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New  Eiij^land 
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VOLl'ME    III 

1901)"1910 


Pages  341   to  550.      (Nnmbers  9  to  12  Inclasive) 


A  Mai^azine  Devoted  to 
the  History  of  Famillea 
of  Maine,  New  Hamp- 
shire and  Massachusetts 


Edited  and   Published  by 

HENRY  COLE  QUINBY,  A.  B.,  LL.  B. 

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NEW    ENGLAND    FAMILY   HISTORY 

Henrv  Coi.e  Quinby,  A.  B.,  LL.  B.. 

(Member    New    England    Historic-Genealogical    Society;    New  York 

Biographical  and  Genealogical    Society) 

Editor  and  Publisher 

165  Broadway,  New  York  City 

VOLUME  III.,  1909-1910;     (PAGES  341  TO  550) 

NOTE :— The  pages  of  New  Enot^and  Family  History  arc  numbered  con- 
secutively from  the  first  pace  of  the  first  number  of  the  first  volume, 
and  will  so  continue ;  so  that  the  page  only  need  be  cited,  without  the 


TABLE  OF  CONTENTS 
(For  List  of  Illustrations  see  page  iii;    for  List  of  Charts   see   page    v) 
Subject  Pace 

Ancestors  (note) 550 

Appleton  Family 448 

Appleton,Jolin9 457 

Batchelder,   Ebenezero 428 

Batchelder  Family 366,  421,  476,  540 

Batchelder  (letters) ...         545 

Batchelder,  Maj.  NathanS 476 

Batchelder,  Nathaniels 421 

Batchelder,  NathanieH 426 

Batchelder,  Rev.   Stephen 366 

Bay  Psalm  Book 501 

Bean  Family 483 

Bibliography,   Brewster 411 

Booksellers,  Early  Boston 502 

Bradford's   History,    Index 412 

Brewster's  Bibliography 411 

Brewster,  Elder  William 397 

Brewster's  True  Position 402 

Brocklebank  (note) 550 

Chattan,  Clan 483,  492 

"Chief  of  the  Pilgrims" 418 

Chronicles  of  the  Pilgrim  Fathers 419 

Compact,  Mayflower 409 

Crane  Family 395,460 

Denison  Family 507 


Denison,   Gen.  Daniel-^  .      ..    510 

"Eunice,"  Log  of 363 

Ferguson   Charles 382 

Foss  Ancestor 430 

Frost,  Joanna'' 362 

Frost,  John   (note) 549 

Giiman  Family 530 

Oilman,  Hon.  John* 534 

Glover,  Rev.  Jose^ 493 

Goodwin    Family 505 

Hawte  Family 465 

Hedge,  William 474 

Hicks,  Robert 471 

Isaacke   Family 463 

Kind  Words  (note) 550 

Letters  from  California 545 

Mahan,  John 382,  435 

Mass.  Historical  Soc'y 415 

Mayflower  Compact 409 

Mercer  Family 379,  434 

Mercer  Family,  (note) 549 

Mollington  Family 459 

Mountney  Family 461 

Pilgrims,  Chief  ol 418 

Position  of  Brewster 402 

Quinby,  Almira   F." 549 

Quinby,  Hon.    Henry  B.8 353 

Quinby,  Mrs.  Henry   B 361 

Ray  Family 522 

Rogers,  Daniel'' 447 

Rogers,  JohnS 437 

Rogers,  John, 3    Portraits  of 383 

Rogers  Family 341,  384,  437 

Rogers  Family  (Ministers) 393 

Rogers,  President 438 

Seal,  Captain's  Log 363 

Sewall  (note) 435 

Smith,   John 421 

Sparhawk  Family 395 

Tidd,  Lieut.  Joshua 346 

Titcomb,  Mary's  Needlework 381 

Vanderbilt,   Alfred   G 503 

Watson  Family 467 

Watson   Family,    (note) 459 

Wheattel   Family 466 


NEW    ENGLAND   FAMILY    HISTORY 

VOLUME  III.,  190&-1910,   (PAGES  341  TO  550) 

LIST  OF  ILLUSTRATIONS 

(NOTE:— An  asterisk  {*)  means  line^cut  on  the  pape  mentioned:  others  Brc 
half-tone  pliotograpluj  oppi>site  page  mentione<l.) 

Subject  Pace 

Appleton  Arms* 449 

Appleton,  John, 9  Gravestone* 458 

Appleton,  Priscilla,  Gravestone* 4S8 

Batchelder  Arms 368 

Batchelder,  Asa9 482 

Batchelder,  Doris  E. II 493 

Batchelder,  George   A.l" 493 

Batchelder,  Helen  F 523 

Batchelder   House 530 

Batchelder,  Jeremiah  C.9 482,  483 

Batchelder,  Joseph  Fred'O 535 

Batchelder.  Joseph    HenryW 439 

Batchelder,   Joseph   Moody9 482,  535 

Batchelder,  Kittredge" 535 

Batchelder,  Martha  S 489 

Batchelder,  Mary9 483 

Batchelder,  Mary   EllalO 548 

Batchelder,  Mary  W 493 

Batchelder,   Nathan** 437 

Batchelder,  Nathan  G.9 482,489 

Batchelder,  Nathan  P. 10 489 

Batchelder,  Peace  Clifford 437 

Batchelder,  Richard   N.9 482 

Batchelder,  Richard    N.H 493 

Batchelder,  Sarah   J 483 

Batchelder,  Rev.    Stephen's  Autograph 368 

Batchelder,  Rev.   Stephen's  Seal 368 

Batchelder,  WiUiamS 483 

Batchelder,  William   L.H 523 

Batchelder,  William  N.lO 523 

Beardsley,  Ehnon  W 540 

Beardsley,  Sarah  A. 1"  (Batchelder) 540 

Book,   Brewster 410 

Brass,  Mary  Mountney* 451a 


Brewster  Book 410 

Brewster  chair,  chest,  sword 406 

Brewster  Tablet 401 

Burpee,  Benjamin  Prescott 548 

Burpee,  Mattie  L. w  (Batchelder) 548 

Burpee.  Wm.  B 548 

Butler  Arms* 449 

Camp,  Candace   E 362 

Camp,  Hugh  N.  Jr 362 

Camp,  Hugh  N.III 362 

Carbonel  Arms* 449 

Chair  (Elder  Brewster's) 406 

Chest  (Elder  Brewster's) 406 

College,   St.  John's,  Oxford 368 

Crane  Arms* 449 

Denison,   Arms* 518 

Denison,  Seal* 521 

Dole,  DanieH  (Gravestone)* 433 

Dole,  Sarah  (Gravestone)* 433 

"  Eunice,"  Log  of 364 

Freeman,  Joshua  8  ,  Mansion 418 

Oilman  Arms 530 

Oilman  House 530 

Goodwin  Arms* 505 

Governor  Quinbj ,   portrait 341 

Hatch,  Albert  H 541 

Hatch,  Mary  E.'O  (Batchelder) 541 

Mansion  of  John^  Gilman 530 

Mansion  of  Nathan^  Batchelder 530 

Manor  house,  Scrooby 398 

Marysville,  Cal.,  Viewof* 544 

Mollington  Arms* 449 

Mountney  Arms*    449 

Mountney,  Mary,  Brass* 451a 

Quinby,  Gov 341 

Quinby,  Gov.  and  Council   354 

Quinby,  Gov.    and  Staff 358 

Quinby,  Mrs.    Henry  B 360 

Rogers,  Rev.  JohnS 446 

Rogers,  John3  (copperplate) 383 

Rogers,  JohnS  (painting) 393 

Sampler 382 

Sampler,  Mary  Titcomb,  (1800) 378 

Sampler,  Mary  Titcomb,  (1804) 378 

Scrooby,  Manorhouse 398 


Sexton   Arms* 449 

St.  John's  College,  Oxford 368 

Sword  and   Scabbard,   Brewster's 406 

Tablet,  Brewster 401 

Titcomb,  Mary  Sampler  (1800) 378 

Titcomb,  Mary,  Sampler   (1804) 378 

Waldingfield  Magna,  Church 450 

Waldingfield  Parva,    Church* 451 

Watson    Bowl 469 

CHARTS. 
No.  7,  (page   449).      Showing   Appleton,   Butler,   Carbonel,   Crane, 

Isaacke,     Jermyn,    Ogard,    Mountney,     Sexton,    Singleton, 

Welling. 
No.  8,  (page  462).     Showing    Appleton,  Everard,  Frowicke,  Condy, 

Guilford,  Hawte,  Horn,  Isaacke,  Tuke,  Wheattel. 
No.  9.  (page  467).     Showing  Freeman,  Hedge,  Hicks,  Hull.  Watson. 


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THE  ROGERS  FAMILY. 

(Sec  Chart,  p.  276.) 

This  family  famous  for  generations  for  its  dis- 
tinguished divines,  both  in  England  and  America,  has 
from  colonial  days  persistently  cherished  the  tradi- 
tion that  it  was  descended  from  John  Rogers,  the  first 
Christian  martyr  of  Queen  Mary's  reign,  who  was 
burned  at  the  stake  in  London  in  1555.  It  is  a  his- 
torical fact  that  he  had  ten  children,  but  research 
conducted  through  the  English  registries  of  wills  and 
published  in  the  New  England  Historical  and  Geneal- 
ogical Register  in  recent  years  shows  that  there  is 
no  basis  of  fact  for  the  tradition.  The  line  of  descent 
which  is  now  accurately  determined  by  the  work  of  the 
most  famous  genealogist  of  our  times,  H.  F.  Waters, 
is  as  follows : 

Johni  Rogers,  the  younger,  lived  at  Chelmsford, 
Essex,  in  the  early  part  of  the  sixteenth  century  and 
had 

John^  Rogers,  baptised  21  Nov.,  1538.  He  was  a 
shoemaker  in  the  hamlet  of  Moylesham  in  the  parish 
of  Chelmsford,  Essex,  and  died  in  1601,  in  which 
year,  3  July,  his  will  was  probated  (printed  in  full  in 
the  Register,  April,  1887).  It  is  from  that  document 
that  our  knowledge  of  him  is  derived.  From  it  we 
learn  that  his  second  and  last  wife  was  Joan.  (From 
other  sources  it  appears  that  she  was  the  sister  of  Wil- 
liam Garling  of  Totham ;  and  that  John^  Roger's  first 
wife,  named  Mary,  died  in  1579.)  We  also  learn 
that  though  a  shoemaker,   he  kept   two  servants  at 


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least,  who  lived  in  his  house;  that  his  house  was  at 
least  two  stories  in  height;  that  his  shop  was  in  the 
lower  story;  that  he  had  a  stall  in  the  market;  that 
around  his  liouse  he  liad  a  garden,  yards,  a  hop 
garden  and  out  houses,  all  constituting  freehold 
property  of  his.  It  also  appears  that  he  owned  other 
real  estate,  to  wit,  three  tenements  and  an  orchard, 
the  last  of  which  he  bought  shortly  before  he  died. 
His  children  were,  by  wife  Mary: 

I.  Thomas^  Rogers,  bapt.  30  Jan.   1574; 

II.  Mary^  Rogers,  bapt.  28  Apr.,  1576, 
married  William  Griffin ; 

III.  Elizabeth'*  Rogers,  bapt.  21  July,  1577; 

IV.  Richard^  Rogers,  bapt.  15  Apr.,  1579; 

V.  John^  Rogers,  "the  famous  preacher  of 
Dedham"  (see)  ; 

by  wife  Joan  Garling: 

VI.  Katherine-''  Rogers,  bapt.  29  May,  1581, 
died  1585; 

VII.  NathanicP  Rogers,  bapt.  23  Dec, 
1582.  married  EHzabeth  Terret,  1607;  school 
master  of  Chelmsford,  died  1619; 

VIII.  Ezechias^  Rogers,  bapt.  15  Nov., 
1585,  died  1587: 

IX.  Susan'''  Rogers,  bapt.  22  Sept.,  1588, 
immarried,  died  1614. 

John^  Rogers,  above  mentioned,  became  "the 
famous  preacher  of  Dedham"  (England)  ;  is  men- 
tioned in  the  wills  of  his  uncle  Rev.  Richard^  Rogers, 
of  Wethersfield  (England),  and  brother  Thomas^* 
Rogers,  of  Moulsham.  His  second  wife  was  Eliza- 
beth Gale,  the  widow  of  John  Hawes;  his  third  wife 
was  Dorothy  Stanton,  widow  of  Richard  Wiseman, 
of  Wigsborough,  Essex.  The  Reverend  John^ 
Rogers  was  educated  at  the  University  of  Cambridge, 
and  led,  if  accounts  are  true  (V.  Reg.  128),  a  wild 
life  as  a  student,  for  he  sold  his  books  and  spent  the 


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money;  his  family  gave  him  a  new  supply  of  books 
which  went  as  before  and  his  uncle  was  with  difficulty 
pursuaded  by  his  better  half  to  repeat  the  process. 
This  time  the  young  blade  reformed  and  led  an  exem- 
plary life  ever  after;  and  his  uncle  was  wont  to  say 
in  after  years,  "I  will  never  despair  of  any  man,  for 
John  Rogers's  sake."  John^  became  Vicar  of  Hem- 
mingway  in  Norfolk,  in  1592;  some  years  later  was 
minister  at  Haverhill,  Suffolk;  thence  he  removed  to 
Dedham,  Essex,  where  he  lived  till  his  death,  18  Oct., 
1636.  His  will  was  probated  20  Feb.,  1636-7; 
Dorothy  (Stanton)  Roger's  will  was  probated  6 
Oct.,  1640. 

He  was  so  impressive  and  famous  a  preacher  that 
his  church  was  crowded  long  before  the  hour;  and  it 
was  not  unusual  for  the  doors  and  windows  to  be 
removed  so  that  his  voice  might  reach  those  unable  to 
enter  the  building.  His  manner  of  speaking  was 
unusual  and  dramatic;  and  Bishop  Brownrigg  is 
recorded  to  have  said :  "John  Rogers  does  more  good 
with  his  wild  notes  than  we  bishops  with  our  set 
music."  The  famous  Dr.  Howe  related  that  Dr. 
Thomas  Goodwin,  once  President  of  Magdalen  Col- 
lege (Oxford)  told  him  of  a  visit  to  hear  the  famous 
preacher.  Mr.  Rogers  was  rebuking  neglect  of  the 
Bible ;  and  impersonating  God  he  said : 

"Well,  I  have  trusted  you  so  long  with  my  Bible, 
you  have  slighted  it;  it  lies  in  your  houses  covered 
with  dust  and  cobwebs;  you  care  not  to  look  at  it. 
Do  you  use  my  Bible  so?  Well,  you  shall  have  my 
Bible  no  longer!"  At  this  point  Mr.  Rogers  takes  up 
the  Bible  from  the  cushion  and  seems  as  if  going  away 
with  it,  but  immediately  turns  again  and  personates 
the  people  to  God,  falls  on  his  knees,  cries  and  pleads 
most  earnestly: 

"Lord,  whatever  thou  doest  to  us,  take  not  thy 
Bible  from  us!  Kill  our  children,  burn  our  houses, 
destroy  our  goods,  only  spare  us  our  Bible." 

Then  he  personates  God  again  to  the  people : 


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"Say  you  so?  Well,  I  will  try  you  a  liltle  lunger, 
and  here  is  my  Bible  for  you.  I  will  see  how  you 
will  use  it,  whether  you  will  love  it  more  and  live  more 
according  to  it !" 

The  audience  was  powerfully  affected  by  this,  and 
Goodwin,  who  related  the  circumstance,  says  he  was 
so  moved  that  he  hung  a  quarter  of  an  hour  on  the 
neck  of  his  horse  before  he  had  strength  to  mount. 

The  Rev.  Mr.  Hooker,  of  Connecticut,  one  of  the 
greatest  of  New  England  ministers,  frequently  men- 
tions him  as  the  "Prince  of  all  preachers  of  England." 

In  1629  for  refusing  conformity  to  the  require- 
ments of  Bishop  Laud,  his  preaching  was  suppressed. 
Mr.  Rogers  commented  upon  the  oppression  of  the 
Bishop  saying:  "Let  them  take  me  and  hang  me  up 
by  the  neck,  if  they  will  but  remove  these  stumbling 
blocks  out  of  the  Church." 

He  wrote  several  religious  books  : 

(a.)  An  Exposition  of  the  First  Epistle  of  Peter; 
the  edition  of  1650  contains  his  portrait. 

(b.)  Doctrine  of  Faith;  the  eighth  edition,  says  the 
writer  in  the  fifth  volume  of  the  Register,  was  pub- 
lished at  London  in  1640. 

(c.)  Treatise  of  Love. 

(d.)  Sixty  Memorials  for  a  Godly  Life,  Haverhill, 
England,  1598.  (Republished  in  Boston  by  Cotton 
Mather.) 

His  memorial  inscription  in  the  church  at  Dedham, 
England,  tells  us  in  Latin  that  he  died  18  October  in 
the  year  of  our  Lord  1636,  of  his  age  65,  of  his  minis- 
try 42,  of  this  Church  31. 

In  his  will  he  mentions  many  children,  his  wife 
Dorothy  and  several  servants  (XVII.  Register,  320^ 

In  the  British  Museum  is  a  mournful  eulogy  of 
forty-four  stanzas  and  an  acrostic,  printed  in  1642 
(Eulogies  and  Elegies,  Luttrell  Coll.,  Vol.  I.),  re- 
printed in  the  Register  in  1887.  A  few  of  the  verses 
are  as   follows: 


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Our  famous  light  which  lately  stood 

on  hill  within  our  towne 
Whose  beames  were  spread  so  farre  abroad 

is  now  by  death  tooke  downe. 


No  paine  nor  labor  did  he  spare 
the  hungry  sonles  to  feed, 

Dividing  out  each  one  his  share 
according  to  their  need. 


His  ears  were  open  and  attent 

to  heare  the  poore  man's  cry; 

And  speedily  his  heart  was  bent, 
to  find  a  remedy. 


To  rich  and  poore,  to  old  and  young 

most  courteous,  mild  and  meeke, 
The  mourning  soules  he  brought  along, 
and  comforted  the  weake. 

Think  how  good  a  man  he  was  and  how  his  flock 
loved  him,  to  buy  and  read  the  whole  forty-four 
stanzas. 

His  ancestry  of,  and  relationship  to,  many  of  the 
families  described  in  this  History  is  clearly  shown  by 
the  chart  on  page  276.  Rev.  John^  Rogers  had  the 
following  children,  all  by  his  first  wife  whose  name  is 
still  unknown  to  her  posterity. 

I.  John*  Rogers,  eldest  son,  of  Colchester, 
will  probated  3  Oct.,  1628; 

II.  Samuel"*  Rogers,  a  clerk;  married  Mary 

and  had  John*  and  Mary"; 

III.  Daniel^  Rogers,  married  Frances 
and  had  three  children; 


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IV.  Abigail^  Rogers,  married  Thomas  Peck, 
of  Prittlewell,  and  had  children; 

V.  Bridgef*  Rogers,  married  Edmond  Anger 
and  had  children; 

VI.  Martha'*  Rogers,  married  Back- 
ler,  and  had  a  daughter,  Martha; 

VII.  NathanieW  Rogers,  second  son,  born 
at  Haverhill,  England,  about  1598,  emigrated 
to  New  England  in  1636  (see). 

LIEUT.  JOSHUA  TIDD. 

(CoHtinitcd  from  page  241.) 

In  the  files  of  the  Middlesex  County  Court  at  East 
Cambridge,  Mass.,  are  the  papers  in  an  interesting 
lawsuit  between  Lieut.  Joshua  Tidd  (Tedd)  and 
Richard  Collicott  (Collecot).  The  papers  explain 
themselves. 

To  the  Marshall  of  the  County  of  Suffolk  or  his 
Deputy. 

You  are  required  to  attach  the  goods  and  for  want 
thereof  the  body  of  M''  Richard  Collecot  &  take  bond 
of  him  to  the  value  of  one  hundred  pounds  with  suffi- 
cient security  for  his  appearance,  at  the  Court  at 
Charlstowne  adiorned  there  to  be  holden  on  the  twenty 
third  day  of  this  fourth  moneth  to  answer  the  com- 
plaint of  Joshua  Tedd  in  an  action  of  the  Case  for 
takeing  away  his  estate,  by  a  ioynt  consent  with  John 
Richards  of  Kenebeck  or  resident  ther  abouts,  with 
some  Associats  of  the  said  Richards,  to  the  value  of 
fefty  pounds  sterling  &  other  damages  he  suffers 
therby;  and  to  make  a  true  return  hereof  under  your 
hand  dat  18  (4"^)  1657 

By  the  Court  Jonath  Negus 
I  Richard  Collicott  doe  binde  my  selfe  heirs  &  execu- 
tors unto  Richard  Wavte  marshall  in  the  sume  of  one 


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hundred  pounds  uppon  condition  that  I  will  appeaere 
at  the  Court  at  Charlstowne  ajoined  the  twenty  third 
day  of  this  fourth  month ;  to  answer  the  complainte  of 
Joshwah  Todd:  accordings  to  the  tennor  of  this  at- 
tachmentt  and  that  I  will  abide  the  order  of  the  court 
and  not  depart  witli  out  licence  as  witnes  my  hand  this 
18:4''^:  1657 

Richard  Collicott 

I  haue  attached  the  body  of  nf 
Richard  Callicott  the  18:  4"":  and 
haue  taken  bond  of  him  to  the 
value  of  one  hundred  pounds: 

P  me  Ri  Wayte  Marchall 

Georg  Muning  aiged  Fflfty  Eight  years  or  there- 
about Eworen  Sayeth  that  in  may  1656:  Joshua  Tead 
of  Chariest owen  hauing  his  vessell  taken  in  kenebek 
Riuer  or  neere  Agossent  by  sume  of  the  Inhabitance 
of  kenebek:  which  vessel  thus  I)eing  taken;  was  Car- 
ried vp  vnto  the  place  where  this  deponent  Lined  he 
Cuming  vnto  the  s'^  deponent  Cumplained  Sadly  that 
the  s*  inhabitance  had  taken  from  him  his  Vessell  and 
goods  vnto  the  value  of  fine  hundred  pounds :  and  the 
Inhabitance  afore  s^  being  desired  by  the  deponent  to 
Cume  on  Shoare:  Reffused  wherevpon  m''  Joshua 
Tead:  Requested  the  s''  deponent  to  goe  a  board:  to 
Treate  with  them  that  he  might:  Regain  his  vessell 
and  goods;  and  the  answare  of  the  people  was:  no 
for  he  liad  traded  Contraie  to  the  patine  with  the 
naliues :  and  Lickor  with  the  natiues  vn  the  Sabboath 
day  then  seeing  no  hope  to  [torn]  they  saied  that  thay 
ware  In  hopes  to  meet  with  m"".  Collicott  at  Capanagas- 
sett  to  take  his  Aduisse  in  Regard  of  Plimoth  gouer- 
ment  this  deponent  then  goeing  on  shoare  declared 
vntn  m""  Tead  what  thaier  answare  was:  that  the 
would  Chuse :  m""  Collicott :  if  he  would  Chuse  another 
he  being  in  a  straight  Choase  this  deponent  where 
vpon  the  vessell  went  downe  to  Capanagassett  and  this 


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deponent  witli  m''  Tead  and  his  Company  went  downe 
in  liis  boat  this  deponent  meeting  with  m''  Collicott 
tlic  s"^  nf  Tead  desiered  the  deponent  to  Jntreat  m"" 
ColHcut  with  this  deponent  to  see  whether  thay  Could 
Rcgaine  his  hole  Estate  or  what  parte  thay  Could— 
vpon  which  Request  the  s''  deponent  with  m*"  Collicott 
desiered  John  Richards  who  thay  Called  thaier 
Captine  that  he  would  Com  on  shoare  that  they  might 
treate  with  him  his  Answer  was  he  would  goe  on 
board  and  Speake  with  his  Companie  the  which  hau- 
ing  done  he  sent  his  Boat  on  shoare  desiering  the  de- 
ponent with  m''  Collicott  to  goe  on  board :  the  vessell 
and  when  the  deponent  with  m^  Collicott  Catne  vn 
board  the  Copanie  declared  that  thay  would  kepe  all 
but  after  much  perswasson  by  John  Richards  the  wear 
Contente  to  take  threescoare  pounds  soe  that  thay 
might  haue  that  which  thay  Spent  of  his  pro  [torn] 
discounted:  and  that  he  would  giue  bonds  vnto  the 
gouerment  of  plimoth  to  Answare  for  trading  with 
the  natiues  within  their  Jurediction:  vpon  which 
Answare  Retturned :  M""  Joshua  Tead:  Sayed:  that 
he  was  willing  soe  to  doe.  Rendering  th  is  Reson 
that  if  thay  kept  all  the  would  Spende  it  and  he  should 
haue  no  Recompence  and  then  M'  Tead  with  this  de- 
ponent desired  m""  Collicott  to  make  triall  whether  he 
Could  bring  the  [torn]  vnto  Loer  terms:  the  which 
he  did:  &  broaght  it  to  fifif  [torn]  pounds:  and  the 
s^  m""  Tead  was  very  thankfull  [torn]  m""  Collicott  had 
done  &  desiered  him  with  this  deponent  and  Thomas 
Holland  to  goe  on  Board  the  next  Morning:  to  make 
payment  of  the  s^  fifify  pounds  which  accordingly  thay 
did:  and  after  the  payment  of  the  s*^  sume  by  the 
perswassion  of  m''  Collicott  the  Returned  bake  to  the 
s^  Tead:  a  Beauor  Coate  with  sume  otter  skines  for 
w'^^  he  was  very  thankfull  &  firther  Sayeth  not 
Sworne  in  Court  by  Geo:  Munnings  23.    (4)  57. 

Thomas  Danforth  Record'' 


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Johana  Muniiigs  aged  forty  sixe  years  or  ther- 
abous  testefies  y*-  her  husband  being  at  Kenibacke 
wlien  Joshua  Teads  barke  was  taken  by  Richards  & 
others,  he  demanded  of  Richards  &  Cocke  by  w' 
aiitliority  they  tooke  y''  said  Josh:  Teads  Barke,  & 
wlietlier  they  had  any  commission  from  y*  Gouemo'' 
of  Plymouth.  To  w'''*  Richards  replyed  they  had 
none,  nor  soe  much  as  a  copy  of  any.  Uppon 
w'^''  George  Munings  repl}-ed  I  know  y'  y^ 
ma'"'-''  of  Massatusetts  Bay  will  not  put  up 
this  matter  in  y^  way  you  walke  in :  whereppon  Wil- 
liam Cocke  wished  he  had  giuen  fine  pounds  y'  he  had 
neuer  medled  w"*  it,  saying  to  Richards,  I  had  ncuer 
medlcd,  if  it  had  not  beene  for  you:  to  w"^^  old  Rich- 
ards said  I  wish  I  had  giuen  tenn  pounds  y'  I  alsoe  had 
neuer  medled  in  it,  for  it  hath  hindred  me  in  my  occa- 
sions; only  he  was  wished  by  m""  CoUicott  to  goe 
aboard. 

Sworne  in  Court  by  Jolianna  Munnings  23.  (4)  57. 

Mathew  Clarke  aged  30  yeares  or  therabouts  teste- 
fies, y'  m''  Collicott  of  Dorchester  being  at  Alex- 
ander Goits  house  uppon  kenibacke  Riuer  w"*  Jn° 
Richards  &  his  companions,  going  aboard  y"  vessell 
named  y®  swallow  w"^*"  did  at  y'  tyme  belong  to  Josh : 
Tead ;  there  by  one  consent  y^  said  Richards,  Collicott 
&c :  did  take  away  y*  estate  of  y^  foresaid  Josh :  Tead 
to  y*  value  of  fifty  pounds  sterling  in  beauer,  moose, 
&  english  goods;  furthermore  y®  said  Tead  requested 
y'  seeing  they  were  resolued  to  take  his  estate  from 
him,  y'  they  would  spare  his  moose,  &  beauer,  &  rather 
take  english  goods;  to  w'"''  they  replyed  y'  in  case  m"" 
Collicott  would  be  there  w"'  satisfied,  it  was  all  one 
to  them,  by  reason  of  w'^''  losse  y®  said  Tead  was 
greatly  damnified,  &  his  voyage  frustrat;  moreouer 
Richards  &  his  company  abouesad  exspended  to  y® 
value  of  two  barrels  of  berre,  &  a  barrell  of  sacke  be- 


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sides  other  puisions  w"'  liqiioes  &  powder  w*^*^  was 
wasted  or  taken  away  by  them, 

Taken  uppon  oath  before  m^®. 

Richard  Russell  Commission"" 
y*'  6*  of  y®  4"*.  1657  For  charlstowne 
Mathew  Clarke  aged  30  yeares  or  therabouts  tes- 
tefies  y'  he  heard  George  Munings  say  y'  M""  Collicot 
would  not  yeld  to  him  y'  Joshua  Tead  should  haue 
his  Barke  &  goods  agayne,  vnlesse  he  would  giue 
Richards  &  his  company  halfe  of  y®  goods  y'  were 
aboard  together  w""  all  y®  mouse  &  Beauer ;  &  w'  was 
wanting  to  be  made  up  in  liquors ;  whereuppon  George 
Munings  said  he  would  not  in  any  wise  yeld  to  y',  but 
they  should  rather  take  all.  moreouer  y®  said  De- 
ponent testefies  y'  he  heard  James  Smyth  &  his  wife 
saye  y*  m""  Collicott  told  them  it  were  a  good  deed  to 
goe  downe  &  take  y*  foresaid  Joshua  Tead,  further- 
more y®  said  Smyth  &  his  wife  did  saye,  y'  m""  Collicott 
told  them  y*  he  would  weary  y®  Coasters  out  of  y" 
Riuer.  further  after  y®  surrender  of  y®  Barke  y''  fore- 
said James  Smyth  &  his  wife  did  say  y'  m""  Collicott 
said  to  them,  law  yee,  did  I  not  tell  you  I  would  weary 
y''  Coasters  out  of  y^  Riuer. 

Taken  uppon  oath  the  22'^  Day  of  y^  4""  mo"".  1657 

In  Charlstowne:   Before  mee. 

Richard  Russell  Commission"". 

Jn°.  Lawrence  aged  35  years  or  thereabouts,  teste- 
fies, y'  m"".  Collicott  of  Dorchester  being  at  Alex:  Goits 
house  uppon  kenebacke  Riuer  w""  Jn°.  Richards  &  his 
companions,  goeing  aboard  y''  vessell  named  y^  Swal- 
low w'^''  did  at  that  time  belong  to  Josh:  Tead;  ther 
by  one  consent  y"  said  Richards,  Collicott  &c  did  take 
away  y®  estate  of  y®  foresaid  Josh:  Tead  to  y^  value 
of  fifty  pounds  sterling  in  beauer,  moose  &  english 
goods,  by  reason  whereof  y^  said  Tead  was  greatly 
damnified  &  his  voyadge  frustrat. 

Taken  uppon  oath  y''  20""  of  y®  i^'  month. 
Charlstow.     1656-57  p""  me  Richard  Russell  Commis- 
sion"". 


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Thomas  Holland  aiged  22  yeares  or  thicrabouts 
Sworen  Sayeth  that  in  May  1656  he  being  at  that 
house  of  Alexander  Thoyts  In  kenebeak  Riuer  a  Ves- 
sel of  m"'  Josiiua  Teads  being:  Surprised:  and  taken 
by  the  Inhabitance  of  the  s"*  Riuer:  the  s^  m''  Tead 
Feareing  that  he  should  be  depriued :  boath  of  his 
Vessell  &  Goods  to  his  great  Loss  did  Request  m"" 
Richard  Colicott  &  M""  George  Munings  being  then 
theare;  to  go  vn  board:  the  s''  vessell:  and  to  see  if 
thay  Could  Cleare  his  Vessell  and  what  of  the  goods 
thay  might  &  what  thay  did  he  would  asente  vnto: 
thay  thaier  vpon  went  vn  Board:  the  s^  Vessell:  and 
in  the  behalfe  of  m""  Tead:  made  Comixes":  with  the 
Company  For  which  tiic  s*"  m''  Tead  was  very  thaink- 
full:  vnto  them  Boath 

Firther  when  the  vessel  was  taken  it  was  vnknowen 
vnto:  m""  Colicott  he  being  distant  I'^rom  tlie  place 
where  it  was  acted :  aboue  twenty  Milles  being  in  the 
Comp''  of  this  deponent :  at  the  same  time  &  firther 
Sayeth  not 

Sworne  in  Court,  by  Th :  Holland  2^.  (4)  57. 
Thomas  Danforth  Record'' 

The  testimony  of  Thomas  Holland  Aiged  twenty 
tow  yeares  or  thaier  abouts:  Sworn  Sayeth  that  the 
Morning  folowing  Mr.  Teads  acceptance  to:  dcliuer 
John  Richards  &  Comp''  the  Sume  of  Fiflfy  pounds: 
M"' :  Teads  w'*"  M"'  Colicott  & :  M''  Munings :  and  this 
deponent  went  on  board:  the  vessell  &  M""  Tead  with 
his  Companie  did  take  up  his  goods  out  of  the  hould: 
&  Cheests  to  Make  the  s''  Richards  and  Companie 
Satiesfaction  desiering  this  deponent  to  kepe  the  ac- 
comp'  of  them  untell  thay  had  made  up  the  Sume  w^^ 
being  the  dune  the  s**  Richards  &  Companie  did  Re- 
ceiue  the  goods  and:  put  them  on:  board  thiere  Ves- 
sclls :  but  on  board  of  M''  Colicott  vessell  the  brought 
none  of  the  s'^  goods  to  the  best  of  my  knoledg  but 
tranceported  tliem  I  know  not  whether  Firther  I  did 


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not  purceiue  any  Incuraigment  giucn  Ijy  M''  Colicott 
unlo  tlie  s""  Ricliards  and  Companie  &  Firlher  Sayeth 
nolt 

Sworne  in  Court.  24.  (4)  57. 
Thomas  Danforth  Recoixr. 

Jolin  King  aiged  about  Fiffty  seuen  yeares:  Sworen 
Sayetli :  tliat  he  was  with  m""  Richard  Colicott  in  kene- 
beak  Riner  &  master  &:  owner  of  the  vessell  In  May 
165O.  about  wliicii  tyme  m""  Josliua  Teads  vessell  was 
taken  by  the  Inliabitants  of  the  s*^  Riuer  at  w"^"^  tyme 
tliis  deponent  Sayeth  m"'  Colicott  was:  from  the  place 
that  m''  Teads  Vessell  was  taken  aboue  twenty  Milles : 
about  fouer  dayes  after  m'':  Teads  Vessell  was  taken 
m""  Colicott  being  at  the  house  of  Alex  Thoyts  in  kene- 
beak  Riue""  m'':  Tead  with  m''  George  Munings  Came 
to  tlie  s*" :  hous :  to  Request  liim  the  s'' :  m""  Colicott 
to  Asist  m''  Munings:  about  Recouering  of  vesell  & 
goods  the :  w'^'^  he  did :  and  when  it  was  Effected :  the 
Sayed  m""  Tead  was  very  thankfull  boath  to  m"":  Coli- 
cott and  m""  Munings :  &  firther  Sayeth  nott 

Sworne  in  Court  by  Jn°.  King.     23.  (4)  57. 
Thomas  Danforth  Recorder 

The  testimony  of  John:  king  formerly  sworn:  say- 
eth that  the  goods  Receiued  of  M''  Tead  by  John 
Richards  &  Company  un  the  deliuery  of  his  Barke: 
was  tranceported  by  the  s'^  Richards  &  Companie  from 
thence  I  know  not  whether ;  but  to  the  best  of  my  knol- 
edg  not  any  of  the  s''  goods  Came  on  board  of  m'' 
Colicotts  vessell  and  firther  Sayeth  nott 
Sworne  in  Court — 24.  (4)  57. 
Tliomas  Danforth  Record'' 

in  the  case  of  m""  Ted  plantif  agenst  m""  Collicot  we 
find  for  the  defendant  and  cost  of  Court 
[Endorsed]  m""  Tids  accon     Verdict 

The  Charge  of  m""  Richard  Colicott  and  his  wit- 
nesses 


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It  For  liim  sclfe  3:  days 00:  06:       00 

It  For  Georg  Munings :  on  day —  00:01.        06 

It  for  Jn"  King  of  waymoth  00:  08  [torn] 

Fouer  days 

It  for  Thomas  Holland  00 :  06 :       00 
of  dorcliester  3  days  — 


01  :  01  :       06 


01—3.  :       02 

These  papers  are  coi)ied  in   full  in  I.  Genealogical 
Adz-crtiscr,  90-5. 


HON.   HEXRY  BREWERS  OLIXBY,  A.   B., 
A.  M.,  M.  D. 

Goi'criior  of  Nczv  Hampshire. 

The  following  biographical  sketch  of  the  present 
Governor  of  New  Hampshire  was  written  by  Hon. 
George  H.  Moses,  the  able  and  brilliant  editor  of  the 
Concord  Daily  Monitor,  and  now  the  newly  appointed 
Minister  Plenipotentiary  of  the  United  States  to  the 
Kingdom  of  Greece.  It  was  published  early  in  the 
present  year  in  the  Lczi'istoii  Journal.  The  article  is 
as  follows : 

Governor  Ouinby  comes  of  the  sturdiest  of  Maine 
stock.  His  grandfather  was  Moses  Quinby  (see  p. 
323).  who  entered  the  Phillips  Exeter  Academy  in 
1799,  at  the  age  of  thirteen,  from  Strotidwater,  and 
was  contemporary  there  with  Daniel  Webster.  He 
was  a  member  of  Bowdoin's  first  class.  He  died  fifty- 
three  years  later,  which  was  ten  years  before  his 
grandson  of  whom  these  lines  treat  put  the  second 
Ouinby    name    in    tlie    Bowdoin    general    catalogue. 


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With  him  at  Exeter — as  well  as  at  Bowdoin — was 
George  Thorndike,  whose  acorn  has  fulfilled  the  tra- 
dition of  its  increase  at  Brunswick. 

"Lawyer  and  farmer,"  say  the  records  of  Moses 
Quinby;  but  his  son  Thomas  (see  p.  326),  born  at 
Westbrook  in  1813,  was  neither.  He  was  trained  as 
an  engineer  and  as  such  was  a  leader  in  his  profession. 

While  engaged  in  this  work  he  fixed  his  home  at 
Biddeford  and  there,  June  10,  1846,  his  first  son, 
Henry  Brewer,  was  born. 

Henry  completed  his  fitting  for  college  at  the 
Nichols  Latin  school  in  Lewiston.  His  class  there 
was  that  of  1865. 

His  class  at  Bowdoin  was  that  of  1869;  those  were 
the  days  when  Bowdoin  traditions  and  customs  like 
those  of  most  colleges,  were  rather  more  robust  than 
they  are  today.  Phi  Chi  was  then  in  its  height  of 
fame  and  prowess.  Its  battle-hymn  ran:  "Phi  Chi 
goes  forth  in  regal  state."  But  be  it  known  that  dur- 
ing Quinby's  sophomore  year,  while  he  may  have  per- 
mitted Phi  Chi  to  go  forth,  he  always  went  first ;  for 
he  was  the  president  of  the  fraternity  and  maintained 
the  place,  as  he  had  won  it,  by  planning  and  carrying 
out  just  a  trifle  more  daring  an  exploit  than  any  of 
his  classmates. 

These  were  the  days  too  of  "sousing  the  freshmen ;" 
and  Governor  Quinby  can  remember,  if  Governor 
Chamberlain  cannot,  of  an  interview  they  had  during 
the  fall  of  1866  when  Quinby's  dialectics  were  too 
strong  for  the  scholar  so  fresh  from  the  wars,  and 
when  he  won  his  case  by  arguing  that  the  rule  of  ex- 
pulsion for  "sousing  the  freshmen"  applied  by  its  very 
terms  to  those  who  were  "detected"  in  the  act  and  that 
no  circumstantial  evidence  like  that  of  a  sophomore 
and  a  bucket  of  water  in  a  freshman  entry  constituted 
"detection"  even  though  the  sophomore  admitted  that 
he  had  purposed  "sousing  the  freshmen"  and  would 
doubtless  have  been  "detected"  in  it  if  Tutor  Packard 


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hadn't  hastened  his  appearance  by  aI)out  two  minntes. 
The  point  was  a  fine  one,  bnt  it  was  held  to  he  well 
taken. 

At  Bowdoin,  Ouinby  played  baseball  and  caught  on 
his  class  team.  He  roomed  in  Maine  Hall,  boarded  at 
the  Tontine — and  must  have  been  rather  prompter  to 
pay  than  most  college  men,  for  his  landlord  at  Bruns- 
wick, now  living  at  Dover,  was  one  of  the  staunchest 
Quinby  men  to  be  found  in  New  Hampshire  during 
the  canvass  both  for  the  nomination  and  election. 

He  was  a  Psi  U,  and  is  the  third  of  that  fraternity 
to  win  the  governorship  in  New  Hampshire — the  other 
two  being  Prescott  and  Bell  from  the  Dartmouth 
chapter.  Taft  also  is  a  Psi  U,  and  Governor  Quinby 
went  to  Washington  for  the  inauguration,  for  the  pur- 
pose, among  other  things,  of  handing  from  Kappa  '69 
to  Beta  '78  the  proper  salutation. 

The  whispering  pines  at  Brunswick  had  hardly  cast 
their  shadow  upon  young  Quinby's  sheepskin  before 
he  was  off  to  New  Hampshire  to  keep  an  appointment 
which  he  had  made  while  in  that  state  some  time  pre- 
viously and  concerning  which  it  may  not  be  necessary 
to  speak  more  in  detail  than  is  required  in  setting  down 
the  fact  that  in  January,  1870,  he  was  married  to  Miss 
Octavia  M.  Cole  at  Lakeport,  where  since  then  has 
been  his  home. 

He  took  a  degree  in  medicine,  but  if  he  ever  wrote  a 
prescription  it  was  certainly  neither  for  pay  nor  for 
publication ;  and  for  nearly  forty  years  he  has  devoted 
himself  to  the  affairs  of  the  Cole  Manufacturing  Co., 
the  control  of  which  for  more  than  eighty  years  has 
been  in  one  family.  The  gathering  years  have  brought 
traditions  to  the  Cole  Manufacturing  Co.,  all  the  out- 
growth of  the  remarkable  sense  of  honor  fostered  by 
the  sterling  character  of  its  founder,  the  late  Hon. 
Benjamin  J.  Cole,  and  maintained  and  extended  by  his 
son-in-law  and  successor  in  the  management.  In  the 
centurv  or  more  that  the  Cole  name  has  been  connected 
with  the  industrial  liistory  of  New  Hampshire,  it  has 


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never  been  clouded  bj-  a  moment's  suspicion  of  the 
slightest  letting-down  from  the  highest  standards. 
Periods  of  stress  there  have  been,  but  tliey  have  all 
been  weathered ;  and  in  its  relations  with  botli  cus- 
tomer and  employe  and  first  regretted  words  yet  re- 
mains to  be  spoken. 

As  a  young  business  man  under  the  tutelage  of  Mr. 
Cole — who  enjoyed  the  friendship  of  the  leading  men 
in  New  Hampshire  and  who  himself  had  had  a  career 
in  politics  which  stopped  short  only  of  the  highest 
places — Air.  Ouinby  soon  came  to  a  wide  circle  of  ac- 
quaintance, which  he  has  ever  since  constantly  enlarg- 
ed on  his  own  account;  and  in  1872  he  was  appointed 
a  member  on  the  stafif  of  Governor  Ezekiel  A.  Straw 
and  secured  the  title  of  Colonel,  which  even  now  seems 
hard  to  shake  off  for  the  new  designation. 

Staff  appointments  are  by  way  of  political  prefer- 
ment in  New  Hampshire,  which  indicates  that  Colonel 
Ouinby  was  caught  young  at  the  game.  This  is  prob- 
ably true,  for  lie  has  always  been  interested  in  public 
matters — and  as  a  boy  of  sixteen  was  found  taking  his 
father's  place  as  presiding  officer  at  a  Republican  rally 
in  Biddeford. 

As  a  public  speaker,  he  is  far  above  the  average.  He 
served  in  the  lower  house  of  the  legislature  more  than 
twenty  years  ago.  It  was  the  session  of  the  famous 
"railroad  fight,"  when  partisanship  for  one  or  the  other 
of  the  competing  interests  ran  high.  There  were  none 
to  doubt  where  the  gentleman  from  Gilford  (now 
Lakeport)  stood;  for  he  took  early  occasion  to  notify 
his  colleagues  of  his  position  by  coming  into  the  de- 
bate one  day  with  a  speech  which,  for  good,  clean-cut 
En.i'.lish,  and  a  sound,  unmistakable  statement  of  opin- 
ion, is  good  reading  even  now  when  the  main  occasion 
for  its  utterance  is  well-nigh  forgotten. 

Two  years  later  he  was  promoted  to  the  state  Sen- 
ate, where  the  chief  work  of  saving  the  so-called  "nuis- 
ance act,"  the  teeth  of  the  old  prohibitory  law,  fell  to 


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liini  and  anotlier  colleague.  In  the  division  of  lalK)r, 
Senator  Ouinby  drew  the  firing-line  position  and  it 
was  he  who  withstood  the  shock  of  debate  on  the  mea- 
sure, giving  and  taking  at  short  range  with  the  best  of 
the  Senate's  trained  inen — and  saving  the  day  for  liis 
bill. 

Two  years  later  he  took  another  step  upward  and 
was  elected  to  membership  in  the  governor's  council. 
Important  committee  assignments  fell  to  hitn  here, 
and  many  new  enterprises  of  state  origin  and  support 
passed  under  his  hand,  notably  the  carrj'ing  out  of  the 
project  for  New  Hampshire's  participation  in  the 
Ciiicago  World's  Fair  and  the  construction  of  the 
new  plant  for  the  State  College  at  Durham. 

In  1902  he  was  chosen  a  delegatc-at-large  to  the 
Minneapolis  convention.  A  steadfast  adherent  to  the 
theory  as  relates  to  the  presidency,  that  one  good 
turn  deserves  another,  and  believing  that  the  Blaine 
movement  of  that  year  was  ill-timed,  futile  and  sure  to 
prove  of  endless  embarrassment  to  Mr.  Blaine's  real 
friends,  he  espoused  the  cause  of  Harrison's  renomina- 
tion;  and,  never  shrinking  from  doing  battle  for  his 
beliefs,  he  accepted  designation  as  a  member  of  the 
committee  on  credentials — and  stood  by  the  fight  until 
victory  was  secured. 

At  this  juncture  in  his  career  the  way  seemed  open 
to  him  for  promotion  in  whatever  quarter  of  the  politi- 
cal field  he  might  cast  a  yearning  gaze.  The  people 
had  come  to  know  him  as  a  man  of  trained  mind, 
sound  convictions,  remarkable  capacity  for  expression, 
equal  capacity  for  sustained  effort,  of  attractive  per- 
sonality and  high  character,  possessing  the  confidence 
of  the  party  leaders  and  holding  the  admiration  of  the 
rank  and  file.  A  current  commentator  of  those  times 
wrote  of  Colonel  Ouinby  predicting  further  honors  in 
store  for  him  and  asked:  Governor,  congressman, 
senator — which  ? 

He  turned  aside  tlie  governorsliip  more  than  once. 
From  1892  to  1908  there  probably  never  was  a  cam- 


they  lav  iuen,  a- 
^jedaEhr  pirxniaer 
oScer  of  the  state  Ol^.  . 
the  gavel  over  the  gaihe- 
Ms    •         •     ,       '     ~ 
Gee-- 

CcL  ^_      ,  .., 

was  a  rerdaticKi  even  t: 
kaown  him  bess-     Ir:: 
bcfor  of  deliverr  r 
qsalitT,  diasxe  ir 
esqoe  in  imagerv.  - 
in  spiesxr-d  f  aslr 


IT. 

ler  was  vrzsmg  ins 


the  foE3-  who  faikd.  LoL  Cfc- 
wbose  ssp?>r—  rrro-  --.  -^r  turr- 
it in  predir' 
Senate-'^ss: 

A 
aad  ' 


539 


White  House ;  and  as  the  party  conventions  approach- 
ed in  the  various  states,  it  was  questioned  whether  they 
should  endorse  his  administration.  Those  who  held 
to  the  negative  argued  that  such  endorsement  would 
strengthen  him  for  the  nomination  which  he  was  cer- 
tain to  seek  in  1904,  and  the  contention  was  animated 
concerning  the  matter.  In  New  Hampshire  a  few  bold 
spirits  decided  to  go  the  limit.  By  "a  few"  in  this  in- 
stance, is  meant  two  men.  One  of  them  was  Col. 
Ouinby;  and  again,  he  drew  the  firing-line  job.  He 
was  made  chairman  of  the  committee  on  resolutions  at 
the  state  convention  and  was  entrusted  with  a  resolu- 
tion which  not  only  endorsed  the  Roosevelt  adminis- 
tration to  date  but  declared  boldly  "for  his  rcnomina- 
tion  in  1904."  Single-handed  and  alone  Col.  Quinby 
forced  this  declaration  through  his  committee  and 
carried  it  triumphantly  before  the  convention  where 
it  was  hailed  with  enthusiasm. 

In  1908,  at  the  spring  convention.  Colonel  Quinby 
was  again  chairman  of  the  platform  committee  and 
was  instrumental  in  committing  the  party  anew  to  the 
progressive  declarations  of  the  previous  canvass,  little 
thinking  at  the  time  that  he  would  be  called  upon  to 
make  tlic  fight  for  the  governorship  upon  those  declara- 
tions. 

In  the  early  summer  of  1908,  the  embers  of  the  bit- 
ter contest  through  which  the  Republicans  of  New 
Hampshire  had  passed  two  years  before  still  smolder- 
ed; and  the  unsatisfied  ambitions  of  two  of  the  con- 
testants threatened  to  fan  the  coals  into  consuming 
flame.  At  this  juncture,  as  in  every  other  canvass  for 
the  past  sixteen  years,  were  heard  the  laments  that 
"so  good  a  man  as  Ouinby  could  not  be  brought  into 
the  canvass ;"  and  in  [wint  of  fact  entrance  into  a  poli- 
tical contest  never  looked  so  much  like  a  duty  to  one's 
party  as  did  the  condition  of  things  as  presented  to 
Colonel  Ouinby  by  qualified  spokesmen  for  his  party. 
His  consent  was  not  easily  gained,  but  when  he  had 
once  given  his  word,  he  never  wavered. 


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lie  won  ;  and  a  party  st-eniingly  united  upon  his  can- 
didacy made  his  nomination  unanimous  and  entered 
the  campaign. 

He  won:  and  to  win  a  governorship  in  New  Hamp- 
sliire  means  to  secure  not  a  plurality  alone,  but  a  ma- 
jority over  all — a  larger  contract  than  Maine  now  re- 
quires of  its  candidates  for  the  chief  magistracy. 

In  Governor  Ouinby's  career,  there  are  no  pictur- 
esque extremes  of  position  with  which  to  embellish 
the  narrative.  His  family  had  long  been  one  of  posi- 
tion and  substance  and  he  was  enabled  from  tlie  start 
to  possess  the  advantage  of  the  well-born. 

He  made  his  way  through  school  and  college  with 
no  privation;  and  his  life  as  a  whole  has  been  that  of 
a  simple  American  gentleman.  To  the  traditions  of 
that  class  he  has  steadfastly  conformed  and  his  life  has 
been  modest,  unassuming,  filled  with  good  deeds  and 
meriting  the  approbation  of  his  fellows.  Parallel  with 
his  progress  in  public  life,  which  after  all  has  been  the 
incidental  rather  than  the  main  trend  of  his  career, 
has  run  the  straight  line  of  his  useful  endeavor  as  a 
private  citizen,  immersed  in  business,  engaged  in  bank- 
ing and  pursuing  those  fraternal  and  social  connec- 
tions which  attach  to  the  man  of  natural  instincts  and 
training. 

Thus  we  find  his  associates  in  two  banks  placing  him 
at  the  head  of  their  boards,  and  his  brethren  in  the 
bonds  of  Masonry  elevating  him  to  the  highest  posts 
which  their  order  in  the  state  and  nation  can  com- 
mand, including  that  of  Active  23^.  Social  clubs  of 
repute  in  New  Hampshire  and  in  the  metropolis  of 
the  nation  also  carry  his  name  upon  their  rosters. 
The  church  finds  him  a  steadfast  supporter  and  all 
good  causes  know  him  to  their  benefit. 

Not,  however,  is  it  that  his  life  has  continuously  fol- 
lowed the  line  of  least  resistance;  for  there  are  many 
instances  where  the  way  has  not  been  easy  and  where 
many  a  man  would  have  avoided  the  issue.  He  never 
has.     His  word  has  often  been  slow  in  the  giving,  but 


MRS     1IKNR">'    HKKWER   QIINKV 


36 1 


liis  aclion  lias  always  squared  with  it.  It  was  thus 
that  he  came  to  the  governorship — which,  iu  truth,  is 
the  tribute  of  his  fellows  to  him  and  to  his  character. 
What  he  has  so  hardly  won  a  man  of  less  lofty  charac- 
ter might  easily  have  lost.  And  having  won  it,  the 
governorship  is  to  him  what  eveiy  other  public  or  pri- 
vate preferment  has  been,  an  opiwrtunity.  The  good 
use  he  is  making  of  it  has  already  been  foretold  in  a 
lifetime  of  sinceritv. 


Mrs.  Henry  B.  Ouinby  was  M.  Oclavia^  Cole,  the 
daughter  of  Benjamin  James'  and  Mehitable  Aborn 
(Batclielder)  Cole*,  and  was  born  in  what  is  now 
Lakeport,  a  part  of  the  city  of  Laconia,  N.  H.  She 
received  her  education  at  New  Hampton  Institute,  fol- 
lowed by  special  courses  at  Bates  College  and  at  the 
Conservatory  of  Music  at  Boston,  Mass. 

Mrs.  Quinby  is  a  woinan  of  wide  reading,  and  to- 
gether with  an  extraordinary-  fund  of  general  infor- 
mation she  possesses  unusual  clearness  of  view  on  the 
public  questions  of  the  day.  She  has  always  been  an 
ardent  believer  in  equal  suflfrage  and  in  temperance 
and  as  opportunity  has  offered  she  has  devoted  herself 
to  the  advancement  of  these  causes.  She  has  travelled 
widely,  and  has  the  faculty  of  keen  and  incisive  com- 
ment upon  matters  connected  with  her  experiences. 
During  the  course  of  her  life  she  has  devoted  much 
time  to  music  and  art  and  her  home  is  adorned  with 
several  really  fine  examples  of  her  skill  with  the  brush. 
She  is  a  member  of  the  Molly  Stark  Chapter  at 
Manchester,  N.  H.,  of  the  Daughters  of  the  American 
Revolution  and  of  the  New  York  City  Cliapter  of  the 
same  organization. 

Henry  Brewer**  Ouinby  and  Octavia*  (Cole)  Quin- 
bv  have  had  two  children,  both  of  wliom  are  now  liv- 


*  (A  descendant  of  Rev.   Stephen  Bachiler,  see 
366.) 


362 


I.  Henn,'  Cole"  Ouinby,  who  has  been  for  many 
years  an  attorney  and  counsellor  at  law  in  New  York- 
City  ;  he  married  first,  Maria  C.  Stimpson,  of  Boston. 
Mass.,  who  died  in  1896;  his  present  wife  is  Florence" 
(Cole)  Quinby,  (see  p.  225); 

II.  Candace  Ellen"  Quinby,  who  married  Hugh  N. 
Camp,  Jr. ;  they  have  one  child  Hugh  N.  Camp,  III., 
born  16  May  1899. 

JOANNA  FROST. 

So  much  interest  has  been  taken  by  readers  of  this 
History  in  Miss  Joanna''  Frost,  born  1784,  (Charles" 
Charles^,  John*,  Charles^,  Nicholas^,  John*)  and  her 
disposal  of  the  ancestral  portrait  by  Copley  (see  pages 
14,  43,  "JT,  339)  that  the  Editor  deems  himself  for- 
tunate in  having  discovered  in  the  Dccring  Nnvs,  28 
Mar.  1896,  an  article  written  by  her  cousin,  Mrs.  Jane 
E.  (Brewer)  Qiiinby,  (see  p.  328),  describing  Miss 
Joanna  as  follows: 

Characteristics  of  Joanna  Frost. 

Miss  Joanna  Frost,  or  "Cousin  Joan,"  as  she  was 
familiarly  called,  was  a  person  of  more  than  ordinary 
intelligence,  with  unmistakable  Frost  features,  blue 
eyes  and  fair  skin.  A  strong  Universalist,  but  no  dis- 
putant, and  partaking  in  a  great  degree,  the  hospitable 
nature  of  her  family.  Her  periodical  visits  to  her 
relatives  was  a  signal  for  a  rummaging  of  closets  for 
remnants  of  the  finest  wall-paper  and  cast  away  pic- 
tures, which,  with  scissors  and  paste-brush  she  con- 
verted into  band  boxes  of  all  shapes  and  sizes,  which 
were  doubtless  as  much  admired  by  the  younger  mem- 
bers of  the  families  where  she  visited  as  is  many  a 
work  of  art  of  the  present  day  by  older  persons.  Her 
style  of  dress  was  somewhat  peculiar.  Short  ringlets 
depended  from  either  side  of  her  head,  on  which  was  a 
close  cap  sparsely  trimmed  with  straw-colored  satin 
ribbon,  which  in  its  quaintness,  looked  as  if  especially 
invented  for  the  wearer,  and  an  immaculate  muslin 


363 


under  handkerchief  witli  a  standup  collar  on  the  edge 
of  which  was  a  ruffle  most  carefully  crimped,  all  of 
which  appeared  designed  for  her  alone.  She  was  per- 
fectly erect  as  if  protection  of  the  backboard  had  en- 
tered largely  into  her  education  and  let  the  fasliions  be 
what  they  might,  the  close  fitting  skirt,  cap  and  ker- 
chief were  always  the  same.  At  her  request  she  was 
laid  in  her  last  sleep,  by  direction  of  her  cousin  whom 
she  favored  most  in  her  visits,  Mrs.  Xancy  (Frost) 
Seal,  in  beautiful  Evergreen. 


THE  LOG  OF  THE  GOOD  SHIP  EUNICE. 

At  page  319  the  name  of  Captain  Seal  of  the  Eunice 
was  given  as  John;  while  all  who  have  read  the  previ- 
ous numbers  of  this  History  know  that  his  name  was 
Thomas.  Attention  has  been  courteously  called  to  this 
slip  by  a  descendant,  Horace  Porter,  Esq.,  now  of  Con- 
necticut (see  pp.  48,  116),  who  also  has  sent  a  couple 
of  pages  of  the  log  of  the  Eunice.  The  bottom  of  one 
page  has  been  photographed  and  appears  in  this  num- 
ber. From  it  may  be  seen  the  amazing  spelling  of  a 
century  ago  combined  with  the  fairly  modern-looking 
handwriting.  The  part  of  the  record  which  deals 
with  the  voyage  has  niled  lines  at  the  left  making  five 
columns  headed  respectively  "H.  K.  1/2  K.  Courses. 
Winds."  The  first  three  columns  show  the  hour 
(every  two  in  the  twenty-four),  the  speed  in  knots 
and  half  knots.  The  latter  columns  are  filled  with 
the  points  of  compass  steered  on  and  from  which  the 
wind  was  blowing.     The  spelling  is  here  modernized. 

7/k'  Log. 

