  vice  presidents,  and  from 
the  members  of  the  society  may  elect  a  librarian  and 
curator  and  such  other  officers  as  may  be  deemed  neces- 
sary. All  officers  shall  serve  for  one  year,  or  until  their 
successors  are  elected  and  qualified.  The  board  of 
directors  may  fill  any  vacancies  for  unexpired  terms. 

COMMITTEES 

The  board  of  directors  may  elect  annually  committees 
on  finance,  publication,  membership,  genealogies  and  such 
other  committees  as  the  society  may  direct  or  the  board 
deem  desirable. 

DUES 

The  annual  dues  of  the  society  shall  be  one  dollar. 
Any  active  member  may  become  a  life  member  by  the 
payment  of  twenty-five  dollars  during  any  one  year,  which 


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shall  exempt  such  member  from  the  payment  of  further 
annual  dues.  The  board  of  directors  shall  have  discretion 
to  drop  from  the  membership  roll  any  person  failing  to 
pay  his  annual  assessment  for  two  successive  years. 

MEETINGS 

The  annual  meeting  of  the  society  shall  be  held  on 
the  second  Wednesday  in  March  for  the  election  of  officers 
and  the  transaction  of  other  business.  Regular  meetings 
shall  be  called  in  May,  October,  December  and  January. 
Special  meetings  may  be  called  by  the  president  at  his 
discretion  and  five  members  shall  constitute  a  quorum  for 
the  transaction  of  business  at  any  meeting. 

AMENDMENTS 

These  by-laws  maybe  altered,  amended  or  suspended, 
by  a  two-thirds  vote  of  the  members  present  and  voting  at 
any  meeting,  notice  of  such  proposed  action  having  been 
given  in  the  call  for  said  meeting. 


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MEMBERS  1920. 


Adams,  Charles  H. 
Adams,  Walter  E. 
Ammann,  Albert     . 

Bailey,  Dudley  Perkins 
Ball,  Rev.  Archey  Decatur,  D 
Baxter,  Sylvester     . 
Bayrd,  Mrs.  Adelaide  Breed 
Bickford,  Erskine  Frank 
Blakeley,  William  Monroe 
Bliss,  Alvin  Evarts 
Bliss,  Edwin  P. 
Blodgett,  Charles  Martin 
Boutwell,  Harvey  L. 
Boynton,  Thomas  Jefferson 
Bradstreet,  George  Flint 
Brigham,  Mrs.  Augusta  R. 
Bruce,  Charles  Mansfield 
Burbank,  Edwin  C. 
Burgess,  Mrs.  Ovilla  Bishop 
Burlen,  Mrs.  Alfred  H.    . 

Carney,  Peter  F.  J. 
Carr,  Joseph-  T.      . 
Carlisle,  Frank  H.  . 
Casas,  William  B.  de  las 
Chamberlain,  George  Walter 
Chamberlain,  Mrs.  Harriet  She 
Chandler,  John  Girard    . 
Coggan,  Marcellus 


309  Washington  street,  Melrose 

.  88  Summer  street.  Maiden 

50  Acorn  street.  Maiden 

.    121  Linden  street,  Everett 

D.     .  .        Ridgewood,  N.  J. 

32  Murray  Hill  road.  Maiden 

.     24  Spruce  street,  Maiden 

38  Main  street,  Maiden 

285  Washington  street.  Maiden 

.  60  Linden  avenue.  Maiden 

170  Summer  street,  Maiden 

.  94  Lebanon  street.  Maiden 

209  Summer  street.  Maiden 

.  60  Summer  street,  Everett 

07  Warren  street.  West  Medford 

.  57  Linden  avenue.  Maiden 

155  Hawthorne  street.  Maiden 

.     37  Beltran  street.  Maiden 

72  Mountain  avenue.  Maiden 

.    245  Clifton  street.  Maiden 

.    21  Elmwood  park,  Maiden 

.     243  Salem  street.  Maiden 

35  High  street.  Maiden 

95  Cedar  street.  Maiden 

29  Hillside  avenue.  Maiden 

rman  29  Hillside  avenue.  Maiden 

10  Dexter  street,  Maiden 

.   Tremont  Building,  Boston 


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Converse,  Costello  C. 
Converse,  Mrs.  Mary  Ida 
Corbett,  John  Marshall   . 
Corey,  Mrs.  Isabella  Holden 
Cotton,  Frank  E.     . 
Cox,  Alfred  Elmer 

Damon,  Herbert 
Daniels,  Charles  Augustus 
Dawes,  Miss  Agnes  H. 
Dillingham,  William  C. 
Dobbs,  Rev.  John  Francis,  D 
Dowty,  Rev.  William  Edmund 

Estey,  Frank  W.     . 
Evans,  Wilmot  R.,  Sr.   . 

Fall,  George  Howard 
Fall,  Howard 
Fenn,  Harry  W. 
Fison,  Herbert  W. 
Fowle,  Frank  E.     . 
Fuller,  Alvan  T. 

Gay,  Dr.  Fritz  Walter  . 
Gould,  George  Lambert  . 
Graff  am,  Peter 


2  Main  street.  Maiden 

2  Main  street,  Maiden 

.  79  Tremont  street.  Maiden 

.     3  Berkeley  street,  Maiden 

48  Glen  street.  Maiden 

80  Appleton  street.  Maiden 

195  Mountain  avenue,  Maiden 

88  Mt.  Vernon  street.  Maiden 

I  Ridgewood  road.  Maiden 

66  Appleton  street.  Maiden 

D.,  411  Pleasant  street.  Maiden 

3o  Florence  street.  Maiden 

136  Hawthorne  street,  Maiden 
.    28  Chestnut  street,  Boston 

13  Evelyn  place.  Maiden 

12  Evelyn  place,  Maiden 

.    279  Clifton  street.  Maiden 

3  2  Main  street  park.  Maiden 

311  Summer  street,  Maiden 

85  Appleton  street.  Maiden 

.     105  Salem  street.  Maiden 

24  Alpine  street.  Maiden 

.    181  Clifton  street.  Maiden 


Hardy,  Arthur  Proctor    .  .  49  Las  Casas  street.  Maiden 

Haven,  Rev.  William  Ingraham,  D.D. 

Astor  place.  New  York,  N.  Y. 


Hawley,  Mrs.  Alice  C.   . 
Hawley,  William  Dickinson 
Hawley,  William  H. 
Hobbs,  William  Joseph  , 


37  Washington  street.  Maiden 

37  Washington  street.  Maiden 

.  40  Newhall  street,  Maiden 

33  Converse  avenue.  Maiden 


Hughes,  Bishop  Edwin  Holt,  D.D.,  335  Summer  street,  Maiden 
Hutchins,  John  Wesley   .  .         20  Main  street  park,  Maiden 


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Jones,  Louis  G.       .         .         .         .         .  Acorn  street,  Maiden 


Kerr,  Alexander 
King,  Edward  Samuel 
King,  Mrs.  Ellen  H. 
King,  Hervey  Wellman 
Knapp,  C.  Henry     , 

Lang,  Thomas 
Locke,  Elmore  E.  . 
Locke,  Frank  L.     . 
Lund,  James 


133  Hawthorne  street.  Maiden 

36  Beltran  street.  Maiden 

.     47  Francis  street.  Maiden 

39  Brook  Hill  road,  Milton 

461  Highland  avenue,  Maiden 

202  Mountain  avenue.  Maiden 

37  Alpine  street.  Maiden 

.     219  Clifton  street.  Maiden 

142  Hawthorne  street.  Maiden 


Mann,  Charles  Edward  . 
Mann,  Mrs.  Mary  Lawrence   . 
Mansfield,  Mrs.  Sarah  Elizabeth 
MacLellan,  Mrs.  Christine 
Merrill,  William  G. 
Millett,  Charles  Howard 
Millett,  Mrs.  Mary  C.     . 
.Millett,  Mrs.  Rosina  Maria 
Miner,  Franklin  Matthias 
Morgan,  Albert  Benton    . 
Morse,  Tenney 
Moss,  Rev.  Charles  Henry,  D.  D. 

Nichols,  Mrs.  Adeline  Augusta 


14  Woodland  road.  Maiden 

14  Woodland  road,  Maiden 

57  Glenwood  street.  Maiden 

135  Clifton  street.  Maiden 

149  Walnut  street.  Maiden 

217  Clifton  street.  Maiden 

217  Clifton  street.  Maiden 

217  Clifton  street.  Maiden 

127  Summer  street,  Maiden 

50  Pleasant  street,  Maiden 

6^  Las  Casas  street.  Maiden 

48  Grace  street.  Maiden 


Otis,  James  O. 

Page,  Albert  Nelson 
Perkins,  Clarence  Albert 
Perry,  Eugene  A.     . 
Perry,  Miss  Mary  W. 
Plummer,  Arthur  James 
Porter,  Dwight 
Prior,  Dr.  Charles  E. 


37  Cedar  street.  Maiden 

.  9  Woodland  road,  Maiden 

349  Pleasant  street.  Maiden 

57  High  street,  Maiden 

145  Summer  street.  Maiden 

.    48A  Maple  street.  Maiden 

4  Hudson  street.  Maiden 

149  Hawthorne  street.  Maiden 

I  Mountain  avenue.  Maiden 


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Rich,  Thomas  S.     . 
Rich,  Mrs.  Thomas  S.     . 
Richards,  George  Louis   . 
Robinson,  Roswell  Raymond  . 
Roby,  Austin  Hayward  . 
Rowe,  Miss  Edith  Owen 
Ryder,  Mrs.  Gertrude  Yale     . 
Ryder,  Dr.  Godfrey 


.  240  Clifton  street,  Maiden 
.  340  Clifton  street.  Maiden 
.  84  Linden  avenue.  Maiden 
.  84  Linden  avenue,  Maiden 
105  Washington  street.  Maiden 
.  149  Walnut  street,  Maiden 
321  Pleasant  street.  Maiden 
321   Pleasant  street,  Maiden 


Shove,  Francis  A.  .         .         .189  Clifton  street,  Maiden 

Siner,  Mrs.  James  B.        .  .156  Hawthorne  street.  Maiden 

Snow,  William  Brown     .  .  -79  Dexter  street.  Maiden 

Sprague,  Mrs.  Emeline  M.  .  Commonwealth  avenue,  Boston 
Sprague,  Phineas  Warren,  471  Commonwealth  avenue,  Boston 
Starbird,  Louis  Delver    .  .      213  Mountain  avenue,  Maiden 

Stevens,  Dr.  Andrew  Jackson  .       599  Main  street,  Maiden 

Stover,  Col.  Willis  W.     .  .  100  Waverly  street,  Everett 

Swett,  J.  Parker  ....  Highland  terrace.  Maiden 
Sykes,  Rev.  Richard  Eddy,  D.  D., 

St.  Lawrence  University,  Canton,  N.Y. 


Turner,  Alfred  Rogers 
Turner,  Mrs.  Mary  Greenleaf 
Turner,  William  G.  A. 

Upton,  Eugene  Charles  . 

Walker,  Mrs.  Annie  Dexter 
Walker,  Arthur  Willis     . 
Walker,  Mrs.  Clara  Isabel 
Walker,  Hugh  L. 
Watkins,  Walter  Kendall 
Wellman,  Arthur  Holbrook    , 
Wellman,  Mrs.  Jennie  Louisa 
Wellman,  Gordon  Boit     . 
Welsh,  Willard 


200  Broadway,  Paterson,  N.  J. 

Ridgewood  road.  Maiden 

.     Ridgewood  road.  Maiden 

55  Dexter  street.  Maiden 

16  Alpine  street,  Maiden 

16  Alpine  street,  Maiden 

26  Dexter  street.  Maiden 

.    14  Newhall  street,  Maiden 

47  Hillside  avenue.  Maiden 

.    193  Clifton  street,  Maiden 

.    193  Clifton  street.  Maiden 

.     46  Dover  road,  Wellesley 

60  Greenleaf  street,  Maiden 


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Whittemore,  Edgar  Augustus 
Wiggin,  Joseph 
Wightman,  J.  Lewis 
Wingate,  Edward  Lawrence 
Winship,  Addison  L. 
Winship,  William  Henry 
Woodward,  Frank  Ernest 


.    2  Woodland  road,  Maiden 

55  Clarendon  street.  Maiden 

245  Mountain  avenue.  Maiden 

85  Dexter  street,  Maiden 

65  Laurel  street,  Melrose 

.     209  Maple  street.  Maiden 

Wellesley  Hills 


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NECROLOGIES 


CHARLES   F.  BELCHER. 

Charles  F.  Belcher,  a  member  of  this  Society,  and  a  resi- 
dent for  years  at  148  Hawthorne  street.  Maiden,  died  suddenly  in 
the  Kenberma,  of  Hull,  July  8,  191 8,  from  hardening  of  the 
arteries.  He  had  been  in  bad  health  for  some  time,  but  had 
attended  to  his  business  as  treasurer  of  the  Walker  &  Pratt  Com- 
pany, in  Boston,  daily.  He  was  stricken  with  illness  just  after 
his  return  from  his  office,  and  died  during  the  evening. 

Mr.  Belcher  was  born  in  Easton,  Massachusetts,  and  was 
in  his  66th  year.  He  was  educated  in  Easton  and  in  Cam- 
bridge and  later  in  a  Boston  business  college,  becoming  book- 
keeper for  a  foundry  enterprise  upon  completing  his  course.  In 
1874  he  became  head  bookkeeper  for  the  Walker  &  Pratt  Com- 
pany, a  position  he  held  until  1901,  when  he  became  treasurer 
of  the  company. 