Remarks  on  Monday  the  24  of  April  1797.  This  24 
hours  begins  with  fresh  breezes  and  pleasant  weather. 
At  2  p.  m.  bent  the  bight  (illegible)  cable.  Several 
sail  in  sight.  At  6  p.  m.  spoke  with  sloop  from  Way- 
mouth  bound  for  Liverpool.  Hauled  down  "stering" 
sails;  handed  main  top-gallant  sail.     At  half  past  10 


364 


p.  111.  handed  niizzen  top  sails:  at  midiiiglit  close-reefed 
fore  and  main  topsails;  handed  mainsail.  At  8  a.  m. 
wore  ship  to  the  westward ;  fresh  breeze  and  close, 
misty  weather;  at  10  a.  in.  wore  ship  to  the  eastward. 
Ending  with  fresh  breeze  and  hazy  weather.  Latitude 
by  observation  53  -  36  N. 

Remarks  on  Tuesday  the  25  of  April  1797.  This  24 
hours  begins  with  fresh  breezes  and  hazy  weather.  At 
2  p.  m.  saw  the  land,  "Carrin"  Point  and  "Seerries" 
Light;  course  bearing  south;  distance  12  miles.  Holy- 
head south-south-west ;  made  sail ;  two  reefs  out,  fore 
and  main  topsails,  set  jib.  main  topmast  staysail  main 
topgallant  sail;  at  6  p.  m.  tack  ship  to  the  westward 
at  8  p.  m.  two  reefs  in  the  fore  and  main  topsails 
handed  main  topgallant  sail,  main  topmast  staysail 
handed  mizzen  topsail ;  brailed  out  mizzen.  At  2  a.  m. 
tack  ship  to  the  southward.  At  3  a.  m.  Holyhead  bear- 
ing south.  At  6  a.  m.  bore  away  long  shore ;  at  7  a.  m. 
passed  Herring  (  ?)  Lighthouse;  at  half  past  8  a.  m 
saw  pilot  boat ;  at  half  past  9  a.  m.  pilot  came  on  board, 
set  all  sail. 

This  24  hours  ends  with  moderate  breezes  from  the 
westward,  and  close,  foggy  weather.  No  observation 
today. 

Remarks  on  Wednesday  the  26  day  of  April  1797. 
This  24  hours  begins  with  light  airs  and  variable.  All 
sail  set.  At  4  p.  m.  hauled  down  "stering"  sail.  All 
hands  emplo\ed  on  ship's  duty.  Several  sail  in  sight. 
At  8  p.  m.  Great  "Harms"  Head  bore  southwest,  dis- 
tant 15  miles;  Liverpool  sail  light  (?)  bore  southeast: 
at  1 1  p.  m.  anchored  off  Liverpool  light  boat  9  miles. 
At  6  a.  m.  got  under  way,  wind  at  south-southwest ; 
beat  up  to  town;  at  11  a.  m.  got  through  the  Dock; 
got  into  the  King  Dock.  Fresh  breezes  and  close, 
rainy  weather.  Ship  Eunice  entered  at  the  Custom 
House  in  Liverpool  and  ready  to  discharge — by 
Thomas  Seal,  Master. 

So  ends  this  24  hours  with  fresh  gales  and  close, 
rainy  weather. 


j^.^^^^^: 


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-* 


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'/ 


A  PARI    OF    1  HK   LOC;  OF  THE  EUNTCF: 

(Capt.  Seal's  autograph  on  third  line  from  bottom) 

Owned  by  Mr.  Horace  Porter. 


36; 


At  this  point  Captain  Seal  evidently  turned  over  the 
log  to  the  mate,  for  it  continues  thus: 

Liverpool.  April  the  2j,  1797,  Harbor  Journal  for 
the  good  ship  Eunice,  kept  by  Josiah  Parsons,  mate. 

Thursday.  April  the  27,  1797.  This  24  hours  be- 
gins with  moderate  gales,  thick,  cloudy  weather;  all 
hands  employed  on  the  ship's  duty;  unbent  cables, 
hauled  up  to  the  ship,  got  down  topgallant  mast,  un- 
bent part  of  the  sails,  discharged  several  thousand  of 
lumber.  Ends  with  moderate  gales  and  cloudy  weath- 
er. Four  of  our  hands  "Hockaled"  (inoculated?)  for 
the  smallpox. 

Friday  April  the  28,  1797.  Good  Ship  Eunice  of 
Falmoutli,  1797.  This  24  hours  begins  with  moderate 
breezes  from  the  southward;  all  hands  employed  on 
landing  cargo.  Landed  several  thousand  of  board  and 
plank,  10  cask  of  ash.  Landed  3700  of  staves.  Ship 
"stil  continners  Lekay."  The  middle  part  rainy.  So 
ends  this  day  with  dark,  cloudy  weather. 

Saturday  April  the  29,  1797.  Harbor  Journal  for 
the  Good  Ship  Eunice  of  Falmouth,  1797.  This  24 
hours  begins  with  close,  rainy  weather;  all  hands  em- 
ployed on  landing  lumber  and  staves;  landed  600  of 
staves  and  large  quantity  of  boards  and  plank.  So 
ends  this  day  with  close,  rainy  weather. 

Sunday  April  the  30,  1797.  Harbor  Journal  for  tlie 
Good  Ship  Eunice  of  Falmouth,  1797.  This  day  be- 
gins with  fine,  pleasant  weather,  moderate  breeze  from 
the  northwest.  Nothing  remarkable  the  24  hours. 
Several  A  ( illegible  )thring  vessels  arrived  here  last 
week.  Ends  with  moderate  gales  and  pleasant  wea- 
ther. 

(And  thus  the  log  goes  on  and  on.) 


366 

THE  BATCHELDER  FAMILY. 

Rev.  Stephen  Bachiler. 

One  of  the  founders  of  the  numerous  Batchelder 
family  in  this  country  was  Rev.  Stephen,  whom  Ohver 
Wendell  Holmes  speaks  of  as  "that  terrible  old  sinner 
and  ancestor  of  great  men."*  As  to  the  first  statement 
there  has  been  a  vast  amount  of  controversy.  As  to 
the  second  proposition  there  can  be  no  doubt :  Among 
his  well-known  descendants  are  Daniel  Webster,  John 
Greenleaf  Whittier  (see  p.  85),  Gen.  Benjamin  F. 
Butler,  William  Pitt  Fcssenden,  Caleb  Gushing,  Wil- 
liam B.  Green,  Richard  N.  Batchelder,  Kate  Sanborn, 
and  many  of  somewhat  lesser  note. 


The  History  of  New  England  by  John  Winthrop  is 
perhaps  the  chief  historical  basis,  aided  by  James  Sav- 
age's notes  in  the  edition  of  1853,  for  the  unfavorable 
estimate  of  his  character ;  and  Hon.  Charles  E.  Batch- 
elder's  essay  in  the  Register  for  Jan.  1892,  and  after- 
wards reprinted  in  pamphlet  form  is  his  defence. 

Perhaps  the  most  agreeably  written  sketch  of  his 
life  is  the  following,  from  the  pen  of  Victor  C.  San- 
born, one  of  his  descendants  and  published  in  the 
Batchelder  Genealogy  (F.  C.  Pierce,  Chicago,  1898). 

"Concerning  the  life  of  Stephen  Bachiler  less  is 
known  than  of  most  of  the  founders  of  New  England ; 
yet  few  of  the  early  Puritans  were  more  widely  known 
in  their  day,  and  none  had  a  more  checkered  career. 
Bachiler,  as  is  said  of  a  descendant  of  his,  'had  a  real 
genius  for  opposing  the  majority,'  and  in  consequence 
his  character  has  been  much  maligned.  The  truth  is 
he  was  a  reformer,  with  the  strength  and  weakness  of 
his  kind.    He  was  among  the  first  to  refuse  conformity 


'Over  the  Teacups,"  by  O.  W.  Holmes. 


367 


to  the  English  churcli,  and  'suffered  much  at  tlie  hands 
of  the  Bishops.'  He  came  to  America  in  his  old  age, 
hoping  to  find  here  that  liberty  which  was  denied  at 
home;  he  rebelled  at  the  union  of  church  and  state, 
which  the  strong  Puritan  covenant  enforced,  and  in 
consequence  found  himself  opposed  to  the  party  in 
power,  the  Massachusetts  authorities.  After  twenty 
years  of  conflict,  in  his  old  age,  he  returned  to  Eng- 
land, preferring  to  pass  his  last  days  among  the  Puri- 
tans there,  rather  than  in  New  England.  His  life  mea- 
sures the  Puritan  epoch ;  he  was  among  the  first  clerg>'- 
men  to  be  ejected  and  he  died  with  the  English  Re- 
public. 

"Stephen  Bachiler  was  born  in  1560.  His  parentage 
and  birthplace  are  as  yet  unknown — Southern  Eng- 
land was  at  that  time  full  of  Bachilers;  Hampshire, 
Surrey,  Sussex  and  Kent  had  distinct  lines,  while  the 
Channel  Islands  were  the  home  of  a  Bachiler  family 
of  French  extraction.  Probably  this  French  family, 
migrating  to  Southampton  and  forming  an  important 
part  of  the  Frencli  Protestant  church  there,  was  the 
ancestral  line  of  Stephen  Bachiler.  Certain  it  is  that 
his  lifelong  connection  was  with  Hampshire,  and  he 
was  allied  to  the  Le  Mcrcier  and  Priaulx  families  of 
Jersey  and  Southampton. 

"The  first  record  of  Stephen  Bachiler  is  in  1581, 
when,  at  20,  he  was  matriculated  at  the  then  newly  es- 
tablished college  of  St.  John,  Oxford,  on  Nov.  17, 
1581.  Here  he  took  his  B.  A.  in  1586.  St.  John's  was 
founded  in  1555  by  Sir  Thomas  White,  and  is  now  one 
of  the  most  interesting  colleges  in  Oxford,  possessing 
the  most  beautiful  gardens  there.  The  scholars  of  St. 
John's  were  of  various  opinions  ;  the  list  includes  Arch- 
bishops Laud  and  Juxon,  and  the  celebrated  noncon- 
formist, Calamy. 

"From  O.xford  Bachiler  entered  the  church,  and  on 
July  15,  1587,  was  instituted  as  Vicar  of  Wherwell, 
Hants,  being  presented  to  that  living  by  William,  Lord 
de  la  Warr,  the  ancestor  of  the  nobleman  from  whom 


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Delaware  derives  its  name.  Wlierwell  ('HorreH')  is  a 
beautiful  village  on  the  Test,  and  was  in  its  most  per- 
fect beauty  when  I  saw  it  in  June,  1895.  The  church 
lies  a  short  distance  from  Wherwell  Priory,  the  home 
of  Air.  Iremonger,  and  a  most  ideal  English  county 
seat.  The  present  church,  though  located  on  the  origi- 
nal site,  is  not  the  building  of  Bachiler's  time,  and  the 
registers  before  1624  are  missing,  so  that  I  found  noth- 
ing there  concerning  him.  The  Bishop's  Transcripts 
at  ^^'iichester  are  n^t  ixcessible.  In  1605,  Bachiler 
was  'depryved'  of  his  living — the  cause  is  not  stated, 
but  it  was  presumably  by  the  order  of  the  commission 
appointed  by  James  I.,  of  which  commission  Lord  de 
la  Warr,  a  son  of  the  nobleman  who  presented  Bachiler 
to  Wherwell,  was  a  member.  August  9,  1605,  John 
Bate  was  appointed  Vicar  at  Wherwell,  a  vacancy  ex- 
isting because  of  'the  ejection  of  Stephen  Bachiler.' 

"From  1605  the  record  of  Bachiler's  English  life  is 
very  fragmentary.  In  1610  his  son  Stephen  was 
matriculated  at  Magdalen  College,  Oxford,  'the  son  of 
a  clergyman  of  Hampshire.'  In  1621  Adam  Win- 
throp's  diary  relates  that  he  had  'Mr.  Bachiler,  the 
preacher,'  to  dine  with  him.  Tradition  says  that 
Bachiler  fled  to  Holland;  Winthrop's  History  states 
that  he  'suffered  much  at  the  hands  of  the  Bishops;' 
but  no  record  of  his  life  in  Holland  is  extant.  Per- 
haps this  suffering  and  flight  were  between  1605  and 
1622,  for  in  the  latter  year  we  find  him  established  in 
Newton  Stacy,  a  retired  hamlet,  a  mile  and  a  half  east 
of  Wherwell.  Here  Bachiler  bought  land  in  1622  and 
1629,  and  accumulated  quite  a  property;  he  still 
preached  the  Puritan  doctrines,  for  we  find  Sir  Robert 
Payne  in  1632,  being  then  sheriff  of  Hants,  complain- 
ing that  his  tenants,  'having  been  formerly  misled  by 
one  Stephen  Bachiler,  a  notorious  inconformist,  did 
demolish  a  consecrated  chapel  in  Newton  Stacy.' 

"In  1630,  'The  Plough  Company  of  Husbandmen' 
was  formed,  and  obtained  a  patent  to  land  near  the 
mouth  of  the  Sagadahoc  river,  in  Maine.     They  chose 


sr.  JOHN'S  col, 1. 1. V,;  .  i.\.  ^ <!..;, 

Where  Slephenl  Bacl.iler  sra.ltjated,  1586) 


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STEPHEN   KACHIl.ERS   AC  lOCKAPH   AND   SEAL 
(Plates  kindly  loaned  liy  the  Ru.nfurd  Printing  Co.    of  Concord,  N.   H. 


ARMS  OK  THE  KAICHELDER  FAMILY 

l»ee  p.   369) 


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Bacliiler  as  tlieir  pastor,  and  he  also  adventured  a  con- 
siderable sum  in  the  enterprise,  selling  his  Hampsiiire 
projierty  to  enai:)le  him  to  do  this.  Through  fraud  or 
some  underhand  dealing  the  Plough  Company  failed, 
in  1 63 1 -2,  after  Bachiler  had  made  preparations  to 
come  to  New  England  and  settle  in  Cambridge  (New- 
ton). Before  sailing  for  America,  Bachiler,  and  his 
wife,  accompanied  by  his  widowed  daughter,  Ann  San- 
borne,  then  'living  in  ye  Strand,'  obtained  permission  to 
go  to  Holland  for  two  months,  'to  visit  his  sons  and 
daughters  there.'  One  of  these  sons  was  probably  that 
Samuel  Bachiler,  chaplain  to  Sir  Charles  Morgan's 
regiment  in  Holland,  who,  in  1C25,  published  his 
'Miles  Christianus,"  probably  the  treatise  wliicli  Bach- 
iler sent  as  a  gift  to  Margaret  Winthrop  in  1640  At 
tliis  period,  too,  is  that  grant  of  arms  to  Stephen 
Bachiler,  described  by  Sylvanus  Morgan  in  his  'Sphere 
of  Gentry' — Vert,  a  plow  in  fess;  in  base  the  sun  ris- 
ing, or.  This  coat  ^lorgan  states  was  granted  to 
'Stephen  Bachiler,  the  first  pastor  of  the  church  of 
Lygonia  in  New  England,  the  plough  to  signify  his 
ploughing  up  the  fallow  ground  of  their  hearts,  and 
the  sun  in  allusion  to  his  motto:  'Sol  Justitire  Ex- 
oritur.' 

"Bachiler  married  twice  in  England ;  all  of  his  chil- 
dren of  whom  we  have  record  were  by  his  first  wife. 

"Bachiler's  second  wife,  Helen,  accompanied  Iiim  to 
New  England,  dying  in  1642. 

"On  March  9,  1632,  Bachiler  sailed  for  New  Eng- 
land in  the  'William  and  Francis,'  landing  at  Boston, 
June  5,  1632.  Winthrop,  in  relating  the  fact,  states 
that  on  the  ship  were  'Mr.  Bachiler  and  Mr.  Welde, 
with  their  families,  and  many  other  honest  men.'  Just 
what  family  Bachiler  brought  with  him  is  not  known 
— presumably  his  second  wife  and  his  four  grandsons, 
Nathaniel  Bachiler  and  John,  Williain  and  Stephen 
Samborne.  Apparently  none  of  Bachiler's  own  chil- 
dren came.  The  failure  of  the  'Plough  Company' 
compelled  him  to  give  up  his  plan  of  settling  in  Cam- 


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bridge,  and  he  accepted  a  call  from  the  cliurch  at  Sa- 
gus  (Lynn)  where  his  son-in-law,  Christopher  Hussey, 
then  resided.  On  June  8,  1632,  Bachiler  commenced 
his  ministrations,  baptizing  four  children;  it  is  said 
that  when  Thomas  Newhall,  the  first  white  child  born 
in  Lynn,  was  presented  for  baptism  Bachiler  put  him 
aside,  saying,  'I  will  baptize  mine  own  child  first,' 
meaning  Stephen  Hussey,  his  grandson  and  name- 
sake. 

Shortly  after  his  arrival,  Bachiler  came  into  conflict 
with  the  authorities,  for  on  Oct.  3,  1632,  the  general 
court  ordered  'that  Mr.  Batchelr  forbear  exercising  hi? 
guifts  as  a  pastor  or  teacher  publiquely  in  our  pattent 
unless  it  be  to  those  he  brought  with  him,  for  contempt 
of  authority,  and  until  some  scandles  be  removed.' 
By  'scandles'  is  merely  meant  some  report  of  his  ut- 
terances against  the  authorities.  After  five  months 
this  order  was  recalled.  He  was  at  the  conference  of 
ministers  Sept.  17,  1633,  and  again  Dec.  19,  1634 
Early  in  1635  ^  general  convention  of  elders  was  held 
in  Lynn  to  discuss  the  quarrel  between  Bachiler  and  an 
opposing  fraction  in  his  church,  who  held  that  he  had 
no  true  communion.  The  council  agreed  that  though 
not  at  first  installed  in  due  order,  yet  Bachiler  had  a 
true  church  there — after  a  time  peace  was  restored. 
On  May  5,  1635,  he  became  a  freeman.  January, 
1636,  he  was  summoned  before  the  magistrates,  be- 
cause, 'coming  out  of  England  with  6  or  7  persons, 
and  having  since  received  in  many  more  at  Sagus; 
and  contention  coming  between  him  and  the  greatest 
part  of  his  church,  he  desired  dismission  for  himself 
and  his  first  members,  which  being  granted,  he,  with 
the  said  six  or  seven  persons,  presently  renewed  their 
old  covenant,  intending  to  raise  another  church  in  Sa- 
gus; whereat  the  most  and  cheefe  of  the  town  being 
offended,  for  that  it  would  cross  their  intention  of 
summoning  Mr.  Peter  or  some  other  minister,  they 
complained  to  the  magistrates,  who  forbade  him  to 
proceed  in  any  church  way  until  the  cause  was  con- 


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sidcrcd  by  other  ministers.  But  he  refused  to  desist. 
Upon  his  appearance  and  submission,  and  promise  to 
remove  out  of  the  town  within  3  months,  lie  was  dis- 
charged.' 

"In  February,  1636,  Bachiier  moved  to  Ipswich,  the 
home  of  Jolin  Wintlirop,  where  he  received  50  acres 
of  land,  apparently  discouraged  by  his  troubles  at 
Sagus,  gave  up  the  active  work  of  the  ministry.  This 
latter  fact  was  mentioned  in  a  letter  of  the  period  from 
a  Puritan  minister  in  England,  as  a  result  of  the  rigid 
and  bigoted  spirit  in  New  England,  which  deterred 
many  from  coming  to  this  country. 

"Early  in  1638,  in  the  winter  time,  Bachiier  tried  io 
form  a  settlement  near  Yarmouth  on  Cape  Cod,  where 
his  Wing  grandchildren  lived;  and  walked  there  from 
Ipswich.  But  says  Winthrop,  'He  and  his  company 
being  poor  men,  gave  it  over,  and  others  undertook  it.' 
In  the  spring  of  1638  he  removed  to  Newbury,  where 
his  son-in-law,  Hussey,  and  his  connection,  Mr.  Rich- 
ard Dummer,  were  living.  The  latter  had  come  into 
conflict  witli  the  'powers  that  be,'  having  l>ecn  one  of 
those  disarmed  a  year  before  because  of  his  adherence 
to  the  forbidden  opinion  of  Anne  Hutchinson. 

"Few  men,  at  79  years  of  age,  would  undertake  to 
start  a  new  settlement  in  the  wilderness,  especially 
after  ^;^  years  of  conflict,  but  such  was  the  detennined 
nature  of  Stephen  Bachiier.  No  better  spot  could  have 
been  chosen  than  the  site  of  Hampton,  N.  H.,  compris- 
ing, as  it  did,  both  fertile  farm  lands  and  wide  stretches 
of  salt  and  fresh  meadows.  Batchiler  had  visited  it 
before  September,  1638,  and  in  that  month  had  peti- 
tioned the  General  Court  for  leave  to  begin  a  planta- 
tion there.  On  October  9,  1638,  writing  to  Governor 
Winthrop.  and  asking  him  and  Mr.  Bradstreet  to  ac- 
company the  little  band  of  settlers,  he  says,  'We  were 
there  and  viewed  it  cursorily  and  we  found  a  reason- 
able meet  place,  which  we  shall  shew  you.'  Bachiler's 
fellow  petitioners  and  settlers  were  mostly  from  the 


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counties  of  liampsliire  and  Wiltshire,  among  tlieni  one 
or  two  of  his  old  parishioners  in  England,  hut  there 
were  also  some  from  Norfolk  and  Sufifolk. 

"Jtme  7.  1639,  Winnicunnet  was  made  a  town,  and 
in  the  fall  the  name  was  changed  to  Hampton,  at  the 
request  of  Bachiler,  and  in  honor  of  the  city  of  South- 
ampton, then  commonly  called  Hampton  with  which 
the  Bachiler  famil}'  was  then  associated.  Stephen 
Bachiler  was  thus  the  founder  and  father  of  Hampton, 
the  third  settlement  in  New  Hampshire,  and  for  years 
the  principal  town  in  the  colony.  He  received  a  grant 
of  300  acres  from  the  town,  gave  a  bell  for  their 
church,  and  bound  up  his  fortunes  with  the  new  settle- 
ment. In  1639,  Ipswich  promised  him  a  large  grant  if 
he  would  settle  with  them,  but  he  refused.  About  this 
time,  Hampton  received  a  considerable  influx  of  new 
settlers,  many  of  them  from  Norfolk  and  Sufifolk — 
and  a  Sufifolk  clergyman,  Timothy  Dalton,  was  asso- 
ciated with  Bachiler  in  the  ministry,  as  teacher  and 
curate.  From  this  time  dated  a  long  period  of 
strife  in  the  Hampton  church.  Dalton  was  30  years 
younger  than  Bachiler,  educated,  a  sizar  at  St.  John's, 
Cambridge,  and  had  brought  with  him  many  of  his  old 
parishioners.  He  was  politic,  active,  and  an  earnest 
adherent  of  the  plans  of  Massachusetts. 

"But  little  definite  record  is  left  us  of  the  conflict 
between  pastor  and  teacher;  the  town  records  are 
mute,  and  the  church  records  are  missing.  Winthrop's 
History  contains  little  of  value  concerning  it,  and  is 
mainly  responsible  for  preserving  the  slander  which  it 
is  now  thought  Dalton  and  his  party  manufactured  out 
of  the  whole  cloth.  Judge  Batchelder,  in  refuting  this 
falsehood,  calls  attention  to  the  fact  that  no  definite 
charge  was  ever  brought,  and  that  no  investigation 
was  made,  although  Bachiler  earnestly  and  publicly 
entreated  it.  In  Bachiler's  letter  to  Winthrop  he 
charges  Dalton  with  'having  don  all  and  ben  the  cause 
of  all  the  dishonor  that  hath  accrewed  to  God,  shame 
to  myself,  and  greefe  to  all  God's  people  by  his  irregu- 


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lar  proceeding  and  abuse  of  tlie  power  of  the  church  in 
his  hand,  the  main  part  cleaving  to  him  being  his  coun- 
trymen and  acquaintance  in  old  England.  The  Teach- 
ers excommunicating  of  me  would  prove  the  foulest 
matter,  both  for  the  cause  alleged  and  the  impulsive 
cause  (even  wrath  and  revenge).'  Winthrop's  ac- 
count censures  Dalton,  'who  indeed  had  not  carried 
himself  in  this  cause  so  well  as  became  him  and  ac- 
knowledged it.'  In  1643,  the  magistrates,  to  whom 
tlie  case  was  referred,  removed  the  excommunication, 
but  did  not  restore  Bachiler  to  his  pastoral  office.  To 
show  the  general  belief  in  Bachiler's  innocence,  while 
the  evil  report  was  still  rife,  two  neighboring  towns, 
Casco  on  the  north  and  Exeter  on  the  west,  called  him 
to  be  their  minister;  he  at  once  set  their  calls  before 
the  magistrates,  saying  that  he  wished  to  accept  neither 
until  he  had  a  full  hearing  in  his  case  against  Dalton. 
The  magistrates,  in  reply,  merely  advised  him  to  leave 
Hampton,  and  he  accepted  the  call  to  Exeter;  but,  as 
this  was  within  the  jurisdiction  claimed  by  the  Massa- 
chusetts authorities,  they  were  unwilling  to  have  so 
troublesome  opponent  within  their  bounds,  and,  in 
1644,  the  court  ordered  the  Exeter  people,  on  account 
of  their  divisions  and  contentions,  to  defer  gathering  a 
churcli.  Winthrop  adds  that  'Mr.  Bachiler  had  been 
in  three  places  before,  and  through  his  means,  as  was 
supposed,  the  churches  fell  into  such  divisions  that  no 
peace  could  be  till  he  was  removed.'  Bachiler.  who 
had  declined  the  call  to  Casco  and  prepared  to  settle  in 
Exeter,  remained  in  Hampton,  the  troubles  growing 
more  bilter.  Hampton  had  paid  him  no  salar}',  and 
he  petitioned  the  General  Court  for  some  allowance, 
but  they  refused  to  step  in,  leaving  him  to  sue  through 
the  District  Court.  July  15,  1644,  Winthrop  says, 
'The  contentions  in  Hampton  were  grown  to  a  great 
height,  the  whole  town  was  divided  into  two  fractions, 
one  with  Mr.  Bachiler.  their  late  pastor,  and  the  other 
with  Mr.  Dalton.  their  teacher,  both  men  very  passion- 
ate and  wanting  discretion  and  moderation.' 


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"Just  before  tliis  time,  Bachiler's  troubles  increased ; 
his  wife  died,  and  his  house  and  library,  'to  the  valleu 
of  £200,'  were  burned.  Disheartened,  he  sold  his  land 
in  Hampton  and  moved  to  Portsmouth,  where  he  be- 
came a  private  resident,  though  still  preaching  occa- 
sionally. He  hired  a  'good  neighbor'  as  his  house- 
keeper, and,  in  1648,  at  88  years  of  age,  he  married 
her.  The  match  proved  most  disastrous;  in  1650  she 
was  convicted  of  adultery  with  one  Rogers,  and  sen- 
tenced to  be  publicly  whipped  and  branded  with  the 
letter  'A.'  Bachiler  sued  for  divorce,  but  was  met 
with  the  atrocious  order  that  he  'and  his  wife  shall 
live  together  as  man  and  wife,  as  in  this  Corte  they 
have  professed  to  do ;  and  if  either  desert  the  other  the 
marshall  shall  apprehend  both  and  bring  them  to  Bos- 
ton to  be  kept  until  the  next  Corte.'  The  only  explana- 
tion of  this  order  is  the  determination  to  make  impos- 
sible Bachiler's  remaining  in  the  Massachusetts  Col- 
ony; the  attempt  was  successful.  About  1654,  accom- 
panied by  his  grandchild  and  godson,  Stephen  Sam- 
borne,  Bachiler  left  the  New  World,  from  which  he 
had  hoped  so  much,  to  end  his  days  quietly  in  England, 
where  Cromwell  and  the  Puritans  held  sway.  His  last 
act  was  to  convey  his  American  estate  to  his  son-in- 
law,  Hussey.  'April  8.  1673.  Edward  Colcord,  of 
Hampton,  aged  56,  and  Wm.  Fifield,  of  Hampton, 
testify  that  when  Mr.  Stephen  Bacheller,  of  Hampton, 
was  upon  his  voyage  to  England,  they  did  hear  Mr. 
Bacheller  say  unto  his  son-in-law,  Mr.  Chr.  Hussey 
that  in  consn  the  said  Hussey  had  little  or  nothing 
from  him  with  his  daughter  which  was  then  married  to 
the  said  Hussey,  also  in  consn  that  this  said  son  Hus- 
sey &  his  wife  had  been  helpful  unto  him  both  form- 
erly &  in  fitting  him  for  his  voyage,  &  for  other  con- 
siderations, he  did  give  to  the  said  Hussey  all  his  es- 
tate consisting  in  cattell,  household  goods  &  debts  for 
which  his  aforesaid  give  he  also  gave  a  deed  in  writ- 
ing &  delivered  a  copy  thereof  to  the  said  Hussey.' 


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"In  1654,  Bachiler's  children  and  grandchildren 
were  well  established  in  England,  and  tradition  says 
he  spent  his  last  days  in  peace  and  comfort  near  Lon- 
don. His  worthless  wife  in  1656,  spread  a  baseless 
report  that  he  'took  to  himself  another  wife,'  but  as 
this  is  the  only  source  from  which  the  story  comes,  we 
may  well  believe  it  false. 

"The  last  record  of  this  long  and  stormy  career  is 
contained  in  the  following:  'The  ancient  Stephen 
Bachiler  of  Hampton  died  at  Hackney,  a  village  and 
parish  in  Middlesex  2  miles  from  London,  in  1660  in 
the  1 00th  year  of  his  age.' 

"Perhaps  the  best  proof  of  the  striking  character  of 
Stephen  Bachiler  is  the  belief  of  many  of  his  descend- 
ants that  their  abilities  are  derived  from  him.  Daniel 
Webster  so  believed,  and  also  William  Batchelder 
Greene." 

REV.  STEPHEN  BACHILER 

As  referred  to  in  Vol.  I.  of  the  N.  H.  Provincial 
Papers. 

Hampton  was  the  name  given  at  the  desire  of  the 
Rev.  Stephen  Bacheler  by  the  General  Court  of  Massa- 
chusetts in  1639  to  the  settlement  at  Winnicumet 
which  was  the  Indian  name  (Editor,  p.  85). 

(From  the  Massachusetts  Colony  Records,  L,  100.) 
Mr.  Batchel''  is  required  to  forbear  exercising  his  gifts 
as  a  pastor  or  teacher  publiquely  in  our  pattent,  unless 
it  bee  to  those  hee  brought  with  him,  for  his  contempt 
of  authority,  &  till  some  scandles  be  removed.  1632, 
3  October. 

(Same,  L,  103).  4  March.  The  Court  hath  re- 
versed the  last  act  against  Mr.  Batcher  which  restrain- 
ed him  from  further  gathering  a  church  within  this 
pattent. 

I.,  231.)  1638  6  September.  The  Court  grants 
that  the  petitioners,  Mr.  Steven  Bachiler,  *  *  * 
with  divers  others  shall  have  liberty  to  begin  a  planta- 
tion at  Winnicunnet,  etc. 


3/6 


(302.)  7  Oct.  1640.  Mr.  Bachiler's  farm  is  re- 
ferred to  ill  a  surveyor's  report  dated  Sept.  24,  1G40. 

^lemorandum  of  the  above  orders  of  the  court  in 
Rev.  Stephen's  hand.  "An  early  settler  at  Hampton," 
etc.  (Prov.  Pa.,  I.,  151.)  (See  Farmer's  Belknap, 
L,  21,  n.) 

The  families  at  Hampton,  says  Edward  Johnson, 
"called  to  office  the  reverend,  grave  and  gracious  Mr. 
Doulton,  having  also  for  some  little  space  of  time  the 
more  ancient  Mr.  Bacheler  to  preach  unto  them  also." 

(I.S2.) 

Inhabitants  of  Exeter  forbidden  by  the  court  to 
form  a  church  for  some  time,  as  they  had  called  Mr. 
Bachiler  to  serve.  The  29  of  the  3rd  mo  a  1644. 
(Col.  Rec,  51-2.)      (174.) 

30  October,  1644  (C.  R.,  H.,  79.)  "It  is  ordered 
that  Mr.  Samuel  Dudley.  Mr.  Carlton  &  Air.  John 
Saunders  of  Salsberry  shall  be  commissioners  to  here 
&  examine  all  matters  concerning  Mr.  Bachiler  & 
Hampton,  &  they  have  power  to  examine  witnesses 
upon  oath  whereby  they  may  returne  the  truth  of  the 
case  to  the  next  Generall  Court  of  election."     (177-) 

(III.,  252-4.)  1651.  Orders  concerning  the 
fraudulent  use  of  Mr.  Batchelor's  name  by  other 
parties  without  his  authority.     (197.) 

IV.,  316.)  23  October  1657  Mr  Bachiler's  farm 
referred  to.      (231.) 


The  children  of  Rev.  Stephen'  Bachiler  were  born 
in  England,  as  follows : 

I.  Theodate-  Bachiler,  born  1596,  married 
Capt.  Christopher  Hussey,  and  died  20  Oct., 
1649,  at  Hampton,  N.  H. ; 

II.  Nathaniel-  Bachiler,  married  Hester 
Mercer,  (see  p.  379)  : 

III.  Deborah-  Bachiler,  born  1592,  mar- 
ried Rev.  John  Wing,  pastor  of  the  English 
Puritan  Church  at  Middleburgh.  Zeeland ; 


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IV.  Stephen-  Bacliiler,  born  1594;  nialric- 
ulated  at  Oxford,   1610,  at  Magdalen  College; 

V.  Ann-  Bachiler.  horn  1601  ;  married  John 
Sanborn  about  i6ig. 

The  foregoing  is  the  authoritative  list,  published  by 
Hon.  C.  E.  Batchelder  in  47  Register,  513.  V.  C. 
Sanborn,  in  the  Granite  Monthly,  Dec,  1895.  differs, 
in  arranging  Theodate  as  the  fifth  child,  giving  her 
birth  as  1598:  and  adds  a  fourth  questioningly,  thus: 
"IV.  (Possibly)  Samuel,  b.  1596,  a  chaplain  in  Hol- 
land, 1620." 

Nathaniel^  Bachiler  (Stelylieu^),  was  born  in  Eng- 
land and  married  Hester  Mercer,  of  Southampton 
(see  Mercer  Family,  p.  379).  He  evidently  never 
came  to  this  countr>'.  On  this  account  his  very  exist- 
ence was  unknown  till  about  1892,  when  the  re- 
searches of  Mr.  Waters  among  English  wills  produced 
the  facts.  His  son,  Natiianiel'^,  was  until  then  be- 
lieved to  be  the  son  instead  of  the  grandson  of  Rev. 
Stephen.  Nothing  is  known  of  Nathaniel-  except  tlie 
name  of  his  wife  and  of  the  following  children : 

I.  Stephen"*  Bachiler,  who  remained  in  Eng- 
land and  was  living  in  London  in  1685  ;  a  letter 
of  his  of  that  date  to  his  brother  NathanieP  in 
America  indicates  that  he  married  a  Miss  Wem- 
borne,  and  was  a  man  of  considerable  means 
(Register,  1873).  After  the  return  of  Rev. 
Stephen'  to  London  it  was  said  that  Stephen^ 
so  much  resembled  him  as  hardly  to  be  dis- 
tinguished when  they  were  walking  together. 

II.  Anna*  Bachiler,  who  married  before 
1661  Daniel  du  Cornet,  of  Middleburgh,  Zee- 
land.  In  the  will  of  her  uncle,  Paul  Mercer 
(see  p.  380)  he  gives  his  "niece,  Anna,  daugh- 
ter of  Nathaniel  and  Hester  Bachiler,  now  the 
wife  of  Daniel  du  Cornet,  of  Middlebrough, 
merchant,"  as  a  marriage  portion,  £300  cur- 
rent Flemisli  money  or  in  lieu  thereof  one  hun- 


378 

drcd  and  four  score  pounds  current  English 
money.  "To  her  three  younger  brothers,  my 
nephews,  Francis,  Nathaniel  and  Benjamin 
Bachiler,  two  hundred  pounds." 

IV.  Francis^    Bachiler,    lived    in    England 
(see  Stephen's  letter,  below.) 

V.  NathanieP.  Bachiler,   born   about    1630, 
and  came  to  America  (see  p.  381) ; 

VI.  Benjamin^  Bachiler,  lived  in  England. 


Stephen"  Bachilcr's  Letter  to  His  Brother  Nathaniel-. 
(Spelling  Modernized.) 

London,  23d  Apr.,  16S5. 

Dear  Brother:  I  have  received  yours  of  19  January 
and  bless  God  you  and  your  wife  and  children  are 
all  well.  May  God  continue  health  to  you  all.  I 
bless  God  I  am  much  better  than  I  was,  though  very 
weak.     I  hope  I  may  recover  by  degrees. 

As  to  my  cousin,  Thomas  Mercer,  pray  remember 
my  love  to  him,  and  tell  him  I  have  received  his  letter 
and  delivered  his  enclosed  to  cousin  Paul  Pryaul.x, 
who  saith  the  executor  of  our  uncle  Francis  Mercer 
is  rich  and  able  to  pay  him  his  legacy;  and  saith  he 
must  send  over  a  certificate  that  he  is  alive  and  the 
son  of  Mr.  Peter  Mercer,  certified  by  some  justice  that 
he  is  alive,  which  you  and  others  may  witness,  and  a 
letter  of  attorney. 

Let  hiin  make  the  letter  of  attorney  to  my  brother, 
Thomas  Wemborne;  then  there  will  be  all  endeavors 
used  to  get  it  for  him.     This  the  only  way. 

I  am  sorry  for  your  troubles  occasioned  by  my 
friend  Mr.  Mason's  claim.  You  and  others  ought  to 
defend  your  right,  which  cannot  be  without  trouble 
and  expense.  I  hope  in  little  time  that  will  be  recti- 
fied to  content. 


379 


Your  losses  iiave  not  been  comparable  to  mine.  I 
lost  fifteen  hundred  and  above  by  our  brother  Francis 
Bachiler,  and  about  one  thousand  pounds  by  others, 
all  one  upon  another;  but  I  thank  God  I  have  rubbed 
through  all,  and  am  contented  in  my  condition,  not  be- 
ing beholden  to  any  relation,  and  hope  shall  continue 
so  to  my  end. 

The  stockings  I  sent  by  you  cost  me  £5  5  6d,  and 
you  write  me  in  several  letters  you  sold  them  for  £7 
losh.  It  was  the  first  adventure  I  ever  made,  so  take 
course  to  make  it  to  me  over  if  you  can  by  a  ImII  of  ex- 
change or  goods. 

Mr.  W'yar  will  advise  you  for  the  lx;st ;  he  is  much 
a  gentleman,  and  your  good  friend.  We  have  often 
remembered  you.  God  grant  that  he  may  arrive  in 
safety.     I  am  much  obliged  to  him  for  his  love  to  you. 

I  have  no  more  to  add  but  only  my  brotherly  love 
to  you,  your  wife  and  children;  and  the  like,  of  all 
our  relations  here  in  London. 

So  I  commit  you  to  God  and  rest  your  ver\'  ever 
brother, 

Stephen  Bachiler. 

Direct  your  letters  for  me  at  Mr.  John  Kent's, 
merchant,  in  Basing  Hall  Street,  London.     *     *     * 

To  my  loving  brother  Nathaniel  Bachiler  at  Hamp- 
ton in  New  England. 


MERCER  F.\MILY. 

The  Mercer  family  was  one  of  wealth  and  distinc- 
tion in  England  two  hundred  and  fifty  years  ago,  and 
its  descendants,  including  the  Batchelder  family,  in 
America  today  will  take  pleasure  in  examining  the 
wills  of  its  various  members  of  that  early  period,  pul> 
lished  in  A^  E.  Hist,  and  Gen.  Register,  Vol.  47. 


38o 


Tlie  parents  of  the  large  famil_\-  of  sons  and  daugli- 
ters  hereafter  named  have  not  come  down  to  us.  The 
paternal  Mercer  may  have  lived  at  Southampton,  hut 
he  and  his  wife  were  dead  before  1667  for  their  son 
Francis  Mercer  of  Godmanston,  Dorset,  who  died  in 
that  year  leaves  to  his  own  son  Francis  "the  picture 
of  my  mother  and  her  wedding  ring  of  gold,  and  one 
other  gold  ring  having  a  coat  of  arms  cut  in  the  stone 
that  is  set  therein;  my  silver  seal  of  arms,  my  steel 
glass,  my  best  gold  weights,  my  agate  picture,  the 
picture  of  Henry  the  Fourth  the  late  French  King. 
*  *  *  to  my  son  Peter,  (among  other  things),  the 
picture  of  my  father  and  the  case  thereof." 

The  reference  to  the  French  King  together  witli 
the  French  names  of  many  of  those  connected  by  mar- 
riage, and  that  legacies  are  left  to  French  charities  in- 
dicate that  the  family  was  of  that  nationality. 

The  children  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Mercer  as  deduced 
from  several  wills,  were  as  follows,  the  order  of  their 
births  being  unknown. 

I.  Paul  Mercer,  of  Southampton,  merchant, 
will  proved  9  Sept.,  1661  ; 

II.  Elizabeth    Mercer,    may    have    married 

Stroade,  but  in   1661   her  name  was 
Blanchard : 

III.  Francis  Mercer,  rector  of  Godmanston, 
in  Dorset;  married  Mrs.  Katherine  Browne; 
will  proved  31  Jan.,  1668; 

I\^.    Judith   Mercer,  married  John- 

son, who  was  living  in  1650  but  had  died  by 
1668. 

V.  Peter  Mercer,  living  in  1667: 

VI.  Daniel  Mercer,  of  St.  Olave,  South- 
wark,  Surrey,  whose  wife,  Sarah,  seems  to 
have  been  born  Hublon  ;  he  died  28  Aug..  1650; 
in  his  will  he  left  to  his  cousin  Francis  Bachiler 
three  score  pounds  sterling  to  be  paid  him  at 


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his  age  of  one  and  twenty  years,"  also  legacies 
to  "my  sister  Batchellor's  children." 

\'II.  Anna  Mercer,  married,  and  had  a 
daughter  Mary,  who  married  John  Baciiiler, 
and  had  children. 

VIII.  Hester  Mercer,  married  Nathaniel, 
the  son  of  Rev.  Stephen  Bachiler  (see  p.  378). 

IX.  (Daughter)  Mercer,  married  Capt. 
Peter  Priaulx  of  Southampton,  merchant. 
whose  will  was  proved  31  Dec,  1644. 

X.  Samuel   Mercer,   deceased  before    1650. 


M.\RY  TITCOMB'S  NEEDLEWORK. 

Mary'"'  Titcoml),  tlie  little  girl  who  made  the  series 
of  samplers  more  than  a  hundred  years  ago,  which 
are  pictured  in  this  numljer,  was  the  daughter  of 
Andrew^  and  Mary"'  (Dole)  Titcomb,  (see  p.  199). 
The  homespun  cloth  on  which  her  childish  fingers  so 
constantlv  embroidered  the  alphabet  was  no  doubt 
spun  and  woven  in  her  own  home— perhaps  by  her- 
self. She  was  born  and  lived  in  the  Quinby  mansion 
in  Stroudwater,  Maine. 

Mary  Titcomb  married  Levi"  Quinby  whose  picture 
appeared  opposite  page  320  in  the  previous  number 

The  first  sampler  shown  which  bears  the  little 
maiden's  name  contains  this  phrase:  "Stroudwater 
September  12th  MARY  TITCOMB  7  years  of  age 
1800."  Its  dimensions  are  seven  and  a  half  by  eight 
inches.  The  inscription  just  quoted  is  in  dark  brown 
silk,  the  alpliabet  and  lower  border  are  in  light  brown 
and  tlie  border  at  the  sides  in  green.  The  second  sam- 
pler, made  by  Marty  Titcomb  at  the  age  of  twelve,  is 
homespun  of  much  lighter  brown  than  the  others  and 
is  an  elaborate  combination  of  half  a  dozen  colored 
silks,  now  toned  to  gentler  shades  tlian  of  yore.     The 


382 


third  sampler  bears  no  name  and  may  liave  been  the 
work  of  some  other  child  in  the  family.  It  is  thirteen 
by  eighteen  inches.  The  uppermost  alphabet  and  bor- 
der of  top  and  sides  are  done  in  black  linen  thread ; 
the  second  alphabet  in  pink  silk ;  the  lower  alphabet  in 
light  green  silk.  The  verse,  in  red  silk,  reads  as 
follows : 

To 

Sweet  vision  of  futurity 
How  oft  ye  cheat  the  young 
When  first  upon  life's  stormy  sea 
Their  untried  saris  are  flung 
With  meteor  light  ye  lead  them  on 
To  fancied  scens  of  rest. 


EDITORIAL  NOTES. 

The  John  Quinby  house,  a  photograph  of  which 
as  it  now  appears  is  opposite  page  308,  was  cut  in 
halves  and  moved  from  Stroudwater,  Maine,  by  John 
Mahan  (see  pp.  26,  48),  who  had  bought  and  occu- 
pied it  during  his  residence  at  Stroudwater. 


On  page  49  of  this  History,  William,  John  Ma- 
han's  father,  is  mistakenly  referred  to  as  living  in  the 
John  Quinby  house.  William,  the  father,  who  spelt 
his  name  McMahon.  witnessed  two  Slemons  wills  at 
Stroudwater  in  1785  and  in  1781. 


Charles  Fergtison  (see  p.  272)  and  his  brother 
James  started  a  tannery  at  Stroudwater  after  their 
arrival  there  in  1802.  "Charles,  in  common  with 
many  others  of  his  day,"  says  L.  B.  Chapman,  "be- 
came notoriously  dissipated,  but  reformed."  Mr. 
Chapman  has  prepared  the  manuscript  of  a  historj'  of 
this  familv  for  200  vears  back. 


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PORTRAITS  OF  RE\-.  JOHX^  ROGERS  OF 
DEDHAM. 

(See  pp.  342-6.) 

,  His  very  numerous  posterity  are  peculiarly  favored 
in  the  fact  that  the  personal  appearance  of  their  dis- 
tinguished ancestor  has  been  transmitted  to  these  days 
in  so  many  ways. 

I.  The  oil  painting.  This  is  described  by  an  author 
writing  nearly  sixty  years  ago,  in  V.  A^  E.  Hist.-Gcn. 
Register,  131,  as  '"an  original  portrait,  painted  in  1623, 
in  an  excellent  state  of  preservation,  probal^ly  brought 
from  England  by  his  son  Rev.  Nathaniel,  in  posses- 
sion of  a  descendant  at  Eliot,  Me." 

Rev.  Augustine  Caldwell  in  1906  says  that  the  por- 
trait referred  to  above  was  fomierly  owned  by  Rev. 
John'  Rogers  (born  1692,  died  1773),  pastor  at 
Eliot,  and  was  then  on  the  walls  of  the  home  in  Eliot 
of  a  descendant  of  the  same  name.  (VII.  Old  Eliot, 
5.)  His  widow  wrote  to  the  Editor  this  spring  that 
the  picture  had  been  sold  to  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Rogers 
Cabot,  of  Brookline,  Mass.  Mrs.  Cabot  has  had  it 
cleaned  and  rebacked  by  Mr.  Potter  of  the  Boston  Art 
Museum,  but  with  no  repainting  or  retouching,  and  to 
her  we  are  indebted  for  the  "Copley  Print"  reproduc- 
tion of  it  opposite  page  393. 

(383) 


384 


2.  The  alabaster  bust.  This  stands  in  the  old 
church  at  Dedharn,  England,  and  Mr.  Caldwell,  who 
saw  it  in  1885,  says  it  was  copied  from  the  portrait 
just  mentioned.  If  so,  it  would  seem  to  have  been 
made  before  1623,  which  would  indicate  some  inter- 
esting and  exceptional  circumstances. 

3.  The  copperplate  engraving.  This  picture  is  a 
frontispiece  to  a  published  work  of  the  Rev.  John,  a 
copy  of  which  is  in  the  British  Museum.  It  measures 
seven  by  five  inciies,  and  is  described  as  "a  very 
forcible  portrait."  The  txDok  is  entitled,  "A  Godly 
and  Fruitful  Exposition  upon  all  the  First  Epistle  of 
Peter",  and  was  published  in  1650.  (This  is  mention- 
ed with  wrong  date  in  V.  Register,  131.)  The  first 
reproduction  of  it  ever  made  appears  opposite  page 
383. 


ROGERS  FAMILY. 

(Continued  from  p.  346.) 

(See  Chart,  p.  .P/6.) 

The  distinguished  son  of  Rev.  John^  Rogers  of 
Dedham  (England)  was  Rev.  Nathaniel*  Rogers,  the 
first  of  the  line  who  came  to  America.  He  was  born 
at  Haverhill,  England,  about  1598;  fitted  for  college 
at  the  Grammar  School  at  Dedham,  and  entered 
Emanuel  College  at  Cambridge,  England,  "where  he 
made  great  proficiency  in  academic  learning." 

It  is  related  that  he  was  accustomed  to  say  his 
prayers  every  morning  but  that  once  he  went  out  in  a 
hurry  without  taking  the  time  for  his  usual  devotions. 
His  horse  stumbled  in  a  plain  road  causing  a  danger- 
ous fall  by  which  young  Rogers  was  much  bruised; 
this  awakened  a  reflection  on  the  omission  of  his 
morning  prayer,  so  that  he  never  afterwards  failed  in 
that  duty. 

The  first  sermon  lie  ever  preaclied  was  at  Sprough- 
ton.  in  Norfolk.  2^  Jan.,  16 19.     He  became  chaplain 


385. 


to  a  personage  of  importance  and  afterward  took 
charge  of  a  large  congregation  at  Boclcing  under  Dr. 
Barkham. 

The  sketch  of  his  life  published  in  the  Register  in 
1851  goes  on  to  say  that  many  were  astonished  that 
the  son  of  the  "most  noted  Puritan  in  England" 
should  be  employed  by  an  Episcopal  Doctor  of  Divin- 
ity, so  high  in  favor  with  Bishop  Laud,  but  Dr.  Bark- 
ham,  a  good  preacher  himself,  was  willing  to  gratify 
the  religious  predilections  of  his  parishioners;  al- 
though Mr.  Rogers  did  three-quarters  of  the  work, 
the  doctor  would  not  spare  a  tenth  of  his  revenues, 
which  from  his  divers  livings  amounted  to  nearly  a 
thousand  a  year,  but  was  otherwise  exceedingly  court- 
eous; the  parishioners,  however,  testified  their  affec- 
tion, by  maintaining  him  at  their  own  expense. 

"On  turning  his  attention  to  the  controverted  points 
of  discipline,  which  had  occasioned  his  father  so  much 
perplexity  and  trouble  to  ascertain  the  clear  path  of 
duty,  he  confers  with  the  Rev.  Mr.  Hooker,  of 
Chelmsford,  on  the  ground  of  his  dissatisfaction  at 
the  ceremonies  imposed,  and  soon  afterward  being 
present  at  the  funeral  of  a  distinguished  person,  Dr. 
Barkham  was  displeased  because  he  did  not  wear  the 
surplice:  not  wisiiing  publicly  to  affront,  he  privately 
advised  him  to  seek  some  other  place."  V.  Register, 
133-6. 

"The  living  at  Assington,  in  Suffolk,  being  now 
vacant,  was  bestowed  on  him  by  the  Bishop  of  Nor- 
wich, where  he  remained  quietly,  five  years ;  while  here 
it  was  said  in  a  publication  by  an  eminent  person,  'Mr. 
Nathaniel  Rogers,  a  man  so  able  and  so  judicious  in 
soul  work,  that  I  would  have  betrusted  my  soul  with 
him  as  soon  as  with  any  man  in  the  Church  of  Christ.' 
Here  his  ministr\-  was  highly  respected  and  very  suc- 
cessful among  all  classes,  not  only  in  tlie  town  but  in 
the  neighborhood. 

"  'He  was  a  lively  preacher  and  by  his  holy  living 
so  farther  preached  as  to  give  much  life  unto  all  his 
other  preaclning.     Tliere  was  usually  every  Lord's  day 


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a  greater  number  of  hearers  than  could  crowd  into 
the  Church,  and  of  those  many  ignorant  ones  were  in- 
structed, many  ungodly  ones  converted,  and  many  sor- 
rowful ones  comforted.  Though  not  having  his 
father's  voice  he  was  considered  to  have  ministerial 
abilities  in  some  respects  beyond  him;  and  his  labors 
were  such  as  to  impair  his  health,  while  his  eloquence 
was  as  arrows  in  the  hands  of  a  mighty  man  and  he 
knew  not  only  how  to  build  the  temple  but  to  carve  it !' 

"It  was  the  resolution  of  the  Hierarchy  that  the 
ministers  who  would  not  conform  to  their  impositions 
must  be  silenced  all  over  the  Kingdom ;  perceiving  the 
storm  approach,  he  chose  to  prevent  the  censures  of 
the  Ecclesiastical  Courts,  and  resigned  his  place  to  the 
Patron,  in  order  that  some  Godly  conformist  might  be 
therewith  invested.  Nevertheless  his  conscience 
would  not  allow  him  wholly  to  lay  down  the  exercise 
of  his  ministry,  so  he  resolved  on  removing  to  New 
England. 

"His  father-in-law,  a  gentleman  of  Coggeshall,  in 
Essex,  of  a  very  considerable  estate,  would  gladly  have 
maintained  him  and  his  family,  if  he  would  have  staid 
at  home,  but  seeing  his  mind  bent  on  the  New  England 
voyage,  he  durst  not  oppose  il.  He  was  b}-  no  means 
fitted  to  encounter  the  hardships  of  the  journey,  but 
with  his  wife  and  young  family  foregoing  all  worldly 
advantages,  embarked  and  sailed  from  Gravesend,  for 
Boston ;  his  convictions  and  resolutions  sustaining  him 
through  a  most  tedious  passage,  without  any  disaster, 
for  although  nine  or  fen  weeks  was  the  ordinary 
length  of  the  trip  in  those  times,  they  were  tu'enty- 
foiir  7i'eeks  upon  the  water:  the  winds  continuing  so 
contrary  after  reaching  the  Banks  of  New  Foundland, 
that  they  held  a  consultation  on  returning  to  Old  Eng- 
land;  but  appointing  a  day  of  fasting  and  prayer,  the 
weather  soon  after  cleared  up,  and  the  wind  hauling 
fair,  they  arrived  all  in  good  health,  in  November, 
1636,  after  having  been  on  allowance  of  half  a  pint  of 
water  a  man,  and  short  of  all  other  provision. 


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"Mr.  Rogers  was  discouraged  on  his  arrival,  to  find 
tlie  Colony  thrown  into  a  great  state  of  excitement 
by  the  Familistical  opinions,  which  had  occasioned  so 
much  disturbance  as  to  engage  all  persons  on  one  side 
or  other  of  the  controversy,  all  the  country  over;  but 
it  was  settled  peaceably  by  a  Synod,  convened  at  Cam- 
bridge the  next  year,  whereat  with  Rev.  Mr.  Part- 
ridge of  Duxbury  (who  came  over  in  the  same  ship), 
he  contributed  largely  by  judicious  discourses  and 
collations. 

"The  first  invitation  extended  him,  was  to  settle  at 
Dorchester,  Massachusetts,  near  where  part  of  the 
good  men  who  came  with  him,  among  whom  were 
some  of  his  father's  parishioners,  remained,  and  from 
the  name  of  their  native  town  in  Old  England,  called 
the  place  Dedham.  With  the  rest,  who  could  not  all 
here  be  conveniently  accommodated,  he  settled  at 
Ipswich,  Mass.,  having  been  invited  to  take  the  place 
of  Rev.  Nathaniel  Ward  (well  known  as  author  of  the 
'CobI)ler  of  Agawam")  about  being  released  from  his 
engagement  on  account  of  his  health,  'in  whose  stead 
the  Church  called  to  office  this  holy  man  of  God,  whose 
labours  in  this  Western  world  have  been  very  great, 
a  very  sweet  heavenly  minded  man,'  of  whom  John- 
son   in    his    "Wonder-working:    Providence"    further 


'Through  boystrous  Seas  thy  brittle  frame  of  Man 

It  safely  is  in  Christ's  sweet  armes  infold, 
No  wonder  then  thou  weak  dust  stotely  can. 

Preach     Christs    in's    truths    why    he    dotli  thee 
uphold  ? 
Why  Rogers  he  thee  over  Sea  hath  fett 

Against  the  day  of  Battell,  now  at  hand. 
No  sooner  are  thy  feet  one  those  shores  set 

But  leaders  do  Christ  truth  withstand. 
Undaunted  thou  these  Westerne  Fields  dost  enter, 

Filld  with  the  spirits  ready  sword  at  hand, 
Ingage  thou  wilt  thy  selfe.  'mongst  Iiardsliips  venter; 


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\'aliant  thou  foughts  under  thy  Christ's  command. 
And  yet  with  all  men  wouldst  have  peace  thy  aime, 

If  deepe  to  wound,  and  sweetly  then  to  say, 
Come  to  my  Christ,  hee'l  heale  your  wounds  againe ; 

Canst  but  submit  hee'l  never  say  thee  nay. 
\Mth  learned  Method  thou  Gods  word  divides; 

Long  labouring  that  each  soule  may  take  his  part. 
Thy  gratious  speech  with  grave  impression  bides; 

Thus  Christ  by  thee  is  pleas'd  to  win  the  heart. 
;My  JIuse  lament.  Nathaniel  is  decaying : 

Why  dost  thou  grutch  him  Heaven,   such  toile 
hath  had, 
In  Christ  his  Vineyard  rather  be  thou  praying; 

That  in  Christ's  annes  he  resting  may  be  glad.' 

•"On  the  20th  of  February,  1638,  Mr.  \\'ard  having 
laid  down  his  pastoral  charge,  ^Ir.  Rogers  and  the 
celebrated  Mr.  John  Norton  (afterward  of  Boston), 
were  ordained,  the  one  Pastor,  and  the  other  Teacher 
of  the  Church  at  Ipswich.  At  his  ordination  he 
preached  from  the  2d.  Cor.  2.16:  'Who  is  sufficient 
for  these  things?'  A  sermon  so  copious,  judicious, 
accurate,  and  elegant,  that  it  stnick  his  hearers  with 
admiration. 

"Here  was  a  renowned  Church  consisting  mostly  of 
such  enlightened  Christians  that  their  pastors  in  the 
exercise  of  their  ministn*^  might  say.  'Snitire  se  non 
tarn  Discipulos  Iwbere  qitam  Judices.' 

"It  was  deemed  a  pity  that  the  public  should  not 
enjoy  some  of  his  discourses,  but  his  physician  ad- 
vised that  if  he  went  on  transcribing,  his  disposition  to 
accuracy  would  so  deeply  engage  him  as  to  endanger 
his  health.  Wherefore  he  left  few  monuments  of  his 
ministry  but  in  the  hearts  of  his  people.  'He  had 
eminent  learning,  singular  piety,  and  holy  zeal,  and  his 
auditor}'  were  his  Epistle  seen  and  read  of  all  that 
knew  them.'  As  the  graces  of  a  Christian  so  the  gifts 
of  a  minister  in  him  were  beyond  the  ordinary  attain- 
ments of  good  men.     'I  shall  do  a  wrong  unto  his 


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name,'  says  the  learned  Rev.  Dr.  Cotton  Mather,  'if 
I  do  not  freely  say  that  he  wfl J  one  of  the  greatest  men 
tliat  ever  set  foot  on  the  American  strand.  I  may, 
without  injury  or  odium,  venture  to  compare  him  with 
the  very  best  of  the  true  ministers  which  made  the  best 
days  of  New  England,  and  say  he  caine  little  if  any 
behind  the  very  chiefest  of  them  all.' 