Mr.  Belcher  came  to  Maiden  over  40  years  ago,  and  soon 
became  engrossed  in  church  activities  here.  He  was  for  a  long 
time  and  at  his  death  a  deacon  at  the  First  Congregational  church. 
He  was  greatly  interested  in  the  work  at  Forestdale  Chapel,  of 
which  he  was  for  a  time  Superintendent  of  the  Sunday  School. 
He  was  a  director  in  the  Young  Men's  Christian  Association 
and  for  some  years  was  an  officer  at  the  Maiden  Cooperative 
Bank.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Boston  Chamber  of  Com- 
merce, the  Boston  Credit  Men's  Association  and  of  Mystic  Side 
Council  of  the  Royal  Arcanum. 

Mr.  Belcher  is  survived  by  his  wife,  recently  with  her  son 
Harold  B.  Belcher,  treasurer  of  the  Mission  Board  at  FooChow, 
China.  He  also  left  sons  Edward  B.  Belcher  of  Arlington  and 
George  M.  Belcher  of  Manchester,  New  Hampshire,  and  six 
grandchildren. 


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WILLIAM   BRADLEY    BUCKMINSTER. 

Died,  at  his  summer  home  at  Beach  Bluff,  Swampscott, 
July  27,  1919,  William  Bradley  Buckminster,  in  the  seventy- 
second  year  of  his  age.  Mr.  Buckminster  was  one  of  the  most 
widely  known  and  successful  residents  of  Maiden.  He  was  born 
in  Boston,  son  of  William  J.  Buckminster,  editor  of  the  Massa- 
chusetts Plowman.  He  grew  up  in  the  Maplewood  section  of 
Maiden,  his  home  being  on  Laurel  street.  He  attended  the 
Maplewood  Grammar  school  and  the  Maiden  High  school, 
graduating  in  its  third  class  in  1865.  Then  he  spent  a  year  in 
the  class  of  1865  at  Annapolis,  among  his  classmates  who  sur- 
vive being  Admiral  Wycoff  of  San  Francisco.  Then  he  went 
to  Harvard,  from  which  college  his  father,  grandfather  and 
great  grandfather  had  graduated.  He  was  given  the  degree  of 
A,  M.  in  1870. 

Soon  after  he  became  a  bookkeeper  for  Isaac  Rich,  the 
celebrated  fish  merchant  of  Boston,  one  of  the  founders  of  Bos- 
ton University.  His  abilities  as  a  business  man  attracting  the 
attention  of  the  late  F.  H.  Odiorne,  who  was  interested  in  quick- 
silver properties  in  Napa  county,  California,  and  through  him 
Mr.  Buckminster,  who  had  been  as  a  college  man  deeply 
interested  in  geology,  was  made  manager  of  the  properties  of 
several  mine  owners.  From  that  time  his  interests  expanded 
rapidly  until  he  became  known  as  the  "  Quicksilver  King," 
being  one  of  the  greatest  quicksilver  magnates  in  the  world.  At 
his  death  he  was  a  director  of  the  New  Idria  Quicksilver  Com- 
pany and  of  the  Harvard  mines,  which  caused  him  to  make  trips 
to  the  Pacific  coast,  where  he  was  well  known,  several  times 
annually.  He  had  many  other  business  interests,  being  a  director 
in  the  Maiden  Trust  Company,  a  former  president  of  the  Maiden 
and  Melrose  Gas  Light  Company  and  treasurer  of  the  Assabet 
Mills  at  Maynard. 

Mr.  Buckminster  was  married  September  14,  1870,  by 
Rev.  Andrew  P.  Peabody,  the  celebrated  University  preacher  at 
Harvard,  to  Miss  Christine  Isabelle  Chase  of  Leominster.    He  is 


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survived  by  two  sons,  Capt.  William  R.,  of  Maiden,  and  Harold 
C,  of  Winchester.  Younger  sons,  Roy  and  Morey  Willard, 
died  in  Maplewood,  the  home  of  the  family  for  many  years. 

While  living  in  Maplewood,  Mr.  Buckminster  interested 
himslf  in  local  politics.  He  served  in  the  Common  Council  for 
Ward  Six  in  1S85  and  i886",  was  chairman  of  the  Water  Board 
for  five  years,  and  served  as  a  cemetery  trustee.  He  was  a 
frequent  delegate  to  conventions  of  the  Republican  party. 

Mr.  Buckminster  was  a  grand-nephew  of  Rev.. John  Stevens 
Buckminster,  an  elequent  representative  of  the  old  school  of 
Boston  Unitarian  preachers.  His  mother  was  a  Methodist,  and 
he  spent  his  early  days  as  an  attendent  at  the  Maplewood 
Methodist  church.  After  his  marriage  he  attended  the  Maple- 
wood Congregational  church,  and  after  his  removal  to  his 
beautiful  home  on  Dexter  street,  he  became  a  communicant  at 
St.  Paul's  Episcopal  church. 

Mr.  Buckminster  dearly  loved  flowers,  and  before  leaving 
for  Beach  Bluff  in  the  early  summer  superintended  the  re-grad- 
ing of  the  lawn  at  his  Dexter  street  estate,  and  the  constructiot) 
of  a  rose  garden,  in  which  he  was  much  interested. 


JAMES   HENRY  BURGESS. 

James  Henry  Burgess,  a  native  of  Charlestown,  who  came 
to  Maiden  when  he  was  seven  years  of  age,  and  whose  home 
was  at  72  Mountain  avenue,  died  at  the  Boston  Homeopathic 
Hospital,  November  21,  191S,  his  death  following  an  operation. 
For  a  half  century  he  was  connected  with  the  firm  of  Sherburne 
&  Co.  dealers  in  railroad  supplies,  in  Boston,  in  charge  of  the 
company's  offices. 

Mr.  Burgess'  early  life  was  spent  in  Maplewood,  where  he 
resided  with  an  uncle,  the  late  Deacon  Henry  E.  Turner,  father 
of  the  late  state  auditor,  Henry  E.  Turner,  on  Salem  street,  at 
the  head  of  Webster.  Both  his  mother  and  aunt  were  teachers 
in  the  old  Maplewood  school.     He  was  married,  June  17,  1S80, 


DARIUS   COBB 


MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY  7I 

to  Miss  Ovilla  B.  Riley,  daughter  of  the  late  Charles  E.  Riley, 
of  Maplewood,  who,  with  a  son,  H.  Chester  Burgess,  survive 
him.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Knights  of  Malta,  the  First 
Baptist  church,  and  of  this  Society. 

Mr.  Burgess'  parents  were  James  D.,  and  Angeline  C. 
Burgess,  and  he  was  of  Cape  Cod  stock.  The  family  was 
prominent  in  the  Puritan  history  of  England,  Rev.  Dr.  Cornelius 
Burgess,  having  been  an  assessor,  or  vice  president  of  the  West- 
minster Assembly,  which  devised  the  confession  and  the  cate- 
chism and  ceased  its  deliberations  when  Cromwell  dissolved  the 
Long  Parliament.  Dr.  Burgess'  colleague  was  his  cousin,  the 
Rev.  John  White,  the  Patriarch  of  Dorchester,  England,  founder 
of  the  Massachusetts  Bay  Colony  and  the  great-grandfather  of 
John  and  Charles  Wesley. 