"He  was  subject,  among  other  infirmities,  to  hypo- 
condraism,  wherewith  when  first  surprised,  he  thought 
himself  dying,  but  a  physician  of  long  experience  con- 
vinced him  that  it  was  a  chronical  distemper;  while 
under  this  early  depression,  the  famous  minister,  John 
Cotton,  in  a  letter  dated  March  9th.  1631.  thus  en- 
couraging him,  wrote, 

"  'I  bless  the  Lord  with  you  who  supporteth  your 
feeble  body,  to  do  him  service,  and  meanwhile  per- 
fecteth  the  power  of  his  grace  in  your  weakness.  You 
know  who  said  it,  unmortified  strength  posteth  hard 
to  hell,  but  sanctified  weakness  creepeth  fast  to  heaven. 
Let  not  your  spirit  faint  though  your  body  do.  Your 
soul  is  precious  in  God's  sight;  your  hairs  are  num- 
bered, and  tlie  number  and  measure  of  your  fainting 
fits  and  wearisome  nights  are  weighed  and  limited  by 
his  hand,  who  hath  given  you  his  Lord  Jesus  Christ 
to  take  upon  him  your  infirmities  and  heal  your  sick- 
ness.' 

"In  1655,  an  epidemic  cough  prevailed  among  most 
of  the  families  in  the  plantation  of  New  England, 
which  proved  fatal  to  Mr.  Rogers,  though  no  appre- 
hensions were  entertained  for  his  life  until  the  last 
morning.  During  his  sickness  he  was  full  of  pleas- 
ant conversation,  and  one  of  his  last  acts  was  to  bless 
the  three  children  of  his  only  daughter  Margaret 
(wife  of  Rev.  Wm.  Hubbard)  who  had  been  par- 
ticularly dutiful  unto  him.  He  expired  on  the  after- 
noon of  July  3d,  of  this  year,  aged  57.  His  last  words 
were,  'My  times  are  in  thy  hands;'  tiius  departed  one 
of  the  earlv  Fathers  of  New  England. 


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■''He  was  known  to  have  kept  a  Diary,  but  with 
much  resen-ation,  which  two  friends,  at  his  request. 
threw  into  the  fire,  where  it  was  entirely  consumed. 
The  loss  of  these  rich  papers  is  to  be  lamented,  con- 
taining probably  much  matter  relating  to  early  colonial 
histor}-;  undoubtedly  they  not  only  would  have  served 
to  gratify  curiosity,  but  informed  and  edified. 

"His  only  publication  was  a  letter  written  from 
New  England  to  an  Hon.  member  of  the  House  of 
Commons  at  Westminster,  in  1643,  '"  which  he 
pathetically  urges  'that  the  Parliament  would  confess 
the  guilt  of  neglecting,  yea,  of  rejecting  motions  of 
reformation  in  former  parliaments,  and  proceed  now 
more  fully  to  answer  the  just  expectations  of  heaven.' 
In  it  were  also  a  few  lines  of  merited  censure  against 
the  dishonorable  aspersions  on  the  King  by  'Mercurius 
Brittanicus.' 

"This  letter  was  printed  under  authority  of  Parlia- 
ment, being  licensed  by  Calamy.  one  of  the  great 
Westminister  Divines :  the  newspapers  affected  to  con- 
sider it  part  of  an  Oxford  or  Royal  Plot  and  insinuated 
that  the  king  had  agents  in  New  England,  such  is  the 
reception  of  truth  and  decency  during  a  civil  war; 
'perhaps  the  author  of  the  Magnalia  thought  it  un- 
worthy of  the  amiable  Pilgrim  to  record  with  honor 
this  gentle  remonstrance  in  favour  of  his  sovereign.' 

"He  left  al.so  a  manuscript  (written  in  a  neat  Latin 
style,  of  which  he  was  a  complete  master)  entitled  'A 
Vindication  of  tlie  Congregational  Clnuxh  Govern- 
ment. ' 

"A  nuncupative  Will  of  Mr.  Rogers  was  proved 
Sept.  26,  1655,  at  the  Probate  in  Essex,  by  the  oaths 
of  Mr.  Ezekiel  Cheever  and  Deacon  John  Whipple. 
It  is  in  the  hand-writing  of  Mr.  Cheever  (who  was  the 
first  master  of  the  Grammar  school  at  Ipswich,  and 
afterward  the  distinguished  master  of  the  Latin 
School  at  Boston),  it  is  a  very  neat  specimen  of  the 
chirography  of  the  age.     The  caption  runs  thus — 


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"  'The  last  Will  and  testament  of  Mr.  Nathaniel 
Rogers,  Pastor  of  the  Church  of  Christ,  at  Ipswich, 
as  was  taken  from  his  own  moutli.  July  3d,  Anno 
Dom.,  1655.' 

"A  clause  in  this  Will  indicates  his  just  and  equit- 
able views  in  the  transmission  of  property,  and  that  his 
children  were  all  equal  in  his  affections,  moreover  his 
disapprobation  of  the  law  of  primogeniture. 

"  To  my  son  John,  (who  was  eldest )  to  prevent  ex- 
pectation of  a  double  portion,  I  have  not  so  bequeath- 
ed ;  he  hath  never  been  by  any  labor  serviceable  to  his 
brethren,  but  hath  been  upheld  by  their  labor  and  pain 
while  he  hath  been  determining  his  way  (/.  e.  re- 
ceiving a  College  education)  therefore,  I  give  and  be- 
queath to  him  an  equal  portion  with  his  other  brethren, 
viz..  ye  sume  of  one  hundred  pounds  of  my  estate  in 
New 'England,'  &c.  He  makes  like  bequests  to  his 
other  sons.  Nath'l.  Sanri.  and  Timothy,  but  to  his  son 
Ezekiel.  'twenty  pound  which  he  shall  have  liberty  to 
take  in  my  books  if  he  please,'  (his  estate  having  al- 
ready been  at  the  charge  of  giving  him  also  a  College 
education,  and  was  probably  in  expectation  of  more 
from  his  kinsman.  Rev.  Ezekiel  Rogers  of  Rowley, 
Mass.,  for  whom  he  was  named.)"     (V.  Register.) 

An  abstract  of  the  Metropolitan  Visitation  of  the 
Most  Revd.  Father  in  God,  William,  by  God's  Provi- 
dence Lord  Archbishop  of  Canterbuiy.  his  Grace, 
holden  in  the  year  of  our  Lord  1635  (Reix)rt  made  by 
Sir  Nathaniel  Brent.  Vicar  general  to  Archbishop 
Laud)  Printed  in  the  Calendar  of  State  Pai^ers  (Do- 
mestic) 1635.  page  xxxiii.  (Dom.  Car.  L.  Vol. 
CCXCIIL,  No.  128):  "St.  Edmund's  Bury,  April 
27,  28,  29—  One  Mr.  Nathaniel  Rogers.  ^linister  of 
Assington  is  an  absolute  inconfonuitan.  I  am  told 
he  hath  resigned  his  benefice,  proposing  to  go  to  New 
England.  However,  I  have  suspended  him  dc  facto, 
though,  if  he  have  resigned,  the  suspension  will  be 
but  hrittum  fuhncnr  (F.  B.  Troup.  44  N.  E.  H.  & 
G.  Register.  400.  ) 


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Nathaniel^  Rogers  arrived  in  New  England  17 
Nov.,  1636,  says  Winthrop.  Concerning  his  voyage 
the  following,  quoted  by  Waters,  is  from  a  letter  of 
Brampton  Gurdon  to  John  Winthrop  dated  Assing- 
ton,  30  Aug.,   1636: 

"It  hath  fallen  out  very  hard  with  the  ship  wherein 
Mr.  Nathaniel  Rogers  embarked  himself,  his  wife  who 
looks  for  [another  child]  at  the  end  of  September, 
four  children,  and  three  other  poor  females  out  of 
this  town;  one  is  Robinson  that  lived  in  Little  Wald- 
ingfield  with  his  wife  and  six  children.  They  went 
aboard  at  Gravesend  the  first  of  June  and  have  ever 
since  been  hovering  to  the  Isle  of  Wight;  and  this  day 
Mrs.  Crane,  their  sister,  and  ]\Irs.  Rogers  mother-in- 
law,  told  me  her  husband  had  a  letter  from  tliem 
from  Plymouth,  writ  on  Saturday  se'nnight. 

"This  will  fall  exceedingly  heavy  to  divers  in  the 
ship  who  had  made  some  provision  for  their  liveli- 
hood in  New  England.  They  will  be  inforced  to 
spend  it  before  they  go,  and  all  for  want  of  a  constant 
East  wind.  They  have  had  the  wind  for  a  day  or  two 
and  then  brought  back  again.  They  have  had  divers 
fervent  prayers  to  give  them  a  good  wind,  but  the  time 
has  not  yet  come  for  God  to  have  the  prayers  of  it." 

Rev.  Nathaniel*  Rogers's  wife  was  Margaret 
(daughter  of  Robert  and  Mary  (Sparhawk)  Crane) 
who  was  born  about  1610  and  came  to  New  England 
with  her  husband.  She  died  at  Ipswich  in  Massachu- 
setts 23  Jan.,  1675-6.  Administration  was  granted  to 
her  eldest  son  John"  Rogers  (see)  30  Man,  1676. 
and  to  her  principal  creditor,  William  Hubbard  in 
England  21  Mar.,  1677.  (See  H.  F.  Waters's  article 
on  the  Rogers  family.  Register,  Apr.,  1887.) 

The  children  of  Rev.  Nathaniel*  and  Margaret^ 
(Crane)  Rogers  were: 

I.  Mary°  Rogers,  baptised  in  Coggeshall. 
England,  Feb.,  1628;  married  Rev.  William 
Hubbard,  of  Ipswich,  and  was  living  in  1685; 


'.    JOHN!   ROGERS 
<>i..n  <.f  Mr~.   Elizabeth    Roger; 
pases  342.  3.S3,  394) 


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II.  John'  Rogers,  born  in  Coggeshall,  23 
Jan.  1630;  became  President  of  Han'ard  Col- 
lege. (A  sketch  of  his  life  compiled  from  the 
original  sources  will  appear  in  the  next  num- 
ber of  this  History)  ; 

III.  Nathaniel^  Rogers,  born  in  Assington, 
England,  30  Sept.,  1632;  died  in  Ipswich, 
Mass.,  14  June,  1680; 

IV.  SamueP  Rogers,  born  in  Assington, 
16  Jan.,  1634-5;  died  in  Ipswich,  Mass.,  21 
Dec,  1693.  He  married  Judith,  daughter  of 
Samuel  Appleton  (see     ); 

V.  EzekieP  Rogers,  fourth  son,  died  in 
New  England,  5  July,  1674;  married  Mar- 
garet, sister  of  Rev.  William  Hubbard; 

VI.  Timothy'*  Rogers,  born  in  Ipswich,  9 
Nov.,  1638. 


THE  ROGERS  FAMILY. 

Alt  Extmordiuary  Group  of  Colonial  Ministers 

The  following  pedigree  gives  only  an  outline  of  this 
family,  many  members  of  which,  distinguished  in  other 
than  ministerial  lines,  are  not  here  mentioned.  Those 
of  whom  biographical  sketches  are  appearing  in  this 
History  are  printed  in  capitals. 

Fiisf  Generation. 

(1)  JOHN'  ROGERS,  the  younger,  of  Chelms- 
ford. Essex,  England,  had: 

Second  Generation. 

(2)  J0HN2  ROGERS,  bp.  1538,  and  (3)  Rev. 
Richard-,  bp.  1551. 


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Third  Generation. 

(2)  John^  Rogers  had  (4)  Rev.  JOHN^  ROGERS 
of  Dedham,  England  (see  portraits).  (3)  Rev.  Rich- 
ard^  had  (5)  Rev.  DanieP,  of  Wethersfield,  bom  1573, 
and  (6)  Rev.  EzekieP,  of  Rowley,  Mass.  (A.  B.  Cam- 
bridge, 1604). 

Poiirtli  Generation. 

(4)  Rev.  John-'  had  (7)  Rev.  NATHANIEL*, 
of  Ipswich  (born  1598);  matriculated  at  Emmanuel 
College.  (5)  Rev.  DanieP  had  (8)  Rev.  Daniel*,  of 
Wolton,  Northamptonshire,  England  (and  (9)  Rev. 
Samuel*,  of  London   (?)  ). 

Fifth   Generation. 

(7)  Rev.  Nathaniel*  Rogers  had  (10)  Rev.  and  Dr. 
JOHN^  ROGERS,  graduated  at  Harvard  College 
1649,  afterwards  President  of  Harvard  College.  (8) 
Rev.  Daniel*  had  (11)  Rev.  Richard^  Rogers  of 
Clopton,  England. 

Sixtli   Geihvation. 

(10)  Rev.  John"  Rogers  had  (12)  Rev.  John'' 
Rogers,  graduated  at  Harvard,  1684  (see  portrait), 
pastor  at  Ipswich,  Mass.,  sixty  years;  (13)  Rev. 
Nathaniel"  Rogers,  of  Portsmouth,  graduated  at  Har- 
vard, 1687:  (14)  Dr.  DANIEL"  ROGERS,  gradu- 
ated at  Harvard,  1686. 

Se7'e)itli  Generation. 

(12)  Rev.  John"  Rogers  had  (15)  Rev.  John" 
Rogers,  for  fifty-seven  years  pastor  at  Eliot,  Maine, 
graduated  at  Han'ard,  171 1;  (16)  Rev.  Nathaniel 
Rogers,  graduated  at  Harvard,  1721 ;  pastor  at  Ips- 
wich forty-seven  years;  married  Mary,  daughter  of 
President  Leverett,  of  Harvard;  (17)  Rev.  Daniel" 
Rogers  of  Exeter,  N.  H.,  companion  of  Whitefield ; 
graduated  at  Harvard,  1725;  (18)  Dr.  Samuel" 
Rogers,    graduated    at    Har\'ard,    1725.      (13)    Rev. 


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Nathaniel''  Rogers  had  (19)  Dr.  NathanieF  Rogers, 
graduated  at  Har\ard,  1717;  George'  Rogers,  portrait 
by  Copley  (see  V.  Reg.,  325),  Mary"  Rogers,  who 
married  Hon.  Matthew  Livermore,  of  Portsmouth, 
X.  H.  (14)  Dr.  Daniel"  Rogers  had  (20)  Rev.  Dan- 
iel" Rogers,  who  graduated  at  Harvard,  1725,  and 
Patience"  Rogers,  who  married  Capt.  Joshua^  Free- 
man, Sr.,  of  Portland,  Me.  (.';ee  p.  283). 

Eiyhth  Generation. 

(15)  Rev.  John'  Rogers,  of  Eliot,  had  (21)  Rev. 
John*  Rogers,  of  Gloucester,  graduated  at  Harvard, 
1739.  (16)  Rev.  Nathaniel'  Rogers,  of  Ipswich,  had 
(22)  NathanieP  Rogers,  graduated  at  Harvard,  1782. 


CRAXE-SPARHAWK. 

(Sec  Chart  on  p.  3j6.) 

Rev.  Nathaniel*  Rogers  married  Margaret  Crane, 
who  was  born  about  1610,  and  came  with  her  husband 
and  children  to  New  England,  as  described  on  p.  392. 
She  was  one  of  the  daughters  of  Robert  Crane,  of 

Great  Coggeshall,  in  Essex.     His  father  was * 

Crane.  Mr.  Waters  suggests  the  possibility  of  his  be- 
ing the  Samuel  Crane  of  Great  Coggeshall,  Gent., 
whose  will,  dated  X^ov.,  1609,  is  mentioned  in  Mor- 
ant's  History  of  Essex,  H.  164  (Chelmsford  reprint, 
1816).  In  any  event,  from  a  comparison  of  the  wills 
of  his  offspring  it  is  evident  that  his  children  com- 
prised : 

I.  Thomas^   Crane,   who   married   and   had 
five  daughters  living  in  1658; 

II.  John-   Crane,   who  married   and   had  a 
son  John* ; 


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III.  Joan-  Crane,  who  married  a  Foulsham 
and  had  five  daughters  and  a  son  Robert. 

IV.  Robert^  Crane,  of  Great  Coggeshall. 

Robert'  Crane,  who  was  a  grocer  and  a  man  of  con- 
siderable means,  Hved  and  died  at  Great  Coggesliall  in 
Essex,  England.  He  was  a  member  of  the  "Gov- 
ernor and  Company"  of  the  New  Colony  to  be  planted 
at  Massachusetts  Bay  and  often  appears  in  the  rec- 
ords (Mather's  Magnalia,  Hutchinson's  Massachu- 
setts, etc.,  cited  V.  Register,  137).  From  his  will  we 
learn  that  he  owned  lands  in  Stocke  Street;  lands  in 
Great  Coggeshall ;  lands  in  West  Mersey,  Essex ;  lands 
in  Church  Street  and  other  real  estate.  He  speaks  of 
his  sliop  and  warehouses  and  of  lands  and  tenements 
of  his  in  Lowhard.  His  will  was  proved  18  Mar., 
1658.  He  mentions  most  of  his  children  and  many 
other  relatives.  He  left  four  hundred  pounds  to  his 
"daughter  Rogers,  wife  of  Nathaniel  Rogers,  now  of 
New  England" ;  and  fifty  pounds  apiece  to  his  grand- 
sons Samuel,  Nathaniel.  Ezekiel,  Timothy  and  John 
Rogers,  "they  to  accept  of  a  bond  of  four  hundred 
pounds  made  to  me  from  Mr.  Joshua  Foote,  now  or 
late  of  New  England,  on  which  there  is  now  due  for 
principal  one  hundred  and  fifty  pounds  besides  use." 

In  regard  to  this  bond,  we  learn  tliat  it  was  secured 
by  a  conveyance  by  Foote  of  his  dwelling  house  in 
Roxbury,  24  Oct.,  1653.  In  1655  Nathaniel  Rogers 
for  himself  and  four  brotliers  entered  upon  and  took 
possession  of  the  property.  (II.  Suffolk  Deeds,  210), 
Register,  1887,  234-6. 

Robert*  Crane  was  twice  married.  His  wives  were 
Mary,  daughter  of  Samuel  Sparhawk.  Esq.,  of  Ded- 
ham,  Essex  (the  mother  of  the  Margaret''  Crane,  who 
married  Rev.  Nathaniel^  Rogers);  and  Margaret,  the 
daughter  of  Robert  Maidstone,  of  Broxted  Hall,  in 
Essex,  who  was  the  widow  of  Walter  Clopton,  by 
whom  she  had  had  a  son  William. 

The  children  of  Robert*  Crane: 


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I.  Samuel'  Crane,  will  probated  1670; 

II.  Thomas*  Crane,  will  probated  1655,  had 
son  Roberf*  Crane,  whose  will  was  probated 
1669; 

III.  Robert''  Crane,  of  whom  we  only  know 
that  his  second  wife's  name  was  Daynes ; 

IV.  Mary'  Crane,  who  married  Henry 
Whiting,  of  Ipswich,  Mass. ; 

V.  Margaret'  Crane,  who  married  Rev. 
Nathaniel^  Rogers  (see  p.  392) ; 

VI.  Elizabeth'  Crane,  who  married  William 
Chaplin. 


ELDER  WIT-LIAM'  BREWSTER. 
(See  Chart,  page  276.) 

Elder  William'  Brewster.  "Early  Generations  of 
the  Brewster  Family,"  by  Mrs.  Lucy  Hall  Greenlaw, 
of  Boston,  Mass.,  in  the  He'd!  England  Historical  and 
Genealogical  Register,  LIIL,  109-10,  contains  the  fol- 
lowing summarj'  of  what  is  now  known  of  the  princi- 
pal events  in  the  life  of  Elder  William  Brewster: 

"Elder  William  Brewster  *  *  *  was  born  during 
the  last  half  of  the  year  1566  or  the  first  half  of  1567. 
The  date  of  his  birth  is  determined  by  an  affidavit 
made  at  Leyden,  June  25,  1609,  in  which  he,  his  wife, 
Marv,  and  son,  Jonathan,  declare  their  ages,  to  be  re- 
spectively 42.  40  and  16  years.  (.V.  E.  Register, 
XVIII..  18-20.)  Bradford  says  that  he  was  'nere 
fourskore  years  of  age  (if  not  all  out  )when  he  dyed.' 
This  statement  agrees  with  the  affidavit.  The  place 
of  his  birth  is  not  known,  but  is  supposed  to  have  been 
Scrooby  in  Nottinghamshire,  England. 

"His  fatlier,  William  Brewster,  was  appointed  by 
Archbishop  Sandys,  in  Januar}%  1575-76,  receiver  of 
Scroobv  and  bailiff  of  the  manor  house  in  that  place 


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belonging  to  the  Archbishop  (see  picture  opp.  p.  ), 
to  have  Hfe  tenure  of  both  offices.  The  parish  regis- 
ters of  Scrooby  do  not  begin  until  1695,  and  no  record 
of  Brewster's  birtli,  baptism,  or  marriage  was  dis- 
covered by  Williatn  Paver,  a  distinguished  local  an- 
tiquan',  who  held  a  commission  for  nearly  a  quarter 
of  a  century  to  report  all  items  that  he  found  relating 
to  the  Pilgrims. 

"William  Brewster  matriculated  at  Peterhouse, 
Cambridge,  December  3,  1580,  but  it  does  not  appear 
that  he  remained  there  long  enough  to  take  his  degree. 
(Brown's  Pilgrim  Fathers  of  New  England,  55.) 

"He  is  next  found  as  a  'discreete  and  faithfull'  as- 
sistant of  Williain  Davison,  Secretary  of  State  to 
Queen  Elizabeth,  accompanying  that  gentlemen  on  his 
embassy  to  the  Netherlands  in  August,  1585,  and  serv- 
ing him  at  court  after  his  return,  until  his  downfall  in 
1587.  After  the  retirement  of  Davison,  Brewster,  re- 
turned to  Scrooby,  where  he  lived  'in  good  esteeme 
amongst  his  friends,  and  ye  gentlemen  of  those  parts 
especially  the  godly  &  religious,'  doing  much  good  'in 
promoting  and  furthering  Religion.'  In  1590  he  was 
appointed  administrator  of  the  estate  of  his  father, 
who  died  in  the  summer  of  that  year,  leaving  a  widow. 
Prudence."  "His  father's  name  was  William  and  his 
mother's  Prudence,  and  no  other  child  of  theirs  was 
living  in  1590.  His  father  appears  to  have  lived  in 
Scrooby  when  this  son  was  about  five,  for  a  William 
Brewster  was  assessed  to  the  subsidy  of  1571,  in  the 
township  of  Scrooby-cum-Ranskill,  on  goods  valued 
at  three  pounds.  Four  or  five  years  later,  *  *  * 
this  William  Brewster,  Sr.,  became  the  Archbishop  of 
York's  receiver  and  bailiff,  which  evidently  involved 
residence  in  the  manor  hause.  We  lack  proof  of  his 
origin,  and  the  search  is  especially  difficult  because  it 
runs  back  of  existing  parish  registers.  Clearly  there 
was  in  the  neighborhood  a  family  of  his  name,  and  of 
a  station  making  his  connection  with  it  not  improb- 
able."—(The  England  and  Holland  of  the  Pilgrims, 


SCROOBV   MAN'OR-HOrSE   AS   IT  IS  TO-DAV 

Dexter's  Pilgrims  in    Ihhir   Three   Homes,   iHoushton,  Miffli 


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253-4)  His  father  was  'Post'  at  Scrooby  at  the  time 
of  his  death,  and  it  is  said  that  the  Elder's  grand- 
father held  the  the  same  office.  ( Arber's  Storj-  of  the 
Pilgrim  Fathers,  50;  Brown's  Pilgrim  Fathers  of 
X.  E.,  54.)  Sir  John  Stanhope,  who  became  Post- 
master General  in  June,  1590,  appointed  one  Samuel 
Bevercotes  to  succeed  the  deceased  Brewster. 
Througli  the  influence  of  Davison,  however,  the  old 
postmaster's  son.  William  was  soon  appointed  to  the 
office,  which  he  held  until  September  30,  1607  (O.  S.). 
The  office  was  then  a  court  appointment.  Brewster 
was  styled  the  "Post"  of  Scrooby,  and  was  master  of 
the  court  mails.  The  mails  were  then  only  accessible 
to  those  connected  with  the  court.  Not  until  1644 
were  they  thrown  open  to  the  public.  See  Goodwin's 
Pilgrim  Republic.  17.  and  Steele's  Life  of  Brewster, 
"5-6. 

"Sometime  in  or.  possibly,  before  1588.  William 
Brewster,  Sr.,  the  archbishop's  legal  representative  at 
the  manor  house,  was  appointed  to  the  additional  office 
of  ix)stmaster  under  the  Crown.  *  *  *  When 
Brewster,  the  father,  died,  in  1590,  his  son  took  his 
place  as  post.  Such  a  postmaster,  however,  was  not 
what  the  name  now  suggests.  Letters  then  sent  by 
post  usually,  if  not  always,  were  government  missions, 
passed  from  messenger  to  messenger  at  each  station ; 
personal  correspondence,  so  far  as  it  existed,  being 
left  to  go  In-  private  hand."  (The  England  and  Hol- 
land of  the  Pilgrims.  237.  320.)  His  residence  at 
Scrooby  was  the  old  manor  house.  (Hunter's  Found- 
ers of  New  Plymouth.  1854.  17-18:  Raines'  History 
of  the  Parish  of  Blyth.  129-30.)  In  this  house  the 
members  of  the  Pilgrim  Churcli  were  accustomed  to 
meet  on  the  Lord's  day.  where  Brewster  'with  great 
love  entertained  tliem  when  they  came,  making  pro- 
uission  for  them  to  his  great  charge.' 

"The  Pilgrims,  attempting  to  remove  to  Holland  in 
the  latter  part  of  1607,  were  imprisoned  at  Boston 
through  the  treachery  of  the  master  of  the  ship  that 


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was  engaged  to  transport  them.  Bradford  says  that 
Brewster  'was  ye  cheefe  of  those  that  were  taken  at 
Boston,  and  suffered  ye  greatest  loss;  and  of  ye  seven 
that  were  kept  longst  in  prison,  and  after  bound  over 
to  ye  assises.'  Tiirough  Bradford,  also,  we  learn  that 
Brewster,  after  he  reached  Holland,  suffered  many 
hardships  and  spent  most  of  his  means  in  providing 
for  his  'many  children.'  He  was  not  so  well  fitted 
as  the  other  Pilgrims  for  the  hard  labor  which  became 
tlieir  common  lot,  yet  he  bore  his  condition  cheerfully. 
During  the  latter  part  of  the  twelve  years  spent  in 
Holland,  he  increased  his  income  very  much  by  teach- 
ing and  by  the  profits  from  a  printing  press  which  he 
by  tlie  help  of  some  friends,  set  up  at  Leyden.  At  the 
end  of  tliat  time,  'for  sundrie  weightie  and  solid  rea- 
sons,' whicli  are  duly  set  fortli  in  Bradford's  History, 
among  which  '(and  which  was  not  least)'  was  a  tme 
missionary  spirit,  the  Church  at  Leyden  resolved  to 
emigrate  to  Virginia.  Brewster,  the  Elder  of  the 
Church,  who  had  been  chosen  to  that  office  during  the 
Pilgrim's  stay  at  Leyden,  was  'desired'  by  those 
chosen  to  go  first,  'to  goe  with  tliem,'  wliile  John 
Robinson,  tlie  pastor,  stayed  witii  tiie  majority,  who 
should  follow  later.  Thus  it  happened  that  we  find 
Elder  Brewster,  his  wife,  Mary,  and  two  young  sons 
among  the  passengers  of  that  now  famous  vessel,  the 
Mayflower,  which  dropped  anchor  in  Plymouth  har- 
bor, December  i6,  1620  (O.  S. ).  At  Plymouth, 
Brewster  bore  an  important  part  in  establishing  the 
Pilgrim  Republic,  not  shrinking  from  even  the  severest 
manual  labor,  and  'when  the  church  had  no  other 
minister,  he  taught  twise  every  Saboth.  and  ye  both 
powerfully  and  profitably,  to  ye  great  contentment  of 
ye  hearers.' 

"His  wife,  Mary,  whose  maiden  name  has  not  been 
discovered,  'dyed  at  Plymouth  in  New  England,  the 
17th  of  April,  1627'  (Brewster  Book).  Bradford 
says  that,  though  she  died  'long  before'  her  husband, 
'yet  she  dyed  aged,'  but  by  her  affidavit  of  1609  she 


BKEWb  I  l.k    1  Ai;i,l,  1 


i\.    KM, LAND. 


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was  less  than  sixty  years  of  age  and  it  is  probable  that 
her  'great  &  continuall  labours,  with  others  crosses, 
and  sorrows  hastened  it  (j.  e.,  old  age)  before  ye 
time.'  Elder  Brewster  sur\ived  his  wife  many  years 
and  'dyed  at  Plymouth  in  New  England  the  lOth  of 
Aprill,  1644'  (Brewster  Book).  'August  20,  1645,  a 
final  division  of  the  Elder's  estate  was  made  by  Brad- 
ford, Winslow,  Prence,  and  Standish,  between  Jona- 
than and  Love  his  onely  children  remayneing.'  " 
Children  of  Elder  William  Brewster: 

I.  Jonathan-  Brewster  was  '"borne  at  Scroby 
in  Nottinghamshyre,  the  12th  of  August,  1593, 
yeaer"  (Brewster  Book),  and  he  "was  the  first 
borne  of  his  father"  (Plymouth  Colony  Rec, 
XII.  116). 

II.  Patience-  Brewster,  married  Thomas 
Prence  (see  p.  289). 

III.  Fear-  Brewster,  married  Isaac  AUerton 
of  the  Mayflower. 

IV.  "A  child^  died  at  Leydcn  and  was  buried 
in  St.  Pancras,  June  20,  1609  (Reg.  Over. 
Pers.,  iii.  8,  vers.).  Any  minor  unmarried 
cliild  was  so  described"  (The  England  and 
Holland  of  the  Pilgrims,  505). 

V.  Love-  Brewster,  came  in  the  Mayflower 
with  his  parents,  and  married  Sarah,  daughter 
of  William  Collier. 

VI.  Wrestling^  Brewster  came  in  the  May- 
flower, 1620,  with  his  parents  and  brother. 
Love.  He  was  living  at  the  time  of  the  divi- 
sion of  cattle  May  22,  1627  (O.  S.),  but  died 
before  the  settlement  of  his  father's  estate. 
(See  The  Division  of  Cattle  and  Elder  Brew- 
ster's Inventory,  etc.)  Governor  Bradford 
savs  he  "dved  a  yonge  man  unmarried." 


William  Bren'Ster's    Trite  Position   in   Our   Colonial 
History. 

(By  Hon.  Lyman  Denison  Brewster.) 

An  Address  Delivered  Before  the  Massachusetts 
Society  of  Mayflower  Descendants,  13  February, 
1902.  at  Boston. 

The  story  of  the  Mayflower  and  Plymouth  Rock  is 
the  story  of  the  formation  of  a  little  Separatist  or  Con- 
gregational Church  at  Scrooby,  England,  its  escape 
to  Holland,  its  migration  from  thence  to  Plynioutli, 
and  its  establishment  then  as  the  first  embodiment  in 
America  of  freedom  in  the  Church  and  Equality  in  the 
State. 

William  Brewster  cradled  the  church  at  Scrooby, 
in  his  own  home.  He  devoted  his  means  to  the  sup- 
port of  its  ministers  and  the  succor  of  its  members. 
After  suffering  fine  and  imprisonment  and  risking  his 
life  for  this  heresy,  he  helped  the  little  flock  to  Hol- 
land, where  his  duty  as  elder  intrusted  him  especially 
with  the  discipline  and  building  up  of  the  Church  and 
the  preser\'ation  therein  of  soundness  of  doctrine. 
This  duty  he  successfully  perfomied  with  great  gentle- 
ness and  equal  fiminess.  While  in  Leyden  his  arrest 
was  sought  for  publishing  Protestant  books  for  cir- 
culation in  England  and  Scotland. 

He  was  in  every  resjiect  the  co-equal  and  colleague 
with  Robinson  in  all  the  measures  for  preparing  the 
voyage  to  America,  and  shares  with  Carver  and  Cush- 
man  the  honor  of  procuring  the  requisite  London  as- 
sistance. 

That  he  drafted  the  compact  of  November  21.  1620, 
(p.  409)  in  the  cabin  of  the  Mayflower  seems  certain. 
That  he  was  the  moral,  religious  and  spiritual  leader 
of  the  Colony  during  its  first  years  of  peril  and  strug- 
gle and  its  chief  civil  adviser  and  trusted  guide  until 


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the  time  of  his  death  is  quite  certain.  But  for  his 
ecclesiastical  position  he  would  have  been  Governor  of 
the  Colony. 

So  that,  while  it  was  perhaps  unfortunate,  as  a  mat- 
ter of  good  taste,  that  Rev.  Ashbel  Steele  entitled  his 
valuable  biography  "Chief  of  the  Pilgrims,  or  The 
Life  and  Times  of  William  Brewster"— unfortunate, 
since  the  modest  Elder  of  Plymouth  was  the  last  man 
in  the  world  to  institute  comparisons  with  his  brethren, 
it  is  nevertheless  true  as  a  matter  of  history  that  he 
was  indeed  in  the  fullest  sense  "The  Chief  of  the 
Pilgrims."  And  it  is  also  true  that  having  the  rare 
felicity  to  be  both  the  founder  of  the  first  free  Church 
in  America  and  also  the  founder  of  the  first  free 
colony  in  America,  he  was  in  a  sense  in  which  no  other 
man,  not  even  Roger  Williams  can  claim  the  honor — 
the  first  Apostle  of  both  civil  and  religious  liberty  on 
this  continent. 

In  the  light  of  recent  research  he  stands  out  more 
clearlv  than  ever,  the  leading  figure  of  the  Mayflower 
and  of  Plymouth.  In  the  prime  of  his  intellectual 
vigor,  in  the  54th  year  of  his  age,  the  only  reason  why 
the  Elder  was  not  chosen  the  first  Governor  of  the 
Plymouth  Colony,  say  Hutchinson  in  his  History,  was 
that,  "He  was  their  ruling  elder,  which  seems  to  have 
been  the  bar  to  his  being  their  Governor — civil  and 
ecclesiastical  office,  in  the  same  person,  being  then 
deemed  incompatible."  Perhaps  an  equally  cogent 
reason  was  that  an  outlawed  exile  would  liardly  be 
"persona  grata"  to  the  officers  of  the  Crown. 

Some  subsequent  historians  not  realizing  as  Judge 
Baylies  says  "the  power  of  the  church  was  then 
superior  to  the  civil  power,"  or  the  true  reason  of  the 
apparent  but  not  real  subordination  of  the  Elder  to  the 
Governors  (Car\'er  and  Bradford),  have  failed  to  give 
to  the  heroic  elder  the  supremacy  he  deserves  over 
each  and  all,  as  the  heart,  brain  and  soul  of  the  New 
Plymouth  enterprise,  without  whom  it  could  hardly 
have  been  attempted,  with  wliom  it  became  the  most 


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memorable  and  successful  pioneer  colonization  on  the 
American  continent  after  its  discovery  by  Columbus. 

Let  me  mention  some  of  the  admirable  qualities  of 
his  leadership.  Not  intending  in  the  least  to  suggest 
a  word  in  derogation  or  depreciation  of  the  good 
qualities,  nay  the  grand  qualities  of  those  superb  fel- 
low Pilgrims,  Bradford,  Winslow,  Carver  and  Stand- 
ish,  I  will  state  briefly  wliat  lie  was.  and  what  he  ac- 
complished. 

Of  gentle  birth,  educated  at  Cambridge,  a  courtier 
before  he  was  twenty  years  of  age,  in  high  esteem  with 
Her  Majesty's  Secretary  of  State,  treated  by  him  more 
like  a  son  than  a  servant,  soon  a  member  of  the  Eng- 
lish Embassy  to  Holland,  after  loyally  and  faithfully 
serving  his  patron  Davison  who  was  deposed  from 
his  high  position  by  the  perfidy  of  the  Queen,  he,  after 
suffering  years  of  persecution  in  building  up  the  May- 
flower church  at  Scrooby,  left  his  native  land,  his  posi- 
tion and  his  fortune,  to  be  an  exile  in  Holland  and  a 
pilgrim  in  America. 

A  word  on  his  scholarship,  his  statesmanship,  his 
saintliness  and  his  standing  among  the  Founders  of 
States. 

First,  as  to  his  .scholarship  and  ability  as  a  lay 
preacher.  It  was  always  known  that  he  was  a 
trained  scholar  of  the  greatest  of  English  Uni- 
versities, but  it  remained  for  the  late  Dr.  De.xter 
to  show  the  depth  and  breath,  the  fullness  and 
ripeness  of  his  learning  and  wisdom.  Dr.  Dexter 
wrote  to  me  that  he  regarded  him  as  the  ablest  man 
of  the  first  generation  of  New  England  colonists,  and 
no  man  was  better  qualified  to  give  that  judgment. 
While  a  persecuted  refugee  in  Leaden  he  published 
and  in  some  instances  himself  printed  and  edited  both 
popular  and  erudite  theological  treatises  in  Latin  and 
English.  While  living  in  his  log  house  in  Plymouth, 
built  by  his  own  hands,  he  yearly  received  supplies  of 
newly  published  books  in  Latin  and  English,  and  his 
library  was  inventoried  at  his  death  in  1644  ^t  four 
hundred  volumes. 


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Dr.  Dexter  took  the  brief  headings  of  the  inven- 
tory deciphered  by  Mr.  Winsor  and  tracing  out  the 
books  tln-oiigh  the  leading  Hbraries  of  England  and 
Europe,  restored  the  full  titles.  Sixty-two  were  in 
Latin  and  ninety-eight  commentaries  on  or  translations 
of  the  Bible.     Dr.  Dexter  says : 

"It  is  my  strong  impression  that  it  is  very  doubtful 
whether,  for  its  first  quarter-centur>-,  New  England 
anywhere  else  had  so  rich  a  collection  of  exegetical 
literature  as  this." 

With  such  a  scholar  to  explain  the  Scriptures,  which 
was  the  chief  function  of  the  pulpit  in  those  days,  it  is 
no  wonder  that  when  a  minister  who  came  over  in 
1629  was  chosen  to  be  the  Plymouth  pastor,  the  people 
"finding  him  to  be  a  man  of  low  gifts  and  parts,  they, 
as  providence  gave  opportunity,  improved  others  as  his 
assistants."  And  Brewster  worked  with  his  own 
hands  to  build  his  house  in  Plymouth,  and  afterwards 
Duxbury,  and  up  to  the  age  of  nearly  eighty  helped 
to  cultivate  his  own  farm.  And  there  is  nothing  to 
show,  says  one  biographer,  in  the  records  that  he  ever 
asked  for  or  received  any  salary.  But  the  crowning 
glory  of  his  wealth  of  learning  and  knowledge  was 
this.  For  thirty  years  it  was  devoted  constantly, 
utterly  and  superbly  to  the  people  with  whom  he  had 
cast  his  hazardous  lot.  All  he  could  learn  he  freely 
imparted  to  those  he  taught. 

He  was  a  scholar  and  preacher  from  the  people, 
with  the  people,  for  the  people  and  to  the  people,  and 
in  their  close  companionship  of  toil  and  danger  the 
people  did  indeed  hear  him  gladly.  Of  this  place  of 
worship  and  order  of  assembling  De  Rasiere,  a  wise 
observer  from  Holland  in  1627  gives  this  often  repeat- 
ed but  always  interesting  sketch. 

He  says,  "Upon  the  hill  they  had  a  large  square 
house,  with  a  flat  roof,  made  of  tliick  sawn  planks, 
stayed  with  oak  beams,  upon  the  top  of  which  they 
have  six  cannons,  which  shoot  iron  balls  of  four  and 
five  pounds,  and  command  the  surrounding  country. 


4o6 


The  lower  part  they  use  for  their  church,  where  the> 
preach  on  Sundays  and  the  usual  holidays.  They  as- 
semble by  beat  of  drum,  each  with  his  musket  or  flint- 
lock, in  front  of  the  captain's  door;  they  have  their 
cloaks  on,  and  place  themselves  in  order,  three  abreast, 
and  are  led  by  a  sergeant  without  beat  of  drum.  Be- 
hind comes  the  Governor,  in  a  long  robe,  beside  him 
on  the  right  hand  comes  the  preacher  with  his  cloak 
on,  and  on  the  left  hand  the  captain  with  his  side- 
arms  and  cloak  on,  and  with  a  small  cane  in  his  hand; 
and  so  they  march  in  good  order,  and  each  sets  his 
arms  down  near  him.  Thus  they  enter  their  place  of 
worship,  constantly  on  their  guard  night  and  day." 

How  much  Governor  Bradford,  the  excellent 
governor  of  the  colony  for  over  tliirty  years,  owed 
not  only  to  the  guidance,  but  to  the  training,  teaching 
and  companionship  of  his  old  neighbor,  comrade  and 
life  long  friend,  his  grateful  words  bear  full  witness. 
He  says  of  Brewster  that  "he  was  foremost  in  our 
adventure  in  England  and  in  Holland  and  here." 
John  Brown  of  Bedford,  calls  him  "The  Great  Heart 
of  their  pilgrimage."  Dr.  Griffis  says  "from  the  first 
Brewster  was  the  soul  of  the  Plymouth  Colony." 

The  devout  Elder  was  regarded  with  the  utmost 
\eneration  and  reverence  in  his  later  years  by  the 
colonists  of  the  eight  towns  into  which  the  little  settle- 
ment of  1620  had  grown.  Hence  I  think  the  popular 
impression  of  the  old  patriarch  pictures  him  with  the 
austere  severity  and  rigid  narrowness  of  an  old  iron- 
sides, rather  than  with  the  "sweetness  and  light"  of 
Hampden  and  Milton.  Nothing  could  be  further 
from  the  truth. 

Humblest  and  gentlest  of  men,  his  flock  almost 
worshipped  him  because  they  loved  him  and  had  rea- 
son to  love  him,  while  that  love  was  returned  in  full 
measure,  and  the  chronicle  says  of  his  death  in  which 
he  "so  sweetly  departed  this  life  unto  a  better":  "We 
did  all  greviously  mourn  liis  loss  as  that  of  a  dear  and 
loving  friend." 


KLUKR   l5RK\VSri:KS  SWOKl) 

AND    SCAB HARD 
At  tlie  Massachusetts  Historical  Socict; 
Rooms,  Boston.      The  gift  o(  Mr. 
S.  Shaw,  Jan.  'M.  179S. 


I.l.DI.K    BRl-WSIERS  CHAIR 
At  I'lkrim  Hall,  I'lvrnonth,  .Massachus. 


THE  BREWSTER  CHEST 
At  the  Connecticut  Historical  Society  Rooms,  Hartford 


407 


Of  his  personal  qualities  Bradford  says:  "He  was 
wise  and  discreet  and  well  spoken,  having  a  grave  and 
deliberate  utterance,  of  a  verj'  cheerful  spirit,  ver>- 
sociable  and  pleasant  amongst  his  friends,  of  an 
humble  and  modest  mind,  of  a  peaceable  disposition, 
under\-aluing  himself  and  his  own  abilities,  and  some- 
times overvaluing  others;  inoffensive  and  innocent  in 
his  life  and  conversation,  which  gained  him  the  love 
of  those  witliout,  as  well  as  those  within.  He  was 
tender-Iiearted  and  compassionate  of  such  as  were  in 
misery,  but  especially  of  such  as  had  been  of  good 
estate  and  rank,  and  were  fallen  unto  want  and 
poverty,  either  for  goodness  and  religion's  sake,  or  by 
the  injury  and  oppression  of  others.  *  *  *  in 
teaching,  he  was  moving  and  stirring  of  affections,  also 
very  plain  and  distinct  in  what  he  taught.  *  *  * 
He  had  a  singular  good  gift  in  prayer,  both  public  and 
private.  *  *  *  He  always  thought  it  were  better 
for  ministers  to  pray  oftener,  and  divide  their  prayers, 
than  be  long  and  tedious  in  the  same." 

"He  taught  twice  every  Sabbath,  and  that  both 
powerfully  and  profitably,  to  the  great  contentment  of 
his  hearers,  and  their  comfortable  edification ;  yea, 
many  were  brouglit  to  God  by  his  ministrie.  He  did 
more  in  this  behalf  in  a  year,  than  many  that  have 
their  hundreds  a  year  do  in  all  their  lives."  Brad- 
ford's whole  eulog}'  of  his  beloved  friend  and  pastor 
is  the  most  pathetic  and  beautiful  passage  in  his  His- 
tor}'  of  New  Plymouth  so  lately  restored  to  the  State 
of  Massachusetts. 

Next  as  a  statesman.  If  the  acorn  is  judged  by  the 
oak  it  produces,  he  had  no  superior  in  that  age  of  great 
statesmen.  How  far  reaching  the  policy  that  fore- 
saw that  the  refugees  must  leave  Holland,  if  they 
would  preserve  their  English  morals  with  tlieir  Eng- 
lish freedom!  How  tersely  in  the  short  Social  Com- 
pact whicli  we  believe  he  penned,  impromptu  appar- 
ently, in  the  cabin  of  the  Mayflower  is  the  whole 
genius  "of  Liberty,  Equality  and  Fraternity"  put  in  a 


4oS 


few  lines!  Well  has  it  been  called  the  "germ  of  all 
our  American  Constitutions  and  Declarations  of 
Right" — "Magna  Charta  reinforced  by  the  spirit  of 
the  Dutch  Commonwealth."  (The  compact  is  set 
forth  on  p.  409.) 

Dr.  Gregory  of  Edinburgh,  in  his  recent  work  on 
Puritanism,  cool  and  judicial  Scotchman  as  he  is, 
sums  up  the  consensus  of  historians  when  he  says, 
"It  is  not  too  much  to  say  that  in  a  very  real  and  pro- 
found sense  the  Mayflower  carried  with  her  the  des- 
tinies of  the  world.  Her  crew  (evidently  the  doctor 
means  her  passengers)  were  not  only  the  pioneers  of 
civil  and  religious  liberty,  they  were  the  heralds  of  a 
faith  which  tested  by  the  heroic  men  it  has  formed 
and  heroic  actions  it  has  produced  may  indeed  chal- 
lenge comparison  with  any  faith  by  which  men  have 
been  moulded  and  inspired.  The  struggle  they  were 
called  upon  to  wage  was  a  struggle  for  liberty  not  only 
in  the  New  World  but  in  the  old,  and  but  for  the 
planting  of  Puritanism  in  New  England  the  victory  of 
Puritanism  in  the  Mother  Country  would  have  been 
short-lived,  and  shorn  of  its  most  characteristic  fea- 
tures and  products."  And  in  spite  of  all  criticism 
Bancroft  states  but  a  fact  when  he  says  that  "in  the 
cabin  of  the  Mayflower  humanity  recovered  its  rights 
and  instituted  government  on  the  basis  of  equal  laws 
for  the  general  good." 

Better  than  all,  he  was  a  saint  in  a  church  where 
saint  worship  was  abolished.  Of  his  own  sincere,  de- 
vout, spiritual,  religious  faith  and  practice  every  day 
of  his  exiled  life  bore  witness.  But  what  especially 
distinguished  him  as  a  religious  leader  in  those  days 
was  his  breadth,  toleration  and  charit}'.  When  that 
sturdy  and  heroic  heretic  Roger  Williams  in  Plymouth 
denounced  the  Mother  Church  in  England  as  Anti- 
Christ,  pronouncing  it  sinful  to  attend  its  worship  or 
to  fellowship  with  it,  t!:e  more  charitable  Leader  of 
the  Pilgrims  refused  to  go  with  him  or  to  hold  to  any 
such  nonsense.        (I.  Brewster  Genealog}',  49-54.) 


409     . 
MAYFLOWER  COMPACT. 

Jn  y^  name  of  god  Amen.  We  whofe  names  :;re 
vnderwriten,  the  loyall  subjects  of  our  dread  fouer- 
aigne  lord  King  lames  by  y*  grace  of  god,  of  great 
Britaine,  franc,  &  Jreland  king,  defender  of  y*  faith, 
&c  Haueing  vndertaken,  for  y®  glorie  of  god,  and 
aduancemente  of  y"'  christian  faith  and  honour  of  our 
king  &  countrie,  a  voyage  to  plant  y®  first  colonie  in 
y''  Xonherne  parts  of  \^irginia,  doe  by  thefe  prefents 
solemnly  &  mutualy  in  y®  prefence  of  god,  and  one  of 
another;  couenant,  &  combine  our  felues  togeather 
into  a  ciuill  body  politick ;  for  our  better  ordering,  & 
preferuation  &  furtherance  of  y*  ends  aforefaid ;  and 
by  vertue  liearof  to  enacte,  constitute,  and  frame 
fhuch  just  &  equall  lawes,  ordinances,  Acts,  constitu- 
tions, &  offices,  from  time  to  time,  as  fhall  be  thought 
most  meete  &  conuenient  for  y®  generall  good  of  y** 
colonie:  vnto  which  we  promife  all  due  submiffion  and 
obedience.  Jn  witnes  whereof  we  haue  herevnder 
subfcril)ed  our  names  at  capcodd  y®  .11.  of  Nouember, 
in  y®  year  of  y*  raigne  of  our  soueraigne  lord  king 
James  of  England,  f ranee,  &  Jreland  y®  eighteenth  and 
of  Scotland  y®  fiftie  fourth.     An°:  Dom.  1620. 

John  Carver.  Samuel  Fuller.  John  Tilly. 

William  Bradford.  Chriftopher  Martin.  Francis  Cook. 

Edward   Winflow.  William  Mvllins.  Thomas  Rogers. 

William  Brczifter.  Jniliam  JVhite.  Thomas  Tinker. 

Ifaac  Allerton.  Richard  Warren.  John  Ridgdale. 

.^[ilcs  Standifh.  John  Hoivhmd.  Edz^-ard  Fuller. 

John  Alden.  Steven  ITopkins.  Edn'ard  Tilly. 


410 


John  Turner.  Digery  Prieft.  Richard  Clark. 

Francis  Eaton.  Thomas  Williams.    Richard  Gardiner. 

James  Chilton.  Gilbert  Winflow.      John  Allerton. 

John  Craxton.  Edmond  Margefon.  Thovias  Englifh. 

John  BilUngton.  Peter  Bronm.  Edn'ard  Doten. 

Jofes  Fletcher.  Richard  Bitteridgc.  Ed'cvard  Liefter. 

John  Goodman.  George  Soule. 

[Note:  The  long  5  of  the  old  English  alphabet 
here  represented  by  the  letter  /.] 

"Although  the  Plymouth  colonists,  like  those  at 
Jamestown,  had  a  definite  and  positive  commercial 
aim,  it  was  subordinate  to  the  higher  purpose  of  se- 
curing for  themselves  ecclesiastical  and  civil  freedom. 

The  Plymouth  Colony  was  distinctly,  and  from  the 
outset,  a  colony  of  families,  and  rendered  honor  to 
woman. 

The  Plymouth  Colony  exercised  a  much  more  direct 
and  powerful  influence  than  the  Jamestown  Colony  in 
shaping  the  republican  character  of  the  United  States." 
— Morton  Dexter. 


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SliDuiiif:  tlie  J  17th  and  ilOtli  pages  of  this  ancient  manuscript,  which  is  now  in  tiic  possession  of 

the  Society  of  Mayflower  Descendants  at  Boston. 

1  Fion.  tl  .•  Br,-vvst,r  liin,  al..«y.  C..i).vriBlif  lilOHli.v  Emma  C.  B.  .Tones  and  iml.Iishi  A  l.y  tli.^  (iraft.m  Pn^s. ) 


411 

COXTRIBUTIOXS  TO  A  BIBLIOGRAPHY  OF 
ELDER  WILLIAM  BREWSTER. 

(Written  by  a  Dcsccitdaiit  in  1892.) 

In  compiling  a  bibliography  of  Elder  )(Villiam 
Brewster  one  thing  strikes  me  forcibly— tha/ there  is 
only  one  source,  broadly  speaking,  of  bfographical 
knowledge  of  him.  That  source  is  Bradford's  His- 
tory of  Plymouth  Plantation.  Practically  everything 
else  is  compiled  from  that.  Nathaniel  Morton  and 
Cotton  Mather  add  notliing  to  Bradford's  account. 
But  the  labors  of  one  or  two  investigators  of  com- 
paratively recent  date  have  added  much  to  our  knowl- 
edge of  details  of  his  early  Ufe  and  ancestrj-. 

There  are  certain  contemporary  records,  such  as 
those  of  the  Plymouth  Colony,  that  add  some  minor 
details  of  interest.* 

I  have  included  a  careful  compilation  of  the  Brew- 
ster matter  in  botli  Bradford  and  the  Plymouth  rec- 
ords on  separate  pages  at  the  end  of  this  article. 

Hunter's  researches  in  England  have  settled  several 
questions  of  Brewster  genealogy,  have  raised  other 
problems  never  to  be  settled,  and  have  brought  to  light 
facts  of  importance  about  the  Scrooby  period. 

The  Massachusetts  Historical  Society  has  done 
much  good  work  anent  Brewster,  having  brought  for- 
ward the  letter  of  Stanhope  about  Brewster's  post- 
mastership,  published  a  bibliographical  catalogue  of 
the  Elder's  library,  published  letters  to  and  from  Brew- 
ster and  added  mucli  otiier  matter  to  our  knowledge  of 
him. 

The  Historical  Magazine  publislied  the  results  of 
labor  in  Holland  wliich  has  given  us  the  details  of 
his  publishing  business  and  his  dwelling  houses  in 
Leyden.  The  prosecution  of  Brewster  on  account  of 
his  publishing  religious  works  is  found  in  Sir  Dudley 
Carleton's  letters. 


*  Add  to  these  the  works  cited  by  Mrs.  Greenlaw, 
supra. 


A  number  of  facsimiles  of  Brewster's  autographs 
are  scattered  through  the  books,  also  a  picture  of  his 
chair,  still  preserved,  and  his  sword  and  various  other 
articles.  But  there  is  no  portrait  of  him  in  existence, 
nor  indeed  of  any  of  the  pilgrims  but  Winslow. 
There  is  also  a  dubious  picture  of  Standish. 

Ideal  pictures  of  Brewster  are  in  tlie  well-known 
historical  paintings  by  Weir.  Sargent,  Scliwartze  and 
others. 

Bradford's   History    of    Plymouth    Plantation. 

(Massachusetts  Historical  Collections,  Scr.   IJ\, 
J'ol.  in.) 

(Since  published  in  full.) 
page 
lo     "A  reverend  man  who  afterwards  was  chosen 

an  elder  of  y**  church  and  lived  with  them  till 

old  age." 
i6     W.  B.  goes  to  Plolland. 
17     Assistant  to  Robinson;  chosen  an  Elder. 
30     Sent  as  an  agent  to  Eng.  Correspondence  with 

Sandys. 
33     Correspondence  with  Sir  John  Walstenholme. 
38     Referred  to  in  a  letter  of  Robt.  Cushman. 
42     They   "desired   Mr.    B.   y®  Elder  to   goe   with 

them"  to  America  which  he  agreed  to. 
59^  Referred  to  by  Winslow,  (in  Young). 
91     His  exertions  during  the  sickness  at  Plymouth. 

165  mentioned  as  being  written  to  by  Robinson. 
165-7  The  letter  from  Robinson. 

166  Mrs.  Brewster  referred  to;  her  daughters. 

167  W.  B.  not  to  administer  the  sacrament. 

187  "our  reve*^  Elder  hath  laboured  diligently  in  dis- 
pencing  the  worfl  of  Cod  unto  us  before  he 
came;  and 


4^3 


1 88  since  hath  taken  equal  pains  with  himself-  in 
preaching  the.  saifie  and  *  *  *  is  not  in- 
feriour    *     *    *    in  gifts  or  leming." 

227^^'  quoted  in  Bradford's  Letter  Book  as  signing 
Trade  agreement  1627. 

231  signs  with  others  a  power  of  atty.  for  trade  in 
London  18  Nov.   1628. 

256  "Mr.  Allerton  had  maried  y*  daughter  [Fear] 
of  their  Reverend  Elder  IM""  Brewster  (a  man 
beloved  and  honored  amongst  them  and  who 
tooke  greate  paines  in  teaching  &  dispencing  y® 
word  of  God  unto  them)  whom  they  were  loath 
to  grieve  or  any  way  offend  so  they  bore  with 
much  in  that  respecte."  [Mr.  Allerton  not 
pleasing  them.] 

400  Settlement  among  him  and  his  partners  with 
Shirley  &c.  1642. 

402  same  continued 

403  "  "         June  2,   1642. 

408-414  His  death,  Apr.  18,  1643.  Sketch  of  his 
life  and  character,  as  follows: 

408  His  last  sickness  and  death  at  four  score. 

409  His  education  and  service  at  Court. 

410  His   trip   to   the   Low   Countries.     His   life   at 

home. 

411  His  assistance  to  the  dissenters. 

412  Imprisoned  at  Boston,  Eng.     Goes  to  Holland, 

sets  up  printing. 

413  His  labors  and  hardships  in  X.  E. ;  his  humility 

of  character. 

414  His  religious  labors  and  character  as  Elder. 
447     He  comes  over  in  Mayflower  with  wife  Mary, 

two  sons,  servant,  &c. 
451     His  family  and  descendants. 

There  is  a  fair  index  to  this  volume,  but  the  above 
is  an  exhaustive  summary  of  the  Brewster  matter. 


414 


Records  of  the  Colony  of  Plymouth,  Edited  by 
X.  B.  Shurtleff,  Boston,  1855. 

\'0L.   I.  Page 

1633  among  the  names  of  Freemen  at  the  In- 
corporation of  Plymouth  are  Thomas 
Prentice,  William  Brewster  et  at.,  3 

Mar  25/33  \Vm.  Brewster  &  Th.  Prence  are 
taxed  alike  £1:7;  five  persons  taxed 
higher ;  9 

Nov.  II.  1633.  \Vm  Brewster  and  widow 
Browne  are  bound  in  £200  (as  admrs.  of 
Browne's  estate  probably)  ;  19 

Oct  4  and  5,  1636.  William  Brewster  commit- 
teernan  from  Plymouth  for  codifying  tlie 
laws :  44 

Mar  6,  1636.  Jno.  Bundy.  indented  servant, 
"acknowleges  himself  content  to  serve 
out  the  remainder  of  his  term  [7  yrs 
8  days]  w"^  Will.  Brewster  the  Elder  of 
Plymouth  who  hath  compounded  w"'  the 
said  Mountegue  his  master":  51 

7  Mar.    1636-7.     List    of    freemen    "William 

Brewster,  Gen."  52 

21   Aug   1637     "Jo'i"  Bundy  was  examined  & 
found  guilty  of  lude  behavior  &  uncivill 
carriage   towards   Elizabeth    Haybell   in 
the  house  of  her  M''  M""  Willm.  Brewster 
and  is  therefore  adjudged  to  be  severely 
whiped  w*^*"  was  executed  upon  him  ac- 
cordingly," 65 
2  Oct.  1637.     Wm.  Brewster  on  a  com"^  to  di- 
vide certain  lands;                                             67 
4  Dec.   1637  Wm.  Brewster's  land  indicated;  yo 
4    Sep.    1638.      Same,    undertaking    w"'    Capt 
Standish  to  keep  highway  in  repair  (see 

59) ;  '  98 

8  Jan.  1638.     That  Mr.  Wm.  Brewster  has  as- 

signed over  to  Johnnathan  Brewster  his 
sonn   all   his   interest   and  title   into  the 


415 

service  of  John  Bundy  for  the  residue  of 
his  term  w'^'^  is  five  years  from  the  14  of 
March  next;  107 

children  named  199 

A^OL.  II. 

7  Jan.  1644.  land  of  William  Brewster:  79 

5  June  1644,  letters  of  administration  granted 

on  William    Brewster's  estate  :  73 

26  Dec.  1 65 1,  referring  to  previous  matter — 
names  of  "purchasers"  W.  Brewster  & 
Th.  Prence  with  56  others;  177 


Publications  of  Massachusetts  Historical  Society. 

1795.  Coll.  I\'.  113.  Cotton's  History  of  Ply- 
mouth Church;  IV.  108,  and  pp.  113-117  incl.  Ref. 
to  W.  B.,  108,  written  up  at  length  from  Morton  and 
from  the  records  especially — the  earliest  source  after 
the  records. 

Proc.  Oct.  '70.  403.     Scrooby,  etc. 

Proc.  July  '71,  XII.  129,  Scrooby,  W.  B..  Sr.,  etc. 
Identifies  W.  B.,  Sr.,  describes  investigation  of  ruins 
of  the  Scrooby  manor  in  a  short  letter  from  Dr.  Dex- 
ter, dated  19  June,  187 1. 

Coll.  XXIX.  1846.  W.  B's  Life  in  Holland,  by 
Geo.  Sumner. 

Proc.  XII.  98-103.  (Deane. )  Stanhope's  letter 
of  22  Aug.,  1590,  in  regard  to  the  appointment  of 
Brewster  as  Post  of  Scrooby  (repub.  separately). 
Reference  on  page  102  to  W.  B.,  Sr. 

Proc.  Dec.  68. 

Coll.  XXXIII.     Bradford's  History. 

Coll.  III.  1794.  Bradford's  Letter  Book.  Letters 
addressed  to  and  documents  signed  by  Bradford, 
Brewster,  et  al..  pp.  29.  42.  46,  61,  75,  76. 


4i6 


IV.  Coll.  I.  1852.  Hunter's  ist  Cols,  of  N.  E. 
"Colls,  concerning  the  Early  History  of  the  foiiiulers 
of  New  Plymouth,  by  the  Rev.  Jos.  Hunter;"  54, 
57,  65-72  speculations  about  his  family  &c.  Same 
vol.,  memoir  of  Rev.  Jno.  Robinson,  138,  letter  signed 
by  Brewster  and  Robinson:  and  letter  from  R.  to  B. 
on  latter's  administering  Lord's  Supper,  and  hoping 

Proc.  XI.  478.  "Mrs.  B's  weak  &  decayd  state  of 
body  will  have  some  repairing  by  the  coming  of  her 
daugliters,"  etc.  (149;  this  is  also  in  Young's  Chron., 

475-7)- 

Proc.  I.  114.  Sword  of  \V.  B.  presented  to  ]\Iass. 
Historical  Society.  "This  sword  has  been  in  the  pos- 
session of  the  Brewster  family  since  the  death  of  the 
Elder,  as  said  Job  Brewster  of  Du.xbury,  dec'd,  of 
whom  it  was  purchased  about  1777."  etc. 

Coll.  XXXII.     Charter. 

The  library  of  Eld.  W.  B.  by  Justin  Winsor,  re- 
printed from  the  Proc.   Mass.   Hist.    Soc.   Mar.    '87, 

17- 

A  commentary  on  each  book,  by  H.  M.  Dexter. 
Proc.   M.   H.   S.   Oct.,   '89    (pub.   sep..   Camb.,    1890, 

PP-  51)- 

Jos.  Hunter,  F.  S.  A.  Coil's  concerning  the  Early 
Hist,  of  the  Founders  of  New  Ply.  London,  1849. 
Genealogy  of  Brewster  Family  (the  Ed.  of  1854  is 
better). 

Letter  of  Sir  Jno.  Stanhope  to  Sec'y  Davison  con- 
cerning Elder  Brewster.  Letter  is  about  Brewster's 
appointment  to  be  Post  Master  of  Scrooby,  22  Aug., 
1590.     May,   1 87 1.     Ch.  Deane,  pp.  8. 

Mass.  Hist.  Coll.  I.  Ser.,  III.  6,  7,  8,  Bradford 
Brewster  and  others  bound  themselves  to  be  respon- 
sible for  the  colonists'  supplies,  1627. 

II.  Mass.  Hist.  Soc.  Coll.  YU.  App.  74-5,  70-1,  62. 


417 

Furtlwr  Matter  From  Various  Sources. 

Mourt's  Relation,  1622.  Dexter's  Edition,  1865. 
p  37._Dexter  notes  W.  B.  as  having  been  sent  to 
England  from  Holland  with  Cushman  as  agent  for 
the  Leyden  church.  "Mourt"  refers  to  him  as  signing 
the  Civil  Compact,  p.  7.     Mentioned  again  by  Dexter, 

Historical  Magazine.  Article  by  Murphy.  IV.  4- 
5.  W.  B.'s  dwellings  in  Leyden.  His  Dutch  pub- 
lishing business  and  prosecution  therefor.  Docu- 
ments &c. 

\\m.  T.  Davis,  Ancient  Landmarks  of  Plymouth 
(Boston,  1883).— Brewster's  House  lots,  pp.  163,  343. 

345- 

Harper's  ^^lagazine.  LXIV.  256,  Jan.,  1882.— 
"Who  were  the  Pilgrims."  Books  W.  B.  published  in 
Holland. 

Sir  Dudley  Carleton's  Letters  (Life  of  Davison), 
pp.  380,  386,  389,  390.— W.  B.'s  publishing  obnoxious 
works,  and  prosecution  therefor,  July,  1619. 

N.  E.  Historical  and  Genealogical  Register,  IV.  174- 
—Abstract  of  his  will.     Administration  granted  June 

5.  1644- 

Historical  Magazine,  III.  261,  335,  357.  Iv.  4.— 
Brewster's  having  been  a  publisher  during  liis  last  three 
years  at  Leyden,  of  Latin  and  English  works  it  would 
have  been  unsafe  to  issue  in  England. 

A''.  E.  Hist,  and  Genealogical  Register,  1864,  p.  18. 
— Dates  of  birth  &c. 

History  of  Duxbury.— Justin  Winsor,  Boston, 
1849,  234-5.  Autograph,  48;  misc.,  55,  70.  (Note. 
The  reference  on  p.  93,  indexed  as  Elder  W.  B.  is  not 
the  Elder  but  his  grandson.)  W.  B.  assists  at  sen'- 
ices  in  Duxbury  previous  to  1632  (171).  Planted  the 
first  apple  tree  in  New  England  (234). 

Registry  of  Affidavits.  Ms.,  K.  26.— Ages  of  Elder 
B.  &  family   (quoted    in    Hist,    and    Gen.    Register, 

xvm.  18). 


4i8 


Plymouth  Wills,  I.  53. — Will  and  Inventory.  Also 
Catalogue  of  400  volumes  of  his  library. 

Book  of  Plymouth  Deeds — Settlement  of  his  Es- 
tate, 115. 

General  Laws  of  New  Plymouth,  printed  at  Boston, 
1685. — Contains  the  Combination  and  Charter  of  the 
first  associates,  1620. 


"Chief  of  the  Pilgrims;  or  The  Life  and  Times  of 
IVilliam  Breivster,"  by  the  Rev.  Ashbel  Steele. 
Phila,.  183/. 

Chief  of  the  Pilgrims  purports  to  be  a  life  of  Wil- 
liam Brewster.  A  hundred  or  more  of  its  pages  are 
a  life  of  Davison ;  such  references  to  Brewster  as  these 
are,  are  speculations  and  vague  surmises,  coupled  with 
sage  guesses  as  to  what  must  have  been  his  reflections 
at  various  political  and  other  crises.  The  fact  is  that 
the  two  or  three  pages  in  Bradford,  on  Brewster's 
early  life,  are  by  the  help  of  British  Annalists,  a  Life 
of  Davison  and  the  author  Steele's  fertile  and  some- 
what dififuse  imagination  expanded  into  over  a  hun- 
dred. 

The  first  matter  of  interest  in  the  book  is  the  titles 
of  some  of  the  works  Brewster  published  in  Holland, 
(172-177).    Amid  some  sense,  much  sentiment,  these: 

"Man  is  altogether  vanity,"  is  stated  (without  nam- 
ing authority)  to  be  the  Elder's  motto  (248). 

(353)  tli^  Elder  removes  to  Duxbury,  1632; 

(362)  the  Elder  counsels  dismissal  of  Roger  Wil- 
liams, 1633;  no  authority  mentioned  though  exact 
words  of  W.  B.  are  quoted ; 

(365)  the  Elder's  settlement  upon  his  son  Love, 
upon  his  marriage  with  Sarah  Collier,  May  15.  1634 
(Court  Records)  ; 

(366)  autograph,  also  motto  authorized  (see 
above). 


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1 

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1 

s 

419 


Takes  up  his  residence  with  his  son  Love   (Rec.  & 
Winsor)  ; 

(377)  His  Library  considered; 

(382)  Date  of  Death  considered  [Cf.  Register]  ; 

(387)  Brewster  House-land ; 

(389)  Estate  Settled; 

{415)  Brewster  in  Webster's  Oration. 

L^pon  tlie  wiiole,  though  the  \'olume  might  he  boiled 
down  one  half,  doubtless  to  advantage,  still  it  is  an  in- 
teresting if  verbose  exposition  of  what  was  known  of 
Brewster  in  1857. 


"Chronicles  of  the  Pilgrim  Fathers,"  by  Alex. 
Young,  Boston,  1841.  Contains  eight  works,  and  is 
edited  and  annotated  by  Young.  These  eight  works 
are  contemjxjrary  with  the  events,  and  are  as  follows : 

L  Gov.  Bradford's  Histor\-  of  Plymouth  Colony 
(abbreviated  by  Nathaniel  Morton)  "Morton's  Memo- 
rial." This  was  pub.  by  Young  before  Bradford's 
whole  work  had  been  discovered. 

1622.  n.  Bradford  &  Winslow's  Journal,  1.  e., 
"Mourt's  Relation."     Scarcely  refers  to  W.  B. 

1621.  HL  Cushman's  Discourse,  contains  no  ref- 
erence to  W.  B. 

1624.  IV.  Winslow's  Relation,  /.  c,  "Good  Newes 
from  New  England."  Contains  no  important  men- 
tion of  Brewster. 

1646.  V.  Winslow's  Brief  Narration,  i.  e.,  "Hy- 
pocrisie  unmasked."  (383)  Reason  for  W.  B.'s  going 
to  America.     (400)  W.  B.  not  a  rigid  Separatist. 

VL  Gov.  Bradford's  Dialogue.  (455-6)  W.  B. 
mentioned. 

\'n.  Bradford's  Memoir  of  Brewster.  Really  a 
part  of  Bradford's  History  (q.  v.)  but  taken  by 
Young  from  the  Plymouth  Church  records  into  which 
it  had  been  copied  by  Natl.  Morton. 


\'III.  Pilgrim's  letters.  Some  from  Bradford's 
Letter  Book  (q.  v.)  and  some  from  the  Plymouth 
Church  Records.  (475)  Robinson  to  Brewster. 
Letter  Ch.  Rec,  L  27  (copied  as  VH.  from  Brad.'s 
Hist.  q.  v.). 


Xew  England's  Memorial  Xatl.  Morton,  Cam- 
bridge, 1669.  Edit,  of  1855,  pub.  by  Cong.  Soc. 
(10)  "W.  B.  a  man  of  approved  piety,  gravity  &  in- 
tegrity," etc.  (144-56)  Acct.  of  his  death,  abbrev. 
from  Bradford. 

Hunter's  Founders,  App.  of  above  edition.  (484) 
W.  B.  fined  by  the  Commissioners  for  causes  Eccle- 
siastical in  1608. 


Biographical  Sketches  of  JVm.  Brewster. 

Page 
\'ol.    I.     Appleton's    Cyclopedia    of    .\merican 

Biog.  X.  Y.  1887  371 

;.  L.  Blake's  Biographical  Diet.  Phila..  1856  196 

F.  S.  Drake's  Biographical  Diet.  Boston,  1872  122 
B.  J.  Lossing.  Harper's  Popular  Cycl.  of  L*.  S. 

Hist..  X.   Y..   1S81    rwith  cut  of  Chest 

&pot)  158 

\Vm.  Allen's  Amer.  Biog.  Diet..  Boston.   1857 

(One  of  the  best  sketches)  ^3^7 

J.    Thacher's    History-   of    Ph-mouth.    2d    Ed.. 

1835  268-270 

Alden  Bradford's  Biog.  Xotices.  Boston,  1842  80S3 
American  Cyclopedia,  X.  Y..  1873,  ^'ol-  HI-  -63 

Littell's  Living  Age.  \'ol.  CLML  2^- 

L'niversal    Biographical    Dictionan.-.    Hartford, 

1850  '  88 

British  Quarterly  Review,  about  April,   1883, 

(quoted  in  Littell's  Liv.  Age.  above). 


421 

Beginnings  of  New  England,  J.  Fiske,  Boston, 

1890  68,71-2-3,80,82 

J.  Belknap's  American  Biography. 
Bartlett's  Pilgrim  Fathers,  London,  1853      2-],  202-4 
W.  T.  Davis,  Harper's  Mag.  LXIV.  254 

History  of  Duxbur>',  J.  Winsor,  Boston,  1849     234-5 
Cheever's  Journal  of  the  Pilgrims,  1848  163-184 

Holmes'   Annals    (more   complete   than   inde.x) 

160,  158  and  256 
Mitchell's  History  of  Bridgcwater  361 

Baylie's  Hist.  Plymouth  H.,  4  and  69 

Jas.  Savage,  Genealogical  Diet,  under  Brewster. 
John  Eliot,  Biog.  Diet.,  Salem,  1809  86 

Wm.  Allen,  Biog.  Diet.,  Cambridge,  1809  108-11 

Fathers  of   New   Eng.,   Man,'  Clark,   Concord, 

1836  79-90 

The  Illustrated  Pilgrim  Almanac,  Boston,  i860  8 

The  Illustrated  Pilgrim  Memorial,  Boston,  1863 

(similar  to  the  Almanac)  14 

Same,  Boston,  1872  H 


BATCHELDER  FAMILY. 
(Continued  from  p.  ^j8.) 

Nathaniel  Batchelder  (son  of  Nathaniel-  Bachiler 
[Rev.  Stephen^])  born  in  England  about  1630.  He 
came  to  New  Hampshire  and  settled  in  Hampton  in 
that  province  where  he  spent  his  life  as  a  farmer. 

He  married  first  Deborah  Smith,  10  Dec,  1656. 
She  was  the  daughter  of  John  and  Deborah  Smith,* 
of  Martha's  Vineyard. 


*  Johni  Smith  had  besides  Deborah^  a  son. 
John^  Smith,  who  also  lived  at  Hampton,  and  was  a 
cooper.  In  1674  John^  conveyed  to  Stephen  Hussey 
his  property  on  Nantucket,  bequeathed  him  by  his 
father  "John  Smith  of  the  Vineyard,  deceased." 


422 


She  bore  him  nine  children  and  died  in  childbirth 
8  Mar,,  1675-6. 

Tradition  was  saying  seventy-five  years  ago  that 
he  resolved  to  be  governed  in  his  choice  of  a  sec- 
ond wife  by  the  direction  in  which  his  staft  held  per- 
pendicularly over  the  floor,  should  fall  when  dropped 
from  his  hand.  He  tried  the  experiment  and  the 
stafif  fell  toward  the  southwest  and  thitherwards  he 
fared  forth.  Having  travelled  as  far  as  Woburn, 
he  called  on  the  widow.  Marj-  Wyman,  and  ofifered 
his  heart  and  hand.  She  coyly  expressed  her  un- 
willingness, and  being  pressed  by  the  ardent  young 
widower,  gave  as  her  reason  that  he  had  such  a 
large  family  (having  had  nine  children  by  his  first 
wife,  eight  of  whom  were  then  living).  He  replied 
that  it  was  the  first  time  that  he  had  ever  known  a 
woman  to  object  to  wedding  a  man  because  he  got 
children;  that  he  was  going  to  Boston  and  would  call 
upon  her  on  his  return,  for  a  decision  in  answer  to  his 
proposal.  When  he  came  back  he  called,  and  she 
having  decided  favorably  they  were  married,  and  she 
herself  was  the  mother  of  eight  more  children,  mak- 
ing seventeen  by  both  wives,  the  largest  family  on  rec- 
ord in  the  town  of  Hampton.  She  had  a  son  John  by 
her  first  husband,  whose  education  was  attended  to  by 
her  father.  He  married  her  31  Oct.,  1676.  She  was 
the  daughter  of  Rev.  Thomas  Carter  and  widow  of 
John  Wyman  of  \\^oburn.  She  was  bom  24  July, 
1648;  was  cousin  of  Batchelder's  first  wife,  and  died 
in  1688. 

The  following  year  he  married  third,  23  Oct.,  1689, 
Elizabeth  B.,  widow  of  John  Knill.  She  sur\-ived 
Mr.  Batchelder.  She  had  been  a  resident  of  Charles- 
town,  Mass.,  and  had  been  admitted  to  membership 
in  the  church  there  2  Sept.,  1677.  They  had  no 
children. 

"Nathaniel  Batchelder  was  one  of  the  leading  men 
of  the  town  for  a  long  period.     He  had  a  good  educa- 


423- 

tion,  wealth,  and  a  large  family  connection,  and  ex- 
erted a  controlling  influence  in  the  community  "  (His- 
tory of  Rockingham  County,  N.  H.) 

The  following  items  about  him  appear  in  New 
Hampshire  Provincial  Papers : 

At  a  town  meeting  at  Hampton,  Nathaniel  Batch- 
elder  and  Thomas  Marston  were  chosen  to  look  after 
the  town  commons;  Nathaniel  had  two  pasturage 
rights  there.  He  was  one  of  twelve  who  in  1669 
agreed  to  fence  forty  acres  apiece  in  the  New  Planta- 
tion. 

May  8,  1680  Nathl.  Bachilder  of  Hampton  is 
taxed  13  sh.  5  d.  (I.,  424)-  The  address  and  peti- 
tion of  the  inhabitants  of  Hampton  against  Cranfield, 
dated  1685,  is  headed  by  Nathaniel  Bachiler's  name. 
(Fanner's  Belknap's  Hist,  of  N.  H.,  App.  471.  Prov. 
Papers,   i.,  557-9) 

In  1684  (Prov.  Papers,  H.,  489)  Nathaniel  Batch- 
elder  was  juryman:  he  was  constable,  and  lost  seven 
cows,  driven  off  by  "Cromfield's  creatures'  (533). 

Feb.  20,  1689-90  signs  a  petition  of  the  inhabitants 
and  train  soldiers  of  the  province  of  New  Hampshire 
for  protection  against  the  common  enemy  (H.,  39). 
"Att  a  legall  meeting  of  the  ffreeholders  of  the 
Towne  of  Hampton  the  29  October  1694.  Leftnt  John 
Smith,  Mr.  Nath.\niel  Batcheler  Senior  and  Ens. 
Thomas  Robey  were  chosen  by  the  Major  voat  ffor  to 
Sen-e  as  Assembly  men."     (XIH.) 

Oct.  31.  1694.  Elected  to  the  Prov.  Gen.  Assem- 
bly from  the  town  of  Hampton  (I.,  97). 

Nov.  I,  1694,  he  was  sworn  a  member  of  the  Gen- 
eral Assembly  at  Newcastle  (HI.,  24). 

May  15,  1695,  sworn  member  of  Gen'l  Assembly 
at  Newcastle  (HI.,  28). 

Jan.  8,  1697  order  by  the  Council  to  pay  N.  B.  30' 
for  his  .service  done  for  the  province  (239). 


424 


1704,  The  Batchelders  owned  they  had  pulled  down 
a  fence  near  Samuel  Rowlej-'s  (441;. 

4  Feb.,  1680,  he  was  one  of  those  ordered  to  vote 
for  a  representative  to  the  first  General  Assembly  at 
Portsmouth.  In  1664  he  was  selectman  at  Hampton, 
also  1675-6,  1682,  1696. 

Deacon  Nathaniel''  Batchelder  died  at  Hampton, 
N.  H.,  2  Jan.,  1710. 

He  made  a  will  on  the  14  Sept.,  1707,  which  was 
proved  March  21,  1710.  This  will  through  mistake  of 
the  scribe  "or  some  other  means"  was  insufhcient,  and 
an  instrument  was  drawn  up  by  Joseph  Smith,  con- 
taining all  the  provisions  of  the  wiU  with  a  few  addi- 
tions, which  was  signed  by  his  widow  Elizabeth,  and 
seven  sons  and  six  sons-in-law.  His  son  Stephen  had 
one-half  of  the  homestead  and  was  residuary  legatee 
by  the  wilL  This  was  confirmed  by  the  instnmient  of 
settlement  The  bequest  to  his  wife  was  10  bushels  of 
Indian  com,  2  of  malt  and  one  of  wheat  per  annum, 
and  all  to  be  merchantable,  a  good  new  milch  cow,  fire 
to  be  kept  suppUed  with  good  wood ;  with  100  lbs.  pork, 
I  qr.  good  beef  per  annimi ;  also  i  bbl.  cider.  She  was 
to  have  also  the  goods  she  had  when  she  married,  pro- 
vided she  clear  him  from  the  paj-ment  of  a  bond  for 
14  Poimds  given  to  her  son.  He  gave  an  iron  pot  and 
kettle  to  his  daughters  Marv"  and  Theodate ;  Mary  was 
to  have  her  choice.  The  children  agreed  to  the  same 
on  the  settlement  of  the  estate. 

Nathaniel^  Batchelder's  children  by  his  first  wife 
were  as  follows: 

I.  Deborah*  Batchelder,  bom  12  Oct., 
1657;  married  25  Jan.,  1677,  Joseph,  son  of 
William  Palmer; 

n.    Nathaniel*  Batchelder,  Jr.,  (see  p.  426)  ; 

III.  Ruth*  Batchelder.  bom  9  May,  1662; 
married  8  July,  1684.  Deacon  James,  son  of 
Deacon  James  and  Elizabeth  (Clapp)  Blake  of 
Dorchester,  Mass.     She  died  11  Jan.,  1752; 


425 

IV.  Esther^  Batchelder,  bom  22  Jan.,  1664, 
married  Deacon  Samuel  Shaw,  of  Hampton 
Falls,  and  died  24  Jan.,  1715  ; 

\'.  Abigail*  Batchelder.  born  28  Dec,  1667: 
married  4  Nov.,  1689,  Deacon  John,  son  of 
Henn,'  Dearborn.  She  died  14  Nov.,  1736. 
They  lived  in  North  Hampton,  N.  H.  .\mong 
their  grandchildren  was  Major  General  Henry 
Dearborn,  Revolutionan,'  Soldier,  Congress- 
man, and  Secretary'  of  War  from  1801  to  1S09. 
and  thereafter  Collector  of  the  Port  of  Boston. 

\'I.  Jane*  Batchelder,  bom  8  Jan..  1669, 
married  10  Nov.,  1687,  Benjamin,  son  of 
Henn,"  Lamprey. 

ML    Stephen*    Batchelder.    bom    31    July, 

1672,  died  7  Dec.  1672; 

VHL  Benjamin*  Batchelder,  born  19  Sept., 

1673.  married  25  Dec.  1696,  Susanna,  daugh- 
ter of  Deacon  Francis  Page;  his  daughter 
Susanna  married  Ebenezer  Webster.  They 
were  the  grandparents  of  Daniel  Webster,  the 
statesman.  Daniel  Webster  wrote  to  his  son 
Fletcher,  5  Mar.,  1840:  "I  believe  we  are  all 
indebted  to  my  father's  mother  for  a  large  por- 
tion of  the  little  sense  which  belongs  to  us. 
Her  name  was  Susannah  Batchelder;  she  was 
the  descendant  of  a  clergyman  and  a  woman  of 
uncommon  strength  of  understanding.  If  I 
had  had  many  boys  I  should  have  called  one  of 
them  Batchelder." 

By  his  second  wife  he  had  the  following: 

IX.  Stephen*  Batchelder,  bom  8  Mar. 
1675;  married  25  Aug.,  1698,  ^Mary,  daughter 
of  John  Dearborn ; 

X.  Mercy*  Batchelder,  born  11  Dec.  1677, 
married  12  July,  1694; 

XL  Mary*  Batchelder.  born  18  Sept.,  1679; 
died  young; 


426 

XII.  Samuel"  Batchelder,  bom  10  Jan.. 
1681:  married,  it  is  said,  i  Apr.,  1706,  Eliza- 
lieth  Davis,  of  Newbury,  Mass. ; 

XIII.  Jonathan^  Batchelder,  born  1683^ 
married  2  Dec,  170S,  Sarah,  daughter  of  John 
Blake.  Jonathan  with  his  brother,  Samuel 
took  an  acti\e  part  in  the  Indian  Wars. 

XIV.  Thomas^  Batchelder,  born  in  1685 
married  14  Mar.,  1712,  i\Iary,  daughter  of 
Benjamin  Moulton ;  he  married  second,  Sarah 
daughter  of  Deacon  Jolm  Tuck.  Thomas'* 
died  10  Feb.,  1774. 

XV.  Joseph"*  Batchelder,  born  9  Aug. 
1687;  married  11  Dec,  1712,  Alehitable, 
daughter  of  John  Alarston.  Joseplr*  died  26 
Oct.,  1750; 

XVI.  Mary^  Batchelder.  born  17  Oct.,  16S8 
died  in  infancy: 

X\'II.  Theodate*  Batchelder,  born  1684 
(?),  married  18  Nov.,  1703,  Maurice  Hobbs 
Ji-- 

Deacon  Nathaniel^  Batchelder,  Jr.,  the  eldest  son  of 
Nathaniel-''  and  Deborah  (Smith)  Batchelder,  was 
born  at  Hampton.  N.  H..  24  Dec,  1659.  He  settled 
at  Hampton  Falls  in  1689  on  the  farm  now  or  lately 
owned  by  John  T.  Batchelder.  About  1685  he  mar- 
ried Elizabeth  Foss  of  Portsmouth,  N.  H.  (see  p. 
430).  She  was  born  1666  and  died  1746.  He  was 
one  of  the  Assessors  at  Hampton  Falls  in  1719-20  and 
Selectman  in  1722,  He  was  one  of  the  original  pro- 
prietors of  Chester,  N.  H. 

The  following  items  occur  in  the  N.  H.  Provincial 
papers. 

Feb.  20,  1689-90.  "Nathaniel  Batchelder,  Jr.,  by 
order"  signed  petitions  of  the  inhabitants  and  train- 
soldiers  of  the  province  of  New  Hampshire  for  pro- 
tection (II.,  39) ; 


427 

June  8,  1697.  At  a  council  held  at  Newcastle 
"Ordered  that  the  treasurer  pay  to  Nathaniel  Batch- 
elder  30sh.  for  his  service."     (Indexed  as  N.  B.,  Jr.; 

H.,  39); 

July  27,  1704,  at  a  council  held  at  Newcastle, 
prosecuted  for  pulling  down  a  fence.  (Indexed  as 
N.  B.,  Jr.;  II..  441). 

Dec.  22,  1707,  at  a  council  held  at  Portsmouth, 
Lieut.-Gov.  Usher  objects  to  payment  of  one  pound 
ten  sh.  to  Natl.  Batcliddcr  made  in  1696.  (Ind.  &c. 
as  N.  B.,  Jr.) 

Dec.  3,  1709.  Signs  a  petition  in  regard  to  taxes 
of  the  inhabitants  of  tlic  south  part  of  Hampton  (III., 
408). 

May  13,  1710.  Signed  petition  to  divide  the 
South  part  of  Hampton  commonly  called  Hampton 
Falls"  from  Hampton.  He  was  then  of  Hampton 
Falls.   (III.,  428). 

Dea.  Nathaniel'  was  selectman  of  Hamilton  in  1704 
and  171 1. 

Will  of  Natiianiel'  Batchelder,  farmer  of  Hampton. 
His  "dearly  beloved  wife"  was  Elizabeth.  He  left 
legacies  to  his  children  in  the  following  order:  Josiah. 
John,  Nathaniel,  Jethro,  Nathan,  Phinehas,  Eben- 
ezer.  "To  my  beloved  son  Ebenezer,  I  bequeath  five 
shillings."  Administration  was  granted  December 
25,  1745.  (Registry  of  Probate,  Exeter,  N.  H.) 
Children : 

I.  Deacon  John^  Batclielder.  born  28  July, 
1692,  married  30  Dec,  1714.  at  Hampton  Falls, 
Abigail,  daughter  of  John  Cram.  John''  died 
16  Mar.,  1753. 

II.  Deborah'"'  Batchelder,  born  9  Apr.,  1686; 
married  8  Jan.,  1708.  David  son  of  Ensign 
Daniel  Tilton :  married  second,  Deacon  Jona- 
than Fellows  of  Ipswich,  Mass. 

III.  Nathaniel"  Batchelder,  born  19  Feb.. 
1690,  married  24  Feb..   1717.  Sarah,  daughter 


428 

of  Samuel  Robie.  17 12  Natl.  Batchelder 
marched  on  a  scout  to  Sandy  Beach  during  the 
old  French  and  Indian  war  May  18  and  19, 
1712  (Vol.  II.,  71,  Ms.  Adj't-Gen.'s  Office,  N. 
H.).  1 7 ID  he  was  attached  to  Capt.  Shadrach 
Walton's  Company,  N.  H.  Prov.  Volunteer  In- 
fantry at  the  capture  of  Fort  Royal  ( I.,  6,  /(/. ). 

IV.  Deacon  Josiah^  Batchelder,  bom  i  July, 
1695,  married  1722,  Sarah,  daughter  of 
Francis  Page,  and  died  9  Oct.,  1759. 

V.  Jethro-''  Batchelder,  born  2  Jan.,  1698, 
married  15  May,  1721,  Dorothy,  daughter  of 
Deacon  Benjamin  and  Sarah  Sanborn.  He 
died  May  1723. 

\'I.  Elizabeth"  Batchelder,  born  1694,  mar- 
ried 21  Jan.,  1713,  Richard,  son  of  Nathaniel 
and  Rebecca  (Prescott)  Sanborn.  She  died 
21  Jan.,  1753. 

VII.  Deacon  Nathan''  Batchelder.  born  2 
July,  1700;  married  25  Feb.,  1724,  Mary, 
daughter  of  Capt.  Joseph  Tilton.  Deacon 
Nathan''  died  17  Mar.,  1755. 

VIII.  Capt.  Phinehas"  Batchelder,  born  11 
Nov.,  1702,  married  Elizabeth  Cilman,  and 
died  16  Jan.,  1793. 

IX.  Deacon  Ebcnezcr''  Batchelder,  born  10 
Dec,  1710  (see     ). 


Deacon  Ebenezer^  Batchelder,  (Stephen^,  Nathan- 
iel-, NailmnwP,  Nathaniel*),  of  East  Kingston,  N.  H., 
was  bom  Dec.  10,  1710. 

"Ebenezer  Batchelder  and  Dorothy  Boyonton  were 
joined  in  Marridg  Febury  y"  ist  day  in  year  1733, 
Nathan  born  Oct.  25.  1734."  (Kingston  Town  Rec- 
ords.) 

In  1738  fifty-three  persons  in  the  town  of  Kingston 
united  in  a  petition  to  the  General  Assembly  to  be  set 


429 


off  into  a  separate  parish.  The  petitioners  were, 
among  others,  Nathan,  Phineas,  Josiah  and  Ebenezer 
Batchelder. 

Entries  in  the  Records  at  Exeter:— "I  Ebenezer 
Batchelder  of  Kingston,  yeoman,"  conveys  land  Mar. 

9.  1747-8-  ^    .  , 

"I,  Ebenezer  Batchelder  of  Kingston,  East  Parish, 
husbandman,"  conveys  land  April  25,  1748. 

In  1774  Ebenezer  Batchelder  and  J.  Gale  from  East 
Kingston  were  delegates  to  the  New  Hampshire 
Colonial  Convention  in  Exeter.  (N.  H.  Provincial 
Papers.) 

The  will  of  Ebenezer  at  the  Probate  Office  at  Exe- 
ter, N.  H.,  is  dated  Jan.  27,  1780,  and  begins  as  fol- 
lows : — "I  Ebenezer  Bachellor  of  East  Kingston  yeo- 
man," and  further  on,  "I  give  Dorothy  my  now  dear- 
ly beloved  wife,"  etc.  Then  follow  bequests  to  his 
children,  in  the  following  order:  Nathan,  Nathaniel, 
Betty  wife  of  Dr.  William  Smith,  Ebenezer,  Josiah, 
Dorothy,  Anne  wife  of  David  Boynton,  Joanna. 

Ebenezer  died  in  1784  at  East  Kingston. 

Items  in  N.  H.  Provincial  Papers : 

Kingston.  Petition  of  the  inhabitants  of  the  east- 
erly part  for  a  New  Parish,  1738,  signed  among  others 
by  Richard  Clifford,  Wm.  Boynton,  Ebenezer  Bach- 
elder,  John  Clifford.  John  Clifford.  Jr.,  May  2,  1738. 

(XII.,  335) 

Kingston,  10  Sepf  1750.  Petition  for  land. 
Eben--  Batchilder.     (XII.,  338.) 

Dea.  Ebenezer  was  for  a  time  a  settler  in  Gilmanton, 
as  is  shown  by  the  fact  that  at  tlie  Annual  meeting  of 
the  proprietors  of  Gilmanton,  Mar.  12,  1761,  that 
"Dea.  Ebenezer  Bachelder  and  others  were  appointed 
to  run  out  six  miles  from  Barnstead  line  for  a  Parish," 
&c.,  says  the  History  of  Gilmanton,  by  Lancaster,  53- 
8;  on  the  6th  of  July  they  reported.  Among  those 
who  gave  bonds  for  settlement  and  chose  their  lots 


43C 


was  Dea.  Ebenezer  Bachelder.  "The  settler,  Dea. 
Ebenezer  Bachelder,  was  the  father  of  the  wife  of  Dr. 
Smith."     (58.) 

Deacon  Ebenezer^  Batchelder's  children  were : 

I.  Nathan"  Batchelder,  bom  25  Oct.,   1734 
(see     ); 

II.  Richard"  Batchelder.  born  5  Oct..  1736; 
lived  at  Loudon,  N.  H. ; 

III.  William"     Batchelder,    born    2     'Sow, 

1738: 

IV.  Nathaniel"    Batchelder.    born    21    Feb., 
1740: 

\'.  Betty"  Batchelder.  bom  2  Aug.,  1744: 
\'l.      Ebenezer"    Batchelder.    born    6    Feb., 
1746: 

\TI.    Josiah"     Batchelder,     bom     2'i     Dec, 

1749: 

\'III.   Dorothy"    Batchelder.    born   2^    May, 

1753: 

IX.  Ann"   Batchelder.  born    13  Jan..    1758; 

X.  Joanna"   Batchelder.  born  7  Oct.,    1760; 

{To  be  continued.) 


THE  FOSS  ANCESTOR. 

John  Foss,  the  ancestor  of  many  of  the  families 
of  the  name  now  so  numerous,  arrived  at  Boston, 
says  tradition,  as  a  caulker  on  a  British  war  ves- 
sel. While  the  vessel  was  in  Boston  Harbor,  he 
is  said  to  have  jumped  overboard  and  swum  ashore. 
He  settled  in  Dover,  N^.  H.,  where  he  first  appears  on 
record  as  witnessing  a  deed  14  May,  1661.  His  first 
wife  was  Mary  Chadboura.  His  second  wife  was 
Elizabeth,  supposed  to  have  been  the  widow  of  John 
Locke  and  daughter  of  William  and  Jane  Berry. 


431 


From  the  Portsmouth,  X.  H.,  Town  Records: 
"8-10-1663.     A   hiway    lade    out    from    Nathaniel 
Drak  to  Sanders  Point  is  to  go  from  sd  Drak  to  John 
Ffose  only  there  is  to  be  some  inlargement  neare  the 
sade  Ffose's  where  it  now  Hes,"  etc. 

At  a  selectmen's  meeting  the  26*^"  of  Oct.  167 1. 
"Drawne  a  noat  on  Hen.  Dering  constable  to  pay 
John  Ffoss  £00..  1 5. .00." 

"At  a  meeting  of  the  selectmen  this  8  lx>r  1675  John 
Ffoss  surveigh""  presenting  his  acco'  for  work  done  en 
the  highway^  was  accepted;  being  as  followeth 

Joseph  Walker  himself  and  2  o.xcn  i  day  ..5. .00 

John  Ffoss  I  day  time  -S-OO 

Anthony  Bracket  2  day^  ..6..00 

James  Berry  i  day  -S -oo 

John  Berr>'  i  day  •■6..0O 

John  Ffoss  more  2  days  £i..6..oo 

"At  a  meeting  of  the  selectmen  this  31   May  1676 

John  Ffoss  surveighour  his  accot  of  work  done  about 

the  highway^  the  last  yr.  brot  in  and  accepted  vidzt 

*    *    *    3  days  work  of  John  Ffofs  a  ..9.. 00 

Total  £i..6..o." 

"At  a  meeting  of  the  selectmen  26  fifcb  1678  Jno. 

Ffoss  I   1/2  day  himself  and  one  yoke  oxen,  ..4..6." 

Savage  says  John  Foss  was  in  Dover  in  1665,  and 

was  a  member  of  the  Grand  Jury  in  1688,  died  1699. 

"Had  descendants  many  in   X.   H.,  and  probably  in 

Maine." 

Judge  C.  E.  Batchelder  in  a  letter  to  the  Editor  in 
1892  said :  "I  have  always  understood  that  John  Foss, 
the  father  of  Nathaniel  Batchelder,  Jr.'s,  wife  Eliza- 
beth, was  a  ship-builder  on  the  Piscataqua." 

John  Foss  received  a  deed  of  land  in  Rye  in  1668. 
John  Foss's  widow,  Elizabeth,  reported  as  admin- 
istratrix of  his  estate  8  Jan.,  1699/00.  His  will  was 
dated  17  December,  1699.  By  it  he  left  his  daughter 
Elizabeth,  five  shillings,  evidently  believing  that  as 
she  was  well  married,  she  did  not  so  much  need  his 
bountv  as  his  unmarried  children. 


432 


John  Foss's  children  were  as  follows,  according  to 
N.  H.  Genealogical  Histor>-,  but  the  only  ones  named 
in  his  will  are  marked  with  an  asterisk  (*). 

I.  John^  Foss,  probably  married  Abigail, 
daughter  of  John  Berry  (N.  H.  Gen.  Hist., 
1949);  or  Sarah  Gofife  25  Jan.,  1687  (Sav- 
age); 

II.  Humphrey-  Foss*; 

III.  William-  Foss* ; 

IV.  Hannah^  Foss; 

V.  Joshua^  Foss,  died  in  Barrington,  N.  H., 
aged  99  y.  6  m. ;  married  Sarah  Wallace ; 

VI.  Hinckson^  Foss; 

VII.  Mary2  Foss*; 

VIII.  Benjamin-  Foss; 

IX.  Thomas^  Foss ; 

X.  Jemima-  Foss* ; 

XI.  Elizabeth^  Foss*,  "of  Portsmouth," 
married  Nathaniel*  Batchelder,  Jr.  (p.  426) ; 

XII.  Samuel^  Foss*. 

(Editor's  Ahfc:  It  is  of  course  possible  but 
not  probable,  that  there  were  two  contempor- 
aries in  southeastern  New  Hampshire  named 
John  Foss.) 


EDITORIAL  NOTES. 

As  this  number  is  preparing  for  the  printer,  the  two 
magnificent  volumes  of  the  Brewster  Genealogy  have 
come  to  hand.  This  work  is  arranged  upon  the  most 
comprehensive  plan  and  eveiy  one  of  its  1400  pages 
shows  the  practised  hand  of  the  scientific  genealogist. 
It  embraces  the  records  of  upwards  of  twenty-five 
thousand  descendants  of  Elder  William  Brewster,  in- 
cluding many  lines  descended  in  other  surnames.  It 
accvmiulatcs  mucli   of  the  publisiied   data   concerning 


433 


43. 


Elder  William,  as  well  as  eulogies  of  him,  ihe  inven- 
torj-  of  his  estate  and  the  catalogue  of  his  Hbrary. 
The  work  is  copiously  illustrated.  It  is  printed  in  a 
limited  edition  and  the  price  is  $15  a  set,  to  be  obtain- 
ed of  the  author.  Miss  Emma  C.  Brewster  Jones,  Nor- 
wood, Cincinnati.  Ohio.  To  her  courtesy  our  readers 
are  indebted  for  tlie  Brewster  pictures  in  this  number. 


Mercer  (see  pp.  379-381).  Mrs.  N.  R.  Fernald, 
Editor  of  the  Genealogical  Exchange,  217  W.  Utica 
St.,  Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  writes  for  further  data  of  the 
Mercer  family,  sa_\'ing:  "I  found  years  ago  in  the 
Astor  Library  an  account  of  this  family,  but  it  did  not 
mention  that  any  came  to  America.  I  took  an  out- 
line of  it  because  Daniel  Mercer  (wife  Sarah)  had  a 
son  Benjamin.  You  have  placed  Thomas,  son  of 
Peter  and  own  cousin  to  Benjamin,  in  America  in 
1 685 ;  he  must  have  been  at  least  twenty-one  years  old. 

*  *  *  My  mother  was  Rachel  Emma  Mercer, 
daughter  of  Edwin  James  and  Susan  Matilda  (Reton) 
Mercer,  he  son  of  Benjamin  and  Elizabeth  (Delanoy) 
Mercer,  he  son  of  Benjamin  James  and  Elizabeth 
(Mott)  Mercer.  This  last  couple  were  married  in 
New  York  City  in  1786-7.  Their  son  was  born  the 
same  year,  but  they  are  not  in  the  census  of  1790.  In 
1808  the  son  is  back  and  married  in  New  York  City. 

*  *  *  One  of  the  New  Hampshire  Mercers  was  in 
a  land  deal  with  Hilton,  which  is  all  I  have  found  of 
that  branch. 

"I  think  there  must  have  been  another  sister  (of 
the  family  described  on  page  380).  In  Daniel  Mer- 
cer's will  he  mentions  'my  sister  Blanchard'  and  'my 
sister  Strowde,'  etc.  Then  in  Paul  Mercer's  will  he 
mentions  'my  sister  Elizabctli  Blanchard  and  her  son 
John  Stroad.'  *  *  *  Perhaps  Elizabeth  and  Anna 
both  married  Stroads  or  Strouds,  Elizabeth's  husband 
being  dead  before  1630  as  she  was  a  Blanchard  then." 


435 


Attention  is  called  to  the  change  of  address  of  this 
publication  to  165  Broadway,  New  York  City. 


Scwall  (see  p.  331).  Miss  Eunice  D.  Sewall,  312 
Gowen  Ave.,  Mt.  Airy,  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  writes: 
"My  brother  Arthur  lives  in  Philadelphia.  His  first 
wife  was  Miss  Emily  F.  Izatt.  She  died  7  Mar., 
1891.  He  married,  second.  29  Dec,  1907,  Miss 
Cynthia  Pope  Yeatman." 


Malwn-Norris  (see  pp.  48-50-  382).  L.  B.  Chap- 
man, Esq.,  of  Capisic  St.,  Portland,  Me.,  adds  the  fol- 
lowing data:  John  Mahan  died  29  June,  1830,  aged 
49;  John  Mahan;  Jr.,  28  Apr.,  1846,  aged  26;  Sarah 
Mahan,  daughter  of  John  Mahan,  born  9  Dec,  18 12. 
Intention  of  her  marriage  with  William  H.  Xorris,  of 
Hallowell,  Me.,  20  Aug.,  1831. 

The  Mahan  Tomb  is  in  the  Eastern  Cemetery,  Port- 
land. Maine. 

The  Editor  thanks  Richard  Ela.  Esq.,  of  740  Main 
St.,  Cambridgeport,  Mass.,  for  calling  attention  to  the 
fact  that  on  p.  378  the  generation  numbers  of  Stephen 
and  Nathaniel,  above  the  former's  letter  to  the  latter, 
should  be  (*)  instead  of  (^)  :  and  to  Thomas  J.  Cush- 
ing.  Esq.,  of  463  West  St.,  New  York  City,  for  call- 
ing attention  to  the  erratum  on  p.  357,  wliere  1902 
should  read  1892. 


Ryan  was  proud  of  his  ancestr)\ 

"I  suppose  your  ancestors  were  in  the  ark  with 
Noah."  said  a  man,  sarcastically,  to  him  one  day. 

"Not  on  your  life,"  was  the  reply.  "In  them  days 
everv  Rvan  had  a  boat  of  his  own."— (Daf/y  paper.) 


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THE  ROGERS  FAMILY. 
{Concluded  from  p.  393.) 

Dr.  John^  Rogers  {Nathaniel*,  John^,  John^, 
John^),  was  born  at  Coggeshall,  England,  23  Jan., 
1630,  and  came  with  his  father  (says  Felt's  Ipswich) 
"to  New  England,  1636.  He  graduated  at  Har\'ard 
College,  1649,  and  studied  as  was  usual  in  his  time, 
both  physics  and  divinity.  1656,  July  4th,  he  is 
invited  with  William  Hubbard  to  preach  in  Ipswich 
(Massachusetts).  It  appears,  that  previous  to  this 
time  he  had  not  been  actively  engaged  in  any  employ- 
ment, probably  on  account  of  inheriting  the  depres- 
sion of  spirits  to  which  his  father  was  subject,  who  re- 
marked in  his  will  that  however,  John  was  his  oldest 
son,  he  should  not  leave  him  a  double  portion  because 
he  was  not  seriiceable.  But  had  this  parent  lived  to 
see  the  diligence  with  which  his  son  applied  himself 
not  only  to  his  studies,  as  he  already  had,  but  also  to 
his  public  duties,  he  would  have  reversed  the  opinion 
formed  of  him,  and  would  have  rejoiced  to  say  that  he 


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was  indeed  useful  to  all  around  him.  Truly  the 
parochial  services  of  Mr.  Rogers  were  not  so  many  as 
they  would  have  been  if  not  connected  with  such  men 
as  Messrs.  Hubbard  and  Corbet.  Tradition  informs 
us  that  he  took  the  principal  charge  of  the  Thursday 
lecture,  while  they  attended  to  other  church  and  parish 
concerns.  His  salary  for  a  considerable  part  of  the 
time  was  less  than  theirs,  because  they  were  expected 
to  do  more  in  the  ministry  than  he.  A  sufficient  rea- 
son for  his  not  engaging  to  take  more  on  himself  in 
preaching  was  that  he  had  many  other  calls  as  the 
principal  physician  in  the  town.  Allen's  Biographical 
Dictionary  says  of  Mr.  Rogers:  'His  inclination  to 
the  study  of  physics  withdrew  his  attention  from  the- 
ology.' This  is  a.  mistake  as  appears  from  the  fact 
that  his  salary  was  voted  here  (in  Ipswich)  down  to 
1 68 1.  He  pursued  the  noiseless  tenor  of  his  way  in 
storing  with  the  rich  treasures  of  knowledge  both 
human  and  divine,  in  discharging  his  obligation  to  his 
fellow  beings  and  to  his  God.  With  high  purpose  and 
pure  motives  he  rose  to  eminence.  On  the  decease  of 
Urian  Oakes,  president  of  Harvard  College,  Mr. 
Rogers  was  chosen  to  succeed  him  and  was  installed 
August  I2th,   1683." 


Harvard  College  and  President  Rogers. 

The  election  of  Mr.  John  Rogers  to  the  presidency 
is  one  of  the  earliest  evidences  on  record  of  the  spirit 
of  liberality  which  has  almost  ever  since  marked  the 
acts  of  Harvard  College.  The  institution  had  been 
founded  nearly  fifty  years  before,  and  its  four  presi- 
dents had  all  borne  the  title  of  Rei'erend.  The  Cor- 
poration who  elected  Rogers  consisted  of  Capt.  Rich- 
ards, Increase  Mather,  Jeremiah  Hobart,  Samuel 
Andrew  and  John  Cotton,  all  noted  for  their  adher- 
ence   to   the   practice   and   prejudices   of    Puritanism. 


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Then  too,  the  requirement  for  the  degree  of  A.  B.  was 
ability  to  translate  the  Bible  ofifhand  from  the  original 
into  Latin.  It  is  not  so  strange,  however,  that  their 
choice  fell  on  Rogers,  for  though  a  layman,  he  was 
of  a  family  of  clergymen,  and  had  occasionally  oc- 
cupied the  pulpit  himself.  He  entered  upon  his  duties 
at  a  salary  of  a  hundred  pounds  a  year  in  money  and 
half  as  much  again  in  "other  pay."  He  had  among 
other  things,  to  conduct  morning  prayers,  and  was  ac- 
customed to  pray  at  great  length.  This  once  came 
near  being  the  occasion  of  the  ruin  of  the  college,  but 
a  divine  interposition  of  Providence  in  the  form  of  a 
special  miracle  averted  the  catastrophe.  Mr.  Rogers 
prayed  less  than  half  the  usual  time  one  morning 
without  being  able  to  account  for  it ;  when  the  students 
returned  to  their  "chambers"  they  found  a  fire  in 
progress  which  would  have  been  past  extinguishing  if 
the  worthy  man  had  prayed  three  minutes  longer. 
Cotton  Mather  calls  this  incident  the  "one  thing  par- 
ticularly for  which  the  college  has  cause  to  remember 
him." 

It  would  liave  been  more  serious  then  for  a  college 
building  to  be  destroyed  than  now,  for  in  those  days 
there  were  only  two  of  them.  One  was  Harvard 
Hall,  which  had  been  rebuilt  of  brick  in  1677  (des- 
tined to  be  burned  after  all  in  1764);  the  other  the 
brick  Indian  College,  which  even  then  had  outlived  its 
original  use  and  was  occupied  as  a  printing  office. 
The  next  college  building,  the  original  Stoughton 
Hall,  was  not  put  up  till  ten  or  twelve  years  afterward. 
In  these  early  days  when  people  as  a  rule  had  little 
to  give,  they  showed  their  interest  in  education  by 
donations  to  Harvard  College.  In  1683,  the  year  of 
Roger's  presidency,  two  Englishmen  contributed  a 
sum  amounting  to  £195.  Books  were  bequeathed  to 
the  college  during  that  time  amounting  to  £228  in 
value,  but  tliere  is  no  evidence  that  Harvard  ever  re- 
ceived them.     In  the  same  year  the  town  of  Cam- 


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bridge  gave  the  college  three  and  a  half  acres  of  land*. 
Three  students  gave  the  "Commons"  some  articles  of 
silver  plate.  The  General  Court  of  Massachusetts 
tried  to  help  the  college  by  giving  it  a  thousand  acres 
of  land  at  Merriconeague,  but  Harvand  got  nothing 
but  litigation  and  an  adverse  judgment. 

President  Rogers,  though  elected  April  lo,  1682, 
vi^as  not  installed  till  August  12,  1683.  No  students 
w^ere  graduated  in  the  interval,  except  three  just  be- 
fore he  entered  upon  office,  "Mr.  Samuel  Danforth, 
Mr.  Johannes  Williams,  Mr.  Gulielmus  Williams." 
The  average  number  graduated  during  the  five  years 
before  1682  was  between  five  and  six;  on  several  years 
there  had  been  no  graduations. 

There  was  time  at  graduation  even  then  for  only 
one  or  two  of  the  essays  to  be  delivered,  because  the 
giving  out  of  the  degrees  took  so  long.  "The  Order 
of  Exercises,"  says  Young,  "was  printed  on  one  side 
of  a  quarto  or  folio  sheet,  the  heading  of  which"  at 
the  time  of  which  we  write,  was  "Per  Inceptores  in 
Artibus."  Such  interesting  and  important  topics  were 
discussed  as  "Does  Genus  [genius?]  exist  outside  the 
Intellect?  Are  the  Hebrew  points  of  divine  origin? 
Is  the  soul  transmitted  by  generation?  Do  the  angels 
have  matter  and  form?"  And  the  negative  side  of 
the  pregnant  question,  "Is  Grace  Universal?"  These 
are  all  subjects  used  between  1682  and  1684. 

President  Rogers  was  never  able  officially  to  confer 
degrees,  for  he  was  in  bed  of  a  mortal  illness  at  Com- 
mencement, the  year  following  his  installation.  Nine 
candidates  presented  themselves  for  the  degree,  and 
by  vote  of  the  Overseers  William  Hubbard  performed 
the  duties  of  President  at  that  time. 

Commencement  Day  had  been  set  forward  by  Mr. 
Rogers's  request  to  Tuesday  instead  of  Wednesday, 
July  2,  1684,  on  account  of  a  total  eclipse  of  the  sun. 


*This  from  Quincy.     Eliot,  p.  186,  says  Cambridge 
gave  "20  acres  and  tlu'ce  commons  in  Lexington." 


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which  would  have  been  inconvenient.  And  while  the 
sun  was  covered  as  with  a  pall,  President  Roger's  life 
went  out. 

[Cambridge,  Nov.  3,  1892. 

Life  of  John  Rogers,  by  Cotton  Mather. 

Urian   Oakes,    fourth   president   of   Harvard    Col- 
lege, having  died  in  office  July  25,  1681, 

"The  Praesidentship  was  immediately  tendered  unto 
Mr.  Increase  Mather;  but  his  church  upon  the  appli- 
cation of  the  overseers  unto  them,  to  dismiss  him  unto 
the  place  whereto  he  was  now  chosen,  refusing  to  do 
it,  he  declined  the  motion.  Wherefore  on  April  10, 
1682,  Mr.  John  Rogers  was  elected  unto  that  place, 
and  on  August  12,  1683,  he  was  installed  into  it.  This 
worthy  person  was  the  son  of  the  renowned  Mr. 
Nathaniel  Rogers,  the  Pastor  to  the  Church  of 
Jpswich;  and  he  was  himself  a  preacher  at  Ipsivich 
until  his  disposition  for  medicinal  studies  caused  him 
to  abate  of  his  labors  in  the  pidpit.  He  was  one  of 
so  sweet  a  temper  that  the  title  of  deliciae  humani 
generis  might  have  on  that  score  been  given  him ;  and 
his  real  piety  set  off  with  the  accomplishments  of  a 
gentleman,  as  a  gem  set  in  gold.  In  his  Praesident- 
ship, there  fell  out  one  thing  particularly,  for  which 
the  Collcdge  has  cause  to  remember  him.  It  was  his 
custom  to  be  somewhat  long  in  his  daily  prayers 
(which  our  Presidents  used  to  make)  with  the  scholars 
in  the  Colledge-hall.  But  one  day,  without  being  able 
to  give  reason  for  it,  he  was  not  so  long,  it  may  be  by 
half  as  he  used  to  be.  Heaven  knew  the  reason! 
The  scholars,  returning  to  their  chambers,  found  one 
of  them  on  fire,  and  the  fire  had  proceeded  so  far,  that 
if  the  devotions  had  been  held  three  minutes  longer, 
the  Colledge  had  been  irrecoverably  laid  in  ashes, 
which  now  was  happily  preserved.  But  him  also  a 
praemature  death,  on  July  2,  1684,  the  day  after  the 
Commencement,  snatclit  away,    from   a  society,   that 


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hoped  for  a  much  longer  enjoyment  of  liim,  and 
counted  themselves  under  as  black  an  eclipse  as  the 
Sun  did  happen  to  be,  at  the  hour  of  his  expiration. 

"But  that  the  character  of  this  gentleman  may  be 
more  perfectly  exhibited,  we  will  here  take  leave  to 
transcribe  the  epitaph  engraved  on  his  tomb,  in  God's- 
acre,  at  Cambridge.  It  is  the  desire  of  immortality 
inwrought  into  the  nature  of  man,  tliat  produced  the 
invention  of  epitaphs,  and  while  some  will  ascribe  the 
invention  unto  the  scholars  of  Linus,  who  so  signified 
their  affection  unto  their  slain  master,  others  will  that 
it  may  be  ascend  as  high  as  the  great  stone  of  Abel, 
mentioned  in  the  first  book  of  Samuel,  w^hich  they'll 
tell  us,  was  erected  as  a  memorial  to  Abel,  by  his  fa- 
ther Adam,  with  that  inscription  upon  it :  Here  ivas 
shed  the  blood  of  the  righteous  Abel. 

"Now  to  immortalize  this  their  master,  one  of  the 
scholars  in  Harzvrd  Collcdge,  gave  to  the  great  stone 
of  ROGERS,  the  ensuing  lines  to  Idc  now  read  there 
for  his  memorial ;  wliich  for  the  same  cause  we  make 
a  part  of  our  history. 

Epitaph  of  President  Rogers  on  his  tomb  stone  at 
Cambridge,  Mass. : 

Mandatur  huic  Terrae  &  Tiimulo, 

Humanitatis  Aerarinm. 

Theologiae  Horreum, 

Optimarum  Litterarnm  Bibliotheca 

Rci  MedJcinalis  Systema, 

Integrjtafis  Domicilium, 

Fidei  Re  posit  orium, 

Christiani  Simplicitatis  Exemplar, 

waaiDv  Tiov  dp£TO)V  6r;(Tavpos 

Sc.  Domini  Rexrrendissimi. 

D.  JOHANXIS  ROGERSII, 

Rogersij  Doctissimi  Ipsnicensis  in 

Nov-Angliea,  Filij, 
Dedhamensis  in  Veteri  Anglia,  per 


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Orbcm  Tcrraritm  Clarissimi,  Ncpotis, 

Collcgij  Hanvrdiiii 

Lcctissimi,  ac  Mcrito  dilcctissimi  Pracsidis, 

Pars  Terrestior. 

Caelestior,  a  Nobis  Erepta  fidt, 

July  2,  A.  D.  M.  DC.  LXXX.  IV. 

Act  at  is  suae,  LIV. 

Cliara  est  pars  rcstans  nobis,  ct  qiuindo  cadaver. 

[Mather's  Magnalia.  Book  IV.,  pp.  12-13,  P:d.  1820I 

Translation: 

"There  is  committed  to  the  earth  and  this  tomb  a 
depositary  of  kindness,  a  garner  of  divine  knowledge, 
a  hbrary  of  poHte  literature,  a  system  of  medicine,  a 
residence  of  integrity,  an  abode  of  faith,  an  example 
of  Christian  sincerity,  a  treasury  of  all  these  excel- 
lencies was  the  earthly  part  of  Rev.  John  Rogers,  son 
of  the  very  learned  Rogers  of  Ipswich,  and  grandson 
of  the  noted  Rogers  of  Dedham,  old  England,  the  ex- 
cellent and  justly  beloved  president  of  Harvard  Col- 
lege. His  spirit  was  take  suddenly  from  us  July  2nd, 
A.  D.  1684  in  the  54th  year  of  his  age.  Precious  is  the 
part  that  remains  with  us,  even  while  a  corpse." 

Mr.  Rogers  being  elected  April  10,  1682,  and  in- 
stalled August  12,  1683,  we  learn  from  Mather  that 
there  were  no  graduates  in  1682;  and  only  three, 
"Mr."  Samuel  Danforth,  "Mr."  Johannes  WiUiams, 
and  "Mr."  Gulielmus  Williams  in  1683.  Mr.  Rogers 
dying  the  day  after  the  next  commencement,  viz.,  July 
2,  1684,  William  Hubbard  having  performed  the 
President's  functions  on  that  day,  the  following  men 
were  graduated :  *  Johannes  Denison,  Mr. ;  Johannes 
Rogersius,  Mr.;  Gordonius  Saltonstall,  Mr.;  Rich- 
ardus  Wenslaeus;  Samuel  Mylesius,  Mr.;  Nehemiah 


Dead  before  1698. 