DARIUS   COBB. 

On  Wednesday,  April  23,  1919,  at  his  home  in  Newton 
Upper  Falls,  died,  Darius  Cobb,  one  of  the  most  notable  natives 
of  Maiden.  His  age  was  eighty-four.  He  was  hale  and  hearty 
and  full  of  enthusiasm  at  the  celebration  of  his  last  birthday, 
August  6,  191S,  and  began  to  fail  in  the  fall  of  that  year,  but  he 
made  a  good  fight  against  his  condition,  continuing  his  art  work 
and  his  lectures.  He  always  claimed  that  painting  and  the 
desire  to  paint  kept  him  young. 

The  birthplace  of  both  Darius  and  his  twin  brother  Cyrus 
Cobb,  also  a  painter  and  eminent  as  a  sculptor,  was  in  a  front 
upper  chamber  of  the  old  parsonage  on  Main  street,  in  which 
room  Rev.  William  Emerson,  the  grandfather  of  Ralph  Waldo 
Emerson,  and  Rev.  Adoniram  Judson,  the  Burmese  missionary, 
had  previously  seen  the  light.  Rev.  Sylvanus  Cobb,  the  father 
of  the  twins,  was  the  pastor  of  the  First  Parish  church,  which 
was  divided  during  his  pastorate,  he  removing  to  Waltham  when 
the  lads  were  in  their  fourth  year.  A  few  years  ago  Mr.  Cobb 
"''sited  Maiden  and  gave  his  reminiscences  of  childhood  in  the 


72  MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY 

old  parsonage.  It  was  remarkable  how  many  things  in  his 
infancy  of  three  years  the  old  gentleman  could  remember.  On 
the  side  of  both  father  and  mother  the  brothers  were  descended 
from  Elder  Cobb,  who  came  to  America  in  the  second  voyage 
of  the  Mayflower.  Mrs.  Cobb,  the  mother,  whose  maiden  name 
was  Eunice  Hale  Waite,  was  actively  engaged  in  woman's  work. 
She  was  the  first  president  of  the  Ladies'  Physiological  Institute  of 
Boston.  Until  the  death  of  Cyrus  Cobb  in  1903  the  brothers 
had  been  inseparable.  Cyrus  was  the  leader,  being  termed  by 
Darius  the  elder  brother,  as  he  was  born  three  minutes  earlier. 
Each  helped  the  other  in  the  work  that  he  did,  though  much  of 
the  planning  was  done  by  Cyrus.  Early  in  life,  through  the 
impressions  gained  by  a  study  of  some  of  Washington  Allston's 
paintings  they  determined  to  become  painters  and  dedicated 
themselves  to  art.  From  that  time  they  worked  side  by  side  in 
the  same  studio.  Both  the  brothers  were  soldiers  in  the  Civil 
War,  serving  in  the  Forty-fourth  Massachusetts  Regiment. 
Later  in  his  life  Cyrus  Cobb  designed  the  Soldiers'  Monument  on 
Cambridge  Common. 

The  painting  of  a  distinctive  representation  of  Christ  was  an 
ambition  of  Darius  Cobb  from  his  youth.  He  did  many  suc- 
cessful portraits  and  much  other  notable  work,  but  frequently 
would  return  to  his  ideal,  which  he  did  not  complete  to  his  satis- 
faction until  1914.  This,  under  the  title  of  "The  Master,"  he 
thereafter  exhibited  widely.  Of  his  other  work,  it  may  be  said 
that  his  paintings  adorn  the  art  galleries  of  France,  England 
and  America.  The  nine  great  jDaintings  in  the  Empire  ballroom 
of  the  Hotel  Tuileries  are  by  him.  For  years  he  devoted  himself 
to  portraits  and  landscapes,  among  notable  portraits  being  those 
of  Henry  Wilson,  Charles  Sumner,  Rufus  Choate,  General 
Benjamin  F.  Butler  and  John  A.  Andrew.  The  Wilson  portrait 
hangs  in  the  Natick  Town  Hall,  Mr.  Cobb  being  chosen  as  the 
painter  by  Vice  President  Wilson's  family  and  fellow-townsmen. 
The  lawyers  of  Boston  purchased  the  portrait  of  Rufus  Choate 
for  the  Supreme  Court,  and  two  copies  of  it  were  ordered  by 
General  Butler,  one  for  himself  and  one  for  the  New  York  bar, 


MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY  73 

he  agreeing  with  WilHam  M.  Evarts  and  other  eminent  lawyers 
that  it  was  an  extraordinary  portrait.  The  Andrew  portrait 
was  purchased  by  the  Governor's  son,  Congressman  John  F. 
Andrew,  for  presentation  to  tlie  State. 

Like  many  devotees  of  the  Fine  Arts,  Mr.  Cobb  was  also 
notable  as  a  singer,  a  lecturer  and  poet.  He  enjoyed  long  walks, 
loved  animals  and  flowers  and  was  in  vigorous  health  until  very 
near  the  close  of  life.  He  was  an  active  member  of  the  Boston 
Art  Club.  He  regularly  attended  the  reunions  of  the  Old  School 
Boys  of  Boston  Association  and  belonged  to  William  H.  Smart 
Post  20,  of  Cambridge.  In  1S66  the  twin  brothers  married 
sisters,  Darius  marrying  Laura  M.,  and  Cyrus,  Emma  Lillie. 
There  was  a  double  wedding  and  the  officiating  clergyman  was 
Rev.  Warren  H.  Cudworth,  chaplain  of  the  Sixth  Massachusetts 
Regiment,  and  Rev.  Sylvanus  Cobb,  the  father,  assisting. 
Mr.  Cobb  was  survived  by  his  widow^  several  months.  She  died 
in  October,  191 9.  Four  daughters  and  three  sons  survive  him  : 
Miss  Lillie  A.,  and  Miss  Cora  S.  Cobb,  Mrs.  David  S.*  Wheeler 
and  Mrs.  H.  Earl  Myers,  and  Messrs.  Frederick  W.,  Percival 
B.  and  Stanwood  Cobb. 