Walterus,  Mr.  Sociiis;  Joseph  Webb,  Mr. ;  Edvardus 
Thomsonus;  Benjamin  Rolf,  Mr. 

(Mather,  Magnalia,  Bk.  IV.,  p.  26,  Ed.  1820.) 

At  a  meeting  of  the  Corporation  of  Harvard  College 
"14.3.77,"  present  Urian  Oakes  President,  Thos. 
Shepard,  Daniel  Gookin  and  Ammi  Rupamah  Corlet. 
Jolin  Rogers  was  chosen  ncminc  contradiccnte  to  suc- 
ceed Leonard  Hoar  as  President  but  he  declined  and 
Oakes  was  elected.  After  Oakes'  death  the  Corpora- 
tion, consisting  of  Capt.  Richards,  Treasurer,  Increase 
Mather,  Jeremiah  Hobart,  Samuel  Andrew  and  John 
Cotton,  again  10  April,  1682,  elected  him  "unto  that 
place,"  and  on  the  12th  the  choice  was  confirmed  by 
the  overseers.  May  24,  1682,  "the  Reverend  Mr. 
John  Rogers  being  now  cliosen  president  of  the  Col- 
ledge  *  *  *  It  is  ordered  [by  the  General  Court] 
that  his  yearly  allowance  be  one  hundred  pounds  in 
money,  and  fifty  pounds  in  other  pay,  during  his  con- 
tinuance in  that  place  &  imploy;"  and  May  27,  1684, 
in  accordance  with  a  petition  from  him,  it  was  voted 
that  his  salary  should  be  paid  quarterly. 

Aug.  12,  1683,  Rogers  "was  solemnly  inaugerated" 
as  the  fifth  President.  But  at  a  meeting  of  the  over- 
seers on  Commencement  day,  i  July,  1684,  on  account 
of  his  "sudden  visitation  by  sickn,"  Wm.  Hubbard 
was  appointed  to  "manage"  the  Commencement,  and 
confer  the  degrees.  On  the  following  day.  Wednes- 
day, 2  July,  1684,  "The  Rev*.  M^  President  Rogers 
dyed.  The  sun  beginning  to  emerge  out  of  a  Central 
Ecclipps"  (i  Sibley).  Sept.  11,  1684  in  answer  to  a 
petition  from  his  widow  the  General  "Court  consider- 
ing the  great  loss  sustejned  to  his  estate  by  so  speedy 
remoovall  from  said  place,"  ordered  the  treasurer  to 
pay  "to  his  executrix  &  widdow  his  sallery  for  two  full 
yeares."  The  College  Corporation  "Oct  Pr".  [i]  1684, 
Order'd  that  the  Rent  of  House  belonging  to  the  Col- 
lege now  let  to  Seth  Perry  shall  this  year  be  disposed 
of  for  the  Encouragemt  of  the  Rogers's  in  case  they 


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shall  continue  to  be  in  Commons,"  and  that  among  the 
"schollars  of  the  house  for  the  next  year  should  be 
Rogers  Sen""  and  Rogers  Jun'."  (2  Sibley). 

Works  of  Rogers. 

1.  Verses  addressed  to  Anne  Bradstreet,  printed  in 
the  New  Eng.  Hist. -Gen.  Register  V.  138. 

2.  Letters,  in  the  Collections  of  the  Massachusetts 
Historical  Society,  XXXVIII.  521. 

"It  is  remarkable  that  Rogers,  who  exerted  his  in- 
fluence to  have  the  Commencement  Exercises  Held  on 
Tuesday  instead  of  Wednesday,  but  for  this  change 
would  have  died  on  Commencement  day.  December 
9,  1683,  he  with  Samuel  Andrew,  H.  U.  1675  and  John 
Cotton,  H.  U.  1678  College  Officers,  wrote  to  Increase 
Mather  H.  U.  1656.  of  their  'great  dissatisfaction 
with  the  stated  time  of  the  Commencement,  on  the  first 
Wensday  in  July  next,  the  occasion  whereof  is,  that 
upon  that  very  day  will  fal  out  a  grand  Eclipse  of  the 
Sun,  which  was  not  foreseen,  or  at  least,  thought  of, 
upon  the  last  meeting  of  the  Corporation.  What  re- 
flection wilbee  upon  our  oversight  of  it  or  upon  our 
persisting,  notwithstanding  we  have  still  the  oppor- 
tunity of  correcting  it  before  the  Almanack  come 
forth ;  as  also  how  obstructive  the  Eclipse  wilbee  as  to 
the  business  of  the  day  is  very  Obvious.  Wee  are  not 
superstitious  in  it,  but  reckon  it  very  inconvenient.  If 
therefore  yourself  shall  join  with  us  and  improve  your 
interest  once  more  with  the  honcr'd  overseers  to  alter 
and  confirme  the  day  on  the  second  Wensday  in  July 
or  for  this  present  turn  on  the  first  Tuesday  in  July, 
or  the  fore  mentioned  second  Wensday  it  shall  be 
most  grateful  and  obliging  to  us.' 

"Tlie  request  was  granted  and  the  almanack  altered 
accordingly,  notwithstanding  the  day  had  already  been 
changed  since  the  preceding  Commencement." — Sib- 
ley's Har\-ard  College  Graduates,  I.  168,  n. 


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Authorities:  C.  Mather,  Magnalia,  Ed.  1820,  Book 
IV.,  pp.  12-13;  C.  Mather  MagnaHa,  Ed.  1820,  Book 
IV.,  p.  26;  MS  College  Record  Books,  I.,  p.  55;  Rec- 
ord Books,  vol.  III.,  67;  Harvard  College  Record 
Books,  Records  III.,  68,  74,  83-5 ;  E.  J.  Young,  Pro- 
ceed'gs  of  Mass.  Historical  Soc,  1880,  123-146;  J.  B. 
Felt,  History  of  Ipswich,  Essex  &  Hamilton,  Mass., 
232;  Massachusetts  Bay  Records,  V.,  352,  445,  451, 
359,  380,  397,  479,  645 ;  Hubbard,  Mass.  Hist.  Soc. 
Coll.,  2d.  Ser.,  VI.  610. 

President     Rogers     married     Elizabeth^     Denison, 
daughter  of  Major-Gcneral  DanieP  Denison  and  Pa- 
tience'' (Dudley)  Denison.     She  was  born 
1611    and   died    13  Jnne,    1723    (see  chart,   p.    276). 
Their  cliildren  were  as  follows: 

I.  Elizabetli''  Rogers,  born  at  Ipswich. 
Mass.,  3  Feb.,  1661  ;  married  23  Nov.,  1681. 
Hon.  Johni**  Appleton  (Capt.  John^,  SainueP, 
Thomas'',  William^)  (see)  (also  see  chart,  p. 
276).     She  died  13  Mar.,  1754. 

II.  Margaret"  Rogers,  born  at  Ipswich,  18 
Feb.  1664,  married  1st.  28  Dec,  1682,  Capl. 
Thomas  Berry  of  Boston;  she  married  2nd, 
25  Nov.,  1697,  Hon.  John^  Leverett  F.  R.  S.. 
(Hudson-,  Sir  Jolui^)  President  of  Harvard 
College.  She  died  7  June,  1720.  One  of  her 
children  was  Mary,  who  married  Rev.  Nathan- 
iel' Rogers,  (Rev.  /o/w",  Pres.  John^,  Nathan- 
iel^, etc.,)  of  Ipswich  (see  p.  395). 

III.  Rev.  John"  Rogers  (see  portrait)  born 
at  Ipswich,  7  July,  1666  (see  p.  394)  ;  married 
Martha^  Whittingham  (William^,  John^),  sis- 
ter of  Elizabeth,  wife  of  Hon.  SamueU*  Apple- 
ton  (Capt.  John^,  SamueP,  etc.). 

IV.  Dr.  Daniel"  Rogers,  born  at  Ipswich,  25 
Sept.,  1667   (see  below). 

V.  Rev.  Nathaniel"  Rogers,  born  at  Ipswicli. 
22  Feb..  1669  (see  p.  394).  He  married  Sarah, 


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daughter  of  James  and  Sarah  (Pemberton) 
Purkiss  of  Boston,  and  died  3  Oct.,  1723,  at 
Portsmouth,  N.  H. 

YI.  Patience''  Rogers,  born  at  Ipswich  1676. 
married  15  Apr.,  1696,  Benjamin  Marston  of 
Salem,  Mass..  and  died  22  May,  1731. 

Dr.  Daniel''  Rogers  (Pres.  /o//rt^  Rev.  Nailianiei') 
was  born  at  Ipswicli,  Mass.,  25  Sept.,  1667.  He 
graduated  at  Harvaid  College  in  1686,  and  long  kept 
the  Grammar  School  at  Ipswich:  was  Representative 
in  1716;  was  many  years  Town  Clerk.  Justice  of  the 
Quarterly  and  General  Sessions  Courts,  and  a  physi- 
cian 

He  married  Sarah'",  daughter  of  Capt.  John"  Ap- 
pleton   {Samuel^)   and  Priscilla-   (Glover)   Appleton. 

Dr.  Daniel''  Rogers  perished  'in  a  violent  snow- 
storm on  Hampton  Beach,  on  his  way  home  from  a 
judicial  circuit  at  Salisburv,  Mass.,  after  missing  the 
ferry  and  wandering  in  the  marshes,  i  Dec,  1722" 
(V.  Register,  314). 

Children : 

I.  Sarah^  Rogers,  died  30  July,  1694. 

II.  Sarah'  Rogers,  born  27  Apr.,  1694,  died: 

III.  Sarah'  Rogers,  born  29  May,  1695; 
married  John  Watson  of  Plymouth;  (see  p. 
470). 

IV.  Margaret^  Rogers,  born  8  June,  1698-9; 
married  Rev.  Robert  Ward  of  Wenham,  Mass. 

V.  Elizabeth^  Rogers,  married  at  Ipswich, 
Peleg  Wiswall  of  Boston  (grad.  Harv.  1702) 
about  21   Nov.   1719; 

VI.  Priscilla^  Rogers,  married  at  Ipswich 
22  Oct.,  1724,  Rev.  Nathaniel  Leonard  of 
Plymouth ; 

VII.  Mary'  Rogers; 

VIII.  Rev.  Daniel'  Rogers,  born  at  Ipswich, 
17  Oct.  1706.  graduated  at  Har\'ard  College 
1725:  married  Mary,  daughter  oi  Rev.  John 
Whiting  of  Concord,  Mass. ; 


448 

IX.  John'  Rogers,  born  at  Ipswich,  i6  Sept. 
1708; 

X.  Patience'  Rogers,  born  at  Ipswich,  4 
Sept.,  1 710;  married  17  Sept.,  1728,  Capt. 
Joshua''  Freeman,  Sr.,  (Col.  Edmund^,  Dea. 
Thomas^,  Maj.  John^,  Edmond^)  (see  chart, 
p.  276,  and  pp.  278-287). 

XI.  Nathaniel'  Rogers,  born  at  Ipswich,  6 
Aug.,  1 71 2,  died  31  Aug.,  1712. 


THE  APPLETON  FAMILY. 

The  Appleton  family,  while  undistinguished  by  the 
names  of  popular  heroes,  was  one  of  the  oldest  and 
among  the  most  highly  esteemed  county  families  in 
England,  and  had  been  seated  at  Waldingfield  since 
the  fourteenth  century.  From  that  period  the  line 
is  unbroken  down  to  those  of  the  name  in  this 
day  and  generation.  This  line  shown  on  the 
charts  herein,  contains  the  direct  ancestors  of  all  the 
descendants  of  Dr.  Daniel"  Rogers  (see  p.  447)  ; 
Joshua®  Freeman  (see  p.  278)  and  John®  Ouinby 
(seep.  315). 

The  name  is  derived  from  the  Anglo-Saxon  word 
^pl  and  Tun  meaning  apple-garden;  hence  the  name 
Appleton  means  orchard.  It  appears  as  a  place-name 
immediately  after  the  conquest  of  Britain  by  William 
of  Normandy  in  1066,  and  as  the  given  names  of  the 
family  were  Norman — and  indeed  continued  to  be  so 
to  an  unusual  extent  down  to  recent  times — it  is 
reasonable  to  suppose  that  the  first  of  the  Appletons 
was  a  Norman  Knight  accompanying  William  the 
Conqueror  to  whom  was  given  an  estate  called  yEpl- 
tun,  as  a  reward  for  his  military  services. 

It  is  deemed  probable,  said  Mr.  Eben  Appleton  in 
1 8 18,  that  the  family  is  descended  from  W'illiam  de 


449 


APPLETON  AND  ALLIED  FAMILIES 


Bu.tler,A;t 


I 


Catherine 
Cav  borteV 


Robert 


Thomas 
Mountittv 


WELLING     Crane 

to""'' 


llRpbert 
ICrane 


S^n^Wte 


Thomcu 
NV>u«tm3 


Kobert 
Cfo-ne 

.ftilHe 
St<3neha.r« 


O^o-rcL 


Thomas 


Mar^jct 
C-ncL-n-e- 


Thomas 
nVuitneii 


f\oherb 


Moortfneij 


Robert 
Sexto-n 


Ag-nes 
,Jei"nny"n. 


Williu-m 


Coat's  of  Ai-ms' 
/A<Y-oDS  t/,c  tob. 
A>l.|eJ:on.CT^o.T.e.m< 
Ixngion.Ccrj-bonel. 


■^      Across 'totrtom:  ^'"^^y^ko 

BixlTer,Mountn«,.Sexb«.  [^^^ 


Sexto. ^      . 


(Supple 


to  chart  on  p.  276) 


45° 

Appleton  of  Sufifolk  who  died  in  1326,  and  tlie  pomp 
of  whose  funeral  is  a  matter  of  existing  record.  How- 
ever that  may  be,  the  authentic  family  tree  begins  only 
with  John*  of  the  year  141 2,  and  is  based  on  manu- 
scripts preserved  in  the  British  Museum,  known  as 
Harleian  MSS.  1196,  f.  167,  a,  b.  This  is  a  folded 
sheet  written  about  the  time  of  James  I.,  or  Charles  I., 
and  containing  also  the  pedigree  of  the  allied  families 
of  Isaacke,  Hawte,  and  others,  set  forth  also  in  these 
pages. 

The  Appleton  Arms  borne  by  the  line  we  are  dis- 
cussing were  those  of  the  Suffolk  family:  Argent 
a  fesse  sable,  between  tliree  apples  giilcs.  stalked  and 
leaved  vert;  crest,  an  elephant's  head  couped  sable, 
ear'd  or,  in  his  mouth  a  snake  vert,  writhed  about  his 
trunk. 

John'  Appleton  was  living  at  Great  Waldingfield  in 
1396  and  died  14 16.  The  inscription  on  his  tomb  in 
the  church  at  Great  Waldingfield  was  copied  over  two 
hundred  years  after  his  death  and  was  then  legible  to 
the  following  extent : 

*  *  *  John  Appulton  of  Waldingfield  Magna 
*  *  *  ob.  anno  14  of  Hen.  IV.  1416  (.Arms,  three 
apples  gules,  leaves  and  stalks  vert. ) 

His  only  son  of  whom  we  have  record  was  John' 
.A.ppleton  who  was  living  at  Great  Waldingfield  as  the 
records  show  in  the  27th  year  of  the  reign  of  Henry 
VI.,  and  also  in  the  36th  year  of  the  same  reign 
("1457).  He  confinned  lands  to  his  son  John  and 
Jolin's  wife  Margaret  in   1439-     His  children  were: 

I.  John"   Appleton  ; 

II.  Thomas^  Appleton,  living  in  1465. 

John^  Appleton,  the  first  of  the  line  who  is  mention- 
ed as  residing  at  Little  Waldingfield  (about  a  mile 
from  Great  Waldingfield)  married  Margaret,  daugh- 
ter of  Richard  Welling  (see  chart,  p.  449).  The 
inscription  on  his  tomb  was  copied  by  Weever  about 
1630,  and  was  then  readable  to  the  following  extent: 


CHURCH  AT  GREAT  WALOINGFIELD 


•  -  -•^-r39J#>!- 

:—' 

-- 

"^^^[^ 

^^8^£ 

[      . 

HI   ^^^^L 

^ 

Wwm 

Tomb  of  John'  Applcton  below;  sec  p.  450. 


451 

"Orate  pro  aniiiiabus  Johannis  Appulton  ct  Mar- 
GARETE  vxoris  citis  qui  quidem  Johannes  ohijt  g  die 
Aprilisanno  domini  1481  et  prcdicta  jNIxrcareta  obijt 
4  die  Jidij  anno  dom.  1468  quorum     *     *     *." 

[Translation :  Pray  for  the  sonls  of  John  Appulton 
and  Margaret  his  wife  of  whom  John  died  the  9th  day 
of  April  in  the  year  of  the  Lord  1481  and  the  afore- 
said Margaret  died  the  4th  day  of  July  in  the  year 
of  the  Lord  1468,  of  whom     *     *     *.] 

Their  children  were : 

I.  John'*  Appleton,  eldest  son  and  heir;  he 
was  twice  married,  his  first  wife  named  Eliza- 
beth, his  second,  Alice.  They  had  three  daugh- 
ters and  one  son,  ^dim^  Appleton  who  died 
without  issue.  Tohn**  Appleton  died  in  the 
ninth  year  of  the  reign  of  Henry  VH. — the 
year  Columbus  discovered  America. 

IL  Thomas'*  Appleton,  who  married  Mar- 
gery Crane  (see). 


Church  at  Little  Waldingfield,  Suffolk,  England. 

Thomas*  Appleton  of  Little  Waldingfield  married 
Margery,  only  daughter  and  heiress  of  Robert  Crane 
of  Little  Stoneham.  Thomas*  died  4  Oct.  1507,  his 
wife  4  Nov.  1504. 

Their  tombstone  inscriptions,  long  gone  now,  are 
stated  in  Weever's  Ancient  Funeral  Monuments,  494, 
to  have  been  as  follows: 

"Orate  pro  anima  Thome  Appulton  de  Walding- 
feeld  Magna  qui  Thomas  ab  hac  luce  migrauit  4  die 
Octob  ann.  dom.   1507. 


4510 


of  Mary  I  Moiintney) ,  wife  of  Robert-^  Appleton  in 
VValdingfield  Church,  Suffolk,  England. 


452 


Orate  pro  anima  Margerie  Appulton  que  obijt 
Novemb.  anno  dom.  1504  cuius  anime  propitietur 
altissimus.     Amen." 

The  children  of  Thomas  and  Margery  (Crane) 
Appleton  were 

I.  Robert*  Appleton,  married  Mary  Mount- 
ney   ( see ) 

II.  Thomas*  Appleton,  who  became  Rector 
of  Lavenham,  a  village  near  Waldingfield ; 

III.  William*  Appleton,  concerning  whom 
nothing  is  known; 

IV.  Alice*  Appleton,  who  married  Thomas 
Spring  of  Lavenham. 

Robert*  Appleton  of  Little  Waldingfield  married 
Mary,  the  second  daughter  and  co-heiress  of  Tliomas 

Mountney.     She  married  second  Martyn  of 

Long  Melford. 

Robert  died  27  August,  1526. 

A  portrait  in  brass  of  Mary  (Mnuntney)  .Appleton 
appears  on  her  tomb  and  a  picture  of  it  is  here  pre- 
sented on  page  451a. 

The  arms  of  Appleton  quartering  Crane  of  Chil- 
ton and  impaling  Mountney  upon  the  tomb  have  l^een 
much  defaced.  It  is  believed  that  the  brass  figure 
of  her  husband  Robert*  Appleton  is  in  place  on  the 
tomb  but  is  covered  by  a  pew. 

The  inscription  on  the  tomb  as  it  appeared  when 
copied  by  Weever  about  275  years  ago  was  as  fol- 
lows : 

"Orate  pro  animabus  Roberti  Appmlton  generosi 
et  Marie  vxoris  eius  qui  quidem  Robertus  obiit 
27  August!   1526  quorum       *     *     *       Amen." 

Their  children  were 

I.  William"    Appleton,    who   married   Rose 
Sexton;  (sec") 

II.  Edward'*  Appleton,  of  Edwardston,  sec- 
ond son,  married  Alice,  the  daughter  of  Firmin 


453 

Rookwood  of  Huston,  and  died  without  issue. 
He  left  a  legacy  of  £2  annually  to  the  poor  of 
the  parishes  of  both  Waldingfields,  secured  on 
lands  belonging  to  the  estate  of  Holbrook  Hall 
in  Little  Waldingfield. 

William"  Appleton  of  Little  Waldingfield  married 
Rose  sixth  daughter  and  ultimately*  co-heiress  of 
Robert  Sexton  of  Lavenham  (who  died  1517)  and 
his  wife  Agnes  Jermyn.g  His  coat  of  arms  consisted 
of  argent  three  single  wings  gules,  2.  i.  (see  illustra- 
tion bottom  of  p.  449.) 

After  the  death  of  William",  Rose  married  Robert 
Gourdon  of  Assington,  armiger  (i.  e.,  esquire). 

The  children  of  William"  and  Rose  (Sexton)  Ap- 
pleton were 

L  Francisca'  Appleton  who  married  N. 
Littlebury  of  Dedham ; 

n.  Thomas'  Appleton  who  married  Mary" 
Isaacke   (see). 

Thomas''  Appleton  who  was  born  at  Little  Wald- 
ingfield removed  to  London,  where  he  died  in  i6oj 
and  is  buried. 

He  married  Mary,  daughter  of  Edward  and  Marg- 
ery (Wheattel)  Isaacke  (see  p.  464). 

Their  children  were 

L  Mary*  Appleton,  first  daughter,  baptised 
1574.  Married  Robert  Ryece  of  Preston  in 
1589. 

n.  Judith*  Appleton,  second  daughter,  bap- 
tised 1578.  Married  Rev.  Lewis  Bayly, 
Bishop  of  Bangor. 


*Rose  Sexton's  only  brother  had  an  only  son, 
Thomas  Sexton,  who  died  without  issue. 

§  Agnes  Jermyn  (a  famous  English  family  name) 
was  the  sister  of  Sir  Thomas  Jermyn,  Kt. 


454 

III.  Sarah®  Appleton,  baptised  1580,  mar- 
ried first,  Edward  Byrd  of  Walden  in  County 
Essex,  "gen."  (i.  e.  generosus ;  well-born); 
second  Henry  Smythe,  S.  T.  P. 

IV.  Judith*  Appleton,  died  1587  in  infancy. 
(The  parents  evidently  named  this  child  for  its 
elder  sister)  ; 

V.  Sir  Isaacke®  Appleton,  Knight;  he  died 
14  Sept.,  1608.  The  torn  manuscript  shows 
at  this  point  the  words  Maria,  daughter  "A . . 
nij  Cage  armigero"  meaning  that  the  eldest 
son  married  Mary  Cage  (of  a  family  entitled 
to  bear  a  coat-of-arms).  She  married  second, 
Laurence  Cutler.  She  was  born  at  Little 
Waldingfield,  and  was  buried  161 5. 

Sir  Isaacke  by  his  will  in  1608  gave  for  the 
use  of  the  poor  of  Little  Waldingfield,  four 
tenements  in  the  church  yard,  and  also  six 
loads  of  wood,  to  be  equally  distributed  year- 
ly amongst  the  inhabitants  of  said  tenements. 
Today  these  charities  of  himself,  of  Edward® 
and  Thomas®,  are  practically  the  only  me- 
mentoes to  the  inhabitants  of  the  existence  of 
the  Appleton  family  there,  for  so  many  cen- 
turies the  dominating  family  of  the  vicinity. 
The  children  of  Sir  Isaacke®  and  Mary  (Cage) 
Appleton  were  Isaac";  John",  Frances",  Dor- 
othy" and  Mary"; 

VI.  John®  Appleton,  second  son,  baptised 
1582,  buried  at  Chilton; 

VII.  Thomas®  Appleton,  tliird  son,  baptised 
1585,  a  citizen  of  London.  He  died  without 
issue.  Thomas  Appleton,  by  will  in  16 13  gave 
to  the  Parish  of  Little  Waldingfield  for  the 
poor,  ten  loads  of  wood,  to  be  continued  for- 
ever. 

VIII.  Samuel®  Appleton,  fourth  son,  bap- 
tised  1586,  married  Judith   Everard    (see). 


455 


Samuel^  Appleton  was  born  in  1586  at  Little  Wald- 
ingfield,  Suffolk  County,  England.  His  name  first 
appears  in  America,  among  the  persons  who  took 
the   freeman's  oath,   25th  of  the   3d  month    (May) 

1636.  "He  with  three  others,  Robert  Keaime,  Henry 
Flint  and  Daniel  Maude  out  of  sixty-two  persons  then 
admitted  had  the  honorary  prefix  of  Mr.  The  two 
latter  were  clerical.  He  appeairs  to  have  contem- 
plated an  earlier  emigration,  as  we  infer  from  a  let- 
ter from  Gov.  Winthrop  to  his  son  at  Groton,  dated 
August  14,  1630,  and  written  shortly  after  his  ar- 
rival." 

("For  Mr.  Appleton,  take  no  money  of  him.  He 
can  have  no  cows;  there  came  not  on  shore  one-half  of 
them."     I.  Winthrop  376.) 

"Every  circumstance  shows  conclusively  that  his 
emigration  must  have  been  prompted  by  religious  mo- 
tives, as  a  Puritan.  He  settled  at  Ipswich  where  he 
had  a  grant  of  lands ;  a  building  lot  of  eight  acres  in 
the  town  on  the  Topsfield  road,  running  down  to  the 
river;  also  four  hundred  and  sixty  acres,  constituting 
what  are  now  called  the  farms,  lying  on  the  line  of 
the  town  of  Hamilton,  and  bounded  on  one  side  by 
the  Ipswich  river  and  on  the  other  by  Mile  Brook. 
A  large  portion  of  this  farm  is  now  in  the  possession 
of  his  descendants. 

"He  was  deputy  at  the  General  Court,  17th  May 

1637,  and  was  chosen  with  Captain  Daniel  Denison  to 
assist  at  the  Particular  Court  at  Ipswich.  He  was  also 
at  the  court  June  6,  same  year  at  Boston,  and  also  6 
August  when  he  was  on  a  committee  for  raising  a 
rate  of  £400.  He  was  also  present  at  the  court  of 
26  September,  same  year,  but  was  not  chosen  to  the 
new  court,  which  met  on  the  2nd  of  November  fol- 
lowing. We  are  informed  by  Backus  in  his  History 
of  New  England,  of  the  cause  of  his  being  left  out. 
The  former  court  refused  to  support  the  views  of  the 
synod  at  Newton,  which  condemned  eighty-two  er- 
rors in  religion  as  connected  wtih  Mrs.  Hutchison  and 


456 


her  party.  A  new  court  was  chosen,  better  disposed 
to  sustain  the  intolerant  views  of  the  times  which 
banished  Mrs.  Hutchison  and  several  others.  This 
dismission  from  public  life  under  these  circumstances 
is  honorable  to  him,  and  he  does  not  afterwards  ap- 
pear in  it.  Few  particulars  only  can  be  collected  of 
him.  He  was  on  the  grand  jury  in  1641.  In  the 
Massachusetts  Files,  1645,  is  the  will  of  Sarah  Dilling- 
ham made  July  1636,  in  which  she  left  "to  Mr. 
Samuel  Appleton,  five  pounds;  and  to  his  wife  a  silver 
porringer" — ^Samuel  Appleton  married  Mary  (or 
Judith)  Everard  at  Preston,  England.  24  Jan.,  1616 
(IV.  Ess.  Ant.  i).  The  family  of  Everard  was  a 
highly  respectable  one  in  the  county  of  Suffolk.  She 
accompanied  her  husband  with  their  five  children  to 
this  country.  "He  lived  also  at  Reydon  in  England. 
He  died  June,  1670,  at  Rowley,  Massachusetts,  where 
he  was  buried,  and  where  it  is  probable  that  he  had  re- 
sided with  his  daughter,  Mrs.  Phillips,  during  the  lat- 
ter part  of  his  life."  By  Mary  Everard  he  had  the 
following  children : 

I.  Mary"  Appleton,  born  at  Little  Walding- 
field,  1616: 

II.  Judith"  Appleton,  born  1618;  died  at 
Reydon,  Eng.,  1629; 

III.  Martha"  Appleton,  born  1620,  married 
Richard  Jacobs  and  lived  in  Ipswich,  Mass. ; 
she  died  8  Sept.,  1659,  and  he  died  1672; 

IV.  John"  Appleton,  bom  1622  at  Little 
W'aldingfield    (see  p.  457)  ; 

V.  Samuel"  Appleton,  born  at  Walding- 
field  in  1625 ;  he  became  eminent  in  the  French 
and  Indian  Wars  in  which  he  was  Captain  and 
Major;  he  died  15  May,  1696; 

VI.  Sarah"  Appleton,  born  1627,  married 
1 65 1,  Rev.  Sanniel  Phillips  of  Rowley,  Mass. 
She  died  22  Apr.,  1696. 

Judith"  Appleton,  born  1634,  in  Reydon; 
married  SamueP  Rogers  of  Ipswich,  son  of 
Rev.  Nathaniel^  Rogers   (see  p.  393). 


457 

"John^  Appleton,  was  bom  1622  at  Little  Walding- 
field,  and  baptised  17  Nov.  of  that  year.  He  was  the 
eldest  son  of  Samuel,  and  came  to  New  England  with 
his  parents  at  thirteen  years  of  age.  He  was  deputy 
to  the  General  Court  as  Lieutenant  John  Appleton 
from  the  year  1656  to  1664,  when  he  had  the  title 
of  Captain  and  was  Deputy  by  that  title  during  the 
years  1665-7-9-70 1-4-8.  In  the  year  1687  during 
the  Administration  of  Sir  Edmund  Andros,  the  town 
of  Ipswich  determined  to  resist  his  arbitrary  meas- 
ures in  "that  ill  mode  of  raising  money  without  a 
General  Assembly."  This  was  decided  on  at  a  meet- 
ing of  several  of  the  principal  inhabitants  assembled 
at  the  house  of  Mr.  John  Appleton,  the  evening  before 
the  town  meeting  called  for  the  purpose  of  carrying 
the  illegal  edict  into  effect.  The  town  meeting  was 
held  when  the  following  vote  was  passed:  "At  a 
legal  town  meeting  August  23,  1687— they  are  not 
willing  to  choose  a  commissioner — and  moreover  con- 
sent not  that  the  Selectmen  proceed  to  lay  any  such 
rate  until  it  be  appointed  by  a  genuine  Assembly  con- 
curring with  the  Governor  and  Council." 

"On  the  17th  of  September  a  warrant  was  issued 
for  the  apprehension  of  John  Wise  of  Chebacco,  to- 
gether with  Thomas  French,  John  Andrews,  Sr.,  John 
Appleton,  and  'divers  other  disaffected  and  evil  dis- 
posed persons.'  They  and  others  were  brought  to  an- 
swer for  it  without  privilege  of  habeas  corpus  to  a 
court  at  Boston  before  Joseph  Dudley  of  Roxbury, 
Mr.  Stoughton  of  Dorchester,  John  Asher  and  Ed- 
ward Randolph,  Judges,  where  the  parties  were  sev- 
erally sentenced:  John  Appleton  not  to  bear  office, 
a  fine  of  £50  money,  to  pay  costs,  and  enter  into  a 
£1000  bond  for  good  behaviour  one  year.  He  was 
one  of  the  Justices  of  the  Inferior  Court  of  Pleas. 
A  petition  signed  by  the  Freemen  of  Ipswich  in  1667 
represents  him  as  a  gentleman  fully  orthodox  in  his 
judgment  as  to  matters  of  faith  and  points  of  religion 
professed   among   us,    right   good,   honest   and   pious 


458 


and  prudent  in  his  conversation,  true  and  friendly, 
faithful  as  to  the  interests  of  the  Colony  and  govern- 
ment." 


Tombstones  of  John^  and  Priscilla  (Glover)  Appleton  at  Ip 


John  Appleton  died  1699.  His  will  is  dated  Feb- 
ruary 1 6th,  1697-8,  and  was  proved  March  27,  1700. 
He  married  Priscilla  Glover,  daughter  of  Rev.  Jose 
Glover,  (and  Elizabeth  (Harris)  Glover),  at  whose 
charge  the  first  printing  press  was  established  in 
America. 

She  was  born  about  1634,  probably  at  Sutton,  Sur- 
rey, England,  and  was  brought  to  America  in  1638. 

She  was  married,  Oct.  14th,  1651,  to  John  Apple- 
ton,  Esq.,  of  Ipswich,  and  went  there  to  reside  after 
her  marriage.  The  following  entry  respecting  their 
marriage  is  found  in  the  Massachusetts  Colonial  Rec- 
ords, Vol.  3,  248:  "It  is  ordered  by  the  Court  that 
the  Rev.  Henry  Dunster  be  empowered  to  marry  Mr. 
John  Appleton  to  Mrs.  Priscilla  Glover,  who  have 
been  published  according  to  law." 

Their  cliildren  were: 

I.  John^"  Appleton,  born  1652  Lieut.  Col. 
and  Judge  of  Probate;  married  Elizabeth® 
Rogers  daughter  of  President  John^  Rogers 
(see  p.  446).     He  died  1739. 

II.  Elizabeth"  Appleton,  born  1654,  mar- 
ried Richard  Dummer,  Jr.,  of  Newbury,  12 
Nov.,  1673; 


459 

III.  Samuel'"  Appleton,  married  Mary 
Woodbridge   and   died   at   Ipswich,    i6   Aug., 

1693; 

IV.  Priscilla'°  Appleton,  born  25  Dec, 
1657,  married  Rev.  Joseph  Capen  of  Tops- 
field; 

V.  Jose"  Appleton,  bom  27  Mar.,  1660; 
died  II  Apr.,  1660  (Authority:  IV.  Ess.  Ant. 

I)- 

VI.  Jesse'"  Appleton,  merchant  in  Boston, 
and  died  there  unmarried  18  Nov.,  1721  (id.). 

VII.  Sarah'"  Appleton,  bom  19  Aug.,  1671 ; 
married  Dr.  Daniel"  Rogers  (see  p.  447)  ; 

VIII.  Mary'"  Appleton,  born  15  Apr.,  1673; 
Married  Nathaniel  Thomas  of  Marchfield.* 

MOLLINGTON. 

The  arms  of  Mollington  are  found  quartered  with 
those  of  Appleton  and  others  (see  p.  449) »  ^"^  the  an- 
cient pedigree  of  Appleton  in  the  British  Museum 
bears  the  name  Mollington  above  that  of  Butler  there- 
on, and  the  arms  of  Butler  (then  spelt  Boteler),  quar- 
tering Carbonel  are  carved  in  stone  in  several  places 


*In  connection  with  the  Watson  Family  (see  p.  467) 
it  is  of  interest  to  note  that  Priscilla,  the  daughter  of 
Nathaniel  and  Mary'"  (Appleton)  Thomas,  marriea 
John  Watson  of  Plymouth,  who  had  I.  William  Wat- 
son, (whose  daughter  Ellen  married  Hon.  John  Davis 
of  Boston)  ;  II.  George  Watson,  (whose  daughter 
married  Sir  Grenville  Temple)  ;  III.  Elkanah  Wat- 
son. 

Among  the  mottoes  ascribed  to  the  Appleton  arms 
are  the  following:  Difificiles  sed  fructuosae;  Ne  cede 
malis ;  Sursum  prorsum ;  Ex  malo  bonum ;  Malis  forti- 
ter  obsta. 

Much  of  the  foregoing  material  first  appeared  in 
the  Memorial  of  Samuel  Appleton,  1S50. 


460 


in  the  church  at  Great  Waldingfield.  As  Andrew- 
Butler  (see  p.  449)  married  Catherine  Carbonel,  her 
mother  was  evidently  the  daughter  and  heiress  of  a 
Mollington  (see  Chart,  p.  449).  The  Mollington  arms 
are,  argent,  a  fesse  and  two  chevrons  a;:itre  (see  p. 

449)- 

The  Appletons  were,  however,  first  connected  with 
the  Mollingtons  through  John  Appleton,  whose  daugh- 
ter Agnes  married  William  Herilt,  one  of  the  Barons 
of  the  Exchequer,  and  afterwards  Robert  Molyng- 
ton,  brother  of  Sir  Thomas  Molyngton,  Baron 
Wemme.  She  died  1454,  August  29.  She  is  buried 
in  Dartford  Church,  and  her  tomb  bears  a  figure  of 
her  in  brass. 


CRANE  FAMILY 

of  England  in  the  Fifteenth  Century. 
(See  Chart,  p.  449.) 

Arms.  The  arms  of  this  family  of  Cranes  is  given 
as  "argent,  a  fesse  between  three  daggers,  botone  fiche 
gules,  crescent  for  difference"  (see  p.  449). 

William  Crane  married  Margery,  only  daughter  and 
heiress  of  Sir  Andrew  Boteler,  Kt.,  who  died  in  1429, 
and  Catherine  Carbonel  (see  p.  460).  The  Boteler 
arms  of  this  particular  family  were  argent,  three 
covered  cups  per  bend  sable,  cottized  gules.  Miss  Car- 
bonel's  family  arms  were  described  as  follows :  Cucul- 
les,  a  cross  argent,  in  a  border  indented  or.  These  are 
all  illustrated  at  the  bottom  of  the  chart  on  p.  449. 
Their  son  was  Robert-  Crane,  who  lived  at  little  Stone- 
ham,  in  the  reign  of  Henry  VI.  He  married  a  lady 
named  Syngleton. 

Their  son  Robert*  Crane,  of  Little  Stoneham,  mar- 
ried Anna,  daughter  of  Sir  Andrew  Ogard.  Kt..  who 
was  stationed  at  the  military  encampment  at  Buck- 
nam  (Buckingham?)      Their  children  were: 


461 


I.  George^  Crane,  who  predeceased  his 
father,  without  issue. 

II.  Margery^  Crane,  only  daughter  and  sole 
heiress,  married  during  the  latter  half  of  the 
fifteenth  century,  Thomas'*  Appleton  (see  p. 
451),  and  died  in  1504. 


THE  MOUNTNEY  FAMILY 

In  England  during  the  Fifteenth  Century. 
(See  Chart,  page  449.) 

The  first  of  the  Mountney  line  of  whom  we  have 
record,  was  about  contemporary  with  the  first  Apple- 
ton,  who  died  in  1429. 

The  Mountney  arms  of  this  line  were,  azure,  a  bend 
between  six  martletts  or.  The  source  of  the  pedigree 
here  given  is  Harliean  MS.  1196,  fol.  167b,  in  the 
British  Museum.     The  first  of  the  name  recorded  is 

Robert'  Mountney,  whose  son  was  Thomas^  Mount- 
ney, whose  son  was  Thomas^  Mountney,  whose  son 
was  Thomas'*  Mountney,  whose  son  was  Thomas' 
Mountney  of  F  *  *  (illegible),  in  County  of  Essex. 
He  had  ' 

I.  Elizabeth"  Mountney,  who  married  Thom- 
as   *    *    *     (illegible).' 

II.  Mary"  Mountney,  second  daughter,  co- 
heiress with  Elizabeth  of  their  father.  She 
first  married  Robert^  Appleton,  who  died  in 
1526  (see  p.  452).  Her  second  marriage  was 
with  Martin  of  Melford. 


462 


ISAACKE  AND  ALLIED  FAMILIES 


RlZABriH 

JOHN 
ISAACKE 


TOKE 


r'^tf 

1 

t^w"?r 

1 

SirWiiii*»A 
HAWTE 

HEUta 
HORME 

1                    1 

SiRlVrLLiAm 
HAWTE 

JhoRnE 

^^ 

JOHN 


MARGERY 
HAWTE 


WltATTU 


^i^n-'; 


JUDITH 
EVCRARD 


(Supplement  to  Chart  on  p.  276) 


463 

THE  ISAACKE  FAMILY 

of  England,  from  1400  to  1600  A.  D. 
(See  Chart,  page  462.) 

The  pedigree  of  the  Kentish  County  Family  of 
Isaacke  is  given  in  six  generations,  from  approximate- 
ly the  year  1450  to  the  end  of  the  following  century, 
in  an  ancient  manuscript  now  in  the  British  Museum 
(Harleian  MSS.,  1196,  f.  167b). 

No  dates  are  given  in  this  pedigree  until  the  last 
generation  set  forth,  Mary"  Isaacke,  who  married 
Thomas^  Appleton,  who  died  in  1603. 

The  coat  of  arms  of  this  family  are  given  in  the 
same  manuscript  as  "sable,  a  bend,  and  a  leopard's  face 
in  sinister  point,  or." 

The  family  seat  was  Patricksbourne,  County  Kent. 

A  reasonable  amount  of  work  on  the  part  of  some 
of  the  descendants  of  the  Appletons,  the  Rogers,  or 
the  Quinbys,  whose  direct  ancestors  these  Isaackes, 
Hawtes,  Cranes,  etc.,  are,  would  no  doubt  give  many 
particulars  now  concealed  in  the  library  at  18  Somer- 
set St.,  Boston,  and  in  the  British  Museum  and  other 
libraries  here  and  abroad,  concerning  these  families, 
many  of  whom  have  representatives  living  in  this 
twentieth  century,  in  England. 

James'  Isaacke  of  Kent,  married  the  daughter  and 
heiress  of  Condy,  Vice  Admiral  of  the  King,  to  whom 
the  King  gave  the  Manor  of  Hersing,  in  Kent,  after 
which  he  was  called  Condy  of  Hersing.  The  arms  of 
this  family  of  Condy  are:  Barry  undy  14,  argent 
and  azure  surtout  three  anchors  or.  The  son  was 
John^  Isaacke  of  Kent  who  married  the  daughter  and 
heiress  of  Tuke.  The  arms  of  this  Tuke  family  are : 
"p.  cheuro  argent  and  sable,  three  cornish  choughs' 
heads  erased  sable,  countercharged  beaked  gules." 

Their  son  John^  Isaacke  of  Kent  married  the  daugh- 
ter of  Bennett  Guilford.     Their  children  were : 


464 

I.  Jane*  Isaacke,  married  John  Cromer; 

II.  Anne*  Isaacke,  married  Sir  John  Dorrell, 
Kt; 

III.  Ehzabeth*  Isaacke,  married  Reginald 
Gray; 

IV.  Ehzabeth*  Isaacke,  (perhaps  same  as 
foregoing,  but  unhkely,  as  it  often  happened 
that  the  name  of  an  elder  daughter  was  dupli- 
cated later  in  the  same  family),  married  Lewis 
Clifford,  and  had  no  children. 

V.  William*  Isaacke  of  Patricksbourne  in 
Kent,  married  first,  Dorothy,  daughter  of  John 
Brooke,  Lord  Cobham  ;*  married  second,  Mar- 
gery, daughter  of  Sir  Richard  and  Isabel 
(Frowicke)  Hawte  (see  p.  466). 

William*  Isaacke  and  Margery,  his  wife,  had  these 
children : 

I.  Edward^  Isaacke,  eldest  son,  married 
Margery,  daughter  of  Sir  Richard  Wheattel 
(see  p.  466)  ; 

II.  Thomas^  Isaacke,  second  son,  lived  at 
Badow  in  Essex,  married  Alice  Ellis.     (Arms, 

" or,  sur  +  sab.  5  cresc.  arg.")  ;    their 

daughter  and  sole  heiress,  Elizabeth"  Isaacke, 
married  Henry  Drury,  Esq.,  of  Lanshall,  Suf- 
folk. 

III.  ^  Isaacke,  eldest  daughter,  mar- 
ried Rosse  of  Neylonde; 

IV.  ■'  Isaacke,  second  daughter  mar- 
ried Maurice  of  Essex. 

Edward^  Isaacke  lived  at  Patricksbourne  in  Kent, 
and  is  buried  there.  His  first  wife  was  Dorothy 
Jerningham,  of  Callice,  by  whom  he  had  a  daughter: 


*  John  Brooke,  Lord  Cobham,  was  summoned  to 
Parliament  from  19  Aug.,  1472,  to  16  Jan.,  1497; 
married  Margaret,  daughter  of  Edward  Nevill,  Lord 
Abergavenny,  and  died  in  1606  (Burke). 


465 


I.  Jane"  Isaacke,  first  daughter  and  coheiress, 
who  married  first,  Martin  Sidley  of  Gray's 
Inn,  and  second,  Sir  Henry  Palmer,  Kt. 

Edward'*  married  second,  Margery,  third  daughter 
and  third  coiieiress  of  Sir  Richard  Wheattel  (see 
p.  466).     By  her  he  had: 

II.  Alary"  Isaacke,  second  daughter  and  co- 
heiress,   married    Thomas'^    y\])pleton    (see    p. 

453); 

III.  Margaret"  Isaacke.  third  daughter  and 
coheiress,  married  to  John  Jermyn,  Esq.,  of 
Stutton. 


THE  HAWTE  FAMILY. 

For  the  purpose  of  this  work  the  Hawte  family,  dur- 
ing the  fifteenth  century  in  England,  is  taken  only 
from  the  Harleian  Manuscript,  elsewhere  mentioned. 
The  arms  of  this  family  as  set  forth  in  the  British 
Museum  record,  are  as  follows:  Argent,  a  cross  en- 
grailed, gules.  The  first  of  the  family  recorded  is 
two  generations  earlier  than  the  first  of  the  Isaacke 
Family  and  tlicrefore  probably  about  the  year  1375. 
He  was 

Sir  William'  Hawte,  Kt.    His  son  was 
Sir  Nicholas^  Hawte,  Kt.     His  son  was 
Sir  William^  Hawte,  Kt.    His  son  was 
Sir  William*  Hawte,  Kt.,  who  married  the  daugh- 
ter of  Henry  Home,  and  had 

Sir  Richard^  Hawte,  who  married  Isabel,  daughter 
of  Sir  Thomas  Frowicke,  Kt.  Their  three  children 
were: 

I.  Sir  William"  Hawte,  Kt.,  resided  at  Shel- 
vingborne  and  married  Mary,  daughter  of  Sir 
Richard  Guilford,  Kt.  They  had  two  chil- 
dren,  (a)   Elizabeth^  Hawte,  married  Thomas 


4« 

Cult^cper:  (b)  Jaw^  ttawtt^v  ttwnicvl  TlhMtws 
W^i-att  (aUainttxiV    Ndtlwr  had  a«y  children. 

yottM^r  sister  NUiTirery.  n«nri«d  first  Good* 

\IL  Mar^rv*  Haxrtt,  «cv\M*d  daujght«r  aiKl 
c<ofw«re!S$  »«  ij$i»/s  nwmed  Winjaiw*  Isaacke  of 


WHKATTELL  FAMILY. 

f»»  Kttjj^vJWk^  ^K'>i»l  the  -Sit^yYwrt  C^tmry^ 

Thh  E»^«^4  K«i$<«!y  Family.  *>ea*ed  at  C»llk«.  had 
an»»<i  aj!  f^^lK■»x^-^  ^  *>.  ifesse  <**..  a<*d  «^  a  |vaV?  cvmnter- 
<ha»<g^t  tt»ift<e  lkM*«;  ra«*fia«t  garvlaiH  ^  aroKxi  a<yd 
law^^Kvl  CUftW.^"  TW  «Mi«*e  cawve  to  b*  #(y4l<d  Wh*ch' 
«V. 

Ttw  fiif^  o?x  o«r  ift«c\>nK  a  cvM^tw\^v^rary  of  Robert* 
Ayi(f*e?xMi  xdvi  dkd  i«  tNatS.  xra« 

Bmw*  \\T*ett^.  x«rhcs<>e  «v>n  >of*s 

Sir  Ri«c?witvi*  \\">ie*t*ett.  Kt.^  xrtw  Kx>ed  at  dllke. 

I.  -*  WTwattdl   ^Nr  \\T**chill>.  first 

'•SAv^t^r  a5>t5  ooi!l>«ressk  «»TTi«vl  JoJ»n  Rattlyffe> 
LoitxJ  Fitetcaluft,  tt*et-  W?  H«e«Tr.  Ead  of  S«»^ 
«■!(:  <d¥ev1l  tjo^^x  xd>o«<«  swi^  tras;  Robert.  Eart 
of  Swsjsex  (dk^l  ttSfio>.    See  Bsurtje's  Extinct 

XI.  Elisabeth*  \\T*eatt«tt.  «>nvivI  daii^htec 
aift<5   OiSSx^i^ess^    ««an>eyi   J<>!hiw    St.   John   of 

lit.  Mar^erx*  \\1heatteO.  thirvl  <UiȤh^M-  awii 
«i\SlhieiT<ess.  wwmesS  E«Sxtaifvl*  I*«»c^,  of  Fat^ 
ndkdb<3»rae.,  K<«t.    uSee  y*.  ji<h  "^ 


ROBtR 


m 


467 

WATSON-HICKS-HEDGl-:  CHART, 


ninoHtRr    I  |MA((i.Aori| 


wArsoN 


l?.Si„ 


ElKANAH' 
VVATION 


The  above  chart  connects  with  the  chart  on  page 
276. 


THE  WATSONS. 


A   PILGRIM    FAMILY. 


The  surname  Watson  is  eviflently  from  Wat,  the 
nickname  or  abbreviated  form  of  Waher,  a  personal 
name,  says  Iy)wef  (Patronymica  Rrittannica),  "of 
Teutonic  orif^in,  which  was  not  introduccfl  into  Eng- 
land until  after  the  Norman  Conf|uest,"  (A.  D.  io66K 

The  first  of  the  name  on  this  continent  was 

Robert'  Watson,  born  ;  came 

from  London.  England,  to  Plymouth,  Mass.,  and  set- 
tled finally  in  Connecticut.  C Davis,  Landmarks.) 
married  Elizabeth  ,  who  survived  him. 

He  was  one  of  the  first  settlers  at  Plymouth.  He 
died   1637.     Cliildrcn: 


468 

I.  Robert^  Watson,  born  in  England; 
settled  at  Windsor,  married  1646,  Mary, 
daughter  of  John  Rockwell ; 

II.  George^  Watson,  born  1603,  in  England; 
(see  below). 

III.  Samuel-  Watson,  born  in  England ; 

IV.  (?)  Frances^  Watson,  married  John 
Rogers. 

V.  Thomas^  Watson. 

George^  Watson  came  with  his  elder  brother  Robert 
and  younger  brother  Thomas,  to  Plymouth,  with  his 
father  and  mother  about  1632.  Mr.  Dean  in  18  Reg- 
ister, 363  says  this  is  traditional;  but  the  fact  that 
there  was  a  widow  Elizabeth  Watson  in  Plymouth  in 
1638,  who  assigns  over  her  servant  to  Thomas  Wat- 
son, tends  to  confirm  it. 

George  Watson  was  a  resident  of  the  town  of 
Plymouth  in  1633,  and  a  freeman  of  the  Colony  in 
1637.  In  1637  I16  purchased  a  dwelling  house  of  Dea- 
con Richard  Masterson  and  became  a  householder. 
He  married  Phebe,  daughter  of  Robert  Hicks,  who 
was  a  passenger  in  the  Fortune,  in  1621,  and  whose 
wife  Margaret  and  daughter  Phebe  followed  in  the 
Ann  in  the  summer  of  1623.      (See  p.  472.) 

Says  Mr.  Deane:  "Mr.  Watson  was  one  of  the 
most  respectable  and  useful  members  of  the  early  set- 
tlement at  Plymouth,  holding  various  offices  of  trust 
and  faithfully  performing  his  public  duties,  while  his 
prudence  enabled  him  to  become  quite  independent, 
owning  large  tracts  of  land." 

The  bowl  of  wliich  a  picture  is  given  in  this  num- 
ber opposite  p.  469.  was  undoubtedly  brought  by 
George^  Watson  to  Plymouth  from  England,  on  his 
voyage  hither  about  1632,  and  (says  18  Register, 
364),  "has  been  carefully  preserved  and  handed  down 
in  the  family"  for  over  two  and  three-quarters 
centuries. 

It  bears  Mr.  Watson's  initials,  "G.  W."  on  its  base. 
At  his  decease  in  1689,  it  fell  to  his  daughter.  Eliza- 


THE  WATSON   BOW 

(See  p.  468.) 


469 


beth,  wife  of  Joseph  Williams,  of  Taunton,  and  bears 
their  initials,  "I.  E.  W."  Then  it  passed,  requiring 
no  change  of  initials,  to  their  grand-daughter,  Eliza- 
beth, born  at  Norton,  March  29,  171 5-16,  wife  of 
Jacob  White  of  Mansfield,  a  daughter  of  Benjamin 
Williams,  who  subsequently  gave  it  to  her  great  grand- 
son, Nehemiah  Hall,  of  Mansfield,  Mass.,  whose 
initial  "N.  H.,"  it  also  bears,  and  in  whose  possession 
it  was  until  it  was  turned  over  to  the  Old  Colony  His- 
torical Society  of  Taunton,  Mass.,  which  now  has  it. 

He  died  31  Jan.,  1689,  in  his  87th  year.  His  wife 
Phebe,  died  22  May,  1663.     Their  children  were: 

I.  Phebe''  Watson,  married  22  Jan.,  1656-7, 
Jonatlian  Shaw; 

n.  Mar\'^   Watson,  born  about    1641,   died 
I   Dec,  1723,  aged  81;  she  married  21  Aug., 
1662,  Thomas  Leonard  of  Taunton; 
in.  John-"*  Watson,  died  young; 

IV.  Samuel'  Watson,  born  18  Jan.,  1647-8; 

V.  Elizabeth*  Watson,  twin  with  Samuel; 
married  28  Nov.,  1667,  Joseph  Williams  of 
Taunton ; 

VI.  Jonathan*  Watson,  born  9  Mar.,  1651- 
2,  died  young; 

VII.  Elkanali*  Watson,  born  25  Feb.,  1655- 
6. 

Elkanah*  Watson,  born  25  Feb.,  1655-6,  was  the 
only  one  of  George^'s  sons  who  grew  to  manhood. 
He  married  in  1676,  Mercy,  daughter  of  William 
Hedge  (see).  Elkanah  was  drowned  in  Plymouth 
Harbor,  8  Feb..  1689-90  (18  Register,  365). 

Inventory  of  the  estate  of  Elkanah  Watson  late  of 
Plymouth,  appears  on  the  Plymouth  County  Probate 
Records.  It  amounted  to  £614:8:0,  and  was  taken 
by  Ephraim  Morton,  Sr.,  Jonathan  Shaw,  Sr.,  Thomas 
Leonard  and  Thomas  Faunce,  28  Feb.,  1689-90. 
Mercy  Watson  the  widow,  presented  the  inventory  18 


470 


Mar.,  1689-90,  and  was  granted  letters  of  adminis- 
tration. 

After  his  death,  his  widow  Mercy,  married  John^* 
Freeman  of  Hanvich,  and  two  of  her  daughters  mar- 
ried respectively  two  of  his  sons;  and  another  daugh- 
ter, Phebe^  married  a  son  of  his  brother,  Thomas 
Freeman  (see  p.  282). 

Mrs.  Mercy  (Hedge)  (Watson)  Freeman  became 
again  a  widow  and  died  27  Sept.,  1721,  aged  63;  ad- 
ministration on  her  estate  was  granted  to  Nathaniel 
Freeman,  4  Oct.,  1721. 

The  children  of  Elkanah'^  and  Mercy  (Hedge)  Wat- 
son were  as  follows: 

I.  John^  Watson,  born  1678;  married  first, 
26  Jan.,  1 71 5,  Sarah^  daughter  of  Daniel''  and 
Sarah'"  (Appleton)  Rogers  (see  p.  447,  and 
chart,  p.  276).  He  married  second,  8  July, 
1729,  Priscilla,  daughter  of  Caleb  and  Priscilla 
(Capen)  Thomas.  He  died  9  Sept.,  1731. 
Thatcher's  History  of  Plymouth  states  that  he 
was  supposed  to  be  the  richest  man  in  the  coun- 
ty when  he  died. 

n.  Phebe'*  Watson,  born  1681,  married  about 
1703,  Edmund^,  son  of  Deacon  Thomas^  Free- 
man (see  p.  282  and  charts,  pp.  276,  467). 

HI.  Mercy*  Watson,  born  1685,  married 
about  1 701,  John*,  son  of  John^  Freeman,  Jr. 
(Maj.  Jflhn^,  Edmond^,  see  chart,  p.  276). 

IV.   Mary*  Watson,  born  1688,  married  24 
Oct.,  1706,  Nathaniel*,  son  of  John^  Freeman, 
Jr. 
Besides    the    foregoing,    mentioned    by    Davis    in 
"Plymouth  Landmarks,"  the  N.  E.  Gen.  and  H.  Reg- 
ister, 18:  365,  mentions  sons,  but  no  daughters,  (be- 
sides John*,  whose  birth  is  there  given  as  1681),  El- 
kanah*,  born  1677;  William*,  born  1679,  and  George*, 
born  16S0. 


471 

ROBERT  HICKS 
of  Plymouth  Colony. 

The  Robert  Hicks  who  came  in  the  ship  Fortune  to 
Plymouth,  ii  Nov.,  1621,  was  descended  from  Sir 
Ellis  Hicks,  who  was  knighted  by  Edward  the  Black 
Prince,  in  1356,  says  N.  H.  Gen.  History,  on  what 
autliority  the  Editor  of  this  History  cannot  state. 

The  same  work  goes  on  as  follows:  "Elias  Hicks, 
the  Quaker  preacher  and  founder  of  the  Hicksite  di- 
vision of  that  faith,  was  a  descendant  of  Robert  Hicks. 
Thomas  Hicks,  brother  of  Robert,  emigrated  to  this 
country  about   1630  and  settled  in  Scituate,  Mass." 

Robert  Hicks  lived  in  Southwark,  England,  and  was 
there  located  in  Berniondsey  Street,  as  a  fcllmonger, 
or  dealer  in  skins  and  furs,  and  was  there  in  161 6  as 
appears  from  the  following  affidavit  of  Clement 
Briggs  from  the  Colony  records,  taken  in  1638,  quoted 
in  History  of  Scituate,  284: 

"This  deponent  sailli  tliat  about  22  years  since,  this 
deponent  then  dwelling  with  Sam'l  Latham,  in  Ber- 
mondsey  Street,  Southwark,  a  fellmonger,  and  Thomas 
Harlow,  then  dwelling  with  Robert  Hickes,  in  the  same 
street,  fellmonger— the  s^  Harlow  and  this  deponent 
had  often  conference  together,  how  many  pelts  cache 
of  theire  masters  pulled  a  weeke — and  this  deponent 
saith,  that  the  s''  Robert  Hickes  did  pull  three  hun- 
dred pelts  a  weeke,  and  diverse  tymes,  six  or  seven 
hundred  more,  a  weeke;  and  that  tlie  s'^  Robert 
Hickes  sold  his  pelts  for  40s  a  hundred,  at  the  same 
time  that  Sam'l  Latham  sold  his  for  50s." 

Says  the  History  of  Scituate:  "Robert  Hicks, 
brother  of  Thomas,  had  lands  also  in  Scituate"  and 
quotes  the  Colony  Records  for  1662  as  follows: 
"Margaret,  his  widow,  confinns  a  sale  of  fifty  acres 
on  the  North  River,  sold  by  her  husband  in  liis  life- 


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Margaret,  the  wife  of  Robert  Hicks,  followed  him 
to  Plymouth  with  their  children,  in  the  ship  Ann,  in 
1623. 