Mr.  Cobb's  funeral  was  held  at  the  Newton  Highlands 
Congregational  church.  The  service  was  conducted  by  Rev. 
Henry  Smart,  and  Rev.  Stephen  H.  Roblin  spoke  words  of 
eulogy.  In  the  chancel  of  the  church  was  Mr.  Cobb's  master 
painting,  "  The  Master."  The  picture  had  been  with  its  painter 
in  churches  every  where  for  many  years,  but  for  the  first  time  the 
lips  which  had  told  the  story  of  the  picture,  and  borne  testimony 
to  the  love  of  the  speaker  for  its  subject,  were  silent ;  but  the 
picture,  for  the  gathering  of  loving,  sorrowing  friends  could  see 
in  the  benign,  compassionate,  divine  features  on  the  canvas  the 
testimony  of  the  dead  painter  to  his  conception  of  what  the 
Master  was  like ;  while  in  another  sense  it  testified  to  the  faith 
of  the  painter — not  dead,  but  alive  forevermore,  and  satisfied, 
because  awake  in  the  likeness  he   adored. 


74  MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY 


CHARLES   LYNDE    EATON. 

Charles  Lynde  Eaton,  vice  president  of  the  S.  S.  Pierce 
Company,  was  born  in  the  old  Dr.  .Sullivan  house,  which  stood 
at  310  Main  street,  and  died  in  a  Boston  hospital  June  7,  19 19. 
His  residence  was  at  44  Dexter  street,  but  he  had  been  at  the 
hospital  since  January  25.  His  parents  were  James  and  Rebecca 
Lynde  Eaton.  He  was  educated  in  Maiden,  and  upon  com- 
pleting his  course  in  the  high  school  entered  the  employment  of 
the  Pierce  Company,  where  hf  spent  the  rest  of  his  life.  With  a 
keen  business  instinct  and  blessed  with  great  industry,  it  was 
not  strange  that  he  rose  to  his  high  position  with  the  company. 
He  had  a  mastery  of  all  details  of  the  grocery  trade  and  his 
judgment  was  relied  upon  by  the  firm  and  its  customers  alike. 
He  had  a  summer  home  at  Seven  Gables,  in  Clifton  and  a 
country  estate  at  Belgrade  Lakes,  in  Maine. 

Mr.  Eaton  was  a  first  cousin  of  the  late  James  F.  Eaton, 
of  Maplewood.  Two  brothers  passed  away  a  few  years  ago, 
leaving  him  the  last  of  his  family.  His  wife,  who  was  Miss 
Grace  Choate  of  Beverly,  and  a  daughter,  Miss  Bessie  L.  Eaton, 
survive  him.  He  was  connected  with  the  First  Congregational 
church  and  a  member  of  this  Society.  His  social  and  athletic 
interests  are  shown  through  his  having  been  a  member  of  the 
Corinthian,  Boston  and  Eastern  Yacht  clubs,  the  Tedesco, 
Kernwood,  City,  Boston  Art  and  Apollo  clubs. 


DEACON    EDWARD    GAY. 

Deacon  Edward  Gay,  for  many  years  a  member  of  this 
Society,  passed  away  at  his  home,  iS  Dexter  street,  Tuesday, 
June  I,  1920,  at  the  age  of  83  years.  He  was  born  in  Nashua, 
N.  H  ,  the  son  of  Ira  and  Mary  (White)  Gay,  was  educated  in 
several  preparatory  schools  and  was  graduated  from  Amherst 
College  in  18^6.  After  a  professional  career  as  a  teacher  for 
several  years  in  the  schools  of  Wakefield  and  the  Quincy  school 


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in  Boston,  he  entered  the  woolen  concern  of  H.  Porter  Smith  of 
Boston,  and  later  took  charge  of  the  Boston  office  of  the  Cochrane 
Chemical  Company,  remaining  with  that  corporation  some  38 
years,  retiring  nine  years  ago. 

Deacon  Gay  was  an  active  member  of  the  First  Congrega- 
tional church  and  the  Young  Men's  Christian  Association.  He 
served  many  years  in  the  office  of  deacon  in  the  church,  and 
when  the  present  home  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  was  built,  he  was 
the  chairman  of  the  building  commission.  From  1878  to  1882 
he  was  a  member  of  the  Maiden  School  Committee,  serving 
with  Rev.  Dr.  Joseph  Cummings,  Joshua  H.  Millett,  J.  W. 
Allen,  P.  J.  McSha:ne,  Mrs.  E.  D.  Freeman  and  Mrs.  F.  W. 
Lewis,  now  all  deceased. 

Mr.  Gay  was  a  resident  of  Maiden  54  years.  His  wife  who 
was  Miss  Eloise  Fox,  died  in  1900.  A  sister,  Mrs.  Ellen  A. 
Smith,  made  her  home  with  him. 


DR.  R.  J.  P.  GOODWIN. 

Dr.  Richard  James  Plummer  Goodwin,  one  of  the  oldest 
physicians  in  Maiden,  and  for  many  years  a  member  of  this 
Society,  passed  away  on  the  morning  of  Monday,  April  19, 
1920,  at  his  home  on  Pleasant  street.  He  was  a  native  of  BoS" 
ton,  and  died  in  his  83d  year.  He  was  the  son  of  Richard 
Hanson  and  Mary  Ann  (Roberts)  Goodwin  and  the  late  Henry 
C.  Goodwin,  long  a  druggist  here,  was  his  cousin.  Dr,  Good- 
win was  a  pupil  in  the  Eliot  school  and  was  graduated  from  the 
Harvard  Medical  school  in  1859.  In  that  year  he  was  married, 
in  the  Old  North  church  on  Salem  street,  to  Josephine  Louise, 
daughter  of  Capt.  and  Mrs.  Ezra  Allen,  of  Boston. 

Dr.  Goodwin,  with  his  bride,  came  to  Maiden,  and  made 
his  home  on  Pleasant  street,  not  far  from  the  spot  where  he 
died.  Upon  the  breaking  out  of  the  Civil  War  he  volunteered 
as  an  Army  surgeon,  and  served  until  its  close,  going  then  to 
Manchester,  N.  PL,  where  he  remained  in  charge  of  an  Army 


76  MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY 

hospital  for  20  years.  Then  he  returned  to  Boston,  settling  in 
general  practice  with  a  classmate,  Dr.  Benjamin  Franklin 
Campbell,  now  deceased.  Dr.  Campbell  was  at  one  time  a 
member  of  the  Massachusetts  Senate,  giving  distinguished  ser- 
vice. On  January  i,  1890,  he  came  here,  practicing  among  his 
older  patients  until  his  retirement.  He  was  active  in  Masonry  in 
earlier  years,  was  a  member  of  the  First  Congregational  church, 
and  actively  interested  in  the  work  of  this  Society  until  prevented 
through  the  infirmities  of  age. 

Mrs.  Goodwin  died  27  years  ago.  Six  children  survive 
him  :  Mrs.  George  H.  Walsh,  Mrs.  Francis  L.  Maraspin,  Mrs. 
C.  A.  Dyer,  Misses  Mary  and  Beatrice  Goodwin  of  Maiden  and 
Mrs.  Henry  M.  Slade  of  Fairhaven.  There  are  also  seven 
grand-children. 


EDWIN   CARTER   GOULD. 