In  the  division  of  land  amongst  the  Plym- 
outh Pilgrims,  Robert  Hicks  received  one  acre  as  one 
of  those  who  came  in  the  Fortune  in  1621.  This 
land  was  "lying  beyond  the  f  *  *  (illegible)  brook 
to  the  westward."  His  wife  and  children  were  al- 
lotted four  acres  "which  goeth  in  with  a  corner  by  ye 
pond."  This  was  given  them  as  passengers  in  the 
Ann,  1623,  according  to  the  Colony  Records. 

He  owned  also  a  tract  calls  Hicks  Neck,  of  which 
he  sold  a  part  to  Rev.  Ralph  Partridge  who  men- 
tioned it  in  his  will,  1658.      (V.  Reg.  387.) 

In  1627  the  Pilgrims  at  Plymouth  decided  to  dis- 
tribute the  cattle  which  they  then  owned  in  common; 
and  they  divided  themselves  into  thirteen  groups  for 
the  purpose.  The  group  or  company  headed  by  John 
Jenney  contained  Robert  and  Margaret  Hicks  as  well 
as  Samuel,  Eprhraim,  Lydia  and  Phebe  Hicks,  as  well 
as  Edward  Bangs  (see  p.  278).  "To  this  lot,"  says 
the  record  of  Plymouth  Colony,  "fell  the  grate  white 
backt  cow  wch  was  brought  over  with  the  first  in  the 
Ann ;  to  which  cow  the  keeping  of  the  bull  was  joyned 
for  thes  psonts  to  pvide  for.     Here  also  2  shee  goats." 

The  tax  rate  at  Plymoutli  on  Robert  Hicks,  2  Jan., 
1632-3,  was  eighteen  shillings,  for  public  use,  the 
same  amount  as  Capt.  Myles  Standish,  John  Winslow, 
Francis  Cooke  and  others  of  the  prominent  men  of  the 
Colony. 

The  following  year  his  rate  was  reduced  to  twelve 
shillings  while  that  of  Standish,  Winslow  and  others 
remained  at  the  old  figure. 

That  Robert  Hicks  was  active  in  the  afifairs  of  the 
colony,  was  a  man  of  education,  and  was  high  in  the 
confidence  of  the  Pilgrims  is  shown  by  the  frequency 
with  which  his  name  appears  on  the  Plymouth  Colony 
Records.  A  few  such  items  taken  at  random  are  here 
set  forth. 


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Robert  Hicks  and  Francis  Cooke  were  apixjinted 
7-17  Jan.  1632-3  arbitrators  to  settle  a  difference 
about  accounts  between  Dr.  Samuel  Fuller  and  Peter 
Brown.  The  same  year,  1633,  the  records  show  that 
he  owned  land  near  the  Reed  Pond.  On  the  30  July 
the  same  year  his  wife  received  a  legacy  of  twenty 
shillings  under  Samuel  Fuller's  will,  of  which  Robert 
Hicks  was  a  witness. 

The  inventory  of  the  estate  of  Peter  Browne  was 
taken  10  Oct.  1633  by  Capt.  Myles  Standish  and  Elder 
William  Brewster  and  they  reported  there  was  due 
Robert  Hicks  from  that  estate  five  bushels  of  corn 
equalling  one  pound,  five  shillings. 

The  inventory  of  the  estate  of  John  Thorp  was 
taken  15  Nov.  1633  also  by  Capt.  Myles  Standish  and 
Elder  William  Brewster.  His  debts  were  found  to 
include  £2:17:6  due  to  Robert  Hicks. 

The  inventory  of  Francis  Eaton  was  taken  8  Nov. 
1633  and  showed  that  he  owed  two  debts  to  "Mr. 
Hecks,"  one  of  £1  :i5,  the  other  of  £1. 

Oct.  2,  1634  Robert  Hicks  with  Stephen  Plopkins 
took  the  inventory  of  the  estate  of  Stephen  Dean. 

Robert  Hicks  was  a  witness  to  John  Atwood's  will 
20  Oct.,  1643,  and  testified  as  such  on  the  probate  of 
it  5  June.  1644  and  took  the  inventory  with  others 
27  Feb.   1643/4. 

The  children  of  Robert'  and  Margaret  Hicks  were 
as  follows : 

I.  Elizabeth-  Hioks.  married  John  Dicker- 
son; 

H.  Samuel-  Hicks,  married  1645  Lydia, 
daughter  of  John  Doane  of  Eastham,  Mass. 
John  Doane  in  his  will,  dated  1678,  gives  a 
legacy  to  his  "granddaughter  Margaret  Hicks" 
and  died  21  Feb.,  1685,  "aged  about  100  years." 
Samuel^  Hicks  was  a  Deputy  from  Nausett 
(Eastham)  in  1647  and  1648. 

n.  Ephraim^  Hicks  married  1649  Elizabeth, 
daughter  of  John  Howland  of  the  Mayflower, 
and  died   1650. 


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III.  Lydia"    Hicks   married    Edward    Bangs 
(see  p.  278)  ; 

IV.  Daniel-   Hicks  married   Elizabeth  Han- 
more; 

V.  Phebe-    Hicks    married     1G35    George" 
Watson   (see  p.  468). 

Robert  Hicks  died  at  Plymouth  24  Mar.  1647.  His 
will  was  probated  15  May,  1648,  (and  is  set  forth  in 
8  Mayfloivcr  Descendant,  145). 

The  will  of  Margaret  Hicks  of  Plymouth,  widow  of 
Robert  Hicks,  dated  8  July,  1665,  makes  bequests  to 
son  Samuel;  daughter  Lydia;  son  Samuel's  child; 
mentions  son  Ephraim  deceased;  grandchild  John 
Bangs;  son  of  her  son-in-law  George  Watson,  hus- 
band of  her  daughter  Phebe.  George  Watson  and 
Capt.  Southworth  were  appointed  overseers.  Inven- 
tory 5  Mar.,  1665-6,  £53:12:6.      (VI.  Reg.  187.) 

It  is  an  interesting  fact  that  Col.  Edmund^  Free- 
man was  a  second  cousin  once  removed  to  his  wife 
Phebe*  Watson.  Robert  Hicks  was  Col.  Edmund's 
great,  great  grandfather  and  his  wife's  great  grand- 
father, as  a  comparison  of  the  charts  on  pages  276 
and     will  show  at  a  glance. 


THE  HEDGE  ANCESTOR. 

William  Hedge,  of  Lynn  in  1634,  and  afterwards 
Sandwich  and  Ya'nnouth,  married  widow  Blanche 
Lullor  Hull  (Davis,  Landmarks  of  Plymouth,  133). 
His  children  were : 

I.  Elizabeth-   Hedge,    born     1647,    married 
Jonathan   Barnes   of   Plymouth ; 

II.  Mary^  Hedge,  born  1648,  married  a  son 
of  Edward  Sturgis ; 

III.  Sarah-   Hedge,  married   a   Matthews; 

IV.  Abraham-  Hedge. 


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V.  Elisha-  Hedge. 

VI.  William-  Hedge. 
Vn.  John-  Hedge. 
Vni.  Lemuel-  Hedge. 

IX.  Mercy-  Hedge,  married  1676,  Elkanah*. 
son  of  George-  and  Phebe  (Hicks)  Watson. 

The  will  of  Capt.  William  Hedge  appears  on  the 
Plymouth  Probate  records,  dated  30  June,  1670.  He 
makes  bequests  to  sons  Abraham,  Elisha,  William, 
John,  Elemuel,  to  daughters  Sarah  Matthews,  Eliz- 
abeth Bames,  Mary  Sturgis  and  Mercy  Hedge ;  to  his 
sister  and  brother  Brooks;  his  wife  Blanch,  "had 
dealt  falsely  with  him  in  the  covenant  of  marriage, 
and  departed  from  him:"  He  gave  her  I2d.  His 
inventory  was  £487:16.      (VII.  Reg.  235.) 

[Note  I.  William  Hodge  whose  name  appears  on 
the  Plymouth  records  sometimes  spelt  Hedge,  and  who 
married  Mary,  daughter  of  Henry  and  Mary  Andrews 
of  Taunton,  Mass.,  has  been  the  cause  of  some  mis- 
statements by  genealogists  who  have  confused  the 
two. 

Note  2.  Rev.  Frederick  Freeman  in  his  standard 
work  on  the  Freeman  family  says  that  William 
Hedge's  wife  was  a  Bradford;  if  so  she  was  probably 
not  of  Governor  Bradford's  family  as  none  of  the 
women  among  his  descendants  are  eligible  owing  to 
other  marriages. 

Note  3.  Any  information  as  to  "widow  Blanche 
Lull"  (or  Hull)  who  married  William  Hedge  would 
be   gratefully    received.     Ed.] 


476 

The  Batchelder  Family 

(Continued  from  p.  4^0). 

NATHAN"  BATCHELDER. 

In  the  little  New  Hampshire  village  of  East  Kings- 
ton, down  Portsmouth  way,  was  born  Nathan  Batchel- 
der, October  25,  1734.  Nearly  two  years  before  this, 
his  parents.  Deacon  Ebenezer  and  Dorothy  "Boyon- 
ton"  had  been  married.  Ebenezer  Batchelder  was  a 
son  and  a  grandson  of  deacons,  and  his  great,  great 
grandfather  had  been  the  eminent  but  disputatious 
Stephen  Bachiler,  the  Puritan  minister. 

Nathan  was  Ebenezer's  eldest  child,  and  no  doubt 
inherited  the  large  frame,  the  big  nose  and  the  opin- 
ionated and  high  principled  character  of  the  Batchel- 
der race.  His  father  was  a  fanner  who  occasionally 
did  surveying  and  no  doubt  Nathan  learned  the  rudi- 
ments of  both  occupations. 

When  the  new  town  of  Gilmanton  had  been  grant- 
ed to  the  Gilmans  and  their  associates,  there  occurred 
a  considerable  emigration  to  the  newly  laid  out  town, 
and  among  those  who  went  were  Deacon  Ebenezer  and 
his  son,  Nathan.  Mar.  12,  1761  the  proprietors  de- 
cided that  a  new  Parish  had  better  be  laid  out,  and  the 
Deacon  was  appointed  with  others  to  do  the  work. 
He  selected  his  son  Nathan  to  assist  him,  and  three 
months  later,  July  6th,  they  reported  the  completion 
of  their  work.  The  Deacon  was  so  pleased  with  the 
land  that  he  gave  bonds  for  settlement,  and  selected  a 
"range"  for  a  farm. 

Nathan,  meanwhile,  had  married  five  years  before, 
(8  Apr.  1756)  one  of  tlie  farmers'  daughters  of 
Gilmanton,  Margaret^  Bean,  by  name,  and  already  had 
two  baby  boys. 

His  father,  however,  determined  to  return  to  East 
Kingston,  which  he  did,  and  remained  there  till  his 
death  in  1784. 


477 


Nathan  became  llie  leading  man  in  the  new  parish 
of  Loudon,  formed  afterwards  (22  Jan.  1773)  froin 
the  other  parish  (Canterbury)  previously  set  off. 
When  the  inhabitants  held  their  first  town  meeting, 
23  Mar.  1773,  it  was  at  "Esquire  Nathan's"  house, 
and  the  warrant  for  it  was  under  his  hand  and  seal. 
He  was  at  once  elected  parish  clerk,  and  thereafter 
was  a  constant  incumbent  of  all  the  offices  his  towns- 
men could  get  him  to  accept,  including  moderator, 
(an  office  he  filled  year  after  year,  to  1798),  Chair- 
man of  the  Selectmen,  Constable,  representative,  mem- 
ber of  the  Cominittee  of  Safety,  1775,  vendue-mas- 
ter  to  sell  land  for  taxes,  1790,  and  even  served  on 
a  committee  to  appraise  a  stray  swine!  (10  Oct., 
1788). 

From  about  the  time  the  parish  was  set  off  ( 17  Jan., 
1776)  to  1785  he  was  its  only  Justice  of  the  Peace; 
in  the  latter  year  (20  April)  the  inhabitants  petition- 
ed for  another  "not  that  we  would  1)€  understood  to 
have  eny  thing  against  Esqr.  Batchelder,  our  present 
Ju.stice,  but  many  times  we  have  business  in  his  ab- 
sence which  puts  us  to  Extraordinary  cost  or  our  Busi- 
ness must  Lay  unsettled  we  tharefor  Beag  your  Ex- 
clency  and  honors  would  appoint  Capt"  Benj"  Sias," 
etc.,  which  was  accordingly  done. 

Esquire  Nathan  was  one  of  the  signers  of  the  "As- 
sociation Test,"  a  sort  of  New  Hampshire  Declaration 
of  Independence,  3  June,  1776,  and  forwarded  it  to 
the  Assembly  as  chairman  of  the  board  of  Selectmen. 

Esquire  Nathan  was  twice  elected  to  the  Provin- 
cial Congress  of  New  Hampshire,  before  the  Revolu- 
tion and  twice  to  the  legislature  afterwards.  He  was 
the  delegate  of  Loudon  to  the  New  Hampshire  provin- 
cial Convention  which  met  at  Exeter  April  21,  1775, 
not  arriving  till  the  second  day  of  the  session  April 
25.  They  met  "to  consult  on  what  measures  shall  be 
thought  most  expedient  to  be  taken  in  this  alarm- 
ing crisis."  This  session  was  the  Third  Provincial 
Congress    of  N.   H.     The  Fourth  Congress    met    a 


478 


month  later,  i-  May,  1775,  at  tlic  same  place — Ex- 
eter— and  Batcliclder,  again  tlie  Loudon  delegate,  at- 
tended thirteen  out  of  the  eighteen  days.  It  was 
during  this  session  that  he  was  elected  First  Major 
of  Col.  Thomas  Stickney's  regiment,  24  Aug.,  1775. 
He  had  served  as  a  Corporal  for  the  previous  four 
months  (Apr.  2  to  Aug.  11)  in  Capt.  Daniel  Moore's 
Company  of  Col.  Stark's  Regiment. 

His  whole  military  record  is  comprised  in  a  few 
brief  entries  in  the  Revolutionary  War  Rolls.  He 
and  his  company  5  July,  1777,  "marched  for  the  relief 
of  the  Garrison  at  Ticonderoga  on  the  Alarm,  and 
march'd  Seventy  miles  when  we  had  tlie  news  of  the 
Evacuation  of  the  Fort."  On  the  payroll  Major  Na- 
than Batchelder's  salary  is  stated  to  be  £15  per  month 
of  service;  and  as  he  was  discharged  honorably  12 
July,  1777,  after  the  week  of  marching  mentioned 
above,  he  received  £4  for  his  services,  and  rations: 
"28  rations  at  8 £0:18:8." 

Major  Nathan  was  referred  to  in  a  letter  from 
General  Folsom,  dated  16  Mar.,  1776,  to  Col.  Stick- 
ney  as  "Commander  of  the  Forces  from  Loudon, 
Chichester  and  Epsom." 

After  this  episode  he  performed  many  other  good 
offices  for  his  town.  He  is  on  record  as  receiving 
only  his  expenses  for  such  offices.  In  T780  the  Se- 
lectmen "paid  Natlian  Batchelder  £1:17:0  for  four 
and  a  half  days  self  and  horse  to  Exeter  to  hire  sol- 
diers." His  tax  the  same  year  was  "21  bushels.  8 
quarts  of  corn"  on  £385:i4:6d.  He  married  second, 
according  to  "Batchelder  Genealogy"  16  Sept.,  1781, 
Dorothy  Page,  of  Deerfield,  N.  H.  In  1784  and 
again  in  1785  he  was  elected  representative  to  the  State 
Legislature.  He  continued  to  act  as  moderator  up 
to  and  including  1798:  this  with  the  fact  that  his 
highway  tax  in  1801  was  $1.98  is  the  latest  reference 
to  him  I  can  find. 


479 

[References  for  Major  Nathan    Batchclder.] 

D.  Lancaster's  History  of  Gilmanton,  N.  H.,  54. 
Granite  Monthly,  June,   1887   (X.  6)    195.203. 
N.  H.  Revolutionary  War  Rolls,  I.  70. 
N.  H.  Revolutionary  War  Rolls,  I.  253. 
"History  of  Merriniac  &  Belknap  Counties,"  N.  H. 
New  Hamp.  State  Papers,  Vol.  XV.  127,  130. 
New  Hamp.  State  Papers,  Vol.  XVH.  50. 
"Miscellaneous  Rev.  War  Documents"  V.  43. 
N.  H.  State  Papers,  Vol.  XX.  (v.  Index). 
N.  H.  Provincial  Papers,  Vol.  VH.  454. 
Provincial  Pajsers,  Vol.  VH.  469,  577. 
Provincial  Papers,  Vol.  VHI.  24. 
Provincial  Papers,  Vol.  XH.  486. 
Mss.  of  Col.  J.  B.  Batchelder. 

[Cambridge,  28  Mar.,  1893. 

The  children  of  Major  Nathan"  Batchelder  and  his 
wife  Margaret^  Bean,  were: 

I.  Richard'  Batchelder,  born  8  Dec,  1756; 
(see) ; 

H.  Phineas'  Batchelder,  born  16  [18*]  Nov., 
1760: 

HI.  William"  Batchelder,  born  19  Mar., 
1762,  [4  Apr.  (Aug.),  1763*.] 

IV.  Joseph'^  Batchelder,  born  2  Jan.,  1764 
[1765*],  his  great  grandson  was  Governor 
Busiel  of  New  Hampshire; 

V.  Ebenezer'  Batchelder.  born  1 767,  died  in 
infancy; 

VI.  Ebenezer"  Batchelder,  born  2  Oct., 
1769; 

VII.  Dolly'  Batchelder,  born  13  [13*].  Feb., 
1773;  married  Elkanah  Bean  of  Laconia,  N. 
H.: 


*  Dates  in  brackets  show  Judge  Josiah  E. 
Drummond's  differing  dates  as  given  in  Bean 
Genealog}'. 


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VIII.  Josiah'^  Batchelder,  born  24  Jan.,  1775, 
married  Mary  Blake. 

Richard'  Batchelder  (Maj.  Nathan'^,  Dea.  Ebenez- 
er",  Dea.  Nathaniel'^,  Jr.,  Dea.  Nathaniel^,  Sr.,  Na- 
thaniel"^ Rev.  Stephen}),  was  bom  in  1754  and  lived 
at  Loudon  Ridge,  where  he  had  a  farm.  He  married 
Abigail  Boynton. 

Richard^  died  12  Aug.,  1834,  aged  79  y.,  7m.,  2GA. 

Abigail  (Boynton)  Batchelder  was  a  woman  of  re- 
markably strong  character,  and  her  courage  and  de- 
termination are  shown  by  her  submitting  to  amputa- 
tion of  the  leg  on  account  of  cancer  when  she  was  over 
seventy  years  of  age,  without  anesthetic.  It  is  said 
that  she  did  not  utter  a  sound  or  lose  a  detail  of  the 
operation.  Twenty  years  later,  at  the  age  of  ninety- 
one,  she  died  from  cancer  of  the  breast.  She  was 
born  about  1759  and  died  1850.  They  are  buried 
at  Loudon  Centre,  N.  H. 

Children  born  at  Loudon  Ridge,  N.  H. : 

I.  William-   Batchelder,  born 

II.  Nathan*  Batchelder,  born  6  Sept.    1787 
(see) 

III.  Joshua*  Batchelder,  born         1791  ; 

IV.  Ebenezer*  Batchelder; 

V.  Richard*  Batchelder,  died  in  infancy; 

VI.  Mahala*   Batchelder,   died   in  infancy. 

Nathan*  Batchelder  {Richard'',  Nathan'^,  Ehenezer^, 
Nathaniel*,  NathanieP,  NathanieP^  Stephen^.)  was 
born  6  Sept.,  1787,  at  Loudon,  N.  H.  He  received  his 
schooling  there  and  kept  for  a  time  the  country  store. 
He  was  elected  to  the  State  Legislature  and  served  as 
Re])resentative  for  two  terms.  About  1827  he  went  to 
what  is  now  Ward  6  of  the  City  of  Laconia  and  built 
a  cotton  mill,  a  woollen  mill,  a  saw  mill  and  a  grist 
mill,  all  on  the  west  side  of  the  Winnepesaukee  River, 
utilizing  its  fall  for  power.     All  these  mills  he  owned 


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and  managed  himself.  The  village,  afterwards  known 
as  Lake  Village  and  later  as  Lakeport,  then  was  known 
as  Batchelder's  Mills. 

The  following  is  from  an  article  by  tlie  late  Dr.  Os- 
sian  W.  Goss  in  the  Granite  Monthly,  Sept.,  1881. 

"Mr.  Batchelder,  father  of  Mrs.  B.  J.  Cole,  came  to 
Folsom's  Mills,  (Lake  Village  now)  in  the  month  of 
December  (1827).  He  settled  on  the  west  side,  and 
purchased  the  interests  of  Mr.  Folsom.  Now  we  no- 
tice a  change  in  nomenclature  to  Batchelder's  Mills. 
Mr.  Batchelder  built  and  occupied  the  building  now 
owned  by  the  Lake  Co.  called  the  boarding-house.  The 
grist-mills  were  removed  and  a  larger  one  constructed. 
The  cotton  mill  was  used  for  the  manufacture  of  cloth. 
The  cotton  or  wool  rolls  were  carded  for  the  women 
to  spin.  The  cloth  was  dressed  by  them.  Most  of 
the  clotli  made  was  for  men's  wear.  This  mill  stands 
today  and  is  used  by  Robert  Appleton  for  knitting  anrl 
dying  stockings." 

The  mill  last  referred  to  was  destroyed  by  fire 
about   1SR5. 

Rev.  C.  W.  Wallace  married  Nathan*'  Batchelder 
to  Peace,  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Lydia  C Moody) 
Clifford  in  March,  1810.  Nathan"  Batchelder  remov- 
ed to  Manchester,  N.  H..  about  1842  and  lived  there 
until  his  death.  He  took  and  carried  out  several  con- 
tracts for  the  construction  of  the  Amoskeag  Company's 
canal.  Rev.  C.  W.  Wallace  preached  his  funeral 
sermon. 

Peace  (Clifford)  Batchelder  was  born  13  Sept., 
1791,  in  Gilmanton,  N.  H.,  about  a  mile  from  the  place 
in  Loudon  where  her  husband  was  born.  Died  29 
Mar.,  1869,  at  Manchester,  N.  H.,  of  an  abscess  in  the 
lungs,  as  it  was  called,  and  both  are  Ixiried  at  Man- 
chester. N.  H. 

The  portrait  of  Nathan*  and  Peace  Batchelder  re- 
produced in  this  number  was  painted  by  a  native 
Cliinese  artist  in  China  from  a  daguerreotype,  and  the 


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camphorwood  frame  of  which  only  a  part  is  shown  in 
the  picture,  was  also  a  product  of  Chinese  art. 

Children  of  Nathan"*  and  Peace  (Clifford)  Batchel- 
der: 

I.  Abigail  B.^  Batchelder,  born  29  Apr., 
181 1,  died  24  Feb.,  1876;  she  married  Fred- 
erick Abbott,  no  children. 

II.  Jeremiah  Clififord*  Batchelder,  born  8 
Jan.,  1813,  died  6  Oct.,  1875  ;  married;  no  chil- 
dren; (see  portraits)  ; 

III.  William^  Batchelder,  born  23  Feb., 
1814,   married;   died    (see   portraits); 

IV.  Jonathan  S.^  Batchelder,  born  10  Mar., 
1816,  died  2-]  May,  1849;  '"  California,  un- 
married ; 

V.  Mehitable  Aborn"  Batchelder,  born  26 
Sept.,  1818;  married  Benjamin  James''  Cole 
(see  pp.  22"],  361)  and  died  15  July,  1893; 

VI.  Nathan  Oilman^  Batchelder,  born  15 
Nov.,  1 82 1,  married  23  Jan.,  1850,  Martha  S. 
Prescott  and  died  24  Sept.,  1887;  she  died 
I  May,  1900  (see  portraits)  ; 

VII.  Asa  C.9  Batchelder,  born  22  May,  1823  ; 
died  12  July,   1874;  unmarried: 

VIII.  Joseph  Moody®  Batchelder,  born  i 
Apr.,  1826;  married  7  Feb.,  1855,  Elizabeth 
Aiken  Mitchell;  he  died  16  Aug.,  1883 ,  at  Ha- 
kone,  Japan ; 

IX.  Richard  Napoleon®  Batchelder,  born  27 
July,  1832;  General  Batchelder's  military  ca- 
reer, both  during  the  Civil  War  and  afterwards 
as  Quartermaster-General  of  the  United  States 
Army  is  a  part  of  American  History.  He  died 
at  Washington,  D.  C,  unmarried,  4  Jan  ,  1901. 


{To  he  continued.^ 


SUNS  OF  NATHAN-<AND  PEACE   (CLIFFDRHi   BATCHELUER 
Joseph  M.  Asa 

Nathan  G.  jERtviiAH  C.  Richard  N. 

I  From  a  daguerreotype  in  the  possession  of  the  Eililor.) 


JKKEMIAH  C'^'ANI)  .SARAH  J.   BATCHELDER 
WILEIAXr'AND  MARY   BATCHELDER 

I  See  |..  4,S2.) 


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THE  BEAN  FAMILY 

By  Judge  Josiah  H.  Dnanmond. 

The  Beans,  Baines,  Baynes,  MacBeans,  MacBains, 
and  MacVeans,  as  variously  spelled  are  undoubtedly 
the  descendants  of  the  old  clan,  Vean.  In  Gaelic,  the 
letters  B  and  V  are  interchangeable,  so  that  Vean 
and  Bean  are  the  same  names  as  well  as  MacBean 
and  MacVean.  The  prefix  "Mac"  signifies  son  and  is 
very  much  like  our  affix  "junior."  MacBean  is, 
therefore,  "the  son  of  Bean"  or  "Bean,  Jr." 

The  true  origin  of  the  name  of  the  family  is  not 
settled ;  some  claim  that  the  name  is  derived  from  the 
families  living  in  a  high  country,  "Beann"  being  the 
Gaelic  name  for  a  mountain;  but  the  more  generally 
received  opinion  is  that  it  is  derived  from  the  fair  com- 
plexion of  their  progenitor.  "Bean"  means  fair  and 
is  often  used  by  Highlanders  to  distinguish  a  par- 
ticular man  of  fair  complexion;  as  "Dhu"  was  used  to 
identify  or  describe  a  man  of  dark  complexion 

The  Veans  or,  as  more  frequently  called  in  Scottish 
history,  the  MacBeans,  were  one  of  the  tribes,  or 
families  or  septs,  which  made  up  the  famous  Clan 
Chattan,  so  old  that  its  origin,  original  home,  and 
even  its  name  are  unknown. 

It  existed  and  occupied  Lochaber  for  some  time  (but 
how  long  cannot  be  told)  before  the  year  1300.  It  was 
made  up  of  sixteen  tribes,  which  united  in  a  confed- 
eracy, either  on  account  of  ties  of  blood,  or  for  mu- 
tual protection,  most  probably  the  latter.  They  were 
a  fierce  generation  and  not  often  at  peace  with  their 
neighbors.  Incredible  as  it  seems  in  these  days,  in 
1396  a  quarrel  of  long  standing  between  this  clan  and 
its  rival  was  fought  by  thirty  champions  on  each  side, 
in  the  presence  of  the  King  and  the  whole  court  of 
Scotland.  Walter  Scott,  in  his  "Fair  IMaid  of  Perth," 
has  described  this  battle  in  such  a  manner  that  the 
devoted  lovaltv  of  the  clansmen  to  their  chiefs,  makes 


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the  reader  forget  the  terrible  scenes  of  bloodshed  and 
violent  death.  At  the  end  of  the  fight,  scarce  seven 
remained  alive ;  the  Clan  Chattan  was  the  victor ;  the 
dissolution  of  the  rival  confederacy  immediately  fol- 
lowed. "The  Clan  Chattan,  on  the  other  hand,"  says 
Scott,  "continued  to  increase  and  flourish ;  and  the  best 
families  of  the  northern  Highlands  boast  their  descent 
from  the  race  of  the  Cat-a-Mountain." 

Fifteen  years  later  was  the  battle  of  Harlaw,  in 
which  Lord  Mar,  with  steelclad  knights,  attacked  ten 
times  their  number  of  Highlanders,  fighting  with 
sword  and  target ;  undaunted  by  the  fearful  slaughter 
among  them,  the  latter  fiercely  maintained  the  fight 
till  night;  but  they  were  so  weakened  that  thev  made 
peace  the  following  year.  This  battle,  fought  over 
again  for  more  than  a  hundred  years  by  school  boys  in 
their  play,  celebrated  in  music,  song  and  story,  "was 
the  final  contest  for  supremacy  between  the  Celt  and 
Teuton."  The  Clan  Chattan  was  in  this  battle  and 
the  fierce  courage  with  which  they  fought  is  attested 
by  the  fact  that,  in  proportion  to  their  number,  their 
loss  was  much  greater  than  that  of  any  otlier  clan  en- 
gaged. 

The  submission  of  the  Highlanders  to  the  King  of 
Scotland  was  not  followed  by  the  hoped  for  results, 
and  in  1424,  King  James  found  them  "in  a  state  of 
the  most  fearful  insubordination."  The  vigorous 
measures  taken  by  James  brought  a  degree  of  quiet, 
but  an  insurrection  was  attempted,  the  leader  relying 
upon  the  aid  of  the  Highland  clans  ;  but  the  Clan  Chat- 
tan, to  a  man,  joined  the  King,  and  the  rebels  were 
disastrously  defeated. 

I  have  not  had  the  time  to  prepare,  and  you  would 
not  have  the  patience  to  hear,  an  account  of  this  clan 
during  the  two  or  three  following  centuries.  Suffice 
it  to  say,  that  the  clan,  in  spite  of  internal  dissensions 
and  external  conflicts,  continued  its  existence  and 
maintained  its  character  for  devoted  loyalty  to  those 
to  whom  it  was  loval,  and   for  its  almost   ferocious 


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bravery.  At  tlie  liattlc  of  Culloden,  nearly  one  hun- 
dred years  after  John  Bean  had  settled  here,  a  Mac- 
bean  of  gigantic  stature  set  his  back  against  a  dike  wall 
and  dispatched  thirteen  of  his  assailants,  before  he  was 
overcome. 

But  during  these  years,  it  is  evident,  that  many  of 
the  family  or  tribe  of  Beans  had  left  the  seat  of  the 
clan  and  sought  homes  for  themselves  elsewhere. 
Many  of  these  advanced  in  civilization  and  edtication, 
and  became  peaceable  subjects,  almost  literally  "turn- 
ing their  swords  into  ploughshares  and  their  spears 
into  pruning  hooks."  Many  of  them  v>ere,  or  became. 
Presbyterians,  and  on  account  of  the  religious  dissen- 
sions, which  constantly  prevailed,  crossed  over  into 
Ireland,  where  those  of  a  similar  faith  and  experience 
came  to  be  known  as  Scotch-Irish,  that  is,  people  of 
Scotch  descent  residing  in  Ireland.  At  a  very  early 
date  after  the  settlement  of  this  country  commenced, 
these  people  began  to  come  to  America. 

So  that,  while  the  family  has  not  been  traced  back 
"across  the  water,"  it  is  morally  certain  that  it  comes 
from  Macbeans  of  the  Clan  Chattan,  who  separated 
from  the  Clan  and  gave  themselves  to  the  pursuits  of 
agriculture  in  homes  other  than  the  fastnesses  of  their 
native  mountains. 

It  is  known  that  three  distinct  families  came  to  this 
country  about  the  same  time.  One  settled  in  Virginia, 
one  in  Maine,  and  one  in  New  Hampshire.  How 
nearly  they  were  related  to  each  other,  or  if  they  wer,; 
only  descended  from  the  same  original  family,  is  not 
known.  There  is  no  evidence  that  they  were  brothers, 
as  has  been  suggested,  and  although  the  name  was 
pronounced  alike  in  all  three  places,  tlie  fact  that  the 
Virginia  family  were  largely  Bains,  the  Maine  family 
Banes,  and  tlie  New  Hampshire  family  Beans,  is  evi- 
dence of  some  weight  that  they  were  not  brothers. 

John  BeanS  the  Immigrant,  was  of  Scottish  descent 
and  perliaps  born  in  Scotland.  He  was  a  Presbyterian 
and  undoiil)tedlv  was  one  of  those,  or  a  son  of  one  of 


those,  who  left  Scotland  in  order  to  enjoy  his  religious 
belief  without  persecution.  However,  about  all  that 
is  known  concerning  his  previous  history  is  by  infer- 
ence from  what  we  know  of  him  after  his  arrival,  aid 
ed  by  tradition. 

He  had  settled  in  Exeter  as  early  as  1660,  for  on 
January  twenty-first  of  the  following  year,  a  grant  of 
land  was  made  to  him  by  that  town :  other  grants  were 
made  to  him  Oct.  10,  1664,  Ap'l  i,  1671  and  Feb'y 
21,  1698:  Jolin  Ted  of  Exeter  also  conveyed  to  him, 
by  deed  dated  July  10,  1664,  acknowledged  July  22, 
1664  but  not  recorded  till  May  25.  1719  (and  not 
indexed),  land  in  Exeter  consisting  of  a  house  lot  of 
twenty  acres,  and  otlier  lots  containing  ten,  five  and 
twenty-six  acres  respectively.     Book  XL,  4. 

In  1671,  he  was  one  of  a  committee  chosen  to  run 
the  lines  between  Exeter  and  adjoining  towns;  he  took 
the  oath  of  allegiance,  Nov.  30,  1677;  he  was  assessed 
in  the  "Province  rate"  for  Exeter  made  Ap'l  20,  1680, 
eight  shillings  and  a  penny ;  and  was  pound  keeper  the 
same  year;  he  signed  the  famous  New  Hampshire 
Petition  of  1689-90.  He  was  married  before  he  came 
to  this  country,  but  the  name  of  his  wife  and  the 
date  of  his  marriage  have  not  been  ascertained ;  the 
tradition  is  (and  other  known  facts  support  it)  that 
she  died  on  tlie  voyage  and  that,  after  his  arrival  here, 
he  married  a  Scotch-Irisli  girl,  who  came  over  in  the 
same  vessel  with  him.  The  date  of  this  second  mar- 
riage is  not  known,  but  it  was  in  1660,  or  about  that 
date ;  nor  is  her  full  name  known,  but  her  given  name 
was  Margaret.  Margaret  Bean  joined  the  Hampton 
church  in  1671  ;  among  those  who  were  dismissed 
from  Hampton  church,  Sept.  11,  1698,  "in  order  to 
their  being  incorporated  into  a  church  state  in  Exeter," 
was  "Goodwife  Bean"  ;  and  Margaret  Bean  was  one  of 
those  wlio  organized  the  church  in  Exeter,  Sept.  21, 
1698.  The  wife  of  John  Bean'  could  have  been  the 
only  Margaret  Bean  in  1671,  who  was  Margaret  Bean 
and  "Goodwife  Bean"  in  1698.     She  was  living  and 


48; 

a  member  of  tlic  Exeter  cliurch  in  1705;  the  date  of 
her  death  is  unknown,  but  it  preceded  tliat  of  lier  hus- 
band. 

He  died  in  1718,  between  January  24  and  February 
8,  as  is  shown  by  deeds,  to  be  mentioned  presently. 
He  and  his  wife  were  undoubtedly  buried  in  the  yard 
of  the  old  church  in  Exeter;  undoubtedly  all  traces 
of  their  graves  disappeared  long  ago,  and  the  more 
recent  filling  of  the  yard  to  raise  its  surface,  has  near- 
ly obliterated  all  the  marks  of  this  old  burial  place. 

No  complete  record  of  his  children  is  extant;  and 
it  was  not  till  tlie  very  recent  discovery  of  the  record 
of  a  deed  that  the  full  list  of  the  names  of  his  children 
was  ascertained  and  errors,  previously  made,  correct- 
ed; and  even  now  the  correct  place  of  one  of  them 
in  the  list  is  not  known. 

Children : 

By  first  wife,  "born  across  the  sea'': 

I\Iary2.  b.  June   18,    1655. 

By  second  wife,  born  in  Exeter: 

John^,  b.  Aug.  15,  1661  ;  d.  May  18,  1666. 
Henry^  b.  March  5,  1662/3;  d.  in  infancy; 
probably  the  son  of  first  wife  and  born  earlier. 
DanieP,  b.  March  23,  1662/3. 
Samuel,^  b.  March  23,  1665/6. 
John^,  b.  Oct.  13,  1668. 
Margaret-,  b.  Oct.   27,   1670. 
James^,  b.  Dec.  17,  1672  (see  below). 
Jeremy^,  b.  Ap'l  20,  1675. 
Elizabeth^,  b.  Sept.  24,  1678. 
Catherine^,  b. 

His  wife  died  probably  in  171 4.  for  he  then  began 
to  make  disposition  of  his  property  among  Iiis  heirs, 
providing  for  his  own  maintenance  only. 

On  Dec.  2,  1714,  he  conveyed  to  "my  wel  Belov" 
son  Sam"  Bean  of  ye  same  Exeter,"  in  consideration 


of  love  and  affection,  the  one  hundred  acres  granted 
to  him  by  the  town  of  Exeter  in  1698.  B.  XXIII., 
303- 

On  Jan'y  24,  1 714/15,  he  conveyed  to  his  "beloved 
grandson,  John  Bean  of  ye  same  Exeter,  ye  son  of  my 
son  James  Bean,"  the  Hackett  lot  of  twelve  acres  and 
his  fresh  meadow  lot,  reserving  the  use  of  one-half 
the  house  and  barn,  describing  the  lot  as  the  one  "upon 
which  my  dwelling  house  and  barn  stand."     B.  IX., 

239- 

By  deed  dated  June  27,  171 5,  and  recorded  the  next 
day  (B.  IX.,  300)  John  Bean,  Sen"',  of  Exeter,  hus- 
bandman, conveyed  to  "my  well  beloved  son,  John 
Bean,  Jun''"  of  Exeter,  for  "love,  good  will  and  af- 
fection," two  tracts  of  land  in  Exeter,  one  of  them 
bounded  partly  on  "ye  land  I  gave  my  grandson,  John 
Bean,"  "together  with  ye  half  of  my  dwelling  house 
and  ye  one-half  of  my  barn,  said  Jolin  Bean,  jun*", 
providing  suitable  maintenance  for  me  during  my  na- 
tural life  both  in  food,  apparell  and  other  things  con- 
venient for  me,  and  at  twelve  months  after  my  decease 
to  pay  to  his  four  sisters,  viz,  Mary  Judkins,  Margaret 
Taylor,  Elizabeth  Sinkler,  and  Catherine  Dolloff,  ten 
pounds  apiece  in  money." 

On  Jan'y  24,  1 717/18,  he  conveyed  to  his  son  Daniel 
(B.  X.,  187)  in  consideration  of  love  and  afifection 
thirty  acres  of  land  in  Exeter,  granted  to  him  by  the 
town  [Oct.   10,   1664]. 

This  is  the  latest  deed  from  John  Bean^  shown  b> 
the  records ;  he  died  within  a  few  days  afterwards,  for 
on  Feb'y  8,  1717/18,  SamueP  released  to  his  brother 
John  Bean  (omitting  the  "Jr")  all  his  rights  in  the 
dwelling  house  "whicli  was  our  father's."  B.  XXI.. 
160. 

The  deeds  from  John  Bean^  are  signed  bv  his  marks 
— a  circle — and  the  name  signed  in  all  cases  wliich  I 
have  found  is  "John  Bean." 

James*  Bean  (John^)  was  born  in  Exeter,  Decem- 
ber 17,  1672;  the  name  of  his  first  wife  is  not  known, 


'   '"'"'    ji.srml'm.lpv?'   '     "''^'^^•"TTi  BATCHKLDKR   AM,  T„KIK  SON 
Jnsl.n,   H..,NR^.o.,\x„(APT.   NAIIIAX   PJ    HAT(  HKLI.KK 


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but  believed  by  some  to  have  been  Coleman;  he  mar- 
ried, December  — ,  1697,  Sarah  Bradley,  born  in  1677, 
as  his  second  wife;  she  died,  July  17,  1738,  and  he 
married,  November  2,  1738  Widow  Mary  [Prescott] 
[Coleman]  Crosby;  she  died,  January  3,  1 740/1,  and 
he,  January  6,  1753. 

Children,  by  first  wife,  born  in  Exeter: 

John^,  b. 
Edward-"*,  b. 

Children,  by  second  wife,  born  in  Kingston: 

Benjamin*,  b.  May  15,   1699. 
Margaret',  b.  Ap'l  16,  1702. 
Joseph',  b.  Oct.  17,  1704.     (See  below.) 
Jeremiah',  b.  Ap'l  9,   1707. 
Samuel',  b.  Jan'y  11,   1710/11. 
Catherine',  b.  Aug.  2,  171 4. 
Rachel',  b.  [Doubted.] 

The  Kingston  Church  record  has  tliis: 

"1738,  July  17,  in  the  morning:  Died  Sarah,  wife 
of  James  Bean,  etaiis  61  ;  she  had  been  an  infirm 
woman  for  a  long  time;  when  I  visited  her  a  few 
days  before,  she  seemed  in  a  very  Christian  frame  & 
by  w'  I  could  judge,  we  have  comfortable  hope  of 
good  estate." 

An  order  was  passed  by  the  Provincial  Legislature, 
Oct.  22,  1707,  reciting  that  James  Bean  and  Daniel 
Bean  were  absent  from  Kingston  and  ordering  them 
to  return  home.     2  Prov.  Papers,  p.  570. 

James  Bean  was  a  member  of  Kingston  Church 
when  "Rev.  Mr.  Ward  Clark  took  charge  of  the 
church,  viz.  Sept.  ye  29,  1725,"  and  "Sarah  Bean, 
James's  wife,"  was  adrnitted  Feb'y  6,  1726.  The 
record,  that  has  been  preserved,  commences  at  the 
former  date  and  Daniel,  Samuel  and  Joseph  Bean 
were  also  then  members. 


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Tlie  town  of  Exeter  granted  to  him  tliirty  acres  of 
land  Feb'y  21,  1698,  and  he  became  quite  an  extensive 
landowner  in  Kingston. 

On  May  30,  1735,  he  conveyed  to  Jeremiah  Bean, 
S"".,  of  Exeter,  land  in  Exeter  being  "ye  eleventh  part 
of  all  ye  real  estate  of  my  Honour**  ffather,  John 
Bean,  late  of  Exeter,  Dec'*."  B.  XXL,  158.  What 
the  purpose  of  this  deed  was,  or  upon  what  idea  it 
was  based,  I  have  been  utterly  unable  to  even  guess! 

Among  the  numerous  deeds,  are  these:  one  dated 
March  7,  171 6,  of  land  in  Kingston,  to  son  Edward 
of  Exeter,  (B.  IX.,  386);  one,  dated  June  9.  1729, 
of  land  in  Kingston,  "to  son,  Samuel  Bean  of  Kings- 
ton," (B.  XVI.,  523);  one  dated,  Nov.  30,  1730,  of 
land  in  Kingston,  "to  my  well  beloved  son.  Joseph 
Bean  of  Kingston,"  (see),  (B.  XXL,  57);  and  one, 
dated  Aug.  5,  1731,  of  land  in  Exeter  to  "my  well  be- 
loved son,  Benjamin  Bean,  of  Eastham,  Mass."  B. 
XVIIL,  74. 

In  1734,  Samuel  Bean  refers,  in  a  deed,  to  the  lot 
"on  which  my  father,  James  Bean,  now  dwelleth." 

Joseph^  Bean  {James^,  John^)  was  bom  in  Kings- 
ton, October  17,  1704;  he  married,  March  16,  1724/5, 

Hannah   Davis,   daughter   of  and   Mary    [ — ] 

Davis;  he  died,  Januaiy  7,   1767,  and  she  in   1788. 

Children,  born  in  Kingston: 

Colman'',  bap.  Feb'y  6,   1725/6;  d.  July  9, 

1731- 

Margaref*,  bap.  Nov.  26,  1727;  d.  June  28, 

1735- 

MirianT*,  b.  Feb'y  19,  1729/30;  bap.  June 
21.   1730. 

Joseph*,  bap.  Jan'y  7,  1732;  Seth*,  bap.  RLiy 
12,  1734.  One  died,  June  25,  1735.  and  the 
other  June  2j,  1735. 

Seth*,  b.  Ap'l  8,  1736;  bap.  Ap'l  it,  1736; 
d.  Mar.  31,  1737. 


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Margaret^  b.  Aug.  12,  1738;  bap.  Aug.  13, 
1738;  married  Major  Natlian''  Ratchelder 
(see). 

Sarah*,  b.  Ap'l  19,  1740;  bap.  Ap'l  27,  1740. 
Joseph*,  b.  Sept.  30,  1742;  bap.  Oct.  3,  1742. 
Peter*,  b.  Jan'y  28,   1744/5:  bap.  Feb'y  3, 
1744/5- 
His  will  (of  Kingston),  d.  Dec.  13.  1766,  p.  Jan'y 
12,   1767,    (Vol.   XVIIL,  336)   mentions  wife  Han- 
nah; sons  Joseph  and  Peter;  daughters,  Miriam,  wife 
of  Jacob  French,  Margaret,  wife  of  Nathan"  Batchel- 
dcr,  and  Sarah;  also  daughter  French's  oldest  son; 
grandchildren,  Joseph  French  and  Joseph  Batchelder; 
and  son-in-law,  Nathan"  Batchelder.     William  Parker 
of  Kingston  and  son  Joseph,  Ex'ors. 

Will  of  Hannah  Bean  of  East  Kingston,  (widow 
of  Joseph,  late  of  East  Kingston,  deceased)  d.  Nov. 
17.  1785,  P-  Dec.  8,  1788,  (Vol.  XXIX.,  30,)  men- 
tions daughter  Sarah  Smith,  who  was  named  as  execu- 
trix. 

Joseph  Bean  was  a  member  of  the  churcli  at  East 
Kingston,  at  its  organization,  Oct.  22,  1739,  and  his 
wife,  Hannah,  was  admitted  Nov.  18,  1739. 

I  have  abstracts  of  over  twenty  deeds  to  and  from 
him;  in  the  earlier  deeds  he  is  styled  "weaver"  and 
in  the  later  ones.  "Innholder" ;  the  last  deed  was  dated 
Oct.  28.  1765,  and  was  not  acknowledged,  but  was 
proved  in  court  June  4,  1767,  the  witnesses  testifying 
tliat  "it  is  reported  that  the  said  Joseph  Bean  is  dead." 


492 

CLAN  CHATTAN 
(Sec  pp.  483-5.) 

The  most  interesting  of  all  the  King's  hosts  is  the 
Mackintosh  of  Mackintosh,  whom  he  goes  to  visit 
shortly  at  Moy  Hall.  The  Mackintosh's  ancestry  is 
like  a  page  of  "Scottish  Chiefs,"  so  closely  connect- 
ed is  it  with  the  history  of  Scotland  in  ancient  days. 
The  Mackintosh  is  one  of  the  few  genuine  Higliland 
chiefs  of  purely  Celtic  descent  in  the  male  line.  His 
ancestry  goes  back  to  the  invasion  of  Irish  Scots 
from  the  north  of  Ireland,  which  destroyed  the  origin- 
al inhabitants  of  the  Highlands — the  Picti,  the  Rom- 
ans called  them,  because  they  painted  their  bodies — 
and  altered  the  name  of  the  whole  country  north  of 
the  Tweed. 

He  is  the  chief  of  the  Clan  Chattan,  which  ruled 
for  centuries  over  the  greater  part  of  Invemessshire 
and  Aderdeenshire,  including  the  great  forest  of  Bad- 
enoch.  As  befits  his  ancestry,  the  Mackintosh  is 
very  tall,  with  long,  aquiline  features  and  a  drooping 
yellow  mustache.  He  wears  the  kilt  and  sperran  of 
his  clan,  a  skenedhu  (knife),  a  dirk  and  a  Highland 
cap.  In  this  costume  he  will  greet  the  King. — Cur- 
rent Neti's  If  em. 


19  is;'- 


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JOSE  GLOVER 
IVho  Brought  the  first  Printing  Press  to  America. 

The  father  of  Rev.  Jose-  Glover  was  Roger'  Glover, 
Esq.,  of  London,  England.  He  married  first,  the 
daughter  of  Robert  Goodwin  (see)  and  Jose^  was  the 
only  surv'iving  child  by  this  marriage.  He  married 
second,  Anne,  widow  of  Francis  Barty  and  probably 
daughter  of  Roulte. 

His  will  proved  7  Aug.,  1634,  was  in  substance  as 
follows : 

Roger  Glover  of  London  Esq.  9  January  1633, 
proved  7  August  1634.  Daughter  Elizabeth  Glover 
to  be  full  and  sole  executrix.  Reference  to  a  mort- 
gage made  to  testator  by  son  in  law  Robert  Pember- 
ton,  of  certain  houses  in  Bow  Lane  for  the  sum  of 
eleven  hundred  and  forty  five  pounds  principal  lent 
to  the  said  Robert  at  the  time  of  the  said  mortgage, 
on  which  testator  has  recently  received  eight  hundred 
and  fifty  pounds.  If  the  executor  shall  receive  the 
remainder  of  the  principal  money  which  is  unpaid  and 

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the  forbearance  of  the  eiglit  hundred  and  fifty  pounds 
wliich  is  ahxady  paid  me,  during  the  time  it  was  in 
the  hands  of  my  son  John  Glover  and  JVr  Ralph  Pem- 
berton  then  she  shall  reconvey  the  said  houses  unto 
the  heirs  of  the  said  Robert  Pemberton  my  late  son 
in  law.  "And  if  neede  shall  soe  require  I  desire  my 
eldest  Sonne  Josse  Glover  to  ioyne  w'*  my  said  exe- 
cutor in  the  reconvayinge  of  the  said  houses  the  w"** 
I  trust  hee  will  not  deny  in  regard  hee  hath  given 
me  a  release"  &c. 

I  give  my  household  stuff  and  plate  unto  mv  two 
daughters  Elizabeth  and  Sarah  to  be  divided  equally 
between  them  at  the  time  of  either  of  their  marriages 
and  my  will  is  that  my  wife  shall  have  the  use  of 
the  said  plate  &c  during  her  natural  life  &c.  Ref- 
ference  made  to  a  bond  of  son  John  Glover  for  the 
payment  of  twelve  hundred  pounds  to  Sir  William 
Hewitt  (which  he  did  not  pay)  and  for  the  payment 
of  five  hundred  pounds  to  my  daughter  Sarah  and 
five  hundred  pounds  to  my  son  Ralphe  after  my  de- 
cease. The  lease  of  my  house  in  Drury  Lane  to  my 
daughter  Sarah. 

Whereas  I  have  disbursed  threescore  and  sixteen 
pounds  for  and  towards  a  ship  called  the  Coslet  for 
which  ship  I  have  a  bill  of  sale,  my  will  is  that  my 
son  Roger  te  presently  furnished  with  one  hundred 
twenty  four  pounds  more  to  make  up  the  same  two 
hundred  pounds  towards  setting  out  of  him  and  the 
said  ship,  and  my  will  is  that  the  said  ship  be  insured 
during  this  voyage  &c.  Seager,  78. 

(47  Register,  4gg.) 

Roger  Glover's  children,  as  appears  by  the  fore- 
going will  were 

I.  Jose-  Glover,  born  (see) 

II.  Elizabeth^  Glover,  died  unmarried  atout 
1643 ;  her  will,  proved  7  j\Iay  of  that  year  is 
abstracted  in  47  Rcffisfer.  500. 


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III.  Susan-  Glover,  married  Robert  Pem- 
Ixjrton  and  had  Roger  (eldest),  Robert  and 
Elizabeth. 

IV.  Sara^  Glover,  married  Collins 

and  had  Roger,  Ralph  and  John. 

Rev.  Jose"  Glover. 

(The  author  of  the  following  article  writes  Mr. 
Glover's  name  as  Joseph,  evidently  believing  Jose 
to  be  an  abbreviation. ) 

The  name  of  Rev.  Jose  Glover,  Rector  in  Sutton 
in  Surrey,  England,  is  found  among  a  list  of  incum- 
bents in  the  Rectory  of  Sutton,  from  1628  to  1636. 
In  1636  it  is  stated  that  he  tendered  his  resignation 
with  the  intention  of  embarking  for  New  England, 
which  resignation  was  accepted  with  "sorrow  and 
Henry  Wyche,  A.  M.,  of  Cambridge  University,  was 
appointed  his  successor."  (Vol.  I.,  Hist.  Co.  of  Sur- 
rey; English  County  Histories,  487.) 

In  the  Parish  Registry  is  the  following  entry,  under 
date  of  June  loth,  1636:  "Henry  Wyche,  being  a 
non-resident  and  Master  of  Arts  in  Cambridge  Uni- 
versity in  England,  was  inducted  into  office  by  Thomas 
Pope.  Knight,  to  the  Rectory  of  Sutton,  after  the 
resignation  made  of  the  same  Rectory  by  Joseph 
Glover,  who  was  much  loved  by  most,  if  not  all,  and 
his  departure  much  lamented."  After  his  resigna- 
tion he  preached  some  time  in  London,  traveled  and 
visited  Lancashire  and  other  counties,  preaching  and 
endeavoring  to  obtain  funds  for  the  college  which  had 
been  already  commenced  at  Cambridge  in  New  Eng- 
land. But  he  was  destined  never  to  see  the  accom- 
plishment of  his  desires  with  regard  to  the  College, 
for  he  died  on  the  voyage  over,  leaving  a  widow  and 
five  children  to  "proceed  on  their  lonely  way  in  grief 
and  disappointment." 


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In  Vol.  3,  4th  series,  of  Mass.  Historical  Collec- 
tions, 343,  there  is  the  following  notice  of  him: 
"Amongst  the  other  business  that  Mr.  Winslow  had 
to  provide,  he  had  orders  from  the  Church  to  bring 
over  to  New  England  some  able  fitt  man  to  1)C  their 
minister;  and  accordingly  he  procured  a  Godly  and 
worthy  man,  one  Mr.  Glover;  but  it  pleased  God  to 
cut  him  ofif,  for  when  he  was  prepared  for  the  voy- 
age he  fell  sick  and  died."  Other  writers  state  that 
he  died  on  the  voyage,  which  facts  seem  to  prove. 

Another  account  is  as  follows,  gathered  from  dif- 
ferent writers;  "In  the  summer  of  1638,  ]\Ir.  Glover 
with  his  family,  embarked  in  the  John  of  London, 
bound  for  New  England.  He  took  out  with  him  a 
printing  press,  which  he  intended  for  Harvard  Col- 
lege in  Cambridge ;  and  Stephen  Daye,  a  printer,  who 
was  to  superintend  the  printing,  and  three  men  serv- 
ants who  were  bound  to  work  the  press  for  him  three 
years  in  order  to  establish  the  business  of  printing 
in  the  infant  Colony."  "His  heart  was  wrapt  in  its 
progress  and  advancement ;  and  during  tlie  interim 
of  his  retirement  from  the  rectory  of  Sutton,  he  had 
been  untiring  in  his  efforts  to  promote  its  growth 
under  the  influence  of  an  educational  system.  He 
contrilnited  unsparingly  himself  of  his  wealth  and  in- 
fluence, and  induced  others  of  his  friends,  both  in 
England  and  Holland,  to  become  interested  in  so  noble 
a  cause.  Mr.  Glover  died  on  the  voyage  before  reach- 
ing the  shores  of  New  England.  His  widow  and 
five  children  proceeded  on  the  voyage,  and  arrived  in 
the  autumn  of  1638.  They  settled  in  Cambridge. 
Stephen  Daye,  the  printer,  whom  he  had  engaged  to 
superintend  the  printing,  arrived  and  set  up  the  press, 
which  was  the  first  printing  press  in  America."  "Mr. 
Glover  has  justlv  been  styled  by  historians  as  the 
'1%-Ulier  of  the  American  Press.'  The  press  was  set 
up  under  the  sanction  of  the  Magistrates  and  Elders. 
Stephen  Daye  directing  and  superintending  the  whole 
apparatus,  and  employing  tlic  men  whom  Mr.  Glover 


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had  encjaged  for  tliat  purpose.  He  had  it  ready  for 
operation,  and  began  business  in  the  first  month  of 
1639."  The  press  first  used  by  Daye  became  the  prop- 
erty of  Mr.  Glover's  heirs  in  1656.  It  has  since  passed 
to  the  possession  of  the  College. 

Isaiah  Thomas,  in  his  History  of  Printing,  writes 
of  Mr.  Glover:  "Rev.  Jose  Glover,  a  worthy  and 
wealthy  dissenting  Clergyman  of  England  may  be  con- 
sidered the  father  of  the  American  Press.  He  en- 
gaged with  great  earnestness  in  the  settlement  of  New 
England,  and  in  particular  of  the  Massachusetts  Col- 
ony, and  attentively  pursued  such  measures  for  its 
interest  and  prosjjerity  as  he  judged  would  best  pro- 
mote them.  He  gave  much  to  Harvard  College,  and 
solicited  aid  from  others,  both  in  England  and  Hol- 
land. In  the  year  1638  he  procured  a  printing  press, 
and  engaged  a  printer  to  accompany  it  in  a  ship  bound 
to  New  England.  Mr.  Glover,  with  his  wife  and 
five  cliildren  embarked  in  the  same  ship,  but  unfor- 
tunately, he  did  not  live  to  reach  the  shores  of  New 
England.  His  widow  and  children  arrived  in  the 
autumn  of  that  year  and  settled  in  Cambridge.  Rev. 
Ezekiel  Rogers  and  about  sixty  families  came  pas- 
sengers in  the  same  ship."  "His  widow,  Mrs.  Eliza- 
beth Glover,  afterwards  married  the  Rev.  Henry  Dun- 
ster,  first  President  of  Harvard  College." 

Mr.  Thomas  also  writes  thus:  It  is  not  known 
whether  Mr.  Glover  had  been  in  New  England  pre- 
vious to  his  embarking  for  this  country  in  1638,  but 
I  find  by  the  Records  of  the  County  of  Middlesex 
that  he  possessed  a  valuable  real  and  personal  estate 
in  Massachusetts,  and  that  he  had  two  sons  and  three 
daughters,  viz..  Roger  Glover:  John  Glover,  H.  C,  in 
1650,  was  a  physician  and  settled  in  Boston;  Elizabeth, 
who  married  Adain  Winthrop:  Sarah,  who  married 
Deane  Winthrop;  and  Priscilla,  who  married  John 
Appleton. 

Mr.  Glover  was  twice  married.  His  first  wife  was 
Sarah   Owfield.  daughter  of  Mr.    Roger  Owfield,  of 


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London  (citizen).  They  had  tliree  children,  born  in 
Sutton,  viz. :  Roger,  Elizabeth  and  Sarah.  The  second 
wife  of  Rev.   Joseph   Glover   was   Elizabeth   Harris. 

daughter  of  William  Harris  of  ,  England. 

afterwards  of  Boston,  to  whom  he  was  married 
about  1630.  By  her  he  had  two  children,  as  follows: 
Priscilla,  married  John  Appleton,  Esq.,  of  Ipswich; 
John,  died  in  London,  in  1668,  unmarried. 

Mrs.  Elizabeth  Glover  was  married,  soon  after  her 
arrival  at  Cambridge,  to  Rev.  Henry  Dunster,  and 
died  23  :  6 :  1643.  She  was  buried  in  the  ancient  burial  ^ 
ground  at  Cambridge,  and  has  a  gravestone  much-^^ 
gone  to  decay.  There  were  no  children  by  this  mar- 
riage. Mr.  Dunster  on  his  marriage  with  Mrs.  Glover 
assumed  the  charge  of  her  children,  was  subsequent- 
ly appointed  their  guardian,  and  superintended  their 
education  until  they  were  married  or  arrived  at  full 
age.  Their  mother  sui-vived  but  a  few  years  after 
her  second  marriage. 