Edwin  Carter  Gould,  a  member  of  this  Society,  died  at  his 
home  on  Wyoming  avenue,  in  Melrose,  December  27,  1919. 
He  was  the  son  of  Rev.  Levi  and  Elizabeth  (Webb)  Gould  and 
a  brother  of  the  late  Hon.  Levi  S.  Gould,  formerly  mayor  of 
Melrose  and  chairman  of  the  Middlesex  County  Commissioners. 
The  family  removed  to  this  city  when  Melrose  was  that  part  of 
Maiden  known  as  North  Maiden,  which  became  their  home. 
Mr.  Gould  was  educated  at  Bath,  Maine,  and  attended  a  Boston 
commercial  college.  When  16  years  old  he  set  in  type  and 
printed  the  first  newspaper  in  Melrose,  called  the  Melrose 
Advertiser,  which,  under  different  names,  continued  to  appear 
until  merged  in  the  Evening  News,  in  1906.  For  many  years 
he  was  engaged  in  the  rubber  business ;  then  he  went  West, 
locating  at  first  in  Kansas,  then  joining  the  gold  rush  at  Pike's 
Peak  and  remaining  in  Colorado  until  the  outbreak  of  the  Civil 
War,  when  he  joined  Company  F  of  the  First  Colorado  Cavalry. 
After  taking  part  in  many  engagements,  he  was  badly  wounded 
at  Glorietta,  New  Mexico.     He  was  mustered  out  in  1864.     He 


MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY  77 

served  as  postmaster  at  Fort  Lyon,  Colorado,  and  then,  return- 
ing East,  located  in  Bridgeport,  Connecticut,  where  he  engaged 
in  the  furniture  business  for  seventeen  years. 

From  Bridgeport  he  came  to  Boston,  making  his  home  in 
Melrose.  In  189 1  he  was  made  town  accountant  of  Melrose, 
being  appointed  the  same  year  by  the  late  Sergeant-at-arms, 
Captain  John  G.  B.  Adams,  a  messenger  of  the  General  Court. 
From  this  position  he  retired  about  15  years  ago.  He  served 
continuously  either  as  town  accountant  or  city  auditor  from  his 
appointment  to  the  time  of  his  death.  He  was  a  model  public 
servant,  with  the  faithfulness  to  duty  of  an  old  soldier  and  the 
courtesy  of  a  true  gentleman.  He  was  devoted  to  the  interests 
of  his  brother  and  the  affection  of  each  of  the  brothers  for  the 
other  was  a  frequent  subject  of  comment.  For  a  half  century 
Mr.  Gould  had  been  a  member  of  Wyoming  lodge  of  Masons,  in 
which  he  served  many  years  as.  tyler.  He  belonged  to  other 
bodies  of  Masons,  and  to  U.  S.  Grant  Post  4,  Grand  Army  of 
the  Republic. 


ARTHUR   FRESCOTT   HOLDEN. 

On  January  6,  1919,  died  at  his  home,  26  Prescott  street,  in 
Maiden,  Arthur  Prescott  Holden,  a  member  of  this  Society,  the 
event  being  one  of  those,  now  of  infrequent  occurrence,  of  a 
native  of  Maiden  living  for  a  half-century  and  passing  away  in 
the  house  in  which  he  was  born.  An  uncle,  Henri  C.  Parsons, 
had  died  in  Middleboro,  and  Mr.  Holden  contracted  a  cold  in 
attending  to  the  funeral  arrangements,  which  developed  into 
pneumonia,  and  proved  fatal  after  a  brief  illness. 

Mr.  Holden  was  the  son  of  the  late  John  Prescott  Holden 
and  Anna  R.  (Floyd)  Holden.  The  father  was  long  the  vice 
president  of  the  Maiden  Savings  Bank  and  for  more  than  a 
generation  the  chairman  of  the  Maiden  board  of  assessors.  The 
son  was  educated  in  Maiden,  and  on  his  graduation  from  the 
Maiden  High  school  entered  the  service  of  the  National  Shaw- 


78  MAL.DEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY 

mut  bank,  in  Boston,  and  when  leaving  it,  owing  to  ill  health, 
was  in  charge  of  the  purchase  pf  all  supplies  for  the  institution. 
He  then  succeeded  his  father  in  the  insurance  business.  He 
served  in  the  Common  Council  in  1908  and  1909.  He  was  an 
attendant  at  the  First  Parish  church.  He  was  a  member  of 
Converse  Lodge  of  Masons.  Mrs.  Holden  died  about  three 
years  ago.  Mr.  Holden  left  one  son,  William  Prescott  Holden, 
who  was  seriously  ill  at  the  time  the  father  passed  away. 


ELLEN   WATSON   LANE. 

Miss  Ellen  Watson  Lane,  a  member  of  this  Society,  died  at 
her  home,  45  Waverly  street,  in  Maiden,  on  Monday,  March  15, 
1920.  Miss  Lane  was  the  oldest  employe  of  Little,  Brown  &  Co., 
the  Boston  publishers,  and  was  born  in  Charlestown,  February 
25,  1839,  t^^  daughter  of  George  Lane  and  Sarah  Hawes  Berry, 
a  descendant  of  Mayflower  stock.  In  the  early  8o's  she  entered 
the  employ  of  the  Little,  Brown  firm,  continuing  in  various 
important  positions  until  the  time  of  her  death.  Two  nephews, 
DeWitt  Lane  of  South  Boston  and  Frank  Church  Lane  of 
Philadelphia,  survive  her;   also  three  grand-nieces. 


REV.   JAMES   MUDGE,  S.  T.  D. 

Rev.  James  Mudge,  S.  T.  D.,  died  at  his  home  on  Cedar 
street,  in  Maiden,  May  7,  191 8,  in  his  76th  year.  He  was  a 
retired  preacher  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church,  and  since 
giving  up  pastoral  charges  had  lived  in  Maiden  ten  busy,  but 
happy  years,  for  he  was  at  the  time  of  his  death  the  secretary  of 
the  New  England  Annual  Conference,  a  position  he  had  filled  for 
30  years,  and  attended  the  sessions  of  that  body  within  a  moiith  of 
his  death,  performing  his  secretarial  duties  and  attending  the 
session  when  his  sermon,  celebrating  the  fiftieth  anniversary  of 


JAMES  MUDGE 


MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY  79 

his  becoming  a  member  of  the  conference,  was  read  by  an  asso- 
ciate, Dean  Huntington.  He  was  able  to  complete  the  work  of 
reading  the  proofs  of  the  Minutes  of  the  conference  proceedings 
a  few  days  before  his  death. 