(The  foregoing  is  from  Anna  Glover's  Glover  Mem- 
orials and  Genealogies,  Boston,  1867.) 

M&ore's  Historical  Notes  on  Printers  and  Printing 
cortains  the  following: 

"The  art  of  printing  was  according  to  histon-,  intro- 
duced into  the  United  States  of  America  through  the 
efforts  of  Rev.  Jesse  Glover,  a  worthy  and  wealthy  dis- 
senting clergyman  of  England,  in  1638.  He  did  not 
live  to  arrive  in  the  new  world  as  he  desired,  with  his 
printing  materials  and  his  hired  printer,  Stephen  Daye 
(as  the  name  is  more  frequently  spelled)  but  died  on 
the  way ;  the  press,  the  materials,  his  family  and  help, 
however  arrived  safe.  The  widow  Glover  and  her 
children  settled  at  Cambridge  (then  Newtown)  Mass  , 
but  the  father  of  the  American  press,  the  benefactor 
of  the  American  people,  was  not  permitted  to  see  his 
office  opened  there.  His  plans  for  the  establishment 
of  a  press  for  the  accomodation  of  the  business  of 
the  church  and  state  were  however  so  far  as  possible 


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carried  out  fully  by  the  wife  and  the  printer,  who  by 
the  consent  and  direction  of  the  magistrates  and  elders 
of  the  town,  erected  the  press  and  opened  an  office 
for  business  in  Januar}',  1639. 

"There  in  1639  the  first  printing  on  this  continent 
north  of  the  Gulf  of  Mexico,  was  performed.  The 
type  used  belonged  to  the  college,  and  the  press  to 
Mr.  Glover's  heirs.  This  press  was  used  by  the  col- 
lege for  sixty  years,  and  for  thirty  years  all  the  print- 
ing in  the  colonies  was  performed  by  printers  resid- 
ing at  Camliridge. 

"Benjamin  Harris  was  a  near  relative,  and  per- 
haps a  brother,  of  the  wife  of  Rev.  Jesse  Glover,  her 
maiden  name  being  Elizabeth  Harris    *    *    *. 

"We  may  claim  Mr.  Glover  as  the  father  of  the 
American  press  (though  he  died  on  the  passage  to 
this  countr}')  and  Mrs.  Glover  as  the  mother  of  the 
press.  The  records  of  Harvard  College  inform  us 
that  'There  is  in  the  place  a  printing  establishment, 
called  the  University  Press,  which  has  become  cele- 
brated for  the  beauty  and  accuracy  with  which  it 
sends  out  classical  books  in  the  various  ancient  and 
modern  languages.  The  establishment  may  be  consid- 
ered the  most  ancient  printing  office  in  America — 
having  been  begun  by  one  Daye  at  the  cliarge  of  Mr. 
Glover,  1639.' 

"He  was  hired  to  come  to  America,  and  his  em- 
ployer fGIover)  was  a  benefactor  of  the  infant  col- 
ony, and  eariy  engaged  in  such  measures  as  he  judged 
would  be  for  the  interests  of  Massachusetts  and  the 
prosperity  of  Harvard  College,  his  great  object  being 
to  establish  a  press  for  the  accomodation  of  business 
connected  with  education,  and  for  the  good  of  the 
church  and  slate.  Mr.  Glover  was  some  time  busy, 
soliciting  funds  sufficient  to  purchase  all  the  materials 
suggested  by  Daye,  his  printer.  He  contributed  liber- 
ally himself,  and  obtained  much  aid  from  friends  in 
England  and  Holland.  Tlie  press  and  paper  for  print- 
ing were  from  Holland,   for  a-^  yet  it  had  not  been 


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niamifacturcd  in  America,  an<l  was  of  as  great  use 
as  llie  press.  Rev.  Henry  Dunster  opened  liis  dwell- 
ing house  to  the  newly  arrived  printer  and  received 
the  printing  materials.  Afterwards  Dunster  was  presi- 
dent of  Harvard  College,  and  was  inducted  into  of- 
fice August  27,  1640." 

John  Cotton's  "An  Acct.  of  the  Church  of  Christ 
in  Plymouth,"  published  in  Mass.  Hist.  Soc.  Col., 
T.  Ser.,  Vol.  IV..  no  says:  "During  the  time  of  Mr. 
Smitli's  ministry,  they  employed  Mr.  Edwd  Winslow 
who  was  sent  an  agent  to  England  to  procure  them  a 
teaching  Elder  to  be  joined  with  Mr.  Smith ;  who  ac- 
cordingly agreed  with  Mr.  Glover,  an  able  dispenser  of 
the  word  to  come  over  to  them;  but  he  ended  his  life 
in  London  before  he  came  on  board." 

Jose  Glover's  Arms  (on  his  will)  (N.  E.  Gen  Reg., 
XXX.,  27)  :  "A  Fess  Ermine  between  three  crescents." 

References: 

Memorial  of  the  Appleton  Family,  g. 

Savage's  Genealogical  Dictionary,  II.,  262. 

Thomas'  Histoiy  of  Printing,  222,  and  203.  224, 
231. 

*  Holmes'  Hist,  of  Cambridge  in  the  7th  vol.  of  the 
Mass.  Historical  Collections. 

Holmes's  Annals. 

Pierce's  History  of  Harvard  University,  6. 

Felt's  Annals  of  Salem,  120. 

Ouincy's  History  of  Flarvard  College,  I.,   187  and 

459- 

Sibley's  Harvard  Graduates,  I..  208-9. 

§Winthrop's  History. 

^Bradford's  History. 

Glover  Memorials  and   Genealogies.! 

?\\'inthrnp"s  Jmn-nal.  I..  242. 


*"In  1630"  (says  Holmes),  "the  first  printing-press 
erected  in  Xcw  England  was  set  up  at  Cambridge  by 


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The  Bay  Psalm  Book. 

I. 

The  first  work  printed  within  the  present  hmits  of 
the  United  States  was  "The  Freeman's  Oath.  Print- 
ed by  S.  Daye,  1639."  This  was  on  the  face  of  a 
small  sheet  of  paper.  The  first  hook,  "The  Whole 
Booke  of  Psalmes  Faithfully  Translated  into  English 
Metre,"  1640,  more  familiarly  known  as  the  "Bay 
Psalm  Book,"  is  delightfully  descril>ed  in  Mrs.  Alice 
Morse  Earle's  "The  Sabbath  in  Puritan  New  Eng- 
land." At  this  little^  press  in  Harvard  Square  Amer- 
ican literature  was  born.  Rev.  Jose  Glover  had  en- 
gaged Daye  in  England  to  be  his  assistant,  but,  dying 
on  the  voyage  out,  the  assistant  managed  the  "print- 
cry"  until  his  son,  Matthew  Daye,  took  up  the  work 
in  1647.     The  Widow  Glover  was  not  forgotten,  for 

one  Daye,  at  the  cliargc  of  jNlr.  Glover  who  died  on 
his  passage  to  America." 

fMost  important.  For  matter  not  in  these  pages, 
see  Glover  Mem.,  561  n.  ("name  Jose.  abbr.  for  Jo- 
seph"), 562  (lands,  and  first  wife),  563  (his  will  and 
estate  of  Mrs.  G.),  564-5  (her  fann  etc.),  565-572 
(desc.  of  J.  G.,  male  and  female.  His  children  by 
his  first  wife  married  sons  of  Gov.  Winthrop). 

§Contemporars^  authority. 

§See  also  "Wonderworking  Providence,"  Poole's 
Ed.,  Andover  1867,  129. 

See  also  Palfrey's  Hist.  N.  E.,  H.,  45. 

See  also  23  N.  E.  Gen  Reg..  135-7  (J-  G-'s  will). 

30  N.  E.  Gen.  Reg.,  26-8  (name,  whetlier  Josse, 
Jose  or  Joseph). 

30  N.  E.  Gen.  Reg.,  27  (arms  and  autograph). 

Glover's  Estate  in  Boston:  Suffolk  deeds  I.,  254; 
I..  66;  Mass.  Col.  Rec,  H.,  114:  Plymouth  Col.  Rec, 
v.,  151  (these  also  in  Glover  Memorials). 


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President  Dimster,  who  sleeps  near  Steplien  Dave, 
made  her  his  wife  in  1641.  (Gossiping  Guide  to 
Harvard,   1892.) 


II. 


In  "Earl\'  Boston  Booksellers,"  by  G.  E.  Littlefield, 
appears  the  following: 

Let  us  glance  for  a  moment  at  the  first  introduc- 
tion of  printing  into  the  English  colonies,  which  was 
entirely  due  to  the  exertions  of  the  Rev.  Joseph  Glover. 
a  wealthy  dissenting  minister  of  England,  who  was 
much  interested  in  the  settlement  of  Massachusetts, 
and,  among  other  things,  was  particularly  desirous 
that  the  Colony  should  have  a  press  to  take  care  of 
the  necessary  business  of  Church  and  State.  Through 
his  personal  contribution  and  through  aid  from  others 
obtained  through  his  solicitation,  Mr.  Glover  was  able, 
in  the  Summer  of  1638,  to  secure  a  good  printing 
apparatus  and  a  practical  printer,  Stephen  Day;  and 
with  his  wife  and  children  and  three  men  servants  to 
work  the  press,  Mr.  Glover  embarked  on  a  vessel 
bound  for  New  England,  but  unfortunately  died  on 
the  voyage.  Mr.  Glover  had  intended  to  carry  on 
bookselling  also,  having  brought  over  a  stock  of  paper 
and  a  quantity  of  books  for  sale.  His  zuidoin',  shortly 
after  her  arrival,  married  the  Rev.  Henry  Dunster, 
the  first  President  of  Harvard  College,  who  sold  the 
books  but  retained  the  press,  which  he  managed  and 
from  which  he  received  a!!  the  profits. 

The  Assemblies  lx)th  of  Church  and  State  being 
held  at  Cambridge,  Stephen  Day.  by  direction  of  the 
magistrates  and  elders,  set  up  the  press  in  Mr.  Dun- 
ster's  house,  the  first  issue  from  which  is  said  to  have 
been  "the  Freeman's  Oath,"  printed  on  a  half  sheet 
of  paper,  this  being  the  oath  every  man  above  twenty 
years  of  age  and  six  months  a  householder,  took  to 
become  a  freeman  of  the  corporation — a  legal  citizen 


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of  the  jMassacliusetts  Bay  Company.  Xo  copy  of  this 
oath  is  known  to  he  in  existence,  but  tlie  original  draft 
therefor,  in  John  Winthrop's  liandwriting,  is  in  the 
possession  of  the  Boston  PubHc  Librar}'.  The  sec- 
ond issue  of  this  press  was  an  almanac  for  the  year 
1639,  of  which  unfortunately  no  known  copy  is  in 
existence,  while  in  1640  the  press's  third  issue,  and 
so  far  as  known  the  earliest  production  of  the  press 
in  existence,  "The  Bay  Psalm  Book,"  appeared.  This 
book  is  a  poor  specimen  of  typography,  but  shows 
good  presswork,  and  was  published  in  a  small  edition, 
copies  of  wliich  are  now  excessively  rare,  only  ten 
copies  being  known,  of  which  six  are  imperfect.  Ac- 
cording to  Mr.  Littlefield,  the  record  price  for  this 
extremely  rare  book  is  that  obtained  for  the  Brinley 
copy  in  1879,  $1200,  Ijut  it  is  unquestionable  that  a 
good  copy  would  fetch  a  much  higher  price  now. 

The  issues  of  this  press  increased  so  rapidly  that 
in  1655  a  second  press  was  added,  and  in  1665  still 
another;  the  press  of  Harvard  College  being  for  a 
time  as  celebrated  as  those  of  the  Universities  of  Ox- 
ford and  Cambridge  on  the  other  side  of  the  water. 
Yet  while  a  large  number  of  books  appeared  from 
this  press,  and  in  comparatively  large  editions,  yet 
today  copies  of  these  publications  are  very  hard  to 
find  and  bring  fabulous  prices. 


III. 


Alfred  Gwynne  Vanderbilt  is  not  a  book  lover.  I 
know  this,  because  he  has  written  to  A.  J.  Bowden, 
wisest  of  bibliotaphs,  this  letter:  "Dear  Sir:  I  am 
in  receipt  of  your  letter.  I  am  unable  to  give  you  any 
information  on  the  matter  you  mention.  Very  truly, 
Alfred  G.  Vanderbilt."  The  "matter"  is  that  Cor- 
nelius Vanderbilt  III.  had  a  copy  of  the  Bay  Psalm 
Book;  that  it  may  have  been  burned  in  the  fire  that 
destroyed  tlie  Breakers  at  Newport ;  that  all  the  book 


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lovers  in  tlie  world  have  an  interest  in  the  copy  of 
the  Bay  Psalm  Book  that  Cornelius  Vanderbilt  III. 
had. 

He  paid  for  it  $1,200  at  the  sale  by  auction,  in 
1878,  of  the  collection  of  books  formed  by  George 
Brinley,  of  Hartford.  It  was  the  first  took  printed 
in  New  England.  Mr.  Brinley's  copy  had  the  dis- 
tinction of  being  the  only  perfect  one  in  a  private 
library.  It  is  an  octavo.  The  title  page  says:  "The 
whole  Booke  of  Psalmes  Faithfully  Translated  into 
English  metre.  Whereunto  is  prefixed  a  discourse  de- 
claring not  only  the  lawfullness,  but  also  the  necessity 
of  singing  Scripture  Psalmes  in  the  Churches  of  God. 
Cambridge,  Stephen  Daye,  1640." 

Mr.  Brinley's  copy  was  bound  by  F.  Bedford  in 
dark  brown  crushed  levant  morocco,  studded  at  the 
sides  with  gold  stars.  Bedford,  the  uninitiated  must 
be  told,  is  the  bookbinder  that  the  English  name  when 
they  are  accused  of  having  produced  only  one  remark- 
able artisan  in  bookbinding.  This  was  not  Bedford. 
Bedford  was  a  pupil  of  the  French.  The  remarkable 
English  artisan  in  bookbinding  was  Roger  Payne.  He 
had  originality.  He  had  not  the  refinement  in  work- 
manship of  Bedford,  but  he  was  himself  and  English. 
I  like  Roger  Payne  better  than  Bedford,  but  Bedford 
has  the  vogue. 

In  1878  Cornelius  Vanderbilt  III.  paid  $1,200  for 
the  Bay  Psalm  Book  lx)und  by  Bedford.  In  1893 
A.  J.  Bowden  wrote  to  Mr.  \^anderbilt :  "Will  you 
exchange  the  Bay  Psalm  Book  for  an  original  draw- 
ing in  colors  by  Rubens  and  $5,000  in  cash?"  Mr. 
Vanderbilt  replied  affably :  "No,  thank  you."  Many 
things  have  happened  since  then.  Mr.  Vanderbilt's 
librarv  was  in  the  Breakers,  that  burned  like  a  match. 
What  has  become  of  the  Brinley  copy  of  the  Bay 
Psalm  Book  bound  by  Bedford? 

Chauncey  M.  Dcpew  does  not  know,  William  H. 
\''anderbilt  does  not  know,  Alfred  G.  Vanderbilt  does 
not  know.      Nobodv  knows.     It  is  an  extraordinary 


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treasure.  For  it  the  British  Museum,  that  refused  to 
pay  $500  to  Stevens  at  his  find  of  it  among  insig- 
nificant pamphlets  in  a  London  auction  shop,  would 
give  a  fortune.  For  it  three  millionaire  book  lovers 
that  I  know  would  make  sacrifices.  Upon  its  fate 
depend  the  calmness  of  heart,  the  tranquility  of  mind, 
the  relative  happiness  of  a  legion.  Alfred  Gwynne 
Vanderbilt  says  indifferently,  "I  am  unable,"  and  so 
forth. 

He  is  not,  he  is  not  to  be,  a  book  lover.  lie  likes 
books  for  their  usefulness.  He  reads  them.  He  will 
never  know  the  delight  of  caressing  tremblingly  tlie 
covers  of  a  book  bound  by  Bedford. 

I  wish  that  Alfred  Gwynne  Vanderbilt  might  find 
a  way  of  being  al^le  to  say  if  his  father's  copy  of  the 
Bay  Psalm  Book  be  extant.  (H.  Pene  du  Bois,  N.  Y. 
American,  19  Nov.,  1900.) 


GOODWIN  OF  LONDON. 


The  Visitation  of  London,  1633  (Vol.  I.,  325), 
published  by  the  Harliean  Society  sets  forth  the  Arms 
and  family  of  Goodwin  of  the  Tower  Street  Ward, 
with  the  note :  "respited  for  difference  in  arms."  The 
arms  set  out  are  indicated  by  this  rough  sketch.  The 
pedigree  sets  fortli  that  Henry^ 
Goodwin    of    County    Buckingham 

married  wlio  married  Mr. 

Moore  as  her  second  husband. 
They  had  Rol>ert-  Goodwin  of 
Westminister  and  of  Tower  Street. 
London,  who  married  Jane,  daugh- 
ter of  Anthony  Dollin  of  Henalt 
in  Flanders.  Then  follows  a  list 
of  their  children. 

His  will  is  set  forth  in  substance 
in  47  Register.  49!^.  as  follows : 


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Robert  Goodwin  citizen  and  salter  of  London, 
4  August  1610,  proved  16  October  1610.  To  my  son 
Peter  Goodwin  (certain  household  fixtures  &c.)  a 
pair  of  brass  andirons  a  fire  shovel  and  a  pair  of 
tongs  all  of  brass,  a  pair  of  bellows,  the  boards  being 
of  Cipres  wood,  one  table  and  a  court  cubbard  of 
Walnut  tree,  another  court  cubbard  with  three  cub- 
bards  in  the  same,  six  wainscot  stools,  a  picture  of 
the  ten  virgins  and  my  own  picture.  To  my  son  John 
Goodwin  (certain  household  goods)  and  (a  similar 
bequest)  to  my  daughter  Mar\'.  To  son  John  three 
hundred  pounds  within  three  months  after  he  shall 
be  made  a  freeman  of  London  or  shall  have  attained 
to  the  age  of  six  and  twenty  years,  which  first  shall 
happen.  To  my  daughter  Mary,  wife  of  Richard 
Jennye,  eight  pounds  a  year.  To  the  poor  of  the  Dutch 
church  five  pounds. 

Item  I  give  and  bequeath  unto  my  son  in  law  Roger 
Glover  forty  shillings  to  make  him  a  ring:  also  I  give 
unto  him  a  momuiing  gown.  Item  I  give  and  be- 
queath unto  Susan  Glover  a  white  pepper  box  of  silver. 
Item  I  give  and  bequeath  unto  Ellen  Glover  two  gilt 
spoons.  To  Anthony  Guy  a  debt  of  forty  shillings 
which  he  oweth  unto  me  by  his  bond.  To  Richard 
Jenny,  my  son  in  law  a  debt  of  thirty  one  pounds 
which  I  paid  to  Ballard  for  him  and  also  another  debt 
of  ten  pounds  which  I  paid  to  Sir  John  Wattes  for 
him.  To  the  Company  of  Salters,  whereof  I  am  a 
member,  that  shall  accompany  my  body  to  the  church, 
ten  pounds  to  make  them  a  dinner  at  Salters'  Hall. 
Item  I  do  give  and  bequeath  unto  my  daugliter  Glover 
a  mourning  gown  and  forty  shilling  to  make  her  a 
ring.  Other  bequests  to  children  and  other  individ- 
uals. My  son  Peter  Goodwin  to  be  my  full  and  sole 
executor  and  my  friend  John  Highlord  to  be  overseer. 
Wingfield.  91. 


so? 


The  children  of  Robert-  Goodwin  were 

I.  Peter^  Goodwin; 

II.  John*  Goodwin;  in  1610  he  was  under 
26  years  of  age; 

III.  Mary*     Goodwin;     married     Richard 
Jenny ; 

IV.     *     Goodwin,     married     Roger' 

Glover  (see). 


THE  DENISON  FAMILY. 

John'  Denyson  was  living  at  Bisliops  Stortford, 
Hertfordshire,  England,  in  1567;  he  died  of  plague 
and  was  buried  at  Stortford  4  Dec,  1582.  "The  an- 
cestors of  the  English  Denisons  were  probably  Hug- 
uenots and  came  with  other  Flemish  emigrants  from 
the  northeast  border  of  France,  where  the  name  is 
still  a  common  one."     Jolin  Denyson  married  Agnes 

.     After  his  deatli  she  married  John  Gace  in 

1384,  a  tanner  of  Stortford.  In  the  Records  of  St. 
Michael's  Parish  Church,  Bishop's  Stortford,  the 
church  warden's  accounts  mention  the  receipt  in  1582 
of  nine  pence  of  John  Denyson.  Children ;  born  at 
Bishop's  Stortford: 

I.  Luce^  Denyson,  baptized  3  Aug.,  1567; 
buried  9  Dec,   1582; 

II.  William^    Denyson,    baptized     3     Feb., 

1571: 

III.  Edward-  Denyson,  baptized  6  Apr., 
1575,  went  to  Ireland  in  1631  and  died  there, 
having  had  Anne*,  Susan*,  Elizabeth*  and 
Major  John*,  Deputy  Governor  of  Cork; 

IV.  Mar)'2    Denyson,    baptized    23     Aug., 

1579,  married  Crouch,  as  appears  by 

the  will  of  her  stepfather,  John  Gace,  proved 
1602   (Montague  P.  P.  C,  61); 


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VI.  George-  Denyson,  baptized  17  Mar., 
1582,  churchwarden  of  St.  Michael's  in  1632, 
1633,  1635,  1648,  1649;  among  the  church 
rents  is  recorded  25  Mar.,  1642,  "of  Geo.  Den- 
nyson's  house  and  yard,  vj  d-"  under  lease 
rents,  "of  Geo.  Denyson  for  the  Stalls  in  the 
Barly  Hill  for  a  yere  at  o''  Lady  day  1643  xj 
s."  He  married  Constance,  daughter  of  Wm. 
Glascock,  Esq.,  of  High  Easter,  County  Essex. 
He  had  children  among  who  was  George^  of 
Stortford,  buried  9  Dec,  1678. 

William-  Denyson,  baptized  in  1571,  and  "very  well 
situated  at  Stortford,"  married  there  7  Nov.,  1603, 
Margaret  Monck.  Their  son  DanieP  wrote  in  1672 
that  her  name  was  Margaret  Chandler,  in  spite  of 
the  parish  record;  which  may  be  a  slip  on  his  part; 
or  due  to  the  fact  that  she  was  a  widow  in  1603;  or 
William-  may  have  had  two  wives.  William-,  "hear- 
ing of  the  then  famous  transplantation  to  New  Eng- 
land, unsettled  himself;  and  recalling  me  from  Cam- 
bridge, removed  himself  and  family  in  the  year  163 1 
to  New  England"  with  three  of  his  sons,  says  DanieP 
in  his  famous  letter  to  his  grandchildren  {Register 
[1892],  127-132).  "My  father  brought  with  him 
into  New  England  a  verj'  good  estate  and  settled 
himself  at  Rock.sbury  and  there  lived  (though  some- 
what weakning  his  estate)  till  the  year  1653  in  Janu- 
ary (25  Jan.  1653/4)  when  he  died,  having  buried 
my  mother  about  eight  years  before"  (3  Feb., 
1645/6). 

William-  settled  in  Ro.xbury,  Mass..  where  he  took 
the  oath  of  Freeman  in  1632.  In  the  following  year 
he  was  appointed  Constable;  and  Deputy  in  1634,  in 
which  latter  capacity  he  was  called  upon  to  serve  upon 
important  committees.  In  1637  with  his  son  Edward, 
he  was  disarmed  for  taking  part  in  the  Antinomian 
controversy.  That  he  was  a  man  of  substance,  and 
that  he  was  an  ardent  friend  of  education  and  religion. 


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t]ie  records  of  the  town  and  church  give  evidence.  His 
wife  joined  the  church  under  the  apostle  Eliot  in 
1632."     (Prof.  D.  D.  Slade,  Denison  Memorial.) 

The  children  of  William^,  born  at  Bishop's  Stort- 
ford.  were  as  follows: 

I.  John  Denison^,  baptized  7  Apr.  1605  ;  ed- 
ucated at  Cambridge  University ;  was  Vicar  of 
Standon,  Herts.,  166070.  He  did  not  come  to 
America  and  his  brother  Daniel  says  he  "mar- 
ried with  a  good  portion  and  lived  about  Pel- 
ham  or  in  Hartfordshier  not  far  from  Stort- 
ford." 

n.  William''  Denison,  baptized  5  Oct.,  1606. 
"Alx)ut  18  years  of  age  would  needs  goe  a 
Souldier  into  Holland,  in  the  year  1624  at  the 
famous  Siege  of  Breda,  when  it  was  taken  by 
Spinola  and  Count  Mansfield  had  an  army  out 
of  England,  to  have  raised  the  siege,  but  the 
army  miscarryed  and  my  brother  William  was 
never  heard  of  since"  (id.). 

III.  George^  Denison,  baptized  15  Oct. 
1609  [20  Oct.,  1610,  says  H.  F.  Waters]  ; 
buried  at  Stortford   161 5. 

IV.  DanieP  Denison,  baptized  18  Oct.,  161 2 
(see). 

V.  Edward^  Denison,  baptized  3  Nov., 
1616;  came  to  New  England  1631;  he  "mar- 
ried about  the  beginning  of  the  year  1641  and 
lived  the  rest  of  his  days  at  Rocksbury  in  the 
same  house  tliat  my  father  built,  lived  and  died 
in ;  he,  to  my  great  grief  and  loss  departed  this 
life  in  April  in  the  year  1669  and  left  behind 
Iiim  Ixit  one  son  William*  of  about  5  years  old, 
having  buried  four  sons  in  their  infancy ;  he 
left  also  five  daughters  of  which  one  was  mar- 
ried in  his  life  time  to  Jachin  Reiner  who  liveth 
at  Rowley"   (id.  ). 

VI.  George^  Denison,  baptized  10  Dec. 
1620.  came  to  New  England  1631 ;  he  and  Ed- 


ward'''  "liad  all  my  father's  estate  between  them, 
being  both  marrycd  long  before  my  father's 
death:  my  brother  George  buried  his  first  wife 
in  the  year  1643;  went  to  England,  was  a 
Souldier  ther  above  a  year,  was  at  the  Battle 
of  York  or  Marston  Moor,  where  he  did  good 
service,  was  afterward  taken  Prisoner  but  got 
free,  and  having  Married  a  second  Wife,  he 
returned  to  New  England  the  year  before  our 
Mother  died  {i.  c,  1644)  and  not  long  after 
removed  himself  to  New  London  near  where- 
rmto  (viz)  at  Stonington  he  now  (i.  c.  1672) 
liveth,  having  3  sons,  John,  William  and 
George,  4  or  5  Daughters  his  eldest  son  John 
is  married  and  hath  children  which  are  your 
Cousens,  and  3  of  his  Daughters  are  marryed 
to  Stanton,  Palmer,  and  Chesebrook  all  living 
at  present  in  the  same  Town"  {id.)  A  record 
of  his  descendants  has  been  published  (Reg- 
ister, Apr.,  1892). 

\'II.    Sarah^  Denison.  bom  and  died  1615. 

Major  General  De>iiso)i. 

Major-General  DanieP  Denison  was  born  at  Bish- 
op's Stortford,  Hertfordshire,  England,  and  was  bap- 
tized there  18  Oct.,  1612.  He  was  admitted  to  Cam- 
bridge University  in  England  in  1625,  and  took  his 
degree  there  and  continued  there  up  to  the  year  1631 
when  he  came  to  New  England. 

He  married,  18  Oct.,  1632,  Patience,  daughter  of 
Governor  Thomas  Dudley  and  "lived  about  two  years 
at  Cambridge;  and  (says  he  to  his  grandchildren)  in 
the  year  1635  I  removed  to  Ipswich  where  I  have 
lived  ever  since  with  your  grandmother." 

He  took  the  oath  of  freeman  in  1634  and  in  that 
year  the  General  Court,  says  Prof.  Slade,  "appoint 
him  upon  a  committee  to  'sett  out  the  bounds  of  all 
towns  not  yet  sett  out;  and  to  settle  all  differences 


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between  any  towns,'  rewarding  him  for  tliis  and  other 
services  by  a  grant  of  two  hundred  acres,  'all  lyeing 
and  being  about  the  falls,  easterly  side  of  Charles 
River.'  His  connection  with  Newtown  was  however 
of  short  duration :  for  he  removed  to  Ipswich,  where, 
in  1635,  '^  house  lot  of  about  two  acres  which  he 
hath  paled  in  and  built  an  house  upon.'  together  with 
other  land  was  assigned  to  him.  Why  he  should  have 
quitted  Cambridge  so  suddenly  after  having  joined 
the  church  and  interested  himself  in  the  town  affairs 
can  only  be  conjectured.  It  is  probable  that  circum- 
stances induced  him  to  follow  his  father-in-law,  Gov. 
Dudley,  who  had  taken  up  his  abode  in  Ipswich.  And 
now  for  the  remainder  of  his  days,  Daniel  Denison 
is  intimately  associated  with  the  history  of  this  an- 
cient town,  which  he  honored  by  a  career  of  public 
usefulness  which  falls  to  the  lot  of  few  men. 

"Taking  up  the  records  of  his  life  in  chronological 
order,  we  find  that  in  1635  he  was  chosen  Deputy; 
ser\nng  in  this  capacity  for  three  consecutive  years, 
and  again  in  1640,  44,  48,  49-  5i  aiifl  S^-  I"  1637 
he  was  a  member  of  the  memorable  court  which  judged 
Mrs.  Hutchinson  and  her  sympathizers,  and  upon 
which  subject  it  may  not  be  uninteresting  to  dwell 
briefly  in  this  connection.  The  antinomian  contro- 
versy may  be  classified  among  the  list  of  heresies, 
which,  as  a  recent  distinguished  historian  [Rev.  George 
E.  Ellis,]  remarks,  'the  worst  thing  about  them  is 
their  names  with  the  ill  associations  which  they  have 
acquired.'  The  antinomians  lielieved  that  those  who 
felt  spiritually  that  they  were  under  'a  covenant  of 
faith,'  need  not  concern  themselves  about  'the  coven- 
ant of  works.'  In  other  words,  that  the  Gospel  had 
abolished  the  Law,  and  that  good  works  are  not  nec- 
essary as  duties  of  Christianity.  The  word  antinomian 
signifies  a  denial  of  the  obligation  of  the  moral  law, 
under  the  christian  dispensation.  This  'heresy,'  had 
its  origin  in  Germany,  and  was  there  associated  with 
much  that  was  gross  and  licentious.     No  such  evil 


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however,  was  connected  witli  tlie  party  in  New  Eng- 
land. The  introducer  and  leader  of  antinomianism 
among  the  colonists,  was  Mrs.  Anne  Hutchinson,  who 
was  the  daughter  of  an  English  clergyman,  and  whose 
mother  was  a  relative  of  the  celebrated  poet,  John 
Dryden.  Being  interested  in  the  preaching  of  John 
Cotton,  and  of  her  relative,  John  Wheelright,  and 
being  desirous  of  enjoying  the  ministry  of  Cotton, 
she  came  to  Boston  in  1634;  and  with  her  husband 
lived  on  the  corner  of  the  present  Washington  and 
School  streets.  She  soon  made  herself  known  by  her 
friendly  services  to  the  sick,  especially  to  those  of  her 
own  sex.  Being  a  woman  of  superior  intelligence, 
'of  nimble  wit,'  and  gifted  in  powers  of  argumenta- 
tion, she  drew  about  her  many  listeners,  who  came 
to  hear  her  discuss  the  sermons  of  those  ministers 
who  differed  from  her  views,  and  who  preaciied  in 
her  judgment  'a  covenant  of  works.'  Many  of  the 
principal  people  of  Boston  sympathized  witli  her. 
These  discussions  lead  to  the  dissemination  of  jeal- 
ousy, discord  and  bitterness  and  spirit,  not  only  among 
those  immediately  engaged  in  the  controversy,  but 
among  the  entire  people,  a  great  portion  of  whom 
were  ignorant  of  the  cause  or  significance  of  the  con- 
test in  which  they  were  engaged,  and  who  had  been 
excited  thereto  through  the  heat  of  strife. 

"  'The  dispute.'  says  Bancroft,  'infused  its  spirit 
into  even,-thing:  it  interfered  with  tlie  levy  of  troops 
for  the  Pequot  war;  it  influenced  the  respect  sliown 
to  the  magistrates;  the  distribution  of  town  lots;  the 
assessment  of  taxes ;  and  at  last  the  continued  existence 
of  the  two  opposing  parties  was  considered  incon- 
sistent with  the  public  peace.'  The  most  serious  charge 
brought  against  Mrs.  Hutchinson  was  that  she  'vented 
her  revelations;'  or  in  other  words,  sjie  propliesied 
judgment  and  disaster  to  come  upon  the  colony  as  re- 
vealed to  her  by  special  divine  communications.  Be- 
ing brought  before  the  General  Court,  the  following 
sentence  was  passed  upon  licr :  tliat  'being  convented 


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for  traducing  the  ministers  and  their  ministry  in  this 
countr}',  slie  declared  voluntarily  her  revelations  for 
her  ground,  and  that  she  should  be  delivered,  and  the 
Comt  ruined  with  their  posterity,  and  thereupon  was 
banished.'  Many  inhabitants  in  sympathy  with  her 
were  by  order  of  the  Court  disarmed;  among  whom 
were,  as  we  have  already  seen,  William  Denison,  the 
father,  and  his  son.  The  reason  given  by  the  Court 
for  this  indignity,  which  by  the  way,  was  a  very  ser- 
ious matter,  although  quietly  effected,  was  'as  there 
is  just  cause  of  suspicion  that  they  as  others  in  Ger- 
many in  former  times,  may  upon  some  revelation, 
make  some  sudden  irruption  upon  those  that  differ 
from  them  in  judgment.'  The  order  of  disarming 
extended  to  'gims,  pistols,  swords,  powder,  shot  and 
match ;'  and  'that  none  of  those  disamied  should  buy 
or  borrow  any  guns,  swords,  pistols,  powder,  shot  or 
match,  otherwise  they  would  be  subjected  to  the  same 
penalty.'  Thus  ended  this  unhappy  episode  in  the  early 
life  of  the  colony;  while  the  fate  of  its  chief  actor 
was  tragical  in  the  extreme,  being  massacred  with  her 
family  by  the  indians.  in  the  Dutch  territory,  to  which 
she  had  moved  from  Rhode  L'^land,  after  the  death 
of  her  husband  in  1642. 

"What  special  views  were  held  by  Daniel  Denison 
in  this  controversy,  we  have  no  means  of  ascertain- 
ing. We  can  hardly  suppose  him  to  have  been  a  sym- 
pathizer with  Mrs.  Hutchinson. 

"In  1636,  he  was  made  town  clerk  of  Ipswich,  and 
in  the  same  year  was  chosen  'Captaine,'  as  well  as 
Assistant  in  the  quarterly  court  held  in  Ipswich.  In 
1638,  Capt.  Denison  with  others  was  allowed  upon 
petition  'to  begin  a  plantation  at  Merrimack,'  (Salis- 
bury). In  1 641,  he  was  one  of  a  committee  for  fur- 
thering the  trade  in  Ipswich.  They  were  to  'set  up 
buoys,  beacons,  provide  salt,  cotton,  sowing-hempseed, 
flax-seed  and  card-wire.'  In  1643.  the  town  granted 
him  200  acres  of  land,  for  his  'better  encouragement 
to  settle  among  us.' 


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"At  about  tills  period  commences  that  dependence 
which  was  placed  hy  the  colonists  upon  Denison  as 
a  military  leader,  which  seems  never  to  have  been 
afterwards  shaken.  Owing  to  the  great  alarm  which 
spread  thoughout  the  planations  from  a  report  that  a 
general  conspiracy  existed  among  the  native  tribes, 
at  a  session  of  the  General  Court  in  May,  1643,  it 
was  ordered  that  there  should  be  a  general  training 
of  troops,  and  provision  of  arms,  and  that  Capt.  Deni- 
son with  five  others  should  put  the  country  into  a 
posture  of  war,  and  to  see  to  fortifications.  Capt. 
Denison.  together  with  several  gentlemen  of  Ipswich, 
Rowley,  and  the  adjoining  towns,  'out  of  the  care 
for  the  safety  of  the  public  weal,  by  the  advancement 
of  the  military  art  and  the  exercise  of  arms,'  were, 
upon  their  petition,  incorporated  as  a  militan,'  com- 
pany, in  May,  1645.  The  town  also  agrees  to  pay 
him  £24  ys  annually,  to  be  their  military  leader:  and 
at  this  time  he  was  chosen  Sergeant  Major,  an  office 
which  he  held  until  his  election  as  Major  General. 
Johnson  in  his  Wonder-Worklng  Providence,  thus 
speaks  of  his  abilities  as  a  commander:  'The  two 
counties  of  Essex  and  Norfolk,  are  for  the  present 
joyned  in  one  regiment.  Their  first  Major  who  now 
commandeth  this  regiment  is  the  proper  and  valiant 
^lajor  Daniel  Denison :  a  good  soldier,  and  of  a  quick 
capacity,  not  inferior  to  any  other  of  these  chief  of- 
ficers; his  own  company  are  well  instmcted  in  feats 
and  warlike  activity.' 

"With  military  duties  Major  Denison  is  called  upon 
to  take  his  part  in  the  engrossing  political  events  of 
the  day.  The  relations  of  Boston  and  Massachusetts 
to  the  quarrels  of  two  French  Governors  of  Acadia. 
La  Tour  and  D'Aubray.  growing  out  of  their  mutual 
jealousies  and  back-bitings,  fonn  a  curious  narrative 
in  the  early  times  of  the  colonies.  The  Chevalier 
Rasilli  was  appointed  by  the  King  of  France  to  the 
chief  command  in  Acadia.  He  designated  La  Tour 
as  Lieutenant  for  the  portion  east  of  the  St.  Croix, 


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and  D'Aubray  for  the  western  portions,  as  far  as  the 
French  claims  extended.  D'Aubray  was  a  CathoHc, 
while  La  Tour  pretended  to  be  a  Huguenot.  Probably 
it  was  this  last  which  detemiined  the  sympathies  of 
the  colonial  authorities  in  his  behalf.  The  first  apv- 
pearance  of  these  rivals  in  our  history  was  in  the 
autumn  of  1633,  when  news  came  of  the  taking  of 
Machias  by  the  French.  La  Tour  had  taken  posses- 
sion of  this  trading  place,  occupied  by  Plymouth  men, 
two  of  whom  were  killed  and  three  carried  away. 
In  1635,  D'Aulnay  made  a  similar  siezure  of  a  trad- 
ing house  at  Penobscot.  The  Plymouth  people  were 
greatly  exasperated  at  these  acts,  and  attempts  were 
made  with  the  assistance  of  the  Massachusetts  Col- 
ony, to  supplant  the  French  by  sending  an  expedition 
against  them :  but  from  various  causes,  this  failed. 
Li  1641,  La  Tour  sent  an  embassy  to  make  a  treaty 
of  commerce  with  the  Massachusetts  Colony.  This 
it  was  willing  to  do.  but  was  not  willing  to  assist  him 
in  his  contentions  against  D'Aulnay.  In  the  follow- 
ing year,  another  request  came  for  aid  against  his 
rival;  and  in  1643,  La  Tour  came  himself  to  Boston, 
was  well  received,  and  feted  by  the  authorities,  who 
did  not  feel  at  liberty  to  give  him  direct  assistance, 
but  granted  him  pennission  to  hire  any  vessels  in  the 
harbor.  He  accordingly  secured  four  ships  and  a  pin- 
nace, with  the  necessary  number  of  men,  and  with 
this  force  some  damage  was  done  to  his  rival,  prin- 
cipally by  the  capture  of  his  vessel  loaded  with  valu- 
able moose  and  beaver  skins.  La  Tour  came  again 
to  Boston  in  the  following  year  to  obtain  assistance, 
but  was  not  successful.  He  however  did  succeed  in 
causing  a  letter  to  be  addressed  to  D'Aulnay  by  the 
Colonial  authorities,  demanding  satisfaction  for  sev- 
eral grievances  committed  by  him.  Shortly  after, 
D'Aulnay  sent  an  embassy  to  the  Mass.  Governor, 
complaining  of  the  assistance  given  to  La  Tour,  in  the 
previous  year.  It  was  conclusively  proved.  Iiowever, 
that  no  commissions  had  been   granted  and  no  per- 


.=;i6 


mission  to  use  Iiostility.  With  this  he  was  apparent- 
ly satisfied.  Articles  of  agreement  was  drawn  up,  to 
keep  the  peace,  with  certain  trading  right,  to  be  con- 
firmed by  the  Commissioners  of  the  United  Colonies. 
These  articles,  when  confimied,  were  sent  to  D'Aiil- 
nay,  who  refused  to  sign  them  until  all  differences 
were  settled.  This  circumstance  caused  an  animated 
discussion  in  the  General  Court,  and  it  was  finally  de- 
cided to  send  Major  Daniel  Denison  with  Deputy  Gov- 
ernor Dudley  and  Mr.  Hawthorne,  to  D'Aulnay,  with 
full  powers  to  treat.  They  were,  however,  spared 
this  trouble,  for  D'Aulnay  hearing  of  their  appoint- 
ment, sent  three  of  his  principal  men  to  Boston  to 
settle  all  matters  of  difference.  In  the  end,  they  came 
to  this  conclusion,'  says  Winthrop,  'we  accepted  their 
commissioners'  answer  in  satisfaction  of  those  things 
we  had  charged  upon  Mons.  D'Aulnay,  and  they  ac- 
cepted our  answer  for  clearing  our  government  of 
what  lie  had  charged  upon  us.'  It  was  also  agreed 
that  a  small  compensation  should  be  sent  as  an  act 
of  courtesy;  and  thereupon  'a  ven-  fair  new  Sedan, 
worth  forty  or  fifty  pounds  where  it  was  made,  but 
of  no  use  to  us,'  which  had  been  taken  in  the  West 
Indies,  by  Capt.  Cromwell  in  one  of  his  prizes,  and 
given  to  the  Governor,  was  sent  to  D'Aulnay." 

The  following  is  also  from  Prof.  Slade's  sketch 
of  General  Denison : 

In  May,  1658,  the  following  order  was  passed  by 
the  General  Court:  "That  Major  Gen'l  Daniel  Deni- 
son diligently  peruse,  examine  and  weigh  every  law, 
and  compare  them  with  others  of  like  nature;  such 
as  are  plain  &  good,  free  from  any  just  exception,  to 
stand  without  any  animadversion  as  approved.  Such 
as  are  repealed,  or  fit  to  be  repealed,  to  be  so  marked 
and  the  reasons  given ;  such  as  are  obscure,  contra- 
dictoiy  or  seeming  so,  to  be  rectified  and  the  emen- 
dations prepared.  When  there  is  two  or  more  laws 
about  one  and  the  same  thing,  to  prepare  a  draught 


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of  one  law  that  may  compreliend  the  same;  to  make 
a  plain  &  easy  tahle,  and  to  prepare  what  else  may 
present,  in  the  perusing  of  them,  to  be  necessary  and 
useful,  and  make  return  at  the  next  session  of  this 
court."  The  General  entered  upon  this  work  with 
zest  and  diligence,  for  in  a  few  months  the  volume 
was  produced,  which  was  at  once  printed.  Two  copies 
of  this  volume  are  still  preserv^ed.  As  compensation 
"for  his  great  pains  in  transcribing  the  laws,"  the 
Court  granted  him  a  quarter  part  of  Block  Island. 
This  entire  island  was  sold  in  1660.  two  years  after, 
for  the  sum  of  £400. 

In  June,  1664,  he  was  appointed  together  with  Mr. 
Bradstreet  and  Mr.  Symonds,  to  consider  the  recent 
dissensions  in  the  N.  E.  Confederacy;  which  had 
sprung  from  the  course  pursued  by  Massachusetts, 
and  by  which  she  had  been  accused,  by  the  other  Col- 
onies, of  breaking  the  covenant.  This  "Narrative," 
as  it  was  termed,  was  to  be  sent  to  Cromwell. 

In  1665,  the  County  of  Essex  place  him  upon  a 
committee  "for  the  procuring  of  suitable  supplies," 
and  "to  consider  of  some  such  way  as  whereby  both 
merchandizing  may  be  encouraged  and  the  hands  also 
of  the  husbandmen  may  not  wax  weary  in  his  employ- 
ment." 

In  1660,  Gen.  Denison  joined  tlie  Ancient  and  Hon- 
orable Artillery  Company,  and  the  same  year  was 
elected  Commander,  which  was  the  first  undoubted 
instance  of  such  honor  being  conferred  upon  any  in- 
dividual. 

Under  date  of  May  3,  1665,  we  find  almost  tlie  only 
allusion  to  the  private  history  of  Gen.  Denison.  This 
is  the  bare  statement  of  the  loss  of  his  dwelling  house 
by  fire,  and  in  the  same  connection,  the  following: 
"A  woman  of  Ipswich  is  tried  for  burning  Gen'l  Deni- 
son's  house;  not  found  guilty;  fined  as  a  thief,  and 
to  be  whipped  for  Eyeing."  Bradstreet  in  his  journal 
says ;  "Mr.  Denison's  house  was  burnt,  by  whicli  fire 
he  suffered  great  losse,  few  of  ye  things  being  saved." 


5if 


As  one  of  tlie  liceiicers  of  the  press,  witli  Hrad- 
strect  and  Dudley,  lie  authorizes  the  imprint  and  pub- 
lication of  Hubbard's  Narrative,  March  29,  1677.  In 
May,  of  this  year,  he  is  one  of  three  to  grant  permis- 
sion to  Indians  to  carry  arms.  In  April  he  wrote  the 
following  letter  to  Capt.  Charles^  Frost  (see  p.  7  of 
this  History),  who  was  engaged  in  superintending 
the  garrisons  in  the  County  of  Y9rk : 

To  Capt.  Charles  Frost. — You  are  hereby  author- 
ized to  take  under  your  command  and  conduct  fifty 
foot  soldiers  herewith  sent  you  of  the  County  of  Essex 
and  Norfolk,  commanding  them  to  obey  you  as  their 
Captain,  whom  you  are  to  lead  and  conduct  against 
the  common  Enemy  now  infesting  Yorkshire,  whom 
you  are  with  all  diligence  to  pursue  and  destroy,  as 
also  to  succor  and  assist  the  English  of  Wells.  York, 
Neechiwannick  or  elsewhere,  as  you  shall  have  op- 
portunity. And  the  said  soldiers  are  hereby  required 
to  attend  your  orders  and  commands  for  the  prosecu- 
tion of  the  enemy  as  above  said  according  to  the  rules 
and  orders  of  Military  discipline ;  and  you  are  to  at- 
tend such  orders  and  instmctions  as  from  time  to 
time  you  shall  receive  from  myself  or  other  superior 
authority,  and  for  so  doing  this  shall  be  your  warrant. 
D.\NiEL  Denison,  Major  Gen. 


April    12.    167; 


Dcnisoii  .Inns. 


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Of  the  remaining  months  of  General  Dcnison's  h'fe 
we  know  but  ven,'  little.  As  he  was  chosen  an  As- 
sistant the  ver}-  year  in  which  his  death  occurred,  we 
may  presume  that  the  distressing  disease  of  which  he 
died  did  not  prevent  him  from  performing  the  public 
duties  to  which  he  was  called,  until  very  near  the 
end.  In  the  performance  of  these  public  duties  he 
had  been  Representative  ir  years,  Speaker  of  the 
House  three  years,  Assistant  29  years,  Major-General 
of  the  entire  militar\-  force  of  the  Colony  11  years. 
Commissioner  of  the  United  Colonies  eight  years,  and 
once  President  of  the  Board.  It  is  probable  that 
he  occupied  the  leisure  moments  of  the  latter  por- 
tion of  his  active  life  in  writing  the  treatise  which 
he  left  at  his  decease,  and  which  was  published  by 
his  good  pastor,  Wm.  Hubbard,  two  years  after  that 
event.  The  volume,  which  is  entitled  Irenkon.  or 
Salve  for  N'cxv  England's  Sore,  is  exceedingly  rare, 
and  is  a  good  specimen  of  the  quaint  language  of  the 
day.  In  this  he  considers  i.  What  our  present  mal- 
adies are  intended  in  this  discourse.  2.  What  might 
be  the  occasion  thereof.  3.  The  danger.  4.  The 
blameable  causes.  5.  The  cure.  The  title  page  is 
as  follows: 


520 

The  Benefit 
Of  A  Well-Ordered 

Conversation, 

As  it  was  Delivered  in  a 

Semion 

Preached  June  24tli  1682.    On  a  Day 

of  piiblick  Humiliation. 

As  also  a  Funeral  Discourse  upon  the  three  first  verses 
of  the  third  Chapter  of  Isaiah ;  Occasioned  by  the 
Death  of  the  Worshipful  Major  General  Denison; 
Who  Deceased  at  Ipswich,  Sept.  20,  1682. 


Bv  Mr.  William  Hubbard. 


To  which  is  Annexed  an  Irenicon 
Or  a  Salve  for  New  England's  Sore: 

Penned  by  the  said  Major  General ;  And  Left  behind 
him  as  his  Farewell  and  last  Advice  to  his  Friends 
of  the  Massachusets. 

Printed  at  Boston  by  Samuel  Green. 
1684. 

The  will  of  Major-General  Denison  has  been  pre- 
served and  the  following  extracts  are  of  interest : 

"Daniel  Denison  of  Ipswich,  being  in  good  health 
and  memory,  doe  thus  ordaine  my  last  will."  After 
jiroviding  for  his  daughter  and  her  son  it  says :  "To 
my  wife  Patience,  I  bequeath  the  rest  of  my  estate 
in  houses,  lands,  cattle,  money.  Sic,  for  her  support 
and  for  the  education  and  maintenance  of  my  grand 
child,  John  Denison,  and  for  the  relief  of  my  grand 
children,  Daniel  and  Martha  Denison,  if  they  be  in 
neede,  for  whose  education  and  maintenance  I  have 
other  wise  provided." 

The  will  was  made  July  16,  167,^.  and  the  last  cod- 
icil, December  22,  1680.  The  will  was  signed  and 
sealed   thus : 


521 


Manu  propria  scripsi  Daniel  Denison 


The  inventory  of  the  estate,  taken  Oct. 
17,  1682,  is  as  follows:   Amount,  £2105.  13s.     Debts 
due  estate  £28,  los.     County  pay  £390,  8s,  2cl. 

The  General's  letter  to  his  grandchildren  contains 
the  following  bits  of  autobiography.  Speaking  of 
his  wife  (Patience  Dudley)  he  says: 

"We  lived  together  without  children  above  7  years 
till  the  sixteenth  of  January  being  Thirsday  your  dear 
father  was  bom  at  Rocksbury,  whither  your  Grand- 
mother went  to  lye  in  at  her  mothers,  and  two  years 
and  a  quarter  after  your  aunt  Rogers  was  born  at  Ips- 
wich, on  the  loth  day  of  April  1642  about  nine  years 
after  your  Grandmother  had  another  Daughter  named 
Mary,  who  died  about  a  quarter  old.  and  three  years 
after  we  had  another  our  last  named  Deborah  who 
died  within  a  fortnight. 

"In  the  year  1645  I  was  made  Major  of  the  Regi- 
ment of  Essex,  and  in  the  year  1653  was  chosen  an 
Assistant  or  Magistrate  and  about  a  year  after  was 
made  Major  General  and  continued  so  for  about  7 
or  eight  years  after. 

"In  the  year  1660  my  onely  Daughter  and  your  Aunt 
Elizabeth  was  Marryed  to  Mr.  John  Rogers  who  hath 
ever  since  lived  at  Ipswich,  and  hath  now  living  five 
children,  your  Cousen  Germans  (viz.):  Elizabeth, 
Margaret,  John,  Daniel  and  Nathaniel,  She  had  an- 
other Daughter  named  also  Elizabeth  that  died  a  year 
and  quarter  old." 

[Bibliographical  References  to  the  Denison  Family.] 

Nczv  England  Historic-Genealogical  Register,  April 
1892  (Gen.  Denison's  letter  to  his  grandchildren)  ; 
23  Register,  312,  biographical  sketch; 


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8  Register.  23,  Gen.  Deiiison's  will : 

"A  Record  of  the  Descendants  of  Capt.  George 
Denison  of  Stonington"  by  Baldwin  and  Clift,  W^or- 
cester,   1881; 

Denison  Memorial,  Ipswich.   1882; 

The  Dennison  Family  of  North  Yarmouth  and 
Freeport,  Me.,  by  A.  L.  Dennison,  Exeter,  N.  H., 
1906    (Price  one  dollar)  ; 

Records  of  St.  Michael's  Parish  Church,  Bishop's 
Stortford,  edited  by  J.  L.  Glascock,  Jr.,  1882; 

Early  Inhabitants  of  Ipswich.  Mass.,  by  A.  L.  Ham- 
matt. 


RAY  FAMILY 

In  England  if 20  fn  1600. 

As  it  happened,  the  Editor  of  this  Hi.story  set  forth 
on  page  345  that  the  name  of  the  first  wife  of  Rev. 
Tohn^  Rogers,  the  "Famous  Preacher  of  Dedham," 
England,  mother  of  Rev.  Nathaniel*  of  Ipswich.  Mass. 
(x).  384),  was  then  "still  unknown  to  her  posteritv." 
Broadly  speaking,  that  statement  was  then  true ;  but 
Miss  Elizabeth  French  knew  it.  She  had  been  delving 
in  the  ancient  documents  of  the  Archdeaconr\'  of  Sud- 
bury (Bury  St.  Edmunds),  England;  and  her  manu- 
script memoranda  of  wills  was  even  then  on  its  way 
to  publication  in  the  famous  Register,  published  by 
the  New  England  Historic-Genealogical  Society,  of 
Boston.  Mass.  Miss  French  had  found  a  series  of 
fifteenth  century  wills — some  in  the  ancient  monkish 
Latin  of  over  four  centuries  ago;  she  had  tran.slated 
them,  and  they  gave  not  only  five  generations  of  the 
paternal  ancestr}-  of  Bridgcf'  Ray — the  first  wife  of 
Rev.  John"'  Rogers — but  mucli  aliout  the  origin  of  the 
l\av  familv  in  New  England  in  later  years  and  what 
is    rcallv    innrc    interesting,    intimate    side    lights    on 


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human  doings  and  customs  and  the  halMtudes  of  our 
remote  forebears  in  the  motlier  countr\-  when  EHza- 
beth  was  Queen,  and  Shakspcre  was  achieving  liis 
reputation. 

By  the  courtesy  of  the  New  England  Historic-Gen- 
ealogical Society,  of  whose  library  the  Editor  has  been 
a  grateful  frequenter  since  1885  (a  member  however 
for  only  seventeen  years)  the  readers  of  this  History 
have  here  the  benefit  of  Miss  French's  investigations. 

1.  Robert'  Ray  of  Denston,  Wickhambrook,  etc., 
bom  about  1420,  the  testator  of  1480:  had  wife  Mar- 
garet, the  testatrix  of  1482. 

Children : 

I.    John-  tlic  elder,  b.  abt.  1450; 

n.    John  the  younger;  had  son  Robert^; 

in.    Joane. 

2.  John-  Ray  (Robert^)  of  Denston.  Wickham- 
brook, etc.,  born  about  1450,  the  testator  of  T503; 
bad  wife  Elizabeth,  the  testatrix  of  1521. 

Cliildrcn : 

I.    John^  b.  abt.  1480; 

n.    Thomas  of  Stradishall,  left  issue; 

HI.    Agnes,  in.  John  Smith  ; 

IV.  Anne,  m.  Westropp; 

V.  Katherine,  m. Sparrow. 

3.  Jolin''  Ray  (Jolur.  Robert')  of  Denston,  etc., 
born  about  1480.  the  testator  of  1539;  had  wife  Agnes, 
the  testatrix  of  1539. 

Children : 

I.  Robert^  b.  abt.  1505; 

II.  John  of  Cheveley,  Cambridgeshire,  the 
testator  of  1558;  had  wife  Margaret,  but  d. 
without  issue; 

III.  George  of  Long  Melford.  had  wife 
Elizabeth,  child  William'^; 


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I\'.  Elizabclli.  m.  abt.  1530,  William  Crach- 
erode ; 

V.  Anne,  m.  Roger  Strutt; 

VI.  Alice,  m.  John  Cutter. 

4.  Robert'  Ray  (Johii.^,  John"  Robert^)  of  Den- 
ston,  etc.,  torn  about  1505,  the  testator  of  1550;  had 
wife  Joane. 

Children : 

I.  John"'  of  Denston,  b.  apt.  1530,  had  wife 
Elizabeth  and  thirteen  children; 

II.  Elizabeth,  unm.  in  1550; 

III.  Richard  of  Stradishall,  b.  abt.  1535  ; 

IV.  Thomas : 

\^    Robert  of  Wickhambrook,  b.  abt.   1540. 

5.  Richard''  Ray  (Robert*.  Johir,  Jolm".  Robert) 
of  Stradishall,  born  about  1535.  the  testator  of  1609 
(see  p.  529),  had  wife  Mary. 

Children,  baptized  at  Stradishall : 

I.  John"  of  Stradishall,  bapt.  17  Aug.  1566, 
d.  without  issue; 

II.  Robert,  bapt.  5  Jan.,  1568; 

III.  Thomas,  bapt.  7  Mar.,  1570; 

IV.  Henry,  bapt.  7  Jan.,  1572; 

V.  Richard  of  Stradishall,  bapt.  7  Feb., 
1574,  had  issue,  among  others,  John"; 

VI.  Bridget,  bapt.  6  Jan.,  1576;  m.  abt. 
1595,  Rev.  John  Rogers,  "the  famous  preacher 
of  Dedham,"  Eng.,  being  his  first  wife  (see  p. 
384).  Children,  John,  eldest  son.  Rev.  Nathan- 
iel of  Ipswich,  Mass.,  second  son,  b.  abt.  1598, 
Samuel,  Daniel,  Bridget,  Abigail,  and  Martha. 
.-\t  the  time  of  his  marriage  Rogers  was  rector 
of  Haverhill,  but  six  miles  from  Stradishall. 

VII.  Ambrose,  bapt.  9  Aug.  1578;  d.  before 
1609,  leaving  son  John". 

\TII.    Abraham,  bapt.  4  Dec,  1580; 

IX.  A  daughter,  m.  Rev.  John  Benton ; 

X.  Samuel,  bapt.  17  Dec,  1586. 


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The  wills  referred  to  in  tlie  foregoing  as  made  by 
various  testators  and  testatrices  are  as  follows,  also 
from  LXIV.  Register,  51-6  (Jan.,  1910)  ; 

The  Will  of  Robert  Ray  of  Denston.  29  Mar.  1480 
(see  p.  523).  My  body  to  be  buried  in  the  church 
of  St.  Nicholas  of  Denston.  To  the  high  altar  of 
the  said  church.  To  my  wife.  To  son  John  Ray 
the  elder  my  messuage  in  Wckhambrok.  To  son  John 
Ray  the  younger  £50.  My  two  sons  executors.  No 
witnesses.  Proved  20  May  1482.  (Archdeaconry  of 
Sudbury   (Buiy  St.  Edmunds),  bk.  3,  f.  275.) 

The  will  of  Marger  Ray,  widow,  2  Feb.  1482.  My 
body  to  be  buried  in  Denston.  To  the  altar  of  the 
church  of  Denston.  To  daughter  Johan.  To  sons 
John  the  elder  and  John  the  younger.  Son  John  the 
elder  made  residuary  legatee  and  executor.  No  wit- 
nesses. Proved  20  Jan.  1584-5  by  the  executor  nam- 
ed.    (Archdeaconry  of  Sudbury,  bk.  3,  f.  351.) 

The  Will  of  John  Raye  of  Denston,  6  June  1503 
(see  p.  523).  My  body  to  be  buried  within  the 
church  of  St.  Nicholas  of  Denston.  To  the  high  altar 
in  the  same  church.  To  the  high  altars  of  the  churches 
of  Depden,  Lyten.  Owsden  and  Hunden.  To  Mr. 
Abytt,  priest,  for  singing  for  my  soul  for  two  years 
in  the  church  of  Denston,  18  marks.  To  my  brother 
his  son  Rob  Reye  [  ]  in  the  hands  of  [  ] 

of  Newhin,  County  Bedforth,  for  a  trental  of  Saint 
Gregory  for  my  soul  to  be  sung.  To  wife  Elizal^eth 
10  marks,  ten  kine,  six  sheep,  and  the  housements 
and  utensils  to  my  house  pertaining.  To  sons  John 
and  Thomas  my  tenement  in  Stradyshyll  called  petytes 
tenement,  with  all  lands  and  appurtenances,  and  my 
tenements  that  I  have  in  Clare,  etc.,  my  son  Thomas 
to  have  his  choice  which  lands  he  will  have  and  the 
other  part  to  son  John;  crops  in  Newmarket  to  be 
equally  divided  between  them.  To  son  Thomas  lands 
lying  in  the  fields  of  Newmarket  and  all  the  remain- 


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der  of  lands  lying  in  Stradishull,  Wickhambrook,  and 
Cowlinge,  if  so  be  that  my  son  John  be  content  to 
have  my  tenement  in  Denston  with  all  thereto  belong- 
ing, after  the  decease  of  his  mother.  Each  son  to 
be  the  others  heir  if  either  die  before  they  be  mar- 
ried and  have  lawful  issue.  The  residue  of  all  goods 
to  my  executors  to  disburse  in  works  of  charity  my 
soul  to  speed.  E.xecutors,  my  wife  and  sons  John 
and  Thomas.  Witnesses:  Sir  John  Dow,  sen.,  mast' 
of  the  colon'  of  Denston  and  William  Henwade. 
Proved  i6  July  1503  by  the  executors  named.  (Arch- 
deaconrv  of  Sudburv  (Burv  St.  Edmunds'),  bk.  4, 
f.  54.)  ' 

The  Will  of  Eliz.-\beth  R.\y.  22  Jan.  1521  (see  p. 
^2^).  My  body  to  be  buried  in  the  church  of  St. 
Nicholas  of  Denston.  Bequests  to  the  same  church. 
To  the  church  of  Norwiche.  To  a  priest  to  sing  for 
me  I  am  bound  to  pay  for  a  half  a  year  4  marks. 
To  Robert  Ray,  John  Ray,  Elizabeth  Ray,  and  Anne 
Ray,  to  each,  sheep,  silver,  and  household  goods. 
Gifts  of  sheep  to  the  children  of  Katersm  Sparow; 
to  the  children  of  Anne  Westerp,  my  godchildren: 
to  the  children  of  daughter  Agnes  Smyth,  my  god- 
children John  and  George,  and  to  her  other  children. 
Residue  of  all  goods  unbequeathed  to  son  John,  whom 
I  make  my  executor.  No  witnesses.  Probated  7  Feb. 
1 52 1  by  the  executor  named  in  the  will.  (Archdea- 
conry of  Sudbury  (Bury  St.  Edmunds),  bk.  9,  f.  112.) 

The  will  of  John  R.\y  (see  p.  523)  of  Deniriston 
in  the  County  of  Suffolk  and  Diocese  of  Norwich, 
the  elder,  yeoman,  28  May  1539.  My  body  to  be 
buried  in  the  parish  church  of  Deneriston.  To  the 
high  altar.  For  a  cross  £6.  To  the  high  altars  of  the 
churches  of  Wyckhm.  Stanffyld.  Ovveston,  Ashley,  Sil- 
verley,  and  Poselyngford.  A  priest  to  be  paid  to  sing 
and  pray  for  the  souls  of  myself,  my  wife,  my  father, 
my  mother,  my  friends  and  all  Christian  souls,  for  two 
years.     Wife   Annes  to  have  the  occupation   of  my 


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mease  for  life,  with  appurtenances  and  other  parcels 
of  land,  six  beasts,  one  hundred  sheep,  half  my  house- 
hold stuff  and  half  the  shop:  also  my  house  called 
Stewards  and  ground  thereto  belonging  for  life.  My 
sons  Robert,  John,  and  George  Ray  to  pay  her  yearly 
each  33s.  4d.  To  daughter  Elizabeth  £6  13s.  46.  To 
daughter  Anne  £20.  To  daughter  Alice  £40.  To 
John  Ray,  son  of  Robert  Ray,  20s.  To  every  of  the 
rest  of  son  Robert's  children,  that  is  Richard.  Eliza- 
beth, and  Thomas.  6s.  8d.  To  godsons  James  Colley, 
Leonye  Smyth,  and  George  Smyth  the  younger;  to 
Anne  Turnor,  Margaret  Ray,  Anne  Hegeman,  Eliza- 
beth Brasye;  to  John,  Robert,  and  George,  my  sister 
Westhrowpes  children ;  and  to  Anne  Sparow,  a  silver 
spoon  apiece.  To  the  said  John  Westhrope  and  to 
godson  John  Yeere  6s.  8d.  To  Westrowpe,  son  of 
John  Westrowpe,  and  to  every  of  my  brother  Spa- 
rowe's  children,  sheep.  The  residue  of  all  goods 
movcal)le  and  unmoveable  unbequeathed,  to  be  equally 
divided  between  my  sons  Robert,  John,  and  George 
Rav,  wiiom  T  make  executors.  Witnesses:  Roger 
Strutt  and  John  Cutter.  Proved  22  Nov.  1539  by 
George  Ray,  one  of  the  executors  named  in  the  will, 
with  power  reserved  to  the  other  executors  named. 
(P.  C.  C.,  Dyngcley,  33.) 

The  Will  of  Agnf.s  Reye,  widowe,  dwelling  in  the 
p'ishe  of  Denston  within  the  contye  of  Suff..  ig  June 
1539.  My  body  to  l>e  buried  within  the  church  of 
Denston.  To  the  cross  which  my  husband  gave  unto 
the  church  of  Denston.  To  daughters  Elizabeth, 
Anne,  and  Alice,  to  each  two  kyene  and  twenty  sheep, 
whicli  my  husband  gave  me,  also  household  goods 
and  wheat :  and  to  Alice  my  wedding  ring.  To  every 
one  of  Robte  Reye's  children,  Willm  Crecherwod's 
children.  Roger  Strutt's  children,  and  to  godson  Willm 
Cutter,  Thomas  Cowp',  John  Payne  and  John  Lar- 
nerd.  four  sheep  apiece.  To  Robte  Reye  my  part 
of  the  shop  which  his  father  gave  me.    To  Margaret 


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Spaklinge  and  Joane  Lichefelde  a  matress  and  pair 
of  sheets  apiece.  To  Sr.  Thomas  Home,  parish  priest 
of  Denston,  6s.  8d.  to  pray  for  me.  All  jewelry  to 
be  parted  among  you  all.  To  Robte  Reye,  John  Reye, 
and  George  Reye  all  the  crop  upon  the  ground  with 
all  other  moveables,  and  I  make  them  my  executors. 
Witnesses:  Sr.  Thomas  Home,  John  Cutter,  John 
Payne,  and  Thomas  Cowper.  Proved  at  Wickham- 
brooke  i6  [month  omitted]  1540.  (Archdeaconn,' 
of  Sudbury  (Bury  St.  Edmunds),  Longe,  f.  274.) 

The  Will  of  Robert  Ray  of  Denardeston  in  the 
County  of  Suffolk  and  Diocese  of  Norwich,  the  elder, 
yeoman.  3  Aug.  1550  (see  p.  524).  My  body  to  be 
buried  in  the  parish  church  of  Denardiston.  My  wife 
Johan  Raye  to  have  six  cows,  £3  6s.  8d.  a  year,  and 
during  her  widowhood  one  chamber  over  the  new 
parlor.  To  son  John  Ray  all  my  houses  and  lands, 
both  free  hold  and  copyhold,  lying  in  the  parishes  of 
Denardiston,  Straddeshull,  and  Wyckhmbrook,  except 
certain  houses  and  lands  lying  in  the  said  parishes  re- 
served to  my  son  Robert  Ray ;  that  is,  my  house  in 
the  occupation  of  William  Outmer  with  lands  thereto 
belonging,  both  freeheld  and  copyhold,  a  little  house 
with  a  yard  in  the  occupation  of  Thomas  Pannell,  a 
house  and  lands  in  the  occupation  of  John  Lamer  and 
John  Baxster,  and  batmans  crofte  with  two  acres  of 
land  belonging  to  the  parsonage  of  Denston  lying  by 
gybbes  crofte,  and  two  acres  of  the  parsonage  land 
of  Denardeston  lying  in  Straddeshull  in  a  crofte  called 
Sherwoode  Crofte.  Also  to  him  a  house  and  certain 
lands  thereto  belonging  holden  by  copy  of  the  Bishop 
of  Illeghe  [Ely]  lying  the  parish  of  Strethm  in  the 
He  of  Illighe  in  the  County  of  Cambridge,  and  six 
shops  in  Newmarket,  to  him  and  his  heirs  forever, 
he  to  enter  into  all  except  the  copy  lands  at  the  age 
of  twenty-one  years  or  day  of  marriage.  To  son 
Richard  Ray  £40  at  tiie  age  of  twenty-one  and  my 
house  named  Sluffvld ;  and  to  son  Thomas  Ray  £20 


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at  age  of  twenty-one  and  my  house  named  Hoony- 
nans ;  all  my  lands  in  Asslieley,  Sylverley  and  Chcve- 
ley  to  be  equally  divided  between  them,  at  age  of 
twenty-one  or  day  of  marriage,  son  John  to  pay  them 
20S.  a  year  for  pasturage  for  two  hundred  sheep.  If 
any  of  my  four  sons  die  without  issue,  reversion  to 
the  survivors,  equally  divided.  To  daughter  Eliza- 
beth f6o  and  four  cows,  one  half  at  day  of  marriage, 
the  residue  in  one  year  following.  To  each  of  my 
sons  one  hundred  sheep  and  six  cattle.  To  Johan 
Manshippe,  Johan  NorAvich,  Anne  Bredgman,  Robert 
Erodgman,  and  my  godchildren  Elizabeth  Norwiche, 
Richard  Norwiche,  and  Thomas  Smythe,  a  bullock 
apiece.  To  godson  Robert  Howell,  20s.  To  son 
Robert  Ray  at  the  age  of  twenty-one  £20.  The  residue 
of  goods,  cattle,  implements,  stuff  of  household  and 
debts  due  to  me,  to  son  John,  whom  I  make  executor. 
Witnesses :  Thomas  Lancaster,  Thomas  Smythe,  John 
Ray  sen.,  and  Willm  Manshyppe.  Proved  9  Jan.  1560, 
by  the  executor  named  in  the  will.  (P.  C.  C  Buck, 
i')     (64  Reg.,  53)- 

The  Will  of  Richard  Rave  of  Stradishull  in  the 
County  of  Suffolk,  yeoman,  i  Feb.  1609  (see  p.  524) 
To  wife  Mary  for  life  my  messuage  or  tenement  called 
Gamlinge  alias  Gamlins,  one  grovett  called  Gamlings 
grove,  and  two  pieces  of  pasture  called  Wood  Mea- 
dowe,  in  the  town  of  Stradisliull  and  Wickhambrooke 
in  Suffolk,  which  pastures  with  the  aforesaid  grovett 
"tvme  owte  of  memorye  of  men  hath  byn  and  were 
accustomed  to  appteine  to  the  foresaid  messuages"; 
with  reversion  successively  to  sons  John  and  Robert. 
To  John  Raye  and  his  heirs  forever  all  my  freehold 
and  copyhold  lands  lying  in  Redfeild,  Great  Willowes, 
and  Willowes  Halke  in  the  parish  of  Wickhambrooke 
and  Stradishull.  Whereas  John  Raye  the  elder,  late 
of  Denston  in  the  County  of  Suffolk,  together  with 
his  brothers  Francis  Raye,  William  Raye,  and  Richard 
Raye  stand  jointly  and  severally  bound  unto  me  the 


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said  Richard  Rave  and  mine  executor  in  five  several 
obligations  for  the  payment  of  £250  within  five  years, 
viz.  £50  in  every  one  of  those  years,  my  will  is  that 
my  executors  upon  receipt  of  the  said  sums  shall  make 
payment  thereof  as  follows:  to  son  Richard  Raye  £40; 
to  son  Henrye  Raye  £45 ;  to  son  Abraham  Raye  £45 ; 
to  sons  John  Raye  and  Robert  Raye  £60,  the  better 
to  enable  them  to  relieve  and  help  my  son  Thomas 
according  to  their  discretion ;  to  my  sons-in-law  John 
Rogers  and  John  Benton  fio  apiece;  to  John  Raye, 
son  of  my  late  son  Ambrose  Raye  deceased,  £40  at 
age  of  twenty-four  years.  Mention  made  of  an  obli- 
gation wherein  the  said  Roljert  and  Abraham  stand 
bound  unto  [Richard]  Vaugham  [sic],  late  Bishop 
of  London.  All  residue  to  sons  John  Raye  and  Rob- 
ert Raye,  who  are  made  executors.  [Signed]  Rich- 
ard Raye.  Witnesses:  Charles  Burroughe  and  John 
Raye.  Proved  25  Feb.  1610  by  the  oath  of  the' ex- 
ecutors named  in  the  will.  (Archdeaconry  of  Sud- 
bury (Bury  St.  Edmunds),  Rogen,  flf.  292-3.)      (63 

^cg-  356.) 


.     .  GILMAN  FAMILY. 

Tlie  earliest  records  of  the  family  or  Gilman  are 
found  in  Wales. 

Cilmin  Trneddhu,  which  means  Kilmin  or  Gilman 
of  the  Black  foot,  was  of  Glynllison  in  Uwch  Gwir 
Vai  in  Caer-yn-Arvonshire  in  843  in  the  time  of  Rod- 
erick the  Great,  with  whom  he  came  out  of  the  north 
of  Britain.  The  coat  of  arms  which  he  bore  was 
Arfjcnt.  a  man's  leg  couped  sable.  (See  illustration.) 
The  crest,  a  demi-lion  issuing  from  a  cap  of  main- 
tenance. The  Gilman  family  have  used  these  arms 
in  England  and  the  United  States.  This  Kilmin  was 
head  of  one  of  the  fifteen  noble  tribes  of  North  Wales, 
and  there  appears  to  be  reasonable  ground  for  the 
belief  that  he  was  one  of  the  ancestors  of  the  Gilman 
familv  of  England  and  .America. 


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lursi-:  BUILl-  BV   NATHAN^  BATCHELDKR    A 

BATCHELDEK'S  MILLS,  ABOUT  1827,   AS  I  J' 

LOOKS  TODAV       (Seep.  4S0) 


OILMAN  GARRISON'   HOUSE 

{See  pp.  535-(i) 


531 

"From  tlie  estalilisliment  of  New  Hampshire  as  a 
royal  province  to  the  present  day  this  family  has  been 
identified  with  civic  affairs.  John  Oilman  was  one 
of  the  original  councillors  in  President  Cutt's  com- 
mission. Colonel  Peter  Oilman  was  one  of  the  royal 
councillors  in  1772,  while  Nicholas  Oilman  was  a 
councillor  in  1777,  and  again  in  1788  under  the  state 
government.  Hon.  John  Taylor  Oilman  was  chosen 
chief  magistrate  of  New  Hampshire  eleven  times  in 
succession,  and  served  as  governor  in  all  fourteen 
years.  The  latter's  brother  Nicholas  served  in  both 
the  national  house  of  representatives  and  the  senate. 
Rev.  Nicholas  and  Rev.  Tristam  Oilman  were  grad- 
uated from  Harvard  in  1724  and  1757  respectively." 
(TV.  N.  H.  Gen.  Hist.,  1622.) 

The  Oilman  genealogy  discusses  the  ancestry  and 
descendants  of  the  name  and  was  published  in  1869 
by  Arthur  Oilman,  Esq. 

The  first  of  the  Oilman  line,  so  far  as  the  Editor 
is  aware,  who  has  been  definitely  shown  to  be  an  an- 
cestor of  the  American  family  of  Oilman  is  • 

Edward'  Oilman,  who  married  at  Gaston.  England, 
22  June,  1555,  Rose  Rysse  (Rice).  His  will  was 
made  5  Feb.,  1573,  and  by  it  he  devised  his  houses 
and  lands  in  Gaston  to  his  eldest  son,  John,  and  his 
other  estate  lands  at  Saham  Toney,  between  his  other 
sons  and  his  daughters.  It  was  proved  July  the  same 
vear.  In  it  he  mentions  his  widow  and  nine  children. 
His  widow  married  second  3  Apr..  1578,  John  Snell 
and  was  buried  3  Oct.,  1613.     Children: 

I.  John^  Oilman : 

II.  Robert^  Oilman,  baptized  at  Gaston.  10 
July,  1559  (see): 

III.  Lawrence^  Oilman,  baptized  at  Gaston, 
3  Nov.,  1561 ;  he  married  20  June.  m88,  Eliza- 
beth   Jfimes,   who   was  buried   20  Dec.    1602. 


532 

Lawrence's  will  was  dated  i  Aug.  1G29;  he  was 
buried  21  Aug.,  and  his  will  was  proved  8 
Dec.  of  the  same  year; 

IV.    Edward^  Oilman; 

V.-IX.  Margaret-,  Katherine",  Rose-,  Jane-, 
and  Elizabeth-. 

Robert-   Oilman   was  baptized   at   Caston    10  July, 

1559.     He  married   Mary  .     She  was  buried 

at  Caston  9  Mar.,  1618.  He  is  mentioned  in  the  will 
of  his  brother  Lawrence^  Oilman.  Robert-  trans- 
ferred by  will  to  his  son  John*  lands  which  he  had 
received  under  the  will  of  his  father  in  i^yz/^.  He 
was  buried  at  Caston  6  Mar.,  1631.     Children: 

I.    Robert*  Oilman,  married  14  May,   161 1, 

Rose  Hawes;  second,   Mary  :  he  died 

in  1658; 

n.  Edward*  Oilman,  born  1587/8  at  Cas- 
ton. in  England   (see); 

in.  Lawrence*  Oilman,  baptized  at  Caston 
I  Dec,  1594;  mentioned  in  his  brother  John's 
will   1639.     Lawrence's  will  was  dated   1647: 

IV.  John*  Oilman,  baptized  at  Caston.  28 
Feb..  1598. 

Edward*  Oilman,  born  1587/8  at  Caston.  England, 
married  at  Hingham,  England,  3  June,  1614.  Mar\' 
Clark. 

Rev.  Robert  Peck,  of  Hingham,  England,  led  a 
party  of  one  hundred  and  thirty-three  men,  women 
and  children  from  England  to  America.  They  em- 
barked in  the  ship  "Diligent"  of  Ipswich,  Captain  John 
Martin,  which  left  Oravesend,  April  26,  and  arrived 
at  Boston,  Massachusetts,  August  10,  1638.  Among 
those  who  composed  the  Pilgrim  band  were  Edward* 
Oilman,  with  his  wife,  three  sons,  and  two  daughters, 
and  three  servants.  He  settled  in  Hingham,  where 
he  was  admitted  freeman  December  13,  1638.  In 
T641   a  tract  of  land  eight  miles  square  then  called 


533 


Seekonk,  now  Relioboth,  was  granted  to  Edward^  Gil- 
man  and  others  by  the  Plymouth  Colony.  In  1643 
his  estate  was  three  hundred  pounds.  His  name  does 
not  appear  on  the  records  of  that  town  after  1646. 
In  1647  Its  name  appears  in  Ipswich,  and  September 
18,  1648,  Edward  Gilman,  Jr.,  sold  to  his  father,  Ed- 
ward Oilman,  the  farm  given  him  by  his  father-in- 
law,  Richard  Smith.  Edward  Gilman  and  his  sons 
removed  to  Exeter,  New  Hampshire. 

Edward^  and  his  sons  Edward*  and  Moses*  were 
"upon  their  request"  10  May,  1652,  accepted  as  towns- 
men of  E.xeter,  N.  II. 

Administration  on  the  estate  of  Edward''  Gilman 
of  Exeter  granted  to  his  widow,  Mary,  April  10,  1655, 
and  she  was  ordered  to  produce  the  consent  of  her 
children  to  the  disposal  of  the  estate  by  the  county 
court  according  to  a  deed  of  the  deceased. 

Moses*  Gilman  gave  his  consent  as  above  Jan.  11, 
1654/5,  and  John  Folsom,  Daniel  Gushing  and  John 
Leavitt,  Sept.  29,  1655. 

(I.  Norfolk  Co.,  Mass.,  Deeds,  45.) 

Inventory,  attested  Oct.  2,  1655;  amount,  £211.0.0. 
John  Leavitt  is  mentioned  as  at  Hingham,  Mass. 

(Essex  County,  Mass.,  Probate  Files,  and  I.  Nor- 
folk County,  Mass.,  Deeds,  45.) 

(31  N.  H.  State  Papers.  29.) 

The  children  of  Edward^  and  Mar}'  (Clark)  Gil- 
man born  at  Hingham.  Norfolk  County,  England, 
were  as  follows: 

I.  Mary*  Gilman,  baptized  6  Aug..  1615; 
married  John  Eoulsham  (Folsom),  who  came 
over  on  the  same  ship; 

II.  Edward*  Gilman,  baptized  26  Dec, 
1617;  was  lost  at  sea  in  1653; 

III.  Sarah*  Gilman,  baptized  19  Jan.,  1622; 

IV.  Lydia*  Gilman,  married  in  Hingham, 
England,  19  Jan.,  1645,  by  Rev.  John  Peck,  to 
Daniel,  son  of  Matthew  Gushing,  Sr. ; 


534 

V.  Jolin''  Gilinan,  born  lo  Jan.,  1624  (see)  ; 

VI.  Moses''  Gilman,  baptized  11  Mar.,  1630; 
married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  William  Her- 
sey,  Sr.  His  eldest  son,  Jeremiah^,  married 
Mary  Wiggin,  daughter  of  Andrew,  and  grand- 
daughter of  Governor  Thomas  Wiggin;  her 
mother  was  Hannah,  daughter  of  Governor 
Simon  Bradstreet  and  greatgranddaughter  of 
Governor  Thomas  Dudley  (see). 

Hon  Jolui^  Gilman.  Councillor. 

John*  Gilman,  the  second  son  of  Edward^  Gilman, 
Sr.,  was  born  in  Hingham,  Norfolk,  England,  Janu- 
ary loth,  1624,  and  was  there  baptized  23  May,  1626. 
came  to  Exeter  before  1650,  and  immediately  became 
a  prominent  citizen.  From  the  first  he  was  concerned 
with  his  brother  Edward  in  mills  and  lumber.  After 
Edward  was  lost  at  sea  in  1653,  he  inherited  much 
of  the  latters'  property,  and  took  his  place  in  devel- 
oping the  resources  of  the  town.  He  was  chosen  se- 
lectman more  than  one-half  the  years  between  1650 
and  1680;  was  repeatedly  elected  commissioner  to  end 
small  causes;  and  ap]X)inted  upon  committees  to  care 
for  the  town's  interests.  He  had  several  handsome 
grants  of  land  from  the  town,  and  a  special  right  of 
a  gristmill.  In  the  two  years  before  New  Hamp- 
shire was  emancipated  from  the  Massachusetts  gov- 
ernment he  held  the  office  of  associate  (judge)  of  the 
old  Norfolk  county  court. 

In  1680  Mr.  Gilman  was  made  a  councillor  of  the 
newly  erected  province  of  New  Hampshire,  and  in 
1682  a  judge  of  the  Court  of  Pleas;  but  in  1683  he 
was  bv  Governor  Cranfield  relieved  of  lx)tli  offices*. 


*  "At  last,  after  a  struggle  of  many  years'  duration, 
the  union  of  the  two  colonies  was  dissolved  by  order 
of  the  king.  New  Hampshire  was  erected  into  a  royal 
province,  under  a  president  and  .six  councilors,  with 


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535 


It  is  needless  to  say  that  his  reputation  in  the  province 
did  not  sufifer  by  reason  of  his  removal.  In  1693  he 
was  chosen  by  his  townsmen  a  delegate  to  the  Assem- 
bly, and  was  made  Speaker  of  the  House,  and  again 
chosen  in  1697. 

He  married,  June  30th,  1657,  Elizabeth,  daughter 
of  James  Treworgy  (see)  (from  which  came  the 
popular  Christian  name  of  Tnieworthy),  and  had  six 
sons  and  ten  daughters,  and  very  numerous  descen- 
dants. He  built  the  "log  house"  opposite  the  Great 
Bridge,  which  is  still  standing.  He  died  July  24th, 
1708,     (C.  H.  Bell,  History  of  Exeter,  N.  H.,  1888.) 

The  oldest  house  in  town  is  undoubtedly  that  on 
the  northerly  comer  of  Water  and  Clifford  Streets, 
now  owned  by  Manly  \V.  Darling.  It  was  built  by 
Councillor  John  Oilman.  He  was  living  in  it  in  1676, 
and  there  is  ground  for  the  belief  that  it  dates  back 
to  1658.  It  was  constructed  of  square  logs,  the  upper 
story  projected  a  foot  or  more  beyond  the  lower  and 
the  windows  were  scarcely  more  than  loopholes.  It 
was  thus  completely  adapted  for  the  defence  of  its  in- 
mates against  the  attacks  of  savages,  and  is  known 
as  a  "garrison  house."      (Picture  opp.  p.  530.) 

an  assembly  of  eleven  deputies.  The  commission  was 
sealed  18  September,  1679.  Guns  were  fired  here 
upon  receipt  of  the  tidings.  John  Cutt  was  appointed 
president;  Martyn,  Vaughan  and  Daniel  of  Ports- 
mouth. Gilman  of  Exeter,  Hussey  of  Hampton,  and 
Waldron  of  Dover  were  named  as  the  council.  Sin- 
gular to  state,  they  were  every  one  a  firm  friend  of 
the  Bay  Colony.  President  Cutt  lived  but  a  year  after 
taking  ofiice.  Waldron  succeeded  him  for  a  short 
term,  when  there  came  upon  the  stage  one  of  the  most 
restless,  strong-willed  and  zealous  representatives  of 
royal  authority  that  ever  crossed  the  Atlantic."  (Ad- 
dress of  F.  W.  Hackett  at  200th  Anniversary  of  the 
town  of  New  Castle,  N.  H..  1893.) 


536 


The  original  structure  was  small,  and  constitutes 
the  main  body  of  the  jjresent  house.  No  doubt  ad- 
ditions must  have  been  soon  made  to  it,  for  the  first 
occupant  had  sixteen  children,  all  but  four  of  whom 
lived  to  maturity.  The  wing  which  protrudes  towards 
the  street  was  a  much  later  apendage.  In  this  wooden 
castle  lived  Councillor  Gilman  till  his  death  in  1708. 

The  place  after  1788  went  into  the  possession  of 
Ebenezer  Clifford,  who  removed  from  Kensington  to 
Exeter  about  that  time.      (Bell's  Exeter.) 

The  children  of  Hon.  John*  and  Elizabeth  (Tre- 
worgie)  Gilman  born  at  Exeter,  N.  H.,  were: 

I.  Mary^  Gilman,  bom  10  Sept.,  1658;  mar- 
ried 26  July,  1677,  Jonathan  Thing;  she  died 
Aug.,   1691 ; 

II.  James^  Gilman.  born  6  Feb.,  1659-60: 

III.  Elizabeth''  Gilman,  born  16  Aug.,  1661 ; 
married  first,  12  July,  1678,  Nathaniel  Ladd 
(see)  ;  "he  was  mortally  wounded  in  a  battle 
with  Indians  at  Macquoit,  and  died  11  Aug., 
1691"  (Bell's  Histon,'  of  Exeter,  N.  H.).  She 
married  second,  3  Dec,  1693,  Henry  \\"ad- 
leigh : 

IV".  John'''  Gilman,  born  6  Oct.,  1663;  died 
young ; 

V.  Catherine'"'  Gilman,  born  17  Mar.,  1664- 
5;  died  2  Sept.,  1684; 

\T.  Sarah°  Gilman,  born  25  Feb.,  1666-7; 
married  Stephen  Dudley  24  Dec,  1684;  died 
24  Jan.,   1712-3; 

VII.  Lydia^  Gilman,  bom  12- Dec,  1668; 
married  24  Oct.,  16S7,  Capt.  Joseph  White  of 
Haverhill; 

VIII.  Samuel^  Gilman,  born  30  Mar.,  1671 ; 
died  9  Aug.,  1691 ; 


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IX.  Nicliolas^'  Gilman,  born  26  Dec,  1672; 
married  10  June,  1697,  Sarah,  daughter  of 
Nathaniel  and  Ehzabeth  Clark  of  Newbury. 
Nicholas  died  1749; 

X.  Abigail'  Gilman,  born  3  Nov.,  1674; 
married  8  July,  1696,  Samuel,  son  of  Jonathan 
and  Joanna  Thing; 

XI.  John®  Gilman,  born  19  Jan.  1676-7; 
married  first,  5  June,  1698,  Elizabeth,  daughter 
of  Peter  and  Abigail  Coffin;  second,  20  Dec, 
1720,  Elizabeth,  widow  of  Hon.  Robert  Hale 
of  Beverly,  Mass.,  and  daughter  of  Nathaniel 
Clark  of  Newbury; 

XII.  Deborah-"*  Gilman,  born  30  .Apr.,  1679; 
died  30  Sept.,  1680; 

XIII.  Joanna'  Gilman,  bom  30  Apr.,  1679; 
married  first,  Henry  Dyer ;  second,  Capt.  Rob- 
ert Coffin; 

XIV.  Joseph'  Gilman,  born  28  Oct.,  1680, 
died  in  infancy; 

XV.  Alice'  Gilman,  born  23  May,  1683; 
married  1707.  Capt.  James  Leavitt;  died  2  Jan., 

1721; 

XVI.  Catherine-'"'  Gilman,  born  27  Nov., 
1684;  married  first  Peter  Folsom ;  second, 
Richard  Galley  of  Stratham. 

[Note:  Elizabeth'  (Gilman)  Ladd  was  the  mother 
of  Mary  wlio  married  Jacob"  Gilman  of  Kingston, 
N.  H. ;  he  was  a  grandson  of  probably  Edward-*  (Ed- 
ward^,  Robert-,  Edward^).  Jacob"  and  Mary  (Ladd) 
Gilman,  parents  of  John''  and  Mary''  Gilman;  the  lat- 
ter married  John  Moody  of  Kingston  (see)  and  had 
Capt.  John  Moody  and  Lydia  Moody ;  the  latter  mar- 
ried Joseph  Clifford  in  Kingston,  N.  H.,  1771,  and 
moved  to  Gilmanton,  N.  H.,  where  they  had  Peace 
Clifford  who  married  Nathan*  Batchelder  (Richard'', 
Nathan''',  Ebcneser^,  Nathaniel*,  NatJmnieP,  Nathan^ 
icP,  Siclyhcn')    (seep.  481).     (References:  Savage's 


538 


Gen.  Diet.;  Lancaster's  History  of  Gilmanton,  N.  H. ; 
Ladd  Fam.,  13;  V.  Register,  345:  Exeter  Netvsleltcr, 
5  June,  1848;  VI.  Granite  Monthly,  29;  Oilman  Gen- 
ealogy, 40,  48.)] 

IVill  of  Hon.  John  Gilnian  of  Exeter,  N.  H. 

1  John  Oilman  Sen'  of  Exeter  in  the  Province  of 
Nevvhampsh''  in  New  England ;  being  of  sound  mind 
and  memory ;  but  ancient  and  infirm    *    *     * 

2  :  I  give  and  bequeath  unto  my  beloved  Son  Nicho- 
las Oilman,  imediately  after  his  Mothers  decease  one 
half  of  my  Six  hundred  acres  of  land  lying  at  Wa- 
chuck,  and  one  half  of  all  my  lands,  meadows  and 
flatts  lying  att  Lamprey  eal  river;  moreover  one  half 
of  my  hundred  acres  of  land  lying  at  grassy  swamp, 
and  one  half  of  all  my  salt  meadows  lying  within  the 
bounds  of  Exiter;  to  bee  to  him  and  his  heirs  for- 
ever; Provided,  that  out  of  the  same,  he  doth  pay 
unto  his  mother  or  order  in  one  year  after  my  de- 
cease the  sum  of  twenty  pounds  money;  and  that  he 
both  also  pay  to  each  of  his  Sisters  hereafter  named 
Eight  pounds  within  three  years  after  my  decease  in 
money  or  in  merchantable  good  pay  equivalent  thereto. 

3.  I  do  give  unto  my  beloved  Son  John  Oilman 
imediately  after  his  Mothers  decease  all  my  interest 
in  the  upper  saw-mill,  with  all  the  priviledges  there- 
unto belonging;  also  all  my  land  in  y"  Comon  field. 
I  do  also  give  him  my  Temple  Meadow  and  One  half 
of  my  six  hundred  acres  of  land  at  Wachuck,  with 
half  my  lands,  meadows  and  flatts  at  Lamprey  Eale 
river.  Moreover  one  half  of  my  hundred  acres  of 
land  lying  at  Orassy  swamp,  and  the  half  of  all  my 
salt  meadows  lying  within  the  bounds  of  Exiter;  to 
bee  to  him  and  bis  heirs  forever.  Provided,  tliat  out 
of  the  Same  he  doth  pay  unto  bis  mother,  or  her 
Order,  within  one  vcar  after  mv  decease  the  sum  of 


539 


twenty  pounds  money ;  and  that  lie  dotli  also  pay  unto 
each  of  his  Sisters  hereafter  named  twelve  pounds 
within  three  years  after  my  decease,  in  money  or 
merchantable  good  pay  of  the  Province,  equivalent 
thereunto. 

4.  Unto  my  beloved  Daughter  Elizabeth  Wadleigh 
I  give  five  p**^  money,  which  I  will  shallje  payd  her 
within  one  year  after  my  decease,  by  my  Son''  John 
&  Nicklas  Oilman,  each  of  them  one  half. 

5.  Unto  my  beloved  Daughters,  viz'  Sarali  Dudly, 
Lydia  White,  Abigail  Thing,  Joanna  Coffin,  Alee  Gil- 
man  and  Katherine  Oilman  I  give  twenty  pounds  each, 
to  bee  payd  them  and  each  of  them  as  is  already  men- 
tioned on  this  and  the  other  side  by  my  sons  Nicholas 
and  John  Oilman,  and  whereas  my  two  Youngest 
Daughters,  Alee  and  Katherine  Oilman,  have  not  as 
yet  had  in  proportion  with  the  rest  of  my  Daughters; 
I  will  that  my  Wife  out  of  what  I  have  given  her, 
shall  pay  to  each  of  them  thirty  pounds;  within  three 
years  after  my  decease  or  sooner  if  slie  can. 

Finally,  I  give  unto  my  beloved  Wife  all  my  other 
estate  of  any  kind  or  nature  whatsoever,  whether  reall 
or  personall  not  already  willed  or  disposed  off  to  be 
to  her  own  proper  use  and  disposall,  without  any 
maner  of  lett  or  impediment  from  any  person  or  per- 
sons whatsoever. 

And  if  in  case  that  my  said  Sons.  Nicholas  and 
John  Oilman  refuse  to  pay  the  severall  Legacies  unto 
their  Mother  and  Sisters;  my  will  then  is,  that  what- 
soever I  have  given  them  or  their  heirs  herein,  shall 
wholy  revert  unto  the  proper  use  benefitt.  and  dis- 
posall of  my  wife  forever,  for  answering  of  the  same ; 
she  paying  unto  Each  of  them  five  pounds. 

Unto  this  my  Last  Will  and  Testament  I  make  my 
Beloved  Wife  Elizabeth  Oilman,  my  sole  Executrix, 
obliging  her  to  pay  all  my  just  debts,  and  to  defray 
•my  funerall  charges. 


540 


In  testimony  to  all  and  Singular  the  p'mises,  men- 
tioned, on  this,  and  the  two  preceding  pages,  I  here- 
unto sett  my  hand  and  affix  my  Seal  this  sixteentli 
day  of  July,  1700. 

John  Gillman  Senor  [Seal] 

Signed,  Sealed  and  declared 
in  the  p''sence  of 

Joseph  Smith 

Joseph  fullsam 

Sam"  Penhallow 

[Presented  March  31,  1709,  and,  the  widow  de- 
clining to  act,  administration  was  granted  to  the  two 
sons,  Nicholas  Oilman  and  John  Oilman.] 

[Bond  of  Nicholas  Oilman  and  John  Oilman  of 
Eexter,  with  Peter  Coffin  of  Exeter  and  Nathaniel 
Weare  of  Hampton  as  sureties,  in  the  sum  of  f  1,000, 
March  31,  1709;  witnesses,  Benjamin  Oambling  and 
Charles  Story.] 

[Warrant,  May  2,  1709,  authorizing  Lieut.  James 
Dudley  and  Lieut.  Jonathan  Wadleigh  of  Exeter  to 
appraise  the  estate.] 

[Warrant,  May  2,  1709,  authorizing  Lieut.  James 
Dudley  and  Lieut.  Jonathan  Wadleigh  to  receive 
claims  against  the  estate.] 

[Inventory,  July  9.  1709;  amount,  £310.11.9;  signed 
by  James  Dudley  and  Jonatlian  Wadleigh ;  added  Nov. 
7,  1909,  £5.10.0.] 

XXXI.  State  Papers.  New  Hampshire,  462,  3,  4,  5. 


BATCHELDER  FAMILY. 

(Continued  from  p.  482.) 

William  B."  Batchelder  fsee  p.  482  where  his  middle 
initial  is  omitted)  was  born  23  Feb.,  1814:  he  mar- 
ried  Mary  E.   Sargent    (see  their  portraits,   opp.   p. 


AI.HKRr   II.    HA  IC 


MARV   E.l'  (BATC'HELDER)    HATCH 


E1.MON   \V.   HEARDSLEV 


SARAH   A.'i'   (KAIC  IIKI.DKKi    BEARDSLEV 


541 

483).  He  died  Nov.,  1899.  He  served  in  the  State 
Legislature,  1862.  His  wife  was  born  29  Oct.,  181 4, 
and  died  Jan.,  1907,  at  Loudon  Ridge,  New  Hamp- 
shire, where  they  had  spent  their  hves  on  the  farm 
now  cherished  as  a  summer  home  b>'  their  descendants. 
Their  children  were : 

I.  Mary  Elizabeth^"  Batchelder,  born  12 
Oct.,  1840:  married  Albert  H.  Hatch  of  New 
York;  died  11  July,  1903  (see  portraits). 

II.  Jeremiah'"  Batchelder,  born  2  Jan., 
1843;  died  13  Sept..  1887;  married  25  Dec, 
1869,  Sarah  Leavitt  of  Gilmanton,  N.  H. ; 

III.  Henrietta  Peace'"  Batchelder,  bom  20 
Nov.,  1844;  married  Moses  Stevens  of  Lou- 
don, N.  H.;  died  Nov.  1907; 

IV.  William  Napoleon'"  Batchelder,  IxDrn 
22  Aug.,  1848  (see)  ; 

V.  Sarah  Abiah'"  Batchelder.  born  5  Oct., 
1852;  married  Elmon  W.  Beardsley  of  New 
York  (see  portraits)  ; 

VI.  Park  Boynton'"  Batchelder,  born  29 
May,  1856;  died  May,  1858. 

William  N.'''  Batchelder,  born  Aug.  22,  1848,  at 
Loudon  Ridge,  N.  H.,  entered  the  firm  of  Hatch, 
Neiland  &  Co.,  400  Greenwich  St.,  New  York  City, 
Dec,  1856,  where  he  remained  for  38  years.  He  held 
the  office  of  Trustee  of  Calvary  Baptist  Church.  N. 
Y.  City,  for  several  years,  having  united  with  that 
church  in  1880  (Dr.  R.  S.  MacArthur,  Pastor).  He 
served  for  several  years  as  superintendent  of  the  Jen- 
nie Clarkson  Home  for  Children,  Valhalla,  N.  Y.  His 
present  residence  is  at  Gilmanton,  N.  H. 

He  married  23  Dec,  1875,  Clara  Kimball  Lyford. 
daughter  of  John  Lyford  of  Canterbury,  N.  H. 

Children : 

I.  Lizzie  Ham"  Batchelder,  bom  July, 
1 881;  died    Tuly.    1S82: 


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II.  William  Lloyd"  Batchelder,  born  Feb, 
1884;  resides  in  N.  Y.  City  (see  portrait). 

Clara  K.  Batchelder,  wife  of  Wm.  N.^'^  Batchelder, 
died  May,  1883,  and  he  married  a  second  wife  8  Oct., 
1890,  Helen  F.  Aver  of  Gilmanton,  N.  H.,  daughter 
of  Daniel  S.  and  Nancy  C.  (Canney)  Ayer,  the  latter 
a  daughter  of  Edmund  Canney  and  Sallie  Brewster 
(a  direct  descendant  of  William  Brewster,  see  p.  397)- 

Nathan  Gilman"  Batchelder  (see  p.  482)  was  born 
15  Nov.,  1821,  and  married  Martha  Swain  Prescott. 
She  was  born  25  Aug.,  1822.  They  lived  at  Man- 
chester, N.  H.,  where  Mr.  Batchelder  was  a  large 
real  estate  owner.    Their  children  : 

I.  Joseph  Henry'"  Batchelder,  born  2  Dec, 
1850;  died  28  Apr.,  1891    (see  portrait): 

II.  Capt.  Nathan  Prescott'"  Batchelder, 
born  29  June,  1855:  lives  in  California  (por- 
trait) ; 

III.  Mary  Ella'"  Batchelder  (see  portrait), 
lives  unmarried  at  Manchester; 

IV.  Mattie  Lillian'**  Batchelder,  married  27 
Apr.,  1887.  Col.  William  B.,  born  8  Sept., 
1864,  son  of  Benjamin  P.  and  Martha  (Carr) 
Burpee.  They  live  at  1028  Union  St.,  Man- 
chester, N.  H.,  and  have  one  son,  Benjamin 
P.,  born  20  Mar.,  1889  (see  portraits); 

\''.  (Infant)'"  Batcliekler,  born  26  June, 
1863,  died  2  Sept.,  1863. 

Joseph  Moody"  Batchelder  (see  p.  482)  born  i  Apr.. 
1826;  married  Elizabeth  Aiken  Mitchell  (see  portrait 
'^PP-  P-  .x3.0. 

"Tic  first  went  to  California  in  the  spring  of  1850 — 
just  too  late  to  be  a  'pioneer.'  After  engaging  in 
business  between  San  Francisco  and  Puget  Sound,  he 
went  to  Shanghai,  China,  and  there  built  and  owned 
the  first  large  steamship  constructed  on  tlie  China 
coast.  About  the  time  of  the  launch  of  this  steam- 
ship he   gained   great    reputation   by   performing  the 


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apparently  impossible  task  of  raising  the  fine  British 
steamer,  'Ajax,'  accidently  sunk  in  the  main  chan- 
nel of  the  Shanghai  anchorage.  Although  the  task 
was  considered  so  difficult  that  he  received  $60,000 
for  its  accomplishment  the  steamer  was  afloat  and 
the  channel  cleared  in  four  days.  At  the  breaking 
out  of  the  Civil  War  in  Japan  he  went  from  China 
to  the  former  country  in  the  service  of  the  Mikado, 
transporting  the  imperial  troops  in  his  vessels.  His 
residence  in  Tokio  was  leased  by  tlie  U.  S.  govern- 
ment for  use  as  a  legation  residence  of  its  minister 
at  tlie  Japanese  court.  He  was  a  man  of  marked 
al)i]ity  who  added  additional  lustre  to  the  American 
reputation  for  pluck,  encrg>'  and  enterprise  in  the  far 
cast.  He  died  from  sunstroke  in  the  summer  of  1883, 
at  Hakonc,  just  after  winning  a  suit  against  the  Jap- 
anese government  for  the  seizure  of  one  of  his  steam- 
ers during  the  war.  He  died  Hakone  Mountains, 
Ja])an,  Aug.  16,  1883."     (Batchelder  Genealog}',  304.) 

Mrs.  Elizabeth  A.  (Mitchell)  Batchelder  died  in 
Oregon,  26  Dec,   1896. 

Their  cliildren : 

I.  Joseph  Fred'"  Batchelder,  born  6  Nov., 
1857;  married,  Laura  L.  Strayer;  lives  at  Hood 
River,  Oregon  (see  portrait); 

n.  George  Aiken'"  Batchelder,  a  resident  of 
San  Francisco,  representing  the  banking  firm 
of  E.  H.  Rollins  &  Sons.  He  married  19  Mar., 
1885,  Maiy  Whittemore,  daughter  of  Jonathan 
and  Ann  J.  (Parker)  Kittredge  and  Iiad  three 
children  (see  portraits)  : 

(a)  Doris  Elizabeth"  Batchelder,  born  in 
Dakota  Territory,  17  Jan.,  1886;  married  11 
Oct.,  1905,  DeLancey  Lewis  at  Menlo  Park, 
Cal. ; 

(b)  Richard    Nillor"    Batchelder,    born    in 
Dakota  Territory.  19  Dec,  1888;  died  in  Lidia, 

5;  Jan.,  1907; 

(c)  Kittredge"  Batchelder,  born  at  Brook- 
line,  Mass.,  7  Apr.,  1897. 


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545 
Letters  from  California 
By  Joseph  Moody'  Batchelder  (see  p.  542). 
Exchange  Hotel  12M,  May  ist,  1851. 
Brothers 

I  intended  to  have  written  you  before  this  but  have 
delayed  it  too  long  to  write  you  much;  by  the  way, 
I  have  not  much  to  say.  One  thing  is,  ten  thousand 
cheers  for  the  old  Granite!  She  has  done  nobly  this 
time.  Methinks,  Frank,  Morrison  &  the  Hunkers  have 
a  faint  idea  of  1846.  Atwood  will  have  to  doflf  his 
democracy  and  go  to  preaching  unless  the  Free  Soilers 
&  Whigs  unite  and  elect  him  governor,  and  I  hope 
they  will,  although  his  views  are  not  mine  as  regards 
the  Fugitive  slave  law.  General  Jim  Willson  says 
New  Hampshire  boys  are  made  of  better  timber  than 
he  feared  they  were.  He  says  California  is  to  be  his 
future  home ;  he  intends  sending  for  his  family.  We 
did  the  thing  up  brown  here  last  Monday.  The  demo- 
crats were  in  power  here  and  made  their  brays  that 
California  was  Democratic  and  would  always  remain 
so.  Our  city  election  went  800  Whig  majority  and 
all  the  other  cities'  elections  that  have  been  holden 
have  proved  Whig,  and  the  Banner  of  Whig  prin- 
ciples is  surely  destined  to  float  triumphantly  on  the 
shores  of  the  Pacific.  Every  thing  moves  along  about 
the  same  as  usual.  There  are  a  great  many  going 
home  and  about  the  same  number  arriving  that  there 
is  going.  There  is  650  leave  here  today  on  the  steamer 
with  over  two  millions  $  on  freight  besides  what  the 
passengers  carry. 

H  there  is  not  plently  of  pasturage  in  New  Eng- 
land tell  Morrison  that  there  is  plenty  in  California. 

I  send  you  a  paper  each  mail.  I  shall  look  with  a 
great  deal  of  impatience  for  the  action  of  New  Hamp- 
shire in  regard  to  governor.  Cousins  Nathan  and  Kate 
send  their  love  to  vou  all. 


546 


William  was  here  the  other  day ;  he  was  well  and 
hearty.     No  more  this  time.     Yours  ever 

Jos.  M.  Batchelder. 

Below  you  have  a  faint  sketch  of  one  of  the  smart- 
est little  country  towns  in  California.  There  is  more 
business  done  here  than  in  any  two  towns  in  N.  Hamp- 
shire. 

[The  picture  of  Marysville,  California,  covering  the 
back  of  the  four  page  sheet  on  which  the  foregoing 
letter  was  written,  is  reproduced  on  p.  544.     Editor.] 


(To  his  niece  aged   12  years,  daughter  of  Benjamin 
James"  Cole;  see  p.  227.) 

Manchester,  Feby.  24th — 53 
Miss  Ellen 

I  shall  not  be  able  to  fulfill  my  engagement  on  Sat- 
urday next,  but  will  endeavor  to  come  up  early  part 
of  next  week.  I  am  going  tomorrow  to  see  if  I  can 
find  that  place  (so  often  spoken  of  but  seldom  seen) 
called  Down  East.  Uncle  Nathan  is  in  Boston ;  Jere 
&  Asa  are  up  North,  Aunt  Martha  is  here  and  will 
be  up  on  Saturday  next ;  grandmother  &  grandfather 
send  their  love  to  all ;  also  uncle  Joe  sends  his  to  Miss 
Ellen,  &  Octavia  &  to  father  and  mother 
From  your  uncle 

J.  M.  Batchelder 
Miss  Ellen  A.  Cole, 

Lake  \^illa<jc,  N.   H. 


(To  his  brother-in-law,  Benjamin  James"  Cole.) 

San  Francisco,  June  i  sth,/54 
Bro.  B.  J. 

Yours  of   April   30th   I  received  on   May  3Tst  by 
the  hand  of  Mr.   Piper,  who  was  looking  well   and 


547 


had  had  a  very  good  passage  out ;  he  left  the  next 
day  in  company  with  Webster,  Barron  &  others  en- 
route  for  Georgetown,  Webster's  former  place  of 
residence.  Piper  &  Webster  were  going  to  mining 
and  Barron  was  going  to  work  at  his  trade.  They 
promised  to  write  me  when  they  had  located  but  as 
yet  I  have  heard  nothing  from  them.  Pii>er  was  not 
in  want  of  any  assistance  and  if  he  should  be  at  any 
time  I  shall  ever  be  ready  to  assist  him. — I  am  pleased 
to  learn  you  are  all  doing  well  down  East ;  hope  you 
all  may  get  rich — while  I  am  getting  a  little — and  by 
and  by  I  hope  to  have  the  pleasure  of  returning  to  the 
Granite  State  where  I  intend  locating  myself  for  the 
future  and  hope  you  will  all  have  the  same  idea  I 
have  i.  e.,  that  there  is  no  place  for  a  quiet  social  home 
except  in  New  England. 

As  for  news,  we  have  plenty  such  as  it  is;  there 
is  only  one  feature  of  it  that  is  pleasing  to  the  dwel- 
lers of  the  Atlantic  states,  and  that  is  the  arrival  of 
the  Bearer  of  Dispatches  from  Japan  with  the  treaty 
Betwixt  our  Gv.  &  Japan  which  will  give  us  quite  an 
advantage  over  Euroi:)ean  govcmmcnts,  as  we  are 
bound  to  do  the  carrying  trade  of  the  Pacific  while  the 
three  great  Powers  are  fighting  it  out.  We  want  a  line 
of  steamers  betwixt  this  and  China  and  Japan,  touch- 
ing at  the  Sandwich  Island — then  go  to  work  and 
build  the  Road  of  all  Roads,  the  Pacific  Rail  Road ; 
and  our  Union  is  then  complete,  instead  of  Russia, 
England  and  France  figliting  who  shall  be  the  largest 
&  strongest  nation.  We  shall  be  not  only  the  richest 
but  strongest  &  soon  be  the  largest  nation  in  the  world ; 
and  all  the  combined  powers  of  Earth  cannot  prevent 
it.  In  less  than  ten  3'ears  I  expect  to  ride  from  Boston 
to  San  Francisco  in  Six  days.  There  is  nothing  to 
prevent  building  a  rail  road  the  central  or  southern 
route,  and  if  Pierce's  administration  would  pass  a  law 
to  loan  a  private  corporation  twenty  five  millions  of 
dollars,  it  would  be  the  best  investment  Uncle  Sam 
ever  made.     Fifteen  hundred  out  of  the  nineteen  Inin- 


548 


dred  miles  between  the  Missouri  and  Sacramento  Riv- 
ers can  be  graded  witliin  four  years,  and  will  not  ex- 
ceed in  yards  of  excavation  the  present  Montreal  road 
per  mile;  and  the  Bridging  is  the  least  for  the  dis- 
tance of  any  place  in  the  United  States.  The  other 
four  hundred  miles  it  will  take  almost  seven  years 
and  will  not  exceed  in  grades  the  Northern  Railroad 
and  the  whole  road  will  not  have  to  have  over  twenty- 
miles  of  tunneling  in  all,  at  three  different  points ;  and 
the  freight  on  lumber,  coal,  iron,  marble  and  granite, 
&  the  local  trade  on  the  first  four  hundred  miles  will 
pay  six  per  cent  on  the  whole  capital  invested.  Say 
Sixty  five  millions,  which  will  build  and  equip  the 
road  if  it  is  managed  by  men  who  understand  them- 
selves. 

You  will  perceive  by  the  papers  that  San  Francisco 
is  a  lamentable  condition;  squatting,  stealing,  duellini: 
&  murdering  being  the  order  of  the  day.  Society  is 
worse  now  than  it  was  in  '50.  There  is  less  regard 
for  public  opinion  than  any  place  I  ever  saw.  When- 
ever a  man  gets  an  advantage  here,  he  keeps  it,  and 
the  man  here  who  gets  a  fortune  is  looked  upon  as 
a  smart  fellow,  even  if  he  gets  it  by  robbing  his  best 
friend.  Business  is  improving  slowly.  I  send  you 
the  papers  so  you  can  see  for  yourself. 
From  brother 

Joe  M.  B.vtciielder. 

P.  S. :  John  says  he  will  write  next  time. 


EDITORIAL  NOTES. 

VOLUME  IV.,  subscription  $1,  will  contain  among 
others,  Boynton,  Clififord,  Gov.  Thos.  Dudley,  Ladd, 
Mercer,  Moody,  Rand,  Treworgy. 

"The  Dennison  Family"  of  Maine  is  a  book  of  148 
pages,  well  indexed,  containing  an  account  of  the  de- 
scendants of  George  Dennison  of  Gloucester,  Mass., 


col..  WII.I.I.WI   K.   lUKPK 


MRS.   M.\l  riK   1."  iB.A  K  HIU.DIiRi   lURPl-.E 


(Sec  p    542) 


--^*g^'«| 


BF.NJ.WllX   PRKSCOrr   BIKPEE 


MISS  M.-XRV   ELL.\li'  B.A  ]  CIIKLDER 


549 


who  (lied  1748.  He  is  supposed  lo  liave  descended 
from  John'  Denison  {EdivanP,  Jolin^)  and  thus  lo 
be  connected  with  General  Daniel  (see  j).  507).  The 
book  shows  careful  compilation  and  constitutes  the 
authority  on  the  line  described.  No  authority  how- 
ever is  given  for  the  Denison  coat-of-arms  depicted, 
and  I  think  I  can  guess  the  reason.  The  book,  which 
is  beautifully  printed  and  contains  many  fine  illustra- 
tions, can  be  olitained  of  the  compiler,  A.  L.  Dennison, 
Esq.,  yj  Palm  St.,  Bangor,  Me. 


Mercer  (pp.  379.  434).  A  ver\'  wonderful  letter 
from  M.  Ray  Sanborn,  Esq.,  Yale  University  library, 
has  reached  me.  It  gives  clues  to  the  extremely  in- 
teresting European  ancestn'  of  this  family  and  will 
be  ])rinted  in  full  in  the  next  number. 


The  dcatli  at  Stroudwater,  Me.,  to  Oct.,  1909,  of 
Miss  Almira  Fitch'  Ouinby,  mourned  sincerely  by  a 
host  of  friends  and  relatives,  is  referred  to  in  a  letter 
from  Miss  Eunice  D.  Sewall  as  follows : 

"Dear  Cousin  .Mmira  Ouinl)y  has  gone  from  the 
Stroudwater  home  dear  to  me  from  early  childhood 
where  Uncle  Moses  and  his  pretty  wife  had  always 
a  cordial  greeting  for  me.  These  inevitable  changes 
are  sad  and  the  place  will  never  be  the  same  to  us,  but 
Cousin  Almira  had  rounded  out  a  full  and  useful  life 
and  it  is  good  to  go  to  the  eternal  home  before  one's 
strength  is  wholly  spent  and  prolonged  life  is  only  a 
weariness  or  burden  to  others." 

A  portrait  of  Miss  Ouinby  appears  opiwsite  page 
32S  of  this  History. 


Frost.  In  the  outline  chart,  page  5  of  this  History, 
note  that  John  Frost's  children  really  numljered  17 
as  given  on  pages  9-10  following. 


550 


Brocklebank  (see  p.  96).  Frank  T.  Pierce  of  Chi- 
cago, compiler  of  several  genealogies,  had  prepared 
one  of  the  Brocklebank  family  which  I  understand 
was  sold  in  MS.  at  the  time  of  the  sale  of  Mr.  Pierce's 
library  some  years  ago.  It  would  be  of  much  interest 
to  many  if  published.  Tlie  early  generations  have 
been  given  in  the  Essex  Antiquarian.  The  English 
family  of  the  name  has  been  prominent  recently 
through  the  marriage,  4  Mar.,  1909,  of  Evelyn  Violet, 
daughter  of  Sir  Thomas  Brocklebank  of  Cumberland, 
England,  to  George  Westinghouse,  Jr.,  of  Pittsburgh. 


Kind  Words.  "We  are  very  glad  to  have  in  so  good 
a  form,  what  you  are  printing  in  your  magazine  and 
do  not  want  to  miss  any."  Maine  Historical  Society, 
Nathan  Goold,  Librarian. 

"With  each  succeeding  number  your  magazine 
grows  more  and  more  valuable  as  a  genealogical  rec- 
ord." George  P.  F.  Hobson,  Professor,  Boys'  High 
School,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

"I  like  the  magazine  very  much.  It  is  the  best 
bound  and  best  got  up  of  any  I  take  and  is  not  a  dis- 
grace to  the  Library  shelves  like  some  I  have."  Sara 
M.  Haley,  Genealogi.st,  South  Lee,  N.  H. 


A  Man's  Ancestors.  Going  backward,  you  have  in 
the  first  generation  two  ancestors,  a  father  and  a 
mother;  then  four,  then  eight,  etc.  Upon  reaching 
the  time  of  the  Pilgrim  Fathers  the  number  is  256. 
In  the  tenth  generation  the  ancestors  number  1,000; 
in  the  twentieth  they  are  more  than  a  million.  And 
this  is  going  back  only  to  the  thirteenth  century.  One 
need  go  but  little  further  to  find  an  ancestry  co-exten- 
sive with  the  entire  population  of  the  globe.  Verily 
we  are  "members  of  one  another,"  and  the  doctrine 
of  the  Brotherhood  of  Man  becomes  a  mathematical 
certainty.      (A''.  Y.  American,  4  Nov..  '09.) 


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THE  BREWSTER  GENEALOGY 

1566-1907 

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"  Mayflower,"  Ruling  Elder  of  the  Pilgrim  Church  which  founded 
Plymouth  Colony  in  1620. 

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through  four  of  his  grandsons,  namely :  Benjamin'  Brewster 
(Jonathan-),  Isaac^  Allerton  (Fear'  Brewster),  William^ Brewster 
(Love')  and  Wrestling^'  Brewster  (Love'). 

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