Dr.  Mudge  was  a  native  of  West  Springfield,  the  son  of  a 
Methodist  preacher,  Rev.  James  Mudge,  but  delighted  in  tracing 
the  history  of  early  members  of  his  family  in  Maiden.  On  page 
39  of  Volume  Five  of  the  Register  appears  an  article  by  him, 
"  The  Mudges  of  Maiden,"  which  he  read  at  a  meeting  of  the 
Society  a  short  time  before  his  death.  He  was  descended  from 
Thomas  Mudge,  born  in  England  in  1624,  who  came  from 
Devonshire  to  Massachusetts  Bay  about  1638.  Thomas  lived 
many  years  on  the  Job  Lane  farm,  now  incorporated  in  Wood- 
lawn  Cemetery.  Dr.  Mudge  was  descended  from  Thomas'  son 
John,  prominent  in  Maiden  through  a  long  life.  His  grandson, 
John,  moved  to  Lynnfield  in  1750,  where,  in  1754,  was  born 
Enoch  Mudge,  great-grandfather  of  Dr.  Mudge,  who  was  a 
prosperous  shoe  manufacturer  in  Lynn,  and  became  the  first 
member,  first  class-leader,  first  steward  and  first  local  preacher 
of  the  pioneer  church  of  Massachusetts  Methodism  in  Lynn. 
His  son.  Rev.  Enoch  Mudge,  became  the  first  itinerant 
Methodist  preacher  in  New  England.  His  nephew,  James 
Mudge,  father  of  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  was  also  a  Methodist 
preacher,  who  died  at  the  early  age  of  34,  and  in  1833  was  in 
charge  of  the  church  at  North  Maiden,  now  Melrose.  He  died 
in  Greenfield  in  1846. 

Dr.  Mudge  removed  to  Lynn  after  the  death  of  his  father, 
and  later  attended  the  Lynn  High  School  and  Wesleyan  Univer- 
sity at  Middletown,  Connecticut,  from  which  he  was  graduated 
in  1S65.  Then  he  attended  the  Theological  School  of  Boston 
University,  graduating  in  1S70.  At  this  period  he  preached  in 
the  North  Avenue  church,  in  Cambridge,  and  after  his  ordina- 
tion became  pastor  of  the  church  at  Wilbraham.  Then  he  spent 
ten  years  in  the  missionary  field,  editing  the  Lucknow  Witness. 
Returning  to  this  country  and  to  the  New  England  Conference, 
of  which  he  soon  became  the  secretary,  he  spent   thirty    busy 


80  MALDEN     HISTORICAL     SOCIETY 

years  in  the  pastorate,  preaching  at  East  Pepperell,  Clinton, 
Lowell  Highlands,  Natick,  Worcester,  Jamaica  Plain  and 
Centreville,  and  meanwhile  wielding  a  busy  pen  in  contributions 
to  the  church  press  and  in  the  preparation  of  historical  and 
devotional  books,  articles,  essays,  prose  and  poetry.  At  the 
time  of  the  publication  of  the  bibliography  of  the  work  of  mem- 
bers of  this  Society,  in  the  Register  of  1910,  he  submitted  more 
titles  than  any  other  member,  excepting  Sylvester  Baxter,  and 
estimated  the  number  of  his  theological  essays  printed  in  month- 
lies and  quarterlies  at  350  and  of  other  articles  at  at  least  a 
thousand.  He  left  the  pastorate  to  become  book  editor  of 
Zton's  Herald  about  ten  years  before  his  death,  and  his  com- 
ments on  the  Sunday  School  lessons,  prepared  long  in  advance, 
continued  to  be  published  many  months  after  that  event. 

On  retiring  from  the  pastorate.  Dr.  Mudge  made  his  home 
at  33  Cedar  street,  and  soon  became  a  familiar  figure  in  Maiden. 
He  joined  this  Society,  from  whose  meetings  he  was  almost  never 
absent,  and  was  a  constant  visitor  at  the  Converse  Library, 
having  few  rivals  as  a  borrower  of  books,  although  he  had  a 
large  library  of  his  own.  In  his  library  he  was  a  warm  and 
genial  host  and  his  habits  of  pastoral  visitation  never  forsook 
him,  so  that  in  his  reports  of  his  work  as  superintendent  of  the 
Home  Department  of  Centre  M.  E.  Sunday  school,  the  number 
of  his  calls  would  reach  into  the  hundreds  annually.  It  was 
the  largest  department  of  its  class  in  the  country.  His  cheery, 
happy  spirit  and  delightful  conversation,  revealing  the  wealth 
of  a  well  stored  mind,  made  him  a  welcome  visitor  anywhere. 

In  Pine  Grove  Cemetery  in  Lynn,  the  home  of  his  boyhood 
days,  is  Dr.  Mudge's  grave,  marked  by  a  blue  flag  with  a  white 
cross,  which  distinguishes  the  graves  of  Methodist  ministers; 
and  on  his  gravestone  is  this  inscription  : 

REV.    JAMES    MUDGE 

Minister,    Author,    Preacher 
1844-191S 

"  He  had  a  passion  for  the  will  of  God." 


DR.   ALBERT  LAXE   XORRIS 


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ALBERT   LANE   NORRIS. 

Dr.  Albert  Lane  Norris,  for  ten  years  a  resident  of  Maiden 
and  for  45  years  in  active  practice  as  a  physican  in  Cambridge, 
died  in  the  Deaconess  Hospital  in  Brookline,  August  29,  1919, 
in  his  eighty-first  year.  He  was  born  in  Epping,  New  Hamp- 
shire, attended  Phillips  Exeter  and  Wilbraham  academies  and 
took  his  degree  in  medicine  from  Harvard  in  1865.  He  was  an 
assistant  surgeon  in  the  Army,  1S64-1S67,  and  was  in  the 
Peninsula  campaign.  At  the  close  of  the  war,  he  established 
himself  in  practice  in  East  Cambridge,  but  in  1869  spent  a  year 
in  study  in  the  hopitals  of  Vienna,  Berlin,  Edinburgh  and 
London. 

In  1873,  he  was  married  to  Miss  Clara  E.  Perley,  daughter 
of  Dr.  John  Langdon  Perley  of  Laconia,  his  wedding  trip  tak- 
ing him  to  Europe,  which  he  revisited,  with  his  family,  twice 
thereafter,  in  1890  and  1905.  In  1879  he  removed  from  East 
Cambridge  to  the  corner  of  Massachusetts  avenue  and  Pleasant 
street  in  Cambridgeport,  remaining  in  this  location  until  he 
relinquished  his  active  practice  to  his  son.  Dr.  Albert  P.  Norris, 
in  19 10,  his  wife  having  died  during  the  previous  year.  He 
then,  with  his  daughters.  Misses  C.  Maude  and  Grace  M. 
Norris,  removed  to  283  Clifton  street,  in  Maiden.  He  found 
in  his  remaining  years  leisure  for  reading  and  for  various  activ- 
ities, which  he  greatly  enjoyed.  He  was  a  faithful  member  and 
attendant  of  the  Centre  M.  E.  Church  and  constant  in  his 
attendance  at  the  meetings  of  this  Society,  which  he  joined  soon 
after  he  came  to  Maiden.  He  was  also  a  member  of  the  Uni- 
versity Club  of  Maiden,  the  New  England  Historic  Genealogical 
Society,  the  Military  Order  of  the  Loyal  Legion,  and  of  the 
Grand  Army  of  the  Republic,  and  held  membership  in  the 
Massachusetts  Medical  Society  for  fifty-four  years. 

Dr.  Norris  was  one  of  the  most  alive  men  in  our  commun- 
ity. He  took  an  active  interest  in  current  events  and  in  incidents 
that  helped  make  history.     All  good  causes  claimed  his  support. 


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Trinity  M.  E.  church,  East  Cambridge,  then  building,  received 
the  first  $i,ooo  he  earned  from  his  practice.  He  was  a  fast 
friend  and  a  good  neighbor  and  is  greatly  missed  by  those  who 
were  recipients  of  his  brief,  but  kindly  and  frequent  calls.  His 
friends  will  not  soon  forget  his  happy  celebration  of  his  eightieth 
birthday,  some  weeks  before  his  death. 

Beside  his  son  and  daughters,  three  grand-children  survive 
him.  His  friends  lament  with  his  loss,  the  sudden  death,  a  few 
months  ago,  of  his  daughter,  Grace,  and  while  sincerely  regret- 
ting the  death  of  a  lady  who  endeared  herself  to  the  whole  com- 
munity by  her  culture,  her  fine  character  and  musical  talent,  are 
grateful  that  the  good  father  was  spared  the  shock  of  her  going 
away. 


GEORGE   EDWIN   SMITH. 

Hon.  George  Edwin  Smith,  a  member  of  this  Society,  died 
at  the  Parker  House,  in  Boston,  his  winter  home,  April  26,  ' 
1 9 19.  For  several  years  he  had  been  a  resident  of  Swampscott, 
removing  thence  from  Everett,  long  his  home,  and  has  resided 
on  Atlantic  avenue,  in  the  Phillips  Beach  section,  spending  his 
winters  in  Boston.  He  had  been  in  failing  health  for  over  two 
years. 

Mr.  Smith  was  born  in  New  Hampton,  New  Hampshire, 
April  5,  1849,  the  son  of  David  Hebard  and  Esther  S.  (Perkins) 
Smith.  He  was  graduated  from  Bates  College  in  1873  and  then 
pursued  the  study  of  law  in  private  law  offices  until  1875,  when 
he  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  Boston,  taking  up  the  active 
practice  of  his  profession.  He  was  town  counsel  and  the  first 
city  solicitor  of  Everett.  In  1883  he  was  chosen  a  member  of 
the  Massachusetts  House  of  Representatives,  serving  two  years. 
In  1897  he  was  sent  to  the  Massachusetts  Senate,  serving  as 
chairman  of  the  committee  on  bills  in  third  reading.  In  his 
second  term  he  was  elected  president  of  the  senate,  serving  in 
that  capacity  for  three   years.     During  the  years  1906-19 12  he 


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was  chairman  of  the  harbor  and  land  commission,  retiring  to 
his  law  practice  at  the  close  of  that  period.  With  the  railroad 
commission,  his  commission  formed  the  joint  board  on  the  con- 
struction of  the  Cape  Cod  canal.  He  was  a  trustee  of  the  Boston 
Five  Cents  Saving  Bank,  a  director  of  the  Massachusetts  Fire 
and  Marine  Insurance  Company,  a  fellow  and  a  member  of 
the  Board  of  Overseers  of  Bates  College,  a  member  of  the 
Middlesex  and  the  Boston  bar  associations,  of  the  Masons,  being 
one  of  the  Knights  Templar,  and  belonged  to  the  Middlesex,  the 
University  and  the  Algonquin  clubs  and  the  Tedesco  Country 
Club  in  Swampscott. 

Mr.  Smith  married,  October  31,  1876,  at  West  Buxton, 
Maine,  Sarah  Frances  Weld,  who  survives  him.  She  has  held 
the  office  of  State  regent  in  the  Massachusetts  Society  of  Daugh- 
ters of  the  Revolution.  Mr.  Smith  had  a  genial  nature,  made 
many  warm  friends,  was  a  successful  lawyer,  an  efficient  presid- 
ing officer,  a  trusted  public  official  and  left  the  record  of  a  long 
life  of  usefulness. 


CHARLES   GREELEY   WARREN. 

Hon.  Charles  Greeley  Warren,  for  many  years  a  member  of 
this  Society,  died  at  his  home,  677  Main  street,  March  28,  19 19. 
He  was  chairman  of  the  street  commission,  a  former  mayor  and 
a  well-known  business  man.  He  was  born  in  Yarmouth,  Maine, 
November  16,  1856,  coming  from  a  family  who  brought  the 
name  of  their  home  town,  Berwick,  England,  to  their  new  home 
in  Maine.  He  attended  North  Yarmouth  Academy,  earning  his 
tuition  by  working  afternoons  and  evenings  in  a  store.  Coming 
to  Boston  at  the  age  of  14,  he  learned  the  trade  of  trunk  making 
and  did  other  things,  including  the  management  of  a  gentlemen's 
furnishing  business  in  the  Hotel  Commonwealth  building  until 
1885,  when  he  came  to  Maiden  to  become  superintendent  of  the 
F.  P.  Cox  laundry,  later  being  made  manager  of  the  National 
Steam  Dye  House.     When  the  Cox  business  moved  to  Boston, 


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Mr.  Cox  bought  out  their  carpet-cleaning  business,  which  he 
thereafter  continued,  enlarging  the  plant  to  include  all  house 
furnishings,  among  them  the  Warren  Mattress. 

Mr.  Warren  began  his  political  experience  as  a  member  of 
the  Common  Council  from  Ward  Seven,  in  1893.  He  served 
three  terms,  becoming  an  alderman  without  opposition.  Then 
he  became  a  water  commissioner,  and  later  street  commissioner. 
He  was  elected  mayor  in  1906,  and,  after  being  succeeded  by 
Dr.  Charles  D.  McCarthy,  he  was  made  Maiden's  first  police 
commissioner. 

Mr.  Warren  was  a  member  of  Mount  Vernon  Lodge  of 
Masons,  Maiden  Lodge  of  Elks,  Wenepoyken  Tribe  of  Red 
Men,  Spartan  Lodge,  Knights  of  Pythias,  Bradley  Council, 
Royal  Arcanum,  the  Maiden  Deliberative  Assembly  and  the 
Bon  Ton  Club.  He  was  an  Odd  Fellow,  one  of  the  founders 
of  the  Order  of  Hay  Makers,  a  past  president  of  the  Maine  Club 
and  a  director  of  the  Maiden  Board  of  Trade,  of  which  he  had 
at  one  time  been  president. 

Mr.  Warren  was  married,  November  15,  1884,  to  Mrs. 
Emily  A.  Long  of  Union,  Maine,  and  is  survived  by  a 
step-daughter,  Mrs.  Fred  O.  Johnson. 


